hahahahaha wicked and callous magg0ts what did this poor little shitnigerian ape do to get his mouth padlocked? furckeduppedness

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selling human meat is normal in the sh1thole
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hahahahah even people walking about naked is also very normal in the Federal Republic of Fooools
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MadCow1: [b]BREAKING NEWS The Brazillian government has sent a high powered envoy to Nigeria to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan to assist them in tackling an Immigration pest problem. The Brazillians chose to seek assistance from the Government of Nigeria after it realized that like the Ebola outbreak, Nigeria is the only country to have been able to successfully rid itself of the Ghanaian Immigrant Virus (GIV). Brazil has been struggling for Months to get rid on Hundreds of Thousands og Ghanaians who snuck into the country under the guise of watching the worldcup and have refused to leave despite Ghana being eleiminated in the first round and the world cup being over.

President Jonathan has promised to supply the Brazillian government with Nigerias special secret weapon which was developed by the Nigerian Military in collaboration with the Defense ministry through their Anti-Biological weapons program and Pest Attack management program. The Weapon has been used successfully in Nigeria in 1983 to Combat and destroy the Ghanaian epidemic in Nigeria.. That was the first successful human testing of the weapon..

Below is a prototype of the Weapon.. The actual weapon cannot be disclosed for Natioanl security reasons;




The Brazillian Government are so greatful that they have even offered to make travels between Nigeria and Brazil Visa free, but President Jonathan graciously declined their offer.


www.Shahararoporters.com [/b]

Don't kill me. with laughter... Chai!..

#I WeEp For The gay apes in that s.hit-HOLE

hahahahahaha chei i no fit laugh ooooh hahahahaha regoroforo the modafakas even fvck cows ; what better confirmation do you need to proof these are animals ln human skin? hahahahahahahaha laugh wan tear ma belle sef

hahahahaha the fate of shitnigerians hahahaha human life is worth less than that of animals people get killed for pleasure in that cursed land

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what a jungle inhabited by apes and dogs

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hahahahaha welcome to Shitnigeria nigayria

Dummies, what name do you give to a country of kidnappers, ritualists, pr0stitutes,419ners, scammers and spammers, terrorists, militants, armed robbers, book haram, friggin eediots rule? A country where nothing works?

chei naija we wail ooooooh roforoforoforofo

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Check out a typical front page of NL…………………..

Boko Haram Kill 10 Christians in Borno State
Petrol Sells for N250 Per Litre in Calabar
$5000 Stolen from Pastor’s Vault
Tears of a Wounded Corper
Jonathan and the $31 billion Question
Governor’s ADC Beats Policemen to Coma
Pregnant Woma Dies in Port Harcourt Over N20,000 Deposit
Traders Shut Down Nnewi Market over Kidnap Menace
The face of Nigerian gays
22 officers arrested over jaji and SARS Attacks
Four Arrested for Killing Recharge Card Seller

no wonder Obasanjo said the sh1thole is cursed

Nigeria: A Nation of 160million Fools

By Dan Amor , 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com

When the Union Jack (the British flag) was, at the glittering mews of the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos on October 1, 1960, lowered for a free Nigeria’s green-white-green flag, gloriously fluttered in the sky by the breezy flurry of pride and ecstasy, it was a great moment pregnant with hope and expectation. The whole world had seen a newly independent Nigeria, a potential world power, only buried in the sands of time. Endowed with immense wealth, a dynamic population and an enviable talent for political compromise, Nigeria stood out in the 1960s as the potential leader in Africa, a continent in dire need of guidance. For, it was widely thought that the country was immune from the wasting diseases of tribalism, disunity and instability which remorselessly attacked so many other new African states. But when bursts of machine gun fire shattered the predawn calm of Lagos its erstwhile capital city in January 1966, it was now clear that Nigeria was no exception to Africa’s common post-independence experience.

During the following four years (1966-1970), the giant and ‘hope’ of Africa measured its full length in the dust. Two bloody military coups, a series of appalling massacres and a protracted and savage civil war which claimed over a million lives threatened to plunge the entire country into oblivion. It also deprived Black Africa, already weakened and disillusioned, of a crucial element of strength and leadership in the growing confrontation with White Africa along the Zambezi. As God would have it, at the end of the civil war in 1970 the nation experienced an oil boom and a staggering wealth never before recorded in the history of young nations. This new status, coupled with the emergence of a dynamic leader in the person of the late General Murtala Mohammed, in the mid-1970s, launched Nigeria back to a position of relevance in Africa when it proffered a new meaning and identity for the continent. Today, instead of a consummation of that hope and expectation, what confronts Nigeria is the story of a nation that has turned full circle as a giant with feet of clay: a big national and international nuisance and embarrassment. We are experiencing an unnerving weight of fuel scarcity in the sixth largest exporter of crude oil in the world.

A sadistic cabal of recycling local imperialists in both khaki and agbada has since hemmed the supposedly “giant of Africa” in a colony where misrule, ineptitude, crass opportunism and corruption have been elevated to a national culture. More than half a century into this circuitous game in which the nation’s till has been pillaged and her vast wealth frittered away abroad, the rot is peaking; and the hapless people are paying the imponderably colossal price. At the moment, in spite of a record huge revenue from the sale of crude oil and other domestic sources, the social services sector, which more directly impugn on the people’s lives, is almost at the height of a complete system collapse. The story of virtually every social responsibility of the state to the people; of every area where the state remain relevant to her subjects under the unwritten social contract code, has been rewritten on its head: hospitals have graduated from mere prescription clinics into mortuaries as even medical doctors and other health workers are constantly on strike. The public school system is in a shambles; roads, including hitherto smooth expressways are now death traps; and almost a century after electricity supply debuted in Nigeria, her citizens still live more in darkness than light.

Here is a complete story of retrogression and decay. Above all, there is an alarming rate of insecurity in the land. Nigeria is in a ferocious state of anomie. This is made worse by a tired and disheartened bitterness among the citizenry. If Hilaire Belloc is right in his opinion that ‘readable history is melodrama’, the true story of the first decade of the twenty-first century in Nigeria, which also doubles as the longest tragic period of civil misrule since the past 99 years of the forced union by Lugard, should be mind-boggling. It has been a decade of turmoil, with the elemental passions predominant. Never have Nigerian public officials in responsible positions, directing the destiny of the nation, been so brutal, hypocritical and corrupt, leaving the country to swim in infrastructural decay, unemployment, hunger and desperation as in the past fourteen years of quasi-democracy. The outcome is the pervading poll of insecurity which is threatening to drive the country into yet another civil war. Like a demented society, Nigeria is soaked with irrational impulses, stress and tension as the people can no longer elect their leaders.

