Preamble (you can skip):
Most times ladies understand the male psychological constitution better than the men. By nature men respond with a protective and generous instinct towards ladies who are sad, in pain, or just in need. And all the ladies need to do is to simulate any of these emotional states. Beyond this, men many times feel the need to impress girls and naively believing that by impressing the girl they have a smooth in-road to their heart. This couldn't be further from the truth. Because in reality, as a Naija man you are no more than prey to the predator that some Naija babes are. You are maga and history is filled with big magas who have died, fought painful wars, and lost all because men fell for feminine intrigues. Men should start helping other men who are in need... Real men almost never ask for help (notice the adjective 'real') and when they do that their male buddies usually ignore them, but before a lousy babe mimics a sad face we are up on our feet trying to know how to be of help...


You exchange few gists and good-natured chats with some of these babes, small time and the next thing they are telling you is that,

"I'm not fine".

That's why I don't like asking a lady that I don't know well, How are you? And if I am forced to ask her out of politeness because she asks me first and she tells me she is not fine, there are million ways of ignoring that... but I never ask her,

"What is going on?"

Never. It is usually a trap. I simply immediately heap on her my own complaints...even when I know she cannot believe me.

The gist:
Few days ago a babe that only calls whenever she is in need of free medical advice, called me up on the mobile:

"Hello dear, the boyfriend of all the ladies..."

Na dem. When they suddenly start with unusual kindness and unwarranted accolades, as a man I immediately start plotting the like trajectories of the exchange.

"Hi Ngozi, this that you remember me today...it's been like how long now, 3 months right?". And now she mildly needs to be on the defensive. She needs to stutter, and in the least I have reminded her that she's not my everyday pal and she needs to be psychologically prepared for a No to a question she has not even asked.

"It's not like that... You know how the country is... How can you even know, you people enjoying life outside the country... I'm really happy for you dear."

Well, I give it to her, she's incredibly good at what she does, changing the direction of the conversation to a plain advantageous to her.

"I can't complain, but trust me the land is only greener on the other side... you guys in Nigeria have no idea how lucky you are, and how envious of you we are." Well again, two can play that game.

"That's what you all say... [1] And is that why you forgot all about me, just like that? You didn't even try to know what has been going on with me. It's really not fair you know. [2] Anyway, how are you doing over there?"

The first part ( [1] ) should ideally put me on the defensive while at the same time paving a way to what was to follow. The second part ( [2] ) was to paint her as caring, genuinely interested in my welfare but the real intent was to force me to ask about her welfare so she could have a vent for the feminine emotions she was about to simulate. Should I bite the bait? Should I selectively respond to the convenient part (the part before [1] )? Should I deflect? Should I just bring something totally different up? It's really up to me... There are a million ways to skin a cat. But my number was being roamed and I was paying for every second of the call, more than she was being charged. And the most practical way out was for me to tackle the elephant in the room head on. She seemed a little too relaxed during the call and I had a hunch that she was prepared for a long call, and no matter how much I deflected she would find her way back to her main reason for calling.

"Actually I didn't forget about you... I was passively following you on SM... I must confess you've done well for yourself." I knew it's gonna be about money this time around, not the usual free medical advice... She had once asked me for money...it was a loan for her business. I obliged her, but she took some offence when I demanded repayment telling me that I was too big to be expecting her to repay. I told her she should have said it was a monetary gift she wanted then, and not a loan. That the money I lent out to her was not personal money, but from a company account and must be repaid... That was about 3 months ago, and she was actually rude in her reaction to my attempt to reclaim the loan. I later succeeded in making her do full refund.

"I'm impressed with what you've done with your business... the glowing responses from your customers, the new products... I might even have talked about you to some friends, citing you as example of possibilities".

"Ah, my dear don't be deceived biko!" She was laughing, apparently at what she believed to be my naivety. "That's for the camera... My reality is a million times worse than what you see in those updates. You know I cannot lie to you? You know now.. Those photos were not mine... They were from my suppliers and meant to provoke commitment from my customers...And that's my problem right now..."

I knew it was about money. My intention was not to prevent her from making a request but to make her do so without the entanglement of an emotional blackmail or deception. And if I was going to be true to the masculine evolutionary development, my impulse should have led me to asking her, What problem? Tell me what's going on. But this would have lost me my advantage. But instead I replied,

"Welcome to my world! That's the paradoxical life that business people live; everyone somehow thinks you have money, while in truth you're in more dire need of cash than everyone else..."

