LotusFan:
Happy a birthday Sir Shina Peters


“Shina Peters me no fear juju...Afro juju oooooh, the difference is clear ohhh....”

"Shina Peters lo ni Afrojuju…Afrojuju difference is clear"

Gecoz:
Aha haha, bla bla bla. They can do nothing. One fo oool on here said Russia will back them, that means u agree that the whole Muslims can't defeat Israel they need Russia and China? I laugh in chino voice

I ordinarily wouldn't have commented on this thread but just so you know, Isreal defeated a coalition of powerful Muslim countries as at 1967 in what is famously known as "The Six-Day War" because it took six days to crush the united enemies.

YorubaAssasin:


What's the duration got to do with the fact he was governor?

It does people are reading and are learning from you. Don't post what you are not sure of.

YorubaAssasin:
Na big lie be dat!

His dad, Michael Otedola was Lagos Governor back in the late 80's / early 90's.... so who says he won't wanna take over the baton?

Anyway... you don fvck up, Orunmila fire you!

Ogbeni his dad was just governor for two years. When you hear story, hear it well. Don't quote what you don't know.

I remember it was five years ago that we celebrated Nairaland's reaching one million user population. This great Nigerian forum, in its 13 years of existence has helped millions of Nigerians learn new things daily, got countless people jobs, simplified travelling for them, fostered blossoming relationships that exist beyond it and among many other things.
Nairaland is Africa's Quota and it can get better. It can be our internet export to the world .
Please Oga Seun should look into innovative ways to make Nairaland acceptable to far wider global audience.
Happy 2 million members forumites. Thanks to everyone that has made the Nairaland journey a thrilling, addictive and successful one.

Reading some ignorant comments, I cringed. Dangote appointment of Mrs Blair is a strategic move to facilitate Dangote Cement's listing on the London Stock Exchange.

08102019924

#TeamPolyglot
Kudos to serial language learners like us. It is not easy.

Leonyluiz:
Hit me up 09092399584

Alright bros. Thanks

Good morning , Nairalanders.

I have been ideating for quite sometime now and also reading on some of the world's most successful tech business people in the world and I discovered that their ideas were not really out-of-this-world. Some actually are but many just created products millions of people- the starving crowd, want.

Like Akin Alabi said in his bestselling book, Small Business Big Money: ''create what people would readily buy and you will become successful in no time''.

My idea is disruptive and will do just this. But there is a hitch!

I can't code!

Though, I have done my homework to know that it would be an instant hit and I am really getting my hands dirty on it but I need a team of equally young minds especially programmers to achieve it.

Like Akin Alabi did in 2008 when he listed some of the things he wanted to achieve in a few years then on Nairaland, I know many people will laugh at this but seeing what Otunba has become today, I don't mind following with this even if nothing came out of here.

Akin Alabi only wanted to win £1 million pounds in bet money but today, he controls a bet company, NairaBET that is worth much more.

His story and that of a few others like Richard Nyong motivate me.


So Nairalanders, please help me with a good tech incubator to go, advise me on how to go and general ''must-knows'' about the tech business ecosystem.

Ultimately, I also need co-founders who can code.

Sir/ma, if you can help with any of the above, don't see this post and scroll.

In a few years, you will be glad to have said, ''oh, that guy. I am glad to have helped him when he was just starting out. I am proud to be a part of S********T'' (The name of the Company.

NwaAmaikpe:



In the words of Sean 'Jay-Z' Carter; "You can pay for school but you can't buy class".

Wealth isn't class,
Class is innate.

The Otedolas may have money; but they lack true class.

I lost all respect for Femi the moment Cuppy ridiculed him by dating a mere footballer.
Then the 'other one' worsened it by dating a scarecrow.

You are the most stupid person on here.

More stupid are those who encourage these peurile posts of yours.

Le monde s'effond!

Over 200 years ago, the lush
green savannah grasses of the
stretch of land between
Ogbomosho and Jebba fed Yoruba herds. It was also a good
site for hunting expeditions and
that was from where Ilorin, a
then thriving and bustling
Yoruba town got its name, ''the
place where iron is sharpened''.
Alas, the Fulanis happened to it and it never remained the same!


True to type, these Fulanis, like the 21st Century Crusaders of ''No Man's Land'' Lagos, came draped in the pretentious garb of businessmen exploiting the
prosperity and ambience the
land offered. They gained
prominence and wealth. They bought lands and built houses and then they changed! They wanted more- dominance! The
patrimony, rulership and
suppression of the Yoruba
owners of Ilorin became their
obsession and they got it. They
deposed the Baale, the traditional head representing
the Alaafin and the interest of
the Oyo Empire and imposed an Emir, a representative of the
Caliph.


Once getting the dominance, they became demagogues. They lumped the over 70% of the Yoruba towns and villages with some Nupe and Fulani tribes and called it Kwara, the Hausa/Fulani name for the river Niger changing it from the ''Odo Oya'' that the Yorubas called it. They gave Ilorin and Kwara state a North-Central geopolitical bearing and despite the fact that everyone in Ilorin including the emir speaks Yoruba and answers a Yoruba name, they made it officially documented that ''Ilorin will neither be a Yoruba nor a Fulani town''.


