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Fashion › Re: Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op): 12:43pm On Oct 19, 2021
shigishege:
But is it that you guys intentionally refused to have sense or it's sense that refuse to have you. You are mentioning Ghana and Brazil, you are comparing a sovereign nations to abrakadabra BIAFRA??

1. Oga for you information those are recorgnised countries with specific boundaries and territories and not affiliated or under any other country but your BIAFRA is under Nigeria, I mean a part and parcel of this country. So as Nigerian can wear our symbols in thier country so as thier citizens in our country too can wear their symbols here, that's called international relations.

2. Noone says you people should not wear you Identity and symbols but what comes first is your intentions. Is your wearing this symbols a delibrate and calculated attempt to uphold another country within Nigeria?? Was it a deliberate attempt to create secession awarnes about another country within Nigeria?? If yes, it's a big crime for you to wear such clothes around and that's the reason why you too will never wear that clothes in public places. You can only rant here but you too can't wear it.
Nonsense Comment.!!
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So, if I wear nice-coloured clothes, you will come and start imposing it on me that I have some hidden intentions for wearing nice clothes or what??
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So now,, if I wear a clothing material that has the inscriptions of:
“TIMBERLAND... The land of strong trees”
The military will come and arrest me for having the intention of creating a new nation called TIMBERLAND?? Since there is no existing country yet called Timberland., And that I am promoting it inside Nigeria naa??
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If I wear clothes that has the Anambra Logo boldly printed on it, the military will arrest me naa..
Because I have the intention of creating Anambra Country out of Nigeria??
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Wait..
So, if I create any logo in my head and print it on a clothing material with colour combinations of Green, Red, Black and Yellow, the Military will just rush to arrest me??
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See Mista-Man,, GET LOST..
Don't let me call you a fool with this your biased submission
Politics › Re: Nigeria-China N720 Billion Currency Swap Collapses by BluntCrazeMan: 8:58am On Oct 19, 2021
MANDIPUTIN:
•Operators allege sabotage –Expert



https://www.sunnewsonline.com/nigeria-china-n720bn-currency-swap-collapses/?
Bureaucratic Bottlenecks Again??
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When will our Government ever learn to set up a system and leave the system to run on its own without interference??
Fashion › Re: Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:55am On Oct 19, 2021
shigishege:
Hehehe see them, you people should wait for your country oo. Make wna no try shit for nija oo
What have ever happened to people that are wearing Ghanian clothes inside Nigeria??
Is there anything wrong with someone wearing Brazilian clothes inside Nigeria??
See Oga, anybody has the choice to wear whichever type of clothes they like.
Nobody breaks any Laws or Rules by wearing clothes.
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:50am On Oct 19, 2021
gidgiddy:
Now you understand why some Igbos like me want Biafra
That is:
To scatter the whole thing down to the ground, and start all afresh amidst the rubbles and ruins and chaos and losses??
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Because, that's exactly what the Biafran Option is.
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Are we really ready for this extreme option??
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:36am On Oct 19, 2021
gidgiddy:
The point here is that the way Nigeria is structured, it will never work, no matter who you elect to office. A system where all tiers of government sit down every month to collect and share subvention? Most of which they dont even have to account for?If you like put a Saint there, he will turn into a thief after a few months.

Nigeria has no peoples oriented constitution, the wrong system of government, no true federal status and no national cohesion. It can never work under the current structure
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I am still asking the same questions..
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Who will fix all these??
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Is it just anybody??
Or Nobody??
Or these current people in power?
Or some future persons we don't know yet?
Or do we import some foreigners?
Or do we leave everything like that, so that we can continue suffering and complaining?
Or do we scatter the whole thing down to the ground, and start all afresh amidst the rubbles and ruins and chaos and losses??
Family › Re: Don't complain that your husband is cheating on you if you are on this table by BluntCrazeMan: 8:23am On Oct 19, 2021
FlipModeSquade:
Concubines :a woman co habiting with a man WITHOUT being married..

