DoggoneDogg: *Treason *Trespassing *Aggravated Assault. *Aiding & Abetting violence. *Illegal possession of arms. *Attempted manslaughter. *Conspiracy to cause bodily harm. *Terrorism *Unlawful assembly/mob action *Murder *Smuggling *Forgery *Accessory to murder *Disorderly conduct *Hate crimes *Robbery
Igboho is a goner!
This was how Nigerian police listed crime against James Ibori some years ago, at the end of the day, he was discharged and acquitted....and the same James Ibori was arrested in London for just 3 count charges....and was guilty of all the three count charges. ...
Let them go and add more to the count charges at the end of the day, the Myetti Allah group will tell the judge how the judgment will go....
Tinubu will.be the last person I will support to become the president of this country. What has his present contributed to Lagos state talkless of the whole country...even with all the big revenue generated...nothing to show for his ruling in Lagos state for 8 good years and couple with all the monies he is still making through various corrupt ways in Lagos state.
Naija is truly a zoo country where someone with small authority can do anything with impunity.... The more I read, the more I get pissed up about this country.... My people, we are not living at all...we are gradually dying in the country till final death...
Thank God for the judiciary....the way wey police dey take give order to freeze people's accounts is alarming....
My friend that doesn't have money oh..., Nah bank go even inform the police say, there are inflow of big money in his account...
Money wey be say, his gain no pass 50k....the rest huge amount of money Nah for purchasing of materials needed for the job done....with this alone, he spent one week for SFU, ikoyi... Banks, in connivance with people put my guy for serious wahala....
Speaktruth88: U know what? I no blame u I blame the breeze of buffoonery that flew across ur internet my way. Imagine trying to educate a simplistic criminal online.
Go and educate your zombie idiot like you...and stop misleading people here...
The laws only forbid any traveler to have two passports of the same country...this is a criminal offense.....but the exceptional case about this is that if you have an unexpired visa in the old passport, you can cancel the booklet of the old passport while the visa in it remain untouched... So, you still have both your old and new passport with you when you are traveling but for dual citizens...you can carry your two passports and present anyone to the immigration officer at the port of entry...as long as you are admissible...
One should be sited in Oyo state, in Sunday Igboho village. This will be necessary to lock up thousands of expected yoruba nation agitators trying to disturb the peace of a working FG.
And one should be sited in Kaduna state, where they will lock up all your terrorist family that are collecting Ransome from unharmed law-abiding citizens
BigCabal: Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others will be bougie. All the time, it’ll be revealing.
Between 2016 and 2020, the biggest flex for the 25-year-old in this #NairaLife was rising to the top of the ladder at the factory where he worked, and he did it. But he quit the job in 2021. While this has affected his finances, it’s all part of a grand plan.
Do you remember your earliest memory of money?[/b]
Yes. In 2001 or 2002, I found a Biafran bank note in my dad’s diary. I was fascinated because it was different from the naira notes I was familiar with. I asked my parents, and they told me about the history of the currency. They also showed me some coins we used pre-independence. It was quite an experience.
[b]I bet. What was it like growing up though?
My parents were on the shorter end of the financial ladder. They were farmers although my dad did some trading on the side. Money was not easy to come by. As I grew, I began to understand what it meant to have money and what you could miss out on when you didn’t. I realised early that my parents couldn’t do everything for me even if they wanted to. I had to hustle on my own and make money. I’ve been on that journey since that time.
When did the hustle start for you?
The moment I got into secondary school in 2008. I grew up in the south-south, and most of the people I knew on the streets worked on people’s farms to get money. Farming wasn’t my thing, so I went for a job at a sawmill. I did everything there was to do there — from clearing sawdust from the mills, taking stock of the inventory and sorting out the wood when they arrived. I worked from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays because of school and earned between ₦500 and ₦700. But I worked full time on weekends and a very good day at work fetched me ₦1500.
How long did you work at the sawmill for?
From 2008 to 2015 when I left secondary school. After I graduated from secondary school, I got another job to manage a cold room and the salary was ₦15k. I won’t lie, it was big money for me. For context, one of my friends got a job as a teacher a little earlier than I did and his salary was ₦5k.
However, I knew that I didn’t want to manage a cold room forever. I wanted to go to university. In 2015, I bought a JAMB form and applied to study law at a university in the south-south. I scored 297 in the UTME examination and 71 in post-UTME. I thought that was going to be enough. The first admission list was released, and I didn’t find my name on it. The second and third lists were followed, my name wasn’t on those either. The last list was a supplementary list and people said I needed to pay or have connections at the university to make that list. I didn’t have the money or the connection, so I let it go.
