₦airaland Forum

Jestin:
Boris Johnson is a gentle man. I doubt if he lied when he is not Buhari or Tinubu. Those ones can lie for Africa 😂

Before nko?
The truth NL resident feminist wannabes don't like to hear.
I commend her honesty. Make we kukuma know where we dey. The systemic rot nor be here.

pocohantas:
Restaurant owners. Na why I wan open buka. Make I see the werey AI that can sell shaki with soft ponmo.

What Chinese cannot do does not exist o. They can even make a robotic cook called Iya Basira, Mama Onome or Mama Nkechi who can make Gbegiri, ewedu, ofe onugbu, ofe Owerri, owho, idika ikong and pepper soup more than real people.

MadamExcellency:
Some people are just plain stüpid. How do you arrest Emefiele? For what exactly?

You see Buhari that's calling the shot and still threatening the CBN boss

They are all thieving clowns.

How many arrest warrants have they issued for Boko in Sambissa, train passenger kidnappers, ISWAP terrorists and herdsmen killers/kidnappers? Abi those are the law abiding citizens they want to protect?

obiekunie01:
i laugh at you in AI driven Medbots.

AI driven robots are far better surgeons than 80% of human doctors.

In fact, some downloadable apps perform better patient diagnostics than human doctors.

70 years from now, the medical industry will be 100% driven by AI med bots.

Doctors will be among the first to lose their jobs totally to bots. followed by the below listed:

nurses
Accountants
Sales/marketers
managers
lawyers
artisans from electricians, mesons, carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, etc.
programmers
teachers
police
army
farmers, etc.

Ahn ahn! Who go come remain then?
What next? Reduce human population to 1bn people?

TristanX:
How will the elites get the new notes when CBN is releasing just 10% of it to the banks?

U guys should stop exaggerating on issues u don’t understand.

Vote buying must be prevented

Although some banks will hand over much of the 10% released to them to the corrupt vote-buying elite, to the detriment of the masses. But it won't be enough for mass vote buying.

This 10 days extension is more in line with what Atiku appealed for: a slight extension. Seems like a sound judgement and what a compromise should be like. Not ranting. Even though they are all as bad as each other.

After elections, FG/CBN will eventually allow the public to exchange their old bank notes.

Interesting story.

Sadly if you advise girls to refuse bad guys, dem nor go hear.

A pretty girl once told me that she can never respect a guy who doesn't beat her. I shake my head.

If you go intervene for the fight, the guy fit kill you the good Samaritan. Hero times don pass. Heroism nor go feed your family if you kpeme.

If a bf or gf dey too stress you, waka. Nor be by force.

Everyone needs to mind who they date o because everybody dey mind their business.
Let the guy face the music.

RIP to Toma.

michlins:
here's why I said what I said. You asked the question as a form of mockery not with genuine interest.

You made it look like he lured people in with cheap prices and then inflamed the cost and that's not cool at all. We're humans and seeing what Nigeria is becoming

Oh really? You are so omniscient to know why people ask what they ask?
So you believe you are wiser than that gentleman who replied? Aren't you overestimating your a little too much. Who exactly are you to know?

If you continue with this ITK, you stand to miss many things.
So when you go to buy materials and you wonder why prices have shot up, you are mocking the seller?

50% price increase from August 2022 to January 2023 and nobody has the right to mention it?
I have travelled around a bit, sadly there are too many people like you in 9ja. It makes us about the worst in customer service I have seen anywhere. Except for most Igbo traders that have better customer service skills.

I have talked about it here since 2011: You ask some Nairalanders about price of their advertised goods/services. They will say call this number. You publicly advertise but cannot publicly say the price? Is price a national security matter?

Very poor attitude and ITK have seriously reduced the ALTITUDE many of our people have been able to reach. Excessive pride, assumption and business don't go well together. Please let the guy do his own thing. Don't pull him back with your "prophet" wisdom. Thanks.

Adìẹ funfun kò mọ ara rẹ̀lágbà

A white chicken doesn't recognise or realise its age/worth.

Message: One should always respect oneself/own value = nor go dey rubbish yourself.

Talk true my sister, na the upper side you want us to see?

michlins:
you don't really have to explain. Everyone is seeing the current situation of materials. Even petrol changed price

Well, thank God the guy is one of the few still humble enough to explain. He was able to be corrected that from 3m to 4.5m is 50% rise, not 25%.

Humility is a key attribute of those who succeed long term in their profession. Because they can learn and keep improving.
Rising costs can also drive people to be more innovative and efficient. No body lives in a vacuum. We are all doing all we can to cope with rising costs everywhere in the world. In all our jobs.

