Top 5 trending topics Nigeria 11/12/2016-17/12/2016

1. Ultimate Cycler.- At the rate this one is going, it probably would top MMM office soon on alexa. there is so much interest about this Ponzi scheme and the site has finally been re-lunched as touted by its founder Peter Wolfing for so many weeks after it suddenly gained popularity and immediately the site went down, Although some Nigerians are still soaking off the MMM office "Freezing " of getting help, people are still very optimistic about this one, although we must understand that if it is too good to be true, it often is too good to be true and nothing good of course lasts forever.
partake in these schemes at your own risk.

Is there anything like too much education?

Yesterday I saw a post online that a Nigerian Dr Osato Osemwengie  bagged his 6th Masters degree and he'll soon enroll for his 7th and also going for his 4th PhD. I couldn't help but pause and felt a bit disgusted although this may not be the most "educated" Nigerian or the Nigerian with the most degrees but I personally felt disgusted., the reason why is that I personally feel there are several ways to go about these things and bagging degrees doesn't necessarily mean bagging knowledge and sometimes it may just be an obsession or trying to beat a record or something because. I do not know the highest number of degrees a person has earned in the world but I just feel there is a need to be content, especially if most of these degrees were on scholarship, which of course I suspect they will, isn't that wicked?

If they are from personal funds, isn't that also wicked? and something to be bothered about? The cost of education is not cheap anywhere in the world at the same time there are several people that cannot afford this basic necessity so although I feel it is nice to get a couple of degrees and gain knowledge, I still feel there is a need to know where to say this is too much and allow for others that cannot afford or get access to it do so.

So this led me to do some research and stumbled on the fact that there are some people with as many as 29 college degrees!!! I mean 29 , , even Robert Mugabe president of Zimbabwe has over 7 degrees.

Just wondering when too much is really too much.


Thank you.

A list of money "spinning" schemes in Nigeria.

*Disclaimer warning : We are in no way promoting any of these schemes and  if you engage in them  you are doing so at your own risk!. 

1. MMM - This is probably the king of the money spinning / mutual financing or ponzi scheme in Nigeria, apparently they've been around for about 1 year now but they recently made headlines yesterday when they apparently "froze" the accounts of participants from "GETTING HELP" even after their donations have been confirmed. Which many say is just the beginning of an end to the scheme, that has raised so much dust in Nigeria, both those that are for it and those that are against it.

2. Giversforum- A lot of people will call them "MMM copy paste" as they are similar to MMM but this time offering more mouth watering % on donations to members, their website had some issues for over a week and there was panic among participants, but it seems everything is now back to normal.

3. iCharity - I don't know much about this scheme personally but participants claim you need to bring about 5 people to donate (X) amount of money after which you'll be paid what you donated multiplied by 5 (*5).

4. Ultimate Cycler - This one nearly broke the internet as their site immediately gained exponential traffic in recent time as the scheme gained popularity in Nigeria they are now ranked No. 8 most visited in Nigeria ahead of Facebook, actually it should be 3rd on this list but at the  moment the site isn't fully functional so we had to downgrade them a bit. 

5. Crowdrising - They are just like other schemes claiming to be a member to member donation scheme. .

Disclaimer warning: thenaijalisting.blogspot.com does not recommed any of these schemes as this is just for information purpose.

There are other schemes I deliberately left out especially the normal MLM (Multiple Level Marketing schemes).

MMM Nigeria One-Month Freezing (Potential crash)

Well I made a post earlier about the so called mutual benefit schemes trending in Nigeria with a clear warning that nothing good actually lasts forever and lately things have not been too good with these schemes especially after the Nigerian House of Assembly discussed the issue on the floor of the house some weeks ago, this came after several warnings from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and SEC ( Security and Exchange Commission).

Well the MMM office has been sending several messages to participants, some of which was sited by thenaijalisting.blogspot.com.


which goes like this.


"One-Month Freezing of Confirmed Mavros

Dear members!

As usual, in the New Year season the System is experiencing heavy workload. Moreover, it has to deal with the constant frenzy provoked by the authorities in the mass media. The things are still going well; the participants feel calm; everyone gets paid – as you can see, there haven’t been any payment delays or other problems yet – but!.. it is better to avoid taking risk.:-)) (Moreover, there are almost three weeks left to the New Year.)

Hence, on the basis of the above mentioned, from now on all confirmed Mavro will be frozen for a month.

The reason for this measure is evident. We need to prevent any problems during the New Year season, and then, when everything calms down, this measure will be cancelled. (Which we will definitely do.:-))

We hope for your understanding,
Administration"


This was of course after a poorly written message was apparently addressed at the House of Assembly in Nigeria.


"Honorable authorities,

So far MMM has come under a constant attack from you. In this regard, I would like to ask you a few simple questions. Since you are concerned with the interests of millions of your fellow citizens, I hope that  you would be so kind to answer them.

