₦airaland Forum

descarado:
My brother, don't ever mind my mouth
I have swallowed that thing mistakenly. I vomit till my bile comot
I don drink breast milk too. It's just as bland as cow milk before it's pasteurised and warm. So was talking from experience.

Hahaha, what do you mean by "mistakenly"? Some naughty things here and there are necessary 😅 That stuff has plenty of nutrients. 😅😅 What made you drink breast milk, though, curiosity?

Happy you all are fine. We are good.
Just that I dey look for money to buy tesla S 24.
My colleagues dey flaunt the latest models for me. Me wey no be fan. Now I wan break bank. Na so I dey dream model S 24 every time I sleep
Hubby asked if I have malaria

Glad to know ☺️🙏

I had to Google that model. It's very sleek o, and it'll look good on you. 🔥🔥 Have you told hubby yet, or are you looking to make it a surprise? Since you're already dreaming about it, make I enter 21-day fast now, by fire and force. 🤭😅

pocohantas:
No lies. I knew I have finally been released from the stronghold of free things when I paid for YouTube Music and Grammarly Pro.

Haha, I agree. I'm happy for you oo. I can almost imagine the sense of responsibility you felt from that.

anonimi:
Many thanks for your brutally honest assessment of who we are.
I hope that you have more opportunities to share your thoughts on our basic inadequacies.
Stay blessed sir.

Thank you. I appreciate your feedback

Another proof that intelligence is at least 80% genetic. If your papa, mama, and grandparents no sabi book, just forget about competing with people like this. You will be wasting your time. The other 20% is shared btw nutrition and hard work.

descarado:
Hmmm, baba iyaji, are you guilty?

How are you and family?

The male akamu part is so so funny. I agree with your points. I've seen some of your posts explaining the same thing about food, and I nod in agreement. Very accurate view.

We are doing fine o. How are you doing too?

descarado:
Tastes better than male akamu.

It shows that what you feed your taste bud is what it get used to. Babies can swear by it.

That's why it amazes me when people here bash foods based on tribe without giving their taste buds time to adjust to such meal.
Unless one is allergic to such food or its unhealthy, there is no reason why we can't eat anything from around the world.

If Nigerians can eat pizza or burger, they can eat anything. It's just useless pride.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sonnobax15:

Imagine almost losing your life simply because you were seeking the attention of a fellow man like you . TBH,if I were the only one in this world,all these so-called celebrities wouldn't be feeling funky and big cuz I no really send them and their papa for here

Anyways, thank God for his life....

Bold of you to think that he is seeking Davido's attention. Davido and all members of his team are not unreachable to someone like Nasboi. He can easily reach out, pay the necessary fee for a feature to have Davido on his song.

He is only seeking attention for himself and to his new song (whether Davido features on it or not). Moreover, each of these posts gets massive engagement on social media. There's no way he won't get close to #2m after 30 days from just Twitter engagement. Now imagine other platforms.

Moreover, Nasboi has had songs that became hit and top 5 on both Apple Music and Spotify. He sef no small. Boy just needs attention for himself. Nothing concern Davido for this matter.

Any subscription-based pay-TV programme that concentrates fully on the Nigerian market will fail. There's no other way. You either go the way of YouTube and Spotify by bombarding people with ads to make up for their low purchasing power and poverty, or pack up. Another way is to make your money by stealing user data, then sell to willing partners abroad. But if your aim is to convince Nigerians to pay for streams, apps, or anything they can easily get a counterfeit from China or a fraudulently-hacked alternative that allow multiple users (e.g., Truecaller Pro, Canvas, Capcut, Netflix, Apple Music etc.), you have already failed before you even begin. They will never pay because they can't afford it.

Unfortunately, we don't even see our inability to afford basic things like that as a problem because of our strong affinity for failed governance. In fact, Nigerians consider their low purchasing power and inability to afford the very basic things of life as smartness because there is always that fake engineer and hacker willing to bypass the due process as well as a professional politician willing to convince them to exercise the same level of patience their great grandparents had.

