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The Igbos are a highly superstitious people. It is believed that just as men are circum**cised, women should be ci!rcumc*ised too for spiritual reasons. As primitive as this sounds, it is still practised in various Igbo communities today albeit secretly. Female c!ircumcisi0n is seen as a rite of passage into womanhood. Some people do it days after the girl child is born while others wait for her to grow into her teens before the horrible deed is done. The awareness and sensitization on Female Gen!ital Mutilati0n decreased the practice but did not put a stop to it. Instead, the women who do this now operate in secrecy. The Beliefs/Practices That Promoted Female Ci!rcumcisi0n: 1. It is believed that women who are not cir*cumci!sed make love to spirits in their sleep and by so doing give birth to Ogbanjes. Because of this, women made sure they c!rcumc!ised their daughters because failure to do so would mean giving birth to Ogbanjes fathered by their spiritual husbands. 2. After ...

Before the advent of western civilisation, the Igbos firmly believed in reincarnation and they still do today. Before religion came with promises of heaven for the righteous and threats of hell for the defaulters, reincarnation was all they had to keep them in line. They believed and still do that the dead would live again, not in heaven or any parallel universe but on this earth. They believed that your good deeds would help you reincarnate better and that evildoers would not be reincarnated. They believed that denying someone of their burial rites (like throwing Suicides into the forest) or burying someone face down would prevent them from reincarnating. The Igbos conviction on the actual process by which man reincarnates varies. Some believe that man reincarnates with his former body and all its physical characteristics like height, strength and complexion, while many are convinced that only the spirit of God in the man would reincarnate. How reincarnation is determined: 1...

It is no secret that the Igbo family and the African culture as a whole views the male child as the superior gender. The female child is the auxiliary gender. This is why a family with all male children is thought complete but not one with all female children. A man who has the wherewithal can marry as many wives as possible and keep as many concubines as possible in order to get the cherished son. It is not frowned on by the society. As a matter of fact it is applauded and his relations go out of their way to look for girls who come from families known to birth mostly boys. This is taken rather seriously. Even in this present age, most Igbo men will not marry a girl who has more female siblings than male. They believe it is genetic and such woman would birth more girls than boys when she eventually becomes a mother. Now to the topic at hand, when after all said and done a man still manages to only have female children, the onus to perpetuate the family bloodline lies on the d...

My grandma passed on at about the age of 90. She was strong for her age, but as expected of someone over 80, had a problem with standing for longer than a few minutes. If she found herself in a queue, I would expect the younger ones who are more able to stand to show some consideration. It is NOT a sense of entitlement, it's just something I think is right. Something I would do for another person's grandma. I can't be on a queue, find an elderly person, a disabled person, a nursing mother or a pregnant woman standing behind and not offer them my spot or do something to make their business there easier. Neither can I be sitting in a space of limited seats and not offer my seat to anyone who falls into this category. No, they do not have to ask. I don't even need them to ask so I can analyze how politely they have done it, I just give it up because I'm human, and every human could do with a bit of love, compassion.... and immunity. I do it because an unwritte...

Surprising huh? In the Igbo community, women are allowed to marry women. Pay her brideprice and all. This is not an old-fashioned practice that is now outdated. No. This is a custom still practised in so many Igbo communities till today. A woman goes in search of a wife, makes the usual enquiries, takes her people and goes to pay the younger woman's bride price and carry out every customary requirement and they live as woman-husband and woman-wife. Circumstances surrounding this practice. 1. In a situation where a woman has no son or no child, if her husband dies, she is culturally allowed to marry a woman to bear children to carry on the late husband's name. The woman-husband pays the bride price of the woman-wife and brings her back home. They choose the man the woman-wife gets to sleep with. Ideally, a married man from another town is chosen. A married man in order to prevent future child custody battles and a distant community in order to silence wagging tongues ...

There are only 46 medical doctors in the whole of Zamfara State. Let that sink in first... Okay, the state has an estimated population of about 4million people (3.3m in 2006 census), 14 LGAs and an area of 39,762 km² or 15,352 mi². That means, in that state, we have; 1 doctor to every 87,000 people. 3 doctors to each local government area. 1 doctor for every 862 km² or 334 mi². The state is hardly doing anything to grow the number of its doctors and better this horrible statistics. No, we read from those from the state that they have a hiatus governor. Always in Abuja. That is hardly surprising. The state is not making efforts to recruit or train. Medical and health service providers in the state are probably the most demotivated. It is not uncommon for medical staff one to be in the same position for about 4 - 5 years without promotion. According to the Chairman of the Medical and Health Workers Union, 20 of these doctors are in the state capital. While the rest of the st...

