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izzou:
[color=royalblue] Unfortunately for her, Nigeria has lost a lot of it's good will abroad. Any truth dey sound like lie.

Her story reminds me of the need to have a family. Not necessarily your blood, but people that can offer you comfort when your chips are down

No man or woman should go through life alone. It's tough.

I pray her misfortune is turned around [/color]

Unfortunately most people who travel as single student and are introverts always struggle to build personal relationships with people abroad they can lay their head on his or her shoulder.

I juts feel she should've been cautious of the number of hours she can work even in her grief. There are some things one should not just do.

I mean for example she didn't drink poison while mourning her father because she knows doing that will kill her Irrespective of how sad she felt. I same vein, She should also have had it at the back of her mind that working more than the 20 hours allowable would send her back to Nigeria.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]"Can die", not "Will Die". I said "Will".

Propaganda is just a biased statement. While it tends to lean mostly on the negative, it can be for the positive.[/color]

No, propaganda includes half-truths and rumors that may not necessarily be true as well as facts too.

semid4lyfe:
Deliberate spread and dissemination of information, ideas and opinions to achieve a beneficial outcome.

That is not propaganda. Dissemination of information, ideas and opinions doesn't constitute propaganda.

Propaganda in itself includes half-truths and rumors that may not necessarily be true.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If you smoke, you'll die
If you knack without protection, you'll catch HIV.

If the biased point is to bring a positive change, it can be positive propaganda [/color]

This is not propaganda, it is a factual stament that smokers can die and knacking without protection can lead to HIV.

You need to check the meaning of propaganda first before u define positive propaganda

iamoyindamola:
Unfortunately she might still lose for bringing this out because
1. Her pof shows her family is capable of catering for her till end of study
2. She's suppose to come back to naija after completion of study, the youkay government already know we are using study to japa.
People are really suffering and depressed with this study route yet more people are still trooping in.
I sympathise with her but there's nothing anyone can do

1. Yes her PoF definitely showed her family "was" capable, but it seems her father's demise changed everything.

2. She's not yet done with her school. The program she's running is B.Sc and not M.Sc that takes 1 to 2 years to complete. Most likely she planned on returning to naija after school because she mentioned in the video that she appealed to the school for them to allow her even continue her degree online when she gets to naija but they denied her appeal. She was really interested in completing her program and earning that degree.

That study route is very tough especially for students who dont have financially buoyant sponsors back home.

Unfortunately she broke the law and I don't think there's anything she can do to salvage the matter because it seems UK immigration laws have tightened in recent times

semid4lyfe:
Actually, he's correct. Propaganda can either be positive or negative.

What is positive propaganda?

APC dey recruit Special Adviser on Propaganda Affairs

Dem no even hide am again say na propaganda dem dey use rule the country.

He say positive propaganda 🤦‍♂️. I don't think this guy knows the meaning of the word propaganda sef

Nigerian girl breaks down in tears after her UK student visa was terminåted for exceeding the 20-hour work limit. She has now been ordered to leave the country immediately. According to reports, she took up extra work after losing her father in 2023, who had been her main… pic.twitter.com/a9ijkFkRvj

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) September 20, 2025

Nigerian lady had her student visa terminated and has been asked to leave the UK immediately because she worked exceeding the 20 hours allowable for a student to work per week.

Context : she's a Nigerian student currently studying for her Bachelors degree in a UK university for the past 3 years. While in the UK her father who was her sponsor died and she fell into depression following the death of her father.

She claimed the only way for her to beat the depression was for her to be in company of people constantly. Because the UK is a busy country where u hardly have friends visiting each other regularly, the only way she can be around people all the time is to be at work. So, she claimed she unknowingly worked exceeding the regular 20 hours on few ocassions in her bid to escape depression that followed losing her dad.

The UK home office reached out to her, requested for explanation why she broke the law by working more than 20 hours a week and after reviewing her case she was asked to leave the UK with her degree program left hanging.

My Personal Opinion : The lady looks like one who would either harm herself or fall into greater depression when she finally gets back to naija. She's visibly broken and may never recover from this. For someone who was on first class but had to abandon her studies due to that infraction, I doubt she will ever heal

Ibeme:
Can you confirm who won the last elections in Gaza?

