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ozycy:
Lol. How old is baby E?

I read your post on cloth diaper and went to dig out my old cloth diapers, I used it for previous baby, not everyday dou, just when we run out of diaper or I just feel like using it, I ve used it few times for baby S too.
OK, I cut some pieces of cloth from a flannel to use as liners so as to make washing easier cos the poo stain on the diaper itself is always tasking to wash out as I have to soak well before it can come off completely and the white colour retained. I attached pix, make una no laugh me o lol #just experimenting #

Yeah, those stains. You can do a 20 mins cold bleach soak after they have been washed, once a month and dry them facing the sun. Stains should be gone. We use our diapers daily, from morning till night, then use a disposable at night (though sometimes I end up changing her to a cloth diaper at around 2am/3am). That is just because Himself can't change a cloth diaper. That way, a pack of 34 diapers can last us a month easily (since we only use one at night most nights). The trick is to get enough diapers so you don't wash daily. Keep those flannel and use them as wipes, I love my flannel wipes and you won't regret them. I first wondered if cloth diapers saved money in Nigeria (since diapers were so cheap here) but with what I've experienced I believe more strongly that they do. Because we would have been forced to buy the U.S. Huggies or Pampers in cartons (the local ones made her scratch her skin off till she bled or would always leak nightly). I pray we survive our change era.

Tearoses and sambarry, that was to just sew the Ankara, not even to put stones. I moonwalked outta the shop. There are no more tailors in Lagos, it's to put signboard and print business cards that says "Designer, Haus of Olamide" and be charging exorbitantly. Packaging is not cheap.

Why will you be pinching a little geh in her uniform, eh?? What did she do to you?? Has she
-broken the remote control
-broken the screen of the phone
-thrown away her earring and broken 3 of your jewelry (including the coral beads that were antique and original )
-flushed something important down the toilet
-drank her bathwater
-refused to sleep in her crib or by herself, she must always lie on your body
-smiles at every young man in Lagos, even though you show her pics of her intended every single day and make her practise her post English accent
-refused to sit on her potty
-refused to allow you use the loo or even just hide in it for 10 minutes without her crying (Himself has started hiding in his cupboard)

Ehhhh

Babythug, it is a family thing rather than a cultural thing. Some families prefer certain types of background and even amongst their tribe, will have issues. There are not a lot of major differences between Nigerian tribes but humans be humans: divisive.

Abeg make una teach me how to stone Ankara. I have a glue gun already. I have to start looking good o, I went to my cousin's party casual and awon Lekki wives wanted to murder me with stoned casual outfits o and I was there looking like a female peahen . E remain small they nearly sent me for a plate of food. And when I contacted one of their tailors, she told me N20,000...to sew N7000 ankara. So I am going to hammer, I mean sew my outfit and bedazzle it myself

Liftedhands:
Raw gini? With all the orisirisi inside? Mbanu kolewerk mehn (where I wan see am sef wen I no get malu for house )

Thanks for the input I appreciate.

You see your life! Fulani herdsmen are everywia rampaging, instead of you to stop one and politely ask for fresh milk, you're buying imported formula! It's people like you that are destroying the economy, but Naija to grow the Naira

Just imagine the scene:

Fulani herdsmen, exchanging hot words with some villagers. "Aboki!! Maalu!!" walahi, ah kee u!". Enter LiftedHands, catwalking prettily with a keg in her hands.
LiftedHands: "please can I have some fresh milk?" (You know she will deploy her oyinbo accent to ask!)
Fulani Herdsmen "Walahi! So biuriful! Abdul, give dat yarinya some fura de nunu"
Villagers: "see, they're giving milk to our tribespeople, they can't be all bad".

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how LiftedHands will stop all these sad stories we hear. The End.

We need to convince LiftedHands to go and get fresh milk....

Liftedhands:
Raw gini? With all the orisirisi inside? Mbanu kolewerk mehn (where I wan see am sef wen I no get malu for house )

Thanks for the input I appreciate.

You see your life! Fulani herdsmen are everywia rampaging, instead of you to stop one and politely ask for fresh milk, you're buying imported formula! It's people like you that are destroying the economy, but Naija to grow the Naira

Quakertellicus1:
I also hope that all of you oil fighters in the North and South start exporting manufactured computers, cars, bikes, jet planes, oil rigs, heavy equipment, clothing, etc....so that we can earn some real money.

