OUR SILENCE: OUR CONSPIRACY.

It saddens the sane heart what our dear country has degenerated into. Decade after decade, following the ironic independence we got in 1960 with an unreleased noose around the nation's naive neck like

that of a hangman's halter in the hands of the colonialists - the imperialists - waiting for the final order, things kept getting worse by the day, and the country's continued existence kept being constantly threatened.

The life of an average Nigerian became more and more meaningless. Our lives were turned to lab rats, chess pawns, dealers' goods and inconsequential entities in the hands of our dealers as leaders, political experimentalists as leaders, chess players as rulers, and traders as political office holders respectively. And we watched and folded our arms in silence as we gradually slide into an abyss of human

debasement filled with gory acts of macabre orgies. And we watched and folded our arms like lobotomized figures bought with crumbs from the blood of the innocent. And we watched and folded our arms as we kept being sold into second slavery while our commonwealth was being plundered and looted with glee by the recycled traders of our land. 

We kept watching because we have eaten the forbidden fruit, we could never be bold again to speak the

truth even when our children's future was in the line - even when their continued welfare and existence kept being threatened. We could no longer act because we have eaten the seeming sumptuous plantain fried by our very own assailant. We freely gave them our blood. We also donated our children's blood because of stomach infrastructure while we were expected to take a great decision that could turn our lives around at the polls.

Year-in, year-out, decade after decade we watched. We watched as we gradually descended into a state of barbaric anarchy that kept painting the entire nation red with the blood of the innocent. We watched as diseases kept ravaging the country and watched as our leaders chose to profit and enrich themselves from exploiting the ugly situation to the detriment of both the sick and the unsafe citizens of the country - we watched! We watched and did nothing - not even a protest. Why because we live in an era of dictatorship and anarchy, an era of ethnic rivalry, religious intolerance and extremism, blind party loyalty, political exploitations, and above all corruption. So, we kept watching and waiting. Till when? No one knows.

The country is deeply entrenched in corruption. We were born into corruption because the very existence of the country smacks of corruption and condescension! We live in corruption and trade corruption. We are kitted and robed in corruption and mammon has become our god. We do anything for money. We do anything to enrich ourselves even when lives are in the line. We buy humans with money. We sell humans for money. We die for money!

Yet, we see nothing wrong. Everyone keeps maintaining the egocentric stance of "me, myself and I". For how long shall we keep keeping silent? Remember, "the man dies in him that keeps silent in the face of tyranny." When you lock yourself up in the fantasy of your kingly mansion, remember that one day, it will only require six feet to lock you up eternally and singly beneath the very ground that holds your mansion and you will be asked to give an account of your stewardship. When you drive wound-up around in your exotic cars, you only need to remember that it only takes a coffin to wind you up forever in the lonely belly of the earth you used to cruise on!

Remember, whatever fragments of good you are able to do while on earth would be your only respite which will outlive you. You came to this world naked, and naked shall you return!

     

BEWARE OF JUMIA IN AKURE AXIS

I am highly disappointed in Jumia that all my shopping experiences with it has been rippled with activities of breach of contract at one point or another across all the chains of transactions and dealings with them.  Therefore, I must first register my utmost displeasure in Jumia which was supposed to be on top of its game in the business of online shopping, sound customer relations and customer trust-building and satisfaction. Jumia has failed woefully in the last three expected qualities!

These are some of my traumatic experiences with Jumia and its delivery agents cum customer care which I won't stop publicizing to the whole world!

1. I placed an order for four-in-one men's shirt, they brought four-in-one trousers for me. Though my money was refunded, it was a disappointing experience that would linger for long.

2. The delivery agent assigned to the Akure-Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin axis, Ondo state is more of an uncultured tout, a hooligan and a wild beast than a human being and he has no business being in the chain of delivery services for Jumia!

Jumia should learn to screen their would-be employees before employing them so that cultured and normal human beings would be employed by them for whatever services they needed them to carry out!

