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I understand yu bro but allow me to share my story with you maybe u will be motivated.

I finished my secondary school in year 2000, my parents are not rich to even register me for jamb. I have two friends that have better parents,one obtained Army recruitment form while the other obtained Police form and they were lucky to be selected after 5months they have started receiving salary while I remain home drinking gaari and depend on my parent.

My parents especially my dad put pressure on me that me too should try obtain either of the forms so I can start receiving salary and taking care of my siblings. I made a statement that day..I told my dad " Baami I will not obtain recruit form, I will go to school become a career man and I will take care of you,my mum and my siblings but daddy I promise you I will build house,buy car,marry and do all the good thing when these guys are doing great things" my dad couldn't reply me he just smile, people will be making jest of me when ever these guys come around,will give them money,gift but I was home waiting for when I will get money for jamb.

I eventually gained admission into The polytechnic Ibadan in 2002/03 that wasn't my choice but I have to go to higher institution. I did some funny job to sponsored myself to finish ND in 2005 time is going and I'm already 23yrs old, I came to Lagos and look for job, after many tries I got a better one in 2009 at age 27(Even with ND ) this job change my life till date, I go back for my HND in 2010 (pt) . One day the Solder among my friends called me if I have like #400k to buy land,thank God i have the #400k he bought the land for me and he took me to the land and even show me his own with uncompleted 3 bedroom flat on it,in two months my building is completed just remain roofing, Four months after I completed my house even bfre his, at age 30 i have own what a man must have.Today I'm better (not my power but by God grace)

My brother do not allow your parent words disorganize you, everybody has his/her time, be focused and believe in yourself, the fact that your friends graduated bfre u doesn't mean they will be employed bfre you and even if they got employed bfre u ..it doesn't mean you will not excel/succeed pass them.You have your destiny and they have theirs.

Peace be unto you and pls face your studies and say no to cultism .

Thank God no life lost

Mod,can you please remove the first picture? That's not Nigeria

They called it "The Vulture and the little girl".

This photo of a vulture waiting for a starving Sudanese girl to die was taken by Kevin Carter who later won the Pulitzer for this picture, but he lived just few months to enjoy his supposed achievement because he later got depressed and took his own life.

He was actually savouring his feat and being celebrated on major news channels and networks world wide.

His depression started when during one of such interviews (phone in program) someone phoned on and asked him what happened to the child. He replied, "I didn't wait to find out after this shot as I had a plane to catch."...
And the person replied,
"I put it to you that there were two vultures on that day. One had a camera".

His constant thought of that statement, led to depression and his ultimate suicide.

In whatsoever we do, let humanity come first before what we can gain out of the situation.

Kevin Carter could have been alive today if he just picked that little girl up and taken her to the United Nation's feeding Center where she was attempting to reach.

#LetLoveLead
#HumanityFirst

I went for an Interview as an Accountant in sometimes around 2014, I had used my boss(who is a Chartered Accountant) format for my CV, I put "ACCA in View" when I didn't registered for ICAN yet, I added some managerial work to my Job descriptions just to look experienced to my interviewers.

I was the last candidate they called for the oral interview on that fateful evening in Doctor Brown around Ikosi,Ketu. I have been answering their questions well until one dark brother like this asked me my ICAN registration number,my eyes turn red and the fear set in into my heart , I started begging for ground to open and swallow me, I was embarrassed when I later come up that I actually planing to register for the next coming ICAN.

They adviced me to go back and edit my CV and I must not lie on my CV again if I'm ready to get a good job in future.

Don't lie if u can't defend it

The mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is one of the most interesting relationships in marriage and family life. These two people can be the best of friends or the worst of enemies. For the daughter-in-law, it could be like gaining
a second mother or it could be entering a relationship filled with tension and jealousy.

This story is a MUST read for every woman who has a son and hope for him to get married someday, and for the ladies hoping to get married too someday.

REMEMBER, EVERY MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS ONCE A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

A long time ago in China, a girl named Li-Li got married & went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn't get along with her
mother-in-law at all. Their personalities were very different, and Li-Li was angered by many of her mother-in-law' s habits. In addition, she criticized Li-Li constantly. Days passed, and weeks passed. Li-Li and her mother-in-law never stopped arguing and fighting. But what made the situation even worse was that, according to ancient Chinese tradition, Li-Li had to bow to her mother-in-law and obey her every wish. All the anger and unhappiness in the house was causing Li-Li's > poor husband great distress.

Finally, Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-law' s bad
temper and dictatorship any longer, and she decided to do something about it! Li-Li went to see her father's good friend, Mr. Huang, who sold herbs. She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison so that she could solve the problem once and for all.

