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Just spoke with her. She's getting fine and will be back shortly.

Nostalgic

That is embarrassing of the pilgrims. Why can't they channel their disenchantment civilly rather than having to hurl stones at their officials.

What kind of article? On what subject? Politics? Economics? or what?
I write on politics, and other burning socio-economic issues.

otokx:
So becomerich is in CANADA?

So you didn't know all this while

mbulela:
any proof?
have you ever heard him profess the faith?

It would be most surprising to learn otherwise o. Hope I'm also not wrongly presuming as I accuse many Nigerians of.

The slightest idea I have is that, he buried his mother, Oyin, in an elaborate Christian way.

Ranks007:
Air hostess collapse na big deal ooooooooooo because that particular situation went beyond the one they trained her for, abeg no blame am, how occassion you hea say mid air collision don happen or e won happen!!!

The air hostess collapsing is actually more of humorous, even as it also passes a serious message.
It ridicules all those 'emergency tips' they read out for us before boarding.
If the air hostess, who is expected to put people through on what to do in situation of emergency, is the first to collapse, then there is serious problem.

FBS:
Offa! Hmmm, I love that place.

Ever stayed in Offa? What have you to do with the place?

Office politics?

Shifting blame is part of it, but it goes beyond that.
It takes varying forms and affects virtually every aspect of office life:
-Promotion
-Relationship with bosses, subordinates
-Grooming somebody for a position
-Rivalry
-Blame shifting
-Religious, ethnic sentiments
-and many more

chika98:
See why I'd never fly in Nigeria!

Flying still remains the safest, even as bad as things are in Naija.

Cristalz:
Share, sweetie.
Just make sure you always say nice things about him.

I mean, after all, you two are on the same cruise ship(Welcome To My Office). It's a good way to interact without the pressure of work, don't you think?
And, if he says ''you said this'', you can always say, ''but boss, you said that''.

If na him direct boss, abeg make she no try am o. . .if na just colleague, then no probs. Also got a colleague on this thread, though from another dept.

babyx:
Hi y'all,
i work with one of the finance houses in Lagos, i have alot to say abt my current place of employ, but my boss is signed on to this forum :-( and on this thread (i suspect). Do i still share or just blank?

If your boss is here, I'll advise you blank, except if you can perfectly code your gists, which I doubt he wont be able to decode.

mbulela:
Jarus, you don come again.
forget all those FT articles, i read as much of them as you (if not even more), yet i take their writings on Nigerian business leaders with a pinch of salt.thay are not on the ground and do not know what is happening here.additionally, they are not willing to put in the necessary effort in investigating the persons in full like they will do with western business leaders. i have articles by reputable publications like the Mckinsey Quarterly where someone like cecelia ibru were painted as female role models in the Nigerian business space and the impression was given that she was banking wonder woman,when it was clear to any idiot that she was just running a hit and run bank built on fraud and deception.So articles like the FT one you quoted are neither here nor there. is it not the same FT whose sister publication called the Banker was dishing out awards after awards to this cowboy bankers?how are they different rom Nduka Obiagbena in that regard?
However, i do not wish to discredit the success of Wale Tinubu, my point is that it is overtly simplistic to just attribute his success to little savings probably from savings, family and friends is simply put, fictional at best.Nigerians are quick to believe that business leaders are cutting corners and basically briefcase businessmen fronting for the rapists in power because over and again, it has been proven to be true.
Wale Tinubu might not be in that class but the picture you paint is not believable by me.afterall, na naija we dey!!!

No problems, my bros.

mbulela:
in Nigeria, anyone that is not a muslim, is automatically a Christian.
i find it amusing.

Definitely no, even though that is the presumption for many people.
Mike Adenuga is practising Christian.

We have people like Wole Soyinka and co that dont associate with any religion.

also visited Nuhu's giplc website, found his activities commendable

kobikwelu:
imagine the air hostess collapsing under such conditions

wot were the passengers expected to do when the "professional" jones?

i bet u that woman cv will state that she can work under challenging scenarios/under pressure.
pity for us

LOL

So all those things they tell passenger 'in the unlikely event of emergency', they too no fit do am

Can't help not ROTFLMAO @ airhostess collapses  

Or are these not people that teach us what to do in situation like this?

Seen. Replied.

Pls send me a mail. I dont have yahoo messenger installed in my system. This NL is enough.

Emi ni:
Iyeru okin omo olofa majo
omo abisujoko
omo ijakan ijakan tiwonja l'ofa n'ile olalomi
wonlosoju taani
wonlosoju pooro looko
ibasoju oloko iba lawon
omo laare buure laare buure
ikan ogbodo jukan
bikan baju kan lo l'ofa majo ogun ninda s'ile baba won[i][/i]

This is arguably the most popular lineage praise in Yorubaland. I'm proud I'm from Offa.


That's for my town, for my agboole gangan(family origin), it starts as:
'omo olomu aperan, omo olowo agogo'

Insha Allah, I will leave Lagos for my hometown in Offa, Kwara state on Thursday morning. The whole family from different parts of the country, full house, will be bubbling Thursday evening, so we'll have enough gists and gists, jokes, family re-union, etc.

Friday, sallah proper, the whole family go to eid(praying ground) in a convoy of at least four cars. After eid, then the rams killing and other related activities. Then Jum'at prayer. Sallah day evening, to go out and see old friends that also came home for sallah. More and more gists till late in the night when I'll retire home.
Saturday, to go and see my 'Hajia-in-process' in Ilorin
Sunday, back in Lagos insha Allah.

