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Health / Re: Trying To Conceive A Child? TTC by Shinatu: 12:49pm On Dec 13, 2010
Arlington,

Praaaaaaaaise the Lord. I have been waiting for this good news and it has come at last.
I am very happy because I strongly believe this will be a big encouragement for other ladies whos faith the enemy is attacking.

Please I want all TTCs to go back to read all Arlington's posts to see all she had to go through so that you will be convinced that there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING that God cannot do.

This is the beginning of many more great things to happen on this thread.

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Romance / Re: Why African Marriages Can't Survive In The West by Shinatu: 9:26am On Dec 07, 2010
yankite:

@poster,one thing u might not understand is the fact that not all africans
born and raise in africa agrees a %100 with what our culture and so call
moral values has to offer,some just follow it because they care so much abt
what the society will say if they don't.So when they come abroad it an oppurtunity
to exibit this hidded side of them,especially when its a free world like the US OF A.
We african men really wanna eat our cakes and have it,while we criticize our women
if they do the same,we cheat this women alot all in the name of culture and values
while we expect them to stay silent and digest everything we do to them.There should
always be checks and balances in everthign what you can't take don't give,and not to
say that our women sometimes don't take advantage of the fact that they could now dail
911 at the slightess scratch they receive from you,but in most cases we men are always the
the ones who provokes such behavior.And if u think the western man who made laws to
empower women is silly,its has been proven that they are not, in the 2008 US elections
where they would rather vote for a black man to be come president of the united states
than to see a white woman rule the world strongest country.So after all been said and done
they still have limitations to what they will allow or accept from a woman.The problem with we african
men is we are so tied to the past,and we have such empty egos,like for real what is wrong if you occasionally
help your wife to take care of shores that we both agree is for a woman,or are this women supposed to maids
or slaves all in the name of marriage.When we talk about the western world opening our women's eye,why don't
we still kill twin babies when they are born believing that they ar evil,we no what our culture is and we still embrace it,but don't be to tied to it,cuz it will do us more harm than good on the long run.


@Yankite

You are very articulate to me! especially the boldened part. This is the main issue.
Travel / Re: Ibadan People, I Need Help! by Shinatu: 1:53pm On Dec 03, 2010
^^^^^^^
Thanks, that's a way to go.
Travel / Re: Ibadan People, I Need Help! by Shinatu: 8:27am On Dec 03, 2010
still hoping to hear more from you guys.
Romance / Re: Why African Marriages Can't Survive In The West by Shinatu: 9:13am On Dec 01, 2010
'I know the bills are shared back home, especially if the woman has a good job. What I am saying is that no man in his right mind should expect a working woman to also take on fully the responsibility of housekeeping cooking, tending to the kids, shopping, driving the kids around going to their PTA, active in kids education and school without the guy really doing anything other than getting home from work and watching soccer games.

Here the guy is expected to pitch in, cook sometimes, help the kids with home work, keep the house wash the bathroom etc. If you expect your woman to work 9-5 deal with commute and do all other things necessary to keep the house going alone, you better look for SUPER WOMAN.
'

@yodiyokun

That is exactly what they are looking for! sit a young man down in Nigeria and ask him what he is looking for in a woman, the list will be endless,you will see that only a 'super woman' can fit in.

I visited a Church at a time that they were having a so called 'family service' the pastor was talking about how to sustain a home and was highlighting the roles of the man and woman. He was through with the roles of a man in 2minutes but went on and on about the roles of the woman, the height of it for me was when he then emphasised that if by any chance the man cannot perform the only role(provider) he (the pastor) has attributed to him, the woman should be ready to take it up if she can without any complaint or show. Nothing was said whatsoever about the man helping out woman in anyway.
Romance / Re: Why African Marriages Can't Survive In The West by Shinatu: 8:52am On Dec 01, 2010
Quote from: abeg-abeg on Yesterday at 05:54:14 PM
African marriages can't survive in the west cos the average African man is an illiterate or permit me to say[b] (an educated illiterate)[/b] who does not understand what it means to be the head of his family and likewise the woman a helper. it will take decades for the black man to come to terms and understand what the word HEAD and HELPER means. thereafter, he might act on it



justwise:

You are talking nonsense, u don't need to be educated to be able to run your family. Many educated couples don't even last more than a yr in marriage.

If you are educated and this is your level of reasonsing then i'm worried about your marriage IF u are married.





