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ATIKU AND $5,000 - A ROMANCE WHICH BEGAN IN 1999.

By the constitution, I had to inaugurate or prorogue the National Assembly on June 4 1999. The most important officer in the National Assembly is the Senate President and that office had been zoned to the South East. And here was where Atiku Abubakar, my Vice President, first showed his hand and his character. Without seeking my view or aoproval, he started planning the installation of Chuba Okadigbo as the Senate President. I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about hin in the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) under Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of Senate President. I left Atiku toho on his chase while I carried out a meticulous and detailed investigation and background check on each Senator from the South East. The one that appeared most appointable was Evan Enwerem. I canvassed the Senate across the board for his election and he was elected. Atiku did not expect it and he felt sore. He bagan to strategise for Enwerem to be removed and Chuba Okadigbo to be installed. His strategy worked because I was at Abuja airport to receive a visiting Head of State when news reached me that the Senate had mpeached Enwerem and elected Okadigbo. I was not perturbed. I came to understand from some Senators including Florence Ita Giwa, who later became my Special Adviser/ Liaison Officer to the National Assembly, that Atiku distributed US$5,000 each to some Senators to carry out the "coup". That was the beginning of bribing the legislature to carry out a particular line of action to suit or satisfy the purpose or desire of an individual or group. The National Assembly had tasted blood and they would continue to want more. From the day I nominated Atiku to be my Vice; he set his mind not for any good, benefit or service of the country, but on furiously planning to upstage, supplant or remove me at all costs and to take my place. That was what I brought him for, but he was impatient and over ambitious. He was not ready to learn and to wait. Pity!

His marabout, who predicted that despite being elected as Governor, he would not be sworn in as a Governor, which happened, also assured him that he would take over from me in a matter of months rather than years. All his plans, appointments of people and his actions were towards actualusation of his marabout's prediction. Once, I realised his intention and programme, I watched him like a hawk without giving any indication of what I knew and letting down my guard. I could not succumb to the distraction, diversion and malevolence of an ambitious but unwise deputy.

SOURCE : MY WATCH, VOLUME 2 BY EX PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO

“MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY.” ----- AN ANECDOTE

“Germany is a highly industrialised country. In such a country, many will think its people lead a luxurious life. When we arrived at Hamburg, my colleagues and I walked into a restaurant where we noticed that a lot of tables were empty. There was a particular table where a young man and woman were having their meal. There were only two dishes and two cans of beer on the table. I wondered if such simple meal could be romantic, and whether the lady would not eventually leave this stingy guy. There were a few old ladies on another table as I continued to make my observation. When a dish is served, the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.

“As we were hungry, our local colleague ordered more food for us and by the time we were done eating, there was still about one third of unconsumed food on our table. But as we were about leaving the restaurant, the old ladies spoke to us in English, making it very clear that they were displeased about the fact that we were wasting so much food. ‘We paid for our food, it is none of your business how much food we left behind,’ my colleague who hosted us told the old ladies who appeared to be furious.
“At that point, one of them brought out her mobile phone and made a call to someone. Interested in what she was doing since we committed no crime, we tarried a while. Not long after, a man in uniform, apparently from a social security outfit given his uniform arrived. Upon knowing what the dispute was, he issued us a 50 Euro fine.

“When we asked for what our offence was, the officer told us in a very stern voice, ‘always order only what you can consume. The money you spend is yours but resources belong to the society. There are many people in the world who are facing shortage of resources so you have no reason to waste resources.”

LAGOS STATE NIGERIA LIMITED

Founder: Bola Ahmed Tinubu

CEO: Bola Ahmed Tinubu

MD: Senator Oluremi Tinubu

Company Secretary: Folashade Tinubu Ojo

Shareholders - Loyalist and Family members.

Clients: Lagosians and non Lagosians.

PDP people making mouth that senator Dino melaye will be PDP party agent in today's election, biko I want to ask how far?

Not even his shadow was seen around there....una go just the make mouth anyhow.

