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wow... okay no more wasting anyone's time chasing me in traffic and will definitely patronize them more.

Dyt:
Does breast milk taste same?


Dunno sef

Depends on what you eat. It has a slightly sweet taste. It changes according to baby's needs so I'm sure the baby couldn't tell the difference. I know someone who asked her friend to breastfeed her son. Someone offered me breast milk when my supply was low and I would have taken it if not for the Naija Grandmother With Red Eyes Watching Me

I think it should be encouraged, in a hospital if your supply is low, get a new mum who has been tested for all communicable diseases to donate breast milk to needy babies. Saves on formula...

Kingsmum:
Lmao @insult... thanks for taking one for the team then. Yea exactly my argument with a mate, anyway still waiting on d glow effect. Any idea on d facial rashes/acne cure? Any

it could be anything but if baby isn't in pain or in fever, it's probably not life-threatening.

Pay your mum some rent. It will keep your pride and that of your wife. Make sure you build your wife's confidence, start telling and behavingnto her like she is the first in your life, mum comes second. Or there will be issues if your mum decides that she wants to tell your wife some thing and your wife refuses to accept but wants to do her own thing. Your wife comes first, your marriage is new so it is crucial that you don't Dana it by putting your mother first. Remember you're a Husband, Father and a Son in that order now.

grandstar:
The high cost of entry into cable tv is the problem. It will cost billions of naira to enter and still take years before you break even.

Also, broadcasts rights to football games are prohibitive. What do you think sustains Mikel's 80,000 a week salary? Its certainly not entrance fees.

Added to that is the high cost of credit ie 25%. That's what ran those guys out of business

No-one in the right minds takes a loan from Nigerian banks. They have other ways to source for loans, they just don't broadcast it. And yes, I mean they get proper investments and loans. There are people in Nigeria who handle venture capitalism for foreigners and Nigerians with deep pockets. And international loans exist.

TV licenses is a long-term business. If you're hoping to breakthrough in less than 5-10 years, wrong business for you.

Arihodo:
FOR where! u need to see my sons face when eating that mixture like poison. i thot theres another way. bt if u see the way he shew eba with his 8 tiny teeths eh! its amazing and u wont believe he just turn 7months. i wil try the pap and crayfish alone. tanks dear

Lol.

Kingsmum:
Dear mums.. I hail o, this is my first post here tho am always lurking. Pls Dr Google has diagnosed my daughter of having baby acne and I understand it does disappear on it own after a few weeks. However don't know if there is a quick remedy am currently using Aquaphor healing oilment and breastmilk.

Also seems dis my daughter go b high maintenance, she had peeling skin and some discoloration from birth. Used Ori, got her darker..then Johnson n Johnson no much improvement had to buy d almighty Sabemed. It made some improvement b4 dis rashes/acne now. Btw used ori n JnJ which worked well on my son.

Abeg when will Sabemed start to make her skin glow nd does it lighten.

Sebamed doesn't lighten. I asked a dermatologist and he laughed and yabbed me. (Mamas i took the insult for all of you, please thank me ). According to him, most babies naturally lighten and darken till they get to their final skin tone. The only thing that will keep babies' skin fair is keeping them out of the sun. I actually use baby sunscreen SPF 50 (Babyganics brand, sadly not sold here) on his recommendation when we go to the beach (and a hat). She didn't darken.

Proof of what he's saying is true is that when I was a child, I looked biracial (half-caste) to the point that white couples would pick me up and assume I was one of their friend's baby at their parties (why didn't they keep meeee ). Same with my brother and now he's dark and I'm a light Brown complexion (but don't worry, I have bought Fair and White and Egyptian Milk, once I stop nursing, my skin will become "brighter than my future" ).

Arihodo:
mama, abeg, no vex. U mean ony crayfish is okay pap?

No o, people add crayfish, groundnut and soybean to pap. My daughter hated the taste of it (it is not sweet, more sour) and even I and hubby couldn't fake liking it (a trick I use is to eat her food with her).

Try a small quantity with your baby, your child may just like it. It is a nutritious mix.

FGM is stil practised. I served with a lady who said she would do it to her daughter. Just a few days ago, in Family section someone told us of his MiL who was rubbing Dusting powder (that peppery stuff) into his newborn baby's privates to "prevent her from being promiscuous". Which police will arrest an old woman??

