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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 4:00am On Jun 04*

PrettyRX:
Oga I'm not in for plenty talk. I've given s/he my bit. Drop yours as well and let the the candidate decide!

Whatever lady. I don't care enough to get worked up by this sophistry. Goodluck.

Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 9:14pm On Jun 03

PrettyRX:
Dont be decieved,the honest truth is using social apps is the slowest way to learn speaking. You'll deal with scammers, different time zones, individual daily schedules. You'll lose focus with time.
Just go to cotonou for immersion, you'll be amazed at how fast you'll blend because you wouldn't want to sound odd. If you can't afford to stay long, make friends and bargain with them on practicing speaking even when you're in Nigeria. Except you don't plan on writing tcf, then quit apps and face real life.
When you're fluent a bit, practice with chat gpt pro for corrections. With this strategy I got C1 for writing and speaking

I wouldn't speak in absolutes, apps are tricky but if you get the hang and get an actual speaker it can work wonders. Also Cotonou is the worst place bar Lome to do "immersion" for French. Their French is super inflected by their native language, most don't speak a lick of French and when they do it is broken French likely to undo all your hard work. Like I previously stated if you must immerse yourself try Abidjan and/or Daka if going to France is out of the question.

In addition take everything you see online with a pinch of salt, believe nothing don't contact anyone privately, demonstrate extreme scepticism. Don't get scammed.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Iran's IRGC Attacks US Fifth Fleet Headquarters, Airbase, Local Media Reports by Ghaliz: 1:39pm On Jun 03*

Jayjayconcept:
Nigerians in the comments section will be analyzing without indepth knowledge,

USA is just being careful just because of it Golf Allies Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, quarter, UAE, Bahrain and more who are at the receiving end
Couple with the world cup and midterm elections

Already US spies are in Iran gathering intelligent.
Just wait after this two events
Iran sympathizers will start crying that women and children are BLA BLA BLA...

War is bad

My question is ,
Why can't Iran be like peaceful as UAE and Saudi Arabia chopping there wealth?

I seriously doubt you've read a book on geopolitics before in your life.

Iran has been under onerous US sanctions for nearly 5 decades, they signed a nuclear agreement (JCPOA) in 2015 with the P5+1, an agreement they were honouring till Trump tore it up.

The US against the advice of their Gulf allies( not golf btw) launched a war of aggression against Iran killed their supreme leader, killed school children destroyed infrastructure, should Iran not defend its own interest?

Your peaceful UAE is bankrolling the RSF in Sudan, the STC in Yemen, the LNA in Libya and various militias in Somaliland.

Like I said, you've never read a book from cover to cover in your entire life

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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 1:28pm On Jun 03

teenah14:
I am having issues getting native speakers on Hello Talk, or probably I dont know how to use the app.
Also, can you share the prep pack you used from the francophone countries?

HelloTalk isn't for everyone, my informal survey amongst people learning French shows many people don't quite fancy it, your experience is not at all out of the ordinary. I found it quite useful.

You are going to require a VIP subscription and lots of patience, indicate clearly your native language and your learning language. You should also be ready to communicate with people with imperfect English also trying to practice their own English

Use the moments tab to see public posts, post your moments too, indicate you're seeking a language partner preferably a native French speaker. Once you find one or two dependable partners you can practice each other languages using an agreed time split.

As far as tools go, HelloTalk is a quirky way to learn but I found a lady from Guadeloupe on the app, we put in hours upon hours correcting each others "learning language".

I don't know if I quite answered your questions if you have any further questions at all quote me ask, I'm happy to answer openly on this page.

Food › Re: 3 Rams For 800k: My Stepmother Has Delivered Again! (Photos) by Ghaliz: 3:54pm On May 24

Abbeytoy:
Last year, I posted about the Ram my stepmother got for me cheaply even when my mom does not support dealing with her; this year follow suit, and she has delivered another banger.

Although I have walked around the market to price Ram, unfortunately the price is so outrageous, and I can't even stand it.

This gives me the idea to plan my budget, and I gave her 800k for 3 rams with the hope that if I am not comfortable, I will buy one Ogunfe to support it. And here is what she delivered...

Seriously, I don't know how to appreciate her enough, but my mom is not comfortable with the RAM and said it's too small for that amount...

All this, my mother doesn't go out or know what things are being said in the market, but she keeps annoying me with her resistance to the good gesture of my stepmother.

Please, what do you guys think about the price?

