AGATHOKAKOLOGICAL SOCIAL MEDIA

    Source: Forbes

Happy 2024 to our readers across the world.

More than ever, there is a serious need to unbiasedly review the use of our social media space and the Nigerian online community in the wake of new realities.

Not politically but responsibly.

This is first a call on the Nigerian populace, which according to Statista, a global data and business platform, boast a whooping 108 million internet users in 2022 and expected to grow by 60 percent in 2027.

This is a humble appeal to Nigerians who wants actual growth and development genuinely to adjust to the right angle of things.

Social media can be a huge gain and it could be a collosal loss as well.

It is purely in its usage.

While millions of Nigerian youths have gone to amass unprecedented wealth from the internet legitimately, millions have also landed in jail, if not in the grave for their crave to impress the internet's social space.

People, especially the youth have picked role models among criminals who have convinced the vulnerable that there is a world where people live in affluence with no proof of their lifestyles sources.

A dangerous yet glamorous portrayal of falsehood!

This is damaging our historic culture of hard work while promoting criminality, accounting for some of the lurid crimes we have heard since 1996.

The desire to amass social media likes and comments have override human sympathy, empathy and sanity.

Yesterday 18 January 2024, Punch Nigeria Newspaper carried the news of the death of a skit maker identified as Churchill who died in the process of creating a dangerous skit content.

Sadly, he may have gotten the views, comments and likes he anticipated but not his life.

May his soul rest in peace.

Churchill is just one of thousands of brilliant young Nigerians who have lost their lives, properties and freedoms to make an impression on the hundreds of millions of Nigerian internet users.

It is even much worrisome to see many unscrupulous people on social media claiming Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok are the ones funding their luxurious lives in return for likes.

Big lie!

Prostitution, unhealthy networking, criminal syndicates have now found a safe haven on the internet's social media.

Young people see the cars, the stacks of US dollars thrown in the air, vacations and they want them all to also show their friends who are reading their books and working hard in their jobs, that hard work is not enough.

But then, is social media?

Rudeboy of P-Square sarcastically hinted in his hit song "Audio Money", poor man no dey for Instagram (Nigerian pidgin for, there are no poor people on Instagram).

The make believe perfect life that has become famous as fake life is the new normal among young people with some going the extra mile to maintain the life, and as we know, fake life is very expensive.

People who can't afford a meal now appear like Hollywood celebrities on social media with borrowed clothes, cars and gadgets and sometimes, stolen just to be perceived as rich.

These days it is not impossible to castigate your blessed marriage and home or even end your relationship, just by seeing a beautiful photo post of a seemingly perfect relationship on social media, mostly captioned "couples goal" 😂 when in real life they do not even cross the same path.

They call it, doing it for the Gram 😅 and this usually get unsuspecting young people screaming "God when" 😂

Unlike in the immediate past where family privacy was fashionable and respected, nowadays even the least family issues are brought on WhatsApp statuses and other social media platforms, making total strangers judges in matters they have no business being a part of.

When we were children and family matters involving husband and wife gets to the police, the police would say, "Na family matter, make una go settle am for house" (Nigerian pidgin for, it's family matter and it should be settled at home).

Not these days.

Humanity has totally lost her dignity.

What is termed content on our social media space today is absolute contempt.

Nudity, anti-sociality, insanity, inhumanity, indecency, criminality, cruelty and depravity.

This is not a call to quash the social media, I am on nearly all social media myself and this article will be going to the ends of the world via social media, I am appealing to Nigerians, Africa and the rest of the world to understand that what we post on the internet makes an impression; some very positive impressions, some very damning impressions.

Today young people have selected role models among kidnappers, robbers, ritual killers, serial killers, pedophiles, drug lords and other hardened criminals whose unrestricted activities on social media have earned them millions of followers worldwide and a celebrity status.

These leaves us with a huge responsibility; parents, wards, the society and the government.

We must do something about this or risk losing our entire society by a single click. 

Oh yes, a trigger is to a riffle what a click can be on the Internet if we don't watch it.

It is important to note that a careless statement or post on social media can tear down both our national and global security.

In conclusion both citizens and government have a responsibility to regulate our social media activities to ensure that the contents that reach our children, our youths and our entire citizens are not inciteful, dangerous, misleading and destructive but rather that they are true, suitable, inspiring and positively impactful.

God bless Nigeria and the rest of the world.

 

THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

                        Source: Vietnam+

In every economic era, work change form.

