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Romance › Re: She Was The Most Beautiful Girl In My Set. 22 Years Later, She Is Still Single by grandstar(m): 8:19pm On Sep 12
TrueReports:
ISI wasn't expensive.It was basically a federal exclusive school for Kids of the University's who is who.

I would think this was Nickdel College or All Saints.....
Most of the other private schools for someone who entered 1998 weren't super expensive or were strictly boarding.
You may be correct
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by grandstar(m): 8:18pm On Sep 12
LordAdam16:
saudi b 1 use arab sense for the turks and pakis

will saudi itself deploy fighters to bomb india for pakistan in an offensive role?
so wetin dey bring that kyn anyhow tok for paki to bomb yemen for them

it is a defensive alliance
but them feel say dem go cajole paki and turk with carrots after them don sign agreement finish




the second important detail
is that the turks and pakis will heavily push to bring iran into the alliance
that way the alliance becomes a military pact first and a conflict resolution mechanism second
this way all four will be able to hash out things before it devolves into a confrontation

for instance the saudis want the syrians to enter lebanon
turkey does not want that because lebanon is now a buffer zone for turkey
you get iran onside and syria could be stabilized, iraq will not be a headache anymore, it'll also curb the kurdish menace, and possibly resolve yemen

then everyone can focus on their ambitions outside west asia with their immediate fronts secured
and if the genocidal ghouls make noise
it is better to have iran onside than have them be neutral (even though iran would not be in practice, the turks would not want to take that chance, they absolutely need iran to buy that market)




all told, the saudis tried to be sneaky by pawning off their troubles to others
but the turks and pakis are not regarded

-Lord
Wetin consign Saudi wanting Syria to invade Lebanon..

If Saudi had any sense, they would leave Yemen for the Houthis before thoy start their new pastime of bombing Saudi oil installation
That is assymetric warfare at its meanest.
Romance › Re: She Was The Most Beautiful Girl In My Set. 22 Years Later, She Is Still Single by grandstar(m): 1:23pm On Sep 12
uche87:
I attended a very expensive private secondary school in Ibadan. Previously, I attended a public school. I remember my father took out a loan to pay my first term's school fees. The man literally showed me the money, in raw cash, while in the company of my mother.

My parents were just middle-level civil servants. When I got to my new school, I saw this dark-skinned girl who was unique in her own way. She was of average height, slim, quiet and very neat. She had a high sense of maturity. She never played rough. Her school uniform was always very neat and clean. Her spoken English was very good. She had a smile that could heal a wounded soul.

What stood out about her was her confidence. The way she carried herself wasn't loud or intimidating, but it sent a message: “I know my worth.” Everyone easily talked about her. Her parents were well-to-do, and they were based in Lagos State while she schooled as a boarder in an Ibadan school. Historically, Ibadan-based people have always had a huge respect for Lagosians. That was another plus for her.

She was a girl who could lighten your mood just by talking to you at school. Many boys in my set, the 2004 class, believed she liked them simply because they had spoken a few times or she smiled at them. As a shy person from a civil servant home, I didn't stand a chance, like Atiku Abubakar in the next presidential election. I simply admired and observed from a distance.

A couple of boys were linked to her romantically, but it was more talk than action, no hands-on. Her body was like a sanctuary she never wanted to defile. Her influence was so powerful that a handsome boy who got very close to dating her actually failed and repeated a class. He dropped her name as an excuse for his failure, claiming she affected his academic focus. Guess what? She passed and did so well. The guy in question is a popular Christian cleric in Ibadan, Nigeria, today. Life is interesting.

She was never short of suitors. After one school holiday, rumours swirled around the school that a boy from a wealthy family, well-travelled across the world, had driven a Mercedes-Benz to her house in the highbrow Island area of Lagos to woo her. She said NO!
The news spread around the school, with nobody verifying whether it was true or false. It nevertheless further boosted her reputation. It probably pushed a few light-hearted men even further away.

After we left school, most of us from average families struggled. She had a relatively smooth ride. Not much was heard about her. Many said she got a job with one of the top tech companies in the world, and the pay was monstrous. Things got better, and she also moved abroad. It appears suitors never stopped coming. Maybe she felt nobody deserved her. Or perhaps life simply took her in a different direction. Twenty-two years later, she is still single. She is about 40 now.

