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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 5:48pm On Jan 06, 2020

gunzANDroses:
I really commend your character. Worked with CNPC and Sinopec back in the days doing oil exploration in the creeks and jungle of pH (brass), akwa ibom (ibaka), delta state, bayelsa as a contract staff.

Boss in case you still have opening in your team, please pen down my name make the new year for soft for all of us.

Like this I'll give anything within my power to be on an oil rig. Money aside, the adrenaline of just being on that platform is something else.

You're really experience in the field, what's your location? Is your HUET still valid?

I was in FLB (brass/Nembe) last week (personal runs)

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 5:41pm On Jan 06, 2020

DonJoeSneh:
Nobody has told me the bolded yet ooo....abeg who go put me through biko, or is there somplace i can read everything about registering on the three apps (UBER, BOLT and OPAY)

CC Felicity and Izzou

Go to Uber and sign up as a partner/driver

You need an active email
Tax number
Current account
Drivers license
Any of the National Identity card
Etc....

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 5:38pm On Jan 06, 2020

Hybrid600:
Life is very funny..
What a small world....
If space dey for training, I'm available !

What field?

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 5:29pm On Jan 06, 2020

Perkins1:
Wow.... One thing I just picked out here!

Stella called Collins to come and pay for her ride! SMH

But truth be told... If na me, walai talai she don x the job be that!

I'll inform her in her presence. We can't work with a personality like yours.

From the narative, she's worse than the guy that was choppered out of the field because he showed a Lagos boy character. Now you allowed her stay even fought her battle. Guy, no no no no be so.

You're getting it wrong sir, the other guy almost threw someone into an open sea, he was smoking some kind of wee wee out there at the helideck. the position of that particular platform is more than 30 minutes flight from the seashore, even the best diver/swimmer wouldn't survive. There was serious storm.

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 5:03pm On Jan 06, 2020

House, I have a little story to narrate, it's kinda funny and long.

On Friday night I was at Badore with a friend, when I left his place I decided to go online with the hope of closing by 11:30.
Few meter from his estate I got a request from one nasty lady.

Rider: oga where are you?
Me: good evening, please kindly check your app you'll see my exact location.
Rider: oh, please don't give me that app location shit, where are you?
Me: good evening, I'm few meters away from your house.
Rider: what if I don't answer your greeting what will happen? Please I requested for a ride not greetings come quick I'm late.
Me: I'm here by your gate

She came out of the gate, entered the back seat, I didn't bother looking at her, the next she said was their usual, you can start the trip Mr. Greetings, I responded "thanks ma"

I started the trip, destination was DMATEL hotel, Lekki.
When we get there she called her guy to come and pay, the young man came out, this is where the drama begins.

Rider: baby I'm here (she wave thro the window), then jump out of the car, gave him a tight hug.
Boyfriend: oga, collect this for your new year (2k)
Me: still on my seat, collected the money and I recognize him (my trainee)
Rider: ingrate, you can't even thank me
Me: I called the guy by name (Collins), I stepped out of the car

The atmosphere changed
Collins: who are you, you know me? (He came closer)
Me: Remove my hat, shake his hands, he melt
Collins: sir, you do Uber?
Me: I held his hand and walk towards the lady, (she was already at the reception)
Rider: baby any problem? Where did you know him?
Collins: Stella are you blind, look at him very well
Rider: Jesus! She knelt down

Collins is the latest in my team, joined September, a trainee, he reports directly to me (we are together now preparing to go offshore), while the nasty Stella is a trainee in my unit as well, she works with my departmental store manager.

Me: Collins so na you dey light this hot and nasty oven?
Collins: sir this's our first date, I came into town today to resume on Monday
Me: you owe me no explanation nor apology, just be careful else you'll loose your job, all eyes on her big booty.
Stella: sir please I'm sorry I wasn't on my right mindset
Me: Stella, every driver you see out there are humans like you, they deserve to be treated with love, care and respect. It's the unpredictability of life that put them out there, some had or have better jobs than you, some have families, wifes, daughters like you, sisters like you, some are more educated than you.

Those young men out there risk their lives, abandoned their families, friends and love ones, they risk their cars, those that doesn't have it go as far as leasing it just to keep life going, they risk their time, and resources just to get you to your destination safely and yet you treat them like trash Stella because your think you're doing them a favor. Because You think you're somebody and they're nobody, because you think you've arrived, Stella I'm disappointed in you. I have many military boys as friends doing Uber, what if it was one of them you did this to?

