almajiri101: What a wonderful day for Olu jacob and Wole soyinka. I doff my yellow bareta for these 2 great sailors.

I sight you. 231 Fø̲̣̣я̅ ♈̷̴̩̲̣̣̣̥Ợ̥μ̥.

Hugoboi:

You are not a Seadog. The only deck named Honduras belongs to Unical and it is the Bucanneer deck.

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Happy birthday captain Blood of Tortuga. May you derio forever. Ahoy seadogs. . . Rum pyrates rum. We chant!

Yoha to ur bones!

Ahoys!
It is you people that share our codes to impostors.
NCMs have been working hard tracking all sorts of fake
posts and you are the ones making it difficult... 1/2W...
as an NCM, I am advising that the author of all the pyrate
related posts above removes them NOW.
Go and post it at the CAP . . . Remember your #3

Pointless altercating an atos . . . it could have been worse!

doncaster: Go back and re-read my post mate. I have never said am a sea dog. All I said was my dad was and my two bros are.

Moreover am not debating if confraternity is good or bad what am disputing is some wannabe saying their is no pirates in universities. At least till I graduated PC still has members in my school, Unizik, absu, Imsu, UI, Uniport, Uniben, Unn and Ife. This I know too well cos I attended parties organized by them and during my service yr we did things together. For some one who claim to be a member to call their fraternal brothers touts sounds vulgar.

Abeg, are your brothers also in yabatech... so, I can pack my load to Ghana... Cos I intend to study there..

brownlord1:
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Trash. Apart from from non admission of undergraduates into pyrate, please tell me the difference between pyrate and buccaneer, eiye, NBM Vikings and maphite.

Of what benefit are to the country and ordinary citizens? Stop talking trash and trying to sound intelligent bro.

Pyrate, buccaneer, eiye serve no puripose and all should be ban[/s].

Doesn't matter what you feel man.
YOHA till the casket drops!

chimoz: Soyinka does not deserve the kind of accolade we give him in Nigeria, this man's stock in trade is to polarise this country. We all knows how he got his Nobel laurel. His analysis of situations and government are much below par for a world class professor.

Pls educate me.....how did he get his Nobel Laurette.

Ok. Wish him many more years

Chimoz should educate the whole world on how Soyinka got his Nobel Laureate . I think the most important part of that lecture would be how Achebe missed the award and how Prof. ABC Nwosu will be given one in the nearest future.

Some people have pull him down tendency for those they hate. Checking from postings on Nairaland and elsewhere, they do not see anything good in actor/actress, politician or somebody making impact in any endeavor in life except it is of their own. I pity them. They are the present pro - government rally expert in the present dispensation. It is paying off. I congratulate them

Prof Wole Soyin d great sailor

wirelessmaster: Chimoz should educate the whole world on how Soyinka got his Nobel Laureate . I think the most important part of that lecture would be how Achebe missed the award and how Prof. ABC Nwosu will be given one in the nearest future.

Some people have pull him down tendency for those they hate. Checking from postings on Nairaland and elsewhere, they do not see anything good in actor/actress, politician or somebody making impact in any endeavor in life except it is of their own. I pity them. They are the present pro - government rally expert in the present dispensation. It is paying off. I congratulate them

Will you keep calm and stop advertising my monicker on Nairaland and disturbing Sunday peace. Who told you am interested in anything concerning soyinka, he may be your hero but he is not mine neither would I care if he dies today or lives to 200. By the way, am not pro-pdp or pro-Apc, both of them are same players playing friendly in the same field, same interest, same purpose but different jerseys.
Oh!! Please stop feeling guilt for wole soyinka, the whole world knows that the propaganda he helped fuel against ACHEBE gave him the laurael and not merit. ACHEBE never wasn't a fan of Awards.
Prof.Nwosu gets or doesn't get won't make me not to take my lunch at chopstick.
Finally, don't ever quote me on this forum else!!!

brownlord1: And police arrested some members going for initiation the other day in Calabar abi?

Double Standard

I tire oooo. What is the difference between this confraternity and the campus Eye, Aake, etc?


Cultist na Cultist now.

screenagerjoe: you well? Norsemen kclub of Nigeria. The supreme vikings confraternity is also registered. Anyi-kperere.

fire!! Observe more and capless, remain rugged.

ahoy to all d pally onboard dis ship

Awumen

I remember
that fateful day,
on that isle -
na so-so water dey;
when my Capo
initiated me -
I was to be SayLaw
slaying my foes.

I remember
that fateful day,
on that isle -
na so-so water dey;
when my Capo
initiated me -
SayLaws became SayCrime
slaying my own.

TheIkoro:
I remember
that fateful day,
on that isle -
na so-so water dey;
when my Capo
initiated me -
I was to be SayLaw
slaying my foes.

