₦airaland Forum

Jakumo:
The Chinese are not giving out those loans for charity. In the terms and conditions of such loans, the Chinese insert clauses that allow them to take over ownership of LAND in countries outside China, thereby becoming stake-holders by force, in many countries whose leaders are either too greedy or too ignorant to know what the Chinese end-game is for countries that default o their loans.

To your first line, no one lends out of charity or benevolence. It's a loan not gift.

Two, you're infamous for being rabid anri-China rhetoric on Nairaland, so I'm not surprised by your criticism. But here is the thing: Without Chinese investments and technical knowledge, many Africans and African countries would have been poorer than ever before. China has contributed immensely to the development of Africans and the wider continent.

In Nigeria, the bulk of FDI into factories and mines are by the Chinese. Your lovey-dovey Western countries aren't investing at the same as the Chinese do. Elsewhere on the continent, Chinese investments have created hundreds and thousands of jobs in far-flung areas. They have revamped communities and with cheap Chinese technologies such as phones, telecommunications equipment and solar panels, many Africans can enjoy modern technology at an affordable rate.

China isn't perfect, but it's a force for good.

Just when the Chinese announced investment worth $350m into Angola's agricultural industry?

Few days ago, the same "protests" in Indonesia where Chinese investors have ploughed over $5BN into factories and mines.

Why are some people unhappy with Chinese investments across the global south?

emmaodet:
Sure, i can't be with a 1k girl too but then, most hook-up girls will have to bring down their prices to adjust to the current reality, else they would be priced out of a competitive, low barrier-entry business.
What you charge can't be bigger than the economy.
If the average man paying 10k for short-time 3-5 years ago had to scale back on his spending due to harsh economy - 2 fishes per food to 1, tokunbo car to nija used, 700k baedroom flat to 400k, then who is a prostitute that you will have keep their own price up without cutting down.

So who are those patronising those girls on Codedruns?

There's money in that country called Nigeria

pocohantas:
Old news.
The rice was taken imto the streets in packs and shared to everyone. People in cars, beggars, policemen, everyone.

The remaining in the pot was moved from Eko Hotel down to the mainland yesterday.

Na for mainland that rice go finish.

Lagosians are enjoying.

Seems I have to live in Lagos sef.

judecares1:
Am not a resident of china if you read what i wrote and moreover you don't need to be fluent in Japanese before you can navigate your way. I will still advise him to avoid anything to do Tokyo airport cos it will be a great stress for him. Let him visit the airline office or stand at the airport for the best advice in other to avoid incurring unnecessary expenses or issues. Direct flight remains the best option for a new traveller

Fair enough. Provided he avoids the need for a transit visa. I'm not just a fan of two-stops in a country that's not my final destination.

Westchester:
That one na useless elder brother. Travelled to Kuwait on family sponsored visa and ended communications with me.

Some family members sef

judecares1:
I have transited using Beijing airport and Singapore airports using my Naija passport without issues. You can get 24hrs visa upon arrival 😀 in china if you wish to see the beauty of china while i await my connecting flight to Nagoya or you can stay at the airport if you don't feel like going out of the airport. But in Singapore i stayed at the airport. As long as you don't want to leave the airport you won't have any issues cos the airline knows how it works
Advising him to take bullet train looks very expensive and remember you will need to pay extra luggage if your luggage exceed 20kg which is very expensive unless upon arrival you can take the bullet train and waybill your luggage to your apartment using yamato delivery company that is less expensive 🫰, you can do that at 7-Eleven or familymart. Alternatively you can take night bus (cheapest means). Please try to be economical in spending since you are coming to Japan new.
It will be advisable to get the direct flight to your final destination which will be of great advantageous to you and if you currently residing in Lagos,I will advise you to visit Qatar airline office in Victoria island or at the airport they will give you the best advice. If you residing in Abuja, kindly visit their office or there stand at the airport. My little advice for you since you are new to Japan

If I'm not mistaken, you live in China, thus you have a Chinese resident permit. Rictech doesn't have a Chinese resident permit. All these take bus or waybill luggage is for those who know their way and can speak/read Japanese. OP is a first timer. He's not a tourist. The aim is to get to the final destination as soon as possible with few hassles. Anything two stops is stressful and unnecessary. Well, people are different. I would rather pay for the Bullet Train to my final destination than stress myself in another airport that doesn't take me to my country of destination.

