A critical evaluation of the Black community in America will point to the fact that black love especially between black men and black women is on a downward spiral. There is a very deep chasm between the average black man and the black woman spread over years and years of abuse and neglect culminating in the resultant hate and dissatisfaction between both parties. The reason for this is not far fetched at all.

While we may argue otherwise, women are quite emotional creatures who have a tendency to give as much love as they receive in time. The average african American man is usually emotionally unavailable, raised in homes where there is hostility, they learn to fend for themselves from an early age. They are brought up in a world riddled with strife, racism and dysfunctional relationships and this unsavoury reality affects their psyche. The US educational system states that African American men are the least educated in the demography, very few of them attain college degrees, with the majority turning to lives of drugs and crime. The black community makes up only about 20% of the entire American population but inversely, they account for 50% of the crimes. While this is a bad thing, in their defence, they have been conditioned to think the world is against them and most of them develop an attitude of resistance and spite against the oppressive system, spite and resistance which subconsciously may also be directed at their wives and mothers.

Their romantic relationships are not exempted from this maladjusted subconsciousness. The women in their lives are treated without the care and affection needed to flame any kind of fire and the relationships are bereft of any real commitment, hence we have a lot of them abscounding at the slightest provocation leaving behind a trail of fatherless children and "baby mothers". Infact, an article states that 70% of Black children in the United States grow up without a father figure and more that 63% of black women are raising children with absentee fathers. Besides the emotional unavailablity of the black men to the black women, there is also the issue of domestic violence, increased education of the black girl child and most importantly,Feminism.
Black women are one of the most domestically abused and violated women in the world.
Due to feminism, more interest has been invested in the education of the girl child including the african American girl child, this has resulted in black women having more college degrees than their male counterparts and consequently becoming much more employable and financially independent. A move that has opened the eyes of the African American woman to the years and years of neglect and abuse in the hands of their men and a strong desire for retaliation and possibly compensation.
Hence the tussle between both parties.

The HATE is palpable as more African American men cannot deal with the Arrogance of the average African American woman anymore and are opting for more interracial relationships. Conversely, more African American women cannot condone the sense of irresponsibility, financial instability and volatilty of the african American male and are content with being single and raising their kids alone while making money and hating their men to an alarming degree.
The scourge of feminism is the fuel that has fired the embers of this hostility between both parties for numerous reasons.
While feminism preaches women empowerment, sexual liberation and independence, it makes sure to also make women the percieved victims at the hands of a brutal predator that is man and to enforce a society that robs men of these same privileges and for the black women in America who have had to endure years of abuse, this ideology is the spark needed to start a bon fire.
The system is winning.
Make black men as homeless and jobless as possible
Use the media to voraciously re-sculpt the image of the black family, painting every black man as a potential woman beater, drug lord/junkie, rapist or child molester.
Empower Women on a radical scale
And what do yoy get? A disgruntled, dissatisfied black family and a desire to squash the black unity to it's barest minimum.

In the long run, the strength of the black community is weakened as we have more and more interracial relationships, more fatherless children and strong independent mothers and a demonisation of the black man who has refused to step up and reclaim his glory.
So the African American woman is filled with hate for her black man and the black man is done with her arrogant, insufferable personality.
Feminism and white supremacy wins.

So why is it so hard over here in Africa? Precisely Nigeria for feminism to be as widespread and powerful as it is in the west?
Simple.
Like earlier noted, women will give only as much love as we receive and as much hate as we receive too in the long run and as we know, feminism uses the spite and struggles of women to launch a frontal attack, magnifying it and blowing everything out of proportion till there is blood and teeth everywhere but this is not really applicable to Nigeria because try as much as you can, Nigerian women are generally in love with Nigerian men.
Why?
Nigerian men take their duties as lovers and providers VERY seriously.
Stay with me. I will explain.
Nigerian women are being brought up to understand that they are to be taken care of by their men and men are being trained to know they Should put their woman's needa before their own. Nigerian men value the domestic family and Nigeria boasts a record of having very low incidents of single mothers compared to other countries in the world.
There is so much emphasis in marriage and marital unions, majority of Nigerian Children are raised in homes complete with both a mother and father devoted to giving the best to their kids.

Feminism will lie to you that marriage is a choke hold on a woman's liberty and an oppressive system that must be done away with but it has been proven that Children fare better psychologically in home complete with their mother and father. A proof of this lie is the dwindling rates of marriages in the US and an alarming rise in dysfunctional children and dissatisfied women and men who have biled stored up for absentee fathers, disgruntled mothers and emotionally available spouses.

Nigerian men will spend millions just to woo a woman, pamper and take care of a woman they care about and since most Nigerian men are well educated and hustle oriented, they have no problem being providers. This is not the case with the black male in the US who are mostly unemployed and largely undate-able from the stability and financial point of view, thereby easy for feminism to turn the women against them. A move that will be difficult to orchestrate in Nigeria as many men prefer to cater than be catered for.
Women loved been cared for
Women loved been wooed.
Women loved been pampered.

This is why feminism is a huge hoax. Nigerian men will make a woman very comfortable just because she is pretty and when a woman is loved, it is difficult for her to completely lose interest in her object of affection
Feminism needs more irresponsible men to be able to thrive and since Nigerian men are not irresponsible by a long shot, it is having a hard time convincing the women to be rebellious.
The truth is - Feminism needs you men to be deadbeat fathers, rapists, drug dealers and murderers for it to be successful. It needs the narrative to strive. It needs for you to be a disappointment so it can work on the psyche of the women and ruin the family unit in it's entirety.
wonder why any singular rape case gets blown over the top? With the wanton generalization of every man as a potential rapist? Because the desperation to villianize men is more acute than ever.
Men. There is nothing wrong with loving your woman flawlessly.
There is nothing wrong in training her in school.
Spending recklessly on her and being her able provider and lover.
It is the only reason we still believe in marriage, love and family.
The only reason we still have patriarchy princesses like me ready to defend you anytime feminism rares it's ugly head.
Take all these away and feminism will win in a couple of years and you would have millions of bitter women hating on you and threatening the total dissolution of the black family and in the long run, the destruction of the black race.
White supremacy wins again even in Africa.
Point of the post? Continue being a good man. Don't let feminism cause you to hate women.
That is what the movement wants. That is what it thrives on. HATE.
Only when the Nigerian man starts treating the Nigerian woman with hate will feminism take control and totally becloud every single black Nigerian woman in all 36 states.
You think a few bitter feminists is annoying? Wait till you have millions to deal with.
N/B - Don't cater to entitled women though and most importantly, don't be a SIMP.

