Are you aware that Chief Obafemi Awolowo's free education policy policy in Western Nigeria, launched on the 17th of January, 1955, was provided to all Nigerians living in Western Nigeria, including Igbos and Northerners? Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala benefitted from it.

People of Yoruba origin could not attend public schools in Eastern Nigeria. Please fact-check me. Chief Awolowo was a visionary. God's gift to the Black Race.

Awolowo failed in politics in the First Republic because the Eastern Region went into an alliance with the Northern Peoples Congress. Chief Awolowo was convicted and sent to prison for a trumped up treason charge by the Northern and Eastern coalition Central government, for goodness sake. He was not released until Lt. Colonel Gowon set him free on August 1966. And here you are, blaming him?

Regionalism and resource control were destroyed on May 24, 1966, after Majors Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu's coup put Major General Aguiyi Ironsi in charge as Nigeria's first military Head of State. Awolowo was in jail. He seized all resources of the regions, abolished regional civil services and ruled Nigeria as a unitary entity from his boathouse at the Lagos Marina.

You mentioned the word rebel. What do you call people who refuse to obey the lawful government of their country?

For example, when Isaac Adaka Boro declared independence from Nigeria on 23 February 1966, with his Niger Delta Republic, what did Ojukwu call him? Was it not 'rebel'? Ojukwu invited the Federal Military Government of Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi to intervene in the Eastern Region to stop the rebellion, and Ironsi sent troops to quash Boro's rebellion. His fighters were killed, and he was arrested and jailed.

You guys are not complaining about that.

But when Ojukwu did the same thing to the Federal Military Government, led by Lt. Colonel Gowon, you now want Nigeria to call him and his army what?

Chief Awolowo foresaw all of this and suggested a Secession Clause be included in Nigeria's constitution in 1954 during the Lagos Constitutional Conference, but Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it and galvanised a majority of the conference attendees to kill the idea.

After this was rejected, Chief Awolowo again wrote to the then Governor General of Nigeria, who rejected the clause on the grounds that the majority, led by Nnamdi Azikiwe, was not in support of it.

It was because of Nnamdi Azikiwe that section 86 was inserted into our constitution with the proviso that if any region should secede, it would be an act of treason.

Nnamdi Azikiwe himself wrote about this in an essay, which was published by the New Nigerian Newspapers in 1975 and has since been republished by other papers and by Mr Azikiwe himself.

Were it not for Azikiwe, Biafra would have had the legal right to secede.

But rather than appreciate a man who was almost an angel in human form, you are libelling him and accusing him of being responsible for your woes.

When will this self-pity and navel-gazing end?

Anyway, thanks again and may God bless you.

#TableShaker

ariesbull:
Do you know that one of the biggest FINTECH in Nigeria and Africa ...PALMPAY is owned by an Igbo man stop all these tribalism, Fintech has all the tribes contributing to it. THE MD/CEO of PALMPAY is CHIKA NWOSU mind you PALMPAY IS IN ALMOST OVER 15 AFRICAN COUNTRIES, You do not see Igbo making noise

Appzone is another big Fintech in Nigeria, the Founder and CEO is Obi Emetarom is the CEO at Appzone Group .... You do not see Igbo making noise

Stop been lousy

You be olodo. CEO is just a position, managerial position, not owner of the company. Chika is an employee of Transsion. Let me school you small: Transsion are the owners of Infinix, Techno, Itel, Oriamo, Boomplay & co.
Transsion co-owns PalmPay with another Chinese company, NetEase, and was the lead investor in a $40 million raise which the startup used to break into the Nigeria market, laying the foundation for other Chinese investors to splash more cash on the startup.

ariesbull:
Do you know that one of the biggest FINTECH in Nigeria and Africa ...PALMPAY is owned by an Igbo man stop all these tribalism, Fintech has all the tribes contributing to it. THE MD/CEO of PALMPAY is CHIKA NWOSU mind you PALMPAY IS IN ALMOST OVER 15 AFRICAN COUNTRIES, You do not see Igbo making noise

Appzone is another big Fintech in Nigeria, the Founder and CEO is Obi Emetarom is the CEO at Appzone Group .... You do not see Igbo making noise

Stop been lousy

Lies! Palmpay is owned by Transsnet Financial, a joint venture between Chinese mobile phone maker Transsion and NetEase, a Chinese internet company. Opay, on the other hand, is a subsidiary of Opera, a Norwegian software company that provides web browsers, mobile apps, and other related services. Chika is just a figurehead MD

Yoruba owns the tech industry in Nigeria

JAMB also gave the overbearing Madam due process upper cut 😄 "...The flip side of this is to infer that some ethnic jingoists had perhaps been elevated to public office and recognition beyond their mental and emotional capacity."

