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All African countries? who says we are not productive?

Tell that NDDC MD to start with 100km good road first. I pray my mind is not telling me are trying to defraud ND as usual.

asuustrike2009:
Jer 17:9, Mark 7:21

how are the verses related to broom?

BOOM!

LETTER TO ATIKU...

BY A DISSATISFIED NIGERIAN...

You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria.

With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward.

I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you would “shock everyone because you will fight corruption …if given the opportunity to preside over the affairs of the country.”

You challenged Nigerians to either “come forward with a single shred of evidence of [your] misconduct while in office or keep quiet.”

Crude arrogance! You subsequently bragged that your stupendous wealth was a result of your “resourcefulness and successful investments.”

What a lie! To use your own words, that display of arrogance was “morally offensive” to millions of Nigerians.

Please, sir, accept my apologies, but the issue is not about your “entrepreneurial spirit” but whether you can corroborate the SOURCE of your investments and wealth.

Sir, you are not more resourceful than millions of Nigerians, and thousands of investors with hard-earned and traceable source of wealth.

So, sir, take your sermon of rooting out corruption in Nigeria to the sedimentary rocks in the valley of Adamawa Highlands.

Tell us what happened to the N7.5 B failed Chochi Dam project which u brought the contractor and supervised the project.

What happened to the Jada Federal Government communication project awarded by Obasanjo under ur supervision which N4.5 Billion went into a failed project.

Tell Nigerians how u took a loan from Bank PHB in 1998 of N300M to run for Governorship of Adamawa, when u were controversially declared the winner and after becoming the VP the bank cancelled the loan.

We have documented evidence of this loan, when you took this loan Bamanga Tukur was one of the richest people in the North East with two shipping vessels on the high seas, but just after 8 years as VP u not only became the richest in Adamawa and one of the richest in Nigeria but u built 158 mansions in the country and 42 mosques in Christian dominated areas of Adamawa State the sitting and construction of some of these mosques created several crisis killing thousands of people and dethroning a First Class king.

As a show of good faith, sir, can you please explain to Nigerians how a retired Customs officer and VP, you, got the millions of Dollars, without a bank loan, you paid to the American University in Washington DC for a direct license to use the franchise of the university?

We know that your estimated $25 million worth of University (ABTI American University) in Yola was not just because you were resourceful.

What is the source of the inexplicable reason for your increased wealth after 8 years as VP?

Accept my apologies sir, but can you explain to Nigerians the source of hundreds of multi-million Naira mansions, mostly built on what Nigerians believe to be proceeds of corruption?

What of the $125m you diverted from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF)?

Can you please, sir; explain to Nigerians how you managed to command controlling shares in Bank PHB, controlling shares in Intel, and oil services companies operating in many African countries?

If you are as smart and intelligent as you want Nigerians to believe, then it will not be difficult to break down the source of your wealth.

Believe me, there are millions of Nigerians out there that are more resourceful than you that will be turned into billionaires overnight if only you can show us your magic wand.

So, without explaining the source of your wealth, it is an insult to ask us to provide evidence that you are chronically corrupt. The burden of proof is on you, sir.

How can Nigeria move forward, when we are hamstrung by symbols of past failures, like you Atiku?

Let me remind those still living in the graveyards of yesteryears of what you sir, represents.

Your mere presence in Nigerian politics reminds us of the era of fire-breathing monsters that plundered the national wealth.

Sir, your administration with Obasanjo represents a government of the ugly and predators.

Under you, and Obasanjo, corruption was so sweet and so exquisite that the political class fell over themselves to worship the mini gods in Aso Rock.

Accept my apologies, sir, but Nigerians have not forgotten that under you and Obasanjo, our yesteryears were locust-infested.

When you fought corruption with Obasanjo, we had wretched criminals that grew the size of their stomachs and pockets from “Turn Around Maintenance” of our refineries and under-selling of government entities to cronies.

Under you, and Obasanjo, we had ministers and thieves that were busy acquiring properties worth billions while our infrastructures decayed.

Sir, you are a woodpecker that feed on the pantry of the poor, but found a way to avoid having boils in your mouth.

The same mouth you are now using to insult us and bragging about how clean you are in amassing wealth in the midst of poverty in your backyard.

Atiku, sir, your ambition, therefore, deserves to be killed now.

It is time for you to retire from public life, disappear from facebook, Twitter, political screens, and sight somewhere far away.

Sir, when you drive around the hills and valleys of Adamawa Highland, are you not worried about the difference between your fortunes and that of the poor masses you represented?

Nigerians believe that corruption is a bigger threat than insecurity in your backyard in Northeastern Nigeria.

Fighting corruption in good faith will heal the wounds of millions of Nigerians adversely affected over many decades.

