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Friday 6 June 2014

TIPS FOR PARENTING IN MY GENERATION!

Here is a list of things you need to teach your Child(ren) at early age:
1: Warn your Girl Child Never to sit on anyone's laps no matter the situation including uncles.
2: Avoid Getting Dressed in front of your child once he/she is 2 years old. Learn to excuse them or yourself.
3. Never allow any adult refer to your child as 'my wife' or 'my husband'
4. Whenever your child goes out to play with friends make sure you look for a way to find out what kind of play they do, because young people now sexually abuse themselves.
5. Never force your child to visit any adult he or she is not comfortable with and also be observant if your child becomes too fond of a particular adult.
6. Once a very lively child suddenly becomes withdrawn you may need to patiently ask lots of questions from your child.
7. Carefully educate your grown ups about the right values of sex . If you don't, the society will teach them the wrong values.
8: It is always advisable you go through any new Material like cartoons you just bought for them before they start seeing it themselves.
9. Ensure you activate parental controls on your cable networks and advice your friends especially those your child(ren) visit(s) often.
10. Teach your 3 year olds how to wash their private parts properly and warn them never to allow anyone touch those areas and that
includes you (remember, charity begins from home and with you).
11: Blacklist some materials/associates you think could threaten the sanity of your child (this includes music, movies and even friends and families).
12. Let your child(ren) understand the value of standing out of the
crowd.
13: Once your child complains about a particular person, don't keep quiet about it.
Take up the case and show them you can defend them.
Remember, we are either parents or parents-to-be.
Have a Nice day and Great Week Ahead
And possible forward to all friends who have children's

FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNDER THREAT IN NIGERIA!

Wednesday 4 June 2014

NIGERIA BEING ONE COUNTRY - A sheer lie & self deceit of yesteryears: the need for Yoruba Republic, Part2. ...


