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If the Chinese president said this then the translation was done by an illiterate. Which one is it?

Odumegwu444:
Religious cards

Each to their own. I just stated what the norms were in response to the original question . There will always be exceptions.

The world is changing quickly but in large organisations, there are, in most cases policies regarding communication. For instance, some international organisations do not accept whatsapp as an official means of company communication. You cannot share sensitive comms via WhatsApp neither can you report absence and conducting meetings on the platform is not really encouraged.

The most common use case I have seen is internal team comms and even then, you cannot force everyone to download whatsapp which defeats the purpose. Some people will even refuse to download whatsapp on principle just to be awkward. I have seen it happen.

Again there will be outliers and companies that do it differently and there is nothing wrong with that. Just that all the companies I worked for when I was younger had over 500 staff and I was in senior management, so was very familiar with the guidelines.

airsaylongcome:
You do know that many of the calls to your colleagues and customers while you worked at those international employers with corporate structures were no different from WhatsApp calls? Absolutely no difference. Just a different software used but exactly the same thing

Whatsapp calls are interrupted when you have an actual call coming through, there are also issues with call clarity because of internet signal fluctuations. Couple this with the fact that whatsapp is still perceived as a form of social media and you begin to see why it may not be the best platform for hosting critical business calls.

In a formal business environment, the cost of the call should not be an issue. I worked internationally within corporate structures and this is my observation.

Wtf did I just see and how can I unsee it!

Donbankz:
Guys how can I treat this thing
Any home remedy?

If I’m sweating and I walk past you while you bend down, you can’t ever come close to me due to the smell. And it’s affecting me from fulfilling my se x fantasies

Abject poverty is worse than ordinary poverty

The fact that you are still using the term "woo" might be the root cause of your problems.

It is widely accepted knowledge that on average you will only have 5 true friends over a lifetime, excluding family.

The others are acquaintances, hangers on, fair weather opportunists and rip off merchants.

Why is an official statement released by a press office littered with grammatical errors?

Tpave:
Is it ideal for your wife to insist she knows your password as a husband because she wants to be checking your phone anytime she wishes?

A house wife read on the Internet how a married woman kept another lady outside for 7 years without the wife knowing and he also did not tell the lady he was married.

Some wives on the comment section threatened that they must start checking their husbands phone and he must give them the password.

Is your wife employed? Answer that one first then we will advise accordingly

Get paid doing what you love and you will never work a day again in your life.


Udanta has spoken

Should this be on front page fgs? !!!

What did I just see and how can I unsee it?

I honestly do not know how to respond to this. Someone that has some level of education actually wrote this utter hogwash?

Does this man think that we are all stupid?

Who is they? Who exactly are you talking about? Are you people alright in the head?

Sleekfingers:
But they need to watch their utterances........You can't disrespect me , and expect me to respect you.
Calling Lagos a no man's land. It is an insult to we lagosians and the entire Yorubas......

Why do you idiots keep repeating this fallacy? Is it to justify the utter disgrace we just witnessed? To cover up tribal bigotry?

Who exactly said this? A few people on twitter or nairaland are now the voice of igbos?

I am really beginning to develop a deep hatred of some of you people.

NEIGHBOUR:
Shut up bros!!! How will you feel if a stranger from nowhere will wake up and say Benin is a no man's land,?
Promising to dethrone the Oba of Benin and seize the land. ? Do you joke with such?

Fool, you asked if a white man can come to Nigeria to compete? The white man left europe where they over 1000 years more advanced and came and colonised almost all of Africa! You move away from competition to find new opportunities, even a brain dead amoeba would know this.

You cannot remain in your comfort zone in a slum and be waxing lyrical about mediocrity. The jews are all over the world succeeding, same for the indians and chinese. It is in human dna to migrate or seek out new opportunities. You seem to be proud of migration only when it is to a white mans country. Stop being ignorant.

waynetee:
You have no reasonable point, would you rather go from heaven to hell fire? Why would i leave where i could do my work more efficiently and travel to terrorists den!


Common .. Yorubas travel to more advanced places like abroad, while you people come to yorubaland for greener pastures, that is the reality of things if you are lost.

