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bro if im rich to buy this kind of car , i would hire 5 solders who are not less than Captain in rank as bodyguard and I will buy full Army ceremonial uniform and travel around with this car

Looters everywhere

Thank u explorers

Seun should please create Explorers section on Nairaland

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Lalasticlala

Mynd44

Seun

According to a Facebook figure , The handsome man is a Local government Chairman in Abia state , the gentleman is seeing hiring Shoulders and Mopo to guide him in an occasion... Maybe to avoid kidnapping or what do you think?

Money found in Soak away

Nigeria

Can this possible between President Buhari and Former vice President Atitu Abubarka in 2019?

What do you think?

POLL: Final results of the Presidential Election three way poll between candidates @MBuhari, @atiku and candidate "None of The Above"

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iranu

deport the guy i beg...we need him

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Justwise

DisGuy

lalasticlala

seun

mynd44

I never forget those sad days back in the 199os when I saw for the first time this horrific and haunting picture. There was no Internet back then, so the image got relatively little attention, yet, the picture captivated the Internet-absent world back in 1993.

The picture was shot by Kevin Carter, a South African photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize (arguably the world’s most famous and prestigious award for journalists) in 1994 for his most hated picture.

Carter’s photograph was of a young child in the Sudan, who was trying to get to a feeding center. But, as it was then reported, before she could get there, she collapsed in hunger. A vulture is in the background, waiting for the child to die.

This haunting photo came to represent the horror of the man-made famine in Southern Sudan which the world ignored for 40 years because South Sudanese are mostly Christians. Up to three million South Sudanese perished. The attention of the ignorant world was more evident when the arabized administration of Khartoum begun massacring its own “black” Muslim populations in the Darfur region of the Sudan.

Since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, the climate in Sudan has even been more hostile towards Christians. In the past two weeks, Sudanese authorities have detained over 55 Christians, following a media campaign against Christianity and the closing of Christian schools in Sudan, which is sometimes called North Sudan.

Coming back to the picture, in 1993, it made the front page of The New York Times and quickly became the symbol of Sudan’s plight, fueling public outrage over the famine ravaging the country.

Carter’s photograph emphasizes the power of the image, and of those who wield it. With this simple photograph, multiple emotions were evoked from those who saw it: horror at the fate of the people in the Sudan; anger at how people can still die of hunger at a time when excess and consumption have become the fashion; awareness of what was happening in the other parts of the world; a need to reach out and help.

The photograph affected the photographer too. Some two months after winning the Pulitzer Prize in May 1994, Kevin Carter committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 33.

Everyone wanted to talk to the South African snapper about the little girl captured in such a powerful image.

Carter responds he’d chased the vulture away and then sat under a tree and wept. Of the story after that picture was taken, that’s the only part he claims to know.

The Truth about the malnourished baby and the vulture

Two years ago, the Spanish daily, El Mundo went down to South Africa to make a research on the subject, and came back with the following, rather surprising, report.

In 2011 The Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’ wrote an article about the truth, the real story behind the photograph. It showed that if one observes the high resolution picture, it can be seen that the baby, whose name was Kong Nyong, is wearing a plastic bracelet on his right hand, one issued by the UN food station. On inspecting it, the code ‘T3′ can be read, This means that the baby had survived the famine, the vulture and the tragic public promotions and predictions.

‘El Mundo’s’ reporter, Ayod, traveled to the village in search of the whereabouts of the child. His search led him to the boy’s family. The boy’s father confirmed his name and said he was a boy and not a girl as previously believed. He told the reporter that Kong Nyong recovered from the famine and grew up to become an adult, however, he said, he had died four years prior to the reporter’s visit.

https://addisabram./2013/02/21/the-malnourished-sudanese-baby-and-the-vulture/

Its Possible

dalass:
Always? ... Naa, I don't think so.

Mention anyone that didn't

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SONIA OTITI (OLORI WURAOLA) AND PALACE POLITICS.

Twice married and twice out of marriage before meeting the king. She met the king through a proxy. She was not at any time wooed by the king. Before marriage to the king, Sonia Otiti's financial stature was huge enough to pay her way into the King's network. She could be described a courtesan per excellence
History talks of how courtesans pay (even in millions) their way to the presence of the affluent and influential personalities and get attention. They ordinarily do this for a purpose, power, wealth and influence.
Having made money, it would seem Sonia got to understand that political posts lasts only a season, but traditional rulership lasts a lifetime. Getting involved with a man of Ooni 's stature is the only thing she needed for a lifetime of perpetual relevance.
On attaining the status of an Olori to the foremost Yoruba throne, Sonia, a 'big girl' by all standards, refused to learn the art of court politics and diplomacy going by the fact that her money beauty had earned her all she ever dreamed of in life. Suffice it to say that she was not in the marriage for the purpose of love.

