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PrideofLincoln1:
The whole of Anambra is under siege thanks to ....

Jameskyrian:
*#AnambraElection : more situations report from Anambra state*

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https://jkcyno.com/anambraelection-situation-reports-from-anambra-as-people-stay-indoors-video

WispyEthereal:
oh he's a maga-q? No wonder!
That puts things into perspective

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them.

Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details—from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet—this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

Sometimes when writing reviews, the reviewer ends with who ought to read the book in question. In this case, I am going to start with it. Who should read this book? The answer is everyone who will ever make decisions about city planning, or housing. Actually, it would probably be easier to recommend it to anyone involved in politics, local or national.

Dirty Old London - The Victorian Fight Against Filth is a history and a monument to all the people who agitated, bickered, invented, planned, obstructed and constructed in London from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The book is divided into chapters regarding which type of filth and nuisance it is dealing with, which gives us separate chapters on subjects like sewage, soot, wretched housing and household refuse. This may seem arbitrary to more important subjects in society, but I think upon reading this book, everyone can agree that one of the foundations of society is that the filth and dirt humans produce (and we produce a lot) are dealt with in an organised fashion. If not, well, the evidence of what that does to our health and very lives is there in history. A lot of that, too, is dealt with in the appropriate chapters, and we gain quite a lot of insight into how the Victorians of the 19th century slowly began to link poor sanitation to poor health and increased mortality. What is more, the book also provides a unique insight into how the politics of the time, both on the national and various local levels, interaction to help, and often hinder, the development of modern sanitation.

The greatest testament to the ingenuity, creativity and belief in progress of Victorian London is perhaps Joseph Bazalgette's great sewer network, built in the late 1850s and early 1860s. In fact, these sewers remain still standing and serving London in this day and age. While some may laugh at this as there are far more interesting and much prettier works of architecture and construction, Bazalgette's and the Metropolitan Board of Works' sewers were both monumental for its time and have stood the test of time better than almost anything else constructed, with the proof in the pudding: they are still used to this day and age, over 150 years later, in the same fashion.
Perhaps surprisingly, this book on filth and the efforts to clean it up is one of the most convincing political statements I have ever read. It is almost completely free of ideology, apart from perhaps some small bits where the writer seems impressed by George Bernard Shaw, which seems to be a completely natural and sensible stance to take in me eyes; no, instead it is the documentation of the political bickering and back-and-forth that speak louder than anything else. The political responsibilities when it came to city planning and oversight were largely left to local vestries and paving boards; local government dealing with their own areas which parliament rarely meddled in. As London grew, the filth accumulated, cesspools overflowed, soot filled the air, yet the local authorities were more concerned with their own income and power and refused to relinquish anything to central authority. Coupled with laissez faire capitalism, this created a huge inertia which took decades to overcome, and in the meantime, London got dirtier, filthier and more unhealthy to live in. If anything could convince those promoters of the great qualities of local government to drop those huge axes they are grinding and support stronger centralised government, this should be it. Here, it is at times an actual matter of life and death that strong, collective action is taken, yet the different local government are as always dependant on their citizens and their purchasing power, making the rich more comfortable and the poor not only condemned to a life in discomfort, but one where the very environment they live in threaten their lives.

Of specific interest to today's decision makers should be the chapter on Wretched housing, which deals with how housing for the less fortunate looked before the advent of social housing. As we are again, in today's world, back to a society in which social housing built at a loss to the state is an ugly and shameful thing (and even potentially illegal), it is worth looking back at history and how people lived in society where capitalism dictated the rules of the day. And it ain't pretty.

To conclude, this is a very interesting book on an often forgotten subject: filth, and its accumulation. While the difficulties our sanitation-minded ancestors faced in their fight against filth were many and varied, one cannot help but admire their fortitude, ingenuity and thoroughness. Without some of these people, London and other parts of the UK would be very different places today. If nothing else, they helped save numerous lives which would otherwise have been lost to diseases such as cholera and typhus.

