₦airaland Forum

jesus500:
Media houses should not be threatened and intimidated by the authority. Nigeria is a democratic country.

Do you think before you write?

famzynet:
My brother,the suffering in the nation has dumbed many people's brains. Only few now reason well. After all,a hungry man is an angry man. Fact is majority of Nigerians are tired of this government and afraid to talk because once you talk,DSS will visit your house with allegations. We should all support Tuface for this peaceful protest. Let the world know we are suffering. Tuface is a man to come out to lead this protest. Let's support him. Let's say NO to DSS who are Buhari's dogs. I know by now,they will be looking to know how to arrest 2face. Enough is enough. Let's use our power of speech and media to say NO! to the hardship imposed by this government.

My broda, the problem with Nigeria is not the bad rulers, but the gullible and docile citizens, who accepts anything done by the wicked rulers.

Mind you I was a die hard buhar's fan, I campaigned as if Buhari himself told me what's in his head,
I wanted a change of proceedings, afterall they say change and death is the only constant thing in life,
That being said, my people said you won't cherish what you have until you lose it, (wisdom)
I could kill or die for Buhari, I so much believed in his so called principled life, that i believed he was the right man for the job, and after all this what did I see,
I see incompetence, failure, nepotism, and destruction of the already destroyed system.

Now back on the attacks on 2face, the only thing I can deduce from it, is the one and only thing hindering our growth as a nation, which is hypocrisy nothing more,
For all calling 2face illiterate, well I rather be an illiterate like him and make something positive in life and be able to touch others lives, than be a prof or an educated liability that as no purpose and can't be of any use to myself and others.
What is 2face's crime, if they don't know I'll remind them, 2face's crime is speaking out about what affects everyone, using his fame that he laboured for years to achieve, though " illiterate mentality "to help remind the "educated illiterates" of what's to be done.
Mind you 2face as tried for himself no matter what happens he and his type can't lack like the other populace.
So if giving his voice to the voiceless and standing with the weak and downtrodden is a crime, then I rather be a criminal,
They are busy attacking his private life, so tell me when it became crime to collect gift, as if all those hypocrites don't wish they were in his shoes, why attack the messenger and leaving the message unattended to,
What is the protest about, simply to remind the oppressors in power, that the populace are suffering,
Why is that a big thing, even Buhari 's wife saw these things and cried out, but some fools still blame her,
Remember Buhari 's lineage or children can't never know poverty again, that's if they ever know it before.
The president is surrounded by sycophants that will forever lie to him, but if going on protest is the only key that can unlock that harden heart of our president so be it. They can continue to attack 2face it won't change the fact that every thing as double but not our income, that more jobs as been lost than that gotten, that the economy of Nigeria is at all time low and bad.

Enough of excuses, pls if you can't fix it, then return to factory setting abeg. Prosperity will judge all of us whether we speak out or not, it will remain in scroll of history.
So 2face ride on the remaining "illiterates "will join your peaceful protest to remind our rulers that street is not smiling.

thesicilian:
I wonder how he manages to preserve deities and serve Jesus at the same time.

But really, do you have to comment when you don't know what it been discussed,
Was the oni's coronation done in church or through the shrine and traditional way.
The oni attending church or mosque is to show is subjects he belongs to all of them
So stop making it look like he's indebted to Christians, the Yorubas have their way of doing things before the arrival of European who brought their own religion and planted it in the mind of some gullible people.
I'm Yoruba tokan tokan, and very proud of my root.

naptu2:
The name of the sitcom is Second Chance. It was a Nigerian adaptation of the British sitcom Mind Your Language.

[img]http://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0


Funso Alabi acted as Teacher Gyang.

Abiola Atanda was Madam Kofo

Joke Silva was Roli

Tony St Iyke (Anthony Ikerionwu) was Okonkwo

Ijoma Isaac was Anuka

Lai Ashadele was the principal

Olu Jacobs also acted as the principal

Mohammed Danjuma (I can't remember his screen name)

Collins Onomoh was Odiri

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Other characters included


Kutcher (the old soldier)

James Johnson Fyneface


It was shown on the NTA from c1984- c1989.

Pls can u provide a link to get dis classic evergreen sitcom?

But of all the experienced CPs in Nigeria, all Buhari could do through the IG is to appoint an hausa man who was only confirmed CP, four days ago.

Yes I supported and campaigned vigorously so Buhari could be President but I must confess, with his lopsided appointments and other faults or mistakes too numerous to mention, I can't wait for 2019 to come so we can do to Buhari what we did to Jona.

This is a very good piece. It's as truth as light.
We need an reorientation. We need to do exactly what the Asians have done. If it's to start from imitation of the products of the white, so we'll have the technical know-how to start producing on our own.

Most importantly, we need a leader with the right mindset to move this nation forward.

