*SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 14/06/2025* June 12: MKO Abiola’s family demands N45bn contract debt details Knocks as N’Assembly inserts N10.96tn into budgets in four years Rivers: Wike, Fubara in fresh reconciliatory meeting Again, herders kill 25 in Benue communities Only 2025-elected LG officials can run Osun councils – Electoral chair Viral Video: FCT Police arrest officers, launch investigation into alleged harassment Naira strengthens to ₦1,590/$ in parallel market, narrows gap with official rate NPFL announces August 22 new season kick-off date Bassey wins Fulham’s Player of the Year award Man who survived 1998 plane crash reacts after Air India survivor sat in same seat At least 78 killed by Israeli air strikes on Tehran Iran fires back at Israel after onslaught targets nuclear facilities Ukraine receives 1,200 dead soldiers’ bodies from Russia 1,150 Nigerians studied in France, says French envoy ----------------------------- *DID YOU KNOW?* * The first political party to be founded in Nigeria was the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP). It was established on 24 June 1923 by Herbert Macaulay, who is often referred to as the father of Nigerian nationalism. * A rainbow on Venus is called a glory and they appear as a series of coloured concentric rings. ----------------------------- Tinubu, Oborevwori, Mbah, others celebrate ‘Uncle Sam’ at 90 Senate urges FG to regulate cryptocurrency Bill for South-East sixth state passes second reading in Senate Rivers State NASS caucus condemns Senator Dickson’s remarks on emergency rule Radio Biafra: Court admits transmitter allegedly smuggled into Nigeria by Kanu Kanu incited IPOB’s sit-at-home order, DSS tells court Appeal Court acquits Ex-NIMASA DG Akpobolokemi of N754.8m fraud Court jails four Filipinos, eight Nigerians for internet fraud, cyber-terrorism Court jails Canada returnee three months for assaulting KAI official N976m subsidy fraud: EFCC declares oil firm boss wanted Chinese national arrested over terrorism Bauchi police nab notorious online scammer behind 40 fraud cases Military deactivates 21 illegal refineries, nabs 23 oil thieves FG engages Chinese firms to revive Ajaokuta Steel Keyamo orders probe of Air Peace/Oshiomhole face-off Umahi: Enugu-Onitsha dual carriageway to last 50 years as work begins on second lane Umahi defends Tinubu, says North has 52% of legacy projects Nigeria now reaching stability, after fuel subsidy removal — Minister Pipeline Surveillance: FG to go tough on saboteurs, prosecutes over 100 vandals FG inspects South-South annex of national cybercrime centre in Bayelsa Human trafficking: NAPTIP, DIA rescue 20 foreign victims, arrest three suspects Row over disruption of NDDC projects launch in Cross River I have no regret naming international conference centre after Tinubu – Wike Soyinka, Osoba, Fashola, Olu of Warri, others grace Uncle Sam’s 90th birthday Jonathan denies social media post on 2027 presidential bid Declare Ken Saro-Wiwa innocent, Amnesty International tells President NMA FCT threatens strike over sacking of three doctors PMAN CRISIS: Police probe exonerates Pretty Okafor of financial misconduct Health workers who contracted COVID-19 were abandoned – Forum chair Nigeria needs decentralised government — Agbakoba Only Tinubu can revive Nigeria – Tompolo Ikoyi Club hosts Phil-Ebosie Swimming Competition SUNU Assurances pays N3.28bn claims, records N3.59bn profit Bolt Drivers protest murder of member in Bayelsa Lagos Airport Drama: Oshiomhole unruly, attitude unacceptable — Airline operators I’ll sue if Tinubu lists me for national award – Sowore Obidient Movement slam Tinubu over ‘opposition’ in disarray’ comment Abure’s LP faction faults court ruling on Lagos council polls Katsina gov hails Abdulsalami’s statesmanship at 83 Soludo: Tinubu rescued economy from collapse, restored financial solvency Mutfwang pardons two convicts, calls for efforts to strengthen democracy Ondo gov unveils N1.2bn conditional cash transfer scheme Anambra unlocks ₦12bn UBEC grant with Soludo’s ₦6.154bn release Cross River clarifies NDDC project inauguration, says no disruption occurred Lagos harmonises school calendar Imo Govt plans to relocate Owerri street traders Sokoto, UNICEF launch polio OBR round 2, deploy over 2,700 teams for campaign Windstorm destroys NYSC camp facilities in Gombe 14 arrested in Jigawa over fake currencies Police arrest two as Anambra security operatives kill 17-year-old Bandits kill one, kidnap nine in two Niger communities Police arrest 19-year-old for kidnapping, murder in Anambra Outrage as P’Harcourt realtor strips female birthday celebrants naked at nightclub ----------------------------- *TODAY IN HISTORY* * On this day in 1982, the Falklands War ended. After 74 days of fighting, British troops captured the capital, Stanley, prompting the Argentine forces to surrender and return the islands to British control. ----------------------------- No one is any more or any less important than you are. – Marianne Williamson Good morning *Compiled by Hon. Osuji George [email protected], +234-8122200446*

