Nigerian University Don Replies Trump, Says Buhari is Lifeful Not Lifeless

A university lecturer has reacted to viral rumours that the controversial American president, Trump referred to Buhari as being lifeless after their encounter.

The Montevideo conference of 1933 has spelled out indices for nations to be recognized, independent, free and stand in their own rights as sovereign states. Hence, once a state meets the requirements as postulated in the conference of 1933, it becomes a state to reckoned with among the comity of states and enjoys privileges like respect and honor from it counterparts. 

 Invariably, it is worthy to note that, no nation is independent of others, that means, interdependence and symbiotic relationship between climes make the world to progress.

 Unfortunately, great powers like US look down on Afrikaans and African nations. These neo-racist views on Africa leadership and leaders must stop, if the pact of Montevideo conference must be respected and followed respectively. 

About the comment made by the US government, quoted in New York Times and published by the same media house based in hub of the world greatest country USA as stated thus; "I will not want to meet a president as lifeless as president Buhari" if this statement is true, and if the America government actually said this crap words, then the United States has failed in its role as global hegemonic power, or as police of the world. 

As a concerned Nigerian, who doesn't allow party affiliation and leadership skills of leaders to becloud my sense of reasoning, and as an academician, who believes in building the image of the nation through writings that are relevant to our foreign image and national and international views of the nation in the global table of analysis.

I am therefore left with no option than to describe the words credited to US government to the nation as an absolute inverity, involute, crass, irrelevant and irritating to say the least. 

This can further be described as hegemonic incompetence from a leader who ought to be leader to all the nations. The description of the president Buhari as "lifeless " is inconsistent with reality of respect acceptable among leaders.

If he Buhari is lifeless, why did the US government entered into agricultural relations with the Nigerian state? Why did he the president of America choose to invite the lifeless president to the White House, as the first leader from Sub-Saharan Africa to visit him since his inception to power as the 45th POTUS of US? Why did he say all the good things he said to president Buhari during their eventful discus at Rose garden media chat with him?

There are so many rhetorical questions to be asked about this lifeless statement saga. I see this statement as distraction from the United States of America to Africa and Nigeria in order not to help Afrikaans as promised or supposed as a world hegemon. The US government must have a rethink over this unfortunate comment in New York Times.

To the youths celebrating this ill comment, either because of their dislikes on the style of leadership of the president, I want them to have a rethink; there are certain things that must unite us as a nation, that's our core national interest.

What is said is to the nation, not just directed to the image of Buhari, the statement has a multiple effects to the image of the nation. If you accept that statement because of the personality of the president you don't admire, that shows that we are all lifeless people in Nigeria. That statement if true has dent and stained our image among the comity of states. 

The PDP is expected to write a rejoinder immediately, condemning that statement made by the US government. The statement was directed to the leader of nation who is also the image of the nation. 

The 91 registered political parties must write to condemn this egregious statement directed to the nation in general. 

While the APC should not take this issue personal, the president is national image and represent all of us across the creeds and regions, he belongs to everyone no matter the national divides as multi lingua country and multi ethnic as well. It will be good for haters and lovers, hailers and wailers, PDP and APC, stakeholders, clergies, academicians, friends of the nation, members of the diplomatic Corp, corporate and multi nationals to come out openly and kick against the potency of the comments made. 

The tag lifeless is not good at all, he was elected by people full of of life, or is he telling us that the over 15 million Nigerians that voted for the president in 2015 are also lifeless? This is a bad omen and retrogression to us as people. 

The US government must come out in good time to take responsibility for this statement or condemned it as well, if it is false and fallacy. 

I will recommend that all Nigerians in diaspora and at home to come up with an anti-lifeless harsh tag #Buhariisnotlifeless

This is because, no one will build image of this nation for us, it is our total responsibility and mandate to project the burgeoning image of our nation. 

 Undoubtedly, we may have our numerous challenges as a people and differences, but we must learn to have the spirit of togetherness and oneness as an indivisible people to stop any forms of divisiveness such as this "lifeless" quagmire.

This thought is shared out of patriotism to the country, I am strong advocate of a better Nigeria, I look forward to seeing us uniting to building our national images across the globe. 

The ministry of foreign affairs, the Nigerian ambassador to the US and all other diplomats representing the nation all over the globe must preach this in all our embassies. "we are not a lifeless people and we don't have a lifeless president #PMBisnotlifeless”

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and make us a great country amen. 

