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Mortgage is not the only thing that is paid for.
there are several other bills and as the children come into the picture so also will the bills increase.

I personally think your presentation of issues to her might be flawed hence the kind of response you're getting.
What you need to first of all understand from her is if she is willing to help both of you make it in life.
If she loves you, definitely she will.But if the willingness is not there, then sadly, you might have to think twice. (the ultimate decision lies with you and not nairaland)

From my understanding of your write up, She believes as the man, you should at least provide shelter(mortgage)

Experiences from her past might be playing a role here where women have helped men to build the house (all in the man's name)and later the woman is ejected out for another wife.

You know her more than us and you also know her background. Find out her fears and try to express and explain better.
If you havent lived oversees, you cant understand the rigours, so please dont blame her.

thank you .
whats the way forward for those whose results are withheld?

pls help me check 26128419FF

Thanks a lot

Is it still available?

And they had nice furniture. Too bad.

Be very nice to your in laws but set boundaries.

Unfortunately it seems they were already living together before you came into the equation.

You also need to set an example. Do you wash your own plates immediately or you leave them in the sink?
If you wash your plates immediately after eating and he eats and leaves his plates unwashed, you simply tell him to the hearing of your husband his brother, pls go and wash the plates you used to eat so that it doesn't breed rodents. Simple and straight forward, no frowning, no show of anger.

Secondly if he barges into your room without knocking, simply and politely tell him to always knock and wait for permission before entering cos you might not be clothed properly and if possible correct him to the hearing of his brother. Again no show of annoyance here.

On the issue of the bathroom, make sure you're either busy cooking or washing clothes and then politely request him to please assist you to wash the bathroom, again to the hearing of his brother, it will be hard for him to say no especially if he is just lounging around the house.

Their upbringing has a large role in his behavior, but it's up to you to help train him in manners but with love.

supereagle:
ABUJA— Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar yesterday took over the reins of police leadership from his predecessor, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim vowing to fight the dreaded Boko Haram sect in all its ramifications.



“That Inspector General of Police is Mr. Mohammed Dikko Abubakar. I took time to brief the new IGP considering the task ahead of him. Having successfully discussed with him, and briefed him on what I know so far to be his duties and his responsibilities, and have placed him on notice also of the enormous responsibilities that lay ahead of him.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/i-ll-fight-boko-haram-to-standstill/

This write up is referring to two different people.
Is the new IG mohammed dikko or mohammed Dahiru?

• American Generals, Officials Hold Discussions In Abuja

AS Boko Haram continues to launch terrorist attacks in the country, a deliberate lobby is going on in the US to frustrate American government’s attempt to label the sect a terrorist group.

Consequently, the Federal Government may be hiring an American lobbying firm to scuttle the lobby and represent Nigeria’s interest in the matter.

Informed sources, during the week, told The Guardian that soon after November last year’s hearing by the US House of Representatives on the global threat of Boko Haram, the US State Department came under pressure from lawmakers to impose the label of a terrorist group on the militant Islamic group.

But at about the same time, some influential groups of intellectuals, and policy think tanks in the US are canvassing publicly and within the US government circles to oppose the plans to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.

If the US government goes ahead to designate Boko Haram a terrorist group, the move will activate the use of US government resources to confront the group, identify its financing, and cut it off as much as possible, while also legally enabling the government to adopt other measures to stigmatise and isolate the terrorist group.

While the Nigerian government’s views are not being sought openly by the US on the matter, a Nigerian Minister was so concerned during a recent visit to the US capital about what the minister described as a “concerted effort” against Nigeria by the intellectuals and some policy think-tanks trying to downplay the Boko Haram threat in the US and lobby against the designation of the sect as terrorist.

In order to counter the lobby, the Federal Government is now considering hiring a US lobbying firm to scuttle the lobby, since the pro-Boko Haram arrowheads are cautioning the US government not to make the Islamic group an enemy of the Americans, in direct opposition to the recommendations of the US House of Representatives, which authored an authoritative report on the real threat posed by Boko Haram, even to the US.

