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Good development.
I hope there will be crying foul when eventually they are found either innocent or guilty.

Good.

As I never see light for the past 30hrs. Hia. O. Are there two Nigerias in Ahirica? Mark una kuku carry time o.

For those of you who like buying stuff online (from what I will here OPEN e-commerce sites), let me give you a tip. The items you see there impose a charge of between 2 - 20% on the seller, technically, like the Liars will tell you. Yea. But it is actually the buyer that pays as the price gets marks up before quoting it or the site automatically applies it depending on the service. One site's charges range from 2% on mobile phones to as much as 20% on fashion items. The fascinating one is baby effects, attracting as much as 13.5%! If you don't understand what this means then read a bit longer.

For a regular market price on a pair of shoes at NGN5000, the price on an e-commerce site would start from NGN6000. Then throw in the shipping/delivery charge. Different seller packages might affect the price also. This is why you see the same exact product with two different prices (apart from being sourced differently).

So, when you see all them discount on the items on their sites, don't be deceived. As a rule of thumb, if I must buy any tangible thing online I ensure that it has at least 50% off, to estimate that it might be close to, or in some rare cases, below the open market price.

Well, it's no wonder these markups are put in. The service providers are for profit and they do not pass offering containers. What I do not understand is why baby effects can get to double digits. I would think that luxury stuff should have more presuming that the prospective buyers can afford it.

PS: On the other hand, some e-commerce sites might actually come cheaper than the average open market price. This is usually when a site is owned by a merchant. The logic is that they would want encourage you buying online rather than walking into their shop. It's simple. The more they sell online the less they need physical stores and the attendant cost of running them. For this reason they are ready to encourage their customers to buy online. Not all of them have this logic in place so you have to gauge it first.

Ha abiakwa again.
Is election around the corner already?

It is a free world and freedom of speech is paramount. That said, I don't know whether it is only me that sees it but the rate of callous comments on Nairaland threads is increasingly alarming. I am not even talking about the tribalism or nepotism or sectionalism and the rest of the 'ism's. I am talking about a user trolling the subject of a post with reckless abandon.

An example is one IamJ or so user persistently insisting that the pictured pregnant wife of a Nigerian football is ugly. It is nobody's business how we perceive beauty but going on about it and responding to all mentions covering almost all of the front page on the topic and going about the same view with reckless abandon leaves a lot to be desired. Nairaland is a public forum but one that represents the country Nigeria. It behoves the admins and the owners to actively try all possible to discourage this. It can be psychologically traumatizing going through all of the unconscionable comments by users.

Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

Nonsense reason.

Oga JAMB make the cut off at least pass mark if not what it was. 120 is less than 40% of the possible maximum of 400. If you were unable to enforce them where they were before now, what makes you think you can today? If you think you can now, then go ahead and enforce it and leave them where they were.

The rate Nigeria descends and defends mediocrity is rather dangerous.

Nigerians just don't learn anything

So....?
Nigerians just don't learn anything?

Una don see am.
After all the ghost mode this is what you get.
Nigeria ayam finally finally tired finally.

How dem go audit their stealing department? Ndi oshi.

NwaAmaikpe:


It's not true.
A girl can not live on 1500 a month

A woman has no reason to be broke,
She obviously didn't put her resources to good use.

She is even very privileged as handicapped girls charge more for short-time because shagging them gives goodluck.

smh

Is this really happening on this land?


Can someone please curse this person for the whole of humanity. But then we will end up with another handicap. Almighty forgive you and sense and decency fall on you. Amen.

Lusola15:
How are we sure he is not helping people out, there is no law against sharing money

You are a big eediot even if you are joking.

Hehe.

Someone in perfect health and still can't take work after 90 days? Are we cursed with stupidity in this country?

This east west road no dey finish?
I vividly remember the past admin putting in work on it vigorously. What happened?

Not a "very" honest man. Means he is an honest man at least. Can you say that of...

Oyakwa.

August 7, 2017

The small Nigerian town of Nnewi has more naira billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country.

Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration.

Profiled in September 1965 by TIME magazine, Ojukwu made his money by importing dried fish for resale, and diversifying into textiles, cement and transport. When he died a year later, his wealth was an estimated $4 billion in today’s economic value.

His son, Chukwuemeka, who also ended up a billionaire, returned from Oxford University at 22 with a master’s degree in history and led his fellow Igbos into the Nigerian civil war as head of the secessionist state of Biafra in 1967.

Their hometown Nnewi, in the southeastern state of Anambra, either by good fortune or hard work, has bred more naira billionaires than any other town in Nigeria, and possibly Africa. The Igbos, who sometimes refer to themselves as the ‘Jews of Africa’, have entrepreneurship in their blood. They have built themselves from the ground up, with little help from the government, after a controversial policy left them all with 20 pounds each, regardless of their bank balance, at the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970.

