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Romance / Re: Can You Marry A Woman With 3 Kids? by micellgevity: 7:31am On Apr 20, 2023
MarketDispatch:


Your neighbor is poor...that is why he is worried and should not proceed. I know a rich someone who did ..even sent all the 3 kids with the one the woman had for him abroad to study. Upon graduation fixed all of them up with good jobs.

So, if your friend is poor, he will be inconveniencing himself.
My question has not been answered. What should I tell him?
Romance / Can You Marry A Woman With 3 Kids? by micellgevity: 7:01am On Apr 20, 2023
There is this neighbour of mine who has been married for some years without children. He confided in me and sought my advice on this issue that he was introduced to one beautiful widow who has three kids with a good job. He told me the woman said the kids' responsibilities would not be his as she has her job. But my neighbour is afraid. How should I advise him?
Business / Re: How Many People Remember This Advert Way Back In The 90’s by micellgevity: 6:47am On Apr 20, 2023
Tokziby:

Set awon O.G... that was their very first competition
Na one bad memory u give me so... it was seven animals Eagle, elephant, camel, deer, crocodile, i think snake and giraffe.
The bad memory was that our next door neighbour sells softdrinks and I used to go there and play with my younger friend Gideon(he's late now). I found a crown cover on the floor that was still intact with the white rubber lead inside, I opened it and behold a whole crate of free drinks, na so the mumu little me shouted, "I've won, I've won" Na then and there the boy said it was his crown cover and had been playing with it. Omo I japa and told him, "if it was urs why was it on the floor and why didn't u open it". Na so I went infront of the house and started doing show off to the people walking on our street, while the boy was busy pestering my life to return his crown cover. Na so I held on firm to it Until he reported me to my elder brother and that one forced me to return ASAP. Omo I no fit cry that day, my eyes were just laced with tears lipsrsealed e pain die!!! angry
Kangaroo was also among the animals, and it was the most common animal back then, I think. Most 7up bottle corks you opened would be kangaroos.

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Politics / Re: Insecurity Has Started Again Why Can’t State Govs Take FG To Court? - Rufai by micellgevity: 6:02pm On Apr 10, 2023
This Rufai to s something else. What will governors say the fg has done or has not done. This guy just has a journalistic opportunity. Anyway, not everybody on screen is intelligent.

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Politics / Re: Prof Osinbajo Pays Tribute To Prince Bola Ajibola, Attends His Funeral by micellgevity: 2:50pm On Apr 10, 2023
May Allah be pleased with his soul.

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Technology Market / Re: Can I Cover A Part Of Solar Panel With A Sticker To Reduce The Voltage? by micellgevity: 1:13pm On Apr 09, 2023
obinna37:
buy 10a or 20a 12v charge controller, connect the solar panel to it,it will regulate the voltage coming in to battery
In case I don't want to spend a dime on it again, will that method work?
Technology Market / Can I Cover A Part Of Solar Panel With A Sticker To Reduce The Voltage? by micellgevity: 12:38pm On Apr 09, 2023
Hello tech gurus in the house, pls will the voltage of a solar panel reduce if a portion of it is covered with a sticker? The reason for this question is that I have a rechargeable fan with 12 voltage recommendation, but all the solar panels I saw when I wanted to buy were either under or over, so, I decided to buy the one of 18 volts and it is charging it fine. But I discovered the battery compartment of the fan is overheating, so I thought it might be due to over voltage, and I decided to cover 1/3 of the panel with a sticker (to get 12 volts) with the hope that it will reduce the voltage. Pls can it? Thanks as I wait for your contribution.
Politics / Re: Peter Obi Is A Righteous Man, He Was Rigged Out - Apostle Orokpo (Video) by micellgevity: 5:36pm On Apr 07, 2023
DaTruths:
Peter won the election.

But the dead president Select won the HighNEC grin

Las Las , Na Nigerians lose the election.
Point of correction, Pandora and his toxic Obidients lost the election.

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Politics / Re: May 29: Preparation In Top Gear At Eagle Square For Tinubu Swearing In (Photos) by micellgevity: 5:06pm On Apr 06, 2023
Massiveglory:
Nobody hold you from preparing.
David lyon of bayelsa state also had big preparations in bayelsa state befor miracle governor take over.. grin

You get preparations to do but you de pursue candidate wey una give 3rd up and down.

