₦airaland Forum

tunapawizzy:
nobody trust anybody for naija........ LG begged FG not give their money to State government again and give it directly to LG, now workers dun dey beg FG not give their money to LG and pass it directly to dem, t[b]he next level children of LG workers will beg FG to pay their own upkeep directly to them and not pay it through their fathers and mothers

This one off me.

Omoawoke:
Easy to say, when you face the psychological pressure of being the oldest person, calling kids of 16, colleagues and you can’t relate to their conversations.

I am not saying it’s not possible, it is, but I’m letting him see the reality of what he’s going for … no sugar coating

Uni kids are usually from 18, minimum 17 in most Western countries.

At 32, he has a goal, not to do teenage stuff with oyinbo kids. He will be too busy doing part-time work anyway.

Over 80% of immigrants who study abroad are mature students, above 21. We have seen it all.

Immigrants do cleaning and other menial jobs in their 20s or 30s to fund their healthcare and IT courses.

Valoromega:
I'm 32 this year and I'm looking to travel abroad to further my education.

I haven't gone to the university in Nigeria before but now I would like to further my education abroad( maybe Canada or any good European country).

Would this be possible or would be age affect me?

I need advice, thanks

You are still a boy sef.

Just choose a hot course. STEM. Graduate at 36 to 37 and you are good to go.

planetx:
Why did the death of such a good man and philanthropist like Dikembe Mutombo not make Frontpage on Nairaland in over a week, so we can pay condolence.

I guess he hand no scandalous life or slay queen wife.

Good things are boring. People hype and follow vanity.

RIP Dikembe.

Almunjid:
Why be say na only University of Dundee i dey see for your writeup? People wey graduate from that university dey know book?

Lol. Dundee and Aberdeen are key Scottish unis that offer Oil & Gas courses in UK. Due to the oil industry in off-shore Scotland. They are decent schools actually. Lots of 9ja people studied there.

True.

santaclaws:
Anymore ke? It has always been like that for as long as I can remember... We need to examine our value system, but hunger isn't allowing people think right.

My belle o.
At least when I was a kid, you dare not be seen in possession of a 1 Kobo coin with twin towers/like ECN powerline without a VERY good reason. Otherwise, you'd be in soup.

Yes, 9ja was once a better place with good values.

santaclaws:
Nigerians won't ask questions, they'll say you're a hater once you question the source...

Even someone who earns N1m monthly can't realistically save 15k daily, cos that's about 450k monthly. She might have a business, but even at that, you wouldn't open your piggy bank to show the whole world, so I calling this cap 🧢!

Nobody cares where you get your money anymore in 9ja. As long as you follow the golden rule: Don't be caught or outed.

Ok. What pvs.y cannot make simpsons do does not exist.

Make we give OP benefit of the doubt.

Ezennia101:
Please can we sincerely share this country once and for all let everyone rest .

If they share it, the elite will first sell bits in the boarder areas to Benin Republic, Niger and Cameroon and pocket the money.
Some people will wake up in the morning and suddenly become Cameroonians, Nigeriens and Beninese.

The remaining to share may be like 60% of the original 9ja.

Good gesture but sadly it most likely won't work.

She might use the money to buy smartphone and access hook-up sites even faster.

In fact, she will find one reason or the other to return to her hustle.

People ignored one part of the story: Her father wanted to marry her off, but she refused. She then probably "married for love". But it didn't cut it.

Now, her dad may have found a responsible man, may be not too flashy or young but responsible to take care of her.

Back in those days, our ancestors did that. But they said women were oppressed. Now that women choose who to marry, we have many divorcees who later turn ashawo.

It seems our ancestors were way wiser than us. Borrowed oyinbo wisdom seems to be failing us.

Benmsu:
Which kind yeye talk be this. You say person dey wanted the person show for your office you still leave am come dey talk grammar for media. Nawao

wickedclown:
I for like know this her boyfriend name... I Wan check something!!

The so-called 9ja bf, if indeed there is one, may not even be a 9ja person.

Otherwise, they would have happily printed the name the lady knows him by.

Afterall, the bf entered Brazil on a passport by air. Tracing at least the name can't be that difficult.

One American lady in Carolina locked her two young sons in a car pushed it into a lake in the 1990s.

