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Please don't tell us ... we are not the ones responsible for failed hospitals, frustrated doctors, lack of equipment, and interrupted power. When you elites in power fix our hospitals - and patronize them - you can be sure we will follow suit.

So upon all the declaration, is there somebody who is actually tallying all the money being declared? The declaration thing is only to suck up to the US who demands money be declared over $10,000. But the politicians and officials who move millions in suitcases and private jets... do they declare?

And this being Naija, you know very well that customs could have let him go if only he gave them a share.

This is just eye service waste of time, and I'm surprised it even got to the courts... all China has to do is make a few phone calls and their citizen is release.

Nice initiative.

But why, if police and armed forces are federal, is a state government paying to equip federal agents? Is there something I'm missing? I know it happens from time to time, but I just started wondering. Do these cars ultimately still belong to Anambra, which is also responsible for their maintenance and petrol, or are they now federal property?

Can anybody enlighten us?

All these pictures of cows lately... it's not as if this is a new thing. It's been happening since before I was born so why the alarmist tone? Yes, there are some marauding vandals, but for the most part, our nomads have not harmed a soul in the centuries they've been walking cows about.

I agree that we should start moving towards ranching/grazing settlements, etc., but this recent picture spree is pushing an agenda with the possibility of inciting violence.

I'm happy she and others survived this accident, but what does the existence (or not) of God have to do with the fact that people were driving irresponsibly fast on bad roads?

Here are three simple ways to reduce accidents:
- Slow down, drive defensively (not aggressively), and be aware of road conditions (e.g. rain)
- Don't overtake when the road is not clear, especially when you're going uphill/around a bend and you can't see.
- Maintain the vehicles: tires, brakes, ball joints, and fire extinguishers on a regular basis.

Just by doing these three things, the vast majority of road accidents can be avoided. Instead of seeing the simple correlation, people would be busy praising God. The same God who apparently thinks it's OK for hundreds others to die today?

sigh...

Treasure17:
When she was still looking pretty with her natural body. But the guy issa bad guy, haba.

"tamunoelienai why are you even dressed like a man tou"

I was looking at that face in the middle, and thinking that's a girl... her comment convinced me...

Good, he should stay away until May 2019, when he comes to pack his things back to Daura.

Changing name to Ikeji issa Goal!!!

Why is there never good news from these people, like "price of fuel goes down", or "electricity actually improves", or "it's now easy to get US visa"? Always the opposite of good news. I said it before, and I'll say it again, next time we should vote for stones and just put them in Aso Rock and in NASS: they will be just as innefective, but cost us almost nothing for 4 years. SMH

ajaymina:
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When you see a man selling handkerchiefs and still sweating profusely in traffic, it tells you that possession is not the same as ownership

As long as sweat doesn't kill you, no sense in wasting hankies since he will still sweat all day. His business is not to use his products, it's to sell his products.

achiever12:
Your comment isn't a depiction of wisdom, but of stupidity. Eni máa d'áso fún'yàn t'orùn Èmí l'à ún wò.

If you were to find out how wealthy around the world people remain wealthy, it's that they live way below their means, allowing the money they have to keep growing. Rich/aspirational people are often too quick to spend and flash their clothes or cars and find themselves unable to sustain their money. Just because you see a person poorly dressed - plumber in rags, or a book seller in tatters, or small kiosk owner in a dirty singlet, or an akara seller in old wrappers, a billionaire wearing cheap jeans - does not mean they are not stacking chips and spending their money on more meaningful things (e.g. someone's education, or growing their business)

You know how many young boys trading in small shops become the big men of industry? They don't do it by frittering their money on clothes. I've seen poor-looking men commanding inventory in their various shops worth 100's of million Naira.

ClintonEmex:
I just wonder how someone wearing slippers and tattered clothes will be walking around selling a 'how to be a millionaire' books; can't he read?

Well, selling products (e.g. books) yet not spending your profit on clothes is one way to build wealth, assuming he is frugal in other aspects of his personal life.

terrorism... tourism... anyway nothing in the constitution says you need a degree to run
Anyways let her come and spend some campaign money in our economy: adverts, shirts, rice, awon-boys...

titsqueez:
I think she meant sex tourism as per her area of expertise

heh heh... you're absolutely right mr titsqueez

I'm not sure why he's writing about this one girl from 2011. If he really moved on, he surely must have found many other potential "friends for life". I'm suspicious of her finally saying yes after all these years.

