₦airaland Forum

PointB: Is the above not a contradiction? How can big note serve big transactions when big transactions are already been conducted via electronic/cashless transaction?

Is CBN suggesting that the N5,000 Naira note will not be available at the ATM? If it is, how will the ATM be able to ascertain that a with ascertain that a 5k, 10k, or 20k transaction from ATM which might include this new not is for big transaction?

If the 5k note is not available at the ATM, is it's purpose not defeated? Will the CBN prevent ordinary Nigerians from using the 5K note to purchase garri and the new cassava bread from kiosk owner?

CBN please define big transaction in the context of cashless policy? This 5k note is utterly not needed, even 1000 note should be phased out as we continue to go cashless!

dasparrow: @Post

Amazing! Who gave or sold the patent to the foreigner? Are we sure Nigeria is truly a sovereign nation? I ask because with the way things are going in Nigeria and with the way Nigerian leaders sell out to foreigners while Nigerian citizens bow and worship foreigners (especially the non black ones), I am truly beginning to wonder what Nigeria and Nigerians are truly all about. May God help us all.

tinnymerit: i think its better one buys a new car because most of the cars bought from US or UK are accidental car,you will be surprised that such cars accelerate and causes accident without intention of moving dem. you can browse for it.

boy t: I woke up 5:AM today, do the 30 minutes routine meeting with my 6 workers and 2 supervisors)) load my trucks with the necessary equipments and materials ready and off we go. sometimes, I do envy you guys who are employees of consulting firms or office executives and Analyst, you're always in an Aiconditioned offices and on corporate outfits.
My job here in Europe is selfemployed Facility Management company. As a Maintanannce Technician, i see to the day-to- day maintanance of mainly commercial and corporate buildings. i am always on the site wearing my overrall, in the sun rain and snow.
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ms pookie: I loved my job when i started, i couldnt wait to be at work the next day,i craved for moments with my colleagues even though i dont discuss much with them or get personal.

Presently, I hate my job! It is intense. I feel like i am trapped with no way out,my job is killing me and sucking out my soul, i also fantasize about my workplace burning down. i also sometimes feel jumping in front of a train could be less painful than going to work.

I consistently complain, whine, and moan about my job to friends, family, and anyone who will listen.

Sometimes, i invent new immediate family members who just passed on so i can take bereavement leave. My manager blows me kisses when no one is watching and tells how much he has missed me when i miss a day at work.

I have to give myself incentives all day long, i always want some water, i want to visit the restroom, just to b off my desk.

I enjoy having meetings outside my office, even though i get terminally bored.

The voice of my supervisor drives me insane, makes me wanna shove a stick down his throat. He just irritates me! i havent even had a vacation this year and he takes constant vacations. he recently asked me to resign because i fell ill and couldnt report to work for a day. He also has an overweening ego.

I used to love this place, i worked hard. now, i just make silly mistakes. i cant continue to be under this strain but i cant do anything about it either....well, i dont want to.

Colleagues and i discussed our job interest, the feeling is mutual but we cant explain it.

I HATE MY JOB...WHAT ABOUT YOU

AjanleKoko: Well, I am not sure a masters degree in entrepreneurship makes sense. I mean, there's a masters degree in business administration. What would you possibly learn in a masters degree in entrepreneurship? I'm sure some smart ass will show up on here to 'educate' me on how this kind of degree is in top demand by Total

Jobexpert: There are many reasons why many applicants dont get jobs and we are going to treat them one by one. But to make the messages short, I will handle the discussion as a stage by stage thing.

Imagine getting an application with an attachment and all that it says is

"Sent from my BlackBerry® Smartphone, from Etisalat. Enjoy high speed internet service with Etisalat easy net, available at all our experience centres"

Imagine that you are dealing with vacancies for about say 20 positions, and your email box was choked up with 1500 emails applying for the job, what would you do with an email like the above?

Sometimes, we eliminate about 1200 straightaway who did not apply but want us to open the attachment and start reading so that we can decide for them what they should be applying for...so quite a number are eliminated not because they dont qualify but because they are lazy.

LESSON 1: ALWAYS APPLY PROPERLY BY EMAIL, INCLUDING A SUBJECT AND MSG SUMMARIZING UR APPLICATION, IF POSSIBLE ALSO SEND A HARDCOPY TO THE OFFICE ADDRESS PREFERABLY BY HAND

cheddarking: Hilarious....

This coon is actually trying to remove some culpability from his White Master's head.

You forget that the driving force behind slave trade was the HUGE demand for slaves in the new world.

No demand - No Slaves.

If you were not a slave retard that has permanently attached his mouth to his master's buttthole, you would realize the stupidity of your statements.

You will realize that the stupid article you posted makes absolutely NO MENTION of a NIGERIAN tribe.

I understand that the blacks sold slaves too BUT...if you're trying to use that as an Excuse to be an Uncle Tom...Then you are an even worse case than I thought..

HNosegbe: In Nigeria's case, we can put oil money in place of aid funds, but the overall effect is just the same. Government cavorting with oil barons rather than investing in its people. Sad indeed.

