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HealthRe: The Bad Shape Of Oro General Hospital, Kwara State (Exclusive Photos) by superpundit: 12:50pm On Jan 18, 2016
9niceguy:
And you want me to believe dis crap
it is very true. I was there in 2012. it is just as the picture shows. I also have more pictures of it. my intention then was to give it to sahara reporters, but I lost the phone.
PoliticsRe: EFCC Arrests Ibrahim Akut Baba by superpundit: 2:31pm On Jan 09, 2016
This is another propaganda. They look for inconsequential members of the APC and arraign them, just to create an impression that APC members are also tried. Who are they deceiving.
Let PMB pick Amechie a.k.a ATM and see whether Amechie will not spill the beans
PoliticsRe: Renewable Energy In Nigeria. How to create yours for cooking and electricity by superpundit: 12:34pm On Jan 09, 2016
pls I am joining the class also
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Military Now Sells The Igirigi Armoured Vehicle Abroad by superpundit: 12:08am On Jan 08, 2016
Igirigi is produced in ogun state by proforth and it is owned by an ijebu man
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Nigeria Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by superpundit: 11:21pm On Jan 04, 2016
I believe all those making comments above are bereft of true knowledge of international affairs. Iran is the strongest military power in the middle-east after Isreal. Aside, it the most scientifically advanced Muslim nation in the world today. The sanctions impost by the west helped Iran to develop tremendously scientifically. Though geographical space will not allow for direct war engagement between Iran and Nigeria. but should there be conflict between the two nations at the moment, Iran has a superior edge to Nigeria on ratio 9:1, quote me anywhere.
The advantage stems from the fact that Iran like any other nation in the middle east, lives daily in the theatre of war and violence. All nations in the middle east are exponents in state sponsored terror and even the least of them like Jordan and Lebanon can unleash this act anywhere in the world.
for how long did the Amigos operate in Nigeria as business men before the government luckily discovered that they were here on espionage, and working for the Lebanese group, hezbolllar and stockpiling large cache of weapon enough to destroy a whole state.
The Iranians are more dastardly, and several Arab nations combined feared them. Iranians are not Arabs, but Persians and they speak a different language different from Arabic. There is not any reason why PMB at this critical time should be expanding the spectrum of conflict in Nigeria.
In international diplomacy, even before the age of globalisation and global terrorism, it is long well known that any nation that wants peace domestically, must understand deeply the 'connect' between domestic and international affairs.
The Iranians are sounding a genuine note of warning to PMB, and he had better heed it.
I tell people that care to listen, that Nigerians should thank God for Bokoharam for exposing the rot that we call armed forces that we have in Nigeria. had it been that it was a regular army from the outside that we have been engaging, the army would have been demystified in days.

I laugh when Buhari blames Jonathan for the problem of the army and bokoharam. The truth is that great nations prepare for wars in time of peace. So the question is, did all the leaders who ruled us in time of peace buy any weapon? no. the last set of Nigerian weapons were bought by Shehu Shagari and most of them have become unserviceable.
Not only that, none of the military leaders of northern extract that ruled Nigeria invested in significant infrastructure when in the office, including this Buhari, even though he only stayed for twenty months.
Weapons are very expensive to make, and even more expensive to buy. When you buy, you don't get the best version, because no one sells the best version of his weapon to the outside.
From the foregoing, it could not have been easy for Jonathan to procure and adequately deploy weapons while wars was going on. where was the time for the army to adequately train and man the newly acquired weapons. like the writer of this thread indicated above, the Saudis have good weapons, but they don't know how to use them. F16 is the most deadly fighter warplane ever made. yet the same plane in the inventory of the Saudis that is downed by rebels in yemen everyday is what the Turkish used to down Russian fighter in one attempt.

Another issues of significance was that, Jonathan performed well despite spending 1/4 of his entire yearly budget on the war on insurgency in the north east. not since 1999 has any leader been engaged in war and development at the same time, and still he had more infrastructure on ground that his two predecessors(OBJ and Yaradua) who never fought any war.

