₦airaland Forum

Karleb:
At least you should have said this in your earlier post.

You made it seem you were saying your allowance after spending on food and toiletries.

Because I can swear with Buhari's head there's no way you can save a dime from 33k if you don't have a support system.

I would've been able to save all the same. I don't eat. I'm not a fan of food. Then I didn't stay there long enough to exhaust my toiletries. I breeze in, stay for 3/4 days, do my clearance and run off till another clearance is due.

My immediate boss couldn't report me to NYSC, he was hopeful for a relationship. Same for my zonal inspector.

Exkandayee:
Abeg e get one girl for this concluded bbnaija,she black and petite with low cut,she no deh for news, Wetin happen,I no even no her name,but she's beautiful

Yes! I remember her but I've forgotten her name. That Hausa girl right?

Karleb:
You spend allowance on food and toiletries and you got to keep it?

I don't want to call you a liar but the only way you can keep your allowance is if you people send you money.

Aside that, there's no way you can save your allowance. Be 19,800 or 33k.

Liar? Don't be quick to judge people when you hardly know them.

My bf then now hubby ensured I lack nothing then.

I had admirers then who were donors too, one being a member of the house of assembly of the state where I served. For politicians, Pepper rested!

I am not a heavy eater, l've never been. A whole day, I might just eat banana in the afternoon, then I'm fine. At times just pepper soup or suya and I'm good, so even if I had no support, I'd still have money to save.

To cap it all, I hardly stayed in the state where I served. Most of the time, I was AWOL running off to my bf. My jar of cream or close-up last for 3 months or more. Where or when will I spend the money na? I got to keep my money!

michigang:
do you listen to hip-hop?

Much as I'd have loved to, I couldn't fall in love with hip-hop however hard I try.

michigang:
do you listen to hip-hop?

Nope!

I buy foodstuff from the popular Oyingbo market. The time I go depends on what I want to buy.

If I wish to restock my eja gbigbe (smoked fish) I go early in the morning like 5:30 or 6:00, you would buy in big baskets to last for 2 months. By 7 in the morning the "Depes" have disappeared cause their wares are exhausted.

For other stuff, I buy from regular customers. Infact I'm so popular that I can go to the market without Kobo and go home with stuff. For my pepper and onions, there's a particular Mallam that I buy from. His is so cheap that I wonder till tomorrow if he steals them. I blend my pepper at home. There's a shop I buy rice, beans, garri etc from. Those ones reduce the price for me, maybe #200 or #100 less than others but it's still something.

It's a challenge buying meat. For meat and fish, I change hands, no regular customers.

Many times I go to the market with hubby, I usually had heavy things to lift. Sometimes I go with my baby girl, she always marvels at my bargaining power. She says I'm wicked. I don't like to go with her though, I buy things I don't plan to buy. Impulse buying ain't good for your finances.

All the "cuttabbles,"- Okra, vegetables, meat, fish etc, I do them in the market. No time to waste time. At home, I just wanna cook.

I'm a lover of iru (locust bean) but I don't ever buy that in the market. They're not as original as the one I got sent from the village, dried and no sand particles, well-processed it can last for a year and more.

I wear shorts or tight for easy movement. I have tonnes of special, tough, market bags that I use. Bagco Super Sack is about #200 now, wey the money abeg?

Qatar2022:
This is not help , she is demanding it as her entitlement

Yes, that's why I said he shouldn't go out of his way to do it. Moreso you don't demand for help, you plead. That's rudeness. I don't support that.

Qatar2022:
You're such an idiot , what kind of a human being are you? Struggling and still taking care of liability

He's a good Samaritan. Anybody that you are privileged to help, help them. He's given out and still considering to give more because he can afford it. You may see 33k as meagre but it depends. What if he doesn't have to spend much?

When I served, I had free accommodation. I didn't have to transport myself to anywhere. I was given EVERY household item from spoon to mattress. The only thing I spent money on was food and toiletries. I got to keep my allowee. If OP had enough to spare, why not? The only thing I'd campaign is don't go out of your way (if it's not convenient) to please anyone. Yes, we make sacrifices but it's not going to be a regular thing like salary or something. Just a few occasions that she'd need to be supported.