P.S. Rictech, you're a first timer traveller to this part of the world, not as a tourist or for business. Avoid anything transit visa. Avoid it. The time to get a transit visa would most likely exceed the duration you got your Japanese visa.

PulaPower:
Says who..

Been to SA before. Stayed at Midrand then. A white dominated area!
There’s absolutely nothing special in SA. It’s just another country where you have to be paying every gaadamnnn bills monthly.
Nigeria is by far better!

Everyone pays bills everywhere. Say you love Nigeria because it's a familiar environment, not because it's better than South Africa.

PlayerMeji:
When will Nigerian governors learn to build streets and roads without open gutters...?

These things show the laziness on the part of the government, imagine still constructing open gutters in the major roads in the 21st century whereby underground drainage systems have taken over the whole world...

Thank you ooo

Inasmuch as our politicians are to be blamed, so are the civil engineers, town planners, architects and quantity surveyors.

Rictech:
Good day, Gerrard. rd59 and black. riar. I'm trying to book a flight using Qatar Airways and would appreciate your advice.

Do you know if a transit visa is required when passing through Hong Kong? This route is the most affordable and would take me directly to my final destination.

The other option is to travel via Osaka and take a train from there.

Going through Tokyo is not feasible, as it requires a self-transfer between Narita International Airport and Haneda International Airport, which is not included in the fare (Lagos – Doha – Tokyo), even though it's more expensive.

Is the school in Fukuoka? If yes, go through Tokyo and take the bullet train to Fukuoka or Osaka then train to Fukuoka. I would never advise anyone with a Nigerian passport to transit via Asian airports.

P.S. Take the train the following morning between 6-8 am from either Tokyo or Osaka to Fukuoka.

pansophist:
Just in 2025, close to a million immigrants have arrived Canada.

Amid housing shortages, unemployment, cuts in social benefits and rising cost of living. \

I have not been to Canada recently, but the last time I visited, I entered buses and was in different neighbourhood where I could not find a single white person. Indians have taken over Canada.

I dont really understand western leaders. Your current population is passing through pain, instead, you are importing lots of third world immigrants to further worsen the problem and cause social crisis.

Those zombie-like mofos that litters US cities are already spreading and visible in many Canadian cities. Canadian government even have a policies where they give this homeless folks hard drugs to inhale and forget about their sorrows.

I do not understand the west anymore, I honestly dont. How can a government give addicts more drugs to further worsen their situation?

Welcome to Canada.

This and many more are why right wing parties are springing up and winning elections. However, so-called liberals with their Ikoyi and Lekki constituency have refused to acknowledge the pain and worries of the ordinary westerner.

I'm not surprised by all the happenings in the West. People can only take enough at some point. If person talk, dem go call am Uncle Tom and racists.

If only humans will learn to understand basic nature, biology and economics, they would understand how humans behave. History is there for anyone to read.

emmaodet:
Well, life is in sizes.
That people are paying 100k or more for short-time doesn't mean that is the norm in the society. Abi no be dis Nigeria we dey again?
Looking at people banging for 100k and above as a yardstick is like using people who drives brand new car as a yard-stick for car owners in Nigeria. You have to use the commonest - which is, most use Nigerian used cars and not even tokunbo.
That using a brand new car depends more on location like lekki, Banana Island, Abj doesn't invalidate the fact most uses Nigeria used cars.
The bulk of guys patronizing sex workers will get a short-time at less than 5k per round and less than 20k per night for your average looking lady ( 4 to 7.5 over 10 rated girls).
In Onne as a case study, short time is around 3k and overnight maybe 15/20k and this are good looking PH university girls and other student.

Current prices? UNIPORT/RUST students o, not dem Ignatius and Captain Elechi Amadi?

I do agree with the rest of your explanation though. But I cannot be with a girl who collects 1K I admit I'm using Lagos prices. But even before I left Nigeria, I would rather hold on than be with a girl who collects 1K.

He campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. For almost fifteen years, the country has not hit a GDP growth rate of 5% per annum.

fentoluwa2:
Good day, everyone, and regards to the folks keeping the thread updated in a timely manner.

