Tumbulum:
When is America embassy open for visa application? I'm leaving here by Gods grace. I'm tired already.

You cannot prevent flies from following dead bodies to their graves.

Consider Your Investment Abroad Wasted Unless It Benefits Africa

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How many wealthy Africans do you know that have not spent his first thousands or million abroad? If he hasn't, he is wise or has not made it big to impress. If he has a land or a house, the prodigal son would sell it to buy a ticket and visas. From cradle to grave: even when the rich die, the obituaries would list foreign hospitals where they were treated. Looking back, at the way wealthy Africans invested their life and legacies in such areas as education at any level, houses, hospitals and children with laundered money abroad, they are indifferently impoverishing Africa.

The most painful are the rich children trained abroad by diminishing prospects for all youths in the same country depleted by their parents. Most of the hard work, perseverance, resources and funds spent to train them abroad yielded little returns unless they give back to individual African countries. Yet, most Africans abroad, except their children would like to retire and be buried at home. But what use is our dead bodies if Africa is only good as our cemetery?

God bless those that studied, worked hard and sent money back home to build projects, support relatives and friends. But most of the contributions abroad that could have saved Africa, were taken for granted there. Like their parents, they are told if they are that good, go contribute to Africa and make it livable for Africans at home and willing blacks in Diaspora that longed to live in Africa. Why make Western countries richer when you can create more opportunities; as our founding fathers did to free Africans?

Isabel dos Santos is another prodigal daughter declared wanted in Angola. It became obvious that, while we are bragging about some of the children that were able to obtain the best education money can buy in some of the world's best private schools like Isabel, most are underemployed abroad. They seldom help parents or their countries except to assist in laundering opportunities. Education itself, like idle talent without use to achieve progress in Africa is useless.

The spoiled brats are the ones that put their parents in senior or nursing homes and fight over their estates. Note the different behavior between children that grow up with parents abroad and those that grow up in foster homes or with nannies could hardly bond with their parents. It means you paid dearly for children that do not take to your culture, speak your language and only come home on visits, to spend two weeks at home or at your funerals before they go back. You put them in Foster homes, they neglect you in Senior homes. Do me I do you!

When Hilary Clinton "discovered" - It takes a village to raise a child - in the United States, she was referring to the Africa she knew compared to American generation of - Me Myelf and I. Well, privileged Africans have changed it and only care about their children raised in the Me generation world. Africans no longer invest in the future of our village children but launder their money abroad to Me Myself and I: kids, family and lovers.

Africans have always travelled, are very particular about Education as a ticket out of poverty or ignorance, and rightly so. Information and knowledge is a prerequisite for our development but it does not have to be unadapted, only foreign. Africans have passed down learning and family professions even before the establishment of Timbuktu Sankore University. So, making sure children are educated is not new. What is new is a system of education denigrating ours in favor of theirs. We wilfully neglected our duty to sustain ours.

However, wealthy Africans are not seeking education to escape poverty. Our eagerness to obtain it by fake, hook, or crooked ways is beyond reason. African billionaires donate unsolicited good money to European and American universities just to get Awards and honorary degrees while universities at home are starved of funds. Forced to go begging for local and foreign endowments.

One friend called the other in America telling him his son has been admitted to one of the universities but lacks foreign exchange to pay or see him through. He wanted the friend abroad to take a collateral loan on his house. Well, financial planners abroad always warn that unless the working class have a way of getting your pension or retirement savings back in kind from your children, they are better off taking student loans. If you are still secured in your old age, you can help them pay back. Otherwise, you may end up in a poor house or nursing home abroad, because adult children will be too absorbed with their own family responsibilities to pay you back.

If they refused to pay back their own father or mother in cash or in kind leaving her in senior homes, how will they pay back loans from their father's friend? There are many good universities that are affordable in Africa but the lure of foreign colleges is irresistible. We could not leave Africa to looters and riff-raffs that took over the political system, then complained that they wrecked Africa.

Many Londoners came back home sober and retired because Africa reveres our elders. You can spot these retired Africans shopping in the local markets without their wives and children, stingingly pricing goods like the old days. They still look agile from the good healthcare they had but some stay away from the responsibility of new families. There are stories that some of them are targets for swindlers that want their pensions and savings from foreign countries. Unfortunately, it is not safe to live alone, especially the older ladies, as many have become victims of drivers, gatemen, househelps or accidental falls.