Ngozi Janet Akalonu

Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, Jagaban has promised to legalize yahooyahoo and hookups in favour of Nigerian youths.

Will the youths believe and support Jagaban? Lol.

Still on Atiku Abubakar

Prof. Akin Omoz-Oarhe writes:

A fair comment

1. Atiku is far more educated or exposed than President Buhari. By this, I do not mean the possession of college or educational certificate but having a broader outlook to life. So he would certainly have been less nepotistic and would not have inflicted this level of disunity on us.

2. But he was NOT a nice guy. OBJ made us to know that. He was a crook from his mother's womb:

Just imagine the following:

**In those days when forgery was alien to us in the 1960s, he 'wangled' his way into Police College without the requisite WAEC qualifications. Certificate checks later found him out. He had failed Mathematics, a prerequisite, and was therefore sacked.

**He thereafter went for training as a Sanitary Inspector. He became one but stole a litre of 'Izal' and got sacked.

**Somehow he became a Tax Collector. It was found that with appropriate gratification, he halved the taxes due some people. He got kicked out.

**No record that he ever repeated his WAEC but he got a place in ABU to study for a Diploma in Sharia Law.

**Recruitment Agents wanted some people in the Customs. They found that he was once a Tax Collector and was a student in Police College. Good combination. He got the Customs job. He rose fast.

**One day, while on duty heading a Unit, a beautiful Yoruba girl, Atinuke Titi, had crossed Seme Border to Republic of Benin (then Dahomey) and smuggled in some 'ankara' materials. On her return she was caught by the Customs and dragged to their boss, Atiku. WAO! Atiku loved what he saw. He decided to give the law a human face. He asked his boys what the Customs charges would have been if not smuggled. They computed it and gave him the figure. He paid on her behalf and 3 months later married her as his first wife. Two of a type.

**Atiku continued to rise in the Customs. He was moved to a Unit where it was their duty to open all containers that were imported into Nigeria so as to ascertain the contents before charging appropriate duty. It was a lucrative posting for him. He made friends and money. How? He would for instance open a container and find a car inside that could attract some millions of naira as duty. He would declare that the container contained Panadol tablets that attracted no duty. The owner would share the gain with Atiku. One of the beneficiaries was an Italian. They became good friends via partnership in crime.

**Atiku soon recommended that the job in the Unit was beyond the staffing and that there was need to outsource to a conducting firm to carry out that duty on behalf of the government. The government accepted the recommendation. Very quickly, Atiku and his Italian friend set up INTEL. Yes, the famous/infamous INTEL still doing business with the Federal Government till today.

**Soon Atiku thievery became too much and the Government of IBB decided to sack him. Someone pleaded on his behalf. IBB gave him the option to retire. That's why Atiku got out of Custom as an Assistant Comptroller of Customs.

**He got into politics. We know the rest of how he became the Vice President to OBJ.

**His problem with OBJ was because he had already engaged a marabout who tells him what political moves to make. In spite of having won the governorship of Adamawa State, the marabout told him he would not rule as a governor. Something bigger was coming which he must take because that would lead him to be President of Nigeria. Soon OBJ offered him the position of Presidential running mate in the 1999 Presidential election. The marabout had already told him to accept the position. So he jettisoned the governorship position and ran with OBJ and won.

**His trouble with OBJ started because the marabout told him that he would from that position become a President. He did not care to ask when. So immediately he became the Vice President, he assumed that OBJ would do one term. So he immediately started working on replacing OBJ in 2003. OBJ got to know all about the marabout and then swore that Atiku would never get there.

*Lest we forget, once Atiku became the VP, in 2001, he extended the contract of INTEL for 20 years.

**Atiku was a devout muslim. A Muslim has a right to have up to 4 wives, if he has the means to maintain them. Surely, Atiku has the means. In those years as he struggled to be the State Governor of Adamawa State, it became expedient to expand his connections. So he married Rukaiyatu, the daughter of the Emir of Adamawa as his third wife.
He would later add a fourth wife.

**As a Vice President, Atiku met an Igbo lady in NTA who came to interview him. He liked the girl because she was brilliant.

** Atiku expanded his business to the US. He was now collecting money from US businessmen promising to open business opportunities for them in Nigeria. He needed someone to handle the US front. He remembered his Igbo TV girl friend. He pulled her out of the NTA and sent her to handle his US businesses.

**The two did so much muddy business together that they were both later banned from entering the US.

**Atiku continued his struggle to be President. He already had one Yoruba wife and 3 Northern wives. He needed Igbo votes too so as to tell Nigerians that he is a total Nigerian. He needed an Igbo wife for this. But he already had 4 wives. So he sacked the second wife to create a space for the same TV girl who is an Onitsha girl!!!

A rundown of Atiku's wives:

**1971, he had to secretly marry his first wife, Titilayo Atinuke Albert, in Lagos, because her family was initially opposed to the union. She adopted the Muslim name, Amina after their wedding. His children from her include: Fatima, Adamu, Halima and Aminu.

**In 1979, he married Ladi Yakubu as his second wife. He has six children with Ladi: Abba, Atiku, Zainab, Ummi-Hauwa, Maryam and Rukaiyatu.

**In 1983, he married his third wife, Princess Rukaiyatu, daughter of the Lamido of Adamawa, Aliyu Mustafa.

**Abubakar later divorced Ladi, allowing him to marry a fourth wife, his TV girl, Jennifer Iwenjiora Douglas who had to take the Muslim name, Jamila.

