Beware of C**na virus.

Day by day, the depth of evil conspiracy in Nigeria is being revealed. It is very possible the reason for the clamour for the removal of service chiefs in certain quarters is to hide the pact with Boko Haram. I know some want the service chiefs out for good reasons. But the fact that 2 groups seem to want the same thing does not mean they have the same motive.

But Little by little the God of Justice will expose those troubling Nigeria-whether in the presidency, legislature, judiciary, military, traditional ruler.

Many times slow (strategy) and steady (consistency) wins the race.

Well done SW Governors.

Pls, don't bother with changing address to US or UK or Vatican city. The simplest way to pay for apps on Google play store with Naira MasterCard that I know is through 9pay. It is as easy as ABC.

It is powered by 9mobile. Just get a 9mobile sim and dial *500#.

Thank me later.

AK481:
who else is annoyed reading this thrash.

who is more annoyed that its written by sun and not an independent writer.

Lol! This is not an editorial so it's not a view of the Sun Newspaper. It is a view of a columnist. His name is on the webpage.

osuofia2:
Thunder go fire Sun News paper, imagine the nonsense coming from Sun an Eastern News Print, You guys keep Licking The dullards Shrink Balls. Kudos To Punch Newspaper for Calling a Spade a Spade. This report is errant Nonsense.
There is no better reason for keeping those retired and senile Service Chiefs than his Nepotist Mind set(s). Is Sun news saying without those Men Nigeria can not Function? Shame on Sun newspaper

Lol! This is not an editorial so it's not a view of the Sun Newspaper. It is a view of a columnist. His name is on the webpage.

mamaafrik:
Foolish people,and who and who will fight a civil war,it will be NE+NW vs Sw+SE+SS+NC,Hausa no reach,no oil,no access to sea,no power,No money from IGR nor Oil to buy weapon.
They can't fight no war uncle,this is 2020 and not 1967.
These people are pure illiterates.

You nailed it man!

The guy is asleep. Federal Government, Federal Government, who is federal government? So the old guy is deluding himself that Middle Belt and other southern regions will join with core north and fight civil war.

Yeyenatu.

kpompey:



Mr PDP....Go and sit down.We are not being fed by politicians OK, but the interest of Oyo state people should come first. This man should the needful and stop this media hyping.
So far I scored him 20 percent. He can fool the illiterate but for us,it is capital Noooooo.People are not blind to tell you if truly you are performing Governor.

I am wondering how much you would score his predecessor. Let me tell you some of the things Makinde has done better than Ajimobi.

*Free education is a big deal. Many kids have begun school again.

*His government has budgeted an unprecedented percentage for education.

*No more projects with the aim of stealing.

*Anti corruption drive with the establishment of the Oyo State Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Have you listened to him talk? you see a humble man(although a billionaire not from stealing in government). And the holy book says with the humble is wisdom. Wisdom does not mean you know everything; it means you are willing to learn.

To say he is not doing anything looks to me as mischievous.

GamalNasser:


One Russian pilot crashed one and two were lost during operations in the North east by the Buhari govt , the last is stationed in Abuja providing air deterrence support for Presidency

Men! You know quite a lot on Nigeria air security.

IloveToMess:


Leave Benin people out of your stupidity you coward Afonja, face Fulanis squarely and leave others out of your mouth.. Shebi you people are the great and sophisticated Yoruba, what is this that you keep lumping others to yourselves ever since the Amotekun rubbish started..??

It is likes of you who cut your nose
to spite your face. Thankfully most other SE/SS people don't reason in a narrow minded way. Meanwhile the afonja people are moving forward. Whatever your view of them doesn't determine their pace.

"They are just doing all these things in order to stop the Fulani from coming into their area; it is just a hidden agenda to prevent the Fulani herdsmen from grazing in their God-given areas."

What does this mean! Every move of the Miyetti Allah has confirmed their evil agenda of placing other ethnic groups under domination. Although many of us had known this agenda before now, it is becoming clearer and clearer to many people.

nkemdi89:
If you are not ready for sex, stay away from relationship, it is very difficult to have a man in this present generation who can stay celibate, unless he is born in the 70s and has had load of mind blowing sex, and want marriage straight because he is already tired of the whole sex charade, besides stop using sex as bargaining tool, if you are matured enough and financially independent, you should be responsible for any decision with your body. If he wants to continue with the relationship after sex, shouldn't be your headache , enjoy the sex and don't feel used.

