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God! I just love Nairaland...You responses to this dumb question just made my day. You sure nailed it M'Lady...

Prexxy1:
they are caring.

Very caring...[color=#000099][/color][/b][b]

"Roasted"!!! You can sense the general lack of sympathy in this report from afar... May their souls RIP...

I can't help but wonder how some stories make front page...

Medunah:
uhmm, i think he meant his wife his like a sister to him and acts like a daughter to his mother and thats why their marriage has lasted long

I think that's exactly what he was trying to say. But trust people, they will either distort what the musician actually said or interpret his words completely upside down...

aanumama:
I've got tears in my eyes, will someone be nice to give me tissue
Lovely speech.

It moved me close to tears when I read it too...This simply expresses the very strong bond between father's & their daughter's.

A DAD’S SPEECH AT HIS DAUGHTER’S WEDDING

I thought I would start my speech by addressing you as the “new” family of my daughter. But I think it would be inappropriate because now that she is married, you are “the family” for her. Believe me; I don’t have a problem with that. I, in fact, want my daughter to have “you” as her priority now. Its time for us to take a backseat in her life. We would happily accept it but would surely request one thing- please keep her happy!
I am more than sure that you will keep her very happy. She will perhaps be happier than what she used to be here. But like all fathers, I obsess over my daughter’s happiness which is making me say this over and over again- please keep her happy!
She never was and will never be a burden for me. She is in fact the reason why I breathe and smile. I am getting her married because this is what the law of nature demands. I am helpless in the face of our culture and therefore sending her to your home. She was the happiness of my home and will now light up your home. I am giving my world to you. Please make sure it remains beautiful. I am giving away my princess to you. Please make sure she stays as a queen. I have raised her with my sweat and blood and now she is wonderfully perfect. For all the care, love, beauty and warmth my daughter will bring into your lives, I just want her happiness in return—please keep her happy!
If at times you think that my daughter has said or done something wrong, feel free to scold her. But handle her with love. She is very fragile. If at times she feels low, be with her. She just needs a little bit of your attention. If at times she feels sick, show her some care. It’s the medicine that works best for her. If at times she fails to fulfill a responsibility,feel free to chastise her. But empathize with her. She is still learning. Do understand her—please keep her happy!
I don’t mind if I don’t get to see her for months. I don’t mind if I am not able to talk to her on a daily basis. I would be more than happy if she doesn’t remember me much. But, my only motive in life has been my daughter’s happiness which is now in your hands. I beg you, please keep her happy.
Dear son-in-law, these words may not mean much to you now but if you are lucky enough to father a daughter someday, you will appreciate them better when you will find every beat of your heart shouting –
“Please keep her HAPPY"

" The woman was said to have arrived Maza-Maza around 6am on Tuesday from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, to board a bus to the eastern part of the country before the unfortunate incident happened. "

Unless ofcourse all flights to Anambra were completely booked when she arrived Nigeria, I don't see any reason why she can have all that money and still be thinking of going to maza-maza to board a bus...Sorry for her anyway!

How can we help if we can't see the butt?

Ladies & Gentlemen, why are we sounding as if she made herself? Although it seems as if she is over-doing it, I personally see a woman who is very confident of herself here. I think its tough for her too, being so different from other girls can take its toll on anybody. We should atleast imagine ourselves walking a mile in her shoes. Yes, she should shave regularly, she should get this treatment or that but I think what is very important is for us to make her feel & believe she is no different from any of us. No! We can do better than this on Nairaland...Thank you!

ibson99:
Ok, impressive cv. But the guy is unpopular I just hope his unpopularity won't affect the elections cos we need change badly.

Our current President wasn't so popular if I recall but look at where he is today...That's the grace of God for all of us to ponder over.

She's pretty too...

https://www.nairaland.com/farano

MrMcJay:
Real African woman.

See better curves! Not like all these mgbeke girls looking like wall-geckos.

This sexy mama would make me play Premiership in the morning, Serie A in the afternoon and Championship at night. She ask for Recharge card, I buy am base station.

Make I get this one for house, if you see me for Nairaland, make I bend.

Chai...

Correct!!! You are the Man...

farano:
Because when I hug some guys, it always feels like they are squeezing my chest against them. I don't know if guys try to feel something from a hug?

I guess they are trying to get the very best of the moment...But hey, who would resist squeezing you? You are way too fine doll...

That's a long way to the "promise land"...But I think they are kinda hot.

