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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglass. 1857

I believe it is fear of fire outbreak. But with time our people will realise that it is cheaper and safe to build with wood.
Most of the colonial houses were built with wood, but for lack of maintenance some would still be standing and functional. I remember my old Chapel in Aro, Abeokuta was built with Wood.
I read about wood lamination in construction awhile ago, it is interesting. Western countries are also going back to using wood.
In Nigeria, It will take a trail-blazer building developer to erect a super-structure using wood, then others will follow.
Thank you for bringing this up for discussion.

Nigeria and Nigerians need to pay more effort and attention to taxation, not just the rich. We are not paying much as taxes. I know it is hard to bear or hear but it is the truth. In Saner climes, tax is like oxygen, you pay or you go to jail.
If this is done here, the statement 'national cake' will die naturally, because everyone will know that the money for governance is not a dug up slush money from a green and white fairy but our collective sweats. So when the road to my house is not tarred after passing its budget, I will shout louder than thunder instead of defending the man responsible for the anomaly because he is from my village.

It's no longer news that general election held in the UK yesterday after weeks of intense and issue based campaigns by registered parties and on a lighter note, some Grocery deliveries.
Election day was so peaceful and organised that voters decided to go out with their pets.
Now juxtapose this with an election day in Nigeria, where human beings are not safe talk-less of pets. We have a long way to go in strengthening our institutions, making our institutions of governance responsible, responsive and fit for purpose.
My submission.

Kayode wrote on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/realFFK/status/1192340423441833984?s=19
http://igberetvnews.com/1118459/ffk-wetting-bed-short-man-devil-shed-tears/[/quote]One of the benefits of my work is that it gives me values for living, there is what we called, mental capacity act. one of the principles says or imply that the fact that i make bad decisions does not mean i lack capacity or do not have the right to make such. So if any man made a decision and it turns to be a bad judgenent, encourage him to live with his decisions and consequences, you do not disparage him or impugn his right and integrity. Everyone has in-alienable right to make decisions good or bad as long it does not contravene the constitution.

So, PYO accepted to be VP and now being percieved to be maligned and sidelined at the Presidency, It is his headache. It should not headline our news, so far it does not affect the Economy and Security of Nigeria.

His aides were reduced, good. what is the Socio-Security and Economic impact of that decision, that should be our discussions not this swine-snout value discussions about the person of the VP.

The media will always push these dung-hill discussions to the populace just to keep people entertained but it is the responsibility of the people of this country to steer the discussions back to those value ideated discussion.

The viral pcr may be low or undetectable but, but the antibody would still show that such person has had hepatitis B, I believe the titre would be higher than someone that was vaccinated. It is possible to eliminate or lower the viral load through antiviral drugs which actively attack the virus or interferon that actively boost or stimulate the body's immune system to overpower the virus, these approaches to treatment take months or years, it also involves constant check up, tests and scans. In acute hepatitis infection, the body's immune system usually clear off the viral load in about 6 months.

Koledowo, Pogba is a French version of that act.

Hope you have been able to found a NICU anywhere around you, how is the baby now. If you still require a NICU, please go to Paediatric partners on Akin It unless street off Ajose Adeogun.VI.

babatee55:
My wife had a premature delivery, not long ago, at a maternity clinic near our house at Agege and we have been told that the child needs to be on a ventilator to survive. I have been told that this can only be found in a hospital that has a neonatal unit.

This is an Emergency. Where can we find this type of hospitals in Lagos say around the mainland { Ikeja axis } etc


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White007:
"Nigerian youths are lazy & uneducated. Always wanting free oil money" ~ PMB

ME: Sir, you are absolutely correct. One of the lazy Nigerian youths who is enjoying free oil money had an accident with the power bike he bought with free oil money not too long ago, and he was flown abroad for treatment with free oil money, then he hired a jet with free oil money from London to Abuja after his treatment. 

