After 10 years, wife starts to think their kid looks strange & decides to do a DNA test.
She finds out that the kid is neither from her, nor her husband. Shocked she went to tell him that the kid is actually from completely different parents.
WIFE: Honey, I have something very serious to tell you.
HUSBAND: What’s up?
WIFE: According to DNA test results, this is not our kid!😧
HUSBAND: Well you don’t remember, do you??
WIFE: What do you mean?
HUSBAND: After the birth, when we were leaving the hospital, we noticed that our baby had pooped, then you told me "Please go change the baby, I’ll wait for you here"
So I went inside, got a clean baby and left the dirty one there. 😊
😂😂
Monday, July 31, 2017
WHY MEN ARE CALLED GROOMS ON WEDDING DAY
DID YOU KNOW WHY MEN ARE CALLED "GROOM”, AND THE WOMAN “THE BRIDE” ON WEDDING DAY?
Why is the newly wedded man called groom and the woman called bride?
A friend of mine got tired of his wife just about six months after wedding. He complained bitterly to me about her and told me that he has concluded to break up with her; he went on to say that he was sure that he made a mistake.
I did not respond immediately because I knew I must tell him that right thing, so I went home. And that is
what birth this message.
Many men have broken up with their wives because they end up not being the wife that they have dreamt of. But they have forgotten that on their wedding day was when the man was commissioned for the new task.
Nobody calls the woman wife on her wedding day but bride, because it is the man that will groom his bride to become the wife.
That is why the man is called ‘bridegroom or groom’ and the word grooming has to do with patiently nurturing, teaching, tending and helping someone to become what he or she should be.
It is therefore believed that a man that takes a woman to the altar of marriage is matured enough to patiently groom his bride to become the wife. The man is not supposed to just expect the bride to automatically become the wife, she must be groomed.
It is clear that many of us men have unnecessary expectations when we were getting married, we want some magic to happen to our wives, we want them to become what we have had in mind about who we want our wives to be; not considering the fact that the woman does not know what is on your mind except you teach her.
Our expectations are often too unrealistic, because we don’t remember that change takes time and we can only expect something from someone that knows what we want.
So before you think of breaking up, have you groomed her? Have you given her time to understand you? Hope you realize that a turtle will never become a hawk? God often brings people that are opposites of each other together in marriage so that they can help each other in their place of weaknesses.
If your wife is weak where you are weak, then where will you get the strength that is needed? The problem with many of us is that we don’t accept people before attempting to change them. Of course, our wives are not from our backgrounds, so it will take time for them to adjust.
Stop trying to change her, accept her, love her, teach her and be patient with her; that is what grooming is all about. She is going to be your wife but she is your bride now, so groom her. Stop complaining about her, she may be a turtle and you a hawk, she cannot fly so be patient with her.
I don’t believe that your marriage can’t work, be patient and allow God to help you. #Maranatha
Why is the newly wedded man called groom and the woman called bride?
A friend of mine got tired of his wife just about six months after wedding. He complained bitterly to me about her and told me that he has concluded to break up with her; he went on to say that he was sure that he made a mistake.
I did not respond immediately because I knew I must tell him that right thing, so I went home. And that is
what birth this message.
Many men have broken up with their wives because they end up not being the wife that they have dreamt of. But they have forgotten that on their wedding day was when the man was commissioned for the new task.
Nobody calls the woman wife on her wedding day but bride, because it is the man that will groom his bride to become the wife.
That is why the man is called ‘bridegroom or groom’ and the word grooming has to do with patiently nurturing, teaching, tending and helping someone to become what he or she should be.
It is therefore believed that a man that takes a woman to the altar of marriage is matured enough to patiently groom his bride to become the wife. The man is not supposed to just expect the bride to automatically become the wife, she must be groomed.
It is clear that many of us men have unnecessary expectations when we were getting married, we want some magic to happen to our wives, we want them to become what we have had in mind about who we want our wives to be; not considering the fact that the woman does not know what is on your mind except you teach her.
Our expectations are often too unrealistic, because we don’t remember that change takes time and we can only expect something from someone that knows what we want.
So before you think of breaking up, have you groomed her? Have you given her time to understand you? Hope you realize that a turtle will never become a hawk? God often brings people that are opposites of each other together in marriage so that they can help each other in their place of weaknesses.
If your wife is weak where you are weak, then where will you get the strength that is needed? The problem with many of us is that we don’t accept people before attempting to change them. Of course, our wives are not from our backgrounds, so it will take time for them to adjust.
Stop trying to change her, accept her, love her, teach her and be patient with her; that is what grooming is all about. She is going to be your wife but she is your bride now, so groom her. Stop complaining about her, she may be a turtle and you a hawk, she cannot fly so be patient with her.
I don’t believe that your marriage can’t work, be patient and allow God to help you. #Maranatha
THANK GOD FOR LIFE
I visited a friend at the hospital today, I sat down beside some pregnant women who were taking turns to go for scan. while I was waiting for my friend who was a Doctor in that hospital, I saw some nurses pushing one pregnant woman into the operation room in haste and after sometimes I heard people screaming and the noise was coming from the theatre room.
I started praying for all the pregnant women, they all go through lot just to give birth to us, while I was praying, the doctor came out of the theatre room with blood stains on his coat, he was looking so sad, I stood up and asked him what happened, he replied " We couldn't save the mother and the baby, they are both dead, she lost a lot of blood"
some pregnant women who sat beside me heard what he said and they all broke down in tears, after 30 minutes, the nurses wheeled her dead body out of the theatre, everyone started crying in the hospital.
Brethren, how ungrateful have you been? Do you think it is by your power that you made it out of your mother's womb? Do you think it was because your mother was strong? No! It was because God was merciful! Comment "Thank You God" and let us pray for all pregnant women, may their delivery be as easy as Hebrew women, they will deliver their babies and to all mother's reading this you will not bury any of your children! Amen
God spared your life for a reason. If you are grateful being alive today show God appreciation.
I started praying for all the pregnant women, they all go through lot just to give birth to us, while I was praying, the doctor came out of the theatre room with blood stains on his coat, he was looking so sad, I stood up and asked him what happened, he replied " We couldn't save the mother and the baby, they are both dead, she lost a lot of blood"
some pregnant women who sat beside me heard what he said and they all broke down in tears, after 30 minutes, the nurses wheeled her dead body out of the theatre, everyone started crying in the hospital.
Brethren, how ungrateful have you been? Do you think it is by your power that you made it out of your mother's womb? Do you think it was because your mother was strong? No! It was because God was merciful! Comment "Thank You God" and let us pray for all pregnant women, may their delivery be as easy as Hebrew women, they will deliver their babies and to all mother's reading this you will not bury any of your children! Amen
God spared your life for a reason. If you are grateful being alive today show God appreciation.
THE VALUE OF YOUR LIFE
WHAT VALUE DO YOU PLACE ON YOUR LIFE?
A little boy went to his old grandpa and asked, "What's the value of life?"
The grandpa gave him one stone and said, "Find out the value of this stone, but don't sell it."
The boy took the stone to an Orange Seller and asked him what its cost would be.
The Orange Seller saw the shiny stone and said, "You can take 12 oranges and give me the stone."
The boy apologized and said that the grandpa has asked him not to sell it.
He went ahead and found a vegetable seller.
"What could be the value of this stone?" he asked the vegetable seller.
The seller saw the shiny stone and said, "Take one sack of potatoes and give me the stone."
The boy again apologized and said he can't sell it.
Further ahead, he went into a jewellery shop and asked the value of the stone.
The jeweler saw the stone under a lens and said, "I'll give you 1 million for this stone."
When the boy shook his head, the jeweler said, "Alright, alright, take 2 24karat gold necklaces, but give me the stone."
The boy explained that he can't sell the stone.
Further ahead, the boy saw a precious stone's shop and asked the seller the value of this stone.
When the precious stone's seller saw the big ruby, he lay down a red cloth and put the ruby on it.
Then he walked in circles around the ruby and bent down and touched his head in front of the ruby. "From where did you bring this priceless ruby from?" he asked.
"Even if I sell the whole world, and my life, I won't be able to purchase this priceless stone."
Stunned and confused, the boy returned to the grandpa and told him what had happened.
"Now tell me what is the value of life, grandpa?"
Grandpa said,
"The answers you got from the Orange Seller, the Vegetable Seller, the Jeweler & the Precious Stone's Seller explain the value of our life...
You may be a precious stone, even priceless, but, people will value you based on their financial status, their level of information, their belief in you, their motive behind entertaining you, their ambition, and their risk taking ability.
But don't fear, you will surely find someone who will discern your true value."
Respect yourself.
Believe in yourself.
Stay focus.
Don't sell yourself cheap.
You are Unique.
No one can Replace you!
A little boy went to his old grandpa and asked, "What's the value of life?"
The grandpa gave him one stone and said, "Find out the value of this stone, but don't sell it."
The boy took the stone to an Orange Seller and asked him what its cost would be.
The Orange Seller saw the shiny stone and said, "You can take 12 oranges and give me the stone."
The boy apologized and said that the grandpa has asked him not to sell it.
He went ahead and found a vegetable seller.
"What could be the value of this stone?" he asked the vegetable seller.
The seller saw the shiny stone and said, "Take one sack of potatoes and give me the stone."
The boy again apologized and said he can't sell it.
Further ahead, he went into a jewellery shop and asked the value of the stone.
The jeweler saw the stone under a lens and said, "I'll give you 1 million for this stone."
When the boy shook his head, the jeweler said, "Alright, alright, take 2 24karat gold necklaces, but give me the stone."
The boy explained that he can't sell the stone.
Further ahead, the boy saw a precious stone's shop and asked the seller the value of this stone.
When the precious stone's seller saw the big ruby, he lay down a red cloth and put the ruby on it.
Then he walked in circles around the ruby and bent down and touched his head in front of the ruby. "From where did you bring this priceless ruby from?" he asked.
"Even if I sell the whole world, and my life, I won't be able to purchase this priceless stone."
Stunned and confused, the boy returned to the grandpa and told him what had happened.
"Now tell me what is the value of life, grandpa?"
Grandpa said,
"The answers you got from the Orange Seller, the Vegetable Seller, the Jeweler & the Precious Stone's Seller explain the value of our life...
You may be a precious stone, even priceless, but, people will value you based on their financial status, their level of information, their belief in you, their motive behind entertaining you, their ambition, and their risk taking ability.
But don't fear, you will surely find someone who will discern your true value."
Respect yourself.
Believe in yourself.
Stay focus.
Don't sell yourself cheap.
You are Unique.
No one can Replace you!
Sunday, July 30, 2017
A WAKE UP CALL TO NIGERIA
Every time I see the remarkable landmarks of #Tesla I am further convinced that Nigeria will be so doomed in the next 10 years, our recession will be televised on 3D!
We started television broadcast in Ibadan, but South Africa went digital before us.
We built a National Theatre before Dubai became a place. They have an Opera House now that is booked till July 2018.
We had Ogbe Hard Court, a tennis tournament in the 70s, yet, we do not have a Nigerian Open.
Lagos is blessed with water, yet no international boat races.
We have festivals that are still in the same style they were celebrated 100 years ago.
We still have one bridge linking the East. Onitsha Bridge. It was built in 1965.
We have abandoned projects scattered across the country.
We have no plans to complete them.
The NET building and Defence Headquarters… side by side are rotting in our time.
National Theatre. National stadium. National Refineries.National Seaports. National Museum. National shame!
So, #Tesla is making cars that run on batteries and self generated energy...
The cars are now outselling petrol and diesel driven cars.
So, in a few years from now our oil will be like the Coal in Enugu. Even people who roast boli don’t buy coal from Enugu.
Very soon NNPC will be like NIPOST.
When was the last time you sent a Telegram?
Renewed your post office box?
When was the last time you used the Railways to move around Nigeria? Meanwhile, it would have been easy to drive your car on to a railway coach, use it in Lagos or Abuja put it back on the coach and pick it when you get back to Aba. Nooooo. That is not development. Give it 10 years. Most parts of the world will scrap filling stations for recharge stations. Where you can quickly recharge your car and it will carry you for 4 more days.
When did you last call NITEL that your phone was tossed?
We go drink our crude oil soon!
Instead of us to develop Entertainment, Tourism, Agriculture, Education, information Technology, broadcasting, Fashion and culture. We are drilling for crude oil. Doesn’t that remind you of the biblical 10 maidens?
Dubai has extra revenue sources now and plans to not depend on oil by 2020. That’s in 3 years. We are not sure we can stop borrowing in 30 years.
Religion is fast rising than development.
#wakethemup# "
Credit... Baco
We started television broadcast in Ibadan, but South Africa went digital before us.
We built a National Theatre before Dubai became a place. They have an Opera House now that is booked till July 2018.
We had Ogbe Hard Court, a tennis tournament in the 70s, yet, we do not have a Nigerian Open.
Lagos is blessed with water, yet no international boat races.
We have festivals that are still in the same style they were celebrated 100 years ago.
We still have one bridge linking the East. Onitsha Bridge. It was built in 1965.
We have abandoned projects scattered across the country.
We have no plans to complete them.
The NET building and Defence Headquarters… side by side are rotting in our time.
National Theatre. National stadium. National Refineries.National Seaports. National Museum. National shame!
So, #Tesla is making cars that run on batteries and self generated energy...
The cars are now outselling petrol and diesel driven cars.
So, in a few years from now our oil will be like the Coal in Enugu. Even people who roast boli don’t buy coal from Enugu.
Very soon NNPC will be like NIPOST.
When was the last time you sent a Telegram?
Renewed your post office box?
When was the last time you used the Railways to move around Nigeria? Meanwhile, it would have been easy to drive your car on to a railway coach, use it in Lagos or Abuja put it back on the coach and pick it when you get back to Aba. Nooooo. That is not development. Give it 10 years. Most parts of the world will scrap filling stations for recharge stations. Where you can quickly recharge your car and it will carry you for 4 more days.
When did you last call NITEL that your phone was tossed?
We go drink our crude oil soon!
Instead of us to develop Entertainment, Tourism, Agriculture, Education, information Technology, broadcasting, Fashion and culture. We are drilling for crude oil. Doesn’t that remind you of the biblical 10 maidens?
Dubai has extra revenue sources now and plans to not depend on oil by 2020. That’s in 3 years. We are not sure we can stop borrowing in 30 years.
Religion is fast rising than development.
#wakethemup# "
Credit... Baco
Saturday, July 29, 2017
"WHITE LADIES DO NOT MARRY FOR LOVE" Black American girls lament
A group of black American women have bitterly lamented the spate at which successful black men are abandoning their black sisters to marry white girls. They concluded that whereas successful white man will always marry a white lady and thereby retain his wealth within the white race, black brothers seem to make it a point of achievement to date and marry someone outside his race thereby returing the wealth to the white race.
They analysed the problem critically and arrived at the conclusion that whereas black girls are busy looking for Mr. Perfect and good relationship, their white counterparts concentrate on economic viability of the relationship. They added that before a white lady agrees to marry a black man, that man must be rish and several prongs higher than the lady in social status.
