We were far more productive in 1980 than we are today
In 1980 the key reasons for economic growth were are as follows:
1) We were a net exporter of refined petroleum products. Today we import all our refined petroleum products.
2) We rode in locally assembled cars, buses and trucks. Peugeot cars in Kaduna and Volkswagen cars in Lagos.
Leyland in Ibadan and ANAMCO in Enugu produced our buses and trucks.
Steyr at Bauchi producing our Agricultural tractors.
And it was not just Assembly, we were producing many of the components.
Vono products in Lagos producing the seats.
Exide in Ibadan producing the batteries, not just for Nigeria but for the entire West Africa.
Isoglass and TSG in Ibadan producing the windshields.
Ferodo in Ibadan producing the brake pads and discs
Tyres produced by Dunlop in Lagos and Mitchelin in Portharcourt.
And I mean tyres produced from rubber plantations located in Ogun and Rivers State.
3) We were listening to Radio and watching television sets assembled in Ibadan by Sanyo.
4) We were using refrigerators, freezers and Airconditioners produced by Thermocool and Debo.
5) We were putting on clothes produced from the UNTL textile mills in Kaduna and Chellarams in Lagos.
Not from imported cotton but from cotton grown in Nigeria.
6) Our water was running through pipes produced by Kwalipipe in Kano and Duraplast in Lagos .
7) Our toilets were fitted with WC produced at Kano and Abeokuta.
We were cooking with LPG gas stored inside gas cylinders produced at the NGC factory in Ibadan.
9) Our electricity was flowing through cables produced by the Nigerian Wire and Cable, Ibadan, NOCACO in Kaduna and Kablemetal in Lagos and Portharcourt.
10) We had Bata and Lennards producing the shoes we were putting on
Not from imported leather but from locally tanned leather at Kaduna.
11) We were mainly flying our airways, (the Nigeria Airways), to most places in the world.
The Airways was about the biggest in Africa at that time.
12) Most of the food we ate were grown or produced in Nigeria.
We were producing all of the above and more in 1980
Today, we import almost everything.
Isn't that alarming?
There lies the source of the terrible exchange rate we are experiencing today and everyone reading this has a critical role to play in reversing this very UGLY trend.
We have been talking about these problems and more for ages.
It is not enough for us to complain about the exchange rate or point out what others are not doing or are failing to do, the key question is what are we producing or what role the so called Leaders / Politicians of today are playing ?
This beautifully explains the Nigerian circumstance.
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Damn right...
Haha! Divoc19 you're an "old Soul" o. Lol
I thought you would be in your twenties or thirties max.
I believe he’s worth more than that. Most of his boys who are the Present Super Rich Russian Oligarchs are stupendously wealthy. They all keep their wealth on a low. Russia is a very rich oil and gas nation.
You do have a great point here bruv... Enough monopoly and kick backs. Those Russian Oligarchs have their hands in several juicy industries in Russia and globally with allegations of corruption trailing some of them. SMH.
Well said. Why do they hate America? That is yet to be understood by a rookie like me.
Hi @Pocohantas.
Let me school you here a bit.
I love America though, but American governments of the past too are NOT blameless when it comes to sponsoring coups and installing their own stooges from decades back. America has been involved in destabilising parts of the world especially during the years of the Cold-War with the defunct USSR (Russia and other communist republics).
Read up more in the best-seller book entitled: "The Rogue State"
by William Blum, a respected
American citizen, who wrote
about how American government double standards was fuelling hatred towards American citizens worldwide.
Hope that helps to understand
some of these global geo-political
intrigues.
FreeStuffsNG:
See young boys likely in their late teens or early 20s forming supermen who are terrified o. I thought they had 2 heads and a pair of wings! Shiorr.
Awon Alagbara mamero
Thank God it is not here in Lagos they got caught, they would have been pummeled like these guys below
LMAO...
What a huge facial pummelling those two in the picture got from the Lagos crowd. Eko o gba
gbere rara!
Nigerians living in Ukraine cried out through social media after Russia attacked Ukrainian cities early on Thursday morning.
They claimed the Nigerian embassy in Ukraine had earlier given them assurances to be calm that nothing was going to happen.
On the contrary, they started hearing explosions and gunshots today and they no longer feel safe.
They were able to make it to the train station but they are now stranded as many people are attempting to leave the city at once.
