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MrBrownJay1:
there is a huge difference between being humble AND being taken for a ride... any smart person can understand that.

Yes indeed. Most people who have made it big were humble enough to be taken for a ride. Learn the ropes, pay your dues, establish deep relationships, with the understanding that this is how it works and you will get a bigger share of the pie as you bring more leverage to the table in future rounds.

Remember 100% of zero is zero. Yet even 1% of something big can build a home.

MrBrownJay1:
the contract clearly stipulates that the record label will pay upfront the 100% of the cost of video and that they will recoup the 50% (that she owes them), so the above "loan" you are talking about is either A DAMN LIE or a trick they played on her clueless self.
furthermore...brotha Jude says he paid for the full video and wants to be repaid in full, while the contract clearly stipulated he should only get 50% of the cost of the video production.... and thereafter, 50% of all her royalties.
the contract ALSO clearly stipulates that at the end of the said contract, if the record label hasnt recouped its investment then they should ONLY get 50% of her royalties. so i still dont understand where the problem as to why her vevo account was hijacked and some people are claiming she owes them 40M.

there is a huge difference between being humble AND being taken for a ride... any smart person can understand that.

The contract said they'd go halfsies on the production costs. Since she can't do her half, they'd lend her money and pay 100% of the cost. That's in the contract. And Jude is 100% correct in saying he paid all of the production costs, in lieu of her bringing her 50% upfront to the table.

See, let's say the production cost 10M, and Cynthia brought her own 5M to the table. In that case she would have been paid up. Then they can split the profits 50% going forward. However, she didn't bring 5M to the table. What do you call "borrow me 5M so we can do this video?" ... sounds a lot like a loan to me (it's even interest-free). You confirm that "50% (that she owes them)"

MrBrownJay1:
- still trying to find the part where it says her Vevo account will be hijacked to repay the debt.
- contract clearly states record label will pay 50% cost of videos production, promoting and branding artist while artist will pay the other 50% BUT baba Jude said he paid for the videos himself and now uses that to block her vevo account.

She effectively took a loan: she needed to go half on production costs, but could not bring the money, hence they fronted 100%. Note they didn't even charge her interest on her half (as a bank or other lender would).

After she has paid off the loan, then she can share half the profits. It's pretty straightforward, and not overly aggressive. Nobody makes big on their first signing contract, because they have no freakin leverage at the beginning. That's why you need to be humble, work hard, have staying power, and grow smart - not feuding with people up and down while displaying unwarranted arrogance.

She is lyrically gifted, and her videos were always very well done (which is expensive BTW).

sketcherJ:
Guys the title is not even the case. I took my time to read the content of this contract. I was kinda supporting Jude before but when I saw this contract. I just know that there is no way an artist would become rich in this record label.
How much will the artist make to pay production fee 50% and still share 50% with the company? Read guys!!

Granted, this contract favors the company more than the artist, but that's what people mean by "pay your dues". She needs to hustle and really blow before she can start seeing real money. Second or third contract is always sweeter, with experience and more leverage. It's the same in any part of the world, whether movies, music, engineering, etc. Most entrepreneurs who seek venture capital barely break even on their first deal. There's a small profit on the second, then a larger payout on the third, and soon they are the ones calling the shots.

As lawyer mentioned yesterday - all the upfront costs are being borne by the Company. 100%. She's basically taking a loan on 50% of the costs of production and promotion, and needs to pay those back before she starts seeing royalties. And I've seen her video sets, they are expensive, albeit very creative and imaginative.

She's not the first, and could have asked for advice from others who have walked this same path. She assumed she could really blow quick, perhaps leverage some feuds to boost her, but reality has hit her hard.

In this Nigeria, contract is one thing, faithful execution is another.

Doesn't employment contract say you will be paid monthly? Yet we have situations where people are not paid for months, either by government or by private sector. Do work for government, expect your payment two years later, if you're lucky. If office changes hands, you might be out of luck unless you "bless" the new person.

