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Ogun is not a "god' of iron" in Yòrùbá beliefs, he's an "avatar" or an "icon" representing iron as a master of its use.

Hello House,

Who knows an alternative to hanging things (picture frame for example) on walls without nails?
Nail hitting is very defacing on walls without tiles, and when a new tenant moves in, they will further deface this same wall with their nails! Gosh!!
I desperately need to know if there's an alternative so we can introduce it to these tenants.

Attack your attackers and make them perish!
"Thou shalt not suffer a killer to live!"
Self defence is very logical in the face of the law.
Self preservation is very much legal.
If you ignore these, and chose to be foolish, and not protect yourself, and keep relying on God that has answered your prayers by giving people the means to build what you can defend yourself with, your religious belief will send you to an early unmarked grave!

I was wandering through the internet for business reasons when I came across an article about the Arogbo Izon People, an Ijaw (Izon) sub-ethnic group [and their businesses with Ìjèbú & Ilaje Yòrùbás].
The part that caught my attention, which also is the reason for this topic is where it was stated that:
"During the time of the expansion of the Benin kingdom (1550), the Benin invaded Ukoruama (Lagos). The Arogbo Izon sent soldiers to defend the Ijo living in that region. Their army camp became known as Idumu-Arogbo later shortened to Idumagbo (Lagosians should be familiar with Idumagbo Avenue."

Kindly note that in the earlier Portuguese maps of Yorubaland, the part now known as Lagos Island (or Èkó by Lagosians) is termed Kuramo. , from which Kuramo Beach (if it's still named as such) derived it's name.

I'm trying to formulate factual history in my head, not distorted ones. Ijaw people in the house, what does "Ukoruama" mean?

BigBashiru:
Lybia has no bearing with Liberia or Ethiopia who were never colonized

Now you're forcing me to go an extra mile, and here goes an example:
Dano milk is produced by Arla Foods. Peak milk is produced by FrieslandCampania. Both of them and other cheap milk in Nigeria are produced in Europe before being shipped here. There's a milk subsidy in Europe, so 1 litre of milk that may cost €3 may be sold for €0.95, the E.U will pay the difference to milk corporative organisations to keep good milk cheap in E.U zone. These organisations will then refine and package the milk (powder & evaporated) for sale in E.U.
Butter will be extracted from the leftover milk they couldn't sell. The shaft remaining after butter was extracted will be fattened with vegetable fat and other ingredients (you can see on Dano Milk) then they will be shipped down to Nigeria as "powder milk."
When they get there, Standard Organisation of Nigeria can easily reject them, BUT, the Europeans will withdraw some certain ECONOMIC deals from them (like Zimbabwe) because they "are rejecting European product." Nigeria can either allow their poison in, or call their bluff (you know the consequence of this).
How then will there be job opportunities in the African milk industry when cheap milk is forcefully imported from Europe?
Why won't Africans migrate for economic opportunities? (Addressing your topic)
How then can Nigeria (or Africa) win at a game they didn't set the rules? If they decide to set a new game, these wild animals will fight back. They have perched on Africa's balls and they can't hit them aggressively, only systematically (not in Nigeria by the way because of people like you, maybe Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal because they aren't ignorant of 'the game').

Though, if it were up to me, and I was in charge of a West African country, I will pay subsidies on milk (to House of Chi, makers of Hollandia milk for example); but if I do, people trading in other commodities will feel sidelined. So it almost can't be possible in a democratic government, but in the style of Government Libya had with Ghadafi.

Stop blaming the victim.

BigBashiru:
Liberia and Ethiopia were not colonized - yet they have remained shitholes......

Libya that was the example of a prosperous economy to African countries, do you remember what USA & France did to its leader (Ghadafi) all in the name of "dictatorship"?
You are blaming the victim Sir. There's more than what the eyes can see.
There's a lot more I wish to explicate here & now, but you have your mind made up already and I'm not interested in convincing you otherwise.

BigBashiru:
I've been to morocco- the airport officials were asking me for bribe at the airport.... not a good sign.... Liberia was never colonized by anyone but today is a mess...

These happen in countries where there is an economic problem. If you go to South America or South Asia, you might experience the same. The entire continent of Africa is yet to recover from being robbed blind by Europeans and their legacy (lumping up different nations of different ideologies into one country). If Europeans never created this problem, there wouldn't be any need to solve them.
But the fact still remains some citizens of some African countries are proud of their country and are working towards making it better than it currently is. (E.g Kenyans & South Africans)
YOU on the other hand, like many Nigerians isn't proud of YOUR country. Don't speak on behalf of other African countries, please.

Ashirioluwa:
No one single country in Africa that we can proud of. We are our own problem. African leaders are visionless. They are all in politics for one single aim - wealth accumulation. Nigeria the giant of Africa doesn't get it right either after over 60 years. It takes less than 60 years to build Dubai. All the resources in this land are in the hands of few greedy thieves called leaders.

Your country, Nigeria, isn't synonymous to Africa. Speak only on behalf of your country which is the only place you have first hand experience about, not the entire continent.

