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Who loves Nigeria? We are talking about a deranged accumulation mentality that has gone haywire. If Nigerian leaders can borrow money using their citizens' children and grandchildren as collateral to pay outrageous salaries, the highest in the world, anything could happen. They launder the oil income back, outside Africa on vanities with high luxury foreign tax. They hoard food stuff for campaigns while prices soar beyond the reach of the poor.

When everyone thinks you are doing well and your extended families expect more from you, a note suddenly comes home from kidnappers asking for millions. He begged them to sell the house the family bought and live in.

The wife and children swore the man was just managing himself by being frugal.

Nobody, not the knappers believe he could not afford to repair his Mercedes.

Na death be that o!

Re-Emergence Of Oil Baba & The Forty Thieves

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The focus on Oil and Gas reserves have shifted back to Africa, world mother of all wealth and less on Russia. When it comes to addiction to cheap petroleum prices at gas pumps, Africans and the rest of the world have that in common. Americans have dethroned and elected leaders based on promises of cheaper petroleum prices. Everyone agrees that people living in oil producing countries must benefit from their resources. But most Africans don’t drive two or more cars and luxurious imports. So who benefits from the billions of dollars paid to contractors as subsidies?

Regardless, in Africa, transporters just increase their fare. The working class and the rich pay the same price at the pump just as food in the market. When governments are called upon to reduce or remove petrol taxes, it is the working class and the poor that lose since the taxes support them in most Western countries. Oil prices almost caused a constitutional crisis in Canada. It came to a point when Premier Lougheed of Alberta was willing to sell oil to Canadians at the same international price sold to Americans.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau insisted on reduced local oil prices for all Canadians. On the other hand, petroleum price tax that is used to help the poor in the Western countries, is used as subsidies for the rich in African oil producing countries. Instead of buying locally produced crude oil for local refineries, they subsidize cronies to buy at the international market and sell at local reduced prices. Of course, this encouraged sabotaging their local refineries.

Buhari asked Obasanjo where is the power he had spent billions on? Under the same Buhari as leader, the contractors have sabotaged local refineries so that they can keep on getting subsidies to import refined petroleum products. Actually, a couple of them and the Government built refineries outside the country for importation. Nobody knows the loopholes of Africa's petroleum industry better than Buhari.

The present leader of Nigeria, Buhari was a Petroleum Minister. Abacha the Military leader had put him in charge of the Petroleum Fund to manage the windfall from the increase of local price before Buhari became the Head of State for the second time. He understood the sabotage and strain on the economy from the cost of imported refined gas price. So he promised to stop importing refined petroleum products and maximize the production in local refineries

Buhari Government has spent 12 Trillion on refineries in 7 years for contractors fuel subsidy, maintenance and rehabilitation of refineries. Yet, the Buhari Government has little to show. It is enough to build more than a brand new refinery as Dangote. He continued to enrich the same cronies he campaigned against. https://dailytrust.com/investigation-n12trn-spent-on-subsidy-refineries-in-7-years-enough-for-new-plant

Ghana and other African oil producing countries, must learn from the self-inflicted wounds. Can Dangote Refinery bleed like those of Government refineries? Nigeria Government's excuse is; we produced 20 per cent less crude oil than capacity due to oil bunkering and other criminal activities. As if, full production of crude oil could be used to import refined petroleum products. Expecting raw materials to buy imported refined goods! Haba, mirror for gold. Government business is nobody's business.

Who loves Nigeria? We are talking about a deranged accumulation mentality that has gone haywire. If Nigerian leaders can borrow money using their citizens' children and grandchildren as collateral to pay outrageous salaries, the highest in the world, anything could happen. They launder the oil income back, outside Africa on vanities with high luxury foreign tax. They hoard food stuff for campaigns while prices soar beyond the reach of the poor.

We cannot input blame on others for our own criminal activities. African leaders, Pastors and Imams would use God, Jerusalem and Mecca visits as testimony of sanctity as if their avarice is blessed and holy. It is no longer if their gullible followers believe them but nursing the hope of emulating their footsteps. If we put the fox in charge of the hen house, no matter what they promised during elections, they will satisfy their selfish ends.

Look behind the stereotypes that Blacks cannot rule themselves, you will discover the big boys throwing monkey wrench. When big privileged criminals, looters and oil subsidies launderers get away in Africa but are caught and punished outside, they blame Africans. This has created poverty, divisions, unrest and civil wars in African countries.

The leaders spend hard earned African income to buy weapons from foreign manufacturers to quell unrest. The manufacturers of weapons and drugs are the biggest suppliers of guns and drugs in any African communities. The most famous AK-47, opium and cocaine are distributed and used by countries outside Africa. But only the small retail distributors get maximum punishment in the Black communities.

Either way, African countries lose vital resources needed to prevent crimes and develop their own countries. Indeed, World powers are invited to send Armies to take sides in order to quell internal conflicts. What is obvious here is a vicious circle where cause and blame become muddled.

The irony of their projection on Africa and Blacks is that the toughest laws and correctional facilities are reserved mostly for Blacks while they get away with murders in the Court of Law. It has become an empirical fact Africans have known all through history. If anything, Africans are tougher on crimes, when overwhelmed in their communities.

Nevertheless, we must not lose sight of the initial cause in order to put out the fire. Until the gas is turned off, all efforts to fight the flame are temporary. While gun violence, drugs and crimes in the pursuit of turfs and money empower some members of the community, they devastate the majority of the people, they destroy our environment at home and in Diaspora.

Source: Thenigerianvoice.com

IT IS EITHER TRADE OR WARS

World Trade and Sports do more to prevent wars than many of the missionary adventures that intentionally undermine Fair Trade to brand, magnify or exaggerate the value of goods and services. We do much better when we strive to attain the best or shoot for ideal character as civilized human beings. The problem kicks in when we take advantage of our relationships to disempower or exploit unequal trade partners.

Africans would rather wage wars against one another than trade. We even reject and sabotage our own goods and services. Africa's Peacekeeping forces have folded since Nigeria lost military leadership to fight Boko Haram within. Europeans fight one another along ethnic lines too but not continually as in Africa. The Europeans also have more palliatives to ease their disagreements and the pains of survival.

