I really want to appreciate the author of this short story. I didn't want to read it in bits so I waited for all the parts. I have even printed everything out and binded it, so i can share with friends. Not to worry, the writer gets his full credit, I went to Unilag and studied English language for my first degree, so i know the rules. Please i would like to read about more short stories. If he is interested, he could try ANA (Association of Nigerian Authors), i know they are always looking for short stories and new authors.
Take care.

I believe you should tell them both. I had a similar experience and have stopped talking to my cousin when i found out that he had know for months and didnt tell me. I have forgiven all parties involved, but i dont want them in my life anymore

What has the person's age got to do with his/her ability to do the job? You think people within the age bracket has the EXPERIENCE you are clamoring for? Better go get a yahoo yahoo boy for the position. Shior

Applicants would have to own their own blackberry and laptop? Can your proposed 20,000 salary even buy a bb not to talk of laptop? better go to primary and recriut children

My fellow Nigerians, it is such a pity and an outcry that the state of the country has come to this. In other countries that do not have crude oil, you will not hear of increase in price of petroleum products. America for example, buys its petroleum products and there has never been the case of shortage or crazy increase in price. If the government of nigeria would go ahead and justify the need to remove the subsidy, i believe the should go ahead and justify the need to increase people's salary to be able to cope with the increase in the cost of living and the salary increment should be with immediate effect as the subsidy removal and the hike in prices was with immediate effect.

My people na so d tin b 4 our country oooo . I once had a neighbour dt had kids like dt. He didnt seem to have any source of income and as of the time my family moved to dt area, he had like five but had lost two to the fire dt gutted his shank. He lived in a make-shift house covered with roofing sheet. Before i left d place like four years later, he had had three more kids. D wife sells fruits in season and groundnut to sustain the family. They couldnt even buy uniform for d kids to go to public school. People in the area used to help them out with clothes and food. I stopped giving them things when i noticed d woman was pregnant with d 7th child.
I feel dt since d man is jobless, he gives himself work by sleeping with d wife. Rich people dont have much kids cos they dont have the time. both husband and wife are running after money and by the time they get back home, they are both too tired to b intimate

Banning pure water is not the solution to the issue. Educating people about the proper way to dispose the litter will not help. fashola has tried by providing trash can in strategic locations but this to no avail because some have been stolen by fellow Nigerians and the ones that still exist are so full that you tend to wonder what is really under all the gabage.
In developed countries, they also have the issue of waste disposal and they have been able to work around it. They have companies that come around on specific days to collect trash and some come around to collect recycleable trash. If you go into stores to buy things, you would be given discount for reusing your old grocery bag and a coupon could be given to you for just returning the used grocery bag back to the store. You would be amazed at the rate at which the whites keep coupons from stores and the day they decide to do their grocery shopping, they end up paying peanuts just because they had accumulated coupons.
The only language Nigerians understand is naira or something that can serve as a medium of exchange. Let us give people incentives for returning their pure-water bags.
We can do the following for the people:
*Tell people they would get one free pure water for every ten empty pure-water sachet they bring in.
*N10 for every 20 empty pure-water sachet they return
* Free bag of pure-water for every 100 empty sachet you bring in regardless of the condition.

For the investors:
*This is a free way of getting materials to recycle for their products. It would save them alot of money than buying raw materials for production.
Work with the manufacturers of the pure water that buy the nylon from you. Offer them incentives and discount for every 10,000 - 100,000 above of empty pure water sachets that they return back to you.

This way everybody is happy, people keep their jobs and jobs are even created for people who dont have any as you will see people going about looking for empty sachets.

This may not be the perfect solution but believe me, it would go along way to help

frank3.16:

ah!! they have definitely Were Intimate, all this ones na story.

i think my advice will go to you the poster, why do u keep such a very very foolish girl as a friend, dont u think it will make u look stoopid? sorry i think u are also dumb for not having the answer before coming here with this problem

rubish!!

I think it is past your bedtime, so u need to go and sleep. No one is charging u for your comment and i cant recall offering a reward for comments posted. If you cant give a simple advise without getting abusive, better just read other people's comments and enjoy the rest of your day.

