layzie:


Funny enough, that could be what the naija police will ask u if u dare report as a man. But see how the police were able to gather evidence immediately the victim complained which ultimately helped in nailing the culprit.

Plot twist....
If she was dishonest and turned the tables around claiming he raped her, he would probably be the one in jail especially considering she's a known lesbian

Toeyean1507:
I get plenty of it fah.
1. I pee on myself while bathing.
2. Peeing while in rain. This one dey sweet pass the one in the bathroom.
3. I lick my plate with tongue after eating a delicious meal.
4. Sometimes, I forget to wash my hands after a sumptuous meal, especially.
5. I wear my slippers 'banana' style sometimes.
6. Add yours, don't spoil the fun.

I don't understand number 2.

You mean if you're going somewhere on the road and it's raining, you will deliberately pee on yourself as an adult
And you carry the pee soaked undies to wherever you're going?

maziude:


Thank you for this.

I keep telling people there are close substitutes here and at a cheaper rate. Why trouble yourself when you know you would be spending most of your life here?

Or rather, why risk fines and seizures when you can avoid it.

Example: They sell Milo for $3.99 at most superstores here (Walmart, Metro, Loblaws) and people still bring Milo. Like kilode

They will tell you it's not like the naija milo

sistaj:

So his own personal experience is not enough and my own personal experience is not enough as well. Maybe you should try to put in similar hours in same job and see. Then you will have your very own personal experience.

It's sad.
Even if OP posts his account statement, they will still say it's a lie.
They are claiming they want facts and when the facts are provided, they keep shifting the goal post.
He even posted his tax returns to prove he made up to 100k as a security guard with overtime which they initially said wasn't possible, quoting average earnings.
Now the goal post is shifting from he can't make the amount to he can't save the amount.

Let me continue with my popcorn and keep enjoying the show

Babyvet:


But that’s not we are not discussing though, that guy said that the guy was making $4400 after taxes AND expenses. In America , the average nigerian American makes around $62,000 year gross income. That’s slightly higher than the median national income. People like to come onto Naira land and inflate things , as if people are stupid . Most nigerian immigrants come here and do average at best , yes some continue work low income jobs for the rest of their lives or some make well above average , but most will be average. Nothing is wrong with that , but we must say the truth.

https://africacheck.org/spot-check/yes-nigerian-americans-do-well-but-arent-most-successful-ethnic-group-in-us/

However, an important note is that the average income stats does not factor in overtime hours which is predominantly what the discuss is about here

It's very possible to make $4000 monthly after tax if your job allows you to do overtime and you actually have the strength and stamina to do it.

If you're making $25 per hour, depending on your province, you can get about $1400 after taxes every 2 weeks.

If you do overtime of extra 4hrs per day (20hrs) in a week, this will translate to extra 40hrs of overtime for every 2 weeks paycheck.
Remember usually overtime of 1hr translates to 1.5hrs of work.
So your 40hrs overtime in two weeks will translate to 60hrs of pay.

Even if you have a marginal tax rate of 47% on the $1500 overtime pay, you will still end up with about $2200 every 2 weeks after taxes.

This is an easy $4400 monthly take home after taxes for just doing 4hrs overtime every working day.
Trust me 4hrs of overtime is too small for some Nigerians.

So it's definitely possible.
We don't need insults to educate each other

Looks like Trump is a fan of the series Homeland.
This is exactly what's happening in the new season of homeland

Ladycewhy:
I think you should direct this answer to your fellow brothers here always spewing trash about Nigerian women. You claim these equal opportunity for parenting is not possible but white men are doing it with no hassle or do they have two heads from Nigerian men?

Don't even bring the white man into this when it comes to finances... So much cultural differences it will be like comparing apples to oranges.

How many Nigerian men will invite you for a birthday party in a restaurant and at the end everyone will pay for what they have eaten? This is normal to them. They are the real definition of OYO.... On your own.
You think it will even be up for discussion who pays for wedding gown if it were a white couple? The wife already knows she will buy her wedding gown.

