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missuzoma:
smart boy, he needed to relocate to the Uk. Oyibo stupid no be small. How can they believe all that rubbish about his being heartbroken over the death of his mate? The guy will soon impregnate someone there; don't mind all that thrash. It is like some old, grown crooks who run there claiming someone wants to circumsise them by force.

You have just said it all.
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Send that guy to Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who threatened to castrate all gays. This is absolute western trash. Our African fore fathers married and enjoyed many wives, What does this Nigerian gays want our pretty ladies to do with there succulent bodies

michelin89:
This woman sucks. Someone should stop her!

Bad belle people who will never see anything good coming out of Naija. Stay there dey wait for Mungo Park to come from Europe and discover River Benue for you.
Omo T rocks and I know she will continue to improve with our encouragements in future. . Afterall na play play Albert Einstein take discover quantum theorem.

I saw a church sign post today in Wuse II, Abuja and the name is Divine Hand of God Ministry. What quickly came to my mind is if Diego Maradona is the General Overseer of that Church?

I was in a boat to Bonny Island from PH when a preacher started praying and singing ''Mammy water power, powerless power'' for center of the ocean. Bros I piss  for my trouser until we reach land. imagine threatening Mammy water for her own territory.  

Abba Father ministry in Tasha Abuja
By Fire by Fire Ministry.
My coleagues didnt know why I was laffing so much in the office reading this post

CGKing:
See now, we cant even wish them dead anymore.

So let them live long and see what we would become in future. Since it is even more expensive for them to die with their loot. imao!!

All she does these days is attending celebrity weddings and giving advice to Governors who are marrying their fourth wives on how to sleep with their wives. I laff at her every sunday on NTA Newsline.

Imagine advicing Gov Isa Yuguda during his wedding to UMYA daughter that ,they should love one another, be there always for each other, no third party in the marriage, WHAT DOES THIS WOMAN EXPECT HIS THREE OTHER WIVES TO DO? Fold their arms and allow him to be there always for Yar,adua daughter only?

The vehicle components are imported from China and assembled in Nigeria, this will create local jobs in Nigeria and is a good start. The Chinese will not transfer technology fully to Innoson or Nigeria (they will continue to dump their products here). Its also known that Chinese made vehicles do not meet EU safety standards and so are restricted to developing economies like Nigeria.
All we need is to fit speed regulators and restrict the vehicles to intracity transportation by patronising Innoson. With time there will surely be improvements and the buses will start competing with the likes of Macopolo and most of the parts will be produced locally.

He never obeyed court orders when he was FCT Minister. He has always been above the law as far as Baba Iyabo still dey kampe. If he doesnt like your face then, he will bring buldozers to pull down your house and damned the courts.
Remember he told the whole senate that ' silence is the best answer for fools' and the banned him from holding any public office for 50 years.

Samson Siasia should be given the opportunity to build a new generation Super Eagles for Nigeria. He is presently the best coach in Nigeria. case closed

Dan Bazau is a tribalist. I was disqualified from NDA interview by him when he was the selection board Secretary without reason because I am from Abia State. As a young 18 year old then, I wept that day in NDA Kaduna for the discrimination I suffered and asked myself if it was still worth it to be a Nigeria. I was the highest in the score sheet for obstacle crossing and other activities.
He is not fit to be the COAS of Nigeria. Look at what he is doing to the Berom people of Jos through Gen Maina

Was Awo great? Yes.

Was he the greatest to the Yorubas? Yes.

Was he the greatest to other Nigerians? Big No.

The above statement captures it all without primordial sentiments. So let us allow our heroes past to rest and think of how to make Nigeria great again!

The poster is an ALMAJIRI. Jonathan is an Ijaw minority and the Yorubas or Igbos are not complaining. Patrick Yakowa is from Southern Kaduna and some Hausa and Fulani muslim zealots are trying to dicriminate against him. Mind you, according to history the Gbagyi tribe are the original inhabitants of Kaduna. The Hausas came recently during the colonial period to dominate the indigenes.