Nmesoma and JAMB: Probing the Integrity of Our National Institutions

Miss Nmesoma Ejikeme took her 2023 JAMB at my foundation’s Computer-Based Testing (CBT) Center at Obosi. I got some calls from worried friends about Nmesoma’s result, which had Thomas Chidoka Center as her examination center. I allayed their worries that the result issue had nothing to do with the examination center.

I observed two significant red flags when I saw her result online. First, our center is no longer addressed as Thomas Chidoka Center for Human Development on the JAMB portal since 2021. The correct name on the JAMB portal and Main Examination Slip is Nkemefuna Foundation (Thomas Chidoka Center for Human Development). Due to the difference in our CAC registration details, JAMB insisted we change to Nkemefuna Foundation with Thomas Chidoka in a bracket as an identifier. We implemented the name change in 2021. Her result showing Thomas Chidoka without the Nkemefuna Foundation, which was on her Main Examination slip, raised my suspicion about the genuineness of the result.

The second red flag was the result template. A cursory review of some of those who took the last examination at our center showed a different result slip template with the candidate’s passport picture, JAMB watermarks, and no mention of the name of the examination center. I gave the young Nmesoma the benefit of the doubt and waited to see if she would explain how she got the result, which is obviously not the result template that Jamb used in 2023. I knew it was fake.

Our Center has been involved with the JAMB CBT examination since 2016, and I have come to trust the integrity of the JAMB online examination platform. As Corps Marshal in 2011, I used JAMB to conduct the FRSC recruitment exercise that is still adjudged a high-water mark in public sector recruitment. Those recruited through that process wear their uniform with pride and continue to deliver value to the organisation to this day.

For me, the real issue in this saga is the level of distrust of our national institutions. The social media frenzy and denigration of JAMB, together with the ethnic slant of a simple issue with clear and verifiable methods of resolution, is symptomatic of the deep distrust of our national institutions. This distrust was deepened in the past 8 years with a horrifying descent of issues to our national fault lines. The Ethnicisation of the issue is sad and disappointing.

I doff my hat for JAMB. They came out forcefully and defended their integrity vigorously. They shared the USSD communication between Nmesoma’s phone and their servers with timestamps. Mr. Fabian Benjamin, the JAMB spokesperson, did a yeoman’s job in explaining how their system works and the security of their result portal. He even asked anyone who cares to crosscheck with AIRTEL, the network provider of Nmesoma.’s phone. Their transparency was compelling and disarming.

The JAMB Registrar, Professor Oloyede, issued statements based on facts and defended the integrity of a foremost Nigerian institution whose failure would have had a catastrophic effect on Nigeria’s educational and CBT systems. I was impressed. JAMB’s reaction and responsiveness should be made a minimum benchmark for government agencies. Our universities should write case studies of this saga so other institutions can learn how to navigate social media and information management in the face of unrelenting attacks.

JAMB's response is an example to follow. If INEC leadership has any sense of shame and any shred of integrity, they should save President Tinubu from a needless legitimacy question by behaving like JAMB. They should step forward and explain what technical glitch they had on election day that marred the upload of form EC8As from polling units across the country. They should share with the public the interaction between the BVAS sim cards and their servers. They should share the audit report of their servers during the failed upload. When Dominion, an election system company in the United States, was defamed by FOX TV, they went to court to defend the integrity of their system, and the court awarded them $700M. Maintaining the integrity of elections is fundamental to democracy.

INEC, as a public-funded institution, should share with the citizens all forms EC8Bs collated at the 8809 wards, EC8Cs, collated at the 774 LGAs, and EC8Ds collated at the 36 States and fully upload all the EC8As on IREV after the fact using the original copies submitted by the Presiding officers. This cannot be asking for too much from an institution led by a professor who spent $650.57 million (N303.17 billion) to conduct the 2023 election.

Like Jamb, INEC must be accountable to the people of Nigeria. They should step forward and restore the integrity and sanctity of elections in Nigeria and remove the cloud of illegitimacy surrounding the election of President Tinubu if their system worked as they are claiming. The courts can not remove the national disappointment, odium, and massive distrust of INEC’s election infrastructure, no matter the decision.

