₦airaland Forum

milkymesh:
When are we going to hold our governors, HOA members, Local govt Chairmen responsible for their inaction. What you see in Asaba is also replicated in Warri, Ughelli, Sapele, Agbor, Effurun. No road, good drainage in an oil rich state. Do I blame/hold Jonathan or Buhari for the lack of action of my state governor?

It's not only on the governor. It's on every single citizen. Everyone should know that the first thing you construct is a drainage system, before building anything. If a drainage system doesn't exist, you don't build. If you build you risk calamity. I'm not making this up, it's standard for every normal society. Key word here being normal.

The problem with Nigerians. Everyone thinks of their tribes as nations unto themselves. But, how can there be a nation within a Nation?

aieromon:
Blacklisted means it was reported as stolen.

I repeat,sell the device as a scrap.

That is wrong. You can return any item back to the seller and ask for a replacement if you indeed bought it on Amazon. Amazon will force the seller to do it. But i seriously doubt this story. No seller will want to risk selling stolen products on Amazon. That is how you get banned.

menix:
If u ve to fight bokoharam u must dress like one.

Thatz d new strategy when dullards re at d top.

Sadly you are so on point

CaptainJason:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/igp-orders-arrest-of-witnesses-for-testifying-in-favour-of-wike/221715/

Holy crap!! "Chief of Army staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai however said soldiers mustn't train in their uniforms.

"You dont have to always train in your uniform. The ethics is been dispatched to their units for them to be relocated and to be rearmed"



Really? This from a chief of staff. The concept of a normal military, the key word here being "normal" is that you must always train as you fight. So, does that mean the Nigerian military fights in bathroom slippers and t shirts? Believe it or not, training is not just about shooting weapons, it is also about training on your uniform and equipments. You have to be comfortable in it and be sure you know that your body armor for instance, can protect you and also knowing how to maintain it. What kind of country is this for God's sake? The Nigerian mentality at it's finest.

Jalubarika:
Another reason to fear Benue peo

Now that is just an ignorant statement. As if each state/region does not have people who rob, maim and kill in them. I am not from benue, by the way.

ChuzzyBlog:
The "African goddess" looked amazing in braids as she went on radio interviews this morning to promote her new movie. The keeps looking younger and prettier by the day. See photos below

https://instagram.com/p/8VDn4iuOnL/?taken-by=genevievennaji

Someone once ignorantly told me on NL that Nigerians do not have to be precise when it comes to the english because it is not our language. Forgeting that it is the National Language and most importantly, almost every country on earth makes it a point of duty to have a general knowledge of the language irrespective of what the national country's language is, because communication is key. OP, why is this "STORM" word always on every topic. Do understand when you use it? i don't think so. Is genevieve assualting the radio station with a mob or is she a Soldier, or is she there to make trouble? I have a better word for her intentions; VISIT'S

Liamm:
how feasible is that bro? Would like to follow suit.

Emigrate legally as soon as possible to a sane country.

lurther:
This people don't know that igbos are wise.

I can still vividly remember how fashola demolished tejuosho market at yaba to build a shopping mall all in the name of Reconstruction.

It is almost 2years they have finished building and commisioned that tejuosho market. Infact, they have commisioned it 3 times, yet the place is empty, desolate and rottening. Make yoruba traders go collect the shop na. I always laugh anytime I pass there, you will see girls dancing while music is being played, begging igbo men to come collect shop.

Hahahahahahah!!! They should continue to demolish all the markets, no problem. They will demolish and demolish and demolish till they realize that there is no more revenue to collect.

I implore my igbo brothers to go start a huge motor parts market in the south-east were the whole of africa can come an patronise them, like how innoson located his motor plant in Nnewi. All this petty actions by the yorubas could turn out to be a blessing to Ndigbo at the long run, while they loose out totally.

Please, my people go to tejuosho market today... they are just paying security there for nothing, over 2years now. We don get sense.

