₦airaland Forum

I don't know why the mod is giving these IPOB news publicity - Simply ignore them and move on to something better.

They should go and hold theirs governors to account but Igbos will not hear. Go to Aba and see how the state looks like. Start with holding your governors to account first. I don't know why they think that Biafra would solve all their problems.

Why not constructively engage the federal government than this their antagonistic way? IPOB is doing more harm to Igbo course than good but some ignorant fools would not accept that thinking that IPOB is doing them favor.

Agreed that Buhari is not doing enough to strengthen the unity of this country, but IPOB should be more professional and tactful in their dealings.

The defunct Biafra were led by Igbo intellectuals and professionals and got the needed foreign recognition unlike the current Aba - Onitsha trader - like mentality led IPOB.

J111333:
Even here in the States, stereotyping has begun.
I'm so mad at those idiots arrested for scam and to think that I've seen some of them at Nigerian events in Los Angeles making noise up and down drives me crazy.
If those criminals know how their actions may affect some of us that serve this country in critical areas eeh.
I've vowed to dissociate myself from Nigerians for now in LA, no more Naija events and no more attending any of their useless meetings. Even their eateries, e better mek the eba and egwusi hungry me die.
I'm American now so let me live like one.

Correct! As a student in 2009 in UK, I totally avoided Nigerians and their stupid students union. The same way Unions embezzles money here was the same way nigerian unions over there were misbehaving with funds.

Very notorious in flouting university rules. They will never tell you about any student job opening but will gladly inform you on time to come for their stupid church events.

I totally cut off and befriended those from mainly south east Asia. Studied with them and shared information on job opportunities with them unlike my Nigerians brothers who saw me as a competitor.

UK University!! Them no de take eye see or hear say star wan come their school or you are under scholarship . Kia Kia, Dem go give you admission.

This is why I don't trust some of all these news coming from SE about herdsmen kidnapping. It is usually about calling a dog a bad name just to hang him.

Igbos should stop raising this unnecessary tension when things like this happens. I am not holding brief for the herdsmen but I fear the consequences of fake news.

Please let's trade softly to avoid this country being turned into 1994 Rwanda where radio then broadcasted fake news, pitching one tribe against another.

To safeguard the unity and peace of this country, lets be sure of the kind of news we post. Fake news can make or mar this country. It was later confirmed that the people that killed the Reverend father were not herdsmen.

Lets not invite what happened in Rwanda to Nigeria. Nairaland mod should endeavor to ensure that stories like this are true before pushing to the front page to reduce tension. We should do everything to promote peace and not hate. Where is the evidence of a woman's womb being ripped off?

The present arrangement in Nigeria may be bad but peddling falsehood to crucify people is not good. Sadly, the government is not helping matters as they can peddle falsehood just to crucify their perceived opponent and the citizens are capitalizing on it, spreading false and fake news to whip up sentiments.

And the borders in the Northern part will be free and porous as a leaking roof. Government should focus more attention on the Northern borders and not on Southern Borders. All custom officials are always interested in Lagos and Ogun borders. Probably, that's where the money flows.

Please all the border posts in the North are very important and Government have neglected that part of the borders for so long.

Nobody should read anything ethnic on my post - It is not about it please as Nairaland is usually a play ground for ethnic bigots.

ChiefSupplier55:
Exclusive

Bro this exclusive milk color is going for how much?

ChiefSupplier55:
77k per- each

Chief, I will be needing like 5 pieces of that door. I hope I will get a huge discount. I have already engaged you before on whatSapp on tiles since you are a one-stop shop for building.

ChiefSupplier55:
Hard wood core

How much is this fine white hard wood door with glass?

From Agriculture to Medicine! I am sure the guy must have struggled to change course from Agriculture to Medicine in UNILORIN but the sadist lecturers and school authorities did not approve that change.

JAMB must have given him Agriculture instead of Medicine he wanted to study but my guy did not give up and he had to go to Russia to achieve his dreams.

I was given Civil Engineering instead of the mechanical engineering I wanted to study in the university in Nigeria. Did everything to change course after year one, scoring a high GP as stipulated. It was when I saw that it was not going to work that I had to obtain an inter-university transfer form to move to another university and was given my mechanical engineering in year two.

Sometimes in life, you have to leave the present to move to another place to achieve your goals.

Nigeria environment is a burial ground for dreams and goals. Very unforgiving and could be brutal towards one's realization of his or her goal

KUDOS to you Lekan!

I have said it before, as a corper, avoid all these useless travels and visit. This must have been NFCS members looking at the inscription on the vehicle. Stay in your place of primary assignment and do your one year service and go home alive to meet your people.

I avoided all these travels during my time - be it wedding, august visit, team bonding visit, NFCS visit. I was servicing in Kano Metropolis and most times, NFCS members within Kano city would hire a bus to pay visit to some of our members in villages. The first time I went, I stopped going. I was called all sorts of things, that I did not want to identify with our members "suffering" in the remote villages in kano, this and that.

