I used to feel great pity for thieves like this until we became victims three years ago. Six years ago, I would have been sobbing for his act. What can I say? Both parties were wrong!

Her admittance doesn't mean she'll change. There are already too many men suffering in their marriages to gentle and quiet women. What will you do with an aggressive and temparemental one?

KevMitnick:
So what should we do with the information you have dropped? Why don't you tell us something positive...

It's quite positive. It aims to help you avoid marital disappointment.

12 Lies About Marriage You Should Know to Avoid Marital Disappointment

1. Marriage is an achievement.

Well, nowadays, most married people hide their wedding rings- the symbol of their "achievement". Who hides an achievement?

2. Marriage brings happiness.

If you are unhappy and depressed as a single, then marriage will only elevate your descent into the kingdom of Prince Melancholy, Queen Frustration and their absolute monarch King Suicide!

In other news, happiness comes from within, and not from anyone else.

Maybe you thought people divorce their spouses out of happiness, for example-
"O my marriage is so great. I love my wife so much. She's the nicest woman on earth. That's why I need to divorce her".
Or
"I ended my marriage because my husband was too lovely. He made me happy everyday and I didn't like it".

Does an intending couple make a vow to make each other happy?

3. "Your partner should be attractive"

Sexual attraction is temporary. So what will you do when your Prince Charming that swept you off your feet (figuratively) becomes Dracula and sweeps you off your feet (literally)? Or when the slay queen that drove you crazy with her beauty and curves starts driving you mad with her character?

4. There are certain qualities you must possess in order to find a spouse

Some say:
"No woman will marry a lazy man, so you must be hardworking!"
I know many lazy married men.

"You should always look good to better your chances of finding a husband". What about the multitude of good-looking single ladies and facially challenged (aka ugly) married women?


5. Marriage helps you manage your income

Very true. There two things involved here: income and expenditure. What are the chances of your income increasing when you get married? You don't earn a promotion for getting married! Now, what are the chances that your expenditure will increase when you get married? Well, do you need to get married before your expenditure increases? The day you tell a girl "I love you", your expenditure starts to increase. If you can't manage your income now that you have only your one stomach to fill, how then can you, when you have four or five stomachs to fill?

6. Marriage takes away loneliness

Loneliness is not a product of being alone. It's a product of being with the wrong person. A dog will also feel lonely in a herd of sheep. So try to settle down with the "right" person. And be sure he/she is very right, like righteously right, (and will still be right 5 years later) or divorce may be your portion.

7. "Our marriage will work because we love each other".

That is to say that all couples who divorce hated one another when they got married.

Some will say things thus "O it wasn't true love. It was lust".
Alas! So a 34 year-old bearded man will propose marriage to a lady [he has slept with] out of lust; pay the bride price, out of lust; bear the burdens of a lavished traditional marriage ceremony and church wedding, out of lust; make a vow to spend the rest of his life with her, out of lust; accept her weaknesses and defects, out of lust; carry her innumerable burdens on his shoulder, out of lust! No. Never. It was love all the way; albeit the truth is that love is not enough to make anything work, let alone a union of two grown up human beings who never knew each other from Adam or Eve.

8. Marriage makes one responsible

Our society tells you that married men are responsible. And I agree, provided that these are the attributes of a quintessential responsible man:
a. A responsible man may beat his wife whenever he's angry
b. A responsible man may never take the blame for his children's ribaldy
c. A responsible man may cheat on his wife, since it's in the nature of responsible men.

9. Marriage changes people positively

It's rather the APC kind of change: change that makes things worse. A stingy guy becomes a miser. A lazy girl becomes a house wife. A verbal-abuser become a wife-beater.

10. Marriage makes you a real man/ real woman

Touché! Now I know why fake men and fake women always desire to get married. I understand their predicament.

11. Marriage elongates your life span

Yeah. That's why married Nigerian men always live long. They always outlive their wives, don't they?

12. Marriage is compulsory: It's for everybody

It's too bad that our society thinks marriage is a mandatory exercise. Ironically, it's the people suffering in their own marriages that keep mounting the pressure on the single ones to get married. Wickedness!

13. Marriage is for better, for worse

No more. Now it's for better, for best. Nobody wants to suffer in marriage nowadays. Feminism has taught women that they are equal to their husbands. How can you admire the sophistication of modern women and expect from them the submission of ancient women?