Since I'm Igbo, I'll stick to Igbo traditions. Hopefully they'll be interactive, interesting and educative and not something that would brew unnecessary bile. These are the major lower caste groups in Ndi-Igboland. In most places they mean the same thing; #Outcast, Pariah. But from where I come from they have very distinct meanings. 1. @Osu: This is a group of people sacrificed to the gods in Igbo community. They always assist the high priest of the Igbo #traditional religion to serve the deities or the Ndi-Igbo gods in their #shrine. Making of #Osus: A. When clans fight, the winning community takes some captives from the losing clan. Now from their captives, they sacrifice the strongest and healthiest humans to the gods as special slaves. Apart from being strong and healthy, they also have to be v!rg*ins. They are kept to serve the deity and as such cannot marry or have an affair with the freeborn (nwadiala). B. In some special circumstances, those ones who hol...

Few months ago, happenings in Mallam Ahmed Musa's marriage became public. We learn from interviews and news items, purportedly granted by Musa's mother, his wife us making all sort of problems and is not allowing her son, Musa to fulfill his religious obligation by adding another wife. Wireless Conception Ustad Ahmed Musa corroborated his mother's account of what happened in the reports; that he wants to add another wife because he doesn't want to engage in adult€ery, even though he got married to her today while preg*nant. How that happen confused my confusion. He may have smiled at her from far and by remote control his sp€erm shot straight into the abu*nnan. Or is it wireless, Bluetooth or xander conception? "I'm not understanding". And if he is serious, why registry? Why not nikka'i? He knows there will be no wedding fatiha if she is actually preg**nant. No be wayo be this? Divorce, no Divorce Anyway, we read that Madam Jamila Musa, insi...

I've been to Onitsha main market so many times, and so much has been said already, a number of ladies have narrated their stories over the past couple of days, so I will spare you the details of my own ugly experiences. The last time I was in Nigeria, I had to pay someone 5 thousand naira (plus transport and feeding for the day) to go to Onitsha market for me. I live only less than an hour drive to the market, so why didn't I go myself? I was tired of being touched by some dirty idio0tic Igbo pigs who have no brain tissues in their skulls and who have adopted $€×ual, physical and psychological ass*aults as their methods of marketing. The thing about stereotypes is that although they are usually cases of using a brush to paint everyone; they are usually NOT entirely false. They usually contain a high percentage of truth, either currently or historically. It is very sad what our women have been going through in the markets. I believe that it is a problem that should be...

Buhari brought npower, we clapped, no payment now, we are still clapping. It's quite unfortunate that we have youth that are still worshipping this N-Power programme as if NNPC has given them employment. Those of you that are married, try to calculate your stipend and the amount you spend as a family man.  Youth should think aright. So pathetic. When last year it was exposed that choice jobs in NNPC, DSs and co were made available to exclusively children of the rich we all kept mute. Buhari, Atiku, former IG of police all had the slots given out to the children and relatives while the children of commoners are asked to apply for N power. You see our youth the government made a scheme which the said is for the benefit of Nigeria yet only few are been paid and the others not paid at all and the ones paid are praising the government, is the government not suppose to pay everyone same time.N-power indeed, how many of their children are in the scheme if its a good, contract job. ...

Chibuzom yesterday said, People get peculiar problems for this Npower program just they mischievous for dis life we are in, I think it would be wise not to judge them. It is not right for a number to just call you asking you for your BVN and account details. I was forced to go to abuja to solve my problem of which God helped me, and I got my solution. I think they have all these info in their database. If corrections need to be made they should have just opened the portal to allow people correct those... I can remember when we were trying to enter our bvn and account number in our npvn account, some people carried false rumuor that they ha@cked the npvn account, that you shouldnt enter your account and bvn, we know that the people that the people that entered there account details late were paid late. If you checked all these all women employed that were selected in this volunteer job are the ones carrying the ha*cker rumour, I can tell you if you call the person fabricating th...