COURT POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY

The palace is a place of diplomacy and politics. For those who are acquainted with the crown and palace life, it is important that any Olori that would be adored for long must play the politics of the palace well. It is long said that the games of the court transcends that of political parties.
An ordinary servant in the palace can rise to a place of relevance and wield more power than an arrogant queen. The palace is that place where power is conferred not commanded. In most Yoruba Palaces, the kings do not interfere with the day to day running of the palace. The Olori would be better to be put in such position but in the case of Sonia, the king is new to the throne, and the Olori is not just new to the throne, but also new to the culture too. She had to be tutored, guided, helped into the culture and status and somehow corrected when wrong by the palace administrators.

THE ADMINISTRATORS

The administrators may be related to the crown or not. Whichever way it is, it these administrators the new Olori must patronise in such a way that the administrator must not be able to find an ill report of her to report to the king for the administrator reports directly to the crown.
It is when the new Olori who passes all these stages of emergence in the Royal Court and becomes certified OK that she gets the power of running the affairs of the court in her hands. At this stage she gives orders that even the administrators must comply with.
If Sonia found it hard in the palace, it is probable that she did not stoop to conquer.
Antonniete, the wife of the King of France of the 13th Century had to court the attention of even a courtesan who had become the king's favourite, to climb up the ladder and assume her place in the palace.
More, in the Korean epic story, Empress Ki was a slave, who rose to become a concubine and later an empress. She courted the attention of everyone to rise, and stooped even at the top to get the power.
what am I saying? Marriage to the king does not give automatic power to an Olori who cannot be diplomatic enough to rise. Let me leave that part jare.

A NEW OLORI

To the part that the interests women most- the king got a new Olori.
When signing up as an Olori to an African King, especially a Yoruba first-class one, there is a presumption that one consents to poligamy. Kings are naturally thought to be entitled to as many women as the deem fit, provided they are capable of caring for them. Sonia would be wrong to have left on this ground

LEAVING THE CROWN

Sonia took a French leave. That was poor.
It is her way of life. She feels too free to leave at anytime. This is her 3rd. It is bad for a record.

IN DEFENCE OF THE OONI

Some say Ooni is a serial divorcee. No, I disagree.
The unsaid part of his story is that the Ooni had a child as a young adult, out of wedlock. He was never married to the lady. They went their separate ways. Another lady, with whom he contracted a statutory marriage broke up with him a long time ago. As his first wife, she was mandated by the culture to accompany him to the throne. Even if she was married to some other man, she would leave her husband to perform the act. It is required by culture and tradition. I am a descendant of kings in two Akure towns, so I know this. The fact that that lady accompanied him to the throne does not mean she was still married to him.
As for Sonia Otiti, let her do the cleansing rites and return to her trade, after all, the palace life is also a caging one. She needs her freedom. You will soon see her pixels in many colours instead of the mono coloured white apparels that an Olori must wear.

Odunola Sandra Ogunmola

The chest beater should come out from hiding

tukdi:
Wow, what a wonderful piece of writing!!!


Especially the "Ajekun iya" part, Sen. Dino Melaye comes to mind here!!!


I really enjoyed every bit of it, it was full of action and suspense ás to what would happen next!


Kudos to the writer (op)!!!

Thanks help us beg Mynd44 to take it to front page

Ilajeboy:
too long having insomnia ND hungry

Lazy dude

Ajikobi1:
Wow! I love this! Don't worry, I will the future Aare onakakanfo from Yoruba quaters in Ilorin

Amen

dalass:
Be careful what you wish for. The title holders are reputed to always have a tragic death!

But they all lived a fulfilled life

TheShopKeeper:
beautiful article...

Thanks help me beg lalasticlala to take it to the promise land o

Glory be to God..but una memory sharp o while the motor was tumbling u still dey count ham?

What a mighty God we serve

Any Yoruba that support Biafra is a Basterd !!!!

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H

I trust Poly Ibadan 150 "Ise loogun ise"

U

Getting Job is by grace o.

H

Herelefant:
Now consider the statistics....your mum, sister, and future daughter....where do your people fall?

90% or 10%

Are y'all that blessed, moral lottery winning family?

It is a hypothetical question...do or say as you please.....

My mum,Sister and my future daughter belong to where you think your mum,sister(s) and your future daughter(s) belong

What 90% ladies want from men is Money and what 90% of men want from women is sex

I dey lie?