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Unprofessional Photoshopped Images of Buhari In Japan

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Here is an unprofessional photoshopped Image of Buhari in the Ongoing Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

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Don't you have television at home? I think it is on live television that Buhari is in Japan.
Why are you selling a photo card when you can sell the life video?
Stop being nuisance.

Nonsense upon nonsense

This situation is going on too frequently. How could black south Africans become terror to fellow Africans in their land.
President Buhari and president Ramaphosa are meeting in Japan now and the next thing we are talking about is another senseless attack on African brotherhood.
Shame on these lazy and stupid people of south Africa.

This business of kidnapping is becoming more frightening than ever.
So, it's not safe for anyone to travel on Kaduna Abuja expressway anytime

Today, government officials and security officials will tell you the road is free, tomorrow will be another day for kidnappers to reign on the road.
What is the solution?

God help us. Many people are so much indicted about these lists of habits.
We will continue to try to keep things under control.

It seems that Ihedioha main business is to come and blame and recover.
What is the difference between all these people we calls politicians?
No new direction, no new project, nothing more than propaganda of chasing the previous deals of past government

Please, mr. IHEDIOHA, face your front and head forward not backward.

Congratulations, no time to wait. Let the job start now

This guy deserves serious attention. He is not the only such officer in the military.
Let him mention his accomplice.

Any of these will be okay. Not demanding too much.

Congratulations to Pa Akinkunmi. This is the way towards more people getting more patriotic.
I congratulate the group that makes this happene.

God will console the family of the policemen that was brutally killed by the overzealous soldiers.
The soldiers were totally wrong in this matter. The right thing to do was to demobilized the presumed kidnappers since they have got them stop from moving.
The army captain and his men have much to say about security lapses around the middle belt area.
Particularly, Taraba,Benue and Kaduna. These officers have their own networks within the security circuit, they are the one sabotaging the system.

Good policy, if well implemented. Nigeria do not really need imported food on her citizens table.
Those people dealing on importation of food should endeavor to cultivates food locally.
We have everything naturally needed for food production.
Let our business men take time to carry out food production instead of food importation.

Congratulations on the arrival of the baby. Good things shall follows us all

Very simple, take time to tastes the ewa you usually buy for him. Try to cook your own ewa to taste as much as the one he is always sending you to buy.
Or another way, try and make friend with the person cooking the ewa you always buy, tell her your predicament. Understudy her and become a master in making your own ewa taste like her own ewa. That way, you will win your husband stomach back.

This is the way to go if we want naira to add value.
Promote our locally made good and Nigerians will get works in abundant thereby putting money in our pocket while our currency will have value.

Welcome back home. The experience of bbn is now part of Jeff.
He play the game in mature manner.

Salmoneus:
Old cargos na tacha and mercy dey reign now...they can consummate their marriage in the toilet for all I care...

It shall definitely start somewhere and sometimes, the end is what matter.

Kingosytex:
BBN dishing out celebrities to Nigerians since 2017. In the next few years most people will be celebrities. I wish them good luck in their journey to become one. May the spirit that monitored and destroyed many celebrity marriages never see them in JESUS NAME... AMEN

Amen. Almighty God the beginning and the end is with this unique Union.
It shall go from generation to generation .
So shall it be by the power of the highest authority

Softly softly, No body is happy with the way things are going in this country.
Should we all start a revolution now. Without a proffer solutions from the organizer on the table.
Let us continues to making noise as we have been doing from the beginning, while everyone continue to eke out life line , instead of grounding everything and make more people to suffers.

Nigeria and Nigerians just need to change our educational curriculums.
Emphasis must be put on technical education than any other areas.
We believed too much in been educated and works in the office rather than works in the fields as technologists.
If you go to where a good technically minded Nigerians works alongside the so called expertriate ,they the foreigners always respect our geniuity .
But emphasis is too much on going to university and study some irrelevant courses.
There after, our half baked graduates will go around searching for unavailable jobs while technical schools products from foreign lands are here working as super experts and earning jumbo pays value in dollars.
Technical schools must be promoted before we can rescue our people out of this being a slaves to these braggadocio Indians and Chinese.

Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion in any issue. To those who believes in jubril is occupying aso rock and presiding over Nigeria and Nigerians, it's up to them to have greatly help themselves to that stupidity.

To those who believes in the man occupying aso rock and presiding over Nigeria and Nigerians as our own Buhari, it's up to them to have greatly uphold their minds and opinions.

No matter what we believed in this matter, it is of no material and can not effect any change.

Nonsense of the highest order. Why the desperation.
It is now the duty of PDP and Atiku supporters to dictates to the tribunal on how to pass judgment.
Another failure is Starkly waiting for these braggadocious sets of people.

farem:
Even when the one carrying belongings is clearly seen, your jaundiced and Atikulooted eyes will not see.

He lacks confidence and the whole Lagos couldn't ignore in serious legal battles against FG since 1999. The whole of the progressive opposition couldn't do without him fighting for their mandates across the nation against behemoth -PDP since 1999?

His law firm handled effortlessly against and for international oil firms here and abroad.

I think your definition of confidence is stupidity!

Tueh!

God bless you.
Some people are totally programs to always see nothing good.
Haters are always grounded to negativity.

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THE STRUGGLE OF THE HAUSA AGAINST THE FULANI by Gbonka Ebiri

The first charismatic Hausa leader to unite his people against Fulani overlords was a scholar by the name Abd al – Salam , another Hausa scholar by the name Dan Buya joined him. His movement started around 1818, shortly after the death of Usman Dan Fodio. At the time, almost all Hausa people lived in slave camps and over 60% of them were vassals of the Fulani feudal overlords…. Another large faction were turned to chattels and sold to the Ottoman traders. The revolt by these clerics to take back their lands started at Sokoto and spread from Sokoto to Kebbi and Zamfara. Sultan Bello was the ruler from Sokoto. He declared the leaders of the revolt as apostates. They were both defeated in battle and assassinated.

The Hausas were organizing for a second revolt when Lord Lugard showed up. Hoping to use his influence to sack the Fulani rulers, they enlisted en -masse into his army and formed the first battalions of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF)… Lugard betrayed them after the successful campaign and gave the land of the Hausa people back to the Emirs on the condition that the Emirs agreed to be vassals of the British. The Hausa people protested and tried to pressure him to replace them with Hausa rulers. He refused and believed that the Fulani, being a non negro race would be supposedly more intelligent people to work with in a system of indirect rule. In his journal, he wrote…. ‘The Fulani are an alien race of conquerors who had in turn been conquered. It would constitute danger to the state if they were ousted from their positions. Their intelligence enables them to appreciate more readily than the negro population the wider objects of the British policy….’

Shortly before independence, another charismatic ruler rose from the ranks to free his people from Fulani rule. He was also a scholar by the name Aminu Kano. He shared similar philosophies with Awolowo on socialism and emancipation of the masses. He argued that the talakawas were an exploited group in the North and swore to abolish both the emirates and privileged class known then as Masu Sarautu. His rising profile posed concern for the British and for a second time, they made laws that disenfranchised the Hausa people. They created an electoral college in the North with laws that gave the emirs the final approval of any elected member into the legislature. With this law, they silenced the voice of the talakawas championed by Aminu Kano and frustrated his revolution.

