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Politics › Re: Anti-Party: Nigeria Politics Looks Like Salad & Mayonnaise - Shehu Sani by Konquest: 3:25pm On Jan 08, 2023
Family › Re: My Husband Has Failed To Satisfy Me Sexually Despite Taking Concoctions by Konquest: 3:21pm On Jan 08, 2023
dre11:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/my-husband-has-failed-to-satisfy-me-sexually-despite-taking-concoctions/
"This man has never made me cry in bed"... That cracked me up. grin

There's NO emotional connection here. Period.
Food › Re: Dates Syrup (Dabino) Dates Palm Fruit Benefits by Konquest: 12:29pm On Jan 08, 2023
Mars88:
Dates Syrup; Benefits You Should Enjoy Daily

Date syrup needs no introduction for those who are familiar with the date palm fruit. What some are yet to realise however is that the syrup made from dates has enough utility to eliminate the need for refined sweeteners. Health conscious individuals can rely on the huge benefits of this natural sweetener which makes it the healthiest replacement for any other processed sweetener with their accompanying health risks.

Perhaps the biggest win which should prompt us to opt for dates syrup is that this essential food item is a ready made source of natural iron. Iron is one of the most important minerals in the body, and among other things, having this mineral in the right proportions will help eliminate fatigue, and have reliable immunity levels. It is the go to mineral for the restoration and boosting of red blood cells.

Date syrup contains an intimidatingly higher amount of minerals compared to other popular sweeteners. These minerals includes iron, selenium, B-vitamins, zinc calcium, and copper among others.

Users of Date Syrup (I use Dates Nature Product) have confirmed the immense benefits of this sweetener, and why it should not be compared to less beneficial alternatives. It is very nutritious, and you can never go wrong fully incorporating dates syrup in your daily diet. One other huge advantage is that it can help combat some health conditions, and serve as a potent food supplement.

This write up will run through the benefits you will enjoy as a daily user of date syrup. We will also briefly make recommendations on how best to consume this food based on our personal experience with Dates Nature. Although date syrup is quite popular, dates is also processed to powder and this finished product also contains same valuable benefits accessible from date syrup. DNSNL (Dates Nature) also have their own special Date powder.

[url]Datesnaturesupportltd.com[/url]


Date Syrup Production Process
How is Date Syrup Made?

The production process of Date syrup simply involves heating dates in water, blending, and pressing it to filter out the insoluble cake and pits, then allowing the water from the resulting liquid to evaporate.

Why you need to start using Date Syrup NOW

Date syrup is packed with so much nutrients that incorporating it into your diet can actually transform your health, and drastically reduce your susceptibility to so many health conditions bedevilling people in our modern society. As part of your breakfast, you can trust this power packed food to equip you with the energy your body needs during the day. It is all the more important if you agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Date Syrup Nutrients Content

Date syrup is packed with natural sugars glucose, fructose, and sucrose. Natural sugars contain essential nutrients while added sugars can be very harmful in large quantities. Our very own Dates Nature dates syrup is a reservoir for protein and essential amino acids. Date syrup is also packed with Vitamin A1, vitamin C, and vitamin B1, B2, B3, and B5. The implication of the vitamin component of date syrup is that regular users would have no need for multivitamins.

Benefits of Date Syrup

Date Syrup helps in managing anaemia

Date syrup has the potency to treat and eliminate anaemia due to it's high iron levels. It also contains folic acid which is another anaemia fighting mineral. While the folate in Date syrup facilitates blood production, iron boosts red blood cells in the body.
Date Syrup is a reliable energy source

Date syrup fortifies the body with adequate energy. It energizes the whole system, and helps in preventing lethargy.
The presence of phosphorus and magnesium in date syrup helps it to fortify neural cells, and maintain a clear head. The presence of vitamin B also helps it to stabilize the nerves. So you can say goodbye to fatigue.

Date Syrup helps manage eye conditions

Date syrup has considerable levels of vitamin A. Vitamin A is an essential vitamin for eye health. It can be used to combat and manage eye infections and improve eyesight. Carotenoids contained in Date syrup can be very helpful in this regard.
Date Syrup Increases Libido

The potency of Date syrup for increasing libido, and improving sexual stamina is well documented. Due to its constituent nutrients and minerals such as iron, zinc, and magnesium etc. which are all important for sexual stamina, people can use dates syrup to improve sexual health.
Dates Syrup is good for the guts

Date syrup enhances the activity of bacteria in the guts resulting in a healthier better functioning digestive system. It can therefore combat constipation. Date syrup has a considerable amount of fibre which helps to stimulate bowel movement.

Date Syrup improves the health of pregnant women

Pregnant women can improve their haemoglobin levels considerably by consuming date syrup like Dates Nature daily. The presence of iron, folates and other minerals will also help the unborn child. Pregnant women should also consume Dates syrup to open up the womb and facilitate ease during childbirth.

