₦airaland Forum

Well played madam, well played.

I don't like it, but I have to admit to brilliance when I see it. If Gandollar can have his hand held high by Mr. Kwarruption, cutting grass is still a N200million project, loot (that was not looted) is returned yet we're still borrowing massively... I can't complain about this brilliant sleight of hand.

When are we going to change the name "Nairaland" to "Snakeland"?

Think about this: if other people who think like you also buy land in this area, soon that area will become wealthy.

Most places we considered "bush" 20, 30 years ago are highbrow now. Consider somebody who was living in Surulere buying land in Lekki in 1990.

Please buy where your money can... owning your home and not paying rent is part of becoming wealthy.

Man, I miss those days sha... time flies.

Exc2000:
did you publish your study in any journal for independent study or its still just in the realm of personal experience and speculation

It's not published, but has been peer reviewed and corroborated with the personal experience of other men and women I know.

If you're planning to use the fact that the study is not published to diminish the fact that rapes happen, then I'll concede: you've won the argument.

Is it now a crime to sell products cheaper to increase patronage?

Exc2000:
and your claim is backed by what study? victimisation and emotional blackmail of nigeiran men

It's backed by my 40+ year empirical study of Nigerian men and their attitudes towards sex, male chauvinism, and in some cases misogyny. You see it in daily life, even here.

KingAzubuike:
Every girl now coming out to play the victims card. Guys go hear am, these girls go settle scores with many niggas

Scores cannot be settled if you did no wrong. I can comfortably say that not one woman can accuse me of rape. Yes, unfortunately there are false accusers (which detract from the serious truthful ones), but that it a separate issue.

Till today, I shake my head when I think of the girls who were in my bed (sometimes naked), but we didn't go all the way because she was feeling somehow. I always console myself with: "it's better to wish you had done it, than to wish you hadn't done it."

No puna is worth my peace of mind.

yankison:
This Harlot that was busy having sex on National TV and been viewed continentally
. Who is making this one trend now

I won't argue about your use of the word harlot (though I disagree that she should name-shamed).

However, nobody, prostitutes and harlots included, deserves to be raped. That's just not on.

safarigirl:
Rape victins are so MANY. Many of you, your sisters have been raped, by an uncle, a cousin, a friend, but you don't know and you will never know, because anytime she mentions another rape case, you will open your big mouth and insult the victims. She hears how you judge others, she cannot tell you, because she knows you will judge her too

Exc2000:
... but victimising men saying many of men's sister got raped just to score cheap point is manipulative and a sign of pure wickedness

This post is typical of many men in this country... rather than take the time to listen to a complex issue, the knee jerk reaction is proffered.

Women in Nigeria are often raped by the ones closest to them: family friends, cousins, uncles, brothers. All these women are somebody's sister. Nobody talks about it because of stigma, but it does happen a lot more than you can imagine. When it trends, women are empowered to tell their stories (which most people don't want to believe), and are stigmatized for it.

I'm not a fan of victimization, but in a culture where men are often regarded as "can do no wrong" when it comes to sex, yet women are shamed if they so much as hint at anything sexual, you have to call a spade a spade.

Mraphel:
Rape now threading in Nigeria but child prostitution, slavery, trafficking and females being tortured in baby factories are far worst

Let what is trending trend. These things happen, so we need to encourage people to speak up about all these issues. It's no use comparing what's worse, when we can tackle each one and remove their occurrence from society. The only way that will happen is making people aware, having victims share their stories (without being told that there are worse things than what they experienced), and bringing it out of the shadows.

DominusPrime:
She could be lying.
He could be lying.
If you pick a side your judgement is clouded by sentiments.

Quite right... we need proof, witnesses, corroboration.

Where was she on so so so date? Where ws he on that date and time? Who saw her or him during those times, etc. Any proof of the messages on either's phone? If this was a serious country, you can ask MTN for records of communication between their numbers.

Unfortunately, there has been a spate of initially serious accusations that later turned out to be hoaxes - and sometime the girl even say it was a "joke". These diminish the real and serious cases of rape. If she turns out to have lied, I don't mind contributing 2k to a fund so police can detain her for a weekend.