In the 70’s, another Hausa cleric emerged and rallied Hausa people, his name was Mohammadu Marwa, nicknamed ‘Mai Tatsine (Hausa name meaning “ the one who dance”). He deviated from many of the Sunni teachings and declared himself an annabi (Hausa ruler). The title in Hausa is reserved for prophets with divine inspiration..... He swore to rid Hausa land of the Fulani elites and the nobility that exploited the local rulers for over a century. Like Aminu kano, he drew a mass following among the talakawas. His movement was violent. He had weapons smuggled into Kano for a revolution that started in December 1980….. Shagari government used the military to fight the movement and killed over 5,000 people. The group was fearless and stood their ground to the last breadth…. Major Haliru Akilu, one of the commanders sent to restore order in Kano observed that the fanatics never retreated, even when they were overpowered. They were bolder than the guerillas we read about fighting in Malaysia or in the jungles of East Asia’

Mohammed Marwa was killed shortly after the revolt . ( It was said that at death, his body did not decay and this futher inspired his followers). A More brutal successor came after him. His name was Ali Suleiman (Musa Makaniki). He led a more violent uprisings in Kaduna and the most violent of all postcolonial Hausa revolts in Yola in 1984 which left thousands of people dead and thousands more homeless. Buhari ordered a ruthless crackdown on the group in Yola that led to the death of many members. Musa Makaniki fled to Cameroon to escape death by hanging and stayed in exile for many years.

The current cleric standing for the Hausa masses is El Zakzacky. Unlike the other previous leaders of the fight for freedom for Hausa people, El Zakzacky had western education and his movement started with intellectuals in the ranks. He finished with a first degree in Economics at ABU but was denied his certificate. In a country where the Northerners enjoyed the privilege of a quota system, he could have lived a good life by pledging allegiance to Futa Jalon rulers…. On the contrary, he chose to stand up for the injustice done to the Hausa people for over a century. Like the cleric before him, he deviated from all Islamic laws that bound them to Alien rulers that exploited the natives to form the nobility. His struggle is not about Islamic ideals, it is about freedom for Hausa people and rejection of Fulani nobility. His rhetoric is strictly centered on it and the government they greatly influence at federal level.

The emirs are alien rulers. Like the British who left at independence, they need to vacate the Northern kingdoms and give Hausa land back to its ancestral owners who have been seeking redress for injustice done to them by the Jihad of 1804 since the early 1800’s..... ‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ ( John F Kennedy)

How Political Power Damages the Brain—and How to Reverse it.

I was one of seven professors who facilitated a leadership training in my university here in Georgia for local government chairmen from a major Nigerian southwestern state. In the course of the training, I adverted to a January 13, 2018 column I wrote about how power literally damages the brains of people who wield it and causes them to be dissociated from reality.

A few of the chairmen at the training initially said they “rejected” what I said “in Jesus’ name.” But the more I expounded the research on the psychology of power, the less resistant they became. In the light of the interest it excited among these local power wielders, I thought I’d share a revised version of the column for the benefit of other people in power.



On Nov. 20, 2014, Buhari, Amaechi, Oyegun and other APC honchos protested in Abuja against the increased insecurity and killings in the country. Insecurity and killings are worse on their watch than at any time in peacetime Nigeria.

Almost everyone I know wonders why people in power change radically; why they become so utterly disconnected from reality that they suddenly become completely unrecognizable to people who knew them before they got to power; why they get puffed-up, susceptible to flattery, and intolerant of even the mildest, best-intentioned censure; why they appear possessed by inexplicably malignant forces; and why they are notoriously insensitive and self-absorbed.

Everyone who has ever had a friend in a position of power, especially political power, can attest to the accuracy of the age-old truism that a friend in power is a lost friend. Of course, there are exceptions, but it is precisely the fact of the existence of exceptions that makes this reality poignant. As the saying goes, “the exception proves the rule.”

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Look at all the power brokers in Nigeria—from the president to your ward councilor—and you’ll discover that there is a vast disconnect between who they were before they got to power and who they are now.

Also look at previously arrogant, narcissistic, power-drunk prigs who have been kicked out of the orbit of power for any number of reasons. You’ll discover that they are suddenly normal again. They share our pains, make pious noises, condemn abuse of power, and identify with popular causes. The legendary amnesia of Nigerians causes the past misdeeds of these previous monsters of power to be explained away, lessened, forgiven, and ultimately forgotten. But when they get back to power again, they become the same insensitive beasts of power that they once were.

