₦airaland Forum

bigworld:
i lost my younger broda last year,while i was serving. and i,ll give anything to know that he is a twin.and guess what i lost the only thing i took from him after his death(his sim card). and now i fell i have failed him.

No, you haven't failed him for loosing his sim card and that is not the only thing you have of him, you have lots of memories my dear, and those are more valuable than a sim card because he continues to live in your heart.

Yes.

r231:
she turned from a humble,innocent wife to a matured woman who always want to defend her right.

Effects of western civilization.

MRbrownJAY:
then you wonder why many innocent people die for no reason. . . . . . . . . forget "deliverance" or whatever BS, she should GO TO A PROPER DOCTOR!!!!!

Seconded.

Family, and it's not disputable.

What's a product of unfaithfulness? Is the guy saying the child is not his? because if that is what he is saying I seriously think that should be set straight before any wedding.

Oh! I finally summed up the courage to call him and you know what? he's not a ghost after all. We're becoming good friends and getting to know each other, we mail, chat, exchange photos and talk on the phone from time to time and as we do not live in the same country, we plan on meeting again some place this summer.

They lead we follow blindly, hey?

THE LONDON JAMBOREE

Friday, 09 July 2010

A Nigeria at 50 Summit and Gala Night recently took place at a posh hotel in London. According to reports, 18 state governors, a sizeable number of ministers and officials of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) attended the two-day event which was said to have been sponsored by the Federal Government. Commentators and other well-meaning Nigerians were still reacting to the planned expenditure of N10 billion on the forthcoming 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence when the press got wind of the London summit.

AN association of Nigerians in diaspora known as the Nigeria Liberty Forum was said to have organised a protest by telephone calls against the summit. The protest, which reportedly resulted in the jamming of the hotel’s switchboard by telephone calls from different parts of the world, was organised to show the forum’s displeasure with the culture of waste of the Nigerian government. Earlier at home, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had described the conference as a national disgrace. The congress said it was inconceivable that the government could take a conference on Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary to the United Kingdom and wondered why the items on its agenda could not be discussed in Nigeria. It counselled President Goodluck Jonathan to devote his energies to the entrenchment of democratic governance in the country instead of wasting time and resources on sheer frivolities. The opposition Action Congress (AC) expressed dismay that a conference on Nigeria’s independence anniversary had to be taken to London at a huge cost to Nigerian taxpayers.

THE Federal Government’s intention to fork out the huge sum of N10 billion on Nigeria’s 50th anniversary has not been well received by the Nigerian public. The general expectation is that the Jonathan administration is going to learn from errors of the past and focus its attention on clearly defined essentials in a country where virtually nothing works. The so-called London Summit and Gala Night has no doubt aggravated a situation that was already bad.

WHEN he mounted the saddle, Jonathan through his public pronouncements and even body language, gave the impression that he was going to make a difference. Not a few believed him, not because they were that credulous but because of the view that the frustrations he experienced during the period of his late boss’s undeclared incapacitation would instill in him the determination to succeed where others had failed. This explains the deluge of unsolicited advice offered him when he assumed office as president. While Nigerians are however looking forward to decisive steps that would enable the President to make the promised difference, he appears to be toeing the line of his predecessors.

WHAT is expected of the leadership of a country that is faced with numerous challenges is a noticeable evidence of discipline and the will to succeed. Here is a government that cannot fund the current year’s budget, and has, as a consequence, been compelled to effect a cut in it. The same government has a supplementary budget from which it is taking N10 billion to celebrate 50 years of accelerated decline. The government certainly needs the services of a sophisticated sophist to explain away this contradiction.

THE government cannot maintain the roads. It has made a shambles of education. Transportation by road or by air is risky. The rail system has collapsed while inland waterways is virtually non-existent. Unemployment figures keep soaring as more and more enterprises close shop or relocate to other countries because basic requirements are not available. The entire situation is compounded by the fact that security is not guaranteed. The constant refrain is that government cannot provide everything. What it can provide is yet to be seen. It can, however, leave the treasury open to political office holders whose pockets are apparently bottomless.