God is the breath of life in you, you sin, you offend him every moment of your existence, has He ever treated you that way? Why are you so wicked Stella. Why are you doing this to yourself? Don't you know when you deliberately cause pains to others greater pains await you? Stella Can I surprise you? You failed all your tests when you came for interview my boss dropped you but I begged him to accept you, God positioned me there for you, though I knew you from nowhere, I saw you as my little sister, I wouldn't want you to go out there selling yourself. Everyone rejected you including your supposed seismic unit leader. I have to beg the store manager to accept you with hope of transferring you to the seismic unit when the oldest intend is gone. Stella you break my heart this night, it shouldn't be you. What if I intended marrying you or your suitor meet me to find out few things about you, what will you think I will tell him about you?

I've never seen the kind of brokenness I saw in that lady that night, she cried her soul out, she begged me and vowed never to maltreat anyone.
I held her, lift her up, hugged her, hugged Collins then departed from them. I spoke with Collins yesterday he said that the lady cried and weep till day break, she neither eat nor drink.

Today we had our first operations meeting for the year, then after the meeting we had our first management meeting as well.
Last night I spoke with some of my guys to help me vote Stella to seismic unit. I beg the store manager to make the move. So during departmental reports the store manager nominates her for seismic and the seismic team lead opposed the nomination (as I instructed him) though he didn't know that I have already campaigned for others to vote, and the only way it can resort to voting is when the proposed team lead oppos the move.

My boss said we should vote, we did and Stella won.

We sent for her, immediately she entered the exco-chamber her soul left her as she didn't know why she was invited (this was her first time in the chamber).
I stood up.... Called her by her name..

Stella, uuhh, the management have decided to .......... to drop you from ........from the store effective now, your service is no longer required .............. required there. Handover everything concerning the store to the store manager. I paused while staring at her for like 30 seconds, then I proceeded.
Then in addition, we are glad to inform you that you've been redeployed to the seismic department, from tomorrow you're resuming there, go home and prepare to resume tomorrow. ( I said these stammering and dragging the words).

To my greatest surprise this lady stood there, within a blink Stella collapse, there was confusion in the room. Safety and medics entered with a stretcher and take her to our clinic downstairs.

After the meeting my boss asked me to carry his laptop and follow him, when I get to his office he asked me what is the problem between me and Stella, I told him I don't have any problem with her, I narrated the whole incidence to my boss, he was surprise. The only thing he said was "forgive her John" I told him that I forgive people even before they offend me.

I visited her in the medics, she was fine. She asked me which church I attend, I told her it's not by church but the fear of God in you and your respect and love for humanity.
She came to my office spend the whole day with me, we drove home together with Collins , now both of them are in my place.

5 of my colleagues are ready to join Uber, 3 have already ordered for 2010 Civic as I recommended, expecting delivery this evening. They've registered online, took the test, waiting for their result.

what I experience about life is; what others does to you doesn't count, it's your reaction that determines your reward.

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 2:57pm On Jan 06, 2020

Felicity001:
@izzou, made a good painting with the the okada/rider’s scenario but there is a large difference when it comes to a Uber driver/rider because these are two different class of people.

1) 70-85% of okada riders are illiterates but the reverse is the case with Uber drivers.
2) 70-95% of okada passengers are literates, but this is different when it comes to Uber/bolt riders. And most “oloshos” girls are illiterate.

So you don’t expect an Uber driver like @calabardick for an instance who works with an oil firm let’s assume mobile and earns maybe 850k/month and he does Uber just for fun and to explore and probably has a Master’s degree and probably going to the office one morning to take many insults, littering of his car by rider and time wasting from one low class “olosho” rider who even wants to waste his time withdrawing money on a long atm queque. It’s never gonna work.

Something similar happened that made doctors went of a long strike during the last administration. Nurses and pharmacists were owning hospitals and then employing the services of even professional doctors simply because the nurses have the money or something else, meaning a king is being controlled and paid by a slave.

How would you feel if you find yourself in such a situation?

Also, you know say most of these okada riders are zombies especially the abokis, sorry for my choice of words pls but it’s .... couple with the fact that okada na just two legs him get and most of these guys just came in from May sokoto, jalingo and the rest and don’t know how to ride bikes very well. Any little tin like dis swam! Na ground u go find urself if u r very lucky u will come out with either a brush, cut or one dislocation, worst case amputated leg/hands or even dealt. So tell me why am educated man will not tell the guy to “small small”.

Though I don’t support the idea of wasting too much time or the change finding issue and not showing appreciation and al of that.

Wetin I do this guy?

