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You folks will be surprise when Jonathan will decamp to APC and will be offered to bear their flag... By the way; happy new year to ilu{mu}gu.nboy and odua.boy; the hardened tribalists of the 2013.

Tribalist of the year; where are you come and devour the thread... Ilu{mu}gu.nboy...

Give it up for Ilu{mu}gu.nboy the crowned tribalist for 2013.. he
has displaced Bluetooth and Oduaboy..

Give it up for Ilu{mu}gu.nboy the crowned tribalist for 2013.. he
has displaced Bluetooth..

Give it up for Ilu{mu}gu.nboy the crowned tribalist for 2013.. he
has displaced Bluetooth..

Give it up for Ilu{mu}gu.nboy the crowned tribalist for 2013.. he has displaced Bluetooth..

'SMH' Crew and '.' Crew'

Btw; ilu{mu}gunboy is the tribalist of the year; he has displaced Bluetooth.....

'SMH' Crew and '.' Crew'

Btw; ilu{mu}gunboy is the tribalist of the year.

Papa Ajasco and Family; Willie Willie don die... Lol...

sheryf01: Utter rubbish!! As a head of state and a whole C in C,y not ignore and address some or all the issues concerned on his monthly national address on tv or radio without trying to vindicate himself. I actually loved this man but now I av lost all respect for him and now also,I truly believe that he's bn surrounded by bunch of inexperienced,selfish,power mongering imbeciles. To crown it all,he (they) dint even address all allegations atlst with an intended professionalism/statemandhip after taking all the time in the world to respond. Has e forgotten that its only majority of the poor as it is in Nigeria that justify his performance and not all that rubbish Okonjo is reporting on charts as if it reduced the price of garri ijebu/red garri/akamu for the ordinary citizenry. I wish I had time like him,I wuld av replied him and addressed all his childish remarks on behalf of Obansanjo despite my hatred for him. God save Nigeria from ki dergaten rulers abi supposedly leaders. SMH.

Another gullible Nigerian; Stay there and wait for the govt to help you impregnate your wife; They are already organising "Mass Wedding" in some northern states; maybe the Federal Govt. Will soon embark on "Mass Feeding".
The major problem with some nigerians is being silly and naïve; because you are a {half baked} graduate; so its a most that govt must employ you? Think of how the Government can GAIN from you and not the other way round. Enough Said!!!

JulianBond007: too much of thinking is bad for your health. You need a medical test.

@ post, I did not seen anything reasonable in Jonathan's letter. He should have ignored than not addressing Obasanjo's letter. He has failed completely.

I guess you read the ten reasons why the letter has to be replied?

munky: I think we should tell ourselves the truth. More than half of Nigerians are well below the poverty line. In Nigeria hotels pay attendants 10,000 Naira a month. salesgirls are paid 7000 Naira. I see truck pushers, pkof pkof sellers, ice cream sellers etc. these people don't earn more than 15000 Naira a month. Forget all these lies thats been peddled around. The reality on ground is so dire. parents are fending for grown men and women. We can argue back and forth about all these, but I know all these are just paper development. I believe if we have stable electricity and security Nigeria will be really great but till then lets be honest with ourselves

Your name says it all{monkey} some one earning #15000 per month...divide #15000 by 31 and convert to dollars.

I guess it time for many psychopath here to swallow their words
According to reports, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has finally admitted to being the author of the infamous 11-page letter to her father, former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
She reportedly spoke to Vanguard yesterday about claims that the letter was not written by her.
When asked if it was true she never wrote the letter, she says:
"No, no, no, that is not true. How can you live by social media?
That is part of the problem with Nigeria, people want to be flying rumours. I have not told anybody o! It is early morning here and I just woke up and if I were you I would just ignore them," Senator Obasanjo said.
"People are calling me and telling me that they called Baba but if I say I am not talking to someone (her father), how can you say you called the person and the person will tell you what is on my mind?"
she asked. Giving reasons on why she broke off, she said that after a break from relating with Obasanjo, she found out days ago that her father would not change from the manipulative person she had known all along.
"The whole of last year I didn't speak to him and I just started
speaking to him recently, and the last time he was trying to manipulate me to say, this, say that. I can't be saying no when you say no.
"The last time I spoke to him was three days ago and I decided
that I was not going to speak to him again after that. That was the communication through which I realized that this man would never change from manipulations for himself."
Dismissing her unsolicited canvassers on social media, she said:
"I was surprised that they would say that they called Baba, and I
said to myself, are these people mad? How can you call the person that I said I am not talking to, to ask him whether I wrote a letter or not and he is going to speak for me?
"Nobody can say that I told him that I didn't write it. I am not a
liar. I will not back away from what I wrote and there is nothing
that is there that is a lie. In the last four years how many of them have spoken to me? They are all mad people," she said.

