₦airaland Forum

Hmm

We saw what you did there, Comrade.

Added Atiku's and Obi's to make it seem like na all presidential candidates.

Is that how you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned holy communion?

World peace and prosperity. Cos anywhere you Japa to, the ripples of the world's ills - wars, climate change, natural disasters, etc. - will find you. The world is a global village (United Nations Organisation, 2014).

God have Messi o

Who's more heartless? The husband or the sister?

Note: the sister is 'blood'.
The husband is only water.

Fear women? (Like). Or fear we men (share)?

Flaunting your wealth is natural. Well, the reasons are natural. According to Voi (2022) as well as Goenka and Thomas (2020), people who flaunt wealth are either obsessed with those things they flaunt, seeking attention just as a child does, really wish to make themselves believe things are (still) great while reality may be different, or are simply feeling insecure. But, are those not natural?

Moreover, we all love to show off something. Some, beauty. Some, brain. Some, like DAYPEN, their skills. Others, their faith and piety (Ramachandra, 2017). And we all attract the same things regardless of what is shown off: admiration or envy. Now, that is where the message makes good sense.

DSS' admonition recognises the danger of flaunting the wrong thing: money. We are all envious of the rich, those we see as more successful, materially, than we are although no one likes to admit it (Waterloo, 2022). In fact, we all covet their wealth, and would grab it at the slightest chance. Why not? Money apparently rules over the other things which could be flaunted. It is the ultimate. And it is the most transferable....or 'stealable'. To make matters worse, 133million people out of 200million, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (2022), are need - not just want - some of the money in Nigeria. DAYPEN (2022) hypothesizes that people are more likely to admire than envy you for having what they do not think they need; they are also more likely to envy you than admire you for having what they think they need.

The lesson: one cannot but flaunt something. One just have to be aware that the more liquid/transferable the asset, the greater the proportion of have-nots (needy) in the population, the more dangerous it is to flaunt. Nonetheless, the joy of having money, for some, only comes from flaunting it. And that is natural. Some admonition should therefore go to the envious observer too, to double up 'legitly', or gboju (Wisdom, 2022).

An achiever. Congrats once more.

Crime does not pay (Lucky Dube, 1989).