Doesn't NEPA say you will get billed for power supplied? Why do people owe 30k for light after transformer blew two months ago.

Abeg, there are two sides to every story, and nobody knows what actually happened until wind blow fowl nyash.

For crying out loud people, these swarms happen every 10-17 depending on the insect species, and weather.
Guess what, it will happen again next decade.

Countries like the US - and many in Latin America - have found ways to understand, mitigate and even eliminate swarming, yet some people are here quoting scripture. India hasn't yet gotten to that point, but it will.

This is bullshit. I'm not from SW but this man has so far been a shining example of good leadership.

I am more willing to believe this is a smear campaign that the US is propagating because he doesn't bend to their will, and Bubu is supporting because Adesina is not from North Central. I certainly hope he is not guilty of what he's being accused of, brought down by two men (Trump and Buhari) whose administrations are star examples of nepotism and favoritism.

MondayOsunbor:
oga you are hundred percent right blame the Bleep leaders who give the country as personal piggy bank Nigeria always under went economic disasters we are witnessing another one now

I am with you on this... but who put these leaders in charge? Is it not the people?

Ndubuisipaul1:
At the age of 25 I was mocking a man that got married at the age of 33 I told him that he married too late. Now am 32 I don't even know when I will get married because of lack of money.

Many of our Nigerian girls are not married because ,we guys don't make money on time to marry them. Am 32 no girlfriend ( because I cannot sustain them ) and no plans of marriage , and you are blaming the ladies . Will tree marry them?

Meanwhile I am a professional photographer, and videographer.

Er what? That's the main reason - in the past anyway - men were typically 5-10 years older than their spouses. Biologically a man and woman are ready to start a family around the same age, but society has made it so that men are looked upon to provide resources ... and those take time to acquire (5-10 years).

As you already know, it's really hard in this country to make money for most men.

In this modern age, what we need are for Nigerian women to be serious with becoming providers - and not wasting their time and money on frivolities - so that they can marry the man of their choice (and provide for the family) when they are ready. If they insist on being dependents, then they get what they get.

ReeLoaDead:
Interesting rationalization ... what about Mr Lazarus? Let me guess, he was really sleeping?

I can't comment on all the different stories in the Good Book. Some appear rational, and others, well, you have to take on faith with a grain of salt

Denko2721987:
So what happened that Sahara is now what it is, a polar shift

Weather patterns shifted over time. I mean, just a few weeks of trade winds shifting, and we either have heavy rains (May-August), or scorching dry sunny days (November-February). Similarly, 3 fewer hours of sunshine at a shallower angle produces Winter; 3 more hours at a more incident angle produce Summer.

Grandmeister:
But job 26:7 told us that the earth is spherical and was hung on nothing(space)..that's a book that's over 3000 years ago. You pseudo-atheist really think you know it all when the foremost physicians and and inventors of the past were religious men..there are more religious surgeons, physicists, biologists than there are non religious ones today, but you guys without an invention to your name think you're better than them because you don the cloak of atheism? There is NO way one can study nature deeply and still think there was no intelligent design behind it all..

1. In spite of Job26:7 the Church (and Pope, bishops, etc) sentenced people to indefinite imprisonment or death if they suggested Earth was round.
2. Being religious was a given... everybody was so in the past (else the Church or Mosque would have your head). Scientific understanding has made people increasingly question dogmatic religion.
3. You're right... nature is absolutely fantastic, and harkens to intelligent design.
4. The next question is: "who designed the designer?" I mean such a brilliant designer must have been designed, going by the logic in 3.


Number 4 is still a very tough (even contentious) question, and religion's answer of: "the designer was always there, and was not designed..." is really quite unsatisfying.

simplesearch:
God created beast and all the living creatures on the fifth day and man on the sixth. So biblically speaking, there existed no tangible period of distance between both creatures to warrant invisibility and ignorance. Infact all animals according to biblical narratives were named by Adam the first human being created by God.