Topic: Mtn World Cup Naira Splash
Guyman02


Mtn World Cup Naira Splash
« on: April 20, 2010, 10:22 AM »

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You all are aware of the phoney GSM promos across the networks asking us to text 'GO, WIN, START etc' and collecting our hard earned N100 for each SMS.
Just recently there was a promo from MTN called TREASURE HUNT and another advertised by Ramsey Noah for Glo called WIN 555 MILLION which are all nothing but reaping off gullible of Nigerian Masses.

GLO recently started BID TO WIN advertised by Ini Edo and promised 18 Tear Rubber Cars. All of a sudden after making so much money from Nigerians who were 'Mugu' enough to play, they only gave out 2 Cars (One to a guy from Portharcourt and another from Kaduna) as we saw on TV and ended the promo.

Zain is also doing a promo being undertaken by the same guys who conducted the GLO promo asking us to text 'WIN' for N100 per SMS and win N2m everyday.

People have this impression that the Networks are dashing out N500m or N1b to lucky subscribers (Na lie).
What happens is that you as an individual can go to any of the Networks with a concept that will attract people to send SMS. The Network will issue you a special code number like 333, 555 or 222 if they accept your idea.

For every N100 SMS sent to that code, the Network receives 40%, the owner of the concept gets 40% and the remaining 20% is spent on adverts and Prizes to be issued to a few genuine individuals across the country, while they 'arrange the rest' of the winners.

I have worked as assistant in one of the companies organising the promo, we had to use Gbenga Adeyinka (the first) as anchor to give it credibility. Anyway, I have a brand new Pegeout 307 to show for it (yes arranged, but e no concern you)

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-433638.99999.html#msg5922272

You guys are just making noise read my post on this issue

Why worry about P&G in Nigeria, when you can earn N45m as quarterly allowance in PDP as a senator, political appointee or Special Adviser to any Gov or minister. (get your people back home to work towards that if you need fast bucks in Naija)

Your  acquired polished British accent is more of an asset when added to your first degree than the MSC you are fronting as far as Nigerian employers are concerned.
Pass the  apt test, speak fluently during the interview like a Brit and you are there.

The start up Salary for Mid management in places like P&G is around N300k/per month after tax. I work in a similar outfit.
Cheers

ChinenyeN:
The Osu outcast practice does not exist in my culture (Igbo culture). Haha. . @ your attempt to assault my character. This just goes to show how much you don't know. So please, find something better to do instead of scrambling for a non-existent "solution" to a non-existent "problem". .

ChinenyeN and others,
I repeat     'For those of you denying or pretending about the tragedy of the osu thing in Igboland and hell bent on keeping the superstitious belief alive whether during marriage or otherwise and even calling their fellow human beings Outcasts! I pray that you one day face the humiliation of rejection and apartheid by virtue of your tribe, religion, creed or colour so that you can understand and feel the kind of pain that my best friend felt when he was labelled an osu by his fiancee and her family and also pass through the same humiliation many Igbos labelled osu are facing in their communities today.'

Its only when we admit to an ailment that solution can be sought. Yes you can call me a crusader against any form of stigma.
If you are Igbo please dont give up hope, the battle against osu stigmatisation shall be won through the Gospel of Jesus Christ who drank water from the well of the Samaritan woman (John 4:4-42). Its well!

I have done several studies after what happened to my friend and part of my findings I have illustrated in my posts if you will re-read them over again.

For those of you denying the tragedy of the osu thing in Igboland and hell bent on keeping the superstitious belief alive whether during marriage or otherwise and even calling their fellow human beings Outcasts! I pray that you one day face the humiliation of rejection and apartheid by virtue of your tribe, religion, creed or colour so that you can understand and feel the kind of pain that my best friend felt when he was labelled an osu by his fiancee and her family.

One way to eradicate this osu caste system is for every progressive minded Igbo person to do away with superstitious belief, if you are confronted with the problem get a prayerful and truthful religious leader to which denominaton your relations belong to tell them that God will not be happy with them for their actions agaist his children in the name of osu and the consequence.

Marry for love and not for Diala or osu or else you throw away your happiness in life. Judge people only by the contents of their character.

Jealousy against the flamboyant display of wealth and affluence by those considered as osu is also a problem. In Ezeama as shown in that documentary, you will observe that the transformer supplying power to the osu area was vandalised, this could be as a result of the richer osu group using their influence to get PHCN to supply them more power than the rest of the community and others felt it was better for all of them to be in darknes. If they refer to you as osu show the diala love by helping them to improve their economic wellbeing. Poverty and ignorance breeds contempt.

