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I have noticed a lot of misconceptions by Nigerian women that men are scarce . Men are NOT scarce. The current population of men in Nigeria exceed that of women by over 2 million. And globally this difference is over 70 million. Women should respect other women, we all have our different views or opinions of how our lives should be lived , we can differ in opinion without disrespecting one another. We should be mindful of liking or loving comments that clearly denigrate fellow women for selfish reasons . Doing so may even make you look foolish . Remember, you must embody the qualities that you seek in a man. So, trust me, if you are constantly joining hands to insult, debase, humiliate and disrespect other women, you will only attract men who think insulting, debasing, humiliating and disrespecting women is cool. Turn over a new leaf today. Become your sister's keeper and keep yourself in the process too |
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A Nigerian pharmaceutical company says Covid 19 PANDEMIC IS A MONEY MAKING VENTURE, AND THEY HAVE A DRUG THAT CAN CURE IT WITHIN 72 HOURS, read their Press Statement; CORONA VIRUS THE PANDEMIC THAT NEVER EXISTED. THE CURE. BY Dr Paul Olisa Ojeih MD Iris Medical Foundation Drugs and Pharmaceutical. On March 3rd 2020, I got a call from The Honorable Minister of Information Alhaji Lai Mohammed. It was a 5 minutes call. The call was centered on Iris medical foundation Drugs and it's effectiveness in treating the Corona virus. I was blunt with the minister, I told him the truth I asked him do you people in Abuja want the Cure or you guys just want to be making billions from grants from America, WHO and other international agencies. The truth is Covid 19 is a curable viral infection that we should not loose sleep over or fret over. In 1985 there was a major viral out break in Tanzania. The fatality, was percent the death ratio was 10 infection to 9 death on a daily basis. The then president, Julius Nyanrere, invited Prof Dr Paul Ojeih Snr, founder of Iris Medical foundation who stepped into Tanzania and with in 3 months the virus was contained with in 6 months there was a cure. That virus was treated with a phynto organic drug known as VENEDI ELIXIR. The virus was later classified as Ebola, virus. I told Nigerians on social media that our government most especially The minister of health, The presidential Task force on Covid 19, The Ncdc, are reaping Nigerians off and making billions from this pandemic that never existed. In my letter to the minister of information I told him that Covid 19 is perfectly treatable and curable. I told the minister that I will infect myself with the virus under 73 hours that virus will be cured. I stake my name, my reputation and credibility that Corona virus is a curable disease. Iris medical foundation drug and pharmaceutical has an authentic cure for this virus, a cure drived, from the enzymes of plants which is pharmacutically engineered to treat complex viral infection. Our drug VENEDI Elixir for 18 years has been used, in the treatment of HIV viral infection, Herpes Viral infection, Syphilis viral infection and infections that are drug resistant. I have told the federal government to stop playing games, to stop looting our treasury all in the name of borrowing money to build isolation centres that we don't need. They know the games they are playing . They don't want to listen because this Covid pandemic is a money making venture, they are putting fears in Nigerians keeping them at home and milking our economy dry. So far our government has spent billions of Naira, money that would have been put into good use. The truth they say is bitter, and the bitter truth is Corona virus is another oil boom for some selected criminals In the government. When Madagascar launched their Herbal initiative to get a cure, I drew the attention of the minister of information and culture, who in turn informed the minister of health Dr Osagie, Ehanire, who went on air and said traditional medicine will be inculcated into the fight against Covid 19. This was never done. While foot dragging, a tiny island nation like Madagascar found a cure through herbal medicine. Then our shameless Chairman of the presidential task force on Covid 19, Boss mustapha, said we were going to import a plane load of the Madagascar herbal cure. Shame, to the country, Shame, to the government, shame to the minister of health and the Ncdc that have been playing games and politics and making billions off this pandemic that never existed. I state, once again for the sake of clarity and emphasis that Corona virus is a baby virus a virus that is perfectly curable under 72 hours with Iris medical foundation drug known as VENEDI Elixir. I have asked the government give me 10 infected patients let's place them on Iris Drugs we keep meeting with a brick wall resistance. Why are they foot dragging, what is their fear and resistance, they play politics meanwhile people are dying, people are loosing their jobs and the country is sliding into recession. As a patriotic Nigeria, i have done my bid. I have sounded the alarm that Corona virus is a baby virus its a friendly virus that is perfectly curable. This is a virus that is very stable in clinicals, a virus that does no harm