Tajbol4splend:




Are you also bullshitting? Is any amount worth a soul?

Uncle, learn to look beyond the surface.
No amount of money is worth a life.
For them to offer N2,000 only shows how lowly they value the lives lost.

N2000?
Is that what the dead are worth?

More vegetables, more fruits, more water intake and frequent(daily) bowel movement.
The veggies will help induce frequent bowel movements.
So start requesting vegetable soup all the time so she cooks and eats it.

flyingpig:
Trust me, nobody can confirm if you're a legit seller or not. Not until you return the good they paid for. Your idea you are a legit seller is OYO. On your Own. It's akin to one hyping himself all by himself. If na me you form say you no dey show image I request for, good for me you no wan sell market. I even think say person wey wan sell market will go extra mile to convince a customer he/she is real, especially in such a platform filled with scams. You're not even serious. If na me I don jump you pass and onto the next dealer.

So if I put up a product for sale now, and below it I attach a picture of myself holding a placard saying 'I am not a scammer', that will be convincing enough for you?
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As a customer,I am not thinking that the person I am transacting with is a scammer but once I see that placard, I'm done!! Better to err on the side of caution.

flyingpig:
I heard his account number is a "phone number account ". Someone on finance field told me, he also said it doesn't require BVN. So it may be a shady account created with shady details and originally intended for scam purposes.

For example his bank account name is "sunny oyenka ", but running his phone number on true caller revealed "rinmang dalokom".

See? No one knows his real name or his real picture. See this option, before sending anyone on nairaland money, tell them to instantly write "I am not a scammer" on a whitepaper and snap a selfie and upload to you. That way we can at least know his real face and upload it on internet for posterity sake if he scams. At least he can't meet an anybody and request such person to hold the image and be captured with a camera. Anybody will feel untoward upholding a paper saying "i am not a scammer".

My opinion and if you agree, upload it on business section where sales are made.

Write wetin on wetin?
As a genuine seller, i would not be putting up a picture of myself holding a placard saying 'I am not a scammer'.

He named himself 'Selfpaiid'. Nobody found it odd that there was an extra 'i'??
It's because he already has an abandoned moniker 'Selfpaid' and has probably used it to scam people too.
Did no one here ask for a picture of what they were buying? No delivery fee?
Abi after paying 2k for the decoder, he will use 1k from it to pay the bus driver or the courier?

Let's stop making it easy for people to scam us.

engrrichie92:
it's stressful, exhausting...not what I really love/want to be doing

My boss dosent like me...I can perceive my colleague see me as incompetent hence I don't have their respect

But then it pay this bills...that's the only motivation for me

I feel it shouldn't be that way...it should be more than money

I want to resign...

Just thinking out loud

I felt this way.
What I did?
I proceeded on leave, and rested.
Sometimes, i travel, see new places, ride a train, ride a boat, go swimming and just refresh myself..
When I return, it would not be so bad.
Plus you will gain a lot of ideas for your personal life.
I'm currently on leave. I wasn't ready to proceed on leave, but i realised that my morale was too low. Two days off now, and I'm feeling better. My brain is starting to think on it's own.

It must have been very frustrating, to not know who your accuser was.
He didn't rape anyone.
He sent a bunch of messages to a girl he liked and they were not well received.
He was prepared to apologise to whoever it was, but they wouldn't reveal themselves. And he was suffering. He was loosing everything he had worked so hard for and not even being given a chance to clear his name.
People didn't make the distinction between sexual assault and 'non-physical sexual harassment ' and this was hurting him.
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His whole life came crashing down, thanks to some unauthorised, poorly vetted sexual offenders list someone made in their house without any form of investigation.
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The Nani girl and the 'anonymous accuser ' should be investigated and if found to be on the negative side of truth, be punished according to the law.

I will just call him "Baba Bose".

priking:
Did u saw anyone post that my 2 other acc defrauded him/her,stop insulting me pls.

