deji17: Inside Nigeria’s first pencil and toothpick factory
Victor Ekwealor January 10, 2018
In the second quarter of 2017, Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, commissioned the AKEES pencil and toothpick factory. It was going to be the first of its kind in Nigeria.
In response to the news, Nigerians noted via various mediums that contrary to claims, the factory was indeed not the first in Nigeria. Others said the factory itself was propaganda and did not exist. What was true and what was not?
During the Techpoint Innovation Tour, the Techpoint team visited the sleepy town of Ekom Iman in Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State where the factory was reportedly situated.
Front view of the AKEES Pencil and Toothpick Factory in Uyo
We saw the factory in its entirety and even got some pleasant shockers.
Located in a 1,000 sqm warehouse styled house, the factory truly produces pencils and toothpicks.
Speaking on the initial skepticism, General Manager of the facility, Engineer Bassey Friday Moses says he was disappointed that even people from Akwa Ibom State and environs joined doubting Thomases.
Engr. Friday Bassey Moses, General Manger AKEES Pencil and Toothpick Factory
“At the time, they said the governor commissioned an empty hall and rented people for show. If anybody at any point felt this establishment was a scam, all they had to do was walk in and confirm for themselves instead of spreading rumours.”
On a tour of the expansive facility, Bassey pointed out that unlike similar projects in specific locales, the AKEES Pencil and Toothpick Factory was a true Nigerian project because of its tribal diversity in hiring workforce. Of its 62-man workforce, every region in Nigeria is duly represented to a great extent.
Pencil factory
Pencils are usually made from cylindrical wood pieces carved from felled trees, but there is another method that is both cheaper and, most importantly, environmentally friendly.
The AKEES Pencil Factory uses old newspapers instead of wood to make pencils. This reduces deforestation, recycles old newspapers and cuts production costs by nearly half.
Bundles of old newspapers used as raw material
As beautiful a prospect as paper over wood is, how strong is a ‘paper pencil’? Bassey says the durability question is a general concern.
“People think wood is harder and more durable than paper, but that is not the case. With the right production processes, they’re are both on the same level in durability.”
According to Bassey, national dailies are more suitable for production than local papers because of their quality and resultant strength.
Apart from newspapers, other materials needed in pencil production include; urea formaldehyde, processed graphite, pencil sleeve, eraser, and ferrule. The graphite comes in 2A, 2B and 2.5B(HB) grades. When these materials are set, it is production proper.
Even in its seeming simplicity, the pencil production process is one of the most interesting industrial processes you will ever see.
After the graphite is cut to size, it is manually placed in trimmed newspaper spreads pre-slathered with urea formaldehyde.
Graphite
Urea is the glue that holds the newspaper and graphite together in the rolling machine where it is folded into a compacted wet cylindrical mass.
Wrapping graphite in urea formaldehyde and newspaper
Still not looking anything like a pencil, these wet masses are sun dried for a minimum of 24 hours before a 40 – 45 minute bake in the dryer where an operator turns them over every few minutes for even dryness.
Drying in the sun before baking in the oven
To confirm if they are properly dried, the pencils are sharpened. Wet ones do not sharpen well and are thrown out.
Pencil sharpener
From the sharpener, it’s a one way ticket to an abrading machine where they are smoothened and slowly begin to resemble actual pencils.
Like a fashion fitting session, the sleeve section is the most important step in the actual ‘pencilfication’ of these writing materials. Here, naked discoloured pencils finally get identities as they are clothed with coloured cylindrical nylon wraps called sleeves.
Workers putting sleeves on the pencils
Loosely hanging on the pencil’s frame at first, the sleeves are shrunk to fit by heat from a laminating machine.
Pencils rolling out of the laminating machine
Finally, the pencil’s feet is shod with an eraser after the ferrule — a small ring under a pencil that holds the eraser in place — is attached.
Running 8 hours a day, 3 major production machines combine to give a daily output of 30,000 – 60,000 pencils. Bassey says the disparity between numbers is a direct result of the minimal capacity of the dryer.
The dryer we have now cannot take all the pencils that come off the rolling machine at once so sometimes we have to rollover drying to the next day. But we are planning on getting a bigger one very soon to increase daily production quota.
Dryer
Toothpicks With scary machines all spotting shiny spinning blades, the toothpick factory is in the same building on the left side divided from the pencil factory by an the aisle leading up from the factory main entrance.
Cutting machine
General overseer of the toothpick section, Mr. Christopher Shawa, couldn’t wait to explain to us how his angle runs.
“Bamboo is the major and only raw material in the production of toothpick,” Christopher explained.
“3 year-old bamboo is best fit, but a maximum of 5 years old is acceptable. Bamboo should be left to stand for 3 days after harvest before entering the factory.” he continued.
Harvested bamboo
When it is eventually ready, the bamboo is sliced into lengths of 1.5 metres to make it fit the different cutting machines available.
A Splitting machine further splits the already cut bamboo into smaller cuts then another machine cuts them into regular toothpick sizes — 6.5cm length and 2.5cm breadth.
Mr. Christopher Shawa cutting bamboo in a Fixed Width Slicer
All these plenty cutting machines all do the same thing, but come in different sizes and blades.
The Sharpening Machine gives rounded pointed edges after the Polishing Machine has smoothened the toothpicks.
Polishing machine
Next, they are bleached and sun dried for an hour before being baked in an oven and then polished again before finally heading to the packing section.
Sun drying toothpicks after bleaching
From the toothpick section, one final look at the end of the pencil factory line showed Hannah Montana, Ben 10, Spiderman and other cartoon characters singing, peeping and swinging from the sleeves of AKEES pencils.
Packaged pencils ready for sale
While these are the usual designs for pencils, it is worrisome that AKEES pencils do not spot Nigerian and African art, designs and characters.
Bassey agrees this has always been a problem.
According to him, when AKEES started, the foreign designs made people think the pencils were imported. He had two explanations for this and the second is downright disappointing and shocking.
“It is a market penetration strategy. When entering a consumable market, first introduce something the consumers are already used to then slowly innovate with time. After familiarisation, subsequent production batches will hopefully come in traditional Akwa Ibom colours; orange and white. Some will spot cultural symbols like masquerades and landmarks. But even if and when we want to make this change, we will have to go to China because pencil sleeves are not produced anywhere in Africa.”
What?
In January 2016, when the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, gave a 2-year timeline for Nigeria to start producing pencils, we all laughed our heads off at “his incompetence”.
But apparently, the minister was speaking from an informed perspective; Nigeria wasn’t and still isn’t fully prepared to produce pencils.
