₦airaland Forum

Onyiibazz: It's unarguable that you must have a problem of comprehension or that you dont understand simple english or that you're still a teenager who wasn't born in the era of highlife, otherwise you wouldn't even think of naming flavour, anyways i would still advice you to google what highlife in the original sense of it meant so that you stop classifying evry song that has a touch of local beats and percussions as hi-life!

Bros, take am easy with the young guy! Afterall, Flavour did a remix of Rex Lawson's songs that earned him international acclaim. And Jimmy Rex Lawson was a fine highlife musician!

Lucasbalo: Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey Late Ayinde Barrister rocks.

The topic stated clearly "highlife", and NOT Fuji music (i.e. Ayinde Barrister) or Juju music as dished out by Sunny Ade & Ebenezer Obey.

Don't you kids know the difference Haba!!

Anwuliken: Run your industrial generator with N38 per litre black oil (lpfo)

LPFO congeals if it is not properly stored in a tank with heating coils. Are you sure you have factored this into your proposal/

I would be more interested in converting a diesel generator to run on LPG gas (e.g propane) or cooking gas/butane.

There is a huge untapped market for gas-powered appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, gas grills, air-conditioners etc.

If these were available locally, I would just kick Eko Disco out of my premises and generate my own power 24/7. Am sure I would make huge savings.

debbleopto: I don't see you thinking this very deep to separate theory from practical ; apparent from real. if the millions using kerosene shift to gas the price will be so high that you will personally impeach your president. You know the Nigeria content(corruption ). The hoarding stuff. What of the pipe is broken or vandalized? Look into the future before you venture into it.

Er... no. I don't think the price would be too high. In fact, it would drop at a certain point once the market booms because there would be more sellers, thinner margins etc., and with greater volume driving the demand, prices would eventually stabilise at a middle range.

The problem with gas supply today, is that the bulk of the cooking gas we use comes from NLNG in Bonny, as our local refineries are epileptic and unable to produce cooking gas. Currently, NLNG ties the cost of gas to international prices. There is no subsidy on the cooking gas supplied to the domestic market by NLNG.

If our refineries were working and more marginal fields could also inject LPG into the domestic market, gas prices would become more affordable for the common man.

routsz: I have my 12.5kg right under d sink and about 15feet from d cooker. It is not d best having it in d kitchen but I don't have options as I'm prevented from boring thro d wall for piping, so . . Witnessed gas cylinder explosion while in school those days and it was horrific!

Bros, please listen to everyone's advice on this thread and keep your gas cylinder outside your apartment. If you can't bore a hole through the wall, then make a hole near the kitchen window to pass the hose through to the cylinder once it is placed outside your premises.

SWG1: he is not, some type of stove with special wick is cheaper than gas. i ve used both and compared even some stoves to other stoves

Hello, those types only work for a short while. Within 3 months they start to accumulate soot, grime and all kinds of black dirt which turn the pots black. After a while, they lose their "quick burn" attributes which made them so economical, in the 1st place.

This does not happen with cooking gas, which still continues to burn with a clean flame once the burner is used properly.

You don't have to buy the 12.5 kg cylinder of gas. There are smaller models like the 3 kg and the 6kg cylinder, which work just as well. Also, be careful about where you refill your gas cylinders. The roadside merchants have a way of short-changing customers by not filling the cylinders up to the required mark.

Always make sure you buy a gas connector or valve which has a gauge and can show you the level of gas contained in your cylinder.

sarutobie: person wey get ear make em hear..I know a man who lost his wife and children in one fell swoop as a result of having his cylinders inside the kitchen..

Bros, one of the posters stated that he cannot keep his cylinder outside as he is not allowed to make a hole in the wall for the pipe. So what is the best alternative?

mjizzie: dts true, it will not remain dsame. I use both,kerosene is cheaper, u can buy 5-10 litres of kerosene btw N750-N1500 and use for 2months, but use N1500 filled gas hardly u will use it close to a month. People just dey form here joor...if u are a student , It's wen u av a lot of money wit u, dt is wen u fill ur gas cooker, just to form dt I use gas cooker.

This sounds strange. How much cooking are you doing, that will make 5-10 litres of kerosene last for 2 months? I don't get it oh!

eagleeye2: How much is Total 12.5kg Cylinder? I might need to get another one....... anyone with answers...
NB
OP, please stop using that cylinder and cooker untill it has been checked out. Please, to avoid stories that touch....

An empty 12.5kg cylinder as at today's rates is =N=7,500 to =N=8,000 depending on where you buy it from. To refill the cylinder is =N=3,200 to =N=3,500 depending on where you buy from.

