₦airaland Forum

Imanuelle: If this can work, den its a welcome idea.


E no good to pay subscription for 1month when nepa go bring lite only 3days.

U pay to subscribe, u still use fuel to watch am.

2kurupt: for your mind o!! So simply because one can afford DSTV you think your automatically super rich?

For your info pay-per-view on Satellite tv ain't exactly a new or impossible thing to implement, in other countries you can decide to watch only selected premium (box office movies, live sports events) and be charged specifically for that which your seeing rather than pay a premium & don't utilize the service.

kollybay4u: I once hav that experience also, at akure to buy phone but ds cab just call to me and i entered but for me to kn that there was 4 men inside the cab and they said i shld sat at the front, not more than 3minutes i was told that they ar not going to that route again that i shld come down. But i just discovered that the money i put at my right pocket were disappeared like #700 and the money for the phone #30000 at the back of my pocket dnt disappear. I thank God!

ihebrooke: I view them as fat. How else do you want me to view them?

Tgirl4real: Did u consider this before getting married?

How reliable are the predictions?

Can you determine the success of marriage based on your partner's zodiac sign?


I didn't really believe in this stuff. I don't even listen to it. But, recently, I am beginning to see some sense in it.

softchase: [b]You’ve decided to invest a lot of time and money into building a better web presence for your company. The last result you want to see from all this hard work and money is no growth in traffic or business from the new website. Before your company can reap the rewards of releasing a new website, you should take time to consider some of the key factors that lead to a more visible and customer friendly website. Here are a five major design blunders and what to do about them.


1. Site Is Too Busy, Spacing Is Key

Everybody loves bells and whistles, but when all the bells and whistles cause your site to load slowly and cover up your content you are at a serious disadvantage. For every flash animation or widget on your web site, your site’s loading time will increase while your screen real estate decreases. Your site should ultimately draw focus to the content, not what’s surrounding it. When there’s not enough
room on the screen to cleanly display your content you need to go “back to the drawing board”.


2. Confusing Navigation

Your website is first and foremost the digital representation of your company. The site provides a user experience for any potential customers that come across it. If your potential customer has to spend their time trying to learn how to use your website to find the information they need, they may grow impatient and decide to move on to the next company’s website. Remember to have clear, concise and
easy to use navigation for your website. It is key to a rewarding user experience.


3. Spelling & Grammar Errors

When you see “Were the #1 dog Food company in the wrld!” does it inspire confidence in you to buy that dog food for your beloved pet? This may seem obvious, but both spelling and grammar are CRUCIAL to your credibility online. If a company can’t take the time to proofread their work, what does that say about their products and services? Something as trivial as a typo can have a huge lasting impact on your
online business.

4. Using White Space To Your Advantage

Just because there is a little white space on your page does not mean you need to fill that space in. Use “white space” to your advantage in reading web copy. Allow surrounding images and colors to pop. Always remember, the focus of your site should always be drawing people to your content while offering a pleasing design surrounding said content. A bit of white space can help to distinguish the separation
between the design and content.


5. Keep SEO In Mind

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a major component of any good web strategy. When designing your new web site it pays to spend some time on your SEO strategy and how exactly you want to fit that strategy into your content and site design. Quality content with legitimate mentions of key words and topics related to your business will help to bring more business your way.[/b]

softchase: [b]You’ve decided to invest a lot of time and money into building a better web presence for your company. The last result you want to see from all this hard work and money is no growth in traffic or business from the new website. Before your company can reap the rewards of releasing a new website, you should take time to consider some of the key factors that lead to a more visible and customer friendly website. Here are a five major design blunders and what to do about them.


1. Site Is Too Busy, Spacing Is Key

Everybody loves bells and whistles, but when all the bells and whistles cause your site to load slowly and cover up your content you are at a serious disadvantage. For every flash animation or widget on your web site, your site’s loading time will increase while your screen real estate decreases. Your site should ultimately draw focus to the content, not what’s surrounding it. When there’s not enough
room on the screen to cleanly display your content you need to go “back to the drawing board”.


