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Apparently a lot of people do not know how Nairaland works.

CanadaOrBust:
Neptu2 is a female?! Who would’a thunk it

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

AmazingELixir:
This guy I don't like the way you write...very disjointed

agarawu23:
I got your message. But your write up is terrible

Favourchris:
Hmmm I toughy I was the only one who noticed it.... I was struggling so hard to read the article

ngwababe:
I didn't get anything biko.

I didn't write it (that's why it's in quotes. When you see a Nairaland post that's highlighted in this way:

like this

, know that it is a quotation). These are tweets by the Twitter user and they are posted exactly the same way that the Twitter user tweeted them (I never ever alter quotes).

A Twitter user’s report about the closure of the Nigeria-Niger border.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fan Acct @saratu

Ok, let’s do a thread on my time at the Nigeria-Niger border at Babban Mutum village in Katsina yesterday.

Ok, my images aren’t sending so will try when I’m back to civilization.

Anyway. Quick disclosure: this is one border, and I won’t extrapolate further than what I saw. There’s another border in Jibia, for example, but it was far from where I was. I had work there, too, but tired

One of the first things you notice in Babban Mutum: trucks everywhere. Everywhere. Loaded to the hilt with pretty much every household item you can think of.

Household items from those little plastic kettles people use to pray to buckets and plastics, to food to... everything. Just sitting there. Parked and abandoned by their drivers. My contact in the village told me these things have been stuck “there for a long while.”

We drove up to the border gate —if you can call it that. There’s two points where you can see a rope loosely tied to two blocks. One is on the Niger side, one on the Nigeria side. (I’ll post a photo when my internet lets me).

It is manned by Nigerian Customs officials though. They let me take a photo of their office. I teased them about how bored they must be because there’s absolutely nothing going on in the area now. they laughed and just said, “Everywhere is just dry.”

The closure of the border has been pretty hard on the local economy. I asked a fruit seller how business is, and he just shook his head and said, “what can we do?”

But here’s the thing: tough as it all is on their local economy, nobody I talked to is necessarily opposed to the blockade. “Before, when you pass, you just see big trailers passing with Rice. It is making people not eat our local rice.” Buhari’s messaging has been effective.

Another person said to me: “you see these trailers? Everything these people have is because of Nigeria. We are a great country Wallahi. We just don’t see it. See all these their household items. Without us they’re suffering. Now their president will do what Buhari wants.”

People I spoke to understand the blockade as leverage over Niger, smart politics, even if with what they hope is short term pain for their people.

worth noting, though, is that, for many, Niger is simply their backyard. Some people’s farms pretty much straddle both countries. My hunch is it’s easy to cross in and out of Niger with smaller quantities products. If they stop you, you just say “I’m just coming from the farm”

Lastly, one of the drivers from the trucks (I’ll share a photo in a bit) is actually from the area. He tells me he’s hopeful of a deal soon. “This na my chop. So I no go want make the border just to dey like this for long.”

I’ll post photos I took as soon as they’ll send.


Ok, let’s try and send images again. This is me at the border.
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Customs officials I met were lovely, and they very kindly let me take photos. I purposely didn’t take photos of any of the people I met.

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There’s a whole queue of trucks just parked, full of plastics and household items waiting to cross
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https://twitter.com/saratu/status/1185149612904140801

Saskwoods:
This is one of the tunes, but there is another one I have been looking for over a year. The Jazz tune was usually played during the LTV 8 paper review in the 80s.. Kindly let me know its title. .. Thanks in advance

There's a thread that's dedicated to finding the name of that tune. It was actually the newspaper review on OGTV, not LTV. It was called Headliners and it was shown at 7am on Saturdays in the 1980s. I remember the tune but I don't know its name.

This is the thread https://www.nairaland.com/5082893/old-ogtv-channel-25-uhf#80698237

pickatyou:
PSG beat them 4-1 to lift the women champions league already. Get your facts before quoting me.

PSG or Lyon??

Video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT-S6SO-utE

Ardar:
Life not peace, I made a mistake.

Ok

Ardar:
Church of life not peace and there's nothing peaceful about Islam and Muslims in general.

It's about translations.

The word Islam means religion of peace in English.

According to you, the name Ukandu means church of peace in English

Ardar:
Even his so called Igbo name ukandu means church of peace

= religion of peace.

Alhaji Suleiman Ukandu Appointed As Commissioner Of Lands In Abia State.

https://www.nairaland.com/5476230/alhaji-sulieman-commissioner-lands-abia

Oshoala at Barcelona

Oshoala is off, Jenni Hermoso is on and Jenni has scored.

Barca 5-0 Minsk

This tie is over.

It's still not yet half time and Oshoala, Marta and Aitana (2) have given Barca a 4-0 lead.

They shouldn't bother playing the second leg.

Oshoala took off down the right. All attention was on her. Then Aitana snuck in through the middle and Oshoala squared the ball to her and Aitana scored.

Wow! This is a massacre!

Barca 3-0 Minsk

Oshoala has scored one and provided the assist for another.

The commentator went, "Goal! goal! goal! goal!"

And she has already scored! It's just the 6th minute.

GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLL DE ASISAT OSHOALA!!!!
GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLL DEL BARCA!!!!!

Barcelona 1-0 Minsk

Cousin9999:
Women's footie in Spain definitely has a far better intensity than I've seen elsewhere, but why is that pitch so small?

There was a war of words after that match. Barcelona officials and fans say that the Huelva arena should be banned. They said that the pitch was too bad and that it's disrespectful to the fans, the players and the game to play in that kind of place. They said that it was a miracle that nobody got injured.

Barca's goalkeeper recorded a video of the pitch and posted online (you can see a screenshot of it below).


A Huelva fan replied that the Barca fans are not exposed. He said that the best players should be able to play on any kind of surface. He posted a picture of an old River Plate vs Boca Juniors match (in Argentina) in which Diego Maradona played.

A Barca fan replied that this is 2019, not the 1950s and it is unacceptable to play on that kind of pitch.

Olukologia24592:
[qruote author=naptu2 post=83226182]

Kai! Some people cannot read!
Sorry o
Chief reader reading nonsense

It's very simple English that a primary school kid can understand and it's the first sentence in the post!

naptu2:
Translated from Spanish by Google Translate.



https://www.laliga.com/noticias/asisat-oshoala-la-todoterreno-del-barcelona-femenino


Oshoala's Barcelona play Minsk in the UEFA Women's Champions League tonight.

Barcelona's team list for tonight's Champions League game.

(Oshoala is playing for Barca, while Oghiabekhva is playing for Minsk)

Olukologia24592:
This Op grammar sef na apology.

Kai! Some people cannot read!

sevo:
Quick question.... Why are they referring to assisat as HE?

It was a direct translation (by Google Translate) from Spanish.