My second plan was to move to Lagos to find work. I was talking with a friend, and he told me that his older brother was working in Lagos and earning ₦50k per month, which seemed like a lot of money. So I left home for Lagos.
After a few months in Lagos, I checked the portal again and found out that I had been offered French Education. I didn’t accept it. I should have been in the merit list.
I’m sorry about that. When did you move to Lagos?
February 2016. I knew nobody in Lagos and arrived on a Friday with ₦7k in my pocket. For the first week, I was on the streets looking for a factory to work in. I slept in bus parks at night and freshened up in public bathrooms in the mornings. After three days of looking for work, I did something funny.
What?
My money had run down to ₦3k. I was beginning to get scared and thinking about going back home. So I spent the remaining money on food. Now, I couldn’t go home even if I wanted to.
Wild.
One of my sisters called me the following day and when she found out that I had gone to Lagos without an accommodation arrangement, she was mad at me. But she contacted someone. The person introduced me to one of his friends and told him about what brought me to Lagos. Luckily, the person agreed that I could stay with him. I lived with him for two years, and he helped me find my first job.
Lit. Tell me about the job.
He fixed me with some people who drilled boreholes. They paid me ₦2k for each day I worked with them, but the problem was that the jobs weren’t regular. After working with them for a month, I was anxious about getting a proper job and told the guy who took me in about it. He introduced me to someone in a sachet water factory where I was offered a job as a stacker. This was March 2016.
What does a stacker do?
A stacker moves the bags of water from the production room to the loading point and also loads the bags into the trucks for distribution. Every new person who joins the factory starts as a stacker. The job paid ₦800 per day and I got paid once every two weeks. The working hours weren’t fixed, though. Once we started working at 7 a.m, we could be there until 8 or 9 p.m or later depending on sales that day.
Omo.
Three weeks after I started working at the factory, I came to work earlier than usual one morning and saw some guy I hadn’t met working one of the machines and packing the sachet water into bags at the same time. It wasn’t my job, but I felt the need to help him. I joined him and started packing the water into the bags while he operated the machine. I struggled with it for a while but I got the hang of it. When we finished, he asked me, “Do you want to be a packer?”
Wait, who was he?
It turned out that he was the section head and managed my production unit. A packer is a step above a stacker, and what the packer does is to fit the sachets of water into the bag. 20 sachets of water go into one bag. They earn ₦2 for every bag they pack and the slowest person packs at least 1000 bags daily. That’s more money than I was earning as a stacker.
I guess you said yes to the job.
I did. I told him I’d like to and he asked me to start the following day. However, I wasn’t going to be paid for the first three days.
Why was that?
I had to undergo training and show that I knew how to do the work. It turned out that I was good at it. Within four days, I was doing 2000 bags of water per day. I made ₦17400 in my first week as a packer.
I had just joined the factory and moved up a ladder. Most people spend a year or more working as a stacker. Can you imagine how that felt? I called my mum and told her to go and open a bank account so I could send money to her.
Aww.
The work continued. I made more money during the dry season when there was more demand for water. I could make up to ₦25k in two weeks or ₦60k in a month. But during the rainy season, my earnings dropped to an average of ₦11k- ₦12k every two weeks and ₦24k in a month.
That’s interesting. How long did you do this for?
I was a packer for one year and six months. I was still living with the guy who took me in. My original plan was to save aggressively for three months and find my own apartment. But I realised how expensive living in Lagos was. But when he started preparing to get married in 2018, I knew it was time to leave.
What did you do?
I joined a contribution scheme with nine other people at work. Each person dropped ₦10k every two weeks and one person took it all. I was the first person to get paid, and I used the money to rent my first apartment which cost ₦42k. The next four months was me paying everyone back their money.
Phew. How was work going during this time?
After I rented the apartment, I thought it was time to move a step up in the factory and become an operator. The operators work the machines and fix minor issues. I approached a senior operator in my department and told him my plans. We agreed that he would pay me ₦5k for however long I stayed with him, but I had to stop working as a packer in the factory and work with him all the time. I spent one year with him and he didn’t pay me ₦5k every month like he promised.
Tough. How did you survive that?
At the end of each day at the factory, I helped the truck drivers load bags of water into their trucks and followed them around for distribution. This brought in between ₦200 and ₦500 per day, and that was what I lived on.
