₦airaland Forum

LagBae:
Are you minding them? The lots of them on this post https://www.nairaland.com/8277547/what-else-guy-gain-girl#133037492 saying that if a girl tells them no sex during dating, they will leave, are still the ones shouting "virgin or nothing", with their over used bodies and washed up souls. If that is not a symptom of mental illness, I don't know what is.

officialwdhtvv:
The number of girls that are into hookups in Nigeria Is Outrageous - Lady Reveals

Take a listen!!!

#wetindeyhappentv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsRscqXMIg4

Alexas58:
USA stocks is flashing a dangerous warning!

Tighten your stop losses and sit in trades that are really profitable

A mini bear market might unleash on the USA stock market

One of our indicators the advance decline line has been having a divergence with the DJI!

Bad sign ⚠️

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jvYw3xOmY?si=VbeIfKOcT1CucnaG



https://thenationonlineng.net/sanwo-olu-praises-artists-residents-for-successful-lagos-countdown-2025/



Photos:

1) Olamide

2) Mixed martial artist, Kamaru Usman and Jubril Gawat. Kamaru Usman was in Lagos because the mixed martial art promotion that he owns, the African Knock Out (AKO) staged fights at the Landmark Events Centre during the Christmas holidays. He took the opportunity to attend the Greater Lagos 2025 Countdown concert.

3 and 4) Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat, Wizkid and Commisioner for Toursim, Arts and Culture, Mrs Toke Benson-Awoyinka

zero8zero:
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) says the 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) Port Harcourt Refinery and Kaduna Refinery are undergoing a comprehensive overhaul, designed to meet world-class standards.

The company said the rehabilitation done at the 60,000 bpd Port Harcourt Refinery and Warri Refinery was not the typical Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) of the past, but a comprehensive overhaul, designed to meet global standards.

The Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd., Olufemi Soneye made the clarification in a statement on Thursday while responding to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comments on the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries.

The former president had earlier expressed doubts about the operational status of the rehabilitated 60,000 bpd Port Harcourt refinery and Warri refinery.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/764892-kaduna-second-ph-refineries-undergoing-comprehensive-overhaul-nnpc.html

Biodun556:
Construction of the Lagos Blue Line Rail Phase 2 is progressing well

Stations under construction:
Okokomaiko ✅
LASU Gate/Alaba Rago ✅
Volks ✅
Trade Fair ✅
Abule-Ado/Alakija ✅
Agboju ✅

- Journalist KC



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rc3W2hzI_Q?si=j6enWvm30pffy4YC

shoodboi2:
Thanks for this. Actually, this issue has been making rounds over the past four to five years. No one likes it too and we all used to condemn it and talk about how it indicates the poverty in Lagos. People even used it to mock APC at some point. The issue has to do with the lady Islamizing the whole thing and trying to attribute it to Islam. This event happens everywhere -- even in the East.

shoodboi2:
Thank you for your insight. I didn’t even know the crowd used to go to Abiola’s house. Plus I never heard that they go during Muslim festivals. I, like most people, assumed they only went to Tinubu’s house at the end of the year.

Actually, this news about people lining up outside Tinubu’s house for handouts at the end of the year, has been making headlines over the past 4/5 years. And no one ever attributed it to religion. It’s even more of an ethnic thing than anything.

Blord, one rich dude who is under 30 years old, did something similar for his people in his town. And many Igbo millionaires do something similar in their villages too. And I know that many politicians and rich folks in the North and here in the South West do the same too. Such is quite common around Nigeria and has nothing to do with religion and it’s quite normal that people go to the houses of rich folks for money and food at the end of the year.

My grouse with the article has to do with the writer trying to frame it as a Muslim thing. It clearly has nothing to do with Islam, yet the dumbo writer attributed it to Islam and their the anti-Muslim squad here on nairaland is suddenly going on with it. I actually researched the so-called Abimbola Adelakun’s post on Punch (after reading your post) and she appears to have an anti-Muslim sentiment.

In all, I just thought it was necessary to comment to counter the anti-Muslim sentiment that Nairaland has been spreading over the past few years. Thank you for your insight once again.

Ilekokonit:
What the bastard drug dealing treasury looter called Bola Ahmed Tinubu (who was last week globally voted as the 3rd most corrupt president of the world for 2024) should have done once he stole, rigged and bribed his way into Aso Rock was to institute a social security system all across Nigeria where there is a legal minimum backed by law that the state must provide to EVERY unemployed person regularly and paid direct into their bank accounts like they do in civilized countries instead of the rubbish that the drug crazed Tinubu currently enjoys viewing on his street.

