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Nothing special about Portable's music video with Skepta. I just feel a natural aversion toward the guy.

All his songs are mere noises and pure trash. Zero quality lyrical content.

Good of Wigwe to prepare for his transition (death) while alive. As a person is living, they're also dying.

So, it's always good to prepare for one's transition when one can still do so.

Scientists will understand consciousness and death deeper in the coming years when more advances are made in Consciousness Science.

Fortunately, many scientists, especially neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, physicists, and mathematicians, are making notable advances in Consciousness Science, which is an interdisciplinary field.

When a person dies, their consciousness (soul) will shift (in frequency/wavelength) into another realm or roam around the Earth in an un-physical body (called the spirit in the religious context) if they've an unfinished business in this realm.

It's superposition and coherence of waves that underlie this shifting of the frequency of consciousness (soul) of a dying person.

So, a dying person has three options for their next phase of existence:

1. Reincarnation back to Earth if they've an unfinished business here
2. Incarnation to a new realm
3. Return to their Source in the inner universe to experience unconsciousness as a vacuum (this is the one atheists commonly say)

It all boils down to your choice of beliefs and thoughts while alive. All this works based on superposition of waves and coherence.

Roland17:
What the hell!!! I just watched a movie that featured him 2 days ago. Sad…

Most shocking news I've read this year. This life is really short. People need to look after their health, and if possible, avoid taking alcohol, smoking, and gambling.

iamoyindamola:
Chai what happened to him
His recent appearance sef looks like he's not well
Getting aging to soon

I read he had kidney failure. He was born in 1979, so he died at a young age.

Yoruba actor Sisi Quadri is dead. This is quite tragic and unbelievable!

Spy360:
In all my engagement with you in this discussion of history and origins, I have not for once mentioned Jesus or Yahweh. You are the one mentioning those names. Yet I am the one who is being influenced by white slave masters.

Check yourself.

You said Efik call the diety Abassi which is correct. I said Igbos call Obasi. You claim to know Igbo spirituality more than me, yet you are struggling with juxtaposing Abassi and Obasi.

I guess you are ashamed that you are ignorant.

Abassi, Obasi, Chukwu are starkly different, and they're not titles.

I know where you're heading when you said Chukwu is a title. It's same way Yoruba people ignorantly call Olorun a title and regard him as the same as the Israeli idol, Yahweh, or Arabian idol, Allah.

Colonial mentality

As I said before, a simple way to know if an ethnic group is the same as another one is to check their native spiritual system. And no, Chukwu isn't a title as claimed by your Bible and Sunday school teachers.

Chukwu or Chineke is the chief god or deity of the Igbos before the advent of Christianity.

Abassi, Obasi are the chief gods of the Efiks, Ibibios, Ekoi, and Annangs.

Oghene, who is also called Osanobua, is the chief god of Urhobo and Isoko people.

Fenibeso is the chief god of the Ijaw people.

Ohmorihi is the chief god of thr Ebira/Igala people.

Olorun Olodumare is the chief god of the Yoruba people.

All these deities are some of the key ancestors of Africans.

They're not titles of God.

These pagan gods are not the same as Allah, the chief god of the Arabs or Yahweh, the chief god of the Israelites.

If the majority of the citizens of a country can't even recognize their ancestors, how will they develop?

How would a black man be always praying to a white man (Yahweh or Jesus Christ) or an Arab (Allah) and expect their country to develop and make progress?

As an African, you don't share any connection or ties with Allah or Yahweh/Jesus Christ.

This is really a pathetic and gloomy situation.

Spy360:
You are not Igbo if not you should know.

Chi is not a god. It simply means destiny or ones fate.

Chukwu is Chi-Ukwu, meaning universal Chi. Chineke is the power of creation. These are titles. It's like when you call someone your sunshine. That doesn't mean it's a name.

The name attributed to the Supreme God in Igbo is Obasi.

You're so ignorant. Even if I'm not Igbo, I know more about the Igbo spirituality more than you do. Christianity has corrupted the illusion of knowledge you think you've.

Traditionally, Chukwu isn't a title. Chukwu is the chief (pagan) god of the Igbos before the advent of Christianity in that sub-region.

Abassi, the chief god of the Efiks, Ibibios, and Annangs, is distinct from Chukwu, the chief god of the Igbos.

The British slavemasters taught that Chukwu is a title, and Chukwu is the same as Obasi, Yahweh, and Jesus, and you believe so in this day and age.

Lols

Very funny. Abassi isn't the same as Chukwu or Yahweh or Jesus Christ.

How will someone be saying this in the 21st century? Lols.

Just like those mumunis in South western states dey call Olorun Olodumare, the chief pagan god of the Yorubas, the same as Yahweh or Allah.

How will the country develop when most people demonstrate this low of intelligence in this day and age? Really pathetic

So many "dense" people in the country.

Spy360:
You are mistaken. Chukwu is a title. The name is Obasi.

Chukwu, Obasi, Oghene, Fenibeso are distinct entities. And no, they're not titles.

You're merely regurgitating the wrong history and lies taught to you in Sunday schools.