Good luck!

Sermwell:
I rebuke this foolishness! Was Jonathan having health issues at the time? Even a child know he was referring to yaradua!

The guy na typical urchin na. His hatred for Jonathan has blinded him to only direct every insult to Jonathan. Just add low IQ to it. He needs deliverance.

I hope he is enjoying his 1,000 Naira bread now compared to 300 Naira bread in 2015.

Nice

CertifiedUrchin:
None, what matters most is who you know.

Btw, there’s nothing like “3rd class degree” in medicine. Medical school doesn’t use grade. It’s either pass or fail.

True. Depending on where, you can also have distinction attached.

In some climes I know well, a pass in Med/dent/vet is higher than some levels of 1st class in other degrees.

Average score to pass all med theory component units can be over 82%, some specialties up to 93% individually.
So the idea of 1st class or 3rd class in med is ridiculous.

A pass already exceeds most 1st class equivalent grades of most other courses.

9ja is blessed with beautiful cultures.

But our leaders nor dey green make we drink water put cup down. Dem dey use corruption finish the whole place.

ipobarecriminals:
If this isn’t Arabian story,get a Lawyer to write Canada Embassy with the picture of the thief attach. If they want to help you fish her out,it won’t be long unless she’s not in Canada

Na EFCC case. EFFC can work with Canadian HC.
This thread show the kind of women we have these days.

Side chick is not a crime, whatever your moral qualms with it but defrauding is a crime.

olukaygold:
it's only 25% not 50% sir. Price of cement has changed likewise blocks,sand, cables etc...

For 1 bedroom flat, a rise from 3m to 4.5m means rising by half of 3m = 50% rise.

I understand rise in prices of everything.

olukaygold:
One bedroom bungalow like this will cost us 4.5m,5.5m for two bedroom bungalow while 6.5m for 3bedroom bungalow from foundation to Painting.

Wow! Gone up by 50%.

I thought just over 5m would do 3 bedrooms, just over 4m for 2 bedrooms and 3.5m for 1 bedroom.

Thanks for prompt reply.

olukaygold:
I'll work on it sir.

Great job. As of today, how much will build such in Ibadan/Ogun axis?

What of 2 and 3 bedroom cost?

How much will 1, 2 and 3 bedroom bungalows in same locations above cost when done with normal roofing style instead of flat roof?

Thanks.

Paulheyman:
Note
1) SCD is not an infections so can't be likened to HIV. it's a genetic hereditary disease Traced to the mutation involving substituting valine for glutamic acid. These substitution actually leads to what you call SCD. Sometimes it's not only valine that is substituted it may be other amino acids. So, the disease severity is mostly determined (but not always) at the gene.
2) on treatment: Gene therapy to the best of my knowledge is the only valid treatment/cure in SCD however, SCD can be managed. In the management of SCD different pathways of the disease pathophysiology is considered. That's why SCD patients are advised to take vitamin C, folic acid, B-complex, pyridoxine, zinc tablet and malaria prophylactic drugs. If any sickler uses these drugs judiciously, then, you can't really tell if he is a SCD patient or not
3) on carrier: if you have AS or AC etc. genotype then you are a carrier of the sickle cell treat. Simply means you can give birth to a sickle cell child and you can also have sickle cell crisis under reduced oxygen tension
4) Many misconception exist in SCD. Mine is to enlighten you and many others

My opinion on the subject of discuss: 1) She was wrong: you don't risk the life of others to get married. By deception the marriage is void. She is selfish too
2) If the man was at least AA, my point holds. I have met many young SS patients happily married.
3) In Africa; mortality rate are usually higher in infants so, at adulthood, the recurrence of vaso-occlusive crisis is significantly reduced to an extent that the patient may not even have crisis that's the reason the husband couldn't tell if the wife was sick or not.

Good that you know that the marriage could be null and void.

Despite saying she is selfish, you still imply that it's still somehow acceptable to conceal conditions like haemophilia A, Huntington's, Marfan's, Fragile X and other potentially serious conditions from a prospective spouse because they are not infectious? I would have thought Ethics was part of higher education anywhere in the world?

Some people got infected with HIV while helping others such as in health care settings. They struggle to come to terms with it. Or infected by someone who faked a clean HIV test result. Should we also say this group is different from those who got it through gay sex or not being careful enough? Should the unlucky group be able to conceal theirs from spouse?
Or you are happier to "stigmatise" infectious diseases that are well controlled (to the point of not being infectious) but inherited diseases not?

