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Most Nigerian women have a "messed" up mentality. I think it largely has to do with upbringing.

duduade:
Shey people wey never find enough money to go market to buy food... Abegi

Botswana is a middle-income country of just about 2 million people and surely not as poor as Nigeria. So, don't fool yourself. So too many hungry people in Nigeria on per capita basis than in Botswana. Nigeria is just a big for nothing country filled by largely unproductive rent-seeking populace. Botswana has had a consistent 5% annual growth year in year. Nigerians should change their mindset, rollup their sleeves and work hard to build up the country.

Davidlollipop:
This story does not explicitly indicate any evidence that it was cocaine

True it doesn't but it had the trademark of someone who was looking for a potential mule. She showed up at an embassy, chatted up an inexperience 16-yr old who was at that point over-joyous of securing a visa to further her studies abroad, and also met a future colleague at same school.

My rule is simple when traveling. It's only my mama that can give me anything to carry for her. Even when wife family try to give me foodstuffs to take with me I always turn it down, aside from the drama at the immigration point about some types of food travellers bring in. Trust no one.

NwaAmaikpe:



Your father is one of the many problems of Nigeria.

Straight jacketed, bureatic bottle-necked wicked individuals who make simple requests look so impossible in order to justify why they are never willing to help.

Wicked souls.
Ordinary milk you could not carry for your supposed friend.
When did cocaine start to look like milk?

Apparently most Nigerians are too sentimental to be able to reason objectively. So someone who is more or less a stranger, whom you only chatted with for some minutes, turned up at the airport with repackaged powdery material she claimed to be milk, and you as a parent will be dumb enough to let your own child travel with that. One of the most common announcements at airports is that don't collect and travel with anything given to you by a stranger. Surely many of you have not step into an airport before.

Her father did a good due diligence. If you do not come and drop the item at our home before heading to the airport, then the assistance is off the table. And why travel to overseas with powdered milk. Milk of all kind "full ground" there.

Jubilancy:
I like to think of it as employment # tagging it as slavery is way over the top for me

Employment of an under-age? Is that what you call employment. That aside, is the under-age being paid the minimum wage? Start doing that first, then maybe you have a point. Even employing under-age is by itself illegal.

Jubilancy:
I like to think of it as employment # tagging it as slavery is way over the top for me

Employment of an under-age? Is that what you call employment. That aside, is the under-age being paid the minimum? Start doing that first, then maybe you have a point. Even employing under-age is by itself illegal.

You all think government will wake up one day to seal any property. Since the building does not belong to his mum or family, government has no business with them but with the landlord who probably has been served several notices. What do most Nigerian lanlords do when they get such notice. Nothing. Thinking that the government won't carry out it's threat. The law allow the government to take possession of a property if property tax is defaulted. That's the law irrespective of social status.

timesup234:
It will take an American hustler 20yrs to save for a 20% downpayment for a house. Thats just 40kusd for an average $200,000 house. It will take him another 30yrs to pay back the loan of $160,000 excluding interest. Thats 50yrs to own a single house. Enough time for even a bricklayer and shoemaker to build two houses in Nigeria

Are you focusing on American or Nigerian immigrants in America. You generalize too much. American hustler? Where do you want to belong. If you want to remain an hustler then it could take you that long because an hustler's life is never stable. But if you are chanced to take the right steps and have a hood career then you can raise a down payment for a home in months. If one decide to complete mortgage payment it can be done sooner. It's a matter of choice.

timesup234:
I dont argue blindly so i am addint a link so everyone can view. Only 15% of Americans have $10,000 in the bank. Even most cant come up with $500 ane i am talking about first class citizens not Nigerians who can be classified as third class immigrants.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/19/heres-how-many-americans-have-nothing-at-all-in-savings.html

You may be right if you are talking about Americans. Immigrants do not have same lifestyle as natives and they do not make similar costly choices. You need to know there are different classes of Nigerians in the USA. There are those who belong to the top 25% earning bracket that do better than most Americans. In fact there are sizable number of them. Of course there are those who belong to the lower bracket. But even this class of Nigerians have better quality of life than your Nigerian bank manager. Access to power (no polluting generator), good road (less trip to fraudulent mechanics), free and high quality public schools to high school level (millions saved unlike in Nigeria), even a cleaner here can afford to own a car and house rent or mortgage (if married with two income sources), you sleep with your eyes closed (no fear of Evans or robbers), access to good health care, access to capital from banks at low interest rate (compare 26% upward in Nigerian banks, if you can get one).

I used to work with one of the top four energy companies and I met so many Nigerians in same company. For example, in a group of 40 mostly PhD level team, only two blacks are Nigerians. At lunch time, we played soccer almost every day and there I met so many other Nigerians. At lunch you play basketball, use the gym, play ping pong, swim...and so many others. And these are open to all level of staff.

