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1. EXCESSIVE PORN AND MASTURBATION

The adult site PornHub revealed they had more than 14 billion visitors in 2013, averaging 1.7 million visits an hour. Excessively watching porn can lead to psychological problems, says Muhammad A, a certified MD. “Porn is often skewed from reality, and there’s research suggesting that the human brain organically changes when you watch too much of it,” he says. “It becomes almost like an addiction and could make it so you can’t get aroused without that kind of stimulation.”

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Four Places You Will Not Find a Wife Material in Nigeria
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1. Badoo
You should even guess what the deal is from the name- Badoo …bad..as in bad wife?

That is if “she ” is even a she.

Almost everyone on Nigerian Badoo is a man posing as a woman.

The other day my friend , was on Tinder and he got a match with one of these ‘babes’. In less than 10 minutes, she had messaged him saying “I’m on Tinder for sex. Whatsapp me on 080-calll-a-slut” So this my friend replied the message with “where you at?” She goes “lekki”(they most times say Lekki but would offer home service) He goes “how much?” She goes “You have to pay 5k deposit for my mobilization and 20k short time, account no: 010iMAHOE” Homeboy goes “Dayo, no be your account no be this?” Be warned


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OK.Thanks!

drinkmorewater:
Na C'mon, its sooo ever safe, these are just blown up isolated incidents..

Ghanians are not as aggressive or violent as us

Although its good to know, We are easy to Identify due to our pronunciation different from theirs which could make U easy target for sales people who will increase their price.. But then again who doesn't do that to foreigners ..

Happy Vac in advance!

drinkmorewater:
What's up Kumasi? Tekke Junction what's goin down?


Most Africans hate to love Nigerians, thought yall 'ready knew!

Please is it safe to come for vacation? Getting worried...

ruggedtimi:
ghanaians hate and envy nigerians...i wnder wat will happen to ghana if nigerians leave dere. firstly circle in accra will collapse, accra mall too will collapse.Ghana's economic will also collapse...mny thngs.

It seems you are in Ghana? I and bae are coming over for vacation this month. Is it safe?

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I remember growing up as a teen in Port Harcourt at number 11 Ohafia street, those were the good old days just before our independence. I was a very playful kid, always rallying around me playmates who were often not in the class of kids that my parents would have loved for me to associate with. My parents I remember always frowned at my choice of friends, they wanted me to keep the company of their friends children who also went to very private schools like me but those ones were no fun to be with, I preferred the company and friendship of the drivers and cooks children, they were more free and had no airs about them. In those days, I always wondered why they didn’t have as many toys as I had, or why they never had their own rooms to themselves.
Many years down, I no longer wonder why…

After I paid off my parents what I owed them by obtaining a masters degree in communication. I set in motion and activated my dream of becoming an outstanding entertainer by building The CharlyBoy brand. Seven years of hardship, self doubt and obnoxious poverty paid off. My tenacity and consistency made me resolute in the pursuit of my dream. I won against all odds. The brand became a Force. I mingled with all, gave hope to the less privileged, those who suffered injustice, advocated for the rights and respect of entertainers, jumped around with Nigerian students, okada riders, physically challenged, military pensioners, Nigerian widows, I became the voice of the voiceless. I built a cult follower-ship, that made the powers that be, uncomfortable. Even before my career started, I had always known I would pitched my tent with the masses. The Ajebutter crowd had never been my thing! So I was never afraid of living in their mists. From the CharlyBoy bus stop in Gbagada, to the CharlyBoy boulevard in Abuja, I felt safe living among the people even-though I could afford to live in very exclusive areas. Hummmm I felt untouchable, until…

My Night of Terror!
You never know how safe you are till your space is violated, until you have been terrorized and traumatized. I had my own 9/11 one fateful night in September 2011 about 11.30pm. The peace of the Punk Palace was shattered. My wife and I were rudely awakened by screaming, shouting, general pandemonium at my gate. I quickly zoomed in my CCTV to see what the commotion was about. I saw my two security guards trying to contain an intruder who had invaded my residential home. In the confusion that ensured, I picked up one of my automatic pistol and headed to the gate house to see what was going on. Meanwhile I kept hearing the screaming and breaking of glasses. My wife was visibly shaken, I didn’t really know what to make of it but I felt safer with my gun in my hand. As I came face to face with the intruder I heard him chanting Allah hakuba, it then dawned on me what I was dealing with. One quick look around, I saw the windscreen of all my cars had all been broken by the intruder. There was blood scattered everywhere apparently he had cut the ears of one of my security guards and had stabbed the other in the chest. As I raised my pistol to shoot this motherf**ker, the sound I heard was, click!!!!! I forgot to load that particular gun. By the time I ran upstairs to get my Ak47, the man had escaped leaving my security guards seriously injured. Through out that night all the policemen at the neighborhood police post and I searched all over for the intruder and never found him. Since then I have bought more guns, taught my wife how to shoot and put a disclaimer in front of my house with this signage. WE SHOOT TO KILL. I swear that man would have been my first Kill.