LMAO... The
Yoruba guy that spoke last
with an accent cracked me up when he kept looking up into the sky
and said the airport has already
been destroyed and the train station where he and the other
Nigerian students were speaking
from could be bombed anytime!
The Nigerian survivor spirit will keep you guys and the over 4000
Nigerians in Ukraine safe.
Evacuations will soon take place
by AirPeace and others from this weekend... Max next week.
No real man survives or wants financial income from a woman. For me, when a man says what do you bring to the table, he means what female qualities do you have. Are you a ive woman, are you a home maker? are you a woman that will give a man peace, are you capable of having children and raising them properly, are you the kind of woman that will help a man acheive his potential or the type that will drag aman down with drama? are you the kind of woman that a man is proud to call his wife etc etc
Yes there may be times when things are tough and a wife may need to her husband financially but it is a "loan" so to speak. No man enters a relationship looking for financial from a woman...at least no real man expects to live of a woman!!!
Divoc19:
Great.
Apart from John Edward the popular American who hears and speaks to souls that has ed on. I don't really know how to get more good info about this quest.
Can you share any of those movies and book names with me.
Hello @Divoc19... sure.
Right off the bat, here are just a
few specifics:
The book that I first read which got me exposed to "NDEs" in the early 1980s was "Life After Life" by Raymond Moody which is a 1975 best-seller. It has sold millions of copies till date. The printed versions of the book can be got on Amazon. Over half of the world's
population believes in the trans-migration of Soul, karma and
reincarnation of some sort.
(The medieval-era concept of eternal damnation via hellfire or some "lake of sulphur, fire and
brimstone" is just what it is - PURE
fiction used by the clergy of the
orthodox religions to scare and
control their grip on the masses).
Second, I've watched Discovery
Channel documentaries on
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)
and also on YouTube! Fantastic stuff... which sort of removes the
fear of ing on.
So search YouTube by typing: "NDE documentaries" and you'll get some videos lasting for over 50 minutes or over 1 hour.
You can also search for Raymond Moody Near-death experience documentaries on YTube which you may be able to on your computer for free.
By the way Divoc, tell me when and how did you develop keen interest in this subject matter?
Hope I simplified things for you here. Talk to you later.
OyigboUpdate2:
A close throwback to the last court sitting in Abuja. These were the patriotic Igbos Ijelespeaks led in a rally against Nnamdi Kanu in Abuja.
CilicMarin:
Segalink the founder of EndSARS agitation has hands off on any protest going further, after alleging that politicians and commercial criminals have hijacked the protest for their selfish end....
In series of tweets this morning, he warned the youth , that are endangering their lives, if the insist on protesting after the government has agreed to all their demands...
See tweets...
This is the symbol of the cult group that wants to hijack the genuine advocacy targeted to objectively engage Govt on behalf of the people to fix our 90years old institutions and save the lives of our youth. They want to own it & weaponize it against the state.
@PoliceNG
We have strictly maintained that the #EndSARS #ReformPoliceNG advocacy is not a protest even while we maintained that citizens have the rights as empowered by the constitution to demonstrate their discontent. It is obvious that once protest is ignited hijackers will infiltrate.
Since we started the advocacy in 2017 until 2020 before they hatched the protest, no Nigerian has died based on the #EndSARS #ReformPoliceNG advocacy but since the Protest started we have been recording deaths and this hurts as we’ve never exposed citizens to undue risk.
We made progress with the PoliceReform Bill and the Police Trust Fund bill without seeking Governors and billionaires. It was organic, transparent and objective. There were no sinister plans to weaponize anything against anyone. But for these ones, the lives mean nothing.
Our organization remains committed to the people without strings attached. We remain self funded and seek no grants. We will not sell our soul and risk human lives because of greed and lust after power. I’m not interested in 2023. Be careful out there. This is a Game.
We have played our role and done the needful. SARS has been ended as demanded and the Police Reform is in gear beginning with the assent to the Police Bills as facilitated. Some of the demands however activated will take time to materialize. Don’t be kept on the streets unduly.
We remain on course. Our dialogue of years with the authorities can’t be derailed and the movement can not be hijacked no matter how much they try. Your genuine need to express discontent via protest is being exploited now. This is why they want to keep you in harm’s way.
