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I don't understand some people sha. Stats is stats. The main thing is what you can infer from the stats . Example, from these stats above is your governor making the best use of the IGR he managed to get or has your state been electing governors that are good in building road infrastructure over the years?

I pity vandals that will steal cables belonging to Band A customers

Let him start small. Fingering first, let him perfect the fingering technique. Next will be intimacy gadgets, he should be the one to use intimacy gadgets on you and throughout those small starts, guide him how to satisfy you encourage him to try his best and boost his ego/confidence when he does well. With time, he may get confidence boost to want to try more like giving head or just be contented with the compromise if he can't.

Then prostrating and kneeling down to greet is satanic too. And kneeling down to be prayed on by a pastor is satanic too. All this extremist pastors looking for what to make a sin.

I listened to the song, what I can say is that the song is not made for Nigerian audiences, so they shouldn't be feeling entitled to it. The R&B overshadows the Afrobeat.

The article is quite long, so I only posted the parts related to my take on the story.

My Take: Dude respected himself and dug himself out of the deepening friendzone pit that might have made her not consider a second look at what he meant to her.

TWO HIKERS ENCOUNTERED A RATTLESNAKE. THEN THEY FELL IN LOVE

...Manny, who was single, wondered if his connection with Laura might have romantic potential. Then Laura mentioned her boyfriend.

“I was like, ‘OK, this isn’t going to go anywhere romantically, that’s fine. But I may have a new buddy to go with me to the climbing gym,’ ” recalls Manny.

“And then, at the end of the hike, when we got to the parking lot, Laura asked for my number.”

“I felt like we were vibing, but in a friendship way,” says Laura. “I didn’t know anyone who was a climber in LA. So it was just cool for me to meet someone who had the same hobby.”

The two hikers exchanged details, promising to meet up and climb together some time soon

Climbing together
Manny and Laura at sunrise in Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

Manny and Laura kept to their word and arranged to go climbing a few weeks after the snake brought them together.

Afterward, they went out to eat. One of Manny’s uncles owns a restaurant in downtown LA, and he took Laura there for her first taste of real Mexican cuisine.

“Mexican food is not very authentic in Austria,” says Laura. “So it was cool that Manny could show me that.”

It wasn’t long before the two met up again .

“And that’s when we started having really real, deep conversations,” says Manny. “It wasn’t something superficial.”

For Manny, it was during this second get-together, that the reality sank in.

“I began to realize, ‘I think I may catch feelings if I keep going with this friendship – and that’s not good, because she obviously has a boyfriend, and I respect that,’” he says.

So at the end of their second get together, Manny was candid with Laura.

“I was like, ‘Hey, it’s been cool hanging out with you. But, the more I get to know you, the more I realize that there’s potential for me to catch feelings. I respect that you are in a relationship, and I don’t want to be that person. I don’t want to be that guy. So I think we should just not hang out anymore.’”

It was, says Manny, “a little extreme” to cut off the friendship altogether. But he felt it was the right decision.

“I didn’t see it as anything other than a friendship,” says Laura. “I was really devastated, because I felt like we had a good connection. I’d finally made a good friend here, and he didn’t want to see me anymore.”

After that, Manny tried to consign Laura to the past. He figured he’d never hear from her again – that soon enough she’d be back living in Europe. He deleted her number from his phone.

Brought back together
Several months passed. Occasionally Laura and Manny thought about one another, both feeling a little sad about the friendship that could have been.

Then, in early March 2020, Laura visited her boyfriend – who lived elsewhere in the United States – and the two called it quits. Things between them didn’t feel right anymore.

“I came back to LA after visiting him and then two days later, the lockdown happened,” recalls Laura.

The coronavirus pandemic had hit. Now the United States was shutting its borders. Laura had to make a decision – return to Europe or wait out the uncertainty in California.

“A lot of my friends were other international students, and most of them had already gone back,” says Laura. “I really debated about going back home, because it was hard without family, and I didn’t really know what’s going to happen and how bad this was really going to be. … But something inside me was like, ‘No. I don’t want to give up yet. I feel like I worked so hard to build something here.’ ”

So Laura decided to stay in California. The first few months of pandemic life passed by, and she struggled with loneliness.

