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 Politics › President Saraki Oba Idun – The King Of Fleas & Lice by jara(op): 9:52pm On Jul 12, 2017*. Modified: 11:07pm On Jul 12, 2017 |
Ipa npa arare olohun paja PRESIDENT SARAKI OBA IDUN – THE KING OF FLEAS & LICEFarouk Martins Aresa Source: |
| Politics › Hypocritical Verdicts Abet Poverty & Deaths by jara(op): 12:21am On Jul 07, 2017 |
HYPOCRITICAL VERDICTS ABET POVERTY & DEATHSSource |
| Politics › Biafra Is Not The Only Nation Crying Out by jara(op): 9:46am On Jun 29, 2017 |
Biafra Is Not The Only Nation Crying Out Biafra is not the only one crying out for space, respect, equity and fair play in this Market where familiarity breed contempt. Delta market, Arewa market and Odua market, also want a form of confederation. Even conjoined twins require skillful and delicate separations. Unfortunately we lack ingenious surgeons to perform this life threatening operation. Our country is sick but the institutions required to balance separation of powers are weak, motivated and united by greed. Chinua Achebe could have declared that in this situation, the center cannot hold. As the world and us benefit from Africa biggest Market: greed, insecurity and marginalization blind ethnics. Unfortunately the same politicians will rule separate nations; not based on what they promised new nations. There is no reason to believe that they will be more united by greed in separate markets than they are in Nigeria. They would rather create inter-ethnic tribal wars than market. While other nations create economic cooperation and foreign markets, Africans create ethnic wars for individual powers to loot. Despite all the cry against the North or Hausa/Fulani, their talikawa are the most marginalized people in the Nigerian market. They have leaders that have ruled Nigeria after Independence more than the Southern leaders, yet most of the poor in the country exist among them. Their leaders remain stubbornly selfish but are firmly in control of the majority of the folks by force of the Armed Forces and more important – Religious drug. Institution of the Sharia law was nothing more than control in disguise. The drug does not apply to their leaders. It only applies to the poor that convert whatever does not belong to them. He could lose his hand for stealing food or cow. In that case, you can imagine the proportion of the punishment for their leaders stealing billions in disguise of distributing crumbs into poor bowls. Sharia works by keeping the most marginalize in trance. Boko Haram cannot deliver prosperity. North has arable land and food for market survival not Islam; known to Africans before Usman Dafodio introduced his radical form to conquer the Hausa Ruling Houses. Hausa that had ruled the Great African Empires became Fulani slaves with no right to their kingdoms unless they can prove a relationship with Fulani. So religion is a scam to subjugate and tranquilize human minds like drugs or opium. Otherwise, there is no rational reason Hausa would be ready to slaughter his own brothers as non-believers for a faith that is not his, that displaced his indigenous belief. There is nothing wrong with agriculture, indeed there is everything right with agriculture when turned to finished products locally for export. Every raw material deserve a finished product by manufacturing them into finished goods for local and foreign consumption. Otherwise, we will exhaust our raw materials to import their finished products like sardines taken from our shores. Ijaw, the children of Earnest Ikoli (Awo supported as his leader), Issac Boro that declared Niger Delta before Biafra and many greats are not the only ethnic group in Niger Delta that includes Ogoni’s Kenny Saro-wa, Urhobo, Itsekiri etc.; and one of man’s ancient Ekoi writers of Nsibidi now embraced by neighbors as far as Kanuri! They only demanded a clean environment and fair compensation for resources derived from their land. They just want to fish and farm as usual in order to feed their families. Anyone would demand the same equity as fair play in any market. What they got was the worst environmental degradation and polluted land than anywhere in the world. These are crimes against humanity perpetrated by the big corporate companies that took advantage of both local and Federal Government to ship as much oil as they desired but flared gas that could be harnessed for economic development unchallenged. We don’t know what they make or take from the market but left crumbs for locals and Federal to fight over. When Niger Delta finally got control of Government, they amassed wealth with impunity since oil income is derived from their farms. The way their leaders were looting, one would think they were building paradise in Europe and America in case the oil runs dry. Unfortunately, paradise only belongs to individual ministers and leaders that bundled out fortunes. Neglected areas remain environmental disaster that is useless to their people before and after their own rulers. This is the infectious disease that fouls everyone in the center. Avarice creates indifference to humans. Nigerians rule nation as Federal leaders opening Market for the world but ethnic wars for us. So Odua nation also complain of marginalization since they felt that they were excluded from the center of Government. The irony in this case is that the Western Region made gains, progressed and were better off when left out of the center government than when included. Instead of insisting on regional powers, Yoruba sold their birthrights to the Federal Government in return for laziness, complacency and immoral character as individuals than as a people. Their collective culture for mass education, industrial areas, free healthcare to be productive, pursuit of knowledge, novelties as Firsts in black Africa, in Medicine, law etc. As educated consumers, Yoruba created the major market in the country. Who abandons such market for national cake? Ajayi Crowther as the Bishop of Onitsha, translated the bible into first written Igbo and Yoruba. The religious opium has never gripped the Yoruba as they remain the most tolerant of all world religions demonstrated in each family; while ingrained steadfastly in the indigenous belief. The advantage of this is that religion has never driven them to charlatanry controlled by Rome or Mecca. At the height of world religious riots, Yoruba were reminded of their cultural tolerance. Olaudah Equiano, excel as an abolitionist of slave trade and master of English literature in his days in U.S.A and England; less than a century before Ajayi Crowther who was rescued in a slave ship. Equiano could have been the translator of Bible into Igbo but left home as a child. His Igbo native intelligence for hard work and survival never left him. Ndi-Igbo were not only the hardest working folks on earth but for the record: they were trusted by most Nigerians in those days. Indeed, a Yoruba business man would rather employ an Igbo man than his own in those days because he knew he could trust an Igbo man. He would not steal a kobo and would do his task without grudge. It got to a stage in Lagos at least, but common in the West: Igbo were the preferred neighbors and tenants. Even when their Yoruba Landlord got so greedy, Igbo would pay for all years’ rent as demanded! They were so amicable that they assimilated easily within their hosts. Actually, there are Igbo today nobody would trace to the East except they tell you about their mother father brother’s sister. These are apart from god-fathers, sisters and half-brothers. Though they came to Lagos after the Edo, Ibibio, Togolese, Dahomey (Beniose), Ghanaians; they quickly gained political power. Azikiwe that succeeded Herbert Macauley as NCNC leader, represented Lagos in Ibadan. There is a reason most Igbo billionaires that made it through Lagos in particular got it right. It is called Market Demand. The biggest market that exist in the West made it easier for all Africans to excel and the Igbo took that opportunity. One can only make it where free market regardless of ethnicity exists. The market in the North or the East are not as cognizant as those in the West where people buy and sell without hindrance or being dictated to on what to sell. Those asking Igbo to come back home must provide the same market where they can flourish as they do in the West, North and the world. Many people cannot become billionaires when all of us are sellers. With the amount of vigor and zeal Igbo pursue small businesses, did displace many locals leading to jealousy, even outside Nigeria. So, as long as there is market for selling, Igbo would find the products that may not move or lack demands as well at home. Sir Ojukwu was one of the first Igbo Millionaire in Lagos. He found his market by transporting people from and to Lagos, for goods and services. Those asking Igbo to invest at home are right but they must create a market to create Igbo billionaires as in other places like Lagos. A good example is the Innosson automobiles. What that company needs is a market that will demand more of its products. It may not survive in Biafra unless it reaches out for broader markets. This article only picked some ethnic groups in Nigeria while there are many more. The point is they all have qualities that can be transformed into a great African Market collectively as when allowed to trade with one another in a common market instead of daring one another. Trade leads to peaceful coexistence, isolation only lead to war sooner or later. Everyone follows the fallacy that the crumbs left after superpowers take your raw materials is worth fighting for. Source: Farouk Martins Aresa http://thewillnigeria.com/news/opinion-biafra-is-not-the-only-nation-crying-out/ |
| Politics › Please Let Biafra Go by jara(op): 11:01am On Jun 14, 2017 |
