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Foreign Affairs / Re: China And Russia 'Developing Deadly Drones Which Attack Without Human Approval' by Rocksteady1(m): 2:17pm On Jul 25, 2020 |
Macsjebs:Damn niggar issoright....king of d north i.e rosia n her allies identified....if u kno u kno |
Crime / Re: Eze Ejike: Assasin ESCATO Arrested In Nsukka, Enugu State (Photos) by Rocksteady1(m): 7:58am On Jul 11, 2020 |
BOOOMNAIJA:lwkmd....ur wife is a real niggar....@op, u must not eat untill she calls ur family 2 coman beg u. She will call dem in 2021....go on hunger strike jare |
Crime / Re: Sex With A Pig: Man In Court In Ibadan by Rocksteady1(m): 2:39pm On Jun 23, 2020 |
Weting messi no go see for dribbling....did the pig forgive him part gat me rotf ;DWeting messi no go see for dribbling....did the pig forgive him part gat me rotf |
Romance / Re: I Proposed Marriage But I have now Lost Interest by Rocksteady1(m): 11:15am On Jun 23, 2020 |
NEWBIN: @op, are sure u r normal? U already kno her love 4u is based on logistics, do u still need a prophet from jupiter 2 confirm it 4u? Ok, here z my one cent: dont buy her any gift on her baiday just text her. If she z loyal, she will stay n u can do anything 4 her at ur convinience afterwards but if not, she will find her square root herself....peace out 2 Likes |
Health / Cesarean Section Surgical Procedure In Ancient Africa by Rocksteady1(m): 11:04am On May 26, 2020 |
How many of us were ever taught that the modern-day “cesarean section” surgical procedure was practiced in Africa as early as the 13th century, long before the arrival of European doctors? In 1879, Scottish medical anthropologist Robert W. Felkin witnessed a cesarean section performed by a Ugandan surgeon on a young woman in the Bunyoro kingdom. The patient recovered well, and Felkin concluded the technique was well-developed and had existed for a long time. The healer used banana wine to semi-intoxicate the woman and to cleanse his hands and her abdomen prior to surgery. This was during the reign of Omukama Kabalega Chwa II, a powerful king who fought against the British forces for nine years and reclaimed several lost territories. During his reign, people were also immunized against endemic syphilis by traditional methods. Similar reports of c-sections came from present-day Rwanda, where botanicals were used to anesthetize the patient and promote wound healing. I was so pleased to see this, and several other examples of unappreciated African history at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal last year. You can see a video here https://twitter.com/i/status/1264891810108903424 and read more here You can read more on this history here: https:///3c0Bw2z and here:
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Romance / Re: Simple Inexpensive Ways To Make Beautiful Water Candles For Valentine Decoration by Rocksteady1(m): 12:19pm On Feb 13, 2020 |
My friend and i would make several in glasses of different colours. Pls, wot are names of all the ingredients dat were poured inside the water?..... Pleaaaaaasssseee..... I wanna surprise my babe 1 Like 1 Share |
Family / Re: Whose House Would You Live In After Wedding? (Pictured) by Rocksteady1(m): 10:22am On Oct 05, 2019 |
I am a guy. God willing, I will make it. I will support my woman to make it in case I screw up in d future, she won't land on a hard floor and I won't land on a hard floor either. Life is sweet. Life is sweeter if we both make it in our marriage. I hope n pray dat my woman n I will respect each Oda irrespective of woteva we will acquire. But, never will I want my woman to be totally dependent on me. If she is 30%to 40% dependent on herself, we r good. Though I would want to take the lead in everything, I would always respect her input, advice and opinion. As long as she is not trying to play the role of the head of the family (which belongs to me)and downgrading me because of financial instability (which may occur at times) honestly we r good to go. At the end, may God help us to marry d bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh |
Politics / Amadou Diallo: 20years On... by Rocksteady1(m): 2:33pm On Feb 07, 2019 |
cc: Seun Lalasticlala Myndy44 Rockstation All Nairalander A 22years old hustler in d city of New York was brutally murdered by police in d middle of the night 20 years ago (Feb 4 1999) with a combine total shots of 41 bullets . All the 4 police officers were acquitted by d court. Jean wyclef wrote a song in his memory titled Diallo. What part of the lyrics is ur favorite? Boy I am so tired I'll be glad when I get inside the house Oh, I dropped my keys Oh what tis bright light? My God they must gonna rob me Who these people with them all at they gonna rob me I'm gonna take out my wallet to make sure they just get the money Nothing else.. (??) Oh it's the police (whew) I feel so much better I will show them, I have my ID so they know I am good people [followed by a rapid flurry of gunshots] [Wyclef Jean] Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for thou art with me thou ride with me J-J-Jah! Ras-tafari I can't forget you knotty dreads, y'all up in here I gotta respect that, youknowhatI'msayin? Night is in the air Enemy.. on the borderline Who'll be the next to fire forty-one shots by Diallo's side? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir You guys are vampires in the middle of the night Suckin on human blood Is that your appetite? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir Have you ever been shot forty-one times? Have you ever screamed and no one heard you cry? Have you ever died only so you can live? Have you ever lived only so you can die again, then be born again from these enemies, on the borderline Who'll be the next to fire forty-one shots by Diallo's side? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir You guys are vampires in the middle of the night Suckin on human blood Is that your appetite sir? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko Diallo, Diallo - you told me the murder was an error Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged Diallo, Diallo - according to his words Have you ever been held against your will? Taken to a dark place where not even scientists can reveal? So what is for Ceasar let it be for Ceasar Cause we don't want no peace We want equal rights and justice.. for Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko Diallo, Diallo - you tell me that the murder was an error Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged Diallo, Diallo - according to his words You know what? You told me - that I wouldn't understand man Tonight some cry - in the streets a burial Survival of the fittest - only the strong will survive How can I survive - with forty-one shots by my side? You guys are murderers in the middle of the night Killin innocent people is that your appetite? Ohhh You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir You guys are vampires in the middle of the night Suckin on human blood Is that your appetite? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir - lick a shot for Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko Diallo, Diallo - I can hear your spirit callin, I can hear it Diallo, Diallo - Ten thousand chariots with no riders Diallo, Diallo - They on they way to America, I hear the tribe singin They're sayin - Diallo Diallo, tuye' Diallo [14X] Se menm jen yo te tuye Matim Luther King Amadou Diallo.. [samples] Now there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town Can you dig it? Can you dig it? CAN YOU DIG IT?!?! |
Crime / In Memory Of Amoudu Diallo by Rocksteady1(m): 2:09pm On Feb 07, 2019 |
What part of this lyrics z ur favorite from Jean wyclef Boy I am so tired I'll be glad when I get inside the house Oh, I dropped my keys Oh what tis bright light? My God they must gonna rob me Who these people with them all at they gonna rob me I'm gonna take out my wallet to make sure they just get the money Nothing else.. (??) Oh it's the police (whew) I feel so much better I will show them, I have my ID so they know I am good people [followed by a rapid flurry of gunshots] [Wyclef Jean] Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for thou art with me thou ride with me J-J-Jah! Ras-tafari I can't forget you knotty dreads, y'all up in here I gotta respect that, youknowhatI'msayin? Night is in the air Enemy.. on the borderline Who'll be the next to fire forty-one shots by Diallo's side? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir You guys are vampires in the middle of the night Suckin on human blood Is that your appetite? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir Have you ever been shot forty-one times? Have you ever screamed and no one heard you cry? Have you ever died only so you can live? Have you ever lived only so you can die again, then be born again from these enemies, on the borderline Who'll be the next to fire forty-one shots by Diallo's side? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir You guys are vampires in the middle of the night Suckin on human blood Is that your appetite sir? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko Diallo, Diallo - you told me the murder was an error Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged Diallo, Diallo - according to his words Have you ever been held against your will? Taken to a dark place where not even scientists can reveal? So what is for Ceasar let it be for Ceasar Cause we don't want no peace We want equal rights and justice.. for Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko Diallo, Diallo - you tell me that the murder was an error Diallo, Diallo - but every man will be judged Diallo, Diallo - according to his words You know what? You told me - that I wouldn't understand man Tonight some cry - in the streets a burial Survival of the fittest - only the strong will survive How can I survive - with forty-one shots by my side? You guys are murderers in the middle of the night Killin innocent people is that your appetite? Ohhh You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir You guys are vampires in the middle of the night Suckin on human blood Is that your appetite? You said he reached sir but he didn't have no piece sir But now he rest in peace sir in the belly of the beast sir - lick a shot for Diallo, Diallo - similar to Steven Biko Diallo, Diallo - I can hear your spirit callin, I can hear it Diallo, Diallo - Ten thousand chariots with no riders Diallo, Diallo - They on they way to America, I hear the tribe singin They're sayin - Diallo Diallo, tuye' Diallo [14X] Se menm jen yo te tuye Matim Luther King Amadou Diallo.. [samples] Now there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town Can you dig it? Can you dig it? CAN YOU DIG IT?!?! |
