Woman Bites Off Another Woman’s Nipple In Abuja

A 28-year-old woman, Anastasia Uche of Kurudu, Abuja has been charged before the Karu Magistrate court, Abuja for biting off a fellow woman’s nipples during an argument, Nigeria’s News Agency has reported.
The police prosecutor, Cpl. Pascal Njoku, told the court that Anastasia bit Hauwa Musa on the right breast and severed the nipple, thereby causing grievous hurt to Hauwa.
According to Njoku, the offence contravened Section 241 of the Penal Code.
The accused pleaded not guilty and her counsel, Mr Michael Ejeh, applied for bail for her.
Magistrate Christopher Oba advised both the complainant and the accused to resolve the matter amicably, saying: “Nobody benefits from trouble.’’
“I will advise that both parties in this matter should sit down and explore the possibility of resolving this matter,’’ he said.
Before adjourning the case till November 21 for hearing if both parties fail to resolve the matter, the magistrate granted bail to the accused in the sum of N50,000 and a surety in like sum.
“The surety must have a reasonable means of livelihood and a traceable address within the jurisdiction of this court,’’ he ruled.
InformationNigeria.org

Boko Haram: Obasanjo Makes Reference To Jonathan As A ‘Weak Leader’

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, blamed president Goodluck Jonathan for allowing the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to fester and grow into a monster that is out of control by his failure to act on a report submitted to the government.

From right:; and L-R: Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi & Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At A Lecture Entitled “The Nigeria Of My dream: Towards The Consolidation Of National Unity” In Honour Pf Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s 40 Years In The Ministry At Word Of Life Bible Church, Warri, Delta State, Yesterday.

The former president was speaking at a lecture delivered by Professor Bolaji Akinyemi in celebration of  Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s 40th anniversary as founder of the Word of Life Bible Church, Warri in Delta State. Obasanjo also tasked Nigerians to choose between a strong leader who might adopt unusual approach to tackle a problem or a weak leader who will leave the problem to fester.
While responding to a question from a pastor from Borno State on how he could forge any form of unity with those who are perpetuating violence in the northern part of the country, Obasanjo went philosophical, saying: “Boko Haram is an ill wind that blows nobody no good.”
The former president also narrated his experience when he visited the hot-bed of Boko Haram, Borno, on a fact-finding mission and blamed the government’s inability to act on his findings as reason why the problem grew to “become something else.”
“Whichever way, you just have to attend to it. Don’t leave it unattended to. On two occasions I had to attend to the problem I faced at that time. I sent soldiers to a place and 19 of them were killed. If I had allowed that to continue, I will not have authority to send security whether police, soldier and any force any where again. So, I had to nip it in the bud and that was the end of that particular problem,” he said.
Obasanjo was however quick to admit that not all problems might require a tough stance as according to him, “if you say you don’t want a strong leader who can have all characteristics of leaders including God fearing, then have a weak leader and the rest of the problem is yours.”
Theformer president was also quick to dispel insinuations that he single-handedly foisted president Jonathan on Nigerians saying that he didn’t give all the votes that brought him to power. But he did give a remedy when he said, “the beauty of democracy is that power rests in the people, and every elected person would seek your votes to come back; if you don’t want him, he won’t come back.”
And like he has been advocating over the last couple of days, the erstwhile PDP BOT Chairman charged Nigerians to stand up and take their destinies in their own hands, reminding them of a Yoruba adage, “if you say it the way it is, you will die; if you don’t say anything at all, you will die, why don’t you say it and die?”

