Opinionated:


It is not advisable to travel without proper planning. This is because there are endless places where you can go and be safe as you explore, but to go and hope for the best is not good enough. You need a plan for things such as medical care, money problems and bank trouble. So, when travelling, you may encounter issues accessing money. Some of these could be your ATM card not working, a machine eating your card, you losing your card, and someone stealing your wallet with your card in it. The good news here is that you can do some things to minimise the impact of losing access to money. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares some of the things you can do if you lose access to your money while travelling.

Have many money backup plans

Online banking means you can move money around very easily. It means you can put a bit of money on your debit card and also put money on another bank’s debit card. You can also move your money to online accounts as well. If one card is lost, get online and transfer your money to a safe or usable account.

Carry some cash with you

One of the ultimate rules of travelling abroad is to make sure you have at least some cash on you when you travel. You never know what the situation will be when you arrive at your destination. Perhaps your bank cards won’t work with the local ATM’s, or your bank freezes your account when you try accessing an ATM withdraw, or you lose your wallet.

Contact your bank if you lose access to your card

If your card has been lost, stolen, swallowed by an ATM, or is not working, then tell your bank right away. They help reduce your losses if any fraud occurs with your missing card, and they may also be able to advise you on how to regain access to your funds again.

Western Union is your friend

If you are travelling abroad and you are stranded, one of the best ways to bounce back is to reach out to your friends and family to wire money to you via Western Union. You can easily withdraw the money at any bank of your choice. This is the best way you can get some emergency cash.


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Hello

Can you kindly guest post this on my blog?

RoyalBlak007:
There are no limits to human imagination and their ability to fit the unfit-able. But sometimes it seems impossible to deliver certain kinds of cargo from point A to point B without any help...not for these creative people! These talented transporters break the boundaries of travel and find their own unique ways to get to where they need to go.

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1. “I’m invisible, nobody knows I’m a brick smuggler”.

This is what happens when you’re planning to build a house but don’t want to spend money on brick delivery. Good to know you can count on yourself... and a strong bike!

Really crazy like you suggested...

Mztarstrechy:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan was pictured as he stepped out for Sierra Leone election.He also passed an important message to them and said....

'Out early on election duty in Freetown this morning. My message to the people of Sierra Leone today is the same as my message to democracies all over the world-no one’s political ambition is worth the blood of any citizen. As such we must uphold the sanctity of one man, one vote, one woman, one vote, one youth, one vote today and for all times'

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/03/goodluck-jonathan-steps-out-for-sierra.html?m=1

GEJ is still my man...

muhammed50:
Hmmmm, what a nice strategy in recampaigning for the governor!

Re-campaigning for the governor

“It is only through cultural tourism that you can attract foreigners” – Curator, National Benin Museum



In sustaining the cultural heritage of any country there is in the world, at a given period of time, Museums are the best repository of cultural interest and such that should be focused on and generously invested in, in a bid to preserve the nation’s culture which could quickly be forgotten.

In this interview with Nifty Travel, the Curator, National Museum, Benin City, Mr. Theophilus Umogbai explains the history behind the making of the museum, narrating the outstanding contribution of Oba Akenzua, an art enthusiast and the museum’s objectives of sustaining the culture of the people of Benin and Nigeria as a whole through several programs lined up.





Can we meet you sir?

My name is Theophilus Umogbai. I am the Curator, National Museum Benin City.


The National Museum Benin City has been running for awhile now. Can you please tell us about the creation of this historical museum?

The history of this place (museum) is frozen in two eras, time perspective. The first era is the era of archaeology collections where popular writer, Chief Jacob Eghareba had reason to collaborate with the Oba of Benin then, Oba Akenzua to document the heritage assets in the palace and needed a place to put them. So where we are at present was in existence then. We have one or two buildings into which the objects were put and documented, that was in 1946, if my memory serves me right. But it was not until 1973 that the second era actually took off, where we came up with an exhibition (the first exhibition) that exhibition was inspired by the donation of this spherical building. Three floor, three tiers which was built by the governor at that time, (Military Governor of the then mid-west state, Bendel State) S.O Ogbemudia. I think he was a Colonel then. So he built and donated this building to us. That inspired the exhibition which came on stream in 1973. That exhibition lasted till 2016 around July before it was deinstalled by my administration. The deinstallation was anchored in collaboration between the National commission for Museums and monuments and the Smithsonian National Museum of African arts Washington DC centered of course on the Photography holdings of S.O Alonge who was the photographer to the Royal court of Benin.



