₦airaland Forum

mario22:
does the therapist work?

You are still asking? A woman that has more anger than a man would surely kill him.

don4real18:
Some months ago, I was supposed to get married to a lovely lady (Alias-Celia) whom I thought the universe made just for me. I find it unfortunate that this beautiful story was just never meant to be. This write-up is my story.
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Five years ago, while we both stared at the moon sitting in my compound and telling tales of our childhood, I studied her profile. She had a perfect-shaped jaw with rounded edges, full lips, and her ability to smile with so much ease. Her skin glowed against the moonlight, and her aura filled with so much innocence. It was no surprise when I finally popped the question asking her to be my girlfriend.

Four days later, I got a yes as her reply, and it became a beautiful relationship. Our companionship was a show of true love, or so I thought. She taught me to be a better kisser, and I made her be a better lover. We did almost everything together, and when challenges came, we solved them even though she was stubborn; A bit more than me.

Many moons down the line of love and sometimes distrust, she was to relocate to the FCT, the state where her family resides. I knew I was going to miss her, and it wasn't easy letting her go.

We did part ways at the airport, and ever since then, we were always on calls. I did notice later that I did most of the calling, and as time went on as it must, the regular calls became once in a while, and soon, it became longer.

I did play a little with other girls and tried getting into a relationship with others, but it just didn't work out. Perhaps, I wanted the kind of love that they could not give in return. It was no surprise when years later, my calls with Celia became regular and, I didn't mind doing most of the calling.

Soon, I traveled to Abuja, and she didn't seem enthusiastic about seeing me, even though my love clawed at my heart with a renewed burst of energy. This time, I decided that I wouldn't let go. I stayed in FCT for a while, I met her family, and I guess her feelings returned.

I returned to Lagos to continue working, and some months down the line, I was in Abuja again to see the one that I loved. We agreed that she would have to come to Lagos, and some months after I left Abuja, she arrived in the rowdy Lagos.

She met my family, and I popped the question, "will you marry me?" in a romantic atmosphere, and she was so happy that she was going to spend the rest of her life with me.

We made plans until the event of Corona took place, and it greatly affected my business. I became broke, but that didn't stop me from traveling to 3 different states to meet her family members and her pastor in FCT.

We did agree that we were going to have a small wedding, and the day of the introduction came, and I traveled with my family, spent a lot of money on hotel bills, etc. It did go well, and that was when it started.

She reneged on our agreement on the size of the wedding. She told me that she wanted to have her dream wedding although she had no money. I could not bring myself to spend so much on a wedding only to end up eating hand to mouth in my marriage. It became a back and forth argument. Her dad wanted it small, but her siblings wanted it big. My mum did try to advise her, but she felt my mum shouldn't have a say in her wedding being a supposed generation Z.

I did have to look for ways she would be happy without spending too much. Then the counseling issue came, and I was informed to come back to Abuja by her pastor. It was inconvenient, so I told her to recommend virtual counseling because I'm not ready to go and spend a lot staying there. She was mad at my response, saying that it was disrespectful, suggesting such to a supposed man of God, making it disrespectful to God.

I did try to let her know that we could use the money to do something else, but she was adamant. After some time, I did succumb to her demand, but she felt that it should not have led to an argument in the first place and decided to call the wedding off. I tried calming her down and even suggested that we postpone it, but she wouldn't budge with a reason so petty. It hurt at first. It made me lose focus for a while, but I guess I've pretty patched up now hence my decision to share with you all.

God bless us all.

Go and thank God if what you wrote up there is true.

BigCabal:
Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others will be bougie. All the time, it’ll be revealing.


Between 2016 and 2020, the biggest flex for the 25-year-old in this #NairaLife was rising to the top of the ladder at the factory where he worked, and he did it. But he quit the job in 2021. While this has affected his finances, it’s all part of a grand plan.


Do you remember your earliest memory of money?[/b]

Yes. In 2001 or 2002, I found a Biafran bank note in my dad’s diary. I was fascinated because it was different from the naira notes I was familiar with. I asked my parents, and they told me about the history of the currency. They also showed me some coins we used pre-independence. It was quite an experience.

[b]I bet. What was it like growing up though?

My parents were on the shorter end of the financial ladder. They were farmers although my dad did some trading on the side. Money was not easy to come by. As I grew, I began to understand what it meant to have money and what you could miss out on when you didn’t. I realised early that my parents couldn’t do everything for me even if they wanted to. I had to hustle on my own and make money. I’ve been on that journey since that time.

