₦airaland Forum

Idamond:
Make your choice

They are the same even though the dried ones are sweeter. Just soak the dried ones and it 'blossoms' back
I think we need to give kudos to the Northerners for their preservation and processing methods

massmediang:
I met the only surviving twin saved by Mary Slessor over 100 years ago (Video)


Mary Slessor was a missionary posted from Scotland to Calabar in Nigeria by the Presbyterian Church in 1876. She also lived in Arochukwu Nigeria during her missionary work. Mary Slessor stopped the killing of twins in Nigeria and she achieved this by saving a lot of twins either left in the bush to die or from their homes where their mothers hid them.
One of the twin babies Mary Slessor saved by herself before the killing of twins was finally abolished is Mgbeafor Okereke. I met her in her home in Amasu, Arochukwu, where I had an amazing interaction with her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-apkGyAt0Ck

Please, she didn't stop the killing of twins in Nigeria. She did so in Okoyong, an area in Cross River, where there were still pockets of killings carried out by some. Twin killings had long been banned in Calabar by King Archibong II right from 1856 long before Mary Slessor arrived the shores of Calabar

I enjoyed it! Loved the task and was laughing as they kept slipping. I loved Toke's aura, maybe Kunle will grow on me. I am bummed that it is only weekends but after watching today's episode, I kinda understand. I am kinda torn about the feeding, yeah it is the jungle but they also need to eat well to compete properly. The guy that complained about his rice being the worst food he has ever eaten though ��

alonzoiv:
And she carry media go. Acts of kindness should be done off camera. It would have been perfect, save for the presence of cameras. I hope she's not having political ambitions.

It is not her 'personal' act of kindness...it is that of the initiative -NGO - that she runs. Any project carried out must be documented because I believe that no one runs an NGO with their personal money.
What she did is similar to what Fox or its subsidiary (can't remember if it was Fox alone) does in transforming the homes of people that they feel need it during Christmas. Acts like this serve to inspire others to how same or a better path in lending a helping hand.

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UbiPetrus:
Calm down. We know not the reason for the delay. We hope it is for good.

For good? Let me not type what is on my mind regarding the whole thing

nkevick66:
Latest information.....passing out parade for those in NDA CAmp has been postponed indefinitely

Yes, my sister called to tell me...I delayed booking till yesterday, only to get the call this morning about the foolish decision taken by Magu
He wants either the President or VP as Guest of Honor...and only those ones can choose the date. If any Buharist, Osibanjoist or anyone high up in the hierarchy is reading this, draw attention to this and let Magu be called to order! This has become a pointless exercise! You have demoralized those recruits or whatever they are being called.
It is only in Nigeria that pointless exercises are done and people like Magu have no sense of empathy and carry on with high handedness!
I am seething with anger

DSDLIVEREPORT:
You don't start a family when you know you will not be family oriented.

Societal pressure force a lot of people into doing what they shouldn't be doing, very few can damn society.

You all need to learn and respect the fact that not everyone is family oriented. Stop trying to project your own beliefs and feelings on another person because while backgrounds might be similar, experiences and the lessons you learn from that will not be, which is how we have all come to be different.

Couscous should be the easiest.

khalhokage:
They're not Igbo, they're ibibio.

You're a Nigerian and can't tell the difference, enlighten yourself.

That's not even Ibibio, that's annang

Oh my goodness! This is quite amazing!

Good to see females starting to collaborate. I wish they had paid more attention to showing off their vocals - because they both have it - than trying pruning like peacocks. It is a basic song, hope to see more collaborations Between female artistes.

That of Dija and Tiwa is better though IMO

I don't know how true or untrue her claims are but if she has been having itches anytime she wore that particular bra; why slit open the pouch without gloves? Why dispose the liquid content so casually on the floor and close to where a kid is?

The tailor is not being sued yet, this is a letter asking her to settle, the amount for settlement was not stated; both parties will have to come to an agreement on what's suitable.

What I don't understand though is trying to join Mercy in this breach of contract, I might not be a Mercy fan but asides from sentiments I do not see why she should be called out. Even if Mercy coerced the designer to give her the dress, as long as the said designer had an agreement to fulfill a contract with another party and failed; it is on her head. Mercy entered into no agreement with the bride and should be allowed to breathe.

Perfect background shot. Me likey!

False! I, for one, ain't in trouble.

Walkable book shelves...oh my!

Nmeri17:
Uyai adiagha I'm fine o. I'll text you soon cuz we have so much to catch up on. It's been ages ffs. How are you too?

I have been good. Lol @ uyai adiagha...sesongo Ette ufok

Nmeri17:
Yep. We're now living happily ever after

Nnmeri, howdy. Long time no hear

jdluv:
crazy twins crazy world....This story reminds me of a novel 'Burn' by eric ....sometin,

Theirs isn't the regular crazy

frostland:
Wow this really scaring did she later get married?