Aso Rock and Police IG's headquarters are there... una no go protest there? Fear of watery beans is the beginning of wisdom sha

Lives are being snuffed right here in Naija, but you want to go and feel among. Later you will be crying say no visa

Yet, the American president insinuated that Colin Kaepernick (and other players who took a knee in protest of Black lives being killed) are not patriots for protesting agains injustice.

tosinntoyin:
Dear all,

I really need an advice. I currently work with one of the Nigerian banks. My monthly take home is about 450k and quite good. My major problem right now is that I have just been transferred from a Branch at one end of Lagos to another end of Lagos. All efforts to convince my boss to deploy me to a closer branch has proved abortive.

Going to work daily right now is a very difficult especially during this raining season and covid 19th period. I spend roughly 3-4 hours on the road when going to work and back home.

I am currently raising my kids on my own right now and dont know how I would manage when school resumes. Before now I drop them off on my way to work in the morning and my friend picks them up to her house in the afternoon till I get back.

I currently have a savings of 2million and would love to start a biz( I dont know what kind) as am comptemplating resigning and start a biz instead so that I can have time for my kids and not die due to stress

Please i really need advice for you all.

Two things:
1. You will not have more time for your kids if you start a business. A business requires your attention more than your commute to work.
2. I'd also wager that you will not be able to recoup enough to repay your salary over the next six months to one year.

I'd say keep your job, and hold on to your savings (try to get some interest, so put it into fixed deposits or something). You need to have cash in case something comes up, especially since you have young children.

I understand spending 4 hours on the road is something else, but I can't imagine any business that will be less stressful. You will have a workable solution when school starts, for sure.

Akinsoladwayne:
Hi everyone! So I was at my brother's house yesterday and could you believe his wife cooked rice for me and served me with a meat I mean just a meat.

But I have been wondering how on earth would she serve me her in-law with just a meat.
This is an insult of the highest order, like I'm gonna need to call my brother's attention to it.

Well at the end of the day I had no choice than to eat the food like that with the one meat she served me.

This has got to be a joke. In this Buhari Era, upon say we dey suffer Coro2020, you're still complaining that they gave you (only) one piece of meat? If you want to eat more meat, please give your brother's wife money to buy more, or better yet, go and eat all the meat you want in your own house.

Damn right you have to eat the food like that... you're in her house na.

First time I visited KWASU I was stupified... such and incredibly beautiful (albeit recent) campus. I was so glad to see that various state governments were doing better for their people. There is development happening all over the country, in spite of what many naysayers think.

I'm from Asaba, BTW, to give name checkers something to consider.

BeautifulWoman:
This is pure travesty. Christianity is of faith and such guidelines are against the tenants of our Christian faith.

I was brought up in a godly home where my parents thought us the applications of Faith. If we believe Christ is above sickness, why then are we distancing right in his church.

I'm not sure I understand. I don't think anybody is testing faith.

Consider: putting somebody underwater for over 1 minute will kill them; giving communion bread that has fungus on it will make people sick; so will tiny microscopic viruses floating in air droplets from infected people.

We don't put people underwater for too long in the name of baptism; we try to make what we eat in Church safe; and we try to limit the spread of the virus by social distancing, masks, and other guidelines.

God has given humans the ability to seek wisdom, and to apply it. I reckon He would be disappointed that some people are choosing to abandon wisdom and bring harm to themselves and others.

People: "God please protect me from sickness"...
God: "why then do you insist on getting infected? I have revealed to you what causes this sickness, how to avoid it, and in time how to cure it"

obailala:
If you believe you have the biggest faith, and you believe this faith over common sense, maybe you should try visiting one of the isolation centres in your state and go about hugging the patients. Then you will know what it means when Christ said "Do not put the Lord your God to the test"

Oh.. I'm following constituted authority which says we should keep social distance. I have not intent on testing anybody. Wasn't there a pastor who died recently?

"Pastor Who Defied Social Distancing Dies After Contracting Covid-19, Church Says"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/bishop-gerald-glenn-coronavirus.html

Dpharisee:
Obeying constituted authorities is biblical, no matter how we feel we just have to obey the law

Very correct... in fact this is one of Jesus' earliest teachings.