YarAdua created Bokoharam out of ineptitude. He killed the Bokoraham leader extra-judicially, and for no sensible reason. Had he not done the stupid act, we would not have been in this dilemma. And again, if he had quickly brought the perpetrators to book to show that the state was not behind the act, it would have been much easier I guess, to pacify the group before everything blew up.

PMB had better 'borrowed himself sound wisdom' as the yorabas would say, by avoiding the local grandstanding he is doing in Nigeria and for which illiterate Nigerians are telling him #babafireon, and do what is needful, and avoid adding international dimension to the insurgency dilemma.

Nigeria is not in the best position at the moment to handle any higher conflict, but to make good friends that can bail her out of the current quagmire.
PoliticsWho Funded Apc's Presidential Election?:Nigerians Should Learn To Ask Questions by superpundit(op): 4:12am On Jan 02, 2016
As President Buhari continues to get encomium for his acclaimed fight against corruption, one critical missing link which many opponent and proponent of his administration have been silent on is, how did the APC fund his election. we remembered our able president told Nigerians he took a bank loan to pay for his form. firstly, there is strong ethical question hanging on the action of PMB to borrow money from a bank to fund his bid for presidency. I know the president merely sold that to Nigerian as part of the APC's propaganda to Nigerians to create the impression that its candidate is truly a masses' man.
Away from that, the real question as Nigerians look critically into Dasukigate, we also need to ask the questions, what was the source of APC's funding for the last presidential election. if the president claims that he is not a rich man, then by law, I know there is an obligation to INEC, the government and the Nigerian people to provide audited account of campaign fund for all parties. Except the president comes clean on this, there is no way he can convince rightly thinking Nigerians, as apart APC mugus and magas, that he is incorruptible.
no doubt this explains why most politicians in the APC fold will never be probed or purnished once Buhari remains Nigeria's president. he dare not try it and if he attempts to, the dirty linen of the president will be washed in the open.

To me, except PMB can come clean on this, he is deceiving himself, and very soon, the same hawks who joined arms with him and sold his candidacy to gullible Nigerians will soon come back for his jugular very soon if he fails to settle boys accordingly, when times come for them to get their returns.
PoliticsRe: President Buhari Needs Anger Management Classes by superpundit: 2:04am On Jan 01, 2016
I wish all this people shouting Buhari Buhari will be around to save his head when the consequences of all the aberration he is involved with duns on him. Imagine if Goodluck Jonathan had arrested this 73year old fool when he was threatning to make Nigeria ungovernable and had tried him for treason, will he be sitting today as a president. this same fool called PMB called people out to riot on two different occasion when he lost elections in the past and many lives were lost. imagine the same is now saying "if you know the atrocities this people did against this country...." for God sake my feeling is that Buhari is merely using fight against corruption as a décor, his real mission is to settle score with those who removed him from power in the 80s and to restore northern hegemony where feasible of to match the north up with southern standard. that his why he wants to employ 500,000 teachers with borrowed money most of whom will concentrated in northern state. he is trying to blow up the size of Nigeria's in an era when privatisation and public private partnership is the order the world over.
but one thing Buhari must be reminded of is, all Fulanis or core northerners who ruled Nigeria before him were either disgraced from office or died in office. the way he is going, three things might befall him, one, Nigeria might breakup in his time, two, his governance experiment might fail leading to his impeachment from office and thirdly, he might be die in office. But if none of these happens, it is certain that he will spend his old age in prison after leaving office, just the same way he did after he was removed from office in 1985.
PoliticsRe: Failed Card Reader: Africans Are Just Too Dumb by superpundit: 5:40pm On Dec 30, 2015
thank you writer. I have always said it that the card reader thing is a fraud. I have questioned the functionality . Nigerians lack capacity to analyse things because they are mentally lazy and so accept whatever lame explanation that is given to them under any guise. That was the main reason why APC was able to scam them at the last general election and it is still scamming them.
what a pity? Or how do you explain Amechie and Saraki selling a dummy to Nigerians that PDP destroyed Nigeria for 16 years. the simple question Nigerians should have asked which they were blind to and lame to ask was where were thou in the past 16 years?
PoliticsRe: Arms Fund Diversion Was Not Responsible For Mutiny. by superpundit: 3:35pm On Dec 28, 2015
themilanway:
What was the reason for the Mutiny?

