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Iamhumble:
Hi JSayin, I'd suggest you get a techno R7. It's superb; it's got all you'd need as a writer. Price's now 43k. Try it and thank me later.

Thank you very much
It is quite affordable. Will look into it a bit more.

murphyrichy:
where do you reside? will you like to buy i-phone4s. price-32k. used one. its very neat.

Why is an iPhone going for that ridculously low price...?

osenbarak:
phantom 5

Please tell me a bit about this Phantom5. Two people hve recommended it now.

What are its good features and what do you consider it's drawbacks?

[quote author=annacheem post=44282266][/quote]You are the second person recommending Phantom5. Do you use it?

SOURCE: http://finesisi.com/widower-accuses-the-nigerian-police-over-the-painful-death-of-his-pregnant-wife-vivienne-wilfred/

https://i0.wp.com/finesisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/widower-accuses-the-nigerian-police-over-the-painful-death-of-his-pregnant-wife-vivienne-wilfred.jpg?w=400
Vivienne Wilfred: Said To Have Died Over Wrongful Arrest By The Nigerian Police.

A widower named Solomon Wilfred has accused the Lagos state police command of causing the death of his six weeks pregnant wife, Vivienne, on March 16th, the Nation reports.

Solomon who just got married to Vivienne in December 2015, said his wife was arrested at the Apena market on March 15th over allegations of kidnapping a teenage girl. A woman identified as Chinwendu Udomadu had accosted the deceased with claims that the little girl she came to the market with, Perpetual Ucheweaku was one Osinachi Udomadu, her daughter, who had been missing since 2014.

The deceased denied the claims, stating that she was the guardian of the teenage girl and that she also knows the teenage girls parents. After much argument, police officers at the market arrested the women and took them to the station.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Akinpelu was said to have transferred the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) at Panti, Yaba, claiming that it was a criminal case which could not be handled at his station.

Solomon said his wife was detained in a cell while he wrote a statement. He said he begged to swap places with her since she was pregnant and “suffers stress induced seizures”.

“I told them she was pregnant and sick. I told them she had stress induced seizures, and I went upstairs to write the statement for me to swap places with her. But when I came back, they had thrown her into the cell. I even thought they put her behind the counter to wait for me to write the statement, but she was in the cell. Then I told them to release her because I already told them she was not feeling fine” he said.

Solomon said his wife died shortly after she was released the next day March 16th.

However the Lagos state police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, has denied his claim. According to Badmos, the deceased was never put in any cell.

https://i0.wp.com/finesisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/widower-accuses-the-nigerian-police-over-the-painful-death-of-his-pregnant-wife-vivienne-wilfred-2.jpg?resize=300%2C270
Dolapo Badmos, Superintendent of Police & Lagos State Public Relations Officer

"She was never put in the cell and she was released by the ACP SCID immediately her husband said she was six weeks pregnant and has health challenges. The ACP later called and told me that she has been informed the woman fainted at home and was rushed to the hospital where she passed on,” she said adding that the teenage girl and her alleged mother are to be subjected to a DNA test.

“The police did nothing wrong in the matter. The suspects (Chinwendu and Chinemerem Udomadu) have been charged to court and the result of the DNA test is still being awaited.”she said

SOURCE: http://finesisi.com/widower-accuses-the-nigerian-police-over-the-painful-death-of-his-pregnant-wife-vivienne-wilfred/

Lexusgs430:
It's about $399.00 (it's got 6GB ram and a host of other mouth watering goodies) !!!

At $399 sef, I go kukuma top moni buy di Galaxy sef....

Babalegba:
Infinix hot note series

My friend uses this Infinix but she is not computer savvy so she cant tell me much about it.
What do you like about it?
What don't you like about it? ie What should a person buying it be wary of?

yall:
I did that also and came up with itel it1505, the only thing i havent known about the phone is its OTG status. Info about that will be appreciated

Okay will check it out. There is even a thread on it here. Thanks.

blessedvisky:
HOPE MY LITTLE EPISTLE HELPED??