Commenting on the matter, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the US, Prof Ade Adefuye, confirmed that indeed “the U S House of representatives intends to take hearings from Nigerians in the US on the desirability, or otherwise, of declaring Boko Haram a terrorist organisation and a danger to US interest.”

But he added that “the Nigerian government has not yet responded officially though its views on this will not matter to the US Congress.”

The Ambassador disclosed that although the Nigerian Embassy sends representatives to such hearing, they only go as observers.

However, Adefuye argued that the Boko Haram threat is clearly international, including the US, partly because there has been traces of their “connection and  possible links with terrorist organisations in Niger, Mali and also to the Al-Shabaab in Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.”

He said this “confirms what the U.S Commander of Africom said that Boko Haram has possible links with Al Qaida affiliates.”

In fact, there are indications that the Nigeria-US Bi-national Commission meetings tomorrow and Tuesday in Abuja would be discussing the Boko Haram issues, including its threat internationally and its possible designation by the US as a terrorist group.

Attending the meeting from the US are top military chiefs, who are already in Nigeria and the Nigerian delegation, which includes the Ambassador to the US, would be led by the National Security Advisor, General Owoye Azazi.

In an article published in the New York Times early this month, a US professor, Jean Herskovits, recalled the report, last November, of a sub-committee of the US House Committee on Homeland Security, which made the case that Boko Haram be added to America’s list of foreign terrorist organisations.

According to her, the US “State Department’s Africa Bureau disagrees, but pressure from Congress and several government agencies is mounting,” for such a designation, especially with the rising dangerous trend of the sect and its possible impact in the west African region and potential to hit US interests as well having hit the UN building last August.

Sources say Herskovits is one of the intellectual arrowheads of the lobby within the US trying to stop Boko Haram’s designation, and her article was what triggered the consideration by the federal government to hire a US lobbyist to represent Nigeria’s views and interests as the debate continues within US government circles.

Efforts to reach the State Department to ascertain its position on the designation of the sect as terrorist was abortive, but it is believed that the BNC meeting this week in Abuja, which is also being attended by US State Department officials, would address the concerns.

As far as Herskovits is concerned, “the United States should not allow itself to be drawn into this quicksand by focusing on Boko Haram alone. Washington is already seen by many northern Muslims — including a large number of longtime admirers of America — as biased toward a Christian president from the South.

The United States must work to avoid a self-fulfilling prophecy that makes us into their enemy. Placing Boko Haram on the foreign terrorist list would cement such views and make more Nigerians fear and distrust America.”

Herskovits views represents the intellectual bulwark of those opposed to labeling Boko Haram a terrorist group, a view that runs deeply contrary to those of elected US lawmakers.

According to the lawmakers in their November report titled Boko Haram: An Emerging Threat, “based on Boko Haram’s evolution and recent public warnings by the U.S. State Department to U.S. citizens in Nigeria, Boko Haram may meet the legal criteria for State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization, FTO designation.”

The report added that the State Department should initiate the process of making such a designation, noting that “if Boko Haram were to be designated an FTO, it would support U.S. intelligence Community efforts to curb the group’s financing, stigmatize and isolate it internationally, heighten public awareness and knowledge, and signal to other governments that US takes the threat from Boko Haram seriously.”
www.ngrguardiannews.com

My father and my God, pls help this young woman to do the right thing.

Boko Haram: An Existential Threat to the Nigerian Nation By Malcolm Fabiyi, PhD

Nigeria has faced four existential threats since it became an independent nation on October 1, 1960. In the context of the Nigerian state, an existential threat is a crisis, event, or tendency which has the potential for bringing about the end of the nation, as we know it. They are as follows:
The nigerian civil war
June 12 crisisC
Niger delta struggle
Boko haram

The threat of Boko Haram is a different story. It is a threat like non other that Nigeria has ever experienced. It is both a sectarian and ethnic conflict. Unlike ethnic and sectarian conflicts in the past, the anonymity of the perpetrators has been shed. Their agenda, vile as it might seem, has been articulated. Prosecuting the security war against Boko Haram will require a paradigm shift in the way security is conceived in Nigeria. It will require a reassessment of the political environment and what is permissible in that sphere. Addressing the Boko Haram menace will require a level of openness from our government that has never been demanded of any government before. Four steps will be required for finding an effective solution to the Boko Haram crisis.