They are way above you interms of reasoning.
SW is the comfort zone for now and the yorubas are the proud owner of it, best economy in Nigeria , best security, industrial hub, almost 90% of universities are located here, the list goes.. i do not think any sensible person would term them foolish and weak when they are living in the most competitive place in Nigeria .

How can we compete with you when we set the standards, the bests are here and what the best ones among you can do is try to catch up, that's why you come here to sell pants and boxers in 2x2 shop yorubas lend you.. Know your place abeg!

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Every sane man wants a better life and would love to travel to greener pastures and yorubas lead the whole of Africa. Yorubas takes more than half of total Nigerians living in England today... It simply means yorubas always make it first before any Nigerian .. We are just not lousy like you people.

So You sound stupid saying we should compete with Igbos.... Can a white man come to Nigeria to compete?

I cannot believe I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading this utter hogwash. Are you people retarded or just plain stupid?

Did someone with formal education just call a tribe a race? Do you understand what race means? What kind of mouth breathing, knuckle dragging imbecility is this?

EPIJOE:
*Yorubas, Igbos And The Lagos Question*
*When a former* *Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of…*

By
*John Olufemi Kusa*
*Sun, 17 Mar 2019 3:35:18 WAT*


*When a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper penned reasons as to why there must be a limit to Igbo’s participation in the politics of Lagos, his friend and former classmate of Igbo background thought the submission betrayed his exposure, experience and education.” CROSSFIRE, reproduces the requirements as canvassed by Femi Kusa and Pat Utomi.*

*I am a yoruba and I condemn all forms of electoral malpractice, including ballot box snatching on election day. The Yorubas are an intelligent people with their own fair share of rascals.There are many intelligent and creative ways open to the yorubas to deal with the Igbo question in Lagos or elsewhere.*

*Chief Obafemi Awolowo dealt with it when Dr Nnamdi Azikwe abused the generousity of the Yorubas and attempted to take over their land as the Dutchmen took over Southern Africa. The Yorubas also dealt with this question intelligently when Biafran soldiers tried to invade the West from Ore, after overrunning Bendel State with the aid of Igbo connections there. At different fora where the Igbo question in Lagos comes up, I always invite the Igbos to remember that the Yorubas have always been their best friends in Nigeria.*

*The Yoruba leader of the 1950s, HERBERT MACAULAY, founded the NCNC (National Council for Nigerians and the Cameroons). When Macaulay died following an illness during his nationwide campaign for independence, wasn’t it the Yoruba NCNC leadership which invited Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Igbo, to return home from Ghana and lead their party? And when he held their hand in the soup pot, to bar them from having the meal they prepared, didn’t they peacefully and intelligently show him the way back to the East?*

*Yorubas were generous and trustful. Dr Azikwe insulted their sensibility, abused their generosity and trust. Why would he, an Igbo, wish to be premier of the West and then install an Igbo, as premier of the East when the Yorubas at that time had more literate people than the Igbos? That was cunning, greed and betrayal of trust to say the least.We were all fighting to send the white man away and, after we had succeeded, you wished to impose local Igbo colonialism on a better educated Yoruba race. Who would have accepted that?*

*Secondly, I remind my Igbo friends that, after the civil war ,their properties in the North, Port Harcourt, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, their present political allies, were seized from them as “abandoned” property and handed out to the aborigines.But in the West, Igbo property were all returned with all the rent which accrued to them. Were the Yorubas stupid or merely civilised, honest and friendly or, if you like, God fearing?*

*OKOTA BALLOT BOX*

*As I said in the first part, the snatching of ballot boxes after all the warnings by government was unecessary, crude, condemnable and punishable. If the yorubas condemn it elsewhere, they should condemn it also in Okota.*

*But after the condemnation and necessary punishment under the law, it will not be right for all of us to not get to the bottom of why it happened and the bigger problems which are brewing beneath. The major problem ,in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land. I say this with all sense of responsibility.*

*Recently MOFE OYATOGUN of STAR 101.5FM radio station in Lagos played her EARLY RUSH SHOW, a 1952 audio clip of an interview with Ahmadu Bello, Governor of Northern Nigeria. He said unequivocally that the North would not employ Igbos in its civil service, because if you gave them an inch, you will not know when they would take a mile.That was way back in 1952, about 67 years ago.*