She then reported to the police that she was carjacked by a black man and stole her car and sons inside. She described the robber to the police and they sketched an average black man with a Woolley hat. Thousands of young black men could have fitted that picture. American press/media went crazy. There was a bounty on the carjacker.

But a black police officer got suspicious. The story seemed strange. He checked out the traffic light stop where it allegedly happened.

Under pressure, she later confessed that she got rid of the boys because her bf didn't want any kids. She had the kids for another man previously.

Asked why she fingered a black man, she said the police would believe her far more if the suspect was a black person. And she was right but for the smart black police officer.

Equally, mentioning a Nigerian, even Nigerians will not ask for any evidence. Everyone believes it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith#:~:text=Susan%20Leigh%20Smith%20(n%C3%A9e%20Vaughan,in%20a%20South%20Carolina%20lake.&text=Union%2C%20South%20Carolina%2C%20U.S.

JapaToDNext:
Nawa, people get mind

Why person go go dey rob olosho, people wey dey suffer to get their money

Person use body make money, another kpekelemex, from nowhere just decide sey na them, e wan ron

My brother na same, no matter part of the body you used to make the money.

Bricklayer using his hands or accountant using his/her brain to make money.

Fact is robbing other people of their belongings is a crime. If they used a gun or deadly weapon in the operation, life term in jail/death sentence is possible.

Even if you break into the house of a corrupt politician to steal money, na still crime.

Probz:
People don’t typically cook stew itself with ugu. Steamed veggies as a side can be ugu-laced, otherwise it’s vegetable sauce/Igbonised efo (riro), not stew as we normally know it.

To answer the question: try a combination of goose, ogazi (guinea-fowl) and torotoro (na turkey, na).

I have always eaten stew with sokoto yokoto and pumpkin leaves directly cooked with it. Since I can remember. To eat rice.

And by the way, some of my peers are grandparents already.

Yes, guinea fowl is by far the best poultry.

In my culture, only soup served at juju shrine does not add vegetable leaves. Others use green leaves.

None. Not a fan of white rice. Brown or Ofada rice better.

I would have liked to lick the fish stew but no pumpkin or other green leaves it in.

I pass.

Day169:
A disturbing statistic which threatens the very fabric of society.. the family.

Lol. Fabric wey don tear tear long ago.

Like 30% of 9ja couples nor even kukuma marry properly. That's the bigger problem. They just born kids together. The high failure rates among those co-habitants are not even captured in divorce figures.

LilNetty:
Please I need your candid advice.

My wedding is coming up in some months and I need your advice. My fiancé and her family are insisting on court wedding which I don’t want to object to. I should have moved on but she pregnant. What can I do?

The bolded is the key for me.

It appears she's not really the wife you want but for the pregnancy. You are not even keen on court wedding.

Even common wedding date is causing issues. You can't even put head together with the lady to fix a date. Two grown ass adults o.

Don't do what you will regret because baby is coming. Even the baby won't enjoy it the marriage turns toxic.

Think deep about it. Either way, na your cross to carry like everyone out there.

Good luck!

doncartel:
So if he gave scholarships to some people, he may ask them to unlearn all they learnt in the school.

chibnnodi:
Davido's grandma was Igbo, [b]his mother was Igbo [/b]and he married an Igbo lady. It's a family history.

His mum was Edo.

Hmmmm
If dem born dem, make dem include 9ja for visa on arrival programme.

Blue3k:
Exactly, the policy is so incoherent. You sanction and suspend them, then attempt to stop their exit. Are they concerned others will leave?

ECOWAS know how useless they have become. They were forming before. A boko and militant ravaged corner of the earth dey form.

Those juntas better stay on their own and solve their own problems. ECOWAS, IMF, World Bank and the West have nothing to offer.

This is a new low for ECOWAS.
A bunch of juntas from poorly resourced minor countries hold ECOWAS for blokos.

ECOWAS dey beg like "can't someone joke with you again?"
Juntas be like "joke kee you dia".

So imagine how these misfit African leaders tremble before Western masters, always with begging bowls.

numericalguy:
He is avoiding a toxic presenter and Tv sation

Let him even go to TVC. At least Tinubu's boys will pamper him. With 2 weeks to rehearse the answers in advance.

I know he won't go near Channels.

MOJ584:
Banters apart, there is serious poverty in the SW but not compared to NE & NW

Just tell me, how much was it that was sprayed on this innocent woman on her birthday Not even wedding or Trad! I mean how much ??

