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  • Pope Francis, same sex couple, distorted souls

    Pope Francis, same sex couple, distorted souls

    We human beings grow up to know or learn that we are girls and boys or women and men and to naturally fall, easily settle into the respective gender activities. Hermaphrodite are rare among our species of creatures, and are still seen by science and medicine as design errors in the marvelous workshop of nature. Sex change still baffles many of us. So is  the idea that a man would  walk another man down the aisle to the altar as his wife,and a woman would do the same with a fellow woman as her husband.There is another oddity many of  us see less … a person we see outwardly as a man but, inwardly,is a woman or a man who outwardly inhibits the body of a woman. Between them are many cases of persons whose physical bodies are just beginning to  change their forms from  those of the spirit  beings who inhabit them. The normal situation is for the spirit being and its unseen bodies, called the soul,  and its  physical body, to have the same form. All these cases belong to the phenomenon known in spiritual parlance as Distorted Souls. They may very  well also be called Abnormal or Disfigured Souls because they are no longer the  human beings they originally vowed to eternally be at the start of their wandering through creation!

    Quite naturally, I will be asked for evidence of  this  statement. For now, I would suggest we calmly come along. This is  a serious phenomenon which,like Stigmata,, has rocked  Christianity and confused the Church. Recently, Pope  Francis sided with the Distorted Souls when he said Catholic Priests could bless the  ” unions” of same-sex couples. A fastidious, young and single Catholic woman who spoke with me soon after, asked: What is now left  of  our faith as  Christians?

    “A lot more”, I answered,unsure if she understood what  I meant or  where I was  heading.

    I am a Christian, and do not take my Christianity bearing from the interpretation of God’s willl from the personal belief of a Christian leader or directive or that of a group of them. Each individual is on the earth to discover this WILL through serious inner struggles and, prior to coming here, was equipped,  as an intrinsic part of his or her make-up, with the ability of intuitive perception to  perceive the power of God and to obey it. Whoever is unable to do this, but relies solely on ready made opinions of other persons which are often incorrect or false perceptions, is  like a  person  who abandons his healthy limbs and walks on borrowed crutches.

    Before I proceed, please permit that I mention in brief the question of Stigmata which, like that of women in men’s bodies,men in women’s bodies, sex changes or same  sex marriages, all of which belong to the phenomenon of Distorted Souls, have troubled genuine Christianity for a long time now.

    STIGMATA

    During Easter seasons, the unusual  happens to some persons. They may bleed from the wound marks of JESUS which led as He hung on the Cross of crucification. Some of these stigmatised persons hear voices which speak to them in a language they do not understand. Some are  flogged by unseen persons. These phenomenon collectively are called STIGMATA and the persons who bear or express them STIGMATISTS.

    The wound marks may be on the head, like those caused on the Head of Jesus by the crown of thorns derisively forced on it to deride Him as a false King of the Jews. There are, also,bleeding and painful wound marks in the palms through which nails were driven into the wood. The lower abdomen tells its own story. It was here that a spear was plunged to confirm to Roman authorities that Jesus was stone dead and it was , therefore,pointless to break  His bones to make assurance doubly sure to obviate all possibilities of His Resurrection. Finally, there are pains from wounds and bleeding  on the feet which were crossed at the ankles and nailed through into the wood. Language specialists of our time say the voices stigmatists  hear resemble the language of the Golgotha  region of those days where the Crucifixtion took place. What about the whipping, always experienced by the stigmatist  in Owerri,eastern Nigeria, before he was flown to the Vatican?  Certainly, Jesus was flogged all through the walk from the court of Pontius Pilate to the execution area, especially when, out of exhaustion from carrying the Cross, He fell or collapsed.

    So far, Christianity does not understand these phenomena and has made of them what it would. After long and sometimes torturing debates which often ended in voting and  a show of hands, the debaters conclude that Stigmatists  were blessed human beings who are specially chosen to bear the wound marks of Jesus. From their countries, the stigmatists are taken to Rome where they become tourist attractions and fuel the tourism purse of the Vatican. Christians throng the sites to behold them, to physically touch the stigmatists,  to kneel or to prostate before them, writhing their hands in prayer to the Most High God for His Blessings upon them because they are privileged to make their ways to these “specially blessed  human beings”. It does not matter to the pilgrimage that , even as they do,  the stigmatists are in serious pains and beseeching the Almighty Creator to relieve them of their vicissitudes and the pains. At some point of their suffering, the notion of the Church that they are “holy” men no longer is enough to sustain their faith. Also, it doesn’t make sense to the multitude that these pains worsen with attempts  to medicate them. These are Christians who can hardly understand what is going on around them, having  become lame in spirit, letting their spiritual limbs atrophy from disuse and reliance on the crutches offered to them in the ready made opinions of other persons. It is doubtful if such persons would be alive in spirit to  understand the phenomena of women inhabiting men’s bodies, men inhabiting women’s bodies, sex changes, how this has led to same sex marriages, the absence  of proper illumination of this subject which now obliges Catholic priests to bless marriages the majority of mankind recoil from.

    THE KEY

    If we wish to open any door, we would insert the right key into the key hole and turn it aright. Equally, we need to apply the right methods to access phenomena which appear to be within locked closets. The right methods in this case are the appropriate conceptions which must  be understood aright. Two of them are (1) The Law of the Cycle and (2) Forgiveness.

    On the cross, Jesus forgave His assailants. However, Christians make the mistake of believing that they have nothing to account for once their sins have been forgiven.  Yes, the Crucification  sins has been forgiven,  what about the  PROPENSITIES which gave  rise to the sins. The propensity is the inner spring or  fountain from which the sin arose. This has to be expunged  by the sinner.  No  one else  can do this for him or her. It is the impact of the propensity, that is the sin, that can be forgiven. Even in this, the sinner must repudiate  misdeed. The thief on the right side of Jesus on the  cross came to this recognition, but the  one on the left side did not. He even reviled Jesus. In the revelations which accompany expanded spiritual knowledge to the earth at that time promised by Jesus and anchored  in our time  on earth, is now recognised that this thief returned to the rarth in the last century as a woman that time and as a stigmatist named Therese Newman of Konnerieuth. Why did he return, and as a woman? The answer is  in the LAW OF THE CYCLE, one of the laws under which  the universe is  governed. Every event has a beginning and must have an end. This is the opening and closing of cycles. Breathing, for example, is a cycle. Inhalation opens the cycle while  exhalation closes it. Food intake opens a cycle which waste evacuation closes by  returning content from the soil to the soil. Water intake follows this law.Ditto  evaporation and rainfall, blood circulation from the heart and back to  the heart, birth and death.  Even Jesus told us He was going to re-unite with the Father from whose Abode He came. Thus,  the cycle of the murder of Jesus must close, with every participant who had been unable to discard  the propensity or personally recognised  culpability in the  dastardly event offered perhaps at last opportunity to free himself or herself from it. This opportunity is provided  in the present Cosmic Age known as the Aquarian  Age. A cosmic Age is about 2,160 years in the Gregorian Calendar. Incidentally, the present Aquarian Age tallies with the COSMIC Turning Point in which Solar-system and galaxies join the universe to close its own cycle of revolution around its power centre. Thereafter, will begin what theologists has forewarned would happen… THE FINAL JUDGEMENT. Just before then,  all those men and women who laid  dirty hands  on the earthly life of Jesus would have a final opportunity to recognise their misdeed, repent, purge themselves of  all similar propensities to be free of them. The matter concerns not only those of us who were on the front lines, shouting ” Crucify Him”, those who flogged Him and the executioners who nailed  Him to the Cross.  I used to be filled with revulsion for the man who  plunge a spear  into His side untill I discovered he did  it in love, to prevent the authorities from ordering the breaking of the bones of Jesus as definite proof of His death. There  were others like Pontius Pilate who  was warned three  times by  his wife to free Jesus, but feared for his job as Roman Governor over conquered  Judea because he did not wish to offend the Emperor in Rome. There are many of us who have been distorting His teachings and instituting Church dogmas which have been leading many  weak souls astray. Today, we stand before another seaming mystery, the GENDERS and their exact purpose for their creation and existence. Right before what,right or wrong, we should regard as the Presence of the Holiness of God, that is the Altar, a Priest whose is said to stand  in His Power to dispense His Blessings to His Creatures who beseech Him for them, is commanded by an earthly authority to not turn away from a distortion of the teaching  of that very WILL, under the influence of  LUCIFER, the  only real ANTI CHRIST or fighter against Christ.

