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Travel › Re: Meet The Air Peace Crew That Flew In The Medical Supplies From Turkey(photos) by Focusmind: 5:33pm On Apr 06, 2020
Nigerians and tribal stupidity. Do the man even send all these stupid Igbo Amaka?

The man is doing his business and some idiots are here claiming my tribesman.

Near the gate of Air peace and claim na my brother get am without official invitation make Mopol use koboko finish you

Our youths are becoming irreparably daft these days.
Politics › Re: Abubakar Bukola Saraki Foundation Distributes Food To Kwarans by Focusmind: 10:24am On Apr 06, 2020
The poverty level in this country is mind boggling.

The people should also help themselves as too much children is a contributory factor to poverty.

I don't know why people in remote village should be having 7 to 8 children without any means of sustenance.
Christianity Etc › Re: Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma Holds Church Service, Dares Government On Lockdown by Focusmind: 8:46am On Apr 06, 2020
I respect this man because of his intellect but now re considering my opinion of him.

Just imagine what he is saying. People that should know better are now causing confusion everywhere.

He should please respect the laws of the land
Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Apply For 2019 NNPC Graduate Trainee And Experience Hire by Focusmind: 9:18am On Apr 05, 2020
Feex:
Guys, abeg I am sorry. The lashing is too much and unexpected.

I wish everyone the very best. Wish GTs and EHs success.


I digress: Just to contribute on the ongoing debate

The oil price drop is caused by two factors - oversupply by Saudi is the highest driver (like 70% of the cause) followed by low demand due to the pandemic. Saudi has promised to push in more barrels in April so expect even lower prices in April. The next OPEC+ meeting is not likely to hold anytime soon at least until June. So expect sustained low prices till at least June. CNN has also reported the pandemic may last for up to a year. Hopefully mankind will discover a vaccine before then. So oil prices is not gonna rise in weeks.

Even without oversupply, oil prices wouldn't have gone above the 40s due to the pandemic.


Also, the cost of producing oil in Nigeria is one of the very highest in the world, between $25 and $35 depending on the area. Whoever said $15 is not familiar with the Nigerian oil industry. Nigeria is currently producing literally at a loss. Also remember that we are not able to sell our crude as we are outpriced in the international market by lower cost producers like Saudi and Russia. So Nigeria isn't making any money right now. Worse still, the ECA is almost empty. Hard times ahead.
You did not do anything wrong. People are just emotional and sentimental. I fully understood as some people had committed time and resources to scale through the process.

I consult for a client in the sector. In 2016, my client won a drilling contract and hired some engineers. The contract was cancelled by powers that be and my client informed the engineers that were hired and terminated the appointments. About 13 of them.

Circumstances beyond a business may warrant termination of employment.

This is Nigeria and the uncertainty in everything is usually high.

The minister of finance has already said that an embargo has been placed on employment except in case of replacement.
Properties › Re: Furniture; Nothing Else! (pictures Only) by Focusmind: 8:05am On Apr 04, 2020
Please show real things and not Internet pictures or artist impression.
Health › Re: Pictures Of Kurudu Market Abuja 4 Days After Lockdown by Focusmind: 8:17pm On Apr 03, 2020
Lock down can never work in a developing country. People are simply poor and lives from hand to mouth.

See what is happening in Europe and US with food been distributed to the homeless.

Men, there is so much gap between developed and undeveloped countries. Covid 19 have exposed that social divide and government in developing nations needs to work hard to bridge that divide.

But corruption and greed will never allow them.
Travel › Re: 'it's Time To Go Home' Scott Morrison Tells Visitors And International Students by Focusmind: 5:46pm On Apr 03, 2020
See hypocrisy. You collected thousands of dollars from them as tuition and because of the current situation, you are now telling them to go home. I never liked this prime minister
Travel › Re: Beautiful City of Windhoek,Namibia by Focusmind: 5:35pm On Apr 03, 2020
The first thing you notice when you visit African cities is the relative neatness, order, discipline and calmness that pervades the land unlike the chaotic, crude, dirty and unhygienic ghettos we have in Nigeria.

God save this country honestly. We are too backward and our standards are terribly low.
Sports › Re: Charles Tambe Shot By Hoodlums In Ibadan (Abia Warriors Goalkeeper) by Focusmind: 5:23pm On Apr 03, 2020
NextD18:
Shot in IBADAN?

