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Beautyaddy:
About from house rent( if you don't own your own house) most bills in Nigeria are not taxed.

Also, there's less compulsory bills to worry about in Nigeria too.

Lol @Beautyaddy. Of course paying tax is a different ball game. I was responding to paying bills. Absolutely, he will be okay with tax; provided the condition you stated is present. Blessed day to you

Reeses:
I will pay bills no doubt but here is worse man. you will have to keep working until you work yourself into ground Most people here both whites,blacks or Spanish are all killing ourselves with work work work and it's too much.I need a place to relax my brain for a mintute.

Okay, now that you are explicit, I concur 100%. Sound health supercedes hustling and making money. Lol to relaxing your brain, I can relate

You won't pay bills in Nigeria? What part please?

MackyNaija:
Re: Is life abroad worth the stress and hype??
YES

Why?


Answer 1 - "An average Nigerian" in the US can make a lot of money he/she would never have dreamt of owning except seeing it in banking halls in Nigeria.




Answer 2 - You can find a job in the US until you choose to retire, In Nigeria you are at the mercy of most employers.


Can you show proof that your uncles and aunties are not doing fine?? Forget all the crocodile tears they shed.

Everyone has their own way of quantifying success... Some might just need sanity, no police harassment, good infrastructure, a ray of hope and a future for their children and children's children, and not a huge house + Benz s550 + BMW 8Series + $100k account balance.

If you were "an average Nigerian" look back at your friends you left back in Nigeria 6 years ago and tell us how they are faring.





I am abroad, forget the hype, gimme more stress and I would rather stay here!

God bless you. You just made my day

Yameater:
They lack motivation and it's like they don't understand the field well

There is obviously no communication or cohesion on display here. Just pray it’s a minimal loss. Me thinks it’s gonna be the usual after this game and hurried approach when a major tournament is around the corner. Smdh

Yameater:
Our girls are trying but it could be better

Yeah, I read somewhere that they haven’t played any friendly since they won the African Cup.

France 1: Nigeria 0

richeeyo:
Names of the airport

Johannesburg is JNB and JHB is in Malaysia

ICAO codes are separate and different from IATA codes, which are generally used for airline timetables, reservations, and baggage tags. For example, the IATA code for London's Heathrow Airport is LHR and its ICAO code is EGLL. In general IATA codes are usually derived from the name of the airport or the city it serves, while ICAO codes are distributed by region and country.
Likewise the airport in Newark, USA is codenamed EWR and derived from 3 letters out of Newark.

.... At her family residence in Akoka not Ikola.
There lies the answer

Boeing777pilot:
I have been part of a crew that operated a 16hr flight from the Middle East to the United States.

It's pretty much interesting as we have two sets of crew members who share the flight time. It's really not that difficult per SE.

As a passenger, I have flown from Johannesburg to Heathrow.

As a passenger, you would enjoy long haul flights in the business class.

And yes my baby the Boeing 777 family is one of the best long haul airplanes in existence.

Can you please explain why some return flights are shorter than the originating flights? Heard something like moving with the wind and going in the West-East direction or so, i'm not really sure. Thanks

Johannesburg to Atlanta on Delta should also be on the list as well. It's 16hrs and 25mins.

Google.. what is South Africa's dialing code... +27

In the good old days, a witch hunt involved complex stuff like a media circus, false police reports and maybe a burning pitchfork or two. Nowadays all you need is an internet connection and a hatred of justice. Yeah, for all its obvious uses, it turns out the internet and social media are really, really good at ruining lives. Here are ten people who were mercilessly hounded for the crime of doing nothing at all:



10. The Irish Fare Dodger

When Eoin McKeogh logged onto Facebook to find angry posts berating him for skipping out on a Dublin taxi fare, he was kinda surprised: mainly because he was living in Japan. Digging deeper, he discovered a YouTube video of a young man leaving an Irish taxi with a question along the lines of ‘do you know this thief?’ posted below. In response, one user had simply written ‘Eoin McKeogh’. It was enough to start an Irish social-media storm. Over the next few days, Eoin’s Facebook page became a focal point for irate taxi drivers, people who’d ever been cheated and the usual mob baying for his blood. Eventually, things got so bad that Eoin was forced to fly home from Japan and take YouTube to court to have the video removed.