Sports / Re: Asisat Oshoala Kneel Down To Greet Gov Ambode And His Wife by Rocksteady1(m): 6:59pm On Jan 02, 2019 |
shame on me bro.. Thanks though..we learn everyday. Im actually taking a course currently. Naming in Yoruba. It's about all these Yoruba names and the ones that are going on exile. But i got osoala name's wrong through the pronunciation..and that's the fault of those european commentators.. Tonally, they pronunce it as osoala (do mi re do) and according to your pronunciation it should be osoala (re mi do do). Thanks bro. Sometime it's good to argue cause you learn! I kinda like ur humility bro.... But pls avoid insulting words next time u wanna argue. It will add beauty to ur humility...... Cheers |
Programming / Hurray....a Yoruba Programming Language Is Here by Rocksteady1(m): 9:13pm On Dec 04, 2018 |
https://anoniscoding.github.io/yorlang/docs/doc.html Mobirise YorLang Getting Started To get started with yorlang, download and install the node runtime here Then install the yorlang package with the following command: Terminal npm install -g yorlang HELLO WORLD Create a yl file e.g test.yl and write your first yorlang statement yorlang sọpé "báwo ni ayé"; Run yorl test.yl in your cli OUTPUT bawo ni aye You can also download the vs code extension here Variable Declaration Variables can be declared in yorlang using Yorlang: tí Variables in yorlang must be initialized at the point of declaration. The keyword (tí) must be used when initializing and re-assigning a variable. Strings in yorlang must be enclosed with double quotes. Yorlang variables can hold many data types such as strings, integers, arrays and booleans Note: Use the # symbol for single line comments. There's no multiline comments like /** */ A semi colon must be used at the end of every statement in yorlang Only english/yoruba alphabet can be used for variable names. Boolean values are - true: òótọ́ false: irọ́ Operators in Yorlang include; plus: "+" , minus: "-", multiply: "*", divide: "/" , Remainder: "%", Less_than: " < ", greater_than: ">", greater_than_or_equal: ">=", less_than_or_equal: "<=", not_equal: "!=", equal: "==", assign: "=", not_operator: "!", or: "||", and: "&&" yorlang tí name = "dammy"; tí age = 5 ; sọpé name + " " + "is" + " " + age + " " + "years old" ; OUTPUT dammy is 5 years old Re-assign variable example: yorlang tí oruko = "dammy"; tí oruko = "michelle" ; sọpé "oruko mi ni" + " " + oruko ; OUTPUT oruko mi ni michelle Conditionals Conditionals such as if, else, else if and switch statements can also be used in yorlang if: ṣé else: tàbí else if: tàbí ṣé There's support for nested conditionals and loops. yorlang tí time = 15; ṣé ( time < 12 ) { tí greeting = "good morning" ; } tàbí ṣé ( time > 12 && time < 17 ) { tí greeting = "good day" ; } tàbí { tí greeting = "good evening" ; } sọpé greeting + " " + "world" ; OUTPUT good day world The Switch Condition: The switch expression is evaluated once. The value of the expression is compared with the values of each case. If there is a match, the associated block of code is executed and then it escapes the switch block without the need for a break (kúrò) expression. The use of the break statement(kúrò) in yorlang yí(switch) condition results in an error. The default(padàsí) block runs when there's no matched case. Switch: yí Case: irú Default: padàsí yorlang tí age = 10 + 8 ; yí ( age ) { irú 12 : sọpé "you are a kid" ; irú 18 : sọpé "you are a teenager" ; irú 22 : sọpé "you are an adult" ; padàsí: sọpé "you are too old" ; } OUTPUT you are a teenager Loops Loops such as for and while are also supported in Yorlang For: fún while: nígbàtí break: kúrò Note: increments such as i++ in yorlang is invalid instead use tí i = i + 1; decrements such as i-- in yorlang is invalid instead use tí i = i - 1; yorlang fún ( tí i = 0 ; i < 5 ; tí i = i + 1 { ṣé ( i == 3 ) { kúrò; } sọpé "you can be" + " " + i ; } OUTPUT you can be 0 you can be 1 you can be 2 The While( nígbàtí) Loop: The while ( nígbàtí) loop is executed as long as the condition in parentheses is true yorlang tí onka = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]; tí i = 0; nígbàtí ( onka [ i ] < 3) { sọpé "o kere si aarun"; tí i = i + 1; } OUTPUT o kere si aarun o kere si aarun Functions Function: iṣẹ́ return: padà yorlang iṣẹ́ multiplyNumbers ( a, b) { padà a * b ; } tí X = multiplyNumbers( 5, 6); sọpé X ; OUTPUT 30 Variable Scope The scope of a variable is the context within which it is defined. All inner functions(iṣẹ́) have access to variables in their outer functions(iṣẹ́). However, outer functions(iṣẹ́) do not have access to the variables in their inner functions(iṣẹ́). This scope spans i 1 Like 1 Share |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Vs Tottenham Hotspur (4 - 2) On 2nd December 2018 by Rocksteady1(m): 4:13pm On Dec 02, 2018 |
helinues: Warris dis one saying : |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Vs Tottenham Hotspur (4 - 2) On 2nd December 2018 by Rocksteady1(m): 4:06pm On Dec 02, 2018 |
