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Nairaland General › Re: This Is What Will Happen If Nigerians Are Allowed To Defend Themselves With Guns by SmartyPants(m): 11:34am On Apr 01, 2022

AmazonTopaz:
Tell dem ooo.

They don't know that is when people will be using guns to settle personal vendetta's against people and they will get away with the crime because nothing ever works well in Nigeria and police may never trace them.
They can easily plead self-defence if evidence is not strong enough to hold them one thing Nigerian law got right is banning easy access to weapons

@Reinaldo

Self defense is not easy to plead for murder

Nairaland General › Re: This Is What Will Happen If Nigerians Are Allowed To Defend Themselves With Guns by SmartyPants(m): 11:32am On Apr 01, 2022

MadeINchenzen2:
https://www.nairaland.com/7056856/ado-doguwa-nigerians-must-allowed

It is a no brainer to even think of that as a good idea to curb the menace of unprecedented insecurity in the country, eg. kidnapping, unprovoked attacks and killings, banditry and terrorism that's bedeviled the country for over a decade.

Ado Doguwa a member of the house of representatives has this as a plan to stop insecurity. But I think the multiplier effects of doing so will be so enormous and overwhelming.

That action can automatically throw the country into a sudden civil war, and guess who the targets will be.... THE LEADERS THEMSELVES and that's because we are where we are because leaders in Nigeria have failed to do the right thing.

What do you think will happen if an angry and hungry man is being allowed to have access to guns? Well ur guess is as good as mine.

It will mean more jobs for witch doctors, who will get more customers to do "Odeshi" otherwise known as traditional bullet-proof.

People will shoot to kill at the slightest and most ridiculous provocation.

There will be aggrieved persons trying to purge, themselves of pain through retaliation, just to settle old scores.

A good percentage of people in the country has fallen into an unimaginable pit of depression and a lot of them are already suicidal.

Psychological disorder and bad mental health is also an issue... people are trying to manage mid-life crisis, and then u let such person handle a gun? hehehe

More organ harvesters. More kidnapping, more terrorism, more banditry. Excessive and untold lawlessness. Rights will be violated !!!

There will be more brutal domestic violence.

The police and military will quit their jobs.

The list is endless.... if everyone has access to weapons to defend themselves then it will be accurate to say that its is finished.

But on a second thought.... if people are allowed to defend themselves and only if they can afford to buy the weapons for themselves then it leaves the rich and middle class enough impetus to send the country to abyss.

1 fairly used AK47 is more than a million naira

I don't know where rhe idea that Nigerians cant own guns came from.

You can apply for, and own hunting grade guns.

Sports › Re: 2022 World Cup: Eguavoen Resigns As Eagles Coach After Playoff Defeat To Ghana by SmartyPants(m): 11:30am On Apr 01, 2022

Agbegbaorogboye:
Our opponents scored first. In a big game, when you score first, you tone down on attack and focus more on disrupting your opponent's rhythm.
More importantly, our opponents in those the games stopped us from scoring from open play. That's 270minutes of kicking the ball around and not able to score. That does not happen out of cluelessness.

So you're saying Ghana were happy to play out 90 minutes at home without scoring? Was that clueful of them?

And all of this is discoubting that fact that the two goals scored in that 270 minutes were pure errors. None of our opponents has played well against us.

Sports › Re: 2022 World Cup: Eguavoen Resigns As Eagles Coach After Playoff Defeat To Ghana by SmartyPants(m): 10:36am On Apr 01, 2022

Agbegbaorogboye:
It's not about the statistics bro. Did you watch those matches? The players were clueless. That's why it was so easy for Tunisia and Ghana. The tactics is always to give the ball to the wingers and watch them perform magic. Who does that if not a clueless coach. The wings were over-relied on and the opponents knew. Playing such a team is very easy

Bro as you watched those games did you not also observe that our opponents looked just as clueless? That is what happens when big teams play. They nullify each other.

Sports › Re: Augustine Eguavoen Did A Fine Job As Super Eagles Coach (Unpopular Opinion) by SmartyPants(op): 10:34am On Apr 01, 2022

engroke:
I disagree with you, the Nationla team is not where u come to experiment or hope to improve your CV, Eguavoen failed and he knows it all this grandstanding should just stop.

He was aware if the task ahead and should have rejected the job if he knew he wont be able to cope with the pressure that comes with it. The moment you agree to take a job, u agree to all liabilities and assets.