Unfortunately, sir, until you explain to us how you amassed your wealth, you are not the right man to lead Nigeria.

The stories surrounding the cancellation, the legality or illegality of the contract between Intels and its subsidiaries with Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) is an indication that your greed is finally catching up with you.

For me, that deal is like the rest of the dubious investments you are now flaunting, all of which is a textbook example of how crooked bureaucrats like you amass wealth through cronyism and graft.

So, accept my apologies.

You, like your boy the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, represent the dangerously corrupt political elites in Nigeria.

As you make an attempt at the Nigerian Presidency for the umpteenth time, know it that your reckless shame has expired.

The period from 1999 to 2017 is gone, even though the mess you and Obasanjo left behind is still hunting Nigerians.

Sir, I love you, but, until we begin to challenge serving and former civil servants and public office holders like you that cannot explain how they acquired so much wealth, we cannot really claim to be fighting corruption.

Shed some light on the source of every Kobo of your shadowed investments and businesses and shame the people you refer to as “political enemies”.

While I wait for your explanation, know it that I will be the first to raise my hand and campaign for you if you will satisfactorily demonstrate the source of your wealth the way you explain to a 3-year old that 1 + 1 = 2.

I say this with as a much respect as I can muster, hoping that you will disgrace me with verifiable proof.

Until you do that, sir, you should shut up and bow your head in shame, if there is still any left, when Nigerians are talking about the serious business of fighting corruption.

I’m George Udom and I endorse this message

How are we sure when you even put on wedding ring.. my friend you are not to be trusted.

can you explain the source of that wedding ring?

Is FFK now a SAN? when did he become SAN?

1. get a Registered Surveyor to help make enquiries on the land. Map out the land and give you registered survey plan

2. Lawyers will then prepare deed of conveyance before you make payment

jaxxy:
Religion also curbs excesses just look at all the slay mama up and down causing havoc no moderation again

who are the people slaying them? Must moderation be applied only to women?
Is it only women that commit adultery? Men are Saints.

fados4sure:
Because nothing is working in Nigeria

Try and see the condition of Europe
Suicide mission is not the way out. are some people not doing well in Nigeria? please critical situation warrant critical thinking. Go to Europe without papers and see how things are

This is nothing but a con artist. he was the posting billboard across PHC about his cure for HIV and aids,
how to win elections, medicine on how to be rich etc


He's Criminal. leave his story about tithe. I know him one on one

jaheymezz:
I see you bro..... yahoo boy

Symphony007:
The rivers state government secretariat is the tallest and biggest government secretariat in the country apart from the federal secretariate in abuja. The rivers state secretariate complex is a cluster of about 6 nine storey building and the principal secretariat which is almost 20 storey high is the tallest building in the south south and south east of nigeria. The buildings beats out competition from rival lagos and kano. They are a highlight of the city and is located at it's heart besides the state government house, central bank, city council, house of assembly, high court..etc

This are the tallest building in Nigeria. try get good information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Nigeria

Samuel Eto denied sending any money to Libya

source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-42149492?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5a1d8a42e4b0af5adb844cf6%26Cameroon%27s+Eto%27o+denies+saving+%27slaves%27+from+Libya%26&ns_fee=0&ocid=socialflow_facebook#post_5a1d8a42e4b0af5adb844cf6


MYND44

Good write up

But also inform them that not everyone that carries pole is a registered Surveyor and they should ensure that they are dealing with the right person.

There are hundreds of thousands of fake survey plan in Lagos alone. only recently were a duo arrested in Lagos for using seal of a deceased Surveyor to sign and of course with fake signature and cheap price, very cheap.

only those surveys done by them were nothing but a designed paper.

Good article and God bless you

What is Scotch bonnet?

BeijinDossier:
Rubbish talk from a hopelessly envious clown. Anambra needs the airport far more than those places you mentioned and Anambra is getting the airport real soon. Illiterates that does not know anything concerning development is delving into an unfamiliar sphere. Do you even know how the airport is being financed or you just jumped out of your mechanic workshop to post because you saw others posting?

Some illiterates are unteachable but I will try to teach you small. From the airport to Onitsha is just 20mins through 3-3-Otuocha road, 30mins to Awka and 40mins to Nnewi. People that don't even know their father's compound should not even comment on another person's compound location.

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from Aguleri to Nnewi is 40mins...
from Aguleri to Awka is 30mins

you try Biko, only you sabi the road.

Where are the pictures of the dead?

If truly the pictures are from there, you would have seen it everywhere, the picture doesn't mean it from there it could be from Somalia

let them bring independent confirmation and not from a single source

T9ksy:
All na hustel, na!!!

