Dear Nairalanders,

I think it's a good idea for us to have a WhatsApp group where we can chat, share ideas and even discuss interesting Nairaland posts.

Please copy the link below, remove the spaces and then join the group.
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If don't know how to use the link, send me a DM on +234 909 5000 603 to add you.

The problem is not exactly in how Anambra man treats women.

The real issue is in his reason for and timing of treating women that way.
Whether you're from Anambra or not, as a rule, you're meant to reward a woman for being good, loyal, submissive and committed to you AFTER SHE HAS DONE ALL THESE.
But the typical Anambra Man tries to buy/get a woman to be his girl, to be good to him and be loyal and Submissive to him BY DOING EVERYTHING HE'S SUPPOSED TO DO AFTER SHE HAS DONE HER PART.

Do you see where the problem is?

An Anambra man puts the cart before the horse instead of the horse in front of the cart so that the horse can pull the cart.

THIS IS WHAT MAKES YOU THE SIMPING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.

You think you should buy/pay the girl into dating/
marrying you instead of giving her more of these things AFTER she has already become yours and made sacrifices to show that she's interested in making a relationship/marriage with you to succeed.

An Anambra man does not understand that even after rewarding her with his marital commitment, her continued enjoyment of his provision and protection should be contingent on her continued loyalty, Femininity, submission and complete commitment to him.
While you were dating her, she was a good woman and that's why you offered her your commitment. In marriage, she should maintain the same good behaviour that earned her your marital commitment so that she'll keep receiving/enjoying the benefits you offer her.
Simple.

Let me summarise it again for those konk-head Anambra Men who think AllaKaduna hates them

1. She must earn your commitment before you marry her and she earns it by being feminine, loyal, submissive and fully committed to you her man.
2. After marriage, she must continue to display those traits that made you marry her. In fact, she should become better at them. This is the reason you should continue offering her the value you have for her.

These are rules for all men, not just Anambra man
But no, because you have the Spirit Of Anambra
- You think you're lomantic because you can buy 12 cars for a woman who does not even rate you?
- You think you're a man if you can build a house for a random girl's mother within the first one month you met the girl just so that she will accept your dating proposal?

This is what makes you a fool. Doing the most to beg a woman to date you.

Conversely, if you do these things for her or her family AFTER she's proven her loyalty, submission and full commitment to you, that's what actually makes you a king. Not doing them before.

What exactly do you do or have you done for a woman that more sensible men haven't done 200 times more for their women?

You think bragging that you spent 100 million to marry a streets girl you met yesterday is a flex and makes you an odogwu?

I laugh when I hear an Anambra man saying he's a good husband because he spent 5 million Naira to woo a retired hookup queen who still runs her hookup business from his house.

Fool, stop!

I ate at this restaurant for the first time ever today. I was blown away by the neatness of the place. And guess what? The meals are prepared by this man who introduced himself to me as Big Daddy.

Biko go to 140 Ojuelegba road, Surulere, Lagos and experience the neatness of the place and the sweetness of Big Daddy's meals.

Mana chelukwa o! I've also noticed that men are generally better cooks and chefs than women. Who else has noticed it?

This type of environmental advocacy may be hard for many Nigerians to understand. Lol.

Mana those who can understand should join the group biko.

www./NonhumaNation

NonhumaNation is the first nation for non-humans founded by Chibueze Ngeneagu (Chibueze John Ngene).

Nwanyi ọma, if your name is really Oluchi or you're really Igbo, biko listen to me.

Your solution is not in any church ndi ọcha. Go back home to your village jee mee salaka. Salaka is not rituals or diabolical. It is simply omenala. You will probably kill a fowl and eat it with roast yam and palm oil.

Mana if you're not Igbo, you still need to go to your village and connect with your roots or ancestors. Ọ dikwa very important.

You could send me a message on WhatsApp on 0909 5000 603 ka anyi kpaa nkata.

Chineke mu e!

APC begins the recruitment of 50 million Nigerian youths as AGBADO SOLDIERS.

APC here means Agbado Plus Cassava.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4Y7Kob3sE

"I pledge to NIGERIA my country to be faithful, loyal and OBIDIENT. To serve LABOUR PARTY with all my strength. To defend PETER OBI and uphold his honour and glory. So help me God."


Watch GANFUWA reciting it in the video below.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZoyYUEa3mcQ

fullnetwork:
It is only the traditionalist that will use black magic or provide black magic for the other religions to harm other humans.