However it was Ladi the second wife he divorced not Rukayatu

Altogether, with the 5 wives Atiku had 26 children!!!

Recently, the Igbo wife, Jennifer/Jamila deserted the marriage after Atiku married yet the sixth wife, a Moroccan with whom he now has the 27th child!

When you reach out to a lawyer on social media for one help or the other or for legal advice, pay attention to dates, names, evidence and other vital facts. You will be doing yourself disservice by writing long and tiring epistle and stories without providing specific and necessary information.
For example, instead of simply stating that someone was arrested by the police, you should state that Mr. Akpan or Miss Tinuke was arrested on the 7th day of April, 2022 at his house at No. 1 Bolingo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos by a team of policemen led by DSP Abubakar over an alleged case of stealing and taken to Dantata Police Division in Lekki where he is currently detained. The phone number of the DPO of the station and that of the IPO is 07098888888.
Please come to our rescue. Thank you.

You can rephrase the above example in your own language but ensure that you avail the lawyer of the material facts. You should also provide additional details depending on the circumstances of the case.

With the above information, a lawyer already has the material facts to entertain your complaint. But when you leave out vital information, and expect that a lawyer who probably has many cases to attend to in his firm and dozens or multiple requests from people online seeking for one help or the other, will begin to ask you for dates, names and other facts that are already within your knowledge, which you should have provided from the outset, you may not always be so lucky to get the full attention that you crave.

This is particularly important if the services that you are seeking from the lawyer is one that you’re not going to pay for. Lawyers are not philanthropists.
The legal profession is not a free enterprise. The fact that some lawyers offer pro bono services when they can doesn’t mean that lawyers should work for free. The minimum that you owe a lawyer whose services you need pro bono is to present your case as factual as possible, and avoid putting the lawyer through avoidable stress.

The law belongs to the lawyer, but the facts will always belong to the client. Lawyers do not manufacture facts. It is the client’s duty to furnish the lawyer with material facts.

Is it wrong for a lawyer to seek clarification and more information when necessary? Certainly not. It is what lawyers do everyday. But when you just send random messages to a lawyer online that you’re not paying, and you leave out relevant facts, you may realize that time is a very important resource to lawyers.

I hope this recommendation will be useful to someone out there.
Do have a great weekend.

Inibehe Effiong

#NoJusticeNoToll

Good for them. Lol.

#EndTollGate

Have you checked Mazi Omenuko and NwaAmaIkpe?

#EndTollGate

Rest in peace doctor. Nigeria failed you.

#EndTollGate

Lol. This is so funny.

#EndTollGate

Rest in peace doctor. Nigeria failed you.

#EndTollGate

#EndTollGate

We know that the Lagos state government and the APC needs the billions of naira that they make from the Lekki Toll Gate to fund Tinubu's presidential campaigns. But we no go gree!

We shall not allow them to use the sweat and blood of Lagos youths. Let them wait till after the 2023 presidential elections before they can start collecting toll at the Lekki Toll Gate. Let them not provoke the youths to begin EndTollGate protests.

Let us promote out Made-in-Nigeria products please.

Dear Bola Ahmed Tinubu,

I am a prophetess and I have a prohecy for you sir. You will soon die from your illness and return to your maker sir. You will slump and die while campaigning to become president of Nigeria sir. I know that you and your supporters may shout "God forbid!" but this prophecy is coming for a different reason sir.

If you emerge as the presidential flag-bearer of the APC and then slump to death while campaigning, it will cause crisis and confusion all over Southwest Nigeria sir. Your supporters would falsely accuse the North of poisoning you. A few would point fingers at your Northern running mate. Speculations, accusations and conspiracy theories would run rife. It would heat up the polity and cause pandemonium sir.

This disastrous outcome can be avoided if you simply let go of your lifelong presidential ambition and anoint a healthier person sir. There are about five of such persons that you can count on your five fingers sir. You know them and I will not mention any names sir. Please consider the peace and unity of Nigeria sir. Please do not be the reason for the death of your supporters through riots and political unrest sir. Please do not be the reason that your beloved Yorubaland would become a warzone.

I wish that the future could play out differently but the time is near for you to rejoin your maker sir. I love you sir. We all love you sir. I am sure that you and all of us love Nigeria sir. It is time to prove that love by putting the national interest before your own personal ambition sir. Please let go of your ambition so that you do not die during your campaign and plunge Nigeria into more crisis. By sacrificing your ambition, you will cement your name in the hearts of all Yoruba people and Nigerians for generations to come just like the revered Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Pamela Braide:

Did you know basmati rice grows in Nigeria? It takes almost twice as long as the usual rice grown here but someone has shown it can be done.
Meet Asma Begum Mirza . She grows and sells Nigerian grown basmati rice, honey and other food products from Kaduna.
She was recently given an award for her products.
This is her company page link with contact details for sales... Click on it

https://www.facebook.com/Muhammad-Roshaneh-Farms-Ltd-108525095088325/

I am really enjoying the relatively unseen wave of opportunity taking in every corner of Nigeria.
Well done Asma!

thanks Zuwairat Asekome Maryam Rabiu

Bianca Ojukwu is undoubtedly the woman of the moment. Her slap was hot and fresh. I'm sure that Mrs Obiano won't forgot it in a hurry. Lol.

Please submit your Bianca slap memes here.

No seriously, I need them to conclude my research for my project topic: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL EFFECT OF SLAPS

Ike's Declaration, Dead on Arrival

By Reuben Onyishi
(Ugoachataberu)

The chicken has come to roost now that Senator Ike Ekweremadu has today, 11th March, 2022 declared for the Enugu Gubernatorial race. Senator Ekweremadu had last year begun to heat up the Enugu polity when he declared his Ike Is Coming fad. It was a term he put in the mouth of his acolytes and media handlers who swooped on social media platforms with it. Ekweremadu's aspiration was received with cold feet in Enugu State for two reasons. First, the expectation was that he would go for the presidency since the call for the president of Igbo extraction had reached equity pitch and it was being expected the major parties would zone their presidential tickets to the South East. Second, the PDP in Enugu State has a zoning tradition where the governorship ticket rotates among the three senatorial zones. No one was actually expecting Ekweremadu to aspire to the governorship office since going by the rotation process, it would be the turn of Enugu East Senatorial Zone. Ekweremadu is from Enugu West and Sullivan Chime had served the turn of Enugu West recently for eight years. It will be the turn of Enugu West Senatorial Zone in 2031.

