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ALEX182:
So I have this American patient who I recently came across. He's a fat dude who is like in his late 40s but has a very jolly and likeable character. I introduced myself and we got talking afterwards.

After a while of chitchat, he asked me where I was from. I told him to take a guess and he said said, you sound like you're Nigerian. I told him (regrettably) that I was Nigerian. He started smiling and told me that he had a Nigerian girlfriend and that we both had similar accents.

He then started telling me recent occurrences that had befallen his girlfriend in Nigeria. He said the lastest story was that she was in Abuja and as she was on her way to the airport in a taxi, the taxi had an accident and she was seriously injured and had to be rushed to the hospital. He said that the hospital demanded money before treatment started and he had to hustle about $4000 and send to her in order for treatment to start.

He said that after a week of her being in the hospital, they wanted to discharge her despite her still being in pain. Because she had exhausted all the $4000 on treatment, he said the hospital had threatened to discharge her on the streets and he was trying to borrow more money to see if he could send it to her so they could continue with her treatments.

He furthermore told me that the girlfriend said that she was a Nigerian American citizen who was currently stuck in Nigeria due to her passport having expired and also due to Covid lockdown at airports in Nigeria. He said she had asked him for $300 to renew her US passport from American embassy in Nigeria.

Another thing that he told me was that just before covid struck, there was a similar pandemic which happened in Nigeria early this year and that his girlfriend had contracted the disease and he had to send her $2000 for treatment. Right now he said he's broke but is waiting for like $2000 disability check from the US government next week which he will send to her as soon as the money clears.

As he was telling me this tale, I was so angry with Nigerians and how they take advantage of people in love to scam them. I wanted to swear for the scammers


I'm at a dilemma here. Do I tell him that he's being scammed by Nigerians or do I continue to be professional and just ignore it. Because I don't want him to think I'm involved with it because these oyinbo people can turn everything on your head and accuse you that is your people in conjunction with you that are scamming him. They are that crazy.

The good part of me wants to help him but I'm hesitant that it may turn out bad for me. Please matured responses.

Just like someone said out here, put yourself in his shoes. If he were your brother or your friend or relation, what would you do?...

He'll eventually discover one day that he's being scammed, and he would write off ALL Nigerians; but you can change that. You can make him know not all Nigerians are scammers or accessories to scams, you can make him know only a few Nigerians make up those scam rings and you can make him know majority of hardworking Nigerians like yourself aren't happy with the activities of the scammers. Keeping quiet passes the opposite message.

Mayeldah:
Aisha yesufu or whatever you call yourself, Reno is fighting for leah Sharibu, you can take up the casue for the Chibok Girls.

Stop blaming, you yourself, do sometihing for the Chibok girls.

Moreover, does she have proof the Reno converted proceeds from the whatever cause he championed for Leah sharibu into his pocket?

This same Reno carrying Leah Sharibu's matter on his head is the same Reno who up until 2020, was still publicly criticising Oby Ezekwesili for protesting against the government he was part of. Of course it was all politics to him for Chibok, the way he turns around to then carry Leah on his head, even the devil would be shocked.

These are the exact words coming from the shameless man made in 2020:
"Oby cannot deny that she was used by the All Progressives Congress to undermine the Jonathan administration and rise to power. She and her co-travellers in her Bring Back Our Girls movement were celebrated by the APC itself as “our members”.
https://www.nairaland.com/5804981/reno-omokri-how-oby-ezekwesili

...and somehow this is the same fellow carrying Leah's matter on his head?

Interesting!

I always wondered why no one seemed to notice the senselessness of Reno's hypocrisy. The same Reno who mocked Oby Ezekwesili openly for the BBOG movement, even saying she was used and dumped, all of a sudden, Dapchi happened and the very same Reno carries Leah Sharibu's matter on his head, even writing a book on it? Seriously what kind of political sentiment or hunger pushes a man to such shameless hypocrisy?

This one weak me...

Idiots, bastards!

Bastards and Idiotss!!!

Hmmm... didn't know it was an arrest...

ThatFairGuy:
See as they're all defending what will never benefit their lifes.

I'm only defending/advocating for common sense, minding one's business, and 'living and letting others live'... Unfortunately you cant comprehend these concepts cos common sense isn't really common.

I dont watch BBNaija, I never have and probably never will, and that's cos I dont really fancy the show. Similarly, I dont watch football even as a guy. But I'd be utterly STUPID if I go about thinking I'm smarter or better than those who watch BBNaija, or those who are crazy about football.

[quote author= post=92634102]

If you think you are Stupid, no you are not all that stupid,

Just think of youths like you,
who stay awake to Watch BB9ja house mates sleeping and snoring with saliva running down on their pillows for over 6 hours........EVERY NIGHT!!!.

Watching TV to see who is gonna refuse someone else's smelly kisses!

Now, that is what STUPIDITY is.[/quote]Some people actually believe they are smarter than others because they dont fancy a tv show which the others fancy. Such bigotry is the realest definition of stupidity. Smartness isnt measured by preference in tv shows.

