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Foreign Affairs / Re: Mojtaba Amini, Iranian Ambassador To Lebanon Lost An Eye To Pager Blast by Bodydiialect57: 9:01pm On Sep 18
eepeepook:
Was he part of Hezbollah too? I’m beginning to believe the explosions were devices reaching their end of life. The media is fond of sensationalizing otherwise ordinary events. Poor civilians labeled terrorists by the Jewish media. Tufia! Whoever controls information controls power at the end of the day.

And you believe a whole ambassador will go about with a device that's expiring?
Food / Re: Six Hidden Dangers Of Consuming Burnt Food by Bodydiialect57: 8:42pm On Sep 18
Gas is expensive, kerosene is no go area.

How Una dey burn food for this period?
Romance / Re: . by Bodydiialect57: 5:41pm On Sep 15
Brarrie:
it pain my soul when you said this but I pray you don't find yourself in an unwanted situation

That's the effect of listening to the biases of others about another one.

Someone was willing to help you but you allowed her be shooed away.
Politics / Re: Awolowo Speaks On Twenty Pounds Policy And Starvation During Civil War by Bodydiialect57: 10:04pm On Sep 10
Thank you.
Nexus25:
Awo speaks - an excerpt from a town hall interview in Abeokuta in 1983.

CIVIL WAR

Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the Federal Military Government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being painted in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feel embittered?

Awolowo: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. In fact, whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo, and there’s no campaigning for elections on, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but ….Ojukwu is irredeemable, so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you.

I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point?. I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betide those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly, very roughly.

That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as Pisces, in Latin Pisces means Fish.

So I put Pisces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matters. And then on top of it I wrote Eebudola. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but………………Awolowo school, omo Awolowo, the school…… started in Urhoboland, in the Mid-west in those days. They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools – brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place..”ah what kind of school is this? is this Awolowo school? Useless school” and when they saw the children..”ah these Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became a blessing, and now they say “Awolowo children, they are good people” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the 'Eebu' has become honor, the abuse became honor.

And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call 'Homo Mortuus' - dead living, 'oku eniyan', that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.

So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so 'Eebudola' is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.

During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to Iboland - South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….were librated I handed over the money to them - millions of pounds. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the Executive Council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time, the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 pounds almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course - South Eastern State, North Central State, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds (£3,500,000.00) to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view: you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as Federal Commissioner for Finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the Ministry of Economic Planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

TWENTY POUNDS POLICY

That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’ books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their savings books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.

I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central Bank and the pertinent officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then made some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approved, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.

And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there.

STARVATION POLICY

Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort. You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcort, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things which I knew which you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, when I write my reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories and so on.

I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses - Air force dress, Army dress and so on, and went to the war torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never returned from the place. But I went.

But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food we were sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happened was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? and those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, its only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor.

You won't hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor? None of their children either, so they waylaid the foods, they ambushed the vehicles and took the foods to their friends and to their collaborators and to their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process, the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most.

CHANGE OF CURRENCY

And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers had stolen from our Central Bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central Bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.

So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now Governor of Cross River, Attah and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any Commissioner at the time says that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his own ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and starvation of his soldiers also defeated him.

These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me, when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who wasn't well fed? But he had been taking the food which we sent to civilians, and so we stopped the food.

ABANDONED PROPERTY

And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side, were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds rent which has been kept for him. All his rent were collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds.

So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies.

Cc: Mynd44, lalasticlala


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Romance / Re: Man Sparks Outrage After Getting A New 'Female Organ' (Photo) by Bodydiialect57: 9:02pm On Aug 27
Sophisticated advancement of error!

A life without Christ is at no mercy of corrupting evil manipulations.

Jesus Christ is the way out of such evil influences.

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Health / Re: How My Girlfriend Died In My House! by Bodydiialect57: 10:47pm On Aug 22
Agentsalt:
1 How can all the compound people vacate their houses within that time of the night,just because somebody died inside her boyfriend house.
2.Pastor you haven't called for a long time,picked your call and said he knows why you were calling him....

The fear of being arrested and interrogated by the police made them flee.

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Family / Re: When You Demand for Your Birth Certificates from Your Mum(Photo) by Bodydiialect57: 10:43pm On Aug 12
mcdokwe:
After my dad's death, I saw all my documents down to my primary school terminal results neatly filed.

Now ask me where my b.sc cert is and you will think I am joking with the response I am going to give you.

Lols.

I can relate well.

After his death, I found the immunization card for the vaccine given me when l was a week old among many other of my documents safely kept in my father's wardrobe,
I retrieved them all and still had them with me.
Romance / Re: Throwback Video Of Cross-dresser “Area Mama” Allegedly Murdered In Abuja (Vid) by Bodydiialect57: 10:42pm On Aug 08
This is pure wickedness!

