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Folks should quit conflating issues...

Most BBNaija housemates in the previous seasons already had jobs, so most of these people are not jobless just fame whores.

One of the few things that I dislike more than this Onochie agbero is the (often HYPOCRITICAL) hangup of many Nigerians wrt sex.

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Hopefully, they plan to fence off access to these tracks.

Sadly, one cannot trust Nigerians not to turn it into a foot path or even an open-air market.

“Online poll” in Naija...

hardbody:
I had some huge backlog of about 160k. After several meetings and consultations that yielded no positive result, i cleared that amount. Then started paying 5k every month. My bill hovers around 3 to 4k every month.

I pay straight to ikeja electric company online, and sometimes I chat with them online. I get my bills online and like I stated earlier, the bill shows i am on positive and i put it outside my gate. Sometimes I print out the chat i had with their people online. In those chats i ask specific questions that elicit answers that clears all doubts. I have not had any interface with the rogues carrying ladder and they don't bother with my house again. When i print out the bills and my conversation on chat, i staple them all together but i circle the areas that support my position. In the chat i ask questions like, how much was my last month's bill, have you seen the amount I just paid online, what is now my current balance, once they say it's a credit of Nx. I print that out and attach to the online bill which I have already printed and leave it outside. Interestingly the phcn staff no longer even bother to check.

Meanwhile when you pay online, receipts are generated and you can print that out. I usually print and attach to the bill they generated. When we did not have light for like 2 weeks, i also had that conversation online and they assured that there will be no billing for those weeks and it seems my bill dropped for that period.

Obviously a civilized and enlightened citizen.

Sadly, going by some of the crude and uncouth comments on this thread you might be trapped in the wrong country.

wirinet:
The keyword here is reasonable access. Reasonable access does not mean unfettered access.
My property is property and no one is allowed access without my permission, except with a valid court order.
NEPA has the power to disconnect the wire from the pole or even uproot the whole pole, but they do not have the rights to enter personal property without approval.

Dude, the legal definition of “reasonable access” is during normal business hours.

wirinet:
Some Nigerians stealing electricity since 1960, not all Nigerians. I have never stolen electricity.

What concerns ordinary Nigerians with MDAs, Nigerians should not be punished for the sins of government officials, we are already paying enough through excessive looting.

If there are entire estate engaging in illegal connection, due process should be followed. In the alternative, the disco sue the estate for theft.

The foot soldiers are nothing but innocent. The foot soldiers are a chain in the extortion and blackmail syndicate called discos. The flout all NERC regulations and just disconnect customers without notice. One time my home was disconnected while at home without any warning or notice. At first I thought it was regular power outage until my neighbour told me NEPA is around.

The sadness of life in Nigeria is that the abnormal has now been accepted as the norm.

Not sure if it’s a grammar deficit issue, but “some” Nigerians are still Nigerians (never said “all” Nigerians).

And I fully agree that the abnormal is now being regarded as normal in Nigeria to the extent that it is “abnormal” to think that electricity is free and/or to engage in large-scale electricity theft. Even more “abnormal” is the justification and validation of beating up INNOCENT workers. Even if following the tortured logic that these workers are somehow “not innocent” merely because they work in a company where they have no input on disconnection decisions nor indeed any other corporate decision, only “abnormal” folks think that the remedy for a simple economic dispute is crude and uncouth physical violence. SMH

erenax:
Dangote should be arrested

What does the story mean by “gas tank explosion belonging to Dangote Cement”? Is it just clickbait?!

ZOO!

Populated by SUPERSTITIOUS knicker-nickers.

Not necessarily jobless youth, just FAME WHORES...

Will they come out to vote like this during the elections?

N150 million for that CRAP!

The matter is now before the CCT (as provided by Schedules 3 and 5 to the Constitution), so why are Internet Lawyers killing themselves?