Eranko jatijati (Bloody Animal)

Nemere2020:
Rather than having them line up on the streets just so they can be handed a pittance after they have been deemed to have suffered enough, why not establish proper feeding centres in several zones in Lagos, where people can show up at scheduled times to pick whatever welfare items you want to give them? Philanthropy should not require that people be debased before they are fed. We get it, maintaining a crowd feeds your inner Narcissus, but what of the associated risks of that many people standing by the roadside? Then there is the issue of the public resources that would need to be regularly deployed to maintain security around that place. As he is president, security agents must have had to heighten surveillance activities around his house to ensure that mischief-makers do not hide among those beggars. Why the need for that much waste when there are far more efficient ways of doing things? He can redirect the people to the feeding centres where trained personnel will take care of the business smoothly and humanely. If he does not want to run a charity programme all year round, the centres can do it quarterly. What matters is that the “human” is not taken out of humanitarianism.

Looking at that sight, I have also wondered if Tinubu ever spares a thought for his neighbours who invested in real estate only to be forced to endure the nuisance of beggars invading the area, especially around festive periods. Prime real estate as a place like Bourdillon Road claims to be should ideally be typified by an aesthetically pleasing environment. Three factors typically differentiate quality real estate—access (to cultural centres and the added benefit of the nearness of transportation infrastructure such as the airport), appearance (serenity, clean and well-maintained environment, good air quality, etc.) and amenities (from excellent public schools to well-maintained public parks). If you live in a place like Bourdillon Road, the last thing you should ever wake up to see is the endless queue of beggars. Otherwise, what is the point of purchasing luxury?

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty. If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance. That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

If how he thinks this is the way fathers of actual prosperous nations like the United Arab Emirates imagined wealth generation, the country would not be the haven that drives Nigerian leaders to rob people to just to buy their luxury estates. The difference in their respective mindset largely explains why his approach to economic reforms is to first beggarise the nation. His reforms could have been activated with a view toward generating prosperity not a sadistic mentality that relishes seeing someone with five Rolls Royce reduced to nothing, but no. Thanks to his vision, Nigeria now has more beggars, on the streets, social media, public bureaucracies, and corporate offices, likely more than at any time in its history. You can hardly greet people online these days without getting a request from someone begging for money.
https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

shoodboi2:
If you want to address the issue of people lining up in front of Tinubu's house, address it. What concerns Muslims with this? Or did the author go around asking the people lining up whether they are Muslims or otherwise? He started well but that part where he tried attributing it to Islam is wrong.

People line up in front of politician houses every year. Growing up in Lagos back then, area boys used to come to my dad's house to collect their sallah money and they would always create a big scene until our dad settled them 😁 Such behavior is not unusual and has nothing to do with religion.

Lithiumite:
Is that lady his mum?

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLRex_RbP40?si=l5MW5LoIpQLLpbXm

Babajide Sanwo-Olu @jidesanwoolu


https://x.com/jidesanwoolu/status/1874566246961741849?t=Dmmv7mEJbmRMaBlb4S7VzQ&s=19[/quote]That's impressive. I love the way Anthony has been well received by the Ogun State and Lagos State Governors and made a sports Ambassador for Ogun with a boxing gym to be named after him, and the promise of a house to be built for him in Sagamu by the Governor of Ogun State.

The Milwaukee Bucks 2-time MVP, NBA star Giannis 'Sina Adetokunbo [whose late biological father Charles Adetokunbo passed on in 2017 and was buried with his Adetokunbo family name boldly inscribed on his tombstone in Milwaukee] and his mum would have been well received by the Governors of Lagos and Ogun States (where Giannis' father comes from) as well in celebration of his visit in late 2023 to Nigeria. I don't know who the hell planned that trip without including visits to the Governors of both states and many folks in Nigeria didn't even know he visited Lagos until he had left for his U.S. base.

In any event... It's cool that Anthony Olufemi Olaseni Joshua (AJ) being a Prince from the Royal family lineage of Sagamu is connected to his Nigerian roots despite being a British-Nigerian whose biological father has part Yoruba paternal roots and part Irish maternal roots. AJ's mother is however a full-blooded Yoruba woman from Sagamu. Diasporan Nigerian kids too must be given proper grounding by their parents about their ancestral roots with at least annual visits to Africa if time permits (just like the Diasporan Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese, South Koreans, etc, are doing by organizing language and culture immersion classes for the kids in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, etc.) Your children will need these be able to master their environments and for future business and cultural ties to the Motherland.

This is unlike the British-born Kemi Badenoch who was awefully and strangely disconnected from her Nigerian reality despite the FACT that she was the UK's Minister of International Trade and Business when her political party was still in government as of 2024. Kemi led a powerful trade delegation to Lagos and Abuja in February 2024 to have talks with senior government and business officials to further stimulate International trade ties between the UK and Nigeria (which happens to be the UK's biggest trade partner on the African continent). Channels Television still has a video of that trade visit by Kemi to Nigeria for those who may not be aware of this fact.

naptu2:
He is wearing a pickelhaube.

press9jatv:
Anthony Joshua visit Tinubu at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos State. Wow beautiful here.

