₦airaland Forum

Chinlov:
true but we have Afro wigs na

lol. Bet that would look weird on a now white face.

Chai!

My beloved Legend extra stout 🙁

wonlasewonimi:
Yeah right..it affected his hair and voice too

I idolised MJ all through my childhood, and even now long after his death. So I believe I can offer some answers.

1. I don't think anyone could be as popular/accepted worldwide on the level that MJ was, ever again in this life.

2. Contrary to popular belief, he didn't have surgery to become white. He had aggressive vitiligo, and yes he did use some chemicals only to even up patches and smoothen the skin tone, but it was largely the vitiligo.

3. He was faking his lady like voice for the most part as an adult. The voice was part of the package, kinda like part of his act/identity. When he was younger it was rumoured that his father (who was a well documented ruthless tough guy) used hormones to keep his voice shrill, like a child so he could continue to sound the same as he did as lead of the Jackson 5. He no want make the voice texture change. Dunno how true this is, cos I can't confirm if hormone therapy was a thing far back then. But back to my earlier point, if you do your research you would find videos where he slipped up and spoke with a much deeper voice. In fact, for quite a long time leading up to his death, he had gotten quite comfortable with speaking in his true deeper voice.

4. He suffered third degree burns on his head, after the pepsi ad fire. Those portions could never grow hair again, so he resorted to wigs. That long hair you were always seeing, na wig.

Johnjustice:
Next election I won't support Obi, he is one of them, in Anambra he made no significant changes, stories upon stories, his election interviews he didn't say anything different or unique.

I'm sure you haven't noticed that elections are over.

I ain't Obi and don't give 7 flying fcks who you vote for. I myself will leave this country soon enough and will happily come back to reinforce failure by voting for APC come 2027 as a typical Nigerian this time, not as a progressive. Hopefully no bastard will question my decision then. Choose a side and take a stand with your full chest. Don't be all over the place you hear.

Johnjustice:
I don't engage with sworn enemies of the nation. Obi don't have the answer, Nigeria needs a leader that can take drastic measures...even next elections I can't support Obi, I don't support mediocres. So run off with your bigotry you and your sister are one and same... bigots mean nothing to me, am talking of patriots here not traitors. Obi had interviews he didn't mention solutions that could change Nigeria...he is just one of them.

you are an enemy to yourself and Nigeria. You are pathetic and confused, a typical Nigerian who adores and loves directionlessness and hopelessness.

One minute he says we choose the worst of us to lead us, next he defends the criminal and failure he chose.

One minute he says Igbos are not good in any way shape or form and should be thrashed in the bin, and literally the next minute he says we are all one and we should come together. MENT or Drugs or Drug-induced ment? I no even know the diagnosis to give you.

To ba ma je oshakala, je oshakala
To ba ma je oshokolo, je oshokolo
Ewo ni oshakala oshokolo??

You are not really useful, cos you don't even know the first thing about what you want, where you stand, much less where to go to.

This thread belongs in the bin......but hey, freedom of speech.

Carry on

Johnjustice:
I wonder why Nigerians are not engaging on this thread...seems we don't have patriots anymore... everyone wants to hide dollars, hoard it so it gets scarce, then bring out their dollars to sell for a profit. Saboteurs. It's a weak mind, why are we different from citizens of other nations, why do we hate the place we are from so much?

Something is really wrong in our psyche, this lazy, quick rich syndrome of greed has eaten deep.

engage with and enjoy the monsters YOU made.

Patriot ko, Parrot ni.


Clown

lastkingsman:
I am building a ML model that will predict the future value of naira using past data (past time fun). Will share the results in two weeks.

kindly mention Sukkot and I when you're done. My bro Sukkot, you no talk anything after you lost our earlier bet ooo. New projections don dey around the corner courtesy lastkingsman, but till now you never holla me give me thumbs up for my last projection wey hit the bull's eye.

Quit the tomfoolery

Rather too late to be bold, courageous and demand a change.

You all had your chance to show politicians who the real boss is at the polls, but didn't.

Enjoy the monsters you have made.

