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Sonnobax15:

That nigha took the biggest riisk of his life.

Well,I've never had and I will never pray to have a near death experience.

But the only time I was close to one was back then in 2013 during my OND days in delta state polytechnic,ozoro. Before I rented my own apartment,I was attached to some guys,I think they were about 7 in number including myself which made us 8 in total then. They were all Igbo guys while I was the only urhobo guy among them. We were all living in a one room apartment and y'all know how students lives like. And our room was demarcated by a door and on the other room, was occupied by two other female students.

So,on one fateful night, around 12a.m, armed robbers came to rob the female students and they(female students) were screaming for help. On hearing them,those roommates of mine opened our door,then rushed to chase the robbers away. The following morning, their praises of bravery was allover the streets and across other hostels.

Two weeks later,the same set of armed robbers I guess returned. But this time around,they didn't come for the female students but straight up,for my guys .Fortunately I was out of school then.

Omoh, the kind beating wey my guys receive that day en . Na only God fit erase the scars from their memories till date. Their blackberry phones and foodstuffs,the robbers absconded with all of them . And they said as the robbers were beating and floggings them with machetes,they were asking them-"chebi una go form Rambo again"

Na when I return back to school,na then Dem begin gist me. Out of fear,na that very week I look for house pack out

Hmmm, those roommates of were lucky oo. The armed robbers were kind hearted

The guy made a very big mistake. Thank God for saving his life. Please no one else should try this, because you might not survive it. I must say your stories are always captivating, keep it up

Kalulu44:
Good morning NL. I want us to calm down and discuss this topic very well. Do fake and expired products such as drugs and foods really harm us?
Let me start by laying some examples from my experiences. Firstly, I am not a drug/medicine/tablet taker or English medicine as most people call it. The only English medicine I take is blood tonic which was introduced to me some 10yrs ago by my late mum.
Apart from that, I prefer herbal medicine "agbo" than Panadol, paracetamol and co which has really helped me never to visit any hospital for over 30yrs and counting.
This blood tonic, sometimes I miss taking it for months and sometimes I take it steady for months. And with this I know how it works and improve my body when I do take it and how I emanciate if I don't take it.

Middle last year I was employed at a farm in a remote village in Ogun state. I couldn't find that blood tonic for over 2months, and luckily one day a guy started coming to the village on bike with pharmaceutical products and I asked for the blood tonic. He had it and when I asked for the price, he told me #1,600. I was shocked with the price cus I last bought in Lagos #2,500. I bought it and started using it. For the 6 months I spent in that village, I bought from him 4 times. And to be honest with you guys, the blood tonic works perfectly as it has been working for me over the years. But the unbeknown truth was that it was either fake or expired ones this guy is selling for me.
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Fast forward to earlier this year I was transferred back to one of the city in Ogun state. I went to buy this same blood tonic, and was told it's now #3,500. I exclaimed to the chemist, that I just bought this same tonic for #1,600 some weeks ago, he told me that must have been fake or expired ones. I then told him but it works perfectly without any side effects. He couldn't say anything but "e dey be like that sometimes".
That's scenario 1.
Some years back in Oshogbo I was working in a drink, wine and beverage store.

The owner of the store gives us most of the drinks to drink when they're about to expire or has expired.
There's a store where we keep drinks that has expired, and you can go take as much as you want. Though the owner always tells us to dispose of them if we don't want them.

