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Nothing, absolute nothing has changed before and after this was written.

The Northern Governors sound like a broken record to buy some time hoping things will cool down.

SOCIETIES THAT NORMALIZE CRIMINALITY WITH PRIVILEGE & REWARD WILL FALL

Empires, Civilization and Country fell under their own weight when they became arrogant and basked in their own overstretched power. They had to dominate the weak, poor and meek inside and outside their territory to solidify their privileged position at the top. These are desperate people fighting to gain, preserve or implement their status quo of privileges mainly for economic domination.

Other countries in West Africa: Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia to the Central African Republic are familiar with Fulani aggressive perchance to convert others' land. Fulani have always exhibited the tendency to dominate other ethnic groups no matter where they are in Africa.

Therefore, when Fulani destroy farms, they are also destroying African economy. Nobody has to be kidnapped, maimed, raped and killed so that we can eat beef or consume cow products. Indeed, cows in ranches around the world with less arable land produce better cow products including beef, milk, butter and leather. But Fulani want to use exhausted unproductive cows as a means to trek into any land and conquer people.

Who are the real owners of the cows invading and destroying farms across West Africa? Certainly not those armed cowboys employed to make the cows unproductive by long trekking to outside lands than in ranches at home. There is no reason cowboys should be roaming cities and villages in the 20th century with AK47 except there is an agenda to covet other people and land by violence and force disguised as the religion of God.

The cowboys/herdsmen are poor illiterates employed by herdsmen/owners to achieve personal domineering interest diverting attention away from unavailable school and jobs, which should have kept them productive at home. Arming them gives a false sense of power tripping and privilege to discourage them from progressive and modern ways of earning a living by establishment of ranches at home, schools and factories.

Agricultural production remains the most viable means for Africans with the most arable land in the world, to become self sufficient. Breeding hybrids local cows that can produce milk and beef in good quality require ranches in stable locations. If Africans refused to manage their own land for self survival, foreigners would do it and export the products outside, only to repackage them and sell to the highest bidders. This will include African buyers. It does not make sense in 2000 to be roaming around as if you are in the past centuries.

Most of the milk consumed in Nigeria is imported and the local cows roaming about are not as productive. In order to make them as productive, veterinarians have to cross breed them with imported cows in a stable congenial environment in established ranches. The lack of controlled and territorial grazing by Fulani herdsmen also causes the scientifically bred foreign animals used as hybrid with local cows, to pick ticks and infections such as foot and mouth disease (FMD). This becomes one of the most challenging diseases of cattle ranches.

Other African countries curbed Fulani grazing. It is only in Nigeria where they use Hausa to implement and solidify their born to rule mentality. It dates back to Usman Dan Fodio who used Religion to campaign against immorality and corruption in order to topple the Hausa rulers in their seven states. Only to find out they are worse than the Hausa Emirs they replaced. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-47694445

Every couple of years, some Northerners that play to the gallery like Gov. Ganduje of Kano, preached for cattle ranches up North. Please lecture your unrelenting crusaders of the oligarchy that want to covet land and people in areas that do not belong to them to continue their raiding agenda. Some, with impunity, come out and lay claim to the whole country.

These marauders specifically pick and choose which farms with the least resistance they raided in Southern Nigeria. Rosedale Farm, Obasanjo Farm and others where they would be shot on sight are spared. The smaller farmers trying to make it into bigger business, create more jobs for families and their wives are the ones violated, maimed and killed.

We need more African billionaires to plough their riches back into African people and countries they grew out of or exploited. Even pastors, imams and a former President of Cote d’ Ivoir dreamed and built the biggest Churches and Mosques in Africa instead of the biggest factories. Some pastors want Churches as business centers on every street, not factories?

Fortunately, there are people of goodwill everywhere willing to fight with everything they have including their personal lives and resources. Some of these people of goodwill also encourage others to join them including those that held opposite views but have come to realize the consequences of their actions looking for amends.

Africans are fond of aligning themselves to world standards of which they had no input in deeds or consultations. But if we have to, we can emulate Western billionaires. Think about the history of Albright, Annenberg, Rockefeller, Nobel, Kennedy etc and how they started, made their money and ended up rectifying and rebuilding the country and people they exploited. Some African billionaires prefer ostentatious displays on social media.

Most of us want a stable Country that espouses the ideal values of civility, decency, law and order. While different countries establish their own political systems of how to accomplish these tasks, there is no unanimous consensus within. This is why the majority of the people decide what system or party they prefer for the best solutions. Yet, strongmen fear that their preference of system or party may be rejected by the majority.

So they find ways to subvert the will of the majority. No matter what, they would never give up their reactionary views even with their minority votes. They are always looking for ways to capture the majority by any means necessary. Some stage a bloody or bloodless coup including any form of violence to gain upper hand.

When you ban violence and guns but reward those that use them to advance your agenda. When you preach hard work and education but reward failure with privilege. When you punish those that cry against oppression and loss of lives from constituted authorities but ignore those that kill because they belong to different ethnic groups or "races". Eventually, your privileged ones will attack your House, Police and Army with weapons you made accessible.

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https://www.modernghana.com/news/1055689/insurrectionists-boko-haram-hallucinate-the-same.html

The United States finally accepted the reality that their right-wing extremists are no different from Boko Haram. Despite the most informative intelligence in the world, the United States ignored and normalized danger because of Russian assets that invaded not only the USA leadership but suppressed the exposure of Russian hands in Brexit. Indeed, they turned on and scapegoated their own dedicated intelligence officers claiming the Party of law and order.

While civilized thinkers find solutions to peaceful coexistence, boorish unruly thinkers look for captives, serfs, slaves and cheap labor to achieve prosperity at home and abroad. They are the most religious Christians, Muslims, Hinduism, Buddhism etc to capture more converts that adhere to their hierarchical caste systems. If religion and democracy do not work, they establish schools and vanity brands to attract recruits as soldiers of God and Freedom.