I didn't see it in your write up
He said sabotage by northerners. Are you that brainwashed by APC that you can no longer read?
PoliticsRe: Breaking Another Female Suicide Bomber Kill Family Of 15 In Maiduguri by superpundit: 1:23am On Dec 28, 2015
how did the boko boys manage to travel in a bus through the 70 km corridor that Lai Mohammed said has Army presence at every 3km. I thought the terrorists have been pushed out of Nigeria, how come they could enter the state capital again. think this government is lying.
PoliticsRe: Army Currently Repelling Attack By Boko Haram Insurgents In Maiduguri by superpundit: 11:40pm On Dec 27, 2015
while it is sad a development that again Maiduguri is coming under Bokoharam attack, I really think what this development is teaching us as a nation is to for once stop politicking with a crucial matter of national significance. Enough of politics. Whether it is Jonathan or Buhari government, or and APC or PDP government, Bokoharam has proved a point that it can demystify any. and this is simply because we have employed insurgency and a pull him down factor against Jonathan and now it is also being employed as a pull-him-down weapon against PMB.
my advice is that at this point, the current government should at this point change the tone of things and stop using insurgency and counter-insurgency as a score card. if the APC continues to play this as a score card. those against APC will equally do same.
PMB should be reminded that the way forward is not how he is running his government. In political science, election is not evaluated in term of victories, but in term of how many people want you and how many does not want you. in the 2015 election, while over 15miilion wanted PMB, over 12million said the don't want him. it is therefore important for him to be careful how he handles the feelings of the over 12million voters who don't want him.
he should play down on the differences. if not in politics, when acrimony persist and emotion is rife, anything can be employed as tools of politicking, including the ones that can destroy the very fabrics of our common existence.
Bokoharam is a common enemy of all Nigerians and must be seen to be one. I am a supporter of Jonathan because I believe he meant well for Nigeria and his government came down because APC sponsored propaganda of lies against him. but my candid opinion is that democracy is a game of numbers, and that since Nigerians were that gullible to decide in favour of APC, we must all respect their opinion. as such, nothing should make me rejoice that Buhari is failing with counter-insurgency, God forbid. he is our president for now and must be supported to win the war. but he should stop claiming victory for his government and APC. this war id not for political parties, but Nigeria. government is continuity and transitory. After all, despite criticising that money was stolen in Arms deal, Buhari has not yet bought his own weapon, it is still weapons purchased by Jonathan that the armed forces are still using.
let us all behave maturely and good citizens and support our government to victory and let our government behave maturely and responsibly by stopping actions that segregates us.
PoliticsRe: $2.1 Arms Scam: Your Utterances Are Unprofessional – Ex-Minister Tells Sagay by superpundit: 9:32am On Dec 26, 2015
I have gone through the reported statement. but I did not see anywhere where Abubakar sulaiman said he was making the statement on behalf of the former president. for God sake, Abubakar Sulaiman like every other Nigerian is entitled to voice his opinion in defence of any issues most importantly as it bothered on the government he served.
PoliticsDasukigate And Many Unanswered Questions by superpundit(op):
I have been following comments in the media both print and online, on the Dasukigate that is currently trending in Nigeria. There is no doubt that the issue is the most critical now in our national discourse.
My observation is that back and forth, and for and against, it is the Nigerian citizenry that is at the centre of this quagmire.
But I wish to raise some few issues for which I will further welcome comments from other Nairalanders.
One, it is important that we make it clear that corruption is never our friend as a people, and it the singular factor that has made our nation a laughing stock in the committee of nations, and the earlier the better that we reach a consensus as a nation that its high time we come together to curtail this menace the better.
In doing this, our leaders must stop being sentimental and partial in handling corruption matters in its entire ramification.
Why I raised the question that formed the title above is this;
I tried applying logic and I have the following outcome,
1 The amount involved in the celebrated arms deal is US$2.1 billion which translate into between #450 and #500 billion depending on the
exchange rate used for the calculation. In the worst scenario, it will be in the least about#400 billion
This figure is what is making sensation in the media and is making nerves to rack everywhere in the nation.

