₦airaland Forum

lezz:
Why would any conscious Nigerian still be using MTN is still a wonderment to me.

Any company from South Africa, including DSTV are always cash strapped and hungry for profit.

MTN has always been a rogue establishment and I didn't hesitate to port out of it since 2013.

Every Nigerian ought to jettison every firm and company from South Africa as their quest for profit is uncompromisingly shameful.

JoeBlocks:
I still ponder with wonder when Africans became more imperialistic than the progenitor of imperialism.
It seem every well known vice conceive by the white man is what some disgruntled Africans now revel in.
A pity that the government that is suppose to protect its citizens from such harsh devilish manoeuvre is busy wining and dining with this same disgruntled rogues in suits.

You're not far from the truth. DSTV has some of the sharpest business practices in the land. Though they may be south African firms but they're own by whites and would have done some studies and research on our way of life and habit and are exploiting our carefree attitude in spending (corruption) and loosed relegation.

It's time the regulators look into all these excesses and force these foreign firms to play fair. Even the foreign airline operators are ripping Nigerians off.

I took my lunch break few minutes past mid-day and sighed in relief of my freedom to dedicate the next hour catching up with news headlines on the Internet while sitting down to a nice snack and a cold, fizzy drink. There had been some unattended messages on my phone which were burning for attention and I couldn't wait to get it out of my pocket immediately I sat down to lunch.


Bringing out my phone from my pocket revealed a well familiar shocker : my phone's display was lit down with an anxious pop up message from MTN. From experience I knew my phone's display had been lit down for over two hours and my battery had been over-stretched by MTN's greed and madness of earning a few extra box at my expense.

MTN has designed its pop up messages to keep its subscribers' phone screens on for as long as it takes until the phone is attend to. Even if one happens to be in a meeting stretching several hours with the phone being on silent, with MTN pop up message the phone's display will light up and stay on that whole time until it is attended to. It doesn't matter if the phone battery is barely hanging on to the last bar, MTN has designed their pop up message to take over your phone's screen, lighting up the screen for as long as possible.

They wouldn't consider that today's smartphones with large screen estate, armed with qHD, HD and QHD displays are battery hungry and that sending their customers pop messages that light up their phones' screens and keeping it on for as long as it remained unseen is insensitive and callous. It's not surprising though for a company with its track record which places profit above rationality.

But that's not the worst. I have had my senses assaulted my MTN's mindless tactics in their profit pursuit when I received a pop up message from them. It was an advert of one of their products.The pop up message had my phone screen lit down and there was only an "OK" option in the dialogue box. There was no "cancel" button. Only an "OK" button was provided in the dialogue box. Hitting the OK button would have meant my subscribing to the advertised product. I simply hit my phone's return button to escape from that trap.

Secondly, since the pop up message had my phone screen lit down, the possibility of accidentally hitting the OK button while getting the phone out of my pocket was high. Or even hitting it while in my hip pocket unknowingly is also another high probability. I believe MTN is aware of these possibilities and have designed these sorts of pop of messages to rip their customers off from these accidents. That's how mindless and desperate MTN has fallen in their quest for more and more profit. There also would have been lots of old folks who for lack of a "cancel" button in the pop up dialogue and being not acquainted with today's mobile devices hit the OK button and find themselves unknowingly steam rolling the MTN cash train. Personally, I believe such category of people were also deliberately targeted by MTN with such dirty tricks.


I believe the NCC has covered some grounds, but there are lots of work still to be done. The primary aim shouldn't be generating funds for the government but protecting the rights and dignity of every Nigerian mobile telecommunication subscriber from the abuse of telecom service providers.

JoeBlocks:
My kind of man. True in his own nature. This is how men should behave, show our women that whatever they can do, we can do better. Aside birthing babies and breast feeding them, that is.

Le.zz, Postm.ann, thes.onofmark, can you guys do this?

Nothing wrong with a man tending his baby but;

There's something wrong with this celebrity-culture, anything-to-be-in-the-news mentality of this age.

The foolish man lost his masculinity and sanity in his frenzy to hijack the headlines by being dramatic looking after his own child.

Mounting the baby across his back and supporting him wit a piece of wrapper is typically unmanly --- something he knows too well but shrugged off in his irrational desire to have a bite at the popularity pie.

saintCaligula:
Cc smellymouth emperorlee lucaz toyinbacarnista mcbrooklyn and postmann how did you guys fell in love with your clubs?

