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Thank God no be only me. I don dey type mail remind them say I still dey here o.

Note: please you don't need to believe, but based on personal contact with these quick money enthusiasts, I believe this story 100%.

May this never come close to your family... Amen!

The story continues....

A twitter user shared this story of a boy who wanted to use his mum for money ritual but the babalawo decided to tell his parents. The mother did not agree, so he decided to do a demo (3 idiots comes to mind) for her.

GavelSlam:
Can someone be so daft as to kill his girlfriend, bury her in his room with the hope that he can use her parts to create wealth by way of rituals?

What's more stupid is that the lady he killed is the daughter of an ex-deputy governor.

How did he ever think this would work out?

I'll like to hear his statement.

Your concern is not the killing but his stupidity in the choice of target.
So he should have killed the daughter of "nobody" to prove his sense and evade justice right?

swiz123:
This is so unmerited considering the kind of mediocre school she graduated from.

Also, her dad being a former chairman of sapele-okpe community, I can't help but think that his litle riches came from embezzled funds.

These above facts makes this a worthless news

Children of hate will always talk!

1. Benson Idahosa University has one of the best Law Faculties in Nigeria. In 2016, the faculty won a moot court competition that has the likes of Lagos State University (LASU), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Bayero University Kano (BUK), University of Benin (UNIBEN), University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), University of Uyo (UNIUYO), River State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), and University of Jos (UNIJOS).

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/moot-court-competition-benson-idahosa-varsity-wins-1st-prize

I just wish poor youths (in intellect and money) will appreciate the fact that the distinction between public and private school as misconceived by folks like you is nothing but a pathetic illusion. i'm a product of Benson Idahosa University and a proud one. currently writing my thesis in UI, and i must tell you, there is nothing special here. Have seen and interacted with the best from these public schools.

2. The fact that the father was a former chairman of a community does not automatically mean that all his wealth comes from embezzled funds. Parents have bought more than cars for their children even without achieving anything. Its matter of what you have is what you give.

So the gift is merited even without a law degree
the gift is merited even though she is not a graduate of Harvard

You guys should channel your energies to making money instead of hating on people unnecessarily.
How many of your so called "Ivy League" schools' graduates are wondering the streets of twitter and nairaland begging for jobs.
And how many guys made it out there without passing through the four walls of even a "mediocre university"?

Think! the context have changed! Don't be left behind!

In the multitude of counsel, there is victory.

I'm looking at one of these: Conflict Theory, Relational Theory, Structural Conflict Theory, Systemic Theory, Human Needs Theory, Instrumentalism, Primordialism, and Relative Deprivation.

Please guys which of these theories do you think best explains farmer herder conflict in Benue State. Your opinion will be highly appreciated.

Thank you!

Wooow...congratulations to her. May God do it for us venturing into academics.

I don't wanna blame the system totally because the student is responsible for his/her ignorance in this internet age. Nobody will teach you about RESUME in a typical public school in Nigeria. It is left for you to learn outside the classroom what constitute real life scenarios. This is one of the benefits of Private Universities: you get full package for your money. Sometimes they even teach you how to eat, sit, laugh, and hold conversation in public.

So much to learn in this life!

May God help us all!

WE HAVE COMPROMISED STANDARD A LOT IN THIS COUNTRY

There is a national outcry that our educational system is bad if not worst. Though sometimes over exaggerated. But my experiences with some Nigerian graduates from NYSC days to this moment have proven this depressive assertion to be true.
But before I share a single experience, let me state it categorically that I'm not perfect (nobody is after all) but I can defend my self within the context of what I am about to share.
So I met this graduate who just finished service and is on the job hunt. She was asked by a prospective employer to send her RESUME through e-mail. It was like a dream when she asked me "David please what is a RESUME?" and I was speechless for some seconds because I couldn't believe that she doesn't know what a RESUME is. But her persistency and sincerity revealed that this is a typical Nigerian graduate who passed through the four walls of a university without knowing what a RESUME is.
So I explained to her as though I was in one of those high schools I used to sensitise during youth service. I have countless unimaginable experiences like this which have made me come to the conclusion that:

WE HAVE COMPROMISED STANDARD A LOT IN THIS COUNTRY.

You may not agree with me, but school is not meant for everyone. We have different abilities and different ways of expression. But the primordial system of "you must go to university and obtain a certificate to better your chances of success" is nothing but a flitting illusion in this 21st century. We have enough examples of successful people who have not seen the four walls of any higher institution but have added and still adding value to humanity. Some are born to be teachers, doctors, pastors, while others are born to be farmers, business tycoons, artists, etc. So if you are not called to be a professor, you will only be a mediocre in the comity of intellectuals. So also you will be killing human beings if you paid your way through medical school (they plenty for area).

My Appeal:

To Parents/Guardians: please do not force your child/ward to university when he/she is displaying an uncommon love and talent for football, music, dancing etc.

To the Government: please fund our educational system to be more practical than theoretical. We have the highest number of "certificate" educated Nigerians in the USA and UK but our roads, power, agricultural, and biological projects are still carried out by "uneducated" but skilled Chinese and Indian companies. Shame on us! Time to move to a more skill based curricula than unnecessary emphasis on certificate based system.

Enough is enough!

WE HAVE COMPROMISED STANDARD A LOT IN THIS COUNTRY.

