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Suicide: Mental illness, depression, religion behind upsurge – Psychologist

The recent revelation by the Director, Federal Neuropsychiatrist Hospital, Enugu, Prof. Monday Igwe, that at least one person commits suicide every 40 seconds around the world as a result of mental challenges aptly explains the upsurge in cases of suicide in Nigeria. Igwe’s disclosure at a seminar by the Amaudo Integrated Community Mental Health Foundation organised for media practitioners in Abia State, has opened a new chapter of discussion. The seminar was not only aimed at raising awareness about mental health of Nigerians, but it was also an opportunity to draw the attention of governments at all levels to the challenges of people living with mental illness. He regretted that cases of mental illness were increasing in the society as a result of stress, tobacco abuse, alcoholism, cocaine, tramadol and caffeine abuse, among others. He also condemned the attitude of many Nigerians to persons with mental challenges, which ranges from discrimination, sexual abuse, extortion to exploitation. The combined effects of these factors have always resulted in suicide. For some time now, cases of suicide have become commonplace occurrence in Nigeria such that from north to south, east to west, the story is the same. People of different social classes, ranging from the poor, the rich to the educated, the semi-illiterates, the illiterates, the employed and the unemployed, are all involved in the scourge. In the last two months, many Nigerians have attempted or actually committed suicide, although quite a number of them are unreported. As abominable as the act of suicide is, the scourge appears to be on the increase almost on a daily basis. Apart from the popular Guyana tragedy, where about 900 persons allegedly committed suicide on the advice of their leader, Jim Jones, people are believed to go for suicide option when they are totally depressed and hopeless. Jim Jones, also known as ‘The Mad Messiah,’ led a congregation called the People’s Temple cult. He told his followers that there was nothing to live for again on earth and that they should commit suicide and go to heaven. They all killed themselves by drinking a poisonous substance. He also drank the substance and died eventually. On Wednesday, June 14, a 100-level student of the Department of Entrepreneur, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Salako Treasure, reportedly killed herself by consuming a substance suspected to be sniper. She was found dead inside an uncompleted building around the Lagere area of the town on Wednesday evening with a bottle of sniper next to her body. Checks revealed she had been undergoing some emotional trauma known to some of her friends and acquaintances before the tragic incident. The University’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, described the incident as unfortunate, saying, “It is very unfortunate that we have lost a part one student, a promising young lady to what was alleged to be suicide. “Although it happened outside the campus, we are not happy that we could lose such a person under such circumstances. The University, under the administration of the vice-chancellor, Professor Simeon Bamire, is concerned that a student of that tender age could resort to such a thing. “We appeal to Nigerians to be their brothers’ keepers. The filler we are getting is that she has suffered depression and people around her knew about it. They ought to have referred her to someone elderly or someone who could be of help to her on psycho-emotional issues. We sympathise with ourselves, especially the parents who lost a young lady with a bright future. I want to admonish that this world is filled with ups and downs. “Emotional, psychological and academic frustrations should not make anyone resort to taking his or her life. Her remains have been evacuated and we have involved the police.” On Saturday, June 10, a female officer of the Nigerian Air Force simply identified as George, committed suicide in her house at Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja, Lagos State. Before her death, she was a Master Warrant Officer working at 651 Base Services Group. According to the military signal, “Master Warrant Officer George, a female personnel of the Nigerian Air Force, serving at 651 Base Services Group, resident at block T5, Flat 8, in Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja, reported to have committed suicide inside her room at about 1400hrs on June 10, 2023. Efforts are ongoing by the 3 Air Provost to evacuate her to 661NAFH, while further investigation will continue. This is for your awareness. My people, depression is real. Please do not allow 9ija Wahala to lead you to an early grave.” Also on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, a 30-year-old photographer, Usman Goga, was reported to have allegedly hanged himself inside his bedroom in Babura Local Government Area, Jigawa State. The incident, according to the report, happened just four months after Goga’s marriage. His lifeless body was discovered by his wife when she returned home from a visit to her relatives. According to the spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Adamu Shehu, “Investigation into the incident revealed that a bedside drawer was used on top of a 6′ by 6′ sized bed to reach the ceiling, where the hook was fixed, and the rope tied to it. The bedside drawer was then pushed off possibly with legs to dislodge or rather suspend the body from the hook. “Close associates of the deceased disclosed that he had an inherent mental disorder that turned up occasionally. He married his wife about four months ago and was living happily with his wife until the unfortunate incident. Further Investigation is ongoing.” On May 19, a former Battalion Commanding Officer who led the fight against Boko Haram in the North East, Major U.J Undianyede, was also reported to have committed suicide. He was alleged to have killed himself less than 72 hours before the verdict of a court-martial trying him for alleged military infractions during the war. However, there is also a report that no fewer than 79 people, comprising 70 males and 9 females committed suicide in Nigeria in 2022 alone. This number included only the reported cases; so many cases of suicide in 2022 were not reported. According to a breakdown of the report, Lagos State recorded the highest with 12 suicide cases. It was followed by Oyo State – 10; Kano State- four; Anambra State – three; Edo State – three; Delta State – three; Ogun State- three; and Rivers State- three. Others included Borno, Bayelsa, Abia, Benue, Imo, Enugu, Niger, Jos, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kwara States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja with two cases each. Ondo, Osun, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Gombe, Cross-River, Kogi, Adamawa, Ekiti, Bauchi, and Yobe States had one case each. Some Nigerians have attributed the cause of suicide to spiritual factor. Those who hold this view believe that most people who commit suicide are constantly persuaded by an imaginary voice within them to end it all. There are claims that some people who have had the courage to confide in some people about these strange voices have managed to survive, but those who tried to bear the torments silently have always taken to suicide. There are those who argued that suicide could also take the form of extreme egotism and selfishness, in which case people who cannot accept defeat or those that cannot bear the thought of other people being better than them, as well as those that are hungry for public adulation and adoration, become prone to suicide. However, there are those who believe that most of the suicide cases have psychological dimension. One of the proponents of this view is Dr. Leonard Okonkwo, a Consultant Psychologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, who insisted that depression remains the major cause of suicide. He explained that man is naturally driven by a principle that makes him seek pleasure and avoid pain. “So, when man begins to seek the opposite, like seeking death, then it becomes abnormal. And that is to say that suicide is not an accident but a deliberate act by an individual to terminate own life, which runs contrary to what man is driven by; that is the love of pleasure and avoidance of pain. So, it is abnormal,” he said. So, why do people commit suicide? Okonkwo identified hopelessness and an intense psychological pain associated with the experience as the main reason behind suicide. “At that point, the person feels that the only way out of the pain is death and they go ahead to take their own life,” he added. Okonkwo cited the three dimensional approach to suicide as canvassed by a renowned Psychiatrist, Carl Meninger, to drive home his point. “There is a sense of hate or vengeance, where there is a desire to kill. There is a sense of depression and hopelessness, where there is a desire to die and there is also a sense of guilt which is a desire to be killed. So, it is an interrelationship among the three dimensions that eventually lead up to suicide,” he stated. He also tried to distinguish between a suicide and a deliberate self-harm, which according to him could lead to suicide. He said: “There is a difference between suicide and deliberate self-harm. In suicide, the three dimensions are there, but in deliberate self-harm, the person involved does not really want to die; he only wants to draw attention to himself. “So, he deliberately harms himself to draw attention. There may be suicide note and all that, but the real intent is to draw attention and not to kill self. “But, sometimes, deliberate self-harm could become suicide when it is overdone. Not all suicides are actually meant to kill; some of them are deliberate self-harm that got out of hand.” Although, he believes depression is the major cause of suicide, mental illnesses are equally not left out. He described mental illness as a form of depression, even though some mental illnesses are not part of depression, but constitute very powerful causes of suicide. He said depression could equally come in the form of physical pains experienced as a result of protracted illness. “For instance, someone who is experiencing physical pain as a result of illness may feel tired of the illness and wants to commit suicide. He may desire euthanasia (mercy killing), but when nobody is ready to offer that assistance, the person just takes an overdose of drugs and kills himself. “People can also commit suicide when they have a failed relationship, which is also a case of depression resulting to hopelessness. “When people are isolated or ostracised in a community, they also tend to commit suicide. And the society will say the gods have killed the person, but the fact is that it is the isolation or ostracism that has led to depression and consequently hopelessness, which made the person to feel that the only way out was suicide,” he said. Religion is also a strong factor that could lead to suicide. Using the Guyana tragedy and Boko Haram Islamist sect as examples. Okonkwo said: “Religion is another reason people commit suicide, especially when they are given command by their leaders to do so. “For instance, the Guyana tragedy, which happened when Jim Jones led his congregation of about 900 people to commit suicide, is a good example of religious suicide. He told them that they would go to heaven when they died as the world was not worthy for them to live in. It is the same thing with the Boko Haram suicide bombers. They are also brainwashed to believe that they would go to heaven, where they would be married to virgins if they killed themselves fighting religious war.” The psychologist also traced suicide to genes when he said: “It is also known that suicide may be more common in some tribes or there may be some biological link. But, that link may also be associated with mental illness because mental illness also has biological or genetic link. “People who are prone to depression, and as a result, have committed suicide in the past may pass the same trait down to the next generation. “In order words, if somebody has committed suicide in a particular family due to depression, there is every tendency that a descendant of that family in future generation could suffer depression and commit suicide. So, it seems to have little genetic implication just like it is in mental illness.” He looked at the role of urbanization in suicide. He believes that the western life styles, occasioned by urbanization, has broken down the traditional social support, thereby leaving the frustrated with no choice but suicide, especially when the individual concerned does not want to go into crime. He submitted that following the economic hardship ravaging many Nigerians at the moment, coupled with the religious and political factors as earlier stated, there is every possibility that more people would still choose suicide as a way out of the ugly situation. He called on the government to take urgent drastic measures to alleviate people’s suffering as a way of reversing the ugly trend. “The government can achieve this by providing social security safety nets and improving the economy through massive job creation and other measures,” he said. Read the full article

