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20 STRATEGIES TO APPEAR BUSY IN THE OFFICE......when you’re not!


* Do you find yourself, compulsively, stealing visits to social network websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Nairaland, Hi5, etc, during office
hours?


* Do you desire to be picked as “The Employee of the Month” while all you have to do at your workplace is nothing?


* Is there a “No leisurely Internet surfing” policy enforced at your workplace?


* Do you feel weekends are not sufficient enough to indulge yourself, hence, your extended indulgence at the office during office hours?


* Do you transact personal business on the Internet or via the phone during official working hours?


* Are you inundated by personal phones calls during work hours?


* Do you desire to devote a greater degree of office hours on recreational and unofficial activities and still earn a salary for it?


* Or you simply wish to appear busy to your boss and colleagues by projecting a semblance of one lost in official functions,


1. Always ensure to ask your colleagues, ALOUD, office-related questions during period of office-hour inactivity or when engaged in unofficial
activities. Such periods include when interacting with friends on Facebook; watching a video on YouTube; listening to an audio file on
yourPC, etc.

Office-related questions such as “Excuse me Shola, who did the inventory last week?” or “Please Effiong, what time is tomorrow’s
presentation?” would suffice at such periods and they should be asked to the hearing of other colleagues present.


2. Movement within or around the office place should be done with some office document (preferably a white coloured one) and a pen in your hand.
Even a leisurely walk around the office place with as much as a plain white A4 sheet in hand often present a semblance of someone right in
the middle of an official task.


3. During office hours, migrate all interaction on online social network or forums such as Twitter, Facebook, Nairaland, chat forum, etc,
from your office PC to your mobile phones.

If your mobile phone (in this time and age) doesn’t boast of an Internet access capability, now would probably be the best time to acquire
one that does...at least if not for anything, but to keep you in employment!


4. Always leave a cluster of official documents on your desktop.A chaotic desk top arrangement, with office-related documents or literature
scattered on it, is often interpreted as a sign of an extremely busy occupier---or that the occupier of the desk has attempted some work
that day!


5. Movement or stroll around the office-place should be done with a “spring in your step” or with some measure of haste.A hasty walk around the
office-place often creates an impression that you’re in a hurry to attend to an issue outside your workstation or you’re in a hurry to
attend to a waiting pile of workload at your desk.


6. Unofficial or personal phone calls should be made or received with a straight and emotionless facial expression


7. Always have your shirt sleeves rolled up and your jacket or suit mounted on the back-rest of your chair.


8. When day-dreaming, or lost in serious thought, ensure that you do it starring, glazed-faced, at a document on your desktop or one held up
high in front of your face.


9. When listening to an audio file on your PC or mobile phone; or when you’re watching a raunchy video of Shakira on YouTube, ensure to use a
ear-piece device.

Use only one of the two ear-pieces while leaving the other hanging down. But most importantly, resist every temptation to nod your head to
the sound of the music you’re listening to. --- Again, maintain a serious straight or thinking facial expression (not poker-faced!)


10. While on the phone engaged in an unofficial phone call, refrain from calling the individual at the other end of the line by their nicknames
or pet names.E.g “Sweetheart”, Honey-pie (Yuck!!..who calls their love interest that?), “Eccentric”, “Iya Sukura”, “Mama Emeka”, “Baba
Lamidi”, “Emekus”, etc.


11. When visiting the rest-room, take along the day’s newspaper. There is a belief, in some quarters, that very busy people take advantage of
visits to the rest-room and/or canteen, as a scarce opportunity to read the paper during office-hours.

Sadly, taking Newspapers to the restroom comes with some downsides. It might be misconstrued by your colleagues as a sign of a potential long
stay in the toilet, or that you have a special preference for newspaper as opposed to the use of “toilet paper”.


12. When visiting unofficial websites on your office PC, open a separate browser for it different from the browser for office-related websites
or online-applications. Also, endeavour to keep the unofficial browser always minimized after every view, input activities or when you’re not
at your desk.


13. Never,...I repeat...Never add any of your colleagues, your boss or anyone remotely related to anyone in your workplace as a “friend” on
Facebook or get them following you or you following them on Twitter!


14. When answering or making personal phone calls, resist every temptation to sound informal. Your language should strictly be English!

Refrain from communicating in Pidgin English or vernacular when on the phone during office-hours except you earn your salary in a Government
parastatal in the South-West region of Nigeria where vernacular is an accepted lingua franca in the office place.


