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Theflint1:
That was 2016, one year into his tenure...I'm sure he was one of those that fell for the APC scam before his eyes cleared.

Let a bro have his win. He slipped in attack and KaoundeX, a defender, got the ball to score a screamer. He won his team this match. Prepare for the next game.

OasisX:


......this ain't PR bruh and time will tell whether he is a disaster or not. I am certain 100% that he is gonna fix the country and ain't gonna flint flinch.

You can go ahead to list them though.

One of the low-hanging fruits is i-DICE. I kept pointing out to Larride two years ago on this thread Tinubu was going to abandon it. And he has. Instead, Rwanda is doing exactly what we should be doing not minding AfDB assuring us of partnership funding of $170 million. Check out what Rwanda is doing with its $30 million.

Kenya signed a trade deal of 250,000 Kenyan workers to boost Germany's workforce in March last year. For our country rife with unemployment, that was a low-hanging fruit since we are reputed to be more technically gifted.
India has similar deals with countries in the E.U.

I can go on and on without the partisan bias.

abduleez1:
I'm happy with the kind of confidence we're going with into the Inter game. They'll know we just came off a final win against Real Madrid in 120mins of steel resolve.

That will make them shake a bit.
I just wish we had Balde.

At a cost. Did you watch the pitch side interviews? The boys all had the same thing to say - legs are heavy, body pain, tired... Madrid brought physicality and brutality to the game. I just hope our medical staff have improved significantly since the Ansu Fati - Dembele injury stretch era.

Pedro kept talking about heavy legs.

andrewbaba44:
Just imagine the animal

He should he punished

It's almost like during signing and in club meetings, Perez lets them in on information we don't know about that's why they act unruly.

Vini was certain he was going to win the Balon d'Or. Even Messi with astronomical stats was never that open or confident he was going to win it. It's like Perez promised him. What exactly did he tell Vini?

Rudiger has increasingly become more violent trying to live up to Ramos like he's certain he's shielded from Refereeing decisions.

Perez assures these guys of certain things and it would have worked out if not for Barça playing a perfect game. That's why they can rob an Atletico 9 out of 10 times because the later takes the bait.

andrewbaba44:
So if they leave rudiger he wants to beat the ref ?

The ref did not single bad thing against Madrid yesterday,why are these guys so annoying ffs

They should have left him to best the ref and collect a 20 game ban

Bastard

A player got a 3-month ban for hurling a projectile at a referee.

Rudiger threw an object at the ref, cursed him out, and threatened physical assault. La Liga's decision is what we await now.

Derumklala12:
Be like we go open our own TV oh

Cuz Madrid no fit they pressure ref to our own dismay... See the nonsense the man do yesterday

We have. But the real battle ground is X and Facebook, and Culers run rampage on both. Always have. Both shape public opinions in our favour.

Notice how our referee inducement allegations have been suppressed but VARdrid is being echoed by the media and non-La Liga fans?

Barça controls the online PR turf, helped by the unwavering Messi universe.

ThierryJay:
For me, the fault was VAR's and not the ref (esp the Cubarsi and Ferran one). When you taken in fact that the VAR guys were also threatened, they likely caved in.

But by and large, I just liked the fact that we beat Madrid without penalties (so they can't really accuse nada). But the cost was an extra 30 mins for our tired boys.

The VAR guys were never threatened; they just continued to do what they've always done since VAR got introduced - favour VARdrid.

Perez bragged about convincing Tebas to allow Laporta sign players for us. That's all we need to know about who controls the league.

Tebas and La Liga RREF rebelling now is simply serfs revolting against their overlords. That's why entitled Madrid players are incensed.

How many match bans Rudiger and his gang get would reveal more.

I keep getting hidden mentions on this thread. What's with Nairaland's auto-policing system?

ThierryJay:
Yeah the ref was under extreme pressure due to Madrid's mind games. But by and large, he didn't make any significant decision error that would have cost us.

He did. Even Madrid fans are admitting we should have been awarded a penalty.

Regardless of the referee playing it cool, Madridstas would amp up the attack they have launched against him and his family. Monday when his kids go to school would tell.

You work hard so you kids can be comfortable, leveraging on your successes as a launchpad to have it easier in life than you did at their age. But you downplay the work ethics and strides of a son (who seems fairly normal like the rest of us) because he has his father's tree branches to hang on to.

