Glad to be back on several major Websites after this Cloudflare glitch. "You NEVER know what you have until you lose it."
However, I was able to view some YouTube videos in real time during the Cloudflare glitch BUT my other official online activities were severely affected. These are the sorts of glitches that can occur when we rely heavily on the technology ecosystem and we have to be ready for strategic backups or options to mitigate any future scenarios.
I saw a YouTube video just 2 days ago where this young guy named VDM emphatically talked about the poor customer service and the lack of product return policy and how most phone sellers in Nigeria don't offer return/refund policies when phones are faulty. If people are NOT satisfied with the features of those phones, then he should practice what he's been preaching and collect those phones back.
Besides, the China phones are NOT the original Apple iPhones so I propose that he should be VERY careful about importing those non-branded Apple iPhones otherwise, he'll get his fingers burned since this is his FIRST time of importing on such a large scale from China for other consumers.
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Naija food or cuisines taste good depending on who is cooking them regardless of whether it's on Naija soil or in the Diaspora. Certainly "Obalende Suya" in England is in a special class of it's own when compared to the famous "University of Suya" on Allen Avenue. "Moin Moin elewe" (with the right sequence of ingredients) tastes different when compared to the "Moin Moin" made with covered containers known as "ramicans."
It's been a while since we had a convo. I know you're doing OK in your professional field(s). I had to minimize my presence here on NL for a while and ONLY respond to quality posts here. The low-budget NL AI bot (that CANNOT differentiate between genuine posts and toxic hate speech) ALSO isn't helping matters here and the dude who owns this discussion forum will have to get a BETTER AI tool to sanitize this place of toxic hate speech and disinformation before veterans like us get pissed up and discontinue posting here.
Just to add [and I know you have your insights on this], I believe that the POTUS will NOT unilaterally invade Nigeria WITHOUT collaborations with the Nigerian military by sharing critical intelligence information with them with the use of low-earth satellites, surveillance and attack drones to take down the jihadi groups in the Northern Nigeria forests, the foreign Fula militia bandits from the West African Sahel and the foreign Tuareg Lakurawa bandits commiting heinous crimes against huge numbers of Indigenous Nigerian communities from Mali and Niger Republic. This would enable agribusiness and food outputs to be boosted with increased security.
ariesbull: I live in Lagos and having kids outside marriage is a normal thing in Lagos
How many Yoruba couples are properly married tradition and registry?
Let's say the truth
Having kids outside marriage is NOT a normalized thing in Lagos because it's frowned upon in the culture of the Yoruba folks of the different subgroups (Awori, Ijebu, Egba, Ijesa, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, Ilaje, Ketu) despite the fact that some do it which MUST NOT be encouraged in order to have a cohesive family structure within the society. In the event that couples can NO longer stay together due to irreconcilable differences, then co-parenting can come in. The same Lagos State you are talking about has a powerful, no-nonsense Family and Domestic Violence Division with Mrs Vivour-Adeniyi overseeing that organization in order to ensure that families stay cohesive.
The rest of your post [starting from the last paragraph] is highly disrespectful to over 70 million folks of Yoruba descent around the world BECAUSE a lot of marriages involving Yoruba couples spread around the world are properly married traditional and legally. Yorubas don't tolerate children out of wedlock culturally. Is that too difficult for you to understand? Statistically Yorubas marry one another and 9 out of 10 Yoruba men marry Yoruba women. The remaining 1 out of 10 Yoruba men marry women from other cultures or countries based off of the change of names in the classified ads pages.
I had to reply you here and now to put to a FULL STOP to your sweeping generalizations and beer parlor tales here. You don't use the examples of a few Yorubas to make sweeping generalizations about other Yorubas of over 70 million.
RollinTNDA: I hav come to realize that Yorubas are horrible when it comes to family.
The things I saw in Yoruba land how they abandon parents to be living in ghetto.
How they disrespect their parents. The thing dey really shock me
One of my barber jide told me he has kid but is not married. I ask how ??
He said baby mamas is a normal thing in Yoruba.
They born throway their kids to be hustling Mother always fighting with sons Daughters with teenage pregnancy
The level of dysfunctional homes in SWest is very very high. It's really sad
Your post starting from the first paragraph comes off as highly IRRESPONSIBLE of YOU! If you know you have NOTHING intelligent to write about on a major discussion forum such as this except deliberate disinformation and toxic hate speech, then learn to sit on your hands!
You don't generalize negativity about a major ethnic group like the Yoruba folks who have an estimated 70 million strong population spread in major population centers of the world with Yorubas being indigenous people to Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, etc.
