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So should we fry beans?

N.B: Some DSTV would channels would show it but SuperSport wouldn't. CANAL, for example is on DSTV (French Bouquet) and would air the AFCON.

May I register my happiness to see that Nairaland is back up.

We would survive this together, Seun.

God bless you!

osuofia2:
WHo is SUKUK that God is blessing or is SUKUK a name of a Person?

It is an Islamic non-interest loan given to governments of participating countries for developmental projects.

God bless SUKUK!

P.S: I am a Christian.

tunnyl:
@op take this as a lesson man. In Nigeria, its dog eat dog. For naija, u go collect wetin dem give u and do wetin dem say mke u do even if e no dey agreement. Collect you money then flee from that person. Or learn how to play the Nigerian game.

But why everybody kom dey lambast op like this?. Yall are adding to the problem instead of providing a solution. So many toxic comments because op made a mistake.

He could be young and young people are prone to making irrational decisions once in a while. Especially person wey no like to dey cheat other people.

You are possibly the most balanced person on this thread. Your comment is kind.

You have rightly enthused the reason why the OP may have done what he did, which he/she is being heavily blamed for.

People must realise that their caustic comments, though may appear harmless, aren't likely to be seen as fair to the person who came here to seek advice. People have committed suicide because of social media comments. It sounds unbelievable but it is entirely true!

Yes, he/she made a mistake to return money to his/her employer. OP was possibly naive. However, OP is broke and deserves to receive a fair fraction of the remuneration since he/she had done a significant part of the work.

It is not the time to dwell on his/her naiveté, but to help with directions towards a redress and an amicable compensation to both parties.

Kind regards.

tunnyl:
@op take this as a lesson man. In Nigeria, its dog eat dog. For naija, u go collect wetin dem give u and do wetin dem say mke u do even if e no dey agreement. Collect you money then flee from that person. Or learn how to play the Nigerian game.

But why everybody kom dey lambast op like this?. Yall are adding to the problem instead of providing a solution. So many toxic comments because op made a mistake.

He could be young and young people are prone to making irrational decisions once in a while. Especially person wey no like to dey cheat other people.

You are possibly the most balanced person on this thread. Your comment is kind.

You have rightly enthused the reason why the OP may have done what he did, which he is being heavily blamed for.

People must realise that their caustic comments, though may appear harmless, aren't likely to be seen as fair to the person who came here to seek advice. People have committed suicide because of social media comments. It sounds unbelievable but it is entirely true!

Yes, he/she made a mistake to return money to his/her employer. OP was possibly naive. However, OP is broke and deserves to receive a fair fraction of the remuneration since he/she had done a significant part of the work.

It is not the time to dwell on his/her naiveté, but to help with directions towards a redress and an amicable compensation to both parties.

Kind regards.

naptu2:
General Abdulsalam Abubakar, Colonel Abdallah and Major Al-Mustapha.

This was the second time that the Pope came to Nigeria. He came in 1982 and I remember everything that happened during the 1982 visit.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69PggL_Qjc?si=ATmXwklzxDOhYlH7



He came to give Abacha a list of detainees to release. There were a lot of political prisoners then and the Pope came with a list of people that he wanted Abacha to release.

Naptu2, Indeed, His Holiness, the late Pope came to Nigeria in March1998 for TWO reasons.

Virtually everyone who had previously commented on this thread has repeatedly mentioned only one of the two.

First, as customary, he visited the Head of State, being that he is himself the Head of Government of an independent State - the Vatican.

Pope John Paul II took that visit to intercede on behalf of the many political prisoners in jail at the time. The included President Obasanjo and all those roped in the 1995 and 1997 "phantom" coups - but the most important political prisoner at the time was Chief M.K.O Abiola who had won the 1993 General election.

However, the primary reason the Pope came to Nigeria was not to meet Abacha. After meeting Abacha, the Pope went to Aguleri in Anambra State for the Beatification of the late Monk who had died in 1960, Cyprian Iwene Tansi. Tansi is/was the first Nigerian to be so beatified, with is what majorly brought the Pope to Nigeria.

