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I've been driven in a EV Uber and it was small and compact, which I like but also felt a bit flimsy. My friend told me BYD is the brand he would go for, but I'm concerned that there's regional differences (electronics for Africa vs for Europe).

Also long term usage. European and American cars still have a lot of prestige and R&D on them compared to Chinese cars. I'd never get a Tesla, however as I've seen videos of those things catching fire or malfunctioning.

Japanese vehicles come with a lot of prestige because they're known for quality

Phraences:
Argentina will equalize. I said it first.

Howfar

Rayjay45:
Saw Pharell a while ago.

Be like all of America's creme de la creme dey inside that stadium tonight.

All of them will be there

nick50:
..u are a big lier. Legally the both parents own the child..stop deceiving people with this ur biased judgement

Prove this legally that the Nigerian Constitution states what you wrote concerning unmarried parents

I speak from my knowledge of the law

https://lawyers-ng.com/articles/child-custody-for-unmarried-parents/

If the Judge sees that one parent is just sending money and doing eye service for the welfare of the child, the primary caregiver will get full custody, period. Several men in this situation have found out the hard way and then resort to immature tantrums for the rest of the child's youth (they'll waste time to pay school fees, delay signing for passport etc). The mother will reveal all to the child and once the child hits 18, the nonsense will stop and the man will become a stranger, then start blaming the mother for his own misdeeds.

(could have sworn that all the wisdom-filled gurus here and offline said that marriage na scam, men don't benefit and baby mama is the way. Anyway, that's bad advise for you: very sweet to espouse for others to foolishly fall into).

Dregs,

I'm pretty sure she didn't want to be a Baby Mama. She wanted to be a wife and a mother but you had other plans. So now she's pissed at you.

It is horrific to be alone with a very sick child and be imagining the father of that child having the time of his life somewhere else. You send money, well that takes precisely 5 mins versus days and weeks of sleepless nights with a sick baby. Yes, you worked hard to make the money, but wouldn't you have worked hard to make that money if you were not a father?

So sending money ain't it.

Now, before you get even further bad advise about forcefully taking your child from her or ignoring her and moving on with your life because the child will look for you when she/he grows up, please stop right there.

Firstly, apologize to her. Single Parenthood is hard and unless you're paying every single bill and sending extra money, she too is handling bills plus a child, all by herself. Apologize sincerely to her for putting her in this situation.

Secondly, be polite and respectful in your conversations with her. Always acknowledge her sacrifice.

Thirdly, any plans you want to bring your child over to you, better factor in the Mother. Ask her if it will be okay, explain the pros and cons of the child coming to you. And give yourself sense: how old is this child? Because you shouldn't take young children from their mothers unless their lives are in danger. If you want the child to relocate abroad, better ask the mum if she wants to relocate too. If you want the child closer to you, plan on renting a place closer to you for her mum.

If the Mother won't give you the child, there's nothing you can do. Legally, na she own the pikin.

cr7lomo:
Not just the village ...church is also involved in this extortion...not pentecostal ooo.. Catholic and Anglican... they will request for the tithe , the late person dint pay all thru their lifetime in their church. Even if u tell them the person paid tithe in another branch of the church, they wudnt accept it....the will request for levies the person dint pay , the donations the person dint donate...if u dont do it ,the church will not bury the person ...

Village and church demands gulps millions of naira ...some 5m some 7m depending on their demands ... the richer the person was, or if there is a rich member in the family , the more demands ... tgey will charge for meetings the late person failed to attend and also add the children fees that failed to attend meetings...

When did this one start?

What manner of greed is this, in the House of God??

This is a truly confusing night for me.

I did NOT see this coming at allll

Mwhite

Is he a criminal? Like, is there a chance police can arrest him for what he was doing to earn money?

You admit you guys fought until it got physical, that's not good.

You state that he lied about his age, is he older than he told you?

You states he has committed Adultery and you left him before, is that what happened again?

You state that he doesn't contribute financially and is traditional to boot (so he expects you to handle everything).

I know of 2 cases: one was a lady whose husband lied about everything other than his name and his family, and was a criminal to boot. As in, police bundled him away.

