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🗺️ Countries (Cultural & Religious Omissions)

• China, Japan, South Korea, & Taiwan | Skipped: 4
• Why: The word for "4" sounds nearly identical to the word for "death" across these languages, leading to its removal from floors, room numbers, and license plates.
• United States, Canada, & United Kingdom | Skipped: 13
• Why: Rooted in triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and Christian traditions surrounding Judas at the Last Supper; it is routinely omitted from elevator panels and airplane rows.
• Italy | Skipped: 17
• Why: In Roman numerals, 17 is XVII, which rearranges to VIXI—Latin for "I have lived," implying death. Airlines and hotels frequently omit it.
• Afghanistan | Skipped: 39
• Why: Local culture strongly associates the number 39 with pimps and prostitution, leading citizens to aggressively avoid it in phone numbers and vehicle license plates.

🏢 Companies (Cultural & Religious Omissions)

• OnePlus | Skipped: OnePlus 4
• Why: As a Chinese manufacturer, the company bypassed the number 4 and jumped straight to the OnePlus 5 to honor East Asian tetraphobia (the fear of the number 4/death).
• Nokia | Skipped: 4xxx Series (in Asian Markets)
• Why: The company traditionally avoided starting phone model numbers with a 4 in East Asian markets to respect local cultural taboos surrounding bad luck and death.
• Alfa Romeo | Skipped: No. 17 (in Motorsports)
• Why: The Italian automaker historically avoided assigning the unlucky number 17 to its racing cars, notably after driver Ugo Sivocci died in a car carrying a similar unlucky association.
Would you like to explore more examples from the automotive industry, or would you prefer to look into specific hotels and airlines that adhere to these rules?

What of non-government workers, or we can increase the prices of what we trade in?

They should bring the busses, the monies for buying them belong to the Nigerian people.

We will use the busses.

We will vote against Tinubu in January.

Just see the old man who can hardly stand in his own, wants to continue leading us into fire.

Story, story!

Cyberterror:
The thing I like about this Oba of Benin is that once he issues a directive to his subjects, the indigenes of Bini kingdom, to vote for President Tinubu, they will comply to the last letter. And it is looking likely with his blessing of Jagaban's campaign

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR till 2031.

The worst Oba of Benin in recent memory.

Do you consider the elections in Osun free and fair? With all the intimidation by members of the APC?
Do you call all the polling unit disruptions fair or free?

helinues:
Honestly, lots are wrong with that boy Davido. So what happened to all the ridiculous allegations he made about FG not allowing free and fair election in Osun state because his uncle has already won the same election he was making accusations about.

Some things required been sensitive, been mature and responsible. Davido threw away his responsibility in the gutter because of this election

Meanwhile, below is a thread which I created saying FG won't interfere with the Osun election

https://www.nairaland.com/8728493/fg-going-neutral-osun-election

This presidency is shameless.

seunmsg:
- Temitope Ajayi is Senior Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Media and Publicity

Kindly elaborate on 'using innovative strategies'

Thank you.

AlphaTaikun:
You did 700 to maturity in 2011 or 2012! That's a great experience you've gained right there.

Are you still into the aquaculture business or have you stopped as of 2026? Though It's a field that requires tact to engage in right now, by cutting the cost of production in feeding, logistics, and more (using innovative strategies), huge returns on investment can be made.

If the fish are in an open pond then their feeding will slow down during the rainy season. You can still feed twice, but you will have to reduce the quantity of feed given per time or per meal.

donleo92:
My own be say, how many times do you feed your fish, during this rainy season

Because this fish, no really they eat oh

1000kg not 1000 bags.
To feed a fish to 1kg or full maturity you need atleast 1kg of feed. So if you feed 1000 fish till they are at an average of 1kg, you get 1000kg.

Babysho:
Why are we buying 1000 bags of the fish feed?

Boss could you help to breakdown this 66 bags by pellet size and average time each pellet should be used for.