Marriage isn't a big deal, women always say, but that argument becomes more complicated when an African woman is involved. In many African societies, marriage still carries enormous social and family expectations. Beauty can be a blessing, but perhaps it can also become a curse. There is an interesting phenomenon involving beautiful single women. Some suitors assume they are not really single. Others believe their standards are too high or that there will be too much competition involved in winning their hearts. Some men simply assume that a woman who looks that good must already have several men fighting for her attention. Others believe she might never be submissive in marriage.

It is almost like buying a vehicle that requires high maintenance. You admire it from a distance, but you convince yourself that owning it will be too expensive or complicated. In the end, a beautiful woman can find herself alone, not necessarily because nobody wants her, but because many people assume somebody else already has her. Some may eventually have relationships that are casual and convenient, with men who come, do the work and sail off until their services are needed again. Life can be such a humbler.

On a personal note, I don't believe marriage is for everybody. The earlier Africans face this reality, the better. Some people are genuinely better off being alone. Several people are marking marriage anniversaries with very limited happy moments behind the photographs and celebrations.

But that is a topic for another day.

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The foolish boy that wrote this went to ISI.
Travel › Re: Lagos-Calabar Road: Ondo Lawyers Seek Restoration Of Coastal Route by grandstar(m):
The Ilajes have a very strong point.

Edo state has no coast whatsoever, so the coastal road passing through that State makes no sense.

Should the Ilajes communities be bypassed, Tinubu is simply shooing them to the opposition.
TV/Movies › Re: Who Watched Or Remembers Any Of These Old Tv Programs? by grandstar(m): 5:26am On Sep 12
Evaress:
Indeed, nothing lasts forever on earth. I can never forget those days I would be running home by 7pm, 8pm, 9pm as some of them aired on AIT and NTA, so that I wouldn’t miss any episode. Especially El Cuerpo del Deseo (Second Chance), Mientras Haya Vida (Until My Last Breath), and Nnena Superstory. Those were my favorites, and I could never miss an episode. Even when there was no light, I would go to my neighbor’s house to watch.

Back then, Android phones were not popular like that, so pirates would be selling the movies on CDs. That’s how all of them filled my house from Season 1 to 20, because I was so addicted. You would hear everyone in school and around the neighborhood discussing these programs.

Omo, I swear one day I almost fought with my mother because she refused to let us put on the generator the day they were showing Second Chance.

But now they have all faded, just as BBN is also slowly fading.

I really miss those days 🙊😊
Tell me you are Gen X without telling me you are Gen x?

Gen X are those born between 1965-1980.

You could also be a millenial but certainly not Gen Z grin grin grin grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: 25ys Ago On This Very Day, All Jews Working In The Twin Towers Took The Day Off by grandstar(m): 1:28am On Sep 12
FSBoperator:
The FBI was able to discover a communication between Jews working in the Twin Towers telling each other not to go to work.

The used the Israeli (Mossad) web app Odigo to send messages to each other not to turn up to work .

Every Jew from Lucky Larry Silverstein (the owner of the twin towers who took out an insurance on the towers against terrorist attacks a few weeks before the attacks to current Trump senior cabinet member , Howard Lutnick who operated his private business office in the complex , did not show up for work.


The messenger app had accidentally sent the same message warning not to come to work to some gentiles who testified on recieving the message. All the gentiles will later die by suicide .
The Ku klux Khan, a racist and violent organization in America claimed that a Black American organisation in the US had the pictures of every white American women hanging in their halls.

I dont which one is more outrageous: what i wrote in the first paragraph or what you wrote that no Jewish person died in the Septenber 11 atracks?

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia To Supply 105 Airplanes To India (Photos, Video) by grandstar(m): 1:01am On Sep 12
dgitrader:
Russian aircrafts are far behind US and European models, especially passenger aircrafts, in terms of quality and safety.
India probably did so to spite Trump.

If not, then its probably because of Pakistan.
Celebrities › Re: Pato Laments, Opens Up On What Adult Film Actors Really Earn In Nigeria by grandstar(m): 12:51am On Sep 12
Akalia:
This dude is a lowlife scum. I see adult film performers as the lowest of the low in human form.
Very empty vessels they are. What kind of human being goes naked, having explicit sex in front of the camera for commercial distribution?

I looked down on people like him distastefully. I have stumbled upon some of his materials by wild-Lagos production. So outside his big dick and randy skills in front of the camera what else can he do with his life?
I agree what he is doing is bad but you are too judgmental.

