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Typical, typical of Africans. It is never our fault, it is someone else's problem, they should come and save us, while we hurl insults at them.

Even if Ebola was developed by Americans, 38 years after it was discovered in Congo, NOT ONE African govt had funded research on it, not one single one. Or was the CIA forbidding you from doing research, nope, your greed, selfishness, ineptitude and corruption stopped any single Minister of Health from doing anything.

The US and some British labs developed a cure because they had the foresight to think if those countries were attacked with a bio-terrorist weapon, they will make money selling the cure to the Dept. Of Defense (they are the ones now funding ZMapp). Anyone who has taken "the stop" in Virginia, and worked there knows what I'm talking about.

The big Malaria research hospital in Gambia (where they've done research on viruses), is it sponsored by an African govt? NOPE! The place is filled with Indians, Europeans and Nigerian doctors are running there daily, your govt cannot even go and say "take this money, so my country has a stake in your findings". Mbah, we are waiting for WHO and US aid.

Then we will insult them, and at the same time, ask them to develop a cure and vaccine quickly. Since January, has your govt even bothered to sensitise us about Ebola, monitor flights from hotzones or even ask WHO or MSF to conduct clinical trials with whatever compound they think is in Bitter Kola, that Maurice Iwu wrote about years ago, that purports to treat Ebola? NOPE! (Did they even try to ask, or just gave excuse "you know those people are sponsored by US firms". We're now doing medicine after death.

The world owes Africa NOTHING and will keep treating you like 2nd-class citizens until you start taking responsibility for yourselves. We don't have money to fund research, yet our presidential fleet has 9 private jets and our lawmakers are better paid than more-developed countries. Common sense and responsibility isn't part of the Black race. Abegi!!

WHO says 4, 3 probable, 1 suspected (including a man who travelled to Guinea).

http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/outbreak-news/4239-ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-4-august-2014.html


Hand Sanitizers are anti-bacterial, so carry soap and water. Also, a face-mask may not help as the virus isn't airborne, but it protects you from being coughed on.

Wash frequently, wear long-sleeved clothes. If you feel like you're having malaria, go and do a test to confirm.

It's not going to get Africa fast enough, money is not coming through for widespread distribution (big pharma is a cashcow, they don't make drugs for the poor) . The US will take care that they have enough vials before additional shipping out to countries who will have to source for financial aid to pay for it.

No-one cares about the poor in Nigeria until they arm themselves and start blowing up stuff/kidnapping and killing people. Then we notice. Dokubo has filled his pockets and is content, GEJ doesn't care, their governor cannot be bothered. Until the youths there decide to learn how to build a bomb. Then we will all be screaming.

For everyone else on this thread, I haven't been able to post because I am prepping for 2 exhibitions (thanksful). However, I think I will bow out of this thread. I wish you all the best, for those who collected the pdf artbook, please use it, it wasn't written by me, it was free and freely available. Anyone who felt that they would benefit by "sucking up or liking me to get what they want" to me (lol), of what benefit was it to me? They added nothing to my portfolio personally, financially or spiritually.

In the art industry, a lot of Nigerians are rushing into it for money and sadly they are killing the industry. At the same time, newcomers are coming in daily, doing wonderful stuff. So things are going to get tough. I started this thread to make us all sit up and work really hard. Not for my benefit, and I certainly didn't charge anyone. But I realised that to be kind to Nigerians is an exercise in futility, as they will drag and tire you down, you will be met with sycophancy, false smiles, insults and more. Not once did Ken Nwadiogbu post even the type of materials he used or a single technique to help others, he spammed the Art section of NL with his drawings and tried to drown out everyone. And the mods didn't stop him. And I refuse to keep it up, there are professional artists on this thread who are concealing their identities (in order to encourage the other artists) and posting, and they have been shocked, annoyed and irritated by his behaviour. And most of them left rather than post, and they cancelled the free Drawing workshop they organized (I had begged them to do one, for NL). They are busy and they feel they would rather not be insulted by anyone on a faceless forum, when they are successfully being listed internationally as well-known artists.

