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Mansa Musa's display of opulence on his famous pilgrimage to Mecca is what woke up the West to Africa's vast resources.

Then came slavery and colonization and the rest they say us history. Today, the Chinese and other Western powers are all over Africa still mining its resources.

Mansa Musa brought evil to Africa. If he was not so much of a showman, perhaps the West would have left us alone and we would better off.

I need a video animator to prepare some lessons for a training course. The scripts are done. Send a message to dankrabb at gmail dot com so discussions can commence.

this type of investment pays off for a time, until the system gets saturated and demands outweigh the ability to pay returns. So if you are able to cash in early, you win. If you are at the receiving end when the walls come crashing, you lose.

If you are like me who cannot take such a risk at any juncture, you stay out and let others take the risk by themselves.

NorthPrince:
so what is ur point now

maybe we should give you the gun so that you can go and use your mathematics formula on it

Mr Man...
Even slight changes in air humidity can alter the trajectory of a sniper round. This and other factors such as wind direction and speed all have to be factored in to make an efficient kill without detection.

Martinez39s:
Either you are stupid or callous. SMH. Suffering and hard times are helpful in their own way, but settling someone with 50k after 12yrs is pure wickedness. To even bless the money after doing such wickedness is pure psychopathy.

You are very daft. The knowledge and mentorship acquired in those 12 years cannot be bought in Harvard University or any Ivy League school of business. I am sure you know how much it costs to do MBA (pure theory) in those places.

A man with all that knowledge gathered over 12 years can turn N10,000 into N1billion. A man given N1bn without such knowledge will blow that money. Ask all the athletes who blew their entire fortunes, or 60% of all EPL footballers who declare bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement.

Look at this fool May D.

You are not even grateful they gave you a roof over your head. They should have given you the whole mansion.

Babyboy4life:
Thank you sir for your opinion.Well at least you said what's on your mind.If you think my story is fake then so be it But what I know is that tough times don't last forever.I have been insulted more than this but when one is pushed to the brink he wouldn't mind anything that comes his way.There are a lot of scammers here that is why I said If anybody needs proof would be willing to submit anything including my birth certificate.Every option I tried to get help failed that is why I brought it to nairaland.The least you could have done sir is to pass across your message without insulting me.If I wished you to contact covid-19 and die horribly because of something you did.Im sure I would be insulted from now to tomorrow.As I'm seeking for help im Looking out for small jobs if they are available.Nobody is owing me anything even my mother so it is if anybody that Is willing to help that sees I'm sincere that would .I know with time and God's help all this would be a thing of the past.The act of begging brings ridicule and shame but when faced with no choice I rather beg than steal.Thank you.

You need to stop this begging crap and hit the road tomorrow. Offer to do some menial stuff for people. Wash clothes, run errands, cut grass, do something. Abi you no get one single skill you can offer for money? I refuse to believe this.

Modesthy:
I had a good uncle who passed away three years ago. His wife morned him for one year. I lived with that my uncle until I got married and parked to my own house.

I use to visit the house sometimes. After the mourning, his wife called me and told me that I should give her more children. She has only one male child. I refused. But She said I should do it for her because she doesn't want children outside the family because she loved my uncle and our family and that she can't continue to stay with only one child.

I'm completely confused. First I'm married doing that is infidelity, sencondly, the uncle was like a father to me before his death. And I see it as a big sin.

Please somebody should help me, what do I do here? How do I handle this issue? Thanks for your candid advice.

Adam decided to listen to the voice of Eve rather than the strict commandment God gave him. The rest is history.

You already know what infidelity is. You know what constitutes sin. You know what betrayal of marriage vows you made to your wife is.

But here you are, giving ear to the emotional speech of a lonely woman against all you know to be the right thing. You can decide to dig your pit and jump in. I will not be there to bring you out. That's for sure.

Divine89:
Hello everybody. I am Nigerian based in France. My English it is not 100% perfect but I will try to make it possible for you to understand me with the help of google french to English translator and my story is also long sorry for that.

When I was 9 years old I joined my uncle, my mum's younger brother in France. He declared me as his daughter. During that time he only had one child, 2 years old. He and the wife were so loving to me. I never lacked anything in their house.

But when I turned 12, I went to secondary school. I met some bad friends there. This is where the problem started.I became a very difficult child. I will go to school come home late. My uncle will beat and beat me but I never listened. I smoked my first cigarette at 12 and had my first sex at 13 and I started running away from home to stay with boyfriends. Sometimes I can go for a week and when uncle reporta me missing, the police will be looking for me, then they will bring me back home.

Then at 14 I went to school and lied to my teacher that my uncle was abusing me. I told them he was beating me with belts, electric wire, they don’t give me foods and I really said a lot of bad things about them doing to me to make my teacher believe my story so they could take me away from them because I wanted freedom and my teacher believed me and reported to the police and child protection, they are people who take away abused children from their parents. They took custody of me and my uncle three children, the youngest was 6 months old to their care and they gave us to this white lady to care for us and my uncle and wife were arrested for child abuse and the police were doing some investigation.

