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ussoan:
They will arrest you
And then release you when they realize you are not among, and you will have to pay about 100 to 500k before leaving

The guilty ones that can pay 3 to 5million will be released too

Las las EFCC is the real Yahoo(They charge in dollars)

All I typed above is from experience (not personal experience)


Move out of that neighborhood ASAP

By the way, what's your tech stack

How are you sure of this? Did you read that I’d show them verifiable evidence?

The thing is there’s hardly any house you would go today and you’ll not see a yahoo person. Here, i make sure i don’t relate with them.

By the way, I mostly use java

dawnomike:
You have nothing to fear about EFCC... You should be scared of Nigerian police instead.

That’s big encouragement!!

Hi everyone,
I work remotely with a company abroad as a programmer and a friend that we work together has been telling me to join him abroad due to the damages I would suffer if EFCC arrest me and label me as a yahoo boy.

I don't own a car. I live a simple life but the compound where I live has some yahoo boys there.

My room has a setup with a large screen monitor plus my laptop and other things. I feel that if EFCC should come to my room and look into my laptop with other pieces of evidence I would give them such as my company slack, my Linkedin, etc they would know that I'm not a yahoo boy.

But I'm becoming scared every day. The reason, why I want to stay in Nigeria for a while, is to save up some money and put some things in place before traveling but my fears keep increasing every day with my friend telling me that EFCC won't ask any questions. They would just arrest me and publish my name as a suspect.

I have the money to process my visa and move but I want to save up for at least this year.

Following this topic on the front page: https://www.nairaland.com/6982240/efcc-arrests-42-suspected-internet, I wonder how EFCC was able to verify that they are all yahoo boys and I can see the names they already posted.

So my question is if EFCC comes to my house and sees all the evidence of me working as a programmer, will they still go ahead and arrest me?

I want to hear from those that have had experience with these guys

@Ynix, I'll prefer you share here for the benefit of others who are also trying to enter this field

Ynix:
It is even too much.
My younger sister is a pharmacist working with a British hospital and from the information I discovered you don't necessarily need up to that to get started.
You also do not need to be a registered pharmacist but one whom you can rent his or her license

Do you have idea what it costs to rent a licence?

Hello brethren,

I recently have this idea to setup a pharmacy shop but I'm not a pharmacist. I want to venture into this area which I don't know and someone told me I need to be a registered pharmacist to be able to pull it. My plan is to employ a pharmacist and nurses to run the shop. How easy/hard is it to get a pharmacist and register the business plus operating it?

My budget is around 20m. Will that work?

So please must I be a pharmacist to own this business or is employing one enough?

Software Jobs are usually by connections. Someone has to recommend you and to recommend you, they have to know your ability.

If you want to work for a foreign country, get to work with those working abroad. How do you do that? Contribute to open source!!!

If you find an open source tool you love, pour yourself to it and rise in the leaderboard. They'll rush you.

A lot of open source softwares are run by startups on the side and every company is searching for the best match in their business.

Contributing to the software that powers their system is the fastest way to get hired.

No one has blacklisted Nigerians. No one is going to give you access to their to finances when you're working remote so why would they think of blacklisting us?

The lessons:

Don't familiarise with hoteliers and change hotels often.

Let no one know your routine in a hotel.

Avoid lonely hotels no matter how cheap it is.

Ajoself:
I thought of that too.
But who go mentor me.

You absolutely don't need a mentor. Browse. Search on how to learn programming. Read books.

I suggest you learn python. Python language is in high demand now.

After a year of serious learning, apply to Outreachy.org, saw what they are doing for new Devs and you could benefit

Ajoself:
Hello Fellow NLs,
I am a graduate of Electrical Engineering. I graduated three years ago. After my graduation, I worked in a company for a year as sales Engineer. They claimed they would train us hands-on but they didn't.
I am now in search of a company that would train me. I am currently unemployed so no money to go for certificate training. Kindly advise please

Put that certificate in a box and learn programming. That's how you can escape the coming poverty.
Wish you the best

If our youths have foresight, better to learn digital skills than this crumbs on their tables tossed by the government to while away their time. Say no to this npower. You will regret it later in life.

