Non shall speak no evil agaist the man of God

It was at the church service for the 90th birthday of the legendary matriarch of the Awo dynasty Chief Dr Hannah Dideolu Awolowo in Ikenne that the thoughts that prompted this article began. Some well known highly placed gentlemen and their wives were called upon to partake in the wine sipping, bread breaking ritual called Holy Communion. As soon as these respectable ladies and gentlemen, all of them past age 70, and amongst whom were renowned professors, high court judges, legal luminaries and business moguls, finished their spiritual blessing and were returning to their seats, they caught a pitiable sight in their over-flowing garb of hypocrisy.
They wore forlorn mien plastered with furrowed frowned faces like some one afflicted with putrid smell of heavy dose of fart. They looked as if they were mourning a three-year-old boy mistakenly killed by his own father, or the passing of a poor woman who has just succumbed to excruciatingly painful cancer.
They clung to their wives as if they were newly wedded. I temporarily forgot that I was in a holy church, the spiritual enclave of Christians. I almost laughed my head off because I knew each of the ‘holy’ ‘monogamous’ men intimately and by Jove, I knew of their second, third or fourth wives/liaisons/mistresses with whom they had sired several children. To the whole world they were champions of monogamy, but to their hearts and conscience they were celebrated polygamists, or at best, serial monogamists. Pshaw!
I saw pain written all over them, the agony of living a lie, the unease of hypocrisy, and the shame of going through life pretending to be what you are not.
This is the sort of agony a lot of the so-called monogamists go through all their lives. The series of lies they sell to their wives, and the double life they present to their pastors and church leaders, most of whom are actually equally guilty of hypocrisy and double life living.
This piece is not set out to condemn or criticise monogamy. Monogamy is perfect for those who believe in its concept and can genuinely keep to it. I too have been married to one lovely woman for almost 45 years and it has been like a marriage made in heaven. I happen also to be the promoter along with some friends the 35-year-old Family Club of Nigeria which is dedicated to the upliftment and celebration of marriage and family values.
The article is designed to expose the hypocrisy and pain associated with embracing false notions which are really not observed by any culture in the world, and to advise those who erroneously sentence themselves to a life of sadness and emptiness because they were deceived to believe that there is some utopia somewhere called monogamy.
I am very much aware that this article will generate a lot of controversy most especially from those who live holier-than-thou life and have continued to deceive the world that they are upholders of a doctrine that is not supported by true and enlightened interpretation of any religious doctrine.
The white men, I am yet to see any human being whose skin colour is like that of chalk, came and told the unfortunate lands they invaded that the cherished cultures, traditions and religions of such lands were rubbish, and instead indoctrinated them with values which they themselves never believed in or truly practiced. We know of King Henry Vlll, and several major historical figures in ‘Christian’ Europe who had more than one wife in addition of a string of wives who their ‘laws’ forbade them to address as wives but who nonetheless perform all the functions of wife minus name.
God bless President Mitterrand who openly confessed to having two women in his life, with the one in the other house with whom he fathered an 18-year-old daughter at the time he passed on.
I have schooled, worked and lived virtually in all the continents of the world and I make bold to say with all emphasis at my disposal that no culture on planet earth truly practices monogamy. My Greek, Italian, Russian, British, American and other Caucasians routinely visit their other wives [called by other names] with whom they have children. But back in the homes shared with the one carrying the ring, they are monogamists!
If God had wanted humanity to be monogamous, He or She would not have made the pigeon the only monogamous creature.
The cultures that practice polygamy had always known that at any given time, the number of available marriageable women far out number available men plus the fact that an 80-year-old man, if he has money, is still very much in the market whereas a 60-year-old woman may not be that lucky. The biological limitation to a woman’s productive age is also a factor. Why should a woman therefore remain on the shelf till age 45 when she could jolly well get married as second or sixth wife to a man who can afford to share life’s responsibilities with her? Why should a woman leave a man with whom she is No 1, simply because took a second wife and end up being numberless in the hands of several men with whom she naturally shares bed just because of some doctrine she hardly understands?
All the women who should go and marry but are saying they do not want to share their man with another woman in a polygamous setting, are sharing current boyfriends with several other women. Where is the logic?
The argument that children in a polygamous house are always at each other’s throat does not hold water. Many siblings of monogamous families are known to have had worse and irresolvable, irreconcilable squabble, with dirty bitterness over inheritance than children from different mothers.
The agony suffered by both men and women in the hand of unnatural laws and doctrines is too stifling for comfort. In 2002, 502 Reverend mothers were reported to have died while procuring abortion in Rome. Nigerian Tribune wrote an editorial on the unfortunate incident. And stories of Reverend fathers having children and sodomising young men in their care are legion! Why the hypocrisy? Why should the world continue to live the life of Ostrich?
A well known Nigerian journalist hid his other wives from his wife because his religion would not permit of it and his wife, living in monogamy should not hear of it. At his funeral service, other wives surfaced and the woman parading the ring collapsed. It was the grace of God that prevented double interment that day!
The Western world which had not learnt the art of living amicably with more than one partner under the same roof has indulged in multiple serial marriages, divorcing innocent wives under flimsy excuses so that another woman can move in should not be measure of standard for the world. Thank God Hillary Clinton in the US and Mrs Cook in England were very much wiser. They refused to allow some indiscretion on the part of their husbands to ruin their marriages.
There was a well known American actor who passed on about a decade ago and all his 11 ex-wives with their numerous children attended his funeral. To ridicule the lie of their hypocritical existence, all the women were recognised and addressed as wives. As far as records show, the man had 11 wives!
Society must rethink this issue of pretentious monogamy vis-à-vis polygamy so that in the not-too-distant future we do not end up with millions of unmarried women whose life style would be worse than prostitutes’ and millions of children whose fathers would be nowhere to be found.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/agony-of-monogamy/

