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stevocracy88:
Michael Jackson is known for a lot of good.....using him to buttress a point about failed child stars is just wrong

A lot of good or not. Jackson himself admitted he had no childhood, in fact a very sad one. So he had a failed childhood. It affected every aspect of his life. It is even on tape. Jackson is the very ultimate example of bad childhood.

I doubt if you followed his career better than me when he was making hits then. I even had the chance to be in his live concert 24 years ago.

sexybaby22:
He can be the DJ for kids birthday parties for starters. We just aren't used to having kids work over here that's why it seems foreign to you. What of the kids abroad who are Disney stars singing and acting, or those with regular jobs. It helps if they get used to the concept of working early enough though it should be in moderation so it doesn't affect their studies.

But we also know how tragically most child stars end up, like Michael Jackson and many actors.

I wish this boy good luck and a successful balanced life.

Sometimes I can see why we Africans are making no headway. Instead of seriously working towards excellence, we sit there jumping at every tale of miracle. We know miracle can happen. That is something science cannot explain.

But which race or nation subscribes to miracle for food, infrastructure, education and so on and ever got anywhere?

A man did not get diagnosis of HIV, did not refuse treatment and only prayed and got retested again repeatedly and given all clear, how is that a miracle?

With some responses here, our education system is a big failure. It cannot produce enough critical thinkers with analytical minds that drive any modern country.

sumborri:
Nigerians have a sexual fetish in common. They love to see criminals naked. It apparently turns them on. Cos I don't understand why this is always an outcome in this God forsaken shit hole of a country

It actually has nothing sexual about it. At least its origins.

After Adam & Eve ate the forbidden fruit, when God asked Adam a simple question, he gave an out of point (OOP) answer "Lord, we are n.aked". It has tey man dey do olodo and fail exam.
From there man came to see uncladness as one of the most shaming and humiliating ways to be seen by other people.

It is just a way of maximum humiliation

We need serious soul searching. The things happening are just to appalling.

Even those who claim clergy.

Chanchit:
This is where you are all getting it wrong, SW didn't vote against GEJ out of hatred, it was because we think he's incompetent, if we feel same again bubu, we simply vote against him.

Nope. They said he was doing nothing for SW & SW people were being marginalised. Plus OBJ thought GEJ's term would be his third term ambition by proxy. Just like he thought about Yar'Adua's.

OBJ is influential in SW. Soon they all teamed up with SW media & with the North against GEJ.

Sadly, most current SW leaders are not as smart as Awo. Over 50 years ago, Awo understood the North better & refused doing business with backward & conservative people.

Now, SW leaders have soiled the name of progressive politics Awo laboured for by giving a total conservative that platform, APC.


when you do wayo too much, you will con yourself.

Now we can see how great the "competent & efficient Buhari" is performing now & SW people are enjoying better quality of life than GEJ's time.

How well did OBJ do in his 8 years?

So you just keep using sentiment to vote out people until a coup comes up again?

Do not misunderstand me. I was relieved when GEJ left Aso Rock. They could have killed him there, being surrounded by snakes who think they own Nigeria.

Chanchit:
If his wife can complain like this, then Tinubu has endured a lot. And this two were visible during campaign , I just pity bubu cos the ship is fast sinking

Did the ship ever float?

It was only ever buoyed/suspended up by the bubbles of lies some SW people & SW controlled media created, hinged on hate and disdain towards an ethnic minority, GEJ. As they are fighting themselves over power and influence now, the bubbles are bursting left, right & centre.

nikkypearl:
1.8M + but we started earlier did year wen materials were cheaper..but we did the roofing last week (sumo,18bundles)and total cost + workmanship is 885k

Ok Nicky let me get this right.

All the cost till now is Just over 1.8m, right?

hannyjay:
u tried last time and failed expect more damage in 2019

Fail? How? So you call somebody being lambasted by his own wife in London, not quite two years in govt a success? The one his wife threatening not to vote for in 2019? Or the freely distributed poverty since March 2015? Chai! Nigeria is in trouble.

Hahahahahaha!

How nice!

Even Mr Ajose, 83 years old, my former neighbour with 23 grandkids na virgin sef.

gbeseun:
But fayose said there is no chibok girl kidnap,its like this guy don't know what he is saying at all.

Well fact is showing pics of haggard looking girls is no evidence. Those names were not pulled out from a "pre-kidnap" biometric register that centrally captured their biodata. So anything is possible in 9ja.

If you go to any city in 9ja in this Buhari recession, you can pick 21 more haggard looking girls from any popular bus stop in 10 minutes, maybe in 2 minutes sef in Lagos & in 30 seconds in Kano.

For now, we dey siddon look.

APC cannot lie their way into govt & think we're just gonna let them have a free ride. Nope!

Collenshy2020:
That's Nice, being free with the common masses no wonder he's being welcomed n adored by the people he governs, ride on Mr Peter.

That's right. Whatever his flaws, he's turning out to be the rock. With some hateful souls smashing their heads on him.

izzou:
Why are pastors called Papa?

