BeforeJuly:
I wholeheartedly believe in the power of indoctrination—when done right, it shapes habits that last a lifetime. Take, for example, the Keep Lagos Clean campaign launched by Governor Fashola in 2008. That initiative left such a deep impression on me that, to this day, I find it nearly impossible to litter. No matter how small the trash in my hand, I hold onto it until I find a bin—whether outside or at home. On rare occasions, I dispose of biodegradable waste like paper or edibles I snack on in gutters, but never plastic or anything non-degradable.
Now to the point of this rant: Why are Nigerians so frustratingly careless when it comes to waste disposal? It baffles me daily. I watch people wind down their car windows to fling entire plastic bottles onto the streets, gutters, and sidewalks without a second thought. Every time I step outside, I witness this behavior over and over again—so normalized that no one even bats an eye. It’s not just uneducated people doing this; even well-dressed, seemingly refined young men and women casually toss trash out of moving danfos, BRT's and private cars.
And then there’s the excuse I hear all the time: “Well, the government hasn’t provided enough public bins.” Fair enough, but how hard is it to hold onto a piece of trash for a few extra minutes until you find a bin? I’ve done this a million times—it’s inconvenient sometimes, sure, but it’s not impossible. It all boils down to discipline and respect for the environment you live in.
But here’s the thing—even those who do throw their trash in bins still somehow manage to do it wrong. Have you ever walked past a public dustbin and seen trash scattered all around it? Some people don’t even bother to push their waste inside; they just dump it near the bin, as if the ground around it is an extension of the bin itself. And when the bin gets full, what happens? They keep stacking garbage on top like it’s a balancing game, until the wind or rain scatters it everywhere again.
How many people actually think, "This bin is full, let me look for another one” or “Let me bring out a garbage bag to contain the overflow”? Almost nobody. Because as long as they can say, “Well, I threw my trash in the right place”, they feel no responsibility for the mess.
And that’s the deeper issue—too many Nigerians live with a bare minimum mentality. We only do the absolute least required to feel good about ourselves, never going an inch beyond that. We blame the government for everything, yet we refuse to make the smallest effort to improve our own surroundings.
Have you ever noticed how quickly Nigerians will transform their own personal space into something clean and presentable? Their houses, their cars, their offices—immaculate. But once they step outside, they suddenly lose all sense of responsibility. “It’s not my business,” “It’s not my property,” “Government should fix it.” Well this is one of the reasons why our streets are filthy, why our public spaces are decaying, and why, despite all the potential in this country, we still live in dysfunction.
The way we dispose of our waste is a direct reflection of who we are as individuals and, collectively, as a society. Compare Nigeria—where littering is second nature—to countries where people make a conscious effort to dispose of waste properly. The difference is stark. Nigeria is already difficult to live in; must we add filth to the misery? Imagine how much more bearable life here would be if our streets weren’t drowning in garbage.
If you’re guilty of careless littering, I urge you to make a conscious effort to change. Start by holding onto your trash until you find a bin. If a bin is full, don’t just dump your waste on top—find another bin or secure the trash properly. If you see overflowing garbage, take the initiative to add a bag or encourage others to dispose of their waste properly. These little things matter.
Once you practice this consistently, it becomes second nature. Small actions like this ripple into something bigger. Let’s do better. Abeg.
I actually agree totally with point no 2&3, but number 1 no clear,how you take see firm breast and subdued one from this abi na my phone no load the picture you see ni?
This is a good opinion from the OP, however there is no deep analytical thought that you have mentioned above for you to come to a conclusion that Greed is the major cause of the resignations and Japa from Government parastatals.
23 out of 25 who have chosen that route cannot be wrong.
PEACE2023:
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this article is based on my personal experience.
I work with a High profile federal government parastatal with good remuneration.
We were 100 that was employed in 2013 drawing from South and North.
We have been promoted 3 times and expecting another promotion.
But something is disturbing me as a Southerner from South East.
About 25 persons from my set have resigned and relocated abroad. Only 2 are still in Nigeria.