In the Roman Catholic Faith, Beatification (from Latin beatus, "blessed" and facere, "to make" is a recognition accorded of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name. Beati is the plural form, referring to those who have undergone the process of beatification; they possess the title of "Blessed", abbreviated as "Bl." before their names and are often referred to in English as "a Blessed" or, plurally, "Blesseds".

After beatification, the final step to being proclaimed a Saint is Cannonization.

LadyRosa2:
Story!
The guy is lucky the lady didn't come earlier, if it's a Catholic Church, that wedding will NEVER hold until that case is settled. The priest will move to the next couple immediately.

The fact that the bride is not aware of this pregnancy is already an impediment to that marriage. You MUST as a matter of rules of the Catholic doctrine disclose any secret that may affect a marriage to your partner before the wedding takes place.

Again, there's no such thing as thugs, those guys are definitely relatives to the pregnant woman.

When I read the first word that ended with an exclamation mark, I knew this was someone possibly flushing with emotions, so this may be a very careful response.

1. Even in that Catholic Church, wherever place in Nigeria, there is a 21-day notice period before a marriage under the Act. That's when all conflicts, queries and legal encumbrances are addressed - BEFORE the actual wedding. It is the same with a Registry Wedding. Ignorance of the law is IGNORANCE - inexcusable.

Ignorantia iuris non est excusatio

Regards.

But to what end did the pregnant lady do this?

This may even be viewed as disruption of public peace - as being pregnant, the paternity of which is yet to be determined until a DNA test is conducted - is not a legal precondition for the supposed father to marry any woman.

The shame is on the male hirelings who served as the pregnant woman's thugs. The must be jobless low lifers, as any woman who uses pregnancy to cause such "must marry me" drama must be a woman who needs a man to provide her material needs and cannot take care of herself alone.

Where have you heard been disrupting the marriages of their ex girlfriends before?

Pregnancy is an independent condition of its own, mutually created by two people capable of forming a whole new human. It is completely unrelated to a basis for marriage if both parties do not feel so convinced - the man and the woman.

For men to help a woman to scatter another man's ceremony is quite a shame. They should all be sued to court.

My prayers and heart goes to all my loved ones in Freetown.

May the Almighty God shield you in this period.

We declare peace on Freetown. It is so scary. I was in those streets exactly a week ago: Wilberforce, Wilkinson, Saka Stevens...

Sermwell:
Did you sing this song for Akpabio, Lawal and Umahi?? You're now singing another song! Continue

What is important is:

Is it true?

Whether the other names find a wat to circumvent that truth, is another matter entirely. There was a technical legal loophole that was used to get Ahmed Lawal the APC ticket. That's some cold truth.

What is important here is that we need a much more enlightened population - and that's regardless of persons or political parties.

We all suffer the consequences of an unenlightened populace - everyone. That's something we ALL have to address with dedication.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in court, unfortunately.

Nigerians keep paying for the low fact-checking capacity of the citizenry.

Cry all you may, the law is the law. - unemotional and cold. It is goodbye to the populist Kano Governor who went on an avoidable demolition spree, wasting scarce public resources on financially unreasonable basis.

BBN is a zoo where we watch human beings on a circus.

Whatever they do outside is their business. They really barely matter in the final analysis, once they are off the screens.

They know that, and it is why they go overboard to win cheap attention by acting and dressing seductively. Shame.

FreeStuffsNG:
If a free, fair and credible election is conducted in Igboland with full loyalty of Igbo APC members, absence of hate,lies, bigotry and intimation of APC members by some Igbo who switched from being members of the outlawed IPOB to LP mob, no massive criminal thumb printing of ballot papers for LP and there is no vicious threats to kill APC members and those Igbo and Non-Igbo who vote for the President and APC on that election day, I am 100% very sure that the number of the total valid votes cast in Igboland for the APC in the Presidential election will be far far more and the APC would have performed and got nothing less than 40% of the total credible valid votes cast.