Go on and protest. When bullets start flying, na who die, die in vain. Ordinary 'RIP' dem no go see.

CodeTemplar:
It is around $7 in global average. That's perfectly in line with ours here.
I think that should be the focus and not just trying to sensationalize everything for petty political gains.

lol. How about Nigerians get paid the global average in terms of minimum wage? Or only our costs should be in line with global average, our earnings shouldn't be?

Clowns!

Kpartners:
“I do not want Peter Obi to ever become the president of Nigeria again. I know he has a saviour complex thinking he can still salvage Nigeria.

They are going to leave a carcass of a nation for him to come fix when they have plundered it to a wasteland. Then blame him for not waving a magic wand and fixing sh!t overnight.

Peter Obi warned everybody the last election was a f!ght for the survival of the country...Agbado people labelled him a divisive b!got.

Peter Obi should actually retire with his beautiful Aunty Maggie and let who wants to p£rish...p£rish! 🤷🏾‍♂️”

exactly oo

Obi would be the most stupid person on earth, to willingly want to put himself in this kinda mess that his isn't a part of.

Eleru lo ye ko gberu e.

APC that put us in this position should kuma continue till they fully bury the country, so that history will tell and show how they were the end of Nigeria.

It is best left to imagination where Nigeria would be by 2027..why the hell would he want that kind of wahala?

If I were him, I would sit on the sidelines and watch them destroy everything patapata. Las las these bastards have forced me into a position where i have to flee from this country, but wherever I am on this God's green earth, if I still dey by 2027, I will come back to vote APC again just for the fun of it. Let me see the bastard that will query my choice then.

Rinoxy:
I, the desolate bastard behind the moniker Rinoxy was allegedly born by a demented father, and I was told this by my whorish mother. I need urgent help.

You do fit the bill of a mistake in all forms. Coming from such degeneracy, you didn't really stand a chance at normalcy. Get the much needed help.

✌️

Lament all you want, no one cares. Wait and endure the baby steps of pain, while Thubv and his group of brigands use '500m first' to constitute a wage review committee.

Happy gnashing of teeth Nigerians. You deserve it and more.🤣

Paraman:
k

You can keep on crying and monitoring my comments on nairaland with your numerous accounts jobless boy

you're probably the gateman in Abuja with the ugly boots lordvicco the imp or whatever you call yourself. It is quite easy to spot the dregs of society, even online.

Paraman:
If you're not fine with it, you can leave nairaland. You won't be miss missed jobless boy

unintelligent and uneducated boy.

Paraman:
I'm not parachoko and i dont have other monikers on nairaland. I'm not jobless like you.

but you appear to be jobless o. You literally sleep here, and type unintelligent crap all day. Look at your 5month figures Vs my 3 year figures.

Clown🤣🤣🤣🤣

Validated:
Where is Parachoko sef

parachoko is paraman...and a whole lot of other monikers as well. It's a full time job what they do.

Gerrard59:


Nigeria easily makes one a soothsayer!

as in ehn.

What is playing out now is what every right thinking person expected would happen if Thubv got power. I was so invested in that last election cos I knew too that it would make or mar a lot of things.

Which is why sequel to the election, I am still so angry and simply couldn't care less if the country razes over 15 times. We saw a pit, and warned and warned, but it all fell on deaf ears. Now they have opened the gates of hell, let them feel the heat.

Winning123:
You comments shows you are not different from Hamas. God wants all men saved. He wants the wicked to repent.

kick rocks....with your big toe.

Wankerrrs!😎

Jeans601:
That your business if lost your basic humanity feeling.

Even Jesus our lord had pity on a thief next to him on the cross.

Only a fool will rejoice and see nothing wrong with such number of dead people....27,000 humans.


No wonder God was really sad seeing what he created in his own image.

how many do you think would be killed in Israel if they didn't have the Iron dome? You do know they fire thousands of rockets almost daily, right? Those rockets no be banger o... But yea carry on blaming Israel.