It is more shocking that this 25 persons are all from the South. Either South West or South East or South South.
My fear is the implications when our set will get to the pick.
No northerner had resigned or thinking of reg as at today.
The future implications is that they will occupy majority of the apex positions in this parastatal and the south will start shouting marginalization and why all top directors are from the north.
The last meeting I had at the NNPCL Head quarter's Abuja saw 99% of Top Management Staff from the north.
During The introduction of I was shaking my head. This bring me to ask, could this issue I am experiencing in my own organization be the same in NNPCL?
Currently a Lady I know in NNPCL resigned and moved to Canada. You already know the future implications to the South when her set will get to the top.
Why are Southerners relocating and leaving their beautiful jobs why the northerners are comfortably enjoying the same work.
Is this greed on the south or that our problems are too much?
I taunt my friend from sokoto some days ago why he doesn't want to japa, he laughed and answered me, to do what over there?
Why are the southerners the only people who sees reasons to japa?
Knowing that we can not live past 100 yrs and we can not go anywhere with all this wealth.
the higher a southerner become a director, the higher the chance of Southerners getting employment in this organizations.
If you work with a good federal government agency share your thoughts.
Are you experiencing the same in your organization?
This post by Reno is so shameless and stupid, playing with people's lives because the action or acts sound smart and intelligent. So we should have a Godfather template and get politicians to emulate and win elections abi..smh
Well Reno has long lost it, maybe he never had the people in his heart, FFK ver 3.0
Stargurl20:
There's something I've noticed about men. They can be so unforgiving when it comes to their wives or gf's unfaithfulness. I'm not justifying this. Trust me, I'm not. But I've seen lot of cases where women would forgive the husband and forget. Why is it hard for men to forgive?
I mean, if God uses all our sins to judge or punish us in this life, I believe no one will remain in existence. Why can't a mere mortal man also develop this forgiving spirit?
This one wey you dey ask, shey dem don lash you and your bf/hubby no forgive you?
Tell us make we know so we can offer the appropriate advice
you are the one affected man, you just don't know it
BigDick70inch: She quit the relationship and went to be with another guy immediately I left for school.........
called me....... years later and narrated how the guy disflowered her,promised her marriage.....but he never did..........
I told her.......its okay,things happen and we could still be friends.......
But........since she wasn't ready for that and really desperate to be back with me........
This year........makes it the 5th year i have been fucking her with no plans to wife.........even tho she thought she had found a fiancé already...........
Honestly.......am just practising my karmasultra skilla on her........when she's tired she will leave!!!
Today is not going to be a usual Dubai - Job - Career related topic, I'll be talking about a guy that scammed me and many people in Dubai and Nigeria some years ago.
It all happened back in 2017 Jan when I was trying to sponsor my brother to come on 3months visa to Dubai.
Due to the issue of Dubai Agents fraudulent activities, I decided to play safe and consult a travel agency in Dubai while I was based in Al Ain.
The discussion started all through Company mail, not Yahoo or Gmail mail and later moved to whatsapp.
After long delibration, I was sure I was dealing with agency and I asked him to give me details which I can transfer the advance money into
He sent me the name and details and I sent 2000aed through an Exchange Facility. After about 9days he sent me a visa through a different email, not company email. It was a Friday, and I was suspicious because I felt nobody works of Friday.
I sent the visa to a friend to help me if it is genuine and he came back to me telling it was fake.
My world was upside down, because I struggled to get the money and I thought I was careful enough.
I started sending mails to his company several times and they kept bouncing my mail from one department to the other in the name of investigation.
After a couple weeks, he sent me 500aed as part refund, then blocked me on whatsapp.
I started with my mail to the Traveling agency again and they told me the guy has gone on vacation.
I searched all social media at this point and found people complaining about him, posting video of him in Ibadan collecting visa money and never producing any visa and several pictures of him from different people.
At this point I gave up on chasing him.
Fast forward to about 3weeks, I just dey Waka jeje on the street of Twitter and guess what? I saw his picture as dp.