Pharoh: @Op Can you make this in an excel document or open office document so you can paste screen shots and upload the main file for people to update according to their peculiar home situation?.

While we are all familiar with the role played by the United States and the European colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain, there is very little discussion of the role Africans themselves played. And that role, it turns out, was a considerable one, especially for the slave-trading kingdoms of western and central Africa. These included the Akan of the kingdom of Asante in what is now Ghana, the Fon of Dahomey (now Benin), the Mbundu of Ndongo in modern Angola and the Kongo of today’s Congo, among several others.

For centuries, Europeans in Africa kept close to their military and trading posts on the coast. Exploration of the interior, home to the bulk of Africans sold into bondage at the height of the slave trade, came only during the colonial conquests, which is why Henry Morton Stanley’s pursuit of Dr. David Livingstone in 1871 made for such compelling press: he was going where no (white) man had gone before.

How did slaves make it to these coastal forts? The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders. The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Advocates of reparations for the descendants of those slaves generally ignore this untidy problem of the significant role that Africans played in the trade, choosing to believe the romanticized version that our ancestors were all kidnapped unawares by evil white men, like Kunta Kinte was in “Roots.” The truth, however, is much more complex: slavery was a business, highly organized and lucrative for European buyers and African sellers alike.

The African role in the slave trade was fully understood and openly acknowledged by many African-Americans even before the Civil War. For Frederick Douglass, it was an argument against repatriation schemes for the freed slaves. “The savage chiefs of the western coasts of Africa, who for ages have been accustomed to selling their captives into bondage and pocketing the ready cash for them, will not more readily accept our moral and economical ideas than the slave traders of Maryland and Virginia,” he warned. “We are, therefore, less inclined to go to Africa to work against the slave trade than to stay here to work against it.”

To be sure, the African role in the slave trade was greatly reduced after 1807, when abolitionists, first in Britain and then, a year later, in the United States, succeeded in banning the importation of slaves. Meanwhile, slaves continued to be bought and sold within the United States, and slavery as an institution would not be abolished until 1865. But the culpability of American plantation owners neither erases nor supplants that of the African slavers. In recent years, some African leaders have become more comfortable discussing this complicated past than African-Americans tend to be.

In 1999, for instance, President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin astonished an all-black congregation in Baltimore by falling to his knees and begging African-Americans’ forgiveness for the “shameful” and “abominable” role Africans played in the trade. Other African leaders, including Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, followed Mr. Kerekou’s bold example.

Our new understanding of the scope of African involvement in the slave trade is not historical guesswork. Thanks to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, directed by the historian David Eltis of Emory University, we now know the ports from which more than 450,000 of our African ancestors were shipped out to what is now the United States (the database has records of 12.5 million people shipped to all parts of the New World from 1514 to 1866). About 16 percent of United States slaves came from eastern Nigeria, while 24 percent came from the Congo and Angola.

hrough the work of Professors Thornton and Heywood, we also know that the victims of the slave trade were predominantly members of as few as 50 ethnic groups. This data, along with the tracing of blacks’ ancestry through DNA tests, is giving us a fuller understanding of the identities of both the victims and the facilitators of the African slave trade.


For many African-Americans, these facts can be difficult to accept. Excuses run the gamut, from “Africans didn’t know how harsh slavery in America was” and “Slavery in Africa was, by comparison, humane” or, in a bizarre version of “The devil made me do it,” “Africans were driven to this only by the unprecedented profits offered by greedy European countries.”

But the sad truth is that the conquest and capture of Africans and their sale to Europeans was one of the main sources of foreign exchange for several African kingdoms for a very long time. Slaves were the main export of the kingdom of Kongo; the Asante Empire in Ghana exported slaves and used the profits to import gold. Queen Njinga, the brilliant 17th-century monarch of the Mbundu, waged wars of resistance against the Portuguese but also conquered polities as far as 500 miles inland and sold her captives to the Portuguese. When Njinga converted to Christianity, she sold African traditional religious leaders into slavery, claiming they had violated her new Christian precepts.

Did these Africans know how harsh slavery was in the New World? Actually, many elite Africans visited Europe in that era, and they did so on slave ships following the prevailing winds through the New World. For example, when Antonio Manuel, Kongo’s ambassador to the Vatican, went to Europe in 1604, he first stopped in Bahia, Brazil, where he arranged to free a countryman who had been wrongfully enslaved.

African monarchs also sent their children along these same slave routes to be educated in Europe. And there were thousands of former slaves who returned to settle Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Middle Passage, in other words, was sometimes a two-way street. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to claim that Africans were ignorant or innocent.

cheddarking: Why do people take so much pride in the land that ENSLAVED your FOREFATHERS?

They sold your grandaddy and his friends the same way Aboki's sell meat at the abbatoir...and you're here praising the 'testament to America's resilience and defiance in the face of adversity.'

I'm not anti-America....But I cannot honestly abide people who rush to Identify with other countries at the expense of their own...