₦airaland Forum

how much na

MrScript:
Make I book space first..

how much for this small land hope say the document for the land complete

orobs93:
Ok
Oya pursue them..

and they should be chased in fact they should be purchased i.e pursue and chase combined together pursue+chase= purchase

Nigerians are suffering God help us nobody helps until the person falls down and dies before people will come very sure that if the people standing had met him while he was alive and demanded help from them they would have turned their back on him now he is dead and people are crowding him RIP

Even with all the evidence, The accused still pleaded not guilty to the charges

Initially I thought it was a joke or something not until I watch the Video Blessed be the name of God , the Son and our Mother Mary
we welcome you in our country intercede on our behalf and show us the way to life Amen

for press consumption and pseudo-criticism to fulfill judicial rites

frustration can cause anything and when someone is emotionally and psychologically depressed without any solution to his problems the person becomes bored and can commit such act, anyway we pray that God gives us the courage to get over our problems and not to allow the problems get over us and to kill us. Amen

I know that some day this guy will port to woman because a real man in his right senses will not be acting like a woman and he is proud doing what he is doing

lawanson44:
Is it the one in Abuja?

yeah

canalily:
Do they stil vaccancy?

honestly it wasn't even a posted vacancy I just went to their site copied their email address on the 31st August and forwarded my CV then they gave me a call which I was invited for a written exam after sitting for like an hour on a hot seat I passed the exam and I was asked To go for micro teaching I sat the white men down and I was lecturing them they gave me a topic to prepare a lesson plan and I did , to their greatest surprise the lesson plan I wrote was their outstanding lesson ever written so they commended me and we went straight to discuss allowee all this in just a day. its not my effort o its not my intelligence o it is not because I am brainy than the people that applied o but God's mercy and favour spoke on my behalf. I thank God for this offer, because its one of my best offer so far though I know God is still work sha

I want to appreciate the effort of all those who have been working tirelessly and selflessly to post job vacancies even the GNLD scammers , I just got a job with Nigerian Turkish international College with favourable condition of service . Destiny they said can only be delayed but not denied from the bottom of my heart I say God thank you for the previous ones and the one you gave me now be thou exalted now and forever more Amen , just tap from this prayers and believe God for yours, it neither comes from from North, South nor east and west but it comes from God Almighty.

for the sake of formality and to fulfil all legal rites nothing more , after all these noises they will still go Scot free even with incriminating evidences

ok

cornel00:
You guys (nairalanders) never cease to amaze me...so you actually prepared a photo like this waiting patiently for an opportunity to unveil it

when I was a baby in early primaries I was told to always keep what I have got because some day in the future you will need it and that's what is happening now

but dead now

no be small thing una don enter one Chance

ojokoroloko I don't even know what it means but I know it fits the caption of the photo

Mintus:
u sound lyk a kid .... 14 yrs old 2 b precised .... i dnt nid 2 go tru ur profile ...cos i value my tym.. fo.ol u hv no rit 2 coin any word nd sell it on nairaland " neuronlessness ".....and am sure u r not wole soynika.go and get a good education b4 u infect odas with ur level of illiteracy .....use.le.ss entity.......... neuronlessness ke... neuronlessness my ass ....

Ah ah ab⛔. ki ferson no dey flay with you abi na the neuronlessness dey worry you ok wipe am off and let's set the ball rolling ko ab⛔. ki

will this stop his arrest ?

with the increase rape cases in Nigeria I am of the opinion that the government should get anti-rape condoms and share to susceptible girls so that rapist can be dealt with having in mind that the anti-rape condom can only be removed by specialist physicians this would curtail if not stop it completely