to the body tissues and organs except when not treated. In essence the virus can be within you and your body system still functions perfectly well with in 72 hours or even longer. This can not be said of other deadly virus such as Ebola. Immediately Ebola enters your blood stream your immune gets compromised and shuts down with in 48hours, you start bleeding from all bodily pores all openings and orifice with in 72 hours you're dead. But with Covid 19 you don't even know you're infected because the virus is not a violent virus that takes over your immunity and shuts it down. We at Iris medical foundation for over 25 years have been into drug research and cure we understand what it means to compound drugs from plants and enzymes and synthesis it into potent cure. Our founding MD Professor Dr Paul Olisa Ojeih (Professor of Medicine) is a pioneer in Alternative and comparative medicine and has popularised Alternative medicine and sector that China, and Indian have taking the lead on. This is one sector that our government has refuses to encourage and invest in, yet a tiny island nation like Madagascar has created and perfected the cure to Corona vurus. Finally, when we say we In Iris medical foundation Drugs and pharmaceutical say we have the cure for Corona virus, We indeed have the cure. All we ask is, for our leaders to stop playing Russian Roulette with our lives and avail Nigerians the cure to the virus. May God help us all. Iris medical foundation no 12 Ajayi Road Ogba Ikeja. imf_info@yahoo.com drojeih@yahoo.com Dr Paul Ojeih 08023950797 Dr Solomon Ojeih 07030595310 Courtesy of Titiloye Charles |
A Nigerian pharmaceutical company says Covid 19 PANDEMIC IS A MONEY MAKING VENTURE, AND THEY HAVE A DRUG THAT CAN CURE IT WITHIN 72 HOURS, read their Press Statement; CORONA VIRUS THE PANDEMIC THAT NEVER EXISTED. THE CURE. BY Dr Paul Olisa Ojeih MD Iris Medical Foundation Drugs and Pharmaceutical. On March 3rd 2020, I got a call from The Honorable Minister of Information Alhaji Lai Mohammed. It was a 5 minutes call. The call was centered on Iris medical foundation Drugs and it's effectiveness in treating the Corona virus. I was blunt with the minister, I told him the truth I asked him do you people in Abuja want the Cure or you guys just want to be making billions from grants from America, WHO and other international agencies. The truth is Covid 19 is a curable viral infection that we should not loose sleep over or fret over. In 1985 there was a major viral out break in Tanzania. The fatality, was percent the death ratio was 10 infection to 9 death on a daily basis. The then president, Julius Nyanrere, invited Prof Dr Paul Ojeih Snr, founder of Iris Medical foundation who stepped into Tanzania and with in 3 months the virus was contained with in 6 months there was a cure. That virus was treated with a phynto organic drug known as VENEDI ELIXIR. The virus was later classified as Ebola, virus. I told Nigerians on social media that our government most especially The minister of health, The presidential Task force on Covid 19, The Ncdc, are reaping Nigerians off and making billions from this pandemic that never existed. In my letter to the minister of information I told him that Covid 19 is perfectly treatable and curable. I told the minister that I will infect myself with the virus under 73 hours that virus will be cured. I stake my name, my reputation and credibility that Corona virus is a curable disease. Iris medical foundation drug and pharmaceutical has an authentic cure for this virus, a cure drived, from the enzymes of plants which is pharmacutically engineered to treat complex viral infection. Our drug VENEDI Elixir for 18 years has been used, in the treatment of HIV viral infection, Herpes Viral infection, Syphilis viral infection and infections that are drug resistant. I have told the federal government to stop playing games, to stop looting our treasury all in the name of borrowing money to build isolation centres that we don't need. They know the games they are playing . They don't want to listen because this Covid pandemic is a money making venture, they are putting fears in Nigerians keeping them at home and milking our economy dry. So far our government has spent billions of Naira, money that would have been put into good use. The truth they say is bitter, and the bitter truth is Corona virus is another oil boom for some selected criminals In the government. When Madagascar launched their Herbal initiative to get a cure, I drew the attention of the minister of information and culture, who in turn informed the minister of health Dr Osagie, Ehanire, who went on air and said traditional medicine will be inculcated into the fight against Covid 19. This was never done. While foot dragging, a tiny island nation like Madagascar found a cure through herbal medicine. Then our shameless Chairman of the presidential task force on Covid 19, Boss mustapha, said we were going to import a plane load of the Madagascar herbal cure. Shame, to the country, Shame, to the government, shame to the minister of health and the Ncdc that have been playing games and politics and making billions off this pandemic that never existed. I state, once again for the sake of clarity and emphasis that Corona virus is a baby virus a virus that is perfectly curable under 72 hours