If the Ibarapa youths really stormed the Sarki Fulani's residence to cause anarchy as earlier claimed by the Sarki and his son, how were they able to convey so much property? If the situation really happened like the Sarki's son painted it, they will have only their clothes on with most properties lost in the fire.

I'm starting to see why some Nairalanders are saying the Sarki & family are using Taqiyya

dumahi:
As for you Muslims, you need to know that the herder bandits and Boko Haram and ISIS are all giving a bad name to your beautiful religion. Do you like that? If you like the fact that Allah's Holy Name is brought to disrepute by people who are only using Islam as a front for advancing ungodly tribal agenda, you are not a true lover of Allah. And if you don't like it, you need to JOIN THE RESISTANCE too to protect the honor of Allah.

According to AlhajiImam, a Nairalander, jihad is the stand of a "true Muslim."
In business, the quickest way to fail is to advertise your product to whoever is likely not to buy it impulsively.

I won't say more than this

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You were harassing their eyes, they harassed your body in return, all of una dey craze. Y'all should quit harassing people's sense of sight, and people's body

This herdsmen issue we are currently facing in Yorubaland is the major reason for the battles currently going on in that part of Mali. I know a lady (Fulani-Yoruba) who had to flee from Mopti, her hometown to Lagos.
Fulani (herdsmen) are really hated in Guinea (their land of origin), Burkina Faso, Ghana [operation cow leg], Mali, Togo, Benin Republic, Cameroon, Central African republic, Nigeria, etc, I dunno about Chad tho.
This calls for introspection by the Fulanis, but no, they're not interested in that. They prefer to be exterminated gradually by SubSaharan countries.
How can Africa move forward when the enemy within is much?

SSpeter:
Great idea, also note that sales officers below 70% YoY on their score card are usually rotated across regions after an end of year appraisal . Therefore she might have worked with an entire new team

If i were Mr. A, I will tell her blame her stagnation on low performing sales officers after she's gone through their score cards, then select those who she will recommend their sack. However, I will let her know that this is me repaying her back, from that moment onwards, i won't save her anymore.
Finito.
Life is about scratch my back, then I scratch yours. She's done Mr. A a big favour, now is his turn to pay his debt (with wisdom & strategy)

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Ms. B needs to recommend the sack of her sales officers as their underperformance is stalling her growth.
As Mr. A, the above is what I will advise her to pursue as she's meant to have advanced in rank

The only way to have peace is to be prepared for war.
North Korea is a very peaceful country because they are prepared for the enemy within and without.
If you love peace, be prepared to defend it

Masonkaycares:
Not to bash this but the roads are below par. I nor even sight standard two lane with parking space and pedestrian lane. All I see is a failed road network.

You obviously have never been to Lagos Island. Never

My Nokia 2 has fallen down from top of the shelf two times, massive height but my phone is still intact, same as my screen. No scratches whatsoever.
The battery is reliable & durable.
If you can go for a NOKIA of 65k, do it, for now don't put Transsion phones in your consideration.

Kindly advice your friend to ear mark 35% of the 100% of money she intends to do business with to run a Fast Moving Consumer Goods business. This way, she'll be making daily income with chances of gradual growth because FMCG has stability. Though before/after coming to Nigeria, she has to take a course related to FMCG (e.g Supply Chain Management) to help sharpen her skills to predict the "Who, What, Where, Why, When" that economists recommend before starting any enterprise.
After the course, she can either seek paid employment in FMCG industries e.g. Nestlé, Cadbury, Unilever, etc, or she can give FMCG business a try.
Also advise her that she should never follow "investments" that are against the laid down Principles Of Investing. e.g. Pyramid schemes, Network marketing, etc, no matter what they say. If she wants to invest outside FMCG, she should question her likelihood to succeed in such business (a.k.a How many are the rich people around me or the world that made it through this business?).
She should NEVER allow any non-certified practicing stockbroker invest her money for her/on her behalf.

I've ran out of words to say, I might modify this post whenever the spirit leads me again.

That's my suggestion.

The ugly truth is our people here will rather buy the expensive European vaccines rather than research and develop our own vaccine here.
I noticed this from how our people prefer to buy vitamin c tablets for N1,000 naira (the German-French one that dissolves in water), rather than N50 orange that will not only cure cold, but give them a smoother and fresher face, prevent scurvy, etc.
Our people are very much mentally colonised, that's why we're yet to discover our own cure/vaccine against Coronavirus because our Government & medical entities are waiting for Europe. The same Europe that her people die from malaria any time they visit here centuries ago while we have been drinking agbo iba to kill malaria, organic cure for that matter, not the type that will lead to cancer, liver damage, kidney disease like most Euro-American drugs.

Our people aren't ready for freedom from colonialism

I believe there is a higher concentration of the types of girls Nigerian guys like outside Nigeria. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa actually.
The more Nigerian guys realise the moral, physical and mental composition of sub-Saharan ladies outside Nigeria, the more they will flock like sheep to date (or marry) these angels. They are ready to kill you with love & loyalty, all they need is your commitment.
But Naija girls. . .

