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Nigeria is blessed with rich natural foods, but our daily choices around what we eat, drink, and how we live may be quietly shaping a growing health crisis.

From processed foods and unsafe food practices to medication misuse, sugary drinks, and sedentary lifestyles, more Nigerians are facing preventable conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease.

But here’s the real question: Do we truly know what is going into our bodies every day?

This article breaks down the hidden risks in our food system, lifestyle habits, and everyday decisions, and why prevention must start with awareness, not fear.

👉 Read the full story here: https://skyddo.com.ng/blog/2026/08/18/nigeria-must-ask-a-difficult-question-what-are-we-putting-into-our-bodies/

Let’s talk about food safety, healthier living, and the urgent changes we can no longer ignore.

#NigeriaHealth #FoodSafetyNigeria #HealthyLiving #PublicHealth #KidneyHealth #EatSmartLiveWell

NGO CHALLENGES META AT 2026 STAKEHOLDERS’ MEETING: “WHERE IS THE FAIR RIGHT TO APPEAL?”

At its 2026 Stakeholders’ Meeting, the Rosana Empowerment Foundation (REF) raised critical questions about the permanent disabling of users’ accounts across Meta-owned platforms.

The Foundation asked:

How can someone's entire digital account, containing years of writings, journalism, professional contacts and public engagement, be permanently disabled without a fair, accessible and meaningful opportunity to appeal and recover it?[i][/i]

REF's questions were prompted in part by the VITUFEL70 experience involving a member of its media team.

The Foundation acknowledges that digital platforms have rules and responsibilities. But with enormous power over public communication comes an equally important responsibility for transparency, proportionality, due process and accountability.

If a platform has the power to silence a digital voice, should it not also provide a meaningful opportunity for that voice to be heard?

👉 Read the full REF position: https://rosanafoundation.org.ng/2026/08/08/ref-condemns-digital-repression-and-defends-freedom-of-expression/

What is your view?

#REF #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #DigitalRights #FreedomOfExpression #DigitalAccountability #RightToAppeal #HumanRights #VITUFEL70

[quote author= post=113910790]Some people are just easily brainwashed each and every day.

First of all, when Mabaka was behind PMB, during the 2015 presidential election, all these ipob hated him to their bone marrow,

The moment he denounced PMB after threats on his life and businesses by the mental animal called cownu, they all rushed to start follwing Mbaka and he became their god,

Now that he called Peter Obi whatever he called him, they have gone back to unfollow him again,

If Mbaka comes out tomorrow again, shouting "Na prank, Na prank,
Look at the camera there
You will see these senseless beings going back to follow him again.

Same thing happened with their MumuFFK and MumuReno and also the same thing they are doing to Yele Sowore.
If you dare not support whatever they support, you are in trouble, they expect everyone to queue behind their foolishness and stupidity.

We can never forget what these wicked species did to the founder or RantHQ at the other side,
They all came out full force to end her livelihood, just because she told them she doesn’t want anybody insulting the country or other tribe on her page comprising of millions of people.
They reported her to UN, US, took off her endorsement, threatened to rape her, did everything they could to close down her page etc.
But we are happy God vindicated her at last from those devils and cannibals.
What manner of politics!

We thank God not all of us igbos behave like the 1% ipob cannibals giving our region a bad name all over the country and the world at large.
There are still some of us that love our darling country to the moon and back.


Hmmmmm, this is deep!

Two things that will end most idiots life in this nation,
HYPOCRISY AND LIES ....in that particular order.
They can twist each and everything in this world to the way it suit their narratives.....each and everything.....for the sake of emphasis!

(Quote this post to say rubbish if this post gets to you and get ready to be unfortunate!)


Hmmmmm, this is deeper!!

(We are still waiting for the deepest!!!)[/quote]I do not know who you're but if all I have been reading from you is what you represent in Nigeria, then I am so sorry for you.

Nigeria needs builders and not destroyers. If you're a destroyer, such will come to visit you and your generation directly.

You may think you're exercising youthful exuberance but be warned, it backfires...! Whatever a man, woman, youth, child, adult, etc sows, that is what he or she will reap...

Take my word, no matter who you're, every evil done, has a way of returning to the person that did it, no matter how long it lasted.

It is not too late for you to make a change... There is hope for you if you will accept... God bless you...

Parachoko:
I doubt you know how wealthy the Catholic Church is.

Hmmmmm!