Nicknamed the Japan of Africa, Nnewi is famous as a hub for automobile spare part dealers, and most recently, Innoson, Nigeria’s first indigenous car assembly plant. The town is also known for its factories that manufacture household goods and is home to the biggest road transport companies in the country. Nnewi, with a little over two million residents, is a 30-minute drive from the Onitsha – the biggest outdoor market in West Africa – on the banks of the Niger River.

These are 10 of the most prominent naira billionaires from Nnewi, in no particular order:

Cletus Ibeto: The Ibeto Group has been described as the largest industrial enterprise in southeast Nigeria. Starting out as an apprentice to an already established auto spare parts dealer, Ibeto eventually branched out on his own and effectively ended importation of lead acid car batteries in Nigeria in the late 80s. The result is a conglomerate dealing in hospitality, motor products, real estate, petrochemicals, agriculture and cement.


Cosmas Maduka: One of the country’s foremost car dealerships, Coscharis Group, is the brainchild of a man who lost his father at four and had to drop out of school to sell bean cakes, a popular food staple. His company, one of the largest car dealerships in Nigeria that deals with BMW, Jaguar, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce, has diversified into agriculture.


Innocent Chukwuma: Another school dropout, he is the founder of Innoson Nigeria Limited which produces sport utility vehicles, commercial buses and passenger cars at the first indigenous assembly plant in Nigeria. The company has factories in Nnewi and Enugu and has the governments of Anambra and Enugu states, as well as a few federal agencies, among its customers.


Gabriel Chukwuma: The elder brother of Innoson, Gabriel is invested in sports, real estate and hospitality. As chairman of Gabros International Football Club, he oversaw its rise into the Nigerian Premier League and partnership with English side, West Ham FC before selling to fellow Nnewi entrepreneur, Ifeanyi Ubah. He began business as a patent medicine dealer.


Alexander Chika Okafor: Chicason Industries, and one of its products – A-Z Petroleum, are household names in Nigeria. The conglomerate has made significant inroads in the mining, manufacturing, and real estate in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Okafor, its founder and chairman, was named in 2011 by the Senate as one of the beneficiaries of the subsidy fraud under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, pocketing as much as N18 billion ($54 million).


Augustine Ilodibe: An orphan and mass server in the Catholic church, young Ilodibe was gifted £35 by one of the priests and he initially invested in motor spare parts trading. By the sixties, he pioneered the interstate luxury bus transport service; for years, he was the sole importer of these buses. After helping organize vehicles for the Biafran side during the civil war, he established the hugely popular Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport, his main cash cow and later diversified into brewery and agriculture.


Ifeanyi Ubah: The flamboyant businessman funded parts of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign ahead of the 2015 presidential polls and unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of his home state, Anambra, in 2014. His wealth comes from investments in oil and gas, as well as exportation of motor spare parts and, recently, from sales of football players. In June 2015, Ubah – described by one Nigerian newspaper as ‘the new sugar daddy of Nigerian football’ – completed the purchase of Gabros FC for N500 million and renamed it Ifeanyi Ubah FC.


Louis Onwugbenu: The head honcho of Louis Carter Industries dropped out of school in 1967 when the Nigerian civil war broke out. He got his nickname from weekly trips to Lagos to sell motor spare parts under the popular Carter Bridge in the city. His reinvested profits allowed him to diversify into manufacturing car batteries and pipe fittings, agriculture, food processing, real estate and, by the age of 30, he was already a naira multimillionaire. The headquarters of his conglomerate sits in the Carter Industrial Estate, spanning many acres in Nnewi.


Obiajulu Uzodike: Nigeria is one of the foremost cable producers in the world due to many indigenous manufacturers across the southeast. One of the top cable companies is Cutix Nigeria, whose founder, Obiajulu Uzodike, cut his teeth in the business as a staff at a US-based aircraft and military wires and accessories company. By 1982, the Harvard Business School alumna and civil war veteran set up Cutix with N400,000 ($1,200), nurturing it to eventually become the first indigenous firm in the southeast to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Ref: https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/

Some of the biggest headaches with a lot of our android smartphones are running slow, hanging and sometimes freezing. Why does this happen? More often than not it has to do with your device's RAM.

Your phone has two types of storage/memory namely: ROM (Read Only Memory) and RAM (Random Access Memory). Consider your ROM space as your personal library while your RAM is your desk in the library. There are several books in your library but each time you want to read/research you pick some out and put them on your table while you flip through them intermittently doing your thing. Although you might have 100s to 1000s of books on the shelves there is only a few you can have on the table at a time. The fewer you have on the table the easier it is to joggle through them while you work. There is a far lower limit to what you can get on the table for ease of use and at a point the table will be too full to take another one while at the same time you will be significantly slowed down because of the number on the table. The condition on your smartphone is very similar. Add to this the consideration that some of us have very small tables at the library!