Nna eh! Why do those people hate IGBOs this bad?

Imagine shooting an innocent guy because he's Igbo.

Ndi ofe mmanua gbakwara ajor wicked oo!
Nya, fa choro igbusisi ndi Igbo niile no na obodo fa?

Anya ukwu adirokwa mma oo!
You are just too stupid for Satan's sake. Very myopic. I hope this lockdown is not affecting your mental state. Why do you people always see things from the angle of tribalism?
Health › Re: Mass Production Of Face-masks In Aba (For Coronavirus Protection) by Focusmind: 7:51am On Apr 03, 2020
Nigeria's SMES operates under serious hindrance.

See Chinese firms and the massive government support. That's why they are mass producing mask for sale abroad with huge profit.

Government should support Aba to be competing with Bangladesh, Vietnam and China in textiles export
Politics › Re: COVID-19: Fire Service Fumigates Enugu Metropolis, Environs (Photos, Video) by Focusmind: 6:42am On Apr 03, 2020
Personal hygiene still remains the best protection against this covid.

See them up there castigating what other states are doing.

Nigerians are so myopic. Must everything be about 'my own better pass your own'?

The fact still remains that our cities and towns are nothing to write home about. Unplanned, crowded, lack of mapping both physical and social.

See the way European cities are and ease to navigate and fumigate public places
Politics › Re: Chadian Soldiers Kill Boko Haram Terrorists, Shekau Consoles Fighters (Video) by Focusmind: 10:44am On Apr 02, 2020
Boko haram fear Chadian troops more than Nigerian troops. Boko boys knows who is more battle hardened.

Chad haven't spent one quarter of what we have spent but are getting more result than us.
Health › Re: Pictures Of Aba After Lockdown Today by Focusmind: 8:48am On Apr 02, 2020
Nigerian cities and towns are nothing to write home about. From Lagos to Onitsha to Aba to Kano to Warri. Lack of aesthetics, poor urban planning, open drainages, poor access roads, yet we want tourists to come to these shitholes.

My annoyance is the way our people praise these politicians. They go abroad and see how aesthetically pleasing their roads and surroundings are and will come back to give us rubbish.

Even some very poor Asian and Latin American countries have more beautiful towns and villages.

We are just too backwards and our standards are terribly low in this country.
Health › Re: Lockdown: A Picture Of Jakande Lekki Axis At Night by Focusmind: 7:19am On Apr 02, 2020
Faber:
Those Shouting Eko oni baje... grin grin grin

Eko don fold o....Eko don baje... grin grin grin

Over here in the East we just dey our dey running our activities like say nothing is happening and nothing will happen.

South East best place to be in Nigeria. No international borders. South East always safe. grin
Stupidity of the highest. No wonder someone said that the kind of illiteracy and ignorance being exhibited in Aba and Onitsha is mind boggling.

You have started chest beating on top of this virus. There is no single testing centre in the SE and nobody knows the number of carriers and how far it has spread.

You guys likes deceiving yourself a lot. This virus knows no boundaries. A single carrier can spread the virus to entire people if not detected on time and stopped.

A lot of your people have left Lagos, the supposedly infected state and headed to SE to probably infect the oldies in the village without knowing it.

Your concern should be on how to stop this virus in the world and not chest - beating for nothing.

As long as there is still one infected person in the world, the world is not yet free from the virus.
Politics › Re: COVID-19 Lockdown: Food Markets To Open Between 10:00am And 2:00pm Daily – FG by Focusmind: 8:38pm On Apr 01, 2020
Honestly, this corona has brought out the difference between developed and undeveloped countries.

The gap is simply too much. In developed countries, cities and towns are well planned, social mapping well entrenched, citizens data are monitored, social system top-notch.

But check out undeveloped countries like Nigeria and India and see the mess. Managing the huge population is problematic
Travel › Re: Coronavirus Lockdown: A Nairalander In Ireland Shares His Experience (Photos) by Focusmind: 10:46pm On Mar 31, 2020
See well marked roads. Nigeria will never mark their road for motorists to understand but will position one stupid LASTMA man to arrest you when you unknowingly pass the wrong road.

