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Heeeyyyyyy~I just wanted to say I am THRILLED with Odd Man Out! And I also want to say that if you continue the story and Kenneth plays a bigger part in Casey’s high-school life, I am so excited to see if there’s a fight between him and Kenneth because Casey would WHUP HIS BEHIND

This part had me SHAKING. I love it XD

thank you, im happy you like it!!

im definitely still continuing OMO i just have an extreme slump rn bc im held back by like. a really minor inconvenience which is basically me trying to decide how i want to continue the next chapter and my own debilitating perfectionism is once again standing my way - im LITERALLY my own enemy, it's the worst LMFAO.

anyway. we'll just have to see if Kenneth show his face again but its so funny to see so many of you rally for a Good Ol'fashioned Highschool Hallway Beatdown like damn guys you all good??

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Tap a grillplaat Stanley Raghoebarsing

Tap a grillplaat is een nieuwe serie over Surinaamse politici die op de grillplaat gaan en ze te triggeren om voortaan met inhoud te komen. Het is niet bedoeld om ze onaangenaam te zijn en de toon en tekst is niet bedoeld om te beledigen maar om te prikkelen. Aflevering 3: Stanley Raghoebarsing Context In Suriname hebben politici een handje van om te doen alsof ze te gast zijn op hun eigen verjaardag. Ze kunnen schaamteloos in derde vorm praten en aan iedereen en alles de schuld geven behalve aan zichzelf, ze doen nooit aan zelfreflectie. Zo ook Raghoebarsing die sinds december 2022 minister van Financiën is in deze regering. Raghoebarsing is eerder al 2 keer minister geweest, van LVV en van PLOS/Planning. Hij was in de RvC van de Centrale Bank en ook betrokken bij OMO. Zoveel rollen en betrokkenheid in Suriname, maar tegelijk is er van alles mis met deze man met zijn betrokkenheid in Suriname. Tijd om hem op de operatietafel en op de grillplaat te leggen. Zout en peper bij de grill van Stanley Raghoebarsing Raghoebarsing stond recentelijk op een VES-bijeenkomst met droge ogen te oreren dat men geen rice crackers moet importeren, maar zelf in Suriname dit of varianten van moet produceren. Ja, u leest het goed, de man van LVV, van PLOS en nu Financiën. Zoveel lef heeft deze man als gast op zijn eigen verjaardagsfeest. Heeft hij dit aan Prahlad van LVV en Reshma van EZT tijdens de RvM gezegd? Nee, daar drinken ze gratis koffie en ouwehoeren een eind weg, maar eenmaal op een podium probeert deze man de show te maken. Recentelijk gleed hij ook uit met zijn oproep voor rehabilitatie van de 3 SLM betrokkenen. Waarom wilde hij dit zo graag? Heeft hij aan Kenneth in de RvM gevraagd wat de stand is van het onderzoek? Heeft hij aan zijn baas bij de ministerraad gevraagd wat er allemaal mis was met Prenobe, Paul en Xaviera? Nee, daar binnenskamers is er geen show te maken. Deze man zelf gaat niet “schuldvrij” aan de ellende van 50 jaar broko parnassie economie in Suriname. Wat heeft hij daarover te melden? Als minister van LVV heeft hij de sector geen cm verder kunnen brengen. Hij heeft geen manja boom geplant waaronder hij straks in de hangmat kan liggen, hij heeft geen kalf gekweekt waardoor hij nu aan de kawtere zit en hij heeft geen extra tilapia helpen kweken en het verbaast on dus niet dat zijn partij vooral uit garnalen bestaat of aan massala garnalen zit. Hij wordt later voor zijn snurkpartij bij LVV beloond met een nog belangrijkere rol voor Suriname en dat is minister van Planning. In deze rol heeft de man misschien stapels papier geproduceerd die later nergens goed voor blijken te zijn dan om alle verdorven vis en groente uit zijn LVV-tijd in te pakken. De man heeft 2 belangrijke rollen vervuld en hij kon bij uitstek dus invulling geven aan de ontwikkeling van Suriname. Dat het land nog steeds een broko parnassie is mag hij zich ook