Apart from bamboo and newspapers, every other material and equipment inside the AKEES Pencil and Toothpick Factory is imported from China.
From raw materials — urea formaldehyde, toothpick bleach, graphite, eraser, ferrule, sleeves — to all production machines. Everything.
Imported boxes of graphite
Considering the abundance of graphite in Nigeria, having to import graphite too is ridiculous. Ordinary pencil sleeves which are the simplest parts of the pencils are also imported from China. Bassey authoritatively stated that no country in Africa produced pencil sleeves.
“It is a shocking and sad fact. But we have searched extensively and confirmed it. Surprisingly, it is not a prohibitively expensive venture. It is an industry that can be established comfortably. It is in our plans to produce these sleeves in the nearest future here in Akwa Ibom State.”
For urea formaldehyde Bassey said he believes the Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals company in Port Harcourt has the raw materials but not capacity.
All the machines in the factory can also be produced in Nigeria, but they’re currently not. As expected, this unavailability of machines has taken a toll on productivity.
Good Business Regardless of all the challenges, Bassey says the pencil and toothpick production is a very profitable venture. He goes ahead to explain the dynamics.
I’ve been in manufacturing for over 18 years and I know you don’t just set up and start making money immediately. There should be room to study your market and experiment to a certain extent. Time is also needed for market penetration and dominance. Once you can conquer all these, you break even. Power is still a major challenge we have. We run on generators 24 hours but we still make profit. Even if the margins won’t be as big as when the generators are not in the equation.
The AKEES Pencil and Toothpick Factory by itself is making money. Monthly revenue is between ₦3-4million and Bassey speaks of possibilities of this number shooting through the roof.
We recently started negotiations with the State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) to supply them pencils. With the free education policy in Akwa Ibom state, the about 1,160 primary schools in the state get free pencils and other educational materials. One carton of AKEES pencils at ₦14,000 to each of these schools monthly is ₦16.2 million monthly revenue. Two cartons will double that amount and so on.
Apart from the government, Bassey says AKEES has barely scratched the surface in terms of supply.
“Someone once asked why we are not in Lagos and other states, I said “let’s capture our region first. For now we are focusing on the South-South and South East regions. Primarily, Cross Rivers, Port Harcourt and Bayelsa. At our present capacity, we will never meet demands for others. When we are able to scale the south-south region, we will then have the financial capacity and wherewithal to procure machines, foster automation and eventually service customers in other regions.”
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magazineguy: Living in Lagos, especially as a young person trying to make ends meet can get difficult and overwhelming. There are a lot of odds against us, and we spend our free time fantasizing about leaving Nigeria. While we’re still here though, we must find ways to make life more bearable, and even enjoyable. Here’s six tips from a fellow young adult Lagosian on living in Lagos
Use Google Maps
This is the year of our Lord 2019. Trust me, you don’t want to head out to or from anywhere in Lagos without first consulting your map. Although prone to mistakes a few times, google maps will accurately navigate you to your destination while letting you know which routes have traffic, and which don’t. In this mega city where traffic can form in 2.5 seconds, you need to constantly be checking your map so you don’t pass the wrong routes. Using google maps has saved me hours in traffic several times. Please use it, it is free.
When going out, Plan, Plan, Plan
With the way traffic is set up in Lagos, it’s very important to look before you leap i.e. Plan before you step out of your house. People often say ‘Live close to your office’ when giving Lagos hacks, but I think that is rather simplistic. We can’t all afford to live close to our offices. A more realistic advice is to plan carefully every time you’re going out. How far is this place? What time do I need to get there? How likely is there to be traffic during that time frame? Based on all of this, what time do I need to leave the house? There you go. Generally, if you can help it, avoid going in the direction of traffic during rush hour. And if you’re stuck in traffic when you’re in a hurry, jump on an okada (sorry, car owners). A little planning can be what saves you from being late to that job interview or missing your flight.
Find a hobby
Lagos can be crazy stressful, so you must find something to do that will constantly spark joy in your life. Our lives are filled with stress—from our jobs, schools, bills, partners, kids, traffic— there’s a seemingly endless list of other minor stressors. Hobbies play an important role in mitigating some of this unavoidable stress, as they provide an outlet for creativity, distraction, and something to look forward to. Hobbies build confidence, reduce stress and make you more interesting.
“Hobbies bring a sense of fun and freedom to life that can help to minimize the impact of chronic stress. Those who feel overwhelmed at a job, for example, can benefit from hobbies because they provide an outlet for stress and something to look forward to after a hard day (or week) at a stressful job,” says VeryWell.com.
Your hobby can be reading, writing, drawing, knitting or sewing. It can also be something active like learning a new sport, running, or going to the gym. There’s a wide range of activities you can pick up as a hobby. Find one or two you enjoy, and feel free to drop them and pick a new one after some time. Just don’t pick a hobby that brings more stress into your life. PS: A hobby is not the same thing as a side hustle.
Get Health Insurance
I cannot overstate the importance of having a HMO plan if you live anywhere in Nigeria. The heat, traffic and stress of living in Lagos can often put a strain on your physical and mental health. Medical bills are expensive and often come at inconvenient times. A health insurance plan makes it easier and way cheaper (sometimes free) to access healthcare when you need it. If your job doesn’t provide a HMO cover for you, you can buy one for as low as N50,000 a year, or less than N3,500 a month.
There are several organizations now offering health coverage plans. Before you choose one, do proper research. Visit the website and social media platforms of the organizations you’re considering, ask people about them, look for real testimonials and find out what hospitals around you on their network. Finally, compare costs and make an informed decision.
PS: Don’t wait until you’re very ill to buy a health plan. Gambling with your health is a bad idea.
Network!
You can meet some very important people, and become privy to important information and opportunities by simply striking up a conversation at a social event. I get it — networking isn’t at the top of everyone’s list of fun things to do. It can be time-consuming, downright awkward on occasion, and — depending on your personality — incredibly draining. However, it is important for establishing and nurturing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships. It expands your support network, makes you more visible and opens doors to opportunities for you. So just do it!
Don’t limit yourself to events within your industry. You can make great connections even at the club! If you don’t go out often, you can also network on social media by starting conversations on platforms like LinkedIn or Twitter. Next time you find yourself standing next to a stranger at a function, strike up a conversation.
PS: Be sensitive enough to realize when someone doesn’t want to hold a conversation with you, and walk away. Networking only works if all parties involved are interested. Don’t know when events are happening? Want to be in the loop? I find out about events and conferences on Eventbrite, The NothingToDoInLagos Newsletter and Social Media.