Also, some that are praising the neatness of the place do drop things on the road. We praise abroad but we don't want to do simple good things in Nigeria.

Nigeria situation is as a result of both the government and the citizens.
Health › Re: Coronavirus: Share Your Experience Staying At Home by Focusmind: 8:15am On Mar 29, 2020
Learning some new skills in international development and social intervention courses from World bank, UNDP and IMF websites.

Other areas area:

- technical report writing
- info graphics
- advanced power point and writing skills
- program and project management.

Above all, help my kids perfect their reading skills which I noticed tremendous improvement.

Helping them to understand maths and numbers very well. I haven't been able to do all these because of work but now I am dedicating so much time to them
Politics › Re: Senators Sneak Into Private Hospitals For Coronavirus Tests - The Nation by Focusmind: 2:15pm On Mar 28, 2020
See how people are insulting them. Yet, you all lined up and voted for them.

They came from us. They are not different from the environment and system that brought them up.

You could be worse if given the opportunity
Celebrities › Re: Covid-19: Davido's Baby Mama, Chioma Tests Positive by Focusmind: 9:11pm On Mar 27, 2020
She will be fine. Her age bracket do survive. Nothing to worry
Health › Re: Mologic invents A 10-Minute Coronavirus Antibody Test, Costs $1 by Focusmind: 2:06pm On Mar 27, 2020
What are our professors of microbiology and biochemistry doing?

Mehn, watch news and see inventions coming in different places.

A 3D printer capable of printing ventilators is out now. Scientists and engineered have all buried themselves in labs researching.

If I was still a student, I for insult my science lecturers tire.

Nigerian lecturers, they form God but hardly contributes anything to the body of knowledge
Health › Re: Six COVID-19 Patients To Be Discharged In Lagos by Focusmind: 12:58pm On Mar 26, 2020
The big problem is on tracing the contacts of index cases.

Hear the commissioner, we are trying to trace about 2000 people that had contacts with the people discharged.

The 2000 contacts may be somewhere infecting other people unknowingly.

We should follow up with what is happening in Italy and Europe.

We don't have adequate testing in Nigeria and so cannot confirm number of infected persons.
Education › Re: Is Spending N16M On A 3-Year Ph.D In The UK Worth It? by Focusmind: 10:02am On Mar 26, 2020
If it is a STEM course and you are very good academically and intend to stay in Europe or developed world, then good to go. But if you intend to come back to Nigeria, please forget the idea

if it is not STEM course, please don't waste your money. More over, get attached with a seasoned professor to carry out research on topical issues.

Some seasoned Professors get funding and grants and take good PH.D students to work with them. Try and always publish in a learned journal
Celebrities › Re: Stainless Precious And Ima-Obong Ndiana Abasi's Pre-wedding Photos by Focusmind: 7:09am On Mar 26, 2020
Don't know why people are saying underage. I am sure the bride is up to 21 and must have graduated.

I was born 1979 and my woman was born 1991. We have been married for 7 years now and you won't even notice.

Though she looked innocent with sexy small body then, yet very intelligent.

Most men still toast her without knowing she has already dropped 3 kids.

I married her when she just finished her final year exams and we have been living happily.

I allowed her to make her initial mistakes as she wasn't matured then but she picked up dramatically as I became her teacher in practically everything without complaining because the love and bond existing is very very strong.

Today, she looks back and smile for the woman I have turned her into.

So, please leave the couple alone. The man should be patient with her and allow her develop. He shouldn't beat her o
Politics › Re: Photos Of Abba Kyari, Ganduje, Masari, Dangote At IGP Son's Wedding Recently by Focusmind: 8:26am On Mar 25, 2020
Nigerians and their foolishness. See how everybody seems to be wishing people death and still be pretending to love God.

Some are saying, God is fighting our battle". Whose battle? Never wish your fellow human death under any circumstances. Most Nigerians are wicked and even worse than the politicians and the rich they are wishing death
Health › Re: Jack Ma's Donation To Fight COVID-19 Arrives Nigeria by Focusmind: 6:38pm On Mar 24, 2020
The thing is in Ethiopia and not Nigeria. It arrived Ethiopia for onward distribution to other African countries.