Ok now - PLEASE LET BIAFRA GO Did Arewa and Odua Youths give quit notice to Biafra? It was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe that cried out loud when the children of Nkrumah were kicked out of Nigeria with their Ghana Must Go bags. The guilt of seeing the children of Nkrumah pack even after Kofi Busia had kicked Nigerians out of Ghana, was too much to bear. If Azikiwe were alive, after fighting to keep Nigeria One, after deserting Ojukwu before Ojukwu deserted the War himself, Azikiwe would weep. Biafra stop! One of the points made by the Oduduwa Youths is that Yoruba leaders, some mentored by Zik, have no stake in Yorubaland since their families no longer live at home, but live comfortably abroad. Odua Youths will not accommodate Igbo as their leaders did in their own time because the more they did, the stronger the Igbo have become in Yoruba land and the more demands they make. This is the time of the Youths and the future belongs to them not Yoruba leaders. The reason the Arewa Youth quit notice is not as surprising as that of Oduduwa Youth has to do with low tolerance and distrust Hausa still harbor after the Ezeogwu coup in which Ahmadu Bello and some top Hausa Generals were killed. Though the Yoruba also lost Akintola, General Ademolegun and others, Yoruba have never turned it into animosity as the Hausa. The fact remains that most Nigerians share the blame for the coup and if the top politicians and the officers killed included Igbo, Ezeogwu could have become a national hero to all Nigerians. Fast forward, the Hausa humiliated Yoruba when their elders went to Abuja to plead with President Jonathan they had voted for: on marginalization. They were confident that President Jonathan would not dare marginalize them! Danzuki was the Santa. They see Jonathan’s reign as Igbo power since they got everything they wanted as Igbo reminded him of their solid votes. The irony of the whole situation was that Jonathan got votes across the land including Northern parts of the Country. In spite of corruption with impunity - our oil our money – internationally condemned; switching Yoruba support to Buhari brought the end of Jonathan. Igbo castigated Yoruba at every instance for Jonathan loss. They never saw anything good in Buhari’s Rule. Yet, it was the first time in the history of Nigeria that Yoruba went into alliance with the North to bring down a government they considered indifferent to their needs. If anything, while the western part of Nigeria made up of Yoruba had boycotted the Federal to the pleasure of Igbo cohabiting with the North in Government throughout Nigeria’s history, the same Igbo were painting Yoruba as traitors for the same alliance. So what were Igbo in alliance with Hausa? Usually, Odua Youths come to the defense of Igbo youths. There are still many dedicated Igbo Nigerians that carry the flag at home and abroad. But when we are informed that the same Igbo politicians that yearn for President of One Nigeria were the hijackers of Radio Biafra cause that was initially sponsored by MASSOB; it makes us wonder. Some of us are still wondering if Igbo Biafra really wants a separate nation or are using Biafra as bargaining chips to gain Presidency. Nevertheless, the days of begging the Igbo are gone. Please let Biafra go but leave our wives! Definitely, the tactics that earned accommodation played by Azikiwe in Yoruba land, no longer suits the new generation of Igbo Youths in Yoruba land. While the declaration by Arewa Youths asking the Igbo to leave North was not surprising, other Yoruba wondered aloud about how far the Igbo Youths have gone to provoke same lack of tolerance from their Yoruba Youth brothers. If anything, it has reached a backlash affecting the well being of innocent Igbo all over Nigeria. Nobody is buying the idea of separation first, negotiation later. If Igbo states as constituted by “an act of omission or commission separate,” there is nothing left to negotiate. Most Nigerians would not feel safe in Igbo states and many Igbo would not feel safe in Nigeria. While every law and negotiation as presently constituted may not support separation, Biafra cannot wait. Therefore, Biafra may declare another secession before the end of negotiation. What will be different this time is that there will be no effort to force them back into Nigeria. It will be a declaration of free will on the part of Igbo and the rest of Nigeria. Igbo states and whichever states wants to go with them must negotiate within. It has got to a point where North boasts of food production needed for every survival against oil that will soon be useless for electric cars. One of the many conflicts will be the choice of President other than Igbo within Biafra itself and how many ethnic groups would be willing to follow them into Promised land. If Igbo can convince their Nigerian cousins that freedom in the nation of Biafra would be better than their situation in Nigeria, they might get sympathetic followers. But if all the diseases that afflict Nigerians like corruption, 419, drugs and dictatorial tendencies follow Biafrans, they would have a hard time keeping their nation together. Unless they promise Efik, Edo or Ijaw President. Unfortunately, Igbo want Hausa and Yoruba they hate to zone Presidency to them. The Buhari alliance intensified Igbo hatred for Yoruba. This is what the Odua Youths react to: that enough is enough. They traded insults and abuses with Igbo at every forum and castigated their elders for accommodating the Igbo to the point where Igbo think they have the right to Yoruba land by one means or the other. They make up statistics as their rights in the West but fear Hausa. What they want most is “Lagos is within reach”! They want to elect the governor by their exaggerated number even when Bode George allowed them to present a member into the House unopposed in the primaries. Yet they questioned the use of Yoruba in the Lagos House and demanded appointments from the Western Governors. There would have been nothing wrong with these demands if it can be reciprocated in the Igbo states. Outsiders and ladies can hardly buy a land in Igbo land without some logistic or cultural hindrance preventing it. Until Igbo start reinventing attraction by accommodation that makes other Nigerians comfortable in their mist: most would be indifferent to yearning for Biafra. The only problem is the situation Igbo Nigerians would find themselves through no fault of theirs. It is also unfair to blame the failure to prosecute Boko Haram on Jonathan Government so that Hausa and Kanuri could kill off one another off. We must not forget that it was Adamu Ciroma and his gang that promised to destabilize Jonathan Government if the North did not win. Source:https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/252668/please-let-biafra-go.html# Published: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 |
| Politics › Re: Pastors Join Politicians & Military Class As Oppressors by jara(op): 12:45pm On Jun 08, 2017 |
How did they get so powerful as politicians and military if religion is not a drug worse than opium 2 Likes |
| Politics › Pastors Join Politicians & Military Class As Oppressors by jara(op): 3:05am On Jun 08, 2017 |
PASTORS JOIN POLITICIANS & MILITARY CLASS AS OPPRESSORS Kemi Oluloyo is so notorious, why would anyone defend her? The manner and surreptitious way she was arrested is exactly how many innocent citizens disappear. There is no doubt that some people would abuse the role of the press to get facts out. However, if the choice we have is between abuse of free information and abuse by the powerful and the mighty, most people would err on the part of free press. Pastor Ibiyeomea was able to get police as far away as Port Harcourt to arrest Kemi Oluloyo in Ibadan where the alleged defamation took place against him. Jurisdiction does not matter since police in Ibadan may not be competent enough or understand how to turn civil defamation into criminal defamation. One would expect this oppression of a citizen, no matter how notorious, could not take place in Nigeria where there is a tradition of vigorous press against oppressors. Nigerian pastors are so powerful these days, they no longer wait for God to punish those that trespass against them, they employ the police and the courts to implement instant justice by locking up critics of their sexual escapades. It does not matter what evidence is provided by those they fornicate with, their believers and supporters remain unmoved by pastors’ guilt. Whenever you have desperate people looking for salvation out of terrible situations as poverty, elusive diseases, bareness, barrenness or infertility or miracles; pastors get big congregations. Some of them display their power directly from God to cure, raise the dead, predict calamities and the demise of people except their own. Their followers would do anything asked as we saw in Kenya where pastor ordered his followers to eat grass. There is certainly a link between some of these pastors that are sexual deviants whose only way of satisfying their lascivious appetite is by gathering many ladies looking for salvation and using them to gratify their sexual cravings. They are so rich and influential, their secret is well kept. A pastor of Faith Word Church International at Nii Boi in Accra, Ghana was arrested by police for rubbing olive oil in the vagina and on the clitoris of his church member . We also saw how a man died after he had been nailed in a coffin on their way to church where he was supposed to be brought back alive in Nigeria. Some pastors are gullible, bold face criminals in cloaks. In South Africa, a 38yearold woman narrated how, a selfacclaimed man of God paid an equivalent of about K30 thousand a week to a team of actors claiming to be just ordinary citizens to stage being healed. Where do all these pastors get so much money from? We know some pastors have been caught in armed robbery but those are extremists. Many have built large congregation and followers, some of whom donate some of their loot with the hope that God would forgive them. At the same time, these flamboyant pastors with personal planes, mansions in and out of the country should be investigated for outrageous display of wealth. Nigeria case is more pathetic because it’s on a grander scale in a country where enormous amount of money can be made by oppressing and exploiting the poor and looting the treasury at the same time. Even other African countries wonder how much money is there in Nigeria after all the billions they hear about have been stolen. They are not the only ones, one of Nigeria’s head of states also wondered how Nigeria had not disintegrated after all that looting https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/252303/pastors-join-politicians-military-class-as-oppressors.html# |
| Family › Re: I Cheated On My Husband And I Want To Confess To Him by jara: 12:05am On Jun 04, 2017 |
Your remorse and guilt in this day and age is refreshing to many. I am sure that after going through this wrenching aftermath, you will not dare it again. Don't Tell him now. There are incidents men don't want to know about. Use your remorse to care more about and for him. Forgive his shortcomings that all men and women have because you also know you are a sinner. In your old age, both of you may have something to confess and forgive. Again I love your healthy conscience. BTW, you don't owe anybody details of your story more than you are willing to share. 2 Likes |
| Business › Re: Africa Has Never Dictated Price Of Its Products Since 1972 by jara(op): 11:33am On May 25, 2017 |
Sir, it was not written or posted here for deep thinkers like you otherwise it would be on Twitter |
| Business › Africa Has Never Dictated Price Of Its Products Since 1972 by jara(op): 7:29am On May 25, 2017 |