Our Collective Fight Against 9/11
Terrorism is as old as man. Be it car jacking with a weapon, kidnapping, armed robbery, even one chance. To spread terror is terrorism. Goths used it against the Romans, CIA used it on Cuba, Boko Haram is using it on us and ISIS is using it against the world. But despite all the fear they terrorists instill in us, we must overcome this evil. Darkness can never overshadow light.
Remember when the brothers in the Niger delta began their militancy by kidnapping oyibos, now it’s big business for some.
Violence begets Violence but this violence is not what we understand.
My violence will be for self preservation not for self proclamation. I will shoot to kill who ever trespasses me and mine, not who I trespass.
Our leaders need to understand that the war on terror if not handled properly may just be futile. There are terrorists in every country. The task of leadership is to ensure that they don’t become a threat to the lives and property of its citizens. How effective is our fight against terrorism in Nigeria. For how long will we continue to hear of bombings in Nigeria? Terrorism is a mindset and a way of life for certain people who are not just going to “give it up.” And believe it or not, All terrorists believe they’re doing the right thing for their cause.
The worst kind of battle to fight is with an opponent who has nothing to lose. This terrorists have shown you that they’re not afraid to die. But we are, because it is our fundamental human right. When one of them sacrifices their life in a bombing, there will always be someone ready to step up.
You will be surprised how poverty, unemployment and hopelessness can stimulate the youths in becoming creatively evil. Our leaders are failing to see that Terrorism can be eliminated when our youths are literate and skilled, when poverty and hunger are eliminated, when the youths are gainfully employed. When they stop stealing away their future. What do you think?

cc: Seun, Lalastilala

Source: http://manly.ng/reuben-abati-a-reading-list-for-ministers/

Written by Reuben Abati

A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be of use to them and provide necessary knowledge and guidance suitable for the discharge of their various assignments. Tolu Ogunlesi initiated the idea with the tag: #ReadingListNG, and a request that the name of Ministers should be indicated alongside book title and url link. The exercise turned out to be so popular with all manner of bibliophiles loading our time lines with book titles.

In the end, Kathleen Ndongmo, the Cameroonian lady with a keen interest in all things Nigerian, storified the various suggestions. The assumption that informed the reading list is not difficult to explain: the received wisdom is that persons in such important positions should be knowledge seekers, knowledge workers as well, and that in the age of knowledge and information, it will be disastrous indeed to have any dandified ignoramus at the highest levels of government. After all, “Reading maketh the man” Francis Bacon said. #ReadingListNG is thus at once an admonition, a reminder and a statement about the importance of reading, and in every respect, a worthy proposition.

Writing about this subject, I recall that in the early days of the Jonathan administration, there was a similar focus on reading and knowledge as valuable tools for governance. Much earlier, during the campaigns, President Jonathan launched a Bring Back the Book campaign to promote literacy and a reading culture. He more or less continued with this at cabinet level by promoting and encouraging a culture of reading and debate among members of the Federal Executive Council.

He had made it clear to the then new Ministers that he wanted a cabinet of knowledgeable men and women whom he had deliberately put together to deliver the transformation agenda, through hardwork, dedication, efficiency and faithful execution. I indeed recall further that during one of the earliest Cabinet meetings, each Minister received a pack of reading materials including the Nigerian Constitution, the Transformation Agenda Blueprint, relevant statutes and Public Service Rules.

This idea of having a knowledgeable Cabinet, soon led to a situation once when the President recommended to all Cabinet members a reading of Lee Kuan Yew’s From Third World to First: The Singapore Story. This was followed by a reading of one of President Jonathan’s favourite books -Richard Dowden’s Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, The interest that this particular book generated resulted in Richard Dowden being invited to deliver the keynote address to mark Nigeria’s 51st Independence Anniversary in 2011. As President, when Dr Jonathan was not quoting Lee Kuan Yew, he loved to quote Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, or Cyprian Ekwensi (An African’s Night’s Entertainment, Burning Grass, Passport of Mallam Ilia) and the late Tai Solarin, whose writings covered a broad range from public policy and governance to public morality.