Rich Western Countries Club do not give African countries the special status given to China and later to Russia. President Obama opened AGOA for African and Caribbean countries but stringent measures applied to inspection of goods wasted most of them. Caribbean banana exporting countries had to compete for rock bottom prices to get their goods in. Most of them rotted waiting for clearance.

China gained admission into the world traders privileged class to spite and tame Russia. The unpredictable consequence of China in the World Trade Organization came out as a double edge sword. China used the influence to get richer following the best practices: spreading trade into third world countries, profit by undercutting the greed of western world with cheaper loans, goods and services. Developing world remains the cash cow even at lower loan interest rates.

Yet, humans remain social animals that enjoy the relationships of one another. Lessons of covid-19 exposed the psychological damage of prolonged isolation. We love social interaction so much as children, adults have to supervise or curtail friendships so that children do not go astray. All play and no work makes children dull just as all work and no play. This relationship is so important, it determines children's future to teach them when to interact or stay away from bullies.

We also interact with one another through social gathering, sports, plays and a variety of competitions. Good sportsmanship is essential for each of these. So we ask children to shake hands after hard and grueling competitions. We embed good sportsmanship early in life. This is essential for later life. Olympics and intercontinental games are morale boosters for our Youths that spend time training instead of engaging in idle or criminal activities.

Nevertheless, a few of us grow up to be bullies that Intimidate others just to control and take advantage, especially of the quiet kids around us or weak countries without nuclear power to prevent attacks by super powers. The overbearing behavior, when not corrected early in life, followed some bullies into adulthood. Many got away with domineering behavior for so long, they think they can get away with murder or manufactured preemptive wars. This is the reason we must encourage reinforcement of good habits rather than punish bad habits as a last resort.

Therefore, we need to reward civility to discuss and disagree without being disagreeable. Most parents do a great job at this as related and passed on by children and adults. We learn about what our parents would not tolerate and what we would not dare. Taking a break, for better mood encourages solutions as a better path to behavior modification. When temper flares over disagreements in any interaction, we resort to animalistic instinct, crude and unproductive war.

It is not only rich powerful countries that divert money from the local services and the poor. Rich African countries that cannot feed the majority of their people, because we spend more on civil war and imported weapons also do. Vice Admiral Michael Franken, Africom Deputy Commander for Military Operations said during a seminar some years ago, that the USA could not fulfill Nigeria's request for jet fighters when they realized it would take a lion share of our budget.

Though workers' efficiency and profit increased all over the world with technology, workers' wages remained stagnated. Instead of investing in the communities, welfare and sharing profit, most businesses avoid taxes and launder their money beyond the rich of governments. The same government that protects their property with Police and FireFighters, provides hospitals, schools to educate workers and fund scientific discoveries from which the rich benefit more.

Profit itself is a good motivator in any community for most individuals. It is an incentive to trade, create services and jobs. Indeed, it is foolish to starve the well you drink from. If workers and patrons that increase profit are well taken care of and treated well, they also become efficient and loyal customers. Some people argue that money is not the root of all evils but greed is. It comes in the form of excessive profit without paying back a fair share and giving back to uplift the source of the profit.

This is why in developed countries, big businesses and the richest individuals create lobbyists, hire lawyers and accountants to pay little or no tax while workers shoulder and pay more in percentages than their bosses. An aberration that is obvious to everybody but those blinded by greed justify it as necessary for a capitalist economy. Some of the rich even claim paying more to workers discourages them from working. African leaders do not need lobbyists or lawyers at home, they just launder money outside for foreign lawyers and accountants to hide.

While the rich justify not paying taxes on the profit of inherited wealth that sits idle, they think working poor and those mothers not working because they are taking care of their children at home must not get tax privileges the wealthy get. It is the reason the rich businesses that pay little or no tax because of tax credits are called Corporate Bums. They get tax credits but the poor cannot get tax credits for taking care of children

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If you are Putin watching Boris Johnson in
Ukraine after helping him win the Brexit votes that prepared and propelled him into Prime Minister Office, how would you feel?

Boris was given all the evidence of Russian help before and after, he suppressed them because they favor him.

Believe it it or not, there are Eru, Ofa, Osu, Oru or Talikawa that prefer or accept their situations.

They fight for their oppressors.

Someone try to justify white nationalists in Ukraine with white nationalists in Russia and America. They prefer one to the other.

Who in his right mind, even if you are not African, would vouch for any of these white nationalists?

Romney blasts GOPers over white nationalist event, support for Putin: 'I've got morons on my team'
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WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Sunday blasted his fellow GOP members who attended a white nationalist event and those who support Russia President Vladimir Putin as the country invades Ukraine, CNN reported.

"Look, there is no place in either political party for this white nationalism or racism. It's simply wrong ... it's evil as well," Romney told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "(Rep.) Marjorie Taylor Greene and (Rep.) Paul Gosar, I don't know them, but I'm reminded of that old line from the 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' movie where - where one character says, 'Morons, I've got morons on my team.' And I have to think anybody that would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference was certainly missing a few IQ points."

https://abc7chicago.com/mitt-romney-morons-russia-ukraine-white-nationalist/11606484/

There is some fascination with dictators like Putin and Trump that believe in some purity of white race and always call migrants criminals and rapists.

Are Africans aware or they are gripped by Stockholm Syndrome?

When you tell people money has no value but what you buy with it. They don't believe you.

Think about it. Why would someone offer you cash, even twice as the worth of your business or property?

A good intelligent savvy business man sees a better prospect and value and he is ready to work his butt off to achieve that

However, most of the blood or drug money has no value. They cannot spend it legitimately. They do not care how much to change it into foreign currencies. Once they obtain the foreign currency, it has to be laundered. If they offer anything over $10,000.00 cash, it must be reported. So they open small business stall and deposit cash daily into banks.

But in Nigeria, they offer you cash for legitimate business or property. Twice or three times it's worth. They are not stupid, they just buy your land, house or business with blood or drug money.

Watch out, the money loses value but your property or land increases in value. What can they do with your land or property that you cannot?

Mumu, they just took over with blood money.