It is not yet in Nigeria. Ethiopia will send us the remnants after selecting their own. Trust an African with greed mentality.
Politics › Re: Boko Haram Kills 70 Soldiers In Borno Ambush by Focusmind: 3:54pm On Mar 24, 2020
Honestly, Nigerian government need to contact the Syrian - Assad regime or their Russian backers for tactical discipline in a warfare training.

How can you load a lorry full of combatants in a war fare like this? See the way Syrian government forces moves against the insurgents. You hardly see lorry load of fighters to avoid being hit by grenade, road side bombs or rockets.

Nigerian commanders needs training on tactical discipline and maneuvering.

Kai, this loss is huge! Peoples fathers.
Health › Re: I Tested Positive For Coronavirus - Salihu Umar, FIRS Employee by Focusmind: 9:58am On Mar 24, 2020
FIRS should shut down biko.

They slammed my client with a tax liability and fixed next week as the last day to receive response

I am not going to drop any response letter. . I will respond to them via email.

Thank God the new tax law now accepts responses to tax queries online.

But the analogue FIRS guy that sent the letter wants a hard copy response. Just Imagine! If he does not want email response, he should forget about.
Health › Re: Nigeria Has Less Than 500 Ventilators For Coronavirus Patients - Punch Newspaper by Focusmind: 9:29am On Mar 24, 2020
Honestly, I was not expecting up to 100 ventilators.

A whole UK is lamenting that they have only 5,000.

I doubt if we have up to that 500. They may not even be functioning.

This covid 19 have exposed the inadequacies of our medical system. See other countries taking drastic measures, disinfecting a whole area yet we are to see any thing tangible here.
Education › Re: I Want To Transfer My Kids To Public School. Is It Advisable? by Focusmind(op): 3:02pm On Mar 23, 2020
being:
@ Focusmind Just reading this and found the crying over sweating so funny!!
But i felt i should comment because the idea of public sch is a v. bad one. This is because the quality of education in public sch is lower than good private schs. What i d advise is take them to primary schs that are not so high brow but have v good educational standard, infact esp when when they are starting sec schs. Don't take them to Atlantic hall, BIS, take them to ISL, QC-schools that are good In waec rankings but not so cozy. Also, hence forth let them be washing their clothes, plates at home. They should clean up their rooms themselves not the maid, even do things like cleaning the cabinet. Infact by the time the first born is like 13, you shouldn't have an house help. Let them do.everything in the house including cleaning the car and washing your own clothes that are not drycleaned!! Even from now, let them run errands for you in the neighbourhood. Let them go and buy eggs, grind things for their mum. This will build in them an attitude of responsibility- knowing nothing happens just on its own. Depending on your neighbourhood you can encourage them to have friends of all status in that environment. But you need to ensure you instil right principles in them so they can deflect wrong influence from outside. And also you should also monitor their character for any bad influence. You can restrict them from some comfort- like if mum & dad is not around don't put on AC. You can also allow the maid to pick them up with public transport from sch. But pls dont compromise on education quality!!
Good one - I will surely put them in a very modest school in my area. Considering the current economic situation, it may not even be sustainable for me again to retain them in their current school. The fee is quite high.

Tougher days are ahead of because of Corona and I need to conserve as much fund as possible as recession is on the way.
Education › Re: What Course Did You Study In The Tertiary Institution And What's your job now? by Focusmind: 10:25pm On Mar 21, 2020
darfay:
Stop taking our fvcking jobs!! cry cry
Sorry o. I am now working for myself. I am not working for anybody and I didn't take anybody's job.
Education › Re: What Course Did You Study In The Tertiary Institution And What's your job now? by Focusmind: 10:02pm On Mar 21, 2020
iCauseTrouble:
Peace and conflict management but now I cause trouble grin
Bro, this is a nice course o. Be on the look out for jobs from international development agencies and NGOs.

Do a specialist course in monitoring and evaluation (M and E) and volunteer with a local organisation to boost your chances with donor agencies.

All the best
Education › Re: What Course Did You Study In The Tertiary Institution And What's your job now? by Focusmind: 9:57pm On Mar 21, 2020
I studied Mechanical Engineering (first class) but now a Tax and Management Consultant.

The quantitative aspect of my engineering helped me a lot to axe some of the aptitude tests and scholarship exams even qualifying as a chartered accountant without repeating any paper.

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