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Ibrahimlagosian:
Male hausa names
Ibrahim
Usman
Abubakar
Muhammad
Sadiq

Female hausa names
Hauwa
Fatima
Aisha
Sadiya
Up north arewa

The irony is none of these names are Hausa names. They are Islamic names just like James or john are Christian names. I was reading an article sometime ago where it was said that indigenous Hausa names have almost disappeared.

Fhemmmy:
Femi - love me
OlaJide - Wealth awakened
Kunle - Wealth boku
Bayo -
Figure out the tribe.

“Kunle” on its own has nothing to do with wealth. It’s only when it is prefixed with “Ola” that you could possibly say wealth and even then technically you are wrong. Ola means blessing or honor. Wealth is often a consequence of blessing or honor but wealth is not the strict meaning of Ola.

Ade Kunle means the crown or royalty is plenty at home
Ayo Kunle means joy is plenty at home
Ola Kunle means blessing or honor is plenty at home

Etc etc.

raskymonojendor:
With the terms the judges used in describing Peter Obi's lawyers petition, they would likely chop fine on-top.

see how Obi's SANS are being scolded like school boys just out of law school. incompetent, incompetent, lacking merit, incompetent, abuse of process, struck out.... etc etc etc.

GeneralPula:
This is the easiest presidential election petition ever. No wonder Wole Olanipekun didn't take much time over it..

Lamba Nanu and his charge & bail lawyers are comedians..

we told them o, we said the case is so flimsy it is an insult to even spend time responding. They said their lawyer has never lost a case, we told them their is lo lawyer that has never lost a case and if it is indeed true this will be his first.

let me look for the fella

July 4

HIGHESTPOPORI:
If you are not daft you would know Onyechi Ikpeazu has not lost a case

casualobserver:
In the history of Nigerian elections no case is more clear cut than this one. I am aware of ikpeazu’s legal record but just like most ibos when it comes to tribe they make fools of themselves. Unfortunately Ikpeazu has allowed tribal sentiment to allow him to engage in a case that will smash his previously stellar track record. A lawyer cannot be sentimental, once you are driven by sentiment you lose the ability to think right.

So my response to you is if you are not daft, you would know that because you have not lost a case does not mean you will not lose your next case. Also has he really never lost a case? A lot of these urban myths are nothing but lies. I don’t know how you can be a lawyer for so long and not lose a case. It is impossible.

Those with common sense know all three petitions by APM, LP and PDP will be dismissed. The most ridiculous of them was the petition by LP. You made no effort to prove you actually won the election, you came third and did not join the person who came second in your suit, your entire petition is based on matters that are statute barred (e.g things that happened 10 yrs ago) or in which you have no locus standi ( what is your business in who another party nominates to stand in an election, irrelevancies that have already been determined (irev has no basis in determining the result of an election..only EC8 and so on. 25% of FCT when the law states no one can have a vote that is more important than another simply because of where you reside.

This petition especially by LP was just an attempt to remain in the headlines and t9mexcite the base. Legally it was always going to be shut down!!

Show how you won the election and were rigged….you didn’t even make any attempt…..and you are shouting stolen mandate up and down!!!

When they are ready they will go back to work.

Racoon:
The denial of Prof Akin Abayomi is a bad one for the Mudashiru Obasa led LASHA. This man deserves the health commissionership. I met him a Lagos IDH @ Yaba during the pandemic and I must say he a humanitarian personality

Actually, I quite understand the position of Obasa. In politics you must have electoral value. Commissioners, ministers etc is a reward for political relevance and contribution. The are party members who have political value and are technocrats eg doctors.

Barezzi:
There are different types of MCBs, and they each have a specific Trip Curve.
Type B and C, the ones we typically use at home takes about 5 seconds to trip when 5 times it's rated current passes thru it.

Fuses on the other hand will break at it's rated current.
Fuses are fast acting, while MCBs will be giving you final warning for several days before grudginly taking action.

