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Adekun33:
Am 19yrs old and I am 188cm i.e 6.2ft. I feel so awkward about my height. I feel that am no longer tall but long, for a very long time now i hated everything about my height to the extent I feel very sad and depressed every day.

As a result of that, I've lost confidence in myself and also my self-esteem is nothing to write home about.

This has made me an introvert and I don't socialize.

So pls tall dudes out there, I want to know how you deal with your self esteem and confidence and also how you approach comments about your heights cuz am gradually going insane!!!

I'm 6.8 tall dude and I feel on top of the world. u supposed to be happy, not sad, since you're not even among 100 tallest men in your village, not to talk of ur state.

TheSkyIsBlue:
My Sister Is About To Commit A Serious Taboo All In The Name Of Marriage

Hello Nairalanders!

Please ignore any typographical or grammatical error. I just want to pour it out the way it is in my heart.

I am seriously confused and worried about what is happening in my family and I will appreciate your candid advice.

There is this guy my sister has been in a relationship with for over seven years now. so he actually asked her hand in marriage and decided to come see my parents for introduction, about some months ago. My family decided to take their time to find out more about the guys family background as is required in Igbo tradition.

After several questions asked, my family came to find out that the guy is an Osu (an outcast). On knowing this, everybody in my family told my sister to cut ties with him and discontinue the relationship because it is a big taboo to get married to an Osu in my place . If you do, no family member or friend will attend your wedding or even have anything to do with you again.

But my sister refused to listen to anybody claiming she really loves the guy, that they have been together for a very long time and that she is not getting younger anymore (mind you, she is in her early thirties). Everybody (my parents and extended family members) tried to talk her out of it but she still didn't listen.

After much pressure and her continues insistence, my dad decided to give them his blessings, although against his wish (my dad is actually not really deep into tradition). Now the guy has done all the traditional rights and paid for her dowry. Their wedding is coming up soon.

But the problem now is, according to tradition and from what I heard, if she was allowed to go with the guy without my dad giving them his blessings, the stigma would have just been on her and she alone would have been considered Osu, since she insisted to continue with the marriage. But now that my dad has given them his blessings, it is considered that all of us (her siblings) will also have that link of Osu too. Except if she decide to put an end to the relationship and discontinue with the wedding, which I don't think my sister is ready to do.

I am really worried and depressed about it, cause I don't want anything that will affect me tomorrow when I want to get married just because of my sister's mistakes.

I will really like to get opinions and sincere advice especially from those that are familiar with tradition, cause I'm seriously bothered. Thanks!

osu has been abolished in Igboland about a year or two years ago. The kings in Igboland came together, performed some rituals and declared that there is nothing like osu anymore. so my dear, leave ur sister to marry her love. there is nothing like osu anymore in Igboland. it has been abolished. law is made for man, not man for the law.
shalom.

NavalBoy:
Please, Doctors and Medical Practitioners, what may be caused of this?

Antifungal creams are not working. After applying, the itching stops, it resurfaces within a short period of time with possible expansion and growth.


Itching.
Pimples around his body.

What may be the cause?


Your relative input is highly needed.

get a Dermatol cream. The content is yellow in colour. in less than 7days, u will not see any of them again.
This is my email... anyachi.group@gmail.com
send me a mail to celebrate ur breakthrough.
I'm so confident this will work. That's what I use for any skin infections.

Hypocrit:
Mine was filling a flat with 3 trips of a ten tire truck load of sand with two other of my friends, and we were paid 2500 naira by the contractor.

He actually short change us as we were naive then, because it was our first time.


We feel say the work no go too strong until i almost throw my hand follow shovel.

We almost run leave the work initially, but because of the yabbing say we lazy made us complete the job.


Kindly drop yours as i sit back to sip my satchet water.

10k salary. na there feeding and house rent dey oooo. it wasn't that easy for me during that period. I swear. But my God Liveth.

lewis512:
Mama Gold

mama Gold is foreign na. Abi na mama Africa u wan say?