One word of caution: It is better to buy your cooking gas from a fuel station or a gas plant. Try to avoid buying from roadside sellers as it is not clear if they are refilling the cylinders to the correct levels. You might get short-changed, if you don't have a gas connector or valve with a gauge.

Also, try to install a gas detector in your kitchen. There are some which give a high pitched alarm and flashing lights, whenever there is a gas leak. Always ensure that you have a functional fire extinguisher in your kitchen that is properly certified and has not expired.

Stay safe.

Hi, put the cylinder far away from your cooker when it is being used, and please ensure that your kitchen is well ventilated always (i.e. windows are always open). You can also install a small gas detector in your kitchen which can detect gas leaks, and give off an alarm if gas escapes from the cylinder or cooker.

Always ensure your valves are properly fitted and the pipe/hose does not leak. Get a technician to service your burner like once a quarter to ensure that all the soot and grime is removed from the burner so that nothing disturbs the free flow of air.

Finally, get a good fire extinguisher in your kitchen with a clear indicator gauge showing the level of foam or extinguisher material in the cylinder, and learn how to use it in case of an emergency!

Where is it located? Can I bring my mechanic to arrange an inspection? Finally, can it fly for =N=650k?

Pls confirm. I am quite interested!

ayokunlei: that is kind of strict from you o,that you know it doesnt mean that everyone know it, how sure are you that he was calling for attention? Even if he was, why not skip without rendering your harsh reply.... They take things easy o

Bros, sometimes there is a need to be strict. Too many inane topics litter Nairaland. For someone to ask this question, it appears that he or she wants to pursue graduate studies in a uni and must have already finished BSc or BA, not so? Anyone who has attended a university in Nigeria, knows how to get the answer to that question. If they don't, then it means they went to uni to fritter away their time.

If any of my young undergraduate relatives asked this kind of question, I would ask them to go directly to the source - the postgraduate dept within their school! Lazy minds should not be indulged. If you are too weak to walk into any of the PG schools, why not log on to Google and review the various PG courses being offered by the Nigerian universities as well as the entry requirements for each course?

Why do people like being spoon fed with info, from sources that cannot be verified? At the end of the day, you might end up more confused with the plethora of opinions being thrown at you from a social network platform, instead of doing your own research using authentic sources & getting it right.

Aren't undergraduates taught the rudiments of research & learning anymore? What are their lecturers there for? What are the PG schools set up to do? And the counselling units? Even the OP's question was rather open-ended.... no specific course or uni was stated.

Why do people like going to Sokoto to find out what is at the hem of their 'sokoto' (i.e. trousers) as my Yoruba neighbours would say?

Someone has just responded by saying '"you can only do a masters within your course of study if you have a 2.2," which is NOT totally correct. What about all those studying for MBA, MPA and other such professional courses? Do they all have a 1st degree within those course of studies?

Before you know it, others will come up with different opinions, counter arguments will ensue and the whole discussion will descend into a cyber free-for-all, with all kinds of strange opinions flying in from left, right and centre.

Abeg, e don do ..... I don talk my own!

rev14vs11: waiting for your replies

Please this is a totally irrelevant question. The OP is just seeking attention. Every university is expected to have a counselling unit as well as course advisors. Why not seek advise from them? Why on earth should this question be coming up on Nairaland? Even a Jambite would know the answer! smh

MOTHERS AND SONS

A guest post from Ayisha Osori:

Taking stock - A year of confrontation

My 2011 starts the way 2010 began: wondering where my seven-year-old son is and mourning our enforced separation . In a nutshell, no change in a painful situation as his father continues to deny me custody of and access to our son.

One divorce and a re-marriage later came June 26, 2009, a date I will never forget. As I prepared to board the plane to take us to Boston for me to start a Masters program, my son was pulled from my arms and for twelve months I could not see him and had very limited access. When I returned to Nigeria, I expected to be able to take my son home where he belongs, but for some reason, it makes sense to his father that our son is raised not by his parents but by a paternal uncle and his wife.

When my son was taken from me, my identity as a mother was brutalised and my belief in God and society shaken to its core. I waited for the heavens to fall for this injustice. Nothing.

I waited for the clarion call of angels who guard the hearts of mothers. Silence. It took me close to a year of agonized pondering to understand why. We have a saying in Islam: whoever sees something wrong should change it with their hand; if not, then with their tongue; and if not, then with their heart. If I’m honest, I had done none of these things when I saw injustice around me. Like most Nigerians, I did not speak. And now there was no one to speak for me.

How does a society which worships parenthood separate babies from their mothers for no just cause? Why do men use children to punish or hold on to women? And what is it about our culture that makes it so easy to ignore and ill treat children and young people?

