Ofunaofu:


So UNICEF is a country

You are seriously and bluntly stoopid

Get out of my mention

Sovereignty is the concept of supreme power or authority.




The sovereignty of Parliament, for example, is the independence of Parliament.



I know your father was too stupid to understand well enough to teach you manners, but at least, teach yourself.

Ofunaofu:


Really

Honestly, you are bluntly stoopid

You are very stupidd for insulting me without cause.




So when UNICEF Global seeks donations and aids, it undermines their independence?




Una no just get sense. No critical thinking skills. Ignoramus.

Abfinest007:
and who told u France would have won the world cup with zidane on the field.2006 italian squad too complete from goal keeper to striker.

France would have won.



Zidane was the pillar of the team.




Just because he was not on the pitch in 2002, look how ordinary France was. Even Henri admitted that their poor performance in 2002 World Cup was because of the absence of Zidane.




Zidane was not just the captain, he was the motivator.

PoliteActivist:


Nothing anyone SAYS should shuffle you otherwise you're giving control of yourself over to them. You know your mother or sister is not a LovePeddler. Different if they put their hands on you or yours. Sometimes the best response to insult is no immediate response. Especially when the person is of lower status.

Exactly.



Especially when you have a goal right ahead of you.




Zidane knew the implications of physical violence in football. Straight red card.




He knew he was the pillar of the team. He knew that his dismissal would destabilize the team.



He should have thought better than do something that foolish.

Gajagojo:

He acted angrily
It is not only children that fight.
What is normal in one culture is different in another.because it is acceptable to abuse mothers where you live does not mean it is so all over the world. In Some places it will result in death. Not everyone plays with their family. They didn't lose because he was sent off

He acted foolishly.



Despite knowing he would get a red card, he still went ahead to headbutt simply because he could not manage his anger. If he had kept his eyes on the goal (which was to win the World Cup), he would have simply ignored Materazzi.



Compare Zidane when he was a player and Zidane the manager, and you would notice he has learnt to manage his anger considerably.

mightyhaze:
Na this head butt make people to Sabi mattarazi.. nobody knew him before then


That's why it's always better never to give nonentities the attention they crave

Xidane would have just ignored him

Materazzi equalized for Italy after France went ahead.



So, it was not just about the headbutt. He tried in that match. He also converted his own penalty during the shootout.

Ofunaofu:


Sovereignty, but every now and then we go cap in hand seeking for handouts from America and other countries

Seeking handouts does not undermine sovereignty.

Ofunaofu:
This Chimamanda's letter must have rattled Tinubu and APC to warrant the kind of responses emanating from the entire Tinubu attack dogs

Rattled?


No. It was a foolish letter.



How can Adichie, a graduate of political science, not understand the concept of sovereignty?




It is a very stupid letter that reeks of inferiority complex.

Drdreyy:


Leave long story. What matters most is are both of them adults? and are they financially capable? especially the man to take care of the wife and other miscellaneous.

People evolve and change over time and not limited to between 20 and 30 yrs alone, it is continuous. So if you like marry at 40 or 50 you will still change over the years. Infact most of the marriages that are crashing today are those who married between 30 to 40. So what are you talking about?

You people really disrespect marriage o.




Marriage no be small thing o.




And being an adult by age and even being loaded like Dangote is not enough o.

Makeup helped the girl look mature.



But that boy, he is looking like he should still be in secondary school.

ibechris:



Don't use your situation to think others are passing through the same thing u are going through. In fact, the problem with most Nigerians is that,during courtships, most intending couples don't discuss matters that are of concern to their future.

How did you come about this knowledge? Did you carry out a research or did you read the results of studies on marriages?

They often don't prepare for the future and that is why,many are in dire need of financial and moral uplifting in their marriage.

How do you prepare for the future? Is there a certain way you prepare against unforseen circumstances? Remember that in your first paragraph, you asked someone not to generalize a situation. But that is exactly what you have done in this paragraph of yours. You have assumed that anyone who has planned well for marriage would automatically have a thriving marriage.

In China,an average Chinese don't ever talk about marriage except they are able to acquire an apartment where he and his wife would live,but here in Nigeria,immediately a guy makes 5million naira he runs to marry and spend virtually all that he had acquired just to impress everyone.

