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Travel › Re: CNG: N3500 Will Take A Car From Abuja To Kaduna – Expert by Konquest: 10:05am On Sep 16, 2024

Islie:
A 65 litres water capacity cylinder of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), which cost N3,500 to fill, will take a car from Abuja to Kaduna, a distance of about 191km, an expert has said.

Mr Mas’ud Yau’, an Engineer and Manager of ABG Conversion Centre, Dawaki, one of the Federal Government’s accredited CNG conversion centres in the Federal Capital Territory, disclosed this to newsmen.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Ya’u spoke when the Presidential CNG Initiative (PCNGi) undertook an inspection tour and distribution of CNG conversion kits to six centres in Abuja.

In an interview with newsmen after the inspection of his centre, Ya’u said: “CNG is safe, as the gas tank is fire and bullet proofed and the thickness of the tank is between 15mm and 20mm.

“65 litres water capacity of CNG will cover 170km to 200km distance, which means it can conveniently take you from Abuja to Kaduna.

“To fill CNG of 65 litres water capacity will cost N3,500,” he said.

NAN reports that the driving distance between Abuja and Kaduna is 191km, and it takes approximately two hours 30 minutes.

A car using petrol, will use approximately 20 litres of pms to cover the same distance, costing N17,940 at N897 official pump price in FCT.

Ya’u said CNG also improved engine performance and extends its longevity.

According to the Engineer, before conversion, if it takes three months to service a car, after conversion it will extend to five months before servicing without affecting the oil viscosity.

Ya’u said the CNG conversion process is a division of labour and they usually convert about four cars in a day at the centre.

“The process involves installation of the kits in the engine with gas cylinders in the trunk of the vehicle.

“We also conduct detailed inspection to determine if the car is standard enough for conversion,” he said.

At Mijo Gas Auto, another conversion centre in FCT, the head of the centre, Mr Gaurav Goyal, described CNG as very safe and clean.
“We want every Nigerian to go green. CNG is a good initiative for bringing down the price of PMS, with a spiral effect of reduction in prices of foods, commodities and other items,” he said.

https://dailytrust.com/cng-n3500-will-take-a-car-from-abuja-to-kaduna-expert/

Foreign Affairs › Re: ‘I Hate Taylor Swift’ - Trump Posts After She Endorsed Harris by Konquest: 7:51am On Sep 16, 2024

nlfpmod:
Former President Trump expressed his dislike on Sunday of pop superstar Taylor Swift on Truth Social.

“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” the former president said in his post.

Swift endorsed Vice President Harris earlier this week following a debate between her and Trump. The “Bejeweled” singer said in an Instagram post that she believes Harris “is a steady-handed, gifted leader,” adding, “I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.”

At MTV’s 2024 Video Music Awards (VMAs), which occurred the night after the debate, Swift urged people to register to vote.

“If you are over 18, please register to vote for something else that’s very important … presidential election,” Swift said while accepting the award for “Video of the Year.”

Following Swift’s endorsement, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), said he was “incredibly grateful, first of all, to Taylor Swift.”

“I say that as a cat owner, a fellow cat owner. That was eloquent, and that was clear. And that’s the type of courage we need in America to stand up,” Harris’ running mate added in an interview on MSNBC.

On Wednesday, Trump brushed off Swift’s endorsement of Harris in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”

“I was not a Taylor Swift fan,” Trump said.

“It was just a question of time. She couldn’t possibly endorse Biden. … But she’s a very liberal person,” the former president continued. “She seems to always endorse a Democrat, and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”

The Hill has reached out to a representative for Swift.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4880725-trump-posts-i-hate-taylor-swift-days-after-her-endorsement-of-harris/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”

The dude is DISORIENTED already.

Family › Re: Happy 10yrs Anniversary To Us( SEE PHOTOS) by Konquest: 7:13am On Sep 16, 2024*

money121:
2014 VS 2024
What Ever Blessings I have, Everything is from you YA ALLAH,
nothing is from me I THANK YOU, For all the things you have blessed me with...
Alhamudulilahi
#HappyAnniversary
#HappyFamily
#OluwaNishola

Previous thread : https://www.nairaland.com/1903745/see-pictures-introduction-ceremony

https://www.nairaland.com/5416654/happy-5yrs-anniversary-us-see

Whoa! I just saw this thread while scanning the front page for the most interesting news updates.
That's a really impressive 10-year journey. I like reading happy experiences like yours... Through some sweat and persistence comes a cyclical renewal and purity in life. That's a 10-year lesson for others to learn from.

All the best to you and your lovely family now and down the road.

Cheers.

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Politics › Re: Glencore Used Private Jets To Move Bribe Money For Nigerian Officials, Others by Konquest: 6:01am On Sep 16, 2024*

dre11:
By Ronald Adamolekun

Staff of the British unit of commodity trader Glencore as well as middlemen conveyed cash by way of private jets to pay bribes to officials based in West Africa, prosecutors said at a London court on Wednesday.

Glencore, headquartered in Switzerland, owned up to seven counts of bribery in markets comprising Cameroon and Nigeria after an investigation by Serious Fraud Office (SFO), a government department, which investigates serious or complex fraud, bribery and graft.

Late May, PREMIUM TIMES reported the commodity and mining giant pleaded guilty and accepted to pay more than $1.1 billion in fines for its part in a graft scheme involving bribery of Nigeria state-owned oil firm NNPC Limited.

The UK subsidiary, Glencore Energy UK Limited, paid – or did not prevent the payment – of millions of dollars in bribes to officials in five countries on the continent, SFO told Southwark Crown Court.

According to prosecutors, Glencore committed over $28 million to bribing in a bid to gain access to oil cargoes. On Thursday, a judge in London will decide the final fine.

Graft was permitted at a pretty high level within the company generally and specifically at the West African trading desk, prosecutors said. An employee of SFO said in October that 11 former staff were facing investigation for criminal wrongdoing.

Glencore said in May it would pay a sum in the region of $1.5 billion to sort out investigations in Brazil, the US and UK. The firm is also embroiled in current investigations in the Netherlands and Switzerland, having made an allowance for $410 million in the 2021 accounts of its UK operation.

Prosecutor Alexander Healey said corruption was commonplace within the company, also noting that the UK subsidiary used an oil trader on the West Africa desk at its London office as a conduit for delivering bribes to officials at Cameroon’s national oil and gas firm to get “favourable treatment” for the sale of crude.

“The approving and offering of bribes was an acceptable way of doing business at the company.”

She further said a company’s middlemen in Nigeria, where the money was withdrawn and moved to Cameroun usually by private, helped an unidentified Glencore employee to do so.

Glencore earned profits in the neighbourhood of $128 million from the bribery.

Apart from confiscation orders, general magnitude of the sanction will most possibly be estimated with a multiplier of between 250 per cent and 400 per cent before any other mitigation is factored in.

Glencore “unreservedly regrets the harm caused by these offences and recognises the harm caused, both at national and public levels in the African states concerned, as well as the damage caused to others,” said the company’s lawyer, Clare Montgomery.

Prosecutors revealed traders on Glencore’s crude oil desk in London hid payments “to give the illusion that these payments were for legitimate services.”