That’s kinda worrisome

Israelicc:
Breakers usually respond to two types of faults
1. Overload current
2. Fault current from short circuit.
In the case of fault current from short circuiting, the response time is usually faster as the short circuit current is high enough to disrupt the flow of current and this happens in millisecs.

If it is overload current, the breaker also responds but is usually slower. If the right torque of the breaker isn't applied to tighten the screws, arcing occurs as current flows through that terminal and this can lead to overheating of the terminals and the insulation material of the conductors connected to the breakers. This overheating occurs gradually and with time the strength of the materials used to make the breakers gets weaker and weaker until it breaks down finally causing a fire.

That's why it's necessary to size your breakers appropriately. Always multiply your maximum load current by 1.25 to cater for such overload cases.

If you installed a 63A breaker, and your current draw is more than the installed breaker capacity, say 80A all the time, it's only a matter of time before that breaker collapses.

This doesn't change the fact that we also have substandard products in the market but I'm sure we all get quality breakers from the market.

Thanks for that. It makes sense that if current passes through a device that is not designed for that level of current bad things will happen but isn’t the purpose of a breaker not to allow current above its rating to pass through even once talk less “all the time”? That’s where I am struggling.

That said jonescosmos did say he eventually diagnosed the problem as the switch. Since 75A went through for 5 minutes I assume that’s how long it took for the breaker to trip. I am also assuming (since he didn’t say otherwise) that the switch wasn’t rated for the high current passing through it , which destroyed it causing the fire before the breaker eventually tripped.

Current passing through a switch above its rating and causing damage makes sense to me.
Why a breaker allowed current above its rating for 5 minutes still doesn’t.

That said I can understand a hypothetical scenario where a switch is rated for say 30A, a breaker for 50A and current of 45A flows and causes a fire at the switch and the breaker doesn’t trip because it is within the limit of the current passing through, allowing the current to continue to do damage. I can’t wrap my head around a current of 60A flowing in this hypothetical scenario and the breaker 50A remaining live long enough for damage to be done at the 30A switch.

jonescosmos:
Nice for you to call my attention to this incident. This issue happened when I had a single Unit 16KW Deye Inverter. I would itemize my responses.

1. Those HIMEL breakers came with the Inverter, and they worked perfectly well. I made a comparison with the ones I later bought by myself and noticed that in fact these 2 that shipped with the inverter are original.

2. The AC-In breaker did not cause the fire. As a matter of fact, it did its job perfectly, if you look at the picture again, you will notice that it tripped, preventing further damage.

3. The issue was caused by the HAGER changeover between the AC-IN Breaker and the AC-IN Current Limiter. The Hager switch I suspect must have overheated and caught fire eventually.

4. THE MAIN CAUSE AS I INVESTIGATED: This 16KW DEYE Inverter had 290A Charging power. The night before I ramped up the charging rate from 120A to 240A because I added another battery (15KW Felicity) and the Datasheet shows that battery needs 120A charging rate and if you have X number of the batteries you should use X*120A setting on your inverter.

5. There was no grid at the time when I did this change. So early in the morning when the grid came and battery started charging, kids’ school preparing also started, Kitchen Cooker unit and Water Heater kicked on, Two Children's Water Heaters Kicked on, and the Overall Amperage on the AC-IN circuit ramped Up to around 72A which sat there for about five minutes or so, The HAGER Switch had gathered heat I guess and started melting. The HIMEL Breaker shut down, but the switch continued to melt internally and eventually inflamed.

6. Results from N0.5 above was gotten from my Smart Energy Meter I has Installed after NEPA Meter. So, I replaced the AC-IN Breaker because I saw that my AC-IN Current ramped above 63A just before the issue. My choice of 125A was that DEYE in the Inverter User manual recommended a 200A Grid Breaker. The reason why the Inverter was shipped with a 63A breaker remained a mystery to me.

7. The exposed wires from the ferrules were due to the heat that resulted from the fire.

8. I can beat my chest about my Screw contact torque and tell you It wasn't the case at all. People find it difficult to loosen bolts, nuts, screws, etc., that I tighten because I torque to specification and most people lac appropriate torque tools.