The Delivery Agent in question cancelled my order (a denim charcoal black jeans) without informing me, without calling me, without making any attempt to deliver it even after having paid in full (on a pre-paid basis) for home delivery! He unilaterally cancelled my order and I reported this to Jumia's customer care via 07006000000 in December, 2019. I thought Jumia would take an action on this guy who is bent on destroying their business and making Jumia to lose its customers. But alas, my remaining orders were, afterwards, placed in this unrepentant beast's hands to deliver to me again. The beast's GSM number whom Jumia refer to as Delivery Agent (D.A.) is: 09023278942 and for the second time in a row, this guy cancelled another set of orders unilaterally again yesterday, January 3, 2019!

The most painful aspect of this whole drama from this delivery agent guy was that:
a) I called his GSM number 09023278942 in the morning of January 3, 2019 immediately after receiving a message from Jumia that a delivery agent with that number would call. I didn't wait for his call. I called him by myself! The phone rang and for more than four times I kept calling and the phone kept ringing to the end and this devil whom is being referred to by Jumia as a DA did not pick my calls. I then sent a message to him, because I discovered from the number that it was the same guy who had once cancelled my order without my authorization, to inform him that I could offer to meet him anywhere convenient for him in Akure to pick my orders to avoid the stress of travelling down to Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin again! Haven't I tried? But this guy, instead of appreciating my effort, chose to tow a line of personal vendetta, the reason for which I do not know till now. He did not respond to my text, he did not respond to all my calls! Then, the next hour, I just received a mail and to my wildest dismay the mail stated that my orders have been cancelled! Not one! Not two! But all THREE FOREIGN ORDERS! All the three pairs of shoes I ordered from Jumia Global for which I had to patiently wait all through one whole month was just cancelled by this devilish Delivery Agent with glee!

4. Jumia should admit that it has vested too much power in these sets of Delivery Agents whom once they don't like your face, could choose to exercise this absolute POWER which has corrupted them ABSOLUTELY, on the teeming and innocent customers! Cancellation powers such as this, should not be vested unilaterally in any one man but should be double-layered for the purpose of checks and balances!

What's even wrong with sending a common SMS or email to such customer that his/her order(s) is/are about to be cancelled stating the reason for the cancellation and asking if there should be a stay of action or the action should proceed. But NO! YOU JUST EMPOWERED YOUR DEVILS TO CANCEL ORDERS ARBITRARILY, UNILATERALLY AND WITHOUT ANY LEVEL OF AUTHORIZATION IN AN ONLINE SHOPPING MALL OF SUCH A REPUTE AND IN A DEMOCRATIC AND CIVIL SOCIETY SUCH AS OURS!

A SERIOUS NOTE OF WARNING!!!
1. Jumia should never attempt to assign my remaining orders to the same devilish agent within my axis (that is, Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State Axis) Once again, the Delivery Agent's number is 09023278942 and he covers the Akure-Elizade University axis. As a matter of fact, he remains banned from plying that axis, let alone coming to Elizade University or he would be arrested!

2. I still have two orders which am still expecting to be delivered and they are of utmost value to me. Those items are: a) 61 Keys Digital Music Electronic Keyboard Child Piano gift and b) Yushenj Men/Women Automatic strap belt. I wish to stress and emphasize that if these two orders are cancelled by any of Jumia's staff, then, I would go to the press and also press charges against Jumia!
NOTHING MUST HAPPEN TO THE REMAINING ORDERS THAT I AM EXPECTING. JUMIA SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF THAT!

QUALITIES OF A GOOD LEADER

2019 is vigorously knocking at the

door of "the giant of Africa" again. This time, a grand and historic decision is to be made at the opening of the door.

It is therefore pertinent to create lots of orientations and awareness on the need to choose right by studying and getting familiar with the traits and qualities of a good leader and keying in to self discipline for the purpose of shunning every form of inducement and electoral fraud.

Electorates should note that selling their votes is selling their rights and by extension, their entire destinies just for a token. Is it worth it?

Therefore, the onus rests on us all to subject every political office seekers to a thorough scrutiny to ascertain his behaviour, pedigree, moral and spiritual rectitude, his achievements, his community service assignment, how trustworthy, dependable, reliable he is, how sound and fit he/she is to deliver on assignments given to him and so on.

