You can't take it from them.... They're good and this is what we will experience if Peter Obi takes over.....
With all the skills embedded Individuals that we have in this country..A good governance is all we need.
Go far bawo? This is a quadcopter and you can build one if you understand aerodynamics. Especially these days when we have DIY kits all over the place.
blueAgent: Hmm!!! Yet some fools want us to believe that Chinese trade and loans to Africa is for our best intrest.
Is it not ironic that most of this bad companies are owned by Chinese,indians, Lebanese and our fellow black Nigerians but the are the worst kind of ppl to work with.
I have not seen anyone complain working for an European or American company.
We are our own worst enemies. If you Work for indigenous oil servicing firm , you would understand why it hurts to see this multinational foreign oil servicing companies leave.
You see those Western companies, dem dey try at least to align with labour laws from their own countries. They hardly drop their standards, no matter the location they find themselves because a fellow countryman can easily sue them for exploitation. But a Chinese company will thrive where labour laws are weak. In fact they love it the most. Most illegal miners caught in some Northern states so far are Chinese. That speak volumes.
Adjovi: Forget about your assumptions. I asked you a question and you been dodging it. Why can't Ukraine allow the Donbass region be a republic? Why can't Ukraine do like china who allowed Taiwan be a republic?
China allow Taiwan to be a Republic? Smh. See, aburo, I'm afraid we can't have this conversation cos there re still so much you need to learn about the subject matter. It's obvious you know nothing about global politics. Just read and get enlightened first. It helps.., Take off that arrogance, it depletes your ability to learn. You don't need it for now. And please don't check back, I'm unavailable.
Adjovi: Taiwan is independent already are they not. They their own government. Why can't Ukraine allow the Donbass region do same?
That’s not what China believes. You should be familiar with the issue if you actually understand what’s playing out in Ukraine . Now picture this.., you have a number of people in the south eastern part, agitating for Biafra, while some within the same region are rooting for Nigeria and not buying the idea altogether. Now if you add the number of people in that little region who don’t want Biafra to the number of people in other States of the Federation who still have a strong resolve for the Nigerian unity, then you know what the majority wants. Again if the few agitators are given referendum, on what land would their sovereign borders be drawn, when there is a mix of opinions amongst the Pro Nigerians and Pro Biafrans? Imagine a situation where you have an extended family with opposing views setting them apart. How do they coexist as two sovereign states with common landed/ natural heritages? That is the complex situation Russia used as an excuse to land military boots in Ukraine, time and time again. Seized Crimea on that same pretext too. Now I’m glad you even stated Taiwan as being independent, but China does not accept this fact, and is also not against Russia’s aggression on Ukraine but calls the West hypocrites. I’m still trying to guess who’s more of such between them. Putin simply wants to resurrect the USSR, same way China wants to seize Taiwan back by force. They are angry at how the Western influence spreads ‘naturally and strategically’. They hope to achieve theirs by force.
If this were to be in Russia or China, you won’t hear this because the victims won’t even have a voice in the first place. This can also happen in the US, but the little hope you have in a system that fights oppression on freedom of expression would make you voice it out and still feel you’re human too. The West could be evil but imagine what would have become of the black race if world changing events didn’t happen on the American soil. Martin Luther King pushed, same cause Nelson Mandela pushed for in a different terrain and style. Freedom; -To express yourself. -To live and let live. -To exercise the right to be human and rightly treated so.
The embarrassment your brother gets for having a flat nose will one day get to you, your son or your son’s son. So long as it is a genetic symbol of your identity and uniqueness. The world is evil, but at least where your voice can be heard, can be your next home or saving grace away from home. The new world order some Africans crave with the Russian and Chinese authoritarian system will be so ruthless as to strangle a Nelson Mandela from the cradle.
What’s happening in Ukraine is a pointer to this. No one wants the best for Africa. Unfortunately she has a necessary decision to make; making a selection among the evils available. A liberal world or a Suppressive autocratic one where opposing views are sent behind bars.
I believe it should be updated, cos that thread was really an eye opener for many Nairalanders.
Let us begin to mention the worst companies to work for in Nigeria and list your reasons or experience.