Mr. Huang thought for a while, and finally said, 'Li-Li, I will help you solve your problem, but you must listen to me and obey what I tell you.' Li-Li said, 'Yes, Mr. Huang, I will do whatever you tell me to do. 'Mr. Huang went into the back room, and returned in a few minutes with a package of herbs. He told Li-Li, 'You can't use a quick-acting poison to get rid of your mother-in-law, because that would cause
people to become suspicious.

Therefore, I have given you a number of herbs that will slowly build up poison in her body. Every other day prepare some delicious meal and put a little of these herbs in her serving. Now, in order to make sure that nobody suspects you, when she dies, you must be very careful to act very friendly towards her. 'Don't argue with her, obey her every wish, and treat her like a queen.' Li-Li was so happy. She
thanked Mr. Huang and hurried home to start her plot of murdering her mother-in-law. Weeks went by, and months went by, and every other day, Li-Li served the specially treated food to her mother-in-law. She remembered what Mr. Huang had said about avoiding suspicion, so she controlled her temper, obeyed her mother-in-law, and treated her like her own mother.

After six months had passed, the whole household had changed. Li-Li had practiced controlling her temper so much that she found that she almost never got mad or upset. She hadn't had an argument with her mother-in-law in six months because she now seemed much kinder and easier to get along with.

The mother-in-law' s attitude towards Li-Li changed, and
she began to love Li-Li like her own daughter. She kept telling friends and relatives that Li-Li was the best daughter-in- law one could ever find. Li-Li and her mother-in-law were now treating each other like a real mother and daughter. Li-Li's husband was very happy to see what was happening. One day, Li-Li came to see Mr. Huang and asked for his help again She said,' Dear Mr. Huang, please help me to keep the poison from killing my mother-in-law.

She's changed into such a nice woman, and I love her like my own mother. I do not want her to die because of the
poison I gave her.'

Mr. Huang smiled and nodded his head. 'Li-Li, there's nothing to worry about. I never gave you any poison. The herbs I gave you were vitamins to improve her health. The only poison was in your mind and your attitude towards her, but that has been all washed away by the love which you gave to her.'

HAVE YOU REALIZED that how you treat others is exactly how they will treat you? There is a wise Chinese saying: 'the person who loves others will also be loved in return. 'God might be trying to work in another person's life through you.

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History:
February 13th, 1976 Coup
When Lt. Col. Bukar Dimka of the Nigeria Army
Physical Training Corps stepped out of his official residence on
Macpherson Road, Ikoyi, in the early hours of February 13, 1976, he had
one agenda in mind; the killing of the then Head of State, Gen. Murtala
Muhammed.
He achieved that criminal act by gunning down the
Kano-born head of state a few minutes after the latter left the Dodan
Barracks, Obalende, the official seat of the Federal Military Government
at the time.
Muhammed’s official black Mercedes Benz was
riddled with bullets near a petrol station on Bank Road, (now Murtala
Muhammed Drive) opposite the Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi. Killed along
with him were, his ADC, Lt. Akintunde Akinsehinwa and driver.

After the assassination, Dimka had made a
broadcast at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) studio in the
following words;
‘’Good morning fellow Nigerians, This is Lt. Col. B. Dimka of the Nigerian Army calling.
I bring you good tidings. Murtala Muhammed’s
deficiency has been detected. His government is now overthrown by the
young revolutionaries. Any attempt to foil these plans from any quarters
will be met with death.

Everyone should be calm. Please stay by your
radio for further announcements. All borders, air and sea ports are
closed until further notice. Curfew is imposed from 6 am to 6 pm. Thank
you. We are all together.”

The coup attempt eventually failed seven hours later, crushed by forces rallied and directed from a temporary base at Bonny camp by Lt. General T. Y. Danjuma, Chief of Army Staff, whose designated assassin (reportedly Lt. Lawrence Garba) had chosen at the last moment to spare him at the Marina Jetty, allegedly in part to avoid collateral casualties. When Danjuma got to the office and heard the radio broadcast, he held a brief "war council" with Colonels Bali and Babangida, then moved to Bonny camp to coordinate the resistance. Babangida was sent on a motor cycle to Ikeja Cantonment to get armoured vehicles. Supported by these vehicles he proceeded to Radio Nigeria, where he had a conversation with his close friend Dimka.

Dimka's initial reaction to Babangida's arrival was to ask him if he came to play "Chukwuma and Nwawo" with him; drawing a historical parallel with the negotiations between Colonel Conrad Nwawo (on behalf of Ironsi) and Major Patrick Nzeogwu in Kaduna in January 1966. However, Dimka got concerned with the presence of armored vehicles in the background and asked them to be withdrawn.