Thank you everyone for your time and I wish you all happy drawing.

OKX: @ken
ur opinions r urs n urs alone, don't presume to speak for others.

i passively follow the thread and i would like u to point out d insults u refer to, if u will.
last i knew, constructive criticism differs from hate.

u too possess some rudimentary talent, n i guess that's ur license to post wot u did, but in my opinion its a gross misrepresentation of the character of the OP.

lol, u were actually d 'gangstar' flooding several threads with d same posts of ur work sometime back.

lets read thread topics before we choose to click on them, reading and/or posting isn't compulsory.

besides, i don't have to 'like' my lecturer if inspite of my feelings, he is educating me.

thanks for this.

So I just spoke to the owner of Artworld and he in my presence asked his staff that should Ken Nwadiogbu come in again (they call him Kenart there), the staff should ask him to wait around. He would like a word with this rather rude young man.

Be careful that you make no unnecessary enemies in this life. Seriously, just stay far away from trouble.

KenNwadiogbu: You are indeed a talented artist, but your attitude will get you no where... Admire the upcomings and don't insult their burn to be better or to "want to be heard". You were once like them, stop acting all gangstar in art. I'm not trying to cause a scandal, but trust me, those that like you only do so to get what they want, and the bottom line is, you need people by your side. Lovely work tho, Keep it up.
FYI, their works are good too, so stop hating and admire... Lol! Tell them what they didn't do right. I know no one is paying you, but have WHAT IS WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING RIGHT.

Just thought I should let you know

Ken Nwadiogbu is 19, I am in my 30s and he speaks to me with such...arrogance. Particularly when he was in Artworld and I pointed him out to the SNA chairman beside me (you were at 61 Ojuelegba) and he assured me he would take it up with Dr. Peju (I assume you're not in Visual Arts dept) and other artists. Then other pencil artists contacted me and told me about how they stopped working with Ken Nwadiogbu, who, amongst other thing, does NOT do all the work himself, but farms it out and takes all the glory for their work (they even left me their contacts and names, should anyone be willing to contact them). Seriously, at this point, he's making quite a name for himself as even a very popular art gallery owner was there and she saw this thread and was furious that "some small boy is insulting you" (her words not mine) and has informed her staff not to accept any work from Ken Nwadiogbu. And yeah, a few other artists (one is extremely popular, all of you adore him) have assured me that should you come up to them at any exhibition, they would not hesitate to "teach you manners" (their words again, not mine).

So, goodluck to you, Ken Nwadiogbu.

She is too old to be policed (but I'm older and my family police me to death sha). So here's what to do. Tell her that if she wants to be an adult, she should:

- Split the bills, my bro would give me $200 for 2 weeks housekeeping and tell me "if it's finished that's it", and we would keep it in a jar on top of the fridge, even pizza or takeout came from that jar. So, yeah, she's an adult, she can pay for something (light, water, or groceries) or both of you contribute to the bills. I won my bf over by telling him we should have a joint in which we did a 60-40 contribution into it, for the home, then had out own separate savings and checking accounts. Tell your sis this is training for marriage. I know a popular director who won't date a girl that hasn't lived by herself and paid her bills with her hands.

- Chores should be shared. I only cleaned my bro's room out of love, and he would freak out if I made his bed. He did laundry and usually cleaned the car and the oven (which I usually messed up ). We both cleaned the bathroom.

-She has to come home at a particular time. Nigeria isn't safe, and she can get attacked and the attackers trail her home, putting you both in danger. My mum always tells me "if they kidnap you, price your ransom to N40,000, because that's all I'll pay on your head. If they insist on collecting N2.5mil, marry one of them ". So both of you have a reasonable curfew, including visiting times for friends so you both have privacy. Maybe she gets sundays at 3pm, you get saturdays at 3pm.

-Church is her business. Period. Her relationship with God is not for you to police, but for you to nurture when and only she asks you for help.