aanrekenen, hij moet zich ergens verantwoordelijk voor voelen. Maar nee, hij komt overal mee weg omdat hij een van de mastodonten is van de VHP en tijdens deze regering wordt hij beloond met een RvC rol bij CBvS waar hij medeverantwoordelijk is voor het. Hij heeft samen met Boussaid het OMO-rapport opgesteld. Inmiddels is in volle omvang naar buiten gekomen hoeveel geld van de arme burgers door de Suriname rivier is gespoeld. Ja, u leest het weer goed, het is de vrome bisschop die evangelie predikt, maar ondertussen zit hij aan de knoppen van de verloedering van het land. De man neemt geen verantwoordelijkheid. Hij staat erbij en kijkt rustig de andere kant op. Hij is te gast op zijn eigen feest. Er lijkt niemand te zijn die hem een spiegel voorhoudt, niemand die tegen hem zegt dat hij een man is van 12 ambachten en 13 ongelukken. Hijzelf heeft geen schaamte en wordt door niemand gecorrigeerd. Hij benoemt een belasting directeur tegen alle regels in met terugwerkende kracht. Hoe wil je het hebben met deze man. Als minister van Financiën begon hij met uitspraken hoe hij het IMF de les zal voorlezen zoals hij gewend was om in zijn broko parnassie iedereen vanuit zijn ivoren toren belerend te vertellen wat hij allemaal weet. Al snel ontdekte hij dat IMF toch iets anders is dan de partijvergaderingen in de olifant. Eenmaal in de zadel als MinFin lukt het hem niet eens de BTW in te voeren. Waar zijn al zijn ervaringen gebleven? Niks lukt deze man, 12 ambachten en 13 ongelukken. Als MinFin schaft hij in rap tempo subsidies af voor stroom, water, internet/telefoon en brandstof, maar hij blijkt totaal niet in staat te zijn om als “eigenaar” van de parastatalen die te stroomlijnen en te transformeren naar efficiënte en lean and mean organisaties. Voor de goede orde in Suriname vallen de parastatalen onder de vakministers zoals EBS bij Natuurlijke Hulpbronnen, maar de minister van Financiën gaat als een “satéprikker” door alle ministeries. Hier had Raghoebarsing kunnen laten zien wat hij kan. Het land heeft geen veredelde boekhouder nodig maar een kundige bewaker van Suriname. Samenvattend, hij heeft bij LVV geen deuk in een pak boter kunnen slaan. Van zijn tijd bij Planning kan hij ook niet op zijn borst kloppen want het land is nog een parnassie, in zijn tijd als RvC heeft hij honderden miljoenen SRD’s door de goot laten lopen en nu als MinFin verbrassen de parastatalen, miljoenen onder zijn toeziend oog en BTW is een drama. Wat heb je aan zo iemand? Wat is zijn bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van het land? Wie gaat het hem zeggen? Wanneer gaat hij aan zelfreflectie doen? Suggestie Raghoebarsing kan beter aan doen om zijn huiswerk te maken en ons tijdig met informatie te voorzien zoals een compleet overzicht van de schulden van de regering zodat Gajadien niet praat over USD 4 miljard en Jogi over 5 miljard en andere VHP'ers over schulden die staande de gesprekken bij verzonnen worden. Stuur de herziene contracten met Lazard naar het parlement zoals het beloofd was. Vertel ons waar alle overdrachten van Staatsolie en de goudmaatschappijen zijn. Bemoei met de schuldensanering met China en laat zien dat u minister van Financiën bent en laat het niet over aan Albert. Ga werken aan de koersbeheersing. Stuur de rapporten van de commissie die de parastatalen heeft “bekeken” – ja bekeken want veel fiducie moeten wij niet hebben in productie van Boussaid c.s.  – en ga erachteraan om die bedrijven efficiënter te maken. En stop met show maken en populaire jongen uit te hangen. Doe u waarvoor u bent ingehuurd Er is nog zoveel te doen, geen tijd om te snurken. In ramgoe zouden ze zeggen “stanga a sarie keba”. Hikmat Mahawat Khan Noot: Een grillplaat is een goed hulpmiddel. Goede kwaliteit zalm en of vlees op de grillplaat wordt juist beter. Laten wij hopen dat de politici na een goede grill beter worden. Read the full article

