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Chidi Anthony Opara
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Chidi Anthony Opara
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Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi Anthony Opara
'Cause they wanted to.
As for me,
I will not,
I will rather write poems.
CAO.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Re - All those who Commit or committed suicide:
I will rather write poems." (Chidi)
To be or not to be is sometimes an individual choice
hear this one bray : "Give me liberty or give me death !"
You remember Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ? Maybe , if the explosive device had been strapped over his heart instead of around his crown jewels , it could have been a less difficult choice for him especially with last minute thoughts about the houris in paradise. I imagine, the last thought could have been then with what am I going to enjoy?
At least the old man in the photo is not a coward - he did not get to the point of detonating his suicide vest but had fully prepared himself to do so. The caption to the photo reads: When the Iraq Army captured this ISIS old man they asked him:"Why did you want to bomb yourself and kill innocent people?" He said, " l want to have dinner with the prophet in Heaven."
Some people are ready to fight and die for a cause - the cause may be a longing for heaven
and on earth the worldwide Islamic caliphate with Sharia law under the One God under heaven
Question : What is the difference
between suicide and martyrdom?
Chidi Anthony Opara
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Chidi Anthony Opara
It is also an act of criminality to know of someone's criminality and keep quiet because he/she is your friend, only to expose him/her when the friendship ceases to exist. That act of criminality is called blackmail and I am against that as well.
You can see Femi that I am still in my area.
CAO.
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
This is a fact: Your statement sounds exactly like what could be one of the pithy sayings of my Yoruba mentor Ogbeni Kadiri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdG57lgHFaA
Chidi Anthony Opara
Journalism must not be investigative, it can also be speculative, in fact, a journalist can report rumours, but at any given time, the readers or listeners must be told that the report is speculative, rumour or factual. A journalist should not present rumours and speculations for instance, as facts, as we often see in Nigerian "investigative journalism".
CAO.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi,
Many thanks for opening our eyes to the many, both exciting and exacting possibilities within the current forms of what may be known as journalism.
Your words;
"Journalism must not be investigative,
it can also be speculative, in fact, a journalist can
report rumours
but at any given time, the readers or listeners must be told that the report is speculative, rumour or factual. A journalist should not present rumours and speculations for instance, as facts, as we often see in Nigerian "investigative journalism". "
In other words, all good journalism must combine all those elements into what the Buckingham Palace type Professors of Her Majesty the Queen's English would deem "useful nonsense".
But it's mostly no smoke without fire and that's why what may start off as an innocuous rumour in due time grows wings of its own and starts to fly like Achebe's often quoted legacy, "like a bush fire in the Harmattan".
As the story gathers characters, pace and momentum, as it details various mental states, and as the journalist progresses, adding more pepper and salt and liberal portions of slander, speculation, libellous rumours and suspicion, the story acquires an aura of mystery and expectation
especially expectations of a bad outcome
to be used/ misused/ abused for political ends
abi i lie? I
still can't make head or tail about all the stories about James
Ibori
Goodnight Chidi. I dae go make palaver with my wife now...
a tribe called quest :: black spasmodic
Tupac Shakur : Died in your arms tonight
Tupac Ft T-Pain - Died In Your Arms Remix
Chidi Anthony Opara
Salimonu Kadiri
In Nigeria's democracy, for instance, the Minister of Power would become a millionaire by producing darkness and Senseless Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) would say there is no connection between the Minister's overnight wealth and the darkness he has produced for the citizens.
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Well, to weigh in briefly.
Either we are experts in middle eastern affairs, have worked with experts for years and so know which are the most reliable, or else we try to establish which experts we must read to get a sense of the reality of the events.
Pure speculation strikes me as useless, or worse, as it undermines valuable information gathering.
Each of us will turn to those we trust most. If the source is Russian or favors accepting Russian information that will not resemble western sources. There is a reason why the new York times or le monde or bbc have high reputations. Their reporters and editors care about their reputation for being reliable; nutcase sources care about sustaining their readerships’ beliefs.
Sorry, chidi, I don’t favor the speculation about a staged event. It serves the interests of horrible autocrats and dictators for us to play up that side of it.
