bashydemy:
PDP with propanganda, It's only a fool that will think one person can single handedly Islamise Nigeria that person is a goat, Nigeria is a secular states and democracy Nation for that matter... So thinking that way when we have National Assembly will approve any bill pass to them.

He single handed cannot Islamise Nigeria but he can single handedly end corruption, just like he ended corruption when he had all the power of military dictator

Rawani:
Just wait & see what happens when he flushes out the generator and diesel importation cabal.

So because of the igbo traders that import China generators, billions of dollars power stations don't work, thousands of kilometres if power lines don't work, all transformers in the neighbourhood don't work? This type of simplistic reasoning is why the youth today cannot put up credible candidates.

Let Buhari name the generator importers or diesel importers that are spoiling our power stations, he doesn't need to be president to do that.

Please give us credible policies

MrBigPrick:
I beiive Buhari can do it.................But Tinubu go chop the money.

Tell me what is Buhari policy on electricity, we are adults and we can understand difficult policies, let him explain or maybe you explain for him, not just corruption

$35 billion, let Buhari tell us how he will improve electricity

agriboom:
@op lets look at it this way

Let's say GEJ, Atiku, Buhari, Fashola, Sambo, Rochas, tinubu, Obj, IBB and Kwankwaso all promise you they'll fix it whithin 24 months, take away sentiments, how many in the list will you truly believe without thinking twice?

I can almost bet my life it will be just 2 unless you are not completely honest with yourself

Actually its only one (1). Only one person on your list gas been able to perform under our current democracy. Even those who had unlimited power under military regimes were not able to perform.

Only 3 left

Remove National Theatre,that place is now an eyesore, its only used by rats and cockroaches

Am confused oh! PDP spent billions, still no light, Buhari nko? What's his plan for light? He appears silent on this, electricity is at least the second or third biggest problem in Nigeria.

Did Buhari promise to improve electricity supply in Nigeria if he wins presidency? if not, why not? what is Buhari's policy on electricity improvement in the country?

Apparently PDP has spent $16 billion in the past 15 years, how much will Buhari spend?

trendphemmy:
how much is the ps3

N45k, brand new 500GB PS3

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Please note I was in University during Buhari/Idiagbon coup of 1983 and along with many undergraduates we supported the coup. My responses are a result of my memory and not hearsay or reading history books, but from what we experienced at the time.


It is quite sad when i read through some political threads and see some opinions. I just hope people who post such comments are not yet of voting age because the comments are either based on zero facts or absolutely shallow. It is like we have lost our deep sense of thought because of years of bad leadership.

Anyway below are some simple facts and good news for those who still have and want to redeem their lost sense of thought


WHO IS AFRAID OF BUHARI?

I write this because of millions of Nigerians who are below 30 and who constitute a significant chunk of our voting population.
This is the ICT generation that is largely ignorant about the events of the Buhari era (1984-85) and so can be misinformed and misled by needless propaganda. I have sat with many in the under-30 bracket and those slightly above who only have faint recollections of the Buhari era and the level of ignorance about that era is amazing.

Before being MILITARY Head of State, Buhari had been Governor of one of the Northern States (under Obasanjo’s Military government) as well as Minister for Petroleum. He later served as Chairman of PTF under Abacha.

Please consider the following unassailable facts:
1.He birthed and supervised the establishment of our existing refineries.
No evidence of this, the refineries were part of the 3rd and 4th National Development Plans which were 'birthed' during the 1970's under Gowon's government and the so-called super perm secs.