Source: https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/306661/china-let-western-russian-capitalists-fight-for-ukraine.html

CHINA: LET WESTERN & RUSSIAN CAPITALISTS FIGHT FOR UKRAINE

We do not wish for the proxy battle between superpowers in one country or society. Russia wants to lure China to support its War in Ukraine by asking for Aid. Russia, unlike China, adopted the worst form of capitalism for the few. On the other hand, the United States derogatorily called its welfare safety net socialism. But David Lewis labeled them Corporate bums since many of the hypocrites depend on Government contracts, a bigger ripoff than welfare.

The dangers or excesses of both capitalism and socialism can make or break any country. Even rich European countries and Canada with mixed capitalist economies have generous welfare for the working class and poor. They encourage the incentives to be rich in moderation and balance it with fairness and justice for those left behind. Socialism in Scandinavia has survived because of mixed capitalism with socialism. It has worked well and people love their countries' system.

By asking China for Aid, Russia wants to turn its War of choice in Ukraine to West versus East. Before Karl Max/Heagel socialism versus Adam Smith capitalism philosophy, serfs were at the mercy of their masters in Europe and Asia, just as the proletariats. Slavery was legal within African, European, American and Asian societies worldwide. Socialism opened many eyes to the injustice of Master/Servant disadvantageous relationships.

Attract, do not force political ideologies or wage war to expand capitalist or communist Empire. Communism was made popular by Karl Marx and embraced by Youths and societies looking for fair distribution of wealth and equal opportunities. Greed and selfishness got in the way. They replaced the bourgeois and the upper class. Just like those they replaced, they became bloated with wealth they acquired while distributing poverty to the oppressed. Oh, charity too.

We witnessed how Political Economy defeated Ethnicity in the separation and reunification of East and West Germany or the amalgamation and partition of Africa. People of the same origin like the Somali are not different from the Rus origin of Kyiv and Moscow. You cannot force a husband and wife into a relationship; parents and children for better or worse, anymore than you can force people with the same origin that chose different political economic views to determine their survival. No be by force naoh!

Today, the fight for captives has been replaced by propagating ideologies, politics and economics with honey rather than vinegar. Both Kyiv and Moscow were the same descendants of Rus that call themselves Ukraine and Russia. The instinct of the people that fought for ideological or religious converts looking for captives have not changed. These ideologies are branded and propagated based on benefits they bestow on earth and not in heaven.

A perpetual leader that seeks a mandate by force for more than ten years is a suspect. Russia, which attracted the world by turning against oppressors and turning many countries in the Soviet Union into independent countries, has deviated from the teachings of Karl Marx and slipped into the same greed preached against capitalism. The United States that was predicted to fall on its face because of the extreme form of capitalism, actually heeded the call of Karl Marx by putting Welfare in place to care for some of the victims of its system.

Powerful men have insatiable need from the days of legal slavery competition for captives to serve their needs and die in opulence. Even when slavery was abolished, slave masters fought one another for and against Abolition on the coast of West Africa to Civil War in America. As covid-19 was ranging, some employers became desperate for workers to produce goods and services. They did not care about the lives of "heroes" paid minimum wage, since they could be replaced.

Western democracy has won the economic culture war made popular by trends of diversity that are attractive internationally. Entertainment, sports, fashion and economics go hand in hand with invention and discovery by immigrants in Europe and America with different talents while descendants of Rus remain mostly white Europeans. This robs their communities of diversified variety: brilliant and skilful people that enhance development through first generation hard work, discovery and betterment.

Activists of all colors fought against the unfair and unequal system that creates and exploited the working class. The Asian caste system delineates and grades members of the society according to who they are born into, not what they can achieve with their brain and brow. It is the worst form of capitalism. The fact is that the capitalism of Western democracy has been able to attract more colorful communities and countries than communism by tulasi.

It is a competition between Authoritarian strongmen that can be elected but cannot be voted out compared to a strongman that can be voted out during elections in the Western democracy. The attractive American mixed culture and dollar are versatile, accessible for goods, materials and labor in a diverse market. The same cannot be relied on when it comes to China yuan, goods and services. Once the world acquired western tastes reflecting some of their culture, it becomes addictive and hard to wean off.

How did Russia become a strong military power house but has the economy of a developing country? The same way socialist Scandinavian countries became rich economies while deferring strong military or nuclear power. What they have in Russia was the oppression of the old wealth by the victorious proletariats that know how to enforce power but do not know how to create equal incentives to wealth, except for themselves by indulging in the oppressive hedonism they overthrew.

The communist/capitalist Authoritarians always hang on to power by all means for too long. China like Russia was also ready to sacrifice everything for Atomic Power. China was driven to attain world respect after the humiliation of Japan's invasion. Chairman Mao deferred famine with draculian population control in pursuit of power. China is a capitalist country outside but practices socialism at home.

Chairman Mao: “If Japan didn’t invade China, we could have never achieved the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.” Likewise, Russia has united most of the countries around them and their adversaries. China a communist nation, has used the best part of the capitalist system to its advantage outside. While China practices socialism at home.

The war chest developed by Russia and reliance on China may not be easily accessible or solid. Billions in bank reserves have been frozen. A bigger problem may be how to pay for imports without the US dollars until alternative payment methods are put in place and how many countries would accept such payment. Even China is heavily invested in the US Treasury bonds and still depends on dollars for its acquired trading practices in the world markets.

Source: Farouk Martins Areas

HYPOCRISY OF EMPIRE & REGIME CHANGERS CAPTURING NUCLEAR PLANTS

There is a dangerous Nuclear Power Plants war game in Ukraine that will not stop there. It can only be stopped by Palace Coup. Swahili proverb says when the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. It's a shame that after the overthrow of Lumumba in Congo, Gadhafi in Libya, regime changes by three SuperPowers occupations of Afghanistan, we are back to Russian occupation of Nuclear Power Plants in Ukraine. The Non-aligned nations lost their moral authority to expose hypocrisy after the overthrow of Nkrumah. So, there are no fervent debates and action at the United Nations against Nuclear excuses of powerful nations to occupy weaker nations.

If we call out the hypocrisy of liberal democracy for placating the rights of the minorities, what do we call Authoritarian countries that defend the powers of the Dictators to capture Nuclear power in Iraq and now Ukraine? The logical expectation is that citizens would shape their countries according to what they want by their will and votes. That is, create the system of government they want. However, strongmen around the world are convinced that they know better than the citizens. So, they do not leave such decisions in the hands of people who are too "naive" to understand what is good for them.

