Me I be Fela, I be black power man!

Drusilla:

Moukee,

Or in Mrs. Bush case, all she has to do is approach the front door of the whitehouse and scream, "he's in there getting drunk again!" to the press who stands by.

It would pretty much end Mr. Bush's career.

Yet in 30 years she has not done that.

Maybe that is why Mr. Bush always claims that Laura is the real power in the family.

I'm sure Mrs. Bush doesn't even remember what it feels like to not get what you want, exactly when you want it.

Dru, Bush can't be more right. The real power behind the throne occupied by male presidents, prime ministers and heads of states are the wives, girl friends and concubines of incumbents. According to Norah Vincent, a newspaper columnist who transformed her physical looks to a man's in order to have a first hand experience of machismo "every man's armor is borrowed and 10 sizes too big, and beneath it, he's naked and insecure and hoping you won't see". Contrary to the view held by most men that they are entitled to conquer as many women as possible because it is a man's world, Norah was surprised at how much sexual power women have over men, even when women may feel disempowered in other ways, and how icily they wield it. For me there are no other ways. Sexual power gives rise to other forms of power.







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Women, everywhere are powerful. Whether in the corridors of power or not. Even as housewives, they still exert and exercise a significant dose of power. Now the question is how did they evolve to become so powerful? A little bit of research will reveal that the source of their power is what we Nigerians call "bottom", as in "bottom power". By just simply refusing to submit to our sexual overtures, they make us go mad as we start experiencing an ever rising blood pressure. A renowned Nigerian professor once remarked that an erect penis has no conscience. To which I added, incest aside. And that is very true. So it is either that there are some very powerful men who are f*cking these powerful women who really turn out to be so good in bed that being denied the opportunity will make the powerful men go mad, or the powerful women themselves, taking advantage of their relationships to powerful men have been making demands on the men that are geared to make them more powerful. We should now be able to see very clearly why coups are organized or plans for regime elongation are hatched.

By Henry G. Brinton Mon Jul 3, 7:11 AM ET

For all the attention paid this past year to public displays of the Ten Commandments, you'd think people would spend as much energy trying to follow them.
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When it comes to the Fourth Commandment - "Remember the Sabbath Day" - that's not the case. And pastors like me, far from being role models, are among the worst offenders. After all, we work every Sunday.

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The problem with ignoring the Sabbath is that it hurts us as individuals, families and communities. Wayne Muller, a therapist, minister and best-selling author, is convinced that modern life has become a violent enterprise.

We make war on our bodies by pushing them beyond their limits, war on our children by failing to give them our time, and war on our communities by failing to be kind and generous and connected to our neighbors. To bring an end to this destruction, we have to establish a healthier balance between work and rest.

Whether religious or not, people know that they need to take a day off in order to maintain their sanity and remain efficient and productive at work. But I'm convinced that downtime is not enough.

We need a formal day of rest. A true Sabbath gives us time to refresh and renew ourselves, regain proper perspective and redirect our lives to what is good and true and worthwhile.

There is something positive and even creative about allowing ourselves to take a break, as is noted in the Bible when it says God finishes the work of creation on the seventh day , by resting (Genesis 2:2). Resting is an act of creativity.

Unfortunately, our society rewards hard-driving people who are focused on their work seven days a week, and our technology allows us to be constantly connected to the workplace through computers, cellphones and BlackBerrys.

"Modern culture's time values often seem enslaving and oppressive," says Dennis Olson, professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. "Work time seems increasingly to expand and rob us of time with family and friends. Computers and the Internet bombard us with a constant flow of data, messages and information."

And as many Americans are pulling more time at the office, they're spending less time in bed. Average amount of sleep has dropped from nine hours a night in 1910 to seven hours today. The result is that we feel harried and hurried, out of balance, out of sync.

For much of this country's history, blue laws kept businesses closed on Sundays, forcing Americans to focus on church-going, rest and relaxation. Although many people resented these limitations, these laws did have the beneficial effect of creating a day of rest. But in the past century, and particularly since the 1960s, states have relaxed these rules regulating business on Sunday as our consumer-driven culture has gone into overdrive.

What began as a trickle soon became a raging river: Today, almost every mall, theater and restaurant is operating seven days a week. Even in Europe, where church-going has been in decline for years, Sunday has been - until recently - a day in which most businesses were closed, allowing people to spend time with family members and friends.