Cc: Lalasticlala

I really don't understand. Most of these foreign students were trained in Universities with better equipments, lecturers, environments etc than the best Nigerian university. Yet when they come home, they are treated as unrefined (especially Doctors). What is it with the Nigerian system, is it the bulky theory that matters in a medical field? Because I believe the exam was not practical at all.
At the end, Nigerian universities still have no place in world ranking...pathetic!

By Elizabeth Uwandu
About 437 foreign medical students who sat for the Medical Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN examination recently, at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, UITH have been reported to have failed the exam following the release of the result.


doctors
Some of the students who had been been verified by US/MDCN questioned why only 243 allegedly passed out of the overall 680 Doctors and 10 Dentists.



According to some students who exclusively spoke to Vanguard, they alleged that a top source in UITH initially hinted that about 500 doctors passed the assessment examination, only for the MDCN through its Registrar, Dr Tajudeen Sanusi to releases a statement that only 243 actually passed.

One of the student describing the results as a ploy to undermine foreign trained doctors, said that the irregularities that characterised the entire process of the examination from registration to the writing the examination proper were questionable.


Some of the irregularities listed included: lack of coherent preparation for the students ; no cohesive curriculum and baseless marking scheme; high cost of verification and registration fees; including an alleged last minute change of questions by the MDCN and the stress they went in the course of three months preparations for the exam among others.


Recall that Vanguard published a scoop where the foreign medication students complained of victimization by Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, Registrar of MDCN ahead of the assessment examination slated for early November this year.

The foreign medical doctors also complained that since Saturday they heard about the results, they have been exposed to emotional and physical trauma.

Sanusi not only insulted us for studying abroad, but allegedly brought another question on the morning of the exam

Obi Chukwubuile one of the student alleged that :from what I heard Ilorin submitted questions for us but Sanusi came that morning and put his own questions and that was why there was delay and mix up of names but am surprised to see that the Sanusi only released 243.”

Another doctor who craved anonymous said the results were manipulated. “I just confirmed again from a reliable source that over 500 names was given to MDCN to upload. But, am surprised the story from UITH contradicts the one from MDCN,” added the doctor.

He continues, “In Multiple Choice Question, MCQ Dr Adedoyin, Chairman of the examination committee confirmed it that 91% of us passed and he said it that we have residual knowledge. So in other words, if at all we failed, we failed picture test that we were not taught properly, failed Objective Structured Clinical Examination, OSCE because we were not taught properly. This means the three months remedial was baseless? Questioned the doctor.

Call for scrap of remedial programme since foreign trained doctors are incompetent

For a doctor who gave his name as Dr Nuhu, since Dr Sanusi saw foreign trained doctors as incompetent, what was the need for remedial?

Dr Nuhu said when Registrar, Dr Sanusi paid them a visit on November 6th, 2017 at the UITH, his response to their complaints about a proper structure for the programme was that most of the doctors were unqualified for the MDCN assessment examination.

Dr Nuhu quoted Dr Sanusi as saying,”We train you in clinical medicine and dentistry to use your medulla not diagnostic medicine that is automated, which you were taught. I am sure based on your SSCE most of you are not qualified to be seated here.”

Calling for the scrap of MDCN assessment, Dr Blessing Edet noted that despite the rigour of getting verification from the United States of America through Electronic Portfolio of International Credentials EPIC,they were being looked down on. “Beginning with our registration, what were the criteria of uploading our documents to a body based in the US? According to what I read on the MDCN site, EPIC was to verify our diploma right? And also verify that the schools we got our degrees from are legit by US/MDCN/Nigerian standard.

“So if we had to go through all that stress and spend so much for all that verification, how come these foreign schools recognized the “verification body? Yet, according to Sanusi, foreign medical schools are still churning out incompetent Nigerian doctors? Asked the aggrieved doctor.

Continuing Edet said , “ We need to know what is a standard curriculum of MDCN like they have in other countries. Let us know what is expected of the foreign trained doctors coming home to practice. Let us have a scope, no matter how wide it is. You can’t come during introduction and tell us to concentrate on malaria, snake bite, systemic hypertension, hemoglobinopathies, maternal mortality, hemodialysis, etc and then in the exam bring propofol and ketamine. How many HOs practicing in Nigeria have come in contact with ropivacaine?;

“MDCN needs to answer these questions,’ what are the criteria for pass/fail. I do not think we put our names up for lottery, so they can not just release names saying pass. What are we being judged by? Is it by our spoken English? Is it by MCQs? What are the criteria for pass/fail? asked Edet.

Corroborating Edet claims of lack of structured curriculum for the assessment, Chinyere, who got depressed to the extent of causing bodily harm on herself but for the timely intervention of her colleagues, called for the immediate scrap of MDCN programme.

“We paid excessive money for verification. My point is, why the verification if Sanusi will still come out to say the schools verified by epic are sending substandard doctors to Nigeria. That is my point. Why the verification then when it has nothing to do with this exam?

Dr Ifeoma Ikenna equally supported her colleagues call for the MDCN scrap as she described her experience while writing the first set of MDCN examination last April in Lagos. “They should scrap out remedial as the hospital involved does not care. All they tell you is ask MDCN whenever there is a problem. And like Ilorin whatever you demand or ask the hospital, they tell you that MDCN has not given them a dime for this programme. “

“How can we pass when we had lectures as if we were starting medical school anew and the doctors told us to read the slides? A move that made us starved and studied just to pass but on the exam day we had to wait for two hours after we signed in only for no question from the lectures to come out.

