manuch:
MY father was kidnapped in Nigeria on a Saturday morning in early May. My brother called to tell me, and suddenly there was not enough breathable air in the world. My father is 83 years old. A small, calm, contented man, with a quietly mischievous humor and a luminous faith in God, his beautiful dark skin unlined, his hair in sparse silvery tufts, his life shaped by that stoic, dignified responsibility of being an Igbo first son.

He got his doctoral degree at Berkeley in the 1960s, on a scholarship from the United States Agency for International Development; became Nigeria’s first professor of statistics; raised six children and many relatives; and taught at the University of Nigeria for 50 years. Now he makes fun of himself, at how slowly he climbs the stairs, how he forgets his cellphone. He talks often of his childhood, endearing and rambling stories, his words tender with wisdom.

Sometimes I record his Igbo proverbs, his turns of phrase. A disciplined diabetic, he takes daily walks and is to be found, after each meal, meticulously recording his carbohydrate grams in a notebook. He spends hours bent over Sudoku. He swallows a handful of pills everyday. His is a generation at dusk.

On the morning he was kidnapped, he had a bag of okpa, apples and bottled water that my mother had packed for him. He was in the back seat of his car, his driver at the wheel, on a lonely stretch between Nsukka, the university town where he lives, and Abba, our ancestral hometown. He was going to attend a traditional meeting of men from his age group. A two-hour drive. My mother was planning their late lunch upon his return: pounded yam and a fresh soup. They always called each other when either traveled alone. This time, he didn’t call. She called him and his phone was switched off. They never switched off their phones. Hour after hour, she called and it remained off. Later, her phone rang, and although it was my father’s number calling, a stranger said, “We have your husband.”

Kidnappings are not uncommon in southeastern Nigeria and, unlike similar incidents in the Niger Delta, where foreigners are targeted, here it is wealthy or prominent local residents. Still, the number of abductions has declined in the past few years, which perhaps is why my reaction, in the aftermath of my shock, was surprise.

My close-knit family banded together more tightly and held vigil by our phones. The kidnappers said they would call back, but they did not. We waited. The desire to urge time forward numbed and ate my soul. My mother took her phone with her everywhere, and she heard it ringing when it wasn’t. The waiting was unbearable. I imagined my father in a diabetic coma. I imagined his octogenarian heart collapsing.

“How can they do this violence to a man who would not kill an ant?” my mother lamented. My sister said, “Daddy will be fine because he is a righteous man.” Ordinarily, I would never use “righteous” in a non-pejorative way. But something shifted in my perception of language. The veneer of irony fell away. It felt true. Later, I repeated it to myself. My father would be fine because he was a “righteous man.”

I understood then the hush that surrounds kidnappings in Nigeria, why families often said little even after it was over. We felt paranoid. We did not know if going public would jeopardize my father’s life, if the neighbors were complicit, if another member of the family might be kidnapped as well.

“Is my husband alive?” my mother asked, when the kidnappers finally called back, and her voice broke. “Shut up!” the male voice said. My mother called him “my son.” Sometimes, she said “sir.” Anything not to antagonize him while she begged and pleaded, about my father being ill, about the ransom being too high. How do you bargain for the life of your husband? How do you speak of your life partner in the deadened tone of a business transaction?

“If you don’t give us what we want, you will never see his dead body,” the voice said.

My paternal grandfather died in a refugee camp during the Nigeria-Biafra war and his anonymous death, his unknown grave, has haunted my father’s life. Those words — “You will never see his dead body” — shook us all.

Kidnapping’s ugly psychological melodrama works because it trades on the most precious of human emotions: love. They put my father on the phone, and his voice was a low shadow of itself. “Give them what they want,” he said. “I will not survive if I stay here longer.” My stoic father. It had been three days but it felt like weeks.

Friends called to ask for bank-account details so they could donate toward the ransom. It felt surreal. Did it ever feel real to anybody in such a situation, I wondered? The scramble to raise the money in one day. The menacingly heavy bag of cash. My brother dropping it off, through a circuitous route, in a wooded area.

