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Simplep:
As for me,its nt a bad idea,infact any man I'm to get married to,we will stay togeda for at least 3months,lets see hw we handle and tolerate each other before going to d big institution
Btw,I'm only talking abt people who are ready for marriage ,not teens please

That's how ladies get tagged hoes! And when it dn't work out? You cohabit with the next 3men again before finally getting married. Let me tell you, heard of the serial killer who was married many years, yet was killing women around his town and the towns people found it hard to believe his wife of many years didn't know. My point, some behavior can still be hiden and many with keen observation can still be detected without living together. Why cohabit? Even the word sounds ugly and wrong.

NO. Very wrong. What is happening to our moral compass! Small thing a lady is called Hoe, yet some dumb ass ladies are saying yes. So how many guys will u sleep with in the name of cohabiting before u marry lass lass. I can't comman be preaching. Morally, wrong. Religiously, wrong.

KOPT33:
That 'give me money' was one of the worst things I have ever heard. Truth be told, if that part hadn't happened, I might I have overlooked everyother thing, but that was just too much to bear.

I sent you a PM regarding your request. We might be able to work something out. Please, get back to me. Thanks.

yes please. I saw it. I want to rework the story so it's a bit on pause for now. I will get back when ready. Thanks.

Trustworthiness:
Sorry for quoting you.

The issue is who will be carrying the problem for head. Who is it going to affect most.

Last time I read on Nairaland about a 17 year old lady caught in pain state that threw one of her twins that is sick in the bush because she couldn't find the guy that impregnated her to take care of the sick child. She travelled from Ekiti state to ogun state.

One evil is likely to result into another. So, it better if girls are more of concern and be advised from not getting themselves into the mess.

Trustworthiness

I agree, and I have said this many times here too, girls shd have modesty they carry the shame of sex in the end, through unwanted preggs and being tagged hoes. My angle this time was based on the discussion and the person I quoted.

Much as we can make efforts consistently to maintain good health, sometimes occurrences beyond our control could mar such efforts.

Tragic events sometimes occur, some, leading to the death of many, others plaguing the lives of its victims with health challenges many years after. Your Health Attitude has researched some world events that killed & destroyed the health of many.



BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY

Also referred to as the Bhopal disaster, the Bhopal gas tragedy is one of the largest extinctions in history caused by human error.

The Bhopal disaster was an intense toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leak, that permeated the neighborhood of Bhopal inside the city of Mumbai, India.

On the night of December 2, 1984, an accident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, led to the release of about 40 tons of the highly toxic gas; methyl isocyanate, as well as a number of other poisonous gases.

The pesticide plant was surrounded by shanty towns, leading to more than 500,000 people being exposed to the deadly gas cloud that night. The gases stayed low to the ground, causing victims throats and eyes to burn, inducing nausea, and many deaths.

Estimates of the death toll vary from as few as 3,787 to as many as 16,000, but government figures now refer to an estimate of 15,000 killed over the years. A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.

The Indian government and local activists argue that slack management and deferred maintenance on the part of the Union Carbide Corporation led to this great disaster.

The leakage actually happened because water entered the tank containing Methyl isocyanate. This caused a chemical reaction which resulted in the buildup of much carbon dioxide, among other things. The resulting reaction increased the temperature inside the tank to reach over 200 °C (392 °F). The pressure was more than the tank was built to withstand.

The tank had valves to control the pressure. These were triggered in an emergency, which reduced the pressure. As a result, large amounts of toxic gases were released into the environment.

Due to the rustiness of the pipes, the reaction was faster. All the contents of the tank were released within a period of about two hours.

Over the years, many of those who were exposed to the gas have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children. For decades, survivors have been fighting to have the site cleaned. The terrain where the plant stands is still contaminated with mercury and other carcinogenic substances. Dow Chemical who owns Union Carbide refuses to decontaminate the soil. Greenpeace has estimated that decontamination would only cost around 30 million USD.

INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918-19 ( SPANISH FLU )

As the World War I which claimed an estimated 16 million lives was winding down, something erupted across the globe that seemed as benign as the common cold. The Influenza of that season, however, was far more than just a cold.

The influenza infected approximately about 500 million people around the world, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world’s population). Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.

The plague emerged in two phases. In late spring of 1918, the first phase, known as the “three-day fever,” appeared without warning. Few deaths were reported. Victims recovered after a few days. When the disease surfaced again that fall, it was far more severe. Scientists, doctors, and health officials could not identify this disease which was striking so fast and so viciously, eluding treatment and defying control. Some victims died within hours of their first symptoms. Others succumbed after a few days; their lungs filled with fluid and they suffocated to death.

Young adults, usually unaffected by these types of infectious diseases, were among the hardest hit groups along with the elderly and young children. The flu afflicted over 28 percent of the U.S. population. An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. In one year, the average life expectancy in the United States dropped by 12 years.

The influenza pandemic went across the globe. It spread following the path of its human carriers, along trade routes and shipping lines. Outbreaks swept through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and the south pacific. In India the mortality rate was extremely high at around 50 deaths from influenza per 1000 people.

Influenza is caused by a virus that is transmitted from person to person through airborne respiratory secretions. An outbreak can occur if a new strain of influenza virus emerges against which the population has no immunity.

When an infected person sneezes or coughs, more than half a million virus particles can be spread to those close by. The Great war, with its mass movement of men in armies and aboard ships, probably aided in its rapid diffusion and attack.

Complicating matters was the fact that World War I had left parts of America with a shortage of physicians and other health workers. And of the available medical personnel in the U.S., many came down with the flu themselves.

Officials in some communities imposed quarantines, ordered citizens to wear masks and shut down public places, including schools, churches and theaters. People were advised to avoid shaking hands and to stay indoors, libraries put a halt on lending books and regulations were passed banning spitting.

By the summer of 1919, the flu pandemic came to an end, as those that were infected either died or developed immunity.



HALIFAX EXPLOSION

The port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada was devastated on 6 December 1917 when two ships collided in the city’s harbour. One of them a munitions ship loaded with explosives bound for the battlefields of the First World War.

What followed was one of the largest human-made explosions prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945. The north end of Halifax was wiped out by the blast and subsequent tsunami. Nearly 2,000 people died, another 9,000 were maimed or blinded, and more than 25,000 were left without adequate shelter.

What really happened?

Shortly before 9:00 am that day, the Imo, a Norwegian steamship carrying supplies for the Belgian Relief Commission headed out of Halifax Harbour and found itself on a collision course with the French steamship Mont-Blanc. Unbeknownst to others in the harbour, the Mont-Blanc was carrying 2,925 metric tons of explosives destined for the French war effort. After exchanging warning signals, both vessels initiated evasion maneuvers but ultimately collided.

The Mont-Blanc caught fire after several drums of benzol tipped over on the deck, spilling their contents, which ignited, and the vessel drifted into a pier.

As crowds gathered, drawn in by the rising pall of smoke, emergency personnel tried to control the damage. However, just after 9:04 AM, the Mont-Blanc exploded. The blast and the resulting tsunami, which surged approximately 60 feet above the high-water mark, pressed into the city. More than 1,600 buildings were destroyed by the wave, and debris was scattered for several miles. The force of the wave heaved the Imo toward the shore where it became grounded.

In the aftermath of the explosion, hospitals were packed with the wounded, and morgues struggled to identify and document the dead. News of the disaster spread quickly, and aid soon arrived from within Canada as well as from the United States.

The Halifax community remembers the disaster each December 6 with a service at the memorial bell tower located in Fort Needham Park. Internationally, the incident influenced the adoption of stricter maritime laws regarding cargo identification and harbour traffic control.

Though many factors were in play, it is understood that the disaster would have been avoided had safety protocols not been relaxed as a result of WW1 being in full swing at the time.

