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Romance / Re: She Gave Me Gonorrhea Should I Dump Her? by KUNTA007: 9:47am On Apr 24, 2022
Sorry I did not read everything you wrote but with the little I understood, treat her and treat yourself preferably injection treatment if she gives it to you in feature then no more excuses but make sure it’s only her you go intimate with
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Positions Missiles, Heavy Military Equipment On Finland Border (Pics) by KUNTA007: 1:55pm On Apr 13, 2022
Stvpid lie. We are not in winter, no such amount of snow now. Get job OP
Travel / Ukraine: She’s Pregnant, Stranded In Poland by KUNTA007: 2:35pm On Mar 27, 2022
Ukraine: She’s pregnant, stranded in Poland; ‘loan shark waiting for me in Nigeria’
March 27, 2022
…Life in a refugee camp in Warsaw has left

Vera (surname withheld) without much to do other than reflect on all the war has cost her after she fled Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.

After more than three years at a Ukrainian university, she is left with little proof of her hard work and investment in her education but also financial uncertainty back home in her native Nigeria.



“I wouldn’t say my dreams are shattered,” she said. “They’re just on hold.”

In 2019, the Nigerian national, now 24, moved abroad to study international relations at East Ukrainian National University in Luhansk, thanks to nearly $16,000 in savings and money from her family.

“It was no small [effort],” she told Al Jazeera. “[So], it had to be worth it. I had to work hard to succeed.” A year later, the coronavirus pandemic struck. Vera moved to Kyiv to continue her degree remotely, where she paid for her school fees with money earned as a part-time cleaner.

Before the first bombs fell, she had no plans to leave, until Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised the invasion of Ukraine and shelling began.
At the time, she was just one semester away from graduation and hitting the workforce for a well-paid job. But now, all her work over the last three and a half years seems to have gone, literally, up in flames.

Escape from Kyiv

About 76,000 international students are registered in Ukraine, many from Africa, India or the Middle East. Nigeria accounts for the majority of these students.

Among other reasons, Ukraine provides a cheaper alternative to elsewhere in Europe and Nigerian students also want to escape regular strikes by university lecturers at home, which disrupt lessons.

Like thousands of others, Vera’s escape from Ukraine began when she woke to the sounds of bombing in Kyiv. She packed a small suitcase and began a four-day journey that included struggling to get on packed trains, buses and walking in the cold, all with little food or water.

She travelled with her younger sister, also a student in Ukraine. They kept each other warm when huddled in the cold, at temperatures sometimes as low as -8 degrees.

All of this was made more difficult by the fact that Vera is three months pregnant with her first child and had to flee Ukraine alone, as her husband, a used-car salesman, is back in Nigeria managing their remaining source of income. She explained that her pregnancy has been difficult. “Carrots are the only thing that I can eat right now,” she said, sitting up in bed to eat her first meal of the day in the middle of the afternoon.

Soon after she crossed the border into Poland she fainted from exhaustion, she told Al Jazeera. She woke up in a Polish hospital near the border with a feeding tube in her neck and, after three days of recovery, continued by train to Warsaw, where she found her current shelter.

While Ukrainian women passed through the borders within minutes, Vera said the border officials made her wait more than four hours in the cold to cross. When she reached the shelter at a camp in Warsaw, more than four hours away from the border by car, she was given a bed, food and medicine.

She also received legal advice to help her navigate whether she will be allowed to stay or will be forced to travel again.

Dreams on hold

But it is not her long journey that keeps her up at night, she said. It is the financial crisis she may face at home, due to the continuing war.

To pay for her education, her husband first took out a $4,000 loan from a Nigerian loan shark to cover the last semester of her undergraduate degree. The investment was worth it, based on the earning potential from a degree at a foreign university. She and her husband even had plans to move abroad to a more vibrant economy than Ukraine – perhaps Canada or the United States.

To secure the loan, her husband had to put up collateral, so with limited options, he offered the deed to his family’s land back in southern Nigeria, which has been passed down for generations. The land was intended to one day provide a home for them and their future children.