Because selling oil and minerals and agric is so 1960's. Strong nations live from working hard,not from selling raw materials and using the money acquired to import and import and wreck the economy via overimport.

A serious government will have started drawing up policy plans and TOC in the MOUs to different bidding companies to include a processing facility built nearby with a 30 year Buyback option (after 30 years, resell facility to a Nigerian conglomerate), 2 technological centres in collaboration with 2 universities in Nigeria (one in the parent state, we already have Unis that teach Metals and Metallurgy and have Departments for Mining. But they need strengthening and massive upheavals) and a 40% technology transfer rate (to encourage your own citizens to become more advanced to take.over eventually from the company). In other words, for every dollar you make in Nigeria, you must spend $1 educating a Nigerian to eventually take over your job. Singapore and Malaysia did it, others did it. The U.S. actively does it, so does Canada. They make private companies pass on skills to their local workforce. All this will advance us further.

Wake me up when we become serious. Because I've seen better policy makers on Nairaland and social media than in government.

Chukzyfcb:
you still don't get it, do you? yes exporters should be making more money but sadly enough its not favouring them, our trade deficit is still in the negative? exports volumes keep going down qoq. are you actually reading what I have been writing.
cost of production is high. do you think people arent knowledgeable enough to see the opportunity. moreover oil and gas actor is responsible for about 80℅ of what we export, but vandakism has reduced what we should be getting from it. all thanks to the 97 and 5℅ speech.
if you still can't see that the policies of this govt isn't favourable. then something is wrong with yo. only the banks are recording huge increase revenue quarter on quareter bevause they have been exploiting us through the dubious forex deals. the rest sectors are struggling to survive.

Guy, just stop arguing with that fellow. He only wants to see what he wants to see, whether it is realistic or not. Nigeria cannot cover her deficits with Agricultural produce because so many other countries have become juggernauts at this and have the infrastructure to drive down prices and still sell 3 times the volume Nigeria is planning on selling easily. Will the South Americas, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malaysia or Pakistan sit back and allow Nigeria start taking their clients exporting cotton, Palm Oil, cocoa and sugar? Is that how business works? Do we have the infrastructure to make Nigerian Agricultural produce a more viable option than those guys? We can't even think of producing enough in the next 4 years to adequately feed West Africa that amazingly we will now think of exporting to the rest of the world. And there is no serious idea or push from this govt to fasttrack any good idea. They are playing politics with even fertiliser supply and some people are here defending it to the death

I can't even laugh. The sad thing is that those blindly defending the indefensible have no other hope than Nigeria, those who have options are jumping ship or criticizing constructively.

babythug:
Hahahahaha Please have mercy on the small madam! You know we are gunning for Prince George of the royal family so our dressing always has to be on point!

This change meme is just turning us all into something else*. Every time i have to spend any money i literally shudder and hope it's an absolute necessity i'm spending on!

Don't mind her o! We were at church and she went to be hugging some little boy. I had to scream "Stoppit! Your fiance is in England".

Standing5:
Stop being terrified and terrorized by 'Ignorance'. Your appetite for foreign goods and service is the real cause of dollar rate skyrocketting. As long as you earn less dollar(via oil and other export) and consume the available ones faster it will keep creating a supply deficit of $ and send its rates high. The era of subsiding dollar at the detriment of exporters is over. Wake up and up your service and product game to intl standard to stand a better chance of making dollar on a personal level.

You know nothing! I flew in several of my baby's things but decided to be patriotic and I bought a product for my baby to use, the locally made one. She began itching after application and crying to the point of scratching her skin off and slight bleeding. I checked online, several other mothers were seeing the same issue with the same product and complaining. Where the f**k was NAFDAC to do their job and make sure it was safe? They had collected their egunje and allowed these people to slap NAFDAC number on the product and sell off. Where was NAFDAC and other regulatory bodies when people were putting up pictures of commercial bottled water being filled with ordinary untreated water? Do you know any politicians? I know several and they will tell you that only drink a certain company's water. But are allowing any Tom, Dick or Harry produce water for the masses. I know some of their families and they don't patronize Nigerian goods. So who is going to make Nigerian products "international quality"?? Is it my child's health they will use as testing ground until someone in government decides to do their job?? Please swerve.