It was on authority that some stakeholders had asked Ekweremadu if it was true he was aspiring to the office of the governor of Enugu State against the zoning tradition and he had replied them that it was not true. Yet the social media was agog with Ike is coming. Not only did his media handlers continue to circulate Ike's posters, at a time INEC had not lifted ban on campaigning, they also poured into various social media platforms and their daily bread was the castigation of the Ugwuanyi administration. They said Ike was coming to deliver Enugu State from misrule and despite the profundity of Ugwuanyi's achievements in infrastructure and human capital development, the Ike boys were set to mischievously diminish the Ugwuanyi administration. That had continued until at a point last year when Ekweremadu in the company of Toby Okechukwu and Dennis Amadi, his boys at the national assembly, in a kind of volte face paid the governor a visit. It was like the return and repentance of the prodigal when Ekweremadu disowned the activities of his boys on social media and tagged their acts as those of jobbers who wanted to sow a seed of discord between him and Governor Ugwuanyi. He asked Governor Ugwuanyi to discountenance their many expletives and uncouthness. Governor Ugwuanyi in his characteristic way received Ekweremadu and his boys as a father would an erring child. He forgave him and patted him at the back and released him in peace in a go-and-sin-no-more manner.

Whatever Ekwerwmadu wanted to achieve with that visit was only known to what appears like a foxy approach to repentance and reconciliation. It was reported that soon after the visit, Ekwerwmadu recruited yet again some folks to continue to attack the Ugwuanyi administration. Ike had continue with his rebellion against the order of power transition unabated, yet would deny his ambition. In a radio programme at Dream FM the other day, Ekweremadu had claimed he had yet to make up his mind as he was still consulting, yet he had begun to campaign here and there.

What appears like a threatening sword of Damocles had apparently begun to disquiet the Enugu polity and its state of peace and equanimity wrought by Governor Ugwuanyi. The people of Enugu State reacted to it by the three senatorial zones organizing rallies in support of the zoning tradition. Odinma Nsukka held its own at Nsukka. Who is who in Nsukka gathered in solidarity with the governor and in support of zoning. Oganiru Enugu rally was also held at Okpara Square Enugu in solidarity with the governor and in support of zoning and power rotation and it was clearly stated that it would be the turn of Enugu East Senatorial Zone to produce the next governor of Enugu State in 2023. Governor Ugwuanyi at the rally told the people that the decision about his successor would be made through dialogue, equity, justice and fairplay and that was clearly understood since equity points to Enugu East Senatorial Zone. The people of Enugu West Senatorial Zone to which Ekweremadu belongs had its own rally they tagged "Ife Emelu Nma" held at Awgu. There, the people and stakeholders of Enugu West Senatorial Zone emphatically told the governor it was the turn of Enugu East Senatorial Zone to produce his successor. Recall also that the Ebeano group had before the rallies held a one-million-man march to solidarize with Governor Ugwuanyi on the zoning question and had conferred on him the leadership of the Ebeano family and urged him to pick his successor from Enugu East Senatorial Zone whose turn it would be in 2023.

The voice of men is the voice of God. All the stakeholders in Enugu State and the elders of the land have unanimously agreed that by power rotation, the next governor of Enugu State should come from Enugu East Senatorial Zone. Chief Jim Nwobodo, Ken Nnamani, Sullivan Chime, Okwesilieze Nwodo, to mention no more are elders and leaders of the state who have emphatically confirmed that it would be the turn of Enugu East Senatorial Zone to produce Governor Ugwuanyi's successor. Even the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal end of what appears like Ekweremadu's rebellion against the people of Enugu State. Yet Ike would not hear.

Ekweremadu kept on gathering the dregs to himself. No one in Enugu State who is worth any political value is with Ekweremadu. Most of the people milling around him are rather driven by stomach infrastructure. They want a share of the national cake. They know the truth but they want to satisfy their hunger induced by the present regime at the centre. Quite another are some disgruntled elements who served in Ugwuanyi's administration and who got kicked out on account of incompetence and poor performance. They are now the cheerleaders chorographing the Ike is coming stuff as a way of getting at Governor Ugwuanyi. They have in the same process made themselves the but of the public.

Some of those close to Ekweremadu claim Ike is banking on PDP at Abuja to give him the ticket. They said he had penetrated the soul of the party and that Abuja cannot afford to disappoint him. Many pundits have found that infantile. Perhaps, Governor Ugwuanyi has folded his hands to allow Abuja to decide for him. Perhaps in their imaginary reverie, the Ike camp thinks Ugwuanyi does not know the way to Abuja when the governors have shown that they decide what happens in the PDP. They also forgot that Governor Ugwuanyi is the leader of the party in South East and has undertaken many tasks for the party at the centre and delivered them with acuity and superlative performance. How then on earth and from where would Ekweremadu muster the power to hamstring a seating governor, someone who occupies the seat he is desperately scrambling for with all his might and which has kept on receding from him as shadow would its owner?

Before now, Ekweremadu used to decide who became what in Enugu West Senatorial Zone. Governor Ugwuanyi magnanimously ceded that to him when he thought Ike was what he had pretended to be. Since Ike began to rebel against the people of Enugu State, power naturally slipped off his fingers and today in Enugu West Senatorial Zone, Ike goes about deserted like omaba masquerade without any follower. Those who were with him before soon drew back from the cul-de-sac along which they had trudged with him(See my essay on Things Fall Apart in the Camp of the Dissident). Someone like Hon. Chima Obieze was smart enough to take a detour from that road less traveled by and today he is most happy for that.