I finished my training in June 2019. The next step was getting a machine to operate, but I would find out that there was a lot of politics involved. When I didn’t get a machine immediately, I returned to being a packer. But I was calm about it. I knew I had upgraded my skills, and it was only a matter of time before I would be offered a machine to operate.
The confidence. But did it happen?
In August, the production manager called me and said there was an available machine I could operate. An operator earns more than double what a packer does. My monthly earnings rose to ₦100k – ₦120k. Six months later, something big happened.
Tell me.
The section head of my unit resigned and someone else replaced him. But one day, he made a terrible mistake that could have put us all in danger, so he was asked to resign. Guess who they asked to become the new section head? Me. This was June 2020.
Whoop Whoop!
Within four years, I went from being a stacker, to a packer, to an operator, then to the section head. I still had to operate machines in my new role but I was now operating two machines instead of one. Also, all ten machines in my unit were under my management. I’d climbed to the top of the ladder.
Well done. How did this affect your income?
It increased to an average of ₦220k a month. But nothing much changed in the way I spent money. I was never used to luxurious things, and I didn’t intend to start then. The only thing that changed was the amount of money I sent home. I started sending about ₦70k – ₦80k home every month after the promotion.
What about your plans to return to school?
I enrolled in a long-distance programme at a university in 2020. I was promoted three months after I started classes, and it changed everything. I would leave my house by 4 a.m and return by 11 p.m. from Monday to Sunday. There wasn’t any time to study. After trying and failing to make both things work, I made the rational decision and suspended my studentship.
Oof.
A year later, I quit my job.
Ah!
See, I was spending a lot of money on medical expenses. It was as high as ₦20k in some weeks. My body kept breaking down because of how stressful the job was, and I started to realise that it wasn’t worth it. I decided to leave in April.
What was your finances looking like at the time? I had bought a half-plot of land for ₦450k in February, so I could point to something I got from my years at the factory. It affected my savings, though. I had ₦300k saved up when I left.
I see. What came after you quit.
For the first two weeks, after I quit, I was going around Lagos trying to figure out what next I could do. Then I went to this rich neighbourhood on the Island and the first thing I noticed was how bad their water system was. I was like, “There is an opportunity here if I could provide a solution to this problem.” An idea of what I could do next came immediately: plumbing and water system management.
I had experience with water treatment because of my years working in a water production company but to really stand a chance of selling my services, I needed additional skills and a certificate to show for it. I went back home and started researching technical institutes I could go to to learn plumbing. I found one in a state in the southwest. I enrolled for a year diploma course in May and tuition was ₦250k. I used the rest of my savings to pay for this. That’s where I’m studying right now.
Man! You aren’t earning at the moment?
I’m still working here and there. I travel to Lagos every weekend to work at factories where I know people, and this brings about ₦10k every weekend. It’s a lot less than what I was earning three months ago, but I don’t spend a lot of money in school. I live in a hostel and cook my meals. The only problem is that I can’t send money home anymore. But they will be alright. It’s just for a year.
What does your running costs currently look like?
At the moment, I earn an average of ₦35k every month.
I’m not saving at the moment because there is no money left to keep. But I have an emergency fund of ₦10k for when I fall sick. If I use it, I return the money.
What part of your finances do you think you could be better at?
I’m always tempted to do more than I can handle. Small money enters like this, and a thousand ideas follow. That’s when I’ll be thinking of buying a refinery and competing with Dangote. Then I end up doing nothing. It’s a habit I’m trying to outgrow.
Haha. What are your next steps after you get your diploma?
First things first, I’d work with a plumbing firm for six months. I don’t even mind if they pay me or not, but I need the experience. After that, I can now start thinking about setting up my own business. I’ll probably need to sell the land to get the money I need for that.
How much do you imagine will set you up?
₦3m should get me started on the kind of business I have in mind. But I’ll probably have to start with less than that.
Rooting for you. Where do you see all of this in five years?
By that time, I expect to be making at least ₦5m in a year. There’s the opportunity to do so in Lagos but if it doesn’t work, I’ll move to my plan B.
I’m listening.
I have people in Dubai, and while it’s not very easy to get in anymore, it’s still one of the most accessible places to migrate to, and they always need skilled workers. The last time I inquired about the cost, they said ₦800k will get me there. If I ever need to move, that’s something to consider.
Back to the present, have you spent money on anything that made you feel good recently?
Yes, my phone. I bought it in December 2020 for ₦80k. After the land and my school fees, this is the most money I have spent on anything. But the experience so far has been amazing. The money is worth it.
Nice. What about something you want but can’t afford?
