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Health / Re: Aba Girls Start Having Sex & Regular Boyfriends At The Age Of 10 - Godwin Uwaoma by apache77(m): 6:19pm On Oct 28, 2016
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Health / Re: Aba Girls Start Having Sex & Regular Boyfriends At The Age Of 10 - Godwin Uwaoma by apache77(m): 5:59pm On Oct 28, 2016
Bujumbura:
The man is mad. The highest place you get virgins in their 20s is in igboland

Are you okay? or u r deceiving yoursef? igbo girls prostitute the most in this nigeria. maybe because they r greedy n preety or both. of the entire ashewo population in nigeria, igbo girls consitute 70%.the remaining 30% is shared between all the remaing 512 tribes in nigeria.

go to gusau or katsina or ado ekiti,igbo prostitutes r the highest. #fact

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Politics / Re: The Unaired Part Of Aisha Buhari's Interview, By Jaafar - Premium Times by apache77(m): 4:21am On Oct 18, 2016
interesting
Travel / Re: A Must Read, What He Goes Through In Italy (HELP) by apache77(m): 11:06pm On Oct 06, 2016
see problem
Fashion / Re: Camel & Needle Unveils Nairalander As Fashion Ambassador With Dramatic Shots by apache77(m): 8:41pm On Oct 06, 2016
kikikikikikikiki...dis one na alex reports house..mschew..if i hear....abuja packaging. person wey i sure say no even get car. weldone alex biggsr u we pray

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Family / Re: Why You Shouldn't Marry A Lady Raised By A Single Parent by apache77(m): 7:23pm On Sep 26, 2016
CuteMorriz:
I am not saying ladies raised by single parents are all bad, you may get lucky finding some exceptional ladies raised by single mums. Evidently you seldom find single men raising a child but it's quite prevalent with the opposite sex.

A relation of mine was dating this lady and when the time came for the union to be made official, his parents advised him to discontinue becos after they had made enquiries and investigation they discovered the lady's mother left her husband many years ago over some frivolous reasons. Then I asked my uncle why did he side with family and not allow his son take the bold step then he said:

1. Women raised by single parent (mother) are usually strong willed hence may end up like their mother.

2. A lady who has seen no need for a father will be swift to end a union because she will have the courage to train her children alone afterall she was raised by a mum.

3. How will she get marital advice from her mum when things are tough and you know ladies often run to their mum when they need advice (remember the mother took the easy way out)

4. Sooner or later my son may become a bachelor again...the odd is high and is glaring..

5. A lady who have spent 21 years of her life without a father cannot be psychologically stable even if she appears to be.

6. Ladies raised by single parents did not experience the beautiful and ugly part of the union called marriage from her parents hence they don't have their parents as their role model.

7. Amin (as he fondly calls me) when the baton gets to you, look at the mother of your fiancèe closely because with time she will display those traits you observed in the mother......

Then I asked him what if the lady's father is dead and the mum decided to train her alone?...my uncle said we may also enquire about the untimely death of the father but "Amin that is a topic for another day"......

spot on. i married my ex wife only 3yrs ago.last month we were divorced, in court! why? i still dont knw. i dated her for 7yrs married her for 2, seprated for one. she decided to end the marriage for very flimsy reasons..which to this day, i dnt knw.

shes 29,her dad died when she was 9,and her mother raised her alone for the next 17yrs before i married her. the mother disnt raise a finger to discourage her daughter from ending the marriage, seemed to even to support her.
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when i was trying to resolve the matter sometime last year so it doewnt get to divorce..she famously told me: i shd loom at her very well, shes not one of those girls desperate to remain in a mans house.

i guessed she had grown up seeing her mother riase her alone

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Business / Re: Profit Sharing Ratio Between Business Partners by apache77(m): 9:36am On Sep 25, 2016
lonelydora:
I was involved in such business model and it failed because we didn't sign an agreed sharing formula before i doled out the money. In my own, I brought 95%(including cash and machinery) required for the business.

At a time, my partner started feeling cheated, even though, we were sharing the initial profits 50-50, because I was still doing my 9-5 work and he was the one running around for the business. He said afterall he runs the day to day activity. He demanded for 60-40 in his favour and I rejected it. He started doing some jobs behind me for months, and taking the profits alone, and when I ask him, he will say, there's no business because things are hard. He did this for months before I found out. We had to call it a quit. I'm yet to recover my money.

