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Does anyone know if Friday will be declared public holiday for Sallah ?

KingTom:
Amaechi wan use una head Chop wire again talmbout 'Naijeriyans are hungry' God our memory memory this country dey pami

U see people like Amaechi, El-Rufai, etc; nothing wey dem go tell me wey go sway me at all.

Na now Amaechi know say Nigerians are hungry, him no know say Nigerians are hungry when he was building railway to Niger republic under Buhari abi?

Na now people like Elrufai know say there is serious insecurity in the land, when he was governor over Kaduna state and a section of the population was being attacked almost on a daily basis he didn't know there was serious insecurity.

Some Nigerians get short memory true true sha

odizeey:
Inter should be penalized for this.

It shouldn't come without consequences.

Aswear ! The match is not fit to be called a final at all; they were toyed with all through the match .

Ibime:
Mbappe PSG career was wasted by Neymar and Messi

They never had this complete midfield until they signed João Nerves this summer

Mbappe never enjoyed such a supporting cast

Sometimes football is timing.

Abeg !

Mbappe is just unfortunate ni , it’s as simple as that . I don’t think it’s his co-players that should be blamed for his inability to win the UCL while at PSG ; what happened to the coaches ?

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick check out killing eve

I will check it out .

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick, izzou
You guys should be watching naija series on Netflix
The party is very good detective watch


Very good

Funny enough , my wife was watching it this morning on Netflix before I commot house .

Maybe I will try to watch it tomorrow sha

Roland17:
Ok this how to start my day. Baba say rabbit deliver him polling unit.

😂😂😂

The way Iamoyindamola experience take funny ehn.

iamoyindamola:
Rabbit is the most useless and fragile animals alive
My story....
A friend proposed rabbit business to me claiming it's the next money booming business, he listed the advantages like they can born litter, their urine is good fertilizer, the meat is high in protein etc.
I was curious no disadvantages yet, someone like me I always like the good and bad side just to prepare ahead but I was cautious because he wanted me to invest heavily I asked who as done it and benefiting from it, the usual this and that people.
I also came to nairaland to research I saw the same thing he said about rabbits so I went into it, I got 2 females and a male, the male can be the odogwu and be doing party 🤣
Not up to a week the werey died from knacks before that too he suffered kicks from the aggressive females I think exhaustion but he's delivered his polling unit, when the 2 gave birth(5 each) that's where the problem started.
Have never seen heartless creatures like rabbit how do you give birth and refuse to feed the kids, that's how about 7 died from hunger.
I was very angry I went online to try and save the remaining 4 I read that's how rabbit behaved I was confused why didn't he tell me all this
I got a solution to force the mothers to feed the kids they stamped on them killed the rest.
I got angry and picked one of this useless creature and kill it, they are just too fragile but the meat sweet and I didn't want to lose all round I decided to kill the last one too.
That's how I was lucky not to lose huge money on stupidity but the surprising thing is my friend didn't bother to ask how my rabbit business is going till date.

At least na u chop ur capital eventually , no be outsiders . 😂😂😂😂😂

izzou:
[color=royalblue]E fit no tell you oh [/color]

Honestly , that man Dey eat well steady with his business . He talks about farm hands being dishonest and needing extra monitoring ; but I never heard him complain about birds and fishes being diseased.

He’s a kind of person that is open and would mention it in general discussions

GloriousGbola:
as an aside, this is where professional experience comes in. as i have been working as an engineer in deign and construction, if i say i want to venture into that on a commercial level, i know what i need. i know where my margins are - i have networks of suppliers etc.

it is very dangerous to enter a business with a business plan but no actual operational knowledge. more so in nigeria where your so called greatest asset is more likely your greatest liability

You have a point on this one o. My former boss has big poultry and fish farm which makes him good money and which I believe doesn't give him the kind of problems I've seen people mentioned all day.

In fact, during Christmas the company buys life chicken from him which they do share to all staff as part of our Christmas package.

I think what worked for him was that he studied Animal Science for his first degree, even though he crossed to management science when he started working. I think the theoretical knowledge he acquired in school really helped him. Apart from him occasionally complaining about increase in cost of maize to make feed and supplements for the birds, I can't recall him at any point lamenting about diseased birds or fishes.

Anytime we work remotely and I call oga , na the noise of chicken 🐓 I go Dey hear for background 😂

izzou:
[color=royalblue] I think he died last year.

