Romeo and Juliet. Tristan and Iseult. Lancelot and Guinevere. Ramsey Nouah and Genevieve. Common factor- these men have proven time and again that they would die for their women if need be (although I can’t really vouch for the last couple, you know how deceptive Nollywood can be). They have slain dragons, and braved storms, and fought armies, and even drank poison to prove their love for the leading ladies in their lives. Over the years, chivalry evolved into being just that show of general courtesy-you know, when to a man, a woman’s a lady in every sense of the word. For men these days, chivalry is opening the door for a woman, getting up when a woman enters the room, giving up your place for a woman, the whole nine yards. I imagine men reading this saying in their minds,” for where?”
This concept is so foreign to men of this generation because of the simple fact that chivalry is dead. Deader than Attila the Hun. The sad part is that the women killed it. Ruthlessly. Thoughtlessly. Brutally. Now I imagine women around the world (I like to think) reading this and going, “Oh no, she didn’t!” I am indeed sorry to say, Yes I did.
Come now, think about it. Little by little, act after act, women methodically prove to the male folk that they are just not worth the bloody effort. I know there are a few good women out there, but just ask the guys, and they’ll tell you these women are like gold dust. They’re either in the convent or they’re married to assholes (who, by the way, can only be managed by the aforementioned few good women).
The women of this generation don’t offer any incentive for men to even be nice to them, talk less about exhibiting chivalry. I’m sure that at this juncture, feminists reading this will be filled with righteous indignation (why the hell do we need them to be nice to us, etc). But let’s face it, the world was a much more civilized place when women were ladies and men were…well, whatever they were. The concept of liberalism has created an allowance for all things previously deemed inappropriate and decadent. At the risk of coming across as a prude (which I am most assuredly not, I assure you with full assurance), I believe that I would have liked to exist in those days of knights and their ladies fair. Think of all the heavy lifting I would have avoided. All the noses I have been dying to bloody would have been taken care of by a misguided chivalrous fool with just some discreet, well-placed nudging on my part.
In those days, men would knock their own brother into next tuesday for even hinting at the intent to insult a woman. If you don’t believe it, refer to Benedick and Beatrice in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. In these women-wear-pants-too times, a man may meet his brother on top of his wife and the worst that will happen is that he may not speak to him for a weekend until they go to the family reunion and iron all their issues out. The innate respect that men have for women has been irrevocably stamped out by the antics of women. What man would waste the blood of a total stranger much less his brother over a slack-thighed woman (pardon my French) who didn’t even have the decency to have his dinner on the table before climbing into bed with the maiguard.
Why would any man respect a woman who would climb into bed with every Tom, Dick and Calistus, who he met when he picked her up in some bar? What man would respect a woman who dresses like Cinderella after her sisters had snatched all their accessories from her-shabby, worn and naked? How can any man respect a woman whose mouth is dirtier than a chimney sweep, a woman who could turn the air around her a ribald shade of blue with a handful of choice curse words? Show me that man and I will show you a transvestite feminist.
Women live by the principle of “Give a little, expect a lot”. They want men to be men and women to be whatever they want to be. But it is a simple case of action and reaction. Women demand incessantly to be treated as the equals of men. The part that they did not shout out loud is that this equal treatment is only feasible when it suits them. The same woman who goes nose-to-nose with her husband over equal rights in the kitchen suddenly becomes skittish when he raises his hand to hit her. If she’s his equal (as she has spent all this time reminding the poor thing), then both of them should be able to go, as equals, equally into a physical combat. But no. It suddenly occurs to her that it is cowardly for a man to hit a woman. If that’s not convenient, I don’t know what is. Please Note:- On Domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that is personal to me, so i don’t take it lightly. I’m not making excuses for it. Far from it. I’m merely saying that if women realize enough to know that a man shouldn’t hit them, then they should not be plagued by selective principles.