This sounds like the effects of watching too many Nollywood movies maka chi. Lol. Are there not bad Christians and bad Muslims too?

The Nigerian government, Christians and Muslims must stop the discrimination and marginalisation of traditional worshippers in Nigeria.

Traditional worshippers were here before the arrival of Christianity and Islam. How come there is no national public holiday and government-sponsored pilgrimage for traditional worshippers?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXSYumWVLhc

Learn the new Nigeria National Pledge for Obidient citizens.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZoyYUEa3mcQ

You will never realize how loud, how noisy and how choking it all is. The pipipi of motorcycles. The popopo of cars. The vroom of their engines on the roads. The vuuu of planes in the air. The wiwoowiwoo of ambulances, police vans and government convoys. The dumdukedum blasting from music speakers. What about the “CMS Apongbon CMS!” of conductors, the “Owa!” of passengers, the “Allahu Akbar!” from mosques and the “Alleluyah!” from churches? Then there is that gidigidigidi of generators after a blackout, that nwiiiu that goes off when power is restored and those shouts of “Up NEPA!’ that follow. I am tired.

Sometimes, I just want to stick my fingers in my ears to block out all the noise, all the music and all the madness. Sometimes, I wish it were possible to press a mute button or to put the world on flight-mode. I wish I could buy one-minute silence like a one thousand naira recharge card. Thankfully, ten thousand naira is what it would cost me to board a bus and journey from my city home in Lagos to my rural home in Obodo Esatọ during the holidays. Ten thousand naira is my ticket to two weeks of relative peace and quiet. Right now, however, I close my eyes and disappear.

I am walking behind Mama. We are heading to one of her farms somewhere deep inside the forests of Obodo Esatọ. We have walked for about twenty minutes and my sixteen years old mind already feels lost in the seemingly endless maze of trees. Mama needs no GPS and no Google Maps to navigate here. She knows the path like the back of her hand and the lumps in her palm. A few moments later, we are finally descending into something like a valley. There is a stream coursing through the middle down there. Mama pauses at the edge of the stream just before her feet touches the water. She pauses to greet someone. I pause behind her too. I wonder who Mama is greeting because I know how she greets people; she never greets younger people the same way that she greets her peers and elders. A younger person would certainly have greeted her first and I was sure that I had not heard any voice before hers. A peer or elder would certainly have responded cheerfully to her greeting and I had not heard any response yet. All I can hear are the burbles of the stream, the coo of doves, the whistles of other birds, the squeaks of squirrels and the chirp of crickets. No body and no mortal could respond to Mama’s greeting with silence. It was considered an insult here. If you mistakenly ignored her greeting, the Mama that I knew would greet you a second time, louder than the first. You must hear her second greeting and must respond with your own. If you were still deaf and she greets you the third time, her anger would be louder than the greeting. At that point, your response would be met with her angry silence. That is why I am confused by Mama’s unanswered greeting. I scan the area with my eyes to check if I can see who she had greeted. I cannot see any woman near the basket of abacha that is floating at the corner of the stream. I cannot see any man tapping nkwu-ocha or cutting down igu from any of the palm trees around here. I cannot see anybody plucking fruits from any of other trees as well. I am beyond confused when Mama, the Mama that I knew, does not greet the second time. Instead, she moves slowly across the stream. Her steps are the measured steps of an old woman who is moving slowly not because of rheumatism or arthritis but because her feet are enjoying the coolness of the water.

My eyes follow Mama’s feet and flip-flops gliding through the stream. I bend down to roll up my trousers. My eyes search for and count the stones that I want my own feet to step on without getting wet. I see one big stone. I see two. I see three and four. These four stones must have been placed there by people like me who don’t like to dip their feet in the water. My eyes finally meet Mama’s eye on the other side of the stream. There is no sign of anger on her face. She is suppressing a laugh.
“Mama, who were you greeting?” I stand, demanding an answer with my most serious face.
“Iyiachana,” she explains, while motioning with her hand for me to cross the stream to her side.
“And who is Iyiachana?” I ask wide-eyed as I carefully step on the first stone with my right foot.
Mama smiled a mischievous smile. She must be smiling because she knows that I know that the name of the stream is Iyiachana. She must be smiling because I know that she knows that the real question I want to ask her is: Why and how can you be greeting the water?

