Are you in the diaspora? Renewing your Nigerian passport is now easier than ever. Swipe through for the updated step-by-step guide to the NIS Contactless Passport Application System. ๐ณ๐ฌ
@OgaHans I have worked as a Team Lead in a co-op while I was student. Pay was really good, if not for cos wahala, I enjoyed the job but progression isnt immediate
@6thMillion@FinestDoveTruth In summary, I did the payment and opted for contactless through the website where I got the application and registration number. Went to the app and started the process for biometrics and the payment for the enrollment
Since they insist "Africans" must go, they should just pay the equivalents of businesses legal owners have so that they go back to their countries. At least, since you guys want to rebuild SA with SAfricans, pay them off to go build a life somewhere else..
Bishop Ndlela says that all foreign nationals, regardless of whether they have legal documents or not, should leave South Africa so that South Africans can focus on fixing their own country.
*rushes a first timer into the labour ward
Her: *screaming... "I can feel the head of the baby almost out"
Me: "Get the delivery pack"... "we are having a baby"
*does a vaginal examination... cervix= 1cm, head very high
Her: "Can I push?...
Me: "No, pls, you are just 1cm... you have some time, can I give you pain relief?"... "Can I call your husband in?"
Her: "which foolish husband?, he's the cause of all this pain... you and him, I don't even know the difference..."
Me: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Most Men would help you rearrange things if they dont find it comfortable and they would talk your ear off. When it comes to their bathroom looking like a war zone they suddenly become blind
Went down the rabbit hole on this. The dancing is the tamest part of the story. Marine biologist Amanda Vincent has spent decades studying seahorses, and whatโs underneath that morning ritual goes way deeper than a cute video.
The morning ritual lasts about 6 minutes. Both seahorses brighten their skin, link tails, and pirouette around a shared piece of coral or seagrass. Researchers call it โthe carousel dance.โ But it has a specific biological function: it synchronizes their reproductive cycles so the femaleโs eggs are ready the exact moment the maleโs brood pouch is empty. That timing matters because the male canโt accept new eggs while heโs already pregnant.
The male gets pregnant. The female transfers her eggs into his pouch through an organ called an ovipositor (a tube for depositing eggs). The whole transfer takes about 6 seconds. His pouch seals shut immediately. Inside, he grows a network of blood vessels that works almost exactly like a human placenta, delivering oxygen and nutrients to up to 1,000 developing embryos. Research from the University of Sydney, published in the journal Placenta, found the pouch wall thins and builds new blood vessels during pregnancy in ways that closely mirror what happens in a mammalian uterus.
He gives birth using skeletal muscles, not smooth muscles like in mammalian labor. That means he has conscious control over the process. Labor can take hours. And within hours of delivering up to 1,000 fully formed babies, heโs ready to mate again. The female already has her next batch of eggs prepared, sometimes the same day.
Less than 0.5% of those babies survive to adulthood. Fewer than 5 out of every 1,000. No parental care after birth. They get swept into ocean currents, eaten by crabs, or starve before they find food. That survival rate is why the morning dance matters so much. Every lost mating cycle is hundreds of offspring that never existed.
The monogamy is extraordinary for a fish. Only about 3% of mammals form lasting partnerships. For fish, itโs rarer still. But in species like the Australian H. whitei, pairs are genetically monogamous across multiple breeding seasons. They greet each other every morning and ignore other seahorses entirely. The bond only breaks when one partner disappears. Amanda Vincent once watched a female keep visiting a male whose brood pouch had been punctured by a predator, making pregnancy impossible. She showed up every morning for weeks until his pouch healed. Then they remated.
About 150 million seahorses are pulled from the ocean every year for traditional medicine and the pet trade. Most pet seahorses donโt last six weeks. 14 of the 47 known species were only identified in this century, meaning weโre losing populations of animals we barely knew existed.
Told me was going for work, booked an Airbnb for a woman for three days, found receipts on his laptop. Confronted him, said he was helping out a friend due to marital problems. Couldn't even tell a straight faced lie. Learnt not to argue but learnt to reciprocate ๐