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He is not Igbo but from Niger Delta....

BSsniffer:
It's also said that igbo women value drug dealing ritualists. You're a rettarded piece of shit. With all your going to school you amounted to nothing more than a failure who gets off spewing tribal jizz on a faceless forum......in real life you're a looser who gets tossed around.

He is both!
Man made disaster because he is human.
Natural disaster because the havoc he causes is akin to natural disasters!
I rest my case ur honour.

Finnese001:
Is buhari is a natural or man-made disaster

Misinforming us as usual..20 years? Boko haram has been in existence since 2009?
If you cant get this minor fact correct thenbi dont believe your analysis...

lalasticlala:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/nigerias-silent-slaughter-how-boko-haram-killed-over-40000-nigerians-in-20-years-%e2%80%95-report/

The hotel will be owing him one month pay till he informs them he is leaving. Lets say writes to say he shall be leaving in December. If management is pleased with him then they pay him 2 months salary in December to offset the one month they have been owing him all this while!

merryossai:
I believe your story has been sugarcoated to gain pity...which one is u are working for 2 months for a month pay? Let me correct u, even if your hotel pays around 26th of a month, it doesn't mean u are working 2 month, it implies that u receive ur salary of the previous month every 26th of the month. Hence, the only challenge with such payment system is that it's hard to resign without informing d management, because u have already worked about 2 month.

As well as unofficiallt!

Amotolongbo:
Premium tears it ended

France is out officially

Why don't you do the graphics design gig as a side hustle for now till you a million or more?



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I completed my nysc program last year, life didn't actually go they way i thought it would, i spent bout 6 months searching for employment, i finally got a job in a bank microfinance organisation..i was able to secure the job through a sister.

The Dubai you know!

Julianaa:
which Dubai?

Maduka is better pedigree. I believe Maduka could transform our state.

uzohcars:
Soludo we know... Next Anambra Governor

Nope! They send them to these smaller countries to get experience. I guarantee u that by the time Buhari steps down Buratai go be ambassador to Europe or united States!

rawtouch:
no other country will accept them so to avoid embarrassment they have been posted to countries that can be bullied

I think he has a chance. Yo ve the biggest pain hospitals in las vegas n nevada is not a simple feat. We need to support him realise his goals.....

Built2last:
people with vision don't win politics in Nigeria. unfortunately.

Good luck to him.

Let her tell him her anger with him...that he is stingy!
Mist stingy peoples dont know they are stingy..

Rozcol:
I've never seen his type,my friend is a soft person because if I'm the one I'll tell him to go away direct

Y do people talk of roaf constructions with no pics to show/prove what they are saying? How then do hold politicians accountable?
Give us 20 pictures of the constructed roads please. Any news items of developments witj no pictures shouldn't be brought here anymore please.

iampeterben:
Nice one but let him come and look into Ifo LGA roads, Ota, Joju, Ewekoro, Oke-Aro, Agbado all this places nor get road. Ago Iwoye dey dere oh! Where him one even start from.

I tell u..di guy for fit dash am di car sef or set him up on something better!
E choose u to guide him n u ate whatever he ate! Dont u think he had u in his mind sll along?
Guys just need to b loyal in life for their lives to change by someone.
When a helper comes ur way Endeavor to notice n be humble! God no go come down to hrlp u...He go send na fellow human being to help u!

ogbuefi677:
The hearts of some men are wicked

U, truly are really a stupid fool!

A cerified one at that!

CharisEleos:
Lol... I don't know why this story is making me laugh out so loud.
Wait... You shouted at her and she fainted hahahahaaaa.... Are you odeyssey or a lion? Lol..

Well, first and foremost, you need to vomit that red pill you swallowed because that is the number one cause of your problems.

Then, if you have the money, renew the rent for her. You're her husband for crying out loud. Or why would you go and bring a lady out of her parents house and be maltreating her with your redpill baldadash?

Remember that pills have side effects. So this might just be one of them which could have a very bad outcome in your marriage if you don't spill it out now.

Oyen Redpill.

He said whats in his mind n your guys are laughing? He does not feel anything for the dead general! So to me its no grammatical error but what he feels in his heart!

longetivity:
Quota system defence minister

Man sorry for the stress u went through.
Next time u r visiting someone faraway get their address first..u cud ve gone to his place if u had his address.