“I felt like I didn’t have any friends in LA, no one,” says Laura. “And then at some point I was like, ‘Wait, what about Manny? We had such a good connection.’ ”

It was late June 2020 when Laura dropped the guy she’d met on the hike a message.

“I didn’t text him with the intention of, ‘I want to get started with something,’” says Laura. “I was just really in need of a good friend.”

Even though Manny had deleted Laura’s number, when the message popped up, he guessed right away who it was from. He was surprised but intrigued. He wrote back right away.

“Then we talked a little bit,” Manny recalls. “I didn’t ask directly, but I’m thinking, ‘Maybe Laura and her boyfriend broke up?’”

Laura soon volunteered that information, explaining she’d been single for the past few months.

Manny wasn’t sure his feelings for Laura were reciprocated, but he figured he was now free to explore a friendship with her without guilt. The two continued texting back and forth, and Manny and Laura’s ongoing text conversation became a bright spot in both their days.

In one of his texts, Manny mentioned was planning a camping trip to Yosemite National Park over the upcoming July 4 weekend. When Laura mentioned she’d never been to Yosemite, Manny invited her to join him.

“I’ve been to Yosemite so many times,” Manny told Laura. “It’s the most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion.”

“I’d love to come,’ said Laura.

And so together, Laura and Manny drove from Los Angeles to Yosemite. Their goal was to complete the challenging El Capitan hike – ascending to the top of the national park’s famous granite rock formation.

“It’s a pretty intense hike,” says Manny.

The two set up camp, then embarked on the El Capitan trail.

“During that hike, that’s when we really connected again. We started talking, having those deep conversations that I’d really, really enjoyed with Laura before,” says Manny. “That really solidified for me that what I was feeling before, it wasn’t a misjudgment.”

Laura was also struck by the depth of conversation, by how much she enjoyed Manny’s company.

“It was such a connecting experience that I also was like, ‘OK, I guess I’m feeling something else other than friendship here too now,’” she recalls...


To read the full story: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/hiking-strangers-rattlesnake-chance-encounters/index.html?

Ah!!! Rough person wey no dey take him mama play na who Speedy include inside insult. Wahala!

We live in a society where one has to let things slide or ignore some things so that there will be some sense of stability. The thing is that VDM doesn't let things slide or ignore certain issues eg religion. I guess that's the fresh perspective he gave to activism. And it comes off as excessive and sometimes unnecessary to the greater goal.

Look at me thinking Edo people will apply the same mentality that made them leave Oshiomole's APC and Obaseki's PDP and make Obi's LP win in their state during the last presidential election since Ighodalo of PDP exhibited a lot of Competence, Capacity and Character in the build up to the election. But alas, the sins of Obaseki affected PDP very negatively.

I am optimistic that the tough competition PDP and LP gives Edo APC will make Okpebholo not to be slow in giving good governance which will indeed benefit the people either way even if the most qualified candidate didn't win.
It's just like tough competitions like:
Enugu PDP from APGA, LP, APC
Anambra APGA from PDP,LP, APC
Lagos APC from PDP and LP,
Abia LP from PDP, APC, APGA
Ogun state probably needs this kind of heavy competition presently

Chai! At least LP won't be accused of dividing votes

Omo what pain me is not even that APC might be winning, but they might be winning with the dullest candidate around with barely any interviews except the BBC pidgin one, no debate attendance and clearly doesn't have the mental capacity for policy making. The standard of politicking in this country is slowly becoming low not to talk of standard of governance.

I thought Obidients were overreacting till I saw this her key points in an interview

I thought Obidients were overreacting till I saw this...her key points in an interview?!

All I see is bunch of politicians being civil in public. Being civil in public is a characteristic of an educated well trained human being. In the end they are all different based on their personalities and competency. It is up to you to choose either the compassionate one or the competent one or the one with integrity. PIDOM should hang in there, if he was doing what he was doing for politicians, it is common sense that he will be were they eat public money (government's side). Maybe if the two opposition politicians in the first pic form an alliance, he will get freed.