Your baptism name must be 'Confused.com' cos I really got confused after reading all that
I need a name......!!! Shikena!
Everything you suggested is what I already have in mind.

Lexusgs430:
Vernee Apollo

Around how much is it now?

blessedvisky:
Tecno

Kindly mention the model not just the brand name.

webincomeplus:
Jum.ia
Konga
Jiji
Kay.mu

Don't mind the dots. I used them to beat the overzealous bots.

Thanks a lot! Appreciated!

Hello Country Pipo! Una well done.

Abeg my phone don expire. I no wan buy Samsung Galaxy especially now wey dollar don enter night bus go back to obodo oyibo.

I wan buy phone wey fit do wetin Samsung Galaxy fit do but make e no too cost.

TRANSLATION: I need a phone with most of the functionalities of a Samsung Galaxy but it must be more affordable.

Please helep ya sista. I no know book.

Give me one or two suggestions below.

Esepupo!

APHATHEOLOGY:
Check jiji affiliate program, it might suit you

Thanks a lot. Will do at once.

Please let me know if you think of any more.

I have a website with local content. I have monetised it with Google adsense and Amazon affiliate ads.

I need suggestions for Nigerian companies that offer affiliate links so I can place them on the site. So far so good, I only know of Konga.

Can anyone suggest more?

Iamhumble:
Hey fellow nairalander,

Please I need your help on how to get to this address from Abule Egba. I need this asap please. Thanks.

LOYALTY SOLUTIONS LIMITED
OAK HOUSE
NO. 66 OLD YABA ROAD
OFF HERBERT MACAULEY
YABA LAGOS

Please can you say why you are requesting to email me..? I no longer accept private email requests ever since a pervert got access to my inbox from Nairaland.

blueAgent:
stupid wrireup. the mutinational are the best payers and their welfare is far better than that of the indigenous companies. from experience most of the problems we have in companies are by our on black brothers in mangerial positions. they can owe you for months even when the oyibo has released the money.
am not exonorating the whites .but issues of not paying tax,fines are becos of our own corruption or collobration with them.imagine the Halliburton scandal was even discovered and reported by US SEC. something that happened here in Nigeria

If you cannot express your opinion without using a combination of verbal abuse ['stupid'] and a whopping total of 6 grammatical bombs ['wrireup = write up', 'mutinational = multinational', 'mangerial= managerial', 'am=I am', 'exonorating=exonerating', 'becos=because'], then I rightfully beg to differ with your uneducated opinion.

AnakinSkywalker:
Sounds like you reside in PH or the South-South. The situation you painted is glaring there.

No. I don't live in PH. It is the situation all over the country. In Lagos, road users are bullied off the road by armed military personnel so that foreign nationals in luxury, air conditioned cars can get to work in the morning and get home at night. The same reason the state residents were plying the routes in the first place.

It is the same in Uyo, Calabar, Abuja, Kano, and wherever you go in Nigeria.

100% of foreign companies in Nigeria get away with murder. Starting from evading employment laws, racist and preferential treatment of expat staff (the non Nigerian nationals live in luxurious estates and are chauffer driven to work with armed Nigerian millitary personnel), they evade tax and are never sanctioned because Nigerians in power have interests in them hence shield them, foreign companies in Nigeria.

MrKontrovErsy:
lol..who no like ?
and if u talk too much ah go mari yuu join

MrKontrovErsy:
ah go mari diz geh if ah sea ha

Una too like better thing 'umu nwoke' loool!

Nigerian internet went gaga about two weeks ago when photos of a beautiful model, Kenechukwu Ezeh, went viral. We at Fine Sisi Magazine traced this rare beauty to her barbing salon at 5, Ukwulu Street, Nike Lake Road (After SkyVilla Hotel) and got this exclusive interview with her.

HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN KENE?
My mother started it all. She wanted all her children to learn a skill. She insisted my elder sister, Whitney (Chinelo) and I learn barbing. It came as a shock to us. We were indignant about it but she put her foot down. We could not understand why she would not let us learn how to sew weaves or do make up (which seemed more appropriate). My mother would hear none of our grumbling. She said there was more money to be made in barbing.

Way back then, she used to wear dreadlocks. She bundled us off to her barber to pay for our apprenticeship and bought our work tools. Even the barber himself thought it was one big joke. He could not understand why our mother was insisting that young girls learn how to barb hair. But my sister and I had to start reporting to his salon and he got on with or training, no further questions asked.

YOU’VE SPOKEN ABOUT YOUR MOM A LOT. MAY WE ASK ABOUT YOUR DAD..?
I was very little when my father passed on. My mom has been there raising all six of us (one boy and five girls) without ever considering the need to remarry. She is very industrious. In the early part of their marriage, my parents lived in Italy. They were thorough business people till they relocated to Lagos. Even then, my father was a car dealer and my mother ran poultry with about 1,000 birds. She combined poultry farming with pastry making (particularly cakes). She is a phenomenal woman.

WE NOTICED YOU LISTED TWO DEGREES ON YOUR LINKED IN PROFILE. CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND?
My family relocated not long after my father died. When I started my higher education, I got accepted to study Public Admin at the Institute of Management & Technology (IMT) in Enugu State. After the course, IMT reduced the volume of students enrolled and gave preference to Enugu State indigenes. I did not make the quota because I am from Isiekenesi in Ideato Local Government in Imo State.

I spent one year working as a barber before finally gaining admission into Enugu State University of Science & Technology (ESUT) from where I will be graduating from the Department of Co-operatives and Rural Development next year, 2017.

FROM THE INFORMATION WE GATHERED, YOU ARE ALSO A MODEL. WHERE DOES MODELLING COME INTO ALL OF THIS?
Yes I am a model. And my barbing salon plus my studies takes up much of my time. My agent in Lagos usually books me in for modelling jobs when I am on holiday from school. The nature of my modelling contract varies from fashion runway/catwalk jobs, to commercial shoots and even very recently, I considered a debut role into a Nollywood movie but I could not cope with the filming schedule because it would have definitely interfered with my studies and the salon. Our barbing salon is just 3 weeks old and needs a lot of time to incubate. We are busy building our customer base and it is crazy trying to combine it with other interests.

WHY THE NAME ‘GAP’ FOR YOUR BARBING SALON?
GAP simply an acronym for ‘God Answers Prayers‘. My sister Whitney and I worked for other professional Barbers for three years. We undoubtedly improved our skills during that time but we were also short-changed a lot. The pay was never enough for us as apprentice barbers. We worked very hard but were paid very little. We wanted our own place for as long as we could remember but raising the finance was very hard. Barbing equipment does not come cheap talk less of renting a place for a salon. We seriously prayed about it and God answered our prayers. I am a deeply spiritual person. The loss of our father drew my mother and all her children closer to God.

WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE ASPIRATIONS? ANY PLANS OF EXPANDING YOUR BUSINESS?
Absolutely! We are currently based in Enugu. But we already have clients dying to see us in Lagos and Abuja. We would also want to expand into Port Harcourt. Like I said, barbing is capital intensive. And seed capital for business is not very easy to raise in Nigeria. We will focus on our first branch and start a new one when our client base is fortified.

DOES KENE HAVE ANY SPARE TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE?
I will be very honest; I hardly have time for anything else these days. Even prior to when we started our own barbing salon, it was difficult finding any spare time between work and school. I can even remember one point when, we were employed by Mac Fashion Store at the Shoprite Mall in Enugu. The management of the store bent backwards and made an exception to our resumption hours. This meant we were able to go to school from 8am to 12 noon and resume work from 2pm to 9pm. We have always kept ourselves busy. Maybe as the barbing salon stabilizes, we will be able to find time to do other things. Please, I even want to apologize to all our friends who are mad at us for not being able to see them. It is not intentional and we are not being snobs. Running a business strips you of any personal time for anything else.