Given this history, Sabbath-keeping is going to be a countercultural activity, one requiring commitment and creativity. A day of rest does not have to be a Saturday or a Sunday - impossible for pastors and many others - but it should be at least one day out of seven, and qualitatively different from the other six.

The key is to break away from work patterns, whether that means hobbies, sports or artistic activities. (Sabbath is related to the Hebrew verb meaning "to cease, stop, interrupt."

"Spend more time with people in a friendly way, with meals (and) extended conversations, but no talk related to work," advises theologian Marva Dawn, author of Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting.

New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez rests by engaging in gardening; for a professional gardener, though, Sabbath-keeping might involve playing baseball.

My own practice on Wednesday, my substitute for Sunday, always includes a long run. My thinking becomes unstructured as I jog along a beautiful wooded trail, the stress melting away and solutions to knotty problems popping into my mind. In this activity, I feel close to God. This is my way of remembering the Sabbath day, and keeping it holy.

There is a communal dimension to rest as well, one that is important for maintaining healthy relationships in our families and communities.

My son, who is trying out for his high school cross-country team, often joins me on my runs. This gives us a chance to talk without time pressures or interruptions, far from the demands of work and school.

At the end of life, we'll remember and cherish these times - these mini-sabbaticals, if you will - far more than those hours toiling away in the office. As the saying goes, no one ever says from his deathbed, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."

Ironically, we can actually be more productive if we take a break from time to time. Dawn is convinced that what we gain is "a greater eagerness to do our work and a better sense of what that work actually is."

We can learn from men and women in the
European Union, who work hard but still enjoy an average of five weeks of paid vacation per year. They often remark that they don't "live to work," as we do - instead, they "work to live."

So take a vacation this summer and a Sabbath day throughout the year - whether to honor God, your family or yourself.

Henry G. Brinton is pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia and author of Balancing Acts

In a society where the rule of oppression must be maintained at all cost, and where additionally, the scientific culture is yet to be consummated, illiterates are philosophers.

I wear dreadlocks, but I'm not gay. Before the dreadlocks, I used to braid my hair. And because I do not want to be associated with anything gay, I have refused to wear a pink shirt my girlfriend bought for me. Sometimes these crazy baldheads want to do everything humanly possible to bring down the trendsetters because they don't have what it takes.

Are you depressed? Please don't consider suicide as an option.

Let me put to rest the issue of the woman in her period with this joke.

"That parapsychology course at the Christ Embassy is fabulous!" says Moukee. "My ESP talents are developing so fast!"
"That's hard to believe," states his friend, Afeni, "you'd better prove it."
"For instance,my telepathy," says Moukee. "You just point at any door, and I shall give you remarkable particulars about the person who answers."
"Okay, that door," points his friend. "Tell me what will happen."
"Well," meditates Moukee. "I feel that a man whose girlfriend is having her period will open the door, "
"Hello, friends," greets BlueIyke, entering the room through the same door.
"Does your girlfriend have her period?" asks Afeni.
"Sh*t!" answers BlueIyke, wiping his mouth and chin. "Can you see it?"

Yo Efani, stop shaking that G-stringed ass at me. Haha!

When you open a thread to start a quarrel, you are saying prayers to me, the devil.

gbade. x:

. . .yeah, and your point is?

The blind stares of a million pairs of eyes, looking hard but won't realize that they will never see the truth.

This is hardly surprising, given that they are drip-fed on his teachings. One important teaching of Oyakhilome, and of other Pentecostal preachers is “sowing the seed.” This requires followers to give part of their earnings to the church in offerings and tithes. The expected dividends on these are divine blessings. With a church full of young company executives and businessmen, every programme guarantees enormous revenue. Those without money, said a source, are enjoined to turn in their jewelry, wristwatches and other personal items as offering or tithes. As the source told this medium, followers fall over one another to do that, expecting God to turn on his tap of blessings.

Others give cars, generators, musical equipment and chairs to the church. In March 2002, Lawrence Agada, an assistant pastor who was a cashier with the Lagos Sheraton Hotels and Towers, donated cash and gifts totaling N39 million to the church. Agada’s donations were in instalments. He bought a 250KVA generator valued at N4.4 million, and another 27KVA generator for N1.5 million, which he donated to a satellite branch of the church. Before then, he had given N6 million for the refurbishment of the branch, as well as N1 million for the purchase of plastic seats for the headquarters.