Authoritarian leaders in the West or East are not only dangerous to their people, they are instinctual killers, unstable and willing to use the nuclear option to preserve the power of one and only one man. A clear and convincing victory is hard to come by in the face of skilful guerrilla Fighters resulting in the devastating loss of lives, properties and livelihoods. Even if a superpower cannot win a war outright, they brag about bombing weaker countries into past centuries.

There are people that derive their pleasure from the humiliation or capitulation of a fellow man. Call them Narcissist, sadist or Schadenfreude, they are held in awe by their followers. No matter how they become leaders, they end up destroying the lives of masses including that of their silent majority. What is the fascination of followers with this group of leaders?

Greed, arrogance and the cronies that give the leaders false sense of security. Their deranged anger against any minority or people because of ethnicity is an opportune time waiting for their next group of victims. Citizens of World Powers have to be better informed with the consequences of choosing leaders with killer instincts just as other countries. Contrary to the notion that all politics are local, once the leader of a powerful nation unleashes on weaker countries, the reverberation of Nuclear Option, even in a Nuclear Power Plant goes beyond borders.

We have seen the bloodshed and refugees created in Ukraine too many times around the world. We have people whose only disposition is to get whatever they want by the share use of brutal force. Appeal, persuasion and logical enticement are out of question. Though repulsive qualities are demonstrated in their character, some of us prefer them as leaders out of parochial interest.

Who is going to hold their reckless behavior responsible or enforce restraint against Nuclear powers? We are racing to the bottom of the jungle in immoral survival of the fittest. Fake news, state sponsored misinformation and Hackers Group Anonymous, one of the irresponsible virus attackers of our computers are now looking for a just cause to champion, by warning Russia. How many more people and countries are these opportunists going to attack after Russia, looking for spoils of war and ransom they depend on for a living?

Those of us crying against the Ukraine War have been called hypocrites that kept silent or ignored the Iraq War. They went further and asked if Libya is a better country today than it was during Gadhaffi's reign. If you did not speak out against the Iraq War of deception, you have no moral conviction to speak out today on the Ukraine War, unless you resign to the lesser of all evil.

Even China is poised to invade Taiwan just as North Korea is flagging its Nuclear Power against the South. Japan also expressed intention to come out of the defensive mode. China, out of self interest opposed. Their nuclear power status has conferred an instrument of impunity. Only brave people within each country can check the absolute power of their leaders before it could be contained outside.

Russia needs a Palace Coup. We have seen all this before. We must wonder and ask ourselves why some people remain indifferent to the massacre of others after demonizing them while they are moved and touched by the plight of those that are close or look like them. As terrible as War is, some soldiers pose with dead bodies as souvenirs. Civilians hang and lynch humans!

These cannot be justified as collateral damages. It is the saying that if you want to hang a dog, you give it a bad name. It boils down to the cave mentality of the survival of the fittest. The same reason humans take humans as serfs or slaves to enhance their economic circumstances.

Historically, if Empires grow too big for too long they overextend their power and lose grip on conquered territories. Wars and defense by guerrilla tactics of the weaker countries they prey on has taken tolls over time. It is said that people deserve the leaders they get but most of them lack the remedy to recall or vote out the quagmire they found themselves in. Hello, Putin cannot be voted out!

The refugee crisis around the world has created right wing extremist parties and Nationalist leaders changing their policies and governments. Ukraine refugees, become magnanimous with open arms for Ukraine refugees. They have not extended the same warm welcome to all refugees that happen to be living in Ukraine regardless of their color or origin. They won't welcome Afghanistan, Syrian and African refugees from Ukraine.

Nevertheless, if all countries throw their borders open, where would most of the masses gravitate? Most people around the world have made their choice about what type of political economy they want but vacillate between political parties that can deliver the maximum benefit from the economy. It is not a coincidence that some countries are trying to keep people inside by force while others are trying to keep migrants out by force.

In fairness to many Europeans and the International Human Rights organizations, they have been consistent. The invasion of Czechoslovakia, Hungry, Georgia or the British, Russian and American invasions of Iraq have been condemned by American author Michael Haas and people of conscience.

Source: Farouk Martins Aresa

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MONEY: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS SAFE WITH POWERFUL NIGERIANS

Most countries have enough problems with crimes without creating abject poverty. Nigeria created abject poverty. Ironically, while earning an unprecedented amount of foreign income. There is no fund, allocation or loan that is safe once released into the care of these privileged individuals. Their first instinct is to embezzle it and justify their actions later. They see every fund or allocation as finders keepers depending on who got the first access.

This repulsive behavior is not limited to direct payments or local resources. Foreign Aids, goods and services have been converted to personal use. Food, medical supplies and technical personnel have been diverted to private businesses as part of the projects. Warehouses have been discovered where food relief donated to the poor have been transferred and sold in the open markets or for campaign materials as stomach infrastructure.

This level of indifference to the increasing poverty rate in a land that used to flow with milk and honey was unfathomable to those lucky enough to experience the saner climes provided when conscientious leaders were ruling. The irony is, those that enjoyed all the privileges yesterday are the perpetrators of poverty today. Apologists also contend that there is corruption in every country and it is not unique to Nigeria. Individual responsibility is excused by claiming everyone is guilty.

The desperate and greedy conspicuous minority that control most of the resources in Nigeria have soiled the reputation of most Nigerians. If we cannot bring all of them to justice, severe punishment must be administered as a deterrent to others. This is how corruption in other developing countries was brought to a minimum. It is how China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and South Korea made progress against corruption to reduce their poverty.

Yet, most Nigerians that shoulder the country are very honest and hard working, sometimes to a fault. There is no other way you can explain why the Country has not collapsed completely. When you see poor working class Nigerians returning lost and found fortune, many wonder if they are crazy. Yet, Nigerians have demonstrated the same honest behavior inside and outside the Country attracting commendations.

People of goodwill observe how most of the working poor and the dwindling middle class labor so hard to get through every single day. Indeed, children struggling to help their parents meet the arduous task of making a living stare you in the face. You see them on the streets and dump sites in capital cities. People familiar with some of the nefarious activities of those giving the Country a bad name wonder if they are Africans.

