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joyli: Letz call a spade a spade, the car in question is a gift. If u are in his shoes, won't u take it. Letz free d guy jor.

a man said and i quote "Don't show your generosity to me from another mans pocket." If 2face rejected the gifts from the governor, or donated them immediately to a proper charity in the state, it would have gone a long way to tell the governor not to give away states money as gifts, and shame upcoming artist who would accept such gifts in future.

BTW, with all the money 2face has made, i would think he could afford those gifts for himself, so why sell himself short.

TUMIC: Ilorin - A pharmacist, Busayo Idowu of the Department of Pharmacy, University of Ilorin
Teaching Hospital (UITH), warned on Saturday that taking drugs with beverages such as soft drinks could have adverse effects.
In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Idowu said that drugs, if taken with soft drinks might affect the absorption of the drugs. The expert noted that most soft drinks were acidic, which could decrease the anti bacterial action of tetracycline as they contain
carbonates. Idowu warned further that such acidic drinks
when combined with drugs could cause adverse reaction to patients.
According to him, absorption of some drugs such as aspirin, ketoconazole and phenytoin
could be affected also when taking with acidic beverage. He added that such drugs were best absorbed at highly acidic levels when taken orally.

"Acidic beverages delay the absorption rate and action of Erythromycin”, he said. He advised that drugs should preferably be used with water as it had the properties capable of eliminating unwanted effects.
I word is enough for the wise.

NAN
http://nigeria.news24.com/National/News/Stop-taking-drugs-with-soft-drinks-expert-warns-20130310

firstly, the time the drugs and soft drink spends in the mouth is hardly up to 10 seconds. The stomach where the drugs first goes to has a pH of 1.0-3.5, which is more acidic than most soft drinks which is less than 5.5. so does the soft drink really make any difference to the medication we take?

secondly, most tetracycline drugs are encapsulated, with the active ingredient inside the capsule, this means that it takes a long time for the drug to be absorbed into the bloodstream, or react with the system. on the other hand, soft drinks are liquid and are easily adsorbed and excreted from the system so does this make any difference??

PS, i'm not an expert, but would like to learn

Okija_juju: An Idle mind, is truly the Devils workshop!





Person wey get test and exam wey ehn no fit afford to fail, no ge get time to play video game shooting sef, talkless to real life shooting.

take a place like UK for example, student were working more than 20 hrs per week, and still making good grades in schools. so the issue of cultism is not the extra hours but what the student choose to do with the extra hours he has.

some chase girls, some indulge in sport activities, some party and drink, some religious activities, some other forms of social activities (AISEC, Jaycees, state/LGA association, kegites etc...), and some cult activities.

which ever of the above association you join is a reflection of who you are. If you have good family upbringing, then you know which side of the divide you fall in.

Okija_juju: ...........................................................................................



Blame the Government for this.

If only schools were serious with lectures, tests, assignments, pop-quiz and Examinations without bribery, blocking-of-courses, sorting of courses and other such malpractices, where student go time time to dey do cult activities.


Fix the education system homes, and cultism will slowly die off..

It is the responsibility of Parents to train their children properly, not the government, and definitely not the lectures/teachers in the primary/secondary/university.

born2fuck: Mobuch! Mobuch!! Mobuch!!! How many time did I call you, Damilola damoche has contributed a lot to Nigerian music industry, he hit the industry in 2011 with obotore,obotoshe and he did collabo with zeeworld and skailey, he inspired the bad boys that they can get a better life and he enrolled in school despite street life and musics bang setting good example to the street boys who don't believed in school. The only regret was he may be part of the cultist and he will probably be forced into it. Even if you enter that Ojo campus, you will join them with your igbo tribalism heart. You may even be their leader

If someone have big names before entering school, or you are wealthy and if you drinks regular at school bar, you will be forced into cult. Damoche perform show every time and he is not a poor guy, he is loved and well know but regret he died this way.

Mobuch, because cause I don't want fight but peace, let the boy rest in peace.... I remember when cult guys hit me behind Lasu because I was disturbing one yeye girl, I was told to remove my shoe and run, I run for like never before with my chest beating faster, I couldn't remember to go check my second batch if it appear on the name that day, I have to make sure additional 2 weeks pass

@bolded portion

he did not inspire them to achieve a good life (if he was a cultist), he only taught them that you could eat your cake and have it.

a proper good example would be letting them know that people should not be associated negatively with violence.