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“Africa can feed herself. Even without using any modem farming techniques such as pesticides and with only the most casual approach to maintaining the soil, the 51 countries of Africa presently have the potential to feed a population three times as large as that now living in the continent, even allowing for the fact that 47 percent of the land surface is useless for crops.”

 n  A Food and Agricultural Organization study cited in a West Africa editorial Dec 14, 1981; p. 2959.

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 “Despite noises being made about the exploitation of the people, it is the STATE, as the Chief Vanguard, and her so-called Public Servants, Civil Servants which actually exploit others in the country. The money used in buying the cars for Government officials, the cement for building estates and other Government bungalows which workers obtain loans to buy, the rice workers eat in their staff canteens, the soap, the toothpaste, textiles cloth which workers buy under the present distribution system all come from the farmers' cocoa and coffee money.

     This STATE-MONOPOLY CAPITALISM has been going on since the days of the colonial masters and even our own Governments after independence have continued the system.

     The farmers realizing this naked exploitation decided unconsciously that they would no longer increase cocoa and coffee production, they would not increase food production and any other items which the State depends on for foreign exchange. In effect, there will be no surplus for the State to exploit.”

  Yaw Amoafo (The Daily Graphic (Feb 17, 1982; p.3).

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 "Despotism and kleptocracy do not inhere in the nature of African cultures or in the African character; but they are now rife in what was once called British colonial Africa, notably West Africa."

 n  Lord Peter Bauer, the late and famous British Economist. Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in Economics of Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984; p.104.

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 "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership . . . We have lost the twentieth century; are we bent on seeing that our children also lose the twenty-first? God forbid!"

 n  Chinua Achebe (in The Trouble With Nigeria. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Press, 1985; p.3).

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“When, if ever, black people actually organize as a race in their various pulation centers, they will find that the basic and guiding ideology they now seek and so much need is embedded in their own traditional philosophy and constitutional system, simply waiting to be extracted and set forth.

 n  Chancellor Williams The Destruction of Black Civilization. Chicago: Third World Press, 1987; p.161)

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 “Abuse of black people by Arabs, especially Syrians and Lebanese, has been ignored for too long. The painful fact is that this abuse occurs under our noses in African towns and cities where they have come to enjoy our hospitality. It is high time Arabs were made officially aware of this and reminded of the black solidarity they have enjoyed for years in their conflict with Israel.

      In the late 1970s, it was an open secret in New York that Arab diplomats never invited their black counterparts to their receptions.

   Kwaku O. Sarpong of Ghana (West Africa, March 7, 1988; p.27).

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 "Here in Lesotho, we have two problems: rats and the government," said a tribal chief in a rural farming community.”

 n  A tribal chief in a rural farming community in Lesotho (International Health and Development, March/April 1989; p. 30).

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“Those who feel that the citizen should not continue to fight against monolithicism, political Illiberalism, tribalism, patrimonialism, bureaucratic inefficiency, public graft and corruption are at the end of the day the true enemies of Kenya (and indeed all of Africa). And they probably need to learn the lesson, often too bitterly learnt elsewhere, that those who do not accept the force of argument have often had to give in to the argument of force.”

 n  Wachira Nzina and Chris Mburu in The Nairobi Law Monthly, No. 31. March 1991.

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“Most African regimes have been so alienated and so violently repressive that their citizens see the state as enemies to be evaded, cheated and defeated if possible, but never as partners in development. The leaders have been so engrossed in coping with the hostilities, which their misrule and repression has unleashed that they are unable to take much interest in anything else including the pursuit of development. These conditions were not conducive to development and none has occurred. What has occurred is regression, as we all know only too well.”

 n  Claude Ake, Nigerian Scholar in). "How Politics Underdevelops Africa," in The Challenge of African Economic Recovery and Development, ed. Adebayo Adedeji, Owodumi Teriba, and Patrick Bugembe. Portland, OR: Cass, 1991; p.14.

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 “To solve Zaire's economic crisis, we send three sacks of angry bees to the governor and the president. And some ants which really bite. Maybe they eat the government and solve our problems."

 Amina Ramadou, a peasant housewife (The Wall Street Journal, Sept 26, 1991; p. A14).

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 “Foreign aid has done more harm to Africa than we care to admit. It has led to a situation where Africa has failed to set its own  pace and direction of development free of external interference. Today, Africa's development plans are drawn thousands of miles away in the corridors of the IMF and World Bank. What is sad is that the IMF and World Bank "experts" who draw these development plans are people completely out of touch with the local African reality.”

 n  Dr. Joshat Karanja, a former Kenya member of parliament, in New African, June 1992, 20.

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“One of the most urgent matters for Nigerians to address when they settle down to debate the National Question is the issue of collaboration by professionals and technocrats with corrupt and repressive regimes. We must devise effective sanctions against our lawyers and judges and doctors and university professors who debase their professions in their zealotry to serve as tyranny's errand-boys, thus contributing in large measure to the general decay of honesty and integrity in our national life.

 n  Chinua Achebe in African News Weekly (1 October 1993, 32).

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 "I believe the worst form of civilian government is better that the most benevolent military regime."

 n  Chuba Okadigbo, former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of Nigeria's dissolved Senate (The New York Times, Dec 2, 1993; p.A3).

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 "Africa's biggest problem today lies with the leadership. They are so removed from the people that they are looked upon as foreigners. They are driven by self-interest, so excessive that their peoples' interests are forgotten -- hardly different from the colonial masters"

 n  John Hayford (New African, April, 1994; p.7).

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1“The problem in Africa is precisely that there is no state to speak of. What exists are ramshackle gangs, presided over by political thugs and military adventurists, generals who have never been to war, and rickety old men who lack vision, who simply pretend to be governing, talk less of ruling, a society. In no African social formation has this body, by whatever name it goes, been able to operate as a state.“ From “Pan-Africanism: Agenda for African Unity in the 1990s.”

 n  Julius O. Ihonvbere, in a Keynote address at The All-African Student's Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 27, 1994.

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 "In my view, Ghana's economic malaise is not the result of lack of opportunities or of resource. Ghana, like the rest of Africa, with the possible exception of South Africa and a few others, suffers from the affliction of dishonest leadership . . .I have put the emphasis on bad and corrupt leadership as the root cause of our economic woes. I make no apologies for this because we all know what is going on. On my part, I am quite disappointed that we in Parliament have not been courageous to say nay when this way is necessary."

 n  The Late and Hon. Hawa Yakubu-Ogede, former MP, Bawku (The Ghanaian Voice, Feb 12, 1995; p.8).

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 "Nigeria, the comatose giant of Africa, may go down in history as the biggest country ever to go directly from colonial subjugation to complete collapse, without an intervening period of successful self-rule. So much promise, so much waste; such a disappointment. Such a shame. Makes you sick."

   Linus U.J. Thomas-Ogboji (The African News Weekly (May 26, 1995; p.6).

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 “Your modern politics [in Africa] is dictated by personal greed, power and suppression of thought. Our forefathers believed in participatory democracy. They saw politics as a way to liberate and build nations . . . The "modern" school [in Africa] taught us to read and write but not where we came from or where we are going to. The schools again teach us how to acquire money but not how wealth is created. We want to bring people's awareness back to their roots . . .

The chief represents the people. Without the people there is no chief. They have one goal. The people make the rules and the laws and both the chief and the people adhere to the same rules . . . We as a people have deserted our traditions in favor of [foreign ones]. We need to go back in time and learn every aspect of our traditions that served our forefathers well.”

 n  Nana Osei-Bonsu, Asantefuohene, a traditional chief in African Monthly, July, 1995; p.10.

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 “Apart from the corruption, the army under Captain Valentine Strasser government (of Sierra Leone) has become totally incompetent, and is conducting a war against the people. The countryside is nothing but destruction, upon destruction. Whole towns and villages have been destroyed."

 n  Ibrahim Ibn Ibrahim, a Sierra Leonian journalist in Akasanoma, July 31-Aug 6, 1995; p.38).