Ilaumoh:
Says a fool from the mud ravaged enclave

And how exactly does your attached statistics negate what I said?

Meanwhile you dont even have a clue who you're talking to or where I come from. So that already speaks volumes on who the real fool is.

Sammini2:
Actress Ufuoma McDermott shares stunning photos of her daughter, Kes, as she turns five



https://www.instagram.com/p/CDn7EBIHzxz/?igshid=1mtnqxsucc0j3

Wow! Ufuoma's blood must be strong. Her daughter is fully black!

simeotexy:
bros health gini...have seen some of u guys talking here have not been to akwa ibom...ur state cant boost of world class hospital but we have many in akwa ibom search ibom specialist hospital

I'm not in a competition with you, and neither am I interested in your "my state is better than yours" argument. No single state in Nigeria, not even Abuja, can boast of a decent health care system that meets the barest WHO standard. I dont need to live in, or visit all 36 states of Nigeria to know this basic info.

seunmsg:
Finally, Abia State is about to be liberated. This is a cheering news for all Abians. Come 2023, Abia shall slip into the hand of a progressive governor. The era of kerosene government is coming to an end.

This man that already looks like T.A Orji? Liberation indeed!

In a state where there's still massive poverty, where health and educational infrastructure are still in shambles, the government opts to spend billions building a worship centre. This is just foolishness, and in no way does this honour God.

gurunlocker:
You're still not making sense as usual..... You didn't state any fact, just a defence mechanism for your paylord asslickers as usual

A person without sense obviously not tell whether a person makes sense or not. Helloo!

gurunlocker:
I know you to be a zombie, so I don't expect better response.

I heard they are planning to borrow $3bn soon, hope they approve it as well.

I'll take the 'zombie' tag as a compliment, cos it's been endlessly proven here that imbeciles get offended (and use the 'zombie' slur) whenever they are confronted with arguments beyond their intellectual capacity. I obviously wasn't expecting anything sensible from you too!

RTSC:
Actually, apc has borrowed far more than the pdp.

That's actually not true but majority of Nigerians are unaware of this. We just have a penchant for swallowing info peddled by the crowd, notwithstanding its source. Go to the DMO website and obtain the breakdown of loans. Over 70% of the debt Nigeria owes China was obtained before 2015.

Ayemileto:
Lol. I got it from Nairaland.

if you can locate that thread where Buhari named the Railway after Goodluck, just read through the comments on page 1 and 2, and you'll see it there.

Apart from that, A lot of threads from politics section have also made front page in the last 5 years - especially around the time the project was commissioned, and in threads where similar projects were inaugurated. And in many of them, you'll find such comments.

UPDATE: from other people's comments, It appears you're one of the ZoneBs.

Sunnyja:
Aren't you the ZoneB here. You mean you haven't heard of "PDP did nothing for 16years"? How on Earth can you say "no one" in the world has ever mentioned that GEJ didn't build the Abuja-Kaduna railway, some touts even said PMB named a railway station after GEJ just to shame him.

So if someone says "GEJ did nothing", your brains automatically interpret it to mean, "GEJ didn't move even a finger for 5 years"?

The word 'zombie' must really have a different definition in Nigeria, cos even real zombies and illiterates understand basic figures of speech.

Centcanada:
This Amechi of a man will not End well ooo. Mark my word. Any saboteur always come back shamelessly.

Why exactly wouldn't he end well? He ends up being one of the only ministers Nigerians can see the physical evidence of his works but in the depth of your hatred and jealousy, you wish him bad?

Did you say saboteur? What or who did Amaechi sabotage?

You and your likes are obviously the ones that wouldn't end well, not Amaechi. Karma doesn't miss its target!

Ayemileto:
I hope Buharist who said Goodluck didn't do anything, can see this.

Also I hope those ZoneBs who claimed Buhari named the train station after Goodluck in order to shame him can now see that, in fact, he completed 80% of the project.

No one in this world has ever mentioned that GEJ didn't build the Abuja - Kaduna rail. The project was 80-90% complete by the time GEJ was leaving power. So only God knows where people like you get this your zombified information from.

gurunlocker:
This government is terrible!



Everything they do, they always compare to GEJ administration, even security situation.


They will be calculating or comparing the number of people that died during a bomb blast in the last administration and this administration

It's only natural that you reply an accusation when the accuser is even more guilty of the crime he accuses you of.

More than 80% of the debt Nigeria currently owes China was borrowed under PDP. So it's outright stupidity for someone of the PDP fold to try and accuse APC of borrowing 'too much from China.

Bizarre how almost every Nigerian on this issue expects the govt to default on the loan, and also expects zero consequences.... What kind of human borrows money and anticipates not paying back?