When did the hustle start for you?

The moment I got into secondary school in 2008. I grew up in the south-south, and most of the people I knew on the streets worked on people’s farms to get money. Farming wasn’t my thing, so I went for a job at a sawmill. I did everything there was to do there — from clearing sawdust from the mills, taking stock of the inventory and sorting out the wood when they arrived. I worked from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays because of school and earned between ₦500 and ₦700. But I worked full time on weekends and a very good day at work fetched me ₦1500.

How long did you work at the sawmill for?

From 2008 to 2015 when I left secondary school. After I graduated from secondary school, I got another job to manage a cold room and the salary was ₦15k. I won’t lie, it was big money for me. For context, one of my friends got a job as a teacher a little earlier than I did and his salary was ₦5k.

However, I knew that I didn’t want to manage a cold room forever. I wanted to go to university. In 2015, I bought a JAMB form and applied to study law at a university in the south-south. I scored 297 in the UTME examination and 71 in post-UTME. I thought that was going to be enough. The first admission list was released, and I didn’t find my name on it. The second and third lists were followed, my name wasn’t on those either. The last list was a supplementary list and people said I needed to pay or have connections at the university to make that list. I didn’t have the money or the connection, so I let it go.

My second plan was to move to Lagos to find work. I was talking with a friend, and he told me that his older brother was working in Lagos and earning ₦50k per month, which seemed like a lot of money. So I left home for Lagos.

After a few months in Lagos, I checked the portal again and found out that I had been offered French Education. I didn’t accept it. I should have been in the merit list.

I’m sorry about that. When did you move to Lagos?

February 2016. I knew nobody in Lagos and arrived on a Friday with ₦7k in my pocket. For the first week, I was on the streets looking for a factory to work in. I slept in bus parks at night and freshened up in public bathrooms in the mornings. After three days of looking for work, I did something funny.

What?

My money had run down to ₦3k. I was beginning to get scared and thinking about going back home. So I spent the remaining money on food. Now, I couldn’t go home even if I wanted to.

Wild.

One of my sisters called me the following day and when she found out that I had gone to Lagos without an accommodation arrangement, she was mad at me. But she contacted someone. The person introduced me to one of his friends and told him about what brought me to Lagos. Luckily, the person agreed that I could stay with him. I lived with him for two years, and he helped me find my first job.

Lit. Tell me about the job.

He fixed me with some people who drilled boreholes. They paid me ₦2k for each day I worked with them, but the problem was that the jobs weren’t regular. After working with them for a month, I was anxious about getting a proper job and told the guy who took me in about it. He introduced me to someone in a sachet water factory where I was offered a job as a stacker. This was March 2016.

What does a stacker do?

A stacker moves the bags of water from the production room to the loading point and also loads the bags into the trucks for distribution. Every new person who joins the factory starts as a stacker. The job paid ₦800 per day and I got paid once every two weeks. The working hours weren’t fixed, though. Once we started working at 7 a.m, we could be there until 8 or 9 p.m or later depending on sales that day.

Omo.

Three weeks after I started working at the factory, I came to work earlier than usual one morning and saw some guy I hadn’t met working one of the machines and packing the sachet water into bags at the same time. It wasn’t my job, but I felt the need to help him. I joined him and started packing the water into the bags while he operated the machine. I struggled with it for a while but I got the hang of it. When we finished, he asked me, “Do you want to be a packer?”

Wait, who was he?

It turned out that he was the section head and managed my production unit. A packer is a step above a stacker, and what the packer does is to fit the sachets of water into the bag. 20 sachets of water go into one bag. They earn ₦2 for every bag they pack and the slowest person packs at least 1000 bags daily. That’s more money than I was earning as a stacker.

I guess you said yes to the job.

I did. I told him I’d like to and he asked me to start the following day. However, I wasn’t going to be paid for the first three days.

Why was that?

I had to undergo training and show that I knew how to do the work. It turned out that I was good at it. Within four days, I was doing 2000 bags of water per day. I made ₦17400 in my first week as a packer.

I had just joined the factory and moved up a ladder. Most people spend a year or more working as a stacker. Can you imagine how that felt? I called my mum and told her to go and open a bank account so I could send money to her.

Aww.

The work continued. I made more money during the dry season when there was more demand for water. I could make up to ₦25k in two weeks or ₦60k in a month. But during the rainy season, my earnings dropped to an average of ₦11k- ₦12k every two weeks and ₦24k in a month.

