Bro,
Have you been to Russia and seen the poverty and underdevelopment there? Beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg (much like Lagos and Abuja), the rest of Russia is just modern Ajegunle.

Russia is even more corrupt than Nigeria. It is no different from Nigeria gas station mentality - a gas based mono economy shared among the oligarchs. A few individuals own the oil blocks, siphone the revenue and either stash the revenue or invest it abroad while the Russian population grinds in poverty. The Russian economy is a walking dead body that's why Russians are among the largest groups of people immigrating out of their country in search of greener pastures. China's relationship with Russia is simply so that they can force Russia to sell them Oil at a cheap rate, and get their support for the colonization of eastern, central, and western African corridors.

When it comes to economic and developmental partnerships, China's works with the USA and Europe and doesn't touch Russia with a long spoon.

The Japanese and Chinese currencies are benchmarked on the dollar. The euro is benchmarked on the dollar, the Russian rubble has fallen more than 40% in the last 2yrs. The so-called brics is a group of shadow governments run by Russian and Chinese agents. If you make the error of benchmarking your economy on that, you will become another Venezuela in the next 12months.

An overview of Buhari’s leadership in Nigeria.

https://m.soundcloud.com/thecolorofstories/the-civilian-dictatorship-in-nigeria

Pastors don fry this one sense, see him khaki coat!

OGBONNA NWUKE, SCHOLARSHIP AND I, part 1

Not only have I watched Hon. Nwuke Ogbonna dishonour himself by allowing his boys tell fat lies about the so-called scholarship thing and using my name to sell their lies, I am equally shocked at how low the man stooped when he actually told his boys that he is my benefactor. He even gave them his photo album where he has a photo of me and him and used that to narrate how he has been helping me. He even claimed he paid my school fees and alleged that I have no education at the same time. Gosh!!!
At first, when I started reading the anthology of trash from his copy-and-paste political slaves, I didn’t want to believe that the man himself would be the brain behind that unintelligent misadventure, to the extent of saying he paid me money to conduct his scholarship. I left him a WhatsApp message asking him to clarify where, when and how he became my benefactor, but up till this time, he has not responded. But I was wrong, the man has not only joined his pigs in the mud play, he is the man of the match. As unfortunate as that is, every fire in a slum, if not extinguished at the point of sparkle and flaming, may result to a wildfire. It is on this note that I am using this piece to put the pig farmer and his pigs back to their pen.
To put the records straight:

FIRST BLOOD:

I drew first blood in my ‘battle’ with Mr. Nwuke when in 2010-2011, I started a campaign called THE TRUE FACE OF ETCHE, a highlight of the marginalisation and neglect Etche was passing through under the Rivers State Government. That campaign included pictures, videos and publications. Within days the campaign received a massive support from Etche people. Mr. Nwuke on the other hand was an official of Rivers State Government trying so hard, but unsuccessfully to defend his boss. That campaign gave birth to a lot of political consciousness and movements that have and continue to question the status-quo in Etche. That movement is responsible for the involvement of young people in Etche politics today and I have no regret in my involvement in it. It was this never-before confrontation that drew the battle line. The new consciousness meant I had drawn the first blood. It came with threats, machinations and all sorts of slander, for those who taught there was something to avenge. The rest is history.

ACADEMIC RECORDS:

As pedestrian as the allegation that I am not schooled and the allegation at the same time that Mr. Nwuke saw me through school is, I have to step-down to his level to put the records straight. Agreed, I am not where I set out to be academically at this age, but I don't think I am doing that badly to warrant an attack in that direction. I don't have a PhD yet, but that should not be a reason for someone to attack me, especially if you are someone who most likely is incapable of aspiring to that height yourself.

1. As it stands, I am more educated than Ogbonna Nwuke. I have a verifiable OND in Banking and Finance, HND in Accounting, ICAN in view, a lot of personal successes in research work and have been accepted into a Masters Degree program in Entrepreneurship at the Prestigious University of Liverpool, England. And to add, I have verifiable certificates, course and school mates, plus placement documents, something I doubt Mr. Nwuke can boast of.

2. I got my HND in 2008. At the time of my graduation, Mr. Nwuke had no contacts whatsoever with me and could not have played a role in the life of someone who didn’t exist in his world.

3. I am the one who has made tremendous sacrifices to help the career of Mr. Nwuke and those sacrifices include spending my own personal funds to organize a scholarship scheme for him in other to save him from shame. Details shall follow.

SCHOLARSHIP

In April of 2012, Mr. Nwuke attended a convention put together by the group PROUD TO BE ETCHE as a result of the group’s crusade for accountability and responsibility from public office holders. After being seriously grilled by participants at the event, Mr. Nwuke, according to his words decided to ask the help of the group in putting together a scholarship scheme for 18 people at N100,000 per student for a period of 4yrs and extra in the case of students whose courses spanned beyond 4yrs. The group kicked against that, arguing that it amounted to only N1,800,00 per annum which translated to nothing when compared with the annual budgetary N150M Constituency project fund. Mr Nwuke replied by saying that this wasn’t going to be funded through the constituency purse and that this was a charitable effort of his which he was about to give to the Anglican Communion through The Rt. Revd Precious Nwala, Bishop of Etche Anglican Diocese, but is now reverting to the group. There and then, the group, in a statement presented by Mr. Chimezie Onwugbuta agreed with Mr. Nwuke that the said scholarship scheme would never be referenced politically and would never be seen as anything related to the office of House of Representatives. As a group, PROUD TO BE ETCHE accepted to help Mr. Nwuke organize the scholarship and resolved to do it for him free of charge- Mr. Nwuke was to provide logistics and the group was to work for him for free.

In subsequent meetings, Mr. Nwuke talked about starting a foundation and that that was the idea behind the scholarship thing. Committees were set and work was started. The Scholarship test was fixed for August 4, 2012 and that was the point where Mr. Nwuke disappeared. Between April and the night before the Test, it was from one story to another from Mr. Nwuke. All correspondences and pleas to him to release funds to print forms, publicize the event, transport materials, contact resource persons and produce question papers, secure a venue + other logistics, did not yield any result. We were faced with either abandoning the process and shaming Mr. Nwuke, or saving his ass. We chose to save his ass. Resource persons decided to set questions for free and I proceeded to bear 100% of the cost of the process, without the knowledge of even his daughter who was working with us or the knowledge of any other person outside Umeri Hanson, as I didn’t want anyone to take advantage of that and ridicule Mr. Nwuke. Myself and some close friends in the group decided to take the task head-on. We starved on days we had nothing, and fed on days we could provide for ourselves. Every single penny that was spent on that Test was from my private pocket. In-fact, before the test date, we had become fed up with Mr. Nwuke’s antics that I was now talking with his brother Mr. Zubby Nwuke to help us convince his brother to keep to his words. It was so bad that it was only on the night before the test, being August 3, 2012, that Mr. Zubby Nwuke sent me the sum of N240,000 as refunds for all I had spent in the process.

