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Autos / Re: Toks 2007 Xle Toyota Camry 4 Plugs by dankofa: 8:54am On Jan 03
Hi,
Can it go for N5.8m? Serious buyer.
Education / Re: Breakdown Of The Student Loan Bill by dankofa: 10:21pm On Jun 12, 2023
With a family annual income of less than N500k to be eligible, it means children of parents who earn N50k per month are not eligible as it comes to N600k. Also, if minimum age is increased from N30k to say N50k due to subsidy removal, all the children of people who will be earning minimum wage won't be eligible.
So, which children will be eligible? It appears like a policy that is just for the upticks.

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Education / Re: Breakdown Of The Student Loan Bill by dankofa: 10:20pm On Jun 12, 2023
With a family annual income of less than N500k to be eligible, it means children of parents who earn N50k per month are not eligible as it comes to N600k. Also, if minimum age is increased from N30k to aY N50k due to subsidy removal, all the children of people who will be earning minimum wage won't be eligible.
So, which children will be eligible? It appears like a policy that is just for the upticks.

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Autos / Recently Registered Super Clean 2015 Ford Edge For Sale. Price N7.2million by dankofa: 6:11pm On Nov 18, 2022
Hot Deal.
Recently registered Ford Edge 2015 model for sale.
Extremely neat interior,
Great suspension
Chilling air conditioning system.
Super cool engine.
Price N7.2m ( slightly negotiable - serious buyers)
Call me on 08032001401

Autos / Re: Registered Clean Toyota Camry xle 2010 V6 N2.4m giveaway For Sale by dankofa: 3:18pm On Nov 04, 2022
Still available
Autos / Re: Registered Clean Toyota Camry xle 2010 V6 N2.4m giveaway For Sale by dankofa: 9:50pm On Nov 03, 2022
Kenxxy:
2m serious buyer
unfortunately, it can't go for lower. It's a giveaway at N2.4m. You can come check it to see what I'm talking about.
Autos / Re: Registered Clean Toyota Camry xle 2010 V6 N2.4m giveaway For Sale by dankofa: 9:00pm On Nov 03, 2022
Great offer. Buy and ride
Autos / Re: Registered Clean Toyota Camry xle 2010 V6 N2.4m giveaway For Sale by dankofa: 6:42pm On Nov 03, 2022
Price reduced to N2.4m for serious buyers only.
Super clean full option, thump start, chilling ac, moon roof, rear camera, neat interior, great engine etc. ready to drive car.

Autos / Registered Clean Toyota Camry xle 2010 V6 N2.4m giveaway For Sale by dankofa: 7:21pm On Oct 26, 2022
This clean vehicle is available for sale. Price slashed to N2.4m for serious buyers only.
2010 xle
Chilling ac
Great engine and gear
Neat interior
Moon roof
Thumb start.
Buy and drive.
Call me on 08032001401 for inspection
Thanks.

Celebrities / Re: I Can Never Go Broke Again - Timaya by dankofa: 3:52pm On Dec 31, 2021
He should have added 'By the Grace of God'. Things do happen. The looting that followed End Sars protest left some people broke.
Autos / Re: 2009 Toyota Highlander For Sale by dankofa: 9:39pm On Oct 14, 2021
Hello,
I'm interested. Tried to call you but your phone was phone. Where is the car located.
Autos / Re: Foreign Used 2012 Ford by dankofa: 8:54pm On Oct 08, 2021
Hello,
What are specifications of this car? Also, share pictures of the engine.
Thanks
Politics / Re: Work Begins On Ota–Idiroko Roads, Ogun State (Photos) by dankofa: 7:04pm On Sep 30, 2021
Ogun has never been lucky with leaders. The construction of the road at Denro through Ishashi to Akute has been crawling. There are only two tractors doing the entire road. It is just meant to make people keep quiet. The construction will be less than 50% completed by 2023.
Autos / Re: Tokunbo 2010 Ford Edge Snow White - For Sale by dankofa: 7:29pm On Sep 27, 2021
Hello,
Where is the vehicle located and when can it be inspected.