Despite the reputation, all Nigerians are not looters, drug dealers, ritualists or dishonest. One unifying factor regardless of ethnicity, is the vagabonds-In-Power ability to loot recklessly and blame the devil, the system or what about the other guy.

The dwindling middle class and the working poor hardly get access to the unprecedented amount of foreign income and fair returns from local resources they work so hard on. They are completely or absolutely squeezed out of fair income. Some of us claim that it is the capitalist system working like most of the rich countries, otherwise we may invite the communist system which most Africans do not want.

Distribution of wealth must come after creation of wealth. Late Steven Fajemirokun warned us that you have to create wealth first since you cannot distribute poverty. This is why the wealthy are emulated and respected. Today’s leaders are not wealth creators but frail old men surrounded by cronies, Police and Army that suppress any revolt from their people. They crackdown viciously to send messages to others daring to challenge their impunity.

Reckless and ostentatious looting with impunity lacking a disabling deterrent has turned unprecedented amounts of oil income into land of abject poverty. Asian countries that have earned less with their level of corruption have almost eliminated famine and poverty. Any appreciable money Nigerians make becomes an incentive to launder it in search of greener pastures. This is how honest men and women were soiled, joining if they can't beat them.

Obasanjo in his first coming as Head of State was broke, jailed by Abacha but came back. Audu Ogbe was the Minister of Communication in the Shagari Government. He cut electricity to his Party Headquarters, NPN for nonpayment. By the time he left to go back to his State as a Lecturer, he was a poor man that got a hearful for how stupid he was.

Professor Fabian Osuji, an honest reputable man, played along with the House Committee's demand. He was shafted. Professor Adenike Grande ran away from money left in her Health Ministry at the end of fiscal year, to her Secretary. The Secretary absconded with the money and Grande was jailed. Unlike others, both Osuji and Grande never had a second chance to loot.

Even this Buhari, known as a fanatic with instinctual disdain for corruption later defended Abacha, claiming a man that openly hijacked the Treasury, never stole! We now know why. All these leaders metamorphosed from "angels" to chronic looters except Professors Fabian Osuji and Adenike Grande. Can an Angel survive in Nigeria?

The arguments that every country has corrupt leaders and their cronies, burst when you examine how the face of Poverty has changed since the 70s from Asia to Africa. China has been able to reduce poverty to almost nil as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have cut the rate of abject poverty to the nearest minimum. This is remarkable because these countries used to send their people to Africa in order to earn money during the most difficult period of their famine.

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What about Male Genital Mutilation?

Both men and women that were not circumcised are doing well.

The biggest sex organ is the brain. Some European that were never circumcised still frigid with their partner.

You are speaking for most ladies over 30 since you are in their shoes

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Ladies Around Age 30 Have Hidden Gem For Mr. Nice Guys

Mr. Nice Guys and ladies in their 30s have hidden gems in common to share. Many people inadvertently missed out on them. Only the wise ones look deeper, cultivate and appreciate their real characters. Somehow, in their earlier days, the bad guys’ image is creepily appealing to young men and women until full maturity.

When you hear grown ladies claim or tell their boyfriends that God would send another good provider if he fails to meet all their demands, one needs to be suspicious of what god they are relying on. Those fortune tellers exploiting ladies have told them wrongly that Mr. Nice Guy has no choice but to bow to their wishes. The more a lady gets from Mr. Nice Guy, the higher the percentage demanded by their pastors, imams or juju men.

There are special qualities ladies around the age of thirty years old possess that many people fail to discover. By that age, they have gone through some experiences in life and most are tired of fighting men but would rather settle down and enjoy men. They are educated or better informed, ready to contribute to their homes and become loyal to perceptive men: younger, older or in congenial environment may not mind being the second wife.

Many of the Mr. Nice Guys that have been taken advantage of or treated badly complain as if the same injustice have never been meted out to some nice ladies. There are differences, some friends observed. In communities and cases where ladies are less successful, they may ride their way up on the coattail of kind gentlemen known as Mr. Nice Guys. Ladies are more perceptive in their choice of men since he is expected to bring home the bacon.

Their past relationships with Mr. Nice Guys that they have dumped left many of them with regrets for playing too hard to get. As they get above thirty, they start losing some confidence, realizing that those Mr. Bad Guys in their past life desire younger ladies. It makes them wiser but sometimes desperate. They envy, but not jealous of their cohorts that have married while they remained single.

Fortunately, there are men out there that realize 30s hidden gem and change of ways as a savvy lady willing to kiss and make up with a matured and perceptive man. In the case of falling for a younger man, they may have to bring more to the table, not necessarily in terms of wealth but tolerance that will ameliorate their partner’s rambunctious character. They may need to polish him up to a more cultured standard.

The older men looking for a mature lady are quicker to realize their hidden gem. Some big city cultures frown at ladies that marry older men. What they do not realize is that at certain age, men are willing to keep even their daughters within the people they know and feel more comfortable with than leave their daughters to the abuse or suffering and smiling in the hands of some randy thugs. Other siblings may “pokenose” into their sister’s business.

Indeed, it is common within royal houses, not only in Africa but in Europe and Asia to marry within. Prince Charles married Lady Diana young and so was Pierre Trudeau, the former Prime Minister and the father of the present Prime Minister of Canada married Margaret Sinclair, 22 at the age of 52. The irony is, the same young men that never married their cohort, waited until they were ready to marry a younger lady. Some have used derogatory words to label such union, especially if the older man is rich. If he is poor, it could be out of love!

There are still good guys out there seeking ladies that will complement their life. While it is true that most young men wait longer these days than their parents, as their age mates get older, they later seek younger ladies to marry. But the main reason young men wait longer is to develop enough confidence so that they can carry the burden and responsibilities of a family. Posh and expensive wedding is not as weighty, as a reason for the average guys.

Young men and ladies delaying weddings because they want extravagant parties are not as common as the lavish ceremonies you see among politicians’ children. Most young people just want to settle into a happy home. The longer it takes to get into a happy home, the more desperate some of the ladies become. Many ladies have certain types of men they dream about but do compromise as they get older.

Unfortunately, as they become more desperate and seek guidance from pastors, imams and lastly juju men that would help them land that man, they are exploited and taken for a ride by the same fortune tellers that is supposed to help them. They make demands on these ladies. Their demands varies from pastors, imams to juju men. Just to regain confidence that is based on qualities that has never left them in the first place.