You too, be patient and don't bark orders at her (you say you don't but I know Naija brothers in general ). If she disagrees to all of the above (stated in a calm manner), change the locks one day. And leave a note asking her to move out. Sounds cold, but hey, it works.

Men use it as an excuse: "I love my wife, my gfs outside dare not disrespect her!". It's the same deception we use as Nigerians to be going to church anyhow, yet be a nation of corrupt individuals. Lack of Discipline. However, let me give a warning to men:

Women can outdo you and cook your soup with a straight face.

I've stopped counting the cases I've heard of cheating wives. And yes, they justify it even better than the men (we women learnt from the best ). Was it the one with her ex (that's the common one, here's a hint man, when your wife "loses" her phone, it's because her fellowship/friends advised her to change it so she breaks off contact with the guy she's cheating with).
Or the lady whose husband kept saying "I love you" but cheated profusely (every uni student in the club, he would sleep with). Was it not during marriage counselling, she too said she endured his cheating for 7 yrs, but then met a young banker in her office, when they go for marketing, they would divert to a hotel after, and she would come home and make fresh stew for her cheating hubby?? See her husband crying that day.

You cannot respect me and be wanting to lick Ogbono soup outside, for a difference, you will discipline and train yourself to manage that vegetable soup. Or me too, I will tell myself "I love beef, but once in a while, sausage is nice". And I will serve you fresh soup with a very straight, prayerful, submissive face.

Fear.

Nigerians don't like risking their lives for anything. Have you seen LUTH, GH Island or any GH? Do we even have protective suits for hazardous illnesses? Health workers are more likely to catch it than regular people. So the strike will linger and doctors will refuse to go back.

My brother has already given out tips: I've got hand sanitizer and I may end up getting plastic gloves and a face-mask. No-one is sure if it can turn airborne at close contact (100m), which is what to expect if you use the Lagos public transport. And danfo conductors, wetin concern am with hand sanitizer, even the girl who sold me mine at the phramacy was telling me "only Jesus saves" and not using hand sanitizer till I eyed her, she laughed and used a bit. And Nigerians are forever coughing/sneezing into their hands or turning away to their side to do so/spit, then wiping on their clothes and handing you money.
Our hospitals aren't equipped to deal with this and should they find 5 more victims, most will shut down in panic (those head matrons at GH will be the first to abscond).

News is coming out that the Liberian Health Worker has died and it's a confirmed Ebola case.

I thought this thread was for comics, not movies. Marvel and DC are awesome! Did anyone read "Power Pack" and I heard Marvel is making "Thor" a Black girl.

Guys, there's a workshop on drawing and pastel painting that is being taught by Jonahan Jefferson this saturday. Please go and register, I already did. I checked online and his work is very amazing. Some popular talented artists are also coming (whom I will be writing about on my blog).

Thanks, I just registered. I'll see you guys on saturday.

manosteel: If only the FG will fix this bokoharam thing and Power, I tell you Nigeria is a huge market for foreign investors, and there will always be jobs for graduates and skill workers.

Osanobua. Please let me mention these economies:
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Germany

Which of them had their economy grown by foreign investment? Most of those countries operate a D.B.O.T TOS ( I know for a fact, even almighty GE had to sign one for their manufacturing plants in Singapore/Malaysia), so that in 25 years, an indigene buys you out, pays government his taxes and staffs at least 70% of the company with other indigenes.

Engineers are fighting for contract jobs of about N150,000 monthly with Arup, paying to FG workers in Abuja to enter Ministry of Works and calling everyone in existence to work for Chevron, KPMG, ELF or Mobil, yet CCECC is constructing up and down. CCECC isn't hiring Nigerians, JB will be okay with you, Schlumberger is your best bet. CCECC who is doing the most construction, will rather fly in technicians from China than hire a Nigerian and he will be told to not train the Nigerian guy under him, so when he gets tired of the work, another Chinese guy takes over.

