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 Politics / Re: No Plan To Apologise Over 1966 Military Coup – Ohanaeze Ndigbo by Reflect7: 4:00pm On May 05 |
Igbos started all the problems we have today. It was Igbo officers who in 1966 went around shooting democratically elected leaders in their homes across the nation, while sparing the lives of Igbo leaders. I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. They really took Nigerians for granted. They were truly barbaric in their actions. Imagine storming the residence of the elected Prime Minister and shooting him dead. For what? If you had a problem with them, why not arrest them and put them on trial? Just cold, barbaric idiots driven by tribalism and hate. Those 1966 Igbo coup plotters were just demons in human skin. If they had not done what they did, Nigeria would have been like South Korea by now. |
| Politics / Re: Kano, Jigawa Farmers, Motorists Count Losses Amidst Fuel Scarcity by Odin13: 3:51pm On May 05 |
Tinubu ehhhhhh Wayooo!! Nigerian go soon begin mass relocation to chad and Niger The Yoruba plan no go work On how this people dey press Nigerians .. even the rich no Dey fit breath.. Haba!! Na dead body you wan rule? 48 Likes 2 Shares |
| Religion / Re: Please, How Was Jesus Able To Ascend To Heaven? by MaxInDHouse(m): 3:49pm On May 05 |
Reflect7: He didn't go in a physical body what they saw that day was a materialized body to convince them that he has risen from the dead. After his resurrection he became a spirit being {1Corinthians 15:45} that's why his friends couldn't recognize him in the strange bodies he was using after his death! Luke 24:15-16; John 20:14; 21:4 |
| Politics / Is Nigeria A Case Of Beating A Dead Horse? OPINION by Celestialsword: 3:24pm On May 05 |
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” – Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review. From airports to roads, from hospitals to schools, we call it elephant projects, they are dead horses for me, national embarrassments. If you’ve ever worked in government or the private sector, you may be all too familiar with similar projects running on life support. In Nigeria, it is not just about airports, after all, we were recently told that a whole airport in Abia state only existed in the figment of someone’s imagination, money gone, no airport anywhere, at least an airport is not something that just disappears or can be hidden. Anyway, this admonition is nowhere near anything about airports, and talking about airports, how about the Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill? It is not a mill, it is not rolling and there are no steel products anywhere near. You will be forgiven to think that this is about the steel rolling mill, but again it is not. It is also not about the Lagos – Ibadan expressway or the Abuja – Lokoja expressway. This episode of mine is not about the imaginary resuscitation of the Kaduna textiles. The dead Horse Theory states that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” In the context of business and bureaucracy, the meme refers to a failed project which is nonetheless kept alive by wilfully ignorant management. Sage advice. But let’s start from the beginning. The Tribal wisdom of the Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” However, in modern business, education and government, far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Threatening the horse with termination. 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses. 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 7. Re-classifying the dead horse as ‘living-impaired’. 8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed. 10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance. 11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance. 12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and, therefore, contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses. 13. Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses. 14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position of hiring another horse. I have yet to meet someone with experience in business and government to whom this bizarre analogy doesn’t make perfect sense. Would I be wrong to assume that you have no problem recalling your own personal dead horse story? A story told with frustration, passion and incredulity. It doesn’t have to be a colossal airport disaster or Ajaokuta. Any lost cause or pointless project that mainly serves as a black hole for resources will do. The chance to save the dead horse’s life by doing a premortem analysis was missed. So, to figure out what happened, let’s do a brief post-mortem on the dead horse. The first underlying assumption of the dead Horse Theory is that the horse has in fact met its maker. This makes it seem like pronouncing it dead was an objective and straightforward exercise. The implication is: Dismounting and abandoning the failed endeavour is not only possible but highly advisable. The list of “advanced strategies” reduces the seemingly simple solution to absurdity. It implies that the failed endeavour is an open secret. Yet, there’s no shortage of plans on how to solve the unsolvable. It looks like we’re dealing with an exasperating mix of groupthink, wilful blindness and