mcocolok: MUMU, A MAN CAN ALWAYS LIE HE IS A VIRGIN, HOW YOU ONE TAKE KNOW? YOU ONE LOOK INSIDE HIM PRICK

Seems like you don't know that women can replace their hymens now.

yomifowe: In my opinion, the best gift a man or especially woman can give to her husband is...






Her Virginity.

If you do this, he would forever love you for this and the likelihood of breaking up with you would be very slim.

Secondly, this would help build a strong foundation of trust in the marriage.

This is my N5.

I hope the same applies for men o otherwise this gift makes no sense.

On question though... why are most (probably 90%) of politicians big and round

I'm not insulting anyone so nobody should say anything about my father or family member. It's just an observation.

martha: -See your scatter scatter teeth like devil calculator...
-You shiit here, you shiit here e dey like benden road
lol... itz been long tho... cnt remember much

Sorry o but we didn't and don't engage in such.

arcbabe: Abeg go and sleep

Smh

arcbabe: . They are not forced but still there are no jobs in nigeria? If they reject the small pay will you look for another job for them

So the other option is to steal?? What makes them different from burglars??

If citizens think like this, who will hold the leadership accountable? Smh

arcbabe: people don't waste their time working for a particular company,sweating and killing themself while one person at the top will be feeling bossy with his fat butt and small head make you money and get out of there to start your own. That lady the OP is talking about is probably building a house by now. When you eat make sure your employees eat too so they won't end up punishing you but people are just so selfish

? At this point, I honestly want to believe you are just messing around and playing devils advocate because this can't be real!!!

arcbabe: Do you know how much they are paid? they suffer but yet try to put smiles on their faces and attend to you in a satisfactory manner just to see that you are happy and satisfied but some will now think they are fools. report them and see if they can be sack,they always leave at their free will

Good. They have to force those smiles on their faces even when they don't like their pay. They have to do their job! You talk like as if they didn't know how much those sakary would be and what the job description was before they accepted. For crying out loud, they freaking applied god the jobs themselves!!! Are they slaves Are the being forced?? Come on!

Honestly, nairaland is only a microcosm of Nigeria. Smh very embarrassing and disappointing.

The people that cry "corruption" are the same ones practicing and encouraging it. We never see anything yet.

hollandis:

The money should have been used to buy fruits and vegetables.What is OP looking for bags of nuts for?Isn't it tantamount to having diarrhoea

That's his own personal business. Nuts are good for you anyway. All your posts on this thread have been too known. The OP had his receipts for all his purchase. Read the post again.

And as for tips, it's not immoral but there's a system with tips. And that I don't give you any tip doesn't mean you shouldn't do your job, you are being paid to do it. (customer service is no 1 in any business).

Chylo:

...And you don't think their climate has anything to do with why the whites never left? Or you suggest that if we had a temperate climate, the British would have simply handed us independence without a fight?

Erm no. It seems you have an obsession with climate.

Had started typing out a paragraph trying to explain why the whites are still there but I'm sure if you look beyond your climate, you'll figure it out.

Built2last: I love Yoruba people. Have many of them as friends. I have never gone with them for any traditional marriage cos i have not been able to imagine myself lieing on the floor that i came for marriage.

Must this culture continue? It should be going obsolete na.

someone should educate me

Erm not every male guest from the groom's side will "dobale". Only a select few (family and some friends).

And why should this aspect of the Yoruba culture be done away with?

What are the chances of this working? Are African countries ready for this right now?
Will the same thing happening to Europe happen here?

THE euro crisis has put most people off currency unions. But not in Africa, it seems. In November the leaders of five countries of the East African Community (EAC) agreed to form a monetary union within ten years. A month before West African politicians agreed on a plan to introduce a new shared currency, the eco, over the next few years. It should eventually subsume West Africa’s existing currency bloc—but not its central African cousin.

Under the proposal an initial group of six countries will adopt the eco by 2015 (see map). Five years later the members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (known as UEMOA, its French acronym), which currently share a currency called the West African CFA franc, are to adopt the eco too, creating a currency union of over 300m people.