Officials to whom Glencore paid bribes are based in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroun and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/563052-glencore-used-private-jets-to-move-bribe-money-for-nigerian-officials-others.html

Bump.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/563052-glencore-used-private-jets-to-move-bribe-money-for-nigerian-officials-others.html

Politics › Re: The Igbo Are Not Harmless And Blameless by Konquest: 8:54pm On Sep 15, 2024*

@Sulaak

You have an insightful thread here.

Here's a SECOND full article piece right BELOW in the second Web link from the same writer Tochukwu Ezukanma entitled: Misinformation that continues to poison our minds. The second article was written as a rejoinder to another article (and the FIRST article he wrote which you also posted on this thread).
=>https://businessday.ng/analysis/article/igbo-not-harmless-blameless/

Tochukwu Ezukanma wrote that he was massively attacked online by some Ibos just for saying the truth, so, he had to write the second rejoinder in a brutally honest manner further exposing the irresponsible cultural hubris and the spread of deliberately concocted online and offline disinformation and FAKE news used to brainwash his fellow Ibos (by several Ipob secessionist troll farms which the British Broadcasting Corporation's "BBC Global Disinformation Team" exposed in a damning 2022 video report where Simon Ekpa and even female Ibos with Ipob links living abroad (in Italy, Finland, South Africa, USA, Canada, etc), can been seen CLEARLY in the videos. These propaganda videos were posted on several online social media platforms such as Facebook, IG, etc, by Ipob members operating from European countries calling for the beheadings and killings of innocent specific individuals living in Iboland. These killings were eventually carried out). Chinua Achebe himself noted the same thing about these negative aspects of Ibo character exhibited by some Ibos in the last book that he wrote just before he passed on. These are all in tandem with what a lot of discerning folks from other Nigerian ethnic groups (of 250 in total) have consistently observed and complained about the overbearing attitudes by a large section of Ibos regardless of the FACT that there are some Ibos who have indeed gained mastery of themselves and have transcended this negative cultural trait of wearing the garb of VICTIMHOOD and the deliberate spread of blatant online and offline disinformation.

The FULLER article is in the BusinessdayNG Web link BELOW.

Misinformation that continues to poison our (Igbo) minds
Businessday NG February 9, 2017
Tochukwu Ezukanma

=>https://businessday.ng/analysis/article/misinformation-continues-poison-minds/

My recent article, the Messages of Ahiara, an incisive piece buttressed with logic and reason, which refuted some popular but erroneous notions of tribalism and secession in Nigeria, drew a lot of hostile responses from some of my readers. They lobbed curses and hauled invectives at me. However, to me, it was all exhilarating. I relish rejoinders to my writings, be them abusive or appreciative.

One of my milder critics accused me of demonstrated dislike for Biafra and its leadership. Yes, I detest the Biafra leadership because, in its recklessness, arrogance and despotism, it brought about the death of hundreds of thousands at the glory of their youth and the starvation to death of more than one million hapless and blameless men, women and children. It dismantled the Igbo power structure, painstakingly put together over decades by the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, and Michael Okpara, and set the Igbo back by at least 100 years. Why would any Igbo not despise a leadership that brought so much, avoidable, suffering, pains and sorrow to the Igbo.

After the killings in the January and July (1966) coups and that unsurpassed butchery of Igbo civilians in northern Nigeria, there was a desperate need for peace in the country. In search of peace, the regional governors, David Ejoor, Usman Katsina, Robert Adebayo and Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, and the Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, met at Aburi in Ghana, where they agreed on and signed the Aburi Accord. The most significant aspect of the accord was constitutional: the reduction of the powers of the federal government by devolution of additional powers to regional governments. Long ago, an Igbo professor of political science at Howard University in Washington, DC told me that Yakubu Gowon IMPLEMENTED the Aburi Accord. To me, his statement was not only unbelievable but sacrilegious. I LOST my temper at what I thought was historical revisionism taken to a nauseating extreme. The elderly professor must have understood my problem. I was SUFFERING from a hangover of the Biafran PROPAGANDA. I was under the stupefying hold of the LIES we were fed in Biafra. For he stated, “don’t worry, with time, in the course of your reading and research, you will find out that Gowon IMPLEMENTED the Aburi Accord”.

Years later, I found out that Gowon IMPLEMENTED the Aburi Accord. In his book, Power Sharing in Nigerian Federation, Chukwuemeka Nwokedi wrote that, “Apart from MINOR adjustments to the Aburi Accord, in other to still retain the corporate nature of Nigeria”, Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord with Decree 8; “and the regions acquired MORE powers than they have ever had”. That was months before the continued wrangling between Ojukwu and Gowon led to the creation of states (on May 27, 1967). But did Ojukwu not declare Biafra and we marched out to war on the mantra, “On Aburi We Stand”. According to other writers, the MINOR adjustments Gowon made to the accord was the cancelation of TWO articles of the accord, which stated that any region can secede from Nigeria at will, and that the federal government can, on no account, impose a state of emergency on any region. Ojukwu’s advisers urged him to accept Decree 8 because Gowon had “gone more than far enough”. He refused.

The removal of the TWO articles of the accord did NOT in any way imperil the lives and property of the Igbo and other peoples of Eastern Region. Ojukwu’s squabbling, against the advice of his advisers, over the TWO articles was SOLELY motivated by PERSONAL ambition. Following Ojukwu’s declaration of Biafra, the war inevitably started. As it raged on, it was obvious that a negotiated settlement to the war will be most advantageous to the Igbo.

Ojukwu’s obsession with maintaining himself in power stalled the peace talks that would have extracted for the Igbo a number of concessions from the federal government. Despite the enormous toll of the war, especially, on human lives, he kept protecting his position and power, until it became untenable. And, as Biafra collapsed, he RAN AWAY; Biafra surrendered unconditionally.

Some of my detractors argued that secession was a necessary response to the mass-murder of the Igbo in northern Nigeria. Undoubtedly, that orchestrated slaughter of the innocent for no offense of theirs but their ethnicity was unconscionable. However, it will be selective amnesia to forget that the July 29th 1966 coup and the attendant anti-Igbo riots in the North did not sprout out of a void. They were in reprisal for an earlier coup in January 1966 in which an Igbo dominated group of army officers murdered the most important Hausa/Fulani political and military leaders (Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Belewa and Zakari Miamalari) without killing any Igbo leader. And following the coup, the Igbo in the North became too celebrative; dancing and singing to a Rex Lawson’s song and telling their Hausa neighbors that the bleating of a goat in the song was Ahmadu Bello (the most important Hausa/Fulani leader) howling like a goat as he was being killed by Major Nzeogwu. It was the discriminatory killings and gratuitous mockery of the memory of their most important leader, amongst other reasons, that set the stage for the July 1966 anti-Igbo coup and the attendant anti-Igbo riots.

A litany of the falsehood we were fed in Biafra is beyond the scope of this article. David Klinghoffer was right when he wrote that, “Widespread misinformation POISONS a culture”. The enduring grip of these falsehoods on Igbo minds continues to poison both Igbo culture and psyche. They make us PARANOID – we feel surrounded by enemies committed to our destruction, and in our suspicion of these “enemies” we see ulterior motives in every act, no matter how well-intended and benign, by other Nigerians. In addition, they make us feel like innocent victims of the evil devices of an alliance of the other Nigerian ethnic groups. And like perennial victims we refuse to take responsibilities for our actions; we find PSYCHOLOGICAL refuge in blaming others, the Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, etc, for our problems.