And I know of several cases infact, of men and women who declared that they were married to a minion of the devil and that they needed to be divorced to save their lives. Only for me to meet the "minion of the devil" and after spending time with them, realize that their spouses were exaggerating and lying to justify and get validation to end their marriage.

The difference is that when your life is in danger, you don't come online and seek validation to make a decision you are itching to make. You just run and save your life.

If this man is a criminal who lied about even his age, doesn't contribute financially, doesn't help with chores, cheats on you and beats you up (not that both of you fought and traded blows o), has abandoned you and he is a horrible, horrible person, why are you asking strangers for validation? Your parents and family should have packed you out by now. Abi they love you. Even African parents will hear "he is a criminal" and carry their daughter away.

I have a feeling that you're looking for ginger from online strangers. So that means, some parts of your story may not be true. Not saying all of it is a lie, just that there may be some exaggeration and right now, you're too resentful to realize this.

Legally, you can't file till another year. So use that year to ask God to soften your heart so you may forgive your husband. No, I didn't say "reconcile", I said "forgive him". Because Unforgiveness is like you drinking poison yet expecting the other person to die. Forgive him and keep forgiving him and kill the resentment in your heart. Then make your decision on what to do, then.

For your own sake.

I apologise if I'm wrong about this.

pdppower:
This is a clear evidence that these idiats are actually not against Western education. They are political tools used by some disgruntled politicians or businessmen.

Someone is trying to carve out a viable country for them, even a bunch of countries. Europe was harder to conquer so they've given up on that, the ME is no longer welcoming and hospitable to them, but Africa is falling easier and has raw materials and cheap human lives that can be exploited and sold.

They're moving into Southern Nigeria because they're taking over arable farmland in the Middle Belt and need access to safe coastal waters (Libya heading to Europe isn't safe, Sudan is patrolled). That's why we're now hearing about kidnappings in the SW and SS.
These people are trying to create a Caliphate made of several West African countries.

unitysheart:
I'm actually not in support. I the end, children of common men no go fit attend that school. Na the wealthy go get the school.

Nope they need to do this.

Nigeria Govt cannot handle Education and until the President and Governors that treating Ministry of Education as a priority, they will continue to have this issues.

Private school fees are astronomical and only the wealthy can afford a decent education in Nigeria via private schools. The new Kings College will act like a Private school whilst still being a Public school, which was how it was in the beginning: quality education for all.

I dislike private education but this public-private partnership will keep Govt workers on their toes as now they know their jobs can be taken from them.

People don't realize how much slacking off Govt workers do, because they know firing them is hard.

I want to see QC, FGCs nd FGGCs concessioned off too

naptu2:
Background

I have been talking to senior members of the Kings College Old Boys Association for months and this is basically what's happening.


The Federal Military Government announced the take over of missionary schools in the 1970s. They believed that it was a security risk to put the education of Nigerian children in the hands of foreign missionaries. They handed the schools over to state and local governments.

However, states and local governments have a lot of responsibilities and Nigeria developed serious economic problems in the 1980s and 1990s. The state and local governments did not properly fund the schools and they became run down and were in a bad shape. There was a massive campaign that the schools should be return to their original owners who were able to run them properly.

One of the first actions of the Bola Tinubu administration in Lagos in 1999 was to announce that the schools would be handed back to their original owners.

The return of the first batch of schools was completed in 2001.

The churches, other private owners and former students pumped a lot of money into the schools. Schools that looked like war zones when they were run by the Lagos State Government (no windows, no electricity, etc) were now looking like schools in developed countries.

This caused a bad feeling among Kings College Old Boys. Kings College was founded by the Colonial Government in 1909 and it has been run by the Federal Government of Nigeria since 1958. Some of the most famous people in Nigeria attended the school and it was seen as a model government school. However, it has not been well funded in recent decades. Some schools that Kings College was far ahead of in the 1980s were now soaring far ahead of KC. These schools looked advanced, while KC now looked like the war zone.

These Kings College Old Boys have been campaigning that the government should hand the school over to them so that they can transform it just like the missionary schools have been transformed. They have been touring old boys associations of the returned schools to learn how they transformed the schools, so that the can do the same at KC.