Ladies and gentlemen, which serious minded individual with love for his people and his project would release funds the night before his own event? If I had waited for him to release the funds, or even mentioned to the group at that time that he was yet to fund the programme, would there have been any scholarship today? Of course, the answer is no.

But the above represents just a fraction of the misery Mr. Nwuke put us through in the course of the program. After the test and a very thorough screening exercise by dedicated Etche people, we were faced with another problem of payment to the successful students. The academic year was almost gone and Mr. Nwuke was not ready and when he came, he wanted to bring politics to it, but we refused and that was the first open conflict between the group and Mr. Nwuke. He insisted on making payment on the same day and in the same venue the then Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi was to visit Etche for a townhall meeting. We refused and insisted that our agreement that this would not be used to retire the Etche-Omuma Federal Constituency fund must stand. I was at the forefront of that insistence. He finally bowed to us, but not without joining the payment with another political function. By the end of that year (2012), the first payment was made and after that, Mr. Nwuke disappeared.

Faced with the dilemma of stranded students and persistent phone calls, I searched for Mr. Nwuke personally and with the group PROUD TO BE ETCHE, without success. We held countless meetings and devised countless strategies to track him down, but the man was as slippery as the tail of a monkey soaked in okro soup. From voicecalls to text messages, we were far from results, until one day we decided that he should transfer all of the funds to the group and allow us manage the scholarship programme. At this time, some of the students were already finishing their third year and entering into their final year and all Mr. Nwuke had paid was funds for 1yr.

Meanwhile, in the student’s 3rd year of study, Mr. Nwuke was yet to make any further payments. The program was owing a backlog of funds for 2 academic years. We got him on one occasion during that period and he agreed to give us a cheque to offset the debts. He issued a GTB cheque for N3,600,000 in my name and we happily rushed off, informed the students that they were going to be paid, only to get to the bank to discover that it was dud check. The cheque bounced!
I cried that day and when I got back to him, he promised he was going to transfer funds to that account, but he never did on all of the occasions i returned to the bank. The Banker that I presented the cheque to told me that Mr. Nwuke has another account with them, that he didn’t want to pay that money, that if he wanted, he could have issued the cheque on another of his GTB accounts where he had money. He advised me to go home and rest.

It is important to note that at the time Mr. Nwuke was doing this, there was already a law criminalizing issuance of dud cheques and that could have landed Mr. Nwuke in serious mess if we had taken the cheque to the EFCC. I was again faced with telling the students that that the cheque bounced and risking angry people making a mincemeat of Ogbonna Nwuke, or managing the situation and saving his ass again. For the second time, I chose to save his ass. That was notwithstanding that he had already told his aides at the point in time, that he has given me a cheque to pay the students. Rumuors were flying again on how PROUD TO BE ETCHE had squandered a non-existent scholarship fund. One student was notorious in his inquiries, but do you blame him, a young man whose hopes had been raised by the promise of a politician, even though he was not privileged to the under currents, Princewill Azubuike harassed the living hell out of any leader of PROUD TO BE ETCHE he had access to.

Finally, sometime in 2014, we were able to catch him again, at this time, both students and members of the group had taken Mr. Nwuke to the cleaners on this subject matter. Of his 11 aides, about 9 had resigned and joined in criticizing him. I kept my cool and privately continued to push and prick his conscience in a manner that irritated him. At that point, I couldn’t stop, because the process had already begun and all of our reputations were on the line. Like I said earlier, some people had even started accusing the group of embezzling funds for the program, not knowing that the group had not received a dime from Mr. Nwuke. The group moved to defend itself and so did individuals. We convened more meetings and through the wisdom of some senior members of the group, we journeyed that slippery road gracefully. When we got hold of him, we had done an audit of the students at this point and presented him with a list of students who were still in school...and yes, some people had stopped halfway at that point. And this time, we suggested and insisted that the the outstanding which had climbed to 3yrs now, be paid to the students individually and that the students be present when the cheques are written. Mr. Nwuke agreed to the audited list, of course it was easier as it meant paying less money, agreed to paying directly to the students, but refused to clear all 3yrs debts. He went for 2yrs for people still in school and 1 yr for those who had stopped 1yr earlier.

The cheques were issued in his house to the students and Mr. Hope Amadi and myself witnessed for the group, PROUD TO BE ETCHE. Pictures were taken and I heard clips were sent to TV stations and our images were used as part of an APC promotion news item. Not only was that disrespectful to us as individuals, it was against the agreement Mr. Nwuke reached with us in April of 2012. But we kept calm, we were consoled that some of the funds were being released, in what at this point had obviously proven to be a sham and insincere attempt at granting scholarship to financially challenged people.

Was that the end of the drama? No! After so much persuasion, we agreed to accept a cheque for N100,000 from Mr. Nwuke which he called ‘’TRANSPORT FARE’’. Of the cheques issued that day, at least 5 turned out dud and bounced! Extra efforts had to be made to push them through on subsequent dates. The ‘’TRANSPORT FARE’’ cheque was also a dud cheque. It bounced when presented at the counter. I still have both cheques with me.

Since that day no other payment has been made to the students, at least not to my knowledge or that of the group PROUD TO BE ETCHE. In my record and that of the group, the scholarship scheme ended inconclusively, and i must add, disgracefully to everyone of us who tried so hard to make it a success.

