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Basicend:
Transcorp that is a dead conglomerate.

A very dead brand from the onset.

Femi, has some old accumulations from Nigeria's crude reserves but he is not so much a wise investor.

He was a FBN, and he left. . Where is his outlay in Forte/AP?

He got his significant wealth from the oil block that FG allocated to him. . Not that he was so inventive or creative.

When did a governor of a state (Lagos state) start awarding oil licenses — especially not even in Lagos. Sef!

Na wao!

Wodu89:
Let's do away with asking for bachelor's and co. Education hasn't played Nigeria

It has!

Education helps to set expectations of knowledge at certain levels.

You would know this better when you employ people who don't turn out to be what you expect.

15thAccount:
Small thing una don recommend coding, 😂, you even drop video join. With the way the industry is looking with layoffs and startups shutting down, it’s not looking so enticing to beginners as it did in 2015-2019.

It’s still very profitable, but it’s difficult and the hype has dropped lately.

Coding is blood money, but na your blood you go use lol.

When I started I wanted to build an app that’ll change the world and become zuckerberg, right now, I just want to find $10m on the road and retire. Setup a huge farm and rear goats and cows and travel the world with an average-beautiful looking huge booty small waist babe.

Amin

Wrong motivation is hard to sustain long-term.

Secondly 'coding' is a broad umbrella.

Data Engineering, MLOps, Applied Statisticians, BI analysts,Data scientists, Geoinformaticians & Bioinformaticiams all code in various domains!

Even recently, Information systems architect, Robot Processing Automation architects & Database Administrators are huge.

And I've said nothing about APPLICATION development or Web3 (which I know little about).

So it's a big world.

PureFace1:
This is the type of Military government Obediots are praying for because of their hatred for Tinubu. Their Hatred for Tinubu is making them wish for something that can destroy their lives.

If a Military government take over at least DSS release some propagandists they arrested for questioning, the Military will just send most of them to the gallow and the Twitter they love so much to perpetrate their terrorist activities can be banned forever at any time, it only need a single order from the person in charge.

Putin isn't a military government!

That's to tell you what civilian dictators are capable of!

Reelmii:
boss i was not trying quote bible verse oo...i just dey talk generally......a man needs a wife so does a woman too...thank u

Nevermind, I was joking.

maleekberry:
The problem with these guys is that they don't know when to apply the breaks.

Where's the allure in stealing IF you have to spend it low key?

So they think.

Reelmii:
..congrats to him...it is not good for a man to be alone...for him to have stayed that long,, he really loved his ex wife

Lol.

It is not good for THE man to be alone.
Not it is not good for "A" man to be alone.

Gen 2:18.


Adam being THE man. And he was the only human creature then. Now there's 7 billion people & a man isn't alone.

Lol.

saintbillion:
Instead of him to morn his woman in peace he's fighting for Senate President with an un finished case with EFCC. Person way suppose dey kuje dey cool off.

He's ambitious & as a leader (I didn't say bad or good) has seen it all to a point of being somewhat desensitized.

So he's not as emotional as the average person.

tsdarkside:
people in labour party before igbos massively voted them will have no choice than leave the party to igbos....
igbos like gra gra too much....

But Julius Abure isn't Igbo ?

Wodu89:
Na so Dem dey be. Pompous generation

The word pompous wasn't created in this Generation though.

sukkot:
lmao me I know one egbon like this. Living large in naija. At a single sitting he would destroy 200 thousand naira eating fresh fish pepper soup and drinking wine . Every night oo. So just his enjoyment money was like 1.4 million naira a week. He is always trying to take me along but I alwAys dodge him. One of the advice I got was never hang out with people like this or you will go broke trying to keep up. So I always avoid his requests. He is one of the managers at sterling bank. Doing very well. 2 children. Na so one day the guy wassap me that he has japa to Canada well few weeks and months after that baba done turn to bob Marley and the wailers ooo. Always wailing about being a security guard and they have him walking with a dog and a torchlight on 12 hour shifts. Hand done touch baba well well. He is full of regrets but he has sold everything and given up his job in naija. He says he has given up his life now that he is just living for his kids now. He went there with wife and kids

I totally believe your story HOWEVER, always balance a bad story with a good one — BECAUSE good ones abound too.

Otherwise you're just selectively taking single anecdotes and stretching their larger implications.

Aufbauh:
Are you one of them?
They've not won anything before rather they've being used, then dumped afterward.
Besides the emotive nsogbu nsogbu politics came into full glaring in 2014 prior to 2015 general election.

They're serial losers cos anyone they support always lose.

2015 was just 2 elections away!

Prior to 2015, the person they've supported has alway won.

When the person they support wins you'll call it 'used'. When the person they support loses, you'll say they were not smart. It's seems they can be er appease you.

Always means without exception.
I've given you examples when their candidate won 1999- 2011 but you keep saying always.

WisdomFlakes:
One thing you can't deny about Soludo is his fearlessness to speak his truth regardless of what his detractors may say or feel. That's the Hallmark of a true leader. He's no slave to populism and doesn't pander to nor suck-up to the 'mob'. Chukwuma Soludo no send their papa.

