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Covid-19 has captured and exposed the weakness in the most powerful country in the world.

As the cases soar the deaths will follow leading to ridicule and doubts about the misplaced strength of convectional war to defeat microbes and guerrilla wars.

The irony is those that are capable of winning inside the USA are stifled and fired from positions that can help the country win.

Are you still looking?

Wait make I go come.

yomi007k:
Pls which locations have the armed robbers been?

These praises for rich girls as well cultivated and mannerly from good parents may be true in many cases but we used to call them arrogant and snobbish.

What suddenly changed?

Your oga patapata, thief of police don say make we sleep with our eyes closed.

You wan make I find you location abi

yomi007k:
Pls which locations have the armed robbers been?

Should someone even answer this type of silly indifferent question from someone who jokingly bury his head in the sand.

yomi007k:
Pls which locations have the armed robbers been?

risos:
Get over it, we do more than this here in Nigeria. Just some unfortunate situation that happens every.
Hope the guy survives it.

Get over what?

You beat Chinese to death in Nigeria!

This is a novel excuse to die anywhere.

So somehow they heard about burnfire but not about Million Boys writing and invading neighborhoods with impunity.

These are their thugs anyway.

Hunger is biting right now in many Nigerian cities. This is worse than ever and armed robbers are having the field to themselves.

The irony is more people are getting poor with less to hand over to armed robbers. The areas with money and materials to hand over are relatively safe from hunger and robbers.

DATACUG:
Ok

Na lie? Think about it. No clout no pay.

What is their job, road extortion?

I guess that you have never heard they rent arms to armed robbers, the brave ones had testified in Abuja they pass money on to thief bosses, new commissioners promised to end road extortions, some out of jealousy were caught red handed and beaten up by soldiers recently.

You of all people are defending their "work"?

Sometimes, it is hard to know who to fear more, armed robbers or police that show up after their operations.

Roski1:
When the police are trying to do their work, you hear all types of allegations against them. When they leave their post, people begin to accuse them for not doing their work. Sometimes we should learn to appreciate the work police and other security agencies are doing instead of being always critical. I am sure if the police are in their duty place you will see persons deliberately trying to undermine them by disobeying the lockdown order and as soon as police react, they begin to shout human rights.

First, I have to apologise for being so harsh on you because I don't know you.

But I was so disgusted, I could not hold myself. Your comments was so insensitive, I wondered in which world you live in.

This started when Head of States like IBB and Abacha defended "family support". From dash to bribe to support! Should we now take aberation and twisted denigration of human decency as norm?

Na who vicious circle epp?

Adakintroy2:
Oga go and protect shea them Don commot.

People who sell mask take advantage of you and Me, the food vendor are selling above price cashing out. Everton who can add where to the profit do. Is it right. You tell me. The police have been doing. Anyone who is without sin cast the first stone.

It is true that labor that is supposed to represent poorly paid workers are supposed to fight for them.

Las las by the time they finally get increase in minimum wage, politicians, doctors, Army and Police have already doubled their pay, legally or illegally.

This is one of the armed robbers you are looking for. It is easy to spot them.

So bribe and extortion from Police is now a right if we want law and order.

Everyone from politicians, lawyers, doctors, teachers to armed robbers demand more money from the same pot.

Adakintroy2:
So now all of you suddenly know that the police presence give a sense of security abi?

Ungrateful mothetfuckers.



The bribe this police take from us however unpalatable it may be is but a makeup for the shitty pay they get from the miserable goverment. Everyone is suffering miserably from the goverment including them. Yet we so quick to blame them.

If people are not on the road they won't make much. So the willingness to stay they is not there. They might as well go home and sleep.

Nobody cares about your miserable safty. Protect yourself. All man for himself now. God for us all.

Drivers, househelps and visitors are being advised that going to the Island pose a health risk.

Coming back home to crowded areas of Makoko, Ajekunle, Odofin, Mushin areas can create another deadly Spain, Italy, Europe and America.

Joke or serious warning?

