₦airaland Forum

Didi2d:
There is nothing I love more than half cast

Er... “half caste” is a racist term.

I volunteer to sponsor her trip to Nigeria!

sonsonny:
I thought that in Europe people are tolerant.

freemanbubble:
But seriously sha
The way atiku is eager to sell NNPC
Is like the guy has already collected advance payment

But if there is one thing i can bet my balls on is the fact that PDP will win my state. Edo state to be precise
Our next president is alhaji atiku aguero abubakar

In fact let me bet my left ball in advance

NNPC SHOULD BE SOLD!

Government ownership of the NNPC does NOT benefit the ordinary Nigerian. In fact, it is often a TAX on the ordinary Nigerian who has to pay more for less efficient services. If the refineries were privatized 20 years ago, it would have saved Nigeria the trillions of naira expended every year on the corrupt subsidy regime (each year more than the federal budgets for education and health) and the private sector would have done a much better job of it, with the attendant jobs that would have been retained in Nigeria rather than subsidizing employment abroad.

The only folks substantively benefiting from government ownership of the NNPC is the small cabal of the connected that have burrowed themselves into the corporation (many of whom do not have the requisite skills and capabilities to secure similar employment in any other petroleum company nor elsewhere in the private sector), where they are often overpaid and underworked, and their parasitic cousins of contractors and subcontractors. The regular Nigerian Jon Doe derives virtually NO direct benefit from government ownership of NNPC.

Whatever one may think of the charges against Onnoghen...

How does the Cross River State government have standing (locus standi) in the matter? Is the CJN a representative of Cross River State? Is he in the Supreme Court to represent the interests of Cross River State? If Nigeria is ever going to begin to resemble a working nation, we have to rid ourselves of this crude obfuscation of hiding behind the skirt of ethnic or other base and primordial aggregations. There are many arguable issues with the suspension of Onnoghen, but frankly none of them is especially the business of the Cross River State government.

Mac2016:
While I agree with you on your closing statement but you need to see the light in the fact that right attitudes are not only learnt on the road side or in denigrating situations only.

Character moulding could be in other part places meant!

You are hand twisting argument out of context.

Coscharis did not hawk pears as a graduate. If I'm wrong, Kindly correct me!

We did not send graduates to school to come out and clean the road. If I'm wrong kindly correct me.

That's why society is stratified.

They are actually depriving better "qualified" cleaners of the job they were supposed to take by not thinking out of the box and making something bigger happen. No economy develops by sweeping the ground or cleaning the road only.

Work ethics could be learnt in other better and fit-for-purpose jobs, or must it be by being a road cleaner.

We are training our graduates not to clean roads. It is a national disaster!

First, so long as you consider any HONEST labor as “denigrating” we will continue to agree to disagree.

Nonetheless, you are actually the one “hand twisting argument out of context” (to borrow your turn of phrase) as I made clear from my very first comment that EVERY job (emphasis original) is a learning experience. That would of course include, but is by no means limited to, cleaning jobs.

Frankly, the only plausible issue I would have here is that low-level laborers in Nigeria are most often not paid a living (or livable) wage, but that’s a much wider discourse for some other time and topic. Other than that, I personally do not subscribe to this “efizzy” mindset that regards HONEST hard labor as denigrating or otherwise contemptible.

College graduates in the world’s richest-ever country are loading docks and serving coffee, among other things. A university education should already have bequeathed a graduate with the greatest gift of all humanity - an EDUCATION, not necessarily a cushy job.

afroniger:
You are a perfect poster boy for the entitlement mentality I spoke about. Nobody owes you any job with a fat paycheck just because you have a university degree or simply because you are a graduate. Not in Nigeria, not anywhere else. But if you think you deserve a fat paycheck then go ahead and create opportunities for yourself rather than sitting on your ass waiting for savy entrepreneurs to go through the grind of building their successful businesses just so you can stroll in and take a plum position in their company simply because you are a graduate. The world has evolved beyond that my guy so you better wake up and smell the coffee. The Masters degree of today is the Bsc of yesterday because there are way too many degreed graduates than there are jobs to absorb them so quit flattering yourself by looking down on those that are realistic and not too proud enough to get something doing to earn a decent living.

I know graduate females who drive 'hazardous' keke napep today and are taking home no less han 5k per day and meeting their financial needs while other able-bodied glorified graduates are still roaming the streets or sitting at home lamenting and sulking about lack of jobs as if anybody owes them a job. Like seriously.

