₦airaland Forum

For your information no city in Nigeria meets the minimum requirements for 'livability', certainly not for expats. Nigeria is just not a tourist destination. If you are counting heads as evidence then I can tell you there are probably more expatriates in the small town of Brass than in the entire south-west. Does it make Brass friendly. No. They have probably tied down a Brigade of crack troops guarding them. For what reason.... go figure. Nigeria does not start and end in Lagos.

Jaundiced perspective. Ibadan man please travel out of the south-west for at least a forthnight.

sethbanks:
I feel the OP pains,trust me,it's not funny because i've experience same with my former neighbour.My widow was opposite there's,mehn! Come and hear scream as early as 5.am every morning,@8.pm they move to the bathroom then the screaming and moaning becomes terrible. Come and see celebration in my compound when they finally packed out. ''Oga lica i doff my hat for you ohh''!

Hahaha. S.e..x terrorists.

DoTheNeedful:
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I used to have similar experience with a particular neighbour sometime ago but i was (am) single. My neighbour's gf was a screamer too. Her own pass porn star. The woke me up severally from sleep especially fri/sat nights. I had to cope but a times,i did make sound just to remind them that am around. It worked to a great degree as the lady was quite a shy one who cant just help but make sound whenever the guy was scrubbing her walls

Hahaha....scrubbing her walls... A new one. Una no go kill peson.

And when he returns with a Ph.D in Jihadi.....

Look man. Just take a trip to your local builders mart. Get some rock wool, gypsum fibre boards, double glazing, some shock dampners for your furniture and a good handy man to fit the stuff. Upgrade man.

Dis one na im oyibo dey call, Existential Threat. Oya wives you are free to conduct air strikes.

size38:
This is a misdirected protest and picketing. They should have directed their action to Aso Rock and GEJ because GEJ has reduced Nigerian Military to ordinary "Boys scout" that hears the sound of gun and take to their heels.

They are protesting against your type. Totally useless as a citizen. Instead of viewing the war with objectivity you just open your mouth and say rubbish.

Is the American Army not pulling out of Afghanistan. Is the Taliban defeated. Please answer. What happened to Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs debacle? Was he called names. The American military lost the war against an ideological enemy in the Vietcong. Were they condemned by the American public even after grave human rights abuses, torture and massacres.

Is there any active army or military force in the world that hasn't lost any battle. Read your history. The Pacific battles against the Japanese. Caisson, Guadacanal, Iwo Jima. American marines suffered heavy casualties against a Japanese force well adapted to the terrain and fundamentalist in nature. They withdrew many, many times in the course of those battles but prevailed eventually, winning the war.

The Nigerian military has not given up the fight and people talk nonsense. We will prevail. I have never been a fan of armed conflict because I have seen enough. I believe there is a negotiable solution but the enemy must be forced to the table by superior weight of arms and the military is doing that. Without them this country will be overrun. No business, no homes, no family and certainly no network to talk rubbish.

Misogynist2014:
The expectations of the society from men is too high.

Because society is just too lazy to chart its own course. Its as simple as that.

Sin has never been about the act but the intent. That is why the bible says we should guard our hearts, renew our minds, to find God's will. A well oiled Christian is led by the Spirit on the principle of the Word and at the command of God the Father. If He commands you so, it is written in the Word and your conscience permits why not. It cannot be a sin.

caprini1:
Bartholomew Ogbeche a k a one match wonder kid.....and this got him to 2002 world cup,smh!

Not his fault. Blame the media who's hyping of players will make the British Press as green as the Emirates pitch. One bicycle kick got him to the world cup eh. Then what got Obafemi Martins the tag: 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'. How many goals abeg. Which team did he destroy mbok.

Idydarling:
John Creek, this ur tory get holes joor,

u mean to tell me dat there's nothing like boss office? and they were stupid not 2 lock d damned place?
so they will just lie immediately u open d door while ur corner is inside? also, are u always d last to leave the office every day?
how many people dey even work for am sef if he's dat connected to warrant even having a supervisor? ??


