₦airaland Forum

Dhotseal: Dude! Why don't u go make some money and send your kids to the best schools. Why is it your business to worry about the common man? Covenant University isn't for common men.

The richest countries in the world also have common men, just make sure u ain't a common man. Strive to be uncommon and watch the common men whine and complain. The common man never changes anything...just pawns to be used in the game of life.

NL so full of common men thinking common thoughts and making do with whatever life throws at them. I hate to be common, that's why I am uncommon in every way. You too can chose to be uncommon, just hope it ain't too late going by the sound of u.

shymexx: Interesting, I must say.

However, I'll like to put two things out there, based on my own understanding of the complexities involved in the whole madness:

1). Personally, I don't even think there are any "moderate" rebels left in Syria (if there were actually any) since their morale is low, and they've not made any for over a year now - apart from a few pockets of Sunni tribal militants, who're fighting both Assad and ISIS, just to protect their own villages. The bulk of those doing the fighting in Syria are Islamists, and a lot of them are foreigners who travelled to Syria, for Jihad.

2). No matter what the US does in Syria, the end game will be the Libyan quagmire. They should've thought about that before trying to force regime change in the country. Now, the crisis in Syria gave birth to ISIS, and that also has destabilised Iraq. And Iraq looks like it's going to end up being balkinised based on how stronger the Kurds are getting by day. And once the Kurds get what they want and where they want to be militarily, I doubt anyone will be able to stop them from declaring their own country. Ditto Kurds in Syria. Also, if Assad is replaced - I doubt the Alawaties would want to remain in a "united" Syria. The whole place is a mess.

shymexx: Firstly, sticking to plan is where it gets tricky because the US is trying to fight ISIS on one hand in Syria, while also trying to arm the "moderate" FSA rebels on the other hand, to overthrow Assad (based on all the statements in the media this week and NATO summit in Wales last week). And that's mission creep right there - with the plausibility of friendly fire against Syrian forces and Hezbollah.

Secondly, if the US views Assad's government as illegitimate, despite the legitimacy it got at the polling boot during the last election. What makes you think the US would view flying in the Syrian airspace, without consultations with Assad, as a violation?

Thirdly, degrading Syria's sophisticated air defense system is one thing. However, once that happens, the West would be sucked into putting boots on the ground, to oust Assad - and also to take on ISIS. Moreover, air strikes against ISIS in Syria would more or less be a waste of time, since ISIS and the FSA rebels are more or less intertwined in Syria - unlike Iraq where everyone, from the Kurds, to the Iraqi army, to the Shiite militias, to Sunni tribal militias are more or less the ground troops taking on ISIS, with air support from the US.

Also, ISIS are somewhat more acquainted to the Syrian terrain(Iraqi terrain is a new one), since they have been fighting there for more than three years - with a huge swathe under their control - and they've been able to build a defense mechanism against Syrian air strikes in that terrain. Evidently, US air strikes won't solve anything - it will just be business as usual.

Finally, ISIS have the covert support of Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia (especially in Syria since they're the ones doing the heavy fighting there) - and Turkey for example is a member of NATO. While both Qatar and Saudi Arabia are US allies. The whole thing is more complex than you think.

shymexx: The whole thing looks like mission creep already, with the inclusion of Syria in the folds - without a vote for that at the UN security council. Also, both Obama and David Cameron have declared Assad's government as illegitimate. And that obviously means they can violate Syrian airspace and territorial integrity, without Assad's permission.

Let's say, Syria for example shoots down a US fighter jet (the Syrian air defense system is one of the most sophisticated in MENA), that might lead to something else. Or, Syrian troops (or its Hezbollah and Shia proxies) become targets of US "friendly fire" and things escalate from there?

Furthermore, I don't even think ISIS can be defeated without troops on the ground - they're too organised and sophisticated for aerial attacks to have any meaningful impact on, in Syria. Except they're also planning to use the Kurds in Syria against them - and that looks unlikely.

Anyway, anywhere the US goes, the UK is definitely going to follow suit - that's what the special friendship is about.

