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If this hate speech bill is passed, Nairaland would be the first resort. They will track IP addresses and pick people up and hang them to death.


So you people better start watching ya comments, especially the Igbos and Yorubas. They finna kill all of you.

Primitive is an understatement for most people in the North. This country would remain in the stone age so long we remain in this contraption called Nigeria. It's so unfortunate.

Southerners cannot face off with these people. Saw a piece of old news where weapons were seized from northern thugs. I swear only products of the devil can produce such demonic looking weapons just to carry out atrocities.

The most baffling part of this scourge is how these people still go through harsh conditions just to cross into Europe after paying thousands of euros. It's just so sad. the same way our people keep thronging into Libya despite the gory tales that told by survivors.

The country needs an entire overhauling.

Mahmood Yakubu should not be fully blamed. We as a people need to do better too.

Women should be celebrated. Their capabilities are really underrated

Good PR for Man U after yesterday's defeat

By Festus Adedayo

As it became clear that former Vice President of Nigeria and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the just-concluded election, Atiku Abubakar, was kissing the electoral canvass, Reno Omokri, the combative spokesman to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, made a submission on the voting trend of the election, his thumbs gleefully held high for the South West of Nigeria. As I will submit presently, Omokri’s commendatory dissection of voters’ performance in the election was premature and a very peremptory reading of the calamitous political footpath the South West region trod in the said election.

Omokri had said: “Yorubas proved again that they are the most sophisticated voters in Nigeria. … Notice how Yoruba voters gave their votes to PDP even though APC has a Yoruba VP. I doff my hat to the Yoruba nation…The voting pattern of the Yoruba in this election shows that merit is more important to them than ethnicity. Other regions have to learn from them. In terms of political maturity and tolerance, they are light years ahead of other regions,” he had said.

As usual, Omokri had unflattering strictures for the All Progressives Party, (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and ultimately, President Muhammadu Buhari. The election results showed that the PDP won in Oyo, erstwhile capital of the Western region, in Ondo, home of Awolowo’s successor to Yoruba leadership, Adekunle Ajasin, with APC managing a win by the whiskers in Lagos, Osun and winning only convincingly in Ekiti and Ogun State, the latter where Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the APC establishment had been up in arms against the man who swung the votes for the party, Ibikunle Amosun. In fact, the total number of winning votes that the region gave the APC was scarcely higher than the votes Ebonyi State gave the party.

Before venturing into the voting trend and its calamitous implications, it is very apposite here to begin with the attitude of voters in the said election. Of course, the people have not woken from their bewilderment at the huge number of electors credited to the northern part of Nigeria. It began right from the first national election in Nigeria, down to the 1959 elections. In the latter election, immortal Obafemi Awolowo, had introduced some glitz into campaign through penetrating the nooks and crannies of the North with an helicopter. By doing that, he literally forced Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, to wake up from his political lethargy and campaign round the whole of the region. He arrived one day with the whole of his face covered in soot and spitting out dust-sauced phlegm, vowing he would never forgive Awo for subjecting him to such stress. Right from then, the northern voting trend had always been in issue. This particular election was no exception. Kano and Katsina, for instance, had electors totaling about 3.5 million, while in the whole of Lagos, about a million turned out to vote. It was the same sorry tale in virtually all the South West states.

If you went round many of the South West states during the election, the apathy, the I-don’t-care attitude that permeated the region was legendary. Apart from a benumbing, far between statistics of those who exercised their franchise, many of the youth, women and particularly the elite in the region, saw the day as a day of rest from the hustle and bustle of their various engagements. They sat back at home, watching the latest movies. On many streets, youth of voting age converted the tarred roads into football pitches and struggled to clone Ronaldo with the whole of their grits. Those who confronted them on why they declined to exercise their franchise were shell-shocked. What is our business with the election? Most of them thundered off-handedly. Conversely however, reports said that most of the electors in the north trooped out to vote as early as 6am.

This is why the so-called South West elders and political parties in the region deserve huge sjambok on their buttocks. Apparently convinced that they would rig the elections, the leaders spent less time to educate the huge population in the region on the crucifix which abstaining from the polling booths symptomized. And they are at home with the vain braggadocio and self-adulation of being “the most sophisticated electors” in Nigeria. Absolute nonsense. The north is the sophisticated elector. Watch your neighbourhood; the malamselling petty groceries, your shoe shiner and the ones selling cucumber and water melon disappeared from view a few days before the election. They all travelled home to exercise their franchise. South West’s own voting majority sat at home, watching the latest African Magic offering on television. Yet they expected magic at the polls. And they cry blue murder that the North posted an unbelievably huge population of voters.

The maisuya by the roadside has a transistor radio by his side, listening to VOA Hausa, Radio France and the BBC. He is well informed about what is happening, not only in Nigeria but all over the world – delivered in his native Hausa. His sophistication is strengthened by a thirst to participate in the electoral exercise. And yet the West as a zone revels itself in the vacuous inanity of sophistication. Yoruba’s pseudo leaders were at peace with themselves, gallivanting in an old glory which the Awolowos bequeathed to the race. Their own bequeathals are the legacy of bullion vans parked by the frontage of their home and the self-peacocking boast that a state doesn’t have their kind of personal ill-gotten wealth. Yet, parodying Americans, we see the bucks but we can’t see the shop.