I really want to know why


Meanwhile congrats to the recipients

It dates back to the Catholic church where the pastor of a church is called Father or Reverend Father. In fact after training/education & being invested/sworn as a priest.The head of a convent would also be called Mother for example. Mother Theresa became a famous one.

Most other church denominations derived from schism from catholic church and further schisms down the line.

Just like you didn't know, the vast majority of churchgoers across the accountable church groups today do not know either.

For most, it is because Daddy X or Y founded the church or is head of the church & the most important person therein.

Joie de vivre no matter what.

Kabashin:
And the economy was buoyant.

Abio.

Some will even secretly wish PEJ or even her make-up artist sef was in power in Aso Rock today. As long as they can afford rice & beans again. But too ashamed of their 2015 election choice to admit now.

Edakun, I need rice.

By the time people start kidnapping roadside orange seller, maize seller, lacasera seller, bread hawker, gala seller, along with their goods, people will finally realise the mess 9ja is in.

Releasing some Chibok girls in exchange for many hardened terrorists won't even mask it.

themosthigh:
You are a very big liar. I have lived in St. Petersburg for 15 years and never experienced anything like this....there are few racists and incidents but nobody will stare at you in those countries since everywhere is filled with blacks and they even have more than 3 Nigerian restaurant and one of it is run by my wife. Is it by force to make it to the front page?
Even when I was living in Novosibirsk as the very few black person. I never experienced any form of racism and the occasional stares was out of curiosity not hate.
Unless maybe you are a remarkably ugly person or your attire was unbelievably ancient or weird which in that case you will get stares even in you hamlet

Well, I know of people living in Russia who say racism is serious there. Others lived there for over a decade back in the 1970s & 80s and say it was ok. We should not dismiss other people's experiences. They can vary. You still sometimes suffer obvious bigotry from very educated people even in the West where laws exist & mostly enforced.

I have always had in mind to visit Saint Petersburg one day: The Hermitage/museum & theater, Winter Palace, Peter & Paul Cathedral, etc.
Would be nice watching Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet right there.

I hope OP's experience was just a one-off.

Very good.

How much have you spent up to this roofing stage?
What is your overall budget? And location of project?
Kudos.

Lmao.

The catfished dude got me rolling on the floor.

Shebi the food he's been cooking for 6 months don done, time to eat and lick the plate.

If I'm that his friend I will let him fret a bit before picking him up.

BossKratos:
Why is such a stupid thread in the politics section? Or are either the woman or the man influential political players?


These mods ehn!

Because it is political blackness.

SaffronSpice:
I know your problem.
It's pride.
Instead of defending your statement logically with facts or admitting that you were wrong,you tried to bluff your way through while unabashedly sounding arrogant.SMH.
Get off your low horse.

I could have let it all slide, but awon Alale Moba would have frown at me .

Am not even trolling yet,and you already flustered,checking my profile and blubbering bombast ;
you've even increased the number of your grin simileys from 2 to 7 . This is interesting.

Back to the reason why am dignifying your posts with replies.

Expound your claims reasonably.

Hahahaha@awon Alale Moba.

Those dudes/dudettes up there or wherever you chose to put them have better things to worry about in the 21st century.
You think only the breathing covet fine things?

You better go pour libation with original imported gin than worry about their sensibilities.

Anyhow, by coming forward & sticking my head above the parapet, I have expected missiles thrown. And many have been thrown over the years. One would be accused of pride, showing off and whatnot. Interestingly, in real life I do not show any sign of origins. In fact a colleague nearly found out I might be related to certain people. He peeped over my shoulder and saw my email content. I dismissed it as the name being very common. Very unprofessional, but he's a fellow 9ja person so I let it slide.

I am totally anonymous here and I feel free to talk more & answer questions or join debates. I have never claimed that my stories are 100% correct. But compared with my peers, I began writing down information gleaned from the elders at a young age. Most came from people who had nothing to gain from any propaganda. Nigeria was not even so ethnically divided then.

A great many of them lived their lives as Ado-Akure people, certainly well into early adulthood and generally considered Yoruba.
For most they just relayed what they knew as the truth growing up. Much of which has changed and obliterated since 1914. For example, many minor chiefs have lobbied their way with the establishment & risen to 3rd class, 2nd class & now even 1st class monarch. Many, as it is popular in Yorubaland have suddenly plotted their direct descendance from Ododuwa. Benin is different. There is only one King. All dukes created same time as Ogiame of Warri, Eleko of Eko, Obis, Ovies and others, all remain dukes in current Benin Kingdom, which is just a tiny bit of ancient Benin Empire. While their peers of then are now first class monarchs outside current Benin Kingdom.

Any mention of any current Yoruba King descending from a king outside today's Yorubaland would be laughed at, pretty much as we see here now on NL. The case of Lagos (Benin influence) is just too profound and documented that it has been difficult to cut it out of history, not for want of trying by many though.

FYI, I take my time to write because I know there are very many silent readers out there. However long & tangential it may seem.

