₦airaland Forum

You go tey for shelf. You just dey warm up sef.

All you 'open eye' girls of nowadays with an outrageous self of entitlement that doesn't match your value. Una go suffer.

seunmsg:
Dear Jonathan, if Osinbajo can waive his immunity and submit himself to investigation, you have no reason for refusing to take the witness box in defense of the former national publicity secretary of your party. Denying Metuh at his point of need is simply heartless. You approved the illegal payment to him, go to court and defend your approval. Stop being a coward!

How did Osibanjo 'waive' his immunity? You people sef. After eating your Amala and oily ewedu soup, you will think you are clever by half.

Let Osibanjo RESIGN (as is done in every civilised society) because of the weighty allegations against him, so that law enforcement agencies will thoroughly investigate and prosecute him. You don't 'waive' away a constitutional provision by making stupid and empty 'big mouth' pronouncements.

What a fool this Metuh is. I think he needs to be jailed to learn some sense.

So there's no way to get into Abuja by road without the possibility of encountering these Fulani bastards? Whether from Kaduna or Kogi axis?

itsme01:



Na wa for Nigerian Secuirity Agencies, without prior petition or investigation they just pick you up and load you in court with bullshit charges and if you cant meet up bail terms its straight to kirikiri
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This is the summary of the terrible situation we've found ourselves in Nigeria. It will get even worse if we don't take concrete action now that this menace is festering.

[quote author=SenecaTheYonger post=82559173][/quote]Fake.

The most unprofessional 'lawyer' in the history of the legal profession...
Very hungry, unwise idiot. He should be debarred.

Barryseal:
I don't want to play the devil's advocate but there's nothing wrong in sending goods to Ghana. The Ecowas trade chatter encourages trans border trade within Ecowas member states. Mind you, most sellers on Ali express have awry tales about doing buisness with Nigerians. So if he has connection in Ghana, why not?

I took my time to read about his testimony and discovered he was impersonating Ned Nwoko's relative and he fleeced many people using his name, he will be nailed on to do time for impersonation with the motive to commit fraud.

However, the testimony about payoneer and Amazon is sketchy and could be thrown out if he goes to court. Don't rule out the possibility he was tortured to admit what he didn't even do.

Where did you read the testimony about impersonating Ned Nwoko?

Tmonex:
Funny enough the guy is a nairalander

You know him?

This crooked midget and fake pastor.

Vanguard would stand by its story. Do your worst.

Bloody thief.

Elxandre:
Payoneer doesn't collect credit card details.
They rather issue theirs. Funny story.

Tell them. I'm just pissed off by the all-round ignorance in Nigeria... From law enforcement to the average citizen, both educated and uneducated.

Tmonex:
Some online business men are not wise too. How can you have such properties and not have a top notch lawyer and a registered business with physical goods. He was careless thou. But the news is too irritating to read. Nothing adds up.

Having a registered business with physical goods is not a legal requirement for wealth. We can't continue to encourage this kind of archaic and obnoxious mentality. Which physical goods or office does Tunde Ednut or the anonymous multi millionaire owner of instablog9ja have? Which physical goods does Linda Ikeji sell, and before her recent venture into media production business, which registered company did she have? Come on.

Princedapace:
He cloned the portal bro. Fake one that looked like the original and used it to collect the details of their credit card.

Payoneer is not a payment gateway that processes credit card transactions, so what exactly do you mean? Besides, it is IMPOSSIBLE to put fake Payoneer site links (or any phishing links for that matter) on Amazon. Even if it is possible, it can only be done by the most advanced Russian/Chinese etc hackers, but that's unlikely. So what exactly is going on here?

Tmonex:
Which kind of rubbish misinformation is this?

This news is so flawed that i feel the boy is innocent. He is probably an Amazon kindle seller getting paid into payoneer. or being a fraudster that he is. Decides to speed up his riches.

The part where he uses other people's credit card and the supposed credit cards should be revealed. How can you say he designed payoneer and gets paid into it. Does it mean Amazon was tricked?? lol

He cloned payoneer and collected credit card information. These guys will soon blacklist payoneer card in the streets now cos of misinformation like this

I've been screaming from the rooftops that Nigerians must insist that the EFCC and Co should do things the right way, but no. Too much poverty, frustration and bad belle have damaged the brains and souls of most Nigerians. That's what they applaud and shout 'crucify him' whenever any of these annoying EFCC burst stories come up.

