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hedonistic:
There is nothing cowardly about suicide. It's more cowardly to face shame, humiliation, and a deplorable life (Odindu onwu ka mma) than to muster the supreme courage to pay the supreme price. It's not even debatable.

Anyone who thinks suicide is the "easy way out" is only being economical with the truth. If such a person had half the liver , he or she would have ended his or her miserable life long ago.

We can discuss about the moral, philosophical, or spiritual 'wrongness' of the act; that's a different matter altogether. But this delusional talk about cowardice or easiness is total nonsense.

Death is nothing but a "fool's last hope"

nigerialog:


And I'm not a Nigerian again? You mean growing up in the most juju infested part of Nigeria (if not the whole of Nigeria), I have not been tried with juju? lol
The answer to your question is simple: Why did the Europeans (very few of them in fact) capture and rule whole parts of Africa?
Do you know how many Europeans that destroyed one of the most powerful shrines (with over 2000 human heads) in Rivers state? Just ONE.
"Armed" with a gallon of fuel and a box of matches.
The villagers ran away, while the white man simply returned to Europe with the pictures which he shared gleefully with the press there.
We Africans need to take dominion over things that God put under us right from the beginning of creation.
Fear is our greatest enemy.

A simple but very concise explanation. Thank you my brother.

hedonistic:
This is very true. It takes balls of steel to defeat one's innate survival instincts and inflict fatal injury upon oneself.

...while other times it's done out of share cowardice or shame; inability of some human to face certain consequences or outcomes and subsequently opting for an easy way out.

It's condemnable, by God's law and by Man made laws.
So what else?


Rest in peace young lady. May the lord have mercy on your soul, forgive you your sins and grant you eternal rest.

obafemee80:
I think their actions killed her...

Its obvious she was innocent and couldn't stand the humiliation

Even the 2 major religions warned us about our tongue...

1520. 'Uqbah bin `Amir (May Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), "How can salvation be achieved?'' He replied, "Control your tongue, keep to your house, and weep over your sins.''
[At-Tirmidhi].

Proverbs 21:23
Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

The room-mates should be punished severely

Yes they should be.

Parents too should endeavour to understand their children psychology better.
Any caring mother (that is closely related in communication with her child) would have had premonitions as to how her daughter may react under distress or pressures, alas putting the distraught girl under close monitor pending when she regain herself.

May her soul rest in peace. Suicide is surely not a way to go, not for a young adult.

gnykelly:
the guy never gave interview. this write up was culled from his Facebook page. that was posted two years ago. the site that post this is just being mischievous.

HERE IS A LENGTHIER VERSION OF THE EXTRACT

Strive Masiyiwa, CEO and Founder of Econet Wireless, recently took to his blog to reveal his side of the story behind the company’s downfall in Nigeria. An extract from the blog post:

It’s time to play by a different (ethical) set of rules (Part 7) Nigeria 1 of 5

___Sometimes the price can be very high in the fight against corruption.

I had the privilege of making Nigeria’s first GSM phone call back in 2001 when I called the regulator to say, “We’re live!” Who would’ve believed then that Nigeria today would have more than 167 million mobile phones?!

It all started out as a very exciting new chapter for enterprise in Africa. Shortly after President Obasanjo was elected, the new government announced an incredibly transparent international auction process for three national mobile phone licenses.

To participate in the bid, you not only had to raise money, but there had to be a member of the bidding consortium who was an experienced GSM operator. Econet Wireless met the requirements because of its experience in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Our Nigerian partners, which included state governments, local banks and high net worth individuals, were financial investors. The largest shareholder had only 10%. That was the written agreement.

I managed to assemble a consortium of 22 investors to put up the money needed to bid. Our shareholders were all Nigerian, mostly institutional investors including leading banks and two state governments, Lagos State and Delta State. The license cost us $285m and was the most expensive license ever issued in Africa at the time. This was 2001.

We considered the investment not only about putting together a network, but also about building a nation. We knew it had the potential to transform Nigeria’s entire business and social architecture.

Most of our investors had between 1-10% shareholding. Econet Wireless Nigeria had only 5% of the shares, but that was fine because it was 5% ownership of a very big pie.

As the “technical partner and operator,” Econet was the company with the expertise to build and operate such a business. Our financial investors recognized this, and also allowed us to receive 3% of the turnover as our fees. This was standard practice in the industry.

