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Let's stop deceiving ourselves. There's nothing like ending or defeating godfatherism in Edo State, Nigeria or anywhere in the world. A new crop of godfathers may just have been made in Edo State and Niger Delta (aka Wike).

This was how Oshiomhole "defeated" godfatherism in Edo State, only to become the new shirt man godfather.

apexjohn:
Wow..so glad to see ur turkey quick recovery..
Did u buy them from day old?

No. I got them at 8 weeks or thereabouts....out of Covid-19 lockdown boredom. That's what I'd remember coronavirus for. lol

Blackbelly:

Lol...it seems your hen considers you a potential mate. Hahahahaha animals can be funny at times.

Oops! Guess it's too much attention and care till lately when work resumed. Hahaha. So that means they're mature? I need to make nests for them asap.

Blackbelly:

I share your joy over this accomplishment. It goes to show that there's no problem without a solution.

True! They have all grown now and it turned out I have 3 hens and one tom. one of the hens is now doing something I don't understand. she's squatting each time I approach, especially in the morning.

please does anyone know what this means?

Today, I removed the splint, just under a month in treatment.

I had noticed for some days that the turkey had been walking fairly well, and standing on both legs. So, I gave it a few more days and removed the splint today. it's been behaving fine, after taking a few long minutes to scratch the affected thigh.

I'm happy it turned out well. And, for the first time, I feel glad that this happened, to teach me that it was possible to treat a broken fermur in such big birds

Thank you guys.

Less than two weeks. My bird is walking with the leg. Yes, it just limps a bit but it now moves by actually touching the injured leg to the ground....never happened before.

It joins others in going outside without help, just slower but gets to where others are. It even perches on my generator and some dwarf wall and flies down. Wish I could upload a video. This poult is strong! I'm hoping that by one month, I should be able to remove the splint.

NB: I had to change the splint on Thursday, after it was targeted by a stray dog and aggravated the injury. was no longer using the leg. After the retouch at night, on Friday it was already applying weight on the leg. Today, I limped well and perches on heights.

Thanks

Hello.

Today was significant in that it was exactly one week since the unfortunate injury. The bird is in high spirits, has good appetite and always wants to be with others, when I release the healthy ones. Sometimes, I'd help it down.

But today, I noticed it was squatting perfectly, folding both legs well. That shows it has begun applying more pressure on the broken thigh. Before now, it'd lay sideways, with injured leg stretched. Secondly, it no longer likes to eat in lying position. It always wants to stand (on one leg) to eat.

Guess it's an improvement.

Hello guys, my dear bird is still alive (and well, maybe).

It's been trying to stand and groom itself, clean up and chirp at me and other member of the flock. Most importantly, it tries to feed.

I try to always use what others want to guess what it may want (sunlight, grass, food, grass). Turkeys have their opinions and are very vocal in making their demands known.

I'm really hoping that this bird pulls through. Somehow, I'm also hoping it's female.... I'll make it hatch eggs for me. Lol.

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ChristianNorth:
I love white colour.

Make sure those kids pay.

Take care of the Lil beauty.

Thanks a lot. I check on it like every 30 minutes. As for the kids and their parents, I made sure there was a scene yesterday. People gathered for us....so that other boys and elders would never dare to cross my stuff again. it was very important to send out that message

Blackbelly:


I'll be following your thread to get updates on the progress. I was about mentioning splinting the fractured bone but you've done that already. I'll advice you frequently check the site to know if the splint is still firm or too tight. How old is the poult?

Yes, I noticed my first attempt at splinting was too tight as the leg began to swell under. a few hours. I had to loose it and redo, using a first layer of cloth to insulate the thigh muscles from the sticks. The swelling cleared by morning. I'll be checking.

Should be 11 weeks. I got them exactly three weeks ago and was told they were 8 weeks old. it's really my first attempt at poultry. Been doing a lot reading It's a Covid-19 lockdown project.

SpecialAgent:
If it's local one it will survive, I had one which had one of its toes removed , but it survived. You can take it to a vet for some ideas on how to care for it

Yes, it's local but the problem is the injury is at the thigh ..not the lower leg. And turkey is a big bird

Well, it's still alive. Began eating small feed last night. Ate again this morning.

I had to use cloth and sticks to splint the thigh. It sometimes stands on one leg and drops after after a few minutes. It's visibly in serious pains. I feel pity for the poor thing

I won't kill it. I'll just care for it and watch what happens. If it dies, okay. But if it survives, I'll be happy.

Guess I'll be blogging its progress here. Problem is when lockdown ends, i.may not know its activities during the day. But I'll tell its story to build our knowledge base here and for us to learn.

Guess I'd need this touch to be deleted. The earlier one which refused to post,blater posted

skedman:
Turkey are not strong to with stand the stress it will die

Thanks. I suspected so too but still had to seek solutions. I've come to love those birds. I'm just gutted. These guys are paying for this!