I hope I have been able to clear the doubts here.

Thank you for your detailed response. I really do appreciate it and I have been reading you and some other posters and watching YouTube videos (Dave Poz, Off grid garage etc) to gain some understanding about solar in general, what works and what doesn’t, safety risks etc etc before I take the plunge.

I think I now have a clearer picture, the burnt device in the picture is the switch not the breaker? I had assumed that was the breaker. I know there are different types of fuses/ breakers, some that trip immediately they go above a certain level and some that will allow current for a brief period. Why would 73A of current flow through a 63A breaker for 5 minutes, is that normal? If it had tripped as it should, how was current was still flowing through the switch? Or is it that switches are also rated for current and the switch did not have the rating to handle the current and by the time the breaker tripped damage had already been done to the switch?

Also if you don’t mind how are you finding the capacity of the Felicity 15kw and out of curiosity I know you replaced your 16kw with 2 8kw, are they also 3 phase or did you revert to 2 single phase inverters?


Thanks

PS: my takeaway from this is that every component must be stress tested at point of installation. Fuses , breakers, inverter, etc

Jokerman:
Eyaaa...

Someone that could have joined with Obi in LP

LP will still have lost. Whatever Kwakwanso got in the North is the extent of his pulling power in the North outside contesting in one of the 2 main parties and that was as presidential candidate. Add both votes LP + NNPP, its still not up to APC and that is only if kwkwanso was the presidential candidate and Obi was VP. If that was all Kwakwanso could get as Presidential candidate then his tally would have been lower as VP.

there is no combination that makes Obi president of Nigeria, the election was not lost by NNPP, LP or PDp because of who was Vp or who was presidential candidate of those parties, they all lost the election because they left PDP.

helinues:
Better. If they have the right documents, let them go to court

One of the cardinal rules in life anywhere in the world is you dont fight the government. Very few people ever take on the government and win and even when you win, its a pyric victory...it takes its toll on you and hence you still lose.

Namzy:
Yea you are right. Fault could have been from arcing from wires not properly torqued. Change of breaker is not the fix

I can wrap my head around that. Arcing makes sense, I can see some exposed wires in his installation despite the use of ferrules. Nonetheless It would be interesting to know if the fuse actually tripped though or if indeed in the scenario you described the breaker should trip. It seems looking at his pic, both his fire and that in the video he responded to, were from the AC side......at least on first view. If the Breaker was supposed to trip and it didnt, then it is worrying that there are breakers in the market that arent doing their job. That is really what prompted me to responding...do we have a problem with the breakers in the Nigerian market? No point in installing breakers that won't do what they are supposed to.

EDIT: I was looking at the breakers in the pic and had a look on Jumia. Surely there has to be a reason why "himel" breakers/fuses are on average 1/5 or 1/4 the price of the equivalent Schneider beyond just brand name.

jonescosmos:
I experienced the very same scenario in my house recently.
Gos was kind that it happened when we were at home.

The AC in breaker melted and caused fire outbreak., my wife was preparing the kids for school and went to the laundry room to fetch school uniforms only to find smoke coming from the inverter room which is next to the laundry room.
She quickly grabbed the extinguisher and put out the fire.
Then came to wake me up to break the news to me.

From the attached pictures you can see the AC-IN breaker completely melted.
The Amperage was 63A so I replaced it with 125A and till now, everything is going well.

Sorry to take you back to this post but I have to ask because the NEPA guys did the same thing with our street box (can’t remember what it is called) that kept blowing a fuse.

I don’t understand why you would replace the AC breaker (particularly AC-in) with one with a higher capacity in this situation. Isn’t the job of the 63a breaker to trip if the current goes above 63A? Isn’t the real question why didn’t the 63A breaker trip? Isn’t putting in a breaker of a higher capacity going to allow more current to flow potentially causing more damage in the event of a fault? If a 63A breaker could not prevent a fire, how is a higher capacity breaker supposed to?

