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I'm planning to drill a borehole for the house I built for my parents however i have few questions I'd like to ask

1. There are about 4 or 5 neighbors who already drilled boreholes close to us and so I'm worried that it may affect the possibility of getting water that won't stop running. Would multiple boreholes in an area be a problem?

2. I wanna know the cost of drilling a borehole in Anambra, very close to onitsha axis.

I appreciate answers from people who are either in the business or have drilled theirs recently.
Thank you

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If East tries to go, we will create Calabar, Ogoja, Rivers states
- Gowon 1967

State creation has been a bait, used by the north against the south in order to lure the south from negotiating their freedom from the contraption called Nigeria.

Awolowo, Zik and Tafawa Balewa, all knew that the nation Nigeria, was and still is, a geographical location named to identify people of different ethnic nationalities, with no common identity and have never wished to be united together.

This reality, is one big one that the people and government have refused to see as the problem engulfing Nigeria in both insurgency and militancy.

-Mike Kit Oka
19/06/2021

Who the gods want to kill, they first make mad.

falcon01:
Alhamdulillah

really ? Religion of peace or pieces ?

Remind me again ?

So Nigerian military airstrikes innocent civilians in Orlu Imo in the guise of trying to dislodge ESN.

Why haven't they airstroke bandits kidnapping and killing people in the north including Bubus village?
Oh they don't know their location ? But Gumi "the intercessor" knows how to find them whenever he chooses.

Nigeria is fast cracking up and Mr President is fast asleep..

Terrorism in the north growing into a billion dollars industry real fast.
Sadly they are hell bent on extending it southwards.

Buhari and his brothers shaaa

If people are allowed to provide themselves water (boreholes) and electricity (generators ) because government couldn't provide them, then it only makes sense to atleast allow local communities to form vigilante groups (just like ESN) or Amotekun.

Except the government is colluding with the criminals to kill and destroy people's properties, you cannot tell someone not to defend themselves against herdsmen when you cannot defend them.

Only a tree hears that it it about to be cut down and still remains still.

Aileexa1:
Why does it look like child abuse @ the fourth picture?

Love is truly blind

I know you wanted likes but hey.. this is body shaming.

Not good

I agree with freedom of association.
I may not like APC but PDP is no angel either.

Adeyinka Grandson called for igbo massacre and guess what ? It didn't even make front page on nairaland.
Imagine if this was Nnamdi Kanu calling for the Yorubas to be killed ?

Nairaland na scam

The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has long been ineffectual, with a kind of willful indifference. Under his leadership, insecurity has worsened; there is the sense that Nigeria could very well burn to the ground while the president remains malevolently aloof. The president himself has often telegraphed a contemptuous self-righteousness, as though engaging fully with Nigerians is beneath him.

Adichie couldn't have articulated it any better.

Buhari posterity would remember you for the many negatives

“The Nigerian state has turned on its people. The only reason to shoot into a crowd of peaceful citizens is to terrorize: to kill some and make the others back down. It is a colossal and unforgivable crime. The brazenness is chilling, that the state would murder its citizens, in such an obviously premeditated way, as though certain of the lack of consequences.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Nigeria Is Murdering Its Citizens
Under President Muhammadu Buhari, there is a sense that the country could burn to the ground.

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ms. Adichie is a writer.

Oct. 21, 2020


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LAGOS, Nigeria — For years, the name SARS hung in the air here in Nigeria like a putrid fog. SARS, which stood for Special Anti-Robbery Squad, was supposed to be the elite Nigerian police unit dedicated to fighting crime, but it was really a moneymaking terror squad with no accountability. SARS was random, vicious, vilely extortionist. SARS officers would raid bars or stop buses on the road and arbitrarily arrest young men for such crimes as wearing their hair in dreadlocks, having tattoos, holding a nice phone or a laptop, driving a nice car. Then they would demand large amounts of money as “bail.”

SARS officers once arrested my cousin at a beer parlor because he arrived driving a Mercedes. They accused him of being an armed robber, ignored the work ID cards he showed them, took him to a station where they threatened to photograph him next to a gun and claim he was a robber, unless he paid them a large sum of money. My cousin is one of the fortunate few who could pay an amount large enough for SARS, and who was released. He is not one of the many tortured, or the many disappeared, like Chijioke Iloanya.