KENE IS OBVIOUSLY SINGLE. BUT IS KENE CURRENTLY IN A RELATIONSHIP?
I am not in a relationship right now. And it is not like I have put off being in a relationship. I do hope to get married and start a family one day. It is very important to me that whoever I am in a relationship with can accept me being a Barber. I do not see myself in a relationship with someone who would not want me to continue being a barber after marriage. I believe my mother was not stupid encouraging me in this profession. Asking me to give it up is questioning her sense of judgement.

I also would not like to be in a relationship with someone who gets suspicious and thinks my relationship with my clients is more than professional. I am a very decent person and my job requires developing some level of rapport with my clients. A man who is secure will be able to understand this. It can be very annoying trying to prove yourself when people think otherwise but I guess that is one of the crosses I have to bear with my job.

WHAT IS KENE’S FAVORITE FOOD?
Pasta. Remember I told you my mother lived in Italy…? She makes her own pasta. There is nothing like homemade pasta I tell you. And my mom’s own is absolutely nothing like the one from store shelves. I always look forward to eating it.

Editor’s Note: FineSisi Magazine thanks Kenechukwu Ezeh for doing this interview. It was a pleasure speaking to this warm, well-articulated, focused and inspiring young woman with a great sense of humor. She is indeed an inspiration to a lot of other women in Nigeria and Africa.

SOURCE: http://finesisi.com/exclusive-interview-with-kenechukwu-ezeh-the-beautiful-barber-model-changing-the-mane-game-in-enugu-nigeria/

We need to see younger people like this in governance.
Not 80 something year olds that have absolutely nothing to offer Nigeria.

All these schemes always appear good on paper and never achieve anything in the long run. They spark initial excitement but in a few months, they become unsustainable and will not produce the earlier predicted results.

All these big men in suit or agbada sitting in air conditioned offices receiving paid salary, allowances and pension, have no clue how to run businesses in Nigeria.

Any youth who want to progress will have to first make personal effort. He/she will also have to be convinced that with or without Nigerian Government, he/she will succeed.

Let's see how this goes.

9ja4show:
even movie ticket is 500 at Tropicana lol

I no fit laugh abeg, lol!
Anyway, esqtony suggested almost the same thing.
Uyo for business and Calabar for leisure.

Thank you for mentioning about the security angle too.

9ja4show:
uyo is far more peaceful than calabar you will have to pitch yourself if you are still in 9ja

Hi 9ja4show
Thank you for your comments

Please how long have you lived in Calabar?
What do you do for a living?
And why did you say Uyo is more peaceful than Calabar..?

esqtony:
I have stayed over a decade here. I'm doing business here and also studying.

Good to know that. Which town did you relocate from if I may ask..?

esqtony:
A little detail may really be necessary for proper advice. However, I must note to you that Uyo is an emerging investment haven. Calabar for me is a home of fun where you go to spend some of your investment proceeds on vacation.
I await a little more detail on your choice of investment and I would offer you a first hand advice.
Cheers.

Currently in Uyo.

Thank you esqtony.
I appreciate your comment.
As per the investment, lets assume it is a food processing company.

Sorry, I just read the part where you said 'currently in Uyo'
Do you work there?
How long have you lived there?

Country people well done.

Please I want to hear from people who have lived or traveled to either Calabar or Uyo and can give unbiased advice.
If you relocated from Lagos to any of these towns for any reason, I would also appreciate it if you share your experiences.

I earlier wanted to start an investment* in Calabar. I considered living costs, stability, cost of property acquisition and other things and I was fine with it. A very senior friend told me his experience in Uyo. He is very convinced my investment will do better there and I will spend less on capital expenditure.

I am on the verge of taking a final decision. I have visited the two towns. I need others to share their opinion.

*Just imagine any manufacturing investment that will need power supply, land and cheap labour. I don't want to reveal details about the investment here




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