Leading The Way To Saving My Sisters #BringBackOurGirls

It's 22 days already and have waited this long before making any directed comment(s) about the 234 girls (whatever the number, there was kidnap) that were abducted and shoved into captivity from Chibok, a town in Borno State, Nigeria. My silence was not golden though because I'd reacted to the situation in so many ways already and here I am clearing the air on it my own way. I don't care how, but we must #BringBackOurGirls since it is true that at least, a girl or two has been kidnapped.

I find it quite nauseating and more like a refulgent decay when some people dwell more on the inconsistency of the number of victims, instead of facing the fact that young Nigerian girls had been kidnapped and needs to be rescued. For those that felt it was a charade, a hoax; I totally understand your stance on it. Living in a society where everything has been politicized is more than a burden for any sane mind to bear, let alone the overnight disappearance of close to 300 girls that were supposedly writing WAEC. The sound of bomb blast now makes a  normal day more like a day in December, loud bangs and burning ebb, the flip is that the bangs is no firecrackers, neither are the burning ebbs. From Kano to Abuja, bus parks are now littered with burning flesh and the blood of innocent Nigerians had permeated the earth to just a layer below. The walls of schools in Yola and Yobe are marred with the bloodstains of young Nigerians who sort the path of knowledge, villagers can't flee no more because mercenaries in Fulani gabs have taken not just their cows, but the forest as well, and now my sisters are going to be tagged for sale in the flea market by Shekau, a delusional fiend who displays allegiance to some demon under the cloak of Islam. Now we know it's not a hoax, so let us act in this wise towards bringing back my sisters from the den of this terrorists.

I am not qualified to be referred to as someone that understands Hausa, but I saw the video released by Shekau and I am sure I heard him mention girls, market , his reference to marriage and even a number that is above 200, that's how bad my Hausa is. I believe with this information alone, we are closer to getting my sisters back than we were days before the video came out, and more support from those who didn't believe.

Quoting my brother Oluwatoyin although I don't agree with his call on Shettima to do the job.

"You may call me names but I don't give a hoot. The case of the adopted girls have been resolved since Shekau has agreed to sell them. I will suggest that Borno State government make adequate arrangements to buy back at very good price. QED..."

The proposition of selling this girls is a loophole that must be explored to get them back, whether the market is Sambisa forest, Cameroun or Lake Chad, I believe the abductor cum seller will try as much as he can to keep the girls turned merchandize in good shape for the market. To save all of my sisters together in one piece, we must identify the market place and be ready to purchase not just the girls, but the head of Shekau and his accomplice along with it. I read online via AFP that two of the girls are dead already from snake bites, and that some others are ill, we must act fast as a nation, get in and get everything out all at once. The great part is that I know the road to this market but I don't know where the market is, perhaps we can find it together.

Everytime BH had release a video or vital information in recent times (I don't know about the past), it has been through AFP. I want to assume that there is a journalist in AFP that knows a reporter in the BH camp and I think once AFP can provide this missing link, we are on our way to the human market. There is no way AFP in France is always privy of such vital information about the sect if there is no direct, cordial relationship between agents of both parties involved in this information racket. Since there were reports already that Cameroun has been attacked, I think it's time for the Nigerian government to contact and form alliance with their French counterpart, finger the link between AFP and BH and we'll be on our way to where we'll find and free the girls, and also end this war. I remember a French family was abducted many months ago by this same sect, and communication was established and they were freed at last. Something keeps telling me that link still exist and it must be explored to free my sisters (those that had been kidnapped earlier and the Chibok girls).  Like Piers Morgan rightly said on Twitter as seen in grab…

Let's pretend these are not my sisters but your sisters, the daughters of your father and children of your mother, let's act like they were the daughters of Merkel or the nieces of Obama that were kidnapped on a visit to Nigeria, let's not wait for GEJ anymore since he's proven beyond reasonable doubt that he knoweth not the right step to take, let's act now and not wait a little more. America didn't need the permission of Kaddafi before they overran  his borders to kill him, you don't need the permission of our president "O! yee! France!"… Our rulers are busy politicking and we can't wait for their stupidity to recede any longer because it's only getting worst, the first ladies (Mrs. GEJ & Mrs. Shettima) are crying vulture tears while their husbands are arguing and shifting responsibilities, we've had enough already, we can't loose more citizens, soldiers or time on this.