They went ahead to advise fellow black girls who have not made the mistake of marrying for love alone to wake up to the reality of the day by improving their social status and looking out for husband of any colour or creed who is economically viable.
It is very clear that American black women have just realised that the competition is becoming very stiff for the few successful black men.
In deed many black men claim that they are attracted to white females not because of their whiteness but because of the attitude to the marriage and because of what these white women focus on as priorities. For instance a white woman can comfortably use Nokia phone and drive a car that is ten years old but whenever the eyes of a black lady is set on cash, she starts thinking of latest Iphone , latest model of her chosen car and designer apparels.
It is therefore very clear that some of the black men worked very hard for what they have and they look for women with good attitude to wealth and relationship rather than colour of skin and performance on bed
All that is required is for some of the black ladies to observe the white ladies and improve their attitude towards men and wealth.
They analysed the problem critically and arrived at the conclusion that whereas black girls are busy looking for Mr. Perfect and good relationship, their white counterparts concentrate on economic viability of the relationship. They added that before a white lady agrees to marry a black man, that man must be rish and several prongs higher than the lady in social status.
They went ahead to advise fellow black girls who have not made the mistake of marrying for love alone to wake up to the reality of the day by improving their social status and looking out for husband of any colour or creed who is economically viable.
It is very clear that American black women have just realised that the competition is becoming very stiff for the few successful black men.
In deed many black men claim that they are attracted to white females not because of their whiteness but because of the attitude to the marriage and because of what these white women focus on as priorities. For instance a white woman can comfortably use Nokia phone and drive a car that is ten years old but whenever the eyes of a black lady is set on cash, she starts thinking of latest Iphone , latest model of her chosen car and designer apparels.
It is therefore very clear that some of the black men worked very hard for what they have and they look for women with good attitude to wealth and relationship rather than colour of skin and performance on bed
All that is required is for some of the black ladies to observe the white ladies and improve their attitude towards men and wealth.
Okonjo Iweala Offered A Lucrative Part time Job
OKONJO-IWEALA TO EARN £130,000 ANNUALLY IN NEW STANDARD CHARTERED APPOINTMENT
The Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Plc yesterday announced the appointment of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as an independent Non-Executive Director with effect from November 1, 2017.
A statement from the bank said Okonjo-Iweala would also join the Board’s Brand, Values and Conduct Committee of the bank.
With the appointment, Okonjo-Iweala will receive a fee of GBP100,000 per annum for her services as an independent Non-Executive Director, with an additional fee of GBP30,000 per annum as a member of the brand, values and conduct committee of the international bank, in accordance with the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
The independent non-executive Directors do not participate in any of the Group’s incentive arrangements.
Aged 63, Okonjo-Iweala has 30 years of economic development and financial expertise. She is an internationally renowned economist and a prominent African leader, who twice served as Finance Minister in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and one of our largest African markets. She has played an important role in public finance transparency and has in-depth knowledge of Africa and international affairs.
Ngozi spent 25 years working at the World Bank in various positions. After leaving in 2003, she served as the Finance Minister of Nigeria from 2003 to 2006. She returned to the World Bank in 2007, serving as a Managing Director until 2011, when she was appointed to the role of Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy in the Nigerian government, a position she held until 2015.
“During her time in government, she spearheaded Nigeria’s successful program to obtain debt relief and is credited with developing reforms that helped improve governmental transparency to stabilise and grow the Nigerian economy,” it added.
Okonjo-Iweala sits on a number of prestigious international advisory boards including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and as Chair of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI). She has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Masters and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Commenting on the appointment, the Group Chairman of the bank, José Viñals said: “Ngozi is a globally recognised African and international figure. She has significant geopolitical, economic, risk and development experience and expertise at a national governmental level and in international organisations, which will provide significant insight and value to the Board. She also has deep knowledge of Africa as well as emerging and developing markets. I am delighted to welcome her to Standard Chartered.”
The statement stressed that Okonjo-Iweala has no relationship with any other director, member of senior management or substantial or controlling shareholder of Standard Chartered.
“Okonjo-Iweala does not have any interests in shares of the Company.”
-Thisday
The Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Plc yesterday announced the appointment of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as an independent Non-Executive Director with effect from November 1, 2017.
A statement from the bank said Okonjo-Iweala would also join the Board’s Brand, Values and Conduct Committee of the bank.
With the appointment, Okonjo-Iweala will receive a fee of GBP100,000 per annum for her services as an independent Non-Executive Director, with an additional fee of GBP30,000 per annum as a member of the brand, values and conduct committee of the international bank, in accordance with the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
The independent non-executive Directors do not participate in any of the Group’s incentive arrangements.
Aged 63, Okonjo-Iweala has 30 years of economic development and financial expertise. She is an internationally renowned economist and a prominent African leader, who twice served as Finance Minister in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and one of our largest African markets. She has played an important role in public finance transparency and has in-depth knowledge of Africa and international affairs.
Ngozi spent 25 years working at the World Bank in various positions. After leaving in 2003, she served as the Finance Minister of Nigeria from 2003 to 2006. She returned to the World Bank in 2007, serving as a Managing Director until 2011, when she was appointed to the role of Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy in the Nigerian government, a position she held until 2015.
“During her time in government, she spearheaded Nigeria’s successful program to obtain debt relief and is credited with developing reforms that helped improve governmental transparency to stabilise and grow the Nigerian economy,” it added.
Okonjo-Iweala sits on a number of prestigious international advisory boards including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and as Chair of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI). She has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Masters and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Commenting on the appointment, the Group Chairman of the bank, José Viñals said: “Ngozi is a globally recognised African and international figure. She has significant geopolitical, economic, risk and development experience and expertise at a national governmental level and in international organisations, which will provide significant insight and value to the Board. She also has deep knowledge of Africa as well as emerging and developing markets. I am delighted to welcome her to Standard Chartered.”
The statement stressed that Okonjo-Iweala has no relationship with any other director, member of senior management or substantial or controlling shareholder of Standard Chartered.
“Okonjo-Iweala does not have any interests in shares of the Company.”
-Thisday
Friday, July 28, 2017
FEMI ADESINA DENIGRATE NIGERIANS AS DESCENDANTS OF SHIMEI
PMB AND THE DESCENDANTS OF SHIMEI
There is nothing new under the sun, goes a popular saying. In fact, the more things seem to change, the more they appear the same. From time immemorial, some people have spoken evil of leadership, cast aspersions on them, and generally portrayed themselves as scum of the earth. No matter how a country loves its leader, there will naturally be those that the Good Book calls "filthy dreamers" who "despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." That is why as spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, I never respond to such people. Their type would always be around.
President Buhari has been indisposed since the beginning of the year. It is human, and presidents, despite their elevated status, remain human. If there is anybody who considers himself 100 percent healthy, or who bears what William Shakespeare calls "a charmed life," let that person stand up to be identified. All mortals are doomed to sickness, they can recover, and they can die. That is the truth that has been internalized by millions of people praying for the recovery of our President. And that is where the shallowness, vacuousness, and hollowness of people who wish the President dead, and carry unfounded rumors, is on stark display. Filthy dreamers. They speak evil of dignities, and despise dominion. But we forgive them, for they know not what they do. When President Buhari returns (as God would make him do) where would they hide their faces? In shame.
Now, I started by saying we would always have scumbags around. It is inevitable. They are the descendants of Shimei, the son of Gera, whom I want to introduce to you now.
Who is Shimei? Well, I met him on the pages of the Good Book, and he bears striking similitude to some people in our country today. The evil wishers, the hate monger, and those who spend their days conjecturing tragedy for leadership.
Absalom, the son of King David, had led an insurrection against his father. And the king of Israel fled, with some of his supporters in tow. As David got to a place called Bahurim, the Holy Bible records that Shimei, the son of Gera, a man of the family of Saul, came out, and started cursing the fleeing king. You don't kick a man that is down, goes a saying, but Shimei not only cursed David, he also threw dust and stones at him. It was a show of shame.
David had succeeded Saul as king of Israel. And Shimei was from the family of Saul (read, People's Democratic Party, PDP). Shimei hadn't forgotten the bloody nose the family of Saul got, when the kingship was taken away from them, and given to David. So when the latter got into a time of travail, no pity at all from people still smarting from bloody noses.
The All Progressives Congress (APC), inspired by Muhammadu Buhari, halted the 60-year pipe dream of PDP at the polls in 2015. Has the latter forgotten? No, they won't forget till forever. But so much is the animus, the antipathy towards the President that they wish him dead. While millions of Nigerians are praying, some elements are rejoicing, and imagining evil. But they forget: man is not God, and Jehovah always has the final say. The descendants of Shimei need to learn vital lessons from their forebear.
As the base fellow assaulted the fleeing king, Abishai, one of David's mighty men, said:"Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."(2 Samuel, 16:9). But David restrained him, saying if God had not permitted Shimei, he could not have done what he was doing.
President Buhari has tolerated people who have called him all sorts of names in the past two years. If he didn't move against them directly, he could have allowed many Abishais to move against them, "and take off their heads." But not our President, a reformed democrat, a pious man, who has resolved to leave the people suffused by hatred unto God. And will they get their just desserts one day? As night follows the day, they will. If not from man, they will get it from God. Their forefather, Shimei did. He reaped what he sowed.
After some time, the rebellion led by Absalom was crushed by loyal troops, and David regained the throne. As he headed back into the city, who came to meet the king, with one thousand of his relatives, pleading for mercy? Shimei. The Yorubas say the same mouth that the snail used to abuse the gods, is what it uses to lick the dusts of the earth. Shimei had suddenly become gentle. And humble, too. He fell down before David, and said:"I have sinned. Have mercy on me. Don't remember what I did against you on the day you went out of Jerusalem."
Heh, on a certain day, some people would come to prostrate, begging for mercy, asking President Buhari to forgive and forget. What will the President do? What did David do? Abishai said again to King David:"Let me bring down the head of this man, who cursed, and threw stones at you?"
But David said to Shimei:"Thou shall not surely die." And the king swore unto him.
But did Shimei live happily ever after? Old sins, they say, have long shadows. Before David died, he instructed Solomon his son, who succeeded him, not to forget to deal with Shimei. At least, David had kept his part of the bargain not to kill Shimei.
What did Solomon do? He restricted Shimei to Jerusalem, adding that any day he went out of the city would be his last on earth. Days, weeks, and months went by. Shimei remained gentle. But on a certain day, two servants belonging to him ran away to Gath, another city. Shimei saddled his horses, and led his men to bring back the servants. He had received mercy from David, but he couldn't show mercy to the servants. Mercy begets mercy.
The story was told to Solomon. Shimei has left Jerusalem. He went to Gath, contrary to your instructions. It was time for judgment. Solomon commanded that what Abishai had long wanted to do should be done to Shimei. And his head was brought down.
Will the descendants of Shimei repent, turn a new leaf, and become human? Will they recognize their own mortality? He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still. He that is overtaken by hate, let him remain hateful still. Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.
Let the descendants of Shimei who have ears to hear please hear. There is recompense for evil, and there is also recompense for good.
.Adesina is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari
There is nothing new under the sun, goes a popular saying. In fact, the more things seem to change, the more they appear the same. From time immemorial, some people have spoken evil of leadership, cast aspersions on them, and generally portrayed themselves as scum of the earth. No matter how a country loves its leader, there will naturally be those that the Good Book calls "filthy dreamers" who "despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." That is why as spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, I never respond to such people. Their type would always be around.
President Buhari has been indisposed since the beginning of the year. It is human, and presidents, despite their elevated status, remain human. If there is anybody who considers himself 100 percent healthy, or who bears what William Shakespeare calls "a charmed life," let that person stand up to be identified. All mortals are doomed to sickness, they can recover, and they can die. That is the truth that has been internalized by millions of people praying for the recovery of our President. And that is where the shallowness, vacuousness, and hollowness of people who wish the President dead, and carry unfounded rumors, is on stark display. Filthy dreamers. They speak evil of dignities, and despise dominion. But we forgive them, for they know not what they do. When President Buhari returns (as God would make him do) where would they hide their faces? In shame.
Now, I started by saying we would always have scumbags around. It is inevitable. They are the descendants of Shimei, the son of Gera, whom I want to introduce to you now.
Who is Shimei? Well, I met him on the pages of the Good Book, and he bears striking similitude to some people in our country today. The evil wishers, the hate monger, and those who spend their days conjecturing tragedy for leadership.
Absalom, the son of King David, had led an insurrection against his father. And the king of Israel fled, with some of his supporters in tow. As David got to a place called Bahurim, the Holy Bible records that Shimei, the son of Gera, a man of the family of Saul, came out, and started cursing the fleeing king. You don't kick a man that is down, goes a saying, but Shimei not only cursed David, he also threw dust and stones at him. It was a show of shame.
David had succeeded Saul as king of Israel. And Shimei was from the family of Saul (read, People's Democratic Party, PDP). Shimei hadn't forgotten the bloody nose the family of Saul got, when the kingship was taken away from them, and given to David. So when the latter got into a time of travail, no pity at all from people still smarting from bloody noses.
The All Progressives Congress (APC), inspired by Muhammadu Buhari, halted the 60-year pipe dream of PDP at the polls in 2015. Has the latter forgotten? No, they won't forget till forever. But so much is the animus, the antipathy towards the President that they wish him dead. While millions of Nigerians are praying, some elements are rejoicing, and imagining evil. But they forget: man is not God, and Jehovah always has the final say. The descendants of Shimei need to learn vital lessons from their forebear.
As the base fellow assaulted the fleeing king, Abishai, one of David's mighty men, said:"Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."(2 Samuel, 16:9). But David restrained him, saying if God had not permitted Shimei, he could not have done what he was doing.
President Buhari has tolerated people who have called him all sorts of names in the past two years. If he didn't move against them directly, he could have allowed many Abishais to move against them, "and take off their heads." But not our President, a reformed democrat, a pious man, who has resolved to leave the people suffused by hatred unto God. And will they get their just desserts one day? As night follows the day, they will. If not from man, they will get it from God. Their forefather, Shimei did. He reaped what he sowed.
After some time, the rebellion led by Absalom was crushed by loyal troops, and David regained the throne. As he headed back into the city, who came to meet the king, with one thousand of his relatives, pleading for mercy? Shimei. The Yorubas say the same mouth that the snail used to abuse the gods, is what it uses to lick the dusts of the earth. Shimei had suddenly become gentle. And humble, too. He fell down before David, and said:"I have sinned. Have mercy on me. Don't remember what I did against you on the day you went out of Jerusalem."
Heh, on a certain day, some people would come to prostrate, begging for mercy, asking President Buhari to forgive and forget. What will the President do? What did David do? Abishai said again to King David:"Let me bring down the head of this man, who cursed, and threw stones at you?"
But David said to Shimei:"Thou shall not surely die." And the king swore unto him.