Agada also contributed N1million to the success of a mega-crusade tagged Night of Bliss. His parish pastor, who had no money for a trip to Australia, was given N400,000. In appreciation, Oyakhilome wrote Agada: “May God, who gives seed to the sower and bread for eating, multiply your seeds in Jesus name.” Rather than receive God’s blessings, Agada became a guest of the police when his employers discovered that he had stolen from them to give to the church. Agada’s employers also insisted that Oyakhilome should refund the money. But the church issued a statement admitting that Agada made donations, but refused to make a refund.

A year later, Gbenga Kehinde, another member, donated to the church in similar circumstances. Then an assistant manager with Eko International Bank, Kehinde stole about N40 million from his employers and donated N10 million to the church. That also became a messy affair. But Oyakhilome has income streams other than offerings, tithes and donations. Though trained as an architect, he appears to have a sharp business sense which has enabled him to exploit his marketability. Like David Beckham, England’s soccer star, Oyakhilome’s name and face sell huge quantities of merchandise, which make him such a rich preacher of the gospel.

http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1213

Kris Okotie
A trained lawyer and pop idol of the 1980s. Okotie’s Household of God Church in Lagos is located in a former warehouse he bought for N40million and converted into a sumptuous building mirroring his taste. With its marble-clad front walls, reflecting glass windows and well-tended decorative plants, it is regarded as one of Nigeria’s most beautiful church buildings. Though not of spectacular size, it offers a swishy ambience for worshippers.

The auditorium is fully air-conditioned and well decorated. Okotie’s office on the upper deck of the building has glass- covered walls, a guitar and giant portrait of Muhammad Ali. His congregation largely consists of young company executives and well educated businessmen.
Okotie’s teachings are delivered in high-sounding grammar, earning him accusations of promoting style over substance. But he has always been a man of style. He is a chic dresser, a lover of fancy automobiles and when driving on Lagos roads, he is provided security cover by armed policemen.

He also owns a gun, which he acquired after a robbery attack on his home in the upscale Opebi area. The former pop star has an impressive dog kennel, featuring various breeds. At the end of every year, he holds an awards ceremony–Karis Awards. The award, which carries a cash prize of N500,000, is given to aged persons who have distinguished themselves in public life. Mrs. Magaret Ekpo and Hajiya Gambo Sawaba have been beneficiaries. The ceremony also attracts top politicians. The last edition was chaired by Deputy Senate President, Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu. Then, Okotie is also a politician. He contested the last presidential election and has already declared his interest in the next one.

Okotie’s major companion may be the Bible, but he is also within a touching distance of controversy. Separated from his wife, Tina, for many years, he is often romantically linked with every available beauty queen and beautiful celebrity women, many of who are members of his church. Okotie also has a reputation for taking on other pastors. In 2001, he accused Chris Oyakhilome of fetish practices because Oyakhilome visited Prophet T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue of All Nations. The same year, he released a book, The Last Outcast, which many branded heretical. Yet, it was feverishly bought and sold by his followers.

His property portfolio is impressive. A few years ago, Okotie bought the huge stretch of land opposite his church, making him the owner of virtually everything on the street, named after his church. His roots in music have not withered. He released an album in 2001. His ministry, however, has just one parish. Okotie’s reason for opposing spread is that it is through church branches that doctrines are corrupted.

Matthew Ashimolowo
An accomplished motivational speaker with tremendous following and a glamorous lifestyle. Ashimolowo is a prolific writer, who teaches that faith brings wealth. He is also popular for recorded sermons which are bought even by members of other denominations. Formerly based in the United Kingdom, Ashimolowo’s church, Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), is one of the biggest in England. Established 20 years ago in London, with a congregation of 17, the church has grown to 12,000 members. It also has branches in Accra and Lagos, where he currently resides.

Ashimolowo left Britain in 2002, following allegations of tax evasion and mismanagement levelled against him by the British Charity Commission. He was accused of living in a rent-free house owned by a charity organisation established by him, and of using the charity’s credit card to buy a timeshare property in Florida, United States. A timeshare is an arrangement under which joint owners have rights to a property to be used as a holiday home. Ashimolowo was said to have received £120,000 as a birthday gift and spent £80,000 on a Mercedes. The Charity Commission’s investigations also concluded that the church had mismanaged its £8.5million income and that its leaders’ personal interests conflict with their duties. Investigations added that the assets of Ashimolowo’s charity were not used for the purposes stated in its registration.