with Iris medical foundation drug known as VENEDI Elixir. I have asked the government give me 10 infected patients let's place them on Iris Drugs we keep meeting with a brick wall resistance. Why are they foot dragging, what is their fear and resistance, they play politics meanwhile people are dying, people are loosing their jobs and the country is sliding into recession. As a patriotic Nigeria, i have done my bid. I have sounded the alarm that Corona virus is a baby virus its a friendly virus that is perfectly curable. This is a virus that is very stable in clinicals, a virus that does no harm to the body tissues and organs except when not treated. In essence the virus can be within you and your body system still functions perfectly well with in 72 hours or even longer. This can not be said of other deadly virus such as Ebola. Immediately Ebola enters your blood stream your immune gets compromised and shuts down with in 48hours, you start bleeding from all bodily pores all openings and orifice with in 72 hours you're dead. But with Covid 19 you don't even know you're infected because the virus is not a violent virus that takes over your immunity and shuts it down. We at Iris medical foundation for over 25 years have been into drug research and cure we understand what it means to compound drugs from plants and enzymes and synthesis it into potent cure. Our founding MD Professor Dr Paul Olisa Ojeih (Professor of Medicine) is a pioneer in Alternative and comparative medicine and has popularised Alternative medicine and sector that China, and Indian have taking the lead on. This is one sector that our government has refuses to encourage and invest in, yet a tiny island nation like Madagascar has created and perfected the cure to Corona vurus. Finally, when we say we In Iris medical foundation Drugs and pharmaceutical say we have the cure for Corona virus, We indeed have the cure. All we ask is, for our leaders to stop playing Russian Roulette with our lives and avail Nigerians the cure to the virus. May God help us all. Iris medical foundation no 12 Ajayi Road Ogba Ikeja. imf_info@yahoo.com drojeih@yahoo.com Dr Paul Ojeih 08023950797 Dr Solomon Ojeih 07030595310 Courtesy of Titiloye Charles |
A Nigerian pharmaceutical company says Covid 19 PANDEMIC IS A MONEY MAKING VENTURE, AND THEY HAVE A DRUG THAT CAN CURE IT WITHIN 72 HOURS, read their Press Statement; CORONA VIRUS THE PANDEMIC THAT NEVER EXISTED. THE CURE. BY Dr Paul Olisa Ojeih MD Iris Medical Foundation Drugs and Pharmaceutical. On March 3rd 2020, I got a call from The Honorable Minister of Information Alhaji Lai Mohammed. It was a 5 minutes call. The call was centered on Iris medical foundation Drugs and it's effectiveness in treating the Corona virus. I was blunt with the minister, I told him the truth I asked him do you people in Abuja want the Cure or you guys just want to be making billions from grants from America, WHO and other international agencies. The truth is Covid 19 is a curable viral infection that we should not loose sleep over or fret over. In 1985 there was a major viral out break in Tanzania. The fatality, was percent the death ratio was 10 infection to 9 death on a daily basis. The then president, Julius Nyanrere, invited Prof Dr Paul Ojeih Snr, founder of Iris Medical foundation who stepped into Tanzania and with in 3 months the virus was contained with in 6 months there was a cure. That virus was treated with a phynto organic drug known as VENEDI ELIXIR. The virus was later classified as Ebola, virus. I told Nigerians on social media that our government most especially The minister of health, The presidential Task force on Covid 19, The Ncdc, are reaping Nigerians off and making billions from this pandemic that never existed. In my letter to the minister of information I told him that Covid 19 is perfectly treatable and curable. I told the minister that I will infect myself with the virus under 73 hours that virus will be cured. I stake my name, my reputation and credibility that Corona virus is a curable disease. Iris medical foundation drug and pharmaceutical has an authentic cure for this virus, a cure drived, from the enzymes of plants which is pharmacutically engineered to treat complex viral infection. Our drug VENEDI Elixir for 18 years has been used, in the treatment of HIV viral infection, Herpes Viral infection, Syphilis viral infection and infections that are drug resistant. I have told the federal government to stop playing games, to stop looting our treasury all in the name of borrowing money to build isolation centres that we don't need. They know the games they are playing . They don't want to listen because this Covid pandemic is a money making venture, they are putting fears in Nigerians keeping them at home and milking our economy dry. So far our government has spent billions of Naira, money that would have been put into good use. The truth they say is bitter, and the bitter truth is Corona virus is another oil boom for some selected criminals In the government. When Madagascar launched their Herbal initiative to get a cure, I drew the attention of the minister of information and culture, who in turn informed the minister of health Dr Osagie, Ehanire, who went on air and said traditional medicine will be inculcated into the fight against Covid 19. This was