₦airaland Forum

Later later in life when these men are elderly and lonely, some ignorant people will come online to write epistles about how kids abandon their fathers in old age because their mother turned their heads. They will complain that children always take care of their mothers but leave their fathers to suffer of loneliness.

This is why I always take such stories with a pinch of salt because when you look deeply, a loving father will never be abandoned by his children. Male loneliness in old age is 9 times out of 10 the fruits of what they planted.

Reno, you have gotten the position you were hustling for. Let us hear word abeg

"You my head, reject bewitchment" is a very powerful prayer point that we must never joke with.

We4all:
They say if the gods want to destroy a man, he makes him mad. I like your pride. But be sure to use it efficiently when it backfires.

Leave am. I don talk my own and he is free to think whatever he wants. No be now e eye go clear, but clear, it definitely will.

Lexzeey:
Goto court and tell them this is Africa, abuse someone unjustly like the drunkard did to me and goto court to plead your case because we're in Africa and see if you won't be in chains before you know it, he assaulted me, and I defended myself, it has nothing to do with this is Africa bla bla bla, na why Una leaders dey use una like rag una dey okay with am, Nigeria is so backwards.

Ok 👍

Lexzeey:
No mind the dodoyo, he neva jam, you dey your dey person come dey oppress you in the name of elder you go whimper and cower until he pities you and leave you alone, what sort of violation is that.?

Hot blood hot blood...

You'll cool down as you get older and wiser. Aging does that to you, you know. It makes you view things from a different perspective, but for now your blood is still hot and you think you have everything figured out.

Your uncle might be an entitled jerk acting under the influence of alcohol to misbehave, but does that justify slapping him? You call what he did "oppression". Do you even know the meaning of oppression? Look guy, you handled it very wrongly whether or not you choose to admit it. He hit you on the back and demanded respect, but the mature thing to do would have been to walk away no matter how hard it may have seemed. There's a way you would have handled his drunken behaviour that would have made everyone would turn against him and start cautioning him to behave himself. He was clearly acting under the influence of alcohol and handling him like the drunk he is would have made him a fool before everybody's eyes, but now that you have behaved like the fool, you have now become the fool and this will come back to haunt you, you best believe that.

This is Africa, guy. Culturally, you goofed.

Not very imaginative, but still an enjoyable read.

Kingluqman:
This lady just died like a mere commoner, even though she's not an A-list actress. Her colleagues didn't even mourn her like that. One of her colleagues in the business even did house warming a day or two after she died and she even posted it on IG.



Like I don't really get!! Maybe they hate her or wanted her gone. It is well.. may her soul rest in peace 🕊️.

I don't understand. Is life supposed to come to a standstill because an industry colleague passed on?

That's why we should take care of our health and guard our lives diligently because if one dies today, the world will not stop. Even family members will move on eventually and the only ones who will keep your memories are same family members. No one will stop living. Life will go on.

DomPerignon:
There's absolutely no need for private banks.

The deregulation of the banking sector was one of the biggest mistakes to have ever been conceived and is the number 1 driver of inflation and money laundry.

And to think most if not all these banks are now operated under fractional reserve banking that allows them to draw money from the central bank (our money) far above that in their vaults (still our money) and loan back to both the government and the populace at medieval Shylock loan rates tells you why we have a double digit lending rate hovering at room temperature ranges .

With such a high disparity in lending rates compared to what they pay as interests to depositors, you should not be wondering why we have one of the highest year on year inflation rates.

The Central Bank should rethink theor policy towards merchant banks and limit them strictly to banking transactions .

The CBN already has several subsidiaries like Bank of Agriculture, Bank of Industry and NIRSAL that ought to replace the Shylock banks as lenders.

The digital platforms have shown they can provide effective banking transactions far better than the inept conventional banks and have so far shown they are more transparent and more responsive to their customer base. The CBN should empower these digital banks with same fractional lending tools to serve SMEs lending as well as for soft consumer loans.

A scenario were bank executives are the highest salaried earners and draw huge sums as end of year bonuses while doing next to nothing but exploit the system while serving corrupt politicians to launder money should come to an end.



Bankers, Lawyers, Journalists and Medical Practioneers (in this order) are the bane of any nation and must be stripped of any professional and outstanding role in any nation if that nation must survive.

Your last paragraph is what spoilt your otherwise interesting submission.

GloriousGbola:
they really need to start regulating SM or go the china way and ensure people who run their mouths on social media actually have the competence to do so

7.5% vat has been a thing for over 5 years now, when they increased from 5%

this silly attention seeking clown is shouting the sky is blue

The fact that bloggers are making posts about this silliness is even making the whole thing more annoying

Is this their new year resolution? Smh

GloriousGbola:
the moment they fix roads , the next thing is the drivers become psycho

it is very very very important to avoid all these hiace buses that are not gig and co. the drivers of buses want to make as many trips as possible and drive like madmen

If good roads unleash their inner speed demons, then they have no business driving. Honestly it is alarming.