Well, I love England (Britain) and i bemoaned their lack of success at the continental champions league. This was consequent to their ban from European competition for 5 years (6 years for liverpool)

I desperately wanted an English statement, a bang on the continental arena and Chelsea became my chosen amongst others who i still give support on their continental voyage.

crackhaus:
You really must be having nightmares about me like I told you the last time we went down this road.
At 3:27am, you were awake and in full I-must-prove-to-them-that-I-can-take-him armour to type that incoherent stream of unctuous drivel, which did nothing but expose you for the doofus you are when you try too hard.

The thread is done, the OP has made her decision but you bunch of losers suffering from an endemic manifestation of disappointment won't let it go.

Are we now to believe that you mofos telling her not to marry the dude care so much more about her than I do?
Why haven't you people opened up a shelter for women like her who are in a relationship with men who dont love them, since you care so much?

Did any of you know her before she came here to share her story? So what foolish postulations are those about bloods, hands, and death?
You must really be the Devil's handmaiden to even assume such an ending.

And the stvpid nutter is telling me not to respond, are you mad?
Or do you think I suffer intellectual buffoons like you in my mentions?

Are you still not the same nicompoop who calls himself a bohemian because he can google words, string them together and post whack rap lyrics in the name of being a lyricist?
The same person whose photo has been spammed all through this forum having the chest measurements of a 10yr old boy?

You must have eaten the wrong dinner for you to even want to go down this road with crackhaus after the last time I ran you off. You get in my way and I will annihilate you from bandwidth existence, unless of course I get banned before I do.
And when I do get banned, I'll just come back again faster, harder, and stronger.

You id1ots never learn.

The cowards might even go report this to get it hidden — very pathetic pieces of thrash, the lot of you. As if I'm supposed to pander to/post only what you and your loser friends like to read.
I'm not looking for a woman on NL to warm my bed like you are, you doltish chimpanzee.

Hahahahhahaha! (At the last bolded)

So you've noticed this aspect of him too? Hmmm! The walls have eyes truly.

SalomonKane:
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Postmann, if you see this mention, I just figured out a way to troll l.ezz. LMAO!.

What way is that?

DONSMITH123:
The UK on Monday appealed to Nigeria to abolish the death penalty, saying that capital punishment cheapened human life.
The UK made the appeal in a statement issued by the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, on the 2016 World Day against the Death Penalty.

Arkwright said that the British Government believed the death penalty had no place in the modern world and its use undermined human dignity.

According to him, there is no conclusive evidence of its deterrent value, adding that any miscarriage of justice leading to its imposition is irreversible and irreparable.

He explained that the past two decades had seen a significant rise in the number of countries that had abolished capital punishment.

“I am concerned therefore that Nigeria, a model for democracy in Africa, still retains the death penalty in its laws.

“In 2013 Nigeria carried out four executions, the first since 2006.

“At the time of the execution, all four individuals still had appeals to halt their executions, a violation of international law and I believe Nigerian law too.”

He said while no death sentence had been implemented since 2013, Nigeria had more than 1,000 prisoners on death row, the highest number of death sentences in Africa.

“In 2015, Nigeria recorded 171 death sentences. This year too, there have been death sentences handed down by Nigerian courts,” he said.


http://dailypost.ng/2016/10/10/uk-appeals-nigeria-abolish-death-penalty/

And the UK, just like the US, still struts about the globe with a false sense of morality. Where as she is yet to make proper recompense/apologies for engaging in human slavery and economic pillage from over half the globe for over a century. From unlawful invasion of Iraq and Libya to intimidation of poor African countries who said no to homosexuality.

Why not tell us the downsides of the abolition of the death penalty: like emboldening hard criminals who will be further persuaded to commit murder or kidnapping, knowing they'd be keeping their lives after all. Or the ever-looming possibility of a prison break, or being in custody but committing more evil through proxies or other accomplice.

The UK, just like her unruly son, the United States, should keep their noses stuck in their own putrid stench coming right from their anus.

Bekwarra:
There are Yorubas in Edo and Delta states. Go figure.

There are no yorubas in delta state. You ought to have done some simple research before making your submission to the world. You talked about the possibility of Itsekiri being the 4th largest tribe but this tribe is arguably the smallest tribe in Delta state.