The truth is if you care for somebody, you won't want to see him or her in a disadvantaged position.

CandyOps:
Wow! That's not a crocodile that's a Lacosté

The skin go fit produce at least 1 sharp leather belt

No be only Lacosté, Na Balenciaga.

shogsman:
Shows how low Nigerian standards are, since you people here have decided to blast his every move on this platform I took the liberty of checking the guy out and all he has is one incredibly lacking song that sasu or whatever,the lyrics are absolutely rubbish,the guy can't string up a sentence together,he is an addict,an extremely loud one at that.
But trust Nigerians to praise and follow foolishness,this is the same way you people hype so called celebs whose only contribution to the Society is Thier pussey.
I thought we rewarded too much foolishness here in the west but you people are even worse

Well said. Nigerians and mediocrity are 5&6

ITbomb:
Office cleaners, especially when the boss is a fat woman

Fat, slim, what difference does it make?

TinubuGoQuench:
After your papa don quench like 600 times abi?

Na me and you dey talk, leave baba out of it, ok?

If you want to tow that lane, I'll bite you o.

Omo Ibo alaileko!

TinubuGoQuench:
Fake Afonja gutter news

See the name of the poster. Na dem.

Ndi SKULLARSHIP

First and foremost, this thing happened in Ebonyi so we know the most probable perpetrators.

Lastly, before Tinubu go quench one time, you go done quench a hundred times.

Haters are likely to die young

GODPUNISHALABI:
If this guy no get money now this girl no go look am twice...pogba wey resemble all this mai ruwa ,

May God forgive you.

Pogba no resemble Mai Ruwa reach Chelsea's Ramirez

DoggoneDogg:
46 year old bride
Na wa

She will attend PTA meeting with 24 year old single mothers 5 years from now and that's IF she can even put to bed...

You are NOT God!

Built2last:
There is no vacumm in nature.

everything that happens in the media and Holly wood is carefully planned.

What we see is the glitz and glamour but nothing is normal with those celebrities.

Nothing is free in free town

She was made to loose 16kg to fit into that cloth.

Hollywood is specially laced with a lot of unimaginable(s)

There's active extraterrestrial manipulations going on, what you are seeing is just the superficial.

Everything is wrong with wearing dead Marilyn Monroe's dress or accepting her lock of hair. To what purpose?

Your Beyonce, Kim, Rihanna all belong.

jogsman01:
I no sabi English and I'm neither trying to be rude, but I know there's a huge difference between language and communication. As long as you can understand the message being passed, forget the grammar. No be exam we dey do here now. If it irritates you seeing those 'cousin brother/sister' post, close one eye and go to the next post.

At times it is permissible to use the wrong English words or expression for the purpose of communication; that is called "Code-Switching." We were taught in school, but you only do that when it is absolutely necessary.

"Cousin brother" is all shades of wrong. We should discourage it's use. Some people pick up things from here. I learn from here too. Nairaland is a vast land that is full of opportunities if you put it to good use. As I speak, somebody from here is teaching me freelancing for free, I've started making money. So don't underestimate anything you see here.

I'd be damned as a teacher if I teach my learners the wrong stuff. Even though people use it, they MUST know that it is wrong.
Until the Oxford English Dictionary absolves "cousin brother or cousin sister" as correct expressions, it remains wrong.

Thank you.

Penguin2:
They are abominable because it’s Nigerians that are using it…

I bet you wouldn’t call it abomination if it were Americans using the expression

Really it is abominable.

Cousin brother sounds like you intended to say "my cousin's brother" who technically is still your cousin, you then arrive again to where you took off from.

alphaNomega:
I am posting here because it is used a lot in this section (including Family section) and I'm tempted to blame the poor quality of education in Nigeria. We have the internet today and the people who use this "abomination" every time have access to the right information?

It is double shame when the moderators move the topics to front-page and still including "cousin sister/brother" in the title. Scroll through front-page history to see what I'm talking about. I won't make any screenshots.

Maybe that's what English teachers are telling these kids in school these days. Who knows?

If I happen to be an examiner and my candidate makes this blunder, I will stop the exam immediately and correct them before the exam resumes.