You can create a thread to purposely enlighten people on it SCD. I for one have seen lots of people with the suffering that comes with it. It's not a joke. Many survived childhood but later suffer in their prime. Even in an environment with the best possible care available anywhere.

Nobody has said SS people should all remain unmarried but nobody should be deceived into it.

Paulheyman:
Misconceptions about SS
1) not all sicklers needs transfusion.
2) not all sicklers are thin with protruding stomach
3) not all sicklers have vaso-occlusive crisis
4) life expectancy in sickle cell disease have improved tremendously over the years. Male 50-60, female 60-70.
5) on stress: not all sicklers have crisis when subjected to physical stress
6) With advances in science any sickler who is judiciously taking his medication and visit the clinics at least once in two months will look strong and healthy.

Note: I am talking from experience. I am a sickle cell patient with a PhD

PhD in Pathology? Haemoglobinopathy? Hemopathology? Haematology?

How will the hubby know to what extent the lady is affected or crisis that could arise? Do we know if the guy is a carrier and may fear for their kids in the future?

Dude, I am familiar with the roll out of perhaps the most advanced SCD treatment in recent decades. You may have experience with your own condition but I have seen dozens of kids suffer severely and families strained by it. Also some who hitherto managed well but had serious issues in their 30s. Unless you can honestly answer one of the above in the affirmative.

Even in climes with excellent care and ground-breaking research, it is still not done with levity.

The main issue here is the deception. Just because HIV can be managed well now is no excuse to conceal its infection from a spouse. Would you like your brother to be deceived into such a marriage, misconception or not?

weslay:
What is your brother's genotype? If your brother is AA, then there is no risk that any of their children will be SS

True, but what of her health issues? Can they afford the care if she gets ill? And the regular blood transfusions?
Yes we should de-stigmatise illnesses and recognise improved life expectancy with good management. But it is not a journey anyone should embark on based on deception. If the guy knew, great.

Alawode01:
This occurrence is very rampant and now it takes another dimension, it doesn't matter either monogam or polygamy, and in my own observation about it is unless man rich enough to the end this thing might not happen so but if not once a woman see their children grow up, they will totally quit the man side.

The thing is a man's value diminishes in the eyes of his children and wife as he gets older, loses vitality and wealth. Children will always cherish the mother the most.

I know women who were not particularly good mother or wife yet 95% enjoyed children's attention. I remember one lady back then. It was a big family house they lived in. On Christmas Day, her kids usually got food from their step-grandmom (wife of their father's father). Same on New Year's. The lady will cook very unpalatable food later that even her kids will refuse. Her hubby also relied on his stepmom to cook his food. In fact the lady was all round totally useless and virtually everybody agreed on it. Let me not go into more details. The hubby, a very very good man who even refused to marry another wife despite being quite comfortable and respected, died many years ago. After his death, it was this lady enjoying the kids and grandkids. She died a few years back too.

I know a man that we all considered irresponsible for his excessive womanising and many kids outside. For years now, those kids he had outside, largely raised by their mothers, have all done well. Some baby mamas used to come "yare" at his house that he was a deadbeat dad back then. Those kids outside look after him very well now. Even the kids at home equally look after him well. If anybody deserved being abandoned in old age, perhaps it is a man like him. Many other men who were far better husbands and fathers, from what I have seen suffered. It is not exact science. Giving a lot to your kids and wife when young is no guarantee that they will reciprocate. Just do what you need to do as a man, hubby and father. Expect nothing and anything but plan for eventuality.

This life na luck. Men must weigh things carefully and plan for retirement. I used to despise polygamy but observation has shown me that monogamy is like putting all your eggs in one basket. Your wife of 40 years can change and decide to punish you for something trivial from 35 years ago. Her kids abroad now send her more money, she goes for omugwo, doesn't need you to raise her kids anymore, your pension from SG or FG is not even regular.

Polygamy has its many downsides of course but should not be totally ruled out. I used to rule it out.

AutomaticMotors:
That guy is getting very irritating... He would be exposed soon enough

I guess we all need to learn and be open-minded not to be like our brothers from the other side who feel too educated and sophisticated to listen to others.

What made me to really start doubting this every famous hunter prince migrating from Ife in the 10th or 11th century (some put it even earlier or later) is that there are too many inconsistent versions and there seems to have been hundreds of Oduduwa children who were "famous hunters". Haba! Didn't princes do anything else there aside hunting? How many surviving kids, in the days of high child mortality rates, did Oduduwa actually have?

