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raumdeuter:I kept typing and deleting because I do not want to reveal certain sensitive information seeing the high SEO and GEO value of Nairaland. I wish I could give in-depth details here to what you and Blueraydick have pointed out, especially with regards host communities in the Niger Delta. I can't. You both are spot on. But it's deeper. The matter, for some of us who have been conferred officially with the right to mediate on behalf of our own communities captured as host communities, has been escalated to the courts, the media, and other behind-the-scene arrangements. I've had to be on radio, TV, and surmoned by the Council of Chiefs and Rulers more times than I planned for in the last two months, addressing the same issue while being careful not to get roped into other contravening issues. All I can tell you is this: the gradual usurping of rights of actual indigenes of places of the most economic significance has begun quietly in this country, including in the actual host communities which play host to these oil facilities. For some of us in the know and intellectually vested in these issues who have refused to be intimidated, be roped in with favours and monies to look the other way, we get threats and blacklisting for our troubles; though support from the wider communities of interest. I can't comment or reveal more that the aforestated. |
Hairy men allowed themselves to be deceived into thinking insisting a woman must cook is toxic patriarchy but slaving away all your fit life to sort her bills while being also responsible for her protection is a badge of honour. You enjoy playing traditional manly roles for non-traditional women? What sort of male figures did most of you have growing up? Dads cooked surprise meals growing up but being the default cook while wives cross their legs binge-watching BBNaija or joining Nathaniel Bassey's "Hallelujah Challenge" when you aren't even a submissive wife? Why shackle yourself doing the forever thing thing with a woman who doesn't love you enough to learn who to cook what goes into your stomach? A woman who outsources your well-being to a maid likely? You aren't her priority? She knows how to draw the perfect eyebrows and add the right layer of mascare to her lashes but cooking for you isn't a priority? |
A40:You're right. I've followed Banky on Instagram for no less than 8 years until a few minutes ago. (It's a crime to follow a self-confessed simp.) He had his born-again pastorship bout twice where he and his wife use to do that performative religious nonsense. Now she's back to thirsting on Instagram. Banky does public speaking and even had sponsored programmes to Woke schools in the U.S. like NYU and the likes. So I get it. The odd thing is Banky's mother is Akwa-Cross and I remember his interview with Fade in 2009 on Radio Continental Lagos going on about her being a good cook and him not wanting to say certain things because she's at RCCG Camp listening. How that guy with that kind of homely mother ended up simping and cooking while his wife crosses her legs is beyond me. Feminist Coven have already gone to town with it. Why didn't Banky just shut up?! |
I'm a large boobs man. Always have been. My lady made me an ass man too so large boobs and very very sizeable butts for me. I'll never be satisfied with the B-cups and A-cups being paraded by the first. |
TemporaryHansel:'Tumble between the sheets' then I like typically state? It doesn't paint the imagery of frenzied copulation like 'Bang like rabbits' does. |
A40:Plus a woman who loves you without inhibitions will be extra particular about what goes into your stomach to nourish you. She treasures you. You both bang like rabbits, exchanging bodily fluids but cooking is where she draws the line? How wealthy was Adesua before meeting Banky W? Was she an A-list actress? So throughout university to living independently before marriage, she bought food? She didn't even try to make herself a meal? She didn't love herself enough to lookup YouTube tutorials to cook at least simple meals, not to mention her lover? Carrying his babies isn't a thing, but cooking is drawing the line? So her two sons will never grow up seeing mummy cook for the home? Feminized men! |
