Kemi Olunloyo, a typical example of an Ibadan woman - Ife Esan

Kemi Olunloyo just fired Seyi Law again, she says his wife's body rejected three pregnancies.


I am not surprised, I am only like ahn ahn.... I will tell you why I am not surprised.


The reason why I am not surprised is that Kemi Olunloyo isn't a bastard, she is a true born and bred of Ibadan, if we check properly, she might have a drop of Iyalode Ibadan, Efunsetan Aniwura's blood on her.


I know my Ibadan people whom I love so much will come for me on this, but Kemi is a reflection of most Ibadan women.
They have no filter, and no emotions, and there is nothing they cannot say, just don't try them, even if you don't try them, pray they don't try you .
An Ibadan woman will tell you that Ara Ija ni eyin wa, meaning biting is part of battle skills.. if you come for them you are looking for wahala, if they come for you, you have found wahala, either way, you can't win only if you are Ijesha..

A lifeline from the Supreme Court - Reuben Abati

On Wednesday, July 12, the Supreme Court saved our democracy and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). It did with its ruling in the matter between Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, to determine who among the two is the authentic Chairman of the PDP. The Supreme Court of Nigeria practically threw the party a lifeline. Since it lost the 2015 Presidential election, the former ruling party, the same party that one fellow in a moment of megalomania promised us would rule Nigeria forever, has never been the same. Some people have said the party could not manage victory well but it definitely found it difficult to manage defeat. The PDP went into the 2015 general elections utterly divided among its ranks.

Five Governors and their supporters had left the party, the point at which the defeat began, to join a coalition that became the All Progressives Congress (APC) and from outside, the departed malcontents threw stones at their former party and swore to destroy it, if only to teach those remaining behind a lesson. The lack of internal democracy within the PDP, and the arrogance of remaining members further created a situation whereby some Governors became over-powerful and unpopular candidates were imposed at the grassroots level. Discontent spread.

Acquiring degrees like the marks on a thermometer won't guarantee you - Olu Adegoke

If you have no plan to lecture, my dear, don't bother yourself doing MSc and PhD. 

Go get professional certificates and acquire useful skills. Acquiring degrees like the marks on a thermometer won't guarantee you. We are tired of reading "tales by moonlight" of entitled people who come online to lament about how they are offered pittance after all their degrees. 

Stop deceiving yourself, there are jobs out there, it is just that you lack the requisite skills to get them because everyone wants a lazy-man's job of tie-with-suits or what they think is a sycophant job these days - LECTURING. 

Every person with average IQ and who are mainly liabilities in a highly competitive world think the next easy thing is to wait it out doing more degrees to secure teaching positions; since performance assessment is not needed to retain such jobs in Nigeria.


Animations, Data Scientists, Builders, Plumbers, Furniture makers, Mechanics, Accounting, Mobile Application Developers amongst many other skills are in high demand in Nigeria. Stop wasting your time acquiring paper certificates. Only do so, if you have a genuine passion for teaching and research.

One of our major problems in Nigeria is that our Biggest fools are in government - Link Oolodumare

One of our major problems in Nigeria is that our Biggest fools are in government. Professional and educated fools, of various species and sizes man our Civil Service.


So many avoidable mistakes they make. And even when it's pointed out to them, they will be foolishly forming bravado rather than accepting their lack of thought.


The recent religious studies alteration is one such vivid example of their foolishness. The policy was made by supposed highly educated Nigerian professionals.


Educated, yes. Professional, yes. Fools, most definitely. Because only a fool would have failed to see the train wreck such a change in policy was bound to cause in a highly religious country like Nigeria- Don't even need an education to foresee it.


We pay hard currency to send these idiots to London, Brussels, Berlin and Copenhagen to learn and gain knowledge. But no matter, their foolishness precludes them from knowing to apply local knowledge in importing what we paid them to learn.

Give the world TIME, It reveals all things

When someone comes and tells you, "I can't sleep without you, I love you the way you are and I can put up with your good and bad attitude", before you commit your heart to such a person, please, *GIVE IT TIME*.


When You just met someone today and feel like marrying him/her tomorrow, before you do, remember you need to *GIVE IT TIME*.


When you visit your uncle during a vacation for 2 months, don't be carried away that they serve you your preferred food and give you hot water to bath during your first two days don't start making arrangements to relocate to their house, *GIVE IT TIME*.

Ms Bewaji thanks her haters, says May you continue to Haterant ...

I really have to thank my agitators and haters for the constant foaming from the mouths.


Without y'all, there's a limit to how far my voice and message will go.


I just got a call from New York, for a conference I registered to attend.


They called to ask if I would moderate a "session or two" instead.

Free yourselves from the shackles of poverty - Olakunle Allison

I can be broke but I can never be poor. But many folks are not broke but very poor. The difference is in the mind. Essentially, poverty is 100% a mental state. Hence, most men are really poor.


