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Politics / "We Sell Fresh Human Head For Between ₦45k - ₦50k" - Suspect Tells Lagos Police by ZekeYeager: 3:24pm
Suspect Says Human Head Is Sold For N45,000 In Lagos As Police Parade 10 Organ Harvesters

A gang of suspected ritualists who specialise in killing people and harvesting body parts for sale in various states has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the command Public Relations Officer while confirming the arrest on Friday, identified the suspects as a woman who is an Osun priestess, a community chief, an Ifa priest, an Islamic cleric, and a trado-medical practitioner.

Hundeyin explained that the suspects who operate in Lagos were arrested through intelligence reports from the public, adding that the leader of the gang, a 33-year-old man, Ademola Akinlosotu, confessed initially that he was exhuming corpses from cemeteries and selling their parts to ritualists but later graduated to killing and selling human parts to customers on demand.

Akinlosotu speaking further admitted to killing two persons, which included a friend he met through social media, before he was arrested.

However, Akinlosotu while speaking on his antecedents, noted that he moved from killing people to harvesting parts because his clients requested fresh parts rather than dead body parts.

”While I and some members of the gang would do the killings,” he would supply the parts to a 52-year-old man, Ahmed Wahab, aka Alfa Bororo, who operated from Badagry in Lagos State and Ogun State, to supply his clients.

"A fresh human head is sold at N45,000 or N50,000 while a dried human head sells between N30,000 and N35,000; heart for N70,000 and hands for N50,000."

Akinlosotu speaking further admitted to killing two persons, which included a friend he met through social media, before he was arrested.

"Before we killed anyone, the herbalist would be contacted to consult an oracle to determine whether the killing would be successful or would bring trouble."

The suspect alleged that a traditional ruler in Badagry requested him to kill his son because he was giving him problems.

He also said that the day they were to carry out the killing was when a friend he met online visited him, and he was killed, adding that "all he harvests, when he kills, is the person’s head, the heart, and the hands."

Meanwhile, Hundeyin said exhibits of different human parts were recovered from the suspects as the police continued on the trail of other suspects.

The command said that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed.

https://saharareporters.com/2024/05/04/suspect-says-human-head-sold-n45000-lagos-police-parade-10-organ-harvesters

Sports / Re: Inter Miami's Lionel Messi Sets Two Records, In 5-Assist Game by blueAgent(m): 3:13pm
ThierryJay:


Agenda dead on arrival. Messi singlehandedly won them the MLS cup, their first ever trophy, last season. He is gonna win them the league this season.

This same team (NYRB) beat Inter Miami a whopping 4-0 when Messi was injured and Suarez played that match. Well, GOAT came back and showed them why they call him the Supreme player of all time.


Well said.
Abeg school them.
Health / Re: Christopher Gilbert Fighting For Life After White "Friends" Push Him Into Lake by ZekeYeager: 3:06pm
What about the 6 black police men who beat a fellow black man until his skull fractured and he died? The dead man's name is Tyre Nichols. The news trended a while back.

And what about the black woman who was vacationing with her 6 friends who were also black and they beheaded her? Her name was Shanquella Robinson. Read up about her.

Your utterances sound childish to the point of being over emotional and unintelligent. There are good and evil people in every race. Skin color has nothing to do with virtue.

Cousin9999:


Okay, I don't want to offend you, or come across as though that's my goal. Nothing but respect. Here's what your response brings to mind:

1.) I wonder how you were raised and how much love you have for your own people. I wonder if you're the type of person that constantly has negative things to say about your own people, and if you believe the propaganda that comes from whites. I wonder if you understand how people engineer certain conditions, or if you even accept that as possible.

2.) We can separate the norm from what is not. What you described is not the norm.

The people you described likely come from an environment full of dysfunction and trauma. That environment literally turns normal people into sociopaths. How? By disrupting normal biological and psychological development. By establishing the capacity to view/experience/execute abnormality as normal. By "breaking" things biologically and psychologically. You can actually describe in detail how this happens.

