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Listen to what Muhammad Ali says on Mini Skirts 50 years ago


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg154n8FIBg

What a shame on government. I don't encourage private citizens doing their work because you will only embolden them to steal our commonwealth.

Throwback:
Vanguard should be ashamed of this false headline that is belied by the very 1st paragraph of their own news report.

There should be a penalty for deliberate headline misinformation.

Thank you. I don't want to believe Uncle Sam saw this. Outright lie by the paper.

Shimbo96:
she wasn't the one that filed the suit, the op didn't read well before posting that headline.

The headline is misleading and totally wrong. Very sad to read this.

Didn't Tinubu say he was going to continue from where PMB stopped

What other Part 2 of Tinubu are you looking for? Isn't he the one who sold Buhari to us and boasted that he made him President? Tinubu always claimed he made people, Fashola, Osinbajo, Aregbesola and the rest. Why is Buhari not one they sing about? 🤡


I hope this man doesn't implicate his party by saying the wrong thing thinking he's saying the right thing. APC as a party cannot really blame anyone else anymore. They have come full circle 360°. Even if Tinubu serves 2x, there is no 15 years of PDP to blame anymore because it's 1-1 already.

Social media can be funny but what's funny to me is how KWAM 1 could last this long then let himself give others the right to call another person KWAM 2. May we not bring embarrassment upon ourselves. Amen

bepositive11:
You totally missed the point. Put yourself in the woman's shoes. Forget about your generalizations and let go of your biases.

There are lots and lots of men who sacrifice their family for their happiness. And there are lots and lots of women who sacrifice their happiness for their family.

This shouldn't even be a thing. Both partners should compromise and meet each other halfway.

But I didn't spare him either. People are selfish I understand but there is something different here.

She took the passport away thinking it will prevent him from sending the children to Nigeria, where she is also going to. She wants him to learn a lesson but that's not a smart move. He can leave with the children and disconnect from the family forever. She will be the one looking for him.

He wanted to leave but still wanted to pay for upkeep of the children. Do you call that total abandonment?

You said we should let go of our biases. Looking at their actions, who sacrificed the family for their happiness here?

AyeMoJuba:
Gifted?
No sir, you are dead wrong...that piece of land was bought from The Soviet Union

You are correct. Maybe I should have wrote it as 'gifted' or gifted because someone here makes my point 👇

just2endowed:
Alaska was once owned by Russia until russia sold Alaska to amarica in 1867 for just 7.2 million dollars which is approx 130m dollars in present day value.

It was the greatest mistake ever made by Russia.

Present day Alaska is now an oil state generating billions of dollars.

Militarily, Alaska would have been an advantage to Russia in spying America or maybe enhance relationships between both nations

What is amazing is that back then, some people also thought buying it was a mistake, they called it a frozen wasteland and icebox

The messenger, you may not like but the message can be right. Choosing to host this in Alaska, a territory gifted by the Russians to the Americans, and a country near Canada is significant. I won't be surprised if Trump throws dirt on Canada again by using Alaska as an example, he's unpredictable.

Larryfest:
After misleading thousands if not millions of naija girls with fake ideologies.....

As in. I pity young girls of today. They find out late. Life will humble women. You don't need to argue with them, let them fight in their youth and when they get old, they become repentant militants 🤡

papyjaypaul:
If they released this advert in the photo today, they will protest it as being misogynistic. Our mothers then get sense of how to deal with men but modern women said they want equal right in the house. They did not understand the little things to manage their home that will make the husband head swell after he has gone to work and come back. They even say it's why the men cannot wash. They don't realize that the serving of food is a ritual but let's continue being modern, make man and woman de wear head of house trouser.

