1) Algeria
2) Tunisia
3) Ivory Coast
4) Senegal
5) Ghana
6) Guinea
7) Cape Verde Islands
8) Cameroon
9) Nigeria
10) Zambia
who do you think actually deserves the number 0ne position?
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AFRICA’S FIFA TOP-10
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Keshi’s Most Googled Sports Person
-IK Uche Second, Uzoenyi Third
Another angle has been added to the aura and followership generated by Super Eagles incumbent head coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, as latest statistics have revealed that he is the Nigerian sports star with the largest hits on globally renowned internet search website, Google.
While Keshi is listed number one among Nigerian sports stars that are followed across the world on Google, the player with whom the coach had a long falling out for the better part of the outgoing year, Villarreal of Spain striker, Ikechukwu Uche is rated number two.
Third place on the Google followership for Nigeriuan sports stars is Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa winger, Chrisantus Ejike Uzoenyi, whose exploits in 2014 included a most valuable player award at the Championship of African Nations (CHAN) in the same country he now plies his trade, as well as a last minute inclusion in the Nigerian World Cup squad due to an injury copped by Elderson Uwa Echiejile.
However, the biggest spotlight is on the gaffer that is most times called ‘Big Boss,’ whose name flooded all major tabloids in the country in the year, though many critics have since been calling for his removal, since his failure to qualify the Eagles to next year’s Africa Cup of Nations.
That clamour, though, has boosted the internet buzz for Keshi, who has shown how contentious he is in the country by topping the list of most searched sports people for the year ending, according to “Google.’’
Since he first resigned following his historic capture of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations title in South Africa, Keshi has become a spiky issue and a renowned name in Nigeria.
At once he is the best thing to have happened to Nigerian football since Clemens Westerhof, at other times he becomes the most criticized man on the continent.
However, inability to manage properly the team’s strength due to his limited technical know-how (cue the fact that Keshi made the least number of substitutions among all the coaches) and his controversial choice of players to the World Cup among many others, hampered the success of the side as it failed to once again shatter the Round of 16 glass ceiling in Brasilia.
The full list of Google’s 2014 most searched Nigerian sports personalities has: 1. Stephen Keshi, 2. Ikechukwu Uche, 3. Ejike Uzoenyi, 4. Musa Yahaya, 5. Umar Zango, 6. Vincent Enyeama, 7. Blessing Okagbare, 8. Daniel Amokachi, 9. Rabiu Ali, 10. Sone Aluko.http://negroidhaven.blogspot.com/search/label/Sports?&max-results= -
Davido and Wizkid End thier Beef
Another news is here again, and this time is about the two nigerian
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Fasting: The Best Cure For Ailments
Fasting is a deliberate
and controlled abstinence from solid foods for a certain period. Its is a safe
and effective method for the body to detoxify itself i.e remove harmful waste. Fasting
is recommended for every illness, as it gives the body the needed rest.By fasting regularly, you give all of
your organ a rest, help reverse the aging process and live a longer, healthier,
and happy life. Illness such as: Addictions, allergies, respiratory diseases
acute illness, colon disorders are usually responsive to fasting.Benefits of FastingThe natural
process of toxin excretion continues, while the influx of new toxins is