Late that night, my father was taken to a clearing and set free.

While his blood sugar and pressure were checked, my father kept reassuring us that he was fine, thanking us over and over for doing all we could. This is what he knows how to be — the protector, the father — and he slipped into his role almost as a defense. But there were cracks in his spirit. A drag in his gait. A bruise on his back.


“They asked me to climb into the boot of their car,” he said. “I was going to do so, but one of them picked me up and threw me inside. Threw. The boot was full of things and I hit my head on something. They drove fast. The road was very bumpy.”

I imagined this grace-filled man crumpled inside the rear of a rusty car. My rage overwhelmed my relief — that he suffered such an indignity to his body and mind.

And yet he engaged them in conversation. “I tried to reach their human side,” he said. “I told them I was worried about my wife.”

The next day, my parents were on a flight to the United States, away from the tainted blur that Nigeria had become.

With my father’s release, we all cried, as though it was over. But one thing had ended and another begun. I constantly straddled panic; I was sleepless, unfocused, jumpy, fearful that something else had gone wrong. And there was my own sad guilt: He was targeted because of me. “Ask your daughter the writer to bring the money,” the kidnappers told him, because to appear in newspapers in Nigeria, to be known, is to be assumed wealthy. The image of my father shut away in the rough darkness of a car boot haunted me. Who had done this? I needed to know.

But ours was a dance of disappointment with the authorities. We had reported the kidnapping immediately, and the first shock soon followed: State security officials asked us to pay for anti-kidnap tracking equipment, a large amount, enough to rent a two-bedroom flat in Lagos for a year. This, despite my being privileged enough to get personal reassurances from officials at the highest levels.

How, I wondered, did other families in similar situations cope? Federal authorities told us they needed authorization from the capital, Abuja, which was our responsibility to get. We made endless phone calls, helpless and frustrated. It was as though with my father’s ransomed release, the crime itself had disappeared. To encounter that underbelly, to discover the hollowness beneath government proclamations of security, was jarring.

Now my father smiles and jokes, even of the kidnapping. But he jerks awake from his naps at the sound of a blender or a lawn mower, his eyes darting about. He recounts, in the middle of a meal, apropos of nothing, a detail about the mosquito-filled room where he was kept or the rough feel of the blindfold around his eyes. My greatest sadness is that he will never forget.

i love you chimamanda

AGgal:
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In other news

WILIWILI

adeyemik:
I wish to start by saying that the Oba of Lagos goofed by making such an unfortunate statement. Every right thinking person must condemned such unwarranted and ungodly utterances of the Oba.

However, while we are all calling for the head of the Oba, we should also remind ourselves that the Igbos through their representatives had at one point or the other made inflammatory statements that had the tendency of igniting a tribal conflict, but for the peaceful and calm nature of the Yorubas, those inflammatory statements were ignored to have peaceful coexistence.

It is wrong for the Igbos to claim that -

1.Lagos is a no-man's land - Lagos by its geographical location is in the Southwest of Nigeria and dominated by the Yorubas. There is no where it's ever written expressly or impliedly that a certain geographical location called Lagos was void and uninhabited. A certain tribe, group, or clan founded Lagos and this clan or group has passed down its traditions, ways of life, believes and norms to generations and generations, which many still belief on.

2. The igbos developed Lagos - This is a devilish claim. The development of Lagos started from the early 1900, this was aided by Federal might because was then a capital of Nigeria. In the early 1950 to 1970, the Oyos, the Ogbomoshos, the Egbas, the Aworis, and the Binis were the trade merchants involved in regional and international trade. During this period the Igbos except for few, were mainly involved in clans and local politics. It was in the early 1980 Lagos witness the upsurge of Igbos business activities in Lagos. So before the mass migration of the Igbos to Lagos, Lagos has developed and will keep on developing even if all the Igbos decide to leave Lagos.

