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iamoyindamola:
You seem like a nice person that pity alot
Small oje they enter you well well

I actually know what it means to not have at all; so when people genuinely do not have and they reach out to me, I always try to help with the little I can. When it involves kids it even gets me more concerned

Itsrm:
Person wey dey play. When the hunger starts, he will find something to do.

Lol. He never chop since morning and he no get hope for today.

You know the funny thing , he will surely survive that day and the days after whether u give him the money or not. That is what I have learnt about people who use hunger as reason for begging, they will always survive. When hunger wire them they will always sort themselves out.

One guy usually enter me with " I didn't eat yesterday night ; I had to sacrifice my food for my wife and kids..... Today I don't know what they will eat. Please help me with anything to even sort them" . The day I sat down, put one or two together and found out it was a format he was running on me; that was the day I put an end to it. The same person has been surviving since then.

iamoyindamola:
It as been refuted

afrodoc2:
AI generated.

https://www.nairaland.com/7913299/israeli-army-says-it-finds

Amoto94 have u seen this ? Ammunitions found inside tunnel and ammunitions found at the hospital

Itsrm:
Why do we all have people like this? People who make very choices, you advice them they don't listen and when the problem comes, they run to you for help. As if you're the foolish one who has nothing to do with money.

Someone was sacked because his company lost contract. The company offered to send him to another location and he asked me about it. I told him to take it pending when he can get something better. Next time we spoke, he said the place was too far from his house so he decided not to take it. I wished him all the best. Few weeks later, he sent me a text message that he's dying of hunger and he didnt eat the day before and has no hope of eating that day. I just ignored it.

I have since realised that you can't help everyone. Do the little you can and face your front. We all have problems we need money to solve.

One of my friends will say “ won ti so e di client “ i.e such people have turned u to their client the way yahoo boy turn white men to client and start nursing/grooming them for bountiful harvest.

They don’t care whether u have ur own responsibilities or not . When u decide ti be more financially prudent and shun their unreasonable demands , they think “ o’n ran Olorun leti ni “ ….u are reminding God to Settle their matter so they won’t have to seek ur financial assistance . They will literally guilt trip u over ur money

GloriousGbola:
Eh?

Yea bro . Someone who was unable to foot all hospital bills by himself after delivery suddenly killing ram in 8 days time to celebrate the child’s naming ceremony courtesy of inflows he got from friends and well wishers .

To think that he’s not even a Muslim that is expected to kill a ram for the naming . I would’ve shared zobo and biscuit to those who come for the naming if I was in shoes cos I know my house rent will be due in a months time and I will need those funds to sort it.

Ibime:
Na so I cut one of my main gees sef

His son had been born with a very serious health condition in 2016, same time as my daughter, which needed a very serious sum of money for surgery, I covered everything and ensured that the boy was nursed back to health including all follow up appointments. Although bro was always showing levels on social media, I took his need at face value rather than ask him to sell his car he keeps showing off for example (something I would have done for my child in the same situation)

A year later he shocked me when he asked for N500k for house rent in 2018, despite driving SUV, always wearing designer clothes on Instagram and all that. I think his house rent was N700k and he had N200k on him. That was our last conversation. For my mind I'm like you've had 12 months to prepare for this, furthermore you can downsize your house to the one your pocket can carry, secondly I don't wear designer clothes, but you are flossing everywhere and expecting me to pay your house rent, I no just answer the guy from that day to this day. That house rent stuff dey always vex me cos that is a core responsibility for any man, unless a major incident occurs, no man should be caught unawares by house rent.

I also experienced something similar , but not exactly the same.

I have a very close friend ( one of the very few I hold dearly ) . We were planning his wedding and in less than 2 months to the wedding day his mum died after slumping . The death took everyone by surprise and really shook him.

At a point we were contemplating shifting the wedding but eventually the family decided he should go ahead with it. In the wake to the wedding I had to dig deep into my savings to come through for him when he kept lamenting about a whole lot of things he’s yet to put in place due to the sudden death of his mum and how much he spent during the burial (which I also supported him financially for ). He even made me spend extra money by buying a new piece of suit to be his best man which I never planned before .

On the wedding eve I had to take it upon myself to foot bills for the hotel we will sleep overnight when I noticed he didn’t have any plan nor funds for it and was resigned to us sleeping in his parent’s house where a gazillion family members were sleeping over in preparation for the wedding . Within the first year of the wedding he was always complaining about his business not doing well and when I do have I raise him one or two change to sort minor issues .

Fast forward to the delivery of his first child , after announcing the arrival of the baby he told me how much he’s trying to raise to have his wife and child discharged from the private hospital . I gave him what I can knowing fully well he will still come up with some request in 8 days time which will be naming ceremony . True to character he requested for financial asssitance few days to the naming and I was suggesting that he should just do a low key one since the funds are not really there now.