“Imagine waiting from 7:30 am till 12 noon to start exam because Sanusi and his group came with new student exam card from Abuja. How do you expect us to pass? Cried Dr Ikenna

Meanwhile, efforts to get the response of Dr Sanusi proved abortive as several calls, text messages and email sent to contact on MDNC website were unanswered as at the time of filing this report.

savagefinder:
sorry bro.. But your condition is not as a result of masturbation, the penile muscles do not become weak as a result of frequent activity, because they depend majorly on blood flow pressure to get active (just putting it in lay man terms).
You can only point to masturbation if you do it at least twice every day and everyday of every week, even in that scenario, you are going to develop premature ejaculation in bed but not this symptom, only if you want at an hyper vigorous rate (you would probably die of heart attack before you start to worry about a limp diick

You are suffering from early signs of erectile dysfunction and should see a doctor immediately. Also if there is any habit you do such as smoking and taking pills before sex to enhance stamina, you need to focus on them more and stop them.
Eat more nitrogenous meals and make sure you take as many fruits as you can to reduce free radicals in your body that are oxidizing your cells..

I hope this helps

Wow! Thank you very much Sir.

sinceraconcept:
that could be the reason too. porn has raised his standard for women. and porn women can be wickedly fine. he should get more beautiful girls

That's right...thinking of using small phone without internet access

fuckerstard:
Oh man! 10 yrs wawu.

https://cdn.everyjoe.com/wp-content/gallery/shocked-baby/surprised-baby-gif-6.jpg


You need to start living among more people, like in the same apartment and stuff.

Avoid staying alone, instead go out more and hangout. Don't go reading bible o, you will wankk immediately you are back alone.

Do that for like 3-5 months, once in a while you need to masturbate like once in a week or two till you can control yourself.

You can't withdraw at once, you don dey dull ur babe already.

Thank you bro!

Hello guys, I have read countless topics here on the effects of masturbation but I thought they were all fabricated fictions to gain front page. But experience they say, is the best teacher.
Last week I got my babe to my room after so many hustle, but immediately it was time for action, my d**k no gree stand again o. It was like a dream but that was how my babe got mad and pushed me away. I immediately went to the bath room and jerked off while a natural p***y was in my room....hmmmm
Last night, here was my babe again in my room. I promised myself to bleep the hell out of her, but the unfortunate happens again. In the process of kissing and touching, I came uncontrollable....I felt like disappearing in the room. It was, and still a very depressing experience for me because I know the cause: MASTURBATION.
This is my Tenth year of masturbating, and I have always deliver during sex with girls. But right now I am very afraid. I need to stop this evil before it ruins my life. Please guys I need all the advice and insults to STOP this EVIL. I have tried to stop on my own, but the highest I have gone is just 3 Months, and later found myself deep inside this shit.

More pictures...

ChiefPiiko:
What are their names?

Tibwanga(Tibsy) vs Daisy

You remember the Late Governor of Taraba State? Well, his cousin whom practically was like his son has found the love of his life. The wedding is on 27th December, 2017 @Suntai village, Bali, Taraba State.

Government of lies, hypocrisy, and propaganda. How I wish my fellow youths will look beyond primordial differences of religion, region, ethnicity, and self aggrandizement in 2019 so we can have selfless, visionary and capable leaders.

God bless Nigeria!

Indications emerged on Monday that a former head of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on corruption charges, was reinstated based on the advice of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN).

This is contained in two separate letters by the Federal Civil Service Commission addressed to Maina and the Head of Service, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita.

The letters also indicated that Maina was reinstated into the service with effect from February 21, 2013, being the date he was earlier dismissed from service.
The letters also indicated that the FCSC approved Maina to sit for the next promotion examination for the post of Director (Administration), Grade Level 17.

Both letters dated September 18, 2017 were with reference number FC.4029.82/VOL.III/179.

The two letters were signed by Mustapha L. Sulaiman on behalf of the Chairman of the FCSC.

The letter addressed to Maina indicated that Malami, in his letter with reference number HAGF/FCSC/2017/VOL.1/3 and dated April 27, 2017 “requested” the FCSC to reinstate Maina on the basis that the warrant issued for Maina’s arrest had been quashed by a court order.

The letter with the title, ‘Reinstatement into service: Alhaji Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, Deputy Director (Administration), SGL 16; stated, “Kindly refer to the Attorney General of the Federation/Honourable Minister of Justice letter Ref. No. HAGF/FCSC/2017/VOL.1/3 dated April 27, 2017 requesting the Federal Civil Service Commission to give consequential effect to the judgment that voided the warrant of arrest issued against A. A. Maina which formed the basis for the query and his eventual dismissal.

“Further to the aforementioned letter, the Federal Civil Service Commission at its meeting held on June 14, 2017 deliberated on the Attorney General of the Federation’s letter and requested the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation vide letter FC.4029/82/VOL.III/160 of June 21, 2017 to advise the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior to consider the AGF’s letter, the officer’s case and make appropriate recommendation to the commission.

“The OHCSF accordingly advised the Ministry of Interior to consider the matter.

“The Ministry of Interior at its Senior Staff Committee meeting held on June 22, 2017 considered the disciplinary case against the officer and the letter by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice seeking the reinstatement of the officer as a Director (Administration), SGL. 17 in the Federal Civil Service.”

The letter added that the Senior Staff Committee of the Ministry of Interior recommended Maina’s reinstatement and the approval for him to sit for promotion examination.

