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Anti GEJ fellows, Tinubu and co will not see this. i look forwad to a time where we criticise constructively and commend when its obvious.

There is a huge problem with our political ideaology and social formation as a nation

Speechless

Any man that his 3rd leg do not kill is likely to live long. that is the only part of the body in a man that no matter your education. It can rubbish your degree when its uncontrolled. the thing no go school.

that man needs help.

Suppose to be flying to Delta this weekend but I no fly again. Many demons in the air now..its like they are migrating.what's really going on

DMainMan: Islam is against all dose vices. Muslims are not expected to work there.

so why does your state governments collect money from the federal purse where these companies pay tax into, build roads with it and you drive on it. dont you know its evil money according Islam.

I intend to write an article in the nearest future titled "The hypocrisy of Islam" here's why. If you travel up north they preach sharia by mouth but their actions are contrary. They ban alcohol and forbid anywhere it is sold but nobody drinks it like them.

On a larger scale, Nigeria is a secular state with companies like Nigerian breweries producing Star, Gulder etc. BAT, British American Tobacco. All these companies pay their tax to the federal purse and in turn the fed govt disburse the fund to all states. If Liquor or tobacco is banned up north in the name of sharia. why does your state governmnets collect money from the federal purse. are they claiming ignorance of the fact that Liquor and tobacco is one of the highest tax paying sectors of our economy and this money is shared to their states. Here they are again advicing a jobless fellow to ignore opportunities in the name of religion.

Fine boi no pimple...i love the fact that he has chosen the low profile life style despite having all of us as his followers. Imagine Linda owning Nairaland...He is just a cool dude.

I was keen on knowing prince of where? as his Nigerian affiliations was never mentioned

Nigerian prince 'behind massive migration scam': Royal accused of running complex web of companies in 'systematic attack' on British borders

A Nigerian prince ran a huge illegal immigration racket in the UK, a court was told yesterday.
Dr Yilkyes Bala, 54, was accused of using a complex web of security companies to mask a ‘systematic attack’ on Britain’s borders over eight years.
The African royal allegedly used dozens of refugee passports passed to him by a corrupt Home Office official to give fellow Nigerians new identities.
He then employed them and gave them references so they could ‘hit the jackpot’ and obtain a National Insurance number, giving them full rights of citizenship.
Bala even conspired with others to give his second wife and his brother false identities so they could join him at his home in South-East London, the jury heard.
He is on trial with six others – including his wife and ex-wife.
Simon Farrell QC, prosecuting, told Canterbury Crown Court the case was a ‘systematic attack against our immigration laws which took place over many years’.
‘In various ways all these defendants were involved in assisting individuals who had no right to be in the UK to live and work here,’ he added.
‘A corrupt Home Office official, since convicted of misconduct in a public office, assisted by providing hundreds of improperly issued refugee passports.’
Bala referred to himself as ‘His Royal Highness Prince Yilkyes Bala Tonglele PhD State Crown Prince’, the jury heard.
The court was told he runs the Armour Group of companies, which supplies private security guards.
It is linked to other firms including ABC Guarding Ltd, which became Mayfair and Knightsbridge Guarding Ltd in 2006.
Other defendants had senior roles, such as heads of finance and operations.

The headquarters of Armour Group, in Woolwich, south-east London, received 81 illicit refugee passports, the court heard.
After Bala was arrested, he attempted to blame the property’s receptionist for orchestrating the scam, Mr Farrell said.

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A generation is leaving....and another is emerging

Si kee obodo a, ka onye obuna nawa. Ike agwu gom. oma diri lord lugard nma.

ABOUT 11 PERSONS DIED IN THE PLANE CRASH...NOW OVER 30 NIGERIAN CITIZENS ARE DEAD IF THIS NEWS IS ANYTHING TO GO BY.

THIS MAYHEM MAY NEVER HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF NIGERIANS. INDEED, IT WONT MAKE HEADLINES. AND I ASK, IS IT BETTER TO DIE BY PLANE CRASH? COS ALL THE DEATHS ARE NIGERIAN CITIZENS. WHEN ARE GOING TO HAVE VALUE FOR LIFE REGARDLES OF WHO IS INVOLVED

Some one should tell me this is a lie.