Vandals destroy statues in Enugu Catholic Churches, call it Idol worshipping

Catholic Churches in Enugu State have come under attacks from vandals who are destroying statues in and around premises of the worship centres.
In the last one months, three incidents of such have been reported, even as the invaders in each of the attack left a note saying “stop worshiping idols.”
Angered by the development, the Catholic Diocese of Enugu officially reacted to the destructions on Tuesday, condemning the act in the strongest terms.
The Director of Communication in the diocese, Joseph Offor, in Enugu listed the three churches that had been attacked as: Seat of Wisdom Parish, Abakpa Nike; St. Leo Catholic Church, Federal Housing Estate; and St. Mary Catholic Church, Trans-Ekulu.
Reverend Father Offor, while briefing the press said, “Sometime ago, in October, the Vicar General of the diocese, Monsignor Luke Adike complained that unknown people invaded the church, Seat of Wisdom Parish, Abakpa Nike, around 1am.”
“In the morning, he went into the church, and he saw that all the statues, both that of the Sacred Heart, that of the Virgin Mary and every other thing in the altar has been smashed, destroyed by these hoodlums”
“On November 4 and November 11, similar incidents happened at St. Leo and St Mary; they destroyed the statues and the altar while also leaving a similar message as the previous,” he said.
The priest quoted one of the messages which reads: “The 10 commandments of the Lord, the Almighty Lord says, stop worshipping idols, false gods made by man. I tolerate no rivals.”
“Worship only but the living God, the Almighty God,”
The Reverend Father stated that the matter had been reported to the police, adding that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Musa Daura, had visited the affected churches.
The Public Relations Officer of the Enugu state police command, Ebere Amaraizu, said the command has begun probe into the matter. He urged the people to be vigilant and assist the police with useful information that may lead to arrest of the culprits.
Already, the Bishop of the diocese, Callistus Onaga, had issued a circular urging the parishes and parishioners to be security conscious.
DailyPost

“Only a mad man will fail to acknowledge that there is high level corruption in the country” – OBJ

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said that he never imposed  president Goodluck Jonathan on Nigerians, saying that his only vote couldn’t have made him president.

The Otta farmer affirmed that corruption is gradually eating deep into the nation’s economy, adding that it is only a mad man that would not notice it .
Obasanjo said this  at a lecture delivered by Professor Bolaji Akinyemi to mark the 40th anniversary of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s call to ministry at the Word of Life Bible Church, Warri in Delta State.
He also called on Nigerians to choose between a strong leader who might adopt unusual approach to tackle a problem or a weak leader who will worsen the situation.
When asked on how he could forge any form of unity with those who are perpetuating violence in the Northern part of the country, an emotionladen Obasanjo went emotional- said: “Boko Haram is an ill wind that blows nobody no good.”
“ Boko Haram stated their grievances and I promised to relay them to the authorities in power, because that was the best I could do. I did report. But my fear at that time is still my fear till today. When you have a sore and fail to attend to it quickly, it festers and grows to become something else.
“Whichever way, you just have to attend to it. Don’t leave it unattended to. On two occasions I had to attend to the problem I faced at that time. I sent soldiers to a place and 19 of them were killed. If I had allowed that to continue, I will not have authority to send security whether police, soldier and any force any where again. So, I had to nip it in the bud and that was the end of that particular problem,” he said.
The former president admitted that all problems might not require that kind of treatment. According to him, “if you say you don’t want a strong leader who can have all characteristics of leaders including God fearing, then have a weak leader and the rest of the problem is yours.”
He argued that “the beauty of democracy is that power rests in the people, and every elected person would seek your votes to come back; if you don’t want him, he won’t come back.
Obasanjo argued that people had been saying that he imposed President Goodluck Jonathan on Nigerians but what they have failed to admit is that, his single vote could not have  made a man president.
He urged Nigerians to stand up and take their destinies in their own hands, reminding them of a Yoruba adage, “if you say it the way it is, you will die; if you don’t say anything at all, you will die, why don’t you say it and die?
Obasanjo said there would be no room big enough to accommodate every Nigerian at a roundtable conference to find a national consensus, adding that he would rather want to see a Nigeria where justice, fairness and equity reign supreme.
“Only a mad man will fail to acknowledge that there is high level corruption in the country”, he said, adding that the same World Bank that is always releasing figures about Nigeria’s poor state of economic condition, recommended a structural adjustment programme for the nation and nearly all the eggheads in the country bought it even when the political leaders at the time said it would be detrimental to the nation.
“I challenged them to tell me the names of the Nigerians who had stashed monies abroad but they were not forthcoming except for the case of the Abacha loot. We recovered a large chunk of that loot and they told us there was still over $1 billion from that family but my successors did not pursue any further.
“What I am saying is that it is the same World Bank that came to us with structural adjustment and some of us said it would make us poorer, you (Akinyemi) were in government at the time. We went for structural adjustment and we were poorer. And then they came up with an excuse that we didn’t do it the way they wanted us to do it. Many years later, they accepted that we were right and they were wrong,” Obasanjo stated.
“I called World Bank, they said go and look at the agreement, and the agreement says they are not responsible for how the money is spent. The Word Bank then told me that is the agreement and there is nothing we can do.
“I didn’t say that we are not corrupt, we are. But are we doing something about it? Once, people said, the fear of Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom. Then what happened to Ribadu? Then there was no longer any wisdom,” he stated.
“I don’t see anything wrong with federal character if we want to wedge this country together because if you want to enter a place where there are 40 people and they require somebody and you are Urhobo and at the back you find somebody speaking Urhobo, the tendency is for you to go for that man. It’s natural. So there is some form of security in the application of federal character,” he said.
On the location of strategic and military assets which the lecturer argued are located on the Zaria-Kaduna axis out of mutual suspicion, he recommended that the nation must adopt the South African model of locating military formations across the nation, Obasanjo said: “If you look at the deployment of troops and formations in the country, it is fairly well spread.
“When I joined the army, there were five battalions, Enugu, Abeokuta, Ibadan and two were stationed in Kaduna. That was done by the colonial masters. Immediately after independence, our political leaders decided that there must be a battalion in Jos, Lagos, but as at today after the civil war there is a battalion in Warri and some other places.
“When we were doing that, we took into account the strategic interest of this country and don’t forget that there are certain types of trainings that you can get in certain parts of the country,” he pointed out.
 DailyPost

