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he looks young for being like 70

like how you live to enjoy and parry and pay bills and work. these peoples main purpose is just staying alive. like maybe they need weekly dialysis, machine connected, stage 4 cancer, stroke paralyzed etc etc . like these peoples only purpose is staying alive. have you met people like this ?

vawulence and pugnacious activity and lots of vintage rum

anyone notice this ?

allahu akbar league

dragunov:
I am very happy. You know why? Kadoso Mutairu aka seunmsg has finally withdrawn from Nairaland.😝😝😝😝😝

a sworn enemy of yours ?

pansophist:
Na for nairaland I hear that word o, I come like to dey use am always. A cool way of saying mercilessly.

Instead of saying that reality will deal with you mercilessly, a localised, more intimate one would be that life go handle you wotowoto. lol

hehe bro pansophist nothing do you. i enjoy that word too. sounds very funny

XAUBulls:
Indeed Sukkot. They were a closely knit group of folks within the pre-1900 and post-1900 urban Yoruba society.


Check these Websites below out:

1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pinson_Labulo_Davies#:~:text=Reffle%20in%201889.-,Cocoa%20farming%20pioneer%20in%20West%20Africa,farm%20in%20Ijon%2C%20Western%20Lagos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Forbes_Bonetta

2]
https://www.picuki.com/media/2219116900644942010
Abimbola da Rocha Afodu Omololu-Mulele(1927- 2009) Lawyer & Educationist Born in Lagos, she was the grand-daughter of the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Candido da Rocha. In 1963 she founded ADRAO International School- one of the earliest and most reputable private schools in Nigeria.

3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido_Da_Rocha
https://newswirengr.com/2022/07/21/meet-nigerias-millionaire-candido-da-rocha-who-sent-his-dirty-clothes-to-britain-for-laundry/

4]
https://femioyebode.com/2014/03/07/brazilians-in-lagos/

https://femioyebode.com/2021/04/30/victorian-lagos/
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Victorian-Lagos-Echeruo-Michael-J.C-Macmillan/14120453186/bd

4]
[THE YORUBAS IN BRAZIL][26PAGES PDF BOOK FREE DOWNLOAD]

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32360/anacostia%20alcione%20amos%20SRO%20chapter%20july%202017%20yoruba%20in%20brazil.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y


Enjoy the rest of your day!

yes Sir, thanks for the resources. be interesting to find out which of aina and captain davies great great great offsprings exist today and who they are

Calitoscassius:
Wings or drums stick and chiops with mayo! at Kebbabish in Peckham or Hackney.

you definitely know wassup

ednut1:
what do you need passport for. Stay put. Nigeria needs you 🙄

lol i have to legalize my stay here with a passport. i am illegal and trapped here. i need the freedom. as it is i have overstayed my visa by 4 years meaning i will be fined like 2000 dollars if i attempt to leave here. so i am not getting it to japa but i need it for my freedom

Nbote:
Roughly around 60k or thereabout then..

ahhh nice one bro. much appreciated

Nbote:
Depends on who's helping you process it. I applied last year november/December and got it in March. Before someone told me I could had gotten it in a week. Are you in Abuja?

oh no Sir I am in lagos. could you throw a number at me , any number, ? 50 thousand naira ? more ? less ?

Kenn55:
Probably to discourage people from traveling or sheer corruption and incompetence

wow. ok. thanks

Nbote:
It's the massive corruption and passport racketeering in the ministry of Interior and Immigration. They also have express plugs that will fastttack the application and you get it in one or 2 weeks

how much is the express plug ?

AngelicBeing:
Dayuummmmmm , the chickens have come home to roost,
What sayest @ sukkot

i sayest chicken and chips taste hella nice with ketchup

XAUBulls:
LMAO... You made my day.

salute

This country is all kinds of madness and unserious. Why 6 months ?

Gamesmart:
Black monkey, easy na!

the darker the berry the sweeter the juice. wachu no bou dat lil nigga

this washed up boer ?

computer0810:
Mumu since when😄😄

wow give me link

the mujahadeen of ijawland

eyes on the jury

has he named his commisioners

neyobills:
Lol your comment should have been taken to the joke section unfortunately it’s a dry one

The US has over 1000 of such blackhawks why take only 3 for a conventional warfare.

How many Artillery guns were deployed,how many tanks,how many aircraft carriers,how many frigates,how many APC’s,how many transport aircraft’s,for the US the list is almost endless.

The 3 helos were only on an extraction mission however u have no idea of military strategy so it’s like a military combatant taking on a seven year old,you won’t understand,it’s above your pay grade.

Go and pick beans for mummy🤣

even your white master calls it a war but a slave like you is arguing with massa

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Mogadishu

XAUBulls:
An awesome feedback Sukkot!

Thanks for doing your quick and concise research here on the moving story of Aina and Captain Labulo Davies. I read years ago that cocoa first came to Yorubaland from Fernando Po.

Aha! Now I get it. The British Navy HMS Bloodhound that bombarded
Oba Kosoko was stationed at Fernando Po, a then Portuguese territory in the Gulf of Guinea. This instantly explains how Captain Labulo Davies got to know of cocoa and introduced cocoa to Lagos Island and the rest of Yorubaland!