In 2012 Mr. Iloanya was 20 when SARS officers arrested him at a child dedication ceremony in Anambra State. He had committed no crime. His family tried to pay to have him released but were asked to bring more money than they had. So they sold their property to raise money and went back to the SARS office but Mr. Iloanya was no longer there. They have not seen him since. Photos of him on social media show a young man, still almost a child, with sensitive eyes and a future waiting for him. There are so many families like the Iloanyas who are caught between pain and hope, because their sons and brothers were arrested by SARS and they fear the worst, knowing the reputation of SARS, but still they dare to hope in the desperate way we humans do for those we love.

There have been End SARS protests, since 2016, but October 2020 was different, a tipping point had been reached. The protests signaled the overturning of convention — the protesters insisted on not having a central leadership, it was social rather than traditional media that documented the protests, and, in a country with firm class divisions, the protests cut across class. The protests were peaceful, insistently peaceful, consistently peaceful. They were organized mostly on social media by young Nigerians, born in the 1980s and 1990s, a disaffected generation with the courage to act. Their bravery is inspiring. They speak to hope and to the possibility of what Nigeria could become. Of those involved in the organization, none is more remarkable than a group called Feminist Coalition, set up by Nigerian feminists, who have raised more than $180,000, and have provided legal aid, security and food to protesters.

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But the Nigerian government tried to disrupt their fund-raising. The Nigerian government has reportedly accused Flutterwave, the company through which the donation link was created, of accepting funds from terrorists, even though it is clear that Feminist Coalition’s members are not terrorists. Their fund-raising link suddenly stopped working. Still, they persisted, and began to raise money through Bitcoin.

From the capital city of Abuja to the small town of Ogbomosho, state agents attacked and beat up protesters. The police killed a few and detained many others, until social media and video evidence forced them to release some of the detained. Still, the protesters persisted.

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The Lagos State government accused protesters of violence, but it defied common sense that a protest so consistently committed to peaceful means would suddenly turn around and become violent. Protesters know they have everything to lose in a country like Nigeria where the mere hint of violence gives free reign to murderous security forces. Nigeria’s political culture is steeped in state-sponsored thuggery. Politicians routinely hire thugs to cause chaos, especially during elections, and many people believed that thugs had been hired to compromise the protests. On social media, videos that attested to this — of thugs getting into SUVs that belonged to the government, of hardened and hungry young men admitting they were paid to join the protests and become violent. Still, the protesters persisted.

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At about noon on Oct. 20, 2020, about two weeks into the protests, the Lagos State governor suddenly announced a curfew that would begin at 4 p.m., which gave people in a famously traffic-clogged state only a few hours to get home and hunker down. I feared that a curfew would provide an excuse for state violence, that in the name of restoring order, the army and police would unleash violence. Still, I was unprepared for the carnage that followed at the Lekki Toll Gate, the most prominent in Lagos. Government officials reportedly cut the security cameras, then cut off the bright floodlights, leaving only a darkness heavy with foreboding. The protesters were holding Nigerian flags, sitting on the ground, some kneeling, some singing the national anthem, peaceful and determined.

A blurry video of what happened next has gone viral — soldiers walk toward the protesters with a terrifyingly casual calm, the kind of calm you cannot have if you are under attack, and they shoot, not up in the air, which anyway would still be an atrocity when dealing with peaceful protesters, but with their guns at arm level, shooting into a crowd of people, shooting to kill. Sparks of gunfire taint the air. It is still unclear how many died. Those at the scene say that the Nigerian army took away some bodies, and prevented ambulances from getting in to help the injured, and that there was still shooting going on hours later, in the morning.

The Nigerian state has turned on its people. The only reason to shoot into a crowd of peaceful citizens is to terrorize: to kill some and make the others back down. It is a colossal and unforgivable crime. The brazenness is chilling, that the state would murder its citizens, in such an obviously premeditated way, as though certain of the lack of consequences.

It is anarchy, a friend told me. Nigeria is descending into chaos, another friend said. They may be right, but “anarchy” and “chaos” are different ways of using language to shield what is fundamentally to blame — a failure of leadership. It did not have to be like this. The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has long been ineffectual, with a kind of willful indifference. Under his leadership, insecurity has worsened; there is the sense that Nigeria could very well burn to the ground while the president remains malevolently aloof. The president himself has often telegraphed a contemptuous self-righteousness, as though engaging fully with Nigerians is beneath him. Twelve hours after soldiers shot peaceful protesters, Mr. Buhari still had not addressed the nation.

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A movement cannot spread so organically and widely across Nigeria if it does not legitimately reflect the grievances of ordinary people. A democratically elected government that is unable or unwilling to fully address those grievances has failed.

