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Politics / Re: Lagos Lawmakers Fault Tolling Of Lekki-ikoyi Link-bridge by blacklion(m): 2:28pm On May 30, 2013 |
dammytosh: Tinubu sychophants need millenia of evolution before they can reason like this. |
Family / Re: Her Sister Inlaw Caused Problem In Her Family by blacklion(m): 12:46pm On May 29, 2013 |
Fake or incomplete story. Only a man and woman who sleep on the same bed know the real quarrel between them. I don't believe OP's story that the man wants to kick out his wife just because of rumour about alleged numerous phone calls. Story is not reasonable at all. OP, go ask your sister to tell you the real truth about she actually did to warrant the husband's anger. 1 Like |
Crime / Re: How LovePeddler Organized Kidnap Of Customer. (see Pics) by blacklion(m): 6:42pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
jantavanta: He was looking for Pretty Woman. Ah laff die! The guy na real suegbe! |
Travel / Re: Nigerians In Afghanistan, Lets Meet Here by blacklion(m): 5:43pm On Jan 16, 2013 |
There are several hundred Nigerians in Afghanistan currently. Many are serving with the US military or working with private security companies and other service providers/contractors like KBR, DynCorp etc. There are also some Nigerians with the UN and international NGOs. There are also thousands of other Africans there. Until late 2011 when the US forces finally left Iraq, there were several hundred Nigerians serving with the US military or working for contractors/service providers and international NGOs. Even now that the US troops have left, there are Nigerians working with the UN or private companies. Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in the world and all the major players are there - Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Total, Elf etc. Even in Somalia too, there are Nigerians serving with the UN and international NGOs. Work can take you anywhere in the world. 1 Like 1 Share |
Car Talk / Re: Abuja Street Car Racing Gallery/discussions by blacklion(m): 9:40am On Dec 01, 2012 |
"...poverty mentality...hate...negative energy...frustration don chop this one life finish...." SMH. Any wonder the country is messed up? The OP and his friends are entitled to use their property as they see fit SO LONG as it is within the law and they do not endanger other people's lives, limbs or property. The OP himself posted videos and photos of him and his friends racing cars at top speed on public roads and some utter i d i o t s here are supporting him in his reckless endangerment of other people's lives. Even when the potential danger was pointed out to him by several posters, he is busy arguing that his pals are 'professional' drivers and there is 'minimal risk' to pedestrians etc, etc. Minimal risk ke? One life lost, one limb crushed is far too many! Of course, the victims of this s t u p i d i t y will be none other than the wretched of the earth who reside in Abuja and environs. They are the ones who trek on Abuja roads. Innocent people going about their own business only to be mowed down by exuberant juvenile delinquents. Why on earth should innocent people run the risk of death or maiming just so that the OP and his friends can 'enjoy' their cars? According to the nairaland m o r o n s, its because they are 'petrolheads' who cannot restrain themselves from controlling their passion!!! These are the same s t u p i d excuses that m o r o n i c Nigerians offer for all the rogues in Abuja destroying the country through their thievery. 2 Likes |
Car Talk / Re: Any Toyota Sequoia Owners In The House? by blacklion(m): 9:13pm On Nov 25, 2012 |
Folks, Can any one familiar with Sequoia please recommend a good mechanic in Lagos? Not satisfied with the one I'm using now. Thanks! |
Business / Re: Afren Begins Oil Drilling In Iraq by blacklion(m): 12:19am On Sep 20, 2012 |
livapul86: I don't know where most of you are getting your facts from BUT Afren is NOT a Nigerian firm and has NEVER been one. Below is a link to the profile of its founder. Dude is fronting for Rilwanu Lukman. You think say oyibo media is like your brown envelope naija journalists? They are not fooled, they know the real owner. |
Travel / Re: Warning For Pregnant Women Travelling Abroad by blacklion(m): 2:45pm On Sep 18, 2012 |
Diasporans feeling funky |
Travel / Re: Zambia Excludes Nigeria From Visa Free Countries by blacklion(m): 4:54pm On Jul 27, 2012 |
Na wa! See how ignorance and bigotry is making Nigerians expose their stupidity. FYI - 1. Nigeria has ALWAYS required Zambians to obtain visas to come to Nigeria; why should Zambia grant Nigerians visa-free travel? 2. Apart from ECOWAS and Cameroun, citizens of other African countries also need visa to come to Nigeria; why should other countries grant Nigerians what we do not grant their citizens? 3. Its not today that Zambia and most other African countries require visa from Nigerians. That has always been in place since the 1960s. Stop exhibiting your ignorance and spite! |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Family Perishes In NYC Car Crash. by blacklion(m): 6:24pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Predictable responses from the usual suspects - Texazzpete and Ileke Idi. You just can't help yourselves. |