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Action Alliance distances self from suit against INEC, 3 others

Action Alliance distances self from suit against INEC, 3 others By Femi Mustapha The Action Alliance, (AA), has dissociated itself from the suit instituted against the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), and three of its principal officers by expelled Chairman of the Party, Kenneth Udeze. National Chairman of Action Alliance, Hon Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje, stated this in a statement…

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Setback for Ogunewe, as INEC recognize Omo-Aje's Action Alliance Exco

This may be the end of the road for the governorship ambition of retired army general in Imo State, Lincoln Ogunewe, except he pulls any last minute surprise. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has finally recognised the Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje led executive as the authentic national leadership of the Action Alliance. A Court of Appeal sitting in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had on 11th November, 2022, affirmed Hon. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the authentic and only National Chairman of Action Alliance, against Kenneth Udeze who was laying claim to the position. INEC however, in disobedience to the court judgement, retained in its website the name, Kenneth Udeze as the National Chairman of Action Alliance. The commission went ahead to publish Lincoln Ogunewe as the candidate of Action Alliance for the forthcoming November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State. Ogunewe reportedly emerged from a purported primary election conducted by the Kenneth Udeze-led faction. The Omo-Aje-led executive had to drag INEC and Ogunewe to a Federal High Court Abuja, urging the court to mandate the commission to recognize Ukadike Chinedu Humphrey, produced by a primary conducted by the executive, as the authentic candidate of the party for the governorship election in Imo State. The commission, on Tuesday, caved in, erased Kenneth Udeze’s name in its website and published, Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the National Chairman of Action Alliance. Other officers of the party whose names appeared on the website are: Amb. Suleiman Abdulrasheed – National Secretary, Alhaji Ibrahim Isah – National Treasurer, Pastor Obaro Samuel – National Financial Secretary and Barr. Rufai Abiodun – National Legal Adviser. Addressing journalists, Wednesday, Omo-Aje said he had meeting with INEC on Tuesday, where the commission informed him of its decision to recognise him as the National Chairman of Action Alliance. In a statement, Thursday, the Chairman of Action Alliance in Imo State, Comrade Ifeanyi Okponwa-Eze, lauded INEC’s decision to obey the court judgement. Okponwa-Eze submitted that the commission’s action has finally placed impostors who infiltrated the party to where they belong. See also PDP Nat’l Secretary Denies Working For Tinubu, APCHe maintained that Ukadike Chinedu Humphrey remains the governorship candidate of Action Alliance for the November 11 election in the state. Read the full article

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Al-Mustapha and Others Rejected from Involvement in AA Election: Court Rules

The Court of Appeal in Abuja disqualified Action Alliance (AA) presidential candidate Hamza Al-Mustapha and others on Thursday from running as party candidates in this year's elections.

Chief Kenneth Udeze, the ousted National Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), had petitioned the court to put on hold the annulment of Al-Mustapha and other candidates' candidacies.

The appellate court's three-member panel was presided over by Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, who ruled that the appeal was flawed and incompetent.

On June 9, 2022, in Abuja, Al-Mustapha, a former advisor to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, defeated Samson Odupitan, his lone opponent, and won the presidential primary election organized by Chief Kenneth Udeze's group with a total of 506 votes.

The AA could not be both an appellant and a respondent in the same appeal, according to Justice Dongban-Mensem, who said that it was improper for Udeze to file the appeal in the AA's name and to include the party as a respondent in the lead decision.

In an appeal with the filing number CA/ABJ/PRE/ROA/CV/1472MI/2022, Udeze sought to have the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja's decision of December 22, 2022, set aside.

Justice Zainab Abubakar of the Abuja FHC denied Chief Udeze's request to annul the court's decision to recognize the candidates put forth by the party's leadership under Dr. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje on November 4, 2022.

Udeze had applied to the Federal High Court, Abuja, to set aside the Nov. 4 judgment, claiming it was obtained by fraud and asserting that he was still the party's national chairman. The Federal High Court, Abuja, upheld the suspension and expulsion of Udeze as the AA chairman in two judgments of the Court of Appeal.

According to the judgment issued on November 4, 2022, by Justice Abubakar, the court had ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, to accept the list of candidates submitted to it by the Omo-Aje leadership of the AA and to discountenance the candidates submitted by Udeze, which included Al-Mustpha, who was a presidential candidate.

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A story by OMO Akin, He said he was at Kenneth Dike library of University of Ibadan (KDL,UI) yesterday,while studying,an elderly man came in with books nd took the seat right in front of him.as he sat,he prayed a few seconds,then started reading.He stopped reading and began to look at him in awe,at a point he couldn't take it no more,then he spoke out, "Good afternoon sir", he stopped reading and responded. "Would you please permit me to ask you some few questions sir", he consented. He identify himself as a Rev.Adele.He spoke so politely and walk a fair a command of English.I asked if he was a Teacher or a student,the old said he was a student of UIDLC (Distance Learning center, University of Ibadan),his course of study is social works. I was impressed. I went further to ask him more questions,and he said,he didn't have the privilege to take his first degree in the days he was younger because if financial contraints. He said,he would forever remain unfulfilled if he didn't bag a University degree,and that's the reason for his decision. I was overwhelmed,Hus determination intrigued me . Follow @joseifworldblog.page for more beautiful stories! #university #washingtonpost #worldwide #worldnews #cnnnews #BBCNews #aljazeera #nbcnews #ny #repost #blogger#joseifworldblog #joseifworld #unitednations #instagram #reelsinstagram #Nigeria #instablog9ja #naijanews #blm #petemcbride #rodneyking #exploreeverything #instafollow #universityofibadan#Harvard https://www.instagram.com/p/CVH1Mx2gu2j/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Onuesoke Hails Delta Central Senator Over His Emergence As Deputy Senate President

Onuesoke Hails Delta Central Senator Over His Emergence As Deputy Senate President