I may be wrong but whoever has closeness with those parading themselves as South West leaders should warn them that there is, as the Yoruba say, danger in Longe’s farmland. Not only is the danger present in the dwindling epitome of their political relevance, it is also present in the withering place of the Yoruba people in the general construct. If there is anything that was glaring in that election, it is that the highly shouted relevance of Asiwaju and his alleged invincible electoral machine were totally absent from it like Baal, the god of the Siddonians. A new set of Turks seems to be commanding the heights of their people’s destiny. Kayode Fayemi shellacked PDP renegades in Ekiti without Tinubu’s interference. Perhaps the most outstanding was Ogun’s Amosun. Harangued on all fronts by the Acheullian impudence and arrogance of Adams Oshiomhole and Tinubu’s underground destructive machinery, Amosun not only posted an impressive win for himself, he single-handedly got Buhari victory in his state. Tinubu’s crew in Ogun – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (who lost in his Lagos polling booth), Segun Osoba and even Dapo Abiodun who till now hasn’t told the world where his degree certificate is marooned, all couldn’t withstand Ibikunle’s apparent massive electoral machinery and sagacity. He talks less but wangles his political machine past his traducers with a comprehensive finish.

What the presidential election result means for the West is that it cannot claim acquaintance with, nor wholeheartedly dance to the victory song of the presidential election. Perhaps the words attributed to Buhari on Friday where he was said to have asked his ministers where they would have been if he had lost the election, should have been directed at Tinubu and his band of impostors in the West. The so-called West’s son, Osinbajo, it is apparent, would be enjoying a presidency which his people contributed little or nothing to. Asiwaju’s usual gallivant to the Villa would be decidedly curtailed by this apparent lackluster performance. Any arrant northerner can easily tell him to shut his traps if he waves an entitlement. If the region is given Minister of Toilet Matters, it has passable locus to complain and Buhari has the latitude to pick virtually all his team from Daura, Kano or even succumb to the temptation of going overboard to appoint as his minister one of those governors from Niger Republic present at his campaign.

Asiwaju is the architect of this destructive political dissonance in the West today and should be held culpable for its dwindling lot. He sowed the seed of this discord right there in Ondo State in the 2016 gubernatorial election. Glaringly, he subverted all known norms of party politics by financing Olusola Oke under the banner of the Alliance for Democracy to vie for the election, basing this political faux pas on his tiff with Rotimi Akeredolu. He was abetted by thealagabagebe (hypocrisy) exponent, Rauf Aregbesola, who himself is the greatestalagabagebe today in Yoruba politics. The Osunalagabagebe donated one of his aides as Oke’s deputy. Asiwaju tried same in Ekiti and failed. With this, those who saw through thisagabagebe politics got lionized. They thus conversely attempted to give him a dose of his medicine in Osun.

Now the Fulani and the North in general will show Asiwaju that he doesn’t know the colour of politics. By not seeking the resolution of West’s crisis from its teething stage, his rump has been exposed to the whole world. The disgraceful loss of the APC in the West and the neither-cold-nor-hot voting trends for the two big political parties at the presidential election will constitute the West’s nemesis. South East went through a single filing, which is great. Collaterally, the West will suffer from this. It cannot lay claim to the same juices of government appointments it held on to between 2015 and now.

Lagos’ votes may well be symptomatic of the autumn of the Asiwaju’s political influence and political relevance. For Asiwaju’s APC to have purportedly defeated the PDP in Lagos with about 132,810 votes is a cry similar to that of the day of Armageddon. That is with alleged burning and stealing of ballot boxes in Igbo people-dominated places where the PDP was allegedly leading. The PDP claims that, rather than that result posted by INEC, the behemoths at the electoral commission actually connived with the vultures in APC to have 100,000 added to APC’s figures and 100,000 deducted from its.

If I were Asiwaju, Fayemi and Amosun will be two persons I will seek out of the heap this moment. Amosun has shown that in spite of the gang-ups of the Ananias and Saphirras of this world in the APC, he is a master-tactician and a political colossus, single-handedly winning the most unexpected quantum of votes for Buhari in the region. No wonder Buhari is clinging to him. Conversely, Asiwaju’s poster boys in the South West, Senator Abiola Ajimobi in Oyo State and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, former governor of Osun State, lost their respective senatorial districts to the PDP. For the Jagaban, good home training forbids one from predicting a politicalnunc dimittis. Or is it?

https://www.makeitglobal.biz/opinion/south-wests-fatal-leap/

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could be LA CHUPA CABRA



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When 66-year-old, Valentine Obi Okereh quit the civil service, he turned to entrepreneurship as he set up his real estate business.

But in 2014, this father of seven was diagnosed with prostrate cancer. And this has worsened over the years. Not only has it affected his physical well- being but also his business which is now folded up.

According to the World Health Organisation, cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. It accounts for estimated 9.6million deaths in 2018.

Of the figure, prostate cancer represents an estimate of 1.28 million. Prostate cancer is the disease of the prostrate – a small walnut shaped gland in men that produces the seminal fluid which nourishes and transports sperm.

Okereh who is appealing to Nigerians to help him raise N7.5 million to be treated in India, tells makeitglobal.biz his story.

“ Mine is an unfortunate incident. In 2014, I started having difficulties trying to urinate. I often strained whenever I tried urinating. Well, I didn’t take it lying low, I had to go to the hospital to complain. At the hospital, I was asked to take a series of tests which confirmed that I had prostate cancer. My prostate was enlarged.”