Yes, June has three children

As for her sister, Jennifer? She’s buried under a headstone engraved with a poem written by June. It reads: “We once were two/We two made one/We no more two/Through life be one/Rest in peace.”

http://www.datota.ml/2017/11/silent-twins-haunting-case-of-june-and.html?m=1

In March of 1993, June and Jennifer Gibbons, age 31, were transferred to Caswell. Upon arrival, Jennifer appeared unresponsive. Doctors rushed her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. Cause of death? Acute myocarditis, or a sudden and lethal inflammation of the heart.

Doctors found no evidence of poison in Jennifer’s system. According to June, Jennifer simply placed her head on her twin sibling’s shoulder. She then took her last breath, and said, “At long last, we’re out.”

After Jennifer’s death in 1993, June went on to live a so-called “normal” life. She sat down for a revealing interview with The New Yorker’s Hilton Als, stating all she wanted now was to get married to and have children with a “Rasta” man, like Bob Marley.

At Broadmoor, the doctors found June and Jennifer to be deeply disturbed, even dangerous. The two took turns eating, one indulging one day while the other starved. And though they were split up and housed in cells on opposite ends of the hospital, nurses often found them eerily frozen in the same distinct poses. This went on for 11 years. Until doctors agreed to transfer the twins to Caswell Clinic, a lower-security facility in Bridgend, Wales.

Only one of the sisters would survive the relocation. Wallace claimed that during her final visit with the twins at Broadmoor, Jennifer abruptly stated over a cup of tea, “Marjorie, Marjorie, I’m going to have to die.” When Wallace asked why, Jennifer just said, “Because we decided.”

Indeed, as Wallace states in The Silent Twins, the Gibbons siblings made a pact at Broadmoor: One of them had to die, so the other could live a normal life.

Such writing was a major creative outlet for June and Jennifer Gibbons. They even penned a few novels, though the books continued themes of mayhem and violence.
June’s Pepsi-Cola Addict is about a teen who’s seduced by his schoolteacher then sent away to a reformatory where he fights off the advances of a homosexual guard.
Jennifer’s Discomania is a disturbing little tale about the “insane violence” that goes down at a disco.

The books failed to make a serious splash in the literary world. So the Gibbons twins found another way to get noticed: criminal mischief. They got their thrills from petty theft, choking each other, and, eventually, burning buildings to the ground. It’s the latter offense that landed them in court.

A judge ruled their deviant behavior combined with their severe social disorders were grounds for confinement. He sent them to Broadmoor Hospital, the very same high-security mental facility where legendary British gangster Ronnie Kray lived out the remainder of his life.

At age 14, the twins were separated in an attempt to encourage socialization. They responded by slipping into catatonic states. Doctors and family members reunited the siblings thereafter, and they spent the next few years holed up their room, performing intricate plays for one another and writing extensively in their diaries.

It was on the blank page that June and Jennifer revealed the darkness of their bond, exploring the joint need and hatred they felt toward one another. June wrote, “Nobody suffers the way I do, not with a sister; with a husband, yes; with a wife, yes; with a child, yes, but this sister of mine, a dark shadow robbing me of sunlight, is my one and only torment.”

Born 10 minutes apart, Jennifer viewed her older sibling as mightier in every way—looks, brains, wits. For her part, June sensed the envy, writing, “She wants us to be equal. There is a murderous gleam in her eye. Dear lord, I am scared of her. She is not normal … someone is driving her insane. It is me.”

A chilling excerpt from Jennifer’s diary further illustrates their shared disdain, and possibly sheds light on why the two took to inflicting bodily harm on one another: “We have become fatal enemies in each other’s eyes. We feel the irritating deadly rays come out of our bodies, stinging each other’s skin. I say to myself, can I get rid of my own shadow, impossible or not possible? Without my shadow, would I die? Without my shadow, would I gain life, be free or left to die? Without my shadow, which I identify with a face of misery, deception, murder.”

One of them had to die, so the other could live a normal life.

Born in 1963, June and Jennifer were moved by their Barbadian parents to a small town off the coast of Wales called Haverfordwest. Known for its tranquility, the town and the twins had but one thing in common: Quiet. Amazingly, the two had never spoken to anyone else their entire lives. Instead, they communicated with each other in a strange, birdlike language only they could understand.

Haverfordwest was a predominantly white town, and the siblings were consistently bullied at school because of their race. Their continued resistance to speak to outsiders only resulted in more exclusion. Eventually, June and Jennifer withdrew from society entirely and turned to literature as an outlet for their pent up aggressions.

CrustandSea:
More Nigerian recipes coming! please show support by liking or commenting.. thank you

You haven't replied my question regarding the cocoyam used in one of the recipes you dropped either on the first page or page 1

All of you insulting ruggedman seem to forget that he is responding to him being called out by blackface.
Intellectual property theft is very bad but do you get stuck in the rut or do you get out and keep moving?
Eedris, rap pioneer with his megedepegede, ABC is a ABC lines? Oh puleeeze! Ruggedman turned the industry around with 'Ehen' and 'Peace or War'
I can't even remember that artiste's name that looked like usher and was always singing songs from other artistes...chei! See as we been dey live for musical bondage after having good years from blackky, mike okri, Onyeka, sunny Ade and the rest.