If you really feel entitled to that great job with a fat pay because you a graduate then be man enough to CREATE that job and pay yourself what you feel you deserve, because nobody owes you a job my friend.

Well said yet again!

A report by CNBC showed that, in 2018, 40 percent of university graduates in the US held jobs that did not require a degree.

Mac2016:
You don't necessarily have to build your attitude with denigrating items you called jobs, bro. There are many other dignifying means of achieving your out laid "learning experience". If you think hard you will discover there are other better ways of bettering your life than picturing abroad menial jobs as pleasant jobs to build your character with. Reach for the stars and stop living on a low mind. I detailed my experience with you but you generously skipped it as expected. Kindly rethink your process and you will get better for it.

With all due respect, the fact that you refer to an HONEST job as “denigrating” is a sad commentary.

Dude, it’s NEVER been the job that makes the man, but the content of the character within. Nothing earned honestly is denigrating. Someone like the billionaire Cosmas Maduka of Chroscharis started off hawking pears on the street and followed that up with an unpaid apprenticeship as a car mechanic. The work-ethic he learned from those days has carried him through his mega-successful life, so much so that he’s ended up a Harvard Business School graduate. The most seminal lesson about life is not where you start but where you end up.

Mac2016:
Dude forgot that some jobs are better left than taken else they shut down your thinking faculty apart from other grave hazards attached to being on the road with little or no safety gadgets to avoid accidents.
When I was jobless I quickly started teaching. From one tutorial to the other. IJMB to SSCE/JAMB to Cambridge exam prep class to private tutoring. I did this to free up my time with enough flexibility to look for other means while the former suffices.
Graduate shd think out better alternatives than taking up hazardous road cleaning jobs. Rank nonsense

NO job retards your so-called "thinking faculty" (unless perhaps it was not there to begin with ).

Many of our parents' generation when they first traveled abroad engaged in all kinds of menial jobs (janitorial, wiping ass in nursing homes, security guards, busing tables, etc.) until they were able to secure the credentials and/or certification for better jobs. EVERY job is a LEARNING experience, and if you are compelled to become a cleaner try to be the BEST darn cleaner there is. Not only will you develop great work habits but you just never know who is out there watching or whose path will cross with yours.

afroniger:
And what is wrong with being a cleaner? There are barely enough jobs to go around yet some people are looking down on some type of jobs. Smh. Nigerians and their entitlement mentality. Una no mind to go do cleaner work and other so-called 'dirty' jobs abroad in spite of all una university degrees but here in Nigeria una go dey form. There is dignity in honest labour biko. It's better to work as a cleaner and work your way into something bigger and better than be crying about being jobless and hungry.

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And for the rest of you mentioning me and talking crap, y'all are free to stay/remain broke while complaining about being jobless and still eating your parents' food as unemployed glorified graduates, waiting for that 'befitting' job that will never come while you grow gray hairs in your father's house. Na your choice but don't come here knocking other folks that are more pragmatic about the job market and are ready and not too proud to work to earn a living no matter how small.

Thank you!

There's DIGNITY in all HONEST labor, but some folks will deride these ones and hail (or defend) Yahoo Boys! SMDH

darlenese:
I am not a sexist, as a married woman I can't leave my kids and party all night in the name of celebrity Lifestyle and I am sure no responsible woman will do that.

Do you boo, just don't pontificate that your LIMITED reality should be everyone else's.

When he met, dated and ultimately married her (and apparently got that Green Card that is now aiding his own personal progress), was she not living the same "celebrity lifestyle"? And yet again, what if her job, career, profession, etc., requires such a "lifestyle" (or she can best advance her career through same)? What if she was not a "celebrity" (again, not quite sure what the designation actually means), but a night doctor or night cleaner or cook or desk clerk (in, for example, a hotel), who still has be away from home all night? Even furthermore, what's the substantive difference between a mother staying out supposedly all night, and a banker or lawyer working all day until 9 or 10 pm when their kids have gone to bed? The REALITY is that NO working woman (whatever her profession) enjoys the luxury of staying home all day and all night with their kids - and that does NOT make them any less "responsible" than someone like you.

4ckTOTO:
Shut up there. A married nigerian woman that constantly sleeps out side is sucking preek. Argue with ur mother

I refuse to climb into the gutter with folks who were conceived and raised in the gutter.

One can only hope that this lady who wrote that Peruzzi should pay the alumni association “they money” is not an alumnus...

darfay:
Those buses are for inter state not Intra state... Those are the kind of buses mostly used for inter state

Just as bad, because they would be competing with the ABCs and the Chiscos, and such other interstate bus companies.

darlenese:
he might have said that out of depression.