We take as much as we can and dispose the ones we can. All thru my working there, not me nor any of my other colleagues complain of bad health, stomach pain or any other side effects pertaining to those expired products we used to take.
That's scenario 2.
Apart from this two scenarios, we or should I say I must have eating and drank so many things out there without knowing they're fake or has expired. And I still lived on strong and in good health.
I was born and brought up in Lagos, I can confidently say 50% of majority of things we eat and drink in Lagos are either fake, expired or adurturated. Why bcus I know majority of places this fake and adurturated products are being produce. But with this fake products seemingly out there in millions, Lagosians still survive and go about their daily activities as if nothing is happening. God forbid bad thing, if truly those expired and fake products are truly bad for health, won't we be hearing and seeing thousands of death everyday?
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Sometimes a product been cheaper than the original one doesn't mean it's fake, just that another company tries to produce another one affordable to the common man.
My best cola drink is coca cola, but they're different and affordable cola drinks in the market for those that can't afford coca cola.
So are other products out there which are inferior to the ones we thought it to be but affordable, does that make the inferior ones fake or not good for consumption?
Some families can no longer afford beverages like Milo, Bournvita, Peak Milk and co. But they're many alternatives out there that are cheaper and at the end of the day you that used Milo drank tea, and they too drank tea. Tea na tea!
My last thought, I am not in any way supporting fake and adurturated products, but with the prevailing economic hardship, I don't think we can do without them.
As far as they're not causing harm to us.
I made this post in respect to the thread of Nigeria customs seizing containers of fake goods worth over #6b.
The irony of it is, yes they're fake according to the customs. But will they destroy it, I am very sure 90% they won't.
They'll still recycle it and sell to their cronies and it will still flood the market.
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So guys I wanna hear your take on this issue regarding fake and expired products to our health and economy at large.

You see expired goods/drugs are not necessarily harmful. It's the preservatives that have expired and not the goods/products per say. They will still work perfectly after the expiry date but not for too long. As funny as it may sound, some adulterated/fake products are better than the original

Lamasta:
Which yeye Madrid the one VAR is helping or what

Lamasta you lost home and away, no excuses

Iran is a toothless bulldog. Since the beginning of this war, their government hasn't assassinated a single Israeli government official

dominique:
Vinicius jnr penalty puts Real Madrid in the lead. Aggregate 4-0. Man city are down to 10 me, they're not coming back from this

Worry more about your team, because you are also going out

This tie was over even before the second leg. Chelsea see you in 2028

yommen:
As an Arsenal fan, I want man city to win. They need to be kept busy so that they can't focus on epl alone and prolly catch up with Arsenal.

So that means you want Arsenal to lose. I pray they do so they can be less busy

City will try but they are out

HacheNoire:
If not stupidity, foolishness and self aggrandizement, how can a president in North America be saying he wants to be involved in the selection process of the leader in the Middle East.

That can only happen in Nigeria where more than half of the population are mentally conquered.

What does the buffoon smoke?

You know nothing about international politics. Just stick to your agbado politics and leave international politics and global power play for those who sabi

TruthU87:
How do you start a war you have no weapons to fight with? 5 days into a war and you are already running out of weapons 😂 what do they do with the 1 trillion annual defense budget?

United States simply doesn't have the resources to continue a sustained conflict with Iran. They have to pull weapons and resources from elsewhere. Sounds like the war isn't going the way Trump had hoped...

Is that what you understood from this post?

It would have been better if you had kept quiet

EnglandAmaka:
Frank Emeka Mba is the perfect replacement. But drug lord would rather die than appoint an Igbo.

"Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other issues than their common resentment of the Igbo." - Chinua Achebe.

The appointment of the I.G isn't by seniority. Tunji Disu was Mba's senior before rapid promotion catapulted Mba over him

2-0 against Everton. United don't mess up

Kalulu44:
It was really a big wao!

Thumbs up, your story telling is topnotch

It's a difficult task picking one individual across different generations. Again, some individuals (typically presidents) are popular in at home, but not so abroad. That being said, I will narrow this selection to celebrities such as sports and entertainment stars due to their international popularity.
These are my top 3:
1. Davido
2. Okocha
3. Burna boy

erad:
Smh...

The black man and irrelevancies.

OK, let's assume everyone agrees on one person as the most famous Nigerian, what does that change? How does it help anyone? Of what use is that information to anyone?

One person just wakes up one morning as asks themselves, "how can I waste people's time today?". The people are no wiser and will always engage the silliness.

