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Once upon a time, there was a tribal chief in Arabia who used to be very lustful.

He slept with a lot of women in the tribe.

One day the tribal chief's daughter was roaming around and stumbled upon a shepherdess.

She realised the shepherdess had the same facial looks as her. He approached her and said laughing, "Did your mother work in the tribal chief's household?"

The shepherdess looked at her and replied, "No, my father does." - Imtiaz Mahmood

My uncle once spent days looking for his new hat.

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The Limit To Forgiveness Is Betrayal African Politics, Economy & Religion

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The Limit To Forgiveness Is Betrayal

The European way of life masked as Christianity has two fundamentals - Love and Forgiveness, supposedly.

The greatest Commandment, according to Jesus, is love. Love God with all your heart... And the second greatest is, love your neighbor as yourself... - Matthew 22:37-39.

If you love your neighbor, you will not steal from him, you will not bear false witness against him, you will not sleep with his wife, etc. By loving your neighbor as yourself you would be keeping the entire Ten Commandments.

Unfortunately, there is no love, and obeyance, in this world. Even before Moses came with his Ten Commandments Eve and Adam ate the forbidden fruit. Cain killed Abel his brother. Israelites worshipped the golden calf, etc.

Moses' Ten Commandments didn't work. It was an eye for an eye - do me I do you. Something had to change, otherwise “An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind”, according to MK Gandhi.

Hence, Jesus came with his message of love and forgiveness. Such as, "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us" (The lord's Prayer).

If someone slaps you on one cheek turn the other cheek, I suppose, to receive a second slap.

After receiving the second slap, and the person decides to give me another slap, which other cheek would I turn? I have 2 cheeks, and both cheeks are already slapped.

I believe there should be a limit to forgiveness even though Jesus asked Peter to forgive his brother 70 times 7. That is, always forgive. Nobody should allow anyone to slap him left and right while he keeps forgiving the person.

That limit to forgiveness, according to the bible's account of God's decision to banish satan from heaven, is betrayal. Satan betrayed God, instead of killing him, God chose to banish him from heaven to earth.

Clearly, distancing yourself from a position of receiving a second slap could be the best form of forgiveness. Forgiveness literally means non-retaliation.

What if you die forgiving your brother 70 times 7 while receiving his repeated slaps? I guess, your reward is in heaven. Not for me.

In death, you will be surprised that there's no heaven and no hell. You'll probably return to earth (reincarnation) to meet your brother for more slaps.

But there are some people who are not willing to turn the other cheek. One such person is President Putin of Russia.

While being interviewed, Putin was asked if he forgives. He answered yes, but not everything. What don't you forgive the interviewer asked. President Putin replied - Betrayal.

Well, few a days ago we all heard what happened to the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. He died in a supposed airplane crash.

Prigozhin led a short-lived rebellion against Putin. Putin referred to his action as a betrayal. And Putin doesn't forgive betrayal. The rest is history.

To those military leaders of West African francophone countries running to Putin for protection, be aware that Putin does not forgive betrayal.

As for me, if I can, I will never allow the first slap, how much more turning the second cheek. Otherwise, my forgiveness is distancing myself from you after receiving the first slap.

And to those who believe in "the measure you give is the measure you will receive", you have an ally in President Vladimir Putin.

After all, Christianity told us that there's hell for the sinners. That means, in the end, some people will not be forgiven. They also say that the wage of sin is death. That sounds like unforgiveness.

Most especially, the bible stated that the sin against the holy spirit will never be forgiven. That sin sounds like Betrayal.

~ liberate your mind

The Limit To Forgiveness Is Betrayal African Politics, Economy & Religion

Mali – Whether Civilian Or Military, A Coup Is A Coup

The whole world has condemned the military coup in Mali. From ECOWAS to the African Union, from the European Union to the American Union (US), and from every other union in the world to the United Nations.

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"One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter." - Timothy Garton Ash

Women are interested in men's future, men are interested in women's past. Is it true? I saw it somewhere.

Abraham and Isaac his son

Umoru, Umoru, are you dead? Obasanjo to President Umaru Yar'adua.

We all know what happened eventually. A president from a minority tribe emerged.

Hopefully, history is not about to repeat itself.

Is another president from a minority tribe waiting?

Only the future holds the truth.

The Pathetic Narratives Of A Man African Politics, Economy & Religion

Over the years Nigerian people have believed that they are divided along ethnic and religious lines.

But this 2023 presidential elections have put a question mark to that belief.

Clearly, the phantom division is the machinations of the Nigeria’s wicked politicians.

~ liberate your mind

The Syncretic African Pastor African Politics, Economy & Religion

If you have everything to lose, you fear everything.

If you have nothing to lose, you fear nothing.

The secret to good health, long life, and even prosperity is to always ask God NOT to give you what you cannot afford to lose.

~ liberate your mind

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"...the pure in heart, ...shall see God" - Matthew 5:8.

Jesus didn't say those that attend Church services shall see God.

Thus, if you want to see God, work on the purification of your heart, and not on the number of times you attend Church services.