Part of these qualities of a good leader to watch out for are discussed below. Please, don't be fooled or deceived.

Note that if their reason for seeking leadership or vying for political position is to earn a living, then, it will be right to tell them to go and intensify effort at getting the right job. Politics or leadership isn't a profession.

If the reason for seeking elective posi

tion is to amass wealth that ordinarily wouldn't have been possible even if they had lived for 1,000 years and had the highest paid job, then tell them to go dig their gold elsewhere.

If the reason for seeking power is to settle scores with their political enemies, or get them perpetually buried in political graveyards, then you won't be wrong to tell them that they are simply immature and myopic and don't forget to add that they should find other means for executing devilish intent. But caution them to note that they are only digging their early and hellish grave!

If the reason for seeking to perpetuate themselves in power is to block the chances of the less privileged who are young, productive and smart but whom they regard as threats to their greedy political ploys and ventures, then the voice of the people shall rise up to the most high to thunder down His wrath on them. Do not forget to remind them of the end of Pharaoh in the Bible.

All of the above are no characteristics of a good leader.

👉🏽A good leader nurture the growth of more leaders.

👉🏽 A good leader serves his/her people by protecting their positive interests, and serving their needs. He/she does not expect to be served as we have it today. Please always remember that "to lead is to serve".

👉🏽 A good leader stands in the gap for his people, his followers, no matter how tough and rough the terrain is.

👉🏽 A good leader is like a hen that protects its chicks against all odds, even the bit of a snake!

👉🏽 A good leader pays attention to the cries of his people like a good mother does to the cries of her baby.

Therefore, if you are still bent on being a leader, know that it is a call to serve and not to be served! Are you ready to truly serve?

__'Wale Oladokun

WE ARE CALLED TO LOVE AND RESPECT

The scripture gives us an important emphasis as husbands and wives.
Husbands are told, specifically, to love their wives as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25). Wives are told specifically to respect their husbands as the church does Christ (Ephesians 5:33).

One could, therefore, correctly deduce from the above that we are called as believers, to love and respect. It will then mean that a woman loved by her husband will grow in loveliness, while a man respected by his wife will become more respectable. But when any of the two (love or respect) is absent from either of the parties involved, the foundation upon which the relationship is built becomes shaky. “And if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3 - KJV).

From statistics, women are better at loving than men are. Men do well at respecting. Men tend to think of love as “not giving trouble to others” while women think of love as “taking trouble for others” – which is much closer to agape love than what men naturally do.

Therefore, men must be called to sacrifice for their wives, to take trouble for them (that is, to love them), as Christ gave Himself for the church. In the same vein, women must be urged to respect their husbands. This is because a woman can naturally love a man she does not honour or respect very much, and this is what Paul would identify as a trouble. How many times have we heard of a terrible girl returning to her abusive boyfriend because she “loves him”, even though he treats her like dirt? But if we asked her if she respects him, she would reply, “are you kidding? Him?”

MEN RUN ON RESPECT, WOMEN ON LOVE
If the Bible said that sheperds should feed the sheep, a reasonable inference would be that sheep need food. When husbands are told to love their wives, we can infer from this that wives need to be loved. When wives are told to respect their husbands, we can infer from this that husbands need to be respected. Let us picture this as two kinds of car that run on different kinds of fuel – diesel and petrol. Therefore, let us say “husbands run on respect, and wives run on love.”

SIGNS THAT YOUR PARTNER DOESN’T LOVE YOU ANY MORE:
Once you begin to notice the following traits, please, consider that the love might no longer be present in the relationship any more:

INTOLERANCE AND IRRITATION
Once your partner starts getting easily irritated by common forgiveable actions, mistakes, error of omission or commission, and other simple corrigible inadequacies, then, be sure that these might be pointers to depreciation of love. He shouts at every little mistake repeatedly, he constantly rattles and rants about how things are poorly handled by you or how you should or should not have done this or that, then the love is gradually waning.

WITHDRAWS AND KEEPS TO HIMSLEF OR HERSELF
Withdrawal syndrome is another sign of waned love. If he/she begins to keep to himself/herself, prefer being left alone in the room, avoid contacts and other forms of relating with one another, then the fire of love might be burning low.

