Villa Ghosts And Nigerian Paralysis

By Sola Adeyeye

A Rejoinder To Abati's Write Up - Aso Rock Of Demons

 

Sadly, acknowledged bright minds are now waxing strong in superstitious theology and pseudo-spirituality. Society is guided by the philosophy it embraces. Because theology is the mother of all philosophy, every society will become what it theologizes! What ensnared the villa, and indeed the country itself, was corruption in all of its forms. Attributing metaphysical basis to our individual and collective irresponsibility is a shifty way of blaming everything on Satan! No be Satan's fault. Na our fault! Forget Lucifer and his demons; corrupt leaders inflict more harm on a country than the beasts from Dante's Inferno. Every money stolen, whether by a president, governor, minister, legislator, civil servant, contractor or judge catapults the fleecing of the land to infernal magnitude.

 

Let all thieves cough out their loot. Roads will be built, environment will be cleaned, schools will be renovated, hospitals will be equipped, airports will be maintained and lives will be preserved. Mega million naira egunje are commonplace in government offices. Meanwhile, the elevators in the buildings that quarter those offices are not working. The clinics are not equipped, the electronics constantly fail. And those whose dereliction of duty inflicts such disrepair blame demons and principalities! Hogwash!

 

Consider the fact that Islamic Qatar and Saudi Arabia are working as are Singapore and Pakistan. Christian England and USA are working as are Italy, France and other countries proffering Christianity. Israel has prospered with its Judaism. Hindu India is working. Atheist China and Russia are working. Bhuddist Japan is working. Multicultural Malaysia is working. Does God hate Nigeria so much that he puts half of the demons of the world to live there? Or might it be that the righteousness which exalts a nation is defined by ethical behavior and moral rectitude rather than by theological malarkey?

 

Our people, especially opinion molders must wake up from this hocus-pocus super-naturalist worldview. You reap what you sow and sleep on the bed you lay. There was an Orisa edifice in Oregun in Ikeja that prevented the expansion of an important road. Contractors feared moving the edifice which had been erected as far back as anyone could remember. After Governor Bola Tinubu took office in 1999, I offered to help to negotiate with the chief priest of that Orisa to remove the edifice. I proffered that the law of eminent domain, operated worldwide, allows any government to displace private interest for the good of the larger public. Should the Chief Priest refuse to negotiate, I offered to kidnap the Orisa, burn it and dump its ashes in the Atlantic. I dared the Orisa to visit its wrath on me.  Governor Tinubu had a better idea. He and Julius Berger made a better offer to the Chief Priest. The Orisa and its Chief Priest relocated within a month. The road was renovated and expanded. It is now called Kudirat Abiola Way in Oregun, Ikeja.

 

If there were ghosts disturbing them in Aso Villa, they should long have given others the key.  As a friend of mine asserted, he would have lived with all the ghosts and gotten the job done. We must accept no excuses. Anyone who can’t overcome the ghosts should leave the job alone; let's get professional Ghost busters to run the country. Ghosts always bow to determined humans!

The Wrath Of A Dumped Wife

When their marriage of 37 years hit the rocks, and the husband dumped his wife for his young secretary, the young secretary now turned new girlfriend demanded that they live in his and his former wife’s multi-million dollar home. Since the man had better lawyers, he prevailed and gave his ex-wife, just 3 days to move out. She spent the 1st day packing her belongings into boxes and crates. On the 2nd day, she had two movers come and collect her things. On the 3rd day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candlelight, put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar and a bottle of Chardonnay. When she had finished, she went into each and every room and stuffed half-eared shrimp shells dipped in caviar into the hollow of all the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

 

When the husband returned with his new girlfriend, all was bliss for the first few days. Then slowly, the house began to smell. They tried everything from cleaning, mopping, to airing the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents and carpets were cleaned. Air fresheners were hung everywhere. They even brought in Exterminators to set off gas canisters during which time they had to move out for a few days and in the end they even replaced the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked. People stopped coming over to visit. Repairmen refused to work in the house. The maid quit. Finally, they could not take the stench any longer and decided to move. A month later, even though they had cut their price in half, they could not find a buyer for their stinky house. Word got out and eventually even the local Realtor refused to return their calls. Finally they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place.

 

Then his ex-wife called him and asked how things were going. He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting the house back. Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, he agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house had been worth, but only if she were to sign the papers that very day. She agreed and within the hour, his lawyers delivered the paperwork. A week later, the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home, including the curtain rods.

Muamar Gaddafi's Prophecies

"I will not go into exile to any foreign country. I was born here in Libya, and I will die here. This country was a dessert, and I turned it into a forest, where everything can grow. No one Love this land more than its citizens. If Europe and America tells you that they love you, be careful. They love the wealth of your land, the oil and not the people. They are helping you to fight against me but, it will be wiser for you to fight against them because they are fighting against your future and progress. My message to you the people of Libya is, they are helping you to kill me but you will pay because you will suffer. And my message to you America and Europe is, you will kill me, but be ready to fight a never ending TERRORISM. Before you realize your ignorance, terrorists will be hitting you at your doorstep."