14. Any man can get married

Only men who can tolerate women can get married. If you can't stand being insulted by a woman, you have no office in the marriage institution.

spongeisback:
Awwwwww another butthurt theist. Am guessing you're a Christian, Some churches run services from Monday-Sunday every week with loud noises and we don't complain, you can't walk a mile without being chased down by a fellow giving you a church invitation "that will change your life" even in government establishments. There's a church in almost every corner of Nigeria when you complain they talk about the "gates of hell" as if Nigeria is heaven.

Being intelligent isn't about stringing big words together.

I know your Jesus promised that you would inherit the earth but for now, they're over 4000 religions plus billions of irreligious people so if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

Stop fighting for your god, let him fight for himself.

The question still is: why do atheists feel the need to take it upon themselves to INSULT GOD (especially on religious threads that do not concern them)? Do they do it just to satisfy some sadistic lust? or do they dream that they could disillusion or convert a Christian to atheism?

Well, we are all believers; including atheists who BELIEVE that God doesn't exist.

By the way, there are no atheists in foxholes!

LordReed:


Ever heard of guilty pleasures? Chocolate for example, bad for your waistline but damn Toblerone tastes so delish.

In other words, they just enjoy trolling. OK. Now I get it. Like "We don't believe in God, but we just can't help insulting Him and trolling believers. We know it's bad to do it (chocolate), but...well, it feels good doing it (Toblerone). So let's do it."

LordReed:
LoL. Its not surprising that someone who sees portents in natural phenomenon would think that Seun not creating a page for Atheism is significant. I can bet most of the atheists here are exchristians who are drawn to the discussions by force of habit rather than for any false agenda you'd like to attribute to them. The joy of knowing that the bible is just a dumb book makes it hilarious reading the brain dead things Christians write. I used to write those dumb things too on this very same page so yeah I was dumb like y'all at some point but I thank god I can laugh at it all now. LMFAO!

Atheists are drawn to religious threads by habit? Really? Like it's their habit to go where they are not invited or welcome? It's their habit to insult God? That's schadenfreude. AND IT'S A BAD HABIT.

The disclaimer on the Religion page reads: Share your faith in God or in higher powers here. This simple page description is the only explicit base upon which Seun Osewa created the page. The Religion page is a place for people to share their beliefs in God. IT IS MEANT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN GOD.

So why do we then see this multitude of agrestic and acrasial atheists, agnostics and the other irreligious and impious lot on the Religion page whose bailiwick is to hurl inconscionable animadversion at God and His devout?

You are an atheist, fine. You don't believe in God. Happy Sunday, by the way. We can't force you to. So what are you doing on a page devoted to religious discourse?

Isn't it so beffudling to see irreligious people on a religious page?

Atheism is a spiritual and moral anomaly. It's so inconsequential and insignificant that Seun Osewa who is also an atheist couldn't create a page for it! You think about it: we have pages for such petty things as Jokes and Dating, yet not a piece of paper for Atheism. This is a vociferous testament to the fact that atheism isn't relevant enough to deserve such a recognition on a forum established by an atheist.

It also speaks volumes about the mental, moral and even medical standing of the atheist in question. Now let me show you. Read the following:

1. You don't believe in God but love commenting on posts and threads related to God. Why do you enjoy discussing what you don't believe in?

2. You relish reiterating to us that you don't believe in God. Who cares? Did we ask if you do? Or do you need to keep reminding us (and consequently yourself) that you don't believe in God? Are you afraid that should you stop professing your atheism on Nairaland, you may become a believer; because even your conscience tells you that God exist, but your mind is still dancing shaku shaku in the brodingnagian bog of coakative sciolism and
spiritual ribaldy. If not, then why do you keep restating that you don't believe in God, when nobody is even preaching to or attempting to convert you? Is that normalcy.

3. You claim to be intelligent and enlightened but you couldn't read and understand the disclaimer on the Religion page which clearly states the sole goal of the page, which is to Share your faith in God or in higher powers here. Let me break it down for your assimilation: it simply means that if you have no faith in God or higher powers, you have no business here. Just imagine a celibate on a Dating thread. What's he doing there?

