remi1444: I ventured with peers in my neighbourhood over 3years ago when JAMB messed me up. I was too much a manaic for law so i thought its a good idea to obtain a LL.B in Europe since Nigeria is a "messed up country" lol. I saw Satan in Libya if wish to pen my sojourn, i may creep back to the depression hole. All this travail i went through without my family being aware of. I knew what i wanted, today, i'm studying what i wanted to study as a kid in the same "messed up country" though i'm a bloody 1st year.
Sleep on maiii infant frd turn bro, thank you for giving up you life for me to live... In the words of gaby, "we holding on here with a positive prospect"
JoaquinElChapo: lol. I think I understand. Just feel you should keep updating to keep readers glued to it. These days, people easily get distracted and lose interest. Will follow updates sha
Thanks bro for understanding..
Rollins777: Gab,your story is really inspiring, kindly keep it up.
JoaquinElChapo: The suspense I'm actually curious about the whole crime life that almost got you long jail
Those are the kokos of the narrative. If you understand what it means having a second chance or being granted a second shot at life.Na two hand dem take dey grab and guide am jealously like raw egg make e no jabo.
naptu2: UAC was the largest non-oil company in Nigeria in the 1970s, ‘80s and early 1990s. The two most important business executives in Nigeria at that time were the M.D. of Shell (the largest oil company) and the Chairman of UAC (the largest non-oil company). They were almost like presidents. One of them, Chief Ernest Shonekan (Chairman of UAC in the 1980s and early 1990s) even became Head of State of Nigeria. The company was huge and (at various times) included the following subsidiaries:
1) A.J. Seward ( "for skin, hair and body care" ) : They made hair creams, body creams and lotions, face powders and other beauty products.
2) Kingsway Department Stores: They had the largest supermarket and mall chain in Nigeria.
3) Kingsway Chemists: A chain of pharmacies that was spread right across Nigeria.
4) UAC Foods: This included Kingsway Rendezvous (now known as Mr Biggs), Gala Sausage Rolls, Wall's Ice Cream, Spring Waters Nigeria Ltd (makers of SWAN Water, Gossy Water and SWAN soft drinks), etc.
5) UAC Motors: GM Nigeria (Bedford, Chevrolet and Isuzu), Federated Motors Industries Ltd (locally made Bedford trucks) and Niger Motors.
10) UAC Property Development Company: They own 1004 Estate, Golden Tulip Hotel (formerly Dubar Hotel), Abebe Court Ikoyi, etc.
11) Grand Cereals: Grand Pure Soya Oil, etc.
12) MDS Logistics: Wharehouses, haulage, distribution, etc.
13) Chemical and Allied Products Limited (CAPL) : Dulux and Caplux paints, etc.
14) African Timber and Plywood Ltd.
15) West African Cold Storage.
This company has directly or indirectly produced several very wealthy families including the Abebes, the Dantatas, the Dangotes, the Murray-Bruces and the Shonekans.
UAC has helped to nurture the fortunes of some of Nigeria's wealthiest families.
1) Dantata/Dangote: Alhassan Dantata's business got a big boost when he got contracts to supply UAC (Royal Niger Company) groundnuts, kola nuts, etc.
2) Murray-Bruce: Mulligan Murray-Bruce (Ben Bruce's father) was a UAC executive who did so well that upon retiring he was given Domino Stores to run.
3) Abebe: Sir Christopher Abebe (Stella Obasanjo's father) was Chairman of UAC (also Chairman of Nigerian Breweries) in the 1970s. He did so well, that several UAC and Nigerian Breweries facilities are named after him (Abebe Village, Igamu).
In the picture below are the logo of the Royal Niger Company, UAC's first logo and UAC's current logo (which was adopted in the 2000s). The logo in the middle is my favourite.
okpurukata: Gaby, please continue na. I am already engrossed in this story. But I thank God first of all that you came out of all these alive. You are simply great.
ambs50: Pls sparkle, could you give d Op a chance in ur life. He once said he's healing frm d experiences nd ready to mingle nd probably settle down. I think d Op appears to be a nice person nd ready for serious relasnsip.
Pls if u aren't engaged, giv him just a 1centimetre chance.