For Nmesoma, she should come clean and explain how she got that result and who led her down that path. If she does that, I will lend my voice to beg JAMB to note her age and show more leniency.
Osita Chidoka
July 2023

Anambra has the most efficient health care system in the country closely followed by those of Osun, Ogun, Lagos and Rivers states to make up the top five states according to WellNewMe, the health technology company that generated the report, in ranking the states.

Anambra has the most efficient health care system in the country closely followed by those of Osun, Ogun, Lagos and Rivers states to make up the top five states according to WellNewMe, the health technology company that generated the report, in ranking the states.

The publication evaluated all 36 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) using each metric, the top state based on the raw data was given 1 point and the bottom state was given 37 points, including categories such as education, infrastructure, economy and healthcare.

To rank the most efficient states for healthcare in Nigeria, WellNewMe, used a modified version of the model used by New York based Common Wealth Fund, a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, young children, and elderly adults.

The report reveals that the top half of the list was dominated by states from the southern part of the country, with the highest ranking state from the north, Nasarawa coming in at 13th spot.

“We used 27 indicators that measure performance in four domains important to policymakers, providers, patients, and the public: Care Process, Access, Equity, and Health Care Outcomes,” said Obi Igbokwe, chief executive officer (CEO) of WellNewMe. “Our data came from a variety of sources including the National Bureau of Statistics, The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, The World Health Organization (WHO), Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and Kingmakers.com.ng. Except where stated, most of the data was from the year 2018.”

Igbokwe explained that in ranking the states, they created an index score for each metric for each state. In each metric, the top state based on the raw data was given 1 point and the bottom state was given 37 points. States between these were indexed proportionally. For the overall rankings, an average of the four category rankings was created, and then the outcome ranked. This method was chosen for the overall ranking so that it would not be skewed by large differences in scores at a metric level.

“For instance, with certain metrics such as assisted birth deliveries, 98.2% of all deliveries in Imo were handled by a trained healthcare professional, which is close to what you get in some developed countries, as compared to just 3.4% in Kogi. This demonstrates a huge disparity in the delivery of health services that can occur between the states. Going the route we did in ranking the states, it helped give us a clearer idea on how well each state was performing in relation to their peers when it comes to public health management” He continued.

Public health management which covers the administrative and managerial capacities, organizational structures, and systems needed to finance and deliver health services more efficiently, effectively, and equitably is a really tough job, especially for the states with minimal resources.

This is why states like Osun, Enugu and Ondo deserve special mention as despite having smaller budgets than some of their peers, they performed really well to find themselves in the top 10 best performing states.”

While our rankings are by no means entirely fool proof, they do provide an interesting and valuable insight into areas that the various states are deficient in, and require in some instances urgent attention in order to provide their citizens with high quality healthcare, ” he said.

However, the chief executive officer (CEO) of WellNewMe further said the current coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore the importance of having a strong health system, as many countries were faced with a unique challenge on how to best handle a novel disease which was killing people around the world at a rapid rate.

“This has brought about the reassignment of almost all resources in fighting the disease, affecting other health services available to patients.”

According to Igbokwe, some countries, such as Nigeria where caught in a unique situation where we already had an underfunded and poorly resourced national health system, which saw a scrambling by the various state governments in the country to put in place temporary health facilities to deal with the lack of resources needed should the disease get a firm footing in the country.

Fortunately, it seems that has been avoided, but it did expose the geographical disparity in healthcare service availability and delivery across the country,” said Igbokwe. “Healthcare in Nigeria is largely influenced by different local and regional factors that impact the quality or quantity of care received by its citizens, and large denotes the efficiency of the health system in each state.”

“Health care efficiency is a comparison of delivery system outputs, such as health outcomes, with inputs like cost, time, or material. Efficiency can be reported then as a ratio of outputs to inputs or a comparison to optimal productivity using stochastic frontier analysis or data envelopment analysis. This is sometimes difficult to do, especially in a country where data is hard to come by,” Igbokwe stressed.

https://businessday.ng/health/article/nigerias-top-five-most-efficient-states-for-healthcare/amp/

