₦airaland Forum

Chillinmasoul:
Tecno r7... Why should I lie. A lot of us underutilize our device, to be honest with you. Nothing as good as Android believe me.

chinchum:
Obj era was not fortunate with d kind of oil boom during gej era. 2010-2015 was the missd period. She failed, no two ways. Nigeria had a budget benchmark in the region of 75usd/barrel, but we were well over 100usd/barrel at several times during that period. She was not just minister of finance, but co-ordinating minister of economy, she knew the tough times will come, but did next to nothing to plan for it. When pharaoh picked moses as co-ordinating minister of economyof Egypt in the midst of surplus, he planned for the years of scarcity. Iweala failed, and i bet she knows but cant admit openly

chinchum:
She did not diversify the economy for over 5 years as the coordinating minister of economy in the midst of surplus, Crude oil was average of 100usd/barrel, it made 140-150usd /barrel at some point.

It is on record that the FG borrowed to pay April salaries for FG workers. She also told Nigerians to get ready for hard times in 2015.

In summary, she failed the nation.

opiaoku:
palm wine tapper.
pray your generation will archive 1% of her archivments.
onye ala

LEGALAide:
WINCH model kwa? #catches afraid. #runs.

Chillinmasoul:
20 THINGS I CAN DO WITH MY PHONE.

My phone is like everything to me,...here are twenty (20) things I use my phone for....

1. BLOGGING
2. DESIGNING
3. DISPLAY WORKS TO PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS.
4. ELIMINATE STRESS.
5. PHOTO MANIPULATION
6. VIDEO EDITING
7. CREATING E-BOOKS
8. WRITING AND EDITING WORD DOCUMENTS
9. WATCH FOOTBALL
10. EDIT MUSIC PROP
11. READ MUSIC LYRICS WHILE LISTENING
12. MONEY TRANSFER
13. VIDEO CALL
14. PUSH UP TRAINER
15. IM (CHATTING)
16. TORCH LIGHT
17. LISTEN TO RADIO
18. CALCULATE DATA (CALCULATOR)
19. SEND EMAILS
20. STAY INFORMED

#PEACE OUT

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daretodiffer:
Does it matter? Not everyone is as fragile as yourself. If she is ready to move in she should move on. The man is dead. He is not coming back even she waited for twelve years before moving on

Ermmm......there is no need pretending like she cared when she does not....it wasn't like they had great marriage sef

Durentt:
Dont get married now.
And stop includin pastors in every cause of sexuality. Jeez, dis nigerians nawaooo

You have a long-way to go in discovering ur true sexuality. Maybe Gay or transgender. Who knows.

akatekpe:
You have a point, but OP is not totally wrong. As a graduate of Engineering/ Physics you ought to know the basics of science and technology, if as a graduate of elect. elect/Physics you can't identify live, neutral and earth wires/terminals, something must be wrong with you.

lagmostkuit:
•You are a half-baked graduate if u can't balance an account as an accountancy graduate!

•You are a half-baked graduate if u don't know what a commercial bank is and u're a banking/finance graduate!

safarigirl:
strong enough team, I'm not sold on the whole Martins' inclusion.....he's served his purpose in the past. Success would have been a better, younger inclusion rather than Martins who may not be able to keep up with the speed of the wingers.

Forget MLS antics, anyone can look great in the MLS

Kingrapha:
OK I'll settle for very intelligent

Souljeezy:
soo hulk will jxt relax while superman lifts him to space abi??

madukovich:
I saw Season One of the Nigerian version of SHUGA this past weekend, and was totally amazed by that piece of work. Had I not seen Nigerian artistes, or Nigerian names in the credits I wouldn't have believed that it had anything to do with Nigeria.


It will interest you to know that most of the actors in this flick aren't the ones you'd normally see in Nollywood movies, though it contained artistes that have made it in different genres of music for youths in Nigeria, especially as it appeared to me to be aimed at youths with the message about the ever present menace of HIV and AIDS in todays' society. Maybe it appeared the way it did because of the groups involved, notable amongst which was MTVBase, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA and I suppose an International Donor Agency, amongst others.