I step on the second stone with my left foot and on the third stone with my right foot again. I am about to stretch out my left leg when I notice something strange about the fourth stone. It looks a bit like… Like a shell. A tortoise shell! In a split second, I shift my left foot away to avoid stepping on it and my two feet land with a splash in the water.
“You should have greeted Iyiachana,” Mama says bursting out in laughter.
She quickly brushes past me to lift what I thought was an empty tortoise shell out of the water and place it at the edge of the stream. It is now I realize that the tortoise must have come for a drink. Or maybe it had come to play one of its countless mbe tricks on me like it does in all those folktales I had heard many times.
“You were greeting mbe?” I ask, pointing at the tortoise.
“Waa!” she laughs harder this time, shaking her head.
“Eh?” I exclaim a second too fast before I quickly remember that ‘waa’ is our people’s way of saying ‘no’.
“City boy!” she teases me, in her usual way, pinching my left cheek playfully.
“Village woman!” I tease her back, tapping away her hand from my cheek as we both march up from the valley.

That was over ten years ago before she died. My old village grandmother must have decided that there was no use trying to explain why she had greeted Iyiachana to her young city grandson. Oh! How I miss Mama!

There was one evening that I stood at the balcony of my father’s house in Obodo Esatọ. It must have been 7 or 8 pm that evening. It was a year or so after my grandmother had died. I stood there absentmindedly; thinking about Mama. I was thinking about how home no longer felt like home without her. I stood there lost in thought till something flew and hit my right cheek. I assumed that it was a bat but for some reason I can’t explain I didn’t react to it. Did I even rub my cheek? What I remember is that I stood where I stood for about one more minute before I walked calmly into the house. Maybe the usu did not want me to keep grieving over Mama. Maybe it could sense my loss and wanted to comfort me in its own usu way.

I reappear in the present back here in Lagos. Ten times ten times ten times ten thousand naira cannot bring back my grandmother. I miss that her one eye. She had been one-eyed for as long as I could remember. She had lost her left eye while dragging a knife with her sister when they were still kids. To me, it was no loss because I could swear that Mama could see better than me and other people with two eyes. I miss the way she would laugh at me whenever I wore a long-sleeved shirt, trousers and tied a cloth around my ears because I wanted to protect myself from those tiny bloodsucking insects we called kpishikpishi. They were far small than mosquitoes and bit in the afternoon unlike mosquitoes. I miss how she would sometimes call me her husband because I was named after her husband, my late grandfather. I miss those her delicious mushrooms that tasted like spiced meat; she was the first and only person to prepare it for me. I miss the way she would shout “Huaaa! Huaaa!” while waving her arms to scare away the egbe whenever it swooped down to carry one of the chicks of any of our okuko. I even miss the way she used to scream “Tufia!” and spit on the ground whenever she heard about an abomination.

The last time that I journeyed back home to Obodo Esatọ, I took a walk to Iyiachana. There is a bridge constructed over it now but I pretended as if the bridge was not there. I descended down the valley, pulled off my shoes and left it on the sand. I pulled off my shirt and my trousers, quickly folded them and placed them neatly beside my shoes. I stood there in my boxers and walked into the stream. Then I planted my feet gently into its sands and greeted Iyiachana. It felt as if I was Mama herself standing there. That was when I finally understood why my grandmother greeted Iyiachana that day over ten years ago. I now understand why I should always show respect to Iyiachana, to Ishinwangene, to Ojorowo, to the umu egu where we drink from and even to the small mmiri uju that gathers in hollow fallen tree trunks where small animals drink from.

Tuu… Tuu… My phone vibrated inside the pocket of my trousers where I had dropped it beside my shoes. I heard it but I chose to ignore it. What I couldn’t ignore, however, was the uneasy silence around Iyiachana. It sounded a lot like Mama’s angry silence after she had greeted you three times without getting a response. Its waters still burbled as it flowed past. Its waters still felt cool on my feet. But I could hardly hear that kwuukwu-kwulu-kwuu-kwulu bird sound that I loved to mimic so much. There were fewer trees, fewer coos, fewer whistles, fewer squeaks and fewer chirps. It felt as if Iyiachana was mourning the impending extinction of its animal friends and the bleakness of its own future. I dropped to my knees when I noticed how dirty Iyiachana looked now with the empty plastic bottles, biscuit wrappers, pure-water sachets and the torn polythene bags floating at its corners.