Vera said the value of the land – perhaps as much as $12,000 – far surpasses the loan amount but the heritage of the land and its importance to her husband’s family is priceless.

“It is so hard for me to think about this,” she said, tearing up at the Warsaw refugee centre dedicated to Nigerians fleeing Ukraine. “I cry when I am alone.”

Her family have no idea how they will repay the money, she said, adding that her husband has just two months to pay it or his family’s land will be seized.

Because she is pregnant and a non-European Union citizen without the right to work in Poland, or elsewhere in the EU, she fears that she will have to return to Nigeria with nothing to show for her years of hard work and investment.

“The loan shark doesn’t care if I’m dead,” she said. “He is going to get his money back, one way or another.”

Vera is still seeking other options, such as possibly transferring to another university. The idea of starting all over again, especially when her husband is still in Nigeria and she has a baby on the way, seems too much to bear.

On March 2, the European Commission said it would help refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine under its Temporary Protection Directive – a law established following the refugee crises in Europe in the 1990s as a result of the Yugoslav wars. The programme promises up to 18 months’ stay in the EU with access to welfare, jobs and healthcare, and is extendable up to three years.
However, it will not benefit international students and short-term visa holders.

Ylva Johannson, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, in a March 8 speech, said she was “so proud of how member states were able to get together and make this decision when it was really necessary” before adding the caveat that students and short-term visa holders would be ineligible to seek asylum.

“We welcome them, we help them to evacuate, but they also have to go back to their countries of origin,” Johannson said of short-term visa holders in Ukraine.

For international students like Vera, this means she likely faces forced repatriation to Nigeria.

But Vera says she is uncertain if her future is there. “I left Nigeria because I wanted to find more stability in a better place,” she said. “I worked hard, I became a student, I deserve to be able to continue to reach my goals. I want a future.”

•Source: Aljazeera

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/nigerian-woman-who-fled-ukraine-pregnant-stranded-in-poland-says-loan-shark-waiting-for-me-in-nigeria/
Crime / PSC Wants Abba Kyari Dismissed, Prosecuted by KUNTA007: 10:16am On Feb 05, 2022
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has advised for the immediate dismissal and prosecution of disgraced Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari.
The supercop was accused of collecting $1 million to arrest and detain another member of the criminal syndicate for several weeks who was at loggerheads with Hushpuppi.
According to two sources and internal memos, the PSC warned that if Abba Kyari is not properly disciplined he could jeopardize the reputation of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF).
Allowing somebody who has embarrassed the country to keep a high-ranking position in the police could further compound our problems as a nation,” a top official told The Gazette.
It was gathered that panellists at PSC gave the Inspector-General, Alkali Baba Usman, two weeks to come up with a better report or the PSC would be forced to take decisive action.
The IGP recommended demotion of Abba Kyari from DCP [deputy police commissioner] to ACP [assistant police commissioner] and this led to the anger of the PSC,” another source at the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department revealed.
According to Peoples Gazette, IGP Usman had said in his report that Kyari should be given another chance to redeem himself because he had “won many medals”, “positively projected the image of the NPF”.
Acknowledging Abba Kyari’s strides, the PSC panel said his infractions as to Hushpuppi’s criminal activities were too weighty to be swept under the rug.
“Nothing short of his dismissal and prosecution will be acceptable to the commission,” an official said. “The IG has been asked to go and do the right thing by recommending his dismissal and prosecution or everything will be forced on him.”

Source https://www.intelregion.com/news/psc-wants-abba-kyari-dismissed-prosecuted/

Business / Re: How Loan Company Scattered My Friend's Birthday Party by KUNTA007: 10:22am On Jan 02, 2022
JackDaAlienz:
This guy is a huge big boy with tattoo
As in fresh guy from PH.

I was in his house for birthday 27th December.
As we were vibing and playing jams fine fine girls just enter. We reach like 20 inside his apartment.

He was playing music from his iphone connected to bluetooth speaker. I guess he went oustide and gave the phone to his guy to be doing Dj..

When a call came in and i guess his guy answered it forgetting that it was connected to speaker.