Sir, I completely agree with you that the Nigerian youths are lazy and uneducated and always wanting free oil money. Their role models are in Aso Rock enjoying free oil money without even solving any problem for the country.

Why would anyone disagree with you that the Nigerian youths are uneducated? It's very obvious. That's why they don't even know their rights. They keep defending your ineptitude. 

You enjoyed free education as a young man, but today the youths are deprived of basic education. You were a governor, a petroleum commissioner and ahead of states as a youth, but today, youths are on social media defending your failures.

Honestly, I agree with you that the Nigerian youths are lazy, that's why you ruled Nigeria as a youth and have also grabbed the job as an old man. The youths are too ignorant to even know the implication of your comments. They don't even know you and your fellow old men are doing jobs they should ordinarily be doing.

Yes he is right, a lot of Nigerian youth are lazy that was why he ( Buhari) was voted in and might be voted again because most young Nigerians will not vote.
He is right that we are lazy, if we are not lazy, all Nigerian youth would be in the forest leading herds of cattle. To the President, the most productive young Nigerians are the herdsmen.
If most Nigerian youth are not lazy, we would be rich like Yussuf who is very proficient in breaking rocks into granite in Aso, riding Super horses.
He is right also that most young Nigerians are uneducated judging by the proliferation of herdsmen everywhere, if you judge young Nigerians by the education of the herdsmen then we are very very uneducated.
By December 2018, when clean bundles of #1000 notes are brandished in front of these lazy and uneducated young Nigerians, we will behave through to type, shouting Sai Sai something.

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ycat:
What about the one that spreads like pumpkin or is it melon leaves? My g-granny used to stir-fried it for me right out of her garden back then when I was little with just oil, pepper dried fish and salt, but still the most delicious veges ever.

I think that should be the Elegede, two ways to make your Elegede, you either cut and parboil it as you would other vegs or stir fry as you mentioned. Thank God someone still remembers the old ways vegs. Thank you.

Varieties of Efo riro, - Ewuro ( bitter leaf).
Efo tete funfun,
Efo tete pupa,
Efo woorowo,
Efo sokoyokoto,
Efo Ebolo.
Efo Elegede,
Efo odu,
Efo efinrin,
All traditional Yoruba vegs that could be used for Efo riro. I wish I have pictures of the listed items.

Congratulations to her, i knew her when she was a commander years ago. She was an amiable, peaceful, suave and a thorough professional colleague. All these attributes keep paving ways for her. So ride on Ma, Though age is no longer on your side, the best is yet to come.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary Afro-beat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Fela was an institution in Nigeria’s social and political life, creating local idioms that have become very much part of the local vernacular. He was a voice for the voiceless, the national conscience, the defender of the defenceless, an unabashed polygamist, and a perennial rebel with a cause. A musical Orpheus who made magic with his saxophone and biting lyrics, he was a political Cassandra whose prophecies often went unheeded by his cynical and sceptical compatriots. A compliant, conservative middle-class often dismissed Fela as a decadent, half-naked, marijuana-smoking madman, a promiscuous Pied Piper of Perdition leading the country’s youth astray. Fela betrayed his own class in speaking out for the weak and down-trodden rather than settling into the comfortable bourgeois lifestyle to which his family background entitled him.

He developed his unique fusion of African indigenous rhythms and jazz, using his native Yoruba language and Pidgin English to reach a mass audience. A man of the people, he sang about social issues and everyday life that ordinary people could relate to. He mocked the materialism of African women, ridiculed the blustering shakara (false bravery) of Nigerian men, and mercilessly lambasted Nigeria’s prodigal political class as “Vagabonds in Power (VIP)” for selling out their country and mortgaging their children’s future.

Fela, a thorn in the side of many corrupt regimes, spent an estimated 200 spells between detention and the recording studio. He spoke truth to power, castigating the misrule and mismanagement of Nigeria’s profligate ruling elite. During the country’s lavish Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, Fela refused to take part in the event so as not to legitimise the military government of General Olusegun Obasanjo.

