Localemperor:
Firstly it's was reported that Iran is funding Islamic militias Hezbollah

Iran's Revolutionary Guards and the elite Qods Force provided arms, training and financial support to militias and political movements in at least six countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Yemen.

Israel warns Iran for supporting Hezbollah

The Israeli military’s top spokesman accused Iran on Sunday of supporting Lebanese militant attacks and said his nation is prepared to fight a war on two fronts if necessary. Brig. Gen. daniel Hagari warned Iran-backed Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon that they would face devastating consequences if they continue to attack.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-conflict/card/israel-warns-iran-backed-hezbollah-don-t-test-us-NdEyqpp5XfRl9op564Nj

Israel strike Iranian Embassy in Syria as a response to Hezbollah attack on it's territory.

On 1 April 2024, Israel conducted an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, destroying the building housing its consular section. Sixteen people were killed in the strike, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians.

Iran vows to response after Israel attacks it's embassy in Syria.

Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern conflict.

Iran fire multiple missiles the target was Israel

The attack included 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles, none of which entered Israeli territory, and at least 110 ballistic missiles, of which a small number reached Israel, military spokesman Rear Adm daniel Hagari said in a televised statement

Israel vow to respond to Iran missiles attack in an unprecedented way

Israel vows to 'exact a price' after unprecedented Iranian attack while world leaders call for restraint. Israel pledged that it will “exact a price” from Iran as the country weighs its response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes while facing international pressure to de-escalate.

Israel response by fired just one missile towards Iran.

US officials say Israel hit Iran with a missile in the early hours of Friday, in what appears to have been a retaliatory strike after weeks of escalating tensions between the two countries.

One month later, Iranian President dies in a plane crash

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and several other officials were found dead on Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media

A country's President is the most protected citizen of that country. You will agree with me that the Iranian President will not be flying a wacked plane and his security details will be top-notch.

Nigerians no longer worry over what the state of the nation will look like tomorrow. Everyone is now focused on how to survive in the failing economy.

It is no longer news that people’s purchasing powers have continued to decrease, as prices of goods and services continue to rise, unabated.

The continuous rise has affected the prices of everything, including mobile phones.

Nigerians, who formally loved using two to three expensive phones, have reduced their choice to one.

Economy&Lifestyle found out that as the situation gets worse, people now have to swap their old phones for new ones.

Explaining how it is done, Evans Ofili, a manager at a phone and electronic gadget store in Igando, said: “The process of phone swapping is not tedious. All a customer needs to do is bring an old phone and the receipt of purchase and a valid means of identification. We assess the phone by testing the battery power and other parts to know its present value. Then the customer is to add a little amount of money to get his choice phone.

“For instance, if his phone of choice is worth N100,000 and the value of his old phone is N50,000. He is to pay N50,000 in addition to the old phone to get the new one.”

Phone swapping has been in existence but was not practiced intensively by Nigerians.

Old phones are usually given out to their loved ones after buying a new one.

“People no longer buy new phones nowadays. What they do now is phone swapping.

“We also do this to increase sales as people are now very interested in feeding, and other things come after.

“The old phones are repaired and swapped with other phones too”, Ofili said.

Mr. Jeremiah Santos, a Manager at a phone hub in Egbeda , said that apart from swapping, phone sellers now sell phones on credit.

He explained: “ Apart from mobile phone swapping that is now rampant, most phone sellers now sell phones on credit.

“They have an Installment payment scheme with a particular brand of phone. The customer might sign up for full payment of the mobile phone in three or six months.

“This comes with interest as low as 4 per cent.

“A down payment of 20-25 per cent of the device value is made depending on the seller.

“When there is a default in completing payment at the agreed date, the customer pays a 2 per cent or more default fee.

“It is what the economy has put us phone sellers into. Such strategies also help us increase sales and patronage.

“The money spent on importing these phones is also increasing. From charges at the ports, dollar rate, logistics among other things.

“We are also struggling just like our customers.”

Investigations revealed that the current prices of most popular phone brands have increased.
The price of phones of brands like Samsung, Infinix, Nokia, Techno, Microsoft, Xiaomi Redmi and Itel phones with smaller gigabytes of Read Only Memory (ROM) and Read Access Memory (RAM) with low or medium battery power ranges from N70,000 to N90,000.