15. When making or receiving an unofficial phone call, make an appearance of writing down or noting a message being passed to you by the
individual at the other end of the line...then again, maintain a straight expressionless face!


16. Avoid being seen spending time, openly, reading the newspaper during office hours.

Reading the papers during office-hours could be interpreted as a sign of idleness. Lunchtime, at the canteen, is often a better time for
reading the dailies.


17. Save all OFFICIAL phone calls for period of office-hour personal indulgences. In other words, during office-hours, pile-up all office-
related phone calls and make them during periods of personal indulgence such as when you’re interacting with friends on Facebook, engaged in
online-chats, viewing pornographic photo on the Internet, watching Rihiana on YouTube trying so hard to appear sexy in her music videos, etc.

The downside to this is that you stand the risk of “talking dirty” to a client on the phone and up-dating your Facebook status with some
official memo!


18. Always be seen as being engaged in some official function.

Do things that have an appearance of office duties, such as:
o making photocopies of your domestic PHCN bills;
o walking swiftly to the front-desk personnel to inquire if he/she received a delivery on your account;
o if you operate a centralized printer, printing worthless document and be on hand to collect the printed material as soon as it
slides out of the printer;
o move around the office place with an official file folder filled with printed photos of Britney Spears, blank A4 sheets, Shoprite
sales catalogues, printed Eccentric Rowland Facebook notes, etc


19. Be the first to remind your colleagues and boss about a scheduled meeting or presentation


20. Last and most importantly, ENSURE to have your Curricular Vitae (CV) up-dated and ready. Updating your CV is necessarily because a
consistent practice of the above mentioned office-place shenanigans will DEFINITELY catch up with you one day----then your updated CV
would come in handy in securing you a new job!



Copyright 2010 ©Eccentric Rowland

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KINGwax: seun is a business man, don't think he's a muslim, or he's tryin to propagate the negative things abt pastors, anythin dt moves traffic- mostly controversial will come on the front page.

I would have believed your theory that Seun needs controversial threads to drive traffic to Nairaland, however, in the Politics section of NL any post against ACN or the "Asiwaju" with a potential for high-octane controversy find it hard to make frontpage. Selective controversy?

Interesting article. Now we've been better educated about the Islamic faith.

Also, this article making the front-page lays to rest my curiousity over the religion Seun and other promoters of Nairaland profess. Little wonder popular Christian Men-of-God like Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oritsejafor, etc are always projected in negative light on Nairaland.

Kudos, Seun and co.

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I couldn't help laughing after reading this article by one of my Facebook friends. It highlights those things that make Lagos the unique place that we know it to be.

So folks, enjoy.

Eko O’ni baje o!




DISCLAIMER: Statements or remarks expressed in this article were not intended to suggest a glorification or promotion of cybercrime, deviant social behaviour, alcohol/ drug abuse, etc.

Also, connotation of prejudice towards any gender, religion, sectarian or ethnic group, government institution, etc, is unintended.


“LAGOS 101”
Living in Lagos - the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria - is akin to an adventure.

Life in Lagos exposes one to a substantial dose of drama, humour, outrage, hysteria, exasperation, fear, disgust, suspicion, apathy, disdain, etc.

Daily activities, in Lagos, are executed with so much frenzy. Movement - human and vehicular - is at a breakneck pace. Everyone appears to be in a mad haste to get to some destination.

In Lagos, every transport resource is oversubscribed.

Laws and its enforcers are so easily disregarded or compromised.

Efforts at maintaining sanity in Lagos come at a huge task.

Despite the daily rigours, acrobatics, antics, schemes, skirmish and competition for the extremely limited and oversubscribed resources, “Eko” still remains the destination of choice by green pasture-seekers. Daily, they throng in large numbers from other States, into the “Centre of Excellence” to partake in the rat race.

This article is an attempt, albeit humorous and satirical, to capture and showcase a catalogue of some signature characteristics that make us love Lagos…or loathe it! Enjoy..


“LAGOS 101”: [Identifying key social intrigues, attributes and infrastructural landmarks that are uniquely Lagos]

• You are held up in traffic for as much as 4 hours! -- [for a journey that ought not to have lasted more than
20 minutes].

• You get dizzy just by watching the fast-paced flurry of human and vehicular activities. -- [everyone appears
to be in a mad haste to get to some destination].

• While driving, you suddenly realize that you’ve been over-speeding. [-- even when you’re not under time
pressure to get to your destination].