Source: m.naij.com/news/54690.html

Less than 24 hours after the office of Rivers State Deputy Governor, Mr. Tele Ikuru, was bombed by unidentified persons, the office of Justice Charles Wali was also bombed on December 18, 2013, at about 3 p.m., a day after he ruled that Mr. Evans Bipi should stop parading himself as the Speaker of Rivers House of Assembly.
An eyewitness revealed some cars at the parking lot of the Judge and part of the administrative block of the judge's office on Omoku Road, Ahoada, were affected. According to P.M.News, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, the Commissioner of
information and Communications, confirmed the incident. She expressed worry of the second bombing in the state in two days, showing a comeback of criminal elements.
Mrs. Semenitari wondered why some few powerful politicians are backing bad elements to throw the state into its dark days.
{All these propaganda to gain public sympathy; these idiots should be ashamed of their selves; imagine throwing explosions in their own premises to make it look like someone else; we are looking forth to the day that Amaechi will be shot by a Sniper}
Source:m.naij.com/news/54619.html

agbameta: Sitting a non functioning dummy decoration in the middle of a room and some goofy clowns standing next to it must be a major world class feat and wonderful achievement....


lmao. You people are something else...

Slowpoke like you; you expect to see a jet fighter there or maybe a rocket...

andyanders: Is she older than your mother? Eddiot like you. Get out of this thread.

I beleive your mother never had any female girl.

Sadist like you without parental upbringing will be the first to insult people's family; OP took it as a joke with a giggle and you are here fooling yourself. The other monikers that told the OP that she is Pretty did you quote and thank them. Ode {By the way its 'believe' and not 'beleive'. Oya correct yourself}

Any critical thinker will know that the whole scenario was stage managed... From the content of the letter prior to how she addressed her father while saying that this is the last time she will ever write/communicate with him and the "direct attack on Jonathan" says it all. Obasanjo told her to write the same letter and deny it to accrue cheap point and public sympathy... Most Nigerian are Wiser than they think.. Same thing with the Explosion of the Deputy Governor's Office in River states. All these attempt are to bring the president to limelight as CLUELESS and DESPERATE..Nigerians Be Wiser.

Next attempt will be mis-shooting Amechi with a Sniper to prove their points.. Desperados.

50calibre: Shut up!! Don't you think? On a scale of preference, should drones come ahead of the basic needs of average Nigerians? How about a space program, I'm sure you'd like it too right? You have to crawl before you walk.

This project was just another way to siphon money, wait till you see how much was channeled towards its funding.

Lets wait & see how functional the drones will be.

So all Nigerian should be fed first before we proceed with Technology; I guess your father bought a Bentley first before marrying your mother.... Think of what you can do for Nigeria and not what Nigeria can do for you.

funshint: See your life; why don't U̶̲̥̅̊ tell people to go and eat drone. Infact your mumu stinks to high heaven. Oya run back into your cage *flips koboko. Bingo!
N.B:- so much pomp just to launch a wooden plane model#9jaDrone. Smh!

From your delusional state of mind; I guess your saint acclaimed APC can woo for Prophet T. B Joshua after they are done with Atiku Abubakar cos you all need a magician to rule nigeria and not a president.. What is a government by Magicians called?

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has disclosed that it has no plans of calling off its 2-months old strike which it embarked on in October.
National Publicity Secretary, Mr Clement Chirman, who disclosed this in Jos on Monday said the strike would not be called off until their demands were met by the government. He also expressed concern over the government's attitude towards resolving the issues since the strike began two months ago.
According to him, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union met at the Labour House in Abuja on December 12, 2013 to review the progress made so far on the negotiation with
government and concluded that the government was not serious
about resolving issues with the union.
It was also observed that "the seeming preference for university education over polytechnic education in Nigeria by government is disappointing considering that polytechnic graduates have
competed favourably well with their university counterparts at workplaces."
He said: "The polytechnics are demanding only N20 billion as
against the universities whose demands run into trillions of naira, yet the government has maintained a cold attitude to our relatively small demand.
"The government has deliberately refused to sign and release the
White Paper of the visitation panel to the federal polytechnics
about one year after the visitation

"Everybody want its own share of the Oyel Money; NUT is already warming up to embark on their own strike including Academic Staff Union of College of Education and Monotechnics".