I remember
that fateful day,
on that isle -
na so-so water dey;
when my Capo
initiated me -
SayLaws became SayCrime
slaying my own.

The following Word by The Naked Truth, written no less than five years ago - as far as I can remember, and despite that which The Comedian would thou believe - is even more relevant today, than when it was written.

Re: Religion Against Humanity By Wole Soyinka by TheIkoro(m): 5:51pm On Feb 07, 2015

IleIfe2:
To such a degree has Religion fueled conflict, complicated politics, slow social development and impaired human relations across the world, that one is often tempted to propose that Religion is innately an enemy of Humanity, if not indeed of itself a crime against Humanity. Certainly it cannot be denied that Religion has proved again and again a spur, a motivator, and a justification for the commission of some of the most horrifying crimes against humanity, despite its fervent affirmations of peace. Let us however steer away from hyperbolic propositions and simply settle for this moderating moral imperative: that it is time that the world adopt a position that refuses to countenance Religion as an acceptable justification for, excuse or extenuation of - crimes against humanity.

While it should be mandatory that states justify their place as members of a world community by educating their citizens on the entitlement of religion to a place within society, and the obligations of mutual acceptance and respect, it should be deemed unacceptable that the world is held to ransom for the uneducated conduct of a few, and placed in a condition of fear, apprehension, leading to a culture of appeasement. There are critical issues of human well-being and survival that deserve the undivided attention of leaders all over the world. Let us recall that it is not anti-islamists who have lately desecrated and destroyed - and with such fiendish self-righteousness - the tombs of Moslem saints in Timbuktoo, most notoriously the mausoleum of the Imam Moussa al-Khadin, declared a world heritage under the protection of UNESCO and accorded pride of place in African patrimony . The orientation – backed by declarations - of these violators leaves us with a foreboding that the invaluable library treasures of Timbuktoo may be next.

The truth, alas, is that the science fiction archetype of the mad scientist who craves to dominate the world has been replaced by the mad cleric who can only conceive of the world in his own image, proudly flaunting Bond’s Double-0-7 credentials – Licensed to Kill. The sooner national leaders and genuine religious leaders understand this, and admit that no nation has any lack of its own dangerous loonies, be they known as Ansar-Dine of Mali, or Terry Jones of Florida, the earlier they will turn their attention to real issues truly deserving human priority. These cited clerics and their ilk are descendants of the ancient line of iconoclasts of Islamic, christian and other religious moulds who have destroyed the antecedent spirituality and divine emblems of the African peoples over centuries. Adherents of those African religions, who remain passionately attached to their beliefs, all the way across the Atlantic – in Brazil and across other parts of Latin America – have not taken to wreaking vengeance on their presumed violators in far off lands.
These emulators are still at work on the continent, most devastatingly in Somalia, with my own nation Nigeria catching up with mind-boggling rapidity and intensity. Places of worship are primary targets, followed by institutes of education. Innocent humanity, eking out their miserable livelihood, are being blown to pieces, presumably to relieve them of their misery. Schools and school pupils are assailed in religion fueled orgies, measured, deliberate and deadly. The hands of the clock of progress and social development have been arrested, then reversed in widening swathes of the Nigerian landscape. As if the resources of the nation were not already stretched to breaking point, they must now also be diverted to anticipating the consequences – as in numerous nations around the world – that would predictably follow the cinematic obscenities of a new entrant into the ranks of religious denigrators, who turns out – irony of ironies - to have originated from the African continent.

In sensible families, while every possible effort is made to smooth the passage of children through life, children are taught to understand that life is not a seamless robe of many splendours, but prone to the possibility of being besmirched by the unexpected, and unpredictable. A solid core of confidence in one’s moral and spiritual choices is thus sufficient to withstand external assaults from sudden and hostile forces. That principle of personality development is every bit as essential as the education that inculcates respect for the belief systems and practices of others. The most intense ethical education, including severe social sanctions, has not eradicated material corruption, exploitation, child defilement and murders in society, not even deterrents such as capital punishment. How then can anyone presume that there shall be no violations of the ideal state of religious tolerance to which we all aspire, or demand that the world stand still, cover its head in sackcloth and ashes, grovel in self-abasement or else prepare itself for earthly pestilence for failure to anticipate the occasional penetration of their self ascribed carapace of inviolability.

It is time to demand a sense of proportion, and realism. Communication advance has made it possible for both good and evil to transcend boundaries virtually at the speed of light, and for the spores of hatred to travel just as fast, and as widely as the seeds of harmony. The world should not continue to acquiesce in the brutal culture of extremism that demands the impossible - control of the conduct of millions in their individual spheres, under different laws, usages, cultures and indeed – degrees of sanity.