We were one of the winning bidders and they gave us just six months to set up business and get our network operating. We were under a lot of pressure but our network was live two days before the others! Customers were pouring in. We were number one in the market with an estimated 57% market share.

___Then came the fateful day when I was told that our company must pay a total of $9m in bribes to senior politicians (in state government) who had facilitated the raising of the money to pay for the license.

I refused to authorize the illegal payments. Meeting after meeting was held to try to get me to agree, but I would not. The money would not be paid as long as Econet was the operator and I had signing authority.

James Ibori, the Governor of Delta State, was demanding $4,5m be paid to him in his personal capacity. He was one of the most powerful men in the country and had a reputation for violence. When he heard that I was refusing to approve payment he issued an ultimatum:

_”Pay or I will chase you and your people out of the country.”

I refused.

The shareholders met and voted Econet Wireless Nigeria out of management. They cancelled our management contract. James Ibori and his colleagues personally attended the meeting to remove us. After the meeting one of them (a prominent local businessman even today) came up to me and said: “Unfortunately for you, God does not have a vote.”

I had to withdraw all my staff and their families: 200 people in all. We left Nigeria.

Most of our people had to be retrenched. The loss of the contract almost drove us to bankruptcy as a group.

They invited a big international operator to replace us as technical partner and operator. They changed the name of the company from Econet to V-Mobile.

Within days of their arrival, the managers of the new operator signed off the payments demanded as bribes.

Then what happened?

A few noble Nigerians had both the integrity and courage to carefully collect all the documentation on the movement of the money, and pass it all on to me.

___There’s a saying worth remembering in uncovering the trail of destruction that is corruption: “Follow the money”…

I bided my time… then I wrote a letter to the United States Department of Justice!

It was 2003.

As citizens, we have a duty to speak out to stop the rot

Nigeria has an agency known as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). After we had to leave the country, a few noble people at the company tipped off not only me but the EFCC about the payment of the bribes, which had by this time risen from $9m to $13,5m.

I had never actually heard about this agency myself until I got a call from the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa to say they wanted to come and see me to interview me as a witness.

A team of very senior EFCC officers came to see us in South Africa. They were solid and professional in their enquiry. It was clear they wanted to do something about it.

However, when these officers returned home to Nigeria, they got into very serious trouble. Their investigations into the irregular payments had been brought to the attention of James Ibori (Governor of Delta State)…

Soon thereafter, the most senior officer leading the investigation was demoted and sent to a remote part of the country as an ordinary policeman!

Agencies like EFCC in Nigeria sometimes have brave and gallant law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, as I observed, they’re often let down by their political bosses, and sometimes even by the courts. This can change if activism from the citizenry emerges to support their work.

___We should not only support official efforts to stop corruption but also help these agencies and organizations in their investigations. If you have relevant information about illegal activities, passing it on could make all the difference between impunity and imprisonment.

In my letter to the US Justice Department, I detailed the full history of the demands for a bribe. I had dates, times, records. I then reminded them that since the big international operator had a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, they were duty-bound to launch an enquiry. Why did I go to them?

The United States government has a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The United Kingdom has a similar one called the British Anti-Bribery Act. Whatever you do, make sure you never fall foul of those laws because, if they ever use them to come after you, you’re a “gonner” my friends.

A few weeks later, US officials wrote back advising me that an enquiry had been launched. They contacted the big international company seeking answers to my allegations. My contacts at the company called to tell me, “All hell has broken loose at the company.”

The parent company of the South African-based multinational sent external auditors and lawyers from London to Nigeria. They immediately dismissed all the senior executives sent to Nigeria to run the company, and they left in a hurry!

Although they fled the scene of the crime and returned to their country — after admitting even to both the US Justice Department and the EFCC that the money had been paid out – the stolen funds were never returned to the Nigerian people, even to this day.

Meanwhile, the departure of the other mobile operator did not mean we could return to Nigeria. The shareholders found another operator, this time from the Middle East.

They sold this new operator the control of the company even though Econet Wireless Nigeria had the “right of first refusal” over any sale. They simply ignored that provision in our agreement. This was illegal, both according to our shareholders agreement and Nigerian Company Law. It was left for us to take up the fight in another forum, the Nigerian courts.

Beware the company you keep

The state government of Akwa Ibom held 15% of the equity in Econet Wireless Nigeria. This state was not one of the original investors but joined us later.

