100% BAMBI-ALA Human Hair for sale!

 *oops!!#...

I meant "100% Virgin Brazilian Hair" for sale.
I don't actually know if the hen who laid the egg is a virgin...
or if the said hair is scraped only from some "virgins'" heads...
If you ask me, na who I go ask?
Omawunmi to the rescue???
I don't think so,
Omawumi might be into Brazillian weaves...
Not sure she's so crazy about them that she can't do without 'em tho'

which can not be said of the average Nigerian girl
If it's not the new Galaxy S4, its the new BlackBerry Z10
If its not 100% Human hair weave extensions,
Its 100% Mullatto baby hair!

© 9ja... (I)

Nigerians are a rare breed. No other people of any race and clime I know, are so good at "copyright" or like I love to say "Copy-better"!  Trust me, Nigerians can adopt and adapt a style or culture, and modify it in ways that make it totally unrecognizable to the originators/inventors.

Doubt me? Check out the fashion scene and you'll have no problem believing me.

 (only wish they'll just copy some wonderful aspect of technology from the Western World, modify it and get them begging for a piece of the action already)...#Justsayingandwishing! you know what they say about wishes.

Now I have been tempted on several occasions to come to the conclusion that the “copyright/copybetter” is inherent in every thoroughbred Nigerian. Now that wouldn’t be such a bad thing if my wishes would somehow become a reality. That's not the case however. It seems we have consciously or unconsciously settled for copying the more negative aspects of other people’s culture and modifying it. What we find for example, is that we have become better at adaptation or trendsetting(in some laudable cases) than the people of any known clime *IMO*

Lets take a trip down memory lane. Am pretty sure you’ll recall a time when the “Makossa dance” was the rave of the moment in Nigeria. Nigerians only stopped short of forgetting and relegating every known original Nigerian dance step and style to the back burners. Every song became adapted to Makossa dance instead of  the reverse being the case.  Every Nigerian made it a point of duty to learn the Makossa dance *or risk the ol’ skool label/tag”. It took Lagbaja’s “Konko-below” dance step and Weird MC’s ‘Ijoya” (and gratefully so), to save us from that self-inflicted cultural slavery.

THE GENDER WARS- African Women...playing the second fiddle!

Dear LIB readers: I can't stand my wife anymore; s...: From a male LIB reader: "I found out my wife of 11 years cheated on me with some guy. This was last year June. She confessed to me ...From a male LIB reader:

"I found out my wife of 11 years cheated on me with some guy. This was last year June. She confessed to me after I confronted her with the facts. I decided to forgive her and stay married to her because I have cheated on her in the past too and I didn't want to destroy our family because we have four small children together. The thing now is; I don't love her anymore. I can't stand her and can't even bare to touch her. When she talks to me I get so angry I feel like stabbing her in the eye but I've never laid hands on her. I don't talk to her much except when we want to talk about the kids. We live in the same house but as strangers. She's really tried to make it up but it's not working. I actually hate it when she's around me, and haven't touched her since I found out about the cheating

I thought my anger and disgust at her would fade with time but it's been 9 months and I still feel this way. Will this anger ever go away or should I just end things with her?

HONOUR AMONG THIEVES...Nay, HONOUR FOR THE THIEF!

Honor; a word with several meanings but basically an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or corporate bodies) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and the moral code of the society at large[1]. It also refers to personal integrity and allegiance to moral principles that hold society together, principles without which society might as well be likened to a jungle of animals as humanity is robbed of its very essence when sense of rights, duty and obligations are lacking.

Different people hold different honour codes but that has never diminished its meaning and relevance in the society. Honour still remains a code of behavior that defines the duties/responsibilities of an individual within a social group.

Please come along with me on a trip to the Asian continent.

 Let’s make a stop at Beijing the Chinese capital where the concept of “Face” is most important. Sorry, we’re not about to discuss your physical characteristics here. You ever heard of the phrases “face-saving”, “name -shaming”, “losing-face”? Yea, that’s the one.