Jokers!😎

When Palestinians are ready, they will give up the Hamas groups working from amongst them, the same damned groups they are yet to condemn (just like you) but show their support and allegiance to.

Death to all terrorists and terrorist enablers/supporters. Stop firing thousands of rockets into Israel daily...very very easy sturvs

JAMO84:
The Nigeria Economy is in shambles, inflation is high, the Naira is on a free fall, no thanks to the President's twin decision of petroleum subsidy elimination and floating of the Naira.


Ordinarily, one would have loved to have subsidies back, but considering we've been down this road before, and the experience wasn't palatable; the corruption and resources wastage associated with Petroleum subsidy and forex management must continue to belong to the dustbin of history, we must move on, no matter what.


However, I understand we don't have problem with Naira liquidity like we have with dollar and other foreign currencies. Elimination of subsidies means the government now have more money to spend on the people, therefore, the government at all levels must do everything possible to help the poor and the vulnerable get through this hardship.


In all of these, I am only worried about the less privileged, not the greedy rich and middle class who want to get richer, nor the election sore losers and their cult - like followers who think their candidate alone has the right to be President, despite being a collosal failure in his previous time in public office.


SUBSIDY IS GONE, AND GONE IT MUST REMAIN

have sense!

Subsidy is still being paid.

He messed everything up so bad, and what is more pathetic is at the end of the day, subsidy is still being paid on petrol. Why has LPG gone to 1300, and diesel also but petrol has remained unchanged for over 6 months?

In all your getting, get sense!

a4cube:
Yours is tribe and religion. Muric man said it.
Tinubu is the worst candidate in that election. Though many SW and anigerians did not vote him. Yakubu made him president but the SWestners are taking the heat bcus they claimed to be the arrow head after the Yakubu rigging and turned the whole election of Governors into tribal war bcus of LP candidate of Lagos State and how lagocians rejected the druggie.

see, let's call a spade, a spade. Tinubu had many people who voted for him, even despite the well documented criminality and irregularities of inec.

The states with many enlightened people eg Abuja and Lagos thrashed him in the bin, and rightly so.

The core SW states, majority of the youths that came out voted for Obi, but the problem was a whole lot more of the daddies and mummies came out, and were even allowed to vote first (due to old age and respect bullshit) and unfortunately they voted overwhelmingly for APC. This was what played out in Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo. Most of the youths were for Obi, these are colleagues and contemporaries so I know, but rather unfortunate that our daddies and mummies pulled far more numbers on election Day.

In my polling unit for example, I had to call everyone to order when I noticed we were shooting ourselves in the foot by allowing all the Baba's and mama's to vote so that we don't stress them to wait for too long, meanwhile they were voting for APC, and consequently denying a good number of us youths from voting cos time was fast running out. I had to halt the thing and we later agreed 1 aged, 1 youth per time. Anybody wey e strength no carry election day stress, make e dey go house. Won le wa pawa saye.

So make no mistake, Tinubu got votes from our daddies and mummies, na the youths try give Obi something for SW, and even that was whittled down by their higher numbers and the fraud called INEC. Can you believe that after counting presidential and we left, the next day all the voided votes for APC, were added back for them thus inflating the figures in favour of APC? The votes that were voided for improper thumbprinting, they added it back and wrote that on the final report sheet, and we're talking over 50 voided APC votes (aged people with poor sight and shaky hands)

Well who is crying now? Na the same Baba's and mama's wey don dey romance poverty tey tey. Shey na pikin wey dey try survive himself go remember send money to one mummy or daddy in Ibadan. Shebi Omo won ni Tinubu, Tinubu a ma fun won l'ounje

Stooopid heifer.

This is the bit that irks me. Taking on the saviour complex...well babe, newsflash! The people waiting cap in hand for you are your family. Na your specific family be the hopeless destitutes who can't live without your handouts. Be specific about these things.

Title of her rant should be 'Why I stopped sending money to my beggarly family in so-so-and-so location'

No be strangers una dey send these monies to na. You literally send it to your beggarly families (emphasis on the 'your')

Paraman:
It's not a new law by the CBN, it has been in place since 2007. I wander why the CBN and the police have not gone after the organizations breaking the law

why have they not gone after Ganduje that has been transacting in dollars since even before 2015? Oh I forgot, he is the APC National chairman.

