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Is Fore really scam? Have you ever seen any FOREX trader living large from FOREX trading? So many lies
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I will drop alist in morning.
Better watch out for it

How about Gov Sullivan Chime?

I was thinking of Donald Duke or Orji Uzor Kalu

I know this is a very delicate one but come on lets face it, the promises are still unfulfilled.

the 7-point tragedy is really a tragedy. No light, no good roads, no jobs, security=0, haba

I am unbiased, so am raising this topic. Who do you think can take us to the promise land?

They say that
-God is love

They also say that
-Love is blind



If God is love, is he also blind, don't think so

Am sure we have lots of christian jokes. drop them here.

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Post hope for Nigeria, the unemployed youths and especially the Niger deltans.


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A first time visitor to Tarkwa Bay, a Lagos island, cannot but marvel at the wonders of nature. Located at the Atlas cove, it is a place to love and to weep for. Indeed, it is an island of fun and shame.

Almost cut off from the glare of the prying eyes, getting to Tarkwa Bay is not a piece of cake. Being an island, it is not a place to go by the lily-livered, especially when the waves are angry as well as raging and the visitor knows nothing about swimming. A trip to the place, from Mekwe beach (jetty) near Bonny Camp on Lagos Island, could only be done by speed canoe. The trip takes only 15 minutes at break neck speed.

No man's land
Tarkwa Bay could pass for a no man’s land. It is unorganized or rather has no definite pattern. Tightly concentrated shacks dot the landscape. Only a few buildings are made of block, most of which were erected by European sailors and slave merchants, who used the place either for leisure or as transit camp. Such buildings are collapsing now and stand like structural sores, especially near the beach area. Narrow stretches of dirty foot parts snake around the place.

There is little or no sign of government presence there, although it falls under the Etiosa/Iru Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. Sitting like a forgotten old woman, Tarkwa Bay has no electricity, safe transportation, police station or industry etc. The community health centre exists only in name. Once in a while, health workers visit, sometimes to immunize the children. The health needs of residents are met by Dr. Paul’s Hospital, which is privately owned and has about five beds. There is no water to drink, even though the place is surrounded by water.

Tarkwa Bay boasts of three primary schools. The Catholic Church runs one of them, while individuals own the other two. The schools, if one could actually describe them as such, operate in deplorable environment that clearly pose danger to the pupils. The roofs are leaking and the floors are not cemented. A signboard of an old generation bank stands in the horizon but there is no other sign of the institution. There is also the empty community hall commissioned by Col. Olagunsoye Oyinlola in 1995.

Splendid beach
Despite the fact that Tarkwa Bay belongs to another age, the culture of enjoyment has evolved there. Fun seekers from the metropolis throng Tarkwa Bay beach, especially during the weekends, just as the residents catch their own fun in their own way. Indeed, Tarkwa Bay has a beautiful beach. Those who want to escape the hustle and bustle of Lagos consider it as an ideal place to chill out. People organize parties and other social activities at the beach, especially wild ones, where sex orgies are cherished. There, you behold the beauty and mystery of nature, as ocean waves billow into the sky, cascading to the shoreline and leaving foamy bubbles that soak into the fine sands.

Fun galore
Stepping into Tarkwa Bay, it is easy to see that the residents are fun loving people. In the evenings, residents and visitors of the Island take to the local gin stalls and beer parlous. Indeed, there is a high number of drinking joints. Some of the most popular ones include Ona’s Bar and Blue Dreams located at Ajegunle.

In the night, Ajegunle, in Tarkwa Bay, is busier than Abule and Okunayo, the other parts of the island. However, in the three locations, which are connected, competition among the beer parlous is keen, as they try to win customers through the quality of services rendered. The services include music, cold drinks and sex. The fun spots play current tunes from within the country and elsewhere. One particular artiste whose music is constantly played is Bayelsa State-born Tumaya.
Indeed, the youths of Tarkwa Bay are in touch with current trends. They dress mainly in jeans, T-shirts canvass and loafers. There are local boutiques that sell the stuff there. Otherwise, they buy from Lagos Island. Like their mates elsewhere, they are crazy about European football leagues. Any time there is a match, the youths congregate at the various viewing centres. Such teams as Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Barcelona FC and Real Madrid have them as fans. There is also a local football field, where the youths display their skill.

Sex epidemic
At Tarkwa Bay, night is like daytime, especially during the weekends. Fun is without limit. To talk about “zipping up” or sexual restraint in Tarkwa Bay is to talk gibberish. Around every corner, sex crawls like a disease. Pubescent girls and not-so-young ladies dressed in skimpy attires barter their company to men who have money and willing to spend it. It is common to see couples kissing and smooching openly, irrespective of the number of eyes fixed in their direction. Some of the girls hand over sexual favours, just after some drinks. Indeed, sex is cheap at Tarkwa Bay.