The FACT that some dysfunctional families exist among the Yorubas (likely due to the abrupt death of a bread winner, unforseen economic downturns, drug addiction and more) just like in other ethnicities in Nigeria, Africa and around the world, doesn't mean it's a norm and culturally acceptable to a vast number of people in the different Yoruba subgroups. I know from the culture of the Yoruba folks that the "Omoluabi mantra" reigns supreme and a man who CANNOT feed his family isn't respected among the Yoruba folks and this is why there is pressure to be an achiever on NOT just the Yoruba males BUT females as well. This is seen in the fact that fathers send their female girls to school because when you TRAIN a woman, you train a NATION. When property are shared on the demise of a parent or parents, the property is shared equally without discrimination among the male and female children. DESIST from your relentless bigotry about the millions of Yoruba folks who you do NOT know absolutely fully about. Period.
spaceeyenews: Shenzhou-20 Emergency Rescue: How China Saved Its Tiangong Crew After a Space Debris Scare-Video BY:SpaceEyeNews.
[b]When we talk about human spaceflight, we often imagine flawless launches and smooth landings. The reality is more fragile. In late 2025, a tiny fragment of space debris forced China to execute the first full-scale Shenzhou-20 emergency rescue, turning a routine crew rotation into a real-time test of its safety systems.
Three astronauts – commander Chen Dong, Wang Jie and Chen Zhongrui – spent 204 days aboard the Tiangong space station. They carried out experiments, completed four spacewalks and helped upgrade the station with new debris shielding. Their mission showed how quickly China’s human spaceflight program is maturing.
Their return to Earth was supposed to be straightforward. The Shenzhou-21 crew had already arrived, docked and begun the standard handover. Two spacecraft were attached to Tiangong, and the Shenzhou-20 team was scheduled to undock and land on November 5. Instead, an unexpected inspection result forced mission control to stop everything and activate the Shenzhou-20 emergency rescue plan.[/b]
motymop: Japa to the UK didn’t go wrong because of content creators.
It went wrong the moment the natives started feeling sidelined, housing scarcity, rising crime rates, and a belief that the government was treating illegal immigrants better than its own citizens.
That sentiment created the perfect environment for frustration to grow, and eventually pushed more people toward supporting far-right groups that are strongly anti-immigration.
Succinctly stated.
Some people just come online to post uninformed opinions on topics they know NOTHING about. MOST countries of the world including Japan have a growing anti-immigration trend right now among the citizens and governments.
DaddyJapan: The tightening of immigration rules has little to do with the antics of "cho cho cho" content creators.
Japarism took off in response to labour shortages in the employment market, as a result of a hard-Brexit and the attendant consequences of Covid-19 - and nothing more. So if those oversharing content creators are guilty of anything, it is simply that they were naive to think the CoS route was going to persist forever in its original form.
The report from Joseph Hammond, the Senior Correspondent of "The Washington Times" is the BEST video analysis I've seen and read from any Western correspondent.
Joseph Hammond detailed specifics on this security issue unlike some analysts who have absolutely NO idea about the global geopolitical dynamics at play.
Explorers: A speeding vehicle flew through the air and landed in the side of at two-story building after the driver lost control of the vehicle, igniting a small fire with two people inside in Southern California on Sunday morning.
One person was still trapped inside the vehicle as of 6.45 am Pacific, according to the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA).
The other individual had already gotten out of the car, which was lodged into the side of an office building in Santa Ana.
Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) was able to free the other individual in the vehicle, after the person was trapped for more than an hour inside the dangling car, Captain Stephen Horner of the Orange County Fire Authority told the Daily Mail.
Then the rescue team went to work, to get that other individual safely out of the vehicle.
'USAR was able to access the passenger door,' Horner said.
'They used a front loader from the city of Santa Ana to stablize the vehicle and the members of USAR were able to gain access and pull the vicitm out from the passenger side of the vehicle safety.'
Throwback: You are comparing a tout and agbero to a commissioned officer who passed all necessary training and rose to be a Major General while also holding all notable leadership roles in the military and political military?
The certificate forger you refer to is a well known alumnus of the tertiary institutions he attended in the USA, with both picture and academic evidence of his scholarship in that institution. An Accounting technocrat who rose to become Treasurer at Mobil Oil of Nigeria that is today known as ExxonMobil. He has been a Senator, 2 term Governor of the most complex and economically vibrant state in Nigeria, a party leader who contributed political expertise that kept the democratic opposition alive for many years - something we now realise many still miss him when compared to the current rudderless opposition without patience or strategy.
Those who Japa are not in anyway academically or professionally superior to those who have become Governors and Senators and Ministers and Presidents in this same failed country. We have had Phd holders in political government, Professors, Medical Doctors, Senior Lawyers, Engineers etc and you want to paint a picture that they are touts and agberos, in order to make the ones who did not succeed in Nigeria feel good about their economic refugee status in foreign lands.
Only professionals have ruled this country and you will not excuse them from blame that should be borne by all whether they are within or now without.
Those who shamelessly celebrate their new citizenship are part of the failure that is Nigeria even in their own general followership and leadership in their little stations of authority while in Nigeria.
