₦airaland Forum

CartelKenneth:
You people that are using zenith why don’t u just change to better bank like GTB

how can you compare zenith to GTB? Zenith is zenith for a reason.

GeneralPula:
My initial post, I didn’t compare SA/Nigeria..

I said SA isn’t better than Nigeria and that’s it!

SA is a good country but definitely not better than Nigeria..

if you say one thing is not better than the other, then you are comparing, pally.

SA is far far better than Nigeria. Don’t get it twisted. No talk am again abeg make I no vex for you.

Hello, I have one visa from a shengen country and one from an OECD country (Turkey) do I qualify as a frequent traveller?

The rule on TLS consult :
Frequent traveller: you have at least 2 visas issued by a Schengen country AND/OR UK, USA and other OECD countries during the last 4 years.

GeneralPula:
Sure, including Mauritius beside SA..

Let me ask you bro - in what capacity is SA better than Nigeria?

I asked you first. What’s the basis of comparison?
I’m not sure you’ve been to SA otherwise you won’t say this.

inoki247:
My First travelling was even to Cairo before I come go to Some European country....



When I reach Cairo I was like Omo See development I was to spend just a month I really love the place Hotel cheap things were okay he reach 2 weeks naso everything dey tire man....


What I don't understand is how I got tired after seeing development left and right 247 electricity Security everything we could call development...

that you got tired does not mean that those countries are not better than Nigeria.

GeneralPula:
I tell you bro. I’ve been to like 10 Africa countries. All have stable light but nothing to write home about... including SA. I always laugh when I see some people thinking SA is better than Nigeria..

No country is better than Nigeria in Africa. Not even Egypt! Forget about all these media propaganda..

how can you say SA is not better than Nigeria? In what capacity? Are you sure you have really been to SA?

Lie lie story. This person na man. Except you are gay too, and your husband to be has another gay partner, but this OP no be woman.

kingthreat:
If you loved your brother so much, why didn't you check up on him? When he was in the hospital, why didn't you follow up on his case and ensure he got the best of medical care. Now you want to use his death to frustrate his wife. You must be crazy.
Your brother made his choice of his wife and how he wants to live his life with her. Now he is gone and the one person he loved the most should be encouraged to move on with life. It would not be better for you if you try to heap more troubles on the poor woman.

you don’t know the details of the story, do you? How are you sure he loved her or she loved him ?

dmostcheerful:
What exactly made her a bad woman?
From the look of things you people hated her first, you even disagreed with the marriage.
What where you expecting her to do?
Crawl to you people for love?
believe your mum went to make trouble in her home hoping her son will stand by her.
No wonder your brother distanced from you people's toxicity.

Abeg leave that woman to mourn her husband and plan how to look after her children.
Wicked people.

a lot of women are evil and manipulative ,always wanting to separate their husbands from their siblings ,especially if the so called husband is well to do, as if they are oblivious of the fact that these husbands knew their siblings before they came to know them, oblivious of the fact that blood is thicker than water.
However you look at it, a wife is a visitor in the scheme of things and should not be scheming to separate her husband from her siblings.
Except she used jazz. It would most times fail. It’s only a stupid man that would become enemies with his siblings because of a woman that came into his life at a later time of his existence.

Why is it that every of tinubu’s words and actions have to be explained as if he is a baby?

What manner of fuckery is this??
Are obidients igbos only? If so, Tinubu won’t have lost Lagos by 600k votes.
They talk of tribalism and religious bigotry, but APC fielded a Muslim Muslim ticket in a multi religious country. What bigotry is bigger is this?

Induction on how to steal and inflate project cost, how to sleep during plenary sessions, and implement bad policies to further improvish the very people that elected them into office.

beyondbasicsng:
I will tell u a short story -

As per this info we only know from an outsiders POV and my story is also an outsiders POV.

Sometime last year a family I know got into brouhaha and I will state this - just because the husband wanted out of a marriage where HE has been controlling his wife since they got married. His mum wasn't an exception either as she is a typical Nigerian woman who was battered by her own husband and ALLOWS her son/children to continue to tow in abusive line to their spouse/significant other!

The woman in question - left a well paying Jon to join her husband in the South after getting married but that was the beginning of her end. Slowly but surely he started keeping away her from her friends, became controlling of her, financially as she had to depend on him especially because where they lived had no job prospects as where she left.

Fast forward when they had baby - his mum was verbally and mentally abusive, said all sort of things because baby was via CS... ETC. On moving abroad, the financial abuse became even worse - he says she can only spend about 40 on food - don't turn heating on, don't watch TV (although he claimed this was gotten for her and their kids) - Please note she had previously lived abroad before going back to get married to him. She encouraged him moving her because he's a doc. He git here, saw the life and film lifestyle changed.