My advice: document and sign every single detail or agreement about the business. When signing the 'agreement' just remember that "I shall" and "I will" have two different meanings. Involve a lawyer and get every damn thing signed. You can share for now 50-50 until the biz stands because remember he has the expertise required. Goodluck and God's grace.

can u tell us more about this pls? the details..so we can all learn
Webmasters / Re: New And Old Bloggers, Enter Here Let's Network by apache77(m): 9:32pm On May 24, 2015
cityAdventures:
Nice one.
Mine is a travel blog. Some weeks old.
www.intercityadventures.com.

several good looking blogs here and I think I like the look and feel of your site. its cool. and u write well too. what theme did u use. I will like to use that for my site as well
Romance / Re: What Sort Of Devilish Wife Did I Marry? by apache77(m): 4:14pm On Jan 08, 2014
Adamo84: This post got me laughing like Gosh! inside the mosque for that matter.

why u dey laff for inside mosque my brother..people achieve different means in different ways and tho am not proud of wat i did, atleast it worked..look at the blood curdling things husbands are saying here about their wives. if i wsnt yet married i would be scared. i just thank God my wife is not the aggressive type..stubborn yes she was but she seems to be an entirely diferent being now, and for that am eternally grateful to God.

If for once I had believed she would give me problems in marriage I wouldnt have married her- she was 17 when we met and i always put her behaviour down to juvenile exuberance- thats always the most turbulent period in a womans life- I knew when she matured she will straighten out and she has.

Look at what the America based guy said..I was shivering- his wife assaults him and curses his mother in her presence. jeeesu- i will die first, America or no America.

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Romance / Re: What Sort Of Devilish Wife Did I Marry? by apache77(m): 10:03pm On Jan 06, 2014
soul_glo:
Sad is the fact that at least 6 other Nigerians agree with him. Imagine hitting someone so hard that they not only try to jump out of a moving vehicle but crawl under the vehicle. And he is so pleased with himself. He actually believes that she respects him now because he attacked her like a wild beast. Only in Nigeria is r4pe and brutal assault a way to prove you're a man second only to wild beasts in the jungle
apache77: .....


Lol....am not d violent kinda guy sweerie..i hav neva hit a woma before and since dat day,i hav neva hit any one either.

I dont like aggressive people either- once i notice you r d aggressibe type either in speech or behaviour i pull away.
That said a mans got to do wat a mans gotta do- not all problems hav text book solutions...and am certainly not d type to stay awake wondering wat could work and wat would not- life is too short to indulge in such

You see-my wife(girlfriend den) was very refractive, and reason was- i was too gentle in relatin wit her. Infact friends often said i was afraid of her or like my elder brother, on one of his visits once said - you are like a lamb being led to the slaughter.'

She could talk to me n wag a finger in my eye, she could tell me very rudely to leave her prescence, and did i say zhe slapped me once?

Am not given to extremes of emotions be it either extreme love or extreme anger- just in d middle so i neva ever raised my voice on her.

She thought that was all der was to me- till that fateful night- and the course of our relationship changed.

We were many chasin her then- i am not her tribe. I wasnt d richest guy chasin her den....i was d youngest..and the d dat had the least materially. Plus i was thd last guy to cum into the picture- plus i beat her...wat no one else dared do.

Yet she is married to me now and we r happy happy..i dont hav even one complain about her conduct and even till today people still say i fear my wife too much.

Did i beat her into submission? Nope. It took us months to settle dat issue but we did and everyone knew their place- my obligationz and her place in d union

She needed a hiding and i had to giv it to her. It was a manual reset and it worked n we r good. Is she waitin for her pound of flesh? Nope- she even tries harder than me to make d marriage work n once a woman puts in effort in marriage, it works moreso as she is even drawing closer n closer to God.

I see her effort and i try as much as possible to be a good husband. Have i ever shouted on her ever since den? She hardly gives me cause to and wen am.annoyed, i simply leave d house.

And wen i do, she kws shes not seein me dat night till after work the next day. So she tries very hard not to upset me and i do try to reward her good attitude by behaving myself.