Here is the link to last year's Ram: https://www.nairaland.com/8444225/got-these-3-rams-500k

Note that the first picture is for my father and already delivered to him, and the other 2 is for me and my mom and she stays with me.

Abeg from which market in Lagos abeg, do they sell rams and cows? Pls hook a brother up. I went to the market I left in utter disgust. No way in hell I am paying 2.6M for two scraggly rams and a very small cow

Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 11:00pm On May 14

Ruthiegal:
can anyone kindly recommend private online french tutors. I contacted the so called madam bizang but she is clearly not interested. I dont want to be referred to Alliance Francais please.

Go to Alliance Française, attend a few months of classes online or offline during which you'd be taught by several instructors after which you can simply approach the one whose style of teaching you are most comfortable with.

Many of the so-called online French instructors are dummies, I know one that couldn't by herself pass the TCF and she's so popular on IG. You'd need the camaraderie and shared goal of fellow students you meet at Alliance anyway. Goodluck anyway

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Celebrities › Re: Speed Darlington Reveals He Is Willing To Pay ₦5m To Have A Child by Ghaliz: 12:17am On May 13

He is offering approximately $3600 for a child. The price of a Huawei Mate book Fold for a human being. Wow!

Politics › Re: N10,000 Feeding Satement Based On Rural Context – Tope Fasua by Ghaliz: 8:27pm On May 10

Special Adviser on Economic Affairs doesn't know the first thing about the economy. Square peg in Semi-circular hole

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Travel › Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Ghaliz: 2:26pm On May 09

osayuwamwen:
so bcus of skyline Lagos is not beautiful will you say the same about London and most European countries

You are being intentionally obtuse, every major European commercial city has a skyline but that's not why Lagos is not beautiful. It isn't beautiful because of a lack of planning, inadequate drainage, open sewers, urban sprawl, poor infrastructure and property prices totally divorced from average income and reality.

Travel › Re: Lagos: This Doesn't Look Like The Africa People Expect! by Ghaliz: 6:36pm On May 08*

It looks exactly like a third world downtown, terrible infrastructure, very congested, minimal rail connection , flooding, sprawling and extremely overpriced. Banana Island for the price should not feasibly exist but for the sheer volume of dirty money circulating in this country of particular concern.

Go to North Africa even East Africa and see how planned cities look like. They are third world too

Lagos has only 15 buildings 100meters and above with the tallest being only 160M so there's really no skyline to speak of

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Politics › Re: Sokoto Badagry Super Highway by Ghaliz: 10:34pm On May 06

But for the extra 11% of Nigerians that slid into poverty, and additional 3 Million out-of-school children, the increase in Kidnapping, banditry and the stunning revival of Boko Haram. The complete collapse of power supply in the country is another banger.

What's not to like about an uncompleted road built without competitive bidding with opaque contracts at ridiculously inflated rates which is actually borrowed. Nigerians would be paying it off for generations. What's not to love?

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Politics › Re: $1 Trillion Later… Why Do Nigerian Cities Still Look this? by Ghaliz: 10:35am On May 02

garykoeman:
Who told you the coastal highway is been fully funded by the F.G.

And you believe the government will invest $3b to $7b in electricity without increase in electricity tariff.

You're just being intentionally glib and a bit specious. No one cares about the funding model for the coastal road because the contract documents have not been made public like the bidding process in direct contrivance of the the FOI and extant Nigeria procurement laws.

What was made clear is the FG provides 30% counterpart funding, it has since borrowed $2 billion from First Abu Dhabi Bank and AFREXIM in addition to providing 5.8 trillion naira in direct budgetary allocation for a road that has been scaled down and isn't even half done.

There are subsidies for electricity even in the first world countries, does Nigeria exist only to subsidise politicians, so because subsidies exist the Government should not expand generation and distribution capacity by investing in renewables especially hydroelectric power, they should rather invest in a road of aleatory benefits while the vast existing road stocks in the country rots and becomes moribund?

Politics › Re: $1 Trillion Later… Why Do Nigerian Cities Still Look this? by Ghaliz: 12:45am On May 02*

Topman7:
See him calling "$1 trillion" as if it's all that much, counting from 1970 to 2026.

Meanwhile the USA annual budget is $7.6 trillion.

UK 2 trillion.

France 2.2 trillion.

Germany 2.8 trillion.

AND YOU ARE COUNTING 1 TRILLION SINCE 1970, AND CLAIMING YOU SHOULD BE LIKE HEAVEN.

Nigerians need to rid themselves of the idea of being a rich country with a population of 250 million and a $40 billion budget.