"I tell you..." She was going to cut on. I wasn't finished though.

"You have no idea how many financial institutions I had called just over the past few days trying to secure fund for some business. It got so bad I dipped into my saving and emptied it all. To the last kobo!"

"Hmmm. I was at your office here on Tuesday, it was so very busy... You seem to have high customer traffic every single minute of the day now, I had to wait for about 10 minutes to be attended to." Omo ake! The message was clear, Last kobo kwa, with all the patronage at your office.. This is entitlement at its peak. She actually expected me to take company money and hand over to her. As usual, your needs as a man don't to such ladies... That's why I have called men prey and these ladies the predators. Predators never waste their time bothering about the utility value of their prey; predators are only concerned with their own stomach.

"Yes, you're right... Things get really busy these days, but it's mostly a fall out of the lockdown..."

"I am sure if you really want to lend a hand, you can still help me." That was from her.

"Sometimes you want to help and you're simply not in the place to do so. I told you my savings is gone, and I may not get it back anytime soon."

"What if I'm your girlfriend? Or your sister? Ehn?"

"Well we both know you are not my sister... (laugh), and I don't have a girlfriend." It's time to deflect and cut the call short. "By the way, what about your fiance? How come you didn't ask him for such money?"

"Hmm. I can't ask him now." But you could ask me right? I thought to myself, what a curious creature. "He is trying to reposition his business, and it is taking a lot of money to do so. For the past few months now I haven't taken kobo from him."

"Pele... I know what that feels like. Pele. I really wish I could be of some help... maybe next time. Promise you I am going to see what I can do next time. You hear?"

"Na wa o. You are really my only hope." This should have provoked an outburst of anger from me, but that's another trap. Never get angry. At least never show anger. Anger is generally expensive while dealing with ladies like this; you often have to apologize with some sort of money regardless of who is at fault. I needed to contain my feelings.

"It happens. But I must say as a business lady you have to normalize taking loan from banks". I knew should would fall for my trap here. I so desperately wanted her to.

"Ah! Bank loan!?? You want to kill me? Where will I get the interest from? It is better to take it from you."

"Where will you get the interest from? What about the hair and fashion products you sell? Don't you make profit from those?" Of course she does. "So... see life o! You actually plan to take my own money, use it to do business, make profit on it, and then return my money whenever you like, or even get angry if I make the mistake of asking for repayment... The same money I could have put into different investment and earned profit on.... So in all of this what would be my own gain?"

She laughed, it was a difficult laugh but I knew my points were perfectly understood.

"Can't you do it for God, and for friendship?"

"Why you're busy sparing your fiance, your parents, and your own comfort, you want me to do it for God and for friendship?. Amazing! I always knew you were a funny girl sha. Me I don't have that kind of money o. Maybe one day I will, but not anytime soon."

"It is well."

"Yes it is well. I really have to go now. I have already been charged too much for receiving your call. My regards to Richard. See you around." Okay, I cut the call, and that was a little rude.

Final comment:
Ngozi is not her real name. There is no lesson to learn here other than to encourage men to stop blaming ladies that they willingly hand over their money to. You are in full control of your own resources. You should understand that it is all a game. You are the prey, and they are the predators. Interestingly we increasingly have situations where the man is the predator and the lady is the prey... It really is a mad world...

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow...

You are invited to listen to Mad world Gary Jules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa-ae6_okmg

We will need to conduct one or two tests before we can decide whether or not she is a virgin.

Na dem. When we called out someone few months ago for bragging on top im academic mediocrity, dem think say we dey wicked. Na dem.

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You've said it all.


Na dem

This thing doesn't look like him kobo. Akin Alabi said the right thing. He doesn't like it. Nigerians should stop celebrating mediocrity... Just because we don't want to hurt people's feeling, many of us are willing to take shit and then say thank you after the taking of it. Plus this looks more like an unsolicited contract... The only way to win admiration in such instance would be to be extra awesome as an artist. There is room for growth, let the artist grow first instead of trying to win approval in his/her unformed state.

muchroom:
An artist who made an artwork of Akin Alabi and his late mentor Abiola Ajimobi got more than he bargained from the politician when he asked twitter users for a retweet of the work. Akin Alabi bluntly replied to the artist that he doe not like the work, even though the request to retweet was meant for others and not him. What is your take on this drawing?