Rethinking Security: Solving the Boko Haram menace is not a Law Enforcement issue, it is an intelligence issue. In the past, fundamentalists and zealots could be tagged. They belonged to sects that could be called by a name. They had leaders that could be tracked and incapacitated or imprisoned. They established enclaves and centralized structures that could be broken down by heavy handed military actions. Boko Haram is not a sect. It is a movement, a tendency. Its sympathizers range from political thugs to fanatical zealots, its ranks include UK based graduate students and jobless street kids, successful businessmen and sitting Senators in the Nigerian National Assembly. Boko Haram has no headquarters, no known place of doing business. It has no central leader or authority, working instead like some decentralized franchise operation. It was once funded by politicians, but Boko Haram has since turned to raiding Banks to raise funds and has since found friends in foreign lands willing to fund its war against Nigeria. Law enforcement actions such as sweeping raids, and emergency laws, presume the law breaker has a desire to survive, escape detection and is desperate to stay alive. None of those assumptions hold with Boko Haram. The actions of this group has introduced the word “suicide Bomber” into the Nigerian lexicon. How do you implement “law enforcement” against a group that seeks death? More disturbingly, groups like Al Qaeda have become involved in the crisis, and the methods with which Boko Haram will coordinate their campaign of terror will rely on tactics honed against the most powerful intelligence and military services in the World in theaters like Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. A new security strategy, built on intelligence and not demonstration of brute force is required.

The Thrust of Political Engagement: The first issue that needs resolution is whether or not Boko Haram is the northern equivalent of MEND. To believe that Boko Haram can be resolved with MEND style tactics – negotiation with the leadership of the militant group, rapprochement with the political elites that enable the militants and articulate their cause, and amnesty for the combatants; one must believe there is an equivalence in their world views. MEND wanted fairness in resource administration. Boko Haram seeks an end to “Western Education” and the vacation of the North by Southerners and Non-muslims. MEND made clear that it had no issues with the Nigeria people, only its government; Boko Haram has stated that it has a grouse both with the Nigerian government and its Southern & Christian people. Unless the Government is ready to compromise on the rights of its people to live freely in the Nation and to practice their faith without hindrance, a political rapprochement seems unlikely. The government perhaps believes that Boko Haram is still under the control of politicians who are masterminding the crisis to thrust themselves into relevance.  That viewpoint implies that the governments would believe that the real pacification that is necessary is to come to terms with the political elite in the usual manner – provide them access to the national treasury via contracts and appointments. While it is true that politicians were involved in the birth of Boko Haram in Borno State, it appears that at some point in the last couple of years a transformation has occurred that has unhinged the ties between the two.  

Openness in Government: The beginning of the end for Nigeria will come if (i) believing that the Government is incapable of offering protection to them Christians and Southerners in the North, (and perhaps Northerners in the South) begin to form vigilante groups and (ii) such groups begin to systematically enforce retributive justice in their spheres of influence if a perceived injustice is done to their kith and kin in other parts of the country, or engage frontally with other groups they perceive as threatening their collective security in areas of crisis. The government must be transparent with the Nigerian people and admit that it is well over its head, and will require some help. It is a rare government that squares with its people; however, if Nigeria is to survive this crisis, the Nigerian government must become more open about its shortcomings. If the government claims things are under control and deaths and casualties continue to mount, then the people will be forced to conclude that the government is able to, but simply does not wish to protect them, thereby justifying any eventual recourse to self-help through vigilante and militia action. This is how the conflicts in Liberia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda began.