His self-declared commune – the “sovereign” Kalakuta Republic – was burned down a week after FESTAC by what the government described as “unknown soldiers,” and his 78-year old mother was thrown from a window, leading to her death a year later.Fela, who was very close to his mother, never recovered from her death. He felt guilt-ridden that she had died as a result of his struggle.

The Afrobeat star drew inspiration from these events to ridicule Nigeria’s “lumpenmilitariat” and securocrats as “Zombies” and “Yellow Fever”. For many young Nigerians of my generation, his “shrine” in Lagos’s sprawling suburb of Ikeja was a sacred place of pilgrimage.

He was the lavish high priest at this paradoxical temple of sin and salvation. Fela combined great respect for the pantheon of traditional Yoruba deities and cosmology with sinful sex and drugs. He was also a committed Pan-Africanist, who believed fiercely in the culture and heritage of blacks on the continent and in the diaspora. A 10-month trip to the United States during the civil rights struggle in 1969-1970 seemed to radicalise him. He celebrated Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, and Thomas Sankara. But Fela also had his critics. He was often described as an autocratic band-leader, and was accused of misogyny by feminists who regarded his stereotypical portrayal of the “real” African woman as “strong, submissive and subordinate” as antiquated.

In order to pay homage to “Abami Eda” (the Strange One), I recently visited the Kalakuta Museum on a trip to Lagos. This was the house in which Fela had lived and in which he lies buried. As one enters the building on Gbemisola Street in Ikeja, Fela’s graveside is on the left hand side of the house. It is a simple tomb with a triangular design and a sign above the grave that simply reads: “Fela 1938-1997.”

The house has three floors with intimate family photos hung up all along the walls. These pictures depicted scenes from Fela’s life and times: his father, the family patriarch and famous educationist; his indomitable mother who was one of Africa’s first female activists; his two main wives and six children; Fela’s two medical doctor brothers, one, a former health minister and the other a human rights activist; the family home in Abeokuta; Fela with his two fists clenched and raised in defiance; his “dancing queens” with horrific injuries following the 1977 attack by soldiers; Fela’s “wedding” to 27 of these “queens” shortly afterwards in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with women whom the establishment had sought to depict as prostitutes; life performances with the “Africa 70” and “Egypt 80” bands; and Fela lying in state in a glass coffin with a huge spliff of marijuana in his hand.

Fela’s second-floor bedroom has been preserved with his wardrobe of multi-coloured outfits, a saxophone, a deep freezer, and the mattress on the floor on which he slept. In a side-room next to the bedroom are his multi-coloured shoes, two mannequins in underwear, and his fur-coats, used for travelling to colder climes. In another room are newspaper cuttings from The Daily Times with headlines of important events in Fela’s life such as some of his detentions by the police, and legal battles with several governments. In the same room is a type-writer and the manifesto of Fela’s Movement of the People (MOP) party set up in 1979 to contest presidential elections. Yet another room had wood carvings and paintings of Fela by an artist, while outside was a colourful mural.

The recent event that posthumously cemented Fela’s reputation as a global musical icon was the Broadway show “Fela!” which debuted in New York in 2009 before travelling to Europe and Lagos. A 2014 documentary “Finding Fela” captured highlights of this musical, interspersed with live performances by Fela and interviews with him, his children, his managers, his former band members, and two biographers: Carlos Moore and Michael Veal. Paul Mccartney also describes a memorable visit to “The Shrine”. The musical, “Fela!”, was choreographed by Bill T. Jones, who is extensively interviewed in the documentary.

“Fela!” was set in “the Shrine” in Lagos. The musical tells the story of the life and times of its subject: his priestly, musical grandfather and father; Fela being sent to London to study medicine and turning instead to music before experiencing racism for the first time; his political education in America during its civil rights struggle; and his innovative creation of Afrobeat. “Finding Fela” is a journey of discovery, showing how the Afrobeat star grew up in a musical household playing the piano and singing in the school choir. Fela’s incredible courage and commitment to social justice are enduring characteristics that come through clearly in the documentary.