MDG KEKE-NAPEP:

The other battle between me and Mr. Nwuke reached it’s crescendo when on December 21, 2015 at 9:57am, I wrote an Open Letter to him titled ‘’THERE SHOULD BE A LIMIT TO HOW A MAN INSULTS HIS OWN PEOPLE’’. That was a reaction to the 150 tricycles from the Millennium Development Goals program Mr. Nwuke received on behalf of Etche people, but instead of distributing it, he fraudulently converted them to his personal properties. He held the tricycles for 3yrs in his house (transferring them from his Old GRA house to his Trans Amadi house, wiped-off the insignia of the MDG and replaced it with his name and proceeded to issue about 11 of them to people who stood as witnesses for him in his Elections Petitions Tribunal matter in Abuja. I called him out on this and he didn’t take it lightly. My letter had exposed him to the public and he was loosing public support in his re-election bid. He called my mobile phone and expressed displeasure over the expository letter. Since then, he and his boys who have nothing to campaign with, have been grappling at stones and nails, seeking to malign me. Knowing how impossible that is, they have resorted to blackmailing my academic records. What this bombastic nonentities do not know is that I am even more educated than their principal. That we do not sing our own academic praise like they do with their unverifiable ‘papers’, doesn’t mean we don’t have a voice.

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP/ENCOUNTERS:

There is absolutely no personal relationship between Ogbonna Nwuke and I. The first time i visited him was when he was residing at No. 1 Igbodo street, Old GRA Port Harcourt. He had invited me to his house on three good occasions, but i had declined with excuses of a busy schedule and when I eventually visited him on the 29th of December, I made sure I had company. I went there with Mr. Nwiyi Success, my brother and friend who is also part of the PROUD TO BE ETCHE MOVEMENT. We met Mr. Nwuke in the presence of his family, friends and aides. Barr. Chigozie Emem who as at that day hadn’t resigned as his aide, offered us seats and soft drinks. We sat and discussed briefly outside his house and left, but before we left, he took me to his car and gave me N20,000 and wished me a happy new year. I said thank you and left.

The second time, I visited him was when my official assignment in Abuja with two of my professional colleagues coincided with an APC event in the same city. Almost every hotel was fully booked and prices were skyrocketing. We were stranded and thoughts of the Obio-Akpor embassy came to us, the other of my colleague who is also from Etche and I decided that we should call Mr. Nwuke and ask after the Etche-Omuma Embassy. We called him and told him that we are stranded, that his party people have booked all the hotels and caused an increase in prices, that he should provide us our own embassy. He laughed and directed us to meet him at a Hotel in Abuja, where Etche APC people were sharing their own money. We (myself, and my two colleagues) met him there and drove to his house together. After pleasantries and light entertainment, his brother Mr. Zubby Nwuke gave us N100,000. We called Mr. Kelvin Inwere who assisted us get discounts in a hotel.

Outside the scenarios above, Mr. Nwuke and I have no other dealings, financial and otherwise, not even a penny or sharing a drink. If Mr. Nwuke will be sincere to himself, he would recall telling people that I prefer to relate with Mr. Allwell Onyesoh as my brother and friend, than relate with him. That Allwell and I are friends is no secret and not even political differences will break that. And I don’t care how that makes any other person who considers himself Allwell’s internal party rival feel. To add, most of my conversations with Mr. Nwuke, voice, text, or face-face are recorded and can be presented for further proof, if need be.

I will stop here and wait for them to open their gutter mouths again, then they will be shocked at what will follow next.

Imagine if whenever anyone asked you to say a little something about yourself, you had your very own orchestra to back you up. That’s the privileged position in which Ahamefule J. Oluo finds himself in “Now I’m Fine,” the engaging musical memoir that opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival.

Exercises in stand-up autobiography are epidemic in experimental theater. But Mr. Oluo, a Seattle-based polymath of the performing arts (writer, composer, comedian, trumpeter, pianist, etc.), manages to expand the format to dizzying proportions, with a little help from friends who include more than a dozen talented musicians and a glamorous vocalist (the bearded, gown-wearing okanomodé). The standard, modest, one-man confessional here becomes a grand hybrid.

This may seem to smack of hubris. But Mr. Oluo, who wrote the show with his wife, the columnist Lindy West of The Guardian, has an ingratiatingly self-deprecating manner that disarms such objections. His comic style is based in stories that set him up to be knocked down, like the anecdote in which an act of high school bravery on behalf of a bullied classmate is resoundingly rejected.

Such are the rhythms of life according to Mr. Oluo, who dresses like a bow-tied big band leader (but with a punk-rockabilly quiff) and wears a matching air of jaunty melancholy. His Nigerian father left his American mother and their two young children when he took what turned out to be a permanent vacation in his homeland. Mr. Oluo was left with no paternal legacy except an unwieldy African name.
That very name, Ahamefule, turns into another trigger for deflating expectations, when Mr. Oluo meets a Nigerian in a bar who translates it for him correctly. Far worse karmic attacks await, reaching a climax with a near-fatal bout of an autoimmune disease that causes Mr. Oluo’s skin to disintegrate.

There is one story that Mr. Oluo says is still so upsetting that he can’t put it into words, and he lets a string quartet fill in the silence with a brooding impressionistic portrait of this personal Gethsemane. Even with his brass-plump band in full swing, Mr. Oluo’s modernist jazz leans toward solemnity, suggesting a New Orleans funeral march orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg.

Though this show’s title, “Now I’m Fine,” might promise a narrative out of the popular “It gets better” school of storytelling, Mr. Oluo refuses to traffic in false hopes. Being fine, he makes clear, is only a provisional state.
But when he conducts his band, his calm, carefully measured, sad-sack comic demeanor drops away. He bounces on the balls of his feet, and even occasionally jumps, just a little, into the air. Music provides the not inconsiderable consolation of at least temporarily defying gravity, in all senses of the word.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/theater/review-now-im-fine-ahamefule-j-oluos-take-on-himself.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

Whose photo is on New York Times?
It is our own Ahamefule J Oluo. The Honorable Chief stops at nothing in making Art beautiful. While the world is love drunk on the earth shaking, mind blowing, extravagantly extraordinarily beautiful NOW I'M FINE, New York Times stylishly announce the upcoming artistic dexterity and creative panache SUSAN!!!
This young man won't stop these seductive artistic excellence anytime soon...he just goes on and on wowing us to unimaginable ecstasy!
If you are anywhere near New York right now, you have a chance to be part of an unforgettable experience at the Public Theater. NOW I'M FINE is about to hit you!

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www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/UTR/2016/Now-Im-Fine/

I do not know where you got your narrative from, nor the motive behind this religious appropriation of yours. Amadioha is native to and resides in Ozuzu, in present day Etche local government area of Rivers State. Though, the deity has jurisdiction and influence across Africa, it is wrong to describe it as an Igbo god. If for any reason you wish to localize the deity or let people into its abode, you should atleast truthfully write that the god is native to and resides in Etche.

