GistMedia0: A funeral ceremony turned tragic in Philadelphia when a platform gave way during the burial of Benjamin Aviles, pulling multiple people — including the deceased man's son — into the grave.
The heartbreaking incident occurred during the final moments of the service for Aviles, who passed away in late March. As pallbearers were attempting to lower his casket into the ground, the platform supporting them suddenly collapsed, causing the casket and several family members to fall into the burial pit.
In a particularly shocking moment, Aviles’ son became trapped with his face pressed into the mud, pinned beneath his father's casket. Eyewitnesses described a chaotic and emotional scene as mourners screamed and rushed to help.
Several pallbearers also suffered injuries in the fall, including wounds to their legs, hands, and backs. Emergency services were called to the scene and assisted in rescuing those trapped.
The incident has left the grieving family even more devastated, turning an already painful farewell into a traumatic experience.
TopBanter: Indeed but they cannot. Even Achebe, Igbocentric and bigoted as he was, warned them to tone down their “noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness” that offends others.
What Achebe does not acknowledge about his fellow Igbos is that they are beyond redemption because they lack the humility classy people have that makes them modest and respectful towards others they are even a million miles better than.
Yorubas have this humility and that is why they are not braggarts despite their commendable and exemplary achievements worldwide in all field of human endeavor.
Igbos, conversely, are born pugnaciously arrogant and immodestly offensive sufferers of delusions of grandeur. They must push their own aberrancy in the face of others always.
Hence the reason they are never happy unless when putting others down even if they have to do that with exaggerated lies about their wealth and achievement which are actually nothing stood side by side with that of the Yorubas.
Imagine the disgraceful old Ohanaeze clown, at his age, claiming ludicrously that Igbos developed Lagos. How will the asinine claim, coming from an elder who should know better, not annoy others?
One wonders if Igbos are born with mental health issues because it is obvious there is something fundamentally wrong for them to persist with this behaviour that has made many conclude they are totally and offensively beyond redemption.
Once a sane person conclude folks who are offensive cannot change then to fight and resist them is the next and only option. This is why Igbos have quarrels with all others universally.
Gamesmart: Honestly, I have lived my life watching how some few Igbos destroy the Igbo brand.
I have also read articles and seen clips about Nigerian history, some presented by independent whites, that show that certain inter-tribal relations culture by the Igbos has not changed for the better in over 70 years.
The way Igbos were described (the good and the bad) 70, 50, 30 years ago is generally the way most Nigerians would describe them today. Fair enough that same applies to some other tribes too.
But some of the bad is highly detrimental to Igbo people and the brand today, despite the great potential and ease of that not being the case, and this is not being discussed. It is sad if you ask non-Igbo people across Nigeria the tribe they 'like the least' in Nigeria and force them to answer, Igbos would play a significant role at the top across the country. This is why the bad needs to be highlighted, discussed and action should take place to intentionally change or adjust.
Let me state some observations I have made:
The chest-beating, self-delusions of some few igbo people - Igbos don’t run Nigeria’s economy - Nigeria would not fail without Igbos - Igbos are not developing or transforming any part of Nigeria outside the SE - Igbo states are not the richest states - Igbos are not the richest Nigerians - Igbo states (or the SE region) are not the most developed even once you remove Lagos & FCT
The facts - Igbos are probably the most trade-inclined tribe - Igbos are good at trade - Igbos really only dominate (1) Transport, (2) Spare parts, (3) Electronics, (4) Building materials and (5) Hospitality sectors - Igbos are probably the tribe that are most spread across Nigeria as local residents - Igbos are highly competitive and a successful tribe in all aspects of life in Nigeria
To make clear, Igbos are not feared by other tribes, neither are other tribes jealous/envious of Igbos. The uncouth and antagonistic boisterous nature of a few, but sufficiently significant number of, Igbos and these few Igbo’s culture of trying to claim superiority or attack other tribes just ends up with the Igbos breaking/damaging bonds with other tribes.
