chriselderson:
Just as expected; KDB always failing to turn up for big games with lame excuses and if he does manage to come on, he'll be limping off in a record time.
Stars are meant to shine with other stars in a star studded game fixtures not rackin up numbers against lesser team.

Maybe you start watching football today. Someone that played last season with injury and still managed to get the team to the final. Oh, you might have forgotten his goal in the semis at the Bernabeu last season and the previous one. His assist against Bayern Munich last season should not be counted. What a small boy mentality to think he intentionally avoided games when he is injured or unwell

Jokay07:

On the bench.
Pep is overthinking again

Not overthinking, he was unwell according to the report. May be he will play the second half sha

Raf4:


In the last 5 yrs, Liverpool had at some point beaten Man City 3:1, 3:0, 4:1 etc both H & A.

Bro, the last time Liverpool won at Etihad is more than 5 years. Stop giving wrong information abi which one be Home and Away?

SEYI MAKINDE Everywhere You Go

bhella10:
Ondo is Batified. The Ondo I come from is Batified.

God Bless you man, We in Ondo are Batified. I just laugh when I see people saying Obi will win Ondo

Best thing to do. Got iphone without any explanation to future husband

Maxikenna:



Looks good from the outside.

Do you want to monetize the channel ?
If the answer is yes

Like I have said before, you need to add value to the video. Add your own original commentary, react to the skills or goals, criticize the defenders etc

Okay boss

Maxikenna:


You are welcome

Boss, I've finally set up the channel. Please help to check if I got it right or any advice on how to get subscribers and viewers. Thanks

https://youtube.com/channel/UCNLuToeELxqZ3yiT4EOYUbw

Maxikenna:


* If you are just starting out, then you need to know that your TITLE AND THUMBNAILS play vital roles on YouTube. That is the secret to views.

*Jump on videos as fast as you can, for instance if after a MAn U game, maguire makes a mistake or error, be the first or among the first channel to make a video about it on youtube.

* Watch channels in that niche and try to learn and replicate there success.

* For me the football niche is the easiest niche on YouTube, so you have no reason not to be consistent

Thanks

Maxikenna:



That’s a tricky one. You can make money only if you have the copyright for the clips, If you don’t have permission to use the clip, you can get a copyright claim or strike.

But there is a way around it, you can make top 10’s, like goals, saves, etc and you can react to it or add a commentary.


Where can you get clips? When next you are on YouTube, search for a particular video, click on filter search, then select Creative Commons. Most of the clips under Creative Commons are free to use.

NB: this is Youtube9ja with a diff moniker

Yes, I can see some useful videos under Creative Commons. Thanks, but what advice will you give to someone like me who is just starting? Like the tips to get many viewers and what is your opinion on the football niche?

Maxikenna:



That’s a tricky one. You can make money only if you have the copyright for the clips, If you don’t have permission to use the clip, you can get a copyright claim or strike.

But there is a way around it, you can make top 10’s, like goals, saves etc and you can react to it or add a commentary.


Where can you get clips? When next you are on YouTube, search for a particular video, click on filter search, then select Creative Commons. Most of the clips under Creative Commons are free to use.

NB: this is Youtube9ja with a diff moniker

Thanks. But without copyright strike, can it be monetized?

Please can I make money with a football sport channel?

peniel465:


This is a simple issue.. I'm the CLO of my lga and we had similar issues.. He just need report to d LGI n he'd wud be reposted to another PPA.. Even if he has 3 days left in Nysc he can still b reposted.... As far as his safety n well being is in d picture, I'm sure d LGI will oblige him..

Thanks

youngsahito:
They can't reject her when they have accepted him. Let him speak with his LI on what is going on and how he can get his last form signed.
All case na settlement for 9ja. LI get power pass d school principal.

Thanks.

youngsahito:
redeploy to where? After 8 months. Let him meet his or her LI make they settle things together.

You mean is not possible?

But can the school says his service is no longer needed, thereby rejecting him.

Thanks for your time.

Hi guys,

A friend of mine, who is serving in a private secondary school fought verbally with the school principal due to some unresolved issues.

Please is it possible for him to leave the school, even though he will pass out in October. If yes, please what is the process?

Thanks.