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    WOMAN AND MAN

    We did not create ourselves or our world. Above  our home in the universe are the worlds of PARADISE and those of Angels. There are female and male angels. In all the realms of paradise, female and male beings, are  everywhere. On earth, our transient home, woman and man are self- evident species. So, what is this phenomenon all about, and why is there  a distortion of it on earth?

    ONE-OFF  FREE RESOLVE

    As in the womb where our physical beings once lay unconscious, we existed unconsciously  as unconscious Spirit seed germs in some higher realm. At a particular point in this trajectory, we had to decide in which of Creation two types of activities we would consciously  engage. Once taken, the decision cannot be reversed. An attempt to do so, consciously or otherwise, amounts to a DISTORTION. There are two activities…

    • Active or Positive, and

    •  Passive or Negative

    Negative in this sense is not meant in the derogatory sense.

    The active  or Positive is the COARSE Activity which the rugged make physical body espouses. Passive or Negative is the fine or delicate activity which the female  human body represents. These body types characterise the nature of the inner Being, the Human Spirit, which forms them. The woman is the stronger of the two.  Her passive or Negative Activity make her more sensitive to far more readily and easily receive guidance from the Power or Will of the Almighty Creator, and Pass it on to her counterpart, man,whose chief calling is in coarser or physical engagements, for  which reason his physical body is cast in appropriate coarse form. Woman is the DECIDING FACTOR in all things and Man, therefore, the IMPLEMENTOR or executioner of this decisions.  That is THE WILL OF GOD. Accordingly, Woman bore the human spirit seed germs to the earth, and will lead them  back home to paradise. So, on earth, woman had to bear her offsprings in her womb and feed the infants with milk from her breasts. Lucifer, the  fallen Arch Angel, knew of this arrangements. To disarrange them, he seduced, attacked and dragged woman away from her High Task, led her through male thinking and activities, and the imitation of man to lose her DELICATENESS and to become COARSE like man. Evidence of movement towards this goal or attainment of it is sometimes evident in NARROWED HIPS, apart from an onset of other male  characteristic.

    Once made, the choice of one-off activity cannot be annulled. It is eternal. The effects of an activity shift in either the Female Spirit or the Male Spirit is what is observable in the soul and in the PHYSICAL BODY.  Womanly menamd manly women  have DISTORTED SOULS. In the Household of God, that is Creation, they are  USELESS entities, we are told, and, as we are also informed in the enlarged spiritual knowledge given to us at this time, they would be swept away in the MILLENNIUM when the free will of humanity will be subsumed by the WILL of the Almighty Creator.

    For now on Earth, perhaps the only value earth-bound thinking can ascribe to distorted souls is the possibility of procreation.  Even then, what can they procreate  but human beings of the same nature under THE LAW OF ATTRACTION OF HOMOGENEOUS SPECIES? This Law, in the unflinching Justic of this wonderful Creation, brings distorted souls together in several ramifications. A woman incarnated in a male body, will be attracted in marriage to a man in a female body. Women and Men in various degrees of the distortion of their souls and physical bodies, even where the bodies have not manifestly shown any real signs, will also find one another out. Birds of a  feather flock together.

    POPE FRANCIS

    When upon becoming  Pope he promised to re-write the Bible, I thought Pope Francis would correct the errors in several dogmas. He would, instead,  bow under pressure like some of his predecessors. One of these was Pope Justinian who was forced by Emperor Nero to erase the knowledge of re-incarnation from Church  teachings. Nero disliked this teaching and called a Bishops conference to annul it. The Bishops refused. Some boycotted the meeting. Nero drafted a minority communique and asked Pope Justinian  to sign it. The Pope refused. Nero put him under house arrest for two weeks and threatened to depose him. Pope Justinian capitulated. Since then, the Church says there is nothing like re-incarnation. Christians interested in these events may research them on-line.

    Pope Francis on December 17, 2023, one month and  one week ago, bowed to a new Euro-American culture of same sex  blessings  which opposes the scriptural conception of Adam and Eve( opposite sex ) marriage. However, he says, he gave only. ” Pastoral” approval. This means Priest can use their discretion to bless the ” unions” of same  sex couples outside Church officialdom. His backers say same  sex couples are creatures of  God  who desire His Blessings which should not  be denied them. We are also invited to not be judgemental, but to show  “understanding”, “kindness”, Patience”, “compassion” and lots more.

    In  human  beings with  DISTORTED SOULS, the human SPIRIT is not distorted. The distortion is in the none- physical bodies of the spirit which, together with the spirit,is known as the soul, and in the physical body in varying degrees. What causes the distortion is the movement of the spirit from its original activity to another activity. This  aberration affects only garments of  the  Spirit,THE SOUL  and the PHYSICAL EARTHLY BODY tangible to earthly sensory organs. Thus, we may have  female Spirit in male souls expressing male characteristics in female physical bodies or male physical bodies, depending on the degree to which the physical body had been altered. If the spirit recognises his or her blunder and reverses the wrong  volition, distortion of the soul and physical bodies is correctable,in the present or future incarnations.

    Genuine male spirits abhor no meaningful relationships with DISTORTED female  souls and vice versa. Women in danger of distorting their souls are to be found in public life, among military paratroopers, as boxers, wrestlers, footballers, academia, soldiering etc. Spiritually, the distortion of their souls has deprived humanity of their link to higher power.

    If, today, Catholic Priests treat same sex couple with compassion, kindness and patience, will generation to come not believe that same sex marriages are  acceptable to God?

  • Tip for 2024 food supplements treasure trove

    Tip for 2024 food supplements treasure trove

    For 30 years, a true friend and ally for radiant health.

    The headline above, SOGHURM BICOLOR, 2024 TRILLION DOLLAR BEAUTIFUL BRIDE, is all about JOBELYN,  the Nigerian herbal blood formula which has weathered 30 long years of intensive labouratory and clinical research to earn a well deserved entry in the Cancer Drug dictionary of the prestigious National  Cancer Institute of the United States. This should make proud Nigerian Traditional Medicine (NTM) and encourage doctors’ and patients’ interest in Jobelyn.

    I am priviledged to have been associated with Jobelyn in its 30 year history, from the unveiling in 1993 and the first newspaper report in 1994 through the various laboratory and clinical studies, including presentations at some Alternative Medicine conferences in Africa, and recommend that you read the news report mentioned above and also make Jobelyn a prime food supplement in your Herbal Medicine Box at home or in the office in 2024. 

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    Studies in Nigerian and foreign universities have shown jobelyn to support several therapies such as in HIV/AIDS, psychiatry, Anaemia, cancer, neuro degenerative diseases, post surgical conditions, arthritis, diabetes, inflammation etc. 

    American labouratory and university studies found Nigerian soghurm bicolor variety from which jobelyn is made to be the richest sources of two compounds in 3 DEOXYANTOCYANIDINS which are targeted to be the corner stones of the food of pharmaceutical industries of the future. These compounds are well endowed with four functions which are believed to be Erasers of all disease conditions…1) Anti inflammatory 2) Anti oxidant 3) Immune modulation and 4) chemo prevention

    The December 14, 2023 report in The Nation newspaper, SOGHURM BICOLOR, 2024 TRILLION DOLLAR BEAUTIFUL BRIDE, projects why, in 2024, plant medicine consumers world wide should find Jobelyn a wonderful friend and ally to make their health robust and radiant.