Date Syrup enhances healthy Weight Gain

While obesity is unhealthy, there are conditions that may sometimes cause people to become underweight. Date syrup has decent calories, and is a healthy option for anyone who wants to gain healthy weight.

Date Syrup improves the condition of the Skin

Date syrup contains essential such as vitamins C which improves the elasticity of the skin. Date syrup contains anti-aging agents which can reduce the proliferation of damaged proteins in the body.
Date Syrup is a good source of protein

Date syrup has high levels of proteins. It can therefore help in the formation and development of healthy muscles. For individuals who use the gym devotedly, incorporating date syrup into their diet will help them with the energy they need for physical activities. It can also serve as a muscle building supplement helping to keep muscles healthy.

Date Syrup Improves Hair Growth

Date syrup improves hair growth thanks to its high iron content. The role of iron for the red blood cells enhances blood circulation under the skin. This process strengthens hair follicles and this results in hair growth.

Date Syrup Strengthens the Bones

Date syrup helps to strengthen the bones due to the presence of calcium and magnesium. People with arthritis will find date syrup particularly helpful for managing joint pains especially because of its anti inflammatory components.

Date Syrup helps to Decrease Blood Cholesterol Levels

Date syrup is a plant based healthy sweetener which is low in fats and cholesterol. Consuming date syrup moderately is like killing two birds with one stone. You get to enjoy your sweetener and also maintain decent cholesterol levels.

How to Use Date Syrup

Date syrup can be very beneficial when added to breakfast. Its energizing potential makes it very efficient when incorporated into breakfast, supplying the body with adequate energy for the day's activities.

Use Date syrup instead of sugar or other popular sweeteners as it is a healthier replacement considering its nutritious profile.

Medical research has well documented evidence of the health benefits of honey but here is a fact; date syrup is that plant based sweetener which has more nutrients and minerals than honey. One tablespoon of Date syrup has 10 times more antioxidant capacities compared to honey. It also contains more essential minerals like calcium, potassium and magnesium. This simply makes it the healthier choice.

Consider using date syrup when you need a natural and safe way to sweeten food for children. It can complement oats, or other choice cereals preferred for breakfast.

Final Words

Date syrup can improve the all round condition of the body. It improves the condition of the heart by enhancing blood circulation, it detoxifies the kidneys due to it's high antioxidant properties and even combats conditions such as fever, cold, and sore throat. This supplement can serve both young and old and is particularly recommended for children. The need to fortify our little ones in their early years with the daily recommended value of most essential minerals cannot be overemphasized.


Dates Nature Support Nutrients Ltd DNSNL has an online Wholesale Store Available: 8AM - 8PM Monday – Sunday Website: [url]Datesnaturesupportltd.com[/url]
Politics › Re: Bishop Predicts Tinubu Presidency, Says Nigerians Abroad Will Return by Konquest: 12:16pm On Jan 08, 2023
Business › Re: Hair Entrepreneur, Kika Osunde Distributes £10,000 Across United Kingdom by Konquest: 12:06pm On Jan 08, 2023
kidap:
Serial Entrepreneur, Kika Good Hair Donates £10,000 to Small Business Owners Across London

Kika Osunde, co-founder of Good Hair Ltd and Brass & Copper Lifestyle Ltd, has donated the sum of £10,000 through “The Kika Osunde Fund” to help small businesses in the UK experiencing the cost of living crisis in the country.

The hair expert, who a few weeks ago, asked followers to send in their business plans and visions for the year 2023, thereafter picked only three winners and recipients of the fund.

In an Instagram reel that has now gone viral, Kika Osunde was seen visiting each winner and presenting them with their respective cheques after driving over 12.5 hours across London, Liverpool and Nottinghamshire to do the giveaway.

In an exciting mood, she said: “With The Kika Experience, it was important for me to create opportunities for small businesses to bloom and flourish. You guys have heard this story many times before but my mum gave me £800 to start Good Hair and now I stand here as a serial entrepreneur.

“We are currently experiencing a cost of living crisis in the UK and I was adamant about giving someone the same opportunity my mum gave me. We were inundated with well-thought-out business plans and fantastic visions for ventures but there could only be three winners and recipients of The Kika Osunde Fund.

“On 30/12/2022, I drove across the country with @ounoplus and visited each winner to present them with their cheques.

“It was also great to see them in their workshops and talk to them one on one and hear about their plans for the future. These girls are talented and have a good, financially sound vision for the future.

“I look forward to them turning their enterprises into million pound success stories. Well done ladies!”