Source: m.naij.com/news/54469.html

Lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday debunked presidency's claim that the call for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan amounted to treason.
They claimed that charges of incompetence were currencies for traffic by the opposition in a democracy. They were dismissive of the threats of a treason charge from the Presidency as they asserted that impeachment was a part of the democratic process.
The APC Minority Whip, Samson Osagie, flayed the threat describing it as empty.
He said: "It's an empty threat. Impeachment is a constitutional process by which a parliament removes from office a president, vice president, governor or deputy governor.
"It cannot amount to treason because it's not an unconstitutional
means to change government.
"What the Presidency should do is to respond as honestly as possible to all the issues of constitutional breaches flying everywhere through various letters."
It has also been revealed that APC, was yet to mobilise its members in the National Assembly to commence the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan despite its call on Sunday on the legislators to commence the removal of the President.
Source: m.naij.com/news/54457.html

Wow; my first post on Nairaland made front page... Thanks to the MODs who attached the pictures for me because I couldn't attach pictures due to " Mobile Telecommunication Nightmare(MTN)" so I have to drop the links... What more can I say than Bleep MTN.

We the north of Nigeria are ready for a separation process
which will either involve regionalism or total disintegration.

On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I'm in support of BREAK
UP. Because most Nigerian minds are full of hatred,
sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences and tribalism. Some
are calling for revolution, but instead of loosing lives and
property; let the romance end. Also if the 2015 election will result
to loss of lives and property, the romance should end before then,
Please!

Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up is long
overdue. Why can some have freedom to perform their religious
rites while some are deprived? I can't remain at home on Fridays
like Christians do Sundays, Marital dossiers is only emphasized for
only one wife & four children. Economically, we are considered
parasites because they refused to revamp agriculture. They
refused to explore oil deposits in more than five places in my
region. Let us break so that we have fresh air.

Musa Maiunguwa: I beg it's long overdue! Let's break up anyhow
regardless of the consequences. I want to be governed by ISLAMIC
LAW not this Infidel system of government. I hate to be governed
by DRUNKARDS.
These comments were the prevalent type of response from
Northerners on facebook to my earlier article on the subject,
"Nigeria: Do We Need To Break This Up?"
A majority of northern masses are now making this call as
situations keep deteriorating in the nation and undeserved ethnic
insults and ethnic torment has become the order of the day from
certain quarters in Nigeria. Additionally, it appears that Nigeria as
formatted and the perceived disenfranchisement of certain
aspects of the South, justify and subject us and Nigeria as a whole
to a most terrible regime that is unable to secure life in the north
and yield for us the social, economic and developmental dividends
of democracy; as poverty reigns at its highest level in the north
which is unfairly economically disadvantaged.


Today, Nigeria has 100 million poor, however there is an uneven
distribution of the poverty with the South doing more favorably,
whereas the north suffers the most with its level of poor as high as
80% living under a dollar a day in many states, this compares to
the south that has levels from 20-50%. This level of poverty in the
north exceeds the level in neighboring Mali, Chad and Niger, all
sharing the northern ecological and cultural demographics.
Trading blame as to who and what military and civilian dictatorial
and usurpist regime caused this high level of poverty is puerile,
meaningless and disingenuous; and it contributes nothing towards
addressing the real and present epic crisis. Also, asserting that
because northern dictators have ruled the nation for 60% of its
independent life over 40% Southern rule is meaningless and does
not solve the deadly poverty situation.
The ordinary masses are suffering. We gain absolutely nothing
from Nigeria's oil, apart from what we buy of it at the pumps at a
price above the global mean, and rather we suffer from oppression
and terror as a consequence of, and thanks to bloody oil money.
Only the cabal enjoy from the current state of Nigeria. Let it be
known that the voices of many so-called northern leaders, which
are obviously the loudest, do not represent the sentiments of us
suffering masses, wrecked with poverty and lack of opportunity.
These 'northern elders' are part of a national cabal that exploits
and extorts the nation. These cabal obviously have no honest
interest in our region as can clearly be seen by their lack of
investment in the north, building all their factories in the South.
We the real people of the north are eager for autonomy of our
region. This is our position.
The landlocked north is clearly disadvantaged. None of the
regimes provided the transportation networks to link the north to
Nigeria's ports as would have been the basic and smallest
requirement to re-establish a northern economy.
Our agriculture industry has been left to decay. Our textile
industry has been completely abandoned, as we suffer from the
'curse' of oil and the illusion of Nigeria's wealth from a mono-
economy, which has satisfied and favored only a set of greedy
cabal without regional distinction, north, east, west or south. We
see regionalism with the plan of possible disintegration as an
urgent next best step towards a northern cultural and economic
awakening.
Many of us across Nigeria now agree that military dictator; Aguiyi
Ironsi made an error on 24 May 1966, when he released Decree No.
34 which dissolved the regions.