Autos / Re: 2005 Toyota Sequoia (2.6m Asking) price reduced by blacklion(m): 5:15pm On Jul 21, 2012 |
drogba: Still available. Too late...I bought from someone else as it took you over 3 months just to reply to my inquiry |
Family / Re: How Much Do You Think Your Partner Should Spend On. . . by blacklion(m): 2:36pm On Jul 16, 2012 |
MRbrownJAY: Must be Congolese or Camerounians - na dia life be that |
Politics / Re: Is Vulcan Energy LLC Really Going To Build Six New Oil Refineries? by blacklion(m): 3:51pm On Jul 11, 2012 |
Folks, please stop feeding the GEJ trolls. The Vulcan deal is an obvious scam hence Aganga/Abati deploying trolls and shills online to distract and sow FUD. |
Family / Re: What Mature Question(s) Should I Ask Him? by blacklion(m): 12:16pm On Jul 11, 2012 |
chaircover: This coogar sef na only God save you that you didnt/wont come looking for my sister Well put, Madam CC! Some of our people can like to form oyinbo. Is it news that in Nigeria, future in-laws may like to grill a prospective suitor for their daughter/sister's hand? |
Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by blacklion(m): 2:36pm On Jul 09, 2012 |
3rdparty: Something tells me this poster was born no more than 15-20 years ago and assumes everyone on nairaland is his age mate. |
Family / Re: 16 year old sister to marry a 35 year old man by blacklion(m): 8:12am On Jul 08, 2012 |
mutter: There just are not enough facts to be judgemental about this. The hard reality of life for some people do not allow them the luxury of making choices. What if the family does not have enough money to send the girl or her siblings to school? What happens to most girls from such homes do they not end up selling themselves on a daily basis to different men. That is a form of slavery too. Without an insight into the true situation I cannot condemn the mother outright. A hungry man has little regard for morals because he is reduced to the level of an animal. Who knows in the long run which plight would be harder for the girl. Very good perspective from Mutter. Nigerians are hypocrites and very judgemental. The 35 year old man is a closet pedophile and the girl should not be forced to marry him. But the real question is - what next for the girl and her siblings? 1 Like |
Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by blacklion(m): 7:43am On Jul 08, 2012 |
marvel10: Nairalanders are such doubtful Toms. Why the level of distrust and needless jealousy? I have chosen to take a number of pointers that include, providing for my family in the event of death. That man was a child slave! The fact that he has money today does not take away his suffering. His die hard attitude paid off and kept him going in the face of adversity. I found his account honest. If you read any interview by the likes of Okoya and his Lagos buddies, they will never be that honest and will waffle about how they imported this and found success. Don't mind them. Just the usual haters. Child slavery in the name of apprenticeship was very common in those days. I have uncles who began life as apprentices at the age of 9/10 due to poverty. Ilodibe (Ekene Dili Chukwu) began life as a houseboy to an Irish reverend father, then served as a conductor on mammy wagon (bolekaja or gwongworo), then became a bolekaja driver before borrowing money to buy a second hand bus and joined transport business. |
Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by blacklion(m): 7:39am On Jul 08, 2012 |
3rdparty: Please get your history right. The import license of 1982 was for motor cycle spare parts, not BMW auto sales franchise. Until 1986, by law all businessmen in Nigeria had to obtain import license from Federal Ministry of Finance/CBN to import goods of any kind. IBB abolished it as part of the SAP policy. So import license has NOTHING to do with auto sales franchise. FYI, Coscharis was not the original BMW franchisee in Nigeria. Ultimate Motors held the franchise from about 1985/6 until around 1998/99 when Coscharis got it. Their office was at Apapa back then. Coscharis was not into automobile sales or even spare parts in 1982; by 1982, he was still mostly in the motorcycle spare parts business. His warehouse was at Kirikiri then. Ultimate Motors was owned by Indians or Lebanese, I believe. I don't know how exactly they lost the BMW franchise and Coscharis got it - or whether they sold it to him. It was after Coscharis got the Ford franchise (which also came with BMW and Landrover) that he built that showroom at VI - Adeola Odeku. People should make effort to learn before putting down others. 3 Likes |
Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by blacklion(m): 7:29am On Jul 08, 2012 |