Iyiachana had greeted me more than three times since I was a boy and I had never responded to its greetings till I became a man. Iyiachana has greeted us with its refreshing waters every minute, every hour, every day, every month and every year since time immemorial. How do we respond to Iyiachana’s greeting? I imagined that my grandmother’s grandmother had greeted Iyiachana years before her and that her grandmother’s grandmother had also greeted Iyiachana many years before them. When I try to envision my grandchildren greeting Iyiachana years after me and their own grandchildren greeting Iyiachana many years after them, the vision is blurry and agonizingly hard to see. All I can see in that future is soot and exhaust smoke. All I can hear in that future is the pipipi of motorcycles, the popopo of cars, the vroom of engines, the vuuu of planes, the wiwoowiwoo of ambulances, police vans or government convoys, the gidigidigidi of generators, the dumdukedum blasting from music speakers and the gbowam of a nuclear explosion that threatens to end it all.

https:// ganfuwa. wordpress. com /2022/06/18/iyiachana-by-chibueze-ngeneagu/

Foxxydude come and tell me the full story biko.

Is it true that the F.A.N di na this Fan yogurt logo actually means Francis Arthur Nzeribe? Is it true that nwoke mmadu gwuru ndi ọcha wayo to register the company in his name? Lol.

Somebody should tell me the full story biko.

pozehnani:
Eggroll or egg? How can eggroll explode?

Please check and correct what you wrote up there. I think you meant egg.

By the way, that was egg bomb.

The egg bomb exploded o! Lol.

When I posted the picture on a Facebook group, many people told stories of their own experiences with eggs exploding in their microwave ovens.

You could experiment at your own risk. Mana aka m adirọkwa ya.

Kobojunkie:
You don't put an intact egg in the microwave oven.

I have learnt the hard way, papa o! Lol.

I posted it here for those who may not yet know.

I tried to warm my eggroll in the microwave oven but it exploded after about one minute.

Has this ever happened to any other person here biko?

Written by Ike Chi-ukwu Eluigwe

Just like the tithe debate, another controversy is on. I do not think we should shy away from controversies and the debates they provoke. The Church grew on debates. Those who claim to seek truth must not be apprehensive before knowledge. As Christians, the Bible should be our ultimate source of Knowledge.

My take, from personal study as a Bible student groomed in the Assemblies of God Church tradition, is that the Bible did not outlaw polygamy. If today we say polygamy is sin, then it would be the first and only sin never condemned in the Bible -Earlier (Old) and Latter (New) Testaments. We even see God telling David He gave him WIVES and could have given him more rather than his going for Bathsheba (2 Samuel 12: 8 ) . We see God giving instruction that a first wife be not ignored when a second is being married -it was an opportunity to tell Israel not to marry more than one wife, rather God chose to regulate what happens in polygamy (Exodus 21:10) . We see God instructing that the first son, if from the first wife, must retain the rights of the first son, even if you marry another -it was an opportunity to tell Israel not to marry more than one wife, rather He chose to regulate what happens in polygamy (Deuteronomy 21:15-17) . We see God telling Israel men not to marry two sisters as wife -it was an opportunity to tell them not to marry more than one wife, rather He chose to describe the type of polygamy He allows (Leviticus 18:18). We see God instructing Israel kings not to marry so many wives; again, we see again God telling the kind of polygamy He approves rather than disown polygamy (Deuteronomy 17:17). King Solomon advised men to have several fountains (symbolic of wives), rather than patronize another man's fountain (Proverbs 5:15-18). We see God instructing Israel men to marry the widow of their late brother not minding if they were already married (Deuteronomy 25:5). In all these instances, God Himself was involved in polygamy. In the book of Ezekiel, God even painted Himself a polygamist -He was married to Aholah and Aholibah (symbolic of Samaria and Jerusalem -Ezekiel 23). Indeed, God CANNOT be said to be a sinner!

So, how did polygamy come to be seen as anathema in Christianity and in extension the Western world? Because of Paul's instructions to Bishops and deacons! (I Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:6) Why would Paul advocate monogamy for Church leaders? Because when you scrutinize the Earlier Testament, there is hardly any instance of polygamy without family rancor (But we should also observe that some of those rancor were not inherent in polygamy itself but was the result of how those involved conducted themselves. For instance, Jacob's decision to hate Leah and love Rachael introduced rancor. David's refusal to discipline his children when they misbehaved created dysfunctional individuals and a dysfunctional home). So, Paul who strove for an atmosphere of peace in the Church, Paul who desired leaders with peaceful homes they were in firm control of (1 Timothy 3:4), advocated monogamy for Church leaders.