4. You enjoy insulting God because you count that as bravery. You're not brave; rather cowardly. You use the anonymity Nairaland affords you to promote your impiety. Can you insult God in real life? At your place of work? In public? and damn the economic and social consequences? Have you ever wondered why atheism isn't common in Islamic nations? Or why Stephen Hawking never won the Nobel Prize in Physics?


5. Most atheists, such as Seun were raised in Christians homes. So I guess they've had a dealing with the ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ETERNAL ONE, THE MAKER OF THE UNIVERSE AND CREATOR OF EVERY ATHEIST. But they've backslided.

Now here's the meats-and-potatoes:
Despite leaving God, they still feel this deep inexpressible link to God. I tell you they do. If not, then why do they troll Religion? You no longer believe in God, but you still find religious threads irresistible. Can you imagine a man who, after breaking up with his girlfriend, still follows her on Twitter; commenting on her posts; and saying things like "I'm no longer your boyfriend" every now and then. Is he normal? Well your response is the resumé of the personality of our Nairaland trolling atheists.

PS: So if you have an iota of self-respect and dignity, stop trolling Christians. It doesn't depict you as a sensible person.

Peace.
God loves you.

Every atheist is a theist in the making.

Figures of speech in pidgin English

1. the man tall like palm tree: simile

2. see me see trouble: zeugma

3. hungry dey catch me: personification

4. I don hammer : idiom

5. yeye dey smell: metaphor

6. na which kain problem be this?: rhetorical question

7. I fit die ontop your matter:
hyperbole

8. you dey crase?: rhetorical question

9. you see wetin i dey talk: synaesthesia

10. the thing no bad sha: litotes,

11. she don get belle: euphemism

12. leave matter for Marthias : aliteration

13. e no go easy for ezekiel: assonance

14. I no gree, i no gree na im dey tear cloth: repetition

15. monkey dey work; baboon dey chop: antithesis

16. plaintain dey come (plaintain hawker): metonymy

17. how bodi? Synedoche

18. your story get k-leg: metaphor

19. Make I come dey go: paradox

20.
Child: Mommy where I go drop the plate?
Mother: Drop am for my head.
-sarcasm

jesais24:
Despite the rife colossal depreciation in the standards and quality of formal education across the nation, some exemplary Nigerian children have risen to the task of proving, beyond every reasonable doubt, that there is still an eximious promise for our collective future. Below is one of such rare geniuses discovered in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.


So we had this inaugural Secondary School Students Open Letter Competition between Monday 17 and Tuesday 18, September; after which Master Zacharias Godgift, a 12 year-old JS2 student of Child of Promise Academy, Azikoro, emerged as the unanimous winner with his open letter to Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari.


As you will see, the conspicuous X-factor in this pre-teenage boy's letter is his succinct albeit cogent
elaborations, organisational skills and unbelievable command of the English language-definitely a laudable achievement for someone who has spent only about a year in secondary school.


See the excerpts of the breathtaking letter below:




The President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Aso Rock,
Abuja.


Your Excellency,
STATE OF THE NATION


The problems facing Nigeria are numerous. Over seventy percent of the population live below a US dollar daily. This portrays the high level of poverty. Many people are practically living from hand to mouth.


Secondly, corruption, as a cankerworm, has eaten deep into the fabric of the country. From the leaders to the followers, the majority of Nigerians have their hands deep in one corrupt practice or another.


Thirdly, the ethnic groups are not treated with equity. This causes conflict and enmity, which can lead to the destruction of lives and property; and the insurgency that has destroyed the lives of people.


Fourthly, due to the high level of poverty in the country, a lot of children die of malnutrition, diseases and the likes. Their parents cannot afford to provide the necessary nutrition and health care.


Worse still, the number of unemployed persons is continually on the rise. The hope of getting a job after graduation for the average Nigerian graduate becomes dimmer by the day. This is because the standard of education has dropped. This has caused social problems as an average Nigerian graduate cannot compete favourably with his or her counterparts in other parts of the world.


As bad as it is, there are still measures which you could take to solve these problems. First of all, your government should be preoccupied with creating jobs for the teeming population of jobseekers. The availability of jobs would reduce the rate of poverty in the country.


In addition, the educational sector needs to be revamped to meet international standards.


Moreover, the legal system should be made to punish persons found guilty of corruption and violence accordingly, in order to serve as a deterrent to others.