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Chidi Anthony Opara,
Your liberal use of hyperbole blurs when you are waxing lyrical or being exuberant with prose. Bombing of Syria? Yes! However invasion of Syria? Not yet done!!
Cheers.
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Are we sure that Assad deployed the recent chemical weapon? Or was it done by a fifth columnist to provide excuse for bombing and invasion of Syria?
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This is from juan cole’s blog, Informed Consent. I find him the best commentator on mid east affairs
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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – –https://www.juancole.com/2017/04/trump-intervenes-mideast.html
The Syrian Civil War has a domestic, a regional and an international dimension. Domestically, it has become a fight between some largely rural Sunni Arabs (though some are urban as in Ghouta), mostly now of a fundamentalist cast, on the one hand; and on the other the Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad and those groups that support him (most Allawis and Christians, some secular Sunni Arabs) or are neutral toward him (Kurds, Druze).
Regionally, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Russia have lined up behind the al-Assad regime, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council support the mostly fundamentalist Sunni Arab rebels. It is hard to tell exactly where the Israeli government of Binyamin Netanyahu stands. It appears to be mainly worried about increased capacity coming off the conflict for the Lebanese Hizbullah Shiite militia, and not to care a great deal which force rules Damascus.
It is therefore no surprise that Saudi Arabia and Turkey were among the first governments to praise President Trump’s Tomahawk missile strike on the small Khayrat air force base in Homs province.
In fact, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview on Turkey’s Channel 7 before the missile strikes that he appreciated Trump’s statement that it is impossible to turn a blind eye to the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons, but that he needs to see actions, not just words. He said that if Trump swung into action, “the Turkish people are ready to fulfill their responsibility.”
Erdogan also said that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the gas attack, and that Putin questioned whether Bashar al-Assad was really responsible. Erdogan said that if Putin still did not understand the situation after two days, “that pains us.” Russian media has been insisting that the gas was released at Khan Shikhoun when the Syrian Arab Air Force inadvertently struck an al-Qaeda sarin production workshop and released it. But The Guardian’s on-the-scene correspondent looked into the warehouse fingered by Russia and found nothing inside it.
Saudi Arabia likewise expressed its support for Trump’s cruise missile strike.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been more or less defeated in Syria, with their clients among the fundamentalists, such as the Freemen of Syria (Ahrar al-Sham), having been defeated by the Syrian Arab Army, Hizbullah, Iraqi Shiite militias, and Russia air power. They therefore hope that Trump’s Tomahawk strike might change the situation on the ground. If the regime is demoralized and the fundamentalist rebels take heart, Turkey and Saudi Arabia hope, it is possible that al-Assad could yet be overthrown. Both see al-Assad as a puppet of Iran and as responsible for the mass murder of Sunni Arabs in Syria.
In contrast, the countries supporting al-Assad, some of whom hope for good relations with Trump, largely held their tongues. It may be that even they could not defend a sarin gas attack. It may be that they just don’t want to speak out against Trump. Egypt’s President Abdulfattah al-Sisi is likely in this column.
But the likelihood is that Trump’s cruise missile attack was a one-off action rather than the beginning of a full-scale campaign, and that while it may slightly demoralize the Syrian regime, it won’t significantly alter the forces on the field.
As for Iran, it strongly condemned Trump’s attack on the air base, saying that it will aid terrorism in Syria and will make the difficult Syrian situation even more complicated.
Kenneth Harrow
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Chidi Anthony Opara
The statement I made("Are we sure that Assad deployed the recent chemical weapon? Or was it done by a fifth columnist to provide excuse for bombing and invasion of Syria?") was not a speculation.
I was in other words calling for circumspection in judgment. I was saying in other words that we should not be hasty in our judgment, I was calling for thorough investigation to establish who actually committed the heinous crime.
If you read and digest the statement well, I was saying that we should not rely on USA or Syria or their allies. In other words, there should be investigation by unbiased parties (United Nations, if you like)
CAO.
Chidi Anthony Opara
Well, sir, we are still walking on the plank of subjectivity.
CAO.
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I think it is journalists whose job it is, if they are decent, to make those investigations. The more respected the journalist, the more we can rely on them.
They are far from perfect, to be sure. but at least we can start with them. I value juan cole’s opinions, and he more or less indicates his sources. And I value the most reputed newspapers, but I agree we can’t just take their word for gospel.