It's very easy to spot a poor man or woman. The wrong approach is to look at his pocket or bank statement. That one is just broke. Rather, look at his attitude towards money.


Truly rich people are rich first in their minds. When you investigate how they deal with money you'd understand why they eventually have fat accounts. It's almost inevitable. It's about having the right healthy attitude. I'll give a few practical examples.

When the issue of DNA was trending, I forgot to ask all abroad husbands to shut up when real husbands are talking - Nkechi Bianze

There was this woman who used to live in our childhood neighborhood. I grew up thinking she was a widow, because she had five children, and we never knew the husband.

It was many years after I knew her, and only after I became a teenager that I got to realize that she wasnt a widow.

Her husband married her a few years before I was born and went back to the US. He only came once in a while to get her pregnant and go back again.

She had five children, and the 4th is about same age as me.

The man married her with the promise that he was going to come back for her as soon as he finishes his studies and settles, but more than ten years and five children after, he never came back to move his family to the US.

Do you see the glow on the faces of those kids when they wear the gown? - Aisha Oyetunji

Prior to now, I was a fierce critic of 'graduation ceremonies' for pupils of elementary schools. I believed (I still believe anyway) that the jamboree is just another dubious means through which the proprietors of the schools make undeserved monies.


As a matter of fact, I used to assert that my kid would never be a part of such unnecessary celebrations.


However, I have now seen so much of children to conclude that denying one's ward of an opportunity to partake in the 'graduation' could be near suicidal.

Governor Fayose, Do you really reason about the consequences of your statements before you open your mouth? - Azuka Jebose

Your Excellency: I greet you. First, this disclosure: I am neither a PDP nor APC member. I do not belong to any political party in Nigeria. I am a passionate patriot of our great nation. However, I am also an unapologetic supporter of our President, Muhammad Buhari. I admire his blunt, bold simplicity, sincerity, sense of purpose, commitment, unconditional care for Nigeria’s everyday people and patriotism, especially since he transitioned from a brutal Military dictator to a born-again democrat. I believed almost 20Million Nigerians that voted for him in the last election saw the same qualities as I did.

Sir, I write in response to some of your vicious attacks on our President. I cannot go back to years of continued hostility from you, to our President. It seemed you continue with this exercise because no one within his media relations has responded aggressively to some of your juvenile comments with regards to the President’s health, policies, wife, and his family. Your Excellency, when is enough, enough?.

Dont lose your home because your wife is cheating - Anonymous

Dear Married Man,


I am sure you have read and heard stories of how married women are told to accept any child their husbands father out of wedlock to prove that they are virtuous women.


I advise you to be the same way.


If you discover that your wife has brought in one or two children from outside, be a virtuous man and take them in.


That is what marriage is all about.


Don't lose your home because of that.

With religion on one side, culture on the other, and daft patriarchal social narratives... women are never so sure how to react in uncomfortable situations - Joy Isi Bewaji

When I got out of a marriage, I decided to see a counsellor.


Someone whom I had shared a set with on a popular TV morning show a couple of times many years ago.


I buzzed him on Facebook. I wanted to know how much his services would cost. I was losing my mind; not because I regretted my decision of leaving, but I was confused on my next plan and direction. I wanted to start all over again, but I had no clue how. I went back to living in my mother's house, occupying my old room with two kids. It was humiliating. And I believed my problem required a mental shift. A different way of thinking. So, yes, a counsellor would do.

Ultimately, we're all pencils in the hand of the Zuckerberg - Adesegun Damazio

There's no such thing as a "Facebook celebrity", unless of course you're known for a craft in a particular industry.


And the moment you realize that your presence on Facebook is just as important to Mark Zuckerberg as that of the pseudo celebrities, the better.


Social media applications deal with numbers, in fact, active numbers. And just in case you noticed, each time Facebook releases its quarterly results, never at any point do they disclose the number of "Facebook celebrities" present on the app. Instead, what you find is "number of active users" and blah blah blah.

Guess what?! She is married today to a rich man, and she has never worked a day in her life - Nkechi Bianze

Dear men,

It is ok for you to want a full-time housewife. You've got the right to have a choice of the type of wife you want. What is NOT ok is taking your time out to woo, ask out, propose and marry a woman who loves her career, who has spent years studying in the university or acquiring training from anywhere, built a career and is clearly in love with her career, and then ask her to give it up and sit at home for you.... for any reason at all.

There are women whose life ambitions are to be full time housewives.

I've seen some first class graduate Nigerian women who want to be full time housewives. My sister told me that one of her school mates who graduated with a first class in Law told them right from her first year at Uni that she was just studying in order not to be an illiterate, that she was never going to work, so she was going to end up as a housewife. That was always her future ambition.

