₦airaland Forum

HeRulesMen:
May be beyond copywriting, you can add "writing" in general as long as you offer related services. So how much are you making from copywriting or writing in general?

It seems the field is not for some of us, may be we are not doing it right.

Please be sincere with your responses. It will help direct and motivate struggling writers.

Who are target clients for copy writers?

mushroomFarm:
This is not my first time attending the church here in Yakutsk, Russia (world's coldest city where I study) but I have decided to share my experience about church service in Russia (Yakutsk) with you guys today.
.
This city is 8 hours ahead of Nigeria which means we had concluded the service long before you guys woke up. But my university invited international students to a special program today so I couldn't post this until now.
.
The service begins with songs.
Yakutians and Russians dance and wave flags.
For instance they wave the red flag to symbolize salvation, white to symbolize peace and the flag of Israel to show love for the birth place of Christ.
.
After series of songs the bible is read and the junior pastor say a few things about the verse that is read.
.
.
Then the senior pastor would preach the sermon.
.
After which we hug each other now I love this part😘😘😘 and I try to avoid the men and hug the ladies...😍
.
.
After this we go to the dinning room and eat.
.
This is what I love most about the church here. There is nothing like offering and tithe. But we eat heavily every Sunday!
.
.
The first time I arrived here in Yakutsk and went to church, there was this lady that came to me after service and asked me if I am not cold (I didn't have winter clothes yet) she told me even if I were not cold then, I would feel terribly cold when the winter gets tough. She took me to the stores in her car and bought me winter clothes, winter boots, mufflers, winter gloves, etc.
.
.
This is the coldest city in the world and those clothes are needed for survival. Infact even with those clothes, at minus 63 degrees you must not stay outside for more than 30mins to an hour. You would be finished!! (So imagine not having those clothes)
.

.
Her name is sister Natalia and she is so nice (and other people from church too) to the point that I was beginning to wonder if something else was not involved.
.
.
One day I asked her why she does those things and how the church is able to finance feeding everyone every Sunday without taking offerings.
.
.
She said some people in the church makes secret donations...to do those things. She said they are not rich, they are just reciprocation the love of Christ. She said a brother from church also give enough money to buy winter clothes for every new African student in the city! Those clothes cost about 250k in Nigerian money.
.
.
I can say that 30% of our feeding here is financed by the church. They send us chickens and meat from time to time. Lots of cucumbers, vegetables, rice and potatoes...
.
.
The church believes when people come to the presence of Christ, they should be physically blessed just like Christ fed his multitudes. They have up to 20 varieties of food and they often force us to pack food home. They say if we do not go with the food, they would get spoilt anyway. They make them in excess every Sunday so that no one would go without being filled.
.
.
Sisters in church are very free with boys (including internationals like us) they hug us like we are truly brothers and the women often hug and give us kisses on the cheek (reciprocating the love of Christ)
.
.
The preacher is a woman. She is Ukrainian. The church here does not preach hell at all. Quiet weird. They only talk about the love of Christ. Little wonder it really shows in everyone of them.
You could easily mistake the friendliness of everyone in church for 'love interests' they show that love tooooooo much.
.
Women and men should leave their head uncovered in church. No one would send you out if you do otherwise. But that is the norm here.
.
Korean girls in church wear very skimpy dresses. No one seems bothered about it.
.
.
Below is a video of a choreography performed by some of the teenagers in church.
.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArvoUvgSbGc
.
First picture is the preacher.
.

Second picture is with me with my American classmate and a Korean girl(after church)
.
Third picture is me with sister Natalia
.
.

This is how the church should be unlike Nigerian churches that have now been turned into a money making venture.

nairalandkachy1:
https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-efcc-grills-ex-minister-pauline-tallen-over-diversion-of-n2bn/amp

Nothing will come out of the case, EFCC just want a cut out of her loot. Corruption is now the order of the day under this current useless administration.

I have always been an advocate for the removal of fuel subsidy and the deregulation of the downstream sector of our petroleum industry so I will not because of politics now condemn the policy the same way the hypocrites that are implementing it now did during the PDP years.

However given the direct impact that fuel prices has on all facets of our economy, a responsible government will address the human factor before going ahead to implement such a policy that will shake the very foundation of our economy and it is in thoughtless implementation that this new administration has failed Nigerians.

For instance the PDP manifesto also planned to remove petroleum subsidy but to give a soft landing to the people, a drastic upwards review of the wage structure would have been implemented alongside the subsidy removal while $10 billion in soft loans would have been made available to SMEs to boost their businesses and cushion the effect of the removal of subsidy on the populace.