It read in part, “The Ministry of Interior’s Senior Staff Committee deliberated on the case and recommended that Mr. Maina be reinstated into the Service as Deputy Director, SGL. 16. The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation vide letter Ref. No. HCSF/LU/COR/FCSC/749/III/135 dated August 14, 2017 forwarded the recommendations of the Senior Staff Committee of the Ministry on Interior to the FCSC for further necessary action.

“The FCSC at its meeting held on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 considered the letter from the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the recommendations of the Senior Staff Committee of the Ministry of Interior on the disciplinary case against Alhaji Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, Deputy Director (Administration), Salary Grade Level 16. The FCSC, thereafter, approved the reinstatement of the officer into the service with effect from February 21, 2013 (being the date he was earlier dismissed from service). The FCSC, also approved for the officer to sit for the next promotion examination to the post of Director (Administration), SGL. 17.

“I am therefore to convey the approval of the FCSC for the reinstatement into the Service of Alhaji Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, Deputy Director (Administration), SGL 16.”

The FCSC reproduced the content of letter addressed to Maina in the copy sent to the Head of Service.

But the FCSC, in its letter addressed to the Head of Service, stated, “You are kindly requested to deliver the attached original letter to the officer, please.”

When contacted on Monday, the Special Adviser to the AGF, Mr. Salihu Isah, said he was not aware of the opinion by his boss recommending Maina’s reinstatement.

“Nothing of such has been brought to my attention. I am not aware,” he said.

Source: http://punchng.com/agf-authorised-mainas-reinstatement-documents/

betterABIAstate:
"Amounted to zero or did not amounted to zero" what kind of English is that? It should be "amounted to zero or did not AMOUNT to zero"

So much from unilag, its like saying "arrived at zero or did not ARRIVED at zero" the correct statement should be "arrived at zero or did not ARRIVE at zero" or saying "he did not came to zero"

Up unilag

God bless you. This doesn't look like a typo error but a grammatical blunder. I was ashamed when i saw it. I had to read it again and again to confirm.

Hello sport geniuses in the house, my brother and I wanna organise a football competition by December this year. I am saddled with the responsibility to write a catching proposal that will be presented to sponsors and stakeholders in the state (Governor, Party Chairman, LGA Chairman, etc...) Please help a brother with any idea from the proposal to the organization and implementation.

Thank you!

- Nnamdi Kanu's brother has opened up on the controversies surrounding the clash between the army and IPOB

- Emmanuel, who alleged that the army was responsible for the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu and his father said the family refused to report the matter to the police because of their complicity

- He, however, admitted that Nnamdi Kanu was ready to speak with the federal government before their residence was attacked by the army

Emmanuel, a brother to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has opened up on the recent clash between members of IPOB and Nigerian army in Abia state.

Emmanuel also alleged that the army whisked away Nnamdi Kanu and his father after their residence was attacked by military operatives, Punch reports.
He said: "I don’t know the best way to narrate the story. The truth is that our house for some days has been under the siege of the Nigerian Army. The soldiers have invaded our house on two occasions. They (the army) said it was Operation Python Dance (Egwu Eke) which, of course, does not make any sense to us. This is so because the southeast geopolitical zone has been very peaceful until they invaded the place. That is the simple truth.

"We strongly believe that the Nigerian army whisked them away because since the day the soldiers invaded our house, we have not seen the duo and have not communicated with them.

"The army is in a better position to answer that question. They invaded our homes and took away many people - both the dead and the living. So, we are expecting them (the soldiers) to tell us their whereabouts. We have been asking questions about their whereabouts; we have yet to get any answer. So, we believe the invading soldiers are the right people to answer the question. They whisked away about 15 of them. They killed two of my cousins as well - they shot them dead in my compound."

Going further, Emmanuel narrated events leading to the attack on Nnamdi Kanu's residence by the army on September 14.

"They killed 22 people and 15 were injured. The whole thing started on the morning of September 14. First of all, they killed two of our ‘brothers’ in front of Diamond Bank, on Library Avenue, opposite Abia state government house and took their remains away. After some investigations, we discovered that they took the corpses to a mortuary at Isiala Ngwa local government area and dumped the bodies there.

"I have photographs to prove that. My community looks like a war zone up till now. People are being harassed and dehumanised by the soldiers every day. The soldiers are still in our community. We are still looking for some of our members in the community. Hopefully, before the end of the week we would have concluded on the number of people missing. If you visit my compound, you will discover that everywhere is covered with blood – even our dog, Jack, was shot dead."

Emmanuel also spoke on the reason why the family refused to report that Nnamdi Kanu and his father are both missing to the police.

"Which police? Is it the same institution that sent its personnel to come and kill us or the heavenly police? I have reported to the heavenly police, not to the Nigeria police that we have here.

Speaking on the report that Nnamdi Kanu was at a point ready for an amicable resolution of the crisis with the FG, he said:

"I’m aware of the move. The first meeting took place at the Enugu government house with southeast governors in attendance. Another one was scheduled to hold but while my brother was busy preparing for the meeting, the (federal) government was busy planning to assassinate him.

"The meeting was to be about having a common ground where everybody could stand. But that never happened."
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the senior special assistant to the president on diaspora affairs, Abike Dabiri, disclosed that the federal government has identified more foreign sources where the Indigenous People Biafra (IPOB) gets funding.

The presidential aide said the new foreign sources of funds for the pro-Biafra group were more than those earlier traced by the Nigerian government to France and the United Kingdom.