Why I don't respect women that don't respect themselves - Adjoua

THIS IS WHY I DON’T RESPECT WOMEN WHO DON’T RESPECT THEMSELVES…Don’t get me wrong, I love my mom, but I just can't respect her at this point. Like HOW?? HOW can she stay with him? After all these years, all these countries, all these alleged children and she still stays by his side, proud to be Mrs. Boateng.

 My dad has been a diplomat for years. Every couple of years, were packing up and changing homes. I thought I was living the life, perfect parents, friends from all over the world and sure we didn’t have a stable home but we stayed together and that’s all that mattered. Paris was where I met my best friend; Beijing bought the three of us closer together but Egypt is where my family fell apart.

 A lady stopped my mom and I in Cairo asking to speak with her. I’ve never seen my mom so devastated in my life. I think she almost died when the lady touched her stomach. I was old enough to understand what was going on. I thought she stayed because of me. I appreciated that and I loved them for working it out but when it continued throughout several countries and I could see the love lost between them, it just seemed pointless to me.

 She was like one of those girls I made fun of for going back to the same guy that treats her like shit over and over again.

 She was my mother though. Dad and I hardly even speak now.

 Nothing he can say or do can fix what he’s done to our family. I hated him for it. I hated the fact that he got to still have a wife by his side and parade us around like the perfect family as he did his dirt on the side. I guess you see now why I can’t stand men. 

My mother's been trying to tell me she’s in town and wants to see me but you know what the funny this is? I asked her to stay with me in New York- so that we can start a new here, have a stable life and not have to deal with dads bull…do you know what this lady did? She dubbed me to follow her cheating husband around. Now she’s in town…now she wants to see me.

Source : www.nygerian.com

KCee’s era is over. All he needs to do now is to set up a boutique and sell colourful clothes, l wil buy, or if he doesn’t want to do that, he can start a bureau de change - Onyeka Nwelue

Last year, in Port Harcourt, during the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), I was backstage, with the acid jazz artiste, Dapo, who was to perform, when I saw two rats, HarrySong and KCee rush out on stage with mics, monkeying around, miming their own songs to the CD that was playing in the background. It was not even time for them to come on stage. Dressed colourfully and because they had been sweating like Christmas goats, they had to break rules. They had to misbehave. I was irritated, but when I realized that I was just being angry for nothing, my anger fizzled out.

Young women, it's OK to be clumsy, you will grow and realise it is OK to walk away from uncomfortable situations - Joy Isi Bewaji

There's a typical behaviour of the young Nigerian man.


There's a typical behaviour of the young Nigerian woman.


The typical Nigerian young man lacks courtesy, chivalry and polish.


The typical Nigerian young woman lacks emotional intelligence, lives in a bubble and is quite the highfalutin jargon.

On your knee...get set, PROPOSE! - Olakunle Allison

I am not a romantic. I am a realist. I don't live in a Steven Spielberg movie. I live in reality. I am not Western. I merely think and write Western. I am African. My identity is different from my mentality.


I value many things about Africanism; one of which is our penchant for Secrecy sometimes mistaken for duplicity or hypocrisy.

The pressed man doesn't complain about the dirty toilet, this is why many men cheat with scruffy women beneath their status - Tosin Ayo

In marriage, husbands and wives share a totally different conceptualization of sexual relationship and this is at the core of the cracks, lingering woes and lack of steam in their lifeless marriages.


Whilst the man is most times the one who prioritises sex in marriage, many women have sexual relationship at the lowest ebb and least priorities in their minds or vice versa. This lopsided sexual preference raises the compatibility conundrum that is often left as the untested waters and uncharted course in premarital expedition.


Many reasons are responsible for the low libidinal appetite in married men and women. They include the task of raising children, work-related stress, emotional stress, financial pressure, post-partum depression, pre-menopausal tiredness, exhaustion, emotional weariness, marital fisticuffs, domestic violence, home management stress and monotony.

Chi Onwurah MP: ‘British, not Nigerian’ by Reuben Abati

Chi Onwurah, the Member of Parliament representing Newcastle Central in the UK House of Commons and my former colleague at the State House, Molara Wood, met recently at the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing award ceremony. When Molara informed Chi that her re-election along with six others had caused so much excitement in Nigeria and even produced official letters of congratulation from both the Federal Government and Abike Dabiri, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Affairs, Onwurah’s sharp retort was: “I’m British, not Nigerian”.


This has generated so much debate in Nigerian social media, but most of the comments do not really go to the heart of the matter. The place to begin is to break down Chi Onwurah’s comment. She seems to be saying: “why would my re-election be of such importance to Nigerians and the Nigerian government, I am not one of you”. Or something like: “What is my business with Nigeria?” Or: “Come on, Nigeria! Yes my father is from there, but I-am-British!”.

THE IMPENDING EPIDEMIC IN NIGERIA - Ijabla Raymond

The air in Nigerian is heavily polluted.