And every citizen is always saying i love my country, Nigeria. Nigeria is not a country, It is a collection of dysfunctional people living in close proximity to one another. Too many tribes, too many deep rooted hatred for one another and too much distrust. There is no way Nigeria will be prosperous. It is not just possible. A house divided amongst itself will fall, it is inevitable. Thank God i relinquished that burden of being called a Nigerian a long time ago. Sometimes i miss it, but each time i visit NL i am reminded of why i took that decision and i wake up to reality. I thank God for my life.

lalasticlala:
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/10/02/robbers-force-victims-to-serve-them-food-during-attack/

The only thing that bothers me from the whole article is the fact that the robbers operated for, not 10 mins, or 20 mins, but 3 hours. Jesus. Where were the police? I don't care how rich you are, if you live in Nigeria you have a somewhat uncertain future. it's like playing roulette with your life.

urchbarbie:
yh. Some1 who can pound me some real good yam

She said "pound me". Lol....

urchbarbie:
I pray me to marry a 'pounding' man.

Pls l shldnt be misconstrued

She said "pounding man". Lol.. . . . .

I thought they all loved him?

MARKone:
You just dey come back from the North Pole So tell me, what happens when you paste a paper material, here the bill, on a wall and rain beats it, or the sun rays affects the bill, answer that and you know why the bills are put in plastic bottles. Abi you want Nepa to be cutting your line anyhow.

It's all about exposure. All they needed to do was stick a document protector on the gate and keep a copy of the bill in it. it's transparent and waterproof. The next month just take out the old bill and replace it with the current one. Simple.

HungerBAD:
Kcee and his bag of dollars take photos.

Recall, recently, the police warned Celebrities and Nigerians in general about flaunting of wealth on social media..


https://instagram.com/p/8RFjnjxK3k/

Now this is just s.tupid.

Kingsasian:
yea, I am a typical Nigerian. Any problem with that?

Nope. You are perfect.

Kingsasian:
I envy you guys but this is a childish act. Anyway by the time kidnappers start coming after your families don't blame the nigeria police force for slow response.

An example of the usual Nigerian mentality.

Greyworld:
Hmmm! He shot sm1 since April, witnesses saw it and he has been walking freely in the streets of Lagos? He evn has liberty to cut his hair, on a normal day he shud av outgrown Robinson Crusoe in terms of beards while coolin in kirikiri.

That is not surprising na. No be Nigeria. Soon one id.iot will come here and say Nigeria is awesome.

How is this a topic of discussion? It's really all going to hell in a hand basket.

Idowuogbo:
Lmao @ Bollinger and hin madam

This wan una dey give each other face, the end result na triplets when makeup time reach ooo....

Lol........

Slow evening yesterday. My wife and i are having a small tiff. I dey bone am and she de bone me. The kids came up to me and were like "dad, lets eat something different tonight". And i go "what?". And they go "how'z about pizza and steak?". I say "hmmm, that's different, ok let's try it". Now, this is where i introduce you to my cooking utensil; a skillet i call bukky. If you don't have a skillet in your kitchen, you are cheating yourself out off a treasure. You can fry, boil and grill with it and it takes very little maintenance. Anyway, we tried the combination and it wasn't half bad. I know what cococandy is thinking right now. She's thinking "WTF?, isn't this the same mofo who chewed my ass out for having steak and eggs for lunch and here he is having steak and pizza for dinner? muther@#$%%%". Relax candy queen , na my kids suggest am oooo, no be me.

emamos:
http://www.punchng.com/news/well-kill-corruption-solve-power-problem-osinbajo/

Yeeeaaah. Good luck with that dream. There's no way that's happening with the Nigerian mentality.

that is one boootiful bride. Wish them the best.

redsun:
Nigerians are not english people,they don;t have to be precise with english language.However what he meant to say is his own creation,he put it together and made it work.

So when you attend an interview with a multinational company, and they ask you the difference between invention and hobby, you will them that Nigerians are not english people and they don't have to be precise when communicating in English. I wish you good luck in life with that belief.

redcliff:
what should be discretional about this?

Exactly bro, exactly.