However, there is a problem. Some teachers complained in 1999 when the Lagos State Government announced that it would hand schools back to the missionaries. This was because they were afraid that they would get sacked.

The Lagos State Government and the churches had to assure the teachers that they have a choice to remain in the returned schools or to move to other Lagos State Government owned schools.

Similarly, Dr Oby Ezekwesili tried to concession Unity (Federal Government owned) schools when she was minister of education, but the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) launched a massive propaganda campaign against her because they were afraid that their members would be sacked.

The NUT scared parents by telling them that they would be made to pay high school fees that they could not afford and so the parents also started protesting and President Obasanjo cancelled the programme.

Thank you for the explanation.

I believe most of the Unity schools should be concessioned whilst maintaining them as Public schools.
The Catholic schools have a high standard since being returned to its owners.

VirusVaccine:
On 20th Dec 2025 I paid 2.7M
With 700k as agent fee amongst other expenses (the sublessor who is a company said that their office activities needs to be evacuated from the building, so I should wait till January 1st). then on 1st January, 2026, I moved into my new 1 room residential apartment for which the sublessor (company) uses the main building for their official activities and just yesterday the company as the sublessor gave me a Non-renewal notice
Reason that they want to “convert the property into office space for its operational use” and they are discontinuing renewal of rent.

Note that before I moved in, the company was making use of the said apartment/property which they rented to me with some of their desks still in my possession.

I have done a number of renovations on the property from
- changing seating room window and entrance door,
- bought door and window burglaries,
- construction of an extension to prevent crawling and flying insects, rain water
- German Flooring a 6/7ft floor at the entrance
- painting
- amongst other things

Honestly, this whole situation has sent me into depression, physiologically imbalance and anxiety.

Please I need guidance on this situation

Mod
lalasticlala Dominique Mynd44

Was the Landlord aware their tenant was subletting?

Graceland School, Port Harcourt (the ONE school I expect to win a Math award at most Olympiads) also attended this ISO and won

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaiePfNqy2X/?igsh=MWN0cjhmaXBucXliMg==

Graceland runs a very good Mathematics program, headed by a Yoruba man. There's no year they don't have a top performer, they had one kid called Adoga that in a serious country, he would be sponsored to MIT or Stanford or CalTech or Loughborough by FG.

If your child is good at Math and you want to push them further, consider this school.

Nigerian Education needs a massive overhaul.

First, the problem these kids drop out at JS3 is because of finances: their parents cannot afford fees.

So scrap private education, it should no longer exist. Buy every big private school and convert them to public schools.

Upgrade facilities of existing public schools to private school level.

Hold nationwide certificate examinations for all teachers, currently in the public sector, ot has to be CBT. Fire anyone who fails.

Hold nationwide certificate exams for all teachers from private sector. Hire anyone who passes.

All of them will now teach in Public schools.

Revamp the curriculum and bring in Educators from the UK and Asia to retrain our teachers.

Mandatory Lunch program and states should be in charge.

Governors in Nigeria get away with doing so little, let them be held accountable for every child not in school, by deductions from their Monthly state allocations.

Urgent1Million:
Were the students sent to Italy as contestants or supporters of team Nigeria?
Last I checked, the competition started since November 2025. What is happening now in Rome is the grand finale and a school can not just "send" students for the competition.
From available information, Nigeria is represented in the finale by the trio of Onwubiko Chimduebube Victor, Egejurum Onyedikachi Ethan, and Don Anele Munachimso Marvellous from Evergreen College, Enugu, and Diamond Special College, Owerri.

https://www.pulse.ng/story/meet-the-three-brilliant-nigerian-students-representing-the-country-at-the-stem-olympiad-2026070506145730322


Kindly provide a source to this your news so we can stay updated please.

Allow me to explain:

There is not one single STEM Olympiad. There are several, anyone can organize it.

However, dem get levels.

The top STEM Olympiads are: IMO, ISEF, CEE, WRO, FLL, FTC

We don't do well for those ones because you're competing against China, Romania, USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia.

We cannot touch them right now.