After spending 1yr 9 months in care of the white lady I dropped out school. They found out that I was a difficult child that I lied to get freedom so they have decided to give my uncle his children back to him while I stayed in care of white people but my uncle had sworn because I made him lost his children for 1yr 9 months that I will never found happiness in my life and I will never enjoy the fruit of my labour which it is true as I am typing this.

I have given birth to 6 children by 6 men and none of the children is living with me. The first one was taken away from me at 2 months old because I beat her up and fractured her hands and I also tested positive for heroinn (drugs), so that did not stop me from giving birth second child was removed from my care 4 hours after birth she also tested positive for heroin the same way my other children were removed at birth too so I carry on with my lifestyles. I did not care about my children at that time all I care about was sex, alcohol and drugs this is what I wanted and I have been to prison several times for selling drugs and fraudsters. The longest I have spent in prison was 2 years then after i left prison, I met with this sister who introduced me to this church she attended so I went along with her, the pastor told me to confess my sin to him and promised it will be a secret between I, him and God which I did repented and accepted Jesus as my saviour. To be honest, my life did changed a lot, I fell the peace in my heart , enjoyed going to church every Sunday but this pastor went tell his wife my life story and the wife told everyone in church my life story and started using it against me so it made me so angry that I left the church in November 2017 without looking back. I have decided not to attend any church again. I have stopped alcohol, taking drugs and sleeping with men I no longer do it. I prayed at home, read my bible and behaving good and it's almost 2 years I havnt slept with a man and i went to look for my uncle asking him for forgiveness but he has refused and I send him many text messages begging him to forgive and I still no heard anything from him or the wife even their children I have tried to ask them forgiveness they have blocked me and they all want nothing to do with me even my own parents and siblings in Africa they have rejected me, none of them want to talk to me, my parents said i am dead to them, it is so painful I cry everyday in my prayers, as for my children 4 of them are adopted with new family. I can't see them again maybe until they are 18 years old If they want to know me if they don't want I will have no choice to accept it and my 2 youngest children i am only allowed to see them once a year in a children play centre with someone supervise because they don't let me to be alone with them and soon I will stop visiting them because they are planning to adopt them to a new family too that will mean I will have nobody on this earth.

I regret my mistake so bad I wish I could change it but it will no be impossible. I can't have more children because they will be removed from me like the others and I am only 31years old. I don't know if my repentance was genius because my family has refused to forgive me and my question goes like this if they never forgive me will I ever found happiness again or I will just have to accept it until I died?

Please, advise me in a Christian way maybe if there's more I can do and also prayed for me so my family will be able to forgive me and also pray for my two children that nobody will adopt them so I can get custody of them and i promised to be a good mother to them, please I am begging you in the name of God.

Carry your cross. Forgiveness is available for you but you must live with the consequences of your actions.

Kaien:
This my next door neighbor, her husband is always beating her even in front of their kids. It has become a norm for her to receive beating two to three times weekly, he beats her and sometimes locks her outside with her two kids.

Most of the beating always happens when she asks him money for food, this her husband is rich always driving around with small girls in his car. When I ask her to leave, she would say no that she doesn't want her marriage to break up. I wonder what she is protecting. The type of abuses I am seeing, domestic violence is a norm, cheating is a norm.

Nigeria marriages are scary.
I am moving to a new apartment, just if my neighbor's husband ends up killing her, I don't want to be interrogated for murder.

This sort of silly generalization is what I hate. How many marriages in Nigeria have you seen to make the conclusion that "Nigerian" marriages are scary? Do you not hear of people murdering their spouses in the US and other places for insurance money?

Stop this constant blackmail of anything and everything Nigeria. I hate it!

OP,
stop using any creams. Your skin will heal itself but it will take some time.

KingAzubuike:
Bros, it happens in most federal institutions. You can't expect me to start mentioning names. Although I know a few lecturers back then who were guilty. They won research grants , thousands of dollars but never implemented it, once they squandered it , they'll apply for another and the cycle continues.

No, if you made such a serious allegation, you have to be prepared to back it up with proof. You cannot just make a wild allegation and leave it at that.

No foreign organization provides money for research grants without a follow-up. NONE!
It is also not possible to apply for a research grant, not provide the outcomes, then apply for another one and be granted. It is not possible. So if you have an instance of one where this has happened and you have proof, I will like to see it.

clemmonce:
Are you a learner ? Go to EFCC office and ask them for prove.

Shut up. I did not ask you anything and was not referring to you. So get out of my mentions. Fool!

KingAzubuike:
Ippis is here to stay .. Nigerian lecturers are one of the most corrupt set of people. They will win research grants but never implement it into any research. They'll rather use it to build houses, buy new cars and carry women. Then now throw all the burden of their research to their final year project students. Ever wondered why most times na your supervisor dey give you project topic lol? It's for his own benefit.

