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I have been wanting to change my Generator for sometime and I wanted something that will be able to Carry my Deep Freezer (HTF 319H) without dragging the current low.

I did my research and calculations and realised that I would need a generator rated at least 2000kVA.

I went online to browse and I keep seeing different brands of generators that I didn't even know existed before.

I'm seeing Honda, Firman, Thermocool, Sumec Firman, Elepaq, Lutian, Elemax.

Some of these names, I've never even heard of them before.

Which ones are the best in the 2kVA, 2.2kVA, 2.5kVA Category?

P.S. Why the H*ll is the Honda 2.5kVA costing 200k Naira?

IronPant:
That boy said it all
All these useless zombies supporting the school should please go and enrol
Covenant University treats their students like robots

I too have read this guy's blog about 2 months ago and I totally agree with EVERY thing he said

What is paining me is some of the guys supporting this prison have never seen the entrance of the institution; they only live on 'hear-say'..
There are a few of the useless zombies above me

It is very obvious.

Those who have never attended the school but are supporting it only have two points.

1. The fact that you signed up for the school means you signed up for however they treat you.

2. There are other schools you could have gone to but you didn't.

HigherEd:
Where did this one see bribe again.

1) When students die, they cover it up, barring the room and shifting the roommates, there are no moments of silence given, no respect to the dead. Bad things happen in Covenant, and they don’t want you to know.


Foolish talk. Is it Covenant that killed the student that it would need to do cover up? The living faith church doctrine does not allow for bad news to be spread. It is a strange way to operate but it is what it is. Even when the past VC died I don't think it was ever announced.

You made some valid points in your other comments but I don't agree with this one.

If expelled students can be shamed and used as public examples to other students.

Then why also surpress the death of other students who might have died as a result of their methods and the kind of rules that they put there.

Or they don't honor the dead by offering one minute of silence during their church services but are more interested in attendance?

They are passing the message that covenant doesn't care if you die on their premises.

It appears like a case of concealing the bad and projecting only the Good.

Why does the doctrine that surpresses the death of children in their care not condemn public shaking and ridicule?

smartsk:
This thing is very simple Oga. There are THOUSANDS of schools to make a CHOICE

P. S. and what has religion got to do with this? ehn?

Are you saying then that the school had the right to maltreat their students because those students could have chosen to go to other schools?

Are you saying that enrolling in covenant university means that they are agreeing to be abused in such a manner?

Are you saying that Covenant has the right to do anything to their students because the students enrolled in that school?

An Article written by a Twitter user who is a student of Covenant University.
https://medium.com/@AnthonyAzekwoh/kingdom-of-pharisees-and-sadducees-covenant-university-the-shame-of-nigeria-b3ae4a93a3a4

See article Below
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“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.”- Audre Lorde


After being in Covenant for three years now, there’s this familiar shock I have whenever I see our school being praised in the media. I pause and think to myself, Is this the same Covenant I’m in? Is there a disc 2 I don’t know about?

I believe that there are issues in our community, there are problems that need conversations if solutions are too far ahead and by writing this, I am not bringing shame to my school or my country; I am bringing the shameful things to light and here, unlike the dark, they can at least be understood. I am not your God, everything I say in this essay is what I believe to be right and true, you are free to be angry, offended and even disagree, it is your right.

I think that a university, at its greatest, is a receptacle for ideas. This is a place where fresh minds come together to learn and grow and as a result, find new ways to better their community. For the student and society: a university is a place of change. A seminary is a place for theological investigation, where students are coming to learn more about the scripture and prepare themselves for a life in Christian ministry.

I believe that Covenant tries to be a university and a seminary and utterly fails at both. I don’t think that any silly ranking holds weight in this conversation when students are being abused and have their basic rights denied; who has ranking helped abeg? Was Nigeria not ranked amongst the countries with the greatest potential in the world?