Cpossibility:
What a friend did to me last week.

Just like in my case, so many graduates in the country are today, traumatized, depressed or even suicidal. Nothing is more depressing than seeing oneself jobless after several years of graduation. More annoying is when there's no finance to even start a business no matter how brilliant the business idea could be. If I have capital or even a collateral to use and get some money somewhere, I would rest completely from job hunting.

My ordeal.
Few months ago, I stumbled on a friend on Facebook whom we were school mates back in secondary school. His parents resided outside the state which he normally came back on school resumption and would go back during holidays.

On meeting him on Facebook, taking a look at his pictures, he's obviously doing well and claimed he's working with an international NGO. I told him my pains which is unemployment. Immediately, he was happy and telling me not to worry again that with his connections here and there, I'll get a job. His promise was to fix me either in the NGO, an insurance company, factory work or any other place of which he has links and connections.

We talked extensively and negotiated my movement and arrived I should come over last week. The plans was to stay in his 2 bedroom apartment and until 3-4 months when I can rent my own place. So I moved from Rivers state to Lagos Monday last week with just 16k on me. En route Lagos, we were keeping in touch so to know how closer I am and until I got to Lagos (God is Good Motors park) around 8pm. I called him that I have arrived the park and he said he was coming to pick me.

Long story short, that was the last time his number went. Initially, I thought it was network, or may be temporary low battery. I kept dialling the number through out the night but it never went again. Of course I had no choice than to sleep in the park. Woke up the next morning hoping his number would go but still same. I had no body else in Lagos nor knowing any where as that was my first time in Lagos. So I was just roaming around the park the whole day like a lost sheep, hungry, frustrating and pains but still hoping for his call but none came. When I tried reaching via Facebook and realized I was blocked, that was when it dawned on me that I have to start going back immediately. Already, transport fare from PH to Lagos finished about N10,500. So I was left with about 4k on me. At that point in the evening, I knew my best bet as I said earlier was to find my way back immediately but I didn't even have enough cash for my return. I had no option than to start telling people about my predicament and appealed for help to raise fund to return home the next morning. I was mocked and laughed at while some were asking to buy my phone at a very ridiculous amount. But then at that point, I could have sold it at the ridiculous amount but the phone was the only medium of communication with people especially my mum who was already worried over the journey right from the onset. I kept approaching people to help me and until one man graciously completed the money for me and I paid for my return.

On reaching home, I did nothing than thanking God that at least my case wasn't like that of late Iniobong Umoren. At least I came back home alive...which is the most important thing. But what I don't understand is why the guy chose to be that wicked to me forgetting this world is a very small place. I mean if there was never a job, why did he have to put me through that? Anyways, I have since moved on. Not even swearing/cursing him but leave everything for God. Such is life!

Fellow nairalanders, that is the dairy of a Nigerian job seeker. This leave me with the question, "will Nigeria ever be good for ordinary Nigerian?"

U r a fool!

Northernblood3:
Terrorists pigs are taking bow after the saw Israelites not giving a damn about Biden order. Their human Shield tactics is not working as the world don't give a damn about their deceitful tricks anymore.

I keep telling Christian countries, never threat these stone worshipping terrorists with kid gloves. Hit them hard and they will plead for peace. Also be careful with the peace talks, Terrorist never changes its coat

Stand ur ground man....if u go bankrupt she go sleep around for money. One babe tried that with me in 2009. Insisting i budget 2.5 mill for white wefding alone as her laeyer friends n judges shall be present. She no know when i cancel the damn wedding...she begged for 3 months! Na police i take frighten her away!
She made it clear her family will not drop anything! Laughter wan kill me!lol.





She wants a cream-de-la-cream kind of wedding but she's not ready to assist financially to make that happen. (she's an awaiting corper)

I told her that the cost of transportation and lodging people from the village (hers and mine) to the city for our white marriage alone is gulping about 500/600k. That's transportation & lodging alone ooo.. I'll now spend if not x2 of what I spent on trad for white.. Why not just do everything in the village and move on with our lives? We can actually have it in the village and it will still be all nice and glamourous.

She said she wants to have a say in how her marriage will look like. Her imput is welcomed. But if she still insist on having the white wedding and not putting finances into consideration. I'm thinking that she want the white wedding on the city because of her friends who will attend which is not enough reason to go bankruptcy for.