BLAMING others for your problems is gratifying but destructive; it reinforces the feeling of VICTIMHOOD. The mindset that sustains a feeling of VICTIMHOOD is antithetical to victory. Therefore, a victim remains a LOSER until he changes his mindset. For our own good, the Igbo need to change their attitude towards Nigeria and the other peoples of Nigeria. This demands rising above the misinformation of the Biafran propaganda by embracing some incontrovertible historical facts. This will enable us to realize that our problems stemmed NOT from the hatred and wicked machination of the Hausa, Yoruba and other ethnic groups of Nigeria, but from REPEATED political blunders of Igbo leaders, ESPECIALLY, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.

Otherwise, our political fortune, clout and relevance will continue to decline. It has declined to a point, where a proud and resourceful people that, in their triumphalism, once boasted of dominating not only Nigeria but the whole of Africa now whimper and snivel over trivialities like a disconsolate old widow.

Tochukwu Ezukanma

Source https://businessday.ng/analysis/article/misinformation-continues-poison-minds/

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Politics › Re: The Igbo Are Not Harmless And Blameless by Konquest: 5:01pm On Sep 15, 2024

sulaak:
https://businessday.ng/analysis/article ... blameless/

The Igbo are not harmless and blameless

BusinessDay

Tochukwu Ezukanma

At a wedding party in Washington DC, an Igbo DJ and a Yoruba band, alternately, entertained the guests. The beat and rhythm of the band’s music was Juju, but the lyrics were in English. The leader of the band attended the same church with the bride. So, on this exceptionally memorable day of the bride, he came, with his band, to celebrate with his sister in the Lord. The bride is of Igbo parentage but born in the United States of America. The gathering was predominately Igbo. At a point, the Master of Ceremony of the occasion, a crude Mbaise man, blurted: this is an Igbo wedding and we do not want a Yoruba band here; he ordered the band to leave. Flustered and dispirited, the band members started packing their musical instruments.

I went over to the band leader, and asked him not to feel too bad for this is the Nigerian reality: ethnic diversity laced with tribalism. I told him that I, like some other guests, was totally indifferent to the ethnic makeup of the band playing. And that some other guests may have been offended by the presence of a Yoruba band but could tolerate it, and then, there were others, like the MC that could not tolerate it. Similarly, if this were a Yoruba wedding, and an Igbo band played, some Yoruba may not mind, some will mind but stomach it, and others will not tolerate it, and may insist on its departure. While there is strength and virility in Nigerian diversity, it is inevitably associated with that pesky, exasperating albatross: tribalism. To varying degrees, all the major tribes of Nigeria are guilty of tribalism.

As the Nigerian information minister (during the civil war), Anthony Enahoro, denounced Igbo hegemony; he accused the Igbo of having boasted of dominating Nigeria and the entire Africa. To me, his statement was inconceivable; I could not imagine that the Igbo were ever that boastful. However, on further research, I found his statement factual. In 1945, Daddy Onyeama, at an Igbo Union meeting, said that the Igbo will not only dominate Nigeria but the whole of Africa. In 1949, Nnamdi Azikiwe said that the gods of the Igbo that have given them the domination of Nigeria will also give them the domination of Africa. That was verbal flamboyance that must have hurt the feelings and wounded the pride of other ethnic groups of Nigeria.

Interestingly, although the Igbo made conceited statements that insulted other peoples’ sensibilities, they lament tactless blusters by other Nigerians that piqued the Igbo. For example, they were unsettled by a statement attributed to the Suarduna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, which said: it was the British that interrupted our (Hausa/Fulani) jihad. When the British leaves, we will continue our jihad to the south, and ultimately, dip the Koran into the Atlantic Ocean. Both the Igbo and Hausa/Fulani rodomontade were culpable of arrogance, insensitivity and thoughtlessness. They were overconfident and indiscreet statements that bruised the insensitivity and injured the pride of others. The Igbo leaders talked about domination in business, education and the professions, as dictated by enviable Igbo cultural skills. The Hausa/Fulani leader talked about religious domination, as determined by the jihadist unhinged murderousness and proselytizing barbarity.

Rattled by the outcomes of the January 1966 coup, the decimated the Hausa/Fulani leadership and a power shift from the Hausa/Fulani to the Igbo, the Hausa/Fulani unleashed carnage against the Igbo; they murdered thousands of Igbo. The Igbo ran to their home region and declared their own independent state of Biafra. Biafra was a reckless and impetuous enterprise that had no chance of success. As Biafra, inescapably, faltered, and tethered towards a collapse, the Igbo needed someone to blame. They sought and found scapegoats in the “sabotaging” and “back-stabbing” minorities of Biafra. They mass-murdered the minority peoples of Biafra, killing thousands of them.

Presently, most Igbo are angry, bitter and feel persecuted by other Nigerians and every Nigerian government and its policies. For example, although, since 1999, no Igbo politician has made a serious run for the presidency, many Igbo already believe that there is a conspiracy amongst other peoples of Nigeria against an Igbo presidency. Although, most heterogeneous countries of the world have quota system, in one form or another, the Igbo consider quota system in university admission an anti-Igbo policy. That this is a national issue (with advantages and disadvantages) that, also, adversely affects the Yoruba, Edo and all southerners, are facts the Igbo do not want to get in their way. And incredibly, many Igbo think that the Fulani herdsmen, despite their ravages of communities in Benue, Kaduna, etc are primarily targeting the Igbo, and that their attacks on none Igbo communities are just ploys to give an orchestrated anti-Igbo onslaught a coloration of a national problem. Clinging to the lies we were fed in Biafra, we believe that we are a blameless and harmless people surrounded, hated and victimized by murderous and vengeful peoples of Nigeria. And, as such, our only saving grace is in secession. It is this groundless belief that is fuelling the neo-Biafran lunacy and the muddled enthusiasm for it among many Igbo youths.

The renowned American diplomat, John Galbraith, once wrote that, “Every human endeavor is geared towards the acquisition of power and glory”. Power, in this context, is protean; it includes political power, the power of a teacher over his students, a wife, over her husband’s patience and bank account and a toddler, over the mother’s time and mood. Essentially, we are all driven by the same basic interests – power and glory. Secondly, no one is really angelic or totally demonic. In their song, Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCarthy and Steve Wonder sang, “There is good and bad in everyone”. Like any other group of humanity, the Igbo have their strengths and weakness, with the capacity for both good and bad. Like other major ethnic groups of Nigeria, the Igbo, have, in the quest for power and glory, been insensitive and arrogant, exploitative and inconsiderate, and vicious and murderous. And, like the Hausa/Fulani, we have massacred, in thousands, those that stood in the way of our political ambitions.

The Igbo desperately need to appreciate that they are not blameless and harmless, and that the other peoples of Nigeria are not a band of the vengeful and murderous united in a common plot to annihilate the Igbo. This will enable us to value the good in other Nigerians, and thus, resolve to live in peace, and forge a common future, with them in a united Nigeria.

