₦airaland Forum

sdindan:
But the guy is not lying nah!


All this ppl bashing him wil send their wife packing if she didn't born a male child.

Pleas someone should suspend me.

I know Mrs Obama wil not be happy inside her for not giving birth to a male child.

See this one o LOL....

You think they reasons like Dumb Africans because of the colour of their skin??

Ramaa:
Even here in Tanzania...we are verry tired of this bunch of thiefs called CCM.....
They are in power since 1961 but still no schools....good road and necessity.....only for themselves and their family.....

I hope ECOWAS will help us in 2020.....

God bless Africa....

Oh really?
But I thought the president was doing a good job?

lawyer:
I don't think the Op understands what it means to be signed by a major record label and what it entails. I used to be an entertainment lawyer and i have seen first hand what goes into signing an artist to an international label and the risks the label takes signing artists. Most of the complains here deals with money and exposure the artist claims he is not getting from the label but no one wants to talk about the underlining issues that deals with signing a record contract.

First of all you have to know that a record label is a business and its number one priority is to make money. No label would sign any artist that would not rake in profits. Its not a foundation or NGO where they dash out free money for artists to waste and buy expensive things for no reason. Every dollar must be accounted for. What people don't know is that every time they sign an artist for Bleep million dollars, that money is like a loan given to the artist in advance to shoot videos, record songs in studios, hire producers, pay radio djs and vjs, push their cds to music bloggers, writers and radio stations, pay for equipment, pay for the artist's image and P.R etc. In return the label must recoup what they have given to the artist in terms of sales of their cds, concerts, appearance, endorsement and merchandise. That's why they have to control their image and creative rights so that they can successfully market the artist to recoup their money.

The problem arises when the artist agrees to take a huge advance of the Bleep millions he signed for and spends it recklessly. They spend so much on videos that won't yield any profit. They spend a lot purchasing flashy things to maintain a flashy lifestyle. They spend a lot on costly studios productions and mismanage the money. They move with a large entourage and pay for everything the entourage purchases. They are always popping champagne and living a lavish lifestyle in clubs and frolicking with women. Meanwhile the contract states that they must sell above 100,000 or more cds so that the label can break even but the artist has not even finished recording the songs talk less of marketing the song to the public. The contract also states the sharing profit formular for both the artist and the label ( maybe a 60/40 sharing ratio..60 FOR LABEL AND 40 FOR ARTIST) but the artist has already taken his advance of the 40% but he expects the label to still share the cd sales profit and concert profits when the label has not recouped anything. How do you expect the label to act when its running at a loss?

Most artists don't know the Label is like a bank. They borrow you an advance and expect a full repayment with interest. Once the Label is having difficulties in achieving its aim, it becomes aggressive and engage in drastic cuts to limit the expensive lifestyle and actions of the artist. Its that moment you begin to see the artist complaining that the label is cheating them but you would never see the artist tell the public that he was given Bleep amount of money in advance which they squandered. They expect the label to share the cd sales 50/50 or the concert profits 50/50 because they have achieved the fame they craved for without enriching the pockets of the label. Nobody would agree to that.

Look at most artists today. They don't have lawyers that study their contracts, they don't have accountants to manage their funds, they don't have sensible managers that advise them on what to spend and what to save. Its all about achieving fame and spending lavishly to impress the public without working hard to make money for themselves and the label. The label would not allow them go and break the contract without them recouping their profit and if the artist attempts to run, they would set a plethora of lawyers on them to conform until they recoup their money or break even. There is simply no free lunch contrary to what the public thinks. Some artists are so ignorant that they sign 5 or 6 year deals with a label because they promised them Bleep millions but they forget that the contract is binding as long as you took their money. They even sign without lawyers and pose for the cameras for bloggers to hail them as the next Michael Jackson only for them to start crying after 1 year when they don't see the projected income they were dreaming of. So if you are going to blame the Label also remember the artist is also at fault. No body would dash any artist free money to waste lavishly and not suffer the repercussions. The label is not their family member. Its a business pure and simple. If you collect their money, you must work for it. Its that simple!

I learnt a lot from you bro.
Thumbs up for tho eye opener

Emekamex:
I dont think so, they only listen to it if one of their artist is featured or features a Jamaican.

Okay

DeepSight:
I have to disagree with you here, Old Friend.

Nigeria is a most abnormal country suffering horrendously disagreeable psychosis.

For only in such a country can a person who committed treasonable felony by being involved in the military overthrow of a constitutional democracy - which plunged Nigeria into 16 years of egregrious military dictatorship ever be considered, much less permitted to contest a presidential election. The plain truth is that such a person should be in jail: should long have been convicted of treasonable felony and should never even contemplate the presidency of Nigeria.

But because we are such a sick people with a dim sense of history, we permit such sacrilege and even celebrate it as positive change.