I blame the doctor that discharged Tinubu without full recovery.

The line against Agagu is that the crash of the plane is perhaps a certain retribution for his failure to fix the aviation sector during his tenure as Minister for Aviation. Of all the silliness this generation has produced, this is the silliest. We forget that this was a man whose was as dead as dodo already and to say that retribution was in play here is to imply that somehow, the innocent lives also lost in the crash did something worthy of death.

The unfortunate news of the crash of the plane conveying the corpse of the late former governor of Ondo state was followed quickly by terrible criticism from some quarters. He was not personally known to me but like every leader in Nigeria, I have friends and associates whose lives were touched forever during his administration. I am not concerned with the politics of the situation but with the morality and ethics of it.

You see, I am a humanist and I understand that this general lack of respect for the dead will cause us more harm than good as a people. The greatest nations throughout civilisation are the ones who paid the most respect to the dead because we understand that those who are dead are not truly dead but living on in another plane. In ancient Rome, it was believed that the spirit of a dead person would roam through Hades without rest if it was not accorded a proper burial. Finding the corpse of the dead for burial was a very important step. In Greece, two coins were placed on the eyelids of the dead to keep his eyes shut in this world and also that he may use the coins to pay the toll fee and cross over into the other world. America understands the value of one life and will do anything to protect their citizens in all parts of the world – great nations respect lives.

I am bothered but not terribly upset when our leaders demonstrate scant regard for lives – they are part of a fading generation; but when someone of my generation shows disregard for the dead, I get terribly upset that this one may one day be a leader in my generation. If I were President Goodluck Jonathan, I would wear on my person at all times the names of all those killed by Boko Haram in cold blood as a reminder of the humanity of the situation because when you reduce lost human lives to statistics, we miss the point and diminish our humanity. Indeed, the number of lives lost in road accidents in the past few years is more than the numbers lost to Boko Haram but that is statistics – the tragedy of students killed in their sleep numbs one because these are clearly preventable deaths – just as road accident deaths sometimes are.

The line against Agagu is that the crash of the plane is perhaps a certain retribution for his failure to fix the aviation sector during his tenure as Minister for Aviation. Of all the silliness this generation has produced, this is the silliest. We forget that this was a man whose was as dead as dodo already and to say that retribution was in play here is to imply that somehow, the innocent lives also lost in the crash did something worthy of death. This idea of pointing fingers at the other man as the problem and thus deserving of death is a condemnation of the innocent who die. If we say Agagu’s corpse that crashed was suffering punishment, what of those hundreds of innocents who have died at the hand of insurgents in our country?

If those who are promoting this silly talk have no sense of morality, then let them confront us on the field of logic: If the Agagu plane crash equals retributive justice, what shall we say of those who never had any chance to be ministers of aviation yet perished in the numerous crashes we’ve had in the past? What evidence have we that Agagu did not do his best as Minister of Aviation? What of former aviation ministers who are yet living and will die the kind of death after a brief illness that Agagu died? Was Agagu in all the other airplanes that crashed in times past?

I remember when Bola Ige died and only his empty coffin was brought to National Stadium, Lagos for us to pay our last respects and the same empty coffin was taken to Ibadan – his Rosicrucian fellowship does not tolerate such harassment of the corpse by flying it hither and thither. I spoke with one of Uncle Deji Falae’s friend this morning and the egbon complained bitterly wondering what they were flying the corpse about for or why so many had to accompany the body – hindsight is always 20:20.

Ige would always urge us to light candles for the dead and as the wax melted, to meditate on the life of the departed and the life of those of us living, to remind ourselves that the longer we live the closer we move towards death. We all will die, it matters not how.

We thank God for those who survived as we mourn the dead. When such things happen, feel the pain of others as though it were your own rather than talk foolishly about matters we can not yet understand. De mortuis nihil nisi bonum – speaking nothing of the dead except good is a Latin maxim we would do well to heed.

For those who are criticising the dead to score cheap points: his casket made it out intact and the burial will go ahead today as scheduled by 11a.m. at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Iju-Odo. The Ajanaku of Osooroland and a true Ikale son from Okitipupa will keep the company of angels henceforth. Let those who would speak ill remember that their day shall come, as will ours. Kokumo is Agagu’s middle name, meaning ‘he doesn’t die anymore’.

