StrongAlphMale:
The earlier Africa is recolonize, the better for us all.

Why? Oyinbos had their own coups: USA, France, Germany, Russia, all had their own coups (er, sorry, revolutions)...

But on a serious note... the guy had overstayed his welcome.... wonder who's next? As a child of 80's it was normal thing to hear: "I, so and so, declare that we have seized ..."

Next thing will be a "transition to civilian rule", ideally with the plotters as front runners, followed by a campaign of increasing repression, then third term agenda, then mysterious death or assistance of a western power.

I used to think this continent would improve, but as I'm heading towards 50, I realize that "plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose", and this stuff ceases to bother me. Even if Africa is recolonized for 100 more years, it will still decay.

LaIabobo:
They keep funding the war at the detriment of their citizens. The democrats are losing the election next year. Spending billions while number of homelessness is on the rise

On one hand that would be true. But realize a lot of people are employed by the US military industrial complex. US has basically just handed a quarter of a billion dollars to US (and maybe some UK/EU) companies who make these things.

It *could* be spent on healthcare or affordable homes, but its not as profitable and the homeless don't have powerful lobbies.

A Democrat who doesn't support Ukraine will have to answer to their voters who view Ukraine sympathetically, so their hands are tied. The converse is nearly true for Republicans.

With all these Japa threads, it's like somebody needs to open a "How to Japa" scam, er business.

People who have been able to save 7M, 6M, 12M are coming to ask broke people what to do with their lives?

Life hard, then music talks about hard life?

If music come be like this life wey hard so, wetin man go enjoy? Abeg let me watch people shakin body while I drown my stress in Hero.

Abegi... the same French Republic that was formed by rebellion. Even now, France is on it's fifth republic, as a result of power struggles.

IconicR:
He was cheated, what is he looking for in the market as a man?
Market women will prey on him

You say wetin? Me that was pricing market as a bachelor... even now my wife dey shame when I price things in front of her

But na wah for this inflation oh.

fineboynl:
I’m in a serious situation. i have been dating this young widow for a while now without any issues.

But From the day I slept with her i have been noticing some things i don’t want to talk about.

Many things have been going through my mind concerning her.

From the igbo/Yoruba and all other cultures in Nigeria. What should a widow do before she start sleeping with another man? Should she returned the bride price?

Because I’m considering cutting ties with her and go for deliverance.

She should do nothing. The same church you want to go to for deliverance, does not recognize bride price or any of this crud. Woman is a widow, and released from marriage, afterall the vow does say "till death do us part".

How so? Well, since we want to be treating women like property as if it's 200 years ago in Europe, riddle me this:

Man buys car, rides it for 10 years. Man dies. Should the person that sold the car in the first place get full price back before we can sell the car to another man?

If the wife is to return bride price, let the dead man's family also compensate her for all the free labor she did for her husband and his family.

Shior!

XAUBulls:

He talked about getting a loan of 13M with the plan to earn 17M in 3 years and pay the loan back.

I'll have to search for the video interview online to get a hang of what really transpired with Nancy on her money and finance program.

Yes, if he can earn 17M, 3 years from now, he will have earned 4M (17-13). Unfortunately, the balance sheet, today, shows a net worth of 7M, which is what JPM was stating, and I agree.

Assuming there's no other assets, etc: if you take a 10M loan to buy a 10M business, what's your net worth? Zero. I really don't see why CBN is trying to cloud this basic answer with talk about future earnings.

Banks fail routinely because somebody was doing fancy accounting.

I normally don't like to side with oyinbo outsiders, but if I was to choose between whose numbers were more accurate, I would choose JP Morgan.

And look at this gem of tongue twisting:

“I can have $20 million in my account and I am owing someone maybe $13 million that is supposed to be paid in 2027; you can’t come in 2023 and say if I remove that $13 million, your money is $7 million or you are having $7 million.

“Now, I am not having $7 million, I am having $20 million. Because before I took a facility of $13 million, I know in the next three years, I will get $17 million so I can pay you back.

“But for you to come and tell me that no, your balance is $7 million and you can’t pay back in three years; it’s just putting it out of context.

If I have 20M in my account and am owing someone 13M, even if payable in a few years, I will still keep in mind that I have 13M outstanding. Even on a simple accounting balance sheet the 13M will show as a liability (not an asset). If I use 13M loan to build a business, then I count that business as asset, which balances out the 13M. If I just keep the 13M as case in my bank as asset, it still cancels out the liability.

Either way boo, I have 7M net assets today. My hope is that the 13M asset will grow enough or give off enough cashflow to make the loan worth it.

Unless the dear governor is implying that the person with 20M and no loan, is at the same balance as the person with 20M and 13M loan.