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 “A critical look at contemporary African military would bring one's eye closer to tears, and one's mind nearer to insanity. The caliber of people found in the military is an obloquy to the belated institution. Today, soldiers of most African countries are known as brutes, bullies and buffoons. Soldiers are always supposed to be in the barracks, either training or doing something profitable. But in Africa, the case is totally different and appalling. Come to Accra and you will see soldiers moving about, wielding guns, pistols, harassing citizens and causing needless trouble. Go to Lome and you will see them. Go to Burkina Faso. To Lagos. To Kinshasa. O! what a degradation of the military! Ghana has seen varied types of uncouth and undisciplined soldiers."

 n  Prince Oduro (Free Press, Aug 4-10, 1995; p.4).

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 "No military coup in Africa has produced a vibrant economy to replace the bankrupt one it set out to redeem. In almost every case, the army boys have imbibed the ways of the corrupt politicians they pushed out of office and even taken their crookedness to a higher level."

 n  Editorial, African News Weekly, Sept 1, 1995; p.7.

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"I have written his article to register my protest and revulsion at the way leaders of African nations have been disgracing the black race. Just look at the way Ken Saro-Wiwa and co. were hanged like pigs without even the benefit of an appeal . . . In all hue and cry, what is both infuriating and irritating is the speed with which African countries together with their leaders are quick to blame all that go wrong on the continent on our supposed "Enemy" - the West. This sad culture is what has propelled me to protest with all the venom that I can muster . . . Why can't we accept our responsibilities as a race (black race), face the music for our deeds and always tend to pass the buck?

 It is not only on the political field that our good-for-nothing so-called teachers blame the Western World for our own mistakes. Take the case of Ghana, for example. We always hear of the often quoted phrase "the unjust world economic order" being the cause of all our problems. Don't we use the same economic textbooks as the Western world? . . .All that I am saying is, we don't deserve to be treated like beggars, because we are not using our brains at all (that is, if we have brains anyway). The sage says charity begins at home."

  Kwesi Obeng, UST university student (The Ghanaian Chronicle, Jan 21, 1996; p.4).

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“We have had to go back to our roots. We have to go back to our traditional ways of solving our problems, traditional ways of working together. Otherwise, Boosaaso a port in war-torn Somalia would not have peace.”

 n  Gen. Mohamed Abshir, Boosaaso's de facto administrator in The Washington Post, March 3, 1996; p.A29.

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 “All symbols of military authority must be removed from our midst. Those arrogant photographs that desecrate public spaces, schools, hospitals, offices, even courts of justice. Street names, also, change them all. Remove them. Remove them by stealth, remove them openly, by cunning, remove them by bribery, remove them forcibly, remove them tactfully, use whatever method is appropriate, but remove them. I call on all who are resolved to play a role in our mutual liberation to participate in this exercise of psychological release, or mental cleansing and preparedness.

 n  Wole Soyinka – in The Open Sore of a Continent. New York: Oxford University Press.1996; p.59).

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 “The [Nigerian] military has perfected the use of intimidation and disinformation to keep a passive population calm. In the process, a timid population became quiet and in some cases conspiratorial and accommodating of dictators for too long. The result is what you see today: a bunch of idiots terrorizing the nation, intimidating opponents and harassing dissidents. It is an equivalent of gangs taking over a whole town. Imagine John Gotti or Al Capone as President of the United States. Well, welcome to the reign of thieves and vagabonds, welcome to our Nigeria today, a gangster's paradise."

  Ikenna Anokwute in African News Weekly (Sept 16-22, 1996; p.6).

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 “How safe is the state of Ghana in the hands of Rawlings and his gangsters at this critical moment when they are seeking the mandate of the people to continue their corruption, misrule, contempt for public opinion, and disregard to public property. Indeed, the record books are overflowing with evidence of Rawlings' wanton misuse of state property and abuse of power.

 Editorial, Free Press (4-10 October 1996, 6).

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 "Many a time we have wondered if the so-called African leaders sometimes lack the capacity to think and understand the ramifications of their actions . . . After all the bloodshed in Rwanda you would think we have learnt a lesson but no! Idiocy of our power-hungry leaders seems to triumph over pragmatism and common sense. The rationale for the current fighting defies any logic . . . The world must be getting tired of us (Africans) giving our self-inflicted tragedies galore. We seem to lack any sense of urgency to handle problems in an expedient manner devoid of bloodshed. Lord Have Mercy!”

  (Ghana Drum editorial, November, 1996; p.2).

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 “African Renaissance demands that we purge ourselves of the parasites and maintain a permanent vigilance against the danger of entrenchment in African society of this rapacious stratum with its social morality according to which everything in society must be organized materially to benefit the few . . . The call for an African Renaissance is a call to rebellion. We must rebel against the tyrants and the dictators, those who seek to corrupt our societies and steal the wealth that belongs to the people. We must rebel against the ordinary criminals who murder, rape and rob, and conduct war against poverty, ignorance and the backwardness of the children of Africa."

Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa in The Nigerian, October 1998; p.2).

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“The turmoil in Africa today – famine, military coups and so on – is partly the result of African leaders who fought for independence but then enjoyed the fruits of their power and forgot about the people.”

 n  Tony Yengeni, chief whip of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, The Washington Times, May 6, 1999, A14).

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 "Your murderous military campaigns and strong-arm tactics have robbed African children of their youth, robbed African countries of hope and, in many instances, sentenced African people to lives no better than those of animals.” Wiping tears from her eyes, she said: “I don’t care what they do to me. The truth had to be told.”

 n  Anne-Marie Kabongo from Congo DR (The Washington Post (Sept 6, 1999; p.A21).

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 “I heard we have a new government. It makes no difference to me. Here we have no light [electricity], we have no water. There is no road. We have no school. The government does nothing for us.”

 Simon Agbo, a farmer in Ogbadibo,  south of Makurdi, Benue state capital in Nigeria in The Washington Times, Oct 21, 1999; p.A19.

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 “Most educated Nigerians, who are good copycats of foreign behavioral patterns, will like to flaunt their Euro-American amoral (and in fact immoral) tendencies in our face. Not even the decadence of those societies, despite their wealth and technologies, will make our elites have a rethink about those systems.

The quality of our elitism is so appallingly apelike that they are quite unable to distinguish a substance from a label. Whatever is out there is simply repeated here root, stalk and leaf. It is a shame today that we are being taught by Europe to breast-feed our babies. Today, almost every Nigerian woman wears a bleached skin and the curly hair strand of another race group.

           It is time that we have a rethink. And we ask our elites to ship in or ship out."

 Reverend S.J. Esu, a Nigerian pastor (Vanguard, Lagos, Aug 5, 1999. Web posted at www.allafrica.com).

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"The Winds of Change has blown and gone, and, at the end of the century, not a single African country is in bondage to any power. But hundreds of millions of Africans have been in bondage since the first day of uhuru (freedom)."

 n  Jon Qwelane, a black South African journalist, (The Sunday Times, Nov 1999; p. 24).

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 “Billions of dollars of public funds continue to be stashed away by some African leaders – even while roads are crumbling, health systems have failed, school children have neither books nor desks nor teachers and phones do not work.”

 Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (The African-American Observer, April 25 – May 1, 2000; p.10).

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 "Africa today is politically independent and can be said to have come of age but apart from Thabo Mbeki and Yoweri Museveni, we are sorry to openly admit that most of our leaders have nothing to offer except to be effective managers for the IMF and serve as footnotes to neo-colonialism. Most of the leaders in Africa are power-loving politicians, who in uniform or out of uniform, represent no good for the welfare of our people. These are harsh words to use on men and women who may mean well but lack the necessary vision and direction to uplift the status of their people.”

 n  Editorial, The Independent, Ghana, July 20, 2000; p.2.

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 “We Americans are so desperate for good news on the continent of Africa that it is almost irresistible when we find a good man in Africa. The only way we seem to be able to identify success in Africa is through personalization.”

 n  Edward P. Brynn, the former American Ambassador to Ghana quoted by Blaine Harden, “The U.S. Keeps Looking for a Few Good Men,” The New York Times, August 27, 2000, Section 4; p.1)

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 “Are we hanging too much on Obasanjo? That is clearly a danger we face. We have to invest in institution building – the military, the legislature, getting a handle on corruption. But we cannot do any of this stuff on the cheap. It has got to be sustained beyond this president and beyond Obasanjo.”

  J. Stephen Morrison, who worked at the State Department quoted by Blaine Harden, “The U.S. Keeps Looking for a Few Good Men,” The New York Times, August 27, 2000, Section 4; p.1)

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 "What baffles me is that even the money recovered from the late General Sani Abacha has been stolen. If you recover money from a thief and you go back and steal the money, it means you are worse than the thief."

 Uti Akpan, a textiles trader in Lagos The New York Times, Aug 30, 2000; p.A10.

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 "When I listen to African leaders at international gatherings I cannot but feel ashamed at their quickness to blame the whiteman for all the woes of Africa. This, to my mind, is nothing but a childish case of passing the buck.