never done. While foot dragging, a tiny island nation like Madagascar found a cure through herbal medicine. Then our shameless Chairman of the presidential task force on Covid 19, Boss mustapha, said we were going to import a plane load of the Madagascar herbal cure. Shame, to the country, Shame, to the government, shame to the minister of health and the Ncdc that have been playing games and politics and making billions off this pandemic that never existed. I state, once again for the sake of clarity and emphasis that Corona virus is a baby virus a virus that is perfectly curable under 72 hours with Iris medical foundation drug known as VENEDI Elixir. I have asked the government give me 10 infected patients let's place them on Iris Drugs we keep meeting with a brick wall resistance. Why are they foot dragging, what is their fear and resistance, they play politics meanwhile people are dying, people are loosing their jobs and the country is sliding into recession. As a patriotic Nigeria, i have done my bid. I have sounded the alarm that Corona virus is a baby virus its a friendly virus that is perfectly curable. This is a virus that is very stable in clinicals, a virus that does no harm to the body tissues and organs except when not treated. In essence the virus can be within you and your body system still functions perfectly well with in 72 hours or even longer. This can not be said of other deadly virus such as Ebola. Immediately Ebola enters your blood stream your immune gets compromised and shuts down with in 48hours, you start bleeding from all bodily pores all openings and orifice with in 72 hours you're dead. But with Covid 19 you don't even know you're infected because the virus is not a violent virus that takes over your immunity and shuts it down. We at Iris medical foundation for over 25 years have been into drug research and cure we understand what it means to compound drugs from plants and enzymes and synthesis it into potent cure. Our founding MD Professor Dr Paul Olisa Ojeih (Professor of Medicine) is a pioneer in Alternative and comparative medicine and has popularised Alternative medicine and sector that China, and Indian have taking the lead on. This is one sector that our government has refuses to encourage and invest in, yet a tiny island nation like Madagascar has created and perfected the cure to Corona vurus. Finally, when we say we In Iris medical foundation Drugs and pharmaceutical say we have the cure for Corona virus, We indeed have the cure. All we ask is, for our leaders to stop playing Russian Roulette with our lives and avail Nigerians the cure to the virus. May God help us all. Iris medical foundation no 12 Ajayi Road Ogba Ikeja. imf_info@yahoo.com drojeih@yahoo.com Dr Paul Ojeih 08023950797 Dr Solomon Ojeih 07030595310 Courtesy of Titiloye Charles |
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ADVANTAGES OF MARRYING A VIRGIN WOMAN. 1- No STDs 2- Higher chances of faithfulness. One that has defeated fornication, can defeat adultery. 3- You are sure your firstborn is yours. 30% of firstborns in Nigeria belong to other men. Paternity fraud is common with nonvirgins. 4- Unique spiritual bond. There is a unique bond when a husband has sex with his virgin bride, especially if the man is also a virgin. Honeymoon of two virgins(virgin bride + virgin groom) is awesome. 5- A great role model for your kids. Having lived a life of sexual purity, she is in the best position to guide your kids in the right way. 6- Brand-new has a special kind of feeling. 7- You don't want to hear another man launching a single 'I hit her first'. 8- She won't compare you with others. Her only sexual experience is the only one she is having with her husband. Therefore she is contented. Those who are not virgins will compare you with 100 of their exes. |
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It took me 4 days to read from page one to this current page. Let me appreciate every person that has contributed in no small way to the eradication of the deadly disease called Cultism. It was out of boredom I found this group on nairaland. Cultism CANNOT stop. it has been engraved in the fabric of society. Unilag use to be hot in the early 90's '92-'98. Killing in Akoka and school environment. Uniben during Allele Williams and Anao period. I don know which one of them banned alcohol is school but before the ban of alcohol in school environment, uniben was a war zone. Gist has it that Osaogie is controlled by a cult group, BDPA another different group, ekosodin another group. Ekpoma was like Afghanistan stories and tales of horror by friends that schooled there. After the unilag school authorities took a hard stand on cultism it spiralled into Bariga, Yaba, Oyingbo and other places. In 2004 till about 2007 or 2009 there was this guy well known in the whole of somolu, bajulaye and Igbogunu in short the whole of Bariga, he was feared that you don't mess with him at all, after his era he changed and became a pastor. A church invited him to talk to the young ones, he share a bit of his experience in the underworld and cultism and said, "I regret ever joining cult, I did unimaginable things, from fetish to diabolical to women to drugs you name it". He admonished parents to be close to their wards or kids. I can't remember his name now but he was