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I'm still laughing. 20 mins after.

whealthy:
Bro, if upon further verifications her story holds and she still has some proof, I can mobilize myself and some colleagues to give her legal representation, pro bono, if she is still willing to pursue justice.

You can DM me anytime on this, please.

May God bless you. May God bless you. May God you.

Should she provide verifications. Please don't back out.

Her story is really a touching one.

Stancrus:
350k is enough to import me a super pedigree neopolitan mastiff from Italy direct op ur price is too much

Very true. But then, I'm super duper sure of the authenticity of the breed.

His basic obedience is complete. He is a very stable working and guard dog.

He is a must have security dog in my own opinion.

2yrs,4months old Neapolitan Mastiff (Working Type) available for sale. He is basic-obedience trained. He is athletic and capable of surprising bursts of speed. He's intelligent and learns fast. A calm dog unless aroused. He must be on-leash when out in public because he tends to be bothered by sudden,strange loud sounds and he may react by trying to retreat from the sound or shift into defense mode(He was never trained or socialised till he was 9months old). However,he never backs down anywhere,if challenged by a man and he attacks with intense ferocity. Within familiar territory(home) he's a very good guard. He loves to tug and has serious article(ball,stick or tyre) drive. His fight drive is very intense. Reason for selling: Owner always wished he had him has a pup and raised him in his own way according to his own philosophy at the crucial growth stages. He has a pup from him now and wants to do just that with his offspring but can't afford to keep both now.

This is exactly how it all played out.

When Obasanjo visited his community in 2005. The mother of the young lad kept rolling on the floor and crying. "My president please help me, my president please help me"

Obasanjo moved closer to her and asked "madam, do you know me?" The woman replied "yes nah, na u be my president na"

Obasanjo asked "what do you do? How can I help your business?"
The woman replied "na only one pikin I get, na hin be my business"
Obasanjo then said "give me your boy and I will make him president one day"

The woman quickly called for the boy who was playing with his peers while Obasanjo waited.

When the boy arrived, after the woman had briefed her son on everything. Obasanjo asked the boy "will you follow me?" The boy replied"I dey craze wey I no go follow you?"

And that was it. He has since been living with Obasanjo, he travels every summer with the rest of Obasanjo's younger kids.

*This is a true account, including the conversations. I made sure of writing it as it played out*

olagamalin:
rather the end (at least for this year).....Cos he's copped the Golden Globes, SAG and BAFTA already

Pardon me sir, I actually meant the first of many more oscars.

I can't believe I slept off watching it yesterday. Very unlike me.

I'm so so happy Leonardo, he deserves it. I believe this is the beginning of many more awards for him.

koboko69:
"A single new road"


And a lot of wailers are already running unclad around the thread.

There is a difference between constructing a new road....and. Rehabilating an existing road.

Its a pity.

God bless you. You seem to be the only person who read through the thread.

2016, my year of wisdom.

Oh. I see, he was the Fayoke type of governor.

Where is APC in all these?

A friend gate crashed a schlumberger interview and got the job.

Psylas:
1,500 animal species practice homosexuality

I know you are going to say some specie of lizards, ducks and Dolphins or so. Well, remember this and please fact check. They don't mate each other or have any form of sexual intercourse solely as partners, plus every single known case of animal homosexuality was also bisexual. As in, they also mates the opposite sex and only participated in homosexuality as a way of stimulating their genitals. Not as a skull formation and gene structure.

They only move/live together as family/social friends. What we call Best of friends.

(I edited a part of this)

I have included an article from bbc.com

That Akure guy there made my wedding shoe. Dope!!!!


I wear that show like every other day and it still looks brand new. His shoes are quite expensive because there are bespoke. He doesn't stock inventory. He delivered in a short notice. I m really very happy for his success.

Wow!!!!

oduastates:
Starting from the leaders.
This is tomatoes rotting away in the north .
Below it is a small time shoemaker who makes about 400 shoes a year in akure .Yet unpatriotic quacks like Okonjo Iweala opened the flood gates to the importation of foreign subsidised tomato paste , thereby sending local growers and processors into penury.
She opened the flood gates to vegetable oil importation as well .

Hmmm...

I guess Mr Presidebt didn't reach out to their lordships personally again.

This penetration strategy seems a million times better than whatever strategy PDP applied for the EKITIGATE.

RadicallyBlunt:
A possessed serial killer takes other people's lives and shd be stopped immediately. Is a cigarrette smoker pursuing u with gun or knife?
Its abt his life not other ppl's life.