Amadioha does not appear to lying tongues AND IF YOU DO NOT REPENT, YOU STAND THE RISK OF BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTENING AND THUNDER!

WHICH IS IT NOW, 1, 2, OR ?

Note: The laws of our land did not envisage the death of a candidate after commencement of the election but before the conclusion of the process, especially one with the highest number of votes at the point in time dying before the process of election is concluded, and so did not make provisions for it. Our Electoral Act further put a restriction on when a candidate can be substituted for another.
What do we do now, are we in a constitutional crisis?

Section 181
(1) If a person duly elected as Governor dies before taking and subscribing the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office, or is unable for any reason whatsoever to be sworn in, the person elected with him as Deputy governor shall be sworn in as Governor and he shall nominate a new Deputy-Governor who shall be appointed by the Governor with the approval of a simple majority of the House of Assembly of the State.

(2) Where the persons duly elected as Governor and Deputy Governor of a State die or are for any reason unable to assume office before the inauguration of the house of Assembly, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall immediately conduct an election for a Governor and Deputy Governor of the State.

EBCO's SELFISH ADVICE TO THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT!


Dear Hon. Minister for Transport,

I have a few lines for you this afternoon and it is not political, but a bit selfish. Selfish in the sense that I and other of my friends will be beneficiaries to these if you find them reasonable and action them. On this premise, you can conveniently call this EBCO's SELFISH ADVICE TO THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT.

Records have it that you have not been my friend from social media recoverable memory and I am not in anyway ashamed of this wonderful record. Being able to stand in the face of a Governor in Nigeria and saying the truth without blemish is a feat scarcely available in our political landscape, that I was one who did it, is a thing of pride that I guard jealously. Many of your friends hate me for this, while your enemies kiss me. But what I love is the fact that my loyalty as a freeborn, is to my conscience. I talk from my heart and in company of my soul. I held you accountable for the scarce resources you held in trust for Rivers people while you reigned as Governor here, because it is the right thing to do. Even though we still have unfinished businesses,that responsibility has shifted and so did my demands from you.

I refused to kick against your ministerial nomination not for friendship, but because I am of the opinion and had also written from the beginning, that having worked for Buhari's emergence, you deserved a piece of Buhari's cake. Every labourer deserves his wage. Secondly, I did not kick against you because I know Rivers State politicians very well. If you had lost out in the sharing of the spoils in Abuja, and Rivers State remains a PDP controlled state, it would have been only a matter of time before your people sang tunes of 'this-and-that' as reasons for their return to the PDP. A maximum of 1 year and 6 months is all it would have taken for a majority of all those who call you LORD LORD or LION LION to call you DEVIL DEVIL or lamb lamb, but this time not lamb of God. The funny part would have been that they would not have even waited to get to Port Harcourt before releasing their defection albums, the launch would have been at the departure lounge of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, for those who could still afford flight tickets, or at the various Parks at Utako. They all would have come home to burden the more, the scarce resources of the Rivers State. I wanted you to be Minister so that you, in Nigerian political doctrine, can CARRY YOUR PEOPLE ALONG.

When a state has two different political groups representing the state at two or different levels or set ups, I tend to look at the advantages above the disadvantages. My reason is that the disadvantages are inevitable, but the advantages can most times not be explored and harnessed. Having two or more groups is first of all an opportunity for the state to grow more gladiators and build and strengthen capacity of Generals. I am of the opinion that if you grow your people and Governor Wike grows his people, Rivers State will be better of for it. I say so because of its futuristic dividends. Rivers State as at today does not have up to 5 voices that ring bells nationally. Sadly enough, we destroyed our people and our institutions by our own hands. Our people have faded off and so has our negotiating power. We have become the sheep and not the Shepherd, even down here in the South. Senator Tinubu of Lagos has enthroned himself King of the South, Pa Edwin Clark of Delta State has crowned himself Elder of the South-South and Senator Akpabio snatched our first-place position to the land of Akwa-Ibom. I am Rivers and I am not used to playing 2nd fidle. I wear clothes and costumes worth millions everyday like no other does. My women are endowed and attract the most expensive bride prices and the most determined suitors. I am rich and I have potentials. I have style and I have swagger. I am beautiful and attractive. I am the bride of the Nigerian society. Warri never comes last,they say, but Port Harcourt always comes first. This is who I am.

A lot of your friends must by now, have advised you on how to use your offices to deal political blows. Those are not real friends...they are iin the words of Magnus Abe, UNFRIENDLY FRIENDS. Of the lot who follow you, only a few are worthy of the appellations; FRIEND; BROTHER; CONFIDANT; WELL-WISHER; and COLLEAGUE. Most should be called PARTNERS or FRIENDS-WITH-BENEFIT. They have studied you and know your weak point is your fragile emotion and that you make mistakes when your emotion is bruised. They feed from this scenario and will do anything to fertilize their garden. They will create troubles for you and solve them for you, making you believe they did you a great favour and hold you eternally grateful to them. As a literature student, you should remember these words:

''PROSPERO: Have you forgotten the torture I freed you from?

ARIEL: No.

PROSPERO
You have forgotten, and you think it’s a burden when I ask you to walk through the ocean, or run on the north wind, or do business for me underground when the earth’s frozen solid.

ARIEL: No, I don’t, sir.

PROSPERO: You lie, you nasty, ungrateful thing! Have you forgotten the horrid witch Sycorax, stooped over with old age and ill will? Have you forgotten her?''

And with these your fair-weather friends will enter the market place to sell you, if you ignore any of their advances. My brother, whatever you believe in, this is the time to clutch tightly to that, for the whirlwind of deceit is just about to begin.

In your appointment as a member of the Federal Executive Council, you have an opportunity to shine, use it. The only battles I need you to quickly go to is that of excelling in your capacity as the head of the Transport Ministry. TOUTING must be banished and CUSTOMER SERVICE must improve. You have to immediately launch a re-branding program and let the mantra be LET EVERYTHING THAT OUGHT TO WORK, WORK!!! The little details overlooked in the movement of people, goods and services must be paid attention to. Ambiance, Appeal, Smell, Security Checks, Rest rooms, Electricity Power sockets, Lighting bulbs, Queuing, perambulating, general passenger behaviours, flight shifts and cancellation policies, parking of vehicles, lighting on the run ways and tarmacs,etc. These are quick fixes and can earn you morale boosting applause and equally energize you to go the long haul in more demanding tasks.