I hope at this point the authorities will do the needful and make a believer of the people so as not to allow these opportunists endanger more lives even after demands are met. These headlines could have been fine if the issues were not exploited by these lots.
@MBuhari
Businesses need not bleed while we agitate for better policing. The people don’t need to suffer more. This should end now. The exploitation of the idleness of Nigerian youth is an assault on their dignity with the commercialization of this protest. This is not Nation Building.
The hands of Nigerian “George Soros” is all over this and I implore Nigerians to be mindful. This is no longer an Organic protest and you deserve to be kept safe. You have been used once before and they are trying again. Another concert is brewing. Be wary.
This is not about any individual but your safety is paramount. My warnings may fall into dead ears again but at least I tried. Protest is your right but you should know when you are being used. The struggle continues and Govt will be held to without any ulterior motive.
There are a thousands of hashtags groups and organizations can deploy to launch their protest but if you must use anything relating to #EndSARS #ReformPoliceNG it must be in compliance with the vision of the platform as spelt out by
@SIAF_NG
. We protect lives not endanger them.
Yup! Segun Awosanya [SEGA], you saw the destruction and violence coming just like many others with deep foresight and experience because history repeats itself.
Classic and unforgetable tweets from a great lawyer and human rights advocate.
Nonpartisan1:
Just look at how empty a morning flight is. 50k! 100% increase in air ticket.
When I said the Airlines would suffer especially Green Africa, United Nigeria, aero contractors etc, if they went ahead to follow the bigger players in this price harmonization, people were attacking me..
dainformant:
Two young men have been arrested for allegedly killing a woman in Aba, Abia state. One of the suspects claimed he hails from Ebonyi state as the other revealed how they lured the deceased online before killing her.
According to the suspect, they lured the victim through Facebook chat after promising to give her N25,000 to hook up.
After falling for the trick, the lady came and was brutally murdered in cold blood after she was tied up and prevented from shouting.
The men were caught with the corpse of the deceased while trying to flee with it.
According to reports from witnesses, it is alleged that when they kill their victim, they close the person's to avoid being traced.
It was also claimed that the suspects are ritualists who sell corpses/human parts to Alhajis and native doctors.
Some of the residents were clamoring for the suspects to be lynched to death over the gruesome act.
The suspects were later forced to carry the corpse before they were dragged away by the police.
SMH! So sickening...
Same way Cynthia Osokogu (an army General's daughter) was drugged and killed in 2013 in a
Festac hotel in Lagos State after being decieved via FB by those 2 monsters from Anambra.
Ekejoestar:
An outspoken B.C. doctor threatened with losing his license is sounding the alarm on “inevitable” damage to blood vessels by the COVID-19 vaccines.
In a recent online interview, Dr. Charles Hoffe, a family physician of 28 years in Lytton, B.C., offered a grim prognosis for jab recipients.
“In a single dose of a Moderna vaccine, there are 40 trillion messenger RNA molecules,” Hoffe said. Three-quarters of these molecules leave the arm of the injection, circulate through the bloodstream, and end up in the tiny capillary vessels.
“These little packages of the genes are absorbed into the cells around the blood vessels of the vascular endothelium. The packages open, the genes are released, your body then gets to work reading these genes and manufacturing trillions and trillions of COVID spike proteins.”
Hoffe said even though there are 40 trillion mRNA genes, each gene can produce “many, many COVID spike proteins. And the purpose of the spike proteins is that your body recognizes this as a foreign protein and will make antibodies against it so that you’re then protected against COVID.”
But this antibody response comes at a heavy price, he said.
“The spike protein…becomes part of the cell wall of ….these cells that line your blood vessels, which are supposed to be smooth so that your blood flows smoothly. Now you have these little spiky bits sticking out,” Hoffe said.
From here, “blood platelets circulate in your vessels…to detect a damaged vessel and block that vessel to stop bleeding. So when the platelet comes through the capillary, it suddenly hits all these little COVID spikes that are jutting into the inside of the vessel. It is absolutely inevitable that a blood clot will form.”
Hoffe claimed the clots are “too small and too scattered” to show up on CT scans, angiograms, or MRIs, but are numerous enough to cause damage.
“There’s some tissues in your body like intestine and liver and kidneys that can regenerate to quite a good degree. But brain and spinal cord and heart muscle and lungs do not. When they’re damaged, it’s permanent, like all these young people who are now getting myocarditis from these shots. They have permanently damaged hearts,” Hoffe said.