But it turns out that Babangida's orders had not been to negotiate a surrender or other outcome, but to stop the broadcast - by any means necessary - including destruction by shelling. When he made contact with Bonny Camp to report his activities at the radio station, this order was reiterated to him by General Danjuma, incredulous that a conversation with Dimka had even occurred and that the radio station was still playing Dimka's broadcast. A brief but fierce fire fight (reportedly led by Major Chris Ugokwe) subsequently dislodged the coup plotters from the station.

When shooting started Dimka simply walked away, past all the soldiers surrounding the building as well as driving through numerous checkpoints on his way, first to Jos and then eventually to Abakaliki where he was captured by Police in the company of a woman of easy virtue. At that time, public incredulity at his "escape" from Radio Nigeria led to speculations that he was assisted. But many years later, in April 1990, a similar 'escape' from a siege of supposedly loyal troops was executed by Lt. Col. Gabriel Nyiam and Major Saliba Mukoro.

General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd) has written that he was late in leaving home that day on account of a visit by Brigadier Olu Bajowa to get a name for his new baby. When it became apparent that there was trouble, Obasanjo executed an escape and evasion maneuver, spent most of the day at the house of a civilian friend in Ikoyi monitoring the situation by telephone, but later emerged to become the Head of State. His would be assassins mistook then Colonel Dumuje for him along Awolowo road in Lagos, seriously wounding that officer. The specifics of how that happened remain a matter of conjecture particularly since the car of a Lt. General would have had three stars mounted on the license plate. Whether Dumuje was riding in Obasanjo's car is a curious possibility that has never been clarified. Or perhaps the hit men were drunk and could not tell one flag from another.
Two days after Muhammed was assassinated, Dimka
was declared wanted for treason and murder by military authorities. He
was eventually caught at a checkpoint at Abakaliki on March 5, 1976, and
brought to Lagos the following day.

On March 6, 1976, the Federal Government promptly
issued a statement on his arrest as follows: ‘’His arrest followed a
massive manhunt operation mounted by a combined team of the Army and
Police in the area.
‘’The previous day, Lt. Col Dimka had checked in
at a local hotel in Afikpo under the name of Mr C. Godwin of the Federal
Ministry of Agriculture, Enugu. Later, on his request, the hotel
manager secured for him a girl, Miss. Beatrice Agboli, with whom to
spend the night.
‘’A few hours later, the local Police security
was alerted and they closed up on him. At about 10.30 pm, he bolted away
through the window of the toilet of his hotel room into a nearby thick
bush, abandoning his car with a dangling registration number ECC 6253.”
‘’The continuous joint manhunt operation by the Army and Police resulted in his subsequent arrest near Abakaliki.’’
Barely few hours after he was brought to Lagos and executed
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We know the video is fake

Ezemarcel:
Lack of professionalism.....was he thinking that there is Yahoo boys there.....

Anyways rest in peace

Sense far from u

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I JUST REMEMBER THIS MAN AGAIN: LT COL FRANCIS ADEKUNLE FAJUYI !

When Col Francis Adekunle Fajuyi's immediate elder sister went to meet him(Fajuyi) in Ibadan, the headquarters of the western region, she took the opportunity to register a company so she could lobby for contracts from the then Western Region Military government.

When the Western region Governor, Col Adekunle, returned later that day from the office, they exchanged pleasantries and the big sister went ahead to show the kid brother the certificate of registration of her new company. Col Adekunle's mood changed immediately! He asked:

"What is this? Is this why you came from Ado Ekiti to this place? Do you want to soil my name? The thing we want to eradicate, you want me to have a hand in it? You will be going about getting contracts from the ministries? No way, you cannot do that!" Then he tore the paper and went upstairs. The sister broke down in tear.

Col Fajuyi was an incorruptible soldier who became governor of old Western Region in January, 1966, and sent words to Ekiti to stop the building of his house, which was at foundation level on Textile Road in a place called Onimosoyin in Ado-Ekiti, because the ethics of public service demands that you do not acquire anything during service. He never had a personal house when he died.

Col Adekunle Fajuyi's "native intelligence" was legendary. Some British men came to have a meeting with Fajuyi and the Secretary to the government of Western region, Pa Odumosu, because they wanted to site an industry in Ibadan. At a point, the British requested to see Col Fajuyi privately, so Pa Odumosu was asked to leave. They wanted to bribe him!. They gave him huge cash and they left. Then Fajuyi called pa Odumosu and said the British brought "our money" and he said he collected the money from them because "it was part of our money." He then instructed him to pay the money into the government’s treasury.