Remember how much you criticized those before you, for this reason alone, the entire world will have their eyes on you. You must rise up to the occasion. If you accused others of not doing anything for the Niger Delta, do realize that our people watch consignments travel past our corridors here to go berth at Apapa, for the same goods to be transported back to Onitsha and Aba, where our people to buy at more exorbitant prices. Onne has to work and work competitively, for the multiplier effects will be enormous. The Niger Delta has to be networked by rail for integration and commerce, and water transportation should provide us revenue and pride.

I do expect that you will liaise with the different governments of the states in the Niger Delta to chart a way forward in our general transportation concerns.

Most importantly, you need to perform...you need to perform...you need to perform, if not for any reason, to avoid going to battle with me and my friends. We have put put together a small group called AN EYE ON NIGERIA, and a subgroup called AN EYE ON NIGERIA's TRANSPORTATION. From time to time, we will support you and other leaders at various levels of Government with ideas and criticize where we should. We believe that you have no reason to fail, but If you still go ahead to fail to perform, WE WILL ROAST YOU WITH OUR PEN.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Eze-Basil Chinwendu Oluo D'Oracle​
Port Harcourt,
ebcodoracle@gmail.com

https://plus.google.com/104082432650876881620/posts/AmDfdtifmhx

Sweetguy25:
The story is the same in all Niger Delta states, it is not peculiar to Rivers State alone.
It is a very sad story. The total collapse of commercial and industrial activity in Rivers State evokes sorrowful emotions. In PH maintown its a total disaster, businesses are closing shop every month. PH maintown is now a shadow its former self.
Bayelsa state is even worse, my friend who owns a business there is complaining every single day. I don't know about Delta and Akwa Ibom states but I know they all share similar experiences.

We must keep engaging ourselves, for this situation is like rain that pours on everyone's roof. The effect is allround.

DelticStephEn:
long tym bro.
you still deyy?

I dey

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE.

Dear Governor Wike,

Permit me to share this opinion of mine on how we can start creating an economy for our dear state, with you, through this medium.

One of the areas I would love you to pay attention to, is the Small and Medium Scale Business Corridor. The economy of any state may be reliant on a mega natural or artificial resource, but it is sustained by the Small and Medium Scale Business Corridor. This is where the people are and this is where the heartbeat of everything does exist. Unfortunately for us, ours is at the point of 'little or nothing'.


Below is a small analogy:

From any point in Rivers State, either to your left or to your right, in front of you or behind you, a property is rotting away. This points to one thing - businesses are closing down. No matter the area of the state, ten out of every fifteen cars that stream the road are rickety and this also tells you of our spending power. Our people are weak financially and so has our taste become. The increasing number of people who wake up to play draft, argue politics and sports over a bottle of local dry gin is an indicator that we keep loosing jobs and are not creating new ones. Recall the number of deaths we recorded from the last dry gin wahala. The faces of the people on the streets spell poverty and the anger and transfer of agression we live with is fuelling crime in the state.


The issues:

Over the last 16 years, we have moved from a politically dependent economy, to a complete political economy. By this I mean, that the economy before 1999 was in imbalance propelled by the regulatory policies of government. If the government put a ban on importation of cement, everyone ran into the production of cement; a ban on importation of rice, everyone became a rice farmer. As bad as this was, it was still better. We still had the carricature businesses and the small amount of jobs and commerce they injected into the economy. Today it is completely different. The only business known to us is politics. The big Oga is a politician, the big man in Old GRA is a political entrepreneur and the unemployed man back home is a political wannabe or waiting on God to send him a miracle. It is therefore not surprising that of the five cars that are better looking out of the pool of fifteen, three belong to political office holders, one to a political entrepreneur and the other to a religious leader. Same goes for the houses and other good things of life. We need to take another path to create a sustainable economy for our state and reduce the overbearing dependence on the allocation from the centre.
Politics has become the only succulent breast in Rivers State and this is the reason for the 'greegree' that we see everywhere. This is not supposed to be so, especially in a state like ours. A state so rich and full of mind blowing potentials.

Why are we not activating the SERVICES industry?

Why are we are not looking in the direction of a planned and systematic culture, tourism and hospitality?

Why are we not looking in the direction of trading and sustainable agriculture?

Why are we not looking in the direction of sports business?

Why are we not looking in the direction of technology business?

Why are we not looking in the direction of manufacturing and allied businesses?

Sir, let me mention as an aside, that it is shocking that the state government spends so much in clearing refuse from Port Harcourt, when in actual sense, we should be making money from it and the multipliers therein. I am also surprised that we keep voting huge sums of money into CARNIRIV when in actual sense, CARNIRIV is supposed to be remitting revenue to the state purse.

Back to the subject matter, I am of the opinion that you can begin by investing in SKILLS, we can find alternatives in job creation.

I also know that if we make the process of obtaining a C of O less cumbersome, we will be opening up access to funding from financial institutions for SMEs to spring up and increase our IGR through taxes and tenement fees.
Your Excellency, if you open up the religious tourism, cultural and geographical/historical tourism, infrastructural tourism sectors, it would be an investment worth your efforts.

The state as it stands has some wonderful sustainable agriculture ideas, but STEALING has been the bane of it. If you pay attention to this sector with the input of fresh ideas, the Small and Medium Scale Business Corridor will wake up.

If we pay attention to assemblage and transfer of knowledge, we will be lifting the Small and Medium Scale Business Corridor and looking into manufacturing.

If we look into Transport with a business eye and restructure Waterlines, we will be stimulating the SME corridor.

If we look at the trading business at Rumuwoji market, Mile 3 Market, Building materials and others, we will notice the capital flight between Rivers and Abia and Anambara. And we will profitably restructure and stimulate the SME corridor.

Your Excellency, I know and appreciate the enormity of work to be done especially in seeking alternatives to the south bound Oil and creating an economy for the State, but I am of the opinion that unlocking the Small and Medium Scale Business Corridor is the most cost efficient, most profitable and most sustainable.

God bless Rivers State!

Eze Basil Chinwendu Oluo,
Port Harcourt.
ebcodoracle@gmail.com

Remembering My Independence Day Celebrations as a child.