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 2:54pm On Jan 06, 2020

mrsteel:
The rate at which people do the bold on this thread is shocking to say the least!
Someone makes a post, the next thing members will resort to making mockery of his search for car. That is a very callous & inconsiderate thing to do, u don't mock a man with his struggles, everyone of us here have been there & can still be there any day. Life is too uncertain to mock someone with his struggles. With the way people do that here, I can only begin to imagine the kind of mind we got. Very evil one. How a driver on rental will comfortably be mocking someone searching for car with his quest still baffles me...aren't there other ways u can insult him?

Life is give and take, he's mocking him for searching for a car, what if that guy gets a better job and tomorrow books him for a trip?

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 2:51pm On Jan 06, 2020

nitigriti:
Since we are talking about bad riders and stopovers, let me narrate this experience I had with a female rider.

It was Monday morning around 8:30am, and I had just dropped someone off at Marina, if I recollect well. Since there was surge in Lekki, I decided to take the alternate route to Lekki; hopefully, I will get surge trip to Mainland.

Cruising through Oniru, a request came in on Uber - 1.7x. I accepted. The app showed me I was just 2 minutes away from pickup point. It was that close beside Ebeano. I entered the close, and the app notified the rider I had arrived.

I called the rider immediately and she told me she was coming down immediately.

1 minute later, she came out of the apartment block carrying a laptop bag and her designers handbag. She opened the back door and threw her laptop bag on the chair. Next thing, she bellowed "Good morning sir," then closed the back door, opened the front door and sat in the passenger seat.

"I'm sitting in front with you if you don't mind."
I told her, "no problem."

Once she sat in, she now told me that I will have to be patient with her. She's going to her office in VI, but she wants to go to Argungi area first to pick up some cash, then to any Zenith Bank branch to deposit before she will proceed to VI. I told her no problem, that the trip was on surge anyway. She then replied that she had to tell me first in case I'm not okay with her itinerary.

As we were moving from one point to the other, she was chatting freely with me in between the phone calls she was making. It was obvious this was one big girl. As we chatted, I got to know she parked her car (an SUV) at home because she doesn't want to be bothered with driving in Monday morning traffic.

This lady was well-behaved and well-mannered. She was time conscious too, and always thanking me for waiting for her.

Eventually, about 2 hours later, she told me to drop her off at Landmark to eat breakfast.

The fare came to #3,500. She gave me #5,000 and told me to keep the change.

I would have rated her 7 stars if it was possible.

I believe in nature, what I experience about nature is; what others does to you doesn't count, it's your reaction that determines your reward.

From my experience in ehauling, when you're nice to a bad rider God will always pay you back with a good one. That's the way it happens to me.

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 2:43pm On Jan 06, 2020

dextrino45:
I have a corolla 05 for sale just arrived from Canada

If interested reach me on 08064230123

Good morning sir,
Can you put the pics, price and VIN here?

Thanks

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 2:42pm On Jan 06, 2020

tojahh:
Hahaha Jaydee... Thank God for the news. You beat me to it.

Guys I just resumed in a mainstream oil and gas today. Never wanted to break the news till I put pen to paper after proper documentations and assessments.

It actually came on 31st of December as I was sleeping my way out at Almiraty phase 1

Good pay
Good working environment.
Good structure.
Nice position

Viewing nairaland from my desk

I congratulate you sir.

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 11:44pm On Jan 04, 2020

ofime123:
this is for iphone if u check the price before get to destination you need to update the trip b4 it continues reading but on my Samsung weather I update or not it keeps reading.

I see this happen whenever I check trip fare, I was thinking it is Uber that does that
I use an iPad.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 7:14pm On Jan 04, 2020

izzou:
[color=royalblue]calabardick

Happy new year sir

Didn't want to quote your comment, make everywhere for no full.

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It is well my brother.

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 12:51pm On Jan 04, 2020

Carshopper:
Hello

I will get the vin across

Isn't this carNGR

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 12:50pm On Jan 04, 2020

nitigriti:
I remember one of those offlines I did. It was Chillex8 that linked me up with the client.

The offer was to drive someone from Agbara estate to IBIS Hotel, Ikeja. Meetup time was 7:00am on a Saturday morning. Rider offered #8,000.

I accepted; which sounds insane.

But here's how I reasoned it. I will wake up 5:30am, bath and leave my house by 6:00 am so I can get to Agbara by 7:00 am. If the rider is on time, we can leave by 7:30am and be in Ikeja by 9:00am; traffic or no traffic. Let's say I use #2,000 fuel for the trip, I will have #6,000 in my pocket by 9:00 am. I'm not paying Uber or Bolt any commission.

That was exactly what played out on the said day. Plus rider kukuma told me to do airport pickups of expatriates coming in throughout the day and dropoffs the next day plus returning him to Agbara estate on Monday afternoon.

