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HealthRe: Help! I Always Vomit Anytime I Eat. by Smartdoctor: 9:58am On Jul 13
You've got H.pylori in your intestine. Try and go for diagnosis my friend. You're probably gonna have intestinal ulcer
HealthRe: 50 Things We Mostly Do In A Hospital That Seem Right But Are Very Wrong by Smartdoctor: 7:37pm On Jun 24
This MF just typed shît. A young quack doctor k!||ed my aunt who's feet was struck with a sharp nail. The oloriburku was sluggish and as he was examining her, he was still on social media responding chatting to girls. This happened in the reference hospital built in okene, Kogi state early January this year
AutosRe: Hyundai Sonata 2012 For Sale by Smartdoctor(op): 1:28pm On Apr 29
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AutosRe: Hyundai Sonata 2012 For Sale by Smartdoctor(op): 1:24pm On Apr 29
Smartdoctor:
Price is 13,000
Tokunbo and everything working perfectly.
Location is Agege Lagos.
Call 09028514597
Side view of the Sonata.
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AutosHyundai Sonata 2012 For Sale by Smartdoctor(op): 1:16pm On Apr 29
Price is 13,000
Tokunbo and everything working perfectly.
Location is Agege Lagos.
Call 09028514597
HealthRe: AS + AS Pregnancy What Should He Do? by Smartdoctor: 3:31pm On Apr 09
Studies backed this
HealthRe: AS + AS Pregnancy What Should He Do? by Smartdoctor: 3:23pm On Apr 09
In genetics your first child's gene expression probability is usually AS which is %50 chance due to the dominant AS allele frequencies during genetic coding. SS is usually %25 of possibility same as AA.
You can as well experience former for 2nd and 3rd child but I doubt the 4th will escape SS and that might result to sickle cell
CareerI Moved To Lagos To Chase A Dream. by Smartdoctor(op): 4:20am On Feb 18
The Lagos hustle broke me. Now I’m back home, figuring out what’s next.

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Aisha Bello
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February 16, 2026
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Grace (23) moved to Lagos in 2024, full of hope and ambition. Two years later, after struggling with inconsistent income, high rent, and relentless bills, she’s back home, physically drained, financially stretched, and starting all over.


As told to Aisha Bello
The eviction notice landed on December 17, 2025. My landlord had given me exactly one week to pack up my life.

Standing in my room-and-parlour apartment in Berger — the same one I had paid ₦1 million for just a year prior — I realised I didn’t have a choice. I had to leave.

I had ₦500,000 in savings, which wasn’t enough to renew my rent, let alone feed myself. I had spent two years chasing the Lagos Dream, an aspiration centred on achieving rapid personal success, financial prosperity, and social mobility within the city’s relentless hustle culture.

But Lagos chewed me up and spat me out.

Two weeks later, I moved back home to my parents in Ile Ife, Osun State. I was broken, broke, and physically drained

The High Cost of “Making It”
In December 2024, I moved to my apartment in Lagos.

I was fresh off NYSC, desperate to avoid returning to my hometown, and determined to remain part of the city’s energy.

Staying with my extended family, who had housed me for my service year, felt like an impossible option. Service was over, and I didn’t want to overstay my welcome. Besides, I wanted the independence of living on my own.

I was a content creator and occasional model, and I believed proximity was everything. If I lived in Lagos, I could make it.

But the math never added up.

My income was a rollercoaster. In good months, I pulled in ₦500,000 from gigs. On average, ₦200,000; in bad months, I earned zero, and I’d have to rely on the previous month’s funds while hustling for the next gig. I was always playing financial catch-up.

The glamour of social media is a lie. While my followers saw polished shoots, I was drowning. By July 2025, the instability forced me to take a full-time role with a local brand. The salary? ₦150,000. It was peanuts, but it was consistent peanuts.

The Berger to Lekki Trap
This income stability came at a brutal price. Living in Berger and working in Lekki is a logistical nightmare.

I had to commute at least three times a week. Between transportation, food on the go, and data, I was burning ₦50,000 a month to show up to work. That left me with ₦100,000 to cover bills, savings, and survival.

I barely spent time in the expensive apartment I was working so hard to pay for. I was always out: on sets, at friends’ houses, or stuck in traffic. The stress of the full-time job also made it impossible to consistently take on other gigs. Occasionally, I’d land one-off gigs, but I was too exhausted to chase the high-paying opportunities that had originally drawn me to the city.

The Physical Toll
My body kept the score before my bank account did. I stopped eating properly. I became a shadow of myself — leaner, darker, and perpetually exhausted.