On the dating scene, one of the ways you know a woman who cares is when she particularly asks you about what you've eaten. It seems cliché and even comedic as a meme but it's real. "Have you eaten? Why have you not eaten? Your girlfriend didn't cook for you (fishing to know if you're committed to someone else)? Call one of them to cook for you nau." That's during the talking stage. When you guys become an item, she comes visiting during the weekends, she'll try to make you something. "Babe, I'm cooking rice o. Get me XYZ from the supermarket. No, I don't like the tomato paste you have. Get me ABC brand. Get me XYZ seasoning too." She'll whip up jollof rice or stew. "Babe, finish your food. Don't you like it?" Months into it, she'll write you lists to the market when she comes over. You'll grumble but you'll go haggle at the market. You guys are stable. When you guys get married and become a proper couple, she'll do same. And more. You'll send her random money, with " Honey, please cook XYZ." She'll grumble about being exhausted but you'll come home to her meal regardless. Banky W experienced none of these phases and he's comfortable with it? What did Adesua put in our brother's glass? Banky W was no simp and women were falling at his feet so what happened? |
raumdeuter:A man's default is to provide and protect. A woman's default is to nurture. Nurturing is caring, being particular about what you eat (cooking), being particular about your health (that's why your woman is your nurse by default)... Any woman who rates you will try to impress you by cooking you a meal knowing fully well how men value good food and good séx. Adesua obviously doesn't rate Banky W. According to him as I just found out, she kept him in the friendzone for two years. In those two years, he was simping while other men were banging her as she wasn't celibate. When she had her fill, she looked around in her friendzone for a husband – the exact reason unmarried women keep male friends around for options while they give the coochie to men they rate. She had no need to impress him. No butterflies. He was the fine boy simp she could bank on. So they ate out and he glossed over her suppressed womanly nurturing instincts. The same people who tell you cooking isn't a criterion to choose a woman also insist a man has to provide and protect (his natural instincts) for a woman who has suppressed her default femininity. We live in a hyperfeminised society. Many men groomed to pander to women by their older female relatives. There's nothing as disgusting in maledom as a man who panders to women in a sëlf-deprecåting way. Like Banky W's humiliation ritual in the news bragging about simping. |
Semid4lyfe, have you listened to Craig David ft. Tiwa Savage – "Commitment"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vxPZnhcgfo?si=Cze6BmLXt5NLc5KI Notice the quality, from production to lyrics? You'll still bop to it at parties, no? Afrobeats but world appeal and quality. So why does she (and her ilk) give us "I go dey sangolo for you, you go then pangolo for my potato", and it shoots to Number 1 on the Nigerian charts? |
BlueRayDick:Straight out! Straight to the point. Nobody sexualizes a woman like a woman. Even offline, nobody is quick to smack a woman's butts in public like her friends/acquaintances or size up her bøøbs. From cleavages (even for women with small bøøbs), to slits in their skirts and gowns to show their thighs from behind. Even makeup. When make-up artistes talk about the smoky eyes effect it's to make the woman being made-up look "sexy" and "alluring". Nobody is quick to slut-shame a woman like another woman she's fighting, disagreeing with, or who is envious of her. On social media, when two women fight, how long does it take before we hear/read accusations of "àshãwo"? During the Anambra Governorship Election last year, when Soludo was going at it Ekwunife the APC candidate, did Soludo sexualize her? What was Ekwunife's response to hurt Soludo? She slutshamed Soludo's wife as an escort for an ex-Anambra Governor. What did Soludo's wife do in return? She slutshamed Ekwunife, accusing her of infidelity and paternity fraud. When Natasha and Akpabio had their tiff last year, did any male Senator or ranking Akpabio defender slut-shame Natasha? No. When Akpabio's defender, Dr. I-can't-recollect-her-name-now, moved to 'unravel' Natasha on Facebook, what did she do first? She slutshamed Natasha. She was the one who began the "serial wife" and the "women with many husbands" tag. Nobody sexualizes/objectifies a woman like a woman. |
semid4lyfe:Erm, I'll admit his vocals blended well with Ayra Starr's. It was good. It's those collaborations you mentioned the last time for more visibility. Personally? I crave those Tems-level collaborations; with Passenger, Jon Bellion, and Sia. But we'll take Ayra Starr for now as long as he doesn't lose his Johnny Drille uniqueness. |
semid4lyfe:Why is Buhari being completely wedged under the bus, and nobody willing to defend him? Electoral Act? Not perfect but better than the previous. IPPIS? The policy changes in the startup niche via the Nigeria Startup Act? Not owing any state regardless of how he feels or personal differences with the state governor? Our GDP was generally better under him than BAT. The inflation under him was (slightly) lower. |
