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A Christmas card.

Compromise is the keyword. When you bar your relatives and inlaws from visiting you, there might come a time in your life when you might need their help. No man is an island.

The adventures of Souza by Kola Onadipe

Times have changed indeed, unlike in the past where you had to go to your previous secondary school to check your results. And these results were posted online for all and sundry to see. Now, you can see your result without any prying eyes and gossips. A good move.

The stuff people do to make money, sad.

Have you tried flossing, scrapping your tongue?

zombieHUNTER:
Christianity in the north is about to die a painful death...


The Fulani agenda has swallowed it already


This is the outcome

The gates of hell can never prevail against Christianity. Instead, it will bow down to Christianity.

Lets celebrate the man and not dwell on whether he is from Sapele or Bonny. It's another Nigerian success story worth celebrating and emulating.

Fake story.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/golden-ticket-arrest/

it's best to stay out of people's marital challenges.

https://www.nairaland.com/21126/third-party-marriage-intercede-when

Mine were not strict, thank God. Somehow, I think they were mellow with us.

Inequiy of wealth is one of the reasons

Scary stuff

Almost being drowned at a stream very close to my secondary school. I was in Jss1 newly admitted into boarding house less than 2 weeks when I went to the village stream for the first time. I was so excited that there was another stream because I love going to the streams. Upon arrival, I 'swum' and got into the deeper part of the stream. When I tried to emerge, to my horror and fear, I couldnt emerge. I struggled mightily to wade off, but the waves was too strong for me while I was sinking and grew tired and weak. A voice cautioned me, "If nobody rescues you, you are going to perish." My parents were in Calabar thinking their son was gradually adjusting to boarding house. Off shore, people were screaming in alarm until someone hastily jumped in and then pulled me out to safety. (This is a true life story). I still patronized the stream though I learnt my lesson and avoided the deeper parts. But I do tell you the truth that several years later on one of our normal routine, I saw a bicycle parked at the banks of the stream. Later on, one of my roommates told me that a fellow villager had drowned in that same stream, hence the explanation of the mystery of that bicycle. I sometimes cringe in terror that it could have happened to me and what a deadly blow it would have been to my parents and family members. Thank God.

Camara Laye and Marie are real life husband and wife in the sequel, "A Dream of Africa." They got married in 1953. I first learnt of their union in this book, "The writings of Camara Laye" by Adele King back when I was in secondary school in Nigeria. The discovery of the book at my friend's place was surreal because I had just finished reading the "The African Child" earlier on when I stumbled upon it. That woman, Adele King, can write, I will give her A1 in that regard because she had me hooked from the beginning of his biography to meeting Marie in Conakry, to their wedding in France and then to the final page of the book when she wrote of their divorce. Man, the pleasant feeling that I had seeing the book and reading of their union just vanished at the end of the page. Please disregard the writeup that Marie being Catholic was the reason for their divorce. That wasn't the case.

Nice.

From what I gathered, the deceased was married and had a job. So, could it be that he was simply an innocent victim caught in the crossfire of these nefarious group? I highly doubt he was a student.

ForeignAgent:
She's a former winner of the Miss Nigeria Beauty Pageant over 30 years ago. Go and look up her pictures, she's always been light skinned. It's a matter of genetics. Her late father Chief CC Onoh was also lightskinned.

Her father was actually dark-skinned. It was her mother who was light-skinned. And she did not win the Miss Nigeria beauty contest, it was the "Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria" beauty pageant which was held in 1988.

ThinkSmarter:
another husband to be of a lady lost

Lets not jump into hasty conclusion. The man was married and had a job. I dont think he was a student. There are pictures of his traditional marriage around. He probably was an innocent victim of these nefarious organization. I remember when I was in my third year in college and I ran into cultists one night as they were sailing. I had NO clue that they were sailing and they were in groups. I walked past them safely to my friend's hostel. Now, God forbid if they had confronted me, what would I have done? People would have made this allegations that I was a cultist of an opposing faction. Look before you leap.

Meanwhile, here is a story that I posted last week on this forum about my encounter with cultists right before this tragic news occured.

https://www.nairaland.com/4542972/ever-ran-into-cultists-sailing

The story is a lie, I had doubts about it. Read this, https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2018/6/am-alive-woman-alleged-to-have-jumped-into-the-lagoon-beneath-3rd-mainland-bridge-refutes-rumors.html

I suspected the story wasnt true. Seriously bloggers need to vet their stories before publishing them.

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2018/6/am-alive-woman-alleged-to-have-jumped-into-the-lagoon-beneath-3rd-mainland-bridge-refutes-rumors.html

Look before you leap.

Na wao!

How true is this?

Another version says it was in Jamaica.

inzaghi1:
Have you been to E-Centre in Yaba,Lagos? Union bank has a do it yourself thing... It's an amazing innovation, you should check it out asap....

How does this relate to my discourse?