NB: guys I dnt knw d Op from Adam oo bfor u think he's my brother
Wow just woke up to this..nice of you bro.Will do the needful.Sparkle my contact is on my profile,lets get private by whatsapp. Thanks
happy200: I just have to open this thread out of pity, maybe i can get someone on her behalf. A working class woman around 36yrs old. Remember my last post Subject: MY WIFE JUST CANT STAY WITHOUT ME, their was a place i mentioned talking to an older woman and my wife got jealous and left us with anger, she is the woman i was refering to. She is working, staying in a 3 bedroom flat but she's not married she actually want us to date but i won't allow that instead i want to search someone for her and connect both of them. She is very good and down to earth that i don't sleep becos i feel sorry the way she treats me like a king iam really worried wish i can get her a man. tnx.
XML33: Ramblings of a weakling. Please since this life is futile and meaningless, then take your life and leave this earth for people who are strong willed enough to exist in it. And all the weaklings applauding your post should follow suit. Iranu.
The goal of life is to survive and be as comfortable as possible. This is what everyone strives for. There is good and bad in the world. Arm yourselves with the tools to navigate through the bad without being hurt and then try to utilize the good in a noble and self beneficial way.
The world isn't a place for emotional, weak minded, over empathic people who crave genuine friendships and expect everyone to be nice and honest with them and for things to be smooth all the time. People who are like this don't have what it takes to survive in this world. The world is for people who understand the world, who understand that humans have the capacity for evil and malevolence, and they navigate their reality with this fact in mind. They understand that they have a limited time to exist on this earth and they try as much as possible to make the best of it. And there are lots of ways to make the best of it - They could strive for power, utilize their talents in making their society a better place, or they could aim at being as comfortable as they possibly can. They might not know what happens after they die, but they understand that life is a gift and they shouldn't waste it.
Op, If the people who existed before you had this stupid mindset that you have, you wouldn't be here typing on your computer, and you wouldn't have electricity to power your devices or the internet to share your stupid opinion with the world, or the car you used to commute to your work place. If people in the past had the mentality that you have, they'd see no reason to do anything. They'd either commit suicide or sit under a tree all day contemplating the futility of existence and increasingly losing the desire to do anything at all, which would preclude all the strides that's been made in medicine and technology which you an ungrateful entity enjoy constantly.
It's people that have the mentality of the OP that end up shooting schools and committing mass murder, because if life is useless, then why not assist in ending it quickly right?
Stop complaining and do the little you can to see that the world is better than you left it. Maybe that way, the future generation won't have cause to complain like you are doing.
Bro you sound intelligent and i respect your comment but i believe you could have given your submission without recourse to name calling op or outrightly insulting him that's pretty insensitive and and an arrogant attempt at showing off "my way and what i believe is the ultimate".
I didn't see where the op was preaching a resort to suicide in any part of his post,what i picked from his post was a rally for us to be more caring about one another and showing more love in the stead of what you seem to have potrayed in your comments,like suck it up and get along with the damn thing and if you are not as hard / successful as me,you are definitely a weakling or not doing it right. ( wrong notion to live by )
I will say your comments mirrors exactly the issues raised in op's post.If the Bill gates and other great philantropists of this world had this your reasoning,they won't see the less priviledged or afflicted and freely donate to ease their suffering.They could as well say where were they when i was being inventive and creative to be this rich.
You won't understand how far reaching a simple show of empathy and love can go in being the lil difference between transforming from the weakling you opined and a hardknock success like you.
After all the jargons above,what i am only trying to say is that we can't all be emotionless or heartless.The world will be without meaning.
Maxvasia: I am not a very expressive person but While sitting quietly in my office at work today, i began to reflect on life around us, and this is what my spirit tells me with a great measure of conviction which i wish to share with you all......
Suicide rates will multiply all over the world. Not because times are hard. Times were HARD during the World Wars and Great Economic recessions and depressions. The society is increasingly frivolous. People have no true friends. Because friends see themselves more as rivals. The race is measured by wealth and nothing else. Set backs are mourned as wasted lives by those who should give love and genuine support. So a troubled man becomes the butt of jokes by those in whom he has reposed his trust.
Calamities befall men and their friends shed tears of sympathy for them in the morning, but run them down and harm them ruthlessly at night. The man can't even tell his wife because he is sure she would show little or NO understanding at all, because in her heart is the hearth of the values that society upholds. He has seen her divulge little details to her family. He has heard her eulogise wealth and curse set backs as abomination. She has a little merry heart, while pretending to be oblivious of the realities her man has to face for which her powerful supporting and protective prayers and intuition were needed, to mediate strength and inspire confidence.