There was enough profit that weekend.

You have a sound business mindset

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 12:48pm On Jan 04, 2020

Felicity001:
It me your guy please I need you good advice.

Take for instance you’ve an offer to take an HP on a 9ja used Camry (big daddy), 05. Investor spent 1.3m and needs 2.3m in 2yrs.
Do you think it’s a fair deal for driver? Or how much should be reasonable for this Nigeria used car?

Or would you rather investor get a direct tokunbo and everything falls within 1.6m how much would be fair as return in this condition?

Urgent response pls.

Thanks all

Scramble the idea of HP for a Nigerian used car.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 12:42pm On Jan 04, 2020

Carshopper:
2006 toyota camry available at Anthony

1.6m

Good day sir,
Please kindly drop the VIN here, I'm interested.

Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 12:35pm On Jan 04, 2020*

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Lol

The trip will not be #3000 on any app, unless there is surge. I have done Festac to Yaba many times and it ends at 2k plus with commission.
3k was a very fair deal for someone residing in Festac.

But then, the thread is transforming. He got bashed for making an offer. Even now, we cheer ourselves up when a driver is rude to rider unnecessarily.
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It's now a norm, you dare no kick against that you'll see them attacking you like hungry dogs. Coming up with all manner of stories to backup their weaknesses. Who doesn't have unfavorable encounter in this hustle? Even in our various offices we encounter challenges. According to dru23, majority of our drivers can't work in a corporate environment. They will never collect their first month salary in a corporate environment, it'll be a pay off.

Sometimes I wonder if they undergone the usual training before activation. Though I'm not surprise, this is Nigeria, lots of people graduated from the higher institutions with empty brains, how much more über's few hours training.

deedee44:
I've been thinking my thinking was wrong because I thought I was the only one surprised by the cheers.

It baffles me when I see the display of such attitudes.

That's one of the things that leads to the high level of joblessness in this country. I'm saying this from experience as an interview team member in my establishment.

I'm not supposed to say this;
How I identify mannerless peeps during interviews is, I plant some of my junior staffs among them, pretending to be job seekers too. Those ones will step on their toes, do all manner of things right there in the waiting hall to see their reaction before their interview, they'll not hide their color. Sometimes they engage them on some kinda discussion to see how they communicate, their addiction, etc. with this method we have rejected many job seekers with good qualification. Where I work character and skills are what we emphasize on, not some blank decree with empty brain.

I implemented this because of one guy that came onboard for the first time, in the interview room he was forming bornagain but when the right time came he showed his true color. he almost threw our safety officer off an oil rig, in the name of forming Lagos boy. By the time we finished with him and prove to him that we are all insane than him there our superintendent called emergency chopper to get him off.

before he resumed in the office the next few days the receptionist welcomed him with his termination letter (not even through email) and the security escorted him.

It's terrible.

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Travel › Re: First Okhiria Denies Attack On Abuja Bound Train by calabardick(m): 8:01pm On Jan 02, 2020

Isn't it Nigeria again?
From the president to the ward chairmen are all liars

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Romance › Re: The Best Relationship Advice For Everyone This 2020 by calabardick(m): 7:59pm On Jan 02, 2020

philfearon:
2] If you want to make love to your wife at night, start in the morning.

QUORA[/i]

I need explanation to this, am I warming up since morning?
grin

Family › Re: Why Does Sex Slowly Die Off In A Marriage After 10+ Years?? by calabardick(m): 7:53pm On Jan 02, 2020

Kbs468:
He didn't lie Brother.

He said 10+

Wait until your marriage is 20, 30, 40 or 50 years plus the 10 he mentioned before crucifying him okay

And then, come back to tell us your story or experience whether it would still be like yesterday again.

It's simply the law of Diminishing Marginal Utility like someone posited indeed

Guy, this one almost break my ribs, haba?
I need to call my dad, he didn't tell me this, he has been hammering me to marry that marriage is sweet.
I need some explanation from him on this Diminishing Marginal Utility.

Iyami

Family › Re: Why Does Sex Slowly Die Off In A Marriage After 10+ Years?? by calabardick(m): 7:50pm On Jan 02, 2020

IyaTola:
Why does sex slowly die off in a Marriage after 10+ years??

It's only in Nigeria.
How often do you go on vacation with your wife?
How often do you spend a weekend with her in a good hotel?
When was the last time you travel for a month and left them behind?

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Romance › Re: How My Uncle Destroyed His Family! by calabardick(m): 7:47pm On Jan 02, 2020

Anywhere there's truck pack there's always a brothel there

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Christianity Etc › Re: Daniel Olukoya Of MFM Unveils 33 Prophetic Declarations For 2020 by calabardick(m): 5:54am On Jan 02, 2020

Enemyofpeace:
Nothing new to say again, na the same hold story

...yes, the same hold story, ewu; must you comment?