@Justwise

I think you got this person wrong, he/she is not talking about what is taught in School but the acquisition of the right understanding /knowledge of marriage and he/she made that clear.
Romance / Re: Why African Marriages Can't Survive In The West by Shinatu: 5:21pm On Nov 30, 2010
yodiyokun:

African marriages where everyone accepts that life in western world is different and offers new challenges will survive and even thrive.

A man that provides for his family back home, provides enough for nanny or housekeeper in naija, but in Uk for example both his and spouse's salary no cut am. If he still expects that he should vege all day in front of TV whil expecting food expecting wife to be fully responsible for kids homework, shopping etc is living in lala land.
That means you wan kill the wife be4 her time. If she has any sense in her she will have a conversation about it.

The life here is different, there are different expectations. Both Man and Woman should adjust and everyone should leave their ego at home. Or else the man should go out and make enough for the wife to sit at home fulltime and still take care of her and her responsibilities. She can be homebody then , no wahala, but even that is not easy!


@yodiyoku,
This does not happen in many homes in Nigeria anymore! The bills are shared now but the woman roles are still the woman's roles not be be shared if the woman wants to stay married and does not want to be called all sorts of names.
Fashion / Re: Wedding Gown Maker-ibadan by Shinatu: 10:06am On Nov 30, 2010
Wonderful people of ibadan, I need information on places to shop for shoes,bag, lace & other nice things this December. Sorry for coming here, I started a thread but I am not getting much response and I can see a number of people who know about Fashion in Ibadan on this thread.
Travel / Re: Ibadan People, I Need Help! by Shinatu: 9:56am On Nov 30, 2010
@Kollymercy,

Thank you very much, I know New Gbagi, I'll definitely be there.
I am just afraid of buying things I'll later find on everybody in town, so I was hoping
of getting to know one or two exclusive shops in town.
Travel / Re: Nigerians In Ireland,how are you Coping With The Recession And The Eu Bailout? by Shinatu: 8:26am On Nov 26, 2010
^^^^^^^^^

E yaaa! that is sad.
Similar to our experience here in Nigeria when the Stock market crashed, many people are still in serious debth.

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Travel / Re: Ibadan People, I Need Help! by Shinatu: 7:56am On Nov 26, 2010
Thank you Chaircover, will check that out.

Other ones?
Travel / Ibadan People, I Need Help! by Shinatu: 8:53am On Nov 25, 2010
I plan to do some shopping in Ibadan when I get there in the next 3-4weeks.
I basically would like to buy shoes, bags and Swiss lace.
I used to know a shop at Adamasingba Stadium but I have been disappointed with the things I saw there in the last two years

Please good people of Ibadan, suggest some nice places I could explore.
TV/Movies / Re: Suggest Me A Nigerian Movie Please by Shinatu: 1:34pm On Nov 23, 2010
Secret Scandal.

Not a fan of Nollywood myself, but my sister sent this to me as a 'must see' and I think it was worth the time spent.
Fashion / Ibadan People, I Need Help! by Shinatu: 9:13am On Nov 22, 2010
I plan to do some shopping in Ibadan when I get there in the next 3-4weeks.
I basically would like to buy shoes, bags and Swiss lace.
I used to know a shop at Adamasingba Stadium but I have been disappointed with the things I saw there in the last two years

Please good people of Ibadan, suggest some nice places I could explore.
Family / Re: Why Do Men Divorce Their Wives After Becoming Rich? by Shinatu: 2:57pm On Nov 01, 2010
~duchess~:

And what if the wife had been the faithful and supporting type?


It is difficult to be 'faithful and supporting' to a man like that especially for a long period
Everything you do to him will be 'because he does not have money' you cannot even be yourself, you
will have to be watching out for his ego in whatever you do.
He already will feel like a failure and you are the only one available for him to still exercise his authority on, so when he is rubbished outside, he wants to come home and mend his pride at your expense.

If it just the two of you, no problem, you may be able to cope for some time.
But when you have a family of three kids you have left the house since early hours of the morning to cater for, caresing someone's ego will be the last thing on your mind whne you get home.

Any single slip you make (which every human can make when stressed/overburdened) will never be forgotten and will definitely be used against you when the dough arrives!