  • A wise way to a man’s heart

    A wise way to a man’s heart

    Maverick cooks know that the way to a man’s heart is not only through his stomach. The woman whose cooking can make a man as  fit as  a fiddle in all ramifications is often the welcome news in the kitchen and at table. Where is that man who doesn’t want his brain smart and sharp, who does not value good vision, or who does not pray against hearing loss, teeth and gum problems or would like hypertension, kidney, liver and  digestive   problems, not to mention prostate gland and bone joint dysfunctions to be his lot. The women who prepare the meals of such men know that cooking goes beyond artificial food sweeteners and that it testifies to a mastery of culinary herbs well chosen and well combined to not get only  awaken  the taste bunds but to also provide the body with as many nutrients as possible for optimal health. Some health food stores now stock some of the friends and allies of the Maverick cook. Three of them are presented below.

    1) CURRY POWDER

    2) BAOBAB(KUKA) POWDER

    3) CLOVE POWDER

    CURRY POWDER

    This is not the run of the mill curry powder. I cook with it. I add it raw to cooked food or to fruit juice, especially Tiger nuts milk  and add it to garri when I soak some for drinking. There are nine ingredients  in this Curry  Powder…

    A) coriander B)fenugreek C) cumin seeds (D) nutmeg (E) fennel (F) clove (G) Ginger (H).  Garlics and Tumeric. Anyone who is familiar with the health benefits of these plant medicines or can check them out on the internet should appreciate this product blend. Space does not permit an elaboration I would have like to make  here. However, a few shouldn’t escape mention. Corriander is what the yorubas call Efo Ebolo and which the english call Corriander. In the health food store, it is sometimes called CillantroI. It is a great kidney and urinary system cleanser. It may also promote healthy blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels  and promote  heart and bone health in addition to several other health benefits.

     FENUGREEK is a sugar burner which is good, also, for cough and for removing phlegm in the throat, improving brain function, lowering blood pressure, fighting inflammation, improving breast milk flow.

        TUMERIC provides Curcumin, an anti- oxidant and anti-inflammatory. Anyone who experiences inflammatory condition will appreciate the value of anti- inflammatory. Inflammatory conditions are given names which end in…ITIS. This includes, but are not limited to, hepatitis( inflammation of liver, Arthritis ( inflammation of bone joints), colitis (inflammation of the colon), meningitis ( inflammation of brain and spinal cord membranes).etc. Curcumin boosts brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) which helps memory and learning. BDNF deficiency has been linked to some brain and nerve  disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, poor signaling among brain cells and depression. Sometimes associated with depression, is a mild of serious lost of cognitive function, short memory lost,  disibt-intrest in learning andnpwrformence of chelleng tasks. Some people in depression withdraw from their environment, like only to eat and sleep,and are ungrateful for love shown to them. If curcumin helps to boost BDNF levels in the brain, and the boost improves brain function,adding curcumin to the diet through these products or in any other form should be a good decision.  Nutmeg is detoxifying, pain killing, improves oral health, promotes sleep and immunity, supports therapy, and improves blood flow. Clove reduces blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides, improves health, liver, bone and oral health. FENNEL may help breast milk flow. Fennel leaves and seeds are credited, also, with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti- bacterial qualities. They are a storehouse of nutrition, parading, for example, Vitamin C, Manganese, Potassium, Magnesium and Calcium.

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     Accordingly to Frank J. LIPP in his book, Herbalism, the Romans have for more than 2,000 years used fennel for about 22 medical purposes including the treatment of eye problems, asthma, cough, halitosis( mouth odour), flatulence, dizziness, delay mentruation etc. Snakes likes fennel. They eat it when they shed their coats and their eyes are cloudy. Fennel clears their vision.

    CUMIN is not Curcumin. For centuries, Cumin has been used  in Asia for indigestion and diarrhoea, headache, kidney and bladder stones, radiant health and leprosy therapies. In the laboratory,Cumin has inhibited the  growth of  many bacteria, including  E. Coli, which causes troubles in the intestine and in the urinary system. Several studies applaud Cumin as good for lowering high blood cholesterol levels, especially the dangerous Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) while elevating count of  High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), the good Cholesterol.  It has been found to reduce high urea levels, support weight loss, enhance healthy Body Mass index(BMI), that is the ratios of fat  and muscle tissues, improve blood sugar balance and provide antioxidants, Vitamins such as vitamin A and  important minerals such as Calcium and Iron. In the preceeding decades, foods with high antioxidants values were  well prized because these chemical substances helped to neutralise free radical  molecules which damage cells and make them grow into tumours and even cancers. One of the  commonest  tumour in Nigeria’s medical landscape today is uterine fibroids. They and other tumours should profit not only from Cumin but all food sources with antioxidant properties and high polyphenol counts such as Sorqghum bicolor, an ingredient of the proprietary blend blood formula named JOBELYN.

  • Baobab (Kuka) aims for national market

    Baobab (Kuka) aims for national market

    Without being too exaggerative, I believe  I can safely say that, in Northern  Nigeria, the Baobab  tree is as ubquitous as the cow. I began to develop interest in this tree, its fruits and leaves when  I learned from many of my friends from the north that the leaves were primary ingredients in the soups their mothers served at table during their childhood. The first sample packs I received from them in Lagos were sandy, suggesting they were exposed  to air and dust. I sieved  the powder  of sand  to no avail . Now, I enjoy factory-made Baobab leaf powder in practically all foods I eat… From rice, beans, yam porridge, corn porridge(pap),  plantain, soups, tiger nut juice to Edikang Ikong soup etc.

    The product label says: The leaves are used to not only thicken soups and stews but also used to prepare Danwake and other traditional dishes that can contain sweet potato, sorghum, cassava and cowpea flour. Peanut butter can also be paired with Kuka along with ginger and garlic to make sauce for rice, or couscous”.

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    Baobab leaf powder as a good source of vitamin C, is almost 50 percent fiber, two- thirds of which is soluble firber and the rest insoluble fiber. This makes it a potentially good PRE- BIOTIC. It is believed to be richer in anti-oxidants than  many other  whole foods.  The nutrients are easily bio-available.  Baobab  is believed to boost  immune potential, iron  absorption, encourage slow release of energy, promote digestion,support reptoductive health, ease collagen production, which  is good news for growing children  and adults in search of radiant organ and skin health . What is more… Baobab is very, very  Alkaline. Here is an idea a maveric cook shared with me about how to drink garri. Do not soak and drink it direct. It maybe too heavy in your stomach and intestine. Blend it, add Tiger nut juice, add Baobab powder. Blend again. You may drink this blend with a straw! The tiger but juice and the Baobab powder should  make the garri alkaline not acidic.

  • 2023-2024 harmattan, dustier, hotter than no other

    2023-2024 harmattan, dustier, hotter than no other

    About this time in Nigeria every year, the SADs have a field day for which every one prepares against according to one’s health challenges. The SADs are the Seasonal Affective Diseases. They are peculiarities of the transition from one season to another, and of the seasons themselves. We have been in the harmattan season from December last year and should be through with it at the end of this month or in early February. Since I have known the harmattan, which connects the rain season with the dry season, it has been a transitional season of cold and dust. It is another phase of the weather which, like the rain season, many asthmatics do not like. The rain makes the environment greener and the air filled with plant pollen which may aggravate symptoms of asthma. The cold and the dust of the harmattan may do the same and more. In particular, the dust of the harmattan may freight airborne germs into homes and offices and into food in the kitchen or on the dining table. There appears to be no cold this year, but a much bigger offloading of dust and scorching heat everywhere, ahead of the heat season even heat strokes, heat death, measles and cerebrospinal meningitis.

    Nigeria’s weathermen, I mean the meterologists, were sluggish this year in forewarning the public that the harmattan this year would be more brutal than any other. Ghana’s weathermen gave public warnings before Nigeria’s roused themselves from slumber. Thank goodness they ever did, warning of the need to wear nose masks as we did for COVID-19. That was when respiratory and other infections reared their heads, especially in Abuja. Many families came down not just with cough and other problems, some persons developed tonsilitis which may be fatal. Happily, the doctors sprang to their feet in aid of whoever had infections and could afford their bills. Persons who could not sought relief in natural medicines.

