Gabriel_sylar: Maina for president 2015!!!!!

kumbalo: @OP, Nice post.Unfortunately you just couldn't hide you religious bigotry when you mentioned that the Ganster at the white... house throwing drones, killing Matin Luther King's dream. That almost rubbished you entire post for real.

dare2think: Classic case of Liberalism vs Conservatism.


Interesting reading both sides of the arguments.


Nice write up by the op with the exception of the bigotry and self-righteousness contained within.

HNosegbe:

Rubbish.

bukatyne: I believe we can still train our kids in the right way and who knows, they might be the light that will shine in their dark world.

made in nigeria: [s]Come to think of it this your post is not about goldie...i think its more about religious sentiments..the more i read this post of yours the more i realise that it resembles the writings of a boko haram member becos what is the correlation between obamas governance and the way goldie was when she was alive......and ppl should note that the op used goldie's name for 5minutes of attention so that ppl will click on his write up nd end up on d frontpage....[/s] whether u lik it or not goldie na celeb wey dem recognise nd na [size=50pt]hero[/size] to her fans and her governor

free2ryhme:


About ten years ago I lost a friend in an armed robbery incident. Obviously the armed robbers were not satisfied with robbing they needed to make a point by harming someone in the house and my friend’s mother was their target. As they swung the axe my friend who was the scholar of our class in secondary school protected his mother with his head….he died; no national award, no postmortem speech from the Governor and of course no celebrity burial; he was just another guy, the fact that he took a battle axe to his head for his mother was irrelevant

This and many more of it happens in a country wherein people get millions both in local and foreign currency for playing football; a country wherein comedians shake hands with the President and women who kiss strange men on camera in the name of acting take home National Award and an immoral youth who made fame singing about his private part is given special opportunity to interview the President in a desperate campaign strategy because the thinking is that the community is populated by zombies and bimbos who will vote in a PHD holder on the “honour” of a nuisance whose only relevance to society, apart from lewd music, is competition in air and space. Thus the question every sane Nigerian should be asking is when will this madness of underserved honour stop?

The death of the musician from Ekiti, Goldie Harvey, and the attempt to make it seem like we lost an icon is another and perhaps the worst of all these madness. I do not believe that death, which we will all face, should make you a hero except you died an honourable death. When people just drop dead we grieve and console the family not tell blatant lies as to who they were. This is why the statement of the Ekiti State Governor is worrisome. Mr. Kayode Fayemi is reported to have described Goldie as a “great daughter of Ekiti State” and one has to wonder upon what was this greatness achieved? Are people now great for singing meaningless songs with promiscuous suggestions or for taking and publishing suggestive photos of themselves?

Since when did we consider it greatness to appeal to the sexual cravings of perverts and run after men on camera in the name of a reality show that is far from reality? Since when did it become great achievement that a lady is even thought of as being a junkie in her life time? How can this be great?

In the past fathers will tell their children “don’t bring shame to this family” but nowadays shame and shamelessness is celebrated with such noise that you think the Devil himself is in charge of people’s life and even he has gone crazy.

Ironically, around the same period this unfortunate death occurred Governor Theodora Orji of Abia State was commending Mrs. Nwanyieze Prosper for winning the Purity Queen title for a lady who kept her virginity until her marriage; surprisingly some Nigerians criticized the Governor and even ‘accused’ him of giving her a car whereas Governor Kayode Fayemi was praised for describing Goldie as a “bright star” among other accolades including that she lived a “fulfilled life”. Indeed the world is upside down.

The problem with giving honour to people who did dishonourable acts is that people will definitely emulate them. The Dolly Parton’s of this world made it a fashion for women to expose their cleavage; years on women have lost their husbands to such exposure and homes have collapsed; the Dr. Dre’s of this world made being “gangster” a fashionable thing and years later the gangsters are increasing and we even have a gangster in the White House killing innocent people with Drones….Martin Luther’s dreams became a Nightmare. And this list goes on and on; for every irresponsible person you honour you make irresponsibility the “swag”, the same way for every man who dies for his mother you honour you make standing up against oppression and protecting the weak the in-thing….make your choice.

Lastly, we must clarify two issues. The first one is with regards to speaking “evil” about the dead while the second one is the “who are you to Judge” comedy.