Succinctly stated.
However... There's NOTHING wrong in having a feeling of satisfaction with having a second citizenship from any country with a strong passport, BUT it shouldn't be overly celebrated online and offline to the point that some go to the highly irresponsible extent of dissing Nigeria on X and IG. I too have dual nationality BUT I understand full well the important of having strong ties to Nigeria and the Motherland in general because of the vast opportunities still available or untapped.
As the situation stands, there are strong overt and covert anti-immigration trends by governments and citizens ALL over the world from the United States, Japan, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Europe, African countries, Asia countries, etc. So, it's very important to work on revamping Nigeria so that folks of Nigerian descent can begin to show some interest in going back to invest massively and eventually settle down in the Motherland (just like some are already doing with two senior medical specialists of Yoruba-Nigerian roots with the Johns Hopkins University in the United States are currently doing with the establishment of advanced or world-class medical facilities in Lagos State). The naive and younger Nigerian elements MUST become aware of these anti-immigration headwinds and heavy taxes they will be running into so as NOT to be caught unawares. Aside from insecurity issues in specific locations of Nigeria hampering agribusiness and tourism, there are current variables which show that things are actually looking up, BUT the folks on the street level have to start feeling it especially in the urban areas in terms of reduced cost of living. The FULL deployment of low-earth satellite technologies would assist in disrupting the jihadi groups, foreign Tuareg bandits known as Lakurawa, and foreign Fula militia bandits terrorizing several Nigerian communities..
No group celebrates Western citizenship like Nigerians. They make a spectacle of it and you’d think escaping home is the dream.
Is Nigeria really that unlivable? Scott Bolshevik mocks Nigerians.
https://x.com/scottbolshevik/status/1988889848338436504?t=S0Z8EabRwtUQEjvfOOra7Q&s=19[/quote]The so-called Economist is naive and highly uninformed. I'm personally aware of many citizens of other countries around the world such as Indians, Chinese, Ethiopians, Ghananians, etc, who became Canadian or U.S. citizens and celebrated their NEW citizenships online and offline. Even referencing centuries back, the 1800s and 1900s immigrants of Irish, Scot, Southern Italian, Danish, Swedish, Welsh, Japanese descents in the United States (who came in from various European [and Asian] countries by passenger ships through Ellis Island in NY and the West Coast of the United States) were elated to have arrived in the supposed land of fortunes and freedom.
So what the heck is this dude called Scott Bolshevik trying to talk about here to draw online attention to himself?
A lot of the rambling youngsters on this thread criticizing folks of Nigerian descent for being elated to have a second citizenship obviously know NOTHING! That's a FACT. These ones simply exhibit one of the WORSE kinds of low self-esteem ever then criticize others in government WITHOUT offering real world solutions for the advancement of their country.
BlackViper: Ex-bank branch manager arraigned in court for allegedly diverting customer’s $510,000, forgery
A former Head of Operations at Access Bank, Obinna Nwaobi, has been arraigned before the Federal High Court in Enugu State for allegedly diverting a customer’s $510,000 and forging a document.
This was disclosed in a statement posted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday.
The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the EFCC, on Thursday, arraigned Nwaobi before Justice F. O. Giwa-Ogunbanjo, where he pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
EFCC Allegation
According to the EFCC, the case began on September 11, 2024, when the Commission received a petition from Access Bank Plc alerting the agency to unauthorized transfers from a customer’s account.
“According to the petitioner, the sum of $510,000 belonging to its customer, Lantern Gate Nigeria Limited, was moved into six different accounts on the authorization of Obinna Nwaobi, its Head of Operations at that time, without the approval of the customer,” the EFCC statement partly reads.
The bank stated that the alleged breach—coupled with the customer’s representatives explicitly denying issuing any instruction for the transfer—raised concerns and prompted further investigation.
The defendant was subsequently arraigned on a nine-count charge bordering on forgery and criminal diversion of $510,000 belonging to the bank’s customer, Lantern Gate Nigeria Limited.
The Commission contended that the action contravened Section 1(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
What Transpired in Court
At the resumed proceedings, the defendant pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges, paving the way for trial.
However, defence counsel, F. C. Obinna, drew the court’s attention to a bail application dated October 24, 2025. He adopted the application and urged the court to grant bail on liberal terms.
But counsel to the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC Adaka Ekwu, opposed the application through an 11-paragraph counter-affidavit filed on November 12, 2025.
He urged the court to reject the application, stressing that “the quality of evidence we have in our proof of evidence might put fear in him, and he might want to abscond.”
What the Court Said
After listening to both parties, the court granted the defendant bail in the sum of N250 million (Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) with three sureties in like sum, according to the EFCC.
The court held that two of the sureties must have landed properties in Enugu State, and the documents of those properties must be deposited with the court.