Strange: 200-year-old Iroko Tree Falls, Kills Two, Eight others Injured, Oracle Consulted

Tragedy struck at Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday when a controversial 200-year-old Iroko tree at the market square at Ifite-Dunu, in the local government area fell, leaving two persons dead.
Also, about eight other people that got injured in the incident were said to be receiving treatment in hospitals in the town. The Iroko tree was said to be the abode of the goddess of sands (Ajani), while its leaves and roots were reported to help fertility and quick delivery of babies.
While narrating the incident to the Nigerian Tribune, which reported the story, traders and eyewitnesses said, on the day of the incident they noticed a sudden vibration around the tree. One of the eyewitnesses, Mr John Ikeme-funa, said he raised the alarm which attracted people in the market, adding that shortly afterwards the tree collapsed and killed two persons instantly. According to him, “It is a miracle, the collapsed Iroko tree is not for nothing, the elders of the town will consult oracles to unveil the cause.”
Meanwhile, the Ajani chief priest, who preferred anonymity, said he had consulted oracles, adding that the goddess had given him permission to cut down other old trees at its abode in the market.
InformationNigeria.org

Best, Worst Breakfasts for Your Health

By Lisa Collier Cool

Fast-food breakfast sandwiches could be “a time bomb in a bun”—and eating even one fat-laden morning meal has immediate adverse effects on your arteries, according to a new study presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress meeting in Toronto.
A high-fat diet is linked to increased risk for atherosclerosis (narrowing of arteries due to plaque deposits), but the study suggests that damage that could lead to a heart attack or stroke may start sooner than was previously thought.
Just one day of eating a fat-laden breakfast sandwich–such as egg, cheese and ham sandwich on a bun – and "your blood vessels become unhappy," said Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher Dr. Todd Anderson, director of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta and head of cardiac science at the University of Calgary in a statement.
The study measured blood flow through the forearm in 20 healthy people (average age 23). The researchers mentioned that the sandwich used in the study contained ham, egg, and cheese but did not name the restaurant from which it came. The goal was to reveal the risks of eating a general type of widely available breakfast sandwich, not to point the finger at specific restaurant. The test was done twice: once on a day when they’d eaten two fast-food breakfast sandwiches of a type that available anywhere in the US or Canada, and again on another day when they’d fasted. The sandwiches contained a whopping 50 grams of fat and 900 calories.
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Impaired Blood Flow Two Hours After Meal