 They blame the whites for the impoverishment of Africa outwardly to the hearing of the world and go indoors to cabinet and presidential offices to negotiate lopsided agreements with these foreigners. I am sure Europeans amuse themselves in their drawing rooms with how big-mouthed but small-brained African leaders are.

 It will be funny if, in this millennium, we continue to blame the whiteman for our woes when we are actually the ones responsible for our backwardness."

 Adedeji Adeyemi of Kaduna (Nigeria), inThis Day, Vol.6, No.1900, July 5, 2000; p.13).

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 "For many years, the continent’s problems and position as the poorest on Earth have been attributed to colonialism and the exploitative and repressive trade between the developed North and yet to be developed South. However, these excuses have become obsolete in the recent times and as Kofi Annan pointed out to the Heads of states at the Lome Summit (July 2000) that most of the problems can be placed at the doorsteps of its leaders who have failed over the years to pursue policies that would engender development. Mr. Annan was only giving credence to an opinion which many open minded analyst of the African political scene have long held, but which have been suppressed for good reasons by those who wield political power in the continent."

 Editorial, The Mirror, July 15, 2000; p.12.

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 “If the twentieth century taught us anything, it is that large-scale centralized government does not work. It does not work at the national level, and it is less likely to work at the global level”.

Kofi Annan, U.N Secretary-General (The New York Times, Sept 13, 2000; p.A12).

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 "If you had told me a year ago that I would be in the streets rioting, I would have said you were insane. But then again, if you told me I would be praying to God to deliver us from [President] Robert Mugabe a year ago, I would have said the same thing. I am not a violent man; I am not an especially religious man. But whatever it takes for Zimbabwe to finally be rid of this man, I am willing to do."

 Josiah Makawa, a 24-year-old warehouse worker in Harare (The Washington Post, Nov 23, 2000; p.A45).

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“My family has not eaten meat in months. Sometimes we eat only raw vegetables for supper because we have no money to buy [fuel] for cooking. This government has had 20 years to do something about the land problem and they did nothing. Now that's all they want to talk about. No one is listening."

 Josiah Makawa, a warehouse worker in Harare, Zimbabwe (The Washington Post, November 23, 2000; p.A45).

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“Nigeria's foreign debt profile is now in the region of $25-$30 billion, but the president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, Chief Jaiye K. Randle, himself an eminent accountant and social commentator has now revealed that individual  Nigerians are currently lodging far more than Nigeria owes in foreign banks. With an estimate he put at $170 billion it becomes immediately clear why the quest for debt forgiveness would remain a far fetched dream.”

 Laolu Akande, a veteran Nigerian freelance journalist, (http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/laoluakande/articles.html)

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 “Africans want change because there is so much suffering here. But Africans are above all else devoted to their ancestors, and they do not want to betray that by becoming something that they are not.”

  Patekile Holomisa, an inkhosi (chief) and head of the Congress of Traditional Leaders in South Africa in the The Washington Post, Dec 18, 2000; p.A1.

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 “The ANC [government of South Africa] wants to transplant customs from other countries here, and that will destroy the Zulu nation and all that we value. We are poor, but do you see any beggars in the streets like you do in the cities? The inkhosi (traditional chief) makes sure that we are all provided for. The municipality will make beggars of us. When I have a problem, I can go see the inkhosi any time, day or night. I don't need an appointment. They can have their civilization, brother.”

  Benjamin Makhanaya in The Washington Post, Dec 18, 2000; p.A1.

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 "How can a politician decide what is right for my people better than myself or my son, who has been preparing his entire life for the moment when he must lead? I am not running for re election. This is not my career. It is my duty. I have served my people for 48 years and will continue to serve them until I die."

 Mzunjani Ngcobo, tribal chief of Quadi in South Africa The Washington Post, Dec 18, 2000; p.A1.

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 "People cannot eat slogans, rhetoric or history; liberty must bring tangible benefits to the oppressed . . .This is also relevant in South Africa, (describing Mugabe's government as a "promising transformation project turned horrible." In the sharpest condemnation of recent developments in Zimbabwe by a South African leader, Mr. Vavi placed the blame for Zimbabwe’s troubles on the repression of critics and "near-dictatorial governance."

 n  Zwelinzima Vavi, head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, at a seminar in Johannesburg, assessing the lessons of Zimbabwe for its neighbors (The New York Times, Feb 25, 2001)

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 "As hopes wither and economies flounder, a new generation of Africans are turning their backs on the continent's old guard political leadership. From Zimbabwe to Uganda, Angola to Kenya, post colonial leaders and pre-independence political parties are falling from grace. Desperately holding onto power by political manipulation and old western-bashing slogans of the 1960s, they blame their nation's financial ills on foreign exploitation rather than on their own failings -- but with a new generation of educated African citizens, such transparent rabble rousing rings increasingly hollow.

  Milan Vesely, in African Business, April 2001; p.41.

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"How can we allow these MMD crooks to come to our villages to ask for more years to complete their destruction of our mother Zambia? . . . How can I lend my support to state-propelled hooliganism, vandalism, corruption and scandals? I ask Zambians to effect citizen's arrest, manhandle and cage all MMD big corrupt thieves into places designed for crooks and dangerous national law breakers because the police had failed to arrest them. All of them must be placed under wanted list by the people as the police have failed the nation lamentably."

 Chief Bright Nalubamba of the Ila people of Namwala (The Post, Lusaka, May 29, 2001).

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"You have a president who is a retired military man, a director of national security who is a retired military man, a defense minister who is a retired military man and a director of the State Security Service (SSS) or national intelligence, who is an ex-military man. Apart from the president and all the key office-holders in the land being of military background, we don't have enough elbow room to begin to talk about subordinating this system to civilian control."

 Rev. Matthew Hassan Kuka, a member of the Oputa Commission set up to investigate past human rights abuses (The Washington Times, Nov 1, 2001; p.A18).

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 "We have been in terror for 10 years. We have destroyed our towns. We have killed each other. We have used all sorts of weapons against each other, except perhaps airplanes."

Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, President of Somalia's transitional government (The New York Times, Nov 4, 2001; p.A4).

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 “The more you read about Africa, the more it becomes evident that African leaders are a strange lot. These guys are worse than space aliens. And somebody wants me to believe our problem is the white man. Rubbish. I posit that colonial rule was better. Obasanjo, the Nigerian leader regards himself as the best black leader in the world today. Maybe Mandela is white. This is why Obasanjo gallivants all over the globe. Let's concede that perhaps he is. Then Africa is really in trouble. If the best rules like they are doing in Nigeria today, frittering away our poor income on nonsensical projects, you begin to wonder what hope the African?"

 Horace Awi, a member of a Concerned Professionals Group and drilling engineering manager with a multinational oil company in Lagos, Nigeria, on naijanet,a discussion forum on November 16, 2001.

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 "Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe seems to have gone bonkers in a big way. It is very dangerous when you subvert the rule of law in your own country, when you don't even respect the judgments of your judges . . . then you are on the slippery slope of perdition. It is a great sadness what has happened to President Mugabe. He was one of Africa's best leaders, a bright spark, a debonair and well-read person."

 n  Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Saturday Star, January 12, 2002.

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 "Afrcan leaders are the continent’s worst enemies . . .Which African leader can stand up today and say he/she did not know about Mobutu Sese Seko or Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s personalisation of their countries’ monies or the vast and obscene opulence they lived in while the natives in Kinshasa and Lilongwe, the centres of government that are supposed to reflect the country’s wealth or lack thereof, wallowed in dire poverty?"

 Marko Phiri, a Zimbabwean student of journalism in The Financial Gazette, May 3, 2002.

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 “Ghana was the first sub-Saharan nation to win its independence from a colonial power in 1957. Yet the average per capita income of my people is lower now than in the 1960s, four decades after independence. Some of the blame for this we Ghanaians must accept. My country must acknowledge that corruption has been a canker on our public and economic life and must be contained.

One hundred years ago, our trading was limited to the supply of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa. One hundred years later, our trading consists of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa.

I must admit that Ghana's path towards self-reliance has not been smooth. I am painfully aware that our past can be characterized by one step forward and two steps backward.”

 President John A Kufuor of Ghana (The Financial Gazette, May 3, 2002; p.5).

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 At the United Nations Children's Summit held in May 2002 in New York, youngsters ripped into their African leaders:

 "You get loans that will be paid in 20 to 30 years... and we have nothing to pay them with, because when you get the money, you embezzle it, you eat it," said 12-year-old Joseph Tamale from Uganda (BBC News website, May 10, 2002).

"We must put an end to this demagoguery. You have parliaments, but they are used as democratic decoration," said Adam Maiga, from Mali: (BBC News website, May 10, 2002).

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"All these people (African leaders) do is talk, talk, talk. Then if they do get any money from the wazungu (white men), they just steal it for themselves. And what about us? We have no food. We have no schools. We have no future. We are just left to die.".

 Mercy Muigai, an unemployed Kenyan woman (The Washington Times, June 28, 2002; p.A17).