Using sex as a bargaining tool? Is that what you can read from her post? Bargaining tool for what? In this generation Anyone who wants to do the right thing is considered wrong. How sad.

Lady doesn't want to have sex before marriage. She says so plainly. Which one is sex as bargaining tool.

Marriage is a covenant. Only fools treat covenant as a common thing. If she wants to be careful, let her be. Hope she doesn't end up with someone with your mindset.

What if the guy leaves her after eating her cookie? How would she look herself in the mirror? Used and dumped.

What if the guy leaves BECAUSE she didn't allow him have her cookie? Dumped but NOT USED.

jaxxy:


No u didn’t my dear, if u both agreed and he agreed then it shud be kept. People who break agreements easily cannot be trusted. I might be wrong bt I think Soldier just wants to bed u that’s all. He’s not interested in marriage. I hope I’m wrong bt his persistence and manipulation leaves much to be desired.

Stop the kissing and cuddling for atleast a month and see where the relationship heads. The truth is a guy who really loves u is more than happy just staring at u and hearing u talk till Ure ready. Sex is just the icing on the cake. I know this love is rare bt it’s the real deal.

Bt don’t get me wrong this has to be agreed by both parties willingly.

You are dear.

This kind of love is rare but it is the real love. When a man sleep with you before marriage, he might still end up marrying you, but it can never be like if he never got there.

After marriage, he can sleep with you as much as he wants. E go tire am sef.

themaestro08:


Rubbish @ bolded.

That "No sex till marriage is a scam". Legends know this.

And yes you overreacted by reacting in a rude and undiplomatic manner. What happened to reminding the young man of the vows both of you made in a kind and respectful manner. But instead you choose to displayed how uncultured you are.

How I wish I know this guy, I would have pointed out obvious red flags to him.

Truth is you are piece are a garbage. And bitches like you should be discarded where they belong. To the trash can.

Nonsense.

Insecure men. Easy to spot.

bukatyne:
Nice thread.

I think the OP should be changed to 'When my child is a genius' or 'When you have a genius as a child'.

Peeps are already claiming geniuses as daughters leaving out their sons.

Correction taken.
Thanks.

By Olusola Aladejebi

We have a genius as daughter. ‘How do you know your daughter is a genius?’, you ask me. Our child is a genius because we, her parents, call her so! A genius is someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill. So says the dictionary. So what extraordinary intelligence or skill has our girl displayed to qualify as genius?

First of all, you would agree with me that the parents are the most important influence in a child’s life. It is not the school. Yes, it is true that many children now spend more waking hours in the school than with their parents. While the schools impact greatly on children, their influence begins where the parents left off. Good schools actually contribute greatly to the proper emotional development of the students. While some schools do fantastic job of being positive influences, they shouldn’t and cannot take the place of the parents.

So before she writes her first letter ‘a’, we, her parents, believe God has sent a genius to us as child. So she grows up thinking she is competent to do anything that is expected of kids her age. This view of her as possessing sufficient intelligence and skill is not superficial. So even if our ‘genius’ is slow in grasping HCF or Ratio in elementary mathematics, for instance, it does not detract from our perception of her as smart and intelligent. Her genius is not first a performance thing. It is first an endowment thing.

Stephen Covey tells about one of his sons who was quite behind in school work and even sports. He says the boy couldn’t even understand the instruction on assessment tests, let alone provide correct answers. He was also physically awkward that he used to swing the baseball bat while the ball was still far from him. But the Coveys effectively communicated to their son their belief in his potentials. It was a struggle to sustain this belief in the face of contrary current performance. This same ‘dull’ boy later began to perform excellently academically, socially, in sports as he developed by his own pace and speed.

As every parent is, we are wowed by our child’s continuous development of communicative skills and social/emotional intelligence. Many parents, I believe, have several times unknowingly opened the mouth in wonder at an ability displayed by a child for the very first time. One of the joys of parenthood is watching a child’s mind and soul unfold right before your eyes! It therefore very sad that the joy and celebration of the child unfolding potential quickly turns to doubt and dismissal of the child’s ability. By the time he approaches age 6 the child is no longer celebrated and often considered ordinary.

R. Buckminster Fuller puts it so well:

“All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

Somewhere along the way, for many children, the genius in them is killed. Sometimes it is killed by family insecurity; at other times by dysfunctional education; yet at other times by well intended but destructive comments of parents and teachers. The genius in our children should be nurtured otherwise it would be lost.

