₦airaland Forum

hoyze24:
Well! Storage and processing cost a whole lot, I don't have the capital for that. They sure know they would suffer when they don't save but they still do it.

dem never suffer properly

GoldNiagara:
Okay I don sofry, Abia na 9 billion dollars for GDP approximately, 2 % of which is the manufacturing sector, now this ogah guy don take multi billion dollars as value for his plant. You see why I had to go abysmally low for Abia.

Ehn Beht the 2% na for the whole naija. Lagos Ibadan and abia (abi na)shoe and dress makIng na manufacturing na. Haba wen no be ejigbo we de talk. Abia still grab for naija manufacturing.

Iseoluwani:
You read your Bible well

Uh see you. Opelope my book of Bible stories

dataking:
Mumu

your mama graduate our class

ImaIma1:
I am not a feminist and i don't really believe in it. I believe in both people coming together to make it work. If we are both earning, why would i keep my money to myself and watch my husband foot all the bills? Nope. When two people come together, it is to make each other's lives better.

well me I'm a manist. And I don't do domestic personally.
Nothing against guys who do cough (pvssywhipped) cough
But I don't do housework.
Best I can do is buy dishwasher washing machine and yam pounder Mr pay for help

ImaIma1:
Ok Mikolo go and get married with 20k salary.
90s or 80s, we are in 2010s.
By the way, I am 80s...early 80s

ah
Una meet pampers
Ask your husband
Him go tell you about the nappy
And girls no send 20k guys so.. .....

Remimadrid:
Even though I am not from Edo state, but the writeup makes me sad. I feel for the man.

why?
He started something he was not qualified for and failed. Big deal. He should ask those that know how to fix banana republics instead of lamenting and allow us hia word

Invest in storage or processing if you want to help them .then mechanisation so they can double production to cover the 7 lean cow months and teach them to save instead of buying everything they see during the fat cow months

ImaIma1:
Guy i have been baby shopping and i have not bought one single designer item and i can tell you that a family needs to be prepared financially.

Girl there is difference between needs and wants.
Everything you're buy-in are wants. Ppl survived in jungles before those things were made. Abi I lie. Maybe you're a 90's baby.
Na nappy dem use for us. Washable, reusable.
Most others are just effizy cos everyone is doing it.
Poor people survive without these things.
Just be grateful you can afford time savers.
But they are not compulsory

Even the list the hospital gives you for the necessary things you will need is not what a 20k monthly salary will support.

So how do cleaners and messengers and marketwomen have kids?

Even if you use cloth napkin, you will still spend money to buy it and spend money to treat rashes often because u can be sure that with napkin comes rashes.

Rashes when you refuse to change your kid as at when due because looking posh is your priority not the child.

I am a very practical and objective person. Before i go ahead with something, i weigh the options to avoid major problems later. Nobody likes to go around begging for assistance everytime. If it is once in a while, it is ok.
Someone that earns 20k and wants to start a family should have another source of income.

Agreed
But are you saying that poor ppl should not have children or that they are not surviving somehow
The desirable is not always attainable
Sometimes we just wing it and hope for divine providence.
See me now de find 200 k to marry and 40 don reach.
No need to marry again. Na to accept my cross. Not everyone can do that[/quote][quote]

ImaIma1:
At least she wont be a slave when she comes in. They will help each other cos she is also a medical doctor.

help, how, when he has done all the work. Abi you de follow your husband pay rent or buy motor or build house.let us tell ourselves the truth and stop copying feminism that has failed in the west. It's not as if women are willing to don't bills let guys get domestic

GoldNiagara:
A billion dollar is 360 billion at rate of 360 per dollar. Not sure if the entire GDP of Abia state is a billion dollars.Small small, hyperbole and ibo.

guy sofry
sofry
No because we de fight e tribe you go just cash abia Mr any
state
Nigeria's GDP is about 400 billion dollars after dollar re based the Jonathan rebase of 800 billion dollars that's average of 30 billion per state, dollars, US. patapata give Lagos half and abia will still be among the productive states generating up to 20 billion

ImaIma1:
Yimu*...is that the lie you feed yourself? Wired indeed. You berra wake up and smell the coffee. Men are doing housework and it doesn't make them sissys. As a bachelor, does he live like a pig?
I visited my friend/inlaw last week and i was inspired. He is a medical doctor and a bachelor. His fridge had different dishes for 2weeks..made by him.
His house is organized. He has a fiancee but the guy dey try. She visits often but he doesn't leave everything for her to do. He even thought her how to cook most soups. His mum brought him up well not those mums that make the girls do all the work and treat the boys like king and master.L
Guy forget EGO. You just seem kinda lazy with an alibi or excuse to go with it.

after d guy don cook and clean..provide, protect join ...Wetin him need wife for again.