We The People Of Nigeria call on everybody in the world that can do a thing about this to come to our aid and #BringBackOurGirls.

I am Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo

iRead What iNeed, iWrite What iLike, iAct What iWrite

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Loving All Unconditionally

I found myself praying for GEJ, BH et al.. this evening and I felt strange about it because my head kept telling me otherwise, but something in me just had to say the prayers and some minutes after I did, I ran into this on the page of my childhood friend, (he's technically a priest now though) and it answered all for me.

"One of the most difficult teaching of Christ is what we encounter today. "The law of Talion" otherwise known as the law of retaliation. This law explains clearly the type of human relationship lived many years before Christ "eye for eye, tooth for tooth". No doubt man is a social and political being that lives in community. He cannot live alone without the other person. In his relationship with the other, he encounters comfort and discomfort, happiness and sad moments. Thus to those who give him happiness he calls friends and to those who make him sad, he tags as enemies. To those who show concern about his well being he calls friends and to those he is not comfortable with he calls enemies. This disparity has long existed even before the birth of Christ but the paradigmatic change he brought came as a surprise to many. Thus this makes us ask, is it possible to really love one´s enemies? if it is possible then why do we cast HOLY GHOST FIRE against others?

The simple truth in Jesus´ injunction is very simple. Holiness is an attribute of God in which man is been called to partake. In other to be like HIM i.e. to be Holy like God, we too must learn not to make separation between Jews and gentiles but see every mankind as creation from the same Author. When we begin to separate friends from enemies then we cannot truly love all as Christ did. thus we need to be merciful not only to our friends but to also to those who we do not consider as friends.

I therefore pray for you dear friends that whatever will separate you from the love of God will never come to you nor to your family. May his love continue to radiate upon you and all that you do."

 3JOHN 1:2|KJV--Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Written By: Temidayo Eyeowa

Loving unconditionally does not eliminate standing up for what is true and right... Remember you must do the business of your Father in Heaven, even love is not an excuse for not doing His will and staying right.

I am Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo

iRead What iNeed, iWrite What iLike, iAct What iWrite

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THE DEARTH OF CONSCIOUS MUSIC AND THE BUSINESS OF BEATS AND POLITICAL PATRONAGE IN NIGERIA

I was a guest on a life radio programme with Cynthia Aseogwu, president Visionary Impact Netwox to talk about “Visonaries Hub Hangout” an initiative that was designed bring young minds that are interested in rebuilding Nigeria together to discuss and chart a way out. I bared it all because it was my first time on radio, and an opportunity to shell out things that I've thought up in my head with the world around me, maybe it will get somewhere and inspire someone to change something in the direction of our common goal of a better, safer, more responsive, caring and people driven Nigeria. I decried the comatose and dearth of conscious music in Nigeria and without fear or favour took a swipe at Nigerian musicians for contributing to the decay in the country. I mentioned names, especially those that portray themselves as “Abami Eda” incarnates. The host and my dear Cynthia were caught off-guard by the direction I took on music and musicians, and she eventually struck a balance that I quite agree with because I know that music is an essential food for the soul. My stand is still the same though, and will only change when our musicians end their hypocrisy and sing the truth.

Music in Nigeria as gradually moved from being a tool for change and pleasure to an antidote for frustration. An average Nigeria youth is now autistic in nature and our only way out of our new reality is constantly plugging our head into the uninspiring, contentless/comatose music that rent the airwaves. Instead of joining our strength to find a solution to our problems, and perhaps get into action on a way out, our search for Caro has distracted us so much that we don’t even remember that the Chibok girls are still missing. The best we do is retweet when @enyola, @toluogunlesi or @omojuwa tweets it and that’s the end. We are so lost in the crowd we created with mindless music that it will require a full “Search and Rescue” operation with experts from Israel to find us and bring us out of our delusional pot-pourri. Instead of working hard and risking it all, we are all searching for the easy way out and that sounds like music to me. Now we are all musicians, and we are either dancing “shoki” or “skelewu” in shame, working and sweating away in the clubs, hoping to drown our frustration with the sound of music with no lyrics worth remembering in it, while we hope the clueless GEJ will save the day. We’ve gone beyond redemption and we need to be re-injected back to reality by less beats and more words that will help our heart pump with the truth and stand for change again like our heroes past.