Simply put, they reserved privileges for those at the top. In the United States, it started in Virginia by dividing poor Europeans into Whites closer to the top. Before then all “races” had gotten along and intermarried. Divide, to rule and conquer tactics broke their unity against exploitation and oppressive working conditions. Even earlier, Pope Nicolas V, Portugal, on January 8,1455, gave papal bull that legally granted Portugal the right to enslave Africans they encountered south of Cape Bojador, African coast to boost labor of the serfs in Europe.

Pure and simple. They feel Whites conquered you and owned your land. No Democracy is going to share power with you or take power back from us. They take power by violence and they are going to retain it with violence. The cliché: this is not who we are, is a cliché to appeal to people of goodwill and placate those that are naive enough to believe it or do not know history. Trump did not create them, he only exposed and empowered them.

Tolerance as long as it is not abused is the focus and salvation of all relationships. Anger over the loss of privilege has often been used to retaliate, oppress and suppress protests of the victims begging for relief, is not a just-cause. We are now at a point where the difference between begging for life, live and let's live has been blurred. Free Speech is not the freedom to drum up support to burn down the house, drum out the speech of those you disagree with until you have your way.

How can anybody deny others what they themselves cherished within? Life, liberty and ability to make a decent living by others. People that abuse free speech, deny the poor access to vote, make a living and access to ballot boxes, claim to be the champions of freedom and liberty when their hypocrisy is exposed and curbed from denying others to enjoy the same. We all deserve to live and let others live. Whenever there is fire or violence, the first duty is to find the cause and turn it off. Arrogance is not a cause.

Okay, let's cut the crap and call a spade a spade: they are saying Black votes do not matter and cannot elect a President of the United States of America. Questioned what gave minorities they cannot convert, the votes despite all the obstacles thrown at them to make sure they do not come out in large numbers for the opposite parties.

No group has the right to deny the same right they enjoy to others. We already know how Ayatollah appealed to world conscience; dictators rode on free speech and religion to power, only to deny the same to the Opposition. Religious fanatics use freedom of religiosity to enact religious intolerance, even in countries they escape to and sought refuge. Only to massacre hosts in their new homes allowing them to practice their faith.

Anyone that thinks serfdom, slavery and days of starving wages are over, must think again for real. Actually, they are totally blind to the fact that it is a continuous fight against those that are so privileged. They may renew Voting Rights every five years or more to placate you as progress while enacting regulations, laws to defeat and dilute those Rights where votes matter. There are many ways to skin a cat but only after cheapening and giving a noble cause, a bad name.

There is no difference between Election Ballot Snatchers in African or developing countries and those denying the poor and minorities access to elect representatives of their choice by implementing gerrymandering laws, eliminating names from voters registration lists or shortening voting hours. It boils down to the same thing. It could be rough, crude or sophisticated, the intent is the same.

Therefore, there is a new reason to classify #ENDSARS, Human Right Activists and those against slave labor as insurrectionists trying to overthrow Governments of dictators, religious fanatics, militia and military rulers. It is nothing short of branding a dog with a bad name before you hang it. This is not comparing apples and agbalumo but comparing life and death. A clamp down on the privileged oppressors, cannot be used to do the same to the oppressed in African countries. What an irony?

Who are the poor voters some African leaders are denying? You can trust some brilliant Africans tyrants and their enablers. If they can only use their intelligence for positive deeds to lift their countries out of Poverty. They have now seized upon foreign examples to buttress their points that #ENDSARS and Sowore must be prosecuted and punished. Copy foreigners as usual, illogically. The United States is arresting Insurrectionists invading Congress to kill people, attempting to kidnap the Vice-president and the Speaker. Since they lost a fair and square election by a landslide. Like Africans, they share ideology with, want Power by force.

Hello O! African Lives Matter Protesters have just caused because they are being killed in cold blood unjustly. African leaders and their gullible supporters glowing with glee as they loot and launder the treasury, killing babies with one of the highest infant mortalities, higher suicides among Youths, and impoverishing millions of Africans to death.

How can Black people be respected anywhere in the world when you see how the little son and wife of the opposition leader Bobbi Wine, were stripped and beaten in Uganda? Since the "greatest" democracy in the world clamped down on those against freedom, life, liberty, and voting rights of the voiceless; so can African leaders clamp down on those in their countries yearning for the opportunity to live and breathe.

INSURRECTIONISTS & BOKO HARAM HALLUCINATE THE SAME IDEOLOGY

Hallucination is now a just cause for real violence? Stop the hypocrisy and call a spade a spade, all right wing terrorists are the same locally or internationally, based on supremacist ideologies that are repulsive to the sick and tired majority of peace loving voters. Since Election Losers cannot have their ways peacefully through democracy, they terrorize and threaten their own communities with violence to overthrow legitimate Governments at home and abroad as regime change!

Since the 80s, Mental Hospitals have released most of the inpatients normalizing aberrant behaviors than ever. What happened in the so-called Bastion of Democracy where insurrectionists and insurgents took over, based on frivolous cause of disappointment over loss of free and fair Election by a "landslide'', places good causes people died for on the same level as holding onto privileged life. Indeed, dictators and religious fanatics have seized on it.

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How can Black people be respected anywhere in the world when you see how the little son and wife of the opposition leader Bobbi Wine, were stripped and beaten in Uganda? Since the "greatest" democracy in the world clamped down on those against freedom, life, liberty and voting rights of the voiceless; so can African leaders clamp down on those in their countries yearning for the opportunity to live and breathe.

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I read the article again just to make sure the writer was positive about mothers and daughters.

He was. If he wrote something negative about women, I posted the wrong article.

Which country is this guy from?

NeoWanZaeed:
STOP USING YOUR FAMILY PROBLEM TO GENERALIZE ISSUES. I LOVE MA DAUGHTER DIE. AND SHEZ MA 1ST BORN

Women Love Their Son Than Daughter Until He Becomes A Husband

Most families always want a son. Women have been encouraged to continue to have babies until the first son is born. You can tell from the face of the father after each birth by his wife if it is another girl or finally a boy. The celebration after the birth of that son is grander. But different from the Indian culture of dowry for a man.