Book reading and discussion by that Cabinet became even more formalized with the reading by all Cabinet members of a book titled If We Can Put A Man On The Moon: Getting Big Things Done In Government authored by William D. Eggers and John O’Leary. The reading of this particular book was co-ordinated by the then Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, who distributed copies to every Minister, with the following attached note: “Hoping that the cases profiled in this book will give us the inspiration to make a great success of the several initiatives that are necessary to achieve the Transformation Agenda and Vision 20:2020”.


I further recall that after copies had been distributed, President Jonathan personally appointed Omobola Johnson, Minister of Communications, who also doubled as the Council’s class monitor, as the reviewer of the book and lead discussant. The discussion of the book was scheduled for two Cabinet meetings from thence, and when it took place, it was quite an illuminating session. For the rest of the period that we were in government, book reading or the exchange of books as gifts was a regular feature around the Cabinet. Perhaps owing to his background as an academic, Dr Jonathan knew the importance of ideas, and hence in conducting cabinet meetings, he encouraged robust debates, which sometimes resulted in open and vehement disagreements.

The promotion of this culture is sustainable. Books are vehicles of ideas, albeit the application of those ideas and the quality and impact are just as crucial, and the main point of course, is to understand what the book teaches, and having the capacity to apply what is learnt. In a country where people usually stop reading after graduating from school, it is important to encourage those who take critical decisions to read and think. Those who hold this view will have no problems appreciating the #ReadingListNG initiative. The outcome is quite interesting.

Respondents recommended books dealing with governance, policy, biographical narratives, power politics, and history. These include Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World; Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria; Joe Studwell, How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region; Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power; Nasir El-Rufai, The Accidental Public Servant; Steven Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; Olusegun Obasanjo, My Watch (Vol 2); Olusegun Adeniyi, Power, Politics and Death; Hernando do Soto, The Mystery of Capital; Franklin Zimring, The City that Became Safe; William Rosen, The Most Powerful Idea in the World; Archie Brown, The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age; Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Karlson Hargroves and Michael Smith, The Natural Advantage of Nations; Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York; Zoltan J. Acs, Innovation and Growth of Cities, C.K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid; Nicos Komninos, The Age of Intelligent Cities, John C. Maxwell, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

Other recommendations include Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations; Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath, T D Jakes, Instinct, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, Thanks for the Feedback; Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Start up Nation; Richard Branson, Losing my Virginity; Muhammad Yunus, Building Social Business; Rashid Al Maktoum, My Vision; Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor, Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story; John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Maccchiavelli, The Prince, Amy Wallace and Edwin Catmull, Creativity Inc., Gregg Braden, The God Code, Moises Naim, The End of Power; Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog, David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, Reinventing Government; Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?; Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb, I am Malala; Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less; The World Watch Institute, Governing for Sustainability, Claudia Altucher, Become an Idea Machine; Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid; Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age; William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Jim Huling, Sean Covey and Chris McChesney, The Four Disciplines of Execution, Daniel Goleman, Leadership, Jay Elliot with William Simon, The Steve Jobs Way; Charles Colson, The Good Life; Goke Adegoroye, Restoring Good Governance in Nigeria; David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations; and William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth.

The foregoing list shows an eclectic range in terms of the subjects covered, and a fixation with foreign authors and publications. Except in about five instances, almost all the authors are foreign. But without any doubt, these are books of great value and penetrating insights. If I must add one more, I’ll recommend Break Out Nations by Ruchir Sharma. My concern however is the relative absence of Nigerian books, authors and narratives on the list.

The big problem with governance in Nigeria is not the lack of understanding of the catch-phrases of power, modern politics and policy, in fact it is fashionable to be seen to have read some of these books, the problem lies in a gross and pervasive lack of understanding of Nigeria itself. In addition to everything else, anyone who wants to govern Nigeria at any level, must begin with reading books on and about Nigeria: its history, people, geography, social culture. A starting point should be The History of Nigeria.

Those who occupy high positions should also read Nigerian newspapers, watch local television, and listen to Nigerian stories, and not restrict themselves to foreign media. Every Minister must start by keeping abreast of the news: not summaries by media aides, but a genuine effort to know what the people want, feel or think at all times. Some of the people who suddenly become Federal Ministers do not know any other part of Nigeria apart from their ethnic enclaves. They have no friends outside their states of origin. They may never have travelled round the country! Nobody can govern Nigeria or make a difference who does not know the country. This disconnect is often the bane of performance.

