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Is the offer in Dollars? Take it.

Else? Travel. I was in a similar position a few years ago. Accepted the offer in Naira and stayed because it was very big. Then the Naira began tumbling. After 3 - 4 years and multiple increments my salary was still a third of the initial value in dollars. It even got to the point that my employer was giving me increments for shits and giggles. I tried to renegotiate in dollars and they refused.

My mates that travelled then now had several investments in dollars and I was still struggling with the Naira.

My advice? If you don’t have a job in CA yet, you can take this one first, still accept the PR and quickly complete the PR process. Then use any friends address to start applying for jobs in CA. Interviews are all online now, nobody will know where you are. When you get one my brother japa abeg.

Leaving was one of the best decisions I made. Bubu and the rest of the political class all have visas and properties abroad. Them get another option na wetin make dem no send we country.

Give your children the privilege of foreign citizenship if you can. Na still we country, we go carry kaya enter back anytime we want.

I'm following the results live on twitter. It is faster there.

https://twitter.com/SleonVictor/status/1100015973162196994

Nigeria’s presidential election, which was due to be held on Saturday, has been postponed to 23 February, the chairman of the country’s electoral commission said just hours before the vote was due to take place.

The Independent National Electoral Commission chairman Mahmood Yakubu, said proceeding as previously scheduled was not feasible.

He said the delay was needed to hold a free and fair election.

“The commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the election as scheduled is no longer feasible. Consequently the commissioners decided to reschedule the presidential and national assembly elections to Saturday 23 February 2019,” he said.

President Muhammadu Buhari faces a tight election contest in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, top oil producer and most populous nation against the main opposition candidate, businessman and former vice president Atiku Abubakar.

The election has been seen as a referendum on Buhari’s first term, which has been marred by his prolonged absence due to illness, a weak economy, and the government’s failure to effectively tackle corruption and insecurity.

The country’s presidential elections in 2011 and 2015 were also delayed over logistics and security issues.

Prior to the announcement there were statements commenting on concerns over the election.

An electoral commission official said that “some result sheets and some ballot papers are reportedly missing. We want to track every (piece of) sensitive material, take inventory of what we have and what is missing”.

And a government official said, “The legitimacy of the entire process will be questioned and the winner could lack the moral authority to superintend the affairs of the state.”

One Western diplomat said: “Sensitive materials (ballot papers and results sheets) have been delayed in being distributed.”

Nigeria is also dealing with pockets of instability. Throughout the day, authorities bolstered security in much of the country on the eve of the vote in Africa’s largest democracy where past elections have been marred by violence, voter intimidation and ballot rigging.

A faction of Boko Haram attacked a state governor’s convoy on Tuesday, killing four people and stealing vehicles. Elsewhere, 15 people were crushed to death at a ruling party rally in eastern Port Harcourt. On Thursday, 14 sacks of ballot papers were intercepted in Kano state – though police said they were merely “specimen” papers to educate voters.

As Nigerians prepared to cast their votes, data analysts raised concerns about the number of new voters registered since January 2018, which they said increased by almost exactly the same percentage in each of the country’s states, and suggested that the results of Saturday’s presidential election could be open to mass rigging.

Plotted on a scatter line graph, there was a 0.99 correlation across all the states, without a single outlier. According to three separate data analysts, the parity cannot be a coincidence, and two of them called it a “statistical impossibility”.

“Only God works that closely,” one said.

But other observers said there were other possible explanations for the correlation, including demographics.

“In itself, it’s not an indicator of any kind of electoral malpractice or manipulation,” said economist Nonso Obikili. He said the correlation in the registration figures across states was “what you would expect, because demographic changes don’t happen very quickly”.

If some of the new voters registered are fake, it could imply meddling at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , though it is unclear whether it would be the ruling party or the opposition that would stand to benefit.

Additional data seen by the Guardian shows irregularities in registration for the 2015 election in which Buhari came to power, until now considered to have been free and fair.

Source: Reuters and the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/nigeria-postpones-election-just-hours-before-polls-due-to-open

This is mostly false

Price?

So people will not have to call you if unnecessary.

koladebrainiac:
I no understand pleade explain

The picture shows different countries and the hilarious process they use to solve their problems.

Clue: 2nd one is US - Problem - Drone Strike - Solution

The image below shows how developed countries in the world solves their problems.

Oya time to show whether your parents should request a refund on all your school fees. How many countries can you tell?

https://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah3/sleonvictor/international-guidelines-to-problem-solving_zpsplchl5iw.jpg

What do you think is Nigeria's own solution process?

lalasticlala fp please, let see what Nigerians will propose as our solution process

Niseed:
whilst this might be a good idea, I think buyers are responsible for carrying out necessary checks on a vehicle before purchase.

Quite a few dealers started off without any issues and were constantly praised for their "clean" vehicles before things took a different turn.

@ Op should a deal go awry with any of the names you listed are you going to refund the customer?

the only way a verified list will work is if the dealers sign up for some sort of money or take back guarantee that protects the buyer if vehicle delivered is not as described.

there will always be dodgy dealers and naive customers. both parties need each other. so it's buyer beware.

also the fact that a car is "used" does not mean there must be random fixes to be made. many have gotten used cars in the past with no surprise fixes popping up other than the normal service.