See, the nature of salvation is such that no matter how much you try, you can’t force it on another. I believe that a person decides whether or not they want to be saved and that decision can be made by only them. Not by their parents, not by their guardians, not by their school for gods’ sake; them and only them. That said, to think that forcing students and lecturers to go to chapel will boost spirituality is an idea that is silly at best and dangerous at worst. The chapel stops becoming a place of holy reverence and instead becomes a kind of prison where all the doors are locked and attendance is taken with biometrics while beady eyed men and women watch out to see the students who are sleeping and not standing up while the lecturers quickly place their thumbs on the machines then turn to beat a retreat.

I believe that you insult your god when you force his/her own children to worship him/her. I believe that you insult your god by using worship of him/her to hurt and disenfranchise his/her children. I believe that you insult your god by disrespecting his/her place of worship.

I believe that young people around my age who have issues with drugs have legitimate problems and suspending or expelling them to go back to their parents is a half assed solution to a problem that can last a lifetime, and then end it. Nobody does drugs for the fun of it, I don’t believe that any human in history has ever said, “Yo, my life is bloody amazing, everything is going right for me and by the way, can you pass the cocaine?” To be addicted at so young is an issue that should be confronted with attention and care, not with a suspension letter and shame, these students can be rehabilitated. They are not hopeless cases.

The rules of Covenant are much more than they are, they hurt everyone involved, especially the students. They empower exploiters all through the school system and allow students to be abused, physically, emotionally and sexually. With these rules, extortion and bribe become second language from security guards to lecturers.

I’ve been assaulted twice now, and I can say boldly that the system does not care, they’d rather focus on whether or not we’re wearing ties and our hair is kept at an acceptable arbitrary length. But there are others who have lost much more than I have in Covenant, people who may never regain what was taken from them in this place. This is not a place of reform or spirituality, it is a kingdom of Pharisees and Sadducees where the world is upside down.

Covenant routinely disrespects its students in any way it can, placing limits where there should be none, rules where they are not needed. When students were suspending for not adhering to the dress code, their faces were shown to all of us during the chapel service so we could gawk and awe, an example was made of them but when our previous registrar was stepped down due to sexual abuse accusations, I don’t remember his picture being put up, I don’t remember there even being an announcement. When students die, they cover it up, barring the room and shifting the roommates, there are no moments of silence given, no respect to the dead. Bad things happen in Covenant, and they don’t want you to know.


But faced against this blatant abuse of fundamental human rights, people respond with, “Well, just go to another school. I mean, is Covenant the only school that is there? If you go there you have to follow the rules.” My response coincides with Owei Lakemfa’s: I believe that it is the responsibility of any man or woman blessed enough to have resources to build a university to make a conducive and safe environment for students to learn not a prison camp that conditions students for mediocrity and abuse.


Then the people retort with, “But CU students are making waves all round, what they are doing is working.”

I have two responses to this. I believe strongly that any person that was able to make it through Covenant did so despite Covenant and not because of it. This is a place that retards growth and knowledge and can never be the birthplace of anything great. The second is this: even if Covenant was producing Nobel Laureates every year, how would that make what it did to students right? What exactly would that change?

When we were younger, our mother told us that nothing in this world was free, I’ll advance this: everything has a price. Speaking as I have will have a price, the same way that being silent would have. There will never be a safe time to speak, there will always be something to lose and as the time goes on, what you can lose only gets larger. Education, I feel is one of the only guaranteed ways to get us out of where we are now. But I don’t see how any place can even dare to boast that it breeds a new generation of leaders when all it does is revitalise the spirit of old ones in young students.

A friend once told me that Covenant was an ideal that was allowed to live and I agree. The idea of Covenant should have been left well alone in a dark room and should never have been brought into inception.


Regardless, schools — if they can be called that — like Covenant, Babcock, Landmark, Madonna and their ilk serve a very important purpose: they are clear lessons telling us exactly what happens when religious organisations are free to run amok and do whatever they want. Maybe in the future, when the conversation somehow arrives at the topic of making a new university with a religious backbone, our descendants will frown and shake their heads, pointing in disgust at the past that narrowly escaped them, and maybe they’ll remember what we are now learning: silence comes first, and then, hell.