So any school can register for the lower-tiee Olympiads. Which is what private schools in Nigeria are all doing, for prestige.

There's no "Team Nigeria". Your child's school can write exam and register for the finals if they pass. My daughter won Silver 🥈at a pretty good one but didn't qualify for the top Olympiads I mentioned above. My son, I'm training for one of the ones I mentioned above but I need a team of like-minded Nigerian kids to go with him (it requires a lot of money and sacrifice).

Alex Onyia was hyping himself and marketing his business, which is why he said "Team Nigeria". He is a private individual who selected the best of his students to go and compete, same way as other schools selected the best of their kids to compete at the same event.

The same thing happens in Sports: World School Games happens in Dubai, UAE and all the expensive Naija schools went and did pretty okay. However, the kids at Govt schools or less wealthy schools didn't compete. Naija's fastest runner from Ikotun Comprehensive Model College didn't even know the Games existed and that he could have earned scholarship money from them.

A sad reality of an Unfair World.

Same thing happens in JAMB: kids at the most expensive schools don't write it so the JAMB top scorer isn't a reflection of the entire nation because it leaves out an amount of kids who focus on IGSCE and SAT.

All this is happening because we are running Education according to a Parent's financial capability, rather than a Country's Collective Goals.

Your talent is limited by who has funds rather than who has ability.

Until Nigeria scraps Private Education and focuses on Public Education for All, this divide will keep happening. China just scrapped education-as-a profitable-business-model. Finland, Norway and Scandinavian countries do the same.

Ironfaceman:
The excuse coming from the presidency on the exploits of Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi is so watery and contradictory.

If you have ever submitted a proposal to any government parastatal you will know the level of security checks, inter-agency validation and other referencing that goes back and forth.

Yet Prince Adeyemi could open an office in federal secretariat.

Employ over 300 staff doing God knows what

Be captured in the National budget. Most budget go through rigorous checks and balance by the senate.

Has a diplomatic passport. This one baffles me. To get a diplomatic passport the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most validate your credentials.

Opening of CBN account. Did Prince Adeyemi sign the documents alone without confirmation from office of the president.


Operated an (STA) account. single treasury account. The much talked about secured account channel to block leakages in government finance

One theory is that he annoyed the wrong person or his cover got blown (his agency may have been a plan to steal and fund an electoral war chest), so they're cutting him loose and disassociating from him.

TheStoriesOfMan:
Very entertaining but dangerous sport.

If a horse spooks and throws someone off, game over.

Add polo, rugby and badminton to the mix. We have good players.

Our Equestrian riders (all female) are winning rosettes in England so they should be fine. We have male and female polo players as well too doing okay internationally but I don't think Polo is played at the Olympics.

Rugby should have been one of our big sports and we should take advantage of all the Chinese in Nigeria to build badminton courts and set up Table Tennis tables everywhere, so they can train us (because that is their sport).

Congratulations to these Queens.

Please brands should sponsor them and this sport, let's get the girls into the Olympics.

This and Equestrian sport should be our 2 next entries into the Olympics.

Mussolini77:
Thanks so much for your input sir….
Firstly I had to sell off my 90% completed house and a land to finance her Canada traveling on a study route which I was to follow as a dependent, everything went smoothly and only left to pay for the ticket and accommodation when we discovered she was 2months preg and she said she couldn’t handle the stress with her schooling and after she put to bed she said she couldn’t go for now because she is not strong enough….that wasted those resources
Secondly came the idea that we relocate to the city and I had to sell off what is left of my land and some home properties especially everything in my spare apartments since we would be downsizing and there won’t be space to keep them…she chose the location we currently in and I got a job here and went away till the theft incident happened
Then came this again and her job is not bringing in much income, might not even make a dime in a month or two since she is working from home
Sincerely I’m frustrated

Bros, read my original comment, I know why I said make a family plan. So you're not just running around like headless chicken and you won't get frustrated and then end your marriage.

Sit down with her, plan the future. It won't follow your plan but at least you'll know "in 2028 we are relocating". That will even guide you in buying property (why spend money buying a car when you won't drive it for long, shey you get).

