₦airaland Forum

ojubi:
Dear naira landers, it gives me a lot of concern to see many people driving the latest car in town, most times they have more than one of such ride but live in a rented house with their families for more than 10 years.

Are this group of people afraid of buying land and building their own houses? Or they just want to be seen as being rich while in reality is not true?

Most likely, most of them have their house projects going on. It may take years.
I know someone who became a Manager in a bank while still in a 3-bedroom rented apartment. He was given official car(Toyota Corolla 2004, the latest then) and got a driver. But his neighbours did not know he had already completed his house in his village(far back 2002) and was about completing that of Lagos(which he started 2003). He moved to that moderate house in Ajah shortly(2005) and today due to the then crazy Ajah traffic, bought a 50m house in VI(now arrived).

harakiri:
Can you define what you mean by "EXOTIC CAR"? How many "exotic cars" have you seen with your two eyes in Nigeria and how many of the owners live in the so called "poor rented houses"? Poverty has really cooked the brains of Nigerians. Exotic cars are the likes of Bentley,Rolls Royce,Ferrari,Porsche,Lamborghini,Mercedes,BMW,Aston Martin,Bugatti Veyron,Maybach and so on. These are exotic cars NOT Toyota Camry and Honda accord that I'm pretty sure are the so called "exotic cars" you're referring to. In the western hemisphere, a lot of people drive good cars and still live in rented apartments. There are millionaires who have no houses of their own (a lot live in hotel suites for years) so what are you talking about?

Good one. I agree fully with you.

If you don't use a Tokunbo car in Nigeria, then you're seen as using 'exotic cars'. All brand new cars are exotic in some Nigerians thinking. I absolutely see nothing wrong in someone using Toyota Camry 2010 or Honda Accord 2010 and living in rented apartment.

Most of those cars you're seeing are bought for them by the company as official cars, and it becomes theirs after 3-4 years. So don't think your neighbour that uses N6m car paid for it from his pocket.

Also, the taste of someone using, say 9m Prado, will usually be high in house as well. He would most likely have plans to build 30-40m house, which he may barely afford now.

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=778069.msg9309324#msg9309324 date=1318244445]ASbakiliki produces more rice than ofada. Also, nkalagu cement used to be in Abakiliki. There is also another rice produced somewhere in Benue state but most of the grains that feed Nigerians are from Kogi, Ebonyi and Benue.[/quote]Thanks for educating me. It may boil down to what part of teh country we are then.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=778069.msg9309022#msg9309022 date=1318241950]are you minding this people. Some times you just have to stop arguing with them so they would not chop your head off.

95% of Nigeria rice consumption is from imported rice

while 4.5 is ofada rice which is well known of even abroad

0.5 other sources[/quote]I am hearing Abakiliki rice for the first time on this thread, while I grew up knowing ofada rice.

[quote author=X-factoria link=topic=778067.msg9308507#msg9308507 date=1318237336]Even the devil can see vision, things that will happen to us in the future. So where does this prediction place TBJ? Does this make TB Joshua a man of God?

A lof of you folks keep wasting your time following fake prophets! I'm sorry for you![/quote]Abi o. Many babalawos(herbalists) will tell you with precision the outcome of many things. Does that authenticate their ways?

I, for one, look at substance of a message/belief and not things like this.

Thanks to the Saraki family, my Kwara no dey carry last for popularity.

Top 5 most popular:
1, Lagos
2, FCT
3,Kaduna
4,Kano
5, Rivers

Least 5
1, Ebonyi(as politically conscious and current I usually am, I dont know the governor of this state. I even do sometimes forget the capital)
2, Taraba
3, Kebbi
4, Jigawa(save Sule Lamido, could have also ranked lower)
5,Gotta throw a coin btw Gombe and Nasarawa.

Meanwhile, I read someone mention Anambra in the list of Top 5, even ahead of Kaduna and Kano, well, go to a village in Kebbi or Zamfara state and tell an average man on the street you're from Anambra, if the response you get is not 'where is that?' then come back and tell what it is.

Obinoscopy:
Poster you should have asked which country will scale through from our group. This is because we might win Guinea and yet fail to qualify.

even a househelp ıs now an analyst on Naıraland.
smh

sirjec:
Now i see. No wonder nairalanders are criticizing GEJ as if nothing good can come from him. Now I know that NL is a Buhari site. Well, not a problem. At least I now see why so much criticism are coming from here. So I now see it is because of the money you people lost. Hmmm, pathetic indeed.

You must be a newbie or newly initiated into this section, for if you were not, you should have known what happened in this section during election period. i am the moderator of NL politics and unabashedly a Buhari supporter. But the forum owner himself threw his weight behind GEJ at the period. Nairaland never officially or surreptitiously supported anybody. we gave everybody equal chance of promoting his candidate of choice.

Seun or Mods will not delete your post for campaigning for Buhari. Either you were caught by spambot or your posts were offensive. I am also a Buhari fan and a mod.

We all did our best to ensure a Buhari victory. On Nairaland here alone we raised close to 800,000 and I personally visited radio stations for Buhari jingle. From Oyo to Osun to Lagos to Rivers, our jingle for Buhari was aired.

We did all these for him because we believe he is the closest to the leader we need at this point in time. Deep inside the heart of most of us though, we knew it was an uphill task.

In any case, only Buhari, of all Nigerian politicians, can form a new party and in less than 1 year, the party gave a 12-year old, multi-billion naira-funded, ruling party a run for its money. Only Buhari can poll 12m votes with a new party. That's enough achievement.