Big fools. You negotiated with BH and let loose Shakau after killing the adamant ones. hmee.. james bond in season film part what?

I like this man. I dont know why.

Truely progresive.

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Dear reader, our children deserve to know who they are and what their religion entails. They deserve to be opened to global development and technological advancement, they deserve balance information, and indeed, they deserve to be future leaders of repute and reckon. lucky enough, our religion is that of knowlege and light. Alas, the future generation of the Muslims will be that of peace, progress and success only if we act in the right direction now.

MEDLAF as an administrative setting has been carefully and professionally arranged tp bring the best out of its officers and members; this is why we place a great value on professionalism.

To through data review, proffer possible and lawful solutions to factors affecting education development across the country.
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Bobbystanley: Please u people should leave Rochas to concentrate on his good works..Which community is obinugwu in Imo state?

Do u know I arrived IMO state yesterday after 18 months of absence from my state.I couldn't believe my eyes.Owerri has been transformed into a mega city under rochas.I saw quality roads where there was no road when I last visited. Ultra modern schools for pupils and students.
Free Education to IMO state indegene at the state University.

Rochas would make a good president for this Country.

My partner in the office said the same thing. What did easterner want? Poverty (pdp) or progress(ive)?

Best of luck.

Lagosians always move with progress minds. Even with a "kid"

There is no single unity in this country call Nigeria. All is self+... Apology to who? 'the acused'. God knows when the merger will last.

end time tinz. But you know what? You have see nothing yet, wait till the day of judgment when many will confess without...

i am waiting for...

Although I dont support Maigarh but the letter is from which source? Dated 12 August and today is 26 August. Nigeria factor!!! Its a lie.

Yinkatolu: ICAN is profit oriented that's why they open the door for all

Thank you very much. Even this is one of their lapses and it’s not peculiar to ICAN.
From examination question to marking answer scripts.
From council members to exam committee.
From accreditation to qualification etc.
They are profit oriented institute and that's why they open the door for all. I wish you attend sensitisation seminar organised by ICAN on Saturday at Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos where one of the lecturer compare the institute with ACCA in term of profit.


Let my start like this.

HND AND B.Sc.
The academicians/university dons and the MDs of many (not all) organisation cause and profit from this. HND holder can't progress after getting to particular level of organisation hierarchy whereas they have more technical experience than their counterparts. In ministry, you can't equate HND and B.Sc. graduate.

