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Hi Computer gurus on this forum,

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badboy: I was a very naughty boy. My tricks were too many but there's this one I thought I got away with, until many years later. I think it happened in primary 2 or 3. I moved ten bucks from my mum's purse to buy these giant buns that caught my fancy way back then. The buns were sold by a peddler on a bike. Come and see buns!!! The things filled up a giant black nylon bag.They must have been like one million. Like 10,000 people gathered around me for the feast. I was the man!!!Lo & behold, Miss Deborah came...."Who gave you the money for the buns?". I told the teacher it was my dad. "Are you sure?" .Yes ma,I answered. Then came closing time, Miss Deborah gives me a stapled note for my dad. As a sharp boy, Iwent to a corner, read the note and in it she requested my dad to confirm giving me ten bucks, along with some graphic details. Guess what I did....I cancelled my name and jejely wrote,Nnamdi, my younger brothers name in it's place. Well, minutes later, pops came to pick us up from school,I bounced to the car, handed him the note,he read it and laughed the whole distance from school to our house without saying a word to any of us. I was perplexed, wondering why he didnt rake my younger bro. Long and short story is that, several years later, while in A.B.U.,we were moving homes and and while packing, he called me in to show me the note.I nearly died of laughter....the teacher wrote with biro while I cancelled(rather almost smudged my name out in pencil and my name was still clearly visible). Come and see the teacher's fine handwriting as compared to my scribbling. I felt so foolish....I thank God for life.

you are a lucky dude. you have an understanding dad. if it were my parents. haaaa! they'll make this saga a national anthem at home and that must be after punishing you o! the toungue lashing will continue for ages till that period you described as being in A.B.U. even when a new offence is committed, they'll remind you of the past one you have long served the punishment for. e,g


Mum: Could you pls pass that TV remote to me

son: [squeezes face, stamps feet on ground in remonstration, or out of frustration of running too many errands]

Mum: common, will you get up? naughty boy. that was why he took my 10 naira to school to buy buns

Dad: dont mind him..silly boy. if it were to take 10naira that doesn't belong to him, he would have been fast and smart at it.


this kind of scolding will continue for yrs o! it kinda makes me feel like running away from the house . so we were usually very careful o! if you must play smart, just leave no stone unturned. BTW, you described graphic details. can't imagine what kind of graphic details you mean. did your teacher give a sketched drawing of you munching buns with your friends?

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semid4lyfe: Another money miss road and dead on arrival project.

Wetin dey make all these Naija celebrities think sey dem get star power and people go buy their products just cos their names are attached to them?

Reminds me of Rugged Man and that his 20th September clothing line that died even before it was launched. Till today, I never jam anyone wey wear hin design.

Nigerians no send celebrity endorsements. . .just ask GLOBACOM

Lest I forget, Ini needs to shed some weight. She could also do with a a better stylist and make-up artist

I couldn't have asked that question better. sincerely, it beats me! anyway, the only apt answer I can possibly guess for now about the bolded is that they are all simply deluded! to think that Nigerians will go gaga over their tawdry products is the peak of self-deception. . as if we cant see the difference.

if fools are awarded certificates, ifihe-goat, i guess you'll be having a phd now. certified dimwit !

NONSENSE !!!!!!!!!! MUMU

^^^ @ ifihe-goat, go learn how to use the quote keys first. . shows how smart u are

beside being a voracious eater, the next best thing I did was being a 'con-boy'. If there was an award for young and mischievous little fellas, I would be king-pin and a perennial winner of such an award! . I regarded out-smarting others as the easiest way to get out of trouble at anytime. I remember asking popsi to buy me a popular chemistry text book [Osei yaw Ababio] in SS1. he bluntly refused saying the text-book was just too expensive to be bought for =N=750. he claimed [despite knowing next to nothing about chemistry because he read Bus.Admin] a good alternative was Senior sec school chem by Afolayan [a text I hated with so much passion!]. I knew his arguments were simply based on the fact that Afolayan's chem text sold for N200 as against Ababio's N750. so, he bought it. as fate will have it, I hadn't paid my tuition for extra-moral lessons usually held every evening. the director for the evening lessons was usually very strict and never allowed anyone to delay by as little as a day to pay up. however, based on the rapport and respect he had developed for my dad, he allowed me stay even when he chased others home for his money.

so, the third month, he called me and handed N600 in new mints of N20 to me. he explained with a stern face..''this money is for your evening lessons, make sure you give it to your director''. i was nodding in approval as hended the money to me. then he brought out a clean A4 paper and was scribbling vigorously on it as if he was writing a poem.it was a letter of appology for the delay in payment and he wanted me to deliver it to the director along with the money. haaaaaaa! ..ol boy! my hrt lept for joy! money don land, I said to myself. this man just wasted his precious time scribbling this miserable note. i humbly collected the letter and promised to deliver it. the next day, I asked a classmate of mine to lend me N100, which he did, I added my N50 which took me ages to save to the money and my friend accompanied me to the bookshop where I did justice to myself with the money and tore the letter into shreds. . I bought the chem text i had always wanted.