Those with higher ROM and RAM goes for N150,000 above which were sold at N70,000 before.
Mrs. Demilade Raymond, a salary earner, said she swapped her Techno pop 5 for a higher grade last month.

“My old phone, Techno Pop 5 , had little space. Most times it hangs whenever I don’t relieve it from large documents it stores.

“I have been using the phone for almost three years.

“The manager at the phone store where I did the swapping said the phone series was highly sought after by some people.

“He valued the phone at N30,000. I was asked to add N70,999 to get the new model of my choice.
“At least I have a new phone now and spend less.”

Mr. daniel Apata, a mechanic said he swapped his android phone for a non android phone (“Palasa or torchlight phone” as it is popularly called).

“When I visited the phone store, I requested to swap my android phone for another thinking I will just add N20,000 to get a new phone.

“But I was surprised when my old phone was valued at N20,000.

“I had no choice but to swap for a non android phone by adding N5,000.
“It is better than nothing.”

Emusan:


This part right here is summary of it all.

Once you can decode their hypocrisy, the rest is easy.

He agreed that what other people says about KJV but will he agree with the same people on NWT? That's the question they'll never answer.

The other one will tell you how KJV is a fraud for inserting the word "God" to 1 Tim 3:16 because it's not found in any manuscripts but ask him if Watchtower is also fraud for inserting the word "OTHER" in Col 1:16-18, as the word was never found in any manuscripts, the tune will change and trying to justify why Watchtower has the right to insert it.

Shame on you, Emusan.
1st Point:
Did you see the sentences enclosed in brackets @ daniel 12:4 & every chapter in Amplified Bible?
2nd point:
How many times did your Trinitarian Amplified Bible inserted words/sentences in brackets in
Colossians 1:16-23?
Emusan WAILING hypocrite!!

Emusan dunce, you no see 'first born' @ Colossians 1:15?

You no see Hebrew 1:2?
@ Hebrew 1:2 & 1 Corinthians 8:6, did Paul teach you that Christ created ALL things?

In their bid to cling to Colossians 1:16 , Emusan & him crew members would go the extra mile to discredit Hebrew 1:2 & 1 Corinthians 8:6.
Whereas,Paul is saying the same message in the 3 verses.

MaxInDHouse:


When you read any part of the Bible and you find it difficult to grasp all you need is to raise up your voice for understanding by asking other Bible believers around you. Proverbs 2:3

This is what it means:

When the true God sends His messenger on a mission such a person may be scared of the unknown so whatever it could be that humans finds as deadly or dangerous God is telling us that He created what made up that thing so He can turn it into something else.

Take for instance when the Israelites needed daylight to win a battle against their enemies Joshua a servant of God told the sun to stand still for almost 24 hours {Joshua 10:12-14} this proved that God who created light we call "day" and darkness we call "night" can reverse it to favour His people! Isaiah 45:7

Again do you remember the three Hebrews in Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzars believed so much in the destructive power of fire but when God wants to prove He's the One who created the gasses that formed fire He turned it into air-conditioner for Shadrach, Meshach And Abednego yet the same fire killed those that threw these three boys into it! daniel 3:19-27

What about the time of Noah when water that we need to grow our plants was turned into a force that wiped out all creatures on dry ground?

Please when next you need an interpretation of God's word just raise your voice for understanding and the true God will surely send one of His servants to help you out.

Thanks, God bless you and may you have PEACE!

The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.

The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.

All three were killed by Hamas at the Nova music festival, an outdoor dance party near the Gaza border, military spokesman Rear Adm. daniel Hagari said at a news conference.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deaths “heartbreaking,” saying, “We will return all of our hostages, both the living and the dead.”

The military said the bodies were found overnight, without elaborating, and did not give immediate details on where they were located. Israel has been operating in the Gaza Strip's southern city of Rafah, where it says it has intelligence that hostages are being held.

Hamas-led gunmen killed around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and abducted around 250 others in the Oct. 7 attack. Around half of those hostages have since been freed, most in swaps for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during a weeklong cease-fire in November.

Israel says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more. Israel's war in Gaza since the attack has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.

Netanyahu has vowed to both eliminate Hamas and bring all the hostages back, but he’s made little progress. He faces pressure to resign, and the US has threatened to scale back its support over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

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Kyng1:
Good evening nairalanders, I'm sorry but this is going to be quite an episode.

I got married barely two months ago, February precisely. I'm In my late thirties, 28 years precisely and my wife Is 24 years old, during the buildup and period of my marriage there was lot's of problems and confusion.

