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African cities and towns disgusts me. Why cant we just emulate the civilized world in building our cities and bringing decency to our ways of living?

Nothing special. Typical third world country city.

Mariupol or Donbass is still finer. You simply can't take it away from Europeans when it comes to cities. It's not by planting trees and marking road lanes. Europe's third grade cities are better than the best of what we have here.

You can't even compare Abuja with my university town of Aberdeen

EgunMogaji2:
I can see that you farted in the general direction of setbacks. And this project is owned by an abrodian?

It is well.

It is too close to the wall abi?? What are the implication of having the build too close to the fence?

Amaechi is never a straight forward person.

He was trying to exonerate himself. See how he tried to muscle FEC into approving his corruption-ridden request

I hope he wont take to armed robbery

Some robberies are now perpetuated by retired forced men or those exited from the system.

Please watch international News like BBC, CNN, Aljazeera and Euronews. Watchtch their documentaries, interviews, conversations, reporting and discussions. Not only will your English be better, you will get the opportunity to learn sound phonetics and be able to pronounce words professionally.

Don't underestimate the importance of effective communication, both verbal and written in career progression. Use this opportunity now to develop it and sharpen your skills in that area. Your circumstances of birth or environment may have contributed to that but don't be discouraged. Our fathers lived in villages then but were able to develop their communication skills in English language effectively while in school.

All the very best.

I don't blame these students. There is no need coming back. Nigeria is currently in a big mess. They should continue to dig in. I love EU with their liberal approach towards refugees. A Nigerian has successfully moved to Austria with other refugees.

Based on the new EU emergency policy for Ukraine, third country citizens like students have now been granted temporary protection, with right to work and access social welfare. The guy in Austria is receiving 250 Euros every month, with shopping voucher to pick up provisions and specified items at some designated super market in Vienna, Austria.

If you are student, please remain put there and keep digging it. The EU law would surely protect you. Coming back is not an option. Where do you even start sef? No job, electricity, opportunity, ASUU is on strike and the government won't provide you any assistance except that they have worked to bring you home.

Me I don't observe anything. I jejely park by the Side and allow the idiots on wheels to pass. I don't struggle the roads with them. Once I sight them, I first slow down or if still far, I will increase speed before they get to me.

You are MEAN bro

Little things makes our wives to cherish us. You people seems to have lost the spark.

I couldn't believe that a husband could not exercise restrain on his wife at this age. After cooking it yourself, you should have gone to her and held her up to come and join you and ensures that she took her medicine after eating. The fact that she was using her earpiece to watch movie is irrelevant. People that are sick finds ways to heal internally. It could be watching video or listening to music. Myself, i do listen to old school and high life musics like Jim Reeves, Osadebe, Celestian Ukwu or Rex Lawson when I am down with migraine or little headache.

qekng40:
Kaduna is to Nigeria as Maripol is to Ukraine.

I will rather be in Mariupol than in Kaduna right now. In Mariupol, the enemies are known and emergency service is top notch, with massive international support.

Kaduna may be equated to Mogadishu in Somalia.

Mehn, I didn't know you play in this kind of space - contemporary architecture.

This is super beautiful with class of touch. The front looks nice. My love for flat roof. It gives a building a different kind of look altogether.

I will love to follow you on this during the roofing stage to see how it is done. I love flat roofs but my concern is the builder getting the roofing right.

Well done!

Honestly, i respect US. No country comes close when it comes to dolling it out money

US has granted up to $1bn on grants and aids so far. Not loan o. Is it because they are the ones printing the dollars?

US dwarfs other EU countries when it comes to financial support. US have also budgeted huge amount to help rebuild Ukraine

Trust me, within 3 year after this conflict, Ukraine would have been rebuilt even to a far better standard. They are lucky to have backers that are rich.

I am doing everything to insulate myself from Nigeria's numerous problems and it seems to be working. I cherish my sanity so much. I didn't even bother to watch the match, knowing the badluck that have been following her.
Even the videos of Kaduna train incidence, I have refused to get myself to watch the videos. I just read headlines and move. I decide the news coming from this country that I could assimilate and filter the rest.