Your first two children shall be kidnapped and hustled

saraki2019:
anyone buried without the acknowledgement will go to hell
WHY YOU don't need jesus
“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24).
Jesus selected Jewish disciples, spoke in Jewish synagogues and the Jewish temple, and traveled mostly in Jewish areas. His mission, in fulfillment of the Jewish prophets, was to the Jewish people.
“a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly’” (Matthew 15:22).
This Gentile woman recognized Jesus as the Messiah (“Son of David”), but “Jesus did not answer a word” (verse 23). As the woman kept up her appeals, Jesus finally responded, but His words seemed to hold little hope: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” (verse 24)
Jesus’ concern for Israel was shown in the instructions to the twelve disciples as He sent them out on their first preaching mission. “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles,” He said, “and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6).
and is lam comfirmed it
And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad." But when he came to them with clear evidences, they said, "This is obvious magic." quran 61:6

this is why we africans and the other races do not jesus or christainity
we need islam sent to the whole of the world
the qur'an confirms it
(oh muhammad) We have not sent thee, save as a mercy unto all beings. quran (21:107)

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saraki2019:
anyone buried without the acknowledgement will go to hell
WHY YOU don't need jesus
“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24).
Jesus selected Jewish disciples, spoke in Jewish synagogues and the Jewish temple, and traveled mostly in Jewish areas. His mission, in fulfillment of the Jewish prophets, was to the Jewish people.
“a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly’” (Matthew 15:22).
This Gentile woman recognized Jesus as the Messiah (“Son of David”), but “Jesus did not answer a word” (verse 23). As the woman kept up her appeals, Jesus finally responded, but His words seemed to hold little hope: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” (verse 24)
Jesus’ concern for Israel was shown in the instructions to the twelve disciples as He sent them out on their first preaching mission. “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles,” He said, “and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6).
and is lam comfirmed it
And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad." But when he came to them with clear evidences, they said, "This is obvious magic." quran 61:6

this is why we africans and the other races do not jesus or christainity
we need islam sent to the whole of the world
the qur'an confirms it
(oh muhammad) We have not sent thee, save as a mercy unto all beings. quran (21:107)

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saraki2019:
anyone buried without the acknowledgement will go to hell
WHY YOU don't need jesus
“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24).
Jesus selected Jewish disciples, spoke in Jewish synagogues and the Jewish temple, and traveled mostly in Jewish areas. His mission, in fulfillment of the Jewish prophets, was to the Jewish people.
“a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly’” (Matthew 15:22).
This Gentile woman recognized Jesus as the Messiah (“Son of David”), but “Jesus did not answer a word” (verse 23). As the woman kept up her appeals, Jesus finally responded, but His words seemed to hold little hope: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” (verse 24)
Jesus’ concern for Israel was shown in the instructions to the twelve disciples as He sent them out on their first preaching mission. “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles,” He said, “and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 10:5-6).
and is lam comfirmed it
And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad." But when he came to them with clear evidences, they said, "This is obvious magic." quran 61:6

this is why we africans and the other races do not jesus or christainity
we need islam sent to the whole of the world
the qur'an confirms it
(oh muhammad) We have not sent thee, save as a mercy unto all beings. quran (21:107)

To kill infidels and terrorise and finally rape underage like Mohammed

HottestFire:
You need a change of attitude..

he actually knows nothing and want to comment, tell to see CIA handler

Agentsmith002:
the hunger in Yoruba land is real.i won't be surprised if another idp camp is opened in Ibadan. was it not this same Ibadan that was reported of how people steal a pot of soup and Eba on fire?

god save Yoruba land ooo

Read how they stole pots of soup also in Anambra. stealing is stealing and most times it has nothing to do with poverty.

Deeper life Pastor Arrested, detained by Masquerade


A Pastor with Deeper Life Bible Church in Ubahu, Ihembosi Parish, Mark Okeke, has narrated how he was detained and tied in a shrine by a masquerade in Ekwusigo Lo­cal Government Area of Anam­bra State.

Okeke said that he was flogged, “arrest­ed” and dragged to the masquer­ade’s shrine in Otukwe village where the masquerade and his accomplices stripped him na­ked and tied him to their shrine, probably to use him for human sacrifice.

He said that on the fateful day, he came out of his house where the masquerades accosted him and began to flog him and ig­nored all his pleas.

Okeke said that he told them that he is the pastor with Deep­er Life Bible Church in the next village and that since he gave his life to Jesus Christ, he had re­nounced his membership of the masquerade cult as a born again Christian.

According to the pastor, the flogging and beating did not stop as they dragged him to the shrine (Oda Mmanwu) where they re­moved his clothes, tore them into shreds and tied him naked in the shrine.

Okeke said that when he saw them with machetes, he conclud­ed that the end had come for him and thanked God they changed their mind and locked the shrine leaving him naked and tied.