Everyone screaming "Buy Nigerian", you don't understand. I used to say that as well. But I know better now.

It costs more to buy a Nigerian finished good compared to its foreign counterpart. Labour, infrastructure, lack of power, lack of tax incentives and technology, all these make Nigerian goods hard to compete with their foreign counterparts (whom have solved all those problems). Which means even though my salary has not increased and I'm buying Made-in-Naija, I'm spending the same or more to be patriotic. And worse, I'm being patriotic to a country whose own government is not serious about fixing those problems or even enabling its parastatals to do their jobs and make sure the Made-in-Nigeria goods are of a decent quality. I just found out proof of this is a hard way that would have cost me a trip to the doctors and we even saw Water Bottling companies breaking laws with impunity, even Cway has not bothered to dignify the public with a response to the fact a dead frog was found in its product. Then someone will tell me to sacrifice my family for the betterment of the Nigerian economy? When my own government runs abroad for Healthcare and Education, I am to stay here and be patriotic? When my government is rewarding its cronies with contracts to import fuel instead of slash their salaries and pour it into the power sector and Transportation sector and make it easy for any manufacturer to source for materials locally and abroad, am I to sit tight and wave the Nigerian flag and watch my children suffer?

Is this what I voted for?

musicwriter:
I've been saying it ever since (check my previous posts since last year), expect the Naira at N500/$1 in the next 1 year (7 months left). That would be first stage.

After that, we will enter stage 2 where things will get out of hand and Buhari under pressure will accept any condition from any anybody offering a solution. That's when IMF and world bank will ''go for the kill''. They will crash the Naira to the range of N1,000/$1. Then, foreign business syndicates and afiliates of the IMF and world bank will come to Nigeria in droves to buy up everything of value in Nigeria.

We were better off not devaluing the Naira the first time. And that's why I was against it. As it stands now, nothing stops the Naira from going to N1,000/$1. Just time!!.

Anybody who don't want to leave the Buhari government in shame should just resign now, cause things are even going to get out of hand soon. The Naira is dead!. Forget it!!.

You are the 2nd person saying this in my hearing in less than 4 days. And the way person had documentation to back it up. He said the IMF and World Bank are allowing our government to make as many mistakes as possible in order to sweep in and mop up assets at a cheap price. He had so much evidence but I thought it was a conspiracy. And that they were in competition with Asian countries to own as much of African assets as possible (in order to shore up their own economies). That by the time they are done, everything in Nigeria will be run by foreign companies with Nigerian figureheads and they will always have a market to dump and sell their goods on to repartriate funds back to their economy. He called it the "2nd Great Colonisation". And last year, people who have families in government (not small names o) quietly started moving their families and assets out of Nigeria. I have even mentioned this on NL before.

I'm now terrified.

Liftedhands:
Ozycy lol at DIY for baby milk me self won't mind o

There is actually a recipe for formula. I heard about it from my Lactaction group back then. But it is the craziest stuff and requires fresh milk, not powdered. Some of the truly crazy parents even prefer to use raw, unpasteurized fresh milk. There have been some medical disasters from the fresh milk (especially combined with the fact that these parents tend to not like Vaccinations for their children) but a lot of the parents say that prefer their own mix of formula (as they are all about the no-chemical, organic lifestyle). I've heard of the soy one, the cow milk one and another. Google the recipe for knowledge's sake but I did not tell you to try it o!

OP, good tips. Any suggestions for those planning on buying already-build property for rental purposes?

ozycy:
I saw a post about how to make baby rice and also corn.
My question is, is there no way to make the baby rice/corn to be just like the packaged ones so when I want to feed baby, I don't have to cook with a pot rather I will just use warm water and prepare like packaged cereals.

Can we also make baby milk ? Lol (I know the answer to this question but I need more answers lol) cos it's baby milk that's even the most expensive
I buy Aptamil 900g and sometimes it doesn't even last up to 2 weeks. This "change" era is not even helping matters atall.
My sabi mamas over to you.