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I hope this article makes it to the Frontpage.
This shouldn't be surpressed.

BluntBoy:
Covenant members who are struggling, I bet you can read this insult on you people

Well, I don't blame Oyedepo, I blame those who continue to go there and drop last pennies.

Convenant University can actually be made cheap without losing standards.

All the owners need is to cut down on personal expenditures. If it takes 1 billion naira to fund Oyedepo's lifestyle in a year, he could cut it down to 20 million so that more brilliant but poor candidates can apply to his school.

Then, the church owners could invest in more lucrative businesses, not for personal gains, but to help more students who are brilliant but are not financially buoyant.

You've shown that not only are you ignorant. You pull figures out of your arse.

1billion for Oyedepo's personal lifestyle?

Who told you he spends that much in his personal life style?
$228.32k dollars a month? Personal lifestyle?
On what?

Do you have any figures backing that?

Do you have any articles from anyone who made Billions in dollars from business who spends that much on monthly expenditure for "Personal Lifestyle"?

Let's leave that aside.

You want covenant to be made cheap without losing standards? Why don't you demand the same from your public universities who get Millions of Naira in funding and yet maintain shitty standards??

A man works hard to improve the standard of a university and make it world class.

Then you come and leave the hundreds of Federal and state university to come and dictate to him what he should do with his PERSONAL MONEY for people to come into the school.

You have a big entitlement mentality but you don't know it.

You think it is cheap to run a school of that magnitude and class?

Look at another post of mine on this thread

DaySpringer:
Sit down,

Calculate the salaries of the professors are being paid every week there.

Calculate the thousands of dollars being paid to bring in high standard of professors from outside the country.

Calculate how much is being paid in salaries to maintain the buildings and infrastructure.

Calculate how much is being paid to maintain 24 hour light in the school.

Calculate how much has been paid to bring in world class equipment in learning.

You think that standards are made easily?

You're ignorant.

Who told you that the school doesn't already offer scholarships?

Go and check out the average student loan debt for a single student in the United States.

Calculate Covenant school fees for a single student and then multiply it by 4 years, convert it to Naira and then see if it is up to half of what is obtainable for Public institutions in the United States.

Now look at the economic situation of the country and ask yourself whether the country's environment itself supports the establishment of Schools of that quality.

But as usual your ignorance plus entitlement mentality feels that because he's a pastor, all the money he owns in this life came from the offering of his members and nothing else, thus you can sit there and dictate what he does and how he does it.

Giving you a university that is Standard in a shit hole country like this is not enough, you want him to make it cheap too.

Go to American University of Nigeria Yola and tell them the same thing too.


Read this comment too and get sense.https://www.nairaland.com/5415387/10-things-didnt-know-covenant#82220618

Badmod:
I like Bishop Oyedepo as a person though and what He stand for...
But I get confused alot by what I like about him.
I once told a fellow that I contributed N20 to the building and development of CU,and He said if it's Because of my N20 I started having some sense of entitlement that He will refund me.
I told him,"you can't afford it,not just you but Oyedepo himself can't afford it"....
A primary school pikin wey contribute N20 to donate as far back as 1996...
.....the truth is Winners Chapel can afford to run these schools,covenant and Landmark on 100% scholarship...let it be the school for the genius among us...I will contribute a million naira now or more for it to be school that model the best of the best of the next generation...
I still can't see why I contributed N20 and a poor guy like my dad couldn't send his wards to that institution...
My opinion....but I actually feel robbed.

Sit down,

Calculate the salaries of the professors are being paid every week there.

Calculate the thousands of dollars being paid to bring in high standard of professors from outside the country.

Calculate how much is being paid in salaries to maintain the buildings and infrastructure.

Calculate how much is being paid to maintain 24 hour light in the school.