But did Shimei live happily ever after? Old sins, they say, have long shadows. Before David died, he instructed Solomon his son, who succeeded him, not to forget to deal with Shimei. At least, David had kept his part of the bargain not to kill Shimei.
What did Solomon do? He restricted Shimei to Jerusalem, adding that any day he went out of the city would be his last on earth. Days, weeks, and months went by. Shimei remained gentle. But on a certain day, two servants belonging to him ran away to Gath, another city. Shimei saddled his horses, and led his men to bring back the servants. He had received mercy from David, but he couldn't show mercy to the servants. Mercy begets mercy.
The story was told to Solomon. Shimei has left Jerusalem. He went to Gath, contrary to your instructions. It was time for judgment. Solomon commanded that what Abishai had long wanted to do should be done to Shimei. And his head was brought down.
Will the descendants of Shimei repent, turn a new leaf, and become human? Will they recognize their own mortality? He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still. He that is overtaken by hate, let him remain hateful still. Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.
Let the descendants of Shimei who have ears to hear please hear. There is recompense for evil, and there is also recompense for good.
.Adesina is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari
Thursday, July 27, 2017
RESTRUCTURE OF NIGERIA HAS TO BE TAKEN BY FORCE.....FFK
For those commentators in this forum who have never participated in or understand Nigerian politics but who tend to speak and act as if they are the only ones that are sincere about restructuring I have the following to say.
I hope you have learnt a lesson or two from the fact that during the constitutional review exercise that took place in the last few days the Senate has refused to devolve power from the centre and initiate the process for genuine restructuring in our country.
These are the hard facts, hidden obstacles and bitter realities about the struggle that some of us that are in the field have been facing and complaining about for the last 25 years!
From henceforth let it be clearly understood by all, including those that desire restructuring but who gave never participated in Nigerian politics, that we can never achieve it through the existing constitutional structure or the National Assembly.
This is because the system is rigged and designed to protect and preserve itself and because the core north effectively has a power of veto in the National Assembly which it will always exercise in order to block any form of restructuring. It is this point that people like Nnamdi Kanu and other ethnic nationalist leaders came to appreciate long ago and it explains their "hardline" posture on these issues.
The bottom line is as follows: restructuring will not be given to us freely or on a platter of gold.
It must be taken and if necessary it must be taken by force.
Finally mark this: if it does not eventually come then I say let us cease to be one nation.
I would rather live as a free man in an independent Oduduwa Republic than continue to live and die as a slave in the Federal Republic of Nigeria....FFK
I hope you have learnt a lesson or two from the fact that during the constitutional review exercise that took place in the last few days the Senate has refused to devolve power from the centre and initiate the process for genuine restructuring in our country.
These are the hard facts, hidden obstacles and bitter realities about the struggle that some of us that are in the field have been facing and complaining about for the last 25 years!
From henceforth let it be clearly understood by all, including those that desire restructuring but who gave never participated in Nigerian politics, that we can never achieve it through the existing constitutional structure or the National Assembly.
This is because the system is rigged and designed to protect and preserve itself and because the core north effectively has a power of veto in the National Assembly which it will always exercise in order to block any form of restructuring. It is this point that people like Nnamdi Kanu and other ethnic nationalist leaders came to appreciate long ago and it explains their "hardline" posture on these issues.
The bottom line is as follows: restructuring will not be given to us freely or on a platter of gold.
It must be taken and if necessary it must be taken by force.
Finally mark this: if it does not eventually come then I say let us cease to be one nation.
I would rather live as a free man in an independent Oduduwa Republic than continue to live and die as a slave in the Federal Republic of Nigeria....FFK
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
ETISALAT NIGERIA RAPED TO DEATH
NIGERIA'S ECONOMIC ISSUES!!!
The Etisalat Example...
The Abu Dhabi Government that owned Etisalat pulled the company out of Nigeria last week and gave the Nigerian ex-partners 7 days to change its name and drop its Trade name. That has been complied with. Etisalat Nigeria changed the name this past week. The news information about this I monitored on my travel to Dubai on the local news which indicated that the Nigerian Etisalat claimed it invested over $20 billion on equipment and facilities in Nigeria. The news Analyst from Dubai Business New Network TV insisted that it is not possible. The parent company invested $13 billion in Gulf Area to attract over 40 milllion subscribers, with high world class services , how can Etisalat Nigeria invest $20 billion for 22 million subscribers with epiletic services and a debt ridden company?
The Abu Dhabi home office is struggling to remove the negative effect of the news on the company's stock market performance. It is being very difficult becuase the numbers are not adding up. The questions in Abu Dhabi is what does Etisalat Head quarters know about the mammoth fraud that prevailed in Etisalat Nigeria? How can the company claim to have spent so much in investment and infrastructure and yet come out with huge debts?
While Etisalat Group is facing serious backlash at home over this monumental fraud, in Nigeria, our CBN is not even asking any question to unravel why the company suddenly went bankrupt. Instead, our CBN and Ministry of Finance from the above are stuggling to take over the company's debts and pass it to the unsuspecting tax payers under the umbrella of the debt ridden AMCOM.
The Chairman of the Board and all Board members of the defunct Etisalat Nigeria resigned and walked away free leaving Nigerians with another private sector mismanaged debt ridden company.
Actaully, the major reason for my worried contribution here is on the Banking System in Nigeria and the financial mess we may have found ourselves in. Many Nigerians may not know this for a fact because the authorities will never tell you the truth, just like it took several years of noise for the NNPC to admit that the corporation is debt ridden and bankrupt. The Government of Nigeria will not admit it that the CBN of Nigeria is currently running at a Deficit Financial Model. This is called a DEF Model operations in Central Banking structure and practice. For references, you can google " Greece Monetary Collapse" and also the great fall in Brazilian financial system in the 90's. The CBN is almost at those crescendo from all indications going by several body languages, utterances and news from the international financial circle.
The CBN may not be able to cover import bills for more that 15 days from now as we speak which is a huge red flag! The CBN is currently not in any position to bail out the Government in any form due to distress in its liquidity-money creation matrix. CBN cannot perform its role as lender of last resort to the Government of Nigeria as we speak, a major function of Central Banking system. This may be the reason why last week, the Hon Minister of Finance addressed a press conference to tell Nigerians that they are in trouble but most Nigerians just did not understand how to interpret her unspoken words. She said clearly that Government will have to aggressively borrow money from abroad to implement the 2017 budget. Her reason was predicated on the wrong and super inferior analysis that Nigeria has a low debt-capital ratio hence there are rooms for more external debts. We better find a way to stop her from running a huge debt that OBJ was able to clear up during his regime but was kept low during Jonathan's regime due to oil windfall which makes borrowing unnecessary then.
Now with dissapointing and falling oil prices, low income-revenue generation by Government, NNPC totally broke running at huge deficits, CBN's inability to bail out Government, we seem to have no choice than to go back to external borrowing at premium at all cost.
Something is pathologically wrong with the Nigerian system. I have written about this in early December 2016 when the budget estimates came out. I pointed to the totally wrong budget appropriation and tagged it a budget of " Economic Contractions". I mentioned that by 3rd quarter of the year, the bubble will burst if something is not done and the Economy may slide into a full blown depression far worse than recession. It is not known what the facts are right now because there are various attempts to hide facts and give erroneous figures to the unsuspecting public. The situation is really bad based on International Analysts facts and figures especially with perceived unadmitted dire financail crises at the CBN. We may see an Econimic Emergency Bill very soon showing up at the desk of the Senate President but with the current face off between the Acting President and the Senate leadership, it is doubtful if such required bill will ever come to surface. That will be an instrument for the " hawks" in the Senate to roast the Acting President and blackmail him further of incompetence. In the fight between two giant elephants, the grass will have to pay dearly and suffer for it. Nigerians will grow in more poverty, no power, no infrastructure, high inflation, and low economic activities and no salaries for work done.
Back to the Etisalat case, this is the fact of the matter and CBN has not deemed it fit to raise any probe on the huge bank lendings to one single company without adequate collateral. Indeed what asset does Etisalat own aside from its license that will be worth the amount of debts being cited? I don't live in Nigeria but at least on my visits, I have not seen any such assets except power masts all over the place.
The same Nigerian Banks gave billions to all the debt ridden GENCOs AND DISCOs with no collateral and yet we have no power. Again, I have written on this issue before. How the power system in Nigeria was defrauded by the collusion of the so-called investors, Nigerian Banks and some officials in the defunct FGN. Nigerians are very prayerful people, we are still trooping to the worship places to pray for steady power supply when some are swimming in billions from the fraud in the sector. Our dream for steady power supply is daily becoming a mirage, to say the least.
The other day, I was having a discussion with a Chinese group of investors on telephone and internet network projects. They mentioned that with about $5 billion dollars in investment in highly powerful telecom equipments and satellite infrastructure, they will supply over 120 million in Nigeria with highly efficient phone and internet network service with super easy, small and latest technology. So why is Etisalat with $20 billion in investment not able to supply good phone and internet network service in Nigeria? Yet poor Nigerians are paying for poor services and will again pay the company's debt through our taxes.
Nigeria needs a fix!!!
Dr. Kazeem Bello
The Etisalat Example...
The Abu Dhabi Government that owned Etisalat pulled the company out of Nigeria last week and gave the Nigerian ex-partners 7 days to change its name and drop its Trade name. That has been complied with. Etisalat Nigeria changed the name this past week. The news information about this I monitored on my travel to Dubai on the local news which indicated that the Nigerian Etisalat claimed it invested over $20 billion on equipment and facilities in Nigeria. The news Analyst from Dubai Business New Network TV insisted that it is not possible. The parent company invested $13 billion in Gulf Area to attract over 40 milllion subscribers, with high world class services , how can Etisalat Nigeria invest $20 billion for 22 million subscribers with epiletic services and a debt ridden company?
The Abu Dhabi home office is struggling to remove the negative effect of the news on the company's stock market performance. It is being very difficult becuase the numbers are not adding up. The questions in Abu Dhabi is what does Etisalat Head quarters know about the mammoth fraud that prevailed in Etisalat Nigeria? How can the company claim to have spent so much in investment and infrastructure and yet come out with huge debts?
While Etisalat Group is facing serious backlash at home over this monumental fraud, in Nigeria, our CBN is not even asking any question to unravel why the company suddenly went bankrupt. Instead, our CBN and Ministry of Finance from the above are stuggling to take over the company's debts and pass it to the unsuspecting tax payers under the umbrella of the debt ridden AMCOM.
The Chairman of the Board and all Board members of the defunct Etisalat Nigeria resigned and walked away free leaving Nigerians with another private sector mismanaged debt ridden company.
Actaully, the major reason for my worried contribution here is on the Banking System in Nigeria and the financial mess we may have found ourselves in. Many Nigerians may not know this for a fact because the authorities will never tell you the truth, just like it took several years of noise for the NNPC to admit that the corporation is debt ridden and bankrupt. The Government of Nigeria will not admit it that the CBN of Nigeria is currently running at a Deficit Financial Model. This is called a DEF Model operations in Central Banking structure and practice. For references, you can google " Greece Monetary Collapse" and also the great fall in Brazilian financial system in the 90's. The CBN is almost at those crescendo from all indications going by several body languages, utterances and news from the international financial circle.
The CBN may not be able to cover import bills for more that 15 days from now as we speak which is a huge red flag! The CBN is currently not in any position to bail out the Government in any form due to distress in its liquidity-money creation matrix. CBN cannot perform its role as lender of last resort to the Government of Nigeria as we speak, a major function of Central Banking system. This may be the reason why last week, the Hon Minister of Finance addressed a press conference to tell Nigerians that they are in trouble but most Nigerians just did not understand how to interpret her unspoken words. She said clearly that Government will have to aggressively borrow money from abroad to implement the 2017 budget. Her reason was predicated on the wrong and super inferior analysis that Nigeria has a low debt-capital ratio hence there are rooms for more external debts. We better find a way to stop her from running a huge debt that OBJ was able to clear up during his regime but was kept low during Jonathan's regime due to oil windfall which makes borrowing unnecessary then.
Now with dissapointing and falling oil prices, low income-revenue generation by Government, NNPC totally broke running at huge deficits, CBN's inability to bail out Government, we seem to have no choice than to go back to external borrowing at premium at all cost.
Something is pathologically wrong with the Nigerian system. I have written about this in early December 2016 when the budget estimates came out. I pointed to the totally wrong budget appropriation and tagged it a budget of " Economic Contractions". I mentioned that by 3rd quarter of the year, the bubble will burst if something is not done and the Economy may slide into a full blown depression far worse than recession. It is not known what the facts are right now because there are various attempts to hide facts and give erroneous figures to the unsuspecting public. The situation is really bad based on International Analysts facts and figures especially with perceived unadmitted dire financail crises at the CBN. We may see an Econimic Emergency Bill very soon showing up at the desk of the Senate President but with the current face off between the Acting President and the Senate leadership, it is doubtful if such required bill will ever come to surface. That will be an instrument for the " hawks" in the Senate to roast the Acting President and blackmail him further of incompetence. In the fight between two giant elephants, the grass will have to pay dearly and suffer for it. Nigerians will grow in more poverty, no power, no infrastructure, high inflation, and low economic activities and no salaries for work done.
Back to the Etisalat case, this is the fact of the matter and CBN has not deemed it fit to raise any probe on the huge bank lendings to one single company without adequate collateral. Indeed what asset does Etisalat own aside from its license that will be worth the amount of debts being cited? I don't live in Nigeria but at least on my visits, I have not seen any such assets except power masts all over the place.
The same Nigerian Banks gave billions to all the debt ridden GENCOs AND DISCOs with no collateral and yet we have no power. Again, I have written on this issue before. How the power system in Nigeria was defrauded by the collusion of the so-called investors, Nigerian Banks and some officials in the defunct FGN. Nigerians are very prayerful people, we are still trooping to the worship places to pray for steady power supply when some are swimming in billions from the fraud in the sector. Our dream for steady power supply is daily becoming a mirage, to say the least.
The other day, I was having a discussion with a Chinese group of investors on telephone and internet network projects. They mentioned that with about $5 billion dollars in investment in highly powerful telecom equipments and satellite infrastructure, they will supply over 120 million in Nigeria with highly efficient phone and internet network service with super easy, small and latest technology. So why is Etisalat with $20 billion in investment not able to supply good phone and internet network service in Nigeria? Yet poor Nigerians are paying for poor services and will again pay the company's debt through our taxes.
Nigeria needs a fix!!!
Dr. Kazeem Bello
HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON DENOUNCED COLONIAL MASTERS' CRUELTY TO AFRICA

Image Ownership: Public Domain
George Washington Williams, “An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo By Colonel, The Honorable Geo. W. Williams, of the United States of America,” 1890
Good and Great Friend,
I have the honour to submit for your Majesty’s consideration some reflections respecting the Independent State of Congo, based upon a careful study and inspection of the country and character of the personal Government you have established upon the African Continent.