Since he was diagnosed in 2014, Okereh commenced treatment. Not only did he spend a lot on tests, he also spent a huge sum on drugs and even surgery. Due to his ailment, his business died gradually.


Sample of tests

Continuing with the story of his ordeal, Okereh says:

“ I have been on drugs, lots of expensive drugs. There is this particular injection I take every three months. The cost is N155,000 just for one injection. I started taking this injection since 2016 and its been on till date.”

Late last year, the battle for Okereh intensified.
“Suprisingly, last year, the problem escalated and I had to rush back to my doctor because I was passing out blood as urine. You can imagine the kind of excruciating pain I was in.
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Again, he was asked to take a test, the result of which showed that the cancer was resisting treatment.



“From the test, we discovered that the disease was resisting treatment and once the disease is resisting treatment.

“The result of the test also shows that the cancer has spread to my bladder. There were tumors in my bladder.

“ The doctors said that urgent steps should be taken now to ensure that it does not spread to vital other vital parts of the body like the kidney, liver and spleen”, he says.

“Please I am calling on well meaning Nigerians to come to my aid. I still have a lot to do in life. I sincerely ask for your help.”

His wife, Agatha who was a trader had to stop her business to care for her husband. She also pleads with Nigerians to help her husband.

“I would never wish this to happen to my enemy.
“ I believe God that I would not lose my husband to cancer, please help us, ” she says.

Nigerians willing to help Okereh can send their contributions to:

ACCOUNT NAME: OKEREH VALENTINE OBILOR

ACCOUNT NO: 2007457346

BANK: UBA

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You can stay in N9igeria, carry out a feasibility study to know the kind of business that would favour you heavily. As doomed as this country seems, there are millions of people still making it big. Better than a foreign land that you cant reclaim anything should the shit hit the fan.

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Now that we have cast our votes in the presidential and National Assembly elections, results trickling in in droves and we patiently await their final outcome, what next? This is a question that should agitate the mind of every Nigerian this hour. This particular election has come and gone but it leaves in its trail indelible imprints that have very consequential implications for us as a people. In terms of the setback it has given Nigeria and Nigerians, the negative cost cannot be imagined. Yes, in a couple of days from now, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will announce the winner of the elections, but will the collateral damage we suffered in emotions, the human casualties, the enmities and hate we infected one another with in the course of advocating where we stand, get any redemption as a result of the results.

In terms of fatalities, a group of 70 civil society organizations (CSOs), the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, was quoted to have reported a spiral in politically-motivated killings in the period leading up to the elections. Clement Nwankwo, convener of the organization, said reports across the country show that over 260 Nigerians were killed since the commencement of election campaigns in Nigeria from October 2018 till date. In Borno, a couple of days ago, Boko Haram insurgents also laid ambush to Governor Kashim Shettima’s convoy, killing 60 people, the elections ostensibly at the core of the mindless bloodshed. The casualties were providence’s own way of showing the ephemerality of our electoral pursuits and how death, the leveler, reduces all our earthly aspirations into mere hubris.

The period leading to yesterday was a very trying moment for Nigeria. Granted that elections have always riven people apart, even in democracies that are far advanced than ours, this particular one was spectacular for its divisiveness. Hate speeches flew in the air like pestilence. Politicians stabbed and jabbed one another like miscreants trying to outsmart one another to a stolen chewing gum. Insults and recriminations were freely flung on the streets. Brothers turned against brothers; sisters against themselves and the air of mutual dissent so thick that you could cut a slice off it. Neighbours, suspicious of where the other stood on this momentous journey to choosing who leads Nigeria henceforth to 2023, outdid one another in mutual acts of self-destruction. While all these went on, politicians shouldered heavy sleaze money into their personal accounts, consolidating where they stood and where they will stand in case the chess game which to them election represents, go in their favour. You will be shocked to hear that many of the political parties had already shared governmental positions, even before election.

On the list of the casualties we suffered as a people on the road to the election was the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. The Nigerian judiciary, whose respect and worth had suffered terrible bashes in decades, was finally hit by a cyclone of unimaginable proportion. A few weeks ago, the CJN was flung in the dock like an ordinary felon, castrated no doubt by politics and perhaps, greed. Politics because it was obvious that if Onnoghen had stood in amity with his traducers, he would today be enjoying the comfort of the maggots alleged to surround his hallowed stool. Greed because, either rightly or wrongly, those unearthed maggots oozing out of the CJ’s robe are too disgusting to countenance. But for politics that blinded the presidency’s sense of judgment, methinks details of the maggots ought to have been secretly waved in Onnoghen’s face at a tete-a-tete with the president and thereafter asked to honourably step down, rather than this global tar-brush of Nigeria and its highest echelon of justice.

Two major indices – economy and corruption – were high on the cards. Perhaps because of the parlous economy and the promise or mis-promise of redemption of the country by politicians, Nigerians canvassed where they stood on the political divides with vigour unprecedented. I submit that Nigeria was nowhere located in the equation of electoral consideration as we went into the election yesterday. As federalists always maintain, due to the pseudo federal practice in Nigeria since the collapse of the First Republic, Nigeria has become, borrowing the inscrutable quote of President Muhammadu Buhari, a country for everyone but for no one in particular. In the election that just held, people merely sought the political leader who would change the grueling course of their personal experience of excruciating pains in the hands of a cumulative badly run Nigerian economy.