3 months is enough to get you started in digital path. You’ll begin to understand things. With time you’ll start making genuine money. That’s how Indians escape poverty. Be like them!!!

sunnnnyuu:
This writer is either ignorant or selfish, otherwise I see nothing connect conflaske with Boko Haram or Izala with Boko Haram

Go to the link and read the full article. Don’t act like a quota system educated people

You think they don’t know how corrupt we are. Some persons can pay those nurses and they won’t inject them but will give them certificates.

That’s how pathetic Nigeria is.

liasmiram2567:
You just want to inflame the country. You have been blinded by hatred rooted in ethnicity and religious sentiments.Where is the link between izala and Boko Haram? Where is the link between NASCO and Boki Haram or terrorism?
WE ARE NOT FOOLS.IT IS ONLY FOOLS LIKE YOU THAT WILL ACCEPT THESE LIES HOOK LINE AND SINKER.

Quota system education. It’s plain in that article and you would see it once you read. I know you can’t read tho. Terrorist

Wfsholla90:
What's happening in the Muslim world is obeying all the commandments of the most High to the best of our ability without leaving anything out whatsoever, and staying firm in the face of all attrition just as the Taali-ban's did with American invasion till the Nasrilah (help from Allah) comes.
It's on the coat of arms anyway you might want to check it out 'Nasru-minnallah' (victory is from Allah) written in Arabic.
Nigeria is actually a Muslim country from the onset, the colonial masters gave the Mantle of leadership to a Muslim cos they know we are in the best position to lead even though the vast majority of them are christians.
Maybe you should adopt a positive mindset towards islam without bias you will understand will islam is suppose to triumph above any other man made -ism's and -schism's


I actually read the whole article and it was an interesting piece of work. Kudos.

NB: I'm not believing nor disbelieving your work though. Until I conduct an independent research.

Tueh!!
Imagine the kind of humans we share same country with? As you are now, killing in the name of your Allah gives you joy!!
Your allah cannot even fight for himself and you believe in him for your protection.
I pity the northern Christians because it’s clear now that all of you are complicit in the killings in the north

ba2remagaji:
This story no make any sense,u have to point at all

Obviously you’re one of them. Killers for a useless god that can’t fight for himself

Microwhy:
Are you sure its a well researched article? or maybe you do not read the article in full.
There's nothing revealing or exposing in all what the article stated.
To be very sincere with you, that article is written by someone who does not truly understand Izalatul bid'ah, Wahabism, Boko haram and general happening in the muslim world.

Now can you tell what’s happening in the Muslim terrorist world since you know better?

We are in deep trouble sharing this country with northerners

Read more at the source. A very well researched article.
https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram?r=p0z0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

They will sit on the Federal Executive Council.

Pantami threatens legal action over allegation of Boko Haram link
JIBWIS will come to exert a level of influence over Nigeria’s national politics and governance that is unprecedented for a religious body in Nigeria. Soon, it will become almost impossible to achieve power in many parts of Northern Nigeria without identifying with the Izala Movement.

Among other things, the scholar states that Muslims should never accept a non-Muslim as ruler, which can be interpreted as a call for insurrection against a Christian Nigerian president. He is never held to account for this statement. In any case, he no longer believes that writing books or teaching people about Islam will on their own, lead to an Islamic renaissance in Northern Nigeria. Now he is all about partnership and politicking. He maintains his membership in Northern Nigeria’s legacy Islamic group, Jama'atu Nasril Islam (“Group for the Victory of Islam”), but he is unmistakably the beating heart of the new Izala Movement. To all intents and purposes, this is the birth of modern Salafist Islam in Nigeria.

Without firing a shot or winning an election, this Islamic scholar has become one of the most powerful men in Northern Nigeria

His name?

Abubakar Gumi - Wikipedia
Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi is the son of Abubakar Mahmud Gumi.