After five years, the governor of the state of Akwa Ibom decided to sell its stake. It had more than doubled in value in dollar terms, which meant it had been a good investment.

The state governor, an elderly gentleman called Victor Attah, sent a message through a friend that he wanted to see me in London to find out if I was interested in exercising Econet’s right to buy its shares. I agreed to meet him in London.

“I want to sell the shares to build an airport before I leave office,” the governor explained.

The governor was accompanied to the meeting by a British lawyer who sat quietly taking notes. His name was Bhadresh Gohil.

With a wave of his hand, the governor said, “Mr Gohil is our legal advisor here in London. I have instructed him to handle all our negotiations with you.”

The meeting did not last more than 30 minutes, as the governor was on his way to catch a flight to the U.S.

We agreed with Mr Gohil that we would meet with my own advisors a few days later to start the process.

A few days later, I went to his office with a professional banker who advised me on such transactions. We met in the lawyer’s plush London offices. He was confident and smooth-spoken as he explained how much we were expected to pay. Then he explained that our money was to go to a “Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV) before it was transferred to Nigeria. It was a sophisticated structure and he showed me a drawing of how it would work. I wrote it all down very carefully into my notebook.

___Such corporate entities as SPVs can definitely have legitimate purposes, but this one did not!

As I quizzed him about why such an unusual structure was necessary, Mr Gohil changed tact and tried to entice me with an offer I could not refuse (or so he hoped): “I’m also the advisor to the governor of Delta State, Mr James Ibori, and if you agree to pay for these shares using this structure, we will offer you shares belonging to all the state governments. In total, you can have more than 30% additional shares. It will be enough to take control of the company. My clients just want out, and they are willing to give you what you have always wanted.”

I listened to him, quietly taking notes in my small notebook. I did not give away anything, but inside I was very angry. From the design of the structure, I knew immediately that it was meant to siphon off money before it reached the state governments. It was clear there was a conspiracy to steal a lot of money.

___Having already pocketed $13.5m, now the government officials could easily pocket probably another $100m through the sale process that they had developed with the help of Mr Gohil and other clever advisors in London!

When I left the meeting I immediately contacted the mutual friend who’d set up the governor’s meeting. The friend was so embarrassed as I explained the corrupt structure clearly designed to steal money from the state governments. He promised to raise the issue with Governor Victor Attah. A few days later he came back and said Governor Attah had claimed ignorance about the proposal put to me by Mr Gohil. He said he would speak to Mr Gohil and tell him it had to be done properly without the structures.

We never heard from them again. Mr Gohil simply vanished. A few months later we were told that the shares had been offered to a company from the Middle East who subsequently bought them. I was not privy to how they did it except that they had violated my right to buy the shares… That is another chapter in the saga, but not for now.

Fast-forward three years, long after the sale. Our lawyers in London called me one day and asked if I could come urgently to a meeting with the Proceeds of Corruption Unit of the London Metropolitan Police: “You are not in any trouble, but I think you will find what they have to say very interesting!”

This special unit was launched by the British to investigate corruption by foreign government officials who try to launder stolen money to the U.S. and the UK.

The officers asked me to explain everything I knew about the sale of V-Mobile shares to Celtel (later Zain).

I explained the history of the entire transaction and the shareholders disputes that had led to our departure. After a while, they asked me to focus on specific events, and, in particular, my meetings in London with the governor of Akwa Ibom, and also the meetings with Mr Gohil. It became clear to me that they had a lot of information!

“What can you tell us about this structure, using a Special Purpose Vehicle?”

I explained my understanding of it. Later on, I gave them my diary in which I had recorded the details of my meeting that day with Mr Gohil.

Below my drawing of the structure, I had written in bold letters:

“This is corrupt!!!”

Not long after my meeting with the Proceeds of Corruption Unit, Mr Gohil was arrested together with one of his partners and several others. I later learned that when the Middle Eastern company bought the shares, some of the proceeds had been diverted using the Gohil structure. Some of the money was sent to a bank in London. This large amount of money was enough to alert the British authorities that money was being laundered through their banking system.

Their investigations led them to Gohil and his associates. They raided his offices and found stashes of documents, including details of the structures. Now they were looking for witnesses to help prosecute them for corruption and money laundering.

The British authorities tried without success to get other parties, including the governor of Akwa Ibom, to come out and clear their names but they refused. Officials of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government successfully thwarted all extradition requests.