It afforded me great pleasure to avail myself of the opportunity afforded me last year, of visiting your State in Africa; and how thoroughly I have been disenchanted, disappointed and disheartened, it is now my painful duty to make known to your Majesty in plain but respectful language. Every charge which I am about to bring against your Majesty’s personal Government in the Congo has been carefully investigated; a list of competent and veracious witnesses, documents, letters, official records and data has been faithfully prepared, which will be deposited with Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, until such time as an International Commission can be created with power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and attest the truth or falsity of these charges.
There were instances in which Mr. HENRY M. STANLEY sent one white man, with four or five Zanzibar soldiers, to make treaties with native chiefs. The staple argument was that the white man’s heart had grown sick of the wars and rumours of war between one chief and another, between one village and another; that the white man was at peace with his black brother, and desired to “confederate all African tribes” for the general defense and public welfare. All the sleight-of- hand tricks had been carefully rehearsed, and he was now ready for his work. A number of electric batteries had been purchased in London, and when attached to the arm under the coat, communicated with a band of ribbon which passed over the palm of the white brother’s hand, and when he gave the black brother a cordial grasp of the hand the black brother was greatly surprised to find his white brother so strong, that he nearly knocked him off his feet in giving him the hand of fellowship. When the native inquired about the disparity of strength between himself and his white brother, he was told that the white man could pull up trees and perform the most prodigious feats of strength. Next came the lens act. The white brother took from his pocket a cigar, carelessly bit off the end, held up his glass to the sun and complaisantly smoked his cigar to the great amazement and terror of his black brother. The white man explained his intimate relation to the sun, and declared that if he were to request him to burn up his black brother’s village it would be done. The third act was the gun trick. The white man took a percussion cap gun, tore the end of the paper which held the powder to the bullet, and poured the powder and paper into the gun, at the same time slipping the bullet into the sleeve of the left arm. A cap was placed upon the nipple of the gun, and the black brother was implored to step off ten yards and shoot at his white brother to demonstrate his statement that he was a spirit, and, therefore, could not be killed. After much begging the black brother aims the gun at his white brother, pulls the trigger, the gun is discharged, the white man stoops . . . and takes the bullet from his shoe!
By such means as these, too silly and disgusting to mention, and a few boxes of gin, whole villages have been signed away to your Majesty.
When I arrived in the Congo, I naturally sought for the results of the brilliant programme: “fostering care”, “benevolent enterprise”, an “honest and practical effort” to increase the knowledge of the natives “and secure their welfare”. 1 had never been able to conceive of Europeans, establishing a government in a tropical country, without building a hospital; and yet from the mouth of the Congo River to its head-waters, here at the seventh cataract, a distance of 1,448 miles, there is not a solitary hospital for Europeans, and only three sheds for sick Africans in the service of the State, not fit to be occupied by a horse. Sick sailors frequently die on board their vessels at Banana Point; and if it were not for the humanity of the Dutch Trading Company at that place—who have often opened their private hospital to the sick of other countries—many more might die. There is not a single chaplain in the employ of your Majesty’s Government to console the sick or bury the dead. Your white men sicken and die in their quarters or on the caravan road, and seldom have Christian burial. With few exceptions, the surgeons of your Majesty’s Government have been gentlemen of professional ability, devoted to duty, but usually left with few medical stores and no quarters in which to treat their patients. The African soldiers and labourers of your Majesty’s Government fare worse than the whites, because they have poorer quarters, quite as bad as those of the natives; and in the sheds, called hospitals, they languish upon a bed of bamboo poles without blankets, pillows or any food different from that served to them when well, rice and fish.
I was anxious to see to what extent the natives had “adopted the fostering care” of your Majesty’s “benevolent enterprise” (?), and I was doomed to bitter disappointment. Instead of the natives of the Congo “adopting the fostering care” of your Majesty’s Government, they everywhere complain that their land has been taken from them by force; that the Government is cruel and arbitrary, and declare that they neither love nor respect the Government and its flag. Your Majesty’s Government has sequestered their land, burned their towns, stolen their property, enslaved their women and children, and committed other crimes too numerous to mention in detail. It is natural that they everywhere shrink from “the fostering care” your Majesty’s Government so eagerly proffers them.
There has been, to my absolute knowledge, no “honest and practical effort made to increase their knowledge and secure their welfare.” Your Majesty’s Government has never spent one franc for educational purposes, nor instituted any practical system of industrialism. Indeed the most unpractical measures have been adopted against the natives in nearly every respect; and in the capital of your Majesty’s Government at Boma there is not a native employed. The labour system is radically unpractical; the soldiers and labourers of your Majesty’s Government are very largely imported from Zanzibar at a cost of £10 per capita, and from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Accra and Lagos at from £1 to £1/10 per capita. These recruits are transported under circumstances more cruel than cattle in European countries. They eat their rice twice a day by the use of their fingers; they often thirst for water when the season is dry; they are exposed to the heat and rain, and sleep upon the damp and filthy decks of the vessels often so closely crowded as to lie in human ordure. And, of course, many die.
Upon the arrival of the survivors in the Congo they are set to work as labourers at one shilling a day; as soldiers they are promised sixteen shillings per month, in English money, but are usually paid off in cheap handkerchiefs and poisonous gin. The cruel and unjust treatment to which these people are subjected breaks the spirits of many of them, makes them distrust and despise your Majesty’s Government. They are enemies, not patriots.
There are from sixty to seventy officers of the Belgian army in the service of your Majesty’s Government in the Congo of whom only about thirty are at their post; the other half are in Belgium on furlough. These officers draw double pay—as soldiers and as civilians. It is not my duty to criticise the unlawful and unconstitutional use of these officers coming into the service of this African State. Such criticism will come with more grace from some Belgian statesman, who may remember that there is no constitutional or organic relation subsisting between his Government and the purely personal and absolute monarchy your Majesty has established in Africa. But I take the liberty to say that many of these officers are too young and inexperienced to be entrusted with the difficult work of dealing with native races. They are ignorant of native character, lack wisdom, justice, fortitude and patience. They have estranged the natives from your Majesty’s Government, have sown the seed of discord between tribes and villages, and some of them have stained the uniform of the Belgian officer with murder, arson and robbery. Other officers have served the State faithfully, and deserve well of their Royal Master.
From these general observations I wish now to pass to specific charges against your Majesty’s Government.
FIRST.—Your Majesty’s Government is deficient in the moral military and financial strength, necessary to govern a territory o 1,508,000 square miles, 7,251 miles of navigation, and 31,694 square miles of lake surface. In the Lower Congo River there is but One post, in the cataract region one. From Leopoldville to N’Gombe, a distance of more than 300 miles, there is not a single soldier or civilian. Not one out of every twenty State-officials know the language of the natives, although they are constantly issuing laws, difficult even for Europeans, and expect the natives to comprehend and obey them. Cruelties of the most astounding character are practised by the natives, such as burying slaves alive in the grave of a dead chief, cutting off the heads of captured warriors in native combats, and no effort is put forth by your Majesty’s Government to prevent them. Between 800 and 1,000 slaves are sold to be eaten by the natives of the Congo State annually; and slave raids, accomplished by the most cruel and murderous agencies, are carried on within the territorial limits of your Majesty’s Government which is impotent. There are only 2,300 soldiers in the Congo.
SECOND.—Your Majesty’s Government has established nearly fifty posts, consisting of from two to eight mercenary slave-soldiers from the East Coast. There is no white commissioned officer at these posts; they are in charge of the black Zanzibar soldiers, and the State expects them not only to sustain themselves, but to raid enough to feed the garrisons where the white men are stationed. These piratical, buccaneering posts compel the natives to furnish them with fish, goats, fowls, and vegetables at the mouths of their muskets; and whenever the natives refuse to feed these vampires, they report to the main station and white officers come with an expeditionary force and burn away the homes of the natives. These black soldiers, many of whom are slaves, exercise the power of life and death. They are ignorant and cruel, because they do not comprehend the natives; they are imposed upon them by the State. They make no report as to the number of robberies they commit, or the number of lives they take; they are only required to subsist upon the natives and thus relieve your Majesty’s Government of the cost of feeding them. They are the greatest curse the country suffers now.
THIRD.—Your Majesty’s Government is guilty of violating its contracts made with its soldiers, mechanics and workmen, many of whom are subjects of other Governments. Their letters never reach home.
FOURTH.—The Courts of your Majesty’s Government are abortive, unjust, partial and delinquent. I have personally witnessed and examined their clumsy operations. The laws printed and circulated in Europe “for the Protection of the blacks” in the Congo, are a dead letter and a fraud. T have heard an officer of the Belgian Army pleading the cause of a white man of low degree who had been guilty of beating and stabbing a black man, and urging race distinctions and prejudices as good and sufficient reasons why his client should be adjudged innocent. I know of prisoners remaining in custody for six and ten months because they were not judged. T saw the white servant of the Governor-General, CAMILLE JANSSEN, detected in stealing a bottle of wine from a hotel table. A few hours later the Procurer-General searched his room and found many more stolen bottles of wine and other things, not the property of servants. No one can be prosecuted in the State of Congo without an order of the Governor-General, and as he refused to allow his servant to be arrested, nothing could be done. The black servants in the hotel, where the wine had been stolen, had been often accused and beaten for these thefts, and now they were glad to be vindicated. But to the surprise of every honest man, the thief was sheltered by the Governor General of your Majesty’s Government.
FIFTH—Your Majesty’s Government is excessively cruel to its prisoners, condemning them, for the slightest offences, to the chain gang, the like of which can not be seen in any other Government in the civilized or uncivilized world. Often these ox-chains eat into the necks of the prisoners and produce sores about which the flies circle, aggravating the running wound; so the prisoner is constantly worried. These poor creatures are frequently beaten with a dried piece of hippopotamus skin, called a “chicote”, and usually the blood flows at every stroke when well laid on. But the cruelties visited upon soldiers and workmen are not to be compared with the sufferings of the poor natives who, upon the slightest pretext, are thrust into the wretched prisons here in the Upper River. I cannot deal with the dimensions of these prisons in this letter, but will do so in my report to my Government.
SIXTH.—Women are imported into your Majesty’s Government for immoral purposes. They are introduced by two methods, viz., black men are dispatched to the Portuguese coast where they engage these women as mistresses of white men, who pay to the procurer a monthly sum. The other method is by capturing native women and condemning them to seven years’ servitude for some imaginary crime against the State with which the villages of these women are charged. The State then hires these woman out to the highest bidder, the officers having the first choice and then the men. Whenever children are born of such relations, the State maintains that the women being its property the child belongs to it also. Not long ago a Belgian trader had a child by a slave-woman of the State, and he tried to secure possession of it that he might educate it, but the Chief of the Station where he resided, refused to be moved by his entreaties. At length he appealed to the Governor-General, and he gave him the woman and thus the trader obtained the child also. This was, however, an unusual case of generosity and clemency; and there is only one post that I know of where there is not to be found children of the civil and military officers of your Majesty’s Government abandoned to degradation; white men bringing their own flesh and blood under the lash of a most cruel master, the State of Congo.
SEVENTH.—Your Majesty’s Government is engaged in trade and commerce, competing with the organised trade companies of Belgium, England, France, Portugal and Holland. It taxes all trading companies and exempts its own goods from export-duty, and makes many of its officers ivory-traders, with the promise of a liberal commission upon all they can buy or get for the State. State soldiers patrol many villages forbidding the natives to trade with any person but a State official, and when the natives refuse to accept the price of the State, their goods are seized by the Government that promised them “protection”. When natives have persisted in trading with the trade-companies the State has punished their independence by burning the villages in the vicinity of the trading houses and driving the natives away.
EIGHTH.—Your Majesty’s Government has violated the General Act of the Conference of Berlin by firing upon native canoes; by confiscating the property of natives; by intimidating native traders, and preventing them from trading with white trading companies; by quartering troops in native villages when there is no war; by causing vessels bound from “Stanley-Pool” to “Stanley-Falls”, to break their journey and leave the Congo, ascend the Aruhwimi river to Basoko, to be visited and show their papers; by forbidding a mission steamer to fly its national flag without permission from a local Government; by permitting the natives to carry on the slave- trade, and by engaging in the wholesale and retail slave-trade itself.
NINTH.—-Your Majesty’s Government has been, and is now, guilty of waging unjust and cruel wars against natives, with the hope of securing slaves and women, to minister to the behests of the officers of your Government. In such slave-hunting raids one village is armed by the State against the other, and the force thus secured is incorporated with the regular troops. I have no adequate terms with which to depict to your Majesty the brutal acts of your soldiers upon such raids as these. The soldiers who open the combat are usually the bloodthirsty cannibalistic Bangalas, who give no quarter to the aged grandmother or nursing child at the breast of its mother. There are instances in which they have brought the heads of their victims to their white officers on the expeditionary steamers, and afterwards eaten the bodies of slain children. In one war two Belgian Army officers saw, from the deck of their steamer, a native in a canoe some distance away. He was not a combatant and was ignorant of the conflict in progress upon the shore, some distance away. The officers made a wager of £5 that they could hit the native with their rifles. Three shots were fired and the native fell dead, pierced through the head, and the trade canoe was transformed into a funeral barge and floated silently down the river.
TENTH.—Your Majesty’s Government is engaged in the slave-trade, wholesale and retail. It buys and sells and steals slaves. Your Majesty’s Government gives £3 per head for able bodied slaves for military service. Officers at the chief stations get the men and receive the money when they are transferred to the State; but there are some middle-men who only get from twenty to twenty-five francs per head. Three hundred and sixteen slaves were sent down the river recently, and others are to follow. These poor natives are sent hundreds of miles away from their villages, to serve among other natives whose language they do not know. When these men run away a reward of 1,000 N’taka is offered. Not long ago such a recaptured slave was given one hundred “chikote” each day until he died. Three hundred N’taka—brassrod-—is the price the State pays for a slave, when bought from a native. The labour force at the stations of your Majesty’s Government in the Upper River is composed of slaves of all ages and both sexes.
ELEVENTH.—Your Majesty’s Government has concluded a contract with the Arab Governor at this place for the establishment of a line of military posts from the Seventh Cataract to Lake Tanganyika territory to which your Majesty has no more legal claim, than I have to be Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian army. For this work the Arab Governor is to receive five hundred stands of arms, five thousand kegs of powder, and £20,000 sterling, to he paid in several instalments. As I write, the news reaches me that these much- treasured and long-looked for materials of war are to be discharged at Basoko, and the Resident here is to be given the discretion as to the distribution of them. There is a feeling of deep discontent among the Arabs here, and they seem to feel that they are being trifled with. As to the significance of this move Europe and America can judge without any comment from me, especially England.