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The Clerics, The Saudis and What Happened in Algeria

Fast forward 33 years. It is Christmas Day in 2011 and Abubakar Gumi has been dead for over 19 years. A bomb suddenly goes off at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja, killing 35 people and wounding a further 52. Almost simultaneously, a series of coordinated bomb attacks and shootings take place at churches in Jos, Gadaka and Damaturu. An obscure Islamist group calling itself Boko Haram claims responsibility for the attacks.

During the trial of the main suspect Kabiru Umar A.K.A Kabiru Sokoto 2 years later, a masked witness claims that an Algerian Islamist group provided funding and support worth N40,000,000 ($250,000 at the time) to carry out the attacks. To the general public, it is unclear what the link is between Islamists in Northern Nigeria and well-funded terror groups in North Africa.

Shame On Those Shepherds Who Lead My Sheep To The Slaughter.
To those in the know however, the incidents of December 25, 2011 are not only expected, but are likely to intensify and become more regular. This is because while the Nigerian public up to this point has been fed with what amounts to a tiny percentage of the actual story behind the Boko Haram group, this group has in fact been incubating and nurtured at the highest levels of the theological, economic and political spaces in Northern Nigeria. Boko Haram in reality, is so much bigger than Mohammed Yusuf and Abubakar Shekau that reducing it to those 2 men serves to miss the actual story spectacularly.

To start to get some of the picture of what Boko Haram is and where it came from, let us retreat from 2011 to 2006 to read an excerpt from a letter written by the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Aminu B. Wali, addressed to the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee. This letter is available in full here from the official repository for UN documents. Written by the Nigerian government to the UN, it lays out the measures it has taken to fight terrorism in Nigeria. Take special note of the names mentioned in bold.

https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram?r=p0z0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

Nigeria's organised Islamic terrorism problem did not start in 2009. It's a lot more insidious than you think.

In May 2021, a 96 year-old businessman died in Rome, Italy. In his lifetime, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin might have amassed a personal fortune of close to half a billion dollars, but the death of NASCO Group’s multimillionaire founder barely made the news. At first glance, the only extraordinary thing about his life story was that it embodied the African entrepreneurship dream.

Nasreddin was an Eritrean who moved to Jos in Nigeria’s Plateau State, and grew his father’s small manufacturing business into a $460 million conglomerate involved in everything from breakfast cereal and confectionery to pharmaceuticals, real estate and energy. After many years of growth and success, he eventually handed his sprawling business empire over to his son Attia Nasreddin, and retired at an old, satisfied age.

In an official statement released after Nasreddin’s death in March, Plateau State governor Simon Lalong said:

“NASCO has over the years remained a major employer of labour in Plateau and continues to contribute to the economic prosperity of the State and Nigeria at large through tax revenue and corporate social responsibility.”

Well that was the cover story, anyway.

In reality, as is so often the case in Nigeria, the gap between the facts and the information released to the public is so wide as to be scarcely believable. What on earth could this shrewd, respectable businessman who looked like he could not hurt a fly have done, to put him in the same article as a story about the world’s deadliest terrorist organisation? Why would the brand he built, which to many Nigerians evokes memories of a beloved childhood breakfast staple, appear in the same sentence as Boko Haram?

To answer these questions, our story begins on another continent in 1955, some 8 years before his father would move to Nigeria and establish NASCO Group.

A Scholar From Zamfara

The year is 1955, and a 33 year-old Islamic scholar from Gummi in modern day Zamfara State has made his way to Mecca for his first Hajj pilgrimage. Alongside him is a certain Ahmadu Bello, who is the Premier of Northern Nigeria. During this trip, the scholar impresses both Ahmadu Bello and the Saudi King Sa’ud with his Arabic translation skills. He rapidly makes a big impression on many locals and clerics in Mecca.

These relationships will later become his most valuable asset following the events that take place after his subsequent return to Nigeria. Upon returning to Nigeria, he takes up positions teaching Arabic Studies at Islamic schools in Kano and Kaduna. His style of teaching focuses on educating his students about the differences between Islamic religious doctrine and local customs. Based on his strict Sunni understanding of the Qur’an, he teaches his students to adopt a ‘pure’ Islamic identity at the expense of practises that he considered bid’ah (roughly translated as ‘innovation’ or ‘corruption’).