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 “In Biya's corrupt Cameroon, a ministerial appointment is not an opportunity to, as John F. Kennedy stipulated, serve your country; rather, it is brief and interrupted moment to savor the pleasures of what your country can do for you. A ministerial appointment is a letter of credit signed by Biya, the chief executive officer and mercenary overseer of France's Cameroon Incorporated, the French plantation of a corporation or micro state, for you to loot the national treasury of the banana republic and placate your tribesmen to support the exploitation of your country's resources. There is no jingoism or nationalism about it. It is the politics of satisfying the physiological needs of the stomach: `You chop and I chop.'

 Claude Berri, a Cameroonian journalist (The African Nation, September 2002; p.33).

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“It's however, also a fact that after the attainment of independence, many of these "heroes" grew into quarrelsome old men. They could not understand why their rabble-rousing speeches no longer elicited the same awe, or never had the selfsame electrifying effect on the masses. They also refused to understand why the people could not identify with their desire to die in power (and many actually did realize that desire). They were caught in a time warp. Most of these old politicians failed to move with the people. The people, after independence quickly wanted to get to the next stage from liberation that the independence struggle was all about, while the leaders continued to bask in the euphoria of kicking out the colonial master. For them, it was a continuous party that could only end with their death. So, when talk of popular revolt against them begun to waft through the air, their only response was to become repressive - hoping they could suppress the clamor for change. They failed."

 Henry Ochieng in The Monitor (Kampala), Jan 22, 2003.

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 "The people being starved to death (in Zimbabwe) are not white; the majority of those killed by the regime's killing machine are not white; those who languish in jail as I speak to you and are subjected to incessant torture and sub-human conditions are not white; those in the rural areas who are daily subjected to brutal treatment are not white. It is therefore despicable and cheap for anyone to reduce such a tragedy to an issue of race for the sake of a fake African brotherhood and political expediency."

 Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in The Independent (Harare), Jan 24, 2003.

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 “The men haven’t done a good job of running our countries, so maybe now we are looking for a Big Woman, not a Big Man, to do the job. The list of corrupt, incompetent and just foolish male leaders is a long one.”

 Chipo Lungu, Executive Director, Zambia National Women’s Lobby Group (The Herald-Tribune, June 8, 2003; p.1F).

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 “This is a vibrant, diverse country. Hardly anyone wants to see it homogenized into a pseudo-Gulf state. We are not Arabs”.

 Nima El-Bagir, a Sudanese journalist in The Economist, June 28, 2003; p.48.

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 “People have noticed that some of the governors who have adopted sharia have no real interest in social justice. Rather, they want to harness religion to win or hold on to power, with all its perks. Not long after the first thieves had their hands cut off, people started to grumble that the big-time crooks in high places were going unpunished."

n  Professor Abubakar Saddiq, of the Center for Democratic Development in Zaria, Nigeria,  (The Economist, June 28, 2003; p.50).

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 “It is really difficult to ask foreign investors to come and invest on our continent when our own leaders are not investing here. There is no better factor to convince foreign investors than for them to see that our own people, both those based at home and those in the Diaspora, invest in Africa.

 Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, President of the African Business Round Table on business partnership with New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) at the Commonwealth Business Forum on December 3, 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria, This Day, Lagos, Dec 4, 2003.

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 “Our leaders are incapable of being criticized without feeling rancor. When people say it is alien to our African culture to criticize leaders, they forget that in our traditional past even chiefs or kings were the subject of satirical orations and ribaldry. Even the ruthless Zulu dictator Chaka could be criticized openly. Now try to make some of our leaders the subject of satirical orations and ribaldry and see what happens to you. In their mistaken belief, it is “Western” to have freedom of the press and freedom of expression, which leaves us stuck in a culture of zealous leader worship – a culture which would look primitive is the eyes of our ancestors.

The acceptance of criticism implies the highest respect for human ideals, and its denial suggests a conscious or unconscious lack of humanity on our part. Intolerance must surely rank as one of the worst forms of immorality in human affairs, yet our modern African societies have established a reputation for intolerance that is difficult to match.

 Until our leaders redress the imbalance between selfish pursuit of power and concern for the human lives they are elected to protect, between arrogance and self-respect and humility, between intolerance and mutual tolerance, we will forever be marching backwards in very long strides.”

 Fred M'membe, editor of The Post, Lusaka, Zambia (Jan 5, 2004. Web posted at www.zamnet.zm/zamnet/post/)

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 “Each and everything they [the African National Congress] promised us is not materializing. This country is going to the dogs.”

 Raphael Mohlala, 22, Johannesburg, quoted in the The Washington Times, April 15, 2004; p.A15.

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"The average African is poorer (now) than during the age of colonialism. Whereas colonialists had developed  the continent, planted crops, built roads and cities, the era of uhuru had been characterized by capital flight as the elite pocketed money and took it outside their countries. Among them were the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha. The money Abacha had plundered had been discovered in Switzerland . . . In the 1960s African elites/rulers, instead of focusing on development, took surplus for their own enormous entourages of civil servants without plowing anything back into the country. The continent's cash crops, like cocoa and tobacco, were heavily exploited by the state-run marketing boards with farmers getting little in return.”

 Moeletsi Mbeki, Chairperson of the South African Institute of International Affairs, and brother of  President Thabo Mbeki (The Mercury, Sept 22, 2004. Web posted: http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=283&fSetId=169)

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"When this government first came, they had their own project" to build an Islamic state.  But eventually it became survival politics -- to remain in power at any cost. If that means dropping an Islamic agenda and kicking out bin Laden, then fine. If that means making peace in the south, then fine. If that means reversing themselves on Darfur publicly, then fine. As long as they stay in power, they are willing to appease the international community and do just enough to maintain control"

 Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh, editor of Al Ayam, an independent newspaper in Khiartoum, Sudan (The Washington Post, May 3, 2005; p.A14).

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From Afrikan Insight, June 2005; p.11.

 “I am astonished that anyone would use the words “statesmen” and “leadership” in describing these (African) rulers, given the level of suffering they have imposed upon our helpless people. Why is the BBC (and the BBC is the best news organization in the world in my view) always so reluctant to use the correct terminology? These rulers are no better than gangsters and scoundrels” UE, UK/Nigeria From Afrikan Insight, June 2005; p.11.

.“The fact that the continent of Africa has so few surviving presidents says a lot about the personalities of African leaders. The pathway of African Leadership usually starts off as revolutionary, corrupt, greedy, manipulators of the law to prolong power and eventually political death. As a young African, I am hopeful that we can reclaim our legacy if more African presidents consider “LIFE” after office.”

K.P. Sherman, Liberian in the U.S. From Afrikan Insight, June 2005; p.11.

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 "Our government is hopeless. If we don't have petrol, everything stops. Everything stops. What can we do?"

 Arnold Mapfumo, a welder waiting in a line for gasoline in the suburb of Chitungwiza in Zimbabwe (The Washington Post, July 25, 2005; p.A15)

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 “I am often saddened by the leadership situation I see in Africa and also pained for the situation that sometimes, the populations are placed in because of errors of leaders. I think I was the first to go to the OAU summit to say that they should not encourage people who come to power through the barrel of the gun and they should not welcome in their midst with open arms and smiles people who have taken up power through a coup d'etat.

 At that time, quite a lot of people were surprised and shocked. But several years later, they took the decision that they would not welcome them into their midst. And that also  implies that we need to play by the rules. We need to accept and respect the constitution, we need to accept electoral laws, we need to accept the results of elections and we should not tamper with the constitution to perpetuate our rule.

 What worries me is that, if this trend continues where leaders are able to change the constitution... the constitution is never written for an individual, it is written for a nation and must stand the test of time... if you change (it) to suit individuals and they extend their mandate in office, we may face the situation where the soldiers who are now in arracks will come back and say, since we cannot go through change in the normal democratic way, this may be the only way to do it. We don't want that.

 Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General, in an interview with the Guardian, Nigeria, (May 11, 2006).

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 "I am just a working man, I don't know why the government doesn't help us . . . I don't know where the oil money goes. We become angry but we don't know what to do."

 n  Vieira Muieba, a construction worker in Luanda, Angola. (The New York Times, June 16, 2006; p.A14).

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 “What I want to talk about is the uncritical belief -- especially by African leaders -- that somehow Africa's salvation and development will come from outside. This state of affairs has in turn led to the development of a number of industries in Europe and North America to reinforce and sustain that belief . . . You would always hear of a conference on Africa, for Africans but not by Africans, to discuss this or that issue, being held in places like Paris, London, Stockholm, Washington, Toronto and, of course, Brussels. And as you are reading this piece now, there is one going on in Brussels - termed EU-Africa Week. This conference will discuss a range of issues such as (good) governance, social rights, corruption, inequalities and vulnerable groups and the role of the media in development among others.

 Now most of these issues don't need a rocket scientist to actualize them and thus there is no need for these endless conferences. To make things even worse, the very same people who are supposed to implement most of the good practices in their countries and who are either unable or unwilling to; are the ones frequenting these conference halls. For them, of course, it's just another short holiday and opportunity for shopping and a bit of extra cash through S&T (per diem).”

