₦airaland Forum

Jewessgratitude:
It means you're irresponsible for not wanting to man up to your responsibilities by marrying a young girl who would give you healthy babies but rather end up with an aged woman who has lived her youthful life and is accomplished and waiting for a caregiver like YOU to help her look after her old age.

You should enjoy the youth of your wife's breast. But in this case what will you enjoy? Youll only end up as a house boy you have decided to become because you dont want to be responsible.

My two cents? Be responsible and no young girl will frustrate you.

Look at Davido, most of you are quick to tag him names because of his mistakes but he's 100% more responsible than you. Despite he's father's wealth, he's still hustling endlessly on his own to make money and lead a responsible life and not waiting for an old whte grandma to fute his bills for him and his family like you.

Argue with your irresponsible keypad that agreed to type that trash you put up there.

interesting point

but still

pocohantas:
I got a mention, if not I for miss seeing their hypocrisy in 3D. But what is happening, why don't them young whiteys marry our struggling Naija men?

haha

SpecialAdviser:
So many idiots in nairaland will start shouting what do Igbos want? President or Biafra.

A lot of Nigerians are useless I swear. In a country where everyone is dying of hunger, tribalism and sentiment will not allow us fight together to demand a better welfare.

Look at demonstrations in Iraq, in Ecuador, in everywhere where the masses are stampeded.

In Nigeria, we sell our collective demand to nepotism. If my person is there, I keep quiet. As if he even know u. Shame

it's a shame now tribalism and nepotism have blinded Nigerians

anochuko01:
1st generation schools are now stagnant and living on past glory while covenant remains the fastest growing, and can only get better.

TRUTH

ravensckar:
Bros, let's be sincere for once. O.A.U is miles ahead of UNILAG.

I did my first degree in O.A.U and my Post-graduate in UNILAG.

Mehn! The difference is clear!

Structurally, academically, behaviourally, O.A.U is way ahead.

did you say behaviour?

haha


Post graduate in Nigeria is a scam
be it unilag or oau

but undergraduate level

I can't agree that oau is miles ahead

ornicus:
True story.

January one 2012 , I saw on nairaland that subsidy had been cancelled

I got into my pickup, took all four 25 liter jerrycans and went straight to the atm.

I met some dude at the atm. I told him subsidy had been removed. Guy was like so what do you want to do? As if it was not obvious.

Anyway, I got to forte oil and filled my jerry cans. The guy showed up as well and bought petrol. After buying, he told the attendants that subsidy had been canceled. As I drove out they locked the station.

I could not for the life of me understand that action.

University, we had some truly useless lecturers. It turned out one of them had a particular textbook he was dubbing and regurgitating. For some reason, a classmate chose to tell me. He expected me to somehow understand that it should be a secret from the rest of the class. I did not go along, but rather made the book and knowledge about it available to everyone.

Nigerians operate on poverty mentality which translates into what I call ignorance economy. They are only able to make money by capitalizing on your ignorance . Go to pc village, see people charging for outdated pirated software that you can download yourself. And trying to make it look like it is something special or amazing.

Das how we roll

I understand you perfectly

it's too bad how Nigerians reason;

it's a society of psychologically damaged people

Twizzy90:
Mine was 4.45, glory to God that I am way better than the grade. No limit, no regret. The future will be great.

that is the spirit

OgaBuhari:
keep quiet, Better study hard next time, stop complimenting your failure.

2.2 is not a failure

Just saying

luminouz:
*sighs*

Can somebody feel the envy,animosity,stupidity and jealousy dripping on this thread? It's so thick I could slice and butter some loaves with it. Such emotions pouring out of mature humans almost paralysed me. Now,I know who some people are,just by these comments.


One other thing is sure:


None of the commenters (bashers and bashed) had a first class

what is your point

izzou:
I graduated with NEARLY THIRD CLASS.
Please what category do I fall under?

hahahahahaha
wetin man no go see for NL

Xclusiveme:
Hahahaha.. If you can explain to him the source of ur poverty then he might be able to show you a way to be successful

destructive Nigerian mentality

SilentRiddles:
Mr. Alex, commercial award vendor, when are you going to get your own award as the most shameless sycophant in Nigeria?

You even go ahead to buy NL frontpages after promising your corrupt awardees the public show of thievery of the people's commonwealth will be on the frontpages.