B.Sc. AND ICAN
To be candid, ICAN can’t not manage this dichotomy because of the Nigeria factor (corruption). Most higher institutions who are offering accounting do not want accreditation exercise in their school. Also, how many school did ICAN ready to partner with? (Don't mention BABCOCK UNIVERSITY). There are so many things wrong with ICAN syllabus 2010 that is why they can't wait till 2015 to introduce the new one. We hope this one will be all right.

Back to topic of discussion, immediately after your B.sc/HND qualifications please go for (Audit/Tax) training. There are lot of opportunities/exposure out there. You may not even take ICAN or work for any organisation before you prosper. Please don't wait for BIG FOUR, they will do you little favour most especially if don't qualify in time.

Thank you.

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Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, described the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer's visit that heralded the entry of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into the country, as "pure madness."

This came as the Federal Government appealed to Nigerians not to panic and adhere to the highest possible personal hygiene measures and safety guidelines issued by the Federal Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, fears that more Nigerians may fall victim of the Ebola virus heightened, yesterday, as the Federal Government confirmed the 10th case of the disease after the death of the index case (the first case), bringing the total number of cases to 10.

The President, who spoke publicly for the first time since the outbreak of the disease in the country, expressed disappointment with the way and manner the late Sawyer brought Ebola to Nigeria.

Late Sawyer, whose arrival in Lagos on July 20, 2014, and eventual death five days later in a private hospital, sparked off the dreaded Ebola Virus saga in the country, was a consultant to the Liberian government.

He was said to be under surveillance in Liberia for a suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease, but evaded authorities in Monrovia and tragically boarded a plane for Lagos in Nigeria, via Lome in Togo and Accra in Ghana.

His intention, according to reports was to connect to Calabar in Nigeria to attend a two-day retreat organized by the ECOWAS Commission, and later the same week to Atlanta, Georgia in the USA to celebrate his daughter's birthday.

Speaking at the Annual Interfaith Conference in Abuja, President Jonathan, however, assured citizens that the Federal Government was ready to stop the spread of the Ebola virus.

Mad man and his Ebola

"It is unfortunate that one mad man brought Ebola to us, but we have to contain it. As a government, we promise that we will do everything humanly possible to contain the Ebola virus."

Further, the President hinted that the Federal Government had planned to rally the 36 state governors and their health commissioners to rescue the nation from further spread of the disease.

Continuing he said: "On Wednesday, I will meet with governors of the states, and they must come with their commissioners for health. We must make sure that every state is prepared. Where they lack, the Federal Government will support them."

He assured that his discussion with the head of the World Health Organisation, WHO, had given him more information about the virus, assuring the gathering that the virus will be stopped from causing more harm.

"My conversation with the WHO D-G, Dr Margaret Chan was revealing. She said 60 per cent of the transmission was spread during burials. That is why in my announcement; I've been saying that people should be careful about burials.

"Some people like burial ceremonies. This is not the time for burial ceremony, somebody is dead, he is dead, leave him there. This is not the best time for those ceremonies.

"If he is dead, he is already dead, Sawyer that brought this Ebola to Nigeria; his sister died of Ebola, and he started acting somehow, his country asked him not to leave the country, let them observe him, but the crazy man decided to leave and found his way here."

10 Ebola cases in Lagos

Earlier, the Federal Government confirmed another Ebola case in Lagos, bringing the total number of Ebola Virus Disease victims to 10, even as it was disclosed that the number of primary and secondary contacts of the index case placed under surveillance or isolation, had risen to 177, from 139 announced Friday last week.

Giving update of the Ebola situation in the country, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu told a world media briefing in Abuja, that of the 10 cases, two have died (the Liberian American and the Nigerian nurse) while eight are alive and currently on treatment. "This is the situation 22 days since the dreaded EVD first landed in Nigeria," he declared.

Chukwu said all the 10 infected were people who had direct contact with late Patrick Sawyer, noting that at the sub-regional level, the Ebola Virus Disease was discussed as a substantive agenda during the Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government on July 9, 2014 in Accra, Ghana.