2.There was no religious crisis while he was Head of State. It started under his successor IBB!
Remind me , who crushed the Maistasine riots in Kano resulting in thousands of deaths of religious fanatics, so argue the percusor to the current Boko Haram

3.In his time as Head of State he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal discipline and a homegrown economic team (not achieved under any other era, even military).
where all local industries were killed due to lack of foreign exchange, thousands of jobs lost, beginning of the end of middle class and the use of second hand goods started to become prevalent in Nigeria

4. JJ Rawlings of Ghana took over 2yrs before him, and killed all the corrupt leaders, while Buhari only sentenced the corrupt leaders here to prison.
He jailed innocent people on trumped charges for ridiculous sentences in kangaroo courts for upwards of 27 years to hundreds of years, some died in their incarceration, other came out sick and ill and never recovered, eg Ambrose Alli - we should praise because unlike Rawlings he did not kill them?
5. Under his watch as PTF Chairman, what he did in road construction in that short period hasn't been matched by almost 16yrs of the PDP rule.
As head of state he cancelled the Lagos Metro Line and still had to pay the contractors for breach of contract $78 million (in 1983 what is that in todays money) does this sound like a man with vision, now 30 years later we are still trying to get metro line to Lagos, whereas even Cairo has had underground trains for over 20 years

6.Hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits as they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time.
No evidence of this, instead in the true Nigerian style - in fact it started with PTF, the government gives money to PTF and Ministry of Works to carry out the same job - this duplication is another source of waste and corruption, did the ministries of health around the country stop recieving capital allowance to build and maintain clinics and hospitals whilst PTF was alleging doing their jobs?

7.Despite serving in senior capacity in the oil sector, first as Minister for Petroleum and then Petroleum Trust Fund, Buhari has no petrol station, much less a rig, refinery or an oil block like so many of our leaders.
not being corrupt does not make you a good leader. Hitler was not corrupt, unlike Goering in his government

8.He could have retired into nauseating opulence like most of his counterparts (IBB or Danjuma or even OBJ) but didn't.

9.Instead of hobnobbing with the high and mighty, he has cast his lot with the ordinary man most of who follow him out of hope and belief in his values.
People who know him have said of him... "All I need from Buhari is his word, I can take it to the bank".

10.He is the only politician in the Country today who fills rallies without renting a crowd. The Kaduna rally of 2nd March is eloquent proof!
·He refused to collect an allowance while serving as Chairman of the PTF because he said since he was already drawing a pension from government, his conscience would not allow him to draw another salary from the purse of the same government.
Rubbish, if you do a job, you get paid for that job, his pension was for previous employment not his current position. How much did he save the nation by noit drawing that meagre salary? did he not use government moto and stay in government house during his tenure?

11.He is the only former head of state that does not own property or land in Abuja .
and this proves what? does anyone know of OBJ property outside Otta? but do we dream of calling OBJ honest?

12.Every attempt to rubbish him through probes in time past eneded up vindicating him!
ok

13.The man who was asked by OBJ to take over the running of PTF before it was scrapped with the aim of probing and indicting Buhari, was the one who ended up being prosecuted for misappropriating $100m of PTF funds! Buhari again, was vindicated
sorry who was prosecuted here and or found guilty? I am not clear on your point

14.He has OPENLY challenged those who accuse him of religious fundamentalism to come out and show proof. No one has till today, taken up the challenge. His personal driver of many years is a Christian from Plateau State!
A driver? very important role abi? why did he keep Shagari the President under house arrest in government house whilst putting the Vice President Alex Ekeume in prison without trial?
15.His government initiated the War Against Indiscipline that has made environmental cleanliness, queuing up, not urinating by the roadside etc features of our national life even till today.
So flogging innocent people in the street is the solution to scarce resources, now people queue in Lagos to enter BRT buses, why? because there are enough buses to go round, we know another bus will soon come. Rather than improve public transport, provide public toilets, you start to flog people- according to Fela treat your people like animals

Does it then surprise you why corrupt people would be spreading such heinous rumours about Buhari?
He is a threat to them and they know what he is capable of doing to corruption and corrupt people when he comes into office! So shine your eyes and make the right decision.