Going back to the issue we used to have with the NEPA panel on my street, here was a time we had a problem of over voltage/overcurrent or whatever they call it and whenever the NEPA fuse blew, they kept using copper wire of a thicker gauge to bridge the failed fuse than the rated capacity, the result was that it would also blow fuses in the houses of residents of the street, they would then do the same thing (adding thicker copper bridge) to the fuses that blew in residents homes. The explanation I was given at the time was that putting a fuse higher than the rating (which is effectively what NEPA boys do by increasing the thickness of the copper wire) allowed current that was supposed to be halted at the NEPA panel to feed through to residents houses and in turn blow our fuses and for some of us who had in turn had their fuse capacity increased with the adding thicker copper wire method, blow equipment in the house. Since the actual proper fuse for the street NEPA box was installed and the fuses in our homes derated to the proper rating, we’ve not had the problem of excess current feeding into residents houses or fuses blowing.

Please correct me if I am wrong but something tells me the problem is not the rating of 63 A fuse or maybe the fuse was defective or poor quality. The idea of a breaker is to stop current above its rating going through. Sounds to me the 63A fuse was defective because it is not supposed to allow any current above 63 to pass through. I am not saying it is wrong, I am not an electrician and by knowledge does not go beyond the basics I learnt in school, I am trying to understand the science behind putting in a higher rating fuse.

From my layman’s understanding even if the breaker was not the right capacity for your system , it should still have just done it’s job and tripped not cause a fire. Looks to me like on the day, you had a NEPA surge and the breaker failed to do its job whether it was undersized or not. If a surge has not happened since, then putting in a higher rate breaker may seem to have cured the problem but that also may be only because you have not had a reoccurrence of what caused the surge. But if my thought process is right, going by the experience on my street, if you have a reoccurrence, your higher capacity breaker is only going to allow more current to pass through. If it was a defective breaker and the new one is of the same manufacturer and quality, what says it will work especially now it will allow even higher current before it’s break point?

This is like a having a small boat with a hole in it that can carry few passengers that sinks and then replacing it with a bigger boat that can carry more passengers but also has a hole in it, they are both going to sink if placed in the right circumstances, the only difference is having a bigger boat allows you to have more passengers on board to drown.

Landmine1:
this right here is what they should be studying and fixing.

They are shameless people. When a poor man collects your wife you ask yourself what am I doing wrong that I lost my wife to a poor man? You don’t go about telling everybody the man that took my wife is poor! That is shamelessness.

Like I always say the problem with PDP is they never had to earn or fight their way to power, they were handed power and they rigged to maintain it, as soon as it became harder to rig, they struggled and have been struggling.

PDP should focus of how their various candidates together got 14m votes and ended up losing to the party that got 8.7m. Or how despite the hardship in 2019, they still lost to the party they are complaining about. AKA….They should focus on getting their act together or they will forever be complaining.

DaTruths:
My worse regret was voting for Tinubu.

75 Billion for National Assembly furniture, fire burn the chairs wey i dey see inside there?

825 Billion for Abuja run way compensation, was Their a crude oil leakage?

But 5 billion to share two cups of beans for a whole state.

Tinubu na scam las las.

825 million not billion, sometimes we need to use our common sense and examine what we are hearing and saying and ask does it make sense. How much is the runway they are building that they will spend N825b to relocate people? It is not airport they are building o, ordinary runway, what is a runway, a runway is just a road for airplanes. What is the acreage of a runway and how many people occupy that space that you will give them $1b to relocate? Where will a government struggling for money get $1b to pay residents within 1 week, does it sound like the kind of sum a minister can just find lying around his ministry? Sometimes some sense is required when you see headlines.

Wizardslayer:
Why do ECOWAS allow themselves be western puppets. Look at the way they're being remote controlled.