Where is the fire?? Someone should wake me up when evidence of the fire don show. We never recover from dollar lamba, na threats of fire remain now.

Normal level na

Price of Gas, Diesel and everything else will be reviewed upwards from next week due to the latest devaluation, only petrol won't go up due to subsidy.

Even the petrol sef make them remove am, Naija people no go do nada. Push em to the wall, and watch them break through the wall.

Righthussle:
See who's talking. You wey dey make people swear oath before commenting on Islamic threads on Nairaland nko.

pinned!

Seun oya coman explain why you dey treat this particular referenced case differently.

SoNature:
Professor Ndubuisi suggested something that sounds interesting. Engage Nigerians in diaspora and convince him them to invest their money with the federal government at a certain interest rate. For instance, if a Nigerian is willing to give $10k, they get $10,400 after 4 years.

However, this can only work in a country where people genuinely love their government and want to see their country grow. Many Nigerians at home and abroad don't even trust the man in power because of his several terrible records.

BTW, if they must convert everyone's USD to naira, the rich people will be hard hit and there must not be sacred cows. Tinubu must ensure the conversation starts from himself and his cabinet members.

these are smart ideas. Propose a juicy OMO for diasporans, but these dumbos do not have the brains to conceive or implement such a simple yet effective strategy. I know they will go after Fx in Dom accounts, I have been saying that for a while.

iwaeda:
Today's elections for people to make a BOLD statement, but no.

na so o. Watch how APC will win everywhere. Then they go back to continue their miserable existence. It's like something from a horror movie.

oluwaleokey:
My people
In between the discussions ... biko which radio FM is the best to listen to, I mean, educative .... wish nairaland travel thread can be converted to stereo, make I dey hear the gbas gbos

I already made that suggestion to Seun. I no know why he no consider am as a worthy upgrade. Include the option of uploading Voice notes just like we upload pictures. So darn easy!!!

DInkMan:
Guy, it seems you have a personal axe to grind with Tokey with the numerous mentions oh 😀 .
By the way, they want masses to bear the heat of subsidy removal. It's, in all sincerity, preposterous.

even the exchange rate that Mr nland resident Bin Laden was blaming us for onto say we HODL dollar, he no face politicians wey don dollarize tins and transactions tey tey eg Ganduje throwback video...but check this out.. customs reviewed exchange rate for clearing to almost 1400 today. Now tell me that the speed with which they made that upward review isn't very suspicious. The whole kasala literally hit turbo this same week and boom customs don increase rate. That signals to me that even the sudden rate jump experienced this week was planned.

Wankerrrrs!

E remain the dumb shameless nudist Olaiya Igwe. He better run naked to Kuramo beach asap, make he go follow him water gods dialogue again

IbeOkehie:
Thanks. The IGNORANCE among even top rated university graduates in Nigeria is crazy and outrageous.

I'm not sure all these Anti-Jakpa people are even sincere in their opinions. When hard headed one's like @Sukkot and @Treadway now claim they never condemned migration. I'm sure neither of them have ever left Nigeria, they just pick stuff up by watching YouTube and reading articles. Then they have fun making nonsensical and provocative arguments denigrating life in UK and USA.

I repeatedly emphasize I personally know people earning $1K per day in that same Nigeria. Why would they leave? The real issue has always been the conditions for regular people, for average folks like me.

It's all good, life is about choices. This debate has been on Nairaland since 2007 at least. We know the trends by now. Maybe 2024 is the year of Nigerian Revival and those abroad will soon be crying 😢 like in 2008.

Good Luck to Nigerians.

nice to hear from you again simp Ibezim. Have you helped the fellow I referred to you who wants to japa to US with visit visa like you did? I'd like you to put some action behind those hefty words of yours, for more credibility. You know talk is very cheap even in these balablu times. When you don EPP am finish, we can continue from where we left off aiit.✌️