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A friend of mine and his wife have been having a series of misunderstandings for some time now. He has asked his wife to leave the house because he is no longer interested in their relationship. The wife, a nursing mother, said she needed time to care for her newborn baby.


They had a serious argument, the lady packed her belongings and left the 2 kids behind a 3 years old boy, and a 3 months baby girl. My friend was shouting furiously that he would bury the kids, and even pointed at a spot to bury them if they didn't make it to the following day, that the woman can not blackmail him with the kids.

Both kids were crying seriously. I went inside the house and carried both kids, my friend started yelling at me that I should drop the kids, or else, he would do something stupid. Instantly, I became very angry and dared him that you cannot do anything, you are a heartless beast who doesn't deserve a child.

He went in and pushed me and the kids outside, then locked the doors and went away, both kids were still crying on my arms. I begged their neighbour to help me carry the eldest child; luckily, the 3 month old baby fell asleep on my arms. They live in a very remote area, so for me to get access to a cab or bike will take over 30 minutes of walking having no other option we started the long walk. After around 10 minutes of walking, it started raining, so I covered the newborn baby with my shirt. We saw the mother on our way, and walked past her she didn't even care.

While under the rain, the baby started crying, the mother couldn't withstand the sight of seeing her kids and me in the rain crying, so she ran to us and started crying and begging me to hand her the newborn baby, which I did, and she started breastfeeding the baby who stopped crying and fell asleep. Luckily we saw a keke that carried us and took the girl to her family home.

Reflecting back, something was telling me that I overstepped my boundaries, that I shouldn't have cared about the kids if their parents didn't. That I should have just walked away quietly. So I humbly ask, did I overstep my boundaries?

Welcome to Nigeria, where the ambition of a so-called incumbent president is more important than that of the citizens.

It is their turn to loot the nation's treasury with reckless abandon. Poverty is now considered a normal way of life to some people, largely due to Tinubu and his cabals. Last last na OGUN go still kee them and their cabals.

Thinkunltd:
I will check with that right away, is sapele at capacity already? Please put I number I can reach you with.

Still waiting for response.

Time for a comedy session from political aspirants, with the sole aim of looting our treasury. This is just a preamble; the comedy movie has not even started. Some will receive beatings from the look of things.

Thinkunltd:
I will check with that right away, is sapele at capacity already? Please put I number I can reach you with.

Ok, yes Sapele is at capacity currently that's the response I got from the Starlink website after inputting my address. You can reach me call or WhatsApp.

Thinkunltd:
Warri

Can I subscribe to the residential plan in an area that is at capacity with it? If yes, I'm interested in buying it. Currently in Sapele, I can come to your address in Warri for inspection and finalise payments.

Yes, it can even carry a modest family for 1 week, because suffering is sweet like sugar to some people now. Last last na ogun go kee you.

Will you be arrested, if you say, " Check out my new streaming app, a better alternative to Netflix "?

johnnyholtby:
I feel you.
Starlink has been expanding their subscription packages. Some countries now have 100Mbps, 200Mbps and Max plans. In fact, starlink leases their hardwares to customers in some countries.
I believe very soon we're going to get something similar in Nigeria.
Imagine 100Mbps plan @ 20k/25k would be a hit for us.

Plus their hardware fee is expensive for most users. Even the Mini at 350k is still expensive. The high hardware and subscription fees should be mostly attributed to the Nigeria's failing economy.

Please make me understand. On inputting my location in Delta state. I got the response of "Due to high demand in your area, only business plans are available in your area.

On the checkout order page, the price display were:

Residential: #57000/month
Standard kit: #590000
Shipping & handling: #36300,
pre-order: #32000
Deposit due today: #29767.44

Does it means even the #57k residential plan is not currently available in my location, as such paying the total due today only adds me to a wait list, with no known date? So if i should pay that money now i will have to wait till only God knows when.

So if i don't want to wait, the only option left is to opt for the business plan, which according to what is being displayed, cost around #226,000/month for 2TB.

johnnyholtby:


If Airtel network good for your side, their ODU package still dey manageable. Dem dey get downtime sha.

Airtel is the worst network among all 3 (MTN, Glo, Airtel) in my area. You can't even load Nairaland's home page with it, Glo takes minutes to load, MTN is hope and pray.

With ODU NL it is taking seconds (not split seconds though) to load. How I wish Glo had something similar to ODU, I would have opted for it.