It started when my wife. (then girlfriend) got pregnant (September precisely) immediately after we found out things seems to be going smoothly until November last year when she popped the question "when are we getting married" I told her that I'm not yet ready for marriage but I'm willing to do introduction, that night was hell for me.

Note, it wasn't hell and shocking to me because of what happened that night, it was shocking to me because it was the very first time she asked me such a question, and her reaction was shocking to me. If she has previously asked me this particular question severally and I'm not telling her what she wanted to hear I'd have understood why she reacted In such a way and manner, but it was the very first time she was throwing that question on me.

Back to what happened that night. Immediately I told her that I wasn't ready for marriage she started crying and laying curses on me, that I'm wicked, after suffering with me etc, then I responded that she never suffered with me that this should be the very last time that she should utter such word, I said so because she has been uttering it frequently on any slight quarrel, but on that faithful night, I couldn't take it any longer I told her that you suffered with me and I have two A.C on both parlor and room before I met you, that you suffered with me and I have a 75 inch TV, freezer, inverter, luxury center table, dstv etc. You suffered with me because of what, that I'm living in a self contain, or don't have my own house or car. This is someone that I'm feeding on a daily basis back then that I'm still a tenant and yet to have my own house, we went to eatery to eat almost on a weekly basis, to the extend that she refused to go to her parents house for months.

Back to the topic, she fought me that night from 10pm to 3am, after that night she kept popping up the question almost on a daily basis and it always leads to quarrel, arguments and fights, it came to a point that she began threatening me with suicide, holding knife that she's going to stab herself, using rope to tie her neck with all her strength which normally ends with her having reddish eye's, coughing, etc until I intervene, there was a day she drank tiles wash liquid, and hypo, that night I gave her oil, and nothing happened to her, that was the deal breaker, I finally agreed to proceed with the marriage, because I was scared that If anything should happen to her then I'd go to prison for the rest of my life and my life Is over.

Note I have 4.3 million naira on my account as at then, and I intend using the money to start up a business, as I wasn't doing anything. It is also worthy to note that after lots of pressure it came to a point that I no longer tells her that I'm not ready for marriage but started telling her that I don't have money, but her response was always, "na lie, na lie, na lie" you get money. She has seen my debit alert and saw my balance. So after she drank the hypo and chemical used for tiles wash, I agreed to proceed with the marriage.

By December, I began making marriage preparations, the adrenaline rush was something else. I went to the village to inform my father people, so they can come to perform the traditional rights, as my father was no more.

On the day of the traditional marriage, her mother called me early in the morning that I need to carry some drinks to my "girlfriend, now wife" father house that she'll support me with one wine, that she's doing it because I'm complaining that I don't have money, I took two carton of Heineken, two carton of maltina one wine + the wine she supported me with and two Gordon gin. "I have no idea that I was being brain washed, they're the one's that's supposed to present those and I'd have to double it during the traditional rights, she deceived me.

Before the traditional marriage began, my father's people that's supposed to perform the traditional rights didn't arrive on time due to the distance they're coming from, her mom was already angry, few minutes later my father's people eventually arrived, immediately after their arrival "my girlfriend, now wife" elder brother made a statement which provoked me, he said "if una nor one marry make una dey go, I go pay una all the money when una dun spend, rubbish"

Immediately I heard that, I took off my agbada remaining my inner senator shirt and trouser that I'm not doing again, her mom starter ranting and raining all sorts of insults on me, she made a statement that I should never near or come close to her ever again. After some few minutes my mom calmed me down and I put on my agbada again.

Few minutes later the traditional rites began, I was inside when my younger brother came to inform me that my wife half brother's have opened and drank some of the gins I brought for the traditional rites, I Immediately told him to count and look for somewhere to buy and have them replaced, he did and before he came back they have taken more. He had to go back and have the gins replaced a second time. Immediately after the end of the traditional marriage her mom handed me a nylon with 100 notes not up to 3,000 naira and she handed my wife another that's filled to the brim, that the one she gave to me was what they sprayed me and the one for her was what they sprayed her, I was in rage and I gave the nylon to her that how can she share money spared between husband and wife, she gladly collected the money. Shortly after that, I heard her elder sister, the one my wife is following directly by birth, saying "that her sister (my wife) don't know what she has gotten herself into, I Immediately cut her short that what kind of statement is that and what next she did? She started raining all sorts of insults on me " daniel you dey craze, daniel your head nor correct, daniel na God go punish you, daniel you be bastard, we go tie you flog we go lock you up" she repeated these words continously, she pulled her slippers and wanted to come and fight me, In which they held her off. This is someone that isn't up to the age of my younger brother, I felt really embarrassed because all my friends, brother's, sisters and my mom was there. Note that I single handedly carried every single expenses of the marriage, the only expense my wife family all agreed and contributed to was making "jotters notes" for the guests that sprayed us money, which they didn't do, until date I didn't saw any jotter, not even one.