Aside from armed robbery which has rendered the entire police force vulnerable, there is candidly speaking, an alarming rate of mockery killings in Nigeria. There are indeed gruesome stories of rapes, perversities, and child murders. Hostage taking is now a booming business in the country. An extremely partisan and sympathetic public is willing to read and believe anything as even the crime pages of our national dallies appear tinged with sadism. Yet, where is that Nigerian who does not know that the real criminals in our midst today are our rulers? Who does not know that much of the savagery connected with our current state of hopelessness and bloodletting could be explained in the character of the buccaneers who have misruled us for all these miserable years? How did Ghana which was at the level we are today in early 1980’s make it to now become an enviable haven where our foreign and local investors now relocate to? Why has Nigeria suddenly relapsed into a country where violence has become a national pastime?

It is interesting at this point to draw a historical parallel between Nigeria and India, a former victim of colonialism which has now turned itself to a world power due to political doggedness and economic independence. For a country like Nigeria still paying lip-service to the ideals of a federated union, the Indian Federation is an enduring model. There is a high level of competition with every state controlling its economy, separate army and police. Hence the drive for massive, unprecedented investment in education and manpower development as India exports more than 800 scientists annually to the Silicon Valley of the United States who manufacture made-in-America goods. The difference in age between India and Nigeria is 13 as India gained political independence from Britain in 1947. But the question is: can Nigeria attain the height India has reached in the next 13 years? From a position of relative despair and frustration, India has bequeathed to her children hope and happiness while Nigeria is still dancing in circle. Nigeria, where is thy soul? We are indeed a nation of 160million fools!

Kasynpaulsyn1997: bro,the gaynaians are still very much here in my neighbourhood! Over four families are living in my neighbourhood(@uyo) selling alomo bitters,bons and puff puff! Ghanaians are just dumb!!!

Which side for Uyo?

what an impoverished sh1thole! sufferiung and smiling a failed state https://www.nairaland.com/315838/naija-failed-state chei they even import fuel from niger https://www.nairaland.com/1611644/nigeria-turns-niger-fuel-supply

OMG naked women protesting hardship in shitnigeria https://www.nairaland.com/1611454/protest-jonathan-visits-yola-half-unclad

https://www.nairaland.com/1600374/nigerians-dumb-35-questions-ponder too many dumb people in the sh1thole

sheer wickedness chei naija we wail oooooh

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hahahahahahaha and they breed unhindered, like pigs. The MUMUs will have 10 children when they hardly have enough to feed themselves- thereby breeding robbers, pr0stitutes, vagabonds etc

sh1tnigeria is primitive sh1thole run by sh1tmongering twats- a dystonian sh1thole!

There are no words to describe shitnigeria

hahahahahahahaha I'll be back shortly. hahahahaha ebe like say fuel don finish for inside una generators abi. fooooooooooooooooooooooooooools we Ghanaians will continue to kick your azzess because you are all foooooooooooooooooooooooools hahahahahahahahahahaha we don't give a fvck about fooools because we have their medicine Bleep ya all Federal Republic of Foooooooooooooooooooooooooooools Good night, ediots! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

otijah: I think they should look for another source of supply and leAve Nigeria to stabilize and manage its resources

they can't just leave coz their money is in the wagp. gas is not like petrol but I guess experts would understand

shakazuldadon:

they should just stop dealing with nigeria coz nigerians are incompetent fools. We always disppoint

u can say that again sir

Antell95:
boss! you are too awesome.

good to know

SantaMafia: Check out a typical front page of NL…………………..

Boko Haram Kill 10 Christians in Borno State
Petrol Sells for N250 Per Litre in Calabar
$5000 Stolen from Pastor’s Vault
Tears of a Wounded Corper
Jonathan and the $31 billion Question
Governor’s ADC Beats Policemen to Coma
Pregnant Woma Dies in Port Harcourt Over N20,000 Deposit
Traders Shut Down Nnewi Market over Kidnap Menace
The face of Nigerian gays
22 officers arrested over jaji and SARS Attacks
Four Arrested for Killing Recharge Card Seller
no wonder Obasanjo said the sh1thole is cursed

Legendary cowards!!!

You and petrodullard are m_orons!
Quote me and I'll put a hammer to your banku clogged brains.

iconize the coward, u bragged that u were waiting for petrodollar4 and when he came, u ran like a little baby looking for his mother. Hahahahaha coward.

iconize:
great masters

You and petrodollar4 are the best!
u always cut me to size and I respect y'all for that .

wonderful

.

MadCow1:



Nwokem!! I thought we were on the same side..

Please stop insulting Mad Cows, atleast we have value as Suya..

hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

iconize:

You're a pure m_oron!

The same petrodullard that has refused to quote me?

I quoted me twice and he's yet to reply any.

sharaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap magg0t. I guess you are drunk from inhaling too much generator fumes,huh? this goat is suffering from hallucinatory aria igbo dog hahahaha how market? fuckeduppedness

shitnigeria is the armpit of the world

roforoforoforofo shitnigeria we wail ooooh! chei the largest country of apes I am simply telling the truth I am telling it as it is The place is downright dirty and smelly primitive azzwipes

Nigeria’ll have highest child brides by 2050 – UNICEF
September 5, 2014 by Bayo Akinloye

The United Nations Children’s Fund has announced that Nigeria will have the highest number of child brides by year 2050 in its latest report.

Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married before their 18th birthday.

According to the UNICEF in the report released in August, more than half of adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 who are currently married have husbands that are 10 years older than they are.

The report said in part, “Furthermore, girls are often married to considerably older men. In Mauritania and Nigeria, more than half of adolescent girls aged 15 to 19, who are currently married, have husbands who are 10 or more years older than they are.

“In Africa, Nigeria is expected to have the largest absolute number of child brides. The country has seen a decline in child marriage of about one per cent per year over the past three decades. At this pace, the total number of child brides is expected to double by 2050.”

The UN’s children agency added that sub-Saharan Africa would have the largest number and global share of child brides in the next 36 years.

“In contrast to global trends, some countries have experienced stagnation or even increasing levels of child marriage. In Burkina Faso, prevalence has remained constant at around 50 per cent for the past three decades.

“If this persists, the number of child brides will increase substantially in the coming years as the population expands. Sub-Saharan Africa will have the largest number and global share of child brides by 2050,” it said.

Among the 700 million women alive today married before their 18th birthday. More than one in three (about 250 million) entered into union before age 15. Boys are also married as children, but girls are disproportionately affected.