Morbeta11:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/benue-unveils-state-owned-beer-reports-n1-billion-yuletide-spending-on-alcohol/

CaveAdullam:
1. When you have verified that someone genuinely loves you, don't break that person's heart. Choose death rather. Or, end the relationship early.

Because not all lovers are weak. Betrayal may trigger their vindictive instinct and they'll come for your jugular like a vampire.

2. Don't bank on promises.

See promises as mere talk. Never abandon your path because someone promised you a brighter future.

3. Have a clear map of what you are doing. Have a plan.

What do you want in life?

Once you answer that question, you'll be able to see all the channels that lead to your destination.

4. Don't care what people will say.

They will mock you. They will ridicule you.

Don't pay attention to their statements. Follow your plan to the end.

5. Seek truth.

If your heart is always in the pursuit of truth, you'll gain knowledge and learn wisdom.

You don't need a preacher or counselor to constantly be on your doorposts advising you.

6. Appreciate beauty.

Stay away from ugliness of any form. Ugliness will always make you dwell on the negative side of life.

Appreciate beautiful nature. Stare at beautiful people and architecture.

7. Be kind.

8. Eye for eye. Tooth for tooth.

Don't allow criminals or sociopaths to go scot-free.

Forgiveness should come after punishment.

9. Learn to see the light in people.

No one is utterly useless.

However, don't pay attention to the unrepentant fool.

10. Learn to provide value.

Value will give you what you want or attract you to the people you admire.

11. Don't beg for food.

Don't beg for money.

Better to die poor and broke than to become a beggar.

Refuse to see begging as your last option.

Your ego should block you from begging.

It is better to do the dirtiest and most dangerous work to put food on your table than beg people.

Begging will hinder you from creating value and achieving freedom.

12. Always be optimistic.

No matter how tragic your travails are, be optimistic that one day you'll overcome.

Pessimism is a joy spoiler. You'll end up corrupting your soul and never see good in yourself or others.

13. Don't be an introvert.

Be part of a community.

No man is an island. Among others, you'll find a solution to some of your problems.

14. Learn to give. Be hesitant to receive.

The giver is always higher than the receiver.

Givers are lords over receivers. Just as it is better to be a lender than a borrower.

15. Dress nice. Smell nice.

Luxury isn't only in the cost. How you wear luxury matters.

Hardly anybody will ask you the cost of your shoes and clothes. So, you don't need to break the bank.

16. Life is a marathon. But it's better to run like a cheetah than walk like a snail.

Resources in life are scarce; first come, first serve.

Make smart moves always.

17. Avoid procrastination.

What needs to be done today should not be carried over to tomorrow. Because tomorrow might be too late.

18. Think in years, not days, weeks, or months.

This will help you know how to calibrate your time and work.

If I continue doing this for 5 years where will I be in the next 5 years?

It's important to curtail your foolishness early.

19. Hope is not a strategy.

Good work is.

Make sure you are doing something meaningful instead of wishing for a pool of Bethsaida miracles.

Those who work have no fear of the future.

20. Value people that value you.

Don't waste time on people who see you as trash. Except you are making money from them. However, dignity is better than the price of labor.

21. Don't just learn a skill.

Learn a skill you can easily leverage before the big success.

22. Humans are cunning and manipulative. Even you.

Learn to understand the game. And learn to protect your integrity.

23. People want you to fail. Because your failure will prove their points against you.

It's more reason you must work hard to prove them wrong.

They are your motivating factor for success, albeit from a contradictory angle.

24. Don't be afraid of failure.

You'll fail. So, allow yourself to fail.

Failure is part of progress. Life circumstances are not linear. It's haphazard and random.

Failure will teach you a good lesson.

Thanks.

Biodun556:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh25z7FpJAA?si=dmQZ3Tdk9UYwZBhI



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjMRCG7Mjg?si=ss3rSKeiNFrlbWpR

cocolacec:
I farm small scale and large scale in Osun state,it is true we face herders clash from time to time but i will never give up farming because of some nuisance.The police come in form time to time to settle the matter and they pay compensation.

If all southerners form ourselves into groups to safeguard our farm assets no Fulani herder will overpower you,Instead they will run away from us because of the power of numbers.
The herders recently encroached my farm to feed their cows my maize farm,we are on top of the situation.If we all stop farming because of herders we can all starve to death in our home and allow herders take over our God given land.

mcjohny:
Wonderful potatoes take less than 3 months to fully mature and can be watered even with a watering can😁

cocolacec:
I also farm and only buy few essentials from the market.Subsistence farmimg is the way to go in Nigeria but the masses are lazy waiting for govt to do everythimg which their mum and dad failed to do for them.

Goodday90:
I harvested some potatoes today in the garden beside my house in Lekki-Ajah. Grow some food; your little effort can help reduce food costs. Do something, not just tweet criticism of the government.

-Bayo Onanuga