So also was corruption a very potent referent of decision-making. Trust politicians: though they are the most culpable in the corruption cycle we found ourselves, it was convenient for them to turn around to make same issue a major campaign mantra. Nigerians will be thoroughly shocked if they find out that corruption pervaded the two camps which attempted to beatify themselves publicly in exchange for the people’s votes. Those who were once in government seeking the people’s nod to come back and those who are current tenants of power, no pun intended, have sold their hearts to the biblical Mammon, whose seat of empire is Nigeria, for pittance, so much that they are irredeemably sworn to offer propitiations to this god. When you hear them promise the electorate to fight or stamp out corruption, that statement itself is a very corrupt cliché that should earn its author a judicial sentence. Pardon the heresy: the clay with which providence created the Nigerian politician is watered with the trough of corruption.

One very commendable trait Nigerians demonstrated in the period leading to the election was the vociferous defence of their political stand. A news report a couple of months back was to the effect that a man divorced his wife for supporting Buhari. Because of where they stood, cudgels have been wielded by otherwise gentlemen against one another. The social media, during this period, did the most irreparable damage to the psyche and emotions of Nigerians. Though some of the views were traded due to their political affiliations, there were thousands of people who stood to gain nothing personally from the win of either of the candidates but who fought for them as if their lives depended on it. Sabre-rattling of the most corrosive hue flew right, left and center on the social media; ingenuous and creative posts were made to either demonize or odorize the two presidential contenders – Buhari and Atiku Abubakar. Anyone who supported the former was saint and supporters of the latter were messengers of corruption. Shunned of the low level of hatred and intolerance exhibited, the canvass of politicking was actually desirable, demonstrating how feelings for and against right and wrong were deep-seated in the hearts of Nigerians.

Wherever the electoral pendulum swings in a few days’ time as INEC announces the winner of the election, we will all suffer the consequences of our electoral decisions. If Abubakar is announced president of Nigeria and he begins to play Ali Baba and his gang of thieves on the Nigerian economy, we will suffer the collateral damage arising from our decision to elect him. If, on the reverse, Buhari is elected and he continues to foist on us his Stone Age despotism and crude nepotism, none of us will run to Ghana or Niger Republic; we will all be here and weather the hell of our decision. When you look at the vultures hovering round the two presidential candidates, you will be sorry for Nigeria. These are tested leeches, blood-sucking vermin and naira-thirsty hounds thirsty to devour the Nigerian economy; who will murder their father and rope their mother without batting an eyelid. America is today suffering the consequences of her own decision to vote as president, one of the most divisive American ever, a man who has exposed to the whole world the underbelly and gross limitations of White House’s hitherto held impregnable leadership constitution.

Head or tail, as Nigerians, we cannot run away from the aftermath of the decision we took yesterday. If, conversely, either of Buhari and Abubakar becomes president and Nigeria turns a new leaf for good, with a booming economy and prosperity as consort, her battered integrity suddenly retrieved from the Hades where we flung it and the vermin that daily suck our economy driven to Siberia, we will remember yesterday and be proud of our decision. If you ask me, I don’t see the latter happening. We have voted one of two people whose presence on the ballot box is a calamity ab initio. The UK Guardian put our choice succinctly recently: One between an infernal despot – and I add, a man with a Stone Age understanding of economy and development; and a thief (whether real or imagined). As I have once said however, it would have been self-defeatist or escapist to refrain from voting yesterday. We must choose between these two thrown on our laps by the Nigerian electoral system. So we voted a candidate who, in our very subjective and most times, myopic view (because we are actually not privy to details of the private and public composition of these two aspirants to the presidency of Nigeria, which would have made us take informed stand) will, as the street lingo says, butter our bread.

No matter where the pendulum of the presidential election swings, the Nigerian electorate, throughout the pendency of the campaign and election, demonstrated a deep hunger and commitment to what it believed in. The social media, for instance, was a very fertile ground for the articulation of that thirst. This was however manifested in very crude and most times, incoherent manner. If only the country could be at the base of such thirst for a good society, Nigeria would be on its way to becoming a better country. This is why, not minding whoever gets the nod of INEC to lead Nigeria for the next four years, we must harvest that same thirst, that same articulation and channel them towards a better society. It is only then that the offerings of the last few months of electioneering would not be a waste.



Osinbajo, Adewole and their kill-me-quick placeboo

Ace Yoruba comedian, Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe, has been battling an undisclosed ailment for a while now. Apparently unable to contain the slide in his health and an unavailable cash to keep him alive, his family and friends recently cried out to the public for help. Aside his colleagues in the film industry who came to his aid, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was quoted to have given him reprieve by donating a million naira to the fund raise to restore Omidina back to good health. A few days ago, Baba Suwe was wheeled to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on a federal government medical intervention, ostensibly packaged by the minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole.

We must thank government and government officials who intervene on behalf of vulnerable members of society when they are hit by life’s acrid and piercing arrow of ill health but I submit that this intervention is leaving a more serious affliction of leprosy and seeking to treat a seemingly similar affliction of eczema. We do not need anyone to tell us that access to healthcare in Nigeria is as difficult as a cow seeking to enter the eye of a needle. While hospitals have slid from the mere consulting centres which 1980s coupists claimed was reason for their hijacking political power from politicians, into mortuaries, the only prayer one should diligently offer to one’s creator is not to have cause to be taken to any Nigerian public hospital. Equipment are far between and where they are, are Acheullian age-old and qualified personnel are fleeing the hospitals for greener pastures abroad. Governments at all tiers of government prefer to invest in elephant projects where they can siphon billions of naira, leaving hospitals to decay and gather moss.

