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lawani:I think you want to live in a dreamy imaginary world. Your "three thousand dollars per annum household income" is some people's monthly rent in some countries, especially the dollar country. More dreamy is it sounds like you don't want to earn enough or afford anything since useful gadget makers wouldn't pander to your very low wage, unless your gadget is a simple ordinary spanner. You can't use Nigeria to determine costs everywhere else. In UK, a Nigerian Guinness is about £4, a small yam is 2 for £5-£7, and 3 plantains is £1.50. A UK doctor earns £32,398 to £70,425 per annum, and a qualified UK teacher's pay generally ranges from £31,650 to £60,092. Average rent for a 3-bedroom house in the UK is around £1,344 per month, while the average sale price for a 3-bedroom house in the UK is around £326,491. Do the maths. |
LordReed:Funny reason to be honest. My telly, which I wasn't intending to give up, was in the living room in front of the sofa. |
Bsssss:You must have stolen this from right inside my mind. He wouldn't have 20b to invest otherwise. I am sad a Nigerian did not qualify. |
Saao:It is very sad isn't it. Da once managed a huge farm that produced frozen chicken. One day the owner called him and said he's fired for not letting people steal his chicken. He'd set it up so his family steal the chicken and don't steal his granite and pharmacy and other businesses, but I guess da wasn't up with the strategy. |
Harddiskng:The essential bills are electric, water, gas, Internet, tv license if you watch, house/home insurance if you got one, and the infamous community charge. Others are non-essential consumption if you asked me, like Sky or pure water subscriptions, which are matters of choice. No bill for school or sick though, makes up for I think, and a clean semi-secure environment to live in. Going to borrow a free book at a library was divine for me, and Gods help me if I'd had to pay hospital bill. I'm not turned to a heartless human, least not where my very extended family is concerned, except to lazy fuqs. |
harmargedon:If you read my other posts here you would not ask me to prove what you wrote wrong. Even the post you quoted agrees with you more than disagree, except for the reasons I gave. If you have this Dangote interview, link please. |
Gboss247:He is very experienced too. And better placed for growth than tied down to a refinery. https://www.dangote.com/about-us/devakumar-v-g-edwin/ |
Eastcoastboy:There's a thread. https://www.nairaland.com/7383064/schistosomiasis-cure-schistosomiasis#117558658 |
Gerrard59:I do agree. Oil business is way more than our buying and selling. Dangote should make his refinery a university where Nigerians can be trained and get world recognised degrees. In fact, I make a note now to write to tell David Bird to bring us some shells. |
MichaelSokoto:I can't disagree with you, see my above. It is what is sad about this. |
Ajalalomo:I never said "there is nothing bad". I'll post it for you to read again. budaatum:I do not say, sad for Nigeria or for you. Just that I would have wished a Nigerian could have been appointed and I'm sad one wasn't. Do know that when I build $20b Dangote Refinery I wouldn't limit my CEO hunt to Nigeria. If a martian applied and was better qualified, martian, you're hired. With gratitude for having the wisdom to not think I could CEO my refinery myself just as Dangote has wisely not, and is one more reason why I elevate him to God. budaatum: |
lordm:We do. |
Eastcoastboy:Haba! Lol! Parasite is not "generic" in my family. budaatum:A water parasite. Schistosomiasis. Stupidly caught by ignoring how unhygienic Nigerian's can be. |
harmargedon:He will have loads of Nigerians in equally trust needy positions, proven too, since he can internally promote. I think it is experience and knowledge and contacts in the business that might have excluded a Nigerian. This guy has to make that refinery work and not be tribally hampered, which might affect a Nigerian, perhaps. What I do like about Dangote is, he does not seem to care about tribe, least going by his directors. |
HEAVEN4444:No, not sickle cell. Got hit by a parasite that crippled my spine and ruined my plumbing after almost killing me. Cousin was diabetic. He's buried 6 feet deep. |
IGBOSON1:Taking ones children away from the UK's (and I assume the US' too) education system is a sin parents should be shot for. My parents took me home, and the only reason I forgive them is there was much hope early 70s, and I got to know where I'm from. If I'd taken my own children to Nigeria, I might have had to shoot myself before they shot me, though I'm amused they now go themselves for Detty December. |
HEAVEN4444:I'm healed as much as, thank you. A cousin of mine who came to see me off when I left Naija for the NHS died a week after I left, so I dare not moan. We did not have the same illness, and his was in fact more manageable than mine except in Naija, unfortunately. |
HEAVEN4444:Permanent. Well aired home ensures no smell. Just close kitchen door to contain, and open windows and switch on extractor. QPR has not been in Queen's Park since 1917. |