We are talking about addictions here. If its bad. It should be stopped at once. This guy is hurting himself by smoking that much daily, he is killing himself and should be stopped at once.

Any hurtful habit should be stopped at once.

RadicallyBlunt:
This is inhumane illiteracy. Its not wise at all. Rehabilitation is a gradual process. From 40 sticks perday, it shd reduce to 30, then later 20, then 10 till zero...that's how the brain works..losing an habit is gradual. Another process is to have an alternative. As d saying goes.."to get rid of an addiction, one should get addicted to something better or beneficial, before u know it, he will 4get about the previous addiction" But what this woman is doing may result to mental problem bcus d brain is being stressed from one extreme condition to another and d mental problem will be a violent one as the brain unconsciously keeps an interpretation of violation of rights in its memory due to that cage.

My grandmother's friend lost her son. Instead of the other children to let her cry her heart out, they gave her pills to forget d incidence. Well, it later resulted to psychiatry where d doctor and d uk based daughter blamed them for blocking her mind from crying out at that time.

In other words, if he was a serial killer u would ask him to reduce the number of people he kills gradually till he finally stops killing.

go to www.artnigeria.com and buy him some lovely art works.

Friday is "Black Friday."
For many American consumers, it is the day after Thanksgiving when you can get great deals on goods that may eventually become Christmas presents.

But why is it "black" Friday?

There are a couple of stories. But the most commonly cited one has to do with ink, paper, and accounting.

From Wikipedia (emphasis added):

Many merchants objected to the use of a negative term to refer to one of the most important shopping days in the year. By the early 1980s, an alternative theory began to be circulated: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period when retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black). The earliest known use that presents the "black ink theory" appeared in the edition of November 28, 1981 of the Philadelphia Inquirer:

If the day is the year's biggest for retailers, why is it called Black Friday? Because it is a day retailers make profits – black ink, said Grace McFeeley of Cherry Hill Mall. "I think it came from the media," said William Timmons of Strawbridge & Clothier. "It's the employees, we're the ones who call it Black Friday," said Belle Stephens of Moorestown Mall. "We work extra hard. It's a long hard day for the employees."

This, like the 1961 and 1966 examples from Philadelphia, above, was found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society.

The Christmas shopping season is of enormous importance to American retailers and, while most retailers intend to and actually do make profits during every quarter of the year, some retailers are so dependent on the Christmas shopping season that the quarter including Christmas produces all the year's profits and compensates for losses from other quarters.

So there you have it. It's about how much money retailers are making from you and me.

Hey Mods, I realised this thread was created under the wrong topic so I moved it to the business section.

Tomorrow (November 27) will be black friday. The biggest day globally in shopping history. There will be a lot of money changing hands tomorrow and it won't be a bad idea for you to get a slice of the pie. The following are companies selling with their pros and cons;

Yudala:
Yudala will be selling with over 92% discount both in their offline stores and online store. But, they don't yet feature market places. This will surely be a big deal for the buyers, but not necessarily sellers.

Konga:
Konga will be selling discounted items but only market place sellers with huge October sales will be allowed to participate. Now, while that is reasonable it is still unfair as we all know that the nigerian economy has been slow for a while, and so as sales. Well, again Good news for the buyers and not so good news for the sellers. (I dare Konga to release a statistic of their sales, you will see that there has been a drop in sales since the change of government in May 29, using october sales for a metric for black friday sales amongst their market place vendors is not such a good idea).

Jumia:
Jumia seems to be getting this right as they have allowed all their market place vendors to participate. but their recent decision to withhold some important customer details from their vendors still makes it a risk as we still have a lot of prank-buyers on the Jumia platform. Jumia recently stopped including buyer's phone numbers in the sales notification given to their vendors. That's very very risky. I personally have had issues where you deliver an order and the Jumia logistic team (very sleepy guys) after taking about 2 weeks trying to deliver the order ends up returning the order. I called the buyers in those two instances only to realize that they were never approached by Jumia at all. I re-sent the goods to them and of course they paid for it gladly.

It will be very risky to accept loads of orders via the jumia platform and incur the production and all logistic costs of those orders, without Jumia releasing the phone numbers of the buyers. We need to hear from our buyers, we need to confirm the orders ourselves. Konga, alibaba, amazon and all other market-places releases buyer contacts to their vendors for verification and follow-up. It will be very risky to ship out to ghost customers in tens, hundreds or even thousands.