What mob.

The mob who voted him?

Not less than 95% of his voters voted for PO and he's referring to them as mob but when they voted him they were people now they're mobs?

Lol.

What he's doing is needless there's no objective in fighting the people you lead — we're not talking fighting politicians here. People Millions of people?
No need. I'm really surprised he's doing this as he's not even in an election.

NOETHNICITY:
I stand with Soludo.
Who doesn’t know that the ‘headless mob’ here are the unapologetic zombediots

But majority of the mobs voted him to power too?

Oh I forgot then they were people not mobs.

Now they disagree with him they are mobs. How convenient!

Aufbauh:
Sure! This is why the emotive nsogbu nsogbu people keep loosing out in every election year & the circle continues.

Actually, they won from 1999 until 2015.

Who says they've not won any?

And every group wins /loses. It's an election.

The North lost from 2003-2015.

SW lost in 1999. And they (in part) lost in 2011.

So everyone loses.

Shokoloko:
Marriages survived by putting into practice the principles of his book.
No one can claim to have invented the love languages. It was never his idea - he only put ancient knowledge into writing. People have practiced this since marriage was invented.

So why limit/codify them to just 5 things.

Why not we just call it what it is: sacrifice, Respect, compromise etc.

Why creating a buzz word for it ?

pressplay411:
Prov.3.5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Yes.

But that wasn't what you quoted?

And even this says nothing about the 'appropriate' age for marriage in. The bible?

So I ask ; what's the biblical appropriate age for marriage since it not in the bible?

Oh! We may have to rely on our understanding here.

Shokoloko:
My dear, I have had experience for many, many years. I counsel couples. It does not matter who invented it ow whether it is a gimmick. The question is "when put into practice, does it work?" If it does, case closed.
I have seen more marriages restored with understanding and applying love languages than I have seen with people trying to force their partners into a mould that they want.
Nairaland people just want to destroy this marriage - these issues can be taken care of, yet they are all over this thread suggesting bad things

You're seeing survivorship bias.

If a spouse requires a particular thing done a particular way that's fine. Adjustments/compromise is the SOLUTION there NOT some phantom love language codified by Gary chapman in 1992 to sell a self help book.

How did marriages succeed before his book in 1992?

Respect, Compromise & sacrifice has been what holds relationships of all types: Work, family, Business, spiritual etc.

Not some touchy-feely feel good

Shokoloko:
I sense resentment from your spouse.
I don't think you are right to equate remote work with zero work. Remote work is mentally tasking.
Just so you know, when women are overwhelmed their libido DIES.
I am not at all excusing her - she needs to communicate. Both of you need professional marriage counseling (not church marriage counseling). Whichever one of you is not ready for counseling has checked out already and maybe should be left alone.
I see some people asking you to pretend to have someone else or actually have a side piece.
Before you do that, make sure your spouse is not waiting for you to do that so they can use that as a legit reason for divorce.
Gift giving will not help matters - your wife's love language is not gifting. It's acts of service and affirmations.

Who invented this love language gimmick?

This false dichotomy that one's love language is one thing to the exclusion of other things is a 21st century marketing strategy to sell books & Seminar.

Love is sacrifice. Anything more is supplementary.

MGHU.

pressplay411:
When you place your life in your own hands, that's when this seems to make sense.

But when you place your life in God's hands, marriage can happen at any good stage and age.
Mary, the mother of Jesus got married as a teenager.
Some of our parents married at Uni self.
Some of my friends started relationship during NYSC and got married.

No one shoe fits all.

Prov.14.12 - There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

Proverbs 14 isn't referring to life choices that are not sinful. For instance, choosing a red shirt Vs a blue one. Choosing an SUV Vs a sedan.

Proverbs 14 is referring to a way of sin that seems right to us. but destructive. NOT the choice of marital age — which is NEVER wrong.

That's to the discretion of each individual.

Paul (Apostle) for instance wasn't married. You'll say it was his devotion to God BUT realize that he was already a GROWN UNMARRIED adult before his conversion.

Magnoliaa:
I mean, right?


It's crazy how everyone literally judges others based on financial status. And it's more annoying how the economy has exacerbated it.

Food and money is the start and end of our problems in this country lol.

What will make a promising young man "undateable", but won't make a woman so?


I be student myself, and I'd hate for my whole existence to be reduced to that. Literally a phase of my life. That everyone has gone through. And it pisses me off when I see stooped men (and women) doing so. That's exactly just how people in their service year too are.




Times have change. Sticking to the rigid gender dictates of man must bring money, woman must bring body (or other stuff) is just a recipe for disaster, as far as I'm concerned.

And I say this because some might disagree and say that I'm trying to say money (stability) isn't important for a man to have, when I will be expected to offer domestic services, or that a woman should become masculine and be bringing money, when things easily could have been solved if the two partners are committed to helping each other financially, domestically and in other ways.


If you want to demand that the opposite gender has something they were expected to have, then you must be the complete opposite requirements that your gender is supposed to have as well. No ifs, no but.

Welcome to Nigeria!

ibechris:
Keep criticising everything and enjoy your stagnant.

