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ebubeson:I believe your question is about a place where no one can claim and you could just move to without hassle. The closest term I've found to that is Terra Nullius. Apparently there are only 3 territories in the world but the good news is if you are thinking of moving, there is one in Africa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius#:~:text=There%20are%20currently%20three%20territories,Antarctica%2C%20principally%20Marie%20Byrd%20Land. |
This is not true, and even if it was no way Chelsea will sell him at the moment for all the money in the world, that's until they win the title that they want sha |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7P1KyisUKA?si=gLE9rzxPGsd7Qk7Y A pretty educative video from Will on the dangers of Lithium Ion....and yes I know the chemistry mentioned is slightly different from our beloved lifepo, but we can all still learn a thing or two from the guy's heartbreaking experience. |
Jbond:I believe I was the first person to take my time and give you a proper educative response to a question you asked and this was what I got back in return Jbond:While you might have not meant to be rude, your response indicated to me that you either don't appreciate or are just not willing to gain from the reservoir of experience/knowledge people have on here- which is not the end of the world. I have not really followed your posts since then but I guess people have also noticed a bit of what I did and that's why they are just telling you what to do instead of explaining why they are advising you to do so. Simply put, we've had some people who sold cells and made batteries in Abuja but they've been found wanting (at least the ones I remember). If people are recommending mrreed that's in Kaduna (or is it kano) and Valto that is in Bayelsa, its because we KNOW their goods work and we KNOW you will get support even if you aren't in the same state as most of us don't even reside in Kaduna or Bayelsa. People have lost good money on here, because they believed in shops or renegade sellers who came here and promised heaven and earth....that did not stop those affected from being their brother's keeper and revealing their experiences while ensuring they enrich everyone here with their knowledge gained the hard way, with blood and tears. If you need to physically inspect your purchase from a local shop it is fine, but that will not stop you from being cheated or someone telling you that they will not honour warranty, especially when they can prove u might have made an honest misstep in the setup (which happens as everyone is learning)....and even established businesses like Fouani do this ( yes a whole LG). Learn to believe in people and more importantly learn to believe in yourself that you are a good judge of character.... even if you get burnt, we only live once and living in fear and unfounded distrust isn't the way to spend one's life. I wish you the best whatever your decisions are. |
eyesoflagos: Ojuelegba has no business being there especially when not even one bus stop in the heart of Mushin is mentioned. |
As much as I'm not in support of renaming something that has already been named after another individual, especially one as well deserving as Tai Solarin, it seems it was the Ogun Assembly that first agreed to this while the Awujale was alive a few years ago according to this. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/471042-ogun-assembly-passes-bill-to-rename-tai-solarin-college-of-education.html?tztc=1
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ngwaIgbo223:Is everything ok, does Shaka sound like a Nigerian name to you? |
Putindbutt:Sometimes I really wonder his age, as he seems to act like those from Hundeyin's generation who just want to burn everything and not consider the consequences. I really hope he changes as despite all he has done for so long, I truly believe he wants a better Nigeria for most Nigerians. At some stage we all need to learn to manage our anger about the way Nigeria has become, lets focus our energy on how to change the narrative within the social contraption we find ourselves...French revolution style of sentiment cannot save us, same way it did not save the French. |
franugo:First let me commend you as being the first person to try and make a decent economic argument as to why Soludo might be wrong in what he said. This is highly commendable in the Nairaland we find ourselves where people who shout the loudest and throw insults assume that doing this makes them right. While your calculations and the idea behind them seem correct, you missed something that any economist or even businessman would have noticed, the value of money then compared to the value of money now. Simply put, $1 as at 2012 is equivalent to $1.4 now. So if you really wanted to look at what is the equivalent of investing $12,616,356.43 as at 2012, you would have to convert that amount to the dollar value now which is 1.4* 12,616,356.43 = $17.6m. So simply put, any dollar investment that you made 13 years ago, that is valued less than $17.6m has fallen below the inflation threshold and is a loss. If you repeated this using the naira value that he invested it will still amount to the same thing. Also we have not even considered the opportunity cost of what would have happened if he had invested that money in the least risky portfolio and the returns it would have yielded. To be fair, this is the way a business man would think, there are other things an Economist would consider though, but one thing for sure is there is little doubt that the shares are worth less now than they were in 2012 using any sensible financial metrics. EDIT: I noticed your Sabmiller price was outdated from your screenshot so I also went to check the current value of International Breweries, which is what Sabmiller has morphed into( according to the article you quoted). In short, the share price is currently N13.85, which if you do the math with the previous quantity is valued at N5.6bn which is $3.6m now..... that is truly a terrible investment in every country and language.