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Congratulation Mallam Haruna on ur new found faith. May the peace of this religion of peace not elude. But Nicholas, you never deem it fitting to also tell the world the crime you committed - seeing that you are excited & satisfied to drop the name of the venerable Man of God - that as one of the driver of the man (that picked you from the suburb of Kakuri, kaduna to better ur life) you were engaged in the despicable & ignoble anathema of stealing & racketeering church offerings. You mentioned in your self-adulating interview that you confessed the crime, Nicholas you never did. U were unremorseful & unrepentant. How do I know? You told I & Madam Bisso (a member of the church & my boss, whom out-of-pity engaged you as driver) that you weren't a party to this nefarious syndicate; I am quite surprise that you now saying you confessed to the crime. Indeed the truth can't be hidden for long. Nicholas, it is quite startling & significant that you weren't able to move on & foreclose an event that happened in 2014. This perennial frustration & hiatus you experienced wouldn't have occurred if only you were sincere, remorseful & repentant. You should have been open to Bishop Aremu & seek for rehabilitation. Finally, it instructive to say that you stopped driving Bishop Abioye (in 2003) when he (Abioye) was transferred to Abuja; I am sure he is no way privy to you misnomer. My counsel to you Mallam Isimaila is: be serious, resolute & faithful to the tents of your new faith, who-knows salvation may encounter you. Destiny is not what happen to you, it is what you make of it.

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I am a computer science graduate with little practical knowledge of system repairs. My plan is hone and upscale my skills in laptop, IPad & Smart Phones repair because I intend to open a gadgets repair shop in my hood in the north. Please I need suggestions/information on where I can acquire these skills(fast-track), it could be formal or informal setting. I prefer a location around computer village so that I can be expose to 'tech' trends.

It is instructive to say that am not based in Lagos, which is why am asking for your counsel before coming down to Lagos.

Thank you

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1. Get as much of your nutrition as possible from
a variety of completely unprocessed foods . These
include fruits and vegetables. But they also
include meat, fish, poultry and eggs that haven’t
been processed. In other words, when buying food
at the market, focus on things that have not been
been cooked, prepared or altered in any way.
Brown rice over white rice. Whole grains over
refined grains. You’re far better off eating two
apples than drinking the same 27 grams of sugar
in an eight-ounce glass of apple juice.
1b. Eat lightly processed foods less often. You’re
not going to make everything yourself. Pasta, for
instance, is going to be bought already prepared.
You’re not going to grind your own flour or
extract your own oil. These are meant to be
eaten along with unprocessed foods, but try to
eat less of them.
1c. Eat heavily processed foods even less often.
There’s little high-quality evidence that even the
most processed foods are dangerous. But keep
your consumption of them to a minimum, because
they can make it too easy to stuff in calories.
Such foods include bread, chips, cookies and
cereals. In epidemiologic studies, heavily
processed meats are often associated with worse
health outcomes, but that evidence should be
taken with a grain of salt (not literally), as I’ve
written about before .
2. Eat as much home-cooked food as possible,
which should be prepared according to Rule 1 .
Eating at home allows you to avoid processed
ingredients more easily. It allows you full control
over what you eat, and allows you to choose the
flavors you prefer. You’re much less likely to stuff
yourself silly if you eat home-cooked food. I’m
not saying this is easy. Behavioral change takes
repetition and practice. It also, unfortunately,
takes time.
3. Use salt and fats, including butter and oil, as
needed in food preparation. Things like salt and
fat aren’t the enemy. They are often necessary in
the preparation of tasty, satisfying food. The key
here is moderation. Use what you need.
Seasoning is often what makes vegetables taste
good. Don’t be afraid of them, but don’t go crazy
with them either.
4. When you do eat out, try to eat at restaurants
that follow the same rules . Ideally, you should eat
at restaurants that are creating all of their items
from completely unprocessed foods. Lots and lots
of restaurants do. Follow Rule 1 even while out to
dinner. Some processing is going to be fine, but
try to keep it to a minimum.
5. Drink mostly water, but some alcohol, coffee
and other beverages are fine . As I’ve pointed out
before , you can find a study to show that
everything either prevents or causes cancer —
alcohol and coffee included. But my take is that
the preponderance of evidence supports the
inclusion of a moderate consumption of most
beverages.
6. Treat all beverages with calories in them as
you would alcohol . This includes every drink with
calories, including milk . They’re fine in
moderation, but keep them to a minimum. You
can have them because you like them, but you
shouldn’t consume them as if you need them.
7. Eat with other people, especially people you
care about, as often as possible. This has
benefits even outside those of nutrition. It will
make you more likely to cook. It will most likely
make you eat more slowly. It will also make you
happy.
I’ve avoided treating any food like the devil. Many
nutrition experts do, and it may turn out they’re
right, but at this point I think the jury is still out.
I’ve therefore tried not to tell you to avoid
anything completely. My experience tells me that
total abstinence rarely works, although anecdotes
exist to support that practice. I think you’ll find
that many other diets and recommendations work
under these rules. These are much more flexible
and, I hope, reasonable than what some might
prescribe.
All of these rules are subtly trying to get you to
be more conscious of what you’re eating. It’s far
too easy these days to consume more than you
think you are, or more than you really need,
especially when eating out. I’ve found that it’s
impossible to tell any one person how much they
should be eating. People have varying
requirements, and it’s important for all of them to
listen to their bodies to know when they should
eat, and when they should stop.
One other thing: Don’t judge what others eat. One
of my closest friends has been avoiding
carbohydrates for months, and has seen
remarkable results. Another was a pescatarian —
a person whose only meat dishes are fish — for a
year and was very happy with that. I, on the other
hand, avoid no food groups in particular.
People are very different. Some may have real
problems consuming even the smallest amount of
carbohydrates. Others may be intolerant of
certain foods because of allergies or sensitivities.
It will most likely take a bit of experimentation,
on an individual level, to find the actual diet
within these recommendations that works for you.
But the above rules should allow for a wide
variety of foods and for remaining healthy. At
least, I hope so.
I’m curious what readers think of these. I
welcome your comments to this column, as well
as tweets to me in response.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/upshot/simple-rules-for-healthy-eating.html?src=me&referer=

No mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the
dying in their last days has revealed the most
common regrets we have at the end of our lives.
And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I
wish I hadn't worked so hard'.
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent
several years working in palliative care, caring for
patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She
recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called
Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much
attention that she put her observations into a
book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying .
Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision
that people gain at the end of their lives, and how
we might learn from their wisdom. "When
questioned about any regrets they had or
anything they would do differently," she says,
"common themes surfaced again and again."
Here are the top five regrets of the dying, as
witnessed by Ware:

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to
myself, not the life others expected of me.
"This was the most common regret of all. When
people realise that their life is almost over and
look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how
many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people
had not honoured even a half of their dreams and
had to die knowing that it was due to choices
they had made, or not made. Health brings a
freedom very few realise, until they no longer
have it."

2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
"This came from every male patient that I nursed.
They missed their children's youth and their
partner's companionship. Women also spoke of
this regret, but as most were from an older
generation, many of the female patients had not
been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply
regretted spending so much of their lives on the
treadmill of a work existence."

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my
feelings.
"Many people suppressed their feelings in order to
keep peace with others. As a result, they settled
for a mediocre existence and never became who
they were truly capable of becoming. Many
developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and
resentment they carried as a result."

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
"Often they would not truly realise the full benefits
of old friends until their dying weeks and it was
not always possible to track them down. Many
had become so caught up in their own lives that
they had let golden friendships slip by over the
years. There were many deep regrets about not
giving friendships the time and effort that they
deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they
are dying."

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
"This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not
realise until the end that happiness is a choice.
They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits.
The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed
into their emotions, as well as their physical lives.
Fear of change had them pretending to others,
and to their selves, that they were content, when
deep within, they longed to laugh properly and
have silliness in their life again."

What's your greatest regret so far, and what will
you set out to achieve or change before you die?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying

Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime
minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on
17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a
culmination of two inter-related assassination
plots by American and Belgian governments,
which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian
execution squad to carry out the deed.
Ludo De Witte, the Belgian author of the best
book on this crime, qualifies it as "the most
important assassination of the 20th century". The
assassination's historical importance lies in a
multitude of factors, the most pertinent being the
global context in which it took place, its impact
on Congolese politics since then and Lumumba's
overall legacy as a nationalist leader.
For 126 years, the US and Belgium have played
key roles in shaping Congo's destiny. In April
1884, seven months before the Berlin Congress,
the US became the first country in the world to
recognise the claims of King Leopold II of the
Belgians to the territories of the Congo Basin.
When the atrocities related to brutal economic
exploitation in Leopold's Congo Free State
resulted in millions of fatalities, the US joined
other world powers to force Belgium to take over
the country as a regular colony. And it was during
the colonial period that the US acquired a
strategic stake in the enormous natural wealth of
the Congo, following its use of the uranium from
Congolese mines to manufacture the first atomic
weapons, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
With the outbreak of the cold war, it was
inevitable that the US and its western allies would
not be prepared to let Africans have effective
control over strategic raw materials, lest these fall
in the hands of their enemies in the Soviet camp.
It is in this regard that Patrice Lumumba's
determination to achieve genuine independence
and to have full control over Congo's resources in
order to utilise them to improve the living
conditions of our people was perceived as a
threat to western interests. To fight him, the US
and Belgium used all the tools and resources at
their disposal, including the United Nations
secretariat, under Dag Hammarskjöld and Ralph
Bunche, to buy the support of Lumumba's
Congolese rivals , and hired killers.
In Congo, Lumumba's assassination is rightly
viewed as the country's original sin. Coming less
than seven months after independence (on 30
June, 1960), it was a stumbling block to the
ideals of national unity, economic independence
and pan-African solidarity that Lumumba had
championed, as well as a shattering blow to the
hopes of millions of Congolese for freedom and
material prosperity.
The assassination took place at a time when the
country had fallen under four separate
governments: the central government in Kinshasa
(then Léopoldville); a rival central government by
Lumumba's followers in Kisangani (then
Stanleyville); and the secessionist regimes in the
mineral-rich provinces of Katanga and South
Kasai. Since Lumumba's physical elimination had
removed what the west saw as the major threat
to their interests in the Congo, internationally-led
efforts were undertaken to restore the authority of
the moderate and pro-western regime in Kinshasa
over the entire country. These resulted in ending
the Lumumbist regime in Kisangani in August
1961, the secession of South Kasai in September
1962, and the Katanga secession in January
1963.
No sooner did this unification process end than a
radical social movement for a "second
independence" arose to challenge the neocolonial
state and its pro-western leadership. This mass
movement of peasants, workers, the urban
unemployed, students and lower civil servants
found an eager leadership among Lumumba's
lieutenants, most of whom had regrouped to
establish a National Liberation Council (CNL) in
October 1963 in Brazzaville, across the Congo
river from Kinshasa. The strengths and
weaknesses of this movement may serve as a
way of gauging the overall legacy of Patrice
Lumumba for Congo and Africa as a whole.
The most positive aspect of this legacy was
manifest in the selfless devotion of Pierre Mulele
to radical change for purposes of meeting the
deepest aspirations of the Congolese people for
democracy and social progress. On the other
hand, the CNL leadership, which included
Christophe Gbenye and Laurent-Désiré Kabila,
was more interested in power and its attendant
privileges than in the people's welfare. This is
Lumumbism in words rather than in deeds. As
president three decades later, Laurent Kabila did
little to move from words to deeds.
More importantly, the greatest legacy that
Lumumba left for Congo is the ideal of national
unity. Recently, a Congolese radio station asked
me whether the independence of South Sudan
should be a matter of concern with respect to
national unity in the Congo. I responded that
since Patrice Lumumba has died for Congo's
unity, our people will remain utterly steadfast in
their defence of our national unity.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/17/patrice-lumumba-50th-anniversary-assassination?CMP=share_btn_fb

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Did we here someone try singing Yori Yori? What exactly does Yori Yori mean in the first place?

With barely a month to go before the Big Brother Africa 3 is announced, the battle for the Sh16 million prize money is headed to the wire — but that wire does look very Nigerian indeed.

There are seven starring survivors, four women and three men. The housemates are Emma, Kevin, Nkenna, Geraldine, Mzamo, Itai and Edward. Africa will decide who goes home with the loot.


Geraldine

But then again, the amazing thing is how, out of all participating countries, Nigerians have stolen the show with an overwhelming tilt of three contestants, out of the remaining seven. Now, Africa wonders if this is just coincidence, or if indeed there is some unfair play in the mix!

Kevin, Nkenna and Geraldine — formed the Nigerian trio three weeks after the show started. Taking advantage of their numbers, their strategy was (and has been) to have a few allies rallying behind each of them, after which they would intimidate, dictate and verbally "threaten" any other housemate posing potential danger — with gang nomination, like rattle of snakes full of poison. One would say, they have held every other housemate at ransom. It’s a game after all…

Or is it?

The Big Brother Africa Revolution has been reduced to what seems to be a Nigerian affair now dubbed the Naija Revolution. Others have renamed it the ‘Nijja Big Brother’ show where the rest of Africa seems to be holding together against a common "enemy". On their side, Nigerian fans — who are the majority followers of the show on the Internet — have vowed that the money has to go to Nigeria.
Ikechukwu


Critics argue that the highly populated Nigeria (140 million strong) offers Big Brother Africa organisers, Mnet a big market and hence some ‘favour’ in the competition.