wishful thinking. Something is keeping people from doing the obvious, from dismounting the dead horse, from abandoning the lost cause. On top of that, there are no mechanisms such as institutionalised devil’s advocacy that brings these issues to light. Let’s brainstorm a few reasons why: Know-How: The will to dismount is there. But nobody knows how and what mode of transportation to take instead. Responsibility: It’s not anyone’s call to issue the death certificate and arrange the funeral of the poor horse. Instead, they might be engaged in an eternal game of buck-passing. Vested Interest: Whoever could make the call profits from the horse being deemed alive and well. Investment: Similarly, there may be too much financial or emotional investment at stake. Ego: As a result, the reputational damage of abandoning the dead horse is too high. Withdrawing gracefully feels impossible. Whatever it is, living an awkward lie seems to be preferable over admitting the nag should be buried six feet under. That puts the virtuous and principled employee in a bind. On the one hand, you don’t want to pour fuel into the fire of collective delusion. On the other hand, dismounting and abandoning your post might not be your preferred course of action either. You see the Nigerian looks upon Nigeria as a theatre and the entire population representing and manifesting the full spectrum of acts and actors. In this revelry, life is the theatre; the nation is the stage upon which we perform. The politicians and a few of us are the actors, very often mediocre. When stars appear it is more often because a play must have a star rather than because the player is possessed of some dramatic genius. We falter and we muff our lines; sometimes our performance takes on an aspect of the grotesque-nobody takes this seriously because it is perceived as being the nature of the play. Our people become the audience. The fact is that in the last 24 years I have averaged a one per year article on fuel or petroleum motor spirit palaver in Nigeria, from subsidies, to scarcity, to long queues to price increase, it is a story that is as old as the first car driven by fuel in Nigeria. It is one of our many dead horses, just some stone throw few years ago, the federal government blamed the ongoing fuel scarcity on increased demand by nations in temperate regions. Addressing State House correspondents after a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the then Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said: “This is winter period. There is always more demand for refined products from petroleum during winter in the colder countries. This is what we are experiencing now.” Mohammed also insisted: “The government has no intention at all to increase the pump price of petrol.” Marketers meanwhile at same time blamed the NNPC for alleged favouritism in distribution of petrol. At the same time Kachikwu the then minister of state for petroleum at a press briefing in Abuja blamed the fuel crisis on the gap in supply of petroleum products. “There was obviously some level of gap in terms of volume. That gap arises from the fact that NNPC is the only one that is importing products currently. This is a ministry that in the last 24 years the president has continued to oversee as senior minister, yet it remains a dead horse! Deceased horses are an opportunity to accept things as they are. As soon as you realise you’re riding a dead horse, feel free to dismount and find one with a better health record. Alternatively, you may want to stoically commit yourself to the horse’s resurrection. In order to show the futility of the whole effort, or on the off-chance that you were wrong and the horse was only in a state of apparent death. May Nigeria win…on a dead horse–Only time will tell Copyright © 2024 Blueprint Newspapers Limited |
| Politics / Re: Can N15 Trillion Give Nigeria 24-hour Electricity by LandMann: 3:06pm On May 05 |
MEEVEET: You're a certified government propaganda agent. Only a konk government zombié or a heartless human being will make the same submissions you have been making. On this thread you claimed that power/electricity is not a priority for Nigeria. As in! You mean you don't know that productivity is very low across Nigeria because of lack of constant electricity? Again, you submitted that those who need constant electricity in Nigeria can already afford it and are already getting it... This group of persons you refer to cannot be more than 2% of Nigeria's population because it's only the extremely wealthy that can afford or are already getting 24/7 electricity in Nigeria. In your heart of hearts the remaining 98% can go kill themselves right? Only a certified government zombié or heartless Nigerian politician thinks this way Again, you are also submitting that it's better for ALL businesses and individuals to switch to private electricity generation because it's cheaper, and I'm asking you, show one developed country on this earth that has practiced what you are suggesting. If you can't find any then it's because your suggestion is very foolish and impracticable. 1 Like |
| Food / Re: Opinion: Okpa Is Better Than Moi Moi by moneyest(m): 3:02pm On May 05 |