Ordinary Grammarly Pro subscription, many can't afford. Microsoft Office installation, they still can't afford, instead we run to computer village, the home of fake counterfeit software, looking for a fake uncertified engineer to install a fake software or a fake movie site that sells their data to American and Chinese companies for crumbs.

Eriokanmi:
Maybe you're the one fooling yourself by agreeing with them. My mum died at age 90yrs last year April. My paternal grand father died over 100yrs in 1996. My maternal grandmother died 89yrs in 1987. My grandpa's had never visited hospital in his entire life, except when he had hernia and got operated. My dad is still alive. He's never visited hospital before. The only time he visited was when he had a surgeries in his leg. .

It's same scenarios in other towns and villages in Nigeria. These western people don't like hearing the truth about what africa is really made up. They ran away during covid-19, thinking Nigerians would be dying like fowl as they told them, due to our poor health system. Some of them couldn't return to Nigeria to work. The death they were running away from, met them in their countries they ran to. Covid took their lives

I hope you realise that life expectancy is not based solely on your individual experience or that of your paternal and maternal parents. Your grandfather may be 90 years old, but where are his classmates and friends today? I bet 80% of them are gone.

Don't let anyone lie to you. Life expectancy in the 1940s, 1960s, and so on was so low that it barely exceeded 47 years. It is not just about your grandfather in Ekiti, but the numerous deaths in the North and across Nigeria. People were dying like chickens from polio, malaria, measles, and other diseases.

Today, while we have managed some of those viral diseases, we are still struggling with maternal mortality, road crashes, terrorism, etc.

In a country where more youths and children are dying compared to other age groups, what do we expect?

Whenever you're compelled to criticise Nigeria's life expectancy rate, just look around and ask yourself: how many of my neighbours, church members, or classmates have both parents and all siblings alive? Your findings will be shocking. Then go ahead and imagine what people in Benue villages, Plateau, and the North generally are going through. You will see a young guy or girl of 27 and both parents are dead. Many in their 40s have just one parent left. Some families lost a sibling/child at birth, etc. This is the story across board.

Where does this road even lead? Should this be our immediate priority, given the levels of hunger and bad nutrition, insecurity, and multidimensional poverty out there?

Travel to Ekiti, Kogi, Benue, and many other states in Nigeria and see how families have returned to charcoal pots cos they can no longer afford cooking gas. These devil incarnates masquerading as APC have overturned one of GEJ's legacies.

Where is the money saved from removing the fuel subsidy? What was it used for? Road construction? The same roads that previous governments built without stripping Nigerians of electricity and fuel subsidy benefit, which is the only thing majority of the citizens benefit.

In just two years, you’ve taken out more loans than Buhari did in 8 yrs. Still, you keep lying to your followers and claiming you’re working for them.

Now compare the average minimum wage and electricity generation/distribution

Mariangeles:
The way people are so much in a hurry these days ehn? As soon as the baby is coming out, they're already seeing a doctor. Hahahaha

Likeeee, the innocent boy just wants to be a baby 😭😭

descarado:
That guy was right in his submission.
We are overly sentimental and put undue obligations ti our family members by virtue of blood relatives.

The parents are only aged not sick. And the couple are still alive. There are very aged people living alone here. I sometimes wonder how they cope but they do. Their kids are wherever ecking out lives for themselves. The order of thing means it should be this way. One day,my kids will move on.
I'm making provision for my retirement already without disturbing their lives.
One of the reasons we don't develop is this saddling of responsibility. Because I gave birth and trained you doesn't mean you must sacrifice your ambition and life for me. The moment I decided to give birth to you, it is my responsibility and obligation to train and support you to the highest level of financial and emotional independence.
You will do likewise for your kids.

If I chose to live with you, it's just because I want to, not an obligation.