I don’t think there’s anything I want right now. I’m only praying that everything clicks when the time comes to start my plumbing business. Aside from this, I’m good.
I’m curious about how your experiences have shaped your perspective about money.
I’ve moved from seeing money as a piece of paper with a fascinating history to an important part of human existence. I know what money can buy and the things it can change. In my line of work, I’ve had to put up with a lot of people who talk down on me because I don’t have as much money as they do. So yes, I see money as an instrument. Also, I know money is not coming in at the moment, but I’m not scared. I’ve built a reputation I can bank on over the years, and if I get into a tight spot now, I know the people I can call to help me. That’s very important too.
Word. How would you rate your financial happiness on a scale of 1 – 10?
5. I know I deserve more money, but I can’t kill myself as it hasn’t come yet. I don’t feel too bad about it because I’m trying my best. I can’t wait to have my diploma and start working on my plans. Even if it doesn’t pick up immediately, I’d be confident that something good is about to happen to me. Just starting that business will take me to a 9.
This Obaseki is like a devil....why would you revoke someone c of o because of political differences... What goes around, comes around.... What about osho baba land...?/ Probably that one will be before the expiration of his tenure ..
mocey: I told you all Nigeria must surely break and there is no way we can come back from this Fulani menace, just imagine how they finished the woman's farm,Fulanis are stubborn and they have no regard for the law or human life, if you are not tired I am, I am done with the zoo and tell me why Nigeria is not a zoo?
Buhari government is blind to any cow or herder criminal activity in the forest but he is well and alive to any opposing agent that stands against herders criminality in the country...Thank God, those herders didn't kill the farmers on their farms with AK 47...as they use to Buhari government says we should leave them In God's hands...
Biodun556: 1. Moremi Ajasoro who liberated Ife from Ugbo kingdom is from Offa Kwara State. She is was the wife of King Oranmiyan.
2. Olalomi Olofagangan the founder of Offa kingdom now in Kwara state was a Crown Prince from Oyo kingdom.
3.Igbo Oya, a place where Oya the wife of Alaafin Sango is believed to have entered the ground after the death of Alaafin Sango, her husband is located in Ira, Oyun local government Kwara State.
4. The biggest of all is Ilorin. Ilorin was a town under Oyo and military out post where Oyo army resided headed by Afonja is now the capital of Kwara State.
5. Prince Olakanmi the founder of Oro kingdom was also from Oyo, his wife was Egba in a place now Abeokuta.
And many more...
Kwara state is 80 percent Yorubas of Oyo extraction.
The name Kwara is Hausa language referring to River Niger. Geographically Kwara State is located in South West but made North central for political reasons and because Ilorin is ruled by Emir.
Will the Yorubas forgo these heritage and form the Yoruba nation?
The Yoruba nation is about any Yoruba territory or region that might be interested in forming a republic with Yoruba-speaking people...if all the Kwara people says that isn't interested then, they will join whosoever republic they want to join...
This man dey carry his heads go different mosque, church, and shrine like sanpona dey carry all sorts....it is an indication that this man no get enough crowd for him back...
Make we wait and see this results for this November governorship election in Anambra State.....Obi Cubana State...
BafanaBafana: Offensive kwa! The guy is just one loud motor park tout who gathers children and tells stories in which he is a hero. All his talk cha cha cha cha. He is always the alpha and omega Now reality is happening he is crying like a baby
If an ordinary loud motor park tout can achieve a lot and send all his children abroad for schooling and even stood for the liberation of his people from Fulani herders, I wonder you that have all the certificates as achieved in your life than to come on social media and be wasting your life..
BafanaBafana: I still don't understand how a man who has been arresting DSS and military personnel around his home and rallies will now be running from DSS again
Whoever runs in fighting, will. live to fight again.
Petie33: I just weep for Nigerians on how they think. because you are opposing the government should not make you hate your country because if Nigeria �� fails today we all fail not only the government but the people too
Supposing the Buhari government is all-inclusive...and has achieved relatively much for people to see, This nonsense wouldn't have been happening because every region will feel a sense of belonging...but in the case of the Buhari government, Myetti Allah can speak trash to an incumbent governor, Fulani herders control all the bushes nationwide. People live in fear...villagers are being killed every day in the Benue States and nothing substantial has been done to curb this menace... Everything rises and falls on leadership....Buhari still has 2 years to amend all his bad policies in government...
I thought all Igbo people supported this MNK but the way some of the Igbo elders come dey drag foot surprise me oh....should I call them a sycophant for Fulani government....?/
Bola146: We did agree that we were going to have a small wedding, and the day of the introduction came, and I traveled with my family, spent a lot of money on hotel bills, etc. It did go well, and that was when it started.