Take a break, take in the sights and have fun
Finally, not every time struggle to survive. Sometimes, sit back, relax and breathe. You live in a beautiful city with a lot to see and take in. Dedicate some weekends to exploring and having fun. It can be overwhelming just existing in Lagos, so you need the occasional breather. There’s tons of fun activities to do in Lagos that can take the edge off. Go to a club with friends, visit an art gallery, go to the beach, go kayaking. Visit Omu resort with your friends, or the Lekki Conservation Centre and just take in nature’s beauty. Go jumping at the upbeat center or challenge your friends at Rufus and Bees Arcade. If it’s your cup of tea, visit a strip club. Attend a gathering of like minds to discuss issues, or go to a silent disco party. There’s no one size fits all for fun activities. Find what you enjoy and go to town with it.
EliteBeautyBlog: 10 Korean Beauty Tips Black Women Should Look Out For This 2019
Forget Social media and movies, if you ever meet a Korean woman, then you will know what I am talking about – her skin is probably freaking amazing and unbelievably flawless and this is probably because of the Korean skin care routine.
Korean women’s utopian skin has an age-old secret behind it. Thank your stars because it is now out for the rest of the world! Getting along these simple beauty tips with your already beautiful black skin will give you the heavenly result!! Promise!!
Elite Beauty Blog have found that the secret is their unique 10 step skin care regimen that works like magic on your skin and makes it brighter, smoother, and firmer in no time. All you must do is be patient and consistent with the skin care routine.
The Koreans believe that skin care plays a vital role in the overall well-being of a person and must be enjoyable and meditative. Before you get more impatient, scroll down to find out all about it.
Korean Skin Care Routine – Step By Step Tutorial
Step 1: Begin With An Oil Cleanser Step 2: Follow Up With A Water-Based Cleanser Step 3: Exfoliate Step 4: Tone Up Step 5: Use Essence- A Korean Special Step 6: Repair Your Skin With Treatments Step 7: Pamper With Sheet Masks Step 8: Apply Eye Cream Step 9: Moisturize Step 10: Protect Your Skin With Sunscreen
Here we give you insight on the intricate korean skin care regimen. Check out the Korean skin care routine steps in detail here.
Step 1: Begin With An Oil Cleanser
First thing, remove all makeup products from your skin. Pick an oil cleanser and apply it all over your face and neck. Make sure you cover the lip and eye area. Massage the cleanser gently into the skin, then dab some warm water on it.
Massage the wet skin and rinse it. The process melts the debris on your face and makes the skin clean and fresh. It gets rid of the makeup and dust that has accumulated on your face over the period of the day. The oil will melt the makeup off your skin, leaving it cleansed.
Step 2: Follow Up With A Water-Based Cleanser
If you think you got done with cleansing after using the oil-based cleanser, then that’s not the case. There will still be some debris left on the face, and to remove that, you will need a water-based cleanser.
Wet your skin, apply the water-based cleanser, and gently massage it in a circular motion. Rinse it off with water. After this, your skin will be squeaky clean without a hint of dirt. The water-based cleanser removes any remaining residue from the skin.
Water-based cleansers either come in foam or gel-based forms. They remove the impurities that the oil cleansers have missed and cleanse the skin completely.
Step 3: Exfoliate
You need to remove the topmost layer of dead skin cells to reveal bright and polished skin. Scrubbing off dead skin cells helps skin care products to work on your skin thoroughly. Exfoliation clears pores and makes skin smoother and more radiant.
The microbeads in exfoliators help in removing dead skin cells. It makes your skin look flawless and helps your makeup to go on your skin much more smoothly.
Wet your skin and apply the exfoliant. Gently scrub it on your skin in circular motions and wash it off. You do not have to rub your face with an exfoliant every day. Use it three times a week if you have non-sensitive skin and twice a week if your skin is sensitive..
Step 4: Tone Up Toners refresh the skin and prep it to absorb the next product(s) well. They also balance the pH level of the skin. Toners balance the moisture levels of your skin and also remove any remote impurities that the cleansers might have missed.
Apply the toner on your face with your fingertips or dab it on your skin with cotton swabs. Massage in an outward motion – away from your nose, towards the ears.
Step 5: Use Essence – A Korean Special Essence is unique to the Korean beauty culture. It is a toner cum serum hybrid that has a watery consistency and skin repairing properties. It is hydrating and rejuvenates the skin.
After using two cleansers, you do need some extra moisture to restore the moisture balance in your skin. Essence does that for you! In addition to brightening your face, it balances the pH levels of your skin.
Pat essence on your face either with your fingertips or cotton swabs in an outward motion soon after you tone it and let it stay on.
Step 6: Repair Your Skin With ‘Treatments’ When you have dark spots, uneven skin, pigmentation or any other specific skin issue, it is best to treat your skin accordingly. Choose among serums, ampoules, and boosters to help repair the skin and get rid of blemishes.
These treatments target the problem areas and combat skin issues like acne, wrinkles, large pores, and dull skin. They address the skin concern immediately and tackle it.
Take some of the treatment product on your fingertips and gently dab it onto your problem areas. Massage gently. They are perfect for solving skin issues.
Step 7: Pamper Yourself With Sheet Masks
Another Korean special, sheet masks nourish and pamper your skin with the best of ingredients while providing you with a meditative and calming experience. Choose a mask that has ingredients that suit your skin needs and type.
Sheet masks stick to your skin and condition and pamper the skin with nutrients.
Place it on your face and leave it on for 15-20 minutes. Relax while your sheet mask is on and feel rejuvenated. You can use sheet masks once or twice a week or even every day.
Step 8: Apply Eye Cream
The next step is to take care of your under eye skin. The skin around your eyes is delicate and needs extra attention and care. Eye creams are perfect for it; they treat dark circles and smoothen the skin.
Eye creams protect and hydrate the under eye area. They brighten your eyes and make them look young and fresh.
Using your fingertips dab the eye cream gently on the orbital bone area, avoiding the water line. Use it every day, once in the morning and once at night.
Step 9: Moisturize
Moisturizer or a face oil hydrates the skin by sealing in moisture. It makes your skin supple and soft.
Make sure you choose a moisturizer that suits your skin type and use it regularly. It could be a gel, lotion or cream – whatever works best for you.
Use a moisturizer every day, once in the morning and once at night. Rub in some moisturizer on your hands and massage it into your skin.
Step 10: Protect Your Skin With Sunscreen
Sunscreen with a good SPF is a must, especially if you are stepping out during the day. It prevents premature aging and protects you from skin cancer.