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has directed banks to set up systems that will enable the automatic refund of money to customers in which Automated Teller Machine (ATM) dispense errors to their transactions.
The apex bank has also issued guidelines for card issuance and usage meant to provide minimum standards and requirements for the issuance and usage of payment cards in the country.
The , CBN Director, Banking and Payments System Department, Dipo Fatokun disclosed this to newsmen , saying “ The implementation of the guidelines will enables issuing banks, other financial institution, processors and cards schemes upgrade and maintain their card operations to ensure optimum security, efficiency, cost effectiveness and customer friendliness.”
The platform, he added, also serves as a tool for banks and other financial institutions to assess their card issuance portfolio and ensures that consumers that carry Nigerian -issued cards operate within acceptable standards.
“From a regulatory perspective; the CBN acknowledges that less than optimal, inefficient or poorly designed systems will ultimately have a negative impact on systemic stability, economic development and growth. It has therefore consciously pursued the growth of a payments system.
He further noted that CBN is taking strategic steps to ensure that the level of fraud arising from e-payment transactions are reduced to the barest minimum
Speaking during the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) Bi-Monthly Forum held in Lagos, Fatokon said the Payments System Vision 2020 launched in 2013, was meant to achieve the re-organisation of the National Payments Governance Structure and encourage more people to embrace e-payment transactions.
E-payment transactions
Fatokun, who was represented by the CBN Deputy Director, Banking and Payments System Department, Musa Jimoh, said the project identified agriculture, smart cities, health, transportation, hotels, entertainment, government flow, education and Consumer Bill Payment as well as direct debits as focus areas.
However, Fatokun explained that the absence of a unique identifier in the banking industry has negative consequences on the growth of e-payments and that the need to resolve the challenge that prompted the CBN, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee to launch the Bank
Verification Number (BVN) project. The project, he said, will help build confidence of customers on the e-payment channels and enhance integrity of transactions.
“The BVN initiative is aimed at protecting bank customers and further strengthening the Nigerian banking system by uniquely identifying all bank customers and acts as a stop-gap, prior to the full implementation of the National Identity Card system,” he said.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/atm-error-cbn-orders-banks-to-set-systems-for-automatic-refund-to-customers/

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has directed banks to set up systems that will enable the automatic refund of money to customers in which Automated Teller Machine (ATM) dispense errors to their transactions.
The apex bank has also issued guidelines for card issuance and usage meant to provide minimum standards and requirements for the issuance and usage of payment cards in the country.
The , CBN Director, Banking and Payments System Department, Dipo Fatokun disclosed this to newsmen , saying “ The implementation of the guidelines will enables issuing banks, other financial institution, processors and cards schemes upgrade and maintain their card operations to ensure optimum security, efficiency, cost effectiveness and customer friendliness.”
The platform, he added, also serves as a tool for banks and other financial institutions to assess their card issuance portfolio and ensures that consumers that carry Nigerian -issued cards operate within acceptable standards.
“From a regulatory perspective; the CBN acknowledges that less than optimal, inefficient or poorly designed systems will ultimately have a negative impact on systemic stability, economic development and growth. It has therefore consciously pursued the growth of a payments system.
He further noted that CBN is taking strategic steps to ensure that the level of fraud arising from e-payment transactions are reduced to the barest minimum
Speaking during the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) Bi-Monthly Forum held in Lagos, Fatokon said the Payments System Vision 2020 launched in 2013, was meant to achieve the re-organisation of the National Payments Governance Structure and encourage more people to embrace e-payment transactions.
E-payment transactions
Fatokun, who was represented by the CBN Deputy Director, Banking and Payments System Department, Musa Jimoh, said the project identified agriculture, smart cities, health, transportation, hotels, entertainment, government flow, education and Consumer Bill Payment as well as direct debits as focus areas.
However, Fatokun explained that the absence of a unique identifier in the banking industry has negative consequences on the growth of e-payments and that the need to resolve the challenge that prompted the CBN, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee to launch the Bank
Verification Number (BVN) project. The project, he said, will help build confidence of customers on the e-payment channels and enhance integrity of transactions.
“The BVN initiative is aimed at protecting bank customers and further strengthening the Nigerian banking system by uniquely identifying all bank customers and acts as a stop-gap, prior to the full implementation of the National Identity Card system,” he said.

smuggling themselves just for greener pasture

Mintus:
receive common sense....somebody died....a future leader.....please go nd pick up ur sense wia eva u dropped dem cos i knw God gv u one nd dnt 4get 2 dust ur sense wen u get it....hv value 4 life....

haven gone through your profile I need not not exchange words with you because when a fetus starts wriggling the amnion holds it in place we are not of the same level and cognition so please fix your self where you belong because as for me engaging you in a dialogue with this state of your neuronlessness is needless ok

princechrming:
I'm no grammar purist but over the years, my avidity for words and lexical profundity had ignited a proclivity for grammar correctness in me. These words/idioms which I will be talking about have been erroneously used even on national media platforms and among the average educated Nigerian who uses/interprets such words wrongly countless times.

Some of these lexical misinterpretation are egregious grammatical blunders, some are a case of solecism and I could call some a case of neologism. But why such neologism can't be accepted is because "Nigerian English" has yet to be upgraded to ranks of other recognised versions and dialects of English like American, British, Australian or New Zealand English.

