Beginning from June 2017 to December 2017, every month two blog visitors in Nigeria who send in their true life stories or who comment regularly on VIB blog will win 10 thousand naira each. Also in the month of June, a blog visitor in nigeria who is a graduate and is unemployed and wishes to start a business will be given 100k naira. Criteria to win the 100k is simply to write in and share your story on valerieirosblog and comment regularly. Send in your entries under the comment section of this post .To make it fair, winners will be chosen by the participants. You can send in your story anonymously or with your true identity. . The primary aim of this cash giveaway is to render help to those in need. At the end of the month, the winners will be announced on this blog. Please ensure you use your real email address through which you can be contacted.
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Am interested
i really need your help i need money any amount u give me i will appreciate because am out of control i don’t knw what i can do again please help i want use money for my school fees
Hi Mashood
how much do you need for your school fees? send your reply to valerieirosblog@gmail.com
Am interested with the loan. I want to start up business as an unemployed graduate .
Hi Chioma Blessing, send in your entry to VIB blog. Our email address is valerieirosblog@gmail.com. Tell us more about yourself and what kind of business you are considering and remember to comment regularly on VIB blog. you will definitely be considered.
My name is Ahmed, age 29. I am a graduate of The University of Abuja since 2014. I am the last born of my parent and has been unemployed since then. I majored in Business and Management and i’m looking forward to start an online Business by creating an online portal where underpriviledged Youths can have access to an Online Education System (OES) at a very cheap rate. This idea is because of my past experience on how I struggled to achieve Education in a very competetive country like Nigeria.
Though Unemployed, I still believe i can help underpriviledge youths by giving/providing them less proberbility of going through my past experience through this!
In Gratitude!
Ahmed Haruna
Excellent Ahmed Haruna!
Your most deserving!
Keep it up!
Thank You Sir!
Well done Mr Ahmed!
Your Idea is great! Its one of the most pressing issue facing the world.
Ilove your idea!
Hope you win! Goodluck!
Well done Ahmed, Nice Writeup
Thank You Sir!
Yes! Well done ahmed haruna
Thank you Eto!
Thank you so much! Belikisu
Your making sense! your well deserved Mr Ahmed, nice dream
Keep it up, i support you. wonderful!
This is very wonderful!, i also pass through the stress of education and you right. Education is very competitive in Nigeria!
I support you all the way!
Well done, the very small but powerful
My name is Ahmed, age 29. I am a graduate of The University of Abuja since 2014 and has been unemployed since then. I am the last born of my parent. I majored in Business & Management and i’m looking forward to start an online portal where Underpriviledged Youths can have access to an Online Educational System (OES) at a very cheap rate.
This idea is because of my past experience on how i struggled to achieve Education in a very competetive country like Nigeria. Though Umemployed, I still believe I can help many Youths by providing less proberbility of going through my past experience!
In Gratitude
Ahmed Haruna
Well done! Ahmed!
My name is Kola!
I am giving my support to Ahmed Haruna for the implimentation of the Online Education System (OES).
This is a fantastic idea
Ahmed Haruna has a point!
Valerie! Consider this guy for 100k, there will be impact for many
Thank you! Joy!
Thank You Ahmed!
I love this!
You will win Ahmed!
Nice Idea!,
Mr Ahmed!, I have a similar project at hand, will you partner with me. Im using MOOC standard.
please!, hope you respond soon!
Dear Valerie, consider Ahmed!
Well done Ahmed!
Thank you so much Jonah!
Jonah!, i would love to connect with, i would be glad if we negotiate.
Looking forward for your response!
May the Lord help u Ahmed
Thank you so much Olowolafe Samson!, i am grateful!
This has a huge impact! Thats true!
Thank you everyone!, like i have said above! this is most common statement said by most of you and honestly! that’s true. I do look forward to work with anyone who specialize in this angle/field. If there is anyone who has worked with any initiative or knows any, kindly refer them to me.
I would be glad to connect!
In Gratitude
Ahmed S Haruna
What should i say!, your the only one who has a reasonable post here, Ahmed!, please, do try try to make this a reality but there would be a lot of challenges along the way Ahmed Haruna.
Keep it us, 100k for you!
Dear Valerie!
Thank you so much for giving our youths this wonderful amazing opportunity. May the lord continue to bless you.
Your a favor to someones lives.
Keep doing this!
Love!
Geraldine
Thanks so much for this wonderful support 🙏 I am deeply honored! Geraldine
Ofcourse!, have you considered edX and Corsera and TETFUND, Ahmed, make some research and connect with them!
Strengthen Hope!
