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good home truth i said

ScanLess:
The sleek cars and the leather seats and plasma tv, and the hifi systems are only a fraction of the fruit of ones labour.

The real fruit is the whole decent accomodation in its totality,the ability to have and maintain a maid, (if you are not the slave master type), the ability to give your kids good education, among other goodies of life, the ability to take care of momsie in the village, the ability to take care of your own health,the ability to save some that money that you are now throwing about and start your own business(viable one), yes the ability to make meaningful impact on someones life.

If all you are working for in life is just leather seats, and plasma tv, then of all men you are most miserable!!!

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comedy question. home truth you told. don't you people hate the idea of not being able to provide these things too?

nigeria has too many lazy adults busy wasting their lives while feeding on their kids sweat and struggles. hawking exposes kids especially girls to small scale using the body for sales

dayokanu:
@Javalove,
don't give me that rubbish!!!

I stayed in the North well In Bauchi State to be specific and I know the horror of child marriage first hand.

A girl leaves primary school at 12-13 and is married to a man of 40!!!! By the time she is 23 she is already divorced 3 times. These girls don't have any skill, don't know any trade other than sleeping with men and making babies these girls can't earn a living for themselves. So whenever the man does not drop money for feeding they are left to starve.

Most of these girls don't even know what they are going into I witnessed 2 separate instances when the girl ran away on the wedding night when her fathers agemate brought out his "Anaconda"

Have you found out the cause of VVF? and you want girls who are not matured enough to have babies just because they have started their period. if your daughter starts her period at age 9 then she is ripe for marriage?

Olabowale,

Take back those isolated cases. its a known fact that any girl who has a child before the age of 16 would have to drop out of school for at least 2 years So what becomes f her career and her life? You think women are just baby making factories?

The late Sultan of Sokoto (Maccido) married a girl of 13 while he was over 80. The girl should be like 18-19 right now. What do you think would become of the girl at this moment. when she is already a widow at 18 without any trade other than being Sultans wife

Is child making the only thing women are made for?

these guys are sick.

@ olabs. i cant believe you are this low. while i have your attention, any chance of you saying some nice things on your brothers work in india?

shegirl71:
You once created a thread why are nairalanders so abusive,well i guess you have joined.Must you be abusive?

YOU PEOPLE. HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT?

sister nwando. i know say your money don come. if you dont get any good candidate here check out the link and see some charities others recommended

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=178760.msg3140365#msg3140365

God bless you my dear sister.

*osisi:
the pottier the belly,the finer the man

SISTER NWANDO, YOU?

ikeyman00:
yaradua is an i_diot?

why can't he repair that road to world class standard for 10 years guarantee ; awardin rail contract when u can't even fix your roads i think it once again a[b] joke for such a university graduate[/b]? damn huh. 1 of the most busiest road in nigeria, that the federal government should be boastin of. what is wrong with these political brainless baffons damn damn damn

what did he read in school? hope not one of those PHD islamic studies. obasanjo should not be let off this too

no worry

plan B indeed

what is wrong with people?

Executive fraud
How government officials milk helpless motorists
By SAM ANOKAM
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
•A bad portion on the Benin Ore Expressway
Photos: Sun News Publishing

* More Stories on This Section

On major highways across the country, they suddenly materialize in front of your car, brandishing clubs, cudgels and other dangerous weapons like a desperate band of hoodlums. Yet, they are no bandits. They go by different names, most claiming to be agents of government on revenue drive.

Assisted by gun-wielding policemen, they harass most motorists, forcing them to pay for all manners of hastily contrived ‘offences.’ By the time most of such motorists are left off the hook, their pockets are already drained.

Motorists travelling through Ogun, Ondo and Edo states to the Eastern parts of the country are the most affected by this growing scourge.

The sad experience of commuters plying the Benin-Ore Highway can hardly be imagined. With deep gullies turning the entire stretch of the road into a death trap, the federal government’s continuous apathy on the road has continued to baffle many.