chrisooblog:This was expected. The nail on the coffin was Farooq Kperogi's campaign of calumny against PYO, calling him the face of the RCCGification of Nigeria. He stoked a whole religious war, making Osinbajo a pariah for Muslims and denominational Christians (who engage in silly rivalry of sects). Kperogi was thorough in his damnation. Northern elites soundboarded it, people like Waspapping (I got the spelling wrong, I guess) promoted it all over X. And those who could have defended Osinbajo agreed, insisting he was a betraying Christian zealot too. For me, it was Kperogi. Osinbajo lost steam right after. |
Spy360:Two calm, intelligent men who focus on issues, instead of attacking persons. Two men who quote econometrics statistics because they understand development has to be quantified too instead of the dismissive "Na statistics we go chop?" Imagine the depth of discourse without insults, thugs, and unruly psychopaths. Imagine us debating here in the lead up to the Elections knowing that whoever wins means Nigeria wins. Imagine P.O. citing economic indices from Egypt while P.Y.O. analogizes with metrics from Thailand's growth. Funny how Ghana has that and the 'Giant of Africa' doesn't. I guess, with Nigerian politics being mafia-like, controlled by thugs and gunmen, both men who preach civility and respect for contrarian voices stand little chance. But we won't lose hope. That's why I can't settle for Tinubu and standing on his mandate because I know we can do so much better...even when I know I can line my pockets standing on the mandate. |
semid4lyfe:Same here. I supported Peter Obi for President in 2018 before Obidient was a thing. But only PYO could have made me change my mind. The President Nigeria never had. Fayemi was another alternative I have explained in the past. |
Semid4lyfe, from your post you proved what I have always suspected – you have a 'weird' taste in music too like me. You even follow Johnny's Room Live? Only real fans get up to speed with him at that level. Great! It's unfair to lump Burna Boy and Wizkid with the horde of talentless, producer-assisted artistes so I won't do it. I suppose I just want to see artistes like Johnny Drille at the very least enjoy the same commercial success as the others. Johnny is who I rate as highly as Jon Bellion and The Weeknd, and his covers of their songs during the Lockdown will make you ditch the original. Case in point, his cover of Jon Bellion's "All Time Low" during the Lockdown will give you goosebumps. He can hold the crowd and audience as much as Passenger does. I'm glad Tems made it out and gets appreciated by a global audience for her talent. I wish Johnny made it out. I wish Praiz made it out in 2014 before it was too late, banking on his out-of-this-world cover of Rihanna's "Stay" (which is better than the original, in my opinion). I wish Blessing Tangban (who has one of the purest, delicate vocals you'll ever hear) made it out yet she rots in near obscurity. |
I just stumbled on a post by a certain Danny Nsa which encapsulates what I've always believed, preached and theorized about Nigeria's music industry. Here: 👇🏼 "Nigeria decided a long time ago that noise is talent. The louder the 808, the bigger the star. So when a man steps into a room with nothing but his voice and the audacity to mean every word he sings, the industry squints at him like he arrived at the wrong party. Johnny Drille arrived at every wrong party and somehow became the most important person in the room. There is a cruelty in how Nigeria treats its finest male vocalists. Chike can make your chest hurt with a single note transition. Ric Hassani sings like a man who has loved deeply and lost beautifully and somehow made peace with both. Praiz has been carrying this conversation on his back since the 2010s, when afrobeats was still finding its feet and he was already doing things with his voice that made producers nervous. Johnny Drille writes songs the way your most emotionally intelligent friend talks, slowly, carefully, like every word costs something. These four men represent a standard of vocal excellence that most of the Nigerian mainstream has collectively agreed to ignore. And the funniest part is Nigerians know every word to their songs. They just don't want to admit it publicly. This is the strange double life of the Nigerian alternative R and B lover. In public, they are defending whatever name is currently trending. In their car at 11pm, Johnny Drille's Wait For Me is on repeat and they are having a full conversation with their ceiling about a relationship that ended in 2019. Chike's Roju has resolved more unspoken grief than therapy sessions that cost thirty thousand naira per hour. The music works. People just refuse to give it its flowers in broad daylight. What separates these men from the rest is not just technical ability, it is emotional specificity. Anybody can sing about love in the general sense. Chike sings about the particular weight of loving someone who is still figuring out whether they love