The local government elections had been concluded and new chairmen across the 17 local governments have just been sworn in as well as councillors from the 260 wards in Enugu State. We are talking about the grassroots here. How many of them did Ekwerwmadu produce? It was reported that he even begged to nominate the councillor of his ward. This is the outcome of dissidence. But Ekwerwmadu has yet to see the political cyclone that would swirl him and his ambition away form in the horizon. He who would not hear the din of Okpoko, did the elephant stamp on his eardrums? What else does Ekwerwmadu need to know that the political water has come up to his neck?

Adamant as ever and as Wole Soyinka's Abiku, Ekweremadu, seeing all this, today dived headlong into the political murky waters, swimming in the mud thereof. He called a so-called world press conference and declared his candidature for the governorship seat, claiming there was no zoning agreement in Enugu State with the sarcasm that he does not want to be a zonal governor. Ekweremadu became the deputy president of the Senate because that position was zoned to South East and he was in that office for 12 years. Then he wanted to be a zonal deputy president of the Senate. The insincerity with which Ike pursues this inordinate ambition of his is unknowingly to him his albatross. Ekweremadu builds his ambition on feeble sand of lies and that ambition is bound to sink in it. Even if Ekwerwmadu likes let him hold a universe press conference, 'emeko meeko', as one of my friends would say when he is beating you in the game of draft, though you gave him an uppercut momentarily. "Who press conference help?" to put it in Nigeria slang.

Some political watchers are of the view that Ekweremadu is feeding his ego; that he knows quite well he has no chance at the governorship but may want to play the spoilers game or force the party to a negotiation table where he may be asked to return to the senate. But the people of Enugu West have become wiser, for they have vowed that never again will one man dominate their heritage for 20 years as Ekweremadu shall have done by 2023. They are ready to reclaim their mandate from Ike's tight grip. It is likely that Ekwerwmadu is billed to retire from public service.

The declaration for the governorship today by Ekweremadu may have started him down the precipice. It is a process that has ignited political showdown and from the look of things, the political future is bleak for Ekweremadu. Ike has dared the white lion and by so doing has jeopardized his political career. Ugwuanyi may be smiling, gentle and reconciliatorily peaceful but when pushed this way, he has the capacity to bring out that with which he crosses political seven hills and valleys. The battle line is drawn; the tiger has been touched by its tale. The lion is about to roar. I see a total extinguishing of this ambition of Ekwerwmadu's. His declaration is certainly dead on arrival.

This is so touching. That aunty is an angel.

How I wish people like Davido, Don Jazzy, Wizkid, Ned Nwoko, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Linda Ikeji and other kind-hearted Nigerians could donate to support the education of these poor kids.

I found this story on Facebook.

Meet a young lady who resigned from a lucrative teaching job to start a Free School

The Azemobor Gregory Foundation and Jah Messenger, Theo Ogbhemhe at Oakbridge Foundation Free School at Katampe, a suburb in Abuja.

In 2015, a young Lady by name,Angela Ejeme, resigned from her lucrative teaching job to start a Free School , and many people thought she was crazy for such a 'foolish' decision.

Driven by an uncommon passion to give hope and a better future to many out of school indigent kids, using education as a bridge, she sacrificed her career and her comfort to embark on a lonely tortous journey of serving humanity

She started with just one kid, and today, she has over 60 pupils, about 6 teachers and other employees. The children also enjoy a free meal a day.

Miss Angela Ejeme is a true definition of a life of impact and fulfilment. She has chosen the path of RIGHTEOUSNESS( right living).
A life that aligns with her purpose on earth. Kudos to you my sister. I celebrate you.

Beloved, I challenge you today, just like Angela, to pursue a higher purpose for your life that is beyond material 'success' and possessions. You are here for an assignment to add value to humanity. Find that assignment and run with it. Only purpose gives meaning to life.

The Azemobor Gregory Foundation has made a strong commitment to partner with Oakbridge Foundation Free School to give hope and a better future to those lovely kids.

You too can partner with the Free School. With N25,000, you can sponsor a child per term. God bless you!
@oakbridgefoundation
www.oakbridgefoundation.org

Let me specially appreciate, the great Jah messenger, Theo Ogbhemhe for his selfless service to humanity and for linking us to this great School. Jah bless.

Source:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=7385727691467381&id=100000906708023

This online poll is organized by the Inter-party Coalition of Nigeria (ICON) to gauge the political desires of the people of Enugu state.

Please choose your favourite amongst the candidates on the poll. The results will be declared after 30 days in April 2022.

https://forms.gle/j8W96N4XspjDXArd9

Vasically:
the same troop that couldn't stop Boko Haram and other militants

Nigeria will easily defeat Russia.







At the World Cup. Lol.

BREAKING NEWS

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that Nigeria will be sending troops to stop Russia from attacking Ukraine.

He said this military action is necessary to defend Nigerian citizens and other African people living in Ukraine.

How would you react to this fake news? Lol.

An anonymous lecturer wrote the article below.

You know the saying that you should never judge someone until you walk in their shoes? That was the case for me years ago. The name ASUU was synonymous with Iraq and Iran for me. The perceived similarity laid in the fact that I came into this world and heard of Iraq and Iran's incessant wars as well as ASUU's incessant strikes.

I had elder siblings and relatives in the university who always lamented about ASUU strike and how selfish members of the said organization were. In my little mind I conceived of ASUU as a paramilitary organization that had uniforms and were sent to deal with university students. As a primary school pupil, I started loosing sleep over what would be my lot when I finally got into the university.

Years later, I got into the university. My childish misconceptions about ASUU had cleared but what I couldn't fathom was why my lecturers looked impoverished. I couldn't reconcile the fact that a mere OMATA man wore better clothes, lived in better houses and neighbourhoods and drove better cars than a 'whole' university lecturer. I decided that the ASUU must have had a meeting where they made it binding on members to look modest. Perhaps it was their way of differentiating themselves from others as intellectuals. After all, I read somewhere that people with very high IQ don't usually bother themselves with looks. I was VERY SURE their renumeration was heavy so financial issues was totally out of it.