Picture of Sowore with Obi (for context)

Ikaeniyan0:
If he leak the US army schedule the way he leaked the Nigerian army schedule, he will spend at least 50 years in jail

Exactly, At least we didn't fall into the war trap like Ukraine and that is what counts.

How many times, LOL. Person wey dey chill for Ghana. Literally delayed a war till Nigerian government had sense by leaking army schedules, this new charges is a small thing.

In the past, I would have been against it, but seeing that APC doesn't want to change from how Buhari did things, I think a short-term solution like this might be necessary.

Nigerian men get their wahala.
1. They die earlier than their women
2. Some neglect their wives for side-chicks
3. Domestic violence nko? You can't run from your abusive husband because you depend on him
4. The drunkards and drug abusers among them nko? How can you rely on those ones?
5. Economy nko? Two heads is better than one when it comes to that one.
In summary, get your own money or at least have a good support system to fall back to.

I knew she will be arrested. Western countries are beginning to take hate motivated crimes serious and one being a black person doesn't exempt you from punishment. Ask Adeyinka Grandson how far.

Excuse me, is he going to delay the ones already in the system from writing SSCE with their older mates? Mind you, average age of secondary school graduates in most states apart from Lagos is 17 years, so where will the 16 and 17 year olds write their SSCE after their education flow is abruptly stopped till they are of age? Will they come back to their original schools or write external exams? You want to delay them so that brain rots like TikTok will finish their brain before they are eventually of age? The only senseful thing is to enforce it on JAMB UTME or more reasonably enforce it on those still in primary school to not enter secondary school till a certain age.

But she can be jailed just like Igbophobic Adeyinka Grandson was jailed in UK. I don't think Canada's anti-hate laws exempt anyone from punishment.

What pain me the most is how she drag Edo people into her hate. Her possible motivations to hate Yoruba people isn't a mystery given how divided our political landscape is, but she had to drag the people that successfully did an #Edo-no-be-Lagos campaign, the people that were arguably the biggest Obidient supporters in the South South, people that I have come to respect as more of independent thinkers than all the major tribes combined. Just like Adeyinka Grandson was jailed in U.K., she might be jailed herself, Good riddance for that.

Who remembers the Igbophobic Adeyinka Grandson from U.K.? The lady is the Yorubaphobic/Edophobic version of the guy. And like Adeyinka she won't escape jail, because woke countries have anti-hate laws and those law never exempts anyone from punishment.

It's hard not to think that Ighadalo is taking this one, He has huge technocrat vibes and is favoured by the zoning sentiments. Even the worry about him being a political godson doesn't even click because if Wike can be kicked out by Fubara, who is Obaseki that won't collect if he doesn't mind himself.

LOL, for an incident that happened in Gen Z mainstay; TikTok, I doubt even the Oba is aware. No need for Obi to call attention to what Obidients are clearly not involved in to begin with.

Why can't some politicians at least pretend to be democratically fair. You didn't see a non-political ally to appoint as Electoral chairman, it is another politician like yourself. Common sense is just not applied here.

Blood ke? When you want to be more associated with European Union but your Middle East behaviour still dey kampe.

Let doctor's fee be x
x + (x-100,000) = 120,000
x+x = 120,000 + 100,000
2x = 220,000
x = 220,000 / 2
x = 110, 000
Therefore, since parking cost 100,000 less than doctor's fees,
Parking cost = N110,000 - N100,000 = N10,000

No matter what happens, shall the South never reach the level of hunger that the North experienced which made groups like this not rear their head there because of the risk of collecting anger from hungry men.

Is it by force to be interviewed by Arise TV? Mr Man hasn't even been interviewed by either Channels TV or NTA Benin or TVC or even been to any debate but he wants to form David and Goliath untop Arise TV, LOL

Obey court order or go in large numbers to the state government house and protest there peacefully. Sanwo-Olu will be forced to come out and address the protesters in the second scenario. Those are the safest options from possible arrests for people who want to be cautious.