I ed my brother and told him to act like he wants to make visa and try to flush him out. He started the FBI job and they fixed a meeting for today.
I went back to all the sent items in my Gmail and printed all the conversations we had that I forwarded to the company and all the receipts my payment and the receipt of his refund.
He met my brother at the metro and I sneaked up to them and challenged him immediately with my receipt of payment.
He denied instantly that the name I sent money to was not his name. I was sure he was the one and I said better we go and settle this at the police station. He agreed and we walked to the police station nearby.
He denied again that his name was not the one on my payment receipt, then I brought out the receipt of his 500aed refund.............
That was it!
He was the one that sent the refund.
He confessed that YES he collected the money and already paid back 500.
He promised to pay the remaining 1500aed by month end, but the Police said it's too far, I had to tell the Police that I'm fine with month end, I just don't want same to happen again. And the Policeman promised me himself, that he won't do it again because they will do their procedure.
At the end of the day, I was asked to take his ID picture and go home while he stayed behind
Lo and Behold!!!
He is carrying a Cameroonian port and ID.....
I left him there and went back home, waiting to hear any update.
I have been ed by 2people that he scammed as well, one of them 700k.
I'll wait till month end to see what happen before deciding if I can share his details with anyone that he scammed, provided they still have evidence.
Thanks for reading and watching, See you Next Week.
Thanks Teemy for this summary and taking time to watch the full video before commenting.
Nairalanders we are supposed to make unbiased comments based on information at hand instead of emotional and unlogical ones.
You will not die if you take your time to read and help yourself.
You all should at least watch the video
teemy:
Lala, I am disappointed at this point. It is people's lives we are talking about and so for no statement to correct your mistake?
Am glad you've done so now.*
True, you lifted it from the guardian website but with so much misinformation about the 40m, by now I expected you would having clarified with a correction that the said money was in naira and not in dollars. The inconceivability of it being in dollars is what's generating more negative vibes against this Jude and you should have edited in your own line corrected it at the end of the quote. Seun, look into this if nairaland has not gone the way of clout chasing tabloids.
For the sake of those who don't have data to go through, I will do a breakdown of what Jude said.
1. He did not draft the contract between him and Cynthia, Cynthia's manager at the time did. He just copied it on to his letterhead and it became the official contract.
2. He does not hold any rights to Cynthia's name as no court of law could even have granted that and as such was not stopping her from using her own birth name. Her social media s under her name have still been operated by Cynthia since. Cynthia left before her contract expired and he did not sue her or drag her around.
3. He made 13 videos for her promoted by vevo at the rate of 3m naira each. This was the amount rounded up as 40m naira. He did not explicitly say he is yet to recover the amount in full and I won't be filling in that blank for him. Cynthia's ex manager has on a social media platform confirmed this 40m amount as a debt on Cynthia and a friend to Cynthia's current manager reached out to her to forgo Cynthia's errors and let bygone be bygones.
4. On the issue with MayD, there was no contract signed and thus no liabilities nor obligations despite haven spent a hundred thousand dollars $100,000 on him thus far. MayD was not satisfied with the deal as he wanted more.
5. P-Square could be back again but Jude himself would not be involved. The twins do not have any issue between themselves but rather, Peter was the one having an issue with him and he had tried his best to try to make peace with him all to no avail. Said that till date, Peter never told him what exactly was his wrongdoing.
My view:
I personally believe this guy and will say he has no fault from all I've read from both words for and against him. He also seems to have been liberal with the artists and they took liberty for granted.
I believe you should take good care of your artistes but without any contracts, there is no obligation. Because MayD was sleeping in the boys quarters with the driver, does not make him any less human. Nothing stopped the lad from sleeping in his own house and coming to work on his music during the day if he felt where he was sleeping was not convenient. Some of us have had to sleep in our offices for long periods just to better our futures. And when his huge break came, he rejected the deal. He has a right to but he should have acknowledged the money spent on him at the time was part of what laid the groundwork for what he is now. Appreciation not condemnation should have been his utterance.
