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Crime / Re: Borno Youths Drinking Fermented Urine, Lizard Dung, Says NDLEA by chiedu7: 3:36pm On Jan 05
The North grin

How the South & North became one is 2nd only to lucifers fall.

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Politics / Re: Women Burn Down Bokkos Traditional Ruler’s House by chiedu7: 3:35pm On Jan 05
Plateau belongs to the indigenes.
Refuse the Fulani invaders now or suffer later

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Politics / Re: Tinubu’s New Year Address, Harvest Of Deceit — PDP by chiedu7: 9:09am On Jan 02
Nobody expected anything else

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Politics / Re: God Has Departed From Wike’ – Primate Ayodele by chiedu7: 2:12am On Dec 15, 2023
Visblog:
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has issued a warning to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.

Primate Ayodele said President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, will fight Wike.

In a statement by his media aide, Oluwatosin Osho, the clergyman said the former Rivers State governor will fail woefully.

According to Ayodele: “Wike is going into oblivion. Nemesis will fight Wike. APC and Tinubu will still fight him. Wike has no career again; God has departed from him and he will be rubbished out of APC.’’

The political differences between Fubara and Wike had created tension and division in Rivers State. The differences led to an attempt to impeach Fubara by Wike’s loyalists in the state House of Assembly. Amid the crisis, the Assembly complex was set ablaze by unknown assailants.

Within the week, 27 out of 32 members of the state assembly had defected to APC, while the remaining five lawmakers continued with their legislative assignments.

https://www.visblog.ng/2023/12/god-has-departed-from-wike-primate.html
Primate Elijah Ayodele ST*U! angry

Artscollection:
This one don mad since!!!
I tell you.

Galaxydon1:
Mr prophet, God has also departed from you, after giving us false predictions
God was never with him.

SalamRushdie:
This man is a just a social commentators
Na yahoo man

Alexiiydon:
Lol mumu pastor I for say this man blind but I shouldn’t talk to the man of God like that
Why not, this man no sabi God!
Kafirbigot:
Yoruba and fake prophets and Propaganda prophecy...sef
What kind of tribe is this sef...cool
Which wan na legit for whole nija?

Christistruth00:

The man is a nuisance
No be him be this ?
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/07/16/8-times-primate-ayodele-lied-using-gods-name-femi-adesina/
He is a fake pastor or is it prophet!
Mbanda:
Wike is a genocider. Obigbo massacre will never go unpunished. I can't wait to see wike's downfall.
The blood of the innocent will hunt him.
Politics / Re: Process To Designate Anambra As NDDC Oil-Producing State Begins At Senate by chiedu7: 9:08pm On Nov 29, 2023
bixton:



Children stories.
So it's only your aunty that worked in BP that has access to this information and also saw where those places oil was found were all closed up.
Please kindly mention those States in Igbo land that oil was found?
So late Ojukwu and Zik of Africa was also privileged to this information and everyone kept quiet......
Mumu Ojukwu and Zik worked for BP?
Education / Re: 10th National Assembly Lawmakers Push For 32 New Federal Higher Institutions by chiedu7: 2:37pm On Nov 27, 2023
They should scrap NYSC as it stops people employing
Politics / Re: Process To Designate Anambra As NDDC Oil-Producing State Begins At Senate by chiedu7: 2:14pm On Nov 27, 2023
The whole south east has Oil.
But before the Civil war my aunty that worked for British Petroleum said,
that on their wall chart that the whole of Igboland has oil but was covered up.

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Crime / Re: Four Men Charged Over Theft Of £4.8m Gold Toilet From Blenheim Palace (Photo) by chiedu7: 4:33pm On Nov 08, 2023
Criminals
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Vs Sevilla UCL (2 - 0) On 8th November 2023 by chiedu7: 4:25pm On Nov 08, 2023
grin

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Religion / The Concept Of Destiny Helper Is Not Biblical!!! by chiedu7: 9:27am On Nov 05, 2023
I know that many Nigerians pray for a destiny helper, but I can't find destiny helper in the bible.

The bible is clear not to look to man for help.

