₦airaland Forum

Mantul:
are you a joke? Most Islamic countries are more advanced than the west

Mansa Musa came back from his famous pilgrimage with loads of scholars and employed them to start what is now known as University of Timbuktu.

For your information, it was Mansa Musa's wealth that attracted these blood-sucking white men who came to establish the slave trade and later the colonial seats that still control many of Africa's governments till date.

Africa is the richest land in terms of arable farmland, mineral resources and has been acclaimed as the cradle of human civilization. Forget the revisionist narrative you have been taught in history books which makes us glorify Mungo Park, Hugh Clapperton, David Livingston, Richard and John Lander, etc as discoverers.

Discoverers of where? Were there no natives in the places they went?

FreeStuffsNG:
I have always known that there's a very significant hidden but corrupt reason why Abuja has never been able to grow on is own in the manner Lagos grew phenomenally despite moving the capital in a chaotic manner away from Lagos by Gen Babangida to totally escape June 12 protests. Check my signature for free stuffs!

The capital was moved in December 1991, 18 months before June 12.

Usefulsense:
This is my story. Please advice.

I sent my wife to Australia in 2021 on student visa.

She has invited us, myself and our children aged 12 and 9 and our visa is out. I have also paid like 6 months fees for my children school which was a requirement for the visa.

Owing to her performance at her work place, the company she works for has promised to sponsor for PR. Infact, the process just began and we are sure of having the PR.

I am currently 48 and won't be able to support my family working in Nigeria. Wify has encouraged me that we will be fine that abroad is meant for 2 people.

My only constraint is my age, hence my question. If you are in my shoe, will you travel?

By the way, I work for a private firm here in Nigeria and you know what it is working for a family company.

You have already said it all. In 4 years, you will qualify to apply to become an Australian citizen. Dey here dey seek for advice.

Darren95:
Fact

You have the brains of a 2-year old cretin.

That old man needs a slap from an angel to reset his brain.

Sangoamadioha1:
Don't pray for military government in Nigeria. It seems you were still young when we were ruled by the military.
The small freedom to talk you are enjoying now will be curtailed. That time, if you do anyhow you will see anyhow.

The military built all our roads, all our refineries, petrochemical plants and every single national infrastructure that Atiku Abubakar, El-Rufai and the national council on privatization sold off.

The military believes in discipline. Check out any work done by the Army Corps of Engineers. Professional to the core!

Why dem no wan pay?

N900 dem no fit pay.

ahnie:
She would be freed from the Nigerian husbands issues that makes Nigerian wives ages faster than their age.

Secondly she's in a sane country n a better climes,no husband wahala.

Is Kate Henshaw still married to her oyibo husband?
You think marriage has anything to do with the colour of the skin? Please spare me abeg.

franchasofficia:
Many Nigerians are lazy, I speak as an employer of labor.


Majority of Nigerians want soft jobs where they will sit in an air conditioned office and press computer while watching CNN or African Magic and at the end of the month, the employer dolls out 100k and above as their salary for helping the company to press computer and watch TV.



This is the dream job of majority of Nigerian graduates. This is the only type of job they will get and rush to their Church on Sunday to give testimony of how wonderful God have been to them.


Give them a field work that requires them to dirty their hands and contribute to the revenue growth of the company or business, they will never take it yet they go about complaining of no job but there are lots of field jobs out there. Every Nigerian graduate is busy searching for office job where they will sit down idle in the office doing nothing and be receiving big salary and kickbacks.



Op if you are ready to dirty your hands, there are jobs that pay better than whatever you are doing now, search for it (visit Nairaland job section regularly, look out for those unpopular company recruitment adverts, give them a try) they are everywhere looking for sincere people to employ but all of una de find soft work without stress

May God bless you for this post. You nailed it succintly. Na so my farm manager will be picking at chicken during dressing as if it is beneath him, while me the oga will be actively in the production line dressing and packaging the chicken before driving miles to the buyer, sometimes sleeping by 2am.

The whole thing sounds like the Vandera platform that one fellow here was pushing under constantly changing monikers.

The CEO here knew that the curtain on his ponzi scheme was closing, and he needed to lure someone to take the bait of his carefully concocted plan. The Abayomi guy took the bait and will take the fall. But the CEO should know he will not escape it as some people already know what is happening.