Nobody is saying anything here, why?

omenka:
Anambra has been turned into a war zone. No less than eight Northerners were slaughtered in his state yesterday, but the best the screeching oaf could do is grin before cameras and take photos.

Not even a simple message of commiserations.

A stone has a better chance of becoming the flag bearer of PDP than this mutt called Peter Obi.

Your signature prayer says it all, and I say AMEN to it.
When you follow the line of ethnicity to fan ambers of war, what do you gain?
Your statement: "No less than eight Northerners were slaughtered in his state yesterday, but the best the screeching oaf could do is grin before cameras and take photos." I take this to be HATE SPEECH. If what you alleged is true, does it take Peter Obi's condemnation to solve the problem? You have a sitting President that is mute over what is going on in Nigeria because his government is in support of the evil being perpetrated.
You referred to Peter Obi as "the screeching oaf" just because he came to exercise his constitutional right as a Nigerian. Can you say how else he offended you...?
You concluded by saying that "A stone has a better chance of becoming the flag bearer of PDP than this mutt called Peter Obi". Do you know what that means and what you have done to your personality?
Hatred is not good...! Because of your hatred for the Igbo you are going outside your human nature to act ANIMALISTIC! Who does it that way, except a disillusioned and disoriented person who is tired of living... For your information, Peter Obi is Igbo, and for this contraption called Nigeria to be good, it will take an Igbo man to rule the country. Why your likes are living in denial of the ability of an Igbo man to rule the country is this: that he will not come and make all things good and take the glory...
But wait, the glory as always, will go to God. Igbo man doesn't joke with God in whatever he does...
Coming to your earlier allegations that "No less than eight Northerners were slaughtered in his state yesterday..." I want to ask you, what are the identities of the eight northerners, and what are their home states? Who are their family members.
In the last few weeks, that's how Nigerians were inundated with stories of army couples that were beheaded, who were traveling for their traditional wedding in Igboland, but up till now, no family member from both sides has shown up to claim ownership of the alleged dead soldiers. And no where in Igboland is a bride missing...
Now, the question for you is this: what do you stand to gain from all these hatred pupping up from inside of you against the Igbo nation? How long do you think you can push this? Do you still have an iota of shame in you as a human being? Who did this to you? Even if you have just but one second to live in this life, won't you consider those that you will leave behind?
It is high time you repented from all these unhealthy lifestyle of yours, because no matter how high you may want to project evil, it will NEVER surpass GOOD!
Enough of all these, please!!!!

NY friend is confused right now because of a choice of a Political Party to help him achieve his political ambition.
His name is Joe, living outside his home state where he carries out his legal business. Right now he is nursing an ambition to represent his constituency in their State House of Assembly.
As a young man who is not a money-bag, he seriously needs an advice on the best political party that can help him achieve his political ambition outside the PDP and the APC.
Already two parties are wooing him to their side but according to him they are all interested in his money before even letting some secrets out to him.
This made him to contact another party where the Chairman was able to give him a breakdown of what is required of him financially by the party before he is allowed to fly their flag in the coming election. Kudos to this party but the snag here is that the party is enmeshed in a deep problem... This is not healthy at all for any party that wants to win election.
As a result, I decided to post his concern on Nairaland so that more advice can be obtained. Please Nairalanders help a fellow man to choose a better party to realize his political ambition. Thank you all...

Hotice085:
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The only grace a man should have is WISDOM, we are talking of wife beating here because we are in Nigeria.
Bro if we were in Europe we won't be having this conversation even the Christian Bible permits a woman to separate from a man that beats her.
The fact is this every man has what it takes to deal with a woman withdrawn beating her

Are you serious about that? Wisdom is the application of knowledge and withdraw GRACE, nothing works. Grace avails you the opportunity to have information and the ability to apply it.
I have lived in Europe, I don't know about you. But the beauty of European courts is that there is justice. Actions are judged according to intentions. If your woman attacks you and you beat her with good reason and given evidences, no court will jail you in Europe.
Again, I want equally put it to you that no where in the Christian Bible was it permitted that a woman should separate from a man that beats her in marriage. Beating a woman or a man in marriage is wrong. I know women that beat their husbands. At any slight provocation, the woman gives the man a slap even in the public and dares him to a fight. Are you aware of this?
The Christian Bible admonishes that a husband and his wife live in peace. It says that God hates DIVORCE...
Christian don't see marriage as the world see it today. No Christian subscribes to divorce. Those you see that do otherwise are claimants (professors) of Christianity and not POSSESSORS of God's kind of life (Christian). Christianity is deeper than you know...