We will still die.

As the virulence of the Abacha dictatorship unfolded, it became clear that Northern military-regional hegemony had run its course and had given way to heedless and malevolent personal dictatorship. Abiola was persecuted unto death but so was Shehu Yaradua; Obasanjo was publicly disrobed but Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki had also been peremptorily deposed

The deaths of General Sani Abacha and Chief Moshood Abiola in 1998 resolved a problem and gave rise to another. The figure of Abacha represented the banishment of the aspirations and agitations anchored on the 1993 Presidential elections as the basis of resolving the conflict posed by the annulment of its outcome– the election of Abiola as the President of Nigeria. Abiola embodied the opposite wisdom.

The two deaths, from different perspectives, were politically expedient for Nigeria and perhaps the international community. Both departures were convenient, too convenient, for us not to believe that there was the hand of a master manipulator at play. Abiola had been taking tea all his life including the period of his incarceration, yet it was only after Abacha’s death and the awkward inevitability of a categorical response to the annulment crisis, that tea suddenly became a poisonous brew for him. I always remember him with pride and sorrow. Pride at the nobility of the choice he made especially against the contradictory background of his epicurean lifestyle. Who would have thought that Abiola of his own freewill would choose to sacrifice all in pursuit of political virtue?   Not to talk of his Kudirat, his spouse and our heroine. Sorrow at the enfeeblement of the family estate they left behind and our culpable neglect and indifference to its prospects.

The end of this chapter-depicted in the exit of the two protagonists, gave rise to the question of how Nigeria would proceed from thereon. The genteel temperament of the successor Military head of state General Abdulsalam Abubakar and the unsustainability of the prevalent culture of military repression resulted in the prescription of appeasing the Yoruba\National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) alliance. Included in the bargain was the positive pressure of the determination of Abubakar to vacate power without delay.  With the ball thus thrown into its court, the response from the Abiola camp was awaited with apprehension by the Abubakar regime.

The intramural argument within the camp centered on whether to accept the olive branch and participate– as the much desirable suitor, in the Military disengagement political transition program or demand for the convocation of a meaningful National conference as the condition precedent.
The argument for participation was predicated on the logic that nature abhors a vacuum; that non participation would result in the ascendance of the Yoruba political faction that was ideologically different from those who fought the political struggle. This faction was derisively christened the Abacha politicians; those who for whatever excuse, pragmatic and ideological, cooperated with the late Abacha.

The advocates of the convocation of National conference as condition precedent reasoned that participation amounted to putting the cart before the horse; that the annulment crisis was itself a symptom of a deep and fundamental malaise-which needed to be addressed if history was not to repeat itself over and over again. This advocacy was accepted by the other half but they argued that the same objective could be achieved with pressure from within-especially if the anointed Yoruba candidate carries the day at the Presidential election.
They were proven wrong by the reality that followed. First the Yoruba candidate who also doubled as the candidate of National conference lost the election. The program of continuous agitation was undermined by the emergence of a President of Yoruba origin who does not share a belief in the prospects of a National conference and restructuring agenda.

For good or bad, President Olusegun Obasanjo is committed to the political status quo of quasi federalist structure. Much has been made of the proposition that this attitude is a reflection of the notion that the Military is a bastion of Nigerian nationalism. This portrayal is more of myth than reality. On the contrary, the tendency towards ethno regional disintegration was fostered by the Military and no other substantiation is needed than the coup and counter coup of 1966.

The fact that there was no presence or participation of officers from the Northern region in the first coup is evidence enough that it was a sectional intervention. The dialectics of this sectionalism rapidly progressed with the counter coup of July the same year. The interpretation and practical manifestation of the success of the counter coup was that the control of the Military institution in Nigeria resides ad infinitum in the custody of the Northern military-political establishment. It is this establishment that has been the guarantor and purveyor of the notion of Nigerian nationalism as synonymous with the acceptance of the status quo that emerged at the end of the civil war. This status quo was considerably legitimized by the collaboration of the South West in the civil war effort of the Federal government and personified by the active allegiance of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