Game changer my foot

It was Mahatma Ghandi who said “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”

Proflere:
Makama is full of bariga girls, what do you expect?

So Makama Bida Hall is now a female hostel ?

Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, remains one of the most focussed public administrators Nigeria has ever had. On Thursday, he became the first governor to present his 2019 budget, giving priority attention to education and health. He pledged that his administration would complete all the projects it started and pay up all its contractual obligations before the end of the year. I also remember that he was the first to nominate commissioners in 2015 — even attaching their CVs and portfolios to the list he sent to the house of assembly. You may not be a fan of his politics but you cannot deny that he understands how government should run. Kudos!

I didn't watch the video. Which Minister of Health?

So the picture of him shopping for his wife that was circulated some days back was to test the waters?

phoenixthefirst:
28. Uruguay's Oscar Washington Tabárez will be at his fourth World Cup; more than any other coach at Russia 2018 (he has six wins, three draws and six defeats in the competition).

Walter Winterbottom led England to four consecutive World Cup finals(1950,1954,1958 and 1962), a record subsequently equalled only by Helmut Schön of West Germany(1966,1970,1974 and 1978)

Professor Abubakar Abdulrasheed’s son has just graduated with a PhD from a UK University. Since Professor Abdulrasheed is Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, some folks see it as abnormal—for the son of a person whose job is to oversee the performance of universities in Nigeria to graduate from a foreign university. The argument advanced by these folks do not make sense to me for at least two reasons, thus:

It is said that Professor Abdulrasheed only assumed his current role at the NUC about a year ago, and this implies that his son had already started his studies in the UK before his father’s tenure even began. The son should not suspend his studies simply because his continuity in it or his graduation will be perceived as contradicting his father’s position. He must graduate, anyway!

Folks who argue against this graduation must have forgotten that the son is no longer a child who is incapable of making decisions on his own. He is an adult who could have decided what he wanted to do with his life and his father’s endorsement wouldn’t matter. If you are an adult and mature student undergoing doctoral study, your decision to study abroad is not your father’s decision but yours, and your father should not be brought into your choice to personal liberty at all. In fact, the father may not have sponsored the son in any way to obtain this terminal degree. He could be an academic in Nigeria who had secured scholarship like so many other Nigerians to further their education abroad and it is unfair to drag his father and his father’s job into it—as if the son couldn’t have studied and graduated in the same university if he was not the son of his father. However, this is not to suggest that there is nothing wrong with education in Nigeria.

BY:MOHAMMED DAHIRU AMINU

Adesua's ex, Kunle Remi

In the late 1970's Robert Mugabe had acquired international fame as a fearless nationalist and dogged fighter for his people. But he was in fierce struggle with the elderly Joshua Nkomo who believed by antecedent and contribution to the struggle, he should be allowed to lead the movement. When they brought their quarrel to General Olusegun Obasanjo, then the Nigerian military ruler, Obasanjo locked the duo in a room in Dodan Barracks, placing a pistol on the table before them. “When I return, I want you to have solved the problem of Zimbabwe,” he told them. “One of you should be dead; the survivor would go and be the ruler of Zimbabwe!”When Obasanjo returned 15 minutes later, the two of them were still alive.Mugabe agreed to be Prime-Minister, while Nkomo was to be ceremonial President which he later declined preferring to be the Minister of Home Affairs. That was how Zimbabwe became independent in 1980.

OboOlora:
Buy ULSAKIT (a product from EMZOR), works perfectly for chronic ulcer.

100% true. I used the drug after a severe bout of ulcer for 4 months in 2016.The effect was magical.

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Many Nigerians will go to Russia for the 2018 World Cup not to support Nigeria but to look for the founder of MMM.