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He backs up his comments with reference to sources. For instance, if you read his long statement on the bombings, somewhere in there was reference to a reporter on the ground who investigated the site.
That’s not really an opinion or subjectivity—it is supported by a report of evidence….
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Chidi Anthony Opara
The United Nations, with all its shortcomings, in my opinion, have more credibility and of course, legitimacy.
CAO.
Kenneth Harrow
In this case of Syria, we need reports now to form judgments of how to respond, politically I mean. There we have to settle for something less than gold standard.
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Chidi Anthony Opara
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Kenneth Harrow
Further, she is a politician—automatically excluded from being a reliable source of news because they are already always ideologically oriented.
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Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D) told CNN that there is no evidence that Assad regime was behind chemical attack, described strike as illegal and reckless.
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- To divert attention from a failed health care initiative (2nd round), and a 35% low rating
- To change the conversation concerning Russia and the election
- To divert attention from the serious in-fighting between Bannon and son-in-law K
- To give the impression that Russia is not as close to the regime as we thought
- To show off, in front of the Chinese President, and demonstrate that he is not a paper tiger
- To preempt dealing with trigger - happy, nuclear armed Kim of North Korea
- To impress Melania that he is a humanitarian after all.
Many other possibilities, Chidi.
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She has a mandate to be in the Legislature, an organ of government that must authorize military actions after examining evidences presented. That mandate gives her much more credibility and more importantly, legitimacy, which the media do not have.
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Salimonu Kadiri
Segun, what do you have Minister of Power for if he/she cannot see to it that enough electricity is generated for the country's industrial and domestic needs? You erroneously claimed that NEPA was sold to those who could not perform which is totally untrue. For your information Niger Dam Authority (NDA) and Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN) were merged together to become National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) on 24 November 1974. By 1999, Nigerians had re-Baptized National Electric Power Authority to Never Expect Power Always because of constant epileptic power supply throughout the country. In fact, only 19 out of the existing 79 generating plants with installed capacity to generate 6, 000 megawatts then could generate 2,000 megawatts of electricity. Olusegun Obasanjo's Power Reform Acts renamed NEPA to Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria (PHCN) on July 1, 2005. Premised on the Power Reform Acts, Obasanjo's government licensed six semi-independent power generation companies to generate and sell power to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) at bulk unit price. The six companies were Kainji/Jebba Hydro Power Business Unit, Shiroro Hydro Business Unit, Egbin Electric Power Business Unit, Delta Electric Power Business Unit, Afam Electric Power Business Unit and Sapele Electric Power Business Unit. Obasanjo built five new power stations across the country at a cost of $10 billion. The plants were located at Papalanto in Ogun State, Omotsho in Ondo State, Ugheli in Delta State, Geregu in Kogi State, and Alaoji in Abia State. It was promised that they would be generating 10,000 megawatts electricity by December 2007. By the time Obasanjo exited the Presidency, May 29, 2007, Nigerians had cause to rename Obasanjo's Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to Problem Has Changed Name, tacitly referring to NEPA. The electricity generation in the country had dropped then from 3,000megawatts to 1,500 megawatts. When Yar'Adua became the President, the Senate and the House of Reps set up a joint committee to investigate what happened to the $16 billion spent by Obasanjo on electricity and found out that monies that disappeared from the power sector were shining lights in the bank accounts of various officials in the Ministry of Power and its subordinate parastatals.
Yar'Adua Presidency, promised Nigeria that by the end of 2009 and 2011 Nigeria would generate 6,000 MW and 10, 000 MW respectively. In March 2009, the Chairman of Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Ransom Owan and six members of the Commission were suspended by the federal government for alleged mismanagement of N1.54 billion. On 15 September 2009, the Rural Electrification Agency was scrapped after it was discovered that the sum of N5.2 billion had been stolen in 2008 by National Assembly Members and a civil servant. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Senator Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane (PDP Kogi East) his House of Representatives counterpart, Ndidi Elumelu (PDP Delta State), Chairman House Committee on Rural Development, Paulinus Igwe (PDP Ebonyi), Mohammed Jibo (PDP Niger State) and Permanent Secretary Ministry of Power, Alhaji Aliyu Abdullahi, were arrested and arraigned before an Abuja High Court by the EFCC on a 156 count charge of corruption and embezzlement of public funds. Although the Federal Executive Council led by Yar'Adua approved N384 billion for the execution of projects of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) yet by the end of September 2009, the Managing Director of PHCN then, Hussaini Labo, told the nation that the nation's power generation was fluctuating between 2,300 and 2,400 megawatts.