Sunscreen shields your skin from the harmful UV rays of the skin and protects it from tanning, pigmentation, and dark spots.
Use sunscreen every day in the morning before you go out and make sure it is the final product that you use on your skin to avoid dilution of products and weakening the effect of the SPF.
So, this was all about Korean skin Care Routine diy. Now, let’s look into some of the essential tips you need to follow while following korean face routine.
Korean Skin Care Routine Tips To Keep In Mind
While you follow the Korean skin care regimen, you must also make sure you have a healthy lifestyle to go with it. These tips below will help you do so.
Include plenty of lentils, fruits, vegetables, and nuts in your diet. Go to bed by 10 pm. The time between 10 pm to 2 am is considered the best time to rest and rejuvenate the skin. Stay active and exercise regularly. Have a positive outlook towards life. Avoid stress and be calm and happy. Now, you know how to do Korean skin care routine for flawless skin in simple steps. It is true that there are various ways to treat your skin. Every day, something new comes up. What’s important here is to figure out what feels right for you and good on your skin. The Korean daily skin care routine is a nourishing regimen that enhances your skin greatly. Give it a shot.
Expert’s Answers For Readers’ Questions Do I need to follow all the 10 steps in the Korean skin care regimen?
You do not necessarily have to. You can skip a few steps (like the ‘Treatment’ step) if you do not need them. Also, there are some steps (exfoliation and masks) which you do not need to follow daily.
How often should I follow the Korean skin care routine?
Ideally every day, and you can personalize it to suit your skin type and concerns. It is a calming and therapeutic process that you will begin to enjoy soon.
Is the Korean skin care regimen expensive?
Not necessarily. It depends on the products that you pick. Also, you can easily substitute the market bought products with homemade DIY ones.
The point exactly is men are getting wise they will rather prefer the baby mama stuff than to wed you They already know the marriage is not favouring men again, and worst part of it our economy is not helping cause many graduate are jobless Person wey no get job tell am say make he go marry he go bang something for your head And besides when they marry you, you will definitely change in your ways and behaviour
I heard a programm on radio where they match make people for marriage and believe me the numbers of Ladies that called is more plenty than men I was like WTF Funniest part they were asked of their age some were even mentioning 43,42,35,32 was just laughing at them cause they ought to peg their age down a bit no man will want to marry ladies with those age they will prefer those young girls I pray they all find their soulmate Cause being single ain't easy at all Seeing your mate's carrying their baby and you are still in the single zone That Shit hurt like a motherfucker
Insightful.
Max age that most men will consider is 32 for women if she is not looking wrinkled.
Women who are 35 to 50 can try co-parenting, or a male divorcee or widower.
taskcompleteng: Research has revealed that some single women are now complaining due to over scarcity of suitors in the country. It is the desire of most ladies to get hooked to a man at certain age brackets for support, procreation and affection. But all around today, we have many single ladies with no suitors. There are many single ladies and as well as bachelors who would want to get married, but the fear of uncertainty of the future of the union have really prevented many from doing so owing to unpredicatable economic situation.
Reports showed that there were enough women and men who really wanted to get married but it appeared both sides do not want to gamble into it to avoid devastating consequences and regrets in the future. One of the ladies, who preferred to be simply called Titi said she had taken the issue of marriage as a do-or-die affair due to “internal pressure” but that as much as she had tried, frustration had often been the result. At 37, the businesswoman who sells clothes in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital in western Nigeria, disclosed that she is not finding life easy.
“What is happiness without a man in a woman’s life?”she asked our correspondent during a chat. She had dated several men with some promising marriage, but without fulfilling the promise.
“You can’t imagine that in the last three years, I have dated about eight men, but the relationship was often short-lived simply because I ask for their commitment.I am not getting any younger and I cry every time I see my mates with their husbands and children.If at 37 I don’t have a child or a permanent man, when would I have them? Is it when my skin has wrinkled? she asked our correspondent
Miss Karia Anumba, 41, lamented that she had lived and changed many cities in Nigeria looking for suitors but those she met were afraid because they were not sure of the future of the marriage. She revealed that she tried to convince and persuade the men she had contact with to make the move and even assured them that she would manage no matter the condition, but regretted that none of them agreed to marry her. Anumba said she quickly relocated to Lagos from Abuja when she realized that she was gradually turning into prostitute because of the drive for marriage.
She explained that since she came to Lagos, she had engaged herself with a work and was still searching for interested men but yet to get one. She narrated that some men who were above 40 years still roamed about and do not want to get married; attributing it to fear and economic condition as most of them were jobless.
Bose (surname withheld), 37, has found herself patronising many of the social interaction sites on the internet.The banker told our correspondent that she is on Eskimi, 2go, Badoo, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter as well as 4clique and Instagram just to look for life partner.
“We can’t tell the particular broom in the bunch that kills a fly,” she said on why she patronises such number of social interaction sites. “I always change my name in the different sites but the ultimate goal is to get a husband,” she added. Bose reveals that she is really worried about the situation, adding that she lives comfortably (in a mini-flat and has a car), “but who do I have to enjoy this comfort with me?
“I have tried a hook up programme on a Lagos-based radio station, but my age is now a major factor hindering my dream of being married,” she lamented pleading with our married correspondent, who she considered a bachelor, to “help dry my tears.”
A married woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Blessing Aguebor and resident in Oshodi, confirmed that the issue of lack of serious men for marriage is giving many ladies sleepless nights. She narrated the touching story of her friend who was disappointed by her boyfriend of five years when it was time to “settle down”.
“My friend was 29 when he met this man in Benin and they dated for five years. The man was always giving the lady hope without her knowing the man had other plans. The year he fixed for their marriage was the year he travelled abroad without even informing my friend. It was later he called her and asked her to find another man because he still had many more years to hustle. My friend almost went mad. She is 36 now without a man. I had to convince her to relocate to Lagos so that possibly out of the population here, she would find someone. It is pathetic,” she said.
A 38-year old business woman in Ketu, narrated how she lost her first husband to a friend, Idayat, who was desperate for a husband. According to Mrs. Adewunmi who remarried last year, Idayat was 36 and needed a husband but her search was endless.
“I was always encouraging her and made her a part of my family. She would always help me take care of the kids when I go to the market. With time, she took over my husband without my knowledge until the day I caught them red-handed and that was the end of my marriage. Ladies are like hunters these days,” she said.
Asked why she was not married at 34, Blessing, a nurse with a private hospital in Abuja, retorted: “that is why I’m on this social site. Why are you asking? Is it a bad idea if you propose to me?”