Is it the Same game I am watching? You could have probably said the ball touched left hand not right hand. Left hand is not a foul in football Mo gbo tuntun oooo |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Vs Tottenham Hotspur (4 - 2) On 2nd December 2018 by Rocksteady1(m): 3:51pm On Dec 02, 2018 |
Arsenal... U av to win dis game ooooo... Whether by ojoro or tappings, anyway anyhow, sha win 1 Like |
Events / This Is Nigeria’: Another Muslim Group Tackles MURIC by Rocksteady1(m): 9:07pm On Jun 05, 2018 |
Shortly after the Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC) asked Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana to withdraw his ‘This is Nigeria’
video, a group known as Muslim Against Terror has defended the artiste. The group says MURIC does not have an understanding of veil usage. In the video, girls wearing hijab are seen dancing ‘shaku shaku’, hence the controversy. While addressing the reactions that trailed the video, Falz had explained that the girls were a representation of the abducted Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity. In a statement countering that of MURIC, Muslim Against Terror asked if Ishaq Akintola, director of MURIC, would “prefer watching the ladies in the video dressed in body-hugging mini skirts and shaking their bountiful parts?? It read: “In clear contradiction to what MURIC’s Professor Ishaq Akintola claimed, Islam or Muslim was NEVER mentioned in the video and the veil is not owned by Islam but worn by anyone who so feels, hopefully to the pleasure of Muslims and worn by nuns and sometimes forcibly doused by terrorists on their captors as happened in the Chibok case. “Where did Ishaq see Islam or Muslim in this video? “Was this subvert threat of a possible repeat of radical and meaningless, unjustified violence by misguided Islamists in the past, a means of merely defending the Buhari administration possibly negatively affected by the viral video and defending Fulani herder-. terrorism by attempting to present the video as religiously provocative? The video was not. “If at all the video provoked any religion it was the Christian faith, by ridiculing pastors casting out demons via grabbing female breasts, and also laying direct attacks at pastors involved in the establishment of universities which their congregations cannot attend.” Instead of threatening Falz with legal action, the group urged MURIC to focus on the issues raised in the video. “As regards truths of value in the video, there were very many that seemed not to be digested by Professor Ishaq, including: that the people are extremely poor, medical facilities are poor, that we operate a predatory neocolonial-capitalist system fueled on fraud and exploitation, bedeviled with institutionalized corruption, that criminal cases are settled in police stations and not courts, police station closing by six, no electricity, youth work multiple jobs and yet are called lazy by the president.” The group urged that MURIC be careful of the propagation of sensitive messages. 1 Like |
Politics / Prof Wole Soyinka Speaks On Fuel Crisis by Rocksteady1(m): 10:49pm On Dec 30, 2017 |
Professor Wole Soyinka has condemned in strongest terms the spate of petroleum scarcity in the country ( with the usual buck passing and empty reassurances from official quarters) that now comes as an end of year gift. He illustrated his position with a June 1977 Daily Times front page news story, entitled, “Fuel Crisis May Be Over Next Year.” It is actually like history repeating itself 40 years after! In 1977, Muhammadu Buhari, then in military uniform, was federal commissioner for petroleum resources. Now as president in 2017, he is the petroleum resources minister. Why does the problem keep recurring as if Nigeria is subjected to eternal punishment as in the myth of Sisyphus? Soyinka situates this in a fundamental problem, the “MAIN issue whose ramifications exact penalties such as petroleum seizures and national power outage.” In other words, Soyinka advocates restructuring and decentralisation which will positively affect these fundamental means of existence. In his words: “Just to think laterally for a moment – what became of the initiatives by some states nearly two decades ago – Lagos most prominently – to decentralize power, and thus empower states to generate and distribute their own energy requirements? Frustrated and eventually sabotaged in the most cynical manner from the Federal centre! The similarity today is frightening – for nearly four days on that earlier occasion, the nation was blacked out near entirely. We know that one survival tactic of governments is to keep their citizens in the dark over decisions that affect their lives but, this was literal! And yet each such crisis, plus lesser ones, merely reiterate again and again that this national contraption, as it now stands, is simply– dysfunctional! “What this demands is that, in the process of alleviating the immediate pressing misery, we do not permit ourselves to be manipulated yet again into forgetting the MAIN issue whose ramifications exact penalties such as petroleum seizures and national power outage. These are only two handy, being recent symptoms – there are several others, but this is not intended to be a catalogue of woes. Sufficient to draw attention to the Yoruba saying that goes: Won ni, Amukun, eru e wo. Oun ni, at’isale ni. Translation: Some voices alerted