When Goodluck Jonathan won the Presidential election in 2011, he appointed Professor Bartholomew Nnaji as the Minister of Power. During Obasanjo era, Nnaji's company called Geometric Powers was one of the 18 private companies that were granted operational licenses by the Federal Government to undertake the generation of electricity to complement efforts to boost the country's available supply capacity. The Federal Government stood as guarantor for Bank loans to those private power companies of which Professor Nnaji's company received N25 million. However, Professor Nnaji proceeded as Minister of Power to initiate privatisation of PHCN and in the course of that, there emerged furious struggle between the predators on who among them should get the lion, tiger, leopard, hyena and fox share of the PHCN. The conflict of interest led Jonathan to ease out Professor Nnaji from the Ministry of Power and Professor Chinedu Ositadinma Ndubuisi Nebo replaced him. At subsequent Senate hearing for his confirmation, Professor Nebo said "If the President deploys me in the power sector, I believe that given my performance at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, where as a Chancellor, I drove out the witches and the demons, God will also give me power to drive out demons in the power sector." When Professor Nebo left office on May 29, 2015, PHCN had been dismantled. Instead, there were four generating companies designated as GENCOS with the right to sell all power generated in Nigeria to Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) which in turn sells to the ten Distribution Companies designated, DISCOS. Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) was retained by the government to supervise electric tariffs and bills. In view of the above facts, PCHN was only partially privatised and the government can easily reverse the process at will if found not workable.
You talked about unpaid electricity bills but those bills were based on anticipatory consumptions of electricity and not on the real consumptions. If NEPA, as you wrongly call the electric power supplier instead of PHCN, sent an anticipatory total bill of 10,000 MWs to consumers whereas its total power distribution for the period was 2,000 MWs, then your NEPA should not claim that it is being owed 8,000MWs of unpaid electric bills, when in reality it has been paid for the 2,000MW actually supplied. The problem is that enough power is not generated to supply electricity for the country and if the Minister of power suddenly becomes a millionaire immediately after generating darkness for the people, we should hold that minister responsible for enveloping the nation in darkness. The Nigerian four Crude Oil Refineries record zero production against their installed capacities, as we all know. Do you blame that on unpaid bills for fuels at petrol stations by Nigerian consumers?
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Looks like chidi is totally right!
Horrible attach on Coptic church in Egypt
So much hatred! From all sides. We should abolish religion, except for the fact that those who need to hate the Others so much would find another reason to blow them up, and to destroy the values of life!
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Is the problem with the minister of power? The government that sold NEPA to those who could not perform should be held responsible and not the minister.The arms of government and all its institutions that owe NEPA have not paid their bills. Is it the problem of the minister of power?I think the challenges go beyond the minister of power.Everyone who owes NEPA Bill should pay right now and see what happens next.SO
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In democracy, it is one thing to slam allegations and another thing to prove them.
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OU, if you become the minister of power today, do you think you will solve the problem of epileptic power supply in the country? Those generator businessmen and women will frustrate your effort to get Nigeria out of darkness.
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Segun,
Before Aisha Buhari alerted the world that her husband's government had been hijacked by people who were alien to the APC and its ideology of change, I believed that President Buhari actually wanted to fight corruption in Nigeria. It was Aisha Buhari that exposed Buhari as corruption's shadow boxer because of the type of people he has surrounded himself with in the Presidency. How could DSS, an appointee by the President serving under the President, forward, not once but twice, a report to the Senate to rubbish Ibrahim Magu, another appointee of the President and urging the Senate not to confirm his appointment as head of EFCC? Senators Bukola Saraki, Godswill Akpabio, Stella Oduah, Joshua Dariye, Ahmed Sani, Adamu Abdullahi, Magatakarda Wammako, Jonah Jang, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Danjuma Goje, Theodore Orji etc., are all facing corruption charges initiated by Magu's EFCC and the same Senators are to confirm the appointment of their prosecutor. If Buhari is really in charge and he is fighting corruption, there is no way the aforementioned criminals who have no immunity against prosecution can be free to obstruct his war against corruption.