There is a reason why men are created the way they are inside and out. They’re here to serve and protect their women, but to their utter astonishment, their women are no longer women (the servees and the protectees) but they have now evolved into this other creature which is a very convenient hybrid of man and woman characters, and which no one thought to inform the poor men of their existence. Left confused with these mutants (yes, I said it), they adapt the only way they know how-employ brand new relationship skills. Voila-and so we have the contemporary man-woman relationship.
And so, friends, my point is proven. Chivalry is dead, and women killed it.
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https://www.techsuplex.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nimc.jpg Finally, the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, launched the National Electronic Identity card, e-ID. This is in line with the Commission’s determination to meet the December 31st 2014 deadline given to it by the President of Nigeria to enrol all eligible Nigerians in the national database. The pilot phase of the e-ID will involve issuing cards to about 13 million Nigerian citizens.
The purpose of the National Identity Management System, NIMS, is to capture and manage biometric data of eligible citizens and also federate,under a secure platform, biometric data from all agencies that currently capture and keep such. At the moment, agencies and institutions like the FRSC, INEC, Immigration Service, Police, banks etc keep silos of citizen biometric data and guard them jealously. There is a lot wrong with this and it is not global best practice. All these agencies will have to surrender data they keep for harmonization with the National Database.
Imagine if, for example, you require an International Passport. With the NIMS, all that is now needed (when it goes into use) is for the Nigerian Immigration Service to log into the system, after levels of access check and authentication, key in your national identity number, NIN, and the part of your authentic, verified biometric data necessary to issue you a passport, gets transmitted to them. You do not need to submit any new documents to identify you; waste time in a queue to take your picture, capture your fingerprints, etc. You can actually get your passport issued in a matter of minutes. Same will got for issuing your a drivers license or voter card.
Meanwhile, controversy, rather than elation, greeted the launching of the card especially because of the MasterCard logo behind the e-ID. Some were of the opinion that MasterCard was a private, foreign company and should not have been allowed to brand the card. Other opinions said MasterCard had been handed the contract to make the cards. Some others said MasterCard had been given access to Nigeria’s citizen database without an enabling Data Protection law in place. They felt it was a potential breach of national security and invasion of privacy. The following are facts:
1. MasterCard did not produce the e-ID 2. MasterCard does not have access to the National Identity Management system 3. All cards used for payment, as is the practice, carry the logo of the entity that manages the payment platform. 4. MasterCard is only involved in the payment applet which is only one of the 13 applets embedded on the card chip.
According to Mastercard’s business head for West Africa, Omoke Ojumuyide, who spoke with ZNET.com, “Mastercard does not handle the biometric data,” she said. “We are strictly confined to the payment technology on the chip.”
Most of these misgivings are borne out of an ignorance of what the e-ID is really about.
I was in a meeting, sometime in late 2012 or early 2013, when the DG of NIMC made a presentation to a cross-section of stakeholders on what the e-ID, also known as the General Multi-Purpose Card, GMPC, was all about. In attendance were members of the intelligence and security community, the armed forces, CBN, amongst others.
Mr. Chris Onyemenam, the NIMC DG, took us through what the 13 applets that will be embedded in the chip on the card are about and what security measures have been put in place to safeguard the high value asset – a Citizen’s biometric data, residing in the National Database.
In the heat of the controversy, NIMC reached out via their twitter handle and succinctly, in a document, explained everything about the card. Before I reproduce the content of that document here, I will like to address the issue of Data Protection law.
I agree very much with the opinion that we do not have a Data Protection Act in Nigeria. The National Assembly needs to work on that. The people who conceived NIMC and the National Identity card project, a project that pre-dates the present government, were very aware of this gap. So when the NIMC Act of 2007 was being formulated, laws that guard the use and protection of the biometric data with NIMC were embedded in it. It will be nice to go through the NIMC Act to stay abreast of this. A look at Part IV, Section 28, under Offenses and Penalties, is a quick start.