AFRICA HAS NEVER DICTATED PRICE OF ITS PRODUCTS SINCE 1972 How can African countries prosper when prices of its human and natural resources are dictated by aliens? 1972 was the last time Arab oil embargo helped Africans call their price. Before that Kwame Nkrumah made effort to cartel cocoa producers but failed because South American countries could not hold on any longer. Jaja of Opobo in 1871, well before Nkrumah, boycotted the British middle men and renegotiated oil price and other products directly with Europe. It was Jaja of Opobo that confronted the British until gunboat diplomacy Protectorate made him cave in. He was a great businessman in his days. Though ancient Oyo’s Oba-Koso mystic, prowess and bullets from kolanuts attracted visitors afar to pay homage. Unfortunately, the other times Africans were able to dictate the prices of their products and human services were during the reigns of Ghana, Mali and Songhai Empires. Hausa before Fulani, were leaders then. Negotiation, demand and supply usually play well in commerce but unfair and advantageous relationship between unequal buyers and sellers work in favor of those with power dangling it in the face of the powerless. The power to negotiate is what African countries lack. Therefore, buyers and their biased Rating Agencies dictate prices of African products and human services. http://thewillnigeria.com/news/opinion-africa-has-never-dictated-price-of-its-products-since-1972/ In the market place, on negotiating table or at town markets, you get what you negotiate not what you deserve. Arab Oil Embargo in 1972 proved that there is more to trade than economics of demand and supply. Political and social factors play important roles when the sellers acquire power to force the buyers into an agreement. It is what happens in the case of employees and employers when strong unions become a demanding factor forcing higher wages. In order to decrease the price of a commodity, buyers always look for surplus market while sellers monopolize their products by embargo on who to sell to in the case of Arab oil, hoarding or restriction to cut supply in the case of Nkrumah cocoa and Jaja oil strategies. Another way buyers can beat down the sellers’ price is to create surplus with artificial cotton, wool, cocoa or polished gold and diamond. They can also establish their own farms with genetically modified seeds, for example banana farms: by playing West Indian countries with South American farms. Trade by barter worked in the past but not between countries exchanging gold for mirror or plastic; slaves for guns, horses and mercenaries. If you think that was ancient history, think again. African countries do not manufacture arms, fighter jets and bombs they use against one another today. Their main suppliers are United States, Britain and Russia. Iran just ridiculed $110b Saudi Arabia and USA Arms Agreement; unfazed Iran can manufacture its own arms. African administrators and politicians that are well informed and educated use their brains for self-enrichment not how to manufacture products locally creating secondary markets and jobs. It must be understood that the mentality for foreign-made and services were acquired via mis-education, religions and languages. While there is nothing wrong with each of these if used for trade/barter or to understand those we deal with. It has been used to “wannabe” like them. Western countries also have experts in every country in the world that speak languages, study world religions and on cultures but never get carried away to the point where most relegate, despise and forsake their own cultures. Many trained Africans melt into foreign cultures and boldly justify foreigners’ economic and sociopolitical policies to exploit and destroy their own. There is no difference between our toxic economists, Umar Farouk Mutallab or Boko Haram that forsake talikawa and almajiri causes at home. Politicians of different parties and all ethnic groups merry while our indoctrinated economists, Umar(s) and Boko Haram took on causes of foreigners devastating the innocent and poor; instead of targeting their suicide bombs in the midst of looters without acquired means of livelihood competing as conspicuous spenders with exotic cars and planes at weddings, awards, other ceremonies for their girlfriends and wives. Indeed, Africans have been conditioned to accept trading away their resources while brain drains have been facilitated by worldly educated professionals whose skills can be employed cheaply outside but ignorant and inadaptable to local issues and problems. It does not make sense to train an engineer that can only function with foreign equipment, cannot locally design tools for infrastructure or have good medical scientists in foreign diseases but clueless on Ebola. In each of these cases, Africa has to depend on foreign expertise to cure local problems when there are depth of knowledge locally waiting for discovery and sanitization. The best doctors in Africa are the children of the medicine-man or babalawo. They understand oyinbo and local diseases but would not share or write about what they know locally to increase patients’ traffic to their clinics. Africa has a great deal of local knowledge not just natural resources for sale. Imagine the wealth of Africa if our politicians, sociopolitical scientists and scientists think locally and sell their wealth of knowledge at their own price internationally. There are international and world arbitration bodies that mediate trade disputes between countries. Africans have not been complainants against exclusion and ridiculous prices of our products. Foreigners do Africa a favor: if they allow banana or cassava into their markets: cassava bread is a delicacy outside! We could say today that if Africans were always in control of their prices and products, most of the African countries could have been prosperous. Before we day dream, you must ask what oil producing African countries did with the big increase in price of oil since 1972 Arab oil embargo. Instead of money spent on education to acquire skills on how to build our infrastructure base, we spent most of the money on foreign goods and contracts to stash kickbacks in Dubai desert! These same Africans survive and perform better outside the Continent than they do inside, so there is nothing wrong with African intelligence if pushed. Nigerians, as an example, are better educated with higher average income than any other group in United States. But they cannot do as well or work so hard in their own countries while watching their leaders goof off and raid allocations from their local, state and national budgets. They even write books on corruptions! People noted in 2017: magnificent bridges built with little local jobs, local factories or services. Most of the prices quoted for skill labor, services and materials are as foreign as Eko Atlantic! Written by Farouk Martins Aresa |
| Politics › Re: Ambode Cancels N844b Lagos 4th Mainland Bridge, Terminates concessionaire by jara: 2:01pm On May 23, 2017 |
Abeg see, make Una see O how Nigerians are talking in trillions and billions. Justifying importations of skills and materials in 2017. Chei, una nor dey fear? The minimum wage is still 18k or less O. Na the same country we dey? The Big Dig in Boston provided job for everybody, for factories, restaurants, secondary and tertiary industries. Eko Atlantic is still a blessing for foreign contractors. Ajaokuta is still a waste. How many bridges have been built since its inception without using or unable to use steel from there? I don taya for my cuntre and for my State. Na soso praise Tinubu get, Fashola get and Ambode dey get in the cuntre of the blind. It was only yesterday we were asking Fashola why it cost a million dollars to build one kilometer of bridge abi na road sef. Now that is the std. Oloun O! God of whites why are you doing this black people? 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Western Countries Raise Hell For China Devaluation But Love Nigeria Devaluation by jara: 2:40pm On May 17, 2017 |
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| Politics › Re: Tinubu Chose Akiolu So That His Children Will Be Next Oba Eko by jara(op): 9:00pm On May 08, 2017 |
If Akiolu as Oba Eko can sell Yoruba land to his Benin ancestors, why wont he conspire with Tinubu and sell to Igbo? You guys think this is a joke, eh? See https://www.nairaland.com/3786901/why-igbos-must-work-together BTW, did Akiolu tell anyone he is from Benin before coronation? 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Tinubu Chose Akiolu So That His Children Will Be Next Oba Eko by jara(op): 4:09pm On May 08, 2017 |
You know when Yekini Amoda Ogunlere started all this with Pa Dawodu to displace Finnih, Obanikoro and Docemu, we got this same type of comments above. Those who know what I am talking about kept quiet. The first victim of his was Funso Williams because they claim he was not a member of NADECO or whatever. Unfortunately, Pa Dawodu went to his grave broken when Yekini betrayed him. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Tinubu Chose Akiolu So That His Children Will Be Next Oba Eko by jara(op): 2:54pm On May 08, 2017 |
When Lagosians were warned that a son of Iragbiji that named himself Tinubu must not have a say on Oba Eko, corruption did not let Yoruba listen. His choice from Benin has renewed fabrications about Benin and Ife. Is there any Lagosian that does not know that ASHIPA is the first king of Lagos? Even Ado is a Yoruba word as Ado Ekiti. The Edo or Benin came by night to capture Lagos, they failed and compromised on the son of Ashipa. Now Tinubu installed one of them. He supports fallacious novel story of Benin in Ife. One of Tinubu daughters is now Iyaoloja in Lagos, the next one will be Oba of Lagos. Yekini Amoda Ogunfuminire, well done. Yoruba will regret your reign. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Culture › Re: Ancient Benin: Where Did The First Monarchs Come From by jara: 4:40pm On May 06, 2017*. Modified: 4:55pm On May 06, 2017 |
MetaPhysical, May Orisa bless you for this effort. Yoruba complacency and the ridiculous claim by Oba of Benin to gain acceptance in the land he "rents" ceremonially each time he is crowned; in the land Ile-Ife captured after being called, has mushroomed into all kinds of false claims. This was a land whose lingua franca in the palace was Yoruba. A land that submited the head of their Oba to Ile-Ife for burials. Indeed, until 12 or 13 century, nobody heard of Ogiso or Benin until Oba brought greatness to it. You know, Prof. Peter Ekeh, an Urhobo man had scholarly refuted this novel fabrication by new children of Benin ditching their Yoruba names lately and warned Prof. Ade Ajayi and other Yoruba professors to stand up to the false novel theory. It has now caught fire and accepted as "alternate facts". This is why an educated illiterate like Oba Eko has been supporting Oba of Benin claim. Is there any Yoruba that does not know that Ashipa is a Yoruba name? Is there any Lagosian that does not know Ashipa as the first king of Lagos from primary school history? Even Ado, is a common name in Yoruba as Ado-Ekiti and others. Diffusion can be used in history but can also be misused. This is how it is used in Benin and Lagos. If you repeat false story often enough, you will gain some followers. 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Culture › Re: Video Of The Oba Of Lagos Palace On Fire by jara: 6:45pm On May 02, 2017 |
| Culture › Ooni Of Ife Gracefully Humiliated Oba Of Eko by jara(op): 10:19pm On Apr 29, 2017 |
