₦airaland Forum

id911:
I respect this great warrior called Peter 'The Rock' Fayose so much. How I wish he can denounce and reject SW and join us in SE/SS. He likes his people but I'm always surprise why Yorubas don't like him.

On a second thought I'm not too surprise though because Yorubas hate all their prominent leaders that worked with Abacha but surprisingly sing praises of Buhari who also worked with Abacha and even defended Abacha's corruption. Pathetic!!!

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It baffles me too oh, especially the SW youths.
They are the ones who called him all sorts of names when he banned indiscriminate grazing. But they were blind to see that he tried to protect them.
Fayose is fair and magnanimous to speak well of Tinubu. But I feel Tinubu can take care of himself. A man will reap whatever he sows.

segun400:
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed was flying economy yesterday when an excited passenger who recognized him went up to him.

He helped her carry her baby during the flight and the mother couldn’t help but take pictures.


The baby looks very comfortable in his arms.

See Photos Below:

Source: http://www.flexygist.com/2016/10/07/photos-minister-of-information-lai-mohammed-cradles-a-baby-he-met-while-flying-economy-class/

Kim Kardashian government

Keneking:
RIP - why the cottonwool in the nose and mouth

To reduce the rate of decay.

dayleke:
Somebody better tell that one wey not sure for amongst the ladies to wake up....
What is she not sure of?
Whether she is in a relationship or whether the relationship is heading somewhere?
Or maybe she no get boyfriend sef?

No mind am

ayomidegambari:
Beautiful pre wedding pictures of a student of law at lagos state university, oluwadamilola dimple, with her besties...

The bridesmaids no even fine sef

I can't imagine how it will smell afterwards. . Her voice will even smell.

TonyeBarcanista:
But I was buying fuel @65 per litre under Yaradua when the ECA wasn't depleted and fuel price sold lower than it did during Jonathan.

Yaradua tried. At least we could see what he was doing. Maybe Nigeria would have been better if he had lived longer.
However, the governors are also part of the problem. The money that was shared, what did Amaechi do with it ? River State is richer than some African countries. What did Amaechi and all the governors do with the money ?

Buhari is making Gej to be a hero

somez:
So, your useless huh?

Him no be adult

gonkin:
WHAT OF ME WEN BE GOD FOR EXCEL, POWERPOINT, COREL DRAW, and thats just the ICT part

The technical part na dead. Over 9 certifications and practically a hobby adapter yet no JOB

MY GUY GOD HAS FAVOURED YOU. FOR THIS RECESSIVE REGIME ITS EVEN HARDER TO GET A JOB.

JUST CLAP FOR YOUR BROTHER

. You get all those certificates and no job You sure say dem no follow you for village . No worry you go get ur own soon. Job na favour Oh..

EMMYB0Y:
this ekiti guy.... he will surely win because you fit use am describe nigeria's current economy situation internationally

Lolz...

doveda:
Are you trying to say he can't do his master's or gain experience as a married man?

He can do both. I guess it's best if he does it now that he's not married. Age is a big advantage on his side. It's my opinion but nothing is absolute.

LekinsRibirth:
I'm currently on a crossroad and I really need your cordial insights on this issue.
I graduated two years ago and I'm currently 25years old and God has been extremely so good to me.
I was recently able to secure a job in a multinational firm and I receive a very good pay.
I've been able to put a lot of things in order and I feel I'm ready to settle down.
I proposed marriage to my girlfriend who is currently 23 and she accepted. our families have been friends even before we were born. myself and her grew up together and we are literally best friends( we've officially been dating for the past 4years).
I've stated my intentions to my parents and hers but they both disagreed .They said we're too young to start a family and we should wait for a minimum of 4 to 5 years .
I'll be travelling out of the country next year with my company to start an off-shore business unit and I planned to get married to her by December and take her along with me.
I really don't know what to do as my family has become my enemy in this issue.
They threatened not to give me their blessings and never to accept money from me if I go ahead with my plans.