The giveaway of the fund was highly scrutinised and researched by independent business experts she said.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm6oFhUDvOC/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=


Source: https://naijagg.com/serial-entrepreneur-kika-good-hair-donates-10000-to-small-business-owners-across-london/
That's awesome. wink I love her spirit of enterprise and giving back to the community.
Crime › Re: NDLEA Freezes ₦‎4.3 Billion In Suspect’s 126 Bank Accounts by Konquest: 11:43am On Jan 08, 2023
adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/NDLEA-freezes-N4.3bn-in-suspects-126-bank-accounts
I'm a strong advocate of the death penalty by injection, electric chair, or hanging for these crazy drug barons to serve as a deterent. These criminals have ruined many
people worldwide and caused an
increase in violent crimes and murders from the Favelas in
Brazil to the South Side of
Chicago, and more.
Romance › Re: Natse Jemide: Hottest Guy In Nigeria Right Now? by Konquest: 11:26am On Jan 08, 2023
siofra:
Nigerian men are fine o embarassed

I swear if I catch this guy in real life eh tongue

Kai!! embarassed

The thoughts in my head right now. God help me
embarassed
Yeah... Its the normal monthly ovulation cycle and raging hormones screwing your brain out. This is the period women cheat the most and even get pregnant mistakenly for other men besides their spouses or long-term lovers. *Smirk*
Romance › Re: Natse Jemide: Hottest Guy In Nigeria Right Now? by Konquest:
siofra:
Reggie kiss

Kai Reggie oo!! grin

Ever since I saw him on Kortyeo's channel, I've been in love.

Natse Jemide ooooooooh! cheesy

I once met a guy that looked like him....well that's a story for another day, in the meantime, feed your eyes.
Natse Jemide... A lovely name.

He is of Itsekiri descent perhaps from High Chief Jemide's family.

Jemide... Olamide. Nice names with the same suffixes.
Politics › Re: Corona Virus New Surge by Konquest: 10:37am On Jan 08, 2023
Nursepepeye:
Coronavirus pandemic
Elderly leave cities as COVID infections surge in China
Families tell of sending elderly relatives away from China’s cities amid reports of surging cases and deaths.


By Frederik Kelter
Published On 24 Dec 2022
24 Dec 2022
Three days ago, Lily Wang tested positive for COVID-19.

Isolating in her small apartment in Shenzhen, the 29-year-old is currently fighting a high fever and a sore throat.

Despite her own illness, Wang’s thoughts were for her grandmother who has been spared from sickness so far, thanks to the quick actions of her parents.

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“My parents got my grandmother out of the city in time,” Wang said over the phone between bouts of coughing.

Two days after dropping her grandmother off with relatives in the countryside, both of Wang’s parents fell sick.

Almost all of Wang’s work colleagues are stricken by COVID too, she adds.


Across China, those who can afford it are getting their elderly relatives out of the major cities to protect them from succumbing to the wave of COVID-19 that is currently battering the country.

“The COVID situation is really bad right now,” 24-year-old Shuwen Lu told Al Jazeera over a WeChat connection from her home in Beijing.

Lu, who is also currently fighting a COVID infection, told how her grandparents were helped out of Beijing to a small village where the family has a house.

“Had they stayed in the city, they might soon have joined the countless elderly people that are dying right now,” Lu said.

Since authorities began lifting China’s strict COVID restrictions in early December, numerous reports have emerged of people falling sick with the virus, hospitals overwhelmed with patients, and the country’s crematoriums struggling to keep up with an influx of bodies arriving at their doors.

It was stories similar to these that prompted the sources who spoke to Al Jazeera to move their older relatives out of built-up areas.


“My family decided that the safest thing to do for my grandparents was to get them out of Beijing so they can ride out the COVID storm in safety away from the crowds,” Lu explained.

In the cities of Fuzhou and Shanghai, sources there also told Al Jazeera of senior family members making for the countryside or smaller village communities to escape the wave of COVID that has emerged since China dropped its zero-COVID policy.



The elderly are vulnerable
The elderly are especially vulnerable to infection from COVID-19 and, according to reports, in China, two-thirds of those aged 80 years and older have been vaccinated, with about 40 percent having received a booster shot going into the current wave of infections.

Lower vaccination rates among the elderly can partly be attributed to the Chinese vaccine strategy at the beginning of the pandemic when vaccines were initially prioritised for essential workers to ensure that the economy would not grind to a halt in case of large outbreaks.


Elderly residents wait after receiving a dose of a vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a government-organized visit to a vaccination center in Zhongmin village on the outskirts of Shanghai, China December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Brenda Goh


Elderly people wait after receiving a dose of a vaccine against coronavirus disease during a government-organised visit to a vaccination centre in Zhongmin village on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, on December 21, 2022 [Brenda Goh/Reuters]

By the time large segments of the elderly population were being vaccinated, authorities had introduced the zero-COVID strategy and its initial success in protecting people slowed the prioritisation for all older people to be vaccinated.
The zero-COVID strategy had for almost three years kept China’s senior citizens safe from serious illness by keeping less contagious COVID variants at bay. The policy protected but it also meant that no immunity was built up among the elderly from previous infections.