Eriggs:
Devil kill kanu in prison.
Na inside dat prison this murderer go die put, he can neve escape all the innocent lives he caused to die in the east.
The idiots cursing and abusing soludo ever since cos he said no sit at home nonsense in Anambra are the same sets of idiots praising him here. Yeye fowls.
What happened to those soldiers that were killed on the way to their wedding and to all numerous lives taken will happen to any idiot that will quote this my post.


The same hypocrites and brainwashed fools condemning the brutal killings of Deborah by those animals are the same idiots supporting the foolish cownu murderers that cut off the heads of husband and wife, and not only that, cutting off the innocent ladies private part.
Na ogun go kill all of una hypocrites, condemning one murder and praising the other murder.

If you condemn both murders, God bless your soul.
If you condemn one and leave one. U no go ever die better for dis life. Cannibals and murderer. Show your face here now

Na only you waka come oooh! It seems you thrive more in propaganda than engage your life in truthful discourses... Who are the soldiers you spoke about? Where are they from? Which formation, unit or army depot are they? Where is the pass issued them by the army to identify their units? Do you know the place in Igboland where they were going for that traditional wedding? Do you know their parents? How come since the propagation of that information, no family has ever showed up to claim them as their children? Or did they descend from the sky and joined the Nigerian Army?
Since you know and are ready to swear with your father's grave that those soldiers were actually killed in Igboland or that they were truly going for their traditional wedding in Igboland, be ready to tell the world which part of Igboland the wedding was to hold and which compound... Because since you started this claim of an army couple killed while going for their traditional wedding in Igboland, no family has ever showed up to claim that the said bride is their daughter or that the groom is actually their in-law.
Since this your lie has failed, try another lie to tell.
The late Deborah you mentioned, how long did it take her parents and family members to show up?
The more you hate the Igbo, the more you lose value as a human being.... Continue!

Truthisunique2:
he was fucking incompetent

Kanu was lossing steam one by one until Ozekhome came

Today it's stroking one case after the other against FG

Also Ozekhome have taken him from the public enemy that he was once seen as to this fun guy in court

Can you see how divisive you can be? You will always want to be on the part of division... Anything Igbo progress nauseats you. Don't bother yourself, you're yet to cry... The real victory and liberation for the Igbo is here to stay...

Lionnation:
I see ethnic and religion crises resume in the north ones power shift to south, I see the blood of christians especially the Igbo being spilt. If you are a southerner residing north start making plans to relocate immidiately a southerner wins the presidency. To be forewarned is the be forearmed

May God forbid you and your useless prophecy... No, not again!

Gospel2Day:
By their fruits we shall know them.
Sorry,if you're offended by the truth.
What you commented above is further proof that you MUST be Born Again.
Shalom.

Take it from me, you're not born again as you overzealously project yourself. You can't be what you don't know and be able to explain. You're just being childish... Get a life.

Hotice085:
I have, and they challenged me beyond that, I just laughed and drank to it and she got more infuriated
Now she knows that I know that her power is just her tongue

Thank God for you bro and the type of wife you married too... It's not everyone that can do this... Some women will go extra miles to get the attention they yearn for. I tell you, you're a match to your own wife. Some other persons might try it and it backfires... You simply have to thank God for your marriage... More grace.

stainedanisus1:
Asiwaju Tinubu is the only answer and the right person to solve Nigeria's numerous problems. The only governor that consistently challenged the federal powers in his era as governor. The man who took the FG to court and made sure he created LCDAs to make government closer to people which is what many states copied now. A forward thinker

You said that of Buhari...now you're swapping it to Tinubu... You can't have your way this time... God Himself will select someone that will lead Nigeria aright...

AN OPEN LETTER TO BOLA AHMED TINUBU, JAGABAN OF BORGU .... By Femi Fani-Kayode

My dearest Jagaban,

You know very well that I have always liked and respected you. You will also recall that a few years ago I warned you that everything that is being done to you today would eventually be done to you given the choices you made at the time.

I bear you no malice or ill-will but in view of what is happening in your political party and given the fact that your good friend, co-conspirator and collaborator, President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally thrown you under the bus and dumped you, I am constrained to write the following.