reduced. This results in a reduction of body toxicity.1)
The immune system workload is greatly reduced,
and the digestive tract is spared by any inflammation due to allergic reactions
to food.2)
Due to a lowering of serum fats that thins the
blood tissue oxygenation is increased and while blood cells are moved more
efficiently.3)
The energy usually used for digestion is redirected
to immune function, cell growth and eliminatory processes4)
Physical awareness and sensitivity to surrounding
increased.Due to these effects
of fasting, a fast can help you heal with greater speed; cleanse your liver,
kidneys and colon, purify your blood, help you loose excess weight and water,
flush out toxins, clear the eye and tongue and cleanse the breath. It is
recommended that you fast at least 3 days a month. And follow a 10days fast at
least twice a year. Depending on the
length of the fast, it accomplishes different things. A 3 days fast helps the
body rid itself of toxins and cleanses the blood. A five day fast begins the
process of healing and rebuilding the immune system. A ten day fast can take
care of many problems before they arise and help to fight off illness,
including the degenerative diseases that have become so common in our
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Philosophical Reflection
WHAT IF I…WHAT IF I DECIDE TO FORGET ALL
THE THINGS I HAVE EVER SAID , TO ALL THOSE WHO EVER MATTERED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE,
INCLUDING FRIENDS AND FAMILY, LOVED ONES WHO I EVER LOVED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE…WHAT IF I DENY EVERY PROMISE I
EVER MADE TO WHOMSOEVER I EVER SAID THEM. WHAT IF I DECIDE TO TURN DOWN EVERY
PROPOSALS OF LOVE I EVER MADE TO THAT
ONE SPECIAL SOUL I EVER SAID “ I LOVE YOU, AND WOULD LIKE TO SPEND MY LIFE WITH
YOU!….WHAT IF I DECIDE TO BREAKS EVERY
COVENANT I EVER MADE WITH WHOMEVER AND FOR WHATSOEVER PURPOSE WHAT IF I DENY
THOSE DAYS OF MY ENTIRE RIGHTEOUS LIFE ;CHOOSING RATHER NOT TO BOW TO ANY IMMORTAL
SOUL, SPIRIT OR BEING ….WHAT IF I DENY THE EXISTENCE OF
EVERYTHING IN AND OUTSIDE MY ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING THE FACT THAT I EXIST. WHAT
IF I DECIDE TO DO NOTHING ELSE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE BUT TO CONCENTRATE ON JUST ON
THING WHICH IS IN DENYING EVERY OTHER THING THAT MATTERS TO MY BODY, SPIRIT AND
SOUL…. INCLUDING THE FACT THAT ALL THESE THINGS DID EVER EXIST AT ALL….WHAT IF I SUCCESSSFULLY DENY ALL
THE THINGS THAT EVER MATTERED TO ME AS THEY HAD PRIOR TO THIS TIME (OF MY DENYING
THEM) MADE ME WHOSOEVER I HAVE BECOME WITHIN THE IMAGE OF MY SELF AS BEING
EXPRESSED IN MY SELF …. WHAT THEN WOULD I BECOME?WOULD I THEN BE LIKE DECARTES WHO LAID HIS
FOUNDATION ON THE “COGITO” ALSO ASCERTAIN MY OWN “COGITO” SEEING THAT I HAD
DOUBTED AND DENIED EVERYTHING INCLUDING MYSELF, MY THOUGHTS AND THE FACT THAT I
AM DOUBTING AND DO POSSESS THESE THINGS WHICH I CAN BY NO MEANS DO AWAY!WOULD I LIKE OSAM OSAM EDIM
STILL ASCERTAIN THE REALITY OF THE ABSOLUTE “ZERO” WHO I HAD DOUBTED HIS
EXISTENCE?!WOULD I LIKE J. P. SARTRE….
AFTER DENYING ALL THESE THINGS INCLUDING THE REALITY OF THE ABSOLUTE, COME BACK
TO A COMMON DENOMINATOR I WHICH IS THE FACT THAT MAN IS BUT IN A CONSTANT
THRIVE TO NEGATE HIS NEGATION WHICH AMOUNTS TO NOTHINESS AND THAT HE IS AT THE
CENTRE OR FOCUS OF THE UNIVERESE?IF AFTER DOING ALL THESE THINGS
…. I AM STILL ABLE TO RETAIN THE REALITY OF ANYTHING ON WHICH MY ENTIRE DENIAL
HAD FOCUSED OR IS DETERMINED TO FOCUS… I WOULD AT THAT JUNCTURE CALL THAT
THING…. WHATEVER IT WOULD BE….. I WOULD THUS CALL IT “THE VOID : WHICH STANDS
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My Day Of Learning by Osuala Amaobi Nelson.