1. What are you trying to get? Do you want the MMM System to collapse and millions of people to suffer? Who will support them then if now MMM is their only means of livelihood? Will you? You even don’t pay wages to people? Or might you not care about them? Might you be using a trendy topic to make a good name for yourselves? What will you say to a mother who will have no money to buy food for her child? Will you let her child die for the sake of the higher interests of the economy?

2. You say that MMM is a scam. What is the scam here, if all members are warned in advance about all the risks, the possible and impossible ones? They know there are no investments at all. The warning is a red text on a yellow background placed on most prominent place of the website.

3. You say that MMM is bad. Why? Yes, it produces nothing, but nothing gets out of the country either. The money is just redistributed among the citizens of Nigeria. It gets from those who are richer to poorer ones, in this way restoring social justice. What''''s wrong with that?

4. You have repeatedly stated that "it should be investigated!.. researched!.." It means you know nothing about this System yet; you even haven’t understood how it works. Isn’t it completely irresponsible of you to make all these allegations and play with the lives of millions of ordinary people?

5. And finally. If you know what is right for people, why is the life so bad in the country?

Sincerely yours,

Sergey Mavrodi

P.S. As for your statement that "everything will collapse soon". The system has been working in Nigeria for a year, and according to your estimates, the total number of members now is  about 3 million people. In Nigeria the population is approximately 195 million. Can you calculate? Will it be “soon"? :-))

Yours sincerely,
Sergey Mavrodi
Together we change the world!

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Most participants we spoke with before this time complained of getting matched with too many people and some even complained of getting matched immediately to Provide Help (PH), which obviously pointed to the fact that all was not well and as the festive season is around the corner a lot of people are a bit skeptical about the entire scheme.

Will it survive?
Is this the end?

Only time will tell but what is quite obvious is that all is not well.

Top 5 Trending topics Nigeria 04/12/2016 -10/12/2016

1. Sexy white Mom and Sexy black Mom personally I don't see the fuss about this but apparently people were outraged when they typed these two different search key words into google and the results that popped up, some felt it was inappropraiate.

Top 5 Trending topics Nigeria 27/11 -03/12 2016

1.Ultimate Cycler - This is apparently another Ponzi scheme or some may call it multi level marketing scheme although you are not actually marketing any products, just like the popular MMM scheme but this one is different because it promises up to 300% ROI, in an apparent mutual benefit financial system, Although from my research the site has been on for sometime now but it just recently gained recognition and went viral in Nigeria, immediately after that just like the case of Giversforum which is another similar scheme the Ultimate cycler website has been down for days causing some participants to go into panic mode. Although there is a message claiming they are working behind the scene and there is even a video saying they are trying to serve participants better but until the site is back on and running people won't that that too seriously.

2. Chapecoense  - The death of staff and players of Brazilian football club side on their way to the finals, when their plane crashed over Columbia and many team members died as a result of the crash with just a few survivors has sent shock waves across the world and especially among football fans. Our hearts go out to their family members, Brazil.

image: cnn

3. Football- There were many footballing events I had to put all of them under one heading, congratulations to the Super Falcons of Nigeria for winning the AWCON ( African Women Cup of Nation)  defeating the Cameroonian side in the finals.

          *The El Classico ended as a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid pulling one back very late in the match.

         * Chelsea maintained dominance of the English Premier League table (EPL) by defeating close contenders Manchester City with 3goals to 1, although Man city side received a couple of red cards. but Conte side has been very good up front and also has the best defense in the EPL at the moment.

image: premiumtimes

4. Adebayo Ogunlesi - The Nigerian that President elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump has picked to be part of his economic team, Nigerians have been going wild screaming that instead of the current President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari to harness such talents to pull Nigeria out of its economic woes, instead the APC led government at the centre in Nigeria is more concerned about other trivial matters like how to increase internet tarrifs etc.

5. The Experience Lagos - Christain Musical concert was held in Lagos Nigeria , with several popular gospel artists.such as Don Moen, Frank Edwards, Choima etc 

ref: https://www.google.com.ng/trends/hottrends

Happy New Month

Happy New Month from us all at http://thenaijalisting.blogspot.com, We appreciate you all. Especially those that take out time to read our numerous posts, we plan to give you even more.
We plan to do more research, expand our reach and ensure you get the best because that is exactly what you deserve. In ensuring we are able to do that , there may be some slight changes to this sites, feeds etc.

Please be kind to share our posts because there is love in sharing. Even as the year winds down, it would be good to take a retrospective view of the year 2016 and plan towards ensuring that the year 2017 will be an awesome year. But before then we have about 31 days of awesomeness left in 2016 which we must make the most of. The time to start is now!!! , Start learning that new language, skill, work out plan etc. whatever you've always planned to do but you've not started, you can start now!!!.

Remember you only need 20 hours of practice to get from a complete novice to some sort of mastery about anything. That is approximately just 1 hour everyday before the year runs out!!!!

 Please try to remain safe and do not put yourself in situations that will endanger you or anyone around you.

 We sincerely love you.


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