The Aunt in question has every right (from my point of view) to take over her father's business at the demise of her brother.
I'll only blame the dude's father for not making provision for his kid's future incase of his demise.
Put yourself in the shoes of those women. Their father's business got inherited by their brother alone, now their brother is dead, is it proper for his children to run the business when they are still alive? No way!
If she chooses not to pay this dude & his siblings stipends monthly, it's her choice! She can't be forced to. She obviously has been nursing the grudge against her brother since their father died, and she likely has a hand in her brother's death.
I'll urge the dude in question to build on his experience & certificate since he's done with school.

This is why writing a will is mandatory.

I was in primary 3 first term.
I brought one of my toy guns to school (those guns that you have to buy N30 round red bullets of 8 rounds). After assembly, I ran upstairs into the class to shoot at those "first to enter" classmates. Unfortunately, it was girls that came in first, and they went to report to uncle Sesan our class teacher that I shot at them with a toy gun.
We were meant to have Speed work that morning but Uncle Sesan beat me throughout the session (I lost count after 200 strokes), saying I would be come an armed robber (oga never thought I would be a law enforcement agent).
He asked me to come with my parents the next day or get beaten again. I didn't even inform anybody at home.
The next morning, I came very early to school and threw away Uncle Sesan's two canes to the roof of the house next to the school. This uncle went to look for cane to beat me throughout the maths class we were meant to have. Same story that I would become an armed robber (he never mentioned police or soldier).

I still have a grudge against him, but i know he only treated me to the best of his myopic knowledge.

The name Obásanjó is the short form of Obaluayesanjo (Obaluaye repays a favour).
Obaluaye is a god in Yoruba religion which implies that he's one of the worshipped gods by Obásanjó's father, hence the name

CASE CLOSED

virginprincess:
Which englightened, it shows how local he is, since white wedding is a european culture let us behave the way they behave and dress the way they dress, after all didn't he do traditional marriage where he wore traditional attires .

Sis, only colonised minds talks like this. A freeman acts according to standards he chooses, not as dictated by colonisers.
Know what? I guess the reason he chose his attire was cuz they didn't have a traditional wedding, but he wanted to dress traditionally, so he decided to dress this way. He's a freeman, not a 'zombie'.

virginprincess:
Abeg he should have wore suit, it looks odd to me, white wedding is white wedding, don't bring culture into it.

White wedding is European culture (including the attires). For the groom to ditch the suit & put on his own cultural attire is no big deal. It shows he's an enlightened man, a non-conformist.

I truly believe a wife is supposed to be a helper. Plus it's wrong for the husband to be so inquisitive about his wife's finances.

I also believe the husband is the provider and it's very WRONG for the wife to be so inquisitive about how much the husband earns (if she won't disclose hers). The wife has no business knowing her husband's finances if they aren't into a family business. The husband has to drop anything he feels like if he's dealing with a woman with this mentality.

What more?
In a the world of today where unemployment & underemployment is the order of the day in Nigeria, if a husband is playing his role as a provider and dropping whatever he can afford, and the woman isn't playing her role as a wife to help if the funds available aren't enough, the kids will suffer and will be the victims. I saw this well while growing up. Women looking gorgeous with kids looking like maids & houseboys because things aren't currently smooth for their father. LMAO.

We that grew up with mothers that help or provide when needed have no idea of how blessed we are.
Ladies nowadays just want to relax & be taken care of like a trophy wife. I don't object to this, but they should expect junior wives

chinchum:
Thanks for admitting, Sorry if i got hard on you. There was a total of 1,928 polling units. Fake news must not be propagated in this age and time when in most cases they can be verified via a google search on reputable sites.

Thanks
I just discovered the figures I quoted were for Ìkòròdú division alone, not the entire Lagos East

chinchum:
This is bullshit, i bet you pulled this from your asssss.

APC 89,204 PDP 11, 257

https://punchng.com/breaking-inec-declares-apcs-abiru-winner-of-lagos-east-senatorial-bye-election/

I apologise.
I thought the INEC declared the figures I saw yesterday as the final.
I'll go update my initial post

JayJohnson:
Will you sharap there! Who asked you to fight for Lagosians! Go and fight for you folks in Imo and Ebonyo states

Kids running their mouth anyhow

O kò sòrò jákujàku bíi aláìlékò.
Sé bí Omolúàbí se ye kó sòrò leléyìí ?

senatordave1:
Oga,this is a concocted result.nobody came out,the governor and inec simply manufactured figures.the pdp candidate for house of assembly is not even known,never campaigned but still won heavily.how manage

If you are referring to the Kosofe constituency II election held yesterday, well, I've seen his campaign posters all around Kosofe whenever I pass through, I'm just hearing from you that he won. I guess: (1) The low voters turn out worked against APC or (2) He was able to rig using an effective method I won't mention here.
Either the figures are concocted or not, my bottom line still remains that Lagosians complain always, especially in commercial buses, but when it's time to vote out the reason for their complain, they will stay indoors.
I repeat: Lagosians are not worth fighting for