BTW, what kind of woman leaves her baby and goes out at night? this stupid woman is even suggesting he employs a help, na wa o

this celebrity husbands them dey really try , this is outright nonsense

Why doesn’t he stay with the baby himself, if it is so important to him that a parent stay with the baby?

The underlying sexism and even misogyny on this thread (even from some women) is shocking beyond words (but not altogether at variance with most of our crudely backward paternal culture). When he met and married her, and even went on to have a kid with her, he knew fully well that she is a “celebrity” (whatever that means) whose career (presumably “celebrity” is some sort of career) partly depends on going out and being seen about town and in the right social circles. After all, many of these “celebrities” are paid appearance fees, given free gifts and products, and are even appointed brand ambassadors for little or nothing more than simply their social currency and profile. Meanwhile, the dumb goat has used her to get a green card to travel abroad to advance his own career - perhaps in his puny mind (as with many Nigerian men and in most Nigerian cultures), the career and advancement of the man is of paramount (if not singular) importance.

As a female yourself, what would you say if the dude walks out on her while she is busy babysitting? In Nigeria, where’s there’s no compelled Child Support obligations, she would simply become another single mother depending on her ex-husband for the basics. God forbid! SMH

delpee:
Interesting! So he should hire someone to look after the baby so madam can go clubbing. Then madam will cry foul when something goes wrong with the child and probably blame him for hiring the wrong person.

Gbenro is wrong for bringing his problems to social media but his wife needs to understand the role of a mother in the home. Most of us hail our mothers for all they sacrificed to make us what we are today. That is what motherhood is all about.

Or he could just as simply stay home with the baby himself.

4ckTOTO:
So it's now ok for a married woman to be fucking outside abiiiii

Did she bleep you?

Even her husband never accused her of bleeping anybody, but it says a lot about the primordial and backward mentality of many crude Nigerian men that women should not be seen in public (or go out) without their husbands/male relatives. Why not put her in Purdah?! SMH

CaesarDon:
I really dislike people throwing words around to sound intelligent and smart

I do not support washing ur dirty linen in public, but i dunno what pushed him to act in that manner, I'd never judge someone based on what I see in social media

I would! Blasting your marital/family problems all over the PUBLIC realm of SM is a succinct verdict on one’s judgment.

Sultty:
Not minding ur biz is also an example

The weakling posting on PUBLIC social media made it the PUBLIC’s business.

midolian:
If it's GMB that will make Nigeria work, so be it. It seems PMB is too soft to handle the kind of criminals we have growing in their numbers in this country

Democracy was never meant for the black man!

If this is the mentality of Buhari supporters, it is disgraceful.

Crappy nonsense.

Upon all of the extra derivative allocations that the state is receiving (and rightly so, I might add), nonetheless compare the Lagos BRT buses and the new high-capacity buses with these shyte-cans. Often are problems are less about fiscal poverty but more about intellectual poverty.

lilmax:
who gave birth to these stupidies?

Any more stupid than dudes stealing underpants for so-called ritual?

OneCorner:
I’m not happy for her
I’m angry because she get money pass me

henrixx:
do you know the urge for sex is higher than that of food? That's when the urge really comes.

Rape is more about primordial power and DOMINANCE than sex.

DISGUSTING, DISGRACEFUL, DESPICABLE AND DEPRAVED!

Any person (especially female) who contracts with this photographer would be supporting misogyny.

overdrive:
First time seeing a young African with an equally young hot Caucasian.card or no card the guy game plan is top notch. Wow wow

I suppose everyone’s idea of “hot” is different

Groupie

Indigo O2 is DIFFERENT (and way SMALLER) than the O2 Arena that Wizkid and Davido performed at.


PS: Oops! I see that some other posts have already noted the difference.

Crude and uncouth

olexjay:
u mean it's cost 2-3m to travel to Libya or I don't get it

That’s reportedly what they pay the People Smugglers who are supposed to get them there.

RIP

I still do not get it?

These trips often costs upwards from $6K to as much as $10K or more to pay people smugglers. That's about N2-3 million.

Why would a skilled artisan like a carpenter leave Nigeria (with construction everywhere, plus people needing furniture and repairs) to rush abroad to do what? The other day on CNN, there were traders saying that they sold off everything in their stores to pay for passage to "Europe" (with NO idea where they would end up in Europe), while another said they sold off their farm lands. Anyway, I blame the fake "efizzy" on social media. SMH