Happened as planned, only that the bolded was replaced by ' Saturday: attended engagement ceremony of a friend's friend'

girllygal:
@Jarus, Pls i'd like to ask u some questions if thats ok with u. Thanks

I've PMed you.

Beaf:
[s]Nairaland Political Man Of The Year! Leave Your Nominees Here. . . [/s]

I second ndu_chucks observation. Let's call the award "Nairaland Political Person of The Year" in respect and appreciation of our female contributors.

How about changing 'person' to 'personality'?

busybody20:
Why did you reply 3 times?

x3
ROTFLMAO

NL is more popular than Seun. Some people don't care who owns the site.

But I think deserves more recognition.

illusion2:
Aishatu,you and Nuhu sha

Jarus,
How come all your role models are muslims (at least nominally) 

Never even knew Fola Adeola was a Muslim until recently.
Just a co-incidence!!!!

Are there no christians from Nigeria worthy of emulation?

There definitely are. Plenty. I'm sure Wale Tinubu is not successful because of his religion, neither are SLS and FA. So please leave religion out of it.
I'm a long time defender and admirer of Mike Adenuga, a Christian.

kosovo:
Nominations remains Invalidated!
3 nominees per members

kai, are my eyes deceiving me? Thought I saw 5 o.

Ok, I hope this will fly:

1, Ajanlekoko
2, Ibime
3, Beaf

Becomerich,
Mo n gbadun e , b'eebo sengbadun siga
carry go

18 platoon , where did you get 19 state in the north, from Arewa . Continue to fool yourself. The yorubas, would say Nobody fools himself like the mother of a twin, whose one child as die and claim the child went to london.

So kwara, kogi or benue. Are they northerners or southerner. So my niece and nephew , who are yorubas are northerner. I wish you can say it before them. And you would see how under 18s would insult you. Do you know you must be a slowpoke for believing kwara, kogi or benue is part of the north.

19-3=15

Pius33:
@ becomrich
this is no laughing matter, the constitution should be followed, if oher wise happen @ d presidents health

See somebody taking BCR serious

creazor:
no one can,by any standard or criterion list the top 5 uni's in 9ja witout d masters UI,OAU,UNILAG.

Co-signed.

Festival. Specifically here, eid-ul-kabir(big, main festival).

Eziachi:
You can easily work it out. I was 18 when the war broke out. After the war, I was one of the fortunate few Biafran kids the red cross/Carita ferried to America and Britain to preserve what was remain. Seven years later I was a qualified othorpaedic surgeon in the U.K till today, married with a son who is also now a surgeon and an adopted daughter from Ethiopia, working as a news producer with Al Jazeera. I worked with the BBC for years and currently back into medicine as a consultant at the King's College Hospital London. .

Good to know this. Thanks.

mbulela:
Jarus, as much as i like your infectious enthusiasm, you come across as a tabloid journalist atimes.
the way you just rule out the criticisms of Wale Tinubu's success is arrant and impatient.
statements like the bolded phrase below are extremely misleading.
i know you are not ignorant.you know better than this.

Wale Tinubu way(with little resources probably from family or savings, start something local, dare, take a bold step, and go global)

I knew defending Wale Tinubu's success would stir controversy and that was why I quickly pointed it out. Impatient? Maybe I was.
Got no time to write long story on his success story, but a brief summary of how he started could be useful.
Here was a fresh law graduate that was working in his father's law firm, specifically in oil and gas law section, within a couple of years or even less, saw untapped business opportunity in oil and gas, used his initiative to exploit the opportunity, sold his, I think, car, to finance the small business(or used it as collateral to borrow, can't remember), cleared a section of his father's garage and used as office, invited two other friends, all under 25. And today, less than 20 years after, the business that started from a car-garage has turned into a multi-billionaire dollar business empire. Yes, Wale Tinubu was a silver-spoon. But it took his ingenuity to build such an empire. His father was just a lawyer, not a businessman. He started the business from scratch, not inherited. And even if you think inheriting wealth or business automatically translates to sustaining, you need to ask the Kola Abiolas. And by the way, Wale never inherited his business, he built it.

I don't know how my statement 'Wale Tinubu way(with little resources probably from family or savings, start something local, dare, take a bold step, and go global)' is misleading. Building criticism on the fact that he is from an OK family, as most of his critics say, to me, doesn't hold water. I don't even bother debating with people that say he's fronting for some people. Some people have even said Oando means Obasanjo and Others. Nigerians are quick to dismiss every successful businessman, nay people, as dirty and corner-cutters, not bordering to know the story behind their success. It took access to priviledged reading, specifically 'A review of Africa's Top 50 Entrepreneurs', and an interview in The Financial Times, to have informed information on Wale's success history. Count me out of ass-licking, as Nairalanders used to say.

And FYI, I'm not a journalist, not to talk of a tabloid one.

It used to be Sanusi, now it's Wale Tinubu, I'm done.

kosovo:
Nominations Invalidated, Thank you!

Thank you too .


Ok, in the spirit of co-moderatorship, I hereby abide by the rule:
My nominees:
1, Ajanlekoko
2, 9jaganga
3, Ibime
4, Pcicero
5, Beaf