The Nigeria that emerged from the civil war was at variance with Awolowo’s postulation of decentralized federalism but this antithesis could be rationalized as a fall out of the unitary command structure of Military rule. He probably was optimistic that this would be addressed in a comprehensive package of a transition to civil democratic rule transition program on which he could bring to bear the force of his personality. It is equally true that a broad spectrum of Nigerian intellectuals were actually at the vanguard of the propagation of a nationalist ideology that was rooted in the radical anti-imperialist worldview of Third World intellectuals. The strategic break-up of the regions-Eastern, Western and Northern regions, was given theoretical boost by America based Nigerian intellectuals who argued that the regions had become rival competitors to the center for the allegiance and loyalty of citizens; and that this tension was in part responsible for secessionist tendencies hence they should be broken up as a remedy and in anticipation of a recurrence.

This apparent convergence between the intellectual class and the Military institution got its most conspicuous manifestation in the Murtala-Obasanjo Military government. Beneath the surface of this seemingly autonomous nationalism however were some unpalatable contradictions. In Military and governance rank, Obasanjo was next in rank to General Murtala Mohammed yet we have been repeatedly told by the main actor himself that he- Theophilus Danjuma was the one who imposed Obasanjo as successor against the norm of a ‘Northern’ replacement. In the same breadth it should be recalled that it was in deference to this reality that Lieutenant Colonel Shehu Yar’adua was doubly promoted over his seniors to become the deputy to Obasanjo.

Awolowo may, arguably, be regarded as the most accomplished public office holder in the history of Nigeria but he was not a pragmatist and realist. After taking due cognizance of his political flight of fancy in choosing a running mate from the South East in the Presidential election of 1979, how did he convince himself that a successor President would emerge without the ultimate veto of the Military political establishment in power?

Let me be clear, am proposing the thesis that all Nigerian governments from 1966 to 2003 were proxies of the victorious Northern political/Military establishment that emerged from the counter coup of 1966. By itself, this hegemony, for me, is not the problem. After all it would not have endured without the tacit and happy collaboration of other periphery Nigerians, who thrived under its expansive and protective custody. The truth also is that it has the potential to stabilize and set Nigeria on the part of gradual evolutionary development. The problem really is the self-destructive mismanagement of this mandate. The first gross misconduct was the ill-advised and megalomaniac annulment of the 1993 Presidential election. And in a manner of speaking this was the beginning of the end of the hegemony as it acquired a downward spiral momentum.

How would the Presidency of Abiola have constituted a threat to the ruling oligarchy? I mean the pre 1993 Abiola-who was a known proxy of Islam, the military in general and President Ibrahim Babangida in particular. The annulment was the first surface manifestation of the decay within and the cancerous tumor only metastasized with the advent of Abacha.

As the virulence of the Abacha dictatorship unfolded, it became clear that Northern military-regional hegemony had run its course and had given way to heedless and malevolent personal dictatorship. Abiola was persecuted unto death but so was Shehu Yaradua; Obasanjo was publicly disrobed but Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki had also been peremptorily deposed. And for the first time in the history of the Nigerian military, Army Generals started genuflecting and prostrating before Majors.

Howsoever it came to be, the contrivance of the successive demise of Abacha and Abiola in 1998 was a face saving grace.  And with the return of Obasanjo in 1999 it appears as if the respite from the self-inflicted crisis was being well managed. And then in a fit of childish petulance, Obasanjo started being defined as an enemy of the North. And then Sharia! The immediate effect of this definition was that Obasanjo’s estranged ethnic kit and kin started taking a second look at him. But we thought he was their stooge? They wondered. It may suit media sensational disposition otherwise but this was the beginning of the success recorded by the Peoples Democratic People, PDP, in the 2003 general elections.

How did the hegemony ushered in by the likes of Theophilus Danjuma and Jeremiah Useni in 1966 degenerate to a situation where a former Military head of state of Northern origin started campaigning that Muslims should vote for Muslims? And the last time I read a statement from General Domkat Bali the identification of his trench enemies had come a complete circle from Biafra to his erstwhile Northern comrades on the civil war battlefield. And now we contend with the disintegrative threat of the criminal offspring of the Sharia casus belli–Boko Haram

Next to the outcome of the civil war, the other development that had come to shape Nigerian nationalism is nothing less crude than crude oil-the oracle at whose altar we presently worship.
It is the glue that presently binds Nigeria together and by the same token holds the potential to unravel the country. Asari Dokubo has been threatening fire and brimstone should power take leave of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 and he has a sparring partner in Professor Ango Abdullahi but between a loud mouth of doubtful education and a former University Vice Chancellor, at whom should I be more disappointed?