I observe that the federal government has a committee that is investigating the deal, but surprisingly, the activities of the committee has been done in the dark and in an hush hush manner. In a civilised democratic setting, this kind of investigation would have been better done in the open and probably in conjunction with both committee of the national assembly.
2. At the moment, probably very few Nigerians are privy to the membership of the committee and under what circumstances the committee had been sitting. Were the persons under investigation given fair hearing or not, no one knows? But all that we have been hearing from the press are presumptions that Dasuki said this, or said that. This approach of course does not augur well for our democracy and nation at this critical time.
I personally have been in favour of the accused appearing in the law court to answer charges rather than on the pages of newspapers. and government officials including the president should have done better other than making frivolous comments on a matter that will eventually appear before the law court.
The way and manner the government is putting the cart before the horse in many governmental and national matters, is making a lot of citizens to be uncomfortable as to the neutrality of the president and is government.

3 Back to Dasukigate, my concern arose when eventually Dasuki and others appeared in court and were charged for laundering #38 billion. the logical questions that followed are, what happened to the left over of about #400 billion of the arms deal money? Are there more charges to come? and if so why the rush or delay? or are those all there is in terms of the charges? The important issues here is that if #38 billion is all that was mismanaged out of the arms deal fund, then one would ask more question that, is there more to this trial than meet the eye.
In all sincerity, no sinner should go unpunished, but in this trial in case, so much noise has been made out of it, than for us to discover that the amount involved is #38 billion. Ask me why? many Nigerians are under the impression that US$2.1 was stolen and that the money is responsible for our on-going economic predicament. and I make bold to say it is not true. The basic reason why we are suffering now is basically because this government came at an unlucky time when oil price was bad. All governments before now have been highly spendthrift and have been lucky to escape austere moments. but Buhari has been unlucky to come to governance at two critical austere moments in Nigeria's history. first was in 1983 and the other is now.
So if the current government is not actually biased against the accused, in all sincerity it should answer a few questions in the open

1 Were arms actually purchased or not?
2 If purchased, how much worth of arms were purchased?
3 How much of the arms deal's fund were diverted for other purposes both private and political?
4 Who were the people involved?
5 How much have been recovered?

If this questions are not answered, the Dasukigate trial will never be seen to be fair and if otherwise misconstrued in some quarters to be political motivated, the government will never be able to proof otherwise.

A second issue that I wish to bring out relates to the overall crusade against corruption by the government. I hold the view that this government has not been to fair to the Jonathan administration in all its ramification. I am trained public administrator and I have worked within the federal Government before pulling out. To heap the problem Nigeria is facing on the immediate past government is to say the least most unfair and should not have come from the president. if the APC stalwarts are tempted to, the president being a second time president should have handled the issues maturely, except if he actually does not have a thorough knowledge of Nigeria's public sector and Nigeria's Political economy.
Nigeria's current problem actually started between late 2003 and 2007 when OBJ attempted to extend his term of office. Under OBJ, his government was lucky to be awashed with dollars when oil price began to rise. when OBJ became president, oil was at 8 to 9 dollars a barrel. and he inherited US$3.5 billion of foreign Reserve from General Abubakar. However, oil rose to an all time high getting close to about US$80 per barrel. OBJ did well by paying off the debt remaining only US$4 billion of a US$34billion debt. Foreign Reserved was in excess of US$60 and excess crude account was at US$22billion.

I hold a strong view that OBJ had opportunity to have done well for Nigeria by using the excess crude money to develop Nigeria's industrial and infrastructure base, but chose not for selfish reasons such as love for power and corruption. He chose to extend his reign, meaning that he chose to keep the excess crude account for his third term.

The Governors Forum which hitherto has been opposed to the excess crude account saying it was unconstitutional, laid ambush for OBJ with the support of some political heavyweights and eventually succeeded in blocking the extension.

