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Romance / Re: 'Bleached' Lady Shares Pre-Wedding Pictures, Gets Epic Reply by sagtav(f): 5:34pm On Dec 21, 2019
sweetonugbu:
Is our rod not wonderful?.

Hello, the image you put up is very graphic
Business / Re: Lagos Begins Disinfection, Decontamination Of 17 Live Bird Markets by sagtav(f): 5:21am On Dec 10, 2019
The chemical from the said disinfection/decontamination will still give you another disease.

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Politics / Re: Sowore Speaks After His Supporters Prevented DSS From Re-arresting Him(video) by sagtav(f): 1:05pm On Dec 06, 2019
echibuogwu:
Nigeria can be saved. Shut the Bleep up

I thinkb@ gidgiddy is right. Nigeria cannot be saved.
Politics / Re: Goodluck Jonathan’s Journey To APC, His Fealty To Buhari And Survivalist Agenda by sagtav(f): 1:15pm On Dec 03, 2019
These people sef. If I use time I go use hustle come read this epistle, na wetin I gain?

Romance / Re: My Wonderful Relationship Is About To Suffocate by sagtav(f): 1:07pm On Dec 03, 2019
Why is the op not replying to people's comments.

Me thinks this story is made up by the op....for cheap likes.
Romance / Re: My Wonderful Relationship Is About To Suffocate by sagtav(f): 1:04pm On Dec 03, 2019
Sweetchilli:
Brother, pregnancy is not calculated from the date of conception(the date you had sex). It is calculated with the date of her Last Menstrual Period. Ovulation is usually 2 weeks after the period. Add that to the 4 weeks that you had sex with her and you get 6 weeks. Why do you think pregnancy is usually 40weeks in women? It starts to count from the day of the last Menstrual period. Don't let men who don't know what pregnancy is confuse you.

This is for the uneducated men mentioning me and saying rubbish. You at least have access to the internet, why can't you just Google it instead of making uninformed statements and disgracing your ancestors

Sweetheart you are 100% correct on this. I wish the op will read and understand.
Romance / Re: My Wonderful Relationship Is About To Suffocate by sagtav(f): 1:00pm On Dec 03, 2019
The op @ ghostface should google on how pregnancy is counted as suggested by sweetchilli.

Or carry out a paternity test when the child is born.
Romance / Re: My Wonderful Relationship Is About To Suffocate by sagtav(f): 12:50pm On Dec 03, 2019
You are 100+1% right on this. I wish the op reads this
Nairaland / General / Former Jehovah's Witnessed Recount Years Of Sex Abuse Ahead Of Landmark Case by sagtav(f): 5:31pm On Nov 27, 2019
FORMER JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES RECOUNT YEARS OF SEX ABUSE AHEAD OF LANDMARK CASE


By Gabrielle Fonrouge, Alex Taylor and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


Two former Jehovah’s Witnesses claim the church looked the other way when they were sexually abused as children for years — and now plan to sue under a landmark state law that takes effect this week.


Lawyers for Heather Steele, 48, and John Michael Ewing, 47, alleged at a press conference Monday that the Witnesses and its eight-member leadership council even maintain a database of church sex offenders that it’s kept secret.


The two alleged victims now plan to fight back with separate lawsuits that will be filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday, when the Child Victims Act goes into effect.


“These people were abused by emissaries of God, of the church,” lawyer Michael Barasch said at a press conference. “There was an element of trust. And these abusers, these rapists abused that level of trust.”


Ewing claims in his lawsuit that a Jehovah’s Witness elder molested him “approximately four to six times per week” for four years, starting when he was 14 — including while his abuser was on vacation with his family.


Steele, who grew up in New York and is now living in Orlando, Florida, claims she was still in diapers when Jehovah’s Elder Donald Nicholson, a family friend, started molesting her in the mid-1970s.


“My first memory would be of him handling me when I was just about 2 or 3 years old while he held me in the back seat of my dad’s car,” Steele told The Post.


She alleged that Nicholson, now 82, would molest her while she sat on his lap “right in the middle of meetings” with other members of the institution.


“I don’t think he was ever afraid of ever getting caught,” Steele said.


