mikael78: Ahahhahahahahahahahahahah.....blackman blackbrain.....

What has this got to do with being black?

Stop hating your colour brother.

tumababa: All lies!!!! Not peculiar to Nigerians. Maybe u are used to d molue planes used by many nigerians, full of nigerians.

He needs to move out more.

He should fly routes like Instanbul to Mumbai and see non Nigerians in action.

When some people don dey fly Lagos London dem no go let us rest again.

dozydre: Flushing the toilet while the door is opened, this kind of loud noise that got most people looking back. So embarrassing.

SO non Nigerians dont do it?

Naijamericana:

The clapping stuff is a third world country phenomenon. I have observed performed by citizens of the Dominican Republic as well.

Witnessed it in China. I dont think China is third world.

kulyie: me i am guilty of this one o i always do that the last time we travelled and landed,while people were still clapping,me i was removing my luggage from the head overs,remain small that my box will fall on top of the head of the man sitting beside me.may God forgive me

You are not guilty of anything. Dont allow anyone to initiate you into their inferiority complex filled world.

Snoggy: This particular Lady kept taking pictures like a mad person.
Like 10 times...

I was ashamed sef!

But if she was white you would probably have smiled and helped her snap sef.

zube01: 1. Securing beds...in Economy Class! There's a game Nigerian passengers play whenever they're on-board a semi-full airplane - It's kind of similar to Musical Chairs...but without the music. Passengers snub the seats assigned to them and scout for a stretch of three to four empty seats before take-off. Handbags and other luggage items are strategically placed on empty seats in the hope for that Business Class experience - pathetic.

2. Making dramatic Nollywood scenes. Whoever said 'Rules are meant to be broken' must have been a Nigerian. We're pretty damn good at breaking rules...into smithereens, just for good measure. There was one woman sat at the front of economy class with her less-than-a-year-old baby. She put her baby down on the empty seat next to her when the seat belt light was off (not sure if that's proper in the first place but I'll let her off on that one). The moment the seat belt light was back on, however, one of the air hostesses called her to order and told her to strap her baby in place - RED ALERT! RED ALERT! MAY DAY! MAY DAY! You knew from the way the irritated mother turned her neck with that 'oh-no-you-didn't' expression all over her face that cabin pressure was under serious threat. Needless today she told the air hostess to mind her own business - ironically, that's what the air-hostess was trying to do in the first place...Safety of passengers...DUH! I can't remember if the thud I heard later on was due to turbulence or because the baby had rolled off the chair...

3. Taking pictures. You can imagine trying to enjoy a good book when suddenly the corner of your eye picks up the flash photography of some newbie whose obviously hell-bent on convincing everyone back in Nigeria that he/she indeed travel abroad. Newsflash! There may be people with photosensitive epilepsy on-board or nearby pilots wondering if there is a terrorist hijacking, with one unfortunate Nigerian who decided to break one simple rule 'DON'T MOVE!' (go figure!)

4. Farting. It's bad enough you left your assigned seat at the front and decided to come behind me and stretch yourself across four empty seats. Now you're so generous as to share your flatulence with me in small doses of ammonia-laced farts...not a one-off...periodic discharges which could catch choke me unawares if I dare yawn. FYI, avoid fizzy drinks on the plane if you know you can't handle your abdominal tract like few pros among us.

5. Drink to stupor. Is it the sheer pettiness of wanting to get one's money's worth that would make a passenger drink like a fish? (Remember, its Nigerians we're talking about here). Of course, it's not the drinking that bothers me but the mindless banter and laughter at completely 'unfunny' things that drives me up the Berlin wall (just like that - after a couple of drinks you'd be in stitches when you read 'drive me up the berlin wall').

6. Leaving toilets unlocked. Common sense consistently fails to prevail when most Nigerians use the airline's restrooms. It all boils down to refusing to acknowledge the instructions/directions carefully displayed all around them. It's quite simple - you enter the restroom and close it behind you. Right there on door is a slide lock which denotes 'Slide left to lock and right to open'. Why wouldn't I be interested in making sure that no one accidentally sees my 'bits'? Didn't they notice the green 'vacant' or the red 'occupied' sign before entering the lavatory? At my last count I've walked in on 3 unfortunate passengers who forgot to lock behind (but they all did once I exposed them...makes you wonder, eh?).

7. Sitting ovation. I'm not sure if you can relate but you're nearing your flight destination and as soon as the plane lands successfully passengers around you start to clap until virtually everyone joins in. Why are they doing this, you ask? beats me - for landing safely or for not crashing into the deep blue sea or for getting their money's worth after usurping the mini bar...I dunno. The clapping is cheesy in my opinion. I'd much prefer passengers go one by one to shake the pilot(s) for a job well done plane well-landed.