LACK OF COMMUNICATION
Once communication is absent in all its ramifications, that is verbally, attitudinally, romantically and sexually, then love is heading for the rock.

SUBSTITUTION OF PARTNER’S PRESENCE AND ATTENTION WITH PHONE OR OTHER DEVICES
 This applies to both partners. Fumbling with your phone, surfing, chatting and blushing to some illusionary friends on social media while your partner seeks your attention represent nothing but the height of disconnection and disrespect which are unhealthy to the flourishing of a relationship. Being inattentive or half-attentive to your partner while talking to you or replacing “his place or presence” with a multimedia device of any kind either meant for chatting or entertainment, can be most damaging, destructive and injurious to any relationship you seek to build or retain.

If you are the type that often assumes a “typist role” on the keyboard of your smartphone or device while your partner is talking or seeks your attention, or a social-media freak, or crazy follower of celebs and entertainers and you do not know when to draw a line between the reality and fantasy that exists between the two options before you, then, you have signed up your love for eventual crash-landing which requires some divine hands to safe.  When this continually happens between partners, then the love is as good as gone.

SIGNS THAT YOUR PARTNER DOESN’T RESPECT YOU.
You don’t need a relationship expert to notice the obvious signs of a disrespectful partner. But we often allow emotions to cloud our judgments.

Here are some obvious signs of a disrespectful partner:


HE/SHE DOESN’T LISTEN TO YOU
Having someone who can listen to you at your best and worst moments in life is one of the essentials of a relationship. So also is being an active and attentive listener. When you start to feel as though your partner is constantly giving you a less than average amount of attention or shows little interest when talking to him/her. It could be a sign that he/she don’t respect you enough.


HE/SHE LIES TO YOU
Honesty and openness are underrated in modern day relationships. Being open and honest with your partner is one of the building blocks of any healthy relationship. An early sign or indicator of a disrespectful partner is one that constantly lies about trivial things. Lying to your partner makes your partner feel that he/she does not deserve to know the truth and this is unhealthy and injurious to a relationship because it is not a good feeling.


HE/SHE DOES NOT PRIORTISE YOUR NEEDS
No one wants to be the second option/fiddle. This is why it is necessary to always carry your partner along when making any plans, not as an after-thought. If your partner does not seem to care about making or keeping plans with you and you only stumble on the completed planned tasks once in a while, or if he/she always prefers to spend time with friends rather than with you, then that’s a major sign of disrespect.


HE/SHE GIVES ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ATTENTION TO OTHERS
Most people can’t take what they dish. When your partner frequently “jokes” about being attracted to or interested in someone else, or develops so much admiration that he/she could not stop talking about him/her in a manner suggestive of trapped attraction in your presence, then consider it disrespectful to you and your relationship.


So, then, men and women should love and respect each other. They should do so with all their hearts. If relationships must translate into marriages, the men should lean towards love and the women should embrace the values of respect. Peter tells us that reverent and chaste behaviour (not necessarily in empty flamboyance and temporal ornamentation) can break a man’s hardened and disobedient spirit (1 Peter 3:1-2). The results of strict adherence to these can be astonishing. 

Hard Core Facts from Hon. Larry Bhadmus

We should always be ready to help one another. Either as Hausa, Ibo , Yoruba, black or fair in complexion, we should be able to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We must not hate or despise one another.

Our Great Country is large enough to contain us , and also rich to provide for us. Our way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned our souls, barricaded us with hate, and has blind-folded us into forging the path of misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but have shut ourselves in.

Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. I am crying out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. I guess my voice is reaching millions of Nigerians through this medium, million of despairing Men, Women and little Children, Victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who are reading this piece, I say, do not despair.

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators will leave some day, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. So long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Comrades, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel. Those who drill you, diet you, treat you like no citizen, use you as cannon fodders. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts , by selling your votes. It endangers our future rights.

We are not machines, we are Nigerian Men and Women, great citizens of our dear Country - Nigerians. Let us have the love of humanity at hearts. Don't let us hate. Don't fight for slavery. Fight for liberty. The kingdom of God is within man, not one man or group of men, but in all men. In you! . We have the power, the power to create machines, happiness and the power to make life free and beautiful, and a wonderful adventure.

