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Candidlady:



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LilMissFavvy:
It is sin to watch another person's unclothedness. How much more watching people committing fornication. That's why we dress to cover up our private areas when in public. In all animals, you will notice that the private organs are located in hidden areas or even covered. This shows that private organ is supposed to be kept private as much as possible, and not for public view.

So many people are battling how to break free from this same porn you are talking about. They can't break free from porn and masturbation addiction. I do not think that couples who watch porn have a better sex life, but I believe that couples can improve their sex lives without watching porn.

The Afenifere leader said the group shall be leading the Yoruba nation to demand substantial restructuring. before any election could be held in 2023.

By Agency Report November 12, 2021 2 min read

The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, says it does not believe in secession and disintegration of Nigeria but demands true federalism to address the country’s challenges.

“We are not anarchists; we are not secessionists. We recognise that there is a democratically-elected government,” acting leader of the group, Ayo Adebanjo, told journalists in Lagos.

“However, it is the considered position of Afenifere that the president urgently constitutes a Government of National Unity solely to undertake the restructuring of Nigeria, in consultation with the Nigerian peoples.

“The issue of restructuring is about our freedom. We are democrats. I don’t want violence. I don’t want the country to break,’’ the 93-year-old Yoruba leader said.

Mr Adebanjo, who noted that most states of the federation were unviable entities, decried the level of insecurity across the country, which he said a restructured Nigeria would resolve.

The Yoruba leader also called for a sovereign national conference on restructuring and said that the country must be returned to the 1960 Independence Constitution before the 2023 general elections.

“The Nigeria that was agreed is one that was deliberately federal in structure. The Nigeria that was agreed was by design, based on a parliamentary system of government.

“The Nigeria that was agreed was one that recognised the rights of the federating regions to nationhood within the ambit of the federation that was birthed.

“It was the position of Afenifere and the National Democratic Coalition that there existed an urgent need for a sovereign national conference of ethnic nationalities that have become known as Nigerians.

“We remain convinced that the need for a sovereign national conference is imperative. The basis of the Nigerian state must be clearly negotiated,’’ he stressed.

Mr Adebanjo said that there could not be peace in the absence of equality, justice and truth guaranteed by substantial restructuring and true federalism.

He added that he had spent more than 70 years of his life to relentlessly struggle for a united, civilised and prosperous Nigeria.



According to him, “the Afenifere will support any person who has a clear cut understanding of a restructured Nigeria and sincerely committed to true federalism”.

He said that Afenifere will be leading the Yoruba nation to demand substantial restructuring before any election could be held in 2023.

On the on-going National Assembly’s Constitutional amendment, Mr Adebanjo said that he did not believe in any amendments to the 1999 Constitution because Nigerians were not part of its drafting. (NAN)

FBN Holdings Plc has confirmed that Mr Tunde Hassan-Odukale is the single-largest shareholder in the company.

A statement signed by the company secretary, Seye Kosoko, on Wednesday confirmed that Hassan-Odukale and Mr Femi Otedola as the only shareholders with more than five per cent shareholding in the company.

Hassan-Odukale owns 5.36 per cent while Otedola owns 5.07 per cent.

The UN said remarkable progress had been recorded in the region.
By Agency Report October 15, 2021 3 min read

The UN says there appear to be more glimmer of hope for things to return to normal in a couple of years in Nigeria’s insecurity-troubled North-east.

Addressing reporters in Abuja on Friday, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Ahunna Eziakonwa, said remarkable progress had been recorded in the region.

Mrs Eziakonwa who is also UN’s Regional Director Africa said UN’s intervention had already brought remarkable progress.

The UN official who is in Nigeria on an official visit to access the impact of UN’s intervention noted, however, that there was still much work to be done.

She described her mission as an emotional one, having been born and raised in Nigeria.

“So coming back and doing this mission has been an emotional one for me starting off in the Northeast where UNDP is quite robustly working with the state and federal government to assist those who have been affected by this brutal conflict.

“I am happy to say that when we started this two years ago, we didn’t know if it would be successful because of its complexities, but some of the donors trusted us.

“This mission confirmed for me that there is proof of this concept of working in a development crisis context.

“Indeed on the faces of those that we met there, we saw hope being restored.


“There are still many challenges, but it was amazing to see that because of these green shoots of investments that we are starting to make in rehabilitating the areas, people are feeling confident enough to go back to their ancestral homes to re-cultivate their lives,’’ she said.

Exemplifying with ‘Banki’ a border town between Nigeria and Cameroon which she visited while crossing the border on foot, she said that normalcy was already returning.

Mrs Eziakonwa pointed out that schools had resumed with teachers working seamlessly within communities, a feat which she said was part of the stabilisation agenda which the UN sought.



She said, however, that in its interventions, the UN shies away from physical visibility but operates from behind so as to allow for lost trust to be rebuilt.

She stressed that a major cause of the insurgency was lack of trust in leaders, which also made community residents to build trust in the lies of the insurgents who wooed them.

She explained that when the people believed that their leaders did not care, they could be spurred to join forces those who might demonstrate that they cared more.


The UN representative said that the focus was to find a way to stop citizens from getting roped into extremist violent groups by ensuring that leaders actually care.


She commended the Governor of Borno, Babagana Zulum, whom she said had clearly demonstrated his commitment to help his people to come out of the bad situation.

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“He is leading the trail and we are following behind.

“We have to have a cross-border lens to the way we respond to this situation because Boko Haram has affected three other countries – Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger.

“This border dynamics is not one to ignore. So if we are looking for investment that brings back security, that security will have to be re-established in all the countries affected, not just in one,’’ she said.

Corroborating the position of the Assistant UN scribe, Country Representative of the UNDP, Mohamed Yahya, emphasised that the Northeast was now at its turning point.

He said that with the wave of surrender by terrorists as well as the reduced spate of attacks, coupled with UNDP’s other interventions, he was confident that in the next couple of years, the region would return to normalcy.

“We are strong believers that we are at the turning point in the northeast. UN has been working there but I do not think we have seen these.

“First the attacks are at the lowest that they have ever been in the last quarter since the insurgency started.

“We have seen huge numbers of people surrendering and giving up; the figures are out there and they are most likely than 10,000.

“Our engagements with Gov. Zulum are really to push the development agenda and get people back to safe homes,’’ he said.

He added that the UNDP had invested 30 million dollars in the Northeast and would continue to invest in the stabilisation of the region.