Excerpt: "The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the
last vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past, and to
produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective
of the National Military government, and indeed of every true
Nigerian, namely, national unity. The highlights of this Decree are
as follows: The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped
into a number of territorial areas called provinces. . . . Nigeria
ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It now
becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria."
We hope Nigerians in South territories share our sentiments and will be happy to peacefully and respectfully discuss modalities of separation into economically independent regions which will test and pave a path for emotional, marital, economical, military and other national related changes and challenges necessary for possible separation in the future.

By Peredrino Brimah

Source:m.naij.com/news/54367.html

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It was a Herculean task getting Taiyelolu to grant Saturday Tribune an interview because, according to her, she had already spoken at length with a popular Yoruba magazine which she claimed only used her story for economic reasons. “Where is the assistance they promised would come my way as a result of the interview I granted them?”

Her father-in-law, Mr Raufu Gbadamosi, also was not favourably disposed to Taiyelolu granting another press interview. He showed disapproval when he shook his head, disappeared into his room and then reappeared with a cap and just exited the house.

When she finally opened up, it turned out that nothing could be more bizarre than Taiyelolu’s story. She and her twin brother, Kehinde, grew up with their father in a flat at the Ajah area of Lagos. They led a relatively comfortable life in the house where they only depended on generator as the only source of electricity. Although their father was not engaged in any kind of work, he provided for them.

“My father was not working. He never left the house except on a few occasions at night. But if I asked for N50, 000, he gave it to me. We had no visitors and we visited nobody,” she said.

All they had to do were sleep, eat and watch home videos.

Asked about her mother, she said she and her twin brother grew up to know only their father. They did not see any woman with him. To go out of the house, their father gave the twins a small gourd each which they simply clasped to their palms and then they burst out on the road and board vehicles to the market to purchase food items like wheat, semovita, macaroni, spaghetti and rice. They never consumed amala (yam flour meal).

On a particular day, however, Taiyelolu forgot to take her gourd and as she stepped out of the house, what confronted her was a cemetery with a lot of vaults and a bushy environment.

She screamed and dashed back inside. Then, her father told her to pick the gourd, atona (guide) as it was called. As she clasped the object to her palm and then ventured out, this time, she found herself on a busy tarred road.

Another incident which frightened her happened in the night. “My father went out whenever he wanted but it was always around 10.00 or 11.00 p.m. He would not take anyone along with him. But there was a day I begged him to take me out to where he usually went and he obliged. When we got there, something strange and fearful happened. It was like a canteen and there, I saw a small cooking stand with a big pot on it without firewood or fire and the food was boiling. I asked my father how it was possible for food to cook without firewood and fire and the woman selling the food became angry and slapped me. She asked my father who I was; that I was not part of them but only wanted to expose their secrets. My father begged her and we left the place,” she remarked.

After the incident, her father refused to take her out again so that she would not be privy to the secrets and circumstances surrounding their true identities. Since then, she refused to take food from her father, but only cooked her own food.

By the time Taiyelolu came of age, her father did not allow her the choice of a husband, but asked her to marry someone identified as Abdulazeez. The man moved in with them and behaved like her father.

Soon, she got pregnant. And when she eventually went into labour, she said her father went out, brought back a particular kind of leaf which he applied on her navel and she was delivered of a baby boy without any complication. Her father, who acted as the midwife, took care of the placenta. She bore her two other boys in the same manner. Her children were named Abdul Qayum (now eight years old), ‘Rokeeb (four) and Jamiu (two and a half).

But what revealed the true identities of her father and husband? She disclosed that all the jealously guarded secrets began to come to the open when Kehinde declined to marry a lady recommended by their father.