YorubaPrince:
Who else fit do dis kain thing other than Igbo pple? Na dem go fit arrest and fight dem parents over $$$.

It is an abomination in Igbo culture. Some of you are too unexposed to even find out about other people's culture. Where did you do your NYSC, that is if you are even of age or you even went to the university?

Hardtotrust:
I am very very angry right now. I couldn't sleep last night. That is why I'm bringing this here this morning before I do something very bad. A father should be after the growth of his son and not after ruining him.

Please you guys should help me look into this matter. I understand that it was a matter of life and important concern.

I'm seriously struggling in the city to eck a living for myself and do the little I can for my family also. My father was a petty trader who hardly can provide adequate for the family. Some of us who come from a very poor background would understand this better. I mean coming from where absolutely nothing is kept for you. No support from the family and nothing, nothing and nothing. You are the one who die and same you would have to pour yourself water to come back to life. You, you and only you.

I buy fast consuming products and supply to people and make some gains from there. Sometimes I hawk the products. I was able to save up to N150k. Around May this year, I went to the village and bought some rubbers of palm oil and store them to sell around November/December and make gains.

Last week, I got a call that wind pulled off our house roof in the village. Since they are using small torchlight phone, I didn't get to see how serious the situation was. Even though I didn't have money, I sent N15k to help fix it. My father later called me and complained bitterly on why I sent just 15k, that according to the carpenter, that materials and workmanship would cost N65k. In my mind, I was just like, does this man even know how I survive here in the city?

For two nights, they didnt sleep in the house as the wind pulled off the rooof.

On Tuesday, I learnt my younger brother was being operated of Hernia. I know about the hernia but was under plan to raise money for it. And I knew there was no money to settle medical bills for operation. So I was shocked where they got the money to do operation.

As I traveled down yesterday to see them, dear Nairaland friends, all my rubbers of palm oil has been sold and the money spent on fixing the roof and paying for the medical bills for the hernia operation without my notice.

I am not taking this kindly with my father who engineered the whole thing and I want to arrest him to refund my money.

That is my life investment and it took me so much to raise the amount. Due to how things are now. I even wanted to sell two rubbers to invest back as the business is facing challenges now.

What should I do here to recover my money back? If I have another money, I would over look it but that is my life investment of my labour.

If your sister developed a strangulated hernia that would have led to her death, you would not be typing this nonsense. Your father did what he had to do to save your sister's life and to also ensure they have a roof over their head.

Even the police will tell you to go and settle your family problems at home. They do not handle civil matters.

As a son, you should be glad that God is using you as a light to take away the deep darkness in your family. You may not know it, but your dad and mum will be thanking God that they have someone like you daily.

Your father will not ask you for permission to do sell your products. It will bring down his pride as a man and as your father. No father will ever like to ask his sons for such favours as it will expose his weakness, moreso when he failed as a provider.

Do not arrest your father. Simply mention to him that he should have asked you first before taking that decision, and let it be.

I no longer have a dad, as do many people here. Cherish and nurture and improve the relationship with the little time you have left with him. Go and listen to Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross, the last song he did before he had a stroke that eventually took his life.

Guyman01:
Over here in the North people hardly go to work early and close early with the usual excuse of I am going to the mosque to do my Sallah and they go home from there.
The Local government offices are usually deserted until the last week of the month when everyone comes to fill and sign the salary schedule.

The laziness of our people is on another level. Resume on 5th January from Christmas break, and some staff will be straggling in by 19th and 20th of January. I have a policy. You do that in my company, you forfeit your January pay. It worked wonders.

Godoverevery:
Best goalie and we surely regret this.

The work of a goalie is to make save but since the madness of wanting a goalie that can play like messi than making save....we will see where it will land us.

Farewell legend.......you will be the best for me after VDS.

My prayers to var der sar family at the moment.......I pray God heal him 🙏.

Goalkeeping has evolved. Man City's successes with Ederson's ball distribution has shown clearly that the way to go is to purchase a modern goalkeeper who is good with his two legs in terms of passes and ball distribution. De Gea does not have this skill and Man Utd conceded way too many goals from his poor clearances and outright passes to opponents.

Watch the 4-0 defeat to Brentford and you will see for yourself.

Andre Onana is the kind of keeper that Man Utd needs. They should move fast before another team beats them to it.

grandstar:
Did you read how much the government will save?