Engaging the Nigerian People: So far, most of the major arrests in connection to Boko Haram have been aided by freely given, unsolicited tips from Nigerians. The Nigerian people love their nation, but their government must fess up to its ineptitude and request their help. The government must actively recruit the Nigerian people as part of its intelligence gathering effort. Mass enlightenment programs to educate people on what to look out for in identifying possible terrorist activity should be provided to the people. Whether or not Nigerians will be receptive to this clarion call is a different issue. A people must trust that the government that they will freely offer services to, services which by the way could lead to their identification as traitors and possible death – would probably be inclined to do so only if that Government had shown itself deserving of their support. A government that raises fuel prices in the midst of a global recession, stifles its people’s rights to freely express themselves and ignores the corruption that cripples the nation hardly deserves any support. If Nigerians respond to this call, it will be despite, not because of their government.

realborn:
@iv4fb,
D point is clear. GEJ has not exuded signs of control. Lives are lost daily in this country due to Govt's ineptitude. Suspects disappear in custody. Sponsors are granted unconditional bail. Security foot soldiers are being killed daily. Churches are being razed. Yesterday Kano, Today Bauchi and Yobe. Corruption and embezzlement deep in FGN. Poor economic policies backed by elementary reasons are spewed daily. Ministers are paper qualified with no clue of governance, parading themsleves like rats. Ministers denying involvement in policies right under the president's nose, shows total disrespect for ur hard hat president. No one gets punished. How many more will die? If my perception is right, BH requires only 36 days to burn Nigeria down. Let govermrnt continue in its stride of poor action. Keep watching. Perhaps the infamous office you have sought so much respect for may end up not existing afterall. With this crop of leaders, only God can save thiscountry. The worst ever. A word is enough for the wise.

Thank you Realborn, you have said it all

@figment and Korrection, i am sure you think there is a medal for who can insult and curse most on nairaland. I won't bother replying your insults because it won't bring back the dead nor stop the wanton loss of life. The truth of the nigerian situation is as plain as day for all those that want to see it. Like Realborn says "at this rate BH requires only 36 days to burn nigeria down" May God help us all

@iv4fb, it's unfortunate that you choose to be insultive to get your views across but that's no skin off my back.
Every society has laws and consequences if broken. As a commander in chief, he is solely responsible to ensure the law is followed and the appropriate consequences carried out. If not the bad eggs will be embolden to do much worse and that is what has been happening in nigeria.
Let's look at jos, plateau state, GEJ should have enforced a state of emergency there ages ago, he should have comedown very hard on the prepertrators as a sign that he will not condone human lives being wasted, instead he let it fester for so long that up till now there is no real peace in Jos.
In every situation a stitch in time saves nine! When people see that you can't take a bold step, they will end up riding roughshod all over you. It happens all the time.
So if we don't blame GEJ, the C in C, who should we blame, who is going to set the situation right?

GEJ is deaf, dumb and blind to what is happening in the country. I am afraid he will be totally dishonoured at the end.
Of course he has heard people asking him to step down but wil he do the Honourable thing? Hell no!!!
Can he enforce the same on Ringim and co? I doubt it.
In the early days of this administration, I heard people call him weak, I didn't quite understand, but now I can see clearly he is not just weak but utterly spineless and liver less!
My 4yr old boy has more guts in his small frame than GEJ!

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"Thank God I and my wife agreed we'd never be found and caught with these trends that has only come to dismantle most marriages and cause confusion and anarchy in many homes.

You did the best thing my guy,  Let her go, I'm sure after a couple of years she'll be tired of that guy as well and find another new Romeo,  Some
Ladies are just born ashawo and no matter what amount of love you show to them, they'll still sleep with other men. move on with ur life my guy."

@Sdbaba, did you really mean what you said "that all ladies are just born ashawo"? And you have a wife?

Gunmen open fire on Christian mourners, killing 17
on JANUARY 6, 2012 · in NEWS
| 6:03 pm

KANO (AFP) – Gunmen fired on Christian mourners on Friday, killing 17 in the latest attack to hit the region amid mounting fears of sectarian clashes, residents and a relief source said.

