₦airaland Forum

Callotti: The tok-tok continues. . . . .
Empty V-A-SSELS!!!!

ballabriggs: “If people donate money to you and you are not sure of the source, please return it.

Dede1: Sometimes, your utterances on this forum get me thinking. Even when the first Europeans berthed at the coast known as Bight of Biafra, they either tried to name a place as pivotal point of direction or found out the identity of the people. It is unfortunate in your wildest imagination, you fathomed the Europeans came up with the word-Igbo. Maybe, the Europeans came up with the word-Ngwa. It appears your detest for collective entity known as Igbo is driving you nuts.

Billyonaire: Are you reading what you are typing ? I will like too believe that a toddler has gotten hold of your nairaland account and typed these. Listen, If you will care to pay attention to facts; No Venture Capitalists, no matter how appealing an industry is, will inject his billions of dollars into a government subsidized sector of an economic, because, every business man invests for maximum profit. It is for this reason that no corporation of over 10 of them that indicated interests and got Licenses to build refineries about a decade ago has not started building. Until subsidy is removed, no one will invest in Refineries, and even if Government owned refineries work in other countries, the Nigerian scenario has been known not to function. Privatization is the way forward and this privatization can not be kick-started without subsidy removal, yes 100% subsidy removal. If we are witnessing tremendous improvement in the electricity sector even when the privatization is not completed, and also witnessed transformation in the telecoms sector, why are we holding on to the subsidy, when we know in essence the millions of job that will be created after privatization in addition of monies that will be saved for other sectors like health, education and security ?

Cyberknight: Good gracious. People spend 40k pounds equivalent in a weekend in Naija? Really?. That's 10 million naira. Are there really people, who earn legitmitate money, who are not Arab oil sheiks, South American drug lords or Nigerian government members who spend 10 million naira of a weekend?!! Untrue.

Secondly, it is diffcult to believe that someone in the UK was earning 50k p.a and couldn't save. For those who know the value of money, tzxes, and the way life is organized in the UK, that obviously bespeaks someone who was living life at full thrust (which is not a crime), but a prudent man can live on that, save, and still enjoy life. The cost of living in the UK is not as high as it is made out to be, considering that the system is so strucutred that everyone who has employment and even those who dont have are able to LIVE. For example, in the UK and other countries, a minimum wage is what the term minimum wage means..income that can allow you to live on that level. With a minimum income in the UK, I can share a flat, in the East End or wherever, pay bus fares, still have access to the NHS, get government funded education for my children, buy cheap clothes at Primark and cheap food at Asda, etc, etc. In Naija, what can you get on 18k a month? That barely covers the cost of a room rent(which you have to pay one or 2 years in advance, keeping many young people stuck in their parents' houses), before you talk about eating good food, or paying for hospital visits (you are stuck with the general hospitals), or getting education for your children (you are stuck with the abysmal schools), etc, etc.

How many of us here on NL will send our children to government schools, the schools most of us went to in my time? I went to a government primary school in Lagos and a federal government college. In my first year in university, my fees were 90 naira (in 1992). How many of us walk into general hospitals when we are unwell? And so forth. Under the right conditions, lving in Naija would be the best, because yes, you always have certain advantages living in your own country where you know how things work. But comparing Naija and the UK in terms of possible earning power is way, way out. It is possible to earn high salaries in both the UK and in Naija, true. But how many people earn these salaries? How many people work in oil companies, the big multinationals, upper levels of the banks, etc in Naija? How many? How many people are EVEN in employment or generating decent income in Naija? How many? Let's not talk about so-called "business" in Naija, with no access to credit or bank loans, what can one really do in Naija? Import stuff? You need money. Set up a pure water business?

Where the UK and other countries are way ahead of us is in this - they provide much more of their people with a good standard of living than Naija does for us. People might not be earning 700k/month incomes equivalent in the UK, but there are a lot more of them in the middle and lower middle class who are getting by. In Naija, the class distinctions have almost ceased to exist. There are the rich (those in government, and their hangers on, and other shady characters), those with good jobs on multinationals (notice I used the term multinationals, how many real Naija companies pay well?), the few who are making their way up the ladder at some companies, or running existing business, and then the poor. Stark, but there you have it.

And finally, a lot of people, I regret, suffer from tunnel vision. THEY have it good, or OK, so they don't understand what the rest of the people are suffering in Naija, that makes them ready to relocate abroad to earn ANYTHING at all, as opposed to earning nothing in Naija. Yes, there are lots of people doing funny things abroad. Its a given, we all know that. But does funny things are all paid enough for one to LIVE on, as opposed to here. Compare the lot of a part time security man at Boots with that of his counterparts here, for example.

Billyonaire: You sound like someone who has gone to school, but even though you attended University, I bet you studied more of physics and than economics or related courses. The job of the government is to lure in investors into the country. It is the role of the private sector to engage the investors in areas of interests. Any attempt by the government to build mills will fail. Cos it is common knowledge that governments business is no man's business world wide. If you need schooling in business methodologies you can contact me privately than to offload your tipper-load of ignorance on this forum, cos your 6 yrs old nephew with keen knowledge of economics will be disappointed in you. In a Standard Economy Module, the Government has no business in Business. They create comfortable taxation laws, business climate, etc to enable the private sectors function. Sometimes I dont blame many of you guyz who have been cultured into the crippling mindset that government is a charity organization. But when you see the venture capitalists cashing in on the enormous opportunities that the government has created, you term them ritualists and illuminati. Isnt it shameful that am lecturing you on Economics 101 ?

berem: Its only in naija you see men commit adultery and go away with it because its a man's world! Woman no go ever get mouth,pata pata the man go buy am gift or say sorry. Nigerian men,I hail una o!

apala911: "Trust is like paper…Once it’s crumpled, it can’t be perfect again. There's a limit to what one can take, if you keep piling load on the camels back, there comes a point that back will surely break! Never lie to the girl of your life, for the girl of the night.