Meanwhile, without prejudice to Onnoghen’s case, if it is indeed correct that the penalty for NOT declaring any of your assets is simply to “correct” your false declaration (in effect, falsity by omission rather by commission) when you are caught and/or charged, then the law is a toothless one and little wonder that it does little or nothing to deter corruption.

consultancy:
even though her response was insensitive and betrays her as one with low intelligence, it serves the guy right. this online begging thing is getting out of hand. almost every day i see over 5 posts, with each person begging for different things. times are hard, we know, but please go get something doing and stop this nonsense online begging thing. e dey vex person abeg

I doubt she was being serious or insensitive.

Seems like a facetious response to folks who have clogged SM with begging.

wirinet:
These things happens because most Nigerians do not know their rights apart from the collapsed justice system.
If you are not owning and they disconnect your power as punishment for offenses you know nothing about, you sue their ass and even receive compensation. That is what is obtained in sane societies.

They tried that shit in my former estate, and some lawyers threatened to sue their ass. Sharp sharp, the connected the fuses.

Never gonna happen.

First, if you go to court on a civil matter in Nigeria, you are looking at about an average of 3 years if you are lucky. The process are laid down by the regulator (NERC) is that if you are provided a bill and/or notice of disconnection that you dispute, you can pay a portion of the disputed bill and the DISCO cannot disconnect services to you until the dispute is heard and resolved one way or another. The reality is that many Nigerians simply disregard the bills/notices sent to them, because under NEPA/PHCN nothing is likely to happen and in the events the service folks actually show up to disconnect they can usually be ‘settled’!

wirinet:
If someone trespasses your house or compound, the law allows you to remove that person using all necessary means.

They are NOT trespassing.

The law allows access to public utility staff (same with emergency personnel). Furthermore, standard utility contracts would provide for reasonable access to the connected property for purposes related thereto (repairs, meter-reading, disconnection, re-connection, etc.).

Nigerians stealing electricity since 1960...

In a country of supposedly almost 200 million citizens (of course we don’t really know how many we really are), there are only about 6 million registered electricity consumers, and even then the military and the government MDAs steadfastly refuse to settle their bills. There are actually entire estates in Nigeria with illegal connections to the public grid. Anyway, it’s perhaps poetic justice for those insiders who rushed to grab the privatized DISCOs based on a misguided notion that it will be like GSM telephony.

Meanwhile, why beat up innocent foot soldiers at the bottom of the corporate pyramid who are merely doing their job rather than the suits in the corporate suites who set policies, send the bills and make enforcement (including disconnection) decisions? This is pretty much the same reason that violent protests are usually confined to the Mainland in Lagos and virtually never in the elite districts of Ikoyi or VI. SMH

Topmaike007:
Good that's what we need in Lagos State

Is that a new thing? Compensation for demolished property is standard in Lagos projects.

naptu2:
You completely ignored what my post was about and then went on a long rant about something totally different. Her question was whether the NBC will sanction the politicians and my answer was that the NBC does not regulate or license politicians so it can't sanction them. Rather it regulates and broadcasters and therefore those are the people that it can sanction.

I gave an example to show that the Canadian broadcasters regulator sanctioned the TV station, rather than Mike Tyson, because it does not regulate Mike Tyson.

Are you saying that the NBC regulates politicians??

Noted, but still leaves the impression that so-called “hate speech” is regulated and it is merely a question of who gets sanctioned.

Your response should have noted that NOBODY at all gets sanctioned for so-called “hate speech” - neither the speaker nor the broadcaster!

This sort of story only affects people trying to hang their coat above their real reach.

Because if you could truly AFFORD (emphasis) to spend almost $1400+ on a phone, an extra $300+ should be no biggie.

naptu2:
NBC's job is to hold the stations responsible. They regulate the broadcast media, not the politicians.

There was an example that ocurred in Canada. Mike Tyson appeared on a TV show in Canada. He was in that region to support a charity event that the mayor was holding.

However, the mayor was being investigated for committing a crime and the TV host asked Tyson if it didn't look bad that Tyson, who was convicted of rape, was supporting another person that was accused of a crime.

The question annoyed Tyson and he started swearing on the show ( "You are a piece of sh*t". "F*ck you", etc).