Only recently, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha shocked the world when she said that even at the Aso Rock Clinic, mere syringe and Panadol were as rare as elephant grass in the desert. One would have thought that this government clinic would be used as a pilot scheme of what first class medicare should look like, so that the president won’t spend hard-earned public money in the United Kingdom. The same story is obtainable in virtually all state hospitals. Doctors’ morale is at the nadir and they exploit every opportunity to subvert government and even their patients. This is why, apart from the absence of thoroughness in all sphere of the Nigerian life that has also afflicted Nigerian hospitals, the incidence of wrong prognosis and the usual apathy of a typical Nigerian worker to work have conspired to make patients of hospitals victims of a system that values its own people seldom. Many people have been killed due to wrong diagnosis in Nigerian hospital.

So when Osinbajo reportedly gave Baba Suwe a million naira and the minister of health organized free entry for the comedian to access “first class” treatment at LUTH, unfortunately, they are both merely treating placebo and backtracking from the real societal ailment. Rather, they should constitute the building block of a revolution in power to return Nigerian hospitals to what they were pre-and immediately after the Nigerian independence. Our compatriots die daily in those hospitals due to avoidable ailments.

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May the best man win. Politics is not for the fainthearted.


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There's nothing accidental about that shooting. I clearly heard that animal corking his gun before shooting the victim, I really do hope justice prevails. This is the highest level of barbarism

When the phrase “air pollution” pops up anywhere, most people tend to limit it to the harmful gases that are suspended into the air due to various human activities.

Whether you are in an enclosed space or in the open, the air around is prone to poisonous elements such as Carbon monoxide.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) otherwise known as “the silent killer” is a poisonous, colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. CO poisoning typically occurs from breathing it in at excessive levels. It causes severe damage in the body as it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain, and other vital organs of oxygen.

CO is produced by devices that burn fuels. Therefore, any fuel-burning appliance or machine in your home is a potential CO source. A commonly used machine in an average Nigerian home is the Generator. Given the epileptic situation of the country’s electricity supply, it is not uncommon to find generators in every household and business place.

However, the awareness on the dangers of inhaling this gas seems not to be enough as news of people getting killed by this toxic air is still being reported in the media. CO poisoning remains a major health issue that is underestimated in Nigeria.

The popular Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos, an information and Communication Technology hub, is one place many businessmen and traders have to rely on noisy and smoky generators to run their operations.

There is little left to the imagination on how CO poisoning is trivialised as every shop owner has generating sets, whether big or small.

Given the overpopulation of the tech hub, it is not hard to see that the air in that environment is as toxic as the word itself. When the electricity supply is cut, all shop owners power their generators to keep the business running.


“I don’t think most of the shop owners here realise how dangerous the smoke coming out of generators are. Look at that corner, you see how cramped up it is? I can bet you that all the shops there have ‘I better pass my neighbour’ generators. They will never hear. I once told a man who faced his generator’s exhaust pipe into his shop that it is bad for him to be inhaling that thing. His response was ‘one thing must kill a man’. The funny thing is even if someone here dies of inhaling that smoke, they still wouldn’t believe it. They would still think it is a spiritual attack from a competitor”, a shop owner who identified himself as Tochi revealed.

“The symptoms of CO poisoning commonly include headache, dizziness, weakness, vomiting, chest pain and flu-like symptoms. That is why it is easy to dismiss them as the effect of the gas poisoning because the symptoms I mentioned are also related to other illnesses. I think the government needs to do better on sensitising the citizens on the dangers of inhaling carbon monoxide and the kinds of machines that emit them. Since it is colourless and mostly mixes with other gases, it is difficult to tell which is which”, a medical doctor at Ifako Ijaiye General hospital said.

Generators should always be placed at least 20 feet away from apartments, shops or offices. It is also advised that the machines should be serviced regularly to reduce the exhaust fumes being emitted while they are being run.

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Frustrated and humbled by increasing difficult economic conditions, pervasive social anomie, breakdown of age-old value system and discipline, most Nigerian youths now find solace in drug abuse, writes Adebayo Obajemu, Contributing Editor, makeitglobal.biz

Fadairo [not real name] is 24. But he looks much older. He also looks sick. His speech is slurred, his jaw hangs, and his body is emaciated. Yet, he boasts of being a lover of African Cocktail, a sobriquet for a harmful substance.

He did not start out this way. It was his peers whom he usually hanged out with at the Crossing Bus Stop, Agbado who convinced him that mere cigarette smoking could not make him “high.” so they introduced him to a more “harmless “drug, which was codeine mixed with Fanta. He claims this makes him feel manly.

23-year-old Ibukunoluwa who looks like she is 45, is a peddler of local gin at Alakuko, a suburb of Lagos. The substance is believed by her customers to be an aphrodisiac. She is a popular figure among that area’s ruffians. She says to makeitglobal.biz that what she sells has the “capacity to make men satisfy their wives, develop business and creative ideas and be happy.” On health implications, she dismisses the claim that it is harmful. “Forget, na whiteman dey deceive una. This thing is good for my health, “she says.