*Is this not what is still playing out today in South Africa, Benin Republic, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Libya and China, to mention a few countries? In the last presidential election, President Mohammadu Buhari probably won landslide victories in Northern states because that Ahmadu Bello radio interview clip went viral in that political landscaper. Peter Obi, an Igbo, was vice presidential running mate to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a Fulani from the North-East. It was possible the North still lived in fear of the Igbo man as Ahmadu Bello had taught them to do and as they were reminded in that audio clip replay.*

*In Yorubaland, we are a society governed by laws. That is why we have ministries of chieftaincy affairs. All the land in Lagos have owners. Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generousity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.*

*Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam? Can the Igbos say that of Kano and Jos? The people there know how to make themselves husbands of the mothers of the territorial expansionist. Everywhere on earth, we have seen that territorial expansion ends in chaos.In recent history, we can pin the two world wars to it. What about the war in Liberia between the aborigines and the settled slaves? What about Rwanda? What about Hitler’s war on the Jews? What about the liberation wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique*

*Why did general Idi Amin of Uganda chase away the Asians? Why did Bangladesh separate from India, Eritrea from Ethiopia and Senegal from SeneGambia? What about the communual clashes over land in Nigeria? Recently, almost 100 Fulanis were killed in Kaduna.We cannot forget the Zango-Kataf problem.*

*So, we should be careful when you come to settle on my land and say you must represent me in the Nigerian Senate or the House of Representatives, or the Lagos State House of Assembly, taking away from me my aboriginal right to have my kith, kindred and blood represent me, while back home you are being represented in the senate and House of Reps, when you insist on becoming a commisioner in my state or a deputy governor, or a local government chairman when you try to govern me in my own land as Dr Nnamdi Azikwe once tried to do, all because I was generous to let you become in my land what you couldn’t become in your land, simply because you believe you have the numbers, I will tell you that is greed and unnatural irrespective of the backing of the law you may think you have.*

*Think, for example, about an Igbo becoming the chairman of Lagos island local government and arrogating to himself the right under the laws of Nigeria and of Lagos State to issue instructions to the Oba of Lagos about how the kabiyesi should conduct himself and govern his people. What will this breed?*

*That is what has been happening in countries from where the Igbos are being sent back home.It happened once in the North as Ahmadu Bello said in 1952. And seriously speaking, I believe this is why the North rejected Atiku Abubakar.*

*The Igbos should reflect on this…Why does everyone tend to (hate ) us?*

*JIMI AGBAJE/AFENIFERE*

*The Igbos should be wary of JIMI AGBAJE and AFENIFERE.They are politicians who are looking for ethnic heads to break coconuts on.*

*The Igbos are hardworking and resourceful and should try to overcome ethnic politics as the Yorubas have done. They should learn from immigrants from other lands worldwide. The Indians do not trouble their hosts or try to take over their lands. They make their money quietly and take it back home to develop their own land. That is why India has been able to lift herself from poverty. In contrast, the Igbos do not develop their own lands. All they do is largely to make money from abroad through whichever or whatever means and buy up property which other people have built and then claim they own the land without remembering that they can never hold aboriginal rights to the land in their hands whenever the chips come down.*

*Meanwhile, their land back home is languid, crying and shouting for investment and development and they begin to talk about marginalisation. Did they not flower and fruit under Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations? What happened to Igbo land in those 16 years that they were not marginalised? What happened to Yoruba land in those 16 years that the Yorubas were marginalised that Yoruba land still continued to be a honey pot for the Igbo?*

*I would go anyday with Chief Emeka Anyaoku who looks at the world with universal spectacles.*

*Succeeding Lagos governments have beautifully held the ethnic balance in Lagos and prevented ethnic disturbances. Igbos should stop saying they own Lagos or that they built Lagos or that Lagos is a “no man’s land”. Only a bastard Yorubaman will not feel affronted by such statements. And in spiritual terms, the man or woman who cannot defend his land is not fit to live. Wasn’t this the failure of the sons of the Incas?*