You should know that 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs (Palestinians) whose grandfathers did not flee or try to wipe out the Israelis in 1948 like the Gazans, and they are enjoying life as Israelis

Those who always choose violence suffer the consequences

The bold was why I was just laughing at our resident self processed Russian-cum-Palestinian advocate when he was talking about October 7 not being the start of the whole crisis but 56 years ago.

He deliberately chose 56 years ago that was convinient for him but forgot the Palestinians and their Arab brothers plotted together to filwipe off the Jews as far back as 1948 in opposition to the state of Israel and state of Palestine existing side by side as separate individual nations.

They chose war and lost woefully against Israel along with their other Arab brothers. The two state solution they now crave for was offered to them on a platter by the UN and the majority rest of the world but they chose to fight a war that didn't end well for them but somehow they expect the Victor in the war to loose guard for them.

No be juju be that?

😂😂😂

raumdeuter:
You don get the gist. If you make 1m in business but all your expenses are routed to the business so it reduces your overall taxable income

That's what most midsize one-man business owners dey use run their staff streets. They will be buying cars, fuel their car, wife's car and kids' from the money the company makes. By the time the year ends and they do profit sharing, staff will collect very little PS because oga don chop some of the potential profit in form of expenses that only benefit him and his household.

Big companies do it, the MD , board of directors and senior management will help themselves to the company's revenue and leave very little to be considered as Profit which government will first tax before the remaining can be shared or retained in the business.

GloriousGbola:
people have been using business account for all sorts. eg your friend is being dashed kickback and he does not want the contractor to pay to his personal account. or he is being paid for a service and he doesn't have a business account. or his biz account is frozen

Goodluck to anybody doing that then.

GloriousGbola:
you have to file taxes for your business as well. and you will likely have to pay an accountant to do this, you will also ave to do CAC registration periodically. so you are incurring extra costs. and if you are not careful and you start allowing your friends to use your account to recevie cash - your inflows will stack up fast. all i am saying is the free ride is coming to an end

It's not that deep. It is doable for anybody that wants to do it.

Why would anybody use his business account to receive personal funds for friends and family ? It's obviously not a wise thing to do

GloriousGbola:
you cannot avoid tax as a business owner. best is you get two or three years tax free. and you still have to declare during that period. and bvn means that they can match your cash flows to reality.

and people before now did transactions with personal accounts to dodge VAT.

it seems there is now some sort of VAT platform so it is automatically recorded for you

Not talking about VAT here but income tax.

One can channel his personal expenses through his business as business expenses, knowing fully well that it is when ur business makes profit the government will be able to tax it. So u can escape tax on some things sha

raumdeuter:
Unfortunately you as a salary earner you are exposed. The other way is for you to have a business on the side and run all your expenses through the business

I know about this, but I have a feeling going forward they may make the process of registering a new business very tedious to discourage people from using this method to avoid tax

raumdeuter:
Last month a group of Americans protesting Trump policies got the below response from Stephen Miller who is a govt official

"We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old".

So how is this different from what you claimed Onanuga said

Even in advanced countries where you claim everything is working, people still try to dodge taxes. Its part f govt responsibilities to capture as much of the income as possible, The country cannot develop if a huge part of the tax income is missed.

That puts pressure on those of you who cannot escape the taxation

Let them go after the people not paying tax. Make dem no do multiple taxation for we wey Don dey pay already

sleekdot:
All these ones na political yarns. Half of Americans do not like their president nor the ruling party nor any of his policies yet dem no born dem well not to pay taxes

As for multiple taxes Yes, you pay on your income, the money left when buying goods you pay, when you use the money to buy property you pay property taxes, when you use the money to buy stocks or real estate and it gains, when you sell you pay capital gains

I'm not talking about liking or not liking the president.

I'm saying in Nigeria of today when u ask pertinent questions about governance , the president and other political office holders all you will get is insult. Buhari wasted tax payers money taking treatment over and over again in the UK; when people ask questions Femi Adesina will be responding with insult.