We have Ministries, Departments and Agencies designed and assigned to tackle all our socio-political, economic and industrial problems. All these institutions are manned by academically qualified Nigerians who, by the economic standard in the country, are over-remunerated. The question that we should be asking is why are Nigerian academics heading all our institutions not performing in office like their counterparts in other countries of the World? In the western world from where we acquire our education and system of government, if an official is unable to deliver on what is expected of his office, the official will either resign or be dismissed for incompetence. In our country, the officials who are assigned the responsibility to refine crude oil for domestic consumption have failed to fulfil their duties despite being paid salaries and allowances. The same incompetence and lack of delivery is displayed in every ministry, department and agency run and managed by over-qualified Nigerian intellectuals in spite of financial and material resources put at their disposals by the nation. If corruption impugns on the professional and academic integrity of our officials, why do they continue to hold office instead of resigning?
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Far right ideologues like Trump and Le Pen should start campaigning against UNSC veto, interference in internal affairs of other countries, complete nuclear weapons disarmament, etc.
CAO.
Ibukunolu A Babajide
Far right ideologues like Trump and Le Pen should start campaigning against UNSC veto, interference in internal affairs of other countries, complete nuclear weapons disarmament, etc.
CAO.
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Chidi Anthony Opara
One of the bail conditions mean that Nnamdi Kanu cannot go to his place of worship.
CAO.
Chidi Anthony Opara
Segun Adeniyi's recent book reiterated what is already known, which is that powerful forces wanted Jonathan out of the way, and he gave way because if he had insisted, many would have died. Is that not heroic? Even if we insist that that is cowardice, it saved the nation from bloodbath and if it takes cowardice to achieve that, then cowardice in some circumstances can be heroic. Igbos say that "ana ano na ulo onye ujo na ele ihe one ike mebiri"(we stand in the compound of the coward to watch the destruction carried out by the brave.)
CAO.
Femi Segun
Segun Adeniyi's recent book reiterated what is already known, which is that powerful forces wanted Jonathan out of the way, and he gave way because if he had insisted, many would have died. Is that not heroic? Even if we insist that that is cowardice, it saved the nation from bloodbath and if it takes cowardice to achieve that, then cowardice in some circumstances can be heroic. Igbos say that "ana ano na ulo onye ujo na ele ihe one ike mebiri"(we stand in the compound of the coward to watch the destruction carried out by the brave.)
CAO.
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Chidi Anthony Opara
I will advise here that you should quit those unnecessary subtle blackmails and focus your comments on the issues I raise. My "avowed" commitment to transparency must not only be serviced when I support the causes you support.
I said that "Segun Adeniyi's recent book reiterated what is already known, which is that powerful forces wanted Jonathan out of the way, and he gave way because if he had insisted, many would have died. Is that not heroic? Even if we insist that that is cowardice, it saved the nation from bloodbath and if it takes cowardice to achieve that, then cowardice in some circumstances can be heroic. Igbos say that "ana ano na ulo onye ujo na ele ihe one ike mebiri"(we stand in the compound of the coward to watch the destruction carried out by the brave.)" that is my opinion. You can hold and express yours.
That punch editorial could have been written by anybody. For your information, editorials are the personal opinions of the Editorial Board members.
Chidi Anthony Opara
We are all proud Biafrans, if they will stop commercializing and politicizing the sacred cause.
CAO.
Salimonu Kadiri
The implication of what Chidi is saying is that Nigerians voted massively for Goodluck Ebelechukwu Nnamdi Jonathan in the Presidential election of 28 March 2015 and he won. However, Jonathan abandoned the mandate given to him by the electorates to the looser, Buhari, because he envisaged that his election victory could lead to bloodbath from the minority looser!! May Amadioha save us from the illogical behaviour of Chidi standing in the compound of the coward, already captured by the brave, to spectate at the conqueror. Cowards have no compound and it is against commonsense to ask about what happened to the beards of a fraudulent Imam roasted to death in a fire by angry citizens.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
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Chidi Anthony Opara
Kanu never wanted to start any serious separatist movement, judging from his method of operation and the wordings of his messages(propaganda).He just wanted political limelight and saw "Biafra" as a means of achieving that.