My question is why should the way a couple handle finances be pitted against house chores?
These are 2 separate things.
Money should be about survival and chores should be about individual strengths and timing.

Overseas, it's not even a topic up for discussion, it's whoever is at home that takes care of the house.

If a husband is doing morning shift like 9am-5pm and a wife is doing a 3pm to midnight shift, obviously the husband will be the major person taking care of the children and home front(btw this happens a lot overseas). This should have no bearing on how they chose to handle their finances.

If the family needs to split finances on percentages, it should have absolutely nothing to do with who does what?
If we wanna be progressive, then we should be, no point in picking and choosing.
We can't be clamoring for equality and still be holding on to the mentality of 'your money is our money and my money is my money'

Ladycewhy:
Many women are not against equal financial contributions atleast on my part but also be ready to share equal chores and parenting ,we will share baby carrying days and cooking days . You can't go to work and I go to work and you will come home and raise you feet up to watch football while there is food to cook and kids to take care of .

Be ready cos there are days when you too will close from your work and go straight from there to the market to get food stuff for the house . This is how equal opportunity should be fair and truly equal .

This type of equality you are preaching is not practical and may even be considered impossible.
Simply because some roles are much more suited to each gender.

Will the woman be expected to carry heavy loads, wash car, switch on the generator, fix plumbing and electrical issues etc?

Of course you can argue a man doesn't have to do all those things cos he can pay people to do it, but the same argument applies to cleaning the house and other chores that women have generally been conditioned to do.

That's why I believe all these equality arguments are baseless and each gender should do stuffs in areas of their strengths. It shouldn't even be an issue.

Many times I wake up in the morning and I sweep/vacuum the floor while my wife is asleep cos I walk barefeet and can't stand any grit under my feet.

Cooking is not a big deal, anyone who gets home first or anytime at home can cook.

Rules on finances are based on discussion and on the current situation in the family.

At a point I was footing all the bills, At some point, wife was footing all the bills at another point, it was based on % of each persons monthly income.

I really don't understand why these things have to be an issue, I honestly don't.

And yes I don't see anything wrong with asking your wife to handle some of the wedding expenses if she's capable

Echinedu1:


i need advice my people

Why not discuss with your bank and weigh the options provided to you.

Better the money sits in your account than to lose it.

Number 1 rule of investment is to never invest money you can't afford to lose
Number 2 rule is to always remember rule 1

jiniux:
Working 5000 hours in a year got me thinking really. There are 52 weeks in a year, it means he works an average of 13hours daily, Monday to Sunday, his post is inspiring and motivating but............

But what

Didn't you see the part it he mentioned it was a security job and he even had time to be watching African magic and studying for masters while at work?

It's all about context.
You can't do that for all types of jobs.

toboy:
Let's break this school issue down for once!! What is the name of this school you are referring to in your story? So, all the school in entirety of Nigeria is now like that? There are no good schools any more in Nigeria? I am really shocked by this bias because alot of best performing students I have met during undergrad are those that attended top-notch schools in Nigeria. When I was in Nigeria, I know of school such as Edgewood College, University of Nigeria Secondary School, Loyola Jesuit College, Jephtah Comprehensive, and Mea Matter Elizabeth High School. Someone said said sports and music are not encouraged. For where? My brief experience at Jephtah and MacDonald Memorial High Schools, we had most sport facilities except for swimming pool. We had a choir with all the instruments we needed and great singers for joint praise and worships. What's is this self?

We are not saying all schools are like that... We are taking in terms of the average reality of what is on ground.

If you are talking of the best of the best school in Nigeria, those schools are patterned to replicate what you have in developed countries, so what's the extra they want to teach your children

Let's say the truth, we want to send our children to school in Nigeria not because of the quality of education when compared to Canada, but to instill values and make them 'street smart'

I went to a military boarding school and I had the same sentiments to send my kids to boarding school.
Till I did some deep thinking and realised it wasn't really the school that made me turn out this way, but the values instilled on a subconscious level by my parents.