I am also very religious (Read Matthew 7:1-4)
Celebrities › Re: Pato Laments, Opens Up On What Adult Film Actors Really Earn In Nigeria by grandstar(m): 12:46am On Sep 12
Eba50:
Those girls i pity them, like maami igagbo, ladygold. Tall lizzy, juliet simon.na who wan maryy them
And you come know all of them? Na wa o!
Foreign Affairs › Re: This Picture Sums Up The War In Ukraine by grandstar(m): 12:31pm On Sep 11
FSBoperator:
That is not the uniform worn by the child killers in the IDF or their police.

That image is from Ukraine.


You may be correct
Foreign Affairs › Re: This Picture Sums Up The War In Ukraine by grandstar(m): 12:29pm On Sep 11
FSBoperator:
The commie style apartment block with the double glazed windows in the foreground plus the greenery shows this isn't the desert arid occupied Palestine aka Israel.

Also the digital fatigue uniform is synonymous to the Ukrainian military and press gangs .

The IDF wear a mustard drab green uniform and their police wear dark navy blue..

So try another lie.
You may be right
Foreign Affairs › Re: This Picture Sums Up The War In Ukraine by grandstar(m): 9:17pm On Sep 10
FSBoperator:
Two Jews stand by and watch as a Ukrainian man is being gang pressed by Jewish pressgang members.

Jews are exempted from being forcibly conscripted into the military.

Jews are also free to come and go as they please into Ukraine. Ukrainian men are all barred from leaving the country and the Kiev Kosher Mafia wanted to have all Ukrainian men in Europe deported back to Ukraine so he can send them to die in the trenches fighting a losing war with Russia,

This is no war.

This is a genocide!
This picture is not Ukraine.

It is most likely Israel. Not all Jewish Israeli men want to fight. This is forced conscription

Being sent to Lebanon to fight is a death sentence, or coming home an amputee. Lebanon is not a rollover like Gaza. Hezbollah has far superior weapons and are not shy to use them.
Crime › Re: List Of 5 Crimes That Are Booming In Nigeria by grandstar(m): 12:03am On Sep 10
Evaress:
Fast-moving businesses that many people condemn.
They call it immoral and sinful, based on their biblical beliefs.
But the truth is, these businesses can make you more money in less than a month than some people make in 2 years.

The real question is: do you have the guts to do it?

Note: I'm not advicing anyone to go into any of them oh. As sweet as they are, they can also klll fast.😅

1: Hookup
Sex sells. The porn industry makes millions every single day. Harlots and pimps make a lot of cash.
If you condemn harlots, what about the viewers, patronizers and masturbators? They’re all part of it, dear.

2: Yahoo 🤩
One deal can pay what a salary earner makes in 2 years. Fast money, fast life.

3: Rituals / "Quick Money
People will judge you in public, but in private they’ll ask “who do you know?”
Organ harvesting, charm money — condemned, feared, but people still chase it.

4: Drug Dealing
From codeine to loud, to pills. It’s illegal, it’s dangerous, but the profit margin is crazy.
One weekend run can be someone’s 6 months salary.

5: Kidnapping
We all know how much bandits are demanding and flaunting online.
I can never get involved in any these.

If I was, it would be either be a drug dealer (only weed) or a love-vendor for runs girl.
Crime › Re: Appeal Court Upholds 490-Year Jail Term For Ex-NEXIM Bank MD, Orya by grandstar(m): 11:36pm On Sep 09
Judemarco31:
He will be in the prison till the next 5th generation to come grin grin grin
He will only 10 years. All 49 counts of 10years are concurrent and not consecutively.
Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Mega-projects Face A Debt Sustainability Test by grandstar(m): 11:49pm On Sep 08
Gotocourt:
His policies will be his downfall. Either petrol subsidy or Dollar subsidy, one has to be brought back. Lagos-Calabar needs $11B, where will the money come from huh
If those 2 subsidies return, the Naira will crash to 4,500. There is no free lunch out there.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Tanzania President, Samia Suluhu Hassan Loses Husband by grandstar(m): 1:48am On Sep 08
She is a dictator and has ended democracy in Tanzania.
Autos › Re: Pre-owned 1994 Toyota Camry 5m Asking Price by grandstar(m): 12:32am On Sep 08
That car isnt worth more than 600k.