Source: https://www.naij.com/amp/1126899-nnamdi-kanus-brother-opens-whereabouts-issues.html

istandfortruth:
The Nigerian government was clearly in a hurry to label IPOB as a terrorrist organisation simply because it needs to justify its actions. If only the government will let go of nepotism (which is in itself a form of political corruption) and treat all Nigerians as equals the aggitations will cease. The Biafra aggitation isn't only a pull-driven one but also a push-driven aggitation, that's the reason why the aggitations increased in this administration. Just let go of nepotism and watch aggitations fizzle out.

Gos bless you!

It is yet another 21st of September for humanity to celebrate peace. But the concept of peace itself means different thing to different people. So the question today is what is peace to you? Is peace to you tied to fast cars, beautiful mansions, or billion dollar account? Is peace to you tied to that academic certification, professional certification, or career accomplishment? Is peace to you tied to friends and family support, respect, or sense of belonging? Is peace to you tied to your physique, level of intelligence or societal approval? Is peace to you tied to religion, ethnicity, or country?

Well, there are countless indices to measuring and understanding peace at individual and group levels in our contemporary world. In the group context, to some, peace is most often attached to the absence of war, while to others it is the presence of development, democracy, human right and gender equality. But our focus in this article is peace at the individual level which is the bedrock for family, communal, national and international peace. Before I proceed, let’s be guided by the views of some of the greatest thinkers in the world about peace:

Dalai Lama has this to say about peace “Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way. . . . Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.”

The greatest non-violent teacher, M.K. Gandhi thought us that “nonviolence is a weapon of the strong. . . . The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not. . . . The more I work at this law the more I feel the delight in life, the delight in the scheme of the universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe.”

Popularly regarded as the father of the academic discipline of peace and conflict studies, Johan Galtung posit that “if we begin with the need to survive, we immediately see that peace is a primary requirement of the human condition itself.”

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest philosophers in history also opined that “the importance of securing international peace was recognized by the really great men of former generations. But the technical advances of our times have turned this ethical postulate into a matter of life and death for civilized mankind today, and made the taking of an active part in the solution to the problem of peace a moral duty which no conscientious man can shirk.”

From the accounts of the great thinkers above, it is evident that world peace can only be achieved from the individual level. This informs the theme of this year’s International Day of Peace: Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for all. You cannot give respect, ensure safety and dignity for all when you do not have inner peace. The global call for us today is to acknowledge the sufferings of millions of refugees and internally displaced persons around the world and show love, provide safe haven and respect their human dignity. This is the whole essence of humanity: to reach out to those in need, those in pains, those in despair, those suffering from human created wars and natural disasters either in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe or in the Western Hemisphere. You can get comfortable with that dream job, car, house and family and play the “I don’t care attitude” but remember that when the evil of war is unleashed on humanity, posterity will judge you for keeping quiet, for not taking any action to ensure peace. Remember that you can’t stay peacefully in that big mansion when Nigeria is at war. Remember that we will all be casualties when Kim Jong Un decides to nuke America and Donald trump responds with mutual assured destruction. Now is the time to get busy for peace. now is the time to come out of our comfort zones to speak and act with one voice towards a better world. The suffering of one is the suffering of all.

Personal peace therefore is beyond having that dream car, that dream husband, that dream money, that dream family, that dream house, that dream job, that dream business, that dream career, that dream friend or that dream position. Peace is an inner beauty that is not tied to any physical material possession or metaphysical phenomena. It is a personal conviction of happiness irrespective of what is happening in and around you. This is the state at which every human being is said to be at peace. So, do not allow your peace to be determined by material things or abstract ideas, but be transformed by the renewing of your spirit feeling good and happy at all times in all situations.

Radiate your inner peace to the world, I will radiate mine, and together we will make the world a peaceful place.

Let’s all be slaves to the cause of peace!

Happy International Day of Peace!

Source: https://thinkdiplomacy./2017/09/21/celebrating-international-day-of-peace-what-is-peace-to-you/

Think Diplomacy

The word diplomacy has for quite sometimes been used in various contexts to meaning different things. First, it is sometimes used as a synonym for foreign policy. For example, when we say Nigerian foreign policy in Africa. Second, at times it is interchanged with negotiation as when one speaks of resolving a conflict through careful and patient diplomacy. Third, at other times, it is used to mean the Foreign Service itself. Fourth, there is a popular usage of the word to mean special skill, tact, care or politeness and in an unpleasant sense to mean duplicity and guile. Hence someone can be described as being diplomatic. Last but not the least, the word has been used to connote the totality of the functions of diplomats.

The different usage of the concept ‘diplomacy’ above are not wrong in their own right. However, we shall concern ourselves with the center-piece of this article as regard the call for humanity to ‘Think Diplomacy’. Since this is not an academic essay, I will not bore you with scholarly definitions of diplomacy. Nevertheless, it is pertinent to introduce you to the words of Keith Hamilton and Richard Langhorne who rightly define diplomacy as “a peaceful conduct of relations among political entities, their principals and accredited agents.” Political entities here encompasses state and non-state actors at local, national, regional and international level.

The World

After World War II, there emerged a search for world peace and security through collective security. This birthed the United Nations Organization in 1945, which have kept relative peace since Cold War era. The relative peace the world is enjoying today is because world leaders like Woodraw Wilson sat down and thought about diplomacy not war. War has never brought peace, but diplomacy has brought peace throughout history. From Westphalian era to Aemrican War of Independence, from the French revolution to the Bolshevick Revolution, from Napoleonic Europe to German Otto Von Bismarck days, were all wars and conflicts that ended at the table of diplomacy and not by blood and iron. Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been avoided if only we gave diplomacy a chance. This is why humanity must first think diplomacy before taken any action or reaction either in the Middle East, Korean Peninsula, South East Asia or Africa.

