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bayo2018:
Good day nairalanders

I wanna seek advise on behalf of my parent. My dad is a road side mechanic while Mum is a petty trader. Dad is 55yrs while Mum is 52yrs. I wanna ask what type of Business can I set up for my parent based on the Economy growth of the country.
I plan setting up a mini mart for my mum earlier buy after asking my sister about it she said it’s not a good business in terms of profitability.
Kindly help to suggest what type of Business I can set up for both of them so I can start working on it.

Rent a small shop for your mom to sell soup ingredients and vegetables NOT mini mart.

Then for pops, Buy him a Van/Bus for hiring contracts with people who intend to haul their goods.

SenecaTheYonger:
You could still fvck this girl if you wanted. You just played it like a child.

she reduced op's interest in her the moment she told op she has a committed boyfriend and didn’t want to do runs, nevertheless went ahead to outrightly demand from op using a flimsy excuse.

It's isn't bad enough to want to friend-zoning op but she added insult to the injury when she claimed she is shy to demand from her boyfriend so, op is now ATM okwiya?

kenzysmith:
Met this beautiful girl at shoprite, I approached her and we exchanged numbers. After a week, I began asking her out she told me she had a serious boyfriend and she doesn't double date or run paro. I said no problem and I never disturb her.

3 days ago she called me that she needed to do one month sub that her sub has finish. I told her to tell her boyfriend na! She said she was too shy to ask him for cards. It look some how that it don't want to look like she was bothering him. I said OK no problem that I can't access my account at the moment that am at offshore in the middle of a sea that she should send me #200 naira mtn so I can call my bro to sub for her, she send me the card and I text her thank you very much for the card that she is a nice person.

After like 6hrs she called to tell me my bro has not send her the card. I told her I DONT have one kobo to send to her and cut the call.

Did I do wrong my fellow nairalanders

I owe you a beer.

Iyaebe:
The only pets I like are goats and sheep.Handsome man with no hit songs, may God pick his call.Men that loves pets are kindhearted.

Do you imply Usher Terry Raymond has no hit song.

You just gave yourself away, telling us — it's a young person behind the keyboard that typed your comment.

Our last born grew up on Usher hit songs, even psquare (when together, in their early days) mimicked Usher and Michael Jackson style of music.

This is so dangerous in the long run and might end up in two kind of eventuality:

1 - Either we swap our legal tender (Naira) for the US Dollar.

Or

2 - Create a new currency and dumping the Naira altogether.

And when 2 happens, Even Dangote will be reduced from a Billionaire to a Millionaire.

It means, your car is due for oil change, it comes up every 5000 miles. So, even if you changed your oil and do not reset the light, it will not go away.

I know this man back in UNIBEN, Always blowing stupi d grammar. He took my department English once in 100 level GST (standing in for a different lecturer) and throughout the lecture, we just couldn't understand what this man was trying to lecture.

A sshole

Let's see this from another perspective.

Imagine this young man (op), who is frustrated by this lingering situation with no end in sight; Depressed and his mental health hitting rock bottom decides to just end his own misery by committing suicide?

What would be the fate of his Dad and family?

Will the second born carry on with the burden of treating their dad and family struggle?

Will their sick Dad be proud of the fate of his children which goal in life is to only care for him because he has terminal ailment?

For those that brought God into this dilemma.

Does God enjoy the suffering this family is going through?


According to Socrates: There is only one evil — Ignorance, and only one good — Knowledge.

DonroxyII:
What is responsible for Earth Revolution and Rotation... is the space/blanket itself spiralling due to Blackhole?

The sun gravitational pull is responsible for Earth and other planets rotation and revolution. The moon inclusive.

Anobella:
I need you to you to understand this if I said that space is expanding and it's sitting n an imaginary 3 or 4 dimensions then the distance if the sun to earth should increase the angle at which the sun is should also change

No. That's not how this works.

Think of space as inside a "water tank" and the cover of the tank is the beginning of the big bang, Then inside that Tank; we have billions of Galaxies, Billion of Stars (both dead stars and living stars, Billions of planets in each galaxies.

Stay with me bro, because we still inside that same tank.

Now, we human are in the milky way galaxy that house only 8 planets minus pluto, And we live in one of the planet called Earth.