In Niger, for instance, 77 per cent of women aged between 20 and 49 were married before age 18, in contrast to five per cent of men in the same age group. Even in countries where child marriage is less common, the same gender differences are found.

According to the report, child marriage is a manifestation of gender inequality, reflecting social norms that perpetuate discrimination against girls.

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SantaMafia: [s]sharaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap magg0t. I guess you are drunk from inhaling too much generator fumes,huh? this goat is suffering from hallucinatory aria igbo dog hahahaha how market? fuckeduppedness

shitnigeria is the armpit of the world [/s]

You're a pure m_oron!

You're still pained from the last bashing?

A moronic nation of brainshed ido_ts with a drunk as president.

Gayna's sickness bigger than ebola

Afro-gypsy musician, Wanlov the Kubolor, says there is a disease in Ghana that is deadlier than the Ebola virus or the Cholera that is currently killing a lot of Ghanaians.

According to Wanlov, instead of wasting their time in church, Ghanaians should concentrate on how to rid themselves of the diseases he calls ‘corruption’ and ‘lies’.

“We have a very serious sickness right now in the country. Ghana is currently hard because most of us don’t care about the country, we care about church and how nice heaven will be so we don’t want to fix the problems in Ghana.”

“Most people believe that instead of trying to solve our problems, we should rather pray. We are using prayer to waste time instead of doing the work we have to do to clean Ghana and make Her a better place. When I say clean Ghana, I’m not only talking about filth around which is bringing us the diseases like the Cholera that is killing us more than the Ebola. I’m talking about the corruption in our minds, hearts, the lies we tell to ourselves and believe them whiles we are lying to other people at the same time,” he told NEWS-ONE.


Studies have shown that gayanains are direct children of gorillas

Fuggliness of the highest order.

OMG SHITNIGERIANS FRUSTRATED, ANGRY AND HELPLESS can you imagine frustrated apes

Boko Haram - Nigerians Are Frustrated, Helpless - Angry Senate Asks Mark Tell Jonathan
http://allafrica.com/stories/201409171013.html

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru and Joseph Erunke

ABUJA-- THE Senate, yesterday, canvassed tougher and full scale measures to end the Boko Haram insurgency. It said that the sect has declared war on Nigeria.

The senators, who resumed from their two-month vacation, expressed dissatisfaction with how the war was being prosecuted and mandated the Senate leadership to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and service chiefs to hammer out better strategies to checkmate the insurgents.

Senator Mark, in his welcome speech said actions of the Boko Haram sect are a complete declaration of war geared towards undermining the nation's sovereignty.

Meantime, the Senate has referred President Jonathan's $1 billion loan request to fight insurgency to its committees on Foreign, Finance, and Local Debt to report back within one week.

Senator Mark in his speech also said the Senate was waiting for Mr. President's action on the report of the just concluded National Conference which was convoked to discuss and suggest ways of resolving perceived structural defects in the polity.

The Senate President further tasked the President to ensure the 2015 Appropriation Bill gets to the legislative chamber before the end of the month to enable the lawmakers pass it into law before January 2015.

He noted that the escalation of violence and the heinous crimes being carried out on daily basis by the insurgents including the declaration of a caliphate had reached alarming proportions.

Meeting president, service chiefs

Dissatisfied with the strategy being adopted in prosecuting the war against the terrorists, the Senate in a resolution sequel to the motion sponsored by Senate Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, and 107 other senators, had after critically examining the ongoing onslaught against the people of the North-East by Boko Haram, mandated the Senate President to meet with President Jonathan to discus better tactics on how to tackle the insurgency.

In the motion tagged: Threat to National Sovereignty and Territorial integrity of Nigeria by insurgents, the senators expressed worry that the security situation in the North East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa had continued to deteriorate despite the imposition of state of emergency in the said states.

The Senate had equally observed that in the last two months while the National Assembly was on its annual recess, the nation witnessed unabated loss of lives and damage to property in what it noted was increasingly challenging the security agencies in the affected states.

The Senate expressed concern that the insurgents purportedly carved out some local government areas in Borno and Adamawa states and declared same as Caliphate under their control just as it expressed concern that the level of regrouping of the insurgence was becoming alarming.

The Senate President, while reacting to the concern of senators said: "We have to find a solution to it, back the military, mobilize as much as we can, bring back all our war resources together so that we can prosecute this war. There is no way in which we are just going to say that this is exclusively to one section of this country. No, and I don't think that is the thinking in any quarter.

"Unfortunately, we are not satisfied with the way the war has been prosecuted so far. We want a better strategy, we want a very concise, very precise statement that can give directions on how we are going to prosecute this war and end it as quickly as possible.

OMG shitnigerians leaders treat them like orphans chei laugh wan tear ma bell ohhhh orphans paaaaaaaaa no wonder they are so embittered so frustrated so stvpid magg0ts a seething festering sh1thole


Nigerian Rulers Treat Nigerians Like Orphans-Prof. Niyi Osundare
http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/03/nigerian-rulers-treat-nigerians-orphans-prof-niyi-osundare

Prof. Niyi Osundare is a distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of New Orleans. He is equally a celebrated poet, essayist and humanist. In this interview by KEHINDE OYETIMI and RITA OKONOBOH, he speaks on his frustrations with Nigeria , the 2015 general election, among others. Excerpts:
by Kehinde Oyetimi and Rita Okonoboh- The Nigerian Tribune Sep 03, 2014
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Prof. Niyi Osundare

You live and work outside Nigeria but you keep a tab on Nigeria. You come home when you get the opportunity. Why do you do this repeatedly?

Let me begin with the obvious: Nigeria is my country and my home. I didn’t leave this country to live elsewhere until I was 50 years of age in 1997. My family and I had to go for certain reasons. The United States of America came to our rescue at a time we were desperate about the educational and health situation of our daughter. Today that young lady is taking full advantage of the generous facilities provided by the US for people with her kind of challenge. If we had kept her in Nigeria, she would have wasted away. This country cannot take care of the able-bodied, let alone those with special needs.

In the past 17 years, I have been shuttling between the United States and here. The University of New Orleans extended its hand of assistance when I needed it most by providing me a job and a conducive professional (and personal) environment. When I arrived at the university in August 1997, my colleagues made me feel at home; some of them even contributed furniture for our small apartment near the university. And ever since, they’ve shown their appreciation of my humble contributions to the growth and development of the university. Thus, about two years ago I was selected as Distinguished Professor, about the highest academic honour the university bestows.