Calculate how much has been paid to bring in world class equipment in learning.

Now look at your entire families Net worth and ask yourself whether you can keep covenant running for a month!
With your #20 you feel robbed.

You are a thief, but you don't know it.

Your public universities that are supposed to be operating at a world class standards, what is being done there?

Learnstuffs:
My only problem with the university is that the congregation whose contributions built the school cannot even afford the school fees

Free the sheeple

Stop being ignorant.

Do you know the standard and quality of education that is run there for the University to be Ranked Number 1 in West Africa?

Do you know how much it would take for it to run with such quality?

The masses cannot even afford 20,000 a month for 24 hour power supply but they can claim to have contributed to the School because of 100 naira offerings.

Women and Claiming the Victim card.


So it is okay when a woman leaves a man for someone that is better, high class and richer than him and she gets accolades and "Yass Queen"

But when a man does the same, Women cry fowl.

Why won't the man leave you for someone that was ACTUALLY BORN LIGHT-SKIN??

Besides, you're an IMO girl from IMSU..

We know your handwork.

If he wasn't famous would she be name-dropping him like this?

I currently do not have the money to pay you but I want to learn how to monetize my skills via Fiverr especially this Copywriting.

But I believe that you know your onions and you truly desire to help.

So why don't we make an arrangement where I join the class and Pay you with the money from my first two Gigs.

What do you say?

XhosaNostra:
I definitely don't think I'm evil or a terrible human being. I'm very honest with myself about who I am. I know I got flaws, but I also know I got some positive qualities.

That's your own perspective. Everyone is a mixture of both positive & negative qualities. The way[b]I[/b]see it, if your positive outweighs the negative, that simply makes you a decent person. That probably sounds like semantics to you, but my mind is a little bit more incisional when it comes to assigning roles to or categorizing people, including myself. In my book, possessing wholesome qualities just doesn't necessarily make one 'good'. I associate 'goodness' with totality- that'd mean saintly when allocated to a person.

Goodness + totality = Perfection

This is probably why you haven't been able to call anyone Good.

XhosaNostra:
1. It'd simply mean we're on the same page because I don't even consider myself 'good' based on those qualities. Compatible is more like it. 'Good' is a very difficult quality to define because people are not one dimensional.

I think the problem is not in your inability to define the term good but because you may not fully believe that you are a good person deep down. Why that is, only you know.

People are multi-dimensional but you don't have to be one-dimensional to be good. You just need to incorporate the dimension of being good as a part of your core-dimension or a part of all your dimensions.

Allsingles:
Thousands of men can pretend.
But thousands are also real too.
For a real man that is serious and want to take his woman to the alter.
1) He protects the woman in the presence of family and friends, no matter what happen he will always protect her but can caution her when they are together in private.
2) He advises his woman when she does something wrong. He will not raise his voice on her neither raise his hands on her.
3) He will always like to hear her opinion in every discussion. Not that the guy can't take decision without the girl but because he values her opinion as well as he values her presence.
4) He will not keep secrets for her, not interested in another lady, despite how endowed the other girl in the street maybe, his woman is okay for him.
5) Appreciate her in everything she does, and also encourages her when things go wrong.
6) He will hardly keep records of her faults, and he is not ready to use her past against her.
Not that he doesn't care about her faults but because he feels that the future with her is greater than their past life.

These are very very good points that you have raised. It is going to be very hard for a man to continuously display these traits and at the end of the day be a playa

XhosaNostra:
I believe every individual has their own set of rules, land mines & deal breakers in a relationship. Some more specific than others.

I don't know about how other people go about it, but I always state mine very early on, so it is understood from the get go what my values are.
Like you said, things like loyalty don't change depending on which direction the wind blows. My core values also remain the same no matter who I choose to be with & I cannot compromise on them.