If you would excuse me, I am now going to scrub my kitchen with lime and then fumigate my house to get rid of the build-up of miasma

WispyEthereal:
DissTressed : "Did you know that one of the themes of Critical Race Theory is that it opposes Merit principle or Meritocracy?"
False! Another Lie!

True-:-It challenges the notion of liberalism and meritocracy as colorblind or “value-neutral” within society while exposing racism as a main thread in the fabric of the American foundation.

In other words, it argues that in other words, those with power who have institutional structures that advance them to wealth and power relatively unopposed can afford to preach liberalism and meritocracy as a gospel because for them experientially it is factual and true and this doesn't take into consideration the alternate fact that for many others especially minorities this experience doesn't hold true.
https://spacrs./what-is-critical-race-theory/#_ftn7

So by omission these clowns lie, they pick certain arguments, rephrase it, spin it then run with it just to agend their agenda, very shameless set of people, the reason I am yet to involve with them yet fully on CRT is because from what I have read they don't care whether they approach the topic from an academic or from a political standpoint, politics is subjective, academics by and large much less so.

DissTroy:
Did you know one of the themes of Critical Race Theory is that it opposes Merit Principle or Meritocracy?

“It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit,” Young wrote. “It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others.” The goal is not to eradicate hierarchy and to turn every mountain into a salt flat; we live in a plenitude of incommensurable hierarchies, and the circulation of social esteem will always benefit the better novelist, the more important mathematician, the savvier businessman, the faster runner, the more effective social entrepreneur. We cannot fully control the distribution of economic, social and human capital, or eradicate the intricate patterns that emerge from these overlaid grids. But class identities do not have to internalise those injuries of class. It remains an urgent collective endeavour to revise the ways we think about human worth in the service of moral equality.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/19/the-myth-of-meritocracy-who-really-gets-what-they-deserve

DissTroy:
Did you know one of the themes of Critical Race Theory is that it opposes Merit Principle or Meritocracy? CRT proposes that merit shouldn't be the yardstick for anything. In other words, hand things down to them.

If 100 Asians or whites score highest in an extrace exam of 100 entry slots, you have to deny some of them so some blacks who didn't match up can get entry. For political correctness. And this is done even today. Asians score highest in STEM exams but have to be denied some slots for "equality".

That is fair according to CRT. And Budaatum.

Budaatomic-sized brain supports the CRT regardless.

A meritocratic education and society can lead to issues. The rich and powerful are encouraged by the general culture and become arrogant. "The eminent know that success is a just reward for their own capacity, their own efforts", whereas the poor are demoralised. The latter "are tested again and again (…) If they have been labelled 'dunce' repeatedly they cannot any longer pretend; their image of themselves is more nearly a true, unflattering reflection."

Education is not only a way to get productive people. It could enrich them too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy?wprov=sfla1

DissTroy:
Here I was educating you in July when you were lying. I educated you that CRT views everything from a prism of race; that it blames race relations and racism for the woes of the African American and it doesn't for once blame the poor choices of blacks.

Crystyano:
Check your mailbox again

StechiteGistTV:
Justice Kanyson Lawanson of the High Court slammed the death sentence on the military officer on Thursday, after he was tried and found guilty.

It has been reported that a Nigerian Army officer convicted for armed robbery was on Thursday sentenced to death, either by hanging or by lethal injection in Adamawa State, Stechitegist.com reports.

The military officer, Dompa Hyellablani, with Force number 13NA/70/6142, private, who served at 351 Artillery in Monguno, Borno State, was convicted on two counts bordering on criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.

SaharaReporters gathered that the convict was enlisted into the Nigerian Army in 2013, and served in Plateau State before he was transferred to Borno State and posted to Monguno where he served until 2019.

Justice Kanyson Lawanson of the High Court slammed the death sentence on the military officer on Thursday, after he was tried and found guilty.

The judge, however, discharged and acquitted 19-year-old Emmanuel Adeka'a, who was arraigned alongside the military officer and joined as a defendant on the same count.