Once I was done with my tertiary education, my mind was set. I wanted to become a lecturer. No other job would do. I wasn't keen on other jobs I mean ' good ' jobs that came my way. I am intelligent, I love to read and I write well. More so, I have passion for teaching. I had the quintessential qualities of an academic and I would pursue my dream of being in the academia.

Marriage and kids happened and my career ambitions were placed on the back burner. As soon as I could help it, I purchased master's form and completed my studies in record time and with superb grades. I quickly purchased the PhD form and began my studies in earnest.
Then it happened. My heart desire was granted. I was employed at the prestigious university of Nigeria. To say I was elated would be for lack of any other word to convey what I felt the day I was handed my employment letter.

My disillusionment started thereafter. When I saw the net and gross pay for AL I screamed in shock. I was sure it was a typographical error and I dashed back to Mrs. Asogwa in personnel unit to point out the 'mistake' in my appointment letter. She kindly reassured me that it was no mistake.
I swallowed hard and concluded that maybe this was the one the school paid. Surely there must be some form of payments from the faculty and department. I remembered we paid faculty and departmental dues back in school. You know right? I was dreaming like one with a bad case of malaria.

The first salary came and I fell in to a bad bout of depression. While I was at it, older colleagues advised me to start writing 'papers'. According to them, the earlier the better. I was also advised to attend conferences and contribute to chapters in a book if I wanted to move to higher levels. I quickly beat my master's seminars into two rich journal article. I gave to my senior colleagues to read and correct.

As soon as I was ready, I matched into my HOD's office and handed him the articles well espoused in brown envelope. With a sense of accomplishment, I informed him that those were journal articles ready for publication. He was pleased and advised me to look for reputable journals that would publish it. I quickly sent them and in no distant time some agreed to publish it for a fee.
I went to my HOD, broke the good news to him and asked him if the publication fee would be directly paid by 'them' or if they would give me the money to make the payment myself. He looked at me like I was wearing my dress inside out. When he saw I was serious, he broke the sad news to me. I am to pay for my journal publications and any other publications for that matter and it is also up to me to pay for conferences.
My one month salary couldn't foot the bills for two publications and one conference attendance. Meanwhile I have three children to cater for, my school fees to pay, house rent to pay, my gas cylinder to refill, to mention but the basics. It dawned on me that I am done for.

Family and friends called on their 'a whole lecturer in UNN for that matter' to assist them once in awhile and she's not forthcoming. I'm labelled stingy. One day one stumbles upon my payslip and pities me. She asked me to resign that the job isn't worth it. I smile and tell her that our union is working on it and that God will pay me. Another came to Nsukka and I invited her to the cubicle where I am entitled to only a plastic chair without table. She repeatedly said tufiakwa! until she left.

I'm a member of ASUU, the union I once judged and condemned, the most misconceived union, the messaiahnic union that would rather it's members receive peanuts than allow children of the poor masses pay tuition fee. Everyday I come online I see those for whom we slave for condemn us. If only they know.... If only they realize that but for us, most of them won't be in school in the first place because their parents won't be able to afford the cost of university education for them.

It is well. Sooner than later, they would understand. Let me stop here before my data runs out, DORIME IS NOT FOR LECTURERS.

This is an article written by a lecturer. What do you think?

You know the saying that you should never judge someone until you walk in their shoes? That was the case for me years ago. The name ASUU was synonymous with Iraq and Iran for me. The perceived similarity laid in the fact that I came into this world and heard of Iraq and Iran's incessant wars as well as ASUU's incessant strikes.

I had elder siblings and relatives in the university who always lamented about ASUU strike and how selfish members of the said organization were. In my little mind I conceived of ASUU as a paramilitary organization that had uniforms and were sent to deal with university students. As a primary school pupil, I started loosing sleep over what would be my lot when I finally got into the university.

Years later, I got into the university. My childish misconceptions about ASUU had cleared but what I couldn't fathom was why my lecturers looked impoverished. I couldn't reconcile the fact that a mere OMATA man wore better clothes, lived in better houses and neighbourhoods and drove better cars than a 'whole' university lecturer. I decided that the ASUU must have had a meeting where they made it binding on members to look modest. Perhaps it was their way of differentiating themselves from others as intellectuals. After all, I read somewhere that people with very high IQ don't usually bother themselves with looks. I was VERY SURE their renumeration was heavy so financial issues was totally out of it.

Once I was done with my tertiary education, my mind was set. I wanted to become a lecturer. No other job would do. I wasn't keen on other jobs I mean ' good ' jobs that came my way. I am intelligent, I love to read and I write well. More so, I have passion for teaching. I had the quintessential qualities of an academic and I would pursue my dream of being in the academia.

Marriage and kids happened and my career ambitions were placed on the back burner. As soon as I could help it, I purchased master's form and completed my studies in record time and with superb grades. I quickly purchased the PhD form and began my studies in earnest.
Then it happened. My heart desire was granted. I was employed at the prestigious university of Nigeria. To say I was elated would be for lack of any other word to convey what I felt the day I was handed my employment letter.

My disillusionment started thereafter. When I saw the net and gross pay for AL I screamed in shock. I was sure it was a typographical error and I dashed back to Mrs. Asogwa in personnel unit to point out the 'mistake' in my appointment letter. She kindly reassured me that it was no mistake.
I swallowed hard and concluded that maybe this was the one the school paid. Surely there must be some form of payments from the faculty and department. I remembered we paid faculty and departmental dues back in school. You know right? I was dreaming like one with a bad case of malaria.

The first salary came and I fell in to a bad bout of depression. While I was at it, older colleagues advised me to start writing 'papers'. According to them, the earlier the better. I was also advised to attend conferences and contribute to chapters in a book if I wanted to move to higher levels. I quickly beat my master's seminars into two rich journal article. I gave to my senior colleagues to read and correct.

