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emmalezy:
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https://www.nairaland.com/8589584/former-blogger-turned-influencer-anda



Sad news has emerged regarding the alleged death of popular Nigerian writer and creative strategist, Anda Damisa, popularly known online as Lazy Writa.

According to close friends and associates, the talented writer reportedly took his own life a few days ago. It is believed that the emotional note shared on his social platforms at exactly 12 noon on December 29, 2025, was a scheduled post, prepared before his passing and meant for his loved ones and the general public.

Lazy Writa became a household name around 2012, when his unique storytelling, creativity, and witty writing style began dominating the Nigerian internet space. Over the years, he reportedly worked behind the scenes for several brands, creating some of the memorable and engaging online advert contents many Nigerians came to love.

His passing has left many in shock, with tributes pouring in from friends, colleagues, and followers who admired his brilliance and creativity.

May his soul rest in peace.
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Source: https://www.reportnaija.ng/2025/12/popular-nigerian-influencer-anda-damisa.html?m=1



https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2gS6tAhan/?img_index=3&igsh=MWlqcDRkaXVrZXh0OA==

OMG, i know this guy personally, nawao

SixSeven:
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Death is certain, the manner is not but character is what a man controls.

We are not what we say we are. We are what we do. We are what we respond to and how we respond to life's different tests.

Are we moving or are we staying in the same place? Keep it moving. It is a paradox that we need to keep fighting to live but we are eventually going to die.

One way I get out of my head is when I go and meet someone else, listen to their stories, listen to their struggles, life is more than what we think of ourselves and who we think we are. One of the benefit of this same internet is that you now have access to read people's stories. People have gone through a lot and when you watch others who have gone through what you have been, it helps you. The elders say there's nothing new under the sky when there is a scandal or something has happened before. We learn from the experiences of those who have gone through the road before us. Yet we keep moving.

May we be stronger than our weakest darkest thoughts.

You're stating truth rooted in motivation against the many odds of life but that won't change the reality of what many other feel about life like this dude's philosophical rant about life in the series True detective. Alot of things from deep self reflection about the essence of life, experiences, unbearable medical pains or conditions and so on molds and shape the way people end up seeing life. I am not giving credence to this unfortunate practice or behavior of just quitting life by suicide but even after Jesus said let them be peace, we sure well know all that has transpired around the world with regards to peace.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x73UW8Hjk?si=pJpqwcwbswfHHi92

LeeSmart:
You don't need to talk much bro, you're this kinda person who has distant himself from ur Family/friends, that's why you really don't know what pain/love is.... whatever that rocks ur boat, that should be ur headache to deal with✌.

majority of the people that commits suicide are not even kind of people that distant themselves from family and friends, they are people that are loved by their family and friends, they are your normal regular folks, that you can't even have an idea of what they're going through silently, just smiling to cover their pains and depressions, that why if they commit suicide, it usually sounds as shock to people, cos they will think this person can never do this, not knowing they might have been depressed for a long time

Kingzjayzee:
you believe in reincarnation?

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Nefort:
What is really sweet about this life? Just food, drinking and sex?

I tire oooo....All these things when dey quick tire person.

SixSeven:
Someone was thinking I was heartless to be hard on this person, that I don't know the battles, I don't know the things this person is going through, I don't know this and that and I said part of being a man is surviving trials of this world. I told the person to give me an alternative to willingly participating in your own death and the person could not. And then I said, finding solution is a much better part to taking your life. No matter what. I stand by my words. Life is tough. It will break you but sometimes I think Nigeria's law or punishment for attempting suicide is more of a logical one than the punishment itself. Nigeria's law is telling you, if you want to do it, just do it and go, make sure you do it.

You don't know the pain you cause those living when you selfishly consider yourself only. You're not living for yourself alone if you don't know. Especially when you have influence. I prefer you take more steps to help live than take the easy step to press the end button when you know we will all leave this world unalive!