Our android phones are rather ‘too smart’ in that to make sure you work very conveniently they actually do not stop/kill a process you have begun. They keep running in the background so you can easily get back to them. This is added to the slew of applications that have to start with your phone in order to give you all the smartness. One for example is the app aptly called ‘phone’ which must start with your phone so you can make and receive calls. Different phones have different things they see as important and decide that they need to automatically start with the phone. You need a notebook each time you are at the library so it is always a fix each time you are there right? Well, you do not need your entire encyclopedia A-Z but the alphabets you are interested in working with; ordinarily. Maybe Einstein does but he is of blessed memory now.

Your android loads, holds and runs most of your apps in the RAM (some few can be moved onto the ROM). So the smaller your RAM the less your phone can take on apps. And you already know how it loves updates right? Well, each update comes making the app even bigger in size (more often than not) meaning that more space will now be taken unlike before. Each app in turn keeps a cache of information by itself so that it can serve you faster when next you come calling. For example, your favorite Facebook app will keep information around so that when next you open it it doesn’t have to get all the information afresh from Facebook servers but only things that have changed since the last time you used it. This saves you a bit of the data cost. Smart, right? Well there is another side to it. Its install size is around 50MB but with time it will cache over three times its original size swelling up to and beyond 200MB! This is filling up the amount of space you have on your table; on your RAM. So for a 512MB RAM phone, coupled with the system apps (remember the 'phone' app?) only the Facebook app can effectively take your beautiful device to the cleaner’s.

You have probably got the picture now. The more apps you have installed, the more space you take up on your RAM and the closer you are to your device acting all kinds of up. From that annoying ‘not enough space to update’ to slowing down to hanging and freezing. It is not your pictures at the zoo that is the problem or the few funny videos your folks have been pushing through on Whatsapp. Those stay on the shelf in the library, on the ROM space. Then, remember there are apps advertised as able to rescue you from all the mess on your phone making it hang, right? Those too take up even more space and is part of your ‘problem’ here.

Some Solutions

1. Get the biggest table you can afford. Buy a phone with the biggest RAM you can afford. Personally I cannot use any phone with less than 2GB of RAM. Unless I am doing some penance.

2. Kill/Stop apps you are not using. Press that button that shows you all open apps and stop all you are no longer using at the moment. You see that icon that says to kill all apps at once? That’s mostly what the app that says it will save you does so why download in the first place taking even more space.

3. Don’t get any app you don’t use. This is too obvious to even have to say.

4. Remove all the apps that came with the phone that you don’t use where applicable. Some are system apps and might not oblige.

5. For those that won’t uninstall I will advise you uninstall the updates and then disable them. This way you keep them at the barest minimum space they can take making sure they don’t download and cache anything.

6. Clean out your cache app by app from time to time. The app will eventually build up another cache of information over time and swell up. But if you are face with low space for app updates this can free things up to allow you get the updates and leave the remainder for the caching job.

PS: This will remove your login into the app and you will need to log back in. So if you do not remember your password you might want to forget I said clean your cache.

7. A number of apps have a ‘lite’ version including the Facebook and Messenger apps. When you are hard pressed for space you might consider get them. Yes they are not as rich looking as the full app.

Expo: The Facebook and (its) Messenger apps are space and battery drainers. If you can do without any or both your device will be happier.

https://www./ram-why-does-your-android-device-slow-down-andor-hangs-amah-paschal

Ok.

It's sad this known propagandist is allowed to have his unsubstantiated notes pushed to the front.

According to a Facebook user by name Kate Bassey, One Seunfumi O Williams who says he is President of ECOWAS youth council, has been scamming people (and it appears mostly young ladies). See her post below.