“There was an attack last night at Good Will Hotel in which five people were killed, all of them Igbos,” resident Zubairu Abdulaziz said of the incident in the northeastern town of Mubi, speaking of the Christian Igbo ethnic group.

“Today, some friends and relations of one of those killed in the attack gathered in his house to mourn his death. Unfortunately some yet to be identified gunmen arrived at the house and shot dead 17 mourners.”

Other residents gave a similar account. A rescue official speaking on condition of anonymity said local residents told him three people were killed on Thursday night and either 16 or 17 on Friday.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. A police spokeswoman declined to comment, saying she did not yet have information.

It was the latest attack in recent weeks targeting Christians in Nigeria. Islamist group Boko Haram has been blamed for previous such strikes.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on December 31 in parts of four states hard hit by violence blamed on Boko Haram, but there has been no halt to the violence.

Mubi, located in Adamawa state near the Cameroon border, is not part of the areas under the state of emergency decree.

Late Thursday, gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a church on the outskirts of the city of Gombe, killing six people, including the pastor’s wife. Three bomb blasts hit the cities of Maiduguri and Damaturu on Wednesday night.

The attacks came amid intensifying concerns over the potential for renewed sectarian clashes in Nigeria, whose 160 million population is roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.

While Boko Haram has been blamed for increasingly deadly attacks for months, including an August suicide bombing of UN headquarters in Abuja that killed 25, the violence has taken on a different dimension with recent church attacks.

A wave of Christmas bombings that killed 49 people, most of them outside of a Catholic church as services were ending, led to intense fear and outrage in Africa’s largest oil producer.

There have been fears of reprisals from Christians, and Christian leaders have warned they will defend themselves if attacks against them continue.

Boko Haram is a shadowy group believed to have a number of factions with differing aims, including those with political links and a hard-core Islamist faction.

It launched an uprising in 2009 put down by a brutal military assault which left some 800 people dead.

Since the group re-emerged in 2010, it has been blamed for increasingly sophisticated and deadly attacks, including suicide bombings, and its structure and aims have become far less clear.

Speculation has ranged from whether the group is seeking to foment religious conflict to if elements of it have been co-opted for political aims.

The hard truth is that she must leave the home and sever contact immediately

Secondly she needs a mentor, preferably a genuine man or woman of God to guide her to repentance and restitution

Thirdly, such a thing can't be kept secret, but it should be disclosed to the parties involved with wisdom and the man shamed that he might not victimize someone else tomorrow. A family meeting needs to be called or else he can lay the blame squarely on the poor girl

"But there is an even more treacherous scandal in this “oil subsidy” scam that the Nigerian national media is either not aware of or has chosen to ignore.

Hmmmmmm

Biggest Scandal in Oil “Subsidy Removal” Fraud
By Farooq A. Kperogi
 
To begin with, the idea that the Nigerian government is subsidizing fuel for the masses is a willfully double-tongued twaddle. Only four kinds of people believe that: the hopelessly ignorant, the mentally subnormal, masochists with a perverse thirst for self-abasement, and beneficiaries of real government subsidies such as our indolent, unproductive, and ruthlessly acquisitive government officials and their equally debauched cronies in the private sector. Many informed commentators have conclusively proved that.

But there is an even more treacherous scandal in this “oil subsidy” scam that the Nigerian national media is either not aware of or has chosen to ignore.

Two weeks ago, when I compared fuel prices among oil-producing nations of the world and showed that Nigerians pay the highest price for petrol even though they receive the lowest minimum wage among their peers, I actually did a gross disservice to my argument. The situation is a lot worse than that. I will come back to this point shortly.

 I pointed out that the petrol I use for my car in America burns A LOT SLOWER than the one I use when I visit Nigeria, meaning that, at the current rate, Nigerians (with a miserable minimum wage of N7,000 per month or about $45 per month— against America’s over N180,000 minimum wage per month) actually pay more than or about equal to Americans for petrol. It takes a remarkably heartless person to ignore this heartrending fact. But that’s an issue for another day.