What is a bidah?
He also becomes the first Islamic scholar to translate the Qur’an from Arabic into Hausa, which puts him in a uniquely influential position comparable to that of Ajayi Crowther in 19th century southwestern Nigeria. Using this leverage, he becomes an increasingly powerful figure in Northern Nigeria, with his essentialist views on Islamic doctrine gaining popularity. To him, the existing Sufi orders of Northern Nigeria are polluted with bid’ah and unfit for purpose. He becomes well known for attacking the Tijaniya and Qadriyya brotherhoods during his appearances on Radio Kaduna, while advocating for a ‘return’ to ‘Islamic purity.’

Following the death of his friend and benefactor Ahmadu Bello, the scholar finds himself in a precarious situation. The new Nigerian federal government led by soldiers has a motive to crack down on anyone who is outspoken and influential. He may be a giant in Northern Nigeria, but he is a giant with feet of clay. His solution is to seek financial, doctrinal and political help from his friends in Mecca. The Saudis, as always, are ready to help.

His Saudi backers are keen to use him to espouse the Saudi Arabian state’s official interpretation of Islam, which is based on the work of 18th century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab. This fundamentalist doctrine, often known as Wahabbism fits very closely with the teachings of our hero in Northern Nigeria, and he enthusiastically sets about gathering support for this new Saudi-funded project. In the 2009 book ‘The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia,’ historian David Commins says:

“The [Saudi-funded Muslim World] League also sent missionaries to West Africa, where it funded schools, distributed religious literature and gave scholarships to attend Saudi religious universities. These efforts bore fruit in Nigeria's Muslim northern region with the creation of a movement (the Izala Society) dedicated to wiping out ritual innovations. Essential texts for members of the Izala Society are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's treatise of God's unity and commentaries by his grandsons.

Reaching out to his erstwhile students across Kaduna and Kano over the course of the 1970s, the scholar-turned-politician slowly builds a coalition of strategically-aligned individuals who will someday become very powerful people in Northern Nigeria. In 1978, one of his prominent students, Sheikh Ismaila Idris takes charge of this increasingly powerful but somewhat unofficial movement, and calls it Jama'atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunnah), also known as JIBWIS.

Based in Jos and known colloquially as the Izala Movement, this organisation will go on to become the most influential Islamic body in Nigeria over the next few decades. Its members will become some of Nigeria’s most revered Imams and clerics. They will achieve high ranks in the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Source:
https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram?r=p0z0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

ijoba222:
please nairalanders with experience what do you think this is? it started appearing on my skin 3 days ago , and it gets itchy sometimes, this has never happened to me before, please what do you think it is, ? any solutions ? I thought it because of the bathing soap that I switched

That’s a fungal infection.
Buy a pack(at least 4) of whitefield ointment for ringworm treatment, use it like cream every night. Staying indoors for long and not bathing with hot water can cause that.
Buy fulcin tablet 500mg. Take one daily. You’ll get ride of it

Shedrack777:
this old man wants to have some attention, we ain't giving you any

Nothing wrong with that. At least the girl will be blessed

truthsayer009:
When you say spec, what exactly do you mean? Are you referring to BEAUTY?
.

Tall, beautiful and intelligent(able to hold serious conversation) and good manners .

I’m in my early 30s and I have stable income. Well enough to take care of a family but I can’t find a woman that matches my spec.

I feel the pressure to get married, mum is disturbing but apart from that I still feel the pressure inside of me to get married latest by next year.

Is it normal to feel the pressure that you need to get married as a man?

I have girlfriends actually but all doesn’t match up. They’re lacking in one thing or the other and I feel I have failed.

Married? How did you make the choice?

Twitter no send you. Na now you know abi. Ok na

Apart from setup costs involved in starting a laundry business, how profitable is a laundry business in Nigeria especially when you are not gonna be there?