I doubt any Gen Z were even born when Toyota stopped its production.
Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Mega-projects Face A Debt Sustainability Test by grandstar(m): 12:30am On Sep 08
Worryingly:
Imagine awarding arguably Nigeria's single biggest infrastructural project without accoutability and due process.

The Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway is not objectionable because Nigeria does not need infrastructure; it is objectionable because the scale, priority and manner of its award raised serious questions. A project of this magnitude should have been subjected to the highest standards of transparency and competitive procurement, yet the government opted for a restrictive process due to vested interests.

Those concerns are even more in the light of Tinubu's longstanding relationship with Gilbert Chagoury, owner of Hitech. Isn't this the personification of conflict of interest? Yet, 30k boys don't see the irony.

Meanwhile, countless existing federal roads are collapsing, crippling commerce and endangering lives, look at Benin Ore road, look at the kogi road into Abuja. With limited resources, why prioritise an enormously expensive new coastal highway over repairing the infrastructure Nigerians already depend on?
Tinubu ia a man of grandiose ideas and wants to be seen as capable. He wants to win the forthcoming elections based on his achievements.

He has already won the governors and local government chairmen by giving them much more in monthly allocations
This was due to the ending of subsidies and the floating of the Naira. Almost no state has to borrow now to pay salaries.

The infrastructure projects would win him votes with the masses. In addition, the present exchange or price levels have now been accepted as the new normal.

The easiest way for him to win the coming elections would for him to demand that the central bank fight inflation and bring it below 10% a year.

The central bank raise interest rated which would mop up lots of Naira in cirvulatoon, which would make the Naira stronger. Less money in circulation and a stronger Naira would lead to a drop in prices of goods. The downside is that the rate increase may lead to a recession
Politics › Re: Throwback Picture Of Wike Carrying Umbrella For Amaechi by grandstar(m): 12:26pm On Sep 07
arantess:
you dont know nothing.

you probable just started seeing wike this year.

ask people who knew him as LG chairman before this COS. these things are online but una just dey zuzu
I am not contesting the umbrella carrying. I believe he once did.

However, i still conaider thw picture because wike was much chubbier when he became governor.

Today, he looks like somwone whose excessive of alcohol has dried up his body

Politics › Re: Throwback Picture Of Wike Carrying Umbrella For Amaechi by grandstar(m): 12:15pm On Sep 07
arantess:
you dont know nothing.

you probable just started seeing wike this year.

ask people who knew him as LG chairman before this COS. these things are online but una just dey zuzu
He looked chubbier when he fitst became governor.
Politics › Re: Throwback Picture Of Wike Carrying Umbrella For Amaechi by grandstar(m): 10:22pm On Sep 06
DSS1335:
The image looks fake, perhaps Ai generated
Back then, when wike was the chief of staff to Amaechi, he was looking chubby and fresh. I think he was about 42 years old then
I too felt somthing was off.

I wonder how many AI credits he wasted to achieve this?
Health › Re: Igho Ubiribo Dies After Penis Enlargement Procedure In Thailand by grandstar(m): 2:57am On Sep 06
YouandiAllofus:
Still trying to please a woman at 43 years of age is misplaced priority. So sad he misplaced his life in the process.
The wife qho stood by him should know he would test his biggir pennis on other women.

A worthless procedure.
Education › Re: 7 Nigerians Who Became Professors In Their 30s by grandstar(m): 2:52am On Sep 06
Kobojunkie:
How many of them have owned and run a successful business thus far? 😒😒
I doubt profesaors are the entrepreneural type.

Professors are educators and not businessmen.

Many of these American billionaires such aa Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg dropped out of college.
Education › Re: 7 Nigerians Who Became Professors In Their 30s by grandstar(m): 2:43am On Sep 06
joefelin2345:
And what impact did that has for for the common man in Nigeria if I may ask?
I do not give a rats behind what benefit it has for the masses. Not everything is politics or the masses.

Nobody gives you a professorship because you love the people. Its an educational attainment which you have worked hard to earn.

The man supervised two of the freest elections in Nigeria. He was also the leader of ASUU when they challenged the federal government in the 1990s. So, he has some of the credentials that might appeal to you, but that is not why you get a professorship.
Education › Re: 7 Nigerians Who Became Professors In Their 30s by grandstar(m): 3:13pm On Sep 05
faceland:
Two of my class mates did it also
This article left a lot of names out.