Psa 60:11
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Psa 108:12
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

In fact looking to man for help is damning

Jer 17:5
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

So why would anybody want to curse themselves by praying for destiny helper?

By the way do other countries pray for destiny helper or is it just a nija problem ❓️

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Sports / Hypocrisy Is Banning Woman From Sports For Being Manly But Accepting Transwomen by chiedu7: 10:09pm On Nov 02, 2023
The Olympian Fighting for Her Right to Run In her memoir, Caster Semenya details how she has coped with being banned from the sport she loves.

How do they accept men to compete in women's sport but reject a real woman from competing in women's sport?
That's Hypocrisy of the Highest Order




When Caster Semenya was 12 years old, she introduced herself to her cousin’s friends as Thabiso, a boy’s name. “I could tell they thought I was a boy, so I figured I would go along with it,” she writes in her new memoir, The Race to Be Myself. “I was swimming without a shirt on, and I had no boobs. I looked tough like they did. My voice sounded like theirs, too.” The little white lie was corrected once school started and, wearing a dress, she introduced herself to the class as Caster. It was perhaps the first — but definitely not the last — time she realized people could be confused about her gender.

Today, on a summer afternoon in South London, the middle-distance runner laughs over that childhood memory. Tall, muscular, and slim, she presents herself exactly as you would expect a professional athlete to look on a day off: dressed in a white Nike hat, a black “Just Do It” top, checked shorts, and sneakers (one black, one white). She also wears a confident smile, diamanté earrings, and the simple braided hairstyle for which she is known. But the 32-year-old’s laughter covers up the tense reality of what it was really like to be mistaken for a boy in her childhood and adulthood. Her appearance, her deep voice, and the spectacular athletic performances that earned her two Olympic gold medals have also significantly stunted her career.

Semenya meets me in the outdoor seating area of a greasy spoon on the corner of a busy road; the noisy cars soon become a distraction, and we agree to move elsewhere. She walks with a leisurely gait, the kind often attributed to those, like herself, who grew up in the warm countryside. While it is unclear whether passersby recognize the athlete, they turn their heads at her strong presence and resonant voice. She does not seem to notice this as we make our way to our next spot, a quaint, traditional Irish pub called the Pineapple, where she settles into a sofa in the corner, sitting with immaculate posture and her legs widely spread. Above her, a cricket match plays on a large television as she discusses her upcoming book, a first-person account of her life from her time growing up in Limpopo, a province in northeastern South Africa, to the present day and of battling the ongoing prejudices that have seen every aspect of that life picked apart. Her memoir details her enduring fight to run.

“Over the years, I’ve let people do a lot of talking, but they’re not talking about the real issue here,” she says matter-of-factly, sipping on a glass of water. For Semenya, the real problem has always been that she is a woman. She was assigned female at birth, raised as a girl, and has never considered herself anything else. Yet for the past four years, she has been prohibited from competing in any elite women’s race between 400 meters and a mile.

After she won gold at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin — significantly beating her best time, set at the African Junior Championships the month before — questions about the 800-meter runner’s gender made headlines, and she has remained under intense scrutiny ever since. The International Association of Athletics Federations forced Semenya to take humiliating sex-verification tests to determine her eligibility to compete as a woman in the future. Through documents leaked to the press in 2009, Semenya learned, along with the rest of the world, that she has “differences in sex development,” or DSD, which for Semenya means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than is typical for a woman, though what DSD means varies for individuals. Others have since used the results to talk freely about the most intimate aspects of Semenya’s life, and in 2019, the IAAF banned her from competing as a woman in her chosen categories. While she lost her legal battle against the restriction at a Swiss federal tribunal in 2020, the European Court of Human Rights found in July 2023 that Switzerland had not afforded her “sufficient institutional and procedural safeguards” to ensure that her complaints would be handled effectively. But the rules around forced testosterone suppression have not changed, and Semenya is still not allowed to enter elite races as a woman.

She talks about all this as if referring to something that happened to someone else, like a close relative. A solid coping mechanism, perhaps, for living through nearly 15 years of constant scrutiny and relentless prejudice on a world stage. She keeps her emotions close to her chest, but sometimes they surface in small controlled bursts — followed by an “I really don’t care.” The fact is, Semenya has dedicated her life to an industry that has treated her poorly. Yet resiliency, she points out, is what all athletes strive for: “You don’t care what other people say about you; you care about things that you can do.”