I lost a lot taking care of sick my mum. She didnt even make it to my marriage. Forget the so called blessings. I'm no better than others in my family.
I was just lucky and stubborn to stir back my life to the right direction. Some may not be that lucky.

Parents may need companion and somebody who can do some stuffs they cannot be able to do in the house and that's all.

Here, parents make plans for grand kids. During that age, I will prefer to be living with my grand kids and doing school runs and what have you than live with my kids. That way, I have companion and is kept busy. Retirement age now is75 as people live to 90 and 100. My kids visit and go back and grow their carers. When grandkids are old enough, I might be in a care home. Who knows.

Seyi is close to his dad cos of biz interest. It's normal all over the world where you have rich parents and you want to take over from them.

Besides, that guy has siblings. If he is dead,they will adjust.

I’ve always been big on focusing on oneself, saving for retirement, and planning so one doesn’t end up leaning too hard on kids or parents later on. I still believe in that approach, but honestly, looking at Nigeria today, things are really messy. Many older people still expect their families to step in and help out when they’re much older. The fallback plan here isn’t necessarily financial, which is why I emphasise the role of humans in my previous post (maybe carers, church groups, etc.).

You mentioned care homes, and yeah, I agree. But the reality is, apart from maybe Lagos and a couple of other cities, I don’t think I’ve heard anyone seriously talk about care homes in Nigeria. The idea might cross people’s minds, but when you consider the average family’s purchasing power, it’s just not practical for many. Apart from that, it's a fantastic idea, but then even hiring a carer here is a gamble. It’s not like in developed countries where carers are trained, put under scrutiny, etc. You know how it works here, anyone can just show up and start working for a family. That brings up serious trust issues.

Maybe some older folks didn’t plan well financially, but my point leans more toward physical and emotional support, like spending time with people they know and trust or just ensuring they’re not lonely. I’m sorry about your experience with your mom. Unexpected health issues can drain families. I’ve been there and am still recovering. It drains money, time, and even leads and customers if you run your own business. Abandoning them and hoping someone in the hospital will take over the role of family is the worst mistake anyone can make in Nigeria. Even for much older people, you stil won't be able to abandon them, cos how do you deal with the guilt? The best thing is never to be in that situation.

And yes, I agree that those aged 70–75 can still be very active. My dad is over 70, still very much active, and lives with his wife, so yeah, I don’t think families need to worry much about people like that. Incapacitation (maybe for those well over 90, like my grandma who died at nearly 100), illness, and loneliness are the real issues I fear. When someone can’t move around or is left isolated, that’s when I believe family support becomes critical.

Sagacity10:
Buy a gift that will help his learner process, tolls or something that will help shape the career path you want your child to choose later in life.

Everything is wrong with this post. You can't shape what you don't know or haven't studied enough. What is the boy's personality? What are his likes and dislikes? What are his strengths and weaknesses. I bet you and the op don't know. He should spend his time learning and getting to understand his son. At age 1? There's nothing to shape. He's only a baby. Nothing concern him with career o. If there's a need to build anything, then the father should invest his money on his career and become a better father to his son.

alphaconde:
Any toy that can help the child talk quicker or walk quicker.

I bought mine a radio

I don't think the idea of prescribing toys to make babies talk quicker is cool. Are there no humans to interact with?

Kizolalah82:
Good morning family.
My child will be one year soon i am thinking of the first gift(toy).
I have considered few items.

1…origimo 16 opad
2…baby car
3..what do you feel I should buy please less than 130k
Thanks

4. More good, solid diet and keep interacting with good, kindhearted people. Happy birthday to your girl ☺️

@op
I dey pity your wife in advance 😥😥 Street go do her wetin no good.

Osanoghodua1:
This is why we always advise you allow God confirm for you if she's your wife but you guys said it's old school. Manage the situation sir.

...but God confirmed Adam and Eve's marriage. How about that?