The nonblacks I describe think and behave this way regardless of the conditions they were born into. It is their norm.
Foreign Affairs / Israel Begins Evacuating Rafah To Begin The Invasion And Informs Egyptian Army by SummaryChannel: 3:04pm
Israel begins evacuating Rafah to begin the invasion and informs the Egyptian army to prepare for a flood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUNzDbPb8Xk
“The Massacre” episode of the summary channel... Know the story from the beginning Subscribe ► @SummaryEgypt

New Al-Aqsa Flood presented by this episode of Samri Channel.
The Israeli army announced that it had ordered residents to evacuate the eastern outskirts of the Rafah area, south of the Gaza Strip, in preparation for launching a military operation there. In a statement, the Israeli army asked the residents and displaced people in the Al-Shoka municipality area and the neighborhoods of Al-Salam, Al-Jeneina, Tabbat Ziraa, and Al-Byouk to leave immediately and head towards what it called the “expanded humanitarian zone” in Al-Mawasi, an area on the coast extending between Rafah and Khan Yunis.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority also said that the army began deporting residents from the eastern areas of Rafah this morning as part of preparations for a military operation, adding that the army dropped leaflets calling on residents there to leave their homes and head to the “expanded humanitarian zone.”

For its part, Israeli Army Radio reported that the decision to begin evacuating Rafah was taken last night in a cabinet session. According to the occupation army, the evacuation process includes about 100,000 Palestinians living in the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah. Reuters quoted witnesses as saying that some families had already begun to flee from the eastern region of Rafah.

Director of Al Jazeera's office in Palestine, Walid Al-Omari, said that this development comes after the Israeli army had mobilized large forces on the borders of the southern Gaza Strip, indicating that the occupation army is accelerating the military operation before the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, arrives in Israel. . Yesterday, satellite images revealed that the Israeli army deployed about 300 Israeli military vehicles near the Rafah border.

With the start of the population transfer operations, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the Israeli army to invade Rafah immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly announced his determination to invade Rafah under the pretext of eliminating Hamas brigades in the region, despite American and international warnings about the humanitarian consequences of any military operation in the city, which shelters about 1.5 million displaced people.

Netanyahu stated on several occasions that his forces would enter Rafah, whether or not a prisoner exchange deal was reached. In exchange for the threats of Netanyahu and his ministers, the Palestinian resistance threatened the occupation that it would pay a heavy price if its forces penetrated Rafah. For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned today that the consequences of the Israeli attack on Rafah will be devastating for 1.4 million people, stressing that it will remain in the city to provide assistance that saves people’s lives.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced today the killing of a fourth soldier in a rocket attack by the Palestinian resistance that yesterday targeted a military base in the vicinity of the Kerem Shalom crossing, east of Rafah. Before that, it had announced the killing of 3 of its soldiers from the Givati and Nahal brigades and the wounding of 12 others, including 3 in serious condition. Thus, the number of Israeli soldiers killed since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the war on Gaza on October 7 last year has risen to 612, including 275 officers and soldiers since the start of the ground operation on the 26th of the same month, and to 101 officers and soldiers since the beginning of this year.

Israeli Army Radio revealed that the missile attack that targeted an army position in the Kerem Shalom area included the firing of 14 missiles, and that two PGM-guided missiles caused fatal wounds to the soldiers, noting that the injured soldiers were on a security mission to guard equipment and machinery. I prepared to enter the city of Rafah.

Israeli Army Radio also said that an investigation was opened to find out the reasons that prevented the launching of interceptor missiles and the presence of many casualties despite the reduction in the number of soldiers at the site, adding that other missiles fell on Camp Amitai and a house in the Kerem Shalom settlement and caused serious damage, but no casualties were reported. Yesterday, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast images that it said showed the Israeli army headquarters and its gatherings being targeted inside the Kerem Shalom military site, east of the city of Rafah, with a “Rajum” missile launcher, leaving the occupation soldiers dead and wounded. Shortly after the Qassam missile attack, Israeli aircraft launched raids targeting 11 homes in Rafah, resulting in the death of 21 Palestinians, including children.

#Egypt
#Palestine
#urgent

Family / Re: Married Woman Seeks Advice After Mistakenly Sleeping With Neighbor For Money by wallarwallar(m): 3:00pm
U went to his house to thank him knowing he stays alone tell us another story. Even with money u can't secure some women only God knows what exactly dere problem is . Men shud always prepare for something like dis no advice for you. He did not ask you to come and u can not thank him on phone u @ very funny. Had it been no sex occur and the man keep disturbing ur life it is something u can report to ur husband but with dis it is only a foolish and dead brain husband wud accept dis was a mistake. No sex happen by mistake dere is always a process to it be4 it happen.
Health / Re: Christopher Gilbert Fighting For Life After White "Friends" Push Him Into Lake by treatise: 2:38pm
Cousin9999:


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/louisiana-man-brain-damage-lake




I wanted to post this because every black parent must have this conversation with their kids, and stop them from being isolated with these people.