9. Framed for Murder

In 2011, a drunk got in a fight onboard a Vancouver bus and wound up stabbing teenager Jamie Kehoe through the neck, before fleeing into the night. Ever-ready to stand up for the underdog, Canada’s netziens took to social media… and promptly named the wrong guy. Garnet Ford was a young roofer living far from the crime scene, who never caught public transport and was home the night of the incident. However, he did have one thing in common with Kehoe’s killer: he was black. According to Ford, that was enough to nearly destroy his life. He was dropped from his job, sent death threats and even suspected by his friends. Eventually, the truth came out, but not before Canadian social media proved itself at least as crazy as its US counterpart.

8. Two Random Victims

Linsey Attridge really didn’t want her boyfriend to break up with her. In fact, she was so set against it that she staged her own mock-rape, to get his sympathy. And it worked. Nick Smith came back home, looked after her and stood by her as she bravely uncovered photographs of her two assailants on Facebook and reported them to the police. Only, it later transpired that they hadn’t raped her at all. In fact, they hadn’t done anything: Attridge had chosen two completely random people off Facebook and accused them of raping and torturing her. Oh, and the age of her victims? One of them was only fourteen. To say his life was ruined would be putting it mildly: Attridge kept up her pretence for two whole months before finally confessing – at which point the hilariously-callous judge sentenced her to a ‘backbreaking’ 200 hours of community service.

7. The Dad Accused of Paedophilia


Let’s be honest: while it’s no walk in the park being accused of murder or rape, nothing compares in the accusation-stakes to paedophilia. So when Steven Rudderham was targeted by an anonymous Facebook campaign claiming he molested kids, he knew things would end badly. What he probably didn’t realise was just how badly: death threats came pouring in, local scumbags threatened to burn his house down at night and the whole town turned on him. In the end, things got so bad that Rudderham decided to bow out – and hanged himself in a nearby cemetery. Worst of all, those Facebook rumours turned out to be just that: rumors without a grain of truth in them.

6. Targeted by Lynch

The Kensington Strangler was a psychopath who stalked Philadelphia in 2010, murdering three prostitutes. Triz Jefferies, meanwhile, was a 23 year old nobody who happened to live in the area of the killings. And then someone decided he was might be the murderer, at which point Jefferies went from being a ‘nobody’ to a very-scared somebody.

A Facebook page dedicated to capturing the murderer had Jefferies’ photograph and home address uploaded onto it. Within hours, an angry lynch mob had formed outside his house, with the express intention of murdering his innocent ass. Jefferies was forced to flee, even as the police appealed for calm and reiterated that he wasn’t and never had been a suspect. So who uploaded the photo in the first place? We’ll probably never know.

5. The Stanford Mix-up

In 2010, a story blew-up about South Korean rapper Daniel Lee. In brief, it accused him of faking his 2002 degree from Stanford University – right at a time when the nation was reeling from a series of fake-degree scandals. Ultimately, Lee was proven innocent, but not before his persecution had an unexpected side effect


See, South Korean social media got hold of the story and determined to prove Lee was lying. As part of this, they delved into his past, even going so far as to speculate he had stolen someone else’s identity. So when another Daniel Lee surfaced who had graduated from Stanford in 2002, the internet went into meltdown. Suddenly, this Wisconsin-based mechanic found himself on the receiving end of a concentrated beam of hatred from South Koreans determined to prove he’d sold his identity to an award-winning rap star (no, I can’t believe I just wrote that either). Emails, phone calls, off-kilter Facebook messages – Lee received the works, and no-one would believe him when he said it wasn’t true. Think about that for a second: imagine having a whole bunch of people you’ve never met before publically decide you’re not who you claim you are and try to debunk you. It must’ve been surreal, to say the least. But even this slice of weirdness has nothing on…

4. Accused of Sandy Hook

Imagine the scene: you’re sitting at your desk, casually getting on with a day’s work when suddenly Facebook explodes in your face. Out of nowhere, millions of people – millions – are accusing you of perpetrating one of the worst mass-murders in US history. Sounds crazy, right? There’s no way such a thing could possibly happen.

Well, it can and it did : to Ryan Lanza, brother of Sandy Hook shooter Adam. Unfortunately, the press leaked that Ryan’s ID had been found at the scene of the massacre, with the result that the internet went into overdrive. For hours, Ryan was literally the most-hated man in the entire world; fending off abusive comments and threats from people who knew the shooter was already dead. Chew on that: these idiots knew the shooter had ended his life at the scene; yet continued to talk to the person they thought was the shooter on Facebook. Man, I get they were outraged, but that’s no excuse for their utter dumbassery.