In addition, the pastor and his wife were alleged to have received tithes totaling £384,000 between October 1992 and September 2000. Of this, £338, 334 was paid into the account of one of his companies for “pastoral services.” The church was eventually taken over by receivers, who found boxes containing cash, cheques and invoices being loaded into a car. Last year, the charity was handed the control of the church, making it a charitable company rather than a trust. The new arrangement stipulates that Ashimolowo pay back £200,000.
Prior to the crisis, the church was controlled by a pastoral board which included Ashimolowo and his wife, Yemisi.

In an address to his congregation, Ashimolowo admitted that the church made a couple of mistakes in its transactions, but insisted no fraud was found. He said if fraud had been found, the church would have been closed down rather than re-opened under a new administrative structure. The pastor is now planning to build a 10,000-capacity auditorium on a land allocated to the 2012 Olympic Games.

http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1211

Nigeria has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of abyss which lies between the handful of hypocritical multimillionaire evangelists and pastors who wallow in filth and luxury and the millions of their congregations who constantly live on the verge op pauperism. It is my considered opinion that when coups and revolutions are being staged, they shouldn't just be against the politicians. The evangelists should be included in the list of those to be swept away for they are also politicians. Politicians in cassocks.

If Nigeria is really the most populous country in Black Africa as it is widely claimed, then this would be a good measure to reduce the population.

The most famous philosophical character of the classical world, the Socrates of Plato's dialogues, did not pride himself on how much he knew. On the contrary, he prided himself on being the only one who knew how little he knew. Taking my cue from this great philosophical immortal, I hereby proclaim that I am not a man of knowledge, I function from a state of not knowing, and I have found that that is the most beautiful space to function from. I fully admit making an error of judgement and a judgement of error by confusing the sabbath for sunday. That means from the way historical events have now unfolded, my friend would not be transgressing the law if he went to work on sunday, which to my understanding is not the same thing as the sabbath. And even if he went to work on the sabbath, the New Testament has exonerated him by describing his job as not entailing 'work' and consequently, not a real breach of the sabbath. Be that as it may, I still have an axe to grind with my friend because of his chosen profession: religous minister.

He has now joined the ever-expanding army of pastors, evangelists and preachers who use religion in teaching of a god of punishment and terrible retribution. This is but a subtle strategy to create mental slavery and to use fear in explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. There is a saying that for every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill. And gullibility is the fallibility of the oppressed creature. Religion has therefore become the opium of the people, using fear to benumb their consciousness. It is through fear that churches gain and control their membership. And there exists an exact mathematical correlation between church attendance and collections. Now do I really understand why my friend has been persistently urging me to follow him to the church. Personal aggrandizement. But I am fundamentally uninterested in allowing myself to become a captive of the illusion of "the terrible vengeance of the Lord." From my understanding, I know that religion should all be forgotten about. People should return to spirituality or religiousness. Religon and religiouness are not the same thing.Religousness happens only when a Buddha or a Krishna or a Christ is alive. When Christ dies, there is religion. Religion is the corpse of religiousness and in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task of organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not. And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question; a zombie.

In the light of the foregoing, am I still obligated to kill my friend?

mukina misses Moukee. Missing in action. Peace, I'm out. Going to work.

Something is quite wrong here. Check this out.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-9283.0.html

Now, I am wondering why Seun killed that thread when all that the posters were trying to do was to have fun with and experiment with the english language on an intelligent and intelligible level. Methinks Seun is one of the older brothers Moladun is referring to. Hmmm.

mukina2:

rhoda wats up wit u and eve

What is not up with Rhoddy and Eve? How can you experience the full therepeutic effect of venting your anger when you are always on the cool. Rhoda has to do something like this before she can regain her equilibrium and nobody, I repeat, nobody should should apportion any blame to her. Let the blame be on me instead for this is my prescription.

Moladun enough is enough. There is no grammar there. We all know you can write good english, but if you want to go ahead with this character then have the decency of polishing your pidgin so as to make it readable. Pidgin, of course is ok by me and I suppose everyone else on Nairaland forum. Afterall, it is our proper lingua franca.

Sis Rhoda, I'm down wit u. You got guts baby, and that is what trips me. Kudos.

orgasm.

mamaput:

or not .
Were are the older people . Do they not use pc or do they not have time?
The other forms am in have a lot of people my age.
so write your ages let me see if my bones are dry.

We are of the same age. Surprised?

Diddy don't throw no punch on yabis thread. Just wondering if you're lily-livered. I'm down with you dawg, all the way down cuz you cool like dat.