May God bless the author of this piece abundantly for his insight.

naptu2:
And this is a video of The New Masquerade. Akpenor had been replaced by Ramota.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMwGNFrzQsE

@Naptu2, pls do you have any clip on Second Chance?

Pls if you do, pls post it. I really love to see it again.

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ndubisik:
Alright o...they are coming for your children

I'm not the type that fight ma children's teachers, not for anything my parents never did that and i'll never do that too, they are my children you can't love them more than me
I wants the very best for them and I know the teacher won't just flogg for no reason
I know how I was growing up it was the grace and the never say die of my parents that helped me
If my loving parents had allow me to get away with things like this I wonder what my life would have been
Thank God I had people worthy to be called parents around me not the shit face people copying everything western but are in Africa

Alvino1:
Let this serve as a warning to every teacher out there that doesn't understand the idea behind flogging erring students.. I swear if anybody flogs my child (particularly my female child like that) I will fight the person with everything.. nd I mean everything... Rubbish... #LockTheBastardUpForLife..

#5iver...

and when the child tarnish ur name u"ll accuse ur enemies then, oh God what is dia world turning to
I teacher locked up for doing what even the parent can't do.
What a country!!!!!!!

uzolexis:
Africans always use the excuse of African culture to justify rubbish. Studies have shown countless times that corporal punishment has the opposite effect of what we expect. It does not instil discipline, I'm not ruling out corporal punishment entirely but it should be reduced to the barest minimum.There are other ways to correct a child.

which stupid studies done by who?
You'd better stop fooling yourselves, was the studies conducted here? That's how you people embrace everything western forgetting your core moral values.
I don't blame most of the children hiding behind keyboard to post nonsense, you people have really lost it I pity the future of this wayward generations
You people are even happy the teacher is jailed for beating an erring and untrained child.
I've attended a PTA meeting in my children's school where parents we're against non flogging, can you imagine where a parent threatens the school that he will remove his child if they don't flog
He being a father and knows how stubborn his child is knows that allowing the teacher flogg his child is not hatred but love, so the bible that said spare the rod and spoil the child was stupid.
I weep so much for generations.

Pls, how much will it cost to clear a Toyota Avalon, 2002, non accidental

Pls, how much will it cost to clear a 2002 Toyota Avalon, non accidental

Op, you have good cars but the problem is your prices are too high. I have checked most of your tread and I noticed your state high prices. It will do you a lot of good if the prices are reasonable. No matter what, you'll make your cut from it.

Political bishop

Thanks for the answers. I was thinking it was possible since they both look alike. You know, maybe change the steering, lights, bumper etc will mean upgrade to 2007.

Thanks as always.

I have always seen advert of cars that goes thus: Range Rover Sport 2005 upgraded to 2012 or Honda Accord 2009 upgraded to 2014.

Pls, my ogas in the house, I want to know if it's possible to upgrade a Toyota Highlander 2003 to 2006 or 2007.

Pls, if it's possible, how much will it cost.

Thanks

It's a nice car. Show more pix of both the interiors, engine and body. It could attract more

It's because of hatred and envy for EPL teams

Abimbola Adelakun

Like a number of people out there, I found Dr. Reuben Abati’s article on the “spiritual side” of Aso Rock annoying. Abati, a well-educated man by any standards, held a front-facing office in the most powerful office in Nigeria as recently as 17 months ago before his phone suffered a catastrophic failure of non-rings. His piece about supernatural forces jinxing everyone and everything in Aso Rock left me wondering what re-conditioned him.

If he had stopped at merely narrating how the dread of a bugaboo loomed over them when they worked in Aso Rock, the piece would not have been as problematic as it was for me. Believing one could be jinxed, and factoring that into administrative calculations is not necessarily an admission of one’s gullibility. Belief in the supernatural and scepticism of its existence is not always antipodal.

Some of us have struggled to reconcile our agnosticism with curious phenomena for which we could not find immediate answers in scientifically tested knowledge. Some of these beliefs about jinxes still, curiously enough, find expression in some places of the world that could be termed too “rational” and “civilised” to accommodate inane superstitions.

I give examples: The White House for instance, is considered one of the spookiest places in the United States; former president George Bush and his daughter, Jenna, have both claimed to have either seen or heard a ghost in the White House. If that seemed too silly, consider that for years, the legend of the Curse of Tippecanoe was used to account for the deaths of their eight American presidents who died while in office. As the story goes, in 1811 the Governor of Indiana, William Henry Harrison, had used brutal tactics to displace Native Americans from their land. When Harrison became president in 1840, “they” said the leader of the tribe, Tecumseh, cursed that anyone who became president in a year divisible by 20 would die in office. Harrison died a year later.