This fear contributes to the reason other retired Africans start a new family at home to make sure they have children that can carry on their side of the family tree. Otherwise, out of all the children your father and mother had, you will become the missing link that cannot show any offspring at home. When we were growing up, they always claimed their children were not around. We knew them as barren fellows: Okobo ki bimo si tosi. Mafo type!


Therefore, in order to reinvigorate their line of family tree, they would start new families with younger blood. Any member of their new families in Africa that even try or get close to a foreign embassy looking for visas are disowned. They see it as a repeat of lessons learned, getting lost abroad. They insist new members of their families must find a college in African countries.

Even some younger Africans based abroad have decided their wives and husbands must be based in Africa. A friend banned the wife of his friend that kept on instigating his wife to ask for a vacation where their husbands were based. He branded the lady a bad influence trying to dislocate his new family. Well, the wives just wanted to be with their husbands or boyfriends abroad. The husbands on the other hand, may not be stable, eking out a living, being modest to send more money home or may have oyinbo wives abroad planning to return home to African wives.

Whatever the case, old or young men and even ladies these days are coming to realize that it is easier to raise a stable family in Africa if they have the means than in Europe and America where 66% of black families are headed by single parents. https://www.actrochester.org/children-youth/single-parent-families-by-race-ethnicity The lure of "modern" life and foreign education in a hostile environment abroad are nightmares for most blacks or Africans in the Diaspora. Africans expect the good life abroad created for their own color, not for you that longed to cash in. Even blacks there before Columbus cry out against injustice.

Where is your legacy? If you think that is discomforting, a few of the children at home are uncultured. They and their parents speak English, French or Portuguese to one another. Many of those wealthy youth at home are proud to patronize exotic tastes, even race cars and claim they do not understand their own local language. Shio o!

If some of the children abroad attend summer schools where cultural organizations and universities teach them African languages, especially when professional colleges require a second language; who are these homebred kids?

They trained us in schools based on Christian and Muslim ethics since they saw our culture as a competing threat with their missions.

10 July 2020
By Farouk Martins Aresa thenigerianvoice.com

THE OGISO OF BINI & IJAW CAME FROM ILE-IFE
Aug 29, 2017 | Farouk Martins Aresa

The most objective way to tell the history of a people or ethnic group like the Bini is to look at historiography from their perspective. In other words, in light most favorable to them: in Jacob Egharevba Ekhere vb' Itan Edo. No historian could have worked harder on Bini. Despite Jacob’s effort from the 1st to the 4th Edition of his books. The facts that Ogiso and Oba Dynasties came from Ile-Ife, never changed. Adumu as common ancestor of Ijaw, Edo and Yoruba was revealed!

It was Adumu/Oduduwa’s folks, today’s Ijaw, Edo and Yoruba progenitor that intermarried with autochthonous Ooyelagbo in Ile-Ife, Efa in Bini and Oru in Delta. The relationship between Ile-Ife, near Nupe then, and Bini heralded the Oduduwa or Adumu Dynasty in Ile-Ife. Casting away myths or fantastic stories substituted with archaeology and other scientific facts as radiocarbon dated burial of Ogiso body parts in Ife, it became clear that both dynasties came from Ile-Ife.

When the Ujo or Ijaw left Ile-Ife, Adumu or Oduduwa had established over the autochthonous Ugbo or Ooyelagbo. Adumu/Adimu/Oduduwa as a “multiracial” of Ugbo and Tapa from Nupe area and certainly had the blood of Ooyelagbo to rule. This was depicted in the power struggle between Adumu and Obatala descendants. It suffices to understand that the mythical Adumu existed well before Christ compared to his recent descendants in Bini, Ijaw and Yoruba history.

It boils down to waves of migration from Sudan north and south, the builders of Egypt mixed with autochthonous Rain Forest people that claimed they never migrated from anywhere but were created on their land. So it is the Bantu that mixed with autochthonous Nri Ibo/Igbo Oru, Osu claiming they never left their land or had no king. Just as Ugbo/Ooyelagbo in Ife and Efa in Bini. There is a distinction between Oba or Obi ruling class and land owners they intermarried.

