This morning I was coming back from work feeling tired and frustrated, the lack of electricity and my faulty laptop made things worst. Spending thousands again for this laptop? How do I get to the top if the door ain't open?
Suddenly, I saw N200 note on the ground — I wanted to ignore as usual but I stopped. I allowed the kids behind me to walk past me and see if they'd see it but they didn't...
I stood there for some seconds searching my pockets before picking it, this is something I've never done before in my life. Besides, I didn't steal it anyway, someone else would take it of I didn't or it would find its way into the nearby river.
It'd be better I do what David did in the Bible, I know I'm gonna get backlash but being an author of one of the most powerful and eye-opening book on money and hustling; a book in the league of 48 laws of power, I understood everything. Though the book's unpublicized due to how dangerous it is...
Anyway, I'm adding the 200 naira to my transport fare and go fix my laptop. Call me what you want but threads like the one below taught me better:
Another thread about an innocent man speaking a language that is not even his, the way he wants to.
There's this young rapper who is Palestinian, he learnt English just to rap about his people's plight — one of his videos went viral on a hip hop FB page and some Americans thought he was American.
I've been listening to hip hop since I was a kid and I remember watching American and telemundo movies, the way they pronounced words stuck in my memory.
After I noticed what was happening, I decided to stick to my "foreign" accent (according to Nigerians) and learn the American English pronouciation by using online dictionaries.
Funny enough, most Nigerians mixed up British and American English!
Flets: If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country.
Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.
OBJ's use of JTF force could not help as no Oil producing company will risk producing crude and killing staff in a volatile region.
GEJ under Yaradua had to get down to the creeks to to talk to these boys and effect the amnesty program because they found him as a representation in government.
If after GEJ's achievements in almost all sectors, roads, bridges, railways, agriculture, automobile, alamajiri schools, new universities, fertilizer and ghost worker scam elimination, freedom of press, FOI, free and fair elections, power sector. .........etc, he is still booted out. It will be impossible to convince a ND minority albeit a militant that their own was not persecuted out of office. And that will be the theme of the new struggle. The long term solution to this mess is implementing the Confab report and enthroning true federalism.
While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investments will seize in all sectors.
And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc.
Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.
Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished.
And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?
And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face
Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?
The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.
fx45: Na you deliberately transported yourself to diaspora. It is also your responsibility to deal with the hazards that comes with living in the diaspora and looking like a South Sudanese
thesicilian: For seven years that he served diligently, he wasn't a thief. Now that it is time for him to reap the benefits of his labour, he has suddenly become labelled as a thief. Some people are just plain wicked.
Nwaboi apprenticeship is evil, it's raising monsters ready to do anything for money. Throughout those years, the boy (if he's not sincere) and his "master" would always be working on outsmarting each other.
Even if you choose to remain "honest" as a boy, they'd push you to do things you'd normally never do. These useless "masters" might have children older than you but any slightest mistake you make, they crucify you in the public as if every human is stainless like Jesus Christ.
And if you're wondering how I know all these, I'm a victim of that barbaric apprenticeship that has produced many "millionaires". Foolish people give births to countless children and drive them to that shít to suffer, whatever happened to learning a skill or something?
I'm not against it but it's dying a natural death anyway, since they've refused to modernize it the "Igbo" way. I'm very sure if Europeans owned good tradition like this, they would work on it in such a way that others would copy from them.
I'm a victim of this barbaric apprenticeship called "Nwaboi" — I almost lost my mind, it is evil and teaches these young folks all kinds of evil acts especially when there are other boys serving before you.
I do understand the importance of the nwaboi apprenticeship and how it has produced "millionaires" but believe me when I say it does more evil than good mentally.
This generation of "oga" have destroyed the sanity of that apprenticeship plus it's not been regulated to checkmate abuses these boys go through. The "oga" and "boy" becomes enemies, always looking for ways to outsmart their "opponent".
This "nwaboi" has taught those who have gone through it that money is above all things, hence the reason you see people indulging in all types of barbaric acts because of money. Sadly, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was right when he said "the last Igbo man died in 1970".
One day when I have an opportunity to right the wrongs in our society, I'd make sure the "nwaboi apprenticeship" is either scraped or regulated properly.
fx45: It is the South Sudanese girls that have the black complexion you're talking about. The Somali girls look something like the Ethiopians. Attached below are examples. The first two are South Sudanese and the last two are Somali girls.