Some have argued that this standard for the leaders is meant to be the standard of all... this is not true. It is like arguing that because Roman Catholic priests are celibate, celibacy should be the standard every Roman Catholic should aim for. It is like arguing that because the president of the nation has certain immunity to prosecution, every citizen should have same immunity. In every society, leaders have been saddled with some unique responsibilities which also come with unique privileges. Even in the Old Testament, priests were expected to marry only virgins (Leviticus 21:13); no one expected this from the rest of Israel. Kings were mandated to have a copy of the entire Scriptures (Deuteronomy 17:18); no such mandate was given to ordinary Israelites. So, monogamy is a 'burden' for Christian leaders; just like celibacy is for Roman Catholic leaders.

Some have argued that in the beginning, it was just one man and one wife -Adam and Eve- as a result, this should be the pattern. But in the beginning, God made them naked... should we also go about naked? In the beginning, God made them gardeners... should we all be gardeners too? In the beginning God placed them in a garden... are we wrong to live in cities? We can see that "God created them one man and one wife in the beginning" is not an argument to negate polygamy that we have seen God so involved in in Scripture.

Others would quickly quote "for this reason shall a man leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife and they two shall become one flesh" (Matthew 19:4). When they quote here, they are quick to show you that the Bible said "cleave to wife" and not 'wives'. On the surface, it seems to seal the argument for monogamy. However, Paul quoted the exact same Scripture in talking about sex -I mean sex- with prostitutes. "What? Don't you know that he who cleaves to a harlot has become one body with her? Because He said, 'two shall become one'" (1 Corinthians 6:16). Certainly, Paul was talking of sex with a prostitute; so, the cleaving the Bible talked about that brings about 'one flesh-ness' is nothing else but sex.
So, God was saying that a man having sex (coitus -inserting his penis into the vagina of his wife) makes them one flesh -just like you would couple two items as one using a screw and bolt. Sex (coitus) couples the man and his wife. We can now understand why Apostle Paul had to tell us that sex with any other person (in the case of his instance, a prostitute) also couples us with that person and makes us "one flesh" with that person. So, as the cleaving/joining that is meant in that Scripture has to do with sex (coitus -inserting the penis into the vagina of a woman), it is impossible for such sex to happen simultaneously with more than one woman. You cannot have your penis inserted into the vagina of more than one woman at a time! Therefore, it has to be "cleaving with wife, prostitute, woman... (all singular)" at every sex time.

So, this Scripture is not a negation of polygamy! It describes the sex between a couple; and not the limits of sex to a person... else, it would be impossible for a man to cleave to a prostitute and become one flesh with her after cleaving to his wife and becoming one flesh with her. Paul just told us, using a prostitute, that it is possible to cleave to several women and being one flesh with them all. So, that Scripture is not an argument against polygamy. We would then see that there is NO Scripture in the Latter (New) Testament, as there is non in the Earlier (Old) Testament, that is against polygamy!

So, what do I advocate? Polygamy rests on the same board like slavery and alcohol consumption. They are contentious issues, because there is no place in Scripture -Earlier Testament and Latter Testament- where they were condemned. So, wisdom becomes profitable to direct in dealing with these issues.

Polygamy has the potential to reduce our number of unmarried women. The women are more than the men; with monogamy, there will surely be women who will never marry even if all men were to marry. Secondly, polygamy has the potential to drastically reduce promiscuity -male and female. 'Free' women are often the goads to promiscuity. A 'scarcity' of men has bred what I will call the Stampede Effect over time; that is, some ladies being willing to do anything to secure a man. This 'anything' they are willing to do, over time, being seen as the standard of behavior by others who cannot tell how such behavior developed; just like people run in a stampede without even knowing why they are running. So, promiscuity spreads as a lifestyle because some decided to lower their moral guards if just to secure their own man.

But polygamy has its own potential for rancor in the home; just as was attested by the nearest kinsman redeemer of Ruth, who refused to marry Ruth lest his own present family be jeopardized (Ruth 4:6). Unfortunately, in our days, monogamous homes have not fared better. They have not been that haven of peace, bliss and romance many dream of when imagining themselves with just one partner.