3. Accuse the Abused

Let’s imagine you knew someone who had had a hard life. You knew they’d been abused as a child and suffered the sort of problems we shouldn’t even joke about. Let’s say you knew all this and wanted to destroy their life in the nastiest way imaginable; what would you do?

If you said ‘set up a fake Facebook profile accusing them of being a child abuser’, congratulations: you’re an awful human being. Earlier this year, Toledo resident Chad Lesko had his life turned upside down when his Ex labelled him a wanted rapist and child abuser in a post shared 30,000 times. Worst of all, the Toledo police apparently now get all their information from social media: since Chad was arrested twice by cops who had seen the page and assumed he was on the run. As acts go, accusing the abused father of your son of child-abuse is pretty low; but nothing compared to…

2. The Twitter Lynch Mob

In Britain, a recent sex-abuse scandal put the establishment on edge. After failing to detect a serial child abuser in their midst for five decades, the BBC rushed to out another suspected peado. Sadly, their source was compromised. At the last minute, bosses decided not to go ahead with the naming; only for Twitter to pick up the slack instead.

Overnight, the name Lord McAlpine became one of the site’s top trending topics. TV stars named him as an abuser. Journalists named him. Freakin’ politician’s wives named him. And guess what? They were all completely wrong: McAlpine had never touched a kid. In fact, he’d never even been to the site of the alleged abuse – something the BBC ‘source’ later admitted. Basically, the entire Twittersphere descended on this one pensioner and proceeded to kick the crap out of his reputation, based on… nothing. Just mindless, dumb innuendo.

1. The Wrong Boston Bomber

I won’t insult your intelligence by explaining what Reddit is, or what the Boston Bombings were. If you’re capable of logging onto a computer and accessing this website, you already know. So you’re probably aware of the story of Sunil Tripathi; but it’s so singularly depressing that it bears repeating.

In the aftermath of the Boston Bombing, Reddit decided it was going to track down the killer(s) single-handedly. Now, the internet is useful for many things, but tracking mass-murderers isn’t one of them. Hence the Redditors who stumbled across a Facebook page set up to find the missing Tripathi and, inexplicably, decided he’d vanished to plot a lethal terrorist attack. Thanks to his ‘foreign’ name, Tripathi’s reputation was dragged through the mud, his family slandered and all for nothing. The Feds found Tsarnaev and Tripathi’s body surfaced a month later – no thanks to a bunch of wannabee detectives. So yeah, the internet has its uses, it’s just a shame that one of them has to be ‘ruining lives’.

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-people-the-internet-wrongly-accused.php

[quote author=sinaj post=45827246]pls point out the bad thing his mum said there

@Sinaj.. you said it all. A simple google search would have ensured that opinions wait till the lady gets delivered of her baby and a proper DNA testing is done

1. David Copperfield- Famous Canadian Magician
2. Keanu Reeves- The Matrix
3. Justin Bieber - obvious? Mariah Yeater rings a bell?
4. Michael Girgenti- was accused by the very same Kourtney Kardashian
5.Pamela Smith- accused his Airness, Michael Jordan of fathering a child with her. A DNA test said otherwise.

I bet all of these guys would have been tagged if it were to be on Nairaland. Waiting for her delivery and a testing seems to be the logical contribution to make. Then it can be safely said that the innocent and the guilty got served in equal

And Oprah cut in, “People remember the charge. They don’t remember the exoneration.”

Oprah's conclusion is the reason why the mum said all she did. We can all take sides, but a DNA testing will show who is guilty as charged or not.

Mutuwa:
His arraignment should be before a female magistrate

Supported and to add, he should be shot in his phallus

Well, for me i don't think it's the age difference that gave birth to all of these. Simply put, the man has anger issues and prone to violence. The family knew this but were hoping for a change instead of intervening.
They allowed the man to kill her.
The man murdered her, period. He should face the music, finish and klaar

Well, for me i don't think it's the age difference that gave birth to all of these. Simply put, the man has anger issues and prone to violence. The family knew this but were hoping for a change instead of intervening.
They allowed the man to kill her. The man murdered her, period. He should face the music, finish and klaar

@OP, where are you in South Africa? Province and City before i comment

Angelberry:
Fool slayer, your friend is a big fool

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