Losing face means one has lost dignity, honour, authority, social standing, integrity or trustworthiness. That holds true in most Asian cultures especially among the Chinese where “losing face” is the ultimate disgrace and it is not uncommon to hear of someone committing suicide because he has “lost face”. Did you know that the most common insult in China is “you have no face”? Here, people hardly talk about their problems or “come out of the closet” because of the need to protect their “face”. This is in contradistinction to the West where people “come clean” about the negative aspects of their lives and in most cases become more popular for it. I wonder if any Talk-Show host in the manner of Oprah Winfrey could ever succeed in China or in Asia for that matter #justolohistots.

While suicides over loss of honour might not be so popular in China anymore, I have heard of more than one oriental public office holder hurriedly resigning to”save face” following an allegation of wrong doing or corruption leveled against them. Whether the allegations are true or not, the dishonor or shame felt by such allegations is enough to send a Chinese or oriental office holder in search of a hole to crawl into pending investigations to prove him innocent. This is not to be mistaken for being held guilty before trial. It is the case rather that, closely associated with the concept of face in China is the concept of shame. Shame is the reverse of honour and to have one’s integrity or honour questioned is to become open to shame. It’s not rocket science, but don’t try too hard to understand it; it’s just a part of Chinese traditional reasoning and practice. This is how I try to wrap my head around it; in some cultures especially but not limited to the West, shame is bad or harmful to your health, but in the Chinese culture shame is good, it requires personal courage. It means an acknowledgement of wrong doing but a desire for change. It is more than a mere emotion. If you have no shame, then you are to be feared by the devil himself for you are beyond moral reach.[2] When a person succeeds, the community or society shares the honour, and when a person fails, he does not lose face alone, he brings shame to all those around him. And that could mean for generations. I can’t readily give examples of recent events in China exemplifying this but a few examples from the oriental world will suffice I think.

Teh Cheang Wan served as a minister between 1979 and 1986 in the Singaporean cabinet. He was investigated for corruption in November 1986. Although he maintained his innocence, he was found dead with a suicidal note in December of the same year.

In his suicide note, Teh wrote
I have been feeling very sad and depressed for the last two weeks. I feel responsible for the occurrence of this unfortunate incident and I feel I should accept full responsibility. As an honourable oriental gentleman I feel it is only right that I should pay the highest penalty for my mistake.[3]
More recently, the Indonesian Sports and Youth Minister Andi Alfan Mallarangeng announced his resignation on December 7, amid corruption charges saying he could not work effectively as a minister while facing the legal proceedings. Maintaining his innocence, the minister said he hopes that justice will prevail.
It is not only in Asia honour still holds true. 
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister resigned in 2009 following a criminal investigation.
Earlier this year, Mak Chai-kwong also resigned as development minister in Hong Kong following corruption charges.

ALUU 4; "NO LOVE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY" mp3 download

The past few days have been too emotionally overwhelming and draining for me to blog about the gruesome and brutal murder of Tekena. Llyod, Chidiaka and Ugonna
(the Aluu 4 as they have come to be known).

 

After waking up to the news on Friday of four armed robbers being caught and jungle justice meted out to them in the heart of Port Harcourt city, it has been a roller coaster ride of one version of the story or another. The release of the video of that dastardly act committed by members of Aluu community was enough to send shock waves down the spines of even the most  cold-hearted Nigerian. 

    So graphic and disheartening was the video that a friend of mine posted on her TL that after taking a sneak peek at the video, she now was too afraid to even venture near the folder on her phone to delete it. Brave Halima, if only you knew that some of us were too much of cowards to even dare a sneak peek at the said video after seeing those graphic pictures form the scene of the EVIL. I heard through the grapevine that the video had been removed from Youtube because of its horrific nature in spite of the fact that it had gone real viral.

   Nigerians have been united in raising their voice against the ABOMINATION "Aluu" (permit my spelling Igbo folks) and have called on the State to use every security apparatus available to it in fishing out the perpetrators of this evil act and ensure justice prevails. THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!.