We need further economic diversification away from oil and gas, better taxation systems, etc, to increase national revenue, not these fantasies...

South Africa's annual budget for its 60 million people is $140 billion.

Our oil income is insufficient, and that's why Tinubu even borrows for infrastructure projects.

I don't know why y'all lie unprovoked.

The UK's budget is 1.8 trillion the $200 billion exaggeration is noteworthy, it gets weirder Germany's budget is $615 billion while France is less than a trillion at $988 billion. I don't know why you'd lie or exaggerate over something so easily disproved.

Saying our oil income is insufficient to develop Nigeria is somewhat true but context is required, it was not always insufficient it was also mismanaged by shortsighted and kleptomaniac leaders.

Tinubu's borrowing Is going to shackle Nigerians for a generation, 60% of his borrowing are to service old debts and "budget support" (salaries).

There was also the atrocity called the Coastal Road a landmark in conflict of interest built at a staggeringly overpriced cost of $11-13 billion. For context Ethiopia built its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for $4.8 billion, it is supplying 5150MW a generation capacity that could have easily doubled Nigeria's output, he could have invested $3 billion in transmission and still had a solid $5 billion left to repair and upgrade Nigeria's existing derelict road network.

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Travel › Re: Canada Visit/tourist Visa Discussion. by Ghaliz: 10:33am On May 01

koolvin12:
New portal

I saw your request to send e-mail. I am unable to accept, this being a public forum, online anonymity and all, also the carrying on of private conversations has facilitated fraud. But if you go on the thread and quote me with your question. I promise to provide an exhaustive answer to your question to the best of my ability. Thanks

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Iran War Has Cost The U.S. $25 Billion So Far, Pentagon Official Says by Ghaliz: 3:59pm On Apr 30

Thewrath:
The cost means nothing compared to the achievements.

What achievements? Global stagflation, high cost of fertiliser and other agricultural inputs, the takeover of Iran by hardliners and it's takeover of the strait of Hormuz.

Pls list these achievements.

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Politics › Re: Badagry-Sokoto Expressway: Tinubu Building Roads On Top Of Mountains In Taraba by Ghaliz: 10:34pm On Apr 29

goslowgoslow:
Meaningless and childish comment all over....19 years old kid!

I've seen teenagers with more initiative and latent intellect in the nail of their pinkie finger than you have in your entire constitution.

Politics › Re: Badagry-Sokoto Expressway: Tinubu Building Roads On Top Of Mountains In Taraba by Ghaliz: 10:32pm On Apr 29

goslowgoslow:
I block people that continue with gibberish! Not reading your childish disrespectful and stewphid comment again. You are blocked!

Oh the Pay-per-comment APC hack has blocked me . How do I carry on with life?

Politics › Re: Badagry-Sokoto Expressway: Tinubu Building Roads On Top Of Mountains In Taraba by Ghaliz: 8:35pm On Apr 29

goslowgoslow:
Your curse doesn't bother me, I am not suffering like you,all the curse wey una dey curse has never and it will not change anything regardless back to sender. It is very easy to identify kids like you on this forum, the post listed what he has done but you are still saying he hasn't done anything. My point was don't blame Tinubu for everything how about your governors? Unfortunately because emotions and childishness you cannot comprehend a short comment.
I won't go back forth with your type we don't belong to the same category.

If he was such a honourable custodian of the affairs of the country why not say Amen that the good Lord administer your affairs like the president has administered the country?

I am extremely tickled you think I'm suffering yet you're the 30K per month APC breathing keyboard, y'all are probably cheaper than a server farm with AI bots

Tinubu has the power of the purse, he has borrowed billions of dollars yet bandits are kidnapping people routinely in Ekiti, Ondo.

He said it in 2014 that if Jonathan cannot guarantee security he should resign, He has lost control of vast swathes of the country, the security apparatus of this country is Federal, he is the chief security officer, you don't require genius level intelligence to know where the buck stops.

Stop offering excuses that offer no single flicker of enlightenment, seek proper employment if you can find one.

Politics › Re: Badagry-Sokoto Expressway: Tinubu Building Roads On Top Of Mountains In Taraba by Ghaliz: 5:19pm On Apr 29

AlphaTaikun:
The bottom line is for the Federal Government and the States to urgently crash the price of food and transportation with CNG fuel so that those folks on the street level can have a breather from the high cost of living.

Second, insecurity from foreign Fula and Tuareg Lakurawa militia bandits from Mali and Niger Republic MUST be urgently dealt with with Drones and Satellite tracking technologies.