So,according to your claim..

A man traditionally married to 3 WIVES is living with 3 CONCUBINES?

Same as a man living with one woman..

Even though he never bothered to marry her in the church or court?

To your second question..

There are traditions in which a woman is allowed to marry 2 husbands or Concubines,as you prefer to call them..

It's not common but it happens..
Don't distract yourself mista-man..
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You were asking a question whether Traditional Marriage Laws allowed Adultery for men.
And I gave you the clue.
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And you're here now asking me if Polygamy and Monogamy are the same.
This question you are asking me now, was that your original question you asked earlier, which I responded to??
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In your second original question, you asked whether women are also allowed to be adulterous according to traditional marriage laws??
In Igbo tradition generally, the person who pays the bride-price is the person who is marrying.
The number of women whose bride price you pay is the number of wives you have.
If the tradition allows for adultery in women, then the women are free do their traditions the way they see it.
Some traditions in some towns allow adultery for married women, and they do it without hiding their faces, because it is their tradition, and they are happy about it.
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Then, you were saying something about women marrying many husbands??
That's for places where their traditions made it that women are the ones who pay the bride-price.. For example, India.
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op):
gidgiddy:
You dont get it. Before you talk who the best contractor to build your house, you must talk about the best foundation for your house. Get the foundation wrong, the best contractor in the world may not be able to help you.

Ideally, what should happen is that the ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria should come together to decide what system of government and constitution Nigeria should operate and the level of powers they will give the centre. S restructured Nigeria where every zone is controlling their resources, paying an agreed tax to the centre is what Nigeria should operate

But this current system where everyone runs to collect money in Abuja every month, will only encourage corruption, impunity and abuse of power.

So it doesn't matter who you elect into office, this current system will turn that person into a thief.

It is the system that brings out credible leaders, not elections
A lot of people might believe that the problem with Nigeria is that, the System of Government which Nigeria operates with is a very faulty system, and thus it needs a total overhauling.
But then, who are the ones to do this overhauling?
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Let me make the whole discussions clearer by demonstrating with the analogy of a building and its foundation.
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Let's assume that a multi-purpose building is to be built some group of persons, which is supposed to harbour lots of commercial and industrial activities as well as serve for residential purposes too, all inside one building.
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The erection of the building and the equipments as well as managing and operating and maintenance of the building and the systems in it becomes the project, and to be handled by Contractors.
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The physical building itself including the foundation is the structure, while the equipments that are to be installed inside it for the purposes of all the activities that are going to be carried-out inside the building are the various components of the system which operates the building, and the various components of the system are manned by operators who are engaged by the Contractors.
The sum of all the equipments in the building makes up the system that operates the building.
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Then, there are workers, and there are traders and merchants, there are visitors, and there are residents too.
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So now, let us start from the analogy of the Foundation.
Before anybody builds a house, the person doesn't know anything about the foundation, and thus, he doesn't know the best foundation which is going to carry the building.
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The person must involve a good Contractor who conducts the necessary tests and assessments, and decide which foundation should serve best for the type of proposed building.
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Then the Contractor can enter the site and erect such a foundation, and then proceed to construct the building itself, including all the necessary equipments.
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Let us now assume that an inexperienced Contractor had already erected a faulty foundation, and then another inexperienced Contractor took over the job and continued the building on top of the faulty foundation, and then, some other Contractors took over the operation and maintenance of the building and the equipments.
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As time goes on, the building started developing cracks and started showing signs that it may collapse anytime soon, and then, the owners of the building have looked around for some Contractors who would fix the problem, but it happened that the Contractors they found around are also inexperienced..
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(The owners of the building thought that they found the new Contractors, not knowing that the current Contractors whom they hoped to replace, were actually the ones who imposed the new inexperienced Contractors on them by making use of the faulty selection equipment which was installed into the building as part of the system that runs the building).
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These new inexperienced Contractors were mixing mortar and binders and were mending the cracks (just the way the inexperienced Contractors that left before they came in were doing), rather that looking deep into the problem and conducting some necessary tests and assessments in order to know the remote and immediate causes of the problem.
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The owners of the building had to tell these present inexperienced Contractors that the problem is with the foundation of the building, and the Contractors responded that they are aware but that it would be disastrous to start working on the foundation at the moment, since there are people already actively occupying the building (which is true).
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So, even if the owners of the building forced these present inexperienced Contractors to start working on the foundation in order to correct it, they will end up somewhere very bad.
Yes..
It is an established fact that the foundation is very very bad, but if the inexperienced Contractors are left to mend it, things will be very worse.