ImaIma1:
Even okrika is not 50naira. Can the 20k buy one designer attire? She must buy diapers or will the baby shit on the mother's hand?
OP is EVIL

must you buy designers. Did you use pampers. No be something de before pampers

dataking:
Na so im pain u reach pele omo dangote. Omale

Shebi na me and your mama do the aale

davodyguy:
What do you mean?

this our elders fit no pay treasury bill the way they are going

davodyguy:
This is what would have happened if she took the right deceision.

She could have used the money for Treasury bill.

Give N5m to FG, they'll give her today 850K, then by August, 2018, the FG return her 5million intact.

I take wise decisions

this Federal govt wen no get head

dataking:
Ur mumu no get degree. When refinery start operations, go collect for free no pay as na ur papa be dangote. Ode oshi

your mumu get PhD. When refinery start go tell dangote say na your moni he take build am make you collect free slap for your motor tank. Bastard child like you with no good training

Originalsly:
HIstory repeating itself but we are too blind to see close our eyes. ..we don't want to see. .

so you see were not ready

Ksslib:
This is my honest review of Mtn data plans. I added an 's' because I have used almost all what they have to offer in terms of data across a very very long period of time but for the sake of this review, we are going to assume you want to want to subscribe to their popular 1.5gig monthly plan or like I suspect, already subscribed to it. Pls keep in mind that everything in this review applies to ALL their data plans. The only difference being price and amount of data, that's all.

Price:
For 1000naira, you'll be given 1,500 kilobytes that look like megabytes to the untrained eye, but brethrens, let ye not be deceived. If you're the type that likes to make something sound bigger than it actually is, you can call It 1.5gig. The plan lasts a month (in theory) and Mtn will allow you roll-over any un-used data if you're the type of person that can manage one cup of rice for 2months.


At first, 1.5gig for 1000naira might seem kinda fair from Mtn who, not too long ago, sold 10mb for the same amount it'll take to cater for a child who wants to study Medicine abroad. However, you'll begin to slowly chew back your words- one by one - the moment you begin to understand what happens behind the scenes. This plan will last a week with decent browsing. Yea, just decent browsing. Two weeks, if your level of stingyness is out of this world.

Verdict: This plan is a RIP-OFF for the price(as you'll later find out in this review). It is an overpriced scam. 1000naira can buy you 5 spaghetti. One thousand naira can get you a rubber of white garri if you can beg. My roommate sold his working standing for 1k. With 1k, you can get a used heart in cotonou that will pump atleast 3 cups of blood before failure. Should I continue?

Deduction rate:
The deduction formula Mtn uses to deduct data remains a mystery even to engineering students like myself. I have observed, observed, observed and carefully calculated, yet all my answers keep pointing towards one direction - the deduction is spontaneous. That is, the computer program(i like to call it "robot" ) assigned to carry out this task deducts data base on its mood at your time of browsing. 1mb for each Google page viewed(if Oga robot is in a good mood) or 200mb for an image of hushpuppi(if Oga just woke up from sleep).

I see no reason why how data is deducted should fluctuate. This is robbery, of the highest order. In Today's world where Internet data is beginning to carry the same wieght as food given how many business and lives depend on it, it is heartless, wicked & criminal to leave your customers at the mercy of melancholic robot who will deduct 300mb just because it didn't sleep well last night.

Verdict: Are you a magician? Are you fascinated with magic? Do you like sseing things dissappear? Things like animals, humans and of course, data? Mtn data plan is for you.

Webpages:
You ll think 1.5 gigabytes will be more than enough to surf the web since most of the Webpages you visit are kind of plain & light( like Nairaland ) and have little or no moving content unlike busy sites like skysports and xvideos where something is always guaranteed to be moving at any time of the day.