The strategic error that was made with Abiola is about to be repeated with the incumbent President. Hateful and intolerable as he and the prevailing dispensation may appear to some Nigerians, there is little doubt that the fragile unity we have will ultimately be decided on how well the question of his exit from the Aso villa is managed. Hypocritical societies like ours endure on how adept we prove in enacting elite conspiracy and consensus not on relentless fratricidal naked dance at the market square. Or maybe it is the case that we can no longer postpone the evil day.

 

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I saw this on the facebook wall of a radio presenter in Ondo state. I have not substantiated the analogy:
Do you Know that in ONDO-STATE Incumbent Governors always Bury their Predecessors? Former Governor Onyearugbulem Buried Ajasin, Former Governor Adefarati Buried Onyearugbulem and Former Governor Agagu Buried Adefarati, Incumbent Governor Mimiko Is Burying Agagu... Hmmmm your guess is good as mine ooo!

Ms Ankio Briggs, a renowned Niger Delta rights activist and one of the leaders of the National Summit Group, says Nigerians have nothing to celebrate 53 years after independence and that the 1914 amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorates to create Nigeria was a mistake by Lord Lugard.

Excerpts:

How do you view Nigeria at 53?

I’m yet to see what we are celebrating. If we are celebrating the fact that we have had independence for 53 years and lived together for a 100 years then, 100 is just a figure. When you are celebrating, you have to show what you have achieved. And the question I’m asking is what have we achieved?

Unity? We are not united in this country. Developmentally, what have we achieved? I mean in things like roads and what have you? These are the things that should matter as we are progressing. We shouldn’t now be building roads at 100.

We should be improving on what we have built may be at 30, 40, 50, 60, not starting the development of Nigeria after a 100 years of being together.

So, for me, those are the things I use as yardstick to measure Nigeria. Like other countries are sending satellite into the space, Nigeria sent a satellite and lost it.

So, we should ask ourselves if Nigeria is not too big a country to be governed the way in which we are being governed today. Should we not have states being responsible for themselves? This is why national conference is necessary.

We have been like this for 100 years, aside the fact that we have been together and this is what everybody tells us as if it’s such a big deal to be together.

America is still together and look at what they have achieved, likewise other countries. Other countries like the Soviet Union, Sudan, have broken up.

For Nigeria, I think by age alone, we are matured enough to ask ourselves some questions and answer them in a truthful manner. We are just deceiving ourselves.

People have said the coming together of different parts of the country is a mistake, do you agree?

I totally agree, but we can’t take responsibility for that, I might say, because it’s not Nigerians that created Nigeria.

It’s Lord Lugard who created Nigeria that brought us together and called us one people. But it’s very clear today that that’s not so. The North is the North and the South is the South.

These regions are made up of so many people with different cultures, religions, foods and different ways of looking at things.

And when you bring them together to say they should look at things the same way, you are telling them to look at Nigeria in only one way.

But one day, some of this people will wake up and say, look, things are not working for us this way.

The people it works for will resist other people who don’t want the process to remain like that. So, this is the problem Nigeria is having and anybody that doesn’t see it like that is not telling himself the truth.

Do we have any basis for Nigeria’s unity?

We have basis in the sense that it’s our choice. It should be our choice and it will be our choice, because that’s why we have these discussions going on now. I believe Nigeria can be a great country and that Nigerians can live together.

Look at the circumstances we are in and we are still able to manage it and to drag it along. But we shouldn’t be managing. We should have some rules and regulations that we all accept.

We should agree on how and when we are going to do it and once we agree, it will be much easier. The problem we are having is that we didn’t agree. And we have not found the basis on which we are agreeing. We must find that basis. It’s possible to live together. But the question is how? What are the terms and conditions?

Nobody is saying we shouldn’t live together. We are saying how? Who brings what? Who owns what? Who controls what? How much should I bring? How much should you bring? How much

What if we keep everything and pay something to the centre? These are the things we need to look at together. We can live together, but how?