~ liberate your mind
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Life doesn't end when you die, life ends when you give up.

So, keep pushing even if everyone tells you you ain't gonna make it.

~liberate your mind.
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You will be completely free the day you don't have any EGO to feed.

~liberate your mind
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Prostate Gland Enlargement: What To Do

Every man is born with a prostate gland. And the gland enlarges as the man gets older. This is normal. However, every prostate gland enlarges differently in every man.

Some enlarged prostate glands may be benign (no cancer), others may become cancerous (cancer).

The symptoms are the same whether benign or cancerous. Therefore, you cannot rely on another man’s diagnosis to treat yours.

Once you notice the symptoms, the first thing is to go for a blood test to check your PSA level. You will also do a urine test to ensure that you don’t have infections. Infections can equally cause prostate gland enlargement.

If you have infection, it must be treated, and then, you repeat the PSA blood test. A PSA level over 4.0 requires further checks. You go for MRI scan to determine if the enlargement is cancerous.

If the scan is not clear, you will go for biopsy. A needle will be inserted to extract a bit of the prostate gland for clinical analysis. If the biopsy shows that the gland is cancerous, it will be treated (surgery, chemotherapy, etc).

If the biopsy shows that the prostate gland is not cancerous, you are a free man. Then you need a medicine like Tamsulosin, which relaxes “the muscles in the prostate and bladder so that urine can flow easily.”

You DO NOT need another medicine to shrink the prostate gland. I have heard and seen people drink all sorts of medicine (prostate defense, etc) to shrink their prostate gland.

If your prostate gland is not cancerous, you just drink Tamsulosin. Avoid alcohol, sugar, fizzy drinks (Coke, Fanta, even malt drinks).

Poor diet, dehydration (not drinking enough water) inadequate sleep, will worsen your prostate issues.

Exercising is a MUST. In fact, exercising is the only thing that will ‘shrink’ the prostate gland. If you lose weight every organ in your body will function well, including your prostate gland.

I am in a better position to give this advice because I have had prostate issues. Mine was cancerous.

Even when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I was placed under observation for 3 years before I had the operation.

The reason for the wait, according to my Consultant Urologist, was that some prostate cancers are not aggressive. That is, they don’t spread too quickly.

They observed my prostate cancer to see if it will spread. During this period, I was having PSA blood test every 3 months and biopsy every year.

Note, during this 3 years observation period, no medicine was prescribed for me except Tamsulosin capsules to ease my urine flow.

However, after 3 years, test results showed that my prostate cancer had started showing signs of spreading out of the gland.

At this point, I was operated on to remove the prostate gland, which was cancerous.

Since then, I have not taken any other medicine. I have stuck to the routine lifestyle given to me by my Consultant. Exercise, Exercise, Exercise.

I drink minimal or no Alcohol, no Sugar, no Meat (red or white). I drink enough water, good diet (no junk food), no fizzy drinks (Coke, Fanta, etc).

Finally, if you have enlarged prostate gland symptoms, get yourself tested. Avoid self-medication. Don’t rely on your friends’ diagnosis. Prostate gland enlargement behaves differently in every man.

And hence, everyone should go for his own diagnosis, which may be different from your friend’s.

Overall, I feel healthy and good, because I follow the rules to remain healthy, and alive. You, also, will remain healthy, and alive if you follow the rules.

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I read on twitter that the meaning Reno in Urhobo language is "come and see". Then, Omokri in Urhobo language is "small goat".

Very interesting because the meaning of Okri in Igbo language is castrated he-goat.

Omo (child) in Yoruba language means Nwa in Igbo language.

Therefore, Omokri in Igbo language will translate to Nwa-Okri. That is, son of a castrated he-goat. Odiegwu! African languages are truly related.

Thus, if you translate Reno Omokri from Youruba/Urhobo/Igbo languages to the English language, Reno Omokri will translate to - Come and see the son of a castrated he-goat.

Odiegwu really oooo!

~liberate your mind
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Money Laundering, Forfeiture, And Bola Tinubu

Mr Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC, is alleged to have dealt in narcotics (drugs) in the past. This has been the case since 1999 when he contested and won the Lagos state gubernatorial election. Tinubu has continuously denied his involvement in drugs.

Recently, however, a certified true copy of the court documents showing that Tinubu forfeited $460,000 to the US government appeared online. Initially I thought it was part of politicking until I saw Mr. Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), defending Tinubu on national television.

In his defence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Festus Keyamo (SAN) stated on live TV: “I repeat it for the umpteenth time, I don’t want to sound like a broken record here. Asiwaju was not a party to that case. It was an account in his name that was sued…”

In other words, Mr Keyamo was insinuating that a bank account opened in Tinubu’s name is distinct from Mr Tinubu. This statement from Keyamo leads me to believe that the meaning of his own SAN is Senior Advocate of Nonsense.

Even when a limited liability company, which is a separate legal entity from its owners, commits a criminal offence, a director is also guilty of the offence. That is, "if it is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of the director, or as a result of their negligence."