Someone told me that Nigerians don't know how to apply words. I still disagree but this topic has gotten me thinking the guy i was arguing with might be right. Can someone please define "invention" for me.

joseph1832:
Yes of course, they will never listen, you advise them to stop they will label you a hater, when they get robbed they accused their haters and that poor woman in their village.

What a shame!.

Look who's talking. Answer me this? Do you have facebook? most likely yes. So, what's the difference? I bet if you had their kind of wealth you'll do 10 time worse.

FatIjeomaOkolie:
This is a step in the right direction!

Just because the use of the internet is now virtually free does not mean jobless people can sit in their bedrooms and make up all sorts of stories because they want to direct traffic to their useless blogs.

Nigerians want accountability from their leaders but refuse to do the same in their own affairs.

Just the other day, a notorious illiterate on Nairaland opened a thread falsely accusing the APC of closing his Facebook accounts. In my opinion, he should have been invited by the security agents to provide evidence of his claim.

Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution but also, individuals have to account for their statements if they are false.

Now, a precedent has been set. Hungry bloggers- BEWARE!

And 40 m.orons liked this post. The ignorance of Nigerians is really alarming. Show me where it says that libel/defamation of character is a criminal offence. If you don't know, you should be afraid because at anytime you yourself could be arrested.

Fynestboi:
ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State Police Command, Monday, confirmed the arrest of a blogger, Emmanuel Ojo for accusing the wife of the state governor, Mrs Olufunsho Amosun of allegedly laundering $300,000 in London.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the arrest on the telephone, said Ojo is being detained at the command’s headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for questioning.
Vanguard gathered that Ojo was arrested for a story exposing the alleged quizzing of Ogun State first lady, Mrs Olufunso Amosun, in London for money laundering.
Ojo was said to have been trailed and arrested on Saturday and detained at Ibara Police Station, Abeokuta for wrongly accusing Mrs. Amosun.
She has since denied being involved in any money laundering saga.
Adejobi said the command received a complaint from the state government about the blogger, which led to his arrest.
Adejobi said investigations on the matter are ongoing.
He said, “We received a complaint from the state government on the suspect, and he was arrested. Presently he is with us at Eleweran, we are still conducting our investigations. If he is found wanting he will be charged to court accordingly.”
The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, said governor Amosun, was not connected with the arrest of the blogger as being speculated in some quarters.
He, however, confirmed that the state government made a formal complaint to the police and the director of the State Security Service, about a false allegation that the blogger made against the First lady.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/ogun-police-confirm-arrest-of-blogger/

Newsflash!!! Newsflash!!! Newsflash!!! Newsflash!!! Newsflash!!!
Defamation of character, and or libel, is not a criminal offence. It is a civil one. If it was, every single person on NL, including seun, would be in jail by now.

azzima:
that's not my point here. You started by berating the black man's uncouth animalistic mentality and I countered by telling that white men are even worse because when they do their own killing,it is FOR NO REASON AT ALL!......How will you defend white serial killers??who hunt human beings like animals FOR NO REASON AT ALL??

Bad things happen everywhere in the world, there is no way to avoid that. What is important is the reactions to the the said "bad" thing. Do you go about jubilating over it, or do you find ways to punish those who perpetrated it and try to fix it so that it does not happen again. In Nigeria, People are jumping up for joy over jungle justice. How is that normal? You will never see that in America. That, my friend, is the difference.

humilitypays:
It is a simple fact that the number of guys refusing to marry is directly proportional to the number of ladies that are single and searching, reason being that it is these single guys that have refused to marry that ought to marry the single ladies that are searching and praying for husband.


Now, the question is: why do we have an abnormal increase in the number of single unmarried ladies that are searching for marriage partner today in Nigeria?


Sit back and read the preceding paragraphs and you will find out why and how women (married and single) can help curb this cankerworm eating deep into our modern Nigeria.


Before we forge ahead, you will agree with me that 10 to 20 years ago, men dominated the Nigerian workforce, with fewer number of women occupying top positions, but today, the table has turned as more women now secure better paying jobs than their male counterparts.


