₦airaland Forum

BreezyRita:
I saw this question somewhere and felt like discussing it here.....

Parents of intending couples are expected to give their blessings and consent before their son or daughter could get married.

Even some religious institutions insist on having the parents or representatives of the couples on the day of their wedding to affirm that they've given their consent for the marriage to be consummated.

Parents fall out with their children because if the children's choice of man or woman, where they are from or what they do for a living.
There are thousands of reasons depending on family.

Some children still go ahead with the planned marriage at times without the consent or blessings of their parents. Of course, they're always pressured to go back and ask for forgiveness and blessings from them for the marriage to be successful......

My questions: Do you really need your parents' consent before marriage?? What if they refuse to give it? Should you give in and leave your to-be??

I wonder how people would get into an institution that their parents have been for donkey years and would want to sideline their parents. There are things about marriage that CAN NEVER be known before you get into the union and live with the person in the same house. Parents have seen and known all these things and so when they have certain opinions, they ultimately have your interest at heart. They should never be sidelined.

A woman is meant to satisfy the urges of a man. I can't imagine being married to a woman without touchables, suckables, rubbables and poundables.

The package has to be complete. I should be able to look at my wife while she is naked and fantasize about it for days on end. Keeps the love strong. Thank God say my wifey no dey slack gaan!

olatunji390:
Is this real?

That was 1983, Sabo Barkin Zuwo as Governor of Kano State. Sadly the man died from a fall in his bathtub.

The CBN should abandon this official pegging of currency that it is doing and ALLOW THE NAIRA TO FLOAT AND FIND ITS REAL VALUE. Sugarcoating the problem will not solve it. Subsidy will have to go. Let us see how low we can actually fall as a country.

What kind of country has a trade balance which is 92% imports and 8% exports and hope to keep its currency strong? When there is so much dollar demand what do people think will happen?

We only have $1.5bn in our Sovereign Wealth Fund. Our governors have been sharing the excess money from sales of crude oil for years. No savings. No thought about the future which has now become the present. America now exports 8 billion barrels of oil per day and have stopped buying from Nigeria, which used to supply 20% of US oil. Obama has delivered on his promise made in 2010 to cut down America's dependence on crude oil from external sources.

Let us face it. There are new realities on ground. The era of $120 per barrel crude oil is gone. More countries are discovering oil every day while Nigeria's reserves are dwindling. Nigeria has now lost close to 35% of its revenue. The only way to recover a portion of it is to devalue the currency.

UnclePati:
I had a similar experience at Asaba. After a minor accident wit my KIA Optima

I contracted an alleged KIA specialist to help fix my car and he listed items I needed to replace to get it rolling. Among the items include Camber, tyrod, stabilizer Linkage e.t.c
The mechanic gave me an estimated bill of 70,000 to buy everytin and he defended the price wile swearing to God that he will nevr cheat anyone in his life.

He tried to make me believe that KIA have no spare partz in d open market and even if there are, the price is very very expensive.

I wasn't very comfortable with his price and his claim so I entered Onitsha Ngbuka/Obosi market my self and I got all the spare parts for less dan 20k.

Not hapi wit my actions the mechanic demanded that I must pay him 20k as service fee else I would nt leave wit my car he wouldn't fix the parts and he wouldn't allow another mechanic enter his workshop to fix d car up for me.

Well, for peace sake I settled for 15k service fee since he lost out in purchase of spare partz. I was done wit my official assignment at asaba and was due to return to lagos for a meeting and new assignment.

D mechanic upon realizing this he deliberately delayed fixing up my car until d last minute he called and told me my front passenger shock must be changed.

I didn't ve time to go see for my self I had to leave the car behind and I flew to lagos. so I asked him to go buy it and he charged me 12k for a single shock which I paid + 2k transport.

After my meeting in lagos I was given a new assignment so I returned to Asaba to pick up my car. Mr mechanic was done.

I drove down to lagos with strange noise coming from the shock. I visited KIA office only to be told that a volks wagon shock was fabricated and fixed in my Car.

I was mad. Real mad. The mechanic had fabricated and fixed a wrong shock which cost maybe 3k. While the actual shock cost just 15k for two.

I had no option than to ignore him and move on wit my life.

You be mumu. You would have given 2 police guys 2k each and they would have raided that mechanic shop and jacked the mofo straight to cell. You mean you still sent the fool 14k after you discovered he ripped you off. Haba.

LMAyedun:
Late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua & Turai Yar'Adua in the 70s.

The purity and innocence of the couple in this photograph cannot be missed. Very moving picture.