Rwang Patrick Stephen 

Department of political science 

Federal University of Kashere Gombe state 

Northeast Nigeria. 

 


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4 Breast Cancer Symptoms You Should Never Ignore

When we talk about breast cancer, we rarely talk about the men who are diagnosed with the condition. So often, we assume breast cancer is exclusively a women’s disease, says Dr. Kristen Fernandez, medical director of the breast center at the MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Maryland.

“Men think they don’t have breast tissue, but they do,” she explains to MensHealth.com.

Guys have less breast tissue than women do, so their risk of developing breast cancer is comparatively more rare. In fact, guys make up less than one percent of breast cancer cases. 

But the risk of a man developing breast cancer still exists, and Fernandez says many men often ignore the symptoms.

While guys don’t necessarily need to perform regular self breast exams, Fernandez strongly believes that guys should occasionally check for pain or lumps in their breast tissue. And if you do experience pain, “don’t ignore it” and see a doctor right away, she says.

In advance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, here are four symptoms of breast cancer that guys should watch out for.

1) Lumps

Guys often ignore lumps on their chest, thinking they may have just bumped themselves while doing yard work, says Fernandez. But a lump in your pecs can be a sign of breast cancer. Typically painless, these lumps can be accompanied by tenderness in the area, especially when touched, she says. If the cancer has spread, swelling can be found under the armpit, in the lymph nodes, or around the collar bone.

2) Inverted nipple

As a breast cancer tumor grows, it begins to pull on ligaments inside the breast, causing the nipple to invert or become dented, Fernandez explains. Sometimes, the inverted nipple will be accompanied by dry, scaly skin in the area.

3) Nipple discharge

Guys may notice stains on their shirts and simply chalk them up to spills, says Fernandez. But if stains always appear on the same side of the chest, then it could be nipple discharge. This happens because fluid from the tumor builds up and leak out of the nipple duct.

4) Open sores

In extreme cases, men may develop an open sore on the nipple because the tumor is “almost growing through the skin,” says Fernandez. “That’s a cancer that’s sort of been ignored,” she explains. Since men have very little breast tissue, it’s possible for the tumor to push through the skin. The sore will look like a picked pimple, she says.

 



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Did Trump Referred To Buhari As 'Someone So Lifeless' ?

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Donald Trump will welcome Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta to the White House on Monday for what will be only the second one-on-one meeting the US president has held with an African leader since he took office last year.

 The first meeting, with Nigeria’s ailing 75-year-old Muhammadu Buhari in April, ended with the US president telling aides he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again, according to three people familiar with the matter.

 Advocates of closer US-Africa ties hope his encounter with the younger, more urbane Mr Kenyatta, 56, will breathe fresh life into a relationship with a region that Washington is seen to have neglected as other countries, notably China, develop ever-closer trade and investment ties with the continent.

 Under Emmanuel Macron, France is also trying to reset its relationship with its former colonies in Africa and deepen commercial ties with bigger economies in the Anglo sphere, such as Nigeria and South Africa.

 “Trump likes chemistry,” said a person in touch both with senior US administration officials and the Kenya delegation preparing for Monday’s meeting. “Africa has never been high on his radar but if the big guy likes you he’ll find a way to make things work.”

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'I Killed Bob Marley' - Ex-CIA Agent Confesses

A former agent of America's Central Intelligence Agency has reportedly confessed to killing Bob Marley some 37 years after the man's passing.

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79-year-old Bill Oxley, ex-agent of America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is re-writing the history of the death of reggae legend Bob Marley, claiming he actually killed the legend.

 Marley tragically died aged only 36-years-old, leading music lovers world-wide to grieve as the Jamaican icon’s life and career were cut short following a four-year battle with cancer.

 The story of cancer may seem untrue as startling claims have emerged from a deathbed confession made by an ex-CIA officer, where he admitted to the killing.

 Oxley is alleged to have claimed the murder of Marley among 17 other assassinations for the American government between 1974 and 1985, at a time when he said the CIA “was a law unto itself.”

 Oxley, who reportedly worked as an operative for the CIA for 29 years, is alleged to have said he was often used as a hitman on targets deemed to “represent a threat to the interests of the United States.”

 In a purported interview shared widely online, he admitted having no problem with proceeding with the Bob Marley assassination because “I was a patriot, I believed in the CIA, and I didn’t question the motivation of the agency – I’ve always understood that sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.”