These and many others running thru my mind?
op? op? how many times have I called you? ??

Ah ah, haba. Must everything in life be admitable in a court of law? How many other things are actually true. Is it PDP/APC propaganda or the fake lives of celebrities or the predictions of false prophets..... we are all just having fun and learning one or two things of life and peoples. Nairaland no dey feed person so why kill one's self over it.

Strike first. Kill the boss.

lonelydora:
They keep blaming the devil.

So who should they blame, God Almighty. Satan is paying the price of stealing what rightfully belongs to God, the soul of man so he should stop complaining and swallow whatever accusations.come his way.

stinggy:
A very good move by Fayose, worth emulating by all governors.
No form of empowerment for the locals is more than this.

Sentiments apart this is a very, very good move for several reasons. First, someone mentioned salaries and I say this is better for the government than paying salaries because it doesn't have to go through a 30-day often unproductive cycle to dole out huge amounts for services. It can do so by contract, paying what it can, when it can.

Secondly, all governments should take a cue from this to fight and at least halve the 'Julius Berger' syndrome which is as viscious and addictive as narcotics. We really need to generate local capacity and improve our peoples' competencies while accepting their shortcomings just like every parent to a child. That is how great nations were built. America, Russia, China have totally independent codes of engineering practice weaved around their cultures and circumstances. Why must all our bridges look 'german', now all our airports are looking distinctively chinese. The carpenters should build stuff they are comfortable with to a decent standard we MUST accept without eyeing 'foreign catalogues'.

Finally and perhaps most importantly it places 'responsibility' back in the hands of the people who are the harshest critics of government. Now the ball is in the court of government. If the work done is shoddy, if there are cases of corruption or any other problems, it will not be a case of Fayose this or government that but that of, was it not your daddy who did this and your aunty who did that. This is the best outcome, shared responsibility.

N.B: Before anyone thinks this is a political pitch in these tempestous times Fayose is not the first nor only governor to practice 'outsourcing', 'direct labour' or 'local content' to empower his people. A number of APC governed states have done so to date and very successfully too.

Uteghe:
The way this is going,some other fellow could wake up to say PEJ has a SMELLY Kitty-Cat and GEJ shoves his d.ick down his mum's throat. Please the whole madness should stop.

Too late.

sauceny:
I urge fani kayode to thread with caution & watch what he is saying... I think he is now crossing the line & talking like a toddler.

Crossing which line. Are you folks democrats or what. A true democrat gets as much as he gives. Obasanjo was called a murderer concerning Bola Ige. Goodluck was fingered in the death of Azazi. What is new. Your party started all this. The PDP has simply taken it to another level. You've got to stomach these kinds of things if you seek high office. Welcome to politics.....APC...your best days are going....going....going....

sucess001:
Haba! is this appriopriate? thought they are innocent until proven guilty?

Hahaha. Just an innocent mugshot. And the presiding IPO will say, "I now pronounce you felon". Bankers and theft is like electricity and magnetism. Pity. Let them do a Bernie Murdoch and sentence them to 1 year for each million.

Congratulations and long life, God's General.

Congrats. When faith mixes with vision and an excellent spirit, honor will surely encamp there.

ylaa:
THIS IS VERY WRONG. Y SHOOT TO KILL? I STRONGLY KICK AGAINST THIS. IF THE PRISON CONDITION WAS FAIR , WILL THEY THINK OF ESCAPING? LETS NOT ALWAYS BE IN A HASTE TO ACT. LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS TO BE WASTED MOREOVER MOST PRISONER ARE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO ONE TO DEFEND THEM. SOME ARE THERE FOR CRIMES THEY NEVER COMMITTED WHILE SOME ARE CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. THESE ARE PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, HUSBAND, UNCLES, BROTHERS ETC. MAY GOD RECEIVE THEIR SOULS. REALLY ANNOYING AND PATHETIC.