Before his appointment, he was the technical director and knows much about the players and the team but he lacks the tactical depth to achieve anything with the team even if he had the whole year to prepare.

As for Rohr, he was not overly poor as he was on course to fulfill his mandate, he qualified us for the world cup in a group that had both Cameroon and Algeria( cameroon were the African champions while Algeria were the number 1 african side then).

Eguavoen understood the task at hand and he couldn't achieve it not to even say that the only top team he defeated in his six games sojourn was EGYPT. NFF should as a matter of urgency look for a coach capable of giving us what we want Thanks

Engineer, are you saying Rohr's 4 - 4 vs Sierra Leone at home was a good result? What of his inability to defeat Cape Verde? The last 4 - 5 games of Rohr's tenure were terrible to watch with unacceptable results! Let's not rewrite history here.

I'm telling you even Pep Guardiola would have struggled to do better in the time frame Eguavoen had. It is simply not enough time to develop and implement a system afresh.

Look at Arsenal with Arteta? Liverpool with Klopp? It took a couple of seasons to get their teams playing well.

I'm also making the point that bar two goal keeping errors, we could very easily have been another Senegal.

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Sports › Augustine Eguavoen Did A Fine Job As Super Eagles Coach (Unpopular Opinion) by SmartyPants(op): 7:59am On Apr 01, 2022

By now it is no news to any Nigerian sports fan, that Augustin Eguavoen and his entire team have been relieved of their duties at the helm of affairs of the Nigerian National team.

Most Nigerians are happy with this development, with some claiming that his immediate predecessor, Gernot Rohr would have delivered better results. However, a simple analysis of events will clearly demonstrate that Eguavoen did a fine enough job given the circumstances.

I will attempt to undertake this analysis by demonstrating, first that Eguavoen has a better record than one might realize, and secondly by comparing the performance of his Super Eagles with that of Afcon winners, Senegal, and runners-up Egypt.

When Gernot Rohr was sacked a few weeks to the Afcon, knowledgeable sportspersons decried the move, citing the difficulty any new coach would face in setting up the team to play to his own patterns. In analyzing Eguavoen, therefore, it must first be understood that the new boss was operating under extreme pressure, with little to no time to work with the players, play friendly games, and so forth. He was thrust immediately into the challenge of the Afcon and the subsequent challenge of world cup qualifying.

In this sense, Eguavoen eventually became a victim of his own success.

Few Nigerians, or football fans anywhere, would have expected Nigeria to defeat Egypt, talkless of the ease with which it was done. Egypt would go on to be the eventual tournament runners up, slaving out draw after draw. Interestingly, Senegal, the eventual winners, adopted a similar approach in getting to the final, barely managing 9 goals in open play in the entire tournament. For some perspective, vincent Aboubakar of Cameroun scored 8 goals on his own. This fact will be shown to be relevant subsequently.

For now, the point is that, after entering the tournament with very low expectations, coach Eguavoen immediately delighted and raised the expectations of Nigerians by leading the team to three successive wins, while playing some exciting football.

And then came the shock round-of-16 exit at the hands of Tunisia. The Tunisians had studied the Nigerian game plan which was rather simple: pass it to the wingers and let them dribble. The Tunisians set up defensively and effectively contained the threat of the most dangerous nigerian winger, Moses Simon, relying, themselves, on a largely ineffective strategy of counter-attacking.

On the whole, the game appeared set for extra time - barring the intervention of the sublime, or the ridiculous. As it turned out, it was a ridiculous error from fine-boy Maduka Okoye whose poor attempt at saving a speculative long-range drive led to the only goal of the game. This goal was also the first and only goal Nigeria conceded in open play at the Afcon.

I suspect most people would agree with me that there is not much a coach can do about a goal-keeping error. Except, perhaps, play another keeper. So Nigerians began to clamor for the changing of Maduka Okoye. Apparently, Francis Uzoho of some unmemorable club side in Cyprus, or Enyimba's second-choice goalkeeper, John Noble, would be much better options than the pretty boy who is on loan to Sparta Rotterdam from Watford. I admit I was one of those.

So began the qualifying playoff games. Nigerians were prepared to forget the Afcon failure since the prospect of the world cup loomed and Ghana surely would be dispatched easily. Pretty boy Maduka claimed to be ill, though, there are many of us who believe his malaise was/is merely one of discontentment at the abuse he suffered at the hands of irate Nigerians.