But as it turns out, viewing a simple, traditional Webpage sometimes takes as much as it would a YouTube video. Sometimes, more than. Other times, lesser than. But still not less enough to make you agree it's fair enough. I'll browse Nairaland sometimes and log out after 5-10mins and 100mb will be deducted. Sometimes, 60mb. Sometimes 80mb.

Offline Mode:
I think this is the most annoying part of being subscribed to any of Mtn's stupid data plan - they charge you for doing nothing. Absolutely, fffucking nothing. Between the hours of 12am and 2pm today, the deduced 80mb despite data connection being off. This has become a constant occurrence and I've learnt to channel energy I'll waste on complaining to customer care(as usual) to better use.

Verdict: With background data set on permanent restriction, data switched off, I wonder what steals data. Wait!! maybe, just maybe, my home button needs mb to take me from gallery to home screen.

Apps.

Twitter:
Twitter could - to a certain degree - qualify as a webpage since most of the activity there is text-based, save for funny memes and videos (which is optional to watch by the way), but the amount of data that constantly gets deducted for very little activity on this app is nothing to smile about.

I was charged an outrageous chunck of data few days ago by Oga robot for twitter activity that didn't last upto 7mins. Maybe it was because the joke I tweeted didn't get any retweets.

Facebook:
This one is for old people who don't know something like instagram exists. For stalking Amaka(your classmate) who refused to say yes to you in Nursery 2 has gotten pregnant for her street boy yet. Or for checking if the class olodo has managed to succeed in Life.... so I don't even bother with this app. However, considering it deals with lots of images and videos, I expect Mtn to use this as another avenue to make their already overweight bank account obese.

Instagram:
.... *ok calm down. ksslib breathe.. breatheeee**

I spent months in denial but I've finally accepted the bitter truth that Instagram is only for the rich. Atleast that's what Mtn wants me to believe. Watching funny videos, short comedy skits and smiling at images of Buhari's head swapped with various household items is only for the rich.

So expertly have Mtn perfected the art of deception and stealing that they would not deduct a questionable amount of data after my first, second, third and maybe fourth usage of Instagram after a fresh subscription. I'll just use Instagram at surface level (few videos, images) then log out and check my data balance, then smile at what I see.

This trick - as i later painfully discovered - is Mtn just trying to gain my trust, make me feel at home before allowing me to foolishly decide it's time to carelessly dive deeper into the unsteady, dangerous waters of Instagram videos.

If you're foolish enough like me to trust Mtn, the look on your face after checking your remaining data balance will quickly help you forget about that funny video you just saw on kraks TV. Abi you wan compare the effect of a message like "Dear customer, you have 66mb left of your current data bundle" to one video where all the people being interviewed on the street kept swearing they will not attend anybody's funeral that doesn't attend theirs. Lol

Verdict: Mtn says Instagram is not for poor people like me. We'll see what Etisalat, Airtel and others have to say.... minus Glo abeg. What's the use of having 100gig when I am only allowed to legally use 10mb due to poor service. Glo with pride indeed.

YouTube:
This is easily my favourite platform(clolsey followed by instagram) but it's a forbidden area for obvious reasons. YouTube is like stepping into the badlands.

Night plan is the only alternative here. Which means I am always awake at night browsing videos when my mates are in covoon hustling. And I also feel not getting enough sleep is too much a price to pay for thrills of YouTube but I am also not quick to forget I am Nigerian afterall, suffer is suppose to be my middle name. Therefore, Night plan it is.

Verdict: Know this: Using YouTube on Mtn's hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or whatever plan is tantamount to opening the flood gates of hell. You and your data will be flooded with fire and brimstone. For safety reasons, i dont even have the youtube app installed on my phone anymore because I might decide to want to watch a youtube video and later change my mind, but Oga robot will go ahead and deduct 300mb because apparently, the first law of data deduction states that "Habouring the thought of watching a YouTube video in your mind is the same as watching it".