 Alexactus T. Kaure (The Namibian, Nov 24, 2006; web posted-- http://www.namibian.com.na)

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“They only think of getting richer; they ignore us”

  Phumnani Dlamini of Soweto. (The Washington Times, July 15, 2007; p.A7).

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 In 2003, the weekly newspaper Angolese Samanario published a list of the wealthiest people in Angola. Twelve of the top 20 were government officials; five were former government officials . . . Many Angolans take it as a given that those who shop at Luanda’s new upscale mall or tool about in Land Cruisers are state officials or their friends. One car dealership manager, who caters to government officials, said he ordered only the costliest luxury cars. “They want to be first with the latest model,” he said, speaking anonymously so as not to lose customers/”

  (The New York Times, Oct 14, 2007; p. WK4).

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 “The Nigerian political elite to a large extent are like maggots . . . They are creatures that enjoy the presence of corruption and stench.”

 n  Sola Adeyeye, a former member of the House of Representatives. (The New York Times, Oct 31, 2007; p.A8)

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Coach Bolus lament as MFM FC, Rangers share spoil

Coach Bolus lament as MFM FC, Rangers share spoil

By Olanrewaju Akojede Lagos, Jan. 17, 2021 The Coach of Lagos-based MFM FC, Tony Bolus, on Sunday lamented his team’s 1-1 draw with visiting Rangers International of Enugu at Agege Stadium, Lagos, saying the result was unexpected. Naija247news reports that in the keenly contested Match Day 5 encounter of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) game, MFM fended off a goal down from the…

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BREAKING:MBAKA DEFENDS BUHARI, SAYS ECONOMIC AND INSECURITY PROBLEMS DIDN'T START WITH HIS ADMINISTRATION

New Post has been published on https://thebiafrastar.com/breakingmbaka-defends-buhari-says-economic-and-insecurity-problems-didnt-start-with-his-administration/

BREAKING:MBAKA DEFENDS BUHARI, SAYS ECONOMIC AND INSECURITY PROBLEMS DIDN'T START WITH HIS ADMINISTRATION

A Catholic priest and the spiritual director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has absorbed President Mohammadu Buhari of being completely responsible for the worsened insecurity in Nigeria.

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According to Mbaka, Nigeria’s problems, including insecurity had deteriorated earlier that Buhari assumed leadership of the country, adding that those who plot to destabilize Nigeria will receive the worst hit.

Mbaka made the statements in Enugu during his homily to celebrate the Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of lent.

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In his ‘state of the nation’ message, Fr. Mbaka berated those he said we’re cajoling the Buhari administration for the harrowing experience Nigerians are presently passing through, without going back to history.

He insisted that the present political, economic and insecurity problems did not start with Buhari’s administration, and lambasted what he described as wasteful sixteen years administration of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

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He maintained that the PDP contributed immensely to Nigeria’s present adversities.

Mbaka said: “When I was shouting it so many years ago, that with the style of governance in the country, time shall come when people will be running helter skelter, now it is happening, churches protesting everywhere.

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“Everything Buhari, Everything Buhari our problem is immemorial, I am not trying to defend him totally but it’s unfair not to go back to the history of how our past leaders were only concentrating on looting our funds thereby leaving us in this mess.

“If we have had a type of Buhari before, our problems wouldn’t have reached to this climax. Look at the efforts he is making in transport sector; road constructions which is unprecedented in the history of this nation.

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“In the area of economy, there is an agricultural revolution going on, N-power programme to our youths, scarcity of fuel is now a thing of the past all to ameliorate our suffering.

“Tell me a nation that has the number of unemployed youths that will not have the insecurity we are having? Kidnapping, banditry and Boko Haram is as a result of joblessness; and we only push the blame on Buhari alone. The old man is doing his best, only that evils of yesteryears in Nigeria overwhelmed him.

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“That is why I continue shouting on Enugu state government to stop demolition of people’s shop even if it is to restore the master plan of Enugu state it is untimely.

“What we need to do now to reduce this insecurity is to pray fervently for mercy of God to locate us in this Lenten season.

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“Our governors should go back to their drawing board; don’t leave the insecurity problem alone to Buhari, he can’t be everywhere. You people receive millions of naira every month for security votes, use those money to do meaningful things in your various state, engage youths and see whether we will not get it right.”

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Dili Fredericks releases new EP album 'Aru'

The songwriter and producer of gospel music known as Dili Fredericks has released his latest official EP album, “Aru (Abomination).” The EP album contains six original Dili Fredericks tracks for an approximate total listening time of 45 minutes. It has been proudly published as an independent release without the involvement of the corporate music industry. Popping, grooving, and full of that inimitable African style, “Aru” showcases Dili Fredericks as one of the most intriguing gospel music artists of the year so far and promises that he has plenty more where that came from.

Nigeria's Dili Fredericks says he got into writing songs when others pointed out his talent for music. Asked to describe his main artistic influences, he says, “Generally, I get inspirations while studying the Holy Bible.”

The last of six born to a family in Agulu, Anambra State over fifty years ago, Fredericks describes his upbringing as “a very humble beginning from AJ city.” Nevertheless, the singer graduated from BMGS Adazi, then from UNN in Enugu State, and finally the University of Lagos.

Asked to describe the overall meaning of his new “Aru” EP album, Dili Fredericks writes that it is “A call to prayer, to holiness, to Christ, to equity and justice, and freedom from slavery.”

“Life was averagely okay for me until I met the Lord Jesus after my graduation,” writes Dili Fredericks. “Things became rough, tough and frustrating – but peaceful. That resulted in a late marriage for me. But gladly, I'm blessed of the Lord with two children: a girl and a boy.”

Since that time, Dili Fredericks has grown as a Christian and an evangelist.

“I am a builder,” he says. “I build houses. But above all, I am a minister of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. As for inspiration; I draw inspiration from everything God created. 'O to ge,' for instance, was the word of a lady pastor.”

“Aru” by Dili Fredericks is available from over 600 quality digital music stores online worldwide now. Get in early, gospel music fans.

-S. McCauley

Lead Press Release Writer

www.Octiive.com

“Aru” by Dili Fredericks –

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Dili Fredericks Official Website –

http://fredericks.com.ng/

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"THE IBO ARE REJECTING A RETURN TO REGIONAL SYSTEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE GREATEST BENEFICIARY OF THE CURRENT UNITARY SYSTEM"

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the LGs in entire 5 Ibo speaking states which includes: Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, and Imo have '95' LGs in total, and they always draw N171.02Bn from the sham Unitary presidential wallet in Abuja.

Note: that the above 5 Ibo speaking states are as the size of Oyo within Yorubaland yet they draw N171.02Bn every month as allocation.

Whilst, the LGs in 6 states out of the entire Yorubaland that includes: Eko, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti have '137' LGs in total but draw only N288.22Bn from the same sham wallet in Abuja.

Unfortunately for Yorubaland, the contributions of money to the Federal government wallets by regions before the sham redistribution are as follows:

Yorubaland: 49%

South-South: 44%

Hausa/Fulani: 2.5%

North Central: 2%

Iboland: 1.5%

Kanuriland: 1%

TOTAL: 100%.

The Ibo only contribute 1.5% every time to the unitary FG's wallet but are drawing more than 50% from sham redistribution, while the Yoruba who contributed the highest revenue are virtually getting next to nothing.

The liberals in Yorubaland who are sympathizing with the Ibo are actually stupid people. The Unitary System PROMULGATED by the Ibo in 1966 was not done for the greater good of all but for their own personal gains and selfish interest in Nigeria contract.

Our homeland can no longer afford qualitative health care, because of the unitary system, our homeland can no longer afford free and qualitative education as it were in 1955 because of the Unitary System, our homeland can no longer boost of job security because of the Unitary System, our homeland can no longer afford all the basic amenities including roads, water, electricity and even farm settlement that can serve each households in a time like this because of the Unitary System.

As a result of the Unitary System, our sons and daughters are now turning to online beggars, fraudsters, prostitute and all manners of horrible lifestyle.

It is our generation that will destroy the sham Unitary system that is exploiting and destroying the lives and livelihood of our citizens across Yorubaland.