Yet again, you contradict your first paragraph. China is not Nigeria. Realities are different. It is actually much easier for the average Chinese man to acquire an apartment before marriage. Perhaps, you don't know, but the average Chinese has a better standard of living than people from many of the Western nations, including the Americans. In Nigeria, a man who manages to get into a public university does not even know when he would finish. And even when he manages to finish, the competition in the labour market is so high that he might have to start contemplating a master's. In a country with little regards for education, he has to pay through his nose to get through his master's program. Despite the subsidy in education, I know how much I spent on seminars and mini projects to finish a master's at OAU. And that was after a 7-year BSc program (instead of 4 years).

That is why u see most marriage crashing on a daily basis.

If that is the case, why are billionaires divorcing as well? Dangote has divorced three times. Dino Melaye may not be a billionaire, but he is loaded. Yet, he has been married twice. FFK has been married four times. Oyakhilome divorced his wife. Pastor Chris married twice.


Even the China that you mention, divorce rate was so high until the government introduced a cooling off law that made divorce processes difficulty. Now, divorce rate has dropped, but guess what, the rate of marriages have also dropped. People are avoiding marriage in China.

Another reason is,most men marry liabilities and come back to regret ever making that mistake. I am not perfect,but I remembered asking my wife her financial role if we get married and what we would be investing our money into as time goes on. I also remembered,she once told me,that she would like me to take charge of whatever investment we shall be putting our money in since I was more versed in investment than her.

The only thing I can say is that you are lucky. Only a few people are lucky to find a truly compatible partner. In fact, the rates of divorce around the world (there is data for this) shows that many are unlucky in their marriages. And I am sure there may be those who did far more research than you did before agreeing to marry their spouse.

Many intended couples invest so much time in preparing for wedding than preparing for marriage and the future ahead.

Do you have figures for this claim?

Lastly, before u prepare for marriage,sit down with ur wife to be,discuss money matters with her,don't marry a man or a woman who has no job,no hand work or education. If he or her parents are not rich,pls be careful. Some may be lucky while others may not be.

While this advice is great, it doesn't guarantee anyone a thriving marriage. Even if your wife has a job, handiwork or education, if she lacks foresight, it would be a waste. And even foresight itself is still not enough without some bit of luck.

Note: many homes are enjoying their marriages and I am one of them,with this,i think I have made my points

Good luck.

Again, how did you know many homes are enjoying their marriages? You have yet contradicted your Paragraph 1.



The fact that you are enjoying your marriage does not automatically mean that MANY are enjoying theirs.



Remember that divorce rate does not even tell the whole story. There may be people who are unhappy in their marriages but are staying because of the children or because of the culture of shaming divorced women.

Ebelelivinston:
I got married to my virgin wife two years ago and she gave birth last year December which means my daughter is for months old now
Myself and my wife aren't staying in the same state, though I opened a shop for her where she's residing.Am the type that is addicted to checking my wife's phone each time I visit her.So,one day that I visited her, as usual,I went to her phone and saw a love chat on her Whatsapp with one man, like usual ,I asked her about the chat she told me everything between she and the guy.
The guy is her neighbor but he is not residing at the place where my wife is but that's the family house and he comes back every weekend.He has been disturbing my wife who is holding a baby for sex.We decided to set him up and I told my wife to invite him yesterday when he isn't aware that I'm around.Finally,he came and I caught him red-handed,but instead of attacking him,I decided to advise him.He was thankful I didn't disgrace him.My fellow nairalnders,did I act weak or right?

I have a question that I think you need to ponder over:



How come you did not know about this neighbour disturbing her for sex until you found the chat on your wife's phone?



If your wife felt bothered about that hor.ny neighbour, I am sure she would have told you about it without you having to find it out by yourself.



There is something suspicious about this issue.



I don't think your wife is totally honest about the matter. I am not saying she has slept with the man, but she might have been enjoying the attention.



Enjoying the attention is not a bad thing in itself, especially for a woman. But one cannot tell where it might lead to.

My own experience with prison was when I used to evangelize to inmates back then.



The experience alone was enough to give me nightmares despite never having been locked up before.




My prayer remains that I not be so unlucky to find myself in prison.




Aside the fact that freedom is precious, the deplorable conditions in which inmates live is scary.




Another scary thing is that most inmates are awaiting trial. Many of them don't even know why they are there because the police never made proper arrests. Even those who think they know would narrate stories that led them there.




I use this opportunity to tell every reader here to always pray every morning before stepping out of the house. The Hausa beggars always say one prayer: "Akoba adaba, olorun ma je a ri". This means that God should protect us from any matter that we know nothing about.