My God

You look feminine, still dey do grandmama roleplay, so what do you expect?

pansophist:
Give an example of a good retirement plan that solves loneliness crisis common with older people.

Apart from what you’ve mentioned, there’s no other way. Money can’t solve anything without real people.

Whenever I see threads like this, I think of Seyi Tinubu and his father. Seyi is married with children, by the way. The same applies to Kiddwaya and his father, among others.

I believe the struggles and challenges of this world have imposed certain rules and cultures on us. Who made the rule that we must run away from our parents when no one is truly pursuing us.

May God continue to bless and provide for us to change these dynamics. It is well.

ungara17:
Culture

Useless culture.

You want to recruit international students when over 65% of your students will waste another year of their lives waiting for an exam they could simply retake next month. Make una dey try use una senses sometimes.

Expand the capacity of public schools, employ more lecturers, instititionalise or unify pre-degree programmes and watch your revenue move from 0 to 100. People want to study, but your ego won't let them. Those who can afford it already have started checking international admission portals, and they will get admitted abroad! And your revenue will remain the same in another 100 years until you begin to use your senses.

elipheleh:
She can service herself with anyone she wants . But she can't birth their child. Lol because I will always do DNA test on all my children.

Done DNA for the 1st and 2nd already. Waiting for the unborn child for his own DNA too.

Plus any time I catch her, or another friend catches her, she's gone.

I'm glad you accepted the truth in good fate. The last statement is not necessary because you will never catch her.

lexikul:
What is the shege there, someone is trying to discredit Nigerian medical practitioners and someone rose up to defend his people and did marvelously well and all you can say is bad mouth him. Na Kemi Badenoch fit this country I swear.

Challenging a British nonentity to a language test on Twitter is how you want to defend Nigerian medical practitioners abroad? Una too funny for this country. You no see Abike Dabiri or the CIA political touts with drug issues oversea?

Nigerians are too full of themselves, and this explains it. Dem show you shege now, caption don change. The Briton was on his own o when this jester said he would defeat him. I mean, there are better ways to convey your response to an offensive post.

This dude probably studied English to a Master's level, and he thinks that's enough to challenge a native Englishman? Why not have a contest between a British illiterate and a Nigerian illiterate. That's a fair game. 😭

That's how you people will be boasting about how Ijaws are better swimmers than Australian divers/swimmers. Same way you people always have a better and faster runner in your village and community grammar school than Usain Bolt. 🤣 If not for the internet, many of you would think that Obi Cubana is the richest man in the world. 😭😂

By the way, this is the true caption. Nairaland and faux/fake captions and news! 👇👇

I really don't understand the noise about Tinubu's project 2027. What has Tinubu done for you people in terms of education, electricity, economy/inflation, and security?

Do Nigerians feel more secured compared to the previous administration(s)? Has the % of out of school children improved? Have we seen improved JAMB results compared to Buhari's tenure? Are you people now enjoying uninterrupted electricity? Do we have a better employment rate compared to Buhari's tenure? Has poverty rate reduced by just 10%

Everything happening right now feels so unreal. Am I normal to feel lost? Or are you people M ¿ D? Has someone paid Nairaland mods to force this M ¿ D Ness down our throats?

Your mom was simply operating a food charity organisation. You can't buy fufu for N5 from the source of production and sell it for the same price. The meat seller cutting each piece for N5 was not doing charity. They make double. They will squeeze face, complain, and make you believe they're losing money or doing you a favour, but na lie


A bottle of Pepsi currently costs N500. If you think the actual cost of production is up to N100, then you're still far from understanding the manufacturing business. The remaining N400 is how their staff live large; that's how they get money to endorse Messi, Rema, Wizkid, Burna, and the likes.

There are many places like this in Kogi state.

No amount of explanation will make sense to you. Since trust is still an issue in your relationship, why raise an alarm as soon as you noticed it?