A woman who does not give u any problems, ehy would you as d man become d agent the provocatuer?

Everything stated wit dat manual reset- and beating told her who d boss was..and we r good.

It worked for me- doesnt mean it will work for d next man tho

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Romance / Re: What Sort Of Devilish Wife Did I Marry? by apache77(m): 9:38pm On Jan 06, 2014
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Romance / Re: What Sort Of Devilish Wife Did I Marry? by apache77(m): 6:41pm On Jan 06, 2014

u r in trouble bro...kick her asz out....you are not being firm..
my wife, wen we were dating was very refractive- as in very stubborn. i could come to see her and she will tell me get out- boota- it was dat bad. One night wen we had issues, and i was trying to stop her from stomping away in anger, she slapped me. I just held her and didnt even vex. she later put it down to being tipsy. i forgot the issue and just hung in der, swallowing all the shitt she handed down for years.....
till one fateful night in 2009 wen she misbehaved, while we were out.

I descended on her so brutally while a friend was driving us back home, she opened the door of the fast moving car to jump down- it would hav been manslaughter.We had to stop, i beat the hell out of her she crawled under the car and more than two dozen cars had to crowd round us cos people following thought it was a kidnap attempt. That was five years ago.

But since that day, the lose screw in her head tightened back and she has been very pliable, very amenable now. We are married now and no issues- she is the most humble wife you can think of- and i dont threaten her or try to lord over her- no. Just a loving relationship, but she has it at the back of her mind, this her husband can be a beast if he decides to.

She initially never liked my own friends and people around me- just her own people and friends- but now the tide has changed- its more my people around us now and my friends and no one complains- she always has a nice demeanour towards everyone. Matter of fact, as I speak, she is not just in family home, two cities away, but has even followed my mum to our village home- they have a great relationsnhip and I am happy.

This was a very very refractive woman who made our relationship hell- of all of us who dated it was difficult for any one man to get a handle on her, but I have tamed her and we have a wonderful relationship. Infact, right now, she is the one putting in all the effort to make the marriage work while I just cross my legs and watch her in amusement.

I think the single most decisive moment in our relationship was that fateful night 3years into our relationship when i beat the hell out of her- that singular moment turned the tables and told her i was firmly in charge.

You may need your own decisive moment too, to save your marriage...and your sanity, if its not too late already

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Politics / Re: Ignore Ex-militants Threats, MEND To Amaechi, Others by apache77(m): 11:06am On Sep 10, 2013
tmontee:

Pally, you need to change your ideas, we are moving beyond that point of short sightedness. If a President is not performing, then he is not performing finito! It doesn't matter what tribe he is. Dont preach this your position to the hungry Nigerian on the street please.

that is why i said enlightenment is a disease, and for people like you living in a power grab society, it becomes a curse. if a president is not performing, he is not performing, yes. but why wont the hausa fulani also own up to this dictum. why dont all ethnicities live by the same standards? you have a president who is not performing and you tel him so. on the other hand, they have a president that is not performing, and they keep mute.

it just means that except aleins come to rule us, they will always perpetuate their born to rule stranglehold on all else while you are living according to universally held principles of civilized conduct
Politics / Re: Ignore Ex-militants Threats, MEND To Amaechi, Others by apache77(m): 10:21am On Sep 10, 2013
[b]interesting...
enlightenment is a disease..
education is good, but can become a curse in a power grab society..

the north or will i say hausa-fulani are united in their cause to get back power at all means and their battle cry is- this president is not performing, so lets kick him out. so lets assume he is not performing and enlightened southerners who have seen that he is not performing all want him out too, joining their northern cohorts.

but lets turn the tables- you have a northern president who is not performing- no hausa fulani will raise a whimper. they will all unite behind their non performing President and support him to the death. apart from a few disenting voices, no major resistnace against his rule will come up- much the way the amaechi's and others have ganged against their fellwo southerner.

herein lies the tragedy of power politics in Nigeria and why the north have ruled over the south for many years- and why they will continue to ride roughshod over the south many years after GEJ is gone.

discerning southerners hinge their call for GEJ's ouster on non perfromance, a yardstick the northerners will still not meet when in power. so as a southerner- be you yoruba or ijaw- would you prefer to ruled by a non performer northerner or non performing southerner?

and pls dont bring PDP or APC into this
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Politics / Re: Nigeria Ranked Among World’s Poorest Competitive Countries. by apache77(m): 1:09pm On Sep 08, 2013
Gbawe, you are just a compound fool- say yes. You are the typical Nigerian- who just believes in copy and paste- no research, no knowledge of history of what they are discussing, nothing. They just jump into the fray in the middle giddy with excitement- and the remainder follow suit as well.