Then like those boys who shoot in US, you now write a manifesto letter on your death. For what? Just go silently and don't disturb the world if you wanted us to not worry about you. It would have been easier for the loved ones to lie to us and tell us he died in his sleep. I am so disappointed and I have no nice words to say. This is where we have raised this generation to mental health everything. Spiritually ungrounded, digitally prosperous. Perhaps one day, we will realise our true reason for living. A person is a person because of another person (Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”: a person is a person because of other people). We will remember our purpose on earth, stay grounded and keep serving others because service to humanity is the price you pay for earth. Fall seven times, rise up 8th.

Each time I see people condemning persons who commit suicide, is see hypocrites.

Every human being was born with an innate drive for self preservation, meaning no one was born wanting to die.

For a person to reach a point where they decide to end it, it means they were in a state of great suffering and could no longer endure.

Who are we then to question their judgment when we are all selfish and would not have helped them if they cryied out for help.

Many people would rather leave Honorable than compound their problem by telling human beings who would not help anyway.

Suicide is a subject where I think nobody has the right to judge the victim. Only hypocrites will thing otherwise.

realG101:
Each time I see people condemning persons who commit suicide, is see hypocrites.

Every human being was born with an innate drive for self preservation, meaning no one was born wanting to die.

For a person to reach a point where they decide to end it, it means they were in a state of great suffering and could no longer endure.

Who are we then to question their judgment when we are all selfish and would not have helped them if they cryied out for help.

Many people would rather leave Honorable than compound their problem by telling human beings who would not help anyway.

Suicide is a subject where I think nobody has the right to judge the victim. Only hypocrites will thing otherwise.

To each his own. This is not a honorable exit. You guys think men didn't take out themselves in the past? Or men who couldn't stand injustice sacrifice their lives? I stand by my words and truth hurts, if you like, call it insensitive. Cowards die many death before they take their life.

We throw words around but maybe we don't really know the meaning.
A hypocrite is a person who claims to have moral standards or beliefs that they do not actually follow, essentially pretending to be virtuous or pious while their actions contradict their words, often seen as a " say-do" gap or feigning virtue for praise or benefit. It describes someone who judges others for faults they themselves possess, or presents a false image of righteousness, unlike someone genuinely struggling with temptation.

A hypocrite is someone who cannot defend their moral position because of what people will say. In all that you wrote, there was no solution. It was all about, you didn't know, you weren't in his shoes, you couldn't understand. You cannot take a side, you want to sound moral enough to be understanding but immoral enough not to be practical.

How do you know we would not have helped? Anyway, I have written enough on this subject but for this guy and that letter he wrote, he was a selfish, self-centred person.

Hard times don’t excuse contempt for life. Past generations faced wars and still chose endurance and duty over self-absorption. Compassion isn’t weakness but turning despair into a moral pass is hypocritical and that is what society is turning into today. Me me me, selfish, cuddling generation who want to guilt everyone else but take no responsibility. They want to take the spotlight away from them. Telling us being a coward is Honor. I spit on such.

Compassion for suffering doesn’t require endorsing suicide, and refusing to judge doesn’t mean we abandon the value of life.

Read my previous posts here. I do not believe in performative niceness, that is a red flag. I believe in action. If you need help, seek it. It's okay to feel bad, have negative thoughts, be taken by a bad experience but what we are taught in life is that everyone of us has his or her own challenges. No school of thought will recommend suicide so what are we yapping about? Trying to sound nice is trying to condone the action because you don't know. Excuse me. It must be condemned outrightly and those that are living can learn from the lessons but don't attempt to question what we would have done because we could have done a lot and the coward will take the easy path to end it all before the original end.

The real failure isn’t judging the dead, it’s ignoring the living who are in pain while the dead took the convenient option that needs no accountability. I am not subscribed to any performative niceness, giving proper feedback is being kind, not being nice. Not giving the proper feedback is being nice but you're unkind and that's what society is doing today. We want to explain things away without holding anyone to account and we are back to square one.

realG101:
Each time I see people condemning persons who commit suicide, is see hypocrites.

Every human being was born with an innate drive for self preservation, meaning no one was born wanting to die.

For a person to reach a point where they decide to end it, it means they were in a state of great suffering and could no longer endure.