Oddly enough, if you substitute "day" for 1 or 2 billion years, you have a pretty good record of the scientific basis of the creation of the universe:

Day 1: Light - the Big Bang
Day 2: Atmosphere / Firmament - Gaseous clouds forming stars
Day 3: Dry ground & plants - Gas clouds solidifying into rocky planets. (not sure about the plants though )
Day 4: Sun, moon & stars - I believe our scribes got their numbering backwards (kinda hard to grow the plants in Day3 without sunlight)
Day 5: Birds & sea animals - Cambrian explosion - this is when life took off, according to the fossil records
Day 6: Land animals & humans - creatures evolved, some took to land, and few evolved to homo sapiens
Day 7: The Sabbath of rest - don't know when this is... the Universe is theorized to be getting colder and dying as it expands, so...

fortran12:
With all you wrote you only highlighted your ignorance of what faith is.
You say science is re evaluating itself meaning in some areas science has been wrong and this also supports my claim that its not constant.
Faith substance of things hoped for, its the action you perform based on things you believe in. Alot of the scientists that laid the foundations of things you enjoy now did these by faith. They believed in something others did not see and acted based on their believe. That is faith. So as you see it has nothing to do with singing and dancing and eating fruits.

There's nothing bad in realizing one's original ideas were wrong, and that you have a better idea..., built on past knowledge and new information. Even if this better idea will be proven wrong in the future, science is open to refining understanding.

A few examples of refinement involving light:
It was once proposed around 500BCE that that light was emitted from the eyes, which is what allowed people to see.
Of course, this was disproven and a new theory suggested light came from a source (e.g. sun, candle)
It was then theorized that light needed a medium in order to propagate, the way sound needs air, water, or some other substance.
This was also disproven when electromagnetic theory proved that light could travel in a vacuum
It was thought light is instantaneous; then theorized and shown that it takes a finite amount of time to travel (fast, but not instant).

I'm fully open to more refinements, but you see our understanding is broader, truer, and more useful with every iteration.

I also think I misunderstand what you mean by faith. What you describe the scientists doing is intuition: as in, "I think this is what's happening, I am going to persist in trying to understand and explain it, even if other's don't believe it". It's quite possible (as we've seen) that experimentations and further insights will actually disprove the theory. Science is not fundamentally about "being right", it's about understanding. This is quite different from the common uses of faith (i.e. acceptance without understanding, without rationale, without proof, and often with threats of violence)

To wit, definitions of faith:
1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Here's another scenario where I would use the word intuition, and not faith: Back in 1846, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis had a theory/intuition that hand washing was effective in preventing disease in a hospital environment. Fellow doctors thought it was a silly theory, and were even offended at the suggestion that their hands were infectious. He persisted in his experiments, demonstrated, and showed how people could repeat his findings.

Rahyberg:
The kind of Ladies we have nowadays is making me to fear Relationship a lot.

Baba, count you losses and move on.

That is how they do.

I fear person wey no fear Woman.

Move on to where, my broda? They are all the same, so just manage the one you fit manage.

What about the ones that have two or three phones, depending on which boyfriend they're going to visit?

OKTolu:
rip to him and come to think of it, he is your husband, you should have had a heart to heart talk with him that you're not in the mood instead of stabbing him.

I imagine she did, but in the typical Nigerian man sense of "you're my property and I can do as I please", he didn't want to listen to heart-to-heart, so he was given knife-to-heart

RIP to the poor fellow. She can claim self defense and accidental manslaughter.

If most Nigerian men realized they could get hospitalized or killed by overdoing, they would learn to be more gentle with their women. I'm not saying what she did is right but, guys would do well not to treat their wives and girlfriends like rags.

Fabulouzjoseph:
You are in a dilema any action you take now you will still end up hurting someone.
If you report: you are going to put your co-workers and their family in trouble, they will lose their job and they will also go to jail if not for life.

If you choose not to report you will be harming the md and she might lose her business.

either ways you are going to hurt people.