NNPC is like a school for scandal. Scandals are never far away from the corporation understandably because it is the manager of the cash cow, the oil industry. As Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, had written a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan on September 25, 2013 complaining of the corporation’s failure to remit to the Federation Account the sum of $49.8 billion. He complained of other irregularities. The Jonathan government took no positive action. It suspended Sanusi from office in a mafia-like operation while Sanusi was out of the country on official duty. That ended the matter temporarily. But the worms are crawling out of the can now. From the tales we are reading about the then Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, a lot of elephants, not just camels did pass through the needle’s eye if these stories are true. As we were busy absorbing her massive, avaricious acquisition stories we were regaled with the appointments scandal at NNPC. Out of 55 top appointments announced, the North, a non-oil producer got 10; the South West an oil producer three, the South South, another oil producer two while the South East, an oil producer got zero. This is a contravention of the federal character principle. This is the ugly face of sectionalism. The NNPC responded by saying that the appointments announced did not represent the total figure. It did not give the remaining figures. If it did not have anything to hide it would have, as a public corporation, published the entire information. I do not know if the figures have now been adjusted. And as that controversy was gradually abating, this one involving Baru reared its horrid head.

Even the composition of the board of the NNPC showed an utmost lack of sensitivity. It is dominated by the non-oil producing states which makes Kachikwu simply a figure head chairman of that board because on every issue he can be outvoted. But if Kachikwu is correct, even that board is treated contemptuously as if it does not exist. If the board did not approve the various contracts listed by Kachikwu did Buhari approve them? The PDP claims that Buhari must have approved them to build a war chest for his second term. That statement must be regarded, unless proven, as partisan political propaganda. The President, I am sure, is a believer in due process. Anything to the contrary would severely damage his political capital.

Teaching is the noblest profession in the world and it is worth celebrating. Lee Iacocca, the former president of Ford Motors said, ‘in a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.’’ I am encouraging teachers to see the teaching profession as an honourable calling, Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘‘nobody can make you inferior without your consent.’’ The teaching profession is not inferior to any other. There are many geniuses with brains; a teacher is a genius with a heart!

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An enemy is someone who will not rest till he/she makes sure that your glory sinks into water. He/she will use witch power, visit Babalawo, follow mummy water, do blood covenant, do just anything, just to make sure that god's plan for your life doesn't come to pass. Anybody who is succeeding in life should thank the almighty God without whom his enemies would've overcome him.

With that introduction, let's do a little maths.
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Everybody in Nigeria has an enemy. At least one enemy.

Nigeria's population is 180 million. If everybody has an enemy, then we will have 2 equal groups:

Group A: those who have enemies = 90 million

Group B: those who are the enemies of those who have enemies (group A) = 90 million also.

But since everybody must have an enemy, then group A must be the enemies of group B.

If Group A = enemies of Group B

and

Group B = enemies of Group A,

then,

Every Nigerian is both the enemy of someone and the victim of someone else's "enemy-ship"

Therefore, the phrase "Nigerian citizen" should be synonymous with "Nigerian enemy". When next the president wants to address the nation, instead of saying "My dear citizens", he should just say "My dear enemies".

No. We're not through. It's much more complicated than that.

Sometimes, depending on how glorious god's plan for someone's life is, one person can have more than 1 enemy. For the equation to balance, if there are people who have more than 1 enemy each, then there are people who will be enemies to more than 1 person each. This will be called "collaborative enemy-ship" aka "collabo enemy". This is the situation when an enemy from your father's side collaborates with another enemy from your mother's side and they both collaborate with 3 enemies from your place of work.

Also notice that I used 180 million for the calculation. That's the population of living Nigerians. Pregnancies too have enemies. This is what is called "congenital enemy" meaning the baby already has an enemy before she's born. A congenital enemy can be a hereditary enemy (the one that wants to "winshie" the baby for the sake of the parent or the shape of the mum's protruded belly) or an acquired enemy (the one that just becomes the baby's enemy because he has seen her star in the spirit realm).

Dead people too have enemies. This is what I call "post-mortem enemy". They will be firing spiritual arrows to the children because of their dead parent.

Even living people can also have what I call "recurrent enemy". This is an enemy that god has helped you to conquer but because you went back to a life of sin, the enemy has re-energized and resumed tormenting your life.