The bitter truth is that you predicted NOTHING and you saw NOTHING. The only thing you saw were your own vain delusions and insatiable greed and the only thing you felt and that moved you was your blind ambition.

You sold your body, spirit and soul to the enemy and betrayed your people even though we warned you over and over again that those you were dining with were far smarter and far more astute than you.

Yet even though all the signs were there you dismissed our concerns, vilified us, treated us with contempt, demonized us and sought to destroy us.

Now the chickens have come home to roost and the writing is on the wall. The signs are there for all to see. You betrayed and sold Lagos. You betrayed and sold the South West. You betrayed and sold the South East. You betrayed and sold the South South. You betrayed and sold the Middle Belt. You betrayed and sold the North East. You betrayed and sold the North West. You betrayed and sold the Muslims and you betrayed and sold the Christians.

Simply put you betrayed and sold EVERYTHING and EVERYONE in Nigeria just to feed and satisfy your psychotic obsession and compulsive ambition.

Like Icarus the Greek, you flew too high and too close to the sun with your wax wings, puffed up and fuelled by your hubris and pride and now you shall meet your nemesis. The spiritual wound that has been inflicted on you is irreversible and terminal and there is no going back.

The dark clouds that lie ahead of you are thick, ugly, frightful, violent and impassable: you cannot make it through them safely or survive them. Your enemies have dug a pit for you and you have already fallen into it.

They have finally stripped you naked, grabbed you by your balls and taken everything from you.

You have lost your mystique, honor, glory, self-respect, following, clout, pride, reputation and so much more. You have also lost control of the political party that you conceived, formed, nurtured and built. The APC was your baby and now they have taken it from you and are set to kill it.

They fooled you, used you, dimped you and humiliated you and now they are going to expose you, rubbish you, malign you, break you, crucify you, investigate you and utterly crush you.

You dreamed of being Vice President in 2015 and you failed. You are dreaming of being President in 2023 and you will fail.

In all your plans what you failed to appreciate is that God alone rules in the affairs of men. You refused to acknowledge or accept the fact that the Presidency of Nigeria can only be given by God and He gives it to whom He deems fit by prophecy and divine decree.

It is not about money and power and if it were Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar'adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, who had neither of the two before being respectively elected as President, would never had made it.

It is about God and God alone. It is for Him alone to give. It is about His purpose, His will, His counsel, His plan and His glory.

He OWNS the Presidency and the minute any man or woman attempts to usurp His role and think that he or she can buy it or manoeuvre his or her way into it by the usage of political intrigues, guile, sagacity, wisdom, power, knowledge, money or anything else, the Lord disqualifies and rejects him.

Such a person will fail woefully and may even end up losing everything he or she values and cherishes in his futile quest.

God will never share His glory with anyone and He will never support a man or woman that is prepared to mislead, betray and sell his own people down the river just to satisfy his vaulting and insatiable ambition of becoming President.

Yet the signs were there but you refused to acknowledge or accept them.

They refused to give you a formal position in the National Executive. They ensured that some of your key loyalists in the South West turned against you and opposed you.

They refused to accept even ONE of your Ministerial nominees both in 2015 and 2019. They humiliated your protegee who you nominated as Vice President and turned him into a pliant and pathetic little errand boy with no testicular fortitude or shame.

They drove your nominee at FIRS out of office unceremoniously and have placed him under criminal investigation.

They have divided the ranks of your loyalists and turned even your hitherto most trusted lieutenants against you.

They insulted, undermined, marginalised you openly and worse of all they made it clear to you privately that they would NEVER give you power.

All this meant nothing to you and you shamelessly continued to support their evil ways and toe their satanic and murderous line.

Yet if you did not care about what they subjected you to you ought to have at least cared about what they did to Nigeria.

For the last five years our nation and people have suffered because of the calamitious choices that you made and the inexplicable and unconciable alliances that you forged.

You propped up and supported a ruthless, heartless, corrupt, bloodthirsty and cruel regime and tyrant and a President that is clearly beside himself and whose mental and physical faculties reside in another realm and in another world.

Consequently our nation has been utterly and completely destroyed, our economy ruined and our people decimated.

They have been slaughtered, butchered, pauperised, emasculated, humiliated, marginalised, insulted and impoverished.

Hundreds of thousands of them have been murdered in cold blood in their homes, towns, villages and farms and millions have been displaced.

Millions more have been ruined and economically destroyed whilst our country remains weak, divided and the butt of cruel jokes all over the world.