To be continued.

SaffronSpice:
Don't troll.
Sorry,that escape route is blocked.
Expound your claims with fact.

You don enter one chance .

Which one chance? I have dispatched off many trolls like you over the years. Check years back. Even with some lost because of cyber-attack on NL.

If I knew you were a troll only registered just last December, I'd never have wasted my precious time on you.

You are not going to pay for my history lessons, why should I teach you for free? Not that you even have manners or show gratitude.
i have sent lots of worse trolls with reasonable history but with massive tribal egos.

Those who ask politely, I squeeze time out to answer as detailed as I can. Queue behind those well-mannered people and keep looking over their shoulders.

Talasuma:
Assuming he did something of such back then, funny, cus he wasn't actually that popular two decades ago, the way those women remembered is face and name vividly, baffles me

Actually I have known about Donald Trump for over 20 years. Maybe not as popular but he was certainly a celeb multimillionaire businessman and owner of Trump Tower in NY. He has been well known for nearly 40 years for starting businesses, being colourful and marrying exotic women.

martineverest:
nairalanders wont complain dis time o.

Somebody go thief billions dem go bail am with 10million.

The lady was accused of stealing 450k and her bail fee is 500k....smh

Surprised. I was expecting around 25k bail.

This nor be boyfriend/girlfriend thing gone bad story so?

Hmmmm......9ja I hail o.

When they will one day interview the supposed released girls, do not be surprised if none can speak English.

Girls about write who cannot speak simple basic English.

We too dey fool ourselves for this cont3. Haba!

Where is humanity these days?

Talasuma:
Una no well, how you go just dea report matter wey happen like 20 years ago, as at now.

Idonbiliv it, omo dis 1 na wash

True or not, women can find it hard to come forward against rich, powerful celebrities. They fear being branded greedy liars.

Until something "draws the celeb's foot out".

If he said so by himself that he does that, who's to doubt him? Is he now going to brand himself a Walter Mitty character whole tells fanciful lies and still expect to be voted for as president?

hehehe.

Which kind oyinbo be that?

I hv cooked peppersoup and given to oyinbo for decades, none has really complained seriously.

No African party in diaspora is complete without peppersoup.

Maybe Op put too much pepper sef.

SaffronSpice:
Been there and I know how it feels to be the one-eyed man in a nation of blindmen,then you step out and realise not everyone suffers from retinal detachment.
The Internet takes the blame though -- for being a leveller.

Retinal detachment. Nice.

If you're better at discussing ophthalmology, happy to do that with you.

Because your grasp of history is poor my friend. Stick to what you know.

You're absolutely correct. Internet is a leveller. Especially google & free megabytes.

Abiagirl777:
I just wish it'd stop happening, if you are tired of your marriage just walk away and pls don't leave a man penniless,its suicidal.
just recently my mum told me about our church girl,she just came back from rural Cameron to stay with one of our church brothers,very dirty,illiterate poor girl this family brushed up.unfortunately one of our deacons son fell in luv with this girl to the point of marrying her.just 3 mths later his papers arrived and he travelled abroad,his family was just managing and rily looked up to this guy.he later came back to take this girl abroad,put her in school she is about graduating as a nurse this year but the news came that she is threatening the guy with divorce if he doesn't allow her mother to come and live with them.
the guys parents are late now and the church board tried to settle the issue and the girl opened her mouth to insult the same church that helped to cater for her welfare while in Nigeria.
As it stands my guy is putting up with this girl just because of the 2 boys and the idea of starting all over again and yes mama is now living there.life can be cruel at times.

Well, if the church had not been insulted too I doubt if people would have understood what the hubby is putting up with. The guy needs to careful. The lady & her mum might finish him off finally & kick him out. The handwriting is on the wall already.

pickabeau1:
Why not just marry a lady there already or even use a surrogate

Why suggest deliberately leaving apart from your partner

I doubt with the age of some of the men mentioned, if they did not already marry a black or white American lady to secure kpali.

People often know why the chose to marry from home.
One major reason is the future. Lots of men have the desire to return home in the future. The idea is if at least you marry a woman from 9ja, better still from your area of ethnicity, planning to return home together 20 or 30 years later would be easier. Though increasingly, women are becoming less inclined to return home permanently. People also dream that being from same place, the kids can be imparted with some of our traditional culture, language, together more easily. People hold on to 9ja values a lot. Whatever the level of education.

Some of those men also already have a bad experience with discrimination (having arrived in the days of more serious racism) or bad experience with a Yankee lady. A 9ja lady who's supposed to at least know our culture, if she now disappoints the hubby, it becomes double painful.

There's actually much logic behind the step of marrying from home. But fact is when empowered, human behaviour hardly follows logic.
Sometimes, you need to have seen how things happen abroad over a long period of time to really appreciate my point.

Compare Tinubu versus Buhari, OBJ versus GEJ.

As for living apart, won't you prefer your friend alive & well in 9ja than dead in America? It is not ideal, neither is death.

hmmm