Abboki:
Speed of light

NIMC is the best

nimc is fast, but that's the temporal one. Before the permanent one comes out, u must've finished bearing children sef, maybe in 50yrs time or more sef. Nothing comes easy in naija again

Omooba77:
No it is just now, I have been using POS for ages without issue, until last week and I started seeing extra N50

it has been long they started it. for 2yrs now, every transaction I made online, like transfer, they takes #50. may be ure just noticing it now.

fancyhandsome:
Congratulations to the new winners. Hopefully they will make us proud at the international competition

Cc lalasticlala

what's really the criteria for this winning? coz if truly it is by beauty, Miss Edo is the most beautiful in that top 5. Abi I need a spec to view them again? That winner is not beautiful. in truth, that Edo babe make too much sense jare.

Osagyefo98:
Language is not tribe.


There are no Igbos in cross river and Bayelsa.

If there are such, prove it or let them come and say so.

People and igngorance and dey ve refused to make a research, thereby believin wht igbo enemies told them. Igbos are native of al the south south states, including benue state.

Osagyefo98:
That's a pure lie from the pit of hell.

No such thing exist.

nt a lie dear, they neva denied their igboness. Forget nija that created al dis states tno reduce igbo unification afta d war

BuhariAdvocate:
You’re a liar we are not speak Igbo or bearing Igbo name.

say 4 urself bro. I hv a friend frm edo, igbo part. Infact, his nickname is akiri, cos he s from igboakiri/igbanke. And he s proud of his igbo origin and identity. His father even said that dey re prayin to be included in the proposed anioma state, in order 2 join their fellow igbos.

Starboytwo:
I have a funny case on my plate at the moment...

She is mentally unstable and occupies one of the shops I needed vacant Asap...

Initially hers before she went beyond, now she has been evicted from her house and currently live in the shop... She uses candles at night, a threat,and scares other shop owners...

I don't know if the police handle such cases, since I have contacted a family member but they seem not interested... Do I use force

She has been indoors for 3 days now, and has not come outside...


Kindly help with the right steps pls...

The shop is initially hers and you want to take it away from her simply cox she's mentally unstable? That's wickedness bro and her God wil fight for her. so u prefer seeing her in the street, sleeping in gutters and turn to a full mad woman? Have u take a food and water to her for this past 3 days she has been inside, coz I'm sure she didn't lock the door from inside? Have u tried helping her out with the instability and it didn't work? You only concern is to evict her and claim her property/inheritance. Are u sure u're not even responsible for her current situation? Coz ur desire is full evil. Repent now!!!

newsynews:
Meanwhile, below is a Reality Online Show for my dog Jessy. It's called DDNaija

https://www.nairaland.com/5368539/reality-online-show-boerboel-jessy

Why that man dey carry python protest instead of green snakes or cobra/mamba? Python is not knwn to bite na. They're very stupid to Hv made such a protest. Had it been they excluded snakes, scorpions and other dangerous animals, it would've been better. I've never seen anyone that has killed domestic animals like goat, fowls, dog etc out of fear. But wait oooo, I didn't see anyone with lion, hyena, wolf, tiger, crocodile, or are they not also part of animal? Nonsense people. They think this is europe. Na Too much movie dey cause all this nonsense.

akinyemi0103:
i always call the slot outlet everyday even yesterday, nd there reply was they are still yet to have it, i swear this s15 pro issue don tire pesin

The phone full Onitsha phone village na..

gustav25:
if you do get it , please forward to hardwerk25@gmail.com

pls when u do get the GMAT, forward to me too
anyaegbunamchidiebele@gmail.com
thank u dear

slyfox35:
Its not fake news, I was there live and for those of you that said they did not see the snake, this is the snake

and u guys killed it (her) knowing fully well that the snake was a human being. why not take the snake to a church or mosque for a deliverance and return her to normalcy? u hurriedly posted the dead snake (girl) so we can clap for u, abi?