So sidekicks are not human because you think you have one man to yourself?

All these Hypocrites. You would think there equal numbers of men and women. As if monogamy is part of African culture.

Wait until your daughter is over 30 and tell her to marry Jesus.

All these Hypocrites. You would think there equal numbers of men and women. As if monogamy is part of African culture.

Wait until your daughter is over 30 and tell her to marry Jesus.

https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/286536/isolation-without-girl-friend-alcohol-cigar-coffee-or-tea.html

Most people would rather die in comfort going the way he came into this world without being a burden to anyone than die in pain and isolation.

Iyiataata92:
just as coronavirus with all these is also deadly

Isolation Without Girl-friend, Alcohol, Cigar, Coffee Or Tea Deadly

What is life in your fifties to eighties if you are left in physical isolation from your family, even in the same house? Life without either your girlfriend, chocolates, alcohol, cigar, coffee or tea in moderation will be miserable. Those with preexisting conditions like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, emphysema, lupus etc. already know their limits and must stick to usual practice. But they also deserve their own indulgence while observing physical distancing.

Warning: there are some vices that are not illegal but may be frowned upon by relatives and friends in normal climes. As this lockdown persists, isolation and boredom can cause deterioration of Mental health regardless of age. Nothing makes an old man happier than their close friends since the children get older and start their own families. Mothers are closer because children need them to babysit grandkids, as better company and listeners than fathers.

It is an established fact that more men die of Covid-19 than women. Most young people are very kind, once they see a man or woman above the age of 50 years, they keep their distance so that they do not infect susceptible ones with covid-19 in case they are inadvertent carriers but maybe asymptomatic. Others run when they see foreigners or refuse to get close to those coming from overseas, including friends and relatives,

Nevertheless, covid-19 has complicated relationships we take for granted. There are fear, physical and mental threats to the normal way of life. One of our indulgences, if it does not jeopardize health, may not be as bad as the threats of anxiety, depression, suicides and hopelessness.

Well there is a difference between Physical and Social distancing. We can still stay in touch and reach out to one another through social media. We are allowed to exercise in the Park or go for a walk to stay in shape in order to boost and keep up the immune system while keeping physical distance.

Relationships, exercise, tea or coffee is a regular part of life for most people. They are legal stimulants as good as vitamins like the rush for vitamins C and D. No wonder restaurants are open for takeouts. But lovers are difficult to let go.

Unfortunately, most Mama-Put-E do not deliver. They have to adapt or go out of business. Delicacies like Jollof rice, Ewa Agoyi, Cha-ka-laka, Isiewu and Akara must be part of the indulgence. Some may call them comfort treats needed as cushions, at least one of which most of us get indulged in. Otherwise you are not human as an uncle once said.

In places where people are forced to stay home; grocery stores, alcohol, cigarettes, tea and coffee shops are allowed to open.

All doctors that told an old smoker to stop smoking are dead. Authorities must have realized that man cannot "love" by bread alone. There are other activities that must keep our spirit high.

So, this older guy observes all protocols. He also has a young girlfriend that loves him very much. This isolation from everyone including his family has brought them even closer than ever. He does not have to worry since both tested negative for covid-19 as a condition for continuing their relationship.

The worst situation one can find himself is to die in isolation from your family that cannot bury you if you were infected with covid-19. It is far better to die on top of the lady you love with heart attack than to be discovered dead in isolation by your family. The choice is yours and nobody to blame. Tell Baba God how you came.

Even young people ranging with sexual testosterone, estrogen and progesterone do one thing most people have engaged in at some point but no one would admit it. A young man once confessed that he had five girlfriends: Aisha, Amahle, Ajua, Ngozi and Iyabo on his left hand. More importantly, it prevents abuse and sexual crimes during physical distancing and isolation within relatives.

The days of calling others broke ass guys are on suspension. The market for the choice of only loaded guys is dry. Smart Ladies are better off grabbing the good characters that are available. Miscommunications leading to sexual abuse and physical distancing have put a damper on social dating market


Mar 31, 2020 | Farouk Martins Aresa
TheNigerianVoice.com

There are certain class of ladies also suffering from lack of income. They have responsibilities like the rest of us.