Stay in your location, get your GMAT and other necessary books to keep yourself engaged. I bet you, you wont know when the one year is over. There are a lot of deaths involving corpers travelling from one location to another. Please stay put in your place. Don't be controlled or moved by other corpers. Make your own decision and stick with it. You owe nobody any explanation. Avoid all those unnecessary associations that add nothing but takes your valuable time.

Spend your one year service in developing your capabilities and avoid all those unnecessary meetings and associations. It is just one year!

RIP

goldcorn:
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You did all these!

Akidi - Nna m onye olu! if you know you know.

Very funny guy. But must he post it on Facebook or social media? Quietly make your success and move on.

Honestly, what are we good at? Is it that we do not have highly qualified professors in our teaching hospitals to take care of health related issues.

See the India that was far behind Nigeria in 1960 has become a Meccah of some sorts for the wealthy and middle class Nigerians to go for treatment.

The doctor treating this man may just be an ordinary doctor but we always believed that we would get better treatment abroad. I agreed though as our hospitals management are poor in service delivery. Nigerians attitude towards everything including customer service and patience service is very poor.

naptu2:
Association of Investment Advisers and Potfolio Managers.

Good historical pictures - 1986!!. I like how things evolved. See Gamaliel Onosode, I guess. The movers and checkers of corporate Nigeria. Nothing is permanent.

My role model. This man's achievements made me to jettison and dumped my first class Engineering degree for ICAN, which I qualified.

Thank you for being an inspiration!!!. I remember AkintolawilliamsDeloitte&Touch

cassidy1996:
good, it can't survive in Nigeria. na Dangote truck go crush am....

This narrative of Nigeria being a Zoo may be real as things that ordinarily works in a civilized environment finds Nigeria environment incompactible

I like beautiful and clean offices. Start-up should focus more on developing long term capabilities and not beautiful workplace

As someone earlier mentioned, successful companies started from garage with tight expenditure control to reduce their operating costs.

Nigerian startup focus so much on acquiring beautiful offices and increasing head counts. Mainly to use it as a form of bragging right. When reality sets in, frustration and depression becomes inevitable. I saw when Jimmy Iyke opened his own with so much fanfare and yet the business is stuttering.

Please for the would be "start-uppers" and "disrupters", don't be moved by these fancy buildings. Beneath them lies huge business debt and unpaid salaries of huge head counts they have. Spend more time in developing your capabilities and up scaling your skills and knowledge.

I have started my own consultancy and designed a beautiful office in my own house where I am running the consultancy from.

If I post my picture from there, you would think that it is one big office

valarmorghulis:
What about other churches (school)

Catholic and Anglican Churches runs the show in Anambra and they have done so well in Anambra.

Their public schools are some of the best in the country because of the activities of those two churches.

No room for pastorpreneurs.

I don't know why Nigeria architects likes puting these two disgusting pillars in front of building.

Does it add to the beauty of the house? Imagine the building without those pillars. It would look nicer and modern.

Anyway, my post would make more meaning to those who knows what aesthetics is in building design.

FarahAideed:
A fine is a cost of doing business and is derived from operational income at gross so you can't say it's not deductable.. You Nigerians think you are smart ..when I warned that the fine was very short sighted people like you thought otherwise and now the govt seeing it has shot itself in the foot is now resorting to self help in a bid to have it's cake and eat it .

Now ask yourself if a fine leads to financial loss will the company still pay tax? If that fine had lead to MTN winding up ( it could have ) Will Babatunde Fowler still tax them .. that taxes are charged strictly on profits should tell you FIRS is being criminal and silly

Bro, I agreed with you from the sentiment point of view. A fine is a cost of doing business. I consult for businesses in the oil and gas and always had running battles with FIRS.

The CITA act is crystal clear that fines and infractions paid are not deductible expenses. Except if the act is repealed and amended, the ruling of the tax tribunal will still be based on the CITA act, which does not recognize fines as a deductible expenses.

Intellectual discussion like this should not be an avenue to start hauling insults. This is the reason why people believes that Nigerians are always in anger mode. Any slightest disagreement, they provoke!

I never supported the fine as I am always on the side of businesses considering what businesses go through in Nigeria to survive.

I don't know how MTN can win this case at the Tax Appeal Tribunal. Fines and penalties paid are not deductible expenses under the Nigerian tax (CITA).

What FIRS did was to add back the fine of N330bn to MTN profit and taxed them altogether. MTN must have deducted the fine from the profit before they arrived at their assessable and taxable profit.

FIRS is saying no, the fine is not an allowable business expenses but penalty and fine paid which will be added back. The implication is that the MTN tax will now be enhanced by at least 30% of the N330bn fine.

It is terrible. I am going into full time consulting by end of 2020. God help me. I want to take full control of my life and health.