My personal study into this recent development showed that most Nigerian organisation boss who are mostly men above 45years, prefer to hirer pretty single ladies for non-engineering positions, which put guys in the non-engineering sectors at high risk of not securing good jobs when competing with ladies for same job position.


I also discovered that most multinational firms have a policy that encourages female gender empowerment, which make their HR team give preferential treatment to ladies seeking for same position with a male job applicant during recruitment exercise.


You can hardly discover this secret organisation policy until you are among the top management.


If you doubt this, try and go to Victoria Island in Lagos during close of work; 5 - 6pm (Monday - Friday), and you will notice higher number of young pretty females leaving their office premises in good cars, with few young guys leaving their workplaces in a car.


If you are observant enough, you will also discover that most of the male workers driving home from work are usually within the age range of: 38 - 60yrs, whereas more ladies within the age range of; 25 - 35yrs drive home from work, showing that more young ladies now have better jobs than guys.


This is also applicable to Abuja: same study was carried out within Central Business District of Abuja, CBD.


To many Nigerians, especially the ladies, it is a good trend; at least to them, it shows that ladies are becoming independent from guys, and to the old working class male directors and managers, it means nothing because they are at the receiving end (sleeping with these young pretty ladies for jobs, promotion, contracts, etc), but not until their own daughter(s) graduate from Harvard University or London School of Economics and returns back home to take up an executive position in her dad's big firm, but only to go to bed every night weeping and soaking her pillows with tears simply because there is no responsible young man in her life ready to walk her to the altar and they live happily ever after like she reads from foreign novels and watch on Telemundo series.


No wonder many rich parents are now arranging marriage for their daughters; yet this doesn't solve the imminent problem of abnormal increase in single young people in Nigeria of today.


Now, what am I blabbing about? The major reason we have increasing rate of single ladies in Nigeria today is not because witches in the villages have increased in number and now pursuing single ladies and stopping them from finding suitable husbands just as many modern pastors make these single ladies to believe in order to extort money from them & to grow their congregation, it is not even because single ladies of today lack good character or manner, neither is it because single ladies now dress indecently....nope, the major reason is harsh economy that is no longer favouring young single guys!


How do we expect a guy who graduated from higher institution and served his fatherland after 3 years and still unable to rent a decent apartment for himself, unable to cater for his own daily needs to think about getting married in this time and age?


How do we expect a young guy who after 4 to 5 years of passing out from NYSC is yet to secure a job that pays him up to a hundred thousand naira, and give him the opportunity of saving at least fifty thousand naira every month to wish to marry and give birth to children?


The earlier we Nigerians realise the dangers of having more young guys without good job, the better for us as a nation that wish to grow and have a happy, crime-free society.

I know some people will say: marriage is not everyone, while others will argue that must everybody marry? And the answer is yes, anybody who desires to marry ought to marry, but is that the case today? No!

Many young men want to marry, but the truth is that their pocket isn't encouraging to take that bold step that marriage requires.

Some will also argue that must you wait till you have millions before you marry? And some will argue that marriage is not about money, but tell me: how do you sustain the kids that will follow after the wedding? How do you plan to pay for house rent, children increasing school fees, etc?

Do you want to plan the future of your kids on one rich relation or friend? That's unfair to the unborn innocent children you want to bring to life, please don't do it!

I know that not every guy or lady will be rich, but being comfortable to provide most of your needs should be compulsory at least!

I still remember the story of Adam and Eve which I read from “The Book of My Bible Stories” while I was a kid, it told us how God created man, Adam and gave him everything he needed and Adam will go to his garden in the morning to return at night lonely, such that God pitied him and said: it is not good for him to be alone, I will make him a help mate, and so God made Adam to fall deep asleep and then God came and removed one of Adam's ribs and made Eve for him.

Adam woke up and saw Eve and was excited and said: this is the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh (dunno if I quoted those words correctly).

What am I trying to say? God gave Adam his basic needs before sending him a woman!

A man deserves to have his basic needs met before thinking of getting married.