I was asked to be a witness in the trial of those who had been arrested in London. I willingly accepted. Next I will tell you about my role as a ‘Witness to the Crown” on behalf of the people of Nigeria whose money had been stolen. It would be the first time that someone big went to jail (in a foreign country) for stealing money from Africans.

Nukualofa:
You are on hard drugs

Yes and that hard drug (you're accusing me of taking) is called REALITY OF LIFE.

Nukualofa:
You are on hard drugs

Yes and that hard drug (you're accusing me of taking) is called REALITY OF LIFE.

Nukualofa:
Nonsense. He is Free and people like you can die.


The only thing that's making me to love NK is the hate being spewed on him by the Yoruba Muslims especially.



Seriously, their religion has made them to hate progress

You keep linking YORUBA MUSLIM'S with kanu's predicament

They don't even care to know if Kanu exist or not. The Hausas are your problem, go and settle with them.
Why must Yoruba help you to break away?

Yorubas won't support you. Fight your own war.

Lexusgs430:
We dey talk hunger, hin dey talk probabilities and future prospects? No be wen pesin chop belleful, hin dey consider probabilities?

Thank you my brother. Who Probabilities EPP

grandstar:
Before going further, let me asj you a few question

Imagine you were going to America:

1. what documents do you need to get a good job?

2. What is the minimum wage of the city you will like to stay?

3. What kind of accommodation will be available to you and how much will it cost?

4. How soon will you get a job and what job do you hope to do there?

5. Where do you see yourself in 10years time in that America ?

6. The state you would like to stay in, is it temperate or tropical and which is your preference?

I don't think all you have listed what matters to to the average Nigerians seeking passage to the West.

Folks just want to come there, work, endure whatever (hardship) there is then (within a decade at most) come back home to their (already remitted) Seven or Eight figure bank account.

Then set up a Big, Medium or Small scale enterprise that would cater for their financial needs till old age.

That's all majority of these "hopefuls" are asking for.
Forget all those nonsense you wrote up there.

We are talking hunger man, HUNGER!

Mcowubaba:
Who are you to correct me What authority or credibility You have your opinion. I have mine. I'm talking about the urban use of local chicks not the English definition. I can sense some level of disdain nd insult in your write up. I think we have overstretched this issue. Suit yourself.
Next reply to you will be by Next spring break

Am sorry.

sukkot:
exactly bro. and you are right living in the west is very expensive especially if you have children. thats the worst. when you have children you are trapped in western hell LOL. YOUR LIFE IS OVER

yes o

Mcowubaba:
Egusi is a local dish in Nigeria.
Egusi is also local/African dish in NY.
Yah logic still don't apply

It's of Public knowledge ad perception that Nigerian girls are called Local chicks by Nigerians in Diaspora.

An amazing fact, a girl who stays in the Rural part of Nigeria is even considered to be a local chick by a Girl who stays in the Urban part of Nigeria.

Like a girl residing in Mbano Village in Owerri, Imo State is seen mostly as a local girl by people who are resident in Ikoyi, Lagos .
Anyways, we agree to disagree

My brother despite all the different attempts at correcting you, you are still adamant.

you forget this is World Wide Web, people are watching. please take a cue. stop seeing yourself as MR PERFECT.

Lexusgs430:
How would you relate your concept to a dish? In Yorkshire, Yorkshire pudding is local dish.
While in Nigeria, Yorkshire pudding is an international dish........

Thank you for further driving home my point.

Lexusgs430:
Not all housemaids are live in housemaids....... So some of them still pay bills......

I mean imported housemaids (omo odo)

Hoodfriend:
I'm thinking of traveling out, can 400k, take me to Dubai please?

Maybe 500k. but what you seriously need to understand is that Dubai is not like America or UK.

you must have a legal status to get a average decent job which most times is between SECURITY WORK and PROFESSIONAL DRIVING.

Any other field of employment outside this (if at all exist for Nigerians) is best researched through the internet before you depart.

Without a job or allowance in Dubai you're toast.

bebe2:
Seasonal affective disorder

Popularly known as winter disorder.

Don't know about any WINTER, SPRING, FALL, AUTUMN, SUMMER, or even any HARMATTAN disorder.

SAD is sad. As in the simple sentence "That boy is sad".

The stage (mood) of not being happy or joyful. which is referred to as SAD is considered SEASONAL. It is also regarded as AFFECTIVE since it erupted from within a person while finally it's abnormal nature marks it as a DISORDER.