Another thing that really got me angry was few weeks before the marriage my wife mom was assuring me that there's no need to cook, that we only have to cook for reception only, which I fully agreed. But at same time I send my mom some money to prepare something just in case things didn't went as planned and because of my father's people that's coming from distance.

Two day's to the traditional marriage I sent her 490,000 naira for chicken and ingredients. Note, I have already bought two bags of rice and 2 gallons of groundnut Oil for cooking at the reception whereas I gave my mom half bag of rice as back up and three cartons of chicken for the reception refreshment. But to my surprise I saw that she, my wife mother cooked jollof rice at the traditional marriage day and while sharing she was talking continously, that I'm supposed to give her money to cook but I didn't gave her any money that she cooked the rice with her own money. I was in rage because firstly I sent her 490,000 to cook for the reception, in which she used my chicken, groundnut Oil, and ingredients to cook the jollof rice she cooked at the traditional marriage day, she only used her two basket of rice which they already have at home. And because of that two basket of rice she was downgrading me in front of my father's people, my mother's people, my brothers, sisters, friends. If she had told me that she wanted to cook rice at the traditional marriage I'd have gladly sent her the money, If I can send 490,000 for just chicken and ingredients, what's 14,000 that I can't send for two baskets of rice, this was someone that told me we aren't cooking anything on the traditional marriage day but only for the reception.

Also, before the marriage my wife mother has already arranged for us doing court weeding, which I wasn't comfortable with but since my wife was pregnant and she insist that she must wear a white weeding gown, our both churches refused to Wed us with her wearing a white wedding gown with pregnancy. So I had no choice than to settle for the court weeding that her mother proposed, but 3 weeks to the weeding my elder sister talked to her pastor and he agreed to wed us with her wearing a white weeding gown and with her pregnancy, I informed my wife and she was angry, It lead to lots of quarrels but I stood on my ground that I'm no longer proceeding with the court weeding. 4 days later I saw a chat with my wife and her elder sister, she was telling my wife that I refused to do court weeding because of the rubbish that I'm thinking that their mother said she isn't going to attend and she her self won't attend. I snapped the chat and pretended like I didn't noticed but waiting to see how everything unfolds, on the day of the weeding, her mom didn't appear in church, neither her 3 sisters. But they all came to the reception ground, at the reception when they were spraying they focused on her only, my wife mom and her sisters, none of them sprayed me, not even 50 naira, but I sprayed my wife mom. I'm not saying this because I'm expecting the money, I'm saying this because as their sister husband they're supposed to spray us both, it felt embarrassing when they were dancing and spraying only her and I was just there like I'm nothing.

Less I forget, on the morning of the reception which was the day after our traditional marriage, I called the MC and explained everything that transpired on the traditional marriage. "her mom, sharing money that was sprayed between us" and gave him names to announce as those that'd pick any money that was sprayed, I didn't included any of her sisters neither mine. My wife was angry and asked me severally to include one of her sister which I plainly disagree, she became cold, and on the reception day refused to dance. When the marriage was over we counted the money and it was 233,100 naira. For a marriage I spent 4 million plus. After everything my wife started mocking me that they've stolen my money that I think I'm wise by not allowing her sister to be among those picking money, she mocked me endlessly and started using her hands on her eye's to tell me "onwonyi" I told her that I'm not doing again that I'm returning her bride price and she called me by my name daring me to return it. I was in rage and started remembering when she was pleading with me to marry her and remove shame from her eye's, in my mind this was someone that was begging me to marry her few weeks ago, threatening to commit suicide, now daring me to return her bride price and now mocking me. I slapped her that night on our hotel room, and she fought with me for hours, and the next day she reported me to my younger brother and her best friend, the one that did chief bridesmaid for her, that I beat her on our weeding night.