The funny thing is now my parents are not really strict with their grand children nowadays. Things they will never let slide with us when growing up, they now overlook with the grandchildren. This also, you have to take into consideration especially when you will be in Canada while the kids are schooling in Nigeria.

Honestly sending your kids to a Catholic school in Canada if possible, may be far better than sending your kids to school in Nigeria.

canadaman18:


Bless you for this . People like to talk as if nigerian teens / youth are saints. Just look at the high rate of fraud and gambling . At the end of the day nigerian kids do a lot of the same things kids in the west do , only difference is it’s done lowkey.

Not to mention middle / high school is when a lot of kids here really start to develop in sports such as bball , football or arts (dance , music , arts) and even tech .. Are any of these encouraged in nigeria ?

I think most people are not considering the reality on ground in Nigeria.
There's a major disconnect here.
I think they are still looking at their nostalgic days in secondary school.

If you go to a sport betting center in Nigeria, you will see a lot of secondary school students.

If you're opportuned to witness secondary school party, you will be amazed at the level of chemistry these people are practicing... Mixing all sorts of concoction and drugs.

We have thrown away our values and imbibed the negative values from the West.

I honestly don't think schooling in Nigeria of today, a child will gain anything extra compared to schooling in Canada

maternal:


I don't even recall having a conversation with you. In all honesty, once I log off I don't know or remember anyone. The only person I remember is salf. Either way, you remembering me, especially this rant says a lot. But what I ask is a serious question. Do you really believe the hospitals, emergency response, safety,etc is on par with what they have in Canada ? If your child dies from a treatable medical emergency in naija, how would you feel ? I ask because I've seen this happen.

This guy sef, I tire for you o.

Why bring death of one's kids into the Discussion?
SMH

iPopAlomo:



Baba... their father (Me) grew up in Nigeria... even if we did go outside... we were still rooted... A little pain hurts no one... I have seen what too much comfort does to the mind here... you no go understand.

Baba, I understand you jare... Just playing with you.

But on a serious note,

They are people that also enjoyed this too much comfort and also turned out right.

Times are charging especially in the Nigerian landscape and youth mentality is turning from bad to worse.

The secondary school of yesterdays is not the same as today.
In Nigeria of today, you hear of massive recruitment into cultism right from secondary schools. Secondary school students seeing nothing wrong with Yahoo yahoo.

Not saying it was very good when we went to school, but at that time, one think we still had was values. Which kept grounding us and resetting the bad influence or tendencies.

My brother, right now, Nigeria youths have thrown values out the window... Who values Epp?? This makes it a very dangerous place to raise kids. We have lost the African value system.

iPopAlomo:



Primary school here in Canada...

Secondary school back in Nigeria...

University back in Canada...

And they'll be staying with my mom... Lol... Not traveling back with anybody...



I want them to understand that there's lights out and data cap and nights where you drink garri to bed.

The few Africans I've met born here in Canada don't really have a clue... I turned out okay and I really pray my kids turn out okay as well... That is what I can't teach but I can influence...

Haba! You want to expose your kids to the risks in Nigeria because of UP NEPA and GARRI??!

when you can simply turn off the lights in Canada which will save you money

And they also sell garri in Canada... They they can as well drink garri to bed

einsteino:
Lol the internet is where smiling and socalled polite canadians say what they really think about immigration. I took the following screenshots on the comment section of a site just a few minutes ago, comments were posted today.

Funny how this one is riddled with so much ignorance about the scheme, the govt needs to let its citizens know that immigrants work their asses off and are not spoon fed. Moreso, did anyone catch the line about "demographics" ?

Funny thing is, he may not be a native of Canada. His grand parents or parents may have come in to Canada as immigrants.

salford1:


Is the role changing to get a job or get PR?
A friend did exactly this not long after we landed. My guy padded his resume, scaled the interview and got a job at a construction firm as a project coordinator. Has a PM masters from Europe, and a certification he just have passed using dumps so the interview must have been a sort of walkover, but his real life PM experience was meh. He was struggling at work and was fired after 6 weeks
I think gift deeds are allowed. Real gift deed Sha. Landing without having the pof is real suffer head .