US$3.5m donation to Ebola Fund

Citing efforts to stop the spread of the virus in the West African sub-region, the Minister remarked that Nigeria, as usual, played its leading, pioneering and compassionate role during the summit with the first and only donation of US$3.5 million humanitarian and capacity building aid to the three affected countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the West African Health Organisation, WAHO, and the ECOWAS Ebola Fund.

The minister, who briefed the press along other ministers -- Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam; Interior, Mr. Abba Moro; Special Duties, Mr. Tanimu Turaki and Information, Mr. Labaran Maku said: "Nigeria wishes to emphasise that it essentially remained an Ebola Virus-free country until this incidence of importation and unfortunate contamination. We will continue to work with all stakeholders, local and international partners to maximize on this and intensify efforts to contain and treat the existing cases."

http://allafrica.com/stories/201408120494.html?aa_source=acrdn-f0

The Oracle has spoken.

Final whistle.

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runzlord: It depends on how rich I am. But over 2.5 sha

what is 2.5?
I wish i could have 2 and adopt more than 2 cos they need your care.

Praise be to Almighty Allah the most gracious, the most merciful. We give thank to Allah for the successful Iftar programme. May He reward the organiser, the host, the lecturer, members and those who made intention to come. May Allah count us among the inmate of paradise. Amen. Jazakumullah khairan.

maclatunji:

It is a "rival" for my time. It is all with good cheer bro., no biggie. Alhamdulillah we have iftars to attend.

All with good cheer, thank you.


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maclatunji: There is this "rival" iftar that has kept me from attending many Nairaland Iftars in the past and true to form I confirmed last night it is holding on the same day as Nairaland's event this year again.

I have decided that I am attending the Nairaland Iftar this year but might have to leave early, say between 6-6.30pm. I just do not know how to not attend the other one. The organiser (a relative) is very close to me on a person-to-person basis and I do not have the capacity (yet) to say: "sorry, I could not come at all..." I think it does more harm than good and the other party is one I would loathe to offend.

Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place.

Why rival. kindly use another word please.

mashaun:

last buststop of gbagada newgarage is MRS\YTk filling station beside RJOLAD HOSPITAL.

Brothers and Sisters.
wherever you are in ifako/gbagada/newgarage (not bariga), ask for Tantalizer or Gtbank or Adide Supermarket of Access bank or Sweetsensation, they are all in the same vicinity (Diya Street). Araromi Community Central Mosque is the only mosque within that area.

Thank you.

Allah is One!!!

Hade4larin: Pishure of the place or u know the rest............... Btw, wia is d place is Gbagada??

Gbagada General Hospital Gbagada (LASUTH Extension). Near Atunrase or Gbagada Estate. From ikeja-toll gate-ogudu-oworo-oshodi road- ifako gbagada then ask for GGH. Or from Maryland-Anthony-3rd mainland bridge-Gbagda ask for GGH. Nice place

Hade4larin: Pishure of the place or u know the rest............... Btw, wia is d place is Gbagada??

Gbagada General Hospital Gbagada. Near Atunrase or Gbagada Estate. From ikeja-toll gate-ogudu-oworo-oshodi road- ifako gbagada then ask for GGH. Or from Maryland-Anthony-3rd mainland bridge-Gbagda ask for GGH.

During the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil we have been treated to some of arguable the best goalkeeping performances the tournament has ever seen.

Early on in the tournament the likes of Guillermo Ochoa took the headlines as he kept out the hosts Brazil to earn Mexico a goalless draw, while the African duo Vincent Enyeama and Rais M'Bolhi claimed many plaudits.

Keylor Navas and Tim Howard produced stunning and record-breaking displays in the knockout stages, while the likes of Julio Cesar, David Ospina, Claudio Bravo and Jesper Cillessen have all impressed. There has even been the two greatest exponents of the sweeper-keeper role in the superb Manuel Neuer and Hugo Lloris on show too.

Add your comment' to make your view known, remembering to keep your posts clean, respectful

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