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Saidfx:
The solution is not skyrocket science, it is just to have at least 30% interest of the people at heart. Increase the salaries of all health workers, good benefits, huge pension and gratuity. Foolish people

They have stolen all the moneys needed to implement that.

It is time we take back our country from these greedy polithiefcians.

seguno2:
Please see below for starters and kindly read more on the subject matter.

Nonsense. Torture and lenient treatment of women and children are not war strategies.

I meant those like the barricade system Nigeria used in the civil war that resulted in the widespread hunger in the SE.

Brendaniel:
Lagos Taskforce Disperses Birthday Party As Organisers Block Road

Did the article talk about PH or Benin, are you well at all, you guys will never stick to what is in being discussed, we are talking about Lagos here which the person I quoted is talking about too, in Lagos Yorubas are the major if not only culprits on this matter

Yes, because we Yorubas are the owners of the land.

LordofNaija:
They have sold all their lands including street squares and play ground, they now block the roads to do owambe with proceeds from sale of land

Stale news. Tell us new things.

We will continue to sell the lands to you mugus, and when the time comes, we will collect them back.

onez:
A Yoruba was appointed as head of the state broadcasting service. An Hausa man is an adviser in Imo state.

Give names.

mightyhaze:
Even though southeast authorities are guilty of some of these accusations,but then,how many yoruba and Hausa live,work and pay taxes in the east .. how many yoruba and Hausa kids do you find schooling in the southeast, and making meaningful contributions there?

Because the Igbos tribal enclave, especially the cities, is already over-populated and choky, both for business and living, which makes it unattractive for other tribes to cope with. That's why even the Igbos were leaving the place in droves. Moreover the Igbos have deep seated tribal bias which other tribes find it difficult to tolerate, except the diehards.

seguno2:
Why are you so arrogant with your ignorance

Please teach me, I am open to learning.

wirinet:
Get your facts right. Gowon did not gift oil wells to anybody. The person that started gifting oil wells was IBB. IBB gifted oil wells to lots of people including Alakija, Adenuga and Abiola.

The person that gifted oil well to Danjuma was Abacha in 1998, just before he died.

SAPETRO is a Nigerian oil exploration and production company that was founded in 1995 by General TY Danjuma who, at that time, had more than 15 years’ experience in shipping and served seven years as Chairman of Agip Nigeria Plc.

The ministry of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria awarded the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 246 to SAPETRO in February 1998 for US$25 million. The block is deep offshore (water depths of 1,100-1,800 metres), it covers a total area of 2,590km2 (1,000 sq. miles) and is 120-160km (74.5-99.4 miles) off the coast of Nigeria. SAPETRO partnered with Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd. (TUPNI) and Brasoil Oil Services Company Nigeria Ltd. (Petrobras) to start planning for OPL246.

At a time when the price of oil was US$11-13 per barrel, SAPETRO was taking a big risk purchasing the OPL, especially due to the technical costs associated with exploring such a deep offshore block as 246. In 2005, however, SAPETRO received Oil Mining License (OML) 130 to mine on roughly half of OPL 246.

Therefore no oil well was gifted to Danjuma, he bought it.

[quote author=wirinet post=127218852]dGet your facts right. Gowon did not gift oil wells to anybody. The person that started gifting oil wells was IBB. IBB gifted oil wells to lots of people including Alakija, Adenuga and Abiola.

seguno2:
So what is stopping the Igbos from blackmailing and arm twisting other Nigerians with Biafra war crimes, as the Jews are doing for Europeans since 1945, and Rwandan Tutsis, led by Kagame are doing against the Hutus and the international community

You want to know why?

Because the Biafrans were the ones that started the war, and in war any battle strategy adopted to win it is permissible.

While in the Jews holocaust issue, they were not parties to the 2nd WW, but were just exterminated by a racist Hitler.

Also the Tutsis killed by the Hutus were not killed in any official declaration of war, but in an unpremiditated ethnic cleansing.

Bobloco:
But Tinubu can snatch, grab and run away with it

Yap. He is the latest geeboy in town. Wanna contest that?

jkpbestseries:
The way corruption and bad leadership is glorified in Nigeria. I think we should legalized it. I dedicate So Long A Letter to LP and their desperation.

You are wasting your time dedicating the book So Long A Letter to LP's Obidients. They won't read it, because they are mostly carton boys at Alaba Market and Computer Village, and can't read.

Now that LP vs APC fight is over, with triple KOs to LP.

Now LP is courting another bout with SC out of malice.