Mr OP,

Listen and listen carefully. People have rights of privacy. You cannot just start taking someone's picture without their consent so you can "share it with your fellow Nigerians". You should have been beaten black and blue. Even abroad, you cannot just take someone's picture or go to a place like Trafalgar Square and just start taking pictures. A friend of mine was once approached by the police in UK taking photographs of public places. They wanted to know who he was and why he was taking photos.

The first rule in bombings is to take pictures of proposed targets. We live in a very bad world now and people will definitely take exception to being photographed without permission. Imagine having my photos in the camera of a complete stranger without a clue as to what he wants to do with it. I would be badly peeved and would hurt that individual.

Better learn your lesson and move on.

Please let Jim Nwobodo tell us what he did between 1979 and 1983 as governor of the state where that hospital is located.

I also remember the National Stadium scoreboard in Lagos got missing when he was Sports Minister. We sympathize with him on the death of his son, but what about others who died from the neglect of hospitals under his tenure? What goes around comes around.

I remember how we paid N2,500 for Mali vs Nigeria NIGERIA '99 quarter final tickets only for Seydou Keita and co to hammer us 3-1 at Nnamdi Azikiwe stadium in Enugu.

Chai. That day was a sad one gaan!

Dynomutt (Dog Wonder and Blue Falcon)

How about CLUE CLUB?

Ask4bigneyo:
You wan compare my porridge with ur watery porridge... D diff is clear joor!

Where is the porridge in your dish? This type go hook me for throat. The porridge is the koko!

RedBenson:
Pls what is porridge yam. I was born, brought up and school in Scotaland.

Wetin "Scotaland" people dey chop? Mumu!

No fish and no meat. OP why now? N200 fish no too much naa.

Buchika:
@ Ladywriter, Honestly I have taken out time to go through the
ebook but I couldn't muster enough courage to write due to my poor
writing skill, I am afraid I can't compete with the estabilished
writers on freelancer. Is there anyway you can help. I ve no problem with electricity and internet access.

Brother, success has no short cuts. I just concluded a research project for a company in Russia that wants to enter the Nigerian beverage market. The money I made from that project is being used to pay for my mum's house rent of close to 500K. That link was obtained from Freelancer and the best part is that the contact is now permanent. I am helping them with other stuff here which adds to the initial income. You have to work at it. The rewards are endless but you must persevere. Some of the guys you meet on Freelancer have boatloads of money and are looking to spend it on emerging markets. Writing is not the only stuff you can do there.

So he decided to take his scoring skills to women, scoring up and down. I wonder if anybody forced him to be putting his stuff into those holes at gunpoint. Yeye man!

Just dropped off my sis at Millennium Park. SSS guys conducting screening before the buses convey the invitees to State House. Ceremony starts by 2pm.

Ibime:
We need another goal. We're behind on the Head to Head rule.

Head to head does not factor in away goals.

Case in point: 2010 World Cup qualifiers. Algeria 3 Egypt 1 in Algeria. Egypt 2 Algeria 0 in Cairo. Aggregate score was 3-3. Away goals did not count. Both teams had to go to a neutral venue to play a single playoff match, which ended 1-0 in favour of Algeria.

So a victory for SE puts them 2nd. The only caveat is if CAF decides to use the home and away results SE and Congo got against Sudan as a yardstick ahead of goal difference and number of goals scored, the way it was done in the 2012 AFCON qualifiers.

Inspired substitution by Cameroun. Aboubacar comes in and scores within 5 mins. GOAL CAMEROUN!

DR Congo has stepped up their game against Cameroun. Cameroun under serious pressure now. What are the Super Eagles waiting for?

Too many drunkards on this thread. Where dem see goal? Naija dat has not scored away or kept a clean sheet since God knows when?

Isolate the dog, lock it in a cage and limit all human contact to just yourself for a period of one month. That should do the trick. Your dog is over-socialized. You have probably let it come in contact with every human possible; possibly dog even lives in your house. Feed it once a day.

Dogs become aggressive when they are deprived. That is the key.

bushdoc9919:
The two of you.....the problem started in 1982....when the oil price crashed.......the slide you noticed was the delayed aftershock after the crash.

If you want to blame someone....blame Shagari and his gang (which included representatives from every part of the country BTW)....who via corruption and overimportation and failure to implement the Third National Development Plan....which would have put us on the road to industrial development.....we would not have had the slide.

Infact....I blame all Nigerian governments, including this one...for keeping us resource dependent....when really we should have gotten off our dependence on selling resources for forex....as early as the 1970's.

