CaveAdullam: 1. Everybody cares about results without necessary consideration of the process that's involved and the unintended consequences. I can easily trace this back to motivational talks which harangue listeners to focus more on results because nobody cares about their secret and hard work. "You are not known until we see your result" is a major component of motivational tongues. Not that the statement is wrong, but motivational leaders have either failed to properly explain that life occurs in unpredicted phases or they did, but the listeners didn't understand.
2. The game of numbers is a vital component of life, the higher the number the higher the result. The majority wins the vote. A higher number of customers brings more profits. A higher score brings higher grades. Similarly, a higher number of dumb people occupying a geographical terrain brings a higher level of underdevelopment.
3. No matter how much truth is enunciated, it will never find a landing place, but remain floating in the air. Because until the numbers appreciate it, it will not land. The only way it can land with fewer adherents is if the adherents become 'truth extremists' - not in the way ideologues or religious people perform their ideologies, but the way patriots, nationalists, and freedom fighters do.
4. Truth and light can never be hidden for long, they will find a place and a time to express and shine respectively. But the continuous adjourning of truth and light when it is needed in an immediate time like this will make us linger in falsehood, lies, and darkness. This will remain the case until a generation of truth seekers defers the status quo, look beyond comfort and materialism, and have the existence of future generations at heart.
5. The children of the (dark) world will always take the center stage if their hands are always on the tools that ought to be used by the children of light. Misplaced priority right?
6. Not only in Nigeria, the celebration of flashiness, luxury, debauchery and hedareism is global, the internet has the statistics. The display of madnéss in the global North is borne out of comfort while in the global South it is borne out of suffering and underdevelopment; same result, different approaches.
7. Regardless of the number, it is better to die poor on the right side, howbeit, it is sacrosanct one leverage on the benefits of being on the right side to live a good and reputable life, than die comfortably on the wrong side. Because in the end, truth, honesty, and, integrity will always prevail no matter the delay or denial.
Thanks.
Cc. MemoriesAndMe, Philipmaxwell, Antyxx et al.,
Words on marble!
A million thanks, I feel like I just read a classic. We need more lightbearers like you in Nigeria. With minds such as yours, there's a glimmer of hope for Nigeria.
CaveAdullam: 1. Celebration of materialism, entertainment, and theatre are potent signs of a declining or failed society.
2. These young people will never celebrate the young man striving to survive on the street, they will look down on the young girl hawking her merchandise to make ends meet. Because their lives are not flashy, they don't exude a perfume of luxury and greed. But one thing you can't take from t hese men and women is the wisdom and strength birthed out of their life's struggles and experiences.
3. Younger minds of today have been bastardized by every show of flashiness, there lies their dopamine hit. They are myopic, lazy, complacent, and vapid because they don't value what's not glamouring like gold. Their rights have been taken away from them via entertainment, but they will accuse, rush and attack you when you bring this to their notice.
4. Their role models are fraudsters, prostitutes, sociopaths, the corrupt, weak, arrogant, and neurotic. These are their golden calves, their gods, and their oracle.
5. Flexing wealth is always a sign of low IQ except it is a result of official duties. The dumb and low in intelligence flex wealth because it veneers their feebleness and drawbacks because they lack what's true: wisdom, character, integrity, competence, kindness, modesty, brave, assertiveness, confidence, and courage. These qualities are not flashy and will not be glorified by the generations of dumb fellows.
6. Flexing wealth is one thing, but having the capacity to protect your life after the flexing is the most vital because you have awakened sleeping demons and devils that reside in manipulations, greed, envy, and jealousy. A case of penny wise pounds foolish.
7. Will I say, unfortunately? Ironically, a society that needs growth, truth, and freedom is the same society that will jettison and throw immaterial transcendental virtues under the bus when it comes to beautiful looks, flashy cars, designer clothes, fanciful gadgets, shining jewelry, and polished shoes. A weak generation indeed!
Sigh.
Wow. I couldn't have said it better. So much truths in your write up. Unfortunately Nigeria of today doesn't reward honesty and hardwork any more. It's all about blings and flashy things regardless of how it's gotten, all about man know man. It's really unfortunate.
Eriokanmi: Each time I say apc and pdp are the same, I mean it. Extremely greedy people. Imagine, the presidential aspirant is a northerner, the BOT chair is a northerner and the party chair is also from the north. Meanwhile, the pdp dominated states are down south. What injustice!
Thank you very much. So Wike is only good for spending Rivers money to keep the party but shouldn't have a say if the party wins? They must think Wike is a clown. I really like the part one of his conditions includes the agreement signed in a court.
Is it right that the party chairman, the BOT chairman and the presidential flagbearer of PDP are all northerners? Wike is fighting for the south because it's obvious his party members from the north are not trustworthy. It's just common sense.