©️ Bisi Omo Olubadan

Director of Intelligence and Cyber Security

Young Yoruba for Freedom(YYF)

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Enugu Rangers 1-1 Al Masry: Flying Antelopes end disappointing campaign with draw

Salisu Yusuf’s men signed out of the Confederation Cup with a draw against the Boss of the Canal at the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium on Sunday evening from Football News, Live Scores, Results & Transfers | Goal.com https://ift.tt/2RRO1Xs via IFTTT

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ENUGU, NOUADHIBOU IN MUST-WIN CLASH

Enugu Rangers and FC Nouadhibou will meet for a must-win clash in Group A of the CAF Confederation Cup at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium on Sunday 12 January 2020, kick-off at 18:00 CAT.Both the Nigerian hosts and the Mauritanian visitors are tied at the bottom of the standings, with just one point apiece from three matches. The Egyptian pair of Pyramids (nine points) and Al Masry (six) have dominated the pool so far.Enugu and Nouadhibou drew 0-0 when they met in Nouakchott on December 29, leaving them in a perilous position as far as reaching the quarterfinals of the continental competition is concerned.A win for either team in this Sunday’s match will keep them alive in the tournament, but if they draw again then there is a chance that they will both be eliminated, depending on the result in the Egyptian derby between Pyramids and Masry in Cairo which kicks off at the same time.Both teams come into the clash on the back of domestic losses: Rangers succumbed 2-1 away to Heartland last weekend in the Nigerian Premier League, while Nouadhibou went down 1-0 at Tidjikja in the Mauritanian top-flight championship.The Flying Antelopes will back... source: https://nigeriasoccernet.com/

[bookpiofficial]

The Significance of Abnormal Urine Stream in the Male Infant: A Survey of Mothers’ Knowledge in a South-east Nigerian City and Implications for Preventive Nephrology | Chapter 05 | New Insights into Disease and Pathogen Research Vol. 3

Introduction/Aim: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is now a global health problem, and obstructive uropathy plays a major causative role. Reports however indicate limited  knowledge and awareness about CKD among caregivers which may be a draw-back in ‘preventive nephrology’.

The study aims to determine the knowledge of mothers regarding the significance of abnormal urine stream in the male newborn infant.

Study Site and Duration: Paediatric Nephrology Clinic, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, south-east Nigeria. Period of six months (June to December, 2013).

Study Design and Methodology: A cross-sectional, descriptive study of 204 mothers who met the study criteria was conducted using interviewer-administered, structured questionnaires. Their knowledge on whether abnormal stream suggests disease was measured on a rating scale of 1=never, 2=sometimes to 3=always. Data were analyzed with appropriate descriptive statistics on SPSS (version 13.0). P value <0.05 was chosen as level of statistical significance.

Results: Eighty eight (43.1%) of the mothers had a knowledge scale of 3, while 70 (34.3%) had a scale of 2. There was no statistically significant difference between the social classes of the two groups of mothers (P=.25).

Conclusion: The over-all knowledge of mothers is adjudged as modest and is not influenced by socio-economic status. Preventive intervention strategies should include health education to promote early self-referral and diagnosis.

Author(s) Details

Samuel N. Uwaezuoke,[ MB; BS (NIG), FWACP (Paed)] Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Nephrology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria and Associate Professor of Paediatrics/Consultant Paediatrician.    

Henrietta U. Okafor [MB;BS (NIG), FMC Paed, FWACP (Paed)] Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Nephrology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.

Odutola I. Odetunde  [MB; BS (ILORIN), FWACP (Paed)] Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Nephrology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.

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[footballghana]

CAF Confederation Cup draw postponed to Tuesday

The CAF Confederation Cup group draw scheduled for Sunday has been postponed to Tuesday at the Cairo offices of the Confederation of African Football.A CAF statement confirmed that the draw for the second-tier competition would take place at 1200 local time (1000 GMT), but did not explain the 48-hour delay.The seeded draw will divide the 16 survivors from three qualifying rounds into four groups with the winners and runners-up progressing to the quarter-finals.Horoya (Guinea), Renaissance Berkane (Morocco), twice African champions Enyimba (Nigeria) and Al Masry (Egypt) are the top seeds, based on results in the past five CAF seasons.Hassania Agadir (Morocco), Zanaco (Zambia), Enugu Rangers (Nigeria) and Djoliba (Mali) are the second seeds.The unseeded clubs include Paradou (Algeria), ESAE (Benin), Daring Club Motema Pembe (Democratic Republic of Congo), Pyramids (Egypt), San Pedro (Ivory Coast), Al Nasr (Libya), Nouadhibou (Mauritania) and Bidvest Wits (South Africa).Horoya, Enugu and Motema Pembe are former winners of the now-defunct African Cup Winners Cup.Group fixtures will be confined to Sundays with the first series on December 1 followed by December 8 and 29, February 16 and 23 and March 8.Source: AFP source: https://footballghana.com/

[torixus]

President Buhari Will win 2019 Election - Prophet Ekong Ituen

The popular clergyman and spiritual leader of Christ Deliverance Ministries Inc. (CDM) Lagos, His Grace, the prophet Ekong Ituen, predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari will be reelected in 2019 on the platform of the ruling Progress All Congress (APC).

The viewer, who had correctly predicted some national events in the past, in this impromptu talk with Assistant Editor, Dare Odufowokan, also made some other political predictions regarding the next general election. extracts You have predicted election results in the past with some degree of accuracy. What do you see happening in 2019 in the presidential race? Let me start by telling Nigerians that election result will spring surprises but in my revelation, it has been established that President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressive Congress (APC) will win 2019 presidential election. You may not like him but that is the truth. I therefore urge the religious leaders in the country to refrain themselves from making inflammatory utterances that promotes conflicts and disunity because God gives power to whoever He pleases. But many are saying President Buhari has nothing to offer again if elected for a second term. Do you agree with this? The second coming of President Buhari on the platform of APC will be traumatic for looters, as he is going to be ruthless in fighting corruption. He will also revisit the issue of power infrastructure because of the inefficiency in that sector that has hindered the expected economic growth. Furthermore, I foresee heads rolling in the power sector, as Buhari will look into the fraudulent way privatization process was carried out, some licenses might be revoked. In furtherance to my earlier prediction, former President Olusegun Obansanjo should be prayerful, he may go back to jail before he dies. Do you belong to any political party? No, absolutely no. I am very neutral and a spiritual father to all. I am a messenger who conveys message from God to humanity and Nations. A true Prophet should not be seen as being partisan. I advise our leaders to see prophecy as a warning and a clue to the plan of God which can be prevented if the right steps are taken. Prophecy should not be seen as hatred or criticism but as part of intelligence reports because even in the bible God used Prophets to warn leaders of impending crises and defeat. What do you have to tell politicians across the country as the election draws nearer? The politicians should not consider politics as a do-or-die affair because whatever anyone becomes in life is exclusively in the hands of God. I urge them not to overheat the polity on account of their desperation to get elected. Similarly, Nigerians should take note that the following governorship candidates will win in their respective states; Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State and Nsima Ekere of Akwa Ibom State. Let it be on record that though Adebayo Adelabu of Oyo State will win his first term in office, I am led by the spirit of the living God to inform him that he may find it difficult to make it for second term. In another development, Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Samuel Ortom of Benue State need fervent prayers to avert impending defeat. It should be noted that the second term ambition of the incumbent governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, is very dicey. The political crisis in your home state is worrisome. Your take on this? I want to simply appeal to the gladiators in that state by repeating what I have said before. This is a warning from God to all those seeking power and position in 2019. They should not see the next general election as a do-or-die affair because whatever anyone becomes in life is exclusively in the hands of God. I urge them not to overheat the polity on account of their desperation to get elected. Let me also add without fear that to the best of my knowledge, that Senator Godswill Akapbio is a natural giver, an ardent advocate to the poor. I am impressed by the veracity of his generosity. It must be noted, that one of the cardinal attributes of our Lord Jesus Christ is love, which Senator Akpabio has demonstrated. It is my prayer that, others should emulate him because God takes pleasure on those who practises love and kindness. via Blogger http://bit.ly/2AlPDPV

[thisdaynews]

Re-Election Buhari’s May Cause Nigeria’s Disintegration — Ohanaeze

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Re-Election Buhari’s May Cause Nigeria’s Disintegration — Ohanaeze

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Council in Abuja has said that the re-election of President Buhari may lead to the disintegration of Nigeria.

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The Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Council in Abuja and former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife stated this when some members of Ohanaeze Elders Council, Abuja led by the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress, IMC, Rev Dr Obinna Akukwe paid him a courtesy call at Igboukwu on Monday to determine how far the reconciliation committee set up by Ohanaeze has gone in uniting Igbos for 2019 elections .

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According to Chief Ezeife, ”Ndigbo believes in one Nigeria and we do not want this country to disintegrate but a continuation of the present arrangement with all the numerous crisis across the country could lead to a situation whereby there’s no nation anymore, therefore let us preserve Nigeria first”

On the vexed issue of Igbo Presidencyy which the All Progressive Congress led Federal Government have touted to Ndigbo in 2023 if they vote for Buhari’s second tenure, Chief Ezeife said that there will only be Igbo presidency if there is a Nigeria. Going further he said that “yes we want Igbo Presidency, and our governors have been assembled in Aso Rock to persuade them on the project, but if by 2023 Nigeria has disintegrated, on what will the Igbo presidency float. I doubt whether Nigeria will survive till 2023”

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Replying to inquiries on how far Ohanaeze have gone in uniting those opposed to Peter Obi;s emergence as Vice Presidential Candidate to Atiku Abubakar, Chief Ezeife told Igbo Mandate Congress chieftains that Ohanaeze in Abuja have spoken to some of the aggrieved parties and the efforts are yielding results. He described the choice of Peter Obi as running mate to Atiku as an expedient choice.