It's both. You're still using English language (latin characters) to write the name, so it doesn't matter, since the English writing can only be an approximation of how it's actually pronounced. Of course, depending on where the speaker is from it could sound more like IGbo (strong G), or igBO (where the g is barely audible), but very rarely Ibo (which is more like igBO).

Details about how it's spelled when talking about the people vs the language are just historical artifacts. Personally, I prefer Igbo (since it's truer to the sound)

Me I'm not understanding... but the father of your child is OBJ's nephew... as in ... one step removed from being the boy's grandpa... I don't understand her strident need to clarify. If the boy was totally unrelated, that would make sense... but.. anyway I'm avoiding work, that's why I have time to type on this topic.

talk2percy:
U don't need to remind us, we know u are a hustler. More reason why ur husband took a walk.

Nah mate, she told him to take a hike since she was no longer willing to hustle just for him to recklessly spend and misbehave.

Now when slay queens in training see this real Queen, they will only want to copy her outfit, hair, and nails. They will forget to copy the hard work, dedication, lack of sleep, sacrifices, smarts, and talent that got Tiwa where she is today.

You go girl, #1 The African Bad Gyal.
Black don't crack.

Biglittlelois:
Since i saw that pictire of a fulani man banging cow, i feel disgusted seeing meat not to talk of eating it

Who else feels the same?

I definitely started looking at cows twice now... "Abi this one done chop human cane before"...? Yuck.

Josephjnr:
I can't just imagine life without science. I'm happy and grateful to be born in the age of science.

Of course I'm going to add: it's a good thing too... religion would have just recommended she live with it, and that it was a curse/burden from some omniscient being, usually in response to something bad she or somebody else did.

Magnifik18:
Het father made way for her.

The question is, what way did your father make for you?

Indeed... people forget that parents raise them, often pay for their education up to University and provide rent-free accommodations for a while. If said father can also recommend one to somebody for a job, all the better. Isn't that making way? But of course we also have to recognized that they also worked hard to succeed, given as much help as their family can give.

Virus777:
Do you even know the meaning of shady?

Yes, shady. In my example I meant is as casting doubt (shade) on somebody's efforts under pretext of being a "dj critique", while the main source of the barb is jealousy. This is different from the "he's a shady character, beware of him".

Ah yes.. this is one of my jams this 2018. Soco soco... soco soco soco...

Good visuals... please more of this, we don tire for video vixens just shaking bum bum

kuzi1:
The gal brezz be like biafra vs Naija war... Yimu

Savage!

Elxandre:
Mr man don't box DJ spinall with her.
He's not on her level as a DJ.

Oh yes, her fathers name got her the fame she has, not what she does as an artiste.
Every opening paragraph in articles or story about her always read (Billionaire's daughter}.

It isnt a bad thing to leverage on such opportunity and privilege, buf it doesnt alter the truth still.

Edit:

You say her Dad's name isnt her propeller, but is it understandable how she was chosen to entertain Macron when he came around.?
Was she really the best around?

How many big shows does she headline as DJ?

First, DJ Spinall has been in the game since 2003, honing his craft and building his image, so there's no way somebody can compare him with somebody more recent, based on amount of work put in. But there will also be a time in the future when DJ Cuppy would have put in a lot of time in the game, so at that point we may be able to compare them on talent. My argument was that if we can accept that Spinall's marketability (along with Obi and Exclusive) is what got them endorsement deals, why do we have issue with Cuppy's marketability? After all that is what sells product - not necessarily time in the game.

Second, the title "Billionaire's daughter" is perpetuated by the same people who damn her for that very same title, so she gains and suffers for the name since it's a stick people use to beat and discount her personal hard work. Those writing it seek publicity for their articles, hence invoke the Otedola name. If they went by DJ Cuppy - or Florence - there'd likely be fewer views. I've argued that writer's stop using her father's name, but I suppose until she gains acceptance of her own work - like Davido for instance, she'll always be "that rich man's daughter, attempting to spin records".