Asides that, many of them also lecture many higher institution , collecting salaries on multi scale. That's why they are against the IPPIS.

Please can you provide specific examples of these research grants, specific names of lecturers who you know have misused any of such grants, and examples with pay slips to back it up, of "multi-scale" salaries?

I intend to follow up on your comments to see if they are factual or not.

Even IPPIS has ghost workers. This has been exposed on Brekete family. I could not follow up on several cases that were mentioned.

probably a cocaine OD.

Osidazz19:
Well what really happened is this.
The first set of people came back from UK (I have a family member on the flight). The govt charged them 425 pounds. They then put them up in nice hotel in Abuja. After doing the same for another set of people I think from the US, they quickly realized that the govt can't afford to keep doing this for all the expected 4000 people they were expecting. That's when the proposed to charge them for hotel and feeding. Then people started to complain hence the new step.
Bad policy idea from scratch. Should have tested them and let them go to self isolate if negative. Then you keep the positive ones in isolation centers.

Thanks for clarifying.

Everything described here is typical of substance abuse. Those afflicted need to get a fix, so they end up selling anything they can lay their hands on.

Most probably your bros is hooked on coke. The signs are classical. He needs proper rehab where the staff can use methadone or some other substitute to push him past the withdrawal symptoms.

This is not a job for the psychiatrists.

Osidazz19:
They should have never proposed to housed them once they get back here. Fly them in, test them and if negative - bye go home.
If positive then isolate them int the isolation centers. End of story. This is a complete waste of scare resources.

Well, there is rumoured information (which I cannot confirm...it may be false) floating that these people were charged N700,000 for the flight and an extra 297,000 for accommodation and feeding. A scandal was brewing and that is probably why they have hurriedly cooked up this new arrangement.

hammerP:
THE ANTI-NIGERIA SENTIMENT AMONGST GHANAIANS IS SCARY.


IF U HAVE NOT BEEN EXPOSED TO THIS, U WONT KNOW WAT AM TALKING ABOUT.


THE SHOOTING IS DELIBERATE, BECAUSE THEY HAD INFORMATION THAT IT IS NIGERIANS.


NIGERIANS, HELP YOURSELF, STOP GOING TO ALL THESE AFRICAN COUNTRIES.


TOO MANY NIGERIAN TRADERS, DOCTORS, PROFESSOR AND PROPERTY DEVELOPERS IN GHANA.


MY PEOPLE STOP AND COME HOME.

Yes it is strong but if you respect yourself and obey their laws, you will have no problems.

The way people hawk sex as if it is N200 crayfish is just appalling. You are looking for a wife and the first day your "wifey material" shows, it ends with sex.

Wetin remain again?

thatsleepboy1:
I support the chef joor. Na where person dey work e dey chop. Stingy banky. He should say that he's broke and doesn't have enough money to pay him rather than paint the chef black cos he doesn't have a voice to speak out.

Tell me your friends and I will tell you who you are. Only a thief supports a thief. YOU ARE A THIEF!

Nyamve1:
Do u have human sympathy at all? Someone that steal milo, u should've known that is hunger that cause it

Some of you argue like your brains are kept in the Lagos lagoon before you comment. Such cooks are the kinds of people who are paid to poison their masters, or give out their locations to kidnappers.

softset:
If Judas can deny Jesus Christ, who then are these pastors.

The honourable thing for him to have done was to acknowledge their mistake and apologize.

The worst will be a fine and maybe some sanctions, and if you have some good cash, nothing will happen after the "video show"

Judas did not deny Jesus. Which bible wey you dey read?

Jetjacky:
which location do you operate from? Nigeria or somewhere else?

Account was opened and has run from Nigeria since. But I have more permanent gigs direct with some companies so I do Upwork rarely now. But my experience has been that if you are good, the employers are colour-blind. They do not care where you come from.

One of the gigs I do now with a company in Europe involves a team of 5 persons from around the world. I am the highest paid in a team that features two Europeans.

I have never considered the Nigerian factor to be a limitation. It is all in the mind.

Your world is what you make it to be. If you cannot operate from Nigeria on Upwork, consider moving to another location in Africa.

I know that some women have mouths like razor blade but this is too much. How do you beat your wife to the point where she starts to bleed, then you go an extra mile by posting the pics on Facebook for the whole world to see?

No, this is too much.

PopeFlatino:
Please can u guys help me to pay my mum's landlord

She has been sent out under d rain since yesterday for an overdue rent,, anything u give me will be appreciated..God please bless all contributors...

As for my chest issue u all knew about it,,am better now with Apple Cider.. please help my mum

Haa! How did you allow your mum to pass through this?

Carson110:
So NCDC are now liaising with hotel owners to rip them of money. Same thing Nysc are always doing with business owners and banks to rip corp members of their little allowee

We need to know who own those hotels!