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Ok..
Now, let me stress the analogy of the Foundation And The Building further..
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Nigeria has a lot of Gazetted Laws (so many many of them) apart from the Constitution, and these Gazetted Laws are not supposed to go beyond or against the Constitution.
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So, let us assume that the whole of the Constitution and all the Laws inside it is the foundation of the building, and that all the other Gazetted Laws are the building blocks of the upper part of the building, and then, that all the Ministries and Agencies and Departments and Parastatals that are established as a result of the Constitution and the Gazettes as the equipments that are operating inside the building.
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Now, it had been determined that the building itself and the foundation upon which it is standing are both faulty, and may come crashing down any moment.
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It had also been determined that the Contractors that are currently managing the building are so inexperienced to the extent that they don't care about putting the building in good shape or even erecting a better one in place of it - that is - they had the chance to decide on what to do to the house to make it stronger and more durable, but they ruled out the option of renovation or pulling the whole house down and starting it all afresh, rather they opted to continued operating the building with all the cracks in it, and continued mending the wide cracks in the building, even without caring about what caused the cracks.
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It had also been determined that the occupants of the building have no other place to go.. That means, they must remain there inside the building as the Contractor continues to work on the house.
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Now...
At a point like this..
What must be the option??
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Would the best option be to force the current inexperienced Contractors to try their best on the foundation? When they don't even know what was exactly wrong with the foundation, not to talk of knowing exactly what to do to the foundation in order to fix it; or even sef, if the ownwrs of the building told them what to do to the foundation, they may not even know how to start doing what the owners of the building suggested due to their gross inexperience.. (that is, assuming that what the owners of the building told them to do was even the best option, since the owners of the building themselves might not be experienced too).
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Ok..
Let us try to solve the situation..
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Being that the occupants are not going to leave the house - which had made the situation a very difficult and a very delicate situation - then, the best option should he a batched renovation.
It is not any kind of Contractor can handle this type of work.
And again, the people occupying the house must agree to cooperate within themselves even before the work starts. Because, they are expected to suffer some various degrees of discomfort inside their various enclosures whenever the work is going-on on their own side of the building. The ones at the part where the work started should sacrifice their comfort first, and not be comparing or complaining (or wailing) that the other people are not suffering same discomfort.
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So, to get a very good Contractor (or Contractors) who would handle the renovation (because that's just what the building needed), the owners of the building shouldn't just rush and select another Contractor with the faulty selection equipment again as they used to do all these while (which definitely must end up selecting another inexperienced Contractor again).
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They must agree within themselves to set-up a good selection equipment which would replace the faulty one that was being used all these while..This new selection equipment must be totally within their control as the owners of the building, and not like the faulty one that was under the full control of whoever that is the present Contractor.
By control, it means that the owners can replace the present Contractor even without giving him any warning, and he himself might not even know that he is about to be replaced.
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With this new selection equipment, once any aspirant Contractor finished giving his proposals on how to renovate the building, if whatever he was saying was not convincing enough, then he would not be selected.
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Even when the aspirant Contractor sounded so convincing, and he got the job to renovate the building, and he took over the job and started doing nonsense, the owners of the building would just remove him even before he took too many steps, even when he was still thinking that whatever he was doing was the best.. The owners have decided to replace him because his work is not convincing enough when compared with how convincing his proposals sounded.
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One advantage is that, as the Contractors (as experienced as they are) continued to work and get replaced, the true problems with both building and its foundation would be understood better.
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Now, imagine a situation where the Contractors had always been the ones that were choosing themselves and imposing themselves to do the job using the faulty selection equipment.
All they continued to do was to continue to operate the system in the building and continue to mend the building and be waiting for the moment the building would collapse.
The owners cannot even select Competent Contractors by themselves even if they tried.
The selection equipment that is part of the system is a faulty equipment.
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BUT THEIR IS HOPE.
Some blocks in the building (and in the foundation) are still strong and good, while some are bad.
Some equipments that are installed in the building are still functioning efficiently and effectively, while some are faulty.
Some building-blocks and equipments needed to be removed and replaced once the renovation starts, while some would be retained.
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The selection equipment for sure must be replaced, and the new equipment must be tested and trusted and accepted by the owners and the occupants of the building before it can be used to even select the first series of Contractors who would definitely do their best at putting the building in order (even if the first series of the selected Contractors were semi-experienced, at least it would pass as an achieved progress towards a better structure and a better system).
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It would be better for it to be that the Contractors whom the owners of the building truly selected did their very best, but that their best was not good enough.
Rather than to have some self-imposed Contractors who never had it in their minds to do anything tangible about the building, and they came into the system and bastardised what was left of the collapsing system.