So women please pray that your husband will not be in this situation, it may take more than an Angel to satisfy him

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Celebrities / Re: Soft-spoken 18-year-old American Wins Miss World by Shinatu: 8:04am On Nov 01, 2010
Saecula:

It is indeed a cause for concern that the world is headed to disaster. Sex obsession in high places. Young lasses going unclothed in the pretext of MISS SOMETHING. It is abysmal that our psyches and innocent sensibilities has been insulted with immoral, obscene and explicit contents. We the youths do exacerbate this global madness by patting the unscrupulous minds behind these cankerworms at the back. We worsen more the situation more by foolishly and voluntarily trying to get frivolous, ephemeral and meaningless pleasure from these social menace. It is disheartening that Sex is now one of the searched term on the web. Society now want us to believe that we are timid and archaic if we don't flirt with women,watch blue , white and yellow films,unclothed pictures, self-service, have intimacy and engage in other sexual escapades. With this ugly trend , what happens to our future. Oh! the devil is deceiving us .What the heck shall we tell God on the last day. Must we follow the majority? The whole setting and environment now discourages meditation and rumination with its obstreperous nature, at least we would have had a cause for reappraisal and reassessment of the way we lead our lives. Indeed the youths are at risk. I urge all sundry to just sit down, examine his or her life and make amends. May the Lord have mercy upon our souls. Thanks and may the Almighty Father bless and grant all your heart desires as you seek his face . Amen. Hail Mary.


My fears exactly, normal has become abnormal!
Nairaland / General / Re: Lottery:why Do Winners Squander Their Earnings by Shinatu: 4:45pm On Oct 29, 2010
leftone:

been rich starts from the inside.
it just shows they werent equipped to handle the type of money they make.
thats why most yahoo boys dont survive too.
they arent built to handle the money they get.

True

Money managemnt is a skill that is developed gradually in the course of someone's career
Once this skill is not developed as it should,one will remain poor no matter the amount of money that comes once way except one pays for the service of someone who has those skills and allows the person to do what he/she is good at.

It just happens that most people who take time to play the lottery have not been engaged in activities that would make them develop these skills, that is why they have plenty time for lottery playing anyway!
Religion / Re: Why I Took 65-year Old Wife, By Kumuyi by Shinatu: 7:54am On Oct 29, 2010
^^^^^^^^^if this is true, why a 65yr old lady?
Family / Re: Women Who Earn More Than Their Husbands! by Shinatu: 3:31pm On Oct 07, 2010
buzugee:

yes, but those women in nigeria who are taking care of the family, do you know what is happening behind closed doors ?
and as per me, i will not marry a woman for wifely duties. i will marry a woman because i love her personality and her company. if she does her wifely duties or not is irrelevant to me. i can cook and clean. in fact, in most of my relationships we share the cooking and cleaning. its whoever feels like cooking or cleaning that day that will do it. no body is designated to cook or clean.


Exactly!!. What do you expect to happen under closed doors when one person is combining the only one role she knows husbands to have with her own plenty roles?

so you see, you are out of the scope of my contribution, how many husbands in Nigeria do you think have the same expectations of a wife as you? To say the truth sha ,some men personally do not mind o , but the fear of what their friends/society/inlaws will say will not allow them lift a finger
Fashion / Re: Whats Your Favorite Lotion Or Creme? by Shinatu: 8:51am On Oct 07, 2010
denzel2009:

I have been using them for long. Now,I look like Alao Akala/ Alaafin of Oyo and I rejoice with Ijo yoyo. wink



cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy you will not kill someone with laughter.
You people's sense of humour is unbeatable on Nairaland.
Family / Re: Women Who Earn More Than Their Husbands! by Shinatu: 8:39am On Oct 07, 2010
buzugee:

this is all bollocks. if i have seen it once i have seen it a gazillion times. even one of my friends was a victim of his wife earning more than him. women have this in-built mechanism in them that says that they have to be taken care of by men. their are the fairer and weaker sex and hence must be wined, dined, and taken care off. it is how women are hard-wired to think. so if anything deviates from this way of thinking, they are pissed off and get very angry and irritable. if she is the bread winner or earns more, she automatically looks at you with disgust and irritation. everything you do will be irritating to her. even how you eat, or how you walk, or how you talk. its a hardwired-inbuilt mechanism. they cannot help it. lose your $300,000 a year job and quickly watch how your once sweet and polite wife will develop anger management issues. it is what it is. only a few women are not hardwired like that. extremely few. maybe 1 in 5000. so fellas, if you happen to find that 1 in 5000 woman who loves you for just your personality, please keep her,  thats a keeper right there  grin grin


:@buzugee

I made the first statement in my post for a reason, the example you have given is outside the scope of my post.
Come to Nigeria and see women struggling to take care of their families and also struggling to make the broke husband look good so as not to be called a bad wife. A couple of people  have mentioned on this thread how they grew up in this country with thier mothers earning more and nobody ever knowing.