I always had the opportunity to see Shuga before now, but I was afraid it'll end up being like movies from the stable of Nollywood (Nigeria's movie industry), or one of Nigeria's endless, oft-repeated and focusless soaps and sitcoms. After seeing Season One, it totally blew my mind, hence I decided to note the areas in the season film that Nollywood can learn from, to become better and maybe buy back critics and cynics like me, back to the fold of their viewing public (which continues to grow despite their shortcomings), as they mostly pander to Nigerian society's myths, superstitions, religion and the likes over facts and reality that could help the way Nigerians perceive things in tandem with the dictates of the times.


1. Nollywood must build capacity in order to provide accurate information on any subject they intend to disseminate in a movie, sitcom or soap. Even when myths or superstition is to be flown beside facts and proven science, technology, medicine and art, they must ensure all are distinctly put out to erase the situation where they all exist in a blur. I have lost count of Nigerian movies, sitcoms and soaps on TV where wrong and unhelpful information was put out using that platform, most annoying is the many times caesarean section to aid child delivery was portrayed as anathema, and made to be strongly condemned as an option for the expectant mother in many movies, because of one superstition or the other, for instance.


Shuga focused on the topic of HIV and AIDS, and all along the points, accurate information and news that are vital and useful were systematically diseminated verbally and non-verbally, even in deeds. Every thought, word and deed were intentionally coordinated to arrive at what seems to me to be predetermined outcomes of the producers or directors, towards the dissemination of information relation to the subject matter. I doubt that I saw moments when it appeared that the actors and actresses freestyled or used their own initiative to cover up a mistake like you'd routinely see with Nollywood movies, soaps and sitcoms.


2. As with Shuga (Naija Version), Nollywood must learn to begin to use ACTUAL and BELIEVABLE locations, and places. Watching Shuga reminded me of the University of Lagos, UNILAG hostels, which they used, even though they reduced the number of roomies considerably (two in the cases portrayed, for the usual four or more roomies including squatters), but the plot was quite believable. I understand that many students also live off campus, but ascribing palatial mansions to students, especially the females, as is norm with some Nollywood movies is an exception rather than norm in real life, and makes many Nollywood stories unbelievable, even when they portray the females as capable of affording such houses because they practice "prostitution" or "running an escort business" by the side.


3. Lighting and Sound in Shuga can be said to be adequate. The night felt like night (not with day showing from a part of the window blinds when a night scene is staged as with many Nollywood flicks), not with lighting very obvious as the extent of the Neon light shows, and the day as should be. Even the nightclub scenes were as dark as one would expect in real life without compromising the ability to see the actors and actresses play their part in the scenes there, with audio of their conversations not swallowed in the din of the music from the nightclub in the background. There were no shadows or images of the behind-the-scenes crew on walls or even in mirrors adjacent to the scene, neither were there accidental opening of doors, as you would find in some Nollywood flicks, which I am sure the editors may fall upon, yet refuse to properly edit.


4. Subtitling is a major flaw area for Nigerian movies, especially in the Yorùbá language section. Many of the still photos of these are often found trending on Nigerian twitter handles, Facebook pages and blogs authored by Nigerians. Though, Shuga was done majorly in English, there were aspects where pidgin English, and the vernacular (in the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo) of Nigerian local languages were freely but sparsely used. Those scenes had subtitles done for them, and I had and found no cause to hold Shuga to ransom there.


These four here highlighted are the major areas I noticed (amongst many others that don't easily come to mind right now) where Shuga had an edge over most of what is put out by Nollywood. Although I know that there are also stables that put out quality movies (Mainframe Pictures for instance), I continue to have issues with storylines even with better picture and sound quality as you would find with Kunle Afolayan's movies amongst a few others, as there are many distractions that tend to dilute the message in some of these better movies from Nollywood, something that the producers of Shuga appeared to have taken nail-biting care to avoid, to my wide-eyed cheer and applause.