I am certain Attahuri Jega, former INEC boss, achieved the same feat when he was im his 30s.
TV/Movies › Re: British Actor Tim Curry Is Dead by grandstar(m): 3:05pm On Sep 05
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1bunne4lif:
May his soul rest in peace, amen
"A living dog is better than a dead lion. The living know they shall die, but as for the dead, the are conscious of nothing at all. (Read Eccl 9:5,10)
Travel › Re: The Part of Accra, Ghana the Media Don’t Show You! (Impressive) (video) by grandstar(m): 4:19pm On Sep 04
Typing:
No body send you. I didn't even read all these jargons you write here. You don't reason by yourself. Whatever you write online is what they write for you. You just copy and paste. Since you are paid to defend incompetent Tinubu
This is the problem with many of you.

You project yourselves on others.

When you said "I must be Yoruba," i knew I was talking to a tribalistic person.

A good thing that 10 people liked my post you complained about though it was objective criticism.

In my last response to you, i mentioned two wrong areas in Tinubu's government, but you ignored that

Better go and join Peter Obi to cheer him up when he loses the next election. He will definitely lose wuthout a doubt.

He who laughs last, laughs best grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Politics › Re: Fuel Price: Petrol Marketers Have Put Tinubu’s Subsidy Argument To Shame — Atiku by grandstar(m): 2:11pm On Sep 04
clarocuzioo:
This is the raw truth. Even Dangote have made a mess of "we built Dangote refinery".

I like as Atiku is making the campaign issue based, so that Tinubu will not hide his incompetence under tribe, religious or ethnic sentiments
You guys should be realistic.

Atiku is only using a return to subsidy to gather votes. It even goes against his blueprint he has prepared for the economy.

It would be extremely hard to bring back subsidy. Removal of subsidy is entrenched through the PIA. In addition, all governors and local government chairmen and ward councillors would fight it tooth and nail through their senators in Congress. The return of subsidies will come from their monthly allocations.

Worse, the Naira would plunge in value. Tbe government would return to ways and means, which is the blatant printing of money by the CBN to lend to the federal government.
Travel › Re: The Part of Accra, Ghana the Media Don’t Show You! (Impressive) (video) by grandstar(m): 1:33pm On Sep 04
Typing:
You are definitely a Yoruba man. You mentioned all the past Presidents who are not Yoruba. You claimed they spoiled Nigeria. But you REFUSED to mention the Oga kpata kpata of them all. You refused to mentioned Tinubu who has done worst than all the ex Presidents put together.
I am not being biased here. I said the truth. I have a strong grasp of economics, so i stand fully by wbat I said.

Tinubu did not mess up the economy. Buhari did. I knew within one month of Buharis prezidency that he would ruin the economy, and he did.

Tinubus reforms have been praised globally, and also by Nigerian economists such Okonji Iweala and Charles Soludo. Cardoso won the best African central bank award.

Yes, there is a lot of corruption and worrisome levels of boreowing, but the economy is growing and has now stabilized.
Politics › Re: Aliko Dangote: FG’s Reforms Driving Nigeria’s Economic Recovery, Restoring Inves by grandstar(m): 7:54pm On Sep 03
Bishop4bella:
Since the economy is favouring your company.
It's expected of you to say that
The Devil is in the details.

If the FG banned the importation of refined fuels, his profits would be much higher as he would charge the masses much more.

Nwvertheless, the removal of the subsidy has enabled the company to sell its products at a market reflective price ensuring profits from sales.

With Atiku and Sowore, promising to reintroduce subsidies, he has to be proactive, and not just fol his arms in silence.
Travel › Re: The Part of Accra, Ghana the Media Don’t Show You! (Impressive) (video) by grandstar(m):
This is not time for Naija vs Ghana beef.

If Nigerians want to be honest, they have performed woefully.

I was born the 1970s. I remember when Ghanians were everywhere. They came here to seek greener pastures.

In 1980s, all my primary svhool teachers were Ghanians and they were very good.

Today, Ghanians are dragging things with Naija!!! This is scandalous.

The rot was due to the poor performance by Shagari, Major Buhari, Babangida, Abacha, and lastly, Buharis 8 disastrious years as a civilian president. The level of sleaze under Babangida was unparalled in history. When he left office in 1993, there was only $500m in the foreign. When Abacha died, there was $8bn in it. All the above had poor economic performance, even when sleaze was waa not factored in.

If their economic performance mimicked that of Obasanjo from 1999-2003, per capita income today would be at least $6,000 today, rather the lamentable $2,000 or so today

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