2. Confusing Navigation

Your website is first and foremost the digital representation of your company. The site provides a user experience for any potential customers that come across it. If your potential customer has to spend their time trying to learn how to use your website to find the information they need, they may grow impatient and decide to move on to the next company’s website. Remember to have clear, concise and
easy to use navigation for your website. It is key to a rewarding user experience.


3. Spelling & Grammar Errors

When you see “Were the #1 dog Food company in the wrld!” does it inspire confidence in you to buy that dog food for your beloved pet? This may seem obvious, but both spelling and grammar are CRUCIAL to your credibility online. If a company can’t take the time to proofread their work, what does that say about their products and services? Something as trivial as a typo can have a huge lasting impact on your
online business.

4. Using White Space To Your Advantage

Just because there is a little white space on your page does not mean you need to fill that space in. Use “white space” to your advantage in reading web copy. Allow surrounding images and colors to pop. Always remember, the focus of your site should always be drawing people to your content while offering a pleasing design surrounding said content. A bit of white space can help to distinguish the separation
between the design and content.


5. Keep SEO In Mind

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a major component of any good web strategy. When designing your new web site it pays to spend some time on your SEO strategy and how exactly you want to fit that strategy into your content and site design. Quality content with legitimate mentions of key words and topics related to your business will help to bring more business your way.[/b]

mumumugu: Nigerians can neva apreciate their own. But find faults

Laitesmart: Gone are those days when you have to find the value of x or y under the influence and orientation of cane. We have mathematics teacher who are mostly strict in all theories. They believe u must knw mathematics at al cost and as such cause sum students to love the subjects while sum hate it more.
But not all the mathematics teacher then are cane oriented. Different strokes 4 different folks.
What single word would u love so much to use in describing your secondary schl mathematics teacher?

vivian chinaza: I don't quality tho, but I'm gonna talk.

First of all, everything has its advantages and disadvantages................ And the way you carry yourself determines how you'd manage these disadvantages.

Some of the disadvantages of being pretty are:

1. You attract a lot of fake friends, especially guys.
2. People expect you to be dumb and un serious.
3. You attract a lot of players.
4. A lot of ladies get jealous and intimidated by you.
5. Some People think your life is easier.
6. Most people think you are materialistic.
7. Only few people would care to really look beyond the beauty and get to know your personality which could be amazing.
8. You are unnecessarily popular.
9. You are always careful of what you wear to avoid unnecessary attention thereby causing distraction to people.
10. Because you are popular, you get judged by people who don't even know you.
11. When you don't mingle with a certain set of people? "Oh you are proud!"

nice one

acidtalk: What has been the Effect of the Ban of Okada (Commercial Motorcycle) on you.

Have you found it difficult getting to your destination due to the non alternative means aside Danfo, BRT and taxi or have you felt at ease walking on the road without the fear of an Okada rider to knock you down or throw you inside the gutter without even feeling remorse.

solomto: my brother once called her friend who was sick,he made the call around 12pm in d morning and her girl picked the call and the spoke about her health condition. Later he went to see her around 2pm bt saw people and her siblings crying,he asked what was wrong and they told him her girl just passed away around 8am that morning. Then who picked and spoked wt hm was wat he asked them which evrryone was perplexed.,he even showed them the call history., this is nt a movie bt a life experience that am aware of.
So,i never try calling any number of a dead individual.

size38: I think this omotola of a gal is dreaming seriously. I dont watch nigerian movies, but the few i have watched could best be described as drama & not movies.

ijebabe: So I thought I'd go on IrokoTV and watch me some good old Nollywood movie after a draining day. Settled in with ice cream, feet tucked in and phone kept away. Sorry, not tonight boo

Saw an epic movie starring Genevieve before deciding to go with Circle of Secret starring Tonto, Muna and Annie Macauley. It was alright till I got towards the end of the first part and DAMN! I mean what was the director thinking that he couldn't take time to cut and address the issue of his actress' outfit? Where were the team responsible for wardrobe?
If this was an old movie I would have laughed it off and said "thank God we have come a long way" but no! this movie was done this year!!