You guys should calm down with all this "black man and irrelevant thing" abeg. Even in the US, polls like these are frequent

Babatunjo:
Obasanjo.. even before checking comments.. he came to my mind... After checking comments, he's still the most mentioned

I agree. I think he's the most famous of all our leaders

Kalulu44:
She was still dilly dallying with her begging, when I told her I will leave her at the hotel and I immediately walked out of the door. She quickly followed me to my bus and we drove silently to the park. It was only her intermittent sobbing that was breaking the silence.
We got to the park, I bought her ticket to Onitsha, gave her some extra money and bade her farewell. She called out for me one more time, Uche just like that, is this the end?
I said yes, I don't want to have anything to do with her again. And that she shouldn't forget to tell her people the whole truth.
Tears was just rolling down freely from her eyes.... I pitied her but stronged my mind and left.

Hmmm, you really dodged a bullet

Kalulu44:
Sonofwar where are thou?

Nawao, I'm just seeing this now. We don wait tire oo

DeOTR:
Correct. APC would have won but for their candidates. FCT politics should be left alone for the locals. It's bad enough they can't elect a governor.

You understand the game. This same factor played out in AMAC. For gwagwalada, the APC has always won, but this time the people revolted and chose their candidate

There's nothing wrong with listening to worldly music

Some ignorant folks are attributing this victory to Wike, but that's not the case. Wike actually wanted the PDP candidate to step down for the APC candidate but the man refused. The APC candidate is a Fulani and locals don't like him. It's a hard-fought victory for the locals. It's never about party. I personally think the guy will decamp to the APC

Okoyeeboz:
Those are his candidates. It is part of the arrangement.
In Gwagwalada, APC stepped down for Pdp.
In Bwari, Pdp stepped down for APC.

Leave your motorcycle shed in Agulu and follow national politics, you no gree.

Calm down, you don't know anything about Abuja politics. Did the results in gwagwalada look like someone stepped down for another. In fact, Wike tried to persuade the PDP candidate to step down for the APC candidate but the man refused. What happened was that the APC fielded a Fulani man which didn't go down well with the locals. The victory in gwagwalada has nothing to do with Wike

Kalulu44:
Last week of September 2012, I was in a group chats on 2go discussing life generally. When someone slid into my DM and introduced herself as Chioma. She said she noticed me in that same group chat. She said she loves my intelligence and how I dissected each topics.
I thanked her and appreciated her for the compliments.
It was in the evening of a Monday, I just came back from work and have time for enough chats till when I will hit the bed.
So me and Chioma chatted about a lot of things, I got to know she's from Onitsha in Anambra state but works in a nursing school in Owerri.
Monday went and we said our goodbyes!
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Tuesday, I came back from work and saw her msgs already in my DM. I freshened up, had my dinner and then went online.
We started chatting again, and then she told me she will like to visit me in Lagos where I stay. I told her it's too early, we just knew each other a day ago. That she should give it till like a month time or during the Xmas period.
She said nope, that she has been hearing a lot about Lagos and have been waiting for the opportunity to visit it for the first time, and as she now have a friend like me in Lagos, she thinks the time has come.
I asked her how soon was she planning on coming, she said that weekend. I was shocked, I told her, that's too soon and then lied to her that I don't have any money with me for transport fare and feeding. She said I shouldn't worry that she will take care of that herself. I became curious, but told her to give me from that Tuesday till Thursday to think about it and give her feedback, which she agreed to but told me explicitly that she's expecting nothing but a positive answer from me.
Abeg fam make I drink water I dey come...........
To be continue in comment section.....
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Wotowotoman
Fergie001
Mariangeles
brain54
Pootle
Sonnobax15
CJStarz
Sonofwar
ruggedtimi
CodeTemplar

Hahaha, you are not serious. You need to see the seriousness with which I was reading this story

sweetkev:
Why do dwarfs always look alike. Doctors in the house please.

I have been wondering about this for a long time

Hmmm, this story sounds unreal. Sometimes it pays to be brave

saphiere:
Not business. My house. I work from home

I don't get it, what appliances do you use? Working from home shouldn't consume electricity that much. I suggest you should cut down the use of heavy electrical appliances

Soludo is mentally retarded

FreeStuffsNG:
If she is not culpable, she should resign or request to be transferred to another school since her pupils will not come to school.

Sense is far from you