If we would not stop being politically correct, if we would
fold our hands and watch some
strangers distort our history and steal our patrimony, if we
would not exert our rights and
responsibilities as custodians of the coveted space called Lagos now, another Ilorin will happen to it.
The next generation must come to meet this Eldorado, the
success story city still a Yorubaland with its language, traditions and institutions preserved and for this, more proactive measures like the YLL and other self-preserving legislations must be made lest these ''NOMANSLANDERS'' win.

greatkeno:
And so many people will say why did a Muslim get married to a Christian.. Love knows no bounds.!! Though it's always the rich getting married to the rich!!

The Sarakis personally do not really care about religion.

Toyin, the christian daughter of billionaire Molade Okoya-Thomas married into the Muslim family of the Sarakis and it still hasn't changed her beliefs.

bloodmoneyspita:
I thought senator saraki is from the North, why is his daughter named tosin.?

Saraki is Yoruba and Christian but by virtue of the political and religious reality in Kwara state, it is best for him to claim being Fulani and Muslim.

Moyinoluwa35:
and na davido kill am o..e still cum d burial...such is life

This is dumbness at its peak.

mike404:
OLOLADE DONT MIND ME JARE PLEASE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES OF THOSE TOWNS I MENTIONED ABOVE

You are just being unnecesarily dumb. It was clearly stated ''BEAUTIFUL PICTURES OF IBADAN''.

I don't know where you are from but I can guess you are from that part of Nigeria where apart from capital cities and a few other towns, only settlements not in the league of many Yoruba villages are called towns.

Learn to comprehend simple statements. Ibadan, not Igbo-Ora.

To put it in better perspective, 6 of these 10 pre-independence ''hombres ricos'' were of Yoruba extraction. Da Rochas was an Ijesa slave taken to Brazil.


This is just to put present day loudmouthers along history lane.

Explorers:
Jack was placed in a cell 2×2 with one window at the top of the wall.

The window was big enough for him to go through it but too high for anyone to reach it.

The cell was empty.

It had nothing in it, except a shovel.

He had only two days to break out.

How will Jack escape?

You mentioned that he is in a 2x2 compartment. This means that his outstretched hands and legs would touch the parallel walls either way. Jack would simply use the shovel to make holes on the sides of the walls to support his hands and legs and he will do that upwardly till he reaches the top and escapes.

PATOAMOS:
AU- YVC SHOULD EXPECT MAILS STARTING FROM 1ST SEPTEMBER

You said this matter-of-factly. You have insider information?

[quote author=lonlytroy post=59917372]

I was told that ''Justification for the purpose and conditions of the intended stay was not provided in particular is considered to represent a specific risk of illegal immigration pursuant to Part V of the Common Consular Instructions;.''


I was told to appeal in two months time and the appeal letter should be written in French language


Sir, when you are ready, I can craft a very convincing appeal for you in French. That is what I do.

Thanks

[quote author=PierreDeFermat post=59779201]Harry Akande who fell off by entering politics,they just collected all his money and he was almost crying in 2003 and that's why Dangote doesn't want to go into politics,Nigeria is not America where Donald Trump's massive wealth remains intact even after becoming president,Harry Akande's son is now married to Dakore Egbuson,Harry Akande used to supply 24/7 electricity to the whole District his mother's mansion he built for her is in Ibadan.
His excellency Oluwo Deinde Fernandez,he used to water his farm with helicopters,he was also a grandmaster of Ogboni confraternity till his death,he had yacht,island in USA and was involved in one of the biggest divorce settlement ever in UK.
MKO Abiola in the 90's,MKO was ruined by politics,Abacha destroyed his wealth and made sure he turn him to a poor man before he dies.


When lies are told more frequently, they tend to become statements of facts.

Your assumption that Harry Akande was that rich was the same election lie told that Osinbajo was the number 4 man in RCCG.

Listen to yourself, if Akande was that rich, how much do you think would have been too much to wreck him on an electioneering campaign?

With Deinde Fernandez, I agree.

According to some random internet reports, over 30000 people applied throughout the continent. 15000 of those are Nigerians.

I have always said this. Nigerians don't have any competition in Africa. We are our own competition.

Nigeria: Good people, Great Nation!

NwaAmaikpe:


I can comment freely on Apostle Johnson Suleman and Biodun Fatoyinbo without any reservation or inhibition.

But that my grace no carry me reach where Bishop Oyedepo dey ooo.
Before my device go catch fire

God has blessed this man beyond measures.

Hear Nairaland's most notable foul-mouthed member.

Whatever grace that makes you bash other men of God should be available to this particular one too.

It is clear you are a Winners member or attends a church where the pastor adores Oyedepo.

Stop the nonsense you often put up here. It profits you not.

Applicants know their fate in 72 hours!

Programs like the AU/YVC give life-changing opportunities. Though, I am also an applicant this year, I have been part of equally prestigious international programs in the past i.e. YALI, AU/YALDA Agenda 2063 to mention but a few.