We import used vehicles some of which have failed emission tests in Europe and America. Some of our cars are not road-worthy. It's not uncommon to encounter an impenetrable cloud of smoke emanating from the exhausts of vehicles. Occasionally, these have caused road traffic accidents.


Every home, office and business runs on generators which bellow out plumes of smoke.


Most of our roads are badly tarred and very dusty.


Research is suggesting that polluted air might be responsible for some neurological conditions like dementia.


How do we protect our citizens from an epidemic of respiratory diseases? This is going to require major policy change and health education by the government. And the time to act is now!

If you are gathered to discuss how to rig elections, begin with a prayer,The Nigerian god appreciates communication - Elnathan John

HOW TO WORSHIP THE NIGERIAN GOD


The Nigerian god is one. It may have many different manifestations, but it is essentially different sides of the same coin. Sometimes, adherents of the different sides may fight and kill each other. But Nigerians essentially follow the Nigerian god.


This article is for all those who want to become better worshipers. If you are a new or prospective convert, God will bless you for choosing the Nigerian god. This is just how you must worship him.


First, you must understand that being a worshiper has nothing to do with character, good works or righteousness. So the fact that you choose to open every meeting with multiple prayers does not mean that you intend to do what is right. The opening prayer is important. Nothing can work without it. If you are gathered to discuss how to inflate contracts, begin with an opening prayer or two. If you are gathered to discuss how to rig elections, begin with a prayer. The Nigerian god appreciates communication.

Sincerely I don’t care for a grandchild,and I do not care for a son-in-law ,If they come, fine! After all, we buy new purses everyday, It is nothing tragic - Joy Isi Bewaji

There are subjects I don’t consider for discussion.


Submission is one of them.


Submission is a tricky little devil, you see.


-Because it is a manipulative ass, it requires many convenient definitions. I do not get involved in classifications of one wretched word that truly should be deleted from every young child’s dictionary.

Gbemi needs to enroll in a Commonsense Academy - Akeem Oyalowo

So I read that one popular OAP in attempt to defend the 'island people' in the current banter arising from the flooding over the weekend had this to say:

"There are 3 24 hour pharmacies alone in (lekki) phase 1...you mainland people should develop your mainland too. Your inferiority is showing...". (paraphrased).
This leaves me confused because I have two questions before articulating my position.

First question: Did you swim to get your meds? (that's if the pharmacy was open)

Second question: Did you write this on social media because you couldn't get your meds?

To the extent that this OAP is known to me,(by name Debo Alonge means she's one of the senior ones. I stopped listening to Nigerian radio since 2010.

If I go to my boyfriend/fiance/husband's family home for the FIRST TIME and I get served food, I expect them to clear the dishes after me Nkechi Bianze

If my boyfriend/fiancé/husband comes to MY FAMILY HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME and gets a meal, I will NOT let him clear the dishes after himself, except he insists.
I've got a habit of serving my guests, most especially first time guests.
Either the house help or myself would do it.


But then, if by chance there is a delay for any reason at all, I will NOT be impressed if he calls me to do it.


If I go to my boyfriend/fiance/husband's family home for the FIRST TIME and I get served food, I expect them to clear the dishes after me.

You are not a bad parent if you can afford first class for your 19 year old child but refuse to spend money that way, do not feel guilty if the child flies economy, people who fly economy don't have goats on their laps. - Joy Isi Bewaji

And before we go to bed, let us remember:


You are not a bad parent if you refuse to give your 20 year old son the keys to your SUV. It is your prerogative to share your car or not. Maybe you want him to drive the Yaris and he is embarrassed by that because all his friends drive their father's Land Rover. That's up to him to work on his self confidence. And it's up to you to teach him how NOT to be defined by material things.

Turn their logic back to them, and watch them shred their logic to pieces themselves - Nwasom De Harvest

Mr commenter: Show me one feminist
who is happily married and I will show you one thousand submissive women who are happily married.


Nwasom: Show me one feminist who is crying and writing "what do I do" posts and I will show you one thousand submissive women who are crying and writing "what do I do" posts.


Mr Commenter: That's only because most women are not feminists. Beside how do you know the people writing what do I do posts are not feminists. Just because they did not add it does not mean they are not.


Nwasom: Thank you for helping me shred your initial comment to pieces.


Mr Commenter: What do you mean?


Nwasom: Maybe we have more "happily" married women who are not feminists than happily married feminists because most women are not feminists as you admitted. How do also know the happily married women are not feminists just because they did not tell you that?


Turn their logic back to them, and watch them shred their logic to pieces themselves.

Musings over the church in Nigeria - Olusegun Onayinka

"I am not really particular about anyone dying for sins or not,I just need my prayers to be answered "
This was a comment made by a " Christian " to a sister in my local church whilst she went on evangelism .
This guy is a committed member of a church .
Probably wears shirts with scriptural inscriptions .
Maybe "speaks in tongues " too...!if you know what I mean .