As a kid growing up in the organization, Steele said, her life was shrouded in a culture of fear.


If she didn’t follow her elders’ orders and obey every rule she says sge was told, “demons and other scary things” would come after her. So she kept quiet about the abuse until around age 10, when she finally told her mother.


But because the insular organization considers outsiders under Satan’s rule, her mom brought the case before the institution’s elders before going to the police.


“It was basically them trying to convince us it was in our minds, that none of this stuff actually happened or that we had bad dreams,” Steele said.


“They would just try anything to take the pressure off of him … they’d have some kind of scripture to back up how they were right and told us that we should pray for [Nicholson].”


Steele said Nicholson eventually was arrested after her mother and father finally reported the incident to the police.


The disgraced elder went on to serve 3½ years in prison for sexual abuse at the Wallkill Correctional Facility, according to New York State Department of Corrections records. When he got out, he was welcomed back into the congregation and quietly placed in a New Jersey branch of the Witnesses where few congregants knew about his sordid past, Steele’s attorney Irwin Zalkin alleged.


The lawyer said the religion’s culture of secrecy meant congregants aren’t aware their children could be in close contact with accused pedophiles.


“When they come knocking on your door, you don’t know if one of these people is a child molester. They keep that information secret and confidential and do not make any disclosures to the public or to their members that they have molesters,” Zalkin said, adding his law firm knows of at least 18 other alleged victims of Nicholson.


‘He was supposed to be a mentor to me, someone to look up to and ascribe to be like.’


“The rest of the congregation has no idea, so they’re in jeopardy every time they go there,” Steele added.


It’s for this reason that Ewing has decided to sue the organization — because he wants to make sure other kids don’t end up in the same situation.


Ewing was just 14 years old and growing up in Florida when he was introduced to a Ministerial Servant within the organization, at the Coral Springs East Congregation.


Ewing, who said his “life calling” was to be a full-time minister, told The Post the man was appointed to be his mentor and the two spent many hours alone together, knocking on doors and spreading Jehovah’s message in the mid-’80s.


First, the man allegedly started handling Ewing over his clothes and showing him Victoria’s Secret magazines — but then the abuse escalated into oral and anal rape that occurred everywhere from Virginia to Brooklyn, where the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Watchtower headquarters used to be, he says.


“He was supposed to be a mentor to me, someone to look up to and ascribe to be like,” Ewing said


Instead, his abuser allegedly left him a “psychological mess” with alcohol and anger management issues that took decades to work through.


When Ewing finally reported the abuse to his dad when he was around 21, he was told to speak to the organization’s elders, who he claims then kicked him out of the congregation for “homosexual activity.”


More than two decades later, Ewing decided to contact a lawyer after he went out for breakfast one morning and saw a Witness, around 30 years old, sitting with a young boy who was no older than 14.


“It was clearly not his son and they were alone in that restaurant together and it got me really upset to the point that I was shaking,” Ewing said


“It could’ve been a completely innocent relationship, but it became very clear to me at that moment [the Witnesses] still don’t understand the risk they’re putting our children in when they send them out alone.”


The Child Victims Act, which took years to pass the state legislature, changes the statute of limitations for child sex crimes, opening up a one-year window when any victim of child sex abuse can file a claim against their abuser, regardless of when the crime happened.


Ewing said their suits will reveal the inner workings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.


“Supposedly everyone in the congregation is trustworthy and is OK and you don’t have to worry because they’re one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and this thinking permeates throughout the congregation and it’s getting children hurt,” Ewing said. “I’m hoping … I am able to give a voice to someone else and lead them to tell their stories too and say this is happening and it’s not right.”


The Jehovah’s Witnesses and the two accused abusers could not be reached for comment Monday.



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Romance / Re: How To Find The Perfect Woman For Marriage! (A Short Course) by sagtav(f): 5:17pm On Nov 26, 2019
Ok
Religion / Re: Wow!!! She Is Artistically Beautiful! by sagtav(f): 12:24pm On Nov 21, 2019
My love for the rich melanin black.