Imagine this re ta rded story. That his latest 'victim' sent a petition to the Inspector General of Police, who then dispatched IGP team to 'trace' and arrest him. What a load of hot bullshit. Of course I'm sure the IGP team randomly accosted him or acted on the tips of a bad belle snitch, and then tried to extort him of huge sums of money. When he refused, they then abducted him and bundled him to the EFCC. Now the whole thing is about scapegoating him and extorting him. Even the whole purported 'confession' is hogwash, contrived by the policemen and EFCC themselves and forced down on him.

I hope he is able to get a good lawyer to fight the case rather than succumb to the intimidation, blackmail and extortion agenda of these EFCC and police bastards.

We don't know what we're setting ourselves up for in this country. The worst is yet to come.

Sources disclosed that the Imo State-born suspect, designed a payment portal, known as Payoneer which he linked to his book-selling website on Amazon.com and he steals credits cards details and identities of its owner using his payment portal.

What sort of ignorant nonsense is this?

You're working for a sole proprietorship in Nigeria, yet you're forming sense of entitlement.

Your boss is even a politician, yet you had the audacity to wine, dine and identify with his political enemy, yet you want him to pat you on the back? You're mad. I would even do worse. I detest fools who lack sensitivity, tact, and common sense, worst of all when such people feel entitled on top of it

nagoma:
So they should be urshered on to the high table and be given a round of applause abi?

You're a bumpkin. Ask your APC political thieves and embezzlers the kind of treatment they received.

And an almajiri like you would be the first to lie down and shout rankedede to bloody thieves like Ganduje.

So why were they made to sit on the floor and humiliated like armed robbers or kidnappers? Besides, where and how did 'hacking' come into this matter?

How many organisations in general (including companies, businesses, etc) in Nigeria respond to emails? Not many.

glorybasseymma:
I am a lady married with kids.
I have spent 18k for transport to-and flow.
I have put the Facebook account on hold.the Instagram, she posted that I was relief of my job because of my stupidity. I repost I tell the followers how she used and scams her worker.
And a lot of them has unfollow the account.

So all of this drama just because of N18k? Assuming you're telling the whole truth, I am repulsed at how so many Nigerians like being penny wise but pound foolish.

Big madam with designer surname and office on a high street in VI, yet na because of 18k pere na im she go take cause incalculable damage and negative attention to her business brand and her name/family name? Sake of say she wan prove point, afi 'do you know who I am'..

Abeg this kind matter tire me. Nonsense.

Donald3d:
I understand the the business climate is not "smiling" at entrepreneurs. But we still do it anyway.
A true entrepreneur does not dwell on excuses, he sees through all the problems and creates a SOLUTION.
Its a good thing Nigeria is filled with problems (I say this without meaning to sound like a prophet of doom).
Where problems abound, money making becomes easier.

He himself said the middle class spend mostly on food. What stops an entrepreneur from venturing into food business at any of the levels . There are MANY levels in food production !.

As I always tell people, these things would always remain relevant; Agriculture/Food, Healthcare, Transportation, Electricity, Education/Knowledge acquisition/Training, Technology/Internet Solutions - In that order . They are the basic things man cannot do without, no matter how poor or disorganized the country or state is. Find a way to key into these areas directly or indirectly, from the source or at the finished product and you would never be poor.

Be innovative, be smart, creatively solve a problem.
Make these solutions affordable and easily reproduce-able and sell-able.
Entrepreneurship truly isn't for everybody, its for those who don't let failure, disadvantages and unfavorable conditions weigh them down.
Its for those who see things differently, because those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, and Nigeria in this context are the ones that actually do.


Stop giving excuses and take ACTION !

Don't mind these people. A lot of these cynics don't know the real meaning of entrepreneurship. You see them lamenting and making endless excuses.

I mean there are 200 million people in Nigeria. 200 million! I don't care how poor these people are or how terrible their purchasing power or the business climate is, any sharp, creative and persistent entrepreneur would find a niche (or create a niche) in a slice of this population and make a living for himself.