Firstly, the dead has already met what he or she put forward hence there is no need to speak of its evil. What there is need to do however is to either call the living to an example to live by if the dead is worthy of emulation or to warn the living to stay away from a wasteful lifestyle like that of the dead who lived life as if death was never going to come and this is the real lesson here; life is short, if you live it like Goldie your death may come and meet you in that state; what will you tell your Creator? We cannot pretend this is not the lesson here; it will be one lie too many

Secondly, they ask us not to Judge and we say to them since we are in the spirit of not judging kindly don’t judge the location of your mouth so that you put your food in your nose. We say to them that in this spirit of not judging please cross the road without judging that a vehicle is close enough to knock you down; maybe when you are in the air you will realise your stupidity.

We do not Judge a person who has Faith that he or she will be in the hellfire, we do not Judge that the person’s bad is more than his/her good, we do not Judge if God will forgive a believer…..but we Judge that fornication and the promotion of it is EVIL, and that the one who represented evil dead does not make evil good.

Some others will say an adult can do what he or she likes and you don’t have to force your life on others. The question we have for this set of confused mentally colonized perverts is that this same justification is given to homosexuality and it will soon be given to incest so that if a grown up man and his grown up daughter say they fell in love and want to marry your kind will say well it’s their life, it does not affect me….can you see now that you are sick?

Conclusively, the lessons from this unfortunate incident can be summarized as thus;

1) Death can come at any time; be prepared to meet your Lord.

2) Fame and fortunes are but illusions, what matters is your relationship with your Creator.

3) The enjoyment of this world is fleeting; don’t let it deceive you.

4) Live a good life; one that does not involve promoting lewdness or any type of evil; death and Judgment is real and it is no respecter of status.

5) It was the honour given her musical mentors that led the lady to not just music but a meaningless form upon which her life ended so let’s ensure that we do not turn scum into icons because people will sure emulate them.
May God Almighty give the family fortitude to bear the lost and guide them aright.

Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
Benin City






http://www.facebook.com/jewju.brown/posts/10152563271535133

nitlad:
Even if you tried, you would not register a point!

I have a huge dis-taste for inbred plonkers! That you see the the OP as being judgemental raises a red flag about you as being inscrutable!


You are chatting the same megede-fegede again!

It is because of acts like this that this world has been re-engineered on a disastrous path of self implosion.

These are the kinda shytes that make ninnies like you not see anything wrong in morally bankrupt celeb1tches!

That you don't see anything wrong in being the poster girl for immorality and decadence tells the whole story

Sagamite:

I have NEVER watched any of those shows because I like my food and don't want to throw-up.

But they keep on churning out more of those moronic kinds of programmes everytime.

The last one I saw advertised and swore under my breath was "Singing Date". People meet up on blind dates and sit and sing to each other.

I was so irritated and thinking which funky moorons conjured this new dumb rubbish again.

Give me Newsnight and Dragons Den anyday.

Sagamite:

It is very, very tough nowadays.

Very, very tough.

We are social animals. I would do all I cab but they would still have a world bombarding them with nonsense from all angles and mediums, and they might still mix with kids of people I despise their parental ideology (like Miss Ife and jidegirl12) in environments I can't control. Moreover, the liberal funky ideology is more fun even if damaging.

It is a village that raises a child, not just me the parent.

Evolutionary efficiency is kicking in as I am subconsciously keeping my seeds in the sack.

dhardline: True talk.we now live in a society that glorifies evil than good.Eg.Bad guy:what most people refer to them selves now
Sexy:what most girls want to be called
hustler:what most people call what dey do but which really means gettin money through illegal means
Hot:most girls will prefer to be known as a hot chic now instead of cool chic
A world where u talk against gay rights and the prosecute and curse you but support them and you are showered accolades that you support freedom and the list goes on and on.my prayer now is 'father let thy kingdom come.'

touchmeder:


Trust me i was not the biggest fan of Goldie but you have no right to judge her like you knew her personally at the bolded part. Are they some reasonable points in your essay? Of course i believe you did make some good points. Do i think the Ekiti state government should immortalize her and stuff? I dont think its necessary. Its enough they offer condolences on behalf of the state. Do i even think it was necessary for a state government to be involved in gifts or a car for a woman who kept her virginity until marriage? I'm sorry but thats a NO for me too. Thats what an NGO,religious or philanthropic organisation should be concerned with. At the end of the day i will use a word you alluded to in your essay. Judge that you may not be judged too. You dont know if she made her peace with her maker before she died. So many people will be shocked on the last day.All ye spiritual individual who think you are up there and someone else falls short be careful...