“Finding Fela” travels to the bustling megapolis of Lagos, the social life of which Fela had contributed massively to shaping. It visits the sites of Fela’s “shrines” where he would have “yabbis night” and “ladies night”, the high priest effortlessly educating and entertaining the flock. Fela’s son, Seun, talks about his father’s incredible creative genius in which he would let songs gestate, and then, as if poured forth by his ancestral muse, produce the perfect song in one single session. We also see how Fela would take different parts of his musical band as if a master chef mixing diverse ingredients into an odoriferous stew.

The insights of Fela’s children – Femi, Yeni, and Seun – are particularly interesting as they note that their father treated them like other members of his commune, insisting that they call him “Fela” rather than “daddy.” This was a difficult childhood in which Femi, in particular, feared that Fela’s constant confrontations with Nigeria’s securocrats would get them killed. His children were often the last to receive his attention and affection, and the chaos of the “Kalakuta Republic” – with an estimated 250 people mulling around – is well captured in the documentary, with even a time-table of which wives would spend the night with the Afrobeat star. Yeni cries in the documentary as she recalls the terrible events of the military attack on Fela’s home in 1977 in which both her father and grandmother suffered broken legs.

The documentary then goes through Fela’s repertoire: “Jeun ko ku” (chop till you quench) which was his first big hit, and “Alagbon Close” when he first directly confronted military misrule. “Zombie”, “Sorrow, Tears, and Blood”, and “Coffin For Head of State” represent anti-securocrat anthems of this rebellious period. During a raid on his home in 1981 – under the supposedly democratic government of Shehu Shagari – Fela was so badly beaten that he was bleeding from the head. These frequent confrontations with authority seemed to fuel his fearless creativity.

The documentary then goes on to show the extravagant, well-choreographed set of “Fela!”, involving his skimpily clad “dancing queens” with braids and braces and painted faces. The stage is exuberant, with a picture of Kuti’s mother, Funmilayo, permanently on display. She helped shape Fela’s radical pan-African political views and the show is centred on this relationship. The musical sees a melancholy Fela constantly hallucinating like a black Hamlet in a haze of smoke, while using African masquerades as intermediaries to visit his mother in the land of the ancestors in the spectacular “Dance of the Orisas.” Other figures from the Yoruba pantheon such as Ogun, Sango, and Esu – guardian of the crossroads – also feature in this performance. The documentary and musical further highlight the role of another woman who greatly influenced Fela’s political awakening: former Black Panther, Sandra Izsadore, who introduced the Afro-jazz star to the work of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. The musical captures well Fela’s insatiable musical and sexual appetites that seemed to fuel his genius.

After Fela was sentenced to five years in jail by General Muhammadu Buhari’s regime in 1984 for currency trafficking, he came out of jail 18 months later (after the judge famously went to jail to apologise to him), a seemingly broken man. There was a certain sadness in Fela’s eyes as he stared coldly ahead as if in a trance, his eyes glazed, morose and disillusioned that two decades of defiant struggle had not changed the Nigerian situation. This led to the final creative phase of his life in which such hits as “Army Arrangement,” “Beasts of No Nation,” and “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” were released. Fela saw himself as playing classical African music in the mode of Bach and Beethoven, and felt the need to express himself through these more spiritual, highly-percussioned songs.

When Fela died of AIDS in August 1997 at the age of 58, a million Nigerians lined the streets of Lagos to bid him farewell: a scene well captured in “Finding Fela”. In an event that symbolised the passing of a legend, rain poured down even as the sun shone, as a great son of Africa joined the ranks of the ancestors. Today, Fela’s legacy is carried forward by his sons, Femi and Seun Kuti, who play music inspired by their father’s Afrobeat. But the struggles against which Fela fought – corruption, state abuse, African disunity – still continue to blight our contemporary landscape. Even many who dismissed Fela during his lifetime now regard him as a visionary prophet who was ahead of his time. As the Afrobeat star memorably noted: “To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.”