*It is good news that the leaders of the Igbos and other nationalities in Nigeria have met with the traditional leaders of the Yorubas in Okota and Oshodi areas to avert a backlash in respect of last election. As I said earlier, Agbaje and Afenifere are outside the mainstream of Yoruba politics. They are trying to take control of it. And they have the right to so aspire, being Yorubas.*

*What is objectionable to the mainstream Yoruba is their attempt to knock the heads of the Igbo against the head of the mainstream yorubas. They remind the yorubas of a similar affront by Afonja, the Yoruba army commander in Ilorin who was sent there by the Alaafin of Oyo to stop jihadist expansion. Afonja betrayed the Alaafin and invited the jihadists to defend his betrayal. They did and Afonja triumphed momentarily only to be killed afterwards by the jihadists who took over the land.*

*The perception in Yorubaland today is that the Igbo in Lagos especially are the modern jihadists and that Agbaje and Afenifere are the modern Afonjas. This is the underlying perception which, in my opinion, triggered the surface reaction in Okota last Saturday. The Yorubas remain an accomodating people. But they never fail to rise in their defence when they have to, as they did in the 1950s in respect of Dr Azikwe’s blatant attempt to usurp their land and as they also did at Ore during the civil war.*

*Kusa, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, writes from Lagos.*

What a shame. Black Africans segregated by tribe? The white man is gone, we gained independence, we can settle anywhere in the world and vote and this is what our own country has become.

This is really heartbreaking. The level of ignorance is mind boggling

God has abandoned Nigeria. The world is a very big place and you only have 1 life to live.

Indelibleage:
I served, did my postgraduate program, married and had a kid. That's positive side. But on the other hand, it's very terrible under this administration. Nevertheless, God's there for us in Nigeria.

You are a fool

lhordspy:
I was also surprised to see him at the central mosque today. These days he has been very distanced and disconnected from the Northern political terrain. Irrespective of his political affiliation, i will advise him to always stay in touch to avoid losing relevance, which may be of help to his future political ambitions.

My first time of meeting him though. He seems like a nice man. He just picked the wrong side.

He got paired with an hopeless political clown like Ob! from an insultive, hatefilled, children of hate region. People that can insult anyone and everyone; their kings, their parents and even their elders. People without an iota of good moral upbringing or proper home-training. Just look at them commenting below with their usual pattern

kai... May we never be unfortunate in life

Spoken like a true twit. I was holding my breath for reason but really should not have bothered.

I got halfway through your write up and gave up. Utter pig headed ignorance with a sprinkling of homophobia thrown in for good measure , very classy indeed.

Trying too hard, you said? Colonised? You are writing in English, you plonker!

I give up. The Internet really is a leveller.

omonnakoda:
Now that you have got that off your chest I hope you feel lighter
Let me tell you what you are
A colonized mind trying too hard to be anglicized

You deserve pity
We all cannot be like that
Jesus is not the original form of the name it has variants all over the world
just like our own Jesu

So why the "incredulity" when someone says or writes Tampolin
"You will give me no quarter"? You are trying too hard and it is cringe worthy
Only gay people talk like that in the 21st century .
"Boulder sized Chip" = oxymoron
You are trying too hard. We do not talk about chips on shoulders in Nigeria. KEEP IT REAL

We are African and have every right to adjust Tampolin just like your masters in Dublin did with "JESUS"

So ridiculing our people because they do not match your idea of what a colonized or anglicized African should write or say will get the response you are getting.
I do not have time to browse your posts to suss you and your psychology out
It is Tampolin and if you do not like it call Jesus and your friends from the "English speaking " world to a weeping congress

Once in a while, when bored and browsing this site, I come across people like you. Oddities with a boulder sized chip on their shoulder, permanently looking for a fight with strangers to justify their miserable existence.

I was being polite when I addessed you earlier, now I will give you no quarter mate.

A glance through your previous comments on this site have shown me that you are not even worth engaging. That will just feed your ignorance. You clearly need help. This repository of bile within you that seeks an outlet on the Internet requires some sort of psychiatric evaluation. Where does it come from, I wonder? Are you unfulfilled? Do you think the world has done you wrong? Perhaps the white man is to blame? Europeans?