Compared to volunteers who skipped breakfast, those who consumed the fatty sandwiches showed impaired blood flow in their forearms two hours after the greasy morning meal. That’s because their vessels were less able to dilate (widen) and deliver oxygenated blood to the heart.
While the effects from a single meal were temporary, over time such arterial changes could set the stage for a heart attack or stroke, the researchers report. They used a test called velocity time integral that measures how much blood flow can increase after a brief interruption (compressing the arm with a blood pressure cuff). The higher the velocity, the “happier” the blood vessels are.
While one cheesy sandwich isn’t going to do lasting damage, the researchers say that their results highlight the importance of limiting fat, cholesterol, calories, and salt to prevent heart attacks and strokes. A junk-food diet has also been linked to increased risk for dementia, a memory-robbing disorder that has been called “type 3 diabetes,” as I reported recently.
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What’s the Worst Breakfast of All?

Whether you’re looking to slim down, build muscle, train for a marathon, or just protect your health, breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. And a fast-food morning meal is not the worse choice. Instead, the unhealthiest option is not eating a morning meal at all.
Not only do people who skip their morning meal—or begin the day with only a cup of coffee—have less energy, worse moods, and poorer memory those who eat breakfast, studies show, but they also face some serious health risks. First of all, they’re up to 450 percent more likely to become obese, which in turn boosts risk for a wide range of ailments, including cardiovascular disease—the leading killer of Americans—gout, joint problems, and even some forms of cancer.
A 2012 study published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also reports that people who regularly skip breakfast have a 21 percent higher risk for type 2 diabetes. The researchers tracked about 29,000 men for 16 years and found that the increased risk remained even when body mass index was into account. Scientists suspect that a morning meal helps keep blood sugar levels stable during the day.

What’s the Healthiest Breakfast?

The right breakfast not only reduces risk for overeating later in the day, but also revs up metabolism, fuels your body and brain, and helps you maintain a healthy weight. For example, 80 percent of participants in the ongoing National Weight Control Registry study (which tracks more than 4,000 people who have dropped 30 or more pounds and kept them off for a year or longer) eat breakfast regularly.
Nutritionists advise including both lean protein and fiber in your morning meal, such as whole-grain cereal mixed with non-fat yogurt, low-fat milk, or soy milk and topped with fresh fruit. Researchers at University of Texas at El Paso report that eating a filling breakfast helps people consume an average of 100 fewer calories per day, enough to add up to ten-pound weight loss over a year.

The Breakfast Food that Fights Belly Fat

Another study linked having whole-grain cereal for breakfast with reduced levels of cortisol, a stress hormone linked to both weight gain and a tendency to accumulate belly fat. A large waistline is the leading warning sign of metabolic syndrome, which quintuple risks for type 2 diabetes and triple it for heart attack.
As I reported recently, 95 percent of Americans don’t eat the recommended three ounces of whole grains a day, which you can get from a slice of whole-wheat bread, a 6-inch whole-grain corn tortilla, or a serving of cereal. The health benefits of whole grain include:

• Longer life. A high-fiber diet can cut risk of death from cardiovascular causes by nearly 60 percent, according to a recent nine-year study of nearly 400,000 people ages 50 and older.
• A healthier heart. Soluble fiber in oatmeal and out bran reduces LDL “bad,” cholesterol and total cholesterol.
• Weight loss. Whole grains digest more slowly than refined grains, which keeps blood sugar levels stable rather than stimulating insulin. 
• Yahoo!Health

Igbos Should Stop Talking About Other Nigerians’ and Talk About Igbo Issues – Ozodi Osuji

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Igbos Should Stop Talking About Other Nigerians’ Issues and Talk About Igbo Issues