Finally. Language helps us to understand concepts and communicate effectively with others. In communicating with a child in Nigerian cities the default language is English. Even the woman who cannot write her name correctly tries to communicate with her little child in the English language. For sure, English is the most widely spoken language worldwide (in terms of spread). So it is important every child speaks this global language. But Nigerian parents must know that nobody would teach their native languages to their children except they do. We try to speak to our child in Yoruba quite often. She would certainly learn English along the way—in school, among relatives and friends. We do so at the ‘risk’ of sounding ‘local’ or unsophisticated, something some parents wouldn’t dare.

To think speaking to your children only in English language while ignoring, or even sometimes forbidding, your native language would make them have better grasp of English is simply not true. This is why: speech comes from thought. Languages are tools of thought. Since all languages have their uniqueness, each language a person understands enriches thinking. Understanding the native language would, in the long term, make your children express themselves better even in English. Put differently: a person who understands only one language is like one who uses the right hand only while the individual who understands 2 languages as one who can use both left and right. What about the person who understands 4 languages? 2 right hands and 2 left hands? Lol! But I am sure you get the drift.

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/when-you-have-a-genius-as-daughte/

Have you noticed that the first comments on most topics are not as intelligent as the later ones?

Ballon Dor must come from Liverpool next year!

This is 2019; we know better now! Lol!!!!

Snipper007:
Let soworeeee remain there 4 ever I won't give a f*uck aftrrall he helped buhari gain power with his Sahara group

Pls don't be this petty.

Only for him to be arrested wickedly immediately after leaving court.

This is TERRIBLE!

seunmsg:


This is not about me. No matter the side we support, we must come together to condemn today’s tragic event.

It is not so mature to seek every opportunity to gloat at fellow country people who supported Buhari. We are in this trouble together. No one should keep getting pained over 2015. Even GEJ has moved on!

Olusola Aladejebi

I bet you have failed before. I have. I have even recently failed in a project. Almost nothing worked the way I had planned. Success is the opposite of failure. Let me quickly state that my usage of ‘failure’ does not imply a finality. Some of you my readers have gotten an ‘F’ in courses, been fired from jobs, been jilted by a supposed lover, ran your business bankrupt, lost a pregnancy. Failure is never palatable.

However, in my view, life is in phases. And it is OK to fail in some phases of life. Here comes the irony. The people who are most successful are also the most comfortable with failure. Their comfort with failure is not that they are satisfied with failure. Not all! They however consider that a failure is packed with lessons—tough needful lessons.

The wonderful lessons that a period of failure offers begin only when we acknowledge that we have failed. That’s a big thing to accept for people who are used to succeeding. The first big failure rocks them to their being! It looks as though their previous strings of successes have been surreal. Now is reality!

Some people have been so used to succeeding they never recover from their first big failure. They deny the failure. They rationalize it. Their palates have never tasted such ‘meal’. Then denial turns to cynicism. Cynicism leads to depression. It would be good if they come to terms with the fact that they failed in a thing. If Ego comes in the way of such acknowledgement, real progress stops.

I want you to note these 4 things as you deal with your failure(s):

It is OK to fail

It is just human. Only God that never fails. Human knowledge is limited. If you failed your exam, it is not cool, but everyone fails at one thing or the other. Few people tell of their failures so you wouldn’t learn of them. But believe me, everyone hits rock bottom sometimes. Parents and teachers therefore have an important role in guiding children on succeeding and failing. Children need to learn that while success is the goal, their self worth is not tied to a success. This understanding helps them if they fail (or should I say when they fail) at a thing so that the failure does not damage them.

It is not OK to be content with failure

While it is OK to fail, it is not OK to be content with failure. Some people have come to see the lack of success as a norm. ‘Others may succeed but it is not just for me’, they tell themselves. A child who has become used to failing may grow into an adult who sees failure as the usual and success as the exception. The reason a child may experience frequent failures often may be because he has been put in an environment that is way beyond his ability. This happens in schools.

Parents want their children ahead of the class appropriate for them. These parents want their kids to be achieve quickly! Unknown to them, they may just be on the way to severely damaging their children’s self efficacy. (Self efficacy is an individual’s belief in his or her ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task). Because these children are in classes beyond their ability they fail more than they succeed. Often these parents don’t retrace their steps by allowing the children ‘step down’ to places where their children can thrive better. The poor children may therefore settle in their minds that success was not cut out for them in the first place.