Buying Starlink is not my major issue for now, the subscription cost is. I intend to secure at least a year's subscription cost somewhere safe. Already have 6 months saved, 6 more to go.

Settled for the Airtel 5G ODU 3 days ago, and so far it has been far better than those worthless Glo, MTN, and Airtel sim networks

I will manage my keke Airtel ODU until I can raise funds for my private jet, Starlink. This is how it will go between me and my neibours henceforth.

Neigbour: Bros abeg how much you buy am?

Me: My charge for questions and answering session na 10k

Neighbour: Bros abeg, you fit help me with your hotspot password? I want to update something very important

Me: Password kee you there, ur pa give me network?

richmond500:
The man was arrested cos he was transporting guns and bullets to unknown people.

Honestly with the build up anger we have from killings and terrorism and govt granting these terrosists pardon after the military captures them.
I think the policeman had had enough from all these menace and decided to take laws into his hands.

Probably I would have done the same but not in public.

If na ur papa dem shoot without trial would you have said same thing? What is the essence of the law then? Google the meaning of "Law enforcement agencies"

johnnyholtby:
I totally get you bro. Starlink wouldn't have been an option if our local ISPs are good.
If you're considering getting starlink, you don't have to get the Gen 3 kit. For most people, the Starlink Mini is more than good enough (and considerably cheaper too).

Most starlink owners I know "carpool". If you have a neighbours you trust, you can easily share the subscription bill.

If your work depends on the internet, starlink would definitely be a necessity as it's fast and consistent.

Those guys in my compound are acting very weird. I remember when were asked to pay a total of #1m so that we can be added to band A users last year, a private investor bought poles, transformers and cables to connect our street to band A, so if you want to use the light you have to pay him and buy your own meter. We are 8 tenants in total, but each tenant was giving one form of excuse or the other, some were even saying it should be the responsibility of the landlord who wasn't living in the compound with us. I spent around 400k for everything to connect my flat, but today they are all gathered in my frontage like where APC is sharing election rice. They are all charging one device or the other as i'm writing this, with extension sockets littered everywhere since electricity on band E is 0.

The internet issue is also affecting them, but they prefer flocking around around a new hotel whose management installed starlink and did not password it. They gather around there like ants around sugar looking for a free network to do their Yahoo work.

Una own better with Starlink, currently stuck with the garbage MTN, GLO, Airtel craps. As it stands i can't even get upto 1mbps on any if the networks, i get around 8-9 Mbps at midnight 12 - 3Am. Given my current financial status i cant afford the #594k standard kit, even if i scrape myself to purchase it i can't afford the subscription.

When problem go finish? first it was flooded area solved, then insecurity area solved, then power solved, and now internet connection.
Is it a curse to be a Nigerian living in Nigeria?

gsparks01:
it's not installment o. It's pre-order

Na wa, then why is the total due showing #89k, am I being charged the #57k subscription on pre-order too?

gsparks01:
I didn't know they still offer installments.. If you don't mind, what city is giving that option?

Sapele Delta state.

Wahala no dey finish. Spent heavily in relocating to my current location because the area is on band A. Based on my findings before moving in, they are guaranteed of at least 20 hours electricity daily, except during grid collapses. Got internet speeds of around 15 Mbps on Airtel and MTN on speed test.

Already 2 months in Airtel, Glo, and MTN have suddenly stopped working. First it was MTN, then Airtel, and now Glo. There are network masts in the area, calls and sms are fine but 0 internet. Can't even load the Nairaland home page.

I'm considering ordering Starlink, but when using my current location, the hardware kit automatically chosen is the standard kit with an instalmenetal payment plan. But if I input a location like Yenagoa, I'm given an option of mini or standard kit, total cost for the mini and activation which was waived was just #318k. I guess the reason for the automatic standard kit is that my current area is at capacity.

So I want to ask if I use Yenagoa as the location and when the order arrives, I install it at my location in Delta state, will there be limitations or issues later on? If I should opt for the standard kit, is there a grace period for default payments? The hardware kit and subscription payment are around #89k monthly. (32k + 57k). From solved wahala to internet wahala when problems finish?

Uptownerd:
I'm sure your favourite channels are CNN and BBC 😂🤣😂🤣

People like you can't tell reality from propaganda anymore after many years of brainwashing.

Even you said he was last seen 11days ago (even though it was AI and not him like has been proved) . And yet, you don't wonder.