Semenya would rather her supporters hear directly from her, rather than from salacious op-eds and half-baked news pieces. Hence the memoir, which comes out October 31. “I owe them an explanation,” she says. But why now, 15 years after the hubbub started? “It was important to wait that long until I was ready to do it,” she explains. She reminds me that all athletes who compete at a high level have genetic advantages — not just runners but basketball players and swimmers, too — and hard work only enhances that potential. When men have supposed genetic advantages, they’re allowed to keep competing. “There are men with low testosterone; they can still run faster than me,” Semenya adds. But women are not afforded the same luxury. “People have their own way of explaining things, but one thing they need to understand is that, as humans, we are different, we are born different, we are given talents,” she says of her fellow athletes. “It’s a genetic thing, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”


Her story may be high profile, but Semenya isn’t alone in her struggle. Under various names, “sex testing,” “gender verification,” or “femininity testing” was introduced into sports in the mid-1960s to stop male athletes from “posing” as women. In 2020, a report by Human Rights Watch looking at a decade of experiences of people affected by the practice found it had disproportionately impacted women athletes from Africa and Asia. They are not only subjected to white, western ideas of femininity, which results in their being tested in the first place, but are less likely to have undergone nonconsensual “normalizing” procedures in childhood, such as the removal of their reproductive organs. In 2014, Indian sprinter Dutee Chand was dropped from competition after undergoing gender verification without her knowledge. In 2006, Santhi Soundarajan won silver in the 800-meter race at the Doha Asian Games but was stripped of her medal less than a week later after being found to have androgen insensitivity syndrome, a genetic condition that affects the development of genitals and reproductive organs.

Semenya appears more laid-back and amiable than the hard-ass she often describes herself as in the book, especially in her interactions with journalists who ask about her gender. Through fits of laughter, she notes she would even happily be photographed nude for the right price: “Let’s say Elle or Vogue say, ‘Here’s 1 million dollars for a cover, but we want you naked.’ There’s no second thought.” It’s a joke, but it’s not lighthearted — right beneath the wisecrack sits the underlying hope that if people could just see her sex organs, the debate would finally be settled. “It’s a frickin’ picture. You’re going to forget about it,” she says.

One memory Semenya will never forget is her first encounter with her now-wife, Violet Raseboya. They met in a women’s restroom in 2007, Semenya writes in her memoir, and Raseboya mistook her for a teenage boy. When I speak to Raseboya on Zoom a few weeks after I meet Semenya, she at first appears somewhat embarrassed to think back on this moment. “The minute someone tells you, ‘I’m not a boy, I’m a girl,’ you should respect that,” she says resolutely. Raseboya, now 37, was also an athlete. After years of friendship, the couple married in 2015. News platforms, in an attempt to discredit Semenya’s identification as a woman, scrutinized their wedding — everything from how they had courted each other to how they were dressed — and suggested that because Raseboya wore a full-length white lace dress and Semenya dressed in an embroidered velvet suit, they were conforming to stereotypical gender roles. Still, neither seems rattled by that issue. In LGBTQ+ communities, terms exist to describe their relationship. “We’re talking about the butch and the femme here,” Raseboya says. “So I don’t see a problem. We know where we stand.”

“From day one, I’ve understood I’m a different woman,” Semenya reiterates to me, having made this comment fairly seriously at the greasy spoon and again more casually at the pub. After finishing her water, she requests a ginger ale before turning to me and asking, “How old were you in 2009?” She’s wondering if I might have been too young to remember the initial media chaos. I note that I’m only a few years younger than she is, and she smiles and nods, clarifying what she already suspected: “You see, that’s what I’m saying.” It’s sobering to realize that when her public ordeal began, she was just 18, a legal adult but too young to experience the world openly scrutinizing her body. When she was growing up, her friends and family embraced her differences, and even though she knew she was unique, she never thought the difference between herself and most other women would so deeply impact the rest of her life. “I’ve always been myself, and I’ve always loved myself for who I am,” she says. “And people need to understand that where I come from, people accepted me.”