This is not an uncommon story (e.g. Caleb Obari, Tamla Horsford). Police and media sweep these cases under the rug. It's a part of the reality that l**** mobs never actually stopped.

Nonblacks are mentally ill. They are not normal people.

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An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.
Who's really a friend?
Phones / Re: Is Iphone 13 Pro Battery Good? by mrcrabs(m): 2:35pm
ORIJIN201:
Don’t even bother. The 13 pro and max are plagued with dead screen. Go for a 14 pro instead.

op take this advise.
Politics / Re: Ben Murray-Bruce Talks About The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by IfnobeGod20: 2:23pm
casualobserver:


Most of you are ignorant illiterates. Dave Umahi has stated many times that all federal govt roads are being repaired. The problem is we do t have the money to repair all the roads quickly so work is slow. He stated categorically there are just under 3000 awarded road contract and there is none where work is not on going.

Now a private company comes with a proposal to build a new transformational road with their own money. The road will cost $15b, the government will put down $1b, they will finance the rest and recoup their money from tolls. Mind you the entire budget for Nigeria is just under $30b. Should the govt say no?

Is the $15b for Lagos Calabar govt money? No!

Is they don’t build the Lagos Calabar road will the $15b go towards existing roads? No!

Are they repairing existing roads? Yes
But at a slow pace because we have no money!

If they don’t construct Lagos Calabar will it make repairs on existing roads faster? No!

Know the facts before you comment.
Existing roads are being repaired but govt has no money so it is slow.
The money for Lagos Calabar is not govt money and if you cancel the project the money will not go to existing g roads because it is not govt money.
False info. The cost of the project is $13btrillion and it was initially PPP initiated but now financed solely by government. The FG have released $1trillion already to the contractor.
Thankfully, you claimed the nation have no money but same nation embarking on a #13 trillion project. Please where the sense in this?
The $1 trillion released so far can go a long way to repair many roads that are dilapidated and unpliable.
Every reasonable government prioritize government businesses. Most of these roads are dead traps, instead to save people lives first, you're embarking on project that may not complete 15 to 20 years to come. Do you know how many lives would have been lost before the new road completed. This is more of capital reasoning and not this flexing the Tinubu's government is doing.
I can count more than 10 FG roads that need urgent attention and nothing is been done about them till I am commenting here.

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Celebrities / Re: Yemi Alade Kicks Against House Demolition In Lagos by Jonjam269: 2:20pm
franchasofficia:
No no, Yemi your half-brothers (Yorubas) said it's the best move to ensure Igbos are frustrated out of Lagos back to their barren (sic) southeast region. A region that houses the largest natural gas reserve in Africa is what uninformed Yoruba boys online call barren just because they see Igbos live and flourish in Lagos, when nobody except their inborn cowardice and lack of business doggedness stopped them from exploring opportunities in the east to their own advantage. Some will claim that their reason for not exploring Southeast is because Southeast is not developed, that Southwest is more developed, that what will they be doing in a less developed area when their region is an eldorado and you wonder their mediocre, mundane reasoning when Europeans left their super developed bubbling continent to explore all parts of the world even to the remotest areas in Africa, Asia and Caribbean, no wahala time will teach them a lesson about life.


Back to the demolition.


You know my people said when the gods wants to destroy a man, they first make him mad so that everything he does becomes very upright in his eyes. That is how great men fall.


Sanwo-Olu and his Tinubu inspired destructive-economy politics think their recent expedition into demolition of people's houses in Lagos is a very wonderful policy which they claim is because those houses contravened Lagos state building and environmental laws. They said it is such houses that are causing erosion in Lagos, and we hope erosion will never happen again in Lagos after their uncountable demolition of people's sweats and livelihood.


A time like this that Nigeria is at its lowest economic situation is when these bandits in government who found their ways into government leadership through crooks and corruption are busy demolishing people's houses with flimsy excuses that doesn't even hold water.


If you search the pockets of the so called environmental sanitizers claiming that people encroached into government areas through their building structures, you will find lots of petrified dead rats.