“The third surety shall be a relative of the defendant, who shall deposit evidence of tax payment for three years. The defendant and the sureties shall each deposit two passport photographs, while the defendant shall deposit his international passport and National Identification Number with the court until the determination of this case,” the judge was quoted as saying.
This "banker creep" was obviously planning to escape from Nigeria with the diverted money before it was detected by the bank's client. This is the exact modus operandi of these fraudsters WITHIN the banking system and their external accomplices.
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after7: A Chinese woman known as the "Bitcoin queen" was sentenced in London to 11 years and eight months in jail for laundering Bitcoin from a £5.5 billion ($7.3 billion) cryptocurrency investment scheme.
The sentence follows a seven-year investigation by the Met's Economic Crime team into international money laundering, which revealed that the 47-year-old woman, Zhimin Qian (also known as Yadi Zhang), was the head of a large-scale fraud campaign that defrauded over 128,000 victims in China between 2014 and 2017.
This action also led to the seizure of 61,000 Bitcoin worth hundreds of millions of pounds at the time and now valued at roughly £5.5 billion, the largest cryptocurrency seizure in Britain's history.
Another member of the fraud ring, 47-year-old Seng Hok Ling of Matlock, Derbyshire, was sentenced to four years and 11 months in prison for transferring criminal property (cryptocurrency) under the Proceeds of Crime Act (2002).
"She went on to convert a portion of the illegally obtained funds into cash, jewellery and Bitcoin, before fleeing to the UK under an assumed identity," the Met said in a Tuesday press release.
"Following intelligence in 2018 about the attempted realisation of criminal assets in London, investigators worked tirelessly to build a case of evidence against her."
The UK's seizure of 61,000 Bitcoin, worth $7.3 billion, is now the largest single cryptocurrency seizure in history after surpassing the U.S. Justice Department's 2022 confiscation of over 94,000 Bitcoin related to the Bitfinex hack, valued at approximately $3.6 billion.
The Bitcoin queen Qian raised over 40 billion yuan from around 130,000 Chinese investors as the mastermind behind a scam network that promised them high returns of 100%–300%.
She earned the nickname "Bitcoin queen" in China for promoting Bitcoin as "digital gold." After her scheme collapsed in 2017, she converted all the proceeds to Bitcoin and fled to the United Kingdom, where she attempted to launder the cryptocurrency through property purchases with the help of an associate named Jian Wen.
However, Qian and Ling were arrested in 2024, when law enforcement also seized assets worth £11 million ($14.4 million), including cryptocurrency wallets, encrypted devices, cash, and gold. Wen was also sentenced to six years and eight months in prison on May 22, 2024, for her role in the scheme.
"There is no doubt this is one of the largest and most complex economic crime investigations we have ever undertaken, and today's sentence would not have been possible without working closely with our partners from the Crown Prosecution Service, National Crime Agency and Chinese law enforcement," said Will Lyne, the Met's Head of Economic and Cybercrime Command.
"Organised crime groups are using cryptocurrency to move, hide, and invest the profits of serious crime - but every crypto transaction leaves a trace, and the Met works meticulously with partners to follow that digital trail, identify assets and bring offenders to justice." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4w1g9ezko
The United States isn't going to unilaterally invade Nigeria using American tax-payers money.
A lot of people posting randomly online and making wild claims offline do not understand global geopolitical dynamics. The FACT that the POTUS' knee-jerk reaction and carelessless ranting about the foreign terror groups like the Fulas and jihadis operating in Nigeria doesn't mean that he'll send forces without involving Nigerian troops.
Besides, opinions show that Americans are against any U.S. invasion of Nigeria.
malali: He is 70 years old, go and check his real age not his football age. His younger brother is 66years old. He likes women who are vulnerable not young and virgin. Thats what a narcissistic man would say. How do you know a woman is a virgin if you have not slept with her ? So you go around sleeping with all the "minors" finding the virgin. If she is 17years and no longer a virgin when he marries her what will he do......That young and virgin is a language pedophiles use.
His name is Chinedu Christian Nwokolo forget all modifications, thats the name on his passport and government ID. She was 17 when he married her, and using drugs as a minor in the presence of other minors makes Senator Nwoko guilty of child endangerment.
His younger brother is 66? Could that younger brother be the bespectacled Chucks Nwoko who criticized him in the recent viral video of this week or another? I'll definitely dig up further info about Ned's age.
As for the virginity thing, there are tests that can be done at a medical facility to ascertain if the hymen is broken or not. The drawback to that is that for women who are active sports persons, the hymen can become slack due to vigorous exercise. Further, there are now creams that some women apply to their private parts to tighten up the VJ area if it is slack due to repeated birthing of children. NOW, some unmarried women are using it to tighten themselves up. There's a lot of social disruptions going on with newer health or medical inventions which have positive or negatives