West African politicians are pushing for further integration because they, like most economists, argue that the single currency for UEMOA has been a qualified success. UEMOA member states are more fiscally disciplined than their neighbours outside the currency zone, says Cécile Couharde of the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. The French government currently underwrites the West African CFA franc by guaranteeing to convert it to euros at a ratio of one to 0.0015. That has provided a stability rare in African currencies. Monetary unions also simplify trade: UEMOA has more intraregional trade than any other region in Africa, according to an IMF paper.

But the currency union has downsides. UEMOA economies move at different speeds. According to research by Romain Houssa, at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, economic changes are poorly correlated between member states. From 2007 to 2012, the IMF found, the correlation between the business cycle of Senegal, a country with strong trade links outside the zone, and the other countries in UEMOA was almost zero.

Consequently, a UEMOA-wide interest rate is not ideal: as in the euro zone, some countries end up with the wrong rate. And an inflexible exchange rate makes economic adjustment difficult. From 2000 to 2012 average annual growth in output in UEMOA countries was about half that of comparable sub-Saharan economies, according to Gianluigi Giorgioni of Liverpool University.

Whereas UEMOA’s currency union has drawbacks, the proposed eco zone may have fatal flaws. It would encompass even more economic diversity. Nigeria in particular stands out. Its economy is huge by its neighbours’ standards. UEMOA’s GDP is about $75 billion; Nigeria’s is about $260 billion. The GDP of the next-biggest economy in the region, Ghana, is about $40 billion. And the Nigerian economy is unusual. Unlike most other West African countries it is heavily dependent on oil, which accounts for over a third of output, according to data from the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.

IMF research shows that Nigeria’s balance of trade tends to move in the opposite direction to its neighbours’—they are largely importers of oil. During periods of high oil prices Nigeria may push for interest-rate rises. That would be disastrous for other eco-zone economies, which are likely to be gasping for lower rates.

To make matters worse the eco might be vulnerable to speculative attack. France would be unlikely to guarantee it, reckons Mr Giorgioni, as the liabilities would be large and the countries involved are not former French colonies. Without such support, investors would be nervous. Any fiscal laxity would be punished. If a region as rich as the euro zone has struggled to cope with such pressures, the likelihood that the poorer and less well-governed places hoping to adopt the eco could is tiny.


http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21591246-continent-mulls-merging-currencies-ever-closer/

Scorpionking: You don't understand my friend,you think i'm joking. In this life you have to do what resonates with your heart. Southern Africa is the place that I love,my heart is in Namibia,its a punishment to my soul to not be there.The U.S is a good country but my heart is not here. I have been to Namibia and I know that's where I want to spend the rest of my life.
I want to live and die in Namibia.

To each his own. Congrats on finding your dream country. We all don't have the same dreams so biko nne, free us

Chylo:

And dats why South Africa is as developed as it is. If you've been there, you'll notice some places there are even finer than UK, same as most other southern African countries.

Yes and if you have been there, you'll notice some places are just as bad as the slums we have in Nigeria.

Again, like I said, the white people never left South Africa hence the development.

Scorpionking: Nigeria's population is 170million and projected to reach 300million by 2025. Nigerians are sex maniacs with perverted insatiable libido

Mscheeeeeew. Here I was thinking this was going to a sensible thread with proper discussions. Oshi + oshi.

Chylo: I can swear that I have always argued that our climate is a serious limiting factor to our development. I posed a question to someone once, name one country that experiences a proper winter that is not developed to a large extent. The person was silent. I think the heat messes with our brains, and does not favour FDI cos foreigners cant stand it.

I proposed then that air conditioning systems in Africa (everywhere possible - schools, offices, buses even bus-stops eventually) was not a luxury but a necessity to development, and I still stand by it. Think about it, anywhere there is AC, don't you notice people behave calmer? Food for thought.

Some African countries have winter (southern Africa) and some Asia countries too. :/

A reflection of who again? Nigerians themselves or??

dryakson: That's why we fail exam.... Malpractice.
https://www.nairaland.com/1551219/200b-ASUU-enter-acctwill-return

But you sef, where did you copy it from? It's all over the social media so free the guy. and he obviously didn't see your post from creating his.

Allohrandy: Rip. Most Nigerian marriages in the states don't last.

And you came to this conclusion after reading the article? Or you got your info from somewhere else?