They should continue, no city remains glorious forever, and it's mostly ill-thought government policies like this that murdered so many bubbling cities that once hosted the world's glamor angry



Meanwhile, wise people are gradually divesting from Lagos real estate albeit silently cool
The demolitions taken place in South East are also because igbos are hated? You guys from that side just love inferiority complex and victim mentality to have your way and score cheap political points.
Many buildings affected belong to Yorubas and you don't see Yorubas and other tribes grunting about that. It's IPOB cannibals and obirodent miscreants wailing unnecessarily.
You've been saying people should not invest in Lagos from time immemorial and Lagos keeps moving forward while losers keep wailing and gnashing their teeth. Loser!

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Politics / Terrorists Storm Kaduna Birthday Party, Kill Six, Injure Others by Dapromzy333(m): 2:12pm
Once more, terrorists have carried out a fresh attack at Ambe community, leaving six people dead and nine others wounded in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Micah Aude, the community's youth leader, verified the tragic event on Monday.

According to him, the attackers invaded the community on motorbikes and opened fire on a particular house where a birthday celebration was taking place, but nobody was killed except those sitting around some shops.

Micah disclosed that the locals were able to apprehend one of the attackers who rode one of the motorcycles but could not be identified.

“We Immediately handed over the attacker, who was apprehended, to the authorities for prompt action because we were rushing those injured to the hospital for medical attention at that time.

” Security operatives have been drafted to the Community, and normalcy has returned and we’re about to bury the six victims now,”
Ambe said.

The Executive Chairman of the Local Government Area, Bissallah Malan, when contacted earlier, said, “I am in transit from Kaduna to the village I cannot be able to give you any credible information now but I will revert with more details.

The chairman did not respond to calls put across to him the second time to confirm the incident.

Meanwhile, the Police State Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, could not be reached on the phone, and he did not respond to a text message sent to him by our correspondent at the time of filing this report.

https://platinumtimes.ng/terrorists-storm-kaduna-birthday-party-kill-six-injure-others/

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Health / Re: Christopher Gilbert Fighting For Life After White "Friends" Push Him Into Lake by Patented: 1:53pm
The comments show Nigerians getting angry as usual. We however, forget that we are as bad, when it comes to Nigerians from a tribe other than ours.
Cousin9999:


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/louisiana-man-brain-damage-lake




I wanted to post this because every black parent must have this conversation with their kids, and stop them from being isolated with these people.

This is not an uncommon story (e.g. Caleb Obari, Tamla Horsford). Police and media sweep these cases under the rug. It's a part of the reality that l**** mobs never actually stopped.

Nonblacks are mentally ill. They are not normal people.

_________________________________________________________________________________________
An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.

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Health / Re: Christopher Gilbert Fighting For Life After White "Friends" Push Him Into Lake by Lacash: 1:53pm
Cousin9999:


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/louisiana-man-brain-damage-lake




I wanted to post this because every black parent must have this conversation with their kids, and stop them from being isolated with these people.

This is not an uncommon story (e.g. Caleb Obari, Tamla Horsford). Police and media sweep these cases under the rug. It's a part of the reality that l**** mobs never actually stopped.

Nonblacks are mentally ill. They are not normal people.

_________________________________________________________________________________________
An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.
I smell Jealousy here. They never liked him in the first place 🤦‍♂️

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Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Lists 'The Wealthiest People In Nigeria In 1965' by morgstreme: 1:50pm
If
LOVEALAIGBO:


These weakass attempts at abuse coming from a bigoted Igbo-hater and impostor like you are like water off a ducks back with me!

Dude, once again, YOU ARE NOT IGBO! In all likelihood, you're Yoruba....less likely to be Fulani! Why the fck would anyone claiming to be Ig

expend his time and energy to align with Igbo-haters in trying to give credence and traction to jobless omokris' anti-Igbo trolling!? This has got NOTHING to do with whether there are '10 out of 20 richest Nigerians that are Igbo' or not, and was why i was curious when i saw someone claiming to be Igbo cheering on and aligning with omokri and other Igbo-hating trolls, and was also why i was prompted to take a cursory look at your profile which confirmed my suspicions of your impostor and 5th-columnist status!

Dude, i can see through your deceit! Like i said earlier, you can wear your Igbo hate with pride and be a unapologetic kiss-ass Tinubu/APC minion and acolyte....it's no skin off my nose! smiley

Kitikpa dorwarkwa Ikpu Ashawo nne gi..

Ikpu gbarie Ashawo nne gi ebe ahu..bandits Jiri amu dorwarkwa Ike nne gi..cos obviously your late wretched illiterate peasant wretched father is in his shallow 4ft grave like a lot of others like him we put there during our "campaigns"..and he,most importantly,failed as a father with you as VIVID evidence..

