Illuminatus: MiguelMi6, e get as you dey do! .
Anyway, yes, we all have individual differences, different characters and such. So as long as your do isn't criminal in nature or unethical, I let you do your do.

You must have heard this phrase before, made
about someone you know or perhaps even made by
you.

Just recently I was in conversation with one of my
cousins, Dr Alban about the mentality of the
average Nigerian especially those living abroad but
have refused to allow the civilization in the
developed world to affect the way they think and
act. According to him, anytime he engages people
on sensitive matters of national interest, the
feedback is always “e get as you dey do”, to which
he always replies “if e get as I dey do, e get as you
dey do too”.

His argument is that people should learn to
accommodate the differences in others, not
expecting that everyone will act or smell like them.
He actually said it in a way that caught my
fancy…”if e get as I dey do,you sef get as you dey
do, everybody get as dem dey do, so na to learn to
accommodate our differences so that all the do can
do together”. It was then I thought I should put pen
to paper.

Truly, who made you a judge over another to begin
to criticize and castigate people for being different
from you? Answer me.
If we all did the same way, walked the same way,
headed in the same direction, how much boring
would the world have been?
There is strength in diversity, and variety is the
spice of life. Just imagine if the colors of the
rainbow were just one, say black or only red.
Colorful always gets every sane person’s attention,
in a beautiful way.

This is the story and the beauty of our individual
differences.
Every now and again, unwholesome comments are
passed over my brand identity and characteristics;
but that’s why I’m CharlyBoy, and not…for
instance, Bill Gates.

All the people we sing their praise and look up to
“get as dem dey do o” and it’s their “do” that
brought them to where they are today. E no get as
Richard Brandson, the billionaire owner of Virgin
Group dey do or even our own Aliko Dangote?

While you may not do like me, please don’t
condemn my “do” because it is not written
anywhere that everybody must do like you or that
the verdict on how people should do rests with you.
Seriously, examine yourself very well, e no get as
you dey do? If you get as you dey do. okay now,
“do” don cancel “do” be dat nah!

In any society, there must be co-existence, and the
simple reason is because we all are different, in
character, attitude, habit, mannerism etc. To live at
peace and for progress, we must accommodate one
another.

We all cannot be Yorubas, Ibos, Hausas and what
have you but when all these tribes come together,
what we see is a colorful and rich Nigeria.

What one lacks, the other has and in harnessing
resources, we are richer. As long as the way
somebody does is notin any way harmful to his
fellow man, what needs to be done is to recognize
their special area and find ways of accommodating
them for our common good.

I heard not long ago how a new brand trying to
enter the Nigerian market needed a model who is
60years above but still looks young and energetic
as a 35year old. Of course, the only name on
everyone’s lip was CharlyBoy, but because of this
“e get as e dey do” matter, they thrashed the idea.
What a waste, what a shame!

What we detest here in Nigeria, is a spectacle to
Oyinbos whenever I travel out. Everybody wanting
to take picture with me, touch my rings, my nails
and so on.

That is how they said I’m gay, simply because I
posted pictures I took with some guys on a colorful
gay parade and the way I put out, pictures with
Derele, my looks on Nigerian Idol show etc. Isn’t
that too myopic? Una no know as I dey do? The fact
that you take pictures with children at a birthday
party makes you a child right? Yea, yea.

The CharlyBoy brand has continued to inspire our youth to be bold to dream and to dare: a positive contribution in an obnoxious environment where we found ourselves. I just have a passion for the so-called underdogs in the
society, those who either have no voice or have
been silenced by situations and circumstances.

When I relate with okada people, physically
challenged people, no be d same “e get as e dey
do” or e no get as dem dey do or as I dey fight for
Okada people, e don make me an okada rider or as
dem dey follow me, does it make them CharlyBoy?

My point here is that we should have respect for
people’s individuality wether they are gay or
straight, because that is how life goes.
Come to think of it, even animals get as as dem
dey do, animals, not to talk of human beings. Na as
Baba God take make am. E get as rat dey do. E get
as mosquito dey do, different from as crocodile dey
do. E get as fowl dey do, different from as fish dey
do.If you are living with a rat or rats, you must adjust
yourself, decide whether to get rat gum or make sure your soups and other things are well covered.These simple things should speak to us and point
us in the right direction.Allow your “do” accommodate my “do” and together, all our “do’s” will do us well.Stop criticizing people, if you can’t make them better, just simply leave them to live their lives, while you endeavor to also live yours to its fullest potential.

