dammytosh:

...please spare me the go back to your village crap.

If Americans think that low, A Kenyan man will not be the president.

Tinubu sychophants need millenia of evolution before they can reason like this.

Fake or incomplete story. Only a man and woman who sleep on the same bed know the real quarrel between them.

I don't believe OP's story that the man wants to kick out his wife just because of rumour about alleged numerous phone calls. Story is not reasonable at all.

OP, go ask your sister to tell you the real truth about she actually did to warrant the husband's anger.

jantavanta: He was looking for Pretty Woman.

Ah laff die!

The guy na real suegbe!

There are several hundred Nigerians in Afghanistan currently. Many are serving with the US military or working with private security companies and other service providers/contractors like KBR, DynCorp etc. There are also some Nigerians with the UN and international NGOs. There are also thousands of other Africans there.

Until late 2011 when the US forces finally left Iraq, there were several hundred Nigerians serving with the US military or working for contractors/service providers and international NGOs.

Even now that the US troops have left, there are Nigerians working with the UN or private companies. Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in the world and all the major players are there - Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Total, Elf etc.

Even in Somalia too, there are Nigerians serving with the UN and international NGOs.

Work can take you anywhere in the world.

"...poverty mentality...hate...negative energy...frustration don chop this one life finish...."

SMH. Any wonder the country is messed up?

The OP and his friends are entitled to use their property as they see fit SO LONG as it is within the law and they do not endanger other people's lives, limbs or property.

The OP himself posted videos and photos of him and his friends racing cars at top speed on public roads and some utter i d i o t s here are supporting him in his reckless endangerment of other people's lives.

Even when the potential danger was pointed out to him by several posters, he is busy arguing that his pals are 'professional' drivers and there is 'minimal risk' to pedestrians etc, etc.

Minimal risk ke? One life lost, one limb crushed is far too many!

Of course, the victims of this s t u p i d i t y will be none other than the wretched of the earth who reside in Abuja and environs. They are the ones who trek on Abuja roads.

Innocent people going about their own business only to be mowed down by exuberant juvenile delinquents.

Why on earth should innocent people run the risk of death or maiming just so that the OP and his friends can 'enjoy' their cars?

According to the nairaland m o r o n s, its because they are 'petrolheads' who cannot restrain themselves from controlling their passion!!!

These are the same s t u p i d excuses that m o r o n i c Nigerians offer for all the rogues in Abuja destroying the country through their thievery.

Folks,

Can any one familiar with Sequoia please recommend a good mechanic in Lagos? Not satisfied with the one I'm using now. Thanks!

livapul86: I don't know where most of you are getting your facts from BUT Afren is NOT a Nigerian firm and has NEVER been one. Below is a link to the profile of its founder.
www.afren.com/about_afren/founders_profile/

Dude is fronting for Rilwanu Lukman.

You think say oyibo media is like your brown envelope naija journalists? They are not fooled, they know the real owner.

Diasporans feeling funky

Na wa! See how ignorance and bigotry is making Nigerians expose their stupidity. FYI -

1. Nigeria has ALWAYS required Zambians to obtain visas to come to Nigeria; why should Zambia grant Nigerians visa-free travel?

2. Apart from ECOWAS and Cameroun, citizens of other African countries also need visa to come to Nigeria; why should other countries grant Nigerians what we do not grant their citizens?

3. Its not today that Zambia and most other African countries require visa from Nigerians. That has always been in place since the 1960s.

Stop exhibiting your ignorance and spite!

Predictable responses from the usual suspects - Texazzpete and Ileke Idi.

You just can't help yourselves.

drogba: Still available.

Too late...I bought from someone else as it took you over 3 months just to reply to my inquiry

MRbrownJAY:
and also, funny enough, some people I personally know in Europe dont have a place to stay and live on soaking garri, BUT when they step outside the door, they have no less than €3K of clothing on their back.
to each their own!

Must be Congolese or Camerounians - na dia life be that

Folks, please stop feeding the GEJ trolls.

The Vulcan deal is an obvious scam hence Aganga/Abati deploying trolls and shills online to distract and sow FUD.

chaircover: This coogar sef na only God save you that you didnt/wont come looking for my sister

actually the questions are a good thing. They make the man realize that his wife to be comes from a caring and close knit family. Truth be told, sometimes men mistreat their wives because they now that there is no one there for her. It also gives the family background info on the man that they are letting into the family. When people are in love, they sometimes miss important flaws in their partner and it takes an unbiased person to see these things.

As for me I ask my aburos questions o! I ask both my relative and the wife/husband to be to be sure that everyone is on the same page. if my relatives live in peace, that means that I have peace also. No one wants to spend all their time sorting out other peoples husband/wife problems or being called at 1am in the morning to come and take a broken armed relative to hospital.

Well put, Madam CC! Some of our people can like to form oyinbo. Is it news that in Nigeria, future in-laws may like to grill a prospective suitor for their daughter/sister's hand?