S.O Alonge 1911-1994 (Benin City Royal Court Photographer)

He covered all the activities then, traditional and whatsoever. He had a studio in Benin. The Ideal Studios, I am talking about the late 30s and the 90s before he died, to which everyday people in Benin then visited during occasions and took photographs. So he helped not just to chronicle the history of the people through the instrumentality of documenting the activities of the Oba in court, he also covered family histories, family albums and the social shots he took of different aspects of family life. Father, mother, sister, brothers, friends, individuals who could afford it then, went to his “Ideal studios”.

So even till now, he not just took those photographs but preserved them through those four decades or more and you know photography then was novel, so he used photography to document the history of the people. So it was unique to the Smithsonian group. One Professor Flora Caplan, came to do some research in the late 60s up to the 80s on gender aspect of our culture in Benin here, so she was used to all of the Oba’s wives and from there she got to meet with S.O Alonge who declared his intention that he was getting old. He will soon retire. He told her that he had a lot of glass plate negatives which he was able to preserve, despite humid condition over those years? So Alonge as a conservator felt he needed someone who will help him project his works. Caplan took hold of all of Alonge’s holdings (negatives and positives included) after his death and acquire it from him, after which Smithsonian paid for them during their second wave of acquisition visit. They went back abroad and documented the glass plates negatives properly. Infact they praised his effort for his local preservation and conservation of these materials.



Smithsonian Group Documentation of Alonge’s Works

In 2012 they now came formally for a synergy between us (The National Museum) and Smithsonian centered on it and told us then, which they have delivered now that, they will do an exhibition around that photographs from 2014 to 2016 after which they will now travel it to Benin. So that exhibition was opened in 2014 in Washington DC and in 2016 just as promised, it came down. In that same year 2016/2017, they brought the material here for us. So chief Alonge exhibitions occupies the first floor. We have three floors, so for the ground floor we had reserved it for the old exhibition and we will continue to do so for Benin cultural heritage, the royalty. You know we cannot separate the history of the royalty from the history of the people. So we captured the history of the people through the monarchy. And we tried to do that on the ground floor.



Since when has Benin National Museum been in existence?

I have just given you time frames now, that’s what I said. I took you back to 1946 but when you say museum, you are talking about museum and gallery. So as a full fledged Museum, we came on stream in 1973, when we opened this exhibit gallery. But we have been there in existence as a repository of those collections that we got from the Oba of Benin that was why I said I froze it in two eras.



So what kind of collections do you collect for the Museum’s gallery?

Ethnography mainly and we still have some Archaeological. We have some Terra cottas mainly Ethnography.



Strictly of Benin Origin?

No, we have some from other tribes. We have some from Bendel and some from other parts of Nigeria.



Do you have some annual events you hold?

It is mainly the museum day which holds annually 18th of May, The international Museum day. It is a worldwide celebration not just us here. It is one event where we mix mind with members of the public and an avenue where we try to see how the museum enters the society and the society comes from the museum. So it is held within our premises. But on a regular basis the education unit of the museum, organizes programs for schools. We educate them about what we do, we have Saturday art club, among holiday programs where children come to the museum and they are taught production of different art forms. Infact what our teachers do is to awaken the consciousness of the children to the innate flare they will have for Art because we know it will manifest. So at the end of each exercise the children get to do stuff like throw pillows, mold clay, basketry. So many things that their parents get astounded.




So how has the state government been able to commend the efforts of collectors and preservers of the National Monuments, artifacts?

Until recently and with the advent of this new administration last year, I guess, yes. The previous one wasn’t very friendly. As a matter of fact, he was all out for the destruction of our building and stuff here for whatever reasons. He wanted to take hold of this place because it is in the heart of the town. The Museum owns this premise. We have documents saying so since 1959 during the western region. So it belongs to the museum and we have our documents. It was given to us in lease and it belongs to the museum. The state government under Comrade Adams Oshiomole was too interested in wanting to just take over this place one way or the other. So they came in with bulldozer. In a nutshell, we didn’t have that cordial relationship. That is the truth. But when this man (Governor Obaseki of Edo state) came i mean, during the opening of the new exhibition he said, let bygone be bygone. He said we should forget the past and forge ahead, because he also is an art lover. He is a Tourism ‘encourager’. I will put it that way. You know I have sat with him and interacted with him and I discovered that he loves the art very well. He loves the cultural heritage of the people and he knows that it is only through cultural tourism that you can attract foreigners, because they have their ICT. Are you going to show them their ipad, are you going to show them these stuffs?