People doing it are just going about it more quietly but it is very much practised.

viviparity:
my sister I would want to wait till 6months but she is n't growing big as I want it.my neighbours child is big cos they are giving pap nd all that and she plays while sucking. sometimes if I talk while breastfeeding she wil leave it and be looking at me

Is your baby healthy? Is her doctor concerned? If all is well, don't stress it. My kid has been in the 50th percentile and is slightly underweight but she's hitting all her developmental milestones before most babies, her doctor is pleased, my siblings think she's good and she's in the 95th percentile for her height. I stopped trying to over-feed her (She was vomiting the excess) and decided to embrace her small statue and her intelligence. Most doctors don't like overweight babies (there's an overweight boy at our hospital and the doctors don't like it. And one of my neighbour's daughter was overweight tending to obesity and they kept making her exercise and she was 7).

If your baby is healthy, doctor is fine with him and he's hitting all milestones, and if you or hubby are smallish people, well your baby may just be fine.

viviparity:
gudmorning sweet mamas ,pls I wnt to start giving food to my baby at 4months .which do i start with.i don't want to give pap now

Think you should wait till 5 months and 3 weeks or 6 months. Pap is easier for them to handle due to the soft consistency actually, but add breast milk or formula to it, maybe wait till 6 months and add crayfish, groundnut.

Nigerian children do actually have seafood and peanut allergies. You don't want to find out the hard way when they're under 6 months.

proudmom38:
Good a.m mamas.I want 2 start giving my baby semi solids like cereals,custard n d like plus cow n gate stage2 as his main milk. Pls should I use d cow n gate 4 his cereals or I wil ve 2 buy anoda type of milk 4d cereals?

cc:modath,onegai,mummy2be,kaffy4bill,beedam n other sabi mamas.

I don't know Cow and Gate stage 2 but why not check what age is written on the can? I think you can use his regular milk if it's age is 0-12 months. HTH.

And whatever you do, Do Not Make The Mistake I made and add soybean to the ogi. That thing is not sweet and Baby E now associates Ogi with punishment. So we have stopped giving her for now. (She strangely now hates formula of any sort and I used to add it to Ogi as well). So maybe Ogi, breast milk and crayfish? I dunno, just fiddle with the mix, if you like it there's a stronger chance of baby accepting the food.

Make fruit puree and freeze it, they like that cold. Tastes like ice-cream.

OP, whilst everyone understands your pain, you sound ungrateful to the point of off-putting. You demand your aunt even borrows money to help you pay for your school fees. You're a man of 24 years whining about something you have to do only during holiday periods when everyone knows 20 year olds plaiting hair in the dorms to raise schoolfees. Your aunt gave you N10, 000 at least a few times a year plus foodstuffs but you're upset it came at a price of you having to humble yourself. You are mouthing off to people who can actually help you on NL (I believe one of them helped someone whose child needed surgery to raise over N1million) and looking for people to agree with you that your aunt is bad.

Can you see how you've made yourself look bad? Do you know you could have asked for help here and people would have done a bit? Do you think anyone will do so now? Good luck opening a fresh moniker and trying to hide behind that.

Thatitan234:
Hmmm private funding... No body can invest in that place because it'll demand millions of dollars to get back up and running. Only maybe a consortium or International aid body can try such.

I guess for now you and your friends will have to make do with Obudu and other nature parks and reserves around.

Why not start the ball rolling? You have no idea who my friends are, who they can speak to or what they're capable of and he ideas that can be worked on. Most are nature lovers. Who knows if they know how to get aid for this sort of place? And this would hardly be a one day or even 6 months' job, it would take a few years.

So, is the place totally in charge of the state government and will they be willing to let go of some control of it? I have some experience with LASG and govt in Nigeria tends to stubbornly hold onto stuff even when they don't know how to use it.

Is there proper documentation of the wildlife and fauna and flora there? Which institute is attached to it please?

Thatitan234:
Hmmm this same forest reserve that I was for 10 weeks last year??

Its not a place just anyone can go and have fun oo.

the place is underfunded and almost dead sef. Only destructive logging activities is what's left happening there.

No network, water and electricity again. Even the guest house is left unused

The bamboo groove, water fall and fish lake nko?? all out of it

Bad road and every other infrastructure is spoilt and unreplaced.

Only that bailey bridge crossing over the Omo river is still existing. It leads to the Elephants camp.

However, I enjoyed myself there but trust me you gotta be a forester or environmentalist to persevere and appreciate whats left of the place.

The place remains a natural resources reserve.

Would it be feasible to get private funding? Will the money go to the right place and will the illegal logging stop? I and my friends would love to visit and it would be nice to see the place up and running.