Ijaw like others, mixed and left many lands of Kumoni, Efa in Edo to Bantu, Osu in Delta regions before the 2nd Dynasty of Oba from Ugbo Ile-Ife to Edo. Urhobo and Ijaw had left Aka (Edo) before the 2nd Bini Dynasty of Oba arrived. According to Prof. Peter Ekeh: Urhobo language yields clues to the profile of the society and culture which the Ogisos ruled. Urhobo know this king by his usual name Ogiso, without any other titles. He was their king. On the other hand, Urhobo know the kings of the House of Eweka more distantly as Oba r' Aka, the King of Benin .

“Ogiso ma miemwe efiagba" Ogiso never convened meetings but in times of trouble or crises. Moreover, the Oduduwa/ Adumu that sent the Ogiso could not have been the same Oduduwa that sent Oba. Oba of Bini banished his son, Kaladerhan with his mother from the city instead of killing him and he eventually became the Founder of Guwatto (Ughoton) on the bank of a river, after wandering in the forest. Yet many Edo that celebrate the banishment of Ekaledarha with establishment of Ughoton have not spoken up that he was never lost to Ile-Ife and his time or that of his father could never have been the same with that of the ancient Oduduwa/Adumu.

As this writer had asked in – The Father Of All Nigerian Ethnic Groups ” – on their way from and to Egypt, Saudi Arabia or Israel, Nigerians never met one another? They all found themselves in the same location or split into sub-ethnic groups claiming suzerainty over one another. In the case of Bini and Ife, Ekalarhan son of the last Ogiso that fled and established Ughoton has been reincarnated in 2004 as ancient the Oduduwa/Adumu known to other ethnics before Ogiso.

Note the migration waves of rulers as Ogiso, Oba and Obi to landowners: Eri, Osu, Efa and Oru. The Yoruba or Yooba today claimed the world started in Ile-Ife. But Bible writers claimed Eden Garden with Adam and Eve. Scientific evidence has brought the first humans closer to Ife closer to Sudan than the Bible story. This is important because Ile-Ife had moved 8 times according to Prof. Obayemi further away from Sudan and Nupe to the safer Rain Forest. The earliest date so far was the Yoruba artifacts in Iwo Eleru confirmed as around 10,000 B.C. This contradiction in religious belief leads to condemning infidel, kaferi as unbelievers by fanatics on religious opium.

Foreign religious dates have changed African history pandering to European belief, be subjected to ridicule, denial of missionary hospitals and schools for those that refused to convert to Islam, Christian, or Jewish religion. Even when there is no radio carbon verified dates of Christian or Islamic dates of life origin based solely on faith. Compared to African oral history held up to scientific standard. Non-believers on faith could lose their lives in the hands of charlatans and extremists on religious opium or those seeking converts.

In Ekhere, Egharevba wrote that the Obagodo, the first Ogiso, came to Benin from Ife with charm in form of a snail shell; afterwards cast in brass, containing some earth which vested power over land on him. He had written that "Ewedo was the one who put then reigning Ogiefa as the priest of the earth at the place the snail shell container of sand which Ogiso brought from Ife was buried and the place is also the shrine of the earth deity.”

Ogiefa had repeatedly come from Uhe to Benin city for the practice of medicine prior to his accompanying his master Prince Oranmiyan, hence every member of the family of Ogiefa is flattered ever since by the title "Ovbiaronto" (child of the pioneer). This account was discarded as it does not fit into the Hamitic hypothesis account (that everything of value ever found in Africa was brought by Caucasians) on origin of the empire and kingship of his later editions.

The foreign religions and ancestors infused in African history started with another fanciful claim by Sam Johnson. He earlier rejected it: Yoruba are certainly not of the Arabian family, and could not have come from Mecca -- that is to say the Mecca universally known in history, and no such accounts . . . are to be found in the records of Arabian writers or any kings of Mecca; an event of such importance could hardly have passed unnoticed by their historians (Johnson 1921: 5).

Ogherevba also compromised his work to incorporate the committee's work-Intelligence Report on Benin City in 1938, it became the first application of the Hamitic hypothesis to Benin history by an indigenous elite. Jacob Egharevba initial story both in Edo and later in English changed to accommodate some of these foreign “contributions”.

Every ethnic group seized on it claiming kinship to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel ignoring the scientific data that it was Africans that moved around to those foreign lands. It is a case of old countries claiming to be from new areas: reverse migration contrary to scientific facts. Yet, some Africans still see themselves as Egyptians, Arabs and Jews!