How come Samuel Ajayi Crowther that travelled through Benin to Igboland never mentioned Benin-Ife link as prominent as Benin was back then? He wrote a lot about how Igbo from across the Niger were increasingly diluting the Benin population of Asaba.

Today in Eastern Yorubaland, many people that previously claimed a straightforward Benin descent for centuries now all have an Ife hunter prince that also came to join the Benin people to found those places. A hunter prince from Ife appears to be easiest way to claim being a bona fide Yoruba due to ethnic politics.

There is still no written account of Benin-Ife link until after 1800 despite how much information Europeans wrote about Benin since 1470s.

Some claim that a European wrote about Benin people mentioning "Organe" in the hinterland that Benin went on pilgrimage. Where exactly was that? Would Ile-Ife have been too difficult to pronounce or write than Organe?

Even a Yoruba guy wrote less than two weeks ago here on NL that Oduduwa story may well not be literally the way many take it nowadays.

Interesting write up.

Johnson225:
Great feat!
Btw, Babe resemble portable here, is it just my eyes

Portable, come and carry your sister from across the Niger o.

Portable haf join bad gang. He wants to obfuscate us like politicians. Make we for nor know say he get relatives in the East.

Mindlog:
Biologically from the onset, the XX make up of females gives them a protective advantage when it comes to survival, reason boys are more likely to be stillborn than girls and under 5 infant mortality is more prevalent in boys.

So from conception, childhood, adolescenthood, adulthood to old age.....males die earlier.

Correct. There are even some inherited conditions that women give to their sons that can be deadly but doesn't affect daughters. It is carried in the genes of a woman but becomes a problem when passed on to a son.
An example is Haemophilia A. It is genetically X chromosome linked. Since girls have XX chromosome, even if faulty gene is inherited from mother, the other good X one from the father compensates for it. So the blood clotting Factor XIII absent in affected boys will be still present in girls despite carrying the gene. Even up to our genes, we men dey help women instead of men. So man na simp right up to the gene.

My belief is that there are a lot more unknown (vast but currently unquantifiable) compensations females benefit genetically through XX genes which men don't have. Oestrogen definitely has a protective role in women. You can see the effect post-menopausal as hormones levels drop increasingly.

More scientifically, epigenetic clock has been used quite well to examine biological aging. This is insightful in Taiwos and Kehindes who are male and female. The clock tracks methylation of DNA (among other indictors) in many mixed gender twins as biological markers of aging process.

These indictors can roughly predict likelihood of developing medical conditions: metabolic diseases, autoimmune, cancer, etc at an earlier or older age. This roughly indicates actual biological age compared to chronological age (how long ago one was born). Biological ages of someone born in 1950 and 1960 may be similar. That's why some people live longer, assuming no fatal accident.

Of course lifestyle plays a part. In places where more men gave up smoking over the last few decades, life expectancy of men improved. Finland is an example.

hotseat:
This is one accusation too many!


Haba!


Na only Apostle Suleiman waka come?



Yesterday, sex scandal, today, sex scandal, tommorow, sex scandal!



This man has completely lost it!



I wonder how members of his congregation feel with these lascivious and damning allegations.



I dey shame shame for Afuckso, sorry, Apostle Suleiman

Abeg, go and join those comedians like Alibaba, Edopikin, I go Dye, etc.
Those folks up North might actually pronounce apostle like that o. Just like Fee-D-Fee for PDP.

jkingx:
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Audrey Hepburn

Ah ol boy, you be like dude of a "certain age". Indomie kids cannot relate to such great actors.
Grace Kelly films still dey cool.

Dshocker:
This is the way it ought to be, because most parents have thrown caution to the wind.
No woman/mother from Edo State will ever reject the gift, because na the parents dey beat their pikin to go do yahoo.

Wrong. I have seen a man who did and his wife supported him.
There are a lot more people across 9ja who do same on principle. Surprisingly many such people are very simple everyday parents and maybe never had a car before.

I also know of parents who involved NAPTIP when their daughters were sponsored abroad behind their back. Such girls knew their parents won't accept those madam sponsoring, so did it secretly.

As much as we generalise with these things, 9ja still has people with principles. Admittedly the number is reducing drastically daily.

seunayantokun:
That tells you no quality staffing any longer in the mint. Buhari's corruption rules there. Simple investigation will show it.

Which mint? Our mint still dey work? They print these notes largely abroad at high cost. South Africa I believe.
A country with NEPA but no light, NNPC refineries but imports petrol, with steel companies but imports machine parts, with abundant land (Taraba or Niger State alone has enough farmland to feed 9ja) but imports food, etc.