Cc..
Yanabasee2, Helinues.
Family › Re: Don't complain that your husband is cheating on you if you are on this table by BluntCrazeMan: 11:40pm On Oct 18, 2021
FlipModeSquade:
So what exactly is adultery under traditional marriage?

Where was it prescribed that a married man under traditional law is free to commit adultery?

Even if polygamy is allowed..

Is that tantamount to adultery?
Explain what a concubine is, and you have your answer..
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Concubines are not bad in the traditional laws.
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And now, can a woman have a male concubine??
If you answer this correctly, then you will also have the answer to the question of whether traditional laws allowed women to be adulterous too.
Family › Re: Don't complain that your husband is cheating on you if you are on this table by BluntCrazeMan: 11:29pm On Oct 18, 2021
Kobojunkie:
lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed

shocked shocked sad sad sad sad shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked sad sad sad shocked shocked sad
Traditions Dey,, and Traditions Dey Too..
If you seek, you will find..
Some of the traditions that you think that are no more in existence might still be there, it's just that foreign religions have infiltrated our practice systems, and thus, the traditions are now becoming modernised by themselves.
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Masquerades, for instance, are now made from clothes.. Man-made clothes..
But masquerades are supposed to be spirits who borrowed physical items from the elements of nature in order to have physical forms that can be visible.
Such items include leaves, stones, and sometimes clouds of vapour and/or smoke
Family › Re: Don't complain that your husband is cheating on you if you are on this table by BluntCrazeMan: 11:14pm On Oct 18, 2021
Kobojunkie:
So what you are attempting to say here is that traditional laws encourage adultery and is of no benefit to women? undecided