By Kenneth Orusi, The Nigerian Voice, Asaba

A stalwart of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has congratulated Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central in the National Assembly (NASS), on his election on the floor of the Red Chamber as the Deputy Senate President of the Ninth Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Omo-Agege, a…

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For Leonardo, writing in the literary sense remains peripheral. (Somewhat paradoxically, one of his favourite literary exercises was the paragone, or comparison, between painting and poetry, in which painting was always argued to be superior; this debate forms part of the introduction to the Trattato della pittura.) He cultivates literature, it seems, principally as a social or courtly skill. In Florence he keeps the company of poets like Cammelli and Bellincioni, but his own achievements in that area are confined – as far as we know – to his skills as an improvvisatore, a song-and-dance man with his lira da braccio. The letter to Dei belongs within the same sort of sphere – an entertainment, a jeu d’esprit, probably written for a specific occasion. Its beautiful last sentence is an unexpected gem: a little coup de théâtre which ends the performance on a haunting, unsettling note. I see this as the typical mode of Leonardo as writer – lowbrow formats, plain-speaking style, moments of unexpected poetry. Leonardo’s taste for puns and word-games is part of his interestingly limited view of the writer, and there is a fascinating page of the late 1480s which belongs precisely to this stratum of literary trickery, and which again affords certain oblique glimpses into his mental processes. It is a large sheet in the Windsor collection, crammed with what Kenneth Clark rather quaintly calls ‘puzzle writing’ – what are more generally called rebuses or cryptograms. A rebus is a word or name or sentence expressed pictorially: a visual code. Though the game is to avoid words, it is of course a thoroughly verbal game, since the solution of the puzzle depends entirely on linguistic connections and often on double meanings. The word ‘rebus’ may be derived from carnival newsletters headed ‘De rebus quae geruntur’ (‘concerning things that have been happening’, i.e. current events), which avoided libel by using pictorial and hieroglyphic symbols in place of names; or more soberly from the explanatory formula ‘non verbis sed rebus’ (‘not with words but with things’). There had long existed in Italy a fondness for these punning cryptograms – the heraldic rebus representing the name of a family was particularly popular – though the more sophisticated rule-book for composing emblems and imprese had not yet been formulated. Leonardo manages to squeeze a total of 154 rebuses on to the two sides of the Windsor sheet. (Some other fragments of picture-writing, of the same period, bring the total to something like 200.) The pictographs themselves are hurriedly drawn: the finesse is in the mental ingenuity. Sometimes a picture alone is used, but often there is a combination of pictures and words or letters (not a ‘pure’ rebus, therefore). The sheet seems to be a working draft, in which ideas are tried out; some of the ropier ones were doubtless discarded. Beneath each rebus is written the key, the punning solution to the visual riddle. Thus the solution to the rebus showing a stock of corn and a rock is gran calamità, a great calamity, via puns on grano = grain and calamita = a magnetic stone. An o and a pear (pera) = opera, works. A face (faccia) and a donkey (asino) = fa casino, a slang phrase meaning someone is making a total hash of things. Some of the puns recur as he moves into whole sentences – thus ‘if the’ (se la) is always represented by a saddle (sella), and ‘happy’ (felice) by a fern (felce). These have become part of a reusable picture vocabulary. There is a sense here of Leonardo as intellectual court-jester – these are party pieces, pen-and-ink entertainments. One imagines him hovering, the enigmatic quizmaster, as the courtiers struggle to guess the answer. There would also be a practical spin-off, since pictographs were popular as architectural decoration. According to the Milanese architect Cesare Cesariano, the Sforza castle was decorated with such allegorical hieroglyphs, though these are no longer to be seen. Leonardo’s friend Bramante later designed an inscription in honour of Pope Julius II for the Vatican Belvedere, in which ‘Julio II Pont Maximo’ is spelt out in carved pictographs. Thus the rebus-skill Leonardo is practising here has also a practical application for the aspiring architect of the mid-1480s. Practical or not, there is a touch of the psychiatrist’s ‘free association’ games in the rebus. His mind is roving between different levels of meaning, between pictures and letters, enjoying the semiotic frissons out of which come strange hybrid meanings. Some of the phrases he comes up with have a certain psychological piquancy: ‘siamo scarico di vergogna’ – 'we have got rid of all shame’; ‘ora sono fritto’ – ‘now I am done for [literally fried]’. And the psychiatrist might raise a momentary eyebrow at that tiny scribbled self-portrait I mentioned earlier, apropos the lion in St Jerome – the lion in flames = leone + ardere = Leonardo. As a self-identifying pun or hieroglyph it seems rather bleak: the lion, axiomatically noble and powerful, is consumed and destroyed. We seem to be once more in the agitated sphere of the Oxford allegories. Even here, in these courtly quiz-games, we find that words open up chinks of Leonardo’s inner life. Also designed for courtly entertainment were Leonardo’s riddling ‘prophecies’, some of which I have already quoted. One of them has what amounts to a stage-direction added to it: ‘Say it in a form of frenzy or craziness, as if from a madness in the brain.’They were delivered, in other words, in a kind of mock-oracular ecstasy or furor. An obvious candidate for this performance would be Zoroastro, one of whose nicknames was Indovino, ‘the Prophet’ or ‘Soothsayer’; the word has an overtone of mystic hocus-pocus (cf.indovinello, a riddle) which fits these joke predictions. The humour of the prophecies lies in their ingeniously anti-climactic explanations. Mostly they turn on simple little twists of meaning, not unlike the visual puns of the rebuses – those who will ‘walk on top of the trees’ are men wearing wooden clogs, and those who will ‘walk on the skins of great beasts’ are men wearing shoes of ox-leather, and those who will ‘go as fast as the quickest of creatures by means of the stars’ are men using spurs, which are star-shaped. The ‘bodies’ which will ‘grow when the head is taken from them, and diminish when the head is put back’ are pillows. The animal which will be ‘seen with its tongue up another’s arse’ refers to the butcher’s custom of wrapping up pigs’ and calves’ tongues in entrails. These are the meanings which the audience has to guess. But there is also an element of double-bluff: the prophecies are often pungently expressive little texts, which linger in the mind after they have been explained and deflated. Like the spoof newsletter to Dei, they stray into an imagery of cataclysm and violence. They also express an idea of Nature as the wounded, exploited victim of man’s rapacity: There will be many who will flay their mother and turn her skin inside out. [Those who till the land] Men will severely beat what gives them life. [Those who thresh grain] The times of Herod will return, when innocent children shall be taken from their nurses, and will die with great wounds at the hands of cruel men. [Kids] With merciless blows many little children will be taken from the arms of their mothers and thrown to the ground and then torn to pieces. [Walnuts, olives etc.] This ecologically compassionate view of nature is also found in Leonardo’s fables, which were probably also written for recital at court. As far as can be established, the thirty or so fables that survive are original compositions. They emulate Aesop, but are not borrowed from him. Leonardo may also have known Alberti’s collection, the Apologhi (not published till 1568, but doubtless available in manuscript). The fables are full of an animistic sense of the landscape as a living thing. It is not only animals that are given a voice, but also trees and plants and stones. They become sentient creatures, capable of feeling pain – a pain constantly inflicted on them by man. A chestnut-tree is envisaged as a protective parent whose ‘sweet children’ – the nuts – are torn from her. The ‘hapless willow’ is ‘maimed and lopped and ruined’. Harvest is wounding. Here is a very short fable about a walnut-tree, almost a gnomic little prose-poem: ‘Il noce mostrando sopra una strada ai viandante la richezza de sua frutta, ogni omo lapidava.’ (The nut-tree by the roadside showed off to travellers the richness of its fruit; everyone stoned it.)