Crime › Re: "I was Paid N210k To Use Favour Daley-Oyedele For Rituals" - Pastor by calabardick(m): 5:48am On Jan 02, 2020

I'm not surprised, na them.

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Business › Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by calabardick(m): 6:11pm On Dec 27, 2019

dapotemi:
Got a trip from unilag to ikorodu on a 1.6 surge..Uber.

Me: Evening sir, pls where you going to?
Rider: ikorodu, Agric side.
Me: ordinarily I no dey go ikorodu but the surge enter my eyes and na ketu I wan sleep tonight so I took d risk. Get to pick up point and na one alhaji with 3 kids, oldest should be about 14.
Me: sir do u know d exact place in ikorodu
Rider: I don't know anywhere o, today na my first day in Lagos , am from ilorin.bi hope this trip won't be more than 2500 because I will still come back to unilag to sleep.
Me: I know say I don enter am..me wey I don budget like 5k for trip and we don pass mile 12. Sir did trip will be more than that o. The coming back tin na good news for me.bi quickly ask alhaji how long he will stay there and he said one hour max..
Alhaji drop off na agric bus stop, but na isawo road he dey go, another like 20 mins from agric bus stop. Got there sha.
Me: show alhaji phone, money na 4600. Alhaji open mouth, eyes turn blue, spit wan drop for mouth.
Rider: aburo mi, dis money high o, dem say na 2500 I go pay,how we go do am. Alh start to dey beg.
Me: I show alhaji breakdown, end trip give am 1 star. Try to explain surge but he's not getting it. Kept sayin the bus he took from Ilorin to Lagos na 2,200. I jus weak. Alh finally pay 3500 after much begging tho.
Me: should I still wait and take u back
Rider: hope soji no go dey dis time
Me: which one is soji again
Rider: that one set dey make money rise
Me: ooh surge, no you will pay lesser this time. Forget to give him exact price. He ask me to wait.
Am waiting for alhaji now and it's 9: O5 pm already. I no wan blow empty to ketu.
May God help me

Hahahahahahahaha, Alhaji say na soji

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Crime › Re: My Apartment Was Robbed In A Very Mysterious Way! by calabardick(m): 5:19pm On Dec 27, 2019

Mike4S:
No, I just packed in there

Your landlord, or your agent, or landlords child might be responsible for this.
Change your key before you eat rat poison

Foreign Affairs › Re: Christmas Celebrations Ruined In Hong Kong by calabardick(m): 5:16pm On Dec 27, 2019

Finnese001:
Why won't Nigeria divide, when some people feel others are not important even the insane president have to open his gutter mouth and call a whole tribe 5%

NIGERIA IS FAILED EXPERIMENT

Nigeria died many years ago that's why its ruled by an ancestor without ears and brain.

Christianity Etc › Re: RCCG Pastor Gabriel Diya, His Son And Daughter Drown Inside A Pool In Spain by calabardick(m): 5:12pm On Dec 27, 2019

ednut1:
Prayers can never change the will of.God . This is another example

What is the will of God?
What prayer are you talking about?
What example?

Christianity Etc › Re: RCCG Pastor Gabriel Diya, His Son And Daughter Drown Inside A Pool In Spain by calabardick(m): 5:10pm On Dec 27, 2019

chiefolododo:
good Muslim? You must be born again ( accept Jesus as your Lord and savior ) to enter the kingdom of God

Their is different from what you're talking about, you're misunderstanding him.

Christianity Etc › Re: RCCG Pastor Gabriel Diya, His Son And Daughter Drown Inside A Pool In Spain by calabardick(m): 5:09pm On Dec 27, 2019

ITbomb:
That small water?

That's what I have been thinking since, how deep,is the pool?

Christianity Etc › Re: RCCG Pastor Gabriel Diya, His Son And Daughter Drown Inside A Pool In Spain by calabardick(m): 5:03pm On Dec 27, 2019

PrecisionFx:
U mean the Muslim paradise?

I forbid their paradise, you have to explode to be there with the virgins, to also drink a class of cold water, for what maw?
You ended up not enjoying the virgins because the explosive might have damaged your manhood.

Please give me one virgin when I'm alive.

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Crime › Re: Man Beats His Wife To Death On Christmas Day In Ogun State by calabardick(m): 4:47pm On Dec 27, 2019

EBMedia:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/369947-man-arrested-for-beating-wife-to-death-police.html

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