Now, with the rapid reopening of Chinese society, the strategy of the last few years has left millions of people poorly protected against severe COVID infection.

Vaccine hesitancy in China – particularly with regard to the question of whether older people should get vaccinated or not – has also contributed to a perfect storm of problems the country is facing.

Lu and Wang both said their grandparents had not been vaccinated against COVID.

“Of course, my grandparents are not vaccinated,” Lu said when asked. “At their advanced age, who knows what might happen if they get a shot,” she said.

Wang’s grandmother has diabetes and several other health problems and thought better of getting the vaccine.

“She is worried, and my family is worried too, that her poor health won’t stand a vaccine. So, why risk it?”

Official numbers versus reality
According to official Chinese accounts, and COVID numbers, there is no cause for concern.

The official narrative is that abandoning the zero-COVID strategy has been just as successful as when the same strategy was an indisputable principle of Chinese governance.

The director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Zhang Wenhong, told local media on Thursday that he visited several nursing homes in Shanghai and the number of elderly dealing with severe symptoms was low. Wenhong said he expected the peak of infections to be reached within a week.

China officially reported 4,128 new symptomatic cases on Friday and no new deaths. In total, according to official figures, there had been just a handful of COVID-related deaths since restrictions were dropped earlier this month.

That story stands in sharp contrast to images shared on social media and reports of the strained crematoriums, overflowing hospitals, the establishment of fever centres – to take the pressure off the hospitals – and the panic-buying of flu medication.

Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing estimates from China’s top health authority, that nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this week.


People line up to buy antigen test kits for the coronavirus disease at a pharmacy in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on December 19, 2022 [China Daily via Reuters]
Chinese authorities have tended throughout their handling of COVID to give an incomplete picture of the situation in order to place the leadership’s decisions in the best possible light, said Associate Professor Yao-Yuan Yeh, who teaches Chinese Studies at the University of St Thomas in the United States.
“So, in spite of the current chaos, it is very unlikely that we will see the Chinese government admitting to having committed mistakes with the zero-COVID strategy or with the subsequent opening up of society,” Yao-Yuan Yeh said.

“On the contrary, they will highlight the elements that will make their policy appear as a success while downplaying or simply leaving out incidents that point to failure,” he said.

Omitting facts that point to failure could be seen this week when a leading Chinese medical expert announced that only deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure, after contracting COVID, would henceforth be classified as a COVID-19 death.

The change in classification was criticised by disease experts outside China who said that the new classification would lead to a vast undercounting of the true number of COVID fatalities – something the Chinese authorities have been accused of doing ever since the first outbreak in Wuhan in 2019.

“This time around it is, for the authorities, about under-stating the numbers that indicate that the Chinese government has switched from one crisis brought about by the zero-COVID policy to a new crisis brought about by the rapid dismantling of the zero-COVID policy,” Yao-Yuan Yeh said.

In Shenzhen, Wang just hopes that the crises will end soon, so that she can once again experience life without COVID.

“And I hope my grandmother will survive to experience it too,” she said.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

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The use of Astrazeneca and Pfizer vaccines are more effective in curbing the heavy mortality rate especially among the elderly. The locally produced Chinese brand of Covid vaccines are less effective that Astrazeneca and Pfizer vax.

The secrecy around the renewed surge of this virus in China means there has been a spread by air and sea to other parts of the world so it's time to brace up and get vaccinated. Period.

Health › Re: China New Covid Surge by Konquest:
Nursepepeye:
Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this week, the Bloomberg news agency has reported, citing minutes from an internal meeting of the country’s National Health Commission held on Wednesday.

In all, the report which was published on Friday said about 18 percent of the country’s population – 248 million people – are likely to have contracted the virus in the first 20 days of Decemberhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/23/china-could-be-experiencing-37-million-daily-covid-19-infections
This is gonna affect international trade and leisure travels thereby triggering another round of global economic quagmire in 2023 if not handled with a sense of urgency. Stay vaccinated. Period.
Family › Re: My Beautiful Wife Smiles All The Time; I Fear She Can Be Snatched By Another Man by Konquest: 9:48pm On Jan 07, 2023
Celebrities › Re: RMD Shares Photos With His Son, Oghenetega by Konquest:
Johnthejohn:
Yoruba demons undecided
RMD and Reno Omokri are both of Urhobo paternal ethnicity and with
Itsekiri maternal ancestry. This is the reason they both have
Yoruboid names because of their
Itsekiri maternal ancestry.