Last year, Nigeria "dictated" terms on the TV show as Muslim extremists claimed it was promoting immorality. They argued that the shower hour was characteristed with nudity, vulgar language and sexual scenes in conflict with some cultural and religious beliefs.

Following this pressure, the popular mouth-watering shower hour was completely censored. To add insult to censorship, the Nigerians also made sure that when Ofunneka, the ‘good girl’ (some Kenyans would say ‘mboch’) contestant lost BBA II to supposedly immoral Tanzanian Richard, her State Governor offered her $ 100 000 (Sh 7.5 million) thus mocking the show’s prize purse, as well as other African nations whose reality show contestants can never get a penny out of the likes of Excellency Kibaki.

Kenya’s Alex Holi got zero macaroni. Jeff Anthony’s mushroom consultancy has no support from Ruto’s Ministry of Agriculture. Sheila Kwamboka is on the hustle to parlay her popularity into MC earnings. And if DStv hadn’t had a money bag for Teddy Muthusi and Jeremy, that would have been it. But Nigeria’s national pride can make them dig into treasury kitty, just to ‘restore dignity’ to failed reality show contestants.

Nollywood

Well, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Nigeria (Nijja as it is often referred in showbiz circles) has literally ruled showbiz in Africa for the last decade or so. First, it was their expansive Nollywood movie industry, which took Africa both by storm and surprise. Maids, maidens, housewives and hubbies in Kenya — all went gaga over the productions that often centre on cheap witchcraft or
Kevo

societal plots. The Nollywood produced films became the talk across Africa. They flooded the Kenyan market and were a big hit with River Road pirates. They became an urban must-watch before breaking through into DStv’s Movie Magic channel.

The obsession with the almighty dollar, or in this case ‘naira’ in these movie’s plots may be a sign of the Nijja ‘money power’ complex. In the Nollywood glitz shows, big cars and ghastly concrete compounds before stone mansions display the hard side of a raw capitalism.

Societal problems in these films are solved with ‘Naira,’ dads selling avaricious daughters to sleazy ‘dollar-o’ characters – and when one ties this in with the crudity of greed there over crude oil, past tyrants like Sani Abacha and a macho swagger where corny gold chains and a conning intelligence reign supreme over sophistication and substance, then things begin to look clear about ‘Naijo Swagg-o.’

Music

Another showbiz era broke over Nigeria as their musical artistes went ahead to become the big names striding the continent. Of course there was the Congolese Lingala era, before Tanzanian Bongo Flava took over the Kenyan club scene. That was before P Square’s popularity hit Kenya, announcing a new dawn over in this millenium. From 2 Face, P Square, D’banj, Naeto C, Ikechukwu and Kel, the Nigerians took dominance and ruled continental music awards. Kini Big Deal (Naeto C) and Enter the Place have become popular hits replacing P Square’s Do Me and No One Like You. And now there is this Fall in Love (D’banj) and Yori Yori (Bracket) craze in town, which seems to have overshadowed all local hits. It must be due to this wave that Kenyan artistes like Wyre and Amani are now looking for collaborations with leading Nigerian stars.
Nkenna


Nameless in early October, in fact, had hit Canadian cities like Ontario on tour to bond with his ‘Naija fans’ as he admitted to Pulse – and that may have given him a big boost in securing the MAMA awards. Not that the Nigerians murmuring discontentedly in the ‘Kichinjio’ venue were happy with his win. One was overheard asking: "Now how can you give on o-word to a nameless character?"

Now, some Nairobi clubs are hosting what has been dubbed as Nijja Nights dedicated to Nigerian music.

"We are working with Kenyan entertainers as well as the media to see how we can promote Nigeria artistes in Kenya. Soon, we will have many Nigerian artistes performing here," says Ikechukwu Anoke, a Nairobi-based Nigerian showbiz guru.

Besides their music, Kenyan ladies seem to have a fascination for Nigerian artistes (replacing the 1990s fixation on Congolese bands), something which has worked for an easy penetration of their music in the country. They (Kenyan girls) claim that the Nigerians are more styled and better groomed than their Kenyan counterparts, smelling of Bvalgari and other designer colognes, besides having a good physique.