If honesty and probity are the things you want for Nigeria, now is the time to choose right.
Now that you know better, will you please educate others


India is a very corrupt country, for years every election in India resulted in thousands of deaths, yet India has never had a coup, now India is one of the biggest economies in the world, people travel from around the including UK and Nigeria to take advantage of Indian hospitals and IT industry - yet India remains a corrupt country.

Their neighbour, Pakistan also has similar problems to India with corruption and rigged elections, Pakistan has had numerous coups and military leaders who become politicians, which is a better country today? India or Pakistan?

Youth of Nigeria shine your eye very well , no more recycling of these failed leaders. bring new fresh leaders that have great ideas for the natiion[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]

How many Nigerians leaders were caned in school (at least those that went to school) Stella Oduah, Goodluck, Obasanjo,Ibori, Tinubu, etc all of them which one of them was not 'disciplined' . I am sure all those who believe in 'spare the rod, spoil the child' will agree with me that our 'great' leaders are great due to the discipline and caning they recieved in school.

Abi I lie?

kraftykc:

I have other people who I have sent stuff to and I can give you lots of references and i cannot say when the package will arrive but it will not exceed one week at most.

Does your price for the PS4 include delivery to my address in Lagos, are there any other fees such as customs or any other surprises?
Please let me know your final price for the PS4 in dollars

Await your response

It really depends on your immigration status and what you studied.

If you are able to get legal status, for instance you get married to a British Citizen and are given the limited rigth to stay or there are some work placement visas (but these rules change constantly).

After this what and where you studied matters most; I would suggest if you are coming to study,do a professional course; engineering, computer programming, medicine, law, etc Or train as an electrician, plumber or other skilled labour. Any of these can easily earn you £30,000 a year within one year of graduation.

Do not do our traditional naija courses - economics, bus admin, etc these are pen pusher courses and work will be difficult. (unless you studied in the top universities, Oxford, Cambridge, Kings, etc)

laplace19:


Won't it take years to accomplish that?....cos you need to reconstruct our refineries first/ build up new ones.

Yeye people...... I will buy all your N20 fuel and sell it across the border for N150. Na only Nigeria like cheap fuel abi?

kraftykc: @Ojis sorry I haven't replied you but you can easily get a laptop of your specs for about $300. Also please don't obliged to me if you have any other means of obtaining it, I just hate how these sellers are bloating the prices of electronics and stuff.



PS4 - 400
pad - 60
Fifa 14 - 50
Shipping depends on the service you want to use but its anywhere from 100 - 200

You are looking at about 610 or 710 depending on shipping.

Wow, you can get a PS4 to Nigeria for not more than $710?

How long will it take to get to Nigeria?
Amazon website says delivery like after Christmas does that mean they will now arrive very quickly?
Do you have any reference from somebody you have already supplied on Nairaland?
Merry Christmas my friend

domack99:

Try circuit atlantic (www.circuitatlantic.com) the earlier you order the better so it can be deliver before xmas.

I also plan on ordering one myself

e go tough oh!
1. Circuitatlantic will require you to pay upfront which the poster does not want to do
2. Amazon is not shipping any PS4 before Christmas,

Zimbabwe warns foreign firms of January 2014 arrest

The owners of foreign firms operating in certain sectors in Zimbabwe after 1 January 2014 will be arrested, a senior official has warned.

Economic Empowerment Secretary George Magosvongwe issued the warning in parliament, state media reports.

"Indigenisation" of the economy was one of President Robert Mugabe's main campaign themes in the March election.

Farming, hairdressing and baking are among the sectors now reserved for "indigenous", or black, Zimbabweans.

"1 January is a month to come and we are putting in place measures for enforcement in the event that they do not comply," the state-owned Herald newspaper quotes Mr Magosvongwe as saying.

He said that Zimbabweans were being identified to take over businesses to prevent shortages of goods.

According to the Herald the "reserved sectors of the economy" include: Retail and wholesale business, hairdressers, beauty salons, bakers, employment agencies, agriculture, transport, estate agencies and advertising agencies.