Who are we then to question their judgment when we are all selfish and would not have helped them if they cryied out for help.

Many people would rather leave Honorable than compound their problem by telling human beings who would not help anyway.

Suicide is a subject where I think nobody has the right to judge the victim. Only hypocrites will thing otherwise.

Thank you for raising vital points. The ones saying the guy should not have committed suicide are bunch of hypocrites who would not have helped him,if he had opened up to them but would rather mock him and call him names. Now they want to call him selfish for taking his life as if it is not an act of selfishness by his parents that brought him here in the first place. The guy was forced into this world by his parents and if he is tired of living, should be allowed to exit himself.

SixSeven:
Someone was thinking I was heartless to be hard on this person, that I don't know the battles, I don't know the things this person is going through, I don't know this and that and I said part of being a man is surviving trials of this world. I told the person to give me an alternative to willingly participating in your own death and the person could not. And then I said, finding solution is a much better part to taking your life. No matter what. I stand by my words. Life is tough. It will break you but sometimes I think Nigeria's law or punishment for attempting suicide is more of a logical one than the punishment itself. Nigeria's law is telling you, if you want to do it, just do it and go, make sure you do it.

You don't know the pain you cause those living when you selfishly consider yourself only. You're not living for yourself alone if you don't know. Especially when you have influence. I prefer you take more steps to help live than take the easy step to press the end button when you know we will all leave this world unalive!

Then like those boys who shoot in US, you now write a manifesto letter on your death. For what? Just go silently and don't disturb the world if you wanted us to not worry about you. It would have been easier for the loved ones to lie to us and tell us he died in his sleep. I am so disappointed and I have no nice words to say. This is where we have raised this generation to mental health everything. Spiritually ungrounded, digitally prosperous. Perhaps one day, we will realise our true reason for living. A person is a person because of another person (Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”: a person is a person because of other people). We will remember our purpose on earth, stay grounded and keep serving others because service to humanity is the price you pay for earth. Fall seven times, rise up 8th.

You can never have sense 🤡

FarahAideed:
You can never have sense 🤡

I wish you what you wish yourself.

Revolva:
He is such an idiot and a weak guy no matter what why should u take ur life ...such a useless soul

What is weak about taking you life 🤡🤡🤡

SixSeven:
I wish you what you wish yourself.

Getout with your meaningless diatribe 🤡🤡🤡

FarahAideed:
Getout with your meaningless diatribe 🤡🤡🤡

If you had sense, you will learn how to ignore what doesn't make sense to you. But your consistency suggest something that strikes a chord. Gerraaahia

SixSeven:
To each his own. This is not a honorable exit. You guys think men didn't take out themselves in the past? Or men who couldn't stand injustice sacrifice their lives? I stand by my words and truth hurts, if you like, call it insensitive. Cowards die many death before they take their life.

We throw words around but maybe we don't really know the meaning.
A hypocrite is a person who claims to have moral standards or beliefs that they do not actually follow, essentially pretending to be virtuous or pious while their actions contradict their words, often seen as a " say-do" gap or feigning virtue for praise or benefit. It describes someone who judges others for faults they themselves possess, or presents a false image of righteousness, unlike someone genuinely struggling with temptation.

A hypocrite is someone who cannot defend their moral position because of what people will say. In all that you wrote, there was no solution. It was all about, you didn't know, you weren't in his shoes, you couldn't understand. You cannot take a side, you want to sound moral enough to be understanding but immoral enough not to be practical.

How do you know we would not have helped? Anyway, I have written enough on this subject but for this guy and that letter he wrote, he was a selfish, self-centred person.

Hard times don’t excuse contempt for life. Past generations faced wars and still chose endurance and duty over self-absorption. Compassion isn’t weakness but turning despair into a moral pass is hypocritical and that is what society is turning into today. Me me me, selfish, cuddling generation who want to guilt everyone else but take no responsibility. They want to take the spotlight away from them. Telling us being a coward is Honor. I spit on such.

Compassion for suffering doesn’t require endorsing suicide, and refusing to judge doesn’t mean we abandon the value of life.

