Can sports betting be the next Opium?

Considering how clever gamers are killing it.

Note, I said,  clever. Clever  now no longer comes cheap. It means sharpening your wits. This is a very, very  critical factor  if you  have to make a killing making a bet in sports.

It is true. The Smart Ones are making  correct cash Unfortunately,  the bulk of bettors are  in reality swelling the  wallet of the  betting  businesses. 

That is why there are a lot of betting businesses  popping up from the blues and a thriving market, birthing many branches crushing it in nooks and crannies. 

 Genesis.

Because of my values, things instilled in me from an early age, I have been averse to making a bet in sports in any shape, type or form. And I grew up seeing humans engaged in making a bet as you'll see a drug addict or a drug pusher today. 

       That was the self righteous me.

In my early life I had a close encounter with a person way into making a bet (and that was before on-line making a bet).

In his room, he had this big pile of coupons and guides all associated with making a bet in sports. For me,It became the first time I came across  a lot of English soccer clubs like Leeds United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle,and the rest. 

 Because of this early encounter with a Bettor, I became further convinced that sports betting was a waste of time and money.The guy did not strike it rich despite his pyramid of  betting papers.

                            Waow!                                                                                

So I grew up avoiding whatever seems like making a bet until I stumbled upon  a situation in a Barber Shop that made me reconsider my conservative stance on making a bet in sports.

I stepped into this barbershop for a haircut and met  4 gents already seated. I believe The barber had observed the sudden flip in my countenance, I became melancholic understanding that I needed to wait until after these 4 had been served to get my turn.

He briskly, dusted the hot seat and invited me to take a seat. I became bewildered thinking why he was shunning 4 clients who had been there earlier than me?

But he smilingly made me to understand that that the 4 people seated were not there to barb but are his students. 

His what?  I thought,what could he be coaching them in the barbershop? How to give a hair cut? Well,  I later found out that the 4 guys were there to discover ways to bet. To be successful bettors, is what all the four had In common. 

That day, I found out that my Barber was not your regular Barber but a person who had found a side hustle that pays him well  and won him some popularity over the years as a damn good Bettor.

He explained to me that  the furniture, the air conditioner and barbering equipment, which include the flat- screen TV and home theater in his barbing saloon, have been bought with his sport bet winnings. 

I listened keenly to his casual lecture 

and I'm going to share the key points I learned from the barber with you.

Four paths to a winning sport betting life for the poor beginner.

Number one. 

Don't be greedy. As a newbie, keep away from the parlay bet system in which you wager on multiple games at a stretch. 

'You have to be a Houdini to assume that you could win 30 or 35 wagers at a move', the barber said. 

However, he confessed that he is aware of a few folks who rely upon paid tipsters

for match predictions.

But the risks are too much, particularly in case you are a newbie with very little cash. He warned.

Number two. 

Go for the less-recognised leagues. For instance, in soccer; aside from the premier league, the bundesliga and the La Liga,there are different smaller leagues In different nations whose games are much less recognized, however very predictable.

According to him, You can expect that the top teams in those leagues are certainly going to win their games and that they score plenty of goals. He says, move for those ones. 

Number three. 

A trickle at a time.He says the trick is to win small. But to reinvest your winnings. Again, and again and watch your cash tree grow. 

Number four. 

Be patient. He says his technique might not deliver masses of cash instantly, however overtime if one is patient and continues at it with out spending his winnings, but intentionally reinvesting maximum of the winnings, he is confident that the outcomes will be phenomenal. 

He even did a small math for us there displaying how his approach makes sense in time. I have to confess it was an impressive learning experience.

So that was how my perspective of sport betting got completely modified at a barbershop. 

                    

                           And yes.

 He additionally informed all of us that he paid for the expenses of his marriage from the same source, and that his subsequent goal is to shop for a very good car. And who says he can't? 

The Barber cum making a bet in sports teacher, informed us that apart from the four pathways he had given to be successful as a sport bettor, the vital subsequent thing, is to sign-in to a making a bet organization that has an excellent track report of treating Bettors properly;  through paying right away without any issues. He shared his choice with us. And I'm going to share this information with you here. Click here

So this is it, from a non believer,I actually have come to see making a bet in sports as a  lee-way out of the pandemic of failing economies worldwide, particularly in 3rd world nations in which unemployment rates are high. 