BASTARD dead URCHIN!


LOOK AT THIS MORONIC TRIBALISTIC SEMI LITERATE UNEXPOSED MISCREANT!

Yes the discourse was about atleast 10igbos being on the list of 20 richest Nigerians and I made it that discourse till your weak unexposed soul jumped on my mention with your mundane,crafty glorified plenary of tribal pedestrian ubiquitousness..

Are you mad?Have you had closure with death ever in your life?

I WILL PUT A BULLET TO YOUR DOME IF I MEET YOU...I am trained to do that..and it will be OFFICIAL and "gazetted" by the Nigerian Government..

You think I am in your mediocre, peasant world of degenerated silly self deceiving endorsements and engagements?Igbo this,hausa that,Yoruba here,Muslim there,north up,south down, Christain good,Islam bad,Fulani fine,Igbos asine

Answer the question you cretin :

NAME ME ATLEAST 10 IGBOS THAT ARE ON THE LIST OF 20 RICHEST NIGERIANS..

Or stay away from my dormant Rage!
Crime / Re: ECWA Pastor, Peter Emmanuel, Killed By Bandits In Kaduna (Photo) by akaahs(m): 1:39pm
post=129805950:
Bandits have killed a pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Peter Emmanuel in Kwassam community in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

It was gathered that pastor Emmanuel was shot dead inside the church on Friday, May 3, 2024.

He will be laid to rest on Tuesday, May 7 in Upah Gure district.

Source: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2024/5/bandits-kill-pastor-in-kaduna-2.html
The Facebook page said Kauru u re saying Kaura. Gure is in kauru not kaura. Nothing of such happened in kaura lga to the best of my knowledge. Always do ur due diligence please
Satellite TV Technology / Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA by Dam5reey(m): 1:37pm
TCD:


Hello Chief.
I'm curious. If batteries have short shelf life, how do manufacturers and sellers store them in their stock before sale which may take months?

That's why some batteries fail prematurely even when you buy them as New, dead of long storage!
Romance / Re: Where Did The Dead Bodies Go? (photos Included) by Hipeman500: 1:24pm
Where the dead bodies of somalis go(Muhammed Farah adid's
genocide calling war)
Crime / Re: ECWA Pastor, Peter Emmanuel, Killed By Bandits In Kaduna (Photo) by HeroicMeastro: 1:13pm
post=129805950:
Bandits have killed a pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Peter Emmanuel in Kwassam community in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

It was gathered that pastor Emmanuel was shot dead inside the church on Friday, May 3, 2024.

He will be laid to rest on Tuesday, May 7 in Upah Gure district.

Source: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2024/5/bandits-kill-pastor-in-kaduna-2.html
He looked like a bandit, himself.
Politics / Re: Shettima Off To US As Nigerians Await Tinubu’s Return by bjdon: 12:56pm
ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
You see how Nigeria can be very useless, you keep having thesame problem repeatedly, president health challenge due to old age, president missing from the reader, yet you still never learned. Nigeria will learn in a very hard way. They should just announce Tinubu is dead so we found ourselves back in the hands of Boko Haram
Nigerians are programmed for suffering. It's in their DNA. That's the only logical reason why after suffering so much under Buhari, people with clear eyes went to vote for Tinubu. Let me suffer more self. They seem to enjoy it

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Romance / Re: Where Did The Dead Bodies Go? (photos Included) by brain54(m): 12:56pm
So this catacombs issue really made me curious...

I did my own reading. And this is what I found out....

Catacombs origin :

The Catacombs of Paris, a network of underground tunnels and chambers, contain the remains of millions of Parisians whose bones were transferred there in the 18th century due to overcrowding in the city's cemeteries.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Paris' population grew rapidly, and its cemeteries became overcrowded. The largest cemetery, Les Innocents, was closed in 1763, and a new solution was needed. Between 1763 and 1774, a significant portion of the bones from Les Innocents and other Parisian cemeteries were exhumed and transferred to the Catacombs.

The process of transferring the bones involved:

1. Exhumation: Digging up the remains from the cemeteries.
2. Transportation: Carrying the bones through the streets of Paris, often at night, to minimize disruption.
3. Deposition: Placing the bones in the Catacombs, often in a macabre yet artistic arrangement.

This transfer of remains was done to address public health concerns and create more space in the city. Today, the Catacombs of Paris are a fascinating, albeit eerie, piece of history and a popular tourist attraction.