Do you see what I'm seeing?
Is this common and am I simply just overreacting

vivacious vivi: I observed that too. Further comments started confusing me. Thks for setting it straight jare.

gbanikiti: The woman no serious! Maybe na catfish na im bite am. Seems she doesn't know what Shark is! If na shark bite her I don't think she would still be alive.smh

packman: [size=15pt]SO WATING HAPPEN NAW BOYS WEY NO SEE TRANSPORT DECIDED TO HANG RADA DAN STEALING ABEG FASHOLA SHOULD GO DIE

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MacDaddy01: Is tat the freaking point? Why would a man of God waste so much money on something that he didnt need rather than help the hundreds of poor members of his church who cant even afford to go to his university.


Gaddem tithe fraud!

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I just spoke in tongues...

Basic: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. May peace be upon whosoever follows guidance.

I advise every reader of this piece – Christians especially – to read with a plain mind that is free of any prejudice or stereotypes. This missive is addressed mainly at Christians and adherents of other religions in this country as well as any Muslim who may help spread word of it.

It is quite saddening that Boko Haram has done, in the name of Islam, so much evil that the average non-Muslim now has a very ugly perception of the religion and its adherents.

Though the Nigerian media has sometimes gone overboard in their reports (for instance, news spread months ago that a Boko Haram instigated bomb blast occurred in Bauchi, only for the Police to state later that the heard explosion was that of a faulty transformer and not a bomb), this piece does not seek to defend the acts of Boko Haram (in fact, it strongly disapproves of their acts). So, please don't start forming opinions yet.

Read this piece to the end, as it hoped that it would help extinguish the fire of inter-religious animosity raging in our society today – by means of these clarifications:

Clarification #1

You Christians have known we Muslims for years, and you have lived with us for years as well. I’m sure the Muslims you first knew or grew up with never told you that Islam permits unjust killings – not even of non-Muslims. They won't, because they never believed such. If that were part of their belief, they would certainly have attempted killing you. So, their peaceful co-existence with you shows that they had nothing of such as their belief.

But suddenly came a strange group of "Muslims" who kill in the name of Islam. Yet, you conclude that these "vampires" are following the dictates of Islam. Which Islam? A new version of Islam?

So, it is either Boko Haram members are practising a strange Islam or are not practising Islam at all. But the truth remains that our religion has never and will never undergo any kind of metamorphosis. And whatever is not part of it from the outset will never be regarded as being part of it today!

Since unjust, unlawful killings were never part of Islam, they will never be part of Islam, and any individual or group that practices such – even in the name of Islam – will ‘never’ be regarded as Muslims or as fighting for Islam.


Clarification #2

I do see Christians quote Quranic verses inciting Muslims to fight the non-believers. And I have these to say:

Just as you hold that many verses in the Bible have underlying meanings that are beyond the literal implications, we Muslims also hold the same in regards to the Quran. The Quran contains many verses whose meanings are subject to interpretations other than the literal.

So, I advise every truth-seeking non-Muslim to refrain from quoting Quranic verses without deep understanding of the circumstances behind their revelation.

As for the wars fought by the early Muslims, various circumstances led to these, and going into a detailed discussion will be digressive and will make this piece lengthier.

However, know that the wars propagated by the Muslims of old had many strong reasons behind them. And looking at history, no civilisation or revolution came to be without some struggle.

Now the truth: in Nigeria of today, there are NO justifications whatsoever for any Muslim – individual or group – to kill non-Muslims unjustly. In fact, from what I've learned about this religion, NONE – yes, NONE – of the conditions that permit Muslims to fight (such as if they are facing aggression from non-Muslims, and if they are in an Islamic state) is present in the Nigeria of today. Therefore, anyone fighting in the name of Islam is either doing that out of misindoctrination, crass ignorance, or for ulterior reasons.

Once again, Nigeria is not an Islamic state, and no Muslim – except for the misindoctrinated, ignorant, or hypocritical – is permitted to fight in the name of religion.

Clarification #3

Any Muslim individual or group that claims to be fighting for Islam by way of unjust, unwarranted killings is not following the dictates of ‘the’ Islam - and that is even if such were Muslims in the first place.

In a Quranic verse, which, interestingly, those Christians who have never stopped dissecting the Quran never quote, Allah says:

"Allah never forbids you from dealing justly and kindly with those who do not fight you based on your religion and who do not drive you out of your homes. Verily Allah loves those who deal with others with equity" – Quran 60 verse 8.