What about the other way around? Couldn't it also be said that women who marry under native law are free to seek adventure outside of their marriage in the same light? Or are women slaves to their men under these laws you refer to? undecided
Some traditions still allow women to seek adventure, even up till this present era...
But generally, in ancient Igbo Tradition, a man who had a lady he continuously had sex with, and he did not pay bride price on the lady, then the lady becomes his “iko” (concubine), and if a concubine became pregnant, the baby would belong to the husband of the concubine (if she was a married lady), or to her father (if she was an unmarried lady).
Young unmarried men were not permitted to have “iko”, unless the lady in question was already a married woman (but the unmarried young man would be facing stigmatization amongst his peers for not looking for maiden who would bear children for him, rather then a married lover). It was assumed that the unmarried young men didn't know anything about women yet, and that was why the young men usually hid in the bushes with the maidens they loved in order to have sex, and once he got any of the maidens pregnant, then he must marry her first. If he still loved the other maidens, they may become his “iko” if they are interested.
Christianity came and preached against having “iko”. The whole psychology surrounding concubines is so complicated.
It had led to lost of broken families and untimely deaths due to poisoning.
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Some people still practice it up till now.
For instance, in Anambra State, some married men in some remote villages have “Agiri”, whom the wife might even know very well.
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And not just that.
A man’s wife can also be an “Agiri” to another married man, and the man marrying the woman would even know that she is an “Agiri” to another man, he may even know the man himself to whom his own wife is an “Agiri” to.
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And what is an “Agiri”??
An Agiri is a concubine.
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That's Crazy Huuh??!!
Family › Re: Help, My Child Is Already A GENIUS @ 3! by BluntCrazeMan: 10:47pm On Oct 18, 2021
ntrukpum:
with support from family and friends. We've been tro hell bro. There was a period i didn't see anything. That was within march and august. I left the school i was teaching because there were not paying well. I had no oda school to teach.
I can relate bro.
I was once earning such amount, and it wasn't easy for me.
That was why I wanted to know how you coped, because I knew I saw hell.
Fashion › Re: Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op): 10:24pm On Oct 18, 2021
amzee:
Craze man
Thankioo
Fashion › Re: Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op): 10:24pm On Oct 18, 2021
Thanks to Chiwetalu Agu For opening the eyes of thoughtful fashion designers
Fashion › Re: Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op):
Let's Wait For The Time They Saturate The Markets..
The Colours Are:
Green
Black
Red
Yellow

Fashion › Re: Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op): 10:23pm On Oct 18, 2021
Cool Fashion Ideas..
Time to make money with
“The Rising Sun”..

Fashion › Check Out These “Land Of The Rising Sun” Themed Fashion Designs And Ideas by BluntCrazeMan(op): 10:23pm On Oct 18, 2021
E Don Set..
New Fashion Trend Don Start

Politics › Re: Lai Mohammed: Bandits Are Simple Criminals; Have No Flags Like Boko Haram, IPOB by BluntCrazeMan: 7:24pm On Oct 18, 2021
See this low-mentality man ooo..
Meanwhile,, The Biafran Flag is different from IPOB Flag..
What are even saying?
Politics › Re: APGA In Disarray As Stakeholders May Reject APC, Opt For ADC In Anambra by BluntCrazeMan: 2:49pm On Oct 18, 2021
globemoney01:
your brain is dead under Obiano. shut your ignorant mouth
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NOW GET LOST MISTA-MAN..!!
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YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE MEANINGFUL TO CONTRIBUTE..

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial: Igbo Lawyers Insist He Must Be Brought To Court On Thursday by BluntCrazeMan: 2:32pm On Oct 18, 2021
What Organization is ILA Again??
Politics › Re: APGA In Disarray As Stakeholders May Reject APC, Opt For ADC In Anambra by BluntCrazeMan: 2:25pm On Oct 18, 2021
garfield1:
Not yet gone wrong oh.ansiec saga
That one is still coming sef..
Politics › Re: APGA In Disarray As Stakeholders May Reject APC, Opt For ADC In Anambra by BluntCrazeMan: 11:59am On Oct 18, 2021
garfield1:
Which web?
Web of “Bribery Gone Wrong”
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:47am On Oct 18, 2021
gidgiddy:
Free and fair elections is s good thing, but wont save Nigeria. The only thing that can save Nigeria is a restructured federation where power is decentralised so that the component units control their resources and develop at their own pace
Let me burst your bubbles.
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Now tell me..
With A Faulty Electoral Systems, do you think that the right politicians would ever emerge??
I mean, the right politicians who would critically look into the current system of government and study it properly and truly come to the conclusion that “a restructured federation where power is decentralised so that the component units control their resources and develop at their own pace” is the best solution to Nigeria..
With a faulty Electoral System, would such right thinking politicians ever come to light??
Politics › Re: APGA In Disarray As Stakeholders May Reject APC, Opt For ADC In Anambra by BluntCrazeMan: 8:40am On Oct 18, 2021
globemoney01:
APGA is stronger than ever before under Obiano, After the elections you stop making noise as usual, that was how they said APGA is dead in 2017 and APGA won 21/21 for the first time. Ndi nzuzu
APGA is dead under Obiano.
Now, he went and bribed as usual (just the way he bribed in 2017), but he got caught in the web
Politics › Re: APGA In Disarray As Stakeholders May Reject APC, Opt For ADC In Anambra by BluntCrazeMan: 8:12am On Oct 18, 2021
globemoney01:
Anambra is APGA, APGA will win with a landslide.
Dey there dey recite Psalms from APGA.
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:08am On Oct 18, 2021
NaijaSatanist:
He who is with Satan, is never lost..



