Resigned from a job I absolutely loved, was brilliant at & highly respected for, with nothing to go to. The reason? An awful, awful manager. My resignation letter said “For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not leaving my job, I’m not leaving the company: I’m leaving my manager”
As a survivor of kidnapping and banditry, I can tell you that these criminals believe that no matter how much they take from you, you will eventually work and earn it back after your release.
Let me use myself as an example. After my family paid the ₦15 million ransom they demanded, along with other items worth over ₦600,000, they still weren't satisfied. They continued demanding more money and eventually asked for ₦55 million. They even told my mother to sell her house and car to raise the money.
Because my family rented a vehicle to deliver the ransom and other requested items, the kidnappers assumed we owned the car and were wealthy. They kept insisting that we sell all our properties and hand over the proceeds to them.
Omo, it was a terrible ordeal. The fear, pressure, and emotional torture were overwhelming. Watching my family struggle to meet their endless demands was heartbreaking.
One painful reality is that they often target ordinary and struggling people like us because we are easier to capture than the elites, who usually have better security and protection.
This is why we cannot continue to stay silent. Kidnapping and banditry have destroyed countless lives, families, and dreams across Nigeria. We need to raise our voices, stand together as a nation, and demand urgent action against insecurity.
Today it may be someone else's family. Tomorrow it could be yours. Enough is enough. 💔🇳🇬🙏🏽
So that’s how MTN reassigned my MTN line to a new user, thus giving them access to my bank account and enabling transfers of 100k within a day.
I can only imagine how much more I could have lost if I hadn’t logged into my mobile app yesterday to make a transfer.
I remember subscribing to the “Keep My Line” service, but I'm not sure for how long.
I've contacted my bank for all necessary actions but just thought to drop a reminder to my fellow diaspora mutuals to please ensure you always maintain continuous access to any phone number linked to your bank accounts.
During my NYSC last year in Adamawa State, our CDS group visited a prison.
Till today, I genuinely don’t think I’ve recovered from what I saw there.
We went there with good intentions. We carried detergents, food items and other little things we thought would help them. The plan was simple talk to the inmates, encourage them, advise them and remind them that life could still change for the better.
The moment we entered the prison compound, the atmosphere changed completely.
One of the officers told us to drop all our phones inside a small office before going further. At first I didn’t think much of it, but the moment that door closed behind us, I started feeling uncomfortable. The silence inside that place was not normal.
As we approached, the officers ordered them to come out and sit on the floor for us. Around 70 of them slowly walked out and sat quietly without making noise.
Most of them were very young. Maybe around 21 to 28 years old. Boys that looked like they should still be in school or hustling outside trying to survive life.
But what shocked me first was their appearance.
Almost all of them looked extremely skinny. Their hair was completely barbed low to the point where you could clearly see the shape of their skulls. Not normal skinny… the kind that makes you uncomfortable when you look too long.
Then I noticed an old man sitting among them.
You'll not understand how much I dislike Desmond Idiot.
This was in 2020 when he was riding in ballooned foolishness thinking he has arrived politically.
He asked for social media to be "regulated" just after 20.10.20.
Today, he's crying on the same social media. Didinrin.
@heismric@Miankyy@__totustuus Now that she is back in Nigeria. Please let her go and get her PVC so she can help us get rid of Tinubu.
She cannot be useless home and away.
This is the Part 1 of a series I am doing on Kelvin Ayebaefie Emmanuel. A rather interesting figure with a well-documented track record of misrepresentation, intimidation, and obtaining money under false pretense.
What’s particularly troubling is the role media companies like @ARISEtv and @channelstv continues to play in amplifying his voice. Repeatedly platforming him on key issues and, in the process, lending him a sense of credibility he arguably hasn’t earned making it easy for him to scheme his next set of victims.
The goal of this series is simple: to put the information out there, in one place, so people can make informed decisions and avoid becoming victims of whatever comes next.
Happy reading!
https://t.co/iTnvwtJQjA
How did you know the Doctor used Chatgpt to prescribe drugs?
Nigerians need to snap out of this mentality that a doctor cross checking on phone or laptop means they don't know what they are doing
There are digital directories and formulation for drugs , that can guide on doses, drug to drug interactions, tolerance doses etc and more all which are to help patients' care.