Thank God for your career. 25 is young. If u wait a few more years, you have nothing to lose. You'll get more experience. Have u done your masters or planning to do one ? Waiting for some time is not bad.

No be runs girl be thus ?

dainformant:
Congratulations are in order for a Nigerian entrepreneur, Godwin Benson, who was among the six winners for internet.org -a social networking service between Facebook and other multinational companies . During his recent visit to Nigeria, Mark Zuckerberg met with the young man who founded Tuteria Nigeria, as they discussed some business ideas. Now, the young entrepreneur is onto the next level.

Read below what Mark Zuckerberg shared on his page;

Last month in Abuja, Nigeria, I met Godwin Benson. Godwin founded Tuteria Nigeria, an online platform that connects people seeking to learn with people nearby who can teach them.

Tuteria Nigeria won one of six awards for the Internet.org Innovation Challenge for services that provide education and economic development opportunities across the African continent. The other winners were Esoko, Hyperion Development, MPedigree Goldkeys, SaferMom, and mPharma Mutti.

These services are all examples of the great work being done by entrepreneurs across the African continent to strengthen their communities and create opportunity. Congratulations to the winners and all the other entrepreneurs who are doing this important work!

Internet.org is a partnership between social networking services company Facebook and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/10/godwin-benson-nigerian-man-wins-major.html

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103151825493241&id=4&set=a.612287952871.2204760.4&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10103151830428351%3Atl_objid.10103151830428351%3Athid.4%3A306061129499414%3A2%3A0%3A1477983599%3A5641981036645783537&__tn__=E

Mark Zuckerberg no wear T shirt today. Abi him no humble again

This doesn't make sense. . Why are these celebrities just childish ?

Thisis2raw:
They should also allocate 5% to Rivers State my state also, after all we have helped develop this Damned Nation

Na so. And Bayelsa as well...

HungerBAD:
Following

Comment, no book space.

This is another classic from Femi Aribisala. He seems to sympathize with Tinubu concerning what's happening to him. To me, let Tinubu face the music.

Instead of investing in the future of Nigeria, the only real investment taking place now is towards the hegemonic control of the country by a small segment of the population for the foreseeable future.

Let me re-introduce myself in case you have forgotten. I have been an implacable critic of the politics of Bola Tinubu. Among others, I have written articles against Tinubu entitled: “What Does Tinubu Want?” “Time to Get Rid of Tinubu’s Cronies;” “Time to Disgrace the South-West Godfather;” and “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu.” I stand by every one of those articles even though the warnings I gave in them went largely ignored.

Although many Tinubu supporters don’t seem to realise this, my opposition to Tinubu was not personal. My opposition was based on the grounds that Tinubu’s politics was shortsighted. In that regard, my position has been proved right. The strategic political objectives of Tinubu were unattainable and have been not been attained.

In the first place, Tinubu’s recent politics were designed to make him a key player at the national level as he has been at the regional level. He really wanted to become the vice-president of Nigeria. This has proved unattainable, and we warned him about that. Most of his so-called friends at the national level are fair-weather friends. They never really liked him and were afraid of him. Under no circumstances would they allow him to duplicate his stranglehold on South-West politics outside the South-West.

The reality of Tinubu’s politics in Nigeria is that he can be a king-maker but will not be allowed to be king. The best Tinubu has been able to achieve has been to nominate a vice-president who, to all intents and purposes, is not even a major power-broker in government. As vice-president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has only succeeded in being a fall-guy; for the collapse of the naira and for the failure to date of the 2016 budget.

In the second place, the strategic design of Tinubu’s politics was to make him a power behind the throne at the national level. This objective has also proved to be a pie-in-the-sky. Since becoming president, Buhari has largely ignored Tinubu’s counsels. Not a single Tinubu nominee became a minister in the president’s cabinet. Those who made it from the South-West were deliberately the people he did not want.

