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DrMuzungu:
This well-fed (read: orobo) "princess" should be in prison for funds embezzlement instead of being free to make political statements.

This is a clear sign that you are either not following the Nigerian politics or you are dumb. Senator Oduah is one of the best things that happen to the Nigerian political circle. Ask people she is representing

In the world where adults dictate the fate of everyone, no group is as vulnerable as the children. Apart from being dependent on the adults, they have no one to stand for them but the adults. But like the saying goes: 'child is the father of man', the children of today would be the adults of tomorrow; and if properly taking care of, they would take care of the generation to come. In a country like Nigeria, with a lot of social challenges to tackle, the great Senator Stella Oduah found it necessary to Co-sponsor a motion that would affect the Nigerian Child.

In the motion, the Senator representing Anambra North and other co-sponsors highlighted the plights of the Nigerian child which have disfavored the Nigerian children of today placing them behind most children in another part of the world and children that were born in the Nigeria of yesterday.

It is true that the National Health Act of 2014 gives the pregnant women, the elderly, the disabled and the children the right for free medical services in all public hospitals; nevertheless, till hitherto, the act is not fully implemented across the country that has high infant and maternal mortality rate.

Senator Oduah believes that every child in this country should enjoy free basic education, free medical services, and at least government provision of food to the children in schools. She has shown over and again that her presence in the upper chamber placed her in the right position to play a mother to the children of this great nation.

It is a beautiful feat that the Children Rights Act was passed by the Senate President, Senator Buckola Saraki, and as we celebrate the Children today, we encourage every sector and people like Senator Stella Oduah that work towards the welfare of the children. They should not relent in their commendable struggle and God will be their strength.

Happy Children's day.

#TEAM ISSOM

A hired assassin was caught at Ayamelum in Anambra State at APC guber rally.

Youths should not sacrifice their lives. He was mobbed by the youths and was nearly lynched before the police came and apprehended him.

In the rally was Dr Tony Nwoye, the gubernatorial candidate of APC.

As a bachelor in a 2-bedroom bungalow, and having a job that drags me away from FCT, made it a chilling discomfort whenever AEDC brings their bloated bills. I managed to pay for a few months, and in late March of this year, I travelled to the East and stayed for a full month and did not step into Abuja until the 3rd day of May. I was not surprised when I noticed that my light cable was disconnected, but I felt depressed when I saw N9,900.00 bill for the month of April (Which I did not even stay for a second). I went to the office to complain, and they told me that I would have written to AEDC before I traveled. With that demoralizing experience, I paid the bill and desperately begged for a pre-paid meter. I was told to pay N25,000.00 into my AEDC account for a meter. Which I did immediately on that 4th of May. .

It took AEDC 2 months to wipe out my N25,000.00 and still, no meter was sent to me. In August, I wrote to their Wuse Zone 4 headquarters and they promised to tackle my issue within 2 weeks. A promise unfulfilled. Then, later in August, I got a job that would take me away from FCT, and I knew that I would spend not less than two months, so I wrote to inform AEDC in a letter dated 3rd of September informing them that I would leave on the 7th of September and would not be in Abuja until November. They took the letter in Bwari Area Council without acknowledging it. I complained through AEDC Twitter handle and was assured that someone will call me from their office.

Since the 6th of September till date, I have written over 30 times to the company (through twitter) begging them to suspend my account and possibly cut-off my power-supply cable till I am back. Each message got a speed response that says: 'Your complaint has been forwarded...'

Then 2 weeks later, I got a call from AEDC - the Katampe service unit. When I communicated my address to the caller, I was told that my complaint was sent to the wrong service unit that I should write back to AEDC and tell them to resend my complaint to Bwari unit. I reported back to their Twitter-handle - this time, I tagged Minister Fashola - and was told by AEDC to visit Bwari.

How could I have made it? I am thousands of miles away from Abuja. I began afresh to write to them. I resent every information I gave them from 6th of September. I reinform them that I was not in Abuja and would still be away for months. They promised to contact me from Bwari; yet no one called.

It is a month gone now. I still will be away for another month or more. I was made to pay N25,000.00 for a pre-paid meter which I did not see.