Charles Nicholl, Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind

Caption: Part of the large sheet of rebuses at Windsor. 

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Imo AA Denies Ogunewe as governorship candidate

The Action Alliance (AA) has declared that Major-General Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (retd) is not its candidate for the governorship elections in Imo State. Ogunewe was in the news last week after he was announced as the flagbearer of the platform, a report the leadership refuted. In a statement on Sunday, AA Chairman, Comrade Ifeanyi Okponwa Eze, said Ogunewe’s emergence was not endorsed by the party, advising citizens to ignore the “rumour”. Eze recalled that on November 11, 2022, a Court of Appeal in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, affirmed Hon. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the authentic National Chairman against one Kenneth Udeze. He said in line with stipulated guidelines, AA conducted its governorship primary in Imo on April 17, 2023, the last day set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). “It’s worrisome and embarrassing that the said Kenneth Udeze, who was expelled from the party, has continued to parade himself as the National Chairman. “He has gone as far as trying to deceive members of the public by ridiculously presenting Gen. Lincoln Ogunewe (retd) as the governorship candidate. “This is a clear disregard to the subsisting Court of Appeal judgement which affirmed Hon. Dr. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the authentic National Chairman.” Eze said INEC’s retention of Udeze as the AA National Chairman on its website is an indication that the umpire “has decided to operate in contempt to the judgement”. The party warned that it would not hesitate to press contempt of court charges against both Kenneth Udeze and Prof. Mahmood Yakubu “if they do not retrace their steps”. The statement reaffirmed Chief Ukadike Chinedu Humphrey as AA’s standard bearer for the November 11 governorship poll and urged the people of Imo to “disregard impostors”. Read the full article

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National Boxing League to be introduced in 2019

National Boxing League to be introduced in 2019

*Female boxers to get special support hence

By Olajide Fashikun

Efforts to re-launch boxing in the nation’s chase for international glory has received a top notch plan especially with female boxers who have sign posted a wonderful outing in recent times. To this end, t new league system would be introduced in 2019 to boost the performance of the athletes.