However, that's not denying the fact that the economy is in shambles due to the hopeless maladministration of Buhari and his demonic cabal. But true entrepreneurs cannot starve because of that. Many would thrive in spite of the terrible economy, or even BECAUSE of the terrible economy. Moments of crisis and difficulty should challenge us to put on our thinking caps.

Like the very wise Chinese saying goes... 危险机会
Crisis and opportunity are two sides of the same coin.

9jaRealist:
Indonesia is still ranked relatively LOW on the corruption index though...
Lower than several of our West African neighbors, including even Benin Rep and Burkina Faso.

Corruption doesn’t help development one iota, and thus nothing here should be (mis)construed as excusing corruption, but at the same time folks should realize that there’s more to development than simply “reducing” corruption. In fact, a country like South Korea developed under incredibly corrupt and despotic governments and political systems, as did Thailand and to a large extent even the said Indonesia under the rapacious Suharto family. For starters, you have to have a certain level of competency (and/or enlightenment) at the helm of leadership.
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I have always maintained that corruption is overrated as a causative factor for Nigeria's shameful underdevelopment and retardation.

Nigeria's biggest problem is not financial corruption per se. Our biggest problem is incompetence in all spheres where competence is sorely needed, due to the abhorrence for meritocracy.

Get the right people in positions across board, and things would start working almost immediately, even though they all perpetrate corrupt activities.

But no. Only incompetent idiots who are also corrupt for that matter are considered to fill up any and all available job slots in the public services and to some extent even in the private sector. The consequence is the deep mess we are stuck in as a shithole country.

CoolAmbience:
What level playing ground are you speaking of again? Must the inadequacy always come from the government?

Whistle blower policy is in force. It behoves on citizens to support the government to rid Nigeria of corruption.

If you know anyone living above their means, and you've got proofs in forms of luxury properties, assets etc. Report such person to EFCC.

The weakest link in the fight against corruption is the Nigerian people, despite being the biggest casualties of corruption. Isn't that an irony?

See as your mouth is sweeting you. Yen yen yen. Bloody hypocrite. Do you know how many reports and petitions with substantial proof have been sent to the EFCC and ICPC regarding specific individuals such as Bola Tinubu (and his Alpha Beta), Adams Oshiomole, Akpabio, Amaechi, and Timipre Sylva to mention a few? What have become of such petitions?.. You're here talking rubbish like one peacock whose head is stuck in the cloud, detached from reality. Hypocrites like you are the real problem with Nigeria.

NGRsenate:
Why do I find this statement disturbing.
Omo say no to poverty mentality sha

Exactly. Very provocative submission by a stupid lawyer.

“He is 26 years old and has never worked anywhere. Yet, he acquired a 2019 model Porsche car worth N120million and a 2015 model Mercedes Benz car worth N75million,” Bashir further submitted.

And so what? Is this even an argument? Poverty stricken charge and bail lawyer with suffer head mentality. Must he work anywhere or is it only people that have 'worked' somewhere for 35 years until retirement that should be permitted to drive expensive cars?

Good. Most likely these Fulani kidnappers that have taken over Nigeria's highways.

God forbid that one encounters these dirty, wicked animals, but if with your wife or daughter, better to drive on (full throttle) and risk being shot/killed than to stop and allow your jewel(s) be kidnapped and debased by these northern bastards.

HBB1:
As much as I get your drift, I have to say those things or thing you listed alone can not make you successful-- and I understand success is relative ( might be thousands for some, millions for some, billions for others).

I am from a family of businessmen and I consider myself one too, (even though I have a salaried job that pays me millions a month).

Most business fail, like 90% will in the first 5 years and a significant portion of those that survive will still fail-- that's how arduous the path is.

If you are wired to be an 'Entrepreneur,' all well and good, if not all well and good.
The most important thing is investments!

If I invest in a start-up or buy property, I don't label myself with the Entrepreneur tag-- at least not yet. I am just making investments to increase my Cash flow.

Business owners can make investments that can make phenomenal yields, Salary earners can also make crazy investments.