The clergyman added that as the masquerade and his accom­plices were leaving they vowed to deal with him when they re­turned. He said that since he could not figure out what may happen when they came back he prayed and God intervened.

Okeke said that the ropes they used to tie his hands sud­denly snapped and when he real­ised that his hands were freed, he used them to untie the ropes on his waist and legs and escaped.

According to the pastor, he first called at the house of his sibling, a sister who is married to a man living in Ozubulu, a border town with Ihembosi. He said that he was later told that when the masquerade returned and discovered that he had es­caped, they were infuriated and stormed his residence where they went on rampage.

His ordeal has been wide­ly condemned by groups and prominent people in the area.

The President-General of Ihembosi People’s Assembly (IPA), Barr Chika Dumije, de­plored the action of the mas­querade and sued for peace.

Also, the Ihembosi Born Again Christian Organisation (IBACO), an umbrella body for the Pentecostal/Evangelical churches in Ihembosi and the Scripture Union (SU) Nigeria has vowed to use the incident to put an end to the intimidation of its members by the masquerades.

The Chairman of IBACO, Mr. Gab Ugwumba, said that the group had twice signed agreements with the Masquer­ade Council, but were violated. He said that since there is free­dom of worship, association and movement as enshrined in the Constitution of Nigeria, the masquerades should allow born-again Christians to worship God as they wish.

He appealed to the Anam­bra State government to call the masquerades to order and ensure that the fundamental rights and dignity of the human person are respected.

An IBACO official said that certain government officials, an ex-minister in the First Repub­lic and a Roman Catholic priest were behind the recent revival of the masquerade cult in An­ambra.



http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/deeper-life-pastor-arrested-detained-by-masquerade/amp/


cc: OAM4J

[quote author=sparklezeee post=61668994]It depends on the need of the individual. Build first in your village and keep on paying high rent while living in the city to me it doesn't make sense. As for the red cap men you talked about they are everywhere.

But if you don't have a building in your village and you know you will soon die abeg go build o



Bros you Don hear plenty stories,of our villages across Nigeria

Retire Quietly Or I Will Expose You, VON DG Threatens Jonathan

As former president Goodluck Jonathan continues to receive flaks from all angles following his criticism of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu has vowed to expose him if he continues to attack the president.

Okechukwu asked Jonathan Jonathan to quietly retire to any part of the country of his choice and stop challenging the APC and the Buhari government to a public debate.
He also threatened to open the pandora box on the former president.

Okechukwu told The Nation in a telephone interview that the former President cannot challenge the current government to any public debate because his government failed the nation, leaving major infrastructure to decay, while public funds were freely diverted.
The world knows that almost all infrastructure that Jonathan inherited went bad. We are challenging him to show us one project he completed.

”Is it the Green Field refineries. He told us on May 13, 2010, that he is going g to build three greenfield refineries at $23 billion. The contract was awarded to the Chinese under Public Private Partnership. One was to be located in Bayelsa, one in Lagos and the other in Kogi state.

“We challenge him to show us the three greenfield refineries or tell us where the money he voted for the project is. I am talking at a time when our Excess Crude Account was in the excess of short $17 billion. The Chinese came back and told him they were going to contribute about 80 percent of the three greenfield refineries. We have not seen any of them.

“If we had seen the three greenfield refineries which he publicly announced, the billions we lost in the importation of refined petroleum products and the gross unemployment engendered by the looting of that fund would have been avoided and that is what we are talking about.

“Before and during his regime, there was money voted for the cleaning of Ogoni environment that was degraded by oil spill. It is The Buhari regime that started that project now. Did Jonathan do anything there, did he complete the East/West road? That is a road that covers the nerve Centre of the Niger Delta where he comes from.

“If there is any project that he promised to implement that he has done, he should tell us. Don’t forget that the average price then was about $100 per barrel. I don’t see how he can be calling for a public debate because I am talking of just one region.

“Even the development he did in the Nigerian Airports, is it commensurate with the amount of money voted or the amount of money borrowed? He said he did this or that. Is it commensurate with the amount of money voted?

“If I am in his shoes, I should retire back to the village or any city of my choice and keep my cool because if he talks of a debate, we will bring out what happened during his time.

“The fact that his wife was coming to claim $15 million saying it was out of her handwork borne out of being the First Lady and a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa state. Is it that other Nigerians are not working hard to be worth $15 million. So, let us not go into Jonathan ‘s matter.

“We are not talking of Dizeani who was Minister of Petroleum under his government who failed to do anything to develop the Niger Delta, rather resorted to an illegal accumulation of wealth. I have great respect for him as a former President and being gracious enough to accept his defeat. But if he wants to open the vault, then we can go back and open the pandora box for him. So, let us leave it at that.”

APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi could not be reached for the party’s official reaction as at the time of this report, but he was quoted as saying that the former President may have been misquoted.