Nigeria

Arise o patriots and think diplomacy

Arise o patriots and speak with the voice of peace.

Arise o patriots and write with the pen of peace

Arise o patriots and walk the path of peace

Arise o patriots…!!!

Nigeria my country is going through a tough time. As patriots, it is our individual and collective duty to proffer solutions and not aggravate the situations with our words and actions. There are many conflicts in the land, Boko Haram, Militancy in the Niger Delta, Fulani Herdsmen in the Middle Belt, and now IPOB. Apart from “Boko Haram”, I believe diplomacy is the most viable way to finding a lasting solution to these conflicts, particularly the current unrest in the country as a result of clashes between Nigerian Army and IPOB in the Operation Python Dance II.

Fellow patriots, this is not the time to point accusing fingers at who is wrong and who is right. There are enough blames to go for everyone. But we must not be consumed by primordial ethnic, regional and religious differences and forget our root as human before any identity. Let us think diplomacy and give peace a chance. The lives of over 3million Nigerians that died during the Civil War in 1967 would have been avoided if only we hearken unto the voice of diplomacy. If the problems that led to the war are still with us today, it means that war cannot solve any problem. It will at best postpone it.

I urge our leaders to come to the negotiation table and address the root causes of the IPOB agitation and the likes. The root causes are but not limited to corruption, poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, impunity, and injustice. There is a popular saying that “a hungry man is an angry man”. This is the fate of millions of Nigerians, especially the jobless youths. Our government must be legitimate not only in legality but more importantly in performance. Basic infrastructures such as electricity, good roads, water, health facilities, education, and employment opportunities must be provided as part of preventive diplomacy and peace building.

Finally, I would like to call on all Nigerians to think, say, and act towards peace. That is what differentiate us human from animals: the ability to be rational, the ability to think before action. Human being works by thinking, while animals work by instinct. Our animal instinct will direct us to give it all and fight to the finish considering the current tension in the country. But the human advantage we have is that, we can think and relate to the aftermath of a war.

Frantz Fanon once wrote “…we are nothing on earth if we are not slaves to a cause…”

Join me and be a slave to the cause of peace in Nigeria and the world at large.

Source: https://thinkdiplomacy./2017/09/18/think-diplomacy/

[/b]“You see young Igbo men standing in front of military tanks with stone, bottle and sticks. You are calling them stupid people because they are not afraid.

They are not stupid, you just don’t know what is going on.

When u see human standing firm in front of a greater power, it’s not stupidity, but a psychological state of mind that is very dangerous to any society.

It’s a state of mind that represent hopelessness and all or nothing attitude. It is the same state of mind that ensured there is no peace in Middle East today. It’s a fanatical state of mind than can’t be conquered by any amount of military operations.[b]
This is an entire new perspective, and only diplomacy can work on their minds not operation python dance.

THE HOMICIDAL RYTHM OF THE PYTHON DANCE

On the 15th September 2016, one year ago today, I wrote the following.


“You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one.

Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because you killed their fathers and mothers during the war and shattered their homes

If you want the Igbo or any other southerner to stay and if you want Nigeria to remain one then treat us all as equals, offer our children and our people equal opportunities and a public apology and pay full compensation for all the atrocities that you and your people have committed against the people of the south and the northern minorities over the last two hundred years.

In addition to that you must defeat, destroy and dismantle Boko Haram, decommission your Fulani militias and herdsmen and put a stop to the marginalisation, threats, genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder of our people.
It is after you have done all these things that you can make an appeal to us for the continued unity of Nigeria.

Outside of that the Nigerian baby you are carrying and saying that you killed and died for during the civil war is already dead. It is only waiting to be buried”.

These words, written one year ago, remain relevant and true till today. What we are witnessing in the east in the name of Operation Python is barbaric and unacceptable. It ought to be condemned by every self-respecting person.

The behaviour of the military against a defenceless and unarmed civilian population in Abia state particularly is simply reprehensible.

What has Nnamdi Kanu or indeed the Igbo people done to warrant this primitive show of barbarism and force? We are on the brink of a total breakdown of law and order and a prolonged and bloody armed conflict.
I urge restraint on all sides and I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the army from the east and leave Nnamdi Kanu alone.

Terrorising your own people with soldiers is not the act of a courageous man but rather the act of a tyrant, a coward and a bully.

We call on the international community to bear witness to what is unfolding in eastern Nigeria.

The slaughter of innocent civilians by soldiers must stop. Yesterday it was the Shiite Muslims. Today it is the Igbo. Tomorrow it could be you.

Anyone that believes that a separatist movement or the quest for self-determination can be stopped by the force of arms alone has no knowledge of world history.

The more people people are killed the more the agitation will blossom and grow. The shedding of innocent blood energises, spreads and fortifies the cause for which it was shed.

This is a spiritual principle with practical consequences. It is a deep and mystical truism. The blood of martyrs is never shed in vain.
It cries to God in heaven for vengeance and it haunts and torments those that shed it from generation to generation.

The following questions must be answered. Who is fanning embers of hate if not this administration? Who is killing and locking up innocent people if not them? Who hates Christians, Middle Belters and southerners if not them?