3. Igbos are the ones feeding Lagos - The igbos can never and will never feed Lagos. If any tribe wants to make this claim, if should be the Hausas. Most of what are consumed down south comes from the North. In what way can the Igbos justify this ungodly claim. If an Igbo man has a business in Lagos, 70% of his employees are from the same ethnic extraction. When it comes to business ownership, the Yorubas have more business outfits than the Igbos in Lagos, and employs more none Yorubas in such organizations. The igbos need to expunge this claim from their brain.

4. The Eze Ndigbo giving a condition that the deputy governor of PDP must be of the Igbo extraction - Once a man contributes to any community he finds himself, he should be able to vie for an elective post. However, that should be left to the main candidate and his party to decide, not by a tribe insistence. Can an average igbo politician have a Yoruba man or woman has his deputy in the east? The answer is obvious. It is wrong for the Eze Ndigbo to every demand such in Yoruba speaking state.

5. The igbos are more superior in nature than other tribes in Lagos - The business savvy mentality of an average igbo man I appreciate. Their cleverness does not make them superior over other tribes. The mere fact that other tribes does not make noise or conjugate the ways the igbos does, do not make them inferior or less business minded. The Yorubas and Hausas are more successfully in business world than the igbos. Other tribes may not be dominate in the motor spare part or generator business, but in order area of business other tribes in Lagos preform far better and more successfully than the igbos.

The igbos need to expunge this superiority complex from their mind and come to reality.

Yorubas are peace loving, accommodating and God fearing people. The igbos should not allow their inordinate desires, affections and the evil schemes of the politicians to erode the long existing peaceful bond.


Yorubas are not cowards and we refuse to accept such label. Our inaction does not make us docile or lack the will power to act, when we act, we act decisively.

God help us in this country

blackbee:




http://believeafrica.net/tinubu-draws-buhari-transition-team-list-p468-114.htm

i do not need to advice buhari.. he is no fool.. hausas do not take orders from yorubas ... they only use them as a means to an end therafter they dump them... buhari has always known his ministers years ago and tinubu should better adjust his seat well.. tinubu only controls a block in sw and nothing more.. buharis victory came only as a mearger, soaring popularity and demand for a better life amongst the people esp in d north.. tinubu only used his man management skills... i bet if it wasnt buhari as the candidate he would not have won.. i predict a big problem btw the two and buhari will surely change alliance... tinubu is corruption certified..

tomi12345:


http://www.punchng.com/news/forgive-akiolu-and-move-on-buhari-tells-igbo/

look here .. you are free to air your opinion just like i have aired mine.. but have any yoruba man been
deported from the east before?,. have any yoruba man been threatened to vote apga in the east before?..
the igbos are not arrogant or complexed.. why would a whole oba threaten not just a person but a whole
tribe?.. any responce you get should be merited because the igbos are very hurt... you do not beat a child
and expect the child not to cry... so any word of hurt from the igbos now is justified because the oba is like
d mouthpiece of the yoruba race and he is the custodian of all that yoruba represents... he has just spoken
the mind of the average yoruba man... that is my case.. what he is receiving now is exactly what he
brougut upon himself...

look here .. you are free to air your opinion .. but have any yoruba man been
deported from the east before?,. have any yoruba man been threatened to vote apga in the east before?..
the igbos are not arrogant or complexed.. why would a whole oba threaten not just a person but a whole
tribe?.. any responce you get should be merited because the igbos are very hurt... you do not beat a child
and expect the child not to cry... so any word of hurt from the igbos now is justified because the oba is like
d mouthpiece of the yoruba race and he is the custodian of all that yoruba represents... he has just spoken
the mind of the average yoruba man... that is my case.. what he is receiving now is exactly what he
brougut upon himself...

adeyemik:
I wish to start by saying that the Oba of Lagos goofed by making such an unfortunate statement. Every right thinking person must condemned such unwarranted and ungodly utterances of the Oba.