Needless to say, the US provides a much more conducive environment for scholarship and creative work. The things you need are there: well stocked libraries and book stores; state-of-the-art laboratories, ubiquitous internet service, and uninterrupted power supply. The terrible irony about our situation in Africa is that most of the time, if you want to do authentic research about African literature, you have to go abroad. Yes, the University of Wisconsin, for example, has more research resources/archives on Nigerian writers than any of our universities in Nigeria. The developed countries of the world know that the reason they keep leading the world is because they respect ideas: the generation of ideas, the sustenance of ideas, the interrogation of ideas, and the consolidation of ideas. They know that investment in education opens the door to the future. Our society here doesn’t have such facilities or such an attitude.

Ours is a society in a process of regressive illiteracy. It is amazing. This country used to be much more literate. It used to have universities that devoted a large chunk of money to research. When I started teaching at the University of Ibadan in the 1970’s, we had research funds and these funds were allocated every year. There were also conference funds. All these things existed until the 1980’s when General Babangida introduced his Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), the Nigerian spirit was sapped and our educational system began to nosedive.

So, the US has virtually all the things you need to function as a scholar/writer. However, Nigeria provides that sense of place, that sense of home that may be difficult to feel or achieve abroad. To put it frankly, America swallows you up as an immigrant the way you are not likely to be swallowed up in a country like Nigeria. As I’ve often said, it’s good to have a place in the world where you do not have to spell your name all the time, a place where as a poet, you begin a song/proverb and your audience completes it with you. That aspect of human touch is important, that spontaneous sense of community. On another plane, I also feel more comfortable being part of the building squad rather than a lucky inheritor of a mansion already built and furnished by others.

Unfortunately, Nigeria is a country whose praise you cannot sing without sounding like a masochist. I am angry with Nigeria because we are not where we should be. I am angry with our rulers because they have not aspired to be leaders. They have no vision; they are callous; they are corrupt. They do not respect the citizens of this country. I am also becoming increasingly angry at the ruled, at the people of this country, for our endless, almost mule-like toleration of injustice, of oppression. But I also know that anger which is too overwhelming could become disabling. I belong to the school of those who profess regenerative anger, the kind that is never at peace with injustice and other assaults on human dignity. It is not just anger for its own sake. I don’t just shout at darkness. I try to light a candle. There is a lot of work to be done in our country.

Many academics, like you, left Nigeria in anger following the misrule in the country. In specific terms what can the government do to get it right?

Point of correction: I didn’t leave Nigeria as a result of anger. I left for family reasons, as I’ve said above. In a manner of speaking, I have left without leaving.

Now to your question: what can be done? Indeed, a very large question to which I can only give a short answer here: BRING BACK OUR COUNTRY by giving education the priority it deserves. Fund it adequately and consistently from elementary to tertiary level. Improve the quality of teachers through teacher-training and staff development programmes. Give the teacher back her/his sense of pride and self-worth by paying them the kind of wages that will give them a decent life. Make the learning environment human-friendly by refurbishing dilapidated school buildings and putting learning tools in place. Put an end to the proliferation of universities which are mere ‘Miracle Centres’ for the spread of illiteracy. Re-order our value system. Make education matter once again by ensuring high standards and providing employment for products of the school system. Eliminate MEDIOCRITY. Bring back the old virtues of thoroughness and assiduity. Improve the work ethic: demolish the ise-kekere-owo-nlanla (little-work-big-money) mentality. Ensure the provision of reliable power supply, water, healthcare, decent housing, safe transportation….. And, above all, adequate security.

In case you consider all this a pipe dream, let me tell you that there was a time Nigeria enjoyed something very, very close to these ideals. That was in the 1940’s and 1950’s and 1960’s and early 1970’s - those golden years that produced the kind of education that made it possible for Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka to write Things Fall Apart and A Dance of the Forests, respectively, in their mid-twenties! Above all – and most important – overhaul Nigeria’s socio-economic and political systems. Kill corruption which concentrates the nation’s resources in the wrong hands for the wrong purpose. Insist on the right kind of leaders – cultivated women and men deep in learning and humanism, with adequate control over the appetites, people who know the true value of education as a sine qua non in national development. Leaders who combine the best of Nkrumah, Awolowo, and Mandela whose vision and action are a blessing to humanity.

With the state of terrorism and insecurity in the country, don’t you think development would be difficult in other areas of Nigeria’s national life?

What happens when you live in a country whose government cannot protect you? Our government here is telling us ‘terrorism is everywhere in the world; so don’t blame me.’ No. We know terrorism is a global scourge but different governments have different ways of responding to it. Who could have believed that anybody in the world could get Osama Bin Laden? America got him. It hasn’t stopped the spate of terrorism against America but you know that as a terrorist today if you do anything to an American citizen there would be a consequence. Again, I say, Nigerians are orphans. We have nobody to protect us. This is what has always happened. Those who rule us are only interested in their own personal welfare: money, power and how to abuse them. We, the Nigerian people, are the last on their priority list. They don’t even remember us during elections. All they are interested in are the ballot boxes and how to rig the polls. They are not interested in the voters; they are only interested in the votes. We live in a country where rulers have not the tiniest bit of respect for the ruled.

The Chibok episode has really exposed the weak underbelly of the Nigerian government. It has made us so ridiculous. I love this country but I decry its fatal flaws, its murderous weaknesses. I am embarrassed as a citizen of this country that the Chibok kidnap caught us so sheepishly, so unawares. My heart bleeds every day as I remember what is happening to those over 200 students who were taken away almost 120 days ago. I have never stopped feeling as if I were their parents... For the first two weeks, the Nigerian government was in a state of denial, and all kinds of conspiracy theories were being bandied all over the place. But foreign governments were not deceived. The people of the world were not deceived. Their BRING BACK OUR GIRLS Harsh-Tag campaign stung the Nigerian government into action. America got interested. So did the UK. And France. Even China.

Let’s be humble enough to learn from our adversaries. What has emerged in the last two years or so is that Boko Haram is more organised, more focused, more committed than the Nigerian army. There are certain virtues in Boko Haram that the larger Nigerian government lacks: Loyalty. Accountability. Answerability. There is a fatal affliction of the Nigerian nation whose symptoms have not bedevilled Boko Haram yet: corruption. Corruption is at the root of the Boko Haram problem. Boko Haram understands this country. It knows that many of those who control the fate of Nigeria are as buyable as merchandise on the open market. I suspect this weakness is no secret to the foreign governments either. I don’t know how willing some of the foreign experts are to share their intelligence findings with their Nigerian counterparts. The Nigerian security system is extremely porous, unreliable, and untrustable. It is a victim of innumerable vulnerabilities.