But drug abuse is not limited to the young people in the streets. There are young professionals who are also slaves to this habit. Ahmed [not real name], a civil servant in one of the ministries in Lagos is 40. He says he has no taste for the “small stuff” but rather goes for the “real thing.” so he says, referring to codeine mixed with Fanta, ”

He prefers cocaine to a blend cough syrup and soda. He even peddles the drug secretly to other addicts at night at Almaroof bus stop in Agbado, in the full glare of law enforcement agents. But whenever he runs out of stock, he goes for Coca cola mixed with codeine.

Little surprise that he has started to exhibit signs such as slurred and incoherent speech, unhealthy appearance, blood-shot eyes, dilated pupils and indifference to hygiene, among other signs that betray his addiction.

Ahmed says his wife deserted him three years ago because of his addiction.

‘’She used to advise me to change, but I could not. If I did I would fall sick. The thing I regret is that I could not take care of her because my salary goes into servicing my addiction,’’ he says.

Studies have shown that use of prescription drugs is a serious problem with teenagers and young adults. According to a National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) study, a teenager is more likely to have abused a prescription drug more than an illegal street drug.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse United States of America (NIDA) explains that “the excessive use of drugs can alter important brain areas that are necessary for life-sustaining functions and can drive the compulsive drug abuse that marks addiction’’

Drug abuse
A local outlet where drugs are sold

Drugs commonly abused

Medically, Codeine is a drug normally used in the management of pain and diarrhoea. Published reports show that it is widely abused because of its potential to produce euphoria (high mood) when consumed in excess. Hence, codeine abusers consume large quantities of cough syrup containing codeine, which leads to adverse effects like dependence, tolerance, sedation and euphoria. Other adverse effects may include constipation, dizziness, vomiting, headaches and dry mouth, the reports say.

Other pain relievers, which are also sometimes abused, include morphine, pentazocine, tramadol and pethidine.

There is also paracetamol, a household name that comes in different popular brand names such as Panadol, Boska and M&B. Due to its analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory properties, paracetamol is widely used – and frequently abused – for the treatment of fever and ache. Although relatively safe, especially when compared with other painkillers, if consumed in excess, it brings adverse effects such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and rashes. Therefore, patients are usually advised to consult the doctor if symptoms persist.

Another commonly abused drug is Aspirin. Aspirin belongs to the group of drugs called Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which are often used in the treatment of migraine, menstrual pain, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and other causes of pain. The brands include Alabukun and Phensic and others. The most common adverse effect of aspirin is peptic ulcer.

Antibiotics such as tetracycline, Flagyl and Cyprotap are also widely abused in Nigeria. Taken in excess, it could cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, headache, dizziness and rashes among others. Flagyl in particular has been linked with adverse effects like loss of appetite, diarrhoea, vomiting, dizziness, headache, seizures, tremors and slurred speech.

Sedatives/Hypnotics refer to drugs commonly used in the treatment of sleep and anxiety disorders. Some of the common examples are Valium, Lexotan and so on. A prolonged use of these medications could cause respiratory depression, confusion, tolerance, dependence, visual disturbances, reduced libido (sexual drive) and headache. Interestingly, most Nigerian youths seem unaware of the danger of abusing drug.

A roll of weed
A roll of weed

Harmful substances like marijuana and cocaine are also abused.

According to a pharmacist, Adeyemi Kolapo, most of these drugs are purchased through people not licensed to sell. ‘’ You know money is the factor, and most of these abused drugs are purchased through underground channels. That is the challenge.’’

Samson Akinpelu, an alternative medicine expert says “drug abuse is a substance use disorder characterised by the use of a mood or behavior-altering substance in a maladaptive pattern resulting in significant impairment or distress, such as failure to fulfill social or occupational obligations or recurrent use in situations in which it is physically dangerous to do so or which end in legal problems, but without fulfilling the criteria for substance dependence.

“Specific disorders are named for their etiology, such as alcohol abuse and anabolic steroid abuse. DSM-IV includes specific abuse disorders for alcohol, amphetamines or similar substances, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, PCP or similar substances, and sedatives, hypnotic anxiolytics

Danger of abusing drugs

A study that examined the perception of drug abuse amongst Nigerian undergraduates living off-campus shows that most students have limited knowledge of what constitutes drug abuse.

Meanwhile, a consultant psychiatrist of the Department of Psychiatry Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi Araba Lagos, Dr Campbell Elizabeth Adebola tells makeitglobal,biz that all drugs do damage to the body, including codeine, alcohol and tramadol if they are abused.

“I have treated patients who have abused Tramadol, a pain killer of high dose of 250mg.” The doctor wonders where drug abusers get this high dose of drugs from when only hospitals are allowed to give them to patients, “he says.

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Who are advising these kids?

Sadist. Let them be. They are doing what they know how to do best.

All these back and forth over this postponement is making me irritated.





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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the Nigerian Army of steering a stealth genocide war against the people of South East.

The group accused the army of shooting to death two people in Owerri, Imo State on Monday, and abducting an unidentified number of people in Aba, Abia State.