Tinubu nominees failed to make the position of Senate president or Speaker of the House of Representatives. The APC has also failed to make Tinubu Chairman of its Board of Trustees. To date, Tinubu has no statutory post in the party he midwifed. The party chairman, thought to be a Tinubu man, has been bought over, so much so that Tinubu is now asking for his resignation; but to no effect.

Having used Tinubu to win the election, he has been dumped like a used rag. It was because we anticipated this reversal of fortunes, that some of us were loud in warning Tinubu in the heady days of APC coalition-building. It was in that context that I later wrote my article saying: “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu” on the grounds that he deserved what happened to him. We warned that this would happen but he refused to listen.

But now times have changed. The bombastic change platform on which APC fought and won the election has failed to materialize. The change we are now facing is one far worse than anything hitherto experienced. It is absolutely incredible that, in spite of the grandiloquent promises made during the 2015 election campaign, the dollar is now exchanging for the naira on the parallel market at virtually 500 to 1. Like the naira, the Nigerian economy is in free-fall, going from bad to worse.

But another change has also taken place and this one is political. It is finally apparent to Bola Tinubu that his friends in the APC are really not his friends at all. That is why he has now complained publicly and resigned as inconsequential “National Leader” of the party. Having used him to achieve their ends at the polls, his fair-weather APC friends have now indicated they are not merely interested in dumping him, their plan is to decimate his ranks and render him powerless. They are now out to use their new-found vantage point to attack him in his hearth of the South-West and to split his coalition by sponsoring those in opposition to him and, if necessary, by rigging them into power at his expense.

Given this development, this is not the time to tell Tinubu “we told you so; we warned you but you did not listen.” This is not the time to say: “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu.” This is the time to cry for Tinubu. As a matter of fact, this is the time for all true progressives to rally round Bola Tinubu. The reason for this is simple.

Now that Tinubu has hopefully learnt his lesson, he should be more open to those of us who he thought were his enemies in the past but should now realise have always had his back. Tinubu should now be more amenable to wise counsel. Now that he has resigned from the honorific, but irrelevant, title of leader of the APC, he should start making plans to extricate himself from the APC altogether. At the very least, he should leave no one in doubt that he would not be taken for granted by leaving the door open for a realignment with a more agreeable coalition as the APC begins inevitably to unravel.

The nullification or dilution of Bola Tinubu’s power in the South-West, at this juncture of Nigeria’s economic hopelessness, renders Nigeria at the mercy of Abuja incompetence for the foreseeable future. Since coming to power, President Buhari has been unapologetic about the Northernisation of the Nigerian government. He has completely jettisoned any pretensions to the principles of federal character but has placed Northerners in every strategic sector of the government. This is part of the rationale behind the resurgence of pro-Biafra agitators, as well as the emergence of the Niger-Delta Avengers. In the process of consolidating the North, the agenda is now to decimate the South-West. This should not be allowed to happen.

At the moment, Nigerian democracy has no opposition; which is why nobody is complaining about the disastrous collapse of the naira and the adverse economic climate. The government is even floating the idea of further increases in the price of petrol, and nobody is up in arms. The PDP is at war with itself, and the cynical anti-corruption campaign of the government has been used effectively to silence it. That is why the burgeoning attack on Bola Tinubu deserves a rallying response.

Progressive Nigerians should not allow anyone in these climes to make a fool of Bola Tinubu. We must help him to consolidate and even enhance his position. At strength, Buhari can only be a one-term president without Bola Tinubu. All Tinubu needs to do is to start making plans to form another alliance that links truly progressive Northerners with those of the South-West, South-East and South-South. The possibility of that happening should give him a new fillip. At the very least, it would put him back into reckoning, ensuring he can only be ignored at great cost.