The next thing we heard was a lady voice saying "your loan at L credit is ovderdue
Please pay up blah blah...

I swear we were confused at first then the guy holding the phone was trying his best to end the call but i dont know why it took that long to end it.

Omo the girls started giggling and chu chu chuing around. It's when the guy came in he didn't know what happened and i guess nobody wanted to bring it up.

Naso the guy dey ginger say Make we drink well well say today money go scatter everywhere.

Some of his friends were laughing at him but him think say na vibes.
He didnt know they are laughing because they heard the call from the loan company.
Na that day I know say fake bros and hoes full everywhere.

If you believe this story, you need to go back to primary school.
Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 8:13pm On Oct 03, 2021
dgitrader:

While I was doing agro-business with astc, you were just a petty thief, and now you want to tell me about commercial apples? I get it.

Whatever just say things you know that’s all. I see your maturity now. No hard feelings my message was clear.

It’s the rain that made house pigeon and chicken shares same shelter. I don’t know you and you don’t know me. If you feel offended sorry.

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Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 8:57am On Oct 03, 2021
Limassol:
My brother person wey get money no dey find awoof, i you go to station market in Kaduna,many of these fruits could be found there. Wetin spoil jos na crisis.

True talk but we where not using it for business as it’s was my neighborhood I had access to them. Well just saying Jos has good weather to grow lots of fruits if it’s going to be for business.
If you are close to someone in jos you will know where and where to go to that is safe
Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 8:28am On Oct 03, 2021
Limassol:
You guys are damn lucky... Do you still live there?

Don’t live there at the moment but was born and brought up there. When we where kids we enjoyed lots of fruits for free. From apple, cashew, strawberries, grapes, tanjarin sorry got the spelling wrong but in the orange family. Go to NVRI K-Vom Jos you will see lots of free fruits
Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 7:47am On Oct 03, 2021
dgitrader:


Don't mind all the sentiments above. No farm has ever produce a full box of apples in Jos, not even the Israeli assisted astc at its prime. Yet some are claiming it grows in Jos. If a produce can't be in commercial quantity or basic quality, why make noise about it?
OP, commercial apple � can't be produced in Jos, simple

Bro grow up and don’t say what you don’t know. I have been there in that agricultural farm. You can eat as much as you want but you can’t take out. It’s all fenced. Let’s try testify to only things we know. When I was a kid me and my friends go there to steal apples. We were once even arrested for stealing lots of apples there. That was then they told us if we want to eat let’s eat but not take out

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Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 7:39am On Oct 03, 2021
Limassol:
You mean strawberries grows in Jos? Kai! I swear if this is true that place is blessed.

Yes but specially planted but for blue berries they grow in Jos randomly in the hills we call them LEMUN SUNSU. Meaning orange for birds. We go to the hills and get them for free

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Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 7:35am On Oct 03, 2021
RedEnergy:
Apple grows in Jos due to its unique cold environment. Seen it before. They have an apple farm at National institute of Agriculture something something, can't remember the full name, in Jos. But not in enough mass commercial quantity because I think that was part of the institute's research project of trying to find ways to make that possible.

We call that place roots crops it’s managed by the federal government. It’s in Jo’s south just after National institute for policy and strategy studies NIPSS before you get to National veterinary research institute kvom NVRI. That’s where you will see the farm. But I believe the federal government uses it for research
Agriculture / Re: Does Apple Grow In Nigeria? by KUNTA007: 4:56am On Oct 03, 2021
100% grows in Jos plateau state. I can give location of a farm of apples in Jos though don’t know if they still maintain the farm cos it was a long time I visited [color=#006600][/color]

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Foreign Affairs / Re: RUSSIA Has Vowed To SINK British Warships The Next They Sail Too Close To Crimea by KUNTA007: 10:44pm On Jun 24, 2021
mrksquare:


This is the not the first time Crimea has been annexed by Russian. This is probably the second time. Ukraine isn't a match for Russian. Russian calls the shot in Eastern Europe.

