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SmartMugu:
Yup.
Marriage ain't no joke, so I don't blame people taking their time to find the right person or just outrightly deciding to be single. After spending time to find the 'right' person, the 'right' person may end up having the wrong in-laws or friends and their tiny voices can take you back where you started from - learning a new version of your spouse all over again - that's if it's worth it at all to learn one person any longer when you can just move on to someone else that can make their own decisions without external influences.
I think the western culture is gradually infiltrating Nigeria in that area, that's why people talk about divorce here and there.

Typical marriages in the US let's the bride and groom sign about 3 or 4 pages of paper, for better and for worst things. A divorce on same marriage will require you signing about 43 pages of paper on same topic! You see questions like "Who is authorized to have the kids on Christmas day?", "Who will be paying for their healthcare", etc. Thats when people realise they were scammed all along. Is it by force to marry and stay married?

I know someone that married a lady in the US and three months later, they weren't getting along and they decided to divorce each other. In court, she claimed she got used to the expensive lifestyle the guy exposed her to and she will not be able to bear life without him anymore. Divorce judge ordered the guy to pay her $500 per month for the next 5 years! Dude is still dealing with the payments, for just saying "I do", signing some papers with a girl and staying with her for just 3 months? No kids. To the girl, onto the next one. Marrying people for just a tiny bit of time is her means of income. Her first husband pays her on same grounds, my dude doing same. That can't happen in Nigeria, the judicial system isn't even together yet. With the Internet age, just watch that nonsense get to Africa.

So, who blames those that prefer having just baby mamas and baby daddies? Nobody is signing no papers, properties don't have to be shared, joint custody of kids, hire a cook if you need someone that can cook, get a mister or a mistress if you need someone in za oza room, no need getting all upset over one spouse's actions, no in-law headaches. Abeg.

You made sense. At the same time you are a liar.
Alimony payment in US is for only 50% of the period of marriage unless the marriage is more than 10 years.

So in the example stated, the man would pay the lady for 1 month and a half (not five years). I don't know any judge that will give such other because it is illegal.

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Victor Ikpeba:

This guy should have been a billionaire by now.

He blew a lot of cash.

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aloziedaya:
You have shown this because maybe the importer refused to settle you. Criminals in custom uniform. Were you not the ones that released them at the wharf?
The police is a baby to the customs when it comes to corruption.
Mad people.

The only solution is to stop importing contraband goods.
How many Customs Officers can one settle? You settle one unit, they tip off the next unit.
People are plain stvpid.
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pocohantas:
It has a lot to do with men and women in general.
I see men claiming women run their mouth, what of men that run their mouth? Should we kill them? Pour them hot water?

Once someone is stressing my life, physically or emotionally, I do my best to cut him/her off. It might hurt but it's better for me...us. People should learn that simple rule, cut them off!!!

Does it make sense, beat your wife because of food? Up to a fractured skull Now I am scared.

Kirikiri sounds cool...

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You seem to be using yourself as the standard.

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They cajol the diasporans for being slaves in the western world.

What is worse than being a slave in your own country?

All the expatriates in Nigeria know that a Nigerian life ain't worth a dime that's why they carry on like slave-masters.

SMH.
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SalamRushdie:
Spot on..A coordinator actually doesnt possess any decision powers but only works to coordinate different component of a decision already taken by someone else ..I swear that cabal knew what they were doing when they cleverly crated that letter ..Truth be told Buhari failed to trnsmit power to Osinbanjo as required by our constitution , as coordinator Osinbanjo will clearly be reciving coordination instructions from somewhere else

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Buhari does not have to transmit power to Osibanjo. The constitution confers that power on Osibanjo. I don't understand why people are getting this mixed up.
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is supreme to any individual/group's constitutional abracadabra.
There is no constitutional provision for a coordinator and Buhari cannot invent positions outside of the constitution. Legal scholars can argue on the matter of choice of words.

Nigeria Constitution.Chapter IV, Section 145 and 146 settle this confusion. Each time the President is going on vacation or becomes incapacitated, the VP automatically becomes the Acting President. The only constitutional requirement is that the President must transmit a letter that he is going on vacation OR unable to discharge his functions. And until he transmits another letter to the contrary, the VP assumes the role of the President. In other words, if Buhari comes back into the country, he must transmit another letter before resuming as the president. The 1999 Constitution "clearly" states that.

Or am I missing something? That's why we have a Constitution.
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Did they obey the noise ordinance?

Any church or mosque generating beyond allowed decibel of noise should be burned to the ground.
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HardMirror:
How dumb can you be? Where did I indicate being a catholic? I am an Atheist.
And this is not about religion. Ritual does not mean diabolic. Rituals can be be good and it is just a word to describe a religious practice that has to be carried out meticulously. What is all your yelping even about? Catholics chuck stick inside your penticostal asz? Lol

Your case is even worse than I imagined.

