in the history of things that never happened. This did not happen the most

tollyboy5:
RIP Ma. it seems she's a negro, the hair

tollyboy5:

You must be sick and know nothing!

The woman in question might be a nigerian. With the negro kids around her its easy to refer to them as negros without background check.
You're just too quick to name IPOB. What has IPOB done to you personally?

The hell is wrong with you? Is your brain weak?

This is an old bridge repainted.

Mogajunior:


When you become famous and attain success, you start thinking the world is hating on you. These guys forget everyone is running his/her race and striving to be better.

Actually, it’s when you attain success without doing any real work you don’t realize it takes hard work you.

Lindner:
Long story!!

In an interview, I was asked to narrate a really tensed sitiation and how I navigated it.

I remembered my NYSC days, I lived inside Letmauck Cantonement, Mokola Barracks, Ibadan. Year was 2008.

The wife of an Army Officer( a Major) hired me to tutor their three young kids after school. Unknown to me, it was the woman that needed tutoring on how to read English(she couldn't read nor write). She spoke only pidgin.

We agreed the fees (weekly), and I started. She would later open up to me that she needed tutoring as well. For a relatively long time, I didnt meet the Major himself. I would have left before he returned from work. I was a teacher at St Luis Grammar school just behind the barracks.

Long story short, I started teaching the woman too after she increased my weekly fee. But I noticed the woman would rather gist with me than learn. Being a student of emotional intelligence myself, I reckoned she needed someone to gist with in that ghostly environment like the Officer's Quaters. A full time house wife and in that environment. The other end of the barrack where soldiers ans corpers live was more fun and populated . As long as I was paid, we would gist all afternoon. We soon became friends. I even stopped teaching the kids. They were super sharp, intelligent, restless and troublesome. But every Friday, she never missed my payment.

One faithful Friday afternoon, the Major came home early, that was the first time I ever saw his face. I rightly assumed all the money I was being handsomely paid came from him since the wife was a full house wife.

I stood up to greet him but I couldn't tell if he was angry, sad or just being his military self. He didn't bother to respond, he just went upstairs. His wife followed him immediately.

After about 15 minutes, he came back to join me. He asked how much I was being paid, I told him. He asked if his wife mentioned why she needed to learn how to read, I told him I assumed it was for self improvement. Meanwhile, I had been collecting money weekly for several weeks and this woman could not read jack. We would rather chat, gist and laugh.

The Major went to the TV area and gave me a card, it was their wedding invitation card in 2 weeks time. He mentioned that they never got married before the kids. In short, at the wedding, the woman would be required to read a long vow or something like that. It was a Methodist or Anglican church along Bodija.

He said, given his status both in the church and in the army, he must not be embarrassed by his wife's inability to read. That was the whole reason for the lesson that we turned into chatting sessions. He said it was mandatory that I attended to witness the result of my tutoring. The whole conversion lasted for about 10 minutes and it sounded more like subtle threats and one man trying to dominate another man.

How did the woman not mention her wedding and the real reason she was learning how to read? How could I make her read in two weeks? Should we just memorize the whole text of the program? My mind started racing. I lived at the other end of the barracks, the Major knows where I worked as well. No way I could escape. I had collected a lot of money already and I was 100% certain he would be embarrassed on that day.

I did what I could in two weeks. Attending the wedding for me was like a cow going to the slaughter. My heart was pounding and was literally in my mouth. I knew the woman could not still read even after practicing the texts many times.

It was a beautiful military wedding. I sat at the back, then two guys came and said something like "O boy, oga say make we sit beside you". Which oga? They said "Major". I knew I was in deep shit. Prior to that time, a corper colleague had to be locked up in the guard room for dating a soldier's sister. Ordinary soldier. This was a Major about to be embarrassed in front of his friends, colleagues, juniors and church members. Of course, he wouldn't beat his wife, I figured I would carry all the blame and possibly return every penny I collected.

Sitting through the wedding was the most tensed period of my entire adult life. Gruelling 3 hours!. Second was waiting for my HIV test result. Of course, she fumbled, woefully at that. It was a disaster. That moment you want to hide under the seat. The officiating minster had to take charge of the situation to save face. I'm sure he wasn't aware.

As they where matching out of the church through the guards or what do they call them. Those guys that carry sticks and couples pass under them. I was seriously looking at the Major's face. His facial expression would inform me of my likely fate. His face was always expressionless but today, it was important to read those expressions so as to know my next line of action. Either to pick the next available bus back to my state and never return or something like that. But again, there's the problem of the soldiers beside me.

Conclusion.

The Major didn't have my time on that day, I guess he was occupied with the guests and all. I got lost in the crowd but never returned home directly. I slept at a colleagues room like 10 blocks away from ours. I could remember, ours was block 36 Engineering block. The soldiers sent to sit next to me also probably didn't know the reason and we all dispersed. My room mate and other corper colleagues that knew the background were waiting for the full gist of what happened. That night, I was waiting for that "gulf 3" visit. Gulf car was reigning at the time. They used gulf to pick you up to treat unofficial f**k ups.