"Healing is fundamental to the redemptive work of Jesus. To allow the idol of coronavirus to determine the scope of congregational worship in the house of God is an abomination of gargantuan proportions,"

Well, I suppose he can either keep his congregation safe by following guidelines, or he may soon not have a congregation.

Abeg, every administration has its good and bad.

Obasanjo: rebuilding the nation, but some stealing and high-handedness
Yaradua: progress in establishing rule of law and nation healing, but legacy damaged by cabal during illness
Jonathan: improving infrastructure and prosperity, freedom of speech, but massive looting (allegedly not by him personally)
Buhari: some continued infrastructure and sanitization of parts of government, but repressive, unimaginative, and selective in punishment

Funny how a scientific discussion degenerates into abuse.

The evidence is overwhelming that dinosaurs existed, and that nature of cuts and injuries to bones can give an insight to how it died, or at least what happened to its body.

The Bible is estimated to be, what, 2000-6000 years old? It's interesting to consider if dinosaurs were discovered before then (before Christianity, before Islam, before Judaism).

What types of debates would we have had then? How would people explain their discoveries? Would the Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, Nok, Yoruba, Hindus, etc. have had existential crises about their own scriptures?

OP, just curious, what was the diagnosis, and what was the medicine?

In looking at the previous topic, I was reminded of molluscum contagiosum.

I see it was Zinnat and Mupiderm Ointment. Thanks.

Nice poetry... but these our leaders sef... only to lie, chop and clean mouth.

... and when they get sick, they will blame everybody else: they will blame the state for not banning them; they will blame the venue for allowing them in; they will blame the hospitals for not having enough equipment; they will even blame the pool builder.

MrBrownJay1:
from the 50% of her royalties that the record label will receive, as stipulated in the contract.

yes, so out of her 1st cheque, the 50% of the video cost was suppose to have been deducted already... and unless CM had no cheques whatsoever for 3yrs (aka NO earning), i doubt the above to be true.



no no no.... here is the tricky part of the contract:"
company's production, marketing, manufacturing and all expenses bal bla shall be recouped from the GROSS INCOME.....meaning that when they receive the money, before Cynthia can get a cheque, the above will be repaid.....BUT the 50% cost of video production will be repaid from GROSS PROFIT... meaning that when they have repaid the above, what is left will be divided between label and artist, and she will now have to pay her 50% video cost out of her share. understand?!

gross income and gross profit are not the same thing....

I don't think she can pay half of the cost of a video from her first royalty check. As in video cost 4M (she owes 2M). The video brings in 8M, making profit 4M. Her profit is thus 2M with which she can pay her half. I'd like to see anywhere where a video brings 100% gross receipts. Did the video even break even? It will take several checks from her to at least to make 2M.

I agree with your point about gross profit. However, she has not demonstrated that she was cheated out of her profits. To be clear, she may have claimed, but has not demonstrated. She can bring her evidence to court (or social media), so we can do better accounting. In the absence of hard facts, we can only speculate, and I chose to side with the record label that has more to lose if found guilty of breach.

MrBrownJay1:
even a blind man can see he did...

We are circulating around the same thing:


- he claims he owes 100% of the videos while he doesnt
He owns 100% of the videos she did while in the label. Section 9 assigns performances (live, recorded, etc) 100% to him. Even if he paid only 50% of the cost, the contract assigns all of the video to him.

- he claims she owes him 100% of video production cost, while she doesnt
He paid 100% of the cost, she owes him her share (50%). I don't see a claim she owes 100% of the cost. Please point me to anywhere that claim is made.

- he hijacked her vevo (and possibly royalties) while the contract says only a Lagos court can decide that.
If she feels there's a dispute, she is free to take him to court. However, section 15. (NON-CIRMUMVENTION) says essentially that "Artists shall not detrimentally interfere with the efforts of Company to distribute..." Since the music video belongs to the Label (section 9), and not to Cynthia, the label essentially owns how and when the video is played, including YouTube, Vevo, radio stations, etc. and can take steps to protect its property, including taking ownership of the page for the brand "Cynthia Morgan". She assigned that right in section 10 (LICENSE FOR USE OF NAME AND IMAGE).