They continued their routine life until their father considered Kehinde mature enough to get married and brought a lady home for him. But Kehinde was said to have refused outright to marry “one of them.” Taiyelolu said she asked him what he meant by “one of them” but he told her not to bother as she was only a woman who was oblivious of what was happening.

“One day, Kehinde was eating and he suddenly coughed, slumped and died. My father did not feel any sorrow as a result of this. He buried my brother in an unknown place. When I asked him about where he buried him, he said some Muslim clerics had come to pray over his body and he had buried it. Not convinced by his response, I said to him: “When I had my babies, no clerics came for the naming, but they came for the burial of my brother?’”

Disturbed by the shocking death of her brother, Taiyelolu confronted her father that she wanted to know his family. That decision marked the beginning of her journey into a new world.

“Eventually, my father agreed to take me and the children to his hometown, Offa, Kwara State. He said he was from the imam’s family. When we almost got to his family house, he said he wanted to check on someone close by and pointed the house to us. He asked us to ask for Alhaji Hussein Salmoni, his uncle. When we met his uncle and explained ourselves to him, he was taken aback. He eventually showed us his grave. He said my father died over 20 years ago,” she said.

Amid bewilderment, Taiyelolu left for the only place she knew as home, Ajah, Lagos, but could not locate their house again. What worsened her situation was the mysterious disappearance of the gourd which her father had given her and could have guided her back to the house.

She went to Ilorin in an effort to locate her mother’s family house which her father told her was Isale Koto. She managed to strike up conversations with some people who introduced her to a radio presenter who narrated her story on air. She also met a lady who she followed to Ede, Osun State, and stayed with for about a month. It was while in that city that she traced her husband’s parents.

She claimed that she was walking by the road one day when a car parked by her side and the driver told her that it was her birthday and in order to felicitate with her, gave her a handset with a SIM card. Taiyelolu is uncertain of her age, but assumed that she could be more than 20.

“It was when I got to ‘this world’ that I realised that I am too young to have given birth to three children with the fourth on the way. Also, I did not know that there is a place where people struggled to earn a living until I got here. It saddens me that I now wake up every day with no money.”

She said she never attended a school, but that her father had the knowledge of the Qur’an and had western education. According to her, her father was the one who taught her and her brother Arabic and a bit of western education,” she said. It is obvious that Taiyelolu is truly versed in the recitation of the Qur’an. Her children now attend a primary school in the village.

On how she got to Tonkere, she said she went to observe the evening prayer at a mosque in Ede when, after prayers, she was chatting with the imam and an old man appeared and told her in clear terms that she was suffering.

The man then asked her why she was obstinate about returning the children with her to Tonkere, her husband’s place of birth. The man said if she refused to do so within three days, something unpleasant would become of the children and the man disappeared.

Then she asked the imam if he saw the old man who just interrupted their conversation, but the imam said no. She then collected N200 from the cleric, fetched her children and the four of them, at about after 8.00 p.m., boarded a motorcycle to Akoda junction for N50.

At the junction, she asked another cyclist to take her to Tonkere but the man, because of the fact that it was late in the day, charged her N1000, whereas she only had N150. But it was necessary that the children got to Tonkere that night because their father, who was deceased, demanded that she took them to his people.

As she pleaded with the cyclist, a car parked by them and mediated in the matter. The driver asked the cyclist to convey the woman and her children to their destination for N500, which was the usual fare. The man gave the cyclist the N500, wrote down the motorcycle’s number and warned the cyclist to take the passengers to no place but the mosque at Tonkere.

As they alighted from the motocycle at Tonkere, Taiyelolu said her husband appeared to her physically.

She said he pointed to the shop opposite the mosque as his mother’s and the third building to the shop as his father’s house, saying “I should ask for his father, Pa Gbadamosi. As they conversed, her husband said a lady who was passing by, Tosin, was his sister and he called her.” Between the time Taiyelolu looked in the direction of the lady and looked back in her husband’s direction, he had disappeared.

The lady is with her husband’s people now, but they did not receive her with open arms because the aged parents of Abdulazeez were confused about how their first son, who died at a tender age, could have fathered three children. They are suspicious of their supposed daughter-in-law and are acting cautiously around her. But she dismissed any suspicious of band motives asking why she would want to lie herself into a poor home.

Also, Taiyelolu’s mother-in-law, the Iyalode of Tonkere, had been down with stroke and the father-in-law is a farmer. Financially, they are not capable of supporting Taiyelolu and her children.