I would like to ask if language school is still a viable option for an April/July 2026 intake, or if I should focus on a Master's/PhD application. For context, I already have a Master's in International Law from a university in Cyprus. It seems courses in law or related fields are scarce.

I have also tried reaching out to a couple of national universities, including public ones, as instructed after reading the entire thread from page 1 to the last page. A few professors from Kyushu University, Hokkaido University, and Nagoya University (pardon if I don't have the names correctly) replied saying they are not allowed to communicate with students about supervision and that all enquiries should be

Thanks and God bless.

If you can scale the admission process of getting into an MBA program, go for an MBA. There are good schools that offer an MBA in English. Anything Law when the person does not speak good (not fluent o, just good) Japanese comes across as a failure to me. There is also the licensing aspect of Law.

As for language schools, as we have learnt, the rules have changed. Also, don't bother yourself with GoNihon or whatever group, they are not interested in Nigerians.

buygala:
This is arising from a thread which recently hit frontpage regarding a guy who outlined how he spends less than 80k monthly to maintain his "girlfriend"...Off the bat, I think the guy got a very good deal, considering he is sleeping with her regularly ...Considering how much it will cost him to engage hook-up girls for say 3 times a month to release sperm/tension which also services his prostate, he has a good deal with the girl..Going by what he said, he spends less than 80k monthly on her ...That's quite a good deal for sex-on-demand... That's a reasonable vagina retainer I guess

Only problem he might have is if he self-deceives himself into believing he is the only one retaining the vagina...As long as one doesn't mislead oneself into thinking he alone possesses such vaginas, a man will be fine until he gets married and more priorities enter the equation. Contrary to popular opinion and the now rampant "Gehgeh" school of thought, I think having a girlfriend is a cheaper way to have sex, as opposed to hook-up...At least I know that in Abuja, ordering hook-up is at least 50k per night...can go up to 500k or more of you go looking for the very "classy" ones....That's unless you wanna go scraping the slimy bottom of the prostitution barrel like the menopausal or "slightly obviously sick" ones

Thank you for your post. It challenges the current notion that patronising hookup babes is cheaper than having a girlfriend. However, there are certain factors to consider:

- Our men, especially when they are financially stable, don't stick to one woman for sexual pleasure. So, if he pays her 80K per month yet goes outside for sexual pleasure, then on the whole, it becomes cheaper to patronise sex workers than having a girlfriend.
- There are days the girl will not be sexually ready compared to the man who has raging testosterone every day. On such days, the man will be compelled to go outside. Also, in marriage, we have arrogant women who weaponise sex towards their husbands with the statement, "Is sex food?" Very arrogant lots! Men who are married to such women will have to seek satisfaction elsewhere.

These factors are the reasons why, on paper and number for number, it is cheaper to patronise sex workers than having a GF.

If one avoids the expensive and everly needy women, and most especially those "no-sex" women, while going for "naive" or "cheap" girls who one can sleep with regularly under the pretence of "love and dating" , one will be getting a far better sex deal financially compared to having to order hook-up ever so often.

The bold is a disservice to the man because, whether there is sex or not, a man is expected to spend in a relationship. Relationship or any sort of engagement with a woman as a man is an expense. Women are an expense. A man must spend. This is a global phenomenon. The koko is to have a woman spend on you as much as you spend on her. I think that is where our men fail at - they just spend spend spend without the woman spending on them, even for once!

Dating a "no sex" woman is a failure, except she is a virgin, both vaginal and anal.

And I think it's quite a misconception that sex is overrated for men....Regular sex helps keep the mind sharp and as a matter of fact which has been medically proven, sex leading to regular ejaculation keeps men's prostate healthy...and we all need our prostate healthy, don't we?

Of course! Sex is extremely important to a man's reasoning. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar! If there is anything I detest, it is people who are thoroughly and innately dishonest.

Here are two research statements to support the belief that frequent ejaculation reduces the rate of prostate cancer, which affects Black men more than any other group of men.