We learn by learning. (Credit: essentialone)
Any Chinese company.
*****
Come to think of it, 90% of Naija graduates want to work in Western companies. None is looking at Chinese companies, including the haters of the West. Ironically, they want the West to be kicked off her super power status and be replaced by China or Russia. I know two brothers and a friend who work with three different companies. A subsidiary of Tencent, Amazon and Standard Chartered. The Amazon guy has become an uncle to his uncles. If him no dey, dem dey sometimes postpone meeting. I was shocked the day he told me he just finished a WhatsApp call (virtual meeting ), with his uncles in the village . The guy with Tencent is his elder brother. He can only take care of himself and his fiancé. The building project completed recently, him kobo no dey inside. The family no send am. Their friend that works with Standard Chartered only visited their village once during their sister’s TM to gift the new couple a Venza. Since then him uncles dey always send greetings to the guy, through their son with Amazon. The guy with Tencent schooled in China. Is fluent in Mandarin, but he dey get peanuts from the strings of Chinese companies he’s worked with. He loves the Chinese culture and style but keeps suffering from their discrimination. He had been called monkey on several occasions but the guy no gree. His younger brother and his friend are faring better than him. They get vacations and some cool, flexible offers. Na them dey carry their family for shoulder.
The day you get a job in a huge Western company, you’ll see the kind respect wey your family and community go dey give you. Most of them carry their staffs like eggs.
The answer to this question is NO. 14,000 is the number of the total victims of the war in Donbass on both sides.
There are several myths used by Russia and its fellow travellers to justify the invasion of Ukraine. One is that a “genocide” was happening in Donbass, where Ukrainians killed “14,000” pro-Russian separatists and civilians since 2014.
This is just another myth, as are others we debunked in a previous Bitter Winter series. Many who repeat this story have only a vague idea of what “Donbass” means. “Donbass” (also spelled Donbas) is not a legal but a cultural and historical expression. The name was coined in the 19th century as an acronym for “DONetsk BASin,” an area in the east of Ukraine renowned for its coal mines. The coal boom of the same 19th century led to the immigration of thousands of Russian-speaking workers from present-day Russia into what was originally a predominantly Ukrainian-speaking area.
With the Soviet Union, a part of the historical Donbass was incorporated into Russia, while most of it formed the two oblasts (regions) of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Soviet republic of Ukraine. Generally, today, “Donbass” refers to the two Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
During World War II, Donbass witnessed some of the bloodiest battles between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which left the area depopulated. Because of its substantial Russian minority, a result of the 19th-century coal immigration, Stalin saw the presence of Donbass within Ukraine as a positive element, balancing the independentist aspiration prevailing in Western Ukraine.
He tried to strengthen this position with a new wave of immigrant workers sent from Russia to settle in Donbass, and—as demonstrated by Lenore Ann Grenoble in her book Language Policy in the Former Soviet Union (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003)—by greatly restricting the use of Ukrainian language in the two oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, where most schooling was in Russian only. As a result of these policies, the last Soviet Census, of 1989 reported the population of the two oblasts as 55 percent Ukrainian and 45 percent Russian.
After Ukrainian independence, there were almost immediately Russian voices that claimed that Donbass (as well as Crimea) was in fact part of Russia. The matter became part of the negotiations leading to the Memorandum of Budapest of 1994, a treaty that settled the question of the large quantity of Soviet nuclear weapons left in Ukraine by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. By that treaty, Ukraine agreed to give these nuclear weapons to Russia (which it did), and Russia agreed to respect “the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” — thus abandoning its claims on Donbass (and Crimea).
In 2014, however, after the ousting of the pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which Russian propaganda depicted (falsely, as I discussed in a previous Bitter Winter article) as a Western-organized coup to promote anti-Russian interests, Putin invaded and annexed Crimea, and Russian soldiers without uniforms entered the Donbass to support a pro-Russian separatist revolt. This was a clear breach of the Memorandum of Budapest of 2014, which did not make Russia’s respect of the borders of Ukraine contingent on the kind of government, pro-Russian or otherwise, or even democratic or non-democratic, Ukraine would have in the future.