God bless the federal republic of Nigeria.
When the candidate we gave 3rd no sit down for one corner and accept his fate.

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Politics / Re: FFK, MC Oluomo, Bayo & Others Who Threaten Genocide Walk Free, Igbo Get Arrested by micellgevity: 3:22pm On Apr 01, 2023
That tells you that Lagos is not a no man's land. Go back to your Villa. Ipa ti apa omo awo aogbodo pa omo ogberi bee. The people you mentioned in your write-up don't have equal right with the man arrested. Period!

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Politics / Re: ‘Mr Yakubu’: Judge On Wheelchair Accepted Bribes To Compromise Election Petition by micellgevity: 6:40am On Apr 01, 2023
If he is arrested and locked up now people will begin crying fowl. Imagine using what you cannot prove as a lyric in your song. If he is invited by the DSS now to come and prove all these allegations against the CJN and the INEC Chairman, Falz may spend months behind bars trying to prove the allegations beyond doubt. He has allowed emotions to get the better of him. He should not think he can do anyhow because he is the son of Femi Falana. He will be locked up and Falana won't be able to save him. His father will only shout and nothing will happen, the boy is being childish. If he was a toddler during the dark days of military era, at least he is seeing what's happening to Nnamdi Kanu and others and learn from them. Government is just too powerful to fight, you cannot win, except they want yo to. I have said mine, waiting for those who will insult me.

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Politics / Re: Tinubu’s Age According To The Guardian Newspaper by micellgevity: 9:18pm On Mar 30, 2023
Was he the one that said he was 52 yo or the paper just used the age they wanted without doing their homework? That newspaper is not his birth certificate Mr man.

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Politics / Re: No Man's Land, Just So You Know by micellgevity: 10:07pm On Mar 14, 2023
BloomingDale:


Just watch how we will retrieve all our oil wells from the one Nigeria parasites. Do me, I do you. God no go vex. Keep running your mouth. It will awaken the people still sleeping.
Oil belongs to the south-south, not the south-east. FYI, we have oil in lag+the largest refinery in Africa 🌍.
Politics / Re: No Man's Land, Just So You Know by micellgevity: 5:51pm On Mar 14, 2023
They should expect more of this. Lagos is the pride of all Yorubas home and abroad.

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Politics / Re: Pls Where Are The "Likes" For Obi, "Share" For Tinubu & "Quote" For Atiku? by micellgevity: 9:34pm On Mar 11, 2023
JASONjnr:


You know Obi will definitely come out victorious from the court proceedings...


The people made their choice....
Obi is cumin. E dey come in 2047

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Politics / Pls Where Are The "Likes" For Obi, "Share" For Tinubu & "Quote" For Atiku? by micellgevity: 9:24pm On Mar 11, 2023
Pls where are the "LIKES" for OBI, "SHARES" for TINUBU & "QUOTES" for ATIKU?
I hope INEC didn't forget to count them in the collation of final results.

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Politics / Re: Where Are The Conductors Of Online Polls Iike, ANAP, BANTUPAGE, The Nextier? by micellgevity: 6:05pm On Mar 11, 2023
Where are all "likes" for PO and "share" for Tulumbu?
Politics / Re: Where Are The Conductors Of Online Polls Iike, ANAP, BANTUPAGE, The Nextier? by micellgevity: 9:02am On Mar 11, 2023
Parachoko:
Dem don lule
Lule pii

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Politics / Re: Where Are The Conductors Of Online Polls Iike, ANAP, BANTUPAGE, The Nextier? by micellgevity: 9:00am On Mar 11, 2023
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Politics / Where Are The Conductors Of Online Polls Iike, ANAP, BANTUPAGE, The Nextier? by micellgevity: 8:57am On Mar 11, 2023
Pls, where are Bantupage polls, ANAP foundation polls, Bloomberg, The Economist, The Nextier, Financial Times, NOI and many of them too numerous to mention?
They all tipped Obi to win the presidential election. We kept saying it before the election that online polls could not work in Nigeria because majority of voters are not online. Also, those who said they conducted a face-to-face poll did not cover the entire country in their survey. They didn't cover all demographics and their samples were not the true representation of the whole population. El-Rufai said this from his experience as a researcher and a statistician, but they didn't listen. They were overwhelmed by the euphoria of Obituary movement. I advise all these poll conductors to bury their heads in shame. Nigeria is one complex country where online polls hardly work, especially when all demographics are not considered.