Beggar is talking about insults

MrBrownJay1:

All hail the Chief Investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
CIA's top Analyst.
1000 Salutes Sir!!

realestniggah:


Your experience is Beliveable.. The story said the person was reversing.. How do you kill a person while reversing?

If she was standing behind and did not see the vehicle coming, she could have been run over.

I have been on both ends. The hot-hot and the quiet angry one.
I tell you, the quiet one is the mature one. Because in that silence, I am able to articulate my thoughts and when everything is calm, I can talk it out, with clarity and without insults.
Sometimes, you realize in your silence that the situation is not worth your energy and you move on.

iscom:
Hi, i don't know if i am being cheated. I sent something through nipost using registered mail. The item weigh 0.565kg and i was charged N900. From a state to another state within Nigeria. On the receipt she wrote home delivery which i know is not working, and wether is because of the home delivery the price was high i don't know. I was expecting N500. Thanks

They are not as cheap as they used to be. N900 is fair. You didnt thank God that they didnt insist that you buy their carton.

The way we spend our money outside this country ehn...

What has Chimamanda Adichie and Arthur Eze got to do with this?
Poor reportage!!!

It is to be expected.

Marriage is not a lifetime achievement. It is a new phase.
Why quit a lucrative job that pays your bills and gives you a comfortable life to go and sit down in the name of marriage?
Does marriage pay you salary? Does marriage pay your bills?
While I believe this is a fake story, ladies should beware of men who ask them to quit their jobs.
Most times, their income is not even up to what you earn from your job, but they will build a house with ego in the village.
That is a life of suffering waiting to happen.

westerk:
This is one of the most enlightening thread ive read on nairaland in a very long time. Kudos to all those that shared their experiences. I've also invested in people especially friends and I've lost money too. Actually I have a job so it's more of investing in friends who are not really employed. So I've learnt the following
1. Most business people feel that their major problem is money, once they get funding their business will explode. Based on my experience with helping friends fund their business ive realised that what most entrepreneurs lack is ideas. Secondly a lot of them do not even do proper reaserch before going into the business. At the end they will lose investors money. That's what happened to me.
2. Believe me there are lots of people who have money to invest but d challenge is most people that will come to u to fund their businesses have not even sat down to do extensive research before looking for investors.
I will explain my experiences briefly. So i have a friend from d middle belt, told me about soya beans business, that we will buy, store and after some months we will resell and make profit. So i sent money we bought about 80 bags between November 2018 and January 2019. Cost of the soya beans plus bagging and transportation to where we stored at TARKA l.g came down to about 12,000 plus per bag . (Based on his so called research we should be able to sell each bag for at least 18,000 in 6 months time). To cut the long story short the price kept dropping we ended up selling them at 9,500 per bag to other sellers in benue in January this year.
We also planted yams, were able to harvest about 1,800 tubers of various sizes. The challenge has telling me now is how to get buyers for the yams. Meaning he didn't even consider where he will get buyers after harvesting. It's currently being priced anyhow at benue ( 100 big yams at 30,000) quite unbelievable.
Another of my friend gave him 400,000 he sells all this alkaline water. Buys from unique and sells in owerri. Later for to know that he sells on credit mostly to civil servants in d state and its always difficult getting them to pay u the money. He still has over 250,000 outside after I have him d money over 5 months ago.
I'm not really bothered about the monies that ive lost, it just reinforced my belief that a lot of so called business people won't sit down and and take a lot of time to research about they business they want to go into before disturbing people for money.
Another one based in Benin is now telling meme about butcher business , that they buy cows from d Hausa people there take to abbatoir, sell to middlemen and consumers and make up to 40,000 per cow, did a lot of good analysis. But based on my experience all those are just analysis nothing more. I didn't even bother with him even though he's still calling. For me I'm not really d one that lost , i invested the money in them to help them stand on their feet, unfortunately they didn't do t heir homework well, and i have no intention of giving any of them even a job. As a friend ive done my bit for them.
So for every businessman out there take time out to do ure research because u might never get a second chance from d investor once u flop. And believe me there are thousands of people out there with money to invest.