I hid my suffering from my parents. They had visited once to pray over my new apartment, but I kept them away after that. I didn’t want them to see me failing.

The facade crumbled in October 2025. My mother came to visit and broke down in tears the moment she saw me.

She begged me to come home.

She said she couldn’t leave me in Lagos in my state.

I stubbornly convinced her to let me stay until my rent expired, secretly hoping for a miracle or a big break that would justify the suffering.

That break never came. The eviction notice did.

Starting Over in Ife
I’ve been in a slump since I moved back home to Ile Ife in January. It’s humbling to be 23, ambitious, and back under your parents’ roof with nothing to show for two years of grinding.

My family has been supportive, though. My parents suggested I start a master’s programme, offering me a soft landing and space to recalibrate. I still take the occasional video editing gig, but I’ve stopped chasing the wind.

I’m currently recovering from the bulldozer that is Lagos. Looking back, I realise the experience didn’t break me, though it left me raw. I learned that ambition is expensive and lonely, but it teaches you resilience. I may be back in my childhood bedroom, but I’m tougher than the girl who left it two years ago.

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Aisha Bello
February 2, 2026.
Foreign AffairsRe: North Korean President Chooses 13-Year-Old Daughter As His Successor by Smartdoctor: 9:35am On Feb 13
Kingosytex:
As he succeeded his father, so will his daughter succeed him cheesy
The North Koreans have got to be the dumbest people in this whole wide world. Look how a family is running the country like their private company grin
Is Nigeria not been run like a family affair? Politicians and their children are now running affairs of a states and the nation at large today. Yaya Bello's cousin is the Kogi State chief of staff, el Rufai's son is in the national assembly, Dave ummahi and Wike's sons are warming up. If Korea is strong while USA government fears them so much under this family, my brother is better than democracy by far. At least Koreans are not complaining and their citizens are better off than Nigerians
AutosRe: Clean Toyota Camry Pencil For Sale by Smartdoctor(op): 1:31pm On Jan 26
With quiet clean and strong engine

AutosClean Toyota Camry Pencil For Sale by Smartdoctor(op): 1:22pm On Jan 26
Exclusive offer!!!
Nearly used Camry pencil light and tok standard with AC chilling and everything is perfect.
Location; Agege.
Papers; registered and not owing.
Custom papers are intact and even the car manual.
Price; 3000,000 and slightly negotiable
Contact; 09028514597

HealthRe: Jock Itch: A Permanent Solution Needed by Smartdoctor: 12:14pm On Aug 06, 2025
Get tribact and thank me later
HealthRe: Help, My Son Stammers by Smartdoctor: 12:30pm On Jul 29, 2025
illicit:
Stammering is a communicable thing, not exactly hereditary....

He just emulates you, maybe you should let him stay with another family where nobody stutters
you're wrong. Stammer is often hereditary
FamilyRe: Mothers Dressing Like Their Daughters Challenge Gone Wrong by Smartdoctor: 2:48pm On Jun 10, 2025
Verita:
I'm tired. I want to end it all. I feel like am just living on borrowed time. Have been seeking financial assistance, yet no one wants to help my plight. This suffering is too much for me. My baby has not eaten since morning. I don't have money to buy her nutribom or even pap. What more do I have to live for? I can't do this anymore. My babys father rejected us even before i gave birth to her. I don't have any choice. Please help us if you can. My account details is on my profile please click my name to check it if you wish to assist us. May the good lord bless you
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No end anything bikonu! I dey see shege pass you my friend but I still shake am for body dey give myself joy 😊 and smile everyday
AutosRe: Please Recommend Me A Good Car I Can Get For 2 Million Naira by Smartdoctor: 8:52pm On Jun 06, 2025
Sunmolar:
First body.... Good car...is it negotiable?
No boss. The car is superb
AutosRe: Please Recommend Me A Good Car I Can Get For 2 Million Naira by Smartdoctor: 7:58pm On Jun 06, 2025
I will give you This graded Camry pencil for 2.5 and is a good and perfect car. Untouched engine and gear. Still steaming from the exhaust