We must wonder why parents love and respect the sons more than the daughters. But when the same sons become fathers, they are less favored and appreciated than daughters as mothers. We accept that women are better at multitasking and more flexible than men. As women get older they are more useful to their children's families. They get closer and jealously protect their own creations than men.

Come to think about it, daughters are more useful, empathic and never actually leave the family emotionally even when married compared to the sons. You would think that with all the accolades, encouragement and investment in boys, they will return as much love as girls. The surprise or readjustment usually comes from the daughter. She contributes more in kind if they cannot do so financially. You can rely on them most of the time. They hardly leave their mother alone. A lady followed both parents to see their family doctor. Both parents asked their daughter to come in as an open family. While there, the father asked for Viagra. The daughter objected: daddy don’t kill my mother. The mother told her daughter to mind her business!

However, we place so much responsibility on the son especially if he is the first born. This same responsibility is expected of him once he gets married, though they gradually get absorbed by their new family. Indeed, the debate is who deserves to be more comfortable if you have to make a first choice as a man: your mother or your wife. Many people think the first house or the first car should be for your mother before your wife. Nevertheless, it may be understood if you have a family with children to provide for; your immediate immediate family comes first. Children from rich homes look at this differently. The sons may excuse their preference by claiming their fathers already have houses and their mothers have cars.

So why do we invest more on sons when we, especially the mothers, get more in returns from the daughters? There used to be a time when parents would rather send sons for further studies than daughters. Circumstances have changed. Daughters are better educated today, financially capable and better at multitasking than they have ever been. It may be that cultural expectations linger. Female teachers were surprised when recorded in a study: they were inadvertently encouraging more boys in their classrooms than girls.

There are more girls in the universities these days than boys. If it is not for affirmative action, more of the girls would be in professional schools at home and abroad. There are more of them in the universities already. Actually, a good number of the professional ladies bring more money home than their partners. Believe it or not, their partners may not know. Something changed about sons that made them less favorable once they became fathers. The mothers would become the preference of the children.

The problem is when mothers go overseas thinking they are going on vacation. Mama, the vacation abroad is not easy o! When children feel like rewarding or sending parents on trips at home or abroad, you can bet it has to be the mother. Their tickets are left unused if they do not want to leave the husbands alone; until the children plead and persuade mum to help make up her mind.

The fact that mothers can live with their son in law is not a big deal and understandable because she is more useful in their home than the father. Fathers hardly help around their homes not to think of their children's house. Compared to the mother that multitasks. Recently, we saw a mother's celebration on one of the social media, stolen from her husband because her daughter had invited her overseas for a "holiday".

When she landed, she was dancing shoko. Most of the comments congratulated her on this "great feat" in her life. Mummy, the excitement of going overseas will change after a couple of months. You will miss your husband back home, even worse he may find solace in the bosoms of others. In the first place, it can be very lonely for the elders or grandparents apart from the shivering cold overseas. it is not a place you can easily interact with those you know and others you hardly know.

The children you longed so much to bond with are not easily available. You will find out that one and in most cases both husband and wife work almost throughout the day or night. By the time they get home, they will be so tired, you will pity them. Indeed, you will be asking them if they had eaten or what they would want to eat. It means, you would start cooking for them even if they do not ask you.

Since you are at home not doing much, you might as well help them babysit their kids. It will save them a bundle of money. The cost of babysitting one or two kids can take most of the salary of one of the couple. So do not be surprised if they offer you a token as pocket money. Some of the mothers that know how much they are saving their children are appreciated; with minimum wage. It is good money when you get back home.

By the time grandmother started babysitting for a while, she would come to realize how big a task it is to take care of those fresh, rude and stubborn kids. They do not listen to grandma and you cannot hit them for any reason. If you do, they will call the Police! Actually some of them may play some pranks, hide and seek on you. Once their parents are back home, they may behave and start their pranks when the parents leave home.

Ma'am, do not get frustrated if you did not train or had their parents abroad. It is part of life there. Before the six months of your original intended stay; you may be itching to go back home to your neglected husband and friendly environment. Too much loneliness, cold, little time with your hardworking children and their lack of time for "normal life". Please do not ask them how they could live like that. They are "enjoying" oyinbo country.

The bottomline is that if Grandma decided to go back home early, she would put them in debt. If you do not know, they are still paying for your ticket. Even, the money you saved them by babysitting will not cover their expenses on you if you leave too early. They were planning to buy you presents and gifts for siblings and relatives back home if you stayed longer. A few months is simply not enough. They may have to find or make another arrangement for daycare. Mama nor fall their hands o!

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1053800/women-love-their-son-than-daughter-until-he-become.html

It is surprising that the rest of the world have never recognize African discoveries in something as common as aspirin or antibiotics.

What is not surprising is that progress and invention on Covid-19 in Senegal or lower level of cases and deaths of Covid-19 had never been credited to African Community Health.

Even Bill Gates expressed surprise at the lower level.


https://www.modernghana.com/news/1028572/africa-leads-in-low-covid-19-cases-by-early-treatm.html

Private Cars Are The Next Egyptian Pyramids: Beyond Petrol

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African countries must think and plan for the future instead of coping and struggling to live from one day to the next buying new technologies from foreigners that prepared for the future. No amount of money can be earned to buy trending technology if Africans do not make and produce any. The reason Africans are consumers and not producers has more to do with the fact that we are always looking towards the other guys to lead in future products and services. Solar technology is not new as African countries are right under the Sun. Yet, none of our countries is a leader in Solar energy, the clean fuel of the future.

The biggest world oil refinery in Nigeria is too late to push Africa into the future. If it was the biggest Solar power plant or rechargeable battery factory, we could celebrate the First in Africa. It is never too late to delve into the future. Opportunities open everyday for thinkers and how to change the world instead of dreaming about how to make money. No matter how much money you make, thinkers get most of it for products and services. Dream big, not rich.