A Nigerian online citizen investigator who goes by the handle “Viscount” revealed on a Nigerian Internet discussion forum recently that Nigerians not only pay the highest price for fuel in OPEC; they also consume the worst imaginable grade of petrol among oil-producing countries. That means comparing fuel prices between Nigeria and other oil-producing countries—or even countries in Europe and North America— is actually like comparing apples and oranges. 

These countries not only pay considerably lower prices than us for high-quality petrol, Nigerians have been paying unconscionably high prices for toxic fuel for the past 12 years, as you will see shortly. And they will pay even more for it next year. If this is not sufficient reason to give up everything and “occupy” Nigeria until the oppressors are brought to a standstill, I don’t know what is.

At the center of the tragic importation of toxic petroleum products into Nigeria—and other West African nations— is an Amsterdam-based multinational company called Trafigura. Keep that name in mind as you read this.

Many Nigerians know that the fuel they consume domestically isn’t derived from the crude oil their country exports. They also know that they have one of the world’s best and finest quality of crude oil. What many of them don’t know is that the cabal of rapacious oil importers that the Jonathan administration—and the administrations that preceded him—mollycoddle with “subsidies” actually import toxic, low-quality oil that is not fit for consumption in Europe or North America—or in any society that cares for the welfare of its citizens. 

In 2010, a group of journalists from the UK, Norway, and the Netherlands won a prestigious international journalism award for a series of investigative reports they did on Trafigura’s barbarous dumping of toxic petroleum waste on Cote d’Ivoire. The waste killed scores of people and sickened thousands more. In July 2010, an Amsterdam court found the company guilty and fined it 1 million euros. (The caustic petroleum residues were dumped on Cote d’Ivoire on July 2, 2006). 

On June 24 this year, Afrol News, an Africa-centered news agency, reported that it had been “given documentation” that shows that the same Trafigura that was fined for dumping deleterious waste on Ivoirians had offloaded “dangerous and poor gasoline [i.e., petrol]” in the “Nigerian port of Lagos.” This toxic petrol, which Nigerians have been consuming for years and which our governments “subsidize,” according to the Afrol News report, “is highly unstable, not enduring sunlight exposure, and will cause damage to vehicles. It will also cause environmental damages due to high sulphur values, and can therefore cause human health damages. The product is strictly illegal in Europe and the US, but may in some cases be within legal quality and environment standards in some West African countries.”

But this wasn't a one-off occurrence. It's been happening for over a decade. So, ordinary Nigerians are being forced to use their hard-earned money to buy inordinately overpriced and demonstrably harmful petroleum products. Yet the Nigerian government says this isn’t bad enough; it wants to increase fuel prices again next year. And the government has no plans to repair our refineries so that we can refine our own crude domestically and bring down the cost of petrol. 

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But the bigger scandal is that in January this year, the Jonathan administration signed a multi-billion-dollar annual contract with the same Trafigura of toxic fuel dumping infamy. And there was no due process in the award of the contract. According to Business Day of January 4, 2011, “Under the agreement with the Nigerian government, Trafigura is expected to pick up Nigerian crude oil and in return, supply her with refined products; but it is unclear why the firm, which has supplied refined products to Nigeria in the last 12 years, was favoured for the deal.

“Trafigura agreed to an annual contract with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the basis of taking 60,000 barrels of crude oil per day in exchange for refined products such as gasoline and gas oil of equivalent value estimated at around $3 billion a year.”

An oil industry expert who spoke to Business Day said just “$1 billion of the amount would have put the four refineries in proper shape.” When I wrote two weeks ago that Nigerians were faced with a choice between death and life, I didn’t even know about all these.

I am going to leave the reader with “Viscount”’s parting thoughts:

“Nigeria will give Trafigura (confirmed supplier of bad petrol), 60, 000 barrels of oil per day in exchange for their mega tonnes of DEADLY-sulphurous petrol! Yep, Jonathan's government is paying a foreign company to systematically KILL Nigerians. And poor Nigerians are being asked to be happy jare!