Itsekiris have 3 Yoruba sub-groups (
(Ijebu, Ife, and Ilaje) as the main parent ethnicities of Itsekiris with some Bini migration into their midst from the time of the exiled
Prince Ginuwa the son of the then
Oba of Benin kingdom in the 1480s to Ode Itsekiri an original Ijebu settlement that had Chief Lenuwa as their leader.

Prince Ginuwa's mother was from
Ife and the only non-Bini-born wife of the reigning Oba in the 1480s when Ginuwa was sent on exile with 70 men accompanying him.


Hope this helps.
Celebrities › Re: RMD Shares Photos With His Son, Oghenetega by Konquest: 8:54pm On Jan 07, 2023
benjackugo:
Veteran Nollywood actor, Richard Mofe-Damijo aka RMD, has shared some pictures with his son, Oghenetega on Instagram, IGBERETV reports.

The actor captioned the photos,



https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFRVoEu_-e/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
RMD my OG keeping it real.
Romance › Re: Woman Corroborates Why Women Go Back To Their Exes by Konquest: 8:29pm On Jan 07, 2023
Tannhauser:
angry
There's no reason whatsoever for being completely bereft of any modicum of morals.
No matter how its dressed up, a ho.e remains a h.oe.
And na person pikin go still marry this one...

Modified: The so called modern woman has completely lost it. Even as a man, I can't type anything that risque on my page.
*Spits*

Those of you talking about virgins must be living in a bubble of your stupidity and know nothing about the real world. That's why it's so easy for women to fool you and you will be there thinking you are smart. Do you know how many " virgins" are out there having anal sex? They keep the hymen for the fool that worships it and go round giving out BJs, hand jobs and anal. I personally met FIVE in my bachelor days and that was in the early 2000s when the world wasn't this mad. angry
Romance › Re: Woman Corroborates Why Women Go Back To Their Exes by Konquest: 8:25pm On Jan 07, 2023
ashewoboy:
The dick is powerful.

If he is toxic and his dick game is 100, she will go back.


That is the summary of what is written there.
It is what it is... In real time. *smirk*
Foreign Affairs › Re: In Senegal, The Last Riflemen Lament France's 'lack Of Recognition' by Konquest: 7:33pm On Jan 07, 2023
jameshankss:
"They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France.

"We didn't know where we were going."

The wizened old soldier is one of the last survivors of France's colonial-era African infantry -- a force that fought in two world wars and colonial conflicts in North Africa and Indo-China.

After years of neglect, the troops are the subject of a blockbuster movie, "Tirailleurs," opening in France and Senegal this week, that stars Omar Sy -– best known internationally for the Netflix crime series "Lupin".

Sy plays a Senegalese father who voluntarily enlists in the French army in World War I to keep an eye on his son, who has been forced into uniform. Both are pitched into the horrors of the Western Front.

The "tirailleurs" -- loosely translatable as "skirmishers" -– were born in Senegal in 1857, to forge a corps of lightly armed, mobile troops who would harass the enemy ahead of an advancing main force.

After World War I broke out, France recruited across its West African colonies to transform the tirailleurs into a force designed to hammer the Germans on the Western Front.

They took part in several key battles, notably holding the line at a crucial moment in Verdun in 1916, arguably the most important battle in the four-year-long conflict.

Toll

Some 30,000 of the 134,000 tirailleurs who fought in WWI were killed, according to the specialist French magazine Historia.

Survivors were often crippled or scarred by trauma, yet their tale was often relegated to footnotes, and their names never featured on local war memorials in France -- the daily reminder to French people of the cost of the conflict.

High-sounding plans to provide hospitals and pensions were downgraded or sapped by bureaucracy, and tirailleurs sometimes suffered second-class treatment compared with their French counterparts.

In World War II, tens of thousands of tirailleurs fought in sub-Saharan and North Africa and took part in the 1944 landings in southern France.

Dieye said he was recruited in May 1940 in his home town of Thies, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Dakar, and joined the Seventh Regiment of tirailleurs.

After basic training near Dakar, his unit was shipped out to Madagascar but had to turn around because of a submarine threat.

It then headed to the French Congo and then to Gabon, where it liberated the capital Libreville from the collaborationist Vichy government "after a few shots," he said.

The regiment was sent to the Middle East to prepare for operations in Europe, but by then, Berlin had fallen.

Dieye returned to Senegal in 1945 as a sergeant, and in the post-colonial period joined the police, retiring in 1972 at the age of 52.

Today, he lives in a house in Thies surrounded by photos and memorabilia from his years of service.

Anger

Slow-moving but sharp-eyed, he is bitter towards France, accusing it of "dishonesty".