Dybala11: Your braind€ad 1mbecilic father is who you are referring to h0peless idi0t. Keep munching whatever dustbin you want. Do I look like I give a fvck? |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Assault Planned On Russia During May 9 Commemoration. Get Ready For WW3 by Nahunger(m): 3:00pm On May 05 |
panafrican: It was conventional in Hitler's Case while the topic of discourse which is Ukraine and Russia is a war between two parties... Other parties involved are proxy. This is more like a Bait, if Putin kills Zelensky then it would become conventional and the start of WW3 Do you get the difference now?? |
| Politics / Re: How Voters Voted For Presidents By Region And State In Nigeria- Statisense by madridguy(m): 2:59pm On May 05 |
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| Politics / Re: 14 Years After Yar’adua’s Death: Nigeria Would’ve Been Much Better, Says Aide by Nyanabo(m): 2:57pm On May 05 |
He is dead now, he is the best thing since peak milk and slice bread. If the henwere still alive , would the narrative be the same? |
| Politics / Former Education Minister, Kenneth Gbagi Is Dead by coputa(m): 2:56pm On May 05 |
The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the last election in Delta State, Olorogun Barr Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, FNIM OON, is dead. Gbagi, a former minister of Education and an industrialist died at the age of 62. The foremost Criminologist and senior lawyer died on Saturday, May 4th 2024. A statement signed by his eldest son, Chief Emuoboh Gbagi on behalf of the Gbagi family, confirmed his death. According to the statement “It is with profound sadness but gratitude to God, that we announce the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, husband, and brother, Olorogun (Barr.) Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, FNIM, OON; Former Minister of Education, who departed this life on the 4th of May 2024 at the age of 62. “We take comfort in the fond memories of his life, his achievements, and the impact he made on the lives of countless individuals and communities. “We kindly request your thoughts and prayers for our family during this challenging time of loss. “May his soul rest in perfect peace”, the statement added. Copyright © 2024 Blueprint Newspapers Limited. |
| Business / Re: FCCPC Vows To Clamp Down On Loan Apps Harassing Customers by zeyt: 2:55pm On May 05 |
Naija Loan Sharks are categorized into two: There are vampires and Scavengers. The vampires are apps like Carbon, Fairmoney and so on who pretend to be premium lenders but in reality are vampires. They will bleed you dry with about 50% interest rate. You default in repayment no matter how long you have been with them, they still dump you for new customers. They have millions of customers and you are nothing to them except disposable broke dude. In other hand the loan sharks called scavengers with random name like Naira this or Naira that. After you are dumped by the so called premium lenders then the scavengers take over and will feed on your broke dead body. They will offer you loan to repay in one week for the same interest rate as vampires. They act like kidnappers when you default, threatening to destroy your life with sensitive information you give them before they offer you chicken shit loan. From experience the only reputable loan app in Nigeria is Branch. by the look of it they are not Nigerians that's why. They will always give you chance like they understand your situation. 10 Likes 3 Shares |
| Business / Re: FCCPC Vows To Clamp Down On Loan Apps Harassing Customers by cnonyechi(f): 2:50pm On May 05 |
helinues: I actually took a loan just to experience people's complaints. Guess what 2days to d expiration I was called up to 20 times and told to pay the loan, a 7 days loan with over 10k interest on it oo, I told the rep that I will pay when it expires, but guess wat? She said if I don't pay immediately even God will pity me, cos of wat dey will do to me, dat a dead corpse will be better than her not me. So u see its crazy Dey need to ban them totally 10 Likes 3 Shares |
| Food / Re: Opinion: Okpa Is Better Than Moi Moi by Dybala11(m): 2:48pm On May 05 |
moneyest:Whatever name you decide to call your irresponsible father is none of my business. Very stup!d being, how is my preference of moin-moin over Okpa equal to tribalism? Like who gave birth to nonentities like you sef? And some people gather together to celebrate the day you were born? You're better off dead than staying alive, your brain that has been saturated with tribalism will definitely not make you think at all. |
| Celebrities / Re: My Son Is 30, Wofai Fada Is 38 - Taiwo Cole's Father by Judolisco(m): 2:32pm On May 05 |
Kavod:that's why I said it's morally and culturally wrong 1 Like |
| Religion / Re: The Atheists Costly Error: Assumption That Everything REAL Must Be TANGIBLE by triplechoice(m): 2:30pm On May 05 |