ArtNigeria.com:
Well, this is a closed system for sales of art-works by artist. They have all their products on 30% discount, all their products! and the black friday for them has already started. Now, the bad part is that as an artist you really can't get signed up in the next two days. Although ArtNigeria.com caters for all the logistics of shipping out art works, it is still a closed system, probably because it's a start-up. The good part is that all their products are included in the discount sales unlike Yudala, Konga and dealdey that only lists one or two products in each category.

VictoriaRobertsSolutions
For event services are only offering 40% discounts to the first hundred bookings they get. Well since it is not digitalized, I dont know for sure how we will be counting.

and I believe some other sites will be taking this black friday sales seriously in Nigeria. My question is simple, how do we benefit?

The aim of this thread is for nairalanders to advertise the discounts they will be giving to clients and customers tomorrow, lets participate in this global blackfriday mega sales in our own way. Please be sure to advertise your products and/or services for tomorrow on this thread.


Lalasticlala and Seun and everyother Mods; Please allow this thread. We are only trying to have our slice of the big sales and contribute our own quota to the Nigerian economy in our own little way as patriotic citizens.

Tomorrow (November 27) will be black friday. The biggest day globally in shopping history. There will be a lot of money changing hands tomorrow and it won't be a bad idea for you to get a slice of the pie. The following are companies selling with their pros and cons;

Yudala:
Yudala will be selling with over 92% discount both in their offline stores and online store. But, they don't yet feature market places. This will surely be a big deal for the buyers, but not necessarily sellers.

Konga:
Konga will be selling discounted items but only market place sellers with huge October sales will be allowed to participate. Now, while that is reasonable it is still unfair as we all know that the nigerian economy has been slow for a while, and so as sales. Well, again Good news for the buyers and not so good news for the sellers. (I dare Konga to release a statistic of their sales, you will see that there has been a drop in sales since the change of government in May 29, using october sales for a metric for black friday sales amongst their market place vendors is not such a good idea).

Jumia:
Jumia seems to be getting this right as they have allowed all their market place vendors to participate. but their recent decision to withhold some important customer details from their vendors still makes it a risk as we still have a lot of prank-buyers on the Jumia platform. Jumia recently stopped including buyer's phone numbers in the sales notification given to their vendors. That's very very risky. I personally have had issues where you deliver an order and the Jumia logistic team (very sleepy guys) after taking about 2 weeks trying to deliver the order ends up returning the order. I called the buyers in those two instances only to realize that they were never approached by Jumia at all. I re-sent the goods to them and of course they paid for it gladly.

It will be very risky to accept loads of orders via the jumia platform and incur the production and all logistic costs of those orders, without Jumia releasing the phone numbers of the buyers. We need to hear from our buyers, we need to confirm the orders ourselves. Konga, alibaba, amazon and all other market-places releases buyer contacts to their vendors for verification and follow-up. It will be very risky to ship out to ghost customers in tens, hundreds or even thousands.

ArtNigeria.com:
Well, this is a closed system for sales of art-works by artist. They have all their products on 30% discount, all their products! and the black friday for them has already started. Now, the bad part is that as an artist you really can't get signed up in the next two days. Although ArtNigeria.com caters for all the logistics of shipping out art works, it is still a closed system, probably because it's a start-up. The good part is that all their products are included in the discount sales unlike Yudala, Konga and dealdey that only lists one or two products in each category.

VictoriaRobertsSolutions
For event services are only offering 40% discounts to the first hundred bookings they get. Well since it is not digitalized, I dont know for sure how we will be counting.

and I believe some other sites will be taking this black friday sales seriously in Nigeria. My question is simple, how do we benefit?

The aim of this thread is for nairalanders to advertise the discounts they will be giving to clients and customers tomorrow, lets participate in this global blackfriday mega sales in our own way. Please be sure to advertise your products and/or services for tomorrow on this thread.


Lalasticlala and Seun and everyother Mods; Please allow this thread. We are only trying to have our slice of the big sales and contribute our own quota to the Nigerian economy in our own little way as patriotic citizens.

perhaps you all should start from www.artnigeria.com

I promise you; 90 percent of those who commented didnt take time to read the post at all.

Too bad, some parents paid their children's school fees with counters.

Lai Mohammed is very accurate in this.

Please attach the pics of the xray. I'm seriously following this post.

Wow. Very brilliant idea. Creating an environment for artists to thrive. This will surely boost creativity.

Giving artist's incentive for their creativity. Bravo!

theV0ice:


Yori yori ma yori mi o.....

So modath is also OAU? Very interesting indeed

Una don't turn this thread to OAU thread o.

tpiander:
make una stop buzzwording Ife o.

a word is enough for the wise.