3rdparty:

Something tells me this OP is Coscharis himself, or his corporate affairs manager.

Something tells me this poster was born no more than 15-20 years ago and assumes everyone on nairaland is his age mate.

mutter: There just are not enough facts to be judgemental about this. The hard reality of life for some people do not allow them the luxury of making choices. What if the family does not have enough money to send the girl or her siblings to school? What happens to most girls from such homes do they not end up selling themselves on a daily basis to different men. That is a form of slavery too. Without an insight into the true situation I cannot condemn the mother outright. A hungry man has little regard for morals because he is reduced to the level of an animal. Who knows in the long run which plight would be harder for the girl.

Very good perspective from Mutter. Nigerians are hypocrites and very judgemental.

The 35 year old man is a closet pedophile and the girl should not be forced to marry him.

But the real question is - what next for the girl and her siblings?

marvel10: Nairalanders are such doubtful Toms. Why the level of distrust and needless jealousy? I have chosen to take a number of pointers that include, providing for my family in the event of death. That man was a child slave! The fact that he has money today does not take away his suffering. His die hard attitude paid off and kept him going in the face of adversity. I found his account honest. If you read any interview by the likes of Okoya and his Lagos buddies, they will never be that honest and will waffle about how they imported this and found success.

Don't mind them. Just the usual haters. Child slavery in the name of apprenticeship was very common in those days. I have uncles who began life as apprentices at the age of 9/10 due to poverty. Ilodibe (Ekene Dili Chukwu) began life as a houseboy to an Irish reverend father, then served as a conductor on mammy wagon (bolekaja or gwongworo), then became a bolekaja driver before borrowing money to buy a second hand bus and joined transport business.

3rdparty:

What turn around do you need disclosed again?

The man was granted an import license by the Nigerian government, and he used his import license to negotiate for sole distributorship of BMW in a country of 150m people.

Whether he farouked to get the import license from the Nigerian government is a story for another day.

So, all in all, he is not a self made man

Please get your history right.

The import license of 1982 was for motor cycle spare parts, not BMW auto sales franchise. Until 1986, by law all businessmen in Nigeria had to obtain import license from Federal Ministry of Finance/CBN to import goods of any kind. IBB abolished it as part of the SAP policy. So import license has NOTHING to do with auto sales franchise.

FYI, Coscharis was not the original BMW franchisee in Nigeria. Ultimate Motors held the franchise from about 1985/6 until around 1998/99 when Coscharis got it. Their office was at Apapa back then. Coscharis was not into automobile sales or even spare parts in 1982; by 1982, he was still mostly in the motorcycle spare parts business. His warehouse was at Kirikiri then. Ultimate Motors was owned by Indians or Lebanese, I believe. I don't know how exactly they lost the BMW franchise and Coscharis got it - or whether they sold it to him.

It was after Coscharis got the Ford franchise (which also came with BMW and Landrover) that he built that showroom at VI - Adeola Odeku.

People should make effort to learn before putting down others.

A typical Nnewi businessman will never disclose to anyone outside of his close family circle, his real business breakthrough. So any one waiting for Cosmas Maduka to disclose the precise connection or circumstances that brought about the import license in 1982 will be waiting till eternity.

That does not mean he is a ritualist. Maduka is a typical old school Nnewi spare parts dealer/transporter. His contemporaries are Ekene Dili Chukwu, GUO etc. These guys made their money the old fashioned way - through hard work and sweat. It also helped to be an Nnewi indigene in the spare parts business because it gives you access to goods on credit, joint importation opportunities etc.

Today, thanks to Nollywood and the lazy, get-rich-quick mentality of most youths, many find it difficult to believe that people can make money easily from spare parts business back in the 1970s/80s without being also a politician, govt contractor or ritualist. They forget that the Nigerian economy was very buoyant until IBB introduced SAP in 1986 and that spare parts is an essential commodity. As long as you are a car owner, you must buy spare parts. Making money in spare parts business back then is not as hard as it it today.

etchel: too long to read the whole article. a summary will always do

And you just had to post simply to tell us this?

If its too long, simply step over and stop flaming the thread with your infantile pranks.

If the article was about 2Face has fathered yet another love child, you'd happily read 100 pages of petty gossip.

The yahoo yahoo boys are busy hating on this thread. They never like to hear of success attained through hard work because its a reproach to their criminal lifestyle.

chucky234: This post is rubbish and total waste of MB, your points are completely baseless.

The media and internet has always been part of life in western world and has nothing to do with how children fare because every child's behaviour is the reflection of the parents attitude,all it takes is healthy upbringing culture.

The first beauty pageant in the US took place in 1932 and has since become an annual event,the American,European and Indian movie industry peaked as early as late 30s but that has not stop Oxford,Harvard and other universites from producing top scientist,engineers,zoologist e.t.c

As a kid my father was working for an America company in the then South West Ikoyi and we had a satellite connected from the main building to our building in the staffs quarters.