Without Tinubu, Buhari would not be the president of Nigeria today. Buhari’s wife, Aisha, acknowledged as much after the 2015 election. Without Tinubu, Buhari would not have secured the presidential ticket of the APC. Without Tinubu, Buhari would not have had the semblance of widespread national acceptability. Without Tinubu, Buhari would not have had the funds to mount a national campaign. Without Tinubu, Buhari only obtained 370,000 votes from the entire Southern Nigeria in the 2011 election. Without Tinubu, Buhari has no political future; unless the unproductive hegemonists currently ranged against Tinubu succeed in turning him into a toothless bulldog.

Therefore, I insist, this must not be allowed to happen. This is the time for all truly progressive people, North and South; East and West to rally to Tinubu’s support. Let us forget the past; even the immediate past. In politics, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends. Let us be united in one purpose; the unity of Nigeria is paramount. Nigeria should not be conceded to hegemonists. It is now abundantly clear that those that have clamoured for power for long and have now attained it have no clue what to do with it; other than to put their kinsmen and family members in key positions, while the nation’s economy has gone to the dogs.

We must not be in any doubt as to what is going on now. Instead of investing in the future of Nigeria, the only real investment taking place now is towards the hegemonic control of the country by a small segment of the population for the foreseeable future. This is not only anti-democratic; it is anti-Nigeria. It must be resisted politically with wisdom and clear-sightedness. It must be resisted adroitly by the formation of a new, truly national non-sectarian coalition that stretches across the Niger. In this design, Bola Tinubu would be invaluable once again as one of its principal architects.

Equally important, the South-West must learn from the past when Akintola was used to divide it from Awolowo. That kind of history must not be allowed to repeat itself. From my point of view, the bottom line is as follows. My democratic instincts have always made me opposed to Tinubu’s status as the godfather of South-West politics. But under the present circumstances, I would rather have Tinubu as the godfather of South-West politics, than have Buhari as the godfather of South-West politics. To the extent that a Tinubu can never be the godfather of North-West politics, then Buhari must never be the godfather of South-West politics.

THE NAIRA HAS GONE BANANAS

I walked into Dream Plaza, a supermarket in Victoria Island, Lagos recently and a Lebanese man handling the pharmacy beckoned to me. He wanted to know what is going on in Nigeria. I was puzzled because the man lives in Nigeria. Why is he asking me? What do I know that he does not?

He went further. “Do you know,” he asked, “that this morning the naira exchange-rate for the dollar is now 492?” I did not know and was shocked to hear this. “What are you going to do about it?” he asked. What can I do? I thought. He went on: “Why are Nigerians not saying anything?” “Why is there no reaction?” “Why is everybody keeping quiet?

I did not know what to tell him. Neither did I know what to do. But I knew the situation is already untenable. How low, in fact, is the naira going to fall? Are we just going to keep watching until Nigeria becomes another Zimbabwe or another Venezuela? This situation has gone far beyond partisan politics. It is abundantly clear that those currently charged with the handling of the Nigerian economy are currently out of their depths.

Now is the time for all good men to stand up in defense of Nigeria. This is the time for a government of national unity. We cannot just keep silent and allow Nigeria to go to the dogs.

http://www.femiaribisala.com/time-to-rally-round-bola-tinubu/#disqus-tab.

emeraldknytt:
From my point of view, I foresee no deal breaker in your stale epistle. So far her lie hasn't affected you negatively or potentially, there is no reason to quit your marriage. Truth is, if you cant handle well something as trivial as this, I wonder what you would do if she told you those kids ain't yours.... .... Be patient and tolerable

You call this trivial I hope you are joking. Even if it's a joke, it's not funny.
I'm appalled by the kind of advice people are giving. This guy feels defrauded. He has every right to be.

So sad. The bastard doctor had the guts to make such request . I for don bliw sm.

Abeg make una free the body guard. He can't be everywhere at the same time.