The Nigerian army I know can be really crazy, brutal and ruthless; the establishment at the top of the hierarchy also can be really predictable and even diabolical. But on this one, I doubt this story from SR. No matter how crazy they are, the craze can't get to this.

iyke4:
Bode George actually has a point; these Chinese claim to be very smart when doing business, they don’t love us but they are here for what they can gain; it’s better we take our time with them than to enter into something which we can’t recover from.

A lot of Nigerians just have difficulty understanding 'big' terms.

Why should Nigeria take a loan from China and refuse to pay back, and still expect nothing to happen? of course the deal is that China takes over the rail asset if we default on the loan. What else were we expecting? For them to give us a loan and leave us alone? Is it everything we have to make noise about in Nigeria? With the ongoing noise over this issue, it just seems every Nigerian, both leaders and ordinary citizens are already so determined to not pay back the loan.

majamajic:
Under construction
Rainy season

Work is going on the road , it's normal during raining season in all construction sites

This road has been under construction, and ALWAYS becomes like this every single rainy season since 1999. Tufiakwa!

SLAP44:
The only reason for the problems in the Niger Delta is the way Nigeria is milking them dry and using their money to develop other parts of the country.

If they get their own country, Dubai will be created in Africa.

So we still have people selling this (intentionally dubious or maybe just naively ignorant) narrative that the problem of development in the ND is because ND money feeds the rest of nigeria?

The funds accruing to NDDC, ND Ministry and the 13% derivation received by state governors for the last 2 decades, if only a measly 10% of those funds were used for what they were actually meant for and not outrightly looted away, the Niger Delta would have been a small Dubai by now.

The problem of the ND isn't that ND feeds the entire country, the problem is that ND leaders, past and present are desperately wicked to themselves and to their own people. Give the ND 150% derivation, the funds will still be fritted away by the vultures in power.

gunners160:
if this news is true, then it is best news of 2020
I wonder how people sit down to watch how some else live their life and even make a gossip out of it.
instead of watching this yeye big broda, I rather seat down and watch a blank Television screen

Because you do like a show, that doesn't make you wiser than others who choose to like it. The fact that you can't mind your business over what your neighbour likes or chooses to watch, speaks a lot about you.

The perfect definition of witchcraft (and wizard-craft) is when a person just feels tormented by merely knowing that their neighbour is happy (despite the fact that the thing which makes the neighbour happy doesn't even affect your life in any way).

Hashimyussufamao:
The 5th edition of the contentious reality show, BBNaija has kicked off on Sunday, July 19, with this year’s edition tagged ‘BBNaija lockdown’. Going by the number of streams, messages and traffics under hashtags, unarguably, it is Africa’s largest reality TV show.

The previous editions of the show have always come to light in the spring of academic sessions, when most kids are in school - but unfortunately, the train of this year’s edition took off while the whole world is home alone, and made to stay indoors due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.

As a show that has raised many dust in the past and still stirring opinions at the moment, BBNaija is undoubtedly, a controversial show. Many criticisms have been levelled against it by clerics, academics, parents and other well-meaning Nigerians, and this was borne out of nothing but its immoral and sexual contents; like live TV sex, kissing, romance, illicit talks, indecent dresses that reveals shapes, cleavages and lots more - all which would be improper for little kids to watch, especially in this lockdown period.

A terrible mistake parents should not afford to make for the next 10 weeks is sleeping with their eyes closed; hence exposing their child(ren) to this dangerous show, else, these innocent kids will have immoralities injected into them. And most of the things they watch on TV, they would love to give a chance to practice, such is just the funny power of their psychological programming. Imagine a situation where kids utter slangs, kiss, romance or practice other filths they have watched from BBNaija show.

Parents should, hence, keep a watch on their children by limiting their access to television or the remote control. Good channels where beneficial and educative programs are available should rather be what kids should be allowed to watch, and not a show that would shape their value system and behaviors in an illicit manner.

✍️: Hashim Yussuf LegalBard
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3162722623961209&id=100006705072056

Nigerians and their stuuupid hypocrisy! If you don't want your kids to watch the show, parental lock is there for a reason.

As expected, after the closed door meeting, the matter has been buried 12ft in the ground. Nigeria we hail thee!

A lot of Nigerians just have abnormal reasoning. What exactly was wrong or demeaning in what Ngige said yesterday to warrant these pointless reactions?

Queenlovely:
and this is an achievement?

In the 21st century, when China is building train track everyday, it's normal over here in China. now they have started the belt and road to build for africa. all track lead to China for stealing our resources.

we are a failed country.

these trains are so expensive the common man cannot use it. from idu railway in Abuja to airport is 2000, just imagine how much Kano to Lagos will cost

It always amuses me whenever I hear people make this "common man cannot afford it" comment. How was the common man traveling prior to the trains?

My dear, trains are not cheap anywhere in the world; they're expensive to operate, expensive to maintain and are always more expensive than road transport in every country I've been to. In the UK for example, inter city trains are even more expensive than flight on several routes....N2000 for that trip you talk about is a massively subsidised amount which already makes the trains an unviable finance draining liability to govt. In Nigeria, do we really want the govt to subsidise everything.