₦airaland Forum

This day to you all @Timbuktu14, Zhukafa et al.

I will be most likely going towards Cotonou again in two weeks, and please anybody who don pass there recently should pls update me on

1) The exchange rate at the border

2) How much is paid for stamp on the passport now at the Nigerian and Benin side

I think that would be all now, because the prices of things must have changed drastically from the last time I was there in July 2015.

Thank you

Generalkorex:
Ok
in the meantime

Judging by your logic, Buhari, Tinubu, Oyedepo and Even Mark Cuban is not rich.


That logic is flawed bro, the above men take oica in their jets, and they are very rich..

gimbayaro:
Plz go for NYSC 1st... were have it ever been done...u cant skip M.sc to PhD. Canadian university can neva do dat shit....plz lets have true stories here instead of lies & Imagine pple r even commenting...olodo full Nairaland oooo.

Just say you don't know that it happens. Honestly, this was an ignorant post

masterblogger:
I must confess that ABU is the best school in Nigeria A school were you have NO option of sorting lecturers, you must read to pass, selling of handout is prohibited , NO submitting of assignment with money, NO exam malpractice (if caught its automatic rustication/expel), NO any form of extortion by lectures themselves or through class reps et .

90% of Nigeria graduates in other universities have sorted , paid for handout or assignment in one way or the other .

ABU is certainly the best and I will definitely go there for my masters .

An ABU graduate is ahead of you naturally.

#truetalk

I appreciate your point, but that 90% talk you are talking is pure fallacy. What gives you the confidence that 90% sort?

christopher123:
Stop this disgrace

Oya correct me na, Mr. I know it all.

To think that you don't know me, but claim I not Igbo because I don't think it agree with your views? .

Sorry o, but there are MANY Igbo people who don't agree with your views either. That does not make us non-Igbo or saboteurs like one was calling me the other day.

You just have to deal with it.

christopher123:
Oga you are not Igbo and stop embarrassing yourself
You are not writing Igbo either


Kwanyere onwe GI ugwu...ewua

So tell me, what is the benefit of lying about my origin?
lol, or will I be paid for it?

And besides, you don't type correct Igbo either. Maybe because there is no Igbo keyboard, but it doesn't look correct.

And it's a pity you don't know the meaning of what I wrote, so let me translate for you.
it's my mother's favourite insult

Onye ara =Mad person

Nyighe efe= Wearing cloth

So I'm essence the translation is a mad person wearing clothes

So you don't know what Onye ara means
And you don't know what efe means?

And you say you are Igbo, lol!!!!!!!

Just say you did not understand.

Bye Nwa nne m nwoke, anyi a na-alu ogu.......
Onye Obula no n'ime uwu a bu nwa nne. Eziokwu.

OkoAnike:
I wouldn't know if that is an act of un-seriousness but that's what happen to me.

My brother have u ever had opportunity to experience VICTORY in life, fighting and winning (winner), May I Let u know that Some VICTORY bring tears of joy, Tears that u won the race.

May be, just May be why we don't see those moment on again is as a result of the value we place on what we have or get, men don't fight battle before getting their WIFE, they just pick anything called woman... How I wish men will pay the price of having a great woman, then all the horror in home will drastically reduce and the world @large will have/find peace in this global village.

Almost 10 years am still proudly in love with my ANIKE, the mother of my children (my HERO), my friend, my mother, my cook and most special in all my BED MATE.
Those TEARS has turn to my laughter since we have been together, it's been fun, great and a happy family @that

Oga mi .... Well said.
But one question though...

What do you mean by men don't fight battles to get their WIFE.

lilzcee:
he later said his account was hacked meaning he was sorry, buh tiwa tarnished someone's image, u think cocaine is for broke guys, if efcc wants to charge someone to court, we could have heard it from any of this bloggers buh not from tiwa's mouth

So him lying that his account was hacked means that he was sorry?
I'm a guy too, but forget it, Tunji bleeped up big time here.

goingape:
America is not the only white people on earth! hope you know?

I know........

goingape:
who said all foreign girls are virgins?

I'm talking about the promiscuous level! black women are more promiscuous.

Are you sure you have been with white people in your life before?
Judging by that statement you made about black girls being more promiscuous, I highly doubt it.

Timbuktu14:
Yes. But, you should also confirm from their customer care. GTB's 08039003900. Access' 012802500.