It is even easier to copy and improve on foreign technology or improve on products as the Americans did with the British and the Japanese did with American goods. Our proximal generation will wonder why our generation keeps on assembling private cars when we cannot keep up with infrastructure needed to operate them or source power from rechargeable batteries. The richest countries argue about how much more money to spend on new and decaying roads and bridges. The world is so attached to personal cars, it has become individual freedom. Even where there are good roads, the world prefers the convenience and privacy of our automobiles.

The greater problem with personal cars in most African countries is that there are less roads to drive them on. Even the roads that are available are not well maintained creating more damages and more repairs to new or fairly used cars. Some Africans buy cars as “gifted” status symbols rather than for necessities to make income. There is no doubt that cars started as status symbols everywhere but others kept up and built roads. Usually, infrastructure including roads are built before most developments in order to get in and out. Driving for pleasure is also good but when you are stuck in traffic most of the time, it becomes a pain.

Town planners have started creating roads, streets and bridges for mass transits, bicycle and car-free passages downtowns. Some roads and streets are now designated strictly as walkways and for bicycles in the downtown areas. Soon, roads for private cars will diminish in favor of mass transit and the clean environment. However, some African beautiful houses are built where there are no adequate ways of getting in or out. Creating temporary roads that cannot even support the weight of these cars. More damages are done to the cars, not to mention roads that can swallow a car and people. Simply put, the mentality is that ownership of cars comes before motorable roads.

This mentality is transferred to other national planning where infrastructure lacks behind housing, health clinics, factories and schools. The most successful businesses do not build a factory or plant where there are no means of getting there. When they go into the jungle to build cement factories; roads and power generating plants are the priorities. Regardless of our complaints that they cannot establish in towns and cities without the government providing an enabling environment.

The irony is obvious on its face. You build factories on virgin land providing needed infrastructure to run it, which is great. But blame the governments in the cities for the lack of the same infrastructure you build in the jungle. The same people running governments support cronies managing private businesses. The difference is private businesses generate personal profit but the Government enabling environment benefits many in the community.

Automobile Industry is a major part of the private sector economy in most countries. Any downturn can cause a cultural change that might be difficult to contain. We witnessed this in the 70s as the industry became the easiest way for workers with high school education or less to earn middle class income and buy houses in the same neighborhood as professionals. Indeed, a single income earner in the household could support the whole family.

What changed? Profits from big luxury cars decreased as they were replaced by smaller efficient cars because petrol became expensive. Before the Arab Oil Embargo in the early seventies, Japanese were making smaller efficient cars. So it was not a surprise that they gained a larger share of the world automobile market during the oil embargo. The backlash in the United States was to boycott Japanese cars. American major car makers were betting that Japanese could not break into the luxury car market.

They were wrong. The Japanese and Korean introduced efficient luxury cars as the Europeans. More important, in order to break into America and retain their share of the market, Asian and European Automobile manufacturers established manufacturing plants in the American Midwestern states without the old Unions negotiating benefits. They were able to build the same cars they built in their countries in America and Canada at lower wages.

The boycott backlash faded in Canada and the United States because local automobile plants created jobs and the cars made in or outside the Americas became indistinguishable. Moreover, automobile parts were manufactured in Asia, Europe and America, then shipped worldwide. Since Quality Assurance and Precision gained priority in Japan, efficient cars depended more on machines reducing human errors worldwide.

The cultural consequences change behavior in America. As Auto Unions lost power and wages, they lost the financial capabilities to buy homes and raise their families in the suburbs beside professional doctors, lawyers, accountants etc. The loss of privilege changed into depression, increase suicide rate and drug use to numb the pain. This loss of comfort with only high school education created the Opioids generation that became Angry White Men. They want to go back to "the good old days" analog that had given way to technological advancement. Politicians that know how to exploit their sense of privilege and entitlement promised to create more jobs in coal and petroleum energy they know were not coming back while investing their personal wealth in present and future technology.

African countries did not seize the opportunity as European and Asian manufacturers. Even the oil rich African countries relied on crude oil resources and spent the money like drunken sailors. They sold crude oil to import refined oil from the 70s to date. The same mentality of selling raw gold and buying refined gold designed abroad. African refineries have never been self sufficient and hardly operated efficiently. A country like Nigeria is now ready to operate the first private refinery since government refineries gulped allocation, never made profit as an Industry. Our precious metal and commodity had been sold since the days of gold for mirrors.

Private Cars Are The Next Egyptian Pyramids: Beyond Petrol

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Private Cars Are The Next Egyptian Pyramids: Beyond Petrol. ... Soon, roads for private cars will diminish in favor of mass transit and the clean environment. However, some African beautiful houses are built

Happy Long Life: Men Love Loyalty Ladies Demand Security Nov 21, 2020

Ladies are doing better these days than their mothers. Many are wealthy, better educated and still wiser in their choice than men. One would think that with these qualities, ladies would not rely on men for their security. Well, security has many aspects apart from money. If we are talking about pay and brute force, it is still dominated by men regardless of the strength some women display lifting their babies much longer than men can or a few women kicking their husbands' butts. But some men still misuse threats and will not hesitate to display violence. So, ladies need men's protection against men.

A man around a lady sends the signal of security. It could be the reason even rich and well paid madams still need men around. Since men expect loyalty in return for security it may be seen as control. Yet, men expect loyalty from their partners and many resort to pugnacious behavior when they run out of options. It still does not make sense to keep anyone by force or tulasi. The need for security around ladies has improved over the years and most societies enact laws protecting ladies at home with their partners or harassment by strangers outside. Let the bird fly, if she is yours, she would fly back. It's up to you to take her back.

