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Well, not making financial commitments can often be related to emotional detachment. Not always but yeah..it's a thing.

Chiderakano:
In today’s world, romance has become easier to start because of social media, dating apps, and constant communication. People can meet and connect faster than ever before. But while finding love seems simple, keeping loyalty in that relationship has become much harder.
Temptations are everywhere, attention is easy to get, and many people are quick to move on when problems come. Loyalty now means choosing one person even when many options are available. It takes discipline, trust, honesty, and commitment.
That’s why in this generation, romance may begin quickly, but true loyalty is what makes it real and lasting.

In the context of marriage and romantic relationships, loyalty has never changed meaning. It's always meant honoring your vows, staying true and committed to them.
Like...it's never meant that you can't have options, but that you must choose that one person, despite having these options.

You see this Youkay...they are the worst, I have always said it. How can you beg people to go work for you en masse under one set of rules, made life decisions based on those rules, paid visa fees and taxes, and then you go changing the pathway to settlement, which by far is the biggest perk of washing your old people's bums? Howww?
First, they switched up on them by changing the timeline for settlement from 5 years, when they were just close to the mark, to 15 whole years and now see them being stupid again. Is the UK government not mad like this? They should be challenged without pause for breath before human rights courts.

It is not correct that every student will move on and totally forget him...why are people saying this? I know I haven't forgotten my favorite teacher back then in primary school; Nana Ko Bediako. Matter of fact, if anyone has any information on his whereabouts, please send me a DM. He is Ghanaian and a totally awesome Maths teacher who taught me a principle that I applied to lots of school and even real time problems. What is the principle? -->If more, less devise. If less, more devise. Simple.
If I did not have to do something else right now, I would explain further, but you won't believe how many times I've used this principle to make my life easier. God bless him wherever he is.

Interesting. This boy is moving up in the world.🥱

Do you have money to pay, though? Or are you just speaking English? Global standard my behind.

Name all the nameables if you must report such cases. We won't stand for hiding our people, but don't overlook others" either. These non-Nigerians are always quick to mention Nigerians, leaving their own out and now you are doing exactly the same. Hang everyone out to dry, but do it correct.

writetopoka:
The story didn't say the the actual reasons for the beating.
Did he act wrongly?
Did he act mockingly?
Did he act in a blasphemous way?

What is the actual reasons.tye OP just use empty write-up to and repeatations to fill the whole space, with no clue or details.

Just say you don't know the story of the passions of Christ, let us rest.

Reasons for beating indeed🙄

maternal:
Having education doesn't mean you're smart. Knowing the system gets you further. Anyone with a masters degree doing minimum jobs in Canada is a fool. The issue is most people in Nigeria are fools and legitimately don't know how to hustle. Especially when they come to an organize country like Canada.

Well, I see your point. But despite the open labor market, the competition is really stiff and people must survive, so I can't really say I blame them. These are the things that everyone headed there must evaluate like I'm saying though...are you ready to settle or can you hold your own?
It's no walk in the park anywhere, but some really have it easier than in other places and that's a fact.

It's the same way I feel about that protectionist Japan, with lots of people bagging the supposedly prestigious mext scholarships and studying there, only to end up as English teachers (no disrespect to those with actual passion)..
Why?!

It annoys me so much.

nairalanda1:
Nigeria does not have significant oil revenue

Oil revenue in Nigeria without corruption is not up to 100 billion dollars on a good day. Oil prices are in most years low. It is only in crisis like this that we see high oil prices. Ironically thanks to reforms in the oil sector, we may see more oil money

But oil revenue is not significant. We produce about the same amount as Libya , but Libya has 8 million people, we got 230million people. You can say that I am excusing government, which I am not( my beef with government past and present is that we do not focus on using our natural resources to make exportable goods and services, which is the real reason why we are bankrupt and also which is why corruption festers)..but I am here to tell you that even of Peter Obi was in charge and he also had successfully eliminated corruption,the oil money we are earning is not enough for even five states

Our education budget last year was around 7 billion dollars. That's for universities, primary schools, secondary schools ,. polytechnic, mono technical college and colleges of education. States too get their own..when you divide the money it is even a wonder they can pay.salaries talkless of doing it regular. Harvard college spends more than that in a year. Just to give you an idea of how broke we are. And why I am so tired that we keep on voting for people like Tinubu over and over again

People like to abuse me on this site and say I am excusing corruption, when I am pointing out that before we even talk about corruption money no dey. If we want money, long term is Nigeria uses its resources as the basis of an industry based economy, short term taxation for those who are not paying tax in the majority. It's sad, but it is what it is..