Let me know how it goes

Lol!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll do that , and let's see how it goes.
BTW, How body na?

Comment vas-tu?

Timbuktu14:
Same to you bro. How Ivory Coast? And, i got a mail from GTB and Access Bank that we can resume FX transactions. You should be stucked any longer.

Wassup bro.
Are you sure I can use card now? Because I no wan dey stranded again o

schboy3:
Ok. Ah just wanna know, Cus am planninq to qo on a trip by October, so ah just wanna prepare ahead.

I intend going that route again too soon.
Naira is fucking up big time do the exchange rates are currently terrible, so expect to Change N550 to 1000CFA

Second, for where to stay, I recommend the Guesthouse at Haie Vive, it's close to the airport, and there are many fun spots on that street too.

It's better to use ID card to cross over, but if you want to use passport (like me) then be ready to pay for the stamping, especially when it is your first time.

Ask me any other thing

christopher123:
I said it that he isn't Igbo but Igbo wanna be
Look at what he wrote
Is that Igbo or Latin lol

Agwa ofeke ofebe isi Na ofia ...ifele Mme udi ndi ofeke a

Onye Ara nyighe efe lol! My auto correct on my phone

christopher123:
Nechieonu and stop claiming Igbo. Onye ofe mmanu and mind you we Igbo don't have bad name ..anuofia ..if you have bad name deal with it..we Igbo do not have bad name

All these watered down genes that claim Igbo. Your post has proved it... Ofeke

Gbafuo........onye apari..how this monkey say Igbo have bad name
Oh your yoruabare saints
Your hausas are angels


Your basically stupid

You are the stupid one here.
You don't know me, and you are claiming I am not Igbo.
So being Igbo means tggat you should hate other tribes abi, Isi Aki.

See the hatred you are spewing out. .Better go and deal with your issues before you die early.
Not all Igbo paremts are like you, or maybe your parents, we know the truth about what happemed.

Refute what I said na and tell me whether they are lies.

Onye are yighe efe.

delishpot:
Like I stated, that is the way they tie a wife down. He will ask her to endure for the child's sake. That was where culture kept wives.
Ask many men here how their dads treated their moms and ask why she did not leave the marriage. You will see that it was the culture.
To me the culture should be tweaked to make both men and women responsible. Not to allow a group choose to abuse and demoralize the other because they know custom is on their side t(Note I did not say they all do o)
If a man knows that the woman is allowed and even encouraged to leave his home and he will be shammed for his nasty attitude in his marriage. And if the woman knows that she can not leave her home on some shitty flimsy excuse without getting a lashback. Both of them will work on keeping their home happy.
Many of us can testify about how our mothers sat there and took it all because she could not leave without her kids. Is that what we want our daughters to endure in the name of culture? Culture shouldn't be one sided. Culture should protect every citizen.

Did you say many of us?
Now I understand you, you must be from such background.
But as I have told you before, not all men were like that to their parents, and my mother did not have to endure anything (thanks to my dad ) So please don't generalise eh.

coachwilcox:
I have read all the posts here and I can say I am indeed saddened by the responses of this young generation including some of mine. Especially the female folk and some kitten whipped males.

They have been so brainwashed by western media and feminist ideals that they have abandoned everything African and adopted the white mans culture as their way of life all thanks to movies, novels, music, talk shows and the likes.

There's a good reason China and Russia censor everything coming from the West. This is to forestall brainwashing and eroding of their own culture which is what is happening to stupid Africans post colonization. Go to the Middle East and see if they've not held on to their culture and values to produce strong family ties and homes.

The West calls it oppression and defines theirs as liberation. Yet what have they to show for it? Highest divorce rates in the world, emasculation of men, single parent homes, pornography, $exu@l perversion, increase in paedophiles, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy etc

All the OP said was in Yoruba tradition under which the two were married, this is what obtains. People have been ranting about what the culture takes away and all that. I can bet my left ear the bulk of the feminazi and their apologists as well as the woman wrapper men are from the south east where there is no respect for elders and their culture is built along the tracks of money.

Make no mistake. I do not condone oppressive cultural tenets that seek to take away the basic human rights of the individual. However, there's a thin line between defining what is oppressive and what is a hierarchical arrangement in a system as well as provisions, roles and rights. What an American woman calls oppressive by their culture is normal to a Yoruba woman. Else, when you go to the Middle East where women aren't even allowed to drive, cannot go out alone and don't even vote, then you'd know true oppression of women. Talk less of Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Syrian etc culture.