No. So what they want to see is our culture in its pre-starting state and Governor Obaseki is making serious efforts. Although some of his efforts are still in its planning stage, to ensure that we harness our tourism potentials so that people can come. Governor Obaseki would not only think about it but he will put his money where his mouth is by supporting us when we were doing our exhibition. He helped us even in the renovation of the exhibit gallery massively. He was present at the opening of the exhibition. He brought a lot of visitors along. So he is a great man who has ideas and will help out.



So what are your projections, the milestone you wish to achieve in the year 2018?

Our major targets are the children, because most of the adults, have their minds made up on what they want to do but the children, their minds are still under construction, so one can actually talk with them. So we are thinking of a lot of programs. The museum connect, being one of the programs will help us get through the children with this also, we can reach out to the parents who are the older ones. We need the children also to see how we can expose them to photography of sorts. Today with our handsets, everyone is a photographer, the children inclusive. What do they do? They focus on themselves by taking selfies. With what they do, we are looking at changing that passion to taking pictures of the heritage around them so that these children can help us document the heritage assets within their locals where they live, their parents will guide them. They do ethnographies so we are working out a workshop; it is the funding that is slowing us down. These are part of the milestone we plan to achieve. So when we look back by 31st December 2018 we will say for a fact, we have achieved these. So we will even characterize what we intend to do but the funding is slow for us to quick start because it will involve doing workshop for them. We will do this workshop and train our children on how to do ethnography using their handset which their parents had bought for them for a start. So with that, we are tying them to the issue of the Alonge exhibition, who used camera to document the culture of the people. We want to see how our children can replicate that. That will be a major milestone for us this year.


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Backpacking will never be tedious for me any day anytime. And on this most recent trip of mine to Benin city, Nigeria, I did it with fun, enjoying every minutes while it lasted.

Like I might have told you in one of my recent article, my intention is to travel to the 36 states in Nigeria and later travel to as many countries in the world, not just to be confined to my home country or Africa alone.

The journey started with our first Connection through Ikeja Lagos, next to Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and then connected Shagamu which set us on course Benin city. The trip made us pass through some states in Nigeria like; Lagos (as mentioned earlier), Ogun (Ikeena Remo, Ijebu-Ode Shagamu), Ondo and Edo (which then connected us to our destination, Benin city.

There is this way I travel. I get to check for sign post to know where exactly I am. Well, don't laugh at me. That is the situation of things here in Nigeria. Most of our highways are not well labeled with the appropriate signpost, street tags except in few cases. As at the time I documented this report, I just told (probably) an Igbo woman that we are now at Ijebu Ode (a old city in Ogun state) after she asked me where we are.

Do you know what? Travel gets interesting for me (don't know about you) when I relax in a bus, train or plane with my earpiece stuck into my ears, listening to cool music. And I must be grateful to TY Dollar™ for keeping me company. He's just got the words I wanted to hear as at that time. 'Everybody wants to be famous'.

Our first stop over was at Ore. Quite alot of people traveling to Benin believe that whenever you get to Ore, then you are some few minutes away from Benin. It is a place of large display of fast food, fruits, confectioneries and some other quick ‘bite-able’. The journey was really interesting I must tell you.

I had a good sight of passionate Nigerians, young and old folks trading on the highway in order to make ends meet.
Meanwhile, one of the major issues predominant with traders at the Benin/Ore highway and Ore itself is that they seem to have fallen in love with hiking prices of their goods. This therefore has made them sell 50% higher than the general price. Well this issue might just be one which needs to be resolved by the federal government in such a way that there is a price control mechanism that ensures uniformity in price of goods in the country.

All through our Journey to Benin we never encountered any traffic whatsoever until we got to Ore. Traffic is one thing I hate with passion. However, after some tumultuous moment struggling for free lanes in the traffic, we eventually made it through. But then you will be surprised to note that a little diversion ahead us was what caused this unexpected traffic.

Returning from Benin was all fun filled with good scenery. Amazingly, despite a social event that took me down to the 'heart beat' state of Nigeria, Edo state), I still had most of my missions accomplished.

Finally my trip to Benin was successful as I had good report to uncover from the trip, telling you about my encounter with Benin culture at the famous Benin City National Museum. My experience at Igun Street, the home of Bronze works in Benin and my interview with the Curator at the National Museum in Benin.