This verse drives home the fact that Muslims living amidst non-Muslims (in a non-Islamic state) should never fight them except in self-defence.

In another verse, Allah describes the sanctity life in these words:

"Because of that, we ordained for the Children of Israel that anyone who spreads mischief in the land by killing another person unjustly, and not out of retaliation, it would be as if he had killed all of mankind. And if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind" – Quran 5 verse 32.

So, Islam honours life and is totally against taking it unjustly.

Clarification #4

It would be illogical for any Muslim, after having observed some wrongdoing by a Christian or group of Christians, to conclude that Christianity preaches that wrong act or that all Christians approve of it.

Similarly, it contradicts logic for any Christian, after having observed some wrongdoing by some individuals or groups who claim to be Muslims, to conclude that Islam preaches that wrong act or that all Muslims approve of it.

Get it clear: We Muslims – who really understand the true message of Islam – are totally against the terrorist acts of these bloodsucking "Muslim" groups. In fact, we doubt their being Muslims in the first place. And if they were, either they lost touch of the pristine Islam by getting themselves misindoctrinated, or they are not sincere in their cause (i.e. they have ulterior motives).


Clarification #5

While it is natural for the adherents of any religion to feel enraged when the supreme deity, as held by that religion, is insulted, it is irrational for the adherents to go beyond bounds in their quest for justice – especially when this will involve greater evils like shedding the blood of the innocent.

However, Christians should stop spewing insults at Allah, His Messenger, and at Muslims as a whole. In the Qur'an, Allah has clearly forbidden Muslims from insulting non-Muslims and their religion (Quran 6 verse 108). So, Muslims too should refrain from doing this.

Also, it is far from ideal that a Muslim, in "retaliation" of blasphemy, goes wild, killing innocent lives and destroying property.


Final note

We Muslims are disheartened by the activities of these radicals, and on behalf of every Muslim in this country with a sound, unadulterated Islamic ideology, I state that we are proud of our religion, and we totally and openly disapprove of the acts of BH and their sponsors.

We pray that Allah vindicates His religion by exposing, humiliating, and destroying any individual or group perpetrating evil in the name of Islam.

We also pray that Allah restores peace and security in this country, and make it a haven of tranquility for all – Muslims, Christians, Pagans, and Atheists.

Finally, I advise every person who wishes to study Islam sincerely to look only into authentic sources and try to avoid the press, ignorant and biased non-Muslims, and other sources of baseless gainsay.

Spread word of this piece. Feel free to share with others through any available media. Hopefully, it will help reduce the inter-religious animosity that is thickening in Nigeria today.

goofie: what? is that for real?

now am more scared of floods

sleekysol: i sometimes wonder why uniform men tend to claim staff in buses especially in Lagos is it a legal permission or just a deliberate intimidation?

ambrosini593: As for me I enjoy choir ministration. Because they sing and bring down the presence of God. What of you? Share your likes

LastApostle: Nairaland,
My girlfriend invited me to an unschedule meeting with a strange man whom she introduced as her fiancee. I understand that she has even taken the rich man to her parents who certifies him and they have given their blessings to them.

The rich man offer to pay me the sum of N1,000,000 to steer clear of his ''wife'' as a contribution to all the assistance I have given her. it is to my credit that she is a graduate.
My girlfriend adviced me to accept the money offered me by her NEW man saying she had kept the affair secret from me because she never wish to hurt me as I am a good man.
What do I do?

LastApostle: Nairaland,
My girlfriend invited me to an unschedule meeting with a strange man whom she introduced as her fiancee. I understand that she has even taken the rich man to her parents who certifies him and they have given their blessings to them.

The rich man offer to pay me the sum of N1,000,000 to steer clear of his ''wife'' as a contribution to all the assistance I have given her. it is to my credit that she is a graduate.
My girlfriend adviced me to accept the money offered me by her NEW man saying she had kept the affair secret from me because she never wish to hurt me as I am a good man.
What do I do?

FRANKLINTON: How sure are you that i'm a student? This thread will go a long way in helping others