The subsidy isn't free. It impoverishes you. More money is spent on petrol subsidy than on health care, education and the military combined.

The subsidy also weighs down on the Naira, depreciating it. If it continued, I won't be surprised if the Naira hit $1-N1000 by early next year. Pat Utomi had already prophesied this year. A weaker Naira means less spending power for you.

Perhaps, make your car CNG powered.

Another propaganda agent.
How can you speak of subsidy when you don't even know your ACTUAL AND FACTUAL daily consumption?

If a man who grew up watching a Brazilian team that had devastating players sees the joke the team has become today (being beaten by Senegal 4-2 at home), surely the appointment of a foreigner as your coach would be a very galling experience.

dyera:
He said if Mbappe doesn't want to sign a new contract, then he has to leave the club one year before his contact expires to prevent him from being able to leave the club for free. Don't joke with Arab contractors when it comes to business.

That said, is it possible to chase a player out of a club when their contract has not expire? Is it possible to sell a player to another club against their will? Maybe they will withhold Mbappe salary until he decides to leave the club or sign a new contract.

The club president is just talking. He needs to go and study the Bosman rule. This was an EU court ruling on player transfers.

PSG cannot railroad him into signing shit. That ruling protects Mbappe. PSG is mandated to pay him his wages to the very last day. The best the club president can do is force the coach to make Mbappe unavailable for match duties.

This is Europe, not the Middle East where a moneybag or royal family member can do as he pleases. In EU, there is rule of law and everyone must respect it.

billionman:
Now you're talking in technical terms. You used the word "air" in your first post I quoted now you used the right term "vapour", actually pressurised vapour. What you have in new cylinders is compressed air from the factory which helps to ascertain the state of the cylinder, if it is leaking or not at the point of purchase of the cylinder. At that state, the cylinder is pressurised and gas can't be refilled in the cylinder until it is depressurised by opening the valve with a screwdriver or any other appropriate tool. If you weigh the pressurised new cylinder and compare it with it's weight after depressurising, the difference in weight is less than 0.1kg.

The difference between the gas station and the road side is that the gas station uses a pump which helps to pressurise the gas into the cylinder at a higher pressure than the pressure building up in the cylinder during the process of refilling and at a faster rate. The road side refiller relies on the natural pressure of the gas inside his bigger, and not necessarily gravity, to refill the smaller cylinders. It gets to a point when the pressure inside the smaller cylinder equalises with that of the bigger cylinder and the flow of gas will stop. He then depressurised the smaller cylinder with an appropriate tool and the continue refilling. What matters most is the quantity and weight of the liquified gas inside the cylinder and not the pressure. And the best way to determine that is through a weighing scale.

I don't understand what you mean by shifting your cylinder around. If your low pressure regulator and the carburettor is working fine, you don't need to shift your cylinder around whether you refill from roadside or gas plant.

I refill from both roadside and plants, my main target is for my final cylinder weight to tally with the quantity of gas I'm paying for.

28 kg when full, 15kg when "empty". As you said, you need to weigh the cylinder before and after to know how much to buy if filling it, so you not only get what you are paying for, but you don't end up with an over-pressurized cylinder.

Emmaomotob:
Animal in human skin. Yet he is comfortable with robbing the school. Hor.ny man. I can't even see anything wrong with the clothes. How can a human being be so stupid? No wonder the country has no direction.

It is people like you who are the product of the moral decadence that set in from the 90s. UNIPORT has long been a haven for depraved and immoral dressing and behaviour. It is about time this is addressed and my man Professor Georgewill will not brook such nonsense.

billionman:
The reason for the hard start and waiting for a minute could be as a result of the length of your hose or the condition of your spark plug. Mine come up at one start.

On your roadside purchase and air inside cylinder, there's nothing like "air" inside cylinder. Just ensure you know the empty weight of your cylinder and final weight after refilling. There's nothing like filling "air" inside cylinder because air has no significant weight in this context

Point of correction sir. When you buy a new cylinder, take it to a gas station. The first question they will ask you is if it is a new cylinder. If it is, they will use a spanner or screw driver to push in the valve so the residual vapour in the LPG cylinder will go out. The inside of a cylinder is not a vacuum. The vapour pressure has to rise via increase in temperature, and when the vapour pressure is higher than atmospheric pressure, the gas comes out. When this pressure equalizes, then the gas no longer comes out and is regarded as "empty."