Una go find out sooner or later. Men abroad are now looking for traditional women. Ask them what traditional women are. I just leave these kind of discussions for very soon, you will find out. Your old people get wisdom in some things they did but don't worry, them no sabi

casualobserver:
i find this kind of talk nauseating especially coming from a man.

the role of a man is to procreate and provide. the role of a woman is to procreate and nurture. if a woman decides to have other "dreams" outside her role, it is for her to make it work without disturbing the balance in her home.

the children belong to both parents. stop this nonsense of your children. The reality is that in life the children benefit the mother more than the father. most men end up ignored later by the wife and children in life despite having children wherasmost women end up being looked after by their children so stop this emotional gaslighting of "your children".

if you let your wife gaslight you with this "your children" nonsense by the time you find out youve been manipulated and what marraige is really about it will be too late. Most men who live to old age die miserable and with regret despite having children because they didnt prioritize themselves.

Support your wife yes but as a man dont be gaslighted into adding a role that is not yours, life is hard enough for men with little benefits or appreciation.

I wish we could pin comments. This comment is 💯

kingsways:
What about Muslims who work in regular commercial banks? They collect salaries and allowances from incomes made from interest charges on loans

What is the best option of such Muslims, should they resign or what?

I just edited my previous comment. Interest is forbidden in Abrahamic religions, even if most of the followers havr abandoned it. There are Muslims and Christians who own banks charging ridiculous interest on money they lend. You may need to understand some history to understand why we are where we are today and what happened to the banking and economies:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqe3IQQo_t4

This is AI on interest. We all know Jews control the banking system. If you read history, you will find out what happened to the Jews that made them ruthless with banking. What people do with their morality vs reality is left to them and their moral compass.

Yes, interest—also called usury in older terminology—is heavily restricted or outright forbidden in all three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, the interpretation and application of these prohibitions have varied over time and between traditions.


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1. Judaism

Torah Prohibition: Charging interest on loans to fellow Jews is prohibited in the Torah:

> "If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest."
(Exodus 22:25)



Exceptions: Interest could be charged to non-Jews (Deuteronomy 23:20), and in later Jewish legal tradition, mechanisms such as the heter iska were developed to allow profit-sharing arrangements that mimicked loans without violating the prohibition.



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2. Christianity

Biblical Roots: Early Christian teachings inherited Jewish views and reinforced them:

> "If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you?"
(Luke 6:34–35)



Church Teaching: The early Church fathers condemned all forms of interest. During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church strictly forbade usury.

Evolution: Over time, especially during the Renaissance and Reformation, Christian attitudes relaxed. By the modern era, charging reasonable interest was generally accepted, especially in business contexts.



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3. Islam

Qur'anic Prohibition: The Qur’an strongly forbids riba, often interpreted as any form of interest:

> "Those who consume interest cannot stand [on the Day of Resurrection] except as one stands who is being beaten by Satan into insanity..."
(Qur'an 2:275)



Moral and Social Rationale: Riba is seen as exploitative and unjust. Islam emphasizes fairness and mutual benefit in economic transactions.

Modern Practice: Islamic finance has developed alternative structures (like Murabaha, Mudarabah, Ijara) that avoid traditional interest but still allow investment and profit-making.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WluWYyN3h4c?si=7RUbjEP6Zargh7wZ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHyi5poINU

The scripture, old and new testament is very clear that interest should be prohibited particularly those you count as fellow countrymen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarPtYppAY8?si=ptSajeNqtymvCO-m

Sorry OP for diverting, I know it's a Muslim thread. Just putting this out there replying to the comment on the topic.

MMempire:
Is "Riba" interest or "Bribe"
Asking to know better the difference.

It is interest according to the original language but because it is seen as robbing Peter to pay Paul, some Nigerians extended the term to bribery. If I don't give you X, you won't help me with Y.

Interest in the West, if you ask anyone who has lived there is brutal. Interest is forbidden in the Abrahamic religions, whether it is Islam, Christianity or Judaism.

Konquest:
If he's alone YES... If NOT and he's with his family, the order of family heirachy in an African family dictates that the kids, house maid, or wife (or wives), do that.

There's NOTHING wrong in a married man taking his plates to the kitchen for washing if nobody is around or his wife is indisposed. Period.