I’m not talking about thieves and rogues sha who
disguise as leaders, politicians, wey don sign say
other people no go see road comot, but na dem no
go go. Fire born all bad people!
I don talk my own, you fit talk your own too, if you
get sometin to say, because e get as una dey do.
Ha.

bookface:


Your heart stands with the defenceless and weak Gazans but it is okay for Israel to claim the lives of children or shell UN nation refugee camps as long as it is only defending itself? ---is this some kind of a poor joke?

I have often said that humans sometimes are programmed robots. We have heard the same statements since the end of the second world war ... "the Jewish state have a right to defend itself" .. they have told it to us over and over and over and over again. We now no longer ask questions. It matters very little that a family is being wiped out, all we need do is forget those things that make us humane , shut out that little nudging conscience and simply turn on the robot!

Ekundayo7:
Your callous and negative hatred is wasted energy. The international medical community would not release an unknown and untested cure for ebola unless the patients know this is EXPERIMENTAL, which this one we are speaking of is, and those patients know they are ON THEIR OWN if it doesn't work. All indications show that both Americans who took the drug improved immediately and are up walking around. Of course there have already been ugly murmering on NL that "the West" wants to "experiment" with a population having ebola, as if trying to halt the worst plague of the century is a bad thing. If this serum can be safely and quickly produced and transported I have no doubt it will be used in West Africa and all over the world, but there are government approval channels to go through before administering it. If a president of Liberia or Sierra Leone doesn't mind losing 3/4 of their citizens to ebola rather than accept "Western" experimental drugs, so be it, and Nigerians can continue to bury their heads in the sand over Boko Haram and Ebola reality also. West Africa is damn lucky the international community has a brain and recognized the danger long before the ebola hit countries.

NairaMinted:

So continuing from where Hitler left off is absolutely acceptable, right? The same very hellish treatment that the Jews suffered under the Nazis? Lol! Its amazing how people still keep springing up with all sorts of excuses in defense of Israel's aggression and land theft....
Should you still choose to reply, you can choose from any of Pro-Israel propaganda playbook below...

rocgirl:

Lol...
Be sure to count on me darling..

Lucasbalo: You are right. A lot of the hatred is pure envy.

hilary26: The moment they decided to return the two doctors home for treatment I knew they have always had the cure.
America is the home factory of every virus. Africa is the test field. What they do is to come as tourists and infect our animals or plants and then go home to wait for results.
It is just business, just like HIV, now the nations with the epidemic will start paying them for the drugs.
In 1984, Robert Gallo filed a patent for his new invention, HIV. Today they tell us the virus got to humans from monkeys because we share certain DNA details with them.
America had the cure for Ebola way back in the 1970s when they manufactured the virus.
For every virus made, they also make the antivirus. Just like in comouters. The software companies that sells anti virus softwares are those who introduce viruses so we may buy their antivirus.

ak47mann: Netanyahyu is using this opportunity to revenge the unlawful killing of his older brother johnny by terrorist hamas in entebe airport uganda.When the rest of the soldiers came back including the rescued, netanyahu was a little boy then screaming where is my brother johnny but was told that johnny didn't make it...

I believe he still remember the shock losing his brother johnny somebody has to pay for it.. RIP to the dead

all4naija: This is a misleading post.The whole thing is still going through experimental stages. The doctor is recovering from the serum administered on him and blood transfusion from the patient (who recovered from the disease) he attended to in Liberia.

Americans will always be there to save the world, no matter the hate they receive from the people.

masonkz:

With all the masks and clothing that the doctors have to put on to treat an ebola patient, if that doesn't protect them enough, I fear for the masses.

MadCow1: I and Barrack Obama were born in the same month?!



No Wonder.

Bigcake: Obama is a sheep. Hating Nigeria for no reason except for non compliance to homosexualism.

Sagamite:

You are a cretinous person!

You can moan all you want, but homosexuality will never be decriminalised in Nigeria in your lifetime.