Have many heard and believed the gospel ?
We have an illusion around Nigeria as been a "praying church .."
But what's the praying about ?
Assuming today ,our economy changes ,poverty is less then 1% and unemployment as well,security top notch and health care system ,world class .
Would we still be a " praying church "?

Detriment of raising spoilt children, they could become killers - Joy Isi Bewaji

On Crime and Investigation last week...


A couple with three children lived a good life. They were the parents every child could wish for.


They spoilt their children. Flew them first class. Denied them very little or nothing.


The third child, a girl, was intoxicated by her parent's kindness. She asked for everything, and everything she got.


After attending very good and expensive schools, flying all over the world, going diamond shopping with her mum, spoilt with exquisite taste... she couldn't comprehend the word, "No"... because she didn't hear it enough whilst growing up.

Lekki Floods : The more culture, rather than half-illiterate hooligan money, resides in our built and lived spaces, the closer we will get to the 21st century - Pius Adesanmi

I have only just noticed some Lekki versus the rest of Lagos and Nigeria dimension to ongoing interventions in the flood matter. Maybe I've been too tired to notice strident, blanket attacks against Lekki residents and forceful pushbacks by the attacked. 

One or two updates I have now seen reek of the usual anti-affluence bad belle that is common to all societies. Where the bad belle is just pure bad belle for bad belle's case, you understand that it is a case of "omi inu agbon wu eiye mu, ona ati de ibe lo soro". No bird is allergic to coconut water. Reaching it is the problem.


However, I want to take a different tack in the matter. I have immediate family in Lekki: Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, Kyke Davies, and Olufunmilayo Odunaike. I have family in Ikoyi, VI, all the way to Banana Island.

Let me tell you a truth that many fail to tell you; your poor husband might never become rich. As a matter of fact, the odds are higher that he will remain poor. - Nkechi Bianze

Each time I say "I will NOT marry a poor man", there are always these sets of people who either come at me with their sermons, or attack me straight up.


And quite a lot of people also derive pleasure in putting up posts like this:


"Ladies, would you rather marry a rich man who beats you than a poor man who loves you?"


On such posts are the police ready with their very stale and boring lectures like "The poor man with a vision is better than the rich man with a television".... bla bla bla.....


For a start, who told you Nigerians that every poor man is nice and every rich man is bad? Who told you that every poor man has a vision?


You people watch too much nollywood.

Africans import everything, including behavioural patterns - Olakunle Allison

Africa must stop importing!


The West is dependable. We are dependants.


We import everything and rarely export anything.


As if that wasn't bad enough, we don't draw the line on our imports.


We import their science, and then import their conscience.


We import their technology, and also import their morality.

On several occasions, I complained of my gross dissatisfaction with the courtship, despite the wealth of time, money and energy I invested into it. - Adesegun Damazio

It is with heartfelt warmness that I announce the end of my relationship with my roguish girlfriend of 16 months.


Those who know me can attest to how secretive I am with my personal affairs but the relationship left much to be desired, hence, my reason for speaking out.


On several occasions, I complained of my gross dissatisfaction with the courtship, despite the wealth of time, money and energy I invested into it. But all that counted for nothing as she would often remind me that I was of no value to her.

When you solve a lot of problems, nature has a way of not making you solve yours - Onyeka Nwelue

Morning, witches and wizards! We will talk about Entitlement Mentality of Nigerians today. 

The online definition states, “An entitlement mentality is a state of mind in which an individual comes to believe that privileges are instead rights, and that they are to be expected as a matter of course.


Let me quickly add that it is the deadliest mindset of all. For so many reasons.

Great thinker, Mr All talks no action! - Enyioma Madubuike

Dear Thinker! Get Up and Do


In my journey as a tech entrepreneur, business strategist, and legal consultant I have come to recognize a particular set of interesting people: "the ideas guys". They are amazing people because they are able to see through holes in a system, process or idea and create ideas that could potentially solve problems. 

They are usually very smart people, knowledgeable in a lot of fields with the ability to logically think through problems and proffer possible solutions. I believe we need them in every sphere of our lives since I live my life on the principle that no matter how good a process is, it can always get better. 

How do Yoruba Obas harmonise Mohammed and Jesus with Sango, Oya and Obatala - Olu Adegoke

The Queen of England will never bow to be ordained before an Ifa Priest. The King of Saudi Arabia will never become. Babalawo. An Oba kneeling before a pastor with his crown off is a slap against tradition. What made people old and young prostrate before you is not because you are better but because of the duty they owe to tradition. Yoruba monarchy is losing it fast.


An Oba belongs to all in his domain - the muslims, Christians, traditional worshippers etc. The tradition is covering of head is to foster reverence, a feeling of awe. When you destroy all that just because you want to please your foreign god, then the traditional legitimacy requiring people to accord you respect is destroyed.