The not quite-as-pretty Francis Uzoho, then, to the satisfaction of most Nigerians, was left to reclaim the spot that was once his. It is important to point out that Francis Uzoho was once a highly rated goalkeeper plying his trade in the Spanish top flight.

Eguavoen's team went to Ghana, ostensibly, set up to play for a draw so as to leverage the home advantage in the return leg in Abuja. The game, an ugly 0 - 0 draw played out accordingly. Nigerians, who always expect to win, were disappointed and left grumbling. The coach should have used Ademola Lookman some said. Etebo should have started becasue Bonke was useless others chimed. Moses Simon should be dropped, yet another group chorused.

At the press conference before the game in Abuja, one sports journalist asked Moses Simon whether the coach should yeild to calls to play Ademola Lookman since he (Moses Simon) had been caged for since the Tunisia game. Eguavoen, appears, now, to have listened to all of these voices. In the second leg in Abuja, he dropped Moses Simon for the first time, starting new boy Ademola Lookman in his place, along with Ogenekaro Etebo in place of Innocent Bonke, and Dennis Emmanuel on the right flank. The court of public opinion had their way, and the results? Predictable.

Ademola Lookman looked unable to cope with the physicality of the opponents, and was ineffective. Etebo lacked match fitness and kept giving the ball away. He was also nowhere to be found when Thomas Partey of Ghana fired off a speculative shot from 5 yards out of the
Nigerian box. That Partey shot was eerily similar to the one Youssef Msakni scored just a few months earlier, to end Nigeria's world cup hopes.

The lanky Francis Uzoho couldn't get down early enough to save the tame shot that sqeezed it's way under his huge frame and into the corner of the net. Apparently, the problem wasn't Maduka's fine face after all. This time, though, unlike in Garoua two months ago, there was an immediate response. Ademola Lookman was brought down in the box and a penalty was awarded after a VAR review.

All the Super Eagles needed to do was score, and we expected that they would. After all the Ghanaians came to joke around right? Wrong! While Nigeria had the upper hand in terms of possession, there was simply no penetrative edge to it all. And so, the sorrow of Garoua became the agony of Abuja.

All of this is now water under the bridge.

Eguavoen and his team have all been sacked by Amaju Pinnick, the NFF don. Interestingly, Pinnick, who hired both Eguavoen and his predecessor Rohr, has now sacked both while he himself remains securely ensconced within the NFF seat of power. Logically, if all the people you hired failed to do a job well then at the very least, it is clear that you are not fit for the role of hiring people for that job. Amaju Pinnick, if he were honorable, should have resigned by now, for overseeing, arguably, the worst Nigerian footballing disaster of the past 20 years!

But that is now beside the point. The real question is, did Augustine Eguavoen really fail to deliver? Let's examine his record.

Of 6 competitive games, Eguvoen's eagles won 3, lost 1, and drew 2. That is a decent record at any level.

And it wasn't as though this team was playing slouches either. The one defeat came to Tunisia, who are going to the world cup after convincingly dispatching West African heavyweights, Mali. The two draws came in fiercely contested ties with arch-rivals Ghana.

This is a decent record for any coach. Much more so for one who has had as little time as Eguavoen has had while being under as much pressure as he has been, from the media and higher-ups in the NFF who have always tried to dictate tactics to him.

Now, to buttress the point, consider the good fortunes of Senegal. Like Nigeria, Senegal played out their world cup qualifying games with an overall draw, conceding once in Cairo, and scoring once in Dakar. Both times by way of an own goal. Their good fortune was winning the resultant penalty shootout. Senegal are also the current Afcon winners, but their displays were boring and intrepid throughout the tournament, relying on the same defense-first strategy Eguavoen employed in the world cup qualifying games.

Their performances were certainly not better than anything Nigeria played. And what of Afcon runners up Egypt? They played through extra-time 4 times, going to penalties 3 of those 4 occasions, and repeating that trend by going to penalties with Senegal in the world cup play offs.

Of the top African teams, objectively analyzed, it is clear that Nigeria under Eguavoen has not performed unexpectedly poorly. Gone are the days of struggling to draw or defeat relative minnows like Cape Verde, or conceding 4 goals in 2 minutes against the likes of Sierra Leone. Eguavoen was on the right path with the Eagles, and given the little time he has had, should have been allowed another year or two at the helm of affairs.