OBJ caused Nigeria's problem by allowing the Governors to congregate against the Nigerian people. The Governors from that moment became powerful and held every successive Nigeria's president to ransom.

The bulk of Nigeria's problem today lay before the governors led by Bukola Saraki and Rotimi Amechie. Bukola Saraki led Governors Forum saw a loop hole in the 'Rule of law' proponent Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's stance and mounted pressure on him to observe the law and share monies in the unconstitutional account called excess crude account. the US$22billion dollar account was depleted to US$6billion by the time Yar'adua died. the Governors continued to mount their pressure on Jonathan as well until the account was depleted at a time to an all time low of US$600 million.

These monies in question found there ways to foreign accounts of the governors and they were spending money like paper and everybody was in the least happy in the country. Aljazeera after Yar 'Adua died described Nigeria a 'Kleptocracy'. Surprisingly Nigerian elites did not raise question or opposition to Nigerian governors. They merely looked away from the aberration that was called governance that was going on.

In the Second part of this write up I will take a look at the expenditure pattern at federal and state governments, economies of Nigerian states, the spending environments under OBJ, Yar'Adua and Jonathan. I will also take a look at the present political economy of Nigeria and what PMB must look at to succeed.
PoliticsRe: 100 Burnt To Death In Anambra Gas Explosion by superpundit: 9:45pm On Dec 24, 2015
Gas in general and cooking gas on the home front is one of the most terrible thing that science made. but Africans love civilisation but we fail to keep to demands of civilisation. of recent, I have noticed that it has become the order of the day for people to take gas cylinders to be filled at gas depots. the multinational companies are better informed in matters like this. There is a Total gas plan in my city and I observed that it was built in a manner that it is far removed from any building, and not only that, no one except the handlers are allowed to gain access to the plant. But I notice all these mushroom companies owned by some money-miss-road will just build Petrol and gas station right in the midst of densely populated area. and for reason of corruption, this facilities are approved for construction by town planning authorities and fire services and even the DPR and NNPC.
for God's sake how come over 100 Nigerians are gathered at a gas plant, when they ought to buy at gas outlets on a one by one basis. I know they merely wish to save few naira as different from picking already filled cylinders at gas outlets.
the kind of tragedy is what is called structural violence of the state. if there was no negligence of the state at one point or the other, the accident would not have occurred in the first instance. may God deliver Nigerians from the menace called Civil or public service. And may God grant the soul of the victims eternal rest.
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PoliticsWhy The Eagle Fail To Fly: The Case Of Nigeria by superpundit(op): 2:08pm On Dec 21, 2015
Preface

Except you have a large heart, you may not be able to stomach it, I mean the behaviour of men around you. I think a lot, though privately. And as I think, I often wonder whether other humans also think in the manner I think. I am not saying that I am the deepest thinker. In fact in history, the human race has produced exceptionally great thinkers who produced great thoughts from the abstract, such that one cannot but marvel at their great thinking abilities. What I subscribe to is that God gives the power of thought to men freely and differently just like he gives other gifts.
But of all gifts of life, the power of thinking is the greatest-because it produces thoughts, thoughts that explain phenomena of space, life, existence and so on.
When I was young, I do sometimes veer into the unthinkable- if I were God? What does that thought owe us? It tells us that man thinks anything, I mean just anything. Our mind strays and wonders, it travels and returns with great thoughts as well as terrible ones.
Somehow, much as man delves into knowing all, it appears he has not succeeded in knowing much about himself, or maybe I have not read much enough about what man already knows. But I am of the strong view that what man knows about himself look like a scratch on the surface of who he is.
I read a piece of recent, from the science page of Yahoo about the works of researchers on the much acclaimed G.Spot of women. I was astonished that man could dissipate so much energy and resources to research into a phenomenon as such. I am not saying it’s ‘a no good’ thing, but was merely amused at the extent man can go in finding things out. Though, they eventually did not get the secret in this instance.
My understanding today is that man does not really know much about himself as much as he does about other phenomena. I have almost come to a conclusion that God has placed a limit to what man should know.
The happenings in Nigeria over the last two decades further makes one to ponder deeper. The crime, the corruption, the deceit and a host of other vices calls for deep reflection. Why do we do what we do? Why are we different from other nations? Why do we operate at the lowest level of intellectualism? I often envisage. Oh you probably wonder that are we that bad? But to me, things happening over here are only a bit better than Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan, and Syria. We are not at physical war, but there is social war.