Snapchat: Please, remind me. I hope I remember to remind you too after the outcome of the game lol.
Yeah, defo.
Anthony debuts with a goal against the gunners...you can take that to the bank. Man United is beating Arsenal, remember I told you first G.Neville winning the £1k bet against P.Merson.
Snapchat: Fulham this season are a good side, they’ve been unbeaten asides the Arsenal game. Crystal palace were a good side and still is, they couldn’t score against Arsenal but scored two against almighty City. Leicester were shit but they scored a goal, the other was a own goal due to misunderstanding between keeper and defender.
Even when we beat Man U on Sunday (we will), una go still come up with another excuse against Arsenal.
Saving this for Sunday...a little reminder won't hurt
odiks: Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may cause the party to lose the 2023 presidential election.
The governor said this on Thursday while reacting to recent remarks made by Ayu on calls for his resignation.
While speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday, Ayu said those demanding his resignation are children.
“When we started the PDP journey, we did not see these children. They are children who do not know why we established this party,” he had said.
“We will not allow one person to come and destroy our party.”
TheCable had reported how Wike’s allies demanded that the PDP national chairman should step down — as a precondition for resolving the rift with Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate.
Some members of the party’s national working committee national (NWC) are also said to be pushing for a probe of the party’s finances under Ayu’s watch.
Speaking on Thursday at the inauguration of roads in Ikwerre LGA of the state, Wike said those who Ayu described as children brought him from nothing to be chairman of the party.
He said if Ayu remains arrogant and refuses to resign, it may cost the PDP the 2023 presidential election.
“You can imagine what power can do. You can imagine how ingratitude — how people can be ingrates in their lives,” Wike said.
“I thought as a chairman of a party who wants to win elections, your business is to bring peace to your party; your business is not to divide your party. Your business is not to show arrogance to your party.
“Yes, the children brought you to be chairman of the party. The children brought you from the gutter to make you chairman.
“Ayu, you were impeached as senate president. Ayu, you were sacked by Obasanjo in his administration. Arrogance cannot take you anywhere.
“Now, we have seen that you don’t want the party to win the election. We will help you.
“These children — these people you call boys — brought you from nothing.”
Wike alleged that Ayu doesn’t want to resign because of the billions of naira in the PDP coffers which were made from the sale of forms during the party’s primary elections.
. Wike alleged that Ayu doesn’t want to resign because of the billions of naira in the PDP coffers which were made from the sale of forms during the party’s primary elections.
clems88: I doubt if Liverpool will smell top 4 . When u have a stubborn coach who refuses to buy players that's what happens.
Actually it's the 7th season curse beginning to play out. Klopp usually bottles it in the 7th season. Happened at Mainz, Dortmund and now it's beginning to happen with Liverpool.
pquaver: Which no be beans psgno dey collect? Abi no be valleycano draw barca abeg.. Go see as guardiola don turn am to farmer league na 6-0..haaland dey do him stuff
Guardiola turned EPL to Farmers league because city won 6 nil?! Na wa for you o. City go still collect at some point. City couldn't beat Newcastle. You can't compare EPL with French league. Not on this planet.
JOemmy: This coming election might just end up in a stalemate the three old regions of nigeria is well represented we might likely see the north, west and east massively voting for only their own candidates.
Very valid. From the way it's going it's very possible. Last last the country go split along regional lines. It was always going to happen. It's been long overdue.
kingzjay: Get your information straight. Don't hurriedly post lies to misinformation. I stay in that area
The place wasn't a room as you claim. It was a prayer house. One of those mushroom prayer house where "assignments" are performed. She couldn't meet up with her rent and the court came to take her valuables. These ones were the ones considered not valuable and thrown outside.
Sadly, they were fetish showing she was using church as disguse to perform her evil deeds
Exactly. I believe you because someone else saw this thread and told me same thing.
Yampotatocarrot: True. But what have the government been removing since that have led to the increase in price of fuel?
They had seven years to remove it, why push the removal till June 2023, after they leave office? If it is actually gulping our finances as we all believe, shouldn't this government remove it once, let's bleed at once and later heal?
This same government protested against the removal years ago, was it that they were just plain stupid then or unnecessarily dull?
ppogba: So when it felt as if the whole world is crashing suddenly, Chelsea is just 1 point above Man U and Liverpool is below Man U on the league table.
Lesson: Do not commit suicide. Your case is not the worst...
muzeze77: No other tribee has ever been heavy weight champion of the world , yes we afonja are one of the strongest in the world and we will produce another heavy weight champion
Sorry to burst your bubble. The Nigerian nightmare, Samuel Peters was world champion way before AJ. Remember?!
Mufakirnaqdiun: When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
Losing on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck?
If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.