Nigeria! Politicians amass public wealth while comedians and commercial award givers get their own share by stroking their ego and making them laugh.

I can see

AntiBrutus:
Lol. Finally a kid is a kid.

Even if a man marries 200 wives, he knows the one that is befitting for specific functions.

Some men are lucky to find it all in one.

lmao

Rafiq2:
The government aside, Nigerians are not patriotic, Majority are greedy & selfish to d extent they can destroy their fellow countrymen for money. We are special breed of humans that things won't exactly work the normal way for us.

Nigerians need seriously suffering before they fix stuff affecting them. So the border should remain closed & just give us 365 maximum & we will be overly sufficient in rice production.


The funny thing is Nigeria is blessed with EVERYTHING A COUNTRY NEEDS TO SUCCEED, BUT WE ARE CURSED WITH SELFISH LEADERS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES.

The border should remain closed!

you think NIGERIA will be self sufficient in rice in one year?


hahaha

judging by the calibre of people here
I'm not surprised by your comment


Demand destruction at best is what we will achieve with this closed border policy which is good

But to what extent can we really destroy demand for Thai rice

let's see

Nigerians don't like to share helpful information for free.

Let me give you one PERFECT example. Last year or so, there was a glitch on an American airline's website that allowed people to buy tickets to Israel at a ridiculously cheap amount. The Jews called ALLLLL their family and friends and the airline suffered a huge loss. My mother and I joked that if the tickets had been to Nigeria, not one of our family and friends would have said JACK. The airline probably wouldn't have noticed the glitch for months.

that's true

Nigerians are bizarre

bigx:
Most Nigerians Have such an evil, backward mindset. Threads like this expose them. No wonder... it's not the leaders

It's quite unfortunate

iceberylin:
The annoying part is Foreigners think Naija is a Great Country....

i jst laugh @ dia stupidiry

if you have huge capital
And mind for business

Foreign investors reap from the Nigerian market /economy
that Is why they say it's great

its great FOR THEM


But for most of the local populations
NIGERIA is hellish

ThaiAlNigeria:
Greetings Nairalanders,

Looking forward to be a valuable contributor in these forums.

I'm from Bangkok Thailand and our company has been doing business in Nigeria for almost 2 years.

We have a registered company in Nigeria as well as in Bangkok and Dubai.

My elder brother saw an opportunity in Nigeria and made up his mind that Nigeria indeed has a great many opportunities.

Needless to say, actually implementing the idea was not an easy task.

We faced so many great hurdles to make it here that we almost closed down our business at the end of first year for reasons I will further explain soon.

I will separate my post into 2 phases.

1) Our first & second business idea and how that failed (Rice, Clothing and imports)
2) our third business idea and how we made it. (Haulage)

I will start with the first phase

Our first business idea was importing Rice into Nigeria. Seeing that I am from Thailand and Nigerians love Thai rice it sounded like a valid business plan. So we went around Lagos searching for buyers. We came across several powerful women that trades in Rice. We saw these huge warehouses full of rice and many container of rice being offloaded into the warehouses. They were willing and enthusiastic to work with us if we could get them their price. Daily rice prices are fixed. So we made a connection with these powerful women.

Now our next goal was to find the rice at the right prices here in Thailand. But it does not end there. We had to register our rice with Nafdac (Nigerian agency for food and drug). And going to the process of Nafdac is amazingly time consuming and expensive. We hired a lawyer to help us speed the process.

We had also known that the import taxes on rice into Nigeria is 40%. Now here was the issue. We tried finding a source of rice at the right prices here in Thailand but it was not possible. The reason it was not possible was because the import taxes were too high and there was no way we could have made any money selling to the Nigerian Market. We wondered how did other people do it? We investigated. We went to the port and made some connections with some people there and found out that rice importers were not paying import taxes. They were paying money under-table. It is an acceptable practice. But we understood it was against the law and decided to drop the idea of importing rice as wanted to wholly abide by the country laws 100%. We could have made money with the right connections but decided not to go this route.

That is failure of our first business plan.

Our second business plan basically involved importing clothes worth around $2000-$4000. But we failed to sell enough in the market. Due to competition and lack of market research we failed.