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Politics / Re: How I Lost My Documents & Property When Abacha Wanted To Kill Me —Tinubu by micellgevity: 8:11am On Mar 10, 2023
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Politics / How I Lost My Documents & Property When Abacha Wanted To Kill Me —Tinubu by micellgevity: 8:07am On Mar 10, 2023
When were you arrested?

I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipupo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive.
On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyone’s life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception.
When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiola’s victory.
Diya told me that I didn’t know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abacha’s government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace.
We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didn’t know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted.
Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: ‘Ha!’
My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: ‘You are holding press conference when your life is in danger.’ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when.
I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didn’t even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there.
The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, ‘sleep there’. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybody’s bail because they could not isolate me.
They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience.
There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind.
He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m.
The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest.
They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger.
Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldn’t go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
That was the National Democratic Coalition then…

𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖
Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didn’t want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed.
He said that I couldn’t return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friend’s house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomo’s hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
How did you make it across the border?

𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖
I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didn’t know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I can’t forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I don’t have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away.
My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didn’t have a passport and couldn’t have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding.
The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them.
Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didn’t know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
What country was that?

𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖
No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote d’Ivoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote d’Ivoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: ‘You cannot be twice lucky.’ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country.
But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I don’t want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a traveller’s cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash.
We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didn’t see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so it’s not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States.
Politics / Re: IPOB Infiltration Of Lagos: Let Peace Reign - Delta Igbos by micellgevity: 12:45pm On Mar 09, 2023
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Politics / Re: I Duff My Hat For Obi by micellgevity: 5:07am On Mar 01, 2023
tinsel:
Peter Obi you did a good fight. I doff my hat for you. To achieve this with an unknown party is beyond my expectations. Time to call Tinubu and congratulate him. You are young and by the Grace of God the future is bright.
Future? When he would have been older than Tilumbu you people say is old. Youth at sixty plus.

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Politics / Re: Bode George Faults Presidential, NASS Elections, Knocks INEC Over Irregularities by micellgevity: 5:18pm On Feb 28, 2023
Godsfrezx:
I see this election being cancelled by the supreme Court, I see a fresh election taking place, I see Peter Obi winning.
Like for Peter Obi
Share for Tinubu
You still ndey on top like and share. U no dey taya?
Politics / Re: Obi Defeats Tinubu, Atiku In Nasarawa State by micellgevity: 6:51pm On Feb 27, 2023
id911:

Christians are not minority. While Northern Christians voted overwhelmingly for Peter Obi, Southern Christians betrayed them by voting Muslims tickets.
They betrayed them you said? And Yoruba Christians joined igbo Christians to make Obi win Lagos? Think my friend. I just believe this popular saying on Nairaland "We Yoruba Christians will not vote Muslim-Muslim Ticket".

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Politics / Re: Tinubu Who Lost Lagos, Lost Osun Is Winning Other Places By Margin by micellgevity: 6:42pm On Feb 27, 2023
DarlingtonC:
Lagos results were rigged massively.

Obi had up to 1 million votes In Lagos alone, it was rigged to see what was declared by Inec
It was truly rigged. See the evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNY3OUR0mM
Politics / Saint Obi Rigged Election In Lagos. No Saint Anywhere by micellgevity: 6:15pm On Feb 27, 2023
See how the obedients rigged the presidential election in Lagos. No saint anywhere.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNY3OUR0mM
Politics / Re: NASS Election: LP Claims INEC Omitted The Party's Name, Logo On Ballot Pappers by micellgevity: 11:24pm On Feb 23, 2023
These people just like making noise, maybe their party doesn't have candidates for NASS election. I believe INEC knows better.

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