The vicious intimidation of APC voters and massive rigging in Igboland for LP was the proof that Mr Obi is not truly popular and the votes were inflated. Patriots like Late Chief Leo Alachuna, were too many to count, who were either intimidated or killed for supporting APC. No such thing happened in other parts of Nigeria against any political party and definitely not against the Igbo supporters of Mr Obi in Atiku's NE or Asiwaju's Yoruba South West.

I felt very sad to read this.

I knew that the locals generally suppressed and molested anyone who didn't vote their ethnic interest in the SE but I didn't know - before today - that they went as far as killing a gentleman AFTER the elections.

He who must come to equity should do so with clean hands. If you go into elections, you must go with the knowledge that you could either win or lose. Winning an election is not victory in itself. Leaving public office with high social acceptance is the real victory. Maintaining that high ratings and goodwill a decade after exiting public office is the ultimate victory.

There are many things we need to learn as a people.

FreeStuffsNG:
I know she will be deliberately and inadvertently misunderstood, especially by the lazy youths and cyberbullies, for her sincerity that borders on her personal insecurities in romantic relationships with someone living on Lagos mainland and that this her personal opinion is not necessarily based on whether the man is rich but simply based on distance and her needs for easy access of support from her man.

Some other ladies may not mind. In this same Lagos, some people were born and raised in Ikoyi but , for love ,left the Island to marry and live on the mainland and in later years, God blessed them and are back living and raising their own children in Ikoyi. Some people living on the mainland are even far richer than some people living on the Island.

I am aware that some folks on the Island don't like coming to the mainland unless they're travelling out or using the international airport in Ikeja.

The day an international airport takes off on the Island, many of them may not even step foot on the mainland for decades! Check my signature for free stuffs!

Last paragraph response:

What happens when they have to go for a function in Ijebu Ode or Sagamu? A graduation ceremony at OAU Ife or at the Ekiti State University? What happens when they have that Owambe in Osogbo?

All these examples are South West Nigeria specific, where you can't avoid going by road through the mainland - or the Epe corridor anyway - and would still have the challenges of everyday Nigeria?!

We must cut the classification to the barest minimum. We came nude, we'll be deposited in Earth, often times somewhere far from the class estates we make so much sentiments about.

We must learn to respect people, regardless of whom they are and where they are. Without people, our individual selves are all but worthless.

One of the indices to know the state of development of any enterprise in any country, especially in fairly capitalist countries as well as mixed capitalist-socialist like Nigeria, is the number of successful products of the system that return to reinvest on it.

It was beautiful to read Wayne Rooney's trajectory as he transcended from his playing career into management. He essentially started playing football in England as a child, burst out right before us as a 16 year old Everton Player, then to Manchester United before going back to Everton to spend his last days in the English Premier League. He then went to America to wind down his playing career before becoming a Football Manager.

A Football Manager is known as Head Coach, or 'Technical Advisor' (whatever that means, and wherever Nigerians learnt that phrase from) in Nigeria.

Nigeria has been playing Professional Football since the 1970s, and the name has been rebranded the 'Professional' Football League since the start of the millennium. Yet, nobody can point to ten Nigerian footballers who played domestic football in Nigeria that has moved up the ladder to become a coach for 3 unbroken seasons or 6 broken seasons in the nearly 20 years of 'professional' football.

Nigerians do not bother to watch domestic football in Nigeria because they know the matches are almost always rigged in favour of the home team by referees and 'club owners' who represent the interest of State-run teams in the Nigerian league.

The Nigerian league has never posted net gain in returns of the clubs. The clubs themselves are never audited publicly nor does anyone know the financial implications, in terms of contributions to the Nigerian economy, of football in Nigeria.

It is such public knowledge that no Coach of the Super Eagles selects half of his starting 11 from the Nigerian domestic league. In fact, on most occasions, there are no players from the Nigerian league playing for the senior national male football team. Yet we have had several Ministers of Sports (Youth and Sports Development until President Tinubu's administration) who essentially deceive themselves and everyone else while pretending to oversee the Sports sector of Nigeria.

Football is the single largest uniting factor in Nigeria, and it is of absolute importance that Nigeria learns how to manage this very large potential employer of labour. President Tinubu must get the current Minister for Sports to sit up and make football work.