IT is amazing that while the criticism of its planned expenditure on the country’s golden jubilee was raging, the government could dispatch a contingent of political office holders, party officials and hangers-on to London for a conference that was not intended to serve the people’s interest. Resources that are badly needed to solve pressing problems are being expended on a sheer jamboree. The argument has been advanced that a country that fought a 30-month civil war and remains a single political entity should celebrate its continued existence. The simple response to this is that the civil war ended 40 years ago, in 1970. Such a lavish celebration should, therefore, have taken place immediately after the war when the country’s problem was not money but how to spend it. Life in Nigeria today is comparable to what obtains in Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature — miserable, laborious and short. Nigeria today is cash-strapped. Available resources should therefore be channelled into productive ventures and not expended on jamborees.

EVERY naira spent on the London Summit and Gala Night is money down the drain. It is unthinkable that this could be done by the leaders of a country that is in need of every kobo for its economic survival. We, therefore, urge President Jonathan to make the expenses on the London summit the last of such wastage. He should scale down the planned lavish golden jubilee celebrations to a very modest event which will reflect the parlous state of the economy.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/editorial/7978-the-london-jamboree


Sad! don't you think?

If he could stoop that low, don't gratify him with a discussion on the subject. When next you see him just warn him point blank to stay away from your maid.

Very funny! obviously you don't have kids yet. They have to be on the same level to gel!

Leilah:
Is this normal in Nigerian culture to always give birth?

Abnormal. Oh my days!!!

joebrass:
please where do i go from here?

For goodness sake you're only 19! Your life is just starting and 'you've got the whole world in your hands'!

To boost their ego - they're poor but they have children in abundance.

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
   
      Count your blessings, name them one by one,
      Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
      Count your blessings, name them one by one,
      And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

swoosh:
is there something terribly wrong with me?

maybe

lovelynk:
Now both parents are not educated,my mum only finished secondary school  while my dad did not finish.I very much doubt their capacity to go bak to school in the states.

Nobody is too old to go back to school. When there is a Will there is Way!.

oyewolejos:
Since age is not on their side anymore

When there is Life, there is Hope!

johnkent:
They could actually be disqualified at the embassy for not adding their kids under the age of 18 to the initial DV application.

Nobody gets disqualified for not adding their kids to their application. It only means they are applying for themselves alone and none of their kids would accompany them.

If you're in a position to help her, then do.

You can say that again!

obamma:
Is either Qatar reverse this policy or they will leave Nigeria.

Are you by any chance the Chairman, House Committee on Aviation or the Minister of Aviation himself? On a serious note, have you considered writing a letter of protest/complaint and sending it by registered mail to their head office in Doha and Nigeria, at the same time send a mail to their email, leave a comment/feedback on their website, in one word use all available means to bombard them with complaints on the day in question and ask for compensation. Nobody complains, they just take insults and inhuman treatment hook line and sinker assuming it's the norm and that is why these airlines would get away with even 'murder'.

johnkent:
I have been fingerprinted every single time i got into the UK. I do not know why and I haven't asked why cuz i really don't care.

He is right. That's the new law and anybody with a biometric UK Visa will be fingerprinted at point of entry to compare it with the one the applicant submitted with his Visa application - just to be sure it's one and the same person. If you got your UK Visa particularly in Nigeria you will definitely be fingerprinted at the point of entry except you're one of those applicants whose Visas were issued before biometric visas were introduced because then these people's biometrics will not have been captured as part of the application process. You can only be fingerprinted when returning home if you overstay and unlucky to be caught.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/travellingtotheuk/Enteringtheuk/fingerprint-checks-at-border/

oseenice:
Dear Nairalanders, I have the idea to poduce a magazin hear in nigeria, I have being researching on it to know if there is a body or an association that i need to register with before i can start this publication. Please if there is anyone who has a good idea on this topic, do let me know and please advice on possible areas of this business that i might expect to face difficulties as your advice will be most appreciated.