She explained that life was becoming unbearable without a husband.
“My friends and family members are aways asking when they would come and ‘chop’ rice, and I keep hoping,” she added.
A marriage counsellor in Lagos, Mrs. Victoria Aliu, told P.M.NEWS that scarcity of ‘real men’ is becoming a terrible condition for women ready for marriage. She blamed the problem partly on the Nigerian economy, confusion among the bachelors on their choices of the women they want as wives and the attitudes of the spinsters.
“Many women, whether consciously or not, behave irritably sometimes, forgetting that the man just beside them at every point in time may just have been nursing how to start a conversation that could lead to marriage. Some other ladies are very choosy and unserious at their early stages of adulthood. They only open their eyes to discover that their friends are all married and that they are the only ones left at the bus stop. Then it becomes a terrible case for them,” she explained.
With the above examples, do you sincerely think that there is scarcity of men for ladied in Nigeria?…..kindly share your opinion with us below
Most men who are in the late 30s to 40s prefer getting married to younger women who are mainly between 25 and 30 based on global research.
Men have a conscious age limit set for women because rightly or wrongly above 30 is associated with infertility! Women over 30 to 40 then find it more difficult to get available men.
A country is confirmed to be in a recession when there is a decline in its Gross Domestic Product for two consecutive quarters. It’s a period of general slowdown in economic activities with resultant effect of rise in unemployment, bankruptcies, fall in profits, investment spending and inflation. Recessions normally happen when there is a pervasive fall in spending as a result of certain events such as an asset bubble, financial crisis or external trade shock.
Economists generally recommend for countries to spend their way out of a recession and this could be achieved through quantitative easing, reducing taxes and increasing government spending.
Nigeria is currently experiencing its first recession in decades caused by a severe fall in crude oil prices which usually accounts for about 85% of its foreign exchange earnings, leading to a reduction in revenue receipts and steep devaluation of its currency. This is not just a recession but a stagflation. Stagflation is when you have high inflation and weak economic growth at the same time. This makes it challenging as government cannot easily spend its way out of recession due to the inflationary challenge.
The implication is that this recession may not disappear quickly making it necessary to map out survival strategies. Outlined below are ways to stay afloat during a recession.
Discuss it with your family and staff: Its going to be a tough time so you need to have a talk and get everyone’s buy in. let your family members understand why certain expenses will be cut off from the family budget during this period. Your staff will also need to be on the same page with you when certain decisions that may affect their welfare but necessary for the company’s survival are taken.
Cut Spending where necessary: Every unreasonable and unnecessary expense should be taken off the family or business budget. Look out for deals which will offer more for less and also demand for discounts where necessary. Cash saved from expenses can be pushed into savings. For business, cutting costs may mean downsizing to reduce labor costs.
Repay or reduce loans: Debt comes at a cost and it will be a wise decision to repay all loans as you will save on the interest paid. Focus on repaying the most expensive debts first before the less expensive ones. Credit card debts should be avoided.
Put more money into savings: savings act as a buffer and in times of recession the more one saves the better prepared one becomes. Cash is king and opportunities will spring up in recession times which you can take advantage of if you are well prepared.
Look out for additional revenue streams: New streams of income will assist in these moments and will help boost savings. This can be done by starting an online business, a network marketing business or seeking out new passive business opportunities. A lot of jobs are lost during recession and creating new streams of incomes will assist in the event of job loss or down turn in business.
Work harder than before: As an employee you need to work harder than before to enable you keep your job in the event that your organization decides to downsize. You may have to come earlier to work and close later than usual, this is when you have to prove your worth at work.
Focus on quality rather than price reduction: As a business man you have to create more value for your customers to keep them and not necessarily reducing prices as there may be no justification to raise them back when the recession is gone.
Groovenaija360: Yoga includes physical exercise, but it's also about life balance. Training your mind, body, and breath — as well as connecting with your spirituality — are the main goals of the yoga lifestyle.
Ymodulus: Sir i do like to respond to your questions.
1. I have never come out on Nairaland to say i run a business of buying and selling or one continuous business or the other 2. Sir i have never posted that i procure goods for people.
Looking at the above two reasons, why should i make my contact open?? A lot of people know me as a monicker just giving tutorials,not running a Nairaland continuous business. So to this i am still a private individual.
3.Privacy: Sir i have experience this over and over, when i make my number open,i receive countless Whatsapp messages, text messages and of all calls.They become so much that i cant even cope i myself.
This is one of the reason i deleted my number off Whatsapp. You get over 80 conversation and everyone wants reply a day. some get offended you ignored them, some get offended you never gave them good explanatory reply. Last week i tried going back to Whatsapp with my known phone number, and the messages were still too much.I asked several people not to greet me just move straight to the point,but the feel i am rude.
Recently i started asking business clients that call me not to greet me. Just call and say what you want but they feel you are rude without recognizing the fact that you have other callers, and personal time of your own.
Even at 1:00am Nigerians still call you and this is my only sim. So sir you get? Beside if am to run any business on nairaland,i have always put up my phone number till the deal is over.
Now sir i have my BBM Pin on my profile,if any one contacts me there good.As long asi have no active business on nairaland.I see no reason making my contact public. If you want me and you to carry out a business deal then contact me. or add me on bbm.
Blue3k: Both Akwa Ibom and Ondo claim to have the longest coastline. I didnt understand how this issue could come up until I learn about the coastline paradox from Real Life Lore. Link to his video below.
Gabkosh: A landlocked states are states that do not have territory connection to the world ocean. They have no coastline.
The states that are not landlocked in Nigeria includes Akwa ibom
Bayelsa
Cross river
Delta
Edo
Lagos
Ogun
Ondo(with longest coastline in west Africa)
Rivers.
Edo State is landlocked and doesn't share direct boundaries with the sea or Atlantic ocean. This is the international or official definition of a landlocked state or country.
However the Benin River empties out from Edo State into the ocean through Itsekiriland in Delta State.
Juicewrld27: 1. The joy of credit alert 2. The joy of having a nice bath after a long day's work 3. The joy of meeting food after being hungry all day 4 the joy of seeing family after a long time 5 the joy of lashing after prolonged wooing
iLegendd: The name of the lady in the picture below is Patience.
Your patience will determine your success and your success will determine your income.
In Africa and a few other parts of the world, your income determines your clique of friends and your clique of friends will determine your focus.
If you're not focused, check your friends. If you don't have friends, you're supposed to be focused by default, else, you're possessed and need mental and spiritual help.
What do you know about patience? How has being patient helped you in the past?