It said that foreign-owned restaurants which did not serve local food would not be affected.

Owners of businesses without indigenisation compliance certificates face a fine or imprisonment if they are still operating, the Herald reports.

It says these certificates are only given to local people.

The BBC's Brian Hungwe in Harare says that there has been growing concern in Zimbabwe over an influx of traders from Nigeria and China who sell all sorts of goods in local markets, undercutting local retailers.

Mr Mugabe says his policies are needed because under colonial rule, many economic sectors were reserved for white people.

His critics say that his seizure of most of the country's white-owned land has ruined what used to be one of Africa's most developed economies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25053618

Another African treating Nigerians as 'parasites' ; our small businesses there, barber, hairdressers, small traders - is this just jealousy or what?

ericgold: [s][/s]@op na wa for u sef,so you wan tell me Dt everybody that ends up in amerika dt their life is miserable? Everything that has a good side must surely have d bad side, so stop painting it bad......not everybody will end up like u or the person dt inspired u in writing this article except say u wan tell me say nor be ur head e from kum out.....I rest my case.

What about Nigeria? Don't people make it in Nigeria? Those who 'make it' in Nigeria will tell you it's easier to make it in Nigeria than in the so-called western world.

ericgold: [s][/s]@op na wa for u sef,so you wan tell me Dt everybody that ends up in amerika dt their life is miserable? Everything that has a good side must surely have d bad side, so stop painting it bad......not everybody will end up like u or the person dt inspired u in writing this article except say u wan tell me say nor be ur head e from kum out.....I rest my case.

Actually, I didn't write the article, the author's name is at the bottom. It is an article that has been making the rounds on Facebook and other social media. But I totally understand the writer's feelings, bascially it's easy to think as soon as you reach Yankee or Jandon that your problems are over. No the struggle continues.

If you decide to come to Yankee or Jandon, please look to get yourself a profession if you are not naturally an entrepreneur - try and be doctor, lawyer, architect, IT progammer or learn a trade to the standard and qualification accepted in your country of choice - motor mechanic, plumber, electrician, etc