Let's see who will win.

Tranquility2345:
For her, it’s a job. You don’t have to be happy to do your job as long as you are cashing out…

Such an emotional sapping job.

It would have been better she rejected it.

orohbirodeysmel:
Drug baron ruling you is from which tribe again?

Igbo.

enemyofprogress:
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew




U are sleeping comfortably wit ur 2kidneys n ur Girlfriend doesnt have iPhone15📱pro max
Shame on u😜🏃

Funny.

But you don sell ur own kidney to buy the phone for Nneka?

SeeWahala:
guy no vex, be like you no get ample amount of common sense. You no sabi who be atikulate or batist or Obidients you just dey tag everybody agbadorian

You sure say no be the symptoms of political madness you dey exhibit so? better check am well on time so you no go face the nearest market

Yes you are an "agbadorian" as long as you have ever used your mouth to eat maize.

Just to let you see how puerile and stupid the term "agbadorian" is.

Tjra:
Unfortunately people like TY Danjuma is one of the reasons Nigeria is in a mess till date.

This same man is richer than some states in Nigeria by owning oil wells because we live in a corrupt society. He makes millions of dollars monthly doing nothing.

What did he do to deserve those oil wells gifted to him by Obj?

Oil well gifted to him by Yakubu Gowon, and not Obasanjo, when he murdered Aguiyi Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi in Ibadan, in retaliation for the killing of Sardaunah Bello by the Igbos in the North.

frog12:
Lord Luggard even said that they are so selfish to their own detriment:

you are right by this statement. can you believe how they give dangote a large land that's at least 10 times or so bigger than victoria island to build his refinery. na madness be dat to give just one man that type of control. they are so selfish that they only think of now. everything is now to them.

Mr. Sarcastic, I sight you o.

illicit:
Let me know if u have been to Akrabata in Modakeke

I have been to Akarabata in Modakeke in Ife. It is a well developed street in Ile Ife between Ife and Modakeke.

Caveat Emptor..... Buyers beware.

Lands and landed properties are the perhaps the best and the most expensive investment anyone can make.

However, before buying any landed property especially in Lagos and Ogun states, - kindly do the following amongst other due diligence.

1. Get a licensed surveyor of your own (not the one introduce by the seller) to take the GPS coordinate of the land,

2. The surveyor should approach the Ministry for lands and physical planning and apply for the authority to survey and the government charting of the area of interest.

3. Your surveyor should procure the documentary evidence of the status of the land to know the following.-

a. Is that land totally free from government acquisition or future schemes for development.

b. Has someone else applied for the same document in the past or currently processing ownership documents with the ministry.

c. Does the name on the land title correspond to the names of your proposed sellers.

d. Is there any lay-out survey on the government records regarding the area of interest.

e. Any other due diligence as may be necessary.

4. Get your own lawyer to interface for you, don't accept help from the sellers, - they are only interested in making their money.

5. Don't be hurried and don't ever be in a hurry to pay - the "omo onile" will call you repeatedly that someone else is about to pay for the land, - please resist the pressure.

6. When all due diligence are satisfied, pay only via cheques, bank drafts or bank transfer - they are easily traceable if so needed in the future - never do cash payment.

7. Take possession immediately, fence up the land and possibly build a shop or single room for someone to inhabit and keep the area clean - with necessary agreement documents, - of course.

8. Never leave the sellers in charge of keeping or monitoring your land - that's simply asking the mouse to watch the cheese - you know what will happen next.

9. Ensure that your surveyor process your land documents,
The C of O or the Governor's consent papers are a must legal documents to ensure your ownership of the land.
Get at least the Red copy of your land survey from the office of the state Surveyor-General before you start building.

10. Get a chartered architect and a registered building contractor, not just to do your building designs but also to procure all necessary building permits/approval before building.

11. In the unlikely event that you get notified that the government is interested in your property for whatsoever reasons - usually via notices pasted on your fence walls - don't ignore, don't be indignant, call your lawyer to file a challenge in court, immediately.

12. Don't ever say or think that because friends and relatives have bought lands and lived in the that area for decades, it simply means that all must be Ok, do your own due diligence.

All the above are quite important and pertinent now in the lights of the recent bulldozing and destruction of multi-million Naira properties by the government due to non-compliance to some government regulations.

I come in peace

gare:
Don't Kanye west sell cloths too ? Why is his own different.

Clothes pass clothes. Clothes maker pass bend down boutique seller.

Sirheny007:
Perhaps the revolution in Nigeria will start from the military.
It is not a farfetched notion.
The signs are there..