Col Adekunle Francis Fajuyi was an embodiment of courage and unalloyed loyalty. Suicidal loyalty!. When the head of state, Agonyi Ironsi went to Ibadan on official visit and gunshots were heard in the dead of the night, both the host and the guest were taken aback by the ugly development.

The government house had been surrounded by soldiers of northern extraction in a COUNTER-COUP. In their pyjamas, Fajuyi and Ironsi went to the Governor's office to make calls for reinforcements. Then Ironsi asked Fajuyi:

"But you assured me yesterday that I was safe in your territory".

"Yes, I thought you were safe. I didn’t know anything. I didn’t hear anything. But don’t worry, the two of us will stay together. Go and dress up and I will dress up. Anything that will happen will happen to the two of us." Fajuyi replied.

The invaders broke in and before they saw the Head of State, they told Fajuyi:

‘Give us Ironsi, we want Ironsi. Give us Ironsi, we want Ironsi.’

Fajuyi stood his grounds and replied;

‘No, you cannot take him, he is my guest. Why didn’t you take him in Lagos or elsewhere? You cannot take him here. If you are taking him, then take me along"

Gallant, brave and outstanding soldier, Col Adekunle Fajuyi put his own life on the line to defend his guest and even when he was told they only wanted Ironsi, he stood by his guest and died with him.

He was just 40 year-old when he took a bullet for his friend. Fajuyi was then survived by aged parents and very young children. His heartbroken father died shortly thereafter.

Honor this Hero!

����� This Man was a Genius. He was so Smart. Talented. Handsome. Strong. Hilarious. Thoughtful & Kind.. He did make His choices and some mistakes but nothing He had done should've resulted in His untimely Death & Demise.. The world still needed This Hero. He was a Brilliant Man and Spoke His mind in ways Rappers today wouldn't dare have The Courage or Mindset to say. A lot of People seen a Gangster. An Outlaw. Another Black Hoodlum headed for Trouble to no end.. Real Fans seen a Black Man with A Powerful Demeanor, Knowledge beyond His young years, Love for those Who Loved Him, Strength & Struggle that Made Him who He was, Honesty that some can't phantom, A positive outlook on life when coming from a negative impact and society. Tupac will Forever be Missed & Loved beyond words. #RIP #TupacShakur #2Pac You come to My mind when My Head is Down.. And all I can hear is "Keep Your Head Up..." ❤

oodua1stson:
Anyone who understands a bit of football and watched both Weah and Eto'o will agree with Samuel Eto'o .




He is without a doubt a far better player than George weah.

Individually Drogba is far better than Eto'o but Eto'o is the most decorated African player

A young man saw his primary school teacher at a ceremony.

He greeted him with lots of respect and admiration, then said to him "Can you still recognize me Sir?"

'I don't think so' said the Teacher.

"The student recounted "I was your Student in the pry 5, I stole a wrist watch belonging to my classmate then, he came crying to you that his wrist watch had been stolen and you ordered all Students in the class to stand on a straight line, facing the wall with our hands up and our eyes closed so you could check our pockets."

"At that point, I became jittery and terrified of the outcome of the search. The shame I will face after other Students discovered that I stole the Watch, the opinions my Teachers will form about me, the thought of being named a 'thief' till I leave the School and my Parent's reaction when they get to know about my action. All these thoughts flowing across my mind, when suddenly it was my turn to be checked. I felt your hand slipped into my pocket and you brought out the Watch."

"I was gripped with fear, expecting the worse to be announced. I was surprised I didn't hear anything, but Sir, you continued searching other Students' pockets till you got to the last person."

"When the search was over, you asked us to open our eyes and sit on our Chairs."

"I was afraid to sit because I was thinking you will call me out soon after everyone was seated."

"But to my amazement, you showed the watch to the class, gave it to the owner and you never mentioned the name of the one who stole the watch."

"You didn't say a word to me, and you never mentioned the incident to anyone."

"Throughout my stay in the school, no Teacher or Student knew what happened. This incident naturally taught me a great lesson and I resolved in my heart never to take whatever wasn't mine I thought to myself, you saved my dignity."

Do you remember the story now Sir?"

The teacher replied, ''I vividly remember the story that I found the Watch in a pocket but I did not know in whose pocket because I searched your pockets while I also had my eyes closed."

Author : Alex ojonemi.

