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CoronaVirusPro:
Getting a phone is same as a computer.

They still will have access to the internet.

Parents of now a days are not conversant with tech and why they are breeding children with the fear that the internet will expose them.

I like the point you raised. Jeff Bezos had a picture with his old computer back at that time. How many families could afford that carton then? I doubt if we had up to 10 in Nigeria then.

If any child must compete in the future. His access to the internet will determine a lot.

I agree, computers back then were not just for the wealthy but for the educated wealthy, people educated enough to understand its value but personally i differentiate between phones and laptops.

Laptops are very boring for anything fun aside from watching movies or reading (which i see as fun). Phones have easy keypad structure that makes it easy for games, chatting etc.

I had to spend 4 months to learn how to type really fast and accurately on my laptop, you don't need that level of commitment to type on phones. A laptop can also seriously aid you in work related activities (programming, designing, animation, ms office) a phone has limited potential.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are where they are today because they had access to computers if not phones from a young age.

So don't get them phones get them computers.

Corpse bride is very underrated movie, loved it growing up. Tim Burton is a great and dark director.

SonofElElyonRet:
Exactly. It is his not doing so that makes it fraud

He also used Justin Bieber's name, claiming to be a close friend and Justin Bieber would also do the promotion.

SonofElElyonRet:
Why didn't he just honour his promise of social media promotion.. don't gerrit

Because he claimed Justin Bieber would also do the promotion.

How many times will they teach you that a country's currency value being high is not always a good thing and it being low is not always a bad thing.

High currency value usually means money is concentrated in the hands of the few, the currency goes down because more and more people are having easy access to it.

Hence, Nigeria in the 1980s was far more corrupt than Nigeria today definitely more corrupt than China in the 1980s.

I posted last year how these two keep getting married to gain attention, that yeye Jennyclay was attacking me.

Topbrass:
Abeg which one be good river and bad river. Expecting a response please. 40 characters

Bad rivers are rivers that cannot carry large cargo, they can carry boats but not large ships transporting heavy goods. This is either because the waters are too shallow (in this case it is shallow during dry seasons), or the water has unpredictable currents which could easily crash a ship.

China, USA and Britain have good rivers, historically the only African country that had a 'manageable' river before the discovery of Lagos was Egypt with its River Nile, and you'll see that Egypt was very advanced compared to most African nations historically.

kettykin:
This is a cheering news but what's wrong with the dredging of river niger, we have river ports in China that are navigable all year round

Geography.

China is wealthy because of its good river which facilitates its trade.

Africa is behind because its rivers arent good for trade

They will never stop repeating how Awolowo supported starvation during the civil war, but yet they are very jubilant when Israel does the same thing.

Every single argument made by Awolowo and Adekunle has also been made by Israel, yet they curse Awolowo in his grave while they glorify Netanyahu to heaven.

The difference is, Nigeria did not chase Igbos away from their homeland after the war, many Igbos still have their own soil where they can proudly display their clannish intolerant attitude to this day.

It is genocide ONLY when it happens to them.

Fulanis have been vindicated.

Its a gradual process, everyone would soon admit who the real terrorists are in this country.

Majority of Igbos in Lagos are traders, they are in Lagos because of the huge market base and opportunity it offers them.

So you should ask yourself whether you have any market share to give them at 'home' to match the one they get elsewhere.

If not, do you have any other employment to offer them aside from trade?

It is the culture itself that is the problem, the entire culture needs to be restructured.

The South East has officially become ghettocized...

Drug trafficking, fraud, kidnapping, no snitching policy.

It will get to a stage where any Igbo man that wants to have a stable life must leave the South East.

After putting Trump inside Epstein wahala.

This Elon Musk has mood swings.

Good and we all know the specific set of criminals behind this.

Hint: They are always quick to call every crime the result of hunger inflicted by Tinubu.

The usual suspects

What a great movie

Oh, now he speaks against your people he is talkative?

When he spoke against Reno and NAFDAC he wasnt talkative.

Its either kidnapping gone wrong or she was trying to escape an evil madam and entered something.

Putinofrussia:
I heard there was one other Kalu who did one million match against the mandate of Abiola.
Wickedness in DNA.

That one was Daniel KaNU rhymes with Nnamdi KaNU. They might even be related.

Wow it ranked El Rufai higher than Alex Otti despite all the alleged South Kaduna killings that happened under his tenure, so what does that say about Otti and Labour Party?

Its becoming hard to keep track of all these Kalu

We have Orji Uzor Kalu
We have Benjamin Kalu (the stupid bill passer)
Now we have Emeka Kalu

So he never revealed the name of his buyers

Nawa o, we don't have mercy for wildlife in this country.

See how innocent hippo just got souped for nothing

ProudlyLagos:
isn’t the answer quite obvious? Our Almajiri blodas from across the Niger they have all deserted their region and claim to deverop everywhere but their region

They are also highly intolerant, this bill would give Fulani Herdsmen and other Muslims legal right in their region so how would it benefit them.

So after all the pogroms and sharia slaughter of Igbos, it is Yorubas that is their problem.

This is how Azikiwe antagonized Awolowo and formed alliance with Balewa in the end they had to kill Balewa.

I'm even trying to understand who that bill would benefit

July 29th 1966 was not a coup, it was a mutiny, it only became a coup when Gowon was installed as Head of State.

mrvitalis:
How did Igbos get to the North, how did they end up in those positions? Especially when you look at the fact that in the early 1900 most Clarks and civil servants where Hausa/Fulani

Like someone already pointed out, there was no Igbo clerks/civil servants in the North prior to amalgamation. It was mostly during the British colonization that some Igbos gained positions in the North. After colonization ended most of the British positions were suddenly picked up by Igbos, this is what Northernization aimed to put an end to.

Majority of Igbos in the North post independence were traders and despite seeing all the anti-Igbo propaganda flying around they couldnt predict the weather and leave - that shows you just how dependent Igbos had become on trade at that point.

Amumaigwe:
Igbo apprenticeship system has been adopted by Harvard University as a classical measure they recommend for poverty eradication and wealth redistribution.
Argue with them

Apprenticeship by itself is not a bad thing, it has worked for centuries, and exists in many part of the world.

The problem is apprenticeship system that teaches nothing other than trade, how sustainable is that in the face of modern economy?

Mind you the popular Harvard Business School article praising apprenticeship system was written by none other than an Igbo man (makes one question the authenticity of the report)

shortgun:
So let me get this straight. A people devastated by war, stripped of assets, denied access to federal support and politically sidelined still managed to rebuild themselves through trade, self-reliance and enterprise…..and your complaint is that they didn’t stay in the village to farm yams and vegetables for your comfort?
It’s pathetic, really. Igbos aren’t in power, yet you blame them for your failures.
They’re not writing your policies, not holding your oil blocks, not controlling your budgets but they’re still your biggest fear?
This not politics anymore it's envy and hate on steroids.
Shame no dey catch una

The war would probably not have happened if there weren't so many Igbos in the North and there wouldn't have been so many Igbos in the North if they didnt destabilize their region to embrace a trade culture.