Finneseguy1:


To be honest with you bro, sport bet is not that lucrative again, but if you’re to start , I will advice you to owe at least 1m, that’s due to high price of things now

I was planning a bet9ja or betking shop. Which one do you think is lucrative?

Finneseguy1:
In anything your doing , don’t give up, always involve God, I made my first million last year, age 31 yr. Bought my first car and land same last year, through multi tasking business, not just one business, I was into real estate, price survey, site management, project supervisor , own a betting shop and a game shop, and I do small street

Big man, please can you please tell me more about the sport betting shop. If I invest like 500k, how will the return be? The minimum please

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The President Muhammadu Buhari has, finally endorsed a power shift to the South in 2023.

He made this known at a dinner with All Progressives Congress presidential aspirants in Abuja.

https://www.blueprint.ng/breaking-finally-buhari-backs-southern-presidency/

This is undoubtedly one of the most trusted persons on this forum. He did great work for me.

Keep it up sir

good4all40:
When will the Mod understands that being Champions of England 3 times under Pep is a not beans no team deserves to be on the Front page than Man city.

please always bring Man city match to front the page the insult is too much lol

Forget the usual statement that there are only few Man City fans in Nigeria, Nairaland is being viewed worldwide and last time l checked Liverpool don't have much fans in Nigeria as well and their match always grace the front page even if they are playing against Bolton Wanderers lol.

God bless you my brother, I don't know why Arsenal that doesn't play champions league and fighting for top 4 will be ahead of league champions regarding front page

It's official, Man City top the league

Bullying is real and a lot of children are traumatised. One of my children came home complaining about how he was being bullied at school.

They kept on taunting him. Do you have washing machine at home? Do you have dish washer? Bla bla bla.

He was branded as inferior. I told him to fight back. We don’t have and there is no shame about it. We were then living in an environment where the light could go for two weeks without PHCN caring if there are human beings there.

So, where do we get light to run washing machine and other gadgets? More importantly, I am from Ekiti where we use ‘laulau’ and ‘kanrinkan’ to wash plates. In Ekiti, we are used to ‘olo ata’ (grinding stone) because grinding machine erodes the taste.

My grandma used ‘ogiri’ to replace maggi without apology. ‘Omi cocoa’ was our juice. The gift of my mother-in-law to my family when we got married was ‘odo’ to pounded yam on banana leàves with bush meat and vegetable to match, before the eateries hijacked it from us.

So, the secondary school mates should not goad my son into all these modern tools.

As God would have it one day, one of the bullies, a girl, came to buy frozen fish in a shop beside my house along Matogun NO ROAD, Oke-Aro (Politicians have been using the road as part of their campaign promises before democracy started in America).

Anyway, immediately the girl sighted my son, she asked “Is this your house?’ And he replied ‘Yes’. Then, she said sarcastically “Eh, so your house has no fence”. My son cried inside, that the following day, he would be ridiculed at school because his daddy’s house has no fence.

I told him, ‘There is need to cry. Where do you expect me, a journalist to get money to fence a house? When you get to the school tomorrow, call the other bullies and give the first jab, saying, “Come o, I saw this girl yesterday at their family ‘s Shoprite’. Stress it very well and once it hits the bully, she would keep quite.

Never tolerate bullies, young or old. Develop a fighting spirit. May the LORD give us all inner strength.

*Ayodele Ale is a journalist, lawyer and public affairs analyst

Source: https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2021/12/04/bullying-i-taught-my-son-to-fight-back/

Is there any causal link between human body parts and wealth? Without any prejudice to the outcome of police investigation, this discourse was again provoked last week when the body of Timothy Adegoke Oludare, an MBA student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) was found buried in a shallow grave in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Oludare had lodged in a hotel in the university town and suspicions are rife that he had been a victim of the thriving market of human rituals among a Yoruba people for whom the indigenous epistemology of prosperity through human body parts rituals has become a centuries-old pastime.

