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Your President fell down and you are excited. How did we get here? I'm not a fan of Pres. Tinubu and I'm not also a fan of those who celebrate people's downfall.
@FearedBuck Modern marriage is just a financial contract with bad terms.
Men build, women inherit... this isn’t partnership, it’s a transfer of assets.
The system is rigged, play smart or get played.
What do you think about this Message from Pope Francis?
POPE FRANCIS SAID: "Think of a single mother who goes to the Church or the Parish, and tells the secretary: I WANT TO BAPTIZE MY SON." And the attendant says: No, you can't, because you're not married.. Let's keep in mind that this mother had the courage to continue with a pregnancy, and what is she facing? With a door closed! And so, if we continue this path and with this attitude, we are not doing the people, God's People right. Jesus created the seven sacraments and with this attitude we created an eighth: the sacrament of pastoral customs! WHO GOES TO THE CHURCH MUST FIND OPEN DOORS AND NOT TAXES OF FAITH". Pope Francis just said, "We need saints without veils, without underwear." We need jeans and sneaker saints. We need saints to go to the movies, listen to music and hang out with their friends. We need saints that put God first and stand out in University. We need saints who seek time to pray every day and know how to fall in love with purity and chastity, or who consecrate their chastity. We need modern day saints, 21st century saints with spirituality embedded in our time. We need saints committed to the poor and the necessary social change. We need saints who live in the world, sanctify themselves in the world and who are not afraid to live in the world. We need saints who drink Coke and eat hot dogs, who are internet users, who listen to iPod. We need saints who love the Eucharist and who are not ashamed to have a beer or eat pizza on the weekend with friends. We need saints who love cinema, theater, music, dance, sports. We need sociable, open, normal, friendly, joyful, fellow saints. We need saints who are in the world and know how to taste the pure and good things of the world, but without being worldly." That has to be us!!!
Those who approach the Church should find the doors open and not find people who want to control the faith. This is what the Pope said Saturday morning during Mass in the Casa Santa Marta.
Traditionally, it usually takes a rain maker to dispel clouds of an unwanted rain and that was the role @PeterObi played in dispelling a gathering cloud of revolution.
Without doubt, he knew the system was rigged but still had faith in its relics. Which was the undoing of the whole movement.
When the @inecnigeria chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said GO TO COURT, it was because he knew nothing good could come out of the courts. It was a good way to drip out the building tension and disperse the gathering clouds of revolution.
Not minding the overwhelming evidence, buying that mantra, GO TO COURT equalled to not knowing how really rigged the system was; and that's sad.
A few persons knew and agreed that he should not have commented on whether or not Nigerians should STAY AT HOME AND DO NOTHING, and the moment he did, they knew it was over already.
Of course, the old bunch knew he would be reluctant to be named around the deaths of Nigerians. They knew he would not want to be another Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. So they play the GO TO COURT card. Only that this time, it was not about the Igbos but about Nigeria.
We saw the clouds gather and we also saw it dispersed. We saw the giant awaken after a long deep sleep and we saw him put back to bed in hope of another day.
Are we trying to throw blames around? NO. But now that the march is over, we've got to look closely at how things were done and determine how they must never be done again if given another chance.
The system is rigged and we should all know it already.
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I talk about my dad a lot, maybe even too much. That's because he was much more than just a father to me. He was a symbol.
I looked at him and saw possibility. His life was a story of possibility. Despite growing up in an asset-rich, cash-poor, polygamous context, he made it from Badagry to a 1st Class in Biochemistry at the University of Ghana, on the back of personal determination, hard work, and the existence of enabling factors such as Awolowo's high-quality free education policy and OAU/Soviet Union university scholarships.
Despite entering the civil service as a teacher in 1977, the meritocracy that existed back then made it possible for him to rise all the way to Director of Lands, then into Gov. Raji Rasaki's office without ever staining his white even once. Of course, many of his contemporaries stained their whites repeatedly, but the system that once existed made it possible for him to be a successful person without stealing, cheating, or pledging allegiance to anyone.
