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Nice one poster I am on the same stage with you but price increment has made me to pause angrily but God is our strength

I write with pain in my heart because my mum got scammed to a tune of 580k. She got a call from a fraudstar thinking it is from gtb.the rest is history and the 580k my brother sent her was all wiped off her account by a platform called branch loan app... From my review online i discovered that most complainants of scam alart is mostly gtb costomers. Op please move this frontpage lets tackle this issue. Because we are made to understand that a transaction has a limit of 100,000 without a bank app, how will they have wipeded out a whole 580k without the bank seen it as a fraud attempt?

Op is meaning to say10k i just corrected that for him

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[quote author=leetylee post=89857787]Op.... If you took her in on the note of helping her why send her away? I'm aware you are married and you should not be tempted by an underage instead see her as Ur own child and talk to her about her sleeping position, tell Ur wife to counsel her if both alternative didn't work out then u can send her away.... Not everytime y'all see holes and jump in be wise.... [Bros i no fit born that girl oo me and my wife are newly married ... Besides i told her of no hose help for now/quote]

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[quote author=Saltybear post=88788281]Bastard of a governor
Shows how stupid benue people are to have such a useless governor

No wonder their women are the most cheap and useless things after Akwa Ibom women

That's why tuface the cocaine addict can never speak up against the massacre going on in his state by herdsmen
Generally benue people are useless[/only a nonschooled underage fool will insinuate such... Please receive sense i pray you

Unity is progress

Why shouldn't they

Hope no Benue? It doesn't matter anyway for we are all one Nigeria

May God help us

MayGodhelpusall

there papa win this match gbamm

I am presently battling this same issue. the funny thing about mine is that no member of my family have found out she is a single mother

hello nairalanders I don't know where to post this topic but I feel posting it here will have more views because of the fact that politics is the oder of the day in Nigeria. please viewers, commentors and moderators. I want to know what criteria is been used to to measure a topic that appears in the front page of our darling nairaland?
I ask because I feel that many topics that appears daily are irrelevant and doesn't help to solve the current situation in the country(many of una no Wetin I the yarn ) whereas I have seen countless educative and reasonable topics not making the front page. nb I am an Adent follower of nairaland I stand to be corrected anyway. Goodevnin

hello nairalanders I was meant to open an account for a transaction. firstly I went to zenith bank comfortably with my NIMC I. d card to my great surprise it was rejected I tried explaining that with the nin number it has to be authentic but I was given a deaf ear. I angrily went away hoping to open it with GTB on getting there I was told to bring other I.d cards other than NIMC slip I was greatly surprised this time.... . upon applying for the NIMC card(slip)I was told that it can be used anywhere anytime that the number is unik to the owner ,I wonder why there has to be a rejection. so nairalanders I want to ask if anyone of you have encountered same problem. please help beg the moderators move it to front page so as to change the attitude of banks towards our NIMC I.d card. thank you

if only 2baba can not read or write I would have concurred with the so called Prof. please he is a nobody

novelty match mmm 3days ago

same on mine just hoping it is resolved

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Ponzi schemes here and there

on point bro, I stand with you gallantly

I sure will I am so optimistic it hasn't crashed

if only delete all is not an option in my Nokia torchlight phone my contact would have been intact .my little niece was playing with it the next thing i realised was that all my contacts in my phone have been deleted curtsy of the option delete all,,, feeling sad rite now

so for so Good I thank you all for contributing. its just that thought that we all have at a point