Bayo Onanuga is doing the same thing today. In Nigeria our leaders make it seem like they are doing us a favor occupying that seat and not that they are meant to serve the people. Then u will see them treating some demograhics of the whole population like they are one and same with us. They act like the president is only expected to serve himself and those that finds favour of his government.

All of these things will naturally not want to make people pay tax if they can dodge it.

As for me, I already pay tax so I don't have a choice and that's why I will continue to drag any political office holder I see messing up. That's why I don't listen to any baggar that tries to gaslight me when I'm expressing my displeasure about governance because I know the kind money dem dey take out of my gross income to finance lifestyle of public office holders.

izzou:

It's true now.

Anybody that doesn't know his antecedents would think he's all about the love for humanity with the way he's bending mouth now talking about good conscience and integrity. Yeye dey smell!

See person with good conscience na.

See the joy with which he received the news of Hamas terrorists capturing civilians; Women and kids. Smh


Make Una dey there dey whine Una self say Una dey on the side of justice and fairness. If others dey try gaslight people over what they think about Israel dealing with the terrorists, u wey Ur moral compass Don spoil no supposed dey even put mouth

The US State Department is saying something that is common sense but because of whatever bias you have against Israel and the West it will never make sense to you.

October 7 is an act of terror carried out by a terrorist organization. Simple. If Israel wanted to do ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians it won't cost them this long, the whole Palestine would've become rubbles. The hypocrisy the US State department is talking about obviously hits home, that's why you are convulsing and forming unrighteous anger.
You were the same person that was celebrating all over this thread on October 7 2023 when the terrorists attacked the Israelis. This very you was here making jokes about the Israeli Military Commander that was abducted by the terrorists along with. Suddenly you care about human lives, and you suddenly know the meaning of genocide. Bloody Hypocrite!

The fact that you always assume you even know stuff other than "US/Israel/The West is bad, Iran/Russia/China/Axis of terror is good " is always funny to me. . Not all of us will spend every day on nairaland wailing about the West vs the East and u that does it na you know the orgasm wey you dey derive from it.

Sportsweb:
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they could’ve flattened Gaza in 3 hours, but they haven’t.

Source: @MarioNawfal

Anybody with working brain knows this

The thing is they just want to force Israel to the negotiation table. They want them to be negotiating with terrorists and those ones prefer to use military power to weaken their enemy instead of sitting at a table with people who woke up one morning and decided to murder over a thousand Israelis.

If u ask these people why has the state of Palestine/Hamas refuse to release the hostages but prefer to use fellow Palestinians as human shield while the Israelis are shelling them ; they will all avoid the question and continue shouting genocide

Kilishihunter:
I get your point better chief. Apart from the gordon chance where he miscued I didn't really see much trouble cause with even the Barnes shot any good GK saves it well, we were never going to beat Newcastle physically and with pace that's why we switched to keeping the ball away from them in which the pivot shone in. Even if they scored we'll have likely drawn cause we're come all out bombarding them while they look to the counter. If it's arsenal or Liverpool I won't even argue much.

General El-Arteta Monsur for Don lock shop

AirBere:
Defending(playing a very low block) is overrated in this modern VAR era. If the pressure is sustained, Newcastle will give away a penalty with their low block. A cross, ball to hand, poor/desperate tackle in the box etc. I don't think Newcastle are that good defensively to withstand quick passing kind of pressure. If nah Arsenal, Liverpool and may be Tottenham I for say okay. Tripper, Shar, Burn are just average biko.

Barca pass the ball much quicker and with slow Dan burn and Shar. At best, I think 2:2 draw and I'm being generous.

If Yamal was in this game, they would've suffered more. Ralph didn't click.

The reason I said Newcastle could've won is exactly the bold. I know Yamal is not in the game and Newcastle have a big shot at winning the game if they had taken their chances. It's only Yamal that could've done the magic and saved them if Newcastle were to be two goals up by half time

iamoyindamola:
I follow remo stars because they are from my hometown, they have really improved the league, I also follow 3sc because of one of their fans. The guy is passionate and vocal in a funny way

Yeah, I know that guy. He's one of the guys that made me start developing interest in them

AirBere:
That's just football in a nutshell. If you don't take your chances, those who did will be remembered by history. When you're on top, you have to make it count or pay the price later.

