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From knowing lalastical pet, to getting immunity against trolls. These are the top 10 characteristics of Nairaland users.

1. He knows About Reptiles: A user of nairaland sees at least one reptile a day. He knows Lala loves snake and will always tell his boys to push it to the front page. A regular visitor of Nairaland must see at least one snake trade on the front page of nairaland.

2. He Has Troll Friends: Nairaland has the largest numbers of human trolls. Doubt me? Read the comments of this post after it has reached a thousand views.

3. He is Immune To Troll Attack: You read it right. He is immuned. How will you have troll friends who can't teach you how to defend your self from other trolls.

4. He Reads More And Write Less: A regular nairaland user will read at least 5 posts in a day without writing or commenting on Nairaland.

5. He Knows Online Beggars Are Online Scammers: A nairaland knows that most online beggers are scammers. Even he that is reading the help request might not be financially buoyant as the person requesting. While some might be true, most are fake.

6. He Knows Some Popular Monickers: How will you be a user of nairaland and not know some regular fans on nairaland like and Righteousnesss8. Some of these popular monickers are known for one particular thing and are promote that thing every single time.

7. He Knows The Value Of FTC: How will you be on nairaland and not know the golden grail. FTC stands for First To Comment. FTC is like winning the lottery, it signifies good luck. It shows you were the first to achieve big like commenting on a post on the front page of nairaland out of millions of users.

8. He Knows The Power Of Mods: How will you not know Lala boys. They are the security of nairaland. They help remove bad trolls. Trolls who have been banned from nairaland do create another account. Banned trolls do say they have been banned for days, weeks or even years and can not afford to miss the fun on nairaland.

9. He Knows The Rich & Powerful Are Here:
Former ministers of Nigeria have commented on the platform including management of top universities in Nigeria. While he might not be able to see them, he knows they are always here. A regular user of nairaland also knows his rich mates that are hustling abroad are here to rob it off if they have a cyber fight on nairaland.

10. He Knows He Is Safe: Having seen a snake regularly, he knows nothing can happen to him if he writes rubbish or offensive things. He knows lala got his back.

Others include:
- Knowing Lala makes more money than he might make in a year in a day.
- Can't do without visiting nairaland in a day.
- Does not care about grammatical mistakes you make except when he wants to troll you.

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Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma is a Nigerian business magnate and investor. He is the founder and CEO of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, Nigeria’s first indigenous automobile manufacturing company.

[url]interviewstories.org[/url] got to know about his plans for the future and the current state of things at present. Chief Innocent Chukwuma is the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing, IVM, a foremost automobile maker in Nigeria. Chief Innocent Chukwuma, CEO of Innoson told Vanguard that they manufacture vehicles and do not assemble vehicles. They build 100% vehicle body in Nigeria and getting over 60% materials used in manufacturing the vehicles in the country.

Innoson imports some engines and electrical components from other countries but produces all the plastic parts in Nigeria. They can mould and produce vehicles based on the demands and specifications of their customers which makes them a vehicle manufacturing company and not an assembling company.

The Nnewi, Anambra State-born Nigerian business magnate and astute entrepreneur started the company from scratch and make a name for himself. However, he believes he haven’t reached where he want to be. He advised entrepreneurs not to follow the crowd to succeed in any business and always bring their initiatives to it. He started trading in motorcycle parts with his brother by buying from companies like Leventis that were importing the parts then. From there, he started importing myself. Later, he developed a complete motorcycle (not just the parts) becoming the first Nigerian to develop complete motorcycle in Nigeria.

The IVM Chairman confirms that they do manufacture and supply vehicles for other African countries and as of August 2020, they have an order of about $4.7million worth of vehicles from the Sierra Leone government. vehicle manufacturers?
Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Future

Most known foreign vehicle manufacturers want to partner or merge with me. A new factory in Imo will be opened in partnership with foreign companies. This will us to develop motor manufacturing on a bigger scale in Nigeria.

Innoson Vehicle Motors will launch a vehicle-hailing service in Eastern Nigeria in the last quarter of 2020. They will begin with 200 and then ramp up to 500 covering most parts of the Eastern part in Nigeria. There is plan that the drivers will be trained by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps.

Source https://interviewstories.org/innoson-manufacture-vehicles-not-assemble-vehicles/

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I hope the families involved are comforted. Here are quick facts about Lagos state you need to know [url]interviewstories.org/quick-facts-about-lagos-nigeria[/url] for anyone interested in knowing more about the state where the incident occurred.