- the minute she stepped out of the contract and they accepted that she could leave, then the record label had NO MORE CLAIM over these songs.... apart from the 50% royalties to offset the debts
Contracts end, but the ownership of the songs remains with the Label. They own the rights (section 9), they own the copyright if assigned (section 12), and have sole, exclusive and perpetual ownership to the songs (section 14) (i.e. forever).

Former employees don't come back to claim any rights to the work they did for a former employer (unless it was stimulated in contract)... I don't see how she can still own the songs (and all performances, including music videos) she assigned to somebody.

Are we reading the same contract?

MrBrownJay1:
again, focus on the above in red...as it certainly does NOT stipulate that the revenue from the above shall be used 100% to offset the investment of the record label (aka to repay video production cost etc) so it is for commercial exploitation and certainly NOT repayment of the debt. we all understand English, right?!

so the record label has the rights to the songs and when they receive her royalties etc, they take their cut (who cant be any more than 50%) and pay her
or whoever the balance.... and as stipulated, if there is any disagreement, a Lagos court shall decide.

No worries. However, how is an artist supposed to pay her 50%? In almost all cases I know of, it's from revenues. Unless Cynthia has some couple of million someplace and she can write a check, the expectation is that her debt payment will come from the commercial exploitation of the song/video.

The terms of the payment was actually stipulated in Section 3. COSTS, and I quote the end: "As a new artist with no financial backing, NorthSide music would put up 100 percent and deduct the 50 percent expense from Gross Profit received from artist earning."

The way I understand that is: until her debt is paid up, every Naira of profit that would have gone to the Artist, goes to the label.

MrBrownJay1:
he clearly stated that HE PAID for the video and therefore they are his, and thats why he believes he has the right to hijack her vevo account.... while the reality is that "technically" he only owns 50% of the said videos AND unless a lagos court says he can hijack the vevo account, he had absolutely NO RIGHTS to do so...

Yes. He paid for the video. 100%. I understand that. Cynthia did not write a single check for any of the videos (though she agreed to pay her 50% share at a later date, from the proceeds of future sales).

On the second point I must disagree: according to the contract (that Cynthia signed), he has all rights to do so:

Section 9. ASSIGNMENT OF EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS BY ARTIST. Upon the timely occurrence and performance of all material events and obligations required to produce the recording, Artist shall assign to the Company all of his/her rights, title, and interest in and to the following property, for distribution and commercial exploitation worldwide:
a. The Songs,
b. Artist's performance of the Songs contained in the Recording,
c. The Title of the Recording.

In other words, all rights have been assigned by Cynthia to Jude: songs, performances, videos, title, everything related to that song. He owns it, and has the legal right to protect his property.

In summary:
- the song/video is assigned to Jude, and he owns it 100%.
- they shared the cost of production 50%; he paid for her half and she was to pay him back
- furthermore they split half the proceeds going forward.

Cynthia has not demonstrated that - with his actions - Jude broke the terms of their contract.
She has no claims of ownership to any of the songs/videos/lyrics/promotion/vevo. She assigned those rights to him with her signature.

MrBrownJay1:
the deal is very simple...i still dont understand how you cant comprehend:
- the cost of video production etc shall be 50/50 between label and artist but the contract clearly states that (since the artist is broke) the label will pay 100% and get reimbursed the 50% they advanced her (not 100%). so technically Cynthia Morgan owes 50%, not 100%...therefore the label CANNOT say she owes them 100% of video cost, even though they paid for it.

I don't think the label claimed she owed them 100% of the cost.

Jude's claim is "we paid 100% of the cost". This is an accurate statement.

According to the contract, and my understanding, she now owes them her 50%. After that is collected, they can go ahead and split any residual profits 50%.

purplecoco:
You know she’s doing her job, and they are meant to portray that sweet and sexy character that will draw your attention, you don’t know if she got some bad b-itch syndrome. Stop catching feelings and catch flights lmao

Abeg help me tell him. It's just a job, there are thousands of pretty flight attendants in the air every day.

Heh... there are probably millions of men who think a flight attendant is special and will even remember them. Please next time, do not tell flight attendant the same thing she hears from customers every damn day. Please, for manhood's sake.

Consider, for all your fawning, there is a guy someplace who's tired of her shit - and for that matter, you would too, coming here to complain about how she's always traveling and never has time for you.