This is beautiful. We gave Nigerian intellectuals doing us proud. Don't mind the fact that our president could call Nigerians in the diaspora criminals.

janellemonae:
@op truth is from everything u explained: I believe ur wife is very depressed. Impulsively moving to osogbo shows this. U just weren't paying enough attention to her state of mind. Maybe she thought ur cost of living d Lagos life would reduce in osogbo. The money situation is a major part of it. Money is d no1 cause of divorce in d world. I know some men think women are gold diggers but truth is every woman wants security. The sad part of ur situation is dt ur also trying ur best but maybe there's a reason she's not seeing dt. One of d reasons is this ur family jnterference. It's too much. Please I know u sugar coated parts of this story, yet it still seems like ur a mummy's boy.

The fact is she can't see a way out, she's not working - and clearly wishes she had a business to help u instead of begging for everything, she has 2 babies to think about, & ur marriage also seems to be delving into anger & violence. No comfort or joy at all apart from d hardship. She might even have had a bout of postnatal depression after her last baby considering d way u said she was treating her children (one of d signs of postnatal depression). I might be wrong but But these are all stressors. I understand ur also stressed but marriages go thru hard times. Both of u seem to be in d dark, seeing only ur own individual difficulties & not seeing what d other is going through. Someone needs to step forward into d light & bring ur marriage from d brink. It's still very salvageable.

PS - Please leave ur families out of all this & talk to each other alone. Take d advise of a neutral therapist or pastor. Leave emotionàl, biased parents/siblings out of it. Dts if u want ur family back.

I quite agree with some of the things you said but not all. If what the Op said is true, I think he's a victim rather than her. I believe poor people get married and are happy together. Marriage calls for sacrifice and understanding. She sees the effort her husband is putting and yet she's still nagging. I agree she might be depressed too. Maybe she had such a high expectation but it was not met.
At least after having her children, she should be okay. She's not just interested in the marriage.

taiiremide:
My wife absconded with our kids (2 boys). We’ve been married for 4years plus. I did everything a good husband would do to please his wife, but she never satisfied. Before we got married, I’ve a good job and she knew my worth, after marriage things isn’t as rosy and it used to be, I lost my job and I was able to get one after 2 months but the salary is 120k excluding other freelance jobs I do online.

We’re unable to save. We spent most of the money on food stuffs, I hate seeing her hungry. She called me one faithful night and reminds me of the premises I made before we got married about the car and supermarket I promised her (I can’t remembered making such promises), but I still encourage her to be patient with me, that things gonna be fine. She never supported me as she’s not working. I remember I gave her 450k to start a business; she was pregnant at the time so she rejected the money because of her condition. I added some money and I bought a car, I needed the car to hustle for contracts, I cant be jumping from okada to marwa, nobody gonna take you serious. A month later, I got a printing contract from one of the best companies in Lagos, the condition is to use your money for the contract so I sold the car to print the job, I bought a machine unfortunately the machine packedup, i lost the gain and money for the car but I was able to delivered the job more that expectation but I lost huge amount of money. She always complaining ever since, when I tried to encourage her that things will be fine she will ask me ‘when’.

She treats my kids as if she wasn’t the one that brought them to this world, she always using negative words for those kids, I later realized she doesn’t love me, if she love me, she’ll equally love my kids.

4 months ago, she went to visit my younger sister in osogbo, she saw the way my sister’s business was moving fine, she fall inlove with osogbo, she sent a message thus ‘dear, guess I am in love with Oshogbo is peaceful and cool’. When she came back to Lagos, she said she wanted us to move to osogbo, after much persuasion and consideration I succumbed. We moved to osogbo, I spent more than 300k. 2 weeks later, she started complaining that osogbo is boring. I was so mad. I had to risk my life travelling from osogbo to Lagos almost every week.
On the 16th of September (a day after I celebrated our last born birthday) she left for Lagos for her sister’s wedding, I gave her 12k for tfair and other expenses. I called her a week later to remind her that our first son gonna resume school the following Monday, that’s when she said she’s no longer interested in the marriage, that I should move on, I called her mother, she said I should come see her but my family stopped me, since we never had a fight and I was not the one that sent her packing that she should be the one to come.

I’m missing my kids, they’re my life, I don’t know what to do.

