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sademola:
Nigerian Media: Truth versus Reality
In the past few days, the hearts of genuine citizens of our great nation have bled over the news of the killing of a female Christian preacher by alleged Muslim fanatics in Kubwa area of the FCT, Abuja. I was actually alerted by a friend's ext message because although i reside in the affected area, i was far away in Ibadan, Oyo State, as at the time of the incident. As an average concerned Nigerian, i thought, when will this nation be free from religious and ethnic crises? But as a journalist and one with eye for investigation, i knew i had a duty at hand. So, on my return to the city, i visited the particular street, the particular spot, conducted personal investigation and secret interviews, and made several findings. I became sad! Why? Most of the information doled out by our media are NOT TRUE! For the avoidance of doubt, there was no evidence of anyone present when the woman died. Witnesses only said they met her dead. Secondly, i did not find anyone to confirm that any part of the woman was missing or mutilated. I talked with one who saw the corpse early that morning, with two policemen, before the news went viral. Thirdly, there was no mosque in that street or behind the spot. Fourthly, the vicinity had been under the torment of cultism in the past few months, in fact, two separate persons were found killed and dumped in the area recently, one of them on the street adjacent this particular one. The police is actually on the trail of s notorious cult who is believed to have sneaked into and hiding in the area. The police is insisting that they met the corpse body intact. But, alas! What my colleagues wrote were terrifying. In fact, it revived hatred, instigated religious intolerance and personal mistrust. I am sure many of you journalists who wrote the story were not in Abuja, you just received the news from friends and forwarded to your headquarters, which also did not verify before going to press. I also know that many of those in Abuja then did not visit the place, nor conduct proper investigation. For an issue as critical as religion and ethnicity, most of you goofed! The media is an indefatigable player in nation building, and no society is firmly built on negligence and mistrust as being displayed by our journalists. But, the media houses too are at fault. Most of them pay peanuts for staff while the few at the top swim in affluence. Where, then, is the resource and motivation for the reporter to carry out investigative reporting and due diligence. To survive, many journalists are pipers in the hands of politicians, religious leaders and businessmen and even government, who dictate their tune. Yet, the masses are at the receiving end because they naturally hold on to the news from the media. It is a hell a times, to change the people's perception on issues, over which our media had made serious blunders. I had had to show identity cards to some, before they agree to reason along the right perspective. The corruption on the media is much, but our colleagues can just help hold on to the truth.
BY SULAIMON ADESINA.

The imam of the nearby mosque was arrested by police and he confessed that he sent boys to deal with her for disturbing them that early morning. Two of those boys were also arrested by police and confessed . This trash you call a write up is nothing but lies. Your end will be more horrible than what this woman went through. Everlasting bastard

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They wanted to take him back to school, make him learn a vocation and employ him. He wanted the Olajumoke kind of help. Conflict of interest ensued. Simple
Don't blame or castigate his former helpers, coming out to help and spend money on someone like that is commendable enough

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It's always amazing when you see someone who can read and write and who went to school and still has this level of ignorance! I am amazed! OP I cry for you!

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Ask yourself honestly, what have you benefited from the past or present governments except that Nigeria is still together? And the fact that Nigeria is still together is to the interest of the political class cos if Nigeria breaks up they are finished!

What has the common Nigerian benefited from government? NOTHING!
F*CK PDP
F*CK APC
F*CK BUHARI
F*CK SARAKI
F*CK FAYOSE
F*CK BEN BRUCE
THE ARE ALL SAME PLAYERS IN DIFFERENT JERSEYS!
AND IF YOU ARE HERE SUPPORTING ANY POLITICIAN WHO DOESNT KNOW YOU EXIST N DOESNT PUT FOOD ON YOUR TABLE OR FUEL IN YOUR KEG THEN F*CK YOU TOO!

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OP your argument is invalid. The picture only shows a clear case of man's inhumanity to man and the resulting suffering. You cannot blame God for what a human being does to another human being just as I cannot blame your parents if you commit a crime. They have taught you the right way, but it is up to you to follow it or otherwise

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Then why did Jesus turn water to wine as his very first miracle? And don't tell me Jesus wine was non alcoholic because as at that time there was nothing like non alcoholic wine. And even the guests at the wedding of canna confirmed the wine to be the best they have ever tasted.