This man is truly a representation of everything a modest & true Cleric should look & sound like. I wish we could all emulate him...

Google Maps no get rival abeg...The app does what it was created for!

yungEX:
looks like xerxes from 300

You just stole the words out of my mouth! Its a shame & quite frankly, so sad that he doesn't know that he's too old for this....

Who wouldn't like killer curves over any face?

She sure is beautiful... I just pray that as it is outside, so is her beauty inside.

I'm beginning to suspect the moderators of Nairaland's Forums because I just wonder how this post made it to front page!

What could be more "tough and uncomfortable" than having another man poking at your anus?

valmunich:
WTF is he staring at

Her audacious taatas ofcourse!

An Army Colonel, some junior officers and soldiers reportedly helped members of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram in the North eastern part of the country.
According to Vanguard, the shocking revelation which was made at the weekend occurred as the military personnel were involved in the offensive to reclaim communities taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists in Adamawa State.

It was gathered that the Army authorities were angered by the report and ordered the arrest of the commander, the junior officers as well as the soldiers under his command.A high ranking military personnel who did not want to be named said, the colonel who is a Muslim was Commanding a team of three Armoured Personnel Carriers, APC’s, with the capability of firing up to a range of 1.5kilometres or more, deliberately set the APCs on fire between Gulak and Madagali, and ran into the bush with his team instead of firing at the advancing terrorists.
A source that was aware of the development revealed that before the embarrassing incident occurred, the Special Forces of the Nigerian Army who commenced the putsch to rout Boko Haram terrorists from Bazza, Michika, Gulak and Madagali from Vimtim, had successfully dealt with the sect, and inflicted heavy casualties on the terrorists up till Gulak.
He said between Gulak and Madagali, the Colonel who had all along been prided with air surveillance reports, was again informed that Boko Haram terrorists were approaching his team in six Toyota Hilux Pick Up vans from the Madagali axis of the state.
“However, rather than blasting and taking out the terrorists in their pick-up vans; he ordered his soldiers to jump out of the APC’s and set the armoured tanks on fire, without realising that he was being monitored. This was shocking because the terrorists were armed with weaponry which were grossly inferior to the firepower of the Nigerian Army Amoured tanks. After accomplishing the sabotage act, the Colonel and the junior officers and soldiers ran away into the bush, claiming that they were overpowered by a better armed group of Boko Haram terrorists,” the source said.
The source further disclosed that the action of the Colonel and soldiers under his command ascertained the believes by the top hierarchy of the military that there were so many fifth columnists in the army working against the country’s determination to wipe out Boko Haram terrorists from Nigeria.
However, a Board of Inquiry, BoI, had been set up by the Army authorities to investigate the Colonel and his soldiers after which a Military Court Martial would be set up to try them for conspiracy, treason and willful sabotage among others.
Reacting to the development, a senior officer said: “You can now see why the Military Court Martial which is currently sitting is inevitable. The uninformed would feel that soldiers who are fighting the nation’s battle are being unjustly punished. But the truth is that many of them are sabotaging Nigeria and making the insurgents look formidable for reasons that cannot be explained. Some of them appear sympathetic to the insurgents. How can it be explained that several APCs that cost up to $1million each in some cases or more will be willfully destroyed by Commissioned Officers, COs, who swore to defend the territorial integrity of their nation, just to help terrorists? That is treason of the highest order.”
The source hinted that the new strength and determination with which Nigerian soldiers had been fighting Boko Haram, resulting in the killing of several commanders of the sect as well as hundreds of their foot soldiers, was bore out of the resolve of the Nigerian army high command to sanction any soldier pursuing a different course aside that of the Federal Government.
It would be recalled that Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, had last week cleared the air that the death penalty passed on 12 Nigerian soldiers by a military tribunal was lawful and in accordance with military dictates.
The CDS made this known while speaking at a three-day conference organised by the National Security Adviser in collaboration with Trim Communication Nigeria Ltd on Media/Security relationship in crisis management.
“The day you join the military you have signed off whether life or death, and it is obey before complaint. How can a soldier just jump out of the APC because you want to donate APC to Boko Haram; and somebody is there talking about constructive mutiny. The laws are there, if you run away from the enemy, you will die and that is what the military law says. Apart from the old Nigerian law, we abide by the military law. Nobody forces or conscripts anybody into the military. It is a voluntary service, and so if we have this type of challenge, you should be able to confront it and not to run away,” Badeh said.
It would be recalled that on October 9, the European Union (EU) condemned the death sentence handed 12 Nigerian soldiers by a military tribunal over charges of mutiny. The international body seems not to be the only group against the sentence as some other concerned Nigerians have also reacted to the development.
The Nigerian Army on October 3, 2014, set up a General Court Martial to try another 97 personnel for various offences allegedly committed in the ongoing counter-terrorism operation in the North-Eastern part of the country.

natureblack:
Wow



The rate at which these artistes maintain 27-28yrs baffles me.