Other types of enemies include "temporary enemies", "chronic persistent enemies", "continuous intermittent enemies", and "transferred enemies". "Idiopathic enemies" are those who are your enemies for unknown reasons while "frenemies" are those who are both your friends and enemies at the same time.

So you see? The maths has broken down. This one is beyond human mathematics. It's only god that can reveal the answer to someone jare. The total number of enemies in Nigeria is definitely far more than the total number of citizens. I figure that if Nigerians are 180 millions, the enemies in Nigeria might be up to 600 million.

You might be thinking that you're nobody's enemy. You have a clean mind toward everybody. Let me disappoint you. Unknown to you, there's someone that's looking at you that you're his/her enemy. So everybody is an enemy of someone else. But we pray that god should blind our enemies, cripple our enemies, turn them to lunatics, before finally striking them dead. If god answers prayers, then 180 million Nigerians would have gone blind, then crippled, and then psycho before the 923,768 sq. km surface of the country called Nigeria getting littered with 180 million corpses.

Once again, maybe I don't understand these things because they are beyond human understanding.

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An enemy is someone who will not rest till he/she makes sure that your glory sinks into water. He/she will use witch power, visit Babalawo, follow mummy water, do blood covenant, do just anything, just to make sure that god's plan for your life doesn't come to pass. Anybody who is succeeding in life should thank the almighty God without whom his enemies would've overcome him.

With that introduction, let's do a little maths.
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Everybody in Nigeria has an enemy. At least one enemy.

Nigeria's population is 180 million. If everybody has an enemy, then we will have 2 equal groups:

Group A: those who have enemies = 90 million

Group B: those who are the enemies of those who have enemies (group A) = 90 million also.

But since everybody must have an enemy, then group A must be the enemies of group B.

If Group A = enemies of Group B

and

Group B = enemies of Group A,

then,

Every Nigerian is both the enemy of someone and the victim of someone else's "enemy-ship"

Therefore, the phrase "Nigerian citizen" should be synonymous with "Nigerian enemy". When next the president wants to address the nation, instead of saying "My dear citizens", he should just say "My dear enemies".

No. We're not through. It's much more complicated than that.

Sometimes, depending on how glorious god's plan for someone's life is, one person can have more than 1 enemy. For the equation to balance, if there are people who have more than 1 enemy each, then there are people who will be enemies to more than 1 person each. This will be called "collaborative enemy-ship" aka "collabo enemy". This is the situation when an enemy from your father's side collaborates with another enemy from your mother's side and they both collaborate with 3 enemies from your place of work.

Also notice that I used 180 million for the calculation. That's the population of living Nigerians. Pregnancies too have enemies. This is what is called "congenital enemy" meaning the baby already has an enemy before she's born. A congenital enemy can be a hereditary enemy (the one that wants to "winshie" the baby for the sake of the parent or the shape of the mum's protruded belly) or an acquired enemy (the one that just becomes the baby's enemy because he has seen her star in the spirit realm).

Dead people too have enemies. This is what I call "post-mortem enemy". They will be firing spiritual arrows to the children because of their dead parent.

Even living people can also have what I call "recurrent enemy". This is an enemy that god has helped you to conquer but because you went back to a life of sin, the enemy has re-energized and resumed tormenting your life.

Other types of enemies include "temporary enemies", "chronic persistent enemies", "continuous intermittent enemies", and "transferred enemies". "Idiopathic enemies" are those who are your enemies for unknown reasons while "frenemies" are those who are both your friends and enemies at the same time.

So you see? The maths has broken down. This one is beyond human mathematics. It's only god that can reveal the answer to someone jare. The total number of enemies in Nigeria is definitely far more than the total number of citizens. I figure that if Nigerians are 180 millions, the enemies in Nigeria might be up to 600 million.

You might be thinking that you're nobody's enemy. You have a clean mind toward everybody. Let me disappoint you. Unknown to you, there's someone that's looking at you that you're his/her enemy. So everybody is an enemy of someone else. But we pray that god should blind our enemies, cripple our enemies, turn them to lunatics, before finally striking them dead. If god answers prayers, then 180 million Nigerians would have gone blind, then crippled, and then psycho before the 923,768 sq. km surface of the country called Nigeria getting littered with 180 million corpses.