The saying that Mr. Nice Guy never lasts or always comes last because they are treated worse than the bad guys come from the false sense of security in many young ladies. By the time they lose the best guys they have ever met, it is too late. Whatever is behind their confidence: beauty, immaturity, age or class always seems to fade as they get older. They run to juju men to reclaim some of their lost confidence and glory that never left them.

One thing fortune tellers have in common is boosting the ego of the ladies. There is nothing wrong with boasting about substance, not shadows. Promising them Mr. Nice Guys and taking all the credit without leaving any, for the effort of these ladies make them totally dependent on the commands of pastors and imams; especially juju men willing to exploit them. These days, it is becoming difficult to differentiate juju men from the men of God in their demands.

No one would expect any man of God to make demands that involve sacrifices and sacrileges. Through the efforts of these ladies, they may meet Mr. Nice Guy but their juju men would never give them the credit. They will take all the credit for providing Mr. Nice Guy. If anything goes wrong, they are ready to put the blame on the ladies for not following their instructions properly. They give her all the blame and take all the credit.

Indeed, if the ladies failed to snatch a husband by their late twenties, their attitudes change, becoming more desperate. Parents get worried wondering why she has not brought home that nice guy they had been expecting. It drives single ladies to employ juju men, pastors and imams in pursuit of that man that is responsible, mature and kind. As ladies attend more weddings of friends, they pray feverishly for their own time to come.

Pastors and imams would tell them how God is going to bless their dream. Some even talk about how God has spoken to them of how to accomplish the dream. In many cases, they demand certain sacrifices from these poor ladies. You see them in churches and mosques more often wondering when they have become devoted Christians or Muslims. Their demeanor may even change as time goes by, without the man they want.

Once a mature lady gets her confidence back, she needs to work more on her relationship with her man than depend on outside influence that would hold her as hostage so that they could keep collecting tithes, sacrifice and sacrilege.

https://www.modernghana.com/news/850615/ladies-around-age-30-have-hidden-gem-for-mr-nice-guys.html

The discipline and the fear of community ostracization may work better than the curse of mythical repercussions. It takes a great deal of discipline, loyalty and respect for women to wait their turns after a new wife as they get older; before the king gets to them, if ever. This creates resentment within. Whoever fulfil their long-term sexual duties is not our business.

Unfortunately, trying to fulfill the desire of younger ladies with sex enhancing drugs can be fatal. One-night-stand could be the bragging rights of different partners in order to gain access and the privilege of the association. It is enough to claim pregnancy. Stories abound of secret service men that fulfill the duties to younger women that are sex starved in high positions.

We may then wonder why some of the prettiest folks marry ugly men or women. They may prefer average or ugly looking partners after some failures for security and peace of mind. Security in terms of what matters most. It may be your bank account, far from what is in your front pocket. Peace of mind in terms of not worrying about being attractive to everyone else. But neither is always the case. The ugly lady you want for peace of mind to avoid being serviced, may also be attractive to others thinking like you!

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/304827/sober-men-ladies-can-avoid-another-honey-mouse-traps.html

SOBER MEN & LADIES CAN AVOID ANOTHER HONEY MOUSE TRAPS

If you cannot learn from past relationships and you keep on making the same mistakes based on beauty, endowment or bleached skin, blame yourself not your partners. There are sober men and women that have not learnt their lessons.

The hype that men can handle more women than women is a myth based on some cultural prowess of men. They rely on this sexual prowess past their boisterous age as a young man taking multiple ladies as wives or girlfriends. Other ladies trap rich or powerful men by one-try. They know their captives cannot meet their sexual needs. Both take advantage of each other.

It was not surprising as the parade of young ladies for the choice of a new Queen of Swaziland was unraveled by a young Nothando Dube that strayed in disguise into the comfort of King's Justice Minister, Ndumiso Mamba. Despite all the cultural consequences. https://www.news24.com/News24/Swazi-kings-wife-in-sex-scandal-20150430

So is the case of Alafin of Oyo who at an advanced age has an eye for pretty young ladies that want status. He explained that those young ladies decided on their own, after sending them to school, to stay with him. He likes them young and some of the ladies use him as a stepping stone. No matter how the relationships end, there is something in there for both.

However, that of Ooni of Ife is different because he is relatively younger and his choice of women are closer to his age compared to Alafin of Oyo. The motive for both partners remains the same in the case of Alafin and Ooni. The ladies are marrying up to enhance their profiles as symbols. Indeed, the title of Mrs or married men carry some advantages in a society.

Former Deji of Akure was deposed on 10th of June, 2010; for abusing his estranged wife he claimed was a walk-about. She liked visiting other monarchs around the country. There are various ways of enforcing chastity of women in different cultures but once a lady or a man has broken their sexual appetite, none of these works well. They only instill fear in some ladies.

The discipline and the fear of community ostracization may work better than the curse of mythical repercussions. It takes a great deal of discipline, loyalty and respect for women to wait their turns after a new wife as they get older; before the king gets to them, if ever. This creates resentment within. Whoever fulfil their long-term sexual duties is not our business.......

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Facts are usually hidden in a book because they know who do not read.

They turn anecdotal accidents of one in a million to fake information of 99 in a 100.

The Unvaccinated, will hold onto any or no reason, to avoid taking a single shot based on anecdotal accidents.

As for immediate danger from vaccines, in the form of allergic reactions or severe side effects, the incidence of death are so rare they can't even truly be calculated. For example, only one death was reported

Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license and the paper was retracted from The Lancet.

Nonetheless, the hypothesis was taken seriously, and several other major studies were conducted. None of them found a link between any vaccine and the likelihood of developing autism. ..

A common misconception is that these symptoms signal infection. In fact, in the small percentage ([b]less than 1 in one million cases) [/b]where symptoms do occur, the vaccine recipients are experiencing a body's immune response to the vaccine, not the disease itself. There is only one recorded instance in which a vaccine was shown to cause disease. This was the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) which is no longer used in the U.S. Since then, vaccines have been in safe use for decades and follow strict Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.