Those beings (pagan gods) were actual people (ancestors of present day humans) that existed in the past eras and were worshipped as one god or the other before the advent of Christianity in those areas.

They're not titles as you were taught in Sunday schools, and they're entities distinct from Yahweh or Jesus Christ.

I don't know why people refuse to apply common sense and learn their history. You're merely repeating the same lies the colonialists put in your head all about to corrupt your history.

Chukwu is not a title. That's the chief god of the Igbos before the advent of Christianity.

The same thing applies to Obasi/Oghene, Fenibeso and the others. They're pagan gods and ancestors of Africans, especially Igbos, Efiks, Ijaws, Ibibios.

They've nothing to do with your imported Yahweh or Jesus Christ that your slavemasters gave you.

How would a person be calling themselves educated in the 21st century and you know next to nothing about the history of your roots (your ancestors)?

Really shameful. Merely repeating the same lies you read in the Bible and Sunday school all about

Spy360:
It is difficult to say because in ancient civilizations who you call an Igbo man covers the people from Cross River like the Ogoja people.

It is like when you refer to the Russians, a Ukrainian may deny he is not Russian. But he actually is.

Igbo isn't limited to the South-eastern side. But that doesn't mean Efiks are Igbos. Igbo had spread to different parts in the other sub-regions.

Yes, there are Igbos in Kogi and other places you mentioned but those places have their own native cultures distinct from Igbo.

A simple way to differentiate one ethnic group or tribe from the other is to check their spiritual beliefs or indigenous religion. Based on that test, Efiks are not Igbos because Abassi is the ancestor of the Efiks, who they regard as the chief god, while Chukwu is the ancestor of the Igbos and their chief god.

Abassi and Chukwu are not the same entities.

Spy360:
The Ekpe secret society originated from the Efik speaking people but extended to the Igbo people. Ekpe society developed the nisipidi writings. That is why people say it is Igbo. In reality the Efik people are Igbos.

Okay, many people associate the writing system with the Igbos. Even the guy working on the project made mention of the Igbos in many parts of his works, though he never said Nsibidi originated from the ethnic group.

Spy360:
Almost all the ethnic groups in the SE Nigeria are Igbos. The thing is that, Igbo is a very general identity with numerous variants. Before the civil war, most of those communities consider themselves Igbo. It was the Nigerian government in the bid to weaken the people and use the divide and rule tactics broke the Igbo people apart and made some deny their heritage for a morsel of bread.

I am Owerri for example. My dialect is almost the same as Ikwerre. I cannot understand a man from Enugu or Abakiliki. But Enugu is Igbo and Ikwerre think they are not.

The Igbo cultural set cuts across Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Benue, Edo, Kogi etc.

Okay, I don't know much about una history in that sub-region.

DissTroy:
You are wrong. Do your research.

The Nsibidi writing system is of the Ibibio people. Until about a century ago, only the Ekpe cult of the Ibibios knew how to write and transcribe it. Till date, only Ekpe cult members can fully transcribe the Nsibide form of writing which is a tiny bit similar to Hieroglyphs.

Stop appropriating our history to others.
Just like the 1929 Women Riot is wrongly appropriated even though it happened at Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom State.

Nsibidi has nothing to do with the Igbos. Strictly Ibibio. In crude Ibibio, Nsibidi means "spirit talk", or like Christians say " Speaking in tongues".

Okay, you're right. I don't know much about the Ibibio people. Many of us in the Southwest call all the tribes around there Igbo.

I'm more familiar with the Igbo people and their language.

Ramirez

Jordan Williams is a lexicographer doing a great job reviving the Nsibidi writing system of the Igbos.

This project is quite impressive and laudable. I wonder if Yoruba people also had a similar writing system developed by the ancestors in the past eras as claimed by Otem.

If more people in Yorubaland and Igboland in the past had shown interest in these indigenous writing systems, they might still commonly be in use today instead of the Latin characters that are utilized as the standard characters in Yoruba and Igbo languages in modern times.

Kudos to Jordan for reviving this fascinating indigenous knowledge (writing) system. We need more of such projects in Africa, especially West Africa.

Link to his FB page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004193432971&mibextid=ZbWKwL

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BlueRayDick:
https://www.nairaland.com/8014638/presidential-aides-defend-inclusion-tinubus

It's the audacity for me !

These bozos that Tinubu employed as spokespersons/ special advisers will be quick to remind u of what obtains in the western world when their slave master wants to squander the commonwealth of the people . However , what they won't tell u is that the minimum wage in Nigeria as of today is $20 a month ( I.e 30,000/ 1,500 exchange rate ) .

Yet u will see people who live in the western world agree with these aides and justify nonsense .

If Nigeria is indeed broke as being claimed by Tinubu's government , there's no justification for Tinubu to travel with two of his sons on a state visit that is supposed to be official meeting where investment and mutual benefits between Qatar and Nigeria is to be discussed .

Trudeau , Sunak and the rest of them western leaders do not travel out of their country with their families leaving behind an unstable
Currency , ever increasing inflation, food insecurity , so Many internal security challenges and an impoverished majority of the population they govern . 🤷🏼‍♂️

Did you see the large entourage he's traveling with at a time when the masses are going through hard times?