The national confab has come to a close. Do you think that its recommendations should be subject to a referendum or an overhauling of the existing constitution?

The confab boasted some of our best brains. Let us give them their due. Many of them went there to serve their country and contribute their own quota – as the saying goes. Many of the participants are there for patriotic reasons. But what I really have problems with is the intent of the government.

As far as I’m concerned, the highlights were the debate about the nature of Nigerian federalism, the issue of state police, revenue derivation and revenue sharing, and the matter of part-time parliamentary representation. (Those clamouring for the creation of additional states at this time are merely trying to muddy up the water, as many of the existing states are on financial life support!)

Should the mode of our parliamentary representation be full time or part time? That is crucial. At the moment, our lawmakers whether they like it or not constitute the most irresponsible drain on the resources of this country. They know it. We don’t even know how many millions they take home in a month, or what they do with their excessive Constituent Allowances. All I know is that the money we have in this country is finite. If care is not taken, Nigeria is going to get bankrupt from the excesses at Asokoro. What laws are the law makers making? How have they impacted the lives of the Nigerian people? The profligacy at Asokoro is replicated down the legislative pecking order involving the state assemblies and the local governments

Those members of the confab that recommended part time legislation did this country a lot of good. I have always stressed the need to de-monetise our political system. At the moment, majority of our politicians are in politics for the money not because they want to serve. If things go on at the present rate, maintenance of our law makers will bankrupt Nigeria. It is in the interest of both parties that something be done about the present prodigal practice. Too much money chasing too little substance.. . . . . . I think it will be a little untidy to go through a referendum because we are dealing with so many issues at the same time. Referenda are best when they deal with one or two issues. We are still a proto-literate society. Even many of our legislators are not literate enough to handle sophisticated bills. I’m not sure a referendum would work. Doing something about the constitution is a credible alternative. Right now we don’t have a constitution made by the Nigerian people. It was the military that concocted the present constitution and they made sure that they injected the constitution with their own interest. The Nigerian constitution as we have it now is not workable. It cannot produce a just and egalitarian society that we have been talking about. A new constitution is necessary and it is not going to be a constitution that will be framed and constructed in Abuja and foisted upon all of us. It will have to go from the bottom up. Not from the top down .. . . . So I cast my lot with the constitution overhaul option.

You live in the United States of America where gay relations have been largely legalised. But the US is threatening to sanction Nigeria following the latter’s enactment of anti-gay laws. As an African, how do you confront this in such climes?

Not just as an African but as a human being. People come to this world without having had the power to choose who to be, or who to be not; what kind of preference to embrace, and which to shun. I have a deaf daughter. Did she choose to be born deaf? No. I know people who have no sense of smell. Did they choose to come that way? No. We have to admit that there are so many people who do not have control over their biology. It is not just the liberal way of looking at the issue; it is also the logical way.

In some countries in Africa, to be gay is to carry a permanent , ubiquitous death sentence. It doesn’t have to be so. A just and humanitarian society must be prepared to take care of the interests of ALL its people and protect all their human rights. Let’s stop all this noise about people’s sexual preference, for it reeks of intolerance and hypocrisy. Many of the people who shout about the evil of being gay are the treasury –looters and election riggers – those who have mortgaged the future of this country . What did the Nigerian government think it was going to gain by its anti-gay legislation? What difference has this law made in the lives of Nigerian people? The anti-gay hullaballoo is nothing short of a self-inflicted wound that has made Nigeria more notorious. Is it really the prime preoccupation of our legislators to legislate the DNA; to nose around for what fellow citizens do behind closed doors? The gay person is not the enemy of the Nigerian people. The real enemies are the people who steal our votes and plunder our treasury – those who have turned Nigeria into the proverbial ‘big-for-nothing’ country.

SantaMafia:

OMG SHITNIGERIANS FRUSTRATED, ANGRY AND HELPLESS can you imagine frustrated apes

You're a pure m_oron!

Are you afraid of quoting your tormentor?



Now the apes are now eating maggots
gaynaians are eating maggots

How's it my fault that gaynaians are maggot eating apes?



Accra, June 13 (Crusading Guide) -- Creamy and crispy Malt n Milk, Cleo Digestive, Wafer and Sweety biscuits are hot confectionaries for children and adults in the homes of most Ghanaians and other African countries. Cocktail parties buffet, wedding ceremonies ad other social gatherings, are spiced up with these tasty and nutritionally rich biscuits.

Little do people know, however, that when they eat these biscuits, they are indirectly gulping down roasted maggots, worm, weevils, termites and fungi. A company, Eurofood (Gh) Limited, situated off the Spintex Road in Accra, is where these unwholesome biscuits and others like Anibal, Bolo, Fitini, Baba Junior, Mobile, are produced.

The owners of the company, knowing very well that the flour used for producing the confectionaries had expired and could pose health hazard to unsuspecting consumers, put pressure on the labourers to work day and night so as to finish the over 1000 bags which had been stocked in the warehouse near the production room. Products of Eurofood can be found in the markets of Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Cote D'ivore and other West African countries.

The flour was produced by Grand Moulins of France under the brand name Melissa; but had been left to go bad. It weighs 50 kg and the expiry date on it is June 2006. Workers of the company said that they spotted the worms in the flour over two months ago. "In this company we do not sieve flour before using it; we pour it straight into the mixer, but in this particular case, we sieve the content of every sack because of the worms and insects. In every sack you find a lot of worms.

After sieving them we empty the maggots and the other little creatures into a big dustbin outside. These are direct instructions from the owners of the company.

I once reported it to some of our supervisors, Makoo, Kasim and Ellem, to advise management on what we were seeing but nothing has been done so far about it and we are quiet, because if you make small noise, you will be fired the next day and that will mean no food for your family", said Kwame Ansah, one of the labourers.

Paul Anum, a casual worker, said that he was always hurt on seeing that the products of Eurofood bear the inscription "Made in Ghana, "Foreigners must respect the people of this country. "These foreigners would not manufacture such bad products in their own countries. Infact, they don't even eat their own country biscuits produced by their own company. They buy other biscuits from super markets for their family while they produce these unwholesome products for Ghana and other countries", Anum lamented.

The World Health Organisation in a risk analysis report in 2002 (Geneva Switzerland, WHO/CDS/CSR EPH 2002.21) stated that the symptoms of food poisoning from such maggots can vary.