Accept Satan into your heart.
Where this talk take enter the topic naa?
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:06am On Oct 18, 2021
DOTian:
Elections are overated in this country! You guys spend the equivalent of some countrys budget just to finance phoney elections. These are whose results will ultimately be written in hotel rooms! Yet you won't learn and find more effective but less costly ways of getting leaders! You're stuck on the vulnerable political templates forced down your throats by the western imperialists, whse intentions are nothing but to plunder, maim and destroy..
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My Brother...
Only if INEC realized that the whole solution to all the problems in Nigeria is in their hands, they shouldn't be playing with elections.
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 8:03am On Oct 18, 2021
helinues:
The 2023 general election should be more free, fair and credible than the past elections in Nigeria.
With the news of the Anambra Bribery Scandal which involved top INEC officials from Abuja, INEC’s integrity just went back down to zero.
Can INEC be trusted again??
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 7:56am On Oct 18, 2021
yanabasee2:
What of those aspirants, seeking the presidential position and cleared by INEC are all crooks? And the free and fair election elected one of them?




The best shot is to restructure this country... Make laws tht will not pardon criminal acts.... And take power away from the central rule ..
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What happens to “being accountable to the people”??
If there is free and fair and credible election already in place, what would ever make a crook to end up being a candidate??
He won't even aspire to run for the position because he knows what the people want, and that he himself is not what the people want.
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And that brings us to what we are saying.
“Free and Fair and Credible Elections” would totally eliminate the chances of crooks coming near the arena of power, not to talk of them smelling it.
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 7:54am On Oct 18, 2021
helinues:
So after the restructuring, Aliens from Mars would occupy the political position in the country right?
Please ask him.
Politics › Re: It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op): 5:51am On Oct 18, 2021
I believe in a good Nigeria.
I am not part of the unity beggars.
But I love peaceful existence
And I also love peaceful coexistence.
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It is only “Free and Fair and Credible Elections” that can bring about peaceful existence and peaceful coexistence in Nigeria.
Politics › It Is Only “Free And Fair And Credible Elections” That Can Save Nigeria. by BluntCrazeMan(op):
it is only “Free and Fair and Credible Elections” that can save Nigeria.
“Free and Fair Elections” is the only saviour that can bring Nigeria out from all these mess that we are currently experiencing..