Our Nigerian women have been so brainwashed into thinking every aspect of the culture our forefathers built before Beyoncé was even born to sing "single ladies" is suddenly oppressive. Culture that kept the home and marriages intact. Marriages where they did not even court before ending up together yet stayed for 70 to 80 years and the man loved out grannies to death. Ask these blindly led feminist girls to pay for your date at an expensive restaurant as they do in American culture and they will shower you with abuse.

As the late Awo said, I'm a Yoruba man first before a Nigerian. I add, before a citizen of the global village. I rest my case.

What is this one saying?
You don't know Jack about what you are talking about....


Okay let's start from the scratch...
Yoruba culture (though I'm not one, but I know) does not condone talking bad to your elders. That Idiot T-Billz lost my respect when he called his mother in law a Witch.
Does Yoruba culture condone that?

Second, does Yoruba culture support sleeping around with women WITHOUT paying the woman's bride price? Even though it may support polygamy?

Third, forbtalkimg trash about my culture (South East) that says a lot about the kind of person you are. Why talk rubbish when you don't know anything about my culture?

Fourth, no culture recognises the woman being the bread dinner of the house. That nigga relinquished his right as a man culturally the moment he stopped being in charge in that department.
You are talking of culture abi, who have their daughrer out to a man without visible source of income?

And you are here talking culture.

What many of you men do is to quote culture/bible/Koran only when it suits you guys. It should apply to both of them.

Before you crucify me, I am not saying Tiwa is perfect, because she has her faults too, but what this nigga did was unacceptable. Call a spade a spade

Good night

cococandy:
What a load of stupid bullock. So someone will suffer to bring a child into this world and you have the guts to open your mouth and tell her that she has no right over the child?

How did the people who concocted such traditions even feel when carrying out such unfairness?
Mtchew.

I can't imagine what I'll do to someone who tells me I don't have a right over my own child that I bore from my womb.

Yea.
But both parents made the child so BOTH parents have rights to the child.

One would be wrong to say that it is only the father that has right to the child, or the mother has the right to the child alone

roymary:
What cocaine? That na speculation-

45M is business gone wrong- do you know anything about FOREX trades?

No big deal buying cars , rolex on credit -

Night Clubs lets you buy drinks on credit when they know you - even when you do not ask for credit- they force those things on you ( Mens world)

Name calling on IG was out of frustration and Yes those niggas nacked Tiwa Savage your hero.

Calling Mother in law a witch is something we need to investigate - Don't rule it out- My sister's ex-boyfriend called her one day to beg her that his Mom went diabolic and did something to exchange their glory. Don't doubt what you dunno my dear- Things happen.

His father probably deserved those insults- He probably failed at teaching him the right values which made growing up and facing challenges a lot harder on him.

Overall Teebillz is one unlucky fellow and he also married the wrong wife. A good wife will correct the wrongs in your life and vice versa ( like he did when he met her)

You get another question?

Na God i use beg you i know you get one of my brothers in your life too- don't kill his joy abeg. Na beg we beg. He go annoy you sometimes but no ruin am.

I can't believe this

christopher123:
I am done with you Igbo wanna be

Bye. And stop stalking me too..... You know what I am talking about.
It is Igbo people like you that give us bad name....... Onye asai

christopher123:
Now I understand

Understand what?
Lol!!!! This man

christopher123:
The history must be told
Those that denied us
Those that sabotaged us
Those that fought with us
Those to trust
Those not to trust
Those that you can firm alliance with
Those that you can't form alliance with

That should be told ...so it is left for the kids to be sentimental or not


Achebe did a good work on that and posterity has found him worthy

We Igbo people are the architects of our own problems.
You see what you are typing?


Okay let us do small analysis here,and this one is the truth, ask anybody.

Prior to the Coup, we Igbo people ran the civil service, and we were top in the Nigerian armed forces. We were practically running the show in these establishments..

Then there was a bloodbath, Ahmadu Bello and Tafa Balewa killed, Akintola killed, (Awolowo was lucky, because if he was not in jail then, he would have been killed too) and Okotie Eboh was equally killed. No leader Fri the East was killed.
An Igbo man now becomes president and abolished the regional structure of the country in favour of a unitary one.