This will effectively recalibrate the economy from one focused on consumption to become one focused on productivity. This is also more far reaching than palliatives that are just temporary reliefs that are normally used to get the people to buy into draconian government policies.

Our government must learn to understand that governance is about the welfare of the people and not just making more money available in government coffers to spend as they please.

hisexcellency34:
With today's ruling by the Supreme Court dismissing PDP's suit, is there any hope for Labour Party and Peter Obi at the Supreme Court especially after Tinubu must have been sworn in as President?


Previous thread https://www.nairaland.com/7703882/court-dismisses-suit-seeking-stop#123380638

Obi is just a meddlesome interloper and is irrelevant in the scheme of things. If the stolen mandate is retrieved from Tinubu, it will rightly be given to Atiku who is the real winner of the election.

afariogunone1:
Yor phone number please?

0802-733-8500

afariogunone1:
Good day
Please how much will it cost to oven bake a corolla 2007 from black to metallic black

Thanks so much for the inquiry, it will cost 90k to get it done.

Antimandatethie:
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has reiterated that he will explore all ways to ensure that he reclaim his alleged stolen mandate.

Obi stated this while speaking during a Labour Party stakeholders’ meeting in Awka.

The former Anambra state governor vowed to explore all legal options in ensuring he reclaims his mandate.

Recall that Obi came third in the February 25th presidential election.

The Labour Party presidential candidate was defeated by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Since the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Obi had insisted he won the election, as headed to court to contest the outcome of the poll.

In a tweet via his verified Twitter about the meeting, Obi stated,



he stated.

Peter Obi Tweets

This clown should stop constituting himself into a nuisance, even though we all know that Tinubu rigged the elections, the real victim of the rigging was Atiku and not Peter Obi that was just a regional candidate.

hello66:
Seems 90k is the flat rate for all oven baked? No matter the paint quality?

It's the minimum for good quality paint, some brands of paint are even far more expensive to use.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/2023-elections-proudest-achievement-of-my-govt-Buhari

This dunce is a real specialist in failure.

toyowo:
How much is it to respray or bake Honda Civic 2002?

It will cost 90k to get it done.

Depressed101:
how much will it cost to repaint a lexus es 350 door and bumper ? just 1 door and front and back bumper

It will cost 30k to get it done, thanks.

Raysleek:
No need to disturb yourself na. Lagosians are happy with sanwo olu.

Is it the same Tinubu's stooge in Lagos that you are referring to? That charlatan that has failed to achieve anything in four years of licking Tinubu's filthy yansh.

According to INEC guidelines and regulations for the 2023 general
elections, only the names of candidates that emerged from the democratic
primaries as provided by section 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 shall be submitted to the commission. The deadline for the submission of
candidates for the presidential, senatorial and house of representative
elections was also set at Friday 17 June, 2022 while the deadline for
Governorship and House of Assembly elections was set at 6pm Friday 15th of July 2022.

It was then very amusing when rumours started circulating that Mr Gbadebo
Vivor-Rhodes (GRV) who didn’t participate in the official Labour Party
democratic primaries for the gubernatorial candidate of Lagos state within the deadline stipulated by INEC guidelines was being alleged to be the Labour Party governorship candidate for the state three weeks after the
INEC deadline had expired.

Many informed observers initially dismissed it as a joke because GRV was not even a member of the Labour Party in the register of INEC which had
given all parties a deadline of one month before their primaries to submit the list of their members that will be eligible to contest in their respective primaries. That asides, GRV was known to be an active card-carrying
member of the PDP who participated and lost the PDP gubernatorial
primaries just a month earlier. According to INEC register, GRV was a
member of PDP in the stipulated time thus not eligible to contest for the
Labour Party primaries.

That asides another faction of the dysfunctional Labour Party in Lagos had
conducted their primaries also under controversial circumstances and
declared Prof. Ifagbemi Awamaridi who doubled as the factional state
chairman as the gubernatorial candidate for Labour Party in Lagos state.

Little did we know the capacity for mischief of the Labour Party as the other faction which GRV joined after his defeat in the PDP primaries hastily
conducted a primaries on the 4th of August, 2022 almost three weeks after the deadline stipulated by INEC and GRV was declared winner in
contravention of the clearly stipulated guidelines by INEC.

They also somehow managed to smuggle his name into the INEC register of gubernatorial candidates leaving one to wonder how they accomplished
this electoral heist without compromising the integrity of INEC officials that are in charge of the register. The question arises, if a political party can
compromise INEC officials to smuggle in candidates after the stipulated
deadline, what is the guarantee that they will not compromise the same officials to manipulate the results of the elections in their favour?