the K-Legged porter to the dangerous tilt of the load on his head. His response was – Thank you, but the problem actually resides in the legs.” Bellow is Soyinka’s full statement: BLAME PASSING – The New Year Gift to a Nation By Wole Soyinka In the accustomed tradition, I wish the nation less misery in the coming year. A genuine Happy New Year Greeting is probably too extravagant a wish. The accompanying news clipping from June, 1977 came into my hands quite fortuitously. It is forty years old. It captures the unenviable enigma that is the Nigerian nation. It is however a masterful end-of-year image to take into the coming year, not only for the individual now at the helm of government, General Buhari, but for a people surely credited with the most astounding degree of patience and forbearance on the African continent – except of course among themselves, when they turn into predatory fiends. When many of us are blissfully departed, an updated rendition of this same clipping – with a change of cast here and there – will undoubtedly be reproduced in the media, with the same alibis, the same in-built panacea of blame passing. Let this be called to our collective memory. Even before the current edition of the fuel crisis, other challenges, requiring immediate fix, had begun to monopolize national attention, relegating to the sidelines the outcry for a fundamental and holistic approach to the wearisome cycle of citizen trauma. This has been expressed most recently, and near universally in the word “Restructuring”, defined straightforwardly as a drastic overhaul of Nigerian articles of co-existence in a more rational, equitable and decentralized manner. Such an overhaul, the re-positioning of the relationship between the parts and the whole offers, it has been strongly argued, prospects of a closer governance awareness of, and responsiveness to citizen entitlement. An overhaul that will near totally eliminate the frequent spasms of systemic malfunctioning that are in-built into the present protocols of national association. I recently ran the gauntlet of petroleum queues through three conveniently situated cities – Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan – deliberately, this Friday. Even with ‘unorthodox’ aids of passage, this was no task for the faint-hearted. Just getting past fueling stations was traumatizing, an obstacle race through seething, frustrated masses of humanity, only to find ourselves on vast stretches of emptied roads pleading for occupation. As for obtaining the petroleum in the first place – the less said the better. I suspect that this government has permitted itself to be fooled by the peace of those empty streets, but also by the orderly, patient, long-suffering queues that are admittedly prevalent in the city centres. It is time the reporting monitors of government move to city peripheries and sometimes even some other inner urban sectors, such as Ikeja and Maryland from time to time to see, and listen ! Pronouncements – such as the 1977 above – again re-echoingby rote in 2017– are a delusion at best, a formula that derides public intelligence. Buying time. Passing blame. Yes of course, the current affliction must be remedied, and fast, but is there a dimension to it that must be brought to the fore, simultaneously and forcefully? This had better be the framework for solving even a shortage that virtually paralyzed the nation. Just to think laterally for a moment – what became of the initiatives by some states nearly two decades ago – Lagos most prominently – to decentralize power, and thus empower states to generate and distribute their own energy requirements? Frustrated and eventually sabotaged in the most cynical manner from the Federal centre! The similarity today is frightening – for nearly four days on that earlier occasion, the nation was blacked out near entirely. We know that one survival tactic of governments is to keep their citizens in the dark over decisions that affect their lives but, this was literal! And yet each such crisis, plus lesser ones, merely reiterate again and again that this national contraption, as it now stands, is simply– dysfunctional!. What this demands is that, in the process of alleviating the immediate pressing misery, we do not permit ourselves to be manipulated yet again into forgetting the MAIN issue whose ramifications exact penalties such as petroleum seizures and national power outage. These are only two handy, being recent symptoms – there are several others, but this is not intended to be a catalogue of woes. Sufficient to draw attention to the Yoruba saying that goes: Won ni, Amukun, eru e wo. Oun ni, at’isale ni. Translation: Some voices alerted the K-Legged porter to the dangerous tilt of the load on his head. His response was – Thank you, but the problem actually resides in the legs. The providential image above sums up a defining moment for both individual and collective self-assessment, places in question the ability of a nation to profit from past experience. Vast resources, yes, but proved unmanageable under its present structural arrangements. As the tussle for the next round of power gets hotter in the coming year, the electorate will again be manipulated into losing sight of the BASE ISSUE. Its noisome claque in the meantime, the automated