According to him “Peter Obi happens to be the most acceptable Igbo personality for the job. This man governed Anambra State and thinned down the paraphernalia of government, moves with few sirens, carries his luggage aboard aircraft by himself, all in order to save money to develop the state and he left over N70 billion in cash and investments to his successor, and developed the state in the process.”

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Going further he said that “all these attempts to blackmail him is an afterthought because the EFCC and other agencies had five years to investigate him, the sudden freezing of his accounts and other spurious stories does not affect the capacity of Peter Obi to be an effective Vice President”

The former governor disagreed with Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB on the plot to boycott elections in the South East. He said that boycotting the election is handing over power to Buhari through the back door.

The former Governor thanked all who attended his 89th birthday celebration in Abuja last month. He said that the event was “well attended beyond my expectations at the International Conference Centre but my regret was that some of the guests , including top government officials could not find a place to sit because the attendance was very overwhelming , drawing people across the entire Nigeria”

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Dr Ezeife commended efforts of the Nigerian League of Pastors for Good Governance,NLPGG, Enugu State Chapter in the prayer efforts for good govrnance and promised to mobilize fellow elders to join the prayers when necessary. He said that he is a member of Christian Elders Forum and understands the value of God and prayers in determining the fate of nations.

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Pride May Have Some Evolutionary Benefits

Counted among the seven deadly sins (along with greed, lust and envy), pride is considered by some to be the worst of the lot. Moreover, some believe pride is the motivating factor behind great mistakes.

A new study, however, challenges this perception as a research team at the University of Montreal and UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Evolutionary Psychology (CEP) contend that from an evolutionary perspective, pride serves a purpose.

The scientists contend that pride was built into human nature by evolution because it served an important function for our foraging ancestors. Our ancestors, they explained, lived in small, highly interdependent bands and faced frequent life-threatening reversals. They needed their fellow band members to value them enough during bad times to pull them through.

Therefore, in making choices, humans had to weigh their own individual self-interest against winning the approval of others, so that when they needed help others would value them enough to give it. As result, the human-universal emotion of pride is evolved as a solution.

The study findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“People evolved to have a selfish streak, but they also needed a contrary pull toward acts that would make others value them in a world without soup kitchens, police, hospitals or insurance,” said lead author Dr. Daniel Sznycer, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Montreal.

“The feeling of pride is an internal reward that draws us towards such acts.”

“For this to work well, people can’t just stumble about, discovering after the fact what brings approval,” said Leda Cosmides, a professor of psychology at UCSB, a co-author of the paper. “That’s too late. In making choices among alternatives, our motivational system needs to implicitly estimate in advance the amount of approval each alternative act would trigger in the minds of others.”

Pride serves as a factor to overcome behavioral stalemates. For example, a person who did only what others wanted would be selected against, the authors point out, but a person who was purely selfish would be shunned rapidly — another dead end.

“This leads to a precise quantitative prediction,” said John Tooby, a professor of anthropology at UCSB, CEP co-director and a coauthor of the paper.

“Lots of research has shown that humans can anticipate personal rewards and costs accurately, like lost time or food. Here we predicted that the specific intensity of the pride a person would anticipate feeling for taking an action would track how much others in their local world would actually value that specific act.

The theory we’re evaluating is that the intensity of pride you feel when you consider whether to take a potential action is not just a feeling and a motivator; it is also carries useful information to seduce you to make choices that balance both the personal costs and benefits and the social costs and benefits.”

Pride helps an individual factor in others’ regard, alongside private benefits, so the act associated with the highest total payoff is selected, the authors argue.

“One implication of this theory is that those around you benefit, too, as a side effect of your pursuing actions they value,” said Sznycer. “Thus, pride is more a win-win than it is a sin.”

A key part of the argument is that this neurally based motivational system is a part of our species’ biology.

“If that is true, we should be able to find this same pride-valuation relationship in diverse cultures and ecologies all around the world, including in face-to-face societies whose small scale echoes the more intimate social worlds in which we think pride evolved,” Sznycer noted.

To test this hypothesis, the team collected data from 10 traditional small-scale societies in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. The people in these societies speak very different languages (e.g., Mayangna, Tuvanian, Igbo), have diverse religions (e.g., Sunni Islam and shamanism), and make a living in different ways (hunting, small-scale agriculture, nomadic pastoralism).

If pride is part of universal, evolved human nature, then the research should find that pride closely tracks the values of others, for each specific act, in each community; but they should find wide variation in this relationship if pride is more akin to a cultural invention, present in some places but not others.

“We observed an extraordinarily close match between the community’s degree of positive regard for people who display each of these acts or traits and the intensities of pride individuals anticipate feeling if they took those acts or displayed those traits,” Sznycer said.

“Feelings of pride really move in lockstep with the values held by those around you, as the theory predicts.” Further studies, he added, have demonstrated that it is specifically pride — as opposed to other positive emotions — that tracks others’ values.

Of interesting note, the researchers said, pride tracked not only the values of fellow community members but also the values of participants in the other cultures — although the latter relationship was more variable.

For example, the pride expressed by the Mayangna forager-horticulturalists of the Bosawás Reserve in Nicaragua tracked not only the values expressed by fellow Mayangnas, but also the values of pastoralists from Tuva in Russia, Amazigh farmers from Drâa-Tafilalet in Morocco and farmers from Enugu in Nigeria.

This additional finding suggests that at least some of the social values people hold around the world are universal.

“Humans are a uniquely cooperative species, so pride leads people to do many valuable things for each other, ” Cosmides said. However, the authors continued, pride in the form of dominance evolved when there was less cooperation, and it was advantageous for an animal to deter rivals from scarce resources by displaying the degree of cost it could inflict.

“Humans inherited this system too, and, as many have shown, they are proud not only of the good they can do, but also of their aggressive abilities,” Sznycer explained. “Our data supports this, too.”

Pride has this two-edged reputation, the researchers added, because while it often motivates us to benefit others, it also can sometimes lead us to exploit others. As Tooby said, “When people become intoxicated with how valuable they are to others — or how dangerous — they feel they can safely take advantage of this to exploit people. Prima donnas, alphas and narcissists are the result.”

“For better or worse, the pride system appears to be a fundamental part of human nature,” Sznycer concluded, “a neural system that evolved because it helped people increase their esteem and status in the eyes of others.”

Source: University of California Santa Barbara

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NPFL: Lobi Stars go to the break on top of the league

Here is a roundup of matchday 24 fixtures in the Nigeria Professional Football League.

Lobi Stars go to the break on top of the points gap at the top of the  Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) after matchday 24 fixtures played on Sunday, June 10.

A total of 9 matchday 24 fixtures were played which involved two draws, six home wins and an away win, with a total of 15 goals scored.

NPFL matchday 24 results

Enugu Rangers 1 - 0 Heartland Owerri

Enyimba 2 - 0 Katsina United

Go Round 1 - 0 Lobi Stars

Kano Pillars 1 - 1 Rivers United FC

Kwara United 1 - 0 Ifeanyi Ubah United

Niger Tornadoes 1 - 0 Wikki Tourist

Plateau United 2 - 2 Abia Warriors

Sunshine Stars 2 - 0 Nasarawa United

Yobe Desert Stars 0 - 1 Akwa United

 NPFL matchday 24 home wins

Enugu Rangers defeated Heartland Owerri through a goal by Ifeanyi George in the 24th minute,

Enyimba continued their title push with a 2 - 0 win over Katsina United, John Uche gave the Peoples Elephants the lead when he converted a penalty in the 13th minute, and the lead was doubled by Joseph Osadiaye in the 67th minute as they held on for the win.

Go Round beat Lobi Stars through a 69th minute goal by Shedrack Oghali

Kwara United defeated Ifeanyi Ubah United through a goal by Chinedu Sunday in the 14th minute.

Mubarak Ejiogu scored the only goal in the 28th minute as Niger Tornadoes beat Wikki Tourist 1 - 0.

Sunshine Stars beat Nasarawa United 2-0, through a goals by Jide Fatokun in the 28th minute, and Alimi Sikiru in the 88th minute.

NPFL matchday 24 away wins

Michael Okoro Ibe scored the only goal of the game as Akwa United  beat Yobe Desert Stars away from home

NPFL matchday 24 draws

Plateau United played out a 2-2 draw at home with Abia Warriors, Saidu Salisu  gave the home side the lead in the 48th minute, before Sunday Adetunji equalised Abia in the 68th minute.

Obi Samson put Abia in front in the 73rd minute before Saidu Salisu scored a late penalty to give Plateau a draw

Kano Pillars played out a 1-1 draw with Rivers United FC, Osita Henry Chikere gave the away side the lead in the 12th minute, but NPFL top scorer Junior Lokosa equalised for Kano in the 49th minute. 

The NPFL continues on Wednesday, June 13

Heartland Owerri vs Enyimba

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