Now, how do you think we can live together in peace and harmony in Nigeria?

Well, it won’t be for one person alone. I can only speak for my people. Like for instance, I come from Rivers State, which is in Niger Delta region.

For instance, most of what we are using to develop the country today is coming from my region, from my state.

Now, all I’m saying is that that should not be so. It has made every other state which does not have oil not to bring anything to the table.

So, what I’m saying is that we should have ownership of our resources and pay tax to the Federal Government. That way, everybody will be responsible for themselves.

And then, we from the Niger Delta will not feel that the weight of developing Nigeria is on our back and that we as a people are not gaining anything from it.

What percentage of tax do you think the regions should pay to the centre?

Taxes are usually 5 per cent, 2 per cent, 40 per cent and whatever. It’s something we must all agree upon. I mean, it’s not something that I will say, it should be like this.

What percentage do you suggest?

Well, I think 10 per cent.

-VANGUARD

Immediately i saw the president giving certificates to the winners of the privatised power sector. I knew that the days of black out in Nigeria will soon be over. When Obasanjo handed over certificates to Telcom giants in year 2000. Many doubted him and lashed him on the media. the same mouths that spoke evil about that move now speak good of him. so shall be the case of GEJ in power sector. He will surprise his enemies who are buried in sentiments and ethnic bigottery. He will proove them wrong by end of 2014 with regards to power. We require PATIENCE with GUDLUCK on our land to get there. what a combo. Haters, over to you

Talk is very cheap and it really sounds easy when you are an observer.

We are simply to proud in this country. thats part of problems. trying so hard to be who we are not. Go to UK and U.S. at least the two countries i am familiar with and see how much people step into banks to withdraw.

why should i be shy to step into bank to withdraw my own money. owe bank 5kobo and see what becomes of you

What we have seen from Boko boys in the last 2 years will be child's play when the election is approaching. We have many desperate politicians who will gladly fund them that time. SNC is the way forward. We must not seperate after SNC.

However, i'd like to state that its only a cult that you voluntarily enter and leaving becomes a problem. If Naija is not a cult why are people scared of leaving the entity called one Nigeria by mouth. We are not the first. Honestly i am sick of the Innocent bloodshed going on in this country. Over 400 lives in the last 3 weeks.Thats outrageous...that's human life for heaven's sake not ram

The early years of Nigeria account from Jerry Boy. When are we hearing from T.Y and co. they need to tell us the truth before they all die...It will shape this country in the nearest future.

Online Indecency is the most pernicious threat facing children today. We have to tell our kids that pornographic sex is fake and real sex is about love in marriage not lust.By talking to our kids they stand a chance.If we stick our head in the sand over what is going on in the internet.we only fool ourselves.‪ I was with someone over the weekend who allows his 12 year old daughter go to bed with his Ipad cheerfully. When I commented about this and asked Him if he was ok with it. He replied "YES, Its fine. I trust Her" what he doesn't seem to comprehend is that the daughter maybe addicted to a lot.He further said, lately my daughter can't seem to sleep without my Ipad.I just give her to have my peace. I smiled. It appears he is showing love to the daughter.Yes, He trusts his daughter. But it matters not that he trusts her.Its the millions of strangers on the internet(who have all sorts of agendas)that he can't trust with His CHILD.wise parents know that no child should ever be permitted a mobile phone with internet access or unsupervised internet access on computers.Parents buy very expensive phones to show other kids in school that they are wealthy.That phone,Tablet or Ipad may have been bought out of love for the child or to show class but it has every tendency embedded in it to destroy the child if unchecked.

For these gadgets I've also discovered that just censorship, hiding, banning and screaming at them won't suffice.Parents must take responsibility for their children. Sex is out there on the internet and very viral.

The internet, The school peers and digital media are competing with you over the destiny of your child. For each time you are not doing your duty as a parent one of the above stated is doing it for you. You have no control of what the outcome becomes. If Indecency has the insidious power to be addictive.Then, letting our children consume it freely via the internet is like leaving heroin lying arround the house.Studies have shown that the brain of children is not wired to say stop to any thing until they are 20 years. They are wired to want more of anything they come to like. intimate explicit sites are all over the internet.If you are not looking for them they are looking for you.They pop up at you, urging you to click at it. Failure of parents to give their children sex education will make them resort to the internet or friends for answers. And trust me google has answers for every question on earth. The reliability of the answers google or any other search engine provides is another thing altogether.Your guess is as good as mine the kind of answers the internet or digital media provides as intimate answers to our kids. There are many obscenities in this generation and what parents do is verbally condemn but tacitly allow in the name of love.