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There is Yemi Osinbajo, Fashola, and even Fayemi. You should not forget that things can turn to Bukola Saraki's favour too.

Lagos state was called Eko before colonisation by locals. It served as a major centre for slave-trade, from which then Oba of Benin Ado and all of his successors for over four centuries supported until 1841 when Oba Akitoye ascended to the throne of Lagos and attempted to ban slave-trading. Lagos state is the sixth-largest city in the world by city population and is known for its beach resorts, nightlife and activity.

The richest man in Africa lives in this small size state with a huge population. You can read about Aliko Danoge in the article Meet Africa Richest Man.

The Third Mainland Bridge which connects Lagos Island to the mainland was the longest bridge in Africa measuring 11.8 km until 1996 was built by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, and the official name of the bridge is Ibrahim Babangida Bridge.

Here Are 10 Facts About Lagos State In Nigeria.
It is the Smallest State in Nigeria
It is also the Most Populous State in Nigeria
Nollywood is Centered in Lagos
It has the Highest Number of Millionaires in Nigeria
Lagos Handles 80% of the Country’s Imports
It has a Floating City
It is a Fast-Growing State in the World
Lagos City is the Economic Hub
The Longest Bridge in Africa is in the state
It has the Tallest Building in West Africa which is NECOM house tower that is 160m above the city.
Commercial motorcycles and tricycles were banned recently (early 2020) by the Lagos state government. The ban is aimed at decongesting Lagos’s roads and reducing accidents and overcrowding.

Lagos residents are popularly known as Lagosians and are known to be smart and ever moving. You can find Lagos state postal codes / zip codes here.

What Lagosians Said About Lagos

InterviewStories got some Lagosians to talk about what they know about the state. Here are some of the things they said.

Godwin: Lagos is a beautiful city with expensive amenities and few developed areas.

Opeyemi: Lagos, as we all know, is the center of excellence in Nigeria. It is a place where many people believed if they can get there, they will become successful in life. This is due to high commercial activities that take place in the state. It is also the fastest-growing city in Africa.

What do you know about Lagos state that is missing here? Comment below

Source: https://interviewstories.org/quick-facts-about-lagos-nigeria/

If they had quit in the pursuit of their passion, they will not be part of InterviewStories top 10 list of Nigerians who pursued their passion. They are success stories because they were able to figure out what they wanted in life and did not give up. They never knew they will be this successful even in their wildest dreams but they worked just as hard as the best workers in the industry. We are telling their story to remind us that impossibility is not a word in our dictionary.

In no particular order, here are our top 10 list of successful Nigerians from diverse niches who had to quit something for what they truly wanted.

1. Chimamanda Adichie
Left Medicine to become a Writer and an Author.
Born in Enugu, Nigeria. Chimamanda Adichie studied Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka at the request of her father. She had wanted to be a writer after reading books of Chinua Achebe. She quit studying Medicine after one and a half year and left for the United States of America to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She then transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University to live closer to her sister. She is a widely celebrated writer with her three bestselling novels; Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah (selected as one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2013).

2. Jason Njoku
Did not practice Chemistry, quitted his recruitment consultant job to become a serial and CEO of Irokotv which is his 11th attempt at starting a business.
Graduating with a second class upper degree in Chemistry from the University of Manchester, at the United Kingdom in 2005. Jason launched a magazine for students called Brash that was financed by loans from a bank and friends, with youthful enthusiasm. He admitted Brash was his most epic failure. He spent three years learning how to run a business with Brash. He left his recruitment consultant job to co-founded ‘Roll On Friday’ – a blog network and news site for young professionals in banking, law and consultancy which lasted two years and was also a failed venture. He did other business to pay the bills which include a T-shirt company, a web design venture. He was able to see an opportunity in the Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood and the idea of Iroko Partners was born. Today, he is the co-founder and CEO of Irokotv which was his 11th attempt at starting a business. Irokotv is a web platform that provides Nigerian films on-demand, and one of Africa’s first mainstream online movie steaming websites, giving free and instant access to over 5,000 Nollywood film titles.

3. Ibukun Awosika –
Wanted to study medicine, chemist graduate, an entrepreneur in the furniture industry and the founder of The Chair Centre Ltd.
The former FirstBank boss wanted to become a medical doctor while at secondary school and started studying architecture but eventually ended up graduating as a Chemist from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. She was interested in banking and took many free electives in accounting while at OAU. When no banking job materialized, she took a sales job at a furniture company resigning three and a half months later to set up her furniture manufacturing company, Quebees Ltd, which later evolved to The Chair Centre Ltd. She started in January 1989 with 2 carpenters, 2 sprayers and 2 upholsterers in her father’s house and has grown her business to a net worth of more than three billion naira ($18.6 million).