I agree with your comment, what I will adjust here is that the order is delegated by the mother to the children as part of home training. It's not that fathers cannot wash themselves but making sure kids do it is teaching them. People think the woman will cook 24/7. Are people here saying when she's in labor for example, she will serve and wash plates?


If they released this advert in the photo today, they will protest it as being misogynistic. Our mothers then get sense of how to deal with men but modern women said they want equal right in the house. They did not understand the little things to manage their home that will make the husband head swell after he has gone to work and come back. They even say it's why the men cannot wash. They don't realize that the serving of food is a ritual but let's continue being modern, make man and woman de wear head of house trouser.

Una go find out sooner or later. Men abroad are now looking for traditional women. Ask them what traditional women are. I just leave these kind of discussions for very soon, you will find out. Your old people get wisdom in some things they did but don't worry, them no sabi

"A man will sacrifice his happiness for his family. A woman will sacrifice her family for her happiness.”

I hope he learns from experience and I am sure he will recover. The women probably think they won and laughing at him. It's a long game. It's not who wins, it's biology.

Look at it, even if he goes to court and they tell him to pay for the upkeep of the children, he already said he would do that. Will the woman be happy that another person will take care of her children? Will she be happy she doesn't know their condition later on? Will she be happy that later on, the children will forgive him above her because he took care of her and she left them? This is the same as men who leave their houses and abandon the children. I am sure he is shocked but he won in this matter. It shocks him because he thought she could handle them alone but it is a good thing she is teaching him a lesson. He will take care of those children and have support. Unfortunately, that's how it is. Men will get that assistance, even if they are deadbeat because women by nature will take care of children, it's biology, it's not morality. It's the woman who abandoned them that will not be able to take back what was hers.

Men, who are deliberate will also learn from their mistakes and from this quote, it looks like he is already learning. He should be happy she took flight first. It shows you what she could have done if you divorced her and let her take care of the children.

"She didn't seem to care about what would happen to me raising these children … I was stuck there by myself where I had to pick up the responsibilities of a broken family that she didn't seem to want to be a part of anymore."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89H55vP_988

Fight or flight is a well-known stress response that occurs when hormones are released in your body, prompting you to stay and fight or run and flee danger

Women will act out of emotions but don't think about long term whether the decision is rational or practical. Good luck on donating your 5 children, they will always be yours.

Caaz:
Beautiful tats sisi, at some point in time,when I was at kano state,i was so possessed with the thoughts of having tattoo scribed on my butt,i don pay in advance fah,but the day i went to get it done,fortunately for me,the werey boy gave his life to christ...But years after I m thankful that I never inked my butt or any part of my body.

It seems you are female but I am genuinely curious, what were you thinking or why did you want a tat on your bum, somewhere you may hardly see except with a mirror or you bend your neck? Or did lali attract you to it since you were in Kano? I am just curious about your thought process.

Prudency045:
He is not in a hurry. The earlier you know there is a problem, the quicker you start addressing it the quicker and better you get solution.

He is. The wife is yet to heal. It's just one year and he's already putting pressure on himself. Where is he rushing to? This is why life will humble you, one young teenager who was told not to do premarital sex has twins and he that kept himself maybe doesn't have, does he start doing rubbish just because someone else got what he wanted? Life challenges are here to test you and how you react to it is more important than trying to write a script. You will know why people who used to run their mouth anyhow became spiritual or learned more or something changed, because life taught them a lesson. The pressure he is putting on himself, if he makes his wife have it, they will have more difficulty conceiving as he has created a scenario of fear and they don't need this. This is why he needs to be a man, provide leadership, confidence and reassurance.

ask4bk:
Guess Jesus was ridiculous in granting his sinful apostles power to forgive sin or even power to retain sins. That's the same tradition the Catholic church has kept since Christ being the first and oldest church. The origin of it is Jesus himself. If you call it nonsense, you call Christ nonsense.