“So, Nigerians, when your brand new Tokunbo engine knocks - just like that, thank Trafigura! When your I-better-pass-my-neighbour generator's fume smells funny and leaves a film like Casper the Ghost - just like that, thank Trafigura! When you are walking in Lagos, or any other Nigerian [city], and you are experiencing a choking sensation from the mundane act of breathing in - just like that, thank Trafigura! Nigeria!”

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Fuel Subsidy Removal: Time to Occupy Nigeria
Farooq A. Kperogi at 1:28 AM


I am speechless!!!
God have mercy!

Why do some men always repay women that helped them to make it in life either financially or otherwise with evil?

In times past you have men that their wives saw them through school, holding down the home font with all sorts of menial jobs. Immediately they become rich or well off, they go for other women and some even chase away their wives and children to suffer in the streets.

In recent times, we have young girls sustaining their boyfriends and fiances financially out of their little only for these young men to dump them once things become rosy. (so many stories abound of the above 2 scenarios)

Is it that when a woman goes the extra mile for a man, it is seen as she is desperate and should be despised?

Is it recommended for a woman to help out her man (boyfriend or husband) financially when she doesn't know how the tables will turn tomorrow?

Your thoughts will be appreciated. Thanks

The information has been confirmed false.
Mischief makers at it again.
The same text/BB was sent during the wallah holidays.

If I were a boy,

^^^ Well said sis.
The truth is the truth. God help the OP before its too late.

Still water's post had me laughing till tears streamed from my eyes.
You got it down pat!!!

OP, if you really want to save your marriage and have a happy home instead of being just one of the statistics, I advise you take all the well meaning advise on here that people have posted on how to make your home work well.
Your wife is you and you are your wife!
Her body is yours and your body is hers!
Your money is hers and hers is also yours
Those were the vows you took before God, if you try to change it be ready for whatever you see.
Don't allow your wife to begin to long for her parents home or begin to wish another man was her husband!
For you to be so extreme in your thoughts and posting suggest the home you grew up in was suspect!
If you want a better home than your parents had, pls work at it, it does not come easy!
Should your kids ask your permission to take food from the kitchen or drinks from the fridge?
You are their dad, what you have is theirs and vice versa!
Your wife is your wife, your lover, she will nurse you when sick, pray for your success(and I tell you Godhears) care,watch and train the children. Pls don't reduce her to a slave!

Funny enough the difference which is quite small might just be a case of where the items were bought. From personal experience shops don't all have the same price when it comes to diapers or furmulas and at times the prices do change.
Blaming the woman aint gonna solve the issue, they both should own up to their wrong and try to start again.
Babbling about this to a friend is just too immature and shows he needs to grow up and be a man.

Big Brother Amplified: Who Will Be The Winner?!
Today we feature a guest columnist from TVSA, Prudence Mathebula. Prudence blogs for the South African-based TVSA (tvsa.co.za) as Pruluv. Her views on housemates, their chances, and the Naija ‘factor’ do not necessarily reflect those of The Namibian’s Big Brother writers! Enjoy ,
With seven housemates left and a few days to go before the Big Brother Amplified finale, it’s becoming almost apparent who’s taking the moola home , I still don’t understand why Wendall and Hanni are still in the game. Really … Actually, rather them than Vimbai ‘the Vampire’, not too sure about Kim ‘the Skank’. Now Vina can jump Lomwe’s bones … lol.
Anywhoo,
Let’s look at the likelihood of who’s taking the US$400 000 (US$200 000 x 2) grand prize home.