You can be good at whatever you do, and even vocalise this prowess, without a need to boast you are better than everyone else, you are their benefactors, you dominate them and you will always be the best, especially when all you can back it up with is daft and wrong evidence. Even Messi, Lebron James, Einstein, Michael Jackson etc. do/did not talk like that.
nlfpmod: Thanks to Empress Njamah for organising this photoshoot.
It’s been one year of standing in the face of our unimaginable loss, and not a day has gone by without a thought of you. Your love still surrounds us, your laughter echoes in our hearts, and your presence is felt in the quiet moments when we miss you most.
You have no idea how tough it’s been, trying to stay strong for each other even as the world around us seems fallen apart. The grief remains heavy, the absence left a void that words can never fill, but through it all, we look up for strength from heaven as a guiding light.
Oh death, you have taught us to live each day as it comes, one step at a time bearing such extreme pain that can never go away.
I still don’t have the right words to respond to Jason and Jaden wanting to know if Daddy will fulfill his promise of taking them to a proper football academy and be present at their first official match. They said ;, “Daddy told them he wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world”. Then the littlest one (J papa as fondly called by daddy) Jamon, keeps asking when daddy is bringing the big toy car he promised him
We appreciate everyone who sympathized with us and stood and still stand by us through our time of grief. Words cannot express our heartfelt gratitude for your love and support towards us.
To our beloved, you did not only leave us, your family, but so many who loved you and loved your works. It is so difficult and unbelievable to say these words but still, continue to rest in the bossom of the Almighty. You will always be in our hearts and our thoughts and your memories and legacy will live on forever.
Though you’re no longer by our side, you live on in every memory, every smile and every tear.
We shall carry you with us always until we meet again.
We cannot question God right? May Your Soul Rest In Perfect Peace My Love 🤍
Ednut03: Lastly, forget about using your money to score a chick. Hypergamy and feminism is crazy, you will fail and you still won't get sex. Same apply to a woman
I'm sorry, but someone needs to debunk some lies we say here about white chick wanting black dick, no they don't want you, and that happen 99% of the time unless you really have the look game, look young, and work out that your chest is basically obvious
Ednut03: Ohhh yeah I'm sorry. That's true. I forgot to talk about that. White guys detest obsesse women to the point that these women are basically depressed and does not matter in the dating scenes. Go check the "Forever alone women" on Reddit. These women cry all the time because they just don't get attention from white guys.
These are The women Nigerian people score and still treat them like a price,but not even well. We also score black American women that had been damaged with severe baby daddy issue and has like 5kids, smoke like chimney, and speak like thrash
Ednut03: Yeah. There are Nigerian Men in America who has not had a decent chance at sex for years. The only chance at sex they get is when they visit Naija once in a while. You ain't even getting a white chick to talk to you or give you her number if you ain't ridiculously good looking, dress well and speak really high.
Same apply to a woman and it's even worse. Men are thirsty, unlike Women, and she might get sexed and few attentions until the sex lasts. But she's not going to get any commitment if she doesn't match the beauty standard. So, she will be lonely too. Nigerian Men are still better positioned than her. And her woes even worsen if she's above 30. They rarely get white men. No they don't, because Nigerian women also fall short of the look And beauty standard
And if you're in dating app as an average black man (you're bleeped if you're ugly), you'll, 90% of the time be swept left over.
Hence, many Nigerian guys are frustrated and won't talk about it
Don't believe the stupid lies we peddle on here about white woman loving black for our dick game. It's a lie. If you ain't 100% attractive to her, your dick game doesn't matter. You need to be tall too, because their men are really tall. You can't be 5"9 and be expecting any reasonable result scoring a white chic, it ain't happening
zero8zero: The founder of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, has addressed the notion that traveling overseas would automatically make people’s lives better.