And nothing reflects this disposition today more than the words of President Buhari’s spokesman, Mr. Shehu Garba, who in response to Mrs. Oby Ezekwezile’s laudable though belated observation that Buhari is nothing but a tribal leader who has been unfair to the people of the east, said the following:

“there is a deliberate sinister agenda by IPOB to provoke the soldiers into killing innocent people in retaliation so that Nnamdi Kanu would use the pictures of the victims for international propaganda by accusing the government of ethnic cleansing against the Igbos with the sole purpose of gaining sympathy”.

The question is this: why should the Buhari government feel provoked to murder anyone simply because they say that they want a referendum to determine their own future and simply because they want their own country? Is Nigeria a giant prison that no-one must question or dare to break out of? Did the British Army slaughter the Scots when they asked for a referendum?

Did the Spanish army butcher the people of Catalan for asking for their own country?

I do not think it is right or proper for innocent souls to be killed simply because they are exercising their right of free speech. No sane or civilised person should remain silent when such wickedness is unleashed on others.

When our soldiers force young men to bury their faces in pools of muddy water and drink it we know that we are dealing with animals and barbarians. When they shoot these young men in the back of the head and line up their bodies on the side of the road we know that this is not OUR army but rather army of occupation which seeks to dehumanise, humiliate, murder, subjugate and enslave our people.

I watched that horrific video and I cried for Nigeria. And after the tears came rage. Is this what our nation has been turned into What a shame and what a tragedy

There is only one side to this ugly story. Torture is torture. Murder is murder. Children are children. Blood is blood. And it is God’s will that we condemn evil and refuse to tolerate it.

Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following observatons about the abomination called the python dance from a handful of insightful and courageous commentators.

Adetilewa Adetomiwa wrote:

“You see young Igbo men standing in front of military tanks with stone, bottle and sticks. You are calling them stupid people because they are not afraid.

They are not stupid, you just don’t know what is going on.

When u see human standing firm in front of a greater power, it’s not stupidity, but a psychological state of mind that is very dangerous to any society.

It’s a state of mind that represent hopelessness and all or nothing attitude. It is the same state of mind that ensured there is no peace in Middle East today. It’s a fanatical state of mind than can’t be conquered by any amount of military operations.

As it is today, only dialogue can settle the war created by buhari in Igbo land. Else the rest of Nigeria will not have peace.

The earlier we prevent total breakdown of law and order with restructuring, the better”.

Again Chika Udenkwo wrote:

“A Country’s Unity is not determined by guns, sticks, wires, hate speech or restructuring. It is determined by a collective will of the people to forge a future that is beneficial to ALL”.

Again Aniefom Udoabasi wrote:

“Boko haram is deadly. They are armed to the teeth. They have killed military men in their hundreds. They have killed civilians in their tens of thousands. They have burned down houses and villages. They have burned down churches and mosques. They have threatened to blow up Nigeria. They even blew up the United Nations building in Abuja.

Yet northern elders/leaders, including Buhari, opposed any attempt by the military to invade any Northern community as a result of boko haram’s presence. Northern elders,again and again, asked the government to withdraw the army from Borno ,the headquarters of Boko Haram.

In fact, Buhari publicly said that it was wrong for the military to move against boko haram. He specifically said that any attack against boko haram should be viewed as an attack against the North as a whole. I’m not talking about a century or even a decade ago. I am talking about a few years ago.

Also Lai Mohammed, speaking for APC, Buhari’s party, said that it was wrong for the government to label boko haram as an unlawful organisation. This was immediately after the Nigerian government had declared boko haram an unlawful organization. APC said that declaring boko haram an unlawful organization in Nigeria is unconstitutional .
I also remember that when the United States government wanted to declare boko haram a terrorist organisation, the North vehemently opposed it. The Sultan of Sokoto led the opposition. He openly canvassed that the USA should not label boko haram a terrorist organisation.

Only CAN ,as led by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor ,canvassed for the United States to pencil boko haram down as a terrorist organisation. I remember that when pastor Ayo traveled to the United States to lobby its government to declare boko haram a terrorist organisation, he was ridiculed by Northern leaders for daring to cause their boko haram to be called a

Nnamdi Kanu, hate him or love him, has not killed a single soul. You may be irritated by the conduct of some of his followers ,but the fact remains that they are not armed.

They have not burned communities, have not blown up mosques or churches. They are just a group armed with social media and a radio station.

And yet you say that the army should clamp down ,attack and kill them. Same you who said that boko haram should not be attacked because that would mean an attack against the North!
Same you who said that boko haram should not be declared an unlawful organization by the Nigerian government!

Same you who pleaded that boko haram should not be declared a terrorist organisation by the United States government! Shame on you!”

Finally Jude Ndukwe wrote:

“Boko Haram killed UNIMAID lecturers, NNPC Geologists, soldiers, students, market men and women recently; just last week, Fulani herdsmen killed about 30 people in Plateau State with their killing of farmers and raping of even old women causing demonstrations in Ondo State, you said nothing, there was no outrage from you. But your preoccupation is an IPOB that has never killed or kidnapped or taken up arms against anyone except that their only weapon is their usual massive PEACEFUL rallies which makes you convulse out of jealousy.

While you are busy clapping for the military for their misplaced priority in the so called “show of force” against Nnamdi Kanu, the herdsmen are busy killing your fathers and raping your mothers freely, unchallenged and unhindered over two years or more now.

Common sense should tell you to focus your energy on telling the military to leave the peaceful south east alone and focus on your real enemies”.

I could not have put it better than any of these distinguished and respected individuals and I commend them for their courage, foresight, compassion, humanity and sense of decency.
They have spoken the minds of millions.