Today, unfortunately, thanks to the grandstanding of Amaju Pinnick and the ever so forgetful Nigerian media, his competent run at the helm of affairs will be wrongly remembered as a calamitous reign of sorrow.

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Sports › Re: 2022 World Cup: Eguavoen Resigns As Eagles Coach After Playoff Defeat To Ghana by SmartyPants(m): 6:46am On Apr 01, 2022*

Impregnable101:
The German coach shouldn't have been sacked! He wouldn't have exited the cup of nations so early and would've taken us to the world cup!

Amaju is my warri brother but he's very stupid

Technically, a record of 3 wins, 1 defeat and 2 draws is extremely competent for a man who had to take the reins just a few weeks to the Afcon.

The two teams we failed to beat are Tunisa and Ghana, top African teams, both going to the world cup.

We've conceded three goals in his time here, all three by individual error.

Are Nigerians not being grossly unfair?

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Politics › Re: Nigerian Army Reacts To Video Of A Soldier Purportedly Abandoned By Colleagues by SmartyPants(m): 4:33am On Apr 01, 2022

relaxandsmile:
You should go and watch that video again and see the fear in his face. Don't believe in these army that will rather protect their image than protect the country.

But las las he has still rejoined his unit abi?

Definitely something was weird about the video.

1. As others have said, how would everyone run away and leave only you?

2. How would a soldier afraid for his life upload a video showing his whereabouts? Bandits are on social media too

Family › Re: How I Sent My Troublesome First Wife Packing Peacefully by SmartyPants(m): 3:29pm On Mar 31, 2022

TheWolfen:
Lol
Congrats!
You didn't give room for women manipulations. When she ask that you come give her the divorce paper ..
That is a trap a lot of men falls for.

But I think you should forgive her if she comes begging with a promise that she will improve on herself.

She didn't cheat on you.
It is only when a woman cheat that i advice men not to haven't anything to do with her anymore

It's like you didn;t notice no one asked for advice cheesy

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Sports › Re: World Cup: Babayaro Names 2 People Responsible For Nigeria’s Failure To Qualify by SmartyPants(m): 12:59pm On Mar 31, 2022

BluntTheApostle:
Babayaro made a lot of sense.

Our players did not even approach the game like there is a longstanding rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana.

How could they approach a Nigeria-Ghana match with that type of non-nonchalance?

What I saw was that the occasion got to them. They were so timid, afraid to pass forward...afraid to dribble, afraid to shoot.

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Sports › Re: FIFA Bans Moshood Abiola Stadium From Hosting International Matches by SmartyPants(m): 12:49pm On Mar 31, 2022

edmaraja:
It was inevitable, they even took it easy on us. I was expecting them to hit us with serious ban and fines.

For a pitch invasion after the game ended? Where is that done?

Politics › Re: As The President Of Nigeria For A Day, What Will Be Your First Project? by SmartyPants(m): 12:47pm On Mar 31, 2022

jammer777:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the complete overhaul of 1999 constitution. Only the birth of citizen's constitution can rescue this failed state. It can't be fully done in 24 hours, but I'll make sure the current constitution is abolished and entrench all apparatus to set the new one in motion, completed and ratified.

Lawmaking, including law reform is not the domain of the executive. That is the work of the National Assembly and in this case the State Houses of Assembly. It is a herculean task that may take years. If that is your first priority as a president, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Politics › Re: As The President Of Nigeria For A Day, What Will Be Your First Project? by SmartyPants(m): 12:40pm On Mar 31, 2022

Without a doubt, it would be fixing the security architecture of the country.This will be done by:

1. Bring IPOB to the negotiating table - withdraw soldiers from their region and devote them to more pressing concerns

2. Fix Nigeria's porous borders so as to eliminate the flow of small arms

3. Direct the CBN to clamp down on all forms of terrorist financing

4. Lobby with foreign nations, the African Union, and neighbors Chad and Cameroun to form a multinational task force funded by Nigeria, to encircle and relentlessly attack known boko haram enclaves.

5. Reforming the law enforcement bodies by:

a. Increasing pay and benefits
b. Increasing entry requirments

Romance › Re: Can Someone Driving A Lexus Be Living In This Kind Of Place(pics) by SmartyPants(m): 12:31pm On Mar 31, 2022

Without supporting or attacking the other guy, i juts want to tell you that this is a very pathetic act.