You gave everything but she never gave back in return. The relationship has been onesided right from time. You should have said no to many of her demands. When a woman is no longer interested in a relationship, she starts acting funny.
As it is now, she's no longer interested. You just have to move on without her. Get a good lawyer to fight for the custody of your children. My advice to you is never allow her back.

What I'm more concerned about is the quality of Nollywood production and story. You can write witchy story and it can still be good. Another problem with Nollywood is that they can be too monotonous.
I'm not going to say African deities are good because I'm African. And it's also foolish to think that Christianity is a white man's religion.

dainformant:
A Nigerian digital marketer, who deemed it fit to pose unclad in Nigerian color to mark the 56th Independence Day anniversary, got more than she bargained for after posting the picture on her social media page. Online users who lambasted and blasted her for her "art work", tried to understand the reason for the unclad pose. See their reactions below;

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/10/nigerian-lady-comes-under-fire-for.html

The person wey design her body don touch touch well well.

Jesusloveyou:
even with too much money in his disposer disposal, the ineffectual buffoon could not pay salaries and contractors, so which work or project did he do in 6yrs, with too much oil money, he stil waste wasted our foreign reserve, so what did he use the money, only abuja-kaduna railway he could not commission

You call someone an ineffectual buffoon but you can't even construct a simple sentence without grammatical bullets. I just had to take cover.
Before you begin attacking people better than you, look inward. With this bad expression, I wonder the schools that produced you.

shaddoww:
I go with Aregbesola though. We have some idle assets dat we should sell but hw we will make sure money isn't looted is d big task. At least every state has Nitel buildings just there, d federal secretariat in some states are idle too.

.

That one now belings to Tinubu. In fact, it will be cornered by him not sold.

Where's Amaechi and Fashola ?

ikemesit4477:
Hospitality industry (e.g) hotels

Lolz. I dey tell you.

djyoungmoney:
Banker/Accountants
These set of people know almost everything about your financial status ranging from your account balance(s) to your investments and the rest.No matter how you keep your financial status a secret these set of people will always have the real facts at hand.

Doctors
Am sure we all have heard of cases of people who keep the identity of the real fathers of their children from the world , Well no matter how hard you try to keep it a secret, the doctors will always know the real father of that child . Lot of people are out there living with very dangerous diseases but this issues are only known to the doctors who have tested them and confirmed the presence of such diseases.

House maids
As low as their level might be in the society, they know a lot of secret of their bosses because they live under the same roof as their bosses and there is hardly nothing that goes on within the house hold that is hidden to them, that is why you hear of people using the maids to perpetrate evil these days.

Journalists
These ones feed on secrets for a living. Through their various means, they always have various secrets at their disposals from time to time. Take for example the case of the paparazzi that’s follow celebrities about abroad, at one time or the other, they have a certain secret of a certain celebrity they want to publish taking the case of tiger woods as an example.

Hackers
Am sure we have all heard about the Russian hackers who have threatened celebrities about publishing their nudes and at certain times threaten to expose athletes involved in doping and even going to the extent of threatening to expose the secrets of the United States Government.

Counselor
We are advised to always seek the help of a counselor at one point or the other whenever there is a problem. In the process of pouring out our minds, secrets are revealed.

Religious clerics
There are churches where people go for confessions from time to time and these confessions are made directly to the priests who in turn will ask God for forgiveness on your behalf. Religious clerics are also seen to be closer to God than any other person and as a result of people will prefer to talk about their problems with their spirituals leaders who they think can help them in prayers or seek further spiritual assistance.


http://www.gistquaters.com/2016/10/professions-that-harbor-secrets-most.html

On point. Maybe you should have also mentioned driver and gateman. And of course confidential secretary. I didn't even mention clerics. Those guys hear a lot.
A pastor for instance once said a young man came to him and confessed how he sleeps with his mothet . The pastor didn't tell us the man in question but I don't even think it's good to tell us the story in the first place.