• You set out early in the morning, armed with a lengthy “To Do” list – only to return home late at night unable
to accomplish more than two items on the list.-- [ no thanks to the infamous Lagos traffic!].

• While driving, you find yourself ceaselessly honking your car horn for one of the three (3) reasons listed
below:
(i.) to stay alive
(ii.) to keep someone else alive
(iii.) you just can’t figure out why – as it has become a habit you’ve gotten accustomed to.

• You board a commercial motorcycle (Okada) only to realize, too late, that the rider is a psychotic with a
death wish, or he is under the influence of the local gin - “paraga” or “sepe”.

• At night time, commodities are displayed on the ground at roadside and illuminated with lanterns or candles
and sold at half the normal prices. -- [presenting one with an excellent opportunity to purchase expired or
counterfeit products].

• Every newspaper-stand (usually at bus-stops) reminds you of “Patito’s Gang”. -- [ they offer you a platform
for social, political and sport analysis and discourse].

• While driving, you suddenly find yourself hollering a swear-word, a curse or some expletives you never
realized you knew at an offending co-motorist.

• When its rains – be rest assured, you‘ll be stuck in traffic -- [for hours!].

• While driving, you experience a near heart-stopping moment, when you narrowly escaped knocking down a stunt-
pulling dare-devil Okada-rider who emerged, suddenly, from your blindside. [WARNING: Knock one of them down;
then prepare for an assault on you by other members of the globally renowned fraternity of bikers!]

• You become a second-hand user (inhaler) of the openly-abused recreational drug - marijuana, after you
unconsciously inhaled some at street corners, motor parks, bus-stops, concert venues, clubs, beach resorts, etc

• In traffic, you find yourself deliberately avoiding making eye-contact with fellow motorists so as not to be
asked for a traffic favour

• You discover that windows and boots of commercial vehicles are also excellent means for gaining entrance into
them during rush hours.

• It occurs to you that “Agberos” (bus-stop touts) must be very literate. They can “write” on the body (chassis)
of commercial buses all day long – using coloured markers.

• You find yourself wondering whose bright idea it was to tag the city - “Centre of Aquatic Splendour”.

• You discover that road signs indicating “One-Way Traffic” doesn’t necessarily mean it should be taken
seriously.

• While stuck in traffic, hawkers and peddlers try to interest you in all imaginable household commodities -
-from the essential to the outrightly ridiculous -- [e.g. machetes, mortar and pestles, human poison
(disguised as rat-killers), thongs and boxers, raw beef, plantain chips in diverse packaging, expired “Gala”,
large-size hair dryers, Rambo-type jagged-edge knives, bootleg CDs and DVDs, pork, livestock, satellite TV
receiver, books on esoteric subjects, horse whips, bamboos, toilet cistern accessories, etc]

• In commercial buses, to advertise and sell pharmaceutical and herbal medicinal products, you must precede
it with some religious activity. -- [e.g. preaching, prayer session or a rendition of “praise and worship”
gospel songs, etc].

• Deviant street characters - otherwise known as “Area boys” - exhibit a peculiar husky and intimidating voice
-- [believe to be a consequence of over-indulgence in the recreational drug - marijuana].

• You find commercial bus conductors canvassing for patronage or advertising their intending destinations by
shouting as much as eight ( bus-stop locations - - in a single breath!

• Beaches abound. They make good locations for romantic rendezvous, collecting seashells, scuba-diving, sea
surfing, picnics, reunions, suntan (and “sunburn”) and for smoking “marijuana”.

• You keep noticing a crowd of people, on the street, gathered around a TV set and watching with so much
intensity. -- [out of curiosity - you inch close to catch a glimpse of what they are watching – only to
discover its either “Wrestlemania 13” , a Fuji act doing his thing; or a Nollywood flick (usually of the
Yoruba genre)].

• The standing position - as opposed to the sitting position – for some weird reason, is the preferred position
by danfo (mini-commercial bus) conductors for controlling activities WITHIN and outside their buses

• You discover that road traffic rules do not apply to the following groups:
(i) The Police (ii.) The Army (iii.) Government convoy (iv.) EMPTY bullion vehicles (v.) Commercial
motorcyclists (Okada riders) (vii.) Commercial buses with the presence of a “staff”. P.S: Staff” is a
collective name for any member of the of the Nigeria Police force, Army, Man’O’War, LASTMA, NURTW, Boy’s
Scout, etc.

