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The "Nwaboi" apprrentice system in the East needs serious reformation. Gone are the day that potential millionaires were made from that system. My father was a product of that system and he enjoyed great deal of success after the civil war - He also trained dozens of "Nwaboi" that lived with us and later excelled in their chosen field. My mom made sure that house chores were evenly divided between us, the children and the "umuboi".

Once I returned back from boarding school, I would be the one to fetch water and fill up the tank, wash my father's car and do other household chores, just to relieve them of extra stress when they returned back to the house from market. My parents never discriminated and made sure that they were all treated well. One of the "nwaboi" from Enugu state dropped his own father's name and adopted our own surname out of respect and love for my father and following the bitter experience his family endured in their native village in Enugu state. After his settlement, fortune smiled at him and he relocated all his siblings from their village in Enugu to Anambra and bought a land in my own village. Today, he is a proud member of my own village as an unofficial adopted son of soil.

Lots of young boys passed through unimaginable abuse in the hands of Oga's madam. As someone rightly pointed, most Igbo men seems weak when it comes to disciplining their wives for misbehaving. Some will see their wives maltreating their house girl or boy and will turn a blind eye. I lived through the peak period of the "nwaboi" apprentice system in the 80s and 90s and saw the many advantages and disadvantages. One of the main advantage was changing a whole family destiny based on the fact that one of their sons have been settled and he is doing very well in Onitsha or Lagos. Before you say jack, he has demolished his old father's mud house and erected a mansion, sponsored his younger siblings to school and started business for his sisters.

May God help those who are passing through this system and are under the worst form of oppression from either their Oga or madam.

Congratulations. I like goalkeepers with shouting capabilities.
The way he dishes out instructions to his defense lines showed a man with guts and confidence. Not keepers that hardly talks to their defense line-up. Good club should get him and constantly feature him for more glory and good goalkeeping skills. I like his boldness in-between the sticks. Man U should take him, please. Onana don cast tey tey

This man should have been part of Tinubu's kitchen cabinets and not a CBN governor. He doesn't have sound grip of monetary and fiscal policy to drive monetary and economic policies. Tinubu will stylishly ease him out later out of respect and gets a seasoned economist.

These guys are something else. Despite the millions he received for constituency projects, see the pigry he put up. I knew this guy may be a big flop when he was contesting for numerous gubernatorial elections. His desperation was legendary. A former SUG President. Most former SUG presidents, current and aspiring ones are future looters as they will move into politics to continue looting of funds.

My best decision ever!!!!!

Thank God I did it when I did, which was 9 years ago. I received a quarterly performance bonus from my company and thinking what to do with the money. My wife also had my son then, with constant putting on and off of genset, which was stressful. Till today, the Inverter and now solar have been doing a good job, delivering clean energy. I started with only Inverter then before I upgraded with addition of solar panels in 2021. Now that we hardly see light with constant heat, coupled with the fact that I work 95% of the time at home, the solar is a welcomed relief. Nigeria can make one go mad because of inadequate infrastructure.

Xox1945:
Igbos be wise una no want get sense

Be wise on what, exactly? Invest in home? I don't know why people keep making this kind of statement. A business man will always chase his customers, wherever he resides. Most of you are fond of saying, " come home and invest ". As if the so called home is even business friendly, with all the greed, envy, family issues and ease of doing business. Please allow Igbos in Lagos to expand their businesses in peace in Lagos or else where in Nigeria if they want. My cousins are in the east, running their businesses and I hear lots of challenges, issues and harassment they face there.

This man just killed himself for nothing. He was in Germany, recuperating from his earlier sickness. After that, he said he wanted to return to Russia, despite strong warning from Germany and EU. But my guy wan form hero and opposition leader, as he was getting so much money from the west. Now, he is gone, the world won't standstill for him. Lots of issues are bothering the world now. He is gone for good. By next week, nobody will remember that he ever existed. He should have quietly maintained his life in Germany and continued to enjoy his life and health.

I wished this guy could secure a good club in Europe to sharpen his goalkeeping skills. This guy is better than Onana

These guys are just grand-standing. Poverty -stricken sahel republics, that depends on aids for their national budgets. These rulers would plunge their countries and people deeper into Poverty. International relations doesn't work that way. They are entirely dependent on ECOWAS member States for electricity, importation and support and are still playing strongmen. Nobody should come and rant nonsense here and blame Tinubu.

simp4rebel:
they have started bombing LinkedIn too?

That's the new found love of scammers. They will wear suit and put a professional picture as if they are working in a corporate organisation. Those guys have gone far. One claimed to be working with an international consulting firm based in Lagos was chatting my close family relative in US, a single lady in her early 40s. The online relationship has gone far before I was asked to confirm the authenticity of the guy's company. LinkedIn is the latest playground for the keyboard warriors now. Shine your eyes

Hmmmm!
Our standards are terribly low in this country.
I am not hating o, but a lecturer is not expected to do this in an open with a student. I hope the lady truly accepted the proposal...... she felt cornerd by the lecturer and then, the watching spectators!

This guy is as daft as his face. I haven't seen the worst minister of power like this one. We used to have 23hrs of electricity in my area prior to this. Now, we hardly see three hours in a day. Anyway, I don comot eye for NEPA matter. If you have money, invest in solar and Inverter. You will be happier you did.