That’s interesting. How long did you do this for?

I was a packer for one year and six months. I was still living with the guy who took me in. My original plan was to save aggressively for three months and find my own apartment. But I realised how expensive living in Lagos was. But when he started preparing to get married in 2018, I knew it was time to leave.

What did you do?

I joined a contribution scheme with nine other people at work. Each person dropped ₦10k every two weeks and one person took it all. I was the first person to get paid, and I used the money to rent my first apartment which cost ₦42k. The next four months was me paying everyone back their money.

Phew. How was work going during this time?

After I rented the apartment, I thought it was time to move a step up in the factory and become an operator. The operators work the machines and fix minor issues. I approached a senior operator in my department and told him my plans. We agreed that he would pay me ₦5k for however long I stayed with him, but I had to stop working as a packer in the factory and work with him all the time. I spent one year with him and he didn’t pay me ₦5k every month like he promised.

Tough. How did you survive that?

At the end of each day at the factory, I helped the truck drivers load bags of water into their trucks and followed them around for distribution. This brought in between ₦200 and ₦500 per day, and that was what I lived on.

I finished my training in June 2019. The next step was getting a machine to operate, but I would find out that there was a lot of politics involved. When I didn’t get a machine immediately, I returned to being a packer. But I was calm about it. I knew I had upgraded my skills, and it was only a matter of time before I would be offered a machine to operate.

The confidence. But did it happen?

In August, the production manager called me and said there was an available machine I could operate. An operator earns more than double what a packer does. My monthly earnings rose to ₦100k – ₦120k. Six months later, something big happened.

Tell me.

The section head of my unit resigned and someone else replaced him. But one day, he made a terrible mistake that could have put us all in danger, so he was asked to resign. Guess who they asked to become the new section head? Me. This was June 2020.

Whoop Whoop!

Within four years, I went from being a stacker, to a packer, to an operator, then to the section head. I still had to operate machines in my new role but I was now operating two machines instead of one. Also, all ten machines in my unit were under my management. I’d climbed to the top of the ladder.

Well done. How did this affect your income?

It increased to an average of ₦220k a month. But nothing much changed in the way I spent money. I was never used to luxurious things, and I didn’t intend to start then. The only thing that changed was the amount of money I sent home. I started sending about ₦70k – ₦80k home every month after the promotion.

What about your plans to return to school?

I enrolled in a long-distance programme at a university in 2020. I was promoted three months after I started classes, and it changed everything. I would leave my house by 4 a.m and return by 11 p.m. from Monday to Sunday. There wasn’t any time to study. After trying and failing to make both things work, I made the rational decision and suspended my studentship.

Oof.

A year later, I quit my job.

Ah!

See, I was spending a lot of money on medical expenses. It was as high as ₦20k in some weeks. My body kept breaking down because of how stressful the job was, and I started to realise that it wasn’t worth it. I decided to leave in April.

What was your finances looking like at the time?
I had bought a half-plot of land for ₦450k in February, so I could point to something I got from my years at the factory. It affected my savings, though. I had ₦300k saved up when I left.

I see. What came after you quit.

For the first two weeks, after I quit, I was going around Lagos trying to figure out what next I could do. Then I went to this rich neighbourhood on the Island and the first thing I noticed was how bad their water system was. I was like, “There is an opportunity here if I could provide a solution to this problem.” An idea of what I could do next came immediately: plumbing and water system management.

I had experience with water treatment because of my years working in a water production company but to really stand a chance of selling my services, I needed additional skills and a certificate to show for it. I went back home and started researching technical institutes I could go to to learn plumbing. I found one in a state in the southwest. I enrolled for a year diploma course in May and tuition was ₦250k. I used the rest of my savings to pay for this. That’s where I’m studying right now.

Man! You aren’t earning at the moment?

I’m still working here and there. I travel to Lagos every weekend to work at factories where I know people, and this brings about ₦10k every weekend. It’s a lot less than what I was earning three months ago, but I don’t spend a lot of money in school. I live in a hostel and cook my meals. The only problem is that I can’t send money home anymore. But they will be alright. It’s just for a year.

What does your running costs currently look like?

At the moment, I earn an average of ₦35k every month.

I’m not saving at the moment because there is no money left to keep. But I have an emergency fund of ₦10k for when I fall sick. If I use it, I return the money.

What part of your finances do you think you could be better at?