John W. Gardner:
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water"

That is our society we don't celebrate the humble when they excel, and we praise the 'celebrities' in their shoddy behaviours.

a society that celebrates wealthy individuals, without tracing the origin of the wealth is doomed.

we do not know the source of their wealth, the writer should have included that.

go to cosharis, you may be able to get for a good price.

nagoma: I see your point. But I think the emphasis is on maintaining an identity and lineage and adoption of husbands name or his surname means that the identity is lost. Even at the time of the prophet (SAW) fathers names were used but outstanding identities were emphasized. The wife of the prophet ( SAW) Maria who was an Egyptian Copte Christian was addressed as Maria al- Qibtiyya. Bilal IBM Rabah was addressed as Bilal Habashi to emphasize and not lose his Ethiopian roots. So was Salman Farisa who was frm Persia ( Iran). This continued even to our generations. Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani whose father was Hassan Yamani was a full Saudi Citezen born in Mecca and the most famous oil minister of that kingdom but maintained the name Yamani to emphasize his Yemen Ancestory. This was what happened in Nigeria and you had persons like sheikh Adam al-Ilori, Aminu Kano , Abdurrahman Okene, Yahya Gusau all of blessed memory . Their attachment of fathers and often grandfathers and sometime name of places ensures the persons identity. Unfortunately for the women , the western culture has taken over and women identity is lost inside their husbands. In my view it should be an important issue in the emancipation of women and gender mainstreaming for women to stop being appendages.

Stop being appendage to who??

every human is a appendage to someone, even the man is an appendage of his father, emancipation of women has nothing to do with whose name she answers. let the woman answer her mothers and the man answer his fathers name so that there could be peace for the women folks. better still let there be no longer marriage, so that every one could be lord of themselves.

mondi_cheeks: you are over reacting, tell him how u feel about the do's and dont's...you are a grown woman and im sure u know how to behave in front of ur future husband's family

how is she going to know how to behave if she does not know the do's and don't for her in-laws.

are you going to greet the 'Ooni of Ife', the same way you greet the 'Oba of Benin' or the same way you greet the 'Sultan of Sokoto', her mother in law did not give her do's and dont's in her American home, now she is coming to Nigeria, do you want her to shame her husband among his peers.

Princess1982: Its not just my mouth apparently there is a list of things and if its that serious he should go find a more appropriate girlfriend who fits in that box.

don't be annoyed if you have not yet seen the content of the list, do you know if the list contains the tradition of his people?

OP should first make known the content of the list, for us to know if what they asked of her is demeaning or not.

manny4life: At 25,000 ft? I've never heard of such. Are these birds using same respiratory system like humans (use of oxygen to breathe)? If they need oxygen to breathe, now unless they're configured differently, I'm not saying it's untrue, but not possible. There's a reason why the cabin is pressurized with oxygen past 10k ft.

see below

"The altitude record is held by a Rüppell's griffon Gyps rueppelli, a vulture with a 10-foot wingspan. On November 29, 1975 one was sucked into a jet engine 37,900 feet above the Ivory Coast in West Africa. The plane was damaged but landed safely. What the bird was doing up so high I have no idea, since this species is not migratory.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081022121055AAqaePr

slimyem: Why can't dey build a mordern market with stalls,tar the roads and equip with mordern facilities and see if things won't change for better...just like the Ondo state government?
Until that happens,the unclean/terrible state of that market isn't going to change except its not re-opened.

what do the executive of the market do with all the money they collect from the traders. People should not level every thing to the state or federal government.

Brand_new: How on earth did Oprah gret him to make that confession? Baffles me.

I would bet money was involved

Shawnmayor: you could see that this is not the best kind of life we want our adorable females to live in. Some, not really their fault. The environment has a large percentage of blame. The question is: how do we make dis country a better place?

why do you blame the society/environment??

are these girls not also part of the society/environment? - do you therefore also blame the girls??

https://www.nairaland.com/1098627/cia-director-resigns-over-extramarital#12900888

on this thread, Nairalanders asked if a Nigerian could resign like the CIA directors over adultery. Now no one is talking of the Governors adultery, every one is looking at the lady and wishing to have a piece of her. Fashola was right when he said the problem with Nigeria is more of a followership problem, than the leadership problem

Cold faya: Gbam......teach dem how to invest, spend n save.

teach her how to invest what?? are you aware that she is a millionaire from investments she has

(Yu Youzhen hit it big, when according to the policies of requisitioning and redevelopment of land in China, she and her family were compensated with 21 apartments for the three 5-storey houses they had built in Huojiawan, after several years...most of which were rented out. She wasn’t the only one, of course, but she personally witnessed how fellow villagers squandered away their fortunes on gambling, drinking and even drug use, so she made it a goal to set a good example for her kids and act responsible.

this lady was probably a cleaner before she ran into her riches, go and ask the uneducated cleaners in you offices what they would do with a million Naira, and see if the money would exist after one year.

Most ppl on this site are just leaving in a fools paradise. This lady is laying a good foundation for her kids, and with her hard work, her lazy relations/friends would not have the guts to ask her to hand out her fortune to them.

richarts: Yeah folks once you see any advert just apply and do not hessitate. I got my present job from here too... no matter what the email says just apply amd hope for the best. Do not fall for payment of any money but apply.