So what is it about power that makes people such obtuse, self-centered snobs? It turns out that psychologists have been grappling with this puzzle for years and have a clue. Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California Berkeley, extensively studied the brains of people in power and found that people under the influence of power are neurologically similar to people who suffer traumatic brain injury.

According to the July/August 2017 issue of the Atlantic magazine, people who are victims of traumatic brain injury are “more impulsive, less risk-aware, and, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view.” In other words, like victims of traumatic brain injury, power causes people to lose their capacity for empathy. This is a surprising scientific corroboration of American historian Henry Adams’ popular wisecrack about how power is “a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.”

The findings of Sukhvinder Obhi, a professor of neuroscience at McMaster University, in Ontario, Canada, are even more revealing. Obhi also studies the workings of the human brain. “And when he put the heads of the powerful and the not-so-powerful under a transcranial-magnetic-stimulation machine, he found that power, in fact, impairs a specific neural process, ‘mirroring,’ that may be a cornerstone of empathy,” the Atlantic reports. “Which gives a neurological basis to what Keltner has termed the ‘power paradox’: Once we have power, we lose some of the capacities we needed to gain it in the first place.”

Take Buhari, for example. Before 2015, he was—or at least appeared to be—empathetic. He supported subsidies for the poor, railed against waste, thought Nigerians deserved to buy petrol at a low price because Nigerian oil was “developed with Nigerian capital,” and so on. He even said foreign medical treatment for elected government officials was immoral and indefensible, and wondered why a Nigerian president would need a fleet of aircraft when even the British Prime Minister didn’t have any.

Nothing but power-induced brain damage, which activates narcissism and loss of empathy, can explain Buhari’s dramatic volte-face now that he’s in power. This fact, psychological researchers say, is worsened by the fact that subordinates tend to flatter people in power, mimic their ways in order to ingratiate themselves with them, and shield them from realities that might cause them psychic discomfort.

“But more important, Keltner says, is the fact that the powerful stop mimicking others,” the Atlantic reports. “Laughing when others laugh or tensing when others tense does more than ingratiate. It helps trigger the same feelings those others are experiencing and provides a window into where they are coming from. Powerful people ‘stop simulating the experience of others,’ Keltner says, which leads to what he calls an ‘empathy deficit.’”

Researchers also found out that excessive praise from subordinates, sycophantic drooling from people seeking favors, control over vast resources they once didn’t have, and all of the staid rituals and performances of power conspire to cause “functional” changes to the brains of people in power. On a social level, it also creates what Lord David Owen, a British neurologist-turned-politician, called the “hubris syndrome” in his 2008 book titled In Sickness and in Power.

Some features of hubris syndrome, Owen points out, are, “manifest contempt for others, loss of contact with reality, restless or reckless actions, and displays of incompetence.” Sounds familiar? You can’t observe Buhari’s governance—or, more correctly, ungovernance—in the last four years and fail to see these features in him.

But it’s not all gloom and doom. Powerful people can, and indeed do, extricate themselves from the psychological snares of power if they so desire. Professor Keltner said one of the most effective psychological strategies for people in power to reconnect with reality and reverse the brain damage of power is to periodically remember moments of powerlessness in their lives—such as when they were victims natural disasters, accidents, poverty, etc.

They should also have what American journalist Louis McHenry Howe once called a “toe holder,” that is, someone who doesn’t fear them, expects no favors from them, and can tell them uncomfortable truths without fear of consequences.

Winston Churchill’s toe holder was his wife, who once wrote a letter to him that read, in part, “I must confess that I have noticed a deterioration in your manner; & you are not as kind as you used to be.” Was Aisha Buhari performing the role of a toe holder when she publicly upbraided her husband in the past? I doubt it.

Her disagreements with her husband are often opportunistic and self-serving. They are triggered only when her husband’s puppeteers in Aso Rock limit her powers to nominate her cronies for political positions and to dispense favors to friends and family.