• S.W. Ikoyi (South West Ikoyi) is the only part of the State that is officially described by its cardinal point
location

• You discover that hawkers, peddlers, beggars, pedestrians and motorists all have equal right to the use of
tarred main roads and expressways -- [originally meant for only motorized vehicles].

• While boarding a commercial bus, you instantly discover the musical preference of the bus drivers and their
conductors when you come across stickers or pictures of popular Fuji artistes pasted on the chassis,
windshields and upholstery of their vehicles.

• Before boarding a commercial bus, you find yourself considering or declining an offer by the bus conductor to
occupy the last remaining seat in the bus – otherwise known as “One Chance”.

• You discover that the best places to build a residential building are usually in or around an “industrial
estate”.

• A baby’s first words are usually -- UP NEPA! -- [ it is also the favourite words of domesticated parrots].

• “Chewing-stick” is the preferred and adopted method of maintaining good dental hygiene by deviant street
characters (Area-boys).

• You discover that the massive population of transporters comprising commercial bus drivers, bus conductors,
Okada-riders, “Keke Marwa” riders, bus-stop touts (“Agberos”), etc all boasts of perfect “20:20 vision” --
[you never get to find any of them wearing medically recommended eye-glasses!].

• You discover that boarding “Molues” affords you the rare opportunity to find or buy “NAFDAC endorsed” drugs
and concoctions with potency for all manner of sicknesses and diseases -- [from Common cold to Cancer!].

• You find out the hard way that Third Mainland bridge - a bridge reputed to be one of the longest in Africa -
is the worst location to experience a vehicle break-down or have a flat tyre -- [ aside from the risk of
getting run over by extremely fast-moving vehicles – it is quite common to fall victim to muggers, armed
bandits, “area boys”, etc on this bridge who prey on stranded motorists – usually after offering some form of
assistance in reviving their broken down vehicles].

• You flag down a taxi-cab. You inform the cab driver of your intended destination within the city. He then
responds by slamming you with a fare that is sufficient enough to transport you to Accra, Ghana.

• You’re confused about which is more in abundance in the atmosphere here - Oxygen or dust.

• “Yels” ( a corruption of the word “yes”) is what you’re likely to hear from a modestly literate resident in
response to a question, or to confirm that something is true or correct (an affirmation).

• You are often approached on the street by a neatly dressed chap who then renders a rehearsed autobiography
that includes his academic accomplishments, family history, health and marital status and then finally ends up
with a request for N200 for transport fare -- [typically to a job recruitment venue].

• You notice that pedestrian bridges are only city beautification landmarks. -- [pedestrians openly exhibit
their “death wishes” by consciously opting to cross extremely busy and dangerous expressways even with the
conspicuous presence of pedestrian bridges].

• You get wary of strangers on the street that beckon for your attention -- [for fear or suspicion of a request
by them for a financial favour]

• You acquire a piece of land from a land-owner and you discover a few days afterwards that you have co-owners

• You spend a whooping 30 days out of the 365 days in a year stuck in traffic!
[Approximately one (1) month is the total amount of time an average Lagosian spends in traffic in a single
year. The Maths? Try using an average of 3 hours spent in traffic per day, multiplied by the total number of
working days in a year. Three (3) hours being a conservative figure especially when compared to the longer
hours spent in traffic by Lagos residents living in the suburbs like Ikotun, Igando, Agbado Ijaiye, Ikorodu,
Badagry, etc and commuting far distances, daily, to their places of work situated in areas such as Victoria
Island, Lekki, Ikoyi, Ajah, etc. These latter set of residents spend as much as TWO (2) months and some
fractions being stuck in traffic –in a single year!]

• It is home to two airports: An ultra-modern local (domestic) airport and an “ultra-ancient” international
airport.

• You get engaged in a fight by a stranger over the right to sit in the window-side position of the front seat
in a commercial bus

• Tuning in to any of the several radio stations, you’re overwhelmed by the pathetic attempt by the On-Air-
Personality to communicate in either the American or British accent. --- [ sometimes a strange combination of
both].

• While stuck in traffic, you are approached by a street peddler who tries to sell to you a “Rolex” at the cost
of N15, 000! -- [ further haggling, especially when the traffic gets in motion, earns you the same “Rolex” at
N650!]

• You find yourself exercising extra-caution when boarding commercial buses (danfos) with more male than female
passenger presence -- [for fear of being kidnapped and offered as a sacrifice unto some wealth-giving god].