Who the hell is Moladun? I am getting sick and tired of reading your "dry" posts. What are you really aiming at? It is not hard to guess: attention. But you are going about it in a way that exposes your stupendous stupidity. When two persons look at or touch the same object or hear the same tune they form certain sensuous images. In order to cooperate in social life, people have to inform each other about what they have seen and heard, share their impressions and store and communicate varied knowledge. It is quite a pity that ever since you joined Nairaland on June 9 2006, all your posts have fallen short of these credentials. Rather, you have resorted to acting out the persona of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde; a role which has forced me to assume that you are either a product of a broken home or you come from a family where nobody understands the concept of rational behaviour.From hindsight, I have now come to realise that when I initiated the thread "Who's the Dumbest Poster on Nairaland?", it was a bit too premature. I should have waited for you to come aboard first before giving the award by error of commission to Eveseh. Eh yo Eve, I owe you an apology. You Moladun are the dumbest poster on Nairaland forum. You just came on board and you've started comparing yourself to veterans like Diddy and Playboy. Have you bothered to check those guys profiles to see when they signed on to Nairaland. And if you really want to know what I think about you, I think you've not outgrown the backwardness of the Cromagnon woman. Wake up girl and stop this clowning.

Who the hell is Moladun? I am getting sick and tired of reading your "dry" posts. What are you really aiming at? It is not hard to guess: attention. But you are going about it in a way that exposes your stupendous stupidity. When two persons look at or touch the same object or hear the same tune they form certain sensuous images. In order to cooperate in social life, people have to inform each other about what they have seen and heard, share their impressions and store and communicate varied knowledge. It is quite a pity that ever since you joined Nairaland on June 9 2006, all your posts have fallen short of these credentials. Rather, you have resorted to acting out the persona of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde; a role which has forced me to assume that you are either a product of a broken home or you come from a family where nobody understands the concept of rational behaviour.From hindsight, I have now come to realise that when I initiated the thread "Who's the Dumbest Poster on Nairaland?", it was a bit too premature. I should have waited for you to come aboard first before giving the award by error of commission to Eveseh. Eh yo Eve, I owe you an apology. You Moladun are the dumbest poster on Nairaland forum. You just came on board and you've started comparing yourself to veterans like Diddy and Playboy. Have you bothered to check those guys profiles to see when they signed on to Nairaland. And if you really want to know what I think about you, I think you've not outgrown the backwardness of the Cromagnon woman. Wake up girl and stop this clowning.

If a feminist could be defined as an advocate of the maxim which says what is good for the goose is good for the gander, then I am an unrepentant feminist. It grieves me to always contemplate the fact that men and women are born free, but everywhere the women are in chains. This situation has become so rampant in africa where it is normal for the women to be seen and not heard; where the men indulge in extramarital affairs while the women are made to swear chastity oaths; where when the husbands travel abroad and start devouring white flesh, the wives are expected to keep on waiting for their return before they can have sex; where when the man dies, it is the woman that is held responsible for the tragedy. In a word, the African situation provides a veritable context for the socio-economic enslavement of women. I have been listening to Fela's "Lady" for a couple of days now and I must confess that I really find that piece of music filled with male chauvinistic ideas. Any woman that is really worth her salt should never listen to that music. We are living in an age of liberation and the womenfolks should strive consciously and subconsciously, with every nerve and sinew to liberate themselves from the shackles of mental slavery by joining the band wagon of the Kpangolo Revolution.

I ain't saying you're a gold digger, but you're no messing with a broke nigga. Haha!

Eh, what are you people turning my thread into? A forum for light gists. Damn, I'm pissed off. Nobody is dissing, nobody is spitting fire, nobody is tearing anybody apart. Are you guys reading me wrong. Maybe I've got to delve into your profiles and bring up something you once posted , which you probably thought eveyone had forgotten about. Diddy, what kind of instigator are you? I can't imagine you of all people playing on my turf instead of brandishing your ax. get real nigga, get real.

Ka:

Moukee,
, People in other countries are calling their revolutions 'correct' names like Orange Revolution, Tulip Revolution and Velvet Revolution, and instead you want to disgrace Nigeria by giving our revolution a low rent name like Kpangolo Revolution! Abeg, comot for space and don't come back until you have thought of a better name!

Kpangolo revolution my @*#~!!!