If you listen to the stories of some inmates, you would understand the importance of that prayer. How can you explain that someone landed in prison since 2004 and was still there around 2012 when I happened to evangelize at that prison, simply because thieves broke into a warehouse where he was security guard? The most painful thing about this story is that he was not even the one that was supposed to be on duty that night. The boss called him while the poor man was home relaxing with his family, that the other security guard's wife was in labour and so he could not come. The man left home in 2004 and had yet to return home in 2012, languishing away in an awaiting cell.




Another man spent two weeks in awaiting cell because he happened to be head of a department where some money had disappeared. If not that the culprit was discovered after a few days, he might still be in that cell now waiting for the time when he would finally appear before a judge.

Nchenches:



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What on earth would make the results on INEC’s iREV portal authentic when the results were not uploaded in real time?
You ask as if you are not a Nigerian.

You don't understand the meaning of in real time




Even if results were uploaded in real time, it doesn't mean the results were authentic.




Between when results are announced at PUs and uploaded on the INEC portal, manipulations can occur.

KoolBigk:


I don’t know where you derives that information about drivers parting away with N20,000 from but that’s wrong.

How much do they make on a daily that they’d have to pay agbero 20k. We Nigerians need to stand up for what’s just and right without being biased.

You’d know better if you’re the one doing the work and someone is somewhere taking your hard earned money.

One of the drivers was quoted in the OP as saying:

There are no more unbearable taxes. All we have to pay in a day is a little below N2,500 compared to the N20,000 we paid previously.”

Read the OP again, and you will find it.

N2B2:


Mc Oluomo is not an elected public official, neither is he a law enforcement agent, yet he extorts Lagosians uncontested and commands great power & influence in Lagos — thanks to ruling party's chronic corruption.



Mods, another tribalist.

You don't know what you are saying.




NURTW is a trade union just like ASUU, NUT, NLC, and others.




Every union once in a while happens to have one leader who would influence great influence.




For example, NLC once had Oshiomole. Oshiomole had great influence in Nigeria because anything from him could halt the economy of Nigeria. Yet, at that time, he was not an elected public official or even a government appointee.




It is the same thing with NURTW.




The Lagos Chapter of NURTW was once under MC Oluomo. There is no sensible government that would not associate with NURTW in his own state because just like every trade union, they are capable of grounding activities in a state and negatively impacting the economy.

Racoon:
Even a government-backed thug is mediating in a crisis involving other lower cadre thugs. Even the police is still justifying the atrocities of this thug's lieutenants.Such a pity

You people don't even understand how the transport system works.




There is NURTW with chapters in every state. And for your information, the NURTW has been generally accused of extortion nationwide, not just in Lagos state.




To address the issue for Lagos state, the state government set up the Lagos State Parks and Garages Association to check on the excesses of NURTW Lagos chapter which includes extortion.




So, MC Oluomo is only doing his job. Before, drivers had to part with 20,000 naira daily due to different extortion and all, but now that Lagos State Parks and Garages Association has waded in, they now have to pay only a little below 3000 naira daily.




So, I don't understand you people's problems.




And mentioning the police, what do you expect them to do? Arrest the NURTW workers (who you people like to call thugs)?




It is like students protesting highhandedness of lecturers individually when they have a student union that they can go to.




That is what the police are saying. If you have a way of attempting to solve your problems, there is no need to protest in such a way that allows unscrupulous elements hijack your protest like they did with the EndSARS protest.

Obinoscopy:
Recall I had perform an analysis of the presidential results on the IREV portal and came to the conclusion that APC won based on the results on IREV. See link to the thread here: https://www.nairaland.com/7626424/inec-result-analysis-based-samples

However I noticed some discrepancies in the result for Rivers State and decided to probe further. Again I used simple random sampling and multistage sampling to ensure that every polling unit had equal chance of being selected. I used a sample size of 198. I got the sample size using the formula:

Sample Size = S/(1+S/N)
Where S = z²*p*(1-p)/e²

And where z is the z-score which is 1.96 for a 95% confidence level
p is the population proportion of those who voted in Rivers State which is 15.6%
e is the margin of error which we take as 5%
N is the population size (total number of polling units in Rivers State) which is 6866.

The result is mind boggling.

RESULT
So after collating the results sheets from randomly selected 198 polling units, APC got a total of 4637 votes, LP got 8129 votes, NNPP got 47 votes and PDP got 3578 votes. So LP (and not APC as we were meant to believe) got the majority of votes followed by APC, then PDP and finally NNPP. Infact LP got more than 50% of the vote such that if you combine APC and PDP votes its still less than LP’s votes. This corroborates Peter Obi claim that he got 50% of the votes in Rivers State.