According to the prosecution, Hyellablani and Adeka'a had on September 9, 2019, while in front of VIS Restaurant, Yola, in the Yola North local government area, robbed Rita Harrison, a staff member of Post Primary Schools Management Board of her vehicle.

Hyellablani, an indigene of Adamawa State was said to have used an assault rifle to forcibly dispossess Harrison of her car (Toyota Camry LE) with registration number: BL 85 LSD - Lagos.

In his statement tendered and admitted in evidence, Hyellablani told the court that while in Monguno in 2019, the military decided to collect all arms from them, but that he refused to hand over his own due to threats posed by Boko Haram terrorists.

"I kept the rifle for self-defence," he added.

A few days later, he was granted a pass to travel to his home state of Adamawa where he committed the crime on September 9, 2019.

"He was fully dressed in military uniform and armed with a rifle when he saw Harrison in her car in front of the restaurant where he ordered her to give up her car at gunpoint," the prosecution submitted.

Thereafter, he was said to have fired four shots to scare away those who might want to rescue the woman.

He also threatened to shoot his friend who was also trying to escape for his life and ordered him to drive the stolen car to his hotel apartment around 11:30 pm.

However, they were intercepted by a team of local vigilantes while on their way to the hotel and handed over to the police.

While pronouncing the death sentence on him, Justice Kanyson declared that the prosecution had proved its case against the defendant as charged, and sentenced him to death by hanging or by lethal injection.

READ FULL ARTICLES
https://stechite.gist.com/court-convicts-nigerian-army-officer-to-death-in-adamawa-you-wont-bemmlieve-why/

DissTroy:
You claimed I edited the CRT article on Wikipedia before posting to fit my narrative and I proved the article has been locked for months and years.!

chumaZ:
Lol, they're many children who grew up without breastfeeding and they are doing amazingly well

saintade01:
Wole Soyinka on PDP Defections

IF APC is not the answer to our Problems, there is no reason going back to the instigators of the problem.
I'm not a politician but I would do everything not to have PDP in Government in Nigeria.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a nation is for her citizens to suffer collective amnesia. I believe PDP believes Nigerians have short memories, if not, Ibori would not have been included in their convention committee and Jonathan would not have been allowed to talk (He ended up indicting himself as usual anyway).

OPINION
For those who may have forgotten, kindly joggle your memories with the following words on marble and you will agree with me that what happened in Eagle square on saturday was nothing but gathering of rogues.
Happy reading:

1. I acted based on Jonathan's instruction - Dasuki

2. I didn't give order - Jonathan

3. I collected 350M from Dasuki for consultation - Iyorchia Ayu

4. I only collected $30,000 from Dasuki not N100m - Bode George

5. I got N4.6b from Dasuki for spiritual purposes - Bafarawa

6. I got N650M from Dasuki for my Abuja burnt office - Thisday Obaigbena.

7. I got N2.1b from Dasuki for publicity - Dokpesi

8. I got another N100m from Yuguda he didn't tell me from where - Bafarawa.

9. I gave N100m each to Odili, Jim Nwobodo Bode George and others - Yuguda

10. The president asked me to change N10B to foreign currency for PDP delegates - Dasuki

11. My boss asked me to get $11M from the CBN - Dasuki's account officer.

12. I got order from above to pay Tompolo N13B for Maritime university land. - Nimasa DG.

13. 950m was shared in my house -- Shekarau

With all this looting and many more revealed, some people are still shouting no sign of change yet, they even say it's political persecution.