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0302283816003778?via%3Dihub
- https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

Long story short...Men need regular sex if not for anything, for its health benefits..and the world is such that sex hardly ever comes for free ...You can choose the "Gehgeh" way of not ever giving women money, and masturbate yourself into total loss of erection, or until your penis skin peels off...Or you can be more reasonable by cutting your coat according to your cloth and get sex while "being in love"

For one, there is nothing like "free sex". Every man pays for sex via the following ways:
- Cash for hand, aka money for hand, back for ground (the commonest type)
- Commitment, aka marriage. When a man fails to provide, 9 out of 10, the wife refuses to have sex with the man. Even when the man provides and plays his part emotionally, wives still weaponise sex towards their husbands. But that is a story for another day.
- In kind, such as getting a job, contract or sex for grades.

The few cases where a man does not have to pay for sex are when the man is incredibly handsome and/or tall (depending on the location) and a gym instructor. But these cases are not consistent, which is an important factor because men need sex consistently, as we have outlined.

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Good analysis from you, OP.

AllBlack:
MAKE SHE GO.

Me? Pay OS 20K? No bobby? No HEAD?
Guy where you dey? If say you dey my location I swear I go buy you beer this morning as I dey happy for my club win and call two beautiful, well rounded OS wey go dislocate your left hip and you will not give both of them 20k except you finally choose to do Christmas for them. When they are done with you, na you go start to buy me beer.
Guy forget oh. As a man, take super care of yourself FIRST and look good and dont be socially awkward then you will see magic. Lastly, make you sabi nack. One important thing, avoid guys wey too dey worship babe to the level of paying any babe (O.S or not) more than 3k for nack. Too much talk no dey full basket.

The bold is location dependent.

No sex worker in the Lekki-Ajah axis would collect 20K and allow you to suck her breasts and offer BJ. It is not going to happen. I have read where a patron mentioned paying 100K for ONE ROUND in the same Lekki. Yes, ONE ROUND. This talk of "oh for my place, babes dey wey go knack you well for small money" depends on the taste of the patron. It reminds me of when a lad said the same in the Sexuality section, only for another commentator to visit the mentioned area only to regret. This visitor remarked that the place was full of drug takers and dangerous boys. The girls there looked UGLY!

But hey, i gEt wHeRe i dEy pAy 1k yen yen yen!

Show us the picture of these girls and the areas where they charge 1K per round.

Baronthecelebri:
Guy toto na toto no matter what, ashawo for my side na 1k

I can imagine what she looks like.

Yuck!

Elon Musk should continue abeg!

I am very happy to see racists succeed where tribalists cannot. Imagine Nigerians who are crude tribalists accusing Elon Musk of racism?!



There are some in the comment section who have NEVER CONDEMNED the rabid and continuous tribalism on Nairaland and the wider Nigeria. In fact, these people have never condemned the killing of Christians across Northern Nigeria, but they believe they can condemn a White man who wants to protect White dominated countries?!

Elon and Trump should continue! I am happy Donald Trump won the election and I look forward to the GOP retaining its seat come 2028.

seunmsg:
Elon Musk is a bigot and a white supremacist. He’s worse than I initially thought.

Hahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahhahahahahaha


Pot calling kettle black!!!!!!!!!!!!

otherway:
This America dey shark you no be small.

Glorified Nigeria is what America is.

My comparison was never about America or UK but making 3k in UK and 4k in america

Common sense.

Anyone who makes £3K in the UK can double it (pounds equivalent) in the US. That's what the US offers - limitless opportunities.

With all the doctors and Plab 1&2, no doctor let alone a Blackie has become so wealthy in the UK. A Haitian even got there before anyone from the UK 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wait o, na road be that? Eti Osa where Lekki-Ajah is situated?

GloriousGbola:
the guy is capping.

he will be the same person gnashing teeth when lagos enforces bans of pure water , single use plastic or demolishes houses blocking waterways

the flooding is a drainage issue. there is well done a network of drains through festac which leads to a canal. when it rains you will see the drain entry to the canal be COMPLETELY blocked with debris. at which point it starts flooding everywhere

the same issue is replicated through lagos. where there is a clear failure is the way local govts keep botching clearing of road drains. drain speriodically fill with silt esp on teh expr4essway. once in a while you get a half hearted, annoying show where the drains are emptied of silt, which is then abandoned on the same road in large heaps to find its way back into the drains

So the blame is entirely on the waste management authority - LAWMA

But this means there exists so much opportunities to recycle those wastes into semi-finished products

As long as a billionaire isn't listed by either Forbes, Bloomberg, Hurun of China, Henley and Partners, that person isn't a billionaire.