And there are so many other Nigerians in other professions. I have a friend who is a manager in a company and his wife hold good position in a major bank. They have a house here and a multi-million naira house completed in Lekki. I mean, these are Nigerians earning a honest living. The Nigerian medical doctors and nurses here are too numerous. Open a phone book and you see there names. So, do not generalize. Accepted that all do not belong to the same class, it depend on how you come to this country and what you make of it. It's not all rosy though. I was told that I needed to speak like an American because they wanted to play politics knowing I am about leading a major project. They brought in an American like them. One of the reasons I left the job in matter of months. Most Nigerians won't though because of the money. Ironically, while there I wish I was doing a similar job in Nigeria because I would have had a lot of extra cash to run profitable side projects..

timesup234:
I dont argue blindly so i am addint a link so everyone can view. Only 15% of Americans have $10,000 in the bank. Even most cant come up with $500 ane i am talking about first class citizens not Nigerians who can be classified as third class immigrants.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/19/heres-how-many-americans-have-nothing-at-all-in-savings.html

You may be right if you are talking about Americans. Immigrants do not have same lifestyle as natives and they do not make similar costly choices. You need to know there are different classes of Nigerians in the USA. There are those who belong to the top 25% earning bracket that do better than most Americans. In fact there are sizable number of them. Of course there are those who belong to the lower bracket. But even this class of Nigerians have better quality of life than your Nigerian bank manager. Access to power (no polluting generator), good road (less trip to fraudulent mechanics), free and high quality public schools to high school level (millions saved unlike in Nigeria), even a cleaner here can afford to own a car and house rent or mortgage (if married with two income sources), you sleep with your eyes closed (no fear of Evans or robbers), access to good health care, access to capital from banks at low interest rate (compare 26% upward in Nigerian banks, if you can get one).

I used to work with one of the top four energy companies and I met so many Nigerians in same company. For example, in a group of 40 mostly PhD level team, only two blacks are Nigerians. At lunch time, we played soccer almost every day and there I met so many other Nigerians. At lunch you play basketball, use the gym, play ping pong, swim...and so many others. And these are open to all level of staff.

And there are so many other Nigerians in other professions. I have a friend who is a manager in a company and his wife hold good position in a major bank. They have a house here and a multi-million naira house completed in Lekki. I mean, these are Nigerians earning a honest living. The Nigerian medical doctors and nurses here are too numerous. Open a phone book and you see there names. So, do not generalize. Accepted that all do not belong to the same class, it depend on how you come to this country and what you make of it. It's not all rosy though. I was told that I needed to speak like an American because they wanted to play politics knowing I am about leading a major project. They brought in an American like them. One of the reasons I left the job in matter of months. Most Nigerians won't though because of the money. Ironically, while there I wish I was doing a similar job in Nigeria because I would have had a lot of extra cash to run profitable side projects.

Pierohandsome:
What were u expecting him to do, to jump into the fire and drag the girl out?

When an accident happen here, you are not expected to leave the scene but wait for the arrival of a police and an ambulance. He should have requested that the taxi driver help him call 911, and never leave the scene. For the fact that he was on his feet and was able to walk up to a taxi suggest his injury was non-life threatening.

He was probably running away from something or he was not in the right frame of mind. Though he may have an arguement that the sight of his girl friend burning in the car was too much for him to stay and watch. With the sight of that flame he couldn't have done much.

Neymar1095:
The earlier we realise the whites are superior to the blacks the better because racism will never stop.

Superior! I am sure that's what you are teaching your kids, if you have one. Please talk for yourself. Their collective circumstances may give them superior advantage but that's not the same as being intellectually superior. Their present circumstances is a result of decades of evil and non-evil perpetuations. At some point in the past, people of colour ruled this world but no condition is permanent.

Whatever your hand finder, do!

Running a VIN check gives 100% assurance since it is guaranteed that flood damage will be recorded if it ever ocvur.

1freshdude:
Money is valuable because it is relatively scarce, the level of productivity in a country is always put into consideration before taking this decisions, else money loses value, it becomes worthless and an alarming inflation ensues. Zimbabwe is a good example of what printing more money in the face of very low output can cause.

Makes sense because America continuously prints more money because it can afford to do so as a very productive country unlike Nigeria.

curvilicious:
He tried but i must say the roads his trucks have damaged nd the pple his trucks have killed ehn you go fear

His company pay tax. So they have all right to use the road.

Billyonaire:
Fulani herdsmen invade communities, kill men, women and children, then destroy crops, kidnap many including Olu Falae yet they are not terrorists.

YET,

IPOB, an indigenous civil and organized creative people are killed and declared terrorists.


Some day, Buhari's tenure will be over. It is not him that I am worried about, he is already spent. Let him know that he has children and grand-children.