Is it not hypocrisy for an Oba who was supposedly chosen by Ifa to claim he is now a born again Christian without abdicating? You cannot serve Jesus and still expect to occupy a post reserve for those who have sworn to protect and uphold tradition.


Yes, as a human being you have a right to your conscience but as a honest human being, to abide by your conscience, you cannot eat your cake and have it.


I strongly think the traditional monarchy system in Nigeria is outliving its usefulness. I can't imagine a Chief Imam claiming he has become a Babalawo and still want to retain the title of Chief Imam.

Is it not hypocrisy for an Oba who was supposedly chosen by Ifa to claim he is now a born again Christian without abdicating? Olu Adegoke

The Queen of England will never bow to be ordained before an Ifa Priest. The King of Saudi Arabia will never become. Babalawo. An Oba kneeling before a pastor with his crown off is a slap against tradition. What made people old and young prostrate before you is not because you are better but because of the duty they owe to tradition. Yoruba monarchy is losing it fast.

An Oba belongs to all in his domain - the muslims, Christians, traditional worshippers etc. The tradition is covering of head is to foster reverence, a feeling of awe. When you destroy all that just because you want to please your foreign god, then the traditional legitimacy requiring people to accord you respect is destroyed.

A combination of the big-man-syndrome, the too-know syndrome, the us-before-others-mentality, ethnic politics has turned our process of nationhood into an unending struggle. - Reuben Abati

The most discussed subject in Nigeria today is what is called “restructuring” and indeed so popular is this subject that it has attracted the attention of roadside commentators, the bright, the not-so-bright, the mischievous and the outrightly unintelligent all united by the singular claim that Nigeria belongs to all of us and we all have a right to determine its future.


The last person who brought up this subject with me is a mechanic in Abeokuta! He had heard about Biafra, the Arewa youths, the President’s absence, Professor Osinbajo, Nnamdi Kanu, what Igbo leaders, Northern leaders and Yoruba leaders have said about restructuring and he wanted a conversation. That’s how democracy works, not so? The inclusiveness is actually very good for us…


But the point I have always made stands proven: that Nigeria remains an unanswered question, more than a century after the amalgamation of 1914. Before and after independence, virtually every government has had to deal with this same question, viz, the national question.


Brought together in an unwieldy, unequal and uneven union by the British, Nigeria’s about 400 ethnic nationalities have been unable to transform into one nation, one union, a community of people and communities driven by a common purpose - to create a united, progressive nation, under the umbrella of patriotism and the common good.

Now, if God sanctions slavery, rape, incest, homophobia, misogyny, genocide and infanticide,then who the hell is Satan? - Ijabla Raymond

WHY IS FORNICATION WRONG BUT RAPE ISN'T?


The bible God sanctioned rape and incest in the Old Testament but disapproves of CONSENSUAL sex between same-sex and unmarried couples (the bible calls it fornication). Also, it says nothing about paedophilia.


But why is fornication wrong and rape isn't? What does this say about the morality of the bible?


According to religion, morality is decided by God and his judgement cannot be questioned. In other words, if God says rape is permissible then it is. The humanist worldview holds that morality should be decided on the basis of reason, empathy and non-maleficence. This is how humanity decided that slavery, misogyny, homophobia and paedophilia are wrong.


Now, if God sanctions slavery, rape, incest, homophobia, misogyny, genocide and infanticide - then who the hell is Satan?

Make your NOW worthy - Fazlur Jegede

Learn to focus only on the present or NOW and not the past or the future.
The past is unchangeable so it is futile to reflect on it unless you are making sure you do not repeat past mistakes. 

The future is but a result of your actions today-NOW.

So learn from the past to do better in the present or NOW so that you can succeed in the future.
Be cautious of NOW because without NOW you cannot get to the future. Your NOW is the bridge between your past and future which is inevitable. Hence, your NOW is the determinant of your future. Therefore, increase your awareness of NOW.

Then let the question be asked; What are you doing NOW? How are you living NOW? How do you want to live NOW?
The Power of NOW is the most important.
Make your NOW worthy.

NOT A SINGLE TEXT IN ISLAM BANS, FORBIDS OR CONDEMNS SLAVERY.

How Arabs Enslaved And Castrated Black Africans For Over 1,300 Years In The Name Of Allah And Islam, It Has Been Described As The Longest And Most Brutal Human Slave Trade In History, Slavery Of Blacks Has Not Ended Today, It Still Goes On In Various Arabian Countries, The Quran Does Not Ban Or Forbid Human Slavery, It Encourages It In Several Verses So The Arabs Who Enslaved Your Ancestors Did Not Have Any Problems With Rounding Off People Like Cattle And Selling Them Off Into A Life Of Slavery. Arabs Enslaved Africans For Over 1,300 Years, Europeans For Another 400 Years Making Almost 2,000 Years Of Constant And Steady Enslavement: Enslavement of the Bodies And Of The Minds.