Aaronsrod:
Mtcheew!

Of what good is the moon if this people are not even Christians Everlasting Hellfire shall be their potion. As for us we shall walk streets of purest gold and sit and reign beside Jesus forever.

Have you stopped to think that God is still revealing themself to us? Perhaps instead of visions and prophesy, this time through science and engineering. Sometimes I wonder if God is leading us to meeting Him someday via spaceships...

Congratulations to India, ISRO, and the dedicated people who made this come to fruition. Very proud of them...

Who AU epp? This is like the Grasscutter Hunters Association of Asaba telling me that I'm suspended from the August meeting.

I wish the coup plotters didn't do this. We don't need this on the continent. And at the end of the day, somebody will run for president after "transition plan to civil rule". Meanwhile, they will become more autocratic, cracking down on dissent. Then they will try - during 2nd term - to change constitution so they can run for more terms, etc.

The movie is getting boring, but best of luck to them sha... nothing lasts forever.

lexy2014:


Pls explain how "The same grit that got you the 6M inside Nigeria, can fetch you 60M inside Nigeria".

Can you share your personal experience how you achieved something similar?

I mean, if you've been able to work and hustle and save up 6M, it shows a certain work ethic and ability.

OK, I'm an engineer by training, and I started out repairing radios, etc. If I got 10k in one week it would be my best week!
Then I started to repair phones, opened small shop to sell accessories, and money was a little better.
Stopped that and started doing solar installations for a small company, small change done dey enter.
Then partnered with a friend to sell solar equipment, as well as install, and money is growing.

Built a hostel based on solar, and now collecting money from tenants, installation, and selling equipment.

We went from 100k annual turnover 10 years ago to 50M nowadays. I don't think we'd be here if I japa'd 10 years ago. I'd probably make 50M in US, then turn around and pay all that back on taxes, rent and bills, with no room for growth. In this same Nigeria, the grit that got me 100k annually is the same that's getting me 50M... same Nigeria.

Link to hostel project: https://www.nairaland.com/2583312/building-solar-powered-hostel-learning-experience

In this same Nigeria, akara seller is making 50k daily, and a furniture maker is a millionaire in USD, and somebody has a team of people making juice. Opportunities abound - which is why many non-Nigerians come in here to make a fortune.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGwvruYjlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2k1X1EKaGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wraljHk11hI

6million, divided by 950 per dollar is about $6315

How much is visa and the process? About $1k when all is said and done
Flight, transport, and incidentals, assuming you're issued visa: $2k
Rent pretty much anywhere, unless you're squatting: $1.5k/month

Congrats. You've just given US all your 6M just so you could squat for 2 months.
And, no, you won't make enough per month on the jobs you may be able to get if your intent is to japa on tourist visa.

The same grit that got you the 6M inside Nigeria, can fetch you 60M inside Nigeria.

Oh no!
Too young to go... and they were so close...
RIP mama Wizzy

We really should all try to spend more time enjoying our family and our life before the bell tolls...

Since this is Nigeria, I won't be surprised that the woman and barrow pusher were working together, and she got some foodstuff for free

talented321:
Pls experience elders in the house what are the benefits of polygamy when somebody has an understanding woman.
Pls is for men''

So... if two meat dey inside your soup, you will only chop one abi?

But seriously, some important cases from olden days:
- there was a time when the more kids, the more hands you had to help on farm
- infant and toddler mortality was high, so you needed to born more
- war/illness would make widows, and the late man's brother could become her husband (he might already have a wife)
- sometimes first wife could not have children, and would bring another woman to bear on her behalf

I don't think these are strong reasons still, so it leaves konji as the major reason for polygamy nowadays sha. Personally, I prefer all my wahala from one woman... both my grandfathers were polygamous, and I see the major cracks in the families as a result till this day. Grown people in their fifties still fighting like they were 8 years old.

allthingsgood:
Why has north been supporting the coupists I don’t understand.

Not that they support the coupists per-se, but Northern Nigeria and Southern Niger are the same family - until the Brits and French arbitrarily drew their borders. Till today, people have uncles, inlaws, and grandparents on both sides of the border, and there is a large volume of trade between Northern Nigerians and Niger. So the sanctions are affecting Northern Nigerians on many fronts.

The moment you find yourself having to listen to her talk about things irrelevant to you.
Or she want to start redecorating your humble bachelor pad or making you buy plates you don't need. That's when I knew I entered one chance, sorry, relationship.

otoworostephen:
They're very right on this and it is not applicable to only EKDC but all meter users anywhere...

The fear is that meter can easily be bypassed.

Meanwhile, what dey don't know is that professional Electricians like myself can successfully bypass the meter be it outside or inside...