Bolaji was quoted as saying “I doubt that President Jonathan actually said these words you have reported because he would be exposing himself to reactions that would not be edifying of his status as a statesman by so doing. Secondly, I know the former President to be of even temperament.

“Only a few days ago, I read that he was counselling his party on the choice of Chairman and Publicity Secretary. Statements like these wouldn’t represent an example of the kind of attitude he was canvassing. But if he truly said that I will say with due respect that he may need to commission a more dispassionate study of how and why APC won the 2015 Presidential elections.

“To say that APC won the election simply by deceiving the people would be too simplistic and may even be interpreted as an insult to the millions of Nigerians that voted the APC into power

samsobo24:
well,but can that happen in Nigeria

it can't happen in Nigeria, because the car will just crush the people and soldiers will rather shoot than wasting time kicking

Where are the people protesting initially? Money has swallowed their voices

This piece is inspired by the sad story of British Airways cabin executive Joanne Wickenden, who recorded a video that went viral. In it she lamented the ways of Nigerian Travelers (more like the Economy Class Gang, actually), saying, “All the Nigerians are gonna be there like ‘gimme Coca Cola, gimme me beef, why you have no beef left? I want beef. And I’m just gonna be there like, ‘Sorry sir, we ran out of beef.”

She should never have filmed it in the first place, and definitely not while in a BA uniform. But hey, you and I know that in terms of the Absolute Truth she locked it down like 110 per cent.

Nigerians are a special people. Nigeria is a special place. And nowhere else is this more evident than in an Airport. Where two or three Nigerians are gathered, Nigeria is there in their midst, of course. Nigeria is a state of mind, before it is a place on the map. As soon as an Airport designates a departure gate as being for a flight headed back to Nigeria, that place becomes Nigeria. Shush, don’t argue!

Below are, in my opinion, the commonest sources of friction in Nigerian Economy Class, the International Edition.

Luggage Size/Quantity:

Excuse Me Ma’am, you can’t take four pieces of luggage on board as hand luggage. I’m sorry but you just can’t. Says who? It is your own that is always different. [Insert competing Airline] does not treat us passengers like this. I’ve been flying this route since Nigeria was a British Colony, and carrying my bags like this. It’s not your fault, it’s my fault for asking my agent to book your airline. Next time I will respect myself and stick to [Insert competing Airline]. Oya what are we going to do now? All these bags contain valuables o, the last time I flew you people 15 people on our flight couldn’t find their luggage when we got to Lagos. I don’t trust you. So what are we going to do? Oya please help me, I will put the bags under my seat, I will not take another person’s overhead space. Oya please I beg you in the name of Almighty.

Luggage Compartment

Whose bag is this? I said whose bag is this? Silence. Bags start being shifted around. Heysss Heysss don’t touch my bag o! Don’t [expletive] touch my bag! So you knew it was your bag all along but you were silent when I was asking. Were you deaf or just pretending? Why is your bag here? See where your seat is, see where your bag is? Arrant nonsense! Look if you touch my bag I swear thunder will strike you dead! You’re an old man, respect yourself please. If you want extra space for your luggage maybe you should buy a business class ticket next time eh? I said don’t [expletive] touch my [expletive] bag! Are you mad? You’re the one that is mad, you and your generations preceding and succeeding! You will tell me why you’re in 64D but your bag is in 65 compartment!

Reclining Seat

Tap, tap, tap. Please shift your seat forward. You’re disturbing me. Oga are you a learner? Is this your first time flying? How can you say I shouldn’t recline my seat? Did you buy my ticket for me? Abi what is this arrant nonsense you’re spouting? Oga all that one is grammar, turenchi! I said move your seat forward or else! Or else what? Do your worst! Be behaving like an illiterate. The oyinbo man that put a reclining seat on the plane, did he put it for decoration? Ehn? You Economy Class people your wahala is too much. It’s not your fault, it’s my fault that I couldn’t get my usual Premium Economy seat on this trip. Nonsense. If I recline my seat you too recline yours. That’s how it’s done!

Chicken or Beef?

Hello Sir, Chicken or Beef? Come again? I said Chicken or Beef? Which one has Jollof Rice? Give me the one that has Jollof Rice. Wait wait wait, come back here Madam. You said Chicken or Beef abi? There’s neither Chicken nor Beef in this Jollof Rice. What kind of nonsense is this? Don’t you people have any quality assurance in this airline? Or do you think you’re doing me a favour by serving me food? Did I not pay for it? Is it not my hard-earned money? I’m sorry Ma’am – the Jollof Rice is the vegetarian option on today’s flight. The Beef Option comes with Mashed Potatoes, while the Chicken comes with Pasta. The Jollof Rice is accompanied by a vegetarian curry. Veh-gih-gini? *Cackles loudly* Is this a joke or what? Look at this face well – does this look like the face of a vegetarian? Ehn? Tell me. You people are the cause of your own troubles. You will be serving vegetarian food on a plane full of Nigerians, you will now be wondering why your airline is not doing well. Please change this thing for me and give me something that has beef. And next time better use your sense and combine the Beef and Jollof! Jollof that we’re even managing in the first place – you’re serving us Ghana Jollof and trying to pass it off as Naija Jollof, SMH!