The lady, who said the clothes she uses now were given to her, added that they were rags, compared to the ones she wore in her father’s house. What pointed to the fact that she could truly be from another world was the way she was lamenting openly about the treatment meted out to her by her in-laws. She said if she had made up her story, rather than bringing her children to the old mud house, she would have taken them to the governor’s house. The mud house, she said, did not compare with her father’s house in “the other world.” She said she only left her father’s house with a black bag and a Qur’an, which are still in her possession.

She also claimed to have dreamt of her father once, who was all tears, lamenting with his finger in his mouth that he warned his daughter not to embark on this journey. She said her husband pleaded with her in her dreams each time his people offended her. She said her husband said the reason he insisted she took his children to his parents was for his parents to have the joy of raising his children as they did not have such opportunity with him even as a first child.

The parents said they could not remember where they buried Abdulazeez.

The survival of heavily pregnant Taiyelolu and the future of her three children pose a challenge to her. She said the aged parents of her “ghost” husband could no longer work, hence, the fate of her children hung in the balance.

When she called our reporter last Monday, she said she was having signs that she would soon put to bed. She, therefore, appealed to the Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola; his wife, Alhaja Sherifat, other well-meaning Nigerians, including corporate organisations and non-governmental organisations to come to her aid by empowering her so that her future and that of her three children abandoned could be secure.

What about her husband? She says he these days appears only in her dreams.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/27999-fathered-by-a-ghost,-married-to-another-ghost.html