It will also stop her from making one plan and changing. Your family plan will have "how many kids can we have comfortably". What the Lord blesses you with will be smoother when you have a baseline to follow.

It's something I wish I knew when I got married.

MyExpression:
On another related note...

Don't switch to the WhatsApp Business Platform if you do not really have need for it.

There're some tradeoffs that aren't worth the transition.

Stay on your Business App.
Leave their AI autoresponse.
Except it can trigger a self call or schedule notifications and actions, the ai response isn't necessary for your business.

I'm so tired of AI being forced everywhere. I now have AI summarizing my email for me before I can even read it and I never opted for that feature.

Mussolini77

Do you have a plan for your family?

Watch this please
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaAXF8vt5rG/?igsh=bHA1b3Z1aDJjbHA0

What is your purpose and plan for your family? Like a business, you know how much you want to earn, how to grown it. Do you have that kind of plan for your family?

You should make one.

Put your wife and children in the plan, as well as yourself. What's the game plan: a healthy family, a family that prays together, a family that owns 10 houses and 1000 cattle, a family that are full of Doctors, a family of musicians...

Write it down.

Then share it with your wife, get her input, ask her what she wants for the family and her life. it's a FAMILY ROADMAP.

Now, start looking at every decision with that roadmap in mind, that both of you know.

"Should I stay at home? How do we handle this event that happened and scared my wife? Should we sell property now, what if we need it in 5 years' time? Should we live in a cramped, expensive place for now, if so how long do we stay here? Are there good schools in that area? Will my family be safer and I can afford this over without getting resentful at my wife? Do I find work that takes me far away from my family? Is my wife's business able to support us if this move doesn't pan out well?"

You both pray together and consult the roadmap.

So that any decision you make, both of you know what the end goal for the family is and make sure your decision supports that goal.

I can't answer your question in this thread, but I think once you have a family roadmap, you'll both know what to do.

Also, the roadmap will help your wife focus on her race rather than keep looking at her friends and comparing her race to theirs. You can tell her when she talks about their "wonderful" lives: "babe, we have our family plan, we will get there step by step."

Adire is not strong enough to withstand multiple washings like that or is it?

And the idea of NYSC was to send you to another part of the country to know it. If I school in Lagos and serve in SW, I will never visit Akwa Ibom state of nothing takes me there. May be better to keep some areas put of NYSC deployment and fix insecurity

TheStoriesOfMan:
No, i don't stay in Lagos.

The students could understand basic subject concepts, how they are related and how they function in real-life situations.

Only few struggle in mathematics.

The challenges were inadequate monitoring of the parents on their children and the addiction of smartphones.

(I wish I could send a voice note)

If you want that salary tou mentioned, you have to be able to give value above that salary.

(Nigerians don't compensate well for any job).

Basically, your worth has to be N500,000/month to get a salary of N250,000-N300,000/month teaching.

How can you do this?

Well, every private school is always looking for an edge. "What do we sell to parents that will make them come to us, rather than go to the schools down the road?"

And that's where you come in:

Don't just be a Math Teacher, offer something more than that.

If you want more info, pay me for a Zoom consult 😎 ✌🏾

TheStoriesOfMan:
Columbia university no be beans.

At least a degree holder from a reputable institution supposed to be paid more if he/she knows the job.

How much would you have wanted? Also, what class and what subject were you teaching and how many times a week? What are your qualifications like?

Above 250k should be okay. I taught mathematics and computer science from JSS1 to DS2, plus coaching lessons for exam classes. Monday to Thursday. I have an M.Sc in IT.

Are you in Lagos?

What was your success rate for kids?

GanagiBitrus:
FT 2-1
Congo with initial gragra.
The better team England, coming out tops at the end.

Confirmed R/16...
England vs Mexico
France vs Paraguay
Brazil vs Norway
Canada vs Morocco

France & Argentina still my top2 favourites for the Cup.

Brazil vs Norway will be interesting, England vs Mexico can go anyway.

TheStoriesOfMan:
For me, it's huge. Very very huge.

If a student pays more than a million per term, then paying salary of 200k is worth it.

Some school owners are misers. They have "chewing gum" hand. They collect millions but pay staff peanuts.

