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27/03/2024

Attention all sons, daughters, and friends of Akoko-Edo LGA:

You are cordially invited to the inaugural Akoko-Edo Beauty Pageant, a celebration of grace, culture, and community spirit. Mark your calendars for April 12, 2024, and be part of a historic event that promises to be more than just a display of beauty.

Beauty pageants have evolved significantly from their inception, offering numerous benefits and opportunities. Join us as we embrace this event as a powerful force for positive change in our community.

Let’s unite to make the Akoko-Edo Beauty Pageant a resounding success!

Tickets are available here:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1098523324811807?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v



Highlight

22/03/2024

I met today, with Oba D S Lawani, the esteemed Okohgbe of Ojah land, someone I have had the cause to interview before, alongside several distinguished monarchs from Akoko-Edo LGA of Edo State, at the coronation of Oba Frederick Lucky Iyogun, Iyogu II of Uneme Osu. Even though we had all gathered to celebrate the new Oba, during our encounter, I still took the opportunity to express my heartfelt greetings to, and support for Oba Lawani, particularly in light of the unfortunate events that transpired in his community. His residence and vehicle, as well as those belonging to an Edo state commissioner from Ojah, were destroyed in a fire set by misinformed youths—a regrettable act stemming from misguided beliefs. To the revered king, I say: remain steadfast and resilient. In the end, all shall be well.

As I previously mentioned regarding the Ojah incident, it is imperative for our people to reject religious extremism, superstition, and ignorance. Instead, we should embrace knowledge, technology, and unity. With the coronation of Osu’s new king, it’s crucial to support our traditional institutions. We must recognize that in Akoko-Edo, we stand united as one people.

Once again congratulations, your Highness!

22/03/2024

Behind every great wealth there's a crime story!

Check out DopplerFilms’s video.

01/03/2024

Africa Is Not Poor, Nigeria Is Not Either, Both Are Being Looted!

In remembrance of Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni environmental activist, entrepreneur, writer and television producer, who was executed in 1995 alongside 8 of his Ogoni brothers by the military dictatorship of late Sani Abacha! May you continue to rest in peace, and may the cause for which your life was forfeit never die!

Full video on YouTube

25/02/2024

The Bible God was reported to have instructed the Jews to kill rams, smear the blood on the lintel of their door posts, and then eat the roasted flesh of the rams in a haste...at night, that God came down and slaughtered all the firstborn sons of the Egyptians so that the Jews can escape from Egypt! That incident became the Passover Feast...Nigerian Christians today believe and accept that story without a single iota of doubt, and the same Christians demonize their own forefathers for doing the exact same thing as the Jews, except that they replaced the killing with eating and dancing!

The Jews sacrificed a lamb in honour of their God, Nigerian Christians say it is holy! Their own ancestors do the same thing in honour of their own God, they turn around and say that it is demonic!

Nigerian Christians, stop hating on your forefathers, they were victims not villains!

22/02/2024

Here is a Capcut highlight of some BTS images from our experience at the just concluded 7-yearly Itakpo Festival of Ososo people…the actual documentary we are currently working on, when released, will not only tell the ancient story of the god Ajikoriko, represented by a peice of polished rock, it will show how the story relates to the migration of this fascinating people, their complex culture which includes the celebration of Itakpo, and how their past is now thawing on the collar of their future, begging for remembrance!

ITAKPO: A Past Calling On The Future
A documentary...
Wait for it!

21/02/2024

Africa is a continent of rich cultural heritage and diverse communities. Consequently, there are numerous ancient festivals celebrated across the continent, among which are Ethopia’s Timkat Festival, a joyous occasion that commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. Benin’s Quidah Voodoo Festival, a spellbinding celebration of Vodun, an ancient animistic religion. The Gerewol Festival, a fascinating festival of the nomadic Wodaabe people, who are known for their elaborate beauty rituals and courtship dances... and then the 7-yearly Itakpo Festival, also known as the Feast of Passover of the Ososo people of Nigeria, known for its elaborate cultural costumes, eating, drinking, dancing and sharing, just to mention a few…the Itakpo Festival is also a patriarchal age-grade initiation, a moment of graduation from boyhood to manhood; and it is also an elevation to the Elders Assembly, in the society.

Before we release our documentary about the festival, here are a few BTS images from the event…

19/02/2024

Extract:

Brig.Gen. Bet Bello (Rtd) and a host of others spoke to us about the Itakpo festival of Ososo people, its history, purpose, mode of celebration, significance...and they also shared their thoughts on why everyone, whether religious or not, should live the legacy of the ancestors by celebrating ancient African festivals!

Full clip will be on

ITAKPO: A Past Calling On The Future
..a documentary, coming soon!