Regards.
Autos / Re: Tokunbo 2010 Ford Edge Snow White - For Sale by dankofa: 7:27pm On Sep 27, 2021
Hello,
What is the mileage and where is the vehicle located?

Regards.
Religion / Re: Man Put Paper In Offering Envelope In Church With This Write Up by dankofa: 9:04pm On Jun 03, 2019
The way people desecrate and dishonor God nowadays, when the wrath of God visits they run to the same church for help.

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Autos / Re: Toyota Camry 2001 Model @ 760k by dankofa: 9:11pm On Feb 27, 2019
Hello, can this go for 650k?
Politics / Re: Femi Fani-Kayode Calls On Atiku, PDP To Form A Parallel Government by dankofa: 5:01pm On Feb 26, 2019
This idiot will cause violence and his family will be on the next chartered flight out of the country.
Travel / Re: See The Abandoned Akute Flyover In Ogun Sate, Near Lagos (PHOTOS) by dankofa: 4:27pm On Aug 06, 2018
Ogun state government is perhaps the most useless government in Nigeria. All propaganda and no work. I spent close to 2 hours at the Alagbole bridge last week on my way home. This is should be a distance of about 2 minutes! The bridge has been on for over 6 years and the road available for our use is in a terrible state, it gets lock down. The government has not thought it right to carry out palliatives on the road. Such an insensitive government!
I think what is lacking in Nigeria is our inability as a people to come together and stage peaceful protests, televised to embarrass these irresponsible politicians.

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Jobs/Vacancies / Driver Wanted by dankofa: 8:07am On May 26, 2018
A private driver is required.

He must live within the Akute, Ishashi and Alagbole areas of Ogun State for proximity to place of work.

If interested, pls call 08032001401 for further details.

Thank you.
Jobs/Vacancies / Driver Wanted Urgently by dankofa: 8:29am On May 18, 2017
A personal driver is required urgently. He must be live around Alagbole, Ishashi, Akute area of Ogun State; experienced, with valid driver's licence and of good character.

If interested, please call 08032001401.