To get a girl for sexual satisfaction is simple and easy. What any man in heat needs is to walk into one of the drinking joints and place an “order.” Indeed, the waiters and waitresses at the drinking joints are also pimps. They connect any willing man with girls who are ready for sex any time and anywhere.
When Saturday Sun visited Tarkwa Bay, the experience at Ona’s bar was a journey into iniquity. Our correspondent told the attendant, who gave her name as Esther, that he needed a female company. The waitress smiled and said it was no big deal. Pronto, she called her friend, Queen. Incidentally, there was nothing queenly about Queen, except that she was a hawker of flesh. After taking her seat, she quickly ordered a bottle of Guinness stout and two sticks of Benson & Hedges cigarette. She lit one cigarette and dropped the other inside the cleavage between her two breasts. Then she began guzzling beer, like fish and puffed away her cigarette recklessly.

While our correspondent was walking round the beach, to discover his environment, and wanted to urinate, Queen insisted on holding his manhood for him. When the reporter rejected her offer, she took offence. To prove that urinating in front of a woman or man was no big deal, she pulled down her trousers and began to urinate right in front of the correspondent and in broad daylight, oblivious of passersby. She had no panties under the jeans trousers.

Later, Queen offered our correspondent Indian hemp and said it makes sex “sweeter.” She eventually parted ways with our correspondent when he refused to buy her Indian hemp, as she requested. And to spite the reporter, she bought the stuff herself and puffed away merrily.

With Queen gone, Jane was willing to take her place. A 21-year-old hot head, she had no limit to what she could do. She wore a deep V-necked blouse, with her breasts almost jumping out. Her blouse was short and exposed her navel and the jeans trousers she wore had low flap, which ensured that a part of her buttocks was exposed.

Jane was ready to be kissed and caressed in the open. To prove that sex was a normal thing on the island, she offered to make love to the reporter if he wanted. She pointed out a couple, somewhere not far from where she sat with our reporter, who were engrossed in sex not minding that people were around.

Indeed, residents of Tarkwa Bay seem to be gripped by what could be described as a form of sexual madness. The scenario is like they are enacting a life-drama entitled, “Sodom and Gomorrah.” All over the place, particularly at the popular pubs, half-clad ladies strut their stuff, openly hustling for customers. Desperate for cash, they are ready to do virtually anything to exchange their womanhood for money. The girls entertain their customers in their tiny rooms, where they place flat foams on the floor. Two or three girls share a room and they pay N1,000 each to the shack owners daily. Some of the guests rent chalets at N3, 000 per night. At night, it is common to see couples having sex in dark corners. Sometimes, two couples engage themselves in the same room.

Quickie, otherwise known as “short time,” costs between N500 and N1,200 depending on the man’s pocket or bargaining power. A full nightstand, from 12 am to 5am, goes for between N2,000 and N3,000. It could be less, depending on the understanding between the parties involved. For instance, one of the girls from Warri, who simply identified herself as Mercy, pleaded with our reporter to pay N1,000 and spend the night with her. Of course, that was after she had had six bottles of small Guinness Stout at the reporter’s expense. The lady, who said she was 28 years old, a mother of one and a divorcee, revealed that she needed the money to pay her daily rent.

Mini Nigeria and Liberian connection
Tarkwa Bay is a mini Nigeria, so to say. Almost all the tribes that constitute the federation are fairly represented there. However, ladies from Delta, Edo, Benue, Enugu and Egun (Badagry) hold the flag. There are also foreigners there, especially Liberian girls. In fact, the groove assumes a frenzy dimension in the Liberian quarters. The girls there are more audacious, concealing little or nothing. One of the Liberian girls, who gave her name as Bianca, was an eyeful. With her micro-mini skirt pulled down to her bum, the heavily endowed lady danced erotically for a very long time without a care. Apparently, tipsy and high on drug, she dared the writer to give her a try, saying: “If I didn’t satisfy you, don’t pay.” To show that she was a good marketer, she added: “Come to my room and see for yourself. Seeing is believing.” Her selling point, according to her, is that she was damn good at “blow jobs.”
Bianca is not a lone ranger in the act of seduction. Her sisters from Liberia are top acts. Although many of them are not particularly young, they seem to be saying that age is a number or that experience is an added advantage in sex trade. They woo men, offering their flesh for lower price.

Drug haven
It is not only sex that is hawked like banana in Tarkwa Bay. It appears that clean living is virtually non-existent in the place. The whiff of Indian hemp hangs perpetually in the air as both men and women puff the stuff in the open, all day and night. A wrap of cannabis costs N20 only.
Cocaine is also freely sold and used in the place. A pinch is sold for N200. In fact, it is near impossible to see a youth who is not doing one type of drug or another there. Gambling is also a pastime. In the open, people place bets as they play card games or snooker. Some of the guys are also pimps, arranging customers for the girls.