What my generation faced while in school can not hold a candle to what the present generation are facing and will face with the advent of internet in mobile phones and its accessibility by all. Dormitory schools were fun to be in as it shaped the total man and contributed in shaping us to who we are today.

Today gayism, lesbianism, alcohol, drugs, child pregnancy are prevalent in teenagers. It is no longer advisable for parents to leave the raising of their kids to the hands of another or allow their kids stay too far from home in the name of better education. child molestation and molestation is on the rise. No thanks to the internet exposure and the quest to practice what is seen. Children visit sexually explicit sites deliberately or accidentally that's the reality before us.

One of the biggest tasks of adolescent children of all societies is to come to grips with their burgeoning sexuality. Our contemporary culture is alarmingly sexualised.

The key to militating against this damaging patterns and to protecting your children against the effect of Indecency is to foster relationships of affection and attachment in the family.The father and the mother must remain the ultimate role model to their child.

I'd like to end by stating that limiting, monitoring and directing the internet use of children is every good parents' responsibility.This in turn provides a valuable shield against the evil exposures on the internet and digital media. We live in a sexualised culture. By this I mean, sex has been commoditized and demeaned. Almost everything is suggestive of sex down to adverts and cartoons on TV.Children need the capacity for abstinence in trying times. And who else should be there for them if not you. A Strong loving and united family remains the best defense against the negative and anti-social events confronting the children of this generation. Parents I hope your present decisions of pampering your children will not make you cry tomorrow.Unrestricted Internet access for your kids is just like giving your kids keys to local sex shop.Indecency has gone viral on the internet and kids are the most vulnerable.You must keep talking to your kids. Our present and future families must rise to the challenge of this insidious enemy of love, affection and of family and social stability.Even as parents we all have addictions, either good or bad. Find out that of your children and direct them so you don't cry when its too late.

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Online porn is the most pernicious threat facing children today. We have to tell our kids that pornographic sex is fake and real sex is about love in marriage not lust.By talking to our kids they stand a chance.If we stick our head in the sand over what is going on in the internet.we only fool ourselves.‪ I was with someone over the weekend who allows his 12 year old daughter go to bed with his Ipad cheerfully. When I commented about this and asked Him if he was ok with it. He replied "YES, Its fine. I trust Her" what he doesn't seem to comprehend is that the daughter maybe addicted to a lot.He further said, lately my daughter can't seem to sleep without my Ipad.I just give her to have my peace. I smiled. It appears he is showing love to the daughter.Yes, He trusts his daughter. But it matters not that he trusts her.Its the millions of strangers on the internet(who have all sorts of agendas)that he can't trust with His CHILD.wise parents know that no child should ever be permitted a mobile phone with internet access or unsupervised internet access on computers.Parents buy very expensive phones to show other kids in school that they are wealthy.That phone,Tablet or Ipad may have been bought out of love for the child or to show class but it has every tendency embedded in it to destroy the child if unchecked.

For these gadgets I've also discovered that just censorship, hiding, banning and screaming at them won't suffice.Parents must take responsibility for their children. Sex is out there on the internet and very viral.

The internet, The school peers and digital media are competing with you over the destiny of your child. For each time you are not doing your duty as a parent one of the above stated is doing it for you. You have no control of what the outcome becomes. If Porn has the insidious power to be addictive.Then, letting our children consume it freely via the internet is like leaving heroin lying arround the house.Studies have shown that the brain of children is not wired to say stop to any thing until they are 20 years. They are wired to want more of anything they come to like. Sexual explicit sites are all over the internet.If you are not looking for them they are looking for you.They pop up at you, urging you to click at it. Failure of parents to give their children sex education will make them resort to the internet or friends for answers. And trust me google has answers for every question on earth. The reliability of the answers google or any other search engine provides is another thing altogether.Your guess is as good as mine the kind of answers the internet or digital media provides as sexual answers to our kids. There are many obscenities in this generation and what parents do is verbally condemn but tacitly allow in the name of love.