From stone age, when enormous human effort was consumed.

Then, the industrial age, where physical presence at a brick and mortar was required.

Now is the computer age, tailoring our dealings into the Digital Economy.

The COVID ushered in this era.

Money went digital.

It went zeros and ones.

It went boundless.

In my April 7, 2020 blog titled CORONA VIRUS DISEASE 2019, COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE BEGINNING OF AN ERA, I delineated the beginning of an era.

I mentioned time had change before our eyes.

We entered new times, new markets, new strategies, new businesses and a new economy.

A new phase.

New investments.

New industries.

The sad reality with each new phase is that it phases out those who are set in their ways.

The bible explained this; My People (God's people) perish for lack of knowledge.

Prayer is not the solution, Nigeria.

Prayer is not the solution, Africa.

Because again the book said, "of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do".

Understanding the times!

Each time, comes with what needs to be done.

In the digital economy, all businesses that wishes to survive must understand and start to do what needs to be done.

Get understanding of digital economy, its component and its transactional medium.

An understanding of how to legitimately make genuine incomes from digital technologies.

If you are an existing business, you must gather understanding as well, on how you can easily deliver your goods and services to your customers at their comfort and getting paid without having to know the customer physically or intimately.

I tell you what!

This era will produce very young billionaires Forbes have never recorded before.

Mark Zuckerberg, 39!

Facebook.

Yes, it's the youths era.

Those who take passion in the knowledge of emerging technologies.

Successful online stores are quick replacing physical stores.

Think of Amazon.

Think of Alibaba.

With the right bank card details keyed into acceptable payment platforms your favorite gadgets, books or furniture is yours wherever you can afford it from.

They put their reputation to ensure what you ordered is what you recieved.

You only have to worry if you're dealing with a parody site, which is the major risk in the digital economy.

However with proper education, as many online stores have adopted, we can seriously reduce such risk.

Cryptocurrency or Digital Currency.

Bitcoin (BTC) is widely acceptable around prestigious online businesses across the world and it is delivering big gains both in value and in the ease of doing business globally.

No one has ever seen it with their eyes.

No one is going to stuck a lot of them in his pocket to show how wealthy they are.

It stays in an electronic wallet you can't put in your pocket.

30.6 million Naira is the current value for 1 BTC as I type this.

But you already said no one can see it!

Yes, but at anytime of your choosing, you can change it to physical money of your choice currency at the day's BTC to NAI/USD/EUR/GBP exchange rate.

You can also be a voluntary sales person to Amazon in Affiliate Marketing without resuming weekdays at their physical office.

By simply creating a free to a few dollars worth of online store embedded with links to Amazon or other successful online store's products officially, you can get a commission for any product bought through your online store from Amazon.

You only connect a redirecting link to the product on the original store and Internet Protocols would inform the store Mr AB directed the customer.

The store in turn pays you a percentage in commission into your connected bank account.

You don't have to physically have the product.

You only need that Android or Apple phone with internet that you're probably reading this from or a connected laptop.

These are not even half of it, there are so much and you may already be equip to kickoff without knowing.

So no, not everyone spending time on their phones are lazy.

And not everyone spending time on their laptops are internet scammers.

It's a question of what each one is doing on his phone or laptop.

Airline tickets.

Immigration.

Government agencies.

Information services.

Everything went digital, you can't be analog.

Upgrade, that's the update.

God bless every Victor Cosmas Blog readers worldwide.



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VOLUNTEER NIGERIANS

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Hello from around the world.

I am grateful to everyone who read my last title.

In that edition, I pointed we don't have to burn what we've tried for the entire length of our existence to build.

That is Nigeria.

No.

We can't toe that path.

But we can continue to build.

However frustrated.

However disappointed.

However exhausted.

We must build.

Everyone.

Nothing beautiful ever happens overnight.

We must immediately discard the impression that it's only going to take politicians and government to build a great Nigeria.

No.

It everyone's duty.

Me.

You.

Clerics.

Businessmen.

Politicians.

Everyone.

The sense of belonging we want to have in this nation will be the one we apportion ourselves.

We have a beautiful country that all of us don't deny.

An admirable country with a fair weather, awesome beaches and a verse biodiversity.

A tourist destination.

We just must keep sentiments aside and build this country, government and citizens alike.

And it has to be now.

There's no other way.

It becomes unethical to fold our arms and do nothing for excuses bordering on tribe, religion, politics and ego.

Every Nigerian must be a ready volunteer.