Nigerian woman can make a man LOYAL! see him racing for his wife's country.

Motor Sports in Nigeria is such a long dream away...

tearoses:
Its the naija illiterate mentality
and when I mean illiterates I mean the ones that went through school but the school did pass through them.
They are the uncouth, loud ones with no social skills.
No elegance and no finesse.

True, true.

bookface:
Call your broker and ask them instead. Ask for Treasury bonds and not bills. Bills are short term maturity instrument. You can also ask for corporate bonds. Some bonds may have a minimum investment amount, but they should be able to tell you this.

It could be the case that the banks themseleves are engaged in some sort of arbitrage - i.e they are buying the government bonds with higher rates and selling to you at lower rates (Naija, i hail o)

You can easily check out the rates here on the Nigerian Stock exchange website.

http://www.nse.com.ng/Issuers-section/listed-securities/listed-bonds

I would caution against buying stocks just because you think it's a big company. Some of them are big company with poor corporate governance. E.g Oando.

For stocks, i like the following companies.

Nigerian Breweries
Unilever Nigeria
Guinness Nigeria
Nestle Nigeria.

These are good companies with good management and strong cashflows. But i would caution you not to take this as an investment advice. This is just my opinion, based on studying some of these companies.

Yes, it's okay to PM me, but unless you think it's something very confidential, i think many other people can benefit from these sorts of public domain exchange.

I know I have Nestle and NB. And I want to pm because if I ask what I want to here, all the nl scammers will show up like hungry sharks.

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armyofone:
They are too busy making money to buy nice homes
I'm really sure of the flying bottles too.

make sure you duck.

cococandy:
probably right.
sometimes I joke with with my childhood friend who lives in Houston that I'd like to move to there so I can have more Nigerians (her especially) around me and feel more at home.

But she keeps telling me to remain where I am. Because according to her Houston is the jungle-ish.
Like when the drama starts it's usually on another level. Who slept with who's wife/husband and whose asooke+jewelry cost more at the last party.

Why are we like this?

It's Naija mentality. Carry them to Alaska as a community and they will still be beefing each other over asoebi, gold jewelry and husband-snatching.

kannymoore:
Lalasticlala is a chubby bubbly male guy in his mid to late 30's who lives in the East.

That's all I have to reveal...before I take style chop ban

Meanwhile.. how is the lil princess?

What princess?? Oh you mean that Holy little terror that woke up constantly at night, is refusing her food but biting everything in site with glee? we've demoted her from princess statute

bookface:
Government bonds for one - If you can ask your broker about this. If you can get rates closer to 12 or 13 %, this should help you beat inflation which is currently at 9% by about 3% per annum.

Properties, is probably still a good idea, although i don't like this idea very much because they are illiquid investments and would not return as much value as the first option in this case. Nigerian properties at the moment are overvalued. The best rental yield you would probably get from your investment is about 3-5% even in prime areas like Lagos and Abuja. Which is well below inflation rate at 9% and well below government bond yields at 13%.

Finally, if you are into stocks, you could consider a buy and hold strategy - but with a very long term view. In the short term (about 2 to 3 years) stocks will probably underperform, if current economic situation worsens. However, in the longer term, you would probably make a lot of money from holding some stocks in your portfolio. You should stay away from oil and gas stocks such as the likes of Oando - stay away from banks with bad corporate governance (especially banks with large un-collateralized loans to the oil and gas industry) - you can buy company stocks like 7Up, Coca Cola, Maggi, Cement etc.

The best approach is holding each of this items in your portfolio, and having a diversified portfolio holding

In either case, there is nothing worse than simply holding cash in your bank account. You lose 9% of the value of that cash every year.

You should be careful though, there are enough scammers out there, talk to your broker if you have one, and ask about each of the items i have listed above

I approached the bank and they refused selling Treasury bills (that rates are bad) and tried talking me into Fixed Deposits (so I walked away). Some of my shares have been cashed out but I've been thinking Dangote Cement won't be a bad idea. I believe I already have NBC or Coca-Cola.

Can I pm you please?

bookface:
Yeah, true, we are.

I think the fair value of the Naira is probably around 310 dollars.

Smart Nigerians should invest money now in real assets - the dumbest thing anyone could do right now is letting his money rot away in a bank account somewhere.

Stagflation is coming, and it is coming big time.

What do you recommend investing in?

cococandy:
I don't think I'd like to witness one either.
Before flying pieces of broken bottles will find me where I'm hiding and peeping from.