13/02/2024

In the image attached to this post is the late MD of Access Holding, Herbert Wigwe (right), who was said to have moved into his just completed house at Queen’s Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos, last December!

Report says it was his dream house, a state-of-the-art edifice, fully digital and automated as well. In fact, they say Siri and Google Assistant controls every single detail of the property's functionality.

They say the house is worth 10 billion naira and it was meant to serve as his retirement home.

Three weeks ago, he he was said to have hosted Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, and his bestie, Femi Otedola, for dinner at the property, where he took them round, to show the two Forbes billionaires his new acquisition and it's wonders.

Before his death, his shares in Access bank was worth $54 million. He was really successful, he was healthy, connected, happy and very wealthy! I believe death wouldn't even be in his agenda for the next 30 years! Alias! 😢😢

I believe this life, for both the rich and the poor, is really empty and fleeting. We are like a butterfly who flutters for a brief second in the wind, and yet think it's forever. We make plans for everything, and act as if death isn't a reality!

Do your best to live your life on your own terms, pay no attention to naysayers, try to stay healthy, avoid trouble, listen always to your heart and instincts, believe in the power of the Universe to help always, love those who love you whether they are family or not, and try to touch as many lives as you can, positively, because this is the real meaning of life and none of us is promised tomorrow.

Rest well Herbert! Rest!

11/02/2024

Since Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999, we've seen that President Obasanjo's government was better than Yar'Dua's, Yar'Dua's was better than Jonathan's, and Jonathan was light years ahead of Buhari who turned out to be the worst president in Nigeria's recent history! Sadly, whether we like it or not, President Tinubu is showing that he may be worse than Buhari!
Do you think this is a coincidence, that successive governments in Nigeria are worse than the previous ones, or do you see a pattern?

Full video on TikTok:
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15/01/2024

“However, my visit this year also brought to light a poignant observation – the noticeable absence of many Nigerian tech enthusiasts and academics at the event.”

https://wp.me/p1CKqz-hk

14/01/2024

Patrice Lumumba -Congo, Salvador Allende -Chile, Fidel Castro -Cuba and General Abd al-karim Qasim -Iraq, are all examples of the CIA’s notoriety for high-profile assassinations which span decades. Even though the agency often denies responsibility for most crimes it is accused of, it remains a named culprit of countless murders and coups all over the world. In fact, this notoriety led to an expansive investigation by the US Senate in the 1970s, leading the then President Gerald Ford to issue a directive in 1976 stating: “No employee of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire in, political assassination.” Of course, this was mostly to save face and make it look as though the United States government had the CIA on a leash, but the killings did not stop, and hasn’t stopped...

In the video, we look at some CIA assassinations worldwide...

Complete video on YouTube

https://youtu.be/7UHv0awptCc?si=zScdlCtBez5u4XvA

04/01/2024

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”

~Brandon Sanderson, author of The Way of Kings

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
~Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees

Happy New Year people!!!

31/12/2023

This is wishing you all a very happy and prosperous year 2024!

30/12/2023

*The Disgrace of Oba Overami & The 1897 British Invasion of Ancient Benin City (Part 3)*

How did the #1897 British invasion of ancient Benin City alter the trajectory of Benin , how did the disgrace of Oba affect his people, what are the effects of looting of artifacts on the , and legacy of the , and how has all these affected people in particular, and in general?

This is the final episode of a 3 part series, and here, we focuse on these questions?

29/12/2023

Let's discuss some history!

How did the #1897 British invasion of ancient Benin City alter the trajectory of Benin , how did the disgrace of Oba affect his people, what are the effects of looting of artifacts on the , and legacy of the , and how has all these affected today?

On this 3 part series of our , we focus on these questions?

Wishing you a very prosperous year 2024!

20/12/2023

On this episode of we ask why no single Nigerian pentecostal church made the Richest Churches in the World list and yet almost all their founders made the Richest Pastors on Earth list. Bishop Oyedepo for example, boasted of being the richest pastor on earth, a boast that even the Pope of the richest church on earth can't make, yet the Winners Chapel is not on the list of richest churches! Why is this so?

and The Other 98% Other

16/12/2023

Jesus was a simple looking, ordinary village man, who spoke with a strong Galileen accent!

He is nothing like the Caucasian male we see in the picture of him being circulated today!

He was not poor, he was a moral teacher who hated the corruption of the Jewish religious leaders of his day...

He believed he was related to God in a way that's different from the rest of humanity and so on...in fact, he was human!

As we celebrate Christmas, I thought I should share a few facts about him in this video!

08/12/2023

Many Christians frown at the celebration of Christmas because according to them, of it's pagan origin! Yet so many people, especially Christians, do not even know the origins of most of the things we do, the words we use or the symbols we adore and revere today, including the cross! The same Christians who avoid Christmas worship on Sun-Day!