I mean...how could you be so bothered by someone claiming to own a Lexus?

Okay now that you have shown us his house does it mean your mates are still not driving Lexuses?

Have you solved your real problem, which is poverty?

With your mentality I honestly fear that you are just a few steps away from takong up armed robbery.

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Sports › Re: Austin Eguavoen Resigns As Super Eagles Technical Adviser by SmartyPants(m): 12:16pm On Mar 31, 2022

Faber:

Mumu anti - Igbo coach. Na nationalism and anti- Igbo policy kee you...

You want win and qualify without these guys:

~~Kelechi Nwakali~~ not needed
Kelechi Iheanacho
Winfred Ndidi
~~Simy Nwankwo~~
Samuel Kalu
~~Henry Onyekuru~~
~~Paul Onuachu~~
Kenneth Omeruo
Alex Iwobi
Maduka Okoye...

From the days of Dan Anyiam first Nigerian Captain. Football and sports is the birth right of Igbos and Niger Deltans in Nigeria. Chioma Ajụkwa, Ifeajuna, Blessing Okagbare, Perpetual Nkwocha, Jay Jay Okocha, Kalu, Amuneke, Amokachi, Christian Chukwu, Sunday Chukwuemeka Oliseh, Mikel Obi.
They plenty. But you neglected this.

Look at Canada, USA and France. In Sporting events World Cups, Olympics, etc they field the blacks and they always make them proud. Any section or tribe in the country that are masters in a particular field give them the job. It's a collective glory for the nation. But jealousy no go gree una.

This kind of talk is why Nigeria is in trouble. I was at the game and one northerner beside me kept clamouring for Musa and Sadiq.

I almost slapped his teeth out. But he is just like you, more interested in seeing his personal heroes than in what is best for the teamI

Half of the players you mentioned have gotten their chances with the National team and have not proved themselves, and the other half are injured. The only one I agree with is Iheanacho.

Besides Eguavoen is from Sapele, Delta State, so why do you think he would marginalize Igbos and Niger Deltans??

Sports › Re: Austin Eguavoen Resigns As Super Eagles Technical Adviser by SmartyPants(m): 12:11pm On Mar 31, 2022

WibusJaga:

Quite expected. He is tactically deficient.
Wasn't too excited when I saw our much-changed lineup for that 2nd leg. Gave me the impression Eguaveon has tendency to succumb to public opinions/pressure & that's not a quality of a good coach.

But when will Mr Failure himself resign?

You got that exactly right. I was so disappointed. The media were clamouring for Etebo, Dennis, Lookman and others, so the coach was forced to shoehorn all of them into a starting position.

You don't drop a senior man like Simon in a key game like this when tbh our entire gameplan for the past months has been give it to Simon. Clearly, they don't know how to play without him.

He then put Dennis on the right, and that isn't so bad but it's not his best position, and we have Akinkunmi Amoo who is a natural there. Play him sir!

Etebo was off the pace, and should have been the one closing down Partey, but we knew he wasn't ready. Yet the media clamoured for Bonke to be dropped and Etebo to play. As if a player who has been out for so long can suddenly return to good form.

A top coach must learn to ignore outside voices.

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Politics › Re: Nigerian Soldier Begs God To Protect Him In The Bush After Colleagues Ran Away by SmartyPants(m): 9:49am On Mar 31, 2022

thesicilian:
A well trained soldier shouldn't be terrified of being alone in the bush to the point of making this kind of video.

There is no amount of training that expunges the basic fear of death.

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Romance › Re: Today I Was Very Strict To My Girlfriend And She Did This by SmartyPants(m): 8:29am On Mar 31, 2022

rickleye:
In my eyes you both acted immaturely
1. You had a budget of N3000 ( You said not more than N3000) - So when the food was ordered it was less than N450 she wanted plantain. Let her have the damn plantain. !!!
2. Because she didn't get what she wanted she takes the food , doesn't eat it and in addition moves away from you ( Is she 16 ? ) I mean common.
3. You too vex and then apart from your food, you ate hers as well. So at the end you consumed 2600N all by yourself which is more than you had agreed upon.

There has to be more than binds you together than this episode if you really love her.
Talk to her that you find her behaviour childish that because the food was under the budget did not mean we should spend it all. We could have used the remaining money for something else. You will however find in relationships there are some battles you avoid to win the war. If you want to have whoopie, let her have the damn plantain because she will pay with copulation later on. Its give and take later on.