I saw the capitulation(acceptance of bail conditions that effectively shutdown his so called agitation) coming and it came.
CAO.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi,
Although I don't know what the IPOB's version of Biafra is but suspect that it-s nothing to be worried about , in fact we should be happy about IPOB's version of Biafra and look at it as what Mattias Gardel calls "positive faith". At least that's how he answered my question at his doctoral disputation which took place on the same day as the Oklahoma Bombing (19th April 1995) and that morning I had witnessed the CNN newsreader (a black guy) blinking in disbelief as he read the script that the prime suspect for the bombing was the Black Muslims - so at the disputation (his thesis was on Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam) my first of three questions to Gardell was why was the White Man so afraid of the Black Muslims - and Gardell's preamble was that " Well, you know the Black Muslims believe that the Black Man is God and that's what I call positive faith ". What you may not know, is that Gardell's brother Jonas, is a comedian, so, apart from high seriousness there's also a sense of humour in the family.
History records that Nigeria's most eloquent Chinua Achebe objected to AWO being honoured with a national funeral on the grounds that AWO "was not an Igbo God". Therefore brave Chidi, let me ask you , don't you think that all our problems would be solved if Biafra became an Igbo theocracy, ruled by the omnipotent Igbo God? You would no longer be scared of Boko Haram or marauding Fulani Herdsmen or Sharia Law any more, or need nuclear weapons to defend yourselves against anybody.
Short of a theocracy, surely the Constitution of Biafra would not make any provisions for a dictatorship and we know that dictatorship is far from Igbo culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sP83WH2-bI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYy8vioL_0c
https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Calabar+International+Jazz+Festival&tbm=vid
Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
Beaus, ribbons and bows
Keep them on their toes
It's a worthy platform, all to the good (even if sometimes you get slighly carried away by the muse)
Action : Re- your insidious who was driving the bus - don't you think that it's a feather in the president's hat - so to speak (President Buhari's) that they have been able to negotiate the release of 82 Chibok Girls - allegedly in exchange for 5 Boko Haram Warriors.
Sincerely,
isn't it time for poetry
isn't it alawys time
how happy are the families of the girls who have regained their freedom !
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Salimonu Kadiri
Chidi, did Femi Adeshina tell you this personally or what is the source of your quoted information?
S. Kadiri
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi,
Did the oga tell you personally ?
Otherwise, please give us your source/sources
Treasonable?
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When you start to ask questions like this, I will start to ignore your questions.
My answer is that that was one of the news releases from the Presidency concerning the recently released 82 "Chibok girls " signed by Femi Adeshina as President's chief spokesperson and carried by major and minor news media.
In future, questions like this will be ignored.
CAO.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Ignored is sometimes an effective way of correcting or castigating
ignorance.
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
Strongly disagree. Not every politician and activist in Africa wants to be like Madiba
Albert King : Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die
Fact is that to sing the blues you've got to pay some dues (the judgement ought to be, " If politicians commit crime, they must do the time"
The Good News: Nnamdi Kanu will have a chance to shine at his trial (where he could perform his to be or not to be litany of all that's wrong - maybe, enough cause to take up arms...
Salimonu Kadiri
Cornelius,
I observed that you rephrased my question to Chidi. He replied, "My answer is that that was one of the news from the Presidency concerning the recently released 82 'Chibok girls' signed by Femi Adeshina as President's Chief spokesperson and carried by major and minor news media."
My query to Chidi which you rephrased on May 10, 2017, was premised on his post of 9 May 2017. He wrote in inverted commas begin and closed thus,"No Journalist will be allowed to interview the rescued Chibok school girls. They will not go back to their parents. They will kept in Abuja here." (Femi Adeshina).