For Cynthia, i look at the outburst on someone who should have sued her and anyone who made a mistake of associating with her within her contract period but kept totally silent and then goes on to try to tarnish that person because she don't have rights to the vevo videos she did not pay for nor waited till costs were recouped. She should take another look at her contract agreement.
Peter and Jude issue is a family matter and I won't bother saying anything on that.
To nairalanders that commented and were sentimental especially over the 40m ish, I recommend watching video yourselves later in future as there are lots of half truths and lies popping up daily.
icetrimz:
I would like to go symmetrical to the point. But before I proceed, I will like to say sorry to whom it may concern. Yes people I did it, I went through her phone. I broke the rule and went against my instincts.
In fact, I'm writing this with pidgin so as to carry the street along. so I invite ma babe come house today, the babe too cool, silent and has this innocent look and all. As she enter house, the first thing wey she ask me be say make i go buy her pad... i swear i shock. i nearly fall sef, but as a "niggarrrr" i no tok, i just waka jeje go buy am come, i even buy fruits sef as a beta pikin ... lol [ well, im not laughing shaa o] I later move go market buy catfish cook for her, just to make sure Jesus is happy with me, his son.
So later in the day, i went to play around with the boys as madam dey "flight mode" I came back around 9pm and met her sleeping. I waka go kitchen go take something, then i see her phone for there with 8 missed calls from the same number. As a retired agbero i sensed something was not right about the calls. So i jejely and smoothly snicked back to the room and placed her finger on her phone sensor to open it. After unlocking the phone i went straight to the rest room to settle my curiosity. omo, as i open whatsapp, enter the caller name chat, naso i collapse.......... athink say na only that one, as i enter others naso i paralyze. what i saw was UNBELIEVABLE and beyond my mental absorption. The one wey one paddy dey complain give am say she no sabi suck preeq na im wound me. I lost my breath for a moment and nearly went to my ancestors.
Please help me. This is 3am and I'm still in deep pains. I can't seem to walk, my sight is going blurry too and i don't know what to do about her hereafter
Please how do I get my legs working again so I can at least walk back to the room and sleep first??
Fabulouzjoseph:
Life itself is not fair. Suffering and pain is part of human existence.
You are in a dilema any action you take now you will still end up hurting someone.
If you report: you are going to put your co-workers and their family in trouble, they will lose their job and they will also go to jail if not for life.
If you choose not to report you will be harming the md and she might lose her business.
either ways you are going to hurt people.
And as such i will advice you to focus on yourself and mind your business.
This is a very selfish advice to give and in no way does it help anybody who wants to do the right thing.
You have succeeded in other words to advice the OP to look the other way and a helpless woman is been robbed off her sweat.
@Op, my two cents are to look for discreet avenues (EFCC, audits, close confidant of the owner etc.) and get the information to her ears. If you are clean and somehow get accused or loose your job, be pleased that your conscience is clean and you did the right thing.
I can assure you that providence will ensure you are rewarded one way or the other and you will be vindicated in the sight of God.
She asked for money and you beat her.
Imagine such happening to your daughter. If it reaches your ears, will you be happy?
Guess you did not read the full info.
Once you are done reading, please respond to the OP with advice on how to help his marriage and if you don't have anything to say, kindly use your data for something you can wrap your head on.
The question is a naive one... It is something that have been hard coded in us (men and women) by nature.
The good thing about it is that both parties consent to it and are OK with it.
If you the OP is not comfortable, then it is ok, but don't label the men as perverts, even older women prefer young men to help their ministry.
Psychologically, both sexes are wired that way in their later years, it depends on the state you are as of then.
penisilin:
Like someone said - it has been flogged very very well but women matter will continue to flog men as long as them still get yansh and bleast cool.
One of my many mumuness.
It was 2000, I was very young (after SSCE) and had a girl crushing on me but for reasons known to only God & devil, I just no send the babe.
But for the mumuness in me, I was seriously pursuing one yeye girl because of her yansh so tey in my bid to win her favor, I took a family cherished flask and made a sumptuous chocolate beverage with bread and sardine (from money I fapped from my sister) for her on a rainy day.