Or how has impatience affected you in the past or in life?
Sewanu2000: You can actually make Caramel colouring by followng these steps:
1. Put about 2 ounces of granulated white sugar in a dry saucepan over the burner.
2. Stir firmly while it turns brown and boils
3. As soon as it turns all liquid, take it from the burner and add about 100mls of room temprature water (CAREFULLY - IT MAY SPLASH!!) and stir quickly with a wooden spoon - that's your caramel colouring.
A majority of African-Americans surveyed in a nationwide poll this week reported feeling "deeply disturbed" and "more than a little weirded out" by all the white people now smiling at them.
Black citizens have reported a disturbing 350 percent increase in interracial high-fiving since January 20.
First witnessed shortly after President Obama's historic victory, the open and cheerful smiling has only continued in recent months, leaving members of the black community completely unnerved.
"On behalf of black people across this nation, I would like to say to our white brethren, 'Please stop looking at us like that,'" said Brown University psychology professor Dr. Stanley Carsons. "We're excited Barack is president, too, and we're glad you're happy for us. But giving us the thumbs up for no reason, or saying hello whenever we walk by, is really starting to freak us out."
Added Carsons, "We just want to be able to stand in line at Home Depot without getting patted on the back."
Bedtec: Madam you're stubborn on your own so you met your match , some police officers are stupid but you're claiming blame game here.. What's wrong with giving the papers with your right and forget this long story
@Bedtec, your post made a lot of sense!
I wonder why some women and men make a mountain out of a mole hill! In Asia, America and Europe, cultural etiquetes exist and if those social rules are violated you as a foreigner will get into trouble with the locals. Eating habits, greeting gestures, and more are guided by social codes. For instance, you are supposed to hold your fork with the left hand and the knife with the right hand.
The younger Chinese don't call those who are older by their names!
Using the right hand to give someone something in Nigerian and indeed African cultures is the norm because the left hand is used to pick dirty stuff or wipe in the rest room, before washing the hand with liquid soap or disinfectant.
It's low self-esteem that makes some young people in Nigeria to think that cultural rules are outdated when indeed the Western countries and Asians still hang on to their cultures.
Quality20: It's quite known that some single girls like to date married men, whom they see as more reliable and could easily marry them as their extra wives, but on the contrary I don't know the exact reason why some married men rather than staying and dating single girls, but would rather be dating various married women.
What's the attraction in married women, who may even be pregnant or have children?
A significant number of men like risky behavior, adventure and enjoy bragging rights.
If there is no demand (cheating emotionally-starved and sex-starved married women), there will be no supply (men).
It's better to avoid such complications with married women though.
Kikijan: (This article is dedicated to all those Ghanaians who went to Nigeria in search of a better life between 1978 and the second “Ghana Must Go” in 1985. You saw the very best of Nigeria and no matter what happened to you then, or later, you will never forget your time in that country!)
Some people say it was the “constro” boys who went first and came back home with the good news. Others say it was the trained teachers (Cert A holders) who went first, started teaching in secondary schools there and came back on holidays and took along their brothers and friends who are graduates. Still others maintain that Ghanaians had been travelling to Nigeria since goodness knows when. There were vehicles that made the long journey from Kumasi or Accra to Lagos. Long before our independence, Anlo fishermen and traders piled themselves into trucks setting forth from Keta into the wilds of Nigeria. The journey took the whole day. Nigeria was far away, very far away indeed.
No matter where the truth lies, one thing is certain. The great movement of Ghanaians to Nigeria in search of a better life would not happen until after 1975. Prior to that, nobody left Ghana to settle in Nigeria because Ghana was not good enough for him. There have always been ties between individual Ghanaians and Nigerians with inter-marriages meaning some Ghanaians moved to settle in Nigeria. But nobody left Ghana to escape economic hardships. Not until the mid-70s.
The largest chunk of the economic migrants from Ghana to Nigeria made their moves between 1978 and 1981 or thereabouts. By 1982, Lagos was full of Ghanaians from all walks of life. They ranged from university lecturers (and students), medical officers, political refugees, through secondary school teachers to our boys working on construction sites and our girls selling bread in the “go slow” on the highway leading out of Lagos to Abeokuta. They rushed to the slow moving vehicles peddling what they called “Ghana bread”. (Some of the Yoruba didn’t like this bread complaining that there was too much sugar in it. Yes, much of Ghanaian bread contains too much sugar. If there is not too much sugar, then there is too much salt!) Some of our girls chose the easy way out and betook themselves to the houses of ill-repute where they plied their damnable trade.
By the 70s, the journey now took only a few hours from Accra to Lagos. If you liked, you made the “short-short” one by taking a vehicle to Aflao, crossing the border on foot, taking a taxi to the station near Asigame (Grand Marché) in Lomé, where you took one of the Peugeot “caravans” straight to the Badagry border where another vehicle took you into Lagos. You could also take a vehicle from Cotonou and make it to the old port of Porto Novo (Xogbonu) and enter Nigeria at Idiroko which was the border crossing before the huge Badagry border was rebuilt as the main entry point. The Idiroko to Lagos road was still called the “Old Ghana Road” when we were there.
For the Ghanaian making the journey by road to Lagos for the first time, it was a real experience. Once you cleared the Badagry border and was on your way on the dual carriage to Lagos, you knew you were somewhere far away from Accra. Lagos looked big to you. Much of it was like a huge construction site. This was the time when foreign companies like Julius Berger were building flyovers, overhead bridges, and motorways all over the place.
Even though Ghanaians could be found in every state, most of them were in the Yoruba speaking states which are geographically nearest to Ghana. The Yoruba are the single largest of Nigeria’s more than 250 ethnic groups. There are far more Yoruba than there are Ghanaians of all tribes worldwide! Most of the Nigerians who lived among us in Ghana before the Aliens Compliance Order (ACO) were Yoruba. They were the ones we called “Alatafuo” or “Anago” and when we went to them, they also called us “omo Ghana” (no offence meant, none was taken either). So the Ghanaian connection with the Yoruba, in particular, is a long one. Some versions of Ewe history even trace the origins of the Ewe to a place called Ketu in Yorubaland. In the early 80s, in places like Ogbomosho, Ejigbo, Osogbo, Ilesha, one could still meet those Yoruba who had lived in Ghana before ACO and who still spoke fluent Twi, Fante, Ewe or Ga. They were proud to display their knowledge of these languages, having quite left the bitterness of the “munko munko” (ACO) behind them.