Let me now reproduce NIMC’s release below.
Facts about the National eID Card
Now that the National eID Card has been formally launched, a lot of questions are being asked, which needs to be cleared up.
If anyone has any doubt as to the authenticity and accuracy of what is contained below, they should kindly back up their claims with real facts and proof so as not to mislead the General Public.
Firstly, the new National eID Card issued by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is primarily a National Identity Card with a SmartCard built-in, containing provision for up to 13 applets, of which 5 are activated when an applicant picks up his/her Card. Fact: Access to National Database by MasterCard or other foreign companies/Governments
The National Identity Database is not open to inspection by ANY party, home or abroad. There is absolutely no provision for any foreign Government or body to access the database.
MasterCard is providing functionality for 1 of the 5 applets, just as you have with your ATM Cards. No one complains that your name is on the ATM card, or that that information may be held in America. The concern here is biometric data and other demographic information such as next of Kin and so on. MasterCard DOES NOT HAVE and WILL NEVER have access to such information.
Any suggestion that MasterCard, Visa, or any other foreign body will gain access to the database is pure fiction not backed up with evidence.
This is NOT the same as verification services, which is where an Embassy may request to verify a person’s National Identification Number (NIN) to ascertain that the person requesting a visa is the genuine article. It is done all over the world, and the provision for NIN on the Visa application forms for many countries such as UK, US and even Schenghen states, was not introduced because of Nigeria’s NIN.
Fact: Applets
The applets active when you pick up your card include:
1. Match-on-Card This is where a secure terminal matches a specific fingerprint against that locked away on The Card. Too many attempts, and the applet is blocked for security reasons.
That way, an agency or concerned body can be sure that the person presenting the Card is the true owner. It is no different than what is currently done with your International Passport.
1. ICAO The National Identity Card is also a travel document and conforms to the same standards (ICAO 9303 Rev 2) as International Passports and National Identity Cards of other nations which have TD1 functionality built in. It is hoped that the document will be used for ECOWAS travel (without the need for a Passport), as the applet CANNOT be forged. NIMC has its own Document Signer (DS), on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So we are not sending certificates requests (CSRs) outside Nigeria to be signed for this applet.
1. Payment In the first phase, MasterCard is offering payment functionality for the Card. There is a firewall between this applet and all the other applets so not even a POS terminal can access the secure data protected by EAC2 on certain parts of the Card. As stated earlier, the National Database is NOT the business of MasterCard and never will be. Later on, we will have Visa and Verve Cards as alternatives to MasterCard. MasterCard will only be available on the first 13 million Cards.
1. e-ID This is the MAIN applet. The electronic ID applet, which contains some of the information submitted during enrolment. Other information such as address are also available on the Card but protected by higher levels of access control called EAC2. The NIN is also locked away in EAC2 protection.
Most information is NOT available on the Card, such as next of Kin, parentage and so on. These are only available in the National Identity Database (NIDB).
1. e-PKI This applet contains strong certificates which allow for document signing, non-repudiation, encryption and so on.
NIMC has conformed to International Best Practices to provide this applet. The Non-repudiation simply means that where a person has digitally signed a document with his/her Card using the e-PKI applet, the person CANNOT turn around tomorrow and say “I didn’t sign this document, it’s a forgery”. For this to occur, aside from the applet, other security measures have been put in place to ensure that indeed, a person won’t be able to deny his/her document signature.
Fact: Verification Services Any embassy wishing to participate in verification services in the near future will need to go through a very stringent and rigorous approval process. NIMC will then offer a 1-to-many service, meaning that a NIN is supplied via a secure channel to NIMC’s verification platform and then a lookup is done against the National Database.
Fact: Public Key Infrastructure NIMC is the custodian of the National Identity Database and we would be contravening so many national security laws if we ever share this information with unauthorised persons or entities.
The Department of State Security (DSS) has scrutinised NIMC and can attest that The Commission has put all kinds of processes and security measures in place to avoid such breaches of National Security.