On the morning of the naming I sent him what I can and later he confided in me that my cash was timely cos that was what he used to buy a bag of rice that morning immediately alert entered . I didn’t go for the naming cos it was a work day but my spouse who did , what she described was definitely not a budget naming ceremony and the pictures my guy uploaded later confirmed same .

Less than a month after naming my guy’s house rent was due and he needs to borrow money to add to his rent . He told me he had the house rent complete before the naming but he had to spend out of it for the naming since Yoruba have a saying that “ ti Igi ba wo lugi, toke e ni won man koko gbe “ i.e if a tree falls on another fallen tree, u will definitely have to lift the one on top to be able to reach the one underneath . So he had to first sort the naming before the rent payment .

I just shook my head at his scale of priorities and cautioned myself to never be foooolish by going all out for people who don’t know how to prioritize their needs . I took several steps backwards on his matter because I just don’t see myself continuing to sponsor his bad choice of order of priorities .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Ahn Ahn

Lover of Nigeria is mentally stressed[/color]

Just 5 months he moved from loving all Tinubu’s policies to being mentally stressed . 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️

Na so love dey be ?

a4turitoroman:
So that musician oladips faked his death just to promote album..
Another skibii

He's a fooolish boy. I thought it was real when Zlatan his own Gee posted about his death; I guess that one too knew about the nonsense.

Smh.

They should keep doing this nonsense and later complain that we don't take people who speak about depression serious

This Lesotho team is more organized than Nigeria's.... smh

iamoyindamola:
Exactly but brazil coach said Jesus said he's fine
I hope you get it now
Same Jesus was in training today

Na wa o; now I get.

Make he sha no get injury again

iamoyindamola:
And person they tell me abi na hope say naija go better

People who get hope are free to exercise their faith; no be crime. However, some of us know that those directing the affairs of this country are not in any way close to the right direction.

Amigoss:
Pastor? He said in the podcast he is not a religious person

U didn't listen to that part well; he said he's not a religious person but a spiritual person.

He was actually speaking to the fact that one can be religious and yet not practise what they preach and all. Meaning he's a practical person.

And Yes, Cabasa is a pastor...Even Reminisce mentioned it in his own episode on the podcast

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Rest, in Jesus name [/color]

We need to put these things in context na. How does someone who actively participated in the looting of this country about 25-28 years ago find his way into government of the day's cabinet?

Now Tinubu's government like other previous government may likely get its fair share of the abacha loot windfall from one of the western countries ; Somehow Atiku Bagudu will be part of the decision makers at the FEC level to decide how the refund will be utilized "judiciously".

That is money wey he actively participated in its looting some years back o

This country ehn

iamoyindamola:
According to fifa if a player is injured the club have the right to stop the player from going to international unless he is available to play
Normally jesus is suppose to be back after international with odegaard
What changes if jesus didn't interfere?

But if the club doctors have evidence to show that he's still injured, the club can decline the country's request to release the player right ?

iamoyindamola:
Are you saying our chief imam have memory loss

Ah, that's not what I said o.

afrodoc2:
There were a good number doing it then (packing money physically in cash in full view of everybody). They did it a lot through CBN and Defence. Mohammed Abacha, Gwarzo, Al-Mustapha, Omenka etc.

And Atiku Bagudu the bag man is now our minister for Budget and economic planning.

liveLongNprospa:
Na.. ID Cabasa is filled with wisdom omo

U watched the podcast too ? Cabasa na senior man with wisdom ; he's the kind of egbon youth supposed use as mentor. But the whole craze about the pursuit of money has made the voice of people like that uninspiring to the youth.

afrodoc2:
I can believe this report. I think i have mentioned here that i have accounts from impeccable sources of Abacha's son driving into CBN and leaving with bags of cash. Gwarzo was also mentioned in the gist that i heard.

Omo!

Na that person dem say he dey try to rebuild and fix Nigeria.......smh

That's the thing about lapse of time; it diminishes people's memory and leaves room for praise singers to make heroes out of villians.

iamoyindamola:
No he was injured arteta didn't use since sevilla match if his injury wasn't serious arteta will surely use him and knowing jesus is always ready to play
Arsenal told brazil he's injured, brazil called jesus and he told them he's okay they invited him because of that

I didn't hear about this gist o

iamoyindamola:
No gabriel is the stupid one and i hope arteta punish the idiot severely
We were managing the idiot injury only for him to travel to brazil and tell the coach he's fine
Obviously this guy no rate us

I don't think this has anything to do with Gabriel Jesus o. The national team invited him, the club was duty bound to release him provided he is not out injured. Obviously he's back from the injury and would've played this week if arsenal were playing in the league.