In truth, whereas you attempt to portray Buhari as a peace loving democrat: this is false - you have forgotten the hundreds of yourth corpers killed in the North as a direct result of his provocative utterances to Northern youth regarding the 2011 elections. It is not only by going to court that one shows that one is a democrat: one also shows it by being large hearted enough in dicey situations which could cost lives. Buhari did not do that and that in 2011 and that cost many hundreds of lives. Do you also remember his comments about the dogs and baboons being soaked in blood? What is wrong with you Sir?

Contrast him with Jonathan who left without a whimper. Do you know the real truth about the 2015 Election? Jonathan's life was a risk and Buhari's people had let him know in no uncertain terms that he would be assassinated if he did not "comply". I was close enough to key actors in the corridors of power at the time and I know what I am saying for a fact. In fact, the USA and Britain also advised him in similar terms. All of this was done for Buhari, who you here attempt to cast as a law abiding Democrat?

If Nigeria were not a sick nation, we would not permit ex military dictators, particularly those involved in, or who were beneficiaries of a coup that truncated a constitutional democracy, to be elected President. It is quite unthinkable, but anything goes in Nigeria.



You are quite wrong. Only a court Judgment can put aside the State of Emergency and as per the Constitution of Gambia, Janmeh may remain under a State of Emergency.

This in no way means I support his detestable actions: I am speaking strictly legally.

Lol...
Who would have assasinated Jonathan as president?

If he had won, nothing would have happened to him, and because he is not a wahala person, he did not set the Niger delta on fire with his utterances,

Nobody would have assasinated him

Emekamex:
Davido is fast losing relevance, I hope he wont end up like Dbanj.
Americans rarely listen to other peoples music, if the deal you sign leads you to lose home fanbase, it is advisable not to sign such deals.

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But they jam Caribbean tunes a lot, so that invalidates your argument that Americans don't listen to outside music...

Especially the Jamaican artistes

Abagworo:
Whether we like it or not the truth is that we all need male child and equally female. Obama has only females making him unable to produce Barrack junior like Martin Luther king or George Bush senior.

You dey yarn story....
Not everyone thinks like a village man like you.
I'm the era of sex selection technologies, if they were really keen on having a boy, they would have done so

nmreports:
Nigerians... Blacks... We have issues.

1. In commuter buses, we use our legs to hit the person next to us just to say move. Instead, ''kindly move'' would do.
2. We envy neighbors because they have two cars then we start running around to buy ours because we feel intimidated.
3. We kiss our bosses ass just to spite other colleagues behind their backs then feign ignorance when the bubble burst.
4. We are hypocrites of the highest order. Quick to judge but not apt to examine our own lives.
5. We are so dogmatic, barbaric and backward in thinking. Yoruba movies have regenerated our logic minds.
6. A pastor can ask us to eat grass and drink animal urine or eat cow dung so as to get a miracle.
7. We walk sheepishly, shoulders down, heads bowed and lack confidence in ourselves.

We are our own problems and I doubt if this will ever change in a century because the cycle is innate, inherent, and has already become systemic.

Anyway, have you visited www.HRtechnique.com today for updates on DPR, NIBSS, Airforce recruitment etc. Push your careers ahead of others.

You are so spot on

chineloSA:
Are you from a blended family, or you just look at it from an outsiders perspective?
If you have no experience, I think its easier for you to just talk. There is a lot that goes on.

Not directly, but relatives of mine, but in one of them's case, a widower (with 2 kids) married a single mum and did not have kids together and they are not facing challenges that an "unblended" family will not face.


The key thing is making the best out of the circumstances you find yourself, and as I always advise my sister's and cousins, if the thing no go, and you do assessment and you see that the relationship or marriage no work again, it's best to go, and forget any misogynist igbo talk about shame or whatever, your life and your happiness is important.


That's all I have to say for now

TheRealestGuy:
I mentioned diversification and that surely ain't just about agriculture...

All those things you also mentioned like palm oil, chocolates and others, they are still products of agriculture anyway you look at it...

But you did get my drift so it's all good...

I wonder the kind of brains most of the ppl above me have though...

I have seen your point about diversification too.

Those are the only says out o

TheRealestGuy:
The evil that comes with crude oil though...


Until we truly diversify our economy and go back to exporting agricultural products, we will forever be stuck in this vicious circle.


Edited: most of the foools above me didn't even bother to read the content of the news article...our so-called future leaders that can't read...my God!


With these kind of moróns how will Nigeria ever get better?

Sorry to say, but your proposition about exporting agric products will even lead us to more poverty, instead we should export value added goods from our agric produce, like high quality chocolate instead of exporting cocoa just like that, or palm oil and cooking oil instead of just the palm fruit.

NO country gets rich by exporting just agric produce in their raw form, Senegal and Uganda are reference points for you.