However, while we are all calling for the head of the Oba, we should also remind ourselves that the Igbos through their representatives had at one point or the other made inflammatory statements that had the tendency of igniting a tribal conflict, but for the peaceful and calm nature of the Yorubas, those inflammatory statements were ignored to have peaceful coexistence.

It is wrong for the Igbos to claim that -

1.Lagos is a no-man's land - Lagos by its geographical location is in the Southwest of Nigeria and dominated by the Yorubas. There is no where it's ever written expressly or impliedly that a certain geographical location called Lagos was void and uninhabited. A certain tribe, group, or clan founded Lagos and this clan or group has passed down its traditions, ways of life, believes and norms to generations and generations, which many still belief on.

2. The igbos developed Lagos - This is a devilish claim. The development of Lagos started from the early 1900, this was aided by Federal might because was then a capital of Nigeria. In the early 1950 to 1970, the Oyos, the Ogbomoshos, the Egbas, the Aworis, and the Binis were the trade merchants involved in regional and international trade. During this period the Igbos except for few, were mainly involved in clans and local politics. It was in the early 1980 Lagos witness the upsurge of Igbos business activities in Lagos. So before the mass migration of the Igbos to Lagos, Lagos has developed and will keep on developing even if all the Igbos decide to leave Lagos.

3. Igbos are the ones feeding Lagos - The igbos can never and will never feed Lagos. If any tribe wants to make this claim, if should be the Hausas. Most of what are consumed down south comes from the North. In what way can the Igbos justify this ungodly claim. If an Igbo man has a business in Lagos, 70% of his employees are from the same ethnic extraction. When it comes to business ownership, the Yorubas have more business outfits than the Igbos in Lagos, and employs more none Yorubas in such organizations. The igbos need to expunge this claim from their brain.

4. The Eze Ndigbo giving a condition that the deputy governor of PDP must be of the Igbo extraction - Once a man contributes to any community he finds himself, he should be able to vie for an elective post. However, that should be left to the main candidate and his party to decide, not by a tribe insistence. Can an average igbo politician have a Yoruba man or woman has his deputy in the east? The answer is obvious. It is wrong for the Eze Ndigbo to every demand such in Yoruba speaking state.

5. The igbos are more superior in nature than other tribes in Lagos - The business savvy mentality of an average igbo man I appreciate. Their cleverness does not make them superior over other tribes. The mere fact that other tribes does not make noise or conjugate the ways the igbos does, do not make them inferior or less business minded. The Yorubas and Hausas are more successfully in business world than the igbos. Other tribes may not be dominate in the motor spare part or generator business, but in order area of business other tribes in Lagos preform far better and more successfully than the igbos.

The igbos need to expunge this superiority complex from their mind and come to reality.

Yorubas are peace loving, accommodating and God fearing people. The igbos should not allow their inordinate desires, affections and the evil schemes of the politicians to erode the long existing peaceful bond.


Yorubas are not cowards and we refuse to accept such label. Our inaction does not make us docile or lack the will power to act, when we act, we act decisively.

look here .. you are free to air your opinion just like i have aired mine.. but have any yoruba man been deported from the east before?,. have any yoruba man been threatened to vote apga in the east before?.. the igbos are not arrogant or complexed.. why would a whole oba threaten not just a person but a whole tribe?.. any responce you get should be merited because the igbos are very hurt... you do not beat a child and expect the child not to cry... so any word of hurt from the igbos now is justified because the oba is like d mouthpiece of the yoruba race and he is the custodian of all that yoruba represents... he has just spoken the mind of the average yoruba man... that is my case.. what he is receiving now is exactly what he brougut upon himself...

donjazzy.... smh... pls what if you and dbanj are only pretending whearas you guyz are only acting up a script for fans to beleive otherwise..?.. pls donjazzzy stop trying to downplay this issue by standing by your party apc.. abeg abeg if you have nithing to say then shut da fff up..

don jazzy?... what if you and dbanj are deceiving us whearas you guyz are very close pals?