Tochukwu Ezukanma

https://businessday.ng/analysis/article

The writer gave a very succinct historical perspective with STRONG evidence. These are facts that some of us who are older already knew about the overbearing nature of some Ibos and even Chinua Achebe observed this in his last book that was published just before he passed on.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Reputation In Focus Again As Oil Trader Appears Before London Court by Konquest: 3:11pm On Sep 15, 2024

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

The billionaire former head of oil at Glencore Plc, Alex Beard, has been charged with corruption by the UK’s top fraud agency, alongside four other ex-employees from the commodities trader. Beard, 56, who was one of Glencore’s top executives for more than a decade before his departure in 2019, is the highest profile individual to be charged in a sweeping series of investigations into corruption and market manipulation at the company – and one of the most senior commodity traders ever to be charged with wrongdoing.

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) accused Beard of conspiring to make corrupt payments to benefit Glencore’s oil operations in Nigeria and other West African Countries.Specifically, the agency alleges that he conspired to make the payments to government officials and employees of state owned oil firms in Nigeria between 2010 and 2014, and Cameroon between 2007 and 2014.

But in May, the federal government said Glencore, a British mining and trading group, was expected to pay Nigeria a $50 million penalty for bribery. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, made the disclosure in Abuja during the ministerial sectoral update for the present administration.

He said the resolution was reached after the federal government entered a settlement agreement with the firm. In Nigeria alone, the department said Glencore and its subsidiaries paid more than $52 million to the intermediaries, intending that those funds be used, at least in part, to pay bribes to Nigerian officials.

In the same month, Glencore agreed to pay about $1.5 billion in total to resolve investigations in the US, United Kingdom and Brazil — of which $1.06 billion was payable to agencies in the US and Brazil. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that also facing criminal prosecution was Andy Gibson, 64, Glencore’s ex-head of oil operations and for years Beard’s second in command.

The SFO charged him with four conspiracies of making corrupt payments in Nigeria and Cameroon between 2007 and 2014, and Ivory Coast between 2007 and 2010. He was also alleged to have conspired to falsify invoices between 2007 and 2011. Additionally, Paul Hopkirk, Ramon Labiaga and Martin Wakefield, former Glencore employees involved in trading West African oil, stood accused of conspiring to make corrupt payments to government officials and employees at state owned oil companies in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.

Wakefield was separately charged with one conspiracy to falsify documents between 2007 and 2011. All the men are scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on September 10. Peter Binning, a lawyer for Beard, declined to comment. Lawyers for the other four men didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.“Today’s action is an important step toward exposing overseas corruption and holding those who are responsible to account,” Nick Ephgrave, Director of the Serious Fraud Office, said yesterday.

Glencore in 2022 pleaded guilty to corruption and market manipulation cases in the US and UK, admitting that it had paid bribes to win business in eight countries from Brazil to South Sudan and paying about $1.5 billion to resolve the investigations against it.“Glencore cooperated with the SFO in its investigation into this past conduct and resolved its SFO investigation in 2022,” a Glencore spokesperson said, noting the charges.

Until his departure from Glencore in 2019, Beard was part of the inner circle of former chief executive Ivan Glasenberg as one of a dozen department heads who made up Glencore’s management board. After working at BP Plc, he joined in 1995, becoming head of oil in 2007 and was known for his acumen trading Russian oil. When the company listed in London in 2011 he was revealed to be one of its largest shareholders with a stake worth $2.8 billion.

After leaving Glencore he started an investment company, Adaptogen Capital, to invest in large-scale batteries connected to the UK grid. He has been a major donor to Christ Church college at Oxford University and a trustee of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London. His net worth was estimated at £1.2 billion in the latest Sunday Times Rich List.Beard’s role at Adaptogen Capital ended on July 12, according to a filing at Companies House. The firm said it had no comment on the situation at the time.

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/08/02/glencores-billionaire-ex-oil-head-accused-of-bribing-nnpc-fg-officials-charged-with-corruption-in-uk/

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Reputation In Focus Again As Oil Trader Appears Before London Court by Konquest: 2:35pm On Sep 15, 2024*

sulaak:

The 57-year-old is charged with two counts of conspiracy to make corrupt payments to government officials and officials of state-owned oil companies in Nigeria between 2010 and 2014, and in Cameroon between 2007 and 2014..

Oil trading giant Glencore and its former head of oil Alex Beard appeared in a London court on Tuesday to face bribery charges relating to the Swiss commodity trader’s operations in Nigeria and Cameroon.

Beard will plead not guilty, his lawyer said at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Read also: Nigeria’s reputation in focus again as oil trader appears before London court on bribery charges

The 57-year-old is charged with two counts of conspiracy to make corrupt payments to government officials and officials of state-owned oil companies in Nigeria between 2010 and 2014, and in Cameroon between 2007 and 2014.

Beard, who is the most high-profile commodity trader to have been charged in Britain for alleged corruption, joined Glencore in 1995 from BP, the biggest trading desk at that time, and was head of oil from 2007 until 2019, when he retired.

He helped Glencore become one of the top three oil trading firms, trading as much as 7% of the world’s oil in its heyday.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigerias-reputation-in-focus-again-as-oil-trader-appears-before-london-court-on-bribery-charges/

All these MASSIVE cases of corruption involving the oil trading giant Glencore and its former head of oil Alex Beard [a commodity trader] in the oil and gas sector happened right under the watch of one of GEJ's prominent female appointees, the former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke [who has been told by her former husband to revert to her maiden name Diezani Agama]. Diezani, her principal, and a few close associates around her made a LOT of money from those oil bribes based on earlier stories that I read on this ongoing court case involving Alex Beard.

The anti-corruption agencies should have finalized plans to extradict her by now using the Interpol as a vehicle to come and face justice in Nigeria. Already, the EFCC had earlier got the go-ahead from the courts and seized some of her expensive property on Banana Island in Lagos and her jewelry running into millions of USD a few years ago.

Mr. Obono Obla also revealed the billions of USD he traced to the late General Andrew Azazi's bank accounts in the United States [It is believed he was acting as a conduit for some people within the PDP political party in Nigeria before he died from a helicopter crash shortly after lift off in Bayelsa State] and yet the current APC political party that has been in power since 2015 till date in Nigeria and the anti-corruption agencies have annoyingly been dragging their feet in getting those funds back and also severely punish ALL those corrupt people with links to the PDP which was then in power at the Federal level from 1999 to 2014.

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Politics › Re: FG Rolls Out CNG Kits Nationwide by Konquest: 1:53am On Sep 15, 2024

blamingthedevil:
https://punchng.com/fg-rolls-out-cng-kits-nationwide/#google_vignette

He further stated that the initiative aims to convert one million vehicles to CNG, a move expected to save N750 million — equivalent to a single month’s fuel subsidy payment — and create 100,000 direct jobs.

A commercial taxi driver, John Ojonugwa, at the Abg CNG centre in Abuja, expressed optimism while waiting in line for his vehicle’s conversion.

Speaking at Abg CNG Dawaki, Abuja, one of the technicians, Mas’ud Ya’u, said, “It takes one day to convert a vehicle to CNG. Due to the division of labour, we used to convert about four cars a day.