Never knew this one posted! The sever said it was overwhelmed.

Someone broke my young poult's thigh bone. Frajile stuff. (Picture attached)

Please help me on how to fix it.

I'm really livid with rage now and I'm confronting the boy's parents. But I need to help the poor bird stabilise.

Thanks

I released my poults today, as usual to feed on grass and bask in the morning sun. Unfortunately, some child pelted them with broken tiles and hit one at the thighs. The thigh bone got fractured and animal went lame. Pictures attached.

Please help .e see if it's possible to heal. What should I do to help? For how long? I don't even know who to call. Been long I posted here.

I'm really livid with rage...I'm confronting the parents of the boy, but I need to start helping my animal first.

while i agree that this thread is educative, it's also misleading people into believing that cities like Dubai, Beijing, Moskow, Paris, Budapest are countries. They are not!

Pls the OP and the mods should change the title to reflect this reality.

HeavenlyBang:


If I go and ask a lecturer what can be done about my bad grades...I have committed a crime?
By what legal statute exactly?

She committed no crime. It's left for the lecturer to refuse her and send her on her way. The burden of action lies 100% on the lecturer.

Please, what do you think can be done about "bad grades"? Just say if u went to beg a lecturer to award you unmerited marks for free....have u committed any crime?

nextstep:
Ladies, please record all phone calls with lecturers. Even when going to their office, turn on your smartphone recorder.

As this happens more and more, lecturers will stop pressuring girls in our institutions. Of course, ladies, you have to study hard so you don't become easy prey. But even still, there are some lecturers who will try to fail somebody even if she's doing well.

To those blaming the lady for failing... we can't all have good grades in all our classes. I've gotten some low marks and failed important exams in my time as a student - either because I was lazy, going through some issues, or just not understanding the material - failing a class is not a crime. What's a crime is demanding sexual or monetary favours in return for passing; there's also the fraud of falsifying a students record; these are crimes our lecturers have grown accustomed to committing every year, every semester.

There are also those questioning whether she trapped him by asking - even if she did propose, it's up to him to say "no, you can try the exam again, write a paper, or do some other academic-related work to show you know the material". From the pompous way he made his demands (and mentioned another lady who was willing to yield to them), I'm not convinced she's in the wrong.

Kudos to the lady jare, and to our randy lecturer who abuses his position: ntoooooooooor
I hope lecturers around will take notice - times have changed and misdeeds will be brought to light and punished.

Kudos. But when you failed those numerous times, what did you do? Brace up and study hard for an extra course next year or pick up a phone and call the lecturer for him to "do something"?

People spent 4-6 years in school without getting known by lecturers. When u abide by d rules and pass or even write the course again after you have failed, you won't have time to call any lecturer.

It's not a crime to fail. It only becomes a crime when you after seeing you've failed a course, instead of picking up ur handouts, u pick up ur phone to call the lecturer and propose inducements for better marks.

BabaO2:

You are only struggling to be rational. Did you know how CIA works? why don't you prosecute Otedola why he released phone conversation between him and lawan farouk? Did you catch the girl or u compel her to release the conversation? Intention is to clean the system of bad elements, same lecturer has been accused of sexual harassment by past female student now based in Ireland. The girl only played along to nail him not that they have been involved in sexual relationship in the past.

Your analogy does not work. We didn't prosecute Otedola but again, did we prosecute Lawan after he banked money in his cap?

I'm not asking that the said "victim" be prosecuted. But the claim she "played along" childish. She hasn't even made a statement on it. She probably thought we wud believe her to be a victim, as it's commonplace to take advantage of girls. She hasn't even claimed that the old man wrongly failed her to extort her or that the prof made the first call on this matter. Who else is involved in her sting operation?

We must protect our girls from evil men but you need to see the pressure students put lecturers under everyday.

AmazonTopaz:
I didn't really justify the girls action but I must say you have a good point.
And I think it was good the said lady's identity wasn't revealed.
My opinion.

We need to know who the girl is. We want to follow her academic history...how has she been "passing" her exams to the level of pursuing an MBA? Has she been sleeping with grandfathers for marks or is this a one-off? We can unearth her exam scrpts and compare with her exams scores. This case shud not be knee-jerk shi.t

Her reg number shud be public knowledge and if the school doesn't release her identify, i suggest that Prof Akindele finds a way to leak her details to the public. This will go a long way to show the "sexual harassment victims" that they don't have all the aces in blackmail. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

AmazonTopaz:

Views like these are annoying.
How can you even have sex because of marks what has education got to do with sex it is not your fault it is the system I blame.

True. Hos view was annoying.

But you seem to be too sure that the lecturer called up the student and said, "Hello Jane. You failed my course but there's only one remedy. You have to sleep with me 5 times in a week to make an E."