Once again, maybe I don't understand these things because they are beyond human understanding.

Agentsmith002:
The unveiling of the statue of the world's worst COWARD to have graced this earth.

this statue significantly showed the cowardic side of the yorubads .i would really be ashamed of this statue .

such a shame!

Cc:iConductor

Ojukwu fled into exile in the last flight from the Biafran enclave, not forgetting to ferry his official Mercedes-Benz with him!

blackylola:
Wait! Did Awolowo committed suicide?

Rather than asking stupid question,endeavor to improve your grammar.

SHTFguy:
Mr man long before Okocha played for the national team he was known in Germany as Jay-Jay b b team mates, club fans and football commentators.

Did he carry his brother to Germany with him?

For proof search YouTube for that classic match where Okocha scored a fabulous goal for frankfurt and hear the commentator call him Jay-Jay.


Note Westehoff had yet to invite Okocha to join the super eagles club.

That match in frankfurt is what ma Nigerian press put pressure on westterhoff to invite Okocha whose first match was in '94 against South Africa where he scored a free kick.


Guy I no be small pikin

You are "SINCERELY" WRONG!

Okocha had played two matches for the Eagles before scoring that spell binding goal in Germany.He made his debut on 2nd May 1993 against CIV in a USA 1994 World Cup qualifier.His next match was against Algeria on July 3rd 1993, also a USA 1994 World Cup qualifier when he scored his first goal for Nigeria.

In a week 5 match of the 1993/1994 Bundesliga that took place on 31st August 1993.Coming on as a second-half substitute for Eintracht Frankfurt against Karlsruhe, with the game at 1-1, Okocha provided the assist which led to Frankfurt taking a 2-1 lead.

Then minutes later, Okocha scored his wonder goal, dribbling the entire back-line of Karlsruhe before slotting the ball past Oliver Khan to give Frankfurt a 3-1 win.

The goal was voted as 1993 Goal of the Year by viewers of Sportschau (an ARD German TV sports programme).

Recent form weighs heavily in Cameroon's favour. While the Eagles failed to qualify for this year’s AFCON hosted by Gabon, the Lions went on to win it, tucking in the pocket six highly competitive games in the process. That victory also qualified them for the high profile FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia where they logged a further three games against top quality opposition. Beyond the results, those nine matches put together have helped a young and hitherto tentative new Cameroon team to rediscover themselves and gel as a unit. They will arrive in Uyo oozing with the confidence of African champions.

During the same six-month period (January – June) that Cameroon played those nine top grade matches, all that Nigeria had to show was a humbling 2-0 defeat at home to South Africa in a 2019 AFCON qualifier. That loss left a massive bruise on the Eagles’ psyche and they’ve not played another game since then for us to assess how well they’ve recovered. We must admit that it’s not the best preparation for coach Gernot Rohr and his team.

I am a "by product" of an inter tribal marriage.Father is Yoruba, Mum is Edo.

An untold number of people have tried to predict the Lord's return by using elaborate time tables. Most date setters do not realize mankind has not kept an unwavering record of time. Anyone wanting to chart for example 100 BC to 2000 AD would have contend with the fact 46 BC was 445 days long, there was no year 0 BC, and in 1582 we switched from Julian Years (360 days) to Gregorian (365 days). Because most prognosticators are not aware of all these errors, from the get go their math is already off by several years.