Relationships are a learning curve, so even though I've been in quite a few, I still don't know what the qualities of a 'good man' are supposed be lol. I only know what gels with me. A man is as 'good' as his beliefs vs. my own, I'd say. If we have a lot in common, we're 'good'.

Now a subject I'm very certain about is who is not right for me. This one is not as complicated as trying to figure out who's good. It's clear cut & simple. It all goes back to my FIXED & 'NOT ABOUT TO CHANGE ANYTIME SOON' core beliefs. I value things like communication, consistency, honesty & of course, loyalty. Try me on ANY of these things & the end is nigh. I think I'm pretty uncomplicated that way

1. If a man consistently displays the values that you have mentioned above, does it not mean that he is a good man? Does it not mean that he is serious with you?

2. From your wealth of experience, can you say that you do not know the signs of a man that is not ready to be serious with you?

3. If a man comes and starts pretending to have all the core values that you have mentioned about, how can you tell that it is all a pretence. Do you have hints and tips on actually being able to uncover the deceit?

HRHQueenPhil:
for someone like me fully led by the HOLY SPIRIT, i can assure that
1. that man will call u everyday even if it is just to hear your voice
2. he will introduce u 2 his family, friends and refer you to people as wife2be
3. he always want to hold ur hand in public and stay near u so even the blind will know that you are a couple
4. he begins 2 ask or seek ur opinions and see ur reactions to issues relating to marriage
5. he will try 2 have sex with u, but if he sees u are a good geh, he wont force. the disciplined ones wont ask at all

I feel that many guys that are pretending can always fake all of these things you have mentioned above.
Yoruba girls are especially known to be good at number 2.

Is there anything you can add that will help a lady to determine he is for real that is so uncommon that she must definitely believe it?
or conversely what can a lady spot that is a bad sign that his man is not for her, especially when he has otherwise been good so far.

justine94:
I swear bro ph and owerri no far oo...na my fear be dat oo...wat if he comes to owerri to see her himself..can she stand her ground and sayNo to him

PH and Owerri.

That was how my ex-girlfriend's own ex came from Owerri to see her and she hid it from me.
During the relationship he started calling her, she told me about it and I trusted her that nothing will happen.

Until the day that she went to attend a conference in Owerri, I told her that the ex will be there and she denied it.
I later confirmed from the ex facebook status that he indeed was going to be there.
While there, she confirmed that she indeed saw the ex while he was there, I accused her of sleeping with him, she denied it.
Denied it vehemently.

Until three months later the ex called me and told me that they actually had sex at that conference four days before she came to see me in Benin.

Listen Bro, in a relationship, when things like this come up don't forget that sometimes you must have to value self-preservation above anything else. Her relationship with her ex is endangering your peace of mind and your mental health. I don't care about the details of the why she is talking to him, if she cannot admit that she has a soft spot for him then she is a liar or not someone that is honest with herself. If she is not honest with herself, how can she be honest with you?

She is valuing her family over your relationship with her, why won't you value your peace of mind and mental health over her?

Why does your three years with her appear more valuable to you than her three years with you be more valuable than her three years with you to her?

I hope you understood that question?

A three year relationship is important no doubt and the Logical thing to do will be to patient and watch her carefully.
When she mentions that the ex calls her, don't say anything.
Just listen, don't let her know what you are thinking about the matter. Lull her into a false sense of security so that she thinks that you are not really bothered about it. Then you check her chats surreptitiously, even put whatsapp web on her phone.

The three greatest weapons against a woman are SILENCE, PATIENCE & PRETENCE

Get the evidence you need and then bail out.
It will be on record that you gave her a chance.

However, those three weapons I mentioned above are very hard to employ, very hard especially when you love her.

if you want to discuss more with me, then PM me.

There is this general saying... That you can meet a man in two months and he can have good intentions and marry you and there are men that can pretend for as much as year just to have sex with you and still leave after he has gotten what he wanted.

I don't believe in "A man will be loyal for who he wants to be loyal for". That is just a platitude that many ladies use to placate themselves after making poor judgements in character. They also use this to stop themselves from going into more detailed analysis of what they have missed during the relationships and the red flags that they may have ignored.