How does relationships last forever based on expectation of loyalty by men in exchange for security of ladies? While most Africans accept the polygamous relationships, about half of monogamous relationships fail outside outside Africa. The world has become a global village and some ladies demand polyandry too as in a few world cultures. Cultures and economic realities skew the final choice. But looks (beauty) open the door for both men and ladies. It is generally postulated that ladies care more about men’s other personal characteristics. Yimu!

https://www.livescience.com/58607-mens-looks-may-matter-more-than-personality.html Though beauty, money and love may not remain stable, only friendships can outlast each of these. So we have people that have fallen out of love, lost their beauty or lost money but remain good friends. We tend to overrate the role of beauty, love and money early in our relationships, knowing full well that circumstances may change in sickness or good health. This is the reason we pledge to stay married for better or worse; not just for the good times but also when situations are not so rosy.

Beauty is one of the three principals apart from love and money which fades with time. Let us be realistic, we are all naturally attracted to beauty. There is a notion out there that men are the only ones relying on beauty. It is just a generalization. Ladies also like handsome men and a few have lost their ways solely on that. A one night stand may explain that both men and ladies want the same thing and ladies may be strongly attracted to a man for many reasons including (highly endowed) one night stand. When boys push Okafor law, that is because you got her or she got you once. If you think she is always yours, you are in for a surprise.

Better move on. It could also be Infatuation which explains ladies' attraction to the "bad boy" image. It survives longer than the one night stand. Sometimes, guys mistake it for Okafor Law to their own detriment. Wise ladies think about the sustainability of their families first. Men are mostly the suckers for trophy wives and they pay dearly for it. Beauty does not come as a package with loyalty that men expect. Indeed, many ladies think they can get away with anything once they are beautiful and men will not leave them. Young ladies know that most men fall for beauty and if one leaves, there are other beauty mongers waiting.

Unfortunately, not all men are that vulnerable to beautiful ladies. There are men that also naively think ugly ladies are more faithful as a wife. Since other men think the same way, don't be too sure. It is so true that all your money cannot buy you love. Love also fades. Call some ladies gold diggers all you want, friendships last longer. As durable as childhood love is, without adjustments in relationships, it is not a guarantee. But old relationships one can grow and reminisce with, for the good old and new days are sweeter.

Yet, we may be tempted by change: new or younger lovers to rejuvenate an old man or woman if they do not give you a heart attack! Like in all animal behavior, ladies flash their endowment men or feel good. Case in point, another study found that staring at ladies' bare chests, in a variety of bra sizes, cute behinds or looking at beautiful animals’ colors lead to release of serotonin, a happy hormone that increases men's lifespan closer to that of women. The same way being married adds to men's lifespan. Https ://nypost.com/2017/03/22/staring-at-boobs-may-give-a-boost-to-male-lifespans/ We come back to old friends regardless of our gender for good times sake if there is no previous caustic burn. People claim they fell out of love because they grew apart. It is deeper than that. Some couples give reason for not tolerating anymore abuse from one another since the kids are grown or independent. It boils down to “irreconcilable differences”. Often said: competing with a lady over kids is not smart. One thing you can bank on, the mother is always their favorite. Better be prepared than be sorry later in life.

Money as the last principal after beauty and love is important these days especially for the brokeass boys and girls but not crucial to lasting friendships in many relationships. Well kept ladies in palaces, luxury and fame have walked out. Actually, there are reasons to believe that ladies are shrewder when it comes to money than men. Many men lost money and more in exchange for sex and loyalty. Whereas a lady would get all the money and more with the lure of sex and promised loyalty: Sampson and Delilah. A lady may sleep her way to the top while making money but men have lost power and positions without making a penny. Even foolish Uber drivers prefer fare in kind from pretty ladies!

When men betray their ladies, they can do it for half the worth or less of their wives. In other words women would step up while men might step down and lose a good gem. Some ladies have confessed to their friends that what was most painful about the choice of their men was the low caliber of the women they were forced to compete with. Imagine! As if some of them have never been satisfied by househelps. It does not mean women are smarter than men in all relationships. More women hedge their bets until they lose it all, than men. Men would settle for a lady earlier than women that keep on thinking there may be a better man out there.

Ladies have even lost their biggest catch while trying to decide. Beauty, love and money work to the advantage of ladies and maybe to the disadvantage of men. So when men accuse ladies of taking the ugliest men as long as they have money, it is not always true. Indeed, women like handsome men just as much as men like beautiful ladies. The difference is when ladies have to make a choice between two handsome men or handsome and ugly men. Whatever, it boils down to which of the handsome men has more money. Usually an ugly rich man gets the lady if he is wealthier enough to take care of her family.

Who do you blame for that? Please! Yago jo make I see road. A lady has to think about a man that can take care of her and the children when she is or not able to work. When the kids are old and she is rich enough, she can go after her own fine boys based solely on looks just like men. Before a man makes a move, even innocently, whatever that means, women are conditioned to ask a man what he wants in return. They know men's kind gesture would hardly be made to a fellow man. Though some ladies would quietly wait, they are actually assessing what a man has to offer.

HAPPY LONG LIFE: MEN LOVE LOYALTY LADIES DEMAND SECURITY

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/293948/happy-long-life-men-love-loyalty-ladies-demand-security.html

Keep on your delusional indifference instead of talking sense to those that have led the respected ones among astray.

So hard to build so easy to destroy. Appealing to your haters in foreign land.

The more you abuse some people the more they love you.

You must have heard about some abused ladies that kept on going back for more or getting another man to abuse them.

Unfortunately, this is also true of men and their slave masters.

Funny though, both of these men and women disrespect those that treat them as equals, tolerate and accommodate them.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/293500/biden-landslide-cut-by-3rd-world-votes-suppression-tactics.html

Joe Biden would have won by a landslide if you took all the Blacks suppression votes tactics legally or by chicanery like a third world country into consideration. Biden mitigated the problem by splitting the votes of goodwill people more than most Democratic Presidential candidates but fell short among Latino in Florida. He still becomes the President-Elect of the United States. It does not matter whether it was by narrow, close or a landslide win. There is no way anyone could have identified whose votes that would be disallowed during the time polls were taken or picked voters that would be recluse in their survey.