“I heard this initiative is free of charge, and I am hopeful it will get to my turn to have my vehicle converted,” he said, after waiting since 6 a.m.

Oluwagbemi emphasised the economic and environmental benefits of the initiative.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Konquest: 12:02am On Sep 15, 2024*

Must-watch moments and analysis of Trump and Harris’s first presidential debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADujQsWO68?si=gYh0gKhfO7lDWhHP
CNN • Sep 11 2024

Must-watch moments and analysis of Trump and Harris’s first presidential debate. During the presidential debate hosted by ABC News, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were pressed on several controversial moments during each of their time in office including January 6 and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Catch up on CNN’s coverage and analysis:

Time Stamps:
0:00-0:20
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump meet for the first time on the debate stage.

0:20-5:23
Vice President Kamala Harris is asked why some of her policy positions have changed since her 2019 presidential run.

5:23-11:52
Former President Donald Trump is asked whether he regrets anything about January 6.

11:52-15:46
Vice President Kamala Harris is asked about the US’ controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan.

15:46-18:55
CNN Senior Reporter Daniel Dale fact checks the debate and calls Donald Trump’s performance “staggeringly dishonest.”

18:55-25:45
CNN Political Director David Chalian shares the results from an instant poll on who viewers felt won the debate. CNN’s Jake Tapper and his panel of political experts discuss.#CNN #news

TOP 10 MOMENTS: Kamala Harris DESTROYS Donald Trump in Presidential Debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNVVjVXxFNo?si=a6DAOfyQ92ve0_Ya
The Bulwark • Sep 11 2024

Foreign Affairs › Re: Watch Trump Vs Harris | Full 2024 Presidential Debate by Konquest: 11:52pm On Sep 14, 2024

OLAADEGBU:
Trump Vs Harris | Full 2024 Presidential Debate
ThePrint
Sep 11, 2024

Democrat Kamala Harris & Republican Donald Trump face-off in their first & most likely the only debate ahead of the November 5 Elections in US.

Watch the full debate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Pc6YRgDqo?si=rCWe2lm_BnUyrD1d

#trump
#usa
#harris

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Politics › Re: Locations Of Petrol To CNG Conversion Centres Across Nigeria This Weekend. by Konquest: 9:46am On Sep 14, 2024

naptu2:
Previous threads.

Kenya's Electric Okada (Boda Boda)
https://www.nairaland.com/7806130/kenyas-electric-okada-boda-boda

All You Need To Know About The Lagos Electric BRT (Photos And Videos)
https://www.nairaland.com/7721928/all-need-know-lagos-electric

Innoson Produces CNG Vehicles, Asks Nigerians To Say Bye To Petrol
https://www.nairaland.com/7720173/innoson-produces-cng-vehicles-asks

Meet Mustapha Gajibo Who Converts Petrol Cars To Electric Cars In Borno.
https://www.nairaland.com/7721251/meet-mustapha-gajibo-converts-petrol

Ogun Converts Public Buses From Diesel To CNG
https://www.nairaland.com/7779074/ogun-converts-public-buses-diesel

Ogun State To Provide Electric Okada For Public Transportation.
https://www.nairaland.com/7788268/ogun-state-provide-electric-okada

I Drove From Lagos To Akure With ₦‎2,450 Using CNG As Fuel
https://www.nairaland.com/7920791/drove-lagos-akure-2450-using

NNPC, NIPCO Partner To Deliver CNG To Nigerians
https://www.nairaland.com/7790197/nnpc-nipco-partner-deliver-cng

FG Inaugurates Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station In Enugu
https://www.nairaland.com/7808982/fg-inaugurates-solar-powered-electric-vehicle

President Bola Tinubu Approves Establishment Of Presidential CNG Initiative
https://www.nairaland.com/7808497/president-bola-tinubu-approves-establishment

Qore Sparks Nigerian Electric Vehicle Revolution To Life.
https://www.nairaland.com/7807497/qore-sparks-nigerian-electric-vehicle

The Ogun E-Bike Initiative (Video)
https://www.nairaland.com/8208151/ogun-e-bike-initiative-video

Dapo Abiodun Meets With Transport Unions, To Provide 100 CNG Buses
https://www.nairaland.com/8209101/dapo-abiodun-meets-transport-unions

Innoson Vehicles Produce Their First Electric Car.
https://www.nairaland.com/8210107/innoson-vehicles-produce-first-electric

Locations Of Government Petrol To CNG Conversion Centres In Lagos This Weekend
https://www.nairaland.com/8211936/locations-government-petrol-cng-conversion

That's a very impressive list of CNG and EV-related Web links on this thread. That's the ULTIMATE User Guide for anyone who is intelligent enough.

Well done @Naptu2.

Politics › Re: Locations Of Petrol To CNG Conversion Centres Across Nigeria This Weekend. by Konquest: 9:44am On Sep 14, 2024

naptu2:
Locations of NIPCO CNG filling stations.

(Pictures not attaching).

2nd East Circular Rd CNG Station
East Circular 2nd Road, Avbiama Benin City,, Edo 300104

Agbor Road, CNG Station
Urualla Street, Agbor road, Benin City, Edo 300104

Agidingbi CNG Station Lagos
CNG Station By Cadbury, Lateef Jakahde Road, Ikeja,, Lagos State

Airport Road CNG St & Conversion Workshop
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Road, Abuja, F.C.T. 900102

Ajaokuta CNG Station
Ohunene, Ajaokuta Ajaokuta, Kogi 263106

Apapa CNG Station
Along Mobil Road, Apapa, Lagos State,

Eyean CNG St & Conversion Workshop
KM 7 Benin Auchi Rd, adjacent Zafike Hotel, Eyaen Benin City, Edo 301112

Ibadan CNG St & Conversion Workshop
Ibadan-Lagos Road Ibadan, Oyo 110115

Ibafo CNG St & Conversion Workshop
Opposite MFM Prayer city Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, Ibafo, Ogun State 121101

Kubwa CNG Station
Plot P58, Cadastral Zone 07-05, Along Kubwa Expressway,, Kubwa, FCT Abuja

Lagos Rd 2 CNG Station
Lagos Road,Oluku Benin City, Edo 300104

Lagos Road 1 CNG Station
Uselu, Lagos Road, Benin City, Edo 302117

Mushin CNG Station Lagos
Near Challenge Bus-Stop, Agege Motor Road, Mushin, , Lagos

Okene CNG Station
Okene-Lokoja Road Lokoja, Kogi 264103

Oron CNG Facility
Edikor Village, Ibaka Road, Udung Uko LGA, Akwa Ibom

Sangotedo CNG Station
Eti-Osa Lga, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Ibjeu-Lekki, Lagos

Sapele Rd CNG Station
KU Plaza, Benin Sapele Rd, opposite PZ junction, Benin City, Edo

Textile Mill Rd CNG Station
Canaan Steet,Textile Mill Road, Benin City, Edo 300103

Warri CNG Station
Warri-Sapele Road, Okolovu, Delta 330101

Find them on the map here: https://nipcogas.com/nipco-gas-cng-stations/

Politics › Re: Locations Of Petrol To CNG Conversion Centres Across Nigeria This Weekend. by Konquest: 9:44am On Sep 14, 2024

naptu2:
PCNGI = Presidential CNG Initiative.