WE AND YOU ARE NOT COMPATIBLE (this is always the word used to tell a person he/she is an osu and cant marry their children) You will never see two compatible human beings on earth including husbands and wives. we only tolerate and respect each other in other to be able to live together.

Christians should be true Christians by faith and not just in name as practiced by most people in Igboland. Let Jesus Christ be your guide!

This are just a few suggestions, I know there are many more on how to help our people.

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear all,
I took time to study about the Osu thing and gathered info from many sources because of what happened to my best friend in 2005. (True Story)
While we were in the University, he dated a girl for four years. After our youth service he got a good job and told me he was getting married to his heartrob to start life as a responsible guy.
I accompanied him on his first introduction visit to Nnewi in Anambra State (no derogation meant) to formally declare his intention to her family. They accepted our drinks and requested to meet his parents and took details of his place of origin. Next he went with his parents to see the girls family and they fixed a date for the traditional 'Igbankwu' ceremony.
While we were all getting set for the marriage event, the girl told my friend that her family have decided that the event will no longer hold. In shock he travelled down to her village from Lagos to find out from her family why they took the decision. They did not open up to him on their reason and even refused him passing the night in their house. He told me he had to travel to Onitsha and took a night bus back to Lagos.

I intervened and asked the girl to tell me why she is agreeing with her family to call off the marriage plans, after much persuasion she confided in me that my friend is an Osu and that marrying him may bring calamity upon her family, she could become barren or insane and their children will also be Osu.

My friend was not only heart broken but felt Extremely HUMILIATED and was contemplating suicide. He stopped going to work and was crying everyday. I was so afraid of loosing him that I had to summon his mum to Lagos to stay by her son.

To cut short, my friend is happily married now and even blessed with a lovely kid and doing very well. I met his former girl recently and she has seriously aged and not yet married. She also told me that if she had known she would have defied her family then Osu or no Osu and married him as he remains the love of her life and her source of happiness. To worsen matter she told me a wealthy guy from her place came to marry her but one of her uncles scuttled it by telling the man she had slept with an Osu before and the family prevented her from marrying him, hearing that the man fled.

Pls the only way to eradicate this osu thing is by being frank and acknowledging its existence and the destruction it is bringing to many Igbo lives.

Pls I beg us all including ChinenyeN and Abagworo dont try to confuse the people by saying somebody is making you laugh. Be frank with yourselves there is nothing funny about this discussion. (its like Hitler denying the Holocaust and laughing about it)
it is because of your kind of denials and pretensions of its existence that osu has remained in Igboland.

Osu is Apartheid which has to be defeated like in South Africa.

This true story I told here happens everyday in Igboland.

You all are aware of the phoney GSM promos across the networks asking us to text 'GO, WIN, START etc' and collecting our hard earned N100 for each SMS.
Just recently there was a promo from MTN called TREASURE HUNT and another advertised by Ramsey Noah for Glo called WIN 555 MILLION which are all nothing but reaping off gullible of Nigerian Masses.

GLO recently started BID TO WIN advertised by Ini Edo and promised 18 Tear Rubber Cars. All of a sudden after making so much money from Nigerians who were 'Mugu' enough to play, they only gave out 2 Cars (One to a guy from Portharcourt and another from Kaduna) as we saw on TV and ended the promo.

Zain is also doing a promo being undertaken by the same guys who conducted the GLO promo asking us to text 'WIN' for N100 per SMS and win N2m everyday.

People have this impression that the Networks are dashing out N500m or N1b to lucky subscribers (Na lie).
What happens is that you as an individual can go to any of the Networks with a concept that will attract people to send SMS. The Network will issue you a special code number like 333, 555 or 222 if they accept your idea.

For every N100 SMS sent to that code, the Network receives 40%, the owner of the concept gets 40% and the remaining 20% is spent on adverts and Prizes to be issued to a few genuine individuals across the country, while they 'arrange the rest' of the winners.