I think the girl made the first call. Whether she proposed to settle the old man with money, gifts, domestic chores or se.x, we don't know yet. In the end, there was a conversation before the released phone call. In bribes, both the giver and the taker are culpable, except one can prove the other was forcing them.

Why is the girl's identify being protected, while we all know this lecturer?

And, what happens to the dull, unintelligent, lazy student who had been sleeping with lecturers to pass exams and refused to appear before a committee set up to help probe her allegations?

The tone of that phone conversation showed that she failed a course and contacted the Prof to "do something" that would make her grade come up to pass mark. She proposed a deal...which she has been doing with others...but unfortunately, Prof Akindele is not like others that just f.uck u once and give u a B. He wanted five clear f.uck dates to move her mark from 33 to 40 or 45. To the w.hore apprentice, that was too much. She then arranged with her friends to set d man up. A case of irreconcilable differences in business negotiation.

Suspend or even sack and blacklist the randy old corrupt man but ensure that the girl writes and passes all her exams by herself going forward.

Brightgem:
No feedback, I don't really think you have time for this.

Hi Brightgem, do you need a writing partner, someone you can trust to effectively shed workload and deadline pressure? If you have been thinking about having time to bid and take more jobs, trusting that those at hand are in efficient hands, then send me a mail.

Regards.

Okeikpu:
it's alright

You had to quote that very long stuff just to type "It's alright"?
Village People Syndrome

Safiaa:
Why not just tell the girl you no wan marry again beforehand. Like I don’t gerrit.

It's called "cold feet", mostly an ominous sign of what to come that may be quite dangerous or that u may not be ready to carry. A damning revelation at d last minute can serve you cold feet.

Not saying standing a babe up in such manner is the best but hey, it's better than subjecting her to emotional punishments and murdering her in a few years.

i fell for the girl though.

Will the guests eat the already cooked rice and get drunk in the already bought drinks now?

OPERATION EGWU EKE II AND OUR “SEE FINISH” PHENOMENON

Time was when people shuddered upon hearing someone fell from a tree. The immediate kindred would not go to farm that day. Those already at work would suspend all they were doing and hurry home. People will rush to bring the medicine man to come heal the injured and divine what caused such a calamity. The victim would be tended to while sacrifices and prayers are offered to avert such evil occurrence from the people. Daily, before people of the umunna went for their activities, they would come check on their injured brother. As they came home on market days, people would buy ife afia for him to help suit his pains. This for someone who had dislocated or broken his bones from a fall.

If such a person died, we would not go to work in the days following such death, on the day of burial and certain key customary days following the final rites. His family was not left on their own. When robbers attacked, neighbours rallied round the affected family.

People cared. Greatly.

Then time began to pass and our people began to see more and more misfortune. We began to worse causes of death than falls, snake bite, tetnanus infection, cholera and iba. We saw how kolota could kill multiples of healthy people commuting from the village to the township at the twinkle of an eye. Even then, when we saw a vehicle involved in an accident, all other commuters would park to help the victims. Our journeys would be suspended without anyone raising a protest no matter how urgent our missions were.

In the big cities, we still cared for our neighbours and brothers but our level of commitment to ailing relatives and acquaintances began to wane. Our journey to nationhood has been very tortuous. Our people have moved from petty-robbers to kidnappers and now terrorists. Terrorism was novel to us between 2009 and 2014. Then, when we heard news of a shootout between security agencies and robbers, kidnappers or Boko Haram, we listened with bated breaths. We were not happy to hear the casualty figures, even if it was the bad guys that got gunned down. No, we didn’t want them dead. They were one of use. They were Nigerians. Our brothers.

Our first major bomb blast experience in Abuja on October 1st left unbelievable emotional scars. How could Nigerians decide to kill their own people in such numbers? Many lived were cut short. Many more limbs were shattered. Thousand were thrown into mourning. These are not what we as people could do. We had strong family values. Even the president at the time didn’t believe it. But thank God they weren’t suicide bombers. Mbanu! Our people cannot be suicide bombers. Those were what we watched on international television from the Middle East and Somalia. We even marveled as we watched such news. We don’t have that kind of mind. Abuja blasts were car bombs…mostly detonated to embarrass government than to kill innocents celebrating Nigeria’s independence. We moved on. Until Abubakar Shekau showed up in the scene.

Whenever a Boko Haram combatant detonated his improvised explosive device, he kills himself and many others. We could not understand. It was like a bad dream that we sincerely prayed to wake up from, the next morning. Such news were loudly reported in and outside Nigeria for weeks until another unfortunate incident takes over the airwaves. We mourned, collectively. We demanded action from the government and the security agencies.