As soon as I was ready, I matched into my HOD's office and handed him the articles well espoused in brown envelope. With a sense of accomplishment, I informed him that those were journal articles ready for publication. He was pleased and advised me to look for reputable journals that would publish it. I quickly sent them and in no distant time some agreed to publish it for a fee.
I went to my HOD, broke the good news to him and asked him if the publication fee would be directly paid by 'them' or if they would give me the money to make the payment myself. He looked at me like I was wearing my dress inside out. When he saw I was serious, he broke the sad news to me. I am to pay for my journal publications and any other publications for that matter and it is also up to me to pay for conferences.
My one month salary couldn't foot the bills for two publications and one conference attendance. Meanwhile I have three children to cater for, my school fees to pay, house rent to pay, my gas cylinder to refill, to mention but the basics. It dawned on me that I am done for.

Family and friends called on their 'a whole lecturer in UNN for that matter' to assist them once in awhile and she's not forthcoming. I'm labelled stingy. One day one stumbles upon my payslip and pities me. She asked me to resign that the job isn't worth it. I smile and tell her that our union is working on it and that God will pay me. Another came to Nsukka and I invited her to the cubicle where I am entitled to only a plastic chair without table. She repeatedly said tufiakwa! until she left.

I'm a member of ASUU, the union I once judged and condemned, the most misconceived union, the messaiahnic union that would rather it's members receive peanuts than allow children of the poor masses pay tuition fee. Everyday I come online I see those for whom we slave for condemn us. If only they know.... If only they realize that but for us, most of them won't be in school in the first place because their parents won't be able to afford the cost of university education for them.

It is well. Sooner than later, they would understand. Let me stop here before my data runs out, DORIME IS NOT FOR LECTURERS.

Jolexboiy:



Hey , I can do France Schengen tourist visa for you with 1.2 M without ticket unless if you haven't been denied thrice before.

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If he gets the visa for that amount, won't he need another one million naira to sort out his flight ticket and other expenses?

2023: Contending Ike Ekweremadu’s Battle Line and the Reality before Us (1)


By Prince Ejeh Josh

The unfolding realities trailing the recent moves by the former Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, in Enugu state has, bluntly, presented him in a clear term as one of the political strategists in the state. Whether one is ready to accept the fact staring menacingly or not, it’ll remain a self-denial to write the Senator from Enugu West Senatorial District off. His plans appear to be working for him. He is building up a cult-like followers, carrying along loyalists, working closely with allies, wooing bystanders and winning perceived foes to his camp. The senator has a clear-cut agenda for his target. Swiftly, he has been navigating through the rough terrain of the state’s political tracks, cleverly avoiding political landmines, and craftily calibrating his canon lenses to weigh the magnitude of the foggy political atmosphere that might blur his path to Lion Building in 2023.

Senator Ike’s surreptitious political exploration in the state over the past years left no one in doubt about his gubernatorial ambition. However, he has consistently denied it in words but frequently affirms it in actions. Instances are rife where he utterly dismissed nursing ambition for the seat of governor. Notwithstanding that, his actions keep giving him away. This work is not in anyway implying that the senator has no right to contest or pursue his political ambition as that’s within his right as a citizen. Howbeit, there’s a struggle to reconcile his actions and his words. In a recent outing, the senator made it clear that “pressure” was on him to vie for the position of governor in 2023. Will the senator yield to the alleged “pressure”? Who is pressurizing the senator to swim against the tide? Was the pressure a result of imagination and thirst for power? Political developments in his camp in recent times are remarkably pointing towards that direction. Will the senator pursue his interest under the umbrella of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)? Insiders are divided, however feelers maintain that the paddles with which to cross the bridges are already set in motion. One thing is indisputable; Mr. Ike is coming! Whether he will be able to cross the Presidential Lodge before accessing the Lion Building or he will be humiliated enroute Okpara Square that will crash him into political oblivion and lead to his political extinction is entirely the unfolding political intrigues we are anxiously awaiting.

Without mincing words, Mr. Ike’s political activities in the state is a direct affront on the Governor of the state who is not just the political leader of Enugu state but the entire Southeast zone. Setting up structures and stepping up campaigns is a clear message to the leader and leadership of the state’s ruling party that things are no longer at ease. It’s an “Opokoro” drumbeat signaling that the battle line has been drawn and the battle for the soul of Enugu state has just begun. It’s a poke on the face of the governor that the senator has got a formidable political structure to wrestle power. Mr. Ike should not be dismissed with a fringe or tip of the fingers. That’ll will be too dangerous as this battle is clutching endlessly as his last political battle before age will catch up with him, if he’s not already manipulating his way through 'football age'. Again, the political titan should not be written off. He is building an empire with the resources at his disposal. Can he be tamed? Will his empire collapse before the poll or during the poll? That’ll depend on certain fundamental factors that must be set in motion.

A cursory look at his official Facebook page, "Ike Ekweremadu", one would begin to appreciate the level of Ike’s political tentacles and the extent of his mobilisations. Perhaps, he understands, even more clearly, the message passed by the former Governor of Enugu state and present Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, that “Politics is a serious business.” The senator is, indeed, recruiting people from other states into his campaign team. Go to South Africa, the senator is campaigning. Go to Port Harcourt, he is also campaigning. Then, go to Germany; perhaps his posters maybe found there. The ferocity at which the Mpu born Senator is sweeping the ground and displaying his cards shows that he is all out to confront the challenges. Whether he can surmount these political hurdles is another question to be answered by unfolding political development in the state. Can Mr. Ike cause a political disruption in the scheme of things in the state? Again, one is left to allow developing political issues to answer that.

In a short post I made on the 19th December, 2021 assessing Mr. Ike’s economic model for Nigeria as a whole and the state in particular which I described as anachronistic and at variant with the 21st century modern economy, Mr. Ike had personally responded, accusing me of misleading members of the public about the topical issue. Of course, the defenses put up by him still couldn’t stand the test of modern economic model as the world has moved beyond the phase of his economic antidotes. Follow-up questions by members of the platform to the senator landed on the brick wall as the senator retorted to one of the inquisitive questions asking whether he had a gubernatorial ambition in 2023 as being speculated that; “I don’t discuss pedestal issues and gossips. Let’s talk about vision and development…” That is quite fascinating that a question of such magnitude was described by him as pedestal and gossips.