We must physically and financially support nation building.

We can clean the streets, maintain street lights, support community and national security, secure schools, sponsor girl children from the North to school, even as a southerner or westerner and it could be any child and all these properly done by getting government approvals.

You can't imagine how adorable it'd be to see residents of Aba and their sons from cities and in diaspora flying in to join the government on the street to pick trash.

Man, this is the community we are talking about.

Those who can't join on ground to clean can send in donations to sponsor refreshment, caps and sunglasses.

Here is a summary of my point;

Nigerians have left their duties and some don't even know them.

Hence the call for citizens' education.

Very crucial.

Government must put big money to ensure citizens know what they should be doing and how to go about it.

We can work to correct all the abnormalities in our space if we hang on as a nation.

We can achieve anything, if we'd take the challenge to remain one people.

I learnt from married friends, that unity in marriage takes a decision to stay one regardless of individual differences.

Nations all over the globe are just like this, with some tightly united ones even more diversified than us.

We must forgive Nigeria her trespasses as we expect God to forgive ours.

No place like home.

And, no home is perfect.

But home would remain home.

Tales from our siblings in diaspora allude to this fact.

Form or join an existing volunteer group addressing a core societal issue.

Apportion your time and a part of your salary or business profit that will go into donations each month maybe to pay for maternal care for someone who couldn't afford it somewhere in Nigeria, buy HIV drugs for people suffering from AIDS, buy books for child in poor regions of Nigeria, not your village or state people alone, instead whoever is in dire need of assistance.

Simply put, join or form a volunteer group that would support an aspect of the nation; children, elderly, education, environmental safety, Agric, etc 

Just something you do for your nation and not for any financial compensation.

Place Nigeria above money, tribe, religion and political divide lines.

We must preserve this country.

We must preserve this country.

We cannot amount to greatness waiting pessimistically for leadership to fail because they were not our candidates at the elections.

Our call is to serve Nigeria, not the government;

With love,

And strength,

And faith.

To deviate, is to stray.

When a house burns, all in it burns with it.

Lets put out the fire in Nigeria, not ignite it.

Start today to contribute your money, time and skills to do something profitable to Nigeria and Nigerians.

Organizations can spring up to support the police, the army and our entire armed forces in helpful ways.

We can come out to clean our state or any state we reside at meaningful intervals, rich, poor, middle-class.

We can pay legal fees of oppressed citizens who can't afford legal fees.

If government fails, citizens can succeed.

We must start now, if our children must not cry the same tears.

We must work for this country, the exact same way we work for ourselves.

Nigeria must start to concern everyone.

We must cease to call her unfitting names.

We must cherish her.

We must sing her praise, as the heroic nation whom through her strength, fed Africa and bought her freedom from colonialism from her towering pyramids of harvested Agric abundance.

A queen nation floating on hidden treasures.

Curated in the midst of Edenic beauty.

We may say we have fallen.

Even the mighty falls.

By God, Nigeria will rise again.

Cheers.

BETWEEN OBI, TINUBU, ATIKU, THE SUPREME COURT AND TRUE PATRIOTS

    L-R: Atiku; Tinubu; Obi.

For the avoidance of misrepresentation, before and during the court proceedings of the presidential election cases, and at the time of this publication, I am a civil member of the Peter Obi Movement popularly known as The Obidient Movement.

The Movement stirred hope in most of us young Nigerians for the Nigeria we crave.

A working Nigeria.

Peter Obi showed attributes of a good leader campaigning on facts and figures and stating practical approaches to restoring Nigeria to her predestined glory.

He initiated a reset in the thats-how-its-done approach of the typical Nigerian politicians who instigated violence and other corrupt practices to win elections.

He came clean.

I continue to like the man and would continue to support his political career if he chooses to run again.

I have followed political developments locally and internationally for over two decades of my life.

Dear readers, Victor Cosmas Blog, formally known as Tomorrow Leaders Forum Blog was born nearly two decades ago to provide a platform for me to politely and respectfully air my views and contributions for a better Nigeria.

Today, we have the United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada, France, Germany and even Russia as our top readers among over 30 countries across the world where our blog is read.

We are completely grateful to those who read, comment, share and email us to both commend and criticize our thoughts.

Thank you to you all.

In 2019, I supported His Excellency Waziri Atiku Abubakar a candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) against Former President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressive Congress (APC).

An election that controversially went to APC's Buhari.

But Nigeria continued!

