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The way they're tyed is sooo funny!

Old goods

It all boils down to one thing..

Go get yourself one, no security again here o

ma lo fa *it's not for children* ma lo fa

In Naira Marley's voice

Offpoint:
Last time I checked "Likes" and "shares" don't pay no bills.
I spoke my mind and if you ain't cool with it.... my azz is open for kissing 20/7...
the 4 hours exempted, I'll be in church on Sundays... you can't possibly kiss my azz in God's presence, will ya?

Hahaha

Michealky:
You are good bro but you need to stop smoking. Constant smoking can leave a nasty breathe and and a strong armpit odour.

You lie don't compare constant smoking with dirtiness

Exactly 21 days of being held hostage,
We overheard our abductors speaking in hausa “an kamala tattaunawar” “an biya fansa”
Meaning the negotiation has been concluded, and the ransom has been paid.

Although we haven’t been released, and stood completely oblivious of the one to whom those allusions were made, but this news does indeed strike in all 11 of us in captivity, sentiments of happiness and sighs of hope

Yet, I heard one of them saying something about sending a message- “amma har yanzu muna bukatar aika sako”
But I couldn’t really make anything out of it until now, when I watch life fade out of my brother, friend and colleague Mike, who was bleeding profusely and gasping for breath.

A bullet had hit him on the neck.
I held him tight in my arms and put a pressure on his neck to stop the bleeding
Grasped with fear untold, I called out…
Mike! Mikky! Stay with me, we are almost out of this bush
While gradually fading out, he stretched out his hand to wipe my tears,
In whispers I heard him mutter
“Pray for me”
I cried even more, and screamed for help,
Hum… but just in a jiffy, I suddenly became conscious of Mike’s increasingly plummeting temperature
Others; Pius, Peter and Stephen came back running
Only to find him dead in my arms…

Remembering our shared hope of return to freedom, tears rolled down my cheek effortlessly
Lost in thought, I took the wing of reminiscence
Recalling moments shared prior to our kidnap…
it was around 10:27pm on Wednesday, January 8, just few minutes before light out
I had gone to Mikky’s room to get the provision he promised to buy for me from outing
I met Stephen and Mikky’s roommate Pius, soaking garri
Mikky was also in the room, so I joined in the feast, even though it wasn’t a free night

Then we heard a loud thud, it was the fence
But before we could phantom all that was happening, we heard gunshots simultaneously with the words, Ja su waje! Ja su waje!! Drag them out!!!
Our first line of action was to lay down flat, as the gunshot continued
We heard other been dragged out of their room, but we couldn’t hide
Our door gave way on a single heavy kick
Two men, in military uniform entered
Heavily armed, with bullets across their shoulders
Stephen was the first to jump up from where we laid, he was slapped back to the laying position,
Then we were dragged out into the quadrangle of the hostel
We were the last to be dragged out
To join the line of other seminarians already on a straight line in the quadrangle
We were asked to submit our laptops and belongings, which we did.

They packed it into their van and as they were about leaving they dragged us into their van,
last four persons on the line which happens to be Me, Pius, Michael and Stephen and then they took Peter too.
We were blind folded, chained and thrown into the van,
The van was on speed for about an hour before there was a turn
Into a rather not too smooth road and the drive went on for about another 2 hours…

All I knew was that by the time they removed the blindfold we were already in a forest camp
We were striped of our clothing and thrown into a cell, to join 7 others who were abducted at different times

In the cell, there we met a Pastor; Lawan Andami who we later found out to be the CAN chairman of Michika, A Doctor’s wife; Mrs Philip Ataga, An elderly Muslim couple; Alhaji and Hajia Bisiriyu with their first son Usman, who were alleged to have masterminded the escape of Christians in the past, and others
persons whose name I would rather not mention.

Hours rolled into days
Days into weeks,
We were fed once in 2 days.
We kept on praying together with the pastor, who unwaveringly encouraging us not to lose hope in God.
Then a day came they, that was like a week after we arrived
They came to call the pastor, he followed them without hesitation,
We never thought we would see him again, but to our surprise he came back, and when we asked him, he said they ask him to make a video telling people he is fine, and encourage his people to pay his ransom.