My return trip to Lagos was all bliss. Stay logged onto Nifty Travels to get more from my maiden travel experience to Benin City.


https://niftytravelsandtour./2018/02/08/travel-to-nigeria-backpacking-to-benin-city/

oloriooko:
So OP in your eyes now you want us to believe that jet belongs to him?
What shows it belongs to him?

Are you a learner?

robosky02:
CHAN 2018 Finals


Morocco vs Nigeria

4th Feb.2018


venue: Casablanca stadium




cc: lalasticlala, mynd44
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_African_Nations_Championship

Mehn! This match is really disturbing

LilSmith55:
We gonna win this

This is highly a competitive match my friend!

Hello Nairalanders

Do you remember that Biker that rode from Lagos to Austria?

Please I need his contact for an interview. I will appreciate help from Any one on this.


Just Direct Message (DM) his contact or email to me, please.



Thank you guys.

Cc: lalasticlala FP pls.

Hello Nairalanders

Do you remember that Biker that rode from Lagos to Austria?

Please I need his contact for an interview. I will appreciate help from Any one on this.


Just Direct Message (DM) his contact or email to me, please.



Thank you guys.

Cc: lalasticlala FP pls.

Garri, milk, Milo, sugar and groundnut is the best.

Yes I have tried all these too before now

Segzee1:
space booked

Good work family Newspaper folks - www.dailyfamily.ng

Roidatom:
Village people at work.

But seriously, go see your doctor.

This is really the handiwork of village people. May God help us.

naijmusic:
A profound saying has established the thought that, the beginning of a man's break in life begins with the ability to tell the untold story of his life through his innate giftings and that is just what Russian based Nigerian and multilingual artist, Adeleke Timileyin Tunde popularly known as Ekunrawo has achieved so far.

Turning the pages into Ekunrawo's humble beginning, the Nigerian born, Russia based artist fell in Love with the art of singing and had a solemn union with music, embracing this art at the time many thought he never will think in the way of tunes and lyrics at all.

Ekunrawo is Presently signed to Full Star Records under full star media international headed by Mr Peace Obichere.
It will be worthy of note to tell you also that Ekunrawo is a trained Civil Engineer from the Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering of Volgograd State Technical University (IACE of VSTU)

IG @ekunrawo_official

I have heard about this Ekunrawo before oooh

tspouse:
do only wat I say don't imitates wat I do....pele....if u are in his shoe will u take dis advice ??

It is well, i see you really want to learn. Come for my counseling. God bless you

It is well oooo...When i talk now, they will say i talk. It is sha well

The thing is that, the deed has been committed already. All the two lovebirds need to do now is forgive each other parents and move on with their love life. At least, it wasn't the girl that killed her guy's father.

E lo mi pelu wahala sha

To shi kena!

joeaz58:
It is not very common for babies to be born while flying at 36,000 feet, but when it does happen it is generally a newsworthy event for a plane to land with one more passenger than it had when it took off. This week, a mom gave birth to a healthy baby on an Air France flight from Paris to New York before they could reach the ground at JFK. Luckily, there was a doctor on board to manage the situation until they could get the mama and baby some on-the-ground medical attention, and in this case, everything seems to have worked out just fine.

A common question that comes up when this happens (in addition to does the baby get free flights?) is what citizenship is a baby given when they are born on an airplane?

I thought of that same question too when I saw that post.

Mehn! another fish introduced into the mighty ocean of Nigerian Music.

It's okay, continue

Love is said to be a wonderful thing that can ever happen to a person. Love makes the world go round, but how much do we truly know about this powerful emotion?

As beautiful as love is, it is capable of destroying so many things especially when it is difficult to let go of someone special to you.
One month to our wedding, I discovered we are both "AS" what should I do-dailyfamily.ng

One month to our wedding, I discovered we are both “AS” what should I do?

Below is a true love story of a young lady of 31-year-old whose life is currently in an unbelievable stage as what seemed to be her happiness is gradually turning to sadness.

Her story is published here for you to learn from and to also advise her on what to do. Happy reading.





Hi,
I met Mike when I was in my final year in school (in one of the prestigious universities in the country), He is now a banker at one of the new generation banks in the country and I am a secretary at an Agricultural firm.

We started the relationship as friends and it later graduated into a relationship which led to courtship.

We did our introduction last year (2017) November and are planning to wed next month (February) after four years of being together.

Everything has been fine not until early this month (January) when we were called by my parents’ pastor whose church we want to use for our wedding.