Wetin Abu eye no see for gate! He would compare her to his SIL but when she tried getting jib he wouldn't give dime fir her travels. One day, after abt 3 yrs in abroad he took her phone away so no form of communication- she in turn gave him sim card because he paid for it. Then she communicated with her sib during which she stated she wld rather die than be in the situation she was in -which prompted sis to ask her to come to hers.

Guy calls sis and blames sis for taking her away even though the woman explained the reason behind it. Turns out this guys is a narcissist who wants to control. The guy shared her sis no with his mum - this woman then decides because she wants to speak to DIL n grandkids o she had the right to just call dils sis on a wkday by video call during working hours. When the girls sis responded the woman tells her son that the girl was rude and wanted an apology!

This girl finally gets a job that pays a lot and was able to afford things that's how the husband became jealous as she's not been repressed anymore.

That's how they had another fight and he let me state again HE calls the police on her stating that she was driving without license (which is true buy he had also bought her a car which she drove without license earlier in the year) and he was worried about her because she was taking some drugs which is no longer in her drug compartment. He gave the police her number, plate number and continued his day as if nothing happened!

As God will have it when police reached the girl, she was asked to come to the station and given a warning but asked if she knew why her husband will do such - that's when she told them about the DV she had suffered (controlling, emotional, financial, verbal and physical, manipulated, gaslit) that night police went and picked him up and he slept in jail! Did you think she would have told the police abt this issues? No but the husband himself wanted her to suffer because that day after calling the police and when she didn't return home, he picked up their kids, turned alarm on as if she wasn't getting back home!

What was even more surprising is he ended up telling his family he was worried about her but actually never called her own family before ringing the police. His mother has not been in contact since this happened, well shes already said she isnt her daughter but again the girl doesnt give her anything like the other girl. His own brother also drove years without license- such hypocrisy.

So the point now is - I'm telling u this story because I know the story and I know the boy is a narcissist who after realising he couldn't control her anymore, let me discard her whilst discrediting her.

Just be careful of the stories you choose to hear or listen to, when someone absolves themselves of blame - smthing us wrong. Question them because there are manipulative ppl our there

May we not become diary of a mad black woman because many nigerian woman have suffered and are still suffering due to the patriarchal nature of the society and the women who actually also harbour this! His mum suffered humiliation etc with his own father and she's also with her full chest hen! baba e lo Jo! imagine

so you can’t write English well so that people will understand? What kind of shabby writing is this? This is a public forum for God’s sake.

So this man wey wan do happy hour wey dem go Dey drink beer and carry woman na pastor . Wonders shall never end.

What is even this marriage talk up and down sef? Do these people know that it’s not everyone that is interested in getting married? So I shouldn’t have sex if I decide that I don’t want to get married right?

Maybe God should have made the sexual instincts in humans dormant and reactive it only after you get married.

This Thai visa that has stringent conditions to meet. How do this criminals get visa easily to Thailand?

I need to go on vacation and have been thinking of their stringent requirements.

Hello friends , I’m trying to put up an application for Italian Visa, and will need help in identifying which category I fall into(first timer or frequent traveler) based on what I saw on the TLS website.

I am going to Italy for the first time.

I have a previously issued shengen visa(France) and one visa from OECD country (Turkey ).



Tourism - First Time Traveller
You wish to go to Italy for the first time or you have 1 previous visa issued by a Schengen country and/or UK, USA and other OECD countries during the last four years and you wish to go to Italy for Tourism and will stay no longer than 90 days.

Tourism - Frequent Traveller
You have at least 2 visas issued by a Schengen country and/or UK, USA and other OECD countries during the last four years and you wish to go to Italy for tourism and will stay no longer than 90 days.


Please which of them applies to me based on my explanation above.

Na everything be act of God for this people sha.

Betterlife30:
Please, this is very important. Anybody that has gotten his/her visitor visa approved with no kids and spouse or even landed properties in their name should please tell us how they proof their home ties. I'm sure a lot of people are desperate to know this here.

e get money wey dem go see for your account, travel host and maybe where you Dey work.Every other nonsense about home ties won’t matter, even if you are single.

There is No beautiful city in Nigeria. Better go and find interesting contents for your channel.

FreeStuffsNG:
These ones are just being apprehensive unnecessarily.

Let everyone please calm down and protest peacefully.

The directive from the President is an illegal directive that disobeys lawful court order.

Election holds in 8 days. You should all come out en masse to vote for Asiwaju. Only Asiwaju can stop them from turning your old notes into tissue paper.