Loyalty is a core character trait that is not turned off or on depending on the person that the man is involved. Loyal men would rather break up than cheat.

So How can a lady Identify a Good man that is serious and has good intentions for her.
Ladies you are invited to share your opinion based on your experience.

What are the red flags that give you advance warning that at the midst of all the pretence that this guy might not be whole he really seems.

I have a belief that no matter how someone pretends, they cannot do a 100% perfect pretence game just the same way no football team can maintain 100% possession in a 90 mins football game, that is the same way that a pretended will at one time inadvertently reveal his true intentions.

So Ladies, based on experience what are the tell tale signs and

Guys, give the ladies a sneak peak in the way we think, what are the ways that a guy might drop the ball in his pretence game , that a lady might be tempted to just ignore as part of relationship issues that she absolutely must not.

Don't view and Pass, your comments and posts might just save someone from an even severe heartbreak.

Thanks for the update. I came back and the lessons are just so practical.

The drive and the struggle, it all goes to show that at the end, it will all start to make sense if you keep at it long enough.

Thank you for sharing with us. This kind of thing needs to be put on the front page but it most likely won't.

Nicklaus619:
Lols this shit happened to me, In my own case I thought i almost lost it cos i was gradually depreciating in thought and it affected me generally and my boss and colleague alike noticed this, my boss had to give me a compulsory casual leave because I was gradually becoming a shadow of my self, I hardly shave my beard or eat properly, as I kept thinking of her, she got a better part of me, so this is what I did.

1. I deleted her contact, nudes, pic, and her nude videos on my phone, laptops.
2. I unfollowed her on all social medias
3. Distanced myself from going close to her street.
4. Hang out more with my friends and try to flirt around as I could.
5. During that period, my cute Neigboure got me laid, we had sex many times though but we never took things seriously, she had a fiancé she is been crushing and I was busy dating this ungrateful mofo
6. I got engage with my ps3 each time I am having a free time to replace her absent.
7. I resumed from leave happier and livelier..I moved on and now I am dating a girl that's way above her league, Lols this makes her so mad cos she sees us on several occasions.

In conclusion
Bro follow the above step and u will move on, if u go back and beg her to come back she will play emotional games with u and turn u into a money vending machine, cos it is clear she ain't got no interest in u no more...
Be happy bro this life is too short for one bitch to make it miserable for u. Cheers

united442

Look at this advice and follow it.
Number 5 is crucial to the process.

Serene007:
Lol you re not serous

What's the update? Have you accepted her back?

If you opened this topic because you're in a situation where you have that question in your head then I have something to tell you.

You don't need her back. Yes.
Let me explain.

You need to let her go. You need to accept that fact that she has left and move on with your life.

And no.

It doesn't matter who was at fault. If it was you then you have to accept that outcome and let it go. Don't let guilt drag you back to doing something that looses you more respect.

I will tell you something. It never ends well.

If she was at fault then good riddance. You need to work on your insecurities & inferiorities that make you want someone that wronged you back.

There are too many females out there. Too many possibilities, too many outcomes for one man to be stuck trying to get one female back.

You just need to brush up yourself. Improve yourself and become a better person.

How do you move on?
That's a topic for another day.

The main takeaway from this, is that asking "How do I get her back?" is the wrong question. You should be more worried about the future, more engaged in moving forward than in trying to go back to what was.


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For advice and deeper counseling for those who still need it. PM me.

CJI

iRepNaija1:
OP, the reason you can't continue a conversation after the pleasantries is because you don't know how to expand the conversation from the information the other person has provided you. Here's an example:

A: So do you have any siblings?
B: Yes. I have two younger sisters and one older brother and sister.
A: Wow. Big family.
B: Yeah.