Please let me ask you a question, if as a husband your wife cannot perform the generally perceived 'wifey' roles for 3years, will you be able to be so niiiiiiiiiice as not to show any form of irritation?
Family / Re: How Can You Tell A Good Man? by Shinatu: 2:05pm On Oct 06, 2010
^^^^^^^^

So it is the fear 'shelf life' that makes women become mumu?
If not for that, many men will remain wifeless. grin
Family / Re: Women Who Earn More Than Their Husbands! by Shinatu: 10:45am On Oct 06, 2010
I do not know what obtains in other societies but in Nigeria, a woman earning more than the husband is in for a stressful life. Our men are not trained for such a circumstance.

It is never understood in this country that when women earn big, they actually work for it like men do, they probably work in a very challenging and competitive environment where they exchange there time, mental/physical capacity,intelligence for the big renumeration that everyone is enjoying including the husband.

It is only behind a successful man that you have a woman (taking care of the other family issues, allowing the man to give his full attention to being succesful) but behind a successful woman there is nobody!.

When she cannot take it anymore and starts to complain, then she has become proud and the question people will ask her is if she wants to turn her husband to the wife because she earns more money?

A woman who earns more than her husband should be ready to be a superwoman and only God can help you with the load you will carry.

Men who are breadwinners, most times carry only the financial burden and they are allowed to remind you once in a while that they are not 'plucking the money from the tree' but the day you as the breadwineer/higher earner mistakenly grumble, you have started 'disrespecting' your husband.

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Family / Re: To Choose Btw Son's Birthday Or Step Son's School Fees! by Shinatu: 10:48am On Oct 05, 2010
Damoche10:

Kindly help! a friend of mine is confused on what to do on either paying his steps's son's school fees or celebrating his only child that is about clocking a year's birthday. He loves his step son like his own. Married his wife a few years back without any child fully knowing she had one out of wedlock and taking responsibiity of this child from when he knew him. Having sending him to Pry Sch and now about getting admission into high school after having passed his
entrance examination. The problem here is that he just moved into an apartment he bought and is cash strapped but could afford either of the two cos the admission and his legitimate son's birthday is just a week apart.

Should he go ahead with the birthday of his son or Pay the step son's school fees? If you were in his shoes what will you do?


No he does not .Now he knows that saying something (declaration of love) and actually facing the practicality of it in real life are not the same.
Religion / Re: Whats So Bad About Celestial Church Of Christ by Shinatu: 6:20pm On Oct 04, 2010
Poster, many have made some claims and you have told them they are ignorant, since they have never been part of the Celestial church and I agree with you.
Some  other people have narrated their personal experience in the Church, are you saying they are still ignorant?. I want to add my voice to those with some personal experience, my mother was a lace senior elder sister one thing one thing until I got rid of her Sutana.I was tired of,

-Do not wear red clothes
- do not eat snails
-do not eat palm oil
-do not come to church during your period
-u have to take a bath after your period to start coming to church
- tie crosses to a candle stick and put under your pillow
-drinking Miss Paris (perfume) and water
-'abo' and bathing at a T-junction in the middle of the night
- lying in the middle of lighted candles until they burn out

She has two siblings who are founders of Celestial churches in Ibadan and the regular 'ise' in those people's houses were typical of people in bondage not the 'he who the Son has set free, is free indeed' that I later came to know.John 8:36

Those 'ise' as far as I am concerned are practices of spiritism and have nothing to do with the Holy spirit.

I remember a time when a lady approached a shepherd in a Cele church we were attending then to trap her boyfriend into marriage, the congregation later found the girl sleeping in the Shepherd quarters and got angry, I later found out that the reason for the anger was not because the girl came to the church for such a request but that the shepherd did the 'ise' to favour himself!
I remember asking my mother (I was in form 3) if God answered such prayers, even as young as I was I knew something was just not right


All founders of Cele branches I knew in Ibadan were polygamist, with two to three wives living in the Pastorium.
(I can mention their names and parishes but I choose to respect their privacy), some may not be alive now sef.