• You are joined in “matrimony” (in an exercise known as “marrying”) to a co-passenger in a commercial bus – as
a consequence of your inability to come up with the exact fare that doesn’t require you getting a change. [The
officiating minister? -- The Bus Conductor!].

• It is home to Festac town, reputed to be one of the most expansive residential estates in Africa -- [ Festac
town is equally popular for breeding creatives such as musical artistes, Nollywood movie stars, footballers
and “Internet millionaires”].

• Street names in Victoria Island – a high-brow Island location – are usually a mouthful! [Victoria Island, a
once wholly residential area but now almost taken up by commercial/business endeavours, have street names that
are a combination of the first, last and/or middle names and, in some instances, titles and designations of
the personalities whom they are named after e.g. “Elsie Femi Pearse street”; “ Kehinde Modupe Oshikoya
street”; “Ozumba Mbadiwe avenue”; BISHOP Aboyade Cole street”; “ Adeyemo Alakija street”, etc]

• You observe that the outfits of deviant street characters (“Area boys”) are never complete without a
large-size handkerchief -- [ usually draped around their necks or tucked half-way into the rear pockets of
their jeans].

• It boasts of enough perfect locations to shoot sequels of the hit movie Slum Dog Millionaire!

• You’re stopped on the street, harassed and eventually subjected to a frisk by the police --- in an exercise
known as “stop and search”. Your offence?

(i.) You have in your possession a laptop computer-carrying bag
(ii.) You’re dressed in a particular manner believed to be the dress-code of “Yahoo Yahoo” boys
(iii.) You live in Festac, so you must be an Internet scammer!
(iv.) At 35, you’re too young to own a “tokunboh” Toyota car

(v.) You’re corporately dressed (in suit) suggesting that you must be coming or going to the American Embassy –
and by extension, you must be in possession of forged or doctored documents such as “Oluwoled” statement of
bank account or international passport.

• You just wonder which is more popular: “Agege” - the Local Government Area; or “Agege” - the bread.

• [For those with Yoruba language-speaking deficiencies] You’re engaged in a discussion by a stranger in the
predominant ethnic language – Yoruba. He/she goes on and on, until you discover an opportunity to interject
with the only memorized expression in Yoruba that you know - -- “Mo gbo Yoruba” [Translated: “I don’t
understand a word of all you’ve being saying for the past half an hour!].

• Five Naira (N5) note is better known as “Kala”

• Ten Naira (N10) note is better known as “Fiber”

• Twenty Naira (N20) note is better known as “Shandy”

• Fifty Naira (N50) note is better known as “Wazo”

• Hundred Naira (N100) note is better known as “Ten fiber”

• You are emotionally blackmailed when a teenager jumps in front of your stationary vehicle in a traffic hold-up
and then embarks on an unsolicited windshield cleaning exercise -- [ you eventually part ways with some cash
more to satisfy the expectations of watching co-motorist, pedestrians, traffic officers, etc --- than out of
charity!]

• Outside China, it is arguably the biggest market for medicinal herbal solutions -- [especially herbal
concoctions that are mixed or dissolved in alcoholic solutions]

• You lose count of colours use for uniform by the different road traffic law enforcement agencies. -- [leaving
you wondering why the State is not recorded in the Guinness Book Of World Records as the geographical location
with the most number of traffic law enforcement agencies].

• The tyres and steering wheels of “Molues” always appear not to be in unity or in agreement. -- [“Molues” are
an unpopular mass transport means that are notorious for its offering of a substantial dose of drama, comedy,
commerce, religious activities, pocket-picking opportunities, civil wars, sexual harassment, etc amongst its
multitude of disenchanted patrons].

• Ikoyi - a high-brow area - is a perfect school excursion destination to learn about Nigeria’s colonial
history! --[In Ikoyi, it is common to find streets/roads named after chief actors during Nigeria’s colonial
era e.g. Brown road, Osborne road, Bourdillon street, McPherson street, Gerald street, Webbs street, Reeve
street, Warring street, Bell avenue, MacDonald street, Lugard road, Glover road, etc].

• Then, you try to imagine what the LIFE EXPECTANCY of an average Lagos resident is.


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As much as I consider it unimaginable to suggest voting out a Nigerian representative on BBA, I feel it would be in our "national interest" to vote her out.

Each day, I harbour this terrible fear that she might subject Nigeria to a national disgrace by spreading her legs at an iminent moment of weakness for Prezzo to penetrate.