November 13, 2012
A hypocrite is a person who pretends to be pious when, in fact, his character is as flawed as other human beings characters. To avoid appearing hypocritical one should try to put ones house in order, do the right thing before one talks about the bad things one sees other people doing. The problem with Nigerians is that while individual Nigerians are as corrupt as other Nigerians they talk about how other Nigerians are corrupt. It would serve all well if instead of talking about how corrupt Nigerians are each Nigerian tries to live a life of moral probity, honor and integrity. Igbos were used as a case to make the point of this paper.
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I have said this one million times before; apparently, folks have not heard me so let me repeat myself. If you are Igbo please desist from talking about what is wrong with Hausas, Yorubas and other Nigerians.  We all have eyes and whatever is the matter with those other groups we can see it (without you telling us about it).
It annoys any human group to hear outsiders talking about their issues; they want to talk about their issues but do not think that it is outsiders right to-do so, especially if critically. Americans criticize their leaders in every which way is possible but they certainly do not like it if foreigners join them and criticize their leaders.
The other day, I watched a reporter ask the British Prime Minister about the American Presidential election. He diplomatically made a bland and innocuous statement without saying something nice or bad about it, for he knows that it is not his business to say something negative about Americans protracted and costly presidential elections.
The point is that folks do not like it if you criticize them. Other Nigerian ethnic groups do not like it if Igbos criticize them; it infuriates them and makes them hate Igbos. How difficult is this reality for Igbos to grasp hence desist from saying nasty things about other Nigerians?
Why do Igbos give themselves the right to criticize other Nigerians and hate it if other Nigerians resent them for doing so? Don’t say bad things about other people; say only bad things about your self and your people, get it?
What we need to remember is that we all see through, as Saint Paul said, glass darkly. That is, each of us comes to the perceptual field with his preconceptions and presuppositions about the nature of reality. We see the present with our past learning and ideas of how things are and ought to be.
In effect, we do not see things as they are but as our past led us to see them. We are all myopic and see with colored lenses.
Because of this reality no one can see other people as they are, in fact. All seeing involves projection (perception is projection). That is, we project ourselves to what we see. As such, we do not know about the nature of what we think that we see. We do not know what anything means. Indeed, we do not even know who we are (our self concepts are ideational; that is, are our ideas based on our learning and thus not necessarily correct).
Therefore, instead of trying to talk about other people’s issues realize that other people’s issues mirror your own issues. Other people are mirrors held for you to see yourself correctly. What you see them do is what you do but may not consciously know that you do so. They give you an enlarged picture of your behavior for you to see your behavior wreath large.
(Reading Igbos arrogant and supercilious sense of superiority to other groups helped me learn that I had a similar trait. Since to feel superior to other people is to be mentally sick, to be deluded, I corrected whatever tendency I had to feeling superior to other persons. That is, I learned from Igbos insanity about my own insanity and healed it by accepting our mutual equality. But instead of healing that insanity in them many Igbos actually want you to reinforce it and tell them that they are superior to other Nigerians! That is, they want you to collude with them and perpetuate their delusion disorder. If you feel superior to other people, since we are all equal your feeling is based on false premise hence deluded.)
The lesson in your transaction with other people is for you to learn from other folks mistakes and then correct those mistakes in you. The idea is not for you to keep on talking about other people’s mistakes while not correcting those mistakes in you.
It is childish to always harp on other people’s issues when you have not corrected your own issues.
Every person with eyes to see can see that many Igbos are thieves; if given the opportunity they would rob you down; if you hire them for a job they would steal from the business (unaware that if they did so the business would close down and they become unemployed). They usually only look at things from the immediate short term self interest, not long run consequences of their behaviors; in pursuit of immediate gratification they engage in criminal behaviors that eventually come to hunt their people.