I am not competing with u in any way.

Keep off and keep living in the past.

Keep off?

On a public forum?

Lol.

If you don't want your opinions critiqued in public try not to share them.

Cheers.

Ablemed:
When I was telling one of my guy here ion believe in travelling abroad to have or live a better life, he thought I was speaking from the place of drunkenness

Why make such a decision based on someone who left Nigeria less than 100 days ago and is currently schooling & working?

It'll always be rough at the start. It's in pulling through that it gets better.

I moved from Benin to Lagos for work — within Nigeria AND IT WAS TOUGH for the first 6 months!
How much more outside the country for someone who's on a budget?

WriterNig:
He has a point. If you're ever declared wanted by the 🇺🇸 U.S government, the safest place to be is in 🇷🇺 Russia.

You can NEVER be touched. Take Edward Snowden for example.

Snowden knowingly breached a non disclosure contract in which he wouldn't have access to the info he had had he not signed one.

He knows he won't even be killed in the US.
For someone who believes in what he did (and I don't think all his reasons are bad) a few years jail time shouldn't scare him.

Many Americans (even military veterans) have done time for similar contraventions.

For trump, he knows he's safer in the US.

Funny enough even opposition politicians don't run away from US. Never. They're always safe (if they committed no crimes). This can't be said for Russia or China. There mere opposition= elimination scare.

N3TRAL:
I understand that I'm quoting an individual whose first thought about the Nairaland platform is the untimely death of its founder, Seun.

However, you need to learn that Soyinka has done more for democracy than Peter Obi.

When he was about your age, he was incarcerated by a military regime for almost two years. Just before the restoration of our presidential democracy, another military regime wanted him "dead or alive" during his necessary exile from Nigeria.

The venerable statesman has contributed more to Nigerian progress than most of you would ever do- in words and in deeds ; in theory and in practice.

As the heyday of Obidiotism is gradually coming to an end, I am proud that my convictions about the totalitarian movement were genuine and have been proven even to the least objective Nigerian.

One of my fears was the institutionalization of cancel culture. Another one was the giving of villain tags to Nigerian heroes who are not of the Igbo extraction.

I am vindicated for taking a stance against masked fascism.

Didn't he also hold a radio station Ransome at gunpoint?

Or is that another?

He's a brilliant/great intellectual. But he's criticizing issues that are WAY beneath the things he himself did in the face of perceived injustices.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/10/15/flashback-55-years-ago-wole-soyinkas-ibadan-radio-station-invasion-and-why-court-set-him-free/amp/

ogaemma:
Scrap police, Religion and tribe.
Nigeria will be heaven on earth.

Even Your advice is an attempt to 'police' the society.

The word police is from a french word meaning public order/government/administration.

So a rogue policeman shouldn't be cause to scrap the police just as an exam malpractice shouldn't cause exams to be stopped.

tamdun:
Did u guys notice that the richest man in ur Street/lga/state all made their money in NIG? U will never see any londoner or Americana among them,nig isn't that bad if u look at it from diff angle

Stop making decisions based on extreme values.
E.g. Richest, Tallest, Fattest, smartest. in a population.

Those are outliers.

Instead, the question you should ask is : Between the average Legal US migrant from Nigeria & The average Nigerian back home who is economically well off?

The vast majority of people would not be (nor do they want to be) the 'Richest' so it doesn't make sense to use that as a deciding mark.

madridguy:
I wish Tinubu can create a portfolio for me under the ministry of communication and digital economy to deal with fake news carrier, people painting Nigeria black on the SM and their likes.

El Rufai would already be in breach of such Social media laws as he's rarely circumspect on social media.
FFK (APC spokesperson) said few weeks before the election that A candidate is in cahoots with Senior military officers.

Lol.

einsteine:
She is.

But she said they didn't have money to really do it the first time.

You mean to do it BIG.

They actually had a wedding.

Congratulations to them. But this is a pointer to the fact that peer pressure CAN be self imposed too.

pol23:
Let's see how this will go....
I bet that will be decided on how Ukraine raime palava end.


I doubt Russia will attack though...
But I wish Russia show them small pepper.

Russia MADE/pushed them to join!

An organisation they've not joined for 75years.

Phoen1X:
The last election revealed that jorubas has a large percentage of half igbos amongst their elites,and they are the only group thats vocal and not caught in tinubu's cultic chain insigina....seems falz is one of them.

It is hard to realize that people who are well to do (and not dependent on a particular person) can be independent minded?

So falz is half igb o ?


Lol. Someone that you know his father & mother is half Igbo?

Their family are used to arrests from the military days.

leanonme82:
Please abeg its all media marketing, he hasnt done anything except complete ila road that aregbe started. He has just decided to carry cameras everywhere because of his court case. Hes not doing anything here except receiving a visitor. The last event with ooni, he wasnt doing anything, he was opening oonis business.

I like his playfulness though. I'll give him 1 year in office and if he hasnt still done anything tangible i will start criticizing him.

He drilled Industrial bore holes for all Local governments recently.
While I think that is not much, it is not nothing.

And I don't even follow him online.