In the opinion of many people, ugly incidents that happen on the highway would have been avoided if the Federal Government has been living up to its responsibility of providing basic amenities to its citizens, including reconstructing the bad road that serves as the major way for Nigerians travelling to the country’s eastern parts.
An engineer, Bola Alade recently recounted the humiliation he suffered in the hands of officials of Edo State Government Ministry of Transport and Ovia North East Local Government council while passing through Benin City.

Said he: “I was travelling from Ibadan to Asaba when at the Benin bye pass junction, officials of the ministry stopped me. They checked the bumper reflection stickers on my vehicles and strangely declared that they are fake. The Federal Road Safety Corps never faulted them. And this people were just a stone throw from the police check-point and they were looking at us. Subsequently, a serious argument ensued. What they were waving before me were no better quality. However, I had to give in when I realized that time was running against me, I was forced to pay the sum of N1,500 for the stickers instead of the normal price of N300.”

Alade who made available to Daily Sun various photocopies of receipts illegally issued to him by the so-called Edo State government officials gave another account after the hurdle with staffers of the Edo Ministry of Transport.

His words: “Just after going through the police check point was yet another check point created by the Ovia North East local government council, Okada, Edo State. This was worse. Immediately they managed to get my car off the road, they blocked the tyres with massive boulders. The problem here was on car radio licence. I had none. Before I was allowed off, I had to pay N8,500 on the spot for the papers, otherwise I would have failed completely in my mission. The cost of the whole car vehicle licence was only N1,875. The imbroglio almost resulted in physical assault. As a result, I have suffered untold and unwarranted financial difficulties with psychological depression. A lot of other victims in Nigeria must have gone through the same torture.”

He urged the government to nip this illegality in the bud and bring the perpetrators to book.
Alade is not the only victim of this illicit extortion. So many Nigerians have also relieved their experiences in the hands of these people. It was gathered that because of the bad roads in these areas, these people have been milking people dry.

They operate in such a way that the unsuspecting citizen has no way of escape. They would come out from the bush, numbering about 15 to 20 with different weapons, such as long sticks covered with nails, iron rods, among others.
Someone who claimed anonymity said that his friend was forced to cough out N35, 000 after he was over-powered and was told that it was part payment for mobile advertisement , since he was driving a branded car.

The curious thing about their operation is the fact that these toll collectors come out on Saturdays and Sundays when local governments do not work. And as early as 6.30 am, they are, already out. They issue receipts for permits ranging from bumper reflector, radio clearance certificate, vehicle radio and TV stickers and a lorry load of other funny permits.

This anomaly is not peculiar to people plying the Benin-Ore Expressway alone.
A woman who was travelling in company with her husband for a burial ceremony was accosted by local government officials along Ijebu Ode on the Lagos-Benin Expressway. They were asked to pay for various permits.

When her husband was not cooperating, they seized his vehicle and wasted his time. In order for him not to miss the ceremony, he told them he didn’t have enough cash on him and they suggested he used his ATM card to cash money for them. It was at the bank that the woman who entered first alerted the security man who now called in the police. They were apprehended and the woman and her husband continued their belated journey.
Between Lagos and Benin, there are over 50 check points, and the so-called council officials operate with the assistance of the policemen.

A journalist, Chris Oji who recently travelled to Delta State also narrated his encounter with these people parading themselves as government agents.
He said: “I was on my way to Delta State when suddenly, out of nowhere in Benin, some men clad in yellow and black uniform, barricaded the road. I demanded to know who they were, and they introduced themselves as safety officers, and insisted on seeing my vehicle particulars. I was at a loss, since these people were neither policemen nor Vehicle Inspection Officers. I reluctantly gave them my vehicle papers.