I would love to see more of what I saw in Shuga in Nigerian movies, sitcoms and soap operas going forward. Especially with the current producers, directors, writers, and the works to show that something has been learnt from the many years of "hands on", trainings and retrainings (if they have been undergoing such), even further education preferably abroad in reputable film institutes. Failure to do this will spell doom for Nollywood, despite the overflowing confidence practitioners in the industry have because of the huge size of the industry, as well as the large following and recognition it currently garners and enjoys, not just within Nigeria or Africa, but worldwide. Civilizations in time past, have at one time or the other disappeared, even empires fell and ceased to exist, a complacent Nollywood cannot stop what will come to it, if it fails to redirect its step for the better.


'kovich

noesis: FOUR THINGS NOLLYWOOD MUST LEARN FROM SHUGA http://madukovich..com.ng/2015/10/four-things-nollywood-must-learn-from.html?m=1

Souljeezy:
hulk will win cos de more he's beaten,the angrier he gets,the stronger he gets...

rapmike:
Now am here.

First of all, I advise you give your life to Christ. That was the start point for me and for me, that's not negotiable. And really give it to him this time, not give and take. Be confident and believe in him.

Secondly, realize its a problem, not your nature. This is as much as spiritual as it is psychological. May not have the time to explain this totally but the thing is this: if you want to believe that you are homosexual, then you are, take it or leave it. I know there are situations when doubt will come in, but stick to it long enough, those doubts will disappear from your mind. This is a fact about all things, and what many people see as declaration of homosexuality or 'coming out of the closet' is actually accepting that its true. Some NLanders will even encourage you to accept it but think about this: are you accepting it because they say so or you chose to accept it, no matter what anything or anyone says? Will come back soon.

rapmike:
Hello,saw this late.

First of all, I understand you very well, have been there sometime before and am back out of it. The fact about this is its difficult to talk about and difficult to deal with also. If you really want to deal with this, I assure you that you are in for a long ride, not discouraging you but being factual with you.

First of all, from all I could gather, its both spiritual and psychological. So I may add some spiritual stuff to it (if you can't handle that, please just pick what you can handle but keep in mind that I used all these to get myself out of these issue).

Then the two aspects will be intermixed, so don't expect one aspect to be dealt with separately from the other.

Let me make a new post.

esthersolomon00:
Hello Nlders,

I'm an ardent reader and follower of this great forum.
So,I had to create this acct for personal reasons.

To avoid lengthy episodes permit me to keep it simple by going straight to the point. Thanks

As a young lady who's in her early 20s I find it extremely difficult to love a guy not to talk about being in a relationship with one.

There is this guy who can't just help but to love me passionately. We've been together for 9yrs now but who would believe we had sex just once? YES! Just once after enough fighting and struggling.
Sometimes,I had to lock myself inside to weep cuz it's painful and it hurts! Why can't I have normal sex like any other lady out there?

I just detest having sex with a guy and it's as a result of this that I've lost most of my relationships. This stuff is making me sick cuz I want to enjoy sex with a man like any other lady.

THE MAJOR PROBLEM IS THAT AM "BIsexual" but a larger part of me hungers for same sex

And the ladies are not even helping matters cuz they also yearn for me every now and then.,
,
I've tried hanging out with some cool guyz even to the extent of doing stuff with them YET! Nothing positive came out.

Presently,am dating a banker and believe me every other thing is perfectly in order EXCEPT the issue of sex.

Am worried cuz I know exactly what it means for someone you love so dearly to deny you of something.

I've prayed
I've also cried my eyes out
I've even gone for counselling @least to ameloriate this kind of lifestyle YET! Things are still the same.
Someone should pls tell me what else to do...

Lalasticlala

dmostcheerful:
If you don't call Igbos u won't comment. with this your silly comment you and igbos who is now shameless. inferior thing like you.

Chestar5:
yes ma , happily married