Do not go for polygamy if you cannot fend for yourself or for one woman... most marital problems are financial. Financial crisis in a polygamous home can be explosive -you may never escape giving the impression of being partial, seeing that not everyone in the family will share in your lean resources. If you are not generous in heart towards everyone around you, don't go for polygamy even if you are financially well off; you will still exude that attitude in your home and create rivals. If you do not command respect as a person, don't go for polygamy. Your family are like followers -they should not struggle to follow your lead. If you fail to lead, leaders will emerge in your home that may just take the likeness of warlords struggling over territory. Finally, if you must directly be in Church leadership -especially as a Pastor- keep to Paul's advice... be monogamous.

The Whiteman preaches monogamy, but he is a serial divorcee and heartbreaker; who ends up with several women in his lifetime -leaving a trail of sorrow, bitterness and dysfunctional homes. A peaceful polygamous home, if achieved, is far much better for society than what the Whiteman practices. History attests to this! Our ladies' present disgust at the mention of the word polygamy is not an inborn response, it is the product of conditioning... a conditioning that is extra-biblical, that leaves them with an entitlement mindset to just one man. It should be seriously noted that ALL instances and references to adultery, in the Earlier and Latter Testaments of the Bible, are defined from the involvement of a married woman... what does that imply, a woman is not given the privilege of more than one husband; but the man may have wives. There are natural and Scriptural reason for this that this short piece wouldn't permit me to delve into.

I am a monogamist; but if Jacob or Boaz or David were to have come for any of my sisters, I would gladly have given them out . This piece is just to show that the Bible, at no time, condemned polygamy.
[Note, my views are not the views of the Assemblies of God Church.]


ADDENDUM

I just read someone respond to a post on polygamy by arguing with "Does nature not teach us?" In quoting this expression of the apostle Paul, he argued that the nature of women, which he said is against polygamy, should tell us that polygamy is wrong. This is a very bad argument! This very reasoning can be used to argue for polygamy; for another fellow could reason that the nature of men, which many say is pro polygamy, tells us that polygamy is right. In the end, we will neither be here nor there; so, the Bible should be our ultimate guide.

But can we look into nature and see if nature indeed has something to say for or against polygamy? By nature, I mean biology and not psychology -which can be a product of conditioning.

In nature, we see the intent of things; the intent of the creator. Nature intends procreation for EVERY act of sex! Why would we say so? A normal man ejaculates in EVERY act of sex; with each ejaculation come spermatozoa sent out for reproduction. So, the man comes ready to impregnate someone at every sex act. However, nature leaves with the woman a cycle; a cycle, with certain periods within -periods exclusive for conception. Outside these periods within the cycle, a woman CANNOT by nature get pregnant.
So, the question is: as nature is busy equipping the man EVERY minute with spermatozoa for reproduction, who is the sperm meant for at those times within her cycle the woman CANNOT get pregnant? Remember, nature does not waste! A man, at every moment, is producing spermatozoa for reproduction. Again, can those sperms indeed be intended for a woman who gets pregnant, and in the next nine months or more will NOT need the sperms? Remember, nature does not waste! Once more, at 45 years of age and above, menopause sets in for the woman; but the man, even up till 90 years of age, keeps producing spermatozoa for reproduction. So, who is nature preparing the man to impregnate if the woman with him has clocked menopause and cannot get pregnant -so, does not need the sperms? Remember, nature does not waste!

We can see, with overwhelming evidence, that nature DOES NOT intend one woman for a man, else it won't equip the man with a far reproductive capacity than one woman can ever take. Nature leaves with the woman times in her life when she cannot put to use spermatozoa; yet leaves with the man no time when he is not producing spermatozoa. Remember, nature does not waste; the excess spermatozoa cannot be intended for the woman who cannot use it. So, if we choose to go by what nature teaches, as the fellow argued, nature teaches polygamy.

Still on nature teaching! There is a phenomenon in nature I termed "The source and product relationship". One of the things you will identify in this relationship is that every source can have many products; but no product can have more than one source. God is our source; all creation are His products, but we products have Him as source. The earth is our source; the earth has many products, but none of us her products comes from earth and Mars, or earth and Jupiter, or earth and Neptune, or earth and whatever. A father could have many children, he is source; but no one, being the product of a father, can have two fathers. So, if the Bible tells us that the man is the source of the woman, we may now understand how all through the Bible the man who is source was allowed many products (wives) but the woman (product) was never allowed more than one man -a product CAN NEVER have more than one source. Was the woman not gotten from the man's ribs? How many ribs are there? One? Again, nature votes for polygamy!