The clergy man who advised Nigerians trying to travel to the United States (US) to stay back in their country, saying a lot of countries where people travel to with the notion that they will be successful and don’t have difficulties have their own issues.
He mentioned that even countries like the United States (US) are free from their own difficulties. He challenged the idea that leaving Nigeria guarantees ease or comfort, pointing out that every nation has its own share of problems.
He said, “Where are you running to? Is there no challenge there? There’s no free lunch anywhere. Where you are running to still has challenges. You say there’s challenge in your country and you want to run to another country? Do you think where you’re going has no challenge?
“You think there’s no challenge in America? Where will you run to now? Even those in America are now crying. Ask your brothers in America—they are crying. Okay, your brother ran to America—now America is hotter than Nigeria.”
OdionAkghigbe: …ground-breaking ceremony for June, project to be completed within 12 months
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has sealed a deal for the construction of 1,800 housing units in Benin City, with MIXTA Africa, a private property development company to boost the housing stock in Benin City, the state capital
The deal was sealed during a meeting between the Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and MIXTA Africa’s team, at the Government House, on Tuesday, in Benin City.
Obaseki said the state has acquired 75 hectares of land for the housing project which would be sited close to the Benin Industrial Park, and assured that “The state government will provide the infrastructure for the project to ensure quality and affordable homes for our people.”
He said the ground-breaking ceremony for the housing project will be done by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo in June.
The governor explained, “The plan is to provide accommodation for individuals who will be working at the Industrial Park as we anticipate that the park will create jobs.”
According to him, the housing project will boost local businesses in the state as some of the materials to be used for the project, such as ceramics, steel, roofing sheets will be produced locally in the state, noting, “We want to use the project to develop the supply chain of inputs that are locally produced in the state to grow our local businesses.”
He said the state government is in talks with civil servants on how members of the unions can access the National Housing Fund, with which they can benefit from the housing project.
He said that the state is also working with the Federal Mortgage Bank on the possibility of providing mortgage for civil servants to enable them key into the opportunities the housing project offers.
The Managing Director, MIXTA Africa, Mr. Kola Ashiru-Balogun, said the first phase of the project will commence in June and will be completed within 12 months.
Ashiru-Balogun said MIXTA Africa has a record of over 10,000 housing units developed across Africa and has decided to partner with the state because of the Obaseki led- administration's drive for developmental projects, adding that payment plan for the houses would be for 24 months and above, on interest-free rate.
He added that “MIXTA Africa is discussing with financial institutions to see how arrangement can be made to provide longer tenured financing payment plans. We recognise the market and we will offer affordable housing. The governor has indicated that we use the project to create jobs.”
PHOTO 1: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (middle); his deputy, Rt.Hon. Philip Shaibu (3rd right); Executive Chairman, Edo Development and Property Agency (EDPA), Ms Isoken Omo (second left); Managing Director, MIXTA Africa, Mr. Kola Ashiru-Balogun (3rd left); Director, MIXTA Africa, Mr. Daniel Font (left);Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Osarodion Ogie Esq. (2nd right); and Chief of Staff to Edo State Governor, Chief Taiwo Akerele (right) after sealing the deal to construct 2000 housing units in Benin City, on Tuesday, at Government House.
harnu10: Mixta Africa has invested in creating a new district along KM 40, Lekki-Epe expressway which is set to host over 200,000 residents upon completion. Over the years, we have created notable communities like Lakowe Lakes Golf and Country Estate, Beechwood Estate, Advia Plainfields etc. which is currently home to over 5000 residents. Find out more about the vision for Lagos New Town.
fergie001: Nigeria is one of the Countries seen by the USTR as involving in unfair policies facing American exporters. Others are: China, Algeria, Angola, Peru, Brazil, Japan, India, EU, Ecuador and Colombia The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has faulted Nigeria’s import ban on 25 items, saying the restrictions limit market access for American exporters.
This comes almost a week after President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on goods entering the US, with Nigeria getting 14 percent.