Once Asiwaju wins, old notes will remain till December 2023 and Emefiele will be fired for monumental gross incompetence.
Every one should remain calm please.
check my signature for free stuffs!

but how can you be campaigning for Tinubu to be president with all the gaffes we’ve been seeing? Are you normal at all?

dustmalik:
This is true. At the point of payment, it shows the equivalent in dollars.

If anyone knows the easiest way to reach Elon musk or Starlink, we can pressure them to charge us in Naira, given that Starlink is now a registered entity in Nigeria, just like Netflix and Amazon prime.

you subscribe to those services you mentioned with naira debit card anymore.

Are Nigerians now allowed in for tourism?

I keep wondering how their choice of a preferred candidate can affect anything.

They’re noise too much abeg.

davodyguy:
If your sponsor in from EU, yes they will call to verify.

Bank Statements don't usually get verified. My bank has never been called

don’t get it twisted. They verify o. How will you know? First hand experience.

BreconHills:
I was reading this until I got to where Mr Sobowale talked about Soludo hastily constructed banking consolidation crashing. Haba. Because Nigerians don't read they are apt to believe anything written against those they hate. Usually Buhari who wasn't even on the scene then.

As a former trainer to stockbrokers and asset managers I can say authoritatively that the 2008 actually 2009 crisis marked an inflection point in Nigerias economy where it connected with the global economy at the hip and has remained connected ever since.

1. The shares outstanding in the capital markets increased exponentially after the consolidation but the number of investors remained narrow leading to a collapse in share value when those shares were dumped after qualifying as assets.

2. The poor monitoring of listed companies by both SEC and the NSE allowed listed companies to do " pump and dump" strategies on an ill informed public.

3. The sub prime crisis that flowed from the US into the world economy bought Dubai within days of economic collapse provided an outlet for Nigerian funds from pump and dump to fly to Dubai where as in southern USA Nigerians almost solely saved the property market through massive investments of illicit cash into the very cheap and undervalued property market.

4. The crisis was not caused by consolidation which actually allowed sensible well run banks to take over some of the risk loans being excessively priced by international banks as well as to spread within Africa to create continental banks that helped trade financing gor Nigerians doing business or having children in African educational institutions.

5. The crisis was caused by failure of three regulators and one self regulatory organisation. These were, the CBN, SEC and the NSE and the Institute of stockbrokers themselves. The chummy relationship between these parties and the people they were supposed to regulate led to loss padding and asset bloating. Also at fault were the big accounting firms that signed off on audits they had no business even taking up.

6. Now back to Buhari. Buhari is the Mr Nobody that everyone loves to blame because it makes yhem feel superior. Truth is Buhari inherited a train wreck of an economy and the only options were to devalue/float the Naira which would have had untold consequences on the poorest of the poor. Instead he borrowed against infrastructure in the hope that it would stimulate growth. This was unlikely on the short term and the wotld bank and IMF advisors that pushed this failed to take into account the weakness of Nigerian supervisory institutions and the rapacity of those who headed them. There was also severe hostility frkm the west ( which reflects in their desire for an importer president - take note, Nigeria is about to be sold as a dumping ground for western goods). Foreign powers were also incensed by Chinas role in infrastructure even when they had no skin in the game. One day those assets will support growth but not now.

7. What Buhari achieved ( maybe without intending it) is that he democratised the suffering of the ordinary Nigerian by bringing the wealthy to suffer alongside. Their real assets values plunged, inflation consumed their investments and the stock market provided no succour. The benefit was that the economy became more nimble and intelligent as witnessed by the large number of successful externally funded start ups. A foundation has been laid for " no easy money" and "hard choices".

Nigerias malaise is more complex than it appears. Simplistic blame one man discussions are over simplistic and down right wrong. Let’s get Nigeria thinking again.

rubbish… I’m sure you were one of those people that cursed Goodluck Jonathan. The bill stops on his table.

Marcos88:
Nothing special here.. He meant to say the current high prices would be gone.. Stop trying hand to make a mountain out of a mole hill. You should try more @OP.. #BAT2023

he meant ,he meant…. When you have to tell us what he meant everytime, then it’s not normal.

pufframmy:
i dont think so have u try to do estimation of it

yes o. Just got back from Istanbul 2 days ago. While Waka now was charging 700k+ for Egypt air, and Egypt air was charging same rate in dollars when converted at black market rate, I booked a flight on skyscanner for like 500k+ when converted at the prevailing black market rate as at then.

Initially, I had doubts if they were authentic.

I will always book with skyscanner henceforth, as long as these dollar crises prevail. You get it at a cheaper rate.

pufframmy:
This wat am saying exactly that why i send screenshot
so the person know who said skyscanner are more cheaper

even if you are paying at black market rate via scanner, it’s still cheaper than going through the airplane directly or those local travel agency like Wakanow and the likes.