The average Nigerian is a peace-loving man but who can blame them? When you watch that video,view the picture from the scene, or hear the “true story”  making the rounds you will agree that there comes a time when JUSTICE take precedence over PEACE. NIGERIANS want JUSTICE FOR THE ALUU FOUR, and we must get it. Oh, we will get it one way or another.

The story about Tekena, Chidiaka, Ugonna and Llyod has taken a new turn with a revelation that one of the deceased was a creditor who had simply had enough of stories from his debtor and so decided to pay him a surprise visit on the fateful day accompanied by his friends. Little did they know what other plans the Aluus(forbidden and abominable )community had in stock for them.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BIRD and A FLY

Teacher: Students, whats the difference between a bird and a fly?
Akpos raises his hand.
Teacher:Yes, Akpos?

 Akpos: Teasher, A bird can FLY, but a fly can not BIRD.

Politicizing the Health of Dame Patience Jonathan

“My fellow widows…”

 “My Husband and Sambo is a good people…” 

“The President was once a Child and the Senators were once a Children…” 

“Where we you pless ya hand...’’

 “Pless ya hand under the Humblerra…”

 “Ojukwu is dead but his manhood lives on...” 

No doubt these blunders ring a bell especially if you’re one taken with social media and the attendant hyper-inflated news stories that make the rounds daily in Nigeria. The object of these seemingly humorous grammatical errors has never been one to shy away from the media and those who will be true to themselves will agree that she is down to earth and not one to put on airs. This has not stopped her critics and most recently her detractors from constantly keeping her in eagle eye-view in order to publish her innumerable “grammatical errors”. As a matter of fact, many have come up with fictitious quotations attributed to her, forgetting that English is not our mother tongue and even those who have English as their first language sometimes have difficulty speaking it correctly. No Briton can speak my dialect perfectly I can assure you.       

     Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan will undoubtedly emerge an uncontested winner if ever an award was organized to honour the most vilified and ridiculed First Lady in Nigeria’s history. I have no doubt in my heart that former First Lady, Turai Y’ardua’s literacy level or dare I say “social GP” could not have been higher than that of Dame Patience Jonathan. Even so, the rumour lords would not let our ears take a break from tales of how the late President Umar Y’ardua had had a tutor hired for the first lady to coach her not just in matters of grammar constructions but social etiquettes as well. Turai was no doubt interested in keeping appearances and we all now know how much of woman behind the show she really was in spite of the “gentle dove” look she always managed to put on for Nigerians (We’ll wait to hear what “stunts” our dear Dame pulled after her husband’s tenure). 

Dame Patience Jonathan is in the news again and this time it is not about her “grammatical missiles”. It’s about a much more delicate issue; her health. In the past few weeks, speculations, allegations, accusations and counter accusations have been flying around concerning the First Lady’s health. While Sahara Reporters reported that she had been flown abroad for an emergency surgery after food poisoning, they came up days later to say that she was in a German hospital recuperating from an appendectomy. Still some time later, they alleged that she had gone to have fibroids removed. All sorts of media have been used by both cocktail journalists and political opponents to explore the current state of health of the first lady (whatever that is) to their advantage. We have since woken each day to fresh angles to the stale story. If it is not about the President having given express instructions against any statement from any Villa staff over the first lady’s health, it is about the president not having paid a visit to his wife since her admission to the hospital. Some folks have acquired overnight fame over the issue of Dame’s health castigating the president through all media possible for not “officially of formally” informing Nigerians of his wife’s state of health. In all of this, one thing is evident; most of the reports or speculations are not borne out of genuine concern for the first lady’s health. As a matter of fact, some folks have come with a new dimension to the whole story. It is that since the days of Gen. Sanni Abacha, no first family has left the villa without losing a member of household…Hmmmm food for thought indeed. If really that be the case, should we as a nation glory in that knowledge? What really is wisdom if it is not the application of knowledge to set oneself free from any yoke?