Why is Earth habitable to us human?

The Moon, stars (dead stars) and sun (living star) all makes Earth livable and hence brought forth life in the planet.

Now lets talk on Earth Dimensions.

This quest for this knowledge came about after my senior man, Sir Isaac Newton postulated that Gravity is reaction of a spooky effects from a distance (String Theory), then My BIG Bros Albert Einstein, proved him wrong but NOT all wrong, just on the topic of Gravity — because Newton's law of motion, thermodynamics e.t.c still holds water till today.

But for gravity, My Bros Einstein nor gree with Newton Thoery ooo.

Einstein, proved with his maths that space (the tank aforementioned) has 3 dimensions 1- length, 2- height and 3-space. But there was a problem. The 4th dimension.

After Einstein figured out that light travel at a constant speed and can bend through space. GBAM!!! He figured space was a mere vacuum and that time is nothing but a stubborn illusion. Meaning, there is no such thing as past, present or future. We just exist in that Tank (space) and from the beginning of big bang till this moment is one day, man only invented time to keep track of events.

So therefore out 4th dimension is TIME.


Modified - Einstein called it space time.

I love Einstein's Brain. The Man was a Genius. But Newton was a mad Genius, before Newton Died, he burnt several of his works, Now imangine, if we had access of Newton's equation, how far we would have advanced in science. Newton's equation is the reason we reached the Moon and came back to Earth.

EMILO2STAY:
majority of his theories are Concocted gibberish with no proof . think about it, he never went to space to measure or detect anything he said about space and till this day non have been proven they are all lies.

I am about to shed tears for you, due to this answer you just posted.

This is so — NOT because, you proud of your ignorance but because, you a result of the dysfunctional education system in Nigeria.

I'm sorry, Nigeria failed you.

Tickles001:
Earth has far more surface gravity than Mars. I think you mixed up the figures.

You explaination pertaining to Earth is the affirmation of Earth 9% gravity.

Mars has 30% gravity, this is why Gravity on Mars is slower than on Earth.

Tickles001:
No. I'm not talking about bending of light. Space is not just a vacuum as you think, except you are limiting your definition to the absence of air.
The space is said to be a mesh of what they called space-time. And yes. We could bend this space-time, just that I wanted to keep it simple that's why I called it "bending space." Bending of light doest not change the distance between two points, but bending space-time does.
The 4th dimension is simply the time dimension. Other higher dimensions exist, but we don't have full understand of those yet.
Science has added a lot of things in the past few years. We don't have only three types of matter anymore. I think it's now up to six.

You truly mixing things up. And i don't want to make this seem like a back and forth argument because that fact(s) is scattered right here on the internet.

I take lessons from Neil Dygress Tyson and Prof Lawrence Krauss, so I will not argue what i know and spend more time still learning.

If you say your answer right over mine — then you right, but your answer won't change the objective fact of knowledge.

Astronomy and physics are so fun to learn and same time humbling that they changed my world view from being Atheist to Agnotic.

And by the way:

We know the other 3 dimensions, just study harder to figure it out yourself.

Beloved3:
Yes it is.

Scientist believe the big bang explosion gave the planets the first nudge of energy that caused them to start spinning, and they have ever remained in motion .

I believe God did.

Death of the stars and supernova. Not the big bang!

The big bang was just the first occurrence that started the chain of events in the solar system.

The big bang only resulted to space explotion and expansion, Dark matter is still pushing it far wide till today as first captured by the hubble space telescope.

SenecaTheYonger:
Space expansion literally doesn’t affect the earth or Nigeria. I used to loved those stuff but now I’m more grounded in reality and the current state of Nigeria

What! You just denied Earth and Nigeria their place in Astronomy. I bet the solar system won't be happy with you.

siofra:
Einstein also believed in the theory that will explain everything. The theory that will unify all theories. This formula of this theory if discovered will bring about another revolution in science just like his theory of relativity and Newton's laws did.
It is termed the theory of everything by Stephen Hawking.

Einstein is like the Jesus Christ of science.

Brilliant girl, you have been following up on science but, here is what Einstein meant by that unified theory.


QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

This gave my bro (Einstein) sleepless night till he died. He never got to solve it and it's still unsolvable.