It was a heated argument yesterday. We both went to bed angrily and not in talking terms till now

Pls advice accordingly. Thanks[/quote]

Stand ur ground man....if u go bankrupt she go sleep around for money. One babe tried that with me in 2009. Insisting i budget 2.5 mill for white wefding alone as her laeyer friends n judges shall be present. She no know when i cancel the damn wedding...she begged for 3 months! Na police i take frighten her away!
She made it clear her family will not drop anything! Laughter wan kill me!lol.

Annoms:
I'll try to make this short.

Yesterday I was having a conversation with my fiancée about my mum's suggestion about how to go about our wedding which is scheduled to take place Jan next year. My mum suggested that we do both trad and white wedding on the same day to cut cost. She opined that we do the white wedding in the morning and hold the traditional marriage as a reception in the afternoon. I pretty much see reasons from her perspective considering the harsh economic condition in Nigeria.

I . Thanks

U seem to be ok. U cud paint ur walls as it will be a source of inspiration. The walls r the only negative thing i c here.
The walls have humidity...r moist...dreary...uninspiring....redundant. ignight the room with good paint colours. The walls r despairing. Minus the walls u r ok...you have good tiles n u r neat. Keep up the struggle. No be all man go go school...some wey go still de live on bank of mummy n daddy!

MiztaPepperoni:
Abeg if I tell you ladies say I never get work, I no go school but I be hustler and I get potentials, you go agree marry me?

If I carry you come my caban and e be like the picture I attach so, you go agree to start life with me for that caban?

Bring out the cases to the public. U sound like a retired RAPIST!

Sakamaje:
All these celebs are using this particular baba ijesha case to chase clout. There are worse cases of sexual abuse of minors occurring daily in this Nigeria, but you won't hear their voice regarding any of those ones.

U want to be begging ur wife for sex? Make she take her bad luck go abeg...

Sebastine1994:
My girlfriend has a lot of shame about physical intimacy. I think she enjoys it, but she feels guilty afterward that we’re not married, like she is betraying her very conservative upbringing. I love her and we have talked about getting married. She thinks that will make physical intimacy more enjoyable for her. But I’m not sure. The idea of spending my life with someone who is unhappy after every time we are intimate makes me feel hopeless.

What's he still doing at your house? Kick him out now now...

Jomoinc:
As I write this, it’s happening right now. Met her a couple of months ago. It was love at 1st sight. It was all blissful until my “I just got back” friend arrived without cash and accommodation. So I housed him. Same guy I seek advice from every time I have relationships issues managed to get her online. I knew the moment they met that I ll have issues. I was officially thrown out blocked as well. Now, they always online video calling at night. Painful part is that he does this ON MY BED. How wicked can the world be?
Any advice plsssssssss? My heart is bleeding. The betrayal is so so much.

Wait! I think this Igbo system of wealth creation should apply to the rest of us Nigerians by our various state governments. No wonder their success in business is visible everywhere.




Nigeria's Igbo community have a reputation for being highly successful businessmen - partly thanks to a community-run apprentice scheme that emerged from the ruins of war, writes the BBC's Chiagozie Nwonwu in Lagos.

A smiling Onyeka Orie, 28, looks the picture of happiness in his mobile phone accessories shop at the sprawling Computer Village in Nigeria's main city, Lagos.


The shop and everything in it had been given to him by his former boss after Mr Orie worked for him without payment for several years, learning the trade.

"I served my oga [boss] for eight years. My oga gave me this shop. I had been managing the shop for four years before he gave it to me. I didn't expect it," an excited Mr Orie says.

Born to farmers in south-eastern Nigeria, he said he had little chance of breaking out of poverty because his family could not afford to give him the education he needed to get a good job in a country where unemployment is rife, even among those with a university degree.

So after secondary school he joined the trail of other young Igbo men to learn a trade under the apprentice system known as "Igba Boi" - a practice where young people, mainly boys, leave their family to live with successful businessmen.

The boys are expected to "serve" their boss, doing everything for him - including washing his cars and running his domestic errands. In exchange, the boys pick up life skills and are taught how to run a business. They are also given food and somewhere to live.

Lagos computer village

The 2000s saw an explosion in Nigeria's mobile phones market and many trade at the Computer Village in Lagos
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At the end of an agreed period, their boss gives them capital to set up their own business.