Happy birthday to him though,the dude has represented south-easterners hugely.

LOL...abi dem be Vampires?

[1] In the 1951 elections, Aminu Kano's Northern Elements Progressives Union (Nepu) won the elections in the Northern Region but alas the British conspired to ensure that Nepu did not even win one seat. Terrified of the leftwing Aminu Kano, the British colonial authorities introduced election rigging into Nigeria. At the time, British tabloids like the Daily Mirror and Sun carried headlines like: "No to the Red Peril." Nigerians should have rose up en masse against this fraud
[2] In 1962, the NPC/NCNC government took a decision to destroy the Action Group. To achieve this end, they jailed its leader Obafemi Awolowo, declared a state of emergency in the Western Region and imposed Ladoke Akintola on the region, introducing violence and the sit-tight syndrome into Nigerian politics
[3] At the 1957 and 1958 London Constitutional Conferences, Nigeria's ethnic minorities wanted their own two regions. Joseph Tarka pleaded for the Middle Belt Region, while Harrold Dappa-Biriye and Eyo Ita pleaded for the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers Region. In 1963, when the Midwest Region was created out of the Western Region, these other two regions should have been created too
[4] In 1964, the federal elections were terribly rigged. In the Northern Region, the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) intimidated numerous candidates form other parties to stand down and also forcefully got a lot of candidates to convert to Islam
[5] During the 1965 regional elections, the rigging perpetuated by Ladoke Akintola's Nigerian National Development Party was the worst ever in the history of Nigeria. Candidates who got no more than 10% of the total vote were declared winners
[6] In January 1966, when certain young military officers decided to carry out a military coup, they sadly decided to give it an ethnic slant. Emmanuel Ifeajuna was Nnamdi Azikiwe's cousin and had his own agenda which he hid from the likes of Chukwuma Nzeogwu. Some of the northern military officers killed like Joseph Pam and Kur Mohammed, were actually just as anti-Sardauna as the coupists themselves
[7] When it became clear that the January 66 coup had failed, Emmanuel Ifeajuna and Donatus Okafor should have freed Sir Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa at Ifo near Abeokuta. had they let him go, he would almost certainly have been able to prevent the violence that followed. With Balewa dead, there was a dangerous power vacuum
[8] After Major General Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi had put down the Ifeajuna coup, he should have insisted that the senate president Nwafor Orizu swore in Zanna Bukar Dipcharima as prime minister. By assuming power himself, he created the impression that he was one of the coupists
[9] Aguiyi Ironsi's Decree 34 of 1966 is the most destructive piece of legislation ever passed in the history of Nigeria. It made Nigeria what he called a "Unitary state" and made the regions no more than local government areas. This unbelievable law which negated everything agreed in 1957 and 1958 at the London Constitutional Conference, created so much ethnic distrust, that we are yet to recover from its effects
[10] When the Supreme Military Council met in Aburi in Ghana in 1966, Lt Col's Gowon and Ojukwu should have insisted that a deal be signed. In Gowon's case, it was senior civil servants who rejected his deal, while Ojukwu refused to accept any amendments despite the likes of Phillip Effiong, Hilary Njoku and Alexander Madiebo telling him to do so as he got 90% of what he wanted
[11] By May 1968, about 10,000 Igbo children were dying daily. The likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Michael Okpara, Francis Ibiam, Jaja Nwachukwu and the Biafran military leaders urged Ojukwu to accept Gowon's peace deal but he refused. Just imagine how many lives might have been saved as a result
[12] At the end of the Civil War in 1970, major General Yakubu Gowon should have announced a return to the 1957/58 formula and stuck to the plan to return to civil rule in 1971
[13] In February 1976 when the Murtala Mohammed regime created 19 states, it should have inserted as part of that decree a clause making state creation only acceptable if the states could fund themselves
[14] Likewise in August 1976, the then Obasanjo military administration introduced local government reforms, introducing them as the third tier of government. In a bid to bring government nearer to the people, local government elections held the following December but alas, all the military men in power saw this as an opportunity to get government money, so everyone ensured his village had a local government area, hence we have ended up with 774 local government areas today. At the time, the decree establishing local government areas should have laid down strict criteria such as being self-funding, population, having certain facilities, etc
[15] A 49 member Constitution Drafting Committee was appointed in October 1975, produced a draft which was later debated and amended by a partially-elected Constituent Assembly. This body should have insisted on a return to the 1957/58 formula
[16] In 1978 the PRP, GNPP, NPP and UPN should have merged to create a united opposition rather than operate as fractured parties. Had say Obafemi Awolowo picked Aminu Kanu as his running mate and Ibrahim Waziri as his senate president, with maybe MCK Ajuluchukwu as speaker, they would most likely have won
[17] In 1978, the NPN decided to go for the weakest of presidential candidates. There is no way Shehu Shagari would have made a better president than say Maitama Yusuf Sule or Joseph Tarka but alas, he got elected
[18] In 1993, Nigerians should have continued their protests against the annulment of elections indefinitely until the military was forced to stand down
[19] 1n 1999, Nigerians should have insisted on the prosecution of all past military rulers to draw a line under corruption. It was this failure to do this than resulted in the legitimisation of corruption and the notion that one can get away with stealing with such impunity
[20] In 2009 when Boko Haram started its reign of terror, Nigerians turned a blind eye to it, hoping it would go away. Had we shown the kind of revulsion we show to say armed robbery where we publicly execute suspects, maybe they would have been scared out of existence.