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    Nature is forever unbeatable. It remains the season’s master even in a well curtained 23 window house designed for natural ventilation and minimum dust inflow. Last week, I overheard the complaints of a gentleman about this season. He designed his house as just described to protect his pocket from electricity expenses of air conditioning, and to safeguard his health from the environment.  The curtains held dust, could drop them off in the laundry over five minutes and, in another five minutes, be ready to run on their tracks. In the cold, rain weather and in the harmattan, the special curtains kept the house warm. But guess what? Today, he needs to add an equal number of curtains to hold back the dust, and that would mean a warmer house in this harmattan heat with no air conditioners or electric fans. For houses which have air conditioners, where is the electricity to run them. How many persons can run electricity generators as they did until about eight months ago when petrol price went up?. Anyway, man is an adaptive being and, so, we all should adapt to the weather to beat the SADs.

    Something happening?

    We journalists are trained to have A LONG AND SHARP NOSE FOR NEWS, otherwise we would not be the REPORTERS we are proud to be called. It is an instinct. Different professions have different instincts. The reporter tends to embody many, if not all, instincts in THE LONG AND SHARP NOSE FOR NEWS. Even around my house, it didn’t take me long to discover that  the neighbourhood was “farming” a “catfish”. From my bedroom or study at different times of the day, I easily figured two cars parked in different locations  watching over a third or its passengers. I do not see them. The manner of their signalling gave them out. One car would branch off from the others at a road junction and become stationary in the rear. The other support car would move about 50 metres ahead of the man’s car. The signalling cars have different horn sounds. One car hoot may signal attention “TO OTHERS” Another car may signal “READY TO MOVE”.  Even when persons I shared this experience with did not seem to trust my judgement, they soon discovered regularity could mean something.

    Climate change?  

     In their reportorial work, journalists are dissatisfied with the surface  of an event which, to many persons, is THE NEWS. The news, for them, always lie deep beneath. That’s why they dig up the FIVE Ws and one H… Who, what, why, when, where and how? Thus, the news about 58 years ago was not that the deputy Premier of the then Western Region of Nigeria refused a handshake offer from a senior political leader of the region to the embarrassment or amazement of guests at an important official government function. That was surface news. I learned of the news beneath the news about 25 years ago in the company of Mr Nduka Irabor and Mrs Harriet Lawrence who, together with me, had a memory lane interview with this gentleman from Modakeke, Ile Ife, who was trying to make his son succeed him in politics. I was 15 years old, 58 years ago and an avid newspaper reader at school and during the holiday. So, I knew of this well publicised event. When I asked him why he put his hands in his pockets, it turned out that political adversity was not the cause as was erroneously widely reported in those days. He told us the other gentleman wore a ring on one of his right fingers which he suspected was for diabolical manifestations.

    Hot harmattan

     We are wondering why the weather is so hot during the harmattan  and we are pulling off our dresses when we should be wearing woolen dresses, but we only end up shrugging our shoulders and leaving the question for scientists to thrash out for us. Already, they have inaundated us with noises of Climate Change.

    Almost every country is hosting at least one major international conference every year on Climate Change.They are showing other countries  how climate change is affecting their land forms, human geography and economy to inform them their adaptations and new businesses evolved from their  new human existential trajectory. Thus, we are all talking about climate change and blaming it on the burning of firewood and charcoal for energy or on the exhaust of factory machines and motorised vehicles. May we not all be looking at surface news? Could there be no triggers for climate change beneath the orchestrated  surface news? In all of these, only few persons remember the unforgettable EDGAR CAYCEE, “the man who saw tomorrow”. He predicted with accuracy or near accuracy some of today’s events. He predicted, also, future events, including the coming of a powerful Star, much more powerful than all the stars combined, to rearrange the cosmic forces and re-shape the earth as well in all ramifications. In some spiritual circles, this Star is known as THE GREAT COMET. Besides Edgar Caycee’s, there are many prophesies about It, including spiritual descriptions by PROPHET EZEKIEL. I had the priviledge in the 1990s to review several times and in different perspectives in THE GUARDIAN newspaper of the book of American journalist TOM KAY on this subject titled WHEN THE COMET RUNS. The book is a compendium of prophesies about this Star. The bottom line is that it would cause gargantuan climate and weather catastrophies on earth, “suck up and high” water bodies on earth, generate earthquakes, floodings, overturn social, political and economic systems, cause disappearance of several coastal lands and bring up from the seas some lands which sank millenia ago and were overrun by water. One of these is believed to be THE LOST CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS, displaced by the ATLANTIC OCEAN when diminutive moon, the Earth’s nearest cosmic neighbour, was empowered and lowered towards a degenerate  master civilisation called Atlantis to eliminate its aberrations from the surface of the earth. Some thinkers say, however, that the Atlantean story is philosophical fiction. Edgar Caycee and other seers say it is real. A risen Atlantis will wholly or in part surely devastate the present land forms with displaced Atlantic ocean water. The Atlantic ocean is the world’s second largest ocean after the Pacific Ocean. It commands a depth of about 8,605 meters, occupies 24 per cent of the Earth’s water surface area, is about 17 per cent of the earth’s surface and spreads 85.13 million square kilometers, according to goggle. Re-surfacing of Atlantian land would surely displace Atlantic ocean water on coastal cities and nations, including the coast of West Africa. Japan may disappear. So may many islands and some parts of England. In my days as a teenager picnicking at the Lagos bar beach, there were many cherubim and seraphim churches, restaurants and hotels, including the famous OCTOPUS owned by the benitie family on this beach land. Much of the land has given way to the Atlantic Ocean. Goggle says the beach land lost two kilometers between 1905 and 2005.

     Edgar Caycee foresaw a religious war in which Arab armies, close to victory in present day United States, would be swallowed by a major earthquake which may destroy Western civilisation and return mankind to near primordial beginnings. Imagine an earth without airplanes, electricity, internet, telecommunications, pharmaceutical medicines, packaged foods, ships and motorcars, among others! That is the picture painted, also, in DOOMSDAY 1999, by Charles  Berlitz who unites religion, philosophy and science to predict a new apocalypse in all corners of the earth. Although catastrophies of the nature painted by Edgar Caycee did not happen in 1999 to bring mankind on their knees as suggested in this book, scientists do not believe dramatic changes will fail to occur sometime. They have proof ours is not the first civilisation of humans to live on earth. For example, the Earth’s magnetic poles which make its structures stable have often shifted their positions, causing dramatic changes. Edgar Caycee said they would, again, and that a huge lake would appear in Sahara Desert,  orign of the dust of the present and previous harmattans. When he made this prediction, science was unaware of a huge underground water reserve beneath the Sahara desert. Now, it is known that there is a number of acquifers there. One of them  called Nubian sandstone acquifer system holds the equivalent of 500 years Nile River Discharge embedded in North Eastern Sahara desert. Its area covers North Eastern Sudan, North Eastern Chad, South Eastern Libya and Egypt. The water is said to be irreplenishable. Who knows, however, if new rivers to be cut inland by waters by a risen Atlantis would feed its receptacle? Since the prediction of Edgar Caycee,”the man who saw tomorrow”, the Earth’s second largest acquifer, underground water body, has been discovered beneath the Sahara  desert. Will it be intruded upwards? If it is, where will the present desert sand go?

     When I described the moon  earlier as the earth’s diminutive neighbour, it was in relation to the size of the giant star or The Great Comet we are told is on its way to the earth. From one of the descriptions of it, our sun may appear to us like a diminutive star. We may not see the twinkling stars at night. This was why, a few months ago, I jumped out of  bed at about five in the morning one day on hearing from VOA Africa programme that scientists had discovered a star several light years away which was shining more than one million times brighter than our sun. I mentioned this information on this page at that time, and some of the readers of this column tracked it for a while.

    Harmattan 2023-2024  

    It is past midnight as I write today January 03, 2024. The sun went down a long time ago. I am sweating all over, especially from the armpits from where I hardly sweat even in the heat season.