Donations and welfare are given in countries where they operate legally. What other choice do they have in African countries.

Those who expect free access to good life they or their generation did not prepare will always wait at the end of the line to catch hell.

When God distributed talents, those with less “helped” those with more utilized theirs or those with more “used” those with less. We must learn how to utilize what we loot and launder as talents and resources abroad to those God gave less. Use God-given talents to develop our home and demonstrate our accomplishments to the world in Africa.

Glow Of Liberalism Freedom Democracy Hypocrisy Got Us Hooked

We cannot doubt people of goodwill. If you ask an average African what is the definition of Civilization, he would tell you they belong to the exclusivity of liberal folks, that insist on freedom and democracy in the Western world of “civilized climes”. The hypocrisy has been exposed as the preachers of idealism and democracy lose to conservatives who would tweak democracy and do anything to remain in or grab power as in theocracy.

Immigrants there got hooked on idealism since Hypocrites were preaching due process, the rule of law and order in Africa. The brutalities they display against their minorities, the weak and the poor with Emergency Power is no different to those used during Slave Trade to “restore” their version of Peace and Sanity to the World. If they use privilege of power as deadly force to quell protests against injustice at home, who are immigrants?

When God distributed talents, those with less “helped” those with more utilized theirs or those with more “used” those with less. We must learn how to utilize what we loot and launder as talents and resources abroad to those God gave less. Use God-given talents to develop our home and demonstrate our accomplishments to the world in Africa.

Democracy was convenient when they were in absolute majority. However, the equation changed as the number of minorities are becoming a threat to the power of the majority. The most motivating factor driving Western liberals in the world to join conservatives is Immigration. So, right wing parties that are supposed to be smaller in number are being elected in Europe and America with the coalition of other parties to form a government.

Charity begins at home. Democracy was a charade to placate us but never intended to apply to those intolerant “civilizations” in the Western world. It worked fine as long as the majority is unthreatened in self-created nations. Democracy, freedom and liberalism that were used to conquer and fool Africans and Asians were not the product of popular votes to elect their Leader. They ensured that as a choice of Party and Electoral votes?

On the other hand, immigrants from Africa, South America and Asia were flooding the Western borders looking for the promised Freedom and Rule of Law preached in their countries. Since Westerners had explored, baptized and forced Protectorate on them in order to steal their natural and human resources that fueled Western economies.

When Slave Trade and riots became threats, they institutionalized color bar to divide the poor whites from native Indians, Asians and African free men in Europe and America to suppress their revolts. It was a master stroke because it’s been working ever since.

Note that every continent traded one another within as slaves and serfs. The southern Europeans were colonized by Africans and it took a combination of Arabs to overcome the African sharpshooters in Basra, Iraq. But those are ancient history today. Nobody forced the Queen of Sheba or Mansa Kankan Musa to launder African gold beyond the Continent as a measure of goodwill while beneficiaries saw a good opportunity to trace, strike and seize fortune from the source. Our politicians have followed Mansa Musa.

The big difference started in1619 Virginia, United States. By 1676, Nathaniel Bacon was able to recruit the serfs and African free men to suppress American Indians riot. Though opposed by Gov. William Beckley, both saw the opportunity to divide and rule people that united against exploitation of the poor. There was no white, black or yellow. Never saw themselves along skin color or differences as they mixed freely with one another .

"Early colonial Virginia was very much a 'melting pot' of peoples, and before slavery hardened as a racial caste, white and black working-class people often lived and worked in close quarters and formed relationships and marriages. Some of these early multiracial families were ancestors of the later Melungeon.”

In 1639/40 Virginia General Assembly barred Blacks from possessing firearms
In 1642 Tax was put on Black women not English women
In 1662 Virginia General Assembly decided that any child born by an enslaved woman was also a slave.