"Common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrheoa, and sometimes fever. Occasionally, food poisoning can be very serious and even cause death. The length of the incubation period depends on the type of bacteria and how many are swallowed. It could be hours or days. The bacteria stick to the lining of the intestine and destroy the cells, either by sheer weight or numbers or by the toxins (poisons) they produce. Sometimes these toxins are absorbed and cause damage elsewhere in the body" the report said.

As at press time yesterday, the Ghana Police upon information by the Crusading Guide invited Ghana Television News team and stormed the premises of Eurofood to see things for themselves.

The operation was led by Chief Superintendent J K Agboada, Deputy Director, Police Operations. The Police, Ghana Standards Board and the Food and Drugs Board as a result of the shock they saw on the spot, immediately closed the place down, pending further directives from the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service.



suicide rate on increase in ghana
suffering and pretending mor_ons!



It was the classic study of Emile Durkheim on suicide in 1897, that exposed the subject matter to many people in the world.

The academic piece categorised the subject matter into egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic suicides.

According to the Theorist who was also a renowned Sociologist, suicide of all sorts were blamable on the society, explaining that society pushes individuals to commit the act.

Durkheim said egoistic suicide occurs when an individual in the society losses the bond; togetherness and oneness that humans have with their families and friends. Excessive individuation, that is the increasing detachment of the individual from his/her community and family makes the person to feel worthless and could result in suicide. This individuation is more common in individualistic societies like Europe, but is gradually catching up in Africa due to rapid urbanisation.

He said another cause of suicide is a sense of being overwhelmingly engaged in group goals and believes. This occurs in societies with very high integration, example being the military field where people may kill themselves to satisfy group goals. This type of suicide is termed altruistic suicide.

Anomic suicide reflects an individual’s moral confusion and lack of social direction, which is reflected in dramatic social and economic upheaval and includes extreme economic failures or dramatic economic fortunes.

Fatalistic suicide is common when a person is extensively regulated, when their futures are pitilessly blocked with oppressive discipline. It occurs in oppressive societies such as prisons because the person is denied of his/her freedom.

Suicide, an act of one killing him/her self is becoming increasingly high in Ghana lately. Not too long ago, a lawyer of high repute allegedly hanged himself in a popular suburb in Accra. A pastor equally died in similar strange and unexplained circumstances.

A national daily reported that the 44-year-old Lawyer, Kofi Yawson-Adjei, who was the Secretary of Ghana Institution of Surveyors and a Valuer, hanged himself in his private office on the first floor of rented premises at Adabraka.

The father of three is said to have left his Kokomlemle residence about 0300 hours for his office in a taxi. He left a written note directing a lady named Narh to give a signed cheque for GH¢3,000 to his wife.

The Ghana News Agency also reported that two persons including a fetish priest committed suicide in separate incidents in the Eastern Region. They were Andrews Dramani, 25, a worker of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency, and Kwasi Kuma, a 54-year fetish priest.

Unconfirmed report indicates that at least five people commit suicide each day in Ghana.

The America Centre for Disease Control and Prevention which is responsible for collecting data on suicide said in 2010, 38, 364 persons committed suicide in the US, making the act the 10th leading cause of death in that country.

It noted that someone died every 13.7 minutes through suicide that year. This situation might not be too different in Ghana given the rapid social changes affecting every fabric of the society.

Dr Dan-Bright Dzorgbo, Head of the Sociology Department of the University of Ghana said there was no scientific statistics of suicide in Ghana but agreed that the trend is increasing in the country.

He said the rising cases of suicide are as a result of social inequality due to the wide gap between the rich and the poor.

He explained that even though Ghana could be classified as a lower middle-income country, only few people are economically satisfied, leaving the majority to wallow in abject poverty.

Dr Dzorgbo told the Ghana News Agency that due to social mobility, many people strive to move up the social ladder and through that they might contract loans and their inability to pay back results in suicide.

He said there is so much hopelessness in the country without any social support mechanisms to address the needs of the disadvantaged.

Dr Dzorgbo noted that the family system had also broken down and created individualistic societies where each one fends for him or herself. Sociologically speaking, Dzorgbo said suicide is becoming very common in Ghana because life is becoming very competitive.

“People move to urban environment trying to do something better but they are unable to meet the target…This can cause suicide”.

Dr Dzorgbo said in traditional societies like Ghana, most people who commit suicide might have done something wrong and might not want to expose themselves and as such commit suicide to end it all.

He was of the view that traditional support systems have become weak in the country especially as economic and social nobilities are becoming supreme, and suggested the need for the academia to conduct research to ascertain the facts concerning the phenomena.

Dr Dzorgbo suggested to the government to introduce social protection policies to assist the less privileged in the society to overcome the problems.

He observed that insurance policies must equally be introduced to aid the people.

The American Foundation for Suicide, which has been focusing on the study of the subject indicates risk factors to suicide as; mental disorders, in particular depression or bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder, alcohol or substance abuse or dependence, schizophrenia, borderline or antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder (in youth).

Additionally, the Foundation said psychotic disorders; psychotic symptoms in the context of any disorder, anxiety disorders, impulsivity and aggression, previous suicide attempt and family history of attempted or completed suicide are all serious risk factors to suicide.

Research from social psychologists shows that about 50 to 75 per cent of the people who commit suicide usually show symptoms.

People thinking about suicide may say so directly: “I’m going to kill myself,” “I just want the pain to end,” or “I can’t see any way out.”

Most of the time, people who kill themselves talk about wanting to kill themselves, or saying they wish they were dead.

They look for a way to kill themselves, such as hoarding medicine or buying a gun, talking about a specific suicide plan, feel hopeless or having no reason to live, feeling trapped, desperate, or needing to escape from an intolerable situation.

Some also have the feeling of being a burden to others, feeling humiliated, having intense anxiety and panic attacks.

More so, losing interest in things, or losing the ability to experience pleasure, insomnia, becoming socially isolated and withdrawn from friends, family, and others are all signs of to tragic incidents.

According to Assistant Superintendent of Police Ebenezer Tetteh, Northern Regional Public Relations Officer, suicide is a criminal offence and when convicted, a person may face stiffer punishment.

He explained that the criminal code Act 29 of 1960 gives the legal bases for suicide to be a crime.

It must be pointed out that suicide is not only a national crisis but a developmental obstacle that must be debated across the country and there must be a body responsible to reduce or prevent the menace.

The classification of suicide as a criminal offence must also be relooked, while government should concentrate efforts at improving social relations and the living standards of the people.

Ghana cannot afford to lose precious lives through suicide and something must be done without delay

MissMeiya:

You are a self-acclaimed misogynist. I saw your disgusting posts. This will be my first and last response to you.