Also coming from a political party that is promoting their presidential
candidate on the strength of his alleged integrity, one begins to wonder what manner of integrity will endorse this glaring subversion of due process by the factional gubernatorial candidate (GRV) of Labour Party in Lagos state.

What the Labour Party has done by smuggling GRV into the register of gubernatorial candidates for Lagos is the kind of impunity and subversion of due process that we routinely see being demonstrated by the ruling APC and this is one of the reasons why most Nigerians are tired of them and want to vote them out. It is really amusing that the same Labour Party that is promising to do things differently is now following the footsteps of APC in subverting the rule of law and compromising the system for their selfish
objectives.

Given the mess that Labour Party has made of itself in Lagos, it becomes inevitable that both their nominations for gubernatorial candidate for Lagos
state will not be able to pass the scrutiny of the court system or Election
Petition Tribunal as one factional candidate is not recognized by INEC and
the other factional candidate is in breach of clearly stipulated INEC
guidelines for the conduct of party primaries and submission of list of candidates. This means that if any Labour Party candidate emerges as the winner of the Lagos governorships elections, he will be easily removed by the Election Petition Tribunal.

Bearing the above facts in mind, and given that most Lagosians are fed-up of the twenty-four years of tyrannical hegemony by the APC led
government in the state, it becomes inevitable that the only viable choice of
defeating the incumbent APC in the state is to vote for the PDP as any vote for the Labour Party will eventually be voided and would help the failed APC government hold on to power longer.

The good news is that the PDP has the dynamic duo of Dr. Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran (JANDOR) and Funke Akindele who are best equipped and
prepared to rescue Lagos and take the state to greater heights as
governorship and deputy governorship candidates and we can be rest
assured that with both of them at the helm of affairs, we will certainly breathe a breath of fresh air in Lagos state.

Kunle Oshobi writes from Lagos.

GRV doesn't have a genuine LP gubernatorial ticket, rather he was imposed on the party by undemocratic elements within the the party. Voting for him will be a waste because he will still be removed by the supreme court even if he wins.

👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽

BELOW ARE THE HIGHLIGHTED KEY POINTS THAT IS GERMANE TO THIS VIVOUR CANDIDACY AND WE CAN USE TO TALK AND CANVASS, *CHECK ITEM WITH 💥💥💥*
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Key Points In The Write Up👇🏽

*📌"It’s not just enough to blindly ride on the wave created by Mr Peter Obi’s Feb. 25th Election and waste this golden opportunity of rescuing Lagos."*

*📌"Let’s be wise and choose a better alternative with no constitutional land mines"*

*📌"it is my candid opinion that by the community reading of provisions of constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended; the Electoral Act 2022 & INEC Guidelines and Party Constitution; votes for Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of Labour Party in Lagos State would become wasted votes as he is not qualified to contest this election".*

*📌"This case is currently in court (Supreme court) and if we all know the principality called Lagos APC godfather, this is landmine that must be avoided. Don’t be shocked when Supreme Court will announce that Labour Party has no candidate in Lagos base on the aforementioned".*

💥💥💥📌 *Mr.Ifagbami Awamaridi emerged as its candidate. Having won the primaries, Mr. Awamaridi’s name and particulars were forwarded to the INEC by Labour Party. However, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour joined the party in July 2022 and on 10th August 2022 he was named LP candidate while Awamaridi’s name was wrongfully substituted.*

*"*As at the time the register of members of Labour Party was submitted to the INEC, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party candidate for Lagos State was not a member of the LP. Indeed, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he obtained nomination form, attended screening to contest for PDP Gubernatorial ticket which was later won by Jandor"*


*LET US AVOID SPLITTING VOTED & WASTED VOTES AGAIN!!!*

.

.

naptu2:
Video of political thugs shooting in Surulere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSOaJ19wlG8

Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs



Gbenga Omotoso
Commissioner, Information & Strategy
28/1/2023

Arrant nonsense, we all know that it was the same APC thugs sponsored by the Lagos state government that unleashed mayhem in surulere yesterday. Bunch of hypocritical criminals.

3ple9iner:
If this is true, it is a very good move.
If he his found of any wrong doings, I hope his supporters don't defend him blindly and if he his found of no wrong doings, I hope his accusers would let us rest.
Because he has been investigated several times.

He has been investigated several times locally and he always buys his way out but this is an investigation being done by the National Crime Agency in the UK, Tinubu won't be able to buy his way out this time around.