This means LP won more than 12 States (13 States or perhaps more) and APC won less than 12 States (11 States or perhaps less). With this result, I begin to wonder if there are other States with this kind of glaring discrepancies.

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Caveat:
Whether the results from IREV is authentic or not is a matter for another discuss. My focus was just to use the results I saw on the IREV Portal.

I don't even understand what you are doing?



At this stage, you can only analyze results.



I don't know what sampling you are doing or what you think you can achieve with it.




And for the fact that you are even using inferential statistics shows that you don't even know what you are doing.

omonnakoda:
in disgraceful circumstances

Exactly.


He was disgraced out e-tranzact.

MXrep:
Valentine Obi founded E Transact in 2003.

e-Tranzact is not an Igbo man's company.



It used to be when Valentine Obi founded it.



But as soon as you start giving equity to others on the board, your hold on the company loosens.



Valentine Obi has long been driven out of e-Tranzact.

SeeItSayIt:
Everything about him have error which means his existence might be an error as well.

He contested for Senate seat once, he won.


He contested for governor once, he won.



He contested for president once, he won.



If that type of existence is an error, then error is a good thing.

IyaebeTheGreat:
It's true, gistlover posted it, this is the end of their marriage. Ever since Yul brought in another strange woman (who was still married to her husband) their life has never been the same . I can't even imagine the pains and hurt May is going through now. I think women should start signing agreement before marriage on this second wife issues.

Una don start with una spiritual BS.



Is Yul the first man to marry someone else while still married to his first wife?



You people should let him grieve in peace. Trying to blame him (even if indirectly) for the loss of his son is like rubbing salt into the wound.

siofra:
😭


I just saw this photo some minutes ago.

Please someone assure me he's not married because my chest is already paining me😩😩

The only man I can tolerate right now. God abeg😭

He's Johnny Drille, the first celebrity I had a crush on. The only person whose voice I fell in love with. I'm already crying. How will I attend his concert next week Friday My heart is heavy.

😭😭😭

Who do you actually want sef?



Today, it is Drille.



Tomorrow, it would be someone else.



I don tire for your matter.

usagee36:
Nigeria football died when shaibu qualified us for world cup twice and they didn't take him to the world cup. They need to go to his grave for forgiveness and give his family N50,000,000 If not, any Eagle will continue to turn to chicken

They cheated that man too much.

Freshtruth:
If Nigeria is a serious football nation they we go for Joachim loew

The question is: can we afford a world-class coach like Joachim Low?

ANSMEDIA:

St Nicholas in Lagos Island is dilapidated although is old hospital, that's where my first daughter was born
Mind you this not this is not the only heart center in Anambra state

The hospital proper is dilapidated, but their kidney transplant unit is well maintained.

ANSMEDIA:

Since 2020

The first in the South East.

ahnie:

Mind sharing the link pls?

That link will be hard to search for.




The guy was always posting picture of one sickly man on a hospital bed. And then, he would write a long post describing the man's ailment. In the end, he would put an account number for people to donate to.




Many people have called him out as a scammer.

ANSMEDIA:

This is heart Centre with world class facilities and health workers

What do you mean by world class facilities?



Saint Nicholas Hospital in Lagos has carried out at least 20 successful kidney transplants. Do you think they achieved that with ordinary hospital equipment and facilities?

ahnie:
I was just minding my business jejely on one of the social media outlet,when I got this friend request and added him,fiam billing started
I was just looking at him with isoko eyes.

I saw thru his lies and decided to ride on his stupidity.

This is what the police call "begging scam".



There is one here on Nairaland who shares the picture of someone on a hospital bed. With the way the guy has lasted on Nairaland, I am sure he has scammed many Nairalanders.

Datti said that if he were Buhari, he would have arrested El Rufai for treasonable felony.




Now, he and Obi are busy towing that treasonable felony line.





I hope Datti won't resist arrest if DSS indeed intends to arrest him? Because if he does, it would be hypocrisy of the highest order.

agadez007:
During the elections,I saw people from States that can’t boast of common roads insulting Anambra state
I just laugh,they were using words like “if Anambra is good,why is all of them outside the state”,and these questions always comes from people from one section of the country(I don’t want to mention their name)
Tip:The ones that abandon their native town and are now all from Lagos

Many states have better hospitals than this. That is the importance of partnering with the private sector.




The downside however is that Nigeria is a low-income country so the healthcare provided by these hospitals is unaffordable to millions of Nigerians.