The only difficulty I foresee here is spelling and grammatical errors, but with a good editor and proof reader all will be well. Cheers

rukatech:
Will it be better if I take him with me to the embassy when I arrive?

So how is that possible? is he under 16? Only Visa applicants are allowed in for interviews at the US Consulate, except in some special cases where the applicant is aged, has a disability and needs assistance.

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mutter:
However one thing is certain. Your citizenship and marriage certifiate is hadly of any use to the man without your physical presence iin the UK. [b]That is why I do not understand how he even got the visa [/b]or managed to hang out there for so long.

'Am sure she doesn't know that, and she probably thinks the visa is automatic in Nigeria with a marriage certificate or the husband can just walk into the Home Office UK with their marriage certificate and get an Indefinite Stay just like that. It's obvious the husband got his visa on his own credentials.

[quote author=mutter link=topic=470165.msg6296209#msg6296209 date=1277715921]Secondly you did have a good job and I do not understand why you did not seek to migrate to the UK when things got very rough for you at least for some time till things stabilise.

I would have gone back.

Quser:
The only problem is that she wants to pick the best man. She said this guy was her best friend for a long time,
they went to school together and still keep in touch,  she had promised him he was going be her best even before she met me.

I take it you don't know him and you must have your own pals.


[quote author=African_queen link=topic=469231.msg6285117#msg6285117 date=1277535904]Talk to the said best man as a guy, tell him u feel uncomfortable using him as best man but u don't want to hurt your fiancee's feeling.[/quote]You have no business with him and you don't owe him any explanations, make it crystal clear to your fiancee you cannot have him as your best man and leave it to her to explain to him, he's her friend not yours!

HolyMikel:
@ Coolier,
sorry about what happened to you at the bank's premises but on a second thought we all know the security situation of the country especially the frequent attacks of armed robbers on banks.
who knows whether you are  forerunner? we dont even know whether your story is credible as your profile says you are in UK but you are complaining about a branch in Nigeria.
the security men should rather be praised for doing their job well. you need to see the pictures of the recent attack on banks in Akure.

Do you read other people's contributions before you post, because if you do, you must have seen my comments below and the source of the protest, Saharareporters.com

coolier:
I wouldn't know that. 'Am just a concerned citizen myself.

Because the customer is the account holder and he has business to transact in the bank.

maxxy:
I think it would be good for us to know the nature of the walking aid. Are they made of metals, iron or wood?

I wouldn't know that. 'Am just a concerned citizen myself.

maxxy:
But where the customer insists on entering the bank, you begin to wonder,  why must he enter the bank?

Because the customer is the account holder and he has business to transact in the bank.

Bush2:
I am not in support or in agreement of this quote from Mr.Lord lugard, i don't know about you, speak your mind here.

“Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has formented strife and bloodshed in the hinterland…,  I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                              -Lord Lugard 1916
If to say Lugard is alive now i will join Yorubas in making him to swallow his comment.

Food for thought.

ziga:
The people make up the country including each one of you guys,

But we all know that is not true, that in Nigeria, the people, like me, are just part of the abandoned suffering masses. And 'am tired of constantly listening to people asking what I could do to make Nigeria a better place, spare me! Or maybe we should reverse your question for a change and ask what Nigeria can do to make me a better person. Is that too much to ask from my fatherland? Shelter, Education, Health, Electricity, Water, Transportation, Employment, Environment, Security, Pride, Equal Rights and Opportunity - I could go on and on! John Kennedy did not ask that of a 'hungry' country!

So what's the big deal? they're just starting, and everybody can see they're only on the second bottle! Abi no be Nigerian Policemen? I bet it's 8 o'clock in the morning!

kayosite:
is it reasonable for me to get married nw.

Unreasonable.