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I was in my room one evening about 15 years ago. I was an undergraduate in one of the Tertiary institutions in Nigeria. To be precise, YABATECH.

I was hungry, searched all my lockers and bags but nothing good to eat. I checked my wallet and it dawned on me that I was broke, you know one of those times in school when you had finished your pocket money before you were due for another.
I was hungry and I had no Idea where to get food, almost every student was as bad I was. Constantly broke! So, I decided to go to a friend's room in another hostel. Maybe I could catch him eating and join him if he invited me. Although students don't always invite to student to eat but I decided to try my luck.

I headed to Dolapo's room(Not his real name). He was my course mate. He was a short guy with high personality, very nice and a “ready to give” type.
After knocking I went in and we started gisting while he continued with his engineering drawing assignment. I opened up to him.
"Dolapo, your guy dey "H" o!" We usually don't call it Hunger. We always use the word "H” to make it sound kind of not embarrassing. Students have coded word for everything you know?

"It's your lucky day" he replied. Pointing to a covered bowl on the other side of the table. ”I wanted to finish this assignment and jump on the food but since you are here and hungry, you can eat that and I will find something else to eat"
I knew him to be a nice guy but for a student to give you all his reserved food without even thinking twice raised a red flag.
"Go on, eat it you don't have to be scared I have no reason to kill you" he said that with laughter and continued his drawing assignment.
I opened the bowl of food. It was eba(gaari) with vegetable soup and two huge fried meat. Now, the red flag raised just got huge. Most students don't cook food with meat in the hostels. In our days, we usually go for boiled egg and most we could afford was fish but Meat? You have to be super rich.

The hunger in me was getting aggressive but I summoned the courage and asked
"But Dolapo, this is fried meat and..." He cut in saying I should just please cover the food if I was not interested. No more questions. I looked at him and I saw he was getting angry already.
"Where can I wash my hands" I asked. I was too hungry to let go yet my mind was in disarray. I devoured the food and I was about to pounce on the two big pieces of meat (as you know we were taught meat comes last when eating) when one of Dolapo's roommates entered and saw me eating. He froze with a face as if he had just seen a ghost; he looked at me and looked at Dolapo.
"So you finally gave this food to someone else, the food you were scared to eat"
I was like "wait, what!" what did I just hear. I turned to Dolapo with my heart pounding 20 times per second, looking like a guy that had just been shot with five bullets. I could not say a word. I was just looking at him waiting for answers.

"Don't mind my roommate,” His response was quick and sounded unusually defensive. “He is an idiot. Tola brought the food for me and since it was well cooked and prepared, my roommates were making a lot of assumptions. But you know Tola now! She’s not that type of girl"
Tola (not her real name) was a slim girl. Very slim the type you could call a witch but she's one of the kindest people I had met. Loving and caring but you never could tell. The roommate explained further that Dolapo and Tola had a very big fight few days back. Tola accused Dolapo of cheating. She brought the food immediately after they settled their differences today.

I had eaten the food already and I could not undo that but the two pieces of meat remaining were still staring up at me from the bowl. I saved the best for the last. I looked at Dolapo’s face, then the roommate’s face and stared and the delicious 2 pieces of meat.
”Well, I trust Tola, she from a Christian home and there was no way she would want to harm Dolapo” I said hurriedly but deep inside I was not convinced. Having said that I swallowed the meat, it tasted more delicious than it looked. I downed it with a sachet of pure water and I felt good. Tummy was filled as last.

I stayed a bit with them and we discussed a guy that was murdered by the cultists few days before and sleep was calling so I excused myself and left for my Hostel.

I got to my room had a shower and hugged my bed for the night.

At around 3.am I woke up with a very severe stomachache. It was like they were fight world war 3 in my tummy. I had never experienced that kind of pain before. I could not even say a word. The pain came from within to my upper mouth, clutching my throat. (To be continued)

Concluding part

"The end has come," I thought to myself. ” I'm going to die because of "ojukokoro" covetousness. May be the poison was in the meat because they were exceptionally delicious or may be the poison was in the entire food. ” Those thoughts was racing through my mind but as the pain intensified and I knew the end had come.
I remembered all the ladies I dated and how I dumped them for others. (Some dumped me too though). Maybe they are the ones after me, may be not the food. It has to be the food. Maybe, Tola wanted Dolapo dead. A lot of may be(s).
Then I thought about praying. “Would God answer me?” I was such a bad boy. God doesn't answer bad boys. Thankfully I remembered Psalm 23 and I recited it in my heart and it was like the Psalm escalated the pain. "God is angry at me" I thought to myself. The pain grew worse and I was drifting away and then I died.
Few hours later, I woke up. There was this bright light shinning at my eyes. I was still in my lying down position. “This must be heaven”I looked up and I saw the "IBO Fan" I bought from Oshodi few weeks back. I never knew The Ibo(s) make fake products in heaven as well. I thought to myself”Heaven might me much more interesting than I thought." Then I heard the sounds and movement of my roommates getting ready for class. Are my roommates dead and are in heaven as well? I called out to one of them. and he shouted back at me.
"Please don't call me.” He shouted back at me. I’m late for class and I just want to finish this tea and zoom off" Tea? I wondered. From everything Jesus Said about heaven in the bible, drinking tea was not mentioned.
“I am not dead! “ I shouted.

The bright light was the early morning sunlight. I stood up and I could still feel some pain in my tummy but not excruciating. What happened? Did Psalm 23 save my life? I wondered.
The few minutes later, I rushed to the Toilet. I emptied my bowels. It was kind of thick and watery at the same time and my God! It was very Smelly like it had been kept somewhere for days.
After that I was relieved. I felt good and back to normal. Like nothing happened. I thought about it again and I was like, was I really poisoned? Just to be sure I dressed up skipped classes and went straight to school health center. Some poison might still be there waiting like time bombs.