Is your case not better than madam Baby E whom I was forced to buy Gerber milk that costs N10,000 and then she suddenly refused to drink anymore the way I shouted at her that day, screaming fluently in my language that I cannot speak more than 50% of on a good day! Or when I bought her broccoli and cauliflower (at N1400 apiece) and she turned her nose up at it? Infact she's still wearing some of her 9-12 months clothes as punishment (let's see the little boy that will think she's cute in undersized dresses )

The food you cook will be more nutritious most times (all that processing will destroy certain good and bad stuff because it has to be perfect for every child around the world eating it). Just store it well. I've also decided to stop buying separate milk for baby E, she's old enough to drink cows milk (which she still hates drinking till today) so lessen expenses. Himself that used to turn his nose up at my cloth wipes uses them gratefully nowadays

I really think we should.drop Dumanit's case off this thread and focus on what we all came for. If we all start pouring out our needs here, one would be shocked to find out that some mums are in horrid situations but are quietly living their lives. Maureensylvia, I understand where you're coming from and sadly, it is very true: a lot of times, someone comes to NL ask for help and people check their Facebook and see that they are doing better than those about to donate to them. Yes, they may need money (who doesn't?) but their situation was not so dire as they painted. It happens a lot (I believe Blank may know something but doesn't wish to share, I know that regular commenters on certain sections of NL are usually able to dig up stuff faster and some of them have multiple monikers/old monikers). The fact that 3 other people contacted you and warned you off is cause for concern (on NL a genuine case will have no issues and abundant help will pour in, that's how it works 90% of the time). The easiest thing to do is to come to an anonymous forum and beg for help, it is easier online than to ask people you know.
Prettyhurts alluded to the fact that Jos is not an expensive place to survive, I would expect even more frantic pleas from mothers in Lagos (where N20k monthly is a joke). Begging is not a crime, but it does feel upsetting when you were about to give out of the N30,000 you have to live through the month of September (and you need N50,000 in Lagos) to someone who needed only N15,000 to live through September in Benin (but still wanted a bit more).

Please let us focus on what we came here to do: offer advise and emotional support and leave money out of it.

Hmm.

Kotias003, pele. Breastfeeding is not easy, try and don't beat yourself up. As baby is drinking formula, try and pump.You've gotten really good advice. I know it was challenging for me as well, but there was something my sibling told me: "this is just 6 months out of a long life. So do your best but don't beat yourself if things don't work out the way you planned it."

Diordaves I really like your suggestion about incorporating the topography of the area into the final build.

Hey mums, I'll be doing a tutorial on making your own cloth wipes later (so you can see how you can save and decide if it's something you're interested in) and I may even do one on making a wet bag. Also, I found these cloth diapers, which seem to be All-in-2s with microfiber inserts, on sale on Jumia for N1,500. I saw a really cheap lookin one for N800 in Dosunmu market (Balogun) but I don't quite like it.

https://www./bab-washable-baby-diaper-and-2-inserts-blue-160204.html

signz:
Economists have said it, Buhari failure to really hit the ground running, failure to listen to good advice and policy gymnastics is why our economy is this bad.

He woul've appointed a Min of Finance as soon as he took over. He had a wonderful pool of economists that helped APC before the elections, he should've just picked 1.

Namely, Ezekwesili, Utomi, Omogui, Soludo and even if he doesnt like southeners, He should've picked Mansur Muhktar former Min of Fin under late Yaradua whom i heard is now a world bank consultant. There are blue blooded core northerners who went to ivy league schools all over the world, why not pick someone from there as soon as possible.

He would've devalued ASAP immediately after May 29th 2015 and blamed GEJ for it and it would've sticked but now the blame GEJ game no longer sticks. Gej left 30bn dollars (excluding the over 6bn dollars found in NLNG that was shared to States) aand how much did Abacha/Abdulsalam leave for OBJ?

This is simply the truth. I voted Buhari, I expected him to hit the ground running. I thought I would hear him calling every single ministry and parastatal to give a full audit immediately after swearing in and have an economic team on ground a month later. Instead he wasted time and for what, to put in old faces to run the show and a finance minister no-one is sure knows how to run an economy of a country. I'm disappointed and I'm tired to hearing "GEJ, PDP". Yes, they messed up, but that is why I voted for you, so you would FIX THEIR NONSENSE. And don't tell me it took 16 years to destroy, it took longer and that is no excuse, what is stopping you from at least having a concrete plan and explaining it and starting to execute some plans? Don't say you're broke when your civil service is bloated and your lawmakers are still earning fat salaries. No-one outside the country thinks Buhari has a plan, is it chasing corruption that will diversify the economy? If he had insisted States be independent because he has no money it would have helped. If he insists that each governor report monthly to him solid plans to improve their economy, not "go and farm on Thursdays and Fridays", that is something.