SLAP44:
Rubbish point. You cannot smear a clean Peter Obi, the guy is just too clean for that.

We were told more about Buhari but his government ended up being the most corrupt government in the history of the country.

christistruth01:
Obviously fake News

When Nnamdi Kanu Case dey ground

What has this got to do with Nnamdi Kanu's case?

SLAP44:
Ok

They should investigate Atiku too, them both are treasury looters.

Likewise the source of the money that Obi laundered to tax havens when he was governor that was exposed by the pandora papers needs to be investigated. The man keeps pretending to be a saint but he is as crooked as they come.

Breaking News:
More trouble for Tinubu as the UK National Crime Agency begins investigating a case of money laundering by Alpha Beta through British banks to suspected drug dealers in Columbia.

Leun:
How much to oven bake Toyota Matrix

It will cost 90k to get it done.



Parable of the talents and the realities facing Nigeria today.

By Kunle Oshobi

The "Parable of the Talents", in Matthew 25:14–30 tells of a master who was leaving his house to travel, and, before leaving, entrusted his property to his servants. According to
each man's abilities, one servant received five talents, the second received two, and the third received only one. The property entrusted to the three servants was worth eight
talents, where a talent was a significant amount of money. Upon returning home, after a long absence, the master asks his three servants for an account of the talents he
entrusted to them. The first and the second servants explained that they each put their talents to work, and have doubled the value of the property with which they were entrusted; each servant was rewarded:

“His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”

— Matthew 25:23

The third servant, however, had merely hidden his talent, burying it in the ground, and
was punished by his master:

“Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou
art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not
strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers and then at my coming I
should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him, that hath not shall be taken away even that which
he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

— Matthew 25:24–30

The scenarios painted above depicts two of the options facing Nigeria today, however
there is a third scenario which was not captured in the parable and that is one in which the servant squanders the talent given to him and even goes on to incur more debts as is the situation in Nigeria today under the current APC administration. Given the fact
that the APC presidential candidate has vowed to continue with the failed policies of the
current administration in the unfortunate incidence that they are able to wangle themselves into power again, we cannot expect any better than what is painted in the third scenario in the traumatizing but unlikely event of APC retaining power in 2023.

However, this article was not written to entertain the traumatizing thoughts of APC retaining
power in 2023 but to draw a lesson from the parable by contrasting it with the
antecedents of two of the other leading presidential candidates in Nigeria today. In one case, we have a candidate who has a reputation for being frugal and like the servant who hid the talents given to him was saving money (in banks owned by himself) while the economy of the state was in shambles, the poverty rate was climbing and the people he was meant to cater for were becoming more impoverished.

In the other case, we have a candidate who was put in charge of the economy when he served as vice president of the country and like the servants who invested and doubled their talent, he set to work to grow the Nigerian economy and through his efforts along
with other members of the team he led, they were able to grow the Nigerian economy at
the highest rate in her history, increase GDP per capita by 600%, create millions of jobs
and pulled millions of Nigerians out of poverty within the same period.

The options facing Nigerians today are either to vote in a candidate that will continue to
squander the little resources we have and plunge the country into further debt, a
candidate who under the pretext of being frugal would stagnate the country’s economy
while people continue to wallow in poverty and a candidate who has a proven track record of growing the economy, creating jobs and alleviating people from poverty.

To me, the choice seems pretty cl ear but unfortunately, politicians will always obfuscate
issues by resorting to propaganda and making all sorts of outlandish claims to confuse the people. This is why it is always good to resort to past records of performance in
evaluating our prospective leaders and from what the parable above tells us, only those who multiply their talents are worthy of reward and not those who just save it, neither
will those who squander it be worthy of any reward. May the good Lord continue to
reward our leaders who put our resources to work for us for our collective benefit.

Kunle Oshobi writes from Lagos

christistruth01:



Atiku Controlled the biggest Oil Bunkering Operations In Nigeria’s History

Fake news

Bonesbreaker:
Go and get ur pvc and vote peter obi

My PVC is for Atiku

Antoeni:
Atiku has 31 children - all with the desire to be multi-billionaire if their father becomes President.

Nigerians, please we deserve better.

Go and collect your PVCs now!

Vote Labour Party!
Vote Peter Obi!

We Have Verified!

#VotePeterObiforpresident2023
#ObiDatti2023

Atiku owns several well established businesses that can take care of his family, he is currently more concerned about taking care of the future of millions of Nigerians by fixing our economy.

Historical fact: Nigeria achieved the highest economic growth rate in her history between 1999 and 2007 with Atiku in charge of the economy.

Wishing us all a blessed and happy new year.