Some Scriptures discuss alcohol in positive terms. Ecclesiastes 9:7 instructs, “Drink your wine with a merry heart.” Psalm 104:14-15 states that God gives wine “that makes glad the heart of men.” Amos 9:14 discusses drinking wine from your own vineyard as a sign of God’s blessing. Isaiah 55:1 encourages, “Yes, come buy wine and milk…” From these and other Scriptures, it is clear that alcohol itself is not inherently sinful. Rather, it is the abuse of alcohol, drunkenness and/or addiction, that is sinful (Ephesians 5:18; Proverbs 23:29-35; 1 Corinthians 6:12; 2 Peter 2:19). Therefore, it would not have been a sin for Jesus to create a drink that contained alcohol.

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[b]Benin tradition continues by pointing out that it was during the reign of the fourth Oba of Benin of the present dynasty, Oba Oguola, the starting date of which has been put at A.D. 1400, that the Oba requested a bronze-smith to be sent from Ife-Ife, his ancestral home, to teach the craft in Benin. Iguehae (a rather strange name for an Ife man) was sent for the purpose, and there are shrines in Benin City today where he is worshipped.
This tradition, together with another which says that the heads of the deceased Obas of Benin were usually returned to Ife far burial at the site of Orun Oba Ado and that, in return, bronze memorial heads of the deceased Obas were sent to Benin to be kept there has given rise to speculation that Benin court art was derived from Ife. It is said further that this practice of sending bronze memorial heads to Benin was stopped by Oguola after the arrival of Iguehae.
The exponents of this view have compared the naturalism of Ife works with the naturalism of those Benin works regarded as the earliest specimens, when Ife influence was still very strong in Benin. Furthermore, certain sculptures in Benin style have been found in Ife-Ife and vice-versa. For example, the figure in plate 97, which is obviously of Ife style, was found in Benin.
The present Benin people believe that the art of Ife was derived from Benin and that Iguehae, which sounds more like an Edo name, introduced the art there. They even claim that Oduduwa, regarded by the Yoruba as the ancestor of all Yoruba kings, actually originated from Benin.
There is yet a third school of thought which points out that there is no tradition of bronze-casting in Ife today, that the present day Ife is not very old, and that the antiquities of Ife lack institutional background. Accordingly, Ife art is said to have derived from the old Beny Confederacy in the present Nupe country, from where Benin court art is also believed to have originated.
The writer is of the opinion that we do not yet know enough about the two art centers to enable us to draw final conclusions. It is observed, for example, that those heads which are regarded as the earliest Benin pieces are very much less naturalistic than the Ife classical pieces. Secondly, Denis Williams has noted differences in the casting processes of Ife and Benin bronzes. Thirdly, the interchange of objects between the two art centers does not necessarily imply derivation. There are Benin bronzes in the possession of the Atah (king) of Idah and in a small north-west Edo village in the Midwest State, a ram pendant mask was found in Apapa, Lagos, and a pendant mask is now owned by the Eze Nri (priest-king) at Oreri, near Igbo Ukwu. These places have no tradition of bronze-casting, except Igbo Ukwu where the style is very different. Therefore, the interchange of works between Ife and Benin may only reflect contact and may not necessarily mean that one was derived from the other.
There are further differences between the arts of Ife and Benin. Arnold Rubin has observed the absence of inlaid iran pupils in Ife works, whereas they are present in those of Benin. He has also remarked that the range of objects in the Benin art corpus - plaques, bells, altar, groups, aquamanile, and sa on - are absent in Ife. Furthermore, the small holes on Ife heads, supposedly used far the attachment of hair, moustache and beard, are absent from Benin bronze heads.
Finally, the writer believes that, although both traditions used the same technical process to produce their art, and probably had the same raison d'être for making the sculptures, viz: the glorification of their kings and gods and the immortalisation of the dead royal ancestors, the similarities do not go far beyond these. It appears that the concepts of sculpture in the two centers were different. Ife style is distinguished by individual portraiture, Benin art by its conventionalist. It also appears that Ife heads were made with portraits of persons in mind, however idealized, while those of Benin were made from imagination. Furthermore, some Benin works seem to be impressive representations of spirits (only one such example is yet known from Ife) and have no individual character as human beings. Finally, there is evidence of evolution in the Benin bronzes, but not in the Ife corpus. The one thing, however, which may link Ife and Benin, is that the Benin people, probably, learned the technique of cire perdue casting from Ife, but they did not adopt Ife's concept of art[/b]
Why are Benin kings buried in Ile ife
Why are Benin bronze heads and images of Benin kings found in in Ile ife

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This is a fallacy! Then how come the heads of Benin kings are are always taken to ife for burial? Foolish old men distorting history

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