Lanre Shittu....His car dealership don expand now sha. Dem don dey assemble brand new China trucks.[/color]

Yeah, He was one of the few people who were able to do washing and setting successfully; his funds became legit and the legit business grew for real.

raumdeuter:
I don't think those car dealership business are legit businesses though I guess because it has always been the go to business for 419 men from the days. From dem Lanre Shittu, Danku, Ade Bendel etc. They must all have one car dealership they are using as a front

And if you reason am well, Big companies will rather go to Honda place and Coscharis

Small guys like us will rather import directly from abroad or cotonou

So who are the people or the target market for these mid size car dealerships?

Lanre Shittu , all those ones na senior men wey don dey the 419 game since ages past. I read that when Bill Clinton visited Nigeria during OBJ's tenure, the POTUS had to ask OBJ who was Lanre Shittu because his dossier don full for US law enforcement agents' hand. The man don too commit for yankee.

raumdeuter:
Someone told me the one that kills very quick na logistics business
2 of my primary school mates that were in logistics business died within 8months of each other
Your trailer will load company product they will suddenly call you that trailer don break down for middle of unknown place in Nasarawa or Kogi state. Na to raise mechanic and buy spare parts from Lagos begin track dem down, fix truck continue all the while company dey para for you threatening police and court case for delayed delivery

That my mate, he did the biz for over 5yrs, that means 5yrs of consistently staying awake at night, calling and following up truck drivers all over Nigeria while dealing with BP issues. His wife warned, talked and eventually accepted it

The day he died, he was staying up late as usual with laptop and phone tracking his fleets until the wife woke up early morning saw that he never came to bed went to check him in the living room and he was dead on the laptop and phone

I remember that ur truck business venture gist u shared that day. Each time I remember that ur experience , I dey always give Kudos to people doing business in this Nigeria ni o. People wicked

iamoyindamola:
E be like say izzou dan japa

Aswear.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I no know nau

I just know say Police never ask me for Custom papers.[/color]

Make police wey never buy Sallah ram no catch u sha

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So I think, the law says that when a car has been registered for 5 or 7 years (I think), you don't need a Custom papers anymore.

Maybe I am wrong sha. [/color]

You really think Nigeria police care about what the law says?

Nigeria police wey lockup lawyer wey go secure his client release ?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]This one na normal for police.

Make Police no ask me for Custom papers oh. I no go even answer am sef. [/color]

The best thing is to have all ur paper documents in one folder/envelope and dump it on them anytime they stop u to ask for papers.

The next thing that will follow is them begging u for "anything for the boys"

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Police dey check Custom papers?

I never knew oh [/color]

Omo, If police wan mess u up dem go mess u up o. Dem fit tell u say na stolen car.

My friend was arrested recently because the engine number on his vehicle license has just one number wrong. They checked the vehicle engine, tried to match the number with what was on the vehicle license and then decide to capitalize on a typographical error. Imagine a figure that is supposed to be 3 being types and 5 on the vehicle license.

They took him to their force headquarters but because he has been engaging them like a gentleman wey no want wahala, they billed him 20k, he paid and they allowed him to go. The lead inspector now advised him to get a police report and do an affidavit to address the issue so that he won't get arrested over and over again by other officers.

iamoyindamola:
While growing up it was the former one we sing, yes i use to hear the Nigeria we hail thee sometimes in radio
But i never paid attention to it.
I was just thinking about it that if the NA will be my hope of surviving i am done for

I think only those still in school will care about learning the anthem jare. Most adults don't have reasons to sing it sef

GloriousGbola:
They are running the dealership on stolen money. They are actually messing it up for everyone else.

The late gazzuz had said they were driving up the price of auction cars. Same way people complain of them driving up cost of rent.

If you are running on stolen money and not chasing profit to grow your business, you can afford to undercut the competition. Your goal is to clean dirty money not make clean money.

True.

izzou:
[color=royalblue] Buying cars from Cotonou is no longer as lucrative as before.

That's because there's no custom paper for it. If you buy am, na to dey drive an inside Lagos. The moment you reach Sagamu, you car don go.

Na only Military people dey buy Cotonou cars Put Stickers, place beret and Koboko. Then you're good to go.[/color]

Even to drive around Lagos sef, na everyday police go dey use person chop except u be working class wey dey leave home before 6am and return back home late in the night.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Na those new pickers dey buy all these ones

Hotel, Real Estate, Petrol Stations, Car dealerships are now fronts for washing and setting.