Karen 100%

Big Brother Amplified could easily be renamed to Big Brother Karen, because she defines Amplified. I thought Tatiana and Richard were the craziest Big Brother housemates until we were introduced to Karen, who is simply epic. She’s one person who manages to rub everyone up the wrong way, nag them to forgive her, then befriend them all over again. However, I doubt the bouncer has a soft spot for her, particularly after what she does to him after the Saturday night parties. Her chat room sessions are the best. She would walk in crying, smile mid-session then leave in laughter. She’s remained consistent in her MADness and deserves to win the US$200 000. If she doesn’t win, then we’ll know the money went to Julius Malema’s Trust Fund

Luclay 80%
As much as I would love to fully support him, he just has a way of irritating everyone, the viewers included. Agreed he’s a good actor, but enough with the Muvhango drama. Whenever he wears his hat as Mr Otono, he’s very entertaining. Then somehow he just goes overboard. Ask Lotus and Karen, they’ll testify that brother man can go too far. I truly believe he has split personalities or (is) bipolar. However, he’s played his part in the house, and for the most part he’s been really entertaining. I loved his confrontation with Mumba, who put him in his place. Hehehe …

If all things go according to plan, he will share the prize money with Karen.
Don’t you think they make a perfect couple?

Vina 78%
Big Ups to Nigeria for supporting their country mates because I don’t know how Vina has made it this far. OK, fair enough, she’s smart, she’s a good dancer and has a cute smile, but … Noooo man. Anyway, Vina is a woman in love with the playa, Lomwe. No matter how many times she says she doesn’t love him, the fact remains – Vina loves Lomwe, period.

I guess that’s what makes her entertaining, how she’s pushed away all the obstacles to get closer to Lomwe. Even bullying her ‘best bud’ Hanni to move over so she can get to the kill. She’s a contender for the prize simply because she’s from Naija. Apparently since Naijas are in every country, they have ‘that’ voting power. So, we might get the shock of our lives come Sunday and IK announces Vina as the other winner. We’ll have to see …

Lomwe 72%
Playa! Playa! Although he’s never revealed his strategy, this guy was placed in the house to give the poor girls heartache. He’s been scouting and tried hard to get one of the girls in his bed whilst in the Heads house, without much luck. Then… Taaa-da! His entry into the Tails house gave him a buffet, which saw him become Mr Casanova and sleep with Kim. Yeah they did it.

He’s obviously good looking and he knows it. Besides his womanising ways and good looks, he’s doesn’t offer much to the show. Well … maybe that’s all he needs; he is after all in the final. I don’t see him winning. Naaa …

Sharon O 70%

She’s very much the equivalent of Lomwe in the looks department. She’s hot and has a hot body. It’s a good thing the show is coming to an end before she gets a phuza face, although the signs are already there. She was sooo boring initially. She gained confidence after being saved a couple of times. She’s now become loud and crazy and it’s working for her, since she’s not planning on getting it down with any guy. I’ve noted that she’s got some love-nyana for Lomwe. She hasn’t brought much drama, besides making Kim feel like the ‘s’ word, when Lomwe chose her to share his glass house prize. Because of her lack of drama, I don’t see her winning the prize money.

Hanni 52%
She’s definitely not going to win. It’s just impossible. What has she done? Follow Vina everywhere. That’s about it. She’s beautiful all right. I think she’s the most beautiful lady in the house and her hairstyle this past Sunday … Wow. #NoHomo.

I guess that’s what’s kept her in the game. She’s offered no entertainment, no drama, nothing. She’d make a good photo to stare at, but winning Big Brother … She must forget it.

Wendall 50%

This Wendall guy’s mere existence in the final baffles me. How did it happen? Is it those biceps? I’m seriously confused. I have seen zero per cent entertainment from this guy. OK, maybe when he’s downed a couple of drinks, he’s injected with life, but it’s still not enough. Shame, he’s been trying really hard in the past two weeks, but I see him as the first one to be out on Sunday.
These are my predictions, but anything can happen.
I still maintain that if Karen doesn’t win then there’s no justice in this world.
The majority of these housemates that are in the final are proof that good looks can take you far. Far in life and far in the game. Housemates who were more entertaining have left the house because their faces didn’t cut it.
Tjo, life is just unfair …
– tvsa.co.za

In this voting week on BB Amplified, three contestants were voted out. With only one country

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