Thank you.
Family / Boko Haram Abductions: Freed 'bride' Tells Of Stigma Ordeal by dankofa: 2:20pm On Apr 14, 2016
Zara is 17 years old and she has a terrible story. It is the story of Boko Haram and what this brutal Islamist group is doing to thousands of people in north-eastern Nigeria and surrounding countries.
Zara was kidnapped by Boko Haram and then freed by the army, but now finds herself sometimes wishing she was back in the forest rather than suffering the stigma of life as a Boko Haram bride.
She wasn't one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls, and until now didn't have her own social media hashtag, but like thousands of others - free or still captive - is deeply traumatised.
In telling #ZarasStory it's the first time she has spoken to outsiders about her terrible experience a year on, and the pain she still suffers to this day.
"They gave us a choice - to be married, or to be a slave. I decided to marry," she said.
There is little difference, but for the child she was soon bearing.
s she has become an outcast in her community
Life was tough and dangerous. The air force jets bombarded the vast Sambisa Forest where the militants have their camps and from where soldiers rescued her and eventually returned her to her relatives.
"The women in our family realised she was three months pregnant," said her uncle Mohamed Umaru, who told us more of her story.
"In our family it happens that some of us are Christians and some are Muslims. She was a Christian before she was kidnapped but the Boko Haram who married her turned her into a Muslim."
There was a split in the family over what to do and they took a vote as to whether she should abort or keep the child.
The majority prevailed and she gave birth to a boy.
"She said her husband's father is called Usman, so that is how she named the child," Mohamed said.
And then the insults began.
"People call me a Boko Haram wife and called me a criminal. They didn't want me near. They didn't like me," Zara said as a tear slowly slipped down her cheek.
she prefers the forest to her home
She now sits inside the small walled compound around her house, afraid to go outside because of the cruel insults of the neighbourhood children - messages of hate learned from their parents.
"They didn't like my child. When he fell sick nobody would look after him," she said.
Last weekend, as Zara slept outside with Usman because of the heat, a snake got into their compound and the boy was killed. He was just nine months old.
Half the family celebrated what they called God's will.
"Some were happy that he died," Zara said. "They were happy the blood of Boko Haram had gone from the family."
ys she is afraid to go outside because of the insults
"They said thank God that the kid is dead, that God has answered their prayers," Mohamed explained.
"Sometimes she says she wants to go to school and become a doctor and help society, but sometimes, when people insult her, she says she wants to go back to the Sambisa Forest.
"She always talks about her husband who happens to be a Boko Haram commander. She says the guy is nice to her and that he wants to start a new life with her."
Listening to Zara's story, told quietly with eyes flicking down at the ground, it is hard to imagine anyone going through what she has gone though, let alone a 17-year-old girl.
Mohamed said Zara's life had become so intolerably hard that on one occasion she had said she wanted to "go and do a suicide mission".
"She will, she will, she will definitely do that if she gets the chance," he added.
Abandoned
But there is so much confusion in her face and in her answers - she is not a killer, she is just a child.
"The feeling for the forest is strong now, but it will go away. I will forget the time with Boko Haram, but not yet," Zara said.
She says she is in love with her husband although she believes she has been brainwashed. She feels abandoned by her family and stigmatised by her community.
She is sad, she is angry, she is confused. She is 17.
"People should understand that these children didn't create this, but if we continue to stigmatise people with such trauma we might create something much, much bigger than Boko Haram in the future," her uncle says.
"You are creating a more dangerous thing than Boko Haram if you grow up not welcomed by society and with nobody wanting to help you.
"My prayer is for the government to do something. They should come to their aid and reintegrate them and show them love."
So many girls like Zara have been abducted, so many others are still being held.
There is torment for those who wait and hope, and there is pain for those who survive.
Family / Boko Haram Abductions: Freed 'bride' Tells Of Stigma Ordeal by dankofa: 2:14pm On Apr 14, 2016
Zara is 17 years old and she has a terrible story. It is the story of Boko Haram and what this brutal Islamist group is doing to thousands of people in north-eastern Nigeria and surrounding countries.
Zara was kidnapped by Boko Haram and then freed by the army, but now finds herself sometimes wishing she was back in the forest rather than suffering the stigma of life as a Boko Haram bride.
She wasn't one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls, and until now didn't have her own social media hashtag, but like thousands of others - free or still captive - is deeply traumatised.
In telling #ZarasStory it's the first time she has spoken to outsiders about her terrible experience a year on, and the pain she still suffers to this day.
"They gave us a choice - to be married, or to be a slave. I decided to marry," she said.
There is little difference, but for the child she was soon bearing.
s she has become an outcast in her community
Life was tough and dangerous. The air force jets bombarded the vast Sambisa Forest where the militants have their camps and from where soldiers rescued her and eventually returned her to her relatives.
"The women in our family realised she was three months pregnant," said her uncle Mohamed Umaru, who told us more of her story.
"In our family it happens that some of us are Christians and some are Muslims. She was a Christian before she was kidnapped but the Boko Haram who married her turned her into a Muslim."
There was a split in the family over what to do and they took a vote as to whether she should abort or keep the child.
The majority prevailed and she gave birth to a boy.
"She said her husband's father is called Usman, so that is how she named the child," Mohamed said.
And then the insults began.
"People call me a Boko Haram wife and called me a criminal. They didn't want me near. They didn't like me," Zara said as a tear slowly slipped down her cheek.
she prefers the forest to her home
She now sits inside the small walled compound around her house, afraid to go outside because of the cruel insults of the neighbourhood children - messages of hate learned from their parents.
"They didn't like my child. When he fell sick nobody would look after him," she said.
Last weekend, as Zara slept outside with Usman because of the heat, a snake got into their compound and the boy was killed. He was just nine months old.
Half the family celebrated what they called God's will.
"Some were happy that he died," Zara said. "They were happy the blood of Boko Haram had gone from the family."
ys she is afraid to go outside because of the insults
"They said thank God that the kid is dead, that God has answered their prayers," Mohamed explained.
"Sometimes she says she wants to go to school and become a doctor and help society, but sometimes, when people insult her, she says she wants to go back to the Sambisa Forest.
"She always talks about her husband who happens to be a Boko Haram commander. She says the guy is nice to her and that he wants to start a new life with her."
Listening to Zara's story, told quietly with eyes flicking down at the ground, it is hard to imagine anyone going through what she has gone though, let alone a 17-year-old girl.
Mohamed said Zara's life had become so intolerably hard that on one occasion she had said she wanted to "go and do a suicide mission".
"She will, she will, she will definitely do that if she gets the chance," he added.
Abandoned
But there is so much confusion in her face and in her answers - she is not a killer, she is just a child.
"The feeling for the forest is strong now, but it will go away. I will forget the time with Boko Haram, but not yet," Zara said.
She says she is in love with her husband although she believes she has been brainwashed. She feels abandoned by her family and stigmatised by her community.
She is sad, she is angry, she is confused. She is 17.
"People should understand that these children didn't create this, but if we continue to stigmatise people with such trauma we might create something much, much bigger than Boko Haram in the future," her uncle says.
"You are creating a more dangerous thing than Boko Haram if you grow up not welcomed by society and with nobody wanting to help you.
"My prayer is for the government to do something. They should come to their aid and reintegrate them and show them love."
So many girls like Zara have been abducted, so many others are still being held.
There is torment for those who wait and hope, and there is pain for those who survive.
Politics / Re: Fayose Helps Man With Eye-Cataract At Akure-Ado (Photos) by dankofa: 8:58am On Feb 11, 2016
How much does it cost to treat cataract? Why not just open a cataract treatment centre for many more in Ekiti State with this same challenge instead of the publicity stunt on one man?