PCNGI @PCNGInitiative

Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Ogun.

Family › Re: Surviving Without Sex As A Single Mum... It's So Difficult by Konquest: 7:58am On Sep 14, 2024*

folake4u:
Yeah, the colloquial term has been used for a while now. That's true sef, you're Gen X so it is understandable.

Loool. I don't have "big god's" there. I'm just saying I didn't do anything that would warrant me appearing before the two bodies.

Oh yeah. I'm currently listening on my phone too. To be honest, Narcissists are a no no for me. Can't deal.

I know baby lawyer... just teasing you.
Aha! Let me tune in online as well.

Ciao.

Family › Re: Surviving Without Sex As A Single Mum... It's So Difficult by Konquest: 7:53am On Sep 14, 2024*

Onegai:
Good morning,

Let's try some comprehension, shall we?

I said this in my comment, which you highlighted:

"Have a guy for chatting and gisting, several guys even. Keep one for business."

What does the above sentence imply please?

A. Sleep with several men
OR
B. Have friendly, casual relationships with different men, but keep only one for se.xual needs

What do you think, please? A or B?

Thanks.

@Onegai,

I was about signing off when I saw your mention here.

Here is an EXCERPT from your original post right BELOW:

"Also, go and date. Date, not for remarriage, but for physical pleasure. Meet a man you like, make sure he's safe and discreet and take care of business. Have a guy for chatting and gisting, SEVERAL guys even. Keep one for business.

Keep serious dating on the back burner for now. Keep them all from your kids."

The EXCERPTS of your original long post quoted in BOLD letters above SEEMS to imply "A" on first reading (and I re-read that bolded section again to get a hang of it).

Your new post here adds more CLARITY to that original post if "B" is what you actually implied. I like to pay attention to little details and it's succinct that you laid specific emphasis on "B" for better understanding.

Ciao.

Family › Re: Surviving Without Sex As A Single Mum... It's So Difficult by Konquest: 7:38am On Sep 14, 2024

folake4u:
Loool that word has been in existence since. I'm surprised you're just knowing. It is even in the Urban Dictionary.

Hahahaha I nor dey fear NJC and LPDC.

That's insightful. Right... So, since you say the word has been in existence "since" as a colloquial term... you should know that must have come into effect more recently in the 2000s or 2010s. But I've never heard of it used that way... It's pretty cool though.

You aren't afraid of those two bodies? Okay, maybe you have "big Gods" up there in the NJC and LPDC. lol.

By the way, a family lawyer by the name of Olumide Omosebi should be on air by now. If you are interested in his 2-hour radio program "Relationship 360" from 7am to 9am Nigerian time on the hugely popular NigeriaInfo 99.3 FM radio station which is located on Victoria Island, Lagos, then you can tune in right now on your mobile phone or radio. I used to listen to it a lot on their mobile app during the COVID lockdowns but I'll tune in right now via their online app. A lot of Diasporans listen to the program as well which shows the good quality of the program.

Talk to you later.

Ciao.

Crime › Re: Nigerian Man Sentenced To Nearly 12 Years For $200K Fraud In US by Konquest: 6:04am On Sep 14, 2024

Newlymarried:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nd/pr/nigerian-man-sentenced-federal-prison-money-laundering-and-aiding-and-abetting-wire

This dude looks like my buddy AJ.

He was extradited from the UK to the U.S. Well, he has to face justice for any infractions committed. Period.

Crime › Re: Nigerian Man Sentenced To Nearly 12 Years For $200K Fraud In US by Konquest: 6:03am On Sep 14, 2024

malali:
With the level of technology available now

1. Device Fingerprinting: This involves identifying a user based on the unique combination of characteristics from their device, such as screen resolution, operating system, and installed plugins. Like web fingerprinting, it makes it harder for criminals to remain anonymous.
2. IP Address Tracking: Monitoring the Internet Protocol (IP) address that devices use to connect to the internet can help trace the location of malicious actors. While proxies and VPNs can mask IPs, they can still be logged and tracked by law enforcement.
3. Browser Fingerprinting: By collecting information on a user’s browser version, extensions, fonts, and settings, it’s possible to create a unique fingerprint. This technique is similar to web fingerprinting and helps identify individuals even without cookies.
4. Behavioral Biometrics: Monitoring how users interact with websites—such as typing speed, mouse movement patterns, and touch behavior on mobile devices—can help distinguish between legitimate users and attackers.
5. HTTP Headers Analysis: HTTP headers reveal a lot of information about the client’s device and network. Analyzing these can uncover inconsistencies, revealing potential fraudulent activity or masking techniques.
6. Tracking Cookies and Supercookies: Cookies store user information and browsing habits, which can be used to identify malicious activity. Supercookies (which are more persistent and harder to remove) can be used to track users even after they clear their browser cookies.
7. DNS Monitoring: Monitoring DNS requests can help track suspicious activity, as it reveals websites that users are trying to access, allowing investigators to detect patterns of criminal behavior.
8. Packet Inspection: Deep packet inspection (DPI) analyzes the data packets that flow over networks. This allows for the detection of malicious data, potentially identifying cybercriminal activity.
9. SSL/TLS Certificate Pinning: Ensures that only legitimate, pre-specified certificates can establish secure communications with servers, helping to detect man-in-the-middle attacks and other forms of digital tampering.
10. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Though not a direct tracking method, 2FA adds a layer of difficulty for cybercriminals trying to access accounts, since it requires access to a secondary device or service.

Its easier for you to walk into a bank and rob them with a gun.
They made the computers , the chips in phones and laptops and also the internet. You now think you can outsmart everybody. All those of you doing yahoo. The day you step in these countries, they will arrest you.
Technology has gone far now, This is not 1980.

True that.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris after presidential debate by Konquest: 6:01am On Sep 14, 2024

9jvirgin:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-rcna170547

High five!

#KamalaHarrisTimWalz

Crime › Re: MKO Abiola’s children Warn Energy Firm Against Doing Business With Summit Oil by Konquest: 5:48am On Sep 14, 2024

BlueRayDick:
Chief F.R.A Willams one of the finest legal luminaries this country has ever produced was married to just one wife with whom he had 4 children. Till date those children are still in and out of court over his properties since he died in 2005.

Late Dr. Biodun Laja was the founder of Lekki British school. She has just two sons from the same husband and they keep dragging each other to court and writing petition to the police authority against each other over the international school she left for them as inheritance .

Very well said. I like the way you brilliantly used dialectics in a succinct way in your post.
The most important thing is to ensure that you have an UPDATED will at least from the age of 40 so that those who will be left behind will NOT have to be squabbling over all your property.

Crime › Re: MKO Abiola’s children Warn Energy Firm Against Doing Business With Summit Oil by Konquest: 5:22am On Sep 14, 2024*

Unlimitedwords:
Four children of MKO Abiola have warned Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria against doing business with Summit Oil company.

Summit Oil was founded by Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election, in 1990 “to embrace the independent indigenous upstream oil company concept”.

In a letter, the children said they are aware that Halliburton signed a partnership deal with Summit Oil to “re-work and work the oil well” for return of production.

The letter, which was addressed to the CEO of Halliburton, was signed by Olalekan Abiola, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, Khalifa Abiola, and Abdul Mumuni Abiola.