It is not surprising to see rich Edo sculpture and language compared to that of Egypt and claims that they came from Egypt. What did not change was sojourn through Sudan and Ile-Ife. So, it is not only the Edo that ignored their neighbors they mixed with in their Rain Forest, each ethnic group claim autonomy or not knowing the same neighbors they had inter-married producing what is now referred to as new ethnic groups!

Olokun that Bini had in common with its neighbors as worship of the "Sea" (Olokun) was translated to Egypt: "Orao, Orao, Olokun N'oba as "Pharaoh, Pharaoh, the Red Sea" and is an invocation of King Pharaoh in the Red sea. ("Orao" as corrupt form of Pharaoh! Even the brass casting work common to Ife and Bini. Oba Oguola that had asked the Oni of Ife for a Brass smith and had Iguegha sent to him from Ife is now a matter of dispute between Edo historians.

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Racism Tribalism Afrophobia Take More Lives Than COVID-19

There should be no debate about the deadly cost of Covid-19. Physical distancing, masks, and handwashing became effective mitigation for the deadly virus. Whereas the immediate and proximal solution for tribalism, xenophobia, hate, lack of tolerance and accommodation, especially when exacerbated by the excessive force of constituted authorities, has eluded us for too many years. Unfortunately, the effect of hate can be the more imminent threat to life experienced by minorities outside their base. Unlike Covid-19 that can kill, no matter where we are.

By Farouk Martins Aresa
19.06.2020 FEATURE ModernGhanacom

Though elders and minorities can be more adversely affected by Covid-19; the lack of tolerance, accommodation, and hate instigate and kill people slowly every day. The discussion of choice between Covid-19 or tribal hate is so convoluted, no one wants to be a victim of either. Yet, world demonstrators against Racism understood the risk they are taking.

On the other hand, Tribalism is within the same people or within the same country but different ethnic groups. Political parties also play tribalism between conservatives and liberals. Racism within the same country by people that see one another as different races based on the colors of their skin. This was established in Virginia, the USA by old laws around color lines to divide and conquer in the 1600s.

You cannot go into a new community to disrespect or break their norms and culture with impunity. If you do, do not cry racism or tribalism when you are held responsible for crude behavior. The discussion on which is worse between racism and tribalism boils down to location and who is affected. Usually, both racism and tribalism are based on economic and political competition within the same country. After all, Africans did not determine or even given a choice of which country they wanted to be part of. It was divided and negotiated with drawn lines by colonialists on paper. Africans, unah see unah lives?

Once the country is divided along ethnic lines, another sub-ethnic group becomes distinct from their larger group demanding economic and political power. Since the rivalries take place on their ancestral land, the borders may become contentious. The smaller or narrower their ideologies and differences, the more likely are they to become tribalistic within the same race: my people are killing my people.

Xenophobia factor rears its ugly head from anger created by lack of promised opportunities to those at home while newcomers excel against all odds within them. Natives set aside their internal angsts or rivalries and gang up on non-natives. Obviously, this is born out of jealousy and some notion that their leaders enable foreigners to partner with them out of corruption and favoritism.

Asserting culture and language from their original home can pose a threat to their hosts in a different land as we see from the history of America where Native American Indians were almost wiped out of existence. Dominance may be by numbers but not necessarily since the minority can dominate the majority to foster their interest using tribalism. The Fulani in Northern Nigeria are the ethnic minority in the land of Hausa majority. Their political and economic interest is not in doubt.

Borderline problems can be fierce because there are no distinct demarcation compared to one racial or ethnic group migrating to another land. They can melt into their hosts by adopting the language and culture or retain the same culture from their ancestral land. It may be peaceful in many countries until some economic natural resources are discovered on the land. The fact that a country is divided into political entities does not solve the problem as we witnessed in Sudan. Even within Southern Sudan, there are ethnic rivalries that turned into another war.

Nevertheless, Somali are from the same race, ethnic group and speak the same language. Yet civil war divided them into different countries. Hate, intolerance and lack of accommodation can easily divide the same ruling families in the same community when the time comes to ascend the throne. Looking for the cause of differences or tolerance may have more to do with economic interest, politics, greed and selfishness. The leaders always claim they are fighting for their "people".