Just thinking.
Politics / Re: Remi Babalola: I Left Jonathan’s Govt Because Of Financial Mismanagement by dankofa: 8:35am On Sep 02, 2015
Remi Babalola thinks we have short memory in Nigeria. In as much as I'm not a Jonathan fan, Remi Babalola I recall resigned his appointment after he stated that NNPC was broke - a statement that drew the ire of the government and led to his transfer to the Ministry of Special Duties. He resigned about 2 months afterwards.
So, he actually didnt resign based on the level of corruption but due to the humiliation he was subjected to for making a careless statement by the Jonathan governemnt.

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Autos / Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports by dankofa: 10:49pm On Apr 09, 2015
Good evening,
Kindly help with a check on this vin
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Thank you.
Autos / Tokunbo Toyota Camry 2010 Full Option Needed. by dankofa: 9:37pm On Apr 03, 2015
I need a clean tokunbo toyota camry 2010 full option (v6, thumb start, navigation system etc).
U can post on this page or contact me on 08023382547.
Thank you.
Autos / Registered Toyota Highlander 2009 Needed by dankofa: 3:13pm On Mar 11, 2015
Hello All,

I need a registered but very neat toyota highlander 2009 (limited edition).

Anyone with one should please contact me on 08032001401

Thank you.
Celebrities / Re: Toyin Aimakhu’s Marriage Crashes by dankofa: 1:27pm On Jan 24, 2015
Was the husband being paid to commit adultery? How can he be caught in hotels 300 times in 11 months (330days)? He must have then been taking girls to hotels almost on daily basis! Just thinking.

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Family / Re: It Is Proper To Have Sex During Fasting Period? by dankofa: 5:10pm On Jan 07, 2015
Once you break your fast by 6pm or whenever you want to, it is okay to have sex until your fast recommences by 12midnight again. When you've broken your fast to eat you can also have sex as sex is not "a bigger criminal" than the food that you eat.

Except in cases of absolute fast which is 24hours and no break, then you cant have sex just as you cant eat.