Find out the facts first before concluding. It could not be verified but earlier reports stated the armoury was raided and they died in the resultant shoot-out. It wasn't a slaughter. Most were unhurt.

Vickydera2:
this is bad why would a sane person beat up a lady with belt? can he do this to a guy? we need gender equality in Nigeria.#feminist

How can there be equality when you girls never view it the same when the man gets battered by the woman.

Ninilowo:
Where does he work?

Freelance for www.x-x-x.com

queensmith:
I live in a country that doesn't produce a fraction of the oil Nigeria produces - yet I have never waited more than 10minutes at the plethora of stations available to me neither has the cost deviated to that extent for the past 5 years.

The spade you should be calling GEJ is a nimwit, whether fuel scarcity happens daily or on occasion the recurrence is ridiculous in its entirety. It's a result of having a clueless govenment that feel no sense of responsibility to the citizens they govern.

Stop praising mediocrity and demand your government deliver, this isn't acceptable anywhere outside of Nigeria why are you taking it?

But when the government wanted to remove subsidy you said no. Does the government of the country you live in partially pay for the fuel you use or you even have to pay VAT on the fuel you buy. Be factual because if there is one thing Nigerians are good at it is importing. So if it is scarce then it must be a question of pricing.

san316:
I wonder who is responsible. we are spending more on TP these days. what is happening.

The government in cahoots with the people known as the system. The government for not keeping out of buying and selling and the people's lust for price control and subsidies. Free market is the only solution. It is one helluva painful innoculation but it eliminates a myriad of economic diseases. If the APC promises to liberalise the oil market, close down the NNPC and restrict government's footprint to the DPR alone then I miight just ignore my other reservations with government and the Nigerian system and get myself a PVC or whatever the voter's card is called.

Akon419:
Buhari is a man full of contradictions. - He will fight corruption but Tinubu is his friend. - He will give us security but he was pushed out of office like a chicken by his subordinates. - He is honest but lies about his qualification. - He has no N27 million to buy presidential nomination form but the wife has N135 million worth of drugs to donate. - He is poor but all his children school abroad. - He will fight terrorism but sees others fighting terrorism (Boko haram) as anti-north. - He will empower the youths but is never known to have helped a single Almajiri even in Daura. - He will fix the economy but has not even rudimentary knowledge of economics. - He will stabilise oil price but he is not OPEC president. - He will fix education but is unschooled himself. - APC said he is in London to present a paper but he does not even know the meaning of APC. Only God knows what he will be telling technocrats. -He will rather go present a paper in London than attend a presidential debate in Nigeria. -He says he will win the election but does not know the meaning of INEC that will conduct the election. -He wants to benefit from democracy but overthrew a democratic government. - He obtained school certificate but cannot produce "the certificate". May God protect us from this hypocrite. Above all, he is a half star general who built his entire military career on fraud, falsehood and corruption! Buhari is just a fraud, a calamity waiting to happen!

Well what is the alternative. A one-party state. That is far, far worse my friend. The PDP has done its best in the circumstances but you must admit we have to move forward to virile multi-party democracy. You simply cannot win with a sole competitor.

ZackiGp:
• CocaCola sacked 800 workers last week
• Cadbury is planning to sack 700 staff
• MTN sacked 500
• NESTLE to sack 600 workers
• IDL sacked 200 workers
• MOBIL propose voluntary retirement benefits
• NBL sacked 400 staff
• MANUFACTURERS say they will shut down factories because of the exchange eate and power!!
• Sacking of workers has started in the Banking industry
• The Nigeria exchange rate is now 225+ Naira to a Dollar.
• POWER GENERATION has dropped again 360MW! BLACKOUT NIGERIA

WHERE IS OUR PRESIDENT?

ANSWER:
OUR PRESIDENT IS BUSY SHARING DOLLARS AND BILLIONS OF NAIRA TO PASTORS, IMAMS KINGS, POLITICAL ASSOCIATE, MILITANTS AND OTHERS WHILE THE CHILDREN OF AN AVERAGE NIGERIAN POPULACE ARE BEING SACKED FROM WORK.
HIS WIFE IS BUSY CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM.