Was it upto 5m which is still a change based on inflationary pressure on the Naira?? I can bet with my balls that this woman got less than 2million

Rest in peace ma!

To many, 250k is a lot of money.

Don't be surprised if 75% of Nigerians don't have up to 1m in savings or cash. The top 5% may have 500m Naira or above.

Many pf these wretched and battered poor people have the morale of a hyena.

They grew up finding food anyhow they can, feeling oppressed by and hating on anyone better off than them.

Anyone that is well-to-do is synonymous with the establishment and is a legitimate target. Even those who began poor and worked their way up.

Your generosity towards them makes no difference if they want to hurt you.

RIP.

Hehehehe.

Since you are ready to train children of mechanic, her boss at work and old boyfriend under your roof, no wahala.

Everybody carry hin cross, Nor cry come Nairaland under a new moniker and fresh account disturb us o.

Goodluck!

Kobojunkieee:
1. All that so-called prejudice has nothing to do with this or this conversation, so let's keep it off abeg!

2. Like I said, I never heard of it until now. All I had been reading or hearing from social media chats between citizens is that there were no working refineries.

Question is : Why would most of the media conspicuously omit it but eager to report bad news? I have seen it over 10 times, many were by Obaseki. Even though I would never vote for him.

It's like saying corruption has nothing to do with say a topic like "rot" in education, health care or infrastructure. Can you imagine Sanwo-Olu having done such in Lagos and media won't carry it?

Whether we want to hear some things or not does not mean they don't exist. Truth is bitter.

wirinet:
Higher than importing the crude?
What makes cost of producing Nigerian crude higher than other countries?

Dem dey add gold join 9ja crude.
Dem nor dey ever run out of excuse for mediocrity.

Kobojunkieee:
1. I still don't know what you mean by prejudice in this case as it never really mattered where the refinery but whether the refinery is working of not..

2. I already explained why I don't take the word of politicians. I would listen to anyone else but them. And I didn't hear anyone else, not even the workers in the company.

There is a lot of prejudice about Edo. That nothing is good there. Any news about cultism, Kabaka or witchcraft would not have gone unseen by so many.

The news about completed modular refinery and failure to get crude supply has been out there. Many times , for over two years.

The same time Shuaibu story was everywhere, refinery without crude news were also there.

I saw them but many say they didn't. You get to find what you seek.

Kobojunkieee:
1. Obaseki and all the others you mentioned are political touts whose only credit in life is defrauding Nigerians in politics — they are lacking in the intelligence department, — so even me I no dey pay them much attention.

2. The news isn't the problem since most of us get our news, not from direct media but rather from social media. So, saying even the workers for the place have not reached Nigerians with this particular news is shocking. I think a lot of Nigerians saw the social media video of the guy who took photos of Dangote's refinery back in December claiming no work dey at that point in time. We have been told for so long that none of the refineries were working, and then to read that one has been working since 2022 but lacked feedstock just dey unbelievable!

I am telling you Obaseki has said it verbally on video.

All political office holders from head to bottom loot recklessly.
But this news is not new. It has been all over. I am shocked to see people say they haven't heard. To me, people probably selectively hear what they want to hear.

I believe prejudice is a major issue. Edo is the last place people expect to have modular refineries.

I will not support Obaseki in a million years but he has done quite some good things but APC people all over the place will always rubbish it. Everything is too political in this country.

Is it new for the system to sabotage any genuine effort to make 9ja work? Why should this surprise anyone?

If the company has reached out to NNPC, Obaseki complaining loudly, who are the staff?

What if the corrupt/bought media refuses to carry the news? Lots of social media still rely on traditional sources?

Kobojunkieee:
Operating and we just dey hear of am only now? Why?

Old news kobo.

Whenever Obaseki complained about no crude, people never read his message. They just start saying/writing he's ugly, a traitor, Edo has bad roads, hail WIKE AND OSHIOMHOLE and unrelated maters etc. Being not part of APC.

Even the news we get to hear is first politically filtered. As as far as I know, Edo has two modular refineries. Some other states were waiting to observe Edo refinery experience first. I guess this would put them off now.

You can't expect Otedola, Adenuga or Ibeto to build a $5 billion refinery now after seeing Dangote's $20 billion dollar experience.