CaveAdullam:
1. Calm down man. It is not easy anywhere in the world, especially in Africa, and Nigeria. But we do think it's always greener on the other side of the fence.

2. The economic and political terrain has been ruffled by corrupt leaders and politicians, hence, the current problem we are facing. Now we all can understand that it is not doing what makes you happy but what is the right thing.

3. The exacerbation of our predicament is also due to the prevalence of social media, we see the few successful people making headlines, all of the news and in every post and we do think we are failures. The reality is that these few people gained success either by chance, hard work, or charity from friends and family.

4. As a result of the effect of social media on the economic state of the nation, fraudulent activities have taken over, now a teenager who doesn't measure up to your level of intellect and exposure is the one now dictating the tune of the piper. It is a sad reality.

5. As humans, we only have a tiny control over how our lives go. But many do think that we can get whatever we desire by positive thinking and working hard all day. Though, there are some truths in the statement but not the whole truth.

A. You don't have control over the country you will be born.

B. You don't have control over your genetics.

C. You don't have control over your government.

D. You don't have control over the economy; you can't dictate peoples' buying and selling tendencies. The market is way emotional.

E. You can't dictate the legislature.

F. You don't choose your family, and can't even control them to the extent you want.

G. Different things cumulate and they are the deciding factors of our lives; our decisions and positive thinking are all that we have got to manage ourselves amidst the changes and storms of life.

6. It is not easy, but you must start from somewhere. It is hard for the ones enabling themselves not to talk of the unemployed, depressed and suicidal.

7. Look within, what do you have? What can you do? Where are you at the moment? Use this to start planning.

8. Don't set any resolution or target, you don't have control over the circumstances of life and how people will behave. The goal now is to engage in something worthy and start planning and building from there.

9. Life is filled with joy and laughter; peace and war; hope and anxiety, failures and success. You may be on the negative side of life today, and maybe tomorrow you will be on the positive side - it is all hope and a coping mechanism but we wish the good for ourselves and our loved ones.

10. Connect with people that are better than you. Go to places where you will either gain knowledge or money, or both. But better to remain in solitude than mingle with those who won't sharpen your life and experience.

11. If You want a beautiful edifice, start laying the foundation.

Time and chance happen to them all.

Thanks.

DaddyFabooluz:
May thunder and lightning continue strike the entire family and generation of everybody that is still considering to vote Tinubu, Atiku and Peter Obi as president of Nigeria.

May suffering never depart from their entire family and generation.

adioolayi:
Reeling out figures as usual, accurate or inaccurate, no one cares as he craftily do this with a flawless oratory....nothing new

maureensylvia:


Delete please
I don't need negative vibes!

Ulunne777:


Pls edit your topic and how to unlink the said nos.If you find out some are linked to yours and theirs no way to unlink it,the whole exercise is a waste.

It should have an add or delete feature or something like that

pansophist:
Will the sanctions matters in five years time? How about twenty, fifty or hundred years time? But one thing is certain, the territories are gone for life. And with time, Crimea, Luhansk and Doneskt will be forgotten like ENDsars, it would be a disturbance to international negotiations, especially in a time where the world has entered into a multipolar system, ushering Eurasia as a global power to reckon with. The west better start living with this reality, instead of salivating on past glory.

The UK seems to still see the world from its past empire lense. Only the tiny enclave of Kamchatka, an area less than 3% of Russian territory is larger than the UK combined, but somehow, the UK still consider itself strong enough to deal Russia a heavy blow. Putin, the master geopolitical chessplayer must have done all the necessary economic underground work before recognising the breakaway regions now.

Any sanctions from the west would be at best, dusty, especially when China, an economical giant is not just Russia's neighbour, but an ally with mutual enemy. Russia (alonside few other countries like the US) are the only country in the world that can cut off trade and close their country to the outside world and they will still thrive. Russia is a superpower by the virtue of its size, population, location and resources.

People seems to forget one thing about life, and it is that your survival is the only thing you should never compromise. So you expect Russia due to the fear of sanctions to sacrifice their survival? They should do nothing and let Nato surround them with missles? That it would take a few mins to nuke Russia and they won't be able to defend themselves, talk more of retaliate?. You may sanction me to starvation, but survival and freedom, national sovereignty and security is non negotiable. Only the living build houses. Only a country that survive builds economy. Only true leaders understand this

I've said it times and times again that the world does not operate on morality (what is good or bad, law, justice, etc), those are sweet words for the untrained mind. The world operate in the law of the universe, which is strength and weakness. Look at Africa, we did nothing wrong (morality), but we've been suffering since the west came first in year 1619 to enslave of for three hundred years, then colonise us afterwards, and now, we are a mess. In life, be strong, or you and your country will be a mess like Ukraine.