The bills are scary enough whenever it comes, but causes cardiac arrest when you know you are paying a bill for what you did not use for a second. By the time I will return, in their usual manner, they must have summed up over N20,000.00 bill and if I keep mute, it would grow as the day goes by.

I appeal to the company to do the needful, and to great people of Nigeria to assist me with a workable solution. I have done all I know.

Thank You
Ozioma Anieto
Twitter: @ozii_baba

What do you think? Can APC win Anambra State?

Have you ever heard the saying: 'We Are All Leaders'? It is true but there are few that have the gracious quality to lead other leaders. Men of various birth, whose backgrounds may not provide any leverage to place them above their peers; but it remains an indisputable fact that from the day a man leaves the womb, his destiny follows him. And if death spares a chicken that hatched into a male, it will one day become a cock.

Tony Nwoye is that chick. Known by his friends and foes for his fearlessness and humility; he lived his whole life with an unquenchable hunger to serve and protect the people, and this inherent quality was not only a blessing to him, but it attracted the unavoidable foes.

As a young leader, highly placed people that could not understand how a man of low birth could climb so fast and seem unstoppable started backbiting, but envy is not enough to wipe out a man's calling.

Tony Nwoye became nationally relevant when he took up the mantle of leadership and led the whole Association of Nigerian student (NANS). He was the only Igbo man - since 1983 till date - to preside over the National student's body; and in Tony Nwoye, student activism was awakened.

Serving NANS in the days of President Olusegun Obasanjo, he checked the excesses of the Federal Government and risked his future by challenging the unfavorable national issues concerning the Nigerian students. Then, he was in his twenties: a young man, barely.

After NANS, Tony did not slow down. His lamp of service was never out of oil nor his flame extinguished. He became active in the National politics, and in his early thirties, he became the State Chairman of the then ruling party - PDP.

This was an intimidating position that tormented the political scavengers that expected only themselves and their generations to dictate for the state. That was the beginning of the plot to tarnish a young man's résumé. These conmen, knowing that the easiest way to annihilate a man is through his reputation, stopped at nothing but to decimate him.

Tony's character was attacked, battered; negative opinions, created. He was linked to unthinkable atrocities; but who can kill a child if his creator fails to sanction? Those image attackers were men, not God.

Tony would not succumb to their cheap blackmail. Rather, he responded by breaking more records. From the root of the grass, he ascended to the pinnacle and ran for the apex position in the state. Then, he was the youngest yet came second in the election.

After the gubernatorial election, his community wanted him to represent them in the National Assembly, and yet again, his adversaries swore with their lives that he would not smell that seat.

Man is not God, and whatever God decides, no man can oppose. Tony's destiny, which was never theirs to decide, prevailed. He is presently a member of the National House Of Representative.

Tony is a man of destiny. A lot can be said about him, but even his enemies admire his 'steel cast' courage.

If there is a man that would give a loud voice to the Igbos, someone we can give the forefront to fight for our right, Tony is such a man.

Tony is a living evidence that a man is not a prisoner of his birth; anybody in this life, no matter the low state of his upbringing, can become anything he desires. All you need is to Trust in God and Believe In Yourself.

Later in this life, when history will tell the story of this gladiator, history would say that Tony is a child of destiny that lived with a singular principle:

'Nothing Is Impossible.'

Ozii Baba Anieto

When Baba praises you, your whole teeth go commot...
No see teeth. God of teeth: Okowa

In the olden days, the animals had a meeting to plan on how to move their Kingdom forward. For it was not proper for only a single creature to manage the affairs of the animals, it was agreed that two animals should be appointed: one a carnivore and another, a herbivore. After due consultations, the Lion, who was the strongest of all beasts, was mandated to rule and protect other animals and the Donkey, for his amiable qualities, was also charged to assist him. When the Lion took over the mantle, he made himself a Monarch surrounded himself with the cow, the horse, and the leopard, who were his praise singers and sycophants. It became an unspoken law that no animal would speak ill of the Lion.