But why go through the trouble of removing 6-7 million bodies :

There were several reasons why the authorities went through the trouble of exhuming and transferring the remains to the Catacombs:

1. Public Health: Overcrowded cemeteries posed serious health risks, as decaying bodies contaminated soil and water, leading to diseases like the Black Death.
2. Urban Development: Paris was expanding, and new construction projects required space previously occupied by cemeteries.
3. Religious Beliefs: The Catholic Church taught that bodies should be buried in consecrated ground, but the overcrowding made it difficult to maintain this practice.
4. Aesthetics: The cemeteries were seen as unsightly and unpleasant, and the transfer of remains allowed for the creation of more beautiful and tranquil public spaces.
5. Hygiene and Sanitation: The transfer of remains helped to reduce the smell and presence of decaying bodies in the city.

By transferring the remains to the Catacombs, the authorities aimed to address these concerns, create more space, and improve the overall quality of life in Paris. The Catacombs provided a vast, underground space to accommodate the remains, allowing the city to expand and develop while maintaining respect for the deceased.

But why over 6 million bodies for a population of less than 600 thousand people :

The reason for the large number of bodies (estimated between 6-7 million) in the Catacombs of Paris, despite the city's relatively small population (around 500,000-600,000 at the time), is due to several factors:

1. Centuries of burials: Paris' cemeteries had been in use for centuries, with burials dating back to the Middle Ages. Over time, the number of bodies accumulated, leading to overcrowding.
2. High mortality rates: Life expectancy was low during this period, with high infant mortality rates, diseases, and epidemics contributing to a significant number of deaths.
3. Limited burial space: Paris' cemeteries were small and had reached capacity, leading to the need for a new solution.
4. Mass burials: During times of crisis, such as wars, famines, and plagues, mass burials were common, adding to the number of bodies.
5. Cemetery consolidation: When the Catacombs were created, remains from multiple cemeteries were consolidated into this single underground location.

These factors combined resulted in the large number of bodies transferred to the Catacombs, making it one of the largest mass burial sites in the world.

My conclusion :

In my opinion I am not convinced by Ourtruth's arguments.

References:

- "The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs" by David Barnes
- "Making Space for the dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830" by Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey
- HISTORY, "The Dark Origins of the Paris Catacombs"
- Wikipedia, "Catacombs of Paris"
https://www.history.com/news/paris-catacombs-origins

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Romance / Re: I'm On The Verge Of Giving Up. I Need Encouragement by IbrahimSkiba(f): 12:47pm
Stop typing dead in the night.
Foolish Man, posing as a female
Career / Re: Has Any Federal Civil Servant Received The New Minimum Wage? by Nadingo: 12:40pm
TariqK:

Please how can I reach you?? Can you drop your email?
Quote me on a dead thread with your WhatsApp number
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MacBook Pro 2018//15"
Intel core i9. 512/32gb. //AMD Radeon Pro 560X 4gb dedicated//Space Gray and Silver//Laptop only//Cc 161
Some keys harder to press
725k

MacBook Pro 2020. Space Gray
Intel core i5 1.4ghz. 256gb/8gb. Two thunderbolt. Laptop and charger. Cc 336
749k

MacBook Pro 2018//Space Gray//Core i7 2.6ghz//AMD Radeon Pro 560x 4gb 15"
512/32gb. Laptop only. Cc 471
739k

MacBook Pro 2019//Space Gray//Core i5//2 ports.
128/8gb// Laptop only. Cc305
609k

MacBook Pro 2017//13"//Space Gray//Non-touchbar//128/8gb//Core i5//Laptop only
Cc 468. Line on screen
265k

Samsung Galaxy Book//15.6" FHD IPS type//Intel core i7 G7 11th gen//256GB SSD/16GB RAM
laptop only (uses type c charger). CC 6
549k

Samsung Galaxy Book 2 360//13.3" FHD AMOLED flip touchscreen//Intel core i7 -1255U 1.7ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM. Laptop and charger. Cc 26
699k

MSI GF63 Thin//15.6" FHD IPS display//Intel core i5-10500H 2.5ghz//256GB SSD/8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1650 4GB/Laptop only
629k

HP Pavilion Gaming//16.1" FHD 144hz IPS display//Intel core i5-10300H//512GB SSD/8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1660Ti MaxQ//Laptop and charger. Cc103
729k