I can't continue with 8 - 5 madness in Lagos. The impact of the accumulated stress would be felt more in your old age not now for those that will get to old age anyway.

I use my people that have retired as an example. Most of them are suffering from one debilitating disease or another.

LillyVal:
1. Nigerians are most intelligent immigrants in the US. Search in Google its there, not one of the most intelligent, we are the most intelligent immigrants.

2. 60% of Nigerians in US have college degrees. This is far above d American national average of 30%.

3. A Nigerian family in the UK have officially named the Imafedon family are the smartest family in UK

4. The world fastest supercomputer was designed by a world renowned inventor and scientist. Philip Emeagwali a full blown Nigerian who's patency was awarded in 2015.

5. The designer of the famous car, Chevrolet Volt, Jelani Aliyu is a super talented Nigerian from Sokoto state.

6. Nigerians in US are one of the highest earners typically earning 25% more than median US income of $53k.

7. In ivy league schools in US and Europe Nigerians out rightly outshine their peers from other nations.

8. The wealthiest black( Aliko Dangote) man and the third richest black woman( Folorunsho Alakija) on earth are Nigerians with no traces of criminal records.

9. Before there was street lights in the European cities, the ancient kingdom of Benin had street lights fueled by palm oil.

10. 500 years ago Benin casted metal alloys to create magnificent art including the world famous queen Ida mask.

11. We gave monetary gifts to Ireland during our oil boom, built a statue for France for free.

12. The first television station in Africa was NTA IBADAN (1960) long before Ireland got their first RTE station.

GOD BLESS THE MOST POPULOUS BLACK NATION ON EARTH. AMEEN.

So what is the intention of these sermon about how great Nigeria and Nigerians is/are? Please lets stop all these first these, first that. The truth is that we are still backwards and primitive in behavior in this country.

Leave Nigerians abroad and focus on the ones inside Nigeria. Some of them abroad do not even reckon being a Nigerian. We should squarely tackle our problems and focus on development.

46,000 people applied for a job of about 2,500 and you are saying this. Honestly, I pity the future generation. At the current rate of governance, I doubt if they would be able to have the current little opportunity we even have now.

Nigerians in their droves are migrating and leaving this country. As at today, Nigerians ranked 3rd, just behind India and China in the Canada Federal Skill Express Migrant Program. This tells you that people are fed up with the current situation and can no longer guarantee a better future for their unborn kids

Good one! Nigeria and prayers. We always pray without doing the right thing.

Most of our prayer requests centers on our man -made challenges that ordinarily, Our corrupt government should provide for us but we leave the government and face God.

I lived abroad for few years and found out that their prayer intentions are entirely different from ours.

mrAMG2:
Abeg this Bbnaija na scam joh.

If you don’t somebody and i mean someone that matters in Nigeria’s entertainment industry, forget going for auditions.

This one’s marriage crashed last month and she’s already inside Bbnaija house? Lol there’s something going on that we don’t know

Bro, all the house mates are deliberately creating controversies around themselves. The more controversial you are, the more fans, more followership and the more people would want to know what is going on in your life.

Sometimes, you have to be controversial to trend and become a celebrity. The alleged breakup may not be true but to spice up her profile and attract followership.

This guy may likely succeed Garnet Rohr after his contract expires.

He seems to be the most liked ex foot baller and enjoys the support of NFA.

Nigerian lecturers, always playing and forming god. See how the students are just loyal because he could make or mar their future without being questioned.

If you see how students and lecturers discuss projects and dissertations abroad, you would know that we are just too backwards.

Signing a student project is never a favour but here in Nigerian, lecturers see themselves as gods.

bajeen:
Happily, someone gifted her a bicycle. Only God knows what the future holds for this determined girl.

President of the Court of Appeal in 2050 or minister of state for education. As dem say, fear North. No be me talk am o

The school certificate that showed his passport photograph with his Alhaji cap.

Celebgistz1:
Popular Nigerian singer, Peter Okoye took to social media to show the interior of his second home in Atlanta.

See photos below

Source: https://www.quicknaija.com/peter-okoye-shows-off-the-interior-of-his-second-home-in-atlanta-photos/

Nigerian architects and interior designers can never replicate this kind of simple design. A typical rich man home in Nigeria would have 8 sofas with gigantic dinning table and chairs. Block works every where with no innovation.

Always the same design with thick curtains and poor light combination. Our architects needs to up their game.

See how simple the house looks with nice ambience. Once you see abroad house, you go know immediately no matter how simple.

Homes abroad radiates simplicity and ambience.

Nigerian celebrities are expert in showing off their successes for their poverty-stricken fans to saliva te. This is also common with the well to do in Nigeria.

I am sure some rich people in Nigeria wouldn't want the life of the poor to be improved so that they will continue to enjoy the praises and the respect the poor gives to them.

Over here abroad, nobody cares.