mumus of social media, practiced in sterile deflection and trivialization of critical issues, unwittingly join hands with government to indulge in blame passing and name calling – both sides with different targets. From the anguished cry of Charley Boy’s Our Mummu Done Do! to expositions from academics such as Professor Makinde’s recent intervention, the public is subjected daily to a relentless barrage of awareness, underlined in urgency. Nobody listens. One wonders if many people read. And certainly, very few retain or relate – until of course the next crisis. The Labour movement declares that it awaits a guarantee of the ‘people’s backing’ before it embarks on any critical intervention. Understandably. There is more than enough of the opium of blamepassingon tap to lullmummus into that deep coma from which – give it a little more time – there can only be a rude awakening. Sooner than later, but not as soon as pledged, the fuel crisis will pass. And then of course we shall await the next round of shortages, then a recommencement of blame passing. What will be the commodity this time – food perhaps? Maybe even potable water? In a nation of plenty, nothing is beyond eventual shortage – except of course, the commonplace endowment of pre-emptive planning and methodical execution. Forty years after, the same language of re-assurance? “There is something rotten in the state of Naija!” |
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Politics / Re: Commissioning Of Defence Space Administration In Abuja (Photos) by Rocksteady1(m): 2:31pm On Nov 03, 2017 |
Dat building fine small sha.....me likeee... Dat building fine small sha.....me likeee... |
TV/Movies / Tstv Channel List by Rocksteady1(m): 9:19pm On Oct 03, 2017 |
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Politics / An Igbo Army Cautions by Rocksteady1(m): 11:22pm On Sep 14, 2017 |
Nigerian Soldier Who is an Igboman Gives His Brothers Words of Wisdom on Biafra (Photo) tori.ng Sep 14, 2017 1:00 PM A Nigerian soldier from the South-East has advised his brothers clamouring for Biafra to take things easy. A Nigerian soldier currently serving in the Northern part of the country, Okoro Sebastian has given his fellow Igbo brothers some interesting words of wisdom as they continue to agitate for Biafra. Speaking on the Biafra issue, he said: "If you see my face you will know that I am not really happy, the way my ,(Igbo) brother’s are attacking me everywhere mostly on social media just bcouse of dis Biafra issues. Why? Where are we coming from and where are we going? We haven’t finished Boko Haram problem now East have started their own. "East is no more safe, don't let anger of the ones Boko Haram cause Nigeria army to descend on Eastern parts. Is going to be worst. Stop the fight for the sake of your brothers in the North. "You that still want to abuse me just because I am a soldier go on. If you experience war, you will never pray for war to happen, if you see war life go tire you. I am just advising you guys. Remember that your Igbo brothers are here in North too. If Hausa’s start their own on them it will be worst." |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Arsenal Vs FC Cologne: Europa League (3 - 1) On 14th September 2017 by Rocksteady1(m): 10:46pm On Sep 14, 2017 |
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Politics / There Are Only Two Tribes In Nigeria by Rocksteady1(m): 8:20pm On Jul 01, 2017 |
THERE ARE ONLY TWO TRIBES IN NIGERIA BY Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Tribalism is not our problem. Tribalism and religion are artificial problems created by selfish leaders for their own personal interest. There are only two major tribes in Nigeria. The Elites and the Masses. Once you make lots of money, you belong to the elite tribe. When you are a commoner or suffering, you belong to the tribe of the masses. If you are an elite, and you need more power, or elective position, you sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, so as to sway their emotion for your personal victory. This happens at both the national and state level. Unfortunately, after the election when they have won and joined their “sworn enemies” to drink and party, the gullible masses continue to fight each other. Even smart people who belong to the masses, sometimes will sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, and then the masses will carry them up until they belong to the elite class. It is a classic strategy used over 3000 years ago in the art of war. A commoner who aspires to sit with the elites, could stir up powerful tribal or religious sentiments, such wave if properly utilized either by shedding blood or destabilizing the elites, carries the commoner to the elite class. But once there, he immediately mingles and makes peace with the elite tribe, and turn his back on the same masses that helped him get there. Youths are the worst victim of this powerplay, they kill each other, call other tribes unprintable names, do terrible things and sometimes, even lose their life, thinking they are fighting for their right, not knowing that they are fighting for the personal welfare of someone, whose own children are probably safe in America or London. So youths, don’t hope on the government. If you don’t have a job, create one. There is abject poverty in the south as well as the north, whether Ogoni or Maidugri. At the same time, there is massive wealth in Lagos, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Kano, Abuja, irrespective of zone. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it well and never remain idle. No job is too low for an idle hand, or else the devil will find work for you. As you become independent, and grow your capacity, do not lose hope in Nigeria. We are the largest economy in Africa and soon the world will fear us. Western powers, don’t like big economies that threaten them, America will do anything to break China, but China is wise to resist that. China has 1.6 billion people, we have only 170 million, and we are talking of breaking. China has 5 major religions which are Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity. Nigeria has only 2 major religions, Christianity and Islam. Yet we claim that religion is our problem. America, the strongest economy is comprised of every tribe in the world, since they accept anybody from any part of the world. Yet they are united and extremely patriotic. Nigeria has only 3 major tribes, and we claim tribalism. Think clearly and deeply, and you will realize that empowering yourself is the be... Read more 2 Likes 1 Share |
Literature / Re: Tarasha - (An Action Thriller) - Story Of The Month - January 2016 by Rocksteady1(m): 4:56pm On Mar 29, 2016 |
Following from nairaland to ur blog n back here again, I swear u r a gifted writer. The story is back to back. Only God knows how many classes n important tiz dat needs ma attention I av skipped. Hw I wish dis write up can become a made in Nigeria movie!....I doff ma hat for u....keep it coming.... (my namesake) |
Politics / Drums Of Chaos, War And Disorder by Rocksteady1(m): 10:21pm On Nov 23, 2015 |
LET those who beat the drums of national
disorder, war and chaos beware! Let those who
egg them on beware also; let those who take no
action to douse tension, who take no action to
quench a raging fire in a section of the country
beware. Let those whose houses are on fire and
are chasing fleeing rats beware. It is not wisdom
to insult your mother in order to please your
father. It is not wisdom to confront and insult
your father in public over a private matter. It is
not wisdom to dance naked to celebrate the
beauty of success.
Indeed, it is foolishness, big foolishness. Let
those who would rather sow seeds of war than
plant trees of peace beware too. Let them
remember with the memory of the elephant that
when a tree falls, we are no gods to tell where
the branches will fall with a thud or with a fatal
bang; that we are no prophets to say what would
become of the huge trunk of the fallen
‘akpobrisi’ tree or who would come with axes and
cutlasses to fetch or make firewood of us. Let
them know that even women would cut off meat
of a fallen elephant or a dead lion. Let them know
that a grandmother does not enter the room of
the feast of puberty. And let them beware too!
Let them know that it is from the house of the
coward that we point at the ruins of the strong
man’s homestead. Let them know that when chaos
sits as a permanent guest in our homestead, we
would have to enter our homes through another
man’s gate; that strangers would sit in judgment
over us and cast our lives into the dustbin of
disgrace; that the perching birds would fly into
distant skies and roam away in complete
freedom; that no one would receive us into their
habitations because like the proverbial chicken,
we blindly destroyed our God-given nest. Let
them know that it is not the way of our inherited
world for us kill the bee perched on the scrotum
with a sledgehammer. Let them know that if the
deluge comes again, the manipulators of the
violent drum beat will fly into distant lands and
watch from afar till restoration.
Why do we want to cascade with lusty gusto into
the valley of uncertainty? Why do the drummers
beat sounds of war and the singers sing songs of
separation? Why? Have they forgotten 1967?
Have they forgotten 1968? Have they forgotten
1969? Have they forgotten January 1970 when
the conflagration came to an end? Have they
forgotten the victor, the vanquished, even
though we mouthed ‘no victor, no vanquished?
Have we forgotten that indeed some were
vanquished and have been kept out of the
corridors of hope since that brutal conflict?
Have we forgotten that never again in our
history should we push dancers into anomie, into
bloody valleys? Have we forgotten how Boko
Haram started and how like a festering sore it
has made a mockery of governance in the north
east? Have we forgotten that we have not been
able to stem the season of slaughter of innocent
lives in the north eastern part of our country? Is
it true that the visible dancers and drummers
were not born when we all said ‘never again? Is
it true that they were never taught in school how
we imposed hunger on our brothers and planted
kwashiorkor on innocent kids? Is it true that the
history of Nigeria is dead in the school syllabus?
A father’s tears, our elders say and we know
too, are not for his offspring to see. When a
child cries and points in a direction, even the
blind man knows that he wants his mother from
that direction; the direction of hope, the
direction of succour, the direction of peace.