There are also provocations since crude behavior, impunity and cronyism get new comers in trouble with their hosts. Experience taught us that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. So when you are in Rome, you behave like a Roman. Americans want you to love it or leave it. At the same time, multiculturalism enriches most of us. The more languages we speak the more informed we are. Some people considered these as threats to their cultural way of life because their language and culture could be dominated by strangers.

Provocation can also come from those without provenance trying to take advantage of those they met in their new environment by joining with oppressors to enforce injustices. If those before you complain of oppression by the majority, it does not make sense to join the majority out of selfishness and greed, to use you to implement policies against minorities that look like you.

This is what divides African Americans, Native American Indians, and new immigrants. In the process, you provoke scorn, ridicule, and hate from those you met there.

Asians have made better gains than Africans in Europe and America despite the loud mouth of Nigerians. Indeed, the horn of Africa has made more gains lately in the USA. Some Africans have been accused of disrespecting the natives in Europe and America.

But Asians and Africans are given little credit for starting new small businesses where they make little profit to give their children better educational opportunities than they had. So the frustration is obvious when these first generations born outside their original Home still get less opportunities than their classmates.

The power of constituted authorities has been usurped by unscrupulous gangs pretending they are looking for enforcement jobs when in fact they are looking for the chance to inflict the same illegal jungle justice on minorities like their "good old days". Gangs of extremists have been exposed disguised as activists to commit crimes no reasonable activist would dare. It serves its purpose to attract more repression and defeat the implementation of progressive causes.

See how low Nigerians has fallen. Comparing American and Nigerian prisons.

They used to respect us everywhere.

What got Nigeria the Giant of Africa from first place to beggar nation is hero worshipping.

It has never made sense to celebrate individual achievement than moving forward and progressing as a people together.

Heroes are those that demonstrate what they have done for their people not what they have done for themselves. Actually most if them die poor.

Waiting for African Union to send Cautionary Message to United States about the treatment of African and African American.

Nigerian crowd are not as indifferent. Police trying that have been dealt with in Nigeria before.

Can you defend your nation, country or "race" without being tribalistic?

The American Indians that rescue Columbus are in ruins today. The Africans that welcomed Europeans and Arabs were sold into slavery.

You cannot blame Europeans and Americans that know the consequences of capturing others from being tribalistic. No human wants to be dominated by others anymore.

We must look for solutions to tolerate and live with one another.

Gross. Hayack!

Will you or would you let your daughter marry him?

I thought it is the other way around. Some of the vaccines are now tested to fight Covid-19. E.g BCG vaccine.

Vaccines should have synergistic effect.

Iwu further cited the issue of seasonal flu vaccines common in most European and American countries, explaining that “most of these countries use flu vaccine. Once you take the flu vaccine and a new strain comes in, it will cause all the defence mechanisms to relax. This scenario makes most countries that use the flu vaccine more vulnerable to COVID-19".

This is a serious subject. You cannot find it anywhere else less than a book.

Not everyone is a reader, that is why knowledge is hidden in a book.

Iscoalarcon:
all this for us op? I know majority of landers will not read this completely

Envy Acknowledges Success As Jealousy Destroys Character

https://www.nairaland.com/5873458/envy-acknowledges-success-jealousy-destroys

We tend to envy certain qualities and characters that make others successful. As long as we emulate them and strive for the same or better qualities, we are motivated to a higher ground than we were. There is nothing wrong with that form of envy. Envy is an indication that you possess some admirable qualities or character worthy of emulation. It can also get you into trouble with those that are threatened by the fine characters. In those days, elders pray not only for your success but that it should surpass theirs. (E to wa e juwa lo).

Early in life, children are faced with Bullying that may not be easily defined as Envy when they develop their character in our community or environment that later influence or shape their behavior into adulthood. Friends are important. Indeed, we become curious if our children are shy or withdraw from friends. Just as we become worried if all they want to do is play. So, we remind them that all play and no work is as dangerous as all work and no play. The girls remind parents how strict we were when they were in their late teens. As they get into their mid twenties gunning for careers while playing innocent, we get nervous asking them when they are going to bring a boyfriend or girlfriend home. Say what?

Relationships are functional factors of social characters within all animals, so humans are no exception. But it comes at a cost in terms of envy and jealousy. When we make comparisons to improve and better our situation or attract one another, the community benefits. If we become mischievous to gain an upper hand, we run into a rat race and may poison the well.