I think the ones in the U.S. behave themselves a bit more (fear of U.S. Customs and Migration). But I'm sure there must be broken bottles flying around Maryland, Atlanta and Houston.

I could provide support for this, as I have contacts and know prices of strawberries in Lagos. My issue is, those guys are using mining pods to water their plants. The little I know of mining tells me there's a lot of heavy metal pollution around the areas being mined. What are the chances this fruit is safe for consumption, as the people I kmow who will buy want to test for this. Thanks
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Jaygrl:
My dear it might be fictional though,but it isn't far from real life...My hair is natural too and I know what I go through at work,on the road e.t.c. A male friend once told me I should just say I am broke and need money to make my hair instead of forming African lady. The truth still remains that Africans can't be liberated from mental slavery. My hair has never been healthier until I decided to stop applying chemicals(relaxer)to get it straightend like that of the whites.

They haven't started asking you "is it because you're single that you want to join MFM for husband prayers? " I was happy I got married and rocked my natural hair on my wedding day.

nellaluv:
I never gt my twist out right to. When I unravel the twist... no words to describe it

Never fret, it will miraculously sort itself out one day. Mine used to get me comments like "when will you comb your hair", "are. you doing dreadlocks" and this December, I took my time and twisted it and the miracle happened.

HaneefahRN:
OP pls flee for ur life, if u don't want to end up miserable.
Some factors tht cld influence his behaviour is poverty, his mentality and the family background.
I know of a man who will tell his wife he can't buy his children provisions or give them more than a certain amount or buy clothes for festivities for his children nt to talk of his wife cos his father didn't do such and didn't train him tht way. The man wld rather go and buy things rather than give the money to his wife. Contributes zero amount to the wife's business, bt has no problem taking thns on credit from her. This man while they were courting had similar traits wt the man u just described, he tried a little tho, he bought the wife just one scarf thru out the courtship. And do u think those other siblings of his, wnt come around to pester u guys. There is always a general notion tht d more educated man wld av more money so don't be surprised when they also start dumping responsibilities on him.
The man seems a gud man but ur way of viewing things seem to differ, and he is a stingy person, imagine nt paying ur fiance's bike fare, she doesn't even need to ask b4 a man knws what to do, ordinary first degree studt sef wld''t do such nt to talk of a PhD studt, wondering how he passed thru sch since his level of exposure still seems so low.

That man must be our former neighbour. He had a car but refused his wife driving it to the nearby estate market to go grocery shopping. She would take keke napep in the hot sun and the car would be parked in the compound (and she could drive). When my mum (doing mama of the close) mentioned it to him, he said she should buy her own car if she can't go to the market easily.

I should really knack le hubbs this night o. With all these stories, he's almost a saint. Abeg lemme keep him happy

I'm normally not one to ask people to run because of finance, but you guys went to a party, they sprayed you and he collected it, declaring you are now "One". Did he spend some of the money on you? Or did he pocket the money and smile at you?

Surprise him by telling him business has packed up and money is tight for you and you need his support. The truth will come out.

I know a man like this. He shared all bills before marriage and his wife paid for more things at their wedding, thinking she was being a loving, supportive woman. When they both got civil service jobs (his higher and hers the type that they wouldn't pay salary monthly), he refused to bring feeding money unless he wanted to eat, he refused to pay his children's school fees unless she brought her share (even if she was owed salary for months because state civil work is like that). The kids would stay home when every other child was at school.

Moral of the story? Men like your fiance don't change.

MTN offers fibre optics in some locations and those guys are using Netflix. And it's not expensive.

Please put pictures up. of your own Dojo, not borrowing from the internet. Let parents know what you're offering.

d25:
Maybe you can try the attached food for your baby. My daughter will be 7 months next week, my wife has been doing exclusive breastfeeding for her since she was born but we do give her Similac formula whenever we are not home. Couple of weeks ago, she stopped taking the formula and we switched to Gerber Oatmeal cereal.

You should try the Gerber Oatmeal cereal for your baby, I'm sure your baby will like it. Should in case you want to buy the Gerber baby food, please don't buy the Gerber rice cereal, the Gerber rice cereal may cause constipation for your baby.

I hope this will help your baby, Onegai.

Thanks! Please where did you get that? I can get a can and if she likes it, I can buy plums and puree it. And I'll keep an eye out for Gerber Oatmeal too.

I just took a proper look at the picture, those are prunes. Where did you find this, because it's so tough to get in Lagos. Abeg help a sister out.