I first came in contact with this epistemological body of knowledge in my pre-teen years. This was in the 1970s Nigeria. Parents sternly warned their wards to religiously avoid being alone in desolate places. It was the period when that caustic-mouthed Yoruba Apala songster, Late Fatai Olowonyo, released the vinyl that bore that iconic track entitled Laye Gbomogbomo (In this world of kidnappers). Padding the song up with his rhythmic acoustic guitar sound that literally sent dancers into gymnastic fits, Olowonyo had warned, especially the young ones, to avoid lone-walking as kidnappers luxuriated in lonely places. When they grabbed their victims, he warned, such victims honked like mouse in a trap. “Iwo nikan ma se da rin mo, bi won ba ki o mole labe agbado, wa si ma dun fin bi omo eku…” he sang.

I lived with my parents in a town called Ikirun, also in today’s Osun State. There was this highly dreaded spiritualist called Baba Aladokun who specialized in the spiritual healing of mentally-challenged patients. His house, which I frequented every Saturday with my father, was usually filled to the brim with all manner of patients, many sent to his herbal sanatorium from several lands away. When his patients were in the twilight of receiving their healing, he loaned them to farmers like my father to work on their farms for fees. The farmers in turn gave him reports of the perceived level of the patients’ sanity. Dark, pot-bellied, Baba Aladokun sat cupped up in a corner of his herbal hospice, welcoming oncoming people afar off by saying, “e wee”, a style of greetings which a pre-teen boy like me smothered the urge to laugh at.

A few years after, Baba Aladokun was embroiled in a criminal allegation of human body parts ritual. The Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had received report that the herbalist had veered into human body parts rituals. A police detective who pretended to be mentally deranged was promptly seconded to his sanatorium. In the course of simulating mental derangement, she had reportedly witnessed the herbalist pounding bodies of a newly born baby in a mortar which was then garnished with black soap and other accoutrements. Baba Aladokun was subsequently arrested, remanded in the Ilesa prisons and later released for want of evidence. Not long after, one of the old herbalist’s mentally ill patients was said to have beheaded him right inside his sanatorium.

Traditional African Spiritual System (TASS) believes in the centrality of spiritual beings and has its roots in relationship with the spirit world. This world is believed to be responsible for happiness, protection, material wealth and health. Any dislocation with TASS was believed to lead to sickness, barrenness, death, among others. A scholar once explained that in human body parts rituals, the soul of the sacrificed victim is sent on an errand to the supra-physical realm. There, the soul then engages in the laborious exercise of harvesting wealth for the usage of the victimizer.

In African films, worldviews and the totality of our social engagements, instant riches not accessed by sweat, mental rigour and tenacity jut out prominently. That is why our children no longer engage in works that take them through byzantine and laborious paths of hard work. Nollywood, though teaches that voodoo wealth leads to calamity, dwells on its sociology and its reality, thus legitimizing it.

This same spiritual and occult economies in wealth generation are also being deployed in the sustenance of cyber crimes committed by youths called Yahoo Yahoo or 419, a Southern Nigerian version of banditry in the Northwest. Recently, the incidence of theft of female underwear became pandemic, with this trade traced to the rituals of Yahoo Yahoo boys using them to spiritually keep on the trade of cyber fraud.

For centuries, human sacrifice was prevalent in traditional Africa. For example, archaeologist, Graham Connah discovered 41 skeletons belonging to women thrown into a pit in Benin in the 13th century AD. In his submissions, Connah indicated that human sacrifice or murder was prevalent at the time. During the early days in most parts of Africa, human sacrifices were considered to be an essential component of state religion, while sacrifices to the god of iron, Olokun the water goddess, source of economic power. Worship of many other deities was common. Olokun, the water deity, is culturally and popularly believed to possess immeasurable riches in its kingdom beneath the sea. Poet John Pepper Clark, dwelling on the ancient mythology of the Benin kingdom on the Olokun goddess, had developed the significance of this deity. He had written, So drunken, like ancient walls//We crumble in heaps at your feet;//And as the good maid of the sea,//Full of rich bounties for men,//You lift us all beggars to your breast.

The practice has since continued. Despite the huge influence of Christianity and Islam, Nigerians have maintained very deep syncretic link to traditional African magic and rituals and indigenous epistemologies of prosperity. Pastors, Imams and worshippers of the two major religions have not severed their links to this past and still strongly associate wealth,health and societal advancement, alongside other existential matters, with mystical and spiritual powers. Though religionists ascribe those existential matters to God’s intervention, the invisible world of magic and the spirit world are believed to hold the ace as the source of wealth and earthly glory in their hearts and acts.