MINAMATA DISEASE

In the early 1950s, the residents of Minamata, a small coastal city in southern Japan, began observing some startling animal behavior. Cats would suddenly foam at the mouth, dance around wildly and throw themselves into the sea, whereas birds would crash land and fish would inexplicably go belly up.

Before long, humans too were suffering from what later became known as Minamata disease, slurring their speech, stumbling about and having trouble with simple tasks.

The culprit finally emerged in 1959, when it was determined that the chemical company Chisso Corporation, one of Minamata’s biggest employers, was dumping mercury into the sea as part of its manufacturing process and that this toxin was poisoning people (and animals) who ate the local seafood.

It is known that Minamata Disease is a disorder of the central nervous system and shows various signs and symptoms including sensory disturbance in the distal portions of four extremities, ataxia, concentric contraction of the visual field, etc.

Chisso continued releasing mercury-tainted wastewater until 1968, reportedly causing at least 2,000 deaths, as well as birth defects, paralysis and other maladies.

Minamata disease caused serious damage to the natural environment, human relations, and economic activities in these districts, as well as to the daily lives of the patients and their family members.

The health of survivors and their children are being monitored. A permanent museum and annual community ceremonies commemorate the worst mercury poisoning environmental disaster ever.

Like this, the case of Minamata Disease in Japan makes it clear that activities which give priority to economic goals but lack proper attention to the environment cause irreparable damages and bring undesirable results even from an economic point of view as well, since so many measures, huge costs and a long time period are required against these damages.

We hope that it will be realized again how consideration of environment is important and the efforts will be made to prevent environmental pollution in other countries having such experience in Japan as a lesson.

CHERNOBYL DISASTER

On 26 April, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power station, located in Ukraine about 20 km south of the border of Belarus, suffered a major accident which was followed by a prolonged release to the atmosphere of large quantities of radioactive substances. The event was said to be the worst accident in the history of nuclear power.

The Chernobyl accident happened during a test to see how the plant would operate if it lost power. Plant operators made several mistakes, creating a poisonous and unstable environment in the reactor core. Nevertheless, they proceeded with the experiment, shutting down safety systems that would be lost during a power outage, including the turbine system that provided cooling water. With the flow reduced, the cooling water in the reactor began to boil and turn to steam. Operators tried to reinsert rods to slow and control the nuclear reaction, but a design flaw in the control rods caused them to jam. The steam likely caused an explosion in the reactor, which, in turn, caused a second explosion seconds later.

Debris from the explosion set out a number of fires around the Chernobyl plant. It released radioactive smoke into the atmosphere that spread over the western Soviet Union and Europe. The radioactive release has been estimated at 400 times the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The disaster could have been worse if not for the actions of Pripyat firefighters who were able to put out the fires before they caused explosions in the other three reactors.

The number of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster is usually estimated to be between 31 and 56, but the long-term effects of the disaster have impacted a much larger number of people.

An estimated 5,000 Soviet citizens eventually died from cancer and other radiation-induced illnesses caused by their exposure to the Chernobyl radiation, and millions more had their health adversely affected. Many children also contracted thyroid cancer after drinking milk from cows in the area of Chernobyl.

In 2000, the last working reactors at Chernobyl were shut down and the plant was officially closed.

These indeed are some very sad and unfortunate world events that killed & destroyed the health of many. We hope companies, organizations and governments can in the future take seriously safety measures to prevent these as well as hold accountable multi dollar companies who for the sake of profit care less about the people.

Have a positive health attitude.

Source - www.yourhealthattitude.com

KOPT33:
I meet girls everywhere and I take many things at face value.

I don't why you think offering somebody something amounts to wanting to impress.

I go out all the time, people, male and female offer me stuff, it is a great way to build rapport.


Because I had this experience doesn't mean there's a glitch somewhere.