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Chelsea Vs Southampton (4 - 0) On 25th February 2025 by Smartdoctor: 8:58pm On Feb 25, 2025
Chelsea make Una lose tonight make I chop better money
PoliticsOne Feared Dead As Former Kogi State Governor's Thug Leader Kidnapped by Smartdoctor(op): 9:03am On Dec 10, 2024
A popular political thug leader to former governor of Kogi State Alh. Dr. Adoza yahaya Bello has been abducted in the state central senatorial district Okene Kogi State in the night of monday 9th December 2024. Rumor has it that the kidnapped person who's by name Kabiru onyene was responsible for the unaccounted number of missing individuals in the state central senatorial district Okene for criticizing the past administration.
Following the incidence on Monday orchestrated by the kidnappers, the solders that were on post at total filling station in Okene were seeing taking cover inside the drainage channel immediately the kidnappers shot guns sporadically into the air to disperse the commuters.
The victims was in his own eatery outlet supervising his workers while his abductors invaded the place. He was forcefully dragged into a Toyota Camry popularly known as camry tiny light. The kidnappers escaped with the victim while the hiding solders inside the drainage channel suddenly came out of their hiding place and started shooting uncontrollably which resulted to the death of an Igbo man walking his way to the shop.
As at the time of this report, no further information has been dished out as regards to Mr. Kabiru's whereabouts nor any requests from his abductors.
HealthRe: If You Can Survive Drinking Nigerian Purewater You Can Survive Anything - UK Man by Smartdoctor: 8:47pm On Aug 31, 2024
People with weak immune system everywhere shouting bottle water. I've been drinking borehole all my life and I'm even healthier than bottle water gangs. I've never been diagnosed with chronic illness or infection. And last time I visited hospital was during my school days in the university due to unhealthy conditions of the environment
CareerRe: I Need Immediate Career Advice by Smartdoctor(op): 12:58pm On Jul 22, 2024
and my fear about the new offer is how this government is trying to frustrate the refinery
CareerI Need Immediate Career Advice by Smartdoctor(op):
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CelebritiesRe: Judy Austin's Ex Husband Cries Out, Says Judy Refused To Allow Him See His Kids by Smartdoctor: 11:13am On Jul 22, 2024
Weak men everywhere.
AutosToyota Camry Muscle For Sale by Smartdoctor(op): 11:03am On Jul 02, 2024
Location is agege and the price is 7.5m
Interested and willing to inspect, call 🤙 09039581436

HealthRe: This Skin Infection Is Killing My Joy Everyday by Smartdoctor: 11:31am On Jun 11, 2024
Bro, kpele oooh. I can relate. Try herbs and use Pharmaderm soap to bath.
PoliticsRe: We’ve Lost Over 400 People, Igbo Community In Benue Cries Out by Smartdoctor: 11:19am On Jun 11, 2024
Well, in as much as I know the Igbos to always drag land with people and some miscreants will come online to defend them.
Lagos was the first, then Delta government started with them, now benue people. But I can assure you that another will sprout out of kogi state soon.
I was in my hometown okene last month in Kogi State and I found out that Igbos have already started acquiring large expanse of land naming it as ndi Igbo street. I laughed and shook my head.
Nah Una knows waiting dey pursue u from developing ya villages
FamilyRe: How Can He Take Custody Of His Son by Smartdoctor(op): 3:00am On May 08, 2024
Coldfeet:
Why not move them back to the city where he can closely monitor the welfare of the child? Is sending them back to the village not the cause of this child's predicament? Your cousin and his ex need to put aside any bad blood between them and agree on how to care for this child before it too late.

A child that young still needs his mother.
Can your cousin take better care of the child by himself? Or he wants to take custody and dump the child with someone else?
My cousin and his mom lives together in Abuja and he wants to keep the child under his mom's care
FamilyRe: How Can He Take Custody Of His Son by Smartdoctor(op): 5:40pm On May 07, 2024
Starships4u:
Yhu are bumping into Justice....
Yhu don't send a judge evidences directly to his/her phone...
Yhu present it in the open court...
Yhu might loose this case based on technicalities....
Stop that!
It wasn't to the judge in charge of the case but the lawyer defending for my cousin
FamilyRe: How Can He Take Custody Of His Son by Smartdoctor(op): 11:15pm On May 03, 2024
cococandy:
So it’s not an std.

You might still have a case as far as neglect but the baby doesn’t have HIV which is the STD transmissible by breast milk. So you can’t say he got an STD from her breast milk.

Even if she has gonorrhea, Syphilis, herpes, chlamydia etc. the baby can’t get it through breast milk.

I know you hate that she’s sleeping around but as distasteful as it is to do that while breastfeeding, there’s nothing anyone can do about that because she’s within her rights to do so.

Drop the STDs claim and find a way to prove your case of neglect then maybe a judge might listen to you. Good luck to you and that poor baby
How come she has the same signs of infection all over her and her baby sister was telling me that they've warned her not to breastfeed the child untill she gets treated. Not until the father later tested the child himself in the hospital's diagnostic centre

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