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Doesn’t look like Naija. I can’t blame her. The heat makes people comfortable with being nude. Once I enter inside room, the same. Na only towel I dey tie once I comot.

All the young Nigerians wasting away from following the activities of old people in power, nko? I choose not to be useless in life.

Let me find out for myself.

womilojublog:
Stay where you are.

I mean that with every ounce of sincerity a person can carry in a sentence. Stay where the morning comes to you gently, where the air has not been monetized, where you eat food that still knows what soil it came from and has not been engineered in a laboratory to survive a shelf life longer than some marriages.

Stay where your vegetables are grown by hands you might actually know, where the fruit tastes the way fruit is supposed to taste, where the chicken was not injected with anything that requires a chemistry degree to pronounce. Stay where your body is nourished rather than processed.

Stay where you sleep without the low hum of financial anxiety running beneath every dream. Where a hospital visit does not arrive three weeks later as an invoice that makes your knees buckle.

Where illness is something to be treated and recovered from, not a financial catastrophe dressed in medical language. Where you do not have to choose, as millions here genuinely do, between the prescription and the rent. Where insurance is not a labyrinthine industry built on the art of collecting premiums and denying claims, where your access to care does not depend on which plan your employer selected during open enrollment and whether the specialist you need happens to be in-network this particular calendar year.

Stay where the bills do not multiply in the night. Where utilities and healthcare and education and simply existing do not constitute a second job's worth of administrative labour just to maintain.
Where you are not one unexpected expense away from a crisis. Where financial stability is not a personality trait attributed only to those disciplined enough to achieve it, while the structural reasons it eludes so many are quietly ignored.

Stay where you are not a demographic. Where you walk into a room and are seen as a person first, entirely, without the half-second recalibration behind someone's eyes that tells you they have already filed you under a category before you have opened your mouth. Where your competence is assumed rather than auditioned for. Where your presence in a space is not treated as a question that needs answering. Where you do not carry, alongside your bag and your keys and your phone, the additional invisible weight of representing your entire race in every interaction, of being the example that either confirms or defies whatever narrative the room already holds about people who look like you. Where you can simply be unremarkable in the most beautiful sense of the word just a person, in a place, living a life, asking nothing more of the world than to be met as a human being.

Stay where your dignity is not a political football. Where the person elected to lead the nation does not wake in the morning and reach for a device to broadcast contempt for people who do not resemble him, worship as he does, or originate from the places he deems acceptable. Where leadership still carries some residual obligation toward all the people, not merely the faithful and the familiar. Where a president is not a brand, a grievance, a performance of dominance conducted daily for an audience that has learned to read cruelty as strength and humiliation as entertainment. Where the highest office does not radiate a particular kind of sanctioned nastiness that gives permission to every smaller cruelty waiting in the wings.

America will seduce you with its mythology before you arrive. It has spent a century and more perfecting that particular art. It will show you the skyline and the possibility and the stories of those who came with nothing and built something, and those stories are real they happened, they happen still, and they matter. But it will not show you what those people carried to get there. It will not show you the years of being overlooked, the accent mocked, the name mispronounced with a carelessness that communicates exactly how much your origin is valued. It will not show you the promotions that went to someone less qualified but more familiar, or the neighborhoods that were never quite made accessible, or the quiet transactions of exclusion that happen every day inside systems that swear on paper they are fair.

It will not show you the loneliness of arriving in a country that wants your labor and your taxes and your energy and your contribution to its greatness narrative, but reserves the right to make you feel, on any given Tuesday, that your belonging here is conditional. Subject to review. Dependent on behavior. Contingent on how well you perform gratitude for being permitted to exist in a place you have just as much right to exist in as anyone who was simply born here by the accident of geography.

There are things America does that nowhere else does quite the same way. There is a particular electricity in certain cities, a creative restlessness, a collision of cultures and ideas that produces something genuinely remarkable. There are people here of extraordinary generosity and conscience and courage, people who have spent their lives pushing this country toward the version of itself it keeps promising to become. There is beauty here, real beauty, in the landscape and in the people and in what becomes possible when the best of this place is actually working.
But you, dreamer you who rise without an alarm because your body is rested, you who eat your breakfast slowly and know exactly where it came from, you who do not dread the end of the month, you who have never had to calculate whether you can afford to be sick, you who walk through your days without the psychic tax of navigating someone else's prejudice you are already living something that millions of Americans are working themselves to exhaustion trying to approximate.