So, however you look at it, both nature and Scripture have no problem with polygamy. Let us leave polygamy for what it is, a choice: and not on its own a sinful choice. Let us leave monogamy for what it is, a choice: and not on its own a holier choice.


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Written by Ikenna Nweke

Once in a class, a Korean girl was making a presentation about African culture. I was really uncomfortably surpised as she spoke glowingly about what she called "African Culture." I was surprised because, even as an African, I could not relate to the picture she was painting. Her position on "burial rites" in Africa was completely strange to me, so I took on her during the Q and A session to know how she was able to get to such absurd generalization. She explained that her presentation was based on her study of a particular ethnic group in East Africa. Then I educated her that Africa is a continent just like Asia. I told her that it would be wrong for non-Asians to assume that Indians and Koreans have the same culture, just because they share the same continent.

Here is my response to a friend who believes that there is something called African culture:

1. Bride price is not distinctly African. It is also practiced in the Indian subcontinent, Thailand, Jewish Culture, Central Asia, China, and Papua New Guinea.

2. Secondly, our way of dressing is not the same. Check the Yoruba traditional dressing and that of the Masai in East Africa, they contrast sharply. Our concept of beauty also differs extensively.

3. In terms of religion, the Ethiopians are traditionally Christians, a religion that was introduced to them even before it got to Europe. In Nigeria, the north is pre
dominantly Islam, with little or no trace of ATR, both in their belief and naming system.

4. Taboos abound around the world, especially in deeply religious countries like India, Thailand, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, and Latin America. Indeed, Africa as a continent has taboos, but it is not a distinctly African practice. As such, incest is not only abhorred in Africa, but in many parts of the world, including Japan where we live.

5. Granted that polygamy is not a problem in several parts of Africa, but it is also practiced in many other continents. In fact, Islam as a religion approves of it. So many Arab or Muslim countries practice it. More so, countries like Sri Lanka, Solomon Island, and Bhutan practice it, so there is nothing African about it. In fact, Gabon, a country in Central Africa, practices Polyandry. Would you deny Gabon of its Africaness because you think Polyandry is un-African, or would you say that polyandry is part of African culture because one African country practices it?

6. Again, respect for elders is a universal practice, though different across cultures, even in Nigeria. While the Yorubas prostrate, the Igbos use two hands to shake male elders. In Papua New Guinea, American Samoa, Central Asia, Thailand, and many Muslim countries, respect for Elders is an integral component of their cultural practices.

7. Finally, on same-sex marriage, it is illegal in many countries, around the world. Africans are even more tolerant on the issue compared to countries in the Middle East.

In summary, the term African culture is a creation of those who believe they are better than us. It is racist! Is there anything like Asian Culture? The Chinese and the Japanese eat with chopstick, a practice abhorred by the Indians, Arabs, and Central Asians. I eat Igbo food, not Tuwo Shinkafa or Ugali.


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Nkanu ebuka! Nkanu amaka!

EssenLtd:
You already know.
Even those shouting on Tinubu's Manhood I stand won't dare go for him in matters like this.

Ewooo! Are you trying to say that he will empty the treasury of the company and load it into his bullion vans? Lol.

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I found this very interesting poll on Twitter on https://twitter.com/MaaziEzeoke/status/1516707660573425665?t=dzvb6_RyMvKdjaa2NI_DZQ&s=09

Mana I have remixed it a little here on Nairaland.

So who would you make the CEO or manager of your business and why?
Look at it from a business perspective.
Look at it from the angle of accountability and financial expertise.
Chetakwa that you would not want your business to be managed by somebody who will keep stealing from your company or make it go bankrupt in the long run.

I will provide my own answer in the comments section so that nobody will accuse me of rigging the election biko. Lol.

I just had to share this brilliant eye-opening piece written by my friend. Wow!

Written by Uchendu Ezinwa Uchendu

Let’s do an experiment to calculate how broke you are.
Let’s say somebody asked you for 5k.
How much should you give the person ideally?