Because of your choices Nigerians are being subjected to persecution, physically attacked, enslaved, humiliated, lynched, scorned, maimed, killed, disgraced, evicted and declared persona non grata both at home and in distant foreign lands whilst our foreign Embassies are being demolished by miscreants and local criminals even in supposedly friendly countries.

I sincerely hope thet one day you will reflect on all this and consider the damage you have done to your kinsmen and compatriots.

Whether you do or not is left to you but one thing that is clear: for the choices you have made, for all you have done and for the sheer wickedness and greed that resides in your insensitive and dark heart you will pay a heavy price both in this world and in the world to come and the Lord will hand you over to your political enemies.

Permit me to conclude by quoting the instructive words of a tweet that I posted just yesterday after I heard about the latest developments in your party. I wrote,

"First Oshiomole is kicked out by the Court of Appeal. Then his preferred replacement, Ajimobi, falls into a coma. Then his arch rival, Giadom, is recognised by Buhari as National Chairman.

Conclusion: it is over for Tinubu. He has been thrown under the bus and retired from politics!"

I stand by those words. Happy retirement my dearest Jagaban: may you live long to see the glory of our country restored and the damage that you have done to our people repaired. Shalom.

WoundedLamb:
Rise*

Thanks so much... I got it..

Gospel2Day:
You're obviously NOT Born Again.
So, I'm not surprised at your comment.
It's very typical of unserious folks who excuse indecency from someone who should exemplify the highest standards of morality and sanity.
Repent and receive Jesus into your heart.
Shalom.

I wonder what makes you "born again obviously" while others are not. As a "serious folk" who cannot excuse indecency from someone who should exemplify the highest standards of morality and sanity, I put it to you that your Christianity is absurd and Christ less! How could you vomit such rubbish and still claim to be a Christian?
I can see you're Deputy Jesus and so have every power and authority to consign someone to hellfire... You should mind your very self and be sensible, and don't continue in hypocrisy...!!!

Hotice085:
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Confirmed prison material nia you be, even if woman curse your life die you have no damn right to punch her

I hear you, until you marry and meet a woman that challenges your manhood...!

Viltron:
This Sunday you'll still find members there calling the monster, daddy.

You have already judged and condemned the man to hellfire...! Sorry. It could have been better if you investigated the issue to know what actually transpired before passing judgement...
How you quickly believed the post is a marvel...

Mindlog:
Is just like saying a Nigerian policemen is not MAD to just beat you up, that you must have done something to deserve the beating.

Why should it have been kept private, if you are convinced that she deserves it or can't the husband defend the reason (s) for battering her?

Just listen to yourself... Did you hear anything from the husband? The person that posted the information only wanted you to hear what he/she wants you to hear - that the man is already guilty and must be bundled to prison without trial...
Nobody told you the cause of the quarrel, nobody told you what transpired between the man and the woman. All they want is that the man must be hanged...
You never can tell... All the supports you see from many quarters condemning the man may have something attached to it. Someone is going to benefit from the whole thing if he/she succeeded in winning other people's support.

Hotice085:
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Olodo of the highest, as long as she used her mouth a man is only to use his mouth and never to punch a woman
Are you a woman beater get ready for prison anytime soon

Make sure you expand that prison the more because more men who cannot take nonsense attitudes from women are warming up...
Pray you never married a bad woman... You should do yourself a favour to find out certain secrets of majority of marriages that collapsed and those that are still standing... You will find out that 75% of standing marriages are where the women molest and abuse their husbands leaving them as slaves at home.
The 25% that cry out are where the men say enough is enough! Because women are fragile, any little beating shows up on their bodies which easily attract sympathy. The body of the man is thick and hide so many physical assaults they got at home from their wives.
As a man, it is very difficult to come outside to tell the story of your wife's maltreatment on you at home. Even the women themselves will make jest of you when they hear it. Domestic violence is bad, but let there be fair judgement so that the offender could be punished, not the person with a bigger wound.

Gospel2Day:
All his members should demand his suspension, or they should quit his church.

Just like that? Justice says actions are weighed according to intentions... Pastors are humans and when unduly overstretched can react in very bad ways. As you keep yourself so are they trying to keep themselves.
The Church members were not zombies and cannot because of your crappy advice leave the Church or suspend their Pastor... The

Malory:
Crap journalism. Nobody cares to ask what the wife did. I bet the man just woke up and started beating his wife without provocation.