I'm sure the Brazil team wouldn't have invited him if he was completely out injured

This Brazil coach is crazy o. So he plans to use Gabriel Jesus who is just returning from injury and has not played for Arsenal since October 24th?

So if Jesus passes fitness test , starts the match and then gets injured in the match they will send him back to arsenal injured ? Na wa o; FIFA should watch for the interests of clubs too and not just the country's only.

Amoto94:
You're free to believe what you are being made to believe one day you'll realize that all the recovered sums cannot be loots knowing that we were under sanctions when he was Head of State.

Please educate me on the bolded.

Yeah we were under sanctions and Abacha in his "God-sent country fixing mode " decided stashing away the country's money in secret accounts controlled by him and his associates is the way to go ?

Just see below for the atrocities committed by the person u are stanning:

[b]A day after Sadiq Abacha, son of former Nigerian military dictator, late General Sani Abacha directed a tirade at Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka for criticizing his father’s reign of terror and corruption, SaharaReporters has obtained a 42-page document detailing the scale, spread and ruthlessness with which the late dictator — in collusion with his associates — stole billions of dollars during his military presidency.


Tendered at the United States District Court of Columbia by the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, the document is damning. It also implicated the late son of the ruler, Ibrahim Abacha; his second son, Mohammed Abacha; his associate, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu; former National Security Adviser (NSA), Ismaila Gwarzo; associate of the Abacha family, Alhaji Ahmadu Daura; then Minister of Finance, Chief Anthony Ani; lawyer and associate of the Abacha family, David Umaru, in the use of phony offshore companies to divert billions of dollars of Nigerian state funds into their private accounts in-country, and overseas.

The document alleges that in one instance, Abacha, Mohammed, Bagudu, and others, systematically embezzled public funds worth billions of dollars from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the false pretence that the funds were necessary for “ national security”. After the CBN dispersed the funds, Abacha and Bagudu moved them overseas. The document revealed that in all, more than $2bn was stolen from CBN alone.

The documents further revealed that the standard practice the late General used was for his NSA, Gwarzo, acting on Abacha’s instruction, to send letters to the military president requesting millions of U.S. dollars, British pounds sterling, and Nigerian naira, in order to address unstated “emergencies” against Nigeria's national interests.

Abacha then signed off on the letters, and forward them to the CBN, which was then forced to disburse the funds in cash, traveller's checks, or through wire transfers.

(These actions contravened the due process requiring the approval of both the minister of finance, and the accountant-general of Nigeria).

They then stashed the monies in accounts in Europe that were under their control, such as the Rayville and Standard Alliance accounts, at Banque SBA, the Eagle Alliance, and Mecosta accounts at ANZ (London), and the Mecosta account at Standard Bank.

In all, Abacha endorsed well over 60 false security-vote letters, each of which resulted in the withdrawal of huge sums of money from the CBN. The monies were then deposited in accounts controlled by Abacha, or any member of the syndicate, or used to purchase assets for their benefit.

At other times, Gwarzo — or men acting on his instructions — repackaged the monies in secure bags, and delivered it to Abacha, who (either personally or through proxies,) delivered over $700 million of such funds to his son, Mohammed, in bags or boxes full of cash. Mohammed, in turn, transferred the cash to Bagudu, who transferred them to foreign accounts controlled by Bagudu and Mohammed.


In another instance, Abacha and Ani made the government purchase non-performing government debt from a company controlled by Bagudu and Mohammed Abacha at vastly inflated prices, thereby generating a windfall of over $282 million. They also extorted more than five million dollars from a French company and its Nigerian affiliate in connection with payment on government contracts.

Abacha and company also stole huge amounts of money through the debt buy-back fraud, with which they defrauded Nigeria of more than $282 million by causing the government of Nigeria to repurchase its own debt from one of their companies for more than double what Nigeria would have paid to repurchase the debt on the open market.[/b]

iamoyindamola:
Benue doesn't have security, i am thinking the youths protested the death of who ever they buried at school compound

U see , even u sef u are not sure exactly why they are protesting. Na so me sef no sure

iamoyindamola:
What i read is the reverend was booed and stone at makurdi

Why was he stoned ? I can't really find the reason in the news article.

They talk about a burial in a school compound, some youths coming to protest and stoning the governor's convoy and all. Is it that the governor wants the man buried at a location and the youths don't agree with him or what ?

The governor also spoke about sponsoring Tivs, Idomas and other tribes abroad. All of the news report no just corellate.

Amoto94 see the abacha u said was trying to fix Nigeria. Thus far it has been confimed he's stole as much as $4.4 billion.