AMERICAN LIFE
---------'''''''------'''''''---'''''
You come to America, young and dashing, on full scholarship, finish school, get a great job, marry a glamorous spouse, have cute children and retire at a young age with a great pension, portfolio and posture.
…And live happily ever after. Yes champ; rub it in.
For the rest of you, life abroad is a crest of trajectories. You come into America, by air, by sea, or via a midnight sneak-in across the Mexican border; fooling the Minute Men and Lou Dobbs all at once. You come to school, to join your spouse, to work after winning the Green Card Lottery, or to raise your hand at the airport and claim persecution in your own country because you are a Mormon as well as a leader in MEND.
You behold America the beautiful. The triple-decker burgers and the giant cup of coke and cars that are wider than your village road and you wonder what took you so long to get here. You get on with schooling.
For now any cheap school will do. You study the things people who came before you say brings money – the things Americans do not want to study- to prepare you for the job Americans do not want to do. You hear nursing, bloody nursing. You say, bring it on. You get on with marriage - the convenience marriage- discovering that you married three persons at once; the person you thought you married, the person your spouse really is and the person your spouse becomes because you got married in this America. For work, you do anything for a dollar; fast food restaurant, drive a cab, guard the parking lot of company executives younger than you, even care for the disabled, breaking your back to pay the bills.
Then reality hits. The dollar is not adding up. There's more going out than coming in. Time is running. Letters, emails and phone calls are enveloping you from home. School is done; where is the job? Your accent is a problem. Racism is real. You're finally squeezed in a Corporate job at last. Work place politics really sucks. Meanwhile, the American spouse is gone but your residency is established. Now where do you find someone to marry for real? A Blind date? E-harmony.com? Town Conventions? What of picking up someone from your village? But these are all packages which content you cannot ascertain. Somehow, you settle with one. Honeymoon over, now what is the state of the marriage? First mission accomplished, now what next?
You start a house in your village. A big house. You sink in any money you can get. Some of it goes to the house but most of it goes to your family member who is supervising the construction. It costs more than it will to buy a comparable house in America. You afraid to calculate how many days you will sleep in this house in your life time. You say, Tufiakwa. It will not be your portion. You need to do it not just because everyone is doing it – your daddy is demanding it. He's asking you to wipe away the shame on the family's face.
Your daddy dies. Your dentist extracts a tooth.
Then America begins to reveal itself quietly. Oh tribalism again; discrimination at the work place. Your head touches the virtual ceiling for immigrants. You now understand affirmative action. Kids come but housemaids are tagged slavery, who will care for them? Now you have day care, mortgage, after school sport activities, mid-life career crisis, more phone calls from home, and marital problems. If only some of these can wait. You can call marital problems by its real name- money problems entangled with control problems, decision making disagreements, tasks and privileges, status problems and in-law problems. Maybe you will stay home with the kids. Maybe your mother will come and help … and incense your spouse.
With caning banished, you raise teens with your hands tied to your back. Marital problems persist because as your fortune falls that of your spouse rises. You have done your calculation. Something has to give. You try selling real estate. You prepare taxes. You sell insurance. You run out of contacts. You buy cars from the auction and ship them home. You get duped by friends and family. Nothing is adding up. Fast insurance fraud deals? You try other businesses on the side, but total dedication is needed. You quit your job entirely and start a business. Cleaning business. Staffing business. Medical equipment. Home Health business. Escort service. Oh, these taxes, running costs, government paper works and lack of patronage by your own people.
Marital problems persist. You wish you had married the lover you left in Nigeria to come to America. You take the divorce option. Half of your wealth is wiped out. Now rages the battle for visitation rights, alimony and child support. You're estranged from the kids because of the stories your spouse made up against you to win custody. But you keep paying up. You have no option. You start afresh. A new apartment.
Maybe a new spouse? No, that can wait. Your classmate at home becomes the CEO of a multinational company. A chieftaincy title follows and you wonder what happened to you.
You consider a fast 419 advance fee fraud deal. You remember those acquaintances still doing time in US prisons. You hold off. You dream of a contract from the government at home. You write a proposal. You get in touch with an old classmate who has done well.
Home looks attractive. The people you left behind are doing better. You conveniently forget the majority who are not making ends meet. You are overwhelmed. High blood pressure is diagnosed. High cholesterol. Heart problems. Another tooth is extracted. You join the gym. You stay away from garri and farina. You join a church. You can be a pastor too, but you don't like that lifestyle of pretending to be what you're not. Life is no more fun. You go home, dabble in business, in politics, in entertainment.
You are burnt. You return. You start afresh.
No, you won't take the divorce option. You will manage. You will live like roommates, until the kids are grown and are out of the house. You will wait for retirement. You need just ten more years. At 56, with social security plus pension pay and 401K, you can go to the village, if kidnappers permit, and enjoy your old age. And start afresh. Maybe marry anew. Maybe teach in a college in Nigeria. Yeah! You register for a PhD with an online college.
Your Mummy dies. Your dentist extracts another tooth. Your doctor suggests knee and hip replacement. Your shrink prescribes Prozac.
In spite of your wahala, the children grow. The girls do well in school. The boys go from four-year colleges to two- year colleges, in between gang membership and police troubles. The boys marry White girls. The girls marry African-Americans. You're glad the girls did not get pregnant out of wedlock. You thank God the boys did not throw a coming out party to announce that they are gay. One lives in Arizona and another in Hawaii. Your house is empty, calls come on holidays only.
It is now time to really go home. But what about managing the diabetes? Do you trust the doctors at home to handle your dialysis? Your medication cocktail will be hard to find at home. Daddy and Mummy are dead. You have to make new friends again. The ones you used to have are now strangers to you. Your spouse refuses to go with you. Spouse cannot deal with the sound of electric generators, untreated well water, Afor Igwe meat without an FDA inspection tag.
You retire. You sell the big house and move into a small condo. When you cannot wipe your behind, you go from the condo to a nursing home.
Your children are too busy to have you share their homes. They visit every presidential election year. Once again, you think of going home but no, it is rather too late for that. The twelfth tooth is gone. You now take more pills than the teeth in your mouth.
So you stay until your autopsy is ready. Your townsfolk contribute money to ship you home. As your coffin lands in Lagos, your relations who have gathered to receive you for the last time mutter in between breaths, Tufiakwa. Yes, the same tufiakwa that you said the time you read the article called `This American Life'.
Oh, about your kids, well, some of them went home with your body. Those few times you cleaned your bank account to take them home paid off.
They watch as sand lands on your coffin. One even remembered how to say, `Kedu'. They leave soon after. They will come back one more time – when they accompany your ex on the final journey home.