Innoson motors needs money and backing so they can hire foreign technical staff who will train their Nigerian counterparts (that is how he started with Innoson motorcycles, by sending his boys over to Asia to be trained in how to reassemble bikes) yet FG would rather chase Nissan and Toyota who will tell Mech. Engrs that they are "overqualified" for the job with no experience and pay them for the lower job, and fly their own guys in.

I know a Dutch girl, who when she told me her job, I was baffled. Any graduate of Convenant Uni could do her job in Nigeria, yet she's paid millions. Same with my friend in Abuja, he does the work, his white boss earns the millions, same with my bro-in-law and the telecoms firm he works for, his colleague from SA is earning 4 times more than he is.

Heck, remember when we used to pay millions to foreign artistes to perform for an hour, at least we have taken that from them and our music industry has grown because we are now controlling it and the foreign companies are wising up to that fact and approaching Nigerian music producers (at least I know Don Jazzy).

Support Nigerian-grown, Nigerian-made. If I buy from Ravda, Mike, Li, the money goes to them. If I buy (without una cheating and if una can ask Jesus to correct ya brain and sell me quality, not cheap chinese inferior goods) from Haruna, Emeka or Tunde, our economy will grow faster.

onegig: Stealing my id and substituting the last two characters with ai(artificial intelligence) abi?

Lol, nope. Speaking Japanese, it means "please".

blackprowler: So where are your type hiding? I take note that you identify as female. If I ever met a few females in Nigeria who thought like this, I probably would've married by now. All I found were vain and superstitious people with no mind of their own. I can't find compatibility with the type of people that populate Nigeria

We exist, lol. I'm not one of the brazilian-over-made-up chicks around, so some guys want the package of Nadia Buari and the brain of Angela Merkel. Which is really, really hard to find. So a reader walks into a room and goes for the most attractive, empty package. Hence, I hear guys moan often "why didn't I meet you since?"

For those of us who are into Classical music, can we start a club? I used to hang out with the MUSON crowd and would always invite friends for their concerts (none ever came).

Tickets are affordable and they even have free recitals. It would be nice to encourage a blend to western and african instuments in an orchestra (the GoT main them has parts that can be played with some Nigerian guitars and the bass section too, that pot drum can handle some sections, to support the western drum).

blackprowler: Hi. How's life with you? Do you come from educated/enlightened parents/family/background? I made a mistake of knowing too much (from reading and documentaries) compared to the typical ignorant Nigerian family into which I was born and now my life is a misery. They think I'm mad. I'm in my 40s and from my life experiences, I can tell you it is dangerous to be more aware than your community unless you have dictatorial power over them.

yep, really dangerous to be more aware than your community. When you are different or think different, they view you with suspicion and intolerance (you don't blend with the pack). Galileo comes to mind. I remember when I took up violin-playing, people started asking "oh, so you're now into Music?" same reaction when I started painting, happily now I am. Particularly in Nigeria, you cannot acquire Knowledge for its beautiful sake. It must be for financial or religious purposes. People have wondered aloud why Art, Classical or Arranged Music and Literature are important, they cannot comprehend using them to even relax.

InesQor: I keep hearing this from some people but I think the exact opposite is the case; especially with fantasy or science-fiction. That genre (soft sci-fi/hard sci-fi/fantasy) is one that immensely increases one's imaginative power. Same goes for mythology (if you classify it as fiction).

Another genre that boosts imagination is crime & detection. A third one is mystery.

However, romantic fiction (puke face) and most other variants of fiction may even dull your imagination with the surfeit of their quotidian events.

EDIT: My bad. Just realized you said "only" fiction.

Romantic Fiction can grow in you a rapid love of History, particularly if the writer does adequate research (Jean Plaidy and Georgette Heyer made me do massive research on English and Continental European History). Even the Bodice-ripper romance novels have something to teach. I mean, once I started reading GRRM's "A Song of Fire and Ice" series, I knew I was reading about a modified version of The War of the Roses (from English History).

Good sci-fi is nice too and give me an Agatha Christie anyday over a tv show. Books I've been liking recently are award-winning books (Rani Manika "The Rice Mother", Jhumpa Lahiri and more).