I know English language isn't out mother tongue but for the fact that its the most recognised language in the world and also our lingua franca we ought to speak and interpret it correctly. I remember back then as a fresh graduate done with my compulsory one year national service (NYSC), I went for an interview and unconsciously educated my interviewers about a word. During the interview I kept on pronouncing the word "debt" in its correct pronunciation of /dɛt/ and the "b" being totally silent which sounds like how we Nigerians erroneously pronounce the word "death" directly as "det" rather than /dɛθ/, the Human Resources Manager - Dr. Sylvester stopped me at some point to express his confusion at me and inquired why I was using the word "death" in my speech. I then said- "Oh, sorry sir, I meant D-E-B-T (spelling it out verbally) but the "b" is totally silent in its correct pronunciation, we Nigerians pronounce it wrongly most times voicing out the "b" in that word".
He felt quite embarrassed and he asked the next interviewer to continue with me and I saw him put his face down looking into his laptop, most definitely trying to confirm my claim by referring to his Encarta Dictionary on his laptop. Well, I still got the job and Dr. Sylvester told me later on that apart from other factors, he approved me for the job because of my ability to educate him on a word which he was totally oblivious to despite his decades of erudition.

In order not to bore you guys with more prolegomenon, I'd dive straight into the matter at hand, find below 12 of these words/idioms we use or interpret wrongly.



1. Yesteryears - This word has no plural form. Its always used as "yesteryear" be it in singular or plural form. I'm sure this error came about because of the word "nowadays" which is antithetical to "yesteryear". I have an uncle who back then would always castigate us by saying- "All these children of nowadays, if you all were to use our school curriculum of 'yesteryears' you all would fail". He is so lucky I didn't know what I know now back then, I would have corrected him immediately!
A correct example of its use is; "Songs of 'yesteryear' are better lyrically than songs of nowadays"


2. Chanced - Countless times, I hear things like- "I won't be chanced to see you later on this evening", and the interlocutor meant he/she will not be free to see me in the evening, meaning he would be busy or occupied. That's wrong grammar! The word "chance" or chanced" as a verb has two meanings, namely;
1- "to risk", for example- "I'll chance the worst happening",
2- "to happen by chance", for example- "I chanced to catch sight of her as she passed.
So desist from using "chanced" to refer to being "not busy" or "free". Instead you can say "I don't have free time in the evening for us to meet" or "I can't see you in the evening because I don't have time to spare" or simply say "I'll be busy in the evening, so we can't meet"


3. Lousy - "Jane is such a lousy girl, she talks too much like a running tap!" Have you ever heard a derogatory statement like that before? I'm sure you have. The word "lousy" here is mostly misinterpreted by Nigerians to mean "talkative and noisy" or "loud and arrogant in talking". We tend to relate the word "lousy" to "loud".

Lousy simple means "unpleasant, "inferior or bad" or "provided with an excess amount (of)".
Examples of correct use include: "That's a lousy thing to do", "This is a lousy film, its production is too poor", "He's lousy with money."


4. "Sendforth" instead of "Sendoff" - I'm sure you have seen a lot of invitations for "sendforth" parties in the past. Well, there is no word as "sendforth" in the dictionary. The correct word is "sendoff" which is "a demonstration of good wishes to a person about to set off on a journey, career, etc"


5. Severally Nigerians misinterpret and wrongly use this word to mean "several times" or "a lot of times". You would hear someone say- "Rita has warned her severally but she won't listen". That's very wrong!
The word "severally" is an adverb which means "separately", " individually" or "distinctly".
A correct use can be- "Please after you wash the clothes, spread them severally on the rope", which implies you want the clothes to be dried individually on the rope.


6. Birds of the same feathers flock together - This is a very popular idiomatic blunder used by Nigerians. The correct idiom is "Birds of A FEATHER flock together" and not "Birds of THE SAME FEATHERS flock together"


7. Opportune(d) - You'd hair someone say something like "I wasn't opportuned to be born with a silver spoon" to refer to the fact that he didn't "have the opportunity" or "privilege" to be born into wealth. That's utterly erroneous! Because, "opportune" means "occurring at a time that is suitable or well-timed".
A correct example of its use: "she has been waiting for the opportune moment to tell him she wants a break up." Here is another correct example: "I'm waiting for the opportune moment to propose to my darling Rita"


8. Impeach - In Nigeria, you'd hear statements like this- "The president must be impeached whether he likes it or not!". And what they mean is that the president should be removed from office.
Politically, "impeach" means "to charge a public official with an offence committed in office" It doesn't ultimately mean removing the official from office, just as being charge to court for an alleged offence doesn't guarantee the defendant would be jailed as a result.
For example, if an average Nigerian hears the statement- "President Bill Clinton of the USA was impeached in 1998", he/she would interpret it that Bill Clinton was removed from office. But that's not the case, Bill Clinton was impeached but wasn't removed from office, he served his full presidential term, impeachment here meant he was charged to court for an alleged offence of purgery (which was related to alleged sexual relations with a white house staff) but he was later acquitted and proven innocent, and he went on to complete his full presidential tenure.
So, the word "impeach" doesn't ultimately mean to remove a politician from office.