In the first week of the protests, the president sent out a tweet and then gave a flaccid speech about ending SARS. The inspector general of police has announced that SARS has been scrapped, but the government has announced the dissolution of SARS a few times in the past, starting in 2017. Because Nigerians are so accustomed to the two-faced nature of their governments, to promises destroyed even before being made, it is unsurprising that the protesters distrust the government and are demanding clear actions rather than words.

For weeks I have been in my ancestral hometown, where we first buried my beloved father, and then a week later, buried his only sister, my Aunt Rebecca. Immersed in my own raw grief, the frequent moments of stunned sorrow, thinking of my father’s casket being lowered into the rain-softened earth, wondering if it might still all be a bad dream, I think with a new kind of poignancy about those who have been killed. I think of their families brutally plunged into the terrible abyss of grief, made more terrible by the knowledge that their loved ones were killed by their country. And for what? Because they peacefully asked to be allowed to live.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a novelist and the author, most recently, of “Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.”




https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/opinion/chimamanda-adichie-nigeria-protests.html

Buhari killed the last hope with this speech tonight.
Its over.

9ja I don jakpa
Abeg make the last person off lights

Lagos state government cannot be absolved of this heinous inhumanity.

Saving it for either sales or to be used for vote buying in the next election

Buhari is a bad boy.

On a serious note.. Tinubu is still hiding in France.

One thing Buhari presidency can teach us is that we must never elect again any leader that sees himself as more powerful than the people.

This is a clarion call the end Tinubus presidential ambitions before he even get started..

Nigerian government have really taken Nigerians for a fool

Rugaria:
Lol,
We like to humor ourselves sometimes.. Reminds of some Nigerians who will like to argeu vociferously about the need for citizens to get their voters card ready to kick out Buhari! I mean, kick out a man that has been involved in almost 4 coups! If any of those coups failed, he will be tied at the bar beach and shot according to law! A man that took such risks will now allow you to chase him away with you "nuclear powered PVC"!?? Check am naa..E make sense? We should embibe the habit of telling ourselves some home truth sometimes..

Now, we are comparing salaries..Has there been any Nigerian president that really worried about his salaries? I'm sure some of them will feel insulted with that.
Salary issues are for those who might find reasons to depend on their salaries at a point. Not the likes of Buhari who can award the richest oil block in the country to his dog from his bed and nothing will happen.. The gap between countries with effective remunerative structures for their political office holders and those that have consciously institutionalized corruption is massive..

we can save the country a whole lot just by cutting the salaries of the members of the national assembly.
Checking the presidency might be a lot more tougher but you can make suggestions on how to if you have any. We need to find ways to check these guys excesses . You can run a successful country this way

DontBullshitMe:
All this emotional blackmail will not work.

Engage your lawmakers to correct whatever you think is wrong with the pay structure of public office holders.

you're talking trash.
You think the lawmakers would wholeheartedly agree to cut down their earnings after spending millions to get themselves elected?

We can only force them to do it. And the only way is by enlightening more people and getting out on the streets to enforce paradigm shifts.

Now these are the countries we run to for financial aids and loans

Ordinary Nigerian Senator earns 4x what US president earns per year.

How about what Nigerian president earns? Ofcourse it's a classical secret they must never reveal.

How can our leaders earn 4-8x what the leaders of the western world earn but our citizens earns about 10x less than what western citizens earn ?

Our main problem is cost of governance.

Place senators and Reps members on the same salary scheme as the most senior grade level in Federal civil service. That way elective offices would become less competitive and only the people that really care to serve would run for those offices. The money hungry individuals would look for other trades to ply.





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Retrogressive society of Nigeria

Matters arising..

While we "EndSARS" Can we also end "urgent 2k" now?

"Our Darling President " chanted Managrill or whatever she/he called itself.

You don run for nairaland? No more 30k allowee?
Hahaha.

E go better

Goes to show that all black nations are failed nations.
Imagine the "poverty capital" of the world being the most successful

Desmond Idiot Eliot. I understand that "you don't talk while you chop" Good table manners Weldon

Lagos state generates 30billion monthly isn't inspite of "godfatherism". Infact it is despite of it.

Lagos state is destined to be the largest economy in Nigeria and beyond cos of its location and the purpose it serves for the country of 200 million people. All exports and exports. You name it.

Lagos state would have been as developed as the likes of J.burg and more other advanced cities.

You cannot explain the fact that Lagos state is still dirty and most roads untarred. Gutters over flowing with the slightest rainfall. No visible city planning.
Lagos state isn't doing well. It should not be used as a yardstick to measure development, and shamefully so cos of Alpha-Beta and "godfatherism".