OoNI OF IFE GRACEFULLY HUMILIATED OBA OF EKO[b][/b] Are you surprised that Ooni of Ife reduced Oba of Lagos below his level? The first indication of class was how they got to the throne. When the people of Lagos protested that Tinubu should not be in a position to share his preference on who should be the Oba of Lagos, other Yoruba protested that Lagosians must not discriminate against another Yoruba in Lagos, as they would allow Tinubu to determine their Oba. Indeed, we had those that were asking if Lagosians would rather have someone from other parts of Nigeria. Before we blame everything on IFA or the selection process, some potential potentates around the world including Nigeria have decided to pass over the throne to either a younger siblings, more educated kin or more informed, one against the right of passage because of religious belief or may feel constrained by the duties and responsibilities of the throne. You may have read about a king of England that abdicated his throne in order to marry a commoner. Akiolu family is well known and cultured but just like any family, some members reject the training reserved for members of the royal houses. Actually, the police force has produced well bred and respected Lagosians including the former Chief of Police Musiliu Smith in Obasanjo’s cabinet. So it is not that Oba Akiolu was not cultured, he survives in the present-day Nigeria the best way he knows how. So, he made it in the Police force and made it to the throne. Look at the background of Ooni before he ascended the throne and look at that of Oba of Lagos before you determine who humiliated whom. The present Ooni is young enough to be the son of Oba of Lagos. Under normal circumstances, one would expect youthful exuberance to cloud the behavior of the young Ooni. Instead what we saw was a jealous older man behaving as if he was uncultured in Yoruba history while the young man took the higher ground. The behavior of Oba Akiolu of Lagos trivialized his statue and the stool he occupies. Lagosians, are usually and unfairly stereotyped with some boisterous behaviors. But the confusion comes from those that were not familiar with the culture of the indigenes. Like any other place, those born and bred from good homes and those from otherwise homes behave differently. Even in Lagos, they can distinguish the ruffians from the cultured. Indeed, there are those from very cultured homes that lost it on their way to make money by any means necessary. There is no Lagosian from a royal house that would not be sorted out by men of integrity and caliber before anyone ascended the throne, not only in Lagos but in every domain. If you decided that integrity does not matter, you would end up with someone like Akiolu or Tinubu in power. Compare that to the way Ooni of Ife was selected. Rivalry or competition is ingrained in choice of final for the throne. He weathered each of them before and after becoming Ooni. Ooni even came out after that to say his mission is to unite all the Yoruba Oba and that incident would not deter him. Ooni and Alafin have their differences but historians and well-informed Yoruba know the different functions between Ife and Oyo. Actually, we also know the political tone many ethnic groups and subgroup have taken in self-actualization and promotion of their own title. Yet, it does not mean traditional rulers have to be less than cordial to one another. Fair is fair, if it was entirely a Lagos business, Akiolu would never have been chosen as the Oba in the first place. All over Nigeria Oba, Emir and Igwe or Obi are screened and reserved for men of class and integrity. This man was eased out of Nigerian Police, a force that has corruption problem like many institutions, but that of police have been over the top for a long time. Say what you want about Oasanjo, he dealt with corruption in his own way and with Akiolu. The point about Tinubu angle is that he is going to come back and haunt Yoruba by his choice of Akiolu and other politicians with his corrupt practices. No matter how this writer feels about Tinubu, Yoruba sent fire to quench fire and he served that purpose. But that does not legitimize him as Yoruba leader or aspiration for Presidency. He forced Akiolu through as Oba of Lagos. Osinbajo, an honorable man is an exception, even as Tinubu’s choice. This Oba has been openly involved in Lagos politics coming out to swear on those that were against any choice of his master, Tinubu. Some of you may remember the role this same Oba of Lagos played in the dispute between Tinubu and Fashola. Tinubu apparently walked out on him with impunity when he feared that Fashola was making sense to the people of Lagos and in the meeting before Oba of Lagos. The Oba turned around until Fashola succumbed. Fashola a son of the soil that is well known in Lagos because of his father’s amicable reputation became Tinubu’s accomplice. If you cannot beat them, join them. If the fight against corruption solidly gets a foothold in Nigeria, Tinubu will face justice and he would easily implicate Fashola that initially made his greedy acquisition possible. The koko of the matter is that the support Tinubu gets from Yoruba and which he gave Akiolu will come back and haunt all of us. Anyone that expects Oba of Lagos to apologize to the Ooni of Ife should not hold his breath. We pay him back scornfully. He also had some problem with the previous Ooni Sijuade. Grown men in exulted positions must learn how to respect their office, especially in a public forum. While some understood his beef with the previous Ooni, this new and young Ooni should not inherit their differences. After all, the previous Ooni also had his differences with Alafin of Oyo. This Ooni is still cutting his teeth especially with his loyalty to foreign religion and his adherence to their God when he is supposed to be the keeper of Yoruba religion. Yoruba Oba must come together for the sake of their people and create forum where they can express their differences without rancor and disrespectful slights in public. They do not have to share the same political leaning. They are closer to the people locally and must serve and share their causes to earn respect; not personal enmity. Open division gives unscrupulous politicians the opportunity to gain and distribute favors in their selfish interest. The way Abacha used Yoruba Oba against M.K. O Abiola and General Diya is a fresh history for Yoruba to learn. Farouk Martins Aresa Source |
| Politics › Saraki Has Decimated General Buhari In Sambisa Forest by jara(op): 7:01pm On Apr 04, 2017 |
Saraki Has Decimated General Buhari In Sambisa Forest Have you heard that no matter how much Saraki steals with impunity, noberger can touch him? You must remember that General, the one that instituted Operation War Against indiscipline. Ah, you cannot remember Buhari and his Deputy, called Idiagbon that never smiled. Well that was years ago and Buhari is back with a different Deputy called Osinbajo. Buhari was voted in because voters were just fed up with Boko Haram, illegal and legal corruption by the politicians. If you are talking about General Buhari, the man is tough on corruption O! He has empowered Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and (ICPC) Independent Corrupt Practices Commission to go after anyone looting the treasury, a draining basket directly or indirectly. The first action he took was to declaw Boko Haram and put them on the run from Sambisa Forest. Okay, did he forget Saraki there? You have not heard that in Sambisa Forest he negotiated with Saraki and failed miserably. Sambisa Forest is where Saraki got his position, keeps his local loot in dollars, euro and pound sterling. I am sure you remember Bukola Saraki very well. This looter and his late father the Chairman of Societe Generale Bank (SGBN) and then Governor of Kwara defrauded Nigerians. When their Bank went under, patrons were left hanging, empty handed. In spite of all these, Bukola Saraki is the President of the Senate today – O ti o! Reliable sources told us Buhari is playing democracy game as the house is on fire. The General does not want to be tainted by his past dictatorial tendencies. You know how many times Obasanjo orchestrated the change of Senate President each time they were found to be involved in corruption. We do not know why Buhari is waiting instead of outing Saraki as rogue Senate President, Chinekeme! Sambisa Forest is a dangerous place. This is why it took a bit long to dislodge Boko Haram. You know, when President Jonathan implied that Danjuma’s team should go to Sambisa Forest, he told the Press that President Jonathan should lead them there. Buhari actually relocated his Army Chief Tukur Baratai to Borno near Sambisa Forest. It led to the neutralization of the most deadly force that ever devastated any part of the Country; except during the WAR. Let me get this straight. If Saraki was assured of Senate President and his loot in Sambisa Forest as sacred cow, but Buhari dislodged Boko Haram, he cannot neutralize Saraki from office? The message from the Presidency is that he is waiting for our Youth Brigade to OCCUPY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY angered by their humiliation in Asian and African countries before taking action. Moreover, he does not want to trample on democracy, respectful of the separation of powers. Walaitalai that is nonsense. Even the keepers of democracy know what to do when facing the greatest threat against their way of life. The way terrorism threatens them is the same way corruption threatens Nigeria. They would go to any length to get suspected – not convicted – boneheads they want to put in special prison at Guantanamo Bay. They kidnapped suspects all over Europe without the knowledge of their governments. Is that due process or rule of law? When the very existence of your country and life are in danger, you throw away formalities! Oh well, well. Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House has said corruption is like prostitution and cannot be completely eliminated but brought to the barest minimum. Yoruba say – tani esinsin o ba gbe, bio se elegbo. Translated into another language: where else would a fly be comfortable if not on the side of an open sore. This is unfortunate coming from a member of the House of Looters whose wardrobe allowance can pay lawmakers in other countries. How could a man give prostitution such a bad name as corruption? In the first place prostitution na business no be joke. If you do not believe me, try a prostitute and refuse to pay her. All that work, risk of AIDS, responsibilities for dependents, not to mention servicing politicians, pastors, police and commission to pimps and madams. This Dogara must be high on something and may be ignorant too. Does he realize that some countries actually regulate and legalize prostitution? Anyway, before we digress by foolish pandering to prostitution, only a bonehead can compare corruption in Nigeria to “barest minimum” vices elsewhere. There is no country that fulfills the twenty to eighty percent rule in corruption as Nigeria. If you do not know what I mean, listen. The poverty rate in Northern states varies from 90% to more than 50% in the Southern states. There is corruption in United States, China and Russia but none of these countries, not even Indonesia steals eighty percent of their country’s income while they leave less than twenty percent for the rest eighty percent of their people, with impunity. In United States for example most of the rich shelter or hide their money from taxes. In Nigeria, taxes from rich individuals are almost negligible and most of the taxes are paid by the poor as they earn, anyway. When a country spends eighty percent of its income on emoluments for politicians, senior civil servants and their cronies but only twenty percent on eighty percent of their people that are so poor, minimum wage for those that are lucky to be employed cannot buy them a bag of rice; you may understand that rule. Mind you, minimum wage are earned by those employed by government and private companies. Personal employers do not even pay minimum wage. Shey you get? After the politicians loot the treasury legally and illegally, there is very little left for infrastructure and primary care like hospitals, schools, clean water and other necessities of life. In other words, these people epitomized by the likes of Saraki take food, wara and water away from children and mothers, not to mention men that cry that they cannot feed their families. What good is a man at home that cannot provide for a family? This is what leads to social dislocations. When people are idle and hungry, they do anything to survive including armed robbery, 419, drug pushers, and yes: prostitution. Even after crossing the deserts. If Dogara wants to reduce prostitution to the barest minimum, he has to start from the cause. He and his House of Thieves, Saraki President of the SINATORS are killing the Country and the people. They are bloodsuckers, depriving the country and its folks their life and liberty. The seesaw or call it ping pong match between President Buhari and the Youth Brigade OCCUPY THE HOUSE OF THIEVES should have ended actually like yesterday. Indeed it is past due and the world is watching and wondering if the Country has to collapse before leaders’ MASS BURIAL. Farouk Martins Aresa Read more: http://newsrescue.com/saraki-decimated-general-buhari-sambisa-forest-farouk-martins/#ixzz4dIxaqqtW |