Thank you for your contribution tho, it has more sense than the others contributing

chineloSA:
I hope you red my ensuing comment. I dont agree with abuse or violence, but I said that seperation for longer periods could have resolved issues.

Coming from a blended family, i can tell you that there will always be uneven distribution of love and resources. More especially once this men start producing his children with the women. Unless they are rich. In the event where there is limited resources, women/men normally start singing a different tune, passing the buck of financial responsibility to the childrens biological father.

Yes a woman or man can love someones child but can never love them more than she/he would love her/his children if he/she had children. There will always be imbalance and disagreements and complaints on distributing the resources.

Example, If a man doesnt agree to buying a child an iphone 7 before they are say 18, but the woman feels that its no big deal. She will only think that its because its not his biological children, if it was his children, probably he would have agreed, even if its not the case.

Being from a blended family setting, and having experienced it, I am not for it, unless one partner is dead. Blended families are not ideal and easy.

If I was her, I was going to date but not marry yet until my kids are of legal age.

Once again one you have kids, its not always about you, the welfare of your children should come first.

I wish her well though.

Yours is just one example
I know MANY blended families that worked and worked well; even though it is not perfect.
There is nothing wrong with a blended family, if both parents work hard, especially in the first few years to make things work.

Nora to me did the right thing by taking a walk, life is too short to be miserable.

Jesusloveyou:
plus corruption under him. this your reasoning is the highest order of blackmailing.
So because of what happened, you iPods want to use it to justify your ineffectual buffoon corrupt mentality.

I think the media was unfair to Jonarhan still, while hiding the excessive f**k ups of Buhari, which is double standards to me, because if the media must be very critical, it must be critical to all, and not just because their preferred candidate is in office..

#JustSaying

LePrezident:
Gentlman, they were UN troops stationed there to protect UN installations. They were not sanctioned to intervene or take sides on the matter. Even the French troops who were present in the country were there in the guise of protecting the many French citizens and investments present in Ivory Coast. But the French took sides with Ouatarra who was their darling and in addition they believe he had a soft spot for France since his wife is French.

And you think the Nigerian soldiers on ground did not take sides too, okay o, I have heard.

And what is that talk about invading Ivory Coast

If the French hands off Ivory Coast, Nigeria will pummel Her, Nigerian forces are not cockroach forces like the coward Ghanaian forces that were supposed to aid us in Sierra Leone under Ecomog, or the CAR army....

If Nigeria has to invade Ivory Coast, we sure will, if the French just leave the two countries to face each other and not take sides.

AngelicBeing:
Yes l did, l also went to Sene-Gambia club, and other places l cant recall their names now, l ate rice-banku prepared by one igbo guy in Banjul, met another elderly yoruba man who has a hotel in Banjul and l was told he has lived in Gambia for decades,l think he as the president or chairman of Nigeria association in the Gambia, l slept in his hotel for few days

Very good jare....
You should travel more within WA, it will expose you to a lot....

But if you are visiting Ghana, *lips sealed* that one go get as e be small.
I'll recommend Togo, Ivory Coast, Burkina and also Senegal.

LePrezident:
They weren't involved!! My God where do you people get such tales from Involved how? ECOWAS was not involved one bit or you think Ivory Coast is some tiny nation like Gambia that ECOWAS can be aggressive towards anyhow? ECOWAS was practically begging Gbagbo whiles insurgents from Bouake and Yamoussoukro in northern Ivory Coast marched on Abidjan. These rebels supporting Alassane Dramani Ouattarra were covertly assisted by French forces present in the country then. In fact these French forces located and captured Gbagbo but when the TV cameras came they dissappeared leaving just the Ivorian rebels.

I remember that war very well back then in 2010 because my girl friend then (Ivorien) had just returned home for holidays and she was caught in the centre. I remember when I call her regularly I heard gun shots and helicopter sounds because she stayed close to the Presidential Villa in Cocodi, Abidjan.

You are talking of cocody

The main heat was in Youpougon, and it was not funny there,

Many gbagbo loyalists were hiding there, and they did some bad things to my friends..
Thank God i was not in the country then, because if I were


So forget that thing, I know exactly what I am saying that Nigerian troops were on ground to do the needful.

LePrezident:
Gentle man I put it to you that you're a blatant liar. Or do you think you are talking to some uninformed teenager or something? When we started following and engaging in international politics where were you?? Not a single drop of Nigerian battalion was sent to Côte D'Ivoire please. I know the ins and outs of African politics like the back of my hand especially Ivory Coast. Stop your lies it won't wash here. Go and read!

Many of the U.N. peace keeping forxes sent to Ivory Coast were Nigerian, or you think you are talking to a teenager too


Ivory Coast is like another home to me so I know what I am saying......