I’m always tempted to do more than I can handle. Small money enters like this, and a thousand ideas follow. That’s when I’ll be thinking of buying a refinery and competing with Dangote. Then I end up doing nothing. It’s a habit I’m trying to outgrow.

Haha. What are your next steps after you get your diploma?

First things first, I’d work with a plumbing firm for six months. I don’t even mind if they pay me or not, but I need the experience. After that, I can now start thinking about setting up my own business. I’ll probably need to sell the land to get the money I need for that.

How much do you imagine will set you up?

₦3m should get me started on the kind of business I have in mind. But I’ll probably have to start with less than that.

Rooting for you. Where do you see all of this in five years?

By that time, I expect to be making at least ₦5m in a year. There’s the opportunity to do so in Lagos but if it doesn’t work, I’ll move to my plan B.

I’m listening.

I have people in Dubai, and while it’s not very easy to get in anymore, it’s still one of the most accessible places to migrate to, and they always need skilled workers. The last time I inquired about the cost, they said ₦800k will get me there. If I ever need to move, that’s something to consider.

Back to the present, have you spent money on anything that made you feel good recently?

Yes, my phone. I bought it in December 2020 for ₦80k. After the land and my school fees, this is the most money I have spent on anything. But the experience so far has been amazing. The money is worth it.

Nice. What about something you want but can’t afford?

I don’t think there’s anything I want right now. I’m only praying that everything clicks when the time comes to start my plumbing business. Aside from this, I’m good.

I’m curious about how your experiences have shaped your perspective about money.

I’ve moved from seeing money as a piece of paper with a fascinating history to an important part of human existence. I know what money can buy and the things it can change. In my line of work, I’ve had to put up with a lot of people who talk down on me because I don’t have as much money as they do. So yes, I see money as an instrument. Also, I know money is not coming in at the moment, but I’m not scared. I’ve built a reputation I can bank on over the years, and if I get into a tight spot now, I know the people I can call to help me. That’s very important too.

Word. How would you rate your financial happiness on a scale of 1 – 10?

5. I know I deserve more money, but I can’t kill myself as it hasn’t come yet. I don’t feel too bad about it because I’m trying my best. I can’t wait to have my diploma and start working on my plans. Even if it doesn’t pick up immediately, I’d be confident that something good is about to happen to me. Just starting that business will take me to a 9.

Source: [url]https://www.zikoko.com/money/naira-life/nairalife-the-factory-worker-who-went-from-%e2%82%a6220k-to-%e2%82%a635k-month/[/url]

The major problem is his happiness score 5 out of 10. Whether you have or not your happiness should be close to 10.

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OlamusConsult:
It's easy.. Contact your bank.
Tell them you need to deactivate your ATM card.
Then you can get a new one.

I have personally changed atm for someone and she was debited again. Let's be careful when buying things online. And the debit have the new atm card details.

ProJectAnatot:
Hmm. Devaluation . Nawao... And our income is not increasing!! Till when is someone suppose to endure all this?..
Government is cutting cost, not paying salaries on time, increasing and creating unnecessary VAT and yet inflation is still dealing with the little that is left for the citizens to manage!
God pls help us!

You are right! God's kingdom is the only solution to mankind's problems.

CaveAdullam:
1. Naira depreciation.

2. Money printing.

3. Low investments in human capital.

4. Low investments in basic infrastructures.

5. Fall in oil price.

6. Inappropriate governmental policies.

7. The reticent state of the judiciary.

8. Low trust.

9. High immorality.

10. The misplacement of rationalism.

11. Poor security system.

Etc.

Thanks.

On the contrary, number 5 is rise in all price to a 3 year high accompanied by a devaluation of the naira, makes the common man worse for it.

ProJectAnatot:
The rate of inflation of general commodities especially food items is alarming to me . I have been in the southeastern part of the country since the end of January and some commodities like bread, soft drinks and even food have inflated by up to 50% since January. Please I am really confused about this situation.
And also surprisingly no one is talking about it..
Economists and analysts in the house is there any particular reason for this fast inflation... Is it oil?, naira? Incompetence? Or even corruption? Fulani herdsmen? flood? I am really being sincere with my question!

Good afternoon.

The devaluation of the naira to the dollar officially from 360 to around 420 or 500 in the parallel market is responsible.

Shoodboi:
TOTOnigga

Your last paragraph sums everything up. You don't have access to funds and you're playing sports betting. What will you play if you have access to funds?

I'm sure you move around with questionable guys and probably drink, party, womanize and use drugs alot.