Please educate me when was the first time? Ukraine got independent 1991
Foreign Affairs / Re: RUSSIA Has Vowed To SINK British Warships The Next They Sail Too Close To Crimea by KUNTA007: 9:45pm On Jun 24, 2021
No be video game at all. Everything happening Russia has been planning it for decades believe me. As I write now Russia is planning the whole of Europe no matter how many years it will take them. I experienced live how they annexed Crimea. No war, nothing, just quite and calm they took that place. Don’t joke with them.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: RUSSIA Has Vowed To SINK British Warships The Next They Sail Too Close To Crimea by KUNTA007: 9:31pm On Jun 24, 2021
WATCHMANX:
Wetin you still dey do for Kiev?
You better leaves now because,"The Russians are coming!' undecided

Wahala ooohh the signs are showing. Where person go run go now?
Foreign Affairs / Re: RUSSIA Has Vowed To SINK British Warships The Next They Sail Too Close To Crimea by KUNTA007: 8:01pm On Jun 24, 2021
I knew something was not right with the way helicopters were just hovering around today in Kiev

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Politics / Re: Banning Of Opened Grazing Vs Banning Of Spare Parts. by KUNTA007: 8:50am On May 21, 2021
QuotaSystem:
Your insults only highlights your upbringing.

Did you read my submission on the deadly effects of FAKE & Aba made counterfeit spare parts, tyres and counterfeit drugs that are killing people every year in the north and other parts of Nigeria? You think they can't be banned? Lol.

Is there anyone else that deceives & endangers the lives of Nigerians with FAKE, SUBSTANDARD & COUNTERFEIT products like una?

Of course if you're like the typical ipob zombie you only read what you want to see and that's totally your migraine headache.



Guy I am really sorry but you need to be shot on the head. Let me try bring you up a bit. I am not an Igbo and I leaved all my life in the northern part of Nigeria.

I understand all your allegations but think of it like this. An Igbo man comes to the north rents or buys a shop, first he has contributed to the economy of that state by feeding the family of the owner of the shop who is definitely a northerner. Now you noticed he is bringing in fake products, with that common sense, you will not patronise him again. After he has spent two years without patronage no one will tell him to leave or change the line of business. But he has been there for almost 20 years doing same thing according to you and you keep buying from them willingly cos an Igbo man will never use AK 47 to force you to enter his shop to buy spare parts or drugs. You see why I said northerns don’t have common sense not to talk of sense?
But the Fulani will take your land by force. Have you ever had a Fulani man renting or buying land? They instead of contributing to the economy of the state still destroy their farms kill them and you are here debating it. Bro grow brain abeg.
I DONT KNOW YOUR AGE BUT IT SEEMS YOU GUYS ARE NOT GROWING WITH YOUR BRAINS

I remain KUNTA fighting for freedom

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Politics / Re: Banning Of Opened Grazing Vs Banning Of Spare Parts. by KUNTA007: 2:28am On May 21, 2021
QuotaSystem:
Is the sale of FAKE spare parts not criminal?

Is the sale of fake, retreaded tyres not criminal? Tyres that fail and cause fatal accidents claiming the lives of innocent Nigerians?

Fake medicines nko? Did MyPikin teething mixture made in the east not lead to the death of several innocent Nigerian babies? Do you know how many criminals bring concealed fake drugs daily to the North under the guise of bringing spare parts?

Nobody has the monopoly of bigoted madness concealed under the toga of insecurity. There will surely be consequences.

YOU ARE A MUMU MAN

Why don’t you northerners not having common sense not to talk of sense. Do they take your shops in the north by force, do they rape your women and daughters, do they kidnap your children and ask for money before realising them, do they kill your men, do you see them with AK 47, if you want to buy any spare part no one will force you. It’s entirely your choice and that’s what is democracy.

I REPEAT AGAIN YOU ARE A MUMU MAN.
We must separate cos I can’t imagine myself in same society with someone like you.

I remain KUNTA fighting for freedom

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Business / Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 15 by KUNTA007: 11:45am On May 09, 2021
You can make money in one week. Try me for one week.

I remain KUNTA fighting for freedom

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