| Christianity Etc › So Men Of God Do Pray & Trafficate by jara(op): 2:21pm On Mar 29, 2017 |
So Men Of God Do Pray & Trafficate Abusing the privilege of free press is bad, but locking up sexual accusers as a deterrent to discourage sexual abuse report is worse. The right many societies has given women to report sexual harassment or abuse is a balancing act. We expect some loud mouths, no matter how notorious, to abuse that right. But it must never get to where those of us falsely accused must use police without due process, to lock them or their relatives up. Powerful men of God had used heaven and hell to threaten anyone that crosses their line by publishing or revealing their sexual escapades, that takes time. They now call on the police to lock up disenchanted without due process. It was what military politicians used to do when any journalist wrote against them. Nigerian press was too vigorous to repress then or now. They moved from one house to another at night to print their stories. We have internet now, it is more difficult even for erring pastors to suppress. Before that was Lagos Weekend that printed all types of salacious stories about anyone that had to be exposed. Unfortunately, most were unfounded gossips to sell newspaper. Powerful men have become thin skinned and unforgiven since then and are ready to deal with anyone by any means including instant justice by using their believers, threats, police to lock up alleged accusers and the courts by imposing excessive or no bail. Trust is a very formidable aspect of life, without which little can be accomplished. However, we must keep our eyes open when we cry, says one Yoruba proverb. Also keep one eyes open when we pray. People that are taken advantage of when they trust are not necessarily stupid. Indeed, most cannot believe how much they rely on trust until after the fact. In order to get people to rely on men of God, they must gain their confidence before they gain their trust. Lovers’ quarrel has nothing to do with trust. Since men and women fall into this trance, we should not be surprised that respectable ladies fall into the lap of pastors, stars, the rich and powerful. We may call it abuse of trust, which is true but not different from that of the Catholic Priest that abuses minors and children. Each time we are down and we seek salvation, we become vulnerable. Respectable scientists, doctors and researchers when struck by incurable diseases or cancer, have sought quacks in countries unimaginable. Some Pastors and Imams use God we claim to serve to commit deviant behavior contrary to the simple norm of a civilized community. Just as politicians betray our trust, Imams and Priests cover themselves in cloaks of religion to send young men and women to war, swear in the name of God as if delivering the masses while stealing from them. You can get enough believers in prayers around the world to contribute whatever money they have into individuals’ coffers, decadence and narcissism. Some of us are gifted speakers that can use the power of words to get people spellbound as if they are being hypnotized. When we believe that our prayers will pay off, we work towards that goal with all we’ve got including self-sacrifice, money and devotions instead of effort. Prayers can be powerful when linked to God or used to boast confidence. Some love Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepard” in trying times. So we get so disappointed when pastors are caught trafficating outside their lanes or suddenly found out that the noble Iman is also a jujuman. But so is inspirational speech like that of Churchill to the British Soldiers – Once more unto …, Yoruba Oriki, incarnation or curses linked to the devil. Pastors with their spells on followers build statues, mansions, ride luxury cars and airplane from excessive profit they make from masses buying their business of hypocrisy and wares. They hide money off-shore refusing to pay their share while tithes from helpless looking for salvation are used for fornication. Humans are so complex, not even behavioral scientists entirely understand how the different prayers hypnotize humans. We pray so much, the whole world is still waiting for the Messiah while the rich make fortune in bundles by hypocrisy as ardent followers of God. If prayers only come from one source and only from all powerful being that moves heaven and earth, Africa in general and Nigeria in particular would be a place of technological or economic miracle. Look, some ladies are so attractive they will test the resolve of the Pope. Before he got to be the Pope, he was a younger man trusted and revere. If he had yielded to these temptations, his ascendance to papa-ship could have been derailed. It is not that the beautiful tempting ladies could not help themselves, the fact is some see an opportunity to use their beauty as power to conquer weak flesh. Bodi no be wood nah! The same is true about men that seemed greatly endowed. We often joked about that our office secretary that came in to tell us about an encounter that scared the hell out of her. On her way to work she saw a mad man on the street walking Unclad. What she noticed more than anything else was how heavily endowed he was under. A young man caught for sleeping with a married woman, was paraded Unclad. As his manhood moved back and forth, wondering cats cried: meow, I want that big piece of meat too! Normally, a man like that would not attract another man nor would a beautiful lady attract another lady. But sometimes humans’ brain are so complex or wired differently. We wonder how deranged a pious priest or a pastor of God can betray the trust of his congregation and when caught, cry like Jim Baker or Jimmy Swagger for mercy. These are the same people that abuse married women and children while “happily” married. When people found out that they have been taken, their first reaction is not to believe they are not as smart or savvy as they thought. So they go through the process of denial. They go through a stage when they wonder if they should back out, consolidate or stop throwing away more good money after bad money or wait in case their suspicion turned out wrong. Before buyers, voters or lovers’ remorse set in, they usually give it one more try. by Farouk Martins Aresa Read more: http://newsrescue.com/men-god-pray-traficate-farouk-martins-aresa/#ixzz4ciLxWbxC |
| Politics › So Men Of God Do Pray & Trafficate by jara(op): 11:47am On Mar 29, 2017 |
So Men Of God Do Pray & Trafficate Abusing the privilege of free press is bad, but locking up sexual accusers as a deterrent to discourage sexual abuse report is worse. The right many societies has given women to report sexual harassment or abuse is a balancing act. We expect some loud mouths, no matter how notorious, to abuse that right. But it must never get to where those of us falsely accused must use police without due process, to lock them or their relatives up. Powerful men of God had used heaven and hell to threaten anyone that crosses their line by publishing or revealing their sexual escapades, that takes time. They now call on the police to lock up disenchanted without due process. It was what military politicians used to do when any journalist wrote against them. Nigerian press was too vigorous to repress then or now. They moved from one house to another at night to print their stories. We have internet now, it is more difficult even for erring pastors to suppress. Before that was Lagos Weekend that printed all types of salacious stories about anyone that had to be exposed. Unfortunately, most were unfounded gossips to sell newspaper. Powerful men have become thin skinned and unforgiven since then and are ready to deal with anyone by any means including instant justice by using their believers, threats, police to lock up alleged accusers and the courts by imposing excessive or no bail. Trust is a very formidable aspect of life, without which little can be accomplished. However, we must keep our eyes open when we cry, says one Yoruba proverb. Also keep one eyes open when we pray. People that are taken advantage of when they trust are not necessarily stupid. Indeed, most cannot believe how much they rely on trust until after the fact. In order to get people to rely on men of God, they must gain their confidence before they gain their trust. Lovers’ quarrel has nothing to do with trust. Since men and women fall into this trance, we should not be surprised that respectable ladies fall into the lap of pastors, stars, the rich and powerful. We may call it abuse of trust, which is true but not different from that of the Catholic Priest that abuses minors and children. Each time we are down and we seek salvation, we become vulnerable. Respectable scientists, doctors and researchers when struck by incurable diseases or cancer, have sought quacks in countries unimaginable. Some Pastors and Imams use God we claim to serve to commit deviant behavior contrary to the simple norm of a civilized community. Just as politicians betray our trust, Imams and Priests cover themselves in cloaks of religion to send young men and women to war, swear in the name of God as if delivering the masses while stealing from them. You can get enough believers in prayers around the world to contribute whatever money they have into individuals’ coffers, decadence and narcissism. Some of us are gifted speakers that can use the power of words to get people spellbound as if they are being hypnotized. When we believe that our prayers will pay off, we work towards that goal with all we’ve got including self-sacrifice, money and devotions instead of effort. Prayers can be powerful when linked to God or used to boast confidence. Some love Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepard” in trying times. So we get so disappointed when pastors are caught trafficating outside their lanes or suddenly found out that the noble Iman is also a jujuman. But so is inspirational speech like that of Churchill to the British Soldiers – Once more unto …, Yoruba Oriki, incarnation or curses linked to the devil. Pastors with their spells on followers build statues, mansions, ride luxury cars and airplane from excessive profit they make from masses buying their business of hypocrisy and wares. They hide money off-shore refusing to pay their share while tithes from helpless looking for salvation are used for fornication. Humans are so complex, not even behavioral scientists entirely understand how the different prayers hypnotize humans. We pray so much, the