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As for immediate danger from vaccines, in the form of allergic reactions or severe side effects, the incidence of death are so rare they can't even truly be calculated. For example, only one death was reported to the CDC between 1990 and 1992 that was attributable to a vaccine. The overall incidence rate of severe allergic reaction to vaccines is usually placed around one case for every one or two million injections.

Myth #7: Vaccines can infect my child with the disease it's trying to prevent.
Vaccines can cause mild symptoms resembling those of the disease they are protecting against. A common misconception is that these symptoms signal infection. In fact, in the small percentage (less than 1 in one million cases) where symptoms do occur, the vaccine recipients are experiencing a body's immune response to the vaccine, not the disease itself. There is only one recorded instance in which a vaccine was shown to cause disease. This was the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) which is no longer used in the U.S. Since then, vaccines have been in safe use for decades and follow strict Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.

Myth #8: We don't need to vaccinate because infection rates are already so low in the United States.
Thanks to "herd immunity," so long as a large majority of people are immunized in any population, even the unimmunized minority will be protected. With so many people resistant, an infectious disease will never get a chance to establish itself and spread. This is important because there will always be a portion of the population – infants, pregnant women, elderly, and those with weakened immune systems – that can't receive vaccines.

But if too many people don't vaccinate themselves or their children, they contribute to a collective danger, opening up opportunities for viruses and bacteria to establish themselves and spread.

Not to mention, as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warn, international travel is growing quickly, so even if a disease is not a threat in your country, it may be common elsewhere. If someone were to carry in a disease from abroad, an unvaccinated individual will be at far greater risk of getting sick if he or she is exposed.

Vaccines are one of the great pillars of modern medicine. Life used to be especially brutal for children before vaccines, with huge portions being felled by diseases like measles, smallpox, whooping cough, or rubella, to name just a few. Today these ailments can be completely prevented with a simple injection.

So as science continues to advance and tackle new challenges, people should not forget how many deaths and illnesses vaccines have prevented, and how they continue to protect us from potentially devastating forms of infectious disease.

Today, the true causes of autism remain a mystery, but to the discredit of the autism-vaccination link theory, several studies have now identified symptoms of autism in children well before they receive the MMR vaccine. And even more recent research provides evidence that autism develops in utero, well before a baby is born or receives vaccinations.

Myth #2: Infant immune systems can't handle so many vaccines.
Infant immune systems are stronger than you might think. Based on the number of antibodies present in the blood, a baby would theoretically have the ability to respond to around 10,000 vaccines at one time. Even if all 14 scheduled vaccines were given at once, it would only use up slightly more than 0.1% of a baby's immune capacity. And scientists believe this capacity is purely theoretical. The immune system could never truly be overwhelmed because the cells in the system are constantly being replenished. In reality, babies are exposed to countless bacteria and viruses every day, and immunizations are negligible in comparison.

Though there are more vaccinations than ever before, today's vaccines are far more efficient. Small children are actually exposed to fewer immunologic components overall than children in past decades.

Myth #3: Natural immunity is better than vaccine-acquired immunity.
In some cases, natural immunity — meaning actually catching a disease and getting sick– results in a stronger immunity to the disease than a vaccination. However, the dangers of this approach far outweigh the relative benefits. If you wanted to gain immunity to measles, for example, by contracting the disease, you would face a 1 in 500 chance of death from your symptoms. In contrast, the number of people who have had severe allergic reactions from an MMR vaccine, is less than one-in-one million.

Myth #4: Vaccines contain unsafe toxins.
People have concerns over the use of formaldehyde, mercury or aluminum in vaccines. It's true that these chemicals are toxic to the human body in certain levels, but only trace amounts of these chemicals are used in FDA approved vaccines. In fact, according to the FDA and the CDC, formaldehyde is produced at higher rates by our own metabolic systems and there is no scientific evidence that the low levels of this chemical, mercury or aluminum in vaccines can be harmful. See section III of this guide to review safety information about these chemicals and how they are used in vaccines.

Myth #5: Better hygiene and sanitation are actually responsible for decreased infections, not vaccines.
Vaccines don't deserve all the credit for reducing or eliminating rates of infectious disease. Better sanitation, nutrition, and the development of antibiotics helped a lot too. But when these factors are isolated and rates of infectious disease are scrutinized, the role of vaccines cannot be denied.

One example is measles in the United States. When the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, rates of infection had been holding steady at around 400,000 cases a year. And while hygienic habits and sanitation didn't change much over the following decade, the rate of measles infections dropped precipitously following the introduction of the vaccine, with only around 25,000 cases by 1970. Another example is Hib disease. According to CDC data, the incidence rate for this malady plummeted from 20,000 in 1990 to around 1,500 in 1993, following the introduction of the vaccine.

Myth #6: Vaccines aren't worth the risk.
Despite parent concerns, children have been successfully vaccinated for decades. In fact, there has never been a single credible study linking vaccines to long term health conditions.

As for immediate danger from vaccines, in the form of allergic reactions or severe side effects, the incidence of death are so rare they can't even truly be calculated. For example, only one death was reported

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VACCINE MYTHS DEBUNKED
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VACCINE MYTHS DEBUNKED
U.S. public health officials and physicians have been combating misconceptions about vaccine safety for over twenty years. They've had mixed success. Despite the fact that numerous studies have found no evidence to support the notion that vaccines cause autism and other chronic illnesses, a growing number of parents are refusing to vaccinate their children.

Researchers now link falling immunization rates to recent resurgences of vaccine-preventable diseases. In 2010, California saw 9,120 cases of whooping cough, more than any year since the whooping cough vaccine was introduced in the 1940s. Ten infants too young to be vaccinated died of whooping cough during the outbreak. The CDC warns that events like these will become more frequent and harder to control if vaccination rates continue to fall.

Fears over the safety of vaccines are understandable. The CDC vaccination schedule calls for children to receive up to 14 inoculations by the age of six – many of them vaccines developed within the last twenty years. Many parents distrust these vaccines; worried about the potential for risks and long-term side effects. Research, however, shows that most of our biggest fears about vaccinations are unfounded. These eight major vaccine myths that research has shown to be baseless:

Myth #1: Vaccines cause autism.
The widespread fear that vaccines increase risk of autism originated with a 1997 study published by Andrew Wakefield, a British surgeon. The article was published in The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, suggesting that the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine was increasing autism in British children.