Your opinion that ranting, profanity filled incoherence rife with misspellings, is "super patriotic" and "doesn't sound illiterate" would not surprise any one who has seen your post history.

lady lean to be a lady,in as much I like ur sense of reasoning and objectivity I think u dont have to engage men in words,u will never win,am a Nigerian no matter how terrible our no useful leaders are nija is our own don't worry I understand you,we will get there did I say that cos I already gave up on Nigeria

Shitnigeria Has The Highest Number Of Child Homicides
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-29071073
About 120 million girls around the world - slightly more than one
in 10 - have been Molested or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a
UN report says.
The children's agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and
teenagers - most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean -
were murdered in 2012 alone.
It notes that children around the globe are routinely exposed to
violence, including bullying.
The document draws on data from 190 countries.
'Lifelong repercussions'
The violence "cuts across boundaries of age, geography, religion,
ethnicity and income brackets,'' Unicef executive director
Anthony Lake said.
Homicide is the leading cause of death among young males in
many Latin American countries, the UN says

Violence against children
120m girls - one in 10 - are Molested or sexually attacked by age
of 20
Boys also report experiences of intimate violence, but to a
lesser extent than girls
The most common form of intimate violence for both genders is
cyber-victimisation
95,000 children and teenagers were murdered in 2012
Slightly over one in three students aged 13-15 experience
regular bullying in school
Six out of 10 children aged between two and 14 are physically
punished by carers.

"It occurs in places where children should be safe, their homes,
schools and communities.
"Increasingly, it happens over the internet, and it's perpetrated
by family members and teachers, neighbours and strangers and
other children.''
The study revealed that about six out of 10 children aged
between two and 14 were subjected to physical punishment from
their carers on a regular basis.
One in three girls, aged between 15 and 19, who had at some
time been in cohabiting relationships, had been victims of
emotional, physical or intimate violence committed by their
husbands or partners, the report said.
Partner violence appeared to be particularly prevalent in countries
including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania
and Zimbabwe, the report said.
Of the countries surveyed, nearly half of all girls aged 15-19
believed that a husband was justified in hitting his wife under
certain circumstances, the study added.

Grim audit
Meanwhile, homicide was reported as the leading cause of death
in boys and men aged 10-19 in many Latin American countries,
such as Venezuela, Panama, Brazil and Colombia.
Nigeria had the highest number of child homicides - 13,000,
while the US had the highest homicide rate among countries in
Western Europe and North America.
Research showed that violence was "detrimental to all aspects of
a child's growth... with sometimes lifelong repercussions," the
report said.
The study said cyber-victimisation was the most common form
of intimate violence for both genders
It noted that while there had been growing recognition in recent
years about the impact of violence against children, it largely
remained underreported and undocumented.
The report stressed that violence against children in some
countries remained socially accepted or tacitly condoned, and
quite often victims were too afraid to report the abuse.
Never before have so many statistics been gathered from so
many different countries, and together they have produced a
grim global audit of violence against children, the BBC's Nick
Bryant at the UN says.

iconize:

You're a pure m_oron!

The same petrodullard that has refused to quote me?

I quoted me twice and he's yet to reply any.

in-law, how are u today? Are u getting well from the beating u got from petrodollar4? Hahaha coward

Chineke, you are the most phucked person in the whole wide world. Clueless, bombastic and fuelish
Vulture-eating wizard with a brain of a two-day old baby! Kiss my arse, ugly bas-tard!



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iconize:

You're a pure m_oron!

Are you afraid of quoting your tormentor?



Now the apes are now eating maggots
gaynaians are eating maggots

How's it my fault that gaynaians are maggot eating apes?



Accra, June 13 (Crusading Guide) -- Creamy and crispy Malt n Milk, Cleo Digestive, Wafer and Sweety biscuits are hot confectionaries for children and adults in the homes of most Ghanaians and other African countries. Cocktail parties buffet, wedding ceremonies ad other social gatherings, are spiced up with these tasty and nutritionally rich biscuits.

Little do people know, however, that when they eat these biscuits, they are indirectly gulping down roasted maggots, worm, weevils, termites and fungi. A company, Eurofood (Gh) Limited, situated off the Spintex Road in Accra, is where these unwholesome biscuits and others like Anibal, Bolo, Fitini, Baba Junior, Mobile, are produced.

The owners of the company, knowing very well that the flour used for producing the confectionaries had expired and could pose health hazard to unsuspecting consumers, put pressure on the labourers to work day and night so as to finish the over 1000 bags which had been stocked in the warehouse near the production room. Products of Eurofood can be found in the markets of Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Cote D'ivore and other West African countries.

The flour was produced by Grand Moulins of France under the brand name Melissa; but had been left to go bad. It weighs 50 kg and the expiry date on it is June 2006. Workers of the company said that they spotted the worms in the flour over two months ago. "In this company we do not sieve flour before using it; we pour it straight into the mixer, but in this particular case, we sieve the content of every sack because of the worms and insects. In every sack you find a lot of worms.

After sieving them we empty the maggots and the other little creatures into a big dustbin outside. These are direct instructions from the owners of the company.

I once reported it to some of our supervisors, Makoo, Kasim and Ellem, to advise management on what we were seeing but nothing has been done so far about it and we are quiet, because if you make small noise, you will be fired the next day and that will mean no food for your family", said Kwame Ansah, one of the labourers.

Paul Anum, a casual worker, said that he was always hurt on seeing that the products of Eurofood bear the inscription "Made in Ghana, "Foreigners must respect the people of this country. "These foreigners would not manufacture such bad products in their own countries. Infact, they don't even eat their own country biscuits produced by their own company. They buy other biscuits from super markets for their family while they produce these unwholesome products for Ghana and other countries", Anum lamented.

The World Health Organisation in a risk analysis report in 2002 (Geneva Switzerland, WHO/CDS/CSR EPH 2002.21) stated that the symptoms of food poisoning from such maggots can vary.

"Common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrheoa, and sometimes fever. Occasionally, food poisoning can be very serious and even cause death. The length of the incubation period depends on the type of bacteria and how many are swallowed. It could be hours or days. The bacteria stick to the lining of the intestine and destroy the cells, either by sheer weight or numbers or by the toxins (poisons) they produce. Sometimes these toxins are absorbed and cause damage elsewhere in the body" the report said.

As at press time yesterday, the Ghana Police upon information by the Crusading Guide invited Ghana Television News team and stormed the premises of Eurofood to see things for themselves.