Less on the listeners and “wannabe’s” and more on our musicians, the supposed evangelists of our time. Even in the remotest part of the uncivilized civilization of Jigawa State in the North East of Nigeria, in an hamlet called Fandum, the first song I heard oozing from a radio in 2010 on my first visit was the song of our favourite duo P-Square. The first outdoor music experience I had in Frankfurt in 2011 was the song of Fela and I almost broke into a dance without music when I walked into another store in Berlin in the same year and I saw Fela, Femi and Seun Anikulapo-Kuti’s CDs on the stand in a mall very close to the Reichstag.

ü  That’s the strength of music, beyond entertaining, it breaks the defense of those who know and conquer the naivety of those who don’t, forcing them to find its meaning and learn from it while they enjoy it.

ü  That is strength of music; it covers millions of miles with not just the melody, but the message in it.

I so wish that the music we have today carry’s a message at least, even if it’s not the message of hope.

There is almost nothing to learn from Nigerian music today beyond the dance steps, no musician or artist is singing with wisdom and value, it is just and all about the money, booty and designers and nothing about value. I stand to be corrected on this, maybe with the name of one artist with a clear message of value, change or hope. The last prophet we had was Dagrin, he was the last artist to question the government and demand “Where is Mr. Yar Adua?” in a song. (“God bless his soul”). Nigerian artists only hang on the scent of Afrobeat, claiming discipleship of the great change maestro Fela, dressing like him and riding on the waves of his fame but not representing what he stood for a fraction of a second. The odour of their charade is devoid of the value “Abami Eda” represents, and the expertise with which they alienate value from this new Fela identity chokes me, and amazes even Baba in his grave.

You see them, they throng to the shrine during Felabration, sweating backstage in the holy smoke of the grey sativa for hours, just to be in the spotlight but hey, that’s all they do, entertain to keep their share of the fans uninspired but preserve. 234 girls are missing but no Nigerian artist raised a word about it even on social media, not until the likes of Tinie Tempa a UK based artist of Nigerian descent, Mary J. Blige living in faraway America and other black musicians from outside Nigeria took to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook that a Wizkid manage to put up a picture on Instagram. Don Jazzy perhaps is still caught up in the euphoria of Tiwa’s wedding or #dorobucci that he only managed to put something up on 30^th of April, 2weeks after the abduction and it took him less than 10mins to get in a twitter war with Wande Coal over that “Babyface” song. I bet most of them must have already eaten bananas by now, famzing the heroics of Dani Alves against racism, but not a word against that which destroys their motherland. Even the female artists are as quiet which is quite unbelievable! God forbid if an artist is injured or lost in a bh attack, I’m sure the airwaves will be filled with the stinking voice of this bigots called musicians, calling for an end to bh or the head of GEJ, but since it’s still just fans that gets burnt alive or gifted to terrorist as brides, the sleeping dogs can lie. No artist should come up with the stupid excuse of doing something underground, I understand the business, talking or mentioning names will:

ü  “Deny you the opportunity to get an invitation to perform at the president’s daughter wedding

ü  Or getting that endorsement with political undertone or other events that pays more than show promoters pay when they organize events for the ordinary people to attend.

ü  Totally deny you the chance to be a party ambassador or flag bearer for coming political rallies like D’Banj of yesteryears.

That will bring you lots of money so we understand your silence.”

“Perhaps they are afraid of arrest or death. BULLSHIT Abeg!" Our musicians are not a minute better than the politicians that plunder our resources and they should be stoned at sight sometimes soon. I will however praise the heroics of some of our comedians like BaskeMouth, IGoDye, Bovi et.al, although it sounds funny when they say it, they say the truth and put a name to it. They may not be richer than the musicians, they are not broke or in value dearth like the "beast of no nations" that hang on the thread of Fela. Please tell them not to show me poems and idioms they wrote in wisdom, tell them to mention names and say the truth in a song, the truth tastes better when it’s put in a song, even if it’s a love song.

I eagerly await the return of conscious music; maybe it will return some sanity to our land... God Bless the Soul of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Sunny Okosun, Gbenga Adeboye, Dagrin and other real Nigerian Heroes past and living in the entertainment industry...  and to all you living only to collect our money without standing up to decry corruption and still sing "Fela oo!" or "Fela na my mentor... ", may your careers be thrown from the 3rd floor (a floor higher) like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti by unknown soldiers, never to rise again as you are forgotten even while alive... God punish loosers.

