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texaco1: thank God , some people are beginning to see and speak the truth , this kind of truth is what dbanj fanatical followers don't want to hear ,changing of name or title doesn't make you relevant in show biz , it is all about what you churn out , dbanj has been churning out trash since January the only song that he did worth anything is the last track he did for Hennessy , he is fading fast the sooner he realizes this the beter for him.one point which i have always stressed is that he has the money and connections, getting a good and better producer than don jazzy shouldn't be a problem for him , there are thousands of producers who are 100000% better than don jazzy , all he needs to do is buy songs from good song writers and get a fantastic producer to work with him , he has the market all he needs to do is feed them. all this eja nla, banger lee , whale nla , tiger bush is all rubbish. he better works on his songs fast before people stat calling him dindinrin nla

Dbanj came actively into the music scene in 2004( 9 years ago) and since then, he has been everly consistent and has won everything winnable as a Musical Artiste in Africa except of course, the grammy awards. So, I tell you, he has nothing to prove again to you or to anyone. At the moment, I don't even think he is dwindling because of his success in the last two years which almost surpasses the success he made in the previous 4 years before then. But, if you still insist he is singing trash cos he is being dynamic with his Afro pop style that may not suit you, then, it is only normal cos that is like the 'law of diminishing returns'. How many Nigerian Artiste always cross the 5 year mark of being relevant? Less than 30%. It is 9 years on and the dude is still relevant. I think you need to check the dictionary meaning of that word 'relevant' lest you use it wrongly. I repeat, he has nothing to prove to anyone, dude is just having fun. If you don't like his music, there are so many other Artistes to listen to.
The mere fact that you guys get overly hyperactive anytime he does anything or releases a video is even enough evidence to show that he is still very much relevant. You didn't even make any comment on the video which was the aim of the thread but you could talk off it and spew trash. Bloody hater!

Tosin7: Dband is a major flop! Did any of you see that? The video is highly demonic!

But I see him going out of trade real soon because he does not really make sense most of the time and besides his songs does not have charm and appeal.
As a detribalized Yoruba -Psquare remains the best thing to happen to Nigeria and Africa at large..

This thread is not about comparism. I don't know why bigoted Ibos are always comparing Dbanj with Psquare whenever he is mentioned. Music is a universal thing and cuts across tribes, no need for unnecessary comparisms.
As for you, you are just a sEnzless pretender. You always say trashy things about the Yoruba tribe and anything that has to do with it while pretending to be a Yoruba. Your Master didn't school you well. You need to go for more lessons and who even asked for your tribal affilations to make your comments? I am allergic to daft individuals and yours seems beyond redemption.

[quote author=bizzle*]don't u think ure being a lil too vindictive, take it easy bro[/quote]Okay bro, just that I dislike lies and liars and the OP is one. I am not saying the Law enforcement agents aren't corrupt, they may be but it is clear that the Op lied ,inflamed things and didn't pay his dues and bills like a law abiding citizen.

Although, this school is underrated by most people because they don't really know much about it, I believe it is one of the best in Nigeria at the moment and in recent times, far better than some overrated schools and it is the FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, ABEOKUTA( FUNAAB) formerly UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, ABEOKUTA (UNAAB).

First of all, let me point out the fact that there are different types of relationships between a Boss and subordinate depending on how well they relate and the Boss' temperament. The OP has studied her boss well and knows the kind of person he is before showing gestures to him.


It is not every work environment that goes with high handedness and fear as obtained in most companies in Nigeria, so, the OP might be able to talk to her boss like an elder brother.


When I was in the Bank, my immediate boss used to fumble with his tie and I always tell him that, "Sir, you didn't do your tie well". He would remove it and say, "Ok, do it for me" with a smile. Infact, every morning he will ask me if it is okay and we will both smile after the answer. He also asks me about colour combinations too and he changes anyone that doesn't match from his car. This is because, I know the kind of person he is and we flow well even though we aren't too close. Isn't that surprising?


Having said that, women generally hate to hear the truth and are usually belligerent when told the truth. The OP is giving a lil advice to women to take good care of their husbands by assessing him before going to work (which is not too much to ask of) but most of them turned blind eyes to the main issue and started castigating the OP's gestures to her boss. Some people can be senseless(no apologies), one ediat was even talking about her English. Yes, the OP could have soft pedalled in her approach but her points has been clearly stated. If you like listen, if you like don't listen and wait until your marriage crumbles like a pack of cards.