The same lot ridiculed and trolled FFK and DJ Cuppy for not making something of the gazillion opportunities their births handed them on a platter of gold less than three weeks ago on this thread.

You can't love wealth then hate the uber rich. You can't want the best opportunities for your kids then deride kids embracing the opportunities their parents extend to them as long as the parents didn't break the law doing so.

TemporaryHansel:
There are people who will still frown at the idea irrespective of the opportunities ( looting ) that abounds. I have rejected two appointments this year because I can’t imagine myself doing yes sir yes sir. To survive in the Nigerian political space you must act like a slave, major politicians want you to asslick their ass and treat them like gods always, and I can never do that. They will want to dictate everything about your life for you. Money truly isn’t everything.

If it's not too public-facing, it's good for the experience. Get the experience, connect then leave after a year. There are certain things you'd only fully understand viewing from within very closed circles.

If you are already very skilled, walking away after your set stopwatch goes off is easy. But it's good for the experience if you can learn to keep a low profile while at it too.

User09:


Really? This happens?

Nawa oo. I guess equality is equality at the end of the day.

Yep! Gigolo business in West Africa is big business. The same way you find Latino girls exotic and wild is the same way British and European women consider us a fetish to be explored at least once for the experience. In fact, The Gambia has a whole industry catering to this sex tourism by these women. https://www.google.com/search?q=sex+tourism+gdp+gambia
Middle-aged and menopausal women trying to experience a new lease at life.

The other place is Turkey.

airmark:
Even those moneybags that people like Obi may rely on, will refuse to release their money bagged.

Moneybags are venture capitalists - they invest in potentials with a likelihood to return at least 100X. Obi is 100X+ and Tinubu is 1000X at this stage. But you get more equity as an angel investor in Obi while there are more scrambling for Tinubu's Series A funding bid.

Like Iyin Abodeji would say, diversify your portfolio, invest in potentials and sometimes for the optics that you favour certain investments too.
Some investments would fail but the ones which succeed would cover the failed investments then you write the rest off as bad debt.

The same people who invested in dwindling Patricia and Abeg covered their loses with their investments in Piggybank and Moniepoint.

raumdeuter:
Will American mentors begin to reason Nigeria as a mentorship location

The buzz of dirty December in the Black community in Yankee fit dey bring foreign mentors and mentees seeking their African prince to our shores,

I dey wonder how the men for Dominican, Belize, Costa Rica and those small Caribbean Islands go dey feel when almost all their females from age 17 to 35 are being mentored on a weekly basis by foreigners bringing the allure of USD EUR and GBP

Nigeria has the population to feed the mentors only that the Naija boys will have to step up their spending game to match mentors

On the flip side, Naija boys become mentees to the ignored wives of these foreign mentors like British and European women trooping to the beaches of The Gambia to find African men in their elements so much so it contributes a sizeable portion to The Gambia's GDP.

GDP growth is GDP growth.

"If Tinubu ensures a free and fair election devoid of thuggery..."

Don't you just love idealists? Politicians only play by the books if they can't get away with it, whether in New York, Yorkshire or Yaba. Didn't Biden hide under Lockdown guise to win based on mail-in votes from dead people?

It's not Tinubu, Obi, Atiku or Buhari's place to play fair. It's for the system to ensure a checking system blocking such loopholes.

How many bills have your opposing PDP, LP or NNPP Senators or Reps sponsored to tackle voter or systematic fraud? People who partake in the dollarization of the Primaries?

Same Senators and Reps who buy votes?

Heck! Nancy Pelosi does insider trading because she can get away with it.

Idealism is noble but impractical.

raumdeuter:
If opposition join forces they stand a chance. If they are going solo they are just wasting their time

Join forces with who? Too late. Obi has realized he can match Atiku at the polls without the financial and structural muscle.

Difficult to make Spiderman play sidekick to Ironman once the former realizes he's become a force in himself.

OasisX:


.....PBAT ain't gonna make the move yet, cos its gonna be the ice on the cake - checkmate!

Let me discuss NC briefly. Kwara, Benue, Kogi and Niger are definitely for PBAT. Plateau is PBAT's Eno while negotiation with Taraba still ongoing.