Eminya:
I was given vit c, ibuprofen syrup, loratadine, and amoxycilin. He was also prescribed 3k cream. Thank you Mama

Don't use vaseline (will coat the skin and not allow it to breathe) or shea butter (it's a nut by-product, like peanut butter). What cream did he prescribe, a steriod or something like white Parafin? What exactly did the doctor say was wrong with him? He seems to be treating for an allergy and maybe trying to prevent an infection entering through bruised skin. Why did your son start itching, did he itch? What happened in the last 12 hours before he started showing those welts? Write it down carefully.

My daughter usually starts showing skin irritation to Pampers in about 4 hours (severe scratching, at night wih heat, to the point that she breaks her skin). It's a perfume allergy: something synthetic they use in Pampers diaper to mask the smell. So you need to know what you're dealing with.

esscence00:
Nice work @All Nature lovers

I've been wanting to get myself an indoor flower or plant like aloe vera or snake plant etc. How feasible it is and how can I go about.

(I'm a student living in a self contain apartment off campus and I really love plants and flowers)!

Onegai
Tearoses
Babythug
Gerrad59
And other esteemed gardeners in the house.

Get a snake plant: it imoroves air quality and is really hard to kill.

soshi:
Hello soshi. I saw your pm but could you give me a head's up on what you want, thanks.

wanted to get tips from you about drawing via whatsapp....if u see this pls reply

I don't give out my number but there is a book or two out that can help. Will get the name for you if I can.

Rossy99, I'm going to tell you a story:

When I was in my teens, I went to visit relatives for a while. Your teen and me had different backgrounds: All the relatives had been financially supported by my family and some of them had stayed with us. When I got to their homes, I didn't do much, there didn't seem to be much to do (general house cleaning, sure I did. Washing up after myself, yep). But all their Nigerian wives expected and would make spiteful comments about me and my family and passive-aggressively b.itch about me and be rolling eyes, getting worked up behind my back and bending their husbands' ears with complaints if he dared give me $10 because they felt I was not running around according to their expectations (plus they resented the fact that I was an embodiment of "no, your hubby didn't arrive Amelica in a limo that his wife should be acting brand-new ). Meanwhile, one of the relatives was married to an American lady. The first day i went to their house, they said "please help yourself to whatever is in the fridge, always clean up after yourself". They said it once and never repeated it. And I appreciated it and we got along swimmingly.

All the other wives were there, starting drama and using me to excite themselves in their general boredom by stirring up trouble, instead of being straight-forward and speaking authoritative words in a pleasant manner. That is the definition of a lady, of a Proverbs 31 woman: Fist in a silk glove.

Nigerian women like to behave passive-aggresively. Never speaking up about what they want, they are trying to act like some type of docile idiot and pretend to be mild-mannered than be getting wildly angry when the other person doesn't fall in line. All that hypocritical spouting of bible passages is getting to their heads.

Firstly, you have a hang-up about that boy. Yes, he's poor and his family cannot afford a place for him. But you're not living on Bourdillon, are you? So please take out that small bit of "I am better than him, he should be humble and grateful" idea out of your head. Because Humility in Nigeria is NOT a good quality, we use it to insult people. And ladies use it to deceive men (but let's not digress ).
Lower your expectations. As in, he may be a church-rat in his family but the kind of church-rat that isn't expected to do chores. It happens (my driver doesn't know the way to Ketu market or even Otto). So stop expecting him to know and do things the way you want, without you having to tell him.

If you have to tell him every day what to do, open your mouth and tell him. Don't assume, speak plainly. Don't tell him in the casual, passive-aggressive manner ladies like to adopt when avoiding confrontation, then go to one corner and wait to see if he doesn't do it so you can catalogue your greviances internally and get worked up dramatically. Stop acting like a Nollywood wife.
Wake up and say "alright, today we need to fill up the drums in the house and we're cooking. You take the drums and fetch water, I 'll be in the kitchen so PLEASE go get me some so I can start". Look him in the eye confidently. After dinner, tell him in your husband's presence "please come and clear Uncle's plate and wash up, THANKS eh. Afterwards come back, uncle and I want to discuss finances for school with you".