Insofar as the Kpangolo Revolution is the child of my brain, it is also a true reflection of the socioeconomic realities prevalent in Nigeria. There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria is a traditional polity, by which I mean that the level of development is not to be and should not be quantified in horticultural terms. Why do we have to use tulip, orange, rose, hibiscus and other bourgeois terms to describe a budding revolution which is designed to sweep away the same people that use these products to decorate their dining tables and homes? The Kpangolo Revolution is a people-oriented revolution. And by people I mean the market women, the traditional farmers, the area boys, the hawkers on the streets, prostitutes, orphans, widows without any means of subsistence and all other underprivileged victims of social inequity: the rejectamenta of the Nigerian capitalist society. These are the kind of people that always go around scavenging empty cans from rubbish heaps where they have been dumped by the overfed bourgeoisie. The kpangolo is the proletarian almsbag of the people and whoever says it is not a befitting name for the revolution is a counter-revolutionary. Does the fact that George is called Bush make him a worse president than Nixon or Obasanjo?. Who is not with us is against us.

twinstaiye:

Moukee, I want to believe you are the only one on this, besides, is the protest taking place in terra firma or here in Nigeria?

I am aware of the existence of fifth columnists in our midst, minions of the State security service and I dare say that Twinstaiye is one of them. You would never believe in the possibility of a revolution, violent or peaceful, taking place in Nigeria. And I dare say again that those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable. What exactly is your beef with the Kpangolo Revolution? I guess you are always happy to see the suffering masses sweating it out at Oshodi market and busstop and eking out a precarious existence while you are cruising around in your air-conditioned toyota corolla. That sh*t I talked about is going to be stuffed straight inside your mouth when we get hold of you on that day. When the citizens of Ukraine, Georgia and Lebanon successfully prosecuted their peaceful revolutions without shedding even the blood of mosquitoes which bit nonsense out of them while they were camped in the open, then it would be sheer stupidity, cowardice and myopia to think that such a thing cannot happen in good ol' Naija.

Seun:

<sarcasm>
So you want to go to Ikoyi in order to make noise and destroy the homes of rich people and their children.
That is so sensible, meaningful and purposeful!
</sarcasm>

Seun, you are amused over the possibility of upbraiding the peace on that dead Alcatraz you call Ikoyi and Victoria Islands. Just wait until the Kpangolo Revolution spreads to the palaces of Alafin of Oyo, Oni of Ife, Oba of Eko, Onibadan of Ibadan, Oba of Benin, Igwe of Onitsha, Sardauna of Sokoto, Ado Bayero of Kano and all the other feudalists par excellent. Then you will be bemused.

I say again to my people, arise! You have nothing to lose, but your chains. All power to the people!

It is necessary to point out from the onset that long before Mujahid Asari Dokubo founded the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force, I had already laid out a blueprint for the Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Southern Minorities(REMOLISM). Due to the fact that I wasn't much of a visionary then and coupled with the fact that I allowed myself to be seduced by a mirage of complacency, the revolutionary fire flickered low to glimmer, dim and wan. Now I am so much consumed by hate and fury and anger and rage and outrage, that had been accumulating in me a long time. Why? I take a look at my country Nigeria and all I see are people who are unable to obtain food and drink, housing and clothing in adequate quality and quantity. And yet we continue to call ourselves the giant of Africa. A giant indeed! A colossus with feet of clay, methinks would be more appropriate.

Fellow Nairalanders, we are living in perilious times, and at times like these the sick man should learn to lean to the reassuring doctor however incompetent he may be. We are all living witnesses to the ousters of Slobodan Milosevic(may he roast in hell along with Abacha) in 2000, Edward Shervardnadze in 2003, and in recent times the Orange Revolution which restored Ukrainian democracy to the rightful candidate(who has but disappointed the people).

On the basis of the above-mentioned silent revolutions, I now call on all Nairalanders who have become disenchanted with the status quo to come out en masse on October 1, during the Independence Day celebrations, fully armed and equipped, not with guns and bayonets, but with kpangolos, empty cans, tins, pots, kettles, aluminium basins and buckets and all other kinds of vessels that are capable of producing noise when hit upon. We shall proceed to the Government Reservation Areas and all other designated locations reserved solely for accommodation by the so-called upper class. We shall unleash with a fury that can only be compared to Shango raining his thunderbolts on his enemies, the cacophonious emanations of our kpangolo. Their golf courses and other recreational facilities shall be taken over and turned upside down.We shall pee on their well-manicured lawns and use our rubbish to smear the walls that they have erected as barriers to segregate us.

Arise, my fellow Nairalanders, the beacons are aflame. Aluta continua. Victoria acerta.

I am an atheist, thank God!