Those were my days as Aunty-Pikin (The title for those whose mothers teach in the same school) pupil at St. Andrew's State Schools 1 and 5. My school was the most populated and famous Aje-Kpako congregation, followed by Amigbo and Sangana, so ordinarily the extravagance of shiny uniform, sparkling white stockings and cherographed March-Past was not our business. The few times we were forced to attend, we meritoriously came last in the results. Our contingent were always concerned with watching the dramatic Police Children School and Army Children School, than march to win laurels.

The above is not to say that we were completely useless on those days, no we were not. We had our areas of strenght: fighting Okio, the notorious security man was one such area. Being a national holiday, Okio would attempt to lock the rest of us out, but we would always find our way in, either through Emenike street or through the police station if the gate seemed impregnable. There was nothing stopping a group of determined Aje-Kpakos from their football matches within the six schools in the premises and against their dear wives, Amigbo and Sangana. There was nothing stopping them from their back-flips (Gymnastics), Jumping from the storey building, bicycle rides, boxing, ruber-ring, When-do-you-marry, cards and canter series. In these fields, we were undisputed champions, even though we were sometimes bullied into submission by the Deaf and Dumb contingent whom we feared like the power to make and take life was in their hands.

We would play and play and play. We would dance, under the rain and in the sun until the sun waved us goodbye. It was a day of freedom from English, Maths and General Paper; a day of freedom from the whips of our teachers, not neccessarily a day of reflection on the country. Majority of those in St. Andrew had no business reflecting on the country, we instead fantasized on being heroes like Adaka Boro, Mary Slessor, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chike Obi and our teachers. We also fantasized on becoming the next Sam Okparaji, Philip Osondu and Peter(Keeper) Rufai.

On days I could not steal my way out to be with the other apostles, I was against my wish forced to have an early morning bathe, watch some Independence day programmes on our neighbours sliding-doors black and white television (those were the only occassions TV opened before 4pm). A breakfast of yam peppersoup and sometimes a shared bottle of coke with my mother.
On that bottle of 30cl coke, I always knew my share before it was opened. The boundary between my mother and I was the first ring from the bottom of the bottle.

Later in the afternoon, I would listen to stories of the good old days from adults, uninterestedly while waiting for 4pm to sneak to Oromineke football field, or Egede field (Now CPM) as the case may be, to play football.

The Independence day for a St. Andrew pupil was more of a day of leisure and rest, than the combustion of national significance.

Share your Independence day memories with us.

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Unedited RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC- Languages bus station!

The pigin english and the Jamaican patwa are arguably the 4th largest generally accepted languages in the world. Pigin is spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Benin republic, etc. Patwa is in Jamaica, Costa Rica and Panama. These are languages developed by Africans for Africa. These were the cross-border means of communication that gave us some means of personal identity and privacy while the masters chains ruffled our necks. The pigin and the patwa share so much similarities and are easily understood by both divides as both were cooked by a combination of local vocal ingredients and their english language.

Since the forced marriages of different people into countries and the most official implant of confusion into the mother Africa, our life has never remained the same:

It's been war after war; war caused primarily by our confused state of endless mutual suspicion against one another. Since the different amalgamations across mama Africa, of a people with different languages and cultures, every gathering and every discussion, be it in hushed tones or in blaring loudness, has continued to awaken fear in the other group. IF WE CANNOT COMMUNICATE, WE CANNOT COHABIT. And that was part of the scientific and systematic strategy to keep us busy, while they looted.

In Nigeria, the North and South were joined in an unholy matrimony and war started. But this is not the primary concern today. We shall continue the war caused by WHAT GOD HAS NOT JOINED TOGETHER some other time.

Note:

1. Nigeria is the third largest english speaking country, after USA and India. Why?

2. There are more Portuguese speaking people in Angola than there is in Portugal. Why?

3. The two countries above rank lowest in speaking their indigenous languages. These days, those who speak their indigenous languages are called Bush people and uncivilized people. And it is for this reason that I inform you that I AM A BUSH MAN.

I find this shameful and a further boost to my belief that we went through the worst kind of insincere colonization there will ever be.

Hey, (in whispers) ...they seldom teach black history in American schools and when they do, I hear it is only in one month of a full year of study... But that is nothing compared to the fact that black history, black culture, black tradition and black languages are almost nonexistent in schools in Africa. We are a continent peopled by those who have accepted to be extinguished, aren't we?

I like to be proven wrong, let the African Union stop running like a headless chicken, in search of western compassion. It will never come. Heaven helps those who help themselves! The AU should commission a research and development on pigin and the patwa and make them first and second official languages of the black man.

Africans, unite!

Eze-Basil Chinwendu Oluo D'Oracle
Port Harcourt.

AFRICA AND THE WEST!

The Whiteman stepped out of his boat with a chain in one hand for his hands for his purchased slaves, and a bible in The other hand with which he told you that your way of life is unacceptable, same way the merchants from the deserts disembarked their horses and chariots and told you it is Islam or nothing. These foreigners told you that you must follow their own way if you are to be counted righteous.

Little did you know that it is your own culture, your tradition, your identity and your history that they had asked you to destroy. While they had indirectly turned you an intellectual and emotional terrorist against your own selves, they were busy stealing as much as they could and putting in place structures of eternal exploration.

The other day I saw a video story of how some Africans have been killing their children in the name of discovering that the kids are witches and wizards. Who made the child a witch and how do you who a witch is?

I have also read and heard of Africans being robbed of their wages and the innocence of our maidens stolen in the name of religion- Thieves parading as pastors and imams now exploit people psychologically, emotionally and financially...

Today I have read more of how some comical charlatans go about destroying the age long traditions, forest reserves and tourist potentials of the African society. And I ask, isn't this terrorism against the African people and the African economy?

Keep fooling yourselves. I call on God, but not in the manner of stupidity being displayed in the name of religion in Africa. I can God in my closet and recognize that it is my personal choice and should not be forced down the throat of others.

Today, Libya, the most independent African nation has been brought down by foreigners, same with Tunisia and Egypt and by extension the Arab African block.

Today, the Sudan with all its potentials has been kept down with a consciously planted dichotomy through the instrumentality of Divde and Rule cropped and watered by foreigners.

The divide and hate cooked by foreigners in Zimbabwe is proving to be a meal too big for the country men to completely consume and excrete and move on.

