₦airaland Forum

ozy4christ:
Not only bananas but God will surely help us o o..whether u like it or not something must kill a man.

You're right o, something must definitely kill a man. But the ones we know we can avoid abi?

Ojfestus:
Poor man wen thief Maggi must go kirikiri but rich man wen thief trillions go dey under house arrest

The thing tire me o

I have always wondered where those guys who sell the tusmall bananas on wheelbarrows as seen at Airport North-Ring road roundabouts source them in such huge supply and uniform ripeness!

Friends, we all love bananas and we eat a lot of them, but the bananas available in the market are forced ripe by dipping in water mixed with Carbide. The consumption of these bananas is 100% sure to cause Cancer or some other infection in the stomach. Therefore, such type of bananas is to be avoided
But, how does one recognize the bananas ripened with the help of Carbide?

Bananas which are ripened naturally are dark yellow and there are small black spots here and there on the bananas and the stalks are black.
While those which are forced ripe with Carbide are lemon yellow and their stalks are green and moreover they are clear yellow without any black spots.

Carbide is a chemical which if mixed with water, emits heat and the heat emitted by a Close tank mixed with Carbide is even more than that emitted by a LPG Cylinder, so much so it can be used for Gas Cutting (which means the calorific value is so high that it can replace LPG gas). In the same way, when the bunch of bananas is dipped in the water mixed with Carbide, the gas gets absorbed into the bananas and they get ripe. However, the banana vendors are not that literate and so they do not know the exact proportion of Carbide to be used for a dozen of bananas. As a result they end up using excess quantity of Carbide which gets absorbed into the bananas and ultimately enters our stomach. Due to this excess use of Carbide, tumors can be formed in our digestive system.

So, next time you purchase bananas, make sure you select the naturally ripened ones.

So much suffering in the land babies and breastfeeding mothers are feeling the pinch a lot more. Just sad

Instead of them to use their bus for money making like other drivers they chose to perpetrate crime with it. What manner of people are they? God don catch them, kirikiri awaits them.

Saw this on facebook and just checked mine... o boy many of us are using fake license plates

I got this from a friend and I thought it's worth sharing.

I Think it's time we stop over focussing on this PDP/APC, PMB and the rest issues and start looking where our problem is. I believe our problem is in the institutions of this country. I don't want to mention that of police now its for another day. It was on the 14th day of March that I drove into one of the police station to obtain the new tinted glass permit, in the process, it was discovered that the plate number of my car is being used by another car. My first question is "How is it possible?" Because I obtained this number from FRSC with all documents intact. I never know the car is going to stay for 12 days in the station.

A file was quickly open and the car became an exhibit. Thank God the car was registered by a very high ranking officer of the FRSC whom was brought to the station. As the investigation was going on, it was discovered that some people were producing these fake and duplicate number plates and giving out to innocent and unsuspicious Nigerian ripping them off their hard earned money.

My question is, should we now go and buy this numbers at a shop in Alaba or at idumota instead of the federal government approved agencies? In the course of my research, I stumbled upon the number plate verification system online. I started verifying cars of friends, church members and even cars that I see on the road. A shocking revelation was made that OUT OF EVERY 10 CARS you see on the road with LAGOS and ABUJA number plates, that at least 4 is FAKE.

You can check your own now.
(1) Go to www.nvisng.org/numberplateverification.aspx
(2) Enter your number in the space provided. Eg "ABC863AP
(3) Click on verify button. Then an information will be displayed below the button. Because FRSC did not want the general public to see the full details of the registration, you will only see the name of your car and the date of registration.

Here are some samples:
1. This number plate has been produced by FRSC and assigned to Toyota highlander on 20/01/2015. If your car is Toyota highlander, then you are lucky its done. But if your car is for instance Toyota Camry and your verification shows the above message, then you are in as me. Solution is to go and re-register your car afresh.
2. This number plate has been produced by FRSC and assigned to Matrix however the vehicle is yet to be registered..... If your car is Matrix, then just go back to the person that registered your car and tell him/her to complete your registration.
3. This plate number has been produced by FRSC but yet to be assign to any vehicle. It means that they just gave you a number plate that is not even registered in their system. Solution is to go to them to register your car and upload your information.
4. An invalid/wrong number plate. Do I need to explain this, NO.

Verify your car first and sort yourself out with the FRSC before you even proceed to police for tinted permit cos if police are the one to find out, then you know what follows. Many innocent Nigerian are suffering now because of impunity in our institutions
Note: this verification is only applicable to the number plates with this formats ABC123AB not AB123 ABC.

Let us spread this news until everyone is aware of this evil FRSC is perpetrating.

omenka:
Okay, the guy is a RAW talent, better than any Nigerian artist I've ever seen. But they lied in one of the pics. There's no chance in hell that pic with those boys playing in the river wasn't taken with a good Nikon camera.

That's the only fake amongst them I think.

Sorry man, you are wrong. I can point out what makes it a painting. You just need to open your eyes.

You better refrain from the murder you and your girlfriend are planning. Nobody will kill you if it comes out. Disappointed they will be at first but they will learn to accept the situation.
If you need someone to talk to just indicate and I'll be in touch

gohzieh:
Some sense has been spotted. But how willing are our made in nigeria goods able to stand test of time. We patronize foreign goods cos of the standard of their products.
And Never forget to pray for Nigeria.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

Our products will get better as a result of competition. Mr A will improve his product quality if he finds out that he's losing customers to Mr B. Its that simple but first we have to buy the products.

Amaechi goofed big time.