you back. Ric Hassani writes romance the way old school Afro soul used to be written, with a sincerity that now feels almost rebellious in a market saturated with songs about money and women who are suspicious of both. Praiz has a rawness in his delivery that sounds like the song is happening to him in real time, not something he rehearsed. You might think these are just singers but to me they are documentarians of the human heart. The industry comparison is damning if you sit with it long enough. Nigeria celebrated Burna Boy winning a Grammy, rightfully so. But the same music culture that holds up international validation as the ultimate standard has spent years giving these men crumbs. Chike appeared on Voice Nigeria, came out as a runner up, and then built a career largely on the strength of people who heard him and could not unhear him. Just so you know, he built everything with no label machinery and no industry placement. It was just voice meeting ear and refusing to let go. That is a rare and almost unfair kind of talent. Honesty demands we also name the gap. These men are not struggling in obscurity because Nigeria has bad taste. They are navigating a streaming economy, a social media algorithm, and a cultural appetite that currently rewards energy over interiority. It is not that Nigerians cannot appreciate depth. Behind the Scenes just proved that a film with genuine emotional weight can pack cinemas and make grown men cry beside strangers. The appetite for feeling is there. Someone just needs to make it loud enough that the algorithm notices. The talent is not in question. Nigeria's priorities are. Right now Nigerians prioritize Mavo and the likes and all I can say is it is well. 🤦♂️" https://www.facebook.com/61584980522965/posts/pfbid02XsbkSvTpi4xdPf32mZYLg6P4WECkvrsCu8QSG6qaYTxrT68BgiioibZpuaA4E74Ll/ -------++-----📍----📍----📍---- Succinctly stated. Over the years I have done my part to promote these guys as much as I can. I've been following Johnny Drille since 2016, wrote lengthy blog op-eds he endorsed on Twitter in 2018/2019, joined a team of volunteer alternative music lovers who divided themselves into regional publicity teams to push his album in 2021; organizing ourselves in Telegram groups. I follow and push the works of Bez and Praiz, evangelizing to anyone and everyone to listen to their music. For Ric Hassani, we had a ragtag group of fans push his music through 2021/2022 on Twitter...until I had to stop because it was messing with my algorithm (which to be tech-heavy). These are the artistes I stream on Spotify and binge-watch in picture-in-picture mode on YouTube. I'll rather interact with Styl Plus and Jeremiah Gyang's Instagram posts than the biggest artistes out there. But we can only do so much. For the relatively few of us, it's never enough. Johnny Drille, Bez, Chike and the likes do have the repertoire to sell out stadiums...in a country which appreciates actual talents. Maybe the problem is, they do clean music in secular contexts? Three weeks ago, the Oba of Benin hosted Shallipopi in his palace, while his Chiefs sang along to the latter's songs. Shallipopi sings about fraud and has a mugshot arrested for the same crime yet the Oba validates him. Same way a Young Jonn will sooner get recognition by another southern state over a Cobhams Asuquo. I know the Oba is father to all but Johnny Drille never gets such invitation...and he's an ambassador any would be glad to have: educated, well-spoken, refined, peaceful, expresses civility and dignity in his art and life... Nigeria does treat its most talented male vocalists like dung. Sad reality. |
raumdeuter:Exactly! You are more likely to even get a reply from these guys on X than on any other platform. Nir Eyal and I were doing a back-and-forth on X when Threads launched. I even started the conversation on my own timeline. Would never have happened on LinkedIn and Facebook. Mark Essien will sooner respond to you on X (if you comment insightfully) than on any other platform. Iyin seems easy to access on X until you try reaching him on other platforms. Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, will interact with o you on X if you comment intelligibly. I can't count the number of times Andrew Gazdecki, CEO of Acquired, has responded to questions I've asked on X, or Neil Patel who's like a top 10 in SEO and SEM. On X, the currency in the circles I mentioned is being able to engage intelligently. Even Mark Cuban you mentioned responds to everyday people on X. |
raumdeuter:Or you're from an oil-producing/host community. Surest way. |
