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CHANGING IGBOS SELF DEFEATING BEHAVIORS
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This piece is a yearend summary of material that I wrote elsewhere. I felt an urge to summarize my perception of Igbos and to do so in a few pages. My hope is that by harping on Igbos negative aspects that they would learn about them and desist from them and proceed to become the champions that it is in them to become. But until they understand their shortcomings, their imperfections, they cannot change them so as to become the role models of positive human behaviors that it is in them to become.
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CHRISTIANITY IS A SHALLOW ADAPTATION OF PAGANISM
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The Universe is some 13.7 billion years old and the Earth 4.6 billion years. Humans are the late comers on Earth and have evolved over a period of 13 million years mostly as members of the chimpanzee family. We only started looking as we do now (i.e. Homo sapiens) 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. 15,000 years ago to be specific, the human race was still very primitive. The stirring of civilization started in earnest from Black Egypt less than 10,000 years ago. All races of the world originated from the African (Black), and moved to occupy the rest of the earth from Africa.
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UNDERSTANDING FEAR AND HOW TO REDUCE IT
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This paper points out that human beings live in insecurity and experience fear and therefore are easily intimidated by those who do not mind exercising violence on them. The paper says that the individual must try to understand his fears and try to overcome it so that he is not easily terrorized by other persons and by governments.
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COPING WITH THE SOCIAL ABUSE OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN IN THE WEST
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This paper points out that in the West Black women are largely not treated with respect; it says that this is because the ideal female beauty is white women and that since African women do not look like white women they are not considered as beautiful and desirable. Individual African women respond to this lack of social acceptance and respect differently. Most people, women included, are normal human beings and respond with mild anger but otherwise take their social rejection in stride. But those women who are sensitive and or have biological predispositions to mental disorders tend to respond with the mental disorders.
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CRITIQUE OF PURE RELIGION
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This essay looks at the conflict between religion and science and concludes that the choice is not either or but finding a way to accommodate both in such a manner that violence is not done to our rational propensities. Nature gave us the capacity to reason and that capacity can be employed trying to understand religious and spiritual matters, acknowledging when we reach a point where pure reason is unable to help us understand them, but under no circumstances should a proposition be accepted on faith alone.
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The many lies of Helen Ukpabio
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What is therefore reasonably expected of Helen Ukpabio is sincere contrition and atonements for her misguided teachings and the untold hardship same has induced. Helen would have done better by apologising to Nigerians in general and the people of Akwa Ibom and Cross River states in particular. She would have won the hearts of many by showing sincere commitments to efforts at restitution. Helen could have done better by encouraging and supporting charities committed to wiping out the evils implanted by her teachings.
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A lifetime of servitude - the story of Judith
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I came across Judith in the aftermath of the publication of “A Child Witch in London”, the story of boy Adam who faced the vicissitudes of life borne out of ignorance, Pentecostal mischief and unscrupulous superstition in his native Nigeria. Someone who read the story felt that the tale of Judith should not escape my attention as her situation is critical. Judith came across as a young woman who in other circumstances would have exhibited a zest for life that would have bothered on infectious and amazing.
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African Leaders At The UN summit.
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In a land filled with milk and honey, is it any wonder that Africans are suffering? Is it any wonder that the continent remains underdeveloped? When it matters, our leaders are found wanting. They can afford to sleep when important decisions are made at important international summits.
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The Many Faces of Helen Ukpabio
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Helen has produced numerous programmes, home movies and books, all warning parents about the participation of children in witchcraft and the importance of child exorcism. In her book, Unveiling the Mysteries of Witchcraft, Helen and others, write that “a child under two years of age that cries at night and deteriorates in health is an agent of Satan”. Helen remains indifferent to the social consequences of her actions, deceiving the masses and lining her pocket. Society is left to bear the scars of her misguided actions.
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My Father: An Obituary, a Tribute & a Poem
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During the First World War, his father, Ezeobidi, was drafted to fight for the British crown as a militia in the Cameroon. Ezeobidi was conscripted because he had nobody to protect him. At the war front, he was unable to communicate with his fellow soldiers because he could not speak English and could neither read nor write. After the war, he received no compensation from the British government. His identity was used by those who could read and write to obtain government job. Ezeobidi was disillusioned.
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Still on Michael Jackson - Death Where Is Thy Fang?
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Death, where is thy sting? The sting of death lies only in the agonies of separation from physical existence. The sting of death is only in turning physical encounters and interactions only into the realms of memories. The sting of death is only in further mystifying the purpose of existence for those who knew so little. The sting of death is only in creating fear in the minds of those so engrossed with the pleasures of physical existence.
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Transparency and Accountability in Government BY DR SEO OGBONMWAN
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On behalf of the members of Edo Global Organization, I would like to welcome you all to this workshop after the wonderful morning session. Let me first thank God, then our brothers and sisters on Edo Global membership list for their help in hosting this event. I would also like to thank all participants in this workshop for your interest in reviving the fortunes of Edo state and in turn Nigeria and for using Edo Global Organization as a means to that end.