You're right there... Nobody is asking what happened, but all are pouring insults on the man... What of if what you see has a different storyline from the side of the man? Think on what could make a Pastor of a Church to lose his temper in that manner... The woman could have really overstepped... The business of the world is to attack and pull down the Church of God, because the Church is against anything worldly. The plan of the world on the Church will never come to pass.
You can imagine hearing something from one angle and immediately pass judgement...! We need to hear from the Pastor first and know exactly what transpired.
The Osinachi's case everybody has been referring to is still under investigation by the police but the average Nigerian has already condemned the man to hellfire without first hearing from him.
I am yet to see fair hearing from that case... I need to hear the man speak to the public the way so many people were allowed to speak, including the Minister of Women Affairs.
Domestic violence is bad no matter from which anger it comes - man or woman! You cannot because of sentiments you knock the head instead of the anus the gave out the foul odour...! Let's be well guided to make this world a better place.

Let truth be told, in 75% of marriages the world over, it is women that abuse men. One issue with men is that they feel very ashamed of themselves to speak out. Even the society will never trust or respect you as a man if they know that you are a weakling who is being controlled by a woman.
The 25% that remains are where men have upper hand. Women are highly vocal and shameless to wash their dirty linens in public. They can open their mouth in the public to vomit almost every secret of their home.
Women's voices attract sympathy easily, but not a man's voice. Even your closest friend can never believe you. Go to families, take your time to interview the children, you'll be shocked at what will be exposed of the woman's lifestyle in the homes.
Women don't keep homes, only the men do, no matter what happened.
Let's be very careful in attending to women issues more than we do to the men.

It is in the wake of the Easter festivities that I opened my mailbox to see the message Sterling Bank sent out the two their custmers...

Guess what? They added mockery to the Easter celebrations by alluding that Jesus rose like agege bread... I don't know, if I am the only one that saw the message...

Why should an organization like Sterling Bank make mockery of the Easter celebrations?

Throwback:
Maybe he meant DSS employees who are Igbo?




A certain narcissistic mad man once promised to make Nigeria worse than Somalia. He also reminded his zombified disciples to burn down the zoo if they hear that he has been re-arrested due to his ongoing trial.

Now just a few years later, his region is competing with Somalia as a failed society without order and ridden with all manner of crime, while same region has become the zoo that is being burnt by those he put under oath.

All who were parroting his propaganda and threats are now begging Nigeria and Buhari to rescue them from a self-inflicted terrorism. They have suddenly forgotten that Buhari is dead and the President is Jubril al Sudani. They have forgotten that the Queen of England wrote a condolence letter.

Immortal clowns!

The ones who we wrongly thought possessed sound education to counter the hatred and misinformation, stayed quiet and even joined to chorus the insanities that were peddled by IPOB. If they were not busy analysing pictures, they would be demanding for Buhari to remove his cap, or asking the whereabout of Osinbajo.

Now that they are tired of their own propaganda and conspiracy theories which included blaming the DSS, they have now wisened up after personal and tragic interactions with the terrorists who look and speak like them.

They have now become the "Unity Beggers" knowing that they are disposable victims to satisfy a mad man's desire to command loyalty and criminally usurp power that he is not willing to pursue democratically.

I pity you for this thrash... Even your area is not free from things like this. It is not only in the Eastern part of Nigeria. Cry for yourself and look for something better to do. Your present status is degrading.
Name any part of Nigeria that is free from such ugly news. You found your voice because jealousy has consumed you. You can never overtake them by being their enemy, just stoop down humbly and they will teach you how to live a successful life even when you're hated. Hate or love the IGBO, they remain the greatest anywhere you go...!

FLASHBACK: Recall thar it was Femi Adesina, the Presidential Spokesman under President Buhari, who boasted that Nigeria would stop importing Fuel By 2019. It was this same Femi who came on air the other day to tell Nigerians that "heaven will not fall because of fuel scarcity under their watch.

During the build up of this administration, Femi Adesina boosted that the country would stop importation and exportation of petroleum products by 2019.

Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Adesina had said that the importation and exportation of fuel had a high effect on the lingering fuel crisis because the country did not produce the product locally and the refineries did not work, which made room for little hitches in the inflow.

Femi Adesina said: “When you import fuel and do not produce fuel locally or the refineries do not work once in a while fuel scarcity should be expected, as long as you have those variables not under your total control you can’t rule that out,” he said. The presidential spokesperson explained that the then Minister of State For Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachukwu, had drawn “a timetable leading to 2019; part of the plan is that Nigeria would stop importing but exporting.”