When inexplicable things happen you look for answers and explanations the same way you look for missing keys: under the table, between the cracks of chairs, in jacket pockets…everywhere and anywhere. I found to my surprise that what has happened to me happens every day. Women comfort and oppress me in turn; telling me ‘this is a man’s world’, ‘stay in your corner and pray’ and ‘your son will find you when he grows up’.

In Nigeria – I am a woman first before I am anything else. I am expected to be a certain way, and have certain expectations and to know my place. Then, I am in the same position as the average man. Not crowned by ill-gotten wealth nor cloaked by the power of ill-used public office and so like most Nigerians, the system is not supposed to work for me.

I am told God is my only hope; my sword and my shield. I smile through my tears; how easily we forget that God works in mysterious ways. I think of a Hadith which says in response to a question put to Prophet Muhammad PBUH about whether a camel owner should tether his camel or trust in God, Prophet Muhammad answered ‘ tie your camel and trust in God’.

I decided to tie my camel and take a different route; I filed a lawsuit.

Most of the sisters in sorrow I have met on this journey or whose stories have crossed mine, have taken the path of least resistance. One weeps outside the gates of the house and school where her four daughters are being kept from her.

Another waited 4,380 days (the time it takes the earth to go round the sun 12 times) for the son she last saw when he was 3 to find her. And others stare at their adult children, now near strangers, with unfamiliar traits. On all sides there is pain.

It is for these women and their children, our children, that I share my story, because my story like theirs is not unique. However, what makes our stories different is how we choose to interpret them and use them to empower not only ourselves but those around us.

Gradually my thoughts stopped leading me to unanswerable questions outside the realm of my influence and I found myself wondering: what am I supposed to learn from this experience? How are other mothers like me coping, what are the children thinking and what can I do to help?

There is no poem, no picture, no perfume on earth that captures the depth and tenderness of a mother’s love. It is this tenderness that I hear keeps Death at bay when a mother is near. It is said that Death waits patiently for that second when a mother’s eyes are averted from the face of her child before taking the life of that child away. But humans have no such sensibilities and so openly and with impunity they tear children away from mothers and damage our collective psyche.

We tell ourselves that the decay in our society is because we have lost our values and followed the western world. The truth is we have lost the best of our ways and adopted only the worst from outside.

We have traded the strength of the Aba women and the governance of Hausa Queens for western consumerism. We continue to buy machines we cannot make or fix and continue to treat children as chattel, while ignoring the science of psychology.

In the West the young have a voice, they thrive and innovate, ours use drugs in the north to escape a bleak future and in the south, use arms to rage against inequity and to join the band of greed. The latest shared iniquity – the defilement of a young girl by policemen in Kano, might not have happened if this child lived with her mother and had not had to ‘travel’ to visit her. How many of our children are put at risk daily for reasons which dissolve under scrutiny?

As I continue on my path, I wish mothers like me would realize that what makes our stories powerful is how we can take what we have learned from our experiences to deal with our narratives from yesterday, the questions that haunt us today and our dreams for tomorrow.

My dream for tomorrow is that in a country where apathy, masked as piety and nobility, has risen to an art form, we each see something wrong and change it with our hands or our tongues or at the very least with our hearts.

Ayisha Osori is a writer and lawyer. She invites all mothers and children who have experienced forced separations due to divorce, death etc. to share their stories at aosori@yahoo.com

http://www.naijablog.co.uk/2011/01/mothers-and-sons.html

*Please advise Aisha Osori on how to get her son back from the hands of the Belgore family*

Djicemob: I believe u.Let em have it their way.No price for that sh#t anyway

And... thanks.

Hey, you are welcome. Keep doing what you know how to do ... which is to share thoughts and ideas in a clear, incisive and respectful way.

Hopefully, others will notice and it will raise the level of discourse on this platform. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Djicemob: Dat was the injustice i talked about even on that thread.Mine was created far before that one.Maybe cos i have an (m) attached to my moniker.See dat thread was moved to FP minutes after the op(female) created it.

Bros, it has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with the moderators or the owners of Nairaland.

Your thread is still far more insightful, than the other one.

etunoman76: According to reports, She is involved in a number of business activities. In addition, Mo is co-owner of the Protea Hotel, Oakwood Park, Lekki Expressway, Lagos. The hotel is worth over N2b. Set on over a hectare of land, and comprising of state-of-the-art conferencing and leisure facilities, the Protea Hotel, Oakwood Park is a 5-star hotel and no doubt among the best Proteas in Nigeria. Mo is also the Founder of Vic Lawrence & Associates, now one of Nigeria’s leading Outsourcing firms and media.