I have worked as assistant in one of the companies organising the promo, we had to use Gbenga Adeyinka (the first) as anchor to give it credibility. Anyway, I have a brand new Pegeout 307 to show for it (yes arranged, but e no concern you)

You all are aware of the phoney GSM promos across the networks asking us to text 'GO, WIN, START etc' and collecting our hard earned N100 for each SMS.
Just recently there was a promo from MTN called TREASURE HUNT and another advertised by Ramsey Noah for Glo called WIN 555 MILLION which are all nothing but reaping off gullible of Nigerian Masses.

GLO recently started BID TO WIN advertised by Ini Edo and promised 18 Tear Rubber Cars. All of a sudden after making so much money from Nigerians who were 'Mugu' enough to play, they only gave out 2 Cars (One to a guy from Portharcourt and another from Kaduna) as we saw on TV and ended the promo.

Zain is also doing a promo being undertaken by the same guys who conducted the GLO promo asking us to text 'WIN' for N100 per SMS and win N2m everyday.

People have this impression that the Networks are dashing out N500m or N1b to lucky subscribers (Na lie).
What happens is that you as an individual can go to any of the Networks with a concept that will attract people to send SMS. The Network will issue you a special code number like 333, 555 or 222 if they accept your idea.

For every N100 SMS sent to that code, the Network receives 40%, the owner of the concept gets 40% and the remaining 20% is spent on adverts and Prizes to be issued to a few genuine individuals across the country, while they 'arrange the rest' of the winners.

I have worked as assistant in one of the companies organising the promo, we had to use Gbenga Adeyinka (the first) as anchor to give it credibility. Anyway, I have a brand new Pegeout 307 to show for it (yes arranged, but e no concern you)

Go to 'Moment with Mo' website and watch that documentary again. Then you will know that Osu is still a problem in Igboland and your comments have shown that you still believe in it and would discourage your child (if you have any) from marrying an Osu?

In some places they dont go to the same market like in Eziama Orodo (meaning YOU DONT DO EVERYTHING TOGETHER, you lie!)

I know how embarassing it is to you as an Igbo person to have people discuss this kind of ugly issues about your people. But the truth must be told.

You said you eat with them, dine with them, you f*** with them but you cant marry them? Go to any Igbo villages where it is still being practiced and they will show you the houses of the Osus. (Its only when you come to big cities that you dont know who is who)

Every Igbo person can confirm all I have posted to be true. No lies in there. Sorry! Truth is bitter.


The guy who posted this below is an Igbo.
Posted by: indie22
I'm from anambra and don't know much about the osu caste thing, the first time I heard about it was when one of my dad's closest friends had a daughter that was dating an "osu" as they called him. He vehemently kicked against the relationship and swore to disown the girl if she went ahead and married the guy. What surprised me tho, is that this man is a staunch christian as well as a deacon in church. I felt it was hypocrisy in its highest form!


Help the future of your young Igbo generation by sowing love and respect for one another in them and not segregation in whatever form (Diala or Osu)

Sonya4all. Thanks for starting this discussion.

Something can be done, if we talk and tell the young ones to avoid superstitious beliefs. That if you marry an Osu or Diala calamity will befall you, you will become barren, go insane etc.

The truth is that our forefathers inadvertently (Dumb) sacrificed the MOST Healthy, Brilliant, Beautiful and Handsome young people to serve the gods in the shrines as Osu (you cant give a deformed item to the gods to avoid their wrath) That means Osus are among the best stocks from the Igbo specie?

ChinenyeN, I want to be proven wrong in my post with constructive argument not telling me its not my problem.
Sonya4all as a good Nigerian is only trying to help you guys out of your STEREOTYPIC upbringings (Pls open up your hearts).

Can I hear you say truthfully that what I have posted are lies. No you cant! I stand by the FACTs. (Nothing funny there)

Igbos can do better by allowing their youths to marry whoever the fall in love with whether Diala or Osu and families must stop deciding whom their children must marry. This is a new millenium, we are no longer in the dark ages whence our forefathers were sacrificing their best kids to the gods as Osu.

Any Igbo person in the house? Please contribute to this thread and save the future of your youths by helping them see themselves as brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus and not Diala or Osu.

THANKS

Abagworo and ChinenyeN, I think your problems are that you are still living with the same stereotype which our relations passed on to us.
The truth is that our forefathers inadvertently sacrificed the MOST Healthy, Brilliant, Beautiful and Handsome young people to serve the gods in the shrines as Osu (you cant give a deformed item to the gods to avoid their wrath) and thats why if we see a very pretty Igbo woman till today people will always say ' Ah! she must be an Osu, cos Osus are known to have good looks!

