₦airaland Forum

Vanneni: Ok. Which is the crap? The fact the OP stated or the views of those countering this fact

bennyraz: stay out of this case dont8

bennyraz: no problem sir.. i'm very sorry sir..i would not do that again sir.. sorry for inconveniencing u sir

dubem3: Not bad at all

dubem3: Oga, how now?
Where have you been?

190: i heard nigeria won yesterday's match na true

https://punch.iwayafricanigeri.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fire-displaces-5000-in-Ogun-community-360x225.jpg
House fire kills couple, four children


TRAGEDY struck in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Saturday, when a fire outbreak claimed the lives of a couple and their four children.

The fire, which was said to have been ignited by an explosion, took the lives of the victims while they were asleep.

Though the identity of the couple could not be immediately ascertained, the father of the four children was a taxi driver while his wife was a petty trader.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the incident, which occurred around 1.45am, also affected a large part of the building located at No. 17, New Estate Road, Railway Quarters.

Property worth millions of naira was also lost to the inferno that engulfed the eight-flat building.

It was gathered that the children of the couple, (three boys and a girl) were of ages 22, 17, nine and seven before they met their untimely death.

An eyewitness said two other children had travelled out of Port Harcourt to sit for their West African Senior School Certificate Examination when the incident happened.

However, the landlord of the building (name withheld), who spoke on the incident, stated that he was woken up by a sound, adding that the whole building was on fire before he could realise what had happened.

Describing the incident as unfortunate, the landlord said it would have been better for the house to be razed than for the inferno to kill six persons in one fell swoop.

“It is unfortunate and heart bleeding. It would have been better for the whole compound to burn than to lose the six family members,” he said.

A tenant, who identified himself as Victor, explained that the inferno began from the victims’ flat before spreading to other flats.

According to him, while their neighbours were able to escape, the victims could not because they were already fast asleep when the fire became intense.

Residents of the area where the incident occurred wailed the moment sympathisers mentioned the names of the children affected by the fire.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Angela Agabe, said she was aware of the incident but had yet to get details from the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area.

190: Ikekings and dont8 i hear say una push wheelbarrow today

na true


esp this dont8 na vegetable him dey sell before

na woman wreck am

Na Laugh: No, i think your grammar is the REAL cause of "sexual inmorality."

ikekings: Oga!!! You don chop?

ItsModella: I'm good...long time, where have you been?

190: dont8, spikec, caseless, ikekings and hornipipe

Oahray: Earth. You?

ItsModella: Hi fellas.

spikes C: No no no, that is xynerise...am the first son

Oahray: No fight?

caseless: i'm sumtuosly doing gr8. How ur farmily?

spikes C: Family of antelopes?

190: yawns

caseless: u dont mean it! This is serious.

*grabs my phone to call dem*

spikes C:

I no be your mate ooo, i don grad from secondary school many year ago



Do you guys still do that senior prefect stuff

caseless: oh jumble-tumble! Where on this former part of pangea have u been?

I de miss una for ds room.

Wher acidosis, dont8, ayobase and xynerise?

spikes C: dont8- He don finally enter secondary school, i thank God for him o

ayobase: LOL...how u dey brother!

I just try give an illustration so that the guy could understand without hitting the nail!

ayobase: Do u watch football, do u know that the extra time is always more serious, especially when its DRAW game, or when one is leading with one goal....try go watch one of Man U's games.

Reptyle: Hear! Hear!

Channels TV need to refrain from casting sensational headlines and exposing their guests to undeserved public ridicule. How could they have cast such a controversial headline after an interview that spanned over 30 minutes and featured 3 guests? That is the stuff we would expect from soft sell tabloids and not reputable TV stations like Channels TV. They really need to watch it.

dayokanu: That means the mothers werent deceived Only the public was

k4kenny: ^^^ you're right.I think its about time the issue of surrogacy legalised. Even to adopt a baby sef is a long, nasty process. This is why these baby factories are flourishing. Some of them go as far as forcing these poor teenage girls to get pregnant. Hope they face the full wrath of d law.

dayokanu: How would this mother now breastfeed the child?

ayobase: In Africa, especially Nigeria the stigma of being barren would always be....the mentality has alwyas been there.....even civilization is yet to curb it.....and if no external stigmatization, the woman herself will be stigmatizing herself!

Was talking to a lady that there is nothing wrong in adopting a baby, but what was the reply, "God forbids, over my dead body....I must have mine babies for my husband"

Yes, the stigma of girls being pregnant out of wedlock can be dealt with to a reasonable minimal level just like circumcision of girls, but the stigma of being childless will still ever be and this will still crave for illegal means of being mothers!

From frying pan to fire I guess!

The question now is how can we fight BARREN STIGMATIZATION?

Yomieluv: Nice write up,aside stigma,another reason for the boom in this devilish act is poverty.

chuckdee4: Excellent write up, i wonder how this has not made the front page, instead we get biased, tribal stand point topics on the front page.

As for the topic, I guess giving these children to barren women is not a bad idea but the fact that people would turn it into a business is sickening and the lenghts they go to in order to make it look like a real experience is worrying.