In a statement issued by IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the group said

“The Nigerian Army is at it again. Nigerian Army is conducting a stealth genocidal war against Biafrans and it is the responsibility of the world to take note. Yesterday, they shot dead two young men in Owerri. Last night and this morning they have commenced their abduction of Biafrans in Aba. Biafrans are now the longest suffering race in human history. One day the anger will no longer be controllable and the world will wake up then to start pontificating.

“We have been made to feel that a Biafran life is worthless. Let these facts be chronicled for posterity because we shall reference them at the appropriate time. Any day we start, let the world not blame us. Those that gave the Nigerian army license to kill our people will regret and face the consequences of their action with their families.

“In spite of Biafrans being the most long-suffering people in the world, their anger is becoming uncontrollable and the world will wake up to start pontificating if they could involve in such act of carrying arms.”

IPOB called for immediate of those allegedly abducted by the army, including a husband and wife which was alleged to have been kidnapped this morning.

It also urged the world to not to blame it if IPOB decides to carry arms against the Nigerian Army and other security agencies harassing the people of South East.

“Our decision to boycott elections is an act of civil disobedience which any reasonable person ought to understand. That Nigeria is an uncivilised backward society is not the fault of IPOB. We have chosen a civilized non-violent approach but it appears Fulani Caliphate, their Jihadi Nigerian Army and Igbo Efulefus are hell bent on provoking us to pick up arms. When that eventually happens, the world should know those to hold responsible”, it said in the statement.

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Sunday’s humiliating defeat of Chelsea FC by Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City has thrown a lot of light into the failings of Sarriball, the obstinacy of Maurizio Sarri and why he is not the right person for Chelsea.

The obsession of Roman Abrahamovic, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea, to see his team play attacking football has led him to hire and fire managers who have fallen short of the standard set by the oligarch.

From the days of Claudio Ranieri to Antonio Conte, the club has never failed to pull the trigger whenever results go south. The only coach who had lasted more than two seasons was Jose Mourinho during his two spells at the club. For the likes of Felipe Scolari and Andre Villa-Boas, they were shown the door within a season (February and March respectively). This hire and fire approach or better put, “short-ism” despite it not being right, has brought about 15 trophies in 15 seasons for Chelsea with 15 different coaches.

The appointment of Maurizio Sarri on July 14th, 2018 was clearly a deviation from a tradition of appointing serial winners. He joined Chelsea from Napoli FC in Italy boasting only a brand of attacking football nicknamed SarriBall, a style named after him. His trophy cabinet was however empty.

With fairness to him, Chelsea had difficulty prising him away from Napoli, a delay which gave the 60-yeard old a limited preparation for the pre-season. However, he came and for the first 12 matches, his team blew hot and cold on his possession-retention brand of football, winning 8 and drawing 4 matches. Then Tottenham came along and shattered the whole concept of Sarriball.

The predictability and obstinacy of Maurizio Sarri is a cause for worry more than the players’ mentality he has come to question after a few defeats. Aftermath of the 4-0 drubbing at Bournemouth a fortnight ago, the gaffer openly said he would stick to his style, the 4-3-3 formation. His inflexibility led to Chelsea recording their worst defeat, 0-6, since 1991.

Every team that has stopped Chelsea from taking the maximum point this season have done so by man-marking the regista, Jorginho, the man whose SarriBall is centred on. After Tottenham, Wolves, Westham, Arsenal, Southampton, Everton and Leicester have all employed the same tactics and it has worked wonders.

Any supporter, who is worth his salt, can predict the starting 11 as well as the substitution to follow. Kovacic will always replace Ross Barkley or vice versa while Pedro will exit the pitch for Willian, depending on who starts between the two.

Sarri’s reference to Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp and his recent tormentor, Guardiola’s stability at their various club is a lame excuse to colour his own shortcomings.

Guardiola has tweaked his formations many times to suit the players at his disposal while Klopp has done same on various occasions depending on his opponent. Sarri has been the direct opposite of that, which nullifies his comparison with both managers. In addition, Pep is a serial winner who has a cabinet full of medals while Klopp has a trophy to his name from his days at Borussia Dortmund. Sarri has none!

Time is ticking and Sarri needs to make the most use of the players at his disposal. His insistence on Marcos Alonso over Emerson is really baffling, especially since the former has dropped form. Looking at the best pattern that suits the materials you have is one of the hallmarks of coaches who have made a name for themselves in the game.

Switching to a 4-2-3-1 formation does not stop your team from playing a possession-based football. Chelsea, after all, played one of its best footballs under Carlo Ancelotti. When the Italian discovered that teams had a solution to his 4-4-2 diamond formation, Ancelotti shifted between 4-3-2-1, 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 during that 2009/2010 season and ended with Chelsea scoring a Premier League record of 103 goals.

What I see in Sarri is a confused man who lacks the mental strength needed to succeed at Chelsea. I might be wrong though, but time will eventually tell.

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Nnamdi Ezeigbo’s success in the enterprise world has won him not a few admirers. Rising from the status of an ordinary computer problem fixer to that of a multimillionaire mobile phone distributor, his story is that of resilience, vision and grace.

The Abia indigene is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Slot Systems Limited, indigenous telecommunications and IT company which boasts of over 60 outlets nationwide and an online store.

Though he is now a well-acclaimed business mogul in the Nigerian technology industry, Ezeigbo did not always dream to be an entrepreneur.