In the name of Democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new Nigeria, a decent country that will give Men and Women a chance to work, that will give Youths a future , and Old a Security. By the promise of these things , brutes have risen to power. But, they lie!. They do not fulfill that promise. They never will.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. Now, it is time to fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free Nigeria.  To do away with National barriers. To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fight for a Country of reason, a Nation where  science and progress will lead to all Men's and Women's happiness.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Let us unite to vote out dictatorship and tyranny. Let us safe our democracy. We must come together, put heads together, to form a United force to vote out the machines.

One Voice, One Vote. This is why it is important for every honest Nigerian eligible to vote to register and get his/her Permanent Voter's Card (PVC). It is not just getting the PVC, but must partake in voting exercise come 2019.

God stands with the majority. In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. I have spoken my mind.

EKITI ELECTIONS: AN EYE OPENER TO THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS

As the Ekiti election is drawing to a conclusive end today, Satuday, July 14, 2018, INEC should, as a matter of  necessity, conduct an objective SWOT analysis on the conduct of Ekiti election against the forthcoming general elections in 2019 to avoid the lapses that attended today's election in Ekiti.

It should be expected that INEC would choose to be proactive and not reactive in its administrative approach to Nigerians' expectations of 2019 before, during and after the elections.

It would be unforgivable if electorates are disenfranchised due to faulty card readers as experienced in some local governments during the ongoing Ekiti elections today.

Law enforcement agents should wake up to their duties just as INEC and other umpires should not hesitate to apply the full weight of the law on any political party that indulge in the brazen act of vote buying, "pay-as-you-vote", or "prepaid-but-show-evidence" activities which bedevilled some polling booths in the election of today.

Electorates should wake up to the fact that they and their future are worth more than a bottle of coke as served in some polling booths today or a token of 400 naira received for voting.

Lessons of today are corrective media for the betterment of TOMORROW. A word is enough for the wise.

God bless Ekiti State, God bless Nigeria.

__'Wale Oladokun.

Fundraising Endeavour for Electioneering Campaign to the Federal House of Representatives

We are all conscious of the fact that the fund required for contesting elections in Nigeria today is frighteningly a cut-throat type which is unfortunately so because it is a deliberate attempt by the ruling class to prevent qualified, reliable and honest but low-income earners from getting to the corridors of power.

I am a holder of Master's degree in Cultural and Media Studies and a University Administrator per excellence with awards of laurels for selfless and community development services in the course of the discharge of my duties. 

I am the founder and a member of Garland Club of Igangan. This club, whose main objectives are to offer career counselling to secondary school students and organise holiday coaching classes on compulsory science and arts subjects for students free of charge, was founded during my sophomore days as an undergraduate. It is a club that focuses on the inner-man's development at the grassroots commonly noted for being too far removed from access to basic formal education.

In furtherance of my early resolve to contribute tangible quota to the development of my nation, redemption of our lost glory as a people in the committee of nations, reconstruction of the lost or adulterated social and cultural ideals of our heroes past, and the enthronement of functional basic amenities that will boost our standard of living and economy, I solemnly decided and declared not too long ago to contest the 2019 election for a seat at the Federal House of Representatives for the effective representation of the people of Ibarapa North/Central Federal Constituency. 

Some of the items on our manifesto include:

1. Battling the growing menace of youth unemployment by:

a. Creating a database for all unemployed youths, reflecting disciplines (areas of specialization) and skills.

b. Maintaining ICT-based eagle eye on job openings nationwide and going extra miles in making suitable positions available to our graduates.

c. Making sure employment opportunities plus all federal character employment slots/allocations are sought for and are fairly and evenly applied.

d. Sourcing governmental and non-governmental support and aids towards establishment of mechanized farm counties in IBARAPA LAND which will create jobs not just for professionals but also artisans and also improve the economy of the land.

e. Wooing local and foreign industry-based investors that deal in processing of farm produce to our arable and lush lands full of harvest of cash crops for the purpose of setting up industries and agric-based investments. This will also tackle unemployment and boost our economy.

f. Setting up partnership with recruitment firms that work as outsourcers for top industries for daily job alerts and judicious conversion of such to employment.