One day, the King went on a journey to a distant land and asked the Donkey to watch over his throne. The animals found nothing wrong in his leave until days turned to weeks, and weeks turned to months. The animals started murmuring but none was bold enough to speak out.

But in the wild was a he-goat whose name was Mkpi, who lived his life fearing neither carnivores nor living by the dictates of cowards. When it was obvious that no animal wanted to be an enemy of Lion's supporters, Mkpi took the bull by the horns.

'We appointed two people,' he said. 'And for months, we have not seen the Lion. Is it not wise that another animal should be appointed to replace the Lion.'

In fear, other animals shouted him down: 'The Lion, our great master, has given the throne to the Donkey. Your words are vain and you bleat for nothing.'

But Mkpi would not stop talking: 'For months now, we have not seen the Lion. Are there no other carnivore that would take his place. All I want to say is that the Lion should resume or resign.'

This infuriated the Leopard and he rallied other animals and seized the He-goat. They beat him and Leopard passed a judgment on him:
'We are going to throw you into the sewage so that you will smell like shit forever.'

As they dragged Mkpi to the sewage, the Sheep, who was a known coward, said to him: 'See what you have brought upon yourself. For the sake of your life, you wouldn't have spoken out.'

The he-goat turned and asked him: 'How do you live every day when things are falling apart? How do you wake up in the morning and wish not to be true to yourself?'

'But I am not the one being disgraced here,' the sheep replied. 'See as they drag you like a criminal. And forever in this life, you will smell of excrement. Can't you see that your path would bring you to no good?'

But Mkpi bleated as he was dragged to the sewage saying: 'That a man is punished for a course doesn't make the course ignoble.'

This is Ajambele. Join me on twitter: @ozii_baba let's deliberate on 'ResumeOrResign'

In the olden days, the animals had a meeting to plan on how to move their Kingdom forward. For it was not proper for only a single creature to manage the affairs of the animals, it was agreed that two animals should be appointed: one a carnivore and another, a herbivore. After due consultations, the Lion, who was the strongest of all beasts, was mandated to rule and protect other animals and the Donkey, for his amiable qualities, was also charged to assist him. When the Lion took over the mantle, he made himself a Monarch surrounded himself with the cow, the horse, and the leopard, who were his praise singers and sycophants. It became an unspoken law that no animal would speak ill of the Lion.

One day, the King went on a journey to a distant land and asked the Donkey to watch over his throne. The animals found nothing wrong in his leave until days turned to weeks, and weeks turned to months. The animals started murmuring but none was bold enough to speak out.

But in the wild was a he-goat whose name was Mkpi, who lived his life fearing neither carnivores nor living by the dictates of cowards. When it was obvious that no animal wanted to be an enemy of Lion's supporters, Mkpi took the bull by the horns.

'We appointed two people,' he said. 'And for months, we have not seen the Lion. Is it not wise that another animal should be appointed to replace the Lion.'

In fear, other animals shouted him down: 'The Lion, our great master, has given the throne to the Donkey. Your words are vain and you bleat for nothing.'

But Mkpi would not stop talking: 'For months now, we have not seen the Lion. Are there no other carnivore that would take his place. All I want to say is that the Lion should resume or resign.'

This infuriated the Leopard and he rallied other animals and seized the He-goat. They beat him and Leopard passed a judgment on him:
'We are going to throw you into the sewage so that you will smell like shit forever.'

As they dragged Mkpi to the sewage, the Sheep, who was a known coward, said to him: 'See what you have brought upon yourself. For the sake of your life, you wouldn't have spoken out.'

The he-goat turned and asked him: 'How do you live every day when things are falling apart? How do you wake up in the morning and wish not to be true to yourself?'

'But I am not the one being disgraced here,' the sheep replied. 'See as they drag you like a criminal. And forever in this life, you will smell of excrement. Can't you see that your path would bring you to no good?'

But Mkpi bleated as he was dragged to the sewage saying: 'That a man is punished for a course doesn't make the course ignoble.'

This is Ajambele. Join me on twitter: @ozii_baba let's deliberate on 'ResumeOrResign'

Unless We Place The Need Of The Society Before Our Own Interest, Both We And The Society Will Perish In Our Suicidal Short-Sightedness.