Final verdict:
Mtn data plan is a big scam that anybody who knows the value of money - especially in this biting recession- should never subscribe to. This will be my last subscription. Even if all the angels of heaven descend and vouch for Mtn, I will never trust them. It's almost unbelievable that these corrupt piece of shameless thieves get away with this fuckery and daylight robbery...but wait! I almost forgot we are still in Nigeria.

The uncertainty, terror and suspense that comes with checking my remaining data balance every single f*cuking time - whether I surf the net or not - is too much for my young body to cope with. I am just 24 for God sake. I cannot be paying you one thousand naira almost every 4- 5days to give me high blood pressure and stroke.

Will I recommend this plan or any Mtn data plan?:
Yes, I will absolutely recommend this plan to anybody who will ask this question after reading everything.

you get another Telecom company for pocket

AWOisaCOWARD:
A dead man is better than this packaged vegetable. His handlers should remove every fan around him to avoid him been blown away.

a coward that rendered 30 million people null and void.

gozzlin:
Gory.

And they had to display him uncovered in his underpants. No regard for corpses in this jungle called Nigeria.

RIP.

did he regard when he was stealing money

AtkinsPlanet:
Just remember you are toying with some kids' future, here.

Check out my signature.

her or the kids elders that refused to vote with sense

Alariwo2:
20K? Don't even try it.

You'll eat, you'll feed wife and kids, buy pad and pampers every week abi na month. Buy cloths and other accessories.
Transport nko?
House rent nko? abi na 'face me I slap you' you wan stay?


No just try am

must you buy pampers or designer cloth. Abeg Mowu hia word

nextstep:
It's something... and comparing countries, 1 footballer by name Neymar got contract over 200 million pounds for running and kicking ball. Yet the average salary for experienced doctors in UK is about 100 thousand pounds. Meaning Europe values one ball kicker the same as 2000 life savers.

1 call kicker out of 40 million. Doctors boku.demand and supply. He entertains millions. Doctors can only treat 10 ppl per day

nextstep:
It's something... and comparing countries, 1 footballer by name Neymar got contract over 200 million pounds for running and kicking ball. Yet the average salary for experienced doctors in UK is about 100 thousand pounds. Meaning Europe values one ball kicker the same as 2000 life savers.

1 call kicker out of 40 million. Doctors boku

nextstep:
I think you're missing the point... you know scholarships are given to the best students to encourage them... is that bribe? Isn't that also paying people to excel?

It's no mean feat to be the top of your class in medicine. She did that without financial incentive, but if 500k can help encourage others to aspire, then what is wrong with that? It's a lot better than aspiring to be a slay queen. Kudos to the NGO. People are even abusing the amount of money as small, knowing full well that 500k can transform their lives.

who top of the class epp. You want to be rewarding. ..what are you rewarding sef. Empty brain book reading?

eezeribe:
While those that win talent hunt or beauty pageantry are given 5million naira and above,plus endorsement deals,plus brand ambassadorship of multinationals,plus one year international tour,plus media popularity,plus visit to top government officials,plus...etc etc.

WE ARE WHERE WE ARE BECAUSE OF MISPLACED VALUES.

they help sell homes and services. What is she adding value to. They were promised money so they participated. Who send the girl to read medicine. Why didn't she too go and do endorsement.

eezeribe:
While those that win talent hunt or beauty pageantry are given 5million naira and above,plus endorsement deals,plus brand ambassadorship of multinationals,plus one year international tour,plus media popularity,plus visit to top government officials,plus...etc etc.

WE ARE WHERE WE ARE BECAUSE OF MISPLACED VALUES.

they help sellhomes and services. What is she adding value to.

Originalsly:
He never said it was their fault. AFRICANS WAKE UP!" .... that's what he is shouting about....but we still not listening. ...we're still sleeping... seeing this as development when it is in fact exploitation... and we still wonder why Africa is underdeveloped.
Hmmmm.... we are so special...soooo proud.... how honored we must be.... how blessed to have the head of Lever...the top dog... to see it fit to visit Nigeria Africa's biggest economy to announce plans for a N4 billion multi billion Naira plant here in Nigeria....money that will be raised by us...to benefit them... Wow!... this news flash makes me feel soooo proud to be Nigerian!....a welcomed development! Really? I wonder why they didn't try this in China?