 

GADDAFI once told the Nigerian and British governments to divide Nigeria into two, so that the Hausa/Fulani (Moslems), Yoruba (Christians) and Biafrans/Igbo, can live as neighbouring countries.

 

It's good we look at these 16 REAL REASONS WHY COL. GADDAFI WAS KILLED.

1.       There is no electricity bill in Libya, electricity is free for all its citizens.

2.       There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens are at a 0% interest by law.

3.       Home is considered a human right in Libya. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a
home.

4.       All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinars (US$50,000) from the government to buy their first apartment.

5.       Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi, only 25% of Libyans were literates. Today, the figure stands at 83%.

6.       Libyans taking up farming as a career, they received farm land, a farming house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free.

7.       If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they needed in Libya, the government funded them to go abroad for it.

8.       In Gaddafi's Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9.       The price of petrol in Libya is $0. 14 per liter.

10.   Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.

11.   If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12.   A portion of Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13.   A mother who gave birth to a child under Gaddafi, received US $5,000 as child benefit upfront.

14.   40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15.   25% of Libyans have a university degree.

16.   Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man- Made River Project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

 

“If this is called ‘Dictatorship’ I wonder what type of Leadership, ‘Democrats’ have!!”

***Please feel free to share, if it interests you. And I bet it must interest you because, “Only a fool keeps doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. And the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Some Facts About Las Vegas

1.       A person from Las Vegas is called a "Las Vegan."

2.       Most of Las Vegas' iconic hotels and even its famous welcome sign aren't technically located in the city of Las Vegas. They are in an unincorporated township called Paradise, Nevada.

3.       The average visitor to Las Vegas gambles US$447.

4.       About 300 couples marry in Las Vegas every day.

5.       Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s.

6.       The postage stamp of The Statue of Liberty depicts not the real statue in New York, but the replica in Las Vegas.

7.       Las Vegas is home to 17 of the 20 largest hotels in the U.S.

8.       In the 1950s, Las Vegas crowned a Miss Atomic Bomb.

9.       The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign was created in 1959.

10.   Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack are widely credited with helping end segregation in Las Vegas, by refusing to perform in venues that wouldn't allow blacks.

11.   There is a section of the Berlin Wall in the men's bathroom of the Main Street Station casino in Las Vegas.

The Correct Counseling

After the WAEC results had been released in their village, a boy travelled to the city, met with his uncle and said, “Uncle, now that I have obtained my WAEC results, daddy said that you can get me into the university to study medicine. I really want to become a doctor.” And the uncle smiled and said, “Very well. But what are your scores?”

 

The boy replied, “Uncle, I had credits in Agriculture and Yoruba language, but I failed the remaining subjects.” And the uncle said, “Well, that's not too bad. You can still become a doctor, though not a medical doctor. You will make a good native doctor (babalawo). Your credit in Agriculture will be useful in collecting herbs from the forest, while your credit in Yoruba language will help you in your incantations.”

Why We Must Be Humble

Over the years, I have wondered and I continue to wonder why we find it so difficult to be humble. Why do we just mouth the fact that, “Naked we came, and naked we shall leave?” Why is it so difficult for us to wake up and appreciate that all that we are, and all that we shall ever be, we owe to other people as follows?

1.       Births: Our births with or without silver spoons in our mouths, were made possible by others.

2.       First Baths: Other people gave us our first baths.

3.       Names: The names that we are so proud of were all given to us by other people.

4.       Wealth: Our income and wealth, whether honestly earned or looted, were made possible with the assistance of other people.

5.       Titles: The titles that we are so proud of, and arrogantly and heartlessly use to oppress others, were all given to us by the same other people.

6.       Life: And we can’t even live our lives, without the other people; yet we don’t respect, love and treat them right. What is the matter with us?

7.       After Death: And after death, all our wealth whether legally or illegally acquired, shall be taken over by other people, even before we are buried.

8.       Last Baths: And we shall all be given our last baths, by other people.

9.       Funeral/Burial: And our funerals and burials shall be dictated and done by other people.

 

So, how can we be so indebted to other people, and yet be so arrogant and heartless in dealing with them? Why do we continue to nourish this unnecessary and harmful Ego in our lives, instead of living a simple, peaceful and love-filled life, with others? “To be humble, is a task that must be done.”

Some Motivational Job Titles

Milk man = Nutrition Dispersal Engineer

Carpenter = Wood Technologist

Garbage Collector = Environmental Sanitation Engineer

Housekeeper = Nutrition/Domestic Executive

Gardener = Landscape Executive

Receptionist = Front Desk Controller

Typist = Printed Document Handler

Messenger = Business Communication Conveyer

Window Cleaner = Transparent Wall Technician

Temporary Teacher = Associate Tutor

Tea Boy/Lady = Refreshment Director

Gate man/Guard = Security Enforcement Director

Prostitute = Practical Sexual Relations Practitioner

Thief = Dispossessing Executive

Driver = Automobile Propulsion Specialist

Maid = Domestic Officer

Cook = Food Technologist

Gossiper = Oral Research Dispersal Officer