What gives hope is the very special capacity of man for dialogue, and that arbiter is foreclosed, or endures interminable postponements as long as one side arrogates to itself the right to respond to a pebble thrown by an infantile hand in Papua New Guinea with attempts to demolish the Rock of Gibraltar. I use the word ‘infantile’ deliberately, because these alleged insults to religion are no different from the infantile scribble we encounter in public toilets, the product of infantilism and slow development. We have learnt to ignore, and walk away from them. They should not be answered by equally infantile responses that are however incendiary and homicidal in dimension, and largely directed against the innocent, since the originating hand is usually, in any case, beyond reach. With the remorseless march of technology, we shall all be caught in a spiral of reprisals, tailored to wound, to draw virtual blood. The other side responds with real blood and gore, also clotting up the path to rational discourse. What we are witnesses to in recent times is that such proceeding is being accorded legitimacy on the grounds of religious sensibility. It is pathetic to demand what cannot be guaranteed. It is futile to attempt to rein in technology: the solution is to use that very technology to correct noxious conceptions in the minds of the perpetrators of abuse, and educate the ignorant.

I speak as one from a nation whose normal diet of economic disparity, corruption, marginalization, ethnic and political cleavages has been further compounded by the ascendancy of religious jingoism. It is a lamentable retrogression from the nearly forgotten state of harmonious coexistence that I lived and enjoyed as a child. One takes consolation in the fact that some of us did not wait to sound warnings until the plague of religious extremism entered our borders. Our concerns began and were articulated as a concern for others, still at remote distances. Now that the largest black habitation on the globe has joined the club of religious terror under the portentous name, Boko Haram – which means ‘The Book is Taboo’ - we can morally demand help from others, but we only find them drowning in the rhetoric and rites of anger and/or contrition. Today it is the heritage and humanity of Timbuktoo. And tomorrow? The African continent must take back Mali – not later but - right now. The cost of further delay will be incalculable, and devastating.

The spiral of reprisals now appears to have been launched, what with the recent news that a French editor has also entered the lists with a fresh album of offensive cartoons. To break that spiral, there must be dialogue of frank, mature minds. Instant, comprehensive solutions do not exist, only the arduous, painstaking path of dialogue, whose multi-textured demands are not beyond the innovative, as opposed to the emotive capacity, of cultured societies. So let that moving feast of regional dialogues – which was inaugurated by former President Khatami of Iran in these very chambers – be reinforced, emboldened, and even-handed. The destination should be a moratorium, but for this to be strong and enduring, it must be voluntary, based on a will to understanding and mental re-orientation, not on menace, self-righteous indictments and destructive emotionalism. Perhaps we may yet rescue Religion from its ultimate indictment: conscription into the ranks of provable enemies of Humanity.

Wole Soyinka
Sept. 21, 2012, United Nations Headquarters, New York.

http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/2012/09/un-culture-of-peace/


Re: "Religion Against Humanity by Wole Soyinka" by Ikoro Iyineleda

A stitch in time would have saved all creation.

A stitch in time would have had a human being that appealed to all humanity to be
allowed to live life as a part of life, and run not the human race on crippled feet; be not annointed by
GOD to break the shackles of hypocrisy that deny human beings that right for which he appealed - merely because he
spoke up after forty years on earth, or after but twelve years, or even after up to twenty four
years, or simply because he was not as fortunate as was Kunta Kinte to have had a father that had him
set forth at dawn.

A stitch in time would have had the most gross epitome of hypocrisy that has ever strutted its cruelty under the
camouflage of religion heed the words, "I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men: SHE IS
TO KEEP SILENT;" that the denial of those words may then justify in all its entirety that which is written
of the shrew that, being Woman, it refused to tame into both silence
and subjection:

"And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth
the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of Nature; and it is set on the fire of Hell."

That which, being written, denies an underestimation of "an unruly evil, full of deadly poison;" as no more than "a pebble thrown by an infantile hand in
Papua New Guinea with attempts to demolish the Rock of Gibraltar." Because it is written of He that is infinitely
greater than any that has ever called itself the Rock of Gibraltar:

"Do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to The LORD, lest
He break out against them."

If those of whom it is written are The LORD's "portion" and His "alloted heritage"
are not to come up to The LORD because of that possible eventuality that has been since the very beginning, "lest they die;"
how much more those that approach Him obviously to provoke Him (even if only with "pebbles" hurled by
"infantile" hands - be the "infantile" literal; or that of the Woman that has been accorded such an elevated position in society that she has not only
proclaimed herself to be "the new man," but she has also seen herself to be "God"wink how much more will those that provoke
Him (even if only with "pebbles"wink bring to pass the prophecy written of that which will be the course of Nature, when the hypocrisy of an
adulterous generation refuses to tame the shrew that is Woman into subjection?

"It shall be set on fire."

He will break out against them - regardless of how infantile they may truly be, or claim to be.

They will surely die.