The pastor sat us (I and Mike) down in his office, we had so many discussions and also answered loads of questions from him. Among the questions he asked us was how ready we are to become one, we both looked at each other and gave him an assuring answer with smiles on our faces.

Just as we were rounding off the meeting, the man of God gave us a list of things to put in place in the church before our wedding day e.g fueling of the church power plant, decoration etc and then.

Then he gave us a medical form to fill which can now be described as a symbol of destruction to our relationship and gradually turning our glorious day into a nightmare.

We filled the medical form with our details and he asked us to tick the recommended medical test stated on the form which includes Pregnancy test, HIV/AIDS and blood group/genotype test. After filling the medical form, he called in a member of his church (an elderly woman) and introduced us to her as the intending couple of his church and handed over the filled medical form to her.

After glancing through the form she smiled and asked us when we will have chance to visit her health clinic (she owns a health clinic), Mike quickly whispered to my ear (maybe because he is the shy type) and answered the woman three days time.

Of course, Mike and I visited the clinic as promised and we did the test.

Then she gave us another appointment, that is for the result.

Four days after, I received a phone call from my mum that their pastor wants to see me and Mike as soon as possible.

I quickly called Mike and we both went to the church to meet with the man of God. After welcoming us, he started with a bible verse, he read the scripture with a low and soft voice and started urging us to take things easy with ourselves as he said “God knows the best” he also said, “Thank God it is not too late”.

Not too late for what? I broke the silence. “what is happening here? I screamed at him. Mike was trying to calm me down.

Then the pastor handed a letter to Mike, after glancing through it Mike put his two hands on his head and I quickly snatched the paper from him. I couldn’t believe my eyes with what I saw.

The paper contains the results of our medical test. Of course, I am not pregnant and neither did any of us have HIV/AIDS but the problem is our genotype.

We happened to be of the same genotype “AS”. I was short of words. How could this happen to me? why am I discovering this now? These are some of the questions running through my mind as tears were slowly dropping from my eyes.

The man of God encouraged us to end the relationship for the sake of our unborn children and to avoid stress and wasting of our hard-earned money in the future.

We both thanked him as we left his office in sadness.
After leaving the Pastor’s offfice, we both went to another hospital the following day just to be sure of the results. To our utmost surprise, the results came out the same.

I informed my parents about it, at first they were shocked and then started thanking God that it is not too late to end the relationship in good fate but as for me I’m not pleased with their advice as I have vowed to spend the rest of my life with Mike.

Just few days ago, Mike called me on phone and asked me to join him in an eatery for a serious discussion.

On getting there, I sat down with him and we couldn’t order for anything than water.

It is clearly written all over his face that he is not ready for a breakup.

Mike later broke the silence with his plan of leaving the state with me for another and getting married there.

He said since the church and our parents are not in support of us getting married, the best thing we can do is to leave the state, get married and start a new life.

When I asked him about the challenges that await us if we follow his plan, his reply was a shocking one and full of hope as he said: “Love conquers all”.

I’m confused now and don’t know what to do.

Dear readers to advise Joe on this issue, kindly drop your comments in the comment box below.
Also read this: Lady Saves Money For Two Years To See A Lover She Met Online In His Village For The First Time

Do you have a story you want to share, or you need advice on some issues of life? Matters of the Heart, DailyFamily.ng is the right place. Send your stories to Dailyfamilycontent1@gmail.com

Note: Your personality and contact are important and we highly respect that, it won’t be published on sent stories.


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dan9ice:
Village peole really at work.. She agreed.. If it takes village to style you, how many continent will it take to style lady gaga

..Dem don shook this lady injection for head ooh. It is really village people at work...

There you go again. In two sentence, can you explain who a spiritual husband is?

This people sha. Dem too get updates on family like kilode.


I have been noticing your stickers up and down. Infact you have even invaded nearly all the buses in Lagos.

May God give the man the fortitude to bear the loss. It is such a big one for a wife of 18 years.

Anyway sha! e go be like film for the guy's face ooh

If you wont attend any training this year at all, don't hesitate to attend this one. It is going to be powerful.

All your questions bothering on Agricultural activities and what to do with as small as NGN100,000 will be told to you.

Remember the Nigeria economy is already diversifying and you all need to be part of the goodies.

See you there.

More details on E-flyer.

dainformant:
cc; lalasticlala

Chaii. see the guy face. Hin face shook bed oooh