There has been a barrage of attacks on the betting executive for being so harsh on an upcoming artist who probably needed his encouragement. Several twitter users said his silence would have been better than putting down the efforts of the artist in such a manner.

https://mobile.twitter.com/akinalabi/status/1287530201623207936

Nice match. :-)

oliviacute:
8 years older than me actually

I just like this man! My kind of guy. Ifasemiu.

Aminat508:


Source: https://amiloaded.com/2020/07/why-i-wore-traditional-fetish-armour-in-my-campaign-poster-osun-apc-chairmanship-aspirant.html

You are still dense... and no one can help you now.

stormborn28:
you ended up being insulting instead of passing on your message.... First of all that insult is directed at you because you lack courtesy... You gave a detailed explanation to what an individual should do when faced with police harassment and intimidation.. I will also advice you not all calls will be allowed be your handlers and wisdom is required here because individuals who commented have acknowledged the police to be tout and thugs

In the name of being realistic would you advise that nonsense should continue to be perpetrated?
Lawyers are trained for moments like that, and if you were able to interpret my words well you would notice they were directed to readers who aren't in such situation yet and who might end up in similar situations...

I have been in different situations in Nigeria when the lawless and spectacularly un-educated Nigerian police tried harassing me... Several times. One was asking me how come I being younger than him would be riding a good car... One said because he didn't know me on that particular highway that I must settle him and his boys unless they would arrest me... In all, they seemed particularly angry that my vehicle documentation was all intact. Several situations. In such situations I do two things, if it is getting two unreasonable I ask them to take me to their station. And yes, I drive along the way. Two, before getting to such stations I call between 2 and 4 lawyers. And I make the police know that, that I am abundantly ready to take it to the court... Hearing about you calling lawyers seem to rattle and infuriate them. But it also forces them to be self-conscious in dealing with you.

So you see, it's you who needs to be realistic. If you had the choice of calling a lawyer or making a fool of yourself rolling on the floor like that, I am sure you would have made the second choice.

stormborn28:
that very moment how do you expect her to contact a lawyer? You need to be realistic.. It is only in an atmosphere of freedom that you can contact a lawyer.. There, she is caged

Bros, I no lie now. Forget about every other unsavory thing and the stupid officer that was tormenting the lady, you too look am now and tell me if she no set pah!

Me I no mind getting to know her o. She fine die!

shegra58:
Were ni Iwo Bobo yi sha

Oh no you can't blame me now... At least we used to be friends... Me I was just looking for your trouble ni.
And you're right, there's no future in collecting peanuts from this horrible political system we have in the country.

And let's forget about corruption for a second... it just doesn't make sense to keep talking about it. Corruption has won in Nigeria and it is high time we accepted that. Everyone yapping about corruption in Nigeria is also corrupt. Every single one. From parents, to children, to clerics, to teachers, to students, to the police, the lawyers, judges, the politicians,... everyone. Corruption is the most thriving trade in Nigeria and we have unconsciously accepted it.

If corruption were to be out of the equation, a significant percentage of Nigerian students will both be unable to get admission or to graduate.
A significant percentage of clerics will have no insane wealth to flaunt and will have to get a proper job.
A significant percentage of doctors will stay put in their stations instead of diverting patients to their private clinics.
A significant percentage of businesses will properly audit their accounts and pay the right taxes as at when due...

The list is endless, and in short every single common man would feel the biting and devastating impact of no-corruption at least for about a decade before Nigerians truly imbibe the discipline of leading corruption-free life.

Abeg, let's respect corruption o, it is Nigeria's biggest sugar daddy.

SweetCunt97:
I really don't blame you for that your first comment. Funny how you contradicting yourself. Will you be were you are today if you were relaxed in collecting peanuts?

Yes the youths need to make the leaders accountable but fighting for 30k ain't d way forward. Corruption has simply eaten deep into our society, that's all.

Unfortunately you're right. All the IG is doing is just for the camera. I wouldn't be surprised if those guys are promoted after all this outcry. Unfortunately Nigerian public doesn't know how to follow things through.