If I scam 1 million dollars, I go use am buy cars come Nigeria, then open a car dealership and sell it and eat without EFCC pressing my neck.[/color]

Are u sure all those people smuggling Cotonou cars into the country won't make the car dealership a bad business at the end of the day?

iamoyindamola:
As anyone successfully learned the new anthem 😁
Seeing the topic on FP, I just smiled because I am one of them

I actually know the new anthem way back. When I was much younger, I used to 4ck around current affairs, so I was going through one current affairs pamphlet and I saw the "Old Nigerian National Anthem " in it titled " Nigeria We hail Thee".

I engaged my dad on it and he taught me the intonation.

The funny thing is when I became a full grown adult , I literally forgot about it until Tinubu decided to resurrect it.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I am not saying the business isn't profitable....Naah

I'm saying that while it is, the influx of these malls on every corner might not really be what it is

I don't think ShopRite isn't strategic. All their locations are very strategic. And I know about two malls too that are scanty these days

My point is they way it is rising is not what they paint it to be.

Just the way Petrol stations are now 20 meters from each other. You would think Nigerians are buying full tank every second. But people wey sabi don dey use am wash their money enter the system.[/color]

Okay, I think I get ur point now .

You may be right. In fact , if I want to advise someone who has access to massive yahoo money now ; I would advise he builds a mall instead of buying all those Cyber Truck , Benz and Rolls Royce they are buying up and down .

Those malls and hotels are good for fronting

nihilistjnr:
he realised that his side hustle wasn't just going to fail to generate the type of revenue he expected, he was going to be disrespected repeatedly during negotiations with the exact type of people he absolutely despises.

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Omo! Nothing fit pain man pass this one

Insult upon Injury!

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I have started to doubt this.

At best, these businesses are now used to wash money into the system.

I know three malls on Lagos Badagry Expressway. They are not more than 300 naira distance from each other. One has two on it.

After the initial launch where there's crowd,it has become scanty as expected.

Malls and Hotels seems to be the new found love of people who want to wash something into the system.
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Well, maybe ur experience is different from mine sha.

I have been noticing some of these malls (at least the ones I patronize) enjoy huge patronage . I started taking notice earlier this year. Maybe because some of these ones I focused on don't have so much competitors close by and because the areas are densely populated.

I came to the conclusion it is a good business when I drove to Lasu-Iba expressway recently. I was going to visit someone so, I had to branch a mall along the way to buy things along. There's this big mall close to LASU with a filling station there. I was wondering why someone would designate a 2 to 3-storey building for a mall in that axis until I spent minutes there and I saw people coming and going doing shopping. Even the number of people employed working within that mall suggests the owner must be really making cool sales because most Nigerian employers would rather employ few staff to do plenty when they are making average sales.

I am not ruling out the money laundering/washing and setting angle, but I feel even if they are using it for washing money it is simply because they are making enough sales ; even better than hotels sef.

A40:
Certain business are stressful and the overhead is just too much.

It's a catch 22 for poultry, fishery and piggery. If you're not hands on they would rob you blind, on the other hand it's a very physical and time consuming endeavor. Your most important currency is time and those business will monopolize it without sure guarantee of return. You have to be mentally and physically built for it

There just has to be a way to mechanize farming on a micro scale but a country that can't generate 5000MW of power. How do you pull that off

And sorry to that big wig oh. Mega shopping mall when the purchasing power of the average Nigerian is at it's lowest? Yeah good luck with that

I disagree with this. Mega shopping mall is actually making the owners big money in recent times.

The rate at which some of these malls spring up sends a signal that they are actually cashing out. You need to take a drive around on a saturday or sunday afternoon and see people coming in and out of those shopping malls with trolleys behind them. Go to their car parks and see their security guys having a tough time directing inflow and outflow of cars. When u get inside the malls, u will see queues at the payment point which may be 6 to 8 payment points.

While major shopping malls like Shoprite may be experiencing low patronage, the new ones like Jendol, Justrite, etc are seeing massive patronage . Even when u go their electronics section, u see people buying TVs, Airconditioners, Freezers, etc ; items which they would've gone to buy in Jossy Electronics store.

