₦airaland Forum

MissRaine69:
1) Permit me to ask... are you an Ob/Gyn...
and where is your base?
Yes and I am based in Europe & Lagos (sometimes)

2) OK... it looks like uncooked spaghetti. So that contraception implant
goes into the VaJay- No it is implanted just beneath the skin upper part of the arm and works for up to 3 years

3. Regarding the situation you described in Makoko it’s a place with a population of around 100K+ and it’s sill growing.
It’s a city within a city with a complex culture and tradition so a mainstream approach will not work. Health has to
always be adapted to suit the needs of those that access it.

"No it is implanted just beneath the skin upper part of the arm and works for up to 3 years"

Regarding the situation you described in Makoko it’s a place with a population of around 100K+ and
it’s still growing. It’s a city within a city with a complex culture and tradition so a mainstream approach
will not work. Health has to always be adapted to suit the needs of those that access it.

Akorkor:
How I wish our government can spread their tentacles in establishing more companies to other states in Nigeria. Osogbo is one of the good place I can boast I have lived in Nigeria. Constant electricity, low crime rate, low cost of living, good life, average social life and nice environment to raise a child. I wish our train system is working well, I would have been living in osogbo and work in Lagos. I am not scared of putting things in fridge when I was in osogbo. In fact, some days I prayed there is light off because of frozen food.

If you can get a good job in osogbo, it’s a good place to live. I lived in a one bedroom flat that cost 150k then and I have also stayed in a room self contained before that cost 70k. Transportation as at that time was 30naira. I can leave my house at 7:30 and get to my place of work at 7:40. Sometime I leave work during lunch hour to come to house to eat. Life is good in osogbo and some other state.

Lagos is overrated. I hope people stop rating Nigeria based on their Lagos experience.

Constant electricity, low crime rate, low cost of living, good life, average social life and nice environment to raise a child. I wish our train system is working well, I would have been living in osogbo and work in Lagos. I am not scared of putting things in fridge when I was in osogbo. In fact, some days I prayed there is light off because of frozen food.

What then is the problem in Osun?

The folks there should not be suffering economically
since there is constant electricity like you and 2 other
Nlanders above you have confirmed.

That state should do away with the civil service
structure and industrialise more, with agribusiness
as a tool to rev up the living standards of her citizens
instead of some people waiting for government
salaries at the end of the month which can get
delayed!

Ishilove:
Daddy wa, agbalagba ni yin. E sir, you were already reading about Postinor before i was even born. Yes, I was born just around the time bell bottoms and Afros were phasing out and Jerry curls were all the rage, but long before the era of those hideous shoulder pad clothes and ghastly make up. The swinging 80s!

Age, they say, is a thing of the mind and I am glad to know you are youthful at heart. After all ko'sa arugbo n'Ghana.

I was prepping for work when I decided to take a peek into Nairaland.

So Ishilove [I love that name], do have a great time at work...
while take a a guarded peek into Nairaland affairs.

Cheers!


PS: Read this when you're free from the office:
1.https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2015/jan/24/the-history-of-flares-in-pictures

2.https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/natural-development-afro-comeback-article-1.1396463

Megatrix:
You're talking like an ignoramus. Dapo may still have been a child when Arthur made his first billions. That man you're calling Agama lizard is the owner of some of the most lucrative oil wells in Nigeria and across Africa.

Prince Dapo Abiodun is a billionaire oil mogul and CEO/founder of Heyden
Petroleum. He was also the former DAPMA boss [the umbrella organisation
of depot owners] and that is the reason why he visited Prince Authur
Eze because all these guys in the oil industry know one another! It was
only in the 1990s that Authur Eze made his money from the oil and gas
sector oil wells.

I have a deep knowledge of how the oil wells were allocated to
these people listed below based on a publication I've had in my pocession
since 1991 on the major players that took part in the round of oil
well bidding in the early 1990s.

Prince Authur Eze first made his crude oil billions in the early 1990s
after he and other local Nigeria players such as High Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs,
Theopilus Danjuma, Mrs Alakija's Famfa Oil, Otunba Mike Adenuga, MKO Abiola,
Mr. Afolabi [who is the billionaire father of "LAX" the young Nigerian musician]
and more were given oil blocks offshore to explore... and they spent a lot
of money... running into millions without some of them striking oil and gas
after concluding their rounds of bidding.