Well, in my own family, my mum assesses dad every morning and every time. She even helps to comb/ brush his hair and helps with the best combination of clothes. Before you quote this and say nonsense, let me point out the fact that my dad dresses well on his own and very neatly too, so, you can imagine the outcome when assessed. Superb!!! When he is away and mum is around, she washes, starch and irons his clothes. Infact, such gestures are usually a surprise package cos he will be looking for his dirty clothes when he comes back only for him to open the wardrobe and see a total transformation. How will a man feel and treat his wife if that was done to him? Won't he be appreciative? Nothing less than three people have asked my dad in my presence the question, "who is your drycleaner?". He will smile and say he doesn't have one that his wife helps him. They always wished they had that kind of wife and some even calls to acknowledge the fact that they see her handwork on dad and some joke about it too when they see and dad is always smiling and saying 'thank you my dear' and same thing goes to every member of the family.....my sisters won't even allow me wear a cloth twice even if it isn't dirty and if their clothing is a lil bit tight too, I suggest a change and so on and so forth.


It is a fact that, "LOVE" is one thing that is fast fading in most homes and some marriages are crumbling due to this. Don't put your frustrations on the OP rather, try and make corrections if yours is failing. I am a man and YES those lil things count and brings respect and love in the family.

@OP, you called me a tout cos I exposed your fo0lishness and your one sided report devoid of any solid evidence and filled with gilberish. Listen kid, no one is saying LAWMA didn't visit your office and locked it up but try and be objective in your reports okay?

pato station: It was after we paid the only outstanding bill and went to their office at 9 Awolowo Way to get them to open the gate that we realized the reason for their hurry to lock it

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How much was the outstanding fees? cos I see you have been avoiding this question like a plague. State the amount you owed and let us assess it if it is not outrageous. Based on your records as a bloody liar, I won't accept just words. Scan the receipt here showing what you paid with the dates( you may cover your coy name if you like). When you are coming to a public forum to make a complaint, you should know that you should come with relevant details and not just spew nonesense.

pato station: They demanded N30,000 un-official amount "for Task Force" before they could open the gate.

Why didn't you complete your report that you didn't pay 30,000 naira? Between 5,000 naira and 30,000 naira, which is more relevant to this post? You failed to state the amount you paid to get your office opened but was so quick to state the amount they first asked of. Isn't that funny? I put it to you again my friend that you are a bloody liar

Moreover, isn't it biased not to state the amount you owed but was so quick to state the amount they asked for(not even what you paid).

Be a responsible citizen and pay your dues as and when appropriate rather than subjecting yourself to unnecessary embarrasments. If there is one word I detest, it is "sorry" or "I am sorry sir" for something I should have done.

N:B....Don't quote me if you cannot answer the questions raised with evidence. Otherwise, you are a fo0l.

pato station: I said no receipt was issued. And I did not tell you that we parted with N30,000. I said they asked for N30,000. How will I make you understand the difference?

Yes , you didn't say you parted with 30,000 naira but you clearly insinuated it wih yor posts. Let us learn to be straight when making reports. BTW, how much was the outstanding your Company owed? They might be right for locking up your Office afterall or why would you even part with 5,000 naira after begging if the amount you owed was negligible (I doubt it was).

pato station: Point of information: the officials, a man and a lady demanded for N30,000 in their office and we begged and begged until there was no more saliva in our mouth. Out of frustration, I told my colleague that we should leave, and in fact as I was leaving, a lady (who I could not ascertain if she is a staff or client) called me and asked me to negotiate with them. Eventually, we parted with N5,000. n receipt was issued for the payment.

Why didn't you say it was 5,000 naira initially? You passed a wrong info that you parted with 30,000 naira. That's not good enough. Since a receipt was issued to you for the 5,000 naira, then it is official. What was the content on the receipt and how much was the initial outstanding fees your company owed?

Delafruita: there are things that happen in lagos that can be termed bizarre.I wouldn't wave the "stories" away because I know such things could happen in cases where overzealous officials have seen an opportunity to take advantage of others.its true they can't take advantage of you if you obeyed the law but if lagos itself isn't fully compliant with its own rules,it certainly shouldn't expect 100% from its inhabitants.moreover the real sign of advancement in a soceity isn't in how it treats its law abiding citizens,its in how it treats those that don't comply with the law.it should be noted that non-compliance with the law might not necessarily be same as breaking the law

I can believe the case of the OP because a similar fine was handed to my dad by VIO.infact his fine was 140k.I can remember how furios he was when I got to his house that night.he placed a call to Engr toriola who asked him to meet up that night.by the next morning,toriola reduced d fine to 20k and apologized for the overzealousness of his officials.in truth,my dad didn't comply with the law because his fire extinguisher was expired but then the officials claimed he was "proving right" and manufactured ridiculous offences like "dirty headlamp" etc each at 20k.