The national awards have always jogged controversy, but the government’s tactical inclusion of some noble Nigerians may have given a verisimilitude of “honour” to the awards this time. In the long list of honourees.
Two Nigerians definitely stand out; one for integrity and honesty, and the other for hard work and sacrifice.
They are Imeh Usuah Jaja, a taxi driver, and Onuh Isaac Michael, the head of presidential stewards.
Jaja is a 68-year-old father of six. Sometime in November 2007, a passenger he picked up from Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport left a bag containing $120, 000 in his taxi. Jaja, unaware of the content of the bag and not “overly finicky” to peek into the item, returned it to the owner unsoiled. “According to our training and rules at the airport, we are not allowed to look into peoples’ property or keep them. That is our policy,” he said. “Even if I had seen the money, I would not have touched because it is not mine. It is against my belief to take people’s property.”
The Akwa Ibom state native, who unbelievably has not been honoured in anyway by his state government, also returned a camera worth N45,000,000 and a phone to an African Independent Television (AIT) staff member who left them in his taxi in the same year another passenger left a bag of money in it.
These multiple acts of honesty reinforce the truth of Jaja’s nobility and integrity. If he had kept the money and sold the camera, he would have been a rich man with lots of influence to peddle. But he chose the rocky path of honesty, believing that he should eat from his own toil.
In a 2012 interview with Metropole, a popular Abuja magazine, Jaja who has suffered misery said he never regretted returning the money.
“The money was not mine. Returning it was the right thing to do,” he added. So, recognising the uncommon honesty of a toiling man by the federal government is indeed remarkable.
It is important to note that Jaja had received awards and cash gifts from different private and public organisations before he was enlisted on the scroll of the national honours for the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic honour. He received the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Integrity Award in 2012. He also received an award and a cash gift of N30, 000 from the National Orientation Agency (NOA).
In addition, Guinness Nigeria Plc gave him a cash gift of N50, 000 for uncommon honesty, and by the same token the Security and Exchange Commission awarded him N2.5m. Jaja, who still lives at a remote town in Abuja, expressed immense joy for being on the national honours’ list. “My heart is full of joy. My family and I thank the president for this honour,” he told TheCable. “People have told me not to worry, that the president would remember me. I thank God he did.”
ONUH ISAAC MICHAEL is another Nigerian deserving of the national honour, having served 30 years as a steward for different Nigerian heads of state and presidents.
At present, he is the head of presidential stewards at Aso villa. One would expect someone who is very close to power to have some of its trappings, but the 59-year-old still lives in a rented apartment at Karu in Nasarawa state.
According, to Villascope, an in-house magazine of the state house, the native of Kogi state maintains a strict code of not asking for favours because it is against the ethics of his job. “I cannot approach anybody for anything. We are trained not to beg anybody for anything. Do your job and leave everything to God,” he said.
Describing Onuh, Villascope wrote: “Quiet but unassuming, Micheal Onuh has seen it all. From the first executive president of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari to Dr Goodluck Jonathan, he has been in the inner recesses of power attending to the domestic needs of the first family of the most populous and powerful black nation in the world.” In spite of his rare dedication to duty, the father of four children admits that he faces a challenge in his job, and also has a regret.
“The regret I have is that for someone that has been working for his country for over 30 years, it is not good that I don’t have my own accommodation. I live at the outskirts of the city (in Karu, Nasarawa state) in a rented house,” he confessed.
“My greatest challenge is coming all the way from a very far distance to come to work every day. Waking up by 3am to be at work and closing in the early hours of the morning only to be back again very early to work is a big challenge for me.”
Onuh loves his job, which he says has given him much exposure. He has visited the United States, Libya, Venuzuela and Jerusalem, to name just a few. “I have always derived pleasure in serving others. It also brings one close to the people that matter,” he said.
“I am happy to take care of the people that serve the nation. It means a lot to me. I believe it is my contribution to my fatherland by taking care of little things of the presidents.” Onuh, the longest-servingstaff member at the presidential villa, will be bestowed with the honour of Member of the Order of the Niger.