The story narrated by a 20-year-old Taiyelolu Abdulrahman can be used as a movie script, for sure. According to her, she was raised by her father's ghost and was impregnated with her three children by a man who should have passed away long ago.
The Nigerian Tribune had an opportunity to interview the young woman and to learn her story: Before now, chilling stories had been told of individuals who continued to experience life even after their clear deaths. The Yoruba call them Akudaaya. To the Hausa, they are Satalwa. Time after time, there were stories of how the dead, who were supposed to be six feet under the ground, would still stick around on the surface of the earth and lead lives as normal, regular human beings albeit in faraway places where their chances of bumping into either families or acquaintances who had previously bade them goodbye from this world are virtually zero.
Many have dismissed such stories as fictions, hallucinations or fabrications, but the recent experience of a 20-year-old Taiyelolu Abdulrahman, whose father, who died almost 20 years ago, nurtured till she was married to another dead or "ghost" husband, is lending credence to such weird developments.
It was a Herculean task getting Taiyelolu to grant Saturday Tribune an interview because, according to her, she had already spoken at length with a popular Yoruba magazine which she claimed only used her story for economic reasons. "Where is the assistance they promised would come my way as a result of the interview I granted them?"
Her father-in-law, Mr. Raufu Gbadamosi, also was not favourably disposed to Taiyelolu granting another press interview. He showed disapproval when he shook his head, disappeared into his room and then reappeared with a cap and just exited the house. When she finally opened up, it turned out that nothing could be more bizarre than Taiyelolu's story. She and her twin brother, Kehinde, grew up with their father in a flat at the Ajah area of Lagos. They led a relatively comfortable life in the house where they only depended on generator as the only source of electricity. Although their father was not engaged in any kind of work, he provided for them.
"My father was not working. He never left the house except on a few occasions at night. But if I asked for N50, 000, he gave it to me. We had no visitors and we visited nobody," she said. All they had to do were sleep, eat and watch home videos. Asked about her mother, she said she and her twin brother grew up to know only their father. They did not see any woman with him. To go out of the house, their father gave the twins a small gourd each which they simply clasped to their palms and then they burst out on the road and board vehicles to the market to purchase food items like wheat, semovita, macaroni, spaghetti and rice.
They never consumed amala (yam flour meal). On a particular day, however, Taiyelolu forgot to take her gourd and as she stepped out of the house, what confronted her was a cemetery with a lot of vaults and a bushy environment. She screamed and dashed back inside. Then, her father told her to pick the gourd, atona (guide) as it was called. As she clasped the object to her palm and then ventured out, this time, she found herself on a busy tarred road. Another incident which frightened her happened in the night. "My father went out whenever he wanted but it was always around 10.00 or 11.00 p.m. He would not take anyone along with him. But there was a day I begged him to take me out to where he usually went and he obliged. When we got there, something strange and fearful happened. It was like a canteen and there, I saw a small cooking stand with a big pot on it without firewood or fire and the food was boiling. I asked my father how it was possible for food to cook without firewood and fire and the woman selling the food became angry and slapped me. She asked my father who I was; that I was not part of them but only wanted to expose their secrets. My father begged her and we left the place," she remarked.
After the incident, her father refused to take her out again so that she would not be privy to the secrets and circumstances
surrounding their true identities. Since then, she refused to take food from her father, but only cooked her own food.
By the time Taiyelolu came of age, her father did not allow her the choice of a husband, but asked her to marry someone identified as Abdulazeez. The man moved in with them and behaved like her father.
Soon, she got pregnant. And when she eventually went into labour, she said her father went out, brought back a particular kind of leaf which he applied on her navel and she was delivered of a baby boy without any complication. Her father, who acted as the midwife, took care of the placenta. She bore her two other boys in the same manner. Her children were named Abdul Qayum (now eight years old), 'Rokeeb (four) and Jamiu (two and a half).
But what revealed the true identities of her father and husband? She disclosed that all the jealously guarded secrets began to come to the open when Kehinde declined to marry a lady recommended by their father.
They continued their routine life until their father considered
Kehinde mature enough to get married and brought a lady home for him. But Kehinde was said to have refused outright to marry "one of them." Taiyelolu said she asked him what he meant by "one of them" but he told her not to bother as she was only a woman who was oblivious of what was happening.
"One day, Kehinde was eating and he suddenly coughed, slumped and died. My father did not feel any sorrow as a result of this. He buried my brother in an unknown place. When I asked him about where he buried him, he said some Muslim clerics had come to pray over his body and he had buried it. Not convinced by his response, I said to him: "When I had my babies, no clerics came for the naming, but they came for the burial of my brother?'"
Disturbed by the shocking death of her brother, Taiyelolu confronted her father that she wanted to know his family. That decision marked the beginning of her journey into a new world. "Eventually, my father agreed to take me and the children to his hometown, Offa, Kwara State. He said he was from the imam's family. When we almost got to his family house, he said he wanted to check on someone close by and pointed the house to us. He asked us to ask for Alhaji Hussein Salmoni, his uncle. When we met his uncle and explained ourselves to him, he was taken aback. He eventually showed us his grave. He said my father died over 20 years ago," she said.
Amid bewilderment, Taiyelolu left for the only place she knew as home, Ajah, Lagos, but could not locate their house again. What worsened her situation was the mysterious disappearance of the gourd which her father had given her and could have guided her back to the house. She went to Ilorin in an effort to locate her mother's family house which her father told her was Isale Koto. She managed to strike up conversations with some people who introduced her to a radio presenter who narrated her story on air. She also met a lady who she followed to Ede, Osun State, and stayed with for about a month. It was while in that city that she traced her husband's parents.
She claimed that she was walking by the road one day when a car parked by her side and the driver told her that it was her birthday and in order to felicitate with her, gave her a handset with a SIM card. Taiyelolu is uncertain of her age, but assumed that she could be more than 20.
"It was when I got to 'this world' that I realised that I am too young to have given birth to three children with the fourth on the way. Also, I did not know that there is a place where people struggled to earn a living until I got here. It saddens me that I now wake up every day with no money." She said she never attended a school, but that her father had the
knowledge of the Qur'an and had western education. According to her, her father was the one who taught her and her brother Arabic and a bit of western education," she said. It is obvious that Taiyelolu is truly versed in the recitation of the Qur'an. Her
children now attend a primary school in the village. On how she got to Tonkere, she said she went to observe the evening prayer at a mosque in Ede when, after prayers, she was chatting with the imam and an old man appeared and told her in clear terms that she was suffering.
The man then asked her why she was obstinate about returning the children with her to Tonkere, her husband's place of birth. The man said if she refused to do so within three days, something unpleasant would become of the children and the man disappeared.
Then she asked the imam if he saw the old man who just interrupted their conversation, but the imam said no. She then collected N200 from the cleric, fetched her children and the four of them, at about after 8.00 p.m., boarded a motorcycle to Akoda junction for N50.
At the junction, she asked another cyclist to take her to Tonkere but the man, because of the fact that it was late in the day, charged her N1,000, whereas she only had N150. But it was necessary that the children got to Tonkere that night because their father, who was deceased, demanded that she took them to his people.
As she pleaded with the cyclist, a car parked by them and mediated in the matter. The driver asked the cyclist to convey the woman and her children to their destination for N500, which was the usual fare. The man gave the cyclist the N500, wrote down the motorcycle's number and warned the cyclist to take the passengers to no place but the mosque at Tonkere.
As they alighted from the motorcycle at Tonkere, Taiyelolu said her husband appeared to her physically.
She said he pointed to the shop opposite the mosque as his mother's and the third building to the shop as his father's house, saying "I should ask for his father, Pa Gbadamosi. As they conversed, her husband said a lady who was passing by, Tosin, was his sister and he called her." Between the time Taiyelolu looked in the direction of the lady and looked back in her husband's direction, he had disappeared.
The lady is with her husband's people now, but they did not receive her with open arms because the aged parents of
Abdulazeez were confused about how their first son, who died at a tender age, could have fathered three children. They are suspicious of their supposed daughter-in-law and are acting
cautiously around her. But she dismissed any suspicious of band motives asking why she would want to lie herself into a poor home. Also, Taiyelolu's mother-in-law, the Iyalode of Tonkere, had been down with stroke and the father-in-law is a farmer. Financially, they are not capable of supporting Taiyelolu and her children. The lady, who said the clothes she uses now were given to her, added that they were rags, compared to the ones she wore in her father's house. What pointed to the fact that she could truly be from another world was the way she was lamenting openly about the treatment meted out to her by her in-laws. She said if she had made up her story, rather than bringing her children to the old mud house, she would have taken them to the governor's house.
The mud house, she said, did not compare with her father's house in "the other world." She said she only left her father's house with a black bag and a Qur'an, which are still in her possession. She also claimed to have dreamt of her father once, who was all tears, lamenting with his finger in his mouth that he warned his daughter not to embark on this journey. She said her husband pleaded with her in her dreams each time his people offended her.
She said her husband said the reason he insisted she took his children to his parents was for his parents to have the joy of raising his children as they did not have such opportunity with him even as a first child.
The parents said they could not remember where they buried Abdulazeez. The survival of heavily pregnant Taiyelolu and the future of her three children pose a challenge to her. She said the aged parents of her "ghost" husband could no longer work, hence, the fate of her children hung in the balance.