Contact me to bypass your meters in Lagos and it's environs. otoworostephen@gmail.com

Wait, what? Did you really mean to type bypass?
In a thread against bypass? My country people sef...

The wiring should not have been conduited right into the building. You typically would have junction box outside the wall, and the mains lines would go into that junction box or meter. This ensures that all the electricity to the building can be disconnected from one place (either for billing or for fire/electrical safety).

As it is, there is no (visual) guarantee that the mains wires are not split in a way that bypasses the meter or mains switch. Again, you want an easily-verifiable way to show that the house is not energized.

Advice would be to do what NEPA has asked: cut the mains, reroute first to a meter, then connect from meter back into the conduit. But I'm sure since I'm talking to a fellow Nigerian blessed with oversabi and shortcut, a few 10k will settle the matter with NEPA and the problem will not be fixed - just ignored... for now.

Racoon:
Nigerians have unanimously agreed that the APC administration since 2015 is the worst of our lifetime. What’s more? Everyone (including APC supporters) are in agreement that the Buhari-led APC Government’s Anti-people policies have made people poorer and more miserable.

I would agree with your sentiment if not for this simple fact: Nigerian politicians have no fealty to party. With all the carpet-crossing, mergers, splits, and other shenanigans, it's obvious there's no such thing as "APC" or "PDP". Even the LP flag-bearer was firmly PDP for years.

Nigeria is finally paying market price for fuel (the same as Ghana and other African countries), so what's the noise about again?

What did all these people do when they were paying 1/3 of the price of fuel? Technically, they should have savings from not paying market price all these decades.

And having working refineries (including Dangote) won't bring down the price: why should somebody sell in Lagos for cheaper when they can get market price in Accra? Especially when their refinery is financed in dollars?

Let us enjoy the collective pain jare. I didn't vote for Tinubu, but on this I stand: subsidies have to go, permanently. Anything else will just make the pain worse and shift it to our next generation.

The junta should have listened and stepped down... this is how long civil wars start... millions will die of war, famine and disease.
This is a textbook copy-paste of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War

It will turn into a proxy war between factions of United Nations security council: USA and friends on one side to "protect democracy" (i.e. French interests), with Russia/Wagner and China on the other "to protect freedoms" (i.e. get resources)

It's not too late for these generals to give up personal ambition and let peace reign.

Nigerians will always find means to complain. Sure the economy is hard, but didn't people go and protest against Jonathan's policies? If we had swallowed the bitter pill then, things won't have gotten so bad.

Fundamentally, Tinubu is doing what Nigeria needs. We need to undo decades of complacency, and the road will be arduous. Personally, I feel we should have redominated the naira back when Soludo proposed it, as we are headed towards $1000+ to the USD. Might as well also redom now, get rid of kobo, and let the naira float to its market level.

Crying and wailing now is not going to solve the problem... we have to see it through, and these blame reports are not helping.

Since the first two posters already solved it, I - as oversabi - said let me do one more:

1 - 2 ≠ 1

also, if you squint, you can turn the first minus into a square such that:
1^2 = 1
(i.e. 1 squared s 1), but it's like you bumped the first match when you moved the second match. Is that allowed?

Tourist visa: stop right there. This is not permission to relocate or become resident, or even work.

You didn't tell your friend of the recent story about the family that sold everything, moved to Canada (or was it UK), and are sorry to have nothing now.

To work, he needs to have Canadian experience (unless a doctor or some other hot field right now). Meaning your guy will be washing pant, dead body, or plates for few years.

Abeg, dem no dey telli person again. Make e go Canada, enrich an agent and the airline while at it. Maybe in a few years, we'll be enjoying that ones sob story about how he wanted to japa at 43! and sold all his resources to be boy-boy in oyinbo land.

Stillkrug:
Rubbish will it reduce fuel price

If it brings sanity long-term to our tax regime... I'm all for it. We might see other young ones being encouraged to bring their skills to other problems. The tiny see does not provide shade, but the tree it becomes will.

My people, it's not by force to eat cow. Crayfish dey. Beans sef, e day. Not trying to spend like 100k on 1/3 of cow.

IconicR:
God forbid I admire such a careless impregnator that gives his wife infection every eke market day

The funny thing I've learned about ladies is: what they say or write about what they will/not do, is very seldom the same thing as what they do when the opportunity presents itself. It's not your fault really, it's your genes and your body craving what has been programmed into it for eons: get yourself some of those successful genes that have done so well with other women.

IconicR:
When the world didn't know he'll be a serial impregnator. The life this thing 👇 has ruined is uncountable . Penis Picture removed 😂😂😂

And the irony is: "more women want more of the serial impregnator"... it's like, the more you have, the more you'll get.
Carry go, Davido. The world needs more of your go-getter genes