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By Ena Ofugara

I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a student of history, I wish to show just what these great people came/come against and yet thrive.

Okay, the incessant killings in the north will be glossed over so as to make this article not overly long. The civil war will also not be discussed.

However, post-civil war, as I explained in my post “Minority report: the system is rigged against you”, the rich in Nigeria have major roots in the Indigenisation Decree of 1972 and 1977. I reminded people how the banks gave people of other tribes, predominantly Hausa and Yoruba, loans to buy up companies owned by foreigners. Now, imagine the federal government forced Chevron to sell 51% of its shares and Access Bank would give you loans to buy the shares. How rich would you be in a year? Five years? That is how many Yoruba and Hausa got to own UAC, all the Dunlop, Leventis, Cadbury etc shares.

Now while this was ongoing, Awolowo/Gowon told the Nigerian banks to give tops 20 pounds to any Igbo man that had money in the bank before the war. That is, if you had N5 before the war, you would be given the N5. But if you had N1million, you get just 20 pounds in full fulfilment of the bank’s duty to give you your money.

Ask yourself: why would the banks give the Igbo only 20 pounds? Did the banks collapse? So why pay less than you were given?

So while the banks were giving loans to Hausa and Yoruba to buy oyibo companies they did not build, the Igbo were being cheated out of their rightful moneys.

Now note also that these people lost houses and business across the land. It is safe to say that as at 1970/71, the richest Igbo had 20 pounds — that may be the equivalent of maybe one N1million.

Let us look at how Dangote made his money. He Dangote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) had an uncle called Dantata who owned huge chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 1950’s and ’60’s. He gave Dangote a loan and Dangote paid it back in a record time. Clap! Clap! Then add that Dangote has had his “brothers” in government — from Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Abdulsalami to Yar’Adua. When they now agreed to have democracy, he was rich enough to have funded Obasanjo, and so government policies enabled him to be the monopoly for rice, sugar, flour imports — and of course a large share of subsidy etc. – and ensured he is the wealthiest Nigerian. Note that many had same opportunity but did not use it. We kowtow to Dangote’s investment capabilities.

However, for the Igbo man, where would he see an uncle that would loan him money? The richest man in their family had how much as at then? So while Fani-Kayode could inherit the property of his father and grandfather and great-grandfather, a Chidi Kalu could not inherit anything from his grandfather who had business in Kano or even Port Harcourt. Neighbours had made his dad’s storey building theirs, and even someone as educated as Ken Saro-Wiwa lived in an Igbo war emigrant’s house as his. (A sore point of the Niger Delta and Igbo unity). WAEC building was Ojukwu’s dad’s building and, like that building, thousands and the lands with it — lands worth billions today were taken from the Igbo and each and every Igbo had tops 20 pounds, destroyed homeland, stolen and destroyed wealth away from the east. Also his brother is never president that will give him oil block or fuel lifting. Of 33, only one Igbo man and because he was in Obasanjo’s good graces.

YET LOOK HOW PROUD THEY STAND TODAY! Look what they have achieved for themselves…FIRST GENERATION WEALTH…top second generation. From being unable to send their first sons to school so he could help look after the shop, to producing first-class brains in all departments of modern learning.

So today, as you accuse the Igbo of wanting their Biafra or of baby factory, or liking money and ready to do anything for money, remember that just 40 years ago, while the banks were dashing your uncles loans to buy all the companies of Nigeria they stole from the Igbo. Know that appointments have not favoured them. Note that they remain persecuted and many speak such ill and hate towards a people forced by need to survive to be extra-aggressive towards their sustenance. Maybe if you took their history into consideration, you would not be so critical of them, but instead say “what a resilient people” and give God the glory.

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HardMirror:
You don't know what rituals mean So you think once something is called ritual, it means it is diabolic? What a shame on education in this country.

Because it involves your dear Catholic, you want to latch on to semantics. Whatever suits your gullibility. You don't have the spiritual or moral authority to decide which ritual is diabolical. If anything, you belong to the faction that believes that anything black is bad and anything white is good.

Most of you belong to different religious sects becau se you were born into it. Your parents conscripted you. The sect programmed you. You have no understanding of your sect other than what has been tattooed to your brain since childhood.
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Anambra State government should concentrate on attracting manufacturing companies and factories to the state. No part of Anambra should be turned to Owerri where hotel aka hospitality/[sexual]tourism is the only thriving industry for obvious reasons.
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Davash222:
Zimbabwe So, there's no woman in Nigeria that the Lord wants to do a lot of things to her family?? There's no woman in Nigeria that wants to witness a lot of Changes (different from Buhari's Change)

Lemme keep calm first.