It's funny how your used the word padded, probably maybe in your own reasoning, it's not a big deal.

Let's call it what it is. It's lying and misrepresentation of information which is no different from those misrepresenting information in the refugee process.

I know a lot of people that borrowed money for POF.
We can't call it a gift as you are not meant to pay back gifts. What's the difference between these category of people that got in through express entry and those claiming refugee.

They are both gaming the system. One is not worse or better than the other

What is wrong is wrong, let's leave all the hypocrisy aside

Daeylar:
A girl is raped and murdered but yes Let us blame her for her death while saying absolutely nothing about her murderer..

After all, the only problem we see here is that she went to a club, got drunk and tried to get home.
The fact that a man left his way to pick up a drunk girl rape and murder her is not an issue. Let's not talk about that.

The only problem here is the girl's behavior so let us continue to bash her while we say absolutely nothing about what the man did. Let's say absolutely nothing about the person who committed an actual crime.

It's her fault that she was raped and murdered. ..the consequence of going to a club, getting drunk and trying to get home is to be raped and murdered. She should have known better, she should have known that, now look where she is.

I don't know if some of you think before posting. Victim blaming, misogyny, I'm tired.
Some of you are insane.

You are not getting it. Generally human beings tend not to talk about the obvious and focus on the not so obvious that could have been avoided. Hence, the focus on the carelessness of the girl.

If you go to a public place and plug your expensive phone to a wall socket to charge unattended.
If when you return, your phone gets stolen, no one would blame the thief that committed the crime as its obvious the thief is a criminal...people will blame you. Don't take it personal, it's our default setting.

The man is an animal and deserves to pay slowly for his crime, but I guess that is so obvious. I wish he didn't even commit suicide so he can face the music in a slow and painful way

Newmum0615:
He is less than 5 and we didn't use a car seat. They insisted we use the seat belt for him though. So far, only one Uber guy refused carrying us without a car seat. The rest have always just asked that we use the seat belt. We have gotten him a car seat sha.

I read somewhere the car seat law does not affect taxis. Uber is considered a private vehicle that's probably why the uber driver declined.

I'm guessing like everything in Canada, this will also depend on province.

jhoci:
I carried beans in my hand luggage on Air France from Lagos to Minnesota. It was neatly packed and labeled.

women sha. you people are a rare breed. Una just like a different/unique kind of stress in my opinion o. Before una go come bury me alive.

Dem no dey sell beans for Canada? Abi the ones wey you pack enter no go finish? I just doff my hat for women. They are are too much.

kentoski:


But you can't be serious about putting in the extra hours without pay. You didn't go there for charity na...and please I have a question, are overtime wages taxed??

You didn't get him. He will still be paid for working extra hours but he would be paid at normal working rate.
Overtime rate is 1.5 x normal rate.

So if he's earning $10/hr normal rate, overtime is paid at $15/hr.
So he told his employer that he won't mind collecting the normal $10/hr for his overtime.
The only thing is I'm not sure if this is legal and it could put the company in trouble. They may eventually realize this and stop it.
And yes, all pay it's taxed including overtime

Fahrenz:
what I will post is basically what I posted yesterday divided by 8. I told you maths is not your forte. I also told you to keep your money

Seems the problem lies with mathematical jargons.

You mentioned you could net 120k weekly which is what he was disputing.

On the other hand, you proved you could make average 120k net per week

It's the average wey you no put for your initial statement cause the confusion, cos to be honest when I first read your analysis, I was already wondering if it was possible to make 120k net every week

nitigriti:


I remember folks that used to say experience is overrated. Where are they now? The market is tedious now, but I still net 90k to 110k+ every week. Net, not gross

We still dey jare bro. And we still believe it's overrated based on the context of discuss at that time.

Remember the experience discussion came about at that time when car owner's looking for drivers where asking for minimum 6 months experience on uber/taxify before giving their car out.