    Harmattan  

    In previous harmattans, I took one capsule of 1000 heat units of Cayenne two times a day to beat the cold and wear light clothing. In this one, I tie wrapper indoor like my friends in the east of Nigeria, except when I have guests. Producers of satchet water called pure water are cashing in on the heat. My household consumes about 10 bags of 20 satchets every week. Last week, the price of one bag rose from N200 to N250. One satchet sells for 25 Kobo, so the minimum anyone can buy are two satchets. Everyone, everywhere, is buying and drinking water to replace water lost to sweating. Poor fellows, they do not realise it is not only water that needs replacement. That is why they are weak, if not run down, despite the volumes of water they consume. Sweat removes minerals and electrolytes from the body. It is the electrolytes and minerals doctors try to replace through “drips” in a run-down person. Sweating takes away sodium, potassium, calcium and especially, but sodium in larger quantum. This is why sweat tastes salty.The more water a thirsty person drinks without some sodium in it, the more water the kidneys will run out  because it is sodium which keeps water in the body. Sodium deficiency is dangerous for several reasons. According to goggle, this may include, but is not limited to, nausea and vomitting, headache, confusion, loss of energy, drowsiness, fatigue, restlessness irritability, muscle weakness, spasms or cramps, seizures, coma, insomnia or even death. Therefore, it is advisable to add a pinch of sea salt or natural salt to meals or to a fourth  glass of water. Sea salt has about 40 chemical substances other than sodium which neutralises the dangerous side effects of table salt or bleached salt. When they are readily available, I prefer the biochemic sodium salts. Some of them are NATRU MUR (sodium chloride), NATRUM SULPH (sodium sulphate) and NATRUM PHOS (sodium phosphate) in the 6x tablet dosage. Of equal benefit are the biochemic potassium salts, kalimur, Kali sulph. Some persons prefer ORT powder from the pharmacy.

    Some persons go for water loaded fruits especially the REFRIGERANT types. As their generic name suggests they refrigerate. Among them are cucumber, melons, leafy greens, butter milk, mango, lemon, curd, Avocado, coconut, mint, chamomile.They have potassium which prevents collapse of cells and is good for preventing elevated blood pressure in some cases. Dehydration in blood vessels may cause “THICK BLOOD” and reduction of flow surface area to prevent AIR LOCK in which case air replaces fluid and dams blood circulation.

    Air- borne diseases cannot be ruled out in the avalanche of dust everywhere.Breaks in the skin surface are vulnerable. So are the eyes. One of the best remedies for eye infections is Bitter Kola eye drops. I do not advise that it be made at home because of the possibilities of infected gadgets. Therefore, I prefer the pharmaceutical grade made by professor Bukunola  Adefule Oshitelu, an opthalmologist. EYE BRIGHT eye washes and teas are good, too. So are eye antioxidants herbs such as bilberry, marigold flower extracts, for their lutein, zeazanthin, asthazantin and other carotenoids, nettles for hay fever or hives, vitamin A, C and E, selenium and zinc.  Vitamin A requires zinc for bio-availability in the eye. This should be a season, also, for GINGKO BILOBA. It puts blood not only in the brain but in the eyes as well. Eye doctors should have been warning that  the sun is penetrating and harsh on the eyes. Eyes which do not have adequate nutritional protection may develop cataracts and glaucoma or these conditions in festering stages may be worsened by them. This is why it is important to protect the eyes not just with dark eye glasses but with those ones which block the damaging blue spectrum of sunlight from reaching the eye.

    For those persons whose respiratory systems are weak and tend to succumb in whatever degree to dust, I suggest, they do not mind that orange is now selling for N100.  Remove the PEEL, but do not throw it away. It is a great medicine for cough as it is for bronchitis and asthma. Eat the peeled orange minus the seeds. The fruit sacs have lots of bioflavonoids which are anti-inflammatory and immune boosting apart from helping to build collagen. The peel may be eaten after it has been ridden of germs in a saline solution or in white cider vinegar solution, if the teeth are still strong to munch it. It may be parboiled and eaten with any meal. The water should not be thrown away. Orange peel has lots of ANTI-HISTAMINE. That is one of the medicines the doctor prescribes for asthma and other respiratory system conditions, and its cost can put a hole in the pocket these days. I do not advise that it be dried and kept for future use because fungi may infest it and this would cause another problem. So, use it fresh or purchase the factory made orange peel powder or extracts. As I said, this is a great medicine.

  • Christmas 2023: Nearer my God to thee (3)

    Christmas 2023: Nearer my God to thee (3)

    What we earthmen call LIFE is not money or whatever it can buy… Pleasure, leisure or splendour. It is that inner spark in an earthman from out of the radiation of the Almighty Creator, that radiating treasure or breath of life from his benevolence, which must always be made to glow and to burst into flame irrespective of the cold, icy or other inhospitable existential environment. It is a spirit seed germ entrusted to every earthman to tend and to nurse to become a conscious, flowering and fruiting spiritual ego, the human spirit, who will return to paradise someday, fully conscious of God and His Holy Will, of self, of the structure of creation,  and of fellow creatures of different specie in the wonderful household of The Almighty Creator. We are created to be Lords of our environment, surmounting obstacles and becoming stronger with every conquest. We were unconscious spirit sparks in the radiations of God in which exist everything capable of existence outside of him. Earlier parts of this series mentioned the promise of the Lord Jesus of expansions in spiritual knowledge at about this time and suggested ardent Christians oil the lamp of the soul, like the five wise virgins, and light them up for intuitive differentiation between  “the Bread of Heaven” and material tinsel. The curtain falls for now today on those endeavours to make Christmas 2023 a living opportunity for us to have better understanding of the mission of the Lord Jesus to the earth and to adapt our existence to it.

        The athmosphere of Christmas 2023 is still aromatic on this fourth day of 2024. Everyone made of Christmas 2023 whatever it was thought to be. On Christmas Eve, the night in my neighbourhood was disturbed by heavy club music about 200 meters away. From the high pitch of that noise, I wondered why the patrons would not suffer hearing loss later in life. Many of them must be christians who ought to have buried themselves in solitude somewhere introspecting on what they have made of   THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE LORD’S PRAYER. We may excuse the sanguine teenager, but not melancholics, cholerics and phlegmatics of adult life who should be struggling to know why they exist. Thus, on 2023 Christmas Day, I struggled through this column despite generator noise and blaring music from pleasure seekers even around my house, mindful that one man’s meat is another’s poison.

       We live in an amazing country. If you guage the pulse of the nation only from newspaper headline reviews on Lagos radio stations, you would believe outright famine was sweeping through the land and there were corpses on the streets. Where did all the money come from to innundate the Lagos open markets before and even on Christmas Day, I wondered, when I learned the two hind limbs of a goat cost N25,000 at the Abbatoir Market in rustic Agege, downtown Lagos, and some folks bought as many as four. The head went for N3,500 and the neck N7,000.

        The new year

      There’s nothing new about a New Year. It is just another spartial delienation of  a new orbit of the earth around the sun. Nevertheless, the great souls in the beyond who packaged the knowledge for us, and the devoted great minds on earth who received it, deserve our gratitude.  Without this information, we would not know how much of our earth life  has been expended on triffling and how nearer to the Day of Reckoning we are. Beyond this, I cannot understand all the agitation and vehemence which greets a new year. Many persons are just happy that they are still breathing, eating and walking around, even if they are “walking corpses”. For others, it is  another golden opportunity to beg the Almighty Creator for improved material life. Few people think of the real purpose of  existence or of the meaning of the song Nearer my God to Thee

        I appreciate, nevertheless, the need to be happy for surviving 2023. The earth has been revealed as the only place in the universe we,  the spiritual seed grain planted in the material soil, can sprout, germinate, flower and fruit fastest because of the heterogeneity of the impressions or frictions which assail us every moment, the messages they bring and the lessons they teach. Elsewhere, it takes much longer than on the earth to spiritually mature. For example, an earth man possesed by 10 weaknesses such as envy, hate, gossip, lust, thieving, brigandage or murder may encounter all of them from fellow earthmen in one day. If they disgust him, and he is wise, he would discard them from his character and become a purer soul better set for ascent homeward. In the beyond, based on the expansion of spiritual knowledge promised by the Lord Jesus, we now know the soul will have to live in the plane of existence of one weakness at a time to get rid of it. If it takes 10 years to get rid of one, it may take100 years to get rid of 10, whereas a serious soul on earth may get rid of them all in one day or even six months, depending on how seriously it struggles against them in self- purification. In the so-called beyond, we would live in the world of only gossips, if we are one, until we purge ourselves of this spiritual dirt, or in the world of prostitutes, if we are one. Over there, it takes much longer for dirty souls to clean up than on earth. Do many of us who survive survive 2023 see our existence in this light? If we are only happy that we survived 2023, of what use is this to us, to other creatures in creation and to creation as well… We are on earth not only for spiritual maturation but to also pass on to other creatures below our orign, such as the Lords of the elementals, elemental beings, animals from the animistic realms etc, Power from on High which sustains us but they cannot directly draw upon. They built the material worlds to the limits of their abilities. Supporting them with this power would have made the material worlds bigger and better than it is today with probably a new variant of nature, different and better foodstuffs, improved nutrition, health and longevity etc. Didn’t our forebears inherit from them the highest developed animal body which we transformed into the present human body?