It is also regrettable that when people get to high office in Nigeria, they soon get consumed with the minutiae and the ceremony of being powerful and as time passes, they devote little or no time to reflection and contemplation. Nasir el-Rufai revealed the nature of this dilemma the other day at the Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta when he told his audience that whereas he used to read a lot, now as Governor of Kaduna State, he can hardly find time to read: “In the last two years, I have been busy with opposition, new political party and elections. I used to read a book a week when I was less busy. But now, I just read files and documents and so on. My advice to anyone that thinks being Governor is nice, don’t try it. You don’t get to read; you don’t have a life.”

Precisely the point: In a society where talk is so cheap and rumour-mongering is rife, perhaps our leaders need to genuinely find the leisure window to develop their mental capacity and personal horizons, so they can act and lead better.

cc: Seun , lalastilala

Guys Who Asked their Girls For Nudes but got Hilarious Responses


These girls are not smiling!

1. She took it too literally

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ezeuba:
Thanks for your offer, but not enough. You can't get an iPhone 5 64gb as neat as this one for 40k bro. Unless it's a stolen one, which this is not.
48k is the least I can take for it. Thanks again for the offer.

Still available?

alukstea:
I have one for sale , bought it brand new and I'm willing to sell 60k (negotiable )

What's your contact

She is not using you. She just wants to get married to you ok. Please Wife her asap

fayose4real:
Morning guys, there is this lady we have being dating over 4 yrs now, she is ok by me as we match each other perfectly, our relationship has being wonerfull, we live together through out our school days & even up till now, so i am the one providing food & taking care of her and truly i wasn't complaining as i do it with lot of joy because her mother died when she was ten years of age & her father is not financially buoyant, so because of the love i have for her i willingly and happily took up her responsibilities, due to the fact that i have my personal business which is bringing me money when i was in school, though she was the one paying her school fees her self then because she is not a lazy type that depends wholly on another.

her father could send some & she would add the rest from the petty she use to save. We both finished our ND programme in 2013 with upper credit in SLT, so we decided to cross to university through D.E, but unfortunately we were not offered admission to university, so i quickly returned to road construction as i am an excavator operator before gaining admission to ND. That was the 1st time we were separated by work since we started our relationship, my working place then was far so i used to send her money for her feeding every month. I knew for sure construction work is not reliable, & she will be starting her HND early 2015 so i decided to set up a viewing center business for her to be able to take care of her self and her HND school fees so that if the worst happened in my working place we will still be on a safer side & be secured.

I spent all my savings on setting up the business (over 270k) but couldn't complete it so i had to borrow (100k) from her to complete it. The reason for choosing that kind of business was to give her enough time to study as well as maintain the business at the same time, as matches are being played on weekends & any match that falls on midweek will be 7.45pm or 8.45pm, so i know it wont affect her studies. But unfortunately the business didn't excel due to the area, & fortunately for me again i got employed to the Nigeria Immigration then so i had to leave the construction work, & due to this fact we decided she try another DE because she loves medical line (nursing), & since i thought i was an immigration officer by then i agreed to sponsor her through it, 3 months of training no salary & i had spent all i had on that business which is not moving a bit, by that time i dont have anything like money again, to add more to my trouble we were suspended after 3 months of training till further directive, & dont forget that she is still on her HND, so i sold the viewing center at the rate of 150k & returned the 100k i borrowed from her 4 the business.

Fastforward to why am writting this epistle, when there is no sign from immigration that they will call us back, i decided to have a plan B if eventually they refuse to, so i told her that i will have to return to school for my BSc, hearing this from me this lady was so furious, she was so annoyed, she started saying all sort of things that she is 26 yrs of age now that how can i expect her to wait for another 4yrs before getting married, that God forbid bad thing in her life, that she can never wait that long for any man. I was so confused that i didnt even know what to say, i was now thinking that is this how life is, is this girl using me for her benefit or what, the same girl that wanted to abandon HND for 5 yrs nursing programme at university when i got employed, same girl is now claiming she cant wait for me if eventually i go back to school.

The 2nd day i got a call from the previous construction company that i should resume immediately so i rushed there to resume since i dont have any source of income at the moment. We later discussed the issue & she apologized for saying harsh things, & she is acting normal from the day of our discussion, but to my greatest surprise when i returned home on month ending break, this girl is now refusing my sexual advances towards her. Pls i need ur advice, what is happening to me?. Pls don't mind my grammatical error & my lengthy write up.

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Maybe you are a dependant. You probably stay in Lekki and don't know how light gets to your appartment. You are probably a teenager typing away mindlessly at his phone.
If you understood how the average business owner survives. How the tailor, the hairdresser, the barber.. Survives.