Religion / Re: Wow!!! She Is Artistically Beautiful! by sagtav(f): 12:19pm On Nov 21, 2019
My obsession with dark skin....

Celebrities / Re: 2020 Grammy Awards: Burna Boy Reacts After Being Nominated by sagtav(f): 5:44pm On Nov 20, 2019
Happy for him
Celebrities / Re: Teni: I Will Go To South Africa If Burna Boy Returns Safely by sagtav(f): 5:06pm On Nov 20, 2019
My love for dark skin tone

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Culture / The Only Difference Is, We Use Colour by sagtav(f): 4:53pm On Nov 20, 2019
Ecclesiastes 1:10 sum it up pretty well....

Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.


Lalasticlala

Religion / Re: Wow!!! She Is Artistically Beautiful! by sagtav(f): 5:58am On Nov 20, 2019
Her skin tone and those remarkable blue eyes compliment each other.
Religion / Wow!!! She Is Artistically Beautiful! by sagtav(f): 5:52am On Nov 20, 2019
Out of the miry clay, He made the most beautiful creation.

This picture is a fact that God is a master artist!

Education / Re: 10 Grammatical Jargons Often Used By Nigerians. by sagtav(f): 8:21am On Nov 03, 2019
You self
Politics / Re: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Spotted Dancing, His Move's Is Something Else by sagtav(f): 2:12am On Nov 02, 2019
Young03:
I have been angry all through today..

Please don't be. Everything's going to be alright.
Health / Re: Nairalanders Pls Help! This Typhoid Is Stubborn by sagtav(f): 8:23pm On Nov 01, 2019
A very close family member is having the same problem. His own is even worse.

Lalasticlala, please can you take this topic to the front page so we can have broader inputs from experts in the house.

Thank you.

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Health / Re: Bridget Isi: AAU Student Dies Of Malaria, 2 Weeks To Her Final Exam (Photos) by sagtav(f): 12:11pm On Nov 01, 2019
angelEmade:
Please who is removing me from ftc? all the posts i commented on are making ftc but my ftc is gone?! wetin dey sup na?

This cracked me up. Lala you are needed here
Culture / Who Is An Igbo Man? by sagtav(f): 11:25am On Nov 01, 2019
NDI IGBO FORUM

#WHO IS AN #IGBOMAN?
#LISTEN CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU CALL US RITUALISTIC OR TERRORISTIC, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT LIKE THAT.

Samuel Ifebi:
1. The Igbo man is that man that will leave his Father's land.... Come to your Father's land and turn you into his tenant.... Peacefully ooooo

2. The Igbo man doesn't like so much noise, if you're not taking money.... You're making noise... He believes in "Ego n'ebi okwu"...

3. The Igbo man goes to Obodo oyibo. He doesn't know anybody there. Give him 6 months, he will start sending cars back home.

4. The Igbo man can wear slippers, use Nokia torch phones and may even be riding ladies machine but the figures that is in his bank account will be enough to write a full maths textbook.

5. The Igbo man gets rich. Go to the village, pick village boys, train them in business, settle them, the boys become rich, goes to the village do the same thing..... It is not magic..

6. The Igbo man, where you see nothing, he sees market. You're looking at an evil forest, he's looking is an estate, you're looking at a village girl, he's seeing a sales girl. You're looking at shit, he's seeing manure.

7. The Igbo man is not a ritualist. He's the man that kept going when others turned back. He's the man that enters a country where they say nobody survives. He's not risk taker, he's Risk itself!!

8. The Igbo man loves 'Njakili' (healthy jests) no matter how rich you're, if your mouth is not sharp, you will always be a subject of Laughter among your peers especially in "ime affia" or Umunna meeting"

9. The Igbo man believes in Training his children properly with good morals no matter how wealthy he is.... He will still nurture you to stand up for yourself because he understands he won't be here forever.

10. The Igbo man is not lazy.... He toils day and night in order for his children not to go through what he went through...

11. The Igbo man wakes up with money in his mind.... That's why they don't greet "Good morning".... They greet "Money nwannem"

12. The Igbo man Prefers a Customer to a girlfriend..... He can walk away from any girlfriend because a particular customer came to the shop...