Why I argued it was overrated then was that 6 months driving on e hailing does not guarantee driver will make good money or remit consistently. I was of the opinion that they should give a chance to New drivers too.
This was also based on the fact that I just started driving at that point without prior ehailing experience and I was making good money. I was of the opinion that if you have been driving for a while in lagos, know how to use Google maps and have a general idea of residential/commercial areas, it will go a long way in positioning without having prior experience in ehailing

Even by reading this thread, you'll see people that have been driving for long on this platform without no single customer service skills.

Don't get me wrong, experience on ehailing matters, it's just overrated as a major criteria to use to give a driver a car.
There are people with more ehailing experience than you and not making as much as you are and vice versa.
It's takes more than the length of time you've been in the platform to make consistent money

Threemg:


Eleyi gidi gan o. Thanks boss. But 22 years fah!!! You must be a grandpa legend by now

I'm not the author. Wish I was

Threemg:
Seniors in the house abegg I want to know this: Forest dey to hunt for games (bushmeat: Etu, Okete, Oya, Agborin, Emor, Ikun etc) in Canada? Like all these Olode and his dogs setting

Take your time to read the story below... Hope it answers your question

Raccoon Orientation for Canada-Bound Nigerians

By *Pius Adesanmi*

I promised I was going to get around to tell you all this story.
Eventually.

Happened last summer – before my accident.

The jazz of all my political enemies in Nigeria finally crossed the Atlantic and caught up with me here in Ottawa.

The trouble with Homo Occidentalis North Americanus is that as soon as he arrives within a certain income bracket that is no longer middleclass but not quite upperclass but dangerously close to upperclass, he will move far away from the city and create a new paradise he calls upscale suburbia. Swanky neigbourhoods with manicured lawns, removed from the rabble of the city.

That is where you will find high-earning doctors, engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. If you are a Professor who negotiated a good pay when you were hired, you also tag along, buy property among them, and begin to form associate big man.

Trouble is suburbia in Canada or the US is always encroaching on the habitat of much older residents. Man steals land from these residents but cannot always predict consequences. That is why a family in Florida will return from work to an alligator chilling in their swimming pool. That is why a family in Arizona will grumble about rattle snakes all over their yard. They call animal services. Never mind that these animals have called that place home for millions of years before man put one leg on top of another leg and developed his suburbia there.

In Ottawa, if you live in the suburbia called Riverside South as I do, you have encroached on prime raccoon territory. As in Florida and Arizona, these raccoons have a way of behaving like omo onile in Lagos. Occasionally, they let you know who truly owns the land (This is where you google raccoon).

Because the jazz of my political enemies in Nigeria worked as I was saying, a family of raccoons elected residence in our roof last summer. We’d been hearing mawuru mawuru in the ceiling for months. The noise would come only at night. Tise said it was the tooth faerie. I thought it was squirrels, but we couldn’t fathom how squirrels could tear into the roof of a duplex from outside and make their way into the attic.

One day, madam called me urgently and asked me to hurry home. I arrived to a small situation in front of our home. Our otherwise very friendly neighbours had converged on our front lawn. It was quite a scene. Bloodshot eyes everywhere. No friendly faces. In upscale suburbia, we are naturally the only non-white homeowners within a certain radius so when normally friendly white neighbours converge, looking sorrowful and unfriendly, you worry.

I exited my car to behold quite a scene. Unknown to us, we had accommodated a pregnant raccoon for several weeks. Mama Raccoon eventually gave birth to six pups. On this day, she suddenly went crazy like she found a mixture of codeine, sniper, and tramadol in our attic. She began to fling her babies down on the lawn one by one. From the roof of a duplex fa.

That explained the sadness and sorrow of our neighbours. Remember, this is an animal-loving civilization. It also explained their hostility. Somehow, it must have been something we did that got that poor animal so crazy that she began to murder her own kids. Everybody was looking at us one kain, like, what have you guys done now?