If you patronize roadside dealers who fill a smaller cylinder from the 50kg one they have to put at a height so that gravity ensures one-way flow, occasionally they have to stop and push in the valve to let the residual vapour out.

LPG is 85% liquid. The rest is the vapour. The gas never gets exhausted 100%. Filling your cylinder in a station gets the percentage of liquid up. Using roadside dealers will raise the level of vapour. This will mean you have to occasionally shift your cylinder around when using it with a generator.

I speak from experience.

litigator:
Still doesn't make sense if you factor in the risk, cost of cylinder, gas and the cost of maintaining the carburettor.

Cos I don't think you changed the top cylinder like @jceesquare advised. Abi na lie e lie?

Who you still agree gas is cheaper and more efficient?

What's the risk here? Your PMS tank on the gen is even more risky. Some of you pour fuel immediately your gen goes off from fuel exhaustion, without realizing that a drop of fuel on the hot exhaust can ignite the whole place.

I did not change the top cylinder. I already have 7 gas cylinders I bought from yesteryears, so it is not a new purchase for me. I also do not understand what you mean by maintaining carburetor. Nothing to maintain.

Gas is the way to go. This technology has been around for at least 15 years. Nigeria is only adopting it because fuel costs have been subsidized all these decades and gas was expensive (12k for 12.5kg at some point last year), so there was no incentive to run on gas.

sukkot:
demand and supply. if everybody converts to LPG the demand is huge so they jack up the price. we are back to square one

Nigeria flares billions of cubic feet of gas every year. We have it in almost limitless supply, and we are not importing it. The price should even be coming down as we do more utilization of what is being flared.

I did a test with the LPG carburetor on a 6.5KVA gen with water pump, ac and washing machine load.

I got 9 hours of power on 12.5 kg which I got for N7,500.

That's a cost of N833 per hour.

Same gen has a 25 litre PMS tank which runs for 12 hours (on limited load; one ac only). That's N13,500 (@ N540/litre) for 12 hours, or N1,125 per hour.

Savings per hour: N1,125 - N833 = N292 per hour.

Using the LPG carburetor and gas for 6 hours a day (assuming you want to run it from 6pm to 12 midnight if there is no power), you save N292 X 6 = N1,752 per day.

Over 30 days, that's savings of N52,560. Over a year, that's savings of N630,720.

Meanwhile, I imported my carburetor from China at a cost of 17,500. It was delivered to my house. Cylinder kept at a distance of 6 yards away.
The only thing I notice is that I have to put the gas on and leave it for 1 minute to enter the system, and then I have to pull three or four times before it kicks in. Also have to return the choke pretty fast or it will go off.

Have been using this system for a month now. No issues.

I will advice not to fill your gas at roadside vendors. Air in the cylinder instead of LPG will cause the gen to start fluctuating.

For a country that has been flaring trillions of cubic feet of gas since 1956, gas should not cost more than N100 per kg. The supply is almost endless.

All the rottenness in JAMB will finally come out.

If INEC can falsify results and declare a winner after what we all saw, JAMB should be a child's play.

They are passing to check on their investments and the loans.

Cultural changes are necessary. Less cars on the road, more bicycles.

I cannot believe the number of people saying he should be forgiven because of hunger.
I remember back in the day when poverty hammered us, me and my wife went a whole f88cking day without food. It never even crossed my mind to go back to my father's house, or call any of my brothers for help, talkless of going to steal.

This kind of stealing starts from taking meat from your mother's pot. If it is not stamped out, it graduates to something else, like stealing your host's sallah food. See as oil from the meat stain im whole cloth!

So what really is that fool celebrating? Nigeria is filled with religious but very unrighteous people!

This is terrible.

All the brands we knew as kids in the 70s and 80s are all going.

Jestin:
Do we still have NLC? Mr wabba killed NLC before he left

Those who know Ajaero know he is not a man to be monkeyed with. He will restore the glory of NLC.

You can't buy integrity with money. Sometimes God uses these as tests to see if we qualify for our next level of blessings.

oyin44:
They are alive not dead..

They should be thanking God. .

Next time...

They should be ethnic-conscious with their host..

May the angels of the Lord vandalize you and your soul.