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With “Free and Fair and Credible Elections”, the elected officers would always be thinking about the people, and not about the INEC or the Electoral Officers on the field.
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With “Free and Fair and Credible Elections”, the elected officers would not be bothered about the godfathers or the cabals. In fact, the cabals themselves would be the ones helping the elected officers in looking out for ways to better satisfy the people so that they would not loose out by the next election.
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With “Free and Fair and Credible Elections”, looting is minimised, because the people now have a very strong voice. The people would from time to time demand for an interaction with the elected officer either through an on-air live radio/television program, or through a press conference, or through a town-hall meeting, of which such an officer would not decline, since he knows the repercussions for denying his people such an opportunity for interaction.
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With “Free and Fair and Credible Elections”, Government would always be under the full watch of the people, and with that, a lot of senseless excesses of the Government would be under tight check. The people would be in full control of the Government's activities, since they now have a strong voice (even though the voice is heard only Once-In-Four-Years).
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A lot of people might believe that the problem with Nigeria is that, the System of Government which Nigeria operates with is a very faulty system, and thus it needs a total overhauling.
But then, who are the ones to do this overhauling?
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Let me make the whole discussions clearer by demonstrating with the analogy of a building and its foundation.
..
Let's assume that a multi-purpose building is to be built some group of persons, which is supposed to harbour lots of commercial and industrial activities as well as serve for residential purposes too, all inside one building.
..
The erection of the building and the equipments as well as managing and operating and maintenance of the building and the systems in it becomes the project, and to be handled by Contractors.
..
The physical building itself including the foundation is the structure, while the equipments that are to be installed inside it for the purposes of all the activities that are going to be carried-out inside the building are the various components of the system which operates the building, and the various components of the system are manned by operators who are engaged by the Contractors.
The sum of all the equipments in the building makes up the system that operates the building.
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Then, there are workers, and there are traders and merchants, there are visitors, and there are residents too.
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So now, let us start from the analogy of the Foundation.
Before anybody builds a house, the person doesn't know anything about the foundation, and thus, he doesn't know the best foundation which is going to carry the building.
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The person must involve a good Contractor who conducts the necessary tests and assessments, and decide which foundation should serve best for the type of proposed building.
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Then the Contractor can enter the site and erect such a foundation, and then proceed to construct the building itself, including all the necessary equipments.
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Let us now assume that an inexperienced Contractor had already erected a faulty foundation, and then another inexperienced Contractor took over the job and continued the building on top of the faulty foundation, and then, some other Contractors took over the operation and maintenance of the building and the equipments.
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As time goes on, the building started developing cracks and started showing signs that it may collapse anytime soon, and then, the owners of the building have looked around for some Contractors who would fix the problem, but it happened that the Contractors they found around are also inexperienced..
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(The owners of the building thought that they found the new Contractors, not knowing that the current Contractors whom they hoped to replace, were actually the ones who imposed the new inexperienced Contractors on them by making use of the faulty selection equipment which was installed into the building as part of the system that runs the building).
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These new inexperienced Contractors were mixing mortar and binders and were mending the cracks (just the way the inexperienced Contractors that left before they came in were doing), rather that looking deep into the problem and conducting some necessary tests and assessments in order to know the remote and immediate causes of the problem.
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The owners of the building had to tell these present inexperienced Contractors that the problem is with the foundation of the building, and the Contractors responded that they are aware but that it would be disastrous to start working on the foundation at the moment, since there are people already actively occupying the building (which is true).
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So, even if the owners of the building forced these present inexperienced Contractors to start working on the foundation in order to correct it, they will end up somewhere very bad.
Yes..
It is an established fact that the foundation is very very bad, but if the inexperienced Contractors are left to mend it, things will be very worse.