Sierreleon has been soaked in hot soup with decisive help seeming elusive, simply because it profits a group that they continue to battle.

Somalia will never stand because there is foreign support to sea pirates.

Nigeria, the heartbeat of Africa has from the onset been the target...The others realize that the next big thing is in Africa and that means the future belongs to Africa. That revolution and that new world order which is destined to be ignited from Nigeria is what they are after. They want to extinguish it even before the rays grow out- Cage Nigeria and cage the blactok race.

Thus, foreign interest to the benefit of a small but powerful minority is systematically up in arms against us.

They told you alcohol is a sin, right?
What do they drink at holy communion?
What do they make their meals with

Nigerians, open your eyes! Africans, unite!

If not,

Like Fela sang; I SORRY, SORRY, SORRY OOO....I SORRY FOR NIGERIA....I SORRY, SORRY OOO.... I SORRY FOR AFRICA....!!!

Eze Basil Chinwendu Oluo,
Port Harcourt.

Make people wey know come tell us o!

Kikikikikikikikikikikikikiki...!!!



APC vs APC: “Our party leaders are fraudulent, shameful and dishonest” – Yakubu Dogara group
Posted By TheScoop on June 7, 2015



The Yakubu Dogara group in the House of Representatives has released yet another statement condemning the leadership of the All Progressives Congress.

In a statement by the group signed by Abdulmumin Jibrin,it lamented that “The APC leadership keeps telling the public that an election was conducted and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila got 154 votes while Hon. Yakubu Dogara got 3 votes; this is a blatant lie and fraud, and it’s shameful for the APC leaders to descend so low.

“The mock election actually showed that APC has made a mockery of itself because we walked out of the venue even before they perpetrated the illegality. Hon. Dogara was not in the hall as at the time they said he was nominated but the APC leaders planted someone who impersonated one of us and another person was also planted and he accepted the nomination. This is fraudulent, shameful and dishonest. It was all arranged and done by APC leaders.

“We never participated and we rejected the election because it was not in tandem with the spirit and letters of the constitution. The numbers allocated to us was a fraud, and we do not accept it.

“The stability of the House is very important and the House needs to be left alone to elect its speaker. We will never allow the number four citizen of this country to be pocketed by one selfish and greedy individual.

“We want a courageous speaker who is free from the apron strings of a godfather and not one that will create special bedroom in the pocket of an individual.

“After such huge intimidation, blackmail and inducement we are not surprised that they gave out such a number. On Tuesday, the real picture of the strength of our candidate – Hon. Yakubu Dogara – will emerge.

“We are shocked and surprised that barely two weeks after taking over as the ruling party, is this the change we want to offer to Nigerians? Is this the departure from the past that Nigerians want? We have never seen this kind of manipulation in the political history of Nigeria. We are being intimidated and threatened because we toe the path of honour.

“We decided to follow our conscience and do the right thing for our country and we will not let this country down.
Despite the mockery of an election by the APC we are going ahead on the 9th June 2015 to nominate Hon. Yakubu Dogara on the floor of the House as Speaker.
They don’t understand the dynamics of an election of House leadership; this is the House of the Nigerian people, we are going ahead to nominate our aspirant who has what it takes to lead us. Dogara is stainless, and he comes with integrity similar to that of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Due to the huge amount of threat and intimidation to some of us, we have decided to write a petition to the President of the Federal Republic to intervene and call the party leaders to order. We are very confident that the President will look at the matter in a very just manner.

“We are also going unveil our legislative agenda today by 8pm.”



APC vs APC: “Our party leaders are fraudulent, shameful and dishonest” – Yakubu Dogara group
Posted By TheScoop on June 7, 2015



The Yakubu Dogara group in the House of Representatives has released yet another statement condemning the leadership of the All Progressives Congress.

In a statement by the group signed by Abdulmumin Jibrin,it lamented that “The APC leadership keeps telling the public that an election was conducted and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila got 154 votes while Hon. Yakubu Dogara got 3 votes; this is a blatant lie and fraud, and it’s shameful for the APC leaders to descend so low.

“The mock election actually showed that APC has made a mockery of itself because we walked out of the venue even before they perpetrated the illegality. Hon. Dogara was not in the hall as at the time they said he was nominated but the APC leaders planted someone who impersonated one of us and another person was also planted and he accepted the nomination. This is fraudulent, shameful and dishonest. It was all arranged and done by APC leaders.

“We never participated and we rejected the election because it was not in tandem with the spirit and letters of the constitution. The numbers allocated to us was a fraud, and we do not accept it.

“The stability of the House is very important and the House needs to be left alone to elect its speaker. We will never allow the number four citizen of this country to be pocketed by one selfish and greedy individual.

“We want a courageous speaker who is free from the apron strings of a godfather and not one that will create special bedroom in the pocket of an individual.

“After such huge intimidation, blackmail and inducement we are not surprised that they gave out such a number. On Tuesday, the real picture of the strength of our candidate – Hon. Yakubu Dogara – will emerge.

“We are shocked and surprised that barely two weeks after taking over as the ruling party, is this the change we want to offer to Nigerians? Is this the departure from the past that Nigerians want? We have never seen this kind of manipulation in the political history of Nigeria. We are being intimidated and threatened because we toe the path of honour.

“We decided to follow our conscience and do the right thing for our country and we will not let this country down.
Despite the mockery of an election by the APC we are going ahead on the 9th June 2015 to nominate Hon. Yakubu Dogara on the floor of the House as Speaker.
They don’t understand the dynamics of an election of House leadership; this is the House of the Nigerian people, we are going ahead to nominate our aspirant who has what it takes to lead us. Dogara is stainless, and he comes with integrity similar to that of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Due to the huge amount of threat and intimidation to some of us, we have decided to write a petition to the President of the Federal Republic to intervene and call the party leaders to order. We are very confident that the President will look at the matter in a very just manner.

“We are also going unveil our legislative agenda today by 8pm.”

Who cares?

If General Muhammadu Buhari​ does not know how much influence he has over the uneducated and poor Northen population, this should make him know. This should also spur him to using that influence to positively do a reorientation for them.

What would have been on the mind of the suicide bomber who screamed "Sai Buhari" before exploding himself and killing others?

Had the person been brainwashed to think he was killing for his hero?

Was that a statement of comfort in his journey to untimely death?