AngelicBeing:
In addition, during my visit to the Gambia l discovered that they practice too much of voodoo & socery, Jammeh is an occult, a voodoo practitioner and he has killed several people who dares to oppose him in Gambia, he rarely wears a suit, he is always with his agbada and beneath the agbada is tons of charms, amulets, juju and voodoo, he is not even a practicing muslim, he is a wicked hypocrite and l am so happy that his days are numbered, he is a useless, wicked, callous and despotic tyrant, nonsense

You know that well....

Gambia and juju is 5 and 6, even though they are still scared of us in sorcery, no thanks to the nollywood they watch.

btw, did you visit serekunda?

LePrezident:
Gentleman, stop misinforming the public with your delusions. Nigeria played no role in the ousting of Gbagbo. It was troops from northern Ivory Coast and interference by imperialist France.

Nigerian soldiers were sent to Ivory Coast to do the needful...
Nigerian soldiers are always involved in any crisis in WA, and if we have to kill or drive Jammeh away from power, trust me when I say that it is a soldier recruited less than three years ago that will put bullet in his head.


dey dere

LePrezident:
Gentleman, stop misinforming the public with your delusions. Nigeria played no role in the ousting of Gbagbo. It was troops from northern Ivory Coast and interference by imperialist France.

Are you sure?

Nigerian forces were involved too

Going through this thread again made me lol very very loud.....

Some people here are living In bubbles, just pray that the system no show you it's ugly side

MrnovaLyn:
LoL so @PIDGIN2 after derailing FRANKS thread you Opened this One LoL keep it UP

You too noticed

ALL the comments show his/her state of mind

pinkcottoncandy:
Education and professionalism is overated in Naija.

You are better of taking short courses here and there to become a baba in your field instead of spending 4 years in UNI only to become and idiot graduate without a job.

To add salt to the injury...you want to spend 2 more years doing professional course?...only to finish without getting a job?


If your have foresight, you will include the institute of farming as the number 1 professional course because that is where the future money makers will come from in Nigeria.

Institute of Farming ?

na wa o

coveredchic:
Exactly my situation. No value added whatsoever.

Like you cannot add your teaching experience to your CV?

africanusvu:
Frankly.from my experience as an employer of labour.a fresh nigeria graduate is not worth 40k salary.especialy those that graduated bw 2011-2016.notin in their brain.

You don't mean it

Tell me more, like why you think that way

rusher14:
And the attitude of both Nations are comparable?

That has always been my fear.... The bad and wicked attitude of Nigerians will spoil the policy

How does a simple thing like this cause fight and superiority complex now

Is Yoruba a Nigerian Langusge, Yes!!!

So what is the problem again

And some touts are here fighting superiority contest on their languages, as if it will feed them....

Mumu people

Escabado:
Please anyone that has gone to Ghana should tell me how much Ghana cedis exchange to naira and i also heard that Nigerian ATM card can no longer be used to withdraw money in Ghana please how true is it . Your truthful answers will really be appreciated

The cards are not working again, so carry enough CASH that will sustain you throughout.
As for the exchange rate, the last time I was in GH, it was 8GHC to N1000. very bad indeed..


Postscript: Please bear in mind that Ghana is an expensive country, and put exchange rate palava made the matter worse, so to avoid being stranded, better go with plenty money, or let me say enough money

Sanchez01:
Nonsense. Where were you when Namadi Sambo was asking people in the North to vote the PDP for being an Islamic Party, and that Buhari is not a core Muslim fellow for choosing a pastor as his running mate?

You don't mean it

bigfrancis21:
Ya about 40% of them, especially those born and raised outside Israel often can't speak Hebrew.

And the fact that they cannot speak Hebrew does not make them less Jewish than others who can.
Just saying tho...

What is most important is for cultural groups to make their mark on the world, like the way the Jews, and Chinese have done

DrogoG:
I hate seeing people who hate their own language. That's why many rich Nigerian languages have gone extinct!
Yorubas don't f*uck with their language, they make sure their kids learns it, while Igbos gradually losing their own!

I know MANY Yoruba people who cannot speak Yoruba o

The ones now likely to know Yoruba are the ones who grew up in the hood.
That has been my experience growing up in Lagos.

In my secondary school back then, MANY couldn't speak, because of the level of the school maybe, but for the razz public schools, they speak it well

bigfrancis21:
You still do not get his point. He didn't say other tribes are not trilingual or bilingual as the case may be but the frequency of Igbos being able to speak other languages is the highest of all 3 major tribes of Nigeria. The Hausa tribe comes second and the Yoruba tribe comes third. That's just another interpretation of his point. It is not generalizing, he is just stating an observation which I myself have noticed to be true.

This parallel is similar to that of the Jews who are often speakers of many world languages, in addition to their native Hebrew and for this reason they make very good spies to other European countries as they blend in easily.

You know many Israelis /Jews cannot speak Jewish right?