2. Dealing with the menace of insecurity by:
a. presenting bills that border on the welfare, security and well-being of our people in particular and all Nigerians in general.

b. Revisiting the grazing laws and herders' bloodletting menace and voicing out the wishes of the people on practicable resolutions to the growing menace of farmer-herder’s clashes which will be based on the referendum reached at consistent townhall meetings with our people.

3. (a) Improvement of our Healthcare system by allocating part of the periodic constituency allowance to the funding and revamping both our primary and comprehensive health care systems.

(b)Positively nfluencing the Government of the day on the need to focus on and fund our health care system. 

4. Boosting of Ibarapa land’s presence on the globe by:

(a) Establishing IBARAPA BROADCASTING STATION using the privilege of our office to woo some big names and broadcasting investors in the sector to establsh a broadcasting station in Ibarapa, 

(b) making a case for the establishment of an NTA Network Service in Ibarapa Land and partnering with cable and satellite networks to showcase our rich cultural heritage.

(c) With the establishment of television and or radio stations, how nice would it also be to have a DSTV channel showing the beauty of our land, our history, our programs in our dialects, our talents and peculiarities _"The Ibarapa People"

(d) The above will attract tourists and culminate in Tourism; our beautiful hills and historical mountains being ready sources of tourists' attractions. We have good geographical endowment to establish tourist attraction centres and build film shooting locations called Films Villages.

5. We shall influence the government of the day for the provision of good road networks. 

6. We shall also establish Youth Vocational Centres across Ibarapa North/Central Constituency.

7a. In the area of Education, our mandate will be to present bills that advocate  education-for-all project.

b. A reasonable percentage of our constituency allowance shall be channelled towards funding education in form of equipping our laboratories in all secondary schools across Ibarapa North/Central Federal Constituency, construction and renovation of classroom blocks, equipping schools with dependable ICT Centres with internet facilities. The era of having to go register for external exams like NECO/WAEC in business centres will become a thing of the past.

c. Indigent but brilliant students across levels shall have access to local and foreign scholarships/aids.

8. There shall be periodic (monthly) Townhall Meetings with our people to share ideas, rub minds and be on the same page of governance by entertaining feedbacks, complaints, requests etc and also feeding them back on our people-oriented programmes.

I, on behalf of my people, the Ibarapa people of Oyo State in particular and the teeming population of those who belief Nigeria can still be great for the betterment of us all, our children and generations to come, wish to request your kind donations towards this noble course. 

If you are moved to contribute towards this course, then your kind donations would go a long way and be appreciated. 

You may wish to send such donations to: 

OLAWALE OLADOKUN
ACCESS BANK PLC  0042083078
Be rest assured that the fund so received shall be channeled towards:

a. mobilizations and campaigns
b. Publicity and electoral education cum orientation
c. Sundry administrative expenses and miscellaneous.

Let us remember that "the journey of a thousand miles, begins with a footstep".  We can decide to make a difference today by standing against the destructive whims of the Nigerian kingmakers who sponsor politicians and turn around to dictate the steps they must take at the expense of the citizens' well-being. We can take a bold step of faith by supporting this bright and noble cause and put an end to populating the Federal House of Representatives with looters, brigands, hoodlums and people who do not have the interest of the nation and the welfare of its citizenry at heart.
Thank you all and God bless you.

#AAC!
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#WALEOLADOKUN2019
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__'Wale Oladokun
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SOME NUGGETS FOR ALL OF US

“Life is a clean slate, inscriptions on and interpretations of it are purely SUBJECTIVE often products of individual biases, affinities or prejudices.”
2. “Often in Life, many offer what they won’t take & even criticize you for refusing to swallow it.”
3. “Every life blossoms when well-tendered, but shrinks and sucks when choked. Life gives back what’s given unto it.”
4. "Casting aspersions on people's integrity only amounts to the loss of your own integrity"
Wisdom Nuggets from the stable of © _ Wale Oladokun - 2015

Ban on Police Road Blocks/Check-Points Still On - IGP Says

It would be recalled that the former Inspector General of Police banned the mounting of road blocks/check points in the country. But the trend these days, especially along the South-South, South-East and South-West Geo-Political zones are re-emergence of illegal road blocks along major highways and the grass-roots considered hidden enough for their "heinous" act.

However, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, NPM, NPOM, mni, has stated unequivocally that the order banning the setting up of Police road-blocks nationwide is still strictly in force.

In a directive issued to all Commands and Formations of the Force, the IGP warned that all semblances of Police road-blocks and permanent check-points reportedly re-emerging in some parts of the country, especially in the South-East, South-South and South-West Geo-political zones of Nigeria should immediately be dismantled.

The IGP who described the trend as a serious violation of subsisting order on road-blocks warned that severe sanctions await any Police Commands, Formations and personnel who violate the order.

While charging the Command Commissioners of Police and Heads of Formations to ensure total compliance with this order, the IGP further orders extensive visibility patrol and effective surveillance on Nigerian roads.

FACTS ABOUT EBOLA VIRUS

Please share this information with your friends and families and try not to spread panic on social media.

• Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats.

• Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans.

• Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from the Ebola virus or their body fluids.

• Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill.

• The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.

• A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8 days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill.

• Only when ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, faeces, urine, bosom milk, Fluid and sweat).

• If you are walking around you are not infectious to others.

• There are documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in small one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.

• You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying local bread or swimming in a pool.

• There is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.

• As always, practice good hand washing techniques, use of sanitizers, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.

THE DRIVER'S SEAT OF A RICKETY BUS

Has it ever occurred to you to stop and ponder on the extra energy and expertise it takes to occupy the driver seat of an old, worn-out and rickety bus full of passengers of different ages and sizes as opposed to driving a brand new "tear nylon" bus? The preponderance of political topsy-turvy characterizing our political landscape and its attendant widespread corruption snuffing lives out of promising destinies and better future can be likened to an old rickety bus en-route the anecdotal promise land. Well, then, it is only logical to scout for an experienced, competent, tested and trusted driver to occupy that highly impressionable and extolling position albeit highly demanding and tasking. 

The past years have been full of charlatans who call themselves all manner of self-acclaimed names and titles plundering the task-payers resources with glee. It has been an era replete with show of self-aggrandizement and unrestrained looting of public treasury often culminating in the recycling of the same league of looters who never hesitated to plow back some of their loots into electioneering campaigns chiefly for the purchase of votes in every dispensation.

Well, for those interested in the development of our community, in particular and nation, in general, I have some good news for you. But to those charlatans, and their benefactors who want to continue towing the same path of wanton destruction and looting of our resources, I have some information for you. 2015 is the signpost for either the submergence of looters or the celebration of true service to our fatherland. 

Please, be informed, my dear people of Igangan Land and Ibarapa at large, that it is not going to be business as usual come 2015 because the true son of the soil, who has not only made marks in his chosen career and field of endeavour, but has also impacted positively and extensively both locally and internationally on almost every facet of human development initiatives is here. A man that has both the required spiritual component as well as the workable and palpable foresight laced with achievable agenda for his people who have, for long, been down-trodden has arrived!

The dye is therefore and henceforth cast! The very fresh breeze of succour and an antidote to the over-bearing palpitations so far experienced in the political landscape of our region and beyond has taken over! The man with the right pedigree, tested, trusted and ticked right by every development-loving and rationally thinking citizen. The man, Dr. Fatai Aborode, our own son, brother, compatriot and lover of growth in every sphere and facet of life has come on board the driver's seat of our age-long, old, worn-out and rickety bus of the PEOPLE to put our destinies back on the right track to enjoy the REAL dividends of DEMOCRACY in an undiluted, unbiased and undoubted form. 

Vote wisely this time, VOTE DR. FATAI ABORODE FOR THE CHANGE WE ALL HAVE BEEN CLAMOURING FOR!!!!    