Thank you!

Dogalmighty17:
Ignore the nonsense they are saying in that video.
You need 66 bags of feed to raise 1000 fish to table size. With an approximate cost of 22k today, that's around 1.5 million naira. Add up costs of renting the pond, water, drugs and other possible overheads, you can have a total cost of 1.8m for 1000 fish to table size.
If you are lucky to 800kg of fish in the end and buyers who are willing to buy a kilo for 3000 naira, that's 2.4m. Minus 1.8m and you have a 600k profit after 5 months.

The key is to have more than 1 pond and if your capital permits, you can stock in multiples of 1000. That's where you see good money.

But don't forget, it is 66 bags per 1000 fish. I've been there and done all that. I've raised 10,000 fish to table size before. So I know a thing or two.

Chief,
I am still looking forward to your exposè.
The knowledge shared will help budding farmers like me.

Highly interested in this topic.
I think one has to be extremely careful with the idea of buying cheap feed especially when it isn't floating feed.

There is also the issue of metal from the local pelleting machines leaching into the feed.

If you have waited this long then just get married to someone you love and both of you start the experience together.

It is an exciting experience, most things that are new are going to feel that way. However, it is not worth going to olosho. It is not worth doing it outside marriage especially for someone who had been on the right path.

Also, the excitement usually fades after ejaculation especially for guys.

lovediehatelive:
Here's why I didn't have sex till 42 years

What made me stay without sex till 42



I was a church boy, redeemed, and my dad was a a pastor.


I was shy too and didn't start saying hi or hello to girls till I reached 23.

I was always busy with my dads building materials shop, and didn't have much 1 on 1 conversations with girls.


No girlfriend.

At 25 my friends were mocking me and wanted me to follow them to olosho house, but I was a pastor som.


Then after graduation life became tough and I still didn't have time for relationship, but I had my own apartment single room I pay rent.


Friends were trying to convince me to carry hook up come house since I now have my place.


But I wanted my first experience to be with someone I had a rapport with, even though not my girlfriend, even though I just met her and we started talking.


I didn't want it to be with someone openly selling her body to men.



So i held on and tried.

Now I'm 42, and have found a girl that we became friends at my place of work.


I'm still wondering how to go about it because I don't want to come off inexperienced or shy.

Should I forget everything and practice with a hookcusp girl or continue trying to see if I get a girl.

I'm almost 45.

E be like sey Sheriff wan use Tinubu shit take rob bodi.

Would the patient have preferred that the pharmacist announce the ARVs to everyone's hearing?

First thing I think you should do is have a heart to heart with your Dad.
1. Try to explain what your plan is to him. Give him all the details.
2. Let him know what you are currently doing to bring your plans to fruition.
3. Then ask him for the help you need to achieve your plan.

What you can add to your plan.
1. Look for software development degrees in Europe.
2. Take a look at "42".
3. Consider doing that business from your present location.

relaxfun:
A little back
story.

Due to some ugly circumstances, i dropped out of school in 2019 and I've been at home since then, periodically picking up one or two low paying jobs. 2 years ago, I decided to learning a tech skill. I taught myself C++ programming language and I'm currently teaching myself mathematics aggressively, studying for min of 8 hours daily.

For the past two years, I've mostly always been in my room, I can be in our house for more than two weeks, without stepping a foot out of our door due to how engrossed in studying I always am. My goal is to learn C++, DSA , And Math to an undergraduate level then use my skills to apply for scholarships to study abroad, and probably work in a hedge fund company as a quantitative trader in the future. For those who know what leetcode is, i can currently solve most leetcode (hard) problems in less than 40 minutes.

Now, I'll be 24 in August, and my dad is worried that I'm wasting my life away because I've refused to pickup any real job or learn a trade, his worried that I'm already getting old, always reminding me that people my age are already getting married. Now he wants me to leave his house to go look for my own place to stay, and has offered me 7 million naira to go start life else where.