But events kept unfolding in our eyes. When the suicide bombers morphed from young men to young women, our eyed popped into our palms. Who would have thought that a woman with the milk of love and kindness could wear and IED? I didn’t believe it, but these female suicide bombers beat every security strategy and even killed more people than their male counterparts. It made heart-wrenching news. Then entered the children. Yes, children were used as suicide bombers in our society and they killed themselves and others. By this time, Nigerians cared less and the initial shock of the possibility of a kind man helping a child cross a busy road and getting killed in the middle of the road as the child detonated the IED he/she wore didn’t last. Even the media blanked terrorism.

Boko Haram activities no longer makes local news. We now get to read about the world’s deadliest terror group from foreign news agencies. Nigerian media now supplies little or no information as Shekau and gang kidnap and kill people daily. When they kidnapped over 300 girls from Chibok, moved them through highly militarized zones and housed them where no man saw them for 2-4 years. We all shouted. Some in agony. Others in denial. But we shouted for years. About half of the girls are still in captivity but we shout no more. We have got used to it.

By this time, we had moved on from sensitivity. We had become numb. Our people have seen it all. Yes. We don see am finish and we can no longer be alarmed by happenings in Nigeria. We have grown too numb and too cold to be shocked, surprised or disappointment when things that were usually unexpected happen. No be today wey nyash dey back for Nigeria.

When it was reported that hundreds of Shia Muslims were massacred in Kaduna for not respecting the Chief of Army Staff’s convoy while on a spiritual procession, we raised a faint shout that lasted only 48 hours. The spiritual leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria has been in illegal custody ever since. We got tired of shouting for El-Zackzacky within a week. We moved on from him.

This time when we hear news of fire, road accident or bomb blast, we would only ask, “how many people died?” and continued with what we were doing. We have been involved so many road accidents and air mishaps that when we hear of a road accident, we will not be perturbed. We will only thank God that it didn’t kill many people. “My dear, thank God only 7 persons died. 5 survived.” We even publicly rejoice that we were not among the people that perished, even as our neighbours grieve.

Agatu, Nimbo, and other unfortunate communities cried as they were visited with the fury of angry herdsmen that we were told are not Nigerians. We only “stood with” Agatu and Nimbo on the day following each arson and massacre. Then their plight was forgotten immediately as our attention span grew shorter and shorter.

On the anti-corruption angle, we have heard accusations of people stealing mind-numbing amounts of money. Figures that makes James Ibori’s jail term look like an injustice to the former governor, yet such people are never convicted. The worst part of this is that as soon as an allegation is made public, our youths go up in arms against the investigating authorities: “Is he the only corrupt person in Nigeria? How much did he even steal? Are you saying that there is no corrupt person in the ruling party? What about Northerners? Have you tried Babacchir Lawal?” they would retort. We have seen so much robbery that when a suspect is arraigned, we only ask “how much did he steal?” to compare with unspecified benchmarks.

It seems that as Nigerian economy went deep into recession, our collective humanity went into recession too.

The Nigerian Army have released their pythons on a dancing exercise in the South East for one month. Even before the Egwu Eke II formally began, allegations (with video evidences) of human rights violations hit the social media. As we watched man’s inhumanity against fellow men, one could not but wonder where our humanity had gone. Actions that even the army hierarchy have apologized for and promised to investigate and apply sanctions on are roundly justified by Nigerian civilians.

The army whip their fellow citizens and make them lay nose deep in mud water; we justify it – shebi the idiots want to die for Nnamdi Kanu? Captives are lined up and made to fight one another like slaves of centuries past; we justify – is it not better than being killed? Nnamdi Kanu;s home is invaded; we justify – Kanu has violated all conditions of his bail. Abia State Governor cry for ceasefire and the military rubbish him; we justify – why did he not take decisive actions to rein the mad man in before now? Random people criticize the unprovoked occupation of Igbo Land (beginning with Abia Sate); we shout them down – you have found your voice now, but you lost it when Kanu was beating the drums of war. Then we see pictures of Nigerian youths allegedly killed for being in possession of IPOB regalia; blame the dead for flying IPOB colours while pythons danced.

Can someone tell me what can happen in Nigeria today that would truly shock Nigerians to the marrows? We are now immune to human feelings. Nigeria turns you into a walking shock absorber. A new drama, disaster or danger happens every day and soon, you become numb to it all. That’s the “see finish” phenomenon. We are in the see finish generation. Nothing shocks us, not anymore.

My name is Donmeca, and I don’t claim to have commonsense.
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leksmedia:
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Yes, i have opened itnin another device but not with my own laptop and tablet...d two devices i have always been using to work on d site.

Thanks but I'm not sure i can handle the DNS settings stuff, so I'd have to do my host a mail. All these oyibo host sef.

Thank you

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xtivin:

Calibrator gone bad,Replace

Thanks.

Pls what shud be my budget for the tab3 calibrator? Make dem no chop me too much