After Failure

The failure is a just set back. As it has often been said, ‘Failure is a knock down, not a knock out’. In boxing, when a boxer gives an opponent a series of heavy punches, he may fall on the ring canvas. The guy who is down has opportunity to stand up and fight back! And in some boxing bouts, the guy who has been knocked down twice eventually wins the match! Such should be the approach to failure. Swallow your ego and take the pill of acknowledgement of failure. Analyze the failure to identify why you failed. You may need to remove obstacles or build more capacity. Then develop the courage to confront the challenge again. At other times, a good calm analysis of the failure may reveal one is fighting a wrong battle. One therefore walks away to find a place where ones chances of winning is higher.

Some Success is indeed failure!

Life is in compartments (although they are all linked together). You probably know very successful academics and researchers who have lousy marriages; or very wealthy business owners whose children are wayward and hooked on drugs. All round success is beautiful and achievable. However, because humans are finite and lack ability and resources to be/do everything they want, they may need to choose to succeed here and fail there. Each person’s sense of value plays out here. The way people value things are so different that some would choose to win a game at the expense of betraying the trust of long-held friendship. Some would choose to cling to political power when they loose elections even though it would mean their country going up in flames. Isn’t such success actually failure?

All successes are not equal. All failures are not equal. So I wish you success in the most important things. And even if you fail once or twice or even three times, if it is really important, get up again and fight!



Choose Your Failures Carefully http://mouthpiece.com.ng/4406-2/

DCmonster:
Idiotic Mr falana, you were part of the people that foisted this useless and bleeped up government on innocent Nigerians. Fucking bastards.

Dear, you keep lamenting over spilled milk.

netpro:
Will they keep quiet. How many people do the United States have locked away in Guantanamo Prison in Cuba and other CIA black sites across the world?

Tell those who stood surety for Sowore to go pick him up. We need to know who to pick up if Sowore runs like that Abino.

Tomorrow he will think twice before attempting to Revolt and overthrow his ancestors.

Do they lock up their own citizens that way? SMH! SMH!

babzo:


But when these same people you mentioned supported GEJ against Kingibe , Mrs Yaradua and the cabal of that time, they were not parochial?
Bros forget that matter: Falana, Soyinka and Sowore operate on a level of integrity and honor no contract can buy nor intimidation stop.

Your head is correct!

Racoon:
The biggest ridicule and embarrassment are so called educated people like Falana, Wole Soyinka, Sowore that allowed parochial sentiments to becloud their sense of sound judgement in order to enthrone the tyrannt Nigeria have today.

You are still referring to 2015 election! Instead of focusing on what we can change you are wailing for what happen almost 5 yrs ago!

UCH as Way to the Grave: Fact or Myth

Olusola Aladejebi

The University College Hospital (UCH) is the first teaching hospital in Nigeria. I came across a picture showing how UCH looked like in the 60s. I learnt also that the Saudi Royal family used to come to the UCH for treatment at that period. All that looks like fairly tale now. I have met many people who, when they hear that a patient is taken to UCH, believe the person would most likely die there. They avoid the hospital like a plague. Yet UCH is the foremost place for the training of doctors in Nigeria. This way-to-the-grave narrative didn’t add up so I set out to find out. Below is a summary of my findings. While some of the things I found out may be specific to UCH, they generally apply to the whole healthcare system in Nigeria.

UCH is a tertiary hospital. This means it is a hospital that is meant to attend to only referral cases from primary and secondary hospitals. Tertiary hospital are at the top of the health care system. This does not however mean they are more important. The same way a university is not more important than a primary school. One of the reasons many patients die in a teaching hospital is just because their cases are usually critical and the prognosis less cheerful. Their sicknesses could no longer be managed by primary and secondary hospitals and hence they refer them to the tertiary hospitals.

Many state governments do not employ enough doctors in the government-owned hospitals so many of these patients are referred from private hospitals. Since private hospitals are businesses, some of the doctors don’t refer the patients on time. They keep trying to manage what they clearly do not have specialist knowledge to handle because of money gotten from patients. By the time they eventually refer to a teaching hospital, the disease may have reached advanced stages.