Anyone who says otherwise should bring forth a superior methodology. This is 2025 not 2005 where anyone can spew mumbo-jumbo and every Tom, Dick and Harry would believe hook, line and sinker.

This is the same country Otherway compared to the UK because of £3K per month?

Chai! America don suffer no be small

pansophist:
You never see anything. It will get better for the world majority.

- Right now, there are many dark factories operating all of China. No workers needed, just electricity and programming. Thats all. It works 24 hours every day, with accurate precision, chuning out millions of consumer goods, and high tech gadgets.

SO expext more crash in prices, cheaper and cheaper stuff that even an idiot on 30k per month will still use high tech stuff. Technology should not be a luxury, it should be almost free as water.

- In the recently concluded SCO summit, The Chinese government has proposed an alternative to every multilateral institutions from the UN, world bank, ICC, etc. The GGI (global governance initiative) is under works, and all the international institutions will be headquatered in the global south.

This was in line with what Putin announced in June 14 2024 at the MFA of Russia. Links below from the Russian and Chinese government to this effect.

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1957107/

https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202509/13/content_WS68c511bec6d00fa19f7a2680.html

Na those kind factories I dey look for.

Enter into partnership with the company and mass produce absolutely anything I intend to advertise.

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All these will create an incentive to bring Europe back to the global majority where it truly belongs. Eurasia is the most populous region on the planet, and Europe is naturally part of that plain. It is politics that separates Europe from Eurasia, not geography.

With a giant, interconnected economical region stressing from Africa to Asia, Europe must go through a painful divorce from Washington, since it is a matter of survival for them. The US is a giant island, and it defiles common sense to ally with them against the rest of the world

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I don't see Europe, especially Western Europe, cutting off the US. The alliance is both cultural and racial. Rather, I wish to see how both regions would adjust a world with more Blacks and Indians, especially as these groups rise economically and adopt latest technologies.

Story is fake. No point having a say about a fake tale.

NybenSBF101:
Black people and useless records

White people dominate such "useless attempts" way more than Black people.

Rest!

Pacesetter123:
At times,I do wonder if some people do travel to see things for themselves elsewhere at all!
Every tribes in Nigeria has a leader outside their region if their tribesmen are many there.
We have this Ezeigbo in my state down south here,we don't have problem with that cos he doesn't have any single power over our community affairs.
We also have Sarkin Hausa here too.
We even designate a popular cattle market here as "NASSARAWA".
The palace of that Sarkin is around that cattle market area, NASSARAWA.
Even my own people too in Lagos,Enough,Kano,Abuja, and even in USA has their leaders there too.
Though we don't call our leaders there by our traditional title (OBONG),but PRESIDENT GENERAL.
My uncle was one time president general of our tribesmen in the USA few years ago.They do host our traditional play/festival such as Ekpe cultural play there without any accusations from the indigenous people.
So,all this talks about Ezeigbo establishing palace in another man's land here and there by some people in some parts of Nigeria always sounds so childish to me.
Ezeigbo is just a leader of their tribesmen in a strange land and he is not interfering in any culture or customs of the indigenous people.
So,why the fuss by some Nigerians?

Some Nigerians develop a hard-on for anything Igbo.

Also, the 2023 elections open a lot of scars as some were angry that Peter Obi won Lagos.

stanluiz:
It not still a settled topic especially here in Nigeria. People has been parading fake news on social media about eze igbo of Ghana and problems Nigerians has been facing in Ghana.
VDM went to Ghana to hear from the horses mouth. He has be properly brief on what is on ground.
You guys should rest.

Okay o. I will rest. Just that after his video about Lagos ports and airports, I find him to be quite ign0rant and likes to pit groups against each other.

BlueStripper:
I know what I am talking about. I have seen over 100 boys with these tattoos on their hand in Kaduna.

100 boys? Over 100 boys? You know what is 100 persons?

stanluiz:
Do you watch his interview with VDM before arriving at your conclusion ?

What is VDM's concern in an already settled topic? Is VDM more influential in Ghanaian circles than an MP? What is it that they are discussing that has not been discussed and settled? Why reopen the topic?

I blame the ign0rant Igbo chief for giving VDM a listening ear.