Do not doubt too much or complain or attack or be skeptic. A lotta people were skeptic about the email i sent mine too but here I am grateful.

Still always here sha looking for a better job. Man must grow.

Love ya'll and please stay true to your lovers.

Be careful of the email. some scam artist can get some personal information from your CV, to use against you. One day you get a phone call from someone who claims to know you, tells you the school you attended, calls you that your middle name that isn't known by many ppl, and drops one or two other info he's gotten from you CV, that you may just believe and start trusting the person, which is the first stage of being scammed.

so beware of what the email says.

Monzuur: [One Mr. Emmanuel Timothy has accused his wife of being responsible for his wife’s death.

The late Mrs Grace Emmanuel died on Monday after rejecting blood transfusion at the National Hospital in Abuja.

The aggrieved husband in an interview disclosed that his wife died “because her Jehovah Witness family rejected blood transfusion…they refused to consent to her having a blood transfusion.”

According to Timothy, his wife after having had a complicated miscarriage was made to undergo a surgery which further resulted into complications.

He said “When she complained of serious stomach ache, we rushed her to the National Hospital where the doctor said her stomach had to be flushed. But, before the flushing, they said she needed blood transfusion because she had already lost such much blood. However, she did not get the blood transfusion because her religion and family forbid blood transfusion. Over our dead body, it is better she dies than for her to take another person’s blood, they said to me.”

Timothy Emmanuel stated that he would be pressing charges against his late wife’s family.

“I have to press charges because they prevented my wife from receiving blood transfusion.

Until her death, the late Mrs Emmanuel was a police corporal assigned to the Wuse Zone 3 Police Division, Abuja.

He is the husband, how come he needed the Parents consent for the blood transfusion, who calls the shot in his home, this man should be charged with criminal negligence.

megareal: She may not have been under the influence of anything, more likely she was troubled......, something else completely took over her attention at that moment. Sometimes shiiit happens, doesn't mean it happens all the time.

or maybe chatting/texting/pinging on her mobile, or checking out her looks in through her reflection from the car.

Alleinad: hello nairalanders, its been a while.... Actually, this shouldnt be in this thread but i hope you guys help me out anyway. A friend of mine has a boyfriend who got tired of her constant demands for money and handed her a cheque of three million naira to start something. That's awesome, right? Yea but now she has no idea what to start with the money (3 million naira). Please are there any suggestions on anything profitable she could start with that money in nigeria??

hey poster, what is your friend currently doing, can't she expand what she is doing at the moment.

if she can't, let her choose any business of her liking, and go understudy a guru in that field for sometime, while investing the money in fixed deposit. when she has learned sufficiently, she can invest her own money.

the possibility of her losing the money to bad business is very high, if she does not have previous experience.

djeezy: By young I mean under 25. Someone I know asserted that it is a bad idea and that young marriages do not last and hence contributes immensely to 60% divorce rate. Howbeit I am yet to ascertain the veracity of his claim and on the other hand, many people say age is just a number. So what's your opinion? Mature responses please.

lots of the people that married in the 60's and 70's married young my your definition. The reasons for divorce should be investigated, and if you use nairaland as a case study, you won't have to look far. Marriage is not honeymoon, it has it's ups and downs, but many ppl chose to divorce because don't take seriously the vows they took at marriage.

P.s., most marriages days are not young by your definition of young, but the percentages of divorce are alarming.

Scooby1: this is one of his ways of convincing people that he is a legitimate business man. Do you know he is a member of Scam Alert on Fb ( a page that exposing scammers online and Chibuzor eze is a member)

LOL, you tone of your message seems to suggest that it is an achievement.

@all those saying it is right to call the vehicle a Jeep or jeep, kindly note that Toyota that manufactured the car has not, and would not refer to that car as a jeep/Jeep. so can we stop being more catholic than the pope.

all websites i have seen that sells cars do not classify any car as a jeep or Jeep.

omonuan: Thank you cotton101. This is what I was saying when The Sun tabloid newspaper helped a 59 year old woman to launder a baby by claiming that she conceived naturally and gave birth after she had been told in the U.S. at 46 years that she had no viable eggs. Those Nigerians who suffer from hallelujah syndrome jumped up and down and apotheosized that God did it without asking questions. One Jidegirl was ranting about how possible it is.

All hands must be on deck to stop baby selling and abductions in Nigeria and the fairy tales that follow. Only in Nigeria would someone repeat same thing over and over and expect different results. To me if God is to reward you with a child, he needs not wait till you are 85 years old. Nevertheless, a baby is purchased or abducted and God's name is dropped and poof the hallelujah chorus reverberates and many people start to speak in tongues.

How can we mend the broken heart that this woman has to face? Meanwhile, somewhere in Nigeria or even west Africa some mischievous couple is celebrating one of those "immaculate conceptions" ciphered with God and that is all it takes.