There was this popular student at one of the universities. Friends liked him and he was generous almost to a fault. He came from a good home and his parents rewarded his good behavior and grades in college to encourage him. Who would want to hurt such an easy going spirit because friends like him? No one has everything. There is always a prettier attire, a better toy, a bigger farm or some more endowed person out there than you are. As long as we are not satisfied with what we have or achieved, the tendency is there to be envious. Even worse, some bully those that cannot fight back, just to feel better.

Young people have a free spirit but also naive thinking they are not vulnerable. It takes life experience, no matter how cautiously their parents or elders implore them. The worst nightmare of parents is the news that a child at any age, not to mention a college student, becomes the victim of an unfortunate accident.

It started early and developed into cancerous envy as a common enemy. We have to promote healthy behavior early in life to deter dysfunctional behavior into adulthood. Communities have a moral obligation to discourage behavior that may not be illegal but functionally antisocial.

By the time you are told to take your bike home because friends or bullies consider you a snub or above their level, you may start wondering if the fault is yours or theirs. Therefore, we have people that try to play down their success (a few play dumb) in order to prevent jealousy for peace sake. They go out of their way to make friends around them comfortable, almost begging for amicable interaction. You cannot satisfy the wishes and caprices of people whose only motive is to control you. The more you bend and try to please them, the more demands they make. They are best tolerated at a distance.

What destroys us is the negativity of trying to bring good folks down to a lower level, out of jealousy. It is the fear of losing to others what we cherried selfishly as useful characters. We may destroy the fine character and good qualities we have left in us or lose it all by trying to get it back through any means necessary. If you have a friend, set him free. If she is yours, she will stay, fly away or come back to you. It becomes your choice to take her or him back if it is worth the trouble.

Wait O! Why do two rich people befriend or marry each other? One of them should be poor or ugly, at least! There are people out there that hate to see two successful people together. Never keep anyone by force or threat if she is not voluntarily yours. It is conflicting enough when parents reject either of you based on idiosyncrasy, myth, custom or age. Birth price or dowry is a different topic. Parents have to realize their objection to their child's lover is an invitation to rebel. If you elope, after getting off your high, one of you would wonder if it is all worth the alienation of families and friends. Before giving up on relatives, better sensitize them to your choice in order to neutralize their fear. They will later appreciate your efforts.

On our way to careers and higher responsibilities, we must lose some friends on the way and some friends will drop us after promotion to the next class. Goals and priorities change. Some people are going to the extreme to keep casual, platonic and amorous relationships, real or imagine. We have friends and colleagues at work and community that become envious of one another while others, out of jealousy demand loyalty or attention they cannot give or deserve. Sometimes it can be as petty as being the favorite of the boss. Remember, as much as our parents tried to love us equally, we know their favorite.

Another group are colleagues that know you make about the same salary but cannot understand how you manage your money better than they do. Others calculate how much you make by your appearance and figure out how much you should give. Envy creeps up if you cut your coat according to your means. Any attempt to please them would burst your pocket. If you burst, they would be the first to ridicule you. Envy could be dangerous if you do not know how to love some folks from a distance.

Unfortunately, no matter what you do, all lizards lie on their bellies, we do not know which has (bad belle) an arching stomach, according to a Yoruba adage. Many research into friendships and envy informed us to rely on old or childhood friends and some families as we get older. It gives us enough years to pick and choose characters that may fit our needs as we mature, to weed out some unpredictable moves, envy or jealousy. While it is true that you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer; no one in their matured age needs unnecessary hassles and distractions.

When you look back from cradle to grave and examine the causes of Envy and Jealousy, it boils down to Wealth, Jobs, Partners, gorgeous Bodies, Cars, Abodes

or Vanities that could not buy Death, Peace of Mind or Heath.

As long as Africans pay for it they their nose, abi

Banmeallday:



Luckily he didnt call the Nigger Area a shythole....at least not in front of the camera LOL


Where is Buhari to counter? No where of course

All the Ventilators made from Ilaro, Abuja to Imo are not good enough

We tend to envy certain qualities and characters that make others successful. As long as we emulate them and strive for the same or better qualities, we are motivated to a higher ground than we were. There is nothing wrong with that form of envy. Envy is an indication that you possess some admirable qualities or character worthy of emulation. It can also get you into trouble with those that are threatened by the fine characters. In those days, elders pray not only for your success but that it should surpass theirs. (E to wa e juwa lo).

