A Nigerian scam episode that had a beautiful twist in the end.
In 2009, Maria Grette, a 69-year-old Swedish woman fell in love with Johnny, a 58-year-old Danish she met on the internet- or so she thought.
Little did she realize Johnny was a 24-year-old Nigerian graduate, who remained unemployed 2 years after getting his first degree.
She didn’t suspect anything at first, until he told her he got robbed and shot in Nigeria, where he claimed to be visiting. He started to request for huge amounts of medical fees, as he alleged that he couldn’t make transfers from his account due to technicalities.
Our Nigerian brothers will not stop embarrassing us in this life. But can we really blame them?
Anyway, Johnny, the scammer (not his real name), confessed to Maria after she’d stopped sending money and stopped picking his calls. Apparently, he was repentant and wanted her to forgive him.
Instead of getting angry and escalating it, Ms Grette decided to visit Nigeria that year, to see how she could help some of Nigeria’s youth. She now helps African artists get to international exhibitions where they can show their art to a wider client range.
As for the young Johnny, he got sponsored to an American university for his masters, and has even landed a job with an oil company. All these, courtesy of Ms Gretta.
All you scammers, this doesn’t mean your own 419 story will end like this fairy tale o! If you don’t stop it, you’re on your own!
1. Aisha Buhari, Nigeria
Just look at that beauty!
2. Hinda Itno Deby, Chad
That’s some Shuwa sauce right there.
3. Princess Lalla Salma, Morocco
She oozes royalty, really.
4. Zeinab Suma Jammeh, Gambia
These African presidents know good things sha!
5. Dominique Folloroux-Ouatarra, Ivory Coast
Beautiful! Simply muah!
6. Chantal Biya, Cameroun
Don’t ask us about the hair, abeg.
7. Margaret Kenyatta, Kenya
Now we want to go on a low cut and dye our hair gray!
8. Ana Paolo dos Santos, Angola
Have you ever seen a more peng thing?
9. Monica Geingos, Namibia
She woke up like this.
10. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, Gabon
Simple, yet so stunning.
11. Roman Tesfaye, Ethiopia
She’s all shades of cute!
1. King Sunny Ade
This man is a living legend!
2. Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Gone, but forever in our hearts.
3. Bongos Ikwue
If you haven’t, sharply go and listen to ‘Mariama’. Classic!
4. Onyeka Onwenu
Yup! We know: she looked amazing even then.
5. Prince Nico Mbarga
This is the genius who blessed us with ‘Sweet Mother’.
6. Sir Victor Uwaifo
You and bae should try dancing to ‘Joromi’ one of these days.
7. Chrissy Essien Igbokwe
RIP to the ‘Seun Rere’ crooner.
8. Ebenezer Obey
AKA ‘Chief Commander’, AKA King of Nigerian juju!
9. Queen of Reggae; Evi Edna Ogholi
Remember ‘Uuuu ye, I wish you happy birthday’?
10. The late Sonny Okosun
That time when he blessed us with ‘Fire in Soweto’.
11. Chief Osita Osadebe
Also late, sadly. Because of him, we have ‘Osondi Owendi’.
12. Victor Olaiya
‘Baby jowo ko ma elo ooo…’
13. Majekodunmi Fasheke
Take us back to the golden days of Majek Fashek!
1. ‘Put on the Generator’ 100-yard dash.
During champions league finals, I dey run pass Usain Bolt.
2. ‘Dispenser bottle’ deadlift
If you win at this, the next level is a bag of rice.
3. ‘Monkey post’ soccer.
Mourinho should sign me, let me do one-two touch with Zlatan.
4. ‘Dodging a beating’ gymnastics
When the cane comes out, next thing its maaaatriiixxx….
5. ‘Killing mosquito’ karate.
Just let mosquito show first, you’ll see original Bruce Lee.
6. ‘Spinning textbooks’ rhythmic gymnastics.
Just give me Ugo. C. Ugo, or New General Mathematics and gold medal sure pass.
7. Table Tennis
No joke here. Pass egg and bat make I smash your life.
8. ‘Towel whip’ fencing.
My school father would dip the end in water so it’ll be extra painful. He’ll make Nigeria proud.