By RUDOLF OGOO OKONKWO


Maybe this can really only be appreciated by nlers who are old enough to understand the sentiments, some of us have already crossed that line.

AMERICAN LIFE
---------'''''''------'''''''---'''''
You come to America, young and dashing, on full scholarship, finish school, get a great job, marry a glamorous spouse, have cute children and retire at a young age with a great pension, portfolio and posture.
…And live happily ever after. Yes champ; rub it in.
For the rest of you, life abroad is a crest of trajectories. You come into America, by air, by sea, or via a midnight sneak-in across the Mexican border; fooling the Minute Men and Lou Dobbs all at once. You come to school, to join your spouse, to work after winning the Green Card Lottery, or to raise your hand at the airport and claim persecution in your own country because you are a Mormon as well as a leader in MEND.
You behold America the beautiful. The triple-decker burgers and the giant cup of coke and cars that are wider than your village road and you wonder what took you so long to get here. You get on with schooling.
For now any cheap school will do. You study the things people who came before you say brings money – the things Americans do not want to study- to prepare you for the job Americans do not want to do. You hear nursing, bloody nursing. You say, bring it on. You get on with marriage - the convenience marriage- discovering that you married three persons at once; the person you thought you married, the person your spouse really is and the person your spouse becomes because you got married in this America. For work, you do anything for a dollar; fast food restaurant, drive a cab, guard the parking lot of company executives younger than you, even care for the disabled, breaking your back to pay the bills.
Then reality hits. The dollar is not adding up. There's more going out than coming in. Time is running. Letters, emails and phone calls are enveloping you from home. School is done; where is the job? Your accent is a problem. Racism is real. You're finally squeezed in a Corporate job at last. Work place politics really sucks. Meanwhile, the American spouse is gone but your residency is established. Now where do you find someone to marry for real? A Blind date? E-harmony.com? Town Conventions? What of picking up someone from your village? But these are all packages which content you cannot ascertain. Somehow, you settle with one. Honeymoon over, now what is the state of the marriage? First mission accomplished, now what next?
You start a house in your village. A big house. You sink in any money you can get. Some of it goes to the house but most of it goes to your family member who is supervising the construction. It costs more than it will to buy a comparable house in America. You afraid to calculate how many days you will sleep in this house in your life time. You say, Tufiakwa. It will not be your portion. You need to do it not just because everyone is doing it – your daddy is demanding it. He's asking you to wipe away the shame on the family's face.
Your daddy dies. Your dentist extracts a tooth.
Then America begins to reveal itself quietly. Oh tribalism again; discrimination at the work place. Your head touches the virtual ceiling for immigrants. You now understand affirmative action. Kids come but housemaids are tagged slavery, who will care for them? Now you have day care, mortgage, after school sport activities, mid-life career crisis, more phone calls from home, and marital problems. If only some of these can wait. You can call marital problems by its real name- money problems entangled with control problems, decision making disagreements, tasks and privileges, status problems and in-law problems. Maybe you will stay home with the kids. Maybe your mother will come and help … and incense your spouse.
With caning banished, you raise teens with your hands tied to your back. Marital problems persist because as your fortune falls that of your spouse rises. You have done your calculation. Something has to give. You try selling real estate. You prepare taxes. You sell insurance. You run out of contacts. You buy cars from the auction and ship them home. You get duped by friends and family. Nothing is adding up. Fast insurance fraud deals? You try other businesses on the side, but total dedication is needed. You quit your job entirely and start a business. Cleaning business. Staffing business. Medical equipment. Home Health business. Escort service. Oh, these taxes, running costs, government paper works and lack of patronage by your own people.