Lagos is working

Trouble sleep yanga dey wake ham

seunmohmoh:
My sister works with her on set. The same way she shouts in movie is the same in real life.

Exactly, my car blocked this woman around GRA Ibadan years ago, if u see the way this woman was shouting as if dog bites her, I wanted to open door and shout at her back that was when I discover its Sola

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Did they find his body?

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Africa is the world problem sponsored by Religion

IGBO POLITICAL LEADERS AND THEIR PAST MISADVENTURES RESULTING IN CURRENT NATIONAL POLITICAL PROBLEMS Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria; Chief of Army Staff was from SE Chief of Naval Staff was from SE IG of Police was from SE Chief of Defence Staff was from SE Internal Affairs Minister SE External Affairs Minister SE Education Minister South SE Many other key ministries to SE Parliament President SE Unilag VC from SE The University of Ibadan VC from SE North resisted same at ABU! Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!! Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed. Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it! We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts. *"What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"* Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. *“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central govt because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”

THE GLORIA OKON STORY

In 1984, the Muhammadu Buhari-led military government issued Decree 20 which stated that:

"any person who, without lawful authority deals in, sell, smoke or inhale the drug known as cocaine or other similar drugs shall be guilty…….and liable on conviction to suffer death sentence by firing squad."

Therefore, on April 22, 1985, a certain Gloria Okon, whose real name was Chinyere, was about to board a Nigeria Airways flight at the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano when she was apprehended and arrested with substances suspected to be heroin which weighed about 57 grammes and other drugs as well as local and foreign currencies.

Gloria Okon was said to be a drug courier for Babangida and his wife. In an exclusive interview with Sahara Reporters published on June 8, 2009, Dr Taiyemiwo Ogunade described the event thus:

“Gloria Okon is actually Chinyere, that’s her real name. She married Charles "Jeff" Chandler, the fellow who killed Nzeogwu and was killed a day later. Chinyere, Maryam and Princess Atta were young friends who hung out together. They all married into the military, because the military was a proud and respectable profession then. Charles Chandler, who was Tiv, married Chinyere who I think is from Imo State.

"IBB married Maryam from Asaba and Mamman Vatsa married Princess. So Chinyere became a widow and resorted to trading between UK and Nigeria. And then she was caught with drugs; Mamman Vatsa was the person who put Chinyere on the next available flight from Kano to London – and then claimed that she was dead by parading a dead woman picked out of the mortuary. Dele Giwa later found out that she was in London having delivered a baby by another man.

"He sent a French photographer to the place and they saw Maryam Babangida at the event. Kayode Soyinka brought back the photographs. Dele was sitting across the table from Kayode examining the photos taken of “Gloria Okon” (Chinyere, Chandler’s wife) at the naming ceremony in London. Maryam Babangida was there.”

After the whole ruse, General Muhammadu Buhari, on August 5, 1985, set up a judicial commission of enquiry to investigate the arrest and death of Gloria Okon. The report of the investigation was expected to be brought in at the end of the month, but it was a fruitless journey. It never saw the light of the day as Buhari was toppled by Ibrahim Babangida in a military coup 22 days later on August 27, 1985.

So end of the investigation, end of the case. #HistoryVille

On this day, 120 years ago, Frank Embree, falsely accused of rape, was lynched after being whipped over 100 times. Those eyes, the straight-up posture, the pained scowl. Go on, look at me, he seemed to be telling them. The year is 1899. He is naked.

He is handcuffed. He has been whipped one hundred and five times. He is standing on a buggy, surrounded by his executioners, in a farm field northeast of Fayette, Missouri. He is a young black man who knows he soon will die in front of 1,200 white men, women and teens.

This man has a name. His name is Frank Embree. Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a fourteen year old white girl. Although rape was punishable by hanging in the state of Missouri at the time, for decades it was a punishment reserved for black men convicted of raping white women.

Although Embree maintained his innocence, he was whipped over one hundred times until he confessed to the crime, saying "he would 'own-up' if they would 'hang me or shoot me, instead of torturing me."' With tears pouring down his face, he agreed to own up to the charges if the police agreed not to torture him any further.

He was castrated, skinned (front and back), and lynched in front of a cheering crowd in 1899."

#NeverForget

"I'm not talking of protest. I'm embarking on revolution. 85% of Nigerians are in support. Don't tell me about legal implications or what a Judge will say. I don't care. We must bundle Buhari out of that place...."

Omoyele Sowore....... July 25, 2019.

My question is that,where the so-called 85% nigerians? Atleast contributing 1k per head will be more than 150m,

Copied from Seye Ogunrinola

He's a student of Music department

Who else if not frank

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