When Dino Melaye was contacted about the actress story he denied ever getting her pregnant. He described her claim as “African Magic story” and any thought that he would be the father of her baby as “an expression of fiction”.

“I’m pregnant for Dino Melaye, he wants me to abort it” – Yoruba actress, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe


Pregnant Nollywood actress, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe has finally opened up that former Federal lawmaker; Hon. Dino Melaye is the father of the child she is expecting.

Bisi, whose friends besieged her Magodo, Lagos home and had a baby shower for her recently granted an interview to E24-7 Magazine’s Biodun Kupoluyi during which she confirmed the former lawmaker as the father of the child she’s expecting.

She claimed her relationship with him was very brief and not planned to bring forth a baby but fate and circumstance proved her wrong.

“Somehow, one thing led to the other and we started dating. He appeared nice, loving and showed me a lot of affection. He was quite frequent in my Lagos house.

“I remember when he came to Lagos for the birthday of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, I went to pick him from the airport to my house. We were an item and it was known to a couple of our close friends in the industry. Shortly after, I travelled to Canada and it was while in Canada with my colleagues, Foluke Daramola and Moji Olaiya, that I felt the symptoms of pregnancy.

“It started with the usual morning sickness. I could not believe it. It was painful because I could not participate in all the programmes lined up for us in Canada. I can remember that it was Moji Olaiya that went to buy the pregnancy kit that later confirmed I was pregnant.

“Immediately, I called Dino in Nigeria and shared the news with him. He was excited about it and he told me he was looking forward to seeing me in Lagos soon. When I returned, he received me with joy and on an occasion he took me to his hometown, Kabba in Kogi State. He told me he wanted to marry me. He was so nice to me,” she stressed.

The romance heightened over time, they became closer than ever but somehow there was a dark cloud lurking in their stars. “Sometime in May, I went to London, came back and he called and said again that he actually wanted a big society wedding for me but since his parents are clerics and the rules and regulation of their church frowns at pregnant brides he would want me to get rid of the pregnancy. I was shocked. I wept uncontrollably all night.

“Later, I called him and told him since that’s his new position, I will advise him to go to his parents with another and marry. I’m not keen about society wedding but love to keep the pregnancy and have my baby. He did not allow me to say my mind when he dropped the phone. I called him severally but he refused to pick my calls. I sent emissaries, friends to him but he refused to listen.

“His complaint, according to my friends who took the courage to talk him was that I was rude. You can imagine, Dino refused to understand; he failed to know that I’m no longer a baby. This is my joy, joy unspeakable to me, something I have been praying for and he wanted me to be funny with it. It’s ridiculous,” she added.

Since June 2012, Bisi said, Dino never showed up. “He stopped picking my calls. But each time I tried to call him with another mobile number, he would pick the call but as soon as he finds out I’m the one on the phone he will drop it. I have not wronged Dino, I have only chosen to do what is right to me but he sees it differently. I’m no longer a kid.

“It’s painful that such action is coming from a man who claims he loves the masses, the oppressed people of this country and he is oppressing me. My fate is in the hands of God and He will see me through. I have not been working to earn any money but I have found favour before God and a couple of my friends. I know I’m not alone in this. God is with me.”

Asked if Lola Alao had intervened, Bisi said: “I spoke with her; I pleaded with her to talk to Dino. I was shocked when she told me that Dino said he was not responsible for the pregnancy. I took her up on this. I asked her if she believed him. I found it insulting that at my age I wouldn’t know who is responsible for my pregnancy? But then, I’m not surprised because I have been fed with a lot of information that Lola and Dino are dating now.”

When Dino Melaye was contacted about the actress story he denied ever getting her pregnant. He described her claim as “African Magic story” and any thought that he would be the father of her baby as “an expression of fiction”.

van bonattel: You were obviously very drunk.
If not you would nave bundled you dirty azz down here on seeing such news and conducted a teaching in some schools in your local government on the need to avoid violence, instead you stay online and bark like a mad dog and behave holier than thou. Do we even know if you kill others over there before going to drink in your frigging pub?

Dede1: Local champions are always delighted with beer parlor-styled discussion. This goofy thread is no exception. If Nigerians in Diaspora are bitter about the state of affairs in Nigeria, one can easily conclude without malice that the alleged bitterness is drawn from series of conspicuous dead-end behaviors from Nigerians at home. In addition, the so-called Nigerians in Diaspora have grown to appreciate orderly environment stuffed with social decorum.

In Nigeria, one can not enjoy a quiet moment in his\her ride without bumping into bad roads, wide eyed law enforcement agents, borderline crazies who use the road while blasting away the horn of their vehicles, hawkers on the roads, walking deaths on the roads that will not give right of way to vehicles, elected and non-elected individuals with incessant siren, encountering number of roadblocks by one government agency or another, the menace from idiotic weekend sanitation, loudmouthed dingbats who think they are right while awfully wrong, moronic ninnies driving on the wrong side of the road, unreasonably in hurry while going nowhere, traders taking over the passageways, junks of cars and lorries that could not escape from the gates of junkyards in civilized countries still ply the roads, constant lack of electricity, absolutely no running water, unforeseen menace of kidnappers, armed robbers, ritual predators and religious terrorists, rampant mosquito and snake bites, environmental hazards and social and political idiocy fueled by tribalism.

Billyonaire: I will love Romney to win Obama in the election. Obama hasnt visited Nigeria or done anything to warrant my support for him anymore. Blackman or no Blackman.