Asked you something Mr KOPT

otunbakolawole:
Bukar is retiring. No fighting in Yobe. They play very matured politics there.

Bukar always used to say he will be a senator for life, that he will die there sef! Surprised he is stepping down, the man is always out of breath when talking these days....

dafemnet:
Women are leaders too and they should start acting like it. Are you saying Sophie, Shola and Co are not educated. Please think before you say things.

You didn't even get the core of the message! So it's u who should think after you re-read!

revontuli:
You sir, managed to date a pig in human skin. I can almost hear her oink and gobble down heaps of food nonstop. Good that you ditched that gluttonous sow before she ate you too!

Gosh! Such a vivid description! Wicked! Girls wnt stop embarrassing fellow girls.

KOPT33:
The money really isn't an issue. I spend more on night-outs with my guys.

The main issue I had is the complete lack of tact. Like, she didn't even feel the need to put up a good impression for me.

Many girls have something to offer, but finding them means that one must go through all these hoops.

Hi, the pay me for taking me out part sha? If there was any Bush around, you should have plucked cane and flug sense and decency into her brain.

Anyways I started following you when u talked about your rise through writing on sites like freelancer. Please I have a novella I want an editor to look at asap. Do you know anyone? Or could you? I want an edit for grammar, punctuation and plot, say any inconsistencies and feedback on what the story feels like e.g interesting to read. Epp me abeg! I know it's not a free service.

gaby:
Hi, get in touch by whatsapp. Contact's on my profile.

As per professional editors, I really have none I can recommend to you. But I'll suggest you do a thread on the literature section as request. You'd sure get tons of responses but please be sure who you pick to edit your work.

Had a nasty experience with one who almost turned my book to a pigin English dictionary..

haaahaha! Okay. I will search smart. Will reach u on watsapp.

dafemnet:
Men will always look for fun but girls should be smart not to get pregnant before marriage so they don't end up being baby mamas.

what do u mean men will always look for fun? What are u justifying here? I definitely wnt raise my sons to look for fun. Men too should not look for fun, women are not play things. There are some ladies who dn't understand these things, they dn't understand the concept of build urself up, some grew up without much guidance, hence some of them do end up baby mamas because they were clueless. It is the ones who are educated, who know what self esteem mean that can relate with these messages. Men who are suppossed to be leaders of society, homes and their kids are busy looking for fun. Tueh!

flyca:
I will never bring into this world a child that I cannot solely take care of, even when I love the my husband (the child's father) to pieces! It's a promise to God, to myself and to my child.

Anything can happen which I have no control of. Death? He could fall into the hands of another woman, he could get a bad dealbon business or work. Anything can or you cannot imagine!, even though that's not what I pray for. But I don't need all these dramas so I have to prepare myself to take full responsiblity of my offspring.

Raising a family is good. But money makes a happier home! Immediately you bring a child into this world, see that child as your personal responsibility. Build yourself up and stop hoping to be another adult's for sustainance. Same warning goes to stay-at-home mums!
Be wise!

My message to the baby-mama-of the moment, Shola, is to forget about WizKid and take up the full responsibility of Bolu. Stop the drama already, stop the pity-party, stop the screnshoting, stop tweeting. Leave everything behind you, pick yourself up and move ahead. WizKid has disrespecting enough and he has no regard for you. Stop going deeper into the mess, babe!

God's got us

standing ovation for you biko! And I think u just taught me a new lesson, have a child u can take care of urself because life happens. That's deep.

Metuh:
Will they ever listen? Someone is already pregnant for a C list artiste already just for fame and peanuts.


Some girls are planning on how to trap a boy with pregnancy as we speak presently. They will never use their senses.


Girls with no future plans for themselves who think a man's job is to marry them and take care of them. I pity such fish brains.

