₦airaland Forum

helinues:
Our heritage which we are proud of

Resurrection212:
Forget money I still have money I can take out buy whatever I need. Go to major joint there are empty I'm not talking of carrying sex workers go home Bleep...

AmiableMosquito:
@OP, I know exactly how you feel. Really sorry about your ordeal but gambling is a dangerous addiction that may even be worse than alcoholism or pornography.

It will lead you to all manner of immorality just to cover up for your losses and the drive to chase your losses. You will lie, steal, become desperate, anxious, restless and you will even crave solitude more than anything else. It will strain your relationships and degrade your level of attention to more relevant things because all you will be thinking of is how to bet or recoup your lost bets.

Donating money for you isn't the solution now. Cos whatever you get, you will still bet. No matter how much you deceive yourself that you won't.

Now, read the following carefully;

1. Tell your mother what has happened. What's the worst than can happen? She would prefer to bear the loss of money than bear your demise if you kill yourself. You will be scolded and might be insulted. That's okay, you deserve it after all.

2. Write on a piece of paper or type these words on a piece of paper and paste in your room or on a book you use regularly. "Gambling will not make me rich, instead it will impoverish and destroy me. Make sure it is visible for you to see everyday.

3. Close all your online betting account. It's the fastest way to depression. If you cannot close it, call their customer care to help you disable the account.

4. Find an accountability partner. Find someone who you know can hold you accountable and to whom you are willing to be accountable to. Might be your mum but preferably a sibling, a close friend or your girlfriend. The person must be a serious minded person who cares about you and who is also not struggling with gambling addiction. If they are trustworthy enough, save your money with them going forward. Never be too confident that today's experience has taught you enough lesson. It's a lie. You cannot manage your own finances for now.

5. Avoid visiting bet shops for any reason. Whether it is to go and charge or watch football or see a friend or just to watch others betting. Please avoid it by all means necessary. Liken it to a slaughterhouse where ritualists slaughter humans. Well so, because gambling will kill you eventually.

6. Your life is worth way more than N960k.
Will you suffer for your actions? Yes.
Will you suffer forever? No.
Learn from this mistake and gather yourself together. Start an aggressive saving culture from 100 naira to as much as you can. Deprive yourself of any unnecessary indulgence or enjoyment. You actually do not deserve it after this loss. Let that be your penance. Save, save, save and save. Go out and get busy; an idle mind is the devil's workshop. Hustle as if your mum is in a life threatening condition in the hospital and you were asked to raise some money for her surgery (God forbid that). I'm sure you'd do anything legal to find that money...... Yeah, hustle with that type of mindset. Your life depends on it.

7. I am writing this as someone who has experienced firsthand the destruction and havoc gambling have wrecked in people's lives; from established businessmen in the East to bankers in the West and students in the South South. I have seen it all while I volunteered for GambleAlert. Marriages have broken, jobs lost, businesses ruined, trust eroded, relationships wasted, talents destroyed, lives wasted just because of gambling. Trust me, it's as destructive as drug addiction. I hope one day I will be able to write a book on it.

8. Do not think you can break free in one day. Like every addiction, it takes a gradual process to break free. Too bad we have more bet shops and betting ambassadors than we have betting addiction support groups in Nigeria. You will be tempted to return especially when you remember your losses. You will see yourself starting with small amounts thinking you can control your spending limits but gradually, you will find yourself doing big numbers again. My advise in this regard is that if you are not using your smartphone to earn money, do away with it for now. Use a small phone for communication, at least for 3 months. Whenever you are thinking of betting, think of how it has ruined lives and I mean promising lives. No one gets rich by gambling. The betting companies are not philanthropic organisations.

9. Finally, my bro, I am guessing you reside in the SouthEast. From my experience with GambleAlert, the S/E is the most burdened with this social menace. You'd see businessmen once doing well suddenly became paupers because of addictive gambling. Please run o my brother.

Gambling has and will continue to ruin many lives. When I am more settled, I intend to push forward an NGO that will fight for heavy regulation of gambling in Nigeria.

Obaaderemi2:
First things first: who did you support in the last presidential election?

Ikaeniyan0:
Obidients will be depress when they see this news

EmperorCaesar:


But, our resident wailers claimed that all Multinationals are exiting the country and even advised local investors to "invest in Nigeria at their own risk"

In the end, Reno Omokri is right about those Economic developmental indices and those stats are right

2027 loos very massive

mozona:
Are they trying to tell us that the Yoruba in Lagos are not literate enough to understand what is written in English language.

Shadomaan7:
Good. We are moving in the right direction

WannaHowzit:
Wow, dating Nigerian men is really a taboo in SA. See how seriously these professional SA women took it as an insult to them. Well, outcomes of greed, fraud and a dire lack of conscience 🇳🇬😢

ALTERNATEID:
There is a reason the world bank guy said we should stay true to the ongoing reform for at least 15 years.

You guys simplify our economic challenges by thinking just two weeks of decline in PMS import will automatically result in Naira stability. It’s not that quick and easy. We need to remain consistent for at least a year before we can start counting the impact of the forex savings on our local currency. There is no shortcut to any of these things. It takes time and consistency for result to start showing.

