₦airaland Forum

SURElee:
Guy, your own is good. Thank God you are alive to tell the story.
My childhood friend, never made it back alive. She schooled in Kogi state university, after exams she went home and returned back to school. Apparently she and her clique of friends and their boyfriends had planned a get together. She didn't tell her widower Dad she was done with exams in school, so she was allowed to go back.

Now they went for picnic to the Benue river, and that was where they all died. This was broadcast even by the news media years ago, I can't remember the year now again.

But you see, when I listened to the news I remember making snide remarks "who goes to venue river to swim or have picnic"?


Then in 2009, I was discussing with my colleagues at work about my childhood friend Titi and her family, when I mentioned her surname, my colleague looked at me, she couldn't believe I know the late Titi.

That was how I got to know she was amongst those students who drowned at the venue river years ago.

My advice has always been stay away from water. Whether you can swim or not. My hand no dey.


Anybody who calls you coward, never know anything. Things dey occur o!

So sorry for your loss, man.

chocboi78:
you make a very good writer bro. Nice partition, use of diction, lingual expression And clarity

Thank you.

ogaontop:
Go and start writing stories, your talent is also there!

Writing sells with sponsorship, chief.

Eraser33:
Exactly. Pls reach out to me if u can. I need a help pls

What help please?

The closure of boarders when we weren’t really manufactured anything that’s worth the closure was really painful to importers.

Buhari is clueless.

Eraser33:
Thanks bro.
If u go there now, as in, right now, u would see Tiv and Jukun kids of 7years in the river fishing right inside the river. These are indegenes. A non indigene can't dare it

You are right.
You’ll see them rowing the canoe the middle and distributing their net. Some are divers who bring out sand. But they never drown.

Eraser33:
It's true. I lost my cousin there 5years ago. Her corpse was only recovered after 5days of her demise. Some rituals had to be performed. She was buried at the river bank. It doesn't kill indigenes.

Omo

I stayed in Benue wella so the gossip of the river was lowkey popular.

Sorry for your loss.

Lol

Johnsinia:
For him to be over-hyped, he must have done something to warrant it. OVER HYPING DONT COME FROM VOID that's why your father, throughout his life, no one recognized his existence.

Ok bro.

Babadudu and duakwa made boys look like men in Junior school.

Pastor go come say na the power of the Lord in him fought the battle and killed the herbalist.

Another cash out.😊

TwoQuire:
Before you die of bad heart celebrate grace.

Your bad heart is the reason your writing project work never make sense.

Celebrate grace?
Bad heart?
Sense making?

Read my comment again.

Happy surviving!

misano:
The more U hate him the more we love him. With over 6 million people supporting him, ur love is not needed.

I don't hate him.
I don't just patronise things that aren't really news.

Thank God you are safe.

But Mann, this format expired in 2002 naw. Then mah, they used money doubling as a format along with this. These format tend to play on the greedy mind of the common man giving him the notion he is smarter while he'll the target fool.

Even then, even now, no one can use this or any subtle format to defraud me. Once conversation don enter "send" or "bring", discussion has ended. Once you are white online, you are a serial suspect. Or those saying you have won this and that so share to all your friends. Or even those with cloned Financial Institution accounts..or those cloning accounts with friends on your lists bringing up emergency stories to extort you.

In our freelance world, there are also many formats. You'll see some contacting you like clients do and telling you to do the work and they pay later .. otilo o. Or some who contact you on Escrow freelance networks like Fiverr and Upwork wanting to pay outside the system...otilo. Or those who come as tho with big gigs wanting you to pay some fictional registration for blabla.

The thing bi say...once your scam alert is turned on in your brain, and your greed bar is on DND, you cannot be easily scammed.

She can still not do all these and still cheat.

Not every lady is wired poorly.

The Benue river consumes more people per year than how birds pluck fishes from the river. And unfunnily enough, a friend from Wurukum told me it only takes non-indigenes. And this rumour is lowkey popular around that North Bank side and Wurukum area after the bridge. I lost a colleague to it too, and that was when other colleagues began to narrate their loss stories too, and stories they heard.

One story that transpired that very time I was there when my colleague drowned was that some other persons went there to swim and the river came out to the bank where they were and swallowed one of them. He wasn’t even swimming! It just came at him, held him as a friend would hug his longtime friend he’s just seen, and took him beneath.


Even though I don't generally believe in superstitions, I am aware that traditional powers are still practiced nowadays. And that juju exist. But this story? “I don’t believe it.” My uncertainties were put to rest when I witnessed firsthand the community's attempt to dispel the enigma behind the unending number of fatalities by calling upon the services of a native wizard.

This indigenous wizard dove into the water and transformed into a crocodile as he swam downstream. Omo, na so  I begin go house sharp sharp. I fess check my chamber for my body if anything miss cos I no come understand the touching touching body for the crowd. I dey form rugged then but e never reach wetin I see. The next information was that he had gone to visit the river goddess and all that.  What happened? The result was that in order to stop these deaths and to pacify her, sacrifices had to be made.

Even though I lived on property that bordered the river, you can take my word for it that I never in a million years went near it to swim, fish, paddle the canoe, or even wash, regardless of how intense the pressure from my peers was.

You can call me hydrophobic. You can also call me delusional. I don't care if you brand me a coward if it has anything to do with this issue; I'll attend the cowardice coronation with pride, palm wine, a male goat, and with my overworn isi agu.✌️

Africans: too religious and very wicked.

Not news, actually.


Obi is just over-hyped. He is still a politician.

Man is talking too much nowadays than he did in the last seven years.

Everything thing now has to be done on camera. Things are no longer in camera.

When those youths start paying tik for tac now, they will say they are terrorists. Meanwhile, the real terrorists are the constituted authority.

The tribalism existing today against a tribe is an order from above.

CodeTemplar:
You know not what you are talking. They are immigrants from chad, Niger, and even Mali. Very few of them are Nigerian that's why they hibernate between French and Hausa instead of English and Hausa.

Calm down..

SUG come bi like school staff.🤔

CodeTemplar:
If police isn't shoot N500 to kill citizen over N100 it is one ABOKI from entitlement region killing a southerner in the south. Serves those immigrant right. You don't come over go hustle then kill your host over N50.

Sha, they are not immigrants. Nigeria is still their country...anywhere in Nigeria.

So saddening.

But sometimes, it's safer you negotiate before you board...and if that place is ₦100, you pay ₦100 cos I know that these days nowhere is ₦50 anymore....even if it's from your house to your gate. But sometimes, when we judge the distance, we can always negotiate. And rightly, no one has the monopoly to be violent over the other.


More so, setting the keke and that of other innocent victims ablaze wasn't necessary.

Your pants inko bro?

Beautyprincess2:
No the op is actually right, Igbo ladies have the worst entitlement mentality, they are too materialistic that's why they always grow so old in their father's houses without husband's, some will give birth and start doing hookup to take care of the child or children, it's the truth just accept it!!!

You need to grow. Just accept it.

Politics has nothing to do with God. It has sth to do with bribery, corruption, theft, death, and juju.

Temitogab:
Be careful of what you say about God's servant. This was the same thing that was said about Tb Joshua when he was sent to prison on allegation of drug. And a lot bad mouth the Prophet then. But vengeance came upon the people that was against Tb Joshua.
Nothing out of God's control can happen to us. This is fulfilling something bigger

Lol

He wasn't smart after all.

Wait till 2035.

Sha, whatever makes her happy.

Not my business.