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Kogi State masquerades on their way to Aso Rock to endorse Gov Yahaya Bello and also reintroduce him to the president

A Russian saw me in my office and said where are you from , i said am from the greatest country in the world.He looked at me with a very strange look and said let me guess u are from Nigeria , i said yes. Out of curiosity he said considering whats happening in your country now why would you say shes the best in the world and i asked him to sit down and let me tell him what he and most people dont not know about Great Nigeria and i told him these…….

1. Are you aware that all over the world Nigerians are setting the pace and becoming the standard by
which others measure themselves? Do you know??

2. In the US, Nigerians are the most educated immigrant community. Type it into Google and you’ll see it. Not one of the most educated, the most educated.

3. 60% of Nigerians in the US have college degrees. This is far above the American national average of 30%.

4. Nigerians in US are one of the highest earners, typically
earning 25% more than the median US income of $53k.
5. In Ivy League schools in Europe and America, Nigerians routinely outperform their peers from other nations.

6. A Nigerian family, The Imafidon family, have officially been named the smartest family in the UK.
7. The designer of the famous car, Chevrolet Volt, Jelani Aliyu, is a super
talented Nigerian from Sokoto State.

8. The World’s fastest supercomputer was designed by a world renowned inventor and scientist, Philip Emeagwali, a full-blown Nigerian whose pat ency was awarded in 2015. This means Nigeria has the pat ency to the world’s fastest computer: a Nigerian.

9. The wealthiest Black man and woman on earth are
Nigerians, Aliko Dangote and Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija. Both have no trace of criminal record of any kind.

10. South Africa couldn’t have ended apartheid & achieved Black rule if not for
the leadership role Nigeria played.

11. Of the 3 South African Presidents who ruled after apartheid, two of them once
lived in Nigeria under asylum. Both Nelson Mandela (60s) and Thabo Mbeki (70s) lived in Nigeria before becoming President
of South Africa.
We gave financial support, human support, boycotted an Olympics and our politicians, musicians and activists campaigned relentlessly.

12. Nigeria spent over $3 Billion and lost hundreds of soldiers to end the wars in both Liberia and Sierra
Leone which the world ignored because they have no oil.

13. When there was a coup in São Tomé and Príncipe in 2003, Nigeria restored the
elected President back to power.

14. Before there were street lights in European cities, ancient Benin kingdom
had street lights fueled by palm oil.

15. 500 years ago, Benin casted metal alloys to create magnificent art including the world famous Queen Ida Mask.

16. Amina was a warrior queen who ruled Zaria Emirate in Kaduna state,
Northwestern Nigeria 400 years ago in 1610. Google and see what she means to
Africa.

17. We gave monetary gifts to Ireland during our oil boom and
built a statue for France free of charge. We are not poor blacks. Nigeria is rich and don’t be lied to.

18. The first television station in Africa was NTA Ibadan (1960) long before
Ireland has their RTE station………

Wherever you look in this great country, Nigeria, heroes abound both now and in our recent and ancient past. If all you do is listen to mainstream Western media, you’ll not get the full & true picture of your Nigerian heritage.
Do not listen to any leader who says Nigerians are criminals, no matter who he
is, or his height and position.
We’re not a nation of scammers, drugs & corruption, but a people with a verifiable track record of greatness……..

Here is what CNN, BBC, Aljezeera and western media will not tell you about Nigerians:

19. On the 7th of May, 2016 at Howard University in Washington D.C history was
made. Out of 96 graduating Doctor of Pharmacy candidates, 43 of them were
Nigerians and out of 27 awards given, 16 went to Nigerians. The entire world still envies our uniqueness as a NATION, living together despite our ethnic diversity. One single country with over 400 languages. They will only tell you how Nigerians are scammers and cheats, how Nigerians are into drugs overseas. If you don’t blow your trumpet, no one will blow it for you.

VIVA NAIJA!!!

20. There are over 180,000,000 Nigerians world over and only about 250,000 of this figure have traceable criminal records. This is about 0.14% of our entire national population in the last 20 years: nothing close to 1%. Shame on global
media.
21. Nigeria took care of Ebola with no help from other countries. US have send delegates to Nigeria to know how we did it with our own resources.

Listen Nigeria, don’t let anybody woo you into believing that you are a criminal just because you are a Nigerian.
Nigerians are NOT criminals. You are NOT a criminal.
You are topnotch; second to none around the world.
I am proud am created a Nigerian, thank you God. Be proud of Nigeria wherever you go. Take out your Passport with pride. Am proud to be a Nigerian and be from that country…. God bless Federal Republic Of Great Nigeria.

We expect governor elrufai in his second tenure in office to bring up an initiative aimed at finding lasting peace in the state bedeviled by sectarian and religious conflict.
The governors approach to religious violence should go beyond curfew arrests and promises of prosecution while the Violence kept recurring.