Narijoel:
Today, my friend who I will call Peter was nearly swindled off his money by a scammer he met on Jiji.

This time, the format was new and both he and I have never experienced it. Here is his story so that others can learn:

My friend informed me of his intention to buy a new phone, he told me he preferred Samsung, Samsung Galaxy A22 or at least A12 as he had a tight budget.

So he set out to search for a seller on Jiji, hoping to get a good deal.

In no time, he saw an ad for a Samsung Galaxy A22 4 GiG Ram 128 GIG ROM with a price tag of #95000 from a seller in Ikeja, the seller wrote that it is a brand new device and it is available in "his store".

He called the Jiji seller who confirms that "the phone is available and he has it in his shop.

Peter was excited at the prospect of getting the phone at that price but was concerned that it was too good to be true, he called and informed me of this deal, I was suspicious at first but I actually know someone that bought same phone from Slot iyana ipaja, #90k, about two month ago and thought there is a "probability" that the phone may just be sold at the price for real so we decided to message and visit the so-called seller in his shop together, at least to see this phone for ourselves and leave it if it wasn't what he expected, to clear his mind of doubt and fear of losing out.

This almost became a costly decision as we shall see.

"Where is your shop address?" Peter asked, this Jiji seller replied that he is actually in "Victoria Island" he only wrote Ikeja because his customers were always calling from that area". He then sent a VI address through text.


To cut the long story short, we went to Victoria Island and located the address he sent. This place is near Saka Tinubu Street, VI.
We called the seller again he further directed us to the shop, and named the shop he claimed to own.

Here is where it becomes interesting...

He mentioned that he is currently not in the shop, but he has sale attendants who will attend to us. He mentioned that we should not worry if we are told a higher price than what he has agreed, warning that the sales attendants will tell us a higher price to get their own share of commission, that 95,000 is the price he is willing to sell.

"Just go there and collect the phone, you can make transfer when you have seen and collected it", he said.


Fortunately, my friend, Peter did not intend to make a transfer, he told the seller that he is coming with cash and cannot make a transfer, but the seller insisted on transfer, claiming the shop had a cashless policy. Okay now, we knew something is up. Our suspicions grew but we were already on our way.

Alright, we still decided to visit the shop, we got to store he mentioned and of course, it was a big and legit store in the market at VI.

We went in, asked for the sale attendant and informed her that we have spoken to the jiji seller about the phone, the sales attendant was confused as she was not aware of anyone bearing the name, so we called the seller back and he directed us to one "Mr Chinedu". We asked for him, and yes, Chinedu was one of the attendants. We met Chinedu and told him about the phone, he confirmed that it was available, we collected the new phone, inspected it and got ready to pay as the Jiji Seller instructed.

We already decided among ourselves that we will give them cash if they like it or not or at most make pos transfer.

Chinedu ask us to give him the money; but recall this so-called jiji seller has told us that he is the one in charge of the payment and we should transfer to him if we have collected the phone.

"Innocent "Chinedu was still waiting for us to pay his money, we informed him that we were with cash only and the seller that directed us say they don't accept cash, only transfer.

He asked us to pay with cash, that they don't mind

He asked us for the amount we had, we told him 90000, . he told us they don't sell Samsung Galaxy A22 for that price, that it was about #116000.

Remember, this Jiji seller has told us that we should expect to be told a higher amount by the sale attendant who he accused of trying to earn more commission off the phone.

We objected and told him the "Owner of the shop" who we thought was the jiji seller has agreed a price with us and has instructed us to meet him, Chinedu, collect the phone and transfer to the seller, himself.

Chinedu even confirmed his Oga, the real owner actually told him that someone has called to request for Samsung Galaxy A22 phone. That he should be expecting the person's "brother", the real owner unknowingly disclosed the names of his sales attendants, including Chinedu's name to the the Jiji scammer. That was the information he needed to make his plan work.


Chinedu, the sales attendant we met, asked to see the Jiji seller's number, the person who was posing as the owner of the shop, it was a wrong number. this was when he dawned on all of us that the Jiji seller was a crook, thief and scammer.