The paper has since been completely discredited due to serious procedural errors, undisclosed financial conflicts of interest, and ethical violations. Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license and the paper was retracted from The Lancet.

Nonetheless, the hypothesis was taken seriously, and several other major studies were conducted. None of them found a link between any vaccine and the likelihood of developing autism. ..

https://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/understanding-vaccines/vaccine-myths-debunked/

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You want people to take a trial experimental drug whose dossier won't be out till 2076 and the producer are indemnified from legal action as regards injuries from the vaccine ....Only a stark for will take such a thing ...I will take the vaccine once the indemnification clause protecting the makers is removed but till then my Natural immunity is top notch

Did you read this:

.Research scientists are there to find the difference between coincidence and the real cause of diseases. Most of the misinformed skeptics of vaccines cannot tell one from the other. Of course, there were unscrupulous scientists, especially those that exploit the worst part of us to experiment on the poor in disadvantaged communities of Africans, American Indians and Jews in Nazi concentration camps. https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/medical-experiments

Their cold blooded experiments have cast doubts on the reputation of sincere and dedicated scientists of all colors and countries. Unfortunately, many of the leaders of these skeptics have taken all the shots needed to prevent the worst form of sickness or death. Leaders got the best treatment when infected. The problem here, as always, is that doubters are infectious to others. While they claim it is their life and can allow it to expire, if they so choose.

VACCINES SKEPTICS: MORE AFRAID OF VACCINE THAN THE DISEASE

Covid-19 mutation variants have rekindled an old debate, into a new one. We always have vaccine doubters that are conscientiously sure that vaccines are worse than the diseases. Yet, empirical evidence has always proved them wrong since the administration of childhood vaccinations. We had people who blamed childhood vaccines for everything but the disease itself. Vaccines have been blamed for autism, infertility, miscarriages and more.

There used to be a time when many children did not survive because of Mumps, Measles, Rubella to Whooping Cough and Hepatitis B. Smallpox and Polio vaccines saved the world from some of the most deadly and debilitating diseases in the face of resistance based on some fundamental rights. Even more disgusting, the far-right Confederation party in Poland used an Auschwitz-style Nazi banner to protest against vaccination mandate.

While the fear of the worst effect of Covid-19 in Africa has not materialized we cannot be complacent. Africans have other problems apart from combating Covid-19. They already have more than enough to deal with. Though local and traditional medicine many Africans rely on, to cure or arrest similar past waves of diseases, have not been credited. Peer reviews are needed for dosage, purity and efficacy. Local herbs and their inhaled steam worked. Nevertheless, they must be separated from placebo or coincidence.

After all, Nigeria's Center for Excellence in Osun State detected the Ebola virus locally before Western experts arrived. The same way South Africa detected Covid-19 Omicron mutation before the rest of the world. Most Africans are calling on leaders to develop local vaccines instead of waiting for cold vaccines (without the capacity to freeze them) in the rural areas or that are too close to expiration dates before delivery. The world wants the rich countries to donate more Covid-19 vaccines to developing countries, especially African countries.

Indeed, the Presidents of South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda and others are asking for waiver of intellectual properties so that these vaccines could be locally produced in Africa. But the pharmaceutical companies that depend on Government funding themselves have resisted any attempt to release their know-how to Africans. The same people that blame China for sharing the Coronavirus genome sequencing too late. They all prefer the dependent mentality of finished products that can make them more money from Africa as usual.

We cannot blame Africans if they want technology transfer or establishment of local supply laboratories for immediate use of vaccines. But we must blame poor decision makers that prefer to pay for ready-made vaccines when it would be cheaper and more efficient to make them at home as India, China and Russia did. If the rich countries refuse, buy their products, break them down, adapt and build to local environmental mutations.

Moreover, some social media spread disinformation that is not easy for the usual health education to combat. It has to be countered forcefully by their counterparts in the public media. Health Education and Information used facts to educate. Disinformation in social media is intentional mischaracterization with attractive tricks to sell and generate the maximum number of traffic for advertisements.

Research scientists are there to find the difference between coincidence and the real cause of diseases. Most of the misinformed skeptics of vaccines cannot tell one from the other. Of course, there were unscrupulous scientists, especially those that exploit the worst part of us to experiment on the poor in disadvantaged communities of Africans, American Indians and Jews in Nazi concentration camps. https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/medical-experiments

Their cold blooded experiments have cast doubts on the reputation of sincere and dedicated scientists of all colors and countries. Unfortunately, many of the leaders of these skeptics have taken all the shots needed to prevent the worst form of sickness or death. Leaders got the best treatment when infected. The problem here, as always, is that doubters are infectious to others. While they claim it is their life and can allow it to expire, if they so choose.

It is a simple logic that prevention is better than cure. Treatments like monoclonal antibody therapy are very expensive, take time to make and not enough for everyone that needs them because of short supply. The cost of putting on masks inside and in crowded public places is far cheaper than the cost of hospital treatment paid with taxes by all of us. The unvaccinated also overwhelmed the hospital intensive care units, displacing those preparing for elective surgeries and more serious cases that are not as preventable.

But nobody has the right to infect others or their communities, exposing them to life threatening diseases or outright death. American media experts are training media practitioners in African countries on ways to combat disinformation and fake news about Covid-19. There are cultural and political differences that are crucial in fighting those spreading false news in social media.

Many fatal disinformations are spreading throughout the world including the United States.
People are worried about Covid-19 alright but they are also weary about how many vaccines they have to take before they are considered fully vaccinated. It went from one shot, two shots and booster shot. While one country, at least, is administering a 4th dose. The Unvaccinated, will hold onto any or no reason, to avoid taking a single shot based on anecdotal accidents.

Nevertheless, the unvaccinated that are the most vulnerable without a single shot of vaccine, are the loudest against Covid-19 vaccine. Nothing like if you die, you die. We must take care of you and your loved ones. The cost and liabilities of vaccine production cannot be borne by pharmaceutical companies alone. The efforts, knowledge or expertise can be onerous. So the Government has to partner and insure them against legal liabilities. No vaccine is free of risk.

Source: Farouk Martins Aresa
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/304596/vaccines-skeptics-more-afraid-of-vaccine-than-the-disease.html