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A Medical doctor has revealed the shocking reason a man gave for refusing to get a STD test.
The doctor said he once asked someone to get STD tests and he said it’s not possible for him to have any of those that his current partner is “light-skinned” so she’s very “clean”. He sat in that thought for days.
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A Feminist has shared her thoughts following her experience at her baby sister’s primary school graduation party.
She said 100% of the parents in attendance are women. No fathers or uncles were present. Male loneliness pandemic my foot.
Someone said they’re still on their way, that’s their personal business but I have given my dad 2 Hours to be here.Only one father is here and he’s a deeper life man. It is well.
My father is here, good for him. As a daddy’s girl, I honestly can’t believe this is the norm. My father was present in all the key milestones in my life including the ones he didn’t expect. There’s actually no excuse and women should stop having children for men that can’t and refuse to parent.
Also good to note that men are the first to leave these events even after being the last to come. Only here for photos and to show face. Which the kids don’t mind by the way, they just want you to show up.
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Carvana (CVNA) shares rose Friday following a prediction of an earnings beat from JPMorgan analysts, who lifted their price target on the online car seller's shares for the fourth time this year.
The analysts predict that Carvana will beat consensus estimates when it reports earnings at the end of the month as the company's margins improve amid cost-cutting efforts that helped deliver Carvana's best quarter on record earlier this year.
The shares, recently up about 3%, have risen roughly 150% this year and sit just a bit below year-to-date highs.
Carvana posted its first profitable year in fiscal 2023. JPMorgan analysts said Friday that the company has given itself "wiggle room to add some slack to drive accelerated growth and demonstrate leverage on fixed costs."
While the company "has demonstrated a sharp turnaround in operations over the last 12-18 months, we believe the next phase of 'profitable growth' requires maintaining the recent high level of execution intensity" across the company, the analysts wrote.
The analysts lifted their price target to $155 from $150 and reiterated an "overweight" rating on the stock. Their target is substantially above the consensus of analysts tracked by Visible Alpha, which is near $118.
Wall Street is looking for quarterly revenue of $3.27 billion and a net loss of $16.1 million when it reports second-quarter results later this month, according to Visible Alpha. Its results are expected July 31.
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described former American President, Donald Trump as a menace, a d+nger to the world and a consummate liar, PM News and Daily Post are reporting.
Soyinka, in an interview with TheNews to mark his 90th birthday, Trump is not as clever as he thought he was. “But he did one thing. He studied and he understood the American psyche. And he knew the right chord to tweak in order to get them on his side, to get them to believe anything that he says. I don’t think the world has ever known such a consummate liar like Donald Trump,” he said.
Soyinka said Nigeria has had one consummate liar, but said he is just a copycat beside Trump. “We have had one here also, but he is just a copycat beside Donald Trump. If you want to find out what is going on, look at all the many lies of this fellow called Trump. So many lies. But I don’t want to go in that direction. Let’s just remark it and move on.
And the one in Nigeria who is trying to copy Trump has studied only a minuscule section of the Nigerian psyche and he was able to tweak certain sentiments, certain aspects of our history. Again, I don’t want to talk about that. So, let’s move on. “But Donald Trump is a m3nace, he is a d3nger to the world. I mean it. It is not just to America. He is a d3nger to the world,” Soyinka stated.
The Nobel laureate added that one thing shocked him but it also enabled him, making reference to his Green Card episode. “This reminds me of the Green Card episode in which I could not believe that there were people in this country -I should not have been surprised -who actually made it their business to come and comment acerbically on the decision of any citizen to say, I don’t like what is happening over there.
Therefore, I want to terminate my relationship with that place. To make that decision of mine your own business, is a reflection of your sl+ve mentality. There was one young man, a Nigerian, who even said God had ordained that that Trump would triumph. Okay. That’s fine. But at least that particular person didn’t have to att3ck me for cutting up my Green Card or saying I dared not do it. Even though I have written about it in Green Cards, Green Gods, it is still something I sometime wake up and puzzle over. Did it really happen?
Did Nigeria, a free nation of free people with their history, with their supposed knowledge of what was happening elsewhere in the world, become so st-pid they could not understand that even when Trump was campaigning, the k+lling, extra-judicial k+lling of blacks by the police shot up drastically, not even only by the police?
And then I said, I don’t want to be a permanent resident of that place, and some Nigerians made it their business to abuse me for that? I cut up my Green Card on Thanksgiving Day in America, I was in Oakland, California. Thanksgiving was in November. Up till February of the following year, Nigerians were still saying I dared not cut it up!”
Soyinka added: “And it gave me enormous inner pleasure to say nothing. I said let them keep making sl+ves of themselves. They didn’t even know that in the meantime the IRS were taking their revenge as the decided to get their taxes. They said I owed close to $60,000. So I went to the American embassy in Nigeria
I said, Look at this wahala o. I have left your country. But now IRS says I owe this and that I must report. Then I said, Could you give me a B1 visa? I had already cut up my Green Card. They had no problem: I got the visa. What was the problem with Nigerians? The country whose Green Card I tore didn’t have any problem.
They gave me B1 visa to go and answer their query in the States. I went and came back-tax matter sorted. But those si+ves were still absing me.” Soyinka narrated another event which occurred in the plane when he mistakenly took over someone’s seat. The incident in the plane which occupied some Nigerians for weeks, a trivial incident which happened because of my sitting in the wrong seat. And then somebody came along. That’s my seat, he said. I said, Wait, call the hostess. And the hostess said, He’s right. I said, Sorry, and I left the seat for him.
This trip from Lagos to Abuja became a trip from Abuja to America in some of the write-ups (laughs) | said, What is this? Normally, I give up my seat to people in the plane if there is any need for it.
Sometimes people come in, and they have been given separate seats. I look at them. I see them looking around anxiously. “I say, Do you want to come and sit here? And they say, Yes, thank you. The most ordinary, banal thing in the world. When it comes to Nigeria, the Zone B people want to climb to Zone A to show their power, to show their st+pidity. It’s something that boggles the mind,” he said.
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Fatima Dangote has said that Nigeria would be a better place if there were a few more men like her father, Aliko Dangote.
Fatima, who spoke at a media session hosted at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, lauded her father’s steadfast pursuit of the Nigerian dream.
She expressed admiration for his resilience and echoed a wish for more visionary leaders like him in the country, believing their collective efforts could significantly enhance Nigeria’s future.
“I have not seen anyone as hardworking as my father, sometimes I wonder how he never gives up. I wish we have a few more men like my father in Nigeria, the country will be a better place,” she said.
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A Nigerian man has reacted to a picture of a building erected on the railway line.
He said now, if the government wakes up tomorrow and start demolishing, they will set the camera and cry that the government took their house