Apart from politics, one of the central things that many Nigerian elite, on the route to seeking wealth, engage in is money rituals. This happens when perpetrators murder their victim and gorge out vital parts of their bodies for rituals. Spiritual epistemology says this makes its perpetrator acquire money in the process. This is because, like Nigerian politics where easy and unearned wealth resides, rituals that are believed to lead to accumulation of wealth involve less arduous perspiration and most times, less engagement of the mental faculties of proponents of such evil processes.

Many people have asked what constitutes the efficacy of that thinking. In other words, what is the causal link between human body parts and wealth? How does harvested human parts lead to money? While the ontology of that belief system, like all spiritual things, may be very illogical and even silly to science, the fact that the practice and belief in it have endured for centuries is a pointer to two binary possibilities: either that believers in the efficacy of money rituals are downright stupid, naïve or conversely, that there is a reality about human parts rituals that lures people into it. And our people cannot be said to have been stupid for centuries now.

Apart from the criminal implications and moral burden of having to kill a fellow man and harvest their organs for money-making rituals, a spiritually embedded economy like ritual killing disadvertises itself to many people in Africa. This is because wealth gathered by doing so does not endure and has been known to attract fatal repercussions. Conditionalities attached to them are oftentimes stringent, leading to early deaths of the perpetrators and evaporation of the acquisitions in their lifetime. It is said that children of the perpetrators reap the evil seeds sown by them and the wealth vamooses suddenly like vapour.

However, the major reason why rituals involving body parts thrive in Nigeria and Africa as a whole is because the bulk of Africa rests on a pagan and unscientific past. While the world scientifically reasons itself into wealth and its acquisition, Africa’s wealth-creating modem is founded on metaphysics which is not only unexplainable but crude. The metaphysics of African wealth creation does not conform to the nine features of science which are objectivity, verifiability, ethical neutrality, systematic exploration, reliability, precision, accuracy and abstractness. This is why Africa is nowhere to be found on the loop of wealth in the world. The few Africans who are there, like Mike Adenuga, Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola and co must have chosen to shun all those burdens of our crude and unrewarding approach to wealth. If not, they won’t be there.

World richest man, Elon Reeve Musk, was born on June 28, 1971 to a Canadian mother and South African father. Raised in South Africa, Elon attended University of Pretoria for a brief period before moving to Canada at the age of 17. In America, he got bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Physics. Elon however had to delink the African wealth-creating mentality to be able to get to where he is today. The land of his birth is very rife with metaphysics of wealth and existence. In Southern Africa and some parts of the African Great Lakes region for example, in what is called muti or medicine murder, body parts of albinos are believed to have the power to transmit magical powers. Witch doctors in these areas are renowned to ask for such victims so that their parts could be used as ingredients for concoctions, potions and rituals to divine prosperity for the user. In Nigeria and other parts of Africa, hunchbacks are endangered species as they are deployed for money making rituals.

However, Elon has been able to systematically rise to become a world-class entrepreneur and business magnate whose wealth can be tracked scientifically, deploying all those afore-mentioned indices of science. Gradating his business development growth, he established Space X, the aerospace manufacturing company and became its founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer. In 2004, he moved over to the giant electric vehicle manufacturing company called Tesla Motors, Inc to become its chairman and product architect. He became its CEO in 2008. Today, Elon has an estimated net worth of over US$250 billion.

Why then is it that in Nigeria and Africa, we are still trapped in the puddle of occultic wealth creation that causes pain, sorrow and death for victims and families of our fellow man? Why do we still believe in a wealth model that demonstrates that we are what Trevor Roper and other racist historians said we are – a bunch of unthinking, crude animals jumping from one tree to the other?

Human rituals thrive because there is a contemporary socio-economic demand for them. Though majority of the people do not believe in it, virtually all of us have strands of the dark practice in our closets. As shocking as human body parts rituals are, many people justify and even legitimize them. Until we begin to reason scientifically like other people of the world, we will forever be trapped by these centuries-old epistemologies, rather than the ones of a post-modern world. Unfortunately for us, when Forbes brings up the names of wealthy people of the world, we cannot see names of those who scooped up wealth by killing human beings for rituals. Why then do people still follow this path that leads to obvious, irredeemable perdition?