Beverlyjean:
?? ... Why do people post stuff that ain't connected to topics....is it a mental issue or what , and people usually like their posts .. I'm really confused

not that those that liked it was having a comprehension issue, but the way Nigeria is now, only laughter can make u live little longer. so whenever we see a funny post, whether it is in connection with the topic or not, we liked and prolong our lives. when u become too serious with life here in Naija, then 6fit will be ur lasting place. we don't want to visit there now. so laugh my dear. if u don't want to laugh, just skip and move on.

Daniwak:
there is no indigenous Igbo speaking community in Bayelsa state. There are several ethnic group in Bayelsa with similarities in language, they include the Ijaw, Ogbia, Nembe/ Brass, Epie/Atissa ppl. The Nembe, Ijaw have many similarities in dialect while the Ogbia have little similarities . Though a Nembe man understand Ogbia language cuz they are close..We are brothers though some unscrupolous elements are trying to divide us..My dad is an Izon man with Igbo name..Our men of old married Igbo women alot even now .. Me an Izon man in a serious relationship with an Igbo lady

That ogbia u mentioned is/has Igbo clan.

Preshy561:
I can't engage You, you are mannerless, uncouth, fowl and too low to engage in a constructive criticism without being emotional and going all vulgar.
You who doesn't know that Beyelsa has different tribe is talking about Nigerian ladies and bringing gender to argument thereby resorting to argumentum ad hominem. If Nigerian ladies are all you quoted, remember then that your mum was once a girl and a snake doesn't fail to breed it's kind.

Hey preshy561, are u having a comprehension issue? I've been following ur quotes with that guy, to know if u can come back to ur senses and apologies for ur misunderstanding, but no, u keep on exposing ur inability to comprehend a simple sentence. In that guy's first post, he didn't condem the gov neither did he condem the SSG. He only said how poor our journalism in this country is. The journalist supposed to add the man's little biography. I ve even googled to know how that Igbo name became a bayelsan, but I couldn't find any. But I couldn't relate Hw u read that guy's post, didn't knw if u just finished drinking soaked garri and u picked ur keyboard and started typing what ur poor mind was telling u. Learn to accept mistakes and make a change. But u keep on proving right, without knowing u're indirectly showing the world how low ur comprehension is. Work on ur ego. It doesn't cost anything to admit ur wrong and make a change afterward.
Keep on quoting the guy.

adehab:
Dont mind them jare.. Pleae i have a white snake at my backyard please come assist catch alive so that we take it to a curator.. Thanks

Hahahahahaha thank you so much for this ur reply to that fellow. He/she thinks that catching snakes alive is like picking a earthworm.

Kalapizim:
I once saw a whitish looking snake at minjibir kano. Unfortunately it escaped and my colleagues didn't believe me but i know what i saw.

Snake has different colours. Any colour u can think of in this world, snake has the specie. There was a snake documentary I watched in Nat Geo wide about 15 to 20yrs ago, there were blue, red, pink, white, yellow snakes, each in its grass. All the colours u can think. But here in africa, we are only familiar with green & black.

[quote author=Lukgaf post=78597441]https://www.independent.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Muslim-Students-Society-of-Nigeria-MSSN.jpg

PRESS RELEASE

OBASANJO'S CLAIM OF 'FULANIZATION' AND 'ISLAMIZATION' AS THE BASIS FOR 'BOKO HARAM' INSURGENCY, KIDNAPPING AND BANDITRY, IS RECKLESS UNPATRIOTIC AND UNCALLED FOR

On Saturday, the 18th day of May, 2019, a former head of State and former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was a guest speaker at the second session of the Synod of Anglican Dioceses held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Oleh in Isoko Local Government of Delta State.

Speaking on the topic: "Mobilizing Nigeria's human and natural resources for national development and stability", Chief Obasanjo claimed that "FULANIZATION and ISLAMIZATION of West Africa" is now the main reason for 'boko haram' insurgency, kidnapping and banditry. In his words, the former president said: "It is no longer an issue of lack of education and lack of employment for our youths in Nigeria which it began as, it is now West African Fulanization, African Islamization and global organized crimes of human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gun trafficking, illegal mining and regime change".