He should strive to build spiritual and moral bridges in communities in conflict and divided by conflicts by encouraging peace makers and peace builders like religious and traditional leaders to do more to combat intolerance and extremism and it’s associated violence.
This initiative will go a long way to break the wall that separates Muslims from Christians, while they both stand up for peace and against those working to tear them apart

What if I told you some of the most meaningful and compelling things Jesus said during his lifetime can’t be found in the Bible?
That’s because they’re part of the Gnostic Gospels, a loose collection of almost 60 ancient texts that some early Christian referred to as “the secret sayings of the savior.”

Many of the Gnostic gospels were written in the first through third centuries, about the same time as the four gospels found in the New Testament. Once in wide circulation, these gospels were passed around early fledgling churches throughout the Mideast and show the rich diversity of Christian beliefs in the years following the death of Jesus.

In the 4^th century, the Gnostic Gospels were banned by the Church.

The early Roman church wanted to centralize authority and literally get all Christians on the same page. So, they did things like make December 25^ththe official birthday of Jesus, even though history shows he was born in March or April. They also declared the Gnostic texts to be heretical and ordered that all books about the life of Jesus, not named Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, be destroyed.

In spite of the best efforts of this book-burning regime, many of these texts survived. A treasure trove of them were discovered in 1945 in Egypt at Nag Hamadi. But you won’t find them as part of your Sunday church service, as they are still largely ignored or even considered taboo by mainstream Christian religions. (Exceptions can be found today like the Johannite Church.)

What are these Gnostic books all about? I’ve read many of them and, like much of the Bible, it can be dry and difficult reading. The subjects covered include everything from creation mythology to the feminine side of God to wild tales of a coming apocalypse—but most interesting, and perhaps most controversial, are the passages that directly quote Jesus.

I’ve selected 10 short passages from the Gnostic texts and then grouped them by theme into three categories. I believe they reveal extraordinarily important messages that Jesus only hinted at in the Bible. In total, they inform us we can skip the priest or middleman, because each of us can have a direct and personal relationship with God.

After each quote, you’ll find the Gnostic book from which it originated. Some passages are trickier than others, but if you read them closely you should be able to decipher their meaning.

Theme 1. The first step to knowing God is to know yourself.

1. He who has known himself has already achieved knowledge about the depth of all. ~The Book of Thomas The Contender

2. That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves.~Gospel of Thomas

3. Those who have come to know themselves will enjoy their possessions.~Gospel of Phillip

Theme 2. All the answers you seek can be found within.

4. What you seek after (is) within you.~The Dialogue of the Savior

5. Beware that no one lead you astray, saying ‘Lo here!’ or ‘Lo there!’ For the Son of Man is within you. Follow after him! Those who seek him will find him.~The Gospel of Mary

6. Matthew: “Lord, when I speak…who listens? The Lord said: “It is the one who speaks who also listens, and it is the one who can see who also reveals.”~The Dialogue of the Savior

Theme 3. You can find God here on this earth.

7. The Kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you.~Gospel of Thomas

8. The disciples said, “What is the place to which we are going? The Lord said, “Stand in the place you can reach.”~The Dialogue of the Savior

9. His disciples said, “When will the Kingdom come?” It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying here it is or there it is. Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth and men do not see it. ~Gospel of Thomas

This final Gnostic passage reinforces the message that God can be found right in our midst. We just need to look and listen, our eyes open to see and our ears open to hear.

10. Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not become manifest.~Gospel of Thomas

I think it is paradoxical that on one hand folks are kicking against the balkanization of Kano’s symbol of “greatness”, aka traditional institutions in Kano, and on the other hand they’ve been severally lamenting Kano’s symbols of mediocrity such as almajiranci, poverty, low educational enrollment and attainment, etc. So, which one is it? Is the traditional institution “great” at the exclusion of everything else?

Meanwhile, beyond the nostalgia of historical “greatness” and some level of emotional satisfaction (I’ll refer to this as pseudo opium-effect), what practical and verifiable hallmarks of “greatness” are there for one to see? I don’t see many and that’s why I disagree with the notion that SLS is currently sitting on a “great” throne. Surely, any throne upon which actionable decisions that can transform the lives of the people cannot be made, or which, by its very existence, does not bolster tourism and the huge incomes that come with it, cannot be considered to be “great”. Moreover, how “great” is a throne that can easily be balkanized by a handful of politically motivated goons in a little under 72 hours?

So, in my opinion, the conversation to be had is on how to make the Kano (and other Nigerian traditional institutions) “great”, but certainly not one on how to maintain any phantom “greatness”. If we agree, then there’s the need for constitutional provisions to protect traditional institutions from the wrath of disgruntled politicians. If on the other hand we think that they are simply relics from the past, with no relevance in contemporary times, then we should abolish them altogether and save cost. Another alternative, of course, is to maintain the status quo in which the fear of sitting governors is the beginning of wisdom, even for “great” traditional rulers.

PDP WINS THREE MORE SEATS

The People’s Democratic Party has more Senators in the Senate upsetting the current equation of Senate Membership and reduced drastically the number of All Progressives Congress Senators

Three Senators would be added to the numbers of the People’s Democratic Party senators following the Supreme Court ruling which sacked all elected APC Candidates in Zamfara State.