I think he gave to the woman in Zimbabwe knowing that as a true christian and patriot you will give same amount to a woman in Nigeria.

moscobabs:
The great Awo, Died on the 9th of May, 1987....30 years today. What do you remember this great Yoruba man for??

Obafemi Awolowo, Sam Aluko, Pres. Buhari == Sad reminder that karma is real.

What brand of rat poison did Awolowo take?

IamaNigerianGuy:
Incredible!

So this is the level of your understanding of Catholic doctrine and practice ?
You could just as as well have said that the only difference between pineapples and apples is 'pine'

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Yes.
Because Catholicism is the pioneer christian religion. Every other sect is a breakaway faction taking with it the parts of Catholic doctrines they subscribe to. Got that?
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GloriaNinja:
THIS BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS NO DEY FINISH? THE WAY THEY MURDER NIGERIAN SOLDIERS ANYHOW IS BEYOND ME, ALSO NIGERIA IS TOO POOR, ECONOMICALLY, INFACT PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ALSO, SOLDIERS ARE BEING KILLED LIKE CHICKENS AS A RESULT OF LACK OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND POLITICAL SUPPORT TO BATTLE TERRORISM, I HAVE WEPT FOR THIS COUNTRY TILL MY EYE BALLS GOT SWOLLEN.

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Nuclear weapon to fight Boko Haram?

Interesting!

By the way, is your Caps Lock key stuck?
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Give respect when it is due.

The level of precision by Lanre in hitting women at the same exact spots is remarkable. The face of the friend is a carbon copy of Mercy's face. It is either the handiwork of the same make up artist or Lanre is a good marksman.

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Oh...now I get it.

That is why bad girls like Tonto and Mercy Aigbe got married and lived happily ever after.

Not all bad girls will get married. Not all good girls will become late entry. It is either you develop yourself or you rely on a stranger's opinion to wreck your life. Everyone's destiny is different. What works for A may not work for B.
Good or bad, the most important quality a lady needs is good and positive attitude. A snub will find life harder.

Does it end with just getting married?

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Social media marriage again?

Mohammed Babangida and Rahama Indimi on my mind.
Churchill and Tonto Dike on my mind.

This marriage don dey look like what will pack up if Buhari joins his ancestors. Ask Yar'Adua' s daughters.
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Safiaa:
Absolutely terrible

I have no words for this. We wonder why nigerians are scattered across the globe. Nobody wants to suffer in poverty. Person will work from 7am- 7pm and still recieve nothing. 50% of their income to transport. Hardly anything to enjoy. Its very sad.

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The "thiefing" politicians are scared.

But when they turn around and see the oppressed "hailing and defending" them, they become emboldened.

Those thieves bear 10% of the blames. The mumu masses bear 90% blames. One can only be oppressed as much as he/she can endure. But the endurance of Nigerians has no limit. They think it is more noble to die while crossing sahara desert than die fighting for their rights.

Even when given the tools to fight, Nigerians fight against the wrong enemies. Instead of blowing up churches or pipelines, let Boko Haram and ND militants turn their anger against the political class and you will see Nigeria progress at a stealth rate.
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EgunMogaji:
Some bricklaying tools for the site. Hoping it will increase quality.

Your head dey there. I bought a lot of those finishing tools at Home Depot. Finishing is the most challenging aspect of construction for our artisans.

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There is probably only about 5% difference between Catholicism and Celestial church. Both have these in common:
White candles, incense, holy water, sign of the cross, bowing at the altar, crucifix, virgin mary, communion.

Differences (Cele): sutana worn by all, bare feet, perfumes,
Communion in Cele is honey vs bread in Catholic church.

By the way if you read the Catholic missal, it refers to Catholic mass as "rituals". Go figure.
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Just curious...

How much is a liter of diesel in Nigeria?

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PBundles:
I see where you are coming from but I think its a bit more complicated than that. I agree technology as with all new things will get more efficient, but at a certain point you max out. where that will be we dont know. Also the business model of drilling remains the same and demands enormous initial capex, which is the big hurdle. So its not like you can say, Ok it didnt work lets go idle. Capex financing will be there and wont go away. The Ace that the Saudis have is cost of extraction as I mentioned. If you can extract a barrel as low as $1.5 a barrel, no form of tech can beat that. Hence I think these levels are here to stay. When the Saudis see shale companies getting courage, the kill the price to punish them sending a message top those that dare try.

Another thing that ppl arent talking about is the growth of electric cars, buses and even airplanes ( for the future). In most European countries its being pushed and Germany and Holland will actually ban petrol/diesel cars by the turn of 2030, when that happens the price will really go south.