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Now, let me stress the analogy of the Foundation And The Building further..
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Nigeria has a lot of Gazetted Laws (so many many of them) apart from the Constitution, and these Gazetted Laws are not supposed to go beyond or against the Constitution.
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So, let us assume that the whole of the Constitution and all the Laws inside it is the foundation of the building, and that all the other Gazetted Laws are the building blocks of the upper part of the building, and then, that all the Ministries and Agencies and Departments and Parastatals that are established as a result of the Constitution and the Gazettes as the equipments that are operating inside the building.
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Now, it had been determined that the building itself and the foundation upon which it is standing are both faulty, and may come crashing down any moment.
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It had also been determined that the Contractors that are currently managing the building are so inexperienced to the extent that they don't care about putting the building in good shape or even erecting a better one in place of it - that is - they had the chance to decide on what to do to the house to make it stronger and more durable, but they ruled out the option of renovation or pulling the whole house down and starting it all afresh, rather they opted to continued operating the building with all the cracks in it, and continued mending the wide cracks in the building, even without caring about what caused the cracks.
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It had also been determined that the occupants of the building have no other place to go.. That means, they must remain there inside the building as the Contractor continues to work on the house.
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Now...
At a point like this..
What must be the option??
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Would the best option be to force the current inexperienced Contractors to try their best on the foundation? When they don't even know what was exactly wrong with the foundation, not to talk of knowing exactly what to do to the foundation in order to fix it; or even sef, if the ownwrs of the building told them what to do to the foundation, they may not even know how to start doing what the owners of the building suggested due to their gross inexperience.. (that is, assuming that what the owners of the building told them to do was even the best option, since the owners of the building themselves might not be experienced too).
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Ok..
Let us try to solve the situation..
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Being that the occupants are not going to leave the house - which had made the situation a very difficult and a very delicate situation - then, the best option should he a batched renovation.
It is not any kind of Contractor can handle this type of work.
And again, the people occupying the house must agree to cooperate within themselves even before the work starts. Because, they are expected to suffer some various degrees of discomfort inside their various enclosures whenever the work is going-on on their own side of the building. The ones at the part where the work started should sacrifice their comfort first, and not be comparing or complaining (or wailing) that the other people are not suffering same discomfort.
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So, to get a very good Contractor (or Contractors) who would handle the renovation (because that's just what the building needed), the owners of the building shouldn't just rush and select another Contractor with the faulty selection equipment again as they used to do all these while (which definitely must end up selecting another inexperienced Contractor again).
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They must agree within themselves to set-up a good selection equipment which would replace the faulty one that was being used all these while..This new selection equipment must be totally within their control as the owners of the building, and not like the faulty one that was under the full control of whoever that is the present Contractor.
By control, it means that the owners can replace the present Contractor even without giving him any warning, and he himself might not even know that he is about to be replaced.
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With this new selection equipment, once any aspirant Contractor finished giving his proposals on how to renovate the building, if whatever he was saying was not convincing enough, then he would not be selected.
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Even when the aspirant Contractor sounded so convincing, and he got the job to renovate the building, and he took over the job and started doing nonsense, the owners of the building would just remove him even before he took too many steps, even when he was still thinking that whatever he was doing was the best.. The owners have decided to replace him because his work is not convincing enough when compared with how convincing his proposals sounded.
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One advantage is that, as the Contractors (as experienced as they are) continued to work and get replaced, the true problems with both building and its foundation would be understood better.
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Now, imagine a situation where the Contractors had always been the ones that were choosing themselves and imposing themselves to do the job using the faulty selection equipment.
All they continued to do was to continue to operate the system in the building and continue to mend the building and be waiting for the moment the building would collapse.
The owners cannot even select Competent Contractors by themselves even if they tried.
The selection equipment that is part of the system is a faulty equipment.
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BUT THEIR IS HOPE.
Some blocks in the building (and in the foundation) are still strong and good, while some are bad.
Some equipments that are installed in the building are still functioning efficiently and effectively, while some are faulty.
Some building-blocks and equipments needed to be removed and replaced once the renovation starts, while some would be retained.
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The selection equipment for sure must be replaced, and the new equipment must be tested and trusted and accepted by the owners and the occupants of the building before it can be used to even select the first series of Contractors who would definitely do their best at putting the building in order (even if the first series of the selected Contractors were semi-experienced, at least it would pass as an achieved progress towards a better structure and a better system).
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It would be better for it to be that the Contractors whom the owners of the building truly selected did their very best, but that their best was not good enough.
Rather than to have some self-imposed Contractors who never had it in their minds to do anything tangible about the building, and they came into the system and bastardised what was left of the collapsing system.
Education › Re: The Robotic Dog AAUA Students Built As Project (Pictures) by BluntCrazeMan: 4:40am On Oct 18, 2021
Holadokun:
See the Robotic Dog that Physics and Electronics Graduates of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko were able to build as project.

Students names: Aiyegbeni John ,Adeyi Stephen and Loiki Charles
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