Therefore, when people talk about inaccurate pollings, some of them are only justifying their self-fulfilling hypocrisy. All these would not happen in some African countries without a riot. All the obstacles of voters' suppression either by court actions, gerrymandering, intimidation or the rate of 3 to 1 voters ballots nullifications against minorities encouraged world authoritarian regimes. Biden's landslide would not have been reduced to a closer race in a free and fair democratic election. These do not even include the disproportional distortion of the Electoral College votes by which the President is chosen regardless of who won the popular votes.

This compromise does not necessarily translate into democracy that is not perfect: but the Electoral College vote is the best we have. Even liberals have to face and look for better solutions to white indifference that keep on voting for candidates they know are not candid in their utterances and sincere in behavior, instead of so called "moderate" in the Party to normalize it or pile blames on the 10 to 20 percent missing Blacks that did not vote for them. When you normalize aberrant behavior, your minorities that are the victims would join a party that has the power to change it from within.

It is unreasonable to say anyone that did not vote for Biden was not black but whites that did not vote for Biden should be gently persuaded. So must the few Blacks deserting the Democratic or liberal parties. How can one justify a close race that could have resulted in a loss in view of recent George Floyd's truama to the world or Heather Heyer murder in Charlottesville, Va. that promted Joe Biden to run: President’s “good people on both sides”.
https://dailyprogress.com/news/state/focusing-on-charlottesville-violence-biden-declares-2020-run-for-president/article_03ea6714-6753-11e9-9b91-872627d6c355.html

Indeed, Blacks always vote in higher percentages for world liberal parties than other groups. While 80 to 90 percent of Black women vote for Democratic Party, Black men follow with 70 to 80 percentages. Yet, most analysts claimed they could have made a difference if they voted the way they did for Obama that got their votes. White candidates must work harder to turn out a higher percentage of white votes as Obama did. In fairness to Biden, he has been able to garner a higher percentage of whites more than other Democratic Presidential candidates.

Blacks have been loyal members of the Democratic Party than other ethnic groups like the Latinos and the Asians. Mind you, Blacks also have their differences in the United States. Some claimed Obama has different experience from them. The Latino voters are more diverse in their tendencies toward voting for parties. Compared Latinos in Arizona originally from Mexico that voted lumpsidedly for Biden. They think more of the hostility against Latinos trying to cross the border. But most Americans like most countries, want a safe secured border and it is the primary drive for Republican votes.

Cubans in Florida detest socialist parties they equate to communism in Cuban and the Venezuelans remember Chavez, their dictator that turned a rich country poor after attracting sanctions from the Western countries led by the United States. So, they gravitate towards politicians that preach against socialism. But the Chief Communist is no one other than Vladimir Putin of Russia today, the supporter of dictators around the world. What Castro of Cuba and Chavez of Venezuela had in common with the President of the United States they voted for in Florida, was their friendship with dictators.

If those with dictatorial tendencies are the "moderate" the world wants to embrace, minorities in the United States might as well change this distortion within by invading other parties. Liberals have been called hypocrites that share racist views of conservatives to gain white votes. Those blacks that are joining Conservative Party or Republican Party are also looking for white votes after they have been taken for granted by liberal or labor parties.

The fact remains that whites are like everyone else that are reluctant to give up advantages and privileges they gained from the vestiges of serfdom, slavery and minimum wages. They swing from Obama to Trump, to enforce regressive law and pack the Supreme Court because of fear of losing their privileges. When they see agitations and protests that will change the status quo as the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements, they become worried.

Most young people, even those born into privilege, know there is injustice in the system. But as they get older and realize privileged societies confer benefit on them, they become less radical. It must be made clear that Trump did not create anything new, but he was only uncanny enough to exploit existing prejudice that existed in the society he grew up in. Apart from Voters' Suppression, more whites voted for Trump than Biden despite the deaths of more Americans from Covid-19 than anywhere else in the world. People must think deeper of what the decision of whites would have been without Covid-19.

The choice was to live or die with Covid-19 instead of voting out a man that preserves their privileges. Look no further than the rationale of regular Church goers and religious Right that found solace in a man that neither goes to Church or shares their belief but used both to gain their votes. They oppose abortion and favor candidates that side with them. The irony that those that oppose abortion deny food stamps and other food aids aid to the same children and their families, is besides the point for them. They prefer begging for crumbs from charity piteously to change minds and convert. But they detest government aid to children regardless of ideology.
Regular Church goers and religious Right claim the choice for President is not the selection of the Pope. The bottom line is minorities will make temporary but not sustainable gains in countries where the odds of changing privilege is against them. However, the only place minorities especially Africans can make lasting changes and be respected outside, is in their own countries. Beating your chests red, black and blue about achievement outside your home is a false sense of grandeur.

Joe Biden would have won by a landslide if you took all the Blacks suppression votes tactics legally or by chicanery like a third world country into consideration. Biden mitigated the problem by splitting the votes of goodwill people more than most Democratic Presidential candidates but fell short among Latino in Florida. He still becomes the President-Elect of the United States. It does not matter whether it was by narrow, close or a landslide win. There is no way anyone could have identified whose votes that would be disallowed during the time polls were taken or picked voters that would be recluse in their survey.

Therefore, when people talk about inaccurate pollings, some of them are only justifying their self-fulfilling hypocrisy. All these would not happen in some African countries without a riot. All the obstacles of voters' suppression either by court actions, gerrymandering, intimidation or the rate of 3 to 1 voters ballots nullifications against minorities encouraged world authoritarian regimes. Biden's landslide would not have been reduced to a closer race in a free and fair democratic election. These do not even include the disproportional distortion of the Electoral College votes by which the President is chosen regardless of who won the popular votes.