Wtf

I have noticed this distinction among Former french and English colonies in west Africa. The English side tend to be western lackeys and worship everything western thinking they are our friends, while the French speaking west know that the West are devils. I am talking about both the governments and the people.

If Africa is going to be emancipated, it will not come from English speaking west Africa, the likes of Ghana and Nigeria….we are messed up mentally. It is noteworthy that at a time when the global south is decoupling from the west via BRICS, the 2 biggest English speaking economies in west Africa are not at the forefront, hesitant to be severed from the apron strings of their oppressors.

gaby:
What a shame...

Whoever billed Portable to perform at such an event needs to be found out and sanctioned.

Why everything for this my country come become cruise and joke like this?

Is it not the same lawyers that were fighting over gift pack at NBA conference and were fighting at NBA football match the other day? Sounds to me like they are exactly Portable’s crowd.

LP thinking they can win Delta is like that gbadebo fella thinking he has any chance in Lagos. This LP people dont even respect themselves. Delta state...land of Ibori? The day PDP loses Delta is the day you know PDP no longer exists as a party.

LAgos, Delta, Rivers, you cannot win a governorship election in those states unless you belong to the establishment party.....except the establishment party endorses you maybe they have an internal fight. No other states in Nigeria are more secure than these 3.

Comedians!

Is it not Kanu they should be begging to show humility? Somebody that is saying I won’t beg to be released, imagine what he will do if he is released!

BoldBrainz:
Quite sad and disappointing how stakeholders in the PDP sat down to let Nyesom Wike attain "god status" in the party, through their inactions and feeble-mindedness.

PDP is a party of money and not principles, ethics, shame or pride. Whoever has the most money calls the shots in PDP. Wike had the money so he called the shots at one time. Atiku has the money now so he calls the shots, Okowa had money so he became the VP candidate…. that’s how it is for PDP. That’s how they roll over there. Everything and everyone is for sale to the highest bidder.

You have more money than Atiku tommorow and you go to PDP, you become their master. You become a governor of a state with money you become their master.

MadamExcellency:
Good speech. Survey, feel the pulse coming from the citizens of Gabon and then arrive at intelligent reply to the menace of coup in Africa.

We don't want coup. Military should stay in barracks.

Nigerian military can’t afford to stage a coup…they are very comfortable and have too much to lose. If you know you know. The reason why French speaking African militaries are staging coups is different from the situation or perceived situation in Nigeria. French speaking Africa are effectively still under colonial rule, their resources do not effectively belong to them, they need authority from France for everything….so they have nothing to lose.

Bad news for Obidients.

FreeStuffsNG:
Thank God for this great news we hear about Nigeria every day. May God bless Nigeria for ever! Enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose

this also is partly due to the fact that because of renewable energy, msny countries are not exploring for Oil. In fact it is difficult to get funding in the west for Oil exploration. Due to western wokeness, the major finance houses don’t want to be associated with funding fossil fuel exploration.

Nonetheless, it is good news for us and those still discovering new wells because fossil fuels are not going away anytime soon and when all the ageing wells start to dry up due to lack of investment in new wells, it is those with new productive wells that will benefit.

festacman:
What a time to be the Chairman of ECOWAS. President Tinubu will be like "Na who send me go take this post'. However, the task is not difficult for him. He should just call emergency meeting of ECOWAS and read the riot act, insisting on the following points though he lacks the requisite credibility at home front:
- Hold credible election.
- Obey the constitution on tenure of office.
- Don't steal money from the public treasury but use it to develop the country.
- Do your best , allow the people chose the next president and hand over power.

African Union wake and smell the coffee. It is time to change the dance steps.

Unfortunately the issue spreading across Francophone Africa is not an issue of democracy but an issue of independence. French speaking Africa is only independent on paper. They are still effectively colonized by the french with willing stooges propped up by the french as presidents. Almost every civilian french president is a French stooge. If you dont do as they want they kill you. Thats why some of the most corrupt looters are french speaking African heads of state. They have the backing of France.