You really need to be appreciative to your parents. They don't want you to focus on their wealth and are trying to encourage you to the outside the box and make yours too.

You may call it stinginess, but we long as they're covering the basic things they should (and buy clothes for you instead of giving you the money as you mentioned up there) they're carrying their weight.

It's your responsibility to carry yours, which you've refused to do.

You should WORK to get a phone for yourself and not depend on them to get one for you. It's NOT their responsibiliy.

I've been buying phones for myself since I was 19 and my brothers have been buying for themselves since they were much younger. Around 14 or so. They always saved up and worked for it. You should too.

When you do, you'll appreciate labor and hardwork and respect money.

Which do you want to be?

The spoilt, proud rich kid who doesn't appreciate money and lives on daddy's money for the rest of his life...

Or the well-trained humble average kid who appreciates money and lives on his own cash.

Choose one and choose wisely.

Thank you for this candid advice!

Ishilove:
Ungrateful child

I concur.

Kondomatic:
How can you say that someone who is paying almost a million naira as school fee for you annually is stingy?

Very vital question. The child doesn't appreciate the plans the parents have for him. This is someone that the parents would buy a car, job, house for at the right age. That child should be grateful he has strict parents that are rich at the same time.

LibertyRep:
How a grown up man chooses to spend his 'hard earned' money should be the least of anyone's worries, as long as no law is broken

Law is broken in Nigeria. Spray money and face a 50k fine or 3 months in jail or both of them on conviction.

Isupaefugbemi00:
Nah lie, nor be she get the money, she just intentionally wants you to see it, so you can respect her more

I love this reasoning.

jaelz:
So in the Nigerian context, the guys always do all the spendings in a relationship and that leaves us wondering what the ladies do with their money, although many atimes I have always heard that women have more money that men in the real sense, I didn't believe until it happened to me, see my story below:

So I have been dating this girl for like a year plus now, and I always do all the spendings, bills, outings spendings and so on, but just last week she gave me her ATM and told me to help her witdthraw 80,000 from her account for her while coming back from work, on my way back I stopped at an ATM to withdraw for her, but one mind prompted me to check her account balance, when I did guys guess what I saw? This my babe wey dey always do like say she no get one Naira had close to 3.1 Million Naira in her account lying there breathing.

Omo I almost fainted at the ATM queue. Many ladies have money guys o, please guys kindly share how you found out your girlfriend had more money than she has been revealing.

Stop checking people balance before you kill them. The lady did wrong giving out her card details to anyone, even husband.

seunaj:
as a smarsher, you should know better. Well, I dated a lady who had to resign because of this shit. She wrote even to the head office to complain but a man called her on the phone and told her that those are some of the things she needs to endure. Afterwards, it was quarry upon quarry untill she resigned

Okay, I get you. One thing I know in life is when people do wrong or unethical things, they don't last in this industry. A decade in this industry has shown this as a fact!

chatinent:
All your why-questions point to one thing: man's government has failed.

Only God's kingdom is the solution to mankind's problems.

NwaAmaikpe:





Employees must learn to be honest at all times; bosses have a heart, that's why they were kind enough to employ you in the first place.

God bless mean bosses like this.

I remember back in the days, I had this worker that wouldn't let me score. She told me it was against her morals. First, she was married and secondly, she was a devout Muslim. So I let her be.

Four months later, my friend who came visiting invited me to his hotel room. There was drinks and they were chicks. I hurriedly showed up and amongst the naked chicks tucked in his bed was my married muslimah employee.

Well, she was the one I settled for. I screwed her like a prisoner who was out on parole. Her moans were loud and full of regrets. Not regrets of being caught but regrets of having neglected such a sweet preek all the while.

Long story short, she resumed work the next day to meet a sack letter and a 'thank you' card on her desk.
Honesty remains the best policy because there's no way I was going to trust someone who told me she was a saint yet svcked a stranger's preek like a vacuum cleaner.

A good boss must tolerate a lot, but should NEVER tolerate being outsmarted.

You are wicked!

seunaj:
That bank with long queues from Monday to Friday. The people are beginning to realize that the workload that comes with banking job is not in anyway worth the pay. Frustrated staffs covered in suits inside the AC with alot of sexual harassment especially for the ladies.

How do you prove the second part of the last sentence?

ogascomax:
You we not know what you are doing to yourself until it is too late. You are not been vaccinated but you are simply under going a clinical experiment. That is why you are hearing first dose, second. Bet me it doesn't end in second dose. They will call for third and fourth until you have fully trusted in the vaccination before you will receive what you never bargained for.