HP Victus//15.6" FHD 144hz IPS display//Intel core i5-12450H 2ghz base//512GB SSD/12GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1650//Laptop and charger. Cc67
729k

Dell XPS 15.//15.6" 4k LCD touchscreen (100% sRGB)//Intel core i7-10750H. Base 2.6ghz//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1650Ti 4GB//Laptop and charger//Slight scratch.
849k

Dell G15//15.6" FHD 120hz IPS display//Intel core i5 - 11400H 2.7ghz base//512GB SSD/32GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3050Ti 4GB/Laptop and charger (90w charger)
859k

Acer Nitro 5//15.6" FHD 120hz IPS display//Intel core i5 - 12500H 3.1ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3050Ti 4GB/Laptop and charger
879k

Lenovo IdeaPad//15.6" FHD 120hz IPS display//AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 3.2ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3050 4GB/Laptop and charger. Cc11.
929k

MSI GF63 Thin//15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS display//Intel core i5-10500H 2.50ghz//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 6gb
1.05M

MSI GF63 Thin//15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS display//Intel core i7 -11800H 2.4ghz//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3050 4gb//BRAND NEW SEALED
1.15M

Lenovo LOQ//15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS displa//Intel core i5-13420H 2.1ghz base//1TB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3050 6GB//Laptop and charger. Cycle count 10
1.15M

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14//14" FHD 144Hz display//AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS 3.2ghz//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 6GB//Boxed with charger
1.25M

Razer Blade Advanced//15.6" 300hz IPS display//Intel core i7-10875H 2.3ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 2070 Super with Max-Q 8GB//Laptop and charger.
1.25M

Dell XPS 17 9720//17.3" 4K Touchscreen IPS Display//Intel core i7 -12700H 2.3ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3050 4GB//Laptop and charger
1.299M

Lenovo Legion S7//15.6" 165Hz FHD IPS display//Intel core i7 -12700H 2.3ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 6GB//Laptop and charger//Cycle count 27
1.35M

Gigabyte G5//15.6" 144Hz IPS display//Intel core i7 -12650H 2.3ghz base//512GB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 4060 8GB//New SEALED
1.45M

Asus Zephyrus G15//14" FHD 165Hz IPS display//AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS 3.3ghz base// 1TB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB//Laptop and charger. Faded keys W and A
1.45M

HP Omen 16//16.1" QHD 165Hz display//Intel core i9-12900H 2.5ghz base//1TBSSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 6GB//Laptop and charger. Cc10
1.55M

Razer Blade 14//14" QHD 165Hz display//AMD RYZEN 9 5900HX 3.3ghz base//1TBSSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB//Laptop and charger
1.55M

Asus TUF//15.6" FHD 144Hz with 100% srGB//Intel core i7 -12700H 2.3ghz base//1TB SSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 4070 8GB//Open box
1.55M

Asus ROG Zephyrus M16//16.1" QHD 165Hz display//Intel core i9-12900H 2.5ghz base//1TBSSD/16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3070Ti 8GB//Boxed with charger. Cc77
1.899M

Thrustmaster eSwap X PRO Modular Controller. Wired. Black. Used
79k

HyperX Cloud Il Gaming Headset. 7.1 Surround Sound. Gun metal. Used
65k

Targus Dual Fan Cooling Pad with USB Connection. Used
35k

Microsoft 2019 Office Home and Student. Sealed
19k

Laptop bags and sleeves x 8
5 - 8k each

MacBook mag safe charger for 2015 MacBooks and below
25k

Steelseries Rival 3 wired gaming mouse with RGB lighting. Used
25k

PARTS
MacBook Air 2020. Space Gray. I5 512gb. dead/board issue. Screen and other components functional - 249k


GAMING HANDHELDS
Asus ROG Ally. Z1 extreme x 2
2TB/16gb. Console, charger and carrying case - 999k
512gb/16gb. Console and charger - 839k

Nintendo switch wired controller for dock
9k


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Politics / Re: Don’t Use Lagos-calabar Highway When Completed – Bruce Tells Atiku, Obi, Others by Sctests: 12:22pm
Ben Bruce and his dead STV channel and showbiz that focuses on pimping young girls for his rich politician friends, under the cover of Beauty pageants. Mugu.

The charlatan is clearly clueless, no wonder he ran his TV station aground.