On a trip to Nigeria last year, Pulse had the chance to talk to a state Attorney General on a local Lagos-Abuja flight who dismissed Kenyans on all fronts:

" Our corruption is four times larger than Kenyans’. Our population is four times larger than Kenyans’. Our **** is four times larger than Kenyans’. No wonder God felt sorry and left Mister Obama for you Kenyans, ho ho ho."

Football

In fact, last weekend after the Nigerian-Kenyan football game in the city, many groupies were out that night in Westlands’ night joints, hunting for Nigerian men who were said to have flooded the city. And they indeed caught-up with them in clubs like Rezorus, Black Diamond and Red Tape where they had gone to party alongside some Kenyan soccer stars. The rest is history.

Part of that history involves an infamous game in Lagos some years ago at the stadium where the local (Nijja) commentators were going, "O oo, look at these small Kenyan boys. Look at dem go. They don have the masos to play soccer, oh. They thin legs are better suited to running long, long marathons, ooo. In fact, oga-oh, they should run away very fost from this stadium, o o o!!" With this type of demoralising running commentary, no pun intended, it was no wonder that the Harambee Stars ended up losing that match 3-0. Three questions reign. Do Nigerian artistes deserve the hype they are getting? Is Nigerian showbiz at such a level that they can dictate which direction to the rest of Africa? Is it an ego and self-esteem success, propelled hype, or mere hard work that makes them seem smarter that the rest of Africa?


D’banj

"I think they are more organised than Kenyan and other East African artistes. They have good managers and they package themselves in a way which is appealing to fans way beyond Africa. Their music videos are great, with an international appeal," says Naliaka Wafula.

"They have better ways of marketing their music. They look at showbiz from a business point of view," says Dan Odhiambo, a music showbiz promoter.

However, some feel that Nigerian artistes have been over rated, adding that their fame is a creation of Nigerian media who always create a strong buzz about any song the Nigerians release.

"Unlike Kenyan artistes, these guys travel with journalists everywhere they go. The journalists get to expose them through their writing. Their music is always available via YouTube too," adds Dan.

"Nigeria has such a huge population and they have many artistes competing for space. That explains how they have moved to the next level," he concludes.

With this, Nigeria has managed to pull so many TV showbiz hit-shows such as ‘Nijja Sings’ and ‘Hip-Hop Nijja’ which are screened on DStv. Their dominance on Channel O and MTVbase has stood over the years, making the rest of the continent play second fiddle.

Pulse remembers how Nigerian artistes stole the show during last year’s Channel O Music Video Awards in South Africa. Just as the ceremony was coming to a close, they took over the podium, replaced the emcee and deejays with their own - and started playing Nigerian music as the rest of the continent watched in amazement.

Naija anger seemed directed at the hosts, their arch rivals South Africa, whose Kwaito music had hitherto dominated the night. Worse still, only a few awards had gone to the Nigerians that night.

This was round about the time P Square took over a continental show to lock out Sean Paul so one of their own could first perform in the name of patriotism. "They can have good music. But their attitude is sometimes intimidating. They seem not to respect the rest of Africa," says an award-winning Kenyan artiste, who sought to remain anonymous.

Whereas Kenya was colonised by the British, and so is a bit stiff and not so show-off, as the Brits trained us ‘ostentatious-ness was in poor taste’ (shagsmodos-like), Nigerians seem to have adopted that all-American ‘brag it from the rooftops’ ATT – that can turn off a lot of other folks. "They come with a feel good attitude. It’s not good for them to look down upon others," adds the source.

Dr Chijioke Wigwe, the current Nigerian High Commissioner in Kenya, seems dedicated more than most to the pan-African "cross pollination of culture," and with his amiable air and high intelligence, the man seems most culturally suitable to bridging of the East-West divide.

For younger Kenyans (Pulsers) over 25 who don’t associate with the North (Cairo) unless it’s football, and have seen EABL and other Kenyan companies beat South African multi-national bizness giants – the cultural challenge of the Nigerians was never going to be left to stand alone for long.

From literature, to the music scene, to the young film-makers like Waniu Kahiu, Judy Kibinge and Sagwa Chabeda as well as Riverwood that is now churning out local films (including adult vernaculars) with local content for consumers’ enjoyment. The race for Africa’s artistic heart is on.

But the competition is strong! For all Nijjas believe they are alpha-males, a la Okwonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s book. Sometimes, though, things fall apart

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