Why kill him?.
Crime / Re: Househelp Confesses To Killing Justice Ajumogobia’s Daughter In Lagos by Bodydiialect57: 12:52pm On Aug 03
Pat081:
He said, “Investigations are still ongoing on the incident. What useless investigation again you have know them why not court Maybe they want to get back to her father who is the judge but those people will not get out of this case but wait ooo na lawyer will stand for this people too day of judgment will be very interesting against lawyers

Everyone has the right to be represented by an attorney, and if the accused cannot afford one, the state will provide one unless the accuse rejects the offer.

Jesus Christ has made Himself available as an advocate to those who believe in His finished work on the cross. He paid the price we owed but couldn't pay through His death on the cross.
Food / Re: Hardship: Kaduna Residents Abandon Yam As 100 Tubers Sell For N1m by Bodydiialect57: 10:51pm On Jul 27
Might be true if it's dry yam.

I bought one last Saturday for 6k. New yam though.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Pictures Of Thomas Matthew Crooks, The Guy Who Shot At Donald Trump by Bodydiialect57: 4:41pm On Jul 14
omowolewa:
Will gladly add this scene to his autobiography

Either the snipper was too far or Trump is using Africa Magic. How will bullet miss all parts and fall on the ear LEAF.

Ogbeni, am coming o o

Providence, divine providence.
Politics / Re: North Korea Publicly Executed 22-Year-Old Man For Watching K-Pop by Bodydiialect57: 3:29pm On Jul 01
muhammaduyusufu:


The irony of the attached picture. He bans his people from using wine glasses, but it's okay for him to use same.
.

That's the hallmark of a dictator.
Health / Re: How Cholera Almost Cost Me My Life. by Bodydiialect57: 10:51pm On Jun 28
DoctorAyukebot:


You concluded your write up with the name Dominique. I take your name is Dominique or you suspect you were infected by Dominique..Lol

I think he mentioned the moderator Dominique so he could move it to front page for more awareness about the devastating effect of cholera.

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Romance / Re: Black American Woman Abandoned In Lagos by Bodydiialect57: 9:57pm On Jun 11
[quote author=MSN1 post=130398123]
NEVER!. greater problems abound in that route.
The only option now is, to keep moving.
The ways of God is always the best, She is still breathing, [/b]all hope is intact[b]

I like that... _all hope is intact._

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Crime / Re: Unpaid Rent: Landlord Collapses, Dies During Argument With Tenant by Bodydiialect57: 9:06am On Jun 05
The earlier we all know God is the only Landlord, that we are all tenants the better for us all .
Take things easy, life no get duplicate.
TV/Movies / Re: Breath Of Life: A Review By Deji Yesufu by Bodydiialect57: 9:58pm On May 31
tuzle:
Film can't melt my heart. I just don't know why I find movies boring this days. there was a time I liked India films, but now I find them annoying. When I was younger, I still use to manage to watch Nigerian movies but now I don't even think I can even start it. Same goes for Hollywood movies, I just find them so boring this days. I think I am weird.

No, l don't think it cos you are weird.

I want to believe you have better things to do with your time.

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Family / Re: My Wife and Kids Is Been Held Hostage By My In-laws. by Bodydiialect57: 9:48pm On May 29
grin
SINisSIN:
You are worrying over nothing and unfortunately, your wife is not reasonable at all. Tell them to keep them.

Something of this happened when we newly married, my wife and our kids went to their family house for Xmas and after like 2 weeks, she still not planning when they will be returning home.

Exactly three weeks, I called her babe if by 5pm tmwr, you are not back to this house with our kids, just continue your stay in your mama house.

Mother in law called me, what is it now? Why are you threatening your wife. I said you can keep her ma.

You can guess who was at the door as early as 10am the following day.

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Family / Re: What's Your First Reality Check After Getting Married? by Bodydiialect57: 10:24pm On May 24
UnconventionalT:
Just to digress from the topic pls. Is it the place of my mum to serve my husband his food if I am not around and my mum is on a visit? Considering I have made the meal and put it in a cooler or smth.
Should my husband expect my mum to serve him?

Noo. Your husband should help himself when you aren't around to serve him. What's the big deal in him taking food from the pot himself?

I want to believe your husband is able-bodied.

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Crime / Re: Woman And Her Two Daughters Stabbed To Death In Ghana by Bodydiialect57: 9:59pm On May 24
CodeTemplar:
Hmmmm... they look African

Ghanian
Health / Re: Blood Transfusion Scandal In The UK by Bodydiialect57: 9:01pm On May 20
If God has blessed you with good health, please keep it jealously.

You don't know how wealthy you are if you are healthy, for It is a terrible thing to be at the mercy of unmerciful systems and persons.

Keep your health, it is your wealth. I pray for healing for the sick in Jesus name.