As an aside, the autopsy on Timothy Adegoke Oludare must not be allowed to be compromised. The Nigeria Police has the institutional notoriety of perverting the course of justice, for whatever inclination. That autopsy holds the key to the culpability or otherwise of the accused. The moment it is perverted, Oludare’s death would be in vain and there will be no lesson learnt for the alleged malefactors in the case and for us all as a society.

*Dr. Festus Adedayo, journalist, lawyer and public affairs analyst, writes from Ibadan

Source: https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2021/11/21/did-elon-musk-use-human-parts-for-money-rituals/

Is there any causal link between human body parts and wealth? Without any prejudice to the outcome of police investigation, this discourse was again provoked last week when the body of Timothy Adegoke Oludare, an MBA student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) was found buried in a shallow grave in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Oludare had lodged in a hotel in the university town and suspicions are rife that he had been a victim of the thriving market of human rituals among a Yoruba people for whom the indigenous epistemology of prosperity through human body parts rituals has become a centuries-old pastime.

I first came in contact with this epistemological body of knowledge in my pre-teen years. This was in the 1970s Nigeria. Parents sternly warned their wards to religiously avoid being alone in desolate places. It was the period when that caustic-mouthed Yoruba Apala songster, Late Fatai Olowonyo, released the vinyl that bore that iconic track entitled Laye Gbomogbomo (In this world of kidnappers). Padding the song up with his rhythmic acoustic guitar sound that literally sent dancers into gymnastic fits, Olowonyo had warned, especially the young ones, to avoid lone-walking as kidnappers luxuriated in lonely places. When they grabbed their victims, he warned, such victims honked like mouse in a trap. “Iwo nikan ma se da rin mo, bi won ba ki o mole labe agbado, wa si ma dun fin bi omo eku…” he sang.

I lived with my parents in a town called Ikirun, also in today’s Osun State. There was this highly dreaded spiritualist called Baba Aladokun who specialized in the spiritual healing of mentally-challenged patients. His house, which I frequented every Saturday with my father, was usually filled to the brim with all manner of patients, many sent to his herbal sanatorium from several lands away. When his patients were in the twilight of receiving their healing, he loaned them to farmers like my father to work on their farms for fees. The farmers in turn gave him reports of the perceived level of the patients’ sanity. Dark, pot-bellied, Baba Aladokun sat cupped up in a corner of his herbal hospice, welcoming oncoming people afar off by saying, “e wee”, a style of greetings which a pre-teen boy like me smothered the urge to laugh at.

A few years after, Baba Aladokun was embroiled in a criminal allegation of human body parts ritual. The Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had received report that the herbalist had veered into human body parts rituals. A police detective who pretended to be mentally deranged was promptly seconded to his sanatorium. In the course of simulating mental derangement, she had reportedly witnessed the herbalist pounding bodies of a newly born baby in a mortar which was then garnished with black soap and other accoutrements. Baba Aladokun was subsequently arrested, remanded in the Ilesa prisons and later released for want of evidence. Not long after, one of the old herbalist’s mentally ill patients was said to have beheaded him right inside his sanatorium.

Traditional African Spiritual System (TASS) believes in the centrality of spiritual beings and has its roots in relationship with the spirit world. This world is believed to be responsible for happiness, protection, material wealth and health. Any dislocation with TASS was believed to lead to sickness, barrenness, death, among others. A scholar once explained that in human body parts rituals, the soul of the sacrificed victim is sent on an errand to the supra-physical realm. There, the soul then engages in the laborious exercise of harvesting wealth for the usage of the victimizer.

In African films, worldviews and the totality of our social engagements, instant riches not accessed by sweat, mental rigour and tenacity jut out prominently. That is why our children no longer engage in works that take them through byzantine and laborious paths of hard work. Nollywood, though teaches that voodoo wealth leads to calamity, dwells on its sociology and its reality, thus legitimizing it.

This same spiritual and occult economies in wealth generation are also being deployed in the sustenance of cyber crimes committed by youths called Yahoo Yahoo or 419, a Southern Nigerian version of banditry in the Northwest. Recently, the incidence of theft of female underwear became pandemic, with this trade traced to the rituals of Yahoo Yahoo boys using them to spiritually keep on the trade of cyber fraud.