Einstein actually lost a debate against a fellow professor (Bohr) on this issue where he was quoted, in his words "God does not play dice with the universe"

Well, it turns out God does play dice with the universe as opined by Bohr. The dice thing is metaphorical but here is what they meant.

Quantum science is the study of the smallest of particles/quantum particles, smaller than atom but makes atom work, smaller than the inexplicable but let's call it "nothing" but when I try to define nothing, am still trying to describe something but anyway it remains nothing and the fact remains; it exists.

For example - When you unlock a door to an empty room, you feel its lukewarn and pitch dark until you put on the light, if I was to ask you, what is in the room? Your answer will be "nothing".

Well, turns out, they was some sort of energy in that room before your presence disturbed it so that room wasn't entirely empty.

Einstein was of the opinion that we can work that math to find out the radiating energy in the room before you got in, while Bohr said NO, it's not possible because we don't know what we want to calculate and your presence has also disturbed what we intend to calculate so nothing can be done.

This is still a hot debate in the science community.

Please forgive me if you don't understand, my example is contrived. Go look up quantum science for elaborate definition.

Tickles001:
YouTube would really explain it more than me. Do you also know that. According to Einstein, gravity has something on time. Time passes very slowly in regions of low gravity, and very fast in regions of high gravity.

This is very correct. And Earth has about 9% gravity. Mars 30% gravity.

Humanoid01:
Lol I wonder the rationale behind the space bending theory. What does ”space bending” mean literally?

He is wrong. Nothing like space bending. Rather, it's light bending around space.

This is why we have solar eclipse and the different views and shapes of night time moon light when the moon rotates around the earth.

Tickles001:
A very strange scientist indeed. With a lot of brain stretching theories.

He also theorized that space can be bent.
Like it's possible to bend the space between two distinct points, to bring the two points closer to each other.

Take for example. We could bend the space between Lagos and California, that people in these two cities could literally see each other and even trek across.

And has a hand in exotic matter.

You got this slightly wrong.

Light bends around space NOT space bending itself.

Space is a mere vacuum that comprises of 3 dimensions but for us (human) to fit in, the 4th dimension had to be included (space time).

My bro Einstein had to do some mental gymnastics to come up with the 4th dimension, which altogether was a different ideology from that of my man Isaac Newton.

Sequel to OP's story. I had a funny experience in the same UNIBEN, tragi-comedy some will say.


I remember vividly back in UNIBEN, I was in 100 level at the time. I had lecture at BASEMENT ( POL 111 — a collective course at the time), Due to no cash at the Access bank and Stanbic bank ATM around faculty car park, I had to trek under the hot sun enroute June12 (ATMs at June 12 weren't installed then) - hall 2 - back of library extension until I arrived at the UBA ATM just opposite the main library building.


I was exhausted and hungry because I began my trekking from Ekosodin where I lived at the time, On my unfortunately arrival, i met a long queue at the UBA ATM and keep in mind, Bread and beans at booker was the only thing on my mind so I needed the money badly.

Picture me as number 15 just joining the queue — I didn't mind as I found solace in the bread and beans that money was going to after withdrawal.

E be like say na pidgin go make sense to use now.

So as the queue dey move slowly and hungry dey wire me, e just be like say make I break the atm commot the money go chop as network just slow finish, one person fit use 5 minutes take withdraw 1k due to slow network.


As e be say, e wan reach my turn as the second person to withdrawal after this guy wey dey my front, one fine babe just show, the girl fine finish, no be lie and come fresh, Na so the mumu guy whey dey in front of me come activate him simp button come dey yearn say, na him and the babe come and the babe dey him back, which I know say na lie, he just wan chance me base on say, him na strong man (confra) and me na100 level student whey no get level.

Na so de rest people for queue come dey protest, the guy insist say, the babe go withdraw base on say, they come together, which na lie he dey lie. The babe just dey smile.

Na so my guy use like 5 minutes withdraw him money, the fine babe come take my second place to wan withdraw, as she slot in her card. ATM swallow am come off join.

Na so everyone for the queue just dey laugh as the guy dey form "elect-elect" electrician for ATM machine wey don off. Everybody clear but na with laugher we use clear comot.

Hunger wire me till I leg am reach main gate go withdraw but anytime I remember that day, I still dey laugh cus na my card that ATM suppose swallow.