FRANCISTOWN:It's your own that's very flawed. The premise upon which you based your argument is that anyone who lacks belief in deities is automatically an atheist. But that's simply not true. We have those who don't believe in deities but are not atheist . Those ones practice other forms of spirituality. They believe in spirits, reincarnation and practice witchcraft, juju voodoo etc without acknowledging the existence of any deity. An atheist doesn't believe or practice any of those. We also have deist who can't be regarded as theist or atheist . A deist has not accepted that religious gods exist . So, you can see you're not making any sense with your explanations. Your atheism is founded on the two major abrahamic religion of Christianity and Islam. That's only thing you know and have been using it to arrive at conclusions that are not supported by any evidence. There's no evidence that babies are born atheist. If that were true we would be seeing the evidence everywhere. Most people in the society would be atheist, but the reverse is the case. In fact , the evidences that we have supports the idea that babies are born more spiritually aware than adults. By the time they start using language very well, they usually shock us with some of the things they claim to have seen or experienced. Some of them see ghosts and other disembodied entities regularly ,and also even inform us of how they have lived before in a previous life which some adults dismissed as baby talk. But not all can be dismissed as such Some reincarnation reports given by children before the age of 6 have been confirmed to be true after investigation. So going by the evidence ,if we're going to accept that babies are born as anything at all, we shouldn't not be looking at theist atheist , but something else, which is , they're born as spiritually aware beings. If you insist otherwise, then please provide evidence like I just did, and not baseless explanations of, "if one is not a theist then must be atheist. Such talk is evidence of someone thinking in black and white only |
| Education / Re: When Your General Overseer And Pastor's Son Die Before You by IAmHim1: 2:30pm On May 05 |
Lolzzzz It's not to PROVE a funny point The point is already funny even if NOBODY proves it All the stickers and wristbands of TB Joshua...now that he's dead...what's up Have they been discarded or are their followers wearing the wrist band of a dead General Overseer hoping for special grace or to tap from annointing dead annointing... If the annointing couldn't save the general overseer...what's the point of wearing a lifeless wrist band on your hand Same goes for Adeboye RCCG sticker and deeper life and Co Lolzzzz I saw it on a car coming from church this afternoon  The driver will be driving thinking the sticker will save him from bad driving Maybe when Adeboye and kumuyi and co dies that's when everyone will have sense and discard those nonsense Let's not even go to lords chosen and their oversized cooking apron MRSAleroELEFAN: |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:28pm On May 05 |
Brit mom and two teen daughters found 'cuddled together' after being slaughtered by Hamas-ISIS. Lianne Sharabi, 48, and her two daughters Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, were murdered in the Hamas-ISIS massacre of Oct. 7. Lianne met her husband Eli in Israel after she first went to stay on a kibbutz aged just 19. The pair were married in Britain, going on to have daughters Yahel and Noiya together who were British citizens. They lived in the Kibb.utz Be’eri, near the border with Gaza in the south of Israel and were used to rocket attacks. Eli, 51, has been missing since Oct. 7. His brother, Yossi Sharabi, 53, from also Kibbutz Be’eri, declared dead 102 days after capture.
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| Celebrities / Re: My Son Is 30, Wofai Fada Is 38 - Taiwo Cole's Father by Kavod: 2:27pm On May 05 |
Judolisco:ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS.. AND PREGNANCY SHOULD BE THE LEAST REASON ANY COUPLE SHOULD GET MARRIED. PUT YOUR SELF IN THE FATHERS SHOES....... IMAGINE RAISING UP A SON AND GIVING HIM THE BEST MOST FATHERS COULD BARELY GIVE A SON, ONLY TO WATCH HIM GET MARRIED TO AN OLDER WOMAN WITH OBSCURED BACKGROUND AND YOUR SON CANT EVEN HONOUR YOU TO WAIT FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS AND WORSE YOU DID NOT ATTEND THE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE. FIRST THINGS FIRST IF SHE WAS NOT FROM A USELESS BACKGROUND, WHAT KIND OF FAMILY ACCEPTS A MAN TO MARRY THEIR DAUGHTER WITHOUT HIS PARENTS OR UNCLES? WOULD YOU GIVE YOUR DAUGHTER OUT TO ANY GUY WITHOUT SEEING, KNOWING OR EVEN DOING BACKGROUND CHECKS ABOUT HIS FAMILY?.... THE MARRIAGE IS dead ON ARRIVAL. JUST GIVE IT TIME!!!!!!!! 10 Likes 3 Shares |
| Politics / Re: How Voters Voted For Presidents By Region And State In Nigeria- Statisense by Emyogalanya: 2:26pm On May 05 |
LegendHero:Anyone can lose an election peak or no peak. Trump lost at his Peak gGej lost at his Peak atiku is still losing at His Peak. In Ojukwu's Case he was not even a proper politician at that time he was a military man with recent memories of a civil war hanging on his Neck secondly the party he joined was mostly seen as northern party and was not popular among the Igbo. And he was newly returned from exile. And was less than a year before election. Now this was an election that the state led by jim Nwobodo had interest to please the FG |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Assault Planned On Russia During May 9 Commemoration. Get Ready For WW3 by mysticwarrior(m): 2:17pm On May 05 |