WILL BLACKS EVER WAKE UP?


FOR THOSE WHO ARE ASKING WHERE IN ISLAM DID ALLAH APPROVE OF SLAVERY, HERE ARE THE VERSES:


Quran (33:50) - "O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee."

I can spot Money-Accidents and True Wealth from miles away - Olakunle Allison

The Difference Is In The Spending.


I have realized that there's a remarkable difference between people who work for their money and those who became overnight moneybags. You'd see it in the way and manner they spend and in what they choose to spend the money on.


I believe that this has a great deal to do with the dignity in labour. In other words, when you make a honest but modest living rather than being the beneficiary of an instant fortune, you'd tend more towards modest spending and massive investing. That's you'd spend less and invest more. It's just the fact.

Sharia law applies to poor muslims not the ones doing threesomes - Ijabla Raymond

HOW SHARIA WORKS IN NIGERIA:


Poor man steals a loaf of bread - his hand is chopped off from the wrist in accordance with sharia.


Politicians steals billions from public funds with the stroke of a pen - the citizens vote him as their senator to reward him for introducing sharia law.


Another senator with three wives who introduced sharia law to his state when he was the governor is caught on video having threesome. He can rest assured in the knowledge that he will not be stoned to death (the punishment for adultery under sharia law) because these laws only apply to poor Muslims.


Religion - is all about power and control.

We go for visiting lectureship in mushroom universities- Abdulrazak Ibrahim

We are busy being patrons of Christians or Muslim students societies of every department in our universities.

 Even with a staff:student ratio of 1:600, we are paid miserable salaries (less than 500USD per month for a PhD), so we barely have time to teach in one university; we go for visiting lectureship in mushroom universities; our executives connive with officials of TEFUND to inflate contracts that always involve building (not purchase of reagents or equipment or subscriptions to international journals) because it's easy to steal. 

We peer review our own research articles by google translating plagiarized Indian journals into our local journals and promote ourselves to become professors. The few that have what it takes to conduct quality research are too insignificant to make any impact or are struggling with scripts and lack of electricity. We are operating a feudal system of education that prepares young people to be slaves and not critical thinkers or innovators. You have seen our graduates here on social media I am sure.


Is ASUU asleep?

The victims of Nigeria are the middle class, the poor are truly satisfied, grateful even - Joy Isi Bewaji

The victims of Nigeria are the middle class.

The poor are truly satisfied, grateful even. They want food, they want shelter, they want sex, they want children and they want to be left alone. The basics, really

The middle-class however possesses aspiration - the hankering, the itch to do more, be more, achieve more, just never ends. Ambition is a powerful, intrusive, increasingly petulant demon. It never leaves you. It builds a shrine in your head and constantly tells you, “You can’t stop now. Why do you want to stop now? See how far you’ve come. Keep moving, damn it! Did Michelangelo stop? Did Malcolm X stop? Bill Gates nko? Heck, did Jesus stop? Only death should stop you. Get your ass up and KEEP MOVING!”

It’s a curse, I tell you.

Everybody now calls light-skinned people "yellow" for no reason at all. You hear conductors, shoemakers, okada riders, street retailers etc. call you "yellow" in a bid to get your attention. Did they swear for you people? - Adesegun Damazio

As a young boy who grew up on Lagos Island, I got accustomed to an array of weird compliments. My experience at secondary school did little to curb this as words such as "bastard", "bagger", "your father", "weyrey" were deemed complimentary.


I'm certain this form of abnormal compliments aren't peculiar to Nigeria alone as I've on several occasions heard Europeans, Americans and other African nations take to the act.


That's fine by me.


But the truth is this, there are just some compliments I need to stop hearing and I must say this now to whom it may concern.


Gone are the days when the term, "yellow", was freely used to address light-skinned people. I mean, it used to be hype but not anymore. Everybody now calls light-skinned people "yellow" for no reason at all. You hear conductors, shoemakers, okada riders, street retailers etc. call you "yellow" in a bid to get your attention.


Did they swear for you people?


Why can't you call dark-skinned strangers, "Dudu" or "Blacky" and see if they won't give you blow?


But no, the light-skinned ones are your victims. You want to be body-shaming and skin-shaming us abi?


No problem.


Here's my note of warning; henceforth, the only names you're allowed to call me are:


- any of my biological names


- my nickname "Damzy"


- Sugar Banana


- Chicken Peri Peri


If anyone - friend, acquaintance or stranger - dare call me "yellow" again, we will have a date in the spiritual realm. Somebody will lose blood but I'm sure it won't be me. Things will happen on that day but I just don't want to make mouth.