I told popsi, I delivered his note to lesson teacher. then he asked me about the new text and where i got it from. I simply told him it belongs to my friend and I borrowed it from him. . till date, i never told him about it.

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2) My smartness [coupled with the fact that I was also very bright] earned me the class-rep [popularly called claass monitor back in the days I speak of]. one of the duties delegated to me by my class teacher was to write the names of all noise makers and make sure they paid 50kobo coin each time their names appeared. [ol boy, na so I become senator oooo abi na speaker of house of rep! on PDP platform ooo! ] she had delegated this duty to me after she walked into the class unannounced one particular day but went irate at the level of disorderliness in the class. as a mater of fact, we practically turned one half of the class room into a market place and the other half into a football field with our desks and chairs shifted to one corner and goal posts mounted with our bags. we played all day not knowing she had been standing by the entrance to the class room watching us in utter disgust! i was the first to sight her with her sullen face, mute and standing like a ghost by the entrance. I wanted to alert others about her presence, but I couldnt. her wicked eyeballs were proppingg out of the sockets with rage and furry. so, I simply kept my cool. then finally, she announced her presence. haaaaaaaaaaa! boys nearly enter ground! she had to go call one monster of a teacher we all dreaded to flog the livin day-lights out of everyone. my punishment was reduced anyway!

to cut the long story short she announced the new rule. I was to take the list of noise makers daily, make sure they pay up the fine of 50kobo on time, and keep all the money till the end of the term. she declared to the class that the money will be spent on what she described as end of the term party. she threatened fire and brimestone on whosoever refused to pay. hmmm! guys! I became super rich! even if you cough too much, I could write a X5 in front of your name- meaning you have to pay 2naira, 50kobo. just imagine how long my list looked like with boys arguing about football & English premiership every now and then in the class room whenever there was no teacher! hahahahah! I could produce a thousand naira list from multiples of 50kobo! Lastma no extort moni reach mi o! . it didnt end there, i deployed my coy strategy. write names as much as possible, collect the monies, take the list home and reproduce another list inwhich the sum total of the money collected will be less than the original list!, then destroy the original list.


haa! my break-time was always a time for heavy feast. I fed fat on the money that at the end of the term, what i presented as total collected fine was far less than 1/10th of the true account and the list was so perfectly dated that no one [not even the teacher herself] could fault it. however, i made sure that a few of my classmates who could raise eye-brows were well taken care of. so, they had no choice but to keep quiet since their mouths were also soiled with 'the oil'. . when I reflect about it now, i just beam that sheepish sly smile! corruption didnt start today o!

many Nigerians have the deluded misconception that the best way to validate heir achievement[s] is by being in US/UK. our sense of originality is eroded. anything from abroad is valued as better than its equivalent at home. that mentality is currently the D'Banj's problem - trying at all cost to hobnobb with American musicians : Oluwasnoop, Kanye, Ludacris, e.t.c SMH

ogugua88: Oooh, nice. You guys are huge Kaysha fans lol.

Yeah, there's ukpo, which is made from overripe plantains. Looks something like this.

https://www.allnigerianrecipes.com/images/plantain-moi-moi.jpg

oh my-o-my! who asked me to open this thread today? I ate ukpo last over 20years ago! my granny used to buy it for me a lot, particularly if she wants to bribe me to run any errand she feels I may be reluctant to go. . it was my favourite delicacy. i could do any errand for ukpor-ogede! . no matter how herculean the task is, once ukpo is offered, I will accomplish the task to the hilt with jet speed. .

nice thread, keep them coming

see as I dey salivate in front of my lapi. kai OP why ? but why?

I miss 9ja. I wan go home! . here na so so stupid sandwich

OP, pls supply afang soup and akpu for my viewing pleasure. after viewing it, i go shack water.

pls dont forget point n kil fish [cat fish] perpersoup or goat meat/cow tail perpersoup + 1 star beer or palm wine.

ifeci: i like ur write up but comparing the economies of US an GB with Nigeria will be faulty analogy because these guys have already existing facilities that will accept coins, u can buy drinks, gas etc and pay with coins, or go to the bank and deposit coins cos u hv machines installed to accept that form of payment but in Nigeria, where do u spend that, even Banks reject coins talk less of sellers on streets and in the market or transporters, how wld the carry it? how can they easily convert or store it without having to carry dt bulky stuff around?

EXACTLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MY POINT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

ifeci: [size=16pt]u have just summarized ur foolishness in this post![/size] when u r giving me a change of #4900, is that not giving me an avenue to still carry excess notes as opposed to the cashless policy? ur analysis of big spenders storing money in dollars is also very foolish, the main buyers of dollars/pounds/euros are importers who have to pay for goods with those foreign currencies because naira is not accepted and because Nigeria is an import dependent country, you can imagine the volume of containers that land in our ports and the dollar equivalent. the solution to exchange rate issues has never been to print more monies or higher denominations but to develop the local economy. the big spenders you mentioned in Nigeria are obviously the corrupt politicians who are looking for ways to hide their theft and with the introduction of #5000 note, Sanusi will be giving them more opportunities because they can store up large sums without the help of banks, they can transact and buy expensive mansions without the need for banks making their looting activities untraceable. they can also spend these monies freely as it is the countries local currency as opposed to dollars which they can't spend freely

werepeLeri: Dude- Abeg. chill. answer simple question, you talkin nonsense.