Yes, they might be doing their job, but what the babe was subjected to violated every aspect of her human right. The nonsense questions she was being asked... But then she too ought to have shut them up, and lawyered up. We really need to start learning how to engage our lawyers for cases like this. Every Nigerian should have a lawyer's contact for a time like this. Good lawyers o, not the ones that have no idea what their job is, the ones that will have even judged you before listening to you their client.

rapcy:


guy man

Those guys would be released without any punishment, they're carrying out their job.

Madam, are you saying you are not one of the lazy youths?

Corp members are not collecting their allowee for absolutely nothing.
N-power beneficiaries have services they too render for the money they are paid.

The lazy Nigerian youths are the ones that do absolutely nothing and yet feel entitled to a life of luxury provided by those who are doing absolutely everything to make a living.

Cut down on attacking Nigerians biko. What Nigerians are facing right now, Nigerian youths are not responsible for the larger part. It is not the government's job to provide jobs or distribute money in the first place. But unfortunately, many of you don't understand the game being played by your political slavemasters. They dish you 30k monthly because they have elections to win. You call them saviours and you hand over to them your votes alongside your rather large dose of docility. Then they win the elections and you start screaming that the distribution of 30k should go round.... Instead of you to engage them responsibly. All any responsible Nigerian should demand from the government is a good economy conducive for the growth of Nigerians and their businesses. It is the responsibility of private citizens like you to build corporations and businesses and employ other Nigerians... but many of you are too busy branding others lazy and praying that the dole-out will go around.

In the next 10 years, let's see how much of that 30k you're dying over will make sense in your lives.

SweetCunt97:
But govt need to engage other beneficiaries naw. It's just like corpers begging govt to extend their service year... E no make sense.


Too many lazy youths out there. They wanna b getting 30k for doing absolutely nothing.

younger than you? amazing.

oliviacute:
8 years

That's the power of the social media. SM is the last remaining stronghold of the voiceless in Nigeria. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the police authority is only doing this to save face. Save face or not, they are sha doing it and that's what we care about for now.

valentineuwakwe:
so Nigeria police can work like this.....Kudos to them

interesting.
But that babe is pretty sha. Very lovely lips...even the way she dey talk sweet me wella. That allegedly criminal boyfriend dey enjoy sha. Na it's another person's turn to shana-wole there.

The pesin wey i go date maybe dem never even born am. It is too early for me to comment.

damiloladuke:

So what's the longest age gap between you and your partner.

You have nice boobs though. You come hang a cross between the two hills.

Nice body.

lavylilly:
REASONS WHY GIRLS SNUB GUYS -
1...You are seeing her name on top with her profile pic and u are still asking her what's her name

2... Always asking her if we can see, as if she opened her facebook account for you to see her

3... U asked how are you , she said fine , you are still asking about her day ,if her day was bad she wouldn't have said she was fine...stop asking too much unnecessary questions in the name of being romantic ;

4... She know she's pretty, stop reminding her about that

5. you meet a girl online all you care about is her big butt, hip and breast...those are the only thing you tell her about herself. And you're already thinking and planning how to have sex with her... Bro why won't she snub you?

6... You said you love her no problem, she asked u for airtime, voom u went offline � and u expect her to reply
ur message again

7... Stop asking her if she have a bf, go to her timeline and read her bio

8... Asking her to send you her pics, bro go check her mobile uploads. Her pics are there

9... Guys don't respect girls, you meet a girl and the first thing you're asking her for is her nude, or sexy pictures and you're already telling her you're Hot. Does she look like a prostitute?. Guys respect yourself for once...

Leave that thing. Too much hypotheses, no results.

ubunja:
serves you right

In any case you women don't have a clue about how to properly play hard to get. You can have a man pursue you for years if you know how. You can even get married and still have a guy wait around for your divorce eager for his chance. If you know how. Go read about Erica Badu and her game.

The wife mek sense die!
The guy too fine no be small.

I dey imagine things already sha. Congrats. You guys are one of the very few lucky ones... Na menascum babes and womenahoes dudes remain for this Nairaworld o.

shalom4eva:
Around 2012 I got to know nairaland when I was job hunting, little did I know something big awaits me . Fast forward to 2017, I met this pretty damsel (rebirth 4goody, formerly rebirthforgoody).

We became friends and later into a love relationship. To God be the glory, today we are happily married. Thanks to nairaland even though I didn't get any job through this platform,but I gained a lot of experience and a beautiful woman as wife .