Mrs. Alakija, High Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, Otunba Mike Adenuga, Prince Authur Eze
were fortunate to have struck crude oil and gas rather quickly, but Otunba Mike
Adenuga was the FIRST among all of them to strike oil and gas.

The Nigerian-American Kase Lawal who is originally from Ibadan found some oil and
gas with his CAMAC Group, but it was NOT of commercial quantity, so he lost money.
He later struck oil and gas in Colombia in commercial quantity.

MKO Abiola also did not strike oil in commercial quantity.

I hope this helps

ferhyntorlah:
Nigerian Aviation History Class 101!

A special thank you goes to Mr Konquest and Mr Naptu for the history class. My knowledge base about Nigerian aviation has been increased.

It's a pity Nigeria has no national air carrier at the moment. Mismanagement has always been the problem of Nigeria for a very long time.

Ishilove:
Twale baba!

Ishilove, you are making me to have a
VERY GOOD laugh here... very therapeutic. I didn't
know you are this hilarious!

Who NO like better thing?
That's the way we roll.

Twale to you too for digging
up this post!

Ishilove:
Early 1980s??

Wow, I insist on calling you 'Daddy wa' henceforth.

Ishilove [Mummy wa], you are very funny!
Is that supposed to be a compliment or what?

I bursted out laughing here because I wasn't expecting
that comment from you. You that is talking, are you
not in your 30s... you write and act in a mature style
so I know so.

Please don't spoil market for me... I'm very much
young at heart. You've already LOST 10 points
with me. Anymore infractions from you, and you
lose more points!

1. It’s emergency contraception designed initially to help female victims of unprotected
sexual attacks. It is classified as emergency contraception to be used once per cycle
not every week.

2. No. The contraception implant is not the same as femidom. See below

3. Regarding what you describe in Makoko - how many of those girls finish school? If the girl child is
not educated the society as a whole does not progress.

4. If sex education is mandatory the uptake would be better
rather than resort to illegal abortions that leave some women infertile
or dead.

MissRaine69

Permit me to ask... are you an Ob/Gyn...
and where is your base?

Thanks for the deep insights you have
given me from the perspective of a
medical professional... and you write
well too.

All the best and do have a
great time ahead.

MissRaine69:
It’s not about “popularity”
It’s very much a culture and tradition thing
In East and Southern Africa it’s part of the culture

I LOVE it on women... the waist beads and the ankle chains.
There is something liberating about it... the free spirit aura
it gives to women.

I do not know what these folks mean by hoodoo or hexing
with waist beads though. It is all in the mind!

I am a visual guy and very artistic too and have always
loved streamlined works of art.

I love the thin types of beads that are not bogus... Less
is more.

Nobeluscabral:
Where and when did you ye cobra killed the lion?
Qe are waiting for part 2 sir you just waste my data rubbish

blessedvisky:
Konquest read this

blessedvisky

Thanks for adding more illumination to your info on the deadly
nature of the pathogens in snake entrails. Imagine that!
Gosh... pathogens that need INTENSE HEAT to kill them
in boiling water.

There are many people who love smoked and fresh snake pepper
soup in areas in Nigeria... such as Lagos where they are specially
prepared based on what I read 4 years ago. They will need to
be careful! I will never eat snakes but will enlighten those who
intend or love to eat this snake meat to be at alert!

All the best!

MissRaine69:
Implant?
Depo-Provera?
Heard of those?

ezenwajosh:
Open just ordinary dry port in south east or south south... Lagos IGR will drop.... We know those making it possible

MajorJeffery:
I've done this before here with an old moniker about two years ago or so but this still persist. What can I do? I'm already thinking of seeing a therapist but I thought I should raise it here again.

This happens at least three nights every week and in recent dreams, I see myself trying to help him achieve a feat.

The irony is that sometimes in the dream, it occurred to me that he was dead but yet I still not cared.

This is 10years now that I lost him in a road accident. Even as teenagers, we were so close that we shared clothes and some people thought we were blood brothers.