©  Wale Oladokun @ the Vanguard of Change for All Initiatives (CIA) 

How to identify a suicide bomber

Suicide bombing is an act whereby an individual personally delivers explosives and detonates them with the sole aim of inflicting the greatest possible damage, killing himself in the process in order to serve the interests of the sponsoring individuals or organisations.

Records have revealed that suicide bombers are capable of carrying out very wicked, audacious and highly destructive acts that are shocking on the account of their specific intention to destroy critical infrastructure and kill mostly unsuspecting civilians or injure anyone within the range of the explosion. But if I may ask, what kind of a person would sacrifice his life in order to kill innocent people and what would possibly motivate that person to take the offer of becoming a suicide bomber?

In the wake of several tragic incidents, the government, civil society as well as security agencies have always found it difficult to objectively analyse the causes and processes through which suicide bombings are carried out since there is no single theory as to what brings about such wicked act. Although many people have cited negative indoctrination, radicalisation and religion as prime motivators but the act involved a wide variety of motivation including politics, quest for revenge, humiliation as well as altruism.

The willingness of the perpetrator to kill himself shows a very high symbolic value and dedication to whatever may be his cause. However, the truth is that suicide bombing has become a most accessible weapon of choice available to the terrorist groups because of its cost-effectiveness, lethality, ability to cause confusion as well as the tremendous amount of publicity and fear it generates as clearly witnessed in the series of bomb attacks across the nation. For example, immediately after the last blast, the usual crowd witnessed at motor parks, night clubs and other social event centres, in no time, disappeared because of the wide speculations through the media that there was likely to be another bomb attack in those areas. This is a classical example of the effect of fears associated with terrorism.

Characteristics of a potential suicide bomber

There is no specific profile for anyone who engages himself in suicide bombing. A suicide bomber can come from nearly every cultural background, religion, race, creed or gender. However, the following are common characteristics of a potential suicide bomber.

Through his behaviour

• He behaves in a way similar to someone with no future.

• His mental state could present clues – his eyes are secretive, he makes obvious attempt to avoid eye contact with the people he perceived to be his enemies and always looking at every possible exit.

• Mumbling prayers – may be fervently praying to himself, showing the impression of whispering to someone else.

• He shows no response to any authoritative voice, command or instruction.

Through his appearance

• He wears clothes that are unsuitable for the present-day weather. For instance, wearing of sweater or rain-coat during hot weather.

• He wears slack or puffy clothes. This gives the impression that his body is excessively larger than his head or feet.

• Sweating – resulting from tension and stress or wearing of unsuitable clothes. For instance, wearing a heavy coat during high weather temperature.

• He appears to be focused and more vigilant on his target.

• He will usually have his hands placed in the pocket, around the button of the detonator and ready to set off the bomb at the slightest opportunity.

• He carries big bags or backpacks tightly with wires piercing out of the bag.

• He may most likely have a clean shave or low hair-cut especially when he is ready to carry out the task. This may be done to disguise his real appearance.

• He displays signs of drug use. For instance, his pupils become enlarged with fixed staring.

• His breathings are heavy and rapid.

• Mostly male who falls between the age range of 16 to 30 years of age.

• He looks aggressive, restless, irritable and nervous.

Through his movement

• He walks awkwardly or clumsily in an unusual and odd manner. This is usually due to the unsuitable attire he is wearing and sometimes due to the weight of the explosive devices tied around his body.

• He tries to be evasive in movement. This unusual gait is adopted to evade security agents and some other persons who may foil his plans.

• Often times, he may not know the route to his target destination very well, hence he may occasionally ask for directions. One of the suicide bombers that struck at a church in Kaduna in late 2013 had to ask commercial motorcyclists for direction to the church he eventually struck.

Through his kind of person/other features

• He tries to blend into a group which he clearly does not belong to. For instance, he tries to attend Church worship services even as a non-Christian with clear intention to carry out surveillance and identify vulnerable areas before attack.

• He demonstrates forceful actions in order to reach his desired target by pushing the crowd so as to find his way into a restricted area or showing desperations to reach a crowded point or particular target.

• He will usually have an unusual herbal smell. This is as a result of incense used in the final rituals performed on him as he takes off for the suicide mission.

• Culled from Frank Mba’s blog