Early in life, children are faced with Bullying that may not be easily defined as Envy when they develop their character in our community or environment that later influence or shape their behavior into adulthood.
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1003853/envy-acknowledges-success-as-jealousy-destroys.html

Others leave that choice to God. African cultures take care of their elderlies within homes but other cultures leave it to the Government and build nursing homes for their senior citizens. Whatever decision we made earlier in life by building our retirement nest, as conspicuous or careful spenders or being unfortunate may determine how we end up.

https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/288027/elders-do-not-have-to-die-alone-without-a-friend.html

Humans are social animals, living, acting in duo, in groups and in communal societies. Nevertheless, those few that are more comfortable as loners keep their own company and function independently as individuals. As they get older, weaker or in sickness, it becomes more difficult for everyone to function efficiently well. This is the point where we cannot do without the support of younger relatives and caregivers. Thank God for African culture that makes elders a valuable part of their communities.

Who remains around everyone as we get older depends on the decision we made earlier when we are still active and capable

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You did man e be like say your head dey pain you.

Who brought Ebele and made him VP? OBJ

Who fought for Ebele to become Acting President? Yoruba Legal Activists.

Who voted for Ebele West, North and Southsouth and East?

But who beat their chests most and got all the powerful positions? Igbo.

How did Ebele lose all the goodwill?

Azikiwe gave Nigeria to the NORTH on a silver platter in return for pittance. Na him do himself.

Stop blaming the British Jo!

mrvitalis:

Why would he form alliance with awolowo after all he did to him ...are you normal ...

It's like expecting south south to back south west after 2015

When they say British handed over power to the north ...look at the sits the north had ...look at the rest region

Hope you have an IQ high enough to understand that

Okay sir,

I am not telling you who gave me a good time because I enjoyed it. I even know a guy that continued it before the lady finally got married.

Do not create disease where there is no trauma. Mind your own damn biz.

Kobojunkie:


Can we please stop making these baseless assumptions?

Rape is a violation of a person's right and body and the mind when aware of such an act, responds.
Humans, irrespective of gender, experience some level of trauma when violated, and some form of rejection when denied the justice we believe is due us.
That society believes males should seek out and enjoy sexual desire and be strong enough to fight off that which is unplesant does not then mean males enjoy being raped. The very thought that they do is ludicrous.

It happened in real life to a guy who loved sleeping with his friends' wives. They raped his wife after the wife thought she was cheating with one of them

chidiadi247:

Seriously?
11 years for Naija. Wow

Be careful bro. Don't go wild now. It depends on the State.

Apologize ke? Are you serious, a married woman apologize for years back? You are trying to ruin her reputation.

Look, boys do not see themselves as victims. It only comes to light when loudmouth boys are bragging about it to their friends.

After all, boys do not go through the psychological trauma girls go through. Boys are supposed to feel macho for the privilege.

Situation has changed but not retroactively.

Kobojunkie:

I hope she at least apologized for it.and I hope you got something good from it.

These days whenever I see Igbo humiliated, I feel bad.

These are people admired, accommodated and well tolerated by Yoruba throughout the West. Even during the War, Yoruba hid them in villages beyond the reach of Fulani, Hausa and Yoruba soldiers.

After the War, only the West returned their properties, not even their cousins in the East did because Igbo massacred them.

If they had only accepted half of ABURI

If they had only been grateful to Yoruba for nurturing all their leaders.

If they had stopped chest beating, fake statistics and revised history.

Poor Bode George. He fought hard to appoint only Igbo PDP candidates in Lagos where they lack majority. They got elected and started beating their chests. Pity!

What has Igbo gained but loss of respect and favor from their only friends and supporters in Nigeria.

They loved Buhari/Okadigbo BUT hate Buhari/Osinbajo.

Older Ladies are more discreet.

I believe that they will be representing the couple in bed as well


Op,liar,I attended that marriage.they are representing their love one,who are outside the country.it normal here

United States forcing Blacks and Hispanics back to dangerous jobs, cut them off unemployment insurance if they refused to return. Knowing very well disproportional numbers of COVID-19 deaths are Black.