Are these drivers smoking something before they get behind the wheels, because I don't understand how he managed to ram into a vehicle executing a U-turn. Was he blind? We need mental health evaluation reforms in this country as a matter of dire urgency.

What a waste.

ChybuzzDD:
We shouldn't always believe stories exactly the way they're told

The guy screamed 3x before going unconscious; it's very possible he quickly/desperately switched off the socket before passing out.

Electrocution doesn't work that way, oga. Once the body is electrified it scrambles the nervous system and the body loses all coordination. Some go into cardiac arrest immediately so there is no time or ability to switch off anything desperately.

Have you seen videos of people been tased? They drop to the ground and convulse uncontrollably. That's just minor, compared to full electrocution.

This fellow was not electrocuted. It is was something else. Something dark and diabolical.

Shnew:
2026 everywhere go first blur

Which yeye blur? In short, e go blur for you, no be me.

Mscheeeeeeeeeew.

OKOATA:
Women are like kids, you correct them the way you correct a child. Whether hardly or subtly. You said it yourself someone is influencing her. And from your write up you didn't even tell her your reasons for ghosting her. As a man try to be matured, you said shes an orphan so she also wants the best for herself.

If you talked to her about it and she didn't listen then you can bounce but you just don't bounce on someone you can still correct. If a girl dips her hand in your wallet. Tell her straight up you don't like it. Thats how Alphas do, if she does it again then you have the right to end it. Everything no be to dey show muscle and power on top women.

You are full of wisdom.

Mrdealer4all:
The universe will never forgive you if any thing happens to her.
This is how I met girl too schooling.
Her parents and her siblings nothing to write home about.
I wanted to dump her but my chi warn me never to do it.
I called her and pour my mind to her..
Gave her rules and set boundary.
I opened fashion shop for her and told her to use that to sponosor herself and establish

The mature thing to do. Na man you be. Beta one.

This OP is not ready to handle a relationship. He could have had a talk with her and set rules and boundaries. Some of these young girls just need proper guidance to set their head properly because they are in a phase of life where they can get negatively influenced by peer pressure or the wrong company. If after he counsels her and she refused to heed then he can part ways and move on. Instead he is here talking about simping and all that red pill crap.

Both he and girlfriend are immature. Kids dating kids.

So it isn't even electrocution, so what could have killed the young man?

Horrible

naptu2:
There are.

I'm sure they are far from me

I wish we had village markets in Lagos. The ones around me here are bandits

alpharoyalty:
All of una mad.
Both the pastor and all his mistresses and his church.

💯

Shameless generation.

Na una sabi. If this story is true, ashawo dey the woman eye because I don't understand why she will be involved with a married man in the first place, pastor or no pastor.

With their mouths they profess to love God but their hearts are from him. The one who is supposed to be a shepherd of God's people and the one who sings for God, you are all guilty. Go back to God in genuine repentance and stop disturbing us with your disgraceful past and degenerate lifestyle.

GloriousGbola:
Oyinbos do the same thing

https://www.godaddy.com/resources/skills/brand-names-that-are-common-words

Some brand names have simply become lexicon

Simple. We sef get our own lexicon

dollarnaira:
All soft drinks are minerals
All pens are biros.....

Shey you get, although in this context 'minerals' is Nigerian vernacular. It can't even be used in any official correspondence.

DrMB:
In Nigeria, it's super common for dominant brand names to become generic terms for entire product categories, a phenomenon called "genericide" or genericization. This happens when a brand dominates the market so much that people forget (or ignore) the actual generic name.

Here are some classic examples:

Jeep → Refers to any SUV or 4x4 vehicle (e.g., Toyota Prado, Lexus RX, or Honda CR-V is casually called a "Jeep". This stems from early rugged vehicles like Willys Jeeps being iconic on Nigerian roads, especially in military/government use.
Indomie → Used for any instant noodles, even brands like Mimee, Honeywell, Golden Penny, or Dangote Noodles.
Maggi → Means any seasoning/stock cubes (bouillon), regardless of brands like Knorr, Royco, or Terra.
Gala → Refers to any sausage roll snack.
Dettol → Any antiseptic/disinfectant liquid.
Hypo (or sometimes Jik) → Any household bleach.
Pampers → Any disposable baby diapers.
Vaseline → Any petroleum jelly.
Omo → Any laundry detergent powder.
Close-Up or Macleans → Any toothpaste (varies by generation/region).
Sellotape → Any clear adhesive tape.
Super Glue → Any fast-acting cyanoacrylate adhesive.

I wasn't even aware Sellotape and Super Glue are actual brand names. I always assumed these are the names of the products themselves.

I agree. Biko let them keep using the generic names for the Nigerian audience to avoid confusing us. The international media can add 'sic' when reporting our reportage abeg. 😁😁Country is hard enough as it is.