“This is the terrifying concern. And not only is the long-term outlook very grim, but with each successive shot, the damage will add and add and add. It’s going to be cumulative.”
Hoffe said 10 of his patients who took the jab have shortness of breath or ongoing neurological problems. When he began to see new and lasting issues in post-vaccination patients, he e-mailed local health care providers to say: “This is causing harm, should we be pausing this just to take stock?”
Hoffe was subsequently forbidden by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia to say anything negative about the vaccine, lest he causes “vaccine hesitancy.” He was barred from the local emergency ward, but maintains his family practice.
In recent weeks, Hoffe has sought patients who have received a COVID shot within the previous four to seven days. He gives them a D-dimer test, which is the only one that will indicate the presence of new clots.
“So far 62% of them have evidence of clotting, which means that these blood clots are not rare. It means that the majority of people are getting blood clots that they have no idea that they’re even having,” he said..
She is not picking your calls nor replying to your texts.
You keep wondering: Is she losing interest in me or just stressed?
Hmmm! Take heart brother, it is obvious.
Sometimes in a relationship, one party loses interest in the other. In this article, I will show you 7 shocking things that can make a lady to lose interest in you.
1. You make her your emotional crutch
People have problems, I get it. What I don’t get is when a man tries to dump all his problems on his lady because he can’t handle them. I am not saying you shouldn’t share your problems with her after all, a problem shared is half-solved, but don’t dump your problems on her all the time.
2. You are a gentle man and not a Gentleman
Do you know there is a difference between a gentle man and a Gentleman?
No.? Ok. I will tell you.
A gentle man is a man that is gentle. A gentle man is a man that doesn’t want to offend anyone. He is timid and acts cowardly. He does his things gently as if he is handling an egg. A gentle man is unsure of his actions.
A gentleman is a man in control. A man that exudes confidence and is ready to take on the world. He believes in himself and in the actions he takes. He is a man of principles.
Ladies love men who are in control. Men who don’t ask for the next step to take. I mean action takers.
Are you a gentle man or a gentleman?
3. You stopped living your life and lives hers
You stopped living your life because you met a new girl. You stopped going out with your friends and doing what you love to do. She became the center of your world and you became her pedestal.
You don’t do the hobbies that make you happy anymore. All you do is to follow her around. She will not only lose interest, but she will also introduce you to her new man.
4. You are “a boy” who needs a woman and not “a man” who desires a woman
Do you know what it means to be a boy and a not a man?
A boy is needy. He has little respect for himself to the extent that he will do anything to make a woman happy. Of course, women love that. She will play along for a while and take advantage of you until she is tired and then she will lose interest and dump you.
A man who desires a woman is different. He is in control of himself and the relationship. He is strongly grounded, he knows what he wants and is incredibly decisive. Who will not want such a man?
5. You make yourself a limited time offer
You know when they say a product has a “limited time offer”? It means it is a quality product that will soon go out of circulation if you don’t buy on time.
Some men are like that. They make themselves look expensive. If a lady refuses to go out with you, it’s her loss. You flaunt your possession and wealth to intimidate her. You make her realize that it is one of you in the entire world and if she misses you, her world will not be the same.
6. You rest on your laurels
You chased her to get her to date you. But eventually, after she gives in, you stopped the chase. You stopped doing the kinds of stuff that make relationship fun and exciting.
When you do that, it makes the girl lose trust and interest in you since you can’t no longer deliver. It gets boring if there is no more chasing.
7. You are like a boat floating unguided over the waves
In those days, it is common to see children with paper boats by a small stream. They throw the boat into the water and watch it move. The wave of the water will carry the boat up and down.
That is how a man that lacks direction behaves and hear this:
Ladies will not like you.
If you don’t have a life ambition, it means you are an NFA (no future ambition). You have no ion for what you want to do or be in life.
You allow the current of life to carry you to wherever the wind is blowing, your woman will not be with you for long.
Women love ambitious men. Men who make effort to succeed in life. It is a sign of a good future; you know.
It is time to change for the better!
Don’t lose a gem while playing with stones
byinks: Cubans Turn to Homemade Radio After Web Blocked, Govt Jams Signals
Communist Cuba has engaged in a massive campaign of radio jamming this week in response to protesting Cuban citizens taking to the airwaves – often with homemade radios – to get news in and out of the country after the regime turned off the internet.