Imagine if you invested 10,000 dollars in Microsoft 30 years ago?

My Girl is an Entrepreneur, and a crazy one, tech savvy, super uber smart, well educated and the most hardworking person (man or woman), I know.

She has however 'failed' in business more than once and it was due to some other factor than ingenuity (one of the other factors I listed).

Her Father says to this day that the online store she started failed when capital dried up!

...but she still loves what she does and its not because of money-- she has walked away from 3-5 million naira monthly salaries for what she believes in-- which she is quite good at.

It's not also about passion alone either, because she has reserves to fall back on if she fails in business-- no worries about food, housing...
It is easier to make good decisions when you don't have this pressures.

When you don't have money, you stop thinking long-term, you only think short-term and your business will suffer tremendously!

If you think money is not important, you might be thinking small businesses.

You realize that a certain Online store has not made a single naira in profit in 10 years, despite all the glam.
It also took Alibaba about that long before they broke even.

What do you do then when you don't have reserves or when it dries up?
The business will die!

That's why I believe Entrepreneurship requires certain skill sets.
Most Entrepreneurs you hear about-- the successful ones, and not the wannabes are not even money chasers per se... It's the deal, the contract, the product, the acquisition that gives them the kick, not the money.

Everyman should be honest with himself, not everybody can be an Entrepreneur, but everybody can and should have good investments.

If you are not one, pursue a corporate career, keep your eyes open for investment opportunities and when you see 'em don't miss 'em!

Lol.

My brother, if you know, you know. And' knowing' takes lots of open mindedness. Lots of false alarms. Lots of misleads. Lots of mistakes... The learning curve defined.

But at the end of the day, knowledge is everything.

And you can only know as much as your learning capacity allows for.

To each his own.

Peace.

djon78:
You summed it up. No value added, you ask how then can Nigeria progress? I Wonder

My brother I have given up on Nigeria long time ago.

Look at Singapore. It became arguably the most successful and prosperous society in the world today due to a strict and fanatical adherence to three cardinal tenets - Meritocracy, Pragmatism, and Honesty.

Forget pragmatism and honesty for now. Let Nigeria start with only meritocracy and EVERYTHING would change. I can bet my life and unborn children's lives on this. Meritocracy would transform Nigeria to a beast... Almost overnight. No sentiment for that one. If you better pass me, oya get the job/contract/etc and do it well for everyone.

As much as financial corruption is a big problem, the biggest problem in Nigeria is the general hatred for meritocracy. Merit is despised. Value is relegated... Across spheres, from public to private and non governmental. It's a joke. You will see one 'lucky' idiot prancing about forming big boy or big girl in one plum job that was gotten through Nepotism....without even knowing what the organisation's core mandate is. That's the story of every 'good' job in Nigeria.

If Nigeria places great value on VALUE (meritocracy), trust me, we will not be in this mess. Things would work, even with financial corruption. Even if you're a thief but you know what you're doing and you're exceptional at what you do, you will still perform well and get things going in spite of your thievery. For a start.

But Nigeria? One Oba would carry his olodo constituent and put in NCC. One Emir would put his empty headed apologist in NNPC or CBN... even in the private sector... Oil companies, banks, Big 4 auditing firms, FMCG companies, NGOs, etc. Everywhere! That 'slot' and connection culture is rife. Value added, zero.

That's why entrepreneurship is a thing. You have to know what you're doing to succeed. For every Dangote (who had a privileged background and headstart) there are uncountable rich kids who were given millions and billions to start business but failed...Who took over their parents successful businesses and failed!

You can't fake this shit. You have it or you don't. It's at the very core, a merit based activity.

That's what differentiates entrepreneurship from the polluted and vexatious salaried employment space in Nigeria which relies on 'grace and favour' to give bread to people who don't know their left from their right.

I'm angry sef talking about this, because I am exposed to lots of these kinds of over-entitled, pompous people who add ZERO VALUE to the system but enjoy decent salaries or make good money from corruption in their offices. I mean no disrespect to the struggling underemployed Nigerians striving everyday to earn a living. God will see everyone through, I pray.