Hideout for criminals
Tarkwa Bay is also a haven of criminals. Investigation revealed that the place serves as a hideout for criminals. After committing crimes in other places, some of the criminals retreat into Tarkwa Bay to cool off. Also, some of the men are neck deep into pipeline vandalism. In the place, a 50-litre of diesel sells for N2,000.

No police
Tarkwa Bay is in a world of its own. In the entire island, there is not even a single policeman. However, despite this, the residents live in relative peace. Whenever there is conflict among them, they settle it themselves or invite naval personnel from the nearby yard.
According to Bankole, a guard at the Pipeline and Products Marketing Co. Ltd. jetty near Tarkwa Bay, most of the disputes the Navy were invited to settle concerned mainly wife or girlfriend snatching. He said that in Tarkwa Bay, stealing is a taboo or rather very rare. According to him, everybody knows everybody. Moreover, nobody has anything that could be stolen because they are all in need.

Expensive community
Life in Tarkwa Bay is expensive. Perhaps, this has to do with the location of the place. On the island, a bottle of beer is sold at N250. Sachet of water (pure water) costs N10 each. Gold Circle condom goes for N50 a pack. Our tour guide (names withheld) described the situation, in impeccable English, thus: “Really, it is suffering and smiling. I don’t believe that there is anyone living here out of choice; it is a matter of lack of choice. The task of living in Tarkwa Bay presents a huge challenge. I think the situation here reflects the picture of the Nigerian society, where everyone is for himself. Tarkwa Bay is a manifestation of system failure, it is a manifestation of failure of government to live up to its responsibility; we are living in the worst condition, but we are managing to smile.”

The other oddities
There are neither public nor private toilets in Tarkwa Bay. When nature calls, the residents answer at the shoreline and when the waves come, they sweep away the human excreta. Tarkwa Bay also boasts of a handful of lunatics. Perhaps, the most popular among them is a lady simply known as Stella. Although she manifests the telltale signs of insanity, it is not difficult to see that she is beautiful. According to a source, Stella used to be the hottest girl around. She reigned so much that every man wanted to go to bed with her. She was in much demand that she used to pick and choose her men from the pack. In those days, it was gathered, men, who succeeded in sleeping with her boast about their luck.

Saturday Sun gathered that Stella suddenly became mad and has been in that state ever since. Residents revealed that she is a victim of what they called “African Science.” According to them, a spell was cast on her by a jealous competitor. Today, she spends her day perambulating around. At night, she positions herself at the drinking joints, drinking and smoking, courtesy of kind-hearted frolickers, especially those who had had a liaison with her.

When politicians visit
The fact that there are no social amenities does not suggest that government and politicians are ignorant of the existence of Tarkwa Bay. A resident, Mr. Pius Uvuru from Bayelsa State, told Saturday Sun that during elections, politicians come there to canvass for votes, promising to open up the place and provide such things, as water, schools and hospitals. He, however, said, regrettably, that nothing is ever done.

Cry for help
It would appear that the commercial sex workers in Tarkwa Bay are not really contented with their occupation. Some claim that given the opportunity, they would turn a new leaf. Twenty-one-year-old Peace told our reporter she had no peace of mind selling her flesh. She said: “I was tricked into prostitution by an aunt. She brought me to Lagos, promising to give me a good future. But things changed when I got to Lagos and she put me in a hostel at Apapa, where men come to sleep with us after paying to her. I had to run away from there and came to this place because I reasoned that if I must be a hustler, I have to be my own boss. I am afraid that if she catches me, she could take her pound of flesh, that’s why I’m hiding here. I hope to learn a vocation, like fashion designing, when I save enough money. This is no way to live. My parents will be ashamed if they find out.”
In the same vein, Mercy, a trained hairdresser, said she was ready to practise her vocation if she could raise enough money to set up shop. In fact, two days after the meeting, Mercy called the reporter, pleading: 'Please, come and take me out of here.”

Churches to the rescue
Whereas government is toying with the social needs of the people, as it were, churches are springing up to deal with their spiritual welfare. Among them are Bible Life Church, Our Lady of Tarkwa Bay Catholic Church, Cherubim and Seraphim, Assemblies of God Church, International Pentecostal Holiness Church and Evangel Pentecostal Church.

Indeed, the leaders of Evangel Pentecostal Church are hoping to bring much righteousness at Tarkwa Bay. It was gathered that the church decided to locate a branch on the island after one of its leaders, responding to dirty tales from the island, visited. He was said to have wept over the immortality in the place. He had promised that do something to help the resident forego their sinful ways.
At present, the church has erected a church and is planning massive evangelism on the island.

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/feb/07/national-07-02-2009-01.htm