4. Okey Bakassi
Studied Agricultural Engineering but followed his passion to become an Actor and a Comedian.
After his secondary education, Okechukwu Anthony Onyegbule a.k.a. Okey Bakassi got admitted into the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt to study Agricultural Engineering graduating in 1992. Okey Bakassi decided to build his career around his passion for entertainment and became a professional movie actor in 1994 after his national youth service (NYSC). He even got appointed as a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Imo State on Entertainment Industry Matters from October 2008 till August 2011.

5. Kate Henshaw
Studied Remedial Studies at UNICAL, majored in Medical Microbiology and left all to become an actress
Kate Henshaw spent one year at the University of Calabar studying remedial studies, before majoring in Medical Microbiology at the School of Medical Lab Science, LUTH (Lagos University Teaching Hospital). She left her career in Medicine to pursue her dream to become an actress and auditioned for the lead role in the movie, “When the Sun Sets” which she got. She has starred in over 40 Nollywood movies. She won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film, “Stronger than Pain.” in 2008.

6. Linda Ikeji
Wanted to study Mass communication to become a journalist but studied English at UNILAG she is a Media Entrepreneur and a successful blogger.
Linda Ikeji was admitted to study English at the University of Lagos contrary to her course choice; Mass Communication. Her dream was to be a journalist. She worked hard to break into journalism, launching her media company, Blackdove Communications, a modelling agency and events management outfit. She had a modelling career from 1998 to 2005. She started her magazine in 2006 that had only two editions and in the same year, Linda Ikeji started her blog, lindaikeji..com. Her blog lindaikejiblog.com is the most popular entertainment online platform in Nigeria; ranked 2907th in the world. She was listed on Forbes Africa as one of the highest-paid bloggers in Nigeria in August 2012.

7. Omotola Jalade Ekeinde – Actress, Singer.
Wanted to study Business Management, studied Estate Management and had a brief stint at Modelling Before Becoming An Actress and A Singer.
Omotola’s original career ambition was to work in Business Management while awaiting her results from university, she began modelling to earn a living. She was at Obafemi Awolowo University before leaving to finally completed her studies at YABATECH. She studied Estate Management at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos between 1996 – 2004 (1996-2004), where she studied Estate Management. She got her first acting gig while accompanying her model friend to an audition. Her first acting role was in the 1995 movie, “Venom of Justice” directed by Reginald Ebere. She had appeared in over 300 movies. She launched her music career in 2005. In 2012, launched her reality show, “Omotola: The Real Me” on Africa Magic Entertainment.

8. Mrs Adenike Ogunlesi
Left studying law at ABU to become an Entrepreneur and Founder of Ruff ‘n’ Tumble.
She left Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria as an undergraduate law student when she was unsure of what to do with her life. She later reluctantly accepted her mother’s invitation to work in her women’s tailor shop which helped her discover who she was and what she wanted to do. From her mother shop, she and her mother as the main staff turned Ruff ‘n’ Tumble, to become one of the best manufacturers of children’s clothing in Nigeria. Today, Ruff ‘N’ Tumble is a thriving business with over 50 employees and distribution along the West African coast.

9. Mr Frank Nneji
First Degree in Biological Sciences from UNN, now a successful entrepreneur and Founder/CEO ABC Transport
Mr Frank Nneji, OON, graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Nigeria-Nsukka, in 1982. He gained a foretaste of what to expect of his life trajectory when he successfully ran and won for the position of Transport Officer in the UNN students union election. He took the opportunity to make some pocket money by conveying fellow students to venues of sporting events for a fee in his rugged car. He is the founder/CEO of Associated Bus Company Plc – operator of ABC Transport, a clear front-runner in luxury bus operation in West African sub-region.

10. Dr Raymond Dokpesi – Founder of DAAR Communications.

Born in Ibadan. Full name Dr. Raymond Anthony Aleogho Dokpesi was part of the pioneer students of the University of Benin-Edo State, where he had his undergraduate studies. He completed his studies at the University of Gdansk, Poland where he earned his Doctorate in Marine Engineering under the sponsorship of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur who sponsored his education from his secondary school days to his university level. He practised what he studied at the Nigerian Port Authority before he decided to pursue his dream of starting a radio station during the Ibrahim Babangida regime when the atmosphere was conducive enough due to the deregulation of broadcasting in Nigeria. He launched the first Nigerian private FM radio station in 1994 and also he launched Africa Independent Television – (AIT), the first private television network in Nigeria operated by Daar Communications two years later.