whole world is still waiting for the Messiah while the rich make fortune in bundles by hypocrisy as ardent followers of God. If prayers only come from one source and only from all powerful being that moves heaven and earth, Africa in general and Nigeria in particular would be a place of technological or economic miracle. Look, some ladies are so attractive they will test the resolve of the Pope. Before he got to be the Pope, he was a younger man trusted and revere. If he had yielded to these temptations, his ascendance to papa-ship could have been derailed. It is not that the beautiful tempting ladies could not help themselves, the fact is some see an opportunity to use their beauty as power to conquer weak flesh. Bodi no be wood nah! The same is true about men that seemed greatly endowed. We often joked about that our office secretary that came in to tell us about an encounter that scared the hell out of her. On her way to work she saw a mad man on the street walking naked. What she noticed more than anything else was how heavily endowed he was under. A young man caught for sleeping with a married woman, was paraded naked. As his manhood moved back and forth, wondering cats cried: meow, I want that big piece of meat too! Normally, a man like that would not attract another man nor would a beautiful lady attract another lady. But sometimes humans’ brain are so complex or wired differently. We wonder how deranged a pious priest or a pastor of God can betray the trust of his congregation and when caught, cry like Jim Baker or Jimmy Swagger for mercy. These are the same people that abuse married women and children while “happily” married. When people found out that they have been taken, their first reaction is not to believe they are not as smart or savvy as they thought. So they go through the process of denial. They go through a stage when they wonder if they should back out, consolidate or stop throwing away more good money after bad money or wait in case their suspicion turned out wrong. Before buyers, voters or lovers’ remorse set in, they usually give it one more try. by Farouk Martins Aresa, Read more: http://newsrescue.com/men-god-pray-traficate-farouk-martins-aresa/#ixzz4ciLxWbxC |
| Politics › Re: How Low Can Nigeria Fall Before Rescue Comes From Within by jara(op): 2:00am On Mar 15, 2017 |
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| Politics › How Low Can Nigeria Fall Before Rescue Comes From Within by jara(op): 6:10pm On Mar 14, 2017*. Modified: 1:59am On Mar 15, 2017 |
HOW LOW CAN NIGERIA FALL BEFORE RESCUE COMES FROM WITHIN Nigeria is not yet a failed state. We have a government in control of its borders that has put Boko Haram on the run and put looters on notice that their days of impunity are numbered. However, the same cassava basket and major agricultural zone that fed West African countries is lately included among UNICEF 20 million people of Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria facing starvation and famine. How low can Nigeria go? When the British, the French and the Portuguese were forced to leave African countries after independence, they were asked who would replace their teachers, doctors, nurses and lawyers since they were not ready or had enough. They proudly answered that Nigerians would take their places. The same Nigerians that other Africans were proud of, have become the butt of their jokes, figure of hatred, desperadoes and hustlers that have overstayed their welcome. Most Africans old enough in the sixties and early seventies have a special memories of Nigeria, as a big brother. Nigeria’s failure is the story of that big brother that is looking for favors based on its past glories; hoping to reap rewards from struggling children of other African countries that benefited from its goodwill, the same African countries Nigeria failed to lead. We cannot preach past goodwill to those children as a privilege to camp our tents and live there forever. In terms of proportional wealth and champion of African causes, Kwame Nkrumah is second to none. It does not give Ghanaians an open invitation or credit to other African countries. Indeed, the children of Nkrumah were kicked out of Nigeria in the early eighties. Not even the fact that Prime Minister Kofi Busia had done the same to Nigeria could have justified what Nigeria did. This was why Nnamdi Azikiwe cried out loud. If Nigerians cannot not rescue Nigeria; Africans around the world cannot feel sorry for Nigeria, and will continue to humiliate Nigerians. Nobody owes Nigeria or Nigerians anything. We have an obsession for forex beyond need. Eager to sell dear local goods, expensive at home, at dictated price, half or nothing just to get foreign cash: cement, garri, beans, tomato. There are more brains in our Government than in the richest countries on earth, not only our natural resources but in skills and technical know-how that are being wasted by greed and selfishness. A lecture by Vice Admiral Michael Franken, Deputy Commander of Operations for US Africa Command (AFRICOM) at Fletcher Maritime Studies Program in the School of Government at Harvard wondered why a country with more brainpower in cabinet than any country including United States could not put its acts together. We can, if our administrators are accountable. This history is important in order to realize how Nigeria called the Giant of Africa, lost its status. Unfortunately not only in other African countries but more pertinent here, at home. It was a country flowing with milk and honey. General Gowon actually claimed, wrongly or rightly, that Nigeria’s problem was not money but how to spend it. Despite the devastating effect of the war to unity of the country, the economic was so well managed we did not borrow a penny for war! However, it all came with a warning when Chief Obafemi Awolowo resigned as the Finance Commissioner and Vice to Gowon. He warned that if Nigeria continued to waste its resources outrageously through unprecedented corruption, Nigeria would fall. Today, not even Awolowo could have predicted how far Nigeria has fallen at home and among its African brothers. Our children have become economic migrants running from the poorest to richest Africa countries! Awo, the man who built industrial, agricultural and housing estate in the West, was called the prophet of doom by Richard Akinjide, Umaru Dikko & Co. But the Economic sustainability and continuity that failed us then, are still problems for successive governments. Neglect of projects became our cross of arrested development because new foreign contracts benefit politicians. Nigeria was the great black hope in the sixties, even in early seventies the world hoped would be a regional power to save the rest of Africa. It has been called the curse of oil. Unfortunately, we have become burden from one of the smallest country like Cape Verde to one of the biggest like South Africa. If it is not oil, Africans have killed one another over gold, diamond and every stimulus and blessing that other countries have used as a lift-off for economic development. Nigerians are crying that they are being humiliated and turned back to their country when at exorbitant cost try to give birth in rich countries or killed on the streets without provocation for trying to make a living. After relegating our own country, they can’t allow us to destroy theirs. If the problem is xenophobia, jealousy and discrimination in every country; inside and outside of Africa: which part do we assign a country that has betrayed its responsibility and trust at home? Would Nigerians be crying about being denied access to smuggle the birth of their children into another country or the effect of xenophobia, if their country is capable enough? Nobody wants to be disrespected, maimed and killed because they are out of their comfort zone. Humiliating, disgusting, brutal pictures rob us of dignity. This is what we get when the best and the richest among us, no matter how they come about their glories exchange them for vanities in shadows. The same Nigeria we cannot wait to get back to after educational pursuits and sojourns abroad has become the place we run away from just to get into any country, no matter how small, no matter how many deserts and seas to cross. It used to be that if you do not go back home on time, that would kill your mother. Now your mother says there is nothing to come back to. Yet, this is the same country that exports U.S dollars, British pounds and Euro as if it prints them! Africans that used to look up to you would disrespect you and call you vagabond like a husband without respect at home that failed to shoulder the responsibilities of the family. Yes, Africans are members of the same family and Nigerians are the husbands that shed its responsibility. How dare you demand respect from the same family you left uncared for and failed to lead? There is nothing wrong with Nigerians and there is nothing wrong with Africans, we just refused to carry our mantle. What many Nigerians do is pray to God, who to dispossess or swindle while celebrating selfishness of looters. We welcome them from prison if they are ever caught, with prayers in Mosque and Church glowing in palm trees like the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. By Farouk Martins Aresa http://newsrescue.com/low-can-nigeria-fall-rescue-comes-within-farouk-martins-aresa/#axzz4bLrVixDu |
| Politics › Re: Alarming! Africa's Trillions Dollars Sustaining Rich Countries by jara(op): 5:03pm On Feb 25, 2017 |
South Africa had atomic bomb, the same whites, inside rats, gave it up before the Africans took over. After Mugabe got tired of meeting the Queen, realized all their accolades and degrees were to postpone economic transfer to the majority, they parted ways. Nigerians that had so many opportunities to call their bluff is still living on false promises of becoming economic power in the year 5000 if we follow their methods |
| Politics › Alarming! Africa's Trillions Dollars Sustaining Rich Countries by jara(op): 3:41am On Feb 25, 2017 |