Finally, as the 2019 general elections are fast-approaching, your government should ensure that they are free and fair; so that people will have rest of mind while and after voting, and the candidates of the people's choice win.


I will be glad if you will do all these things for our nation.


Yours faithfully,
Zacharias Godgift

THE FACT IS: Nigerian children are smart and creative. All they need is just the opportunity to express are innovative selves.

Ekez:
Wait,na Buhari you de blow grammar for?

LOL! Somebody go read for am na

Ekez:
The way things de go ,eveybody go write letter go give buhari.

oboy na true you talk. Even Boko Haram go soon write open letter

jumobi1:

Nigeria isn’t special to God. Nigerians will deliver Nigeria. When? Idk.

also very true. Our destiny lies in our own hands.

chiefolododo:
Boy don't disturb yourself.Take heart ,God will deliver Nigeria

Yes, He will. We've got to keep home alive.

In my opinion it's simply a masterpiece: a rare achievement for a Junior Secondary school student. Especially in our society today, where most students (even in the higher institutions) seem to lack the rudimentary skills of basic literary composition.

Despite the rife colossal depreciation in the standards and quality of formal education across the nation, some exemplary Nigerian children have risen to the task of proving, beyond every reasonable doubt, that there is still an eximious promise for our collective future. Below is one of such rare geniuses discovered in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.


So we had this inaugural Secondary School Students Open Letter Competition between Monday 17 and Tuesday 18, September; after which Master Zacharias Godgift, a 12 year-old JS2 student of Child of Promise Academy, Azikoro, emerged as the unanimous winner with his open letter to Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari.


As you will see, the conspicuous X-factor in this pre-teenage boy's letter is his succinct albeit cogent
elaborations, organisational skills and unbelievable command of the English language-definitely a laudable achievement for someone who has spent only about a year in secondary school.


See the excerpts of the breathtaking letter below:




The President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Aso Rock,
Abuja.


Your Excellency,
STATE OF THE NATION


The problems facing Nigeria are numerous. Over seventy percent of the population live below a US dollar daily. This portrays the high level of poverty. Many people are practically living from hand to mouth.


Secondly, corruption, as a cankerworm, has eaten deep into the fabric of the country. From the leaders to the followers, the majority of Nigerians have their hands deep in one corrupt practice or another.


Thirdly, the ethnic groups are not treated with equity. This causes conflict and enmity, which can lead to the destruction of lives and property; and the insurgency that has destroyed the lives of people.


Fourthly, due to the high level of poverty in the country, a lot of children die of malnutrition, diseases and the likes. Their parents cannot afford to provide the necessary nutrition and health care.


Worse still, the number of unemployed persons is continually on the rise. The hope of getting a job after graduation for the average Nigerian graduate becomes dimmer by the day. This is because the standard of education has dropped. This has caused social problems as an average Nigerian graduate cannot compete favourably with his or her counterparts in other parts of the world.


As bad as it is, there are still measures which you could take to solve these problems. First of all, your government should be preoccupied with creating jobs for the teeming population of jobseekers. The availability of jobs would reduce the rate of poverty in the country.


In addition, the educational sector needs to be revamped to meet international standards.


Moreover, the legal system should be made to punish persons found guilty of corruption and violence accordingly, in order to serve as a deterrent to others.


Finally, as the 2019 general elections are fast-approaching, your government should ensure that they are free and fair; so that people will have rest of mind while and after voting, and the candidates of the people's choice win.


I will be glad if you will do all these things for our nation.


Yours faithfully,
Zacharias Godgift

Epic piece

rusep:
Www

without doubt, the student is a genius. Great letter!

Despite the rife colossal depreciation in the standards and quality of formal education across the nation, some exemplary Nigerian children have risen to the task of proving, beyond every reasonable doubt, that there is still an eximious promise for our collective future. Below is one of such rare geniuses whom we discovered in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.


So we organised this inaugural Secondary School Students Open Letter Competition between Monday 17 and Tuesday 18, September; after which Master Zacharias Godgift, a 12 year-old JS2 student of Child of Promise Academy, Azikoro, emerged as the unanimous winner with his open letter to Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari.


As you will see, the conspicuous X-factor in this pre-teenage boy's letter is his succinct albeit cogent
elaborations, organisational skills and unbelievable command of the English language-definitely a laudable achievement for someone who has spent only about a year in secondary school.