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PMG2024:I appreciate the compliments and your responses that are mature and also educative. I also have to agree with you that Nairaland of a few years back was far more respectful, interesting and conducive for meaningful dialogue/conversations. Well lets hope the younger generation who now dominate this site live up to their privilege and grow out of their unnecessarily combative tendencies and seek the growth that healthy debate can offer, for all our sakes. |
PMG2024:Its actually nice to note you will challenge this in court, though I think Buhari as a two time H.O.S and the first governor of Borno isn't entirely devoid of deserving this honour (especially as he was governor around the time the university was formed), however he already has the airport in Maiduguri named after him so naming the university after him may be too much for indigenes and stakeholders. As for your point on Oxbridge, you are right to say they are known as Public universities in the UK but this is only because they receive government money (mainly as the government pays tuition for their citizens, which makes almost every university in the UK a bit of a public institution); however the government does/did not own the institutions nor their assets and most of the funding these two universities receive is from the private sector (85% for Oxford at the last count). So they are pretty much like Harvard in all ways (don't forget that though Harvard is private, Trump has been forcing them to bow to his will using threats of cutting government funding and FG's powers as their regulator to ensure they fall in line with his MAGA vision. So this again shows how its almost impossible for any university not to be somewhat controlled by the government). https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/29/oxford-and-cambridge-university-colleges-own-property-worth-35bn
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yamunla: Well I agree with this. Though the point I was making is Mushin as a settlement is quite too young for people to be claiming indigenous Mushin, as if they cannot remember where they came from before they came to Mushin. I am Egba by the way, as a lot of Mushin people tend to be. |
PMG2024:Lets be a bit factual in these arguments. Havard is named after it's founder. Yale was renamed after a particular benefactor that came almost 20 years later and gave substantial donations. Oxford and Cambridge are almost a 1000 years old and both were formed by groups of theologians/academics, thus no one person got the naming rights. However both Universities consist of several autonomous colleges, and a lot of the colleges are named after people. Again, none of these universities above are owned by one person or government, they are private universities, and the private people chose the names. Also several American presidents have prominent universities named after them, with George Washington alone having 5 ! Bush Snr, Clinton, Bush jnr, Obama and Biden all have educational institutions named after them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_institutions_named_after_presidents_of_the_United_States Though I agree with sentiment that says you should not change names of prominent institutions without the buy in of stakeholders, the fact remains government owns them and until these institutions can prove they are prominent enough to be self sufficient, everything any of us say about renaming them is pure opinion. |
yamunla:Like I told you before I don't need to learn anything. I am not Awori nor what some of you people want to start calling indigenous Mushin lol. I was born in Mushin, my father was born in Mushin, my Grandfather was born in Mushin and both the family compound of both my father's parents are in Mushin. However, I am not "indigenous to Mushin per se" and just like the royal families in Mushin you don't want to give me the answer to, we don't have amnesia in my family, we can actually trace where in Yorubaland we actually come from, and it is not a place that was largely a forest where some people now want to claim they were indigenous to a forest. |
I think the lesson from Buhari's sojourns in power is that leaders with good intentions are clearly not enough for a country as diverse and dynamic as Nigeria. Clearly one needs to have clear goals and literally bulldoze anyone that gets in your way...it pains me to say Obasanjo achieved far more than him in retrospect, as I really do not believe Obasanjo is the better individual. |
yamunla:lol @ pay you. You did not answer my question on if the royal families are Awori and where they are from if not. |
yamunla:Ok then, provide me a typical Awori family name from mushin. Also the last 2 families you mentioned,who happen to represent the royal families, are they Awori, and if not where are they from? |
madridguy:Lol, and how do you know my hometown or village is not Mushin? Anyway, you skirted my issue. I wanted to know who you describe as an indigene of Mushin seeing you gave them a quota and differentiated them from other Yorubas, I wonder why. |