Thank you so much Simi, thanks for your advice, I had edX in mind but I wanted to start locally since edX is international. Though any advice is welcomed
Thanks
Well done Ahmed Haruna!
Ahmed, please join me, i am interested in your project!, lets work together
Great effort.
Thank you
I love the idea
Thanks
god bless you
…and you too. Thanks
Nice one
thank you!
Great idea i love your concepts, please do you Send newsletters to visitor or members to update them when there is a new post or comment ie notification?
No we don’t do that …but it is something we may consider in future. thanks. Please visit VIB blog regularly!
Nice
Hello! Thanks for this wonderful opportunity, am actually an undergraduate in my final year having difficulies in paying my last school fees courtesy of my Dad demises, he dead last year and it’s affecting my academics completely now, can’t even pay my school fees not to talk of money to handle my project work, please no amount would be too small if only I can get help from this platform…
So sorry to hear about your loss and the difficulties you are going through. I appreciate your sincerity.
I need financial assstance to enable me defend my thesis. Failure to do so . I will miss out frm the external defence
Nice one indeed. If this is really what it is,that means you are God’s sent to people that have lost all hope.May God bless you VALERIE immensely. More powers to your elbows.
I am a parson of 36 years old I finished my primary and secondary school between 1990 – 2003 and I soffaerd allot in my N C E education because there is no enough food,scarcity of water,and no enough cheers in the school and no good sponsored all in between 2003-2007,I like to forward my education but I can’t do to my condition, a condition of my oldy father and mother with 8jonior sisters and 4junior brothers please help me if possible thank you
Is a wonderful move and attractive one at that my prayer is that the post should be true not one of this online hypothesis, no props lets watch and see what will happen.Is a good one if it genuine and am seriousely in thanks, God bless you guys.
Nice one VIB.
I am in love with this blog and will give it a try….waiting for the best and ready to give out the best
My Details was forward to your email!
Nice Job Done!
Pls Im In Lagos. I Want To Buy A Change Of Course Form How Do I Go About It.
Hi, my name is Mustapha Munir, I am 23 years old, and currently studying mass communication in Bayero University Kano. I am half ebira and half fulani from katsina state. I lost both my parents over a decade now. i came from a home filled with love and got one of the best childhood and primary education, but it all went away after they both died. My fathers people wanted nothing to do with us because they were always against my father getting married to a non fulani. After the demise of my mother, her parents who happened to be my grandparents took us in. things started to get bad gradually as my two siblings & i had to continue school. i was able to graduate secondary school early but had to wait back three years for my elder brother to graduate because they couldnt afford the money both of us would need for tuition at the same time. now am in my third year and things have fallen apart with the recession. i want to ask for help, as little as possible to help me finish my education, its really hard out here.
I am looking foward to this!
Nice lets win some money
I am John Monday.
Ahmed Saidu is best fit for the 100K .
He has an Idea
Thank you sir!
This is a very good development. Hats off to VIB. Many thanks.
Thank you!
Good One! Pray To Win.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
I had always been a bright child since my Elementary School days, except that I had always been inexplicably neurotic; I just couldn’t stop my needless anxiety about nothing. The incessant cause of my palpitation eluded me. At first, I thought it was just timidity that accompanies infancy and adolescent years. But years later, my previous conviction about the cause of perpetual neurotic state of my mind proved to be false.
To start with, I can recall vividly that my brilliance during my Elementary Education days really did set me apart from the crowd; I came on top of my class in the first 3 years of my Basic Education. Unfortunately, I lost my dad at age 7. He was a real role model and always challenged me to to be more focussed and to remain the best academically. Consequent upon my father’s demise, I was forced to leave the best basic private school as at that time, and then enrolled in a public school with relatively low quality of education. It was truly painful that I had no one to cheer me on as my dad did anytime I came up with a brilliant academic performance. There and then, I unconsciously began to lose focus and my pursuit of academic excellence was replaced by an attitude of mediocrity.
Fortunately, I wrote my Common Entrance Examinations when i was in Basic 4, and a few months after, I gained admission into one of the best public secondary schools in my town then at age 9. I commenced my secondary education with a tactless approach and methodology, having lost sight of any academic goals whatsoever. There was nobody to mentor me, even though I had older siblings who could have given a helping hand in that regard. May I add this also, that I am the last-born in a family of 6; 4 boys and 2 girls. What I basically lacked at this point was the proper foundation of thorough parenting from both parents, since I only had my single mother to groom me alongside my other 5 older siblings. Of a truth, my mum really pampered me and I grew up to be one very lazy boy, who always ran away from domestic chores, thinking they were my siblings’ responsibilities. The essential qualities needed to be responsible adult in these formative years of adolescence were not in place for me at this time. Though I was an above-average student in my secondary school days, I really cheated on myself because I ended settling for less than what I was really capable of achieving.