The host tried to move on to another question, but Tyson kept swearing at him until they ended the interview.

The Canadian version of our NBC fined the TV station. They said that the TV station should have cut off Tyson after he swore the first time and that it was the TV station's fault for continuing the interview after Tyson swore the first time.

First, so-called “hate speech” is NOT barred or banned from the airwaves (TV/radio) in countries like Canada and the US.

On the contrary, the US Supreme Court has REPEATEDLY ruled that so-called “hate speech” is legally-protected speech under the First Amendment and therefore CANNOT be regulated. Furthermore, the US broadcasting regulator, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has also specifically held (and publishes same on its materials) that it is “barred by law from trying to prevent the broadcast of ANY point of view.” This is how CIVILIZED advanced societies (which we are not looking like being interested in becoming one) handle a multiplicity and diversity of views - it allows each view to compete in a veritable marketplace of ideas, with any sanction being the public contempt and/or moral opprobrium that is visited on despicable viewpoints.

Accordingly, what you are referencing in respect of the Mike Tyson video is NOT so-called “hate speech” but rather words/terms/acts of an “indecent nature” that while they are actually NOT banned are merely REGULATED in respect of free-to-air television and radio stations (in the US, these used to be known as the original “Seven Dirty Words”), and thus can only be aired during certain specified time periods (usually when minors would normally be asleep or would ordinarily not be watching television. However, suffice it to note that these regulations are NOT applicable to cable, pay-tv or satellite radio, and thus the broadcast of any such “indecent” words/terms/acts are NOT regulated at all in respect of the latter media (i.e., pay, satellite and cable outlets).

Democracy can be very messy, but we cannot enjoy it’s full benefits if faceless bureaucrats and sundry ‘regulators’ administratively allot to themselves (because even the Nigerian Constitution actually supposedly protects the freedom of speech) the authority to arbitrarily chill free speech and/or to opaquely decide (usually AFTER-THE-FACT without notice) the boundaries of political or public discourse and debate.

Goldenonyx:
Your father was a great man but had to bow to Maradona..

And what exactly was Mamman Vatsa "great" at?

He (probably) did not deserve to be executed, but abegi let's quit lowering an already low bar.

gypsey:
Just show me the bloody sex tape! You can't even back up your claim.
you don't have anything Against Katie but you are quick to let me know she has a sex tape..
Does it even matter if she has a sex tape? i wouldn't care either If Nigerian celebrities has sex tapes all over the Internet as long as They are also adopting Nigerian Orphans.

Sounds like one of those “lazy” (Buhari) or simply incompetent Nigerians who cannot even find a simple tape.

Dude, you can persist on the Strawman’s Argument and make it about Kate when you post that was rightly rubbished was the narrow-minded attack against Nigerians. However, even if arguendo it is about Katie, then whether she has a sex tape out in the public realm matters because the overriding and primary consideration for adoption is “the best interest of the child” - not Oyibo citizenship and/or money as low-esteemed folks apparently presume - and many social workers and related professionals would contend that having a parent’s sex tape available where his/her fellow kids or playmates could see it would not necessarily be in the best interest of any child (all other things being equal).

As for the Nigerian ‘celebrities’ that you deride and denegerate, one can only presume that you are personally privy with what each of them are up to in their private lives, but just off the top of my head I can readily recall Flavour taking in a blind Liberian kid and someone like Odion Ighalo building an entire orphanage, caring for and educating all of the kids therein - each without the necessity of a sex tape!

Jaqenhghar:
Just because she was born there dont mean shít. If you mingle with Niggerians enough over there you are as good as one.

One of those Nigger-ians who never miss an opportunity to miss a point.

Of course, she is Nigerian (as well as British), even if she did not supposedly “mingle” with Nigerians, by sheer fact of her origins, just like MP Chuka Umunna, Anthony Joshua, Dele Alli, et. al. Point however is that the Nigerian aspect is only raised or stressed in negative circumstances - but perhaps that is too subtle for some folks. SMH

Of course, he is RIGHT.