*There must be consequences for such crimes otherwise Nigeria will not develop.*

WHERE ARE THE #WAILERS?
"Over 20 billion dollars unremitted to the Federation account, and if nothing is done by 2015 upward, Nigeria will know what economic crisis is"
*~ Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi*

"Whoever wins 2015 will NEVER find it easy to govern. Over 30 trillion is mismanaged, unaccounted for or missing under Jonathan."
*~ Prof Charles Soludo*

"Our reserve is depleted and our savings are squandered. Our nation is in trouble."
*~ Dr Oby Ezekwesili.*

"For seven months, NNPC did not remit any money into federation account. When I called as a sitting governor and major oil producing state, Deziani Alison Madueke refused to pick my calls."
*~ Godswill Akpabio*

"I told them to save ahead of eventualities but Jonathan had no political will to do so and this is the reason why we are in crisis, because we squandered our boom."
*~ Okonjo Iweala*

"Okonjo-Iweala, Sanusi urged us to save but we state Governors refused to save for the unseen future during the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan, despite warning from economic experts."
*~ Peter Obi*

"Jonathan is a blessed ATM machine that doesn't have secret pin number"
*~ Bala Mohammed*

* Tompolo was paid 13Billion.!
* Ex-CDS,Alex Badeh dug a pit toilet to hide $32m.
* Patience Jonathan is claiming $31m, she has sued the Nigerian state.
* Femi Fani-Kayode took 740M.
* Dasuki used trucks to load over $35B from the CBN.
* Olisa Metuh took 400M.
* Aziboala, GEJ's cousin took 6B naira.
* Nenadi Usman took 3.5B naira.
* Fayose took 3B naira.
* Obanikoro took 4Billion naira.
* Olu Falae took 100M naira.
* Tony Anenih - 400M naira.
* Oritsejafor - $35M
* Former Air Chief Amosu - 2Billion naira.
* Lucky Igbinedion-16B naira.
*Bode-George and Dabo -100B naira
* Jolly Nyame-2.4B naira.
* Joshua Dariye-700M naira.
*Nyesom Wike stole #4b.
* Diezzani with $20 billion missing oil money?

15 billon dollars missing from arms fund, 10 billion naria, converted to dollars and given as gift to delegates of PDP Nation convention, Bafarawa collected 3 billion for spiritual purposes , 12. 7 billon naria for deceased NEPA staff grew wings and disappeared, 20 billion dollars missing from NNPC accounts, 23 billon naira as bribe to INEC staffs to rig the general election.

The list is endless. They only left what they can't carry or unable to lay their hands on.

The list continues.....
Recession didn't just happen, people looted Nigeria into RECESSION happening now

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has debunked comments attributed to him on recent defections from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Prof Soyinka in a terse statement signed by his spokesman, Abiola Owoaje, reacting to the comments attributed to him, urged Nigerians to disregard such and treat it as another case of identity theft.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/i-made-no-comment-on-pdp-defections-soyinka/

DissTroy:
You knew most people here wouldn't try to verify your claims and that lie would have been repeated. Exactly like bloggers using sensational headlines.

WispyEthereal:
deflecting and reframing is what they do? Anything to fit the agenda so agenda can agend! Shameful a grown man like him can be so petty he boasts of a stupid specialty in winning arguments after resulting to insults, funniest part is his claim to Einsteinian IQ!

DissTroy:
We were debating then you disappeared for almost 2 hours without quoting me, only to return to claim I edited the CRT article to suit my agenda even though it has been locked for months and years.

DissTroy:
The whole article can't be edited. You liar! You claimed I edited the CRT Wikipedia article to fit my narrative which is your way of saying I first edit Wikipedia articles before posting them her to fit my narrative. Like you lied earlier to Sanpipita, you knew what you were doing.

DissTroy:
Budaatum, predictably, you played blind to this after 20 minutes of it being posted. Third time today I have called you out for bareface lying and trying to blackmail with no proof.

You are shameless! Really, you are.

DissTroy:
They always run.

DissTroy:
Critical Race Theory article on Wikipedia can't be edited because it is locked. And it reportedly been locked for many years. So how could I or anyone on this thread have edited it?

DissTroy:
But CRT wants you to believe whites are responsible for black people dying and getting shot. They want you to believe cops are gunning down black men daily in hundreds.

DissTroy:
But it baffles you when people of your own race question these things. The racist claim holds no weight.

DissTroy:
How flawed the premise of CRT is and how victimhood would always draw blacks back.

WispyEthereal:
he does, but he is playing to the conservative gallery here of which he is apparently the star. I refuse to believe he could be that ignorant