If this COVID-19 like AIDs every hit African countries as Linda Gages warned, you can see the same attitude to Africans as they show in America.

Collateral Victims Of Diseases & Economic Hardships Are Black & Poor

Sometimes most people of Goodwill, regardless of color, wonder how rugged and durable Africans survived all the impediments and odds they face daily. Even in their own Continent, not to talk about Diaspora. Yet, Africans disrespect one another more than other natural biological animals. Compare that to how people that have faced adversity in their history love and support one another.

Telling the Youths they have to work twice as hard as their cohorts sounds so strange to them, they wonder if their parents are serious. It becomes incredible if told they may suffer the same consequences in their own countries where leaders and politicians that look like them are stooges for outside powers, just for selfish greed. History is becoming more difficult to teach at home since some schools no longer offer it.

Natural human reaction to a hostile environment is flight or fight back. We cannot remain in a stage of preparedness all the time without wear and tear on our Defense Mechanism. This state leads to hypertension, shortness of breath, asthma, emphysema, fear of starving leading to craving for food or obesity, diabetes leading to downward spiral into opportunistic infections. Therefore, when we claim we do not have control or there is nothing we can do about pre-existing conditions, of course there are!

It is not by accident or coincidence that Africa and Diaspora Africans always catch the worst end of the shaft. Being Predisposed is a systemic act that shields others before they are hit with most of the diseases and Economic hardships afflicting Blacks. COVID-19, Devaluations and Structural Adjustment are examples of the same waves hitting minorities at home or in Diaspora.

We are not supposed to express Environmental Justice or the injustices perpetrated for fear of being labelled. Africans and minorities outside our continent and countries where they are not in power are always predisposed to Economic hardships and live closer to environmental dumps. When the majority sneeze, minorities catch pneumonia. It is always explained as being predisposed.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have their carrot and stick methods of bringing developing countries in line with the Economic Order favored by their Sponsors. Money or credit extended to them is to trade with Sponsors according to prices dictated, not by negotiation. The money must be used to clear existing loans, interest, and penalties. If they are dictating the price and currencies of trade, it is an advantageous relationship at the expense of the weaker partners to make their markets more liberal or open only to their finished goods and services.

African countries cannot sleep with their eyes closed. No matter how many trained economists foreigners train and hire. Foreign Investors Portfolios countries will continue to devour Africa unless we learn how to arm ourselves with poison pills. Stop borrowing and trading in foreign currencies and establish African wide common currency. Whoever wants to trade in Africa must raise the demand for African currency to make it stronger.

The world's greatest debtor only trades in its own currency. It cannot not default because it can print its own money if other countries stopped buying its Treasuries or bonds. Default is only tactical and no country can do anything about it if a nuclear power defaulted. When Zambia defaulted, the Chinese took over a part of the Country. The Japanese billionaire Hideki Yokoi once bought the Empire State Building in New York only to sell it back at a discount. Who can take over any part of the USA?

Then comes Debt Trap Diplomacy by Odious Loans by China: Tanzania recently rejected Chinese loans as India did. It makes you wonder about the mentality of those that negotiated the loans in the first place. It was negotiated by the previous Administration as a loan agreement with Chinese investors to build Tanzania Port on condition that the Chinese would get it for 30 years and 99 years uninterrupted lease.

India and Bangladesh had also rejected Chinese loans. When it was revealed in the Delhi High Court that the Indian government had agreed to pay $3.9 million for Covid-19 kits that had been imported from China at a cost of $1.6 million, with the difference going to Indian intermediaries. Even Bangladesh, learning from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives debt trap, decided to construct its biggest infrastructure project from its own finances.

Indeed, the main source of foreign income for a couple of African countries, Oil, is going to dry up because the price of international oil in the market entered negative territory. Anyone that can add the depressed price of oil and the economic impact of COVID-19 in Africa knows that Nigeria will face a challenge it had not lived up to in the past.

Look at Senegal, a country that meets the crisis of the day, COVID-19 head-on with one US dollar mask and $50.00 ventilator. Yet African countries are not "rushing" to patronize Senegal or learning, replicating and improving their success as a world class solution. We know if this was an American or European made, corrupt politicians all over Africa could have bombarded them for imported products by inflated contacts.

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By Farouk Martins Aresa