Poch is a known bottler. The earlier he's sacked, the better.

I'm happy to read about the commissioning event of the Integrated Power Project of Geometric Power Group in Abia. Hopefully, it solves the problem of epileptic power supply in the sub-region, and other sub-regions of the country can also imitate such an initiative.

Some people are too foolish for me to be wasting my time reading their posts let alone quoting them to give a response.

People that have genuine interest in learning Ifa, whether for research purposes or other reasons, have been doing so using online resources or enrolling in a course taught by Ifa priests (experts in that line).

It'll take years to gain deep knowledge of Ifa.

Apart from the daft idio.t making online noises all about, I know different people doing great things offline with the knowledge of Ifa they acquired online without making unnecessary noises or ranting all about.

Ariwo ko ni music

Ifa is the native version of encyclopedia or Google. It's very vast, but one ignorant fellow wan learn everything in one day. Yet, going by your comments here, your brain no even fit carry elementary stuff.

Ifa isn't a religion, but a body of knowledge containing philosophy, science, language, religion/spirituality, proverbs, idioms, fables, and many other aspects.

Good luck with learning all that in a day. Books of Ifa are available for free online and some are sold on sites such as Amazon and other platforms.

You never learn all that one finish, but na declassification of the corpus you're after. Some people are so daft

Na so dem dey steal native knowledge systems in Africa to sell to their slave masters overseas, and then come back to condemn and demonise the same knowledge systems they benefitted from

Bunch of hypocrites and liars.

"Part of the duty of citizenship is not to be intimidated into conformity. I wish that the oath of citizenship taken by recent immigrants, and the pledge that students routinely recite, included something like "I promise to question everything my leaders tell me." That would be really to Thomas Jefferson's point. "I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments." I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation."

-The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, 1995

Sportsweb:
Is this juju or he is doing tricks?

https://fb.watch/qn6GIi9Vuo/?mibextid=AQBXeECoIFSgMqhe

If it's not an AI-generated video, then it's simply all those shows where a magician exploits the entanglement inherent in nature to manipulate people's perception of reality.

It's scientific. No juju is involved, except the use of exotic materials/energies (special kind of matter).

Tuchel is a good coach, but his performance at Bayern Munich has been poor and is below expectation.

I don't know how a Chelsea fan go watch yesterday's match and say that we need more defenders when it's so glaring we lack quality in our attack. The attack is what needs to be improved urgently with a proven striker like Osimhen.

Lack of clinical attackers is our pressing problem this season, is why Chelsea is currently a mid-table team.

Poch na useless coach

Emmanuel30a:
Really?

Yea

Jodera:
Underrated?
He's certainly touted as one of the best wingers in the world (not just England). In fact, there's an outlet(I think ESPN) that awarded him as the best winger and Right winger in the world last year.
He's England's best footballer of the year (back to back for that matter)

I don't think that's someone that's underrated really.

BlueRayDick:
Things have changed since the era Ronaldo played as a youngster . Saka is one of the most valuable youngsters in the game right now .

We don't know if Saka will be world best tomorrow tho, but I don't saka is underrated . Almsot everybody who know ball knows Saka is a top talent and he's up there with top players in the game currently .

Let's wait and see what the future will bring for Saka but I believe he's getting the accolades he deserves for now. He's not underrated

Okay

Jodera:
He's not underrated. While it's agreeable he have similar (or better) stats than CR7, but at that game 210, CR7 was already giving Balon dor and world best vibes. CR7 was already quaking people's feet before dey even enter pitch. These are things just Goals/assists won't tell you.

What Saka did at such a young age is very admirable tho

I agree with you. I may be wrong, but Saka seems underrated IMO.

liveLongNprospa:
He's better than Ronaldo 😊

Lols, in what planet. Definitely, not in this planet Earth. He's really good though.

Is Bukayo Saka underrated?

Cc: Ronald17, BlueRayDick, et al.

Itsrm:
Time for CBN to release more circulars.

Below were my predictions last year October. But things might even be much worse than anticipated.

A001:
If Atiku and Obi join forces in 2027, Tinubu can't defeat such an alliance. You don't even know how the condition of the country will be by 2027 at the end of Tinubu's first term, you don dey mention 2031.

How much do you think fuel will be sold per liter by 2027? Possibly around 2000–3000 naira unless subsidy is reintroduced. Dollar nko. That one go exceed 2000 naira per USD by then if things continue like this.

When the time reach, no one go force Nigerians to come out enmasse and protest for better living conditions.

Too many dumb and docile people in this country. When it's trivial issues about religion, you'll see the stupid people on the streets in high numbers, taking up a fight they should leave for their god.

But when it comes to key issues that affect them directly about governance, they become dumb and docile and leave the matter for god.

Bunch of morons and dolts.

The political class in Nigeria are just so wicked and callous. The masses are suffering, and many people have turned to beggars on streets of Lagos and other places, but the looting of billions of naira by the politicians continues steadily.

No money to pay subsidy, but there's more than enough for the politicians to loot.

So many dumb people in this country. No leader can try this in a country with many smart people.