And as such i will advice you to focus on yourself and mind your business.

I think the co-workers doing the stealing are the ones who decided to put themselves and family in trouble. It's a choice they made, and as the accounts person, it's your job to inform the owner. You were not hired to protect thieves.

Abbeylanre15:
I work in finance company and I'm in charge of all accounts. I can't afford to be jobless.
Please advise me on what to do?

I would advise that you do your job, which is to manage accounts and inform your boss of discrepancies (including theft).

I find it hard to believe that you would suffer adverse action, and so what if your colleagues felt you outed them.

fortran12:
Science keeps changing its position, its not constant but faith is

Science is a constant re-evaluation of understanding, based on new evidence, new theories, and tools.

In other words, science could not explain electromagnetic radiation in 1800s. It can now, and the new understanding is the basis for (e.g. cellular phone infrastructure). Science could not explain flight. Now there is a clear understanding of fluid dynamics and an explosion of all kinds of planes. Same thing with the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation (helped us theorize Big Bang), and the discovery of dinosaur fossils (which have helped us understand the true age oF Earth).

I'd take scientific revisions based on new discoveries over faith baked in history of life 2000 years ago.

Faith did not bring us telescopes, vaccines, radios, powered flight, computers, Internet. Faith didn't even invent metallurgy; creating metal from ore is an engineering marvel from 3,000 years ago, brought to us by scientific knowledge of that time. It didn't bring agriculture, fishing, or wine making (those all require some level of technology and science - making hoes, fishing nets, or distillation apparatus).

Left to faith, all we would have done since then would be pray and sing, gather fruits and remain naked.

simplesearch:
What evidence do you have to prove that such event actually occured 66mil yrs ago, and what's the name of the scientist that witness the occurence? How do you know he wasn't just a shrewed liar who published same to gain popularity? If he was, how do you go about extracating yourself from such web of lies?

We look at clues: there's a giant Chicxulub crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, about 150 kilometers in diameter and 20 kilometers deep. Shocked quartz, a gravity anomaly, and tektites in surrounding areas suggest the impact and radioactive dating give good estimates of when it happened. Radioactive-dating of fossils show that the impact crater rocks and the fossils were buried at about the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

Paraphrasing from https://www.fossilera.com/pages/dating-fossils:
"Radioactive-dating is able to determine the age of a rock or fossil thus: isotopes (equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons) of break down at a constant rate over time through radioactive decay. By measuring the ratio of the amount of the original (parent) isotope to the amount of the (daughter) isotopes that it breaks down into an age can be determined."

It would take a lot of shrewd scientists to all agree to a lie, and the evidence is quite compelling.

GOFRONT:
380 million years........I mean when did the earth came into existence??

About 4.5 billion years ago... it was already a large, gassy mass much longer before that...

Eulalia:
What I mean by "complications" here is the case of small or tight cervix which is common with this kind of situation. At least I have married friends who told me doctors always sound it to them to engage in it often to help ease delivery. So many reasons why I'm asking.

I suspect the confusion is in the word celibate: what the doctors are encouraging is intimacy during pregnancy.

"Does abstaining from sex during pregnancy reduce complications?"
appears to be different from
"Does abstaining from sex for years before pregnancy reduce complications"?

In the first, the conclusion appears to be all over the place ranging from "Sexual intercourse at term is not associated with ripening of the cervix and does not hasten labor.", to "Reported sexual intercourse at term was associated with earlier onset of labor and reduced requirement for labor induction at 41 weeks."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341500/#A16465R5

In the second, I am unaware of documented evidence that connects abstinence with complications at childbirth.


So in conclusion: in most articles about childbirth complications, rarely does sexual activity feature in the top ten reasons for why there are, or why there are no complications.

The highest factors appear to be:
- infections and diseases (including cancer)
- high blood pressure, epilepsy, anemia, diabetes
- being pregnant at age 35 or older, and at a young age
- eating disorder like anorexia
- smoking cigarettes, using illegal drugs, drinking alcohol

However my advice is: relax, reduce your stress levels, eat healthy, take your vitamins, make love with your partner during pregnancy.