funkydot: @Op
What is all dis sanctimonious nonsense you have just penned that all your ilk here are celebrating?!!! People like you make me sick because you just take a look at someone and condemn then from your high viewing pedestal based on media representation wtf! Just because Goldie lived part of her life in the face of the public being an entertainer doesn't mean she can be trashed for whatever we deduce from her so-called lifestyle forgetting that most of our generalisation about these so-called celebrities are mostly based on assumptions and half-truths. Besides the fact that we found out Goldie was married after her death as well as her celebrated relationship with Prezzo, there doesn't seem to be any other scandal associated with her...now if you would be reasonable and agree with me that in between her so-called 'secret marriage' and dalliance with Prezzo there are a lot of grey areas that we do not understand and perhaps may never know nor is this really any business of ours.In view of the fact that the main man (i.e. her hubby) who should have felt slighted or wronged by this 'adultery' kept praising her really makes me wonder what exactly all this hullabaloo is all about! I believe each and everyone of us should examine ourselves to see if indeed we are living exemplary lives before this castigation of Goldie. For the records, I had no intention of holding brief for her because I could barely stick her while she was alive, perhaps I even said some mean words about her during the BBA episode because she came across as a needy and clingy lady not particularly my type of role model because I mostly admire strong women but this whole ish on her death and lifestyle is just totally pitiful so please let's put some sensibilities into our comments remembering she has loved ones that will be grieving her early demise. Just my 2 cents.

free2ryhme:


About ten years ago I lost a friend in an armed robbery incident. Obviously the armed robbers were not satisfied with robbing they needed to make a point by harming someone in the house and my friend’s mother was their target. As they swung the axe my friend who was the scholar of our class in secondary school protected his mother with his head….he died; no national award, no postmortem speech from the Governor and of course no celebrity burial; he was just another guy, the fact that he took a battle axe to his head for his mother was irrelevant

This and many more of it happens in a country wherein people get millions both in local and foreign currency for playing football; a country wherein comedians shake hands with the President and women who kiss strange men on camera in the name of acting take home National Award and an immoral youth who made fame singing about his private part is given special opportunity to interview the President in a desperate campaign strategy because the thinking is that the community is populated by zombies and bimbos who will vote in a PHD holder on the “honour” of a nuisance whose only relevance to society, apart from lewd music, is competition in air and space. Thus the question every sane Nigerian should be asking is when will this madness of underserved honour stop?

The death of the musician from Ekiti, Goldie Harvey, and the attempt to make it seem like we lost an icon is another and perhaps the worst of all these madness. I do not believe that death, which we will all face, should make you a hero except you died an honourable death. When people just drop dead we grieve and console the family not tell blatant lies as to who they were. This is why the statement of the Ekiti State Governor is worrisome. Mr. Kayode Fayemi is reported to have described Goldie as a “great daughter of Ekiti State” and one has to wonder upon what was this greatness achieved? Are people now great for singing meaningless songs with promiscuous suggestions or for taking and publishing suggestive photos of themselves?

Since when did we consider it greatness to appeal to the sexual cravings of perverts and run after men on camera in the name of a reality show that is far from reality? Since when did it become great achievement that a lady is even thought of as being a junkie in her life time? How can this be great?

In the past fathers will tell their children “don’t bring shame to this family” but nowadays shame and shamelessness is celebrated with such noise that you think the Devil himself is in charge of people’s life and even he has gone crazy.

Ironically, around the same period this unfortunate death occurred Governor Theodora Orji of Abia State was commending Mrs. Nwanyieze Prosper for winning the Purity Queen title for a lady who kept her virginity until her marriage; surprisingly some Nigerians criticized the Governor and even ‘accused’ him of giving her a car whereas Governor Kayode Fayemi was praised for describing Goldie as a “bright star” among other accolades including that she lived a “fulfilled life”. Indeed the world is upside down.

The problem with giving honour to people who did dishonourable acts is that people will definitely emulate them. The Dolly Parton’s of this world made it a fashion for women to expose their cleavage; years on women have lost their husbands to such exposure and homes have collapsed; the Dr. Dre’s of this world made being “gangster” a fashionable thing and years later the gangsters are increasing and we even have a gangster in the White House killing innocent people with Drones….Martin Luther’s dreams became a Nightmare. And this list goes on and on; for every irresponsible person you honour you make irresponsibility the “swag”, the same way for every man who dies for his mother you honour you make standing up against oppression and protecting the weak the in-thing….make your choice.