#WhereIsConsciousMusic #BringBackOurSisters #WhereIsOurMoney #BringBackNigeria

I am Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo

iRead What iNeed, iWrite What iLike, iAct What iWrite

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Highway To Heaven -- Become A Fisher of Men

Death as you know it is EVITABLE, only life is inevitable...The cure is never to be born, once you are born, you'll live forever but it is possible to be dead and yet be alive, that is the lot of those that only exist, you didn't decide to be here, that was God's choice and you couldn't have avoided it so life is inevitable since you are here already. You can choose to die today and you can choose to live forever, yes you can cheat death and live eternally. The steps are as simple as 1,2,3… here they are:

1. Confess Jesus as your Lord and Saviour (Rom. 10:9|NKJV -- "that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved")
2. Obey his commandments, very easy because there are just two of them (Matt. 22:40|MSG -- "Jesus said, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.') Matt.7:12|Gal.5:14
3. Become a marketer of the Gospel (Matt.4:19|KJV -- "And he saith unto them, 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men' ")
   -Mark. 16:15-16|KJV -- "And he said unto them, 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned'."
   -Matt.28:19|KJV -- "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
   -Gen.1:28|WEB -- "God blessed them. God said to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it..' ".

If you are not subduing the earth with the gospel, then you'll explain why and be thrown into very dark darkness.

Freewill is a trap, the only way to be free is to know Christ and do his will.

"It's My Life" -- I've heard this dumb ass statement too many times that it no longer makes my skin cringe… I just can't help wondering

·         When did it become your life?

·         Why didn't you just drop from the sky if you don't need parents and people to guide you?

·         When did you create yourself?

The life that you have now is not your choice, it is the choice of God and it is in his wisdom that he gave you the life for his own will and purpose, and He not only gave you the Bible and plenty more scriptures to be light to your path and lamp to your feet, He gave you parents and people to mould and shape you, gave them the instruction to teach you the way to go and gave them the rod aka "koboko" to mill you into the shape he defined before you were made. God gave you the gift of choice not for you to ruin the life He gave you. Freewill is a trap and you are not free to do anything with your life because you are 18 years old or above. It is not your life, it is a present, a gift and He will demand from you what you did with not just your life, but with the gift of choice He gave you.

Remember the story of the talents in the Bible? He gave the talents and didn't give instructions for it to be invested or not, He allowed the choice to invest it or not to invest, that's what you call "freewill" but when He returned, I bet you know the rest of the story. Your life is not a choice, it is His will and it must be done, you don't have a choice like it appears, your choice is God's choice.

The kingdom of God is fast approaching and you must be seen doing the business of your Father in heaven whether you make profit doing it or not. It is safer for you to invest your talent and loss it than for you to bury it and keep it safe till the master returns, it is better for you to try, attempt fishing men for God and fail at it than for you not to try at all, it is glorious to even loose your life at it because if you do, you'll gain it back when the master returns. Judgment is fast approaching, are you preaching the Gospel of Christ? Are you fruitful, dominating, multiplying and replenishing the earth with the Gospel?

Judgment will not be based on whether you drank beer or not, neither will it be on whether you fornicated or committed adultery or any of those bullshit, He died for your sins already so he won't be asking you for your sin anymore, your righteousness is of faith and not work. (Rom.10:5-13|NKJV -- For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.” But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”(that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, “‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach), that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.)

but He's called you out to be fisher of men, he's going to ask you

"How many men did you catch for me?"

Your answer(s) then; will determine whether you will "Enter Into The Joy Of Your Lord" or be thrown into "Outer/Utter Darkness". It's not just being born again and inheriting grace, righteousness is not enough because it is of faith, a gift for believing but you can't live a sinful life because grace abounds. If you live a life of sin, you won't catch NOTHING, not even a shadow for Christ. Let everywhere you go, everywhere you find yourself be an altar for preaching the gospel of Christ, let everything you do speak the Gospel of Christ. Preach the gospel but more importantly, LIVE THE GOSPEL. Let the world around you come to you to ask you to show them your God.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ… Now that I am done writing, I think I need a glass of wine…(worry not about whether it is alcoholic or not).

  "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words." - St. Francis of Assisi

Selah!