Read my previous posts here. I do not believe in performative niceness, that is a red flag. I believe in action. If you need help, seek it. It's okay to feel bad, have negative thoughts, be taken by a bad experience but what we are taught in life is that everyone of us has his or her own challenges. No school of thought will recommend suicide so what are we yapping about? Trying to sound nice is trying to condone the action because you don't know. Excuse me. It must be condemned outrightly and those that are living can learn from the lessons but don't attempt to question what we would have done because we could have done a lot and the coward will take the easy path to end it all before the original end.

The real failure isn’t judging the dead, it’s ignoring the living who are in pain while the dead took the convenient option that needs no accountability. I am not subscribed to any performative niceness, giving proper feedback is being kind, not being nice. Not giving the proper feedback is being nice but you're unkind and that's what society is doing today. We want to explain things away without holding anyone to account and we are back to square one.

Well, I happen to be a realist, not an optimist or an idealist. I see the world exactly the way it is, not the way it ought to be.

Unless you want to play the devil's advocate, it's a fact that humans are wired selfish. Which means everybody carries their own cross.

If you are exposed to the harsh realities of the world like I am, you will understand better.

I drive through tens of street children rushing to wash my windshield as I go to work every day, nobody cares about these kids. Many of them die in the street from different unnatural causes but we don't carry their cases on our heads because they are not celebrities and we won't earn clout off of them.

If we pick and choose which life and which death to care about, that's double standards, and we do, so that's human nature. But let nobody try to say otherwise because some of us can see through the snactimony.

You say the victim did not consider the people who will derive pain from his death, the paramount question is do they like him more than himself, or can they take his place to help feel his pain. If not, the victim's feelings come first and take priority over other's.

My own 2 cents is instead of bashing people who take their own life, we should rather simply rip them and move on.

Condemning suicide will no desuade other who are waiting to commit it and encouraging it will not motivate a person who is enjoying their life to commit suicide.

By the way, I think I used the word hypocrite correctly, even going by your definition.

realG101:
Well, I happen to be a realist, not an optimist or an idealist. I see the world exactly the way it is, not the way it ought to be.

Unless you want to play the devil's advocate, it's a fact that humans are wired selfish. Which means everybody carries their own cross.

If you are exposed to the harsh realities of the world like I am, you will understand better.

I drive through tens of street children rushing to wash my windshield as I go to work every day, nobody cares about these kids. Many of them die in the street from different unnatural causes but we don't carry their cases on our heads because they are not celebrities and we won't earn clout off of them.

If we pick and choose which life and which death to care about, that's double standards, and we do, so that's human nature. But let nobody try to say otherwise because some of us can see through the snactimony.

You say the victim did not consider the people who will derive pain from his death, the paramount question is do they like him more than himself, or can they take his place to help feel his pain. If not, the victim's feelings come first and take priority over other's.

My own 2 cents is instead of bashing people who take their own life, we should rather simply rip them and move on.

Condemning suicide will no desuade other who are waiting to commit it and encouraging it will not motivate a person who is enjoying their life to commit suicide.

By the way, I think I used the word hypocrite correctly, even going by your definition.

My own 2 cents is instead of bashing people who take their own life, we should rather simply rip them and move on.

Well, I put another 2 cents to say that maybe if he didn't write a letter, I would have more generic things to say. Unfortunately, he wrote a letter to the world and Editors usually allow a right of reply

By the way, condemning it is very necessary. When communities refuse to take a position, survivors carry guilt and confusion, moral lines are blurred and future harm becomes easier to justify

I took a stance and it is neither cowardly nor insensitive. Suicide is forbidden and it is a major sin (no religious label here, I emphasized the tradition of African communities but in religion, it's a taboo), it causes real harm to the living and it must not be normalized or romanticized.

Communities are right to speak clearly against it while leaving final judgment to our maker.
You can speak firmly against suicide while still avoiding cruelty toward people or not letting the wickedness of the world make you respond the same way. We can condemn the act without glorifying or normalizing the act.

Clarity protects people. Silence or middle ground doesn’t.