The only analogy for you in Nigeria is if your home was invaded by destructive giant rats. You’d tried everything from traps to rat poison. Then, one day, Mama Rat begins to miraculously kill her own children before your very before. Only for your neighbours to gather around sorrowfully because those awesome baby animals are dying. Only for them to be hostile to you for not doing enough to keep the baby rats alive!

Anyway, animal services eventually arrived to rescue some of the babies that had not yet died. Come and see interrogation! Even Tise did not escape questioning! Are you guys perhaps a little noisy in the house? What time do you all normally sleep?

Nigerians, believe you me, Oyinbo was trying to determine if we did something to cause the postpartum depression of Mama Raccoon, which led her to killing her babies!! They began to explain the characteristics of raccoons to us. How it was still too early for her to bring her babies out, let alone fling them from the roof. There was the unsaid: you guys must have done something.

When we were eventually “acquitted”, the animal services people went into our attic to inspect. They screamed in excitement: three more babies that Mama Raccoon had yet to fling! We said: thank God. Now you can evacuate Mama Raccoon and her remaining babies.

I hope you all know that in Obodo Oyibo, public animals are government property. All those doves you see in Trafalgar Square or the squirrels you see on lawns, geese, ati bebelo, are all government property. Una wey dey go holiday in London from Nigeria, go to Trafalgar Square and touch a dove, that is the day you will realize that the life of a public animal is worth more to the government of obodo oyibo than your life is worth to the Nigerian government.

So, we asked Obodo Canada to please carry their raccoons from our ceiling. We were in for another shock. She is a nursing mother, the animal services people replied, we don’t move nursing mothers. By law, Mama Raccoon has the right to remain here and nurse her remaining babies. We will keep checking.

I have been in Obodo Oyibo for 22 years. I didn’t see that one coming. Apparently, the Raccoon had eminent domain! The best they could do for us was to come and move her at the end of the biological breeding cycle or something to that effect. With that, they entered their van and zoomed off.

I looked on in wonderment, lost in one of those na-who-send-me-come-obodo-oyibo moments that every Diasporan goes through on occasion. With which mouth am I even going to tell this sort of story to a Nigerian audience?

Then I noticed that Tise all along had had the same attitude as our Oyinbo neighbours.

Now she is glad that some Raccoon babies had survived and would not be moved.

I realized that only her parents had a problem.

I realized that we were two Nigerians raising a Canadian.

This is her country.
This is her culture.
These are her people.
These are her baby raccoons.

I jejely borrowed myself brain and joined the little girl in rejoicing that three baby raccoons had survived.

deedee44:

I thought as much when he came hard at me for merely joking with him, then I remembered I aimed a dig at Romeo3 few hours back lol. Who cares, I hear he doesn't have where to stay anymore, no wonder the only property he has to sell and raise money is his kidney. Who in his right senses will sell his only asset where it is worth just a stipend and use the money to travel to a place where he can get it sold for x5 the initial amount lol

It's a simple things. Sell 1 kidney to get money for traveling Malaysia, get to Malaysia sell other kidney

Friends pix from Montreal

kashamadupe0906:
people don't quote Maternal again, if you don't have any contribution as regards the thread topic, keep mute.

And what contribution did you just make why you sef no keep mute
We are all guilty
Let's all keep enjoying the thread in a civil manner

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It's a pity...
All I see is damage control after the damage has already been done

Denaven, thanks for your restraints, you made it easy to separate the wheat from the chaff. Try to do a soft landing and ultimately work on creating a system for your business so it can run without your physical presence.

And congratulations to those celebrating uncouthness.... Last last we go all dey alright.

JulianoB:
Pls, I need you guys opinion. Someone needs a Huawei flagship and I suggested a Mate 20 pro. I want to know between Mate 20 pro and Oneplus 6T, which is better?

Also, where do you think I can get the Mate 20 pro (global version)?

Thanks.

Mate 20pro is a better buy in terms of all round features.
One plus 6t only if you want to pay less than the price of mate 20 pro for a flagship.

Just saw you mentioned money not an issue. So you have your answer