₦airaland Forum

motionarena:
I recently went to the Market to get cooking ingredients and decided to buy 1k meat just to add to the sauce.
The butcher did not initially want to sell for me, so he called be back as I was about leaving.

He sold 1k meat and cut dem into 4 pieces. When I cooked the meat, it reduced into small chunks.
I remembered, I recently bought suya for 1k and its way more than this raw meat I got and considering the processing, labor and spices that goes into preparing suya one would think it should be less in quantity than raw meat.

Was I cheated by the butcher or Suya is a different kind of meat

The four pieces of meat can be sliced into thin slices of 8 pieces and I'll sell each for 1k with the expenses of my spice and wood etc. I'll still make like ₦600 profit on that ₦1k meat. But people even selling Suya usually buy in bulk either a full cow ,half or quarter.

Elena243:
I have noticed that people stare at me a lot when I am outside. And no, I am not overacting. Sometimes, I consciously observe others around me and notice that they barely get stared at the way I do. These stares sometimes come with flashes of benevolent smiles from random strangers. Sometimes, the smiles are those types someone give when they have something to say but choose not to say it.

I sometimes think it is because of my height, because I am about 6’2-6’3 (I’ve never measured my height by the way). But the trend continues even when I’m seated, and hard to measure my height. A teen girl and her friend were staring at me the other day, while I was walking, that one almost got hit by a keke napep.

Even children walking by stare at me. Sometimes with a smile, and other times, with eyes of curiosity. I have no physical disability or defect by the way.

I am male, dark-skinned in complexion, and 28 years old. Is this normal? Does anyone experience same? Any possible reason why it happens?

In my late teen and twenties, I was so self-conscious about people staring at me that it made me deeply uncomfortable. I'd walk around frowning, hoping it would make them stop looking.

Then one day after lectures, I was sitting under a tree with a friend, sharing a joke. When he left for his next class, a girl walked up to me and asked why I was always frowning she said I actually looked more handsome when I was laughing earlier (I never once thought of myself as handsome). We ended up becoming good friends, and she told me that almost all the girls in class thought I was handsome and tall. I was shocked.

So here's my point, sometimes when you catch people staring, it's not because something's wrong, it might be because you have something they admire, even if you can't see it in yourself. So the next time you notice a stare, acknowledge it and smile. You'd be surprised how much grace and favor that simple shift can bring you.

sharone21:
Was thinking of him this period.

At that age, they ( musicians/ entertainers) need to slow down.

Remember same thing happened to Mariam Makeba and Onyeka Onwenu. The love for what they do make them forget their ages on stage.

I will rather die doing what I love than wither away at home.

yarofearless:
Source: https://yaroinsider.ng/why-one-million-naira-no-longer-feels-like-serious-money/

Saying ₦1M is "worthless" is a massive exaggeration. People often throw these terms around without considering what they actually mean. With ₦1M today, I can pay my son’s tuition for an entire year, buy him clothes, and stock up on at least three weeks' worth of food. I completely agree that the value of the Naira has depreciated, but calling a million Naira worthless is simply untrue.

This family is too emotional. No emotional intelligence whatsoever.

People need to be security conscious. Why would you travel in group and I can bet they were dressed in NYSC uniforms drawing attention to themselves.

grandiose4ever:
Its normal. The global hatred of Israel is a prophesied biblical reality.

Psalm 83:3–4: "They make shrewd plans against your people. ... 'Come,' they say, 'let us destroy them as a nation, so that the name of Israel be remembered no more.'"

The Bible even specifies where all this is leading to in Ezekiel 38:8-9


8 After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety. 9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land

For the bible to be true even USA must as a institution hate Israel. What you all are seeing is the commencement of an important leg of end time prophecies.

Ezekiel 38:8-9 is actually describing something that will happen in the next few years.

Sir, debates over bloodlines or prophetic mandates matter far less than building systems that prevent ongoing violence and secure the basic conditions for human thriving.

MEGAWATCH:
Nawaoo!


See Ghana that Nigeria was supplying electricity before?


Oh, Tinubu and Buhari has really finished Nigeria.

This is pure, THE MORE YOU LOOK, THE LESS YOU SEE.

Everyday Nigeria will get better, but the country continue going down to abyss


Kaiii!


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Just the two of them? Always respect your first hmmm

As a man never be the one to love too much.

Shenky:
Akuko
Believe this governement at your own peril..
Approved minimum wage since 2 years ago has not been implemented to date

Name an agency that is not collecting Minimum wage. If it is State you better talk to your governor.