Betting in sports, if well coordinated , can be an alternative to a life of crime and criminality. And, The betting companies are also making a positive impact offering a livelihood to many, many, many youths.

9 things I hate about Nigerian and Ghanaian movies.

Are you a fan?  Check out these landmines and suggestions on how to prevent loss of limbs and yes, lives.

            Sorry to disappoint you. 

I'm not going to bad-mouth blood or rituals in Nigerian and Ghanaian movies.

       I think blood is cool. Rituals too.

Have you watched 'Eyes Wide Shut'?

Not too long ago, I wished I could grow spiky canines every half-moon ready to quench my thirst with something a little bit thicker than water, a little bit salty and rich in iron.

 Another wish is to have a blond in the house flaunting her tender neck and blue arteries. Then when the wolves do their thing and the bats lodged in the attic get excited, that will be my cue to dig in. 

                  Gone with the wind.

But beyond the bloodletting, blood-sucking, and blood on the dance floor after several rounds of Bloody Mary, let's sober up and take a look at the knock-knees of Nigerian and Ghanaian movies.

                        So, yes. 

Let's skip blood, shall we? 

And please don't flash data at me. 

The industry is growing. I hear that all the time. Yes. It's growing.  Growing like 

an economic tree or cancer?

" People create stories create people, or rather stories create people create stories."

Chinua Achebe.

I think Nigerian movie producers and their Ghanaian counterparts should hang this Chinua Achebe quote in their offices. 

             They really should. 

The rickets of Nigerian and Ghanaian movies is the dangerous reputation it has of misinforming gullible youths.

And the outcome is the horror more frightening than severing the head of a live chicken.

                 ' to appease the gods '. 

I see it In the drowned dreams and bodies of young Africans floating or in plastic bags choked trying to cross a perilous ocean into Europe. 

                     Regularly. 

The rising cases of rape, 

drug addiction, prostitution, teenage pregnancy, crime, 

dressing that shows more than it conceals, 

 seeing nothing to respect in gray hairs and electronic fraud may well be added to the list. 

After reading to this point, and you still believe I am exaggerating or poke nosing, then heed my warning. Don't be an ill-advised one whose smelly feet are being carefully chewed by the mischief of mice and he/she mistakes their activity for the caress of a lover. Wait until they draw blood.

       Damn It, I have mentioned blood again.

Behold the avoidable, landmines In Nigerian and Ghanaian movies:

1. Back from USA/ Europe Equals- getting stinking rich.

Remember that never-dying scene of a character coming back from Europe/America and the fellow is suddenly shitting Dollars, Euros, and Pounds?

The message it sends out to every young man /woman in sub-Saharan Africa is that the only way to be wealthy, Is to travel to the USA or Europe.

                    RESULT : 

More and more floating dead dreams in the waters of 'stories' - bad 'stories'.

I have read about the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote. There's nowhere that indicated that he lived as an immigrant in Europe or the USA  before he became rich? 

                      Nope.

What's wrong with a story about people like that? 

What is wrong with a narrative showing how one can make it anywhere in the world just by taking advantage of opportunities?

2. The glorification of rural to urban migration.

 

Viewers have been forced to drink the palm- wine of falsehood which says the people in villages are losers.

Why are villages pictured as abandoned, lying waste, poverty-stricken, and populated by drunks, gossips, and dependents waiting for handouts? While the cities are

bustling and prosperous, full of opportunities?

 

                       Wait! 

Opportunities? Okay, If you mean full-blown commercial sex work, I would agree.☑️If you mean opportunities to belong to Cults and Gangs, I will agree ☑️ If you mean a lifetime of pimping I will agree☑️

Opportunities to be jobless and homeless and find accommodation under bridges? I agree ☑️

Several years ago, the Nigerian Television Authority, created a drama serial known as the 'Cock Crow At Dawn.' It was a simple story of a man who relocated to the village to start a farming business. 

And millions of Nigerians loved it while it lasted. I wonder why Nigerian and Ghanaian movie Producers don't see this as a low-hanging fruit?

 There are many low-hanging fruits.