God knows that I don't support PDP like repoman007 or apc like many others here. And God knows I hate this reality

While I can accept that the oil revenue alone, may not be enough to fund everything for a country of over 200 million people in these times, I don't believe you are correct to say it is insignificant. Nigeria has earned hundreds of billions of dollars from oil over the decades. It does not need to be a daily reality. Even today, oil still accounts for a large share of government revenue and foreign exchange. Her oil revenue is not insignificant.

The real problem is not simply population size or oil prices. My original concern is how is the revenue, however small or large, being managed and what is it used for, because as you also imply, indeed, countries with fewer natural resources, have built stronger economies by investing in productivity, exports, infrastructure, and human capital. So when such transformations do not happen for us, after decades of revenue, people are justified in asking where the value of those resources went.

The sad truth is that oil income has often been embezzled and poorly managed, even though it could have been instrumental in strongly developing other sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture that generate export value and help provide more resources to sectors like education. And that is why we will continue to call this out.

So Noo, Nigeria is not permitted to identify as ‘too poor’.

Well for one, there is a huge error on your part; all japas are not the same. Stories of people in that UK have always been the most terrible of the big four English speaking western countries to japa to...suffice to say. Canada closely follows suit..with people bagging Canadian masters degree and still celebrating care and warehouse jobs.

I will advise you to do more research for your sake.

eepeepook:
All these AI write-ups literally are the death of this forum. It’s already reached the point where users argue using bots to highlight points.

Na wa for you oo. What's so special about her post that is wowing you this much?

You no sabi speak English, no mean say others follow you no sabi.

I'm sure mine is believable because it is pidgin abi? Una need to de rest sometimes.

seunmsg:
They pay 40-45% of their income as taxes. In Nigeria, you want free PMS, free education, free healthcare, free electricity, subsidized forex etc and you still don’t want to pay taxes. These freebies should be funded by who?

How about we start the explanation with the numerous indirect taxes embedded in Nigerians' everyday transactions. Who is accounting for those?

The frustration that many Nigerians express, as I suspect you already know, is not about paying high taxes, but about trust and accountability. People naturally, must want to know how their monies are functioning.

We see a country with significant oil revenue, large budgets, and numerous public funds, even without the taxes you say we don’t pay, yet our universities are underfunded, hospitals struggle, and infrastructure remains poor.

So are we being punished by the people in authority? Why are they hiding behind the lie that development must come only out of the pockets of citizens?

So they park the buses keep for one person compound before?

seunmsg:
There is nothing wrong with education. The problem is the funding model for our universities. We have over 140 public universities in Nigeria where students don’t pay tuition fees and you guys expect lecturers to be paid salaries. Just this weekend, a post by a student complaining of N125k fees for school logistics went viral on social media.

We want the best of everything and we don’t want to pay for it. A standard private secondary school in Abuja charges nothing less than N1.5m in a year but somehow, we want to pay N20,000 per year for university education and we don’t want lecturers to sleep in offices. Okay now, make all of us dey play.

Did you really type this? On purpose? Do you understand that education is free up to the level of doctoral studies in many countries and yet, their lecturers do not complain? How many lecturers are there when you compare with students, that they cannot conveniently pay them reasonable salaries? Besides, when did public investments stop being the source of funding for public schools or are those lecturers exempted? Some of you politicians apologists would type anyhow, at the expense of simple reasoning.

Well, I advise everyone to be sensible enough to plan for their retirement...and be responsible enough to care for their folks in old age.

OgwuEgo:
No more Ashawo thread Nne?

Start one na...
Fans will make it thrive.