Days passed, weeks passed, two months has started passed since the day of our weeding and I'm now living from hand to mouth, this same woman that was telling me back then that we'd live as a couple that even if it's Garri that we've we'll soak it and no one will know or hear about it, is now the one crying for food whenever she's hungry, she doesn't eat rice without eggs or meat, nor does she eats Eba talk more of Garri. Right now I felt deceived, manipulated into a marriage that I wasn't actually ready for, I'd have invested my 4 million into something tangible and reaping the fruit by now, right now there's no money to eat properly or go out on Sundays to have some bottles of achohol.

We're querrelling almost on a daily basis, there's no peace, sometimes I do sleep at my brother's place to have that few hours of peace than to go home to her, but it's been since a month I last did that. Recently I have been informing her that I'll return her bring price and I'm not marrying again, that marriage isn't by force that I wasn't even ready to get married if not for her suicide manipulation, that I'm just waiting for her to give birth and after 6 months I'd return her bride price, but she think I'm joking. I'm sure going to surprise her. After all I'm not sexually attracted to her, she's short, not fat and not slim either, and fair. And I I'm sexually attracted to extremely fat, dark or chocolate skinned ladies. I find myself getting extremely aroused by just staring at the pictures of fat ladies on Instagram or anywhere I come across them, on the internet, bike, etc. But my wife totally naked and close to me doesn't in anyway arouse me, not even slightly. Until date I can't get over the 4 million naira plus that I spent marrying her, it hurts me a lot till this very moment.

And for what her mom did by deceiving me to be the one to bring drinks, wines, and gin and also the one that have them replaced, by lying to me and insulting me in front of my family that I didn't gave her any money to cook because of two basket of rice she cooked, by sharing money for I and my wife etc, since the day of our marriage until date I haven't visited her, and since then also my wife also refused to visit my mom or my family because I refused to visit her mom. My mom has pleaded with me on several occasions to visit her and apologize, but I don't know why I should apologize to someone who tricked and insulted me. Right now I really wished to know if I did the right thing by not going to see her until date or just overreacting. Please I need your honest answers on this.

Docodes:

yes pls go on

emmaodet:


Omoh.... I don laff tire for this thread.
You can never have enough of nairaland dramas.
When you think that you have seen it all, then another Banga will pop up.
I feel like giving you e-slap with your write-up bro.
How can you descend so low?
You don dey collect wotowoto even right from your traditional marriage day with you family present.
daniel you dey craze true true,
daniel, na God go punish you.
daniel..... Oooohhhhhj I don't even no de kind curse I fit place on you add join your in-laws own

eventainment:
Lol 😆. There is something you guys aren't seeing. Everyone is a protagonist in their own story, im not saying he is wrong but I'm saying from his angle he is absolutely right: relative truth. From analyzing the story you be man way no de gree for anybody; anyhow e come you go give them back! It's obvious you were lured but I think there has been a bitter blood between you and the family before marriage all thanks to your wife too. But I wonder what you preach to people about her as well. You are now married you have to settle all bad bloods and start anew. Quarrels and fights doesn't solve problems and please learn to stop reacting at everything. The best way to enjoy a woman even the devil( terrible woman) is to not respond to their talks if you keep up with that you'll see that her own talks will reduce. A fight of 3hrs means it's an exchange of words within those periods but if you keep quiet the quarrel will not pass 5mins. No be who throw jabs pass na win argument but na who allow the other person fool himself. I don't talk at all I just take actions. Now for the feeding aspect although you are feeling robbed you have to care for your wife and your unborn child. So get busy with even the ones you can't do on a norm.. And settle down and talk to your woman! You can chase 10,000 together. People asking for divorce are not wise. Women are all demons in my eyes just look for the one you can tame and live with her. And your woman is just bitter cause it's obvious that you Mr daniel can say hurtful words and women are moved by words. So put your house in order and be man... Call her mum and apologise and allow the remaining sibling to come to their senses naturally. Treat her well and things will start working for you again. Remember you are now one..

Streetdoctor:

I repeat it again and again, so do ur worst. Do I look like someone that lives on nairaland abi I resemble daniel bwala?

EmiloCorn:


Face the voters and leave their tribes

I say again, FACE THE VOTERS AND LEAVE THEIR TRIBES I won't want to report you to mods

The story concerning the two election winners being idiots is a topic for another thread

Just be warned