Football is such a huge employer of Labour and Revenue Generating source in Britain that the English Premier League directly attracts the attention of the Prime Minister in regular updates and supervision.

A lot of our children who are economically forlorn and involved in such vices as internet fraud and prostitution could be saved and put on a path of forthrightness if football works as a proper business in Nigeria.

I would end with this question: has anyone wondered why transfer fees are never announced in Nigeria as done overseas?

I hope the President and his advisors would receive this. If cleaning the rot in the football sector, and make it function as nicely as the telecommunications sector is the only thing you do in 4 years, Nigerians would never forget your Presidency.

Except it is a misleading headline, I'll fault the Governor.

The Church can do anything and be anywhere. The government, which Reverend Father Governor Alia heads, should take responsibility for allowing a substandard building be erected.

Engineers know that there is a benchmark for construction materials everywhere. This benchmark is maintained by institutions of government. The reason why the society works in the developed world is because the government is up and doing.

The Governor should ask questions from the supervising ministries of works, lands, urban development and housing that allowed a substandard structure to be developed, not the church.

You should blame your system that failed to prevent the mishap before blaming the bereaved church for their presumed unavailability to "receive your Excellency" when you possibly didn't pre-inform them of your intention to visit.

spearman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrNGHehpGhU

Azikiwe defended Ironsi take over in a BBC interview by saying that power had been abdicated to him by members of the Tafa Belewa cabinet.

Lamba "Nationalist" Azikiwe (Ibo), handed over ceremonial presidency to Nwafor Orizu (ibo) and 33 MPs (Ibo), who were the ones who signed the abdication letter ceding power to Ironsi (Ibo) following an Ifeajuna (Ibo) led coup.

Azikiwe (Ibo), Nwafor Orizu (ibo), 33 MPs (Ibo), Ironsi (Ibo), Ifeajuna (Ibo),
Coincidences? I don't think so.

Thanks for sharing this.
I'll like to see references, if you wouldn't mind, of the 33 MPs who signed the abdication of constitutional government to the military.

I believe that the fact that history isn't taught in Nigerian elementary and secondary schools is something that is really killing our country.

Wotowotoman:
You must be a slowpoke. Agbani Darego is married to that thief TY Danjuma’s son with billions of dollars to spend. I feel like slapping your bald head for this rubbish wey you post

Oh! It appears you are quite upset.
Sorry.

TheEnforcer:
Mercy kept boasting that she will win the show even to the housemates. She had fans,Nd she had dropped money for voting with many voting centers. At the end of the day,it all came to nought.Sometimes,you need to be humble in life,even Mercy thought she could win ,you don't have to rub it off on the housemates. She is not to determine the winner herself,but the voters.And Ceex to was being cocky.She said damn it when evicted and was so shattered she couldn't even hug the others and wish them well.Lesson for bothe of them if they will learn

I thought I was the only one who saw Cynthia mouth the words 'GODAMMIT' when she was evicted.

These young people certainly have a lot of growing to do. It is a risky thing when you are young and famous. There is a whole lot of difference between being famous and being popular.

Nwadiora Cynthia is riding on wave that wouldn't be there forever. Where is Agbani Darego today? Married and silent somewhere abroad, away from all the media attention. That is what ultimately happens. Ilebaye was barely born when Agbani won Miss World!

Oun tín tán l'Odún Eégún. That's a Yoruba adage.

The most difficult thing in the world is to actually identify your genuine friends and identify your genuine course when you are famous. For all that it is, I can never, ever, participate in a reality TV show like this one.

andrewbaba44:
I weep for religion people sha


Cross Mumu abeg

There are many things I learn from this show.
Cross Okonkwo, whose nude is all over the world as a 'fuckboy' is the same person thanking someone for being a father figure who, in his words 'trained him in the way of the Lord that he hasn't departed from'?

There are many strange things about this society.

Oh, Cross just said that he was poor academically as a child, as against Bobby who was always topping his class. That explains it to me.

Lowering the standards of education in Nigeria is the atomic bomb that killed this country.