Life is so brief that the slightest
remembrance of this, Opens to us nothing but that curious enquiry into the
essence of life which we would search to discover but all to no avail.A look into the mirror reveals your
image which if a critical search is done as to how `this self `is represented
in the self where it is reflected and from which it emanates would thus reveal to us nothing but nothingness and
its futility.Another look at the image represented
in one of your early day pictures…. Supplies nothing but the memories of your
yesterday… But still within the self there is a longing to grasp beyond the
memories. How you see yourself now as
being the complete opposite of whom and what you were in the past.Life is indeed futile as our search
all amounts to nothingness..A further inquiry into my yesterday leaves me with
a deep sense of sorrows and regret that if only I could see my today from
yesterday..then the errors I have made would never have emerged at all
because already I had known that I would
live up to see today from yesterday.Taking a more critical look at what
I have just asserted in the foregoing. It could be seen that if I was to see my
today from yesterday, I would as well have become as the gods and also the
immortal souls who live their today as though their tomorrow is already
guaranteed.This thus leads to a critical
questioning: is there actually anything like a future? It seems as though
everyday or each day is a tomorrow of yesterday.If this be the case, I make bold to
say that the notion of a “future” or a “tomorrow” is unrealistic as the only tomorrow there is
and which we have is but today or now.So would I be right to counsel that
“we should live our lives as though there
were no tomorrow” or that we should live our lives in the memory of today as
tomorrow is the today of yesterday and yesterdays’ tomorrow is the today which
we now have.In all this, I wish to conclude
that there is no tomorrow as every tomorrow emerges, whenever today appears and
yesterday is only what we have and should lay hands on as tomorrow. I rest my
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The Problem Of Being As A Fundamental Problem Of Philosophy
Written by Osuala
Amaobi NelsonINTRODUCTIONWhat is being? How do
we know being? Perhaps to reflect on the above question is the first place to
start in writing a paper of this foundational nature and rudimentary scope.
Something must be meant by “being” which is more than one of a humanocentric
and linguistic construct. The question on the nature of Being is one that forms
the debate of ancient western history of philosophy as philosophers within this
epoch strove to explicate what they consider as Being.However curiosity
drives us further to ask, what does it really mean to call something a Being?
And which things should we credit as having the most fundamental nature of
beingness? Some philosophers have argued that the concept ‘Being’ is synonymous
to Reality or existence. To this question, the empiricist and rationalist
philosophers remain at loggerheads.The problem of Being or
reality is traceable to Parmenides of Elea. He was the chief proponent of ‘being’
as a concept. According to him, ‘Being is and non being is not’. Parmenides
conceives Being as permanence. The concept of being is therefore what forms the
foci of metaphysics as it refers to that branch of philosophy that studies the
concept,nature and scope of Being (reality) in its intrinsic, basic, essential
and holistic nature. If according to Parmenides, ‘being is and non being is
not’, why then do we have changes in Being as there appears to be different
modes or phases of Being to which Heraclitus alluded to when he conceived his
notion of the “Omnia flux” which means that ‘all things are in a perpetual
state of flux’.The problem of being
therefore became a fundamental problem of philosophy because there appears to
be no consensus as par its semantic interpretation since different philosophers
hold variant views as to what they consider to be being. This is because they
tend to represent different schools of thought.
We shall therefore
reflect on the different views of philosophers on the notion of being. To
achieve this, it is pertinent that we first and foremost understand that the
notion of being is synonymous with reality as both refer to different ways of
talking about the same thing.According to Thales who
is popularly known as the father of western philosophy, being or reality is
water. Anaximander, a student of Thales of Miletus saw being as the “ape iron”
which according to him is the indeterminate boundless and infinite. Anaximenes
conceives being as Air. For Pythagoras, being or reality is ‘number’ as “all
things are numbers, they are measurable and do also possess a numerical basis”.