Yet again, the senator had a golden opportunity on the 8th of January, 2022 while at Dream FM as a guest speaker to put to rest, the gossip. To the chagrin of the people of Enugu state, Mr. Ike only stated he would not be returning to the National Assembly in 2023 having outlived his usefulness in the Red Chambers. He, nevertheless, left a strong caveat behind about his gubernatorial ambition. He had told the anchor of the programme, Mr. Alex Ogbodo, that pressure was on him to contest for the seat of governor against the entrenched principle of zoning of which he headed a national committee in the PDP that reviewed the cause of PDP’s loss of national power in 2015, and thereby, strongly recommended that zoning be strictly followed. In a surprise act of approbation and reprobation, Mr. Ike told his anxious listeners that zoning was a contentious issue. That message was a radical departure from the establishment that not only made him, both as a senator representing Enugu West Senatorial District but also as a three time Deputy Senate President representing the entire Southeast zone from which he benefited immensely. From thereon, analysts could easily preempt the political voyage of the senator.

Although, prior to the period, the senator appeared to have deliberately eschewed major political events organised by his political party, the PDP, in the state. When on the 7th August, 2021, his constituency organised a mega rally tagged; “Ife-Emelumma Enugu West Unity Rally” held at Awgu local government area; a rally that drew all the party stalwarts from other zones which also had the presence of the state governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Senator Ike and some of his political allies were conspicuously absent from the historic event. He gave no reason since, according to his foot soldiers, he owed nobody any explanation. In a more recent PDP rally held at Ikem, Isi Uzo local government headquarters, to flag off the forthcoming council elections’ campaigns, the senator and his allies, as already envisioned, rudely shocked his party once again, by making his absence visible. Whether his absence was felt or nothing, a fundamental factor was reinforced through that absenteeism; the battle line has been drawn and a stand has been firmly taken by the senator. Didn’t all these activities amount to anti-party’s dance steps? That’s left to the party leadership to know whether to wield the big stick or to continue to accommodate moves capable of destroying the party.

In order to make sure the message was sounded unambiguously, Mr. Ike has taken to his official Facebook page sharing photos and videos of himself and his “Over 10 thousand executives of Oganiru Enugu,” a support group drawn across the state for his 2023 governorship ambition. On the 4th of this month, the senator shared some pictures numbering dozens where he disclosed that the mammoth crowds were made up of Enugu Solidarity Group for Ikeoha 2023, and Ikeoha Movement 2023, having branches in parts of the country including Port Harcourt. He went ahead and flaunted a group he called, The Ikeoha Youth Ambassadors Initiative, gearing towards his ambition. Yet again, the senator attempted to inundate us with the pictures and videos of the event that held somewhere in Enugu with the inscription that the attendees were the inaugurated “state, zonal, local government and ward executives of the Enugu Solidarity for Ikeoha.” More recently was the seemingly elaborate event hosted by the senator on Sunday in Enugu where the people, described by some sections as ‘rented crowds’ were inducted as patrons of Oganiru Enugu.

Senator Ike, flamboyantly displaying 37 pictures of those in uniform, boasted that the people should expect a “New Enugu state.” In his words; “I’m going to deliver a new Enugu state… All of us are going to enjoy the fruit when we get there….” Quite interesting from the Enugu West Senator. To assure the people that the Governor of the state was in support of his political navigation, he assured that Governor Ugwuanyi had accepted to be the “Grand Patron” of Oganiru Enugu. That’s, indeed, a brute audacity and contemptuous effrontery against the number one citizen and leader of the party. The governor couldn’t have allowed himself to be blackmailed or be dragged into the ship that may probably not leave the harbour before it capsizes.

To be candid, like I observed earlier, nobody should dismiss Mr. Ike’s camp as fringe. The senator is molding a structure from the establishment, penetrating into party hardliners and non-party members. Usually, political history has shown that disruption and crack in the establishment is often heralded from insiders, and that’s exactly what the senator has set out to do. Ignore him at your own peril. The party and those strongly advocating for the established zoning to continue have to buckle up, put their house in order and consolidate on their strong foundation. Mr. Ike appears to be weaponising internal bickering to achieve political gains. The leader of the party, being the governor, must be mindful of banana peels especially by some of those he has engaged as aides or political allies. At the risk of repetition, these moles are proclaiming the governor as their principal and professing Mr. Ike as their leader. Whether this reality is accepted or dismissed as a mere allegation, the fact remains that, one day, if nothing is done, they’d stand at the side of their conscience. I pray it's not too late by then. The Governor must strive to build his own formidable political structure, encourage his henchmen to commence the fieldworks immediately. His structure will be a shelter for him during the rainy day. All great leaders must have reliable structures that would be independent of external influence, and remain firmly and absolutely loyal to them. This structure, coupled with their allies’ structures will be collapsed into one fold at the right time in order to achieve their collective goals. It’s time for the governor to revisit the drawing board and look through the dark lenses. Ike is building his structure, and his reasons for that are unambiguous. His structure has given him that vantage to negotiate power in times past. Senator Chimaroke was able to build Ebeano political structure, and the vestige of the structure is still here with us. Former Governor Sullivan Chime failed to erect his structure and what happened to him? Despite his performance in the state, he lost relevance immediately he left power. Save for the concession of electoral defeat by former President Goodluck Jonathan, he could have as well gone into political extinction.

nwadikeokey11:
He can travel to Jordan with that money then raise enough money from there and travel to other better countries in Europe or any Asian country.

Jordan. Hmmm... Thank you sir.

advanceDNA:


Na Dubai remain ooo...
But work visa has been crazy lately because of our reputation out there..

He can chill abit till things get better in Dubai that will be his best option

Ah! That reminds me sir. Can he take the NFF football fans club route during the Dubai World Cup this year?