• Prof. Adebajo is the director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
http://guardian.ng/opinion/felas-enduring-legacy/

Hello Admi/Mods.
I have lost grip of the email i used in registering my profile/moniker on Nairaland.
How can i change or substitute the email for a new one without un-duely exposing the new email.
Please help.
Thanks.

CC, Seun.

I congratulate the President, the President's supporters, and the Presidency. They have achieved a feat that President Trump and his handlers can only dream of: a consensus of silence and avoidance.

President Trump and his handlers have been heehawing to their hearts' content, they have not been able to foist a consensus of silence and avoidance of issues on the American populace. Nobody is silent on Russia; nobody is avoiding talking about Jared Kushner, General Flynn, etc.

The rightwing media and the conservative machinery have been on steroids. All in vain. The right to query, the right to ask questions, the right to expression are still on display in the American public sphere because they are indissociable from the right to be human. Once you relinquish these rights, you are a thing.

Resisting the sort of blackmail and intimidation that would make you slide into silence and consensus is therefore a critical foundation of your humanity.

The last time I heard about President Buhari, Sahara Reporters was whispering that Mrs. Aisha Buhari had gone to London. Only Sahara Reporters has dared to retain the right to whisper.

Aside this detail, nothing. Silence. People have been so intimidated, so blackmailed by the President's supporters who claim that the exercise of one's civic duty to query, to question, to demand answers about the President's condition is tantamount to treason that everybody is silent.

Nobody wants to be labelled inhuman by these hordes so the nation has slumped into silence and avoidance. However, this is an argument that the intimidators must not be allowed to win, hence defying them or cracking coconuts on their heads must now be seen as part of your civic obligation to Nigeria. If you allow compatriots to intimidate you into silence about your own President, you are finished.

You cannot ask because they say you are inhuman.

You cannot ask because they say you lack empathy.

You cannot ask because they say you wish him dead.

The only allowable utterance: pray for the President.

I warn you that you must resist jejune blackmail and assert your right to query.

I warn you that you must swat petty intimidation and send your voice on patriotic errands of critique.

It is your right to know. It is your duty to ask and ask again.

What is the status of the President?

Who is paying?

If we are paying, how much have we paid thus far?

Is he in any condition to continue when he returns?

Why is resignation taboo?

You have to keep asking these questions and make the Presidency and the merchants of consensus uncomfortable. That is your higher duty to Nigeria. The emotion of the blackmailers and the personality cultists is of no moment. How they feel is their own funeral. We are talking Nigeria here.

The other day, Babatunde Rosanwo was on Oluwakayode Olumide Ogundamisi's show with Lauretta Onochie and Aisha Yesufu.

My most important takeout from the show, apart from Rosanwo's brilliant performance of his duty to country and fatherland, is the phone-in from one slowpoke who accused Aisha Yesufu of daring to touch "a no-go area" - by calling for the President's resignation in her now viral video.

A no-go area? There is something that some citizens have decided that their compatriots cannot say about the President's obligations to them in a democracy?

Whenever I see Babatunde Rosanwo and Kayode Ogundamisi, I will crack a coconut on their heads for allowing that stupid statement to pass without commentary. I thought they were going to educate the fellow who phoned in.

"Mr President, resign" is not a no-go area in a democracy. Every citizen has the right to that utterance. Every citizen must also recognize your own right to say: "Mr President, do not resign." Then we state our respective positions and see who has superior logic.

It is true that there are callow carping, diseducated misanthropes who, blinded by ethno-religious animus, are openly rooting for the President's death. I have no opinion about such fringe lunatics because I opine only about human beings.

However, it is just as odious, just as atrocious to exploit the depravity of such characters as a basis for deligitimizing those who are exercising their right to query and inquire; those who demand accountability and information as a right.