After so much waiting it was my turn to see the doctor. I explained what happened but I skipped the part of the “circumstances” surrounding the food.

"It was food poisoning" he stated. I was like how did he know?
"Are you a witch doctor or medical doctor?" I questioned. ”How did you know I was poisoned?"
He laughed and started looking at me. You know the kind of "you are stupid" look. I felt uneasy. I adjust my ass on the seat waiting for some kind of explanation.

"Food poisoning is a common, yet distressing and sometimes life-threatening problem for millions of people in the world. People infected with food-borne organisms may be symptom-free or may have symptoms ranging from mild intestinal discomfort to severe dehydration and bloody diarrhea. Depending on the type of infection, people can even die as a result of food poisoning" He stated with medical professional voice.
"It is caused by eating contaminated food.” He continued. “Infectious organisms — including bacteria, viruses and parasites can contaminate food at any point of processing or production. Contamination can also occur at home if food is incorrectly handled or cooked." He concluded.
So, I was not poisoned. It occurred because the guy had left the food on the table for such a long time without refrigerating.( We don't have fridges in Nigerian schools). The Food contained vegetables so it had higher chances of being contaminated if not refrigerated for such a long time.

The reason I am writing this story is because if I had not been to the hospital, I would have believed Dolapo intentionally gave me the poisoned food and used me as a lab rat.
If the food poisoning had killed me, Dolapo’s roommate would have raised an alarm. Dolapo would have accused Tola and Tola and Dolapo would be cooling it off in prison. Love life would have been destroyed.
Today, Dolapo and Tola are happily married with two kids.
I made no mention of the incident to them till today.

Since she was in bed with Dr.sid(pic below) . now we need to ask who get the belle?

What's the bottom line of this thread?

I thought it's " Old things have passed, all things becomes NEW!" What they did has been erased. They don't need to give their certificate up.

speedyboi: That is not a Blackberry torch camera. No 'Phone' camera can achieve Shallow depth of field YET.

As per the film, I watched just 1-2minutes of it before I stopped.

I was about to say that.

I thought cars burst into flames when they crash ONLY in movies. RIP sweet man

Fake story! We all know that China has one family one child policy. How come this man and woman have three children

adesiku: Wow....dis is really great...hope it doesn't cost much

I bought mine for about 1600 euro that's about 320K naira

I bought this 3 days ago. It also has "Social TV" where u can watch football or any other programme and post your thought to facebook or twitter instantly without having to miss anything on the programme.

Why is this not on front page
I heard it on CNN just now too

Racist Video. Why is Dbanj the only Black in the video and he is suppose to be singing about Nigeria and Africa, BS!

It's not prophecy it's common sense. The analyst have said much more than what TB said. It's not new jare! You don't need prophecy to know that even any kinda war will be bloody.

gluv01: Ugly thighs...Nice booobs..fugly face

Nice booobs? Did you look very well? the booobs is full of pimples and spot.

The great commandment Jesus gave while on earth is help the poor, I hope then can come out to start a website that help the poor instead of getting from the poor. SMH

Rubbish!!! Because she deserves it? He made it sound like he did her a favour. Real men Propose to women they LOVE and not women That DESERVES IT.

She should have said " Forget the bag, I want to buy the whole shop"

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mr_king: Sharap your mouth there David!!! How could you morons allow Stupid Religious sentiment to Becloud your sense of Reasoning in a circular country like Nigeria?

Nigeria is not a secular country..we have the highest spiritual of everything in the world.

Front page please!

crazy thread

well, I am the winner!

RICHIE BOI: https://i1.wp.com/www.toksdam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fashola.jpg

Nigeria's Leaders' Shallow Mentality: Even at levels as high as the governor's office, they still subscribe to the stupid mentality of supporting foreign institutions blindly to the detriment of their own. Is the Lagos State government a shareholder in the Manchester United football business or what? How come a British football club, 6,500 kilometres away is being given free advert while the Stationery Stores FC of Lagos State is totally crippled and is not on the world's football radar? I just don’t understand the sense behind these ugly cakes.
What purpose do these symbols of cakey "bitter" cakes (with full insignia of Lagos State imposed side by side that of Man U logo) serve the interests of Lagosians except to continually get investments, recognition, etc., out of the state in favour of Manchester, UK which sadly still, did not solicit for the advert in any way? What about the effect this picture will have on unsuspecting, young, impressionable and naive minds in many years to come? I just can't come to terms with this childish idea at Fashola’s 50th birthday. It just steers logic on its head.
I love Fashola but I'm really disappointed at this anomaly at his 50th birthday. Hear this! Governor Fashola, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Governor Rotimi Amaechi, the management of Manchester United does not even know you guys exit, so please stop deluding yourselves and get on with the business of empowering your people and country. These Nigerian dealers (not leaders) must be jesters fit only for the circus. What a shame!

well said

yorke1: Who is Ice Prince? Is he a gospel artist?

NO! He is a Muslim artist

asudan: may God forgive your ignorance as it is not all pastors that depend on tithe or offerings for survival.

brain washed idiots

Fakes news. Stella is married to one igbo guy. can't remember the name for now.

apala911: a range rover sport golf car drive past his.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/129941-there-was-no-assassination-attempt-on-dino-melaye-abuja-police-commissioner-says.html

Please what kinda of car is that o! RANGE ROVER SPORT "GOLF"

semid4lyfe: Damn!

I miss Lagos like crazy
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Like crazy? so you were once crazy and miss being crazy as well?

T-smooth:
Another plot to spoil Islam name. I knw they would definately blame it on Muslims. Allah knows the best.

Which other religion has terrorism as its last name?

The two things majority of Nigerian ladies lack. Common sense and beauty.