Yep, I was that child who read Homer's "The iliad" and could quote Shakespeare in JSS. It drives me mad to see parents throw DSTV and imported toys at their kids and nary a book, not even a naija folktale book.

amnestylaw1: I never knew that the one almost at my backyard was important until I saw it on this thread.

See as yaff set yasef up for toasting by all our naija ladies! Awesome bro.

I was expecting Christ the Redeemer in Brazil and the Underwater Sculpture Museum to be on the list.

Our 3 Obas were moved from their prime position on Lagos-Ibadan expressway and put in the middle of bush. It would be nice to do something like this for Lagos sha...anyone interested? How crazy can we get? Let's put Nigeria on the map.

How do I register for it please? Is it open to anyone?

Goldenheart: Upside down grandma. You got it.

14min : 23sec

Not bad. There's a lot going on that's really good (your proportions look nice). You need to work on your lines, you're doing short dashes instead of long flowing lines. Well done.

GlorifiedTunde: *Please Don't Quote If You Can't Understand *

House chore is nobody's sole duty! It baffles me when a guy thinks its the woman's duty to do chores. Who laundered your clothes, did your dishes, swept your room, etc before you got married?

You come marry finish, carry your leg for chair like say na househelp you marry. shioo!

Any man who thinks in such way is still living in the STONE AGE!

Now me clamour for our wives to also work and bring in some income, she goes to work and comes back tired and you expect her to do all that herculean chores and also make love to u? HAAA! YOU MUST BE A WICKED MAN!

Even if you can't cook, you should be good at doing dishes, washing her clothes and pressing them.

Ladies better know the Kain man dem go marry, and don't spoil him immediately after wedding. Make him assist before babies start rolling in so that he gets used to it.

After now, some OLD SCHOOL PUNKS be like "I can't wash my wife's undies"

SHIOOOO!!!

Sir, please tell them. My dad would come home and pound yam for himself and my mum when they got married. My uncle can't let anyone clear his dishes after a meal. Both are amongst 2 of Nigeria's wealthiest men. One of my uncles said "when you see a man bossying his wife around, like a slave, it's poverty mentality. Because they are not used to having people help them so once they have someone under them, they try and subjugate them". Walai, it's true: my sis-in-law doesn't share our background and she's always rude to our helps. Same with one guy who was on my case. He was watching "Masterchef" but when I asked if he would make what he saw for me, he replied "never can I enter the kitchen, it's your job". Boys from good, upscale backgrounds have been trained to be polite to the staff because we know we're priviledged, not like jerks. Your manhood is intact if you help around the home you built and share with your wife! I don't get it, marriage is not a company, why do people like to be "in charge" of a marriage or be selfish

thelastmediator: @Onegai, Going by the reasons you gave up there which to some extent made a lot of sense, what do we (Africans) the rightful owner stand to gain by letting it remain with the people that acquire them Illegally? Don't you think a fraction of what is made from keeping the artefacts should go to the home country?

@skillet, The comparison you made up there doesn't apply to this situation. I guess it's easier relocating freed slaves to Sierra Leone because they will be more of burden than benefit

A fraction should be sent to us, but be honest, where do you think that money will end up? Conservation and Preservation Centres are largely privately funded, have you heard of anyone the Ministry of Culture and Tourism supports? Heck, if the money came down to us and we used to give Art students scholarships, I'd be delighted.The Oba of Benin and the Northern Sultans are the traditional rulers who support historical art.

voltron: @Rossikki.. you are well I see.. not even the Boko-Haram or Chibok rants have gotten you off your be-labored camel.