Wife her and take her off the labour market; the labour (money) market is a force that completely turns a moral person into an immoral pig.

She is a good girl for keeping her virgin pride up until you broke it. Anyone could have broken it but, if you do want a wife (as a young man), she is the best bet you can get because she isn't loose and can pair bond because again; you are her first!

The dating market is saturated with alpha widow women who do filth for money but here is a chance to snap and save one before she reaches the street.

If you do not , please check my profile for my email and DM me her number let me advice her like I did you.

First Half Analysis

It was a balanced game between the two sides. No signs of weaknesses yet except for fatigue.

Don Santos is a really brilliant coach with that formation. If he continues with this formation throughout the season, Tottenham would end up a title contender.

We Chelsea are just being consious and really challenged by Tottenham tactics, however we Haverts needs to be substituted for Tiwo Werner.

Harverzt use to be quick with the ball when he arrived England but lately, he has lost that ability. Mount has lost his instinct for taking speculative shots from outside the box.

We need Werner and Ziyech/ Hudson Odion in this game. Also, Alonso is really being sluggish, We need Chilly in the game.

Come on Blues. We are Chelsea.

First Half Analysis

Aston Villa is clearly bringing the game to Chelsea and Chelsea are just being carefully defensive as no holding midfield.

Saul isn't in the game (can't blame the newbie), Kovacic is covering the whole midfield and over stressed.

Alonso needs to be subed, He lacks creativity in such intense football Aston villa brings to Chelsea; and he (Alonso) is making Rudiger overwork.

Havert and Ziyech are clearly being tricky switching positions but it's Kovacic that is still doing both their duty. Harvertz needs to be subed.

Nigeria girls don't cheat. I can categorically confirm first hand from my friend's girl when we were knacking.

At least, that was what she told me.

I don't think his is broke to take up such a job, he could be a double agent spy.

starpon1:
Yea it will but might not finish the project. Let me show u on how to go about it. If u r building a 3 bed room flat, just tell the engineer to the forming and German floor for u. Then tell him that he will inspect it from German floor to roofing stage which should not be more than 3 or 5k per visit use local Manson for the block work they collect about 40 naira per block.
Block work to parapet = 1200000
Roofing use 4.5 mm for ur roof=1300000
Window and door -700000
Plastering/window hook=350000
Toilet firings =250000
Tiles go for China tiles=700000
Electrical work=250000
Celling =100000
Just budget 5m and ur work is done don't get discourage by comments u see here. Good luck.

You are a wise man sir.

Half time analysis in one sentence.

Clearly, Arsenal is no match for Chelsea.

It's very easy to understand:

The law of economics states: When supply exceed demand then, the commodity will lose value quickly except you create a monopoly in the market which of course capitalism doesn't support.


An upcoming artist can make it big and break into limelight with just one hit song , however, its hard to remain relevant for long due to the new releases (by older and newer artists) as well as the fierce competition. This includes producers.

The stardard of music deteriorates and good music will be hard to come by due to the irrationality of the market: For instance, Almost 80% songs released is about women, money and popping bottles. And the few that goes against the grain rarely make it big.

Prior to this harsh reality im the music industry, some smart artist come up with an idea to stay relevant in the industry, this is what they do.

They set up a record label, sign promising upcoming acts, collab with them, finance their project and when that up coming act seems to outshine them, what they do is frustrate their progress by reducing funding therby slowing the pace at which they release songs/albums. The upcoming act gets annoyed and abandons the contracts. This is mostly why most artists leave their record label.

Olamide remains relevant with this technique, although he still releases good musics but what he mostly do is prey on upcoming acts by featuring them, steal their moment and leaves. Smart!

Wizkid just began to the same Olamide pattern by doing a hit song with Tem.

Dbanj did it but it didn't work for him, Also Ice prince Zamani.

So, basically, the only way to remain relevant for long is by using Olamide's method. Works for him well because he can sing and rap, which means he can feature on any body song.

Too late, This will only weaken their currency against the USD — but doesn't mean Taliban can't get money to run their country now turned Emirate.

You are at the mercy of science, you don't need prayer.

I'm beginning to resonate with Taliban philosophies. Just having a free mind towards thier ideologies.

Anarchy soon to begin, unless the Taliba form a self government.