Thank you for this.
I am a small business person myself, and have been in my business for about 2 and a half years.
A lot of people get emotional about starting a business. They just calculate A - B= C. Voila!!
This is not so. There's a lot of investment in terms of time, branding, logistics, advert and customer service and experience. There's also the battle of trend. A product that is selling highly today, tomorrow it is not even being looked at. You also have to know what is essential, what products are in high demand, do less of selling on credit. Sell value. Be careful about middlemen and proxies. They make most of the profit leaving you with peanuts.
I'm still learning. I'm still growing.

One other thing small businesses do is ignore record keeping. Even if it is tom-tom you're selling, you need records.
Simple expenses and income record. I have record of everything I have bought/sold since inception. I always know my Month-to-date position, Year-to-date position, Overall business performance. I know when I make profit in a month, or when I made more expenses than income. I know how much I pay for transport/courier. I know my marketing/advert costs. I have a dedicated account for business funds and I pay myself a percentage of my profit for the month. Any month I don't make profit, no payment. That is the reality of the business. To earn more, you sell more and watch your costs. I use an app to keep these records and I have it backed up.

My advise to most people is , start small and grow. You encounter smaller obstacles and you surmount them. You make smaller mistakes and learn from them, then apply the knowledge as you grow. You cannot start from the top. All the big businesses we envy today, didn't start where you met them. They grew!

oluspicy:
Few days ago (May 6th, 2020), it was reported that a boy (Pelumi Fadodun) was missing:

https://www.nairaland.com/5840638/pelumi-fadodun-missing-boy-pictured#89268797

We are please to inform you that he has been found, hale and hearthy in the city of Akure, Ondo State and have been with his family members.

We really appreciate you for concern, prayers and words of encouragement.

Thank you.

How was he found?
Let us try and give information that will help the next child that goes missing.

ikemesit4477:
How does charging of phone lead to someone's dead! Please I need some explanation!

Exposed Socket.

We all need to stem the spread of the virus.
Minimal contact with people.
Parents, keep your children (youth) in check).
We are all responsible for our health.
Don't wait for the government to protect you.

Too many stories with househelps.
How do people feel comfortable using other peoples kids as househelps?
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I prefer employing someone mature who would come by the house and do chores. Cleaning, laundry and errands and at the end of the day, closes and goes back to their house. Bringing in minors in the name of househelp is just slavery to me.

We need to follow through with accountability.
Report to the bank. Follow up with a police report. Get a court order to debit the fraudsters account. The bank will honour a court order.
You don't expect the bank to just go chasing people who handle POS transactions.
You do your part too.

Vickiyxx:

When she is using my destiny how will I get a job ? I have been trying since 2011 but nothing . I don’t just sit and folds my hands and expecting everything from my parents, I have been trying to be depend when I used to live with them but nothing was working. I am now depend living alone with my children , looking forward to start something doing but I don’t even know where to start from.

The origin of your problems lie in your mind.
If you keep believing that someone is using your destiny, it means that you believe you will be unable to achieve anything until they 'release' your destiny. Therefore, you will never give your best effort.

Discard the notion that your Mother is after your downfall.
You have never been up in the first place.
Stop going to churches where they focus on witchcraft, witches, enemies. You will only remain in bondage.
Free your mind. Tonight, think of where you can go and ask for a job. Even if it is to fetch water for someone and get paid, wash clothes, clean someone's house.
Tomorrow morning, get up and go look for the job. This is where you should start.

The situation with you and your sister is a result of poor parenting.
However, you are an adult and you should be responsible for your life.
Jumping from church to church will not solve your problems. If you spent that energy working odd jobs, you will gradually become a financially independent person.
Your mother did not make her money by jumping from church to church. She worked for it. You too, work for your own money.
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Lastly, I believe your attitude is very poor. You resent your family, you hate your sister and you insulted your father.
Is this the attitude of a good person?

Where the bird has learnt to fly without perching, the hunter will have to shoot without missing...and vice versa.