If Femi Adeshina had actually signed the statement credited to him by Chidi Anthony Opara, why can't Chidi just post the signed statement? Why is it so troublesome to mention one of the news media that quoted the same statement Chidi attributed to Femi Adeshina? Why did Chidi refer to Femi Adeshina's statement in quotation marks as if Femi talked to him directly? By asking if Femi Adeshina spoke to Chidi personally or what was the source of his quoted statement attributed to Femi, I had already expressed my doubt about the authenticity of the statement.
Succumbing to Chidi's philosophy of lie is life, you responded to him thus, "Ignored is sometimes an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance." So, do you think that those who question loudmouthed attention seekers, fabricating lies and crediting them to innocent people in the cyberspace are ignorant people who should be ignored and in your view, that is an effective way of correcting and castigating ignorance? When my questions are not answered, I do not feel ignored by the persons to whom the questions are directed since their reaction in that regard is expected of neurotic intellectuals who always feel angry when events do not affirm their idealized self-image. When questions tend to expose dubious lies and dishonest fabrications, crooks get angry.
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Sometimes = not always (like NEPA
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Typical African intellectuals, especially poets and bloggers, are extremely pompous and their need to impress makes it difficult for them to explain simple phenomenon or concepts. When the credibility of a statement is questioned, the maker or reporter of the statement is always obliged to answer any arising question. But the pompous African intellectuals may ignorantly arrogate to himself the power to ignore any question that tends to expose their fabricated lies.
Chidi with quotation marks pretended as if Femi Adeshina talked to him directly. When confronted to confirm the source of his quoted statement, he somersaulted into an alleged signed statement by Femi Adeshina carried by unnamed major and minor news media. When asked to name which major and minor news media carried the signed statement, Chidi retorted, I ignore the question? And to that the chameleon said, "Ignored is sometimes an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance," which is not applicable in this case. Firstly, a question posed to verify if a statement is true or false has nothing to do with ignorance. Secondly, it is naive to think that ignorance can sometimes be effectively corrected or castigated if ignored. Chidi Anthony Okpara authored the statement that he fraudulently attributed to Femi Adeshina and he cunningly assumed that he could avoid exposure by refusing to answer my question. This list serve is a windy storm, chickens that come to play in it risk getting their anus exposed for public views.
S. Kadiri
Cornelius Hamelberg
Senor Kadiri,
I wrote, "Ignored is sometimes an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance," in response to Chidi's post which was addressed to me.
I was replying to him on behalf of I myself Cornelius Ignoramus who doesn't have a clue about when the girls will be able to join their families and to talk to the hungry newspaper journalists about their many months in captivity...
They say that silence is golden.
They say that silence means consent.
They don't keep quiet.
Salimonu Kadiri
Juvenis Hamelberg,
I got the three equations!!
Silence is golden.
Silence means consent.
Silence means ignore.
However, your question to Chidi and his reply were posted on this list serve and as such are opened to any member's intervention. In fact, my question to him which you rephrased after he failed to response arose out of his post on this forum. Whatever response you gave to Chidi through this forum cannot be considered as a private discussion between you and him, unless the forum is a sandbox for children.
Have you verified if Femi Adeshina ever made and signed the statement which Chidi credited him with? Let us agree that you are ignorant of if Femi Adeshina actually authored and signed the statement attributed to him, in what way will your ignorance be corrected or castigated effectively if the peddler of the said information decides to ignore your enquiry or question?
S. Kadiri
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Chidi Anthony Opara
Anything can be spoken against, it's a free world.
CAO.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Ogbeni Kadiri,
"NATURE and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light." (Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton)
Since you are a master of proverbs, please re-examine my one-liner in which I was only being humble, friendly, diplomatic and ironic, maybe a little sarcastic with regard to your question, "in what way will (my) ignorance be corrected or castigated effectively if the peddler of the said information decides to ignore my enquiry or question?"
"Ignored is sometimes an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance."
Close to the saying, " Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise."
There are of course various types of ignorance, one of which is wilful ignorance. We know the cure for that.
In some cases, we could also exchange the word " arrogance" for ignorance...
Please bear in mind that sometimes, your questions are also my questions in search of an answer.