Whatever it is, you are not normal. I am not even going to address your diatribe about the origin of the name Jesus. I will not even honour that utter tripe with a response. Have a good life. I am good.

omonnakoda:
No I do not
"!get it"
I do not take foolish pride in cultural inferiority

I do not delegitimize stuff because it is African and legitimize that which is European

My incredulity is from the spelling of Jesus
"Jesus "
was not English and English people adopted his name to their language .
That is not his name
So Africans are free to adopt strange or unfamiliar words to suit their tongue
The joke is on you and your colonized mind is totally oblivious in deluded smugness
We say Tampolin and Milik if you do not like it go and wail with Jesus in Dublin your English speaking El Dorado

Didinrin

Don't call me Geezer you are disgusting

Geezer, are you pulling my leg or what? I explained the incredulity was from the spelling of the word! Do you still not get it?

omonnakoda:
What is the connection between that and Tampolin

In some places in the English-speaking world, including Great Britain, Ireland (particularly Dublin and Belfast) and Australia, the phrase "Jesus wept" is a common mild expletive spoken when something goes wrong or to express incredulity.

omonnakoda:
Your point?
Jesus? His name was not Jesus That is a Europeanized version

Nigeria. A country where every wild animal ever sighted must be hunted down and killed immediately.

It's only a matter of time before the only animals left in the country will be goats, cows, sheep and chickens.

Continue

Blaming the OP for lack of supervision is grossly unfair. Blaming the OP for not giving the girl sex education is beyond the ridiculous.

In the UK and US, with mandatory sex education in schools, there is still unwanted teenage pregnancy.

This man and his family did the best they could and seem to be good people. Raising someone else's child is no joke and requires commitment.

OP, release the girl to her family and support where you can. Your watch has ended.

Udanta has spoken.

Tamponlin? Tamponlin??

Jesus wept

If you are asking this question today, you should not be buying a car next Thursday!

Surely by now you should know which car you are buying, engine size, whether you can afford to fuel and maintain the car based on your commute, a good mechanic or auto repair shop for your model etc

A car is a major investment and being a mostly depreciating asset, should be well researched before purchase.


Udanta has spoken

What in the name of all that is holy is going on in Nigeria? Have the security services just given up?

If the government can no longer protect the lives and property of its citizens, they should just legalise the possession of firearms so innocent people can protect themselves and their families.

What kind of nonsense is this? Currently the average Nigerian has to provide their own water, electricity, security and has no access to decent medical services and education .

What exactly do we need a government for?


Udanta has spoken

Funkeshuga:
the capital letters and grammatical functions you know how to use, how has it elevate you from your present miserable life?


you need to start by learning how to make money so that someone like Buhari won't be making money and you will be concerned about grammatical errors in public


you need new brain for your low IQ to function with at least 13 century IQ class. stop showing the world the level of your stupidity

Boy, did you really type "how has it elevate you" Jesus wept! You really are doubling down on your stupidity.

Miserable life, you said? Boy, you do not know who I am, we are all mates on Internet chat forums, apparently. I can absolutely guarantee you that you do not measure up, financially, academically or by any other yardstick you care to use. I have travelled the world, made my fortune at a very young age, own properties on 3 continents. I have a look at this Nairaland when I am bored and sometimes get amused by reading comments from plonkers like yourself. You really are a numpty.

ShawnMcJoe:
These pictures are images taken from Victoria Island, Lagos Island, Ikoyi and Lekki which of course have some great scenery and buildings I must confess. Don't be fooled, over 90% of lagosians actually reside in places like Agege, Ojodu Berger, Surulere, Mushin, Ogba, Oshodi, Omole, Ipaja, Ajah (beyond Sangotedo), Isolo, Ebutte Metta, Akowonjo, Festac, Yaba, Ikorodu, Ketu, Alapere etc and these are where the real hustle is. I'm sure nowhere in the whole of America is as rugged as these later places mentioned. That's the reality.

Its a bit like taking pictures of Mayfair, Chelsea or Knightsbridge in London. 99% of londoners have no business in these posh places. The issue is that most of the commenters don't even have a passport