The next day, I received a call from the Major's wife to come down to the Officer's Quarters. She didn't thank me for attending the wedding or for my tutoring or say anything that I could draw conclusions on about the mood of the situation. I was too paralysed to even congratulate her. Why would she be the one to call me given what happened at the wedding? I had heard all sorts of stories about what happens in the guard room, true or untrue, I never wanted to experience any of it. I put myself in the Major's shoes. No man should experience what he passed though in those few minutes at the altar. The Church became very quiet. Some people could not even look up.

Approaching the building, I saw the Major and one of the soldiers from yesterday and behold, the Gulf car!!.

I went straight down on my knees and then on my chest, flat on the floor in public view. My colleague had told me that was the only way I could lessen my punishment. But the Officer's Quaters was too quiet and lonely to gain any public pity and possibly help. The Major looked confused. I started apologizing and promised to even refund him. His kids (2 boys, 1 girl) started laughing.

The wife came out laughing as well, but in her hands was what I would later find out to be cake wrapped in those aluminium foils for me. The Major and the soldier just looked at me as if I was less of a man, rolling on the floor without even being accused of anything yet. Apparently, the Gulf car belonged to the soldier. The poor man was not even angry at me. I died multiple times throughout the night thinking about what evil was about to befall me. But all was just in my mind.

The wife would later tell me that she warned her husband before the Wedding not to waste his money on tutoring her. She felt she was hopeless at education.

Good read

Officialgarri:
Moghalu is still praising that failed government? Not all of us suffer dementia and not all of us were so young not to tell black from white.

First, dollar wasn't stabled at $150.. It crossed to over $200+.
And most importantly is the fact that it ess your boss, Sanusi, that publicly exposed the heinous corruption that the FG of then were using CBN to carry out.

Moghalu should sit back and hope for a governorship seat.
All these pathetic stories and pseudo solution can only appease the wailers but it won't earn him a presidential ticket with a notable party.

You never see suffer that is why you still get mouth to talk

Treasure17:
The inability to control your anger sometimes can lead to total damnation and regret. Whatever lead to the disagreement is inconsequential at this point. A murder case it is.

This is not anger, this is ego and pride.

don4real18:

I can tell you that it's original and my life story. You can try and use plagiarism tools to see if I culled just a line.

Well then my friend, you are at the top of your game. I am sorry I was more concerned about the faultlessness of your writing than the actual story you were trying to convey.

Also, I apologize that I don't have any real opinion on this matter, I find it really hard to weigh in on matters like this.


But damn you can write bro, I wish I can have half of your skills.

mrblessed:
it's precisely because he has a good mastery of the English language. His near-perfect understanding of the language made me to initially doubt the veracity of the story. It's also because he is narrating a past event.

I too doubt the authenticity of the story, it is so perfectly written I had to put it on Grammarly, which came up with zero errors, it basically said this is excellent writing, but it also indicated that there is heavy plagiarism in the ext.

shakir0802:
Today is the day thy Lord as made I will be rejoice and be glad in it.

It is imperative for our survival that we all act like the Isoko man who says "all man must gberere"

Yoruba

RRodwave:
No amount of depression will make me take my life, e no get duplicate

Don't say things you cannot back up by fact or experience

Jotrade:
Toronto Ontario
1: House $1600
2: Grocery $300
3: Communication $$140
4: Car Insurance $250
5: Car Gas $100
6: Hydro $50

USD or CAD

nonen:
Location - Ontario, Canada.
1. House Rent =$2,000 (All Inclusive)
2. Grocery Shopping = $800
3. Communication = $450 (Phones + Home)
4. Car Gas = $250
5. Kid’s School = $80/day
5a. One child is in free public school
5b. Had to home school one child to save $80/day until he can get into public school
6. Miscellaneous =$300
7. Home Remittances =$800

Total = $4,600 monthly

Your expenses montly is much more than you are quoting, schooling alone is 1680 per child

StagethemTVee:
These are Men! And what an amazing woman. Some people who are not married or have failed in their marriages will still find something wrong with her kneeling.

Lalasticlala

You already know the right thing, but you want to convince yourself that the wrong one is correct

Why is he called Nigerian if he renounced his citizenship?

Ayomideen:
Naso this thread make me dey crave for noodles

My brother, the moment I saw it I knew exactly what I was going to have for dinner.

Kelblaq:
We started dating about 4weeks ago! She said if she had known that I'm not a Church goer she wouldn't have accept to date me in the first place.

She just broke up with me now

I lost the love of my life because of this, I haven't recovered after 4 years, if you really like her it's a small price to keep her happy.

Boxers

Pierocash:
So ordinary privates too know how to use android phone to the point of knowing how to post videos on social media.

It means Nigeria is working

What a dumb human you are

SilverNorGold:
Although I am an avid supporter of President Buhari cos of his many stellar achievements, honesty and integrity, it's things like this(his softness) that's making me not very happy with him. Why sit and watch wicked elements and fake news purveyors run this country aground? What's stopping him from declaring war on enemies of Nigeria and fake news merchants?