She reneged on our agreement on the size of the wedding. She told me that she wanted to have her dream wedding although she had no money. I could not bring myself to spend so much on a wedding only to end up eating hand to mouth in my marriage. It became a back and forth argument. Her dad wanted it small, but her siblings wanted it big. My mum did try to advise her, but she felt my mum shouldn't have a say in her wedding being a supposed generation Z.
I did have to look for ways she would be happy without spending too much. Then the counseling issue came, and I was informed to come back to Abuja by her pastor. It was inconvenient, so I told her to recommend virtual counseling because I'm not ready to go and spend a lot staying there. She was mad at my response, saying that it was disrespectful, suggesting such to a supposed man of God, making it disrespectful to God[/b]
You ignored all the red flags!!!!! You both are incompatible like seriously. Just let her go if she can't abide with you as you are now she will find someone to spend lavishly with, you will find a better person, just be calm. Just go to church for thanksgiving, dance like and pray for better half of your choice A broken relationship is far better than broken marriage....
xiewilllian: Many ignorant replies, if China takes over Nigeria's sovereignty, does it need to invest more money in our country's economic development? Solve our jobs and food? Would you do that as a businessman?
If China takes our sovereignty, automatically we become a slave to the Chinese government...and don't expect something great to happen to Nigerians living in the country because all that China government will be pursuing is to look for any of your resources that will keep fetching them money....while they compel the citizens to do the job that they are not interested in doing...
It is because women add their burden and troubles on men's heads to carry. But men carries their burden and pains alone most often...
Most men's heart attack comes as a result of different burdens, responsibilities, troubles, of the entire family and also women's personal and emotional wahala to either their bf or their husband. And again, ladies entitlement mentality stinks ....they form a structure that made them live absolute of your benevolence...because they know that your benevolence is a means of survival and rescuing process of her and her entire family from poverty and penury. There is no how a lady or woman is rich enough and how her husband is broke enough, that she will not still collect from her man. She will perpetually add her burden and her family burden upon that man and his family and when she knows that the guys can no longer carry her burden anymore...she will form a quareel and dumb the man like a sachet water nylon.
And it is only a wife that loan her husband money...i haven't seen where...a man loan his wife money.....if the guy is broke...you will hear..."Lemme loan you this money and when you have money/you will give it back to me..."
once upon a time, there was a particular time I try to observe some interaction among the female gender...I then discovered that most interaction female genders are always without cheating and have no entitlement mentality. but when it comes to female gender interaction with the male gender, it is often with an entitlement and cheating mentality...
Guys need to wise up. if they want to live long. It shouldn't be business as usual...medical AND Psychological doctors can come with all their bogus researches but trust me, family and wife overburden kill guys faster than CORONA VIRUS and Ebola virus...
Try and share the burden with your wife and see how you live longer than Methuselah. In our customary law I'm yet to see any portion of marriage law that says the husband should carry the burden of the family 100 percents...guys, stop mumu yourself, you will. die and the lady you will. marry another person...the law enjoins both couples to take the responsibility of their children and home...managing homes is not man's responsibility alone...let your wife become financially responsible so that you can live long...there so many guys with early gray-hair because of too much family burden... some so many landlords never stay long to enjoy the fruits of their labors.....in my area, you will only see landlady, the landlord has gone for long after the completion of various personal house projects....their wife will. now enjoy it to the fullest and be sending the rest to their extended family....what an irony of life.!
Don't forget, no biblical law or doctrine or customary law says that a man should carry the burden of the family 100 percent.... As you are about to. marry, let her know some of her financial responsibility . (share it 60-40 ) If she no gree, she will.be an irresponsible wife, let her go....you are not looking for a sex object, baby factory, and housemaid, the house cook, glutton and talker companion ....etc...you are looking for a partner...and wife.....think about it...
Teesside University, how I wish I get my CAS on time...only God knows when the school will send it despite series of mail....meanwhile, some university issue cas Immediately after payment confirmation...
TV/Movies › Re: Meet The BBNaija 2021 Male Housemates (Shine Ya Eye) by Glink2018(m): 8:22am On Jul 25, 2021
I just weep for Nigerians on how they think. because you are opposing the government should not make you hate your country because if Nigeria �� fails today we all fail not only the government but the people too
she will find someone to spend lavishly with, you will find a better person, just be calm. Just go to church for thanksgiving, dance like 