I think what matters is for the investor to pick the right location and do enough feasibility studies before investing huge cash in the business.

semid4lyfe:
It's ironic that one of the best businesses in terms of ROI and safety a person can invest is one that is addictive, fuels a culture of instant gratification, causes financial ruin, and forbears mental health issues.

I'm talking about Gambling, and precisely setting up a Bet9ja outlet or Agent shop. Earning is commission-based but if established in a strategic location with good decor, aesthetics & multiple betting terminals and lots of patronage, cash out is guaranteed.

One of the best & biggest bet shops here is owned by a Doctor. We gisted briefly when we met a while back during school runs, and he revealed that his Bet9ja shop is the best investment he's made.

Gambling business is actually a good business investment from the investor point of view, they almost always end up in big profit while the gamblers who patronize the agents end up in ruins.

When I was in the university, one of my coursemates' dad is a "baba ijebu" principal agent. By all streets standard the man is a big man. As at that time he was using one big Nissan SUV like that and owns like 3 houses in this same Lagos. His kids live better than most kids whose parents are middle class/working class.

There's something about that baba ijebu, It just seeem as if artisans, transporters and low income earners have been bewitched to always play it daily whether they win or lose. I believe the same apply to all those bet9ja people too.

popizaino:
@BlueRayDick pls check your mail oooo.

Will check tomorrow.

semid4lyfe:
Lookman's family is close knit and his parents seemed to have imbued him with good values. Also shy and not outgoing like that.

Osimhen on the other hand rose grew up in the streets. Seems to me like someone who didn't receive love as a kid, and hence seeks it as an adult from friends, and acolytes.

I don't think u are far from the truth at all. There was a time a news trended that his elder sister and her elder brother called him out over money issues. I think that alone suggested he didn't get much love from his family as much as someone like Lookman.

Theflint1:
True sha, it's very likely these things would keep happening, and the thing is exam co-ordinators at the Ward or LGA level can't decide to do what's humane and push the exam to the next day, cause what's the guarantee that you'd push the exam and your boss won't attribute it to your desire to compromise the exams...with the level of smart phone penetration that def compromises the exams sef.

I think some of the problems these exam co-ordinators have to deal with are those that are beyond their power (foundational governance issues) cause on a norm things like this, na to move questions very early hours of exam day, but with the security situation, what's the guarantee that it isn't you walking right into the arms of hoodlums.

I just wonder what they come up with as solutionjs to situations like this when ythey're having strategy meetings ahead of these exams.

Isn't it obvious that they don't really discuss issues like this/carry out scenario analysis when they plan for this exams? I mean if they do, things won't get this bad.

I think they just have people who are civil servants used to routine jobs at the helms of affairs over there. Then they also have this Nigerian nonchalant attitude that expects the students to take whatever comes their way if they want to be seen as "serious".

Theflint1:
But why has the logistics for the WAEC exam been so poor? I don't remember anytime in the past when kids were writing exams so late into the day.

WAEC students using candlelight and phone torches to write their exams at night in some states in Nigeria??😳🙆 pic.twitter.com/xl0RYX458Q

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) May 29, 2025

A zoo through and through.

This is not the first time this is happening and it won’t be the last time . This thing is a Nigerian problem and it has big ego of those exam bodies written all over it .

1. There was a particular year when there was NLC strike/riot during Obasanjo’s government . I can’t remember the exact year now cos I was much younger but I remember seeing students in the night pass our house late at night after writing their exams . The papers were delayed because most of the WAEC supervisors who carried the exam questions had to cover long distance from WAEC office to exam centers either by foot or look for brave bikemen to take them . There was no movement due to the strike and WAEC refused to cancel/reschedule the paper in Nigeria alone .


2. I learnt the reason for this yesterday’s issue was because the particular paper leaked and WAEC had to outsmart the students by setting a fresh set of questions which led to serious logistics issue .

Well, I experienced something similar in the university when an exam question leaked and the school had to call for the computer science department to bin the initial questions and set a fresh one . We stayed hours in the exam hall and even got tired before the fresh questions arrived . We also had to leave the school late that day .

Personally , I feel in the two scenarios and even this recent WAEC issue, the paper should just have been rescheduled for another date . Our examination bodies/authorities should learn to do away with their pride and make it a duty to take responsibility for their mess up. They shouldn’t always punish the students for their mess up but instead reschedule the exams . The students can’t leak exams without complicity of people working with the office where the exam was set .