    There is a serious purpose man is on earth. In the Will of the Creator, these beings brought about the constellation of stars, the galaxies, the solar systems, the planets, the myriad of yet unknown cosmic forces and the seven universes. Remember that the book of revealations announces: “… To the seven churches of Asia”. “Asia” is the spiritual name of CREATION in which exists “seven universes” (“churches”). The “seven churches of Asia” does not refer to seven churches in the Continent of Asia but to the seven universes in Creation. Spiritually, our universe is called EPHESUS. The Lord Jesus taught us: “IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE, there are MANY MANSIONS”. Attentive christians with oil in the lamps of their souls, like the Five Wise Virgins, should wonder how “many mansions” can exist in a “house”. The message from the revealation gives us a clue. Everything which exists outside of God exists in creation. The Lord spoke of the “heavens”. In the expanded spiritual knowledge He promised, we now know of several spheres of existence of vast distances from one another unfathomable by earthly knowledge of mathematics, limited by space and time. On earth, we see the hands of the elemental beings and nature beings in forests, mountains, oceans and seas, Rivers and streams, rocks, the climate and the weather, land forms, elements inside the earth, the earthquakes, floods, climate change etc. Man is meant to unite  with these forces and, by now, to have made the earth paradise like. He does not require laborious studies of several years in the university to do this. Do the nature beings who move the earth around the sun in 365 (6) days and on its axis in 24 hours go to university? What of the architects and builders of the great pyramids in Egypt? What of the mankind behind the STONEHEDGES of England? Some of them weigh about 20 tonnes and were moved over about 20 kilometers between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago and arranged in a straight line over several kilometers in a geometric marvel which still baffles our generation. Do the water sprites in the village streams or rivers go to university to learn how to make streams or rivers or to direct their current to wherever they flow to? Is the orign of man not higher than that of elemental beings, and is he not capable of higher possibilities? 

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        The bottom line question is: What are we happy to be alive for ? to just occupy space? Can we not relate the PARABLE OF THE SOWER and THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS with the PARABLE OF THE FIVE FOOLISH VIRGINS and THE PARABLE OF THE HUSBANDSMEN to spiritually bestir ourselves?

    Clean slate

    YEAR 2024, like every New year, is a clean slate. It will bring no one nothing that that person has not written on it in advance or during proceedings. Every year ends up as an unproductive year for us because we do not examine  ourselves for the content we loaded into it. In the expansion of spiritual knowledge, we now have inklings that there is a LAW OF THOUGHT. As we think, so it is. We cannot rise beyond our thoughts.The thought, like the spoken word, is inseparable from us. This is what many priests fail to tell their congregations. Of course, there would be no need for a pastor in the life of anyone who knows he  can have a direct link with the power of God through connection to and understanding of the expanded spiritual knowledge on earth today in fufilment of the promise of the Lord Jesus. This leads us to the meaning of PRAYER and why so-called “prayers” are not answered.

       What is prayer

    My Octogenerian friend now knows I do not seek to connect with ArchAngels and angels in my existential struggles. There is room wide enough for us within the kingdom of God called paradise in which, in his wisdom, The Almighty Creator has permitted our specie, the human spirits, to exist, flower and fruit. Paradise is governed by laws, one of which is  the law of Sowing and Reaping.

    If you tune to Lagos FM radio station  from about 4a.m till about 5.30 am, you would feel disgusted. Before I come to them, I must quickly say prayer is not what we say even in the bigger and better structured churches. It is BEGGING. Do we not say the Almighty Creator did not create beggars? Why do we make beggars of ourselves in the halls  dedicated to  worshipping him? Worship is UNCONDITIONAL FUFILMENT OF HIS HOLY WILL. This means that our thoughts (serious or fleeting) words and actions must always agree with His Commandments. We can learn these commandments from Mother Nature, because everything in Nature obeys this Will. Does the day not gradually break, and does the sun not gradually set? Can we not observe THE LAW OF GRADUALISM in whatever we do? 

    The writhing of hands, stamping of the feet on the floor, shouting at the top of voices, moving up and down pointificating, hitting hands in the air on fellow congregants is nothing but BEGGING and makes us no better than BEGGARS in a place we call the House of the Lords. It is THANKSGIVING we are meant give there. Did we forget that, before the creator sent us to the earth, he had prepared for all our needs in his Wisdom and Love? Where should we turn, if not into ourselves, if anything goes wrong with our lives? This is where a conception of prayer different from Begging should make some sense. Over the years, I have come to the recognition that whatever we do with our thoughts, tongues and hands constitute PRAYER. Didn’t the Lord teach us that WHAT WE SOW, WE SHALL REAP? If we send thoughts of envy or hate to other persons, we sow seeds of envy and hate. These seeds of envy and hate develop into thought forms of the nature and intensity of the seeds. Clairvoyants see these thought forms attached to their authors  and attracting similar thought forms to themselves and to their authors. Thus, if your environment swells in envy or hate against you, blame no one but yourself. If you stop sending thoughts of envy or hatred to other persons, your negative environment should become purified. That is the law of Sowing and Reaping. These thought forms are either demons or phantoms. We encounter them even in dreams. It suggests to us  the type of “heaven” in which we may find ourselves after “earth life”. It mirrors, also,  our self created earthly environment. Some people  are shot at in their dreams. How many times in one day do we not kill the reputation and the livelihood of other people with our tongues either through gossip, slander, bearing of false witness etc, thereby directly or indirectly instigating negative physical and spiritual activity against them?  The Lord Jesus cast out demons in one man and warned him to not let them return. This man received helped only because, like the repentant thief on the cross, he was willing to change his ways. Indeed, phantoms and demons are attracted to one another and may move in armies in which the group helps the individual to achieve its objective after it has helped some group members to achieve theirs. They do constitute themselves into “power centres” which some Christians call principalities. There are beautiful power centres, too. A power centre is like a broadcasting radio or television station. The earthman is like a radio or television receiving set. A soul prone to fear, envy or hatred etc, or to heroism, admiration or love is automatically tuned to the appropriate power centre which reinforces his ideas with mega ideas and promptings. Some persons say suicide thoughts always cross their minds. They may be despondent persons. In despondency, the will to live is almost lost. The soul is thereby tuned to power centres of despondency from where there may be streaming ideas or promptings to end it all, and how to. Some women mention “SPIRITUAL” husbands, suggesting that, subconsciously, in dreams, they are taken by men. This may not be a spiritual event. Many persons cannot distinguish between the spirit and the soul or the  external layer of the soul, the astral body, which connects with the physical body. Their tormentors may be astral demons and phantoms generated towards them by the lustful thoughts of “dirty” men which found appropriate soil in the auras of such women and, accordingly, firm anchorages therein.

       If you remember the story of Balaam in the old testament, you may easily fathom existence of elemental beings assumed by him to be angels. These beings are everywhere. They are responsible for the soil, rocks, rivers, ocean, seas, forests, earthquakes, the sun and the stars, rain and air etc. A special breed of them weaves our thoughts, words and deeds into our carpet of fate on earth and in the beyond.