Instead of challenging the source of the comments attributed to Femi Adeshina, to save us from the clutches of mass deception, you could (you yourself) save us all the trouble by going to the source instead of starting another tedious round of Socratic dialogue proving that you are right and that someone else (Ogbeni Opara) is woefully wrong. To his credit Ogbeni Opara did say somewhere that, "at any given time, the readers or listeners must be told that the report is speculative, rumour or factual. A journalist should not present rumours and speculations for instance, as facts"...
Re - your other words :"Typical African intellectuals, especially poets and bloggers, are extremely pompous and their need to impress makes it difficult for them to explain simple phenomenon or concepts. " (Ogbeni Kadiri)
I thank God that I am not one of them ( African intellectual, poet or blogger)
We read about him everyday, about the African intelligentsia, about their elite knowledge production, we are sometimes spellbound by some of the obituaries and eulogies of character and achievement in this our august forum. However, generally speaking, among the living, when it comes to their responsibilities, that much maligned persona, the "African intellectual" - a general category that admits of all types of itinerant, sometimes gifted, shipwrecked diaspora vagrants, in their degree-spun cocoons are sometimes, sadly found wanting, deficient, as if "the curse of Ham" cannot defy what passes as "African Witchcraft" -
and indeed as if the genius of African Witchcraft and Wizardry
cannot replace Ogbeni Kadiri's Professors of electricity
whose claim to fame consists mainly in producing darkness only !
And then we have poets like Chidi
(never afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions)
and "Darkness at the break of noon" Bobby D
and before them Arthur Koestler screeching about the darkness -
indeed, it's "Only a matter of time till night comes Stepping in".
Making sense of it all, Edward Said has interesting viewpoints about the role of the intellectual and adjacent matters in his Reith Lectures of 1993 ( Soyinka's was eleven years later : Climate of fear
Chidi Anthony Opara
Chidi Anthony Opara
Cornelius Hamelberg
Dear Chidi,
We had better be careful how we use the word "transcend".
As Josephus said about Jesus, "If indeed he was a man" - and not "God incarnate " paying the Pharisees a visit over two thousand years ago.
We have to do something about what this Urban dictionary teaches about Chidi and Jesus
Cornelius Hamelberg
Whose ignorance?
Putting it roughly, crudely, if you will, a little less kindly, for Mr Rascality (Chidi) is a bosom comrade-at-heart of Yours Truly and such a friendship is - as circumstances may demand, prepared to make sacrifices to avoid pointless arguments about brutal truths; what I was under-stating is still a permanent truth
Ignored is not always an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance.
Does Ogbeni Kadiri agree?
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Salimonu Kadiri
My dear Rabi Hamelberg,
Ignored is (sometimes) not always an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance, you wrote. I am convinced that to ignore is never at anytime an effective way of correcting or castigating ignorance. To ignore could only allow ignorance to flourish and the consequences, a times, might be irreparable. How can a person who, ignorantly, intends to kiss a viper be effectively corrected or castigated of his ignorance if he is ignored?
S. Kadiri
Cornelius Hamelberg
Salimonu Kadiri
My own Dear Rabi Hamelberg,
You wrote, "Instead of challenging the source of the comments attributed to Femi Adeshina, to save us from the clutches of mass deception, you could (you yourself) save us all the trouble by going to the source instead of starting another tedious round of Socratic dialogue, proving that you are right and that someone else is woefully wrong."
Thank you for giving us the source(s) of what you distortedly called comments attributed to Femi Adeshina, instead of statements. I have never challenged the source of the information peddled by your darling, Chidi. I only asked your darling, Chidi, if Adeshina talked to him personally since the statements were in quotation marks, and if not, Chidi should tell us the source of the statements attributed to Adeshina. Having perused all your posted google sources, I could not find where Adeshina, according to Chidi's post of 9 May 2017, had said the followings, "No journalist will be allowed to interview the rescued Chibok school girls. They will not go back to their parents. They will be kept in Abuja here." What I have all along disputed is that the statements credited to Adeshina never originated from him and that your darling, Chidi, is a peddler of malicious lie. This forum is a market where you can only trade/sell truth. Once the truth hits some of our intellectuals trading lies on this forum, they become like a fish out of water. They will complain that truth drove away, first non Africans, then Sierra-Leoneans and now their turn to be driven out because truth tellers dare comment or dispute the validity of the contents of their posts.
S. Kadiri