Doctors in some good hospitals actually refer their patients early when they discover that the condition requires care that only a tertiary hospital can provide. However, the belief that UCH is the way to the grave prevents them from going to UCH. They would rather go another private hospital. Unfortunately for them, they may meet not-so-ethical doctors who would assure them of proper care. While there their situation only worsens.

For a tertiary hospital like the UCH to function well, the other levels of the healthcare system (primary and secondary) have to be able to handle health issues that fall within their purview. A situation in which doctors in a tertiary hospital spend time treating minor cases when the kind of health problems they were established for are poorly attended to leaves much to be desired. A resident doctor in eye surgery was pointing out that he needs to do refraction often.

A doctor in a teaching hospital told me point blank that health insurance is the only way comprehensive health care can be available to people. Health is what everyone needs regardless of socioeconomic class. He describes the despairing situation he faces when attending to patients who, although can barely feed, require expensive tests for proper diagnosis be made about their condition. These tests could have been within reach, were they subscribed to a health insurance plan. (The National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) is something more and more people should subscribe to. Some states also have health insurance schemes.) And talking about tests, that is an aspect of care at UCH that many people complain about. Tests upon tests. The medical people say in order not to merely treat symptoms, they must get to the root cause of the ailment. Hence tests must be carried out.

A colleague was telling my wife how their father was taken to UCH with an over-filled bladder. The man couldn’t urinate. They were told that tests need to be conducted first. The children took him away from there to a private hospital where they immediately relieved the bladder of bursting pressure. Afterwards, the old man said he believed he would have died had the pressure not been relieved in time. Such a man would not want to have anything with UCH.

When I related this to story a doctor friend he told me that a teaching hospital is very different from a little private hospital because the former seeks to benchmark against teaching hospitals in Europe and US. And in such places it is expected that no one attempts to conduct a treatment procedure without adequate knowledge (through tests) of what is being addressed. ‘Fast treatment does not mean proper treatment’, he says.

To be continued next week.
http://mouthpiece.com.ng/uch-as-way-to-the-grave-fact-or-myth/

Sissy3, dominique

ofwest47:
See Afenifebi O B J sponsored anti Yoruba group, take or leave it, Tinubu is the only well known Yoruba political leader and he is the next President of Nigeria comes 2023 by the grace of God. Bloody Afenifebi group fighting for I Before Others ( courtesy Zik) against Omo Odua. Re call, how O B J throughout his political era preferred and continued to install Hausa/Fulani as President from Shagari, Yaradua to Buhari (2015 ) on the Nation. Remember when he said Awolowo a Yoruba man the best candidate for the Nation will not win (1979,1983 )also recall when the other major contested candidates Aminu Kano, Wazir Ibrahim called for electoral college to support Awolowo over the inability to secure the required number of states required by the contestants to be declared winner according to the electoral law, was it not O B J that came out with 12,2/3 to make sure Awolowo whom he called the best candidate that will not win. Now they Afenifebi_OBJ have come back again to make sure no Yoruba candidate will emerge as President come 2023.

What is your obsession with OBJ. OBJ that couldn't win his Polling unit for PDP guber candidate in 2011.

ornicus:
yes, all the wonderful beatings have made us wonderful nigerians and world class leaders , not so?

i'm sure the yahoo boys, ritual u murderers, gang rapists , thieving politicians, fulani herdsmen, armed robbers, killer policemen, sars , drug dealers etc were never flogged in their childhood.

look around you and you can see the benefits of corporal punishment everywhere

laura ikeji much as i loathe her, is right.

all most of this beating does is reinforce a mindset that violence , solves all problems

and violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

that is why you see people , well dressed in a car accident immediately begin fighting. because that is what they have been taught by beatings
that is why youth corpers will go into an office to seize [steal] computers
that is why frustrated parents are beating their kids to death.

we see them on this forum too, unable to make an argument without threats of violence and i will deal with you.

you want to see what beatings do to a person - watch how tacha of bbn relates versus the way mike relates
that is what beating ultimately does, and we see it everywhere. we are all aggressive and violent

So USA wen they no dey beat their pikin, you no see as dem no dey fight? Lol!
What about the mass shootings??

Your argument is like saying all robbers and kidnappers and Yahoo Yahoo all took bread, so bread should be banned!

What makes children turn out badly is usually bad parenting. Not caning or caning is not the matter. And Believe me, good parenting usually involves caning when needed.