So, shut the ffuck up, you imbecille, you know nothing about competitiveness in Nigeria.Dimwitts and partisan arrsholes like you are the reason why many serious people don’t take this Nairaland serious. Many are always put of by the rants of faceless, half baked idiotts and pseudo-intellectuals like you. I always wish Nairaland matched faces with identities so we could see who was talking and what he has achieved against the backdrop of his comments so we can know better know the angle he is coming from then decide whether to dignify such a person with a reply or not.

Nigeria has dropped 5places from 115 to 120 in this years ranking so what? I guess your addled mind couldn’t have known that it was the same GEJ who took Nigeria from 132nd position in 2011 to the 115th position that you are getting worked up he just lost. So if he gained us 17places and if he has lost us 5places this year, what makes you think he cant gain us 10places next year.

And if it is such a big deal that you must burst a vein cos we lost 5places, did you force yourself to front page when he won us 17places 2years ago? You keep calling people frauds and dishonest people, but you are the most fraudulent person I have come across on this place with very malicious intentions. Why didn’t you celebrate the promotion from 132 to 115, yet you are shouting from the roof top cos of the 5place demotion?

I think the man, GEJ even just launched a competiveness Council to look into this very matter just last year or early this year to stem this slide and push the nation up. But these APC apologists wont hear non of this, always waiting in the wings to celebrate any percieved negative news about the country.

Common run off and go meet these your APC goons and paymasters your attempt this morning on nairaland to bad mouth the government and gain one or two converts ahead of 2015 didnt work. You think you can hoodwink Nigerians with your vitriol? Like someone told you, why are always foaming in the mouth? You seem so bitter, angry frustrated and I can almost say you sound as if you are mentally unhinged. You are frustrated with yourself I guess out of personal failures, bitter with the system for not including you and disenchanted with the polity for having no place for your APC pay masters.

Anger and bitterness will eat up and you will most likely die of frustration if hunger doesn’t kill you before 2019. Nigeria is not el dorado, we know, but GEJ is not the cause of our pathetic situation, he is only trying to remedy the bad situation, albeit with little progress- but atleast he is on the way . The next person that comes after him will also continue-be he PDP or APC- and that next person will come in 2019. Nation building is a continuous process of self improvement

Coming to to spew so much anger on Naiaraland will not sway no one come 2015 as is so obviously your wish. Those who will vote GEJ will vote him, those who will vote APC will vote APC. Sad thing is- those who will vote GEJ will be in the majority.
You can take that to the bank, idiott.

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Romance / Re: My Wife And Her Ex- by apache77(m): 2:54pm On Aug 27, 2013
[b]serious matter.

I feel for u gan, but this is what happens when you stubbornly go ahead to marry another persons wife..she only married you because that ex married someone else, and your marriage is hanging by a thread, and it would crumble soon than later.
First, she is only still married to you because that ex is still married to some else.

Its not about money, cos you both seem a tad comfortable. It isnt about personality because you seem to be a good guy(which is why she is taking you for granted). I think it is the sex- the other guy used to shhag her well while it may seem you are not giving it to her enough, or the way she wants.
What ever the case- you have two options-
1. Kick her out immediately
2.forcefully bring her undr your will.
this woman will not change, she is only managing you- if after you have been married to her and she has children, she is still manipulating you this way? send away, and get a divorce in court and get on with your life. Thats the only viable option to you now- forget all those pray, cudlle, romance exponents.

Or the second option- forcefully bring her under your will. Your wife doesnt respect you and when a woman doesnt respect a man, she can do anything even under his nose.I am not an advocate for hitting women,but desperate situations require desperate measures. You are a weakling, so she even leaves her messages for you to read. she cant be bothered deleting them, meaning that- you can read them if you so wish.