Please, stop saying things that can't be proven . Allow those who want to, to be vaccinated free will. And if some of us including me refuse, free us . It's a free world.

afroniger:
It seems your hatred for Tinubu has started clouding your sense of judgement. FIRS is a FEDERAL tax and revenue collection agency. It has nothing to do with Tinubu or Lagos. Stop derailing serious threads with your pettiness.

I'm not speaking for anyone but a good percentage of taxes is paid to private agencies with returns to government tax staff.

saphiere:
God punished him.
I don't know why men's lives revolve around sex and drink

Hasty generalization. Not all men.

Skullano:
Condoms and pads are the reasons why every engineer should always advice his or her clients to do surface waste piping when building commercial structures.

Noted. What about for private structure?

FalseProphet1:
As the topic implies, I recently told it to a girl whom I felt was way older than the lifestyle she was forcing herself to live, I noticed that her mood changed and she went into a rage and said I insulted her... please house look into it, is it an insult?

And why do many girls see that statement as an insult?

Both.

general111:
this oyinbo mentality may just lead you to your grave oh

He's playing with death and he doesn't know.

BonPatrick:
Am not hurt see you guys are getting it wrong she came with free mind we didn't do anything she just renders help

What help? How can a married woman cook for someone else? Did she get permission from her husband, her head? Evidently not!

BonPatrick:
How can u say is wrong when we didn't do anything after she finished she left no feelings attached

How can you say there's no feeling attached? Can any lady on the street come to your house and cook for you without liking you or respecting you? Last year I wanted to employ someone to do such chores for me. But I realize that after sometime there would be feelings from either person so I discontinued the idea. Humans have feelings even if they claim not to love others.

Uyi168:
.. You sound demonized.

I concur 100%!

fk001:
I will never invest my money in Imaginary money

Same here. Imagine no next of kin or anyone to inherit such wealth. I suspect the two may have been forced to transfer the wealth and murdered. There would be no trace as the currency is not regulated like when you do transfer in a bank account.

GAZZUZZ:
3 weeks ago, at the border between delta and Edo State on the asaba-benin express way, they tried same thing , unfortunately I knew his plan, and followed him like an eagle, he was disappointed and had to let go

God bless you and everyone and continue to save us from such problems.

Ishilove:
I have never been a fan of the Nigerian police because of several unsavory personal experiences with them. I have made this known several times on this forum, and one time a police officer Nairalander reached out to me privately to let me know that the despite the bad eggs in the Force, good ones still exist. Although I remain unconvinced (worse now more than ever), I still maintain a cordial relationship with this person.

This afternoon, my SO was stopped by the men in black at Underbridge on the road that leads to Guiness, Oba Akran road, Ikeja. They pulled him over and proceeded to do a 'thorough search' of the vehicle. Surprise surprise, what did they find at the corner of the door of the driver's side?

Yep, you guessed right. Colorado, aka Cannabis, aka advanced SK or whatever allied street adjective is given to this brand of illegal stimulant.

This is someone who has does not even fraternize with people who smoke this nonsense, neither has he smoked this in his life. He hardly even gives people lifts so where did this stick of Igbo come from?

You are right again. Our friendly Nigerian Police Officers dropped it there for the usual hydra headed purposes of extortion, intimidation, theft, thievery, harassment etcetera etcetera.

They handcuffed this innocent young man like a common criminal, and one of them nearly slapped him, but when the officer noticed his unruffled demeanour and almost maniacally calm laughter, they realised that perhaps, just,perhaps they were messing with the wrong candidate.

A took a call from higher quarters before he was released after hours of embarrassment and being shackled like a thief who stole the neighbourhood goat.

Now my question is what would have happened if he did not have contacts that he could reach out to? He would have been hauled off to jail and milked dry. There are so many innocent people in cells languishing because the people who have sworn to serve and protect them have betrayed them.

The Nigerian Police is NOT YOUR FRIEND. When they pull you over and want to search your vehicle, be VERY vigilant. If possible you latch their hands to yours so that all of you will search together in case they want to be unfortunate. Many of them plant illegal substances in people's vehicles and living quarters so that they can have an avenue to extort and harass them, and woe betides you if you don't have either connection or money to bail yourself.

THE NIGERIAN POLICE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!!

I don't know about this scenario. But if true, it's unfortunate, it happens worldwide. God save us from such unscrupulous elements.

sammyj490:
Ondo

Your salary is okay in Ondo.