MSSN B- Zone believes that the statement relating the crimes to Islam, and most especially coming from a former head of State and former President, is not only reckless, it is unpatriotic and uncalled for.

If despite the incomparable loss of lives by Muslims in the boko haram insurgency and other criminal activities, people like Obasanjo still find it difficult to believe that the crimes have no way in Islam and can go ahead to associate them to Islam, it is most unfortunate and highly dissapointing to say the least.

If we must remind Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, perhaps he has forgotten, his regime as President of Nigeria gave rise to regional insurgency such as Niger/Delta militancy and Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) with the militants being mainly southern christians, yet, nobody ascribed the militancy to 'CHRISTIANIZATION'

Also considering where Obasanjo chose to make the reckless statement, the congregation being purely southern Christians, it shows Obasanjo deliberately made the wrong assertion to instigate tribal and religious crisis. This is worrisome and unbecoming of somebody of Obasanjo's status as former head of State.

In the circumstance, MSSN B-Zone condemns in the strongest term the statement made by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo claiming what he called ISLAMIZATION as the reason for boko haram insurgency and other criminal activities.

We want to state it for the umpteenth time that insurgency, kidnapping, banditry, drug trafficking been perpetrated across all states in Nigeria and by people of different religions and tribes, have no basis in Islam and have nothing to do with Islam and Muslims.

We call on Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to be careful in his statements and stop making statements defamatory and indicting of Islam and Muslims in Nigeria in order not to put Nigeria in an avoidable tribal and religious crisis.

We finally call on well- meaning Nigeria and international community to call Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to order in his reckless statement capable of throwing Nigeria into conflict. As an old man and a former President of the country, he should be more patriotic and concentrate on actions that can bind Nigeria together rather than those that can break it.

Signed

Qaasim B. Odedeji
Amir/Zonal Coordinator

Alh Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasaq
Zonal Secretary

Engr. Bashir Momoh
Public Relations Officer

for a statesman like obj to say this, indeed islamization is ongoing.

YourFreedom:
Please Olorocha should help us build a statue to represent Akpabio.

Hahahahahaha. U wicked.

Injiggerwolf:
Don't build a team on an individual

so true. that's why I love Liverpool slogan....YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE.
They believe so much in team player. my happiness knew no bound last night.

RoyalBlu:
This sight just broke my heart


Life can be really unfair to the helpless ones.

May God endue us with grace to be kind to those around us.

Help is coming girl.

But if I may ask, what concerns a 15yr old girl with a joystick? Is that what she supposed to think at this stage? Now she has seen, that nothing comes good out of joystick at this her age.

chinambusay:
A Tanzanian policeman has reportedly sued his friend, for failing to impregnate his wife after trying for 77 times. Darius Makambako, 50 and his Precious, 45 who wanted to have a child chose another way, after they were told by a renowned doctor that the man was sterile. The Tanzanian policeman who alongside his wife was tired of being in a 6 years childless marriage, chose his neighbor Evans Mastano, 52 a fellow police officer to impregnate his wife.

Makambako who is a member of Tanzanian police force (Traffic department), paid Mastano 2, 000, 000 Tanzanian Shillings for the job for three evenings a week for the next 10 months. However he failed to fulfill the task after 77 times. It was further gathered that Evans was also pronounced sterile by doctors.

The Tanzanian policeman who now sued his friend for failing to impregnate his wife after trying for 77 times, accused Evans of breach of Contract in an effort to get his money back. It was further gathered that Evans refused to give it back, because he said he did not guarantee conception.


https://unclesuru.com/2019/05/03/tanzanian-policeman-sues-his-friend-for-failing-to-impregnate-his-wife-after-77-times/

when u thought U've seen it all.

eyinjuege:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.....