Bodex2000:
I wanted to apply too but I saw that it needed a business registration. Maybe later. Congratulations to you. What business are you into?

Why not get a free business registration on the SMEDAN/CAC site.

Honestly this man talks like a child. Why would you go to the forest? Are you a trained personnel? Imagine him going there then still putting the lives of the personnel in danger because everyone would want to protect him instead of actually doing there job.

drstranged:
You're overshooting the point. You should have asked if it was the vitiligo that actually made him leave or something else such as a bad character. A guy who knew she had vitiligo and still chose to date her would hardly leave for same reason. There's something she isn't saying. And it's a known fact that most women never take responsibility for the problems they cause.

But you are buttressing my point. She said the guy left because he fears she has been spiritually slapped by Obatala or something like that. But you are here saying he couldn't have left only because of the vitiligo she has to have done something bad. Na today guys dey leave girls over mundane reasons. You are here acting like all men take responsibility for their actions. As guys we no dey whine girl to just chop and go if girl do the same some of una go wan get heart attack. No one gender has more monopoly of craze. So it's childish to hold girls to higher moral standards than we hold ourselves. It's stinks of hypocrisy.

Yeah sagging is razz but he is just 19 years old alot of us did as well. And that's why Young kids are still doing it they learnt from us that are between 30 and 45 now .

Axis313:
If reverse is the case, will she stay with the guy?

I watched one movie some years ago, the settings was in a campus, there is one student,a girl, she was blind (though she wasn't born that way)and she have a boyfriend,this boy did everything for her even took untold embarrassment because of her, but he never denied her.
He really love her to the extent he started looking for solution to her eyes problem,so she can see again,along the line,he found one native doctor that gave him conditions for the solution to the problem,he agreed, though,he didn't tell the girl what the agreement contained.
They do the sacrifice, the girl regained her vision.
Both of them continued their love journey,few months later, the guy started developing eyes problem, they seek every available means to get solution but all to no avail,at last the guy went completely blind.
Know what happened next? The girl started avoiding him,she felt embarrassed in his presence in public.
At last he told the guy she's not interested anymore in the relationship.
After all the guy sacrificed for him.
I forgot the name of the movie.

You guys need to grow up. Staying through hardship isn't a gender issue it's a human one.

A woman can stand by a struggling man only for him to leave her after making it. A woman can also leave her broke boyfriend after a rich man changes her life.

Selfishness has no gender. So enough with the "all women are bad" or "all men are bad" narrative. Choose your partner based on character, not just a big bum or a fat pocket. You don't even have unrefutable data to back up your claim. It is all he said she said stories.

omooba969:
Not true sir, do your calculation again abeg.

Thank you for the correction. I've updated my original post.

My point is simple. I want people to complain less and build more. Instead of only talking about our problems, let's look for ways to solve them. And whenever there are genuine government programmes, let's key into them.

If there aren't any, or they're not transparent, build something people can invest in. If your idea can make money, friends and investors with capital will gladly back you.

The irony is that Nigeria isn't nearly as bad as many of us make it seem. Yes, life here is hard, and you have to be extra resilient because you're competing with hundreds of thousands of people for the same opportunities. But constantly painting Nigeria as a completely failed country doesn't help us either.

We spent decades under military rule, and we're still dealing with the effects of those years. It won't happen overnight. Problems like corruption and weak institutions didn't just appear overnight. They have been building for decades, so we shouldn't expect them to disappear overnight either.

When we keep telling the world that Nigeria is hopeless, many people believe it. Yet, while many Nigerians are looking for a way out, foreigners are coming in and seeing opportunities that we don't. That's worth thinking about.

This isn't to say people shouldn't japa. Everyone should do what's best for them. But many of the problems we complain about are also business opportunities waiting for someone to solve them. You don't always need a lot of money. Sometimes you just need a good idea, a clear plan, and a way to show investors how they'll get their money back.

That's exactly how many tech startups raise funding. They solve real problems and show the potential. And now with AI, the playing field is even better. Today, one person can use AI agents to do work that used to require a whole team. I also teach how to use AI to build a business and a digital presence.

Watching videos like this, I can't help but think that taking over someone else's shop isn't the same thing as building a successful business. Running a business takes discipline, consistency, and good financial management. Owning a shop is one thing, keeping it profitable is another you and I know they would drink away their profit in 6 months.

Nigeria has its problems, no doubt. But if all we ever see are the problems, we'll miss the opportunities sitting right in front of us. We're a creative and resourceful people. Let's start building instead of waiting. Look for every government intervention you qualify for and apply. SMEDAN is offering free business registration take advantage of it. Register to vote, get your PVC, and support the candidate you believe in. Most importantly, don't just complain. Position yourself, keep learning, and take action. That's how countries move forward one person building at a time. Start today.