10/10: Nigeria's import ban on 25 different product categories impacts U.S. exporters, particularly in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, beverages, and consumer goods. Restrictions on items like beef, pork, poultry, fruit juices, medicaments, and spirits limit U.S. market access and reduce export opportunities.
These policies create significant trade barriers that lead to lost revenue for U.S. businesses looking to expand in the Nigerian market..
In 2016, the Nigerian government banned 25 items from importation as part of efforts to control imports.
These items include: live or dead Birds including Frozen Poultry, pork, beef, bird eggs, refined vegetable oil excluding refined linseed, castor and olive oil. cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form containing added flavouring or colouring matter, cocoa butter, powder and cakes, spaghetti/Noodles, fruit juice in retail packs, waters - including mineral waters and aerated Waters, containing added sugar or sweetening matter or flavoured, ice snow, other non-alcoholic beverages, etc....
On March 26, 2025, the Federal Government said plans are underway to halt the importation of solar panels to promote local manufacturing and help transition Nigeria to off-grid power solutions.
INTEGRITYA1: We should not forget that someone also said he will never leave APGA and later ran to Labour Party.
There is a saying “Never say never” it’s real.
Well said.
Peter Obi vowed not to leave APGA but left APGA for PDP then Labor Party (instead of staying back within the PDP to salvage it) which shows that Peter Obi is a man who completely lacks a moral compass and honor! The many headless chickens (including the young OP of this NL thread) who are relentlessly trying to demarket Reno Omokri on multiple threads and online while trying to make Peter into a hero here are completely the WORSE forms of dishonest people out there that I've ever seen in my several decades on Earth who are guided by primordial ethnic bigotry.
They think other folks are stupid and CANNOT see through their sinking bigotry and hypocrisy BUT they are CLEARLY mistaken.
Almunjid: If Nigerians do not take those who speak from both sides of their mouths seriously, people like Peter Obi wouldn't be as popular as he is today. Obi promised never to leave the APGA party, but he eventually did. The same Nigerians praising Obi are the ones condemning Reno Omokri—double standards.
GistMedia0: A United States citizen married to a Nigerian woman has taken to social media to express deep frustration over the challenges he’s facing in trying to acquire Nigerian citizenship and a passport, despite being legally married and having Nigerian children.
In a video making rounds online, the man, who is currently in the U.S., questioned what he described as a “double standard” in Nigeria’s immigration and citizenship process. According to him, his research online shows that when a Nigerian man marries a foreign woman, she becomes eligible to apply for a Nigerian passport almost immediately. However, the reverse doesn’t apply when a Nigerian woman marries a foreign man.
"Why is it that if a Nigerian man marries a foreigner, the wife gets her passport, but if a Nigerian woman marries a foreigner, he has to live in Nigeria for 15 years before even being considered eligible?" he asked.
The footage also shows him holding up the Nigerian passports of his wife and their children, further emphasizing his point that he is already family and committed to Nigeria by blood and marriage.
He lamented that the process appears discriminatory and questioned whether the information he found online is truly accurate or if there are exceptions. “Why me?” he repeatedly asked, hoping that what he read isn't entirely true and that there could still be a path forward for him.
joseph1832: FrOM tHE video I just watched, that might not be the groom's father, but the groom himself. It's the custom of Esan people when giving their daughter out for marriage, that her father makes her sit 11 times on her husband's laps.
So, if that is indeed the groom's father, perhaps the groom isn't around and the father is standing (that is) marrying for his son.
That's an insightful info about the Esan culture and marriage ceremony.
Gistmedia10: A wedding ceremony in Edo State has stirred online discussions after a video surfaced showing a bride sitting on her father-in-law's lap multiple times. This act, rooted in Edo tradition, symbolizes the bride being handed over to her new family. The father of the bride typically sits her on the groom’s father’s lap seven times as a ceremonial gesture of transfer and a plea for the groom’s family to care for her.