Marital problems persist. You wish you had married the lover you left in Nigeria to come to America. You take the divorce option. Half of your wealth is wiped out. Now rages the battle for visitation rights, alimony and child support. You're estranged from the kids because of the stories your spouse made up against you to win custody. But you keep paying up. You have no option. You start afresh. A new apartment.
Maybe a new spouse? No, that can wait. Your classmate at home becomes the CEO of a multinational company. A chieftaincy title follows and you wonder what happened to you.
You consider a fast 419 advance fee fraud deal. You remember those acquaintances still doing time in US prisons. You hold off. You dream of a contract from the government at home. You write a proposal. You get in touch with an old classmate who has done well.
Home looks attractive. The people you left behind are doing better. You conveniently forget the majority who are not making ends meet. You are overwhelmed. High blood pressure is diagnosed. High cholesterol. Heart problems. Another tooth is extracted. You join the gym. You stay away from garri and farina. You join a church. You can be a pastor too, but you don't like that lifestyle of pretending to be what you're not. Life is no more fun. You go home, dabble in business, in politics, in entertainment.
You are burnt. You return. You start afresh.
No, you won't take the divorce option. You will manage. You will live like roommates, until the kids are grown and are out of the house. You will wait for retirement. You need just ten more years. At 56, with social security plus pension pay and 401K, you can go to the village, if kidnappers permit, and enjoy your old age. And start afresh. Maybe marry anew. Maybe teach in a college in Nigeria. Yeah! You register for a PhD with an online college.
Your Mummy dies. Your dentist extracts another tooth. Your doctor suggests knee and hip replacement. Your shrink prescribes Prozac.
In spite of your wahala, the children grow. The girls do well in school. The boys go from four-year colleges to two- year colleges, in between gang membership and police troubles. The boys marry White girls. The girls marry African-Americans. You're glad the girls did not get pregnant out of wedlock. You thank God the boys did not throw a coming out party to announce that they are gay. One lives in Arizona and another in Hawaii. Your house is empty, calls come on holidays only.
It is now time to really go home. But what about managing the diabetes? Do you trust the doctors at home to handle your dialysis? Your medication cocktail will be hard to find at home. Daddy and Mummy are dead. You have to make new friends again. The ones you used to have are now strangers to you. Your spouse refuses to go with you. Spouse cannot deal with the sound of electric generators, untreated well water, Afor Igwe meat without an FDA inspection tag.
You retire. You sell the big house and move into a small condo. When you cannot wipe your behind, you go from the condo to a nursing home.
Your children are too busy to have you share their homes. They visit every presidential election year. Once again, you think of going home but no, it is rather too late for that. The twelfth tooth is gone. You now take more pills than the teeth in your mouth.
So you stay until your autopsy is ready. Your townsfolk contribute money to ship you home. As your coffin lands in Lagos, your relations who have gathered to receive you for the last time mutter in between breaths, Tufiakwa. Yes, the same tufiakwa that you said the time you read the article called `This American Life'.
Oh, about your kids, well, some of them went home with your body. Those few times you cleaned your bank account to take them home paid off.
They watch as sand lands on your coffin. One even remembered how to say, `Kedu'. They leave soon after. They will come back one more time – when they accompany your ex on the final journey home.