For centuries, human sacrifice was prevalent in traditional Africa. For example, archaeologist, Graham Connah discovered 41 skeletons belonging to women thrown into a pit in Benin in the 13th century AD. In his submissions, Connah indicated that human sacrifice or murder was prevalent at the time. During the early days in most parts of Africa, human sacrifices were considered to be an essential component of state religion, while sacrifices to the god of iron, Olokun the water goddess, source of economic power. Worship of many other deities was common. Olokun, the water deity, is culturally and popularly believed to possess immeasurable riches in its kingdom beneath the sea. Poet John Pepper Clark, dwelling on the ancient mythology of the Benin kingdom on the Olokun goddess, had developed the significance of this deity. He had written, So drunken, like ancient walls//We crumble in heaps at your feet;//And as the good maid of the sea,//Full of rich bounties for men,//You lift us all beggars to your breast.

The practice has since continued. Despite the huge influence of Christianity and Islam, Nigerians have maintained very deep syncretic link to traditional African magic and rituals and indigenous epistemologies of prosperity. Pastors, Imams and worshippers of the two major religions have not severed their links to this past and still strongly associate wealth,health and societal advancement, alongside other existential matters, with mystical and spiritual powers. Though religionists ascribe those existential matters to God’s intervention, the invisible world of magic and the spirit world are believed to hold the ace as the source of wealth and earthly glory in their hearts and acts.

Apart from politics, one of the central things that many Nigerian elite, on the route to seeking wealth, engage in is money rituals. This happens when perpetrators murder their victim and gorge out vital parts of their bodies for rituals. Spiritual epistemology says this makes its perpetrator acquire money in the process. This is because, like Nigerian politics where easy and unearned wealth resides, rituals that are believed to lead to accumulation of wealth involve less arduous perspiration and most times, less engagement of the mental faculties of proponents of such evil processes.

Many people have asked what constitutes the efficacy of that thinking. In other words, what is the causal link between human body parts and wealth? How does harvested human parts lead to money? While the ontology of that belief system, like all spiritual things, may be very illogical and even silly to science, the fact that the practice and belief in it have endured for centuries is a pointer to two binary possibilities: either that believers in the efficacy of money rituals are downright stupid, naïve or conversely, that there is a reality about human parts rituals that lures people into it. And our people cannot be said to have been stupid for centuries now.

Apart from the criminal implications and moral burden of having to kill a fellow man and harvest their organs for money-making rituals, a spiritually embedded economy like ritual killing disadvertises itself to many people in Africa. This is because wealth gathered by doing so does not endure and has been known to attract fatal repercussions. Conditionalities attached to them are oftentimes stringent, leading to early deaths of the perpetrators and evaporation of the acquisitions in their lifetime. It is said that children of the perpetrators reap the evil seeds sown by them and the wealth vamooses suddenly like vapour.

However, the major reason why rituals involving body parts thrive in Nigeria and Africa as a whole is because the bulk of Africa rests on a pagan and unscientific past. While the world scientifically reasons itself into wealth and its acquisition, Africa’s wealth-creating modem is founded on metaphysics which is not only unexplainable but crude. The metaphysics of African wealth creation does not conform to the nine features of science which are objectivity, verifiability, ethical neutrality, systematic exploration, reliability, precision, accuracy and abstractness. This is why Africa is nowhere to be found on the loop of wealth in the world. The few Africans who are there, like Mike Adenuga, Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola and co must have chosen to shun all those burdens of our crude and unrewarding approach to wealth. If not, they won’t be there.

World richest man, Elon Reeve Musk, was born on June 28, 1971 to a Canadian mother and South African father. Raised in South Africa, Elon attended University of Pretoria for a brief period before moving to Canada at the age of 17. In America, he got bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Physics. Elon however had to delink the African wealth-creating mentality to be able to get to where he is today. The land of his birth is very rife with metaphysics of wealth and existence. In Southern Africa and some parts of the African Great Lakes region for example, in what is called muti or medicine murder, body parts of albinos are believed to have the power to transmit magical powers. Witch doctors in these areas are renowned to ask for such victims so that their parts could be used as ingredients for concoctions, potions and rituals to divine prosperity for the user. In Nigeria and other parts of Africa, hunchbacks are endangered species as they are deployed for money making rituals.