And yes, you can confess any sin on earth to a priest even if you kpai the dad of the priest you are confessing to.

And for that pic you posted, the UK can make their laws, but no priest will obey it coz no priest can ever reveal what he hears in confession even if he has to go to jail for it.

I believe you are Catholic and the use of the word 'ridiculous' made you write this. Thank you for your explanation but the use of that word is apt to describe my view. Nevertheless, it's not my job to fault what you believe in and I respect what people believe in as long as it doesn't harm others. About the UK picture, it's just an example of where law crosses religion. I don't believe again that an individual has to hear our sins but I see the ritual of the procedure which is what I find ridiculous. Back to the UK pic, even in US, the confession doctrine is a problem for child abuse or even pregnancy. Again that's an academic excursion between morality, religiosity and law.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZTp33hMZQ

For those who don't know the importance of your mindset when it comes to conceiving, educate yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9wHq00eV4A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgeKSOZ0L4&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

A4alpha:
Once a situation comes to "have faith" I weak, I wonder why everything is associated with faith? science and tradition does not require faith it's either do or die I wonder what state of mind you are talking about or is it because it has gotten to this level, It's always better not to know than knowing and getting advise such as these.

I hope you know that if your mind is not at rest, your science will not work Or you don't know that stress and worry affects those who have fertility issues?

Could Your Mindset Affect How Well A Treatment Works

Anxiety about side effects can keep people from starting or sticking to drug regimens or medical procedures. A group of researchers at Stanford University wanted to find out whether a simple mindset shift could help patients tolerate an uncomfortable treatment. They learned that when physicians make the effort to reframe potentially unpleasant symptoms in a positive light, it helped patients to stay calm and persevere.

The researchers studied this approach with a group of families who, in a desperate search for relief from food allergies, signed their children up for a study testing the investigational treatment known as oral immunotherapy. Several studies show promising results for this treatment, which requires patients to eat gradually increasing amounts of the trigger food every day for months to teach the immune system to tolerate it.

The procedure is safe if done with medical supervision, but many people experience unpleasant — and very occasionally life-threatening — allergic symptoms. So it can cause considerable stress.

Getting her 8-year-old to make the mental switch from," 'No, no, you can never eat this' to 'Mommy really needs you to eat this' was terrifying," recalls Jessika Welcome, whose two daughters were diagnosed with peanut allergies as toddlers. The San Francisco Bay Area mother first fed her younger daughter the trigger food — a trace of peanut flour mixed into applesauce — when she entered a research study at Stanford in early 2017.

Welcome thought the study was testing the effectiveness of the food allergy treatment. In fact, it was designed by psychologists who wanted to see whether shifting the way patients view side effects could ease anxiety and improve the treatment experience.

When it comes to treatment-related symptoms — let's say, a fever — "we often think of it as this uncomfortable thing we just have to deal with," says Stanford psychology postdoc Lauren Howe, who was first author on the study published Jan. 22 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. "But often symptoms can be associated with healing or treatment progress."

In oral immunotherapy studies, many patients complain of occasional mouth itchiness, stomach pain, hives, vomiting or other symptoms. The symptoms are almost always not life-threatening. Yet in more than a decade of studies, nearly a fifth drop out of these trials because of symptom-related stress, notes Dr. Brian Vickery, an allergist-immunologist at Emory University who was not involved with the new research. He says it's "important context and why [the mindset study] is so interesting and unique."

The research was led by psychologist Alia Crum, principal investigator of Stanford's Mind and Body Lab. It's the latest in the lab's growing body of studies looking at how mindset and social factors influence physical health. According to a study Crum published in 2017, just feeling that you're less fit than others could shave years of your life, and her 2014 research shows how what we read on food labels can affect the way our bodies process food.

The effect of a new treatment "is not just the pharmaceutical substance. It's a combined product of that substance and our mindsets — our beliefs about the nature of the illness and our body's ability to tolerate and to feel," Crum says. "Our work is trying to systematically understand what those forces are and to rigorously and scientifically test the impact of those forces."