The bolded is really alarming.

Paying for sex with plantain is your own idea of maturity?

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Romance › Re: Today I Was Very Strict To My Girlfriend And She Did This by SmartyPants(m): 8:27am On Mar 31, 2022

funshint:
You weren't matured about this. Since you've already gotten your test result, why still go into control mode by disallowing her from using the rest to buy her dodo? Don't play money games with a woman again, even the one that pretends to be conservative during courtship may change when you marry. You can't know a woman fully until you marry her. Just pray to God to give you plenty money. Besides can't she cook?

There is nothing like he wasn't mature about it.

You cannot dictate to a man how to spend his money simply to please an ingrate.

Are you telling me that maturity is doing whatsoever your woman desires?

Some of you need to be woken up with slaps each morning. That's to help your brain align well.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: What Happened When I Went For An Interview At Lekki by SmartyPants(m): 6:18am On Mar 31, 2022

pocohantas:
Lekki offices?

I don’t trust any organization located in a residential area. Forgive me, my experience (not directly) with Lekki offices have been nothing short of disappointing.

They don’t pay well.

They are experts at big tags; Team Lead on a salary of 80k. No be to lead the team astray?

No defined or clear career growth.

No laid down organizational hierarchy. So a lot of asslicking, bullying and whistleblowing goes on there.

As for the HR, that is a typical unprofessional and uncompassionate Nigerian HR.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 4:30pm On Mar 30, 2022

LagBlogger:
You just want to argue for argument sake.

If you like make it 5 reasons to not pay staff poorly, workers have freedom to turn down a job offer and you can't pay more than your business revenue can sustain.

Since you care so much employ whoever you like and pay them millions.

At a certain level the law will completely disregard an argument that the employee could have rejected the offer because the law recognizes the unequal bargaining position of the parties. You're commenting from a position of ignorance so I won't engage with you anyway.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 3:51pm On Mar 30, 2022

shantti:
For a small farm that doesn't earn much profit, yes, it's moderate.
I forgive u for your last statement

That post was typed in the heat of anger. I've deleted it.

May your business grow and may your generosity grow with it.

Cheers.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 3:48pm On Mar 30, 2022

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 3:40pm On Mar 30, 2022

shantti:
U live in a world of illusion. U haven't heard of starting small. Many major businesses started small while making no profits at all

Nonsense.

Even if your business is starting small, I have told you that you must factor the cost of employees before you start and if at that cost you do not make profit long term then you must not start the business. And if it takes you paying staff peanuts to make profits then you still don't have a business.

It's that simple. Your wickedness and selfishness is just overwhelming your brain.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 3:34pm On Mar 30, 2022

[quote author=shantti post=111503984][/quote]Guy if your profit is 20k for real, you don't have a business. You and your staff are just making each other miserable.

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Career › Re: With A Capital Of N2M: Should I Relocate To Europe Or Open A Pharmacy In Nigeria by SmartyPants(m): 3:33pm On Mar 30, 2022

Tiwatope1:
Good day Nairalanders!
I need to make an informed decision.
I have a Capital of 2M , should I open a pharmacy/ chemist in Nigeria or Move to Europe,I also have baking skills.
I'm confused on which part to follow
P.s I'm not a pharmacist but experienced in that field.

Where in Europe? What pathway do you want to use to get there?

Some countries like Denmark and Belgium are doable using the study route but you don't even have enough money to start with.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 3:28pm On Mar 30, 2022

LagBlogger:
Don't talk like that. Do you know how unprofitable poultry business is? Plus maybe they provided accommodation and free feeding.

Poultry farms are struggling to survive.

Crafteck1:
If hes bigger than the job he wouldn't be there, a boy that just finished secondary school and has parents.... The ootion is 6 boys at 20k or 2 overworked staff at 60k.
Then to clarify payment schemes more for you, i have a staff on 35k monthly, 3 meals daily(1k5),total benefit is over 100k.

mfm04622:
Have you asked the size of the business?
Was he forced to take the job?

shantti:
What is ur own. Remember that they will always pay him irrespective of if they encountered a loss that month. Making profit in Nigeria is so tough.