Fellow Nigerians,

It's time to ‪#‎GetYourBrainBack‬

PLUNGING NAIRA - BEFORE YOU BLAME EMEFIELE, LOOK AT YOURSELF

Kenneth Ezaga

It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.

The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc?

Let me bring that closer home. There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar - even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) - fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians. Back then we had a booming economy. We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timber, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Plateau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants - Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well. Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.

Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ - simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children. Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them. We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch... zero. A country of 170m fashion-conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level”music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas.

Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead. And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyibos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas.

I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article in This Day tomorrow is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC - Nigeria’s most successful club - not having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo. Don’t curtail your interest in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, American and whatever else curricula. Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian, American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England - the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt. Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous - you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly. Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyibo.

But don’t forget that there is payback time and Emefiele is not your problem. Time for us all to look in the mirror.

ATTN: oam4j, mynd44

Hmm... Reading this just bring back memories. I feel your pain because I faced exact same situation. I can't advice you here so if you feel the need to talk indicate and I'll call you.
I can't tell you to take it easy or forget her or do something else because trust me you can't. I'm open if u need to reach out.

While I understand that there are no quick fixes to the economy, some of these I believe are doing more harm than good. I really do hope they are thinking things through before coming up with them (policies) cos it doesn't seem so.

You fornicated with an alien... That's the result. Go see a doctor man and stop the fornication or...

Haba, no neither seller nor buyer owns the goat. The 'smart goat' chewed its way to freedom

These Russians should be feared

Yeah they do. My wife before we got married never almost asked for anything. One time she asked me to stop sending her higher denomination recharge cards except 200 and 100 and only when she ask which was rare.

That surely is a lioness o

Bambless1:
You Are Bless early sunday morning say no to Beef.

So you've got this wonderful sense of humour and... In fact you too are blessed. I say no to beef but I won't mind chicken

Bambless1:
Bleep Them!

After reading the post this is all you can say. You're just shamelessly shameless and incorrigible.

Why can't we all just learn to do the right thing and respect each other. If the govt has treated the south easterners well these issues wouldn't had been thought of. But now not only that the south easterners are not been treated well, the south-south and he southwest are feeling the heat as well. Take a look at the south south and you can't help but marvel at the level of decadence irrespective of the fact that it is the major revenue earner for the nation.

The FG has obviously made a mistake by arresting Kanu which has led and is leading to a state of anarchy in some parts of the country - now I expect the govt to enter damage control mode and stem this evil tide now gradually building.

Right here on nairaland people come and exhibit their senseless and silly tribalistic tendencies building unnecessary hatred on this forum. I think its time the mods ban every single tribal comment and user...

Na to dey ask the hospital u were born, ur birth certificate at birth, ur 1 year birthday pictures and ur passport at the time your were just about to start school.

All men should be allowed to defend their lands o

Interesting times...

Still living in your mother's house and you want her to be comfortable when she comes around? Man go get yourself a house first and prove you can shelter a woman.

For quite some time now the Benin-Lagos Express especially around the Ekiadolor axis has been a den for robbers and kidnappers. They come out any-time especially in the mornings, rob travellers and kidnap the ones they feel can part with some money. Now the amazing thing is that there is this Police station just a few meters from where these men of the underworld operate from and nothing is being done to stop this menace.

A few days ago my uncle and his wife on his way from Lagos was unfortunately caught in the web of their operation and my uncle and another man was seized and drag into the bush while my aunt was left behind. Amazingly, it wasn’t up to five minutes when the police showed up according to my aunt; my aunt and others pointed to the policemen the direction the kidnappers took. From that point they could still make out the form of the men. But the policemen declined to go after them saying that they shouldn’t worry, the kidnapped men will be released.
At the police station, the police told them that they are into the case and will want to be kept in the know when the ransom call comes in so they can monitor from their end. They even encouraged that we pay up so that the men can be returned without stories and after all they (the kidnappers) just released one person yesterday and another three days ago and so on.

At the point of departure my uncle’s car was being left behind but the police insisted that they take it along for fear of it being vandalized – in a police station!

Well, I thank God that my uncle has been released but my question remains who really are these kidnappers?
I strongly believe that there are a few good policemen left and if the authorities gets to read this they really need to look into that Ekiadolor axis of the Benin-Lagos express way and also the Benin by-pass. A whole lot of stealing and kidnapping are going on around those areas

OAM4J, Afam4eva lalasticlala kindly publish to fp

There is a 0.5% chance you will find happiness with this new guy leaving a whole 99.5% chance that you will not - which will you go for?
Trust me I've seen it happen over and over and over... I'm not just writing because I want to write; I'm writing from experience. It has happened to countless friends of mine and acquaintances. It happened to me & my spouse when we've dated for 7+ years and planning wedding for that year someone stepped into the picture and almost destroyed what we had. There was a huge disconnect between us but we managed to keep a level head and stayed together even with doubts before and during the wedding. Today, I can assure you, we are the happiest couple you'll ever come across.

Be wise girl, this is the true test of your feelings for your man. If you fail it now you may never find happiness.

Inbox me if you need to talk to some1

azimibraun:
It's easy alright to call the Man corrupt but I am sure it will be some very serious hard work of trying to actually prove he is corrupt. I dare say the world will be shocked more to see Oshimole corrupt than even Mr Buhari. All these noise and accusations from him against other people and he will be corrupt? I doubt and I will wait.

I really wish it is not true myself but mehn... with what I know of they guy (first hand facts) - he's among the top 3 corrupt governors by my reckoning.

People should really be careful with all electrical gadgets - they are causing more harm than good. If earpiece has graduated from making the constant user deaf over time to killing instantly now. na wa oo

The "lowest of lows" coming from a supposed pro media outfit. Shame on them