In December 1944, French troops at a barracks near Dakar opened fire on mutinous tirailleurs demanding back pay for years spent in prisoner-of-war camps.

The official toll of 35 dead is disputed, and the common grave where the soldiers were buried has never been found. The episode remains murky and bitterly remembered in Senegal despite an attempt by former French president Francois Hollande to shed light for reconciliation.

"You send someone to war, he claims his money and you punish him" by killing him, said Dieye, a tone of disgust in his voice.

He reserves his greatest anger for France's failure to pay his military pension, equivalent to 750 euros (dollars) annually, for the past two years.

"France hasn't kept its promise," he said. "I depend on the Good Lord and my children to survive. I get nothing as a former tirailleur. Zilch from France."

A source at the Veterans' Affairs Office at Senegal's armed forces ministry said that after military pensioners reach the age of 100, France usually requires documented proof that they are still alive.

Historian Mamadou Kone said he believed only 10 or so tirailleurs from World War II were still alive in Senegal. The last tirailleur from World War I, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, died in 1998 at the age of 104.

At home, tirailleurs were long "ostracized, considered armed enforcers of French imperialism. Their image was stained," said Kone.

Things changed in 2004, when then president Aboulaye Wade named December 1 as an annual day to commemorate the tirailleurs, enshrining their achievements "in two world wars which freed the world from Nazism and fascism," he said.

https://www.africanews.com/2023/01/05/in-senegal-the-last-riflemen-lament-frances-lack-of-recognition/
More deep insights about French colonial brutality in Africa.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Entered Top 10 Global Economies In 2022 by Konquest: 7:28pm On Jan 07, 2023
Globetech:
⚡️IMF data shows that Russia entered Top 10 global economies, in 9th place at $2.1 trillion in 2022.

In 2019, it was in 11th place at $1.578 trillion

The Russian/Ukrainian war has given the Russian economy $0.522 trillion

@IntelRepublic
Many geopolitical and financial variables at play.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Taliban Has Signed A 25-yr Contract with China For Extraction Of Oil From Afghan by Konquest: 7:23pm On Jan 07, 2023
rottennaija:
As we predicted when Taliban assumed control in 2021, Chinese investment would follow.

Taliban has signed a 25-yr contract with Xinjiang Central Asia Oil and Gas for extraction of oil from Afghanistan’s Amu River basin and to develop an oil reserve in the north of the country.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Alienation Of Black People In Russia by Konquest: 7:08pm On Jan 07, 2023
joyandfaith:
THE ALIENATION OF BLACK PEOPLE IN RUSSIA
Andrew Getto, St. Petersburg
Foreign Affairs › Re: Prince Harry Says William ‘Attacked’ Him & Left Him Knocked To The Floor by Konquest: 7:03pm On Jan 07, 2023
NwaNimo1:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20944177/harry-says-william-attacked-him-meg/
Harry is right to tell it as it is here and now. It's his biography. Period.
Career › Re: What Skill(s) Do You Plan To Learn This Year? by Konquest: 6:37pm On Jan 07, 2023
SeaTrade:
Back to school for me to get my Degree.

Sadly I've lost any shot at completing My Engineering degree and honestly no longer interested in that field of study.

Really want to go and study business or economics using my Cambridge A level , older than 10 years sha.I hope they accept it cos I'm not rewriting Jamb or whatever basic certificates.

Then Use 3 years,get my degree and proceed to any really good school abroad for my MBA.

I've built a good business I manage to structure this year and thankfully it is beginning to look like it has acquired autonomy and I don't want to procrastinate no more.
Many will think I'm crazy but I don't think I'm fulfilled by being a trader and frankly,it's beginning to look like I've seen my glass ceiling,if I don't change strategy now I might plateau and start declining and it'd look like I wasted my life,coupled with the fact that a good education will put me in circles where these street experiences I've gathered and resources will boost me more and speed my status more in record time.


To younglings growing,our mistakes was thinking money was everything and thinking opportunities will runaway if we didn't grab it then, turned out to be all lies!Money and opportunities no dey finish,

Finish your school and don't get distracted, anything that makes you lose focus on it should be dumped,including money making.

Some of us were even lucky to achieve the things we left for,what if you don't?One was really dumb and naive,kai!