The years around 1980 marked the most dizzying heights of Nigeria’s oil-fired economy. The oil money was flowing through everybody’s fingers and some of us were there to partake of the goodies. They accepted us so long as there was something for everybody.
Every Ghanaian who went there got some kind of job. Teachers were in high demand. It was very easy for the Ghanaian teacher to fit into the Nigerian classroom. Because WAEC gave us all the same GCE syllabus, Ghanaian teachers found themselves teaching exactly the same things they were teaching in Ghana. Maths, Science and English teachers were especially in high demand. The greatest need for teachers was in the states controlled by the UPN which were implementing free education – the type Akufo-Addo is promising us. The UPN was then led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the revered Yoruba leader. (I have, sometimes, wondered if there is some resemblance between him and Akufo-Addo that goes beyond their old style round metal-rimmed glasses.) Secondary schools were built in all towns and villages and students went straight from primary school to these schools without any exams.
It was not that there were no Nigerians who could teach their children. The economy was so good that Nigerian university graduates looked down on the teaching job. They easily got higher paying jobs in industry or obtained generous state or federal government scholarships to pursue advanced studies in foreign universities. Ghanaians readily took their places and acquitted themselves well. Indeed, there will come a time, (if that time has not even passed) when a crop of prominent Nigerians can proudly say that some of their best teachers in secondary school were Ghanaians. They will be referring to that time, around the 80s, when so many Ghanaians taught so many Nigerians.
Everything was very cheap in this country. What we had then called “essential commodities” in Ghana were anything but essential in Agege (the name of the Lagos suburb that, in Ghana, became used for the entire country). Blue Band Margarine, which had ceased to exist in Ghana, was available at every roadside seller’s. Beer was one naira for the premier brands of Star and Gulder – brands that we had known from Ghana. The big bottle of Guinness, Odekun, (which was unavailable in Ghana) went for 1.30 naira and the little bottle (kekere) made you poorer by a mere 70 kobo. Semovita cost 80 kobo a kilo. We did not even have Semovita in Ghana then. Sardines and Geisha (which Nigerians looked down upon but were favourite items in Ghana, the lack of which can cause governments to be overthrown) were all over the place selling cheaply. During the Christmas season, imports were increased bringing down the prices of items across the board. In Ghana price increases were particularly notable during the Christmas season.
Those Ghanaians who went to Nigeria before 1980 saw the very best of the country, economically. In some states, graduate teachers were given car loans in cash! You took your 3,000 naira, went to a car dealer and drove away with your brand new locally assembled VW “beetul”. It cost you less than 3,000 naira so you had something left over to buy petrol and drinks to celebrate your first new car with your friends – to “wash” the car, as it were. In the early 80s, a graduate teacher’s monthly pay of 360 naira was enough to buy you a return ticket to the UK. That was before the Thatcher government brought in visa requirements for Ghanaians and Nigerians. Those Ghanaians daring enough went on holidays in Britain. The naira was equivalent to the pound and fetched you more than a dollar!
This was also the time Ghanaians would tell jokes about the newcomer who went to the wayside chop bar and asked for 50 kobo rice and 50 kobo meat and the seller woman looked at him with surprise. He insisted on his order and when he was served, there was no way he could eat it all. He thought the naira was like the cedi he had left behind in Ghana.
At the beginning of each academic year, the now defunct West Africa Magazine published long lists of Nigerian scholarship winners who would be going to universities in Europe and North America to study obscure subjects in the sciences and technology. It was as if the states were competing with each other to see which of them could send the greatest numbers of their citizens on scholarships abroad. We looked at these lists with a tinge of envy. Our country could not afford to give us similar privileges.
The daily newspapers were bumpy affairs of 48-60 pages at a time when our flagship national daily, Daily Graphic, was still running 16 pages in tiny print. There were even broadsheets, something we had never seen in Ghana before. A few of the numerous newspapers really had quality stuff. The newly established Lagos Guardian attracted articles from some of the country’s greatest brains – Wolé Soyinka, Niyi Osundare, Kole Omotoso, Chinweinzu. Then came the newsmagazine, Newswatch, modelled on Time Magazine and better than anything we ever had in Ghana. On its staff were some of the country’s best journalists including Dele Giwa who was murdered by a mail bomb during Babangida’s reign of terror. There were several television and radio stations at a time when Ghana still had only one television channel and one national broadcaster and we had never heard of FM broadcasting. Naija movies were not available then.
The Ghanaian immigrant felt completely at home. Ghana was not too far away and you could visit home for the weekend. We settled. We started enjoying the food, the beer, the women and the music. Oh, the music, especially Yoruba music. Because of Juju music’s roots in highlife, it was easy for Ghanaians to take on and like that music. Moreover, some of us still remembered the time when the Yoruba lived among us in Ghana and played lots of the music of the accordion playing I. K. Dairo. They may have played the music of Haruna Ishola too.
The 80s marked the heights of the careers of King Sunny Adé with his velvety voice (Gboromiro; Synchrooo ... synchro system) and “Shief” Commander Ebenezer Obey and his evergreen, forever and forever wedding song: Eto gbeyawo laye t’Oba Oluwa mi file le, pelu aseni... (What God has joined togedaa let no man put asondaaa...). Fuji, Apala and Sakara music are more difficult for Ghanaians to absorb. They are more traditionally based with Islamic roots. But if you live in a place where you hear a certain music type being played over and over again, and see the people cooing over it, you cannot help but get infected yourself. That is why many of us will never forget names like the late Alhaji Sikuru Ayindé Barrister, Kollington Ayinla, or Mama Salawa Abeni. Today, Fuji music has morphed into the Yoruba variant of hip-hop. But for those of us who were there in the early 80s, it is the music of Sunny Adé (is there any musician who has sung his way into the hearts of the Yoruba more than this man who has so many wonderful tracks you won’t know which ones to choose as your favourites?) and Ebenezer Obey (who is now into gospel music having also fallen victim to the excessive religiosity that is now afflicting many parts of Africa) that we have continued to enjoy long after we left the country even if we do not understand all the mgbati mgbati.
Then things started getting bad. Many of us saw the signs very early because we had seen similar signs in Ghana. Contracts were not being renewed. It was becoming more difficult to get jobs. Prices were going up. Some construction works were being terminated midway. Remittances through the banks were becoming more difficult to get as the black market rates of the naira started running away from the official rates.