"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform."

Chinua Achebe.

I can't help quoting the Master again. Sorry.

 

3. Brazilian hair. 

It is shameful that the rich history of African feminine beauty, and grace, that is displayed by the likes of Queen Sheba, Queen Amina, the Amazons of Dahomey, and Funmilayo Ransom Kuti. Stop here! You get my drift. 

That Cache of feminine beauty to tap from has been used to wipe someone's ass and flushed down the drain.

Nigerian and Ghanaian Producers have replaced that with Brazilian hair. A poor village damsel must braid her hair. That same girl goes to the city and comes back to the village looking like a cheap whore with a tight dress and oh my god, Brazilian hair. When will these producers get over this cow dung?

 Come on, come on guys. Is that beauty? What happened to our braids? What happened to all those different styles that African entrepreneurial women have exported to boutiques in the USA and Europe? Come on!

4. The Sex Scene.

Yeah, I know they say sex sells. I hope it still does. Sex scenes should only add to 

the story you are telling it shouldn't be the 'it'. Unless you're producing a porn movie. Some hack producers think the formula is to bring a few popular faces and several neophytes and show them hanging on a loose story and essentially making out for half of the movie.

                      No!   No!     No!

5. Post-production.

I wonder if some Nigerian and Ghanaian producers have ever heard of the term ' the devil is in the detail.'?Post-production is as important as the other stages of production.

                           Yes, fella.

I have seen many Nigerian and Ghanaian movies with sloppy credits. Hey, how come your location manager has only a first name? Is he a bastard or is it just you Producer? 

               The Devil is in the detail!

  The ones produced in indigenous languages are more annoying than mosquitoes hovering over lovers trying to enjoy a romantic evening. Misleading subtitles laced with bad English will sting you repeatedly.

        Viewer discretion is advised.

6. The car scene.

Like the sex scenes, I find myself often wondering how the car driving scene helps the story. For one, a lot of time is wasted driving these cars inside the house. I have seen a movie. Where a 'rich' man was trying to negotiate his Jeep out of his house. You could see how he was carefully trying to 

drive that car without brushing the car against the gate or something. 

                    Fake! Fake! Fake!

      You wouldn't drive your car that way.

7. Trash dressing.

Decency was born in Africa. Where is the trash dressing in these movies coming from? What value does it add? To the girls and women in the industry, you must insist on dressing right. Learn from the many 'conscious' African sisters in the homeland and the Diaspora who have made it in Science, ICT, Politics and the list goes on, who never dress like trash, never expose cleavages. Talent can't be traded for a boob or a bum.

                          No, Ma'am.

8. Location not habitation.

I am tired of seeing a duplex shown as a  palace. A palace is a palace! A magnificent building. Mr. Producer, please get a Palace and all its paraphernalia if you want to shoot a palace scene. 

9. Originality.

I am equally miffed that some producers of Nigerian and Ghanaian movies just can't seem to outgrow the degrading urge to produce their imitation of 'Coming to America'.

                            Shame.

 Let me end this wailing and laments with another great quotation from the Master:

"When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth."

Chinua Achebe.

You could be the next number one selling Artiste. Get the magical recording studio you can pocket. Record when inspired

  

Have you ever felt that your musical talent is yet to be harnessed? Worse still, is the possibility that your innate musical genius might die with you a fear you bear within you for God knows how long? Let’s go a notch further if you will, do songs, tunes or beats come to you just like that and fizzle into thin air before you settle down to make something out of it? If you fit in this picture then how sad and misunderstood you must feel. However, the sad reality is that your worst fears might come true unless and until you decide to do something about it today, now, this year.

Someone somewhere is living in penury while bestselling number one songs are conceived and aborted every other day within his innards. Someone somewhere is ashamed of his/her God-given talent or afraid of starting and failing so those songs that can truly give joy, happiness and heal the world are confined to the shower or some closest where some selfish musical genius is hiding them. There are no palliatives here, my words are meant to embarrass and spur one to action today.

Okay let’s take it that you are working nine to five and don’t ever get the spare time, or you are afraid to take the plunge into the uncertain ocean of music and songwriters as the case may be, or maybe you are just too shy to showcase that talent that every cell in you attests that you have, what do you do? Pray to stumble into some clairvoyant music producer that will take you under his/her wing? Well, as desirable as that may be, the chances of that happening is as remote as discovering a diamond piece while taking a walk in your neighborhood on a Sunday evening.