A lot of people at this point would just stop talking, not know what to say, or change the subject and ask person B if have they eaten and bathed for the evening. Please don't be one of those people, especially since person B has given you information that can lead to at least three to four different questions (under the subject of family). If you're smart, you will continue like so:

A: So were you the trouble-maker in your family, the goody-two shoes, the nerd or shy?
B: Lol. I was the troublemaker.
A: You? I don't believe it. You're always so put together and so professional at the office, I would've never guessed. [See how Person A dropped a nice compliment in the conversation?]
B: Yeah, lol. I know. Most people would not suspect.
A: You have to tell me a story, just one instance.
B: Hmm. Well, I use to fight a lot in secondary school. My youngest sibling was teased a lot by this one stupid boy, always flipping her skirt up in front of their classmates. So I told her to start wearing shorts underneath her skirt and to tell me when she has a run in with him again. Lo and behold, he was bothering her the very next day and she texted me. Omo, the way I rushed him. I shoved dirt in his mouth after I punched him. From that day, it became my signature, shoveling dirt in girls' and guys' mouth after a fight.
A:
B: Don't judge me too harshly lol
A: Can you be my older sibling?
B: Lol. Don't you have older siblings?
A: Me? Nope, just many younger siblings who ask me for school fees lol. But I'm serious o. Where were you when my classmates set books on my head because of my short stature? [Person A did two things here: used self-deprecating humor and revealed information about their own school life and family life. Person B can follow up with a question to get more information and reciprocate or the conversation can continue as is]
B: Lol.
A: You must be really close with your sister, right? [See how person A is using information already provided from the conversation to ask another, informed question? They're not changing the subject, they're not fumbling with what to say. They started off with a main question (do you have any siblings?) and went from there].

Other questions Person A could've asked: What do you and your family like to do for fun? Which sibling do you think you're closest to? What was it like growing up with your siblings? Were your parents strict or relaxed?

This technique can be applied to anything you're talking about with someone. It hasn't failed me yet. Again, 1) just pay attention to what the person is saying and 2) use the information they provide you from the initial question you ask 3) so you can ask more questions. Good luck, OP.

I don't think B is a Nigerian Girl.

iRepNaija1:
B: Lol. I was the troublemaker.
A: You? I don't believe it. You're always so put together and so professional at the office, I would've never guessed. [See how Person A dropped a nice compliment in the conversation?]
B: Yeah, lol. I know. Most people would not suspect.
A: You have to tell me a story, just one instance.
B: Hmm. Well, I use to fight a lot in secondary school. My youngest sibling was teased a lot by this one stupid boy, always flipping her skirt up in front of their classmates. So I told her to start wearing shorts underneath her skirt and to tell me when she has a run in with him again. Lo and behold, he was bothering her the very next day and she texted me. Omo, the way I rushed him. I shoved dirt in his mouth after I punched him. From that day, it became my signature, shoveling dirt in girls' and guys' mouth after a fight.

I follow what You have written here but in my case,
after B admits to being the troublemaker and I give A's Response here,
B replies "Yea, LOL" nothing else and then when I say tell me a story,

B replies, I don't have a story to tell or I don't know which story to tell and then things get awkward and die.

iRepNaija1:
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This isn't the end to a conversation. It's the opportunity to learn more about each other, if you ask the right questions.

Can you give examples?

PrimadonnaO:
Sometimes, it's not really about "knowing how to chat." You won't just connect with some persons.

Personally, if I'm making an effort to talk to you, I wouldn't reply with "one liners." If you ask how my day was, for instance, I'd state specifically what the day was like... rather than just saying "it was fine."

If you can't pick something from there to further the conversation...then you're on your own... or you don't give me responses that could strengthen a conversation, then of course the conversation trails off.


But with some persons even when you do all these, the conversation almost always reaches a dead end. This could be because y'all don't have enough common interests or one person is simply not vibing with the other.

You've made some valid points. You actually make an effort to keep the conversation going but many girls don't know how to, they just wait for you to do everything.