I am sure Tinubu knows this however he is faced with defending his democratic credentials and protecting the gas pipeline to Europe upon which I am sure his economic agenda is built and facing up to the inpunity of french neo-colonialism in Africa.

lexy2014:
Are you saying that your statement which produced the question was daft?

Since you have read history, then u shouldn't find it difficult answering the question...

What was the way igbos weren't getting in the 1960s that prompted the coup of 1966?

. You answer the question. Do you respond when a well known mad man calls out to you on the streets?

lexy2014:
What was the way igbos weren't getting in the 1960s that prompted the coup of 1966?

You again? Go and read your history and for the umpteenth time stop asking me daft questions.

nairalanda1:
Buhari supporters nearly brought the country down in 2011, and there were threats during the other years too. (Sharia law implementation was a way of telling OBJ to better not leave some people behind).

It isn't just Igbos. Assuming Tinubu lost, all the APC supporters would have been hailing the coup by now.(See Niger, and before them Mauritania. Oppositon comes and backs army rule all of a sudden).

Otherwise, your post makes good points.

Check it the history of Ibos alliance with the center. Whenever they feel they are not getting their way with the center the Ibos either sustain their protests and make life difficult for the ruling govt throughout its tenure orthey stage a coup. That’s what the history of Nigeria shows. 1966 despite being in alliance with the center when they weren’t getting their way they staged a coup. Shagari govt, despite being in alliance with NPN they tried to make life difficult for Shagari wirh Ezeoke who was speaker at the time defecting to NPP as part of that attempt. We know their propaganda since 2015. They will. Either make life difficult for you or try to topple you which is why our friend Pierocash is disposed to coups.

Whenever r they feel they have alliance with the center even as junior partners there is peace, otherwise sustained tension. Others will protest and move on waiting for their turn….not the Ibos….they must make life difficult for you or burn the house down. The Ibo man must see himself to have won or you can’t have peace.

Pierocash:
You were trying to sound sane until you mentioned ibos. The usual tribal mantra they churn out once they lose ground In any constructive argument.

You are not honest, if you actually lived under any military regime like you posited then you lied to yourself. I gave you a vivid reply as regard human liberty under military compared civilian regimes by pointing you ibb must go protest compared to endsars and the outcome of both. But maybe you lack comprehension and couldn't decipher it

You talked about just your friend. Go and read tales of woes by people who their loved ones were picked up by police and till today no one knows what happened to them. Did you read the reports of various incidents of police brutality and evil meted out to people during the panel setup by various states of which no justice to so many of them till date. Such evil never happened under military government. Or is it the case of executive disobedience to court orders you want to talk about under civilian governments? Even Abacha obeyed some court orders during his time, but no, the so-called civilian governments disobey court orders more than militaries. If you truly lived under any military government but still continue with this your assertions, it means you are living in self deceit. And you never answered my question about what the civilians built after I listed you few of many infrastructures built by military juntas. Reason being that, you really have nothing to point but just decided to go rogue on your submission.

I am in no way agitating for a military coup ,But my point is that it will definitely be inevitable with the way things are right now in our land.

Just like your previous dribble, you are posting nonsense. I mentioned Ibo because I went through your posts. You people have a penchant for always wanting things your way and bringing down the house if you don’t get it. It must be said. Every time the Ibos are not in concert with the Centre they bring or attempt to bring the house down. It’s also what you do anywhere you reside.

The coups going on in French speaking Africa are a fight for true independence. If you are knowledgeable you will know that French speaking West Africa are independent only on paper. It is not the same as the goings on in NIgeria or Ghana or other Anglophone countries.

Your issue isn’t governance but your ego and penchant to always win and dominate others. It is a trait that makes is difficult for you to accept defeat no matter how fair the contest. It is the trait that makes you successful in business but also the same trait that means you don’t mix well with others and so there is always conflict when enough of you accumulate in an area. Human relations is different from business. In business you can bully your competition and wipe them out. In human relations you can’t always win, human relations is about compromise….a trait severely lacking amongst the majority of your people which is why you never do well in politics outside your region. I am at least glad to see people like Umahi who truly understand politics is about compromise and trust.