Saudi's production cost is $3/barrel. Shale companies production cost $5.85/barrel. (Business Insider, March 26, 2017). Quiet a chunk of the totak cost of production comes from Administrative overhead, Transportation, Capital spending and Gross taxes which pushes total cost for shale corporations to $23/barrel while Saudi (with no taxes levied) stands at $8.98. (Nigeria is $29/barrel). When push comes to shove, US can subsidize oil companies or give them incentives to control costs.
OPEC has been relying on verbal interventions to curb the slide in oil prices. But technology, banks and Hedge funds are there to call their bluff. Don't forget that a lot of people making money in the oil business do not even own a spanner not to talk of drilling rigs. They are speculators who have billions of dollars in equities which is why fluctuations in oil prices tend to be exaggerated.

When everything else fails, there is always the last solution--war.

BLINGZ88:
I never really followed their leadership because its a scam just like pdp although apc is not even proving to be better.
but they should be constantly reminded of their failure so that it won't repeat again.
if the nwodo is handed a political appointment by the president, he will forget all about this ohaneze and biafra and start behaving like igbokwe.

Until then...but for now, let us judge him for what he is currently doing. We cannot hold him responsible for the hypocrisy of his predecessors.

BLINGZ88:
what have ohaneze done since it's creation to matter?. they all want political appointment and other things that will benefit them solely. they can't sand by a code, always flip flopping with issues.
what did they do to support nnamdi Kanu. Who was held for no just cause. they are just there to support the ruling party and not support changes that matter.

Let us acknowledge that previous leadership of Ohaneze did nothing tangible for the masses.
But this new leadership seems to be heading in the right direction.
Can you atleast give them a chance? Or do you prefer they stay same? Your complaint is that they are useless. They are now trying to be useful. Yet you are still not satisfied.

PBundles:
Shale is not profitable at these levels. One of the reasons for the Oil crash was that the Saudis flooded the market knowing that at around $48-55 shale cant exist, hence a lot of shale producers went belly up. Hence my theory that I doubt you wont see oil at old prices and will stay within this range. when you take into consideration that the saudis have oils deposits that cost them around $1.5-2 to extract per barrel! Its not the deposits you have that ar really important, but the cost of extraction.

It is more complicated than that. Saudi floods the market with oil, price crashes and shale companies go on idle mode.
But then Saudi, OPEC and oil-dependent economies like Nigeria and Venezuela go into financial crisis. They will be forced to cut production. Price starts going back up again. Guess who shows up again? Shale companies! And the cat and rat race continues.

Trust the power of technology. Shale companies will continue to innovate until their cost of extraction improves. It will probably get to the point where Saudi and others may be left to cook soup with their oil.

This is domestic violence: Be careful how so much you believe a vengeful woman!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM3gygwUFAw

Mr. Horsefall as the pioneer DG of NIA is probably still receiving secret funds from NIA. Opening the books will beam the flashlight on him and other leeches. When Nigerian officials start crying more than the bereaved, be assured that their personal interests are at stake. This ain't got nothing to do with patriotism.
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Simple solution.

She cut your clothes. She cut your wife's clothes.

You and your wife should get together and beat "rankadede barkazu aki ba "out of her.

I no sure say person don wire her serious beating before.
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It will probably cost N40k for the materials, a carpenter and a mason to fix the leak.

But in Saraki's mind, that's a N200m contract waiting to happen. Continue watching...
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TUNSBOYLE:
I JST DISLIKE ALL THIS FVCKING PATTERN GUYS NOW USE TO PROPOSE TO THEIR WOMAN .
AFTER ALL THE FVCK YOU GUYS HAVE GIVING TO EACH OTHER.
OR IS IT BECUZ YOU GUYS HAVE THAT MONEY YOU JST WNT IT DIFFNT. FROM OTHERS. EVEN WIF ALL THIS CROWD A RESPONSIBLE AND A WELL TRAIN WOMAN WILL NOT WANT TO TURN YOU DOWN IN THE PRESENT OF YOUR LOVE ONCE.


FOR ME IF E RISH MY TURN. I GO JST INVITE HER TO MY KABAN TREAT HER WELL MAKE HER HAPPY. THEN SUDDENLY I BRING THE RING OUT FROM NO WHERE.


THAT DAY WILL BE A SPECIAL DAY

Why does it bother you?

You should be feeling sorry for them.

Tiwa Savage, Tonto Dike, Toke Makinwa, Mercy Aigbe, etc showed off with all the public display of affection. What happened? The more they showed love in public, the more witches and wizards went to work on their cases.

People think marriage is dating.