The current study enrolled 50 local children with diagnosed peanut allergies. Each family purchased peanut flour for at-home dosing. Participants started by consuming a mere 1.3 milligrams of peanut protein per day — "literally a speck of peanut on the tiniest spoons you've ever seen," says Welcome, who stirred her daughter's doses into applesauce at first, then put them into whipped cream and melted chocolate chips. The dose went up every two weeks, transitioning from peanut flour to actual peanut segments after a few months, and reaching a full peanut (240 milligrams) each day by the end of the 24-week trial.

The study randomly assigned families into two groups. Both groups received instruction on symptoms and medication use. They learned to distinguish non-life-threatening symptoms from potentially serious ones and at what point to contact a doctor, call 911 or administer epinephrine, an injectable medication for severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reactions.


Each day families completed a short online survey to report how the dose went, what time it was taken, whether symptoms developed, and how anxious they were about the symptoms. Throughout the study parents had monthly calls with a support team and had a direct line to Stanford immunologist Dr. Kari Nadeau, director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research, which has served as a trial site for companies developing peanut allergy treatments. In addition, families came to the clinic once a month for facilitated support sessions with other participants.

The two groups differed in just one regard. One group was told that symptoms can be an unfortunate side effect of treatment. But with the other group, session leaders reframed the message on symptoms, saying they could be a sign that the immune system is learning to desensitize — a positive signal that the treatment is working.

At the monthly sessions, parents in the "positive signals" group were asked to come up with creative ways to reinforce this message with their children. Alissa Harris of Stockton, Calif., connected with her 7-year-old, Lucy, with a dance analogy: "When you were learning how to do the splits, it hurt your legs. But it just meant your muscles were getting stronger and getting used to doing the splits."

During the study when Lucy complained her mouth was itchy, "I would remind her, 'That's OK, that's your body getting stronger. We're fighting this peanut allergy. Just remember, your body is 'learning how to do the splits,' " Harris says.

Those reminders seemed to calm parents, too. Though both groups entered the study similarly anxious — more than half indicated they were "kind of nervous" or "extremely nervous" — parents who got the messaging that symptoms could be positive signals reported less nervousness as the study continued. They were also less likely to report symptoms, drop doses or contact staff about symptom concerns, compared with the other group of parents.

All participants reached the goal of tolerating one peanut by the end of the study period, and no patient needed to use epinephrine in response to symptoms.

On the whole, the results were "very compelling but not at all surprising," says Dr. Christina Ciaccio, a pediatric allergist at University of Chicago Medicine who has helped run trials for companies developing peanut allergy treatments. For years Ciaccio has given similar pep talks to patients receiving skin injections for ragweed allergy: "You're going to start seeing these reactions on your arm. That's a signal to us that your immune system is fighting, that the right things are happening."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxImL1_Hjr4

B3sty:
Hmmmm, I experienced the same thing when I got married in 2015. She did Fibroid operation in 2016, no results. We both went to test ourselves, Doctors found out I've no fertility issues...My wife did HSG , we found out both Fallopian tubes are block. Omo, we tried many herbal remedies, no way. By December this year (2025), my marriage will be 10 years. Only God know what my Mother (RIP MAMA, 2023) went through for my cause.
Anyway, My girlfriend is currently Pregnant, we did it just once and she picked...
Bro, the ball is in your court. No time to waste time !

Are you saying you have a wife and a side chick or 2 wives?

sofeo:
The passenger herself needs to come to you too for confession Rev Father, why would she intentionally not wear undies in public.

If she had dressed appropriately , she wouldn't have brought sin to guys and men that watched it., it's obvious she's wayward Sir.

One of the things we were taught while growing up was if you were stripped naked, would you at least be happy with your underwear? I don't know what they are teaching people today.

