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Felt the same here @op last year ds period they never knew they won't b om this Xmas to celebrate wt their parent..nd love ones.They shouted and scream api nu year just has we dd but they neva c the ur end in gd fate...their dream chattered,their light was turned off by nozzle of a gun..as there year draw to an end all hope seem to b dead..O Lord show urself on this girls issue.we av trusted in our govt but it failed us even when dey speak we can't but disbelief their words..but fo these children u came cos whr ever they ar now we kno they ar weak but wt love from many whose heart is wt them let the air take our love to them..BBOG.

May we experience a better Nigeria Bfo death com knocking,may our generation never b a wasted one.

cos they ar more emotional than men...Above all to female d time is thicking while most guys feel they av d whole time.Oga u too wetin carry u to romance.

This would av bn better in d joke zone.

temitemi1:
Our father in the Lord is no a fool like apc members. How can baba adeboye support bunch of criminals parading themselves as progressive GEJ till 2019!!!

But we all shu also support a president the only Big. presidio dt see corruption as mere stealing..we can also support a president who never giv a damn in term of d welfare of the citizen..well any man God can endorse or stamp anybody,its left for the electorate to decided who dey think is d best enof of politics nd religion..let d church b more concern abt taking the lost soul to heaven nd d politicians abt d country.

@op how can you forget "I av no shoe advert story during his campaign" jus for us to realised that during is childhood state he even get bicycle and many shoe...

Haba Bastard Okupe according to Oxford they ar the same but the new encyclopedia of 2014 known as jonacyclopeadia they ar not d same.

To those against him what do u expect of the pro PDP if not support after all corruption is jus mere stealing...yes we kno diaris God ooooo

Hmmm now d votes of d Redeemer member is divided..GMB much work need to b done talk to your ardent followers in d north..non indigene of their state also av d right to life in d north.

Hmmmm is not funny that PDP can't find anything against this man...rather than integrity. A man who rule fo jus two yrs nd till date history still beckon on him not as a judgement but as the judge.They shu b concern abt their candidate and APC too about her candidate nd let us the electorate take care of d rest at d polling unit,while taking panadol on anoda man issue. let PDP show us what d govt of tday has done extraordinary.

Respect sir, Jagaban...ur writeup is a master piece.Let those dt wl call u name also show a sign of bn patriotic.

badoolee:
Would you stop generalising

I think he need to be told this...

what wl b d content of the cover letter?

COLUMN: PIUS ADESANMI

What’s in a name? Nothing, says Western
culture, for a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet. Everything, say
the cultures of Africa, for every name is a
messenger, running errands of family history and
circumstances of birth for its bearer. That is why
an African seldom jokes with the interjection: call
me this or call me that. Self-naming is serious
business, very serious business in Africa. Doyin
Okupe, one of the caterwauling blights on
Nigerian manhood currently littering Aso Rock,
said to call him a bastard if APC survived the
first year of its formation. It is time for Nigerians
to obey his instruction and grant him the
Chieftaincy title he requested: Bastard Doyin
Okupe. I hope you understand that I did not call
him a bastard. He insisted and who am I not to
respect a man’s wish to be called a bastard? If
you want to know how to handle a man’s
calabash, watch him and study how he handles
it himself.