At home, I avoided domestic duties, which could have made me more independent and confident in my approach to issues of life. At school, also, my low self-esteem made me to maintain a low- profile kind of life. I always feared taking up leadership roles or position, as a result of my deepening inferiority complex. Strangely though, my mum never realized that I was having or developing a negative mindset, which was very unhealthy psychologically. As time progressed, I turned to an introvert and always endeavored to avoid public performances; I literally developed stage-fright and began feeling uneasy in the presence of new acquaintances. I just couldn’t explain what was happening to me psychologically, emotionally and socially. I almost became a social leper and I started withdrawing into my inner self as a form of defense mechanism against whoever may notice my shyness, and therefore see me as a weakling.
I scaled classes in my secondary school days almost effortlessly. Remember that I was brilliant but timid. So, I lacked the basic qualities that would turn me into a well-formed adult in the future. In Church, I was merely a bench-warmer and preferred taking the back pews than being actively involved in a unit, serving God in His vineyard. I always played the role of an observer while my friends were busy engaging their talents and skills in serving God in His house. I remained disinterested and lackadaisical in my disposition. I spent 6 good years for my secondary education and graduated from High School at the age of 14. I wrote my first Senior School Certificate Examination once, and I passed with the exception of English Language, which I later passed in General Certificate Examination written four months after.
With my o ‘level result cleared, I proceeded to write my JAMB Examination. I failed in my first attempt and then forged ahead to enrol in a pre-degree program, popularly called Remedial Program at Unilorin. I was an intern under this program for 6 months, after which i wrote the final exams. I passed my exams smoothly but I was denied my choice course, which was Computer Science. My name came out on a list in the department of Zoology, a course I hated so much. Owing to my lack of passion for the discipline, I deliberately refused to complete my registration before the deadline prior to the matriculation date. There and then, I forfeited the admission and had to go back home and prepare for another JAMB Examination. This time, it never favored me until I wrote the exam two more times, then I passed it with an aggregate score of 217 out of 400. I was glad that at last I would gain admission into a University. I chose FUTA as my first choice, and eventually I was given Urban and Regional Planning as a course of study. I never bargained for this discipline but I had to settle down with it since I had wasted years before this opportunity came knocking on my door. At this point, my timidity had advanced and still living life with no goals in sight. I was so fickle and emotionally unstable, that I couldn’t keep or stay with my resolutions for a long time. At the end of the first session, I came up with a rather impressive academic result, though I never gave it my best shots; I could have done better. I spent 6 solid years in this prestigious University of Technology, and had extra year as a result of a missed paper in my final year. Amazingly, however, I graduated with a Second Class Upper Division from the School of Environmental Technology and Department of Urban and Regional Planning, as a matter of fact, as one of the best results. All the while, I served in a Fellowship as an usher for two terms but basically, I still avoided higher leadership responsibilities that beckoned at me at the departmental level, that could have been training ground for me for life’s crucial assignment in the future. Not long after, I was posted to serve my country in the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Scheme, and I was posted to Born State, Maiduguri to be precise. In spite of hostile weather conditions in the state, I served there for 5 months and later redeployed to Lagos, where I rounded off the scheme 6 months after.
After my Youth Service, I began searching for job. Then, I personally noticed some flaws in my mental disposition. I wasn’t confident enough and I lacked calmness typical of adults, qualities which are well sought after by employers in the labor market. I secured a job with a reputable bank but was sacked after I committed some professional blunders. All because of my personality defects, which I should have mastered earlier on. I have worked in several industries after that and I have been thrown out of the work environment in each case. Now, age is not on my side and this defect even has a spill over effect in my marital life. Most of my mates now have stable careers and great families. For me, it is the opposite. Recently, I have been working on myself as a big project, dealing with any trace of defects and inadequacy, especially in respect of my skewed negative attitude about life. Thankfully, I have been making some remarkable progress. That’s the story of my life in brevity. I have come to realize that to become relevant and stay successful in life, a man must overcome shyness and believe in himself. Even if he is temperamentally timid, he must consciously push himself to face his fears until he masters them. A man’s mindset can be a prison or a springboard to catapult him into either oblivion or prominence in life.