Those of us who are highly analytical and educated know that the Nigerian Government has done very well in the area of macroeconomics with the Foreign Exchange being stable for over 1 year and more as listed on Page 1. The semi-literates and even some literates would NOT easily see these because of hunger and reduced income. Period.

You can't lay any credible claim to any form of economic literacy.

This misbegotten president is borrowing at an increasing clip when oil is trading at record prices, when non-gulf oil producers are ramping up production and paying down debt.

Nigeria debt service stands at 106% of national revenue, he is literally taking out debts to service old debts.

Worse he is taking debts from commercial institutions Deutsche Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Citibank at commercial rates not the concessionary interest rates of multilateral institutional lenders.

75% more Nigerians were killed by non-state actors compared to 2024, a record we are on track to blow past. The Kainji Reserve forest is transforming into another terrorist corridor like Sambisa.

You flatter yourself by calling yourself educated I won't even call you sentient

Politics › Re: Badagry-Sokoto Expressway: Tinubu Building Roads On Top Of Mountains In Taraba by Ghaliz: 5:07pm On Apr 29

goslowgoslow:
Keep ranting, a nation problems cannot be solved in a day. You all will be blaming Tinubu for everything do you ask your state government questions? Under Tinubu they all have increased allocation what have they done with it?

Deflection is a tool of choice for bellends . This man literally hasn't tackled any big issue. He has done nothing but steal, retrench all the rudimentary guardrails that has upheld a semblance of self governance and democracy in Nigeria. Nigerians will pay a high price for his misgovernance for at least a generation.

Billions of dollars vanished into the ether with refineries, power supply is worse than the day he was inaugurated, security is worse, A higher proportion of Nigerians are living in poverty today than in 1968.

He's not solving any problems, he's making it worse and rewarding his cronies. Cheap propaganda and ersatz cult of personality has replaced any consistent policy positions.

And finally may the good Lord administer the affairs of your life the way Mr Tinubu has governed Nigeria.

Politics › Re: Badagry-Sokoto Expressway: Tinubu Building Roads On Top Of Mountains In Taraba by Ghaliz: 4:53pm On Apr 29

abc115:
One useless pastor or apostle will be lying from pulpit that the President has not done anything

TO ALL TINUBU SUPPORTERS: WHEN YOU ARE ASKED WHAT TINUBU HAS DONE IN HAS 3 YEARS IN OFFICE; HERE IS WHAT YOU ARE TO SHOW THEM.

The blind must see what President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done ✅ ♾ 🦇
(REPOST AGGRESSIVELY IF YOU ARE FOR TINUBU)

🏛 Governance & Finance
• 💰 NELFUND
• 🏦 CreditCorp
• 🏛 LGA Autonomy
• 💵 Naira-for-Crude Policy
• 💳 National Credit Guarantee Company (NCGC)
• 🏗 Budget Deficit Down: from 50% (2023) → 25% (2025)
• 💼 Tax Bill passed
• 💹 Increased Revenue
• 💶 Non-Oil Exports Up 40% in 2 years
• 💰 Over $40bn Foreign Investment
• 📈 Stock Exchange Boom
• 📊 Trade Surplus: ₦18 trillion in 2 years
• 🔒 No More Printing Money for FAAC
• 💵 States No Longer Borrow to Pay Salaries

⚙️ Economic & Infrastructure Reforms
• 🌾 Livestock Ministry
• 🏭 SAPZ (Special Agric Processing Zones)
• 🚍 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Initiative
• 🛠 Refineries Activation (Shut Only When Unprofitable)
• 🛣 Coastal Highway: Lagos–Calabar
• 🛣 Sokoto–Badagry & Other Legacy Roads
• ⛽️ Oil-Asset-Metering / Oil Theft Reduction
• 💧 NNPC Funds Credited Directly
• ⛏ Mining Reforms
• ⚓️ Maritime Enhanced Monitoring System (MEMS)
• 🌍 Positive Balance of Trade
• 🏠 MREIF Mortgage Initiative