A Nigerian doctor in the Uk featured in Forbes for his innovation in Digital Therapeutics Startup Helping People Improve Digestive Health

Meet Bold Health: Digital Therapeutics Startup Helping People Improve Digestive Health

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), a group of symptoms including abdominal pain and changes in the pattern of bowel movements without any underlying damage is one of the most common issues many people face, often chronically with few long term solutions. Individuals who face IBS often suffer from discomfort at school, work, or in social settings which can have a detrimental impact on well-being. However, a growing number of studies are showing the positive effects Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can have as a long term solution to this problem. Historically, CBT has been expensive and if taken through most national healthcare providers in Europe can take a long time to receive. One startup utilizing technology to provide this type of therapy but through your smartphone is Bold Health, founded by Dr. Jossy Onwude and Elena Mustatea.

Founding Bold Health

Dr. Onwude and Mustatea met at the Zinc VC which is a mission-driven accelerator program that finds ambitious entrepreneurs who are seeking to solve some of the world's toughest problems. Dr. Onwude has an extensive background working in various countries in the medical sector whilst Mustatea has a background in finance, first in Investment Banking at JP Morgan and then as a venture investor at Atomico. Given their skill sets they felt they would be a great fit and whilst thinking through problems to tackle Elena mentioned her experiences with IBS during a relatively stressful period of her life and how going on a yoga retreat and learning about CBT enabled her to "manage her symptoms and free herself".

However, cognizant that their solution would come under scrutiny from the medical field they conducted studies and partnered with elite universities to validate that this solution does work and could be scalable. Their primary study was carried out with the University of Pennsylvania and it proved the efficacy of their solution, a major milestone for the pair which further increased their conviction.

Zemedy

The first solution the team built which has launched in the app store was Zemedy an app that has a 10-week course where you can discover CBT techniques to not only manage your symptoms but to treat them long term. The course includes effective ways to manage stress and anxiety through therapies that help you understand yourself and your triggers. The app has over 10,000 users to date, many of whom have come from word of mouth seeking a solution and it currently has a 4.7/5 ranking in the app store.

After proving customer validation the team is now in the process of rolling out an updated version that will be offered to individual consumers and also enterprises such as employers of health insurers.

The Future

Looking to the future the pair have a pipeline of conditions in the digestive health space and beyond that, they feel CBT can be used for. They have partnered with leading investors such as Plug & Play, Sogal, and LearnCapital as well as strengthened partnerships with leading universities such as UPenn, Stanford, University of Manchester, and Charite. The team truly believe that "technology has enabled us to lower the barrier to entry for this type of treatment so many more people can have a digital companion to guide them through dealing with these constant, sometimes chronic ailments and this will help users live happier more fulfilling lives".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommywilliams1/2020/08/31/meet-bold-health-digital-therapeutics-startup-helping-people-to-improve-digestive-health/#2b28255b2498

About 6 months ago, my neighbor asked us if we wouldn't mind sharing our Wi-Fi password. We decided to give it to him because it wouldn't cost us anything extra, and because we got along with him. Yesterday, as I was getting out of the car, the neighbor was at his door, getting ready to come outside. I stopped to talk a bit as he held the door open. He happily told me he now had Netflix. At that, jokingly I said: ′′I work hard, I barely have time to watch TV, but, if you could lend us your password to watch some shows, we'd appreciate it ". A voice was heard in the distance, inside the house. It was his wife, ′′We can't give the password to them, because I'm the one who pays the bill and I can't share it." The man apologized and I said it was no problem. We kept talking about other things, and as I left, he stayed working outside. When I happened to look outside a little while later, I noticed the man's wife come outside. She seemed very nervous and upset. They both went into the house. After a few minutes, he and his wife came to my door to tell me the Wi-Fi password wasn't working anymore. I looked at them and said, ′′ I changed my password, because it's me paying the bill and I can't share it ". The wife turned red and tried to say something, but I said, ′′Ma'am, I have my network and you have your Netflix, everything is fine and everyone is happy". They turned around and left. They never spoke to me again.
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This story isn't mine, but here's the lesson I learned from it:
- Friendship must be mutual.
- Love must be mutual.
- Affection must be mutual.
In 2020 I intend to return silence with silence, absences with absences, affection with affection, friendship with friendship and loyalty with loyalty. No more one-sided feelings. Feelings must be mutual.
#YouGetWhatYouGive ! �

Is this how low Nigeria has sunken under Buhari and APC ?