A LONG READ How do we choose the people we fall in love with? The Romantic answer is that our instincts naturally guide us to individuals who are kind and good for us. Love is a sort of ecstasy that descends when we feel ourselves in the presence of a benign and nourishing soul, who will answer our emotional needs, understand our sadness and strengthen us for the hard tasks of our lives. In order to locate our lover, we must let our instincts carry us along, taking care never to impede them through pedantic psychological analysis and introspection or else considerations of status, wealth or lineage. Our feelings will tell us clearly enough when we have reached our destiny. To ask someone with any degree of rigour why exactly they have chosen a particular partner is – in the Romantic world-view – simply an unnecessary and offensive misunderstanding of love: true love is an instinct that accurately and naturally settles on those with a capacity to make us happy. The Romantic attitude sounds warm and kind. Its originators certainly imagined that it would bring an end to the sort of unhappy relationships previously brokered by parents and society. The only difficulty is that our obedience to instinct has, very often, proved to be a disaster of its own. Respecting the special feelings we get around certain people in nightclubs and train stations, parties and websites and that Romanticism so ably celebrated in art appears not to have led us to be any happier in our unions than a Medieval couple shackled into marriage by two royal courts keen to preserve the sovereignty of a slice of ancestral land. ‘Instinct’ has been little better than ‘calculation’ in underwriting the quality of our love stories. Romanticism would not at this point, however, give up the argument quite so easily. It would simply ascribe the difficulties we often have in love to not having looked hard enough for that central fixture of Romantic reverie: the right person. This being is inevitably still out there (every soul must have its soulmate, Romanticism assures us), it is just that we haven’t managed to track them down – yet. So we must continue the search, with all the technology and tenacity necessary, and maybe, once the divorce has come through and the house has been sold, we’ll get it right. But there’s another school of thought, this one influenced by psychoanalysis, which challenges the notion that instinct invariably draws us to those who will make us happy. The theory insists that we don’t fall in love first and foremost with those who care for us in ideal ways, we fall in love with those who care for us in familiar ways. Adult love emerges from a template of how we should be loved that was created in childhood and is likely to be entwined with a range of problematic compulsions that militate in key ways against our chances of growth. We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are looking to re-create, within our adult relationships, the very feelings we knew so well in childhood – and which were rarely limited to just tenderness and care. The love most of us will have tasted early on was confused with other, more destructive dynamics: feelings of wanting to help an adult who was out of control, of being deprived of a parent’s warmth or scared of his or her anger, or of not feeling secure enough to communicate our trickier wishes. How logical, then, that we should as adults find ourselves rejecting certain candidates not because they are wrong but because they are a little too right – in the sense of seeming somehow excessively balanced, mature, understanding and reliable – given that in our hearts, such rightness feels foreign and unearned. We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustration. Psychoanalysis calls the process whereby we identify our partners ‘object choice’ – and recommends that we try to understand the factors semi-consciously governing our attractions in order to interrupt the unhealthier patterns that might be at play. Our instincts – our strong undercurrents of attraction and revulsion – stem from complicated experiences we had when we were far too young to understand them, and which linger in the antechambers of our minds. Psychoanalysis doesn’t wish to suggest that everything about our attractions will be deformed. We may have quite legitimate aspirations to positive qualities: intelligence, charm, generosity… But we are also liable to be fatefully drawn towards trickier tendencies: someone who is often absent, or treats us with a little disdain, or needs to be surrounded all the time by friends, or