The first failed prediction of the return of Jesus was in 44 AD, Theudas declared himself the Messiah, taking 400 people with him into the desert. Theudas was beheaded by Roman soldiers. Titus Flavius Josephus, the first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer documented the incident in one his works.


http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

Atiku Abubakar had shown interest in becoming Nigeria’s President since 1993 when he contested the Presidential primaries of the then Social Democratic Party alongside Chief Moshood Abiola and Baba Ghana Kingibe. He was persuaded to withdraw from the contest and throw his weight behind Chief Abiola on the basis of his relative youth amongst other things. Age, it was said, was on his side, and he had many years to seek the Presidency. Since then, he has never stopped dreaming and aspiring. Unfortunately, he has always just fallen short! He had made his next move in 2003, after he served as Vice President to President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999. The “abortive coup” (as it was described), to force Obasanjo out and bring Atiku in, by the all-powerful Governors of the time failed spectacularly. The cold war between Atiku and his boss exploded into full view and became a smouldering inferno. Atiku instantly became a marked man. He himself would be forced out of the party he helped to found and had to join others to form another party. But before too long Atiku was compelled by circumstances to scamper back to PDP. Not many felt that was a smart move. He was viewed as being too desperate and unprincipled. This flip-flop has been his major albatross. And he was not yet done! Atiku again jumped ship from the floundering PDP when some five Governors defected and joined the fulcrum of APC. There are already indications that he may be compelled to abandon ship again but where to, we don’t know. Some say that he is grooming PDM for this purpose and has already caused a crisis in his former movement.

When he asks you why you are chatting with your ex, ask him if he never used past exam papers for revision.

A church known as GIVERS ASSEMBLY located in Abuja which prides itself as the first no tithe and offering church has job openings for church workers.

Five Nigerians, past and present, who have been priviledged to have won the FA Community Shield.

DANIEL AMOKACHI (Everton: 1995)

Former Super Eagles striker Daniel Amokachi was an unused substitute for Everton who pipped Blackburn Rovers 1-0 to lift the 1995 FA Community Shield.

The only goal of the game was scored by Vinny Samways in the 57th minute which secured Everton their ninth Community Shield.

Everton had won the FA Cup after beating Manchester United 1-0 in the final, while Blackburn Rovers were crowned league champions.

Amokachi was instrumental in Everton's 4-1 semi-final win against Tottenham Hotspur after coming on to score two late goals to seal qualification into the 1995 FA Cup final.

NWANKWO KANU (Arsenal: 1999)

Arsenal met treble winners Manchester United in the 1999 FA Community Shield and triumphed 2-1.

The star of the game was former Nigeria international Nwankwo Kanu who was voted Man of the Match after scoring and providing an assist as Arsenal came from 1-0 down to claim victory.

Dwight Yorke had given Manchester United the lead but Kanu equalised for Arsenal from the penalty spot.

Kanu later provided the assist which Ray Parlour converted with less than 15 minutes remaining.

CELESTINE BABAYARO (Chelsea: 2000)

In 2000, Chelsea faced league champions Manchester United in the FA Community Shield courtesy of their 1-0 FA Cup win against Aston Villa.

Ex-Super Eagles defender Celestine Babayaro was in Chelsea's line-up and played the full 90 minutes.

The game ended 2-0 in favour of Chelsea thanks to goals from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Mario Melchiot.

The game was the last Community Shield tie to be played at the old Wembley Stadium before it was demolished.

MIKEL OBI (CHELSEA: 2009)

Current Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi was in the Chelsea team that defeated Manchester United 4-1 on penalties in the 2009 FA Community Shield. Regulation time ended 2-2.

Ricardo Carvalho and Frank Lampard scored for Chelsea, while Nani and Wayne Rooney were on target for Manchester United.

Mikel who was in the starting line-up for Chelsea, was later replaced by Michael Ballack in the 65th minute.

Mikel had lost in four previous Community Shield ties (2007, 2010, 2012 and 2015)

ALEX IWOBI (Arsenal: 2015)

Arsenal edged Chelsea 1-0 in the 2015 Community Shield following a stunning left-foot strike from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Among Arsenal's substitutes was upcoming Nigerian forward Alex Iwobi who however did not play.

Victor Moses was an 82nd minute substitute for John Terry while Mikel Obi was benched throughout the game

The raving issue in the Nigerian space at the moment is rape.

Never should a man force himself on anybody without consent as adults and never on underage people. No must mean no.

