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TIME TO REVIVE OR UNDERSTAND AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION

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https://fb.watch/eG9aJsaLW6/ Nigeria is a complex country. This mob based on Native beliefs believes this man or wizard hypnotized this underage girl to keep her in his home.  The brought him before the Emir or emirate council and carried out some procedures the believe would release the supposed spell he cast on this girl. If the police were not there this wizard may have been set ablaze like many suspected witches and abiku children are in Africa. Although the court is Islamic their actions have nothing to do with religion but all about Native beliefs being weaved into and confused with the practice of Islam. Before the invasion of Islam Hausa animism or Bori was and perhaps still is the native religion of Hausa people and it deals with spirit possession. It is not difficult to believe that other tribes would reach the same conclusion and resort to the same de-hypnotized process. We typically lump the whole north as Hausa or Fulani but they have many other minority ethnicities wi...

Nigeria - A poor country despite Fiction

Just read a statement attributed to Osibanjo that "Nigeria is poor not because Nigeria is not endowed but due to massive stealing. This is the greatest misconception Nigerians believe about Nigeria.  Mr. VP, Nigeria is a poor third world country and getting poorer due to the spendthrift culture adopted by the government and grandiose expansionary goals based on a startling incomprehension of the net credits and debits bedeviling its treasury. All Nigerian governments tout the fallacy and propagate The scape goat of corruption as the reason for the poverty and poor infrastructure in the country. But what many fail to understand is that Even if there is no corruption, national revenue can never match the capital expenditure required to satisfy the growing appetite of Nigerians for luxury goods they do not produce or the need for greater spending to provide infrastructure for its teaming population that the think the can have from comparing themselves to Europe and America.  The ...