The pastor can't be trusted because he is given to flashy cars and worldly ambitions. He rates men by their earthly successes and wealth. He can't be trusted because wealth he says is the ultimate blessing from the Creator. Everyday he celebrates only the rich. The value of a man is measured, not by the quality of his being, but by the size of his pocket.
So the troubled man walks around with his troubles in his heart. One day, he would weigh it all over again, and say NO! It's enough!!
But then, when the slightly reflective one meditates on the purpose to all this, in his mind he bumps ever again against the common saying "to keep body and soul together and lead a respectable life". And again, one asks what is the essence of keeping body and soul together only to be driven along the course of sham and falsehood, to live a life in celebration of tinsel, to be honored and respected by clergies and temples who themselves have become slaves to materialism... a life born, moulded fashioned and forged in a BIG LIE!
No Truth, no genuineness... No Love! Everyone scrambles around in the dark, in ignorance, seeking to attain his goals at the expense of, and to the detriment of the other. So that even Marriages which should be guided by Love and Trust are deeply steeped in intrigue and selfish calculation, one working to outsmart the other in a senseless struggle for power and control. Egotism, selfishness and power lustfulness have become the lord and bane of all relationships, now collapsing on all sides. The expression "Marriages are made in Heaven" have become a hypocritical mockery cry of the Sublime Purity of He Who mercifully ordained it. People now twitch their noses at it because they no longer believe in it, though they profess it for the sake of it. Man has come to question the existence of Love, now on the brink of convincing himself that it does not exist in a world of realism, but only in the sanguine-idealistic consciousness of the dreaming mind.
And no one knows where nor how to find the origin of this scorge, this evil upon which all life around man on earth is founded. Hypocricy, selfishness, slavish materialism, power lustfulness and drunkenness,morbid sensuality, envy, greed, malice and hatred. Little wonder that this world seems on a slow march towards an ignominous collapse. And man still seeks to find solutions to the impending horror by striving even more vigorously into the same faults that gave birth to these evils. Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die, dont ask me why (Bob Marley), for it is useless running to the prayer houses when the heart is seething with poison without any genuine desire to change.
Just a frank rant!
You can imagine when those who are supposed to be having your back are the ones subtly mocking you as the one without their warped idea of a real life without caring to know what you've been through or going through especially when you are one who doesn't give to much talking and explanations of what's going on with you.
Failed marriage...yeah...collapsed business yeah..things not as rosy as it used to and so frigging what? Didn't start with neither is it gonna end with me
I fucking made myself a sacrificial lamb for you guys to get a life. Financed y'all through school without doing so myself so don't go disrespecting or talking about me like someone who's un serious.
I vented seriously yesterday and copied everyone. Kapish
The story of my present life you just captured in your very thought provoking rant.
Woke up at 630am and did a stinker to family members i lived the better part of my life for.If i could show you the epistle i sent you'd think we were in each other's mind.They've been begging since yesterday because i touched a nerve obviously with the honest truth. You captured and mirrored my vents yesterday morning.
stephenduru: Remember ex-Nigerian footballer Mr Chukwuneta Anyabolu aka Changa or Chassis from Umunambu village, Alor Idemmili South LGA Anambra who died in Brazil this week while chasing a Nigerian who duped him millions of dollar?The culprit has been apprehended.
The story has it that one Daniel from Amorka and his partner in crime Ezenwa from Nnewi conspired and duped Chukwuneta Anyabolu of goods worth millions of dollars which was supplied to Chassis by other business partners.The business partners were threatening to arrest Chassis if by 16th of March he fails to return their money or goods.Because of the threat,he started earching the whole of Brazil for the criminal duo of Daniel and Ezennwa. He was informed that Daniel was sighted in a building in town.Chassis alongside police rushed to the building,picked him up but on getting to the first floor the criminally minded and athletic built Daniel managed to free himself from their grip and jumped from the first floor and without hesitation Changa and the cop jumped after the fleeing criminal. Daniel escaped without much effort while Chassis and the cop landed badly on the hard concrete floor.While the cop landed on his feet,Changa who is in his fifties landed with his head and died instantly.
Literature › Re: Nigeria to Europe through the desert-A true life story by gaby(op): 8:11am On Mar 23, 2018