Joe Biden would have won by a landslide if you took all the Blacks suppression votes tactics legally or by chicanery like a third world country into consideration. Biden mitigated the problem by splitting the votes of goodwill people more than most Democratic Presidential candidates but fell short among Latino in Florida. He still becomes the President-Elect of the United States. It does not matter whether it was by narrow, close or a landslide win. There is no way anyone could have identified whose votes that would be disallowed during the time polls were taken or picked voters that would be recluse in their survey

A win is a win.

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The conspicuous spenders, 419 and those provoking poverty and the poor have finally woken up the beasts in all of us.

They infiltrated #ENDSARS and you are wondering why

You provoke them!

One thing is clear, Buhari like Yaradua, is not in charge. Cabals rule in unison.

DrNefeNefe:
Buhari is deaf and blind.

The good thing about Revolution is that it cleanses most of the corruption.

The bad thing is that some innonocent people and projects including useful ones are destroyed.

Those castigating unfortunate destruction of valuable properties must wonder why.

Why it took this long to Revolt since Yaradua.

Your problems are many


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PEOPLE CREATE WEALTH NOT THE GOVERNMENT

Africans have come to understand that we elected most politicians whose mission is to enrich only themselves and their nuclear families; not to give a decent life to their people or communities. They have been taken by Western Individualism and are overwhelmed by the gratification of exotic tastes and culture that value individual interests over the commonwealth. Making a living in Africa to afford such exotic indulgence requires a great deal of foreign cash.

We have to go back and examine the history of our wealth. Not only how we had developed so much wealth in Africa that attracted many individuals and groups from Europe, America and Asia but how individual leaders sold out and lost most of the wealth due to greed. Those of us old enough remember the saying that nobody dares steal money from his village.
We had developed African wealth from the ground up by collective contribution to a pool of money called Esusu; upon which we took turns to collect contributions, started many businesses and built projects. Each of these projects benefited not only the individuals but the whole community that patronize one another within the local society. These were how our local Transportation, Banking and Insurance survived. Local patrons nourished them by trust within towns and villages.

Government sets political agenda and economic policies. But at the end of the day, individuals have to figure out how to attract patronage that will put money in his pocket. Many of us have become so reliant on Governments we think it is the answer to all our problems dulling our mental acuity to create wealth from which a good tax base can be generated to enhance an enabling environment. People react differently if money is stolen from their personal taxes than income from Natural Resources. Politicians get it, stealing from natural resource income.

Unfortunately, politicians can no longer distinguish between individual self-interest and government or community interest. Over-reliance on Governments have been disappointing. Only jobs that cannot be done by individuals like schools, hospitals or big projects and safety against abuse like regulators, inspectors and police should be done by the government. This is when government business is everybody’s business compared to nobody’s business.

People are blessed with individual ideas, talents and skills that can only be manifested from personal reflections into discoveries and refinements of old ideas. It does not eliminate brainstorming with others to refine and shape national interest and new ways of improving our lives. The old forms of creating wealth are no longer efficient. Agriculture used to be the biggest employer of labour, not anymore.

Machines and better technologies have replaced the cheapest labour. Tricycle tractors locally made and other new skills are needed to operate those machines just as the computers have evolved.

When there are endeavours beyond the capabilities of one man, communities can get together. These have to be a collective effort. Some individuals gain from this collective effort than others that do not know how to sell their services or goods to a wider audience. In order to be successful, personal drive and responsibility matter. Even as a landlord, you need good paying tenants and maintenance managers today.

African countries must accept that we put too much trust on leaders that have failed us miserably. We cannot regal on past history of the Great African Empires, they no longer exist. But a reminder of what Africans are capable of. Our successes have been replaced by Poverty while looking up to the rest of the world to bring us to their ways of survival out of the goodness of their hearts. It is not going to happen.

We are the tolls they continue to exploit to enrich themselves. They expand their markets looking for patrons by dumping new, used and discarded goods and services on us. There is nothing wrong with trading with the rest of the world, but it was wrong when we exchanged Gold for mirror, slaves or cheap labour. In the name of trade, we batter valuables for superfluous insubstantial goods.

We have to go back to the drawing board and the pillar of our Economic Success. We traded with one another before we traded with the rest of the world. But we have lost the trade within in search of outside trade. Africans’ worst mistakes were the exposure of our wealth by Mansa Kanka Musa and the Queen of Sheba prompting seekers of fortune to follow them home to the source of their riches. It was foolish and unproductive from day One.
It is true that the world elected their leaders in their self-interest to defend themselves by sending standing Army everywhere protecting missions. Even when on Adventure, ensure an enabling environment: Laws or Papal Edict of 1452 to encourage groups and individuals to create wealth by enslaving others for plantations. More importantly, they created hierarchies as pyramid schemes to load up wealth at the top and paid taxes to their home governments.

The Catholic Church discouraged kinship and extended families in favour of individualism, monogamy and banned marriages within families. Not bad. Their monarchs still married within families though. While Africans focus on: It Takes A Village To Raise A Child, valued close relationships and interaction, Western society went beyond Catholic doctrine to Me, Myself and I doctrine as seen in African leaders today. Wealth and Riches that were shared within the families and community were bequests to the Catholic Church. Today as tithes, zakat and for building Church and Mosque instead of factories.

WEIRD Society (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) by Joseph Henrich at Harvard University described the characteristics of the cultures that value individualism at the expense of the community. “As European societies became increasingly dominated by monogamous nuclear families in the High Middle Ages, for instance, the laws being created centred increasingly on the individual and on their intentions, rights, and obligations as separate from their kin groups.” These laws and forms of government were imposed on Africans by colonial powers as the new Gospel truth.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies/

Take the case of monogamy and polygamy. Wealth created by an individual goes to an individual nuclear family, that is, the wife and children in a monogamous family. If there were no surviving children, the wealth went to the Catholic Church. In a polygamous family, wealth went to immediate and extended families. Most people do not realize that the Catholic Church enforced monogamy in the Western Democracy for self-interest.
Some Thinkers have concluded that this Catholic doctrine that spread worldwide but culturally resisted in Asia, is one of the contributing factors to the wealth disparity in the world, greatly leaving Africa naked culturally and poor. Individualism culture competes with African traditions for obedience to authority and other factors that help Africans protect assets, like land and farms from outsiders.