The Igbo apprenticeship system has roots in Nigeria's post-civil-war years, says Ndubisi Ekekwe, a Nigerian professor whose article on the apprentice scheme is set to appear in the Harvard Business Review later this month.

The Igbos, emerging from defeat following the 1967-70 civil war, managed to recover a significant portion of their pre-war economic status within just two years.

This was despite the Nigerian government confiscating bank accounts belonging to many Igbos. It then gave them just £20 ($28) to start anew, while others saw their property seized by neighbours in some parts of the country.



The Peoples Club, a popular social club formed in the town of Aba in 1971, is also credited for kick-starting the Igbo apprenticeship scheme.

The ethos of the club, the Igbo philosophy of "onye a hana nwanne ya" (don't leave your brother behind) is seen as a guiding principle of the scheme.

"The Peoples Club was a social-cum-economic movement…[that] designed an economic template of how the Igbo could move out of the ruins of the war and began a new movement of survival," says Benedict Okoro, founder of the Odinala Cultural Heritage Foundation. "That is the genesis of the Igba Boi in Igbo cosmology."


The apprentice system is mostly aimed at boys and young men as families are generally unwilling to let their daughters live with a businessman for the five years or so it takes to learn a trade.

Women instead usually learn at established businesses where they pay to be taught for six months to one year, while still living at home.

'I got nothing after seven years'
Prominent Nigerian businessmen such as auto tycoons Innocent Chukwuma of Innoson Motors and Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis Group are among the products of the scheme.

In a 2019 interview with BBC Igbo, Mr Maduka said that the 200 naira ($0.70; £0.50) given to him by his boss at the end of his apprenticeship in 1976 had laid the foundation for his multimillion-naira business empire.

Cosmas Maduka

Cosmas Maduka is one of the successful products of this scheme
The success of the scheme is also visible in eastern cities such as Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi where sprawling markets attract traders from across West Africa.

But the system is not without its critics, as it relies on the goodwill of the employer to look after the apprentice at the end of their service.

Ndubuisi Ilo, who now runs a successful auto parts shop in Ladipo, Lagos, says he was given nothing after serving his boss for seven years.

"My boss called me one day and told me that he can't afford to settle [pay] me. He prayed for me and asked me to start hustling for myself. It was very difficult at first and I even had to sleep in cars, but now I look back and smile," he says.

Map: Nigeria
Map: Nigeria
Nevertheless, he does not consider his apprenticeship a waste of time, as he used the knowledge he gained to start trading.

"Some businessmen don't want to keep to the agreement because of the amount of money involved in setting up a business for an apprentice that has completed his time.

"Some of them accuse the apprentices of theft or something else and terminate the agreement," Mr Ilo says.

Igba Boi agreements are usually verbal and when a businessman reneges on them, apprentices have few options for redress.

Men sat during an Igbo meeting
Strong kinship bonds exists among Igbo people and some disagreements are resolved at village meetings such as this one
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Since many of the businessmen are relatives, the extended family usually tries to mediate in any disputes and when they fail, the ancestral village of one or both parties steps in and try to resolve the matter.

Sometimes issues are amicably resolved, at other times they are not, leaving the apprentice to fend for himself after years of free labour.

'An example for Africa'

Mr Okoro's foundation is looking to institutionalise the Igba Boi scheme to minimise the risk of people defaulting on agreements.

"An institutionalised system would have backing of the law and won't just be something between the traders and the apprentice and his family," he says. "The apprentice will even get a certificate after his apprenticeship."



Mr Ekweke notes that helping potential business rivals goes against traditional capitalist thinking but it goes to the heart of this system, which generally seems to work well for all concerned.

"[Economist] Adam Smith believes that success in business entails ensuring driving out your competitors, but this system is hinged on bringing more people into the business," he says.

In the forthcoming issue of the Harvard Business Review he says he wants "to present the Igbo Apprenticeship System [IAS] as a thesis for the world as the conversation continues on stakeholder capitalism, not just shareholder capitalism".

On his website, he suggests that it should be used across Africa. "Put the IAS in Economics textbook in Nigeria!"

'Better than a university degree'
Current unemployment data in Nigeria paints a dire picture - 33% of those looking for work cannot find any. Many of them are university graduates.