Missy89: NATO doesn't have a first use policy. They have a strong conventional force and Russia does not. During the cold war when the conventional forces were pretty much the same, Brezhnev changed the soviet doctrine to a no first use policy as well but it was reversed by Yeltsin since NATO expanded to their border.

Using WMD is an act of weakness not strength because you will have to kill a lot of civilians in the process. by 2020 if Russia finish modernizing its military, maybe they will change their doctrine back to the soviet times. And all sides will cut their nukes to a few thousands.

Bluetooth2: Are you serious ? What of the US that organizes military exercises with Japan, South korea and her other allies ?

Crimea and East ukraine are buffer zones so Russia cannot just sit and let what she suffered during world wars to befall her again.

Mind you the Warsaw Pact is still technically alive.

Missy89: Since 2000, Russia military doctrine stated that Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons "in response to a large-scale conventional aggression.

any invasion of the country would result into a huge catastrophe for the aggressor

mystikal: Impressive work mehn> Thats major work right there people. Even the sides of the road after the barriers remade as well.

PeterKbaba: You need to understand that acting in most Nigeria movies take on a month or 2, most of them act about 5 movies at the same time. Multiply 5 movies a month by 500k and you know the pay is not bad. What do you expect from an industry not been supported by the Gov.

tanimola22: House rent (2-bedroom or 1 bedroom): 20K (max) on the mainland
Food: 10k
Transportation: 20K

Savings and Others: X, where X>>>0

So, you will need 50+X which is more than 50, since X must be a tangible amount of money to cover savings and other expenses.

I will peg an average salary at 93K/month.

Currency is Naira.

T22

Orikinla: This article is not about CHARITY you [size=28pt]id-io-ts[/size].

We are talking about needs assessment and investment.

Mr. Dangote made the bulk of his billions from importing goods for decades and what the Hausas needed most were manufacturing industries to produce finished products from their own cash crops and livestock.
If Dangote and his peers in public service and private sector did not neglect their people, Kano and other northern states would not be so underdeveloped.

We spend billions of dollars to import junk foods and other goods we can produce in Nigeria and lack of regular power supply cannot stop that.

Go and study Roger Kaufman.

Kobojunkie:
[size=13pt]I think @Violent is simply trying to show that it is possible to live on less than a dollar a day in Nigeria. I mean he stresses there that his monthly pay was at about Naira 11,000[/size], something that is new to many Nigerians today given that only a couple of months ago, minimum wage was still at about Naira 6500, and I knew many people who had about that as their take home pay, even through the food scarcity of 2008/2009.

It is too easy for people to come in to post non-researched claims of how it is impossible to live on less than a dollar a day in Nigeria, when in reality there are TONS, not some, but TONS of examples of people who live on, and still live on less than a dollar a day, all over Nigeria.

An example is an aunt of mine who essentially lived on money my dad sent back to each every other month. She had a store but barely brought enough in for food. I remember going to stay with her at one point and realizing how bad her situation really was. She had a bachelors but no job so she opened a store in hopes she might excel in business or something. I manned the store with her for a period of almost 3 weeks and we barely had customers all that time. She was off to the store at 6am and didn't head back until after dark . . . . after 7pm or so. All this while she had to contend with bills coming in from other places. She had my dad who had all but accepted that he had to continue helping her until things changed for her. I ended up doing most of the grocery shopping with my own money as after the first time she asked me for money, I did not want her to go through that humiliating ordeal day after day.

Fortunately, she "escaped" to the US some years ago, and is doing far far better today.  She still tells stories of how she felt like the lowest of humans while she lived from "hand to mouth" year, after year.

I know some nimrod is probably going to come in and try to psychoanalyze her case, without knowing anything of her life but what I typed. So let me just tell you beforehand that you shove your psycho-nonsense up where the sun don't shine. I don't want to read it!

kingoflag:
Lmao.

You I wont even blame. After all the aristos have destroyed you pu*ssy and messed up your womb with cold hard dic*k, at least they'll text you Phone Credits and give you extra for Brazilian weave and Cyber Cafe's so why wont you have mouth to come on here and talk rubbish? Then, when youre done with your "world tour", you'll end up tagging on mumus like Arosa, Violent and the other dummies on here and insist that they marry you, abi? No be your fault.