Let's pray so. We are tired of the increasing greeds of our polithiefcians. They have ruined the nation and are increasing our poverty.

DNA Tests : A Story Of Deception, Frustration, Depression
By: Ladesope Ladelokun

In recent times, earth- shattering revelations about paternity fraud have left a number of Nigerians gobsmacked. Although infidelity in marriage is not new, some concerned Nigerians argue that recent developments only signposts the scale of destruction of value system in society. LADESOPE LADELOKUN writes on the pains of paternity fraud victims

Just three days after Esther and John Akinmade were joined in holy matrimony, John had an urgent need to travel abroad for a week. But, Esther had yet to conceive at the time he travelled. Confiding in her bosom friend, Tayo, she told how her conscience had become restless many years after a rendezvous she had with her ex-lover led her to doing the wild thing. Esther revealed that her former lover got her pregnant and her husband only returned to build on the foundation laid by him.

The product of that sexcapade, she said, is now an undergraduate in a Nigerian university as John still has no inkling that he has been living with another man’s son under his roof. Unlike John, Olanrewaju Kolawole and his wife, Toyin, broke the internet recently when the former discovered through a series of DNA tests that he is not the biological father of the four children that called him father. Speaking during a programme aired in Yoruba on Agidigbo FM in Ibadan, Oyo State, he said he married his wife in 2007 but decided to carry the test because of his wife’s alleged promiscuity.

“When I did the test for our first child and the result was zero compatibility in our blood, I took the child to her house. Just as I was leaving, I overheard her telling someone on the phone that ‘’they have brought your child, come and pick him. “She was then told to bring the child to Osogbo. It was on the basis of this that I decided to run DNA tests for the three remaining children and I found out that all of them are not my children,” he said. His wife, Toyin, however, said she could not accept the results because she was not there when the samples were collected, stating that she didn’t know the samples that were collected.


Consistent with the agelong saying that it is only the mother that knows the real father of a child, many untold secrets have perished in the graveyard. However, with advancement in technology, that seeming monopoly has been broken. With the Deoxyribonucleic Acid, DNA, test, instances abound where results have either torn families apart or cemented familial ties. According to a report that covers testing sessions done between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, by Smart DNA, a DNA testing centre in Lagos, more than 25 per cent of the men tested for DNA paternity have found that they are not the biological fathers of their children.

However, experts say a number of women may be innocent of infidelity accusations as their children may be swapped at birth. About 28,000 babies get switched in hospitals every year, temporarily or permanently, out of four million births, says Nicholas Webb, Vice President of Technology for Talon Medi- cal Limited, a San Antonio, Texas-based vendor of a new high-tech ID bracelet for newborns.

Babies switched at birth, Movie Cultist explains, are babies who, because of either error or malice, are interchanged with each other at birth or very soon thereafter, leading to the babies being unknowingly raised by parents, who are not their biological parents. Sunday Telegraph reports that apart from providing information about the ancestral roots of people, a DNA test is a medical test that can identify mutations in the genes and chromosomes.

My weirdest experience -DNA expert


Sharing what he deemed his weirdest experience as the founder of DNA Centre for Paternity Test, Abiodun Salami, bemoaned the scale of havoc paternity fraud has caused marriages. Specifically, he recalled a recent case where a woman ran away, leaving her wrapper in his office after DNA tests revealed that neither her husband nor her lover is the real father of her twins. “I’ve seen a lot. It’s abnormal for a man to bring four children for DNA tests and all the four would be his. At least, one would not be. Most people would see it as something that is not real until it happens to them.

For me, I see it almost on a daily basis and it is almost a norm to see such. If a woman is bringing a child that is not for the husband, it’s like a normal thing which is wrong. But because I’ve seen a lot, it’s not strange to me. I will tell you one story about a man and a wife that were married for five years – no issue. “They were going in and out of hospitals, carrying out tests,and they were both okay. Fortunately or unfortunately, the woman met the former boyfriend, a barrister, when they were in school and they started their relationship back. That month, the woman got pregnant.


The husband at home, who didn’t know what was happening was so happy that God had answered their prayers. At the end of the day, the woman gave birth to twins – two boys. The boys were growing up and they were looking like the real husband. The man outside was mounting pressure on the woman to give him his children based on the story she told him.” Salami explained that things began to fall apart when the wife began to show complete disregard for her husband, threatening to leave with her children. “Soon, the woman started misbehaving and the issue came to divorce.

