Those who brought religion to us have moved pass it.
Why do we still get stuck in Africa?
Religion na scam from onset
Majek Fashek got it right in his song:
Religion na politics.
(Christians no dey fight Muslims) Religion na politics Lots of people know all the tricks Religion is politics Lots of them be Pharisees Religion na politics Them are hypocrite na Pharisees Religion religion is politics Them are fanatics Pharisees Some claim them are Muslims Them claim them be Christians Some are say them are Rastafarians Them say them be Ogun Servers But I and I and I is one We all are one people I and I is one Let′s unite and build the nations (Muslims no dey fight Christians) (Christians no dey fight Muslims) The beginning was the Light The Light was the beginning of Creation Light was in Bhuda Light was in Emperor Selassie Light was in Muhammad Light was in Jesus Christ From Creation oh oh From Creation can you hear my cry now (Muslims no dey fight Christians) (Christians no dey fight Muslims) Religion na politics Lots of people know all the tricks Religion is politics Some of them be Pharisees Religion na politics Them are fanatics na Pharisees Religion religion is politics Them are hypocrites naa Some claim them are Muslims Them say them be Christians Them are say them are Rastafarians Them say them be juju Servers I and I and I is one We all are one people I and I is one Let's unite and build the World (Muslims no dey fight Christians) Religion na cause a lot of problem all over the earth All over the world (Christians no dey fight Muslims) Iraqi man go dey fight Irani man India man go dey fight Ikumasi man Yoruba man go dey fight Igbo man Igbo man go dey fight Hausa man Uh wey oh oh Wey eh oh oh Yey eh woh oh (Muslims no dey fight Christians) Eh eh eh Wey eh oh oh Uh wey oh oh
Donedeal1: The areas around that region is a theatre of war.
Did Buhari not deal with them all as Tinubu said when he alone made him president nine years ago, to get his own Emilokan turn last year?
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
Gerrard59: In conclusion, the only benefit men derive from marriage is having children within a two-parent household, as wedlock does more harm to both genders and the greater society. Also, having children from different women whom you as the man are not married to is absolutely nonsensical and financially draining. No one should mention sex, as many married men don't even get sex from their wives, and when they do, it is timetable-based. Who makes this timetable? The woman. The reason married men patronise sex workers more than even single men, and I am willing to bet that sexually active married men get less sex while being married than single men who are equally sexually active.
So, where is the benefit?
Quite interesting that wedlock can be broken down into two words- wed AND lock. Quite interesting!
femicyrus: Importers are also Nigerians too not only farmers. The billions made by farmers from emefiele with nothing to show for it is what Cardoso should continue?
Are the farmers of the imported food also Nigerians?
What works are you doing to produce items for export to pay for the imported food
datopaper: I have realise that africa politicians see opposition as only means to criticise the government. If you are not there, everything the government does is rubbish. Atiku was vice president, he was placed to oversee selling of public assets. It was criticised by opposition then. He supported buhari initially but after sometime they fell apart.
Somebody must be in government at a particular time. The government must have priorities. People must criticise. We should be concern about solutions at all time.
Government go and come.
Why did you fail to see the solution and alternative vision offered by Atiku
helinues: This one just dey remember say Nigeria still dey exist...
Mikano Atiku shouldn't be putting mouth about this particular issue. When Atiku was Vp to Obasanjo, the special assignment ( portfolio) that was given to him was how to revive Nigeria epileptic power.
Instead of Atiku to fix the problem, he rather invited generator company like Mikano to come and scatter the situation.
So Atiku, STFU about the electricity situation in Nigeria, you had all the power to fix it but you chose not to.
Stale propaganda lies from the clueless APC e-warriors.
What evidence do you have of Atiku’s ownership of Mikano or Obasanjo asking him to be focused on electricity when Bola Ige and Agunloye were his trusted ministers
politicoNG: Mikano International Limited, promoters of Mikano Generators, has denied any link to former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The Managing Director of the company, Firas Mamlouk in a statement said Mikano is not affiliated to the former vice president in any way.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Management of Mikano International Limited, promoters of Mikano Generators (amongst other products), has been drawn to numerous articles and press statements stating that the Company is owned by/affiliated with Atiku Abubakar, GCON.
“This disclaimer is a notice to the general public that the news does not represent the true facts as it concerns Mikano International Limited. Please be informed that Mikano International Limited is not owned, affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with HE Atiku Abubakar GCON.
“Members of the public are therefore advised to disregard the news”.
If our engineers are not capable of doing construction work like this from start to finish, and we need to get foreign engineers involved, then why are we not getting foreigners to replace Wike, Tinubu and other officials in the federal, state and local levels since they are not capable of administering the country?
Even Wike can’t provide water for our federal capital territory in the 21st century despite raising so much IGR from Abuja residents that he doesn’t pay into TSA account?
Abuja Residents Groan Over Water Scarcity
Sun, 10 Mar 2024
Some residents of Karu and Nyanya in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have appealed to the FCT Water Board to address the water crisis bedevilling the area.
yommen: Ekiti has done quite good in education. In fact, education seems to be a culture to them. They have the highest number of Professors in Nigeria.
Do they also have the highest percentage of children in free government schools with adequate teachers and other staff, especially with the progreTHIEVES in office intermittently
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.
The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.
It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”
Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.
Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close. The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.
But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.
It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them. http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html
We4all: House rat is not fit for consumption. You guys should stop playing with your health.
Don't we play with our health in too many ways already, such as not expecting governors to employ workers that will treat and pump water into every house, office, school, mosque, church, event centre etc
Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
God bless Nigeria because the government through Customs is making you pay more for imported goods? What is the government doing with the increased revenue to warrant your applause
tollyboy5: I don't like the kind of politics we do in this country. Some people are utilizing constituency money while others are embezzling theirs on baby mamas.
The system has no measures to bring them to book.
Should they even get constituency projects' money in the first instance instead of employing the masses and paying them well compared to the politicians
Last month alone, we spent more than 21million Naira on Diesel in a hospitality company in Lagos
How many extreme poverty Nigerians, earning 30k minimum wage if they are not jobless, and struggling to pay school fees because governors and local government chairmen fail to provide free education, are spending more than 21 million on diesel because they are hospitality companies?
SouthSouth1914: Wicked President who only puts his friends and family on. How is this policy sustainable since minimum wage is 30k? This country will go up in flames someday. Just keep fine turning that line!
Abeg help us ask them o. The brilliant American trained gurus who made Lagos the 3rd economy but failed to provide low cost houses for civil servants and teachers.
Yet they brand themselves as progressives instead of claiming and owning up to their progreThief label.
slimfit1: Some people have destroyed this country for personal gain and their children won't benefit from it. Generating electricity for the whole country will create thousands of jobs. An ordinary monkey can figure that out. Sambo is one of the saboteur of electric generation. Jonathan lost me when he allowed his power minister to resign because Sambo told him to sack him.Sambo had and interest somewhere that we didn't know as usual. Whatever is working I will let somethings slide until I get my result then take action. Jonathan wanted to please Sambo.
Just as Obasanjo wanted to please the north by using Iwuruwuru INEC to make sick and dying Yar’Adua president? Or Yar’Adua was the best choice among Obasanjo’s viable options in 2007
If this man continues like this and play his cards right, he will be more acceptable nationwide and more suited for a higher position in the future.
Don't you want to know how many gutter cleaners he has employed and paying the N360,000 minimum wage to MAINTAIN the rehabilitated roads? What of the number of schools he has equally rehabilitated and how many teachers he employed?
Do we really have bad leaders looters or we are bad followers with tragical low expectations
All these could be money laundering paparazzi propaganda to cover up the looting of Abia revenue and loans.
adamusuleiman1: This strategic initiative, revealed in a statement by the IsDB, is part of a broader $225 million funding approval designed to propel new development ventures.
Chaired by the esteemed H.E. Dr Muhammad Al Jasser, President and Group Chairman of IsDB, the bank’s 354th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors saw the green light given to two pivotal projects aimed at fortifying socio-economic growth and sustainability in critical sectors.
About the Loan The $125 million allocation for Nigeria is poised to significantly reduce travel times and costs on major roadways, concurrently enhancing market accessibility and social services for the local populace.
Emphasising inclusivity, the project promises to bolster mobility for all residents, prioritising safe and accessible transport options, notably for vulnerable community segments.
The statemen read:
“Nigeria secured a US$125 million financing package to contribute to the Abia State Integrated Infrastructure Development Project. The project aims to reduce travel times and costs along key roads, while also improving access to markets and social services for local communities. “Additionally, the project will enhance overall mobility by ensuring safe and accessible transportation for all residents, including vulnerable groups.”
Mikuni: Good news. As a forex trader, we know that when a country increases its interest rate, the corresponding currency appreciates on the long term.
Nigeria has not just increased her interest rate, but also our main stay - petroleum is now more valuable. That's a big plus for the currency.
A big plus for Tinubu's N300 exchange rate target.
World Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate April 23, 2023
Tinubu, during his campaign, said he would harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilisation of the value of the naira against the US dollar.
The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.
“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.
“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years,” Tinubu stated.
atobs4real: Crude oil for dollars killing us little by little We would have had enough if such bargain is not made. Well, not bad bcoz even since crude oil has been selling, we have no meaningful.....
Are you talking about the Afreximbank loan to stabilise our exchange rate
Ibusho: The Federal Government on Friday received a $2.25b foreign exchange support facility from the African Import-Export Bank.
The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, confirmed this to Arise TV, said it is the first tranche of the $3.3bn facility from the bank. He noted that the loan was aimed at resolving the acute FX shortage that has hampered the economy.
According to the report monitored by our correspondent, the balance of $1.05bn will be received in the first week of January.
Edun stated that work has commenced for solutions to Nigeria’s economic challenges.
In August, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited announced that it had secured a $3bn emergency loan from the Afrexim Bank to stabilise the country’s volatile foreign exchange market.
Ofunaofu: It's obvious that you are making this assertion out of ignorance and blind support for the APC.
Wale Edun, the current minister of finance, recently confirmed that the last time Nigeria had a stable economy was a decade ago, which was during the Goodluck Jonathan regime.
He must have thought that we are all forgetful olodos whose brains have been swept clean by APC's winchioous igbale. God bless you richly for this timely reminder.
Politics › Re: Bobrisky: Yorubas Have A Culture Of Spraying Naira - Reno Omokri by anonimi: 11:33am On Apr 08, 2024