This lack of common interests is also a big factor as well. It leads to an end of topics that one can discuss about.

I have finally admitted to myself that I am not very good at texting/chatting.

Especially with ladies. We barely have anything to talk about and after the mundane questions about school work, family etcetera, the conversation just dies out.

The only thing that revives the chat is a smiley face reply to my funny status updates.

Guys that have ladies loving up just from whatsapp messages & DMs, how do you do it?

Girls what keeps you interested in chatting with a guy?

Help a guy out here. I look forward to the mature and helpful comments.

japty:
Sold NYMassageTherapy.com for $200. Bought for $6.99 at Namesilo about 9 months ago

Did outbound after I bought it but no serious Interest. Then recently, someone emailed if the name is still available.

Voila! Closed through Undeveloped.

Lesson: Never give up because no one replied immediately after outbound. Sales can take some time. Thanks

Did you outbound to just the businesses mentioned via googlemaps on the search results page or did you also visit Expertise.com and message the businesses listed there.

shedy03:
And the winner is: Samsung galaxy A20!!!

Why is this your winner?

kvngjesse:
Redmi note 7 over all these devices put here.

What's the price of the Redmi Note 7?

So I want to get a new phone and I have a budget of 56k to 60k.
So far there are 4 devices that I am considering right now.

1. Nokia X6 (4GB variant)
2. Umdigi One Pro
3. Samsung A20
4. Hauwei Y7 Pro/Prime

Which one is the best to go for.
I would also Love for those who have used any of these phones to come and give a personalised review of their experience, In terms of Battery Performance, OS Performance (Does it Lag?), Gaming (Can it handle PES 2019 & PUBG?) and other important information that you feel would be worth adding.

This will also help those who have the Budgeted amount and want to get the best bang for their buck.

P.S.: I am going to be doing a small comparison of the phones in terms of major specs, If you want to comment and not have to look through Specs then skip down.

Screen Specifications:
Nokia X6: 5.8-inch, IPS Display, 1080 X 2280 pixels (435 ppi)

Umdigi One Pro: 5.9-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 1520 x 720 pixels

Hauwei Y7 Pro: 6.26-inch, IPS LCD capacitive Touchscreen,720 x 1520 pixels

Samsung A20: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 6.4 inches, 720 x 1560 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~268 ppi density)

Operating System:
Nokia X6: Android 8.1 Oreo

Umdigi One pro: Android 8.1 Oreo

Hauwei Y7 Pro: Android 8.1 Oreo

Samsung A20: Android 9.0 Pie

Sim Count: All Phones are dual Sim

Inbuilt Storage:
Nokia X6, Hauwei Y7 Pro, Samsung A20: 32GB

Umidigi One Pro: 64GB

Ram:
Nokia X6 & Umidigi One Pro: 4GB Ram

Hauwei Y7 and Samsung A20: 3GB Ram

Battery Capacity:
Nokia X6: 3060 MaH

Umidigi One Pro: 3550 MaH (With Wireless Charging)

Hauwei Y7, Samsung A20: 4000 MaH

Chipset:
Nokia X6: Octa-core Qualcomm SDM636 Snapdragon 636 CPU

Umidigi One Pro: Octa-core MediaTek Helio P23 CPU

Hauwei Y7 Pro: Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 CPU

Samsung A20: Exynos 7884 Octa-core (2x1.6 GHz & 6x1.35 GHz)

Camera:
Nokia x6: Dual 16MP + 5MP camera and 16MP front camera

Umidigi One Pro: Dual 12MP + 5MP rear cameras and a 16MP front camera

Hauwei X6: Dual 13MP + 2MP Rear Cameras and a 16MP Front Camera

Samsung A20: 13Mp + 5MP Rear Cameras with 8MP front Camera (No front Flash)
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Some cons:
The Nokia X6 does come with an earpiece

So Let me hear the reviews and the Choices, Who is your winner?

Even in this Hoe business, there is still grace..

Lmao!!!