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Properties / Re: Inside Late Mai Deribe's Gold Marble House In Maiduguri, Borno state Nigeria. by davidque: 12:20pm
He is dead and gone and didn't even go with a door nob
Celebrities / Re: Yemi Alade Kicks Against House Demolition In Lagos by tiger28: 12:11pm
franchasofficia:
No no, Yemi your half-brothers (Yorubas) said it's the best move to ensure Igbos are frustrated out of Lagos back to their barren (sic) southeast region. A region that houses the largest natural gas reserve in Africa is what uninformed Yoruba boys online call barren just because they see Igbos live and flourish in Lagos, when nobody except their inborn cowardice and lack of business doggedness stopped them from exploring opportunities in the east to their own advantage. Some will claim that their reason for not exploring Southeast is because Southeast is not developed, that Southwest is more developed, that what will they be doing in a less developed area when their region is an eldorado and you wonder their mediocre, mundane reasoning when Europeans left their super developed bubbling continent to explore all parts of the world even to the remotest areas in Africa, Asia and Caribbean, no wahala time will teach them a lesson about life.


Back to the demolition.


You know my people said when the gods wants to destroy a man, they first make him mad so that everything he does becomes very upright in his eyes. That is how great men fall.


Sanwo-Olu and his Tinubu inspired destructive-economy politics think their recent expedition into demolition of people's houses in Lagos is a very wonderful policy which they claim is because those houses contravened Lagos state building and environmental laws. They said it is such houses that are causing erosion in Lagos, and we hope erosion will never happen again in Lagos after their uncountable demolition of people's sweats and livelihood.


A time like this that Nigeria is at its lowest economic situation is when these bandits in government who found their ways into government leadership through crooks and corruption are busy demolishing people's houses with flimsy excuses that doesn't even hold water.


If you search the pockets of the so called environmental sanitizers claiming that people encroached into government areas through their building structures, you will find lots of petrified dead rats.


They should continue, no city remains glorious forever, and it's mostly ill-thought government policies like this that murdered so many bubbling cities that once hosted the world's glamor angry



Meanwhile, wise people are gradually divesting from Lagos real estate albeit silently cool
They better divest!!!!!
Last elections and ibo antics( Lagos is no man's land) have woken up the TRUE Indigenes.

Sadly, the next election, they will STILL start running their mouths UNTIL the Host start giving them the "Northern" treatment.

I am a Northerner so what do I know?

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Phones / Re: Is Iphone 13 Pro Battery Good? by atom080: 12:09pm
ORIJIN201:
Don’t even bother. The 13 pro and max are plagued with dead screen. Go for a 14 pro instead.

Wow,, though I have seen ppl using them but I wasn't aware of the screen plague
Business / Re: Why The CBN Has To Stop Street Dollar Trades by Olumeme: 11:50am
The Problem is that everybody including those in the CBN and Presidency are all crooks.

You think CBN don't know the modus Oprandi? Or how will the ruling class continue to lord on the people?

My brother, just dead all this things, everybody knows the right thing to do.

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Religion / The Bible Says You Will Meet Your Dead Pets In Heaven? by Emm4: 11:48am
When a person loses his or her pets to death, it is like losing a loving Father of loving mother.

Several had wished that they re-unite with their dead pets in heaven. What does the Bible say about this? Will dead animals be resurrected on the last day?

These are EXAMINED in this article:

https://theskynow.com/2024/05/06/what-the-bible-says-about-reunion-with-dead-pets-in-heaven/
Food / Re: Harsh Economy: Cut Yams On Sale At Food Markets by Sijo01(f): 11:46am
Deltafirstson:
To me, the best advice Tinubu’s should listen to now is to to resign. He has done his best unfortunately, his best is absolutely bad.

That will be over his dead body
Politics / Re: A Coastal Highway Of Misplaced Priority & Abuse Of Due Process - Premium Times by ALLNIGERIANSMAD(m): 11:42am
membranus:


Tomorrow when they pick you up for this fake news, and the DSS starts to give your bumbumbstrokes of koboko and dump you inside their dungeon. Your people will be running around shouting government wickedness and intolerance and selective maltreatment, forgetting your initial cyber-bullying of the same government.

Bro, there is no hiding place from any government invasive arms, so be careful with your online utterances.
make Dem come pick me now, can I send you my location so you can lead them, we have dead leaders I repeat we have dead leaders. Who can't do nothing about the country situation
Food / Re: Harsh Economy: Cut Yams On Sale At Food Markets by NGArmyTerrorist: 11:33am
It will on record! The dead meat griller; how market?

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