Enugu and Abia too. Of course, Oyo isn't excluded. Osun's movement give the Governor away.

The whispers of the South South Governors deal with Tinubu were too obvious for political watchers. And paralyzing the Atiku - Saraki - Tambuwal grasp on PDP Is the only way Southern leaders can regain their place in the party. Even if it means sacrificing the party's chances of winning.

Folks should vote their conscience but Tinubu has the elites in his corner at this point. Maybe something would trigger a resurgence of the Obi wave before 2027 but the tide has calmed now.

It's not emotional blackmail. Nigeria and Nigerian leaders are two different entities. You can despise or criticise Nigerian leaders and love NIgeria.

There are people who have never said anything positive about Nigeria. If some of you are asked to list 3 good things which have happened to Nigeria in the last 10 years, you can't name one.

jojothaiv:
That Book Of Life effect is not something I can shake off easily, whenever I hear that 'Is your name in the Book of life?' I'm always drawn to a long bout of self evaluation.

Self evaluation on a religious level? Yes, in the past. Now I constantly self evaluate on an existential level - everything and nothing matters on this blue dot in the universe we call Earth. Easy when one is naturally introspective. Religion doesn't move me so much when the most visually religious people on Earth double as some of the most vile people to ever walk this terraforma. Moral compass has to be internally synced.

I think it'd really pop and look modern if you use dark mode. Install a dark mode switcher.

And since it's going to rely heavily on pictures, use an image CDN then sync as transitioning image background. Something similar to what Starlink has on its website.

ayoncox:
All he needs is right mindset, persistent mind, understand how to scale, startup does not always mean something that will be big but something that create value and has corporate signature, it's the best option for someone that does not have higher education, as long as there is an advantageous problem to solve, a mentor that can help navigate through easy and hard times, he is good to go. Startup is just anything you start with the intention of creating value, a church can even be one, a community can be one, even a religious organization. The idea is push your money into something that add value to others, let the street and marketplace experience educate you instead of classroom. So it's not always about tech, even though tech is the easiest option, do you understand

Tech is not the easiest option. Tech is grueling. You'd break even quick doing FCMG business than tech. You'd get 30 million then do a runway of 6 months and still lose everything.

Tech startups being easy to make money is the biggest lie told about startups.

You should join startup circles on X where we openly share these truths, including the many failures and some success. Startup blogs or blogs generally ignore the real stories. 90% of startups fail. It's higher in tech.

You should read up from successful VCs like Iyin Abodeji and Paul Graham of Y Combinator on X to get these depressing stories. Tech is no quick cash venture. Except you are building a fantasy to get VC money like many Nigerian fintech startups do.

My first recollection of interacting with his work was me on a weekend getting ready to tumble between the sheets with a certain lady. I had transferred R & B hits from her laptop without realising that song was on it. I think I had a USB stick plugged to a home theater. It took me hours to shake it off.

"Is your name in the Book of life?" I went,'Darn! Not now!'

Infotubia9ja:
Bro you have problem focusing.. I am like you it took me time to understand this. It's because you either have ADHD or you nuro divergent and when you try to focus and do that one thing you really want to do you dont lose interest you just start thinking multiple things at same time and you lose track for a sec to a min thereby losing track of your study and focus.

There are many ways to help but try use this. It's called NURO GUM just chew two like 30 mins before you start studying and see how you lock in. No distraction. When you spend complete 2hrs looking at your screen without you knowing you will be impressed with your performance and you will assimilate every information like its recorded in your brain

Erm, if you are asking him to take medications to focus, isn't he going to get addicted in the long run and recalibrate his attention span for the worse? It's like taking caffeine regularly as coffee.

Calming music tuned low before he learns or works and putting his phone away is start. It works for me. Maybe something else works for others but medications to focus? Addiction in the long run.

tgmservice:
I am in pains and angry right now I paid almost 500k for an Online dev-ops course.

Am not getting the worth of what I paid for mainly due to my time and work schedule.
The course videos are ok but when I sit down on my PC to learn I just begin to lose interest.

The organizers' of the course are overseas and they set their online live training at odd hours.

I really need to get motivated to get my monies worth. Please do not pay for an online course if you are not physically or mentally ready to learn it.