Alarming! Africa's Trillions Dollars Sustaining Rich Countries Where is world outrage? Africa, weary, sick and tired of creating wealth in rich countries while Africa’s childrenare impoverished! This is not about preaching ancient history.It is happening right now. Every continent laughs to the bank with trillions of dollars generated from Africa while returningfraction as “generous” foreign aids. Out of that foreign aid comes payment for stipulated export: food, water, militarygears tocontractors, farmers, banks and corporations. African countries do not want charity in form of foreign aids; Africa needs fair trade and justice against capital flight of over $13.4 trillions plus $4.2 trillions in odious interest paid to banks in London and New York since 1980. These are aided and abetted by government manipulation and turning blind eye to $700bn mis-invoicing. How can super powers with conscience define chicanery as aid aware that for every $1 received developing countries lost $24 in net outflows? Yet, these same donors of so called aids satisfy their bleeding hearts while blaming Africans as lazy, corrupt and unproductive? Even Africans agree on corruption and blame vultures within carrying pails for their masters,at Africans’ expense. After all, Africans cannot go on blaming others when they have traitors among them that have been compromised by theirindulgence, taste and flavor in foreign toys, goods and services.From remnants Africans fight over and loot. No African country is wealthy enough to cater for its own people, not to mention refugees from other African countries. Xenophobia has gained ground in many countries against their fellow Africans. If they do not have enough to make a difference to poverty at home, they cannot accommodate their fellow neighboring brothers. Ghana had kicked Nigerians out as Nigeria retaliated. Even S. Africans that had enjoyed immunity in African countries has turned red eye! The power behind one trillion dollars they sent back as foreign aids out of more than 3 trillion dollars they suck out of Africa in 2012 alone, force African countries into perpetual submission. Any African country that refused to play along, would find itself in the same place as Nyerere’s Ujamain Tanzania, Sekou Toure’s Guinea after the French left, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe as postal or Lumumba’s Congo. Powers showcase them as leaders that refused to play along to get along! If Africa fails to deliver to their banks, corporations and foreign portfolio investors they have the big sticks of their government to whip any into compliance. The story of Enron Corporation in Africa where both liberal and conservative Governments acted as advocate facilitating loans at home and abroad is still fresh in our minds. Even when Enron was going under at home, they had support from their Government to conduct business overseas especially in Africa and Asia. Blame victims while bleeding in trillion dollars! Vestiges of slavery, even abolished slave trade still remains. Free labor or starving wages to make corporate bodies rich is a strong economic principle that is still alive and well but disguised hospitality today. The days of importing slaves are gone; we now sell everything Africa has at home including our best to pay for expensive visa and plane tickets to the “promised” land after undergoing through thorough vetting process. We are all trying to escape poverty at home created by “massah” that delivered Africa’s trillions outside to their “promised” lands. They are not only wicked as the old slave massah in the plantations, these modern massah are highly educated in the economic principles of outside continent they know has never worked in Africa. The more classic economic theory is applied as learned from Wharton, Harvard, Oxford or London School of Economics, the poorer Africa gets. African countries are depleted of foreign cash received from selling natural resources cheap by devaluation (or Structural Adjustment).By design they hardly have enough to satisfy their needs and wants from rich countries. The only way to get foreign “cashistics” is to compete for foreign reserves by hook or crook, so that looters’ families can live abroad lavishly. Unfortunately, individual African countries are running out of middleclass and their very rich are well protected from the angry poor, some of whom turn to criminal behavior to make ends meet. As they run out of people to rob with dangerous weapons, criminals turn on fellow poor folks around them. Neighborhoods become unsafe for lower middleclass and those abroad are fearful of returning home unless they can live in high class areas where protection is adequate. If African countries relatively wealthy in gold, diamond, uranium, cobalt, oil etc. cannot provide infrastructure, jobs and school for their buoyant youths; impoverished African countries can barely survive; sending their young generation across the ocean and desert at the risk of their lives. They will rather starve to death outside than die shamefully at home. Misinvoicing of African natural resources has been going on for ages. The US-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) estimated that developing countries have lost more than $13.4tn through unrecorded capital flight since 1980.They used to pay royalties to themselves after profit made by their corporate “explorers”. After Political Independence, no African country knows how much cobalt, gold, diamond or oil is going out or how much is sold in the markets. The disparities in economic realities are inherently designed to benefit western countries at the expense of the poor countries and their people leaving desolation and poverty in their land. If these poor people try to cross to greener pastures in the land of those that benefit from their misfortunes, they are labeled as economic refugees less deserving of accommodation. The reason they fled is the trillion dollars drain from their countries! Reasonable minds may agree to disagree. However it beats the minds of fair minded people why this excessive daylight robbery in trillions of dollars are not the main point of contention among world leaders instead of the consequences that create war/economic refugees in poor developing countries of Africa and Asia. There is no permanent solution when the real cause of fire around the world is not addressed. As long as the beneficiaries are left off the hook and not confronted with the consequences of their trillion dollars avarice, there would be no solution. Having indicated all this, lip service by our leaders without action is not enough. Indeed, many of them are overwhelmed – play along or remain poor like the rest of your people. Sadly, even if the trillions dollars are given back to these leaders they will loot all dry! More income in their hands does not necessarily lead to better living condition for their people. Just look at oil become a curse to producing countries and how they rob their treasuries. Where and what can be done if some of the money is returned? Asking foreign powers to monitor and police certain projects in individual deserving countries may sound patronizing. However, after all the promises of starting new and separate projects with Hail Selassie, Abacha and Mobutu’s stolen money in foreign banks have not produced the desired effect.We cannot trust foreign intention either. They must form world transparent agency to watch one another. By Farouk Martins Aresa http://gnnliberia.com/2017/02/24/alarming-africas-trillions-dollars-sustaining-rich-countries/ 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Osinbajo Ridiculed United Looters Of Nigeria At Harvard by jara: 10:28pm On Feb 10, 2017 |
This could be a prediction that Osinbajo may eventually succeed Buhari Of course most politicians are brilliant, for someone that made his way through the system, this man still has a clean record that he can be proud of. Meeting him for the first time, without claiming to be a prophet or a palm reader, Osinbajo may have just started a long career as a Vice-President. If he keeps it up and not tempted by all the feferities and accolades that come with the staff of office, he may have the highest role to play in the future of Nigeria governance. |
| Foreign Affairs › Obama Is A Tough Act To Follow As Women Rally Realized by jara(op): 1:43pm On Jan 25, 2017 |
Obama Is A Tough Act To Follow As Women Rally Realized Being the President of the most powerful country is not an easy job, most people would agree. It is even more so when from the very first day, powerful opposition lined up against you and vowed that their major task was to make sure you fail. Not only did they say it, they even went as far as going against their own ideas when adapted for the sake of compromise for bipartisan agreement. Against all odds, “Yes We Can” still turned to “Yes We Did”. In many countries, woken up from slumber and complacency, spontaneous demonstrations sprung up among women with little planning. There is this innate feeling among the only being God gave the power of creation when human survival is at risk. There is a nature of man to take hard work of others for granted. Just like the fruit of our labor, the germ we appreciate is the one worked hard for. Since we do not have Obama to kick around anymore, Obamacare is hot! You see, whatever progress we make in life must not be taken for granted. Our grandfathers and mothers die for our civil liberties, economic survival and progressive accomplishment but we sometimes think WE do not have to fight as hard to keep them. This is true not only in the western or Eastern world but also in Africa. We think that after Independence, we are all set and done. Economic freedom will fall into our laps. Not so Buraimo! Look at America, the progress Obama made in eight years can be wiped away unless the rise of women by that rally is translated into substance in the form of action from the grassroots to the peak of power. Africans have produced many Obama that have never seen the light of the day, have been suffocated within the thorns of flowers that glitters; and where they have succeeded like Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nyerere, Awo, Biko etc. have never been sustained or encouraged. In African local language, whoever that Babalawo was that washed the head of Obama’s father before leaving Africa, we need more of them. We have our honest man or woman in every village. Most black managers in America would not be surprised at the almost insurmountable oppositions Obama faced. It was beyond that of an opposition party or adversary relationship in a democracy. Black managers are doubted and worked against hoping they fail. The same people and financial companies that brought United States on its knees that people were asking for their heads, are back. This time not as campaign donors but in charge of Govt.! Since Obama succeeded, every Jack or Harry thinks if a black man could do it, so could he. But for Obama, United States could have slipped into a depression and could have taken the rest of the world with it. It is no more a discussion topic since Obama succeeded where others failed. The people that benefited most from Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, voted against their self-interest because some do not want “government in their Medicare”. Even when they know Medicare is Government, they voted for the Party that will privatize healthcare as long as they were told it is going to be “cheaper, better and accessible” to all. Well, just like lottery and billion dollars are accessible to everyone but only a few got it! The naked truth about healthcare in United States is that more money is spent than any other country but life expectancy is lower than some developing countries. The whole truth is that the rich and upper middleclass have life expectancy like the rest of the western world while the poor are worse off than the poor African or Asian countries: dragging down the average life expectancy of United States. In short, the anger is about the rich paying for Obamacare (ACA). The amount of brothers locked up for drugs, equally abused by whites and blacks, cannot be restored while private sector made money off private jails. Even after Obama pardoned more of them than any President in history. They lost the most productive times of their lives behind bars. Politicians claimed they were being tough on crime. Whenever minorities are involved, the only solution is more police, more jails, tougher sentences and throwing away the keys. A little experiment if performed in high school or college could have demonstrated the lives of two or four mice in a pen compared to the consequences of throwing too many in the same pen with limited space, food and water. When we are talking about human, children born by women that found themselves