Haba. Did u really read the write up?

theV0ice:


This writer just took me on a journey at least 17years back. I was a resident off campus then but I obviously wasted the money I paid as rent as most of my nights were spent with my friends at Awo hall. I just never wanted to miss out on the fun then but now, I call it madness..... Pure insanity

The Block 6, block 7 madness is better than what you find on social media today as the combatants know its simply fun and you even find best buddies on opposing sides but that of social media is filled with hate.

You don't have to wonder why.....anything fuelled by tribalism and religious differences always ends in conflagrations. I wish the warriors online could see it like Awo boys but i realise its an impossible expectation

God bless Awo boys jare

Very interesting post. Thanks for sharing your awo hall story.

Block 6, Block 7, Come Out and Let’s Insult Ourselves

In the late 1990s, one of my best friends, Femi, had his room in “Block 6” of the Obafemi Awolowo Hall (“Awo Hall”) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. I visited him in the room once a while. One of those evenings of my visit, as we were chatting in his room, there was a loud announcement from the balcony behind us. Yes, it was actually an announcement because once the call went out the response to it was massive.
A young man in one of the rooms had called out, in Yoruba, “Block 6, Block 7, e jade o, e je ka ma bura wa o” (which translates roughly as “Block 6, Block 7, come out, let us verbally insult ourselves). Being my first experience of it, that call was a shock to me. However, what was more shocking was the fact that several occupants of Block 6 and Block 7 took the call seriously and responded to it. In fact, immediately the young man shouted “e jade o, e je ka ma bura wa,” someone else replied him “ori e ’o da’a” (i.e. “your head is good for nothing”) and another person joined the tit-for-tat.
When the insults flew back and forth for several minutes, I stepped out to the back balcony of Block 6, which directly faces the front balcony of Block 7, and was surprised to find scores of guys on the balconies of the several floors. The insult match was a sort of game in which occupants of Block 6 were loosely a team against the other loose team of Block 7. The insult match lasted for well over two hours. They all seemed to enjoy mutually insulting themselves. Their only common grounds between the two teams were when anyone was unfortunate enough to cross the lawn or walkway between the two blocks.
One young man carrying a travelling bag with him happened to cross the lawn, and someone shouted “eru ese” (i.e. load of sin), another person raised a song “gbe agbelebu re, o wuwo, ko wuwo ... ” and the two teams joined to chorus the song. In another instance, a young man walked with two ladies from Block 6 towards Block 7, someone spotted him and said “bros, I go do too o.” Another led a song, “pastor o, a o yo e o; pastor o, a o yo e; a f’omo ti e, o n ba sun; a f’omo ti e, o n ba sun; pastor o, a o yo e” (I will not translate that. Find a Yoruba speaking person to translate that for you).
From insults, the teams moved on to suggestive jokes. One would should shout “ta lo mo o?” (i.e. “who can guess what it is?”). Then another would shout back, “emi mo o.” Then the first person would describe something lewd. They would all laugh. Then some of them would chorus the answer. I dare not give specific examples here!
Why am I telling this story? Well, in the first place I have never forgotten. However, something keeps reminding me about it in more recent months – the patterns of our discussions on social media, Facebook especially, and the manners of our comments on online newspaper articles. I mean, we Nigerians. I don’t know who called us to it but we are mainly divided into two teams playing the insult match. One person says, “don’t mind him, he is a wailing wailer”. The other responds, “and you are a lying lair.” Whatever these new identities mean!
See, even those young men who wantonly insulted one another between Block 6 and Block 7 at Awo Hall recognized it as “Aro” (a form of deliberate psychosis intended for fun – no, psychosis is the wrong word, Aro is aro with its own uniqueness; there is also aroma and psycho. Aro, in the culture of students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, is actually lighthearted and often funny. It could be demonstrated individually or collectively. Aroma is a latent but self-controlled “madness” that is reserved for when you decide to “show yourself”, say in situation in which you are cheated. Psycho is more complicated. It’s a sort of idiosyncrasy which may find itself with a personal blend of aro and aroma in various proportions; it may in fact not contain either but just some self-created lonely “private culture”. Aro, aroma and psycho – all three are closely related but distinct in their respective rights). But shall we call this new culture of adding up so-called friends on social media only to run verbal slimy excreta on their faces at the slightest opportunity? No, it won’t be proper to call it “aro.”
(To be concluded)

TEMITOPE OYETOMI·MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2015

femadesh:


No be auction?

Oya name your price

Na me one sell am nah, I will wait till this evening, if i dont get anymore bids. then i will sell to you. Thats if you are serious.

femadesh:
$20

seriously? very good start though.