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Family / Re: Come And Eat Invitation - My traumatic experience by Bodydiialect57: 11:16pm On May 18
CheedyJ:

So what happened to taking just one & pretend the rest aren't there. U get ojukokoro jor

Lols. Not ojúkòkòrò jor.

I should have done as you said but l felt it was a dishonour to decline her offer. I didn't even like the Banana sef as l forced myself to eat it just to please her.

I learned my lesson anyway grin
Family / Re: Come And Eat Invitation - My traumatic experience by Bodydiialect57: 11:12pm On May 18
Sapasenator:


I always decline out of courtesy and if the host really want me to eat, they might pressurize or insist and then I will just take a few bites to maintain my respect. Even If you invite me to your birthday, I am coming with cooked food and bottles of wine for other guests.

I learned my lesson as l don't even eat out again.

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Family / Re: Come And Eat Invitation - My traumatic experience by Bodydiialect57: 10:50pm On May 18
This isn't funny at all as l was once in the shoes of Mr and Mrs Johnston.

I went to visit one of my mummies at her house and immediately l entered, she offered me bananas. I was already full cos l had eaten before leaving my house, but out of courtesy, l picked up the banana and one after the other, l ate them all. I thought refusing her offer would mean an insult.


l had finished devouring the bananas before realising she might actually wanted to break her fast with the banana before l got to her house. Of course she had the banana on her dining table before l got there!!

This realisation made me sick and l felt like throwing up the eaten banana.

I never visited her house again till date partly out of shame.
Family / Re: I'm I Right Not To Have Visited My Mother-in-law From Weeding Day Until Now? by Bodydiialect57: 8:41pm On May 18
Kyng1:



I'm already at peace, the only peace that I'm enjoying right now Is the fact that she no longer visit frequently as she previously does, her place isn't far from where I lives, she comes unannounced and very frequently. But ever since I refused visiting her, she equally did same and I'm happy that she no longer come to my house unannounced and extremely frequently.

II think that kind of peace won't last cos in about two month"s time, she will not only frequent your house unannounced, but she will come to stay for omugo.

The best bet is to sue for peace the best you can.

May God help you.
Family / Re: I'm I Right Not To Have Visited My Mother-in-law From Weeding Day Until Now? by Bodydiialect57: 10:08pm On May 17
You obviously walked and took decisions alone without resorting to counsels. In the multitude of counsellors, there's safety.

The die is already cast, go back to the legitimate hustle that brought the unwisely spent money and learn to be a better manager of your resources henceforth.

Call your MIL for peace to reign, cos you need that peace. Peace be unto you.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Martin Neumaier: German Politician Licking Toilet Seat & Smearing Poo by Bodydiialect57: 9:31pm On May 17
His mind has been taken over by foul spirits.

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Family / Re: My 6years Old Does Not Have Retentive Memory by Bodydiialect57: 8:27pm On May 16
RubiesBanking:
I think I have watched a movie before based on this scenario before. The kid was suffering from a condition related to dyslexia and dysgraphia . They both fall under specific learning disorder, maybe you might need to see a therapist to find out if she's suffering from this issue.

Her brain might be having difficulty decoding them, an example is not being able to tell O, P and D apart. You need to teach her in a much more slower detailed manner. if possible see a therapist to carefully evaluate the problem. You need to also go to her school to find out more about how she behaves in class, like if she has issues reading out loud from a book in front of the whole class, evaluate her test notes and exam paper to observe her writing style just to have a much more detailed overview of the issue is facing.

Also be careful with the beating, she might be trying her best to actually memorize those words. It'll instead demoralize her, making her confused as to why she's having difficulty remembering, which might not be her fault.

You are right as it may be a case of dyslexia.

@ Op, you could search for the movie " Like Stars On Earth" produced by Aamir Khan, an Indian actor.

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Family / Re: .. by Bodydiialect57: 3:36pm On May 16
Reginaoyah:
He pays all of that, yes. I am angry that he doesn't support me. I feel like I married my enemy.

Why don't you just look inward and be a better version of yourself?

You could do better by focusing on yourself, consciously letting go of complaints, and before you know it, your husband will gravitate towards you effortlessly helping you as he used to do.

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Crime / Re: My Mum Was Beaten With A Machete By A Man Owing Her Money by Bodydiialect57: 9:57pm On May 06
Beeb1e:


The thing is that he is well known in the community, the area boys won’t do much to him

He is well known? What kind of men live in such community and watch a man beat a woman to coma?

I should think there are no men in that community.

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Crime / Re: Kidnappers Sleep Off After Kidnapping Pastor’s Wife In Ondo by Bodydiialect57: 2:23pm On May 05
santaclaws:


You think it's ordinary eye? That's God's protection right there bro...

True, so true. God be praised!!

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