Unlike in Crimea, Ukrainian troops and anti-Russian militias managed to organize an effective resistance in Donbass, which led to intervention of Russian forces, this time with uniforms, and to a ceasefire signed in Minsk (“Minsk I”) on September 5, 2014. Minsk I left to the pro-Russian separatists roughly one-third of the territory of the two oblasts, where the two pseudo-independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk had been established with Russian support. The other two-thirds remained under Ukrainian control.
On February 12, 2015, a second Minsk agreement (“Minsk II”) was signed, where Russia agreed that the territories of the pseudo-republics of Donetsk and Luhansk should return to Ukraine, which in turn should grant a broad autonomy to the two oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk as a whole, including provisions for the use of the Russian language.
The Minsk II agreement was never implemented. The territories of the pseudo-republics were never given back to Ukraine, as their leaders claimed they could not disregard the referendums they had organized in May 2014, where the majority had voted for independence.
Ukraine answered that few would take seriously referendums held in a situation of military occupation, and at any rate referendums cannot be a solution, one reason being that according to United Nations figures at least 30 percent of the whole population of the two pseudo-Republics had been expelled or had escaped to Ukraine, and could not vote in any referendum. On the other hand, Ukraine never implemented the measures for autonomy and promotion of the Russian language in the areas of Donbass that remained under its control.
It does not follow from this that those living in the two oblasts, if given a choice, would like to separate from Ukraine and join Russia. The Ukrainians living in those two-thirds of Donbass controlled by Ukraine until 2022 have never expressed these intentions, nor have they fled en masse to the pseudo-republics and Russia. The opposite is true: 1.6 million Ukrainians have fled from the pseudo-republics to Ukraine, and in 2022, when Russian troops are advancing or threatening to advance in the Donbass, hundreds of thousands more Ukrainians, many Russian-speaking, are fleeing to the western part of Ukraine or to countries of the European Union.
Periodically, both the Ukrainian and the pro-Russian troops and militias have tried to control more territory in the Donbass, leading to more than seven years of what was called a low-intensity war, which became a full-fledged war in 2022.
How many died in this war? It seems reasonable to discard the different figures offered by both Ukraine and Russia, which both have their own propaganda interests. Happily, the situation in Donbass is also monitored by the United Nations. On January 27, 2022, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released its most recent estimate of the victims of the Donbass conflict from 2014 to December 31, 2021. The famous figure of 14,000 casualties, often quoted by pro-Russian comments, comes from this document. In fact, the U.N. estimate is between 14,200 and 14,400 victims.
By no means were these victims all “killed by the Ukrainians.” According to the UN, 10,900 victims were soldiers, of whom 4,400 were Ukrainians and 6,500 pro-Russian combatants of or on behalf of the separatist pseudo-republics. Civilian victims were between 3,400 and 3,500. The latter were in turn not all victims of attacks and of drones and rockets launched by Ukraine against the pseudo-republics. In fact, a part died in the portions of the oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk that remained under Ukrainian control during attacks by separatists.
The UN report also notes that 8.8 percent of all civilian victims come from a single incident, which happened on July 17, 2014, when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot by a missile, and all the 298 who were aboard (283 passengers and 15 crew members) died. While Russian and pro-Russian propaganda has tried to spread several conspiracy theories about the incident, two Dutch investigations concluded that the plane was shot by a surface-to-air missile supplied by Russia to the People’s Republic of Donetsk and fired by the latter’s militias.
In conclusion, there was no “genocide” of the Donbass population by the Ukrainian army. There was a war, provoked by Russia in violation not only of the territorial integrity of a sovereign state but also of the treaty it signed in Budapest in 1994. Like all wars, there were casualties on both sides. Sadly, civilians also died. They were killed, again, by both sides. To claim that all the 14,000 victims of the war in Donbass were “killed by the Ukrainians” is just primitive propaganda. Unfortunately, some in the West uncritically believe and propagate it.
JewsAreSatanic: It wont get to that if Russia maintains the current tempo and bombard every nook and cranny in Jewkraine.