The aforementioned persons alleged that Summit Oil is enmeshed in a legal dispute over allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds by two other members of the Abiola family.

“We, the undersigned heirs and members of the family of the Late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, are writing to express our deep concern regarding your company’s recent agreement with Summit Oil Company Ltd,” the letter reads.

“As you may be aware, Summit Oil Company, being a legacy company formed by our late father, is currently embroiled in a serious legal dispute involving allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds by two members of the Abiola family.

“It has come to our attention that your company has entered into a partnership with Summit Oil, under the management of these two persons, to re-enter and work the Oil Well to bring it back to production.

“We believe that such decision of yours is fraught with significant risks and could have serious legal consequences for your company.

“By entering into that agreement, your company may be inadvertently aiding and abetting a fraudulent scheme.

“Furthermore, your company could also be subject to civil lawsuits, both in Nigeria and internationally, for engaging in business dealings with a company that is under investigation.

“Such lawsuits could result in significant financial damages and reputational harm to your company.”

PETITION TO IGP

The Abiolas also wrote a petition to Kayode Egbetokun, inspector-general of police, over alleged diversion and misappropriation of their father’s estate.

They accused the two siblings of “self-appointing themselves as directors” of Summit Oil “without their knowledge”.

They also claimed that the duo “entered into unauthorized business transactions” using their father’s company.

They asked the IGP to investigate the actions over “serious breach of trust and violation of the law”.

https://www.thecable.ng/theres-family-dispute-mko-abiolas-children-warn-energy-firm-against-doing-business-with-summit-oil/amp/#

If the business mogul MKO Abiola hadn't passed on intestate in 1998 while in military custody [imprisonment] under the MOST repressive military dictatorship that Nigeria ever experienced back in the 1990s, all these bickerings wouldn't have happened. In Islam, I know that they also have a way of dividing the property of a deceased person. The Yorubas also have for many centuries now ways of splitting the property of a man among his children from multiple legal wives. "Idi igi" is what Yoruba folks call each branch based on the number of wives he gets married to.

As can be seen, it's the 4 children of Simbiat Abiola, MKO Abiola's second wife who was ruthlessly assassinated by the military agents (led by Major Al-Mustapha, Sergeant Barnabas Mshelia aka Sergeant Rogers and others) of the brutal military dictatorship in a drive-by shooting in 1996 in Lagos) that are resisting the ongoing partnership between Summit Oil and the foreign technical partner [Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria].

Despite that, it's important for Yoruba elders and those experts with negotiation skills to step right in and resolve this issue so that the upstream Summit Oil doesn't lose the business partnership deal. Whatever Kola Abiola, who is the oldest male child of MKO Abiola and Simbiat Abiola (the first wife) can do to bring in his siblings from other wives of MKO Abiola would be key in restoring the financial status of all of them through the oil well(s) they have. Kola must NOT be the only one to sit on his late father's investments. Period.

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Family › Re: Surviving Without Sex As A Single Mum... It's So Difficult by Konquest: 4:59am On Sep 14, 2024

folake4u:
Kai, Buka.

We no longer use the term "masturbation" for females. The word is so heavy and old school.

We call it "DJ" or "DJing" now. You can search it online.

The old school one we all know is the traditional type, while the use of vibrators is the "modern" type.

I say make I tell you as GenZ education.

@Folake,

Oh wow! "DJing"... That's a new one for me.

It's getting really "hot" in here. lol.

The NJC and LPDC will have to get involved in this. *Smirk* wink

Family › Re: Surviving Without Sex As A Single Mum... It's So Difficult by Konquest: 4:25am On Sep 14, 2024*

Onegai:
Hun

Check out adult stores in your location.

Also, go and date. Date, not for remarriage, but for physical pleasure. Meet a man you like, make sure he's safe and discreet and take care of business. Have a guy for chatting and gisting, several guys even. Keep one for business.

Keep serious dating on the back burner for now.

Keep them all from your kids.

That's what men do in your situation and that is what you should do, too.

Move on, m'dear.

And here is the truly beautiful thing (forget, I've seen this happen too many times, I can bet crypto on it sef):

Once you're dating and moving on with your life, that your ex is suddenly going to want to come back, stylishly.

Why?

Because you're peaceful, relaxed and busy. You're not fighting him anymore, you're not bitter, you're not keeping the kids from him. You don't care if he's trying to annoy you or flaunt his new gf in your presence, he is no longer important.

His Limerence and his Mid Life crisis is eventually slowing down. The brain fog in his head is clearing. You're looking good, smelling nice and he can see you through the eyes of other men, you look fu.ckable again.

You're comfortable yet excitingly new.

But please, don't take him back. Don't ever let him come back. If he was dumb enough to leave you, be smart enough to let him go.

And if you think that I'm making this up, that nobody wants a single mum of 3: Nne, go and baff up, do makeup, wear one lovely dress that announces your singleness (you know what I'm taking about, you need heels too) and snap a good pic and upload it to Facebook.

You're about to realise how many of your male uni and secondary school classmates always hoped for a chance with you. And they are usually an upgrade to your ex-man.

The same thing happens with men who were dumped by babes. They stop grieving and start taking care of themselves and suddenly their exes want to come back.

And one last thing: don't feel old.

Mature, rich guys (especially those in Abuja and Lagos) don't like small girls of 24 yrs, they're too young for them. All the big boys, bank MDs, Governonrs, Ministers and Oil big boys are carrying 35 years and older.

Why? Because you're discreet (you have kids, so you're not fighting their wives and aren't planning on trapping them with babies), you're secure in your skin and you're eager for se.x (no need to pretend like you no like am or act like a virgin). Those 20 yr old babes are busy doing Snapchat with him, you, OTOH, have been trained via marriage: you know you will ask him if he has taking his BP meds and listen to him complain about his son's marriage and admire his grandkids. You'll even Like his wife's inspirational posts on IG and be respectful to her. You are not planning on destroying his life, so they are very safe with you.

Na now your market go sell.

I have classmates that are 43, living in a nice flat in Chelsea (UK), being sponsored by people you read about in newspapers. The 25 yr old babes flaunting on IG are for immature Mid Life Crisis guys in their early 40s (who just started collecting N2m/month from an IOC), that want to feel young, all the girls can get is N400k and "thanks" from the serious big men.

Start dressing up and spending 2 hours every weekend on the island, in strategic bars. Something go click.

I am speaking from experience.

Trust me!

Whoa... I'm one of those men who knows full well that most women are NOT prudes. While I'm in sync with getting a "sex aid," or something to that effect if it's absolutely necessary for a woman to manage the raging monthly or cyclical hormones, I don't agree with the first paragraph of your post that I've highlighted above because of it's diminishing effect on a woman's image. You can't be jumping from one man to the other as a single mother and expect men to treat you with RESPECT. Some men share with their male club buddies, the wild sexual exploits they have had with the women that they do NOT love and RESPECT.

That can be societally diminishing for a woman because she is gonna be viewed as a "slut" and that hinders her chances of getting a genuine man whose gonna love and respect her as a single mother and eventually get married to her if that's what both of them really want. To each his own. Period.