Lagos Island and Whydah were the 2 most notorious slave ports through which Yorubas, Nupes (Tapa) and more were deported on slave ships to the Americas and the British Royal Navy had to bomb Oba Kosoko's strong canon fortifications to stop the illegal slave trade. Kosoko and his close aides then fled to Epe. This is the reason why we have Eko Epe and Ijebu Epe, even though Epe is originally an Ijebu town.

I'm on the same page with you. Indeed, our history is vast and
I'm proud of the pioneering roles of these returnee Yoruba men and women of the 1800s. Their exploits in modern international business, medicine, law, and more must never be forgotten as long as we exist in the physical world.

it’s all amazing stuff. Also the first daughter of Captain Davies and Aina called Victoria after queen Victoria her godmother was married to Doctor J K Randle. It’s like these Lagos aristocrats all moved in the same circles. Their third daughter ( of captain and aina ) had a child with Herbert Macaulay. These people are just marrying and sleeping with each other lol snobs . Keeping the bloodline pure. Which is funny because this aristocracy started from captured and rescued slaves. Just an encounter with queen Victoria and a lineage of Lagos aristocrats is born lol.

kkins25:
I'm on my way to 30, I cant believe i can no longer take more that one satchet of nescafe or Lipton again.. stomache ache....

I'm actually ver anxious as i am now... i sleep nd wake uo with that single thought that 30 is here.... scarry.. to me, it's very scary..

yeah bro and you will feel that same way when you are hitting 40 then 50 then 60 then 70 then 80 after which you wouldn’t care anymore

Youhesh:
Those of you trying to educate sukkot and his cronies are only wasting your time. They hate the US and the west in general to the core (only they and their God knows why), and will never see any positive in them. They do not mind distorting the truth to make the US look bad or weak. It is better not to engage them in discussions like this, it will be like pouring water in a basket.

bro I am not in the habit of supporting my oppressors. Never have, never will

XAUBulls:
On the surface it looks like it... Lol.

But then, that 50 years period fell within the Victorian Era of Queen Victoria, the industrial revolution and age of enlightenment had started in England as can be seen from the abolitionist movements.

So, naturally the successful
Yoruba, Fante, Congo and other ethnicities who were rescued (or their parents were rescued) from slave ships by the British Navy Squadrons as the infamous slave ships headed for the Americas were at least grateful to the British for that and they also got educated by the missionaries at Fourah Bay College and other institutions as craftsmen in Freetown in the 1800s.

A Yoruba girl of royal descent by the name of Aina originally from a town (Oja Odan) near Abeokuta was adopted by Queen Victoria in the 1850s in England after she was rescued by an English man, Captain
Scott-Bonnet from Whydah in Dahomey. Aina had been captured in a Dahomey dry season raid and her parents were killed.

Aina had regular access to Queen Victoria at the Palace while she had her education in England and when she grew older, Queen Victoria threw a well publicised Royal wedding in the late 1800s in England for Aina (her adopted daughter) and her Lagos Island-based wealthy businessman Yoruba Saro husband.

Aina unfortunately passed on from an illness in Madiera, Portugal while on holidays with her spouse in the late 1800s. She had kids and the direct descendants are still alive as of today. Documentaries have been made on Aina Bonnet and her relationship with Queen Victoria.

wow ok mind blown. All these information has spurred me onto further research. And so it appears that during that Victorian era there was very close relationship between the British aristocrats and the Nigerian community and there was huge movement back and forth between both countries and it was a very liberal period. It great to hear that queen victoria and the Victorian era had such close knit relationships with us. So here is what I found out. Aina was rescued from the palace of king ghezo of Dahomey. The guy she eventually married, she was the guys second wife, his first wife had died. The guy is a Yoruba guy from saro who went to CMS grammar school in Sierra Leone . He later joined the Royal Navy and was involved in the battle that bombed the palace of Oba Kosoko to bring in oba akitoye. I guess this was a slave abolition mission. He got injured and retired as captain labulo Davies. He was introduced to cocoa by some Portuguese traders and he was the first to plant cocoa in Lagos and he became so rich. His very good friend was the bishop Ajayi crowther and Herbert macaulays father, and so it seems all the influential people back then were very close friends. He finally settled in Lagos island and was the main sponsor to create CMS grammar school, a replica of the CMS grammar school he went to in Sierra Leone. The person who founded CMS Grammar school was his good friend , Herbert macaulays father, while he was the main sponsor. So these 3 great forefathers of ours were tight close knit friends. His wife Aina died at like age 37 and he married a third wife called kofoworola. All three great men, the bishop ajayi crowther, captain Davies labulo and Herbert Macaulay senior were buried at the ajele cemetery Lagos island which was razed to the ground in 1970 by the then governor of Lagos brigadier mobolaji johnson to build a secretariat on it. Wow bro our history is rich and vast

pansophist:
An over-30-year-old woman with a child thinks she is a catch. Women logic.

I mean, you can be a catch as a good person, as a good mother, as a good friend, etc, but as far as sexual market value is concerned, humans, including men, aint a catch in attractiveness as they grow older, and it's worse for women.

Like I always said, feel free to live in delusion, reality will deal with you wotowoto offline.

that mane said wotowoto