I told her from our balcony that I was coming with the goodies and she beckoned on me to come quickly. Only for me to reach her house, she asked to carry the flask follow her until we reach her boyfriend house angry. She jumped on him and said "Thank you Ola, shebi you have given me the flask" and they shut the door while I was standing there and smiling like Ganduje.
God!!! , that lady is not getting out of jail o! , cause i will file every possible charge against her.....N54mil
Stevecreativex:
Me if I I use to smile and swear for her with my smile
She's grace, fondly called Gracey, I met this werey when I was serving at Abuja 2014, But with the way we met seems like God wanted us together.
She works where I did my PPA, The first day we met I was working on some files and she was kinda asking her colleague who Steve is when she walked up to my desk, she called my name I looked up and she lost it like I could we both lost at each other for like 60 seconds before the lady sitting beside me called her name loud( that one don grab watin dey sup)
To cut the past lost story short.. we started talking we exchange and weeks later we started dating... Later she came over to the apartment whey I rented, I could tell her reaction she does not like the place (it single room thou )
Months later our relationship became so close that people started noticing in the office, exactly August they paidsalary and to my surprise, as we were going home together she gave me her August salary asked me to add some few bucks to it I should move out of the one-room apartment am staying saying she doesn't want me sharing toilet and bathroom...
Like I was wow. To be very honest that night I was so happy to the extent I had to cut all my spouse off and focus on only her... Like that night I vowed not to cheat on her ever...
So I finished my NYSC in Abuja and luckily my PDTF scholarship application was successful I was preparing to move over to Greece for my masters...
I and Gracey parted ways but we still dating, we call each other text each other... Months later I started sending money to grace for our building project, all the money I sent was around £125,500+ (54,233,804.62 nairas)
During this process, grace sends me pictures of the land she brought and how the construction is going on.....
To round up this painful crab only for me to come back home to meet my wife, married with a kid...
I arrested her and all she could say was "she thought I was just joking with her" that she never thought I still love her... Out of 54m, she could only recover 2.5m...
I was hospitalized for two weeks then... I sort I almost died the shock and trauma almost killed me... But thank God later I just have to return to Greece and start all over again... But what she did then is still the reason why am single today...
The truth sef is I insult any Nigerian girls I see in Greece... Nigerian girls in Greece are all lonely so anyone of then that comes across Nigeria guys is always waiting to be loved but I can't stop hating them...
xendra:
please apart from dick and money, what other impact does a man add to a woman's life?
asking for a friend
so many mentions yet not 1 thing, guess that's all y'all have afterall, but you want a woman to be everything including a mother, househelp, maid, prostitute, manager and nanny for you. SMH
In other words, your DAD, GRANDFATHER and BROTHERS are practically useless to the women in your family.
If it was in the western world, such posts will get you monitored by relevant authorities and you are labelled a potential criminal for spouse battery and other body trauma.
Seriously you need help with your line of thought, it is not healthy.
Offpoint:
She did the right thing and I encourage every woman out there whose isn't cheating on her husband to treat them this way if their husbands dįck can't stay home.
If you guys treat men this way, they'll think twice before considering cheating.
Don't kill them, just give them scar they'll live to regret forever.
I can't be your babies factory, after 4 you're getting some sluť a phone and banging her behind my back, I'll chop off your díck while you're asleep.
like I've always said: If a girlfriend cheats on me, I'll gentlemanly walk out of the relationship. But if a wife should make the mistake of banging another man, there's no such thing as FORGIVENESS. I'll carve out your vagina and boobs.
I'm an extremely loyal dude once in a relationship and if my loyalty is betrayed... I become a soulless beast.
..... MODIFY
To those quoting me, if you know you can't keep your vaginäs or dícks in one place, don't get married. It's very simple. marriage is a deal and banging outside it is breaking the deal and there are consequences.
If you get tired of our union, walk up to me and let me know... I'll let you go, but if you do otherwise, you face the consequences.
As a guy if you're so either to fûck someone else, get married to her.. simple.