        On MELODY 107.7 FM radio station in Lagos last forthnight, a dejected woman appealed to the government to re-open the borders for more rice to come into the country  and force down the price. She said the borders could be shut after. Her concern was for more rice imports to crash Christmas season price. Another caller replied her that it was shameful that smaller nations were feeding Nigerians who were cursing their land and refusing to tend it, whereupon the land gave them back the harvests of their thoughts, tongues and lazy hands. That is a prayer answered which begging cannot forestall.

        In the radio sermons I earlier spoke of, the so-called prophets dictated their bank account details to the audience. They ask listeners to bring out N2000 as convenant money, lay hands on it and ask the creator to fufil whatever convenant they make with him when they pay the money into the said bank account. In some cases, listeners are asked to pay money into other special accounts for business doors to be opened for them on that day. They are to symbolically hold the doors of their sitting rooms and open them wide as the priest, on radio, is shouting on  the Almighty Creator to open the doors of business to His complying children that day. There is more to say which space does not permit today of this cash and carry and beggarly christianity which an inwardly well spent Christmas season should strenghten an upward striving Christian to turn away from and do away with.

  • Christmas 2023: Nearer my God to thee (1)

    Christmas 2023: Nearer my God to thee (1)

    Nowadays, every new Christmas season is unlike the last, and economically and socially more unfriendly, if not more brutal. It always appears as though everything is tumbling downhill. Foodstuff is scarce, and its prices are not only very high but outrageously beyond the roof. It would appear famine is looming. Transport fares are so high many people cannot afford bus or taxi rides. Medical bills are beyond reach. Who can afford new clothes? Many parents will owe school fees next year, and there may be higher education drop-outs.

     Many average Nigerians are spitting fire, but they are looking in the wrong directions for the causes of their bewildering fate. Was it not in this season last year that everyone was hopeful that 2023 will be a better year than 2022? Was 2022 not prayerfully expected to be better than 2021 and 2021 better than 2020? Hasn’t that been the ritual since I was born about 74 years ago? Have Christians not always gone to church every December 31, abusing and cursing the outgoing year as the cause of their woes and hopefully beseeching the coming year for Eldorados? Why has it not occured to many people that neither a present year nor an incoming one is any serious factor in the human environment? Why is it not  known that it is man who forms his environment,  good or ill, and that the environment cannot form or to deform him? If man feels deformed by his environment, is it not that he formed deformity into the environment and he retroactively harvests the fruits of the seeds he sowed? Even new borns are not innocent humans and are born into the environment they deserve to be born into. Remember the statement: “I knew thee before I formed thee in thy mother’s womb”. This is telling us that our existence did not begin with our birth on earth this time around!

    These principles and events which relate Effects with Causes in the eternal Law of Sowing and Reaping are no longer easy for man to understand because he is no longer a simple being. In reality, man’s aches and pains are not a falling apart, but interconnected  opportunities for re-awakening and upbuilding homeward to paradise. The Christmas season offers a wonderful opportunity to inwardly disengage from all material distractions and properly  focus on matters of the spirit. Afterall, the Lord Jesus, Whose Birth on earth and Divine Mission to the earth that we are being reminded of, taught that we “seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and all other things would be added unto you”. Unfortunately for many christians, over indulgence in revelry in this season deprives them of the opportunity to look upwards and to discover that they, and not anyone else, are responsible for whatever befalls them in the economy and in the social environment.   

       Man is no longer a simple being. He has made his earth life so complex that he cannot anymore easily understand himself  and the world in which he exists. Answers to questions remain unsatisfactorily unanswered regarding who he is, from where he came to this earth, what he is here for, wither he goes when he leaves the earth and what lies on the paths of his journey to that destination. To awaken him from this slumber so he can disentangle and free himself from self imprisonment in his ways and means and ideas, man is on a mounting scale lovingly provided those economic and social obstacle he often sees as undeserved troubles. The priests appear to have forgotten about The Law of Sowing And Reaping and deceive him with invocations of the Power of the Almighty Creator to arbitrarily rescue him from all the self inflicted troubles which menace him.

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    Recepients of this desecration of the Name of The Almighty Creator are too inwardly dull and spiritually asleep, if not dead, to recognise that the Almighty Creator is not an arbitrary ruler of the Universe and no creature can obtain what is  undeserved. Although the Creator envinces LOVE, He is also PURITY, LOVE and JUSTICE. How many priests today boldly tell the congregants that they are the causes of their sorrows and are the ones who must resolve them? The so-called prayers said at religious gatherings, like the lyrics of the songs, paint the picture of an Almighty Creator who is no more than an errand boy of humanity. They asked Him to follow them to their offices everyday so that the enemy will not smite them, and to accompany them back home for the same reason. They order Him to burn their enemies to Ash with “holy ghost fire”. They do not ask themselves why they had to have enemies and if they, too, are not seen as enemies by other christians. Are enemies not  the fruits of seeds once sown?. These Christians do not remind themselves that the Lord Jesus taught them that a man cannot reap scorpions where he sowed butterflies. Nevertheless, the priests massaged their egos for the money they can get for the peurile invocations. Despirited, many christians sing the song  Nearer my God  to  Thee but the meaning makes no imprint on their souls.The import is that it is man, the creature, who must seek and move nearer his God, and not the other way round. Nearer My God to Thee  simply means I will unconditionally fufil Your Will. That was the message in the mission of the Lord Jesus to the earth. However, the content and the meaning of this will are still beyond the comprehension of many christians.

        A few days ago, I overheard  one of my friends sing the song of Jacob…nearer my God to thee. I teased him that he could add the song of Philip Paul Bliss…IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL. Some christians believe these songs are for funerals. I consider them all- timers, particularly for this season in which many of us are like living- dead persons or walking corpses. I, too, feel the material, psychic and spiritual heat of this season. I merrily laughed at myself in the afternoon of December 17, 2023 as I was writing  this column.  What heat, what pressure would have so come over me that I would not have remembered the importance of this date. I had many things in my head to clear up. It was like I was living many lives in one earth life.  Chief Adeyemi Lawson, spiritual leader of adherence of THE GRAIL MESSAGE in his days, once said many human beings would live many earth lives in one  when the great Comet moves nearer the earth. In this season last year, I wrote the column… CHRISTMAS, THE RADIANT STAR AND THE GREAT COMET. There are many scriptural prophecies and scientific observations about THE GREAT COMET which is heading earthwards in a straight line from the orign of THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM, also known as THE RADIANT STAR. For human beings who know of it, THE FESTIVAL OF THE RADIANT STAR will be celebrated on 28, 29 and 30 December 2023, a constant period on the Gregorian December calendar every year. The Great Comet is expected to energise all events on earth in velocity, quantum and impact towards spiritual purification of the earth for the judgement and the millenium, giving to each creature in the remainder of the earth life mountain folds of the harvest of fruits from diverse seeds sown several earth lives ago. That is why many of us now appear to be chewing more than we think we have bitten, attacking the government, our neighbours and village people for our diverse karma.

      Early on  December 17, 2023, I made two routine calls to my wife.  By mid afternoon, she, too, called back two times. I was still struggling with this column when she called a third time to ask if I did not remember December 17, 2023 was our 40th wedding anniversary! It had never happened in all 39 anniversary dates before now that I failed to write her a romantic letter delivered on the dot of 12 midnight before the dawn of an anniversary date. Both of us hung on the phone, laughing at each other. She, too, to whom it should matter more, had lost herself in work. We just hung on the phone, laughing. It was clear to  us that we were running at full steam, like every struggling Nigerian, screaming against ever stronger economic and social currents to beat the tides.