Mrs. Bisola Ayeni, a businesswoman in her early 40s confidently left her house at Egbeda (Lagos) with an almost empty tank heading for Ikeja. The red light of the fuel indicator was blinking nonstop but Ayeni knew the quantity of fuel in her tank would take her to the next available filling station where she had hoped to fill up her tank. Indeed, as she got to the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ayeni drove into the filling station and told the attendant to fill her car with N5,000 worth of fuel while she rummaged her handbag to bring out the money as well as pick a call. That was her undoing.
Ayeni would tell PUNCH that she didn’t bother to look at the pump while the sale was on because she didn’t envisage any foul act, besides she knew the level a N5,000 worth of fuel would rise to on her fuel gauge. Ayeni only managed a quick glance at the meter and when she saw that it was reading, she relaxed and enjoyed her discussion on the phone.She said:
“When I finished, I looked at the pump and I saw N5,000 on the price column, I paid him and drove away. I expected the light indicating low fuel to go off and the indicator to rise, but it didn’t happen. Even if the rise in the fuel indicator would be gradual, I expected a major shift. Lo and behold, the light never went off and the indicator never rose. Oh my God, I was confused and very angry, so I turned back, while praying that the car wouldn’t run out of fuel. By the time I got to the petrol station, I was fuming.”
Ayeni said she had almost slapped the attendant who attended to her having shouted on him when the station manager came out.
“On hearing what happened, the manager gave the sales boy a resounding slap, apologized to me and ordered him to sell the fuel again, and I heard him saying the N5,000 would be deducted from his salary. We both stood by him while he sold the fuel, the gauge rose even before I left the station, which means he cheated me earlier. I still wouldn’t know how he did it,” she said.
Ayeni’s experience is common among vehicle owners, who had at one time or the other thought they had bought fuel but later found out they either bought nothing or were short-changed in terms of the quantity. A cross section of vehicle owners who spoke to our correspondent alleged that they had noticed same at one time or the other but said that there was nothing they could do since they really could not establish any foul play.
In case you once bought fuel from a filling station and it seemed like nothing was added to your fuel tank after you have left, or you felt what was sold to you wasn’t commensurate with what you paid for or expected, you may have been cheated under your close watch even with your eyes wide open. Saturday PUNCH had a revealing chat with fuel attendants of some popular filling stations in Lagos and they explained how they make quick but huge cash from unsuspecting customers.
One of them who identified himself simply as Owolabi John, while devouring a massive plate of hot and spicy pepper soup and a bottle of chilled beer Punch correspondent, Tunde Ajaja, bought for him, said he earns N10,000 as a fuel attendant. He wants to pursue a university education. There is no other help from anywhere else, as such John admitted leaving no stone unturned to take advantage of gullible customers to make some money from what he described as “the customers’ carelessness.”
“Ideally, when we resume, we take the reading on the meter on the fuel dispenser, which we call the opening meter, and when we close, we take the reading, which we also call the closing meter. Then, we multiply the difference in the readings by the cost per litre, which is the amount we deliver to the manager. If there is any surplus, it belongs to the attendant, and if there is loss, the attendant will look for money to make it up. If the shortage is a lot of money, the manager may allow that the money be deducted from the person’s salary if the person is not sacked,” he explained.
However, that surplus money may not have been a miracle or manna from heaven; it could simply be a product of manipulation by the attendants. According to John, there are different types of fuel dispensers, such as Marathon, Sanki, Eagle Star, etc, and each machine has its peculiar way of being adjusted.
“On the keyboard of some of them, where we enter the number of litres or amount, which is either in front or on the side, there is usually a button labelled ‘Recall, TIM/CAL’ or any other label, depending on the machine. The essence of the button is to enable the attendant to see the past sales. If you want to see your last ten sales, you just press Recall, then the number you want to see etc, depending on the number you want, and it shows you the amount. Beyond seeing our past sales, we use it to make money.
If I sell N2,000 worth of fuel to a customer, and the next customer also wants to buy N2,000. If I observe that the second customer Isn’t paying attention, I will sell some quantity, maybe N1,500 and press Stop or Cancel, depending on the machine press Recall, 1, then press Ok. With that, N2,000 will appear on the screen and that is what the customer will see on the meter, believing the sale is complete. This can be done in less than one second. That is one of the ways, and at the close of business I remove mine which is the excess of the actual litre sales.
Imagine if I do that for about ten customers in a day, with varying gain from each case, which depends largely on the amount of fuel the customer is buying and how sensitive the person is. I could make up to N10, 000 in one day,” he explained.
According to him, attendants could go to the extent of writing out some past sales on a paper where they can easily have a glance to know which number to recall when a customer is distracted or looks away, since many people prefer to buy based on price and not litre.
“When customers come, we observe them and see if they are tired or we try to distract them, sometimes with the help of our colleagues by engaging them in a chat or doing things that could easily distract them. As soon as they look away, if the seller has made an appreciable sale, he/she would have mastered or checked his paper to see the last time he sold that particular amount, as soon as it is possible, he will press it, and press OK. Before the customer looks back, the sale will appear complete,” John explained.