However, Elon has been able to systematically rise to become a world-class entrepreneur and business magnate whose wealth can be tracked scientifically, deploying all those afore-mentioned indices of science. Gradating his business development growth, he established Space X, the aerospace manufacturing company and became its founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer. In 2004, he moved over to the giant electric vehicle manufacturing company called Tesla Motors, Inc to become its chairman and product architect. He became its CEO in 2008. Today, Elon has an estimated net worth of over US$250 billion.

Why then is it that in Nigeria and Africa, we are still trapped in the puddle of occultic wealth creation that causes pain, sorrow and death for victims and families of our fellow man? Why do we still believe in a wealth model that demonstrates that we are what Trevor Roper and other racist historians said we are – a bunch of unthinking, crude animals jumping from one tree to the other?

Human rituals thrive because there is a contemporary socio-economic demand for them. Though majority of the people do not believe in it, virtually all of us have strands of the dark practice in our closets. As shocking as human body parts rituals are, many people justify and even legitimize them. Until we begin to reason scientifically like other people of the world, we will forever be trapped by these centuries-old epistemologies, rather than the ones of a post-modern world. Unfortunately for us, when Forbes brings up the names of wealthy people of the world, we cannot see names of those who scooped up wealth by killing human beings for rituals. Why then do people still follow this path that leads to obvious, irredeemable perdition?

As an aside, the autopsy on Timothy Adegoke Oludare must not be allowed to be compromised. The Nigeria Police has the institutional notoriety of perverting the course of justice, for whatever inclination. That autopsy holds the key to the culpability or otherwise of the accused. The moment it is perverted, Oludare’s death would be in vain and there will be no lesson learnt for the alleged malefactors in the case and for us all as a society.

*Dr. Festus Adedayo, journalist, lawyer and public affairs analyst, writes from Ibadan

Source: https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2021/11/21/did-elon-musk-use-human-parts-for-money-rituals/

I said it before, the military abandoned their checkpoints in Ondo for a reason.

May God bless Akeredolu for the AMOTEKUN outfit and his bravery as the Chairman of the Southern Governors

The Citizens we are good to go

many people end up teaching because they have no choice

This is the fact, anyway Kudos to the VP

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has renewed its call against the adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, citing economic risk among others.

In a statement issued on October 1 and seen by Ripples Nigeria on Sunday, IMF admitted that cryptocurrencies improve access to finance but the challenges and risk tied to the unregulated digital asset are higher than the advantages.

The Bretton Woods institution listed quick and easy payments and inclusive access to previously “unbanked” parts of the world as part of the new opportunities in the crypto ecosystem.

It said crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripples, Doge, and other stables coins could aid money laundering and terrorism financing, adding that the anonymity it offers create regulatory problems.

IMF said: “The (pseudo) anonymity of crypto assets also creates data gaps for regulators and can open unwanted doors for money laundering as well as terror financing.

“Although authorities may be able to trace illicit transactions, they may not be able to identify the parties to such transactions. Additionally, the crypto ecosystem falls under different regulatory frameworks in different countries, making coordination more challenging.

“For example, most transactions on crypto exchanges happen through entities that operate primarily in offshore financial centers. This makes supervision and enforcement not only challenging, but nearly impossible without international collaboration.”

While picking out the problems of cryptocurrency usage, IMF said many entities issuing stable coins do not have a dependable operational structure, prone to hackers and causing users to lose their funds invested in the assets.

“Many of these entities lack strong operational, governance, and risk practices. Crypto exchanges, for instance have faced significant disruptions during periods of market turbulence.

“There are also several high-profile cases of hacking-related thefts of customer funds. So far, these incidents have not had a significant impact on financial stability. However, as crypto assets become more mainstream, their importance in terms of potential implications for the wider economy is set to increase,” it added.

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Greaves who played for top clubs like Chelsea, Tottenham, and AC Milan passed away at the age of 81.

A Tottenham statement read: “We are extremely saddened to learn of the passing of the great Jimmy Greaves, not just Tottenham Hotspur’s record goalscorer but the finest marksman this country has ever seen.