13. The Igbo man knows how to do "Uto Nwanne" They love and appreciate themselves in diaspora.... That's why an Igbo can stand and spray a friend 2million naira.... Because they believe that "ihe imere nwanne gi but nga jidere m"

14. The Igbo man speaks Oral igbo..... If igbo man sings praises to you as his wife in dialect, you will melt and melt again

15. The Igbo man believes in "Iru uno" (going back home) .... No matter how busy an Igbo man is, he must take his family back home at times.

16. The Igbo man believes in "biri kam biri"... Live and let live... He obeys the rules of your land. Just allow him do his business, make his money and go... He can even marry your daughter just to have his way..

17. The Igbo man, when he enters an occasion, he doesn't need your food or drinks to be happy... He only needs the MC to recognize him and hail him by his titles, ife emebe

18. Finally Any country you enter and you don't see The Igbo man..... Just know that you're no longer on earth, you are at underworld...

God bless igbo indigenes..



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Family / Re: Suspecting My Husband Is Gay by sagtav(f): 6:17pm On Oct 05, 2019
Ajaerof:
I no, I guess it wz love @ first sites
Please Nairalanders, she says we should not mind her grammar......
Sports / Re: Youngest Athlete To Participate In The Onitsha 21km Marathon (Photos) by sagtav(f): 6:10pm On Oct 05, 2019
naijadrivablog:
How I wish there is road to run marathon in Abia undecided
Hahahaha

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Religion / Re: Throwback Photos Of Pastor Kumuyi As He Turns 75 by sagtav(f): 12:36pm On Jun 07, 2016
emusmithy:
Wow!

Happy Birthday, Sir!

Deeper life was going to commence work on their landed property outside Lagos. The villagers told Pst Kumuyi that there is an evil snake (boar) in that forest which makes it impossible for them to start up any work. Workers already there, retreated in fear. He alone walked in that forest. Of course, that evil serpent (unusually huge) crawled out and stood up at him, peered deep into his eyes and slowly excused him to pass. He knowing the serpent was dead...went back and informed the labourers that it's dead. They all fearfully strolled in and saw a dead snake. Fear caught them all.


Truly:

[21] When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: [22] But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

Heard the testimony when i was still in the children department during one of the retreat.

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Religion / Re: Throwback Photos Of Pastor Kumuyi As He Turns 75 by sagtav(f): 12:31pm On Jun 07, 2016
Thats my spiritual mentor.....may Almighty God give you long life in good health.

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Romance / Re: See What My Boyfriends Dad Did To Me (viewer Discretion Please) by sagtav(f): 4:30pm On May 26, 2016
thesicilian:


She doesn't know the meaning. Its her type that go on radio and start greeting the 'viewers at home'

aarhh Nairaland! my happy get-away

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Celebrities / Re: PYTHON CAUGHT Sinks Its Fangs Into Man's Penis As He Sits On Toilet (graphic) by sagtav(f): 4:10pm On May 26, 2016
waxxydude:
Romantic attack.. the snake being think say d man preek na im missing rib.. grin grin dats y e gud make persin preek nor dey resemble dangerous animas..

funny dude
Health / Re: Malaria: The Best Disease You Can Get by sagtav(f): 3:07pm On May 26, 2016
for prevention and elimination of elephantiasis by World Health Organisation, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs102/en/
Celebrities / Is Talented Musician, Prince Okoro Bobo Dead? by sagtav(f): 9:07am On May 26, 2016
i watched a wonderful and educative music video yesterday [danger dey for city] by Okoro Bobo.... i was asking people why the guy is not popular despite his talent till someone told me that he is dead. pls does any1 know whether he is dead or alive...have googled on a the net but no news about his demise. thanx
Politics / Re: Christiane Amanpour Interviews Muhammadu Buhari @ 7pm On CNN by sagtav(f): 5:56pm On May 12, 2016
following)))))

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Romance / Re: See Dr. Ifeanyi Uba's Love Letter To His Wife On Her Todays Birthday by sagtav(f): 5:07pm On May 12, 2016
God please give me a romantic, appreciative and caring husband & i will be his jewel of INESTIMABLE value...amen

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