I discussed this with his mum sometime ago and she told me she had a feeling her dead son was existing somewhere and that got me thinking. Could this be true?

MajorJeffery, this is the first time I'll be sharing this with
anyone.

Well we [soul] are all occupying the physical body. It is like a
piece of cloth that we put on and discard at the end of the day.
There is nothing to be worried about because some of these things
are symbolic and there are lessons to be learned.


Mum passed in December 2010 and occasionally I have vivid dreams of me
and her talking and I learned from her. I know she is fine where she is and
I have NO fear because it is a communication between 2 souls. One passed
on to a higher spiritual dimension... and is operating at a higher state of
vibration than our physical planet. After my mum passed and I first had a vivid
encounter with her in my dream, I thought she was ALIVE and I was very
happy, but when I WOKE, I became sad because it was in the dream
state. But I'm always learning when occassionally I have those
encounters with her. Her mission in the physical world had ended
and we are going through our unfinished business too on earth.


People have given vivid accounts of "near-death-experiences" where they
saw their physical bodies while in the hospital operating room or accident
sites, and where pronounced dead. But they later came back into the physical
bodies to give a vivid account of what happened while they had been certified
dead. It shows that there is life after the so-called death of the physical body,
but on a higher state of vibration.

I hope this helps you to resolve this experience about your good friend.
He is okay where he is, based on his state of consciousness.

#Great thread.


All the best!

Deicide:
Most females are into contraceptive pills so no need for condoms.

MissRaine69:
Why are most women averse to men using condoms? Yet risk the same women regularly risk their lives, by repeatedly having back street abortions. The same women who will kneel in churches years later and cry about their childlessness state. If you don’t want to have children why not use condoms?

MissRaine69, are you are medical doctor?


Gosh...!

CDs are meant to protect against pregnancies
and STIs to some extent.

But in the event that an alternative is needed,
why NOT go for Postinor and avoid pregnancies
instead of using the so-called withdrawal
tactics?

I first read about Postinor in 1991. I still have the
medical magazine where the article was written.

There is even another product that you can use
without D&C abortions that I read about in that
same magazine.

Females should stop taking RISKS because the
ovulation cycle is not an EXACT science and
hormonal changes can make ovulation come earlier
than usual... then BOOM... pregnancy results.

No doubt, a lot of men are clueless about the
fact that females get intensely Hot during the
ovulation cycle because of high estrogen hormones
raging in the system and can easily get pregnant
during that period because of the strong desire
for copulation/sex. Females also love it... but
not with just anybody.


#Nice topic

Ishilove:
Christ...

MajorJeffery:
@Konquest,
Thanks for the insight especially how corrupt politicians and their wives killed out Nigeria Airways, I never heard or read about that.

Yea Nairaland is full of funny people. These days, I mostly see it as fun place so I don't usually bother about silly trolls. With people like you, one can still learn here. Thanks again Sir.

I have a friend, a Nigerian too and a former US Airforce officer who now Flies for Southwest Airlines. This is what he told me sometime ago when we discussed these two Aircrafts. He said Boeing is like Toyota while Airbus is Honda and concluded that I should go figure. We laughed it off and gulped down our remaining glasses of cognac and called it a day. I still haven't figured because the only Boeing plane I've ever flown is Boeing V-22. Aside that, all I fly is F-35, F/A 18, EA-6B and a few others. One of the times I came home via Emirate in an A380 jumbo jet, I was allowed into the Cockpit for some reason and the flight control equipment I saw was massive I must say but I think they were unnecessarily excessive.

naptu2:
Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin.


He had lots of companies back in the day. Many of them were named after Okada.

They included Okada Bottling Company (Canada Dry), Okada Brewery, Mid-West Motors
(chinese trucks, buses and motorcycles), Crown Estate (real estate and construction),
Okada Wonderland (amusement park) and of course, the famous Okada Air
(we always had free or half priced tickets in my family).

Wow@naptu, Good morning to you!

You had free and/or half priced tickets from Okada Air?
You and your family must have been the "BIG KAHUNAS"
to have enjoyed such benefits.