I write articles for a living and I have 60-70 percent success rates guiding people on applying for programs like this.

If you would like to beat the deadline and its attendant worries, I can help you with your application for a token.
I will guide you or help you write top-notch motivation letters and other essays as may be required in any of the AU/UN languages of your choice. Yes! I speak them all!

And hopefully, with prayers, we shall succeed together.

Call me on: 08102019924

Good day pros!

I recently concieved an idea that requires high tech knowledge to pull through and I am looking for the success stories of home grown programmers who had built something very successful as inspiration.

I am justing starting out to learn programming and I will be glad if apps that were built, ran or sold for good money be listed here.

I believe we can build another whatsapp, another uber app, duolingo etc.

Build, we shall!

Thanks.

Airforce1:
Five star music boss, Emoney stormed the Lagos airport today with his fierced looking security guards to board Air peace to Abuja.

E-money is a billionaire brother to Kcee "Limpopo" crooner and also the CEO of five star shipping line.

.photos below

Source
https://www.instagram.com/p./BWAZaexFaCp/

Mr man, there is no way he owns Five Star Shipping Line that is already taken and it belongs to General T.Y Danjuma


Stop spreading falsehood. I know all the players in the Maritime sector. They are not in E-money's league.

If Igbos can banish Igbos from Igboland, why the brouhaha over some Northern youths telling them to leave their land?

On Sunday, June 7, 1998, General Sani Abacha was at the airport to welcome Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat. Sauntering in his traditional babaringa, he was full of life taking greetings from people who were around but 24 hours later, the man whom many believed to be a tyrant was pronounced dead following a cardiovascular attack. He was to travel to Burkina Faso the day he died for a meeting at the then Organization for African Unity, O.A.U .
Abacha is being touted today as the first Nigerian president to die of natural cause but many Nigerians still belief till today that his death is far from being natural. Abacha was reportedly randy and this might be the the flame which led to the fire of rumor in Nigeria today that he died of poisoned apple by some of his many Indian mistresses.
The day Abacha died is debatably the happiest day in the life of the nation; and may be only Independence Day on October 1st, 1960 could compete with it.
I remember that day on June 8, 1998. I just came back from school and I saw elderly men gathered in round their radio set and whispering in hush tone.
There was tension in the polity, local newspapers had gone to press before his death and the electronic media could not broadcast his passing away without official confirmation. News of his death first reached us from foreign sources: CNN, the BBC and VOA.
While there was a general belief and relief in the air that he might be truly dead because of the credibility of the News Agencies that aired it, people still exercised restraint in the way they rejoice.
After a wait that seemed to be eternal, the Radio Nigeria came on air to announce the broadcast of a very important information. And then, General Abdulsalam Abubakar came on air to make this announcement which threw many Nigerians into a frenzy.
These were his exact words on that history-making, June 8, 1998 evening:
”The Head of State, Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, General Sani Abacha (GCON), passed away in the early hours of this morning (Monday). General Sani Abacha was born in Kano on September 20, 1943. He enlisted into the Nigerian Army in December 1962 and trained at the Nigerian Military College, Jaji, and Mons Officers Cadet College, United Kingdom.
He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in 1963 and promoted to full Lieutenant in1966; Captain in 1967; Major in 1970; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1972; Colonel in 1975; Brigadier-General in 1980; Major-General in 1984, Lieutenant-General in 1987; and General in 1990.
General Abacha held many command positions in the Nigerian Army, including Commander 2nd Division Training Depot; Commander Support Wing and Chief Instructor, Nigerian Army Schoolof Infantry Brigade, 1975-1978. He was the Commander, 9 Mechanised Brigade, 1981-1983; and became the General Officer Commanding 2 Mechanised Division, 1984-1985.
General Abacha was the Chief of Army Staff from August 1985 to April, 1990 and later (was ) Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, from December 29, 1989 to September 1, 1990.
He was Chief of Defence Staff and Minister of Defence from September 3.1990 to November, 1992. He was secretary for Defence Chief of Defence Staff, from December, 1992-November 16, 1993.
General Abacha assumed the office of Head of State, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, on November 17, 1993 and served till June 8, 1998 on a national rescue mission.
He was highly decorated and had, in his lifetime, earned the following honours: Grand Commander of the Niger (GCON), Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), Defence Service Medal (DSM), National Service Medal (NSM), General Service Medal (GSM), Republic Medal (RM), Silver Jubilee Medal (SJM), Force Service Medal (FSS), Distinguished Service Star (DSS), Meritorious Service Star (MSS), Member, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos (mni)”.
Hardly had Abubakar finished the news that the streets went agog. People were seen hugging, dancing and performing different stunt on their motorcycles and bicycles.
I first wondered why people were happy at the death of a man then, I remembered Kudirat Abiola and host of others that were killed at the behest of Abacha, the imprisonment of Obasanjo, Diya , Adisa etc, economic hardship, political tensions, exiles of some prominent Nigerians and I was relieved myself. Sani Abacha will always live in our hearts as a tyrant at whose death Nigera rejoiced.