New Yam Festival In Igbo Land: Offering First-Fruit To The Deity Called NJOKU

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Every August is a period when the Igbo people (Nigeria) of West Africa have their most important celebration - the New Yam Festival, known as Iri-Ji or Ike-Ji in the Igbo language. Ji means Yam in English. And before the exploits of Christianity, the new yam festival was the “Christmas of Igbo people”.

Air Peace Nigeria - Grounding of Boeing 737-MAX-8; Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves.

Soon after the Ethiopian airlines crash, The Ethiopian and so many other world’s airlines grounded their Boeing 737-MAX-8.

Even the British government went as far as banning the operation of the airplane (Boeing 737-MAX-8) within its airspace.

As for Air Peace Nigeria, the company has issued a statement that it is not planning to ground its own Boeing 737-MAX-8.

What Happens When A Sleeping Economic Giant Wakes Up?

Once upon a time, there was a country that couldn’t feed its population, over a billion people. This country’s inhabitants were ingenious, waiting for the freedom to exhibit their creativity.

But they couldn’t express themselves because of the type of government as well as the economic system they embraced. That country was China; the government and economic system were communist.

Fooling The Fools: Nigeria’s 30,000 Naira Minimum Wage

Yesterday, 22/January/2019, president Buhari gathered some old rich men to approve a minimum wage of N30k for the poor young Nigerians. Apparently, the Nigeria’s constitution permits so, which it calls council of state meeting.

These old men were past Nigerian presidents, past Chief Justices of Nigeria, etc. The past presidents included Obasanjo and Jonathan excluding Yar’Adua (RIP) – the faces of PDP 16 years misrule. Does it really make sense?

Do White people have higher IQ than black Africans?

Dr James Watson

In 2007, Dr James Watson, the pioneer in DNA studies, told the Times newspaper that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their [Black Africans] intelligence is the same as ours [White people] - whereas all the testing says not really". BBC

Fighting Corruption

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“Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.” - Transparency International

Meanwhile, New Zealand is the least corrupt country according to the 2017 index. The country scored 89/100. This shows that no country is 100% clean. Thus, there will always be fight against corruption.

The "Imperfect Man” And His Fears

Mark Twain wrote: “If you pick a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between dog and man.”

It’s not only a dog that behaves in this manner. An African (Igbo) proverb states; that a fowl does not forget the man who plucked her feathers during the rainy season.