Toh
4 billion sound big to average Nigerian that can't get 18k a month

Freeman147:
@mikolo80 you see, your defeatist mentality is shocking

So telling the truth is defeatis
I see

! What do you mean that we are not ready?

Are we where we should be?
Are we moving forward or backward?
Is Malaysia Singapore Dubai South Korea not our mate economically in 1960?
please face reality
We're not serious and we need to be. We have everything to develop except serious human beings.

That we did not plant Palm oil?

Show me where we planted the palm oil
And who stopped up from doing so

What do you know about Capitalism,

SeparatiNG stupid ppl from the money

Globalization

Country scale capitalism

and Structural Adjustment Program (SAP)?

Less import
More export
Free floating exchange rate.
Selfish leaders stole the money for the program and put up in debt

What do you know about zero sum trade,

One must lose for another to gain

Free Trade Zone

No taxes

? What do you know about Mercantilism and Free Market?

Not for lazy ppl

When leaders like Awolowo was supporting the Agbekoyas during the popular uprising against international benchmark for pricing Cocoa beans using dollar increase and the over supply of cocoa leading to a crash of price, thus reducing our estimated earnings.

You didn't complete your thought. Are you asking a question or making statements. What's your point.?

The sad thing is not that we ain't ready

What I said

, but the saboteurs, and enemies within.

So if there is saboteur in your house or company you will give us and go with the wind abi? I see

Everything we import today, we were able to manufacture pre and post independence, till the early eighties, when the Reaganomics and the Brentton woods institutions began to "Seduce" our un-ideological leaders like Babangida, Mobutu, etc.

And we were looking upon all the school and alphabet soup we get. Mtscheeeeeeeeew

Did we not manufacture Tire (Dunlop), Vehicles (VW,PAN), Ajaokuta, Textiles, Refineries, first TV station in Africa and Eastern Europe(WNTV) So what do you @ mikolo80 mean by "WE ARE NOT READY"

We didn't manufacture Shishi. Oyinbo did. We just worked there for a pittance.
Does that sound ready to you.?

African/Nigerian Youths - Emancipate yourselves from Mental Slavery.

These ones popping champagne and Moet
NakedIng themselves for likes and auditioning for big brother and Malvina dance hall and singing competition upandan

Good luck

When was Christmas first celebrated in Nigeria, and under what circumstances? The Stock Exchange that Unilever intends to raise the funds from also negates and form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

Lost me here bro

This is a face down, Ya@#$h up thing

You sure say no be yansh down join

... Let's believe in our selves.... Africa is the NEXT FRONTIER, and we must not allow history repeat itself.

Yep and the hordes are at the gates
And we're welcoming them with open arms.
I almost weep.

Unilever, Royal Niger Company (UAC), Nestle, Mikano, John Holt, Leventis, Lister etc These Corporations run a global CORPORATOCRACY- THEY ARE THE MASTERS- THEY ARE AFRICAS GREATEST PROBLEM. THEY ARE THE REASON WE CANT GENERATE POWER, SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO GIVE AN EXCUSE FOR IMPORTS, AND NON-VIABILITY OF SETTING UP SHOP HERE. THEY ARE THE REASON INDIGENOUS COMPANIES CANT COMPETE WITH THEM BECAUSE OF THIS CUT-THROAT, CANNIBAL CAPITALISM.

cc @Originalsly

r[/quote][quote]what stops us from setting up our own jaegers to stare ten down. A hundred dangotes is all we need.

Or is he not an indigenous company.
Is he not competing.

dataking:
You obviously dont know anything

you that know
How many refineries do you have. Even 1 litre of oil you can't add value. So who get sense pass.

Koskio:
It is common knowledge that old age has its own drawbacks such as low productivity, frailty, senility etc. Even the Bible recognises this fact when in Ecclesiastes 12:1 it says: "remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years approach when you will say, 'I find no pleasure in them'".

While in the civil service, and even in the judiciary, nigerian lawmakers have taken congnizance of this fact and placed various age limits which compel the retirement of individuals to ensure the quality of service delivery is up to speed, no such provision has so far been made for political offices such as that of the president, governors and legislators?

Considering how sensitive and demanding these political offices are, is there really any justification for the absence of such statutory restriction?

cos the young aren't interested. Interest is not by mouth o