SmartPolician:
That man is 1000% right! Electricity has improved in the past couple of months. Those who don't own cars have no business with fuel stations. Many people have admitted on Nairaland that electricity supply has improved in their area.

Anither563:
It is not true. He is paying the minimum wage of 40k.

LastGiantAlive:
I didn't bother reading your unity-begging epistle. Tell your darling daddy to help us do the Lord's work and disband this evil contraption. Give me the mushroom country like that I'll take it. This gigantic one hasn't done anything for the Igbo nation. We're tired. We want out!

Salewa97:
Alex Otti, the governor who has been busy with social media instead of focusing on governance.

What a shame

Myname55:
You are not sure but you conclude, showing hate or grudge you had in mind

AceRoyal:
Tax! Tax!! Tax!!!

25% tax is criminal no matter how we want to justify it, especially when the government is doing little or nothing to help businesses grow or contribute directly or indirectly to the success of these individuals.

Even the rich will also cry!

No focus on human capital or infrastructural development.

No focus on cutting down cost of governance.

No focus on clamping down on corruption.

All the tax, multiple loans, revenue from other sources and supposed savings on subsidy removal..... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT!

I dare anyone to mention just one thing the common man presently benefits or enjoy from the government.

It's sad, painful and pathetic.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Will you shut up! I’ve noticed your desperate attempts as you go around the politics section trying blame IPOB for the engineered insecurity in the south-east! Dude, the insecurity in the south-east, whether by omission or commission, is WHOLLY the fault and responsibility of your evil, anti-Igbo hegemonic gov’ts of Buhari and now Tinubu! Their crass incompetence, red-flag operations, unofficial partnerships with criminal militant leaders like Asari Dokubo, and outright mass murder of innocent agitators….all this is what has led us to this point! Buhari and Tinubu aren’t interested in ending insecurity in the south-east because THEY are the ones engineering it and they want to use is to try and demonise IPOB and Mazi Kanu as well as ensure they destabilise the south-east economy and demarket the region! They do this out of hatred, the blackness of their hearts and a desire to ‘teach those Igbo a lesson for daring to want to secede and not knowing their inferior/slave status’! People like you have your own part to play in this evil plot, and this is why you do what you do on this forum! If Tinubu was genuinely interested in restoring peace to the south-east, he’d have obeyed the last court order on the matter and released Mazi Kanu, so we can know just who these instigators and 5th-columnists are!

You glibly assert that no investors or investments should go to the south-east because of ‘insecurity’, yet as we speak, your evil hegemonic Tinubu gov’t is sucking out billions of dollars worth of oyel and gas from the region! Imagine the hypocrisy and deceit! You see nothing wrong in Nigeria taking billions of dollars worth of loans, of which most of the benefits go to the south-west and north-west (the two regions of the hegemonic alliance), while you argue that it’s ‘justified’ for the south-east to be excluded because of IPOB! Loans ALL OF US will pay back oh! You see how eminently wicked you Igbo-haters are!?

One wonders why you don’t argue same for the north-west which is arguably one of the most insecure regions on earth, yet as we speak your federal gov’t is engaged in building a multi-billion dollar AKK gas line; a trans-border brand new multi-billion dollar railway so Buhari can link up with his cousins in Maradi, Niger; has built a brand new international airport terminal in Kano while the one for Enugu is left to rot; is rehabilitating Kaduna refinery; has spent hundreds of millions of dollars searching for the elusive oyel and gas in the region; and much more projects/investments too numerous to mention!

There is God ohhhh!

EhWhoBeThat:
After screaming like a rabid dog

Go to Abuja

Get your visa and fly to Lebanon to help your allah

sreamsense:
If not because islamic terrorists are really dangerous and evils, why do the always waste money building tunnels for their future crime and the mosques will even be donating for such ventures. They will build tunnel close to mosque, hospitals and schools. They only think of evils five times a day as they go for five Solat prayer on daily basis. Their women and children are suffering in poverty, yet they prefer to waste money to chase enemies that don't even plan evil towards them. Very disgusting religion!

Alliswell248:
Why didn't you start this in Anambra when you were the governor?
You were busy siphoning money to panama.

Hypocrite 001

nothingspoil70:
Unfortunately the country is about to split up

Ewabokian:
Aboki try Dey rest

nedu666:
You are now an lgbo man. All these inferiority complex people. Even online they will deny their ethnic group just for sake of winning arguments.

Zionmdde:
When my people are tired of ipob and the other criminals, they know what to do

Resurrection212:
Please I'm just imagine something this morning if there is a any functional railway station in the whole of southeast. I knew that the Porta Harcourt and imo railway project during Jonathan administration wasn't come to reality.

Guys please any functional railway station in southeast.

michlins:
let us understand who brought us here. It was the politicians who looted and rather than invest. The politicians who looted and are still looting are asking the masses to make sacrifices for the good of the country. It's an absolute arrogant and heartless thing to do to the masses.

Senate president is asking us to eat wherever we see food meanwhile he and his colleagues have feeding budget that can feed the whole primary schools in Nigeria.

Make it make sense!!!!

Myname55:
Nigeria is not practising Democracy