Its that simple without complications.

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Politics / Deplorable State Of Denro, Ishashi And Akute Road by dankofa: 11:33am On Oct 22, 2014
I had thought of doing a write up on this road till I saw one in teh Punch newspaper of today.

The state government really needs to act fast in fixing this road as the people are really suffering.

Picked from Punch Newspaper:
For residents of Oluwakemi, Olasepe, Denro, Ishasi, Akute in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, it is faster to move from one point to the other in a canoe than in a car.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the residents seemed to have given up hope on the reconstruction of a flood-ravaged road that links them to the Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos.
The condition of the road was said to have been worsened by the blocked drains in the area which could not contain the erosion resulting from perennial rainfall and discharge from an Ogun dam.
PUNCH Metro learnt that passersby had to take their times wading through the flooded portion of the road while children could not go to school.
In a visit to the communities around 9am on Monday, our correspondent sighted a bus and a van submerged in the water. Workers and students, who could not dare the volume of the surge, boarded canoes while others were strapped on the back for a fee of N100 by some men in the area. A woman fell inside the water while wading through it but was fortunate to regain control.
Mechanics were also on the ground to help motorists filter water from their car engines. Business activities in the area were paralysed as most shops were closed.
The Baale of Olasepe Community, Mr. Wasiu Abegunde, said the flood would have been averted if there were good drains in the communities, adding that residents contributed money to do some repairs on the road.
“The drainage system here is bad. My house is surrounded by water. If we have enough drains, the volume of water will be reduced. Most children cannot go to school and workers are late for their offices. Recently, we contributed N1.5m to sand-fill the road,” he said.
The Chairman, Akute Community Development Community, Alhaji Mubaraq Sanni, told our correspondent that the government had neglected the area and appealed to Governor Ibikunke Amosun to find a lasting solution to their plights.
He said, “In 2011, the state government promised to construct another bridge to replace the one that has been flooded. We have been lamenting the poor state of the road but at least, we are still managing it.
“But now, it is beyond managing. Let the government come to our aid and do it properly. That is part of the dividend of democracy we are expecting. We are suffering. Government presence here is nothing to write home about. We are appealing to the governor; things are becoming unbearable.”
In his account, Alhaji Muftaudeen Shuaib, who lives in Ishasi, said the road had forced some people to relocate.
“We are fed up. It has been like this for the past nine years. The flood is yearly. We are suffering a lot. Some people have moved out of this area because they could not endure the stress again,” he said.
A resident of Oluwakemi, who identified himself simply as Wolly, said the wheels of his car had been affected by the potholes. He added that he had stopped bringing his car to the house to avoid further damage.
Our correspondent saw some passengers grumbling in discontent as they staggered along the potholes on the road.
A passenger, who alighted from a commercial bus, told PUNCH Metro that transporters capitalised on the slippery road to charge them extra fare.
“On a good day, from Berger to Akute is N100. But now that the road is worse coupled with the flooded portion, the fare has been increased to between N150 and N200,” she said.
When contacted, the Ogun State Commissioner for Works, Mr. Lekan Adegbite, said the government would start working on the road soon.
He said, “We are aware of the flood. There are many problems this government is facing and we cannot fix them in a day. Three years in the office is not enough to fix all the problems. We had done a palliative measure in the area but had been washed away by heavy rainfall. As soon as the rain stops, we will find a permanent solution to the road.”

Politics / Re: Ogun Poised To Overtake Lagos In Development! by dankofa: 3:01pm On Aug 16, 2013
The development in Ogun state does not cut across the state. A lot of areas are in very bad shape with bad roads.All we keep hearing year after year is that they will be done as they have been budged for.

Pictures of Akute, Ishashi, Denro roads and inner roads like the Ogunnaike street on Ojodu-Abodun would make your heart skip.

Even motorcycles find it difficult to get a good part of th road to ride not to talk of cars that sink in potholes every now and then.

I implore the state government to please spread the development around.

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