How were the coins being carried previously? You raised a point, I asked a question based on what you said. Answer- save the rhetorics. This is NairaLand. Simple question - answer it- save all the lingo. Who cares the fu ck about you if you are poor? How many of them have you fed today?

Yes! sense is nonsense to cretins like you and nonsense makes sense to them. Sanusi's nonsense makes so much sense, yet simple street economics explained with the simplest of commodities [tom-tom] even understood by a toddler remains incomprehensible to you. i no fit shout. they carry the coins in that your empty forehead looking like palm wine gourd.

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werepeLeri: [quote author=werepeLeri]So how were they carrying the coins previously? Using Ghana must go bags I think? Or how is that argument tenable? Bus conductors carry coins previosuly and give people coins as changes. So because coins are bulky, then it should not be in circulation? I hear you.

it's obvious you didn't witness all these evidences you put up, else, they wont form the basis for your argument. those who witnessed that era can tell you categorically, that it played a major role in the current inflated prices of fares. have you stopped to ask yourself what they did with the truck-load of coins at the end of the day and how easy it was to convert to notes?

you aristocratic class only think of yourselves. I was expecting you to put up the argument that coins-to-note converting machines will be installed all over the place just as ATMS [as you have in many developed countries]..but I guess you wont think that far. as far as you are concerned, they should go through the rigour of queuing in banking halls to convert their 'ghana must go' bags or buckets of coins to few notes while you rich brats simply use the ATMS to withdraw your clean wads of N5000. well advise your financial evil genius SLS to as well convert N100, N200 & N500 to coins while he further prints N10k and N100k. that will do you gys a lot of good. I'm pretty sure when this starts all ATM will dispense only N5000 minimum. that will definitely keep the poor off your track. very crafty strategy of going cashless. cashless my foot!

werepeLeri: I still went to shoprite recently and got my change in coins. What kind of statement is that - Nigerians are averse to the use of coins? since when?

We used to board buses in Lagos[b] back in time[/b] and we used coins - there is even a coin machine fitted on the bus like we have abroad - pop ur coin and get your receipt. LSTC buses in Lagos back in time. I guess you are too young to see it work. The same people u said are averse to the use of coins go abroad and spend coins and travel all over with it. Dont use that crap as Nigerians are averse to the use of coins as an intellectual argument anywhere/

your thinking is skewed and so biased to favour 5k by all means. you are not being rational!I'm not an economist but I can be more objective. have you compared the prices of goods/services ''back in time'' to what it is now? then the kobo had value. there was so much you could do with it. however, years down the line, with introduction of higher currencies and inflation, the kobo lost its worth. funny enough our economic policies and pricing strategies hardly favour policies/interventions that will preserve the kobo. you are quick to point out that in Britain, Nigerians use the 1 pound coin but you seem to be oblivious of the fact that £1 coin has market/economic value. if you are observant you'll notice the pricing trend in most supermarkets preserve the value of denominations in coins. for example in most supermarkets, you'll find the price tag of goods/products deliberately bearing or ending in 98p [so you get a 2p balance] or adverts such as buy 2 for a pound or 1 for 75p. infact there is even a shop/supermarket known as 1 pound shop [1 pound land] where everything goes for a pound. does that that apply in Nigeria?

Arguably, Nigerians are 'averse' to coins not because of the popular belief that it's heavy or whatever, but because it can hardly fetch anything meaningful..not even the cheapest biscuits. btw, you may be poised to argue at this point that introduction of N5, N10 , N20 coins will most likely compel Nigerians to use coins because those currencies are still in use for petty goods/services. well, sorry because there's another problem. in developed countries you cite, there are machines that enables you convert your load of coins into notes. how many of such do you have in Nigeria? this makes haulage very cumbersome and anyone dealing in a business that involves such denominations [such as bus drivers/okada riders, small scale traders etc] will consider it a herculean task carrying bucket loads of coins. such difficulties could foster them to increase prices to the nearest naira note even if it means compelling you to get more in order to pay in the nearest naira note. a typical example is the popular minty candy - 'tom-tom'. initially, at a time, it was sold for 1.50k naira coin or so, but in no time, marketers started demanding you must buy 3 for the nearest naira note [N5]. these are market dynamics that should be put into consideration. often, such market dynamics are determined by socio-cultural factors. think again man!

serzly, this guy is so pig headed. never knew recalcitrant bigots like this scarecrow still exists.

chucky234: Must you comment,haba director playing boss on his set?
He is the boss and has authority over the entire cast/crew, dey think before you comment abeg.

comprehension has always been your problem and you hardly ever use your head! no one is contesting his authority but you needn't be autocratic to correct your followers. a leader corrects with a meek approach while a ruler chides with high-handedness. for crying out loud, the lady in question is not a baby. if Charles himself hasn't ego problems, why chide an adult with disregard just to 'remind' her you are the boss? ego all the way!