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE COMMENTING!!! ⚠⚠

Those of you on my friend's list know that I don't jump into conclusions on any issue that arises on social media till I have reasons beyond doubt to do so.
A facebook friend in person of Seúnfúmi O. William was featured on my timeline over a month ago as the President of ECOWAS youth council to inform the public and educate youths. After that engaging session, it's natural for friends who were part of that post to send or accept friend requests to and from him.
Two weeks ago, I got a distress message from him asking for financial assistance. He even mentioned my name in the message he sent (as seen in the screenshot �) to prove its authenticity. I was broke myself so I couldn't ask him for any account details or send him any cash (truth is I suspected it might have been a hacker). The next day, I chatted him up to know if he got help (I had someone run a check on the account's hack history and it was never hacked so I wanted to genuinely help him) and he replied saying yes,he borrowed from a friend of his. So we went on as normal friends.
Then yesterday night, Vincent Deborah reached out to me with information about him asking her for money. She had concluded his account must have been hacked and was telling me because she wanted me to inform him of this development. I curiously asked for the screenshot of what he sent to her........ Lo and behold my brethren, same storyline. I was shocked!!! I still kept my cool and decided to investigate by finding out who is behind his account.
So I chatted him up. I asked for his number and called him. I spoke with him and asked if he was in Abuja as I needed him to help a friend of mine who needs letter of recommendation (this was to be sure of his location. I didn't need any recommendation for anyone). On that call, he said he was still in Osogbo. hmm I proceeded inbox to verify with the later when he sent her that message and she replied it was same yesterday. WOW right?. I then chatted him back asking for a video call via facebook (this was to be sure of whoever was behind the account). He declined it saying he was in a noisy and dark environment and asked that we have a video call today.
This afternoon, I called him via facebook and he was indeed the one that picked and spoke with me LIVE!
So no need mincing words, I chatted him straight up with what had been going on. He called my mobile number (which he saved from our call last night..... I recorded the call) to say that his account was hacked and that I'm NOT the first person telling him such. What
I then insisted that if he knew this all along, it's only reasonable that he makes a post on his wall to warn his contacts as a disclaimer. He didn't want to, so I told him that if he didn't do that in 10mins.... I would do it myself.
Here... is the interesting part, he made a post!.
I and other people commented and it was obvious more people had gotten similar message and his replies were contradicting.
Before I could reply him with a proof that his number wasn't registered on true caller, he deleted the post!!

THAT ACCOUNT HAS NEVER BEEN HACKED!!!!

This is a notice to the general public to be aware. I would not know such and be quiet.Something isn't adding up.



https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1280414865413992&id=100003364726740

nasiest:
Yeah.. .#kebite#

Hia

Hia
Panadol on top anoda pesin headache.
Odikwa egwu.

lofty900:
didn't u read the part where I said they were interrogated? They were caught by midnight, lynched in the morning. They had enough time to explain

Explaining to a mob? You need to check a dictionary for the word "mob" or perhaps you need a brain check.

This account is supposed to be by university students right? Is it just me or is the grammar really terrible?: both the interviewer and the guest. Na wa o.

Meanwhile RIP to those poor guys.

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CrescentMoon:
The first time I became aware of me falling sick was in 2007. I was 26 at the time. Since then it has been a myriad of medical troubles.

It has been cycles of malaria, bacterial infections, disc problems and headache. Every night, I take drugs before I could be able to sleep. I always have antimalarials, antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants handy. If malaria symptoms occur, I would take antimalarials and there would be improvement within minutes. And would then complete the dosage in 3 days. By fourth day, symptoms of bacteria infection would occur; I would take ciprofloxacin and get relieved within minutes. Once I complete the dosage, headache would strike, and once aspirin is taken, I get well. But I would keep repeating aspirin every night until gastric ulceration sets in. I would then buy omeprasole and cimetidine to treat ulcer. While ulcer treatment is ongoing, malaria would strike again, and I would take antimalarials. If antimalarials don't work, I would know that the symptoms are bacterial and take antibiotic. If there is no relief, I would combine antimalarials and antibiotic and there would be a relief. It has been like this since 2007. I don't go to hospital again because I have grown to know these symptoms and what doctors would prescribe.

For the past 2 weeks, I have been battling 'herniated disc' problem in my lower back. It started the day I bent down suddenly and I heard a snapping sound at my back bone. I started using norflex, calcium supplement and diclofenac. I feel mild relief because I can't stop my daily hustle to rest while the disc heals. If I dont work in a day, I won't eat or pay bills.

Note that I undergo HIV test almost weekly.

How do the poor tackle medical problems in this hellhole of a country?

Lalasticlala, please help me move this to fp.

I feel you totally. I have a similar problem but a combination of circumstances has helped me get my own under control. Drop a number I can give u a call or send u a whatsapp msg lemme give you some tips. You can adjust to this thing. Don't give up.

davedy:
Bros Ubah u know what?
U be celebrated thief
U know DAT u r a thief
Me know DAT u r a thief
Ur ppl knows DAT u r thief
Nigerians knows DAT u r thief
So who don't know DAT u r thief like obi and d rest politicians

somebody dey owe u 1 milla and never pay, dem come give you 900k make u give am, wetin u go do?

hm.

yeye gofment.

Turning people into heroes through detention.
And dem go come say na democrazy we dey. or, demo-crazy. ah, they are correct then. carry go.