I just dey vex. Mtcheew

sorry, no vex! Oya take cold Milo! U made sense. If only girls can learn that dreams and goals are often time bound while love is ageless. I am tired of the insults on girls, I dey shame on our behalf. Because some us have standards that seem too high to our own.

dafemnet:
Pls tell the girls ma.

who was she telling before? Girls should have some dignity and Men too shd be more disciplined and principled, cuz the baby mamas are not getting themselves pregnant.

gaby:
Dude is an obvious deadbeat self-hater who can't hide his dislike for this poor boy who was chilling with God until they used their irresponsible quest for shaku shaku to wake him up and bring him into the middle of this no love lost circle of theirs.

If you can't be proud of your blood, it shows how much confidence you lack in yourself dawg.

Be clinging unto #3 and her baby because in your kiddy mind, she looks about the right skin tone, shape and what not of what your current taste in women is as you upgrade in you career.

By the time the chickens will be set for a roost time at home and karma gone nude on you, guy you go Sidon dey ask yaself say wet in happen..

Continue acting "nothing dey happen" and calling them money hungry hoesss...

You never hear say meat wey person dey forbid e no dey use teeth share am abiii..

E go do you vooooom n'anya..


Wish you well...

It fucking happened to me and was part of my karma bro..its in my book..thankfully no kid was involved in mine..the quest to upgrade my choice of a woman as my financial status went on the uppy rightfully landed me in the waiting arms of a Jezebel.

You better grow up, man up, change the kid in your Nicky to man and start acting like a man.

Enjoy my siggy

Hi, would love to read ur book, how do I get it? And pls do u know any professional editor?

HaileSelassie:
Hi BrightGem, thanks for taking out time to reach out!!!
Words can't express how motivated I feel after reading your comments..will always reference this page. God bless you!!

you are most welcome and God bless you too.

Office politics will always be there. Hope u are smarter now. Those we think are close can betray us, desert us, but there are equally great people out there with good hearts. There are people I have not met in real life only met through Nairaland and I still think are good and trustworthy as we have even had money related transactions. Efewerstern and Bobby are good examples.

I dnt think I have more to say. My battery wan die sef. But keep at it, agree that life is ups and down. Life is nit really that hard, it's hard because of how we respond to it. Peace out.

Fight depression by positive affirmations. Some people may think it's useless but overtime ur positive affirmations become who u are and what u believe! It has worked for me. I am hardly negative abt anything nor let anything weigh me down, a new day will always come and with it lots of possibilities.

Also give, gather people and equally train them in excersing for free and see how fulfilled u'll be, u'll be surprised how many people need a push to exercise myself included.

You seem to write well too, what are u doing with that skill. Are u looking our for writing competitions, can u write an ebook and sell on Amazon, which isn't so hard. You can write for people too. I just mean sometimes we thinking too much abt formal work we forget our own potentials.

They are human beings. Remember that again. So your voice should not be shaky. Take a few seconds to gather your thoughts before responding to a question that needs you to think.

I do hope the jobs u are applying closely match ur skills and are jobs u really interested in. Because when u get into some companies u will hate getting up in the morning to go to work you don't want that. If you interview for a job that matches ur skills and u really want it not just for pay, u will find the interviews easier.

Also think of on the job based questions. Job scenario related.

In the end its up to you. I would also suggest to you that sometimes to get paid work you have to do unpaid. If u can freely intern or volunteer with any organization in the area of a job you know u will love then write them and see. You keep knocking on doors u'll be surprised who will open.

You say you workout right? So practice calming ur body, you must be relaxed. A tensed body will affect what is coming out of your mouth your interview is a conversation, they are not trying to trap you with a question.

Be aware of current issues around you. An interviewer could ask you recent news happenings.

There are some answers you must carry in ur head. e.g 3 strong points about ur person. Like creative, persistent and hungers for growth. Depends on what u know are ur own strengths.

If you don't understand a question, do say you are not quite clear in what context is the question being asked.

You do have good diction. So I believe any written interview you can scale. So some points that can help you.

Dress well to ur interview. Stick to formal workplace dressing. When you are well dresses you have a boost of confidence.