The truth is very few musical talents get to meet the right agent or music producer ever and many musical geniuses might never get to meet them in their lifetime ever. But you can get a Music Memos. What the hell is that? I hear someone say? Well, it is an App that allows you to record those inspired beats or songs straight into that iPhone. Man, I tell you it’s too good to be true, Music Memos is your recording studio in the palm of your hands. This magical musical App comes with a backup band for you.

Great composers and Musicians long gone must be envious of our generation. Can you believe this App is tweaked and optimized to back your song up with the right drum, bass, and guitar at the tempo you are singing in? Is that great or what? Plus you can with simple taps make adjustments to the recording as many times as you desire and most importantly, send the recording straight to the world through YouTube, Sound Cloud or APPLE Music Connect...Even if the song is not done yet, I mean you might have the intro or the verse or just the beat; you can record those, arrange them and be able to access them whenever you are ready to take your music to birth.

There is, therefore, no excuse anymore if you are that person I am talking to right now with songs imprisoned in your belly for so long and your unhappy continence is yearning for the day you will finally get the courage to actually do the things you enjoy doing, not just playing along trying to be the ‘ideal’ someone that someone ignorantly wants you to be; this is your chance to get yourself a Music Memos App on your iPhone and be happy with yourself for once.

                                                                                                                                   

Game Changer In The Forth - Coming Election In Your Area

If you are a  politician and you are reading this via your desktop, laptop or better still, your phone, then you are the type of Politician the world needs today; yes the world desperately needs tech-savvy leaders who believe in the immense potentials of ICT. The last thing any country needs is leaders who need to be convinced about the fact I just stated.

Secondly, it will be the dumbest move today for the average politician and by extension, the myriad of political parties the world is burdened with, to ignore the mass millions of young phone, laptop, and iPod, users that depend on these gadgets for entertainment, news and communication and this is not forgetting the more traditional desktop users too.

One, therefore, does not have to be a soothsayer to predict that the likely winner of the forthcoming election, is the candidate and by extension, the party that leverages on these inalienable facts to coast home with the price. This is no vote buying or selling proposition by any means. I am talking about a means to achieve a clear majority if not landslide win in the forthcoming elections.

Let’s not complicate matters; voters want to be happy again. The long faces in the streets, in market places, schools, offices, and hospitals is evidence pointing to this fact and the candidate and party that can convey that message promising to bring smiles to replace the long faces will as sure as the sun rises at dawn and set at dusk, win the votes of the people. The question is how can this be done quickly and with the least cost to the candidate and the party?

Well, technology has done it in America, the oldest democracy in the world why not elsewhere? This is introducing a tool that can be used on any website; be it a political campaign website or a party website to sell a candidate, enable new members to register and even interface with the candidate in real time, download short prepackaged videos and audio speeches of the candidate and so on, the possibilities are limitless.

And that is not the fun part of it, the real deal about this tool is the fact that the administrators of the website can see the impact of their online campaign in real time. The advantage, of course, is the ability to quickly appraise what tactic is making the most impact thus the advantage of course, of an informed line of action. Imagine being able to know how many people registered every day and how many people are on the site doing whatever you ask them to do in real time?

I see this tool as the game changer in the forthcoming elections in Nigeria and the stunning thing is relatively new parties that quickly embrace this technology will spring earth-shattering surprises to the older parties and political pundits who fail to realize the immense potential in this game-changing tool. I invite you to click the link below and find out for yourself.

https://proof.grsm.io/FrancisMaikarfi

EQUITIES: LANGUAGE OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE MARKET

In order to appreciate the huge potential and opportunity in the stock exchange market, one needs to really understand the language of the stock exchange market.

Just like I stated in my previous post titled 'NASDAQ FOR THE MAN WHO DOESN'T GIVE A......!' Many people get confused and lose interest in the stock exchange market when certain words or terms are thrown at them, one of them is certainly the word Equities.