Source: https://interviewstories.org/10-nigerians-who-quit-their-career-and-pursued-their-passion-successfully/

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Can he hear now?

I am sure that will be the pump attendant last exam.

Why did you contest for leadership position?

We all have that one politician around us who has contested for a position before. He or she might have won the election to become an officer. Being an officer will develop the skills that you have and give you the chance to gain new ones. You’ll get to be part of a close-knit officer team, meet lots of new people, gain leadership experience and take on a range of challenges.

Elections keep a democratic society functioning, as they give people the right to select their government. A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an office in government. Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people.

One question to ask is why do people contest for leadership positions? Better still, why do people contest for leadership positions in Nigeria? InterviewStories met with Arabinrin Temitope, Onyeka, Ayobami and Orire who gave the reasons they believe people contest for leadership positions in Nigeria.

Here Are The Reasons They Gave
Arabinrin Temitope: People contest because they have the energy, passion and gesture for unity most especially the youths that are contesting for any position as a leader in Nigeria. They are coming with new ideas and strategies on how to make things better than before as a youth. Being a leader is not by age or experience it is by helping others to do the right thing.

Leaders set direction.
Leaders build an inspiring vision and create something new.
Onyeka: Some contest because they have things they feel they can implement, come for the money and fame

Ayobami: I think most people contest for a leadership position in Nigeria because of greed and because they are power-hungry. Greed is the main reason tho, for most of our leaders. This can even be seen in the leadership positions occupied by students in the university setting. I was once told by a person who wanted to contest for a leadership position in my faculty back then in UI, that he wanted to run so as to do little and pack as much money as possible into his account. That’s supposed to be a leader of tomorrow but I don’t blame him much he is learning or has learnt greed from our present leaders.

And yes, I vied for two leadership positions at different times in my undergraduate days at school of which I was deemed fit to take the mantle of leadership on both occasions. I vied solely because I felt I had to take responsibility for my colleagues and fellow departmental mates and juniors, I noticed certain things were missing in my department and I wanted to fix them. I am glad I vied, won and did my best to correct those defects, so I can say confidently that the reason behind me contesting was the love for my department and the will to serve my people. Thank you.

Orire: People contest because of power, influence and money. I have not contested because of the way things are being done in the country.


You can’t go there with the motive of helping people and keep up with it.

Source: https://interviewstories.org/why-do-people-contest-for-leadership-positions-in-nigeria/

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Dasola B'oluwatife Tewogbade is a feminist popularly known as Sisí Afrika. She loves activism and is currently studying Psychology at the University. InterviewStories got in touch with her and she explained what feminism is about, how and why she redefined the type of feminism she supports and preaches and how she hopes to continue being a strong supporter of this ideology. Enjoy the interview we had with her on InterviewStories

Who is Sisí Afrika?
My name is Dasola B'oluwatife Tewogbade popularly known as Sisí Afrika. I'm a student of Obafemi Awolowo University in the Department of Psychology. I am a feminist (gender equality advocate), a pastry maker, model, and actress and fashion enthusiast. Oh, I love activism too, (I think that's evident in my adopted name "Afrika." He was a young activist who got murdered in cold blood by powers that be).

What does Feminism meaning to you?
It's a doctrine/movement that advocates for equal rights for women. It says there shouldn't be social inequalities between the male and female gender because of the various biological inequalities between the two.

Have you experienced inequality before? Does this have anything to do with your nick Sisí Afrika?
Yes, I have. The first event I'd remember being when I was in JSS2. A brilliant students was to be made the class captain. My class teacher wanted to make me the class captain but couldn't because I was a girl, only boys could become class captains. So she had to pick a boy (Adekunle Tosin) to be the class captain in my stead then proceeded to make me the class monitoress. Why would she not make me a class captain all because I was a girl? I thought.

I adopted the name because of its link with activism and yeah, feminism is a form of activism for the female gender. Activism to get the see-saw balanced between the male and the female gender...

Why study Psychology?
Well? I survived many traumatic experiences including rape. Psychology helped me a lot in getting to this stage where I can freely talk about those experiences, psychology helped me heal. I'd like to help other people out there heal emotionally through whatever they're passing through. And then, isn't it fun "reading" people and predicting them? I've been doing that a lot. Humans are very complex beings, I'd like to understand how and why people behave in certain ways.