When she gets the next message,give her a black eye- by the time you descend on her once or twice, she will start quavering and hiding her infidelity- or atleast doing it with tact.

Fear of course will not bring love, but it will buy you enough time to shop for a replacement cos sooner rather than later, she will leave for this guy even as a second wife.
Give yourself brain and act now. You are too weak to check her excesses.
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Romance / Re: How Can I Quit A 3yr Relationship Dats Not Working by apache77(m): 4:03pm On Jul 19, 2013
chiboy_man: my girl left me bcs i dnot get a job after 4years of NYSC...within those 4yrs, i did my ICAN by the grace of God,and after that i go a job in shell...Please be wise and tell God in prayer...am 28yrs dol

sharaaaaaaaaaaap dia...with this ur yeye English, how shell wan take carry you?

@OP.is your love for your boyfriend predicated on having a job? Do you knw hoe many men date and marry women without jobs? abeegi, go sidon

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Travel / Re: Things You Should Have Before Boarding An International Flight by apache77(m): 2:48am On Jun 28, 2013
Lol..
Travel / Re: Nigerians And Fake Accent by apache77(m): 4:30pm On Jun 25, 2013
Is it faking it? Or not mastering it well enough? An English man could just as easily say he hates Nigerians or all others who fake his language because they dont speak it well enough or dont use the normal nuances of speech or right cadence. Dont you think?

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Travel / Nigerians And Fake Accent by apache77(m): 3:45pm On Jun 25, 2013
I always hear people say Nigerians who travel abroad always come back with a fake accent, even if its only one month they spend in London or America. Is this true? Do Nigerians try to speak like foreigners?

What i think is that the biggest problem you face the minute you step into obodo oyinbo apart from the cold is your accent. Our accent is so thick foreigners cant make out head or tail what we are trying to say. So from immigration right to your next door neigbour, you struggle to communicate- nobody hears's your type of English. Our slow drawl is a big problem, not just to Americans or british but even to arabs and asians.

The quickest way to be heard is trying to speak like these people (americans or Brits) who cant hear you. Asians and arabs ahve grown up watching american movies and mingling with the Brits, so their ( Brits or American) type of accent is hearable and hence universal-much like the dollar is the globally accepted currency everywhere. So for you to be heard, you a naija boy or girl just stepping into America must speak like them.

Over time, if you stay there long enough, you start speaking like these people and substitute your Naija accent for theirs. Some people manage to retain their naiaja accent and use that when home only to switch to their americana accent when they go back.

Do you agree with me? or there is a more profound reason? Share your thoughts

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Romance / Re: I Need A Man's Perspective by apache77(m): 3:18pm On Jun 25, 2013
ehen....now u r talking small small...you hav a first degree and studying for a second..he is self made, atleast near comfortable-and dont think he earns same as u, he surely earns more (abi u don buy land? you dey expect container frm high sea? hw many of ur sibblings r u sponsoring through university). None of these I suppose but ofcourse you wont knw these commitments of his and measure him based on the material things you see with him.

but he is 'uneducated', meaning he is omata, if you both live in naija. so he seems tushd, and polished, but scratch deep enough and you notice the trader in him, the veneer of lack of 'education'. so he is feeling inadequate (which derives from where you talked about his insecurities). well his lack of 'graduate' education (always notice the parenthesis when i talk of his education) may be an issue, but there may also be deeper lying cleavages.

First off, you come across like a fiercely opinionated woman- one whose strong sense of independence may hamper the progress of a relationship except with a really open minded man. you are sooo serious to the point of being boring. So I can imagine your moments with him, prolly very formal, very uptight, very rigid, maybe.. You seem too serious- this on its own is not bad, and cannot drive a serious man away, but it kind of stymies him,subtracts from the leisure moments he spends with you- the therapeutic factor is absent, maybe.

more importantly, your little family...to them you owe your first allegiance, that will always be ur first love, him second..so am sure he also sees this and this ofcourse is a red flag dipping into the deep end with you. and point of correction- he is a divorcee with kids is different from a single mother with kids. you are not the same. he had his kids in wedlock, you had yours outside wedlock. But thats neither here nor there.