Eulalia:
You don't seem to understand my point. Like being off it for years and then you get married and immediately take in to deliver in the next nine months? Remember the first trimester of pregnancy, some women cannot engage in sex which makes it only 6months she's gonna do it before delivery. In that case can that little amount of time help prevent CS.

Part of my answer was tongue in cheek, but honestly, there are so many changes in a woman's body between conception and delivery that sexual activity has little bearing on birth complication.

In other words, if there are birth complications, there's little evidence to suggest it was because of being celibate for an extended period of time.

Celibacy cannot cause birth complications. As in: you can't give birth, if you were celibate, so by definition a person giving birth was not celibate. In addition, virgins - who were by definition celibate until their intimate act - have not been documented to be more likely to have birth complication. There's no evidence to support celibacy (after being active) has any bearing.

At any rate, there are so many changes in a woman's body between conception and delivery that prior "celibacy" plays no practical role: in this case the cervix shuts tight (though may be softer) after conception, and then starts to dilate on its own in the weeks preceding childbirth.

Eulalia:
Does celibacy tighen the cervix?

No... if anything, the cervix opens (menses) and tightens (ovulation) on its own, independent of sexual activity.

Eulalia:
I also read somewhere that a lady fainted due to severe pains from sex on her wedding cos she was celibate for a long time after. And a doctor said its because she was sexually active before going celibate, that if she was a virgin it wouldn't have tightened so much.

Nervousness, tension, lack of (recent) experience, and lack of sufficient arousal are far more the cause of severe pains. In other words, a gentle partner can do a lot to reduce the pain. No need for dilation or remedy, though lubrication would be recommended.

If you're still worried, a little alcohol, painkillers (ibuprofen, acetamenophen), and relaxing herbs (chamomile, lavender), can help - though as you can see it's more mental than physical.

Speculation is not useful. I'm not opposed to herbal solutions, but Madagascar needs to be scientific about its approach in order to be believable.

What we need are repeatable, peer-reviewed experiments showing that the Madagascan Herbal drink has a statistically significant effect on coronavirus. It's not a hard thing. Get 100 patients, give half the drink, the other half placebo, and monitor. Publish methodology and results, so others can repeat your tests. We learned this scientific method in JSS2.

From the data so far, it appears the fatality rate varies from 16% (Belgium and France) to around 6% in (US, Iran, Germany), which supports the theory that age and relative health play a bigger role in ability to survive.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

My God people. Evaluating and criticizing the choices of adults, particularly women. (NYSC corners are typically 24-27).
People are still saying: "my daughter please be good", as if we're discussing JSS students.

This topic also says a lot about our OP who "found a girl on the street", not realizing that he too was "found on the street"

Good job on the part of officials.

But as an aside, when buildings become unsealed, who pays to remove that horrid red spray?

Because Nigerians don't heed any nonsense markings. Haven't you seen 5 lanes of cars on a two lane road?

But seriously many roads have them, but with traffic, age, rains, sand and dust, etc, the markings fade very early.

winj:
The words and credibility of the average IGBO person Nigerian on this planet is worth no more than cow dung, ask Nnamdi Kanu.

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association needs to confirm lest he annoys them and the price goes up!

I'm telling you.
At least cow dung can be used as fertilizer, so it has some value.

Na wah oh... it's like I need to stop reading Nairaland front page. If it's not fake news that's refuted half the time, it's about pepper soup meat, silly relationship questions, or police beating somebody.

ModelX:
No wonder you don't have a business with this woman wrapper thinking. Anyway I trust naija olosho girls. They will laugh you and your manufacturing job to scorn. Be like you nor know say na for govt job the real kush dey. Especially for olosho girls dem.

There are many intelligent women adding value to big businesses around Nigeria, and it has nothing to do with woman-wrapper or olosho.