Guys please show us some love and wish us well

Look great!

DaddyRochie1642:
How much do You want to Bet That Mr Paul Is Currently Shining that girl's KPEKUS In the Shadows

Stupe, she no gf of yours. She's a shared commodity. Never fall for that scam... Now that you've cleared the path to Virginia Island and opened the gate, entry without visa is now possible for the ex.

Enjoy her kitty while it lasts, just know she no gf of yours alone. And ..., you have no right to lay a finger on her to beat her. You are supposed to be a human being, human being discuss and settle their differences with words and not with physical gbasgbos.

Firstandonly:
I started dating my girl around February. she was in a relationship with someone else which she told me about and that the guy always cheat on her with another girl. last month she told me that the ex called her to come to his shop that he what to see her, I told her not to go but she said he only want to apologise and that she deserves an apology from him, ever since then they have been talking.yesterday was her ex birthday i told her not to go she went ahead and visited the ex i was very angry she later apologise that yesterday night.
note: I was the one that dis virgin this girl the only thing her ex got from her was just pre-intimacy and they dated for 2 years.... there was a time after we finish having sex she said something that this was what her ex wanted for so many years but she did not give him, i just behaved as if i no hear...
she is coming to my house today and I don't want to beat her, is there any other way i can correct her and don't tell me to leave the girl i open eye for to another man...
#pls ignore my typing error

In a couple of months I am going to need a V6. So, I am going to follow you and holla you to see if you have something good. Toyota of course. If salon then with very strong wheels/suspension. But something good enough to be sold at good price once I'm done with it after few months of use.

I have no problem with V4 really, but I find V6 much better for routine long distance travels. And this particular V4 you've got looks very good and need I must confess.

Etemma1:
Heya! I'm sorry V4 is a turn off for you. Well, there's nothing I can do about this one.

Would you rather I get a V6 for you at an even cheaper rate?

Just let me know if I can be of assistance. Thanks.

It keeps baffling me that we have individuals in Nigeria who still routinely defend things like FGM, either in serious discourses or as it were jocularly. Beyond that, it shocks me that such individuals have the temerity to voice out their inverted thinking publicly...

I pity the women in the life of that silly guy who tried to preach FGM as though it were African culture. If he tried to push FGM as African culture, what about slavery, human sacrifice, tribal war and ethnic purging, twin sacrifice, monarchical and feudal claims on properties, and so on?

Or does he in his ridiculous thinking believes the word culture is synonymous with past/historical practices?

Culture is never a record of people's past, it is the way people live in the present. Most of our ancestors in Africa were terrible, dangerous, wicked folks, and they had to survive under very mean and terrifying circumstances. Their behavioral practices fitted well into the past. We live under a set of present circumstances and we have a much better understanding of things including human relationship and gender understanding. It would be utter foolishness to close our eyes to the knowledge gained in the present just so we remain faithful to past practices that the present dispensation has made stupid...

We stopped FGM and other inhuman practices not because the white man labelled them barbarity, but because those practices damage our women, our daughters, our sisters, our wifes/girlfriends, our friends and our neighbors. This alone makes them barbaric.

Fokosobo:


Dont mind the bush Nigga. In some part of Cameroon, they also iron their daughters breast to make it flat and less desirable to men.. imagine that level of cruelty from Africans, and the nigga will call it modesty.

Please help me school the dude... Every single time that I have interviewed Nigerian women, most of whom are victims of FGM, I feel like crying. Imagine what it feels like for a woman to live out her days without once experiencing the thrill of sex?

It is unimaginable and horrific.

Fokosobo:


You are sounding ignorant. Go and read about FGM because i can see you know nothing about it.

Apart from lack of sexual urge and pleasure, FGM also causes obstructed labour and that is one of the main reason why the Government has banned the practice. Women that have been genitally mutilated are 10 times more likely to give birth through Cesarean section operation. There are many more disadvantages of FGM which i will advise you to go and read about.

If you are not yet married, i pray you marry a Genitally mutilated woman that will frustrate you sexually for the rest of your life. she will always say NO whenever you need it and if you eventually have your way, she will be complaining and tell you to hurry up, release quickly and get up..............Have you ever wondered why polygamy is very common in Africa? Thats a food for thought.