There was this successful lady,  she is the CEO of several group of companies. Companies she built with her sweat and time. But all this time she was acquiring fame and fortune, she forgot that she needed a man in her life. It was when she turned 38 that she realise time is almost passing her by. She decided to put out an advert in the newpapers for a husband but being the person she is, she added some qualifications the candidate must have:
1) You must not beat her
2) you will not run away with her money
3) you must be good in bed.
Trust my fellow Nigerians, 8 o' clock the next day, the queue in front of her house was longer than INEC line.
The first guy came in, wanting to impress her claimed he was the one that broke Ben Johnson world record of the fastest man in the world - Disqualified
The Second guy said he has a level 7 black belt in takwando - disqualified
All the guys came in but no one possessed all the qualities she wanted. She was disheartened and decided she would remove the advert the next day and probably travel abroad to cool her nerves. Just as she was turning in for the day, her door bell rang. The maid went to the door and looked through the peep hole but saw no-one and told her boss so. The door bell rang the second time and the madam decided to see who was playing pranks. She peeped through the peep hole and saw no-one, but she still went ahead to open the door. Behold there was a cripple outside.
Madam: What do you want?
Stranger: I came for the husband advert
Madam: You cant be serious, what would i want a cripple for?
Stranger: But you did not specify that you did not want a handicap?
The woman seeing that the stranger was right, still would not let him into the house but decided to interview right there by the door. Not wanting to waste any more of her time, she want straight to asked the three questions
Madam: How do i know you will not beat me?
Stranger: You can see i have no hands
Madam: How do i know you will not run away with my money?
Stranger: Am crippled, where do i want to run to?
Madam: How do i know you are good in bed?
Stranger: what do you think i pressed the door bell with?

Richvkunt:

Sorry to keep asking questions,But how old are these two people?

She just turned 29, i believe the guy is older than her. She had lived a sheltered life all her life which is why i believe she is having this issue. The guy is matured and i know he is having his fun elsewhere. He knows she is naive and he is using that to his advantage. I had tried talking with the guy but he told me to mind my business

Richvkunt:


QUESTION: Has your friend had se-x with this person?

She said they had kind of fooled around with touching, smooching and kissing. They tried the sex once but because she was a virgin, it was painful and he could not penetrate, so she asked him to stop. She started to bleed, so i guess he had penetration but they have not tried it again since then.

Thank you very much

Natasha,,:

there's a thin line between foolishness and love and clearly your friend is crossing that line 

She should leave him its obvious he's playing with sometimes she just has to forget about the fact that she loves him, the guy is trying to ruin her FGS its damn obvious, please you should help your friend she needs you do everything you can try as much as possible to convince her never to go on like that, ask if if that's the kind of life she wants, if this continues tell your friend this guy might chase her Mr right when he comes, she has to stand strong and if she really wants to experience love then she should stop looking his way, cos she won't find it there.

Thank you very much, i thought i was the only person thinking in that line.

Please dear nairalanders, i need your opinion on this situation with a friend. My friend met this guy a while back. They had mutual friends but they never went past pleasentries. She had a nasty break-up with the former boyfriend and this guy came into the picture. He had probably heard from their mutual friends about her break up and the guy too just got dumped by his girlfriend. He went through a hard time trying to convince my friend of his affection and that he was ready to move on with a new person. After a while my friend decided to give him a try. The minute she agreed, the guy seemed happy to the moons. After a couple of weeks, he started acting funny claiming my friend reminds him so much of his ex-girlfriend and he doesnt want to continue with the relationship again to which my friend said it is ok. It was painful as she had developed some likeness for the guy.
The issue now is anytime my friend meets someone new and decides to move on with her life, this guy comes begging with apologies and promises to be a better person. He does all he can to break the new relationship and get my friends attention back to him. Once he gets this, he starts acting funny again saying he has not made up his mind on having a relationship with her. This has happened like 4times over the past 20months and he still saying he has not make up his mind. I really feel for my friend as i know she really likes the guy and i dont know what else to say to her, so please i need your advise.
N.B: serious advise only! thank you.

Please dear nairalanders, i need ur opinion on this situation with a friend. My friend met this guy a while back. They had mutual friends but they never went past pleasentries. She had a nasty break-up with the former boyfriend and this guy came into the picture. He had probably heard from their mutual friends about her break up and the guy too just got dumped by his girlfriend. He went through a hard time trying to convince my friend of his affection and that he was ready to move on with a new person. After a while my friend decided to give him a try. The minute she agreed, the guy seemed happy to the moons. After a couple of weeks, he started acting funny claiming my friend reminds him so much of his ex-girlfriend and he doesnt want to continue with the relationship again to which my friend said it is ok. It was painful as she had developed some likeness for the guy.
The issue now is anytime my friend meets someone new and decides to move on with her life, this guy comes begging with apologies and promises to be a better person. He does all he can to break the new relationship and get my friends attention back to him. Once he gets this, he starts acting funny again saying he has not made up his mind on having a relationship with her. This has happened like 4times over the past 20months and he still saying he has not make up his mind. I really feel for my friend as i know she really likes the guy and i dont know what else to say to her, so please i need your advise.
N.B: serious advise only! thank you.