Being

The most critical of all concepts contained in this piece is the concept of being. I am tempted to explain it as ‘being is being’ in my effort to run away from any serious intellectual definition of being. While I still want to run away from the dictionary, I’ll explain being from a layman’s perspective i.e ‘to be’.
God made us to be. We call ourselves human being, That is, man coming to be. It is the essence of existence. One fundamental issue is that man does not know how he came to be. God did not give the insight into how we came to be. Do not attempt to challenge what I just said using the Bible. What we do not know, religion had come to our rescue. Still, many issues come to the fore view. Were we all created at the same time? Or is the process of creation continuous. If according to the word of the Bible all men were in Abraham’s loin, then it means Abraham was at creation and you and I were at creation. That assertion may find validity in the word of God to prophet Jeremiah. “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee”.
What we are saying is that man is created to be. But the most critical issues is that what man understood in the least is the essence of being. Do you often ask yourself why we are existing? What is my purpose here? Am i fulfilling my purpose? Which of the many purposes is my purpose?

And these questions have often compelled man into trying to find out the said purposes through hearing from God, and he defines hearing from God via different avenues and in today’s world, man continues to hear ‘just anything’. That is why a psychologist would end up before a prophet to hear God or before an herbalist to hear from Orunmila.

I read a book, ‘why good people do bad things’ the title and the content speaks volume about man. So also is a piece one of my lecturers in school shared with my class, ‘the illusion of freewill”. The two works sheds light unto understanding what operates in the subconscious around man. But the greatest issue is, does man understand himself i.e his being.
I have recently pondered and discovered three important issues that rules man, and they constitute what I call ‘the three instances of being’ they are the who, the what and the where of being.

Anyway, it will surprise you to know that the whole essence of your being is contained in those three words. So also is the whole essence of being of a nation, a society and a world.
Just tinker with the who, you will get the what. Thinker with the what and you will get the where. If you also tinker with the where, you will get the what. And if you proceed to tinker with the what, you will get the who.

Did I hear you say, are you serious? That cannot be true? Ok give it a try. Let us do an experiment. leL us pack all Nigerians and ship them to United States and pack all Americans and take them to Nigeria. What will happen? It is simple, Nigeria will soon become like United States, and United States will become like Nigeria. Once we locate the ‘who’, the ‘what’ follows as well as the ‘where’
In the colonial Nigeria, what was the difference from the Nigeria of today? Of course, it is still the same river Niger and Benue of then, it is still the same Lagos and the same kano. But the real difference was the ‘who’ of England coming to the ‘where’ of Nigeria. But since the ‘who’ of England left, and the who of Nigeria came in place, then the what changed and the where equally changed.

The instance of who

Jesus asked the disciples, whom do men say that I the Son of man am? The disciples answered correctly saying “some say that thou art John the Baptist: some Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Then Jesus asked again, but whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”. And then, what was Jesus’s response? He said “Blessed are thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is heaven”

A fundamental nature of the instance of who is that it cannot be seen from the outside. That is why you can stand with your greatest enemy and you will not have a feel of it. Sometime I wonder what commotion would occur here on earth if men are made to see what is in the heart of other men. This explains why the three wise men could not read the intent of Herod the king concerning the child Jesus.
Another nature of the instance of who is that it speaks a little. The truth is that you can only judge a man by what you observe of him or what he says. Closely knitted to this is that the ‘who’ can speak additional thing(s) at a later time. No scientist can unravel the DNA of ‘who’. The Bible says “the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it” Truly nobody know it and can ever know it except God Himself.