Finally let me end with the words of two of the greatest writers and literary icons that have ever lived.

Professor Wole Soyina wrote , “the man x
dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny” whilst Franz Fanon wrote:

“The future will have no pity for those men who, possessing the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth to their oppressors, have instead, taken refuge in an attitude of passivity, of mute indifference, and sometimes, of cold complicity. We are nothing on earth if we are not slaves to a cause, the cause of the people and the cause of justice, liberty and free ideas that are made available to all. Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”

The Nigerian people have much to learn from these famous words. May the souls of all those that were ruthlessly butchered and martyred by the army in Abia state rest in peace.

The Presidency has lambasted a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, for accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of being a sectional leader.

The Presidency further stated that the Indigenous People of Biafra was deliberately provoking soldiers to commit acts of violence in order to draw sympathy from the international community.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement on Thursday.

Shehu said, “While the military are taking all precautions to observe the rules of engagement, there is a deliberate sinister agenda by IPOB to provoke the soldiers into killing innocent people in retaliation so that Nnamdi Kanu would use the pictures of the victims for international propaganda by accusing the government of ethnic cleansing against the Igbo with the sole purpose of gaining sympathy.”

Ezekwesili, who is a Co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls group, had on Wednesday advised Buhari to rise above sectionalism and evacuate the soldiers deployed in the South-East as part of Operation Python Dance 2.

However, Shehu asked the former minister to stop being petty.

The statement read in part, “The Presidency has advised the Co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls group, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, to demonstrate a great sense of responsibility in the face of national security challenges posed by the IPOB incendiary propaganda designed to cause civil unrest in the country.

“A prominent influencer like Mrs. Ezekwesili has a moral and patriotic duty not to give ammunition to any violent group that seems determined to pursue its separatist agitation through reckless and destructive methods.”

According to Shehu, Ezekwesili failed to condemn IPOB and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who, he said, had been promoting violence for several months.

The President’s spokesman said since the former minister was very active on social media, she should have been using her energy to condemn the IPOB leader but she chose to look the other way.

The statement added, “While it is convenient for the civil society activist to condemn the military and the government of President Buhari, Mrs. Ekekwesili didn’t find it appropriate, even once, to criticise the dangerous and violent propaganda being propagated by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Oby, as they call her, tweets on everything. Why was she silent on this one?

“The attacks on soldiers and policemen by IPOB supporters were most irresponsible, indefensible and reckless and nobody in her position should elevate mobs to the status of rock stars for the sake of playing to the gallery.”

The President’s spokesman wondered why Ezekwesili “retreated to the background or lost her voice while IPOB supporters were violently molesting, harassing, attacking and jeopardising the lives of indigenes and non-indigenes.”

He challenged the former minister to explain to Nigerians where the constitution of Nigeria, and international human rights law, support the killing and molestation of innocent people in the name of advocacy for self-determination.

Shehu said Ezekwesili’s “hypocritical and timid silence while Kanu’s IPOB supporters were engaged in lawlessness and recklessness in violation of his bail conditions is a burden on her credibility as a national crusader who should be courageous to condemn criminality. This art of using a raincoat while taking a bath is nothing short of self deceit.”

The presidential spokesman reminded the ex-minister that if the Buhari administration could take tough action against the extremist religious groups in the northern parts of the country to preserve national security, it was ridiculous to accuse the President of sending soldiers to the South-East because he hates the Igbo.

Shehu rubbished reports that the Buhari administration was marginalizing the Igbo.

He noted that the two most important economic entities in the country- the Ministry of Petroleum Resources) and the Central Bank of Nigeria – were being run by Igbo, Ibe Kachikwu and Godwin Emefiele, respectively.

Shehu added, “A President, who has put the nation’s cash cows, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Petroleum, in the hands of the Igbo; who has given four out of five states in the sub-region senior cabinet posts in his administration, including Foreign Affairs; and Industry, Trade and Investment, and is constructing the Second Niger Bridge after years of deceit and false starts, cannot be called a hater of the Igbo.”

Source: http://punchng.com/presidency-knocks-ezekwesili-says-ipob-provoking-army-to-kill/

A Nephew's Dirge To The Best Uncle and Mentor

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity

By David Gambo (small daddy)

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
A lad’s wisdom has failed him
To sing for a personality yet unknown
So help me God

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
My hero my mentor
I grew with the fear of uncertainties
But you gave me hope

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
My teacher my wisdom
You thought me values
That are guiding me today

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
My admirer my love
You thought me how to catch fish
Instead of giving me fish

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
My pastor my life coach
You thought me to live for others
To give than to receive

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
My politician my philosopher
You thought me to change the game
You did changed the game in Taraba

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
My Uncle my sponsor
You said to me: I will give my life to provide education, health and food for you instead of monies, cars and castles

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
You touched millions of life
With your power, position and prospect
Many were the afflictions in Taraba
But you delivered us all

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
A Governor who never had a castle in Jalingo nor Abuja
A Governor whose relatives have no status of a typical Nigerian politician
You told us: I am the Governor of Taraba and not the Danfulanis

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
Your seeds are growing
We promise to start where you stopped
The family is green

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
You lived for Humanity
Irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity
Identity, background and belief

The Lion of the Tribe of Humanity
Today I do not cry
Today I am happy
Today I celebrate you
Because you fulfilled purpose

Rest in Peace!
I will see you again!
Pharm. Danbaba Danfulani Suntai