The operation was led by Chief Superintendent J K Agboada, Deputy Director, Police Operations. The Police, Ghana Standards Board and the Food and Drugs Board as a result of the shock they saw on the spot, immediately closed the place down, pending further directives from the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service.



suicide rate on increase in ghana
suffering and pretending mor_ons!



It was the classic study of Emile Durkheim on suicide in 1897, that exposed the subject matter to many people in the world.

The academic piece categorised the subject matter into egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic suicides.

According to the Theorist who was also a renowned Sociologist, suicide of all sorts were blamable on the society, explaining that society pushes individuals to commit the act.

Durkheim said egoistic suicide occurs when an individual in the society losses the bond; togetherness and oneness that humans have with their families and friends. Excessive individuation, that is the increasing detachment of the individual from his/her community and family makes the person to feel worthless and could result in suicide. This individuation is more common in individualistic societies like Europe, but is gradually catching up in Africa due to rapid urbanisation.

He said another cause of suicide is a sense of being overwhelmingly engaged in group goals and believes. This occurs in societies with very high integration, example being the military field where people may kill themselves to satisfy group goals. This type of suicide is termed altruistic suicide.

Anomic suicide reflects an individual’s moral confusion and lack of social direction, which is reflected in dramatic social and economic upheaval and includes extreme economic failures or dramatic economic fortunes.

Fatalistic suicide is common when a person is extensively regulated, when their futures are pitilessly blocked with oppressive discipline. It occurs in oppressive societies such as prisons because the person is denied of his/her freedom.

Suicide, an act of one killing him/her self is becoming increasingly high in Ghana lately. Not too long ago, a lawyer of high repute allegedly hanged himself in a popular suburb in Accra. A pastor equally died in similar strange and unexplained circumstances.

A national daily reported that the 44-year-old Lawyer, Kofi Yawson-Adjei, who was the Secretary of Ghana Institution of Surveyors and a Valuer, hanged himself in his private office on the first floor of rented premises at Adabraka.

The father of three is said to have left his Kokomlemle residence about 0300 hours for his office in a taxi. He left a written note directing a lady named Narh to give a signed cheque for GH¢3,000 to his wife.

The Ghana News Agency also reported that two persons including a fetish priest committed suicide in separate incidents in the Eastern Region. They were Andrews Dramani, 25, a worker of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency, and Kwasi Kuma, a 54-year fetish priest.

Unconfirmed report indicates that at least five people commit suicide each day in Ghana.

The America Centre for Disease Control and Prevention which is responsible for collecting data on suicide said in 2010, 38, 364 persons committed suicide in the US, making the act the 10th leading cause of death in that country.

It noted that someone died every 13.7 minutes through suicide that year. This situation might not be too different in Ghana given the rapid social changes affecting every fabric of the society.

Dr Dan-Bright Dzorgbo, Head of the Sociology Department of the University of Ghana said there was no scientific statistics of suicide in Ghana but agreed that the trend is increasing in the country.

He said the rising cases of suicide are as a result of social inequality due to the wide gap between the rich and the poor.

He explained that even though Ghana could be classified as a lower middle-income country, only few people are economically satisfied, leaving the majority to wallow in abject poverty.

Dr Dzorgbo told the Ghana News Agency that due to social mobility, many people strive to move up the social ladder and through that they might contract loans and their inability to pay back results in suicide.

He said there is so much hopelessness in the country without any social support mechanisms to address the needs of the disadvantaged.

Dr Dzorgbo noted that the family system had also broken down and created individualistic societies where each one fends for him or herself. Sociologically speaking, Dzorgbo said suicide is becoming very common in Ghana because life is becoming very competitive.

“People move to urban environment trying to do something better but they are unable to meet the target…This can cause suicide”.

Dr Dzorgbo said in traditional societies like Ghana, most people who commit suicide might have done something wrong and might not want to expose themselves and as such commit suicide to end it all.

He was of the view that traditional support systems have become weak in the country especially as economic and social nobilities are becoming supreme, and suggested the need for the academia to conduct research to ascertain the facts concerning the phenomena.

Dr Dzorgbo suggested to the government to introduce social protection policies to assist the less privileged in the society to overcome the problems.

He observed that insurance policies must equally be introduced to aid the people.

The American Foundation for Suicide, which has been focusing on the study of the subject indicates risk factors to suicide as; mental disorders, in particular depression or bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder, alcohol or substance abuse or dependence, schizophrenia, borderline or antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder (in youth).

Additionally, the Foundation said psychotic disorders; psychotic symptoms in the context of any disorder, anxiety disorders, impulsivity and aggression, previous suicide attempt and family history of attempted or completed suicide are all serious risk factors to suicide.

Research from social psychologists shows that about 50 to 75 per cent of the people who commit suicide usually show symptoms.

People thinking about suicide may say so directly: “I’m going to kill myself,” “I just want the pain to end,” or “I can’t see any way out.”

Most of the time, people who kill themselves talk about wanting to kill themselves, or saying they wish they were dead.

They look for a way to kill themselves, such as hoarding medicine or buying a gun, talking about a specific suicide plan, feel hopeless or having no reason to live, feeling trapped, desperate, or needing to escape from an intolerable situation.

Some also have the feeling of being a burden to others, feeling humiliated, having intense anxiety and panic attacks.

More so, losing interest in things, or losing the ability to experience pleasure, insomnia, becoming socially isolated and withdrawn from friends, family, and others are all signs of to tragic incidents.

According to Assistant Superintendent of Police Ebenezer Tetteh, Northern Regional Public Relations Officer, suicide is a criminal offence and when convicted, a person may face stiffer punishment.

He explained that the criminal code Act 29 of 1960 gives the legal bases for suicide to be a crime.

It must be pointed out that suicide is not only a national crisis but a developmental obstacle that must be debated across the country and there must be a body responsible to reduce or prevent the menace.

The classification of suicide as a criminal offence must also be relooked, while government should concentrate efforts at improving social relations and the living standards of the people.

Ghana cannot afford to lose precious lives through suicide and something must be done without delay

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MissMeiya:

Sigh. Yessir.

hi

hahahahahahaha the apes can't even name 10 honest MUMUs in their zoo country https://www.nairaland.com/1614033/100-nigerian-not-name-10 more roasted bodies in that God forsaken dustbin country https://www.nairaland.com/1314695/it-only-zoo-called-nigeria

Can anyone tell me how many nigerians have access to electricity, potable water, motorable roads, personal security, quality education, health care? What is the infant mortality rate in nigeria? What is the maternal mortality rate?