Members of the Nigeria Boxing Federation…

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Memories of Fifties Britain

EVERYBODY who grew up in Fifties Britain will have his or her own indelible memories of their childhood, from the first taste of welfare orange juice to the birth of rock’ n’ roll. The nation was recovering from the ravages of the Second World War and the camaraderie of wartime was still evident throughout the country.

Children waking up on Christmas morning in 1952 had experienced rationing of food and clothes all of their lives. It was quite normal to go without the sweets, biscuits, crisps and fizzy drinks that would be taken for granted by future -generations . Before sweet rationing ended in February 1953 the most prized thing in your Christmas stocking would have been a small, two-ounce bar of chocolate.

You probably didn’t get your first black and white television set until the late-Fifties. After all, only three million British households had one by 1954, with numbers increasing to almost 13 million by 1964.

But it didn’t matter if you had no television because you could play in the streets without the fear of traffic or the obstruction of parked cars. Buses and bicycles were the most popular modes of transport. In 1950 there were just under two million cars in Britain, with only 14 per cent of households owning one. The most-popular models in the Fifties included the Ford Prefect 100E and the Austin A35 saloon.

Many of us who grew up then have memories of houses that were draughty in winter with curtains hung behind the street door to reduce the flow of cold air and frost that formed overnight on the inside of bedroom windows.

Outside, the larger urban areas suffered with dense, yellowish smogs – known as pea-soupers – caused by fog combining with coalfire emissions. In 1952 a particularly thick smog shrouded London and caused the deaths of an estimated 12,000 people.

However, life was certainly not all doom and gloom. You grew up in a much safer environment than we can ever imagine these days. Children were able to enjoy the freedom of outdoor life. They played lots of rough-and-tumble games, got dirty and fell out of trees. The purple stains of iodine were always evident on the grazed knees of boys in short trousers.

We would also dress up like cowboys and Indians, wear holsters with cap guns and point and shoot at each other.

There was no such thing as health and safety or children’s rights. We were taught discipline at home and at school and corporal punishment was freely administered for bad behaviour.

There was no mugging of old ladies and people felt that it was safe to walk the streets. There was very little vandalism and no graffiti. Telephone boxes were fully glazed and each contained a set of local telephone directories and a pay-box full of pennies.

Youngsters respected and feared people in authority such as policemen, teachers, and park keepers, knowing that they would get a clip around the ear if they were caught misbehaving.

Home life was much different from today. Everyone seemed to have a gramophone, an upright piano and a valve radio in their front room and there were ticking clocks all around the house.

The kitchen was filled with products such as Omo washing powder and Robin starch and a whistle kettle was a permanent fixture on the kitchen stove.

Most adults smoked and there were ashtrays in every room, even in the bedrooms. Most homes didn’t have a bathroom so people would either wash in a tin bath by the fireside or take a weekly trip to the local municipal baths where they could pay to have a hot bath in a little more comfort. Toilets were usually outside.

We still managed to eat lots of wholesome food, which was always freshly cooked, and mums seemed always to be baking and though many of us didn’t have a fridge and went shopping for-groceries every day. Perishable foods were bought in small amounts just enough to last a day. It was quite usual to buy a single item of fruit.

On Sundays everyone had a roast dinner and leftovers were made into stews and pies to eat later in the week. In 1950, 55 per cent of young children drank tea with their meals. Bread and beef dripping was standard fare but we cringed at the sight of a curled-up Spam sandwich.

That was even worse than the daily spoonful of cod liver oil many of us had to consume.

Boys and girls played street games together, such as run outs, hopscotch and British bulldog. In the playground schoolgirls practised handstands and cartwheels with their skirts tucked up under the elastic of their navy blue knickers, while the boys played conkers.

We travelled in third-class compartments on train journeys to the seaside. In 1956 they were renamed second class. The change didn’t move you any higher up the social ladder but it made you feel there was a bit less of a social gap. At the seaside you wore a knitted bathing costume on the beach.

Do you remember Pathé News at the cinema? Going to the pictures was everyone’s favourite outing, with all those wonderful stiff-upper-lip British film stars such as John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More and Dirk Bogarde and great war films such as The Dam Busters, epics such as Ben-Hur and comedies such as The Belles Of St Trinian’s. When the film ended everyone stood for the National Anthem and stayed until it finished playing.