InvertedHammer:
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You are the one aloof. Oyo State Government admitted that they paid the first ransom and the kidnappers refused to release the victims. Are we glad that they came back alive? I bet ya! But it is idiotic to shy away from the facts to justify the means. Direct your sermon to the leaders playing politics with people's lives. Facts don't care about your emotion. Cut back on your sugar intake to avoid being sweet and embrace logic. Don't forget--more than 30 days in captivity! And you are clapping for your "leaders"

There will be another kidnap and the cycle continues. Instead of asking pertinent questions, you chose to tap into your effeminate side to cry.

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So many lies and misinformation presented as facts. You have the floor.

InvertedHammer:
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Nice one!

Pay ransom. Then organize security forces and cameramen in tow to go do gragra.

Nothing new here.

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If you were the parent of one of those children, you wouldn't be arguing over how they were rescued. All that would matter is that they came home alive.

I've seen comments like yours on Nairaland and X, and they're deeply disturbing. Even after the children were reunited with their families, some people still searched for a reason to diminish it. That says a lot.

Sometimes it feels as though certain people are more interested in validating their cynicism than celebrating a good outcome. Had the children been killed, many of these same voices would have flooded social media with outrage and condemnation. Yet when lives are saved, somehow that's still not good enough.

If you can't pause your politics long enough to be grateful that innocent children made it home alive, it's worth asking what exactly would satisfy you? What kind of human being can you be to have such a mindset? Is it cynicism or this is just how you play politics? Na wa o

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God1000:
Who are the people behind this please, we can't continue to keep quiet, does it mean the government didn't know about their activities all this time

They would only stop when idiots stop falling for these Ponzi schemes. Why would you pay money to carry out a task that you should be paid to do? How does that even make sense to anyone? Fools have gladly parted with their money...on to the next one.

omoredia:
Why are bandits having it easier to engage in terrorism and kidnapping? Because the FG gives them support. Same for dangote. Connect the dots. If the nigeria govt has favoured u ur business loses will be for nigerians and your profit will be for you and the elites.

I don't think that's accurate. It would be counterproductive for the Federal Government to deliberately sponsor terrorists. That said, is it possible that there are saboteurs within government institutions who leak intelligence or operational information to terrorist groups? Unfortunately, yes that's a possibility and has been a concern in many countries facing insurgencies.

One thing I've noticed is that discussions around Nigeria's political and socioeconomic issues are often driven more by emotion than by critical analysis. These are complex problems, and they deserve thoughtful, evidence based conversations rather than assumptions.

Mattswaggz:
AI can hardly replace humans given that it is only as good as what humans put into it or train it to do......another angle is that AI can be trained to elite level which would mean that provided the right engineers and resources is being put into it's training it is expected to get better with time and could still serve as a threat to human expertise in certain aspects of human endeavors... nonetheless,this move looks like a Greek gift....these self centered employees are looking to have these rehired engineers train the AI with their own knowledge/expertise which could mean that if everything goes well, they will still be disposable in the nearest future....if I were them I will either refuse to train the AI or ask that my pay be made x10 or even include a huge payout clause on my contract that if I am fired to be replaced by AI I will be paid a huge amount of money as compensation.

Absolutely. Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but it's only as good as the data, knowledge, and expertise used to build and train it.

If companies are hiring engineers back because AI couldn't meet expectations, those engineers should think beyond just returning as employees. They should negotiate better pay, build their retirement funds, and, where possible, work as consultants. The reality is that once the AI has been properly trained and the systems are mature, some of those roles may no longer be needed. They should make the most of the opportunity while their expertise is in high demand again.

omoredia:
The only way it is beneficial is for petroleum products to be cheaper in Nigeria than the imported ones. We are funding our own demise by dangote monopoly

Good. At least we agree on one thing, fuel should be cheaper for Nigerians.

On the issue of whether Dangote has a monopoly, it's more nuanced and not a simple yes or no. Right now, Dangote is the biggest player because he invested billions of dollars to build a refinery. That gives him a strong position, but it does not automatically mean he has an unfair monopoly. Whether it becomes one depends on how the market evolves and how competition laws are enforced (that's the role of FCCPC and NMDPRA).

Now the bigger question is, why didn't others build refineries years ago? The answer is obvious, for a long time, importing petrol was easier, less risky, and more profitable than spending billions to build a refinery. So many investors chose to import instead ( maybe later I'll explain NNPCs role in this).