TWELFTH—The agents of your Majesty’s Government have misrepresented the Congo country and the Congo railway. Mr. H. M. STANLEY, the man who was your chief agent in setting up your authority in this country, has grossly misrepresented the character of the country. Instead of it being fertile and productive it is sterile and unproductive. The natives can scarcely subsist upon the vegetable life produced in some parts of the country. Nor will this condition of affairs change until the native shall have been taught by the European the dignity, utility and blessing of labour. There is no improvement among the natives, because there is an impassable gulf between them and your Majesty’s Government, a gulf which can never be bridged. HENRY M. STANLEY’S name produces a shudder among this simple folk when mentioned; they remember his broken promises, his copious profanity, his hot temper, his heavy blows, his severe and rigorous measures, by which they were mulcted of their lands. His last appearance in the Congo produced a profound sensation among them, when he led 500 Zanzibar soldiers with 300 camp followers on his way to relieve EMIN PASHA. They thought it meant complete subjugation, and they fled in confusion. But the only thing they found in the wake of his march was misery. No white man commanded his rear column, and his troops were allowed to straggle, sicken and die; and their bones were scattered over more than two hundred miles of territory.
CONCLUSIONS
Against the deceit, fraud, robberies, arson, murder, slave-raiding, and general policy of cruelty of your Majesty’s Government to the natives, stands their record of unexampled patience, long-suffering and forgiving spirit, which put the boasted civilisation and professed religion of your Majesty’s Government to the blush. During thirteen years only one white man has lost his life by the hands of the natives, and only two white men have been killed in the Congo. Major Barttelot was shot by a Zanzibar soldier, and the captain of a Belgian trading-boat was the victim of his own rash and unjust treatment of a native chief.
All the crimes perpetrated in the Congo have been done in your name, and you must answer at the bar of Public Sentiment for the misgovernment of a people, whose lives and fortunes were entrusted to you by the august Conference of Berlin, 1884—1 885. I now appeal to the Powers which committed this infant State to your Majesty’s charge, and to the great States which gave it international being; and whose majestic law you have scorned and trampled upon, to call and create an International Commission to investigate the charges herein preferred in the name of Humanity, Commerce, Constitutional Government and Christian Civilisation.
I base this appeal upon the terms of Article 36 of Chapter VII of the General Act of the Conference of Berlin, in which that august assembly of Sovereign States reserved to themselves the right “to introduce into it later and by common accord the modifications or ameliorations, the utility of which may be demonstrated experience”.
I appeal to the Belgian people and to their Constitutional Government, so proud of its traditions, replete with the song and story of its champions of human liberty, and so jealous of its present position in the sisterhood of European States—to cleanse itself from the imputation of the crimes with which your Majesty’s personal State of Congo is polluted.
I appeal to Anti-Slavery Societies in all parts of Christendom, to Philanthropists, Christians, Statesmen, and to the great mass of people everywhere, to call upon the Governments of Europe, to hasten the close of the tragedy your Majesty’s unlimited Monarchy is enacting in the Congo.
I appeal to our Heavenly Father, whose service is perfect love, in witness of the purity of my motives and the integrity of my aims; and to history and mankind I appeal for the demonstration and vindication of the truthfulness of the charge I have herein briefly outlined.
And all this upon the word of honour of a gentleman, I subscribe myself your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant,
GEO. W. WILLIAMS
Stanley Falls, Central Africa,
July 18th, 1890.
Sources:
Adelaide Cromwell Hill & Martin Kilson, eds., Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of American Negro Leaders on Africa From the 1800s to the 1950s (London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1969).
Image Ownership: Public Domain
George Washington Williams, “An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo By Colonel, The Honorable Geo. W. Williams, of the United States of America,” 1890
Good and Great Friend,
I have the honour to submit for your Majesty’s consideration some reflections respecting the Independent State of Congo, based upon a careful study and inspection of the country and character of the personal Government you have established upon the African Continent.
It afforded me great pleasure to avail myself of the opportunity afforded me last year, of visiting your State in Africa; and how thoroughly I have been disenchanted, disappointed and disheartened, it is now my painful duty to make known to your Majesty in plain but respectful language. Every charge which I am about to bring against your Majesty’s personal Government in the Congo has been carefully investigated; a list of competent and veracious witnesses, documents, letters, official records and data has been faithfully prepared, which will be deposited with Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, until such time as an International Commission can be created with power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and attest the truth or falsity of these charges.
There were instances in which Mr. HENRY M. STANLEY sent one white man, with four or five Zanzibar soldiers, to make treaties with native chiefs. The staple argument was that the white man’s heart had grown sick of the wars and rumours of war between one chief and another, between one village and another; that the white man was at peace with his black brother, and desired to “confederate all African tribes” for the general defense and public welfare. All the sleight-of- hand tricks had been carefully rehearsed, and he was now ready for his work. A number of electric batteries had been purchased in London, and when attached to the arm under the coat, communicated with a band of ribbon which passed over the palm of the white brother’s hand, and when he gave the black brother a cordial grasp of the hand the black brother was greatly surprised to find his white brother so strong, that he nearly knocked him off his feet in giving him the hand of fellowship. When the native inquired about the disparity of strength between himself and his white brother, he was told that the white man could pull up trees and perform the most prodigious feats of strength. Next came the lens act. The white brother took from his pocket a cigar, carelessly bit off the end, held up his glass to the sun and complaisantly smoked his cigar to the great amazement and terror of his black brother. The white man explained his intimate relation to the sun, and declared that if he were to request him to burn up his black brother’s village it would be done. The third act was the gun trick. The white man took a percussion cap gun, tore the end of the paper which held the powder to the bullet, and poured the powder and paper into the gun, at the same time slipping the bullet into the sleeve of the left arm. A cap was placed upon the nipple of the gun, and the black brother was implored to step off ten yards and shoot at his white brother to demonstrate his statement that he was a spirit, and, therefore, could not be killed. After much begging the black brother aims the gun at his white brother, pulls the trigger, the gun is discharged, the white man stoops . . . and takes the bullet from his shoe!
By such means as these, too silly and disgusting to mention, and a few boxes of gin, whole villages have been signed away to your Majesty.
When I arrived in the Congo, I naturally sought for the results of the brilliant programme: “fostering care”, “benevolent enterprise”, an “honest and practical effort” to increase the knowledge of the natives “and secure their welfare”. 1 had never been able to conceive of Europeans, establishing a government in a tropical country, without building a hospital; and yet from the mouth of the Congo River to its head-waters, here at the seventh cataract, a distance of 1,448 miles, there is not a solitary hospital for Europeans, and only three sheds for sick Africans in the service of the State, not fit to be occupied by a horse. Sick sailors frequently die on board their vessels at Banana Point; and if it were not for the humanity of the Dutch Trading Company at that place—who have often opened their private hospital to the sick of other countries—many more might die. There is not a single chaplain in the employ of your Majesty’s Government to console the sick or bury the dead. Your white men sicken and die in their quarters or on the caravan road, and seldom have Christian burial. With few exceptions, the surgeons of your Majesty’s Government have been gentlemen of professional ability, devoted to duty, but usually left with few medical stores and no quarters in which to treat their patients. The African soldiers and labourers of your Majesty’s Government fare worse than the whites, because they have poorer quarters, quite as bad as those of the natives; and in the sheds, called hospitals, they languish upon a bed of bamboo poles without blankets, pillows or any food different from that served to them when well, rice and fish.
I was anxious to see to what extent the natives had “adopted the fostering care” of your Majesty’s “benevolent enterprise” (?), and I was doomed to bitter disappointment. Instead of the natives of the Congo “adopting the fostering care” of your Majesty’s Government, they everywhere complain that their land has been taken from them by force; that the Government is cruel and arbitrary, and declare that they neither love nor respect the Government and its flag. Your Majesty’s Government has sequestered their land, burned their towns, stolen their property, enslaved their women and children, and committed other crimes too numerous to mention in detail. It is natural that they everywhere shrink from “the fostering care” your Majesty’s Government so eagerly proffers them.
There has been, to my absolute knowledge, no “honest and practical effort made to increase their knowledge and secure their welfare.” Your Majesty’s Government has never spent one franc for educational purposes, nor instituted any practical system of industrialism. Indeed the most unpractical measures have been adopted against the natives in nearly every respect; and in the capital of your Majesty’s Government at Boma there is not a native employed. The labour system is radically unpractical; the soldiers and labourers of your Majesty’s Government are very largely imported from Zanzibar at a cost of £10 per capita, and from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Accra and Lagos at from £1 to £1/10 per capita. These recruits are transported under circumstances more cruel than cattle in European countries. They eat their rice twice a day by the use of their fingers; they often thirst for water when the season is dry; they are exposed to the heat and rain, and sleep upon the damp and filthy decks of the vessels often so closely crowded as to lie in human ordure. And, of course, many die.
Upon the arrival of the survivors in the Congo they are set to work as labourers at one shilling a day; as soldiers they are promised sixteen shillings per month, in English money, but are usually paid off in cheap handkerchiefs and poisonous gin. The cruel and unjust treatment to which these people are subjected breaks the spirits of many of them, makes them distrust and despise your Majesty’s Government. They are enemies, not patriots.
There are from sixty to seventy officers of the Belgian army in the service of your Majesty’s Government in the Congo of whom only about thirty are at their post; the other half are in Belgium on furlough. These officers draw double pay—as soldiers and as civilians. It is not my duty to criticise the unlawful and unconstitutional use of these officers coming into the service of this African State. Such criticism will come with more grace from some Belgian statesman, who may remember that there is no constitutional or organic relation subsisting between his Government and the purely personal and absolute monarchy your Majesty has established in Africa. But I take the liberty to say that many of these officers are too young and inexperienced to be entrusted with the difficult work of dealing with native races. They are ignorant of native character, lack wisdom, justice, fortitude and patience. They have estranged the natives from your Majesty’s Government, have sown the seed of discord between tribes and villages, and some of them have stained the uniform of the Belgian officer with murder, arson and robbery. Other officers have served the State faithfully, and deserve well of their Royal Master.
From these general observations I wish now to pass to specific charges against your Majesty’s Government.
FIRST.—Your Majesty’s Government is deficient in the moral military and financial strength, necessary to govern a territory o 1,508,000 square miles, 7,251 miles of navigation, and 31,694 square miles of lake surface. In the Lower Congo River there is but One post, in the cataract region one. From Leopoldville to N’Gombe, a distance of more than 300 miles, there is not a single soldier or civilian. Not one out of every twenty State-officials know the language of the natives, although they are constantly issuing laws, difficult even for Europeans, and expect the natives to comprehend and obey them. Cruelties of the most astounding character are practised by the natives, such as burying slaves alive in the grave of a dead chief, cutting off the heads of captured warriors in native combats, and no effort is put forth by your Majesty’s Government to prevent them. Between 800 and 1,000 slaves are sold to be eaten by the natives of the Congo State annually; and slave raids, accomplished by the most cruel and murderous agencies, are carried on within the territorial limits of your Majesty’s Government which is impotent. There are only 2,300 soldiers in the Congo.
SECOND.—Your Majesty’s Government has established nearly fifty posts, consisting of from two to eight mercenary slave-soldiers from the East Coast. There is no white commissioned officer at these posts; they are in charge of the black Zanzibar soldiers, and the State expects them not only to sustain themselves, but to raid enough to feed the garrisons where the white men are stationed. These piratical, buccaneering posts compel the natives to furnish them with fish, goats, fowls, and vegetables at the mouths of their muskets; and whenever the natives refuse to feed these vampires, they report to the main station and white officers come with an expeditionary force and burn away the homes of the natives. These black soldiers, many of whom are slaves, exercise the power of life and death. They are ignorant and cruel, because they do not comprehend the natives; they are imposed upon them by the State. They make no report as to the number of robberies they commit, or the number of lives they take; they are only required to subsist upon the natives and thus relieve your Majesty’s Government of the cost of feeding them. They are the greatest curse the country suffers now.
THIRD.—Your Majesty’s Government is guilty of violating its contracts made with its soldiers, mechanics and workmen, many of whom are subjects of other Governments. Their letters never reach home.
FOURTH.—The Courts of your Majesty’s Government are abortive, unjust, partial and delinquent. I have personally witnessed and examined their clumsy operations. The laws printed and circulated in Europe “for the Protection of the blacks” in the Congo, are a dead letter and a fraud. T have heard an officer of the Belgian Army pleading the cause of a white man of low degree who had been guilty of beating and stabbing a black man, and urging race distinctions and prejudices as good and sufficient reasons why his client should be adjudged innocent. I know of prisoners remaining in custody for six and ten months because they were not judged. T saw the white servant of the Governor-General, CAMILLE JANSSEN, detected in stealing a bottle of wine from a hotel table. A few hours later the Procurer-General searched his room and found many more stolen bottles of wine and other things, not the property of servants. No one can be prosecuted in the State of Congo without an order of the Governor-General, and as he refused to allow his servant to be arrested, nothing could be done. The black servants in the hotel, where the wine had been stolen, had been often accused and beaten for these thefts, and now they were glad to be vindicated. But to the surprise of every honest man, the thief was sheltered by the Governor General of your Majesty’s Government.
FIFTH—Your Majesty’s Government is excessively cruel to its prisoners, condemning them, for the slightest offences, to the chain gang, the like of which can not be seen in any other Government in the civilized or uncivilized world. Often these ox-chains eat into the necks of the prisoners and produce sores about which the flies circle, aggravating the running wound; so the prisoner is constantly worried. These poor creatures are frequently beaten with a dried piece of hippopotamus skin, called a “chicote”, and usually the blood flows at every stroke when well laid on. But the cruelties visited upon soldiers and workmen are not to be compared with the sufferings of the poor natives who, upon the slightest pretext, are thrust into the wretched prisons here in the Upper River. I cannot deal with the dimensions of these prisons in this letter, but will do so in my report to my Government.
SIXTH.—Women are imported into your Majesty’s Government for immoral purposes. They are introduced by two methods, viz., black men are dispatched to the Portuguese coast where they engage these women as mistresses of white men, who pay to the procurer a monthly sum. The other method is by capturing native women and condemning them to seven years’ servitude for some imaginary crime against the State with which the villages of these women are charged. The State then hires these woman out to the highest bidder, the officers having the first choice and then the men. Whenever children are born of such relations, the State maintains that the women being its property the child belongs to it also. Not long ago a Belgian trader had a child by a slave-woman of the State, and he tried to secure possession of it that he might educate it, but the Chief of the Station where he resided, refused to be moved by his entreaties. At length he appealed to the Governor-General, and he gave him the woman and thus the trader obtained the child also. This was, however, an unusual case of generosity and clemency; and there is only one post that I know of where there is not to be found children of the civil and military officers of your Majesty’s Government abandoned to degradation; white men bringing their own flesh and blood under the lash of a most cruel master, the State of Congo.
SEVENTH.—Your Majesty’s Government is engaged in trade and commerce, competing with the organised trade companies of Belgium, England, France, Portugal and Holland. It taxes all trading companies and exempts its own goods from export-duty, and makes many of its officers ivory-traders, with the promise of a liberal commission upon all they can buy or get for the State. State soldiers patrol many villages forbidding the natives to trade with any person but a State official, and when the natives refuse to accept the price of the State, their goods are seized by the Government that promised them “protection”. When natives have persisted in trading with the trade-companies the State has punished their independence by burning the villages in the vicinity of the trading houses and driving the natives away.