What is wrong with celebrating Christmas on 25 December? Let us examine this subject together!

27/08/2023

On November 10, 1995, environmental activist, entrepreneur, writer and television producer, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, alongside 8 of his Ogoni brothers, were executed by hanging in Port Harcourt city, by the military dictatorship of late General Sani Abacha. As if to obliterate memory of them, their corpses were doused in raw acid and the public thereafter barred from the site where the bodies were later dumped…even to this day. 28 years on, not only has many Nigerians forgotten the sacrifice of the Ogoni 9, many more, especially the youths, do not even know who these heroes were, least of all the reason for which their lives were forfeit. Who was Ken Saro-Wiwa? Why was he killed? Why is his story, and that of Ogoni land important, especially as regard the blustery story of oil exploration in Nigeria’s Niger Delta area? How has this story affected Nigerians as a people, and what is the international connection to it?

The complete video is on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IimtzWfx-jY

12/08/2023

Africa wake up! Open your eyes, FOCUS!

10/08/2023

"Niger has shut down its diplomatic offices in USA, France, and Nigeria. The people are saying no to poverty, no to theft and hypocrisy. Enough is enough. Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and others are saying the same thing, in solidarity with Niger, and at the same time, the CIA, MI5 and other western secret services are spinning their wheels to ensure they continue to hold sway in west Africa…"

https://wp.me/p1CKqz-h1

07/08/2023

Africa needs to wake up!

If they want Uranium, let them come to Niger and build nuclear power plants...

If they want cocoa, let them come to Africa and build chocolate companies...

If they want copper, diamonds, tantalum, tin, gold, and silver, come to Africa and build processing factories...

You want lithium from Zimbabwe, come and build...

Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil-producing countries, yet she doesn't have a single refinery...

They must know we're no longer in Abraham Lincoln's 1863...

06/08/2023

The man who presides over Nigeria as president today, the same man who is now leading the push for an invasion of the Republic of Niger, ECOWAS chair Bola Ahmed Tinubu, spent years laundering millions of dollars for he**in dealers in Chicago, the USA. Not just that, he has been marred in corruption scandals ever since, to the extent that he even faced Nigeria's Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) at some point...as we speak, the flawed elections that brought him to power is still being challenged in court!

So it will be a mistake for ECOWAS and the people of West Africa to allow this puppet of some foreign interest groups to succeed in starting a war in the subregion...Libya, Syria and elsewhere should be lessons enough for us. An invasion of Niger will start a war that may not end in years, causing the manufacturers of the weapons we would need to prosecute the war to become richer while casting our people into deeper misery!

The people of the Republic Niger, like many citizens of the global south, have been shortchanged for so long, reason they are standing with this popular coup...

We say !

18/07/2023

From 2015-2023, a good solid 8 years, Buhari practically blamed the previous government of President Jonathan for all the problems of the country, including the ones he created!

With dollar at over 800 naira, petrol selling at 700 per liter, inflation at an all time high in 7 years, and biting hardship as a result of rising cost of basic needs as of this morning, Tinubu as is expected, is blaming the previous government of Buhari!

I don't know of any human being that ever lived who had a chance to live twice. We've all got only one life to live and see the sort of hardship Nigerians are facing at the hands of their leaders! 😢😢

How can a country with the largest population in Africa, the largest concentration of black people anywhere in the world, comprising young, able bodied people, with very fertile lands, be unable to feed itself! Just imagine!

05/07/2023

I don't understand, is this some kind of a game? As a minor, should she even be granting interviews? If her parents are really sure they are unconnected to this whole affair, shouldn't they be briefing thier lawyers by now and, or heading to court? Isn't there a government body that should by now have opened an unbiased investigation into this issue? Her dad said JAMB wants to pull his daughter down, why would JAMB want to do so? To what end? Afterall the highest scorer is still from the same State as the girl! I hear her original result is still impressive, so whats the whole point of a forgery? What if JAMB is right all along, and what if the girl too is innocent as per the faked result? Why must we, especially the press and blogs, always sensationalize every matter that comes to the open space? Na wa o...

01/07/2023

A son of nobody who wants to become somebody, without knowing anybody, must not think like everybody!

29/06/2023

Make I drop this one here this morning! 🙃🙃

Let's assume someone you knew just died and you go to his funeral!

You know when you get there, you won't say; "Hey! Which room is lagbaja in?". Instead you'd say "Where is the body of lagbaja?". Everyone says that! We don't refer to corpses as if they are still in there in the body! In fact in announcing death, some of us will say, lagbaja is gone!

Do you know this is a tacit admission that the body of the dead person is not the same as the dead person, that the person is now something else that is not him or her anymore, that something has left his or her body? This notion matches perfectly with the religious concept of humans having a soul that can leave the body when one dies!