If you want to work in a school just make sure your accomodation is nearby, otherwise nothing to save from salary.

Hmm

School owners always say parents owe fees and there are other fees like power, textbooks, materials (my kids' primary school is now using a smartboard for every class and getting a Robotics lab), repair, maintenance and fees for every staff member plus anything the State govt demands. So that will take a huge chunk of money. But at the same time, someone did tell me that if school wasn't a profitable business, people won't be going for it.

How much would you have wanted? Also, what class and what subject were you teaching and how many times a week? What are your qualifications like?

CRK teacher at a basic school won't earn what I earn, simply because of my exposure and qualifications and I earn way less than someone with a Doctorate degree in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Columbia University. The lady that used to tutor my nephew's in Creative Writing was charging the present-day equivalent of N100k/month per child, for one subject, she had a degree from a UK Russell Group university.

Kobojunkie:
Amendment 14 was not the Founding Fathers. As a matter of fact, it is said to have been pushed in illegally by Congress since it did not follow the principles outlined in the Constitution in doing so. 🥱

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLxgJv8xD4U?si=WAjyX2bkt5e9L6i1

Therefore, changing the Fourteenth Amendment does no damage to the intentions of the Founding Fathers.

okay

Free2Fly:
The Chinese people came with money. The Nigerian youths you're talking about don't have kobo and are even struggling to feed in a very harsh environment.
Again, there is hardly any available credit facilities for Nigerians to raise capitals for such ventures, compared to those Chinese and other foreigners.

There are credit facilities (BOI is one), but Nigerians lack knowledge and more importantly, Nigerians lack integrity.

More than half of them will spend that seed money buying a Lexus, changing their wife's car and sending N500,000 to a Twitter side chic so she can visit them. Before they start working on the project. And there's no guarantee of payback.

As a young Nigerian one should enter the workforce, network and then prove integrity.

lavylilly:
This experience made me think.
While many Nigerians spend hours every day arguing about politics, celebrities, and endless social media trends, other people are quietly identifying problems, investing money, building infrastructure, and creating businesses that generate income for decades. They are solving our problems—and earning from them.
These investors didn't wait for perfect roads. They didn't complain about the location being too remote. They saw a community without reliable electricity and turned it into an opportunity. Today, they provide a service people are happy to pay for because it improves their quality of life.
There is a lesson here. Development doesn't always begin with government. It also comes from people and companies willing to see opportunities where others only see difficulties.
Nigeria has millions of intelligent, energetic young people. Imagine if even a fraction of the time spent on social media arguments was invested in learning valuable skills, building businesses, or solving local problems. We would create jobs, improve communities, and reduce our dependence on others.
Instead of asking why foreigners keep making money in Nigeria, perhaps we should also ask ourselves why we often ignore opportunities until someone else discovers them first.
The world rewards those who solve problems. Complaints may trend for a day, but solutions create wealth for generations.

Well said.

Foreigners come here and find solutions to our problems, we run abroad and beg them to accept our best, in exchange for crumbs.

And it is so sad that in 2026, there was no State Government in Taraba that cared about treating their people well. When it is time to vote, mudu of rice to be shared between 3 people and election materials will reach them. But when it is time to value them, the people are ignored

Let's challenge ourselves: go home to your state and find the area that needs electricity like this, find out how much to invest and do a feasibility study. Post here and approach banks, BOI, let's get some loans. Make your money and pay off the loans and build your future

ednut1:
every country in north and South America are a country of immigrants. Do they all have birth right citizenship?

Nne, please build a time machine and ask the Founding Fathers why they made that choice

ednut1:
Most countries in the world dont have birthright citizenship. Why should the USA have it?

Because they are a country of immigrants and that was the only way to unite all of them: Brits, Irish, Scots, Chinese, Europeans, African freed slaves. These are the first immigrants who mer the Native Indians there.

Removing this means a President can say someone is in American for political reasons and therefore his/her children won't be citizens even if they were born there.

Removing this changes the Constitution and another President may decide to amend the Constitution (freedom of speech, freedom to arm yourself against an unreasonable govt etc) as he/she feels like.