Yes, his clean record might have been influenced by the fact that he was a religious fundamentalist/true believer who went to absurd extents to live by his faith, but there were many other people in the same faith who committed all sorts of atrocities, so clearly it was a personal decision on his part to never dip his hands into anything that he could not reveal to the world.
Religious fanaticism aside, on the back of hard work, honesty, and integrity alone, he was able to give his family the sort of life that 99% of Nigerians have no frame of reference for. I was raised with the idea that honesty and hard work are all you need to become successful in Nigeria or anywhere, and I had a real-life example of this walking around the house everyday with his leather flip-flops and constant half-smile.
I may not have inherited his faith, but I did inherit his fanaticism. I have seen with my own 2 eyes that it is possible to be an upright person and be hyper-successful (by Nigerian standards) at the same time. There is no contradiction implied therein. The air in Nigeria is not different from the air in Singapore or Chile. The rules of economics are not different. The idea that you have to be a criminal or subservient to a criminal in order to live in an 8-bedroom mansion in a GRA, have 6 cars, send your kids to international schools, take foreign holidays and give your wife everything she wants, is NOT TRUE.
I know for a fact that it is not true because I am the direct offspring of a man who did all that and NEVER ONCE defrauded, cheated, or stole from anyone. A good education, hard work, access to information, smart investment, and a lot of delayed gratification is all it took. I witnessed it and benefitted from it, which is why there is nothing you can tell me that will convince me that criminality HAS to be the default setting in Nigeria.
Everytime I visit a sizeable Nigerian community in Europe, Asia or North America, I observe the same thing - a consistent trend toward respectable middle-class professional life within one generation of leaving Nigeria, even if they arrived from there as destitutes. Once Nigerians find themselves in any environment that rewards honest work and focus, the results are almost uniformly the same - they thrive without recourse to criminals and criminality.
That was once the reality of the Nigeria my dad lived in, and I cannot stop believing in something that I myself witnessed and benefitted from. That's why I care so much, and that's why I could never stop caring even if I wanted to.
The recent and current occupiers of Abuja have done a very good job of convincing many Nigerians that the Nigeria where a drug dealer with extensive FBI records for heroin trafficking is president and a terrorist with documented ties to Boko Haram is vice-president, is the Nigeria that has ALWAYS existed, and that everyone should give up, accept it and fall in line.
But I have seen contrary evidence.
So I refuse.
I will always refuse.
Now they are seriously begging Peter Obi to congratulate Tinubu. BUT HOW? How do you congratulate an armed robber that robbed you & your entire family?
CONGRATULATIONS is an endorsement. If you congratulate an armed robber for a successful operation, you endorsed his criminality; you gave him the approval to return & rob your entire estate.
If you shout “congratulations” in a hot afternoon, Tinubu will wake up.
Like Buhari did in 2003, 2007 & 2011, Peter Obi should not congratulate anyone. What do you need it for? Congratulating someone who stole an election is endorsing illegality.
I don’t know about Atiku Abubakar, but the “process” is more important than the result. I thought you claimed that BAAT won, why do you need anyone’s congratulations?
People rejoiced during military takeovers. Tinubu must be so terrible that even his Agbado Miscreants could not celebrate.
Look at Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, & Gabon. Citizens of those countries rejoiced when the military seized power. Those coup plotters are more popular than Bola, isn’t that a shame?
Since dishonesty & criminality were involved, let Bola Tinubu seek the congratulations from elsewhere.
Why don’t you go the University of Chicago & ask for a Congratulation? His so-called alma mater are afraid to congratulate one of their “First Class” students?
Someone that claimed he won with 8 million votes, is begging for congratulations. Tell me you’re a loser without saying it! 🙄🙄
You are doing a giveaway on social media just to get people to applaud you while your family members are wallowing in poverty. Do they also deserve your giveaway too. Hypocrite!
“Nigerians chose Buhari and not God. Let me tell you this, at times, God can allow you choose what you want. Your child screams ‘I want ice cream’; out of pressure, you may give him. You may have even warned him that it will cause diabetes but he won’t listen.