TemporaryHansel:You are following the wrong people and engaging with the wrong tweets. Ignore banger boys. You'll lose brain cells reading their posts. Go under Elon Musk's nested comment sections to read and interact with quality posts, and people. Go follow Garry Tan of Y Combinator then connect with intelligent, goal-driven people across Time Zones. There's Technical Ben (a regular Nigerian who posts about opportunities and the grind), there's Baba Omoloro (who posts about opportunities and upskillng and personal development and whom I have followed and interacted with for years)... They don't dabble into controversies or start one. There are so many on X NG, but many people follow the banger boys and 'activists' who thrive on controversy. If you mute words like "Popsy" or "OBO", you don't get to see Wizkid and Davido fans attacking and insulting themselves and everyone with a contrary opinion. If you mute words like "Tacha" or "Phyna" or "Saida Boj", you don't get to see BBN whørës and their hãrebråinëd fans, or the hãppy-go-lucky poster female of entitlement. |
BlueRayDick:X is gold. Just unfollow or mute all accounts igniting or fueling those gender wars and tribalistic nonsense. Avoid interacting with banger boys' posts because they are rabbitholes. Change your X Feed location (it shows privately) to areas with quality conversations (mine is usually Florida, Texas or California). Follow people with similar interests – Finance, Tech, Startups, Artificial Intelligence etc) and similar people will be recommended to you. As you like and interact with the posts of such people, more of such posts will be recommended to you. And follow people the follow. Join communities too as their tweets will show up on their timelimes. (Are they even still called tweets? You get what I mean.) I didn't know about the Simi and Mirabel saga until I checked this thread. Even liking some of the takes when I checked them out on X messed up my timeline so I had to clean it all up. X is gold. The best thing to happen to me social-media-wise in terms of personal and professional development. Even if you don't want to change location, use the same format for niches you like. Startup X Ng is active. AI X Ng is active. Finance X Ng is active. |
BlueRayDick:You're still actively posting on LinkedIn? The deluge of AI-generated, generic and performative nonsense has chased me away so I just look in now every once in a while, and mute notifications, keeping only messages and search hits. X is where it is for me now and where you get to relate based on intelligence instead of how well of an over-embellishing showman you are. On X, you can get Peter Thiel or Iyin or Mark Essien or Musk to respond to an inquiry directly or strike a conversation without the bureautic facade of LinkedIn. |
semid4lyfe:GEJ built solar plants so universities can be electrified. 11 years after, the plants still work. Tinubu, instead, built a #4 billion power plant in Aso Rock to isolate himself from the realities of Nigerians battling abysmal levels of power supply. Remain in your honour, Dr. Jonathan. Joseph1832, come commend GEJ. |
South African women proudly displaying their HIV statuses. 'Bootiful' and you'll never tell by looking at their physical appearance. https://www.facebook.com/100003311092239/posts/26455443580815985 |
Ibime:Correct. J Cole never misses, and he doesn't try to be a hood rapper getting involved in shootouts and gang fights like the herd for street credibility. He doesn't objectify/sexualize his family (wife and kids) for views and engagements like Hov and Ye. A proper role model for Black kids. |
semid4lyfe:Don't prove any point, man. The whole point is satisfaction plus the result. No matter how many hours you go tonight, by tomorrow night she'll want it again or you'll feel the stirrings in your loins again. In fact, there are even nights both will just cuddle up scrolling social media and laughing at skits. And that's fine knowing by dawn, you can give a Champions League final worthy match. The whole point is, Madam mustn't be left unsatisfied and Chairman must orgasm too. |
semid4lyfe:No. But even with my old, now-dormant account in 2015, I use to go on about sexual libido. I'll debate how it is possible. Some people thought I was chest-beating. https://www.nairaland.com/search?q=Thesonofmark+libido&search=Search I was even called a liar: https://www.nairaland.com/4957496/ashawo-beer-parlor/667#77001373 . I laughed it off considering I was living the experience. Even back then I use to state a female being able to match up to (or willing to learn to work on matching) my libido was one of the requisites to commit else I won't commit to a lifetime of sexual insatiation. I got lucky and ended up doing life with one who goes stroke for quiff with me as long as I want so I guess dreams come true. |