condemned into ghetto, underfunded schools and recreation, in dilapidated lead poisoned invested homes and water; we must all share the blame with victims. Just like healthcare, American schools are flushed with money but not equally distributed . The best healthcare and schools are not for minorities in the cities. The police are asked to do the impossible job of repression in depressed areas of the cities while others in the same country enjoying a nourished environment get treatment in rehabilitation hospitals not jails. Obama did not create unjust communities. He, like any other black man had been stereotypically accosted. Where Obama met the Country and where he left off will be a tough act for any President to follow. His accomplishments have been distorted and repainted even when America leads economic recovery, better than any other country. Obama may have lost the public relations game when in power, they have inadvertently sent themselves up for failure by comparing what they would accomplish to his record. Facts are stubborn; there are no alternative facts. Though unemployment among African American has been cut in half, it remained the highest of any social-economic group. They should be angry. But the promise is to solve “carnage” among African Americans in the cities with more force, law and order; while the rural areas have been promised jobs they know have been taken over by automation, skills and maximum profits. It is maximum profit that looks for cheap labor all over the world, not Obama and not Unions. Indeed, United States gains more jobs from selling talents, products, machineries, or weapons abroad than any country in the world. If every country decides on its own community for jobs, workers and materials first; African countries will be the richest. African consumers of all goods, even food and producers of little; provide more foreign jobs for exporters than for themselves. If Africans want their own Obama to do what he has done for America in Africa, that man in every village must be respected for his honesty, skills and selflessness in leadership positions. Africa needs to replace ethnic war with free trade. It replaced war in Europe, Asia and America. Source: Farouk Martins Aresa Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 https://www.modernghana.com/news/751545/obama-is-a-tough-act-to-follow-as-women-rally-realized.html# 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Which God Immunized You For Killing & Maiming: When How & Where by jara: 7:40pm On Jan 17, 2017 |
Look, some wakos are so hard up they will do anything for 40 virgins |
| Politics › Re: If You Think Nigeria Is Hell Try Underground World by jara(op): 6:04pm On Dec 24, 2016 |
If you were told not to go, you did not or would not listen. |
| Politics › If You Think Nigeria Is Hell Try Underground World by jara(op): 1:37pm On Dec 24, 2016 |
if NIGERIA IS HELL TRY UNDERGROUND WORLD Who the hell am I to tell you where to live, eh? After all, I reported myself to the Immigration hoping they would deport me back home. The nice immigration lady kindly told me that they had not received my medical report back yet and I should wait until they get it. Unknown to her was that I thought once I showed up, they would deport me back to Lagos, Nigeria. Home, sweet home. Well, that was many years ago. [b]You see, I was so disappointed with everything. When I showed up at manpower for job, I met this lady that directed me to the line where some folks were waiting to go and clear the heavy snow that day. I was not even properly dressed for the snow and my shoes from home were just too light. The snow soaked both feet into water freezing my toes. When I got home, I swore not to go back the following day. But when I got hungry, nobody showed me the way back. It was not the only reason I wanted to go back home. By the time I finally accepted that I was not going to get any court clerk job as I had at home, my dressing for job-hunting changed. We always checked the papers for jobs where I saw opening the following morning for car-washers. First come, first hired. Some of us got there early at 5 a.m. We met others there waiting on line as we lined up behind them. The owner of the car-wash got there at 7 a.m. and started picking us from the line. As he was picking his workers from the line, he finally got to me. Somehow, he jumped to the next guy. Thinking it was a mistake; I stood with those he had already picked. There was no reason to jump the line when he got to me. He looked back and said: you out![/b] I went home crying. After a series of events too many to write here, I realized I was a mama’s boy who forgot that there were different jobs where I was coming from. It finally donned on me that there were factory workers at Apapa for morning, afternoon and night shifts. How could I have forgotten. Indeed, I. K Dairo had a song about people with high school certificate working as laborers at Ikeja and many other places. When I enrolled at the university and told other African friends my experience, they burst out laughing, telling me I have not seen anything yet. My Nigerian friends made it worse. They asked me what the hell a Lagos boy was doing in the university. Most Lagosians they know do not study. They worked, lived in nice places and drove mustangs. They told me I was too well mannered because I did not brag, showed off or shakara with bottles. You, a Lagosian? There is this saying that if everyone writes their problems on their forehead, you would thank God for yours. Some of my friends were working under the table for less than minimum wage if they could not find jobs. One advantage was that most of us were young men that were still strong with durable body for hard work. The Italians and Portuguese did many of the strenuous jobs. Ironwork, heavy lifting and construction paid good money but could also break your back. A friend of ours said those were the jobs he wanted because he wanted better paychecks. So he went into construction, which was hard to get into in the first place. He came back home one day and could not get up the following morning because he had pains all over his body. He told us he wanted the money because he had a brother at home he had to send to school. He also bought an expensive camera he sent to another brother that qualified as a photographer. He came home tired one evening complaining his body could not stop vibrating from the machine he used at work. While still in pains, he managed to get up to collect a letter from sweet home. The photographer thanked him for the camera expressing how happy and grateful he was. There was only one more thing he wanted from his brother. He wanted him to send some money as soon as could for the graduation party! My friend burst out crying. Another friend joined a cleaning crew. In order to get the job, he was asked for his experience. He told them he had done the same job in Germany and was very familiar with all machines used for cleaning. They gave him one of the swinging machines one day. As he started the machine, it threw him flat crashing into the wall. He came home with bruises all over. He was later fired for lying that he knew how to use the machine. While we were lamenting on different odd jobs, we saw a black man on television that went with fishermen on the high sea. When he saw high waves, he started hallucinating. He begged the captain to send him back to the shore. It was too late, they were far deep into the high sea. When they realize he might commit suicide by jumping into the sea, they had to restrain him in the cabin until they saw emergency crew that could take him back. Well, these are relatively decent jobs. Africans have come back home telling us about nefarious promises made to them about better prospects in Libya, Malta, Italy and different islands between Europe and Africa. Even worse are the humiliating activities of our young girls lured out by promising them good money only to find out that they were sex slaves in many of these countries. These were untold stories years back. Italy and Greece refused to sell refugee islands The attraction for greener pasture is obvious. Some Africans that left came back with exotic cars, enough foreign money to buy properties in high-class areas. While others that went to the same countries complain that by the time they pay rent or mortgage, pay for car and other bills, they only have so much left to send home after taking care of their immediate families. People then wondered what type of abroad they were when their colleagues were making big money! Of course there are many Africans in high profile professions making good money without getting involved in crimes. Many also combine their day jobs with other jobs. You never hear of a friend that worked to death stocking up his store after day job. He had his wife in charge but their children only helped sparingly since they have their priorities. The burnout rate for highly “successful” folks is very high because of pressure from colleagues and demand from their jobs. It is one thing to be successful at home in a nourishing environment where you could get the community support in order to alleviate the pressure. It is different in hostile communities. Written by Farouk Martins Aresa http://thewillnigeria.com/news/opinion-if-you-think-living-in-nigeria-is-hell-try-underground-world/ |
| Business › Re: Customs Seizes Jollof Rice, Ogbono And Egusi Soup Imported From India by jara: 12:32am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Until young people in this country rise up and realize the future and the country is theirs, and do not belong to those on life scholarships still messing us up, we will continue to yap yap yap! Go everywhere, the last London revolt when police shot an innocent man to death and called him a terrorist, was organized and kept alive by young people. Black lives matter is led by young people. They are waiting for Wole Soyinka to die for them or the old man teargassed in Lekki protesting "Invade Lagos" on tole road. Nigerian youths cannot wait to cross and die in the deserts and seas when they can die here honorably and change their country. Wait dia O! The fresh fish in cans caught in your waters are cooked, packaged, frozen and sent back to you stale. You buy pondo yam (yam flakes) made overseas, even Nigerians buy "wheatlet" and bring it home as garri. Nigerians refused to eat cassava bread eaten and more expensive than pure wheat bread in Caribbean and western world. Ask yourself if you have not eaten corn-beef, cornbread, baked beans and corn flakes imported into the country today. Make una dey fool unaself O! 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: It Takes One Man To Change A Country From Lootocarcy To Democracy by jara(op): 1:44pm On Nov 29, 2016 |
https://www.modernghana.com/news/739569/it-takes-one-man-to-change-a-country-from-lootocracy-to-demo.html Way forward?? The amount of talents in every field Africans possess and waste outside will be used to develop other countries. Individual rewards in return will be minimal compared to what we could gain if achieved, built on and sustained by African youths. Election of Donald Trump is not an accident, not based on policy or vote. They want to protect their country from outsiders. If we messed up ours so much, which country is going to let us in; so that we can mess up their countries too? |
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