The simple truth is that the reader of this piece is the ‘who’ that we talk about. So also is the fact that you cannot know yourself except you desires of God and he so grants your wish in His infinite mercy. This is why prophet Isaiah wrote “in the year king uzzah died, …….I saw the Lord”. That encounter marks the beginning of his self-discovery. He suddenly discovered that he was a man of unclean lips living among unclean people.

The instance of who is the most critical of the three instances of being. You may ask why? Some have described something closed to it called temperament, somewhat of a trait or behaivior. But I have discovered that the discourse of temperament does not capture the instance of who in its totality. They discuss it as behaviour that explains you. But who you really are, is too broad to be explained by a framework of behaviour. If the assertion about temperament were totally and comprehensively true, many people will behave in like manner or the whole world will behave in just 8- 10 ways as classified by temperaments. But how do you capture this? Men who use to like something say a particular colour and lifestyle and suddenly begin to hate them at some point in his life. In essence, what I am saying is that the instance of who is bigger than as explained by scholars on temperaments.

The Instance of What

A neighbour of mine once told me that everyone has two sides to his life, the side he wishes that the world sees or know, and the side he keeps to himself. To me initially it sounds ridiculous, but on a second note, and years afterwards, I began to agree with his statement. Why I initially find it difficult to accept was simply because I could not place it that such a statement could equally apply to ‘even the highly respected’? Could they also have skeleton in their cupboards? It could be or may not be. Actually, it is not all the secret thing of our lives that present themselves as skeletons. It is the intent. One may not be a thief, but may secretly admire the lifestyle of a known thief. One may not accept bribes in whatever guys, but may be a friend of a bribe recipient and often go to him to borrow money, and your secret intent might be ‘as far as I continue to get what I want, and after all he is the one God will question and not me’ some pastors are in this bracket and so are many of us.

How do we then understand what the ‘instance of what’ is? It is the ‘what we see’ as different from what is on the inside (the instance of who). ‘What is who’ is remotely located to what is what, and so it is not easily seen. By the power God gave us, when we look at other people’s life, we can only see the ‘instance of what’. But we often take the ‘instance of what’ as the ‘instance of who’. That is why the bible says man looks on the outward and God looks on the inside (the heart)

Deliberately or not, man often projects the ‘instance of what’ vividly. Man is quick to project it even when not compelled. A good instance is the way we pass unsolicited encomium on friends at birthday parties, civic receptions e.t.c and even at funerals. What is interesting is that celebrating the ‘instance of what’ of others may occasionally open a window into the ‘instance of who’ of ourselves or people close to us. Though this might just be a glimpse into the periphery of the ‘instance of who’ in question as the deeper part is always difficult to come by.
Well, the summary is that the world is compelled to make do with the ‘instance of what’ of life in place of the much desired ‘instance of who’.

Instance of where

While the ‘instance of who’ can be described as the input, the ‘instance of what’ can be described as the ‘through-put’. The ‘instance of where is then best described as the ‘output’. This is the most complex of them all. Since little or nothing is known of the impact, the throughput can best take the form of a misrepresentation and most critically, the output takes the form of a mirage.
The ‘instance of where’ emerges in the form of a mirage and continues to transform and takes a real form. Surprisingly and dangerously, the ‘instance of where’ continues to reinforce the ‘instance of who’ which invariably reinforces the ‘instance of what’ and so continues, until it becomes self-destruct. It can become self-defeating at any point on the chain.

This explains whether the three instances are for devilish intent or godly intent. We shall get back to this at a later point.
The three instances of being may express themselves in the life of a nation, or a race. You say how? Let us take a look.
The individual who is the centre-focus of the instance of ‘who’ does not function in a void. He relates to others, and likes they say, attract likes, and a fusion takes place. As likes begin to come together, each group of likes grows. The rate of fusions and growth of each group relative to others eventually determines which groups that shrinks, which is static and which is growing.
This notion explains why in the same human race, some cultures, nations and races tends different extremes, e.g radicals, liberals, conservatives, neo liberals etc.

We do not seek to justify any ideaology, rather the focus is on evolving templates that clearly explains the what and where of a people through the insight into the who.

TO BE CONTINUED SHORTHLY
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mere speculation.

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