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Embassy Sorry For Displaying Abacha's 1996 Booklets
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In an effort to woo Hungarian investors and business executives, the Embassy of Nigeria Budapest officially displayed booklets containing ex-dictator Sani Abacha's photo as the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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DESPAIR AND HOPE
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This essay points out that the exigencies of being a human being, a creature that lives in an impersonal environment where most things do not care for his survival, makes us aware of our nothingness (existential depression) and that we came from a spiritual place where we felt like we were important and, therefore, cannot accept our feeling of nothingness. We, therefore, react with desire for special selves, ideal and perfect self; the pursuit of the idealized self and its goals I call existential delusion.
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Nigerian Documents Invalid In Hungary
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Virtually every document issued in Nigeria is unacceptable by the Hungarian Immigration unless such documents are duly certified by the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Hungarian Embassy all in Abuja.
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CAN WE OVERCOME STEREOTYPING EACH OTHER?
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I generally write on topics that interest me and do so in simple prose; my writing lacks poetry and musical cadence. This is because I am a thinker, a rationalist, a philosopher in the mode of Plato, not a poet, such as Alexander Pope. In this piece, a dialogue ala Plato, I tried to recapture a recent disturbing conversation I had with a friend. I thought that folk might learn a thing or two from it.
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A Big Issue!
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Sometimes I wonder why I bother at all. In a land where survival is dependent on input, where hard work is cherished. In a land where nothing, absolutely nothing good, comes free. In a land where the vagaries of the weather is better experienced than related. In a land where my skin and nationality makes me stand out. Most times I wonder. I really wonder why I bother at all.
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An Open Letter to Martin Luther King
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Walk with me down memory lane. The time: 1968. In 30 months, one million dead. The setting: a dusty camp in Biafra where survivors waited and hoped for peace. The survivors: Refugees fleeing from the “Dance of Death.” My mentor: One of the refugee camp directors, whom I called “Teacher” out of respect.
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WESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND NECESSARY ADDITIONS TO IT
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This paper points out the nature of Western social science and says that contrary to the belief that it is strictly scientific that it is a world view, a world view that has repercussions for those who embrace it: acceptance of perpetual interpersonal conflict. It explores an alternative to Western social science, spiritual science, and points out that accepting this alternative as add-on to Western social science would yield a different world, a more peaceful and happy world.
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Champion Balogun-Oke Bags Governor’s Award
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It was a bright Friday afternoon on the 5th December, 2008 at the Park Plaza Victoria Hotel, London, and the event was the Lagos State Government “Contact Forum for Lagosians and Nigerians in Diaspora”, when Julianah Balogun-Oke was presented with the BRF Award for Extra-Ordinary Achievement in the Diaspora by His Excellency, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Executive Governor of Lagos State.
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MY LAST RITES OF PASSAGE
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On that first day of celebrations, the band will accompany me to the Isi Ogwe (village square). There, I will join with other of my age mates, men and women. We will proudly be seated in our uniformed outfit, which I have already paid for. After the gun salutes, the age group will be called upon to officially present whatever they have done for the village. After the presentation, our names will be called individually to pay a certain amount of money to the village.
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Annual Convention of the Democratic Alternative
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It is a great event for delegates to assemble in this historic city of Ilorin for the 7th Annual Convention of the Democratic Alternative. We are also happy to have the invited observers here among us. The last time this great party of the working and ordinary Nigerians met in this old city was on 11 January 2003 at the Extra Ordinary Convention when the party decided to contest the 2003 general elections. We met last on this platform of the Annual Convention, the highest constitutional dispensation of the party on 29 September 2007 in Lagos.
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Nigeria Embassy Angers its Citizens
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Quite a lot of Nigerians in Hungary are not happy that the 48th National Day celebration of their country was marked strictly by invitation at a top hotel in Budapest. This group of Nigerians has questioned the rationale behind such closed door initiative which they simply called discriminatory gesture.
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EXPLORING SELF DETERMINISIM
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Science is the methodological approach to phenomena that accepts things as they seem to be, studies them as they seem to be, understands them and devises a technology to exploit them for human wellbeing. The result is the improved existence we live. Unfortunately, science makes us seem like victims of the world and does not give us peace of mind. The metaphysical perspective explored in this paper gives us peace of mind.
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AFRICANS ARE NOT WHITE FOLK'S VICTIMS
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The human mind, brain, has a left and right side to it. Science is left brain thinking, metaphysics is right brain thinking. Both are permitted but not to be mixed. Just think about the thesis that we are responsible for what happens to us. It may not make sense to you; if it did you would be enlightened but the fact that you are reading this paper means that you are not illuminated to your true self. Just think about it. That is all that is asked of you.
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