The laws changed the world into colors and gave the poor whose skin color was closer to the oppressors some privileges over the rest of their fellow poor and oppressed. It has been working since then to preserve the privilege of the rich. The color lines spread around the world and everyone trample on the rights of the other to climb the color line.

In Africa and Asia, they used what Nkrumah called Neo-colonization which is basically the same as Colonization but without Responsibility. Just as they divided poor whites and minorities in Europe and America, they divided Africans within. The Africans whose mentality and tastes were conditioned to Christianity, just as to Islam, were the civilized ones. The rest of other Africans were the non-believers that were good as dead.

If you do not love yourself, who will love you? Africans complain that Whites and Asians discriminate against them to preserve their privilege in their native countries but Africans hate Africans more in Africans countries. They even allow the same Whites and Asians to discriminate against them at home: beg for Visas and Foreign Investments as African politicians and businessmen launder out two or three times more. It is called Self-hate!

The Europeans woke up against German domination, the Chinese woke up against Japanese domination, even USSR dissolved since they woke up to Russian domination. But Africans beg for foreign domination as Investments and countries to escape to, in order to avoid their own demons at home. Agents open professional routes of escape.

Africans must stop to being (copy-copy, follow-follow and) a shame to those that share our heritage in Diaspora. It is preposterous for Africans in Diaspora to blame the Blacks they met there as victims for their own predicament after your chiefs that sold them out, were also sold and you are absconding and selling yourselves out of where you could have built a better place for world Blacks to be proud of.

Those of us famous for beating our chests as conspicuous spenders and consumers of vanities but with no substantive production exports or accomplishments at home, must stop consoling ourselves with our under-employed and wasted talents abroad. We collect statistics of those working “jejely” in hostile environments as the most educated and appreciated. You only expose them to more discrimination by dividing Diaspora Blacks into tribes. Don’t you know they are dwarfed by Asians doing better?

Mar 13, 2020 | Farouk Martins Aresa
https://www-thenigerianvoice-com.

NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2020
11-year-old girl gives birth in a bathtub. Now her father — an illegal alien who was once deported — her mother, and brother are under arrest.

Disturbing allegations

SARAH TAYLOR
Authorities arrested the mother, father, and brother of an 11-year-old girl after she delivered a child in a bathtub at the family's St. Charles, Missouri, home.

According to a BuzzFeed News report Friday, the unnamed girl's parents are facing charges of child endangerment. The girl's 17-year-old brother is being charged with incest, statutory rape, and statutory sodomy.

What are the details?
Police arrived at a hospital on Feb. 11 responding to a call about a child with an umbilical cord and placenta still attached. The child had a body temperature of 90 degrees, the outlet reported.

An affidavit revealed that the young girl's parents — identified by TooFab as Francisco Javier Gonzalez-Lopez and Lesbia Cante — brought the baby to the hospital. Gonzalez-Lopez initially reported that the baby was his, and that a mistress he impregnated dropped the child off at his home. He later told investigators, however, that the child belonged to his 11-year-old daughter, and that his son — her brother — was the father of the newborn.

Gonzalez-Lopez, according to charging documents, was identified as being an illegal immigrant who was previously deported from the United States.

Throughout questioning, Gonzalez-Lopez and Cante insisted that they were unaware that their son raped their daughter or that she had fallen pregnant through assault.

Upon questioning, the 17-year-old reportedly admitted that he had sex with his sister "about 100 times," the outlet said. The teen denied knowledge that his sister was pregnant, according to the outlet.

What else?
The state is planning to take custody of the child when it is well enough to leave the hospital.

The girl's mother, father, and brother are all in jail at the time of this writing. The girl is said to be staying with relatives.

TooFab reports that Cante — who pleaded not guilty Wednesday — was being held on a cash-only bond of $100,000. Gonzalez-Lopez is being held on a $10,000 bond, and their son is being held on a $25,000 bond.

https://apnews.com/0e9e8d1f4dbed660cd4b82b3a685bd85

Aidejay:
So unfortunate...
I can't help the feeling that this has something to do with racism and white suprimacy but I will not let that be my go to for all we know she committed suicide or was murdered by a convict seeking revenge or something related to such a scenario. Nevertheless we hope more details will be uncovered and the truth revealed.. Adieu

I share your view.