If you cherish your sanity, please detach asap from Nigeria matter or else you go collect unnecessary anger and HBP for nothing. The country's economic situation is biting hard. You don't need to compound your problems even further. See how NEPA has been dancing naked for the past three weeks. I pity majority that still relies on NEPA for power.

Nnaeb:
Commissioner for Budget and Economic planning and the Commissioner for power are below 35. That’s interesting.

Good luck to the team

That lady na PWC and ICAN price winner. If you have interacted with big 4 accounting firms staff, you will know that they are one of the smartest. Training with them is the best thing that could happen to any recent graduate.

I missed out in their recruitment in 2005. Best places to start career for those that are career minded.

Emergency service here is nothing to write home about. Don't pray to be rushed to hospital in Nigeria.

Stop wasting your time or the depression would become real.

We always have high hopes whenever we see many job adverts in UK job portals, thinking that they are recruiting "massively", if i may use the common Nigeria word . We usually see hundreds and thousands of jobs, thinking that the jobs are surplus. Just take your time and check the number of people that have applied for that same position. You will see a job and it is showing 2000 have already applied.

As a job seeker, you have to be selective. If you apply for every job that comes your way and continue to get the usual rejection mail, depression may not be far from you. Sometimes, you have to take a break from the application madness, evaluate yourself and focus on where you think you have advantage.

It is always difficult for UK based employers to offer positions to foreigners when they have not exhausted the options available within the UK labor market. Save yourself some stress and focus on the Nigerian market. Build your rich experience with a Nigerian employer and continue the search.

Good luck!

I can't believe that my dad is older than Tinubu

SmartPolician:
If these people know how much they scare investors with this. SMH

They are ignorant of their actions. SE is traders'-driven state. They don't know what FDI is and believe in one man's effort.

That's why graduate unemployment is the highest in the SE now. They are all trooping to Lagos for jobs. Any graduate living in SE is just wasting his time as there are no major viable company to employ them except the so called "one-man businesses"

This action is killing the region and alienating them from local and international investors. This is not freedom fighting; this is pure stupidity.

Nairaland should stop giving these idiots publicity. I don't know why the mods are pushing ipob news to the front page. Bunch of idiots.

I am sure most SE people here are tired of this sit at home but their hatred and not to feel defeated is making them to still support the stupid sit at home.

This Ukrainian president is becoming so annoying. Why is he blackmailing businesses and countries? He is even trying to muscle the EU into accepting Ukraine into the bloc without following laid down rules, just because you brought war unto your country. I blame those businesses that have decided to leave just to be politically correct in the eyes of the media.

The response from this CEO is the most sensible I have ever seen. They are serving the civilian population and not military. What about the loyal and dedicated staff that have been with them over the years in Russia?

See heavy scrap metals everywhere and aboki is looking for one.

DoctorOlasDesk:
How old were your parents when this happens ?

Let me guess. Old age. Meaning they spent significant part of their lives together


How does it seem to you that one enters a marriage and after four years the partner becomes incapacitated with no recovery in sight. Does this scenario appear the same with your parents whose significant lives they spent together?

Let's always be completely honest in our ways.

My father is 77 while my mum is 67. She's still doing the nursing of the old man. The prostate started in 2015.

They were 70 and 60, respectively when he did the surgery.

Stepping down is against the new electoral act bill. Those stepping down must officially put it in writing and must not be coerced into doing so or else INEC would not recognize the new chairman.

What is APC doing today? Are they electing their flag bearer for the presidential election?

Fafoba:
What is happening to our generation?

Look at our fathers. What is their secret?

My brother, I don't know o.

My father has been down with the usual old men sickness like prostate, mild memory loss, HBP. But my mum has been steadfast with painstaking love, feeding him, changing his clothes and dressing the bed for him. I have insisted on getting an assistant for her but she said no because of the negative news about house girls that connives with outsiders to murder the old people they are living with.

She stayed with him in the hospital for a complete year, bathing and dressing him. Our prayers is that we should all be there together for our partners - the man or the wife. Nobody knows tomorrow

yunqdady:
You would be glad you did.
Be careful, do it gradually.
One, it boost their confidence and self esteem.
Let them do house chores. Let them interact with the environment. Don't be too hard, do it lovingly and gradually.
I'm in my late 20s, though not the least pampered like yours but I grew up feeling something was missing, I didn't really blend with others due to how we were raised. In fact, I do get angry ay my parents for kind of shielding us. The world is tough, so shielding a child is you being wicked, you won't be with them forever, how then do they cope with the demands of this harsh world?
Had to learn street smartness in the university which I believe was kinda late.
Enrolling in a good boarding school at jss level would be perfect too.