For Parmenides, being is the primordial stuff of the universe. Heraclitus on the
contrary posited the “Omnia flux” which affirms the changeability of being. We
could go on and on as the list is endless.Taking a leap into the
thesis that informs this paper, we therefore propose that the basic problem of
being as reflected in the philosophies of Parmenides and Heraclitus is that of
trying to understand reality and why there are changes amidst permanence and
vice versa. If according to Parmenides, being is permanent, why then do we have
changes, transpositions, or transmutations in being or reality as in the
example when someone dies? Critical minded philosophers would ask Parmenides:
why do people die rather than have a continuum in their existence?For a philosopher like
Heraclitus, who conceived the notion of an ‘Omnia flux’ with his most popular
dictum hinging on the notion that “we cannot step into the same river twice, as
fresh water is ever flowing” we could argue thus: if according to Heraclitus
reality is transient, an ephemeral why then do we have “permanent” human
existence as against the theory of evolution which Charles Darwin in his “origin of species” attempts to justify
by stating that complex multicellular organisms originates from single celled
organism. For example that the Homo sapiens (Man) originate from monkeys and
other forms of primates. The argument against this theory is that why haven’t
these homo sapiens metamorphosed into some other kind of specie of being?Another problem with
the notion of being is that conceived by empiricist philosophers of the modern
period of philosophy, according to them, reality or being refers to those
things to which we can know through sense experience. To advocates of this
school of thought, reality can only be verified through the senses of sight,
smell, taste, touch and feeling.we therefore ask: what do we say about such
abstract entities like the mind, death, pain, heat e.t.c to which we cannot
doubt their existence even if we try to shy away despite they cannot be known through sense
data as they also do have an interconnected influence on us.To throw in the towel,
I wish to toe the line of the skeptic philosophers that we cannot truly know
being reason is that each time we attempt to grasp being in its intrinsic
nature, it however eludes us and all that we seem to have left becomes a mere
fragmentation of being. It is from the foregoing that we conclude with the
position that the problem of being is a perennial problem in philosophy and it
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Attitudial Change: a Catalyst To National Development
OSUALA, AMAOBI NELSON
DEPARTMENT OF
PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CALABARe-mail:nelsonosuala@yahoo.comnelsonosualaphilosophy@yahoo.comI consider it apposite to begin this
piece of writing by asserting unequivocally that Nigeria today is being
confronted with some destabilizing problems as it regards its economic and
socio-political development. This seemingly supposed problem is to my mind due
to the ambivalent nature of man which according to professor Asouzu “… tends
toward self-preservation”. Such deterrent to the development of our nation is a
product of myopic view of reality and egocentric tendencies which Asouzu
purported is quite impelling as it has resulted in conflict, tribalism, nepotism,
sentiment, vandalization and all forms of decadence ( Ibuanyindanda 231-233).
It was on the above premise that Rev Chris Okotie did inform in an interview
over the media that “there cannot be a new Nigeria if there are no new
Nigerians”.It
is therefore the aim of this paper to argue for a mental deconstruction,
reconstruction and transformation otherwise known as ‘attitudinal change’ which
is closely linked to Asouzu’s noetic propaedeutic. This is what will result
into the progressive development of our nation as it refers to all its vital
sectors such as economic, social, political, industry, etc. we shall therefore
in subsequent paragraphs discuss some problems facing the Nigerian nation to
which attitudinal change could serve as a therapy.First,
is the issue of tribal sentiment amongst various ethnic groups which have
resulted into crisis between individual rival groups. A nation where such is
rampant can seldom progress. If indeed we desire for national development which
is replicated in economic planning through the diversification of the various
economic sectors, budget surplus, high calorie intake, and availability of
basic and social amenities such as good roads, electricity, pipe borne water,
infrastructure etcetera. Individual orientation towards one another must change
for the betterment of this country.Also,
is the lack of love and concern for the youths who are supposed to be leaders
of tomorrow. The youths of this country have been neglected, rejected, and
deprived of the right to a fair hearing. They have no say in economic and
socio- political matters, not because they are not vast nor is it because they
lack the potentialities and capability to contribute positively towards her
nation but rather because their
supposed leaders in the corridors of power do not consider them as objects of
change. Unfortunately, this negative tag on them have led most of them to take
up unprofitable venture such as hooliganism, robbery, human trafficking, as
commercial sex workers and other moral decadence.