Give him some space,you seem like a proud woman so this wont be hard for you to do. When even he does come around, throw away this very serious and rigid you, you guys shd just be like children, like playmates with out a care in the world- even if bills must be paid the next day. this your obsession with where you are going, he must succeed, you both must be at the top(except he is a loafer, he has a clear cut path to his success)...please all these motivational talk, if he needs a motivator, he will go to myles munroe or sam adeyemi. While you must have ur goals firmly in sight and in your mind, dont let dat, or your own concerns about his own actualization of be ur pre occupation as it so apparently is.you may think you are egging him onto his path of self fulfilment, but believe me, that can be a big put off. a man who will be President will be President- woman or no woman, patience or no patience.

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Romance / Re: I Need A Man's Perspective by apache77(m): 1:44pm On Jun 25, 2013
kreami diva: are u the guy OP is talking about?just asking.
Hahhahahahhah...hw can it be me? dem carry single mothers swear for me?
Romance / Re: Does A Guy Have To Say " Be My Girlfriend" by apache77(m): 1:36pm On Jun 25, 2013
Serendipity: women can be contumacious, unregenerate and incorrigible.
So, after the ''the cynthia Osokogu's saga'' you still had the temerity to go and visit a virtual friend and an E-quaintance at a hotel room knowing full well that you are the weaker sex?


Abeg sharap dia. Make we hear word. Girls wey dey inside dia inside dia house for iju ishaga, no dana plane cum crash ontop dia house kill them so?

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Romance / Re: Does A Guy Have To Say " Be My Girlfriend" by apache77(m): 1:25pm On Jun 25, 2013
But wait o- do people stil toast girls and ask them to be their girlfriend nowadays? If I meet a girl, I hang out wit her, if we enjoy our company, I get to start touchin her or holding her, wen we kiss or fvck, we r unofficially dating if I feel like datin her. From der, thinsg are alwats easier and smooth. We just drift into a relationship sort of and by d time d I love u's cum, den we r officially dating. Ofcourse, the thins we do don't even need a formal request for boyfriend- girlfriend level.

This guy just wanted to fvck u, if he wanted sumthin more, he would hav been verbalizin it by now. A guy doesn't need a soothsayer to knw a girl who came to spend d Night wit him in a hotel likes him and is his for d taking- sxx or no sxx.

But please which state r u? Lemme also come. I will stay in a hotel.

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Romance / Re: I Need A Man's Perspective by apache77(m): 1:11pm On Jun 25, 2013
U fvck man born one, fvck anoda man born, again, u cume here cum dey think say man wey holl side go love u up? This girl are u sleepin on a bike? He's runnin away cos he knws he'l fvck u n giv u a 3rd child and scram like d others. he doesn't wanna do.

2kids and u r a single mother so u shd be around 30-35? Let's take a median age for you, u r 33. U say he is way older. So let's put him in his early or mid 40's. So ofcourse he is married. Wat is he doin wit u? Think he'l take a second wife? Even if he isn't married, u think he'sl want to be shackled wit a single mother of two who wants to mother him also? Wats wit all these gibberish about seeing him reach his potential, wen u clearly didn't even get ur own priorities right? He is most likely more successsful than u and upwardly mobile so wats all dis one about steering him tru life?

Seems uv read too many of diz self help books about men likin women who help dem actualize their dreams. U be psychotherapist? Ur mothering attitude has prolly driven him off. I hav dated a girl who had two kids before- a boy n a girl..I was friends wit d kids, bought them stuff.but d girl neva stood a chance..cos of dos two kids. Yet I made her believe d kids didn't matter and I was cool wit her status as a single mother. And she was young- just 25. she was verygood at sxxx, so I couldn't keep my hands off her. As a life partner? She was a no-no,so d minute she started tryin to go deeper wit me, I slinked off.if u think being a single mother don't amtter to a man? Think again. Except he has kids of his own, is a divorcee or a widower. .my 2cents

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Romance / Re: Your Opinion About Dating Your Neighnour? by apache77(m): 4:53pm On Jun 21, 2013
u r on a long thin..if u r ontop of ur game, go ahead, else quit
Family / Re: How Often Do Your Wear Your Wedding Ring? by apache77(m): 6:25pm On Jun 19, 2013
.....i dont wear mine..i took it off, a week after my wedding. just not comfortable with it. my wife's friends have told her all manner and she has been giving me heat but i told her thats wat i want. we had an argument last week over sum issue and she angrily too it off..ehn! i warn am! i told her if she is ready to go back to her father's house, she shd let me wake up the next day without seeing it on her finger. needless to say, when i woke up, it was back on her finger.