If you go to most communities in Igboland the highest percentage of Professors and most educated are from the Osu stock.

WHATEVER I HAVE POSTED HERE CAN BE CONFIRMED FROM ANY TRUTHFUL IGBO PERSON AROUND YOU.

The Pentecostal Churches are the ones realy coming out against the Osu Syndrome by preaching against it and encouraging their members to marry BORN AGAINS irrespective of their status as Diala or Osu.
Our older Churches of which I belong to one as I said earlier are avoiding the issue to avoid generating conflicts between the Church and the community. Dialas sometimes avoid contact with Osu during Holy Communion as the lady in that documentary pointed out and still claim to be true Christians.

We are loosing a lot of our young people to other tribes due to this problem as it maybe devastating to fall in love with a fellow Igbo abroad and come back to your community and your family insist you cant marry cos he or she is Osu.

Igbos still live under the fear of the unknown. The un-initiated adult still staunchly believes that Masqueredes called 'Mmanwu' walking on two legs with a Koboko or cutlass in hand comes from Spritland. ha!
So many areas are without access roads in Igboland today because the people have refused for some Trees to be cut down after Fed Govt have awarded contracts believing that the Trees (Osisi Orji) have very powerful gods residing in them. These projects are then relocated to the North and the people will always cry Marginalisation! Marginalisation!

Osu wont die if we dont discuss it openly and help unite Igboland as one people created and blessed by God. Uncle Sam Mbakwe (If Abagworo wants me to mention names) was regarded as an Osu and he remains the best Governor South East has ever produced.

We have got to change our attitude by totally doing away with this primitive Osu thing or Igboland will continue to remain underdeveloped and divided.

Abagworo, Iam not one of them but I like facing the truth. Osu will not just die a natural death if we dont talk about it as educated people. I am not childish (Go and ask your father if Iam wrong) these guys got money and influence in Igboland except in some few villages. They buy any chieftaincy title they need from our royal 'Fathers' across Igboland I repeat.

Sometimes its jealousy that leads our relations to keep refering to them as Osu. Some communities in Anambra have been able to come out openly and declare it publicly eradicated by placing traditional curses on anyone who refers to another as Osu in their communities. eg Nnobi etc.

They have been able to allign politically with the Northerners and Westerners at the detriment of collective Igbo goal because they feel rejected by their own people and accepted by others and are rewarded by them on behalf of Igbos.

Do you think Biafra will ever work with this Osu syndrome still existing till now? they will surely sabotage it and would rather remain Nigerians than discrinated Igbo citizens. Think and help Igboland stop this malaise!

This is our best kept secret that is being exposed. Igbos who belong to Pentecostal Church Groups are doing away with the stigma, but the old churches of which I belong to one (Catholic and Anglican) have not done well to eradicate the syndrome.

At the Federal level in Nigeria, Osus are ruling Igboland.

At the village level the Dialas are in control;

Every Igbo person knows this. I can name some of them ruling us.
A regularly appointed Minister who loves bicycles.
A former female Minister of Aviation and now ambassador.
A former Governor who controls a south eastern state with his mother.
A serving Minister in charge of home affairs.
The Osu group control the machinery of PDP and PPA and determines who gets what political appointment in Igboland (I should be proved wrong?)

The only way to eradicate this apartheid stigma is by talking about it just as we are doing and save Igboland from desruction.
That TV documentary by 'Moments with Mo' at Eziama Orodo is real and not stage managed and it was very embarassing to us by exposing our well kept secrets to other Nigerians.

The other effect is that Igbos have the highest number of spinsters, the young men wud rather date ladies from other tribes than to be told after investing so much in a lady by his family he cant marry her cos she is Osu.

Osu occupy the highest positions in Federal appointments among Igbos cos they have alligned themselves very well with those in authority from other regions. They dont need Chieftaincy titles when they are holding Ministerial positions and CAN EVEN BUY TITLES FROM MANY ROYAL 'FATHERS' ACCROSS IGBOLAND.

Most of our Igbo religious leaders are bunch of HYPOCRYTES.