There are more than 1 million drugs
Do you expect the Doctor to memorize all the doses and uses of all drugs. No
If a Doctor is checking to confirm.
It is because he or she is being careful to ensure you're safe.
PS- you went to secondary school?
Can you list all the elements on periodic table.
If no, apply the same.
Good morning everyone, happy Sunday.
Please, I want to share something personal, and I’m begging that nobody insults me. I’m not in the right mental space to handle harsh words right now.
I am a married woman with four children. We used to live in Lagos, but when we could no longer afford the rent, we had to move to Ogun State. We now manage with just three rooms and cover the rest. We adjusted and kept pushing.
Then suddenly, my husband fell seriously ill. We spent a lot of money on his treatment. Many people here helped us, both publicly and privately, and I am truly grateful. He has recovered a bit, but he is no longer financially strong and doesn’t have the same energy to work like before.
Now the responsibilities of four children — school fees, feeding, clothing, and other needs — are mostly on me. Both our families are not financially stable enough to help. Even though many people have supported me before, the responsibilities keep weighing me down.
Sometimes I cry. Sometimes out of frustration I speak harshly to my husband because I feel overwhelmed carrying everything alone. I am tired of constantly begging. Whenever I make sales in my small business, I am so happy because at least I can use the profit to take care of my children.
Many people here know where I live and can testify to our situation. I am asking for support for my children so that I do not fall into depression. I don’t want to suffer in silence.
I’m sorry for the long message, and please, no insults. Thank you for understanding.
Bank transfers in Nigeria are instant. It is one of the fastest I’ve seen compared to the US and Canada.
I can walk into a Nigerian bank, initiate a 100 Million Naira transfer, and before I finish arguing with the bank manager about Arsenal not winning the league, the money is already sitting in the recipient’s account ready to be withdrawn.
But when it comes to electronic transfer of votes in real time, we suddenly act technologically backward. Taa, gbafuo!
GADUS 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Looked up the lot number “45180005”, it returned the car’s page on Copart with no information so i did some more research and found the vin and an earlier listing of the car prior to being repaired and subsequently auctioned again where it was bought by our countrymen, here’s the vin and here’s what i found 🫵🏾
4JGFB5KB1RB140247.
Final bid earlier this year was $26,750 without fees (39.3m), factor in fees maybe another $3k, trucking and shipping (<$2500), clearing (<20m), miscellaneous 1m.
That brings us to a grand total of about 69m
(@ 1470/$) or so, being generous. Feel free to correct me on any figures in the comments, but if my calculations are correct then where is the other 76m coming from?
That’s more than a 2x, on a salvage, Mr “clean cars only” 👀.
Abi your clean get another meaning? 🌝
3 weeks ago I took the risk of helping an accident victim who was in a terrible condition, I never knew it’s going to be stressful and take its toll on me. Spent so much of my personal funds on the victim at the first hospital she was taken to she was in their ICU for days and unconscious with her head heavily sutured with bandage due to the injury she sustained, she was also with a broken left arm after she regained consciousness it was noticed she had memory loss and she needed urgent orthopedic surgery for her arm which by this time was getting swollen and cray revealed upper and lower arm is broken. I took her to an orthopedic hospital and the initial quote for her surgery was 4m, I had to cry and beg that I was helping her, I don’t know her from anywhere just a Samaritan to her before the money was reduced to 2.5m which I came to the public to beg for donations.
I was able to raise 1.5m which I quickly paid to the hospital cos initial they didn’t collect a dime from me before admitting her cos I told them I don’t have funds now but made a promised and signed a form to fulfill the financial obligations required, the surgery was done and it was successful and she recovering well.
The hospital is breathing now my neck to pay up the remaining 1m balance that’s why I need your helps to pay up the remaining debts 🙏🙏🙏.
Below is the money raised so far
Please no amount is too small to donate
AccessBank-0060639389
Udosen john
I couldn’t spend my Christmas or new year with my family due to the decision I took to help this accident victim, to save her life. Was it worth it? Yes it’s worth every single day of the stress seeing her alive and hopefully she regains her memory back.
I still have a 1m debt to pay the hospital balance and they’ve really been on my neck,please no amount is too small to donate
0060639389-AccessBank
Udosen john