By RUDOLF OGOO OKONKWO

meekmk: Firstly I do hope this gets to the front page.

And I'm not trashing someones business, I just happen to have a problem with JUMIA's 5 days delivery policy.

Why on earth would i have to wait 5 days to receive an ordered Item, Within Lagos when i could as well go to the mall and get it.

5 days delivery policy for orders within lagos is just totally stupid and absurd if you ask me, C'mon i mean its Lagos... Why can delivery be same day..

AND Don't anyone say they are still growing because they are almost a year old now.

Secondly, A store which doesnt have Giftwrapping options, You can order gifts from them, Say My mum's Birthday is tomorrow morning, I cant place a fast order and have it delivered next morning, why then should i evn bother to waste my time on the website if it doesnt serve my most immediate needs.

They Do have their Plus sides too, but the service isnt comprehensive enough for me..

Please Share Experience.

The answer is simple; Stock levels amd logistics.
Jumia and Konga have spent millions of dollars starting their businesses in Nigeria and obviously already know the best practices from other online retailers around the world - do the posters here feel Jumia, Konga and other online retailers in Nigeria have not heard of Amazon, eBay, shopto, BesyBuy, etc. They have studied them and know all the pitfalls.

In order to reduce cost and wastage, both Jumia & konga cannot keep all they advertise online in stock. When you place an order, they order from their suppliers (some suppliers are in Nigeria, some outside Nigeria) then they delver to you, hence the need to give up to 5 days fro delivery.

One of my businesses actually supplies Jumia and Jumia staff sometimes come to our offices 4 times day to pick single items for onward delivery to their customer that ordered the particular item.

By the way the other arm of my business also has our e-commerce business in direct competition with Jumia and Konga, so I should not be sticking up for them but the truth is the truth; businesses in Nigeria are trying and giving our environment and limited current online market size, you cannot expect the same standards from the likes of Amazon.

For instance Amazon, Tesco and other big retailers have million-dollar software that accurately predict demand of any particular product and any particular time, they even use the weather in their predictions. (Oyibo juju strong oh!).

So, yes Jumia, konga, etc would love to give same day or next day delivery, but are limited by their stock as well as logistics. by the way my website does same day/ next day delivery for items in stock. Same day in Lagos, next day outside Lagos.

josite: let us be fair to covenant university.

1.they did not force you to seek admission into covenant.
2,they told you their rules and you sign the acceptance.
3,your parents are the ones who decides u need the training offered by covenant since they did not have time to train u.
4.you can withdraw and go to everything goes OOU if u wish.

tomorrow somebody will open a thread asking why there is no Nigerian university in the top 100 or the top 1000. Harvard, Yale, MIT are private universities, how good is the discipline in those institutions? Are you saying 'yankee' children don't smoke igbo, have wild parties, cut lectures, etc. Yet these and the other 1000 universities are still sought after for the brilliant education and research that goes on and is always improving in those institutions.

we the blackman, we always believe in using force to so-called discipline. Where has this discipline got us? Did our current and past leaders not have discipline when they were growing up? did they not 'kneel' to greet or as punishment? how have they used that discipline to improve themselves or the nation.

the useless lecturer that carried out this punishment, is he without sin? can he even dream of getting admin assistant job in any of the top 1000 universities, he can't use his so-called higher education to find a 'better' way to instill discipline.

enough of my rant jare

please mods in the interest of public information,front page please. ( I know similar threads have been posted in the past, but education is continuous)

Park
Pack

Please my fellow educated, english-speaking Nigerians, these two (2) words above are very different and cannot be used interchangeably.

You cannot 'park' out of your house.
You cannot 'pack' your vehicle or your car.
There is no such thing as a car[b]pack[/b].

Apart from Buhari & Bakare is there any nationally recognised figure in CPC? is CPC not a one man party?

Please GenBuhari do not reply with your newspaper cuttings, they do not answer any questions