Let me explain how bombing Ukraine to smithereens is the only way to prevent WW3 and a most likely nuclear Holocaust:
The actual problem with all of this is that most people living in the West today, people born after WW2 ended, have never seen a real war. Ukraine bombed the Donbas for 7 years, to include killing civilians and Russia stood by. Russia warned the West not to put Ukraine in NATO, the West ignored it. The West has poured billions into Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia. A few days ago everyone cheered when a Crimean bridge got hit.
Now Russia is hopefully going to actually push Ukraine's shit in. Get this over with. Good for Russia. Maybe if they destroy enough of Ukraine the rest of world will demand a cease fire. If not, if the West refuses to negotiate in good faith, it will lead to an all out world war. While the pain and suffering, the death and destruction would be horrific, it might be exactly what is needed to prevent Western politicians from playing fck games around the world. Maybe if war has a real cost, then the women in pantsuits and men with hidden bank accounts will start acting like adults and begin to think of the citizens they are meant to represent and not the host of Jewish lobby groups that fund their campaigns and provide them a steady stream of young boys and girls to FCK every other weekend.
Bomb Ukraine to ashes. Use tactical nukes and irridate the goddamn place so the khazars will forget their reverse migration out of the deserts.
I can perceive you are bitter with life. In as much as you need urgent help, It’s wrong for anyone to blame you for the deplorable state you’re in, since being an idiot is by genetic inclinations rather than by choice.
phatriqk: I don’t see why Nigerians are quick to side with Ukraine in this war, all the information you’re getting are from mainstream media owned by the United States, it’s glaringly obvious that NATO Aand United States are the ones behind this war intentional provoking Russia to fight, the US is an evil country that seeks to impose itself, culture and democracy in every corner of the world, unfortunately even Russians citizens have been brainwashed into believing that their government is wrong to start this war.!
Mainstream media ko, mainriver media ni. You own a Jean and a tee shirt from western culture. Did they force those on you? You prefer hip hop over your village masquerade dance. Did they force that one on you. The android phone you used to type all these nonsense, did they force it on you? Nairaland doesn’t have features for sanity checks, that’s how you got in here..,strayed from the wild. Nansense.
Babapyro: Today Ukraine is getting bombed back to back,from central kiev to lvov and sumy , thermal plants,dams, energy posts, headquarters of Ukraine armed forces, zelensky's hideout were hit times without number. This is a response to the terrorists attack against Crimean bridge that killed 6 civilians
This is a warning to you fools who think Russia being silent to Ukraine's attack means they're weak, Russia is capable of destroying the whole of Ukraine a 1000 times over if it wishes to.
ecolime: We can now see the true racists between Democrats and Republicans. I love GOPs that are racist, they will let you know straight up and you avoid them. But the evil Democrats, they form woke, all-inclusive but all na wash. They are snakes & hard core pretenders.
Biden and his cohorts are a sham. They act like they truly love non-whites whereas it's only their votes they need.
Their stupid excuse is they don't support the Durban resolutions which includes reparations to former colonies by colonial masters.
China that we much malign even voted YES
This is an eye opener to we asslickers of these Western folks. I love and prefer them to the east because opportunities abound there for everyone irrespective of your origin but the truth is they are RACIST and hate people of my kind of colour.
Our children will always be treated as inferior because they are blacks. I don't see this changing in generations to come.
Sad reality
Racists no doubt, but they're the only white country who's had a black president so far. Your Russia or China would never let that happen.
lhordspy: Where are the evil westerner's chearleaders and supporters? Your slave masters just voted against the stop of your continuos executioning, killings and segregation.
O ye black slaves that fell inlove with the chains.. Time to wake up.
I will keep saying it and always repeating it.
The UK, US, and other evil westerners are nothing but hypocrites. They will always deceives us, we blacks like they do care. They fvcking dont.
Every now and then, blacks are killed and racism is at the highest presently. Just look at the golden Opportunity that presented itself for them to end it, to stop it... to make it go away. Guess what? They refused! They declined ! We blacks are their slaves afterall, why should they allow us free?
Everytime you blacks are killed, they act like they care.. Remember the taking of knees in the english premier league? Remember black live matters streaming on all mainstream media?
