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I implore Nigerians of voting age to vote their conscience because the vultures have set themselves again to derail any potential for the emancipation of Nigeria. They want to continue the bleeding of the country without consideration for those who are powerless, the majority of the people of the nation. Nigeria's situation is beyond pathetic and very disheartening. Everything seems to be falling apart, and hope is becoming dimmer while the majority of the politicians (irrespective of party affiliation) continue to lie to Nigerians to maintain the status quo. The current administration has destroyed what is left of the gains since the turn of the millennium when we thought Nigeria has turned the corner, ruined the economy, impoverish more Nigerians per capita than at any time in the 62-year history of the nation, and more children are out of school, diasporans are afraid to come home again because of the state of insecurity - drawing from the experience of others who have met misfo...

Governor SEYI MAKINDE and his Associates within the Oyo State government who are seeking a second term are CALLED OUT on the subject of none payment of GRATUITY of many Lautech Pensioners in the last 13 years (if not longer). Almost all, if not all lautech staff (academic and non-academic) who retired since 2010 (as much as I can gather) have not been paid their FULL GRATUITY since they left the services of the University 13 years ago. Inflation has made nonsense of this money for many of these people. Only God knows how many have died waiting for their gratuity that may never be paid again because of the bureaucracy around securing payment for a deceased During the tenure of Prof. Ologunde, an effort was made to pay some part of the gratuity but a significant amount is still owed to a majority. I do not know anyone who has retired since 2010 that has been fully paid their Gratuity. During the current tenure of Prof. Liasu, zero naira has been paid - nothing. It is disheartening that u...

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/pixels-of-progress-chapter-5 If you are interested in indices of growth globally, this McKinsey's report 👆👆👆 on growth in China and other microregions of the world will be of interest to you. Unfortunately, sub-Sahara (SSA) performed worst - no single region in SSA saw a GDP increase up to $8,300 concurrently with life expectancy over 72 years - ZERO, not Ghana, not Senegal, not Botswana, not South Africa nor Kenya or Nigeria, not even Rwanda that has seen significant growth in the last decade. I presume the life-expectancy aspect is where most SSA countries fell short. The continent needs to do better when it comes to primary and secondary health delivery to its people. You can imagine when the majority dies before the age of 54 years - that is the case in Nigeria where life expectancy is 53 years. The region loses a lot of brains to unnecessary death because our hospitals have become undertaker houses - no doctors/poorly trained doctor...

Who is more despicable - faceless people (members of the FIRM - core Royal family) who feed information to the press who spins and spices it with lies in a destructive way to sell their papers OR someone who used his own mouth to say it as he experienced it in pain and agony hoping someone would listen and make the needed change. We all should be a judge, especially the majority of the British people who appear mortified by Harry's revelations ..... How the FIRM and the INSTITUTION address Harry washing their dirty clothes outside will define them in the next couple of decades. They could choose to be vindictive, crumble what is left of the bridge, take Harry and Meghan's titles, ban them from the royal family and double down on not having a toxic relationship with the British tabloid and on maintaining the falsehood about issues around implicit bias against minorities OR Begin a private, and then public effort to reconcile with Harry and his family to heal the wounds on both s...

  I have always asked the question about dress code - for men and women, especially women and why dressing half naked seems to be a norm for the female gender today in the name of fashion and looking "sexy". The video below shows how much we have fallen in 60 years. I have and will never support any form of violence against anyone (especially women) because of provocation and indecency or any reason for that matter. This speaks to the notion of sexual harassment or violence again women on the premise that they dress indecently. However, I do not understand why some women will want to expose their bodies in a provocative way - being completely oblivious that men naturally respond to what they see and connected to women first because of outward appearance. Just as many women respond to muscular men or rich guys, so do men respond to women who objectify the sexual parts of their bodies... I do not want to care how holy or sanctimonious that man may be, when a woman almost naked ...