Whatever the answer, truth is that the bomber has shown how much influence Buhari has on life in the North. Time to use it for the good of the people (Nigeria) is now!


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I am sorry to disappoint you guys, I am not in for this Biafra and Lower Niger thing, neither am I in for this cessation nonsense!

I will not be party to an institutionalized creation of smaller minorities within the minority.

Before we leap, don't forget: The Igbos used the instrumentality of government power to almost extinguish the other tribes and ethnic groups on this side of the Niger, during the reign of regional system of government; All schools were in Igbo land, even though the white man came through the sea; All commercial cities were in Igbo land even though the produces were from Etche, Ikwerre, Ogoni, Orashi, and ijaw lands; the rail system was conjured to start or terminate in the heart of Igbo land, even though they had no raw materials and sea ports; They forced the teaching of Igbo cultures and use of Igbo language in schools and churches and systematically almost exterminated the traces of other groups around this area; and when it was war time, they made the Niger Delta the battlefield.

The Ikwerre man loves to hate and cheat the Etche man even though we are brothers, the Ijaws think themselves alone as Niger Deltans, the Ogoni man continues to be used and dumped. So why should I willfully subject myself to yet another generation of slavery or be joined in a marriage bliss, or sex without mutual orgasm? What is in this breakaway for an Etchepian? Tell me why i should change my mind.

What I believe in and will continue to agitate for, is the kind of political goal congruence in the North and working at building a viable economic structure in the entire southern Nigeria. Politically, the entire south must realize that there is blessing in diversity. We must mobilise our diversity into a common political goal and support it with a strong economic base from the resources God has blessed us with- From Badagry to Bonny to Bakassi to Awka, we must form a political block with which we battle the North who have declared us infidels. It is an intellectual war, not a physical combat.

Biafra say, Biafra no say, Lower Niger say, upper Niger no say , all na the same thing! It is the same Ikwerre to Etche treatment!

I wash my hands off this treachery!

Eze Basil Chinwendu Oluo.
Writing from #1 Amadioha avenue, Etche.

Sustainable Agriculture Techniques


Sustainable agriculture provides high yields without undermining the natural systems and resources that productivity depends on. Farmers who take a sustainable approach work efficiently with natural processes rather than ignoring or struggling against them – and use the best of current knowledge and technology to avoid the unintended consequences of industrial, chemical-based agriculture. One important result is that farmers are able to minimize their use of pesticides and fertilizers, thereby saving money and protecting future productivity, as well as the environment.

Below are some of the most common sustainable agriculture techniques employed by farmers today to achieve the key goals of weed control, pest control, disease control, erosion control and high soil quality:
• Crop Rotation
• Cover Crops
• Soil Enrichment
• Natural Pest Predators
• Biointensive Integrated Pest Management

Crop Rotation
Crop rotation—growing different crops in succession in the same field—is one of the most powerful techniques of sustainable agriculture, and avoids the unintended consequences of putting the same plants in the same soil year after year. It is a key element of the permanent and effective solution to pest problems because many pests have preferences for specific crops, and continuous growth of the same crop guarantees them a steady food supply, so that populations increase. For example, right now European corn borers are often a significant pest in the United States because most corn is grown in continuous cultivation or in two-year rotations with soybeans. Four- or five-year rotations would control not only corn borers, but many other corn pests as well. In fact, rotation reduces pest pressure on all the crops in the rotation by breaking the pest reproductive cycles.
In rotations, farmers can also plant crops, like soybeans and other legumes, that replenish plant nutrients, thereby reducing the need for chemical fertilizers. For instance, corn grown in a field previously used to grow soybeans needs less added nitrogen to produce high yields.
On a related note, the importance of crop rotation as a defense against pest infestations should be a key part of any discussion about growing crops for bioenergy purposes. Government policies to encourage bioenergy crops should not inadvertently encourage farmers to forgo crop rotation in favor of planting corn year after year.

Cover Crops
Many farmers also take advantage of the benefits of having plants growing in the soil at all times, rather than leaving the ground bare between cropping periods, which produces unintended problems. The planting of cover crops such as hairy vetch, clover, or oats helps farmers achieve the basic goals of:
• preventing soil erosion,
• suppressing weeds, and
• enhancing soil quality.
Using appropriate cover crops is worth the extra effort because it reduces the need for chemical inputs like herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers.

Soil Enrichment
Soil is arguably the single most prized element of agricultural ecosystems. Healthy soil teems with life, including many beneficial microbes and insects, but these are often killed off by the overuse of pesticides. Good soils can improve yields and produce robust crops less vulnerable to pests; abused soils often require heavy fertilizer application to produce high yields. Soil quality can be maintained and enhanced in many ways, including leaving crop residues in the field after harvest, plowing under cover crops, or adding composted plant material or animal manure.

Natural Pest Predators
Understanding a farm as an ecosystem rather than a factory offers exciting opportunities for effective pest control. For example, many birds, insects, and spiders are natural predators of agricultural pests. Managing farms so that they harbor populations of pest predators is a sophisticated and effective pest-control technique. One of the unfortunate consequences of intensive use of chemical pesticides is the indiscriminate killing of birds, bats, and other pest predators.

Biointensive Integrated Pest Management
One of the most promising technologies is the control of pests through integrated pest management (IPM). This approach relies to the greatest possible extent on biological rather than chemical measures, and emphasizes the prevention of pest problems with crop rotation; the reintroduction of natural, disease-fighting microbes into plants/soil, and release of beneficial organisms that prey on the pests. Once a particular pest problem is identified, responses include the use of sterile males, biocontrol agents like ladybugs. Chemical pesticides are only used as a last resort.

There is no empirical evidence that the wash-wash Rivers State LGA elections propounded by Trouble-Maker Governor Amaechi, won't tear Rivers APC apart!

Every man should strive to be eating enough fruits. The sugar from the fruits (fructose) gives strenght to the sperm just the way sugar (glucose) gives strenght to the human body. Semen that has no fructose usually tastes salty and the sperm that they contain are usually weak and are incapable of fertilising the egg. For the sperm, the journey from the virgina through the womb, through the fallopian tube to the ovary is called the journey to the promised land. Millions of sperm die on the way. Only the strong and healthy sperm succeed in that journey. Thats one of the reasons that a man and a woman will be medically okay but they cant have any baby. But normal semen tastes sugary and the sperm in them are usually strong and healthy and dont waste time in fertilising an egg.