Mbuko91: u almost killed me...i now knw u'r joking....take e reasy

Nubian is right. Alaibe lost his wife a few years back to cancer. Until her death, she was the owner of "Pretty Woman" - an upscale cosmetic boutique situated at Toyin street, near Opebi in Ikeja.

BOTTOMLINE:

The Nigerian National Assembly is a mafia!

Mess with one - you mess with all.

[quote author=doctokwus]My take :Otedola wt his companies are complicit in d fuel subsidy scam.He got pissed dat FL& his committee want to meddle in sth dat has bn ongoing,further got pissed @d mention of his comp's name in d initial report,wanted to thus kill d report& nail Fl,offers d bribe mony in a sting operation;Fl like d average corrupt nigerian politician sees it as an avenue to mke fast millions,falls for d bait while keeping some part of d report true to his committee's findings,collects part pay
https://www.nairaland.com/961825/farouk-lawan-femi-otedolas-500k/2

Silva79: Pls guys,i went through d list and i saw zenon oil among the names of d offenders. How could he have collected the so called bribe and included d name of his company? And y is otedola bragging bout d so called mess?

Sir, there are two lists involved. According to Otedola, his company - Zenon, was listed on the first list. Following an exchange of hard currencies, the Zenon name miraculously made a disappearance from the second list.

talk true: Where is the $500,000.
Is it with Farouk or it was forwarded to Police?

Interesting question. At least we have someone who can reason before making a post on Nairaland.

Its amazing how fast posts meant to disparage Oyedepo and his church hit the NL frontpage. Its beginning to appear that Seun & moderators are exercising some kind of beef with the man. Interestingly, Nairaland operational office and Winners hq are both situated in Ota.

Just out of curiousity, Mr. Seun, are you a christian? This question has become imperative because one needs to be sure if the Nairaland platform is not a project developed for attacking Christiandom.

The version of the ex-director appears more believable - though, we cannot completely eliminate bias in his accusations.

Also, I'm quite unsure of what Air Nigeria meant when they stated in their press release that they've been operating in Nigeria for the past 10 years. Are they including years when they were known as "Virgin Nigeria" and under the management of Richard Branson?

oluwabamis: Another wrong move by GEJ. Let's see how it's will turn out. But really productivity in the civi service is below average, so Nigerian I.T. Products should be ok. Our decision makers are dead upstairs. Shame on them all

I couldn't help spoting the note of contradiction in your comment. If you agree that productivity in the civil service is low and hence they get your endorsement for made-in-Nigeria PC, then why in the same breath did you castigate the decision-makers?

Its really sad how some folks justify drug-related crimes by Nigerians in foreign lands to the situation of things back in Nigeria.

Any Nigerian that has enough finance to travel to Asia, Europe or the Americas - definitely have enough finance to start up some form of business in Nigeria. Besides, hard drugs that are traded by these Nigerians are acquired with a substantial amount of funds. There is no justification for trading in narcotics!

amosy007: Though the policy is right buh this is not the best time for that kinda move.. Just Another stupiid quick move by the govt.. Do we have enough ICT companies to engage in such ban... Even zinox still sucks... I wonder what dis people are thinking *smh*

wondering when they are guna ban toyota and honda for innoson.. Stupiid people

.
You guys must have missed the part in the report that stated that the ban is specifically for PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS aka Government institutions

This particular thread, I believe, have set a NL record!

Reading through I discovered no one cursed or offered tribalistic rants. Kudos, NL is becoming quite mature.

To the topic at hand: There are quite a handful of kid celebs. Just that most do not continue in the trade that brought them to stardom. The few that continued pursuing the acting career somewhat have made a huge success of it. e.g Funke Akindele.

It is quite evident from Don Jazzy's tone that he regret tweeting the information that announced the breakup of their liason. That infamous tweet heralded this whole unfortunate episode of public washing of dirty linen.

alkanes1: Donjazzy's father is not igbo.He is from isoko in delta state

Don Jazzy's surname is Enebeli.

"Enebeli" is a popular anioma (Delta Ibo)name. I wonder what Isoko man bears an anioma name.

The best place that the uncivil and uncouth nature of Nigerians are glaringly showcased is undoubtedly NAIRALAND!!

Many a time, I cringe in shame and disgust at the level of uncouthness and crudeness that is the norm on Nairaland. This is especially so given the fact that millions of non-Nigerian also have access to Nairaland.

Funkymallam: Nxt should b twitter sec sch.

Does Trademark mean anytin to these guys?

Lmao!