Well, as you have earlier mentioned , maybe those that I met were the bad eggs, but if that is so, combined with other people's experiences already mentioned on this thread, the bad eggs in the Cele Church are not 'few' at all!



Hebrews 7:18-19
For there is verily an annulling of the former commandment because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw nigh unto God.



We are not Judaist (not sure if that is the right word-pple who practice Judaism), we are [b]Christ[/b]ians.

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Crime / Re: Man Beats Wife To Death During Domestic Squable by Shinatu: 4:49pm On Oct 04, 2010
greateros:

Frustration, tooo bad angry undecided

As for wife beating, pray you don't marry the one with koboko on her tongue, discouragement on her lips and ingratitude for her manners undecided undecided

You wouldn't know when u started beating her sad undecided

Hence my reason for opting to be only a father and not a husband, undecided undecided

Never been married and never will be, and yet a sweet daddy to two lovely sons from different mothers, wink wink





Clap for yourself. pa pa papapa pa!
Fashion / Re: Pls Save My Marriage Now by Shinatu: 2:57pm On Oct 04, 2010
gbolahan1:

Your husband is the one you want to impress with your dresses, so if buba or skirt is what makes you look good to him, then go ahead to put it on! Or do you have anything else attached to you wearing trousers? I like ladies in trousers but some men don't. You should know your husband better. If you refuse to do what he wants, a host of ladies are willing to help!


I had to go back to read the post after reading your response and I still cannot find where the poster said she does not want to do what the husband says, as a matter of fact, the objective of her post is to receive suggestions on how to look good without wearing trousers!
Fashion / Re: Whats Your Favorite Lotion Or Creme? by Shinatu: 2:49pm On Oct 04, 2010
denzel2009:

Dermovate and Shirley work wonders.



Check yourself out in a few years to come, I am not sure you would love the 'wonders' then.
Fashion / Re: Whats Your Favorite Lotion Or Creme? by Shinatu: 2:47pm On Oct 04, 2010
denzel2009:

Dermovate and Shirley work wonders.
Crime / Re: Gay Pastor Escapes Mob Attack In Lagos by Shinatu: 3:24pm On Sep 24, 2010
Uyi Iredia:

i had a similar experience too >>> i was in K.C >>> 9 years at that time >>> this guy (a year my senior) called me to one dark corner to
send me an 'errand'  undecided >>>  embarassed i no go give details >>> but suffice to say no anal bursting occured  phew  shocked was i lucky >>> others weren't  sad
this guy thretened to kill me if i told anyone  cheesy cheesy >>> seriously i couldn't have cared less >>> luckily i had a confidante in my late mom (of blessed memory)  cry and i told her >>> she took up the case >>> i dunno what his parents did but when a meeting was called over the issue the guy looked sober >>> talkless of the beating my school father & his mates (in JSS 3 gave him) >>> do the maths & u wonder how kids pick up things like this at such age >>> probably the pastor had devloped the habit in his teens & unforunately not caught

personally >>> i think indecency is a crux in the matter

for the pastor >>>  u reap what u sow undecided

NOTE FOR silly PEOPLE >>> this na true story


pick up homosexuality ke? Noooooo it's in the genes and you cannot help it tongue
Music/Radio / Re: What Are The 50 Greatest Naija Songs Of All Time? by Shinatu: 10:22am On Sep 24, 2010
You people are too much! I am seeing songs that I had long forgotten on your lists, all the way to the Lijadu sisters!
I am almost moved to tears.
I recently went out of my way to get old Obey and Sunny songs


Somebody even remembered this song

when the going seems so tough, many many ppl will run away - [b]cant rmbr the artist's name[/b] grin

I never liked the song but it was everywhere!


@Taliban

Are into music? how could you remember all those beautiful songs?
You will not believe that I was in the video of 'higher higher' and cannot remember the name of the girl
that sang it too, I was surprised that you even remember it.

People, please keep them coming
Celebrities / Re: I’ve Been Totally Faithful To Joke–olu Jacobs by Shinatu: 1:29pm On Sep 21, 2010
Surprisingly, I read it and I am glad I read through to the end,, because the last set of paragraphs are almost the most beautiful piece I have heard from a Naija man in recent times.

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