Why are Nigerians Beginning for Immigration and Foreign Investments in Millions while Laundering Trillions abroad

Opiletool:
Why don't you read it for me, bozo?

Instead of trading insults with you, use that time to read. You may learn something since you dropped out of school.

Opiletool:
Una Don start this una rubbish again. This is 2020, sense una never still get.

Did you read what he wrote before opening your mouth wide?

Abuja Is A No Man’s Land

When Abuja was being planned, it was indicated that they were looking for a neutral place, unlike Lagos or Calabar that already belonged to ethnic groups. Every Nigerian would be welcomed and there would be no domination of one group by the other. Some were wondering if a virgin place still existed in Nigeria that can be called a no man’s land as we want. We did not know that they were going to displace some natives who would be glad to move from mud huts to Government reservations or slums.

Many Nigerians who have been paying attention to the allocation of land in Abuja heard about politicians making more than one allocation to one another in the Obasanjo era. We may have to wait and see what is being allocated in Yar’Adua’s time. Babangida was the first head of State to move to Abuja, so some of the allocation started before that time.

Buried in the allocation of land to the high and the mighty is the slum surrounding Abuja. Slowly but surely, we are going to hear more of it when it erupts in the face of politicians.

We have heard about squatters that are trying to deface Abuja and the swift action of the planners who destroy the eyesore near their beautiful properties. We can’t blame them, it will lower the value of their properties and brings hoodlums too close for comfort.

Has anyone heard about how much allocation were made to others, less prominent than late Senator Kuta son of mud hut settlers? If Nigeria has anything to learn from our past, it is that one day, the educated son and daughters will demand their share of the land owned by the forefathers. We all know that Abuja itself was created like Israel by cutting space out of existing states. But I am not sure that we are doing everything to make sure some of these prime land allocations are extended to many sons and daughters of its soil.

The early settlers were the Gbagyi, Bassa, Gade, Gwadara, Koro, Ganagana, Beriberi and others. Before the ambulance chasers or lawyers start running around taking briefs as in Lagos land cases in court, one would think that our Government would anticipate trouble down the road and pre-empt any claim of injustice. Our attitude has always been to cross the river when we get there. Land is very important, not only in Nigeria but every where.

Anyone familiar with Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos of those days compare to what they are now may sympathize with them. In those days Ikoyi was designated as special Government Reservation Area for colonial civil servants and some crony Africans. But for the guts of Adelabu Adegoke who disturb their peace with gongon drummers waking him up in the morning, no crony reminded colonial masters that they do not belong. The people of Lagos are now trying to reclaim Ikoyi since it is no more an eminent domain.

Most Nigerians could have thought that politicians sliced Abuja cake amongst themselves until El Rufai then came out with a bombshell that Igbo got more allocation than others. Yeah, sure, fool us again my brother. May be they split the size of a football field into hundred pieces. The fact is the politicians from North and South took care of themselves as the probe has revealed. Believe me, there are more allocations going on right now.

We have to be careful so that these politicians do not knock our heads together as usual. When the Gbagyi owners who are the majority in Abuja come knocking for more share of their land, who are they going to go after? They should go for the throats of the politicians who are having field moments allocating to relatives. We can not rely on those potatoes allocations to different ethnic groups when the real juicy and meaty allocations go to who and who all over Nigeria. Why they were trying to divert attention away from themselves to different ethnic groups could possibly be to evade the wrath of the owners when their anger reaches a boiling point as Gbagyi were also displaced for Shiroro Dam.

In fairness to the Government, some of us working at the Federal Secretariat in the 80s were offered flat allocations as incentive to move to Abuja. Some did and some never left Lagos. Looking at what Abuja has now become, on 20/20 insight, it may have been a mistake. However, a few of us still have not regretted it. Moreover, as you get older, you just want to stay put in a familiar place.