Realizing that he has delved into something bigger than him and which he has no explanations to, the same Femi resorted to giving Nigerians another form of encouragement and hope. He said "Nigerians would survive the current fuel scarcity". How?

Adesina said heavens would not fall over the current fuel scarcity and Nigerians will survive like always. What this means to me is that Femi is now incapacitated and has run out of ideas. The Turin of lies are no longer working... The presidential aide recalled that Nigerians had experienced a similar situation in the past and they survived. Meaning that the government he is serving has no solution to the age-long problem which is one of reasons they were voted into power.

Adesina’s article reads partly: “It’s obviously not the easiest of times in our country currently, what with severe fuel scarcity exacerbating the other existential challenges we have been coping with.

“In some areas, there’s no fuel, no electricity, thus translating to a severe energy crisis

“There were cases of bad fuel before in this country. We slept for days, weeks on end at petrol stations, queuing for fuel. We survived. We will survive again. Las las.”

Hmmmm, Nigerians whoever did this to us will never die well. Take a cursory look at the employment level in Nigeria today. This administration has taught us a new system of employing staff into public offices. They call it REPLACEMENT. This is a situation whereby those calling the shots in this political space are called upon to bring or submit the names of their wards, sons, relations, etc to replace names of people on retirement, those who died in office, or those that switched offices.

Concerning the unemployment rate in the country which the National Bureau of Statics released a data saying that unemployment has increased in the 3rd quarter of 2017, Adesina said that there was an increase agricultural sector especially rice farming, mining and solid minerals.

He further explained that shortly after the Buhari-led administration came into power the country entered into recession and oil prices went down but within a year the country came out of recession, he added that as the economy starts to settle gradually jobs that were lost will be regained.

So, where are we now? I do not care about any other person but I am mindful of Mr. Femi and how he has become what he is today.

Another election is around the corner... People are warming up with how to deceive Nigerians and get to power. The political parties are coming up with certain amount of money for their forms purchase. I hear that one put its own at N40 million. If you want to fight corruption, remove the high amount and put it to say, N50,000 or N100,000 so that people who have what it takes to rule Nigeria can afford it.

Higher amount for form purchase is still meant for the thieves and criminals among us. Or you are opening another doors for criminals to sponsor good people and at the end control their government. They call it INVESTMENT. When that happens, they will appoint the likes of my friend Femi to defend them. My people, who is fooling who? My concerns here in this government is about people like my friend Femi, who will still come back to the society to condemn ills of a ruling government or the past ones.

This is purely selfishness... Must we promise and defend lies?

Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu the husband of Bianca once slapped Umaru Dikko for speaking unruly to him. It was during a Constitutional Conference of the Sani Abacha military regime. Ojukwu was calm when Dikko was spewing thrash but later followed him to the toilet where Dikko went to ease himself and slapped the hell out of him.
Dikko quickly pulled a call to Abacha but the Head of State did not say a word neither did he give any funny command. Dikko was humbled and went back to his seat quietly and remained speechless all through the period.
Bianca replicated the same thing by that high profile slap.

It was in the Bible that we read: "Teach us to number our days and apply our hearts unto wisdom". It is noteworthy that wisdom is the principal thing to get. Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding are three words of a kind, too related but distinct from another. The possession of one leads to the other.

In our school days, so many information was passed to us. Making use of those information depends on how we were able to understand and appropriate them. Those who took time to understand are few an those who applied the information they understood are fewer. Information was generally passed, few people got it, few people understood it and fewer people applied it. You see, the Bible described wisdom as proper application of knowledge (information).

When we were younger, we learned a lot of poems, rhymes, etc by heart and many of them made no meanings to us then. Growing up we began to see meanings to some of those things we sang in songs some of them badly pronounced. We began to read meanings to certain actions we took and feel very ashamed that we actually did things like that.

Many of the teachers we hated in those days will be carried above our shoulders today should we have the opportunity of seeing them again. But so unfortunate, many of them have passed on and the few that are alive cannot be located for appreciation. I still can remember going to school with my Bata Shoe (Curtina) which doesn't take a turn to get lost. I still remember being told to go to school barefoot because I was careless with my school canvas. I remember my white upon green shorts which white turns to brown after two washings.