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Romance / Re: Keturah Hamilton – “I Wasted Six Years Of My Life With Jim Iyke” by apache77(m): 12:57pm On Jun 10, 2013
na today u sabi jim ways?
Travel / This American Life by apache77(m): 3:12pm On Jun 06, 2013
You come to America, young and dashing, on full scholarship, finish school, get a great job, marry a glamorous spouse, have cute children, and retire at a young age with a great pension, portfolio and posture.

…And live happily ever after. Yes champ; rub it in.

For the rest of you, life abroad is a crest of trajectories.

You come into America, by air, by sea, or via a midnight sneak-in across the Mexican border; fooling the Minute Men and Lou Dobbs all at once. You come to school, to join your spouse, to work after winning the Green Card Lottery, or to raise your hand at the airport and claim persecution in your own country because you are a Mormon as well as a leader in MEND.

You behold America the beautiful. The triple-decker burgers and the giant cup of coke and cars that are wider than your village road and you wonder what took you so long to get here. You get on with schooling. For now any cheap school will do. You study the things people who came before you say brings money – the things Americans do not want to study- to prepare you for the job Americans do not want to do. You hear nursing, bloody, nursing. You say, bring it on. You get on with marriage - the convenience marriage- discovering that you married three persons at once; the person you thought you married, the person your spouse really is and the person your spouse becomes because you got married in this America. For work, you do anything for a dollar; fast food restaurant, drive a cab, guard the parking lot of company executives younger than you, even care for the disabled, breaking your back to pay the bills.

Then reality hits. The dollar is not adding up. There’s more going out than coming in. Time is running. Letters, emails and phone calls are enveloping you from home. School is done; where is the job? Your accent is a problem. Racism is real. You’re finally squeezed in. Corporate job at last. Work place politics really sucks. Meanwhile, the American spouse is gone but your residency is established. Now where do you find someone to marry for real? A Blind date? E-harmony.com? Town conventions? What of picking up someone from your village? But these are all packages which content you cannot ascertain. Somehow, you settle with one. Honeymoon over, now what is the state of the marriage? First mission accomplished, now what next?

You start a house in your village. A big house. You sink in any money you can get. Some of it goes to the house but most of it goes to your family member who is supervising the construction. It costs more than it will to buy a comparable house in America. You afraid to calculate how many days you will sleep in this house in your life time. You say, Tufiakwa. It will not be your portion. You need to do it not just because everyone is doing it – your daddy is demanding it. He’s asking you to wipe away the shame on the family’s face.

Your daddy dies. Your dentist extracts a tooth.

Then America begins to reveal itself quietly. Oh tribalism again; discrimination at the work place. Your head touches the virtual ceiling for immigrants. You now understand affirmative action. Kids come but housemaids are tagged slavery, who will care for them? Now you have day care, mortgage, after school sport activities, mid-life career crisis, more phone calls from home, and marital problems. If only some of these can wait. You can call marital problems by its real name- money problems entangled with control problems, decision making disagreements, tasks and privileges, status problems and in-law problems. Maybe you will stay home with the kids. Maybe your mother will come and help … and incense your spouse.

With caning banished, you raise teens with your hands tied to your back. Marital problems persist because as your fortune falls that of your spouse rises. You have done your calculation. Something has to give. You try selling real estate. You prepare taxes. You sell insurance. You run out of contacts. You buy cars from the auction and ship them home. You get duped by friends and family. Nothing is adding up. Fast insurance fraud deals? You try other businesses on the side, but total dedication is needed. You quit your job entirely and start a business. Cleaning business. Staffing business. Medical equipment. Home Health business. Escort service. Oh, these taxes, running costs, government paper works and lack of patronage by your own people.