Brothers Keepers Do Not Rescue Lives Ruined By Prodigal Economy

The best way to rebuild African Brother's Keeper spirits economically again, is to start from each country. No more soft landing anywhere. Please, do not infect their country with your problems. Some Africans wasted their God given talents, skills and resources, then rushed to other countries for rescue missions. For whia?

Poverty Alleviation is a well planned deliberate action not charity, Zakat, Tzedaka, Tithes or "gifted" used to satisfy conscience or our bloated ego. This is how some of the reasons Poverty in the land of plenty, flowing with milk and honey are justified. A false sense of security that fed into ostentatious ego.

How do we accomplish the tasks of persuading our Youths that find themselves in the worst economic situation since their Independence to stay home and fight for their future? Some Youths risk their lives hoping against hope that if they do not get to their Promised Land, life is not worth living.

African countries have high unemployment rates within and have been throwing fellow Africans out. This has been happening not only in Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa or Ghana but in smaller countries like Somalia and Somaliland that have enough problems to deal with Internally. The days of your Brothers' Keepers are dwindling unless African Youths hold the leaders they elected at home responsible. A country like Nigeria, had been so blessed, other Africans wonder how things could have possibly gone wrong with so many educated and talented people.

It is true that no matter what you do or say, some Youths are bent on bailing out, trying their luck outside their countries. Only when they face deadly situations do they cry and appeal to their Governments to bring them back home. After they have been rejected, humiliated, abused and unfortunately maimed as organ donors outside their country. Yet, there are those insisting they are going to be the lucky ones to survive these existential threats.

Seriously, does it really make sense that the same life you are willing to risk as worthless can be preferred and cherished by those struggling and trying to stay afloat in their own countries? People in desperate need of survival confronting their leaders for a better life are called inhuman and lazy because they do not rescue invaders looking for the same food and shelter they are fighting for at home. Brave angry people against hungry coward people!

This moral dilemma must be viewed from each side of view. One gave up on life, the other was holding on looking for a lifeline at home. One deserves to live for hanging on to life demanding justice at home while the other that refused to face their devils, expects to be brought back to a life they had given up at home.

There are accusations about those in Mediterranean countries refusing to rescue refugees drowning near their shores. "There have been repeated attacks on journalists and humanitarian workers by angry mobs and vigilantes," Panagiotopoulos, International Rescue Committee (IRC) Senior Area Manager for Lesbos and Chios, told CNN.

We have been told of wicked coast guards that allow Africans and Arabs to perish in the sea, about Arabs Sama boys selling Africans as slaves and for body parts; yet more Africans are departing their countries aware of these facts. It is hard for any African to claim they did not know what they are going to face during the deadly voyage. Even the skillful and talented ones were waiting at the airport to board any 707 plane.

Despite this, there are new business agents in the travel industry charging life savings that could start local trades, exploiting many of these naive Youths with promises of better life abroad. The truthsayers are ridiculed and condemned as envious (bad bele). But worse, are those struggling overseas lying to those at home that they are enjoying Promised Land. Knowing fully well that those Africans that are at the top of their careers are disrespected, humiliated and told to go back home to lift up their masses, if they are that good.

Groups of vigilantes are sending Arab refugees from Syria, Libya and Tunisia back into the sea without European rescue ship's in sight. While Arabs are exploiting African refugees demanding money from their families back home before they are freed as slaves or used as organ donors. Others have been noted for starving and abusing refugees apart from selling them as slaves.

The idea that you can bail out of a sinking ship into the mouth of sharks or ride the back of a tiger to freedom is not only short sighted but outright foolish out of self-delusion. There are some Youths today whose countries especially in Africa are going through fundamental changes for the worse, never experienced in their lifetime. You do not extinguish fire in a burning house until you turn off the gas from the source.

Our focus has always been on the inhumane treatment they received but not enough about the reasons African Youths do not revolt at home against Leeches that drove them out in the first place. Do not expect others to do what you are capable of and able to do for yourselves. The penchant for succor for other lands or that must come to help your country change, is a double edged sword. It may work for you today but work against you tomorrow. Change and "Freedom" must come from within the country.

World powers are very comfortable with Regime Change, even when they say otherwise. Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo and Libya at different points in their histories welcomed other countries onto their lands. Each and everyone of them have been left worse than before. The reasons are not far-fetched. One country invades another in its personal interest, not for the interest of the country invaded with religion, culture, language. If all failed, they flamed civil wars within you.

However, the real jobs creators are the African consumers that can afford to patronize and demand goods and services. Africans are prodigal consumers of expensive goods and services imported into the Continent. If Africans can only rediscover their lost tastes for their goods. Without local consumers, African businesses will die. If you start a one man business from your front house, garage or basement; as demands grow, you work extra hours. When you realize that you cannot meet local consumer demands, you employ your wife, children and then more people.

African businesses cannot depend on slaves like Foreigners did, they must empower more local consumers at affordable prices to increase sales and profits. Right now we drive prices too high as fewer people can buy basic needs. Africans must turn their lives around, starting businesses from individual countries instead of patronizing others and creating jobs outside your countries and Continent. Country by country, each must attract and tailor our tastes to home products to create more jobs for others locally.

Paul Krugman is right: My spending is your income and your spending is my income. Buying local products and services creates local incomes. The spending from more sales at affordable prices grows your income higher than hoarding. Indeed, trade by batter has not changed since we have been exchanging cocoa for tractors. The problem is, tractors are expensive and not locally made. It is currencies that have become medium of exchange. Keep more trade at home, save our jobs and increase local values of our currencies.

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Atounrinwa spotted

Oro agba, ti ko ba se laro, ase lale

Better late than never.

United States rapid Covid-19 testing is still limited to some areas and schools.

Of we have to buy it, we have to wait and pay through our nose as usual.

Great!