1. Those who believe everything is a sc@am: A lot of Nigerians are still of the notion that anyone who says he makes money online is a yahoo boy. This has made a lot of people discredit so many opportunities before even hearing what it is about. But let's analyze it. If there is a fake product, it means there is an original. Similarly, if there is a wrong way of making money, then there is a right way to go about it. The fact that one went to a f@ke recruitment does not mean all recruitments are f@ke. If you belong to this category, what you need to do is to re-orientate your mind. Not everything is bad. You just need to locate the good ones. 2. Those who are caged by their fear: This set of people always live in fear. But to them, it is being cautious. Because of this, they are always skeptical about every opportunity that comes their way. If someone discusses an idea with then, they will immediately ask, "what if it fails". And when they ask this question, they...

I remember when I had my first carryover in the school of pharmaceutical studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. I actually thought I was going to die because of the pain I was feeling. I moved around like a widow. I would hide myself in deserted buildings and cry from morning till night. For two days, I refused to eat anything. I stopped picking my parents’ calls because I couldn't even imagine telling them that I had failed at school. So I continued to cry and starve myself. I was having a new experience in my life- that of failure. I grew up being the best in everything and was always at the top of my class effortlessly. In fact, years after I left secondary school, I met one of my teachers who asked me, “Hope you’re still carrying on your legacy of profound academic excellence?” And the thing with pharmacy school is that our courses are linked in such a way that failing a single course (even in your first year) can give you an automatic extra year. It doesn’t even matt...

Federal Government will reopen its youth empowerment job application portal at portal.npower.gov.ng on May 29, 2017, Minister of Labour and Employment Dr. Chris Ngige said on Thursday. He made the declaration at press conference on the issue of minimum wage for Nigeria Labour Congress. Currently, the N-Power scheme, one of the four cardinal programmes of Social Investment Programme, SIP, is engaging 200,000 Nigerian youths in the areas of N-Agro, N-Health, and N-Teach. N-Power is said to have gulped billions of naira since it started making payment December 2016. N-power's first phase of applications commenced last year, when 200,000 applicants were shortlisted. The government called the first set of shortlisted beneficiaries "first batch" saying more 300,000 names would be released. The online assessment test conducted was characterised by several technical issues of login and submission problems, though. But with the latest news by the FG, it is obviously clear ...

You guys should truly watch out. There are some guys who photoshop POP recently. Do not confirm payment unless you receive payment into your account Do not let anyone coerce you to confirm payment because they upload a POP that contains your name or account number. Ensure you have your account credited because you push the confirm payment button. Let see how this community can be manage by we please, we should tell our DL to all pH provide help for the system to keep doing well because it be long to we all... I was matched with an Hausa man call nnawusa... Acct R36454477714... He uploaded fake teller that are above here. He also don't have phone number and is guider was not responding as well and have write to support severely and no reply yet. What you should do is to write to support only when the order has turned Yellow. Although, before it turn to yellow the person might decide to pay before things escalate. But what you are going to do, please better write in the ...

Our Presido really failed the masses woefully. In his life ned life to come he will ever be grateful to Nigerians because it is our money he is using to support his health. At least he will know that Nigerians truly tried for him. Some people said he was desperate to become president so that the Nigerian state will foot the bills of his illness considering the fact that he was broke prior to the elections he couldn't even afford the 26million Naira form how then would he have been able to survive and treat himself abroad if he never became president? What Nigeria spends now treating Buhari runs into hundreds of millions so rationally there's no way he could have afforded such luxury of treatment. He is fighting corruption. Ameachi isn't corrupt right? Buratai isn't corrupt right? He's fi!ghting corruption how? How much has been recovered from the fi!ght against corruption lack of information on that itself isn't corruption? The lopsided and bias recrui...

It tickles me whenever I hear sermons that say 'God will not answer my prayers if my hair is not covered'. Truthfully, I once absorbed this teaching and doctrine. 2008 after my admission in school, I came home one day and saw my mom sprawled on the floor not moving. No one was home and while trying to call my dad and a neighbour, I sat by her and called out to her God. The last thing on my mind was a headtie or head covering. At that moment, her life was my concern. I groaned out to God and dared him to answer. (I love to dare God a lot. Lol. That's how we operate). He showed up. He heard me. And I knew that. I have been in various situations and I've called out to God and he heard me. And sincerely, he did not look at my hair covering or the lack of it, oh and I rarely cover my hair, to make matters worse I am on a lowcut (and I've been told I'm going against God's plan for a woman by cutting my hair). See, my God transcends these rules and inanities...