I think it is the person's personality that you have to look into. Just the fact that one is from a broken home does not mean the person should be stereotyped. Broken homes do affect the children both negatively and positively. Some influential people in our society today are what they are because they came from a broken home and had to start fending and surviving on their own from a tender age while others turned out bad because they did not have the nurturing they were supposed to get also at a tender age. People are what they make of themselves, please do not judge someone by his/her background but on their own merit.

It would be a nice thing to start. It is an industry that is really making waves abroad. People need to be able to relax and go on vacation with their family without having to break the bank. But with the economic factor in this country, how many families can really afford it? It would be abit on the high side if your friend wants to maintain standard and quality and all this cost money. No one goes into any business for charity even the charity organizations are using that as a front to get money from sponsors. I wish him/she all the best.

mikuz:

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Of course! I think you aint even asking the right question.

so what do u think d question should ve been? This question was the same one the person it happened to asked me.

mikuz:

So the joke is not here? Where then is it?

u sure u are looking in d rite place?

if u did get the joke, then i think a headache is not the only thing u should be complaining of

I dont think it would be healthy to remain close friends. One party would still be hoping that things can go back to the way it was before and besides if the new relationship doesnt work out for either of the two, he or she would want to go back to the way things were. You can remain friend but with a lot of distance in-between.

A colleague of mine told me about a lady he met at the club a while back. He danced and shared a couple of drinks. He met with her again the next weekend and they decided to go a step further. He took her to a hotel and just as he was pulling up to the parking lot, this conversation came up:
Lady: Don't tell me you are taking me to this hotel!
My friend: Yes i am, don't you like the place?
Lady: No i don't, let us leave and look for another place
My friend: But what do you have against the place? It looks nice, decent and i bet the rates would be moderate
Lady: I just do want us to stay here!
My friend: But you must a serious grudge against the place to get this worked up?
Lady: I don't have any grudge, it's just that all the beds in the hotel squeaks when you are on it
My friend: 
Lady: Sorry! that was a slip of tongue

A girl sends an SMS to her boyfriend:
"If you are sleeping, send me your dreams,
If you are laughing, send me your laughter,
if you are crying, send me your tears,
if you are eating, send me your food,
if you are using your ATM, send me the money"

The boyfriend replied:
"I dey toilet"

You need to ask he how he wants you to prove it. If it is thru sex, just know he is a user. He is feeling insecure cos his own love too get k-leg. If he truly loves u, he should not be bothered. His love should be enough for both of u. Ask him if he wants your right hand on a silver plate? i guess that should do for him

my fellow nigerians, c d thief u voted for? He don enter money, e no wan leave again! It is not his fault. U ve incubated a thief and ve nw given birth to a rogue. Wish u al d best.

It is possible for her to not have known initially, if her monthly circle is not regular or comes in bits. Her mother cannot be blame. Every parent tries to give their children the best morals and upright upbringing. It is left for the child to heed their advice or not. It is a good thing she kept the pregnancy and atleast, that is the only child she has so far. Only God knows what would be her fate if she had aborted it. Everybody has a past and it is learning from it that makes one a better person.

Before we start judging her, let us look at the facts properly. How could she have left those kids in the house to go to a store? and the fact that she went with her van meant d store was not next door? but she should know that in america, you are not allowed to leave any kid under 14years of age alone at home and unattended to. if she was truly cooking and dashed to the store to get somethings then that is very careless of her and that truly is a case of reckless endangerment, she should be brought to book. May the souls of the kids rest in peace

I dont know how you started your relationship. even if your inlaws are the ones feeding and providing a roof over your head, i dont think they have the right to be disrespectful to you like that. Since your wife is keeping quite, i guess she is in league with them. Let your wife understand your feelings and have her address her family. You have already received enough insults, dont add more by trying to exchange words with your in-laws. It is your wife that should address that issue and if the roles were reversed too, you should be the one talking to your people and not your wife.

why do this so called politicians think they can just come and be pouring sand into our eyes? i dont blame them. It is because others have tried it in the past and gotten away with it. If he removes the immunity clause, of what economic benefit would that be to the average nigerian?

Unfaithfulness
lack of understanding
too much expectations
lack of money
third party influence
inferiority complex
Ego / pride
absence of God
wrong foundation
self destruct