EIGHTH.—Your Majesty’s Government has violated the General Act of the Conference of Berlin by firing upon native canoes; by confiscating the property of natives; by intimidating native traders, and preventing them from trading with white trading companies; by quartering troops in native villages when there is no war; by causing vessels bound from “Stanley-Pool” to “Stanley-Falls”, to break their journey and leave the Congo, ascend the Aruhwimi river to Basoko, to be visited and show their papers; by forbidding a mission steamer to fly its national flag without permission from a local Government; by permitting the natives to carry on the slave- trade, and by engaging in the wholesale and retail slave-trade itself.
NINTH.—-Your Majesty’s Government has been, and is now, guilty of waging unjust and cruel wars against natives, with the hope of securing slaves and women, to minister to the behests of the officers of your Government. In such slave-hunting raids one village is armed by the State against the other, and the force thus secured is incorporated with the regular troops. I have no adequate terms with which to depict to your Majesty the brutal acts of your soldiers upon such raids as these. The soldiers who open the combat are usually the bloodthirsty cannibalistic Bangalas, who give no quarter to the aged grandmother or nursing child at the breast of its mother. There are instances in which they have brought the heads of their victims to their white officers on the expeditionary steamers, and afterwards eaten the bodies of slain children. In one war two Belgian Army officers saw, from the deck of their steamer, a native in a canoe some distance away. He was not a combatant and was ignorant of the conflict in progress upon the shore, some distance away. The officers made a wager of £5 that they could hit the native with their rifles. Three shots were fired and the native fell dead, pierced through the head, and the trade canoe was transformed into a funeral barge and floated silently down the river.
TENTH.—Your Majesty’s Government is engaged in the slave-trade, wholesale and retail. It buys and sells and steals slaves. Your Majesty’s Government gives £3 per head for able bodied slaves for military service. Officers at the chief stations get the men and receive the money when they are transferred to the State; but there are some middle-men who only get from twenty to twenty-five francs per head. Three hundred and sixteen slaves were sent down the river recently, and others are to follow. These poor natives are sent hundreds of miles away from their villages, to serve among other natives whose language they do not know. When these men run away a reward of 1,000 N’taka is offered. Not long ago such a recaptured slave was given one hundred “chikote” each day until he died. Three hundred N’taka—brassrod-—is the price the State pays for a slave, when bought from a native. The labour force at the stations of your Majesty’s Government in the Upper River is composed of slaves of all ages and both sexes.
ELEVENTH.—Your Majesty’s Government has concluded a contract with the Arab Governor at this place for the establishment of a line of military posts from the Seventh Cataract to Lake Tanganyika territory to which your Majesty has no more legal claim, than I have to be Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian army. For this work the Arab Governor is to receive five hundred stands of arms, five thousand kegs of powder, and £20,000 sterling, to he paid in several instalments. As I write, the news reaches me that these much- treasured and long-looked for materials of war are to be discharged at Basoko, and the Resident here is to be given the discretion as to the distribution of them. There is a feeling of deep discontent among the Arabs here, and they seem to feel that they are being trifled with. As to the significance of this move Europe and America can judge without any comment from me, especially England.
TWELFTH—The agents of your Majesty’s Government have misrepresented the Congo country and the Congo railway. Mr. H. M. STANLEY, the man who was your chief agent in setting up your authority in this country, has grossly misrepresented the character of the country. Instead of it being fertile and productive it is sterile and unproductive. The natives can scarcely subsist upon the vegetable life produced in some parts of the country. Nor will this condition of affairs change until the native shall have been taught by the European the dignity, utility and blessing of labour. There is no improvement among the natives, because there is an impassable gulf between them and your Majesty’s Government, a gulf which can never be bridged. HENRY M. STANLEY’S name produces a shudder among this simple folk when mentioned; they remember his broken promises, his copious profanity, his hot temper, his heavy blows, his severe and rigorous measures, by which they were mulcted of their lands. His last appearance in the Congo produced a profound sensation among them, when he led 500 Zanzibar soldiers with 300 camp followers on his way to relieve EMIN PASHA. They thought it meant complete subjugation, and they fled in confusion. But the only thing they found in the wake of his march was misery. No white man commanded his rear column, and his troops were allowed to straggle, sicken and die; and their bones were scattered over more than two hundred miles of territory.
CONCLUSIONS
Against the deceit, fraud, robberies, arson, murder, slave-raiding, and general policy of cruelty of your Majesty’s Government to the natives, stands their record of unexampled patience, long-suffering and forgiving spirit, which put the boasted civilisation and professed religion of your Majesty’s Government to the blush. During thirteen years only one white man has lost his life by the hands of the natives, and only two white men have been killed in the Congo. Major Barttelot was shot by a Zanzibar soldier, and the captain of a Belgian trading-boat was the victim of his own rash and unjust treatment of a native chief.
All the crimes perpetrated in the Congo have been done in your name, and you must answer at the bar of Public Sentiment for the misgovernment of a people, whose lives and fortunes were entrusted to you by the august Conference of Berlin, 1884—1 885. I now appeal to the Powers which committed this infant State to your Majesty’s charge, and to the great States which gave it international being; and whose majestic law you have scorned and trampled upon, to call and create an International Commission to investigate the charges herein preferred in the name of Humanity, Commerce, Constitutional Government and Christian Civilisation.
I base this appeal upon the terms of Article 36 of Chapter VII of the General Act of the Conference of Berlin, in which that august assembly of Sovereign States reserved to themselves the right “to introduce into it later and by common accord the modifications or ameliorations, the utility of which may be demonstrated experience”.
I appeal to the Belgian people and to their Constitutional Government, so proud of its traditions, replete with the song and story of its champions of human liberty, and so jealous of its present position in the sisterhood of European States—to cleanse itself from the imputation of the crimes with which your Majesty’s personal State of Congo is polluted.
I appeal to Anti-Slavery Societies in all parts of Christendom, to Philanthropists, Christians, Statesmen, and to the great mass of people everywhere, to call upon the Governments of Europe, to hasten the close of the tragedy your Majesty’s unlimited Monarchy is enacting in the Congo.
I appeal to our Heavenly Father, whose service is perfect love, in witness of the purity of my motives and the integrity of my aims; and to history and mankind I appeal for the demonstration and vindication of the truthfulness of the charge I have herein briefly outlined.
And all this upon the word of honour of a gentleman, I subscribe myself your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant,
GEO. W. WILLIAMS
Stanley Falls, Central Africa,
July 18th, 1890.
Sources:
Adelaide Cromwell Hill & Martin Kilson, eds., Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of American Negro Leaders on Africa From the 1800s to the 1950s (London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1969).
HOW PUTIN SHOCKED RUSSIAN MUSLIMS
Vladimir Putin's speech - SHORTEST SPEECH EVER.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:
"In Russia, live like Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, it should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, and live the life of Muslim's then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law.
"Russia does not need Muslim minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland, and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Muslims.
"When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslims Minorities Are Not Russians."
The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute standing ovation.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:
"In Russia, live like Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, it should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, and live the life of Muslim's then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law.
"Russia does not need Muslim minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland, and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Muslims.
"When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslims Minorities Are Not Russians."
The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute standing ovation.
WRITE YOUR NAME IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE😊😃😄
Write your name in Japanese language, pls dont spoil the fun!!! Lets laugh a bit by writing your name in JAPANESE ALPHABET:
A= ka, B= tu, C= mi, D= te, E= ku, F= lu, G= ji, H= ri, I= ki, J= zu, K= me, L= ta, M= rin, N= to, O= mo, P= no, Q= ke, R= shi, S= ari, T= chi, U= do, V= ru, W= mei, X= na Y= fu, Z= zi.
send to all ur contact and see funny names eg. Vera= Rukushika
A= ka, B= tu, C= mi, D= te, E= ku, F= lu, G= ji, H= ri, I= ki, J= zu, K= me, L= ta, M= rin, N= to, O= mo, P= no, Q= ke, R= shi, S= ari, T= chi, U= do, V= ru, W= mei, X= na Y= fu, Z= zi.
send to all ur contact and see funny names eg. Vera= Rukushika
Sunday, July 23, 2017
NIGERIA COMPARED TO TANZANIA
Buhari and Magufuli: A tale of two presidents
By Eugene Enahoro | Publish Date: Jul 18 2017
As things get progressively worse in Nigeria, President Buhari’s supporters claim that his incapacitation aside, two years isn’t enough time to effect change, but this simply isn’t true. When contesting their respective elections in 2015, both President John Magufuli of Tanzania and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria said the right things and were more popular than their political party. Buhari said “one of the major killers of our economy apart from corruption is waste”. He promised that “when we come into office all this waste will be blocked and properly channelled into our economy.” He also promised that our Presidential Jets would be given to a new national carrier “within a year”.
Two years into his tenure none of this has happened. While Nigeria under Buhari continues to deteriorate, Magufuli nick-named, “the bulldozer”, has had immediate impact dealing positively with corruption, inefficiency, and wasteful spending in government. One of the first things he did was suspend Tanzania’s Independence Day celebrations. He said spending money on celebrations after 74 citizens from a Cholera outbreak was totally inappropriate. In Nigeria where mass deaths occur regularly through terrorism, outbreaks of epidemics, and avoidable road accidents, not once has any official party, ceremony or celebration been cancelled.
Tanzanian officials had budgeted 4 Billion Tanzanian Shillings (N560 million) for independence celebrations. Magufuli diverted the money to effect repairs on a dilapidated 4.3-kilometre section of a major highway. To further curb wasteful expenditure, he stopped public officials from foreign travels at government expense except with presidential permission. He also stopped Diplomatic and Ministerial delegations from travelling abroad, in their place he ordered High Commissioners and Ambassadors to represent the nation at international conferences. When he had to attend a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Magufuli cut Tanzania’s delegation from 50 to just 4, saving over N80 million in the process! Insisting that government officials have no right to live in luxury at public expense, he limited government officials to using of saloon cars or pick-up vehicles, banning the sort of expensive V8 Jeeps and SUV’s widely used in Nigeria. Magufuli also restricted those who must fly at government expense to economy class. To further reduce waste, he banned government Workshops and Conferences from holding in private venues, ordering them to be held in Ministry Board Rooms or Conference Halls at no expense to government. In moderating the lifestyle of government officials, he reduced their perks by banning all sitting allowances, He condemned it as immoral to collect sitting allowances for a job which already pays salary! Contrast this with Nigeria where our self-aggrandising political leaders refuse to moderate their lifestyle or perks, in spite of a deficit budget which requires the nation to borrow.
Magufuli has a reputation for undertaking surprise visits to government institutions. While visiting a major hospital unannounced he was distraught at the non-functional equipment, and patients lying on mattresses on the floor. He sacked the Hospital Director and Board Members and ordered the newly appointed Director to repair all equipment within two weeks or also face the sack. The machines were repaired in three days! There was also the matter of a State Banquet budgeted to cost approximately N42 million. Magulfuli slashed the amount to N3.5 million and used the balance to supply beds to the hospital. 300 hospital beds together with mattresses and 600 bedsheets were purchased with the N38.5 million savings from what officials wanted to spend just to eat dinner! Deplorably, lavish Official Banquets continue unabated at Federal and State level in Nigeria. To further save money, Magufuli reduced both the Presidential convoy, and the size of delegations that travel with him. Rather than fly, he drove 600 kilometres for the opening of parliament, saying the nation couldn’t afford to operate its Presidential jets “willy-nilly”.
He also said he wasn’t interested in waving to people on streets which are given emergency facelifts for official Presidential visits, but wanted to see the real state of things. Turning his attention to Tanzania’s “organised private sector”, which thrives off defrauding the nation and impoverishing people just like in Nigeria, Magufuli outlawed all forms of tax exemptions and duty waivers. Despite this having some negative effect in the economy, Magufuli’s style has indisputably re-woken patriotism in his country. His critics accuse him of being a dictator and mere populist who violates human rights of the wealthy. This may indeed true but he claims that the wealthy violate the human rights of the poor daily. In these times of widespread suffering and hopelessness, only populist actions can relieve the suffering of the underprivileged and give hope that leaders actually care.
Democracy is about the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Magufuli’s populist actions level the playing field and make the majority happy. It’s not just enough for President Buhari to return home in good health. He must return with a new style. He won the election because people thought he would act with military dispatch and humanity like Magufuli. He has to show that in Nigeria it’s possible to quickly make things happen!!!!!!
By Eugene Enahoro | Publish Date: Jul 18 2017
As things get progressively worse in Nigeria, President Buhari’s supporters claim that his incapacitation aside, two years isn’t enough time to effect change, but this simply isn’t true. When contesting their respective elections in 2015, both President John Magufuli of Tanzania and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria said the right things and were more popular than their political party. Buhari said “one of the major killers of our economy apart from corruption is waste”. He promised that “when we come into office all this waste will be blocked and properly channelled into our economy.” He also promised that our Presidential Jets would be given to a new national carrier “within a year”.
Two years into his tenure none of this has happened. While Nigeria under Buhari continues to deteriorate, Magufuli nick-named, “the bulldozer”, has had immediate impact dealing positively with corruption, inefficiency, and wasteful spending in government. One of the first things he did was suspend Tanzania’s Independence Day celebrations. He said spending money on celebrations after 74 citizens from a Cholera outbreak was totally inappropriate. In Nigeria where mass deaths occur regularly through terrorism, outbreaks of epidemics, and avoidable road accidents, not once has any official party, ceremony or celebration been cancelled.
Tanzanian officials had budgeted 4 Billion Tanzanian Shillings (N560 million) for independence celebrations. Magufuli diverted the money to effect repairs on a dilapidated 4.3-kilometre section of a major highway. To further curb wasteful expenditure, he stopped public officials from foreign travels at government expense except with presidential permission. He also stopped Diplomatic and Ministerial delegations from travelling abroad, in their place he ordered High Commissioners and Ambassadors to represent the nation at international conferences. When he had to attend a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Magufuli cut Tanzania’s delegation from 50 to just 4, saving over N80 million in the process! Insisting that government officials have no right to live in luxury at public expense, he limited government officials to using of saloon cars or pick-up vehicles, banning the sort of expensive V8 Jeeps and SUV’s widely used in Nigeria. Magufuli also restricted those who must fly at government expense to economy class. To further reduce waste, he banned government Workshops and Conferences from holding in private venues, ordering them to be held in Ministry Board Rooms or Conference Halls at no expense to government. In moderating the lifestyle of government officials, he reduced their perks by banning all sitting allowances, He condemned it as immoral to collect sitting allowances for a job which already pays salary! Contrast this with Nigeria where our self-aggrandising political leaders refuse to moderate their lifestyle or perks, in spite of a deficit budget which requires the nation to borrow.