Also, it is not true that only Dangote can build a refinery. Other companies can get refinery licences too, and BUA is one of them. The real issue is whether more competitors invest, enter the market, and are able to operate effectively.

My view is that instead of depending on imports, marketers who have the capacity could come together, pool their funds, or partner with foreign investors to build more refineries. More refineries mean more competition, and more competition is what helps keep prices fair. Not also forgetting the need for naira for crude policy.

But me I be Olodo o. You probably know more than me.

LabStores:
Quack Interior Decorator!!

These days, many artisans are more interested in securing the next job than delivering quality on the current one. They rush to win contracts, but once the work begins, the craftsmanship often falls below expectations. Before completing one project properly, their focus has already shifted to finding the next client.

Quality workmanship, professionalism, and integrity should always come before chasing the next job.

Absolutely very annoying.

omoredia:
So u want theives to admit evidence against themselves? 2mrw u will claim to have certificate smh

Okay you that have Certificate. Just assume that I am Olodo full one. Now educate on why Dangote refinery is not beneficial to Nigerians and Nigeria as a country and why we should stick to the importation of refine crude oil? Just indulge me educate us sir we want to learn from your wealth of knowledge. Don't leave us give us the benefits.

omoredia:
Was dangote not also taking subsidy? They just did the refinery as a front to cover the stealing and avoid scrutiny

There is no evidence to that effect. Now let's even imagine this was true. Dangote Refinery has not received the kind of fuel subsidy that was historically paid to importers and marketers of petrol. The benefits of a refinery trumps importation of refine crude.

omoredia:
Dangote is still a scam. How can what is produced locally be more expensive that the one that is imported?

Say whatever you want. I believe Dangote and I support his price. The marketers on the other hand are greedy scammers after they benefited from the fraudulent subsidy now they want to reverse our progress because of their own benefits. So yes I prefer Dangote's kind of evil. The marketers can go to hell and burn in the deepest and darkest part of it.

nairalanda1:
It wasn't greed that stopped others from building refinery.

The problem was the subsidy. Subsidy meant that most refinery licence holders won't be able to get loans from banks and financial institutions because the potential of low profits and irregular subsidy payments meant that any refinery owner won't be able to pay the loans back...risky for banks.

Yeah, they made money from subsidy payments...and they did it the corrupt way. But assuming that subsidy had been removed in 2012 as planned, they would be making far more money from completed refineries.

There was a reason why subsidy had to go...since 2012, if not earlier.

The point is that we need to stop chasing short-term gains and start addressing the inefficiency and corruption that have eaten away at our infrastructure. It's okay if we don't reap all the benefits ourselves. What matters is building a system our children can inherit and improve upon.

One day, they should be able to look back and say, "Thank you for making the sacrifices that allowed us to enjoy these benefits."

Going back to importing refined petroleum products does not move us toward that goal. It only keeps us trapped in the same cycle we've been trying to break.

Reading through the comments I realise that alot of Nigerians are Olodos they have no critical thinking ability and they can be swayed by propaganda. Imagine celebrating the selling of your children's future? Imagine not outraged that your National Refinery is pushing for imported refine crude and fighting the only sensible man that decided to build a refinery in Nigeria. Imagine being on the side of greedy marketers that are hell bent on taking us back to the time when we import refine crude. How can anyone not see this? Before Dangote refinery, ask the marketers who was their monopoly? Why didn't they build a refinery then? We want Nigeria a country that has years of rot and failed infrastructure to function in one term of a president. How? We are not even ready to implement policies that our children would benefit from we are only worried about now! We want the gains now so that it is our children that would then pay the price. The same thing out fathers and grandfathers did to us we are repeating the cycle. We seek short term gains instead of strategizing so we can build a system that works so that our generation would rep the benefits. How come no one else is thinking this way? We need to fix all abnormalities so that they can't start pushing it as normal.

omoredia:
As long as a critical part of the economy is now largely a monopoly then it doesn't benefit the people. It benefit the corrupt politicians, elites and their cronies

If it's monopoly use that funds that you are using to import come together as one and build yours. Enough of all these monopoly yarn it doesn't hold water. Before Dangote started building his refinery who stopped then from building a refinery? I'll tell you who greed! They realised they made money from collection of subsidy than actually building a refinery that would have created jobs. Bunch of greed mfs

All these enemies of Nigeria. How can you tell me that you bringing the nation forward when you are importing refined crude that could be done here and create jobs. What can of senseless competition is that? You are hell bent on taking us 10 step backwards when we have made progress. That your plan would not work. As Nigerians push against this same thing they did to our textile industry now we get them from China instead of it being produced here.