So, our people ran the civil service, military, and now head of state..
How did you expect the other people to feel? and coupled with that Ahmadu Bello video on Igbo people shortly before he was killed also in the mix, things blew up


Now I am not saying that the counter coup and the progrom in the north was right, but that is also history, and I hope you will teach your children this one too, because if you don't, you are a hypocrite

christopher123:
Oga Ojukwu neve forcefully conscripted any one

My father and uncles fought ..it was a volunteer force and mind you in Igbo land you don't force people to do your bidding even kings
This has shown ypuvare not Igbo

So what are the rights you want to wrong or the wrongs you want to right

Are you telling me that my late uncles are liars?
Don't let God punish you where you are o.
Who are you to say he did not conscript anybody,
Or where you there during the heat of the war in 69 where they had to conscript men to fight after we lost many soldiers?
I don't want to get emotional this night, so just forget the topic, Or else .......

Look at this man o.

christopher123:
Nobody is teaching any kids to hate anybody
What shall be taught is the Igbo history in an unadulterated way

If that is the case, then I have no problems with it. The Igbo generation after us should no what happened WITHOUT sentiments.
Using your Language Unadulterated.

christopher123:
Oga that is what you see....or do you want millions that perished in pogrom wished away


If you choose to forget history
Others won't
I will still tell my kids our history
The fights
The betrayals
The prospects
The ingenuity
History must be told not embellished

I am not forgetting history, but what happened has happened. What point do you seek to achieve by teaching your kids to hate other tribes? Or better still, pass grudges to the next generation

christopher123:
Ife eji awu Igbo Erika


So what are the things that you see as they are ? Can you pls educated us ...it seems you are the only one eyed man in the land of blind


Biko gwa anyi....maybe Achebe was wrong
Maybe other millions were wrong


Pls right their wrongs

Why the insults?
I lost MANY family members in the war, Ojukwu forvefully conscripted many of my uncles in the war too, and the war was disastrous.
So what should I now do?
Of course my children will know about what happened, but just as my parents taught me those days, I will also teach them not to hate other tribes, but judge them by their person.

If you preach hate, then you should be ashamed of YOURSELF

1Tkester:
Stop lying, you are not Igbo! BLOODY LIARS EVERYWHERE!

Why would I lie about my origin?
How would it profit me?
I am an Igbo man, and am proud to be one. There are few people on this forum who lost more family members than I did during the civil war, but what has happened, happened. That's it.
So what should I be doing? Hating an entire tribe because of the actions of a few? You guys should just grow up.

christopher123:
Is this country bugger than USSR or Korea peninsular?

The truth is that the country has gone too far to disintegrate.

The worst that will happen is restructuring the country and embracing fiscal federalism. As for disintegration, FORGET IT

christopher123:
I am an Igbo and we have one thing common and as you rightly said ..we don't forgive easily and we don't forget . we can bear animosity for generations and we tell our kids the issues so that the animosity can be carried on till we get our piubd of flesh. That is an average Igbo man for you

Though it might be good or bad depending the way you see it .


That's the Igbo man for you

I am an Igbo man too, and I see that out tendency as VERY BAD.

Our parents (well my parents didnt, but relatives did) keep feeding the young ones with hateful messages to keep animosity and it's not good at all.

I thank God for my parents who let me see things for what they are, and did not feed me with hateful message.


It does not help anybody.

delishpot:
Was not talking about the good ones. I never said all of the men we're bad.

Now that we are clear on that....
That's good.
Good night to you

delishpot:
Yes. The custom of enslavement. Later you guys come here to wonder why our mothers and foremothers never left their abusive and sad marriages. This is the reason why. The custom made sure to tie a woman down to a man one way or the other.man.
If she left the child as custom wants to force her to do, it's still those same hypocrites that will say she abandoned her baby and left the marriage. If she wants to carry her baby and leave those same people will say according to custom she should leave baby with the man. How then can a woman escape an unhappy and abusive marriage?

I see your point. but I want you to know this........

Not all our foremothers were in abusive relationships. There were good and bad men then, just as they are now.

I hope you understand

but why are many Nigerians like this?
Whipping up sentiments left and right.
That bill id an expired bill Na, from the previous Senate, and people are still recycling this thing up and down, to achieve what?