Mr Orie says his financial situation is better than many of his peers who went on to acquire a university education.

He has also started thinking of getting a young man from the village to learn the trade under him, an act that is at the heart of the system.

Many of his peers are now hiring sales assistants to run their shops, rather than using the Igba Boi system.

However Mr Ilo says the future of the system that produced him and millions of other businessmen is safe.

"As long as there are markets and Igbo traders, there will be apprentices," he says.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigerian-scheme-forged-war-creates-003941597.html

Register for bolt n give a trusted friend/person to drive while you are still working. Work n save a million or 2 as you did to buy the car. Then decide on what to invest in!

2blockus:
So I'm a graduate of civil engineering, but work as a contract staff in a bank for over 5years with 100k salary.

I bought a functional car which fit into bolt but I'm scared of resigning from my job as I have family responsibilities.

This bank work doesn't give me opportunity to grow with them and time to do other side hustle and I know one day it's either they sack me or I leave.(but one must happen)

Please I need advice if I should still continue this work or start street hustle.

Note: I save the money for this car from salary and side hustle base on what I studied in school.

I read somewher that Cameroon some 3 years ago made it a criminal offense to owe rent more than 2 months. U hear ssy there now na tenant de beg landlord make e forgive them di 2 weeks dem de owe as dem go vomot tday today!

GboyegaD:
Why feel entitled to someone else's asset?

If it were a girl i will say afopt. But a boy? Raise him like yours but dont adopt him legally! Je might want a 100% share of ur properties as the '1st son'. No listen to that woman . The boy can stay with u guys n u treat him as a son...dont adopt him.
If u had son older than him already i wud ve said adopt him!

Akv666:
Good day guys,

So I've been dating a single Mom for almost 4years now and we're ready to tie the knot, but recently she came up with a suggestion of me adopting her son legally. Her baby daddy has actually been irresponsible right from start, nigga last saw his son when he was 4months old and he hasn't even bought ordinary diaper for the boy right from when he was delivered.

Now I'm being skeptical about taking him up legally, please i need advice from you guys, no insult please.

Even if they reset they can cheat u by pumping air into ur tank n e go de read for metet...

olamide0147:
Yes he did it intentional so anytime you buying fuel always tell the attendant to reset pump

Yeah they do it intentionally. About 10yrs ago i was travelling from lagos to the east. We branched off into a filling station to refill near the border with Ogun state. Some just bought fuel n was leaving when we came on. This attendant just continued from the last customer's account ....guess the amount on the pump? 56.000 naira!
No body was aware except me. I started complaining vigously. The other passengers were surprised n even the driver was dumbfounded but kept quiet! Argued with the attendant for 15 minutes and after all said n done he restarted filling us up from zero!
Something that was already reading 56k?

Fear those attendants...the driver sha bought me a plate of food n a bottle of beerswhen we got to ore though!

pocohantas:
So he did it intentionally? Alright then.

How do I know when they didn’t reset it?

U r truly the problem! Ur ego is huuuge!
U r more educated so therefore wiser? R u joking? Education has nothing to do with wosdom...

U can be an educated fool. Or an illeterate wise person!

OfeAchi:
See bro I get this. But she is not God!
I find it difficult taking her advice for this two major reasons:
1. I'm first class graduate with Msc. But she is just OND holder (I'm the one pushing her to go higher in education. she doesn't know book) How can she be wiser than me?
2. I'm scared of always following her advice because it may lead me to become a "sissy" in marriage. People could now term her as the head of family since she makes all decisions. My right as a man could be reduced to nothing. (I cringe at the thought of being controlled by my wife!)

Visa? Depends. If u r coming via air u need an entry or exit visa. If by other means u no need. If by road they changed it some how last year.

BigDawsNet:
You don't need visa in Cameroon with a Nigerian passport

You only need to visit the department of home affairs to apply for a work permit which will give you the right to live and work in Cameroon.

Contact someone from the Cameroon Embassy

How did u guys get the email?
Did u contact the company seeking employment?

donchiriko:
I got the same mail, I am going to the cameroon embassy on tuesday but I think it's a scam cause the project is not on the company's website and not a single news on them winning the contract in Cameroon.

And secondly, the president's stadium they claim they are building is not in Douala but in Yaounde and it's already completed