cannot master their finances. However paradoxical it can sound, without these tricky behaviours, we may simply not be able to feel passionate or tender with someone. Alternatively, we may have been so traumatised by a parental figure, we cannot approach any partner who shares qualities with them of any kind, even ones disconnected from their negative sides. We might in love be rigidly intolerant of anyone who is intelligent, or punctual or interested in science, simply because these were the traits of someone who caused us a great deal of difficulty early on. To choose our partners wisely, we need to tease out how our compulsions to suffering or our rigid flights from trauma may be playing themselves out in our feelings of attraction. A useful starting place is to ask ourselves (perhaps in the company of a large sheet of paper, a pen and a free afternoon) what sort of people really put us off. Revulsion and disgust are useful first guides because we are likely to recognize that some of the traits that make us shiver are not objectively negative and yet feel to us distinctly off-putting. We might, for example, sense that someone who asks us too much about ourselves, or is very tender or dependable, will seem extremely eerie and frightening. And we might equally well, along the way, recognize that a degree of cruelty or distance belong to an odd list of the things we appear genuinely to need in order to love. It can be tricky to avoid self-censorship here, but the point isn’t to represent ourselves as reassuring, predictable people, but to get to know the curious quirks of our own psyches. We’ll tend to find that some ostensibly pretty nice things are getting caught in our love filters: people who are eloquent, clever, reliable, sunny can set off loud alarms. This is vital knowledge. We should pause and try to fathom where the aversions come from, what aspects of our past have made it so hard for us to accept certain sorts of emotional nourishment. Each time we recognize a negative, we’re discovering a crucial association in our own minds: we’re alighting on an impossibility of love based on associations from the past projected onto the present. An additional way we can get at the associations which circulate powerfully in the less noticed corners of our brains is to finish stub-sentences, that invite us to respond to things that might charm or repel us about someone. We get to see our own reactions more clearly when we write things down without thinking too much about our answers, catching the mind’s unconscious at work. For instance, we can deliberately jot the first things that come into our heads when we read the following: • If I tell a partner how much I need them, they will… • When someone tells me they really need me, I… • If someone can’t cope, I… • When someone tells me to get my act together, I … • If I were to be frank about my anxieties … • If my partner told me not to worry, I’d… • When someone blames me unfairly, I … Our honestly described reactions are legacies. They are revealing underlying assumptions we have acquired about what love can look like. We may start to get a clearer picture that our vision of what we are looking for in another person might not be an especially good guide to our personal or mutual happiness. Examining our emotional histories, we see that we can’t be attracted to just anyone. Getting to know the past, we come to recognise our earlier associations for what they are: generalisations we formed – entirely understandably – on the basis of just one or, hugely impressive, examples. We’ve unknowingly turned some local associations into strict rules for relationships. Even if we can’t radically shift the pattern, it’s useful to know that we are carrying a ball and chain. It can make us more careful of ourselves when we feel overwhelmed by a certainty that we’ve met the one, after a few minutes chatting at the bar. Ultimately, we stand to be liberated to love different people to our initial ‘types’, because we find that the qualities we like, and the ones we very much fear, are found in different constellations from those we encountered in the people who first taught us about affection, long ago in a childhood we are starting at last to understand and free ourselves from. ©️The Counsellor