1. These ladies make blue look so delicious.
2. You won’t even care about the bride after seeing this.
3. The fitting is 10 over 10.
4. We are so here for these satellite gele styles!
5. These ones have stolen the bride’s show already.
6. Such a pretty colour.
7. They went all out with this one.
8. This concept is too on point, to be honest.
9. Pretty in wine.
10. Too much sauce.
11. Don’t you want to be a bridesmaid right now?
Zimbabweans on Twitter are using #Howtheyrobbedus to tell sad stories of how the government of President Robert Mugabe has failed the people.
1. When world class hospitals become dumping grounds.
Breast cancer is no joke: the deadly disease affects about 103,000 Nigerian women annually. Every year, we lose up to 72,000 lives to breast cancer. While there’s no standard cure for it yet, a lot of strong women have battled it and survived. But to avoid the risks, it’s better to take steps to prevent it.
1. First of all, knowing your family history is key.
Checking up on the diseases that may run through your lineage will help you know if you’re prone to breast cancer.
2. Be extra vigilant of changes in your breast and in your body.
A simple breast examination every day doesn’t cost you anything. Lie back and feel for lumps in your breast.
3. Run to your doctor the minute you feel lumps or pain in your breast.
We are not kidding: RUN!
4. Massage your breasts regularly.
It’s a great way to flush toxins from the lymphatic nodes. If you can’t do it, let bae help you.
5. Stop smoking.
There’s no easy way to put this, but smoking is really bad for you. It could lead to cancer of many other forms.
6. If someone is smoking beside you, collect the cigarette and throw it away.
Secondhand smoke contains carcinogens, harmful substances that interrupt cell development and may cause cancer.
7. Know your work environment.
If you’re constantly exposed to dust and fumes at work, you may be getting harmful substances into your system. These substances can increase the risks of getting breast cancer.
8. Stop taking alchohol.
Or at the very least, reduce your intake girl! It causes higher oestrogen levels, which increase the risk of breast cancer.
When you pay for a service and they end up stealing from you after doing a rubbish job.
These people need to face their work and stop taking people’s things o!
So there’s been a wave of people taking advantage of cheaper internet rates to use Instagram as a digital store. But among them are people who just want to scam you. Here’s how to spot them.
1. Their accounts are always set on private.
What are you hiding?
2. You have to send a request, so they can size up the mumu in you before they add.
“This one is a mumu.”
3. Their products are always extremely cheap.
So you can order plenty things.
4. And the only comments you’ll see are nice ones.
“This shoe is lovely!”
5. In fact, if you check well, you’ll see that there may be no comments at all.
Why are they deleting comments?
6. When you ask how they accept payment, they say it’s pay before service.
Why can’t I pay on delivery?
7. And when you ask for guarantee, they give you a long ass essay about trusting them.
Who trust help?
8. They keep calling to know when you will transfer the money to their accounts.
“When will you pay for the goods, please?”
9. And if you check their numbers on True Caller, you’ll see BS names like ‘Mades Closet’ or ‘Trumps Collections’.
Trump. Really?
10. They always give you some account number they opened remotely.
So you can never trace it with ease.
11. People of God, the moment you transfer that money, they block you on WhatsApp and Instagram.
That’s right.
12. And that’s when you know you’ve been scammed.
You’re in soup!
13. Shout out to all the Instagram vendors that have scammed and are still scamming people.
We will meet at the foot of Jesus.
1. When buying restaurant food always gives you a big headache.
Why so tasteless and expensive?
2. You now discover one buka beside your office.
The answer to prayers.
3. How people queue at the buka everyday.
You people should go somewhere else o!
4. You, when you realize the buka food is very cheap.
Yesss!
5. When you start purging when you eat buka food for the first time.
Which kind of wahala is this?
6. But that doesn’t stop you from going back to eat more.
You will manage it like that.
7. When your colleagues are going to have lunch at one expensive restaurant.
I am not one of you anymore.
8. When you’re very hungry and the buka doesn’t open.
Iya Basira wants to kill me today.
9. When your colleagues discover you’ve started eating street food.
Look at these ones.
10. When they ask why you like eating buka food.
Because it’s the sweetest sensation.
11. When they now finally have a taste of it, they’re like:
