The 11 Parables of Naira

Recently a little friend of mine inspired me to ponder on the meaning and message of the images behind Nigerian Naira Coins and Notes...you know, in their charactristic never-ending-questioning manner..i therefore got to know they are 11 altogether…and by deep revelation I came up with this ‘Title’ as it relates especially to our live and business. Watch out for my Book: 11 Parables of Naira.

50K Maize 

Parable of Priceless seeds

“When you eat your seed you become the food for the hungry field”

KEY-WORD:  Potential

N 1 Sir Herbert Macaulay

Parable of Character

“When wealth is lost something is lost, when health is lost something is lost, but when Character is lost all is lost”

KEY-WORD:  Attitude

N 2 National House of Assembly  

Parable of Brotherhood

“There is no surer destination on earth as one headed to by friends with united head and honest heart, it a shed in the hottest desert and a steering on the widest sea”      

KEY-WORDS:  Team Work

N 5 Drummers

Parable of the Big Feast

“Hope, like a hunter’s head lamp, adorns our path, cheers our heart; and still, as the night grows so the light glows, till the greater ray”

KEY-WORD:  Purpose

N 10 Fulani Milk Maids

Parable of the Hawker

“Better to wear out than to rust out”

KEY-WORD:  advertise   

N20- Pot Maker

Parable of the Potter. 

“They are dirt to creatures and are in debt to the Creator whose credential has castrated their creativity”

KEY-WORD:   Ideas

N 50- Local Fishermen with Big Catch

Parable of the Golden Fish

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”

KEY-WORD: Entrepreneurship

N100 Zuma Rock

Parable of Road and the rock

“There are only two ways across every mountain, through it and around it. Going through leaves you experienced and with blisters, going around it leaves you exhausted and with aches, whichever don’t expire.”

KEY-WORD:   Determination

N 200 Cow and Agro Produce

Parable of Lazy Farmer

“Happy is the man whose house has a narrow footpath to his farm and the farm a busy highway to the market, for his abode shall be of precious possession”

KEY-WORD:  Trade

N500 Oil Platform

Parable of Depth

“Nothing is lost on a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for his work and his life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience.  And what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.”

KEY-WORD:  Preparation

1000 CBN in Abuja

Parable of Height

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful, that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity
KEY-WORD:  Success