Any indication as to where they all got divorced?



Worrisome that they lived alone. At least have someone check up on you everyday.

Rare-antagonist:
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has announced the closure of the two chambers of the National Assembly for a period of 12 months to allow for expansion, upgrading and renovation of existing structures estimated to cost N40, 238,899,499.85.
The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, disclosed this yesterday while briefing journalists shortly after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo that the renovation job had been given to Julius Berger.
According to the minister, members of the National Assembly had been relocated to the large committee and conference rooms inside the premises of the assembly complex to carry on with the normal legislative duties for the period the renovation work would be completed.
According to Greenbarge Reporters, he said the project was under the national priority of the government, stressing that it had been captured in the Abuja master plan and in the budget.
"Of course, we are going to close down the two chambers of the National Assembly for a period of 12 months and we are lucky we have already provided large committee rooms that will be used during the period for the parliament to continue its work.
"The contract is to cost N40.2 billon and it will take 12 months to complete," the FCT Minister said.
He explained that the project was specifically for the construction of Phase III Part III and upgrading of the two chambers of the National Assembly complex, adding that it would involve the provision of library, budget office, printing press, clinic, restaurants, banquet hall, places of worship, plenary hall (auditorium), TV/radio/press facilities, fitness room, administrative offices, technical rooms, and meeting rooms.
Mohammed said the upgrading of the two chambers would also ensure the installation of new electronic voting system.

They might as well make the place its own city/state with all of that.

Fitness room for who though?

Jamey Maxwell: Who the “F” iz Kwame Nkrumah?

-________- google.

MajeMedia: Mandela's victory was the last page in a book of self determination started by Nkrumah.
Nkrumah's mismanagement of Ghana stains his legacy where as Mandela's is spotless.

Erm.... I don't know about this one.

Scorpionking: Nigerians are ignorant about other parts of africa.Nigeria is not even 7th place in giant of Africa. I often hear you guys mocking countries like zimbabwe and namibia. Have you ever been to Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe and the rest of southern Africa are incomparable to shitty west Africa,Southern Africa like Botswana,Namibia,Swaziland,Zimbabwe and south Africa have subtropical climate like Southern California and Australia ,blue skies,rolling hills,snow capped mountains etc,4 seasons,even the nature is amazing ,that is why even white people love and settle in Southern Africa.
even without skyscrapers the southern Africa is generally more appealing.you guys need to travel more.western African climate is simply not conducive for first world development.Africa is a big continent,not every were in Africa is like Nigeria
the countries likely to be first world in Africa by 2040 are Botswana,South Africa,Namibia,Swaziland and zimbabwe

Okay, thanks. btw, where are you from? Southern Africa?

Btw, don't be too quick to talk about Zim. It's only how many years old? If care isn't taken, it will start to live on past glory. It has already started because Zimbabwe 10 years ago is not Zimbabwe today. Fact.
As for SA, the white people never left hence...

Oh and don't get me wrong. I don't believe Nigeria is all that either. At least, not anymore and certainly not in all areas.

question: does garri help in weight gain?

Maintenance! That's the problem with most of our structures. Perhaps, we should resort to using bricks and the like for our structures and that way, we would not have to worry about paint chipping off the walls or washing off.

I found the article quite hilarious especially the guy who didnt have beef weeks before opening and instead of the equipment frying his patties, it fried his refrigerator and gen

But really though, our cattle tends to be scrawny?? Importing vegetable toppings? Burgers going for $14 = N 2240? Absolutely ridiculous!! How are other fast food places coping? Mr Biggs etc? Where do they get their beef?

LAGOS, Nigeria—It ain't easy bringing Africa the hamburger.

In the past year, Johnny Rockets Group Inc. in Nigeria opened its first retro diner on the continent, and Burger King Worldwide Inc. cut the ribbon on the first of at least 200 restaurants it plans for South Africa and nearby countries. Next year CKE Restaurants Inc. plans to build Hardee's eateries in Nigeria and South Africa.

Some of the burger world's biggest names are introducing the American culinary classic to Africa's expanding consumer class.