The biggest challenge before a Nigerian youth is that he doesn't see Nigeria as his own. To him, the ownership of this country can be defined with the term 'Turn by Turn'. His whole understanding tells him that until he mounts the mantle, he is not a stakeholder in this entity called Nigeria. Pity. We are totally disconnected from the heart of the only nation we can call our own. This perception is broadly known as MUMU.

Let me break it down: Mumu is when you see the relatives of your Governor graduating from foreign Universities and the University in your state is on strike. Instead of being angry, you envy them.

Mumu is when you have no trust in the state's healthcare because you know that Government hospitals are ill equipped, and in your solitude wishes you could afford a trip outside Nigeria - medical tourism. Who do you blame? your stars - for not bringing fortune - or the government that denies you an average health care?

How many souls have we lost on the death traps we call roads? How many people die while seeking jobs? Who do we blame? Our destiny or our rulers?

I will like us to see what is happening in Nigeria from another angle:
Assuming you have a company and you employed a manager this January; if that manager takes permission and stays for 50days (Almost 2 months) in a hospital, then comes back. After some weeks he returns to the hospital and for over a hundred days (3 months), you are yet to see him, tell yourselves the truth, 'What will be your next action?'

Sentiments apart, I will tell that manager that my company is suffering. If he cannot resume, he should just quit and take care of his health. His health is greater and more worthwhile than the company. why neglect the gift of good health? I will take my company back.

Our Mumu Don Do is a clarion call. Let's take our company: Nigeria back. Most people that want the President to remotely rule this country cannot defend their decision rationally. Charly Boy is better off than 99% of us. He is not fighting for his household. He is fighting for me and you. What happened today in Wuse Market calls for sober reflection and sympathy towards Charly Boy. He was nearly lynched. His car totaled. He is human, he knew his life is on the line. But he wants us to wake up and say Our Mumu Don Do. Think about this piece.

To President Buhari I say: 'Get Well Soon,' but the noble options before you are '#ResumeOrResign.'

God bless Nigerian Youths. God bless you.

I still do not know how to delete a post on Nairaland. Somebody, please help me

I thought I have seen it all

There is always another side of a coin. Social justice is always with no investigation. I pray for justice. Real justice not Facebook justice

Who the gods want to dent, they answer his prayers.

I still remember my role in 2015 Presidential Social Media campaign. The truth was that my support for Goodluck was emotional: I saw the APC – PDP political tussle as marginalisation of the weak. I saw Buhari as a ‘muscle’ man, a disciplinarian, oga kpatakpata and incorruptible general with the backing of the amalgamation of the North and West, but still saw Goodluck as that guy with no shoes, who, by the special grace of the almighty, ascended the throne. I even pardoned Mr. Goodluck’s shortcomings, I saw them as a sabotage from his political enemy, for that reason, I stood by him.

Buhari, before 2015, was a special breed. We believed he had what it takes to fight corruption. Like most Nigerians, I thought Babangida would be the first to rent a space in Kuje prison. The sin of his past-coup and corruption would come knocking on his door; not only Babangida but all the past looters of the public funds. Buhari had the Messianic image until his only prayer – to become to president – was answered.

The failure of Mr. President to live up to the expectation has deepened my fear that Nigeria will not recover anytime soon; it’s a sign that there are no more good men in our midst that could move this country forward. For if this scrupulous old soldier could not change our fate, who then will? But Buhari will bear the highest casualty if he resigns now because none of us will remember him as a disciplinarian or the ‘no-nonsense’ gladiator; what we will remember was the suffering his government brought, the Amechis, the untouchable Babashir 'grass cutters' Lawal, and a million corruption cases he could not solve.

Buhari has become the actor who did not leave the stage at the loudest ovation; a man who fought so hard to demystify his own larger-than-life image; King Hezekiah of our time.

Had the gods done him a favor and rejected his supplications, he would have died a sad man but we would have still believed that he was the only flawless man that would have change Nigeria.

But unluckily for all of us, his prayer was answered.