That said, the Voltrons who are championing the debate don't fully understand what a "discourse" is.

There is no 360 degrees examination of the layers of the use of coercion. What Rape is, is a culture of might is right.

There is a culture which produces actions and reactions.

When we attack the banking culture which reduces female employees to sexual objects to get business, many females attack us.

When we point out religious leaders taking advantage of girls, most women in their congregation tell us we need to shut up and understand 'spiritual matters'.

When we talk about high handed nature of hierarchies in Nigerian organisations, we are seen as anarchists. Most men take advantage of that to take advantage of women who for the fear of their jobs, don't fight back.

We hear of Rape cases in our military, police and quasi military organisations without repercussions. The other day a sector commander of the FRSC limed up women who he thought had braided hair and publicly chopped it off.

So in accessing this discourse, you have to look at cultural constructs needed to combat the scourge.

Do we have rights in our places of employment? I read sexual assault /discrimination stories from all types of employer/employee situations from government to religious bodies and private ones on FB almost every day.

Men who get away with using their positions to take advantage of women will Rape when the condition doesn't privilege their positions, or raise kids who will likely learn from their behaviours.

Take a look at our tertiary institutions. These are the breeding ground for rapists. Lecturers and teachers do it all of the time. They take advantage by threats and intimidation. And they get away with it almost All of the time. They have a Mafia code of silence thing going on. If we cannot address these institutional crimes, how do we think students aren't also learning from the culture of oppression and impunity on showcase?
Most of the randy lecturers always have student go-betweens who arrange the rendezvous. They learn that perverted ways.
Student cultists also learn from that. They want to access the same 'privileges' the lecturers have. That's their reward order in the dark groups.

These sort of patterns are observable in the military and police academies too.

Even in NYSC camps. Observed it myself.

That leads us to the first level in the criminal justice system.

Reporting a Rape.

The system we have makes a mockery of the Rape victims. Not that it's any better for other crime victims. It's absolute shambles. The same officers who are used to a culture of impunity will not be able to offer the right treatment to victims.

Do we even have a system? I know when Rape allegations are made where I currently reside, the police have a duty to the accused and the victim. So they take the victim to the hospital for checks to confirm the truth or untruth of the allegations. The accused is kept in custody and the victim to a safe house.

(Those of you who berate us when we demand better policing system, hope you are beginning to 'get it' now)

Legal system.

For as long as the rich can bribe cases from going to courts and the judges can be bribed, don't expect justice. It's funny that most women who are championing the Rape advocacy today wouldn't join a debate against corruption in the legal system! Everything is bloody connected!

As long as we put the worship of money above basic human rights, the victim will always pay. If a kid knows his parents can pull strings, he will rape by default. But when they both know the law will take its course regardless, they will think twice.

Hypocrisy.

The sexual urge is biological. Most boys who grew up has their first 'apple bites' at Channel 5 (brothel) . I know of one friend who's now a pastor at MFM church. He used to be the John the Baptist of the Channel 5s.

As a society, we must understand that 'Domitillas' play a role. Lone ranger rapists are often people not socially skilled at chatting up women.

Let them and those whose hormones are overworking have access to clean, regulated and taxed Channel 5s like they do in Holland.

Governments and society looking down on sex workers is part of the problem. After all, it's the oldest profession. Jacob in the Bible was a patron.

If governments can restrict their services to certain locales, regulate it by screening them of diseases, providing security............. They'll have enough clientele to be millionaires in Nigeria where it seems sex is everything from the pulpit to the classrooms.

Would-be rapists can avoid the criminal record for a few thousands of Naira.

And before you get all sanctimonious, other markets exist. People with disabilities also want sexual experience. You see a poor middle aged blind dude, you think he doesn't get a hard on?

There are more ways to add to the discursive layers but will stop for now. There will be no shortage of stone throwers on the written points already.

But if you only take away the idea that appealing to morality alone cannot solve the Rape problem, then I would take that.

You need a better approach to culture, biological legal and social constructs to go past the rut we are stuck in.

BY:JESSE BAY