If your skull is so dry that you dont even know, or cant comprehend, the topic at hand, wont you just do us all a favor and just watch the fight from afar instead of throwing Subs that are bound to be replied with direct, putrid, and devastatingly vicious slaps?

What a wasted Generation!

NO, see . . . . lol . . , we have actually had some come in to claim that ALL poor kids hawk and bring in about ~Naira 80 on average a day from the trade. How one goes about responding to such GOOF-BRAINED supposition, I have no clue.

When i was a serving Youth Corper in Ibadan, my "allawee" was 9500 naira and the secondary school i was employed paid an additional 2000 naira on a monthly basis, a total income of 11500. 

Guess what?  I survived!!! 

Eating two square meals a day was never the problem.  A carton of big sized noodles (which i will never finish in a month) sells for 1000 naira, A crate of egg goes for 150 naira (on the expensive side), A big slice of bread sells for 100 naira (i consume 2 a week, brings the budget to 800 naira a month)

That rounds up to 1950.  By the time i include buying Yams, Garri, Rice and pepper (enough for myself for a month). . .all of that will only take my budget close to 3000 naira per month.

I paid 3500 naira a month for my room (yes in Ibadan, there are room rates as low as this). . . .and 80 naira a day for my transport (40 naira to and fro)


All that still leaves me with 2600 naira a month in savings!. . .And i can still afford to recharge my phone with approximately 1500 a month.  I had two lines.  An MTN line for making midnight calls and a glo line for making free glo to glo calls

kingoflag:
Just submit yourself to the same Judge that just helped humanity get rid of another anuofia like Al-Mustapha. . . . remember to ask for the same judgement.

Olodo, what are we discussing: "DO (MOST) NIGERIANS LIVE ON LESS THAN $1/DAY?" or "DID VIOLENT LIVE IN TOTAL SQUALOR WHILE THINKING HE WAS 'BALLING' JUST BECAUSE HE HAD 2 PHONES, COULD RECHARGE THEM WITH N1500, MAKE FREE CALLS AT MIDNIGHT AND EAT NOODLES AND EGGS THAT WERE ON THE 'EXPENSIVE' SIDE?" .

No wonder you usually spend 11 years on a 4year course. Simple comprehension e no sabi. Ordinary answer e no fit give, come here dey try impress us with his suffer-head tales. Later, we go dey blame Government and University Governing bodies.

What a dummy!

rx steve:
Never knew maths was this complex. No wonder my Further Maths teacher acts crazily, he had a 1st class in Maths. . I respect Mathematicians esp. females

All this noise can easily be fixed the sooner you give him to life to see wassup.

Take your parental pride out of it. All that should leave your mouth any further is "My dear, It's your life". Nothing else, because there is nothing new you want to tell him that he doesn't already know.

I don't know what y'all mean by don't give up on him. How is giving someone space to grow and leaving them to feel the effect of their choices "giving up"?
You CANNOT baby a boy into becoming a man. NEVER.

Outstrip:
People are saying don't give up on him. I don't know when teaching your children consequences equals giving up on him. if it were a thread about beating a 9 year old for stealing a piece of meat from the pot half the crowd here will say beat him up so he will never forget. A grown man though should be cuddled so he does not get depressed. Three years of this charade and was even about to start imaginary youth service had he not been caught. SMH. Na una know. I don't have to have a 24 year old to know that she is a significant part of the problem.

I was 24 once and so were many people I know who also had parents who set expectations for their children. I don't know in what fantasy land that things work out well when someone does not meet expectations and yet things still all fall into place. He should be apologizing not being on the defensive but who am I to say anything. I don't have a 24 year old child. Be more worried about what would posses him to keep this for so long and not even have a plan to fix it or let you know. It is not about mommy or even daddy. It is about him if they will let him be and let him fix it.

He did not fight against Nigeria. He fought against the issues which Nigeria is facing today. Example is the massacre and killing going on in Jos, Gowons hometown