But I thought that Governor Soludo said that the woman has been arrested and she is in Police custody. I hope the governor isn't trying to whine us. The minister should ask the police to produce her.

Mehn, Otedollar and Dangote don dey old. See how Otedollar be like a recuperating cancer patient. Nothing dey this life. Good health above any other thing.

Mehn, some Africans are jealous of Nigeria. Go to YouTube and see the jubilation and attacks on Nigeria. One even said that the Ivorians saved the continent from a major "noise pollution", referring to Nigerians as noise makers and arrogant. Some said that Nigerians and their press behaves like the English team supporters, overrating their players and national team, thinking that they deserve to win everybody. For Ghanaians, the loss sweet them die.

Nbote:
He was the only player in the midfield even though he was poor yesterday. I didn't understand how every single player in the team starts running back towards their 18 yard box everytime the opposition is running at them with the ball. Like what pattern of football was that

Maurinoh's pattern. Pack the bus and get them unawares on counter.

That is what our coach learnt from his mentor. Super Eagles should have taking the fight to them. Immediately the Ivorians saw that SE was jittery and defensive, they increased their attacking pattern. I hate defensive football pattern. It could only work when you are leading with five minutes to go.

Nigerians and cruise
Cry wey Person go dey cry, still dey video himself, that one na cry

richiemcgold:

I wonder where children of online tribalists will find themselves tomorrow

In icloud, hurling insults to themselves.

The truth is, no player has been that fantastic in this tournament. CAF will just use their discretion to give the award to any player or even a goalkeeper. If Osimen's cancelled goals had stood, he would have been a contender.

thesicilian:
It's the way we structure our businesses, that makes them hardly outlive the owners. When businesses are too dependent on the owners that's what happens. It can be so bad that when Oga is not around, staff cannot get their salaries because no one else can sign the cheques.

Apt. I consult for some SMEs and that's the normal thing among most small businesses. Oga's wife will be angry, salary won't be paid.

Watch how his well-conceived university will crumble. Most businesses in Nigeria, once the founder is gone, the business goes into coma and gradually dies off. RIP Herbert.

The problem of a typical Nigerian contractor. Attention to detail, zero. Some of them hardly use their senses when executing a simple contract. See the height of the Board. The contractor may not have even understood the reason for putting the board in the first place.

I wonder why they took with them certain classified documents? What was the purpose? Was it to hide something. Trump and Biden should just leave the stage.

The coach should try this guy within the regulation time. Guy don add weight o.....see him belle.

Earthquakes:
As it stands now it’s already up.
Whatever happens on Sunday, Nwabali abilities cannot be questioned again, as a coach I don’t need Sunday game to make my decision

Crowning his efforts with victory on Sunday makes it even more superb. That's it. Winning a title adds to a footballer's overall rating.

The great Chippers!!!

They are waiting for the sign off fee for Nwabali from international scouts. I am sure they have started to compute value for the guy. Any scouts that comes now must collect bill. Nwabali should go for nothing less than 5-10m dollars

SmartyPants:
If true, no wonder he has this rugged confidence about him.

Also a lesson to those who think agberos have nothing to offer. No one wakes up and chooses the street life.

We all just need opprtunities and second chances

You summarised it well. There was one agbero like that, that my former colleague placed a bet on. He told me that he saw the guy as a very intelligent and strong - willed fellow, but skeptical of supporting his business idea. He gave in at last to the agberos constant begging...... that agbero is now a big boy with multi million naira logistics business. The agbero guy has now supported my friend in many ways because he was the one that set him up, even though they are from different tribes, religion and state.

I heard he was a former militant. Once the head of task force (markets collections) for Obior/Akpor LGA under Wike. He loves football and usually organised tournaments for PH "Owomidas" before hitting it big. No matter what, never allow your passion to die. Even if you are not in the place you would love to be, continue to chase your passion. Congratulations to him. Chippers United will soon smile to the bank as scouts from Europe comes calling. You see the reason why the chippers club chairman said he would support Nigeria over SA. Bros wan cash out on top Nwabali head. If Nigeria wins the tournament, Nwabali 's value goes up. Football na money first before passion, at least for Africans.

De guy take style dey hype him product, Nwabali. He wants international scouts to come for the keeper so that he would bill them shege

Leave football o, everybody dey fight for him own pocket. Imagine international scouts coming for Nwabali and this Chippers chairman puts 5-10m dollars price tag. The man don hammer be that. You see the reason why he is rooting for Nigeria. If we win the cup, Nwabali's price tag increases even further.

I couldn't believe that we would get to a situation where the exchange rate in the parallel market (Aboki) would be lower than the official rate (Banks). Last week was terrible in the Nigerian FX market. Aboki was selling lower than the banks!

Arrangee resignation.....if you know, you know

He just embarrassed his family not himself. His children will continue to get ridiculed by their friends in school because of what Papa did. The wife must have known him to be like that. He couldn't even hide his intention towards the lady beside him. I don't know why some men usually take advantage of ladies whenever there are excitement or celebrations. They feel they could easily coarse someone when the person is overtly excited and happy.