I repeat, if any man or woman you're married to cheat on you by BANGING some else.... leave them a scar.
Let them know you have a greater demon in you, than they do. unleash terror on their genitals.
To those blabbing Attempted murder upandan, going on banging spree is also an attempt to come home and kill me with STDs.
Graxie:
There is more to this story, seriously. I am married and I know. Please check your wife's friends, who are those she is communicating with? I see you are very weak in asserting your idea, please send that girl home. Today the house might have been very tensed and the girl will be at the receiving end. Send that girl home, whatever problems you are having with your wife shouldn't be at the detriment of a minor house help. Instead of buying her clothes, use sending home as her Christmas gift. If you wife can starve you throughout today just because you challenged her concerning her bad behavior, you can imagine what she will do to that girl. The funny thing is that you appear helpless, please don't call your mom Inlaw for advice, just give the instruction that you don't need the girl.
I think you should avoid going personal with the OP...statements such as these below are not necessary
"I see you are very weak in asserting your idea"
"The funny thing is that you appear helpless"
I agree with you on the fact that he should check his wife's friends, they could also serve as fuel for her behavior
Unique357:
This evening when I returned home, she didnt save any foods for me so I didnt bother to ask her too since she was still angry ( frowned face ), I went to the kitchen i prepared noodles. By the times the kids went to sleep, I asked If I can have a chat with her quietly , she has made it clear that theres nothing to chat about since I have put the girl as my priorities and I don't love her anymore , I should go to my new wife have a chat with her, she is referring to our house help and she gave me back the money that I should shop for my new wife myself. Well I have tried convincing her that she and the kids will always be my first priorities but it doesn't mean that we should treat other people bad. She didnt seems interested, she says that she left the room for my new wife , she left the room and she went to sleep in our children room. I was not expecting her to go this far . It's really sad how she doesn't want us to settle the matter in peace
Hi Op,
I understand how you feel right now, but you have to be strong and ensure that you maintain those principles.
Act as if nothing happened, treat everyone right and she will come to her senses soon. Also start planning for a plan B, which is if push comes to shove and to preserve your marriage, you might have to arrange for the little girl to go back to her parents to avoid stories that touch.
Your priority for now are those two lovely kids of yours.
PotatoSalad:
100L she visited me from the next village. I was a virgin, she was pregnant. I didn't know. She tried to rape me but my young man was so scared it went limp and died
I resisted her and she later confessed. 7 months later she gave birth and one man married her as second wife
FINAL YEAR
My crush visited me after our project defense. My room was sparkling. My heart was beating as fast as a skrillex song. She wore one seductive dress and it was weird cos I used to daydream about her and she now came to me. I didn't know what to do. We were in my room lying down on my bed till 11pm when she angrily decided to leave.
And that was how our chapter closed.
I resisted a lot of ladies during NYSC but succumbed eventually.
GrabHisBalls:
Stop saying she pressured you. I don't think women easily pressure men into doing things they don't want. I could even deduce you married her 'cause a child was involved which you had a choice to say 'No' to. Inasmuch as she may have fooled you, you have your own share of the blame. Couples undergo series of test like genotype, blood group, HIV status before marriage. If you'd both done this, you would've known her status prior to the marriage. That would've informed you that she's infected since you're lucky to have been immune to the virus.
What are you saying? You are not even reading the OP message
The Lady in question went as far as distorting results, conniving with medical personnel to hide her status, even if the OP had gone for the medical tests as you suggested, the results would have been tampered by the lady.
You behave as if he should have gone into the situation with the mindset of suspecting the lady from the onset.
I sympathize with you on this embarrassing situation and know what it can do to a person trying to find their feet in the corporate world.
Your story was full of self-pity on what you couldn't do and how you could not achieve them. perhaps your attitude and body language also played a part in that referral (which is totally uncalled for).
Now you need to stop the self-pity, do a very good and honest assessment on yourself, clad your self with solid principles and go become the nest Jack Ma or something
xavier047: 2:28pm On Apr 17