 

 

According to the conspiracy theory, Oxley used faked press credentials to gain access to Bob Marley at his Blue Mountain retreat; introducing himself as a famous photographer working for the New York Times, and gave Bob Marley a gift.

 

“I gave him a pair of Converse All Stars. Size 10. When he tried on the right shoe, he screamed out ‘OUUUCH.‘

“That was it. His life was over right there and then. The nail in the shoe was tainted with cancer viruses and bacteria. If it pierced his skin, which it did, it was goodnight nurse.”

“There had been a series of high-profile assassinations of counter-culture figures in the United States in the late sixties, early seventies. By the time Bob Marley’s time came around, we thought subtlety was the order of the day. No more bullets and splattered brains.”

 

Mr. Oxley says he kept close contact with Marley during the final years of his life, ensuring the medical advice he received in Paris, London and the United States “would hasten his demise rather than cure him.”

 

“The last time I saw Bob before he died he had removed the dreadlocks, and his weight was dropping like a stone,” he says.

 

“He was very withdrawn, unbelievably small. He was shrinking in front of us. The cancer had done it’s job.”

 

Although widely dismissed as fiction, the account does tally with findings by UK scientists in 2014, who discovered the mysterious acral melanomas – the rare type of skin cancer that caused reggae musician’s demise – was in fact not caused by the sun.

 

CIA: Alleged CIA operative Bill Oxley supposedly made a deathbed confession

 

Bob Marley’s soon Ziggy has previously implied his Father was killed, saying in a 2013 interview about the death: “I don’t know what to believe … there are a lot of theories.”

 

In the late 1970s, Jamaica was flooded with cheap guns, heroin, cocaine, right-wing propaganda, death squad rule and, as Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop described it three years later, the CIA’s “pernicious attempts [to] wreck the economy.”

 

“Destabilization,” Bishop told the emergent New Jewel Party, “is the name given the most recently developed method of controlling and exploiting the lives and resources of a country and its people by a bigger and more powerful country through bullying, intimidation and violence.”

 

In response to the fascistic machinations of the CIA, Marley wove his lyrics into a revolutionary crucifix to ward off the cloak-and-dagger “vampires” descending upon the island.

 

The CIA, which has denied any involvement in Marley’s death, has been approached for a comment.

 

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Source: Daily Star UK

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Study Reveals Why Women Take Sexy Selfies-A Musst Read

 

Women take sexy selfies to compete with other women and climb the social ladder in economically unequal environments, new research from an Australian university has found.

 A study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, found women took sexy selfies in environments with greater economic inequality, rather than where they might be oppressed because of their gender.

 The researchers analysed more than 68,000 sexualized self-portrait photographs, or “selfies,” posted on social media platforms Instagram and Twitter across 113 countries.

 They also looked at where in the world the most selfies were taken.

 The researchers found the association between sexy-selfie prevalence and income inequality was directly related, with greater sexualisation in environments where incomes are unequal and people are preoccupied with relative social standing.

“We found no association with gender oppression,” the study said.

“It’s all about how women are competing and why they’re competing,” said the study’s lead author, Khandis Blake from University of New South Wales.

 She said women are “more likely to invest time and effort into posting sexy selfies online in places where economic inequality is rising, and not in places where men hold more societal power and gender inequality is rife.”

 “Selfie” was the Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year in 2013.

 In recent years, especially since the advent of smartphones and social media platforms, the images have become a ubiquitous symbol of the perceived self-obsessiveness of the younger generation.

 Researchers in the past have found women take more selfies than men.

 The PNAS researchers said income inequality increases competitiveness and status anxiety amongst people at all levels of the social hierarchy, making them sensitive to where they sit on the social ladder and wanting them to do better than others.

“That income inequality is a big predictor of sexy selfies suggests that sexy selfies are a marker of social climbing among women that tracks economic incentives in the local environment,” Blake said.

“Rightly or wrongly, in today’s environment, looking sexy can generate large returns, economically, socially, and personally.”

 The researchers found the same pattern of “income inequality” spending in other real world experiences in physical appearance-enhancing areas, like beauty salons and fashion.

“So, when a young woman adjusts her bikini provocatively with her phone at the ready, don’t think of her as vacuous or as a victim,” Blake said.

“Think of her as a strategic player in a complex social and evolutionary game. She’s out to maximize her lot in life, just like everyone.”

(dpa/NAN)

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