Hmmmm, you all understand where I am coming from... Our English Readers impacted a lot to many of us. I still remember how most of the books in our school libraries were shared to us for the purpose of reading and returning same. I still remember how the government through the Universal Basic Education (UBE) stopped the supply of books to our school libraries and we were made to buy our books individually.

As an indigene of Imo State, I witnessed the building of Imo Airport under the then governor, Dr. Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe. As pupils, we were levied. We paid Airport Levy after our school fees. I also paid what the then government called Survival Levy. After payments, receipts were given to us. I can still find mine. That apart, I paid Consolidated Equipment Fee. I also paid Caution Fee, etc.

With all these payments, the schools were not made better. School children are still without the best education. Strikes are still being embarked upon. Government is not being reasonable. Quality education has been flown to the wind. In secondary schools, I witnessed a lot of rot that brought discouragements to a lot of people. They called it a quit and joined business. It's still not the solution as the business world is also corrupt. There was extortion of different sorts. During WAEC/GCE examinations, we started hearing about the word EXPO. I saw people jumping fences, climbing walls in order to DELIVER as agreed.

None of these has ended the suffering in the land. These same people graduated into the Ministries and its Parastatals. A good number of them are in politics. They are Governors, House of Assembly Members, Senators, Judicial Members, Journalists, House of Representative Members, Police, Army, Paramilitary, Presidents and Vice Presidents. They are making laws that they cannot keep or obey, but they are passing judgements on little offenders, jailing and killing them.

Today, Carpenters are heading the Education Ministries. Mechanics are working in the hospitals. With their screwdrivers and spanners they are killing their patients and dumping them in the morgues. Police, Army and other recruitments are now used to settle political friends. And so they are used against political enemies. Human life does not matter any more. Blood flows every day, and these bloods are speaking and crying against those who spill them. Old men that were in the Ministries when I was in Primary School are still there either as full time or part time workers while their graduate children are without jobs. Fake people have taken over the religious space. They no longer talk about God or how to do good.

To make matters worse, the government of the day is looking away when those who struggled individually to rise in business are left to suffer societal injustices. The petty farmers' produce are forcefully fed to the cattle and the farmer raped or killed if he/she tries to resist. The government has borrowed away the brains of its subjects and made them slaves to Shylock money lenders. Many good people have died as a result. No respite in sight. No one can receive a grant again. Every dime is a loan and you must pay back, when many of them are feeding fat from government purses.

One thing most people especially those in government failed to know is that Obi is no longer a boy, while Ada should now be a mother with children. That same Chike we read about in the Reader might no longer be the river boy. He might probably be a Marine Engineer. That same Edet might no longer live in Calabar but might have moved to Canada.

The Eze that was going to school at that time might have been a graduate by now. Today is different from yesterday. Things are changing and very fast too. My "Macmillian English" in those days must have been revised many times over to accommodate the present trend.

Whatever you're doing, be rest assured that records are kept. God is watching everyone and must pay each person according to his/her works. It's time to look back and be wise...

I have heard so many religious people condemn pool betting, lotteries, gaming, etc., yet there are a lot gambling going on in the business world in the name of investment.

Here are some instances. Stockbrokers can have the privilege of observing that some stocks can rise and go all high in 12 hours or more and investors make several tons of profit on paper but in the next five minutes, a change in the market could lead to a trend and result in the crash of a particular stock and investors lose a lot of money. People who keyed into the initial offering of the stock would have their profits rolling but late time investors may not be able to even get as much as their capitals back. Now, that's with stocks.

Recently, in a company, some privileges that investors could get in terms of ROI were removed and the company restructured some of its offerings. For example, as an investor, just two weeks back you could key into one of the company’s investment plans that earns you a 40% return in 13 months but now, you can only earn 35% in 12 months. Investors who partnered with this company when this offering was available still have their seeds germinating towards maturity in the 40% ROI category but new investors have the option of 35% now or choose another plan completely say, the 75% return in 24 months.

To me, I see investing one’s money as trying a form of gambling. If this is not the case, I need to understand it clearly what difference is there between gambling and investment. It’s a bit confusing…

AntiChristian:
You should be sued for invasion of privacy! Are you trying to defile the bed?

You're interfering in the other room turf despite the warning!

Interesting... Did the Bible forbid me from sitting on someone's bed?

Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage (i.e. marriage outside the clan) is forbidden.

As a Christian, What is Your Personal View as Regards Levirate Marriage? Is there any Biblical support for this?