On a second thought, this thing is looking like truth o
I have been racking my head to give an example, but still hasn't come with even a single person to negate the theory.

1974-1984? That's to name a Nigerian Billionaire between age 27-37.

I thought of saying, but Nigerians are hardly billionaires(even in Naira) at that age but I know Dangote was one by 1996(39 years), Adenuga by 1990(37 years), Wale Tinubu by 2001(34).

But the strongest point I ahve against this argument is that in actual fact, these guys were not billionaires at that age. They were just multi-millionaires. So there are a number of 1974-1984 born multi-millionaires that are unknown now who may hit real billions in their 40s to 50s. Dangote, Adenuga and many others were not household names when they were in their 30s.

Taken twice. First time, late last year and second time this year. Negative.

Makes sense

Armchair theory and abuse of stats.

I can see he carefully selected the date . Why stop in 1984? If not to exclude being flashed with Zuckerberg.

Well, I don't believe the theory.

Picture must have been taken after a Council of state meeting.

Another view

Latest pics. Now roofed. Roofing consumed more than I expected - almost 1m.
Planks + labour = 320,000
Aluminium sheets+Transportation+Labour = 630,000

Total Cost of project to date: a little less than 3.6m

Pukkah:
Does anyone know who will be punished and who will not? I thought it depends on the intention he had before he composed the song.

No intention justifies a wrong action, except you had no option or you are forced to do it or you do it as an inevitable choice between 2 evils and that is the lesser evil.

Intention is only for a good action

Eagles underrate Guinea at own peril. The Syli Nationale has quality players that are still playing in or have played in big clubs in the past. The likes of Bobo Balde(ex-Celtic), Yattara, Pascal Fendouino, Bangoura brothers can match our players, having made their marks in France, Scotland, etc.

This team is a watered down version of CIV. Write them off at peril.

I expect Eagles to carry the day though.

Joel Obi red-carded in Inter loss against Napoli yesterday.

Ronaldinho will not make the list of Top 5 players in the last 2 decades(1990-2011)n not to talk of all-time. He will queue behind the likes of Zidane, Ronaldo de Lima and Messi.

All-time, he wont make Top 10 when Pele, Maradona et als also come into equation.

He was a great player no doubt, but his career was too short-lived.

Guys, c'mon, Rabiu is good but hey Rabiu as Nigeria's midfield lead is a no-no, at least for now. If he is that good, he would have got a starting shirt in PSv and would have had a stable career rather than all these loaning from one club to another. He couldn't enter Sporting Lisbon first team and he was loaned to another club I cant remember before landing in PSV.

Also, imagine Nigeria Vs CIV and Rabiu against Yaya Toure, Didier Zokora etc. C'mon guys, Mikel is still our best bet in midfield. Than Kalu Uche, Haruna and maybe Rabiu can support. MUch has been said about Fegor Ogude too but yet to prove himself in Eagles shirt.

Look up, he had reported Ideye's goal since yesterday.'

A comment made under anonymity and that made with your full name, which one do you think will be more sincere?

Ko joor

Jarus:
I have never for once thought that it was GEJ that writes all those things. Clearly, someone is doiing that for him.

As for today's quote, either Oronto was the one that wrote it himself or he has been able to penetrate the person that writes GEJ's updates to use the platform to promote him.

But I will not call it a fraud, when someone updates a FB profile for president. It's normal to me, as it is hardly feasible for a president to be updating his profile at such frequency.

Pukkah:
Is this English language as written by a supposed undergraduate of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife? Oh God! Who will save the Nigerian educational system that is churning out unbaked and ill-mannered 'graduates'?

Has the motto of OAU - For Learning and Culture - rubbed off on you at all? Did you show learning, decorum and decency in your posts? I even expect motor park touts in Lagere, Ife to behave better; yet, you claimed to be doing hosemanship (sic).

Back to the topic, how many kilometres is Ilesa from Ife? I also noticed that you changed from 7 minutes to 10 minutes when your bare-faced lie was pointed out to you. Use facts and don't throw tantrums. Mind you, this forum, among other things, is for learning and not for misinformation or fanning the ember of tribalism.

If what I have written is not above you and you care to reply, do so in a language (content, decency, lexis and structure) that is befitting of an undergraduate of OAU please.

He is either sesewa or town igboro.

diluminati:
Beaf and his cronies are the emumu's running that fraud. I don talk my own. And do you know who Jomo gbomo is? your guess is as good as mine.

LOL @ e-mumus

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=771573.msg9248578#msg9248578 date=1317370033]what's wrong with the federal universities?[/quote]Exactly my thought.

He's brilliant. They are good Muslims. Let him go to OAU, Ife, religious-neutral federal university where you practice your religion freely, interact with as many groups of people as you're comfortable with, learn under the best of conditions etc.

To me OAU is one of the best cosmopolitan environment you can learn in Nigeria and, dare I say, a better and cheaper school than Covenant.

I went to OAU and came out better in all ramifications, even in religiousity.

I have never for once thought that it was GEJ that writes all those things. Clearly, someone is doiing that for him.

As for today's quote, either Oronto was the one that wrote it himself or he has been able to penetrate the person that writes GEJ's updates to use the platform to promote him.

Most of the words taht are common between Yoruba and Hausa have arabic origin: wahala, alubosa, alubarika etc