You are right. This is what most middle and upper class parents do. They shield their kids so much that most finds it difficult facing the real world when they are eventually "free".

Now, I walk with them to the church, much to the dismay of my wife. I have insisted that they make their bed every morning, which they have been consistent on. I take them down on road walks for them to feel the "Nigerian heat" and develop love for exercise, understand their immediate environment and put them on enquiry to ask questions while we walked on the road.

I am happy with their progress. In terms of academics, they are always within the top two in their classes. Their school don't show overall class position, but shows position in each subject offered per term.

I need to inculcate the street smartness and sharpness of mind and character in them, with much emphasis on cognitive abilities. These are the enablers of success and not necessarily academic know-how.

LisaAnneMia:
I love this idea of kids being multilingual. Learning languages helps the brain development of a child. I myself am currently learning French from an app- Duolingo- so that I can teach my kids in the future another language other than Yoruba and English. Chess for kids is also superb in their thinking capacity and brain development. You should try chess for kids...maybe there are videos on YouTube that u can make them watch.
Apart from making your kids tough and strong physically, equip them intellectually. Introduce them to musical instruments too...these three are very good in brain development for kids, and helps increase their IQ. Dancing is also proven to be good in brain development especially ballet dancing but it seems u don't like the idea
I wish your kids the very best!

These are fantastic ideas. They are already into languages, Taekwondo, swimming and Scrabbles. My son is insisting he wants to do coding and robotics in school instead of music , which I got the kids iPad and he is doing well at it in their school. I will have to download more French language app for them. They are now 8 and 7 years old, respectively.

Stupid man. I wished DSS could trace this one and dispose him off. Living in another man's country and creating chaos in his own country, supported by even more stupid followers.

dasparrow:
Children should be raised by their father and mother under the same roof after all it takes a man and a woman to make a baby. This silly thing that I see Nigerians do whereby they get married but then live apart from their spouses for extended periods of time is not how a marriage should operate. It opens room for cheating and adultery. If you can't live under the same roof with your wife and kids as a husband, STAY SINGLE!

This is why I have refused to relocate my family. I made up my mind that I would not relocate but my wife has been persistent that we should move or at worst, move them and stay back in Nigeria and be visiting.

I can't imagine not raising my kids myself; not being around through their formative stages; not guiding and inculcating in them the necessary values and keys to success. Nobody can do that better than me.

The concern of cheating or not is the least of my worries. It's ensuring that my kids are nurtured under the right environment, with both parents playing their part. I may still move but that would be later in life.

For now, I am enjoying the country. My major worry staying in Nigeria is the insecurity. But for other Nigeria's problems, find ways of insulating yourself from other problems if you have the money.

Why has he not consecrated other African countries fighting wars and other disasters? He hardly comments on things happening in Africa or other developing countries. But once media attention is on something, Pope will comment. Venezuela that have been suffering US and EU sanctions for years have begged Pope to intervene but he has not done anything. Why Ukraine and Russia?

Oyibo people sef. Even as a catholic, I do question some actions of the church since coming to power of this current pope

For me, the last Pope of catholic church was Karol Wojtila aka Pope John Paul the second

I don't know the kind of markets people buy their materials that they are quoting 30 to 40M for three story building.

Budget close to 60M to 70M

I haven't completed a duplex and I have spent close to 40M, though inclusive of land

There is no need worrying yourself. You will just develop HBP for nothing.

If your instinct tells you so, bro, call it quit. There is no need wasting time. Once I start having trust issues on someone, my brother, I don move be that. There is no need waiting for any explanation. For the trust issues to have even arisen, then something must be wrong somewhere. People in relationship should never give the other party any concern to worry. Once there is a concern, trust is already broken.

Alternatively, if you could and is within your moral tolerance level, befriend another girl and be carrying and dropping the lady, with the full knowledge of your fiance. Before you knew it, your fiance will start getting interested in your affairs with the lady. No time please.