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Well.... Mo Abudu has done well for herself. But Protea Oakwood Park in Lekki, Lagos is definitely NOT a 5-star hotel. It would fall within the 3 star or maybe, 4-star range.

If Protea Oakwood Park is 5-star, what would you call Intercontinental Hotel Victoria Island, Lagos or Four Points by Sheraton? 7-star hotels? Haba! Even Protea Hotel in Ikeja GRA beats Protea Oakwood Park, hands down in several respects.

Abeg, make we tread softly with the ratings oh!

There is another similar thread on this topic right here: https://www.nairaland.com/1834703/things-hate-see-nairaland/6#25174204

booqee: ......

7. People who quote a very very very long post especially that of the OP's and end up writing a two or three letter word or even a smiley! Worse still some write "too long for me to read, can someone summarise it"!!!! wtf?! how can someone be so dumb?!

8. Oga at the top. Yes we all had fun with it while it was trending. But excuse me, this is July 2014 and some dry folks are still cracking it! Puleeaaazzzze its already stale and drrryyyyy!

9. Nairalanders who blame obviously unrelated matter on GEJ, APC, or PDP! Ok sometimes people do it to catch fun but its silly most times. Look at this:
TOPIC: I lost my dear granddad to death today. :-(
REPLY: I blame it on GEJ!
Like seriously?! Is that funny?!! gosh

10. GEJ till 2100 or infinity sef. this is the one I find most annoying. Don't ask me why.

I'll add more if I remember.

You can add yours too!

11. People who use shorthand or abbreviations to post comments containing 50 words or more...

I am like ..... seriously? Didn't they take classes in spelling and English comprehension, while they were in school?

No. 21 of the posting rules states " Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.".

But do such people listen and take notice of the forum rules? No.

Anyway Boogee, I think your topic has already been dealt with, on another thread.

Take a look: https://www.nairaland.com/1796524/8-types-nairalanders-probably-dislike

2rhymestharap: why are you dumb pls ...do you know who I am?.. Or what I do for a living.. Why jump into a conclusion?.. Everybody in need of Boa/Chase are they scammers.. Hw am I gona dupe a scammer cos 90% of pple with Boa are scammers?... Pls grow up

Nobody said everybody in need of BoA/Chase accounts are scammers. So your tirade is uncalled for. In this day of internet banking, VISA credit cards and domicilliary accounts, what the heck do you need a BoA/Chase account holder for?

Talk to a relationship officer at your local bank, or open an account with any of the multinational banks (e.g. Citibank, Stanbic, Standard chartered, Rand etc). to conduct your transaction, instead of coming here to beg for BoA/Chase account holders. Even Barclays bank has a local representative office in Nigeria, that handles international transactions for various bank account holders.

Not only that, every local bank has a correspondent bank abroad and multiple international transactions are carried out on a daily basis without any noise or stress.

So what is your problem? Na wah oh!

I don't blame the posters that are threatening fire and brimstone on Nairaland over this issue. I blame the refinery owners & exploration company that set up shop in that area, without understanding the basic rules of effective community relations!

While both the Kogi & Anambra communities were busy trading words over who owns what, the exploration company should have stepped in to pacify both sides and make them sheath their verbal swords before things got bloody!

The international oil companies learnt long ago, the huge cost of ignoring the needs or wranglings of their host communities and their neighbours. Do you think the term CSR and the millions channelled into such CSR programmes, are just done because those firms want to waste money?

No! Community unrest interferes with corporate operations, and leads to huge losses in monetary and physical terms!

gateleo: CNG's volumetric energy density is estimated to be 42% that of liquefied natural gas (because it is not liquefied), and 25% that of Diesel fuel.

My Company is one of the three company federal government gave the go ahead to install, distribute and sale CNG across Nigeria.

We are still in the process of installing all the facilities that will facilitate the distribution of the process across the nation.

A car using petrol can use CNG by just install a cylinder and doing some little installation that will not affect the performance of your car.

thank you.

None of you has answered my question yet. Am still waiting for a response.

What is the cost per litre for CNG?

And where are the sales points within Lagos? I am yet to see any auto-gas stations in Lagos Island.

aisha2: My dear, what runs girl will abandon a "gold mine" because she was badly treated? Dont women endure worse and stay quite for the money?

Common sense should tell us that a girl willing to leave such luxury and benefits and not stay put and "manage" has some standards.

A runs girl will die there and even be the one organizing babes for him as long as the money keeps rolling.

What Benefit is it for Clara raising dust and leaving him? Her life is on social media, Her son is taken from her, she has to start her life all over. She would have benefitted more staying put and keeping shut.