Anyways,bowing out gracefully.... smiley
Nicely put. For the records... Just do it!
Romance › Re: My Mother Lie And How It Helped my mental health by Konquest: 5:59pm On Jan 07, 2023
Eyinju112:
while I was growing, my mother told me if I allow a man see my private part I’d
get pregnant, and if I get pregnant she’d throw me out to the street to suffer, and during the suffering she’d deny me access to see her, my father and my brother. That was a hell of punishment I thought to myself, knowing fully well my mom is a disciplinary I never questioned her words. I got to secondary school still carrying that mentality until my teacher said a different thing......that you can only get pregnant after sex and if the opposite sex cum inside of you. I wasn’t sure who was lying because I saw my mother as a saint and the way she beats I and my elder brother whenever we told a lie, then I concluded my teacher was the liar until I was 15 and in SS2. A very close friend of mine got disflowered, she narrated how it happened and I told her confidently she was gonna get pregnant
, I think I’m out of the box lol...that’s another gist lol

So back to my point, I don’t know if I’m correct with using every ladies but I’d say 90% of ladies were given same orientation my mother gave to me. Our mothers made us see sex as a whole big deal, my mother questions my virginity all the time, we saw it as something precious we could ever give to anyone. That is why a woman feels so bitter and angry towards herself after giving her body in a relationship and getting dumped. In fact some hate the men they once loved and if possible they’d wanna harm the guy because they feel cheated. It’s not our fault we’re like that, our mothers planted that mentality in our head to keep us safe. Perhaps the western mothers didn’t do that to their kiddos, that’s why they’re like that and we’re like this. Ain’t saying you must be a virgin oooo. My point here is not virginity but our mentality towards sex..

I know my gender have messed this whole thing up and have made it look like it’s only the body we have to give, if we women can take sex out of the table and bring same energy the men gives, if he buys you gifts buy him gifts too, if he spends on you please spend back, all of this can be possible if you are set to work, women have a higher chances of getting job than men, women makes it well in every industry than men. The sex thing should be a voluntary thing, when you both are up for it, not because he’s giving you money you must give him sex, that’s a big mess and you won’t stop crying of being used if you don’t stop that nonsense... This is a new year, we can do better.. engage in something that keeps you busy and fetch you money, look for jobs, you have a better Chance of getting a good job, when you work hard for your money without your body being attached to it then you can earn every respect back.


Happy new year fellas
Insightful. wink

Most girls who were raised by their mothers like that become experimenters of s3x with the opposite gender on discovering the sudden truth about s3x and pregnancy in high school or college.

It's better for mothers to let their girls know the truth and the real consequencies of random sex and
STDs from ages 11 or 12 instead of speaking in metaphors. Lol.

Females without parental presence come out worse, becoming teenage mothers or unmarried with children in their 20s.

They get burned badly after being ditched and run from one crappy affair to the other.

Taking care of a girl to adulthood can be tough. Few girls get it right though.

Sex is a normal pattern in nature without which our species would be extinct. Period.
Nairaland General › Re: "Nothing is permanent in this world". by Konquest:
IyaTola:
Nothing is Permanent In This World

I visited my 120-year-old grandmother and gave her some money when I was leaving and she told me she doesn't need money again.

That she can no longer buy or sell at her age, so I should give the money to the younger ones who need it.

I also have a former governor friend whom I worked with as a greenhorn PA. He was governor from 1999-2007.
Not too long ago, I saw him.

After check-in, he was left seated by the corner of the Murtala Mohammed international airport awaiting his flight.

No one even recognized him again, not even passengers from the State where he was governor, and as I walked up to him and greeted him, then asked if he wanted any assistance, he stretched forth his trembling hands to hold me and simply said,

"Thank you for even recognizing me again. I just want your attention briefly my daughter . Sit down let me ask you something.

How is your Governor doing?"

I also have a retired Major General friend whom I served as a golf caddy at the NDA golf course in Kurmi Mashi, Kaduna.
He was so rich he built a beautiful house he was so proud of.

I visited him too not long ago and wanted us to climb to our favorite spot on his balcony upstairs.

He stared at me with a broad smile and said, "IT, I can't remember the year I went up there. It is lizards and cobwebs and the likes that live there now.

Even the kids, when they come, they don't enjoy my company in the house any more than a few hours and they are gone.

I don't have the limbs to climb up there again and the cost of cleaning keeps getting higher."

I have seen a lot more things.
How yesterday became the day before, how today became yesterday, and how tomorrow became today.

How the past became history, how the present became the past, and how the future became the present.
Nothing ever remains where it is.

Your strength, your muscles, your beauty, your wealth, your guts, your worth, your courage, your talent, your YOU, will progressively diminish until it returns to its source.

The richest man in the world in the 1960s will not be on the payroll of the richest man in the world today!

Even the strongest lion in the jungle will someday become weak, and frail and be eaten by the same predators it once terrorized.

Keep that in mind always and know that no matter how appealing and tempting that thing may seem, our interest in it will diminish with time.

Our strength to consume or own it will vanish with time until everything is surely taken away from us or we are surely taken away from everything!

"Nothing is permanent in this world".

Wishing you very Reflective Times.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!!
True that!

150 years from now, who will remember you like Galileo Galilei, Vasco da Gama, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Obatala, Sango, Socrates, Ghandi, Copernicus, etc,?