But even if, like the Jehovah's Witnesses you do not believe humans have a soul, you are still the person who might refer to a dead person as " where is the body of" so so so and so person. Because you recognize that there is something there when the person was alive that won't be there anymore when the person dies.

But what is it that was there when they were alive that is no longerthere when they die? Does man have any evidence for the existence of that something?

My pastor says it is the soul, the life force, the energy that God breathe into man at creation, but experts say that that something is simply the neurosynapsis of the human brain. They say they know the human brain is the person because doctors can stroke out bits by bits of the human brain, they can scan the brain and see the entire thing and that they have the ability to shot down sections of the human brain. They say as that happens, that's if it's multiple strokes rather than one massive stroke, one looses the ability to speak, one looses the knowledge of who they are, they don't remember where they come from, in fact all the things that are associated with them, that makes the person him or her, he or she looses. When doctors or illhealth tampers with your brain like that they say, you loose your personality! And at the moment none of your brain sections will work except the basal motor functions that keeps your heart alive.

Now, for the age long debate of where human consciousness (or what my Rev Fr calls the soul) resides in the human body, let me ask this; where is that thing that makes me know I am me, soul or consciousness, where does it reside in my body? Is it in the head or the heart?

There are those who even say it resides outside of the human body, they say it follows us around, ready to depart at the slightest cause of death 😃. But again experts say the brain is us, it is what makes us know we are who we are, it is our consciousness or soul if you like, and like the hard drive of a computer, they say as soon as dies, the story ends, one seize to exist! 😢

But here is an interesting question I like to ask! By the time man reaches a point when human brain can be transplanted, what happens? Let's assume you had an accident that damaged your brain, and you get a transplant, how will it be like? Wouldn't that be some kind of an ultimate breach of privacy? Will you still be you or the person whose brain you just received? Will you have his genius, assuming he was one, will you have access to his secrets, his thoughts and all? I'd like to know 🤔.

Good morning people 😴😃

27/06/2023

My Muslim friend Taofeeq has travelled to Saudi Arabia, he told me when he comes back he'd proudly adorn the title, Alhaji Taofeeq 😀.

When I asked why it must be so and the importance of the trip, especially at this time when Nigerian families are groaning as subsidy removal is squeezing family budgets to breaking point, he replied; "There is no land in the entire world that is holier than Mecca, the land of the Arabs and going there is a divine commandment.". He added that if he had a choice in choosing which city is to be destroyed between his home town of Okene and Mecca, he would pick Nigeria because he won't want the land of the prophet to be destroyed! 😀

So the creator of an endless universe with countless galaxies, stars and planets, created a multiracial world like earth, and then decided a tiny pixel of land called Mecca is holy by placing a special rock which some experts insist is a meteorite, on it?

This year, an estimated 95,000 Nigerians will be contributing close to 400 billion naira to the Saudi Arabian economy just because they want to visit the so called "holiest land in the universe." My friend even told me Mecca is the centre of earth 😀. Although I know earth is not a perfect sphere, but how do you even determine the centre in a sphere? Just so you know, everywhere in a sphere is the centre! Pick up a ball and try to pin the centre let's see!

In 2015, I was in India attending an international writer's residency when I read in the news that over 75 Nigerians had died in Mecca due to stampede. Do you know many Muslims justified those deaths, saying it was thier sure ticket to paradise? 🥺😀

As at this morning, I hear 6 Nigerians have died there too. Yet, every year, even state governments fund trips to Saudi, a land that has crude but may be making more money from religious pilgrimage than oil. No wonder Iran choose to have its own "Mecca"! Maybe Nigeria should too 🤣.

The purpose many religious Muslims cross the Atlantic to go to Mecca is to throw stones at "Satan", circumnavigate a pillar counterclockwise (they are forbidden to do so clockwise), climb a mountain etc, and then return home to be called Alhaji...

Etymologically, the term "Alhaji" has Arabic origins and is derived from the word "al-Hajj" (الحاج), which means "the pilgrim." "Alhaji" refers to someone who embarks on a journey or pilgrimage. The term "pilgrim" originated from the Latin word "peregrinus," which means "foreigner" or "traveler."

I wonder how many Saudis are called Alhaji?
Do they call people from Turkey, Pakistan, Yemen, etc Alhaji too?

Human space exploration is entering new frontiers, I am wondering, by the time we meet extraterrestrials from other planets who are far more advanced and have no religion, or by the time man succeeds in terraforming other planets and extending human influence there, will we create another Mecca there? What will our Muslims brothers have to say about Mecca being the holiest city in the universe by then?

Good morning guys 😀😃

NB: I did an article on my thoughts on Nigeria's funding of pilgrimages, it's on my blog akanbiafeso.