I doubt if any task force has the right to fine anyone.their duty is to take offenders before a mobile court.in cases of traffic offence,its usually the car that is impounded.however,there could be more to this than meets the eye.the man in question might not have diculged what truly happened.it could be a case of him "provinG right" and the officials desiring to stick it to him.the op said he was sentenced to a prison in badagry,that will mean the offence was committed within the jurisdiction of the badagry high court.there area thousands of taxis that operate along that axis and they are usually protected by their union.the op needs to tell us if the union has been contacted?what steps have they taken?the union has their way of resolving this issues.

This highandedness of lagos officials usually stems from the pressure mounted on them by their superiors to increase IGR.the LASG has created laws with such ridiculous fines all in a bid to generate money.the least fine VIO will give per offence is 20k.10 offences is 200k.that's absolutely ridiculous.the mobile courts are worse.offences which ordinarily should warrant a fine or community service now get long jail sentences with option of paying huge sums as fine.punishment for crimes should be set in a way that discourages people from commiting the crime and not in a way that makes people afraid of the system or disillusiones by it.

My simple advice for the op is to get a lawyer to ascertain what really happened.the jail sentence can be overturned and the fine reduced.that doesn't mean we will get emotional over the fact that he lost okada or napep.if he doesn't belong to the union,he should join them immediately this ordeal is over

Yes, I agree with you and with virtually all the points you stated about the high handedness of those officers and the tendency to make an offender a scape goat BUT paying 30,000 naira to re open an office that was locked wrongly is a very very big lie except if there is more to the story that the OP isn't saying or maybe the OP is an illiterate ( cos he deserves an apology) or maybe the only outstanding bill he mentioned that the company paid is very outrageous and runs into hundreds of thousands.

pato station: So you think somebody can just come out to make up this kind of story? If you follow my post, all I needed is suggestions on how to follow up this case and how to free this guy. Apart from that, the story is meant to get Nairalanders in particular and Lagosians in general to be aware of happenings. If you wish to visit the driver's family, I will give you the address in Ikeja.

Only last week, members of "LAWMA Task Force" sealed my office for not paying their bills. Their claim was that we have never paid any bill since the inception of our company. Unfortunately, they came around 7 am when the Manager who kept the files was not yet in the office. All pleadings to let the person come and show evidence of payment fell on deaf ears. It was after we paid the only outstanding bill and went to their office at 9 Awolowo Way to get them to open the gate that we realized the reason for their hurry to lock it. They demanded N30,000 un-official amount "for Task Force" before they could open the gate. Tell me that I also made up this story. I can give you the names of the officials who demanded the money. This is Lagos!

I see you are a Pro at giving sketchy details of events. The above post is filled with some funny lies. Your office was wrongly locked for not paying "AN" outstanding bill as against the fact that they thought you had never paid any bill since your company was established and so it was locked on a wrong reason. Now, you went to their office, showed evidence of past payments, paid the only outstanding and then rather than demand for an apology from them for delaying your business schedule by wrongly closing your office, you paid 30,000 naira to re open the office when you are not an illiterate (no offence). How does that sound to you? If I may ask, how much was the outstanding you paid?

Moreover, what is the correlation between this your story and that of your friend JJ? Nothing similar at all except 'Lagos State'. Someone told you that you just want to discredit BRF and you denied it only for you to shoot yourself with this kangaroo story again. You need to try again and come up with a better story okay? I will be waiting!

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Welldone bro!

kodewrita: Without contesting the evident merit of what you posted, I just want to state that the degrees are only irrelevant if you do not use them for what they were originally designed for.

In its true sense, computer science was never aimed at producing super coders who bang out facebook-level apps with one hand while assembling a robot with the other hand.

A typical computer scientist( in the real sense) would be busy trying to create the next level of compression algorithms to speed up the internet or creating better languages to better make use of multicore processors or trying to find out how to ensure data consistency in an environment with multiple database clusters and other such whatnot.