It is not just barbaric, it is now also criminal.

leksite120:
You call it babaric?
So if Whites don't agree with your culture, it means it's barbaric?

Our culture is filled with modesty and courtesy that's y our culture is in support of FGM. We're not dogs and animal .
If it's cut to half , it's fine, the full cut is the bad one.. but leaving it? No

Post that on Bush's wall if you're indeed an American. Isn't it kind of too late for this now? After America messed that country up?

Yomhie:
Though I’m a American fan but I must condemn any of their wrong did,they messed up Libya big time I heard Libya was doing very great when gadafi was alive but now Libya is shit hoe like one country

Better leave that guy. He will faint again o!

Reno is such a child. Too childish. Stupid people claiming to be pastors in Nigeria. Thugs in fine clothing.

KikBuhari2Daura:
Open Letter To The MacArthur Foundation re Omoyele Sowore and Sahara Reporters

Dear John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Office of Grants Management mailto:4answers@macfound.org

I write to you in respect of Mr Omoyele and Saharareporters, ostensibly an online news website, which you have given a total sum of $1.3 million.

In giving the Sahara Reporters Media Foundation this grant, you indicated that Sahara Reporters were a non-profit media organization that works to advance transparency and accountability in Nigeria. 

This assertion concerning Saharareporters is not accurate. It is false, and I will now prove so with documentary evidence.

Mr. Omoyele Sowore, the founder of Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, uses Sahara Reporters as a medium to settle scores, blackmail political opponents and mislead the general public via the publication of outright lies that he knows to be lies at the time of publication. 

For instance, on July 11, 2020, Mr Sowore used saharareporters to publish a video interview featuring him, in which he libelled me by alleging that I had been fired by my then boss, President Goodluck Jonathan, as one of his spokesmen, for engaging in “many criminal activities.”

On the same day, President Goodluck Jonathan released a statement stating that he never fired me, and that I served as throughout his tenure with distinction and offered ‘meritorious’ service to Nigeria, and continue to enjoy his gratitude and confidence, as well as the good esteem of many Nigerian citizens. 

My record of service is with the office of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, and I have my payslips until May of 2015 when my tenure lapsed. 

I am a number one bestselling writer, received at the highest level of governments in many democratic nations, as well as honoured as the Humanitarian of the Year, 2019, at the Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival. I have never been arrested or charged with a crime in my life. Upon Mr Sowore’s claims, I am now in receipt of police clearance certificates from the Nigerian Police Force Headquarters, Abuja, Nigeria, as well as the UK Police, stating that I have no past arrest or convictions to my name. 

Mr Sowore is presently in Abuja, where the office of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation of Nigeria is located. He made no efforts to investigate or to contact me. He gave that interview purely out of spite because I had exposed him to the Nigerian public as a blackmailer.

This is because on February 14, 2015, two weeks to the Nigerian election, Mr Omoyele Sowore had caused Sahara Reporters Media Foundation to knowingly publish lies against me to the extent that I was an armed robber, who robbed a house and stole the sum of ₦25 million. 

He refused every legal and humanitarian overture to him to retract the story, even though he received irrefutable evidence, provided by me to him, that showed that his story was a lie. He maintained this stance until my New York-based lawyer wrote a letter to the Ford Foundation, which had also paid Mr Sowore’s Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, vast sums of money. 

He caused that story to be published to affect the outcome of the 2015 Nigerian Presidential election, in which his surrogate candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, was running. 

His actions caused me great embarrassment and financial plus emotional loss. Affected the building of an orphanage that I was building, and deprived orphans of the care and accommodation that they desperately needed.

Mr Sowore is now using Sahara Reporters Media Foundation to assassinate the characters of people of integrity that he dislikes such as Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, a current candidate for the esteemed position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, amongst many others. He has had a long history of publishing outright falsehoods against her. 

Below are 15 verifiable lies Mr Omoyele Sowore caused Saharareporters to publish, and the dates at which these lies were published. I urge the MacArthur Foundation to ask an independent media audit body to investigate these stories to determine if they were ever true and if Messrs Omoyele Sowore ever published a retraction after discovering that they were not true. 