Why use the name Sisí Afrika?
I adopted the name "Afrika" after getting to know about a young activist who was murdered in cold blood by cultists sponsored by the then OAU management. He was a force to reckon with when it came to activism. Do you know he dragged OAU to the court concerning the black and white choir uniform law students have been mandated to wear? He won the court case and was allowed to wear whatever he wanted to class (I was told he'd usually wear Ankara �). No other law student would even dare sue his/her school let alone win.

His Aluta spirit amazed me, he took activism to a whole new level. They killed him but his spirit lives on in some of us. I adopted his name and feminized mine by adding "Sisí".

What will you like to be known for?
Feminism and philanthropy.

How are you promoting these agenda?
On the former: I consistently write on issues on feminism, educating and raising people's consciousness on feminism. Thorough education on feminism is needed as there are so many misconceptions about this wonderful movement. Gender equality cannot be achieved without the society being united for the cause, how can they be united for something they do not understand? I've been trying my best to educate, and yeah, they're finally listening to me. I also have a platform I named GESFFRI (Gender Equality, Sexual Freedom and Feminine Rights Initiative). Various people in that group come together contributing whatever they can towards feminism. We've started working on getting it registered as an NGO. I'm presently studying psychology to handle/treat people (especially women) who need psychological help because of whatever they may have gone through. On the latter: I'm presently on a "ka shaa ma dupe" level but we will get there. When there's life, there's hope. I work hard. I believe someday, the cash won't stop rolling in and then, I can help in lifting other people up.

Why learn fashion designing?
I love fashionable clothes, I'd like to design for myself clothes that reveal my personality. In the course of promoting feminism online through my writings, I've raised and come across many debates centring on how indecent dressing was one of the causes of rape. That was when I actually decided and acted on getting someone to teach me. I'm gonna create different styles, teaching many people through my creative designs that the way anybody (irrespective of the gender) is dressed is not a reason to rape. I'll give out some of my styled clothes for free. Indecent dressings don't cause rape, rapists do. People need to understand that.


Do you support indecent dressing?
There's nothing like indecent dressing. The word 'indecent' is relative, what may be indecent to me may not be to you. I believe and will always defend that anybody has the right to wear anything, to even go nude. Anybody should have the freedom to express himself/herself through their dressings. Telling me you'll rape someone because of the way they're dressed means you're insane. You don't want to control your mind but you want to control how someone else dresses? We have nudist beaches dominant amongst the whites. You'd see them, both males and females, enjoying themselves stark naked, why don't they go on a raping spree? Because they're more evolved than we are and we're still lower animals with more animalistic instincts? (For those people who'll say that's oyinbo culture/mentality).

If someone is dressed 'indecently' and because of that you'll rape them, why haven't you ever tried doing that shit to people who've got 'mad' training in self-defence skills? Or go rape mad naked people roaming the streets? Can you ever use that stupid argument of "you're dressed indecently hence you deserve to be raped" with folks like Rhonda Rousey or Nicki Bella who are professional wrestlers? You'll see that people who use this excuse are (potential) rapists and are just looking for any excuse to rape. There's always been an obsession with how females dress. Females are being subjugated in every way possible, religions and (African) cultures hammer on it but some of us know and have started preaching it that there should be freedom of expression for any gender through their dressings.

Have you had to redefine your idea of feminism over time?
Yes. When I was way much younger (like 16), I was the “what a man can do, a woman can do BETTER” kind of feminist. But as time went on (before I started being vocal about feminism), I metamorphosed into “anybody can do IT better, irrespective of the gender” kind of feminist.
Feminism isn't about competition between the male and female gender. It's about finding a balance and harmony, eradicating patriarchy and successfully taking that gender division tool away from the system.

What do you have to say regarding the sex for grades documentary by BBC?
Sex for grades has always been here for decades. BBC just came to expose the corruption we’ve always been hiding...

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A website like InterviewStories will let you see the good part of life and make you not regret anything but to try and improve things

I recently came upon a platform where NYSC can tell their stories. This is the website link InterviewStories . I believe a lot of us will want to share our NYSC story too.

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InterviewStories is starting a NYSC story telling platform for those currently serving Nigeria or have served before to tell their service year story to others.

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How will a devour Christian not have been baptised before now.

All issues will be resolved in the court

Nigerians no get joy

The gods should be written and not Gods

What will a man at the age of 80 do that will make him go to the prison.

Nigerians have no joy.