For children the Saturday morning pictures provided the best fun. Every week, 200 to 300 unruly children would descend on a cinema for a couple of hours of film and live entertainment. The manager would regularly stop the film and threaten to send you all home if you didn’t behave and the solitary usherette was often forced to run for cover. It was controlled mayhem with the stalls and circle filled with children cheering for the goodies and booing the baddies. It introduced us to The Lone Ranger and Zorro and the slapstick comedy of Mr Pastry and Buster Keaton.

Dusty, old-fashioned sweetshops had high wooden counters jam-packed with boxes of ha’penny chews and other sweet delights. Remember Lucky Bags and frozen Jubblys and getting a sore tongue from sucking on gobstoppers, aniseed balls and Spangles? Then there were those old Smith’s potato crisps. The salt was in a twist of blue paper and you always had to rummage around for it at the bottom of the bag. All your one-shilling-a-week pocket money would go on sweets and comics (yes, we used old money back then, pounds, shillings and pence).

It was the decade of skiffle music with Lonnie Donegan and of the start of rock’ n’roll with Bill Haley, Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard. Did you know that Cliff’s first hit Move It is credited as being the first rock’n’roll song produced outside the United States? Other British singers such as Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Adam Faith first came to fame in the Fifties. But while everyone now remembers rock’n’roll, in reality the record buyers were suckers for-ballads and throughout the Fifties homegrown ballad singers had -British girls swooning in the aisles.

I have memories of Bob-a-Job Week, as a Cub Scout, you lend a helping hand to friends and neighbours in exchange for a small payment, it ended in 1992 after concerns were raised over health and safety and child protection issues.

“Sex was something mysterious which happened to married couples and Homosexuality was never mentioned; my mother later told me my father did not believe it existed at all ‘until he joined the army’. As a child I was warned about talking to ‘strange men’, without any real idea what this meant. I was left to find out for myself what it was all about.”

It is hard to identify the Britain of today with how it was back then. The whole appearance of the country has changed, particularly in inner cities where so much building and development work has been done over the years.

The wartorn dilapidated houses, derelict land and bomb sites that were the forbidden playgrounds of postwar baby boomers are now long gone.

There was something cosy about growing up in the last decade in which most children retained their childish innocence to the age of 12 or 13 and enjoyed a carefree life full of fun and games. The stresses of adolescence and then adult life could wait. We were lucky.

1950s: what it was really like

It was an era when women stayed at home, a 9-to-5 job meant just that, workers had a job for life and nobody had a Blackberry to ruin their holidays.

When the Queen was crowned in 1953, food rationing was still in force, supermarkets were unheard of, and fish and chips were our undisputed national dish. How things have changed. But is our diet more healthy now than it was then?

Despite the challenges of rationing, family diets still contained more bread, vegetables and milk than children have today.

There was a succession of callers to the 1950s house. These would include the rag and bone man, a man with a horse and cart and a call of ‘any old rags’. The rag and bone man would buy your old clothes for a few pennies and mend your pots and pans when the bottoms went through.

The milk man came daily and delivered your milk right on to your doorstep – again he would take away the empty bottles to be washed and re-used. The local shops would also deliver your groceries, bread and meat, the delivery boys using bicycles to make their rounds. The dustbin men worked extremely hard, carrying the old metal dustbins on their backs from the householder’s back door to the cart and then returning them back.

Fear of Polio held a reign of terror over this nation for decades. But unless you were born before 1955, polio may seem to be just another ephemeral disease that has been nonexistent for years. Those born before 1955 remember having a great fear of this horrible disease which crippled thousands of once active, healthy children. This disease had no cure and no identified causes, which made it all the more terrifying. People did everything that they had done in the past to prevent the spread of disease, such as quarantining areas, but these tactics never seemed to work. Polio could not be contained. Many people did not have the money to care for a family member with polio.

I can remember the days before the internet, local radio, Sky Sports etc. The was no information on Saturday matches other than the results on the TV and radio starting at approx 4.40. (Matches finished much earlier then. They started on time; there was only 10 minutes half time; there as very little added time)

In those days the only match reports on the day came in the Green’un. It was delivered just after 6.00 pm and, amazingly, there would be people queuing in the shops waiting for it.

The reports usually had a lot of detail on the first half but next to noting on the second half. (Not surprising as the reporters had to send their reports by telephone at half time and full time)

The green-un and a pink-un. One printed by the Evening World and the other by the Evening Post.

1950s memories

* We walked to school, had open fires and no central heating

* we spent our holidays in the UK

* No bathroom just a tin bath

* The outside toilet, you wiped your rear end with newspaper

* Cod fish fingers produced in Great Yarmouth were introduced in Britain in 1955.

* Chickens were for high days and holidays only as they were very expensive.

* Rabbit was eaten a lot those days.

* Pickled beef was a favourite of our family back in the 50s. The beef would be chosen and then pickled by the butcher.