But that quest is straining a supply chain that is short on the refrigerated trucks and warehouses needed to keep patties and vegetable toppings fresh. And in many places, Africans are consuming beef at a faster clip than cattle ranchers can deliver new cows, meaning beef prices keep climbing. That is testing the limits of what the continent's young urbanites can afford.

Some companies are treading cautiously, unsure that Africa is ready for combo meals. McDonald's Corp. has 177 restaurants in South Africa but has little appetite to enter the rest of the continent.

To others, though, now is the hour.

"Africa, it's the last continent," says Geoff Spear, CKE's vice president of international development. "If we don't start today, it'll never happen."

The success of chicken and pizza offers hope for hamburgers. Yum Brands Inc. has about 1,000 KFCs in Africa, up from about 600 in 2010. The five outlets of Domino's Pizza Inc. in Nigeria are the company's busiest by volume world-wide, says Nigerian franchisee Eric Andre.

Still, Mr. Andre's experience rings alarm bells. Because of water shortages, he had to dig a well and install a water-treatment plant behind each restaurant, at $60,000 apiece. And only two of his 76 hires had ever tasted a pizza before so he had to fly management to Manhattan for a pizzeria tour.

For hamburger chains, perhaps the biggest problem is getting meat. From Nigeria to Namibia, slaughterhouses rely on local herdsman as a source of beef.

But herdsman come and go, says Jaye Sinclair, the chief executive of Burger King South Africa. That prompted Mr. Sinclair to invest $5 million in a local cattle ranch that is gearing up to churn out 1.2 million Whopper patties a week. The chain, he says, is in discussions to open restaurants in Angola, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.

In Nigeria, meat supplier Chi Ltd. is one of several agribusinesses building ranches in anticipation of the new burger chains. The problem is, Nigerian cattle tend to be pretty scrawny, says Chi Managing Director Martin Middernacht. And the ideal burger source, the European brown cow, succumbs to tropical disease here. So Mr. Middernacht has bred a new kind of cow.

For several years, Mr. Middernacht tried to coax French and Nigerian cattle to couple, but the pregnancies were rough. At one point, all his calves had to be delivered by caesarean section, forcing him to increase prices.

Having worked his way past those problems, Mr. Middernacht now is on track to triple the size of his 3-square-mile ranch. The next issue will be growing enough grass for grazing in this drought-prone area.

Just opening a restaurant and keeping it stocked can be unusually difficult, as well. Chris Nahman last year left a California law practice to bring the first Johnny Rockets burger shop to Nigeria.

Weeks before he was set to open last November, he was still searching for a beef supplier, his high-voltage equipment meant to fry patties instead fried his generator and refrigerators he had ordered from the U.S. had been misplaced in a New Jersey warehouse during Hurricane Sandy. A few, he was told, may have washed out to sea.

Mr. Nahman spent $15,000 to have the refrigerators sent by air. Not quite what he planned, he says. "You're supposed to airfreight caviar."

His final product for the 1950s style diner is pricey. To give an authentic taste of the U.S., he flies in onions, mushrooms and iceberg lettuce. Burgers start at $14 for the Rocket Single, a lone patty topped with a Cheddar slice.

Nevertheless, the diner serves a steady 300 to 400 customers a day, Mr. Nahman says—oil workers, bankers and Nigerians who have returned from the U.S. They aren't exactly the emerging African middle class, Mr. Nahman concedes, but they pay the bills.

In October Mr. Nahman welcomed a special customer. CKE's Mr. Spear was looking to open a Hardee's here.

"There's not 1,000 people a day who can eat a burger from Hardee's" in Nigeria, Mr. Nahman says.

Mr. Spear disagrees. "We just need to figure out how."

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579214133498585594

thegoodjoehunt:

Good luck to the gunners tonight. This is really the group of death. Keep painting lovely art on the field with the lovely football you play.

A true football fan loves good football and loves watching Arsenal.

[b]From a Man City fan with love.[/b]

awwwwwwww how sweeeet!
Thank you

tpia@:
the third photo is probably the first one.

the selfie was probably taken after david cameron arrived, and the other lady there switched seats.

Just found out from a friend who watched the event and she said that people switched seats when Obama went up to deliver his speech so I guess they are all real. It's just all coincidental but hey, it's funny!

GUess y'al haven't seen this

Btw, I found this on FB