You cannot use the position of marginal misanthropes as a basis to intimidate and blackmail those are raising legitimate questions about the President.

When you are constantly blackmailing, intimidating, and silencing, when all you allow your fellow citizens to do is to pray for the President, failing to do which they are evil, inhuman, and lacking empathy, I'm afraid you are no different from the misanthropes. You are just being tyrannical in a different way.

Resist blackmail.

Resist intimidation.

Every day the President is away, exercise your right to ask questions.

Keep pressing.

Keep querying.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/05/31/tyranny-consensus-pius-adesanmi

I rarely comment in the politics section but i feel strongly inclined to advise the OP, you are showing your cards too early. I know this, that the SW is full of strategists and you will never get to see the card until it is played. OP and other regions should emulate this attribute. It is not about who is making the loudest noise, it's about checking and cherishing your cards, till checkmate time. ( if you know what I mean) .
I wish we can all have constructive engagement.

SalamRushdie:
Nigeria is a special kind of wicked place ..Nigerian Doctors and pharmacist turned free HIV drugs into business where they expected those who the drugs were donated for to pay upto 45,000 monthly to gain access to the drugs ..Many who couldn't afford to pay the extortionist were left to die ...We always shudder when we hear someone beheaded another for money rituals but in reality 70 percent of Nigerian professionals are also money ritualist

Someone called us, Nature's spoilt brats, Nature's prodigal sons and daughters, unfortunately we always live up to that tag. Shameful, the minister mentioned it like it's just a clerical error whereas it is a criminal negligence of duties, those culpable should face firing squad. #MYTAKE

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There is total shut down of vehicular movements on the popular expressway. Rumor has it that there is a broken truck blocking the way.

PaulIdu:
You have come with your useless chest beating and lies as usual ..Biggest army na una get am , best Airforce una , best engineer na una , now in Bristow training sku na una be the best ...If they were so good why were they place on redundancy? Ohhh let me help you with a race card ..because they were black shei...abeg tell me another story about that female pilot if not for the pontoons on that craft she already sank it

Hello, beware of your assertions, I was on that ditched chopper.

topsam1:
Benylin always goes with codeine...he is in danger zone and u knw what codeine contains

yea it's the codiene they seek for in Benylin. If they can't get the benylin with codeine, they buy oxycodone, mix it with sprite and tramadol to make the devil's blue. It's a real web of criminality. The relevant regulatory agency are trying but needs to intensify effort.

gidzbobby:
Dunno if this stuff happening is everywhere, my cousin too is addicted to tramadol (200g) and he mixes it with beniylin ( dunno if that's the spelling ). Sometimes he takes it raw from the bottle, other times he makes use of water.. I have talked, am even tired sef.

. That's the devil's blue ( short of Sprite though) devil's blue is an entertainment cocktail or celeb's drugs. Take him to a rehab, will power or self will can't control addiction. God bless you.

Just like many, i laughed when I saw the statement, but then i looked at the bigger picture. what if we have in our custody someone that knows something about the attack and the German would want to interrogate, what if one of the attackers sneaked into Nigerian and we made the arrest, haven't we helped Germany. Terrorism is a global business and we should always look at the big picture.

ofemigeorge:
I had this book threw it away cause it gave me nightmares. And the irony of it all was that not very far away from their crash site was a store house filled with food and communication gears that can take them out of the situation but they never saw it. The gods must be having fun watching them to see how they will survive.

nostalgia, I read that book too while young, ALIVE, very scary.

A LPG truck is currently burning along this express not far from Danco filling station. Not sure if it is loaded though. wouldn't want to find out. Exercise caution if you are going towards Ibadan or shagam

Hello farmers, I am in serious need of vines for planting sweet potato. I will need like 300 slips.
Thanks in advance.

introducing my 48 years old Oxford advanced learner dictionary of current English. I was just rummaging through my old stuff and I saw the beloved dictionary.