thats why the hausas will continue to rule us.. somebody pls tell don jazzy that there is nothing called nigeria.. nigeria is only a cash cow .. the hausas do not beleive any nigeria exists and if they must then they have to own it... they own nigeria.. jazzy knows better but his hands are tied.. i dont blame him.. i know he knows the truth but he has sold himself to fame and fortune by all means.. if you want to hear the truth, go and seek his dads opinion... in other news,,,,,,"""""oba akiolu... tout in regal attire"""""

any slumdog who still has d guts to insult the igbos is either working for
that useless oba or a fascist yoruba group.. i do not hate yoruba. but i hate the oba and anyone who
wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is and continues to be no mans land.. igbos
developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..we will never vote APC...
we dont need any seat in govt.. we dont need anything from nigeria.. igbos are Gods own people.. and
one day biafra shall prevail. Nigeria is bullshit .. nothing more than a bunch of tribalistic satans called
hausas and yorubas.... we the igbos have prooven to be above tribalism and ethnicity..and when we
finally develope that lagoon,that oba will still chase us back to the dry land.. there is no such thing as
the oba of lagos.. tout in regal attire

KUNZEH:
Oba Akinolu will not apologize, make una go die in lagoon....

you are a big foool.. you are not igbo and you are nothing but a slumdog.. you still have d guts to insult
the igbos?.. this your silly article serves no propaganda.. i dont blame you.. i guess you are working for
that useless oba or a fascist yoruba group.. i do not hate yoruba. but i hate the oba and anyone who
wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is and continues to be no mans land.. igbos
developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..we will never vote APC...
we dont need any seat in govt.. we dont need anything from nigeria.. igbos are Gods own people.. and
one day biafra shall prevail. Nigeria is bullshit .. nothing more than a bunch of tribalistic satans called
hausas and yorubas.... we the igbos have prooven to be above tribalism and ethnicity..and when we
finally develope that lagoon,that oba will still chase us back to the dry land.. there is no such thing as
the oba of lagos.. tout in regal attire

silverdam:
Why don't you show him... slowpoke

you are a big foool.. you are not igbo and you are nothing but a slumdog.. you still have d guts to insult the igbos?.. this your silly article serves no propaganda.. i dont blame you.. i guess you are working for that useless oba or a fascist yoruba group.. i do not hate yoruba. but i hate the oba and anyone who wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is and continues to be no mans land.. igbos developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..we will never vote APC... we dont need any seat in govt.. we dont need anything from nigeria.. igbos are Gods own people.. and one day biafra shall prevail. Nigeria is bullshit .. nothing more than a bunch of tribalistic satans called hausas and yorubas.... we the igbos have prooven to be above tribalism and ethnicity..and when we finally develope that lagoon,that oba will still chase us back to the dry la

@EUROBOMBER you are a big foool.. you are not igbo and you are nothing but a slumdog.. you still have d guts to insult the igbos?.. this your silly article serves no propaganda.. i dont blame you.. i guess you are working for that useless oba or a fascist yoruba group.. i do not hate yoruba. but i hate the oba and anyone who wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is and continues to be no mans land.. igbos developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..we will never vote APC... we dont need any seat in govt.. we dont need anything from nigeria.. igbos are Gods own people.. and one day biafra shall prevail. Nigeria is bullshit .. nothing more than a bunch of tribalistic satans called hausas and yorubas.... we the igbos have prooven to be above tribalism and ethnicity..and when we finally develope that lagoon,that oba will still chase us back to the dry land.. there is no such thing as oba of lagos.... tout in regal attire

AMBODE...it is tooo late .. i still sense pride in your words... this your silly article serves no propaganda.. i dont blame you.. i guess you are working for that partisan monarch.. . i reject anyone who wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is for all nigerians... it is true that igbos developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..of which yorubas even voted for the igbo candidate.. lagosians are not igbo or yoruba but lagosians.. i weep for the future of lagos under APC, tinubu, and obaAkiolu...