Shey na so person wey dey fix country dey do ?

iamoyindamola:
Even this reverend dan they collect
APC the evil party everywhere you go

https://www.nairaland.com/7912530/angry-youths-stone-boo-governor

I can't make sense out of the news on that thread; very shallow and confusing news reporting.

swiz123:
500 million dollars is more than enough funds to invest in industrialised farming that will be highly secured. Like say you no sabi wetin that kind funds fit do.

Coconut is an agricultural produce that has no waste product, it's demand consistent and is also less susceptible to attacks. A large investment in coconut for example will push the price down as well as the price of its bye products.

Actually, $500 million investment in any agricultural produce can force its market price down and securing such an investment with such heavy funds won't be any issue.

Why will I as an investor pool together $500 million and then put it into an agricultural sector where the government cannot guarantee security ? What is the motivation ?

If u are saying the investor will use part of the insecurity issue bedevilling the sector, then u don't know how serious and complicated Nigeria's security challenges are .

Let's say the investor wants to invest $50 million of the $500 million into security .... The money will most likely be diverted or looted at the ministry of defence level , defence headquarters level , and even JTF commander level .... The ugly cancer called corruption will rear it's head .

Wigwe knows all of these and most likely felt the risk was not worth it

Roland17:
It is a great post and I agree with his thoughts about agricultural industrialization. However, agricultural industrialization is virtually impossible at this time in Nigeria because of the spate of insecurity buttressed by activities of Fulani herdsmen, bandits, kidnapping, UGM and others. Our farmers are unable to return to their farmlands or safely till the soil without running into these guys. We have a lot of arable land scattered across the country but we can’t secure them. Also, our borders are extremely porous.

Benue State is the food basket of the nation but that state continue to suffer mass killings and nothing has been done to address it. The North produces a lot of our cash/ food crops but that has become difficult because you now have bandits imposing tax/ levies on these communities. There is massive food insecurity in the country that needs to be addressed. I just read on front page that Nigeria is now officially back to the importation of rice and by 2024, we will be ranked number 1 importer of rice. This situation is attributed to a decline in rice production which is invariably related to our inability to keep our farmlands safe.

We need to desperately address the insecurity before even discussing mechanized farming or loans/ financial support from banks. Banks and financial institutions in Nigeria are going to be hesitant in engaging anyone with industrial farming plans because of the risk involved. Our insecurity is a big reason why investors are staying away from agriculture, they would rather invest in building tertiary institutions.

You and Gloriousgbola spoke my mind on this matter .

The major factor is the insecurity issue which the government seem not to be able to sort like u rightly pointed out. I remember Olu Falae'a farm was razed by marauding Fulani herdsmen under Buhari . Instead of FG finding solution to the insecurity issue particularly the herdsmen wahala they were busy forcing print media from simply saying " suspected killer herdsmen " instead of calling a spade a spade. I also watched videos of farmers in Oke Ogun( Oyo State ) , Benue State and other parts of the country country lamenting the state of insecurity and the havoc these guys wreaked on their respective farms.

Gloriousgbola was also spot on addressing the person asking why Wigwe is investing in schools and not in agriculture . It's simply because it's his money and he gets to decide on how to spend it. He most likely feel his money will be secured in the education sector why private individuals have thrived without much support from government . Unlike the agricultural sector where the government does little or nothing to address the major challenges that can threaten ur future earning ability .

Personally I think the government will not pay much attention to agriculture and another sector if there's no possibility that our oil might dey up in the nearest future .

Most of Nigeria's financial problem started with the oil boom . See world Bank article below attesting to that fact

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/198091468775789095/pdf/multi-page.pdf

Ellexy:
So no cold hard proof just optics and deductions. Anyway no need to continue beating a dead horse seeing the strike has been called off. Na wetin useless leaders dey cause be that.

Yeah.

Kudos to Ajaero the heroic labour leader for ensuring the 11,000 hardworking workers in Imo state have been finally paid by Uzodinma who tagged them ghost workers .

That's what good labour leaders do.

iamoyindamola:
Why abroad na life threatening injuries him get, well no pain no gain if e easy make another person chop that kind beating, na enjoyment him they😂😂
In the end our suffering from the hands of emilokan continue with nothing to stop it

I thought he was seriously injured when they reported he may be flown abroad for treatment

iamoyindamola:
Baba chop beating and flex muscle for just a day
It will be in the record nlc went to strike for a day because one of their comrades was pummeled physically 🤣🤣


https://www.nairaland.com/7912328/nlc-tuc-suspend-strike

FG will promise to take care of his medical expenses abroad and send "prayers" to his email address ; add that to Ribadu's apology and the strike is called off .