Here is a secret that most Igbos hide from non-Igbos. The average Igbo, recognizing that Igbos are prone to dishonesty, would not hire their fellow Igbos in jobs where money is handled; they assume that their fellow Igbos are so prone to stealing that they would be robbed! You do not hire your own people because you assume that they are thieves, how sad!
And if you do not hire your people because you see them as potential thieves, why do you complain if other Nigerians do not hire them? Do you want them to hire Igbos to steal from them? Isn’t what is good for the goose supposed to be good for the gander?  It is hypocritical for Igbos to shout job discrimination when they discriminate against their own people!
In America, many Igbos are currently robbing American businesses that hired them. They rationalize their anti social behavior by not identifying with Americans. They think that they would get away with their thievery. They forget the law of karma: a natural law that none of us can escape from.
The individual’s behavior has consequences for him and for other people. As we sow we reap and our people reap. If your behavior has negative consequences for other people you earn negative Samsara and you will be reborn on earth to pay off that negative samsara.
Past Africans sold their people into slavery; that behavior was callous and heartless; it was sinful; today’s Africans reincarnated to pay a price for their past heinous sin hence live in incredible poverty and suffer unbelievable diseases and die miserable deaths.
If Igbos steal from Americans, Americans eventually learn that Igbos are thieves and therefore would not hire other Igbos. (Oh, yes, we all engage in stereotyping ethnic groups…Igbos do it when they talk as if there is no individuality in Hausas and Yorubas and talk as if those people are all the same, so they should not complain if other people generalize from the Igbo criminals they encountered and see all Igbos as criminals; we are all ambassadors of our groups; this is why one must strive to represent ones group in a positive manner). That is to say criminal Igbos close doors for their fellow Igbos future employment in America (the Los Angeles county jail and other American county jails are teeming with jailed Igbo criminals!).
Each individual’s behavior has consequences for his people (I know white Americans who have encountered Igbo thieves on the job who swore never to hire Igbos again!).
Therefore, do not steal from Americans and rationalize your criminal behavior with those childish ego defense mechanisms Igbos are known to over utilize to justify their anti social behaviors (such as call working for the Nigerian government “Oru baake”, white man’s work and in so distancing their egos from their work see it as working for white folks hence justify stealing from it and not feeling bad; well, you are stealing from your peoples work and your people will pay the price of underdevelopment from your stealing behavior; working for the Nigerian government is working for all of us, doing our work so you should not steal from it and play the childish ego trick of convincing yourself that you are stealing from white men; you are stealing from Nigerians, from the black man, not from foreigners).
If you call yourself an Igbo Christian, please remember that Jesus said: stop seeing the grain of sand in other people’s eyes and, instead, remove the mountain in your own eyes. That is, correct your perception; correct your anti-social behavior and stop harping on what is wrong with Yorubas and other Nigerians.
It is not for Igbos to correct other Nigerian tribes’ mistakes. It is for Igbos to correct what is wrong with Igbos. Therefore, instead of talking about the problems with Yorubas and Hausas talk about the problem with Igbos (and yourself).
This is what an adult is supposed to do; a fully functioning adult is supposed to learn from his neighbors mistakes and put his own house in order before he tries to talk about his neighbors’ fallen house.
I have made this point one trillion times and do not want to repeat myself, for I am beginning to sound like a broken record. But it breaks my heart seeing Igbos always talking rubbish about non-Igbos when if you come close to them you see them as criminals and run away from them.
Please correct Igbo issues before you talk about other tribes issues. This has been my message to Igbos. If you are emotionally adult you learn from this message but if you are emotionally stuck at petulant adolescent level, as Chinua Achebe, apparently, is you keep pointing two accusatory fingers at other Nigerians and not seeing the three fingers pointing back at you and asking you to take responsibility for your dirty house and sweep it clean.