semid4lyfe:Both the men and women from the Akwa-Cross region are tigers in bed by default. It seems like bragging when we say it but it's the truth. I have a theory that it's the cuisine passed down over centuries. The cuisines of coastal people have a lot of seafood (periwinkles, shellfish etc), and seafood have been said to contain aphrodisiacs. Now imagine stocking up bodily on natural aphrodisiacs all your life plus your genes from your progenitors... The Ibibio, Efik, Ijaw... Coastal people like that. Ijaw women are crazy between the sheets too. Ask anyone who's been with Bayelsa women. For the men, lifestyle of alcohol consumption is why sexual stamina might not be so pronounced after a while. But if you don't take alcohol and drug-free, you'll go hours if you want as a man from the region. Oron/Ibeno/Eket females are right on the Ocean and have very heavy seafood meals. You should also watch or attend a typical Ibibio/Efik traditional wedding. The man is asked to simulate certain movements I can't even reveal here, but it's to test his sexual stamina. The stereotype is real. Some deny it to fake prudishness but I accepted my truth long ago. |
"A man is suppose to start a family, not join one." "Why did he marry a woman who was married before?" Sweet heavens! Men have woken up and are speaking up, refusing to be gaslighting and fed shît to be called "real man". Things I love to see. Now take it to the next step by openly stating this in the nested comment sections of popular Facebook and X posts, pages and groups. Tell these women to their faces. Pass the message on to men who still pander for 'likes' and followers on those platforms. Don't worry about being canceled. Cancel culture has no power when you are stating the truth. |
BlueRayDick:Man, you don't understand the nature of women? A grown woman who gets pregnant for you does it consciously. There are hookup girls hopping from bed to bed without getting pregnant. You underestimate how much women know about their bodies and the number of times they talk about the lastest contraceptive measures. Remember the case of Adam Nuru, the FCMB boss, 5 years ago who fathered kids with his secretary while pushing the kids on to her husband? She knew! She timed her cycle to match with her boss and likely took contraceptives when with her husband. The husband tôok his life when he found out. Have you forgotten those days when you bed a girl at the beginning and she goes, "I hope you didn't cum?" She goes home to do something about it. When she's melted into you and has chosen you as hers, she stops asking those questions after you orgasm in her. All of a sudden, she forgets how to calculate her safe periods, outsourcing it to you. She doesn't mind getting pregnant for you. The ones who became single mothers are partly the ones who gambled, thinking they could hook their men with pregnancies and the men became irresponsible towards the pregnancies. When your girl stops calculating her safe period, that's her way of proprosing. She chose you as her husband long before you bought the ring. You were playing catch-up, man. Women know what they are doing but we infantilize them as naive. Very cunning. |
iamoyindamola:Like Kimberly and his sorority here always pandering to women. This is how they end up – walked all over. A woman's default nature is being loyal to her feelings at any particular moment, not your sacrifices for her. She meant the "I love you" she told you, and the "I can't do this again" she tells you the next minute. She doesn't even know how she'll feel about you this weekend. So you have to make sure the woman you eventually choose has learnt to suppress some of her innate nature, and has invested very significantly in what you both share – finance, emotions, time, resources and so much more; finance too because women hàte to lose money, and anything they help nurture. Will Funke have ditched JJC Skills if she had invested significantly in him? Would TBillz have been so hurt if Tiwa had invested in him as much has he had dedicated his life to her growth? She doesn't contribute to the upkeep of the home you both share yet she works. You can't point to five significant things she's bought in the house. She still asks you for money for snacks but she earns a salary. You can't point to one expensive cloth she got you, or one or two fancy pair(s) of shoes she paid a celebrated shoemaker to make for you. Not like you need her money but the act of being fully committed and invested with her resources – knowing how women feel about spending their resources – is a pointer to a lot of things. But this nèwt did everything for her so she had nothing to lose. Regina Daniel had nothing to lose leaving Ned Nwoko but he had invested time, billions, and his ego bashed. Avoid women who have nothing to lose being with you. Women who haven't actively invested way more than just words of affection in you. |
BlueRayDick:You know what? It's like you are stubborn so we will add Vic O to the trade so you guys give us Banky W fully in exchange. Last offer. ---- When I post about simping and not letting a woman dictate terms for you as a man, it's labeled overdosing on redpill. These are the issues. |