Cuba’s state-run telecommunications firm severely constricted the access of ordinary citizens to swathes of the internet in recent days, with social media and messaging apps all impacted. As Breitbart News reported this week, the anti-information move comes amid a rising tide of anti-government protests on the island, which are being violently repressed by the regime.
Resourceful Cubans were able to sidestep the government’s attempt to crack down on the flow of information on and off the island, however, by using Cuba’s proximity to Florida and the availability of hobbyist amateur radio operators to keep talking. Relatively simple, low-power, homemade radios allow voice communication on common civilian frequencies between Cuba and the Southern United States now, as it did decades ago in the pre-internet age.
The Cuban government soon got wise to this, however, and rapidly started using extremely high-power jamming equipment to render the useful parts of the radio spectrum unusable. At the time of publication, that jamming was still ongoing, Floridian radio amateurs said.
“Don’t believe the good things they say about communism. It’s not real,” said Adrián Arteaga, who escaped Cuba when he was 18. https:///wdyWMlyxfX
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 15, 2021
Cuban exile and licensed U.S. amateur radio station operator Alex Valladares spoke to Breitbart London from Florida and explained how, after the internet went down in Cuba, he felt he had a duty to let Cubans know they weren’t alone and to help convey information in and out of the country.
Valladares said: “if they are protesting in Cuba and I’m a free man, I think the best thing that I could do is them the welfare information, the emergency communication. They don’t have the internet now, the government don’t want them to know the truth, they don’t want them to know they are organised, that they are all out on the streets.”
He said he started talking to Cubans on shortwave on the frequencies he knew most Cubans would be able to receive and transmit on, with the rudimentary equipment they had. But he soon found the frequency he was using became completely flooded with high-power noise, so Valladares switched to a new one, and the same soon followed.
In fact, he said, wherever Cubans were trying to talk to exiles in Florida on amateur radio, massive jamming knocking stations off the air quickly followed.
“[The interference] is following me and following the Cuban people when they have their daily nets. They don’t want the people to communicate in Cuba, that’s why they cut off the internet and all sorts of media is blocked … They tried to block any signal there because they don’t want the Cuban people – many who have homemade radios – they don’t want them to listen to the exiles in Miami like me, and many others around Florida delivering the world to them,” Valladares said.
This was possible, he said, because the Cuban government has a large amount of decades-old jamming equipment dating back to the Cold War, when the regime would try to block broadcasts of U.S. government anti-Communist stations like Radio Martí from reaching Cuban ears.
Valladares is now concerned for the wellbeing of radio operators on the island, given the degree to which speaking to the outside world is an act of defiance to a murderous regime. While he encourages his listeners not to reply vocally to his messages and to make non-verbal sounds instead to let him know they are out there while avoiding identification, it remains the case private radio operation in Cuba requires a government license, meaning the regime has a list of radio owners and their addresses.
End Cuban Communism. pic.twitter.com/kyuixKxac9
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 15, 2021
“I always look for the best empty frequency, and I talk at 1.2kw, I know they are listening to me because I have had from Cuba and they say they are listening to me,” Valladares explained. “There are a couple of Cubans I talked to on Sunday and Monday, but I couldn’t talk to them yesterday and I’m a little bit concerned about their lives, maybe the government went for them, you know?”
“They are going after these protesters, they are looking at the [viral protest] videos and they are going after them, to their houses, they take them out at night, and they kill them. With no justification,” he added.
As Breitbart has reported this week, the Communist regime has indeed been absolutely brutal in its repression of protests, including firing into crowds, public beatings, and visiting suspected protesters at their homes and shooting them in front of their families.
As for what comes next, Valladares said he would keep broadcasting and trying to find a way around the jamming. He said that, while he recognized many Americans would normally be rightly against the government getting involved in a foreign civil war, such a thing generally involves two armed sides fighting, which he said wasn’t representative of the situation in Cuba. With the population totally disarmed, the protests were characterized by citizens with stones against soldiers with guns, he said, and the Cuban people needed help.
He called for aid from the United States and NATO, saying: “The government of Cuba is massacring the people who do not have weapons. Nobody in Cuba has weapons. Fidel Castro took the weapons in 1961. Anyone with a weapon has been put in jail.”