I agree with all above: What will happen to all the people being laid off? to theit children, wives, family? WHAT

When we raise our voices some people see all these as being an APC or PDP issues or being a politician! They ask if am not being too passionate! NO!!! It is OUR issue as NIGERIANS!
We are meant to question a government that is NOT PERFORMING! And performance is tied to reality of what is happening.

We need to stop looking through our mirror of political and religious biases and see things as they are! Nigeria is in a bad state and Nigerians are suffering! I know how I share the little I have with people who under normal circumstances should be buoyant! All this whilst millions of Naira and dollars from our resources are being shared amongst a few and they tell us ..All is okay!

Yeah so vote according to your convictions. If the ruling party has not done enough then it should be replaced.

GboyegaD:
I wonder why we are mediocre in Nigeria or was he elected to go sleep at ASO Rock? All these unnecessary praise and accolades our leaders get for doing the job we elected them for is becoming annoying.

You have never commended any government at any level at all in your life. Abeg talk true.

Double edged sword Ikengawo. Abeg tell government say Cross-river state no get road oh. The small one lane out of Calabar no even get shoulder. No road, no rail, good port is a recipe for transportation disaster. Calabar may be sleepy but that is better than chaotic. Road also mbok.

Curvinus:
I don't really see anything wrong in hustling to to survive. Not at all. Rather, it's our over radicalized views that make us to see most normal things that people do to survive as bad.

If your papa no get money and you really want to attend a full time university programme, what is wrong if you decide to hustle in order to raise enough money to pay your fees? As long as you take necessary precautions and you are not breaking any law, its just a job you are doing. It's a service you are rendering other people and if they like what's on offer, and are willing to pay for it, fine.

Hustling is a choice that people make in order to survive and we need to respect that and stop being ultra conservative and demonizing everything that we do not agree with.

Oga. Prostitution is illegal in Nigeria. That aside I am of the opinion that university education is a choice not a compulsion and for your information it does not guarantee a 'better life'. You can better your life within the limits of the resources at your disposal by being hardworking, prudent and open to positive inspiration. This is what every parent should teach.

brownlord:
Must you lie?

Not just lies. Mismanagement, wrong/misplaced priorities and other corruptive financial vices we are all confronted with. Yes there may be lack but what is the little spent on. What is the person's priorities because you cannot eat phones and shoes. The fact that you have a phone and can browse the net shows where your priorities are and that your mate feeds you while you ping away is just laughable. We have all passed through these abeg.

tyconcepts:
Safarigirl be "talking" the truth.....

I had a similar experience back in my poly days....No alowee for hair, cream n small frys.. Popsi would say in that his military voice "We sent you to read books not to be beautiful" ...On one occasion I was forced to talk back at dad, "Popsi I know say u no get but 2k for 2weeks? That's witchcraft". The old man chased me back to school with same 2k from which I would pay back the soft loan I used in faring home and also faring back to school is from the 2k also....How much come remain??

Imagine a 2k alert that is suppose to last me 2weeks with very meagre provisions....To even buy new clothes na war and like seriously momsi thought there was a guy somewhere who should be catering for my small needs because she saw some love textmessages on my phone.

Then there was no Brazilian hair ooo but to buy the cheap synthetic hair na double wahala.

A friend and room mate of mine had it worse when I thought mine was the baddest....Her popsi gives her 2k to spend for 1month.

That is exactly what we are saying. Things don't work like that in life. Your analysis is such that when what you receive cannot meet your tastes you resort to corruption. If all other girls, all other boys, your parents, all of society operated this way, society, your family will become untennable.

Your dad earns a salary your lifestyle should be crafted around not the lifestyle of your mates. If your dad was forced to do 'runs' on your behalf and is caught. What will you say. Will it justify the new hair or wardrobe.??