a terror. They were the ones that killed a DPO and dumped his body in the lagoon. After his era, we had the shaggie boys and down town boys, if you were in Ilaje this period, bike would hardly take you to ebute or oremeji, why because of this two gangs. Many bright young men were lost. Udeme, was the shocking revelation, he was extremely gentle, jovial, playful infact girls then secretly fighting among themselves to date him. This is the type of man most girls would point at and say that the kind of husband I would like to marry. One very cool and bright afternoon, when wa r broke out between the two opposing cult members, Udeme brought out a gun that was nearly tucked into the fence they were sitting & shot the guy at the opposite direction everybody ran for safety, some miscreants used the opportunity to loot. Few hours later police came and made some arrest barely 72hrs those arrested we're freed Shaggie got his whole arm choopped off during the war with down town boys. I was made to believe why our compound was never harrassed is because one uncle in the yard usually pay the down town boys never to harras any of us. Those periods were not so sweet. They harrassed, maimed and did all kind of things. My friend brother was accompany me home one day and playing one of the songs on his phone we were stopped and they asked him, which color you dey fly? He said, "I no dey fly any color o", so na you dey play our song abi? He said , "no na jaration song o" he was told never to play it. After reading everything here, I concluded that Tony one week and Austino Milano are both ex-cultist. Austina Milano songs "Egede, second base jare, Weda you call am Kano abi na kunu or you call am jukunu abi na kunu, I say the man" my point is the word "EGEDE" used in the song and has been mentioned here as the slangs used by these people. With what I have read and pictures seen here my uncle's son is a cultist. I went to spend a few days with them. I woke up to make breakfast fast and in preparing the dinning for the food when his friend on the opposite end and him on the other side greeted me and almost immediately they did the David and burna boy hand greetings sign I saw here, now I understand better, why he refused to go to auchi poly? why his father felt he came out with a fake result in Ibadan poly, why he is always not at home 2-3 months? Why he collect close to 800k to go set up a business in another town and couldn't run the business? This guy's with a mark close to their left eyes I see mostly in motor parks, are they cultist? Because if you go to Island, mainland to ikorodu you see boys with such signs directly below their left eyes. I went to visit my friend in Ekosodin who was a student then I never knew the hostel was a den of cultist. A guy was asking my friend out an another guy too in the same hostel was disturbing my friend. The one in the hostel I don't know what transpired and he probably hurt her in the hand. Where the other guy came and saw her hand and asked her who did it and she said it was the guy in the hostel. After about 4 days later they came around 4pm 8 hefy, sternly and angry looking boys for the hostel guy. They asked him to choose his weapon (Cutlass, gun, koboko and belt), he choose belt, we were hearing the beating, screaming because the room was beside my friends room. This guy could not go for lectures for 2 weeks according to my friend, you need to see his back the next day. I left the following day. My friend told me anytime he greeted the guy in his hostel he never answered her. I wondered how she was able to stop dating the cultist. This thread is an eye opener. I'll share with my uncle maybe he would understand his son better. Saynotocultism. |
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Obelz So something similar to @Obelz happened to me back in 2018 I and a friend of mine met a guy in a place we where working and she told me how he has been singing my praise and that he would like to date me And she even got pregnant for him but had an abortion. I was hurt took me months to recover but am better now I broke up with him, deleted her number, and this year she sent me a msg on IG But we can't be friends anymore and i keep a very small circle now. |
Covid-19 as blessing in disguise By Anthony Olubunmi Okogie The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a dangerous yet revelatory moment in Nigeria. It is dangerous because this deadly pandemic has infected over a million and killed thousands of citizens of our planet. No one seems to know when and how it will end. But COVID-19 is also revelatory, a blessing in disguise, because it has exposed Nigeria as a country where quality of leadership is of low grade. What we have known but has been denied for so long is now shown to us as an incontrovertible fact: that the quality of leadership in our country must improve. In the midst of poor-quality leadership, however, Nigerians must speak in laudatory terms about Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, his Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, and his entire team for rising to the occasion. For right or wrong reasons, Lagosians have been critical of his government since its inauguration on May 29, 2019. But it must be admitted that with a population said to be close to 15 million, if Gov