madridguy:Oga, please enlighten me, who are Mushin indigenes?? I would like to know where you think they are from. |
They are just using style to create more job opportunities for themselves and their children as they take all the governorship and other useless political spots. Nigerian politicians sef, they only think of their benefit and not the people. |
cyberbro:To think when I was in school, they always taught us the Igbo spirit is republican and they abhor kings...... school teachers sef |
LordIsaac:His secondary school was NMS. Once you are in and do well, it's almost certain you will be able to join the military as an officer when you finish. |
God1000:It seems it's Buhari's older daughters from his first wife I can see in these pictures. Glad to know they took part. |
The good thing is his son did it the hard way. He has risen through the ranks one by one with no political appointments or promotions. Also, like his father, he went and fought a war, though he got injured and was almost killed. Big props to Brigadier General Obasanjo, he is making his people proud . |
aribisala0: Surely you are not the owner of the university, nor does your username indicate you have any special ties to Maiduguri, so why are you bothered? Or is their an example anywhere in the world where the owners don't get the right to choose the name of their property. I'd be interested for examples as all the countries I have been to have universities named after individuals, so again it's strange to me why naming a university in the state capital after the first governor of the state is so abhorrent to you. But anyway using the example you gave earlier about the man and his wives, I guess deep down you accept that are "a meddlesome interloper, peeping into the affairs of his neighbour without any backing." (in the Supreme courts words ) |
aribisala0:My bad, I genuinely thought you were looking for an answer on why UNIMAID was picked, here is the post I referred to if you are; and if not, and you just want to vent, apologies I disturbed you. AndroBlaze: |
aribisala0:Please see my reply above. It is not random if you are aware of Nigeria's history. |
RISQUE: He was a successful military governor of the Northeast and initially drove out our first proper case of Islamic fundamentalism if I remember correctly. This was one of the reasons a lot of us thought he'd be able to handle Boko Haram better than he did and bring back the Chibok girls. However it is only God who knows how life pans out and what is truly behind any man's success. |
saintrow1:Learn to read and take your time before you body peppers you. The man is talking about when Buhari first ented politics and it is on record that he only entered politics in the 2000s and challenged Obasanjo in 2003, so wetin concern Tinubu who was in AD with Buhari then?? Don't always let your hatred blind you to obvious truths. |
richiemcgold:I don't think abnormal is the correct word to use, I think it's more cowardly than anything. |
Fujiyama:Uncle/aunty....or whatever pronoun you might choose to call yourself, next time, take your time to read responses slowly so you can understand what someone is saying (that's if your aim is to even understand sef). I brought ethnicity into it, because it is your ethnicity that is the basis of every African or calling yourself an African. If you don't understand where you are from, its culture, then how will you understand its values. Again, I specifically pointed out ethnicity because the lady is Igbo, and though I am not Igbo, I am Nigerian and I'm aware of Igbo culture to an extent. I am unaware of any Igbo saying or proverb that supports a lady being this coarse about her father's privates and sperm in particular. If it exists and you and are aware of it please let me know. Exploring human sexuality and being coarse are two entirely different things, as I clearly indicated in my example where I said she could have used the term "seed" or something less provocative and far more evocative of meaning. Worldwide the Igbo culture is known for having some of the best and most poetic use of language in their sayings and proverbs. This title, in my opinion and the use of "shock and awe" is a disservice and slap in the face of tradition. Also you comparing artwork and traditional dress with coarse speech and unflattering writing shows how westernised your mind is. The things aforementioned are not meant to symbolise eroticism or sexualise as in the West; the artwork you refer to and the dress is actually meant to show attributes like our strength and fertility. Anyway, its a free world and you and her can express yourself anyway you want, but when I can't tie your activity to your culture, trust me that I will also express myself and deem you unAfrican, especially when I know how the West appreciates this kind of coarse "shock and awe" crap. |
ednut1:Please correct your maths, it's to late to be giving people headache. |
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