They did not sack us from their country. We had survived “Ghana Must Go” 1 and 2. We left on our own when they relieved us of our teaching jobs. Many were too old to brave the journey to another part of the world. They returned to Ghana and went back to the teaching service or whatever else they were doing before the Agege craze. Many of the young ones came back to Ghana only to re-saddle and set forth again. Some of the “constro” boys, ever the most daring, took the desert road to Gaddafi’s Libya. Some of them lost their lives on the way. Some of us came to Europe. Others went to North America. There were those who made it to other African countries like South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, or any country willing to accept them. Anywhere else was better than the difficult days of Rawlings’ military Ghana.
Today, it is said that more than half of Nigeria’s 160 million people live on less than two dollars a day. The naira is now 150 to a dollar. The largest note is 1,000 naira (equivalent to 12 ghc). A proposal to print 5,000 naira bills was dropped. Another to re-denominate the naira was also discarded. A bottle of Guinness is around 300 naira and Semovita is 250 (na kekere bi dat o). The molue conductors at Oshodi are no longer shouting: “Enter with your ten ten kobo – 50 kobo one naira no change”. That belongs to a time in the distant past. The trip now costs 100 naira.
Nigerians are finding it difficult to exist on their monthly salaries. Many have voted with their feet and for some, even Ghana is better to live in. To be sure, though the Nigerian economy may not be riding the giddy Olympian heights of the late 70s, it has never descended into the gutters that the Ghanaian economy found itself in the same period. But the best is over and many Nigerians will give an arm to have the seventies and early eighties back.
Yes, there are Nigerians who are crooks, cheats, bandits, religious fanatics and what have you. But the fact is that MOST ordinary Nigerians are honest, peace loving, God-fearing, resourceful and friendly people. You have to live in the country to see these ones whom we do not hear much about. You can also ask the thousands of Ghanaians still living there. And, oh, the country itself is, actually, really beautiful.
For many of us, since Nigeria was our first foray outside our native land, the country remains special to us. We still have fond memories of our time there. I have not been back there since I left 26 years ago. I very much want to visit and walk the old paths again. What a wistful experience that will be!
Yo! Awesome. I got suspended in "time and space" while reading this again.
This history is real and I'm proud to have been taught by Ghanaians and other expats who came to Nigeria in the 1970s to the late 1980s for greener pastures. I'm still in touch with some of their children who are now based in the U.S. and Canada, and who were my friends back in Nigeria. We reconnected via a simple FB search.
Yorubas have been trading with Ghanaians for over 220 years now via the long-distance trading between the Oyo Empire and the Asantis and Ga people of the Greater Accra area. So it is not strange that Yorubas constituted the largest ethnicity from Nigeria/Benin Rep. when the alien deportations (ACO) took place in Ghana. The CIA World Fact Book shows that over 1 million Yorubas are Ghanaian citizens. Of course the Ga ethnicity of Accra region has accounts of Ile Ife ancestry in Yorubaland.
I remember that Ifedayo "Daddy Freeze" Olarinde said his father's family was among those deported in the 1960s while his father was about to take his final high school exams in Ghana. Many Yorubas there were very business-savvy and worked in mining and cocoa businesses, etc. There is a Makola market in Ghana that was named after Mokola market in Ibadan due to the strong Yoruba trading influence which also spread to Abidjan and other cities in nearby Cote 'D Ivoire for over 120 years now!
Kilode1: It was. Mostly a blur now, I was too young. But I remember shopping at Kingsway with my parents.
I remember my Indian Science teachers ( at a public school o) and one or two Ghanaian ones too.
We can become a destination country again, but we have work to do, radical work. Gradualism won't get us there.
Yup! Good times. There were many Ghanaians, Indians, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, some Jamaicans and African-Americans who taught in the unis, secondary and primary schools in Nigerian states back in the late 1970s up to the late 1980s. I was taught by some of them and had their children as friends.
vivaladiva: to all those with poor imaginations, lets say for illustration u lord reed find ur self in a gals house, she seems cool, u guys gist for a bit and then u suddenly start feeling sleepy hmmmm kind gal dat she is--she goes ohhh u look very tired indeed do want to go into my bedroom for a lil kip----ur like yes pls, i dont know i suddenly feel very tired u gingerly make ur way to ther bed room and u crash out on the bed like a dead wasted donkey
the gal laughs in a slightly cruel manner, u hear the laughter but ur too tired to think---unbeknow to u---she sliped a lil somin somin in ur drink---enof to knock u out for about an hour giving her enof time to tie ur sorrry ignorant arse to the bed----wats more she got some of her gal mates in the next room, who have only come out now, cos she has given them the alll clear
2 of them come out to size u up and eye the prize---he is absolutely perfect stella----wat a prize look at the size of his knob---he haaaaa haaaa haaaa----we like a big knob dont we stella----well done u
an hour later ur awake, but u awaken with a very very stiff co---ck and not only that ur ignorant arse is tied to the four poster bed about to be offered up as a sacrifice---u want to scream but u just realised uve been gagged as well ooooh lord, lord reed muttered inaudible cos of his sock that has been shoved up his mouth and secured with strong body tape-----u begin to panic like a disabled chicken about to be molested by a crazy fox---u got a stiffy that wld pierce through the mattress had u been lying on ur belly, ur mind begins to race---- wat is this, wat is going on, wat did i drink----no sooner had the questions began-----3 sex y fit gals walk in---smilling devilishly----our sex slave is awake the bloody bastard, yeah he is, now its time to get busy
one by one they mount ur stiff co--ck and ride u till ur di-----ck bleeds like its that time of the month---but wait ur a man u cldnt possibly be on ur period cld u----u realise to ur stupid horror that this aint no game----shiiiiiiiit am being raped by three women----------------------hellllp u want to scream but ur stinking socks wont let u-----even with ur di---ck bleeding they wont give it a rest and wats more ur stiffy aint going down---------------------------fu---ckkkkkk u were about to scream but u pass out instead after 5 hours of pure hellll----to be continued-----will lord reed survive this rape-----find out in the next episode---its going to be even bloodier
An elephant was spotted in Ikuru town in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State on Wednesday, July 28, Reports.
It was gathered by , that the elephant came out of the forest briefly and went back in.
"In Ikuru Town Andoni, today witnessed how nature unveiled its deposit, was beautiful. Ikuru Town home of tourism" one Godwin Omayi who Notified On Facebook, wrote.
See Photos As Obtained By Below:
Source: BLOG
Awesome. Must have crossed into Andoni from the thick forests of Cameroon or Cross River State.
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Business › Re: Inside Nigeria’s First Pencil And Toothpick Factory by wealthtrak: 1:03pm On Aug 07, 2021
Some ignorant persons have as of 2021 been faIsely claiming that Nigeria doesn't produce "ordinary" toothpick and pencils. 