Lastly, we must clarify two issues. The first one is with regards to speaking “evil” about the dead while the second one is the “who are you to Judge” comedy.

Firstly, the dead has already met what he or she put forward hence there is no need to speak of its evil. What there is need to do however is to either call the living to an example to live by if the dead is worthy of emulation or to warn the living to stay away from a wasteful lifestyle like that of the dead who lived life as if death was never going to come and this is the real lesson here; life is short, if you live it like Goldie your death may come and meet you in that state; what will you tell your Creator? We cannot pretend this is not the lesson here; it will be one lie too many

Secondly, they ask us not to Judge and we say to them since we are in the spirit of not judging kindly don’t judge the location of your mouth so that you put your food in your nose. We say to them that in this spirit of not judging please cross the road without judging that a vehicle is close enough to knock you down; maybe when you are in the air you will realise your stupidity.

We do not Judge a person who has Faith that he or she will be in the hellfire, we do not Judge that the person’s bad is more than his/her good, we do not Judge if God will forgive a believer…..but we Judge that fornication and the promotion of it is EVIL, and that the one who represented evil dead does not make evil good.

Some others will say an adult can do what he or she likes and you don’t have to force your life on others. The question we have for this set of confused mentally colonized perverts is that this same justification is given to homosexuality and it will soon be given to incest so that if a grown up man and his grown up daughter say they fell in love and want to marry your kind will say well it’s their life, it does not affect me….can you see now that you are sick?

Conclusively, the lessons from this unfortunate incident can be summarized as thus;

1) Death can come at any time; be prepared to meet your Lord.

2) Fame and fortunes are but illusions, what matters is your relationship with your Creator.

3) The enjoyment of this world is fleeting; don’t let it deceive you.

4) Live a good life; one that does not involve promoting lewdness or any type of evil; death and Judgment is real and it is no respecter of status.

5) It was the honour given her musical mentors that led the lady to not just music but a meaningless form upon which her life ended so let’s ensure that we do not turn scum into icons because people will sure emulate them.
May God Almighty give the family fortitude to bear the lost and guide them aright.

Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
Benin City






http://www.facebook.com/jewju.brown/posts/10152563271535133

yuzedo:
LMAO! I swear man! I wonder whether it's not the same DSTV that shows these reta'rded shows and music videos that shows Dragons Den, Weakest Link, etc!
The choices people make and absurdly reta'rded preferences they have sha... The dearth of Intellectually and mentally stimulating activity we are currently experiencing; Generation St(u)pid!

kumbalo: @OP, Nice post.Unfortunately you just couldn't hide you religious bigotry when you mentioned that the Ganster at the white... house throwing drones, killing Matin Luther King's dream. That almost rubbished you entire post for real.

free2ryhme:

I dont think there is anything judgemental in this.. You wont approved your married sister chasing after young weird boiz on BBA when she has sworn to the oath for better or worse ... she is only a point of reference to the immorality and shamelessness that is being pervert all in the name of entertainment ... I believe you would approve of ofunneka being fingered and getting drunk in a previous edition of BBA. Pls if you would not wish your family member to engage in such an immoral act dont approve it of anybody..

inufele2:

+10000 likes
The author of this piece should park well jor! You can't judge people simply because you believe their level of morality is low, who make you the person to set moral standard for others?
If what you call immorality and mediocrity is being enjoyed by others wetin be your own wahala? Must everyone be geek or religious like you?
I don't even know who Goldie was, never listened to her music but if some people enjoy listening to her 'immoral' music how is that my problem? It's a free world jor!

Purist: Indeed, one has got to wonder how this writer arrived at his conclusions and deemed Goldie as "immoral" and "dishonourable". This write up, though contains some salient points, generally reeks of extreme self-righteousness. If you ask me, this sanctimonious rant qualifies the writer as immoral and dishonourable as well. Don't ask me how; my methods are the same as the writer's. You see, the problem with passing moral judgments is that our individual and collective senses of what constitutes morality are often subjective. For example, some would have you believe that certain hairstyles are immoral. Or certain clothings; even jewelries. Who defines these things?