The list does not have to be infallible for it to work. A disclaimer can be added to the post to let users that NL has no liability in dealing with the people on the list and remind the users that they still need to verify and do the usual checks. Furthermore, steps to take to verify the car could even be added even the required documents to request for.

The problem is, the people who fall for scams most times on NL autos are newbies who do not understand the environment. A sticky thread like this could go a long way to inform them on the right steps to take, and to trust no one with their money.

When good dealers go rogue, they often end up scamming quite a number of people before an alarm is raised. With a list like this, once somebody reports one of the dealers on the list for some shady business, a warning can quickly be raised and they can be suspended or blacklisted until the issue is cleared. This would be added incentive for the dealers not to misbehave so they don't get blacklisted.

Seun where are you? Could you come clear up your concerns around this and why you stopped the initiative before?

This list should be maintained by Seun, or the Autos section mod and should be sticky and at the top of the Autos section.

There should also be a clearly defined criteria to join this list.
- Years of trading with zero fraud reports
- Number of votes from satisfied customers recommending the seller to join this list
etc.

Think of all the fraud cases that could have been avoided if something like this existed.

I think Seun might be missing a trick here. The nairaland autos section can be doing a lot better than it currently is. Stories upon stories of fraud are scaring away users.

TINALETC3:
He is jst saying d truth, accept d correction, no big deal, we ar talking abt death here ,.... Mayb it Bc u ain't d one affected

I don't see any truth, only an insult. You need to realize that we live in a country where freedom of expression is at least constitutional. If my response to the post was "shabullalariradidalalalalala..." or whatever makes sense to me, so long as it does not break Nairaland's posting rules, it is my point of view which I am allowed to express.

Trouble is, when we all come online and put on the mask of anonymity, our true nature quickly shows. If this had been an offline conversation in the real world were someone had given that news and I responded with that comment, do you think emmalexabl would have responded like that?

Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.

Oscar Wilde

emmalexabl:
You read the article that says one is dead from lassa fever and even more people might be affected.. ,and that thrash you posted there was what ur brain could process......

Chief, if you didn't like it, you could very well have ignored it and moved on. What is the need for getting personal with insults? What exactly do you gain from an online cat fight?

Should bring down the price of bush rat this christmas sha

I have officially decided to look at the silver lining to every bad news in Nigeria these days before High BP go kii me

RIP to the dead. May God receive their souls.

I still believe one day we shall overcome.

And Mr President, thanks for the quick condemnation of the attack and consolation extended of the victims. Do best to extend the same condemnation and please take action whenever the seemingly incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen occur. Your continued silence reeks of hypocrisy and is tearing the nation apart.

Soyinka please don't tear that Green Card O

I am willing to buy fairly used Green card abeg

fortunes0215:
So how did it go? Did ur interviewers leave the room or they soaked ur fart...llollzz

They were really nice, they just acted as if nothing happened

Stevosty:
before now the 737 was fine until etisalat started charging for using the platform, imagine you want to recharge N100 and network charge has already gotten to N100 because success delay, well I don't use the 737 anymore.

My brother the whole thing tire pesin. If you do not have at least N5 in your airtime, you cannot even recharge your line. I don't understand the logic behind that one

[quote author=Gvive post=47155429][/quote]I don't mean the bank charges for transfers. I mean airtime deductions for using the service. First I thought it was just my telco flexing my credit but when I made enquiries I was informed that the bank charges per *737# session.

khadaffi:
Are you kidding me? Is there a transaction fee attached to using #737# ?

Yes na, I get charged between N5 and N10 any time I use it. From my airtime. GTB conveniently forgets to mention that.

XaintJoel20:
Did you get the job?

YES!!! I don't even know why

Maybe the other candidates farted twice

GTB's *737# is a bit of a scam. You get charged the transaction fee even if the transaction fails. Theives, they should just wait...

Anyway CBN's decision to bar the telcos from using airtime for transactions was painful sha, even though it was not unfounded. They were trying to avoid the creation of a shadow currency in the country which they would be unable to control, since airtime is as ubiquitous as the naira.

4 and 5 aren't stunts. They both seem reasonable. You also have to admire their confidence and calmness during a normally nervous and tense situation.

Once during an interview, I was supposed to make a presentation.

I was so nervous during the presentation I mistakenly farted...

yunglivochi:

so wts d answer

There is a link right there for you to follow

This site explains the answer in detail

http://bfy.tw/3GEO

sonOfLucifer:
THank God I'm going to hell. Make rapture do quick come carry all these Christians join. Naija go better.

Baba how much is a plot of land in Hell these days? this one way dollar jus de high anyhow

@Op we should also probably be in church at 8:31 am on Sunday instead of creating threads on Nairaland

Everybody knows that the real computer geeks use Macs #justsaying

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Ayt27:
Jesus H christ, what does the H stand for?

Jesus's middle name na. I can't believe you don't know it. And you call yourself a Christian. SMH

Seriously

If this is true then Sahara reporters should print a retraction and apology, or Sen Akpabio should sue them for libel.

Shameless liars. How much do they get for it sef?

Jesus H. Christ

Can somebody help me call Oando and tell them to include the manager of that filling station and all the attendants in their ongoing retrenchment. Stewpit people

End time court

Well somebody had to say it

On a more serious note tho, all these reruns the court of appeal is ordering, is gonna cost us a pretty penny. We may have to budget a significant portion of the 2016 budget towards election reruns