Here is the strategy, when there is an upset or uproar, they bring up different consolidations and consolations strategies to calm us like a baby. "Our hearts and prayer are with you in this trying times....... Blah blah Nonsense'
Then 4-5 months later, little by little the fake pity-campaigns vanishes. And then boom! It happens again, another black is killed! then they starts playing by the scripts all over again. That is the strategy there my friends. These guys are hypocrites, pretenders... its all gimmicks, charade, stratagem, ruse ,artifice, gambit, cozenages,cunniness ,deceptions, fakeries, ... Any evil deceptive and manipulative words one can think of.
In a discussion of racism, there is no neutrality. It is either for or against. And Quietness is the loudest form of injustice. Reason why we keep talking till we are heard
- A wise nairalander
The joke is on you Bl*ck Monk*ys . Lover of the slave master's chain
8 random girls @ 200k each, most likely. No matter how exposed a woman is, the moment she defies her nature given feminine resolve and essence for monetary benefits, she becomes as valuable as a reusable commodity on the shelf in a mall. Men can pick them at fixed prices without psychological commitments or moral obligations.., more like bend down select.
ZombieSlayer1: Russia aren't hitting civilian targets in Ukraine on purpose. Ukrainian forces hide and shoot out of civilian buildings and when Russia destroys those buildings the Ukrainians start crying. There are video footage of this online. Ukraine even bombed a train carrying ukrainians and claimed it was the Russians but when an unexposed fragment of the missile was analyzed it was discovered to be one used by the Ukrainians, but the news agencies quickly covered up the news. I don't know where you got this "russia military installations in Ukraine". Russia has no military installation in Ukraine, they have military forces there. Russia has pulled their forces out of several regions in Ukraine and concentrated them in the Dunbass and 3 other regions they're more interested in, while the Ukrainians move into the regions vacated by the Russians and claim they've taken over.
If you really want to get the truth about what's happening in Ukraine, look for unbiased news agencies, because MSM and most of these western news agencies are used by the government to control the narrative of things happening around the world, and currently in Ukraine
Elsueno: They print the dollar, the control d Nobel prize awards....They also porch d best & brightest of every single country in d world especially developing countries......
FYI, I am not understating d U.S, just don't like how Africans especially Nigerians overhype them based on American propaganda...It may suprise U, but in my early teens I used to think they are d embodiment of d free world, I thought Russia was utterly evil based on d movies I saw & Chinese where just thieves who keep stealing U.S ideas & can't innovate at all...but dat all change in 2011 & libya... which prompt me to research, I know understand how completely evil & manipulative a## holes they are...I can see d propaganda everywhere clearly... Russia/China ain't saints but compared to d U.S omoh...EVERY SINGLE CONFLICT ON EARTH HAS D U.S INVOLVED one way or d other & hardly positively
Bros relax. Upon your research you’re still ill informed. Just relax. Drink water.
planetx: Daniel 11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the South push at him: and the king of the North( Putin) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
This Americans are playing with fire over this Ukrainian issue, but we shall see if the BBC and CNN projection of Ukraine winning is true or if biblical prophecies are true.
Bros you dey read back of Bible. No be only king of the North na Sultan of Sokoto.
HITsquad: Brainwashed naive people always go like "Russia is overestimated, ordinary Ukraine dem no fit win blah blah blah"
This war is not between Russia and Ukraine anymore... No no, it's between Russia and the most powerful nation in the world + the whole of European union... Yet Russia still managed to take over about 30% of Ukrainian territory and still holding on to it...?
Before US led NATO and the EU started supplying arms to Ukraine, Russians troops was moon walking all over Ukraine, taking over one third of Ukraine under just few weeks and was about to take the capital Kiev. But everything started going slow immediately the first loads of US and western Cargos arrived.
Plus this is not an all out war as far as Russia is concerned, Russia is holding back, cos Majority of the people in Eastern Ukraine are Russians. So Russian troops are doing their best to avoid hurting those people.
Im supporting Russia, if you think I'm on the wrong side, then maybe you should think again,,, try your best to overcome the western propaganda and brain washing machine they got your brain hooked on...
Russia is not the aggresor here, Russia is not the Villain, rather mother Russia is the Hero! You think otherwise cos that's what the west wants you to think... They are forcing their own ideology on you,,, which is not the only ideology and narrative out there... But you are going with theirs cos it's the only narrative you know about...