Cross just said he wishes to use his winnings to build his mother a church!

There are many things to learn about the way the models of the largest segment of pur population think.

We are in trouble. Cross lived in UK, right? His mother is married to a Senegalese, yea? It means he is very exposed.

We can ignore his personal weaknesses as we saw during the show, but to plan to use his winnings to 'build his mother a church'?

Our way is far...

Is Cross teary?
Is he weeping?!

thatigboman:
Congrats Cynthia Nwadiora, the Spartans Woman King. 120M is yours as well on Sunday.

Cross just broke that table by saying he wishes he can have sex in the house!!!!

These people are all starved.

What's the lesson? Men need sex as an essential part of life with or without emotions for their partners.

Women are however, more often than not, demisexual. They lose that part only when sapa and poor planning for their lives have made them prioritise money over it...

I thought Mercy said she was in love with WhiteMoney and would love to date him to marry outside the house?!

These people cannot be trusted! Hey

Pere, Pere, Pere?

What are you do in with Mercy under that duvet?

Pere is starved!!!

Lauryn41:
From Kidd

This is deep, and quite relatable.
Kidd may be arrogant and brash, which is not necessary, but he is certainly intelligen' (that's how he woul' pronounce it).

Rich people often have a broader horizon than otherwise.

I think the correct headline should be "Nigeria fails to win AFCON hosting right".

AwkaFinest:
Any Nigerian that knows little or nothing beyond Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa culturally, does not impress me.

Very very few Nigerians would impress you at that rate. It is our sad reality. Nigeria has more than 200 ethnic groups. I dare say the average Nigerian barely knows more than 6.

Even in States like Kogi, many people only know 3 ethnic groups. Our education is a mess. We are in the gutters when it comes to education.

I just read in the news of a Chief Medical Director and specialist Family Physician at Ekiti State who beat up his wife to the point id hospital admission. His wife is University Lecturer and PhD holder.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2023/09/chief-medical-director-beats-wife-to-pulp-in-ekiti/amp/

Now imagine how low that goes. When enormously educated and highly placed people as that do what MC Oluomo's members must not be found doing in the Garages, then you see how lowly we have gotten as a people.

Meanwhile, I heard Pere say 'so the women in this house can cook...' I feel we are losing an essential part of our culture and tradition. In this part of Africa, our women cook and maintain the home front while our men bear the heavier burden of winning bread.

Now, men are showcasing cooking and 'holding the kitchen down' in Big Brother's house. They are the ones essentially cooking and cleaning. They are expressing surprise when the women cook.

While it is not an anomaly to have men cook and clean, it is a worrisome trend because these same men on the television show are the ones who must win bread for their houses. You hear Mercy and Ceec speak about marrying men who can 'take care of them'. That suggests that they want men who are higher up the social and economic ladder AND who can also help then with domestic activities like cooking and cleaning.

While I do all this in private, I know it is not common and not easy to have men who would go all out to be the primary provider of family funds.

In conclusion, where family funding is liberally borne by both parties, it is also expected, as fair, to have domestic responsibilities and roles shared freely by both partners. If the former however isn't, as is the case in most Nigerian homes, it can be difficult to expect the latter.

Olodo24:
I supported Laycon, but there was a pity narrative for him right from the opening night very similar to the Ilebaye situation. The girls looked down on Laycon. I remember the other boys getting booed up in the opening night and Laycon standing alone with his hands folded. Nigerians judge people's IQ based on their looks most of the time, so, Laycon was seen as a street cultist who could vandalize Biggie's belongings, but he proved doubters wrong. He displayed intelligence which was even over hyped because he wasn't expected to be book smart. Ozo seemed just as intelligent as Laycon (if not more than Laycon), but because he looked rich and exposed, it wasn't a surprise to anyone. Laycon's PR team littered the whole social media space with his music videos in the opening night. A lot of people felt he was talented, but without opportunities and started supporting him.

I don't even think the Erica situation did much for Laycon. If anything, he gave Erica much visibility with their friendship.

Thank you very much for shedding some more light on the subject matter.

Kind regards.