Asia and Europe has more football fans and followers than Nigeria or Africa put together yet that has not stop the Asian from producing high-tech technicians and engineers that has become the back bone of the European and American economies.

In American and European countries they have many television and pay satellite channels since 1930s and that's why we can watch clips of events that took place far back as 1930 one of which is the first world cup hosted by Uruguay in 1930 and Olympics in 1932.
Nigeria only embrace the internet in 2002 the same year GSM was introduced into the country why multichoice (DSTV) started selling in Nigeria few years after but 7 years after people are attributing the poor academic performances of their wards to the media.

The first television station station and radio station in Nigeria came on board in 1994 while same cannot be said of American and European countries who have been enjoying those things way back,I remember watching Bill Cosby's family show in our TVs via my dad's company satellite wired to our house and that was far before the first TV station was launched in Nigeria.

The issue of abbreviation is also baseless because we have different form of communication each having their rules,in a formal communication its a crime to abbreviate words like You to 'u',alright to "AIIT",Love to "luv" but that cannot be said of informal communication where all forms of abbreviation are allowed as long as the receiver of the information understands what each abbreviated word stands for.

Such abbrevated words has been in use in western word since the begining of time but that has not in any way affected their writing skills,all states in US had their names abbrevated for easy use by her citizenry and you have New York (NYC),Maryland (MD),Miami (MI) e.t.c

Thousands of people are musicians and dancers in America and Europe in an industry that date way back,Nigeria music industry is just evolving and the good thing is that 70% of them are graduates.
In a nation with high unemployment rate such talent should be encouraged and combine with education,we have more educated and intelligent people today than in the 80s and 90s as more and more people are previlaged to go to school today.

My advice is that parents should nurture a healthy parenting culture so they can be able to pilot their childre's future effectively and positively,media and internet shouldn't be an excuse when parents fail.

Interesting argument but you do not address the observation by some posters that in the current global economic recession, the only countries that seem to be doing well are those which emphasize the 'hard skills' (maths, science, technology) and actually make stuff - Germany and China. Whereas those that in recent decades emphasized the financial and creative industries (IT, finance, media/entertainment etc) seem about to be relegated to the category of second tier economies.

BTW I think we are going through more than just another economic recession. This looks like a fundamental re-alignment of the global economic structure towards the Far East with perhaps Germany re-confirmed as top dog in Europe and US/Canada increasingly marginal.

Beaf, please stop exhibiting your ignorance. In law, depending on the context, the word 'he' can be read as including 'she'. This is standard practice in common law countries.

Tayo4Me, well done! I can see your nascent legal career is off to a flying start

Jonwesley:

But why hide the truth or the facts about the tummy? Same goes for lift up bras and make ups that women wear and do. A woman that presents herself by hiding such facts will definitely regret when the facts are revealed to a suitor who had erroneously believed on what he saw. Particularly a saggy boobs that is packaged to look like a 20 year old's, wld the bra or the cover clothes remain permanently fitted on her body? One thing is sure and that women body must wear out of shape by age and we need to accept it and live that way. The men who have protruding tummy are brandished by women as not being sexxy but they hardly remember that they are worse in terms of body disfigurations. Talk about war of the sexes and you are not far from here.

Well said bro! Push-up bra is pure 419.

Typical naija mentality. James Buchanan was US president in the 19th century as a lifelong bachelor. Edward Heath was British prime minister in the early 1970s as a lifelong bachelor. So many other examples abound.

Bad belle pipul!

Jelosi go kill una

Up great Ala-Igbo!

BTW, what is the proportion of Yoruba in the Catholic church in Nigeria? Less than 5% of the active membership; it is only in Cotonou that you see Yoruba Catholics in great numbers. Igbo and Edo/Delta are the bedrock of the Catholic church in Nigeria - Ndi-Igbo alone are more than 50% of Catholic faithful in Nigeria so its only fair that the engineering school go to great Ala-Igbo.

After all, Ajayi Crowther University which was originally conceived as belonging to the entire Anglican Church ended up being located in the southwest and controlled by the local diocese there - which is fair enough really considering that Yoruba are the majority in the Anglican church. LJU are even being generous in siting a branch of the school in Ogun

Whitehorse,

Can you please share details of the tour operator, boat hire location etc? I'd like to visit the Ikare island myself.

This impostor irritates me immensely. Who listens to her in Africa anyway? Who will leave Fally Ipupa, Talina, Extra Musica, Kofi Olomide, Awilo etc to listen to her glorified cat-mewling?

Her audience is primarily European and American 'world music' aficionados. After the first 1 or 2 hits way back in the late '80s, her 'music' has been pure c r a p. She's been left way behind by contemporary African music

omosexy1:

Remove the social miscreants on the street and under the bridges...

Fashola can't do anything about Lagos area boys. They are the foot soldiers of his master, Tinubu, and they are needed to rig elections.