* cows udder served warm with brown bread and butter. Also pigs trotters cooked until the crackling and meat falls off the bone.

* It was always stew and dumplings on Mondays as it was wash day and it was easiest to cook and always fish on Fridays.

* Mums used to do their weekly baking on Saturdays.

* In the summer we always went blackberry picking so had plenty of jams and pies. Some families had allotments so soft fruit was available.

* We certainly ate dates, they were delicious.

* worms in apples

* We had our first television set in 1955

* Butter was also sold from a large block and the grocer would pat it into smaller blocks with wooden paddles.

* Very few cars, lots of buses, neighbours talking on the doorstep and helping each other and the mangle in the garden for the weekly wash.

* fresh fish…cockles, mussels

* REAL butter

* chicken was only eaten at Christmas

* no ordinary family had turkey at Christmas

* The Corona popman would come round on a Friday selling bottles of lemonade. You’d save up the empty bottles which were worth tuppence each.

* broken biscuits from Woolworth

* cheese cut with a wire from a large block

* coal delivered in heavy sacks by filthy men

* boxes of shredded suet.

* toasting bread and crumpets over a real coal fire

* fruit salad with Carnation milk

* home made rice pudding

* Stewed steak and Onions

* bread and dripping with lots of salt

* Meat and Potato Pie

* Fresh bacon cut on a slicer to the thickness of your choice

* Bubble and Squeak on a Monday with leftovers from Sundays roast

* homemade Jam in a sandwich

* ration books!

* Brylcream

* Sunday School

* Kids were still innocent and weren’t trying to grow up too fast.

* Very few people were fat.

* Kids rode bikes and played outside.

* signs in house windows that said ‘Rooms to Let: No dogs, no coloureds’.

* No fast food in those days, other than fish and chips!

* Pasta had not been invented.

* Curry was a surname.

* Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet

* Spices came from the Middle East where they were used for embalming

* Herbs were used to make rather dodgy medicine.

* A takeaway was a mathematical problem.

* A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.

* Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.

* The only vegetables known to us were spuds, peas, carrots and cabbage,

* All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.

* Condiments consisted of salt, pepper, vinegar and brown sauce if we were lucky.

* Soft drinks were called pop.

* Coke was something that we put on the fire.

* A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.

* Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.

* A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

* A Pizza Hut was an Italian shed.

* A microwave was something out of a science fiction movie.

* Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

* Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking

* Bread and jam was a treat.

* Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.

* Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.

* Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

* Figs and dates appeared every Christmas, but no one ever ate them.

* Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town.

* Jellied eels were peculiar to Londoners.

* Salad cream was a dressing for salads, mayonnaise did not exist

* Hors d’oeuvre was a spelling mistake.

* The starter was our main meal. Soup was a main meal.

* Only Heinz made beans.

* Leftovers went in the dog.

* Special food for dogs and cats was unheard of.

* Fish was only eaten on Fridays.

* Fish didn’t have fingers in those days.

* Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.

* Ready meals only came from the fish and chip shop.

* For the best taste fish and chips had to be eaten out of old newspapers.

* Frozen food was called ice cream.

* Nothing ever went off in the fridge because we never had one.

* Ice cream only came in one colour and one flavour.

* None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.

* Jelly and blancmange was only eaten at parties.

* If we said that we were on a diet, we simply got less.

* Healthy food consisted of anything edible.

* People who didn’t peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.

* Indian restaurants were only found in India .

* Brunch was not a meal.

* If we had eaten bacon lettuce and tomato in the same sandwich we would have been certified

* A bun was a small cake back then.

* The word" Barbie" was not associated with anything to do with food.

* Eating outside was a picnic.

* Cooking outside was called camping.

* Seaweed was not a recognised food.

* Pancakes were only eaten on Pancake Tuesday

* "Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.

* Hot dogs were a type of sausage that only the Americans ate.

* Cornflakes had arrived from America but it was obvious they would never catch on.

* The phrase "boil in the bag" would have been beyond comprehension.

* The idea of "oven chips" would not have made any sense at all to us.

* The world had not heard of Pot Noodles, Instant Mash and Pop Tarts.

* Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.

* Lettuce and tomatoes in winter were only found abroad.

* Prunes were medicinal.

* Surprisingly muesli was readily available in those days, it was called cattle feed.

* Turkeys were definitely seasonal.

* Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.

* We never heard of Croissants and we certainly couldn’t pronounce it,

* We thought that Baguettes were a problem the French needed to deal with.

* Garlic was used to ward off vampires, but never used to flavour food.

* Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing stock.

* Food hygiene was all about washing your hands before meals.

* Campylobacter, Salmonella, E.coli, Listeria, and Botulism were all called "food poisoning."

* The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties …. elbows.

do you have any memories of the 1950s?

Posted by brizzle born and bred on 2019-08-26 12:58:13

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