Another potent way to reverse power-induced brain damage is to periodically get out of the protected silos of power and solitarily observe the quotidian interactions of everyday folks—their humor, laughter, fights, etc. — without the familiar add-ons of power, such as aides, cameras, security, etc. This helps to stimulate the experiences of others and restore empathy.

This is particularly important in Nigeria because power, at all levels, is almost absolute and unaccountable.

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D

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Congratulations to the new couple. God Almighty will bless your Union

God is God and Man is Man. In this cases of natural delivery and CS, God Almighty has created everything we needs to survive.
When a situation demand for cs ,Almighty God have prepared the instruments to carry it out.
Knowledge of caesarian operations and the success of it are all miracle from Almighty Creator.
When a woman deliver her baby naturally like a goat, it is also a miracle from Almighty Creator.
The financial aspects of any type of baby delivery is the bane of it.
Government hospitals need to be equipped and made ready to carry out free cs delivery for any complicated pregnancy.

Good governance is inborn , a product of vission and selflessness.
The types of leaders we have on the stage now are self-centered and vision less.

chosengocap:
The Central Bank of Nigeria granted Jaiz Bank a
national license to operate ISLAMIC INTEREST-
FREE BANKING and now another Islamic Bank TAJ BANK in all the 36 states of the Federation.
The Sultan of Sokoto, who is the head of all Muslims
in Nigeria, has warned that being an islamic bank
"whatever Jaiz does must conform with the rules
and regulations of Islam"
Jaiz has also set up Takaful islamic insurance.
Brethren, the game plan is this: the islamic religion
wants to control the economy, but wants to do it in
a subtle 'legal way'.
He who controls the economic power controls all.
Remember that the richest man in the whole of
Africa is Aliko Dangote. He controls 54% of the
nation's industries not only in Nigeria but in other
parts of Africa.
You don't want to pray now, right?
Very soon you or your sister will be looking for jobs
at Jaiz Bank or Jaiz Insurance and you'll be asked
as part of the conditions of service to wear hijab to
work. You will be compelled to pray 5 times a day
becos they will compel all workers to pray their
prayers. Don't forget that they will ask you to work
on Sundays and of course, they will give you
fantastic pay until they finally buy your souls over to
islam.
If you're already married, your kids will be forced to
attend their Islamic schools because they would
have attached your job incentives to it as part of the
conditions of service.
Soldiers of the Cross, why won't you arise in the
place of prayers that God should thwart the
counsels of the ungodly? Why won't you mourn like
Modeciah, Esther and the Jews in a time like this?
The end is near, if the horror does not fully happen
in your days, how about in the days of your kids?
Oh, brethren, it is time to arise and pray as never
before.

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The Bible says, watch and pray. Alright. But the Christians in Nigeria are only calling for prayers while the big Pentecostal Church and their business minded pastors are busy building personal empires. The Islamic community/nations are trying to empower Muslims people through soft loans in Nigeria.
The Church collects thite and offering to builds expensive schools and turn it to competition among the Rich in enrollment of their children.
Unless, the Christian community in Nigeria change their way. Christianity is on the way to eradication. You all know how pastors are being attack by people born and breed in Christian homes
It is a gradual process, unless we WAKE UP TO THE REALITY ON GROUND.
Individualism is driving Christianity astray. Hope is not lost. We only needs new orientation in the church.

Once a plane is flying on high altitude that is more than 2000 feet above sea level, any crash from that height is dangerous and fatal to anyone in that aircraft.
Not minding your sitting position in the aircraft

Beginning from all the men in the generation line of the author. Past, present and future.

Nigeria belongs to you and me. Understanding of ourselves is the first law of this unity in diversity .
It is good we allow thorough analysis of the new national passport to see totally what it contains.
Picking one feature among many on the passport to the neglect of others will only causes emotional grief, which is what the person peddling this picture wanted to achieved originally.
God save Nigeria from Nigerians.