When the woman was leaving, she said she would take the children along,that he was not the father of the children. The man was shocked. They both went to court. When it came to the issue of child custody, the court sent them to us for DNA testing. When they came, the woman was very abusive. Even when they were filling the form, the woman did not touch the biro the man used. She said the man was filled with ill-luck and she would not touch anything his hands touched. She would not even allow him touch the children. “At the end of the day, we took the samples of the husband and the lawyer lover.

When the result was ready, we told the husband that he was not the father of the kids. The wife booed the man. Then, it was the turn of the lover. When it was announced that the lover was not also the owner of the kids, the man was shocked. He asked us what we were talking about. The lover left disappointed. The woman ran away, leaving her wrapper in my of- fice. I still have her wrapper in my office.”


Paternity test by traditionalists

Long before DNA test became the major settler of paternity issues, traditionalists had their way of going about paternity tests. Speaking to Sunday Telegraph, a traditionalist, Chief Kashi Agbelekale, said: “There are several ways of determining if a child belonged to a family.In some families, a snake crawls to the baby and stays there with it till the break of dawn. If the baby is a male, the snake would visit the baby for nine days but would visit seven times if it were a female. The said snake would kill the baby if the child does not belong to the father.”

Also, a septuagenarian, Sherifat Yusuf, said: ” The simple test in some places is the obi abata( kolanut test). You split the kola nuts and place them briefly on the forehead of the baby. If there are four pieces of the broken kolanut and only one faces up when they are thrown on the floor, the child is a bastard. Also,the diviners were also consulted. Sadly, these days, it’s hard to come across truthful ones.” Another traditionalist, Folakemi Ajenifuja said:“In my husband’s family in Gbagura, Abeokuta, Ogun State, what they do when a woman is delivered of a baby is simply to prepare a particular soup called ‘Obe Ate’.

“It is Egusi soup with a lizard. The Egu- si soup has no pepper and the lizard can either be fried or just washed and cut to pieces before it is added to the soup. The attitude of the wife usually determines if it will be fried or not. If she’s friendly and respectful, she will definitely enjoy the privilege of eating the lizard fried but a wife with a loose tongue does not enjoy the same privilege. “But I can confidently tell you that the baby would fall sick and die if it doesn’t belong to the father within seven days. In some families, what they do is to simply pour water over the roof.

The wife goes in and out of the house seven times for a female child and nine times for a male child. In the course of doing that, the baby must pee. When the baby pees, there is always joy in the air. If the baby fails to pee, it’s definitely a bastard. ”

Questions about reliability of DNA results

Despite being deemed the major settler of paternity disputes, there are instances where DNA tests may not be totally reliable due to human error, even in advanced countries. In a chat with Sunday Telegraph, Bimbo Ashekun, told how a DNA test that went wrong in the United States almost erroneously gave her sister the eternal tag of a prostitute. “The father of my sister’s son initially denied impregnating her.

As the boy was growing up, the father’s mother began to see his son in him(the boy) because of the striking resemblance. That compelled her to approach my sister to release the boy to her, so she could perform the roles of his father. My sister obliged and she enrolled him in one of the most expensive schools in Lagos.” Ashekun said her nephew’s grandmother would later facilitate his travel to the United States to join his father, but that marked the beginning of another drama.

“So, she eventually connected him with the father in the US. The father insisted on a DNA test. Unfortunately, there was a switch in results. His son was given someone else’s result. He didn’t waste time in sending the boy back to Nigeria. That was like a confirmation of his suspicion. He called my sister a prostitute and all manner of unprintable names. His mother did the same after which she returned the boy to my sister. After a year, the father was begged by those who conducted the test that his son’s result was mistakenly swapped.

They came to beg my sister with N10million to release the son. ” Commenting, Abiodun Salami, a senior geneticist with DNA Centre for Paternity Test, said rising cases of paternity fraud has led to the proliferation of centres that issue phony results. “Right now, because of many cases involving paternity fraud, many centres are springing up, issuing fake results to people. I’ve seen seven or eight cases where people came back to do the right thing. I have like five or six cases right now.

They were at some other facilities. They came to our place to verify,and the results are different. I’ve told them to sue them. Someone would say they can do a DNA test for N100,000,and I ask how? For two people (father and child), it’s impossible. You can’t get it for N100,000. Most of the tests are not run in the country. And this money is converted to dollars. One dollar is over N1,200. So, when somebody is saying they want to run a test for N100,000, we tell people to run.”