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu showed amazing leadership in Lagos. 

His foresight leadership brought Lagos State on the global map till date. 

At some point Tinubu's name became nearly equivalent by popularity to the president of Nigeria in his tenure.

Tinubu have discovered several leaders today that Nigeria undeniably respect;

Former vice president, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Akinwunmi Ambode, amongst others.

Peter Obi, Asiwaju and Atiku were all qualified to run.

In politics, the antics of the politicians should never be taken personal by ordinary citizens for a few instances I'd cite here;

Nyesom Wike was a key member of the PDP, today he's serving in an APC administration.

Peter Obi, my preferred Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) was a member of the PDP.

Waziri Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP was a one time member of the APC.

What can we say of this!

Names calling, character attacks are mere political gimmicks to distract the attention of the electorates and channel it to favourable directions.

A civilized people are a people who make unadulterated researches into the persons and achievements of not only their preferred candidate but all candidates who desire to navigate their national ship.

Now to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in Nigeria where her Judgement is final and is accepted as the judgement of God.

Those who engage the wisdom of this court, Peter Obi and Waziri Atiku Abubakar know this fact.

PLEASE DO NOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO DON'T.

I have posted on my X channel, (@Victorcosmas) prior to the October 26 Supreme Court judgement that I would stay with the judgement that emanates from the apex court processes.

And that is where I stand.

Do I mean that Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the election, No.

I mean that the court, all over the world including the United States of America and the UK do not rely on sentiments and emotions to determine a matter but on facts proven beyond reasonable doubts in accordance with the constitution until unfavorable phrases are amended by the National Assembly.

Sadly, it is what it is.

From my observation and as one who is currently in court for justice over a matter, I advice the Judiciary to come up with laws that would ameliorate or annihilate delay tactics employed by lawyers to waste the time of a complainant from gathering evidences to prove their case within the law's time frame, as we saw in the Chicago State University and FBI instances.

All these being said and the Supreme Court Judgement given, now is time to know true Patriots.

A patriot is someone whose love for country supersedes political and ethnic background.

They are those whose national obsession overshadows even love for self.

Ever willing to defend the unity, peace and progress of their nation even with their lives.

We saw examples in Ukraine and Israel where well-to-do citizens in diaspora returned home to fight for their countries.

However dilapidated their country, they support with all their strength, the standing position and continued existence of their nation.

I'm a Patriot.

Nigeria will always be first for and to me.

I will support the constituted authority of the day and continue to give my support to Nigeria's leadership whether he was my candidate at the the poll or not.

We would first have a Nigeria of any shape, before we can adjust it to the Nigeria of our dreams.

I call on all Nigerians to sheath their swords and join hands to build a greater Nigeria.

I call on the good man, Peter Obi and Waziri Atiku Abubakar to congratulate President Tinubu and in the interest of Nigeria give his government their support.

Congratulations President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu my president.

Nigerians, lets build Nigeria.

AS YOU TURN THREE OLIVIA

    Olivia as a baby.

Being an uncle for the first time hits differently.

I didn't know until the morning Olivia was born.

I was an MC at a nearly 2 decades Wedding Anniversary of this admirable couple.

They were so young with grown children.

It was a beautiful evening of friends and family clustering to celebrate unending love.

I mean that evening was unusually peaceful and different.

I can't correctly describe it.

You know, the calm.

Totally inexplicable.

Something more happened that night, Laycon of Big Brother Naija season 5 won the lockdown season.

It was a night of multiple eruptive moments.

The night was super.

Moments after moments after moments.

One could conclude we have had enough of the moments.

But then the last minute brought the last dose.

The call that broke the news.

"Glory to God,"

"We have a baby girl"

She was Olivia.

It was 28 September 2020.

From that second I loved her.

It was automatic.

She's 3 today.

And she's already created special memories in our lives.

Good part is, we're gist partners already.

Dear niece,

As you float in the angelic realm of childhood, may you always be happy.

May you have the best childhood.

Childhood of colourful memories.

I pray for you to be the head always everywhere you go.

May lines fall for you in amazing places.

May God prepare for you a table in the presence of your enemies.

May God take your hands to subdue nations.

May God be a shield for you, your healer and the lifter of your head.

May you lend to Africa and the world and may you never borrow.

May you be rich with the blessings of God.

May your parent be blessed.

I, Uncle Blessing, Aunty Koko, Baby David, Daddy and Mommy love you so much.

❤️ 

Uncle Victor

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