[b]“In Cuba, the only people who have weapons are the government and they are massacring the people, and that has to be stopped … SOS Cuba, Freedom to Cuba. The Cuban people need freedom,” Valladares told Breitbart News.[/b]p
Breitbart approached the Federal Communications Commission, Radio Marti, and the American Radio Relay League for comment on the massive interference on the 40-meter band presently being experienced in the vicinity of Cuba but they all had failed, at the time of publication, to respond.
Thousands of Cubans in at least 16 cities took the streets peacefully on Sunday to demand an end to the 62-year-old communist regime. https:///ZX9C1gOj9v
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 12, 2021
Follow Breitbart London on Facebook: Breitbart London
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Cubans are dynamic and
rugged... Cuba all the way!
"The best of Cuban music to the world"...
*El Presidente ~ Jeru the Damaja.
*Alo Cubano! ~ Orisas
*Ileke ~ Orisas
*My heart is in Havana ~ Camila Cabello
ladywriter:
That’s it. No calls. No text. No visit.
Another day is over without his usual calls to check up on you.
You raised the issue with him, but he gave you a load of excuses on why he has not been calling as usual.
In fact, you have been the one calling lately.
And you can’t help thinking...
Is he losing interest or just busy?
Hmmm! Sister, it is time to wake up.
There are telltale signs of a man losing interest in a relationship and in this article, I will deal with 5 of such signs.
Are you ready?
Let’s get started.
1. He is an "apartment renter" and not a "home buyer"
There are people who rent houses and those who buy them. Some men are like people who are looking for houses to rent. They are just looking for “ladies to rent”. They are not looking for a long-term relationship. They only want a lady who will be there to satisfy their needs for the meantime.
Some people who are financial buoyant can buy a house. Such people are not looking for houses to rent. Likewise, there are men who are looking for women to marry and not ‘rent’.
If your man falls into the first category i.e. the "apartment renter", he will lose interest in you very fast because he is just renting your “space”. When he is done with you, he will move on to other available “spaces”.
Are you dating an “apartment renter," or a “home buyer,"?
2. He cannot chase someone who is behind him
This one will sting, so get ready ladies!
Some men are achievers. They are gunning for the top of their profession. They are professionally certified or reading to get certified. They are running one course after the other either offline or online. Most men who are achievers always love their women to also tag along educational or otherwise.
And you are there sitting down with your Diploma, HND or Bachelor’s degree. You are satisfied with where you are. You have no plans to move forward in your professional career. You are done with education!.
Perhaps, he has even advised you on several occasions to up your game, but you are just comfortable with whom you are and where you are.
Hmmm! This is a recipe for your man to lose interest in you very fast.
3. The dude has his eyes on a new “hottie”
the apartment rental I mentioned above, most of them don’t stop renting. They will go to other fine places to look for newly built modern houses that are modern.
Some guys are like that too. They are constantly searching for slaying ladies in their office, entertainment places, school, etc. Whenever they get a new lady, they lose interest in you very fast.
The truth is, men are fired up with the thrill of a new chase. He will stay with you for as long as there is no other option in sight. But as soon as a new opportunity arrives, you become an old story.
4. You are not a “ride or die” “
A ride or die” means you are a liability and not an asset to your man. Your man will evaluate your value based on what you bring to the table. He will consider the value you are adding to his life and goals.
If instead of improving his life, you made it bitter; you are not adding value to his life.
If he feels that you are not beneficial to his life and his dreams, he will pack his bags mentally and follow suit physically in no time.
5. He has eaten the forbidden fruit
Call it old school or something else, I still believe in no sex till after marriage.
When there is nothing to look forward to in a relationship, it is boring.
When, instead of keeping yourself, you freely give yourself to your man for as many time and he wants, it will be boring. It is a matter of time, it will park up.
6. You turn him to your ATM
This is common. In fact, most ladies go into relationships because they need someone to take care of their financial needs.
Once a man comes into your life, you automatically become his responsibility. You want him to be responsible for your daily upkeep, your pocket money, your recharge cards, your school fees, etc.
This is the reason you see many young and upwardly mobile men running away from dating relationships. They can’t cope because of incessant demands from ladies who have turned them into an ATM.
It is time to wake up and start doing the right thing.
HeavenlyCherub:
Would you date these women? Why or why not?