Know the company. Know some things about them and the position you are applying for.

Some idiots don't deserve the job they get they have no experience and are olodos but they know the art of talking and can sell themselves, introverts may do better at a written interview, and not so well at the oral even though they can deliver on the job, so know thyself. Irrespective which ever you are do practice the common interview questions by answering in front of a mirror.

One of the people asking u questions will likely be friendly to an extent, do look at them often as you speak.

When talking about yourself often the first question. You can smile not like ur doing close up advert o! Lolz! Smile small and say something like My name is, a graduate of.... I have experience working as.... Talk abt ur trail of employment from after school to most recent, you can end with and here I am interviewing for this position with the hope of being part of your team to grow and actualize ur company's mission and gaining a different kind of experience for myself. Everything about urself had to be professional stuff.

I will be interviewing for a job I tried in 2014 this week too, and I sure have gotten a whole lot more experience compared to that year I am also sure I will be more confident this time. So here are a few tips to help u some I am sure u already know. First of brother understand that the human beings that will interview u are just that, human beings. They need air like you, the poo like you. Lolz! Even if a white man is on the panel he too gets depressed with life like you. They are not from Mars yeah.

HaileSelassie:
My diction is quite great, I've got the right words in my head, but the nerves seem to be my greatest undoing, they creep inside me and my voice becomes shaky, esp when answering the 'can we meet you question'
I know there are lots of Nairalanders with vast interview experience, I need help

Hi, wonder why no one answered this. I am here because I saw ur post about many trials, getting depressed and all! Not leaving the tsunami inside you and expressing it even on such an open forum is strength in itself. Please and please to give up should not be ur thing, not now not ever. I will share with you a couple of random things as they come to my head. First of, sorry you had to deal with betrayal one of the things that breaks us and make us die inside is being betrayed by those we trusted, something dies inside. Also dealing with multiple rejections isn't easy. But you are still here aren't you? There is a reason.

I like to play video games, just simple games tho, I kind of stopped for some time and recently when I resumed I realized that I never seem to give up on a difficult stage, I tell myself I must scale it I also realise to scale I must not do what I want did before again I have to change tactics or I will keep failing that stage, and I keep at it till I scale of course there are moments I will take a break and let it be and return to it again and I just realized I pretty much live life that way, I keep at some matters which others would give up on at the first try. Sometimes I stop and try again.

Much as I think he produces unique films! Thinking of it now! This lady is right! Even if
if he doesn't watch! Need not tell us! That's wrong! It's still ur industry anyways! I think Tunde Kilani is one of his Mentors so he dznt watch his films too. Oga Kunle comman apologize to us back! Lolz!

callixibe:
Please who among my fellow applicants has received a message from the commission. None of the people I know that applied has gotten any message from them. God bless Niger

which message are you expecting, Bros did you read the original message posted properly?

dalhjana:
Ruined people shouldn't be giving advice..until you use your advice to first unruin yourself!!! Peerod!

kikiki! Wikid! "unruin" beht onessly she did make some sense, for those who read it. It takes a different level of self esteem and being in touch with reality not to get carried away on social media, especially that Instagram.

dalhjana:
Ruined people shouldn't be giving advice..until you use your advice to first unruin yourself!!! Peerod!

kikiki! Wikid! "unruin" beht onessly she did make some sense, for those who read it

Yeah! Typical of 1man businesses o! I will keep saying it there is a special place in hell for abusive bosses. Imagine what he said even after finding out u do use ur own money. I learnt to stop trying to do too much in any private firm no matter how well you mean or carry company vision it's still sorry. Beware of companies where people come and go there is a reason known as "the boss" beware of companies that always seem to have openings on job boards! A bad boss is toxic, u wake up feeling like ur going to a prison yard.

hemartins:
What happens to going to designated bank. Madam, your options is not complete.

i I really wanted to know, and hope the bank can account for such such mishap