What my generation faced while in school can not hold a candle to what the present generation are facing and will face with the advent of internet in mobile phones and its accessibility by all. Dormitory schools were fun to be in as it shaped the total man and contributed in shaping us to who we are today.

Today gayism, lesbianism, alcohol, drugs, child pregnancy are prevalent in teenagers. It is no longer advisable for parents to leave the raising of their kids to the hands of another or allow their kids stay too far from home in the name of better education. child rape and molestation is on the rise. No thanks to the internet exposure and the quest to practice what is seen. Children visit sexually explicit sites deliberately or accidentally that's the reality before us.

One of the biggest tasks of adolescent children of all societies is to come to grips with their burgeoning sexuality. Our contemporary culture is alarmingly sexualised.

The key to militating against this damaging patterns and to protecting your children against the effect of pornography is to foster relationships of affection and attachment in the family.The father and the mother must remain the ultimate role model to their child.

I'd like to end by stating that limiting, monitoring and directing the internet use of children is every good parents' responsibility.This in turn provides a valuable shield against the evil exposures on the internet and digital media. We live in a sexualised culture. By this I mean, sex has been commoditized and demeaned. Almost everything is suggestive of sex down to adverts and cartoons on TV.Children need the capacity for abstinence in trying times. And who else should be there for them if not you. A Strong loving and united family remains the best defense against the negative and anti-social events confronting the children of this generation. Parents I hope your present decisions of pampering your children will not make you cry tomorrow.Unrestricted Internet access for your kids is just like giving your kids keys to local sex shop.Pornography has gone viral on the internet and kids are the most vulnerable.You must keep talking to your kids. Our present and future families must rise to the challenge of this insidious enemy of love, affection and of family and social stability.Even as parents we all have addictions, either good or bad. Find out that of your children and direct them so you don't cry when its too late.

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And their ex- governor Sanni Yerima is busy marrying children..its a pity that you cannot pity a people in a pity

I got a call from a friend who went shopping just now that Abuja shoprite is shutdown for bomb threat. The place is being combed

It appears Kenyan attack hasd become an inspiration to Bokoharam as i noticed that most shopping malls beafed up security.

can anyone there please substantiate this.

The middle belt of this country has never thasted power at the very top also the Igbos and now the north is clamouring that power MUST return to them. The word return means it originally belongs there. One Nigeria is a facade and the earlier all federating units gather to discuss our fate the better.

what do you make of this press statement.

Arewa Youths Disown Al-Mustapha, Dokubo Group



The planned one million man march by the United Nigeria Group headed by former chief security officer(CSO) to late head of state, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Asari Dokubo has suffered a setback as the Arewa Citizens Action for Change (ACAC) and the Arewa Youth Development Foundation (AYDF) denied signing the group’s Memorandum of Understanding(MoU).

It would be recalled that last week, the Al-Mustapha group issued an advertorial in which it claimed that representatives of the ACAC and AYDF attended its meeting in the South-East and were signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding issued thereafter.

But in a swift reaction, ACAC and AYDF said their representatives were never signatories to the MoU or party to any resolution reached at the meeting.

A press statement issued by Mallam Sani Darma and Barrister Aliyu, chairmen of AYDF and ACAC respectively, said they did not sign any MoU either for themselves or for their respective groups.

The two leaders said they were actually invited to the South-East meetings but that their people only attended in their personal capacities and not representing their groups.

They said as champions of the cause of the northern region, the ACAC and AYDF do not share the ideology represented by the Al- Mustapha and Dakubo’s group.

“Our groups are solely concerned with the affairs of the northern region; that is what we stand for and that is what we are known for.

We have never and shall never compromise this cause for whatever reason, we do not share same ideology with Al- Mustapha or Dakubo where such ideology conflicts with the interest of the northern region,” Darma said.

He explained that the ACAC is currently engaged in cementing peace in the region with an ongoing conflict management workshop for youth in all the 19 states of the North.




Lets stop living in denial in this country. The earlier we sit down to ask ourselves how far, the better for all of us. I am in support of SNC