Objectively, we are all products of our mindset. The quality of a man’s thoughts determines the quality of his life. You are where you are as far as your thoughts, mindset and attitude have taken you. If there is anything to learn from this story, one is very paramount and that is, attitude is everything. On a final note, everywhere we go, let us not forget that our attitude to life will determine our altitude in life..
AND PLEASE, I NEED MONEY BADLY. I WANT TO START A CAT-FISH BUSINESS BUT WITH NO START-UP CAPITAL. KINDLY HELP A BROTHER IN NEED SIR OR MA. THANKS.
Nice one. This looks like it’s going be an interesting venture with this blog.
Nice
Please, did you receive my entry? It just disappeared after sending it. My names are Oni Adedoyin. Can you leave your contact number please just to follow up? I already posted my entry in the comment section. I sent it to your email address too but couldn’t contain the whole story….Please revert to me sir or ma.
Hi.
My name is Okey. I’m from Anambra state. I am the only son of my parents. My mum is a struggling business woman and my dad has been bed ridden for about four years. I finished my undergraduate study in computer science, few years back. But I don’t have money to clear myself from the school. Please, I need your assistance.
Cool…
A welcome development. I got to know about this site on facebook.
Thank you very much!
What a nice move,i love it,hope to benefit as well
I am glad to be in your midst I want to work by his grace I will
Well done VIB
I support Ahmed Haruna!
Keep it up Valerie! Keep empowering youths!
Thank you so much!, I appreciate
I give
my support to Ahmed Haruna for 100k and Mustapha Munir for10K.
They both inspire me, honestly!
Great work VIB
Osaye emmanuel i really appreciate the vote and am happy that my story inspired you. i pray that i get the help. thanks alot.
Thank you so much Osaye, I am very glad
Well done óo Valerie!
I support Ahmed Haruna
I am very honored and grateful!! Thank you!
Am a hairstylist, and i dont have a shop to call mine yet, with such amount i will buy a working tools.
My name is Gbenga Victor,age 29. I was happy when I saw this on my Facebook wall.I have been out of school since 2012 and the country has not been favourable in terms of employment.I was opportuned to meet a man who wants to train me on CCTV and IP surveillance. I would be very happy if I could get a little financial support from you.I have not come to exploit but to add skill to myself and be self independent.
Thank you
Ahmed Haruna well doneôo
Thank you sir, i appreciate.
Why is everyone calling Ahmed naw!, see me joor!
Haha! I sight you, sir. Well done
I wish i was a graduate so i can apply for the 100k prize, but unfortunately am still an undergraduate, which makes me vote for ahmed haruna for his online education system. i know first hand how hard it is to go through university, having to leave ur home everyday (money 4 transportation needed), walking round d campus 4 different lectures (makes you tired), having to buy handouts (another excessive need of money). d list is endless. also please if you are reading help vote me, mustapha munir to get as little as 10k, it would really go a long way 4 me. please people, i truly am in desperate need of money to buy handouts, pay for group assignments, buy food stuffs, and get so many little things that i know u all have suffered in school 4 in ur days. pls vote me.
Thank you so much Mustapha!
I vote for you for 10K!
I also had the same experience!
I support Mustapha Munir for 10K
Goodluck to us!
That’s interesting.
I’m into business already but need to expand as my little capital can’t drive me far.
Need help please.
Welldone ahmed saidu
Thank you so much, I am truly honored
I think Ahmad Haruna has a wonderful idea. I have a very good friend working in this Angle of focus. If possibly you (hopefully) win this 100k Ahmed, do try to get in contact with TETFUND and try negotiating with them because they support such idea and 100k is a way to small to make this a reality.
I support you Ahmed. Make us proud
Ben!
Thanks so much Benjamin
Thank you so much Sir ‘ I appreciate and would get in touch. I am very happy to see this! God bless you sir.
I am Mrs K, i am a single mom who has experienced alot of hardship and physical violence in my husbands house with both parents late.
I am into buns business to keep my daughter going. Having 10K would keep my business going. Please everyone reading this, kindly support and help me and may God bless you.
I am voting Mustapha Munir for 10K and Ahmed Haruna for 100k and myself for 10k.
support me and good bless you. I NEED THIS URGENTLY
Thank you ma for the vote.. . I am truly grateful.. I also support u and pray we all win.. . Best of luck to both of us
Thanks you so much Mrs K, I am very pleased to hear this!
I vote for Mrs K and Mustapha Munir for the 10k respectively then myself for 100k
Valerie, take note.
Good luck us
Thank you so much Ahmed Haruna and Mustapha Munir for voting for me! God bless both of you
My name is Ela, i am unable to pay my hospital bill, please help me, I need 10k
I support Ahmed Haruna for 100k