 "Chief Awolowo had one singular fault: it was to think pan-Nigeria; he believed that the poor of the North and the poor of the South shared a common misery and common oppressors. (While) He believed in excellence, he believed in hard work and he believed in the rule of law. The oppressors of the North did not and they still do not. They have continued to capture the federal judiciary and the army (as well as the electoral commissions)" The above caption was said precisely 20 years ago, even when there was nothing called bokoharam... Like I had said in the previous article, more specifically, a few parameters shall herewith be diagnosed to marshal our core understanding in the mirror of reality beyond the facade of ludicrous standing of the day. History revealed to me that a creation of a being of Obafemi Awolowo was second to non on the African continent and Nigeria by precision, who dwarfed all his contemporaries during governance in terms of immeasurably distinguishable path-finding, navigating and self-starting commitments to selfless humanity welfarism, core education revolution amongst other social infrastructures development and foundation laying. Indeed the Nigeria's First & 2nd Republic witnessed Awo's leading in thoughts, ideas, philosophical discharge that should have ascended a country of his birth an educational, administrative and development rival of today's Asian Tiger (Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan) had it not been for parallel ethno-religious divisions that had existed in the pseudo march-making and erroneous sandwich of the origin of Nigerian history. Many syndicate over the years have kept nurturing the unholy union with so much finance and sweat including billions of Naira of the present administration under security votes. Their intents in clamoring for an unseen 'unity' have remained latent, even as they exploit the religious jugular of sentiment of 'unity'. Meanwhile, a religion makes it crystal clear in its sacred principle that "...can two walk (exist or live) together, except they agree...?" It keeps hurting that Nigerian leadership has inadvertently continually been killing millions of her talents, who should have salvaged the wreck ship from its plunging disaster, all under the parameter of forceful cohabitation. Straight to the point, if not for this forceful amalgamated unity, these different ethnic regions would have advanced peacefully and progressively at different paces. In the formation of self governing in Nigeria, the Western Nigeria had been ready for self rule as early as 1952/53, while the Eastern part subscribed to same shortly after but with Northern part being adamant on maintaining the status-quo of indirect rule and oligarchic feudal system. As a matter of fact, the lack of willingness on the part of the North led to the abrogation of Nigerian independence as proposed by AG Anthony Enahoro towards 1954. This tells us that over the years, a willingness or otherwise of the North has always been a deciding determinant of the piloting of Nigerian ship! Upon the approach of 1957 constitutional conference, Awo was so furious that if the Ahmadu Bello's North would not be ready for Independence, the West would have no alternative than to move on, to form the Republic of Southern Nigeria. To this extent, Zik's East signed a latent agreement to so concur, the ONE & ONLY angle of agreement ever existed between Awo & Zik, as the latter positioned himself as an acute foe to the former over the 1951 Regional election that Zik was hell bent on occupying Ibadan as the premier of the West, an arrant insult as considered by Awo's AG, and he defeated Zik's NCNC... The rest is history, to the Igbo people under the misguided information of Zik, Awo was painted an enemy of the East, and he (Awo) never had their support throughout his lifespan, except for ever brilliant and self minded Odumegwu Ojukwu's leadership who recognized the uniqueness of Awo's career-calling for his people, as he lamented Igbos should pray for such a leader. The point in this historical perspective is that, Nigeria comprises a people that have ethnically rivaled and as such been mud dragged as a result. Ironically, the rival between the Western Nigerian Awo and Eastern Nigerian Zik paved smooth foundations and paths for mediocrity ruling of/by the half-baked Northern oligarchy whose feudal aristocratic practices have continued to widen the gap amongst people, ensuring inequality and ensuing guerrilla war of some sort in revolutionary reaction to the messy system of yesteryears. Let us succinctly do the history as it relates to the domination of the feudal Lord of Bello's North over the philosopher-king of Awo's West and the educated Zik's East: Length & breadth of the history reveals that while Zik was a brilliant orator, a reservoir of knowledge, the lover of his people (Igbo) and a core Nationalist, Awo was knowledge incarnate himself, he was a sage with generational wisdom that lilliputianize the thinking method of his contemporaries which also effected a dynamic change in the universal but non-progressive modus operandi, the passion and belief he had in goal pursuit was second to none. He was anti fully to colonial repression, man-by-man exploitation, a core Nationalist in terms of independence solicit and an education revolutionist to the letter. Ahmadu Bello was a passive and conservative ruler of the Hausa/Fulani kindred. He retained the ideology of his grandfather, the late warlord Uthman dan fodio, the ideology of warring and domination of Hausa/Fulani kingdom. He danced all around the British colonial ruling, which directly won him the favor of dictates from the Britain, the manipulation of census figure to the North advantage of the 1953 census, the ceding power to Balewa (Bello's puppet) in 1959 matching towards independence and several other high-handedness of the Britain at the time of handing over. Worthy of note amongst these tripartite was the remark of Sir Ahmadu Bello however, on the march towards independence that their differences are core as a people. He would reiterate that the amalgamated Nigeria is not one, as their huge differences are quite parallel. Zik in his nationalistic euphoria often replied him that "let us forget our differences". Awo in his sage reservation had repeatedly caution that a confederalism clause be input into the constitution so as to allow any unwilling group to happily stay off the arrangement if it so wished. The lesson here was that the same 'unity' being preached today prevailed then; as no confederal clause was made, and the differences were ignored, thereby enforcing the Zik's idea by and large. As history would have it, it is the same Zik's people that first saw that indeed Nigeria was not of any unity. The same Zik's igbo people suffered it most under the pogrom/massacre of them by the Hausa's compatriots in Kaduna, Kano following the 1966-Jan coup. My question: was Ahmadu Bello not right afterall that we should remember our differences to live apart!? For historical clarity to anyone who might feel the Igbos deserved the reprisal attack of July 1966 coup as well as the pogrom that followed, because Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna (Igbos) killed Sadauna and Balewa, let me be quick to remind you as a student of history as I refer you to same that the Jan-1966 coup was the best/purest coup ever carried out in the best interest of the country. And all the targets involved were those culpable in the disaster that they had plunged our system. This avenue was too little to go into details preceding the coup and the aftermath. I herewith once again refer you to the history of the time. Let me be succinct in recapturing it. Awo had done so excellently well in pacesetting the West far ahead