She does have one regret: taking medication from 2010 to 2015 to lower her testosterone levels. In the book, Semenya describes both the side effects, which included constant sickness and abdominal pain, and her doctor’s warning not to take the medication over the long term. In 2019, the World Medical Association, an independent international confederation of over 100 national medical organizations, advised against physicians’ prescribing athletes “unjustified medication, not based on medical need.” Initially, Semenya says, this “sacrificing” of herself came from a deep-rooted passion for running. “These are things I’ve done out of my will, out of desperation,” she adds solemnly. “But besides this, I’ve lived my life the best way I could.”

Semenya and Raseboya have been training future athletes through their Masai Athletics Club, a group the pair co-founded in Limpopo, and raising their two daughters, Oratile and Oarabile, who are 4 and 2 years old. Semenya’s experiences in the sporting world have given her an open-minded attitude toward embracing people as they are, especially when it comes to her children. “I am not going to force my kids to be who they’re not,” she says. “I’m going to accept anything that comes — who they are, what they want to do with their life — as long as they are happy.”

After writing an entire book about the constant public scrutiny she has endured, does it still exhaust Semenya to discuss her gender? “I can’t be exhausted to be myself,” she says, unfazed by the question. “People will always criticize you, they’ll always judge you. It’s part of life. But how you want to live your life is up to you.”
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https://www.thecut.com/2023/10/caster-semenya-race-to-be-myself-memoir-interview.html

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Politics / Re: Abdullah Adamu: I Am Not Aware That APC Lost In Osun State by chiedu7: 8:48pm On Jul 18, 2022
Dem dey plan rig further

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Crime / Re: Bandits Kill Two Health Workers, Injure Woman In Kaduna (Graphic Pics) by chiedu7: 8:25pm On Jul 18, 2022
And some mumus want to elect another fulani who is from Cameroon

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Politics / Is This How Tinubu Will Rule Nigeria? by chiedu7: 10:36am On Jul 18, 2022
Thugs loyal to escoBAT, spearheaded by the notorious "Asiri Eniba" allegedly destroyed shops of Igbo traders in Osogbo after Adeleke was declared winner yesterday. Ndiigbo are always taking the fall for every damn thing. This madness has to stop. We can't continue like this.

He hasnt even won & his tribalism is surfacing
https://twitter.com/AfamDeluxo/status/1548925632779788288

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Politics / Re: Adeleke's Victory: Fear Grips APC, Tinubu’s Camp Ahead 2023 Election by chiedu7: 10:32am On Jul 18, 2022
No wonder why Tinubu's Touts are attacking igbos, blaming igbos for the loss in Osun.

Thugs loyal to escoBAT, spearheaded by the notorious "Asiri Eniba" allegedly destroyed shops of Igbo traders in Osogbo after Adeleke was declared winner yesterday. Ndiigbo are always taking the fall for every damn thing. This madness has to stop. We can't continue like this.


https://twitter.com/AfamDeluxo/status/1548925632779788288

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Health / Re: Help! Drug Is Ruining My Relationship by chiedu7: 10:10am On Jul 18, 2022
Benki003:
Okay I'll try and make it snappy

So am into this new relationship with this beautiful girl, everyman's dream, fun and nice to be with, but the only issues i have is that she abuses sleeping pills
So she told me that before she met me earlier this year, she's been taking the sleeping pills so as to fall asleep. but then after we started dating she stopped taking it and she's now finding it hard to fall asleep naturally without the aid of the drugs.
please guru's in the house how do we handle this situation, am willing to help her find help.



Ps: she's been taking the drug for close to a year and it has been having advert effect on her, also note that she's been to the hospital before and the doctor warned her to stop and she refused to stop then.

take it to God in prayers with her,.
if u worship allah sorry oh

Then also get her to reduce a little at a time the amount she takes
Politics / Re: All Information Coming Has Been Good For PDP, Be At Alert – Davido To Voters by chiedu7: 6:06pm On Jul 16, 2022
Hoelujohn:
PDP has won

The problem na to win?