OF PRINCES, PAUPERS AND THE TERRIBLE DANGER OF OVERSHADOWING ONE’S CHILDREN

Three themes here:

1. A normal person’s joy should be to see his/her children do a lot better in everything that he/she does in a lifetime.
2. However as we struggle through life, never looking back, and uprooting any barrier to our success, we sometimes ‘make it’ because we are daring, or because we know the price of failure having experienced poverty, such that our children live forever in our shadows - as mediocres – having never grown some spine or enough mental muscle. Some people also love it that way, and that is plain wicked.
3. The quest to measure up – at least in terms of fame – and to also make it big, quick and easy is driving children of the rich and accomplished into professions in entertainment, fraught with a lot of instability, and at the risks of lives unhinged.

I am compelled to write this by recent events. Of note is the trouble around David Adeleke, the self-acclaimed “Omo Baba Olowo” (rich man’s son), whose song is 100% about money, sex, fame, fortune, enjoyment and acquisition of earthly things. This is a boy who has carved a niche from himself , from the fabric of controversy and he does have a solid following among many Southern Nigerian boys. He is the one who wanted to smuggle his child out of Nigeria until he was stopped by Mr Dele Momodu, whom he later disgraced by calling him ‘my boy’ in an open concert where Dele was present. He is the one whose mobile police escorts shoot happily into the air when he was collected from Lagos airport. He is the one who mocked Paul Okoye about his house in 1004 Estates. He is there in every controversy.

Anyway, three of Davido’s friends and hangers on died within 5 days of each other. All of them were tragic cases. The first, Tagbo, died on his 35th Birthday. The other two died together in a car in the basement of an estate in Nigeria’s most expensive neighborhood – Banana Island. Police have said that the Tagbo died of Asphyxiation while items suspected to be hard drugs were found in the car with the other two dead young boys, one of which is the first son another billionaire oil magnate; Dapo Abiodun, CEO of Heyden Oil. Looking at Gbenga Abiodun’s picture, he looked like a gentle boy, not a druggie, but all of these boys lived in the fast lane, hopping from club to club, and hugging the night life big time, because that is what their ‘jobs’ demanded. It is also a matter of time before one’s friends influence one negatively. Gbenga was one of Davido’s Deejays, even though I learnt he had a car armoring business and was on the verge of opening a filling station and carwash. Anyway, he’s no more. Fine chap.

One of my favorite sayings is one that goes; “Every Prince Descends from a Pauper, and every pauper, from a prince”. Let us consider the import of this saying in some greater depth. First is to say there is a likelihood if you trace everyone’s history today, that those who are rich had some very poor ancestors, while those who are poor may likely have prosperous ancestors back in history. It just means that one needs to be careful. I recall some gatemen in a house I used to live. One boasted on end about how he is the son of one of the deceased Alara of Ilaramokin in Ondo State. The other boasted often of his father’s house at Ijapo Estate GRA, an exclusive area in Akure in the same state. The first one had a drug problem and was soon laid off. The second one is a dispatch rider at a bank today. There was another one among the gatemen, who came to Abuja from the East, precisely Ebonyi State. He never boasted of any such background, but today, he runs a depot where Nigerian Breweries supplies him drinks for the Lugbe community in Abuja. He turns over millions every month.

The danger is that those who are raised in luxury really have no incentive to strive and may therefore not continue the trajectory of their fathers who often struggled to become what they are. That is why they say it is difficult to keep wealth in a family beyond say three generations – except you have a way of passing on this kind of knowledge. Again, knowledgeable people – say in Europe, Japan, China and the USA – have been able to find their ways around this generational issue and to keep money long within a family. But here in black Africa, we have little clue. Some days back someone wrote on social media and asked where are the families of those long gone Yoruba big men whom musicians praised to high heavens. I once met one of Herbert Macaulay’s grandsons who was a cabbie in London. Herbert was a big man in his time.