But it is so shameful that old married men in Nigeria occupying top positions in various organisations and firms gave and still giving jobs to single unmarried ladies who most times contribute nothing to the organisation's growth, thereby causing more unemployment and underemployment of young single Nigerian guys, with a resultant effect of late marriage amongst these young single guys.


Shameful enough, many organisations today hire ladies by their physical attraction; once a member of the HR team admires the female applicant, whether she merits the job or not, he must ensure that she gets hired to the disadvantage of her male counterparts who most times have better skills to offer to the organisation.



THE SOLUTION

First, we must tell ourselves the truth: in Nigerian culture and norm, men are believed and expected to be the breadwinner of the family; the woman is only expected to assist and contribute if she has and can.


Bearing this in mind, majority if not all Nigerian single ladies searching for a life partner want and desire to marry a guy earning higher income than them.


All things being equal, no Nigerian single lady prays to marry a guy she's earning more than; very uncommon in Nigeria.


But then, we have few single guys in Nigeria who earn that kind of income most Nigerian single ladies desire from their preferred partner. And as it stands presently in Nigeria, more single ladies between the age range of 25yrs - 35yrs have better paying jobs than single guys of the same age range, which means many single ladies in Nigeria will never find husband to marry except they lower their taste and marry a guy earning below them or they become second wife to older men.


All these anomalies were caused by older Nigerian men who set the wrong legacy for this nation in terms of bad leadership, sex-for-job in favour of single ladies, and more...and for this status quo to change, every Nigerian citizen must play a role to bring the much desired change we dream of in Nigeria, how?



1. As a young single lady working in a company, say no to the maltreatment of young single guys in your organisation because the more these guys are penalised and made not to grow, the more chances of you, your single sister, niece, friend or even aunt not finding a deserving husband to marry.


2. All HR personnel must ensure equity and fairness when hiring applicants for any job position. Stop the female gender empowerment; enough is enough, its not helping Nigeria, neither is it helping the world in general.


Women are happier when their husband or man is in charge financially than when they are in charge...even in Europe!


3. As a single lady, lower your financial expectation from guys- the table is turning, fewer guys now have good means of income compared to ladies; you ladies asked for gender equality, you now have it, please make use of it, don't wait for a richer guy...if you are driving and you see a guy trekking whom you fancy, lift him and don't be shy to startup a focused-relationship with him...waiting for the richer guys driving bigger cars than yours may keep you waiting for eternity and may bring you more heartbreak because such guys now know that they are king to women and so they treat ladies with little/no respect.


4. Encourage your single brothers to work hard, acquire skill, learn trade and explore business opportunities even if they are working. Help them with business startup capital...doing so will help create a deserving husband for a fellow single lady out there.


5. Stop squandering that single guy's money!

Advice him to invest his income wisely! Encourage him to startup a side business to assist his salary because no salary is enough!



6. As a single guy, learn to be financially wise!

Quit those useless habits that drains your income! Quit smoking! Quit drinking! Quit gambling! Quit womanising; its a costly hobby! Quit clubbing around town! Quit squandering money on any girl who isn't your wife! Learn to invest, learn to nurture a business aside your job and learn to spend lesser than you earn! Don't use your last savings to buy a car just to feel among or just to attract irrelevant ladies! Car is more of a necessity until you become rich! For now, buying car should be to aid your financial growth and not for fun or pleasure!


7. As a single lady, pray for your single brothers, boyfriend, lover, or male friends and colleagues. Advice and encourage them whenever you can.


It is no longer easy for single young guys in Nigeria even though most of them won't confess this to you due to male ego!


Let's all wake up to the reality and pray that President Buhari and his team bring about the positive change in Nigeria's economy to help curb this societal pressure.


Wish you all a blissful day ahead.

Analysis of a 12 year old.

azzima:
So what will you say about white serial killers??what will you say about the white man that goes to a school and kill over 100 little children FOR NO APPARENT Reason? The WHITE men that goes to the movie theaters and start unleashing bullets on INNOCENT movie goers? ??Gerrarahere jor!!!!!!

The difference is the perpertrators were caught and punished. What punishment will the mob get?