I'd always recommend three YouTube channels for structured learning:

- Freecodecamp
- Simplilearn
-Harvard Online

Then join programming Facebook groups and network with programmers in your city. You'd be motivated. Instead, work as an intern learning on real projects with someone who is more advanced in such skills.

ayoncox:
Self learn, use the money you want to spend on learning to create a startup, I am sure what you want to learn is already become easier through AI

Self learn? If he's motivated enough, yes. But creating a startup? To what end? Startups need to have a purpose and if you are fueled by success stories, it takes years and it's grueling. There's mostly input before you break even then scale.

Viral startup stories on X have people thinking it's big bucks immediately.

Theflint1:
#endlightskinhate

That's why most banded against Drake. Thank goodness for Curry and others standing up for him.

Deadprezzis:
You’re soo pretty bro. I want to look exactly like you with jet-black kiwi polish beards and furrowed brows

Funny.

Regardless though, don't you guys think it's odd to always refer to a man's look when the issue has nothing to do with looks? It's odd. The kind of comments which makes a man immediately cover his glass of drink at a gathering instinctively, or switch seats.

Whether we are religious or not, I suppose moments like this allow us periods for soul-searching on a national scale, on how we have become desensitized go pain and suffering, and ethnic cleansings bothers us less than Portable and Speed Darlington squabbling.

Because every time there's an argument even about a pin, pencil or palm frond, you low self-esteemed ones are always the first to make reference to his looks out of the blues. It reeks of jealousy or you hating your own reflections in the mirror. It seems odd for men to be obsessed with another man's looks. But I'm used to men being intimidated by it off and online.

So, in deference, this "lightskin nigga" uploads his pictures and dares you to troll him with them. But you can't because you know you've got nothing on this "lightskin nigga", and you wish you looked half as good as he does.

iamoyindamola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8014259/ijaw-ibibio-clash-akwa-ibom

Diss.troy stay safe

Next I'd upload a screenshot of me informing someone in the top echelons of government to put out a press release to douse the tensions and quell the rumours when Onyindamola tagged me to the quoted report. Then you can compare the time of my notification, the response the person gave, and the time the State Government made a press release which was also published on Nairaland. Once Nairaland resets my picture upload limit.

Dude, I am needed! Needed - not wanted, but needed! We are not the same. Some of us are very critical to developmental issues at the state level and we do not need to be paid to happily ensure these things. Sometimes we fund some of these endeavours from our pockets. See why my people would go to war for me?

Hint: The person I notified is also amongst the senators, judges, and professors I was hanging with last Saturday at an event. We are hanging out again this Easter Monday.


You are a nobody in your community. Just one of the masses. Mine has me listed as a contributor in its most recent history in 2012 as a teenager. A teenager.

There are levels to these things. You'd never understand until you live life caring more about contributing to state development without primarily seeking out personal gains. My profession and the honest proceeds can sustain me. I don't need to be a billionaire to be comfortable. Life means more to me.


[Edit: Screenshot added]

We are not the same just because we frequent this corner of the cyberspace.

Nope! From my pictures you'd know. A comfortable man is obvious in his looks. When a man has his basic needs taken care of, he doesn't need to tell you he owns a bicycle. His looks and carriage tell it all.

Do I run a startup? Hell yeah! Am I comfortable? I am. But I'm altruistic. Just because I've been blessed doesn't mean I shouldn't care about the downtrodden.

That's why I campaign about interfacing to ensure community development.
That's why traditional rulers seek me out.
That's why I banded with professionals to organise free specialized trainings in 2021, 2022, 2023 and another in a month's time. Participants of our trainings have gone on get oil and gas jobs. From my pocket and theirs. There's one I uploaded two weeks ago on Facebook.

That's why we have ensured my LGA/Federal constituency is the most peaceful host community in the county and there's never been any incidence of militancy there.

That's why my people would start. war for me.

That's why I get consulted on such things because I want others growing too.

That's why I speak at mini conferences ensuring smooth relationships with companies and locals.

The shocking thing: I barely upload these pictures anywhere or just crop these people out.

Unlike you who uploaded dollars to impress Funlord in 2018 to prove you are balling. You could be a kidnapper for all we know. Your attitude and vague details give you away.
Feathebrained braggadocio!