Following the Shakeup, below is the current Make up of Senators in the Senate as of this Day
Senate As It Stands:
PDP: 49
APC: 57
YPP: 1
Under Duress: 1
Outstanding: 1

This will go a long way in the determination of who becomes the next Senate President.

“Baby, leave my breast let me watch this movie in peace na, you de rush the breast like say na shawarma wey you thief ”

“Don’t tell me that oh, when I married you, I paid for my breast too, besides eh, this movie I’m watching is not as interesting as what I am touching ”

Oluchi almost choked with laughter

“Okay, just put your hand inside since it’s scratching you, ashawo husband like you”

“See you forming good person, when night reach now, you be wriggling like someone under annointing. You that does not allow me to sleep in the night, you de run marathon like all these people for Ethiopia and Kenya ”

Oluchi looked at Ken, pretending to be angry.

“So because I de try manage you, you de run mouth ba? No worry, no show for you this night, konji go kill you this night, bet me” she said stretching out her hands.

“If dem born you well make you try am. I will cry till the whole neighbors will wake up and ask what the problem is, I will tell them my wife does not want me to sacrifice to the gods ”

She laughed hard again and gave him a mild kiss.

“Oya, see eh, just make me my favorite food na, by the time the meal is ready, I will be done with the movie ”

Ken quickly runs to the kitchen and puts on his apron as he proceeds to make her favourite food, jollof rice and fried plantain.

Just then there is a knock on the door and Oluchi opens the door to welcome Jude, Ken’s friend.

They exchange pleasantries and she tells him that Ken is in the kitchen.

“Kitchen?” he asked with a surprise look on his face.

“What is he doing there? ”

“He is planting mango in the kitchen sink, ofcourse he is cooking ” Oluchi said with a smirk on her face. She’s never liked him.

“So your husband is in the kitchen cooking while you watch TV?”

Just as she was about to reply him, Ken comes out from the kitchen.

“Ken wassup, I was just asking of you, your wife said you were in the kitchen ” Jude said with a grin on his face.

“You make it sound like its a bad thing man, how far na” Ken said.

Jude drags Ken aside

“But bro, this is wrong by all standards, how can you be cooking while your wife sits with the remote, watching TV? This isn’t normal. This kind of thing cannot happen in my house na, a whole man like you, do you know how many girls used to rush you back in those days”

Ken wipes his hands on the apron as he shakes his head.

“Jude Jude, why did you come here sef? ”

“I came to inform you that we will be meeting later at the club , I called you but you didn’t take your calls,now that I have seen you on your apron, I’m not surprised ”

“Jude my good friend, first thing first,I am not you and will never be you. What works in your Family might not work for mine and I don’t even want it to. My wife cooks everyday for me so what’s the big deal in cooking for her just for today? I am always with my wife in the kitchen everyday to help her out, and so you know, I wash my clothes and hers when I have the time and I don’t leave her to do the chores alone. She’s my wife, not my slave ”

At this point Jude didn’t know what to say, he just stood there like a dumb lunatic.

“Look Jude, no two marriages are the same, do what you like but don’t kill Becca in the process. Have you seen your wife lately? She looks like a frustrated mad woman, so thin and almost invisible and you are here , forming man of the house ”

Jude brings out his handkerchief and wipes his face.

“I won’t come to the club today, infact, I won’t come for a while.My wife doesn’t like clubbing that much and since she gave up her modeling career to do business because of me, I need to let go of somethings too. I need to get back to the kitchen, my regards to the boys ”

Jude hasten his steps as he walks out of the house.

“My husband my husband, double ration for you this night, correct man wey sabi. Infact you see eh, de go that kitchen, make I do u rush rush inside”😂😂😂😂😂😂

“Baby make I rush off the gas make we no do rough play burn house ”

💥Leave people alone and stop forcing your policies on them

💥What works for you might not work for them, don’t try to make people live like you except it’s to make them better.

💥Marriage is a union of happiness, make your home a playground, not a war zone .

💥Share the chores, don’t call her a weaker vessel and still give her all the hard work to do.

May God Almighty give us wisdom and understanding on how to go about our relationships/marriages in Jesus name

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A leader of thought in Benue state Dr David Wayas has debunked the age-long myth that the Tivpeople of Benue use their wives to entertain visitors.

The community chronicles reports that Wayas, a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) says “a typical Tiv person is not happy when you go near his wife.”

The don explains to Vanguard: “In the olden days, our people married so many wives to help them in farms. As a result, each of the wives had a hut. The man of the house will normally ask one of the wives to leave her hut for the stranger or visitor and join him in his hut because they didn’t have what we call visitors’ room then.

“There is the possibility that the visitor might develop a relationship with the wife due to their closeness, but the man of the house did not give her willingly to the visitor.”

The Tiv-wife-for-guest fable claims that the tribe regard strangers as gods, and in
some cases, protect their visitors with their lives. The Tivs’ kindness to strangers is legendary, but unfortunately, this kindness was seen as weakness and taken for
granted, according to the narrative.

Tiv (or Tivi) is an ethnolinguistic group or ethnic nation in West Africa. The group constitutes approximately 3.5% of Nigeria’s total population, and number about 6.5 million individuals throughout Nigeria and Cameroon.