Magufuli has a reputation for undertaking surprise visits to government institutions. While visiting a major hospital unannounced he was distraught at the non-functional equipment, and patients lying on mattresses on the floor. He sacked the Hospital Director and Board Members and ordered the newly appointed Director to repair all equipment within two weeks or also face the sack. The machines were repaired in three days! There was also the matter of a State Banquet budgeted to cost approximately N42 million. Magulfuli slashed the amount to N3.5 million and used the balance to supply beds to the hospital. 300 hospital beds together with mattresses and 600 bedsheets were purchased with the N38.5 million savings from what officials wanted to spend just to eat dinner! Deplorably, lavish Official Banquets continue unabated at Federal and State level in Nigeria. To further save money, Magufuli reduced both the Presidential convoy, and the size of delegations that travel with him. Rather than fly, he drove 600 kilometres for the opening of parliament, saying the nation couldn’t afford to operate its Presidential jets “willy-nilly”.
He also said he wasn’t interested in waving to people on streets which are given emergency facelifts for official Presidential visits, but wanted to see the real state of things. Turning his attention to Tanzania’s “organised private sector”, which thrives off defrauding the nation and impoverishing people just like in Nigeria, Magufuli outlawed all forms of tax exemptions and duty waivers. Despite this having some negative effect in the economy, Magufuli’s style has indisputably re-woken patriotism in his country. His critics accuse him of being a dictator and mere populist who violates human rights of the wealthy. This may indeed true but he claims that the wealthy violate the human rights of the poor daily. In these times of widespread suffering and hopelessness, only populist actions can relieve the suffering of the underprivileged and give hope that leaders actually care.
Democracy is about the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Magufuli’s populist actions level the playing field and make the majority happy. It’s not just enough for President Buhari to return home in good health. He must return with a new style. He won the election because people thought he would act with military dispatch and humanity like Magufuli. He has to show that in Nigeria it’s possible to quickly make things happen!!!!!!
HOW FRIENDS CAN CAN KEEP YOU SINGLE
Let's look into this issue!!
Good day everyone. Pls your advice will be most needed here. Thanks.
.....I arrived the venue of our date thirty minutes before time clad on my best designers outfit.
At the venue, I took a table for two and requested for a bottle water to quench my taste before the arrival of my guest. To my greatest dismay, when my guest arrived the restaurant, she came along with two of her friends.
Blood of God! Why didn't she pre-inform me that she's coming with her friends so I'd prepare myself very well or cancel the date if I don't have the means? I had just 3k on me and I'd already pre-planned what the 3k will buy. But there's almost nothing I could do than to re-strategize.
When they drew closer to the table where I was seated, we had to relocate to a table for four. Now, I've got three guests to cater for against my initial budget for just one.
After exchanging pleasantries, I manned up and excused my guest for a private chat. I told her she ought to had first put me on the know that she's gonna come with her friends so I'd prepare myself if its ok by me. She then realized she was wrong.
Without demanding for an apology, she apologized for the inconviniency by coming along with her friends without first pre-informing me though with numerous excuses.
Long story short.
I braced up and told her the size of my pocket because her friends wasn't on my budget.
Initially, I was scared to death that she might blow a fuse if I mention the amount I have on me but to my surprise, she didn't. Instead, she smiled and followed me to the counter and ordered for soft drinks and meatpie for all of us.
We returned to our seat with the items we bought, acted like all was fine and we discussed a lot of things without minding the presence of her friends or involving them on our discussion. Less than thirty minutes later, one of her friend faked a call and dragged the other of her friend and excused us. Two minutes later, my guest received a text message from her friend and the message read thus; "thank you for the embarrassment you and your 'broke boyfriend' gave us. We no get anything to tell you now till we meet"
My guest felt bad and her countenance changed. I asked her what was the problem, she couldn't hide it so she showed me the text message she received.
After reading the message, I felt bad too but I had to hide my sadness and talk to my guest not to be angry with what her friends texted her and may tell her later.
Fast forward.....
She was heavily insulted and berated by her friends days later for taking them out and entertaining them with ORDINARY MEATPIE AND COKE.
Today, I and that my guest are now couples with two wonderful kids.
Yesterday, the very friend who called me a BROKE boyfriend many years ago visited my wife to seek for a loan because presently I'm not residing in Nigeria. When wifey called to inform me yesterday night about it, I laughed over the phone and told her I'd think about it.
.
.
So friends I need your advice because right now I'm traumatized. How can a wife to a broke husband lend money to a rich woman?
Mature advice will be needed urgently. Thanks. No insult pls.
......whatsapp
Good day everyone. Pls your advice will be most needed here. Thanks.
.....I arrived the venue of our date thirty minutes before time clad on my best designers outfit.
At the venue, I took a table for two and requested for a bottle water to quench my taste before the arrival of my guest. To my greatest dismay, when my guest arrived the restaurant, she came along with two of her friends.
Blood of God! Why didn't she pre-inform me that she's coming with her friends so I'd prepare myself very well or cancel the date if I don't have the means? I had just 3k on me and I'd already pre-planned what the 3k will buy. But there's almost nothing I could do than to re-strategize.
When they drew closer to the table where I was seated, we had to relocate to a table for four. Now, I've got three guests to cater for against my initial budget for just one.
After exchanging pleasantries, I manned up and excused my guest for a private chat. I told her she ought to had first put me on the know that she's gonna come with her friends so I'd prepare myself if its ok by me. She then realized she was wrong.
Without demanding for an apology, she apologized for the inconviniency by coming along with her friends without first pre-informing me though with numerous excuses.
Long story short.
I braced up and told her the size of my pocket because her friends wasn't on my budget.
Initially, I was scared to death that she might blow a fuse if I mention the amount I have on me but to my surprise, she didn't. Instead, she smiled and followed me to the counter and ordered for soft drinks and meatpie for all of us.
We returned to our seat with the items we bought, acted like all was fine and we discussed a lot of things without minding the presence of her friends or involving them on our discussion. Less than thirty minutes later, one of her friend faked a call and dragged the other of her friend and excused us. Two minutes later, my guest received a text message from her friend and the message read thus; "thank you for the embarrassment you and your 'broke boyfriend' gave us. We no get anything to tell you now till we meet"
My guest felt bad and her countenance changed. I asked her what was the problem, she couldn't hide it so she showed me the text message she received.
After reading the message, I felt bad too but I had to hide my sadness and talk to my guest not to be angry with what her friends texted her and may tell her later.
Fast forward.....
She was heavily insulted and berated by her friends days later for taking them out and entertaining them with ORDINARY MEATPIE AND COKE.
Today, I and that my guest are now couples with two wonderful kids.
Yesterday, the very friend who called me a BROKE boyfriend many years ago visited my wife to seek for a loan because presently I'm not residing in Nigeria. When wifey called to inform me yesterday night about it, I laughed over the phone and told her I'd think about it.
.
.
So friends I need your advice because right now I'm traumatized. How can a wife to a broke husband lend money to a rich woman?
Mature advice will be needed urgently. Thanks. No insult pls.
Saturday, July 22, 2017
IF THEY THROW POOP KEEP DRIVING......
Please read this it may help you. This really did just happen to me at 12:17am in Laurel, MD off of Cherry Lane between 197 and Baltimore Ave. I was driving and out of no where there was a huge splatter across my windshield. I remember reading a story on Facebook that if something like this happens to you do not put your windshield wipers on because that stuff will smudge all across your windshield blocking your view. And making you an easy target for carjacking. I sped up and continued driving until I turned onto Baltimore Avenue and pulled in to the next biggest parking lot where I saw a lot of people. I pulled up near the entrance of the restaurant where a guy was standing with some other people and I told him what happened he went into the restaurant and grabbed paper towels and helped me clean it off. It is was dog poop. We cleaned up as much as I could off. When I look back on it I remember seeing a black car not too far in front of me that slowed down and I saw two guys walking on the sidewalk. It happened so fast that I could not see where it came from. I want to share this so that if this happens to you don't panic and don't turn your windshield wipers on. Keep driving to the nearest safe place and get that stuff off of your windshield immediately. Be Alert and please don't panic.
........forwarded message
........forwarded message
HOW SOME WOMEN WASTE EMOTION ON MEN
HUSBAND AND WIFE, SO SILENT IN BED!
Wife Thinking:
Why is he not talking to me?
Is he thinking of another woman?
Is he seeing someone else?
Don't I appeal to him anymore?
Is he trying to dump me?
Is he now finding me ugly?
Does my makeup repel him these days?
He didn't speak with me since he came in.
I know his mother does not like me May be they are arranging another wife for him.
Is this how I will end up a single mother...?
God, please save my marriage.
WHAT IS HE UPSET FOR?
She gathered courage and asked him, *"honey why didn't u talk to me? Wat did I do to deserved all this?"* Tears on her eyes..
*The husband turns and look at her with his red eyes, angry face, and den angrily replied...*
.
*"How on earth could TOTTENHAM beat CHELSEA 2-0 and we have HAZARD, PEDRO and DIEGO COSTA on the pitch?"*
...forwarded
Wife Thinking:
Why is he not talking to me?
Is he thinking of another woman?
Is he seeing someone else?
Don't I appeal to him anymore?
Is he trying to dump me?
Is he now finding me ugly?
Does my makeup repel him these days?
He didn't speak with me since he came in.
I know his mother does not like me May be they are arranging another wife for him.
Is this how I will end up a single mother...?
God, please save my marriage.
WHAT IS HE UPSET FOR?
She gathered courage and asked him, *"honey why didn't u talk to me? Wat did I do to deserved all this?"* Tears on her eyes..
*The husband turns and look at her with his red eyes, angry face, and den angrily replied...*
.
*"How on earth could TOTTENHAM beat CHELSEA 2-0 and we have HAZARD, PEDRO and DIEGO COSTA on the pitch?"*
...forwarded
Friday, July 21, 2017
WISDOM OF ROBERT MUGABE
A 30-year-old man visited his old father who could no longer see very well. As both of them sat in front of his house chatting, a dove flew in and perched on the window. The old man asked his son, "Is that a dove that perched on the window?". The son replied, "Yes dad". After a short while, he asked the son the same question a second time and got the same answer. When he asked the same question the third time, his son became angry and rebuked him saying, "This is why I hate visiting you, you keep repeating questions!"
The old man was silent for about 10 minutes, and then he asked the son to go into his bedroom and fetch his old diary. The son did as he requested. Then he asked him to read page 2 of the diary. The words read:
"My son is 3 years old today. As we sat in front of the house playing, a dove flew in and perched on the window. My son asked me 30 times if it was a dove. I gladly replied "yes" to each question. I cannot explain in words how happy I am that my son has learned to talk. What a wonderful day to remember!"
The young man dropped the diary on the ground, then he cried and apologized to his father. The old man spoke again, "Enough son, one mistake cannot make you less a man, but repeating the same mistake over and over again can kill any man. I've chosen today to teach you the final lesson before I depart this world. The lesson for today is Patience. Always be kind and considerate to the less privileged, this is how you'll stand out in eternity. Be nice to everyone on your way up, you'll definitely meet them again on your way down!" The person you looked down today may turn out to be the person you need tommorrow. Lets learn to walk in patience and tolerate each other even in adverse conditions.
The old man was silent for about 10 minutes, and then he asked the son to go into his bedroom and fetch his old diary. The son did as he requested. Then he asked him to read page 2 of the diary. The words read:
"My son is 3 years old today. As we sat in front of the house playing, a dove flew in and perched on the window. My son asked me 30 times if it was a dove. I gladly replied "yes" to each question. I cannot explain in words how happy I am that my son has learned to talk. What a wonderful day to remember!"
The young man dropped the diary on the ground, then he cried and apologized to his father. The old man spoke again, "Enough son, one mistake cannot make you less a man, but repeating the same mistake over and over again can kill any man. I've chosen today to teach you the final lesson before I depart this world. The lesson for today is Patience. Always be kind and considerate to the less privileged, this is how you'll stand out in eternity. Be nice to everyone on your way up, you'll definitely meet them again on your way down!" The person you looked down today may turn out to be the person you need tommorrow. Lets learn to walk in patience and tolerate each other even in adverse conditions.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
PICKING UP YOUR PHONE MAY SAVE A LIFE
A couple had a misunderstanding and as a result drove in separate cars to church. When they got to church, they sat down together smiling as people complimented them but all they did was to put up a face so people do not get to know that they are at 'war' with each other. At the end of the service, the husband drove home while the wife waited to attend the women's meeting after the service. The husband was home already, when he checked his phone, his wife had called him thrice. He disregarded calling her back out of malice. The wife drove in some forty minutes later. He saw Usman opening the gate for her as his phone went on ringing. He checked it. It was his wife. She was in her car at the garage already. What is she calling me for? Foolish and stubborn wife! He said and ignored her calls. The call went on for a while. He ignored it as he sat with the TV.Thirty minutes later, she did not come in. Something told him to go and check. Is she still in the car? Yes she must be there. He called Usman, Is madam in the car? Few minutes later, Usman rushed in. Madam dey sleep inside the car o. That was when he woke up and rushed downstairs. Asthma! She was Asthmatic! Could she be having her usual attack? Could she have forgotten her inhaler?He quickly took the inhaler and rushed downstairs. When he got there, she was almost breathless. Usman and husband quickly carried her to the back seat and off, he sped like a bat out of hell, to a clinic nearby. Madam was confirmed dead! If he had picked her call early enough, probably she could have been saved. When you leave domestic disagreement to fester for too long, it leads to greater evil. The Husband is weeping mad, blaming himself...i killed my wife! Only God knows how many wives, husbands, children have died such a needless death. Couples must cultivate love for one another. No matter how angry you are with your spouse please don't allow any disagreement to go on for long without settling your differences. It is senseless to lose a Spouse this way. May God keep us all and bless our marriages.
NIGERIA AGAIN SHUNS MERIT IN COMMON ENTRANCE EXAM CUT OFF
The National Common Entrance Examination [NCEE] Board has published the Entrance Exam Cut-Off Mark of Each State for the 2017/18 session.
Below is the Current National Common Entrance Examination [NCEE] Cut-Off Marks Of Each State In The Federation.
Male Female
Abia 65 65
Adamawa 40 40
Akwa-Ibom 63 63
Anambra 66 66
Bauchi 18 18
Benue 60 60
Borno 33 33
Cross-Rivers 54 54
Delta 65 65
Edo 63 63
Enugu. 65 65
Imo 66 66
Jigawa 37 37
Kaduna 52 52
Kano 34 34
Katsina 37 37
Kebbi 35 35
Kogi 61 61
Kwara 62 62
Lagos 65 65
Niger 49 49
Ogun 65 65
Ondo 64 64
Osun 64 64
Oyo 63 63
Plateau 52 52
Rivers 62 62
Sokoto 15 7
Taraba 19 19
Yobe 20 20
FCT-Abuja 57 57
Bayelsa 51 51
Ebonyi 60 60
Ekiti 62 62
Gombe 37 37
Nassarawa 42 42
Zamfara 14 12
Below is the Current National Common Entrance Examination [NCEE] Cut-Off Marks Of Each State In The Federation.