Facebook Post by Ozii Baba Anieto

All scammers should read this

I saw the post where people compared the prizes in Big Brother Nigeria, Maltina Dance Hall e.t.c to Spelling Bee, Best Student In WAEC and other Educational competition. They made ‘the post’ sound so horrible that one might conclude that the end time is near. Funny. In my understanding, things are not changing, it was so even in the time immemorial: Michael Jackson started entertaining the world at a tender age and America made him extremely rich not because he discovered that atom is the smallest element in a cell. Nat King Cole and Ray dined with American presidents because of their status as entertainers. In the 80s and early 90s, the exercise book ‘Olympic’ used in the whole Nigeria had the picture of Chukwuma Ifeajuna, an Onitsha man, who won the commonwealth gold even before the civil war.
The truth, the world wants to be entertained and until the school system integrates Entertainment into their scheme, the educational system will continue in its pipe dream illusion of being the key to success.

There are things I learnt when I was a boy in Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, and I realized that we are blind to the most important lesson of Education. We missed the real knowledge the school should champion.

If you were not in DMGS, you would think that ‘Reading’ was all the students did. Its true we had the The Ugwuowos, The Ofoches, The Maludums, Agbasimelos etc… but that was not all we had in the school where every student wore ‘short knickers’.

Sir Victor Obidike was the Principal then, and even as a disciplinarian, he knew that Education was not just reading and writing; Education, to him, was far deeper than that. The school was so organized that we had Aecstatic Prefect, whose work was to make sure the school, most especially the flowers, was always beautiful. We had the best school choir in the whole of the East if not Nigeria as a whole, a big piano, and it never lacked pianists.

Before I came into DMGS, my elder brother, Chigozie, now the Principal of the school, was in the school choir, and by association, I joined him. There, I heard about one Abednego Okafor, the school pianist, who left the school a year before, but I met Alvan Nwamara (Ikoku), and also saw when the music room was handed over to Opanka – Ilokanuno.

Later my brother, even as an S.S 1 student, without being a pianist, became the student head of the music room under Mrs Orji, Mrs Ikpeze, Mrs Obiozor etc. Chigozie was the last Music prefect I met in DMGS before I switched to St Charles Special Science School. But still in the Choir were the phenomenal Emeka Egbonu, the genus Elochukwu Oku, Strong vocalist Enwezor, Kene Orji, Moses okafor and many others.

The choristers were not the best in academics but Sir Victor Obidike never played with that department. We were treated like the celebrities: we did not participate in manual labor; we accompany the old boys and the staff to functions: most especially, the burial of members (the first three times I traveled outside Anambra State in my life was because I was a DMGS chorister). And when I was just 14, the Association of Nigerian Principals had their meeting in Anambra state and invited the DMGS glorious choir. There, I was paid my first ever salary which was paid on daily basis (there was a monetary package given to the choir).

Fast forward 20 years later. I relocated to Abuja.
I discovered that there is NO church I went to in that town without finding a former student of DMGS in its choir: either as a pianist, a choirmaster or respected chorister.

Abednego, the school pianist which I did not meet, was in Abuja as the pianist in Aso Rock Villa Chapel. A choirmaster and an authority in the Abuja choral world.

Alvan Nwamara is now a PhD in music: a celebrity still. You are not a chorister in the East if you don’t know Dr. Alvan.

Before my brother became a priest, he was celebrated in All Saints because of his voice, and my youngest, who was also a product of the system, live, till this day., on music

What are my points? Reading and Writing, which we termed
Education was just a faculty in the University of Real Education. The world has always been more interested in sportsmanship: Entertainment - sports, music, stage acting etc. Even then in DMGS, we celebrated the Agile Zuby Uzoegwu, Muche Muche Amuta (who was a tin god of line and tracks), the Enyi Mouba, Lapote of tug of war, the cultural group dancers of Mazi Ikedinma and one junior boy named Monika.

Don’t get me wrong; the traditional ‘Reading and Writing’ is good but if your knowledge cannot put a food on your table, what a shame? Till this day, all the young boys that were dedicated in DMGS choir that I see now in Abuja still earn a residual income from singing, and DMGS was not a special school for music but there was a man who knew that education does not end in the classroom. A man who understood that ‘Pruned Talent’ also is also Knowledge.