Another factor that cripples national development is that perpetrated towards
the vandalization of oil pipelines. The Niger-Delta issue is today an open secret,
as many Nigerians seems ill-concerned about ways to contribute to the good of
this nation and the progress of various sectors of the economy of which the oil
and agricultural sectors appear most important as they appear to be our major
sources of revenue.Another
problem which has deterred national development In Nigeria is the problem of
incessant and illicit possession and display of wealth. So many politicians are
corrupt because they seek to possess material wealth to which they have gotten by
false means. A good percentage of politicians who occupy sensitive positions in
the corridor of power apparently seem to have ill-gotten wealth. Each of these
leaders goes into power with the intention toamass wealth through falsehood
applauded by theMachiavellian principle of “the end justifying the means”
thereby failing to understand in the light of the Ibuanyindanda framework that
“whatever exist serves a missing link of reality” as posited by asouzu.Other
issues that could serve as bottlenecks toward the development of our country,
Nigeria include: armed robbery activities, inequality in wealth allocation and
distribution, bad government policies such as deregulation of the oil sector,
lack of basic and social amenities, inflation, budget deficit, infant
mortality, early pregnancies, over population etc. All these have led to
economic recession and destabilization, thus these are the problems Nigeria is
faced with today.Conclusively,
to curb this entire negative trend which has bedeviled our country, we have
suggested mental reformation and transformation which is couched as attitudinal
change or noetic propaedeutic. This will restore the public lost love for the
nation Nigeria that will make every individual contribute positively and
consciously towards the fostering of this nation. There is something to be done
for Nigeria! It was the late president of the United States of America in the
person of John. F. Kennedy who told his people “Do not ask what America will do
for you, but rather what you can and will do for America”. The above assertion focuses on the vital
issue of patriotism, a concept that relates to a people’s favorable attitude
toward their motherland. In a nutshell, patriotism must be regained by
Nigerians and that through a change of attitude of the people to what we know
as positive which seeks for the “oughtness” towards experiencinga sustainable economic
and socio-political development.Work cited:Asouzu, Innocent I. The
Methods and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and Beyond African
Philosophy. Calabar: University of Calabar press, 2004.Asouzu, Innocent I. Ibuanyindanda: New Complementary Onotology: Beyond World
Immanenterm,Ethnocentric Reduction and Impositions. London: Liverlag Munster, 2007.Osuala, Amaobi Nelson“Attitudinal Change: A catalyst to
National Development”.
An unpublished paper submitted to The National Orientation Agency (NOA),
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Atiku"s Concession Speech At The 2014 APC DecemberConvention
On the 10th of December 2014 sequel to General Muhammedu Buhari”s emergence as the presidential flag bearer of the APC for the 2015 general elections, Atiku Abubakar demonstrated leadership by giving a concession speech. below is the full text;
protocol:
I heartily congratulate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari for emerging victorious in this keenly contested presidential primary election of our great Party, the APC. You ran a spirited campaign, and since the delegates have spoken, you fully deserve the victory.I am very confident that you will provide the needed leadership to turn this country around. I have no doubt that you will work with dedicated and qualified Nigerians to protect our citizens, improve our economy, create jobs, improve education, reform governance and fight corruption. You will indeed bring the change Nigerians have been yearning for. Once more, congratulations.I congratulate the other contestants, namely Governors Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Rochas Okorocha as well as the erudite Sam Nda-Isiah. You have all demonstrated your commitment to democracy by participating in this transparent process and by campaigning vigorously across this country.I thank our delegates for their sacrifices and their commitment to democracy. In particular, I thank those who voted for me for your faith in me. However, since we came up short, have to now rally behind General Buhari to help him prevail in the coming Presidential election.The APC has demonstrated, through the transparent process, the Party’s commitment to democracy and rule of law. It has demonstrated its respect for people and their choice through the ballot box.I sincerely thank the Convention Committee for putting together a hitch-free convention.My dear friends, we have voted, a winner has emerged. I pledge my commitment to this Party, and to campaign vigorously for our candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and all APC candidates to ensure victory in the 2015 elections.