Yes you probably don't know how Iya amuda's baby cries at night and won't shut up until the fan is on. Bans AMUDA puts on her small gen because Nepa would never ever give them light.
How even the ordinary blogger who sees electricity only once in 3 days and has to put on the gen every 3 hours survives, you won't spew such ignorance.

..as..

Yea sure with a lot of "hello can you hear mes"

Gotten someone.

Thanks to everyone who reached out!

How old are you again?

emmanuel596:
Op for u to prefer a quiet wedding it means there are bad things u must have done in life dat u don't want it to burst out when people hear dat u wanna get married



Or maybe u are just ashamed of d salary of ur wanna be boo who u think might not afford an open and well planed marriage

With the high desperation of nigerian girls wanting to get married 97% of ladies will never want a quiet marriage even if she's carrying a 7 months old pregnancy better tell us the truth we at NL can even contribute to get u married

Abi u get children for anoda men? Are all the boys in u area knows what's up with u


Start talking am all ears

word, girl, word!

Neverquit:
@ shugga,

Please think twice before marrying that kind of guy...you will get frustrated in that marriage.

Your financial maturity level is VERY different. From what you wrote, I see him as a 'keeping up with the Jones'' kind of guy. Be extremely careful. It might not end in the elaborate wedding ceremony. Imagine already married and still behaves this way? If care is not taken, he might succumb to pressure to steal or do blood money.

So, be wise.

naijauncutzone:
use simple server and forget all this big plan

What's simple server?

How do you read a dog's subconscious?

arcbay:
The pup was passing you a message which u failed to interprete...try read into his subconscious, only then can u get the message...

Ok so i don't have any pets, never grew up with them around but this weird thing happened yesterday.

A neighbor got a puppy . It looked cute so i went ahead to pat its head. But when i looked at the eyes of dog- i thought i saw sadness.

Its being coming back to me intermittently since yesterday. Do you think I'm being paranoid- or do they all have that quiet sad look?

Royruky:
Write a protest letter to CPC office. You can get their address on-line. They will contact you and you can proceed from there

Thanks. But I think I'll just pass. It's going to be a lot of troublle.I appreciate the advice though.

segzeeboy:
Cheapest of it is beans cake buiz. Just look 4 little space,maybe front of a house set 3 stone, buy firewoods, buy frying pot,buy a rubber of beans,buy palm oil/vegetable oil, then start d buiz,u cant finish d 3,500 naira to start it

Don't you think 3500 is too small? Won't he pay for the space?

Royruky:
Tell a lawyer to write them. You may equally report them to the CPC.

How do I report them to the CPC?

JewelRegi:
They don't refund, I made a mistake once in my subscription they asked me to undergo so many processes bt didn't refund me the money till date.

It's so annoying.

So I Subscribed to their data plan- N10,000. I was supposed to get 34Gb.
I got this ridiculous message saying that I am getting 11gb.
My last 2 Subscriptions was N8000 for 24gb.
I called customer care and the lady tells me that N8000 gives me 24gb while N10,000 gives me 11 gb. Please who does that?
I have been managing their poor network service because of their data plans but this crass stupidity just does it for me.

When you type in www.lindaikeji..com, it takes you to www.lindaikejisblog.com


Finally!

jimi4us:
be careful when searching for domain name on whogohost, as usual Naija people always want to play a fast one on people. i discovered that any time i seach for a nice name on whogohost.com 1 week later someone from their office will grab it before you do. picture below its an evidence of my claim. i searched for a domain name (bingo.com.ng) 3 days later it was taken by one Collins Adetuberu who work in whogohost office.

so guys my advice is, if you are not ready to pay for the domain name under 24hrs don't even think of searching for it in Nigerian domain sellers. eg web4africa or whogohost.

Whogohost should please answer to this! What!

damton:
After you ve shortchanged in buying a soap instead of a phone, they'll tell you to run as fast as you can because police are coming. And obviously trying to evade the troubles of the police, you dash away. lol.

Hahaha This is super hilarious. Such a person won't want to tell anyone how stupid he was. Like they stole from you and told you to run and you did with all your heart? Kikiki

Ouch sorry. Bought it yesterday.

Thanks.

Markachi666:
If you come to our office in computer village within 40 hours from the time of this post, I will sell it to you for 4800. Beyond this period, you pay 5k . Just call my number. I may even deliver it to your office/home if you are willing to pay for transport from Ikeja.
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