I assume you had aviation professionals in your family to have enjoyed
those perks on domestic or international flights from Okada Air.

blessedvisky:
It's a female cobra. OP, you, under no circumstances, eat the internal organs and eggs of a snake!!!

Are you listening?? The body is ok but the Viscera is a NO

You are lucky sha. That snake was probably looking for where to lay eggs and the next generation of cobras would have been born


Lalasticlala come see this

Kindly respond to this... Is it bad to eat the
Viscera[the internal organs and eggs of a
snake as you indicated or you were just joking?].

I've never eaten a snake and I NEVER WILL
because of what I've seen on Discovery
Channel's Predators Gone Wild.

Those animals have killed people and other
animals as well. I've seen a cobra kill a male
lion on Nat Geo Wild.

Even lions attack giraffes and elephants
with impunity now in the African wild
jungles. I just dislike snakes, lions, and
crocodiles when they attack especially
human beings.

Ishilove:
Konquest, Air Molue was mass produced by technocrats like
Fadeyi Oloro and his league of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Oh!... OK... I see where you are headed Ishi.

I love his thread and all the contributions by everyone
on it.

MajorJeffery:
You flew Nigeria Airways in 1988? . I never knew we have responsible elders in this forum. Massive respect Sir.

I heard Boeing is currently working on producing another Sonic plane just like Concorde. That plane was on fire back then.

MajorJeffery

How are you doing once again?
I love the way you used visually appealing
pictures on this thread which I found because
it was shared by Ishilove.


... You got me giggling over here
about the RESPONSIBLE ELDERS!


Yeah, NL has real people who are members, otherwise I would
have stopped using NL because of some trolls who populate
especially the politics section. Since 2005 that I started using
NL, I have met a lot of good people and wrapped up businesses
on here.

Concorde was a great plane... unfortunately I never got to
fly on board that plane and I regret NOT doing so. That Air France Concorde
plane crash on July 25, 2000 in France due to a burst tyre which shattered
the fuel tank as it was taxing off from the tarmac caused the tank
to burst into flames and within 6 minutes after take off, it
crashed into a hotel near the airport as it was trying to land
again... killing all passengers and people on the ground as well.
See one of the amateur videos taken by people on the ground
as the plane flew a a ball of flames below:

Enjoy the videos!

All the best!

ijustdey:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-pdp-ate-into-south-west-in-2019-elections.html

APC won all the Senatorial seats in Ekiti and delivered votes for PMB
in all the LGAs were APC won. It is some internal wranglings
within some APC states in the West, such as Ondo and Oyo especially
that led to the marginal loss in those states to APC and
this should serve as a lesson to APC to resolve issues
quickly instead of allowing their aggrieved members with BIG
EGOS to go to court or to leave the party like in those states
across Nigeria.

Other political parties also had internal issues like
the PDP did in Ogun State where Gbenga Daniel formerly
of the PDP ended up supporting Prince Dapo Abiodun of
APC who happens to be his close friend.

Buruji Kashumu of the factional PDP also immediately
visited Prince Dapo Abiodun to congratulate him on
his victory at the polls on the platform of APC.

DearDotun:
Cheap UK Laptops in Lagos. Check my signature.

AutoReportNG2:
Talk of a man who sees opportunity in strange and dangerous places in Africa, the name Dangote may be within the first 10. Dangote, the richest man in Africa is leaving no stones unturned in making sure that the Dangote Refinery comes to actualization and this time, very soon. Dangote is known as a guru in household items like sugar, salt, cement, noodles and lots more. This time, the billionaire is spreading his tentacles to oil and gas.

While there have been mixed feelings in the sector over the actualization of this dream and if this refinery won't be delay due to the Nigerian factor, the Executive Director Devakumar Edwin, who oversees the project, described the suggestion that the refinery is unlikely to start production until 2022 as the product of “someone’s wild imagination”.

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“Ninety-five percent of engineering has been completed, 90 percent of procurement has been completed.” “We started civil works in July last year and we have scheduled 2-1/2 years for mechanical completion,” he said, referring to the point where a plant is ready to be handed over for commissioning.

Aliko Dangote himself had said he hoped to finish building the refinery, which will cost between $12-14 billion in 2019 and to start production in early 2020.