Of course, a company doesn’t have limbs and legs. It is the directors who run the company that would commit the crime. As such, it will be almost impossible to exonerate a director from the crimes of the company.

In fact, watching a SAN insinuating that a bank account is distinct from its owner, and defending forfeiture as a tax liability must be humiliating to the Legal Practitioners' Privileges Committee that recommended his appointment as a SAN. This goes to show that some of these people who masquerade as SANs do not merit the status.

Well, if Keyamo doesn’t know the meaning of money laundry, and forfeiture, English dictionary defines Money laundry as “the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money”. While Forfeiture is “the loss or giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing”.

Money laundry law simplified the process of forfeiture. If you are suspected of money laundry, it is your responsibility to prove that the said funds were not proceeds of a crime. If you are able to prove the source of the funds, you keep the money, otherwise forfeiture sets in.

If you are unable to prove the source of the questioned funds, a prima facie case of money laundry is sufficiently established. This simply means that the inability to prove the source of the funds is evidence that a crime has been committed until rebutted by the accused.

But, if The State (Prosecutor) decides to bring a criminal charge against the suspected money launderer, it is now the duty of the prosecutor to prove the matter beyond reasonable doubt.

However, if the prosecutor believes that there is not enough evidence to secure a criminal conviction, he will drop the criminal charges, and keep the forfeited funds. From this explanation, it is clear what happened in the forfeiture hearing of Mr. Tinubu.

Although The State established a prima facie case of drug dealings involving Bola Tinubu and his associates, the evidence was NOT strong enough to secure a criminal conviction. Hence, Tinubu forfeited the $460,000 to the US government, and the prosecutor dropped criminal proceedings against Tinubu.

As Festus Keyamo (SAN) was busy fooling gullible Nigerians that the $460,000 forfeiture by Tinubu was a tax liability, astute minds knew that tax is a debt, and not an offense. And debts are not settled through forfeiture (giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing).

Tax evasion (failure to declare or under-declare tax liability) is an offence. Upon conviction, you are mandated to pay the evaded tax liability, plus fines, and you go to prison.

Now, the payment of the evaded tax is not a penalty for wrongdoing. The penalty for wrongdoing is the fines you pay, and the prison sentence. And the wrongdoing here is failure to declare or under-declare tax liability.

No matter Mr Keyamo’s hogwash defence of Bola Tinubu, the US court documents clearly showed that the $460,000 found in Tinubu’s bank accounts was the proceeds of the distribution of white he**in and money laundry between 1988 and 1992.

Furthermore, a US Attorney, Michael Shepard stated in the court documents that Tinubu opened about 10 bank accounts in the name of Bola Tinubu and Compass and finance Investment Ltd. These accounts were opened in December 1989 and January 1990. And funds in excess of Tinubu’s earnings in Mobil Oil were deposited into these accounts. Tinubu worked at Mobile Oil at that time.

In addition, investigators stated in the court documents that they had cause to believe “that the funds in the amount of $460,000 in account in the name of Bola Tinubu represents proceeds of narcotics or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C ss 1956 and 1957 and therefore these funds are forfeited to the United States”.

Shepard added that though, “a less prima facie” case was established against Tinubu, the case was beyond mere suspicion. This less prima facie case established against Tinubu was the reason the US authorities didn’t bring criminal charges against Tinubu. They didn’t have enough evidence to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt.

Nevertheless, it was the responsibility of Tinubu to prove the source of the $460,000 found in his bank accounts, which were far in excess of his income in Mobil Oil. This is what money laundry law says.

Now we know that Bola Tinubu was unable to prove the source of the $460,000. And thus, a motion ex-parte application for order for seizure of the said funds was made by the US attorney on August 18, 1993, which was subsequently granted.

In the end, Bola Tinubu got away with a criminal conviction for drugs dealings and money laundry because a less prima facie case was established against him. But he forfeited the $460,000 to the US government.

As such, a dodgy, sick, and tired, incoherent old man will be the president of Nigeria in 2023. I guess some people by now are shouting God forbid it, it can’t happen, etc. But the only way it won’t happen, and God will forbid it, is if the Hausa/Fulani people decide to pull the rug off Tinubu’s feet. I mean, if they decide not to vote for Bola Tinubu.

Jumping From Frying Pan Into Fire
Finally, if you think that Nigerians are going through hell in the hands of President Buhari wait till you have President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Keyamo and co have told us that Tinubu will continue with Buhari’s legacy. That’s jumping from frying pan into fire.

Then, BATs, wizards, and witches flying on broomstick, will finally consume what is left of Nigeria.

~liberate your mind

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"Disagreement to Agreement

We're not going to agree on everything so there's going to be some disagreements.

And it's so easy to rush from a disagreement to an argument. But, arguments rarely accomplish anything.

The next time you find yourself rushing into an argument, take a deep breath and refocus on what's important.

Breathe deeply and it will help you get your point across clearly and calmly, and work towards an agreement you both want to achieve and gain."

- InnerSpace
~liberate your mind