But there is a deeper psychology. Privileged children may have seen it all and may not be able to understand why they need to hustle like their fathers as if lives depended on it because, well, their lives don’t. That is why parents who allow their children every possible luxury even as students – first class travel, best hotels around the world, the best designer clothes and shoes, the best cars and so on – are actually damaging the ability of the children to grow. There has to be a line drawn somewhere. Richard Branson spoke about how his children always travel Economy in the planes that he owns even if he and his wife are in First Class. That is how sensible parents raise their children. But in Nigeria, I know many people who brag about their children traveling business-class and being upgraded to First, just to resume university abroad! Others in the civil service are known to pack all their wives and children into business or first class on the bill of the country. I think it’s a sign of being primitive. I recently told my 14 years old son to stop using my perfume. Yes, it could be that petty. I asked him what he wants to use when he grows up if he has started splashing my Hermes which even I am ‘economising’, having bought it at great cost.

The story is told about the butterfly, how it struggles through the egg, lava, pupa stages of its development, and how the wriggling out of its hard shell forms its wings. Anyone that helps the butterfly to speed up the process will have a shapeless moth on his hands. But here, the noveau riche will have none of that. We have mums who go pop champagne in their children’s posh classrooms just to celebrate birthdays. It is not enough that these children attend classes with air-conditioning and everything in between.

We should have suspected. The private schools we send our children to, often teaches them everything foreign, and disconnects them from reality. A friend’s children on their first long holiday from Grange School in Lagos, told him how she and her friends had fixed a meeting for New Jersey, USA. He found himself scrambling for visas and tickets. No one teaches an African child how to drum or beat the gangan. That one is for villagers. We teach our children how to play the violin, and the piano, and how to be maestros of classic music. No one knows how to play ‘opon-ayo’ or any local games that we could have developed anymore. Today, 3 years old children are keying into Golf. It’s all about elitism and Nigeria’s new rich cannot wait to announce how they’ve arrived, and could never miss any opportunity to rub it in.

Which brings me to the crux of my write-up today;

Why are children of accomplished men unable to rise above their father’s achievements or even come close? Let me hazard some guesses:

1. The parents have overachieved so there’s no need trying because you’ll never catch up. So they just atrophy.
2. The long and hard route to success is no longer fashionable
3. Their fathers, in struggling to get rich never really raised these children for greatness, or at best their parents just pampered them.
4. Parents see their children as children even in old age. That is why today, parents spend untold millions for their children’s weddings even when they paid for their own weddings 100%
5. Well-to-do parents never allow their children venture out or take risks on time, so the children are not daring until they are exposed to bad influence maybe at university level
6. Young people mistake fame for real greatness or success

Anyway, we have a situation today where many children of valiant men have veered into music, dance, deejay-ing, makeup artistry, cooking, interior designing, ownership of intimacy gadget shops, acting, ownership of night clubs, organizing of beauty pageants and music shows, and so on. A lot of these professions are in and around entertainment, meaning that the public waits to feed off salacious tales from those industries. This means that today’s hero is tomorrow’s villain. Those who make you and prop up your image are also the ones who make a pig’s meal out of your reputation and sanity when the time comes

Whereas some of these new professions make money and fame, they tap into the ephemeralness of today’s world; a world seeking entertainment by all means. Is it that the options have been totally narrowed for the young people of today to make real differences in places that could really advance society? Are we not still a consumer nation that produces nothing of the things it uses? In the professions listed above, all the materials used are imported from abroad, meaning that the youth of today are not wired to solve our fundamental problems, but to kick the can down the road and generally consolidate those problems. How many are taking on our hard issues?

On the other side are the same children of today’s rich middle aged or ageing parents, who are stuck abroad – especially those ones conditioned by expensive private schools and made fit for employment in the Western World alone. Some of them have good jobs, but almost all of them complain of discrimination because they are reminded times without number that there are glass ceilings they could never breach as the foreigners there often make a point that they are not sons of the soil. There are even children of our super-rich men, like David Mark’s who are stuck in permanent acquisition of degrees abroad.

Back to Davido, whose Dad is a business magnate. I hope he wriggles out of his present troubles but he needs to learn that he is a very bad influence on today’s youth and he has no right to further damage the fabrics of our fragile society. We can see the boys who move with him and the kind of reckless life they all live. We hope they slow down otherwise their lives will be wrecked. Is this rascality all worth it? Does fame and fast fortune equate to the long and hard grind that goes into being a famous lawyer, or engineer, or economist or medical doctor or petroleum technologist, or IT Guru, or publisher even if there isn’t much money in some of those areas? But for now millions of Nigerian youths believe Davido when he constantly sings ‘life is all about the money oh. Biko ye’m ego!’ Have we not now seen the folly of it all?