Don't give him an opportunity to play you around, just be a LEADER. Stop dragging for power with an 18 year old boy, it's your home. You have much more important things to worry about. The only reason he can treat you like a subordinate is because he can see that you are doing that fake passive-aggressive behaviour that Naija ladies assume is what Submissiveness is (it's not).

Own that shiit. Fistbump

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)

Thank God for this! Please let the finished product be good.

bellyjean:
Nice one from the emir. I am a a proponent of GUIDED CAPITALISM.

I will blame the present and the previous govts (both GEJ and OBJ). It is not enough to just clear debt and increase FX reserves, we should have invested greatly in the economy. They all goofed on this one.

Taking South Korea as a case point, in the late 1950's after the Korean war, they depended so much on US aids, but they had a vision. Labour was cheap and by 1960 they have been able to save some of their earnings from agriculture and other low value-added industry. After the first coup in the 1960s, they reduced their dependence on foreign aids by 65% and were able to grow their light industries. By the late 1960s they were self sufficient enough to advance to heavy and chemical industries. The govt had strict control over capital accumulation and foreign debt. They didn't just allow some money to be lying fallow in their fx account. They reinvested almost all into the economy while shielding state owned and private industries from the international competition through tariffs and subsidies (just as the emir mentioned, govt has no business subsidising consumption, they should subsidise production and place high tariffs on imported competitors).

By the 1990's they had grown the economy from just heavy and chemical industries into advanced hi-tech industries. All through the transition,
1). there was capital accumulation and reinvestment of these capital into the economy.
2). Labour grew from just cheap unskilled labour into highly skilled quality labour- thanks to the great investment in education.

Today, south Korea (or just korea) is a world force.

I blame OBJ for just being complacent. He cleared our debts and accumulated $40b but didn't plough anything back into growing the economy; that is not an achievement to me,That is carelessness and cluelessness.

Yaradua clains he increased the fx savings to $61b and he claimed he invested in the economy. As for me, I didn't see any new investments other than sustaining the state of the economy. The moment he started amnesty, they started trailing a wrong road with a steep cliff at its end.

GEJ came in and depleted almost 60% of the so called capital accumulated on frivolities (amnesty, consumption Subsidies and the likes) leaving debts and a diseased economy for the present govt.

Buhari came in without having a clear strategy of good and sustainable economic policies. It is just like a novice who must escape a terrorist den with a chopper. He hasn't flown one before and he is just testing the buttons to know their functions. God help him the terrorists don't blow up the chopper cos he is wasting his precious time.

If we claim we have $25b in our fx accounts, this is not bad as people claim. As a strong and focused central govt (as it claims to be), be involved directly or indirectly in giving boosts to our dying manufacturing industries. Because if we don't do that, we will end up spending this money with the ones borrowed on consumption subsidies and salary payments.

Honestly, nigeria already has the framework for development into a strong economy(real one this time and not Some rebased GDP values) in 15 - 20 years. We have to take action now.

The emir has captured my concerns and opinions in this write up.

Very true. Almost every Asian country has an economic policy we can learn from and adapt. But our collective greed as a nation won't allow us to be great.

I dunno, but in others sections, we have experienced monikers carefully laying down convincing background story for a while and then later on cashing in. Worse, one of the commenters on the thread will be one of their monikers, with a long established history on NL, trying to sway the public into believing or sending money. So everyone is now super-cautious and insistent on full vetting. No-one knows whom is innocent because of this.
If anyone decides to send anything, please do so at your own discretion. I don't vouch for anyone I don't know in real life. All I will give are suggestions. I wish Dunamit all the best during these trying times, hopefully she can work on some of the suggestions I made. She has internet data so she can browse and start working on those clothes.