Now I plan to move out of Lagos to PH or Akwa Ibom, then use part of the money to start up a computer business center, where I'll be doing typing, printing, lamination, jamb registration, GCE/WAEC registrations, etc. One of the reasons I chose this is because I've worked in a place like this before and I have experience in how to run such a place. Another reason is that, this business would give me time to also study and sharpen my Math/Programming skills. I plan to rent a shop that is big enough so that I can also be sleeping/living there.

Now I seriously need advicing because this is such a turning point in my life and the next few years is going to make or break me because there is no room for any disastrous bad decision

Good day Chief,
Please let us know how far your application for the job seeker visa to Portugal has gone.
Any updates?

Thank you.

c00la:
As far as I know, authentication is required in every Embassy.

Here is my logic...
You want to get a job in PT
hence... you want to go to PT on a job-seeker visa
hence... you will need to SHOW your qualifications for the job
hence... you will need to SUBMIT your job qualifications in your visa application
To avoid your Visa application being rejected, you need to authenticate your certificate(s) at Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in Abuja.
At MoFA, if the certificate/credential is related to education (WAEC,NECO, BSC, etc.) they will insist you first go to the Ministry of Education (MoE) to get it authenticated.

Hence,
start at MoE and get the educational certificates authenticated (it will take a day)
then move to MoFA and get the certificates and all others authenticated (another day)

Basically, you pay the FGN/Ministry for each certificate via Remita, then submit copies of the receipt (always two copies) for the certificate authentication. If you have access to a scanner, and can pay through Remita, you can do the groundwork for both MoE and MoFA by yourself and then go and submit. With what I know now, I can do both in 1 day.

There are certain issues you will face but with patience, and money, you will overcome.

What I authenticated in MoE
1. University Certificate
2. WAEC Results

What I authenticated in MoFA
1. University Certificate
2. University Certificate Copy (authenticated)
3. WAEC Results
4. WAEC Results Copy (Authenticated)
5. Court Marriage Certificate
6. Church Marriage Certificate
7. Employment Letter
8. Regularisation Letter
9. Promotion Letter 1
10. Promotion Letter 2
11. Declaration of Age (They said this is not ideal, they prefer Attestation of Age from Nigeria Population Commission if you don't have a birth certificate)

What I have to authenticate later just before submitting my Visa Application (at MoFA)
1. Police Character Certificate
2. Attestation of Age
3. Scanned Bio page of my International Passport

All these for me and the same documents for my wife since we are both applying for the job-seeker visa. For kids, the Birth Certificate.

I hope the road blocks on that road will be exempt from Roger!!!

The most appalling part of this disorder is that the check points are most times less than 500meters apart.

From one check point, you can see the next one. It makes me wonder what the first check point can possibly miss that the next is needed to discover.

On Tuesday evening by 7pm there were 2 check points at the Onitsha end of the Niger River Head bridge and then another 3 (two military and one police check point) immediately after the bridge.

This resulted in an hour delay just to cross the bridge.

you can buy your car directly from auctionexport on your own.
register.
choose a car of your choice.
pay for it (you will billed for the car and for shipping to Nigeria).
when it arrives Nigeria, you clear it from the ports.
number your car.
start to enjoy it.

Try not to buy a car that is more than 6 years old.
You can shop for a car directly from auction export by yourself and cut off some of the cost and thereby get a good car of your choice for the same amount of money.

atiku4President:
Who is this one working for? Abi, him dey join to mock Tinubu too?

It is the biggest sarcasm.

Well done,
Walk in God's light.
Keep your head down.
No look woman.

Mr. Allen's statement is a clear indication of how far removed from the reality of life in Nigeria the elites (Entrepreneurs enjoying government patronage, politicians and their ilks) are.

He isn't aware of the true state of things.

A call to eat soft food - the stronger the eba doesn't mean the fuller you will feel.

Drink a lot of water throughout the day, not just at meal times.