I got that explanation from a BBC Radio program way back in the early Nineties.

Lexusgs430:
Some housemaids earn better than some of their employers.
A housemaid combining various employers and shift patterns, would be swimming in Canadian $$$$$

besides Housemaids didn't pay BILLS.

sukkot:
because if you have me in your house for 24 hours and you pay me 10 dollars per hour, then thats 240 dollars a day. thats not slavery. but if you have me in your house 24 hours and you are not paying me for the extra hours ? then thats slavery. you are just wasting my time and wasting my life. its that simple. time is money.

Understood.

lepasharon:
I'm talking in terms of the government It's become so harsh even ppl in the UK are feeling it

well, that's another perspective.

But your profile pic shows a yuppie face (abi na buppy una they call am). you don't look like someone not enjoying UK.

Mcowubaba:
Nah, I refuse your logic.

An American while staying in Nigeria, don't ever refer to American girls back in USA as Local chicks.

The name local chicks was structured by Nigerians in diaspora for Our Nigerian girls resident in Nigeria.

Don't lie to yourself, anyway no need to overstretch this.
Adios!

Okay, accepted but I was talking ENGLISH LANGUAGE not PARLANCE or SLANG.
bye!

sukkot:
unless the housemaid is stupid because if she is not stupid she will run away after a year. why will she be a housemaid to you in canada ? when she can go to school and better her own life ? see when you go abroad you need to leave this archaic ways of thinking behind. all that slavery you do in nigeria is not allowed in the west because that is what having personal driver and house maid is. its slavery. you tie another human beings life and destiny down for your own personal purpose. why ? if you need maid go to agency and they will give you maid who charges you by the hour. if you want car driver call chauffeur company and they will hire you driver who you will pay by the hour. thats how they do it in the west

And how does "charging by the hour, or minutes" exonerate that person from being accused of slavery.

Do you know what slavery is?

Do you have any idea how many of these so called "house girls" have built mansions here in Nigeria while graduates, artisans, and technicians can't even feed themselves Three times in a day?

One of the greatest disadvantage with Migrating to West is that you guys lose touch with realities of your motherland.

You become sucked into a system that (though will never accept you fully) it still alter and destroy your possibilities of a successful reintegration back into your homeland at the tail end of your sojourn.

Well this doesn't apply to the Hausas anyway. They are an exceptional tribe when it comes to protecting ethnical originality and values.

Mcowubaba:
Brov, that's an offensive word at bolded.
Why classify Nigerian home-based girls as Local chicks, that's derogatory and kinda racist

No, it's not.
Once something is within a particular home domain, it's refereed to as "local".

Same way the it would be correct for an American (while staying in Nigeria) to refer to a girls back home in the U S. as "local chicks".

Not lecturing English o, just relating what I understand.

lepasharon:
The UK is is not what it used to be with the new government and it is highly saturated

Many Nigerians here are lost souls up to no good

That has always been the claim! THE UK IS NOT WHAT IT USE TO BE...bla bla bla

When was anything ever as it use to be?

Even my septuagenarian uncle who Stowaway in the early Sixties told me folks they met there were telling them the UK isn't any longer what it use to be.

Can you imagine

blueseacats:
Yea they do, they are all sailors, mostly captains. The least earned $3000 a month working with shell petroleum then. But the glamour of coming to USA almost blinded them before I opened their eyes.

Now his wife have given birth to all his children here. And those kids always come here for medical checkups that cost tax payers a lot. Yet he pays nothing even though he's a rich boy.

That's the best way to take advantage of those who wishes to labor here.

Then this your (caliber of) friends are not whom this thread (OP) is counselling for.

The people in question here are the hand-to-mouth (though able bodied) folks, who would happily go through what you over there think is "hell" mainly because they are simply after "earning a living" while your (the diasporas) own ideology of a career is already obfuscated by the natural trappings of wealth, after living in the west for a while

An hungry man is asking you for a loaf of bread to sustain his soul and you went on ranting about the absence of cheese, jam, butter or coffee for him to gulp it down.

Does that makes sense

eyinjuege:
Does living abroad automatically make one a charity organisation?
The person you're asking to pay other people's hospital bills, and buy uniforms, has he finished paying all the debts he's in abroad?