Although he is sadly in his sixties – I say sadly
because his behaviour always suggests that he
is trapped in a pre-teenage stage of development
– the patriarchs in Ogun state need to summon
Doyin Okupe and flog him in a public assembly.
It is rare to see a Yoruba elder in Doyin Okupe’s
station do so much damage to his culture
because he either misunderstands it or his desire
for stomach infrastructure stands in the way of
wisdom. “Call me this if that does not happen”
is a commonplace Yoruba cultural formula. Like
all cultural formulas, it is not to be used by
fools. Any secondary school kid in Yoruba land
knows that you wield that mode of discourse
only when you are absolutely certain of the
results of what you are boasting about. Call me
a bastard if January is not succeeded by
February; call me a bastard if PHCN provides one
year of uninterrupted power supply all over the
country in 2015; call me a bastard if the EFCC
ever prosecutes Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalam
Abubakar, and other beneficiaries of the $180
million Halliburton scandal. These are three
contexts a Yoruba person would deem
appropriate for that cultural formula because it is
certain that none of the propositions would ever
happen. However, call me a bastard if a political
party lasts a year? Only a very foolish Yoruba
person would say this.
You know that this person is foolish because the
more you slice off his fingers, the more he
insists on wearing diamond rings. Doyin Okupe
is now into the business of comparing his boss
with Jesus Christ. Suddenly, Martin Luther King,
Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, and Lee Kuan
Yew are no longer enough for these deranged
minds in Aso Rock. Oga Goodluck Jonathan is
now better than all these people put together.
Trust Doyin Okupe. He did not even stop at the
Pope. He went directly for Jesus Christ. He even
forgot that there is no vacancy for a second
Jesus Christ in Aso Rock. Evans Bipi already
named Patience Jonathan Jesus Christ over a
year ago. Patience Jonathan accepted the
honour and returned from Germany claiming to
have raised Lazarus from the dead. Which of the
two Jesuses in Aso Rock will step down for the
other now?
There is something else I like about Yoruba
culture. There is a point at which that culture
determines that somebody’s behaviour has
become so outrageous that you stop blaming
him or holding him to account. Yoruba culture
will migrate to the person’s kinsmen and ask
them critical questions. The moment Doyin
Okupe started comparing his Oga with Jesus
Christ for the simple reason that what he will eat
is standing in the way of wisdom, you are
unlikely to find anybody in Yoruba land still
blaming the man. Instead, questions will be
asked of his kinsmen, his molebi in Ogun state.
What did Doyin do? Who did he offend and what
is the scale of his offence that you, his kinsmen,
would fold your arms and watch him dance
naked in the public square all the time? Why did
you allow him to cross the market? Does he not
have molebi in this town? What is his olori ebi –
family head – doing about his matter? Are you
his kinsmen just going to be looking at him?
Won’t you do something? Ee ni jade si oro Doyin
ni? I am sure these questions are being asked of
Doyin Okupe’s kinsmen already.
Doyin Okupe is not the only one who has
suffered misadventures recently in the field of
naming. President Jonathan and the career
Jonathanians who worship him on social media
are also suffering from a crisis of identity. One of
the rules of naming is that people tend to
associate you with whatever you speak
approvingly of. In certain cases, it could become
your sobriquet. If I speak approvingly of football
all the time, people could start calling me Pele or
Messi. Whatever you approve of is usually a
pointer to how you wish to be called. I am not
sure that President Jonathan and career
Jonathanians understand this basic rule. We
must therefore break it down for them to help
them avoid the pitfall of poor self-naming in the
future.
President Jonathan went on prime time TV to
proclaim that stealing is not corruption. He
reprimanded those who take corruption too
seriously for misunderstanding ordinary, mere,
simple cases of stealing. Watching him, I told
myself that he was very effective in making
stealing look like the new cool in Nigeria. At first,
career Jonathanians were stunned on social
media. It was such a huge gaffe on the part of
their Orisha that they initially did not know what
to do about it. Then, like a herd, they started
cutting and slicing the statement; defending it;
justifying it; rationalizing it; explaining it;
accounting for it; mitigating it; diluting it. As is
usual with career Jonathanians, they forgot their
Orisha who made the error and turned against
Nigerians who dared to scrutinize it.
They hounded the nation. You must accept
Oga’s premise that stealing is not corruption or
you’re a hater. Perhaps the most celebrated
instance of Jonathanian defence of the maxim,
stealing is not corruption, happened when I
delivered Pastor Tunde Bakare’s 60th birthday
lecture recently in Lagos. Our brother and recent
convert to career Jonathanism, Governor
Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state, was on the high
table with us. He kept wincing in pain and
discomfort throughout my lecture. Stealing is not
corruption was one of the planks of my lecture.
I got a standing ovation after it. Governor
Mimiko was asked to respond. He spent almost
forty minutes philosophizing President
Jonathan’s statement. He defended, polished,
cleaned up, explained, rationalized, disinfected.
He was sweating. He accused me and the rest of
the country of having not taken the time to
research corruption and stealing. We have not
theorized it enough. We have no research
archives. Once we understand the theory of
stealing and corruption, we would have a deeper
understanding of President Jonathan’s
statement. The audience booed him. Sahara
Reporters later published the video.
In essence, for President Jonathan and career
Jonathanians, there is nothing wrong with the
statement stealing is not corruption. We got tired
of their harassment and granted them their wish
of calling them what they wanted to be called.
Oga Jonathan went to Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ife, and some students shouted “Ole!
Ole! Ole! Thief! Thief! Thief!” You’d think that
career Jonathanians would be happy. After all,
they’d spent months on social media screaming
themselves hoarse and saying there is nothing
wrong with the President’s beatification of
stealing on national television in broad daylight.
If there is nothing wrong with that statement,
why is your mental carburetor suddenly
overheating because some students called your
Oga what he wishes to be called?
Career Jonathanians went into overdrive on
social media. They screamed. They hee-hawed. I
laughed really hard, reading and watching their
contortions. At first, they said it did not happen.
Then they said Sahara Reporters manufactured
the story. Then they said that only a handful of
students sponsored by APC screamed at the
president. Then they said that even if it
happened, it was rude and unpatriotic to call the
President a thief – a president who had found a
moral euphemism to rationalize stealing on
national TV!
As we approach 2015, we must advise President
Jonathan, his handlers, and career Jonathanians
on social media: self-naming is a serious
business. This is no time for you to suffer an
identity crisis in the theatre of naming. You
cannot say, one minute, that stealing is not
corruption is the greatest philosophical
statement of the century and turn around, the
next minute, to burst a vein when the author of
the said statement is called a thief. That is
called confusion break bones. Make up your
minds what you wish to be called.