We had the phone in our hands yet we would have been duped if we have hurriedly transferred right there and haven't open up about the details of our discussion with the scammer. Numbers would have been blocked, phone collected back by the shop attendant who knows nothing about the transaction and tears will flow.

Now, Here was the scammer's strategy, he posts a fake ad on Jiji or nairaland with a price slightly lower than the regular price to attract potential buyers, he calls the real owner of the phone shop, poses as a person who is bringing a referral to his shop, the scammer collects the name of one of the sales attendant and ask the buyer to meet him or her; the potential victim goes the shop, ask for the sales attendant, collects the new phone and transfers money to the scammer thinking that he was the real owner of the shop who have been communicating with us.


His plans were foiled as we had cash and didn't agree to transfer, we were also patient to ask questions in the phone shop.

Chinedu and the rest of the staff we met in shop at VI agreed that it was a format that has successfully worked for this scammer and he has swindled some of their customers of their money through this means. They claim it is a major problem in the market.

We were lucky that we didn't allow greed overwhelm us, and we didn't allow pride cause us to ignore the original sale attendant explanation. It would have been a different story.

We should all be careful out there, guys.
Ask questions, be humble, use your head.
Never transfer to a seller who is not present in his shop. If you need to transfer. Make sure you have the phone already and the sales attendant confirms the account number anyone claiming to be their seller or staff sends to you.

Stay safe.


Here is the Scammer's number: 08169348938

BuyAndSellStuff:
Nothing I fear for this life pass a girl suddenly having interest in me.

I flee fast... crush kee you there winch!

Alvanbenjamin:


I've sent a mail

CSTRR:

Go and get help.

Gold digging does not mean you deserve to get killed for it.

Their mates gold dig their way to fortune in Europe and they live to old age.

JoshTim:

Lol, what this young ladies between the age of 18 and 24 do these days is find a hotel, pay for it, move in, and be soliciting customers online for short rest and other wise. So in a day, like 10 men might patronize them. If each man is charged 10k over sex, that's 100k in a day. Women have the heart of a beast compared to the male counterpart and will do the unthinkable to make money.

cherishmichael:
The killings of this Yahoo boys is too much ooo

DropsMic:
Hmm.. Hausa don dey learn bad thing

omoolokunEsin:
If this had happened in another Region of Nigeria our compatriots from East of the Niger would have come out chanting Skull Miners, etc. Imagine burying a corpse with a car. It happens all the time in Eastern Nigeria, but we must remember that the love of money is the ROOT of all evil.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Soludo is leading in 20 out of 21 local government already

UwaMmebii:
Crime doesn't pay, see where ordinary 200m landed this man. If you want to steal do it in a big way.

PeaceJoyLove:

I do not like Tinubu. But if Tinubu was like you Igbos, he would not be big as he is today. For goodness sake, are Igbos not ashamed of themselves? You have a politcal party Ojukwu gave you APGA. You destroyed it yourselves. You rebeled against Tinubu and Buhari in 2015 and the 2019. And you are bullying these same men again. Are you not ashamed?

I dont like Tinubu. I am not his fan. But you are shameless. OK. You have ported to PDP which is another powerful party. Go and build it with Peter Obi. Is Peter Obi not capable of contesting in the party?

Come on. Tinubu will not go to PDP amd start hustling there. Why are you bent on reaping where you dont sow?. Leave APC and Tinubu alone and build your own thing. You are just wasting your time. Tinubu will not leave it for you. You must fight him. Fight for it and stop this childish game. Like you were there when Tinubu and Buhari came on board to form APC. Do you think Buhari would have partnered with any ibo? No way. Yet, you cannot use your heads. Why are you bent on doing what wont work? Or are you not tired?

Leave APC and Tinubu. Go and make your political party work. You didn't work for achieving any success in the party. Rather, you fought the party with your blood. So, stop this game. Go form your party if you dont like the ones around. Leave APC alone. Ha ba!

julitoch:
Use Tom tom and bitter kola, chew both together, i had the same sometime ago and that was what I used, it works very well

azpekuliar:


The stats as at this morning though

azpekuliar:


So people will go searching for old threads in order to vote? You must really think that Nairaland has been completely overun by children.

azpekuliar:


No matter how you place it I have never seen CR7 win any of these polls at least on Nairaland

anambraamaka:
The RIGHT person is the one who never LEFT