See the excerpts of the breathtaking letter below:


[NB: these are the words of a 12 year-old JS2 student]



The President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Aso Rock,
Abuja.


Your Excellency,
STATE OF THE NATION


The problems facing Nigeria are numerous. Over seventy percent of the population live below a US dollar daily. This portrays the high level of poverty. Many people are practically living from hand to mouth.


Secondly, corruption, as a cankerworm, has eaten deep into the fabric of the country. From the leaders to the followers, the majority of Nigerians have their hands deep in one corrupt practice or another.


Thirdly, the ethnic groups are not treated with equity. This causes conflict and enmity, which can lead to the destruction of lives and property; and the insurgency that has destroyed the lives of people.


Fourthly, due to the high level of poverty in the country, a lot of children die of malnutrition, diseases and the likes. Their parents cannot afford to provide the necessary nutrition and health care.


Worse still, the number of unemployed persons is continually on the rise. The hope of getting a job after graduation for the average Nigerian graduate becomes dimmer by the day. This is because the standard of education has dropped. This has caused social problems as an average Nigerian graduate cannot compete favourably with his or her counterparts in other parts of the world.


As bad as it is, there are still measures which you could take to solve these problems. First of all, your government should be preoccupied with creating jobs for the teeming population of jobseekers. The availability of jobs would reduce the rate of poverty in the country.


In addition, the educational sector needs to be revamped to meet international standards.


Moreover, the legal system should be made to punish persons found guilty of corruption and violence accordingly, in order to serve as a deterrent to others.


Finally, as the 2019 general elections are fast-approaching, your government should ensure that they are free and fair; so that people will have rest of mind while and after voting, and the candidates of the people's choice win.


I will be glad if you will do all these things for our nation.


Yours faithfully,
Zacharias Godgift

Despite the rife colossal depreciation in the standards and quality of formal education across the nation, some exemplary Nigerian children have risen to the task of proving, beyond every reasonable doubt, that there is still an eximious promise for our collective future. Below is one of such rare geniuses discovered in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.


So we had this inaugural Secondary School Students Open Letter Competition between Monday 17 and Tuesday 18, September; after which Master Zacharias Godgift, a 12 year-old JS2 student of Child of Promise Academy, Azikoro, emerged as the unanimous winner with his open letter to Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari.


As you will see, the conspicuous X-factor in this pre-teenage boy's letter is his succinct albeit cogent
elaborations, organisational skills and unbelievable command of the English language-definitely a laudable achievement for someone who has spent only about a year in secondary school.


See the excerpts of the breathtaking letter below:




The President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Aso Rock,
Abuja.


Your Excellency,
STATE OF THE NATION


The problems facing Nigeria are numerous. Over seventy percent of the population live below a US dollar daily. This portrays the high level of poverty. Many people are practically living from hand to mouth.


Secondly, corruption, as a cankerworm, has eaten deep into the fabric of the country. From the leaders to the followers, the majority of Nigerians have their hands deep in one corrupt practice or another.


Thirdly, the ethnic groups are not treated with equity. This causes conflict and enmity, which have led to the destruction of lives and property; and the insurgency that has destroyed the lives of people.


Fourthly, due to the high level of poverty in the country, a lot of children die of malnutrition, diseases and the likes. Their parents cannot afford to provide the necessary nutrition and health care.


Worse still, the number of unemployed persons is continually on the rise. The hope of getting a job after graduation for the average Nigerian graduate becomes dimmer by the day. This is because the standard of education has dropped. This has caused social problems as an average Nigerian graduate cannot compete favourably with his or her counterparts in other parts of the world.


As bad as it is, there are still measures which you could take to solve these problems. First of all, your government should be preoccupied with creating jobs for the teeming population of jobseekers. The availability of jobs would reduce the rate of poverty in the country.


In addition, the educational sector needs to be revamped to meet international standards.


Moreover, the legal system should be made to punish persons found guilty of corruption and violence accordingly, in order to serve as a deterrent to others.


Finally, as the 2019 general elections are fast-approaching, your government should ensure that they are free and fair; so that people will have rest of mind while and after voting, and the candidates of the people's choice win.


I will be glad if you will do all these things for our nation.


Yours faithfully,
Zacharias Godgift