OlujobaSamuel:
Just because the word "manager" was used doesn't mean the business would have sufficient fund for top notch services with commensurate pay.
How many birds are in the pen, how many staff is the owner paying, if the pen is having 500 or less layers, at #25k per month pay for the manager, the owner might not even be able to go home with #50k at month end on average in a year

Three reasons why you must not pay your staff ridiculous wages:

1. It is illegal

The minimum wage in this country is a pittance at 35k monthly. Shockingly you still want to pay someone 20 - 25 k.

What can he do with that? Can he rent even a chicken coop to sleep in for that amount of money? Transport himself to work and back? Can he aspire to raise a family?

2. It is wicked and manipulative

One person said the total benefits amount to 100k but the actual salary is 35k. If not for being a manipulator, who wants to keep those staff below a certain level, why not pay them the 100k and let them manage their money? The truth is you probably don't want them to have any savings so that you can keep them forever.

3. It makes no business sense

When starting a business you must factor in staff costs. If after paying your staff at least, minimum wage, you still can't take home a reasonable proft, you really don't have a business. Shut it down!

But to expect that someone on slave wages of 20k should be handled your profits without feeling sorely tempted to play a smart one on you, shows a lack of prudence in management.

One other person up there said was he forced? Yes! Only the most desperate of individuals would accept 25k as a monthly salary. But clearly, there is desperation and hunger in the land so at all at all naim bad pass.

Does that mean you should exploit the desperation of your fellow man?

Honestly, it is sad to say but it seems as though the default inclination of the average Nigerian is wickedness.

All of you will then turn around and complain about bad selfish leaders but look at what you're supporting?!

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 1:58pm On Mar 30, 2022

18wheeler:
Guy was on 25k monthly salary managing wife's farm. He entered a supply deal with indomie&chips woman across the road. He would steal eggs in the night and sell to her. Dude was taking approximately 30% share of the proceeds.

25k a month as a manager?

Are you and your wife wicked?

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 1:55pm On Mar 30, 2022

englishmart:
I won a contract sometime in 2018, hired a team of 25 well paid experts and a couple of maladroit workers who we prefer to call labours. During the project, one of my staff cornered a potential contract that I had been pursuing. A contract that was worth at least #24m. He accepted to execute the project for 13m, and was paid a mobilisation of 6.5m to commence.
To cut the story short, this very Yoruba snitch did a bad job, wasted materials and couldn't deliver 1/10th the project. He later begged me to help him finish up the project but the amount he bargained was far below par. Ebn the cost of workmanship alone was worth more. He was later arrested, detained and currently serving at Ikoyi prison. As a kind-hearted Man from the east, I've been working arduously to get him out on bail. The bail is 5.3m, and I'm confident he'll be out soon.
Though I still hobnob with Yoruba guys, but I ensure it's done with at least a 3.3km long spoon

What exactly did he do wrong to you?

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Business Owners, Whats Your Experience With Bad Staff by SmartyPants(m): 1:53pm On Mar 30, 2022

Crafteck1:
My friend owns liquor store, sells hundreds of thousands a day but accountability is never easy, he caught one of his boys stealing a pack of andre(4500x6),on arresting him he discovered his its been going on for long, a boy on 20k salary has been lodging in 25k per night hotels, on checking his phine, he de use drink of 60k wash hand for club, dey carry different gitls up an down, using 180k iPhone still bought same phone for a girl..

Do you know the number of Nigerian companies that used thousands of Dollars to send the staff abroad for two to three years training with the expectation the staff will work for them for at least 10 years, all of a sudden when the stuff is done he decides that he is bigger than the job and leaves, do you think the company would ever try that with anyone else workers are the most poisonous of all, generally they don have pity, they would steal until the business crashes.

20k salary? Your friend is worse than the boy

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Crime › Re: My Womanizing Friend Took Loans From 40 Fast Loan Companies by SmartyPants(m): 12:59pm On Mar 30, 2022

hotwax:
Thank you. But to those threatning to come and arrest me. I know I will come out free. But I hate police arrest. I have never been arrested by police in my life.

So preempt them - report the companies and your friend to the police.

What you don't seem to understand yet, is that anyone who can put your life in danger for their own selfish and trivial ends is not your friend.

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Sports › Re: World Cup Qualifying: Cameroon Join Senegal, Ghana, Morocco & Tunisia To Qatar by SmartyPants(m): 12:50pm On Mar 30, 2022

27Pushing30:
The country is in central Africa #Simple

Na you dey talk story .

So if the country is in central Africa why did you say they can join ECOWAS if they want?

Are you confused?

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