The reality is that monogamous relationships including marriage are a social construct, and not a biological trait or imperative. Accordingly, those of us who have voluntarily or otherwise opted to be part of societies/communities that value monogamy as part of the cultural/societal mores have in conjunction thereto also opted for monogamy (or at least try for same). Just as those people who belong to societies/communities with polygamy or even polyandry as part of the social/cultural fabric, think it “natural” to have multiple partners.

iamsea:
Till he himself contact hiv or till one of his female sibling go share am give ritualist... Him eyes go soon clear

You can contract HIV in a monogamous relationship, marriage or even with only one sexual encounter.

RIP

omoteacher:
Being alive and safe is just by luck in naija cos everywhere you're at risk.

Being alive anywhere in the world is lucky. Every morning you wake up alive and healthy, give thanks to whatever you believe in.

Tonmiwatimmy:
ugly girl

That’s such an UGLY thing to say on her engagement.

CONGRATS Bro!

gypsey:
There are no Katie's sex tapes. If you know of any, Again. show me, Anyway I have made my opinion and I don't expect you to Agree.

Call me whaatever you like, I don't care. most important thing is Katie I hope katie Adopts all the orphans in Nigeria and give them a better life.

Ciao!

Childish Strawman’s Argument.

Never was against Katie (or Jordan, or whatever else she might have called herself in those sex tapes) adopting Nigerian orphans nor anyone else who needs to be adopted (perhaps you, given as you are Staning Jordan), but most definitely against you using the story (a mere rumor at the this point) to launch a petty-minded attack on Nigerian celebrities (whatever that term may mean these days). SMDH

Sharpmouth19:
Ambode his just an epe governor,just check all his achievement in lagos, frm the sea port, the airport eve the housing scheme all are based in epe,but lagos state has 5 division why only epe ambode is a scam to all other divisions.what as badagry,ikorodu,lagos island, done dat they where nt remember by the goverment of ambode? Expecially badagry i wish u guys can cum a see badagry now ambode as 4get and rejected badagry and every other division except his on town epe.

And btw, you do realize there is in fact an even bigger proposed deep sea port project in Badagry?

Sharpmouth19:
Ambode his just an epe governor,just check all his achievement in lagos,frm the sea port,the airport eve the housing scheme all are based in epe,but lagos state has 5 division why only epe ambode is a scam to all other divisions.what as badagry,ikorodu,lagos island, done dat they where nt remember by the goverment of ambode? Expecially badagry i wish u guys can cum a see badagry now ambode as 4get and rejected badagry and every other division except his on town epe.

Exactly bros!

The Abule Egba and Ajah flyovers are in Epe. The Pen Cinema flyover, the Oshodi Interchange, and the Ikeja, Yaba and Oyingbo bus terminals are all located in Epe. The 450 inner roads reconstructed/rehabilitated across all of the LCDAs must have actually been located in Epe. Ayinke House (LASUTH) construction/reconstruction will be moved to Epe. The new Onikan Stadium and the JK Randle Centre must be in Epe. Not to forget that the reconstructed Ikorodu Road, including the new BRT corridor is in Epe. Just as the new Airport expressway and the new Oshodi-Abule BRT corridor, the Ojodu Berger bridges and slip roads, the JJT, Oshodi and Oyingbo parks and gardens, are all located in Epe. There are plans to uproot all of the schools and health centers reconstructed/renovated under Ambode for relocation to Epe. The Imota rice mill and the Light Industrial Park is really in Epe, the Smart City project is in Epe as is the ongoing transformation of the Sabo Industrial Estate in Yaba into a technology cluster, and of course all of the HOMS housing schemes in Mushin, Surulere (Iponri), Badagry (Ajara Estate), Alausa, Eti-Osa, Alomosho, etc., must also be in Epe. In fact, the Imeke-Ajido bridge and the new Olusola Thomas Court complex in Badagry must have really been intended for Epe. Folks, if we are going to have an intelligent discussion let’s start with FACTS and factual rectitude.