panafrican:They wanted to capture him alive, if they wanted him dead the Russians and the Americans would have bombed Hitler's Bunker. |
| Politics / Re: Ben Murray-Bruce Talks About The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by CartelKenneth: 1:53pm On May 05 |
Awaken the sleeping dead… |
| Health / Re: Britain's Fattest Man, Jason Holton, Is Dead (Photos) by brain54(m): 1:51pm On May 05 |
Make i no talk wetin dey my mind... Due to Respect to the dead.. Rest in peace champ! 48 Likes 4 Shares |
| Politics / Re: Ex-Education Minister, Kenneth Gbagi Is Dead by preciouswoman66(m): 1:48pm On May 05 |
Jeez... This news come as a shock, I can't say he deserves death sha but it doesn't matter cause he's dead. This man that year that wanted to be governor for my state dor die. I'm shocked Where Omo agege sef |
| Crime / Re: Marietu Ohunene Tenuche: PAAU Law Professor Killed By Armed Bandits Buried by benuejosh: 1:47pm On May 05 |
thatigboman:there's no how you won't pass otukpo. I said doesn't mean it must pass through the city center. It is a Must. |
| Health / Britain's Fattest Man, Jason Holton, Is Dead (Photos) by Globalinfo247: 1:46pm On May 05 |
Britain's 'heaviest man' dies from organ failure days before celebrating his 34th birthday, weighing over 47 stone - as his mother said doctors 'couldn't save him' after his health went 'downhill' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13383431/britain-fattest-man-dies-organ-failure-birthday.html 9 Likes 2 Shares
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| Politics / Re: Can N15 Trillion Give Nigeria 24-hour Electricity by MEEVEET: 1:35pm On May 05 |
LandMann:[b]Obviously you have difficulty comprehending basic English statements But 1) anyone who can't afford generator cant obviously afford to pay for 24 hours light... That's a known fact But I was specifically talking about businesses.. But yeah same apply the numbers don't know 2) maintenance of generator, plus gas supplies cost accounted for its still cheaper than national grid electricity in nigeria 100% 3) notice pollution from gas power generators are very negligible and you can always get sound proof ... Most manufacturing machines make for more noise than generators 4) yes gas turbine are designed to work for months none stops... You can always maintain them during public holidays... Even if you get 3 generators it would still be more economical than power grid 5) price of 250 is not the issue but but ratio of price... If CNG price goes up obviously price of national grid electricity goes up too na... 70% of the national grid electricity are produced from CNG also... So what exactly is your point Is price of electricity static? I won't be caught dead supporting APC if anything you are closer to their policy than me Basic problem with Africa is you want to do what the West is doing now... Not what they did they they didn't have constant electricity There were gas pipeline to homes and industrial areas before constant electricity was a thing... I'm sure u didn't know that[/b] 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: How Voters Voted For Presidents By Region And State In Nigeria- Statisense by LegendHero(m): 1:33pm On May 05 |
Emyogalanya: Bro none of those you mention will lose a senatorial election in their home state at their peak. It was you that mentioned that Ojukwu is the most notable Ibo man dead or alive. So if he is the most notable and was a political giant, why exactly did he lost a senatorial election that took place in “Anambra” state at his peak! It is like you saying Awolowo will lose an election in Ogun state at his peak. Ojukwu could be somebody in other things, but he is a nobody in politics. 2 Likes |
| Celebrities / Re: Russell Brand Says Baptism Left Him Feeling 'Changed', 'Surrendered In Christ' by Waywardson6: 1:21pm On May 05 |
When there career is dead, they'll do anything to get the public's attention. The worse idiot's are those who believe he truly gave his life to Christ. See Kanye West who claimed to be born again, is now opening or may launch a pornographic studio. Believe celebrities & politicians at your own peril. Garbage in garbage out all of them including the so called religious bigots. |
| Politics / Re: EFCC Denies Releasing List Of Ex-Governors Under Investigation by chiiraq802(m): 1:17pm On May 05 |
When I saw that list, I just laughed. See mk I tell you am to your face, No Nigerian Polithiefcians whether alive or dead be it Governors, Senators, Lga Chairmen, or Councilors that is not Corrupt. If to say dem dey play am for Bet. na sure game be this. 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Assault Planned On Russia During May 9 Commemoration. Get Ready For WW3 by panafrican(m): 12:49pm On May 05 |
Nahunger:During WW2 , the allied forces wanted Hitler dead. That war was an international war, wasn't it ? |
| Religion / Re: A Christian That Commits Suicide, Will He Go To Hellfire? by beejaay: 12:40pm On May 05 |
JoeEeL:This really cracked me up and made my day at the same time.. Just see how people dey talk with so much conviction as if they had already been there.. Some are even ready to abuse others to submission.. But when it comes to reality the phrase change to God's knows better... 2 Likes |
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