If you earn an above poverty salary of 100k a month
(using NGN600 = $1, and $2 a day poverty limit, that’s NGN37,200 a month…100k is more than twice that),
5k is 5% of your salary.

To put this in context, Dangote’s 2021 income is about $1.4 billion
(2022 net worth for Dangote is $14 billion and based on how Forbes calculates, this is a conservative estimate)

Using CBN exchange rate of 416.08, this means Dangote earned NGN582.5 billion in 2021. This comes to NGN48.5 billion a month.
5% of this amount is NGN2.4 billion.

Do you imagine Dangote giving this amount of money to the person that asked you for that 5k?
Just understand the numbers when you just dash money anyhow.
Reason the matter well. Calculate properly.
Use that money properly.
That 5k is 2.4billion to Dangote.
It is your sweat and blood.

The money you earn in your youth should be used to plant trees that can give you shade in your old age. It is not for dashing people anyhow.

I remember a quote book that was written at least 100 years ago, titled, “The Magic Story”.
Here’s the quote:
“_Fortune is ever elusive, and can only be retained by force. Deal with her tenderly and she will forsake you for a stronger man._”
My mum told me something when I was 14: “Anaghi eji anya oma eme ya”. Ask your Igbo friends to translate.

If you need to help, help people.
But do it after you have already put money aside to build the tree that will give you shade in your old age.
Then, manage the rest carefully…so that you don’t go back to take “small” out of it…so that you can meet up.
Money can only be retained with force.
Be wise.

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Few days ago, when Sen. Ike Ekweremadu announced his intention to contest for governor of Enugu state in 2023, he shocked ndi Enugu by saying that there was never a time that zoning was discussed in Enugu state.

Mana I believe that ndi Enugu misunderstood him. He was actually referring to his Enugu West zone where himself, Ike and Ekweremadu has sat tight on the senatorial mandate of ndi Enugu West Senatorial Zone since 2003.

In that case, he is right because there appears to be no zoning in his Enugu West Senatorial Zone. It is his birthright and inheritance. He was born to rule Enugu West Senatorial Zone without a single challenge or resistance from any other person from the other four local governments in that zone.

Sometimes, I wonder onye gwọlu the man ọgwu oji kpuchie ndi Enugu West Senatorial Zone anya because nobody has been able to repeat the same feat in the other two senatorial zones in Enugu state.

I have three questions for you Sen. Ike Ekweremadu:

1. How did the seat of governor of Enugu state start from the Enugu East zone in 1999 coincidentally move to the Enugu West zone in 2007 and then coincidentally to the Enugu North zone in 2015 in such an orderly fashion without any zoning agreement?

Coincidence n'enu coincidence! What a supernatural coincidence!

2. How did you successfully manage to retain the senate seat of the Enugu West Senatorial Zone in your Aninri local government since 2003 unchallenged?

No challenge from Awgu local government. No challenge from Ezeagu local government. No challenge from Oji River local government. No challenge from Udi local government. Ọ dukwa egwu!

3. If ndi Enugu state take the extremely risky risk of making you their governor in 2023, how are they sure that you and your collaborators won't sit tight on the seat of governor for the next 20 years till 2043 the same way you sat tight on the senatorial mandate of your Enugu West Senatorial Zone for 20 years from 2003 to 2023?

Ndi Nkanu, ndi Nsukka na ndi Enugu state niile are waiting for honest answers to those three questions ọkachasi the third question. Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, do not lie to us biko papa o!

GANFUWA

PROF. JEHU ONYEKWERE NNAJI BU AHIA ỌMA NA-ERE ONWE YA

We are in a political era where CAREER POLITICIANS (who have depended on public funds and government patronage for decades) are stepping aside for TECHNOCRATS (who have made enviable achievements without relying on public funds and government patronage).

That is why a technocrat like Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo was recently voted by the people of Anambra state to be their governor. Ndi Anambra ma ahia ọma.

Enugu state will not be different. Ndi Enugu ma ahia ọma.

PROF. JEHU ONYEKWERE NNAJI BU AHIA ỌMA.

Biko take a look at the picture and video and be convinced that PROF. JEHU ONYEKWERE NNAJI is the technocrat that our beloved Enugu state needs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b06_L87E_Zw

Allowance -Ganfuwa


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvH6HibPu6c

Watch and listen to GANFUWA tell an akukọ ifo that has never ever been told before.

Full video on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0T7jOnSHxs

Part 1 on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=560913261586789