9. "Stay clear" instead of "Steer clear" - This idiomatic plunder doesn't need much explanation. Its an error of using "stay" instead of "steer", maybe because both words are closely related in pronunciation. Please mind this error in your oral and written English.
So next time you wanna sternly warn that boss at work flirting with your office girlfriend, tell him- "Hey Mr. Managing Director, you better 'steer' clear of Rita my girlfriend or else...". (Please do it at your own risk o! Your sack letter might just be his reply to you)


10. Sentiment - During arguments, its common to hear things like- "Don't bring in sentiments into this, let's be truthful and factual" or "Can we just be objective in this country and cast sentiments aside?"
The average Nigeria interprets the word "sentiment" to mean "being bias", exhibiting prejudice or the opposite of objectivity. Quite wrong!
Below are meanings of the word sentiment:
1- "an opinion or thought"
2- "prone to tender, delicate or romantic emotion"
3- "a feeling, emotion or awareness"
4- "fake or excessive show of emotion"
Below are examples of correct use of the word "sentiment":
- "My sentiment(my opinion) concerning this issue is that we wait to see what happens first before we take any action.
- "She has too much sentiment to be successful in this industry, it will not favour her. (Meaning she is too soft or fragile emotionally to cope in such an industry)
- "A sentiment of pity" (Meaning a feeling or emotion of pity)
- "She went sentimental and started crying immediately I told her I was breaking up with her when I caught her cheating"

That said, let's stop using the word "sentiment" to represent "bias" or "prejudice", instead, you can say- "Please put aside all prejudice or bias so we can analyse this issue thoroughly" or just say- "Do away with your subjective views and try to be objective for once"


10. Instalmentally - We Nigerians invented this word from the word "instalment" to mean something divided for payment at specified intervals over a fixed period. But there is no adverb like this in the dictionary. Instead of saying "I will pay you instalmentally" rather say "I will pay you in instalments"


11. Go-slow - Nigerian use this word to refer to a traffic jam, but the word "Go-slow" or "Slowdown" for US English refers to "an occasion when employees work more slowly and with less effort than usual to try to make an employer to agree to pay them higher wages or give them better working conditions". So next time say "I'm in a traffic jam" rather than say "I'm in a go-slow"


12. Barb - I'm sure when an average Nigerian man wants to go cut his hair, he would say- "I want to barb my hair" right?
The word "barb" is a multifarious word but NONE of its meanings has anything to do with the act of cutting/trimming hair.
The word "barber" is a noun used to refer to someone whose business is cutting men's hair and shaving or trimming beads, but also, the word "barber" is a verb as well which means "to cut the hair of" or "to shave or trim the beard of".
For example, you can say- "Can you barber me now?" (Meaning: "can you cut/trim my hair now?" Another example is- "I want to barber my hair". Sounds funny right? Yes it does but its correct grammar.


Note - This article is in no way trying to ridicule or pillory Nigerians as a result our lexical inadequacies but to help further enlighten one another's word base and understanding.

Happy first of September Nigeria! I wish us all a fruitful and safe last quarter of the year!



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op na grammarian you be abi na Hon Patrick you be anyway learning has no end and someone may say is it my father's language yes even in your father's language too there are errors and mistakes .

was it intentional or otherwise even if it is otherwise a man that wrecks evil like this , is reckless, careless and useless so he is needless in the society oya go serve jail ok for like 5-10 years then make we see how you go be before we sentence you too to the Ogun of your virage

powerfulsettingz:
For your mind abi?

I just dey talk bros but no thinkam reach that side o and make anybody no tell you say na only four years Buhari get

powerfulsettingz:
I said it




Waiting patiently for my own turn to loot

also waiting patiently until you loot then we will probe and sentence you to 200 years imprisonment even when you quench we will light you back or resurrect and immortalize you until you complete the jail terms or we transfer to somebody again abi
so no even think am at all, because Buhari still dey o and don't forget na eight years him dey spend o

He has to read so that he will know the next line of action whether to stay or fly abroad until those witch-hunting leave office

I am using the names of your gods to beg you GNLD please create a thread for whosoever wants to partner with you people I have done some researches here and I found out that some people posting job vacancies and urgent jobs are actually GNLD , and I have their names here but I wouldnt want to post it here , so I am pleading with them to post real job vacancies and not to scam unsuspecting job seekers
please anybody that posts a job here please do yourself a favour by clicking on the profile of the person to see and verify the authenticity of his previous post before you apply , I think that would save too