The word is a  ' must understand' if one really wants to play with the big boys in the stock exchange market and come out smiling because Equities determines the attraction of investors to certain companies trading on the stock exchange.

My own simple definition of equities is  ' the real worth of a company owned by someone or some people after the costs of owning that company is subtracted.

Hang on there, I don't want to lose you, maybe this simple example will help explain.
Let's say I want to invest in a big seafood company based in Abuja- Nigeria. As a wise investor, I should be interested in the companies staff strength, profitability and how much the company spends on salaries and allowances, then I should want to know how much the company spends on power, for instance, the cost of powering her cold rooms.
I should want to know the cost of purchase and transportation of the seafood and from the port to the consumer's hinterland let's say every year, how much tax the company pays, ground rent? And if she is servicing a bank loan and so on.

Now all these listed areas of concern and others not mentioned, are what I as an interested investor should subtract from what the owners or owner of the company say the company is worth to arrive at the real worth or value of the seafood company.

That worth after all the liabilities, debts and other costs are subtracted; is what is called the equities of the company.

A Company could claim to be worth a handsome amount but the wise investor checks its equities to know if she is ' healthy' or desperately  ' sick' investment wise.

Thank God companies listed in the stock exchange save would be investors the trouble of investigation, they have their equities regularly posted in their quarterly, biannual or annual financial reports or prospectus for the general public to examine.

TIME FOR BIOTECH COMPANIES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD TO LEVERAGE ON OPPORTUNITIES IN NASDAQ.

Sherin Mathews: A budding flower trodden underfoot. Time to review the law and practice of international and domestic adoption!

Don't take advantage of each other, but fear God'
Leviticus

  Sherin a three year old girl brought to
Texas USA from an  Indian orphanage legally adopted by the Mathews a family that had assured Indian and  US authorities that little Sherin who aside the stigma of being an Orphan had developmental  problems, will  get the best parental love and  bid poverty bye - bye.
The stats show that little Sherin like most internationally adopted kids will be the envy of most children from her country of origin. A 2007 study of adopted children by HHS revealed that adopted kids are more likely to do well in life at least much better than children who grow up in poverty and squalor, the report identifies   a correlation between poverty and mistreatment of children.

There you heard it Sherin Mathews is lucky - well not as lucky as the child Angelina Joli adopted from Cambodia or the kid Madonna adopted from Malawi you might argue but nonetheless lucky  right? Unfortunately NO! is the right answer.
After reporting to the  Police that Sherin had gone missing on the 7th October 2017, Wesley Mathews, her adoptive father explained that he had 'made' her to stand under a tree that fateful night about a hundred feet from the house as a punitive measure because she would not drink her milk and as he himself added , coyotes had been seen in the area.
The Police dutifully began a weeklong search for Sherin. Meanwhile the biological daughter of the Mathews a four year old was taken from the Mathews home under protective custody.
Finally the search for missing Sherin Mathews paid off when the poor child was found dead in a culvert under a road in the neighborhood.
The story took a fresh twist when Wesley Mathews accompanied by his attorney reported to the Police on Monday 23 October 2017 with a second account of what happened. According to Wesley, on the fateful night he asked her to drink her milk in the garage but she refused later she began to drink and strangely he began to physically assist her to  drink eventually she began to choke, cough and her breathing slowed he no longer felt her pulse and concluded that she was dead.
Wesley admitted that he took her body away from the house. He has since been arrested and charged with injury to a child a first degree felony.
This latest case of the mistreatment of a minor brings to the fore the glaring loopholes in the laws and buerocracy of international and domestic adoption. For one the lack of surveillance of the adopted child by the bodies concerned after a court has okayed the adoption to the adoptive parents , leaves much to be desired.
Apart from the usual background checks a Shrink should be enlisted to check the psychological worthiness of potential adoptive parents.- the truth is not everyone can be a good parent as we have seen in the cases of abusive parents globally.
The Russian government banned the adoption of Russian children into the U SA as far back as 2013  as a result of the death of 19 adopted children from Russia to the USA between 1991-2013.
Adoption as a policy is good and benefits the adoptive parents as well as the adopted child and if the child turns out to be another Steve Jobs the whole world benefits. However the system should block leackages that can hand future Sherins into the hands of the Wesley Mathews of this world.