Today, Abuja has become one of the most expensive cities in the world. Without rental income, it would be unaffordable for poor original settlers to even think about living there. If there is anything to learn from Jos Plateau area, Niger Delta area, Ife area and now Ajah in Lagos, families do not disappear into the thin air, whatever their past claim to the land .We do not have to wait until feud raises its ugly head to get a fire fighter.

Of course we already have fire all over the place and our hands are full. One will think that with a population of 140 million, we can busily engage our too many idle politicians and civil servants. Oh, they are doing their best destroying slums springing up around Abuja. We understand why we have slums around major cities around the world. These slums and Nyanya labor camp should also be called service centers, without which the major cities may not survive. That is where all the cheap laborers come from.

The cost of reaching the affluent areas if the laborers have to move far away to their jobs will eat all their pay. These are not wealthy suburban driving to the cities or taking luxury buses or go-trains. Even the wealthy ones are now groaning under the cost of traveling or the amount of petrol to fill their cars and generators.

There is something more dangerous about Abuja though; the slums surrounding it are occupied not only by other Nigerians but by Gbagyi, Bassa, Gade, Gwadara, Ganagana, Koro and Beriberi owners of the center. The amount of money sunk into Abuja, the billions of naira and dollars flowing in the City of milk and honey have not spread to these slums. That is what Nigerians call suffer-head in the midst of plenty.

Here we are asking the Government to divert more additional oil money to rebuild Niger Delta, this bobo is preaching for dormant slum militants around Abuja. Chinekeme!

A fool and his money will part if he can’t walk and chew gum. How a man manages his family, business, and environment determines how money is used to manage a country. A man on government training all his life, who has stolen all his life, or sucked others dry, will not suddenly become a skilful manager. He will display deliberate indifference.

Farouk Martins Aresa @2015
http://www.gamji.com/article8000/news8102.htm

After 500 years some Africans are beginning to wake up from slumber. Political awakening that may lead to sound economic decisions.

The only thing Africans are capable of is how to demean, hate and fight one another. Cursed people?

Those that think we do not earn enough, no matter what, to provide all the infrastructure we need in every city are basing the cost of these projects on international price in Western and Asian countries that sell their products and services to Africa at padded retail prices. Chinese may give us a discount, but it is based on what Americans and Europeans would sell for. Russia is a leader in Space and Nuclear Science, based on local prices. So are China, Japan and India with local expertise. United States spends more per capita on healthcare than other countries with universal health coverage.

Imagine if a country as poor as North Korea or Iran has to buy their nuclear capability from International market?

Buhari nor wan die if dem cancel ime visa nah. If say na you nko?

jara:
It is really sad that while Nigerians are almost helpless to the impunity of total disregard for the rule of law within the court precinct, only.....

Denial of VISA is the language Buhari will understand clean and clear. The last we check Sowore is not a security risk calling for the break up of Nigeria or member of Boko Haram.

The Federal Government has ordered an investigation into the Friday invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja, by the operatives of the Department of State Service, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has said.

The DSS, in their bid to rearrest the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 general election, Omoyele Sowore, had invaded the court, during which the judge fled the scene.

Malami spoke to reporters on the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, after paying a courtesy visit to the Chief Judge of the court, Justice John Tsoho.

He evaded question on the reason for Sowore’s rearrest, which had drawn criticisms locally and internationally.

Fielding questions from reporters, he said he did not visit the Chief Judge over Sowore’s case but to congratulate him on his confirmation by the Senate as the substantive Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.

Asked if he was not appalled by the DSS’ conduct, Malami said, “Whatever affects the integrity of the court is a worrisome issue for us.

“I can never be preemptive of an incident over which I was not a live witness to.”

He added, “But one thing I am certain of is that the government has put in place mechanism for investigation of the reported incident.

“So, I would not like to be preemptive in terms of a conclusion, one way or the other, without allowing the consummation and conclusion of the investigation process.”