“Jimmy passed away at home in the early hours of this morning, aged 81.”

The English man has been said to be one of the greatest all-time footballers. Therefore, let takes a look at his best moments as a football player.

124 First Division Goals In Four Seasons

Jimmy in 1957 started his professional football career at Chelsea. He spent four unforgettable seasons with the London club as he scored 124 goals before he joined AC Milan.

124 goals for a young inexperienced player in four seasons is undoubtedly a great achievement. It means that at least he scored over 30 goals in each of his seasons with Chelsea.

In April 1961, Greaves joined the Italian club A.C. Milan for £80,000 transfer fee.

Most Goals In A Season For Tottenham Hotspur

Greaves didn’t spend much time in Italy. He returned to England in December 1961 for £100,000 transfer fee to become the most expensive player in British football.

He scored 37 goals in the 1962-63 season to break the record of most goals in a season for the Spurs. He later scored 266 goals in 379 matches before he left Tottenham in March 1970.

After his death, Tottenham said he possessed, “immaculate ball control, great balance and such composure in front of goal that he rarely spurned an opportunity”.

Greaves Received the 1966 World Cup Medal In 2009

The deceased had an incredible career playing for the English National Team as he scored 43 career goals for the Three Lions. But missing out on the final stages of the 1966 World Cup which eventually denied him the opportunity to wear the winning medal with his colleagues hurt so much.

“I danced around the pitch with everyone else but even in this moment of triumph and great happiness, deep down I felt my sadness. Throughout my years as a professional footballer, I had dreamed of playing in a World Cup Final. I had missed out on the match of a lifetime and it hurt,” Greaves was disappointed to have missed the 1966 World Cup final.

Only the 11 players on the pitch at the end of the 4–2 win over West Germany received medals. Greaves who played all the three group games against Uruguay, Mexico, and France but did not play at the final later received his medal in 2009 after FIFA was persuaded to award medals to all the winners’ squad members.

SOURCE : Olutysport

Greaves who played for top clubs like Chelsea, Tottenham, and AC Milan passed away at the age of 81.

A Tottenham statement read: “We are extremely saddened to learn of the passing of the great Jimmy Greaves, not just Tottenham Hotspur’s record goalscorer but the finest marksman this country has ever seen.

“Jimmy passed away at home in the early hours of this morning, aged 81.”

The English man has been said to be one of the greatest all-time footballers. Therefore, let takes a look at his best moments as a football player.

124 First Division Goals In Four Seasons

Jimmy in 1957 started his professional football career at Chelsea. He spent four unforgettable seasons with the London club as he scored 124 goals before he joined AC Milan.

124 goals for a young inexperienced player in four seasons is undoubtedly a great achievement. It means that at least he scored over 30 goals in each of his seasons with Chelsea.

In April 1961, Greaves joined the Italian club A.C. Milan for £80,000 transfer fee.

Most Goals In A Season For Tottenham Hotspur

Greaves didn’t spend much time in Italy. He returned to England in December 1961 for £100,000 transfer fee to become the most expensive player in British football.

He scored 37 goals in the 1962-63 season to break the record of most goals in a season for the Spurs. He later scored 266 goals in 379 matches before he left Tottenham in March 1970.

After his death, Tottenham said he possessed, “immaculate ball control, great balance and such composure in front of goal that he rarely spurned an opportunity”.

Greaves Received the 1966 World Cup Medal In 2009

The deceased had an incredible career playing for the English National Team as he scored 43 career goals for the Three Lions. But missing out on the final stages of the 1966 World Cup which eventually denied him the opportunity to wear the winning medal with his colleagues hurt so much.

“I danced around the pitch with everyone else but even in this moment of triumph and great happiness, deep down I felt my sadness. Throughout my years as a professional footballer, I had dreamed of playing in a World Cup Final. I had missed out on the match of a lifetime and it hurt,” Greaves was disappointed to have missed the 1966 World Cup final.

Only the 11 players on the pitch at the end of the 4–2 win over West Germany received medals. Greaves who played all the three group games against Uruguay, Mexico, and France but did not play at the final later received his medal in 2009 after FIFA was persuaded to award medals to all the winners’ squad members.

SOURCE : Olutysport