Worsened by value system destruction

For history lecturer and traditionalist, Dr Temitope Fagunwa, nothing is really new about infidelity and paternity fraud but the total collapse of the value system has exacerbated the vices. “There is indeed a prevalence of cases of infidelity. This is not to say that the phenomenon hasn’t been in existence before now. I think for one to say morality was never under threat cannot be true. “The collapse of the economic system implies that several moral codes that society ordinarily ought to imbibe may be withered, which is what is happening today.

The question of a woman having a total number of four children to a man that is not her husband in itself explains a great threat we are under, which is a total destruction of our value system. But there were ways our ancestors were able to manage this crisis based on their understanding of the issues.” He added: “Spiritually, our ancestors were able to do that in the sense that, immediately it was confirmed that a woman had taken in, a diviner would be called to perform normal divination.

Answers would be provided on how the child delivery period would be and other findings in that process, the paternity of the child would be revealed. For many of us, we heard people say “that child is a bastard”. It shows it has always been an issue. Infidelity is heavily frowned at but it has always been in existence. But the breakdown in our social value system has exacerbated the issue.”

‘Over 200 people begged me to compromise results since I started DNA testing in Nigeria’

No fewer than 200 people, according to DNA expert, Abiodun Salami, have either begged or made attempts to offer him mouth-watering gifts to alter results of DNA tests. According to him, acceding to such request would mean the beginning of the end of his career as he rebuffed such entreaties. “Over 200 people have begged us to compromise results – with offers. We have seen high class people, low class people, we have seen people beg us to save their marriages. We have a name to protect.

I told a woman,if your husband has paid N200,000, and you’re bribing me with N10million, N20million , will N20million cover my forced retirement? We started DNA testing in Nigeria. I’ve been running it for over 25 years now. We were the first to start it here. I have a name to protect. If I give you a wrong result and your husband discovers, how do we defend ourselves? That’s the end of business for us. If somebody comes to arrest us,who do we call? We just advise them to talk to their husbands to settle the matter.”

Speaking on how desperate some women can get, Salami said: ” Some people would come for tests with their husbands. They deliberately forget something. As the lift is going down,they just run up to say they left their phones. “In the process of picking up their phones, they start begging and rolling on the floor, telling us to save their marriages. So, when I heard the issue of the woman with four children in Ibadan, it wasn’t new to me because I’ve seen a lot. Look, this morning alone, I’ve opened some results. I’ve sent about 30 results to those that came for tests.

Out of 30, 19 failed the paternity test.” On why the first child in some families does not belong to the father, he said: “We have discovered that among the young ladies getting married now, most times, the first child doesn’t belong to the husband. Some of them had two or three boyfriends when they were still undergraduates,and most of them don’t stop the relationship. You find out that their lovers sponsor their wedding. They pay for the hall, they are the chairman of the occasion.

They go back to have Thank You fun and they get pregnant. The husband at home thinks he’s the father of the child. It’s disheartening.” Although an unexpected result from a DNA test can be devastating, it can still be managed well to prevent a slip into depression. In a chat with Sunday Telegraph, a psychologist, Yemi Okeowo, said there was need to be emotionally prepared before going for a DNA test, stating that the first port of call when a result turns out unexpected is to get a counselling psychologist.

https://newtelegraphng.com/dna-tests-a-story-of-deception-frustration-depression/

Tallesty1:
This guy is well known for telling stories, stories that happened only in his imagination

Then he must be a very horrible person, riling up other people's emotions with lies.

Raymeskey:
Please check up on Chealse Fans around you, e get why

We are okay, we are now used to losing, just as we were addicted to winning in our heydays.

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wonder233:
I'm an Engineer, I dunno what daboss means though. Being rugged has nothing to do with academic excellence. Even while in that secondary school, I was representing the school in quiz competition and we published a school magazine in our set... All that didn't mean you won't fight or disable an unfortunate being that want to try you

Beautiful how everything turned out well. I was just curious, because I had a secondary school classmate with the same hard man orientation, who I eventually heard that he died as a criminal in a prison.

wonder233:
Its a familiar scenario towards end of session.
I remember when I was in SS3, I was chief among the target of the SS2 bad boys cos I was a prefect.
They targeted those they perceived as "wicked". I was going to school with two trousers with a cutlass in between on full alert, most times in company of my goons. They set ambush alot of times, but chickened out each time when I walk confidently by with my mind made up to waste any bagger that dared engage me

What are you doing now? Still following the old daboss profession?

Nigerian politicians and the highly corrupt bureaucrats (aka civil servants) are the greatest threat to Nigeria existence.