John’s revelation explained one of the ways Ayeni might have been cheated. Another fuel attendant, who simply identified himself as Owode Kabir, told PUNCH that the use of Recall or TIM button is the easiest way to make quick money because the customers would think the machine was fast, so they wouldn’t always suspect anything, even though some come back to complain.
However, Kabir stressed that not all attendants are involved in the act, but that many of them do it as long as there is opportunity and that in some cases, they settle the station manager at the close of work if they are able to make some money, which they do everyday anyway. Kabir also revealed the second method:
Even though many people know that when the nozzle is hanged on the pump, the readings revert to zero, fuel attendants have also found a way to manoeuvre it to make some money.
What we do is to gently place the nozzle, such that it won’t click to rub off the old sales and revert to zero, so, we fake it, which means the dispenser is still running, so if anyone comes, we simply continue from where we stop and that is why sometimes it seems like we are rushing the customers. It is easier when the last sale is a small quantity. Even though the use of the Recall or TIM/CAL’ button on some of these machines is the easiest method, faking the nozzle is another viable way to make money.
If the previous sale is about N200 maybe by a Keke NAPEP and Okada rider, or even commercial buses (danfo) drivers, because they are the ones who buy fuel in bits, we will gently place the nozzle, and naturally, when you see that we remove the nozzle from the hanger, that is, from the engine, you believe that it started from zero. However, it is not always the case,” he said.
Kabir was quick to add that some station managers or managements know about their tricks but that once they are caught or reported by a customer, such person could be sacked. He added that attendants usually sell in all cases but such sales might not start from zero or could be recalled to a previous sale that had the same amount, which would be an incomplete sale for the customer.
“Sometimes we could gain up to N1,000 from one sale, it depends on the quantity that the consumer wants, and those that are caught are usually the greedy ones,” he noted.
He added that in filling stations where their dispensers do not have Recall or TIM/CAL only the last sale could be recalled, hence, once the last sale is not the same with the current sale, faking the hanging of the nozzle might be the only way to make money through such pump.
Station owners and managers also dupe customers
A female attendant with a major oil marketer company in Lagos Island, Seun Jegede, told PUNCH how station managers and filling station owners also cheat their customers.
She alleged that most filling stations alter their meters to under-dispense fuel at the detriment of customers, which is a known phenomenon among consumers. Even though this could be a product of greed and inadequate regulation, she said they also do that to make up for some loss they might have incurred during sales.
“Based on experience, I can tell you that almost all filling stations, including the ones being run by government, adjust their meters and what they do is to settle the officials from the Department of Petroleum Resources if or when they come for inspection.
No attendant can alter the meter on his own, except the manager sanctions it because it involves the engineer changing the panel and doing some mechanical readjustment. That is why many filling stations that alter their meters have to bribe their way through because the engineers are not always there, except the manager recommends a trusted attendant to be trained so as to put the pumps back to normal if DPR comes.
The adjustment is easier with the marathon machine because it has a key in front of the meter. This allows for quick readjustment of the meter so as to scale through the due diligence check by the DPR, which could be once in six months,” Jegede explained.
She added that the decision to alter the meter could either come from the owner of the station or the station manager in connivance with the engineer, adding that whoever orders the adjustment takes the money made from the unsold quantity.
Station attendants also cheat their employers
According to John, not only customers are open to this fraud, even the management that the attendants work for are not immune to their fraudulent acts, through what he called ‘no reading’. In this case only the price meter reads while the litre reading does not move. He said this could be a product of frequent repairs of the pump or any other mechanical fault, which could make it malfunction.
“When there is ‘no reading’ on the litre menu, and the management is not aware, there is no way the management will know the actual number of litres that have been sold. What we do in such cases is to sell on the basis of amount only and we sometimes negotiate with the customer for settlement because we can sell more to make money. I can even call someone from home to come and buy and keep for me, before the management finds out that the litre is not reading.
Even though the ‘no reading’ issue rarely happens, it becomes a free for all if it happens to the diesel or kerosene pump that usually has no attendant attached to it. With that, tracing who sells what quantity may be difficult, even though an attendant must be smart to avoid being penalized.
Another form of ‘no reading’ is when some attendants, especially those attached to diesel or kerosene that have lesser patronage compared to petrol, gently press the nozzle (just like a one-touch press) that may not read on the meter whereas some fuel will still come out. It can also happen when they finish selling and instead of hanging the nozzle, they place it inside the keg for the little quantity to drip into their kegs. It may appear little, but over a long time, the gentle one-touch press and the leftovers become a large quantity. That is why you see some attendants having kegs beside them,” John explained.
The attendants further explained that they make more money when there is epileptic power supply which force people to buy fuel in kegs.
“When there is no power supply and people struggle or force your nozzle in their kegs, many of them don’t care about starting from zero, which is a plus for us,” he said.
They however said station attendants find it difficult to cheat if the customer comes out of the vehicle to stay with them, adding that those who sit in their vehicles can easily be distracted or shortchanged.