Emancipate yourself bro

Netanyahu boasts about ‘breaking boundaries in every sense of the word’

That's from Al Jazeera, posted 2 days ago its a video go watch it yourself.

Netanyahu quelled rumours of ⁠his death ​with his appearance in front ​of journalists, including Reuters, on March 19.
That's from Reuters, go read it up.

While at it check the meaning of emancipate because you obviously don't know what it means.

Again, I ask when last did your current supreme made a press conference?

Uptownerd:
Na your village people resurrect am?
Who cares if 12yrs old is being accepted. Biafran kids also enlisted and fought for their motherland. They're defending their motherland!!!
All Israeli are military reserves nigga!!!

If you don't have a television, you should at least make good use of your free Opera Mini data. The man you claimed is dead was live at a press conference just 11 days ago. When did your supreme leader last made an appearance at a press conference? So Biafra has now become a standard of measurement or moral justification for Iran enlisting kids of 12 years into their military? Who do you this thing?

Uptownerd:
It pained him😂🤣😂🤣
So Israeli leaders are not being killed? Netanyahu is dead. What else are you yapping about?

Pained? Guy, you're funny oh!! Guess Netanyahu has resurrection powers, because, from my count, he has died more than six times so far. Are you aware that Iran is now accepting kids around the ages of 12 - 13 into the Iranian military? Why not show your solidarity for Iran by enlisting in their military?

Being a Nigerian on it's own is unfair except you are a politician's child because your politician parents won't allow you to school and grow in this hell of a country.

Hiding in bunkers but still killing your leaders and high military ranks like house flies, make it make sense. When was the last time the new supreme leader addresed Iranians?

Jakarta:
Lol!! guess you achieved all these in 1 year? You try oh!!!

Funny, this guy you are a confirmed troublemaker

@Drinkwater2026, were you still trekking under the sun to work and begging for a giveaway, even with your huge monthly earnings, or did you start earning this much after that? Do you mind sharing your experience so others can learn from it?

nairalanda1:
That;s what I am saying...they close the business since no profit (which some of them have done...three disco investors pulled out) and government takes over and charges the same price controlled rates that subsidy cannot make up for, and the result is the same

More darkness.

They should all close the business, not some of them, the businesses themselves are stealing from the same government. You can't remain in a business you claimed you are not making profits from, except there is something you are hiding.

nairalanda1:
You get more darkness, because government is going to continue with price controls and subsides, and no light.

I mean that's what government was doing before the era of discos and gencos....and we were having no light promax.

Why can't you answer the simple question? Did the government prevented them from shutting down the business, you claimed they are not making profits from?

nairalanda1:
You can type this from home, because government refused to put subsides on the gsm sector. Thats why they make enough of a profit to give you good enough service.

You don't have light because government puts subsides and price controls on the power sector and has done so for decades, even with privatisation.

Businesses need to make a profit to run effectively, without corruption, wuru wuru and bad service...and subsidy prevents that from happening.

It's harsh, but it is what it is.

Even with your lengthy epistles you didn't answer the simple questions i asked. What happens to the investor shutting down the business if the government is not allowing it to make profit? Why can't they say look government we can't make profits with you fixing prices for us, as such we are shutting down? Did the government prevent them from shutting down their business?

nairalanda1:
Would you run a business if the government was setting your price?

Would you invest in a business where government price setting prevents the company from making a profit meaning your roi would dissapear into the dust?

NO free food in FREETOWN.

Did the government forced me to setup the business? Was I forced to invest in the business? I have the freedom to say no to any investment even in a military government.

nairalanda1:
Well, if APC under tinubu had removed subsides on power in 2023 for all bands, that would have guaranteed investment, and increased profit, and led to better power supply by now (not 24/7, but not this horror show we have), and possibilty for further growth

Forget politics, obi, tinubu, etc. If I took over Nigeria in 2023, and refused to remove subsidy, the same result would happen. Bad power supply.

You cannot be telling a business to sell product below what it costs to produce, and expect them to have the money to pay for improvements, and maintenance, and gas supplies.

Stories for the Gods, what happens to shutting down the business are they being forced to run the business?

You can as well convert your $ to # (that's if you have any) based on your projection of #1 == 1$.

HelpeeDeck:
How much every set up go take and also, how much Sub every month

Ask all your questions here.
https://www.nairaland.com/7486765/spacex-starlink-internet-experience-lagos#119256443
Another option is Mtn Fibrex if it is currently available in your area.

Vex buy starlink and and one mini solar to power am.