Third, if one was being fair, how many big shows do upcoming DJs headline before they become big? But there's always that first big one, so your comment could apply to any DJ out there. She was chosen to DJ when Macron came around, you can attribute that to her father, sure, but if she hadn't done the prep work, she would not even be in the conversation. I don't think it's any different than IBM choosing young Bill Gates' software because his mother and an IBM CEO happened to know each other. Should we then discount Bill's hard work? Should we then discount Florence's hustle?

Nothing wrong with leveraging oneself, but family connection can only get you so far if you yourself cannot deliver, and my feeling is that people are sleeping on her, blinded by the fact that she's from a wealthy family. I suppose Xclusive got some of that when he was upcoming - what with his being related to Mrs. Alakija - people even claimed he was her son and so benefitted from her money.

Elxandre:
Who said that was a criterion?

I'm just saying she isn't really deserving of the endorsement based on her exploits as a DJ.
Note that only DJs were chosen.

Anyone can easily name more accomplished DJs than she is.

But the point is "are those other DJs able to increase Pepsi sales"? I'll draw a straw man (but not too off base): doctors are arguably "more important" and accomplished than "mere DJs", perhaps Pepsi should endorse doctors instead.

I can understand you don't think she's earned her stripes, and I'm arguing that she's on her way to earning them, and that she currently has enough market power to sell product - which is what endorsements are all about. No disrespect or shade on the other DJs, but Cuppy can hold her own.

*I'll admit that I'm for the underdog here, and I'm suspicious of put downs that may originate from sexism or classism (some attribute her success solely to her dad)

Realize that all the billionaires created something or a process that many many people find useful in their lives, and have been rewarded for it.

We like free handouts and unexplained blessings to follow us, without working towards it. We may work hard (no doubt about Nigerians being extremely hardworking), but our generation and younger have this entitled mentality that pervades the way we think. I think it's an unfortunate reaction to the fact that we've grown up seeing corrupt politicians go from rags to riches, or pastors with jets, or kidnappers with mansions. I see it in the way people shamelessly ask for money on social media: "give me 20k, send me 40k, buy me phone".

Funny enough, we don't see the hard work and dedication that even these corrupt politicians/pastors/kidnappers did for many years to get where they are. Yes, luck plays a part - as any business mogul will humbly tell you - but as the saying goes "Fortune favors the prepared mind" - which goes to show that "blessing don't just drop from the sky". We only see the end result, without realizing that "success is a process, not a single event".


That's why themes like "God to pick up my call" are so pervasive: we want to be rewarded based on random chance, and not even personal merit, and certainly not because we've provided a service or good for people.

Elxandre:
that endorsement was hardly deserved.
She isn't yet distinguished as a Deejay.


Can she say she makes a living solely out of this unlike the rest like DJ Spinall?

The management at Pepsi obviously thinks her endorsement will help sell more products and generate more revenue. Who cares if this is her sole source of income or if this is a side project, or if it's something she's is really taking seriously. I want to have many many sources of income - engineering, real estate, music, investments, small trading, teaching (as do most Nigerians). Why is that a criterion for whether an endorsement is deserved or not?

DrinkLimca:
Deal that was made possible by her father..

she should go and sit her ass down..

How about Obi, Spinall, and Exclusive, their father or rich aunty made it possible ba? How about all the other endorsements - Wizzy, Tiwa, Tekno, to mention a few? Is it her father that made "Cactus on the Roof" possible? Or you think events, parties, and night clubs around the world pay her to DJ just because, you know, her father asked them? Why can't people just acknowledge personal hustle and respect a person's hard work - even if she is from a rich home?

I'm not carrying her matter for head, but at some point this "her father this, her father that" has got to stop, because it robs the person saying it of the fact that one has hustle and work smart/hard for your own. If you make the excuse that things are possible merely because of who you are related to, then you're resigning yourself that you cannot change your destiny.

That's why I just nod when I hear people say: "I will never..." or "I can never...", or "I will always..."

Circumstances change, and people change their mind all the time... in fact the only constant is change