But there’s a line up. Step up Falz my man. He is one of the more reasonable of the lot and attended court as a lawyer at least up to last year as I understand. Uncle Femi Falana is his Dad and I know how conservative he can be. Maybe Falz will get tired someday and settle down to a respectable profession or business. Money-making apart, we need our children to build this nation and elevate the black man beyond being seen as a global entertainer. All these professions they are choosing to today will not build Nigeria because they cannot. Those professions merely play at the edges. We have others like Naeto C, Kema Chikwe’s son. Chukwuma Soludo’s first son, Ozonna is also a musician. Seni Saraki, Uncle Bukola’s first son, is a rapper. Femi Otedola’s first daughter is a DJ. One of the president’s daughters recently hosted a photo show, and one of the VP’s daughters recently open a beauty parlor. Two things are common to all these; bling and blitz. Thankfully, Halima, Aliko Dangote’s second daughter is presently studying him while working with the group as a strategist. Mike Adenuga also tries off and on, to keep his children in the business.

I ask; can these guys not combine the irresistible allure of entertainment and blitz with a steady career progression? I know it’s tough but that is the price for being born with golden spoons in their mouths. Can they also imagine themselves being musicians still at 50 or 60? I know Charlie Boy has made something of a success with that but what about the ups and downs? Even Charlie boy does not sing about sex and money all the time. He is famous for being an activist with a crazy persona. It may seem fun for now to get the attention of millions of fans of the opposite sex, but when the trouble shows up it is never funny.

I write out of fear myself. I strive for greatness daily, by doing what others shy away from doing. I pray my children do even more than I could dare but I’m trying to find out how to help children build spine. Part of the process is writing this down in the hope that someone will point us in the right direction. How do we get this done? For starters let us clear the Augean stable and let those rich kids today know, that making money and fame and finding satisfaction through careers in entertainment is one thing, but getting involved in drugs and alcoholism, and living a totally hopeless life is another thing entirely. Let us also remind them that when it matters most, they will find themselves still entertaining, while children of today’s poor will emerge as the critical leaders who will then superintend over them… if they aren’t careful.

Every prince descends from a pauper, and every pauper, from a prince…

Perhaps that saying goes beyond prince-hood as defined by money, but also as defined by ideas, philosophy, class, respect in society, respect from the comity of nations, ability to infuse into others that much-needed respect and decorum, and the riches that come with a great vision for the future. Most of these cannot be found in quick entertainment professions, and so some of the rich entertainer children of big men have already become pauperized by the company they keep even though they may have money. This is applicable to the present genre that promotes getting rich by all means or dying trying, that glamorizes sex beyond its utility, and emphasizes the acquisition of luxury cars, yachts and private jets, none of which we produce. We need thinkers among the youths.

And for adults, the biggest prayer we can continue to have is to hope that our children surpass us in everything. That is how societies actually improve. Any society that achieves the opposite is on its way to extinction.

unknown author

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Baawaa:
What you are trying to say is that,it is Igbo and Yoruba that corrupt most in Nigeria

my brother corruption has no tribe, Dazuki is not Ibo neither is he Yoruba

Who are the corrupt tribe?

Few days ago, I was at Isolo General Hospital to see a specialist since we have this belief that "the specialists are found there". (Oh, did I tell you that was the second day?)

I got there by 9 a.m (huge mistake as I was made to understand later), and I sat down there till 6pm and still was not able to see this specialist.

In front of me was an igbo woman who kept crying intermittently when someone calls her on the phone. As my gbeborun won't let me, I wanted to know what was wrong. I over heard her husband tell a Nurse that she's 6 months pregnant and her baby has just died in her womb and she needed to be attended to. I left her in that hospital, and she hadn't been attended to by the time I left at 6pm.

Next to her was a yoruba woman with her 6 weeks old baby. She had a Caesarean section and she was telling a friend that the stitch was swelling up and she needed a doctor to look at it. I also left her there, unattended to by the time I was leaving.

There was also a hausa lady who spoke less of English so I couldn't get the details of her problem.

As we were sitting and waiting, someone will come in with one patient, speak to the Nurses and her patient will get to see a doctor. We shouted and talked and would eventually sit down and wait our turns.

The Nurse on duty was Igbo (I had to speak Igbo to her at some point) and the doctor was yoruba.

I listened to Dike Chukwumerije's TEDX Maitama speech and I couldn't agree less with him.

They tell us the hausa fulani is our problem. They tell us how the yorubas betrayed the igbos. They tell us the igbos are arrogant and want to take over every land they occupy.

What they don't tell us is that corruption has no tribe. They won't tell us that the hausa, yoruba and igbo woman go to the same hospital and won't get to see a doctor because they don't know anyone there. They won't tell us that someone from every ethnic group in this nation dies everyday on the bad roads we are left with.

How can they tell us that the millions that are looted are shared among the political elites and these elites comprise of all ethnic groups?

But gullible us, we leave the thieves who have left us in this quagmire and attack each other. Well, it's the easier thing to do.

Until we understand that our problem is not our ethnic or religious differences, we won't leave this mess.

*Ijeoma TDaniel


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Where do we have problem here?

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