And coming in at a surprise number 8 is Irregular exercise. Make no mistake about it, Nigerians are terrified about premature death, more so than the average civilian (if that makes any sense). I've seen the most bizarre repetitions performed from kicking mid-air to punching only your left arm over the seat head in the same direction. Deep Vein thrombosis is no laughing matter so I guess all I have to do is close my eyes next time if I don't want to behold seemingly amateurish 'Kung-fu'.

These things you mentioned are not peculiar to Nigerians. You need to travel more routes outside Lagos-London, Lagos-Dubai, Lagos-Johannesburg etc.

1. Nothing wrong with that as long as those other seats are truly empty. It's empty for fks sake.

2. She broke a rule so its up to the hostess to deal with the situation. Are we saying non Nigerians have never broken that rule? The woman is lucky you guys were airborne already. I once witnessed a Delta hostess eject one rude woman who would not switch off her phone after the plane began to move. She got the pilot to stop and got her ejected. Next time she go listen.

3. Whats wrong with that? And its not about showing anyone you are abroad. I flew to Calabar the other day going to watch the Eagles and we took pictures on board. Kanu, Ikpeba and co were all on board. Once on my way from London to Larnaca, plenty oyibos just dey take picture dey go. I bet if you were there you would have helped them snap sef.

4. If you wan see farting for air, fly airlines wey Nigerians no dey. Naija no dey fart o.

5. Has nothing to do with being Nigerians. If you wan see loud banters, na oyibo get am. Jeez, when two English people dey talk beside you, dem no send and they will be loud. We are quieter with our banters.

6. I still dont understand how this is a Naija thing. My experience was not on air. In a Virgin train. I wan use toilet and this oyibo no lock door. It was not a nice sight. Leave Nigeria out of it.

7. That is not a Nigerian thing either. Just last week, I flew from Shenzhen to Beijing. See ovation when we land. Seen it on other flights too. E dey sweet you to insult Nigeria ni?

8. Jeezus. So trying to do a form of exercise is now an annoying thing. If oyibo dey do am, I bet you would have said the annoying thing is the Nigerians do not do it. Anyway, oyibo dey do those exercises more than us.

Your title should have been annoying things people do on airplanes. Please leave Nigerians out of this.

This post reeks of inferiority complex and colonial mentality.

Thank you.

tonzo: nairabet ripped my friends salary.yet he has refused to quit

Those are the types of things we do NOT WANT on our website.

Let us do your friend a favour. Does he play online? I will find a way of stopping him from being able to play. Can I have his username?

Does he play in shops? Please send me an email about him. Name, the shop he plays in, maybe his picture.

I will ensure no one takes a bet from him in our shops.

Thanks

emmanuel ewumi:

He said his lottery business creates jobs for 2000 people, the conservative estimate of the number of lives ruined financially through every job created by lottery can be conservatively put at 10 to 1.

Your source of stats please?

So if I hire 10 computer engineers now, I have ruined 100 peoples lives financially.

Of course, you will say before I hired 10 engineers, many people would have lost money. Yes. If one million people lose N50 each. That is 50 million. N50 will not ruin you. The secret is in little money by many people and not big money from few individuals.

If you know any operator, they will tell you they prefer 100 people to bring in N1,000 each than one person bringing in N100,000

Well before I launched NairaBET, every week I enjoyed playing with about N100 to N200 every weekend. I still do today. My life was not ruined. My friends and I, all of us enjoyed it. Our lives were not ruined.

The minimum bet on is N50 and our average bet per customer is less than N100 a month. That is not a sign of financial ruin.

If you are talking about those that went over board by gambling with their life savings, then you are talking about something else. Just like saying that people have died of drunkeness then Champagne companies are bad. Going excessive in anything is bad. You don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

Lottery is noble. Read more about it.

SailorXY: So I saw this ride today @ Chevron Lekki axis zoom past me, I quickly recognized the plates, overtook & was flagging it down just to say hi to a fellow NLder...
Maybe the driver wasn't concentrating/simply ignored or my Tundra looked like a VIO towing van
abi fear dey catch the bros ooo

Lol

Maybe no be me dey drive am that day.

Lol @ tundra towing van. I once thought of buying that tundra when I was living in an area with bad road. I sure say your tundra correct.

This reminds me of a man who refused to rent out his building for us saying he is a deacon in his church. We went across the road to get another. Months after we started, he asked us to help find employment for his son who has not had a job for years.

I told him to get a job for him in his church.

I felt so good.

emmanuel ewumi:


Then about 20,000 Nigerians would have been rescued from the path of financial perdition.

Looks like you have closed your mind to any logical debate.

You just pulled out statistics from your pocket about 20,000 on the path of financial perdition. Baslone came up with verifiable stats. That's all you could come up with?

Na holier than thou dey make us bring down anything. There is absolutely nothing wrong in having a well run, well regulated lottery industry.

emmanuel ewumi:

It may be Seun's personal policy not to allow the advertisement of certain businesses or products on his site.