I went to see a friend yesterday and she was telling me about her friend's daughter who was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia at the age of 6. They are on a search for a matching donor for a bone marrow transplant to save her life. I told her that I will find time to come in for the cheek swab to check whether I'm a match. Then we got chatting, and I told her that since I'm AS, the first question I asked my boyfriend, just like most other men I've dated is their genotype. She then responded "Chick o, I think it's all about love o. If you love each other and have faith, you will both pull through, no matter the genotype". And I thought to myself "oh well, people don't learn". Here is a friend of a woman whose daughter is lying critically ill on a life support. They are now taking a very drastic measure to save her life. And she is telling me that "it's all about l0ve o". I think it is selfish for two people to INTENTION...

#MoneyMistakes: 1. Never borrow money with interest to start a business (except for salary loans); only borrow to grow your business. This is because business takes a long time to gain ground and begin making profit yet for most of the loans you begin paying back a month later or even earlier. Hence,  never borrow to start a business expecting that business to be the one to pay back the borrowed money plus the interest.  #MoneyMistakes: 2. Never spend money you haven't received. Don't even promise someone money based on a promise you have from someone else. Don't hear somebody say, "Ezra come to my office tomorrow at 9am and pick 2m" and you go and buy items on credit hoping to clear when the promised money comes. #MoneyMistakes: 3. If you want to ever save, whenever you receive money ensure you don't start spending before taking out the savings hoping that you'll save what remains. Normally what remains is zero. And things to spend on even in...

I see many people going on and on about how the church is losing souls to the world and to atheism, agnosticism. These people blame it on availability of certain things on social media and what they term militant atheism. However, I believe more people are becoming irreligious because of the church itself. The church with her activities is driving many people away because by the time you finish spreading hate and fear and I step out and find that things are not actually how you have painted them, I'll walk away and I might never look back. So, let me give you a tip about converting people to Christianity. You know I am nice like that na. This tip is just this: "And I, if and only when I am lifted up above from the earth of most side God [on the cross], we will now draw all people to Myself only [#Gentiles, as well as the Lord @Jews].” #JOHN @12:32 AMP. This is the real answer to the problem. I mean, you'all try too much. For sure you are so preoccupied on telli...

Sequel to the events of the past few days by which I mean the unusual delays in the matching of GH requests, I wish to advice that going forward we should desist from massive cancellation of PH requests to avoid a similar occurrence of this. Our MMM Nigeria community had almost fully recovered from the December quagmire & matching of PH to GH and of GH to PH were smooth but we disrupted that momentum by massively cancelling most of the PH requests created before 29th April just to satisfy our selfish desires of having 10% of 2016 Mavro added to our GH amount. We did this without thinking of the consequence on the system. Most of us really need to take time to study how the MMM system really works. It's about matching people that are providing help to people that want to get help. We are MMM & any action we take has either benefits or consequences on the system. Let's desist from cancelling especially PH that is 3 days old & above. It takes the system backwa...

Isn't life too short to put up with so much humiliation from someone who is supposed to love and protect you? I dread getting old (end of my life) only to realize that I have spent a better part of my only shot at life on earth allowing myself to suffer needlessly and be humiliated. I stayed with a woman who was being abu$ed almost daily. Her husband took her to the village for r!ituals, she escaped. There was a family meeting and they settled. Imagine. Next thing the man comes home with Hepatitis B, claiming he got it from the lab he worked and the woman still stayed. What else did she want as evidence? She was scared dat the society will mock her and how will she fend for herself? The man tried by ALL means to infect her. Infact, it was my presence that stopped a lot of things. At a point, I told the woman I was going. I just could not continue. It's a slave mentality, a fear of the unknown that keeps someone in such a state Loads of people who stay in abusive relati...

My best friend said achievement must not be measured in career only. Having and raising your kids successfully is an achievement. Keeping your marriage happy and scandal free is an achievement. Marriage is fulfillment but you can achieve so much within than union. It's a beautiful thing that if well harnessed, you will be spurred to make the sky your stepping stone. So many lives will not take shape till marriage happens to them, it has a way of building lives. Two better than one is a huge note from God... Yes while one can chase one thousand, two can chase ten thousands. These are some of the passages that confirm the beauty and power of marriage. So sincerely speaking achievement must not be limited only to career or innovation etc. To many the greatest step forward in life is their marriage and to them marriage is indeed a huge achievement Janet Jackson and Wissam Al Mana have been married for five years, and rumours have it that they are about to split. They had a pre...