When we queue up in the hot sun or endure the
wetness and coldness of the rain to cast a ballot,
we yearn for a farmer, a horseman or horsemen
that would listen with both ears and water seeds
of peace, plant trees of hope. Silence from the
farmer when violent birds land on the farm and
devour crops is a sign of deafness. Our elders
never enthroned the deaf as king. Even the
limping genius was forbidden from sitting on the
throne. Ask J.P. Clark’s idiotic Temugedege who
became king of Orea after a season of deaths.
The elders are baffled that babies of yesterday
now yearn for the yuletide of destruction. The
grown babies make war chants and pour red oil
on the white cloth of communal purity. Onlookers
are worried that may be they are listening to the
drum beat of agitation played by disenchanted
elders whose access to the centre of things was
thwarted because of the conflagration of the
past. Is the war drumbeat a brother to Boko
Haram or the fierce fight in the Niger Delta
before amnesty and reconciliation? Is it the
brother of the ‘political Sharia? Is it a call to
attention?
We have fired the words of hope, of caution
into the space of today, into the horizon of our
homeland; let us hope and pray that seeds of
peace through actions and words will drown the
urgent drums of discordance. Let us be
magnanimous in victory and plant the seeds of
growth and inclusion in the permutations of the
land. So, let those who currently beat the drums
of war remember the cataclysm of the deluge
that landed on our homeland from 1967 to 1970.
It was not a dance that anyone enjoyed. Not even
the drummers came out with a good story to
pass on. When the Dance ended, we swore ‘never
again’. Let the ‘never again’ be a refrain as we
prepare for the feast of ingathering. Let us
remember that ‘the elephant ravages the jungle/
the jungle is peopled with snakes/the snake says
to the squirrel/I will swallow you/the mongoose
says to the snake/I will mangle you/the elephant
says to the mongoose/I will strangle you’. 1 Like
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Literature / Re: Tarasha - (An Action Thriller) - Story Of The Month - January 2016 by Rocksteady1(m): 2:06pm On Nov 23, 2015 |
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Literature / Re: He Who Breaks Many (Action Thriller) by Rocksteady1(m): 10:54pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
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Celebrities / Re: Photos From Olamide's London Concert Held Yesterday Featuring Phyno & Others by Rocksteady1(m): 10:39pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
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Education / Federal University Of Technology Akure by Rocksteady1(m): 5:39pm On Oct 24, 2015 |
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AKURE (OFFICE OF REGISTRAR) ADMISSIONS INTO NEWLY APPROVED UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN THE UNIVERSITY Applications are hereby invited for admission into the following recently approved Departments, for the 2015/2016 academic session SCHOOLS AND COURSES AVAILABLE 1. School of Eng. & Eng. Technology B.Eng in Computer Engineering Five SSCE Credit Passes in WASSCE or GCE (O/ L) NECO or NABTEB to include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language and any other Science subject at not more than two sitting. UTME Subjects :Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English Language. 2. School of Sciences B.Tech in Biotechnology, Five SSCE Credit Passes in WASSCE or GCE (O/ L) NECO or NABTEB to include Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, English Language at not more than two sitting. UTME Subjects :Mathematics, Biology, Physics/ Chemistry and English Language. 3. School of Management Technology B.Sc. Accounting B.Sc. Economics, B.Sc. Business Admin. Five SSCE Credit Passes in WASSCE or GCE (O/ L) NECO or NABTEB to include Mathematics, English Language, Economics, and two others Subjects from Chemistry, Agric Science/ Biology, Accounting, Geography,Government and Physics. UTME Subjects :English Lang.,Mathematics, Economics and any one of the following subject; Accounting, Geography, or Government. 4. School of Health and Health Technology B.Sc. Human Anatomy B.Sc. Physiology Five SSCE Credit Passes in WASSCE or GCE (O/ L) NECO or NABTEB to include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language and Biology at not more than two sittings. UTME Subjets :English Language, Physics, Biology and Chemistry. B.Tech. Biomedical Tech. Five SSCE Credit Passes in WASSCE or GCE (O/ L) NECO or NABTEB to include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language and Biology at not more than two sittings. UTME Subjects :Mathematics, English Language Biology and Physics/ Chemistry. ELIGIBILITY Candidates who scored a minimum of 180 marks in the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), are eligible irrespective of their most preferred choice Institutions. METHOD OF APPLICATION Candidates are required to: i. Visit the University’s website ( www.futa.edu.ng) for the admission requirements and mode of payment for application; ii. Complete and submit the University Post- UTME Application Form online; and iii. Print out a copy. CLOSING DATE The closing date for payment, completion and submission of the application form online is 3rd November, 2015. Dr. (Mrs.) M. O. Ajayi Registrar. CC: Lalasticlala, Mr Seun Osewa, Ishilove e.t.c |
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