For even with the feeble attempts by which Humanity strives to live by the law, a
delinquent infant is still required to face the wrath of the law - regardless of how subdued the wrath
may be. And therefore, if we are "to ignore, and walk away from" "the products of infantilism and slow development" that are the
"pebbles" known more pecisely as "blasphemy" in the world of Religion; then we should also, in
the world of Humanity, "ignore, and walk away from" the juvenile delinquents such as those that continue to
give the word "confraternity" that bad name of "cultism" and "gangsterism" in Nigerian universities. And considering
the fact that that which is written of that which thou art supposed to have said once, O
CB (in the edition of The Nigerian Guardian dated "Sunday May 14 - 17, 2008"wink concerning those juvenile delinquents, is:

"When I hear that Wole Soyinka started secret cults, I always wish that thunder will descend and smite the mouths of those who say it."

If thou would thunder "smite" merely because of that which others would term, "libel;" how much more will the
Moslem in particular wish that even worse descend on those who make statements of libel
against The Prophet they hold in such high esteem (had Christians today the same regard for The Christ, they would emulate him as religiously as
Moslems emulate - on the average - Mohammed) and why then should Religion in general not have that which is even worse than worse descend on those who have
evolved from the pits of libel into the dank depths of blasphemy: Be it as the wrath of The Allah that is seen as being so volatile that not only is Boko
Haram made to be synonymous with "religious terror," but Islam also is made to be synonymous with "terrorism;" or be it as The LORD that the fool, the hypocrite, and the naïve that
consists of the Christendom of this most evil and adulterous generation continues striving to have all believe
is such a placid conformist that absolutely no one could have said unto Moses,
"You speak to us, and we will hear; but let not GOD speak to us, lest we die" - the
Christianity that continues striving to have all believe that absolutely none like Him before
Whom they are to bow could have said, "Therefore will I also deal in fury:
Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in Mine ears with a
loud voice, yet I will not hear them."

Hear, O Masculinism: The LORD our God, The LORD is GOD.

And in the world of the Religion that brings about not only the recognition of Him that created not only Humanity
itself, but the righteousness also by which thou seems to imply it should live - yet by laws that recognise not The Creator; "the
equally infantile responses that are however incendiary and homicidal in dimension, and largely directed
against the innocent" is thoroughly dwarfed by the wrath of He that is provoked by the "pebbles"
thou believes can provoke only "equally infantile responses."

He is "a consuming fire."

And of the "innocent" that may be consumed by the fire?

Like unto them is the nation of which it is written:

"And The LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians."

That despite the favour, it may then be written of that nation:

"and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where one was not dead."

For regardless of how "innocent" thou might believe thyself to be, should thou be on the other side of
The LORD, thou art rendered guilty of all charges made by the one side.

And thus a stitch in time would have saved the "blood and gore;" would have saved the spiral of
reprisals that brought about the realisation of the war being - even in the sphere of
Humanity's Politics - "religious;" may have brought about "the path to national discourse" that would have The
Ikoro rather jaw-jaw than war-war; would have saved the denial of the sacrifice (if ever made) that would have had
"the world stand still, cover its head in sackcloth and ashes, grovel in self-abasement or else prepare
itself for earthly pestilence for failure to anticipate the occasional penetration of their
self ascribed carapace of inviolability," - the sacrifice that would deny both the justice and the judgment due to
which even Sons of The Most High will "die like men, and fall like any prince;" would have saved all creation from the ultimate end
from which will be saved he only of whom it is written "endures to the end."

The conclusion of the matter, and concerning both Humanity and Religion:

Humanity is that which recognises the existence of not only "good and evil," not only wickedness and
righteousness; but of the war also between good and evil, between wickedness and righteousness: And yet
denies The LORD as justifiably as he that (in the world of secular Humanity, takes the
law into his hand) is justified by the law.

Religion is that which has the good wage war on evil, the righteous on wickedness, as "servants of GOD to execute His wrath on the
wrongdoer."

Thou may therefore make thy choice, O CB, between that which is justifiable, and that which is to be
condemned; even should thou judge only by the feeble attempts of Humanity to live by laws that give no
due recognition of the Religion that honours The Creator of Humanity.

- Ikoro Iyineleda.
(Author: The Faith Of The Less).

alcuin:
will u all just keep quiet and give ur best wishes to the man who, at a time, placed Nigeria on the map of the world?

Stop these useless cappings, barkings and counter barkings and cappings. Seadog, sealord, sea king, sea monster....all na for una pockets. Go to the meditarenean sea, black sea, red sea, atlantic ocean. Person wen neva see big river before dey claim sea champion.

Stop these nonsense!

P:S Don't quote me I'm Ogboni.

lwkmd!

You are not fit to be a Buccaneer.. you’re too stupid.. Unilag student �