🧑‍🏫 Social & Development Initiatives
• 👷‍♀️ 3MTTT (Tech Talent Training)
• 🧑‍🔧 TVET (Technical & Vocational Education Training)
• 🧒 Nutrition 774 Initiative
• 🧭 Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme (8,089 Wards Nationwide)
• 🌱 Green Imperative Project
• 🧵 Cotton, Textile & Garment Dev. Board
• 🍫 Cocoa Board Reinstated
• 🚜 NIPOST Agricultural Infrastructure & Logistics (NAILI)
• 🏫 DL4ALL (NITDA Digital Learning for All)
• 🧑‍⚕️ National Health Fellows Programme
• 🧍 Forest Guards for 1,149 Reserves
• ⚖️ Nigeria First Policy
• 🌐 SUPA (Smart Urban Planning Agenda)
• 🚌 6 Mega CNG Bus Terminals (Regional Zones)
• 🏢 Jobs & Training Support for 1000 Beneficiaries per Ward

🏥 Reforms Continue Nationwide:
• ⚕️ Health Reforms
• 💊 Increased Medical Investment
• 🧍‍♂️ Minimum Wage (100%+ Increment)
• 📉 IMF Debt reduced from $3.26bn → $800.23m
• 💷 Cleared $7bn Forex Backlog
• 🏦 CBN Stabilised
• 🏢 Loans to Industries and SMEs
• 🌍 6 Regional Development Commissions

Copied but verified and certified 🚨😌✅

Additional 16M Nigerians in poverty
Borrowed 72Tn in less than 3 years
An additional 3M Nigerian school children out of school
75% Year on Year increase in Nigerians killed by bandits and terrorist
An average 16 Nigerians killed per day by insecurity up from an average of 11 the year before
A total disregard for procurement laws, awarding multibillion dollar contracts to his cronies without any competitive bidding.

The achievements are endless...

Crime › Re: Man Who Rears Rustled Cattle For Bandits Arrested by Ghaliz: 2:50pm On Apr 28*

Man who rustles cow for bandits, man who sells Colorado to bandit, man who buys iron condemn from bandits nabbed... These are some of the ridiculous headlines from this theater of the absurd called Nigeria

NYSC › Re: Abdulsamad Jamiu: Mother Of NYSC Member Killed In Abuja Cries Out by Ghaliz: 12:36pm On Apr 27

Nigeria has happened to me. Nigeria in this case being an unfortunate, avoidable and deliberate tragedy

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Politics › Re: Ibadan Meeting: PDP, ADC Blocs Reject Joint Presidential Ticket by Ghaliz: 11:39am On Apr 27

Sowore said it best it is the gathering of usual suspects but you don't throw the baby away with the bathwater. Nigerians must send a message to this larcenous Tinubu administration that enough is enough!

On every possible metric he has failed and in addition imposed unprecedented hardship upon Nigerians while politicians have never had it this good. If we replace him with someone that falls short of a saint I'd take that. In four years we'd answer that question if he(she) falls short.

Nigerians must take their own fates into their own hands or they won't have a country at all.

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NYSC › Re: Abdulsamad Jamiu Was Shot In His Room — Family Rejects Army’s Account by Ghaliz: 10:48am On Apr 27*

But when actual terrorist invade their bases across the northeast and west they flee faster than the innocent villagers they are supposed to be protecting.
If I've said it once I've said it a million times, fleeing this country is the single most important thing you can do for yourself, your mental health, your life expectancy and those of your born and unborn children. Doesn't matter if you have to save and scrape, get out. You may think yourself settled or prosperous till one underpaid pṣycho with a gun thinks you're giving him a stinky eye or something, if the bandits don't get you first

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 10:45am On Apr 27

webberman:
I really appreciate this post. Please where did you learn your French?

I learnt my French at Alliance Française Lagos. There's a main branch on Osborne Rd in Ikoyi, there's a mainland branch at Ikeja GRA opposite the State Police Command Hq.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 10:42am On Apr 27

Lopeademol:
Stop the joke abeg

I don't know why you called this a joke, it is actually correct.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 5:43pm On Apr 26

studyhub:
Practice writing like a beginner.
CRS of "35somthing", you will need to ace both English language test and French.

[quote author=BabatundeGPD post=139208680][/quote]Mr Babatunde with all due respect if your writing here is indicative of your prowess one can see where Pearson is coming from. You also got something else coming if you think a few YouTube videos and a month of classes would get you to CLB7 in TEF or TCF, nevertheless I admire your confidence.

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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 12:49pm On Apr 26

Zeewirld:
Please does Alliance Francis has online option for beginners? Or can anyone recommend a good tutor that can teach a beginner to perfection?

Yes there are online classes. They take an a longer time compared to the intensive option.

The A1 classes take about 2.5 months, you study on the online platform and have 3 zoom meetings per week. You'd need a computer with webcam and microphone. It is cheaper than the regular intensive classes by nearly 50%.

For more information contact AF Lagos for class schedules.

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