Then, came Abraham Lincoln who was elected in 1860 but was assassinated in 1865. Strangely, the “20-year curse” held up for 120 years for eight different presidents who were elected in a year divisible by 20. The jinx was finally broken by Ronald Reagan; he was elected in 1980 but survived an assassination attempt. His wife, Nancy, afterwards hired an astrologer who managed his schedule. Despite subscribing to a belief in a curse some of us would find ridiculous, his country was not hopelessly trapped in the sort of underdevelopment that characterises over-religious countries such as Nigeria. When I matched Reagan’s panic over the Tippecanoe “curse” to Abati’s blame of demons, I doubted that the issue was merely that such beliefs found their way into modern society. Rather, it could be that people like Abati let ghostly tales freeze them into phrenic paralysis.

For all his pretext at not being superstitious, Abati blamed mysterious forces for fire accidents in his apartment, poorly-worded presidential speeches that missed the mark of public acceptance, helicopter near-crash, stalled presidential aircraft, chronic illnesses, road accidents, cancers and the laughable Love Machine army of office staff consumed by phallic anxiety.

What finally got me was his claim that, “when Presidents make mistakes, they are probably victims of a force higher than what we can imagine.” What unimaginable higher forces could have been responsible for the massive looting carried out by human – not superhuman – agents right under President Goodluck Jonathan’s nose? To what extent were evil spirits responsible for the profligacy of the very corrupt government Abati worked with? Did those evil spirits also join their company to indulge in the bacchanal feasts through which they frittered valuable public resources? What supernatural power could account for Jonathan’s lethargy that caused the security issues that plagued the country under his watch to greatly deteriorate? None of the issues that fuelled public angst against Jonathan’s government came up in that essay; none of the human agents was apportioned responsibility; instead, Abati gamely tried to pass off incompetence as metaphysically induced “mistakes.”

Sadly, he failed to demonstrate in his piece that either he or anyone else explored other options to explain why the fire incidents occurred; whether their diet and work schedule could be blamed for their sexual impotence; how the ratio of the road accidents their convoys were involved was any different from the rates of accident that occurred in Nigeria. From 2011 to 2015 they were in Aso Rock, the Federal Road Safety Corps recorded 44,761 accidents all of which claimed 26,488 lives. Did Abati imagine that they were insulated from the reality that claimed that many lives because they could blow everyone off the road with sirens? Statistically, Nigeria has one of the highest accident rates in the world. Given the figures, Abati should not be wondering why they were involved in accidents but instead should be asking why it did not occur more frequently.

Another unfortunate part of Abati’s postulations is the fact that he let his illlogical postulations about the influence of a vindictive supernatural power plaguing Aso Rock overshadow the more important things he had to reveal to the public- the climate of fear, hostility, and paranoia that haunts a president and which makes him recede into an ethnic cave manned by only his trusted kith and kin. That would have made for an interesting read; to learn how a president wrestles such atmospheric antagonism and yet still manages to thrive (or not).

While I found Abati’s article entirely nonsensical, I have no wish to contest whether the forces he alluded to in that piece exist or not. That is beside the point; besides, more people’s lives are ruled by one superstition or the other than we know. Some have tame and mundane beliefs such as lucky numbers or particular outfits they wear on certain days. (Some people have blamed the white jersey of the Super Eagles anytime Nigeria loses a football match at any level wearing that colour). Others take certain phenomena seriously. They are all entitled to hold such private beliefs if it soothes them.

The underlying lesson one comes off with from the piece is not that some demons seized control of the thing below their belt in Aso Rock but that a Legion of demons apparently messed with the thing above their necks. I am doubly disappointed by Abati because he was supposed to be the decorated academic whose opinions on certain subjects should have been legislated by intellectual rigour and curiosity. At the end of the day, the people he was surrounded with successfully dragged him down to their level. By touting beliefs that no rational basis, it was obvious he capitulated.

This is the other problem I have with Abati’s piece – the subtle demonisation of African traditional religious practices to glorify more “modern” and “civilising” religions. After blaming a number of factors on “the forces of darkness”, he proceeded to give examples – people bathing in blood and walking with their feet up in the air. Those fantastic imageries come straight from Nollywood and radio programmes like Irikerindo popularised by the late broadcaster, Kola Olawuyi.

Such depictions of supernatural power are a staple of filmmakers who raid beliefs nurtured in the African traditional religious imaginary, exaggerating and exploiting them for cinematic content. They then create stories where the evil indigenous beliefs purportedly propagate is vanquished by the power of the Judeo-Christian God. These ideas of the “true” God conquering deviant powers are regularly snagged by Nigerian churches and then dedicate their energy to exorcising a representation of evil created in their own imagination.

It is not for nothing that Abati says if he were to become President of Nigeria tomorrow, he would build a new Presidential Villa that would be dedicated to the “all-conquering Almighty, and where powers and principalities cannot hold sway.” If we ask Abati to pause and tell us what the religion of this all-conquering God would be, it would be most likely the Christian one.

http://punchng.com/aso-rock-demons-abati-need-help/

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