After some days, they came again and took Usman, the son of the Bisiriyu,
we were wondering what they wanted with him, but still he followed.
Moments later, we heard gunshots at some distance and we conjectured that he had been killed

The Bisiriyu’s cried uncontrollably for days
We mourned with them and prayed for his happy repose,
Why they killed him was unknown to us all
Then two days later, just before evening fall,
There was noise and rage in the camp, we don’t know why,
But we heard the leader of the group shouting
“ Ja su waje! Jaa su waje! Alsaabiuwn…. Kafirai
Drag them out… Infidels.

We were dragged out of the cells, lined on a queue.
Then they forcefully dragged Lawan, the CAN chairman out of the line,
They accused his people of not paying up to the amount requested and with that they felt much slighted.

And so he was going to die
He beg for his life, but they refused,
They dragged him out,
forced his neck on stake they have prepared
Then the Dagger-like cutlass was revealed
and so it was, with two strikes, his head rolled off,
blood gushed out profusely, the sight was horrible.
when we tried to look away, they slapped us to look at the horrific sight
according to one of them, we were to witness it so as to serve as a motivation for us to ask our people to pay the ransom.

Caught up in immense sorrow and in pain, we were led back to the cell
again, we prayed for the repose of his soul
while we await similar fate to befall us,

on the morning of the 21st day
we overheard them saying the negotiation had been
concluded and the ransom had been paid.
Then I also heard one of them saying something about sending a message, well I didn’t pay attention to it as we were a midst the joy of been released.

Moment later, they threw the gate of the cell opened; four of us and Mrs Ataga, the doctor’s wife were let loose.
Then they ask to run for our lives
Initially we hesitated, then they fired some shots at a close range to our feet, then we started running through the direction we thought was the way out of the forest.

We had only run a few distance when we heard gunshots from behind, they were coming after us
We increased our pace and took to our heels, scattered in the forest,
Mike took the same direction with me,
The shots continued
They sprayed sporadically…

Then I heard one last single shot,
The very one that hit Mike,
I turned back to look, Mike was already on the floor
I rushed back to help him, but he was already gasping.
I looked back to see where the shot had come from
Then I saw him, few meter away, smiling...

Then he said “kai wannan gida ... wannan shine sakon”

Take that home… that is the message.

©The Confessions of a Seminarian
Written in Honour of Michael Nnadi, Seminarian of the Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna

And all those who have lost their lives in the hands of kidnappers and terrorists.

Micheal Nnadi, Lawan Andami, Philip Ataga, and the souls of all the faithful departed

Cc lalasticlala

Those of you with all the Masters and PhD degrees and still jobless and searching.. How do y'all wake up on Monday mornings?

Sorry

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FFK should zip it!

This Chinese shouldn't be fvckin trusted

Jamean:
This place used to be home, 5years ago.

How time flies!

What change?

Pls where do I get khaki and "ghanamustgo" fabrics in Lagos and Ibadan?
Thank you

It's a no brainer
Outsider 4L

Seconded! Let them stop that nonsense that was how usher called Mr P is son that year. Because he's bigger than wiz doesn't mean sh!t!

Story same thing happened with his $30k ice box glasses

Audio stealing

Dagrace01:
I like your constructive analysis, but this morning I read something about a guy who took a girl to Osun state for blood money, that's the level girls are pushing guys too. Yahoo boys, fraudsters, money ritualists are the ones capable of getting a gal into a relationship. While guys filled with prospects who struggle day in day out and getting stipends as ends meet can't be dated. At this pace the life of our youths are in jeopardy because success is now attributed to having flashy cars, living lavish lifestyles and wearing the latest designers that came from dirty source.

It's really not easy being a youth in this country and in this period

This one

Duru9:
Thanks very much

I've considered leaning the tailoring the charges are much

I'm thinking of going down to Aba to learn it
Is more cheaper there they said 30k and monthly rent payment of 4k every month

But to be honest Sir
I don't have the money

I pray you meet your helper here. btw can you please help me with the aba guy number.
Thanks

I scored 81
I've never done 5 6 7
Damn

primusmaximus:
How much can solve your immediate problem now? You never can tell, someone might just want to assist you now to offset it.

Please let's revive this

This is nice.

All I need is an industrial sewing machine, it'll be greatly appreciated

How much is a good industrial sewing machine and which are the best in Nigeria?

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I'm a resident of Ibadan, I need me a part time job badly, any job as long as its part time. Thanks

I'm a fashion designer I make stuffs like bags, jackets n caps out of faus leathers n animal leather. I'm in serious need of an organisation that'll kindly help. A sewing machine and an embroidery machine would be nice.
thank you.

what are the available niches in freelancing? I'm interested