I will make them pay.

First question you need to ask is this.

Is Fulanis Herdsmen an organisation with identifiable members or leaders?

faith551:
When you cant even give your citizens enough, but you're still busy attending to someone else's need. Our beautiful country with it's citizens welfare at the center of it's government decisions and policies.

In as much as Nigerians are mad about this we also need to know that if Nigeria does not supply power to these countries, then they have right to construct a power generation dam along their course of River Niger which has a lot implications for Nigeria since the last course of the river is in Nigeria. If these countries do that then the level of the river may be low here in Nigeria and it's resourcefulness to Nigeria will be adversely affected.

But all the same the Nigerian government is to blame for the lack of adequate power supply locally.

zionmde:
shut ignorantum, igbos have equal population with hausas and yorubas, the entire igbos in SE is just about 60% of Igbo population.
Igbo+yoruba can win election
igbo+ hausa can win election
hausa.+ yoruba can win election
so shut up if u know nothing

You are probably right with those alliances but the problem is that it is only on paper. The Igbos seem not too keen on building alliances. Of all ethnic groups in Nigeria, they need it more because it is in the nature of an Igbo to live in any parts of Nigeria unlike other groups. So building political alliances protect and further the course of your people and guarantee access to power or high level decision making positions.

And when people wonder why Igbos find it easy to settle down in the north or southwest, and why you do not have northerners or southwesterners generally owning properties or investments in the southeast. The reason is simple. Southwesterners are generally tolerant and the ideology is live and let others live. For northerners, so far you don't go foul of their religious way of life, there is no problem. It is not that the southeasterners love Nigeria more by settling down in these places. Sometime it's simple economic decisions. As a southwesterners, I will think twice about investing in a place where locals will likely not give you a sense of belonging with the clamour for breakup. Not sure if Dangote has any investment in the southeast.

Oliseh... i like you. But you be my assistant head boy for MBHS Lagos when i dey Form 4 and you dey Lower 6 (A-Level). How come you be 43-yrs when I just celebrated my 46th birthday few months ago. Nigerians and this culture of lieing. We need to change.

The only Nigerian player's age I will believe without question is Okocha. I met one of his former classmates while doing NYSC.

A lawyer trying to play the ethnic card. How did he know that the military men are made principally of Fulanis. Does it even matter?

Rich4god:
There are poor whites also in the affected area... Just different mentality.

You are assuming that poor White people do not loot. You are damn wrong. I have lived in North America for quite awhile. A poor man is a poor man irrespective of skin colour. As there are black looters, there are Hispanic and White looters.

It seem the White man has done a good job in making Black people to never see themselves in a good light. I remember taking a bus to catch a train to my place of work. I was standing right beside the driver who is Black and likely of Carribean origin. He asked where I was heading, I told him I was heading to the local university. The next thing he said shocked me but I was not surprised. He said where do I work there, that does the university have a bakery or something like that that I work in. He was not expecting someone of his own colour to do the kind of highly technical job I hold at the institution. I would not believe that he said that because I was in a pair of jeans. He surely would not have said the same if I was White.

A lot of Black people need help to free themselves of their badly damaged psyche. Here you see some of our people born and bred on the streets of Lagos, Enugu or elsewhere trying to sound American.

zeekeyboy:
Instead of you to quietly move on and thank God you were not stabbed nd killed, you are looking for recognition.

It's because of people that think like you that Nigeria remain a doomed country. In Nigeria, it's never right to do the right things. Here is someone who came out to disprove a false story by the police. And you have people calling him out that he shouldn't have come out to correct this falsehood. God help us o. Na which kind people you take dash this country called Nigeria.

Caustics:
she wasnt beaten properly. She is supposed to be soaked in her blood

What value will it be for you if she is soaked in blood. Something for you and your occultic clan to drink? Or a sight of the blood excite you? When does lynching become the lawful way of disciplining crime suspects. A lot of innocent people have been lynched for a crime they no nothing about. The blood of so many innocent people that have been killed in that country for a crime they know nothing about is on the hand of individuals like you.

attackgat:
It is a sad day when people start equating houses, businesses and assets to freedom and sovereignty.

So because of Igbo investments in Nigeria, Igbos should forget their right to self determination?

I didnt expect a well travelled man like Fr Mbaka to be still talking like this.

He thinks Biafran agitation is for poor people? Well let him know that poor people are the majority and it is he who controlls the majority that controlls power.

You probably closing your eyes to the economic cost which has serious implication to whatever agitation your folks have. Who want to lose all he has worked for decades over an uncertain future. More so they say "once bitten twice shy".