Sanwo-Olu and his team had not provided outstandingly exemplary leadership, we would have had a more dangerous situation in our hands. At the risk of making a hasty judgement, it is to be placed on record that, as at the time this is being written, Gov Sanwo-Olu and his team have largely prevented the spread of the virus in Lagos. Let us pray for them and encourage them so that they will continue to show exemplary leadership to other political office holders in Nigeria. COVID-19 has also revealed to us that, rather than invest in good health care service delivery in Nigeria, we have a political arrangement that makes it possible, even encouraging, to waste Nigeria’s money on government officials and health tourism abroad. Thanks to our country’s constitution dubbed federal, government in Nigeria is embarrassingly big, sinfully expensive, prone to corruption, and scandalously inefficient. Nigeria cannot adequately invest in the sectors of health and education because, among other reasons, the constitution of Nigeria has established offices that will require an endless flow of petrol-dollars to maintain. By the time low-grade leadership combines with big government and the seemingly irresistible tendency to steal and or waste Nigeria’s money, you find a country whose hospitals are reduced to mere consultation rooms. It is therefore insufficient for our legislators to forfeit their salaries for two months, as they have offered. It is also unsatisfactory for Senators to donate half of their salaries to tackle COVID-19. The humongous basic salaries and allowances of our political office holders should become a thing of the past. The money should be used to establish a regime of high-quality medical service delivery. COVID-19 has revealed to us that if we do not do something positive about our hospitals in Nigeria, if we do not invest our money in medical research, we shall one day find ourselves in a situation where we cannot even board a flight out of Nigeria to go on medical tourism. Let us make hay while the sun shines. To those who say they do not to know what the clamour for restructuring is about, the outbreak of Coronavirus has revealed an explanation. Nigeria needs to restructure the relationship between her government functionaries and her citizens. The current constitutional structure provides for too many offices because it puts in place a government that is too big. Constitutional restructuring is a necessary condition for the production of high-quality governance. But if we continue to run the affairs of our country with a constitution that impoverishes and disables the citizens by establishing offices that do not serve the people, then we would not have learnt good lessons from this pandemic. We are spending billions buying brand new cars for our political office holders, paying them sundry allowances, when we have no good hospital to handle the current emergency. Government impoverishes Nigerians, and, the same government has now decided to spray raw cash on the people it impoverishes. On prime-time television, we witnessed the spectacle of bales of naira notes, and a minister of the Federal Republic was doing the distribution. But government could and ought to have used this moment to encourage Nigerians to open bank accounts. A more transparent means of giving out the money would have been to ask each person for his or her bank verification number and to send the money into their accounts. Apart from the fact that it would have encouraged more Nigerians to open bank accounts, it would have made it possible to account for every naira that is given out. In the same vein, we have heard how billions of naira are being donated to government without government telling Nigerians how the donation will be spent. COVID-19 has also revealed to us that there are false prophets living among us. In a country where once you grab a Bible and a microphone you become a pastor or prophet or apostle, where you can become founder of a church without any serious theological formation, we have seen how some of our religious leaders have resorted to dishing out false prophecies. We have been treated to the cruelty of conspiracy theories woven by attention-seeking pseudo-apostles to nurture fear in the minds of people. We have seen how those who did not foresee any pandemic when, at the beginning of the year 2020, they claimed to be “prophesying” for Nigeria, now lay claims to have received a message. Rather than join the government in providing palliative measures, we have also seen how some pastors have been asking their members to pay tithes even when those members are unable to venture out to earn their daily bread. Some who ventured out were brutalized by policemen and soldiers who are not held accountable for violating the rights of citizens they are paid to protect. Can’t we reason? Let us think! Indeed, COVID-19 has been a blessing in disguise. It has exposed the falsehood and hypocrisy we call politics and religion in Nigeria. May Nigerians become sufficiently wise to read and interpret the signs of the time. For a stitch in time saves nine. Having taught us the hard way, may this pandemic go to bed early, never to rise again. His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie 4th April, 2020 |
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