Leave footprints in the sands of time... Stay deified!

~ G.A (AT a.k.a Konquest)
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by Konquest: 11:28pm On Jan 06, 2023
adamusuleiman3:
Twitter: Millions of users' email addresses 'stolen' in data hack.

Data alleged to contain the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users is being given away for free on a hacker forum, reports say.

The stolen information includes email addresses used to set up accounts, which will worry anonymous users who registered with a sensitive address.
Gosh! Ever since this Elon dude took over, things have really gone south. I better change my log in details ASAP.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by Konquest: 10:59pm On Jan 06, 2023
adamusuleiman3:
Bodies are now being burned in the streets of China as funeral homes cannot handle the deaths from COVID.

China could do more than just ramp up vaccination—it could use more-effective vaccines. The two that are most commonly used are CoronaVac and Sinopharm, says William Moss, the executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center, also at Johns Hopkins. And they don’t stack up to the mRNA vaccines used in the U.S.

Both CoronaVac and Sinopharm are inactivated vaccines, meaning they use viral particles that have been killed.

CoronaVac is 51 percent effective, and Sinopharm is 79 percent effective. This is significantly lower than the efficacy of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, which were both over 90 percent.
This is surreal!

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by Konquest:
1stGenAmerican:
Their solution would be to use more effective vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer. Their death toll is climbing again due to the ineffectiveness of the vaccines that they are using.
The Chinese are notorious for hiding the severity of these viral outbreaks or cases in the news based on ego and the desire to not disrupt business activities on a larger scale. I first read 5 weeks ago though that China had imposed localized lockdowns. We have to brace up for the spread of more cases on a global scale via air and sea travels if the Chinese do NOT abandon their locally manufactured "nonsense" vaccines and use the more effective Moderna and Pfizer.

Moderna and Pfizer truly work because people who had their jabs and then got the deadly virus recovered faster without the display of the most severe
symptoms in non-vaccinated people.


The annoying part of this is that some folks worldwide have still refused to get vaccinated... despite knowing full well that countries such as Brazil lost approximately 500,000 people during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Celebrities › Re: Porn Star Afrocandy Shares Throwback Photos Of When She Was A 'Good Wife' by Konquest: 2:34pm On Jan 06, 2023
NwekeUG:
Nigerian porn star, Afrocandy has shared throwback photos of when she was still a "good wife", IGBERETV reports.

Afrocandy shared the photos on her Instagram page. She revealed that the photos were taken around 2002 after visiting a friend after a church service.

She wrote;

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDjXm7tQS_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
*smirk*
Celebrities › Re: Porn Star Afrocandy Shares Throwback Photos Of When She Was A 'Good Wife' by Konquest: 1:57pm On Jan 06, 2023
NwekeUG:
Nigerian porn star, Afrocandy has shared throwback photos of when she was still a "good wife", IGBERETV reports.

Afrocandy shared the photos on her Instagram page. She revealed that the photos were taken around 2002 after visiting a friend after a church service.

She wrote;



https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDjXm7tQS_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
U.S.-based... Frozen in time and space.
Celebrities › Re: Davido Has Completed The Marriage Rites Of Chioma by Konquest:
sissoko89:
Igbo Amaka


https://www.instagram.com/p/CnCLRZ0MaDs/?igshid=OGQ2MjdiOTE=
This is a FAKE story from a non-credible source that made the
NL front page!

First off, the young lady, Chioma
Rowland is from Delta State (Delta North or Anioma axis) based on all the media reports I've read in the past about her. Why is Imo State featuring here as her father's state?


Stop the falsehoods.
Romance › Re: This Whole Redpill Movement Is Anti African by Konquest:
sukkot:
sounds like you are the lost one. here is a quote from real redpill white men and here is the source



https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2020/09/07/take-the-redpill-understanding-the-allure-of-conspiratorial-thinking-among-
proud-boys/
How's it going Sukkot? [the Grand master of the entire Lekki Peninsula, and the Orunmila of Eden]... Lol.

You are doing well here with your use of dialectics to discuss this. An insightful topic on TRP!

From around the year 2015, I was surprised to see these younger NL guys misusing the term "alpha male." They think it has to do with maltreating and crushing women... but it's NOT!

As far back as the late 1990s, I had come across that term on askmen a male oriented site, and it simply has to do with a man taking charge of all aspects of his life, at work and in his long-term relationships. Being a leader for the benefit of all. This is distinct from a jerk or even a lone wolf. Jerks are the deadbeat types of guys who also think treating women very badly equates with being a leader like a true alpha male, but it isn't!

I had to correct the bastardisation of that alpha male term on a thread convo a few years ago and it resonated with some of those on that thread.


Have a great month ahead!

Cheers!

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