Yes... After discrete background
checks. Ladies with excessive permanent body tats (tatoos) are a turn off for me and men in general. Most ladies with those kinds of tats have a hoe or p*rn background.
Minimalist tats and intelligence are
OK by me though.
DoingBetter:
Cervical Cancer and lack of information in Nigeria
On September 2021, we learnt that our mother was ill. She had been bleeding for over 5 months and had resigned herself to simply wearing her pads at all times. Being a very religious woman, perhaps she strongly identified with the woman with the issue of blood on the Bible. All I know is that she was always prayerful. She also had other health issues and perhaps simply chalked it up to another thinking she had to live with. It was on a visit to the hospital for a leg sprain that she finally told the doctor about her nonstop "period". After series of test, a surgery was carried out immediately. The bleeding stopped. For a few weeks, it looked like the worse was over. That was until she stated complaining about pelvic pains and spinal pains. In the end, it was ascertained that she had cervical cancer late stage and it had spread out to other regions. Despite the treatment and faith, she died two months later.
Between September and November, I learnt more about cervical cancer than I had ever cared for before in my life. You see, like a typical young lady, it didn't cross my radar until it affected someone close to me. Currently, there's a free screening for cervical cancer being carried out in strategic locations in Lagos by the 100k club in collaboration with some medical bodies and organisations. Over 30 positive late stage cases had been detected. These are over 30 cases that could have been prevented if early diagnosed and treated. The sad thing about cervical cancer is that it is very treatable if detected early with little to no effect on fertility. If not detected early, the treatment options might affect fertility and if at the last stage, is fatal.
Until last year, I never knew that there were actually vaccines for cervical cancer. Two in fact are very popular, the cervarix and the Gardasil vaccines are both istered to prevent HPV virus which is what causes cervical cancer. I bet you could stop ten people on the street and only one of them might know this. That shows how much sensitisation and awareness needs to be created about this. These vaccines are istered to children as young as two in developed countries. You can even get some in your pharmacy if you reside in the developed world. The good news is that you can still get the vaccine as an adult if you are less than 40 years old.
I wish I had learnt all these earlier in 2021. Maybe Mom would still be here.
mariovito:
Why are horses, dogs, raccoons, vultures, eagles here?
The reality of your question is why we formed religions, cults, countries, associations, soul.
Humans as a collective can't deal with the fact that even with our so called higher intelligence, it may be possible we are here for nothing. We can't wrap our heads round the fact that life may be meaningless. That our life as humans equates with that of any other living thing.
So we made attempts to distinguish ourselves from others.
The truth remains that we here for nothing.
So instead of wasting the little time we have to spend here preparing for heaven or a destination for our souls in the here after, why not be like the hog or the fox or bird that focuses on living, just living and nothing more. Maybe we'll make the best of here instead of wasting away here while hoping for a better place after.
My first encounter with near-death experiences was in a book that I read back in the early 1980s which belonged to my father. Since then, I've read more books and watched videos and documentaries on this.
There are other dimensions than this physical planet. We are made up of atoms and everything is in a state of different states of vibration or energy!
Near-death experiences are real and many people who were certified dead in hospitals, reported floating out of their physical bodies and accurately described what happened in the operating rooms and other places. They (souls) could through solid objects, see and hear people but the doctors, nurses and relatives could NOT see or hear them. This is because "souls" exist in a higher state of vibration or energy than the human physical body which is at a lower vibration. It is just like the magnetic field or radio wave signals that exist, but our physical eyes CANNOT see!
I like your insightful post and ability to think and ask yourself critical questions. I have always been like that too over the decades and personal experience is key in a world of cause-and-effect where some folks try to manipulate others.
oluplus:
Dear OP, there is no maximum limit placed on a fully KYC tier 3 saving , so no need to worry. My only concern is we will ask questions. We may not be interested in what the money is meant for but more concerned about the source of the money. We will definitely flag it as a suspicious transaction since such an inflow is entering the acct for the first time. It must be reported to regulatory authority so as avoid being sanctioned.
You should also ensure that your Bvn is in place and must be the same with your acct details. (name and DOB). With this., you will be fine.
God bless
wealthtrak: 9:54pm On Feb 24, 2022 
We were cooking with LPG gas stored inside gas cylinders produced at the NGC factory in Ibadan.