Saba Abdulmuiz

nurez305:
Cul, but how did you detect that there is 6000minute for free....i didn't notice that until now....thanks for the info

Dial *559*10#

Though from my heritage background its not advisable for one to ansa a bastard wen he talk...but record purpose can someone pls tell this man to mind is own PDP affairs and leave d affairs of APC for us d citizens and the APC..pls

Hmmmm...well spoken the truth is bitter,while dey encourage d member to giv;we hardly c som churches standing by their member wen there is financial need..and bfo u say a word their ardent follower wl start quoting touch not my anointing...

The man Buhari...how i wish he b allowed to b and correct d right he need to abt ds country Bfo death snatch him and ppu wl start saying he is d best integrity president Nigeria never have nd all dos Nigeria praises after wl lose an icon..abeg o.

Nice one op..until we start to see religion as thing of worship,state as one heritage nd culture and ethnic as not a right to rule den Nigeria as a work in progress we as citizen of ds country need to start judging our leader by their character and content and not by their color or background. Further enof of ds saying Buhari is a fanatics,quite alright he has make alot of statement that are wrong but he is human after if God can forgive what is our own dt wl still held him bound...in my Lord voice he who have not sin let him cast the fisrt stone.

Hmmm just six feet...R.I.P

Indefinite strike lord av mercy end of d year thing in Nigeria...expect full scarcity. When wl all ds com to an end in Nigeria?

I wonder where those that say APC wl not last a year wl b putting their face..or is it faces though they change their name to bastard if APC last more than a year..Toh now we all c a party that was created within two yrs conducted one of the best primaries showing how democrat they so they held d convention not a coronation as what happened in ABJ....they make me proud the level of their organization.

Oga aaa

Is it a convention or coronation just asking?

Jus op u win...

Andy Anderson, a 99-year-old
grandpa, has had quite the incredible life. He
has experienced love, loss, triumph, and
failure. And through all of that he has
continued to remain himself and keep people
laughing while he’s at it.
Here’s grandpa’s full list of 25 life lessons we
can and should all apply:
Always maintain a good sense of humor.
Never be too good to start at the bottom.
Exercise every single day, even when you don’t
feel like it.
Don’t spend more money than you make.
Drink orange juice every day.
Love at first sight is not a fable.
Having a bad job is better than having no job
at all.
Eat around the mold; don’t go wasting food.
Your family is the most precious thing you will
ever have in life.
Eat sausage every day — it worked for me.
Your life is delicate, and if you neglect yourself,
you’ll spoil. That’s what cheese taught me.
Don’t ever be afraid to be your true self.
Everyone has too many clothes. Wear what
you have and quit buying more.
You must be able to forgive, even if it’s
difficult to do.
Save your money now and spend it later.
Love is not always easy; sometimes you have
to work at it.
Find something comical in every single
situation.
If you’re faced with a problem, don’t delay
trying to figure it out. But if there’s no way to
figure it out, you have to forget about it.
Make sure you’re doing what you love; don’t
be afraid to follow those dreams you have for
yourself.
Education is important, but not necessary. Life
can be an education in itself.
Explore your world and stay curious.
Try not to take yourself so seriously.
My full name is William Bradford James
Anderson, and my initials always remind me to
ask myself, “Why be just anybody?”
Have common sense. Think about the most
reasonable answer to every situation. If you
don’t have common sense, you’re a bust.
Life is a gift that you must unwrap. It’s up to
you to determine if what’s inside will lead you
to happiness or dismay. You have the power
to make that decision for yourself.
Andy is looking forward to his 100th birthday
next May, which he hopes to spend with his
family. “I feel pretty good about getting older. I
may be 99, but I am still learning and
experiencing new things everyday. You never
stop learning. Age is not just a number, it’s a
badge of all my life experiences.”

Be passionate
Have the ppu in mind
Must continue the good work of its predecessor.

Nigeria of our generation... what lie ahead in d future only God can help..wish I can c and live d Nigeria we all dream of..a corruption free,a Nigeria dt wl embrace religion as place of worship not a means to kill,a Nigeria dt wl c one state as a heritage nd culture not a right to rule..a Nigeria dt wl judge u base on ur character nd content not from ur tribe or color...o lord ds is a Nigeria I pray for....