But Nigeria? The country is dead and buried. Just hustle for yourself and family. So that you will be immune to the nonsense that is unfolding and will escalate pretty soon.

GoldPencil:
ingenuity. laptop. internet. focus. that's really all you need today. most people just want another person to do the thinking for them. I would have added temporary 9-5 to raise capital. but again, if you have the first four, you can raise the capital you need, albeit slowly. then pursue bigger fish. translate online wins to offline wins.

Even if you do the thinking for them, and give them step by step execution 'expo', most people would still not take action or follow through. Most of them are 'wantapreneurs' or even outright sceptics. When nothing else works and they see you balling, they will conclude se pe 'ma dalo hun, yahoo niowun se' (translation: no mind am, na yahoo e dey do)

My brother when a limiting mindset and pessimistic passivity/docility becomes a consuming habit, nothing in the world can help you.

HBB1:
Entrepreneur means risk taker...

Not everybody can and should be an Entrepreneur, as it demands certain skill-sets to ensure success.

It's like cooking a pot of soup, you can have all the ingredients and not have enough tomatoes or salt, and it is ruined.

You need the right product, capital, marketing, location, staff... You need creativity, tenacity, vision, balls...
I have seen businesses fail because of lack of just one of these.

A friend's business collapsed because she couldn't raise capital even after being interviewed on TV and all.
A relative's business also collapsed because his worker ran away with 50 million naira worth of goods-- that asides the bank loans he was servicing. He has run away to the US naw, and says for now he isn't doing business in Nigeria again.

Having said that, I believe everybody ( even salary earners) should have multiple sources of income-- just look around and exploit opportunities. Trade, build houses, buy land, farm, anything.

Not everybody has the skill-set to be an Entrepreneur.
If by doing small gigs, you think you are one, good for you and your ego!

In this age of the Internet, even the risk taking aspect of entrepreneurship is overrated, especially for beginners. Trust me, the most important resource needed in new-age entrepreneurship is not necessarily capital, but INITIATIVE... Ingenuity.

Here's a short definition of entrepreneur that captures its whole essence:

Someone who exercises initiative by organising a venture to take advantage of an opportunity...

Most people are dissuaded by the fear of expending money in order to start a venture. They would ask you, 'where will I see money to start the business', or they would say 'what if I lose all my savings in the course of pursuing this business'. This mindset is too limiting and very outdated.

Telecommunication and the internet is the most important development in the history of the world. It is the great equaliser. It has made it more possible and easier then ever to minimise financial risk and launch ventures with virtually a shoe-string budget and yet watch that venture grow exponentially into something that yields millions and billions.

It is possible to sell a product you don't own, or a service you can't provide yourself, to buyers you have never met, and yet make as much profit or even more than the actual producers of that product or service.
The brokerage and arbitrage opportunities are endless.

You can even market your own product or service to specific audiences at prices that are 1000% more than the prevailing market average, with a little tweak.

In doing all of this, it is possible to start these ventures without spending up to what it costs to buy a low budget Android phone, without worrying about fixed costs (inventory, office space etc.).

There's a lot out there, especially now that the Internet has removed physical barriers to the markets and so the possibilities are endless if you have keen vision, a sharp nose, a creative mind, and a willingness to take action over and over again. It doesn't matter if you have money or not, as long as you have access to the Internet.

Anyway, the road to salvation is a lonely, dark street and everyone must walk the walk alone and find their own way. Dem no dey tell person.

Omode yi. What do you know about love?

GoldPencil:
the difference is in the value of time. some entrepreneurs will not post what they earn here for security reasons, and to prevent ppl from asking bros'show us the way' before rushing to saturate the biz, but some can show you screenshots of what they earn in a month. to get that kind of pay, you would need to work a minimum of 15 to 25 years as a 9-5er to get that. Whereas the entrepreneur studied the biz for a year and used another year to get it started. he/she retires at 35, the 9-5er finally saves up 50 million at age 65. Time is the difference and the most valuable resource.

You're funny. How many 9-5ers in Nigeria will save up to 50 million at age 65 sef? Where dem wan see am after all the toil, expenses etc of maintaining their families and so forth? Maybe only 1% of the entire workforce with very good working conditions and a guaranteed fat gratuity.