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If you are sending a text, watching the TV or listening to the radio, you may want to stop and give this your full attention.
Multi-tasking shrinks the brain, research suggests.
A study found that men and women who frequently used several types of technology at the same time had less grey matter in a key part of the brain.
University of Sussex researchers said: ‘Simultaneously using mobile phones, laptops and other media devices could be changing the structure of our brains.’
Worryingly, the part of the brain that shrinks is involved in processing emotion.
The finding follows research which has linked multi-tasking with a shortened attention span, depression, anxiety and lower grades at school.
The researchers began by asking 75 healthy men and women how often they divided their attention between different types of technology.
This could mean sending a text message while listening to music and checking email, or speaking on the phone while watching TV and surfing the web.z
The volunteers were then given brain scans which showed they had less grey matter in a region called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).
The findings held even when differences in personality were taken into account.
The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to make a link between multi-tasking and the structure of the brain.
Researcher Kep Kee Loh said: ‘Media multi-tasking is becoming more prevalent in our lives today and there is increasing concern about its impacts on our cognition and social-emotional well-being.’
He added that more research is needed to prove that multi-tasking shrinks the brain.
This is because it is also possible that people with less grey matter in the ACC are more drawn to using lots of gadgets simultaneously.
Scientists have previously demonstrated brain structure can be altered on prolonged exposure to novel environments and experience.
Other studies have shown that training – such as learning to juggle or taxi drivers learning the map of London – can increase grey-matter densities in certain parts.
Experts have also warned of the harmful impact technology can have on our memory and attention span.
The University of California team commissioned a survey of more than 18,000 people aged between 18 and 99 and found 20 per cent had problems with memory.
Researchers were taken aback by the 14 per cent of 18 to 39-year-olds who also worried about their memories.
Multi-tasking with gadgets may shorten attention span, making it harder to focus and form memories, the researchers said, adding that youngsters may be particularly affected by stress.