Lately, I have seen newspaper picture of so called newborns that look like toddlers whom longstanding infertile couple celebrate and sing praises for miraculous birth. The chicanery must stop.

similar case, a lady in the UK had been told by her GP that she could not conceive by any means, the lady came to Nigeria was declared pregnant, and delivered of a baby. On returning to the UK, a suspicious GP ran a DNA on the child and declared that the woman was not the biological mother of the child.

mind-boggler:
Why of course you can have up to 100 children if you like as long as you can take care of them.Good luck to your wife though If you understood my post well, my question is why do some people have more children than they can afford to take care of

In Nigeria, it is because they can shameless go to relative to pass the buck of training/upkeep too, some do try to use emotional blackmail.

otherwise, some don't care the child can become an agbero for all they care.

feelgood: ABC bus (Abuja to PH) left yesterday morning by 7.15am. After some questionable stops, it got to Owerri by midnight - usually it should have arrived PH much earlier. Despite pleas by passengers that the driver should wait till day break before proceeding, especially as the route was not safe at that time of day, the driver ignored security warnings and proceeded at 1.30am 28th Dec[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]. Within an hour from Owerri, they were ambushed and robbed by armed robbers who requested the passengers to march into the bush leaving their luggage behind. After the robbery operation and the departure of the robbers, the bus continued to PH and finally arrived about 5am - almost 24hrs after leaving Abuja.
The passengers narrated their ordeal to the ABC management and the driver's obstinacy that got them into the problem. Rather, the passengers were informed that there was nothing ABC could do and the driver was exonerated.
If you are travelling by ABC, esp on the east west route, you are on your own o. The purported insurance cover is a joke. ABC is a rip off and when the chips are down, customer service is thrown out of the window.

There should have been over 40 passengers in that bus. do you mean that they could not boycott the bus and insist that the journey be continued the next day??

What did the Driver/conductor/Company loss? they had no valuables, no luggage in the bus. People should learn to demand for what is right, as it was their lives and property at stake.

psquarex: I appreciate Mike alongside Dangote n Otedola 'cos they invest in Nigeria n reduce unemployment.. They can choose todo otherwise.. Kudos to them

what has Otedola done?? can you name one thing he has done to add value to the Nigerian economy?

k2039: Put sentiment behind us, vote for people based on pedigree(not religion or etnicity)
Because no matter how much we individual try to be patriotic and good citizens, bad leadership will always frustrate our effort, it takes just few people in political offoce with the goodwill of Nigeria in their heart to change it.

Also we need to revisit the 1914 almagamatio, visit our founding documents and adhere strictly to it, that'w where the National Sovereign Conference comes into play.

With all this change is inevitable.

k2039: Politics is only as good as the people who make it their calling and those who put them into office either by voting or refusing to vote.The maintenance of good government is dependent on good people
GOD BLESS NIGERIA

Hi K2039, i like your second quote so much, however, i believe lasting changes would be engineered by the people and not the leaders.

..Fashola specifically explained that the current challenges confronting the country “lies more with the people of Nigeria themselves and the value choices that they make as a people in their day-to-day living.”...

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fashola-we-can-succeed-with-the-worst-constitution/134639/

let us leave the beer parlour critics, every Nigerian has a role to play in the small office she holds, either in the government ministry, or in the market or on the roads.

Ikengawo: i don't live in Lagos so my opinion should fairly be taken with a grain of salt, but i've also noticed some of the things the poster has said with a few being new news to me.
Lagos is booming but it seems to be in large part due to leading a private sector boom that's effecting the whole of africa.
The things accredited to fashola have been in large part private sector projects, even Eko Atlantic.

It's no wonder Lagos can brag about being the only state that doesn't need federal remittances, it's not doing much as far as spending compared to others states that are
renovating all their schools
giving free health care
giving free education
adding new roads
building industries
etc.


this doesn't mean i think Fashola is a bad leader, just an overrated one. Still a professional with vision though

it is not the business of government to be in business.

government should be able to provide an enabling environment for business to thrive.

Lagos has not done the best it can but relative to most states in the federation, she is doing well.

around the world, how many government of developed countries give out free education, free health care, build industries etc

jhydebaba: AY, u worked hard for ur money, u are not a polithiefcian/armed robber, so do what ever u like man. If I can attain ur status, I go do pass ur own .

To hell with badu belles.

how do they get their money, is it not by selling table for 5 for 5million naira to those thieving politicians??

it would have been more matured for the wife to Tweet, "my hubby bought a car for me for Xmas", than him being a lizard and tweeting that he bought a care for his wife.

many Nigerians flaunt their wealth without showing a credible means of how they made the money. This show of affluence in the face of suffering masses is pushing others to go into crimes to feel among.

on a lighter note 'what a waist'