@EUROBOMBER you are a big foool.. you are not igbo and you are nothing but a slumdog.. you still have d guts to insult the igbos?.. this your silly article serves no propaganda.. i dont blame you.. i guess you are working for that useless oba or a fascist yoruba group.. i do not hate yoruba. but i hate the oba and anyone who wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is and continues to be no mans land.. igbos developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..we will never voteAPC... we dont need any seat in govt.. we dont need anything from nigeria.. igbos are Gods own people.. and one day biafra shall prevail. Nigeria is bullshit .. nothing more than a bunch of tribalistic satans called hausas and yorubas.... we the igbos have prooven to be above tribalism and ethnicity..and when we finally develope that lagoon,that oba will still chase us back to the dry land.. there is no such thing as the oba of lagos..tout in regal attire

EUROBOMBER:
The recent happenings in Lagos have created so much tension between the Igbo and the Yoruba. There is so much bitterness and hate talk flying around and this will not do us any good.

When you try to break a wall using a sledge hammer, you need to apply several blows before it gives in. You might need to apply a 100 blows but one thing to note is that it is not the 100th blow that breaks the wall, it is a combination of effects from the very first blow. This brings me to the recent statement credited to the Oba of Lagos to the Igbos. I condemn the statement and I believe every right-thinking person should do the same in the interest of peace and civility. What I want to tell my Igbo people is that the Oba's outburst is not just as a result of the forth-coming gubernatorial election in Lagos but a combination of factors. I hear some of our people calling Lagos a no-man's-land and this is just too bad; this is the height of arrogance and disrespect. How can we move into a Yoruba land, enjoying God's blessings and prosperity only to turn round and tell the people that their land belongs to nobody, that we feed them, and that they cannot survive without us and all the other rubbish and provocative stuff??

Clearly the Oba has been harbouring this anger as a result of the arrogance and provocation of our Igbo people and just could not contain it this time and lashed out.

My Igbo brothers, can we sit down and ask ourselves why we have been so aggressive towards the Yorubas? What have they done wrong to us to deserve this provocation and arrogance? The Yorubas are a very peaceful people and we turn round to call them cowards and all sorts of names. What do we want the Yorubas to do to prove to us that they are not cowards, rise up and go on a killing spree? These Yorubas even returned all our properties to us after the civil war something even our close neighbours in the SS didn’t do!

What does it take to respect your host and do as they wish my people for Christ’s sake? We are prosperous in Yoruba land and are enjoying the land and have no problem with the people, all they are for is for us to know our limits and give them their respect is this too much to ask from us? Let me ask my people one honest question, why are we not shouting that Kano is a no-man’s land The Yorubas have been very nice and taking all these insults from us and we turn around to point our fingers in their noses and call them cowards! Jesus! We claim to be Christians and worship God, is it not written in the bible that blessed are the peace makes for they shall be called the children of God?

My Igbo people please see a sample of what is making the Yorubas very angry with us:

1. I WILL ELEVATE EZE NDIGBO TO THE STATUS OF OBA OF LAGOS - JIMI AGBAJE.

2. IGBO WILL DETERMINE WHO RULES LAGOS- IFEANYI UBAH

3. LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND.- IFEANYI UBAH DURING TAN CAMPAIGN.

4. IGBO DEVELOPED AND CONTROL LAGOS- JIMI AGBAJE DURING GEJ CAMPAIGN IN AKWA IBOM

5. WE MUST PRODUCE THE NEXT DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF LAGOS- EZE NDIGBO

MY QUESTIONS TO IGBOS,

1. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT ALL THE ABOVE MENTIONED?

2. CAN EMIR OF KANO ACCEPT ....?

3. DO YOU HAVE ANY SINGLE TRIBE IN YOUR CABINET IN THE EAST?

4. CAN ANY TRIBE CLAIM ONITHSA OR ABA TO BE NO MAN,S LAND?

5. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT THE ELEVATION OF SARKIN HAUSA IN ONITHSA TO OBI STATUS?