AutoReportNG got some exclusive images and videos from the construction sites and we noticed some giant construction ongoing at the site, they are so massive that ordinary cameras either phone or traditional ones cannot capture its magnificent except drones. It will be a miracle if National Geographic didn't feature this on its documentary channel. Base on the images, we saw that the Temp. Pier & Underwater Pipe Lines Construction is underway about reaching its conclusion, we also a gigantic distillation component. It is learned that the component is one of the biggest in the world as the refinery is billed to start producing petroleum and allied products later this year.

The 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery near Lagos, is Africa’s biggest and is expected to turn Nigeria from an importer of refined products into an exporter, transforming global trade patterns.

These are images and videos AutoReportNG got for you.

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Satelliate Images

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A well-detailed video of the work done so far...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REsgrHcg0p8

Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/03/lastest-update-from-dangote-refinery.html

Magnificent...

Just a quick observation. Because cars in some countries
are transiting to alternative sources of energy or fuel
does not mean that the Petrochemical industry will be
obsolete.

Petrochemical plants actually need a lot of liquified
petroleum gas as raw materials and the demand in China, India,
and the rest of the world is growing exponentially.

Ishilove:
Let them use the well known Air Molue. Very safe and better than Airbus and Boeing

Ishilove... Which one is Air Molue?

Is it the legendary Edo flying broom
stick or what?

MajorJeffery:
I know that Airbus planes are very fuel efficient and better in tech but I'll like to get more opinion. Also, I've noticed that older and experienced pilots prefer Boeing to Airbus while younger ones prefer Airbus especially A330.

Even passengers are not left out. Many always look forward more to flying A380 than they look forward to flying B787Dreamliner.

Pilots and frequent flyers, your opinions are needed.

NB: I'm not a commercial airliner pilot though I'll consider it much later.

Cc Lalasticlala Ishilove

"Gba fun Olorun Airways" is the best...

"Gba fun Olorun Airways" means "Surrender to God
Airways" in English.


Okay... I love Airbus products. The first Airbus I ever flew
aboard was a Nigeria Airways Airbus A310 in 1988
to Abidjan in Cote d Ivoire... just next door to
Ghana and it was a fantastic, wide body aircraft. I also
flew back to MMIA Lagos from Abidjan on board another A310.
Nigeria bought 4 Airbus A310s in the 1980s and non ever
crashed.


I have also flown aboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
and it was pure heaven. Premium Economy section.
Very sleek plane IMHO.


Airbus products give me more confidence though
because they seem to have less historical aircrashes in
my opinion. So, yes I give it to Airbus and look
forward to flying that big bird called Airbus A380
before they phase it out like they did to the Super
Sonic plane called Concorde, which was phased
out by British Airways and Air France after the
very fatal plane crash in France in the year 2000.
On July 25, 2000 precisely.


All the best!

olas24u:
https://www.thecable.ng/lagos-igr-rises-n32-99bn-higher-33-states-put-together/amp?fbclid=IwAR0g5IaGPocHXlXS4490jBDZXRjLb0MsFexbVbwNHy-rZgdhFrb7rkjcjUE

olas24u:
https://www.thecable.ng/lagos-igr-rises-n32-99bn-higher-33-states-put-together/amp?fbclid=IwAR0g5IaGPocHXlXS4490jBDZXRjLb0MsFexbVbwNHy-rZgdhFrb7rkjcjUE

olas24u:
Abia oil fields are not profitable enough to attract serious investors.

Yes correct... but the Ndoki or Ukwa East LGA part of Abia which produces
the small crude oil and gas also extends into Rivers State. Infact, the larger
part of Ndokiland is in Rivers State and they are some of the biggest
producers of crude oil and gas income for Rivers State. It is from the oil and gas
fields of the Ndoki people that gas is being tapped for the proposed
Geo Metrics Power Plant in Abia which will soon be inaugurated.


There was a time in 2009, I read online that some Ndokis of Ukwa East
LGA in Abia wanted a merger with their kith and kin in Rivers State
because Abia governments allegedly where not taking good
care of them ... and they lacked infrastructure as oil producing
communities.

All the best.