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Family › Re: Surviving Without Sex As A Single Mum... It's So Difficult by Konquest: 3:52am On Sep 14, 2024

Optimistic4life:
I'm trying hard to live a life free from sin and sexual immorality and I am doing pretty well but of recent, my hormones/body have been raging and I am finding it difficult to cope.

It's 18months I have been separated and there is no getting back together.

Were you ever in my situation, how did you overcome without involving in sex/masturbation?

I just need some words of encouragement.

Its really not easy and it has become some sort of distraction.

The reason I do not want to have a male friend is because of my fear for God.

Bump.

Getting a "sex aid" would be the best solution here if you don't have the mental power to stay off like some or if you don't want to be in a stable relationship yet or start jumping from one man to another (thereby exponentially increasing your chances of getting exposed to sexually transmitted ailments). There's NO need to get stressed out if the hormones are raging uncontrollably at specific times every month. Period.

Politics › Re: Sanwo-Olu Advocates Preservation Of Lagos History - LASRAB Community Symposium by Konquest: 7:09am On Sep 13, 2024

adamusuleiman3:
Lagosians and ‘protect our heritage to be bequeathed on generations unborn.’

“It is important to know the history of our beginning. Being aware of our history will serve as a benchmark for future planning. It will create cultural awareness and help to teach valuable lessons that will assist in avoiding past mistakes.”

Former Attorney-General of Lagos State, Olasupo Sasore in his paper said the existence of Lagos dated beyond 1699 as claimed in some books, adding recent archeological discovery revealed that salt was produced in Badagry as back as 800 AD.

Other stakeholders in the panel discussion include academics like Prof. Rasheed Ajetumobi; Prof. Hakeem Tijani; Dr. Habeeb Sanni; Bajulaiye of Lagos, Prince Ayodele Ayodeji Oyekan, former General Manager of Lagos Traffic Radio, Dr. Olayinka Adagun; Mrs. Aduke Gomez; Arc. Bisi Sulu-Olumide; ESV. Akinbowale Akinyemi, Oga Omoyemi Azee shared their historical views and records of Lagos.

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/lagos-history-sanwo-olu-leads-charge-for-accurate-narrative-at-lasrab-community-symposium/

Crime › Re: Kristina Joksimovic Strangled, Chopped & Blended To Paste By Husband by Konquest: 5:55pm On Sep 12, 2024

WriterNig:
Reminds me of Jeffrey Dahmer & Dexter serial killer series.

There are certain levels of hate. This is a 10.

The sicko claims to have "panicked" and so had to blend her. Just imagine.

Crime › Re: Kristina Joksimovic Strangled, Chopped & Blended To Paste By Husband by Konquest: 5:54pm On Sep 12, 2024

WriterNig:
Telegraph || Independent UK

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Konquest: 5:33pm On Sep 12, 2024

‘She ate him for lunch’: Donald Trump rattled by VP Harris as even Fox News blast his performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EjkJ6_8qu8?si=7nHndeFC0_QYIdkJ
MSNBC • Sep 11 2024
#kamalaharris #donaldtrump #election

Oh! She literally had him for "BRUNCH" then "DINNER."

Everything will have to go wrong from here on out for Kamala Harris not to be declared the NEXT President of the United States.

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Crime › Re: Lagos Police Arrest 18-Year Old Boy For Blackmailing Teenage Girl With Nudes by Konquest: 2:39pm On Sep 12, 2024*

naptu2:
The Lagos State Police Command yesterday arrested an 18-year-old boy, Michael Ogbogu, for blackmailing a 17-year-old girl with her nude pictures. The sister of the girl residing in an estate in Orchid Road, Lekki, Lagos, reported that Ogbogu, who was a secondary schoolmate to her sister at Igbo Efon, Lekki, Lagos, some time ago, started using her sister’s nude pictures to blackmail her.

It was said that Ogbogu made several screenshots while having a video conversation with the girl and has ever since blackmailed her. He also demanded sex from her.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident, said the lady told the police that Ogbogu asked her sister to get money from her parents.

“The suspect was arrested and he made confessional statements. The case is under investigation and further development will be communicated,” Hundeyin said.

https://guardian.ng/news/18-year-old-boy-nabbed-for-blackmailing-teenage-girl/

SP Benjamin Hundeyin @BenHundeyin

If you must send nudes, at least do one-view or cover your face or any other identification mark. And do not forget that video calls can be screen shot/recorded. For others, it is a clandestine recording of their intimate moments, of course without consent.

I have honestly lost count of people, sometimes notable ones, approaching me about someone somewhere blackmailing and extorting them with their nudes.

Trust no one. Take adequate precautions. Trust your instincts too. And do not forget to reach incb.npf.gov.ng in the unfortunate event you fall victim of this. 🤗🤗

Ogbogu... I know someone with that surname who is paternally from Delta North.

Anyway, this boy's arrest should serve as a lesson to ANYONE who tries to blackmail any female with her nude pictures gotten through stealing them from her phone and laptop or hacking into her computer system.

This is exactly how back in the 2000s, a computer technician stole the nude beach side pics of Anita Hogan and her then White fiance who is now her husband. The creep threatened to release the pictures into the public domain if he wasn't paid some hefty sum of money but Anita damned the consequences. The pictures were eventually released.

Females (and even males) should damn the consequences and file a report with the police if the blackmailer is relentlessly asking for money and/or sex in return for not releasing the nude pictures. It's a serious offence to spread the nude pictures of anyone in many countries worldwide. Period.

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Entertainment › Re: Lagos Comic Con 2024 Features Superhero Comics From Nigeria by Konquest: 2:36pm On Sep 12, 2024

nlfpmod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDVRn4xlkaY?si=STlyi0Ew67jT14fj

Family › Re: Paul Bolton, 68-Year-Old Briton Is Looking For His Yoruba Father, Femi Odiendie by Konquest: 1:21pm On Sep 12, 2024*

NNTR:
That Arch Oluyemi Odeinde RIP whom you say is his uncle was born six years after him on March 25th 1960 at UCH Ibadan (i.e. University College Hospital) and so would be his half brother actually

Architect Oluyemi Odeinde's and possibly same for the 68 years old Mr Paul Bolton's father, is Architect Olufemi Abayomi Odeinde, who passed away in 1981, due to injuries sustained in a motor accident

Architect Oluyemi Odeinde passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of Thursday March the 18th of 2021 and would have been 62 years old if still alive. He was born on March 25th 1960 and was interred on March 25th 2021. His dad and grandad passed at 59 years old, but he broke that jinx

Mr Paul Bolton, should start with getting the correct spelling of the surname of his father (i.e. Architect Olufemi Abayomi Odeinde) right first, then realise that he has plenty of the Odeindes residing in the UK.

Bump.

That's brilliant of you to have unearthed these FACTS. Very insightful... Odeinde is the correct spelling.

But it's such a huge shame that as of the 1950s, the first ever Nigerian-born 1986 Grammy Award winner, Sade Adu's Yoruba Professor father was already married to an English woman as well and they both came from England to live in Ibadan where Sade and her older brother Banji Adu were born, so, what was all the fuss about with Bolton's mother's parents NOT accepting the relationship or the birth of a mixed ancestry baby? No child should have to go through what this gentleman went through.

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