Just do mistake and call me "yellow" again and see what will happen to you people.

Senator Buka Ibrahim : Your sex life is our business - Olakunle Allison

There's nothing like right to privacy for an elected married Senator caught with his pants down having a threesome, if it is true.

There's high moral expectation that comes with public service and leadership. Those who make laws should not only be guiltless under the same laws but blameless as well. Morally unblemished. This is role modelling.

So, making the argument that a married Senator elected by the public shouldn't be subjected to the moral scrutiny of the same public is a shame. His constitutional Right to Privacy must be balanced with his Duty to display exemplary stewardship and moral responsibility.

A sitting Senator is Public Property maintained with public money; hence his or her life must be an open book for Constituents and Voters to read and examine. Here is where the Fourth Estate comes in. To ensure and demand accountability and probity from Public Servants. 

Girls, just make money, you can marry as many as you want, these guys love money - Nkechi Bianze

I don't understand exactly why some people have issues with polygamy. HUMANS, most especially women are polygamous in nature.

As long as she can love all of them equally, got a big enough house to contain all the husbands and children, and enough money to take care of them, a woman can actually marry as many as she wants.

Some of my university mates from China, and Nepal told me that their mums married more than a husband each. And these men considered themselves privileged to even find a wife to call theirs.

She must pick up stones and breathe life into them, stones must rise up and tap into her energy, her passion, her visions. - Joy Isi Bewaji

A leader must believe.


If she first finds someone to believe in and the person doesn't match expectations, then she'd have to move to the next person. She must remain a believer.


There's got to be someone to believe in and take along the trip to building and growing and innovating.


She keeps believing even when people remain mediocre and selfish and a total corporate mess. She must believe.

Hi. Will you walk with me? - Seun Abimbola

Evening was here.


“Hi. Will you walk with me?”


I turned back to the soft voice calling from behind me. A total stranger with an innocent stare was fuming coyly, swinging her arms pleadingly. I looked a little farther behind her. There was no apparent sight of danger. There was just this shy, beautiful soul asking for company.


I was seated at the Susan Wenger garden at the Institute of African Studies, just adjacent her department, Human Nutrition. I was mildly taken aback by her question, shocked but I considered it bold. I looked at her pretty, tucked back pack; her overflowing, slush gown and the flabby natural hair. She was harmless.


“Sure.” I eventually managed to say. I closed the borrowed copy of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird novel I was reading, stood up and was happy to indulge this beautiful stranger.

10 Interesting Things You Don’t Know About The Old Oyo Empire

1. Oyo empire was established by Oranyan who was sent to Benin upon request by the people of the Empire to assist them in the rulership of their Empire.


2. Benin which was on a crisis at that time seemed it have for Oranyan to rule, this made him to fled Benin empire and instead if going back to Ile-Ife, went straight to establish the Oyo empire at a land, 150 miles north of Ile-Ife.

Our society created men with fragile egos - Nkechi Bianze

Dear single ladies,


If you can afford a mansion as a single woman and you like it, BUY IT!


If you can afford the most expensive car as a single woman and you like it, BUY IT!

STOP putting your lives on hold all because you are not married.
Stop existing as if your lives revolve around men, and if you don't get married, you will cease to exist after a while. This is exactly why some men think they are doing you a favour just by marrying you.


Marriage is good when you find the right person for you. But it's NOT a necessity for your normal and continous existence.

We are molested all around but don't speak up for fear or politeness sake - Teniola Esan

Good and bad are labels easily transferred to that or this at different times; they shift like the direction of the wind. The only thing right is what is after my constitution. The only thing wrong is that which is against it.


I ought to go upright and strong and speak the rude truth in all ways. Goodness must have some rough edges to it- or else it is false. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love: else we be hypocrites and cowards; who smile at all things in politeness whether they be right or wrong.

Arabic is a language, Paastors should stop heating the polity - Olu Adegoke

"Oyedepo said government had no right to force subjects on anybody, saying that by stopping Christian Religion Studies, CRS, at the Senior Secondary School level, it automatically meant that it would not be embraced at the tertiary institutions."- PM News
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Listen to this hypocrite, Covenant University - Oyedepo's university has no Department of Religious Studies; yet the Bishop is busy heating up the polity unnecessarily. If Oyedepo loves Christian Religion Studies so much, why has he not created a Department of Christian Religion Studies at his University?


Arabic is a language. What I think PFN and CAN should do is to insist that no part of the Arabic Studies curriculum must contain any reference to Allah, Mohammed or any religious teachings. IT should be taught just the same way as English and French. Christians teachers should be recruited too alongside Muslim teachers to teach the Arabic Studies. It should not be a backdoor way of teaching Islam. Arabic Studies should not be about Islam. More Christians can be encouraged to take the course too. There is no harm in learning a language insofar as it is not a Jihadist attempt at pushing Islam through the backdoor.