But say which other artefacts do you recall Nigeria has protected and kept in good condition for our future generations.. last i heard the National Films Office lost Historical Reels of Pre-independence Nigeria and post to a fire.. and most have been destroyed by mold and mites but it is good to see some right-thinking person is suggesting it.. 50+years after

Nigerian Film Industry would make you cry, they've lost the old horror movies like "Wili-Wili". We went to Nigerian Railway Corporation, things like maps and printing presses were lying around carelessly. National Museum is empty, National Gallery of Art has no more than 50 paintings and sculptures together, none older than the 1960s and some are bleeding off and they cannot be bothered to train an art restorer or even put out a guide booklet for visitors. Then people want the British Museum to return 400-year old statues. The first time I carefully handled and polished an Olowe of Ise (100-year old statue), the mallam who was helping us with it grinned and said he was pleasantly surprised. That man knew more about antique statues more than anyone at National Museum.

BananaBender: You are insulting her because you're blinded by your hate for white men. She definitely said some hurtful truth, why don't you debunk her points by providing facts in numbers, history, research or whatever.

You didn't suggest ways the artifacts could be protected in Nigeria either, your are even more thoughtless and dumb.

Dude, you have to ignore Rossike. Everyone on NL ignores the mad animal. Just pretend he's not here, we all do.

The reality is that we cannot keep them, and we don't value them in the first place. So if we got them, we wouldn't take care of them,one more thing Nigerians will fail at. When I do buy them, Nigerians always ask me "why are you buying them?", I explain and they still are puzzled. I'm working on a History project now, and it's been an uphill task (Nigerians don't care and Foreigners don't want you taking a source of funding from them, so they won't help out).

Okay, so I'm going to have a rant here, because this is my specialty.

No, they shouldn't return it. We don't deserve them.

Almost all the families I know with artefacts keep them under lock and key (mine included). Because Nigerians (Africans and Blacks too) are very backwards, sorry to say this.

Monotheistic Abrahamic religions came to China, Japan, Pacific Islands and Celts and Native American Indians and so much more. None of them went crazy, carried it on their heads and despoiled the works of their ancestors. Like Africans did.

As someone who buys artefacts (for preservation) and works to being a Historical art curator one day, I am ashamed of the Nigerian Gallery of Art and the National Museum. Whom are empty and filled with people who can't tell you an Onabolu from an Dale (both Nigerian). Even the private collectors are accused of being fetish-worshippers for trying to save our history.

If we return them, people will clamour for them to be destroyed because "my pastor said it is stopping my destiny from manifesting" or will sell them off for an ipad or Nokia Lumia. We Nigerians are not even INTERESTED in visiting them (you will see more whites asking me questions about Ife, Bini and Igbo-Ukwu than a Nigerian). So let people who can value this history (which btw is a great tourist attraction and would aid our broken economy) keep them.

And if you are interested in seeing a huge collection of them, please contact me. Or better yet, contact OYASAF.

The pain of Friendzoning is selfishness. Most guys like to describe themselves as "Nice Guys", which is a lie, because a truly nice person would do stuff for you without expecting anything in return. Yet almost all the guys on this thread are expecting se.x for being "nice" to a girl. So yeah, she gets selfish and takes you for a ride because you were selfishly trying to buy her emotions.

Guys friendzone girls too (she's not hot, she's not sexy, blah blah) and me, I never stay long in that situation: "oh, you want to just be friends even though you knew I liked you, couldn't say anything or worse, hoping to score in bed? Bye". Seriously, give them distance.

Most times, people regret friendzoning people. Both guys and girls. A friendzone is "I kinda like you, but even though I know Love should be calm, warm, strong and a bit boring (yep), I want the passion and excitement of Infatuation, Lust or whatever mad expectations of rushing emotions, so you're in my friendzone". A smart man or woman who has been friendzoned should immediately put some distance and then later on, build a casual friendship. I guarantee you, that person will start getting attracted to you, but most likely, you won't want them back anymore Because they'll see you with fresh eyes (looking prettier and confident or being more confident and manly) and you'll be suddenly more appealing yet they can't have you. Human beings want what they can't have.

Trust me

Well, it could be flooding. Snakes climb up when there's heavy rains (and yes Benin, una dey get flash flood ) I know snakes can reside in trees and even roofs. Heck, even snails are now using my walls to practise mountain-climbing (to the vex of my mum) and that's a 3-storey building.