After this we decided to try to import various stuff into Nigeria like Air conditioners and electronics. But we realized that the prices the buyers were asking were too low compared to what the factories were selling it for. Plus due to heavy competition, complexity in import/export process and direct easy access to factories itself via alibaba and websites; we as middlemen importers were not needed and even if we were our profit margins would be very little.

So we kissed our import dreams goodbye as well.

Almost 1 year in Nigeria had passed.

If there is one thing we learnt.....doing business in Nigeria was NOT easy.

If you are interested, I will next write the second phase of our story later and tell you how & why we succeeded and the extreme difficulties (To the point where we were about to lose most of our fortunes) we faced before we succeeded in our next venture. (Haulage)

My humblest regards.

Your Friend.

interesting

It will be so nice to hear about your recent experiences

AmericanDad:
No meaningful thing! Ur just playing with 400-550 USD! So freaking small. Why not get sure 5 odd knack am!

@OP

do not try this o

koyyes:
Where have you been?

I've had a lot on my plate in recent times
how you doing?

koyyes:
Nigeria really needs to be recolonized.

Almost all of Nigeria's inhabitants are regressing and becoming like animals that constitute a nuisance to themselves and to the world.

#Facts

Nigeria is on a self destroying path really
The people are becomin more and more like animals

pocohantas:
Where is Larryfest?

Special Adviser on Identifying Oloshos and SlayQueens.


You and your ilk were so quick to tag her olosho. Does it even make sense that someone will just be dropped and start reducing? Is she ice block?

So what if she is an olosho? Does that make her deserving of death? Is that why people should be stoning her offline and online?

I am beginning to conclude majority of us are very wicked, we deserve our leaders.

Gosh!

you are 100 % right in your last paragraph
many Nigerians are psychological damaged and wicked
The level of things that go on there can shock the devil
It's terrible

Jamestown123:
Fools paradise that ur annual income can't pay for a self contain there.

Its technically a "fools paradise"

if you really get his point

salford:
They don't call Lagos (VI, Ikoyi, Lekki) most expensive SLUM in the world for nothing.
All those high brow area are fool's paradise.

true that

na façade
in the midst of so much poverty

SaintHilary:
Lol..A white man said its X10 more beautiful than where he lives in the Utah
Dat place is a secret gem in this country bro..Thats y u find mostly expat staffs from Total, Exon Mobil there..besides who no like to b Adenuga / Tinubu neighbor

of course it will be 10x more beautiful
It's the best we can offer

but comparing the best we have to offer with the best other places have to offer
You see that we still behind

but anyways
I wish them well

BigJoe19:
But Linda ikeji is truly a hoe, no need to hide the truth.

yea yea

Wickedfacts:
Linda is a cheap hoe who said herself that she drove for 2 hours to collect deak.

She's a cheap hoe and her child has no traceable father. Better tell her to stop talking trash so that people don't start talking about her little bastard.

If not hoeing, what gave her the fish smell Wizkid talked about?

you must really be living a sad life

The way you thruw this "hoe" rhetoric

Beautyaddy:
Hmmm...how many Nigerians can really afford living there.
And I am sure most of those apartments will be empty.

people actually live in this fancy apartments tho expatriates, oil barons, top bank execs etc
but the vast majority are just getting by

chukzyfcbb:
That's a snippet of the place, it's in banana island.

The place is really chilly, could be boring for some Sha as it's not bubbling with bars and hotels left but for me it's an idea place to live (environs wise).

There is a gym, massive pool, playground for kids, 24/7 light, situated close to the ocean so you can sit by the area and meditate, not to forget za rich neighbours lol

I see

but still

I can't pay more than N5m or it's equivalent on rent anywhere in this world

And charging that high rent in a third world failed shithole destroyed zoo country is just a paradox, as it has no basis whatsoever
but then
It's a free country

few haves, many many have nots

chukzyfcbb:
it cost nothing less than 12-15m to rent a 2bdr apartment at ocean parade besides service charge of $10k, if you can afford such, you are a big boy.

I frequented there a lot at some point

that is interesting
12m per annum for rent?

I won't pay above 5m for rent anywhere in this world

Makaveli1166:
boss me that is planning to elope with Angelicbeing

haba


you say wetin,?

yeyeosoronga:
They give out loans, provided they're sure you have something solid doing to pay it back installmentally.
Some Nigerians have spoilt the rep of others, becasue of the way they dont like repaying loans even if they have the money

true