CONCLUSION

In sum, I do not want to read where an Igbo writes something negative about Hausas, Yorubas or white folks; I want to read where they write about Igbo issues and show how they could be corrected. This is what I do.
I write about Igbo issues which are my own issues. What I see in Igbos I know are in me, so I am not in denial of my, our issues. I am talking about our Igbo issues; I do not flee from my, our issues and, instead, focus on other folks issues. I want to understand us, me before I feel qualified to want to correct other people’s issues.
The first generation of Africa’s so-called scholars accepted the nonsense written by white liberal scholars that only Europe is responsible for slave trade. They joined the chorus of brain dead white liberals and talked about how Europe underdeveloped Africa (see Walter Rodney’s book of that title). In doing so they overlooked what Africans are doing to under-develop their own people.
Africans always look outside and see other people’s problems; they do not like to look inside them and see the darkness in them. By focusing outside them they do not solve their problems. Instead, they run around masquerading as perfect persons when onlookers could see that they are naked emperors.
To correct your issues you must first acknowledge them and work on them; denial does not solve any problem. The alcoholic who denies that he is an alcoholic is still killing himself with his drug of choice and will die from it, by his choice.
It was Africans who captured and sold their people to Arabs and white folks. Why would you go capture your people and sell them if you are a loving person? Others made you do so, eh? That excuse, rationalization and justification is now jaded!
Only evil persons sell their people; you may deny this fact all you want but facts are facts.  In the present African leaders specialize in robbing their people and using the money to live like Oriental despots.
But instead of talking about all these dreadful issues, bleeding hearted, do-gooder white liberals (they baby Africans too much; they tell Africans that they are children who are not responsible for their problems, that white folks are; they understand Africans to death instead of telling them to grow up and take charge of their continent and like adults solve their problems without blaming other people for them) and their equally benighted African scholars talked about what white men did to keep black men down.
The fact is that black men kept themselves down more than white men kept them down. If black men want to stand up they have to do so despite other peoples efforts to keep them down.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones (until they rebuild their house with rocks that stones cannot shatter). Stop harping on other folks issues for you have those issues, too; deal with them in you; do not pretend to be able to deal with the issues you see in other people if you have not dealt with them in you.
If you can help other people why haven’t you helped yourself? If Igbos can prevent Nigerians from stealing too much why are Igbos engaging in kidnapping their people, holding them hostage and demanding ransom money?  You cannot transform your region into Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan) state of nature where every body sticks it to every body else hence life is nasty, brutish and short and folks live in perpetual insecurity and or flee to other parts of Nigeria (or overseas) in search of security and you come to the public square talking as if you are an angel.
Become a perfect person in deed not in mere assumption (if you assume your perfection and do imperfect things you have delusion disorder). One should first heal ones sickness before one asks other people to heal their sickness. Only a phony, sham hypocrite ignores his issues while asking other persons to heal their issues; it is hypocritical Igbos who talk about what is wrong with Nigerians while not trying to heal what is wrong with their own people. Physician heal yourself is an old and applicable adage for Igbos.
Africans and black people should quit talking about the ills of the white man and talk about the ills of Africans. Of course, the white man is not perfect; he has his issues but leave him to grapple with them; Africans cannot solve white men’s issues, they have not even begun solving their African issues! Like the proverbial ostrich they hide their head in sand while talking rubbish about other people’s issues. Unemployment in Nigeria is over 70%, so why would a shameless Nigerian talk about 8% unemployment in America? First, provide Nigerians jobs before you talk about Americans unemployment, fool you!
In South side Chicago and other American cities black folks kill each other like they are flies; in Africa, African leaders let their people starve to death or live like dogs. Despite this shameful state of affairs, black folks have the guts to tell the rest of the world that white folks who, at least, make sure that their children are well fed are evil persons. What hypocrisy!
It is now time for Africans to heal their long standing soul sickness, the sickness that led them to see their people as worthless hence captured and sold them into slavery. Africans must start seeing Africans as valued human beings hence love and care for them. Until they do so they are, in my book, contemptible and despicable people!
Africans should not ask for respect from other people when they act in a disrespectful manner; only those who deserve respect, that is, those who love and care for their people, deserve respect from human beings.
In the meantime, desist from talking about other peoples issues and, instead, talk about your own issues; talk about your people’s issues and learn from other peoples issues and don’t run around like a foolish child thinking that you are different and better than other people. We are all the same and coequal. Live with that reality. Seeking false sense of superiority is living in fantasy land. Come down to earth and deal with the reality of human equality.
All human beings have foibles; you are not different from other persons even if you say that you are different!

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