Even Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook was more interested in how you feel (the fake importance Facebook brings) than asking you to find the algebraic ‘x’.

Take Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship ProgrammeProject (TEEP) for example, Tony would share a million or two to young entrepreneurs but in the final day of the TEEP, he would pay tens of millions to P-Square for them to jump on the stage for three minutes making them the highest recipient.

How many professors did Aligo Dangote, the richest black man, visit in their houses? but we saw him in Peter Okoye's house in a picture that went viral.

Do you think Mike Adenuga does not know that ‘Kid mathematician’ and the future astronauts? but when he wants people to promote his business, he would look for the Wizkids to be Glo Ambassadors.

Olamide chills with governors, and girls are no longer ashamed to be Flavor’s baby mamas.
Would you have preferred Okocha and Kanu if they were respectively a doctor and a lawyer?

Entertainment (sportsmanship) was/is everything.

Present Educational system, which is completely out of date, needs a management that understands the flow of the tides. If what Sir V.U Obidike did in DMGS can be replicated in Anambra state, where a student that cannot solve the simultaneous equation but can play guitar would feel so important based on his skills, then the whole country will not stand in front of us in ten years’ time. This is the new Education. Justin Biber is no longer interested in the head, chest, and abdomen of a grasshopper. Even the developed Europe have football schools.

There will always be the Professors: some people are born academicians, but the new school should find the best in each student and encourage it. If well managed, it will prove more productive.

‘Reading and Writing’ may be the key to success, but well-harnessed Talent is success

Ozii Baba Anieto
www.oziibaba.com

Sometimes, saying 'sorry' is simply an abuse of the power of forgiveness...

the video below showed that our leaders are concentrating on urban areas and neglecting the rural areas. the only way we could help these unlucky victims of our system is to call upon the stake holders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU2Euwa88OA

KnegroDamus: ^ I understand you

All i'm saying is don't spread BS. I can understand that you feel like you have been wronged and don't want that to happen to anyone else, but that doesn't give you license to spread misleading information.

What do you mean by de-genderize? Gender is good, men and women benefit from it. And no it is not "legal" for a husband to rape a wife, or this case from the OP would have never made it to court.

If rape is a real threat in someones marriage... they should not have gotten married in the first place. I think the average woman is capable enough to understand that.

To de-genderize, I mean a re-visit and upturning of genderization(a specific role assigned to a particular gender in the society) that makes the woman seen and unheard, turning her into the man's property.

On the second issue on legality of a husband raping his wife, just take out ur time and read thru marital rap.e...even the so called developed world are now waking up to the cry of married WOMEN....below is what I copied from the report of first resolution against MARITAL RAP.E:

In 2006, it was estimated that marital rap.e could be prosecuted in at least 104 countries (in four of these countries, marital rap.e could be prosecuted only when the spouses were judicially separated)

...only when they are judicially separated...makes no sense
and me n u know that Nigeria is not part of the 104 countries and even America still find it difficult to prosecute MARITAL RAP.E.

from ur comment; if rape is a real threat..... thats why we all need to pray, people get married believing they are inseparable...then devil comes. I tell you, love may be blind, but marriage is not...marriage sees with microscope...
netozii
www.kobolife.com

KnegroDamus: [size=15pt]Thats like me saying "murder is the constant process of intimidation by which all women keep all other women in a constant state of fear"


you see how silly that sounds? I hope you understand what i mean about the "feminine angle".


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We are the product of our past and what turned me into a feminist may be a force to correct some errors in our present. There are leakages in our society imposed mainly by law and religion to favor men, but we need to degenderize. KnegroDramus, Even the law says that a husband cannot rap.e his wife....its as good as saying a husband cannot kill his wife, so if he does, the law does not cover that angle. Issues on sex is pure masculine, and men take advantage of it. I don't need to preach on how many issues of this sordid cases we experience....I Like ur sarcasm and abeg, i no be loner...
netozii
www.kobolife.com