While many defended the practice as an integral part of their culture, some netizens expressed discomfort with the method, arguing that it might not resonate well in modern times. One user commented, "Some things need to change. Not because the intention is bad, but because the method is."
Others passionately upheld the tradition, emphasizing its symbolic value. Another commenter wrote, "This is normal in our tradition. It’s called handing over; it’s not just symbolic but a heartfelt gesture to ensure the bride is received with love and care by her new family."
The video has sparked a wider conversation about balancing cultural preservation with evolving societal norms.
This is an old advert for a bank that no longer exists.
It was released in the early 1990s (around 1992) and it became very popular and people nicknamed it "Give Me My Tally Number".
Good to see this ETB advert again after so many years. Thanks to YouTube. ~~~~~~~~~ NIGERIAN ADVERTS WE CAN'T FORGET EASILY || TV COMMERCIALS || NOSTALGIA || Watch till the end 👍😅
gidgiddy: Your ancestors said the same when the British came from Europe to West Africa to rain bombs and bullets on them so as to make them "Nigerians"
The people in that video who you are a supporter of are indeed highly deluded and were whipped into a state of mental hysteria! They have idiotically included several Nigerian ethnic groups and their ancestral lands into the crappy so-called "USB" entity without their permission and you are here defending the indefensible with your highly irresponsible post because YOU lack a sense of history! NO referendum was conducted in 1967 to include the non-Igbos in the secession and NON has been conducted now and some of you Igbo people have redrawn the map to include these Nigerian ethnic groups into an imaginary 40 States structure.
I've already seen STRONG and angry responses online and on YouTube from the Bini-Edos, Esan-Edos, Igalas, Ibibios and a few other Cross Rivers folks and other ethnic groups to this mass stupidity displayed by a section of Igbos in Finland (led by that U.S.-based woman in this DELUDED video who should be in jail by now like Ekpa). Igbos keep making the same overbearing mistake over and over like you are under a cultural or generational curse OR some kind of mental psychosis, which have led you to IGNORING the true feelings of other ethnic groups surrounding your lands, while using manipulative tactics to include them into another secession agenda. This is what happened in on May 30, 1967 when non-Igbos of the Old Eastern region were forced into a failed secessionist state by Colonel Emeka Ojukwu (rtd) who later ran away from Nigeria by air in January 1970 to Cote d'Ivoire. This is the reason why the so-called "biafra" FAILED woefully right from the start in 1967 because the Ijaws, Efiks, Ibibios, Annangs, Ogonis, rejected secession and other ethnicities in the newly created Mid-West State such as the Binis, Esans, Urhobos, Isokos, Etsakos, etc, also came to HATE Igbos and mobilized themselves by voluntarily joining the Nigerian Armed Forces during the Nigerian Civil War to liberate themselves from bondage due to the ill-advised Mid West invasion of 1967!
Several Niger Deltans in the Old Eastern region and the Mid West rallied round Nigerian Federal troops to defend their ancestral home lands against the aggression of a section of Igbos who crossed over from the Eastern banks of River Niger during the Nigerian Civil War (of 2 years and 6 months) from July 1967 to January 1970. Familiarity with real history NOT the illiterate or semi-literate ipob criminal propaganda you are all pushing online and offline will save Igbos from a major backlash like it happened during the Nigerian Civil War. An Igbo ONLY country is the way to go when the time comes. Don't drag others into your land encroaching spurious maps of "Biafra." Period.
DomPerignon: Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Acts 7:42-43,
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts. Amos 5:25-27
The so-called star of David is not of David nor his son Solomon but rather a symbol to Molech whom the Canaanite Edomites that followed the children of Israel out of Babylon imposed on them and forced the first fruit offering of their children to Baal.
That symbol is the most satanic imagery out there second only to the pentagram.
Continue with your foolishness. You have fully adopted satanism as your religion and that's why your region is burning.
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