Eat fruits regularly, not only when you see your favorite fruit.

Eat vegetables - let it be a part of most of your meals.

Eat moderate sizes, your body doesn't need all you are losing into it. What it doesn't need will be passed out as stool.

GAZZUZZ:
Natural Gas deployed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHbCRB1fts0?si=BrziOLIZvVGpVx4z

Well done chief!
Is there any chance we could get a breakdown of the cost to do this retrofit at current prices of course?

Also, do you have a partner in the south south, like in Delta state?

Thank you!

Doraehi:
Hello everybody. Recently I've been so confused especially because of my academics.

Last year, after completing WAEC and NECO, my mom and I were talking about schooling abroad and we decided that I should make some research with my phone. This research started November 2023. After making my research for about 2 months, to understand the educational system in some countries like US, UK, Canada, the Caribbean and Australia, I finally came to a conclusion in January that I wanted to school in Canada so I did further research on Canadian Universities and finally decided and picked University of Manitoba. And then did further research on how to get a Canadian Study permit. (After going through alot of things I saw on the IRCC website, I finally understood, at least to an extent).

So I discussed with my parents about everything and what the whole process entails: from gaining admission into a DLI and applying for the Study permit, I told them the tuition was about $23,000 estimate and that I needed at least $20,630 as proof of funds. And after hearing that, they said it was ALOT of money. My dad told me to calculate everything I needed to get there and get back to him. After doing the whole calculation with my mom, I concluded that 60M Naira would be enough for the tuition and other fees, POF, accomodation, flight and others. Meanwhile, I had already submitted my application (did it myself), it was just my application fee left. We didn't want to pay the $120 application fee yet until we were sure that we would do the whole process.

I discussed with my parents and they said it was alot but they could try to get it. I honestly believe that studying abroad is not a do or die affair but is there any harm in trying? We could try, maybe it would turn out to be one of the best decisions for me and my family. If not, I already have back-up plans (I registered for JAMB) Other than that, my parents have always wanted to sponsor me to a school overseas (I'm the first child so yeah they've always wanted it).

They could get the money but I wanted to apply for September intake 2024 (because it's obviously the best intake) and I think it's a very short time interval because I should have drawn a study plan at least 2 years before I wanted to leave. I feel like if I rush things, my visa could get denied and it would just be a wastage of time and money.

I'm just 16 years old, I'll be 17 by 16th of June, 2024. And I don't really want to waste time in my education because the clock is ticking. So I don't know, should I just wait till next year, September 2025 or do you think I should go ahead with the process this year. I need honest opinions because it would be really useful. Alot of you are pretty much experienced than I and my parents are, so your advice would be really helpful.

Also, if you know any way I could be able to get proof of funds and tuition (it could be through a loan) and get visa approval, please share.

Well done.
You are on the right track with your ambitions.

For an undergraduate degree, you will need to show first year tuition and funds to cover your living as well as show that you will be able to cover same for the subsequent years of your studies.

While looking at canada, you should also look to the US, and Europe.

Europe without any doubt would be over 50% cheaper. When you are done there you can then move to US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA or the likes for a masters and possibly to live.

My small bit.

Is the platform opening now?

Rating:
50-50 is a good percentage.

I'd say though that if you believe in your earning capacity, you can use the loan to apply and get into the country, settle down, and then pay it back quick enough (so you can minimize your financial exposure in a foreign country). Hopefully, the early repayment won't attract premium charges.

Being able to settle down and not worry about funds to pay school fees in the first year is crucial to overall success.

That way you will be able to look out for the best opportunities without the added pressure of fees.

damosade:
Bro, my total loan was approved but I will suggest you don't use total mpower loan for visa application, if u can have a personal funding add it to it so that it will show on your I20

I am planning to do about 50% loan and 50% my savings.
Do you think that's okay?
Kindly suggest a percentage that you think is best.

Thanks so much boss!