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HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW S3DUC3D HIM UNTIL HE GOT HER PREGNANT. 1 Veronica was not your typical mother-in-law. I mean, not every mother-in-law is the same; some come with prayers, wrappers, and love, while others come with lipstick, secrets, and destr--uction. Veronica was the second kind. She was the kind of woman who never accepted she was old, always saying things like, "I'm still h--ot," or "I'm still in town." She dressed like a teenager: short, see-through skirts, crop tops, long eyelashes, and heavy makeup that made people stare. She walked like the streets still belonged to her, spoke with bold confidence, and never accepted that age had touched her. She didn't visit her daughters like a normal mother; she showed up like she was coming for a nightclub audition. To Veronica, her daughter's husband wasn't family; he was an opportunity, another fine man she could lay in b--ed with. And she did it – not once, not twice, but multiple times. She wasn't just a problem; she was a st--orm. Meanwhile, across town, Nancy, her daughter, lived a very different life. Nancy was the kind of woman every man would be proud to have. Her skin was smooth like ripe mango, and her smile could calm a crying baby. She was kind, quiet, and very hardworking. Everyone who met her said the same thing: "This girl is wife material." Nancy had a man, his name was Aika. He was tall like a coconut tree, with skin that shone like polished wood. His voice was soft, his steps gentle, and his heart was full of love. He had big houses, fine cars, big businesses, and plenty of money in the bank. But above all, he had only one thing in mind: to marry Nancy and start a peaceful life with her. Nancy had everything a young woman could wish for: a good job, a gentle man, and a heart full of joy. But inside her chest, under her happiness, there was a small fear, a quiet fear that stayed like a lizard behind cardboard. That fear was her mother, Veronica. Veronica was her mother by b--lood, yes, but she was not like other mothers. She was different, and Nancy knew deep down in her heart that if anything was ever going to spoil her joy, it would come from that woman. But she never said it out loud; she just smiled and kept planning her wedding. Veronica was not a mother like Mama Anki or Mama Zab; she was different, very different. She had Nancy when she was just a small girl herself, a teenager. Her parents chased her out of the house when they saw her belly growing like a yam. She cried, she begged, but they shut the door and told her, "Go and face what you started." From that day, Veronica began to suffer under the hot sun. She carried oranges on her head, she sold sachet water in traffic, she begged strangers for coins. Her feet were always dusty, and her stomach always empty. But Veronica had something: beauty. She was fine, too fine. Her skin glowed, her bo--dy curved like a question mark, and men started to notice. One man came one night; he offered her food and a soft bed, but he wanted her bo--dy in return. She agreed. That night, her life changed. That was how Veronica entered the world of easy money: one man today, another man tomorrow. She began to wear short clothes, paint her li--ps red like tomatoes, and walk with her che--st high like a peacock. She went from sleeping on cartons to sleeping in hotels, from begging for food to buying fried rice at night. To be continued after 20 shares...

2Baba and his new lover, Natasha Osawaru enjoy themselves at a nightclub in Lagos The video shared by Davido's logistics manager, Isreal DMW, shows 2Baba and Natasha having some good moments at the club.

WHAT IS THIS LIFE? A man is born today, Tomorrow he is dead. A man lives in a mansion today, Tomorrow he lives underground. A man drives a car today, Tomorrow an ambulance drives him. A man reads biology today, Tomorrow a biography is been read of him. A man eats whatever he wants today, Tomorrow he becomes food for insects. A man is always early for work today, Tomorrow he is termed late Mr/Mrs. A man is seen resting in his house today, Tomorrow he is resting in a coffin. And they say "Rest In Peace"! A man eats all kinds of fruits in his house today, Tomorrow he becomes manure to those trees. A man is known today as the richest man ever, Tomorrow he doesn't even know where or what will happen to his riches. What is life after all? Plan your life because you may not see tomorrow. But when your life is well planned you won't Be afraid of any thing. ACT RIGHT AND LIVE GODLY. ALWAYS BE A HELPING HAND TO OTHERS. Come to think of this?....... 1. Eternal life = free 2. Church entrance = free 3. Christ's salvation = free 4. God's love = free 5. Breath of life = free A. Cigarette = pay B. Prostitution = pay C. Alcohol =pay D. Nightclub entrance fee= pay E. Powers to rule the world = pay Then why are people paying for hell while PARADISE is free? Think twice Believe in Christ and you shall be saved.. We always think of Valentine's day Birth day Father's day Mother's day Children's day Our day, Farmer's day Teacher's day Christmas day Independence day Boxing day, This day, That day, Day in Day out. Have u ever thought of Judgement Day, is it going to be a day of celebration or condemnation for u? If u're safe, what about ur friends & loved ones. Show dem luv by telling dem about d Judgement Day... Peace-out.....