Do not trade that peace for a postcard.
Do not arrive chasing a dream that was always partly fiction, sold most aggressively to people from far away who could not yet see the seams. Do not exchange your organic mornings and your unbothered evenings and your deep, untroubled sleep for a system that will ask everything of you and remind you, periodically and without apology, that you are here on its terms.

You cannot negotiate with a country that is still negotiating with itself about whether everyone in it deserves equal dignity. You cannot charm your way past a president who has made his contempt for people like you a cornerstone of his political identity and a rallying point for those who share it. You cannot out-work structural exclusion or out-smile institutional bias or out-perform the low ceiling that certain systems place over certain heads regardless of what is inside them.
Stay where the food is real. Stay where the air is yours. Stay where your peace has not been disrupted by a nation's unresolved argument about who deserves to belong.

Stay where you are already, quietly, profoundly, completely free.

That is rarer than any American dream.
And it is worth more than most people here will ever be able to tell you, because most of them have never known what it feels like to have it.

womiloju blog

Nigerians allow insults. I tried to convince my friend that he was an expatriate. He argued with me. I decided to hands off. Some days earlier, he bragged to me about a news article where he was asked questions regarding living as an immigrant. I shook my head. Slave mentality.

Easy to bed is the preference for prime males. I did the same when young. There’s no shock that other men learned the code. Dating is a highly competitive activity. The only redeeming aspect is once a female chooses you, her interest for other suitors wanes for a brief period.

With her stiff acting, yuck. The most wooden performance in half of a yellow sun. Sha, BBC likely wants to increase the number of eyes glued to the screen, hence her inclusion.

If it happens to soccer players while active on the field, I don’t see why this is news.

Whoever is dead is gone. What I like is how he handled the matter in private. Too many times, they disturb us on the internet for funds, prayers and what not. May he rest in peace.

I’ve never worn them and don’t see the need. Since you find these useful, try a rice hat. Those are practical.

I believe the statement the school released. To understand it requires brainpower, hence the oversimplification using fake news. Truly, hide any positive information in a book. Black people do not read.

I don’t believe this story. Who bought the devices? Starlink is not like MTN or other telecom companies which sell modems for tens of thousands of Naira. Their devices and subscriptions run into almost a thousand dollars.

Telegram has a similar feature where contacts which have your numbers saved appear to you when they join the platform. It was how I knew one of my exes was still hoping for my return. As soon as she spotted the notification, quick deletion from the app.

I don’t see the problem. It’s a way to reconnect with many old flames.

Not my concern. Next thread.

Women learn in later ages that attracting men requires conscious effort. She should be more outgoing and men will display themselves. If she’s trolling, she should find something to do. She looks the type with children already.

Bad luck. Sad news. Well, his light is now off forever. Who next?

If you see the suffering someone goes through at 96 - 104, you will celebrate when the person finally departs. At that age, the person’s life is complete. I’ve never seen a family wish their 100 year old grandmother lived an extra ten years. To see what again? The human body becomes a prison when too old to function.

dermmy:
All these celebration of life whatever na nonsense. A funeral should be a place of solemnity a place where people should think about the vanity of life and the essence of living life with purpose and doing good deeds. It doesn't matter how old the deceased is even if he is 500 years it does not call for merriment. This is why I love the Muslims they don't have time for all these nonsense.

Are we encouraging bots now? I don’t get it. Whoever created these chameleon-centric topics does not reply any comments. All the bot does is create a topic, disappear then create new ones.

Abeg, no be everything be topic.

She literally beat the condition. Normally they die really young. One of my former classmates passed at 13. The rapper Prodigy passed at 46. At 60, she likely had children and probably a grand child or two. That’s a celebration of life if I was to make the decision.

Please go and research the concept “quality of life.” Come back and tell me who will enjoy life more: a person who succumbs to vices or one who lives a healthy, regimented lifestyle.

themanderon:
I was arguing with a woke fellow this forum. I told him that we humans were living by the mercy of God and not by working out or anything like that. He was saying God is a made up entity and that working out was the best way to keep himself alive. I told him there are people that have died even in the so called gym and even after doing their routine medical checks. I know of a woman that came for checkup. After all the tests and all she was waiting for her driver to come take her when she collapsed right there in the hospital and died.
It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but it is of the Lord that showeth mercy saith the good book.
Some people go to the gym, yet die before people who don't know where a gym is, some people don't smoke yet die before people who do. I know a serious drug addict whose contemporaries are all dead, but he is still alive and kicking in his addiction. This life is a mystery.
I saw a video of and old man of over a hundred years old puffing his cigar and his interviewer asked him didn't his doctor tell him smoking was bad for his health and the old man interjected that " his doctor was Dead"

Above 80 years is a celebration of life. Eat, drink and merry as much as possible. If e easy, reach the age first. Anything under is a solemn occasion. Must you starve attendees because somebody died young? Funerals should be like weddings — do according to your pocket.