What is sad is that a lot if people are putting their hope on this guy. His mouth is not connected to his brain. The kind of disconnection the east or any part of Nigeria need from the nation as it currently is require individuals who can sit across the table to engage their perceived enemies even if these individuals have hearts that is on fire. This guy will only bring calamity. It's a shame that this is the best the Southeast can offer. He may be passionate about biafra but he lack wisdom. He won't last long.

cstr1000:
The southeast is as south as south can go. Check your map.
Don't let the south-south nomenclature deceive you. It does not exist.
The south-east is the real south.
And nobody is including Edo state in anything.

You are the one that need to recheck your map..... the states from the core south-south are below those of the Southeast... to the point that none of the Southeast state share a border with the Atlantic Ocean.... they are landlocked... that's why south-south states are so called..... they are the most southerly states... lieing at the delta

Laryne:
The federal government and IPOB, Biafran, Ijaws should tread with caution. This is not 1967... society is now sophisticated.
Federal government shouldn't just assume it can block supplies this time and the South south & South East shouldn't assume the have capable arsenals and guerrillas. ..

If the zombies is Maiduguri could almost bring Nigeria to a standstill the tactical Southerners should not be taken for granted.

Once more, tread with caution. .. this is not 1967!

But the Southerners are not Northerners. They love life too much that It's unlikely you will find aone brainwashed kids that are willing to wrap bombs around themselves.

Marcelo290:
One thing I would always admire about GEJ is his penchant for taking swift actions by visiting and giving proper condolences to affected people.

Ummmm. Just like he swiftly responded to the kidnap of the Chibok girls. A 74 yr old man, one could understand if his mental state is not as sharp as expected. But for a 50-something year old man who claim to have earned a PhD, that's unforgivable.

iani5050:
SIMPLE OBSERVATION. DANGOTE IS BUILDING 12,000MW WITH $5.5 BILLIONS. DURATION IS TWO YEARS.

WHEREAS FG OF NIGERIA IS BUILDING 3.000 MW WITH $5.8 BILLIONS . DURATION IS SIX YEARS.

THAT'S NIGERIA FOR YOU!

One is hydroelectric power and the other is to be powered by natural gas. The hydro is driven by renewable resource (river water) while Dangote own will be driven by non-renewable resource. Dangote' s own is susceptible to failures in gas supply and availability of gas but hydropower only limitation is irregular rainfall and river water level. So, the question is which one of the two is more sustainable in the long term with the understanding that resource supply is not infinit. So, this may be factors that influence cost.

safiaaASSHOLE:
That's not a slay queen, that's an actress dumbasses. You've turned "slay queen" into a cliche

She is actually a Yoruba actress. If you live in some parts of Lagos, it's common to see these women singing while begging for alms. To be honest, on occasion I witnessed this myself, usually on Fridays which is the Jumat day. It's so rthymic. Forget alms, forget poverty, that's raw music. The lady was being comical. I am damn sure she would have spared them some change. I think she is just having some fun with the women, rather than throwing money at them scornfully while walking away.

gabe:
This attempt at emotional blackmail is pathetic. Dangote asked for land to build his factory. Kano state govt gave him land. Dangote's business plan includes providing inputs for farmers to provide the required tonnes of tomatoes. Kano state govt gave the farmers extra land with irrigation. Dangote has built his plant. What is stopping production? Simple. Dangote asked govt to stop importation of tomato paste without producing a SINGLE tin. He wants a monopoly. When govt didn't answer him, he shut down the plant. Suddenly, all his outgrowers had to find alternative markets. Luckily, they did. He did it during Yaradua. Yaradua begged him, as a muslim, d price of cement in the international market, after clearing to Nigeria is like N600. Please sell at N1000. Dangote refused. Yaradua unilaterally reduced cement price to N1000. Dangote halted production in all his plants. Price of cement balooned to close to 3k. Yaradua had to back down. Next round is his refinery. Thats where he will hold us to fresh ransom. His business model is MONOPOLY. Take that away, he's a fish out of water and is ready to do anything, including cripple our economy, to maintain the status quo.

I am.not sure how valid your points are. It's normal for any serious government to protect local production rather than those importing the same product. The way it work is that an import tariff or duty is charged on the imported product so that the local producers can compete. You do not open your local market to a flood of imported products without thinking of ways to protect local manufacturers. Do we even know what Chinese producers of tomato paste add to their product to make it look reddish. If it is lycopenre that someone referred to, I believe Dangote has the resources to get it cheaply. It may not be immediately available locally but he has money to get things going. For example, does Dangote companies do R& to find new ways to improve their products...surely not. He is still not doing what serious businesses in advanced part of the world does. He is relying too much on government rather than find new ways to beat his competitors. He can afford millions of $$ to source lycopene locally if that is his challenge. He can build labs and get the best scientist to do that for him. But the Nigerian in him want the easier way out. It's not sustainable. R& holds the key. That's how newer product processing alternatives are discovered to get new products. That's what's called advancement.