That's all you see when you turn on your TV, when you open your mobile phone, when you read the news paper... That's the power of western media... Propaganda and public sentiment is the strongest political weapon in the world. And the west controls 90% of the entire global media. But have you heard the Russian side of the story?
Even if you do... The west will still convince you that it's Putin or Russian propaganda, and you will believe them immediately, why? Cos it's easier to believe someone who already has your sentiment than the other guy. It's all psychology.
This war between East and West have been going on since the cold War... During Russia Soviet Era... It's all about Global dominance. Russia happens to be the only nation that stands up against the West...
Cos The West have been bullying the rest of the world since the beginning...
I'm not going to go through history, but the only thing I will tell you is that the West is not who they want you to believe they are... They say they stand for Democracy... But their democracy happens to be on double standard... Democracy only counts when you are their friend or should I say their ass licker!
US have been invading sovereign nations since God knows when... Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan,Syria, Korea e.t.c.... And when they do they will convince you that it's liberation, that they are the hero... No one has ever sanctioned US for all their invasions and war crimes.
But Russia invaded Ukraine for the same reasons... To liberate the people of Donbass in the Eastern Ukraine.... These people are practically Russians and have held not less than 3 referendums in the past to leave Ukraine, yet US and the west turned blind eyes,,, cos Ukraine is their puppet and a strategic location for their aged long political war against Russia!
The Donbas region have been waging a war against Ukrainian government for over 10 years now, cos they don't want to be part of Ukraine... That's until mother Russia decided to come to their rescue... The same liberation mission the U. S have been launching in Asia and Middle East since the beginning of history, no single difference... Russia even had more rights to invade Ukraine than the US had to invade Asian countries... Cos Donbas people are practically Russians.
But they are getting sanctioned from all directions... That's bullying.
I Can go on and on, on why US is not who they claim they are.
And by the way... Russia struck a deal with the west... A deal that will allow Russia navy to make way for Ukraine to export wheats to Africa and poor countries, Russia agreed in order to help solve hunger issues in Africa... But did you know that instead of Africa and poor nations, those wheats were shipped to Europe under US, UN and EU supervision...which Putin has been bashing the west for! To make up for that, Same Russian offered to ship tons of Russians fertilizer free of charge to Africa to help boost African agriculture and solve hunger issues... Since the western sanctions won't let them export those fertilizers... But you won't see all that on the western news.
Lol my fellow Africans, the West doesn't mean well for us, they never have, from slavery to colonization.... These people are not our friends.
My brother you really try, to sidon type all these nonsense. More grease to your elbow
Stronghold91: You are a fool more than 40 countries with advanced technology plus attachment of other countries supply weapons to Ukraine fighting only Russia, Russia is the only super power America follow
Russia is the only super power struggling with a clumsy invasion they presumed to be over in 2weeks, for over 7 months now . What do you smoke for a living, biko?
sofeo: Well, not most of the weapons, as U.S is wise enough to know which to produce afresh and which to take from the reserves, and even how and when to replace the one taken from the reserves.
How come U.S didn't run out of weapons in the direct war they fought in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, to the extent that they had to leave lots of equipments, including lots armored military vehicles, tanks, advanced choppers and others behind for the Taliban, after 20 years.
Give U.S some credits plz, we are talking about the biggest economy in the world here.
This analysis is too myopic and shallow.
Correct guy. You know these people. Very cunning sets. Very pre emptive and calculative. What they’re learning in the war far outweighs what they’re spending.
StagethemTVee: Pastor Tobi Adegboyeha of Spac Nation gifts Davido‘s Baby Mama and Fiancee Chioma Rowland, a Birkin Bag worth $95,000 which is about N70,000,000.
According to the Pastor, the bag requires travel documents to kove from one country to the other. He is heard telling the couple, "you can’t carry the bag through the border if you don’t have this document".
Davido was very grateful as he hugged the pastor and shouted, ' My Pastor'.
Okay. Now that we’re both sitting down, look at me and listen. Never quote the Scriptures in defence of your sensual desires. The Old Testament was about the Law. The Law is of the Word and Christ is the Word.