Here's one such site: http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/baby-pants-baby-pattern.html

My dear sister EfemenaXY has said it all, but she made one small mistake: please, it is not a date we are trying for, it is marriage to Prince George of England. We can do it together, as a website and as a nation! donate so that my baby can afford to be hanging out and having the same hobbies as HRH Prince George Windsor. So they can go and marry one day! Kate Middleton was roommates with the right guy, let Baby E use her horse to accidentally splash mud on the right young man at the Show-Jumping Grand Prix. One prophet under Obalende bridge said that was the most auspicious venue for Love.
We watched the Olympics Show-Jumping and Dressage sport. Not one single black person, not even half-caste! Biko open your empty wallets and bring out whatever little is left there so we can start buying a pony for Baby E. Just to transfer the horse is $46,000. A mere $46,000! Chicken change. Please it's everything in that picture we need to buy.

blank:
Don't bother yourself. It's that scammer called Pourtmout, Temitope Mustapha

Thanks for the warning. Na wa for Nairaland.

dunamit:
Good after mothers, please before i began with all sincererity and puting God First, Am Not A Scammer Or Trying To Decieve Any1 Here. I Am A Christain And A Born Again Christain I Reside In Jos And A Mother Of 5months Old Baby. Am Legally Married. I Need A Financial Help Of Every Able Mothers Of This Forum To Be Able To Buy Sumtins For My Son, He Will Soon Be 6month And Has Been On Exclusive Breastfeeding, The Cloths My Baby Wear Are All Under Size. Hubby Is Runing A Program At The University And I Just Graduated Waiting For Service. Presently Am Learning Tailoring, Times Ar Realy Hard For Us. Yes, I Have A Holandis Wraper I Worn Twice With The Wrapper I Use For Wedn Am Ready To Sell For Any1 Who Wish To Buy, The Blous Is Very Fine..

I really feel for you but times are very hard for everyone nowadays. We can barely manage the little we have so why not be creative? You are learning how to sew, why not grab some scrap fabric and make a few clothes for your boy. My old tailor used to do it as practice for his girl. Also source for second-hand items at the market, wash very well in hot water. The plates we use for my baby are not fancy, they were got in a party pack before I even had her. So be smart and see what you can get around, switch his bathing soap to even regular Dove (classic) it is like N200 per bar rather than babywash. Tell yourself to cook all his meals and only buy milk or continue breastfeeding so no need for formula. No need for powder and why not switch his cream to shea butter (ori), we mix our own diaper cream and its main ingredient is ori. We talked recently about how you can use cloth wipes with water instead of disposable wipes, and you can sew them (cotton flannel fabric is cheap or you can cut up those thin towels they share as wedding souvenirs, even better). I'm sure you can sew some easy dresses for little girls for sale, if you have data on your phone you can browse for the patterns (simple sleeveless dresses for babies and dresses can't use upto one yard). Try and figure out useful ways to do things, I'm sure other mums will help with ideas.

Jorussia:
I am not saying he isn't right. All i am saying is we need food sufficiency first before agro allied industries can come on stream.we have many agro allied industries in this country, what they lack is raw materials.

Food sufficiency will not be achieved by telling people to go and farm a plot of land. Or if everyone in the cities troop back to their villages to farm, who will teach? Who will learn and innovate? We need mechanized large scale farming to make ourselves food sufficient and even think of importing. The same point with Cocoa is the same thing happening with Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso: we produce most of the Shea butter used around the world but those foreign companies reap large profits selling overpriced creams and lotions made from shea butter (the beauty industry is easily a billion-dollar industry, a small tin of refined shea butter from French luxury company L'Occitane goes for over N10,000). Same thing with Palm Oil: I don't believe Malaysia became a hugely rich country from being the largest exporter of Palm Oil. Now, look at Kenya and some other countries in that axis in large scale horticulture: their product is sold almost finished and they're making good profits off selling fresh flowers.

We cannot all go and farm and there is no economy that is sustainable on just basic Agriculture in this modern era. It is in our best interest to farm, commercialise it and export and Industrialise.

Singapore encourages foreign investors to come to their country on the premise of "Build, Transfer, Operate". Any plant you build in their country must be 50% staffed in technical levels by their citizens and they must be trained because in 25 years' time, their government will buy you out and hand the company over to a Singaporean businessman. This creates wealthy citizens who hire more citizens and improved tax base and keeps profits made in the country from being remitted out. Nothing stops us from doing the same (and some of us suggested such to past state governments), we were ignored.

Simple common sense in Nigeria has been killed by Greed and Lackadaisical attitude from every single Nigerian.