Marital problems persist. You wish you had married the lover you left in Nigeria to come to America. You take the divorce option. Half of your wealth is wiped out. Now rages the battle for visitation rights, alimony and child support. You’re estranged from the kids because of the stories your spouse made up against you to win custody. But you keep paying up. You have no option. You start afresh. A new apartment. Maybe a new spouse? No, that can wait. Your classmate at home becomes the CEO of a multinational company. A chieftaincy title follows and you wonder what happened to you.

You consider a fast 419 advance fee fraud deal. You remember those acquaintances still doing time in US prisons. You hold off. You dream of a contract from the government at home. You write a proposal. You get in touch with an old classmate who has done well.

Home looks attractive. The people you left behind are doing better. You conveniently forget the majority who are not making ends meet. You are overwhelmed. High blood pressure is diagnosed. High cholesterol. Heart problems. Another tooth is extracted. You join the gym. You stay away from garri and farina. You join a church. You can be a pastor too, but you don’t like that lifestyle of pretending to be what you’re not. Life is no more fun. You go home, dabble in business, in politics, in entertainment.

You are burnt. You return. You start afresh.

No, you won't take the divorce option. You will manage. You will live like roommates, until the kids are grown and are out of the house. You will wait for retirement. You need just ten more years. At 56, with social security plus pension pay and 401K, you can go to the village, if kidnappers permit, and enjoy your old age. And start afresh. Maybe marry anew. Maybe teach in a college in Nigeria. Yeah! You register for a PhD with an online college.

Your Mummy dies. Your dentist extracts another tooth. Your doctor suggests knee and hip replacement. Your shrink prescribes Prozac.

In spite of your wahala, the children grow. The girls do well in school. The boys go from four-year colleges to two- year colleges, in between gang membership and police troubles. The boys marry White girls. The girls marry African-Americans. You’re glad the girls did not get pregnant out of wedlock. You thank God the boys did not throw a coming out party to announce that they are gay. One lives in Arizona and another in Hawaii. Your house is empty, calls come on holidays only.

It is now time to really go home. But what about managing the diabetes? Do you trust the doctors at home to handle your dialysis? Your medication cocktail will be hard to find at home. Daddy and Mummy are dead. You have to make new friends again. The ones you used to have are now strangers to you. Your spouse refuses to go with you. Spouse cannot deal with the sound of electric generators, untreated well water, Afor Igwe meat without an FDA inspection tag.

You retire. You sell the big house and move into a small condo. When you cannot wipe your behind, you go from the condo to a nursing home. Your children are too busy to have you share their homes. They visit every presidential election year. Once again, you think of going home but no, it is rather too late for that. The twelfth tooth is gone. You now take more pills than the teeth in your mouth.

So you stay until your autopsy is ready. Your townsfolk contribute money to ship you home. As your coffin lands in Lagos, your relations who have gathered to receive you for the last time mutter in between breaths, Tufiakwa. Yes, the same tufiakwa that you said the time you read the article called ‘This American Life’.

Oh, about your kids, well, some of them went home with your body. Those few times you cleaned your bank account to take them home paid off. They watch as sand lands on your coffin. One even remembered how to say, ‘Kedu’. They leave soon after. They will come back one more time – when they accompany your ex on the final journey home.



http://saharareporters.com/column/american-life-rudolf-ogoo-okonkwo

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Romance / Re: A by apache77(m): 8:25pm On May 12, 2013
Which abuja r u talkin about? U say u lived in lagos and even schooled in unilag n u r talkin abt abuja girls being hotter dan lagos girls? Which abuja girls, if I may ask? How many r they even? Or u r talkin about dos krystal and ibiza asshewo? Abeg make I no laff o. Only festac girls alone sef make sef pass abuja girls.. Not to talk of the regular girls u see on streets during business hours in surulere, yaba, ikeja and others.. No dey yarn patua o..where d girls wey u dey talk say hot for abuja. Where dem dey? D few dat trickle in ceddi? Or silverbrird? Or the. Ones dat jump buses to wuse market? Or utako market? Cos if u r talkin about dos ashewwo dat frequent krystal, aramis, cubana, extacy, xcapade, Aqua den u r on a long thing. They only come into town from far flung locations. Go sleep abeg .

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