A peep into the past

Ezeigbo was born on the 4th of August, 1966, in Delta state, He started his primary school education at Pamol primary school, Sapele, Delta State. He had his secondary school education at Ogini grammar school and Ogharefe, also in Delta state. Being a good science student, he opted to study engineering at the Yaba College of Technology.

“I was good at the sciences but did not have any idea about what engineering entails. What prompted my interest, I didn’t know. The whole essence of opting for engineering was to go to school and get a good job in an oil servicing company like Chevron or Mobil. It was my dream as a young man”, Ezeigbo said in an interview.

However, reality soon set in after Ezeigbo had graduated and undergone the National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) scheme but had to roam the streets for two years in search of job. He had to think of something new to do.

The business of computers

While undergoing the NYSC scheme, his place of primary assignment was the Nigerian Breweries in Lagos, where he realised that the computer had become important to business operations. The year was 1996 and those who had the knowledge of computer repairs and maintenance were few. He then saw a success opportunity in the field. Therefore, he opted to learn the skill.

He spent six months learning under a friend who did computer repairs at the popular Computer Village, Ikeja without making any income. After acquiring the skills, he kept working with his trainer, but he earned more goodwill from clients than his boss did.

“Customers preferred that I handle their jobs when they brought them. This became an issue because he felt I was robbing him of sales. So, he sent me out of his business place and I had no choice than to leave, without cash to rent a shop; nothing to start up with but I didn’t give up,” he recalled.

An undaunted Ezeigbo set up his business at an open space beside a restaurant. But a month later, he moved to a book store which was owned by another friend. He soon grew his client base.

However, with the help of an old client, he was able to raise funds to get his first office space at the Computer Village

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Artificial intelligence is fast becoming the new gold in the technology industry. Not only is it reducing the boredom of monotonous work, it helps professionals to become more efficient and productive.

AI has become part of the daily lives of many people. Every time we open our Facebook account, do a Google search, check for directions on google map, order a taxi online, we are making use of AI.

Across multiple industries or sectors, AI is revolutionising the modus operandi of businesses.

For instance, in the health sector, AI-enabled virtual assistants are reducing unnecessary hospital visits, pharmaceutical companies are researching lifesaving medicines in a fraction of the time and cost it traditionally takes, according to builtin.com, an online tech platform.

In the finance sector, organisations are rapidly implementing chatbots, adaptive intelligence, algorithmic trading and machine learning into financial processes.


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Telecommunications firm, MTN generated a record N1 trillion revenue in Nigeria in 2018.

Although MTN Nigeria is yet to make this public, makeitglobal.biz learnt from sources within and close to the telecommunications giant that its management was surprised about the huge turnover.

Investigations showed that the multinational telecommunications company announced a half year revenue of over N500 billion in 2018, hit its target for last year by September and crossed the N1 trillion threshold by the end of the year.

A financial report released by the telecommunications company for the period ended September 30, 2018, said MTN Nigeria increased its service revenue by 17.4 percent. This growth was said to have been led by a 52.5 percent increase in data revenue and 21.5 percent increase in outgoing voice revenue. The company was said to have on a quarter-on-quarter basis, recorded 15.1 percent growth (or 17.2 million) in active data subscribers.

MTN Nigeria’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margin was said to have expanded to 43.2 percent in the first nine months of the year. The reason for the expansion is strong growth in revenue cost optimisation efforts.

Similarly in its half-year report for 2018 , MTN Nigeria reported earning a revenue of N567 billion.

MTN’s impressive posting came as a big surprise but underscored the importance of Nigeria as a cash cow that cannot be ignored in spite of its woes, says a financial analyst who opted for anonymity........

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Online shoppers, of recent, have had cause to whine and complain as cases of rip-offs are on the increase. A lot of victims have taken to different social media platforms to lament about transactions gone wrong, waiting for eternity for products that will never get delivered after making payment or getting something totally different from what was ordered for.

Currently buzzing on the photo-sharing app, Instagram, is the case of a fabrics merchant, Aramide Oladoyin popularly known as “Arashow” who allegedly swindles customers of their hard-earned money by not delivering the goods ordered for. The controversy came to the fore when an Instagram page, @ffashionfreakscammer857_scammer2022 popped up and started posting very sensitive information and complaints from those who had fallen victim to the alleged scamming ways of the accused vendor.

Although the page has been taken down and the accused tendered an apology via her Instagram page and promised to make amends, the ever-rising wave of fraud continues to pose as a threat to genuine entrepreneurs trying to earn a living via the platform.

With these scam pages posting too-good-to-be-true prices for products that actually cost way more, it’s no wonder why shoppers keep losing their monies to the operators of such accounts. Their modus operandi is to display product pictures at mouth-watering prices to lure the unsuspecting customers to their pages, get the customer to pay for the “product” of their choice and block the victims from contacting them via the details provided.

Well-known vendors also suffer from this scourge as fraudsters create clone accounts to defraud unsuspecting customers, creating problems for the real vendors when the victims storm their pages to accuse them of not delivering products that were paid for.

Two popular hair sellers, MizWanneka and GleeHair are the major sufferers of the accounts cloning. Hardly can a week pass by without an aggrieved customer complaining in their comment section or Direct Messaging about not getting what they ordered for without realising that they have fallen victim to fake accounts posing as the real ones, despite several disclaimers by the aforementioned vendors to help curb the menace.

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I hate how courts prolong corruption cases involving politicians. It is utterly disgusting.




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