I want to use this medium to appeal to well-meaning Yorubas to forgive the childishness and foolishness of our people. Please drop any plans of violence being planned against our people and all other diplomatic ways of punishing our people in your land including Lagos.

We recognise that LAGOS IS A YORUBA LAND and will respect that. Please I appeal for calm and understanding. I am inviting some Yorubas I respect on this forum to help reach out to your people to be calm, I have personally decided to start a campaign to reorientate our people as God helps me in my own way to change the way we think.

Even God told Moses that if he could find just 10 righteous people he will not destroy Sodom & Gomorrah. Igbos like me are far more than 10 in Lagos and other areas of SW. Please do not bring out the beast in you and and please allow better judgement prevail over emotions.

you are a big foool.. you are not igbo and you are nothing but a slumdog.. you still have d guts to insult the igbos?.. this your stupid article serves no propaganda.. i dont blame you.. i guess you are working for that useless oba or a fascist yoruba group.. i do not hate yoruba. but i hate the oba and anyone who wishes any man dead for performing his civic duties .lagos is and continues to be no mans land.. igbos developed that place and presently won a house of reps seat in oshodi isolo..we will never vote APC... we dont need any seat in govt.. we dont need anything from nigeria.. igbos are Gods own people.. and one day biafra shall prevail. Nigeria is bullshit .. nothing more than a bunch of tribalistic satans called hausas and yorubas.... we the igbos have prooven to be above tribalism and ethnicity..and when we finally develope that lagoon,that idiot oba will still chase us back to the dry land.. there is no such thing as the oba of lagos.. tout in regal attire

i am beginning to hate nairaland because of peeps like u

Yungwizzzy:
oshiomole is a failure, he couldn't deliver and his crying. He didn't even canvas for votes


To me he failed compared to other APC governors



but unfortunately Buhari still won!!


I've not seen my good friend barcanista comment recently

sometimes i wonder how on earth APC comments get up to 500 , 600 likes.. is it only me or is naira land now a tool for APC.. i am not asking.. yes nairaland has been compromised by APC.. so also most of the social networks.. sorry ,most voting Nigerians do not have access to internet and these naira landers you see are too educated to risk their lives in the polling ubit

WisdomFlakes:

LOL, if you bet your life you will just die for nothing coz it will not happen. Maybe in Lagos, Portugal. But certainly not Lagos, South West Nigeria.

who are these three men? shehu shagari and yaradua are the only recognised leaders from the north.. stop telling us that these men shaped our history.. our history was taking a better shape before these amen destroyed it.. now we only remember a history of bloodshed and deceit.. no buhari .no babangida .. no ty danjuma.. no to extremism.. by the way which injury did you suffer during the war? smh

Keneking:
Sai Buhari.........

Even Babangida is not happy with the current position of things ....
Even Obasanjo is not happy with the current position of things....
Even Danjuma is not happy with the current position of things...
The masses have been unhappy since pump price climbed from N65 till today...unemployment, insecurity, corruption, poverty is on the rise and there is no hope....

One single decision on March 28 will CHANGE things.

who are these three men? shehu shagari and yaradua are the only recognised leaders from the north.. stop telling us that these men shaped our history.. our history was taking a better shape before these amen destroyed it.. now we only remember a history of bloodshed and deceit.. no buhari .no babangida .. no ty danjuma.. no to extremism.. by the way which injury did you suffer during the war? smh

Keneking:
Sai Buhari.........

Even Babangida is not happy with the current position of things ....
Even Obasanjo is not happy with the current position of things....
Even Danjuma is not happy with the current position of things...
The masses have been unhappy since pump price climbed from N65 till today...unemployment, insecurity, corruption, poverty is on the rise and there is no hope....

One single decision on March 28 will CHANGE things.

which tree did dis ape jump from?

cold:

Lmao! Is this one a Christian too? Your Jesus must be proud

you are a foool.. God punish you for toying with serious issues.. your kind should not speak in the face of dire issues.. bastard.. bloody biatch

softysparky:
Praise the lord!!!!!!!