of others, education revolutions and infrastructures first in Africa especially. He thereof yelled to replicate same at the center, and was pressed to hand over to SL Akintola by party bigwigs against his wish for Akintola was usually a laid-back, though brilliant lawyer SL Akintola was. But he handed power over to him, only for Akintola to try to annihilate his boss and founder of the party AG. Akintola rose to become the highest traitor/ betrayal on the Yoruba soil after Afonja that sold Yoruba part to Fulani emirate. Akintola allied with Bello, a core enemy of Awo, and did all the mischievous games to frame up & imprisoned the great man of idea (Awo), as he (SL Akintola) continued to exploit the state resources for personal gains, under the shade of the federal might. Akintola became a veritable tool in the hand of the federal govt Bello/Balewa to cause mayhem, killing, disruptions, arson in the West. An emergency state came to be, and everything was manipulated to still return power to him, SL Akintola, against AG's Adegbenro, another Ibadan politician. The crisis got to the peak, and the perpetrators of this evil and the wreck of the Federation at the time were the prime target of the Jan 15th 1966 coup: the Western premier, SL Akintola, the federal might (Bello & Balewa), and Festus Okotie-Eboh (the finance minister, who led the caucus that Awo should be put away in prison for 'treason' before the 1964 elections) These were the main targets of the coup for their evil in misrepresenting the country. What simply led to the entirety of this imbroglio was the desperation of an ethnic region to dominate the Federal might at all cost, in which the region found some betrayals amongst the other ethnic regions to ally in distabilizing the system The essence of the foregoing analytical & historical perspective is to situate how wobble Nigerian foundation had been... Ironically, it keeps getting worse as we speak now. The section that claimed we were never one had paraded all the rulers Nigeria ever had, with one exception each from the west (Obasanjo) and from the East (today's southsouth, Jonathan). Shonekan was interim, while Zik was a mere ceremonial head with no executive power, who watched in jollity as a reprisal attack against his perceived foe, Awo for not allowing him to win the Ibadan Regional election of 1952. The point is thereof captured that 'Awolowo had too much faith in the rule of law in the face of the diabolical plans of his oppressors to eclipse his political career' kola Animashaun also said in the vangaurd of July 1994 that: "Chief Awolowo had one singular fault: it was to think pan-Nigeria; he believed that the poor of the North and the poor of the South shared a common misery and common oppressors. (While) He believed in excellence, he believed in hard work and he believed in the rule of law. The oppressors of the North did not and they still do not. They have continued to capture the federal judiciary and the army (as well as the electoral commissions)" The above caption was said precisely 20 years ago, even when there was nothing called bokoharam. It had been acknowledged by sane and sincere minds that we are not one nation and can never be one people, if the people in the country must move forward. Even a sincere philosopher-king, Awo was faulted for fighting for a just common cause. Today, there's just no one good leader any longer. The last great of the masses was palpably fenced off 'Gani Fawehinmi' (mine opinion) Then the leadership quarter continued to manipulate the meaning of 'unity' to us, and the gullible populace continue to see reason in such a vacuous decrepit subterfuge. I weep for our future if the facade continues. Nigeria as a being itself is weeping as we speak for such enmeshed ludicrous forceful coexistence. Nigeria has had civil war in which only a part suffered the reminiscence. Odumegwu Ojukwu had similarly seen it that there could not be a fair well in the arrangement, and he led the secession moves. Great 'Mandiba' of the Ibos. He would always / forever win my adornment for his foresight and courage. Imagine if the likes of him who left the shores of personal comfort of british training/ father's inheritance to fight for his people had succeeded, today, there would have been a London in Biafra, where the great minds like non-corruptible Achebe were the pilots of the state affairs. Same way, Gani Fawehinmi would have laid a veritable war against the monster of corruption that is now a renewed and renowned institution after his death. All he could have done would have been a good foundation erect!!! Perhaps, MKO would have too! He meant well after all! He suffered and died for what Mandiba Mandela suffered and got released to become the president. It tells me that Nigerian oligarchic cabal of "born-to-rule"'s feudal structure is meaner, more cruel than the apartheid colonialism of south Africa. They would not relinquish power, they would not govern well, yet their wards are the bokoharam bombers of today despite their yesteryears ruling. Then I ask what else would bokoharam want? Islamic State. Simple; give it to them, Islamic Republic of Northern Nigeria. Chikena! Western Islam is totally different from the Northern's extreme jihad of its practice! They have always had sharia in their system. They have always been without education, necessitating scores of almajiri schools being built for them. Why must other tribes/ethnic majorities/minorities suffer & die because we are acclaiming a Zanaib-Alkali's stillborn of 'unity'!? Why must Sharia have hands cut, legs amputated in the far North, only for down south of Lagos to keep nurturing their wounds as they turn destitute and beggars at Ebute-Metta, amongst other southern territory? Being together is the only woe, we are bequeathed with as we speak. Bokoharam would not go away, corruption would not move an inch, development would not arise... Because our polity remains shattered by all manners of political imbroglio that keeps weakening the political will to fight it as orchestrated by ethnic wars that cannot be won... The worst is rather being done to individual ethnic region: selfish& unfaithful personality, money-bag politics, corrupt mentality of lack of ability to stand on one's own, amongst others... But really an error had been made in the forceful coexistence, not until it is undone, I'm afraid, a group of people would keep slitting other people's throats under the guise of wanting theirs religious state. Then why not be away from such evil genius in a peaceful arrangement? As a student of globalization, I can not directly see a vantage point for being a large populace of wretched and dented image. Now, everywhere a Nigerian turns to abroad, he's massacred or murdered. It has happened all across the globe, in China, in Ukraine, in Dubai, even our supposed own South-Africa for xenophobic reasons. We have been mislabelled as people without conscience or value for life! Yet, our Doyin Okupe would say blatant and obvious lies to defend an open errors! Else, how would you interpret his defense that Jonathan never planned or included it in his itinerary that he was to visit Chibok... Rather than consenting to it, but the president had to reschedule for safety purpose! Even Abati is a bought over... The list is endless! Yesterday, it was civil war, today it is bokoharam indiscriminate bombing/killing thereby becoming world most dreaded terrorist group (country)... What do we know that it would be by tomorrow!??? All we need for ours tomorrow's sake is Yoruba Republic! Simplicita! We were never one people, and we can't ever be! Religious sentiment can not help! No sentiment can, but reality on ground cum that of the yesteryears! Histories don't lie! 
 
Kehinde Balogun 
 olakennyb@yahoo.com