Splitmind: How can 50 residents be kidnapped just like that?
You people will believe any nonsense on this forum.
Very true in Kaduna. The terrorists carry people from house to house until their means of transportation is full. I've heard this from someone who had the experience in his community in southern Kaduna, the reason the man had to relocate to northern Kaduna.
God will punish all the terrorists enablers in this country.
Dsalvo: Amen. An initiative as simple as State policing our current presidency is autocratically showing no interest in, even as many of us have our private suspicion about his intentions, can make a massive difference in how we live and make progress in our respective geographical space.
I am not sure Owo Massacre would have happened if SW Nigeria had State or regional policing that is, first anf foremost, driven by patriotic indigenes and modern intelligence crime prevention and detection every State or region is free to embrace so they can bypass the corruption, ineptitude and compromise of the moribund Nigerian Police force that remains partisan tools of the Presidency, federal Government, AGF etal.
We can all fight about who is superior between Obi, Tinubu, Atiku etal but what we must not lose sight of is the fact that all those men will fail if they cannot commit to restructuring the fundamental governance structure and constitution of Nigerian that has kept us failing and will alway doom us to failure, suffering and under-development
Dsalvo: Okay bro. Apologies. I am just ultra-passionate about Restructuring asap and without delay.
Let us all joint the agitation below whoever becomes President and irrespective of political or ethnic affiliation. Enough is enough.
Let the deaths, misery and deprivation stop. We must, if we see the big picture, fight for the same thing because the current reality of robbing Peter to pay Paul, that only benefits some who control power, will ruin the majority of Nigerian .
Let us all support restructuring and the decentralization of power that will allow all of us to control our security and socio-economic destiny as we are truly capable of doing rather than as 'one Nigeria' limits us to doing.
What we have currently is a sytem where anyone able to hijack the centre, through an over-powerful Presidential office, can literally send us all to our deaths casually following their own ethnocentric and sectional agenda when they should be leading for all Nigerians in every corner of Nigeria.
I agree totally with you sir.
This is the way to go and I pray that Nigeria would be restructured and power de-centralized in our lifetime. A better Nigeria is what we want.
Dsalvo: Are you not being tribalistic, disingenuous and totally dishonest with your submission here ?
If you want to claim Lagos and the SW would lose out from restructuring then why are SW Governors the bravest, most defiant and most devoted advocates of restructuring that the centre, they are a majority part of, refuses to accept under Buhari?
Why are APC Governors, the majority in the SW, fighting their own affiliate President if they believe they will be losers under a restructured Nigeria?
Shebi people like you talk of Nigeria Delta oil feeding "parasite" Nigeria. You should be happy Lagos and the SW now want to fight for you to control your resources and endowment, plus socio-economic fortune, in exchange for us having the power to do same.
Why are the SW Governors now the sole and major proponents of Niger Deltans, and everyone else, controlling their resources if the Yorubas are not convinced empty noisemakers from all other Nigerian regions are the real liabilities holding our nation back?
Jonathan supervised the bankruptcy of Bayelsa as her most prominent son ever. Whereas Tinubu made Lagos great and the 6th biggest economy in Africa in a short period of time.
NDDC, constituted of Niger Delta 'sons of the soil', turned out to be the biggest saboteurs of their own people even as you and others love blaming the North and SW casually per "exploitation" while forming victims.
Those are the realities that have convinced Yoruba leaders to put differences aside and agitate passionately for restructuring confident in our our ability, leadership or resources-wise, to excel and lag behind no other..
Open your eyes and acknowledge that what is shown below means Yorubas are fed up of the retrogressive 'one Nigeria' lunacy and are the only people with leaders now willing to walk the walk for a better, more equitable and more progressive Nigeria.
Oga I'm not being tribalistic. Far from it. I was just stating my opinion. You don't have to agree with it.
I'm �% for restructuring as most progressive Nigerians.
I'm sure you'd recall Obong Victor Attah was a proponent of restructuring and resource control and that was back in 1999. So if the South Western governors have decided to join the struggle, it's most welcomed.
Please let's restructure it will be for the good of the country.
If Nigeria is restructured then things would certainly change.
I've read a lot of comments bashing the OP. Well, with restructuring, Lagos would lose some revenue, example no more cash from taxing the IOCs who have their headquarters there. Less revenue from seaport. Currently the bulk of sea exports and imports come in through the Apapa wharf. That would change as the sea ports in the east would start functioning as against what obtains today. With restructuring, there would be a lot of regional migration as the regions would first serve it's indigenes before taking care if people from other parts. A lot of regions would be forced to be creative to think outside crude oil. It would be a wonderful thing to happen as overall, Nigeria as a country would be better.
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. When u have a stubborn coach who refuses to buy players that's what happens.