A typical Nnewi businessman will never disclose to anyone outside of his close family circle, his real business breakthrough. So any one waiting for Cosmas Maduka to disclose the precise connection or circumstances that brought about the import license in 1982 will be waiting till eternity. That does not mean he is a ritualist. Maduka is a typical old school Nnewi spare parts dealer/transporter. His contemporaries are Ekene Dili Chukwu, GUO etc. These guys made their money the old fashioned way - through hard work and sweat. It also helped to be an Nnewi indigene in the spare parts business because it gives you access to goods on credit, joint importation opportunities etc. Today, thanks to Nollywood and the lazy, get-rich-quick mentality of most youths, many find it difficult to believe that people can make money easily from spare parts business back in the 1970s/80s without being also a politician, govt contractor or ritualist. They forget that the Nigerian economy was very buoyant until IBB introduced SAP in 1986 and that spare parts is an essential commodity. As long as you are a car owner, you must buy spare parts. Making money in spare parts business back then is not as hard as it it today. 1 Like |
Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by blacklion(m): 7:22am On Jul 08, 2012 |
etchel: too long to read the whole article. a summary will always do And you just had to post simply to tell us this? If its too long, simply step over and stop flaming the thread with your infantile pranks. If the article was about 2Face has fathered yet another love child, you'd happily read 100 pages of petty gossip. 1 Like |
Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by blacklion(m): 7:18am On Jul 08, 2012 |
The yahoo yahoo boys are busy hating on this thread. They never like to hear of success attained through hard work because its a reproach to their criminal lifestyle. 3 Likes |
Family / Re: Sad Facts About Modern Family Life by blacklion(m): 10:21pm On Jul 07, 2012 |
chucky234: This post is rubbish and total waste of MB, your points are completely baseless. Interesting argument but you do not address the observation by some posters that in the current global economic recession, the only countries that seem to be doing well are those which emphasize the 'hard skills' (maths, science, technology) and actually make stuff - Germany and China. Whereas those that in recent decades emphasized the financial and creative industries (IT, finance, media/entertainment etc) seem about to be relegated to the category of second tier economies. BTW I think we are going through more than just another economic recession. This looks like a fundamental re-alignment of the global economic structure towards the Far East with perhaps Germany re-confirmed as top dog in Europe and US/Canada increasingly marginal. |
Politics / Re: Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar : Nigeria’s First Female Chief Justice: A Profile by blacklion(m): 9:39am On Jul 05, 2012 |
Beaf, please stop exhibiting your ignorance. In law, depending on the context, the word 'he' can be read as including 'she'. This is standard practice in common law countries. Tayo4Me, well done! I can see your nascent legal career is off to a flying start |
Fashion / Re: Fashion Tips For Women With Big Belly by blacklion(m): 5:02pm On Jul 02, 2012 |
Jonwesley: Well said bro! Push-up bra is pure 419. |
Family / Re: Married Boy!!! by blacklion(m): 8:09am On Jul 02, 2012 |
Typical naija mentality. James Buchanan was US president in the 19th century as a lifelong bachelor. Edward Heath was British prime minister in the early 1970s as a lifelong bachelor. So many other examples abound. |
Education / Re: 'Multi-campus Jesuit University In Africa' For Imo, Edo & Ogun by blacklion(m): 7:53am On Jul 02, 2012 |
Bad belle pipul! Jelosi go kill una Up great Ala-Igbo! BTW, what is the proportion of Yoruba in the Catholic church in Nigeria? Less than 5% of the active membership; it is only in Cotonou that you see Yoruba Catholics in great numbers. Igbo and Edo/Delta are the bedrock of the Catholic church in Nigeria - Ndi-Igbo alone are more than 50% of Catholic faithful in Nigeria so its only fair that the engineering school go to great Ala-Igbo. After all, Ajayi Crowther University which was originally conceived as belonging to the entire Anglican Church ended up being located in the southwest and controlled by the local diocese there - which is fair enough really considering that Yoruba are the majority in the Anglican church. LJU are even being generous in siting a branch of the school in Ogun 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: Easter 2012 Boat Trip To Ikare Island, Lagos by blacklion(m): 12:57pm On Jun 30, 2012 |
Whitehorse, Can you please share details of the tour operator, boat hire location etc? I'd like to visit the Ikare island myself. |
Celebrities / Re: "Who Are They To Tell Me What's African?" - Angélique Kidjo by blacklion(m): 1:32pm On Jun 29, 2012 |
This impostor irritates me immensely. Who listens to her in Africa anyway? Who will leave Fally Ipupa, Talina, Extra Musica, Kofi Olomide, Awilo etc to listen to her glorified cat-mewling? Her audience is primarily European and American 'world music' aficionados. After the first 1 or 2 hits way back in the late '80s, her 'music' has been pure c r a p. She's been left way behind by contemporary African music |
Politics / Re: Share Your Lagos Sinking Photos by blacklion(m): 2:06pm On Jun 28, 2012 |
omosexy1: Fashola can't do anything about Lagos area boys. They are the foot soldiers of his master, Tinubu, and they are needed to rig elections. |
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