NIMC has even gone as far as implementing its own PKI Infrastructure, which means that Digital Certificates and Keys issued for each individual are not sent out for signing, but are signed internally as Nigeria now has its own Registration Authority (RA) and Country Signing Certificate of Authority (CSCA) as well as a host of other PKI systems thereby negating the need to depend on a foreign Government to sign our certificates. Nigeria has its own OID (for those who know what that means) and we had to apply through the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the ITU. Which means that Nigeria’s RA is recognised by ICAO worldwide, making our Card a globally-acceptable Identity Card which conforms to International Standards.
Fact: Shutdown of Infrastructure by MasterCard or U.S Government In the unlikely event that Nigeria has problems with the US Government similar to the issue with Russia, the only part of the entire Card that can be shut down is the payment applet. This applet is only 1 of 13 on the Card. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the ePKI, eID, MoC, Tax, Voter, Travel, Health or other applets.
It is NOT a glorified payment Card, but a National Identity Card offering a myriad of functions of which, one is payment.
Tunji Durodola
Head, Card Management Services
National Identity Management Commission
The e-ID is actually a step in the right direction. It is what serious countries do. With the size of our population and the many security challenges we have, there is no better time than now to get serious.
If you have not enrolled for your National identity Number, NIN, yet, here is a good place to start. NIMC will let you know when your card will be ready. Take note, enrollment and issuance of the card is absolutely free.
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Firstly, she took money that was stolen from poor people. Among her financiers were the Duvallier family of dictators that pillaged the Haitian people and surprisingly many other criminals who wanted to buy some sort of indulgence or appraisal from a de facto saint*. She then used most of that money on her personal brand and her christian movement of monasteries with only a fraction going to the actual work with the poor**.
The Calcutta "home for the dying" she is known for in the west was no hospital as many believed it to be, it did not offer any real medical care, or even allow the dying to have visitors. This despite the fact that MT easily had enough money to offer such care and facilities. Instead the home for the dying was some sort of sick religious setup where ill people came to suffer and be prayed for, because Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (as MT's real name was) thought there is something noble and Christian about suffering just like Jesus did. The below quote shows how little she thought the situation of the poor could or should be improved:
"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."
She is also claimed to have been "above politics", but still she took many reprehensible political positions by lauding several undemocratic dictators such as her pal Bébé-Doc Duvallier in Haiti and Enver Hoxha in her native Albania. She also on numerous occasions poured vitriol over women's rights initiatives that were not in line with her catholic beliefs. A recurring theme in her speeches was equating condoms with evilness or even murder, surely not helpful for fighting exploding HIV among the poor.
In her Nobel prize acceptance speech she said abortions under any circumstances were the worst form of war threatening humanity. I accept that there are many ways you can feel about abortions, but you have to see things very differently from me in order not to find *any* greater wrong in this world than a woman who risks death if she gives birth having an abortion.
The fact that she is still held as the portrait of good in the west, and even has given rise to an English language eponym of sorts (eg. "that person is a real mother Teresa", is simply beyond my understanding.
This below documentary is made by the late and great Christopher Hitchens in -94, and since even more terrible details have surfaced. A longer study of Mother Teresa can be found in Hitchens' book "The Missionary Position" or in Aroup Chatterjee's "The Final Verdict". Both authors had first hand experience with MT and presented their claims while MT was still alive and could have refuted any false claims.
* Other main donators included Charles Keating, who had stolen american pensions and Robert Maxwell who had stolen British pensions. Keating ended up in jail for his embezzlements (Mother Teresa actually asked the judge to pardon him), while Maxwell's crimes surfaced after he died (unknown if suicide). ** Mother Teresa's charity is the only charity in India that is allowed to hide its accounts from public insight, however, in 1991 German magazine Stern revealed only 7% were used on the "charitable work" itself.
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, is simply beyond my understanding.