When she called our reporter last Monday, she said she was having signs that she would soon put to bed. She, therefore, appealed to the Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola; his wife, Alhaja Sherifat, other well-meaning Nigerians, including corporate organisations and non-governmental organisations to come to her aid by empowering her so that her future and that of her three children abandoned could be secure.
What about her husband? She says he these days appears only in
her dreams.
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@OP I guess you are older than your age... Cos from the picture you should be taking care of your children and not her on Nairaland posting pictures...IMO..{No hating}

Most Edo people are very funny all clamoring for public sympathy, #2M or instant job compensation; lets just wait and see how it goes... I heard from NEWS on Radio last night that one Edo man who was an Okada Rider wants to terminate his life because they banned it in Edo state... He poured Petrol all over his body and walk across the street to beg for matches... Just imagine?

Politicians fighting Politicians{G5 Govs};
Media House fighting Media House{Premium Times & Punch};
Bishops fighting Bishops{ CAN suspension};
Which Way Nigeria?

Just a word for the Techno [Andriod] Users. An Empty Vassel makes the LOUDEST NOISE. They just want to publicize it so that the phone might gain some respect. We all knew how it started with 'China phones' people were criticizing Nokia until their phone speakers starting busting while playing.

Just a word for the Techno [Andriod] Users. An Empty Vassel makes the LOUDEST NOISE. They just want to publicize it so that the phone might gain some respect. We all knew how it started witi 'China phones' people were criticizing Nokia until their phone speakers starting busting while playing.

Amack: Shame to all the people that support gov obi and Apga. People are migrating everyday to lagos because no good structure and roads. very tiny tiny okada road wey ada obi is doing there. No street light and trafic light in onistha nigth life is a history. wasted eight year of turture, no local gov election that is suppose to creat over 100,000 jods both direct and indirect. Many Youth are suppose to be cancellor by now. All Ada obi do is to buy old and refurbished latops for schools and the whole media will carry the news. Come to lagos and see what fashola is doing. interlock loads and brigdes every where.No road in Anambra to compare common IBA road that is double rail with street ligth which u no is a back yard road in lagos.

permit me to tell you why the Ibo are trooping to yourland The same thing that brought the Europeans to Africa and America 'to colonize and explore your economy' and 'send it back home'. When your people are able to control your economy they will grant your people their Independence. Fight for independence is eminent.

humblesteve: what is your state of origin zombie

all of them are from Lagos.