The 006 UCL final comes to mind. If Henry and co didn't miss chance after chance, they would've been champions and that game would've projected arsenal players more. However, when they failed, Barca took their chances and won. The win projected Barca so well till this very day including players like Guily and Marquez. Dinho won the Bdor because of that. If Arsenal won, Henry would've won it.

Point is, in a football match there are always gonna be chances. History only remember those who took theirs.

I think Newcastle at their very best could only manage a draw. Barca were just better in the end.

You would've been surprised how they would turn the match to war and defend two Goal lead.

Kilishihunter:
Chasing them with people that are not good as us in possession? They would have switched to the low block while waiting to hit us on the counter, I can also say if rashford had also been clinical in the first half like the second then I would also have led by half time, this win was even done without yamal, balde and gavi

You literally explained what I mean by barca chasing Newcastle if they had taken their chances in the first half.

iamoyindamola:
The guy last update on Wikipedia was 2024
I also read he's serving CAF suspension, his last club was supersport in SA
Do you watch naija league?

I watch it once in a while. But I will be paying more attention to it now sha. I've been seeing bloggers/supporters of Shooting Stars, Remo Stars and Sporting Lagos on social media of recent and they are making me to have interest in following the league once again.

Emaprince:
Na newcastle wasteful first half cause all this pedri nonsense.

In the first half, barca were literally chasing shadows..and if Newcastle had burried most of their chances, they would have gone upto 3 goals up...and the match would have swung in another direction.

Mugus wont be here telling us about some light weight barca midfield.

I agree with you on this.

Newcastle had the chance to have scored at least 2 goals in the first half, and they wasted it. If they had fielded a decent goal poacher who converted those chances, Barca will spend most of the remaining time on the clock chasing them.

iamoyindamola:
This one dan miss road

Until I see him in Rangers shirt playing in NPFL, I won't believe this news

iamoyindamola:
I am sure everyone is willing to pay tax if the system is working and going well, but we know the country we are in.
These guys will chop our money



Concerning the SA FIFA issue, I just read FIFA deducted 6 points from equitorial guinea for fielding insua for 2 matches.
SA is likely to get 3 points reduction

The problem with Super eagles is even if FIFA deducts points from SA and it favors us, there is no assurance those guys won't still mess up in the upcoming qualifiers. They are just not reliable and their coach no just fit train them to play ball wey no dey pepper eyes.

iamoyindamola:
Abroad is working, is Nigeria?
No be too they extort poor civilians

That's the issue.

A country in which Bayo Onanuga will insult anybody that dares to ask why Tinubu travels to France and UK every two months; forgetting he is junketing about with taxpayer's money. That is the country they want to force everybody to pay tax o.

A country in which u will be called names for trying to hold public office holders accountable; a country where security agencies will start hounding you for speaking truth to power like Mailafia did about Fulani herdsmen and DSS went after him

GloriousGbola:
as long as transactions are electronic - they can be identified. i saw or read something about servers analyzing transactions

the fact of the matter is your bank already knows who or what you are based on your inflows and outflows

i have a gtb savings account i was using for PP inflows and the account is classified by the bank as third tier business or something like that

they have always known these things - but now Tinubu - the great tax collector is pushing for a wider tax net with no more dodging

in the US - inheritance is taxed. lottery winnings are taxed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKEjTTKGIUo

listen to left eye explaining that they too pay tax on their earnings - towards the end

I understand western countries taxing everybody and giving everybody a right to hold their public office holders accountable.


As for Nigeria, I can't say the same. Tinubu has removed subsidy for 2 years now we no see the dividend on our collective wellbeing. They are busy awarding phony contracts to their cronies; contracts that do not pass through normal due process.

Nobody will be elated to pay tax to a government in which some unscrupulous elements will be dictating with force whom we can vote for and whom we cannot.

It expected that everyone will try as much as they can not to pay tax to that kind of government. The government will need to go extra mile to earn the trust of the people if not, a whole lot of people will sit, and devise means to jump out of the tax net.