He was just seizing the moment to associate properly with The giants.

I understand your hurt and need to lash out at Nigerians you find in every space, but on principle, you need be assured that waiting for a man to make his intentions clear, can easily be seen as patience, rather than shameful. That would be a personal choice anyway and not a cultural rule. So no, Nigerian women are not "expected" to wait for eons. Neither are we expected to beg to be married to men or worse, men who are not perceived as serious or respectable. Perhaps it's why our unions have more substance and stand the test of time.

Your father is a horrible individual..we agree..as you seem to want us to, but that is just the hand that life has dealt you.. y-o-u and some others, I acknowledge.

So spare us that Europeans-are-angels BS. We have ears and eyes too and they haven't always heard nor seen this pretty side of Europeans you talk about either.

Many of our daddies, have not fathered a child that they kept hidden and we thank God everyday for who they are.

Who They Are. Not for their culture or nationality.

Indeed, it's her money. What's wrong with him?

Did they think that the world would be oblivious forever?

I don't know, but is this something people actually fight about? Perhaps I'm getting too old.

juwoonn:
A 9 year girl is old enough to open the car and get out if she's uncomfortable.
My 9 year old daughter knows how to open/unlock my car.. infact, she has her own keys to the house and would just open and enter anytime she comes back from school and no one is at home.
9 year old no be small pikin again oo

Lie just full this news...they even said temperature was 99 degrees in Texas..lol

Exactly my thoughts! A 9 year old can coordinate their younger ones, if left unattended by older people.

Good for him. He should move to the US and revisit this calculation.

All lies. Always some cock and bull to distract people from their heinous act. Chris Brown said it was STD. What is this one saying now? Lies.

You can't put a price on peace of mind.

Dude always makes me laugh. Always dressed up like some badass rapper.
Afrobeat individual.

30992136elina:
Please where do you wear your aso oke dress to after the wedding.

Why.. church, owambe parties..

Congratulations

joudini:
Quite a synopsis. I agree. For many people, his destruction was personal.

I hope you and yours are good.

Oh we sure are. I trust you and yours are as well.

Thank you.

joudini:
This is a sad outlook to have. Your phrase "no matter what transpired between him and Nigeria" is a seeming indictment of him. If so, why is your thought of rest instead of justice? Because he is dead?

Death does not, and should not, confer on a human immunity from judgment or criticism.

Rocky, you are in a country where many decades after a crime's commission, investigation still goes on. Even when the victims are few, or victimless.

Buhari was a congenital bigot. Deeply sectarian. Grandly corrupt. Historically incompetent. His speeches and actions took Nigeria's fault lines back to civil-war times. He unfurled unprecedented economic ruin via his policies. Nigeria's commonwealth suffered unprecedented plundering under his watch. Millions of Nigerians were direct victims of his criminality. Livelihoods and lives were ruined.

The above is not accidental. Similar scenarios occurred when he was a military dictator. So you see, anyone who failed as a tyrant, and civilian government, has issues far beyond personal incompetence.

Buhari does not deserve rest, he deserves justice.

I get where you are coming from, joudini, as I do many Nigerians who lived through the consequences of his policies and leadership. You are correct. Death shouldn’t shield anyone from being scrutinized. Facts must be recorded by history, honestly. Criticism, even of the dead, is part of how nations learn and grow.

But I also believe that there’s a difference between seeking historical truth and seeking posthumous vengeance.

When I said, “no matter what transpired between him and Nigeria,” I did not mean to excuse or whitewash his actions. I meant to acknowledge that his legacy is complicated and, for many, painful indeed. Real systemic justice should be pursued while the person is alive and accountable IMO though. That Nigeria often fails to do so is one of our deepest national wounds.

Again, rest, in the context of death, is not a reward but a universal human closure. Saying he should find rest is not for absolution, but to leave judgement to history and for some of us, to God.

It is also a tested and trusted way for us the living, to choose not to carry forward hatred that consumes and divides.

In all, your demand for truth and justice is justified. Hopefully, we will learn and continue to hold leaders to account, not just in death, but in life where it matters most.