It requires some mathematical thinking and mostly logical thinking with a dose of domain knowledge.

That's why schools in the US try to create majors focused on creating software engineers.


That said, I believe we have piled on p.josh and I really do not like the insults being levelled at his uncle or his person(this is assuming p.josh is a dude). Lets contribute without insulting him.


For the undergrads who detest the maths aspect of computer science, please know that maths, comp sci and elect are deeply interconnected. You can never achieve true understanding without knowing the first principles on which your field is based.

Ask any physics grad and they will tell you of the need to always identify and master the fundamental laws/principles before going on to study phenomena(be they natural or manmade like computers).

You want to jump on to Cisco networking, OSPF etc and you refuse to learn the Shortest Path First and other path finding algorithms who derive their existence to the Graph Theory maths that you detest.

I could go on and on about the beauty of algorithms including encryption algorithms, packet sharing algorithms, fuzzy logic etc. Its heady stuff and if you already love logic, you can fall in love with them easily.


Finally, I want to flip to the other side and say that university knowledge is a refinement of generally held knowledge too. As such, it is possible to actually engage in a period of self study and still achieve the same level of knowledge gained by attending a university. Don't argue that with me, just google AUTODIDACTISM. There are lots and lots of articles on it.

P.Josh. If however you have other interests, I would advice doing either a combined major of computer science and another course (e.g Economics which you will find supremely useful or Maths). The other option is to study another course but gain practical IT skills by taking A+(practical IT maintenance skills), Java/Python/.net( programming), MySQL/oracle(DBMS), Net+/CCNA( Networking) to make you a versatile individual.

All the best and God's guidance on your choice of career.

You are very right bro and you have said virtually everything on my mind. I studied Computer Science and I couldn't have asked for a better course. Studying computer science is one of the best decisions I ever took. A lot of people don't know what computer science is all about, they think it is just networking, web designing and some baby codes they learn outside. SMH!

The dude with the IYA NGBALI moniker is so funny. The more the Mods ban people for certain trends, the more they come up with new ones. I see team 'HAS T.B JOSHUA SPOKENT ON IT' coming up. Lol.

@Mods, the best option will be to discreetly hide those posts and not ban the monikers cos new trends will always come up. In the Garri days, there was a warning before banning, this time around , it caught the peeps unawares . Very funny I tell yah!

Hmmm. Sorry dear, I understand your fears. It is well.Just relax!

pj3400: Salary was not paid yesterday. I got mine on 28th.

Okay. Noted. What Bank is yours?

Burger01: Go and inhale nitrous oxide you will understand!!

From your post, I can tell that you have crossed the 30 years mark well cos in our own time, the name had been changed from nitrous oxide to 'di-nitrogen one oxide'.You be our Senior ooo

^^^^ Exactly! But my tight schedule hasn't allowed me to do the write up. Just watch this space.

mo2raur: I v not...

Okay, thanks. From what I have observed, I think it is those of us that registered a lil bit late that have challenges with either August or July or both salaries. It shouldn't be so in this computerised age. I don't know why everything about Government is usually inconsistent.There is even no specific date for salary payment. It is well.

Adeola1984: Have not been paid to for july and august though am worried because i need money but am not scared dey will surely pay us we are tinking of going to Alausa on d 4 of august to go dere and complain if u are interested u can join us for ur own good....sikena

Do you mean 4th of September? I will tell my friend.

Swonder: Plz is FCMB better than GTB for quick salary payment? Plz advise!

Well, I can't really say. Salaries were paid just yesterday and I got mine same day (GTB). A friend of mine uses Fcmb and he got his yesterday too. So, I can't really tell. I think both of them are cool.

Hello house, a friend of mine hasn't been paid for both July and August and her Bank is Firstbank and it is really getting her worried. Please, is anyone in the same shoes as her or is it everyone that has gotten for August? If you know anyone who is going through same, please share. At least, it will provide a lil relief to her. Tnx!

[quote author=A.Mossley]what district sir?[/quote]District 1

^^^^. This is the link;Just scan for Yusedo's comment on the first page.

https://www.nairaland.com/1403003/need-advise-how-sleep-lady#17531678

Nik77: Please post the link to the thread. Thanks

Okay. Let me quickly search for it.

[quote author=A.Mossley]I too just received alert now(GTB),district 2 but only for august.so what about July?Any other person in the house in my shoes?[/quote]Same thing, same GTB but no July salary just August.