No but when you look at it from the economic perspective of FOREIGN EXCHANGE ADVANTAGE , usually a little above a token (from diaspora) would translate to mean MUCH MORE back home.

blueseacats:
The second person to comment have already answered your question nicely, but let me add to it, only if Nigerians will be truthful to themselves they will realize that abroad is just mare hype. Let me talk about USA, to me American Dream is just a mirage. I usually tell my friends not to move if they have a good job. Then most of them used to ask me why do I not come back if it's so bad, well I came back now I live in Nigeria. And am happy.

Will your friends talk about Migrating in the first place if they have good jobs

lovelygurl:
Op that's not true. You just don't understand. I will never encourage someone above 25 to come to Germany. I mean forget it, you just WON'T cope and will have to settle for less. The language is the big deal here. People think it's very easy to learn a language, they don't even plan and most think Europe/America is a place where the streets are made of gold. Sometimes you have to be EXTREMELY patient, sometimes you will be forced to give up on your dreams etc.

The truth is the younger the better. You don't want to come here and do some jobs you don't want to, just because you can't speak the language and therefore have no other choice

...yet you remain there. You seem well fitted and settled in, which is contrary to your cautions (assertions) you gave.

You even have enough leisure time to do Nairaland

Aba! why now? are you guys so scared of competition from new comers?

Organs:
My Broda, most Nigerian men of God are fake... Read the Western press and what they have to say about them. It is all miracles, money, power and blessings in terms of $$, only very few are SINCERE and genuine. Case in point, i hope you remember Sulaiman said Jonathan will win and that God revealed it to him? have we called him out on it? Now how come GEJ did not win if God revealed it to him?? I hope you know he boasted about what will

happen to naija if he is locked up for one day Powerful... I hope you also know that the level of corruption, indecency, lack of morality, quest for money, ritual killings are on the rise as well as Churches, now what is going on? Most churches and mosques are FAKE...

Organs:
My Broda, most Nigerian men of God are fake... Read the Western press and what they have to say about them. It is all miracles, money, power and blessings in terms of $$, only very few are SINCERE and genuine. Case in point, i hope you remember Sulaiman said Jonathan will win and that God revealed it to him? have we called him out on it? Now how come GEJ did not win if God revealed it to him?? I hope you know he boasted about what will happen to naija if he is locked up for one day Powerful... I hope you also know that the level of corruption, indecency, lack of morality, quest for money, ritual killings are on the rise as well as Churches, now what is going on? Most churches and mosques are FAKE...

You assertions are kind of right except that MOSQUE don't preach RICHES. MIRACLES, POWER and so on.

In Islam, you walk into a mosque, observe your prayer, whether by congregation or privately, and you walk out.

Occasionally (Fridays mandatory) you attend sermons and during some months (depending on your personal schedules) you may attend general preaching where basically the WORDS OF GOD and TEACHINGS OF PROPHET MOHAMMED are the sole highlight and focus.

MOSQUES don't sell RICHES, POWER or MIRACLES. They don't tell you your mother or Aunty or Neighbour or some Six years old orphan is a witch (behind your failure).


They encourage you to accept that NO FORCE in the entire universe has the power or privilege to write, rewrite or alter your destiny from what God originally ordained.

In Islamic teachings and congregation the message is usually about how to live "righteously" in this world with the sole aim of inheriting a place in paradise.

So while it remains inarguable fact that the case of FAKE and MISGUIDED clergies exist within every religion of the world, it is pertinent that we accept that some (religion like Islam) came into existence with clear "rulings and prescriptions" over all aspect of Mankind; and no degree of semantic gymnastic (under whatsoever guise) can be successfully use to justify alterations and/or derailment from the "the accepted and the prohibited"

Alas, Islam is "corrupt proof".

Kobicove:
The big question is - Would a true childhood friend rat on someone she has known for such a long time?

This is another attempt to discredit Otobo's story...I don't believe this crap

Damage control as they call it.

AngelicBeing:
Before you know now, they will start worshiping the boy and call him a god, India, a land full of mysticism, cult and occult practices, they have more than 500 gods they pray and worship, na wao ..

Yet they are far, far technologically ahead of us.
While their mysticism, cult and occult practises and their "more than 500 gods" (as you claim) continue to pivot them scientifically and technologically, carving for then a respectable place in world legion of Sciences and technologically developed nations,

..our own "holy trinity" has spurred On nothing but money rituals and ethnic disunity.

Abeg leave India jo, abi you wan follow go develop the place for them.