Don't deny people their basic human right

Which basic right are u talking here? Are u sure u understood the right up at all? The ban was among/between SS carriers. Not that AA cannot marry them, but among/between SS and AS carriers. So I think the bill was made to save more lives.

oturugo:
How about the proud Igbo amongst them e.g the Nwuches, The Ella's, the Obi Wali's etc. Should we now say those from Ndoni, Ogba, Ikwerre and Ekpeye are not Igbo?.
Take it from me, those who deny Igbo are the most vocal. Those who are proud Igbo are not interested in proving to people that they are Igbo. Having said that, I agree with you about the identity crisis in those places apart from Oshimiri/Aniocha, Obigbo and Egbema axis. I believe that Omuma people are proud Igbo.

my wife is Igbo from Rivers state, Port-Harcourt to be precise. Her father will skin u alive if u dare say they're not Igbo. All of his children were given Igbo names. He's a proud Igbo. I asked him one certain time, that some said that ph is not Igbo. He said I should not mind them, that those denying igbos were mainly the ones benefited immensely from abandon property. He told me the the divide/rule tactics of the northerners is over. He even asked me to follow him to church one sunday which I did. To my greatest surprise, the mass that day was done in Igbo.

Hidentity:
What are you saying? Venomous snake and humanity? What type of books are you reading? You think the snake that was allowed to cross freely in Brazil would be allowed if it posed threat to them? Even in saner climes, stray, wild or dangerous animals are shot at sight in certain circumstances. It is instinct that tells people to attack first when they come across anything that poses threat. When you see a viper in your room, go to bed and sleep since it is humanity. I am not for animal brutality, but you don't take chances with venomous snakes around you. A farm is not a zoo or a park where these animals are well monitored. If a scorpion stings you once, you won't even say what you're saying. A droplet of the venom from some snakes can kill up to 100 fully grown men, Mr. Humanity.

Leave that guy dear.... Humanity indeed . Whereas he kills mosquitoes wit Ak47. Why is he not practising humanity for where mosquitoes or cocroash dey.

LarryBee1k:
What can I say, Nigeria is a failed country.

I wonder what nigerians, especially north & west would've said if it was in Enugu/Port-Harcourt airports the staff were planting drugs in passengers' bags. But since it happened in Kano, it has died a natural death. The kind of hatred north & west have for igbos is overwhelming. But allow them to secede, NO!
God shall save us all.

360NGUpdates:
Girl Born Without Hands Wins National Handwriting Competition (Photo)


A 10-year-old girl with no hands have gone viral after she had an audacious win in a National Handwriting Competition.

Parents and educators have been worrying about the “dying art” of handwriting for years, as smartphones and laptops have lead some classrooms to spend less and less time on teaching the fine art of writing in cursive.

Sara Hinesley, a third-grade student in Frederick, Md., though, finds writing cursive “kind of easy”, using her cursive skills to win a national handwriting competition. It’s an impressive feat made even more impressive due to the fact that the 10-year old was born without hands.



Hinesley, who writes by holding her pencil between the ends of her arms, was trained in the fine art of penmanship by her teacher and quickly learned to love writing. “She can do just about anything — oftentimes better than me or my husband,” her mother, Cathryn Hinesley, told CNN.

Hinesley entered the 2019 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest, and the judges were so impressed with her perfect penmanship that she won the Nicholas Maxim Award, which is given to an entrant with a physical, developmental, or intellectual disability. The award comes with a trophy and $500 in prize money as well as $500 in educational materials for her school.

@

https://360ng.com.ng/girl-born-without-hands-wins-national-handwriting-competition-photo/

nonsense headline. Born without hands or born without fingers. when I saw without hands, I thought the hands was off from the elbow.

nairalaila:
A Nigerian mum has called out nurses at a Children's hospital in Onitsha, who reportedly told her to buy a thermometer before checking her baby. The sad mum who took to Facebook to share her ordeal, said her baby was down with incessant fever but the nurses at the Children's hospital in Onitsha allegedly told her to buy a thermometer before checking her.

She wrote;


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/24/mum-says-nurses-at-onitsha-hospital-told-her-to-buy-thermometer-before-checking-her-baby/

She said court rd, but general hospital is what's in the pix... So which one are we to believe?