Oil is a curse.

The problem actually started in 1981 when oil prices fell to $9 per barrel. My dad was earning N700 then. I merely mentioned Buhari because he brought his military style economics and worsened the situation, setting Nigeria up to a situation where we had no option but to run to the IMF with their SAP in 1986 under Babangida, and the rest for the Naira is history.

I was merely debunking the "Buhari as a messiah" myth.

uariko:
I wonder how Gen Muhammadu Buhari made it #2 = $1 during his reign!
Nigeria really need a Messiah.

Point of correction. It was 86 kobo to N1 in 1983. The slide started under Buhari, accelerated under Babangida. I was alive then; during the era of Essenco. Buhari is one of the people who killed this country. When Babangida took over on August 27, 1985, the Nigerian economy was on its knees. These Buhari apologists should stop trying to pull wool over our eyes. If you do not know history, please go and read about it.

Why do you think the SE and SS voted GEJ massively in 2011? Which fool thinks he can control prices of goods and services by price control, forcing warehouse owners to sell their goods at half prices at gunpoint with soldiers? That was Buhari's answer. When those goods ran out to the point where people had to go queueing at NNSC warehouses for Essenco, did Buhari have an answer to that? Rubbish!

pigin:
@Op, You just have a wicked parents!!! imaging 10k a month in this 10 miserable k, you type your assignments from em , barbe your hair, buy kerosene to cook your beans as suggested by some people above me and some other things students do in school. my candid advise leave school and go learn handiwork til your parents increase your allowances to 15k.

Did it cross your mind that the OP may be an orphan?

And I need to add that you can augment your income by writing assignments and term papers for all those girls who prefer to do runs than to stay in school and read. Show some ingenuity. You can also gather money to start a small business by the side. One of the things I did when I was in school was that I would sell kerosene higher than the price my family would fix it at our outlet, then use the balance to gather things that could be sold to students in school.

I enjoyed my school days wella. So much money to throw around (which I got not from my parents but from business) with ZERO responsibilities. Unlike now when I have too many responsibilities competing for the money I get.

So use your head and start thinking.

golor:
Pls nairalander's help me with a good suggestion on how to manage 10k a month.im a student of uniuyo,even with my provision,i still find it difficult to manage 10k allowance monthly.lyk dis semester i came wit an ideal of not cooking soup cause i think soup consume a lot of cash. i do eat soup outside why i cook rice,indomie and beans in my house.i stop cooking soup cos 1. I don't know how to cook. 2.i don't eat a soup dat has sleep more than two days and 3.it consume a lot of cash.pls i need ur sincere advice and idea.

Hmm, na wa o.

First, as a student you have to learn to cook. Then you have to get a table top fridge and a "I pass my neighbour". Why do I say this?

Cooking saves you a lot of cash. You can make soup that will last you 2 weeks with 2k.

Meat: 1 kilo: 1000
Egusi: 2 cups: 200
Pepper: 50
Crayfish: 50
Vegetable: 100
Palm oil: 240 for half a bottle which will last you long. You can also use this to eat yam once in a while.
Maggi: 10
Stock fish (wrapped): 200 (I consider this a luxury though but you can add it).
Garri: 1 mudu: 150 (3 mudus can last you a month)

TOTAL: 2,000

Alternate it with yam and palm oil and fried egg. Occasionally, fry plantain and add to rice and stew. Stew can also be made with even less than 2k. You can also make beans and drink gari with it. You should be very dexterious and learn how to plan your feeding which as a student, is your most important expense. You need a well nourished body to withstand the rigors of studying.

This your concept of not eating soup that has lasted more than 2 days is ridiculous. I had a roommate who used to cook soup that will last 2 weeks and he did not have a fridge. Today he is a Member of the House of Reps (2 terms). You should also learn how to cook.


Suffer initially, enjoy later. All of us passed through this stage and I schooled in a town where I had no relations. There was nothing like GSM, online banking or emails/internet in my era, so if your money ran out, the only solution was to travel home to get it. Yet I survived just like everyone else of that era did.

Good work and good packaging. Now sell your product.

KolaShangOne:
I can't give you the car @op. It's not like you are married to him or even engaged to him. What if you break up and now carry the car and run away?

Timaya vs Empress Njamah II inside church. Haaa! Abeg oooo!

Khalessi:
How much did you contribute to buying any of the cars?

Good question. He should only assist to drop you. If the relationship has moved to the next step (he has seen your people and done the necessary stuff), then he can give you one.