Front page a second time for this topic? Nairaland.

I knew this topic would make front page since OP sourced pictures similar to moderator picks.

You chose to dialogue. That was the best decision. Many have died from believing they could take on strangers, not knowing the next man’s capability for violence surpassed their expectations.

Good.
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MONEY247:

I am skinny.... I born fat and excess calories everyday by walking. Average of 2 hours everyday walking. I have an app that calculates my daily steps.

You should try it too.

Back to animal intestines once again.

Your next step should be to travel to Port Harcourt.

Aye13th:
Lagos is very far from my state, I am staying currently in Bayelsa

They are required to only balance change. They can’t be used to purchase goods, except in the northern part of the country.

MONEY247:
There's a large scarcity of lower denomination of naira notes. Talk of five naira, 10 naira, 20 naira it's like they have been decommissioned altogether or are produced at very low quantities

ROFLMAO. Travel to Lagos then.

Aye13th:
Good morning, currently I am staying in a town, where there is no court

You go explain tire. ROFLMAO.

DrTee1:
It is deeply unsettling to witness the rapid disintegration of the values that once defined us. This modern "woke" culture is increasingly at odds with the foundational principles of our heritage. When did it become acceptable for twenty-two-year-olds to treat their fathers with such blatant disregard?

This is not our culture. In our tradition, a father is the head of the home. He is the provider, the protector, and the ultimate authority. While no human is infallible, our customs dictate a level of reverence that transcends personal grievances. A father’s methods of discipline and the way he chooses to steer his household were once respected as his prerogative, rooted in a desire to build a resilient lineage.

Furthermore, our cultural standards are clear: while a woman may choose to seek a path outside of a marriage, as long as she remains within her husband's house, there is a requisite level of cooperation and respect for the order of that home.

What has this digital age and the "Gen Z" mindset brought upon us? To see young people, somewhat public figures even, openly challenging or embarrassing their birth fathers for the sake of "trends" is a tragedy. Is there no longer a sense of shame?

Can a child truly find peace after publicly disgracing the source of their existence?

This is a clarion call for men and heads of households to reflect deeply. We are witnessing a cultural shift that threatens to leave us as a generation without roots.

Okay. I will tell my mommy.

Panda7:
I opened this thread to help enlighten Other young guys on relationship choice and how your choice can positively or negatively shape/define your future. As a 30year+ old man there is some reason why you should avoid dating a lady under 24years old as they say love alone is not enough to keep a marriage or relationship.
Once you clock 30years as a man, you are no longer a kid neither are you getting any more younger and these are times you should seriously be planning on raising your own family for your own good and a better old age.
I see guys in these categories date a girl who is or just barely 20years and I frown about it. Reason is except you are keeping them for just fun or you both live in the villages (I mention village because girls in the villages tends to legally marry and give birth earlier than those in the urban areas) So my reason is that girls around these age are not mentally, psychologically or even physically ready for marriage unless you have money to woo her family and also be able to keep and control her.
So if you go ahead to invest your resources and time to date a lady who is lesser than 24 years then you should understand that the chances of commitment and reaping off your investment is quite and very slimmer which means you might have to wait till your late 30's to get anything tangible. Secondly, girls at these age will mostly never mastered demanding skills which would help you both in raising a family.
But being with a lady who is up to 26years, she is already thinking about settling down, must have acquired working skills and have learnt one or two about life.
Your opinions are welcome.

Where do you live again? Walk into any court you know and present the case to them.

Aye13th:
I placed a bet on AS Monaco vs Lille LOSC over 11.5 Goal kicks, and they played 13goal kicks in total but 1xbet settled it as lost, saying that they played 11 goal kicks

I have shown them evidence from well known websites like Sofascore and livescore, and they threaten to block my account.

Please I need your advice, Can I Sue them ?
Because I have seen where people are complaining about them.

Below are pictures evidences from different football scores websites

Another day, another cultist dead. The boys hardly make mistakes. Their gangs penalize them for murdering innocent civilians. However, sometimes they wrongly identify Jews as opps. They rationalize it to themselves later that the person deserved the outcome. This case, though, was a successful hit. Thank God man never saw all these.