They checked everything but couldn’t find any of my documents wanting. They now asked for my tax clearance, TV and radio licence, among others. As I couldn’t produce any, they told me to pay. I had no choice but to pay seeing that they were ready to assault me. And you could imagine the embarrassment because I was traveling with my brother’s wife who is an American”.
Oji pleaded with the federal government to urgently do something to redress the situation. He added: “This situation is becoming worrisome. There are other groups who call themselves boys scout, able bodied men who are doing nothing but extorting money from people. Government should create a special task force to deal with the situation.”

watch this space

good work

happiness just arrived nigeria

you know the best way to prevent evil is to block all its openings.

olabowale:
"underage mother with a frisky (almost like me except that I have my rules and Islamic morals) older man. lol.

A young woman from Urhobo, and her father was a former "justice commissioner" just got married less that 3 weeks ago. She is only 22, with a first degree and now on her way to a second one. She was pushing me all summer to marry her, becaue her womb is "crying for a baby." When she realised I was not going to do it, a man came and thats all she wrote.

What I am saying is that, there is a case by case basis for people. The northern Nigerians are not 100% muslims. And this "child bride" practices, is not 100% that of northern Muslims, alone. It is practiced by tribes and cultures, different and separate from Islam,

you do morality, why dont you do common sence and humility?

com

NAWAO TITHE IS TAKING ANOTHER LIFE

the devil is bringing out his prada shoes on display again. lets blame pastors please or better still deliverance pastors

God help us.

lucabrasi:
@poster
the few charity organisations i know in naija have already been mentioned on here but just dropping a few lines to apreciate the thread and to say keep up the good work, like someone said we should be looking more towards fostering and i might add mentoring,this is not in nigeria as it is a little project me and my friends are working on, its till a work in progress but its basically aimed at mentoring and fostering awareness in nigeria,please we will appreciate people who what to volunteer their time and effort to mentor children,foster and enlighten as much people as possible
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=4960797231

you may need to create a thread to see who will volunteer or how you will get them. good luck.

RedHotChic:
@Nwakaibe,

A very brilliant response. I think the issue of the flesh is not limited to youths alone. Older adults partake in immorality too and the greatest epidemic raving through the pentecostal movement is the sin of sexual immorality while we pretend to be pure with our holier than thou attitude. Does it mean that if a born again christian is busy working on his/her flesh, he/she can still retain the gift of the tongue even though the flesh is still weak?

As a pastor, what have you done to revive fellow pastors that seem to worship money nowadays more than the very God they should be teaching? Don't you think that its this money worship that is the root of all evils in pentecostal churches?

being nigerian dont help too

lucabrasi:
@poster
the few charity organisations i know in naija have already been mentioned on here but just dropping a few lines to apreciate the thread and to say keep up the good work, like someone said we should be looking more towards fostering and i might add mentoring,this is not in nigeria as it is a little project me and my friends are working on, its till a work in progress but its basically aimed at mentoring and fostering awareness in nigeria,please we will appreciate people who what to volunteer their time and effort to mentor children,foster and enlighten as much people as possible
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=4960797231

ajilore, :
Visit this site for a comprehensive list of Orphanages nationwide

http://linkachild.org/index.php?page=homes.php

Hope u'll find it useful.

thanks guys. please do everything you can . every nigerian child is worth helping. from my observation it is hard work. just keep at it. whatever you do don't go throwing money up front.  the people will just take the money  you wont see anything they did with it.  before you start spending put in place a robust control mechanism. good luck

naijacutee:
I'm not her lawyer - I don't know. . . Other employees/contractors perhaps?

employees/contractors indeed or in kind

i now know why dr aminu do not understand english. why the duplicate thread https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=199994.msg3137008#msg3137008 ?

Dis Guy:
obviously, as long as you get pastors/family saying don't worry just be patient or come for paryers
you don't need to be governors/president before you change things -just close 'shop' _{or get a gun!}

will the moslem women also go to pastors for advice? why is it an open season on naija pastors? church people abuse their wives more you mean.

would she get sympathy if i add she is a witch?

DavidDylan:
Those teachers shld be ashamed of themselves.

you can say that again bro david. how are you?