For the "English is not our mother tongue" army, it is better you write everything you want to say in your mother tongue, than speak foul language and call it English.

Don't blame the teacher! Every time the team loses a match, you think the coach isn't good?

Now, those people you talk about are simply crazy. One idiot will start something and before you say "Jack!" It has become a norm.

There are 4 types of Gender - Masculine, Feminine, Common and Neuter.

The word 'cousin' belongs to the common gender. These are words of either sex (male or female) E.g. friend, neighbour, guest, teacher, colleague, speaker, child etc.

You don't need to modify the word 'cousin' with brother or sister, and if you must, my male cousin or female cousin is more appropriate.

President2001:
You'll need butter, milk and eggs

These are the kinda kids the teachers would like flog like a goat.

You're seeing a sentence on the board and you couldn't even copy correctly in your note!

Where you put the flour? Olodo!

Happy birthday beautiful soul. God's blessings on all fronts.

Genny 43

Macaroni 29

Hmmmn!

OluwoR:
it's just not easy to leave an 8 years relationship just like that

Yeah! Very hard to walk out on an 8-year-old relationship.

Just ensure you get a solution before you finally commit to her. You're thinking she'll change over time but that is a mere assumption. She may, she may not. I'm talking from experience. Be careful.

oldienavie:
I know it sounds ridiculous, but the phobia is strong. I know how hard it is to come across good girls in Nigeria, at the same time the thought of being on that road, especially when it's time to bring my family on that journey kinda scares me.

It's your call to make at the end of the day. It's going to be a scale of preference kind of thing. Which one sits well with you more? The girl? Your phobia? Which one can be foregone?

The culture is, as the man, you have to go see your intended in-laws, no matter where they are, even if they live in a cave and you live in Aso rock.

The roads are bad, kidnappers are rife, your fears are valid.
Good girls are fast going into extinction too.

One last word. A bonus tip actually. Are you sure she's really a good girl? She could be forming good because of the prospects. If you ask me, 3 months is too short a period to adjudge anyone.

Sergio104:
Well to actually entertain the mass on a name one truly adopts (at least in a cage) is something a man that finds it hard getting his daily bread must call "chest beating"

Such a man never disappoints

This is not an intelligible post. Your structure lacks coherence. I can't even comprehend however hard I try to.

Mooh247:
Yeah inferiority complex is pointing out stupidity and endangering people's life

Truly common sense is not common

It's on Nairaland that I finally and fully had the grasp that the majority of our youths are infantile and unreasonable, they're simpletons, absurd in the way they reason.

Pray, what usefulness or relevance is a lion at such gathering? That cage isn't even safety proof!

God why always us? Nigeria is a living hell! These people have plans for today Ah Allah! And they fizzle out just like that?

If you lived as a Nigerian and still didn't make heaven, Double Tragedy!

May the souls of the departed through the mercy of our Lord be granted eternal rest. Amen.

Kriss216:
Wetin bring East for this matter now?

There's Ebute Meta East and West.
East is from Adekunle (Third Mainland Bridge Axis) down to Oyingbo while West is Apapa Road side down to Costain side.

Oh my God! This couple? I remember when their wedding was announced here not too long ago!

These killings must stop! Dear Igbo brothers and sisters, what are you doing to make this evil go away? It's your sons and daughters they're diminishing day in day out. Can you just leave Yoruba and any other tribal nonsense alone for now and seek ways for this to stop. For humanity sake, this has got to stop! Ah!

These killings, senseless and avoidable. I mean what exactly do they want? What are they agitating for that is worth more than these many lives they've taken?

May God comfort the families of the deceased. Really sad.

Another view of the building

omowolewa:
Those isale Eko buildings

This is Oyingbo, Lagos Mainland, not Lagos lsland.

It's one of these quickly developed developer's houses. I still passed this place on my way to church yesterday.

I hope nobody dies cause many people would've retired for the day anticipating tomorrow's festivities.

Oluwa gbawa o!

carl90:
All well and good.
However,while going for your yoruba nation,don't come close to Lagos.
Don't touch Lagos.
That's no man's land o .....

Always use your drugs, 2 in the morning, 2 at night. I'm sure you missed yesterday's dose. Atoole.