Yeah I know that. And I respect that.

Nairaland is his platform and he owns the right. It is not a democracy.

Na beg I just dey beg am?

damola1:

But that does not change the fact that, your choice of business leaves little to be desired.

Why? Because I'm a Nigerian? I bet if you meet the Coates family that own bet365, you will applaud them as an entrepreneurial family of repute.

emmanuel ewumi:

As earlier said this is my personal opinion, but I respect Seun for his policy. Nigerian youths ought to taught how to crate value and tangible goods. Who are the prime beneficiaries of lottery, betting, gambling ,baba Ijebu etc? The beneficiaries are the entrepreneurs that set up such ventures, and maybe the government.
But with the right value system, orientation, education, hard-work and attitude Nigerian youth an create lasting and enduring wealth. As a personal policy, I do not gamble nor bet. I do not see them as the right route to creating built to last wealth.

No one says you should see it as the right route to creating built to last wealth.

We do not claim it is the way to wealth for Nigerian youths. You are the one imagining that. It is simply a form of recreation and entertainment.

One person goes to the cinema with N500 to watch a movie. Drops it and enjoys the movie.

The other person takes his N500 to the bookie. Drops it and watches the match he bet on with some tension . And if he is lucky, wins his bet.

Another takes his N500 to drink beer.

It is not an avenue to wealth. It is simply recreation. So all these right value system, orientation, education, hard-work and attitude Nigerian youth an create lasting and enduring wealth should not even come into the discussion at all.

emmanuel ewumi:

By that time Nigerians will be the most impoverished people on planet earth. A country where lottery business is the major employer of labour is definitely sitting on a time bomb.

Move out of your inhibitions and comfort zones and try to see what others are seeing.

Do you know Betfair owners Andrew Black and Edward Wray (Ernst and Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award winners) have won the Queen's award for enterprise TWICE? Once for Innovation and the other International trade. Don't you think there is something they know that you do not? Why don't you open your mind more?

I bet if the government dares give us awards like that you will say they are encouraging bad tin.

Everybody that plays lotteries is contributing to the development of the country. FACT!

There is a percentage of your bets that go into what is called Good Causes account of the government. (Apart from company tax). It does not matter if you win or lose your bet, you have contributed to the good causes. The good causes are added into money used for infrastructures.

So when next you see a road been tarred, know that those that placed bets have contributed to it.

There are more and more information I can share with you if you are interested.

emmanuel ewumi:

I am highly impressed by Seun's refusal of your betting advert on Nairaland. There is no difference between betting and gambling. Young Nigerian should be taught how to legally turn N1000 to N10,000,000 rather than betting, gambling or thinking they make it through lottery.
This is my personal opinion and personal opinions may not be the right opinions.

So to you lotteries should not be allowed to advertise again.

You need to go out of Nigeria to see how well these things are appreciated. If International outfits like Real Madrid, Facebook, Fulham, Google, Stoke, Yahoo can do business with lottery outfits then you know say "lottery na bad thing" is a shallow mentality.

You have no idea what we contribute to the Nigerian economy. From employment to taxes. Very soon, the lottery industry will be the highest employer of labour in the country.

You need to look belong your old school inhibitions.

Meanwhile, my ads about teaching people my experience on making money online were rejected as well.

Maybe I offend Seun wey I no know.

Jarus: This subject had been ringing in my head for days and I considered it bloggable. I have been an active member of Nairaland for more than 6 years (far before I even registered on Facebook -2008- and twitter - 2010), and in fact, this is where I first used the moniker Jarus, which is somewhat a brand in cyber-Nigeria now. I have compiled the list of ventures, offline and online, which have used Nairaland either as launching pad or booster in their activities, and are themselves modest outfits in their own right today.

1, NAIRABET (http:///) :
- Akin Alabi, Nairaland, October 13, 2006

That comment has all the characteristics of one made by a hustler, if not a spammer. But guess who made that comment 6 years ago? Akin Alabi, now CEO of Nairabet, Africa’s biggest sports betting website. Today, Akin Alabi is a millionaire. So rich is he today, 7 years after that “hustling comment”, that he dashed out N0.25m for Nairaland’s independent charity team, The e-Helpers Network (TEHN). Today, Akin rides a benz G-Wagon worth more than N20million. The petty internet marketer of 2006 is now a millionaire. Akin started from Nairaland.

Kai.

Jarus don open my nyansh.

Na me write that thing?

All those sites I don bury them tay tay. Except my blog wey I just resurrect.

It have tayed wey I dey hustle. But well before I joined Nairaland.

I love Nairaland. I have met great friends and business partners here.

I advertised here wella, but Seun no gree accept our website again.

Seun, sports betting no be bad thing. Accept our ads na.

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