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Born2conquer:
Yes, i am not in support of the ban and we are doing everything to possible to get it restored.

But bro, if we direct this energy everybody (all nigerians, US, EU, ecowas and all) are directing towards twitter issue in Nigeria to other issues facing Nigeria then we might have developed past where we are presently?

Even USA, EU sent envoy down to Nigeria because of Twitter? Broooooo
All these countries sent ENVOYYY to NIGERIA because of TWITTER? Brooooooo

Thousands of people killed this year and the ourside countries are not agitating or doing meeting with BUHARI, ecowas no even invite Buhari.
You grab my POV now?

Each country is sovereign, they have their envoys here(ambassadors) who are with us. They didn’t send them down to Nigeria because of Twitter ban. They are already with us.

Because each country is sovereign they can’t come and have meeting on security with us without invitation.
Why they are talking about this ban is because information will be trampled on and they won’t have any means of gathering information(except through a government they don’t trust) about the security situation here so that they can inform their citizens what to do

Born2conquer:
Twitter is suddenly a greater issue than Insecurity, unemployment and police brutality.

People won’t care until their money source gets affected! Lol!

If we could allow Ecowas to serve Buhari for twitter suspension, why can’t we do the same for the numerous insecurity facing Nigeria ranging from bokoharam and banditry in the north? To herdsmen issues in the south?

What about the issues of police brutality and economy dilapidation? Dollar to naira was 360 last year but it is presently dingling around 512 today!

WHY IS TWITTER BANNING CURRENTLY EVERYBODY HEADACHE? Twitter is a private organization and i believe Twitter should be the one negotiating or doing the sueing if they feel they’re unjust!

I even feel the banning should have spurred a NIGERIAN Or seun Osewa to have reposition Nairaland to Twitter position in Nigeria, the power twitter is wielding is too much and I believe a tech guy can harness that to develop a competition for the Nigeria market, apart from Nairaland, what else do we have?

Nigerians baffle me, they will rather leave the important problems and focus on the unnecessary ones and that’s basically because most people especially the influencers makes money from it (untaxable money)

Let’s use same ENERGY to convince ECOWAS to SUE this government for the numerous atrocities (if we feel they’ve commited any though)

You are trying to sound intelligent but missed the real facts.
Just know this, Twitter helps to keep this government in check especially in human rights violations.
For example, if there’s killing on unarmed protesters such as the Shia group, it trends on Twitter and the government is sad about this because countries all over the world hears this.

If there’s Fulani herdsmen killings, it trends on Twitter and people criticize the government for not taking solid actions about these guys.

Now that Twitter is banned, the government can kill at will and we will depend on newspapers or TVs to hear about it whom are also barred from reporting same.

You see why Twitter ban is very wrong? If you still think that it’s a minor issue, then you’re just not thinking right. First vent about insecurity is on Twitter and that’s where you have ‘mostly’ learned Nigerians and not those easily swayed by religious and nepotistic tendencies. These wiser Nigerians reporting insecurities to the wide world keeping the government in its toes are whom they’ve barred from doing so.

First step in fighting insecurity is allow people share information of whatever insecurity they saw in their land and not just depend on NBC controlled journalists.

If you don’t still see reasons why this is also a fight of insecurity with the above reasons then you’re daft

Fake news as usual from DAILY TRUST.
FULANI MEDIA.

Immediately I saw the headline, I rushed to see the source and it was truly from DAILY TRUST. Never trust any news from this newspaper. Know this and have peace

yinkabeauty:
Says who?! Says a male lower animal ((with a masculine pronoun "he" (allowed for gender emphasy)) and "it" because you are an animal!
"inanimate", for you deliberately because your head is not living.

Grow up

yinkabeauty:
What is this mad animal saying!?
why is he occupying everywhere like its' mother's womb?!
easy to follow who?! follow ur fellow silly animals into your hole!
shit on your head!
secondary who?! tell ur father ass to come enrol u in a pen, animal husbandary for you there, cos i lecture, in charge of human beings now.
Spit on ur inanimate head!!!

RIP English