Edit. Someone captures my thoughts here

owobokiri:
Back to the topic;
They were dragging her upandan when she refused to go down. And she was not wearing bra...
This should also be a teaching moment for the men who don't wear boxers as you dangle your ogbongidii left and right. Or those who wear dirty and tattered boxers for fun.. Una days will come..

Oh please, get off your high horses and find something else to do. Do you know how many live matches we have seen in real life where they did not send notification before stripping themselves in the bool fight

I like Catholicism for their discipline and orderly behavior but one of the things I find ridiculous is man confessing to another man of his sins when you can talk directly to your maker. Talking to people is therapy sometimes so I can see the benefit in talking about the sins and taking the burden off your chest but we all know why you can't confess some sins to 'father'.

KobeMan:
I'm the only male child in my family, in my early 30's. Pressure will start coming from all directions and also considering my my age, I don't pray to experience delay with child birth. I just decided to pour own my mind here. I'm really down, I don't know what to do.

Maturity is when you realise that in living your own life, you owe no one anything and no one owes you. You seem to still be living in the frame of other people's expectations without realizing that putting yourself first above your own expectation will take you far in life. Or else, you will continue to be a slave to people's changing demands in life. Be a man! This is your family, take care of your wife and stop worrying. When they say 'be a man', there's a lot to it. I don't buy into this feminine culture they are brainwashing men into today and saying mental wealth or health. Women themselves want men that are firm, courageous and confident. This is the time to be reassuring and man up, not ranting online. Every man will face his own challenge in life, it's how you react to it that matters.

I am not writing any nice words to you, man up. There's nothing you have written that is new or has not happened to someone else. Instead of you to learn from other people's experiences and weather the storm, you are busy gathering storm with pressure.

You are too much in a hurry. You married last year and you are already worried about "serious fertility issue" after you both agreed not to have a child in the first year? Please read what you wrote.

You can't impregnate her with this state of mind when you are in a hurry. As the man, you are the one to be calming the waters and assuring her and yourself that it will come soon. Bro, go and relax. You don't need any advice, you're just in a hurry to write your book of life. This is how life humbles everyone. By the way, you never told us how old she was because you know the older the woman, the more serious her fertility issue is, using your own serious words.

The moderator that pushed this low grade topic to the FP has himself or herself to blame when they read the thread.

Eriokanmi:
Yes. But Davido, as exposed as he is should have known better,.likewise the wife. She could have come back , spent a week or 2 and then, travelled back to continue the omugwo. Moni dey, they can afford it

Fair enough. I don't know what people gain in not complying with stay. Trump has even made the IOs more brazen in their decisions. It is better to keep your honor than let one person be talking to you anyhow just because you gave them a chance to through your actions. Sometimes, life happens and the person may have to overstay due to no fault of theirs but it is important to have this on record. I am just writing in general and not wrt Davido as I don't know what is rumor or fact.

I don't understand what's going on anymore. Can someone remind me of one of the famous quotes of Mr Akpabio

Off the mic OGD

I wish the SP's health account speedy recovery as he stands on his mandate of life.

Eriokanmi:
This has become a major issue now. Overstaying parents should be ready to bear whatever consequences they face. My technician overstayed for a few days during his last trip for a training. Instead of approving his drop box application, he was handed a 221g to appear for an interview.On getting there, he explained to them why he overstayed. It was due to an unscheduled training programme with Digikey and he presented the certificate to the VO. When he said he just wanted to kill 2 birds with one stone to save travel cost, the VO burst into laughter and approved his visa.

What am I driving at? He said the majority of those who were interviewed under 221g overstayed and were denied visa that day. They were scheduled for one Saturday like that

They are human after all but truth helps in most cases because immigration officials have the power to let you enter or leave a country. This person can get to the airport and the officer denies him entry or allows him even if a visa has been given. I like your story though

I am happy for them but this is truly performative. Once the traditional rites have been performed and the marriage rituals have been performed, you are married. No wonder we call it white wedding because it's white man's rituals we are copying in the name of marriage.


Africans!