President Buhari is TOO SOFT for my liking.. If he were Obasanjo or Yaradua or Goodluck Jonathan, would criminal elements like Sowore, Aisha Yesufu and their cohorts dare attempt one quarter of the nonsense that he (President Mohammadu Buhari) has tolerated from them?

This is sad.. President Buhari should do something to nip this nonsense in the bud as quickly as possible before it gets out of hand!

And by the way, what happened to the Social Media regulation bill? Seriously, I am not happy with the way things are going.. I just hope Nigeria survive the wrath of these fake news vicars before PMB comes up with a decisive solution.

May God help Nigeria.

Get out of here you attention seeking buffoon

Pierocash:
They don't have problem, that is why they have time protesting about pornhub.

Unlike one country like that ,they have many things to protest about -light, ASUU,police brutality, army,looting, insecurity .

I will gladly live without porn in Thailand

They see the bigger picture of the ban, but you dont, so don't criticize them if you don't understand

Ezekiel36vs28:
This is very wrong from you.What that scripture is saying is the will of God for a Christian. You give or sow all you have to God whether you possess very much or very little.There is no middle ground or anything like a mental giving Here but actual giving up of your property.That is the work of GRACE in a Christians life.God’s GRACE will first of all make you very poor before it will now lift you to realms you could never have attained even with your former riches. You can see GRACE at work in the early church by them selling Their possessions(lands and houses inclusive) they had and laying it at the Apostles feet to be shared to everyone who had need(Acts 2:45 and 4:32-37).That is why 2 cor 8:9 says”For you know the grace of our lord Jesus Christ,that,though he was rich,yet for your sakes he became poor,that you through his poverty might be rich”.So also you who has riches will become poor for others to be rich if you are a man under the GRACE of Jesus Christ.It is the law of Grace and the law has not changed.thanks

You all must be mad, go and tell your private , mansion owning pastors to give up all their wealth

jesusjnr2020:
Yes he must if he just doesn't want to be saved to enter into the kingdom of God in heaven, but also that which is on Earth.

It doesn't necessarily mean a rich man literally forsaking all his riches, but to forsake it mentally.

To illustrate, Abraham didn't need to literally sacrifice Isaac to God, but he would have done it had God not stopped him to show that he'd already sacrificed him mentally, so doing it literally would just be a mere formality. Hence God rewarded him for obeying His voice despite the fact that he didn't literally sacrifice his son as God had instructed him to do.

That mentality is what all God requires from anyone who wants to enter into His kingdom on Earth, and i wouldn't be surprised if Jesus had stopped the rich young man from doing it literally as God did in the instance of Abraham, if he had also shown that mentality of the kingdom of God.

This is the mentality all of His apostles had, so for anyone to truly become one, he must have that.

Jesus said, it's almost impossible for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God on Earth because they hardly have that mentality which it requires.

God bless.

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Moneyboyz:
You are not alone, you will notice this doesn't happen when you enter public transport or motorcycle.

It mostly happens when I enter cars with windows winned up and AC running, to add salt to injury, a car with fragrance and AC running.
If you ever wanna enter cars, make sure you sit beside windows with the windows open for fresh air.

Oh wow, you are actually right, I have never felt that way in public vehicles, interesting

Afam4eva:

It's actually worse when i don't eat. It's still manageable when i eat something before boarding.

You are right, not eating makes it worse, I have the same thing, but it is seasonal, sometimes I am fine, other times I feel real bad. Let me know if you get a permanent solution

rentAcock:
Iran is a shit hole country. Imagine with all the crude oil they have, they are still a backward 3rd world shit hole. Instead of joining the world stage and enjoy prosperity like Saudi Arabia they choose to be a dictatorial and oppressive 3rd world country. What a shame.
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Your country no get crude oil

Goldenheart:
When Government see that you are making small money they will try to take your source of livelihood...

Is that the kind of food you want to be eating, oga use sense na

dermmy:
America and China should tread carefully. America should also stop its provocative actions in the South China sea. China is a country that wants to control its own destiny and won't be moved around by a bully.

Ok sir, we have heard you, we will stop today, sorry

PAGAN9JA:
Must be imprisoned at once. Rape and murder threats must not be taken lightly. Prevention is better than cure. This is not the way to spwak to a woman.

imprisoned? I don't think so, he can be charged with indecent exposure, and maybe harassment but that is about it, I don't think that will even need jail time they will be treated as misdemeanors and maybe warned or asked to do community service at worst

Queenlovely:
2013 my daughter came back to Nigeria from leed University. she told me she wanted to join the Nigerian army I was mad.


she refused to listen, she was almost done with everything, her father refused to stop her


the only solution was to use suicide as weapon.

I threatened to drink rat poison if she doesn't get that idea out of her head.


she complied.

today she is doing well as a venture capitalist

That is horrible parenting, success in your job doesn't mean she is happy doing it, you as a parent are comfortable and happy, do you know the mental stress she has to go through, what if she fails in that endeavor do you not think she will blame you?

If I have a parent like you who likes to control my life I will probably never speak to you.