Male Female
Abia 65 65
Adamawa 40 40
Akwa-Ibom 63 63
Anambra 66 66
Bauchi 18 18
Benue 60 60
Borno 33 33
Cross-Rivers 54 54
Delta 65 65
Edo 63 63
Enugu. 65 65
Imo 66 66
Jigawa 37 37
Kaduna 52 52
Kano 34 34
Katsina 37 37
Kebbi 35 35
Kogi 61 61
Kwara 62 62
Lagos 65 65
Niger 49 49
Ogun 65 65
Ondo 64 64
Osun 64 64
Oyo 63 63
Plateau 52 52
Rivers 62 62
Sokoto 15 7
Taraba 19 19
Yobe 20 20
FCT-Abuja 57 57
Bayelsa 51 51
Ebonyi 60 60
Ekiti 62 62
Gombe 37 37
Nassarawa 42 42
Zamfara 14 12
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
SUMMARY OF PARIS CLUB REFUND TO NIGERIAN STATES
Paris Club Payments To States & FCT.
1. ABIA N5,715,765,871.48
2. ADAMAWA N6,114,300,352.68
3. AKWA-IBOM N10,000,000,000
4. ANAMBRA N6,121,656,702.34
5. BAUCHI N6,877,776,561.25
6. BAYELSA N10,000,000,000
7. BENUE N6,854,671,749.25
8. BORNO N7,340,934,865.32
9. CROSS RIVER N6,075,343,946.93
10. DELTA N10,000,000,000
11. EBONYI N4,508,083,379.98
12. EDO N6,091,126,592.49
13. EKITI N4,772,836,647.08
14. ENUGU N5,361,789,409.66
15. GOMBE N4,472,877,698.19
16. IMO N7,000,805,182.97
17. JIGAWA N7,107,666,706.76
18. KADUNA N7,721,729,227.55
19. KANO N10,000,000,000
20. KATSINA N8,202,130,909.85
21. KEBBI N5,977,499,491.45
22. KOGI N6,027,727,595.8
23. KWARA N5,120,644,326.57
24. LAGOS N8,371,938,133.11
25. NASARAWA N4,551,049,171.12
26. NIGER N7,210,793,154.95
27. OGUN N5,739,374,694.46
28 ONDO N7,003,648,314.28
29 OSUN N6,314,106,340.62
30 OYO N7,901,609,864.25
31 PLATEAU N5,644,079,055.41
32 RIVERS N10,000,000,000
33 SOKOTO N6,441,128,546.76
34 TARABA N5,612,014,491.52
35 YOBE N5,413,1031,16.59
36 ZAMFARA N5,442,385,594.49
37 FCT N684,867,500.04
TOTAL N243,795,465,195.2
1. ABIA N5,715,765,871.48
2. ADAMAWA N6,114,300,352.68
3. AKWA-IBOM N10,000,000,000
4. ANAMBRA N6,121,656,702.34
5. BAUCHI N6,877,776,561.25
6. BAYELSA N10,000,000,000
7. BENUE N6,854,671,749.25
8. BORNO N7,340,934,865.32
9. CROSS RIVER N6,075,343,946.93
10. DELTA N10,000,000,000
11. EBONYI N4,508,083,379.98
12. EDO N6,091,126,592.49
13. EKITI N4,772,836,647.08
14. ENUGU N5,361,789,409.66
15. GOMBE N4,472,877,698.19
16. IMO N7,000,805,182.97
17. JIGAWA N7,107,666,706.76
18. KADUNA N7,721,729,227.55
19. KANO N10,000,000,000
20. KATSINA N8,202,130,909.85
21. KEBBI N5,977,499,491.45
22. KOGI N6,027,727,595.8
23. KWARA N5,120,644,326.57
24. LAGOS N8,371,938,133.11
25. NASARAWA N4,551,049,171.12
26. NIGER N7,210,793,154.95
27. OGUN N5,739,374,694.46
28 ONDO N7,003,648,314.28
29 OSUN N6,314,106,340.62
30 OYO N7,901,609,864.25
31 PLATEAU N5,644,079,055.41
32 RIVERS N10,000,000,000
33 SOKOTO N6,441,128,546.76
34 TARABA N5,612,014,491.52
35 YOBE N5,413,1031,16.59
36 ZAMFARA N5,442,385,594.49
37 FCT N684,867,500.04
TOTAL N243,795,465,195.2
WHY LADIES WENT TO ARSENAL MATCH
Did you know??...In the 90s Arsenal Football Club had a player called David Dicks. When he was injured, the Newspaper wrote "Arsenal to play without Dicks". The coach was upset so the Newspaper changed the headline to read "Arsenal to play with Dicks out"... A record number of women attended the match.
Copied.....
WHICH TOWN IS KNOWN FOR BARGAINING FOR EVERYTHING?
WHERE IS HE FROM
A man fell into a well and was screaming for help His wife came with a rope down inside the well,The man looked at the rope and said......."How much did you buy this rope".The wife said N1500. "WHAT", The man shouted inside the well, "Return it to the the seller now now and go to mama queen shop down the street.Her own is N300.Hurray up before I die here!!!!
I beg, Which part of the country do u think this man is from.
A) Ijebu
B) Ibo
C) Ekiti
D) Egba
E) Igbira
F) Field
I'm sure you are laughing now.......Now make someone laugh too by sharing it. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
A man fell into a well and was screaming for help His wife came with a rope down inside the well,The man looked at the rope and said......."How much did you buy this rope".The wife said N1500. "WHAT", The man shouted inside the well, "Return it to the the seller now now and go to mama queen shop down the street.Her own is N300.Hurray up before I die here!!!!
I beg, Which part of the country do u think this man is from.
A) Ijebu
B) Ibo
C) Ekiti
D) Egba
E) Igbira
F) Field
I'm sure you are laughing now.......Now make someone laugh too by sharing it. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
HOW ANYBODY CAN DIAGNOSE A STROKE
🍃Stroke has a new indicator.
They say if you email this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life.
Will you send this along?
Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue
🍃I will continue to forward this every time it comes around!
STROKE: Remember the *1st Three Letters*....
*🍃 S. T. R. 🍃*
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
🍃Senario :- During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics)...
she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.
🍃Jane's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PMJane passed away)
She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ.
Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today.
Some don't die.
They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
🍃It only takes a minute to read this.
🍃A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within *3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally*.
He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within *3 hours*, which is tough.
*🍃RECOGNIZING A STROKE*
Thank God for the sense to remember the *'3' steps, STR.* Read and Learn!
🍃Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.
The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a
stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by *asking three simple questions*:
✅ *S*Ask the individual to *SMILE*.
✅ *T* Ask the person to *TALK* and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)
(i.e. Chicken Soup)
✅ *R*Ask him or her to *RAISE BOTH ARMS.*
🍃If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
🍃New Sign of a Stroke ---
✅ *Stick out Your Tongue!*
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.
If the *tongue* is
*'crooked'*, if it *goes to one side* or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.
✅A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
*S T R😛*
*1. SMILE* 😊
*2. TALK*🗣
*3. RAISE BOTH ARMS* 🙆🏾🙆🏾♂
*4. STICK OUT TONGUE* 😛
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Whatsapp
They say if you email this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life.
Will you send this along?
Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue
🍃I will continue to forward this every time it comes around!
STROKE: Remember the *1st Three Letters*....
*🍃 S. T. R. 🍃*
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
🍃Senario :- During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics)...
she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.
🍃Jane's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PMJane passed away)
She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ.
Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today.
Some don't die.
They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
🍃It only takes a minute to read this.
🍃A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within *3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally*.
He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within *3 hours*, which is tough.
*🍃RECOGNIZING A STROKE*
Thank God for the sense to remember the *'3' steps, STR.* Read and Learn!
🍃Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.
The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a
stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by *asking three simple questions*:
✅ *S*Ask the individual to *SMILE*.
✅ *T* Ask the person to *TALK* and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)
(i.e. Chicken Soup)
✅ *R*Ask him or her to *RAISE BOTH ARMS.*
🍃If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
🍃New Sign of a Stroke ---
✅ *Stick out Your Tongue!*
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.
If the *tongue* is
*'crooked'*, if it *goes to one side* or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.
✅A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
*S T R😛*
*1. SMILE* 😊
*2. TALK*🗣
*3. RAISE BOTH ARMS* 🙆🏾🙆🏾♂
*4. STICK OUT TONGUE* 😛
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Monday, July 17, 2017
Make Any Woman Loyal Through Touch
.
A woman loves to be touched by a man, sensations of love hidden under her skin waiting for him to awaken them.
1. Gently squeeze the palm of her when she is scared, it comforts her.
2. Gentle squeeze and rub her back when you hug her tight, it makes her feel safe.
3. Grab her bum with no apologies, it makes her feel wanted and desired by you, her man.
4. Hold her by the waist when you introduce her to your friends and family, it makes her feel secure.
5. Gentle rub her hand when she is worrying or has received some bad news, it shows her you care.
6. Hold her back when she is in the kitchen cooking and her hands are tired as you tell her how much she means to you, it makes her hard work worth it.
7. Place your hand between or on her breasts as you both sleep, it makes her feel comfortable and warm with you.
8. Touch her tummy when she's pregnant, it tells her she is not alone, daddy is there with her.
9. Rub her hips down when she is dressing up or when she is relaxing in bed, it makes her feel sexy.
10. Hold her hands when you two are praying, it shows unity before God.
11. Sneak from behind and wrap your arms around her, it makes her feel special.
12. Massage her shoulders when she says she is tired, it calms her down.
13. Stroke gently her back, tracing her spine, it releases sweet shivers all over her body.
14. Rub her feet when she's had a long day, it tells her you are serious when you say you will take care of her.
15. Oil her body, her back, her elbows, her knees sometimes. Love on the body that you find sexy.
16. Hold her face, her neck as you kiss her, it melts and nicely weakens her. She loves to surrender to your masculine love.
17. Play with her fingers as you cuddle and talk, it tells her you're paying attention.
TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD........Google Transparent Ranking
| RANK | UNIVERSITY | COUNTRY | CITATIONS |
| 1 | Harvard University | USA | 1734533 |
| 2 | Stanford University | USA | 1197114 |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 1152185 |
| 4 | University of California Berkeley | USA | 1106930 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | 995531 |
| 6 | University of Chicago | USA | 958122 |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 910756 |
| 8 | Princeton University | USA | 900384 |
| 9 | University College London | United Kingdom | 889301 |
| 10 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 866948 |
| 11 | Columbia University New York | USA | 863033 |
| 12 | University of Michigan | USA | 861106 |
| 13 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 834685 |
| 14 | University of California San Diego | USA | 832647 |
| 15 | Yale University | USA | 796336 |
| 16 | Michigan State University | USA | 783142 |
| 17 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 757815 |
| 18 | Duke University | USA | 748019 |
| 19 | University of Washington | USA | 744378 |
| 20 | University of California Los Angeles UCLA | USA | 729345 |
| 21 | Temple University | USA | 720295 |
| 22 | Boston University | USA | 719197 |
| 23 | University of Rochester | USA | 715484 |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA | 710773 |
| 25 | University of Toronto | Canada | 704142 |
| 26 | Washington University Saint Louis | USA | 699876 |
| 27 | New York University | USA | 667073 |
| 28 | Arizona State University | USA | 646161 |
| 29 | University of Oregon | USA | 641479 |
| 30 | Northwestern University | USA | 639766 |
| 31 | Ohio State University | USA | 634077 |
| 32 | Harvard Medical School | USA | 626583 |
| 33 | McMaster University | Canada | 625299 |
| 34 | University of Minnesota System | USA | 620340 |
| 35 | Cornell University | USA | 615805 |
| 36 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 605413 |
| 37 | University of Pennsylvania | USA | 600124 |
| 38 | University of Texas Austin | USA | 598291 |
| 39 | University of California Irvine | USA | 581402 |
| 40 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | USA | 579748 |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | USA | 564182 |
| 42 | University of California San Francisco | USA | 546180 |
| 43 | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | USA | 544789 |
| 44 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | Greece | 539999 |
| 45 | Rice University | USA | 537743 |
| 46 | University of California Santa Barbara | USA | 537187 |
| 47 | Lund University / Lunds Universitet | Sweden | 527814 |
| 48 | University of Southern California | USA | 526928 |
| 49 | Georgia Institute of Technology | USA | 524353 |
| 50 | McGill University | Canada | 516947 |
| 51 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 516160 |
| 52 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 515888 |
| 53 | University of Florida | USA | 509324 |
| 54 | University of Wisconsin Madison | USA | 507454 |
| 55 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom | 490815 |
| 56 | University of California Davis | USA | 486373 |
| 57 | Northeastern University | USA | 483980 |
| 58 | Novosibirsk State University / Новосибирский государственный университет | Russian Federation | 481004 |
| 59 | M D Anderson Cancer Center University of Texas | USA | 479668 |
| 60 | University of Maryland College Park | USA | 477646 |
| 61 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | USA | 475917 |
| 62 | Vanderbilt University | USA | 475221 |
| 63 | California Institute of Technology Caltech | USA | 474111 |
| 64 | Bristol University | United Kingdom | 468946 |
| 65 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 467910 |
| 66 | University of Alberta | Canada | 455608 |
| 67 | University of Texas San Antonio | USA | 454161 |
| 68 | University of Pittsburgh | USA | 448397 |
| 69 | Pennsylvania State University | USA | 446893 |
| 70 | Australian National University | Australia | 441133 |
| 71 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 435178 |
| 72 | University of Notre Dame | USA | 429789 |
| 73 | Brown University | USA | 424731 |
| 74 | University of Queensland | Australia | 419390 |
| 75 | Radboud University / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | Netherlands | 418204 |
| 76 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 417726 |
| 77 | Texas A&M University | USA | 416161 |
| 78 | Tufts University | USA | 415524 |
| 79 | Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium | 413876 |
| 80 | Indiana University Bloomington | USA | 413090 |
| 81 | University of Sydney | Australia | 410631 |
| 82 | Leiden University / Universiteit Leiden | Netherlands | 402913 |
| 83 | University of Colorado Boulder | USA | 402141 |
| 84 | Karolinska Institute / Karolinska Institutet | Sweden | 395526 |
| 85 | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa | Canada | 393385 |
| 86 | Seoul National University / 서울대학교 | South Korea | 392257 |
| 87 | Emory University | USA | 390172 |
| 88 | University of New South Wales | Australia | 387841 |
| 89 | Baylor College of Medicine | USA | 387758 |
| 90 | Universität Zürich | Switzerland | 386177 |
| 91 | Rutgers The State University of New Jersey | USA | 385485 |
| 92 | Stony Brook University | USA | 385009 |
| 93 | VU University of Amsterdam / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | 384790 |
| 94 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 380231 |
| 95 | Purdue University | USA | 378517 |
| 96 | University of Utah | USA | 378510 |
| 97 | University of Copenhagen / Københavns Universitet | Denmark | 376284 |
| 98 | Université de Geneve | Switzerland | 373228 |
| 99 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 371821 |
| 100 | Korea University / 고려대학교 Follow the link to locate your University http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/169 |
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)