₦airaland Forum

Vinnie2000:
In my Hood, one man (A Married man) who have been married for more than 10 yrs went to Fucck his neighbour's wife.

They got Busted and the Woman's marriage has crashed!

Just Forget your 5 Year talk.

Some marriages can Crash even after 20yrs!

Depends on issues that causes Disagreement b/w the couple and how they can manage it!

Kindly read well before responding. We should read to understand, not to respond or react.

I wrote "you can be almost sure" not "you can be absolutely sure". You reacted to the latter, which is different from the former...

Officialgarri:
I have a strong belief we will go more than 50 years together

The first five years are usually the toughest of any marriage. Survive it and you are almost sure of life time survival.

Keep this in mind.

Religion, especially Christian Pentecostalism and the new Conservatives like Fr Mbaka today in Africa, is largely built on Mass deception.

When you point it out, they say "Church is for sick people".

Frauds, all (most, actually) of them!

BreconHills:
Fully agree with all your observations. All Nigerians used to the fluid attack based style of prior years will be horrified at the way we are playing but I think this coach is pragmatic and realistic.

You have to play within the limits of your players capacity. You can't make a donkey run like a horse! So what he is doing is to make Nigeria hard to beat. If we were taking our opportunities no one would care less about the style. EQG would have been 3-1 to us, CIV would have been 2-0 or 3-0 ( saw what EQG did yesterday using the same formation as Nigeria) and GB yesterday would have been maybe 4-1

Something is off with our wingers and even the big man himself. Iwobi speeded up the game yesterday but he is more of a ball carrier like ARS Smith Rowe. He was probably told not to ball carry to avoid turn over counter attacks. Defence is OK.

How I wish we would give this coach some time. But you know us.

I appreciate your depth, and I agree with you. Let's talk more. Can I mention you on a dead NL thread?

BreconHills:
Wait till the knock out rounds.

Remember Italy in 2006. Nigeria has been playing an unfamiliar 3-4-3 which is actually 5-4-1 when out of possession. They might not continue to play that way. Expect more goals everywhere.

Teams with high local content have excelled so far. As the teams with high foreign content begin to bond, the gap will narrow and individual quality will become important.

You sabi. You get brain.
We should add you to our forum.

Let's hope it continues to go well.
However, I would have wished we tried another tactic yesterday, especially in the second half when CIV were losing badly.

A 4-4-2 with Ihaenacho as SS may have been tested for efficiency so that we are not completely understood and planned for in our knockout games with no alternative formation.

Algeria did it in Cairo at AFCON 2019.
Tunisia did it in Cameroon at AFCON 2021.

Something is wrong with Chukwueze's efficiency. Aribo is off. Is Moses Simon fading? Take Iwobi out, as it is, and we are dead - just like the last AFCON...

Championship winning sides must not be so predictable. Opponents would easily plan for them. Right now, it is man-mark Chukwueze/Moses or defend deep, which is something Nigeria is neutralizing by playing on the counter and gifting possession anyway. I am beginning to love Pesiero and Finidi for that tactic.

Lastly, in my opinion, Senegal isn't Africa's best team, not the ones that play with such African bravado and flair that Harry Kane & co dispatched 3-0 at the World Cup with ease... However, the Senegalese and Moroccans - who play more like Europeans in tactic and style - are possibly the best organised African teams at the moment.

Do the test!

Willie2015:
Nigerian elites makes fuel....
practically to drive the country....
Cos they are feeding fat from a bad system..
Fix electricity and gives 24 hours light...
No one will have a biz using fuel or diesel...
Cost of goods and doing business will come down drastically..
Fix the railway system using electric trains...
for both human and agric food haulage...
Nobody will have a biz using the road...
Except the politicians...

Simple and short.
I sat with one of Nigeria's greatest living politicians very recently. He said, inter alia, many of those who seek political power merely do so in order to steal...

tommy589:
Interesting

As you grow in age and able to understand the notion of what politics is about in Nigeria,you won't be easily swayed by any of these politicians.

Is it out of a caring heart for his community or constituency, someone will use millions to buy a nomination form,spend millions to become party flag bearer and get to spend more on final election,tribunal etc.to become duly elected

Nigeria politics [as it is currently] is structured as an high risk investment that is very rewarding if you finally have a seat at the table

You are an OG. An Agba. You understand.
I doff my hat.

P.S: I only added the bolded to emphasise the changes that are necessary to fix the problem

Honestly, if President Tinubu doesn't sack Betta Edu for this singular action, he would have a real problem in the eyes of millions of Nigerians who expect him to plug the leakages in the Nigerian financial system.

Mario Zagallo!

First and only man in history to win four FIFA World Cup titles: twice as a player in 54 and 58, once as a had coach at Mexico 1970 and assistant head coach at USA 94.

My biggest memory of him however, was watching him at the France 1998 World Cup final after Zidane's double headers and Petit's additional time goal had condemned Brazil to a 3-0 loss and runners-up medal.

The Selecao were not to going to defend their USA 94 triumph with another victory and it wasn't until 4 years later in Japan before the golden trophy returned to Rio with Luiz Felipe Scolari at the helm.

I remember his silver hair on his vastly receding hairline. Legend has it that the overhead kick, nicknamed Sangallo in Nigeria, was named after him.

Rest in peace Baba Mario

Buhari's decision to grant Presidential pardon to this man is another of the testaments of the weak leader that he was.

Its domino effect on governance and administration, as a deterrence to stealing in executive office, was a masterstroke that Buhari robbed all of us, of.

The Daura man must have considered political exigencies - but you do not do that on matters of bare-faced and convicted stealing. It would encourage others to do worse and further suffocate the fight against corruption. Here it is: he is effectively asking for another chance to rule Taraba!

A Christian Reverend gentleman who claims he learnt in prison. Who cares? Didn't Obasanjo learn in prison? By how much was he better, as a man who publicly amassed wealth by questionable means, when he came back to rule Nigeria?

The same queries people had from the Land Use policy and Operation Feed the Nation in 1976 that helped to establish Obasanjo Farms thereafter, or the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Project that he got sitting governors to donate to, publicly on national television while he was a sitting president - a project which he makes money from as a private citizen today. It costs at least 3000 naira to tour the same library in Abeokuta today: a place that was built right before our eyes with public resources!

Many things are wrong with Nigeria, and this is another one of them.

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.