She DIDNT, immediately she noticed the issues she shouted out and tried to leave several time, what runs girl does that? A runs girl actually expects that and stays grins, smiles for the camera and bares it.

Aisha2, you don try. Abeg, leave matter. Even if the truth were to come and hit some people on the head, they would still turn round and call it a lie.

If Clara Chime was their biological sister, would they not change their tune?

The issue is that no woman deserves to be treated the way Clara Chime was treated, by medicating her against her will! Or labelling her as mentally unstable, when in fact she had a sound mind! What if she had died in the process?

Is marriage by force?? I weak oh!

fx45: She's second-hand material now... 'Nigerian-used' for that matter. Her market value has plummeted. Her once alluring shape is inconsequential as at press time.

One man's poison is another man's meat. Or is it the other way round?

dulaman: Pray Tell.

Try and google the courses offered by various Nigerian universities, and check out the requirements for each Masters' programme.

benjamytes: Avail

Bros, if you gree =N=1.6 mill make we talk...

kingdvd: A friend of mine just intruduced me to CNG (compressed Natural Gas) for my car and it saves you cost upto 70-80%.
pls if you have more info on these you can share, but for some of us that live in cites like lagos or busy areas, yu can save ur self the stress of spending too much on Jona fuel.
more veiws are welcome

What is the cost per litre for CNG?

And where are the sales points within Lagos? I am yet to see any auto-gas stations in Lagos Island.

kovak: I told you before, But you didn't want to hear. Cheap is EXPENSIVE!!!
When Sanusi stopped the banks from charging for ATM use, How do you expect them to properly maintain the machines?
Abi who will venture into business for the purpose of making loss? or will continue to give standard maintenance for a non yielding asset?
Mo Sorry fun gbogbo yin.

You obviously work for a bank or an ATM supplier. With all the huge millions and billion naira profits declared by each of the banks every year, why can't they set aside part of those profits to maintain their ATMs?

They are not making a loss, if you have been following their end-of-year results properly.

Even before Sanusi banned ATM charges, when he was former CBN governor, were all the ATM machines performing at optimal levels?

Abeg, make we hear word, jare!

We hope that at the end of the exercise, there will be clarity on how many oil wells are located in Anambra, and how many oil wells belong to Kogi, Enugu and other states.

Youngzedd: Me going to the ATM is to withdraw money I will consume.
Still yet, ATM gives warning because I have seen situations where the ATM will display incorrect pin or wrong pin, the card owner will keep on trying/forcing to access the account, then machine trap the card they will start looking for who to blame.

Take for instance, ATM transaction receipt, everywhere will be filled with papers, that alone will tell you how some Nigerians behave. What on earth are they doing with receipt when they know their account balance.

What I observed is that many Nigerians like pressing YES on any computer command whether they understand it or not.

The solution is for the banks to educate the masses.

Bros, I will give you 2/10 for this answer. The 2 marks are due to the fact that you listed only one of the reasons why an ATM card gets trapped by an ATM machine, which is wrong entry of a pin number.

There are several other reasons:

(a) Power fluctuations and/or data connectivity link outages that occur during a transaction can make an ATM suddenly go off-line. In such cases, if an ATM card has already been inserted into the ATM, your card will be trapped. It does not matter how correct your PIN number is.

(b) General malfunction of the ATM parts: The card reader on the machine might develop a sudden fault, and this could cause the card to be trapped, after it has been inserted.

(c). Processing time is exceeded: If you are using your debit card on another bank's ATM, sometimes the period taken to receive a response from your own bank's servers to the ATM network, might be exceeded. Your bank's servers may not even respond at all. Then an error message comes up. Some ATMs may trap the card, instead of ejecting it, especially if this occurs more than once.

(d). Software issues: The ATM may have some software problems and as such it might encounter a difficulty in decoding the Chip module in your card. This could lead to the card being trapped.

Don't let me bore you with other details. Yes, sometimes wrong entry of a PIN multiple times, could lead to cards being trapped. But that is not the only cause. As for the way receipts are used to litter the ATM area, the banks need to put an effective disposal method in place, to get rid of the receipts, Why not install a mini-shredder below the ATM instead of those tiny single wastebaskets, normally placed there?

Some ATM points do not even have a waste basket. A few banks do not even install receipts in their ATMs. A message just flashes, that "this ATM is temporarily unable to dispense receipts, do you want to continue with the transaction? Click YES to continue and NO to cancel the transaction."

You can read about other people's experiences' here: https://www.nairaland.com/1584906/access-bank-deactivate-atm-cards/2