The amount in tariffs collected by the government in July rose to $28 billion, from $26.6 billion in June, $22.2 billion in May, $15.6 billion in April, and $8.2 billion in March, when collections from the new tariffs began. https://wolfstreet.com/2025/08/02/tariff-cash-is-rolling-in-hits-28-billion-in-july/
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HEAVEN4444:Queen's Park station. Me and my whole family do not smell. Our mother was a theatre nurse. Cleanliness is not optional. I do still miss Naija. I got relatives there I miss and my farm, and unfortunately can not go because of the health equipment I'd have to take with me. |
Was about to eat my one meal of eba one night when a classmate turned up crying. We'd just started poly, and he'd gone home to get money from his brother he'd been saving his wages with for last 5 years, only to be told there was no money. I was having issues at home at the time and was skint managing 001 with lots of water, but asked him to lets eat my eba first then think what to do. We decided to live together to save on rent and share resources, which worked fine, especially when my dad took responsibility (9 year dead today incidentally). I'd come home and drop my wallet in the draw where we'd both have access. Once, his younger brother visited and stayed a couple of days. By the second day he was starving and asked me if we wouldn't eat, to wit I told him we were broke, and would eat at night. "Broke kẹ? He said. "I gave my brother money when I arrived". That modafuka brother had been eating out behind our back while we starved! Ruined our friendship, it did. |
HEAVEN4444:Lived in West London, far from Peckham, but bus 36 was direct then as it still is. My house was the gatecrash pad because I was the first to return, and my siblings and parent soon followed, plus a couple of cousins and a few temporary guests. There were times I slept in the bath. |
Enice:When you hire a builder to build you a house, does he move into the house so you don't chop your chop? Devakumar Edwin has worked for Dangote since 1992. I'm sure he chops comfortably. |
Had a cousin live with me once. I gave him my bedroom and I slept on the sofa. He paid no rent, apparently assuming the government paid citizen's rent, and would eat everything left in my pot after I ate. One day I went to Peckham, bought fish and Guinness and went home to cook rice and dodo. As I was eating, he arrived and asked if I'd taken all I want so he can eat the rest as he normally would, but I told him I hadn't, and would be eating it all as I didn't cook any for him. All the Guinness was mine too, I said, which shocked him as I usually share. "Oh", I said, "and when I finish, I'd like a word please". "Did your family (my maternal) tell you my family owes you and you should come and collect", I asked. That's when he told me he thought the government was feeding me and paying my rent. "So, when you see me go to work l, What's that", I asked. We decided he'd be paying rent and would contribute to electric and water and buy his own food or pay for mine if he eats it. He stayed for 5 years and sensitised the 8 other people who stayed with us in that time. He did run up my landline with calls to America so I got a £200+ bill. I called the person, got number from itemised bill, and found out it was his friend before confronting him. He said he thought it would not count because the phone was locked and he'd found a way around it. |
Enice:Looks like Devakumar is a builder, and not a manager. Different skills set. Sad though, that Dangote could not find a Nigerian. |
If Tinubu were sincere he'd call to make this illegal. He did after all impose the old anthem on us.
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esnbrutality:Nigeria does not feed me. When you call Nigeria a zoo you call your Nigerian self an animal.
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This is sad, and I hope they get justice. Ruke1990:I am very delighted very many non-Yorubas do not reason like you do and assume there are average Yorubas or Nigerians.
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"This is the first time in history seeds from Nigeria will be going to space."Some day, the first Nigerian might go to space too so we don't end up celebrating egusi only. Edit* I'm tutored. A Nigerian has been to space! https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/space-how-i-travelled-in-diapers-holding-alligator-pepper-bitter-kola-owolabi-salis/
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https://www.nairaland.com/8488581/trump-warn-jewish-donors-supporters#136308327 TruthU87: |
Ibime:Not that I expect this to make a difference. Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation. Yet data compiled and published by Israel’s own government makes clear that it has been starving Gaza. Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period. “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later. |
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