Na to be declared winner dey important

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Politics / Re: President Buhari Returns To Abuja From Daura After The Sallah Holiday (Photos) by chiedu7: 5:17pm On Jul 16, 2022
He should remain in Daura with his bad omen

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Politics / Re: Court Orders An Upward Review Of Judges Salaries by chiedu7: 3:17pm On Jul 15, 2022
L grin L
Politics / Re: Osun Election: It Is Not Our Duty To Stop Vote Buying, Says INEC Commissioner by chiedu7: 4:48pm On Jul 14, 2022
This people dey plan rig elections oh grin grin grin
Politics / Re: Dayo Isreal Meets Abba Kadade In Osun (Picture) by chiedu7: 3:11pm On Jul 14, 2022
Trapnews:
grin
They are not denying people their PVCs
Politics / Re: Atiku Promises To Hold Reconciliatory Physical Meeting With Wike by chiedu7: 3:05pm On Jul 14, 2022
Dem dey fear wike
Politics / Re: I Regained Freedom After 104 Days In Captivity - Sadiq Ango Abdullahi by chiedu7: 1:59pm On Jul 13, 2022
Buhari & co didnt consider important enough to rescue

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TV/Movies / Re: Sub-license Channels, Court Orders Multichoice by chiedu7: 1:58pm On Jul 13, 2022
KingofAnambra:
OPEN LETTER to all Nigerian Muslims:

Do you know that,

In the Southeast, there has never been any
- Igbo Muslim Governor *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim deputy Governor *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim Speaker of house of Reps *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim Deputy Speaker *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim Attorney General *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim Senator *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim House of Reps member *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim Commissioner *NEVER
- Igbo Muslim Local government chairman *NEVER

since 1999 when democracy started till today.

Yet we Igbos are the ones championing all kinds of hate and propaganda against Muslim/Muslim ticket of Tinubu/Shettima but in our own region, we only vote Christian/Christian ticket, even when there are Igbo Muslims among us. We hate and ostracize them completely. Then you have the guts to say nobody should vote for Muslim/Muslim ticket?

Even Kaduna that is a core Muslim state has had Christian Governor and Christian deputy governor before since 1999, and Christians holding several major political posts across the North.

Nigerian Muslims wake up now and vote for Tinubu /Shettima for presidency 2023. Don't let Muslim haters blackmail you with lies. Defend your religion. Being a Muslim is not a crime.

Sincerely,
Igbo Christian man from Nnewi, Anambra!

This account was setup to sow problems,ignore the ediot angry
Science/Technology / Re: Elon Musk's Spacex Booster Rocket Bursts Into Flames (video) by chiedu7: 1:25pm On Jul 13, 2022
whatisthetruth:


Bruh, that is just superstitious talk.

I’m sure someone in his position must be used to failure, in fact, I bet he fails often and tries to learn from all his failures.

Remember all the early production issues with Tesla, yet the team was able to get better faster, at least he didn’t fold, and now Tesla is a car even petrol-heads want to own, as per wishlist.


You no get my angle.

They are making life difficult for him becos he is no more on the left
Politics / Re: Buhari’s Inaction Threatens 2023 Election Activities As 20 RECs Retire by chiedu7: 1:23pm On Jul 13, 2022
Do we hear 3rd term loading?

Is the late Obadiah's warnings coming to pass?
Science/Technology / Re: Elon Musk's Spacex Booster Rocket Bursts Into Flames (video) by chiedu7: 9:42pm On Jul 12, 2022
From the time this guy said he is buying twitter & voting Republican, its been one wahala or the other

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Politics / Re: Robinson Uwak Accuses Benjamin Kalu For His Broken Marriage (Pix) by chiedu7: 8:36pm On Jul 11, 2022
okoroemeka:
the name keziah in igboland means a cheerful giver of pvssy and coupled with okafors law no 1 then an affair is simply inveitable.
Wicked Nigger grin
Politics / Re: Robinson Uwak Accuses Benjamin Kalu For His Broken Marriage (Pix) by chiedu7: 8:32pm On Jul 11, 2022
Nothing good can come out of APC,
Na satan party

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