Disappearing under the military is different from disappear under a civil government, at least in a civilian govt your people can make noise and raise alarm.

Finally it is not tribal mantra, it is a real thing. Why are you always the ones in conflict with everyone else?

Pierocash:
I am very sure you are still a boy in in his 20s.

I lived unde three different military juntas in Nigeria here- Ibb, Abacha, Abdusalami. I even lived under Buhari but I can't relate how his regime was because I was a kid.

Now let me educate you, the kind of human right violations that has happened and still happening under civilian governments are worse than military. The police and Sara brutality is worse and such never happened under military government.

Tell me what changed in since civilians took over? All the standing infrastructures you see today were built by the military juntas- Gowon Estate, Jakande Estate, Festac, abesan estate etc, refinery, third mainland bridge etc , were built by the military government. I no many roads in Lagos that are still standing today that the elders told us were built by Yakubu Gowon. Please , tell us what the civilian governments built-nothing.

I witnessed ibb must go protest that forced ibb out of power, he stepped down , yet no one person was shot or brutalized. Ordinary endears, the death toll is still counting.

Civilian governments are worse

My friend I was around during Gowon era when we sang “to keep Nigeria one” in school so I have witnessed every military govt in Nigeria.

You are clearly unintelligent enough to understand the difference between military and development and the military and civil liberties.

My post (if you have any intelligence) was about civil liberties in a military era.

Military govts may have certain advantages for economic development in a multiethnic diverse environment because precisely because they rule by decree and can violate your rights and civil liberties and do what is needed to get the job done. The problem is eventually the nature of the African beast always come up and they become intoxicated with power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. In the end they become as corrupt as the civilians without any checks and balances except another coup and the citizens have few in any civil liberties.

I have a friend who was picked up under Abacha for about 5 months, till today no one really knows what happened. I guess he was so scared to relate his experience. I also remember my father having to respray his cherished green Mercedes because the military decreed civilians can’t drive green cars. WTF?

So feel free to go on with your nonsense glorifying the military. We know at heart you Ibos are not democrats. Others know every democratic cicvilian government no matter how bad has a fixed term. No one who has experienced military govts in Nigeria wants a return to that era no matter the deficiencies of civilian administrations. Except they are promoting a selfish agenda.

Kalatium:
Gone are the days when boys were real boys as I look back in nostalgia.

Below were rules of football when we were kids, damn it was fun

1. The fat kid was always the goalkeeper.

2.The owner of the ball decides who plays .

3. If you didn't participate in repairing the ball you were given a match ban.

4. The guy who's never picked was to fetch the ball from the trees or bush when it got stuck, under the car or tunnel to play in the next game.

5. When the owner of the ball got annoyed, game over.

6. When you hit your toes against a stone and you notice blood, you quickly cover the area of injury with sand as a form of first aid and play continues.

7. You can't dribble the owner too much, this may lead him to stop the game by taking away his ball.

8. No matter how many goals you scored, the winner would be determined by the last team to score.

9.No offsides.

10.There is no referee.

11.There is fault only if the fault is serious .

12.The 2 best players can not play in the same team so everyone chooses their players.

13.If you are chosen last it is a humiliation and you will remain in defense.

14.If there is a penalty the goalkeeper is replaced by the best player of the team.

15.The best player on the field is always in the same team as the owner of the ball.

16.There is always a house where if the ball fell there, we knew that the game was over. so be careful !!

17. To distinguish the teams, one of the teams take off their shirts .

18.Game over when its dark and we can barley see the ball, we all disperse in groups teasing one another until we get home to face another punishment from our parents.

Africa is our home. Childhood was fun.

So on point!!! Particularly 2,5, 12-15, 16 & 18! So so true!!!

By the way I was always goal keeper, I was crap and I knew it. Every game started with a call for “2 keepers” it was the only way I played 😂. I was equally a crap keeper!!!!