Have you gotten a woman yet? You have to taste and check the difference only then can you decide.


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I am not trying to push him back into sin/fornication, but going by his testimony he only stopped being gay but not yet a straight guy. In fact it's more like a celibate gay. What happens when he marries and find out he prefers chopping prick to punny

Na woman like me go suffer am ooo.

anything that makes you sleep well......

YourMain:


If she doesn't survive then there's no baby anyways.

I'm just saying, if I got pregnant, I'd keep my baby. No matter how traumatic the circumstance. The woman that got raped for over 10 years kept her child. I Dont see why I shouldn't. I think it'd make me happier. Something for me to focus on.

Good for you.

easier said than done.. "suck out the child.. "" what if she doesnt even surviv the rape ? wasnt the rape also dangerous..? or disgusting? how many men will take turns and rape you? mixture of different sperms..? sounds disgusting to you? or confusing? well you can keep on fantasizing.. i am for real babes

YourMain:


Lol. Aborting the child will fix her life. She will end up hating me. Its disgusting. They suck up the child and throw it in the bin.

She will have the child and I'll either raise it as my own. Or I'll make sure the child goes into an open adoption.

Lol fantasies a lot.

hmmm. why do i have this feeling you are tue type of lady that fantasizes a lot? ok .. fine.. when your daughter of11 yrs old comes back witha pregnancy by an armed robber you can buckle up to be a gmama and end your childs future there and then.. good for you if she lives to be the same child with her mates

YourMain:


I've no idea what jss 1 class is. Yes I would. I have a million and one supporters in my family that'll have my back no matter what. And I am sure that that child will become the greatest it can potentially be.

I'm not arguing. That is the reality that I face.

what if you were raped at 12 years old and just in jss 1 class? you will decide to carry the baby then? we can go on and on or you can just admit reallity and truth for once and lets end this unneccesary argument.

YourMain:


And I think its time to pick up a biology book. Rape isn't a gene? Its not hereditary. The only thing Is the child might look like his or her father. Rape isn't something you inherit. Its how you were raised and how your moral works. The rapist isn't in the child's life. I've no excuse to kill that child.

Money is a physical material thing. You can hardly compare money to rape. My dad is really good at maths. I'm absolutely rubbish.

right now i think its time you consult your bible.. "i will visit their sins uptil the fourth generation.. that child carries the mark of his father.. like it or not.. if your father was owing money in his lifetime before death, i bet you his debtor will demand such money from his son.. and if someone(bank) owes your dad b4 death, wont u demand the money? " nemo dat quad non habet"..

YourMain:


That's sickening. A rapist is human with shit morals. I will raise that child with my sound morals. I will teach that child to be the best it can be nothing like his or her father. Rape isn't hereditary. The child is born Innocent. It has nothing wrong to harm me and I will not harm him or her.

And if its experience you think I lack. Believe me, I've enough to last me A thousand lifetimes.

hmmm. now i beleive what they say..."experience is the best teacher".. when push comes to shove then you will understand. if i were a lady and a beast got me pregnant, i will quickly flush my system and anything in it.. i can cope with the trauma of what happened but not watching it grow beside me all my entire life.. let God be the judge.. kids should be products of love btw two and not by either immaculate conception or rape..

YourMain:


So.. A life deserves to be ended cause I made a mistake? Why would I have sex with someone else when I'm in a serious relationship? If I make a mistake, I deal with the consequences. My parents are my parents they'll forever accept me.

you dont have to agree to understand. just simply get pregnant for a fling you had just on a travel you embarked on then you can return home afterwards to tell your serious boyfriend and parents how you are got pregnant for a ? pleeaasseee be real for once.. some things are just not meant to be

YourMain:


I Dont agree. That child in many situations will give the mother hope and allows her to recover from what happened to her.

Life is always a beautiful thing in my opinion no matter the circumstance. Abortion will not allow you to move on any faster. You will always wonder about that child and imagine you do get over it, and you can't get pregnant in the future. That's just sad then.