Ronu women come from the same stock as the South Sudanese
People like you are the reason some Europeans and Asians look down on you Africans! What's wrong about being dark-skinned?
Some of you living things that claim to be Igbos or yorubas in this forum are síck in the head (no offense).
kyber: You just rope yourself When you burn something it first turn white that’s if what you burning something that’s not garbage But when your burning nonsense it turns to black smoke, what does it show to you? Answer that yourself .
So why associate us with darkness and vultures and shits when they are not trying to okay the racist game on us .
Why must everything represent the white community ?
The term "white" race didn't exist until the 17 century, it was created by Europeans to make themselves feel better than the locals they conquered.
Before "Africans" came in contact with the Europeans, they never identified as "Africans" or blacks — these are just inventions of outsiders.
If you do not like how everything "black" is considered black, be the change by fighting to make sure our generation do not suffer the same fate as us.
Or better still spit on their faces by doing what African Americans did by using that same word used to degrade them — today, it's one of the most popular word exported out of the Americas. The Yoruba people did the same thing too.
mayor1814: Who accent help? Mtcheww. The reason why mode9 no matter how good he is as rapper will continue to remain unpopular in 9ja compared to other veteran rappers like ruggedman, eldee, eedris abdulkarim who held it down in the early 2000s to early 2010s.
It was simply because he targeted the wrong audience, how many Nigerians can analyze rap songs like NoLifeShaq on YouTube? Or point out bars and punchlines?
People like dax are killing it independently, thanks to social media — funny enough, despite openly embracing "Nigerian", he has close to a million Nigerians following him on Facebook.
Miracood2: Doing accent as how? Dude spent more than 5 years in the UK. So it shouldn't be surprising if he speaks with an accent.
Nigerians naturally get uncomfortable when you speak with an accent they consider "foreign". These people would never promote our local products or encourage more indigenous manufacturers.
I'm in this WhatsApp group where I get called out for "faking" my accent, how else am I supposed to speak for God's sake? Some of us grew up in towns or cities with people from different ethnicities.
I wonder what they'd say when they see someone from Jos or Bauchi speak with that same accent that they consider "foreign"? Especially my brothers from Plateau (Jos)...
I don't know when speaking English, a language that isn't even ours how we want it became a crime. Why do some Nigerians get uncomfortable when someone speaks with an foreign accent for Christ sake?
I grew up listening to hip hop and watching a lot of YouTube videos, I was also very proud of speaking pidgin that English began to sound awkward when I spoke it. I didn't know if I was sounding "Nigerian" or foreign.
When I started to rap, I tried to rap in the so called "Nigerian" accent but people didn't pay much attention and some still said I sounded "foreign".
I decided to do what I loved doing my own way without faking shít, I used my normal accent considered "foreign" by Nigerian because I don't have that "thickness" and people easily accepted me.
I do try to add that Nigerian flow but all my words are pronounced in US English, if I wanted to know the pronunciation of a word — I use Google and select the American English.
So, y'all learn to appreciate people for fúck sake! English ain't our language, when I speak pidgin, I do so proudly but when it's English — I do my way, call it "fake accent" I don't care.
My mom owned one and I remember playing that soccer and bounce game, it had easy, medium and hard level.
I also used the cheat code in the bounce game '787898#' (correct me if I'm wrong ), to become immortal and kick asses. There's also the floating cheat code, I can't seem to recall it.
And about been married by now? I was born years from Eminem released the Marshall Marthers LP, I'm still a virgin.
Exmilitant: I do body-shamed and discriminate people alot, right from my primary school days.
Wayo eye, k-leg, big head, bow leg, bald head, flat nyash, big nyash, fat man/woman, black skinned, albino, big teeth, long man, short man, blind man/woman, stammerer, those who can't read, those who makes mistakes while talking, those who can't speak proper English and many more. On Sunday afternoon I was visiting my friend, as I was about to drive into his street this pretty fat girl was walking by so I slowed, and said hello, she turned and I shouted, fat giiirl. . We all should be perfect. Shouldn't we
JakesCreativity: I posted a link with my main account and was banned by spam bots. I'd say including domain, hosting, premium theme and the tools I am using for keywords, optimization and image generation, it's almost 250k. The website without the tools cost around 112k, but the tools I am using is what is making my posts relevant.
Im a web designer tho, so there's no workmanship fee in the above explanation