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan Looted ₦32b From Bayelsa State, and is the ‘Richest President In Africa’ (Published on Feb 2, 2015)

* That the then First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan caused the Dana Air crash, which killed 153 people, because she was wasting time landing in her Presidential Jet (Published on June 4, 2012 and then deleted without apology).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan gave out gold plated iPhones to guests at his daughter’s wedding (Published on April 13, 2014).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan was too drunk to deliver his speech at the AU (Published on May 25, 2013).

* That $49 billion was missing from the Federal Government’s treasury (Published on various dates in February, 2014).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan did not care about Chibok Girls and Rejected British Offer To Rescue Kidnapped Chibok Schoolgirls (Published on various dates and officially debunked by the British Government on Mar 8, 2017).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan led a 600 man delegation to the UN (Published on September 22, 2013).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan team threatened a blogger with death (Published on Apr 25, 2011).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan was persecuting Rotimi Amaechi (Published on Oct 26, 2014).

* That PDP and former President Goodluck Jonathan were behind Boko Haram, a radical Islamic Terrorism group (published on multiple dates).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan was a habitual drunkard (Published on Nov 22, 2013).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan bribed pastors with ₦7 billion (Published on Feb 19, 2015). 

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan shared $1.1 billion between himself, Attorney General Bello Adoke, and several cronies and ministers (Published on May 27, 2012). 

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan and his cronies stole $20 billion in less than 3 years from just sales of crude oil alone (Published on July 12, 2014).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan is Worth $120 Million Dollars! (Published on Oct 14, 2014). 

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan is the sponsor of Niger Delta militants (Published on multiple dates).

* That former President Goodluck Jonathan dishonesty shielded the Abacha family from prosecution after reaching a corrupt deal with them (Published on May 15, 2015).

Mr Sowore never retracted these stories or offered an apology. That he knowingly used them for political blackmail can be proved from an interview he granted on April 7, 2018, where in a fit of anger, he told the then Nigerian Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, as follows “I am the head of a media movement that brought the government that is sitting into power”. 

From the above, many Nigerians are asking if it is the MacArthur Foundation’s agenda to sponsor an undemocratic regime change in African nations using intense and sustained political propaganda and blackmail. 

Please use your good offices to look into these issues.


Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/open-letter-to-the-macarthur-foundation-reno-omokrii/

Forget about driving a dream car in the absence of efficient maintenance outfit. I had tried that in Nigeria once... I personally shipped in the car. Within a few short years, I had to park it in after it's been messed up. One, Nigerian mechanics did not even understand the kind of car it was, so much that the tiniest repair needed I had to ship parts in from Europe. After about two years doing that I decided to buy a Toyota product that everyone around understood. V6 too though.

Using a car in Nigeria is not by dreaming, unless that dream factors in maintenance and other practical aspects. And I have driven just too many cars to come to that conclusion. I think it's mostly people who haven't used enough number of cars that fixate on dream cars. For me, V6 minimum engine, leather upholstery, high horsepower and (if in Nigeria) very strong wheels and suspension system. I don't naturally care about fuel consumption since you can't always fidget about spending too much on fuel if you drive V6... That's about all I dream about with respect to cars. I use them to accomplish my other dreams and visions, cars are never my dream.

OLDESTWARRIBOY:
Inept Auto- Mechanics should stop you from owning your dream car... bro

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Congrats my amiable and highly loved Governor Fayemi. Every challenge is an opportunity for you to show the world that you're bred a champion. Just as you tamed that unruly Fayose and his minions, you will tame this China virus too.

Ule-yi!

I agree with you. But the reality of auto maintenance in Nigeria forces many to go for popular brands. Nigerian auto mechanics are some of the most inept professionals I have met. No one should cite examples of exceptions. I am talking about the majority. If you take anything too out of their ordinary to them, they will mess it up. If you are living in big cities like Lagos, Abuja, or even Kaduna and Ibadan, you can still manage to use unpopular brands. But if you live in suburban and rural towns in Nigeria, don't even make the mistake of using those unpopular ones, because na gambling dem go take finish your car until it's worth no more than scraps.

Incompetence of the repairers in Nigeria makes Toyota popular... I personally would pick German brands, BMW, VKW etc any day any time. Toyota feels too light and shallow for me. But give me Audi, BMW, Merc., etc, then we can talk.

OLDESTWARRIBOY:
None....Toyota too popular in this side of the planet

Bugatti, Audi, Lamborghini or Qlink over any of 'em

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