       The songs: Nearer My God to Thee and It is Well with my soul are appropriate for this season when almost everyone is running helter skelter for material and spiritual survival. To these songs, I often reassure myself when the going goes tougher that… When the Need is Greatest, God’s Help is Nearest to me. I still do struggle, as my faith teaches me,  to always open myself to high guidance in everything I think, say or do. This is the heart of WATCH AND PRAY in Christianity. We must watch the thought, the speech and the action to align them all with…THE WILL OF GOD which we promise in THE LORD’S PRAYER WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. We must align them with the WILL before we let them go forth from us because they are seeds we are planting and because the sowing is prayer, not all the haggling we do in a church chamber. NEARER MY GOD TO THEE was written in one week in 1841 by Sarah Flower Adams when her pastor requested a hymn for an urgent sermon he was to deliver based on Genesis 28: 11-19. This was the story of a runaway Jacob who, aided by his mother Rebecca, tricked his blind father to endow him with valedictory blessings meant for his elder brother Esau. Fearful of  reprisal from an Esau expected to be angry, Jacob  fled  to the land of his maternal grandparents. Jacob developed the thoughts from which Sarah Flower Adams wrote nearer my God to thee. He spent one night in a deprived environment where a stone made up for his soft pillow. He had a dream in which a ladder connected the earth to heaven. Promises of this dream may have made Jacob penitent and decide to be nearer to his creator.

    I learnt something interesting in the Jacob story which led to the writing of the song nearer my God to thee and, in my view, connects his experiences to the ones many of us are undergoing without really realising that they are self inflicted troubles. In the time in which we stand, we are given a simplified new law which can help us overcome all the complex problems which imprison and torment our lives today. Jacob cheated his elder twin brother Esau. What may be evidence of his penitence may be the message he left for us in the promise: nearer my God to thee. No debts goes unpaid we are always told.  In the land of the forebears of his mother, Jacob overpaid with seven years of his life for the wife of his dream. He slaved faithfully and effectively over 20 years in hardwork for his uncle and father in law Leban who literally stole seven years of his life.

    Today, many of us consider our years wasted on many grounds. We cheat in almost anything we do, and we are bound to be fulsomely cheated in return. The Yorubas say when one person hosts a nation to a feast, he is hardly impactful. However, if the whole nation cooks for him, he may die from over feeding. That is to say we may be smothered in the harvest of the evil we perpetuate everyday. The penitence of Jacob will have shielded him from other barrages of returning karma. In summary, we simplified new law for the approaching Millenium permits that we enjoy everything in this wonderful creation provided we do not hurt or injure our fellow human beings in the pursuit and achievements of our desires. This is a very serious law, which requires carefulness in everything we do if we are to not collide with it, stumble and fall or crash. Remember it: no one must be hurt in whatever we do! Jacob encouraged his mother to be unfaithful to her husband by deceiving him. They were bonded in sin against his father and against his brother. Jacob deceived his helpless father in collaboration with his mother and cheated his brother. We have no evidence of his relationships outside his family to determine if this was his basic nature. Do we not often behave like him? Who  does not fulsomely cheat? The list is endless… housegirls, shop girls, farm hands, civil servants, husbands and wives, teachers, business persons, mechanics and drivers, elected public officials, bricklayers and other masons, home, office or factory security guards, generals, lawyers and judges, corporate office workers, pastors and general overseers, traders etc.

    To achieve our desires, we breached trust and easily renege on agreements. We steal, we kill, we covet, damage the reputation of other people or destroy anything not in our favour irrespective of the hurt it causes other persons. When an armada of the fruits ripening for harvest rush on us, we beseech the pastor to invoke the power of the Almighty Creator to remove the irksome cup from us. This overflowing cups are the  obstacles or experiences we require to knock us hither and tither for awakening from deep slumber.

       You must wonder why I link returning home to Paradise to  2023 CHRISTMAS  in which millions of christians  are lamenting that they have not had enough food to eat for months,  to care for their health, or clear piling rents or buy rice, turkey, chicken or new clothes, or travel home for reunion with loved ones. We would be unable to answer these questions or understand what is happening to us if we do not ask , and understand, the question…WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? Many of us have been celebrating Christmas in the belief that we know what we are doing, and that may be why we are angry or bitter that we do not have enough money in our pockets at this time. I have an understanding of Christmas different from that of the merry go round Christian. Do not get me wrong. We may rejoice inwardly and outwardly in the knowledge of a reminder that THE LOVE OF GOD visited us on earth in a rescue mission as perdition approached. What we make of the reminder of that Mission is what I am after. Is it revelry imparting, dining, wining and dancing?

    Withdrawal

       On the day before Christmas, on Christmas day and on the day after, I strive to withdraw inwardly from all bread and butter activities to examine myself for evidence that the Mission of the Lord Jesus to the earth has transformed, or is transforming, me into that being that He would like me to  become. In other words,how do I stand in relation with the birth and mission of Jesus? In other words, HOW DO I STAND IN RELATION TO THE BIRTH AND THE MISSION OF JESUS? Does this have to do with how much rice or chicken and turkey on Christmas day? Rather, I may spend some time in joint worship with a congregation which shares this notion about christmas. Rarely will I be found where there is no such introspection, where all that is to Christmas is an opportunity to dine, wine and dance to let off steam, if stress from the hurly burly of daily existence. I also like to be in places where people are dissatisfied with prevailing opinions  about everything and seeking to deepen their understanding of those ideas, so that they can emerge from Christmas as persons who are richly inwardly renewed in deeper life christianity. With the expression deeper life Christianity,  I do not refer to Deeper Life Church but to the possibility of every Christian during Christmas becoming inwardly renewed to afterwards live deeper, clarified christian lives. It may very well be the intent of that church, as it may of several others with inspiring names, which beckon the spirit of man to an earthly existence filled largely with THE BREAD OF HEAVEN. What I mean is christianly existence which is freed from age old institutional dogmas which have distorted the pure teachings of the Lord Jesus.

    These dogmas were conceived by the church elders of old from their limited understanding of various concepts in the days when humanity was in its spiritual infancy.  The Lord Jesus promised us that our knowledge of existence and of LIFE would expand at a future date. Could that future date not be this era? Has our knowledge really expanded? This Christmas season, I like to examine some of those areas of Christian Life with grave knowledge deficits. One of them is… prayer.

  • Soghum bicolor, 2024 trillion dollar beautiful bride

    Soghum bicolor, 2024 trillion dollar beautiful bride

    What is the global outlook of plant medicine industry and business next year? Surely, we are going to move from oligomeric pro antocyanidins (OPCs), procyanidolic oligomers (PCOs) and polyphenols to something different, bigger and more fascinating. To be more direct: Which new plant medicines are we to expect and how salivating will the business be in terms of cleaner, safer foods and drinks, health cures and cash rake-ins?. Without much Ado, I am seeing two starry possibilities…The world will talk more vociferously about 3 deoxyanthocianidins (3-DXA),  and jobelyn may raise his head and shoulders higher. Why researchers call it 3-deoxyantocyanindins (3-DXA)  when they talk of only two ingredients and should have named it 2 deoxyanthocyanidins (2-DXA) is clear only to persons who are familiar with molecular structures and the locations of the hydroxyl group (OH) in this case.

    There will be so much noisy talk about 3 deoxyanthocyanidins that the casual Nigerian consumer of processed foods and drinks and plant medicines and pharmaceutical drugs may not realise that the effervescence is for SOGHUM BICOLOR, purveyor of powerful plant medicines in  soghum which they eat as a grain and the stalk of which they boil and drink or cook with their meals when they are sick and suspect they need to rebuild their blood composition. Incidentally, the column of last week 07 December 2023 titled Blood Cancer Sick Liver, Right Foods And Drinks mention Jobelyn, a Nigerian plant medicine for blood building which is derived from a special breed of soghum, and not from their leaves but from the leaf sheaths of which many people know little about.  This should immediately point out to the attentive reader that jobelyn may be in the eye of the soghum bi-color multi trillion Dollar plant medicine industry and business likely to erupt next year. Having been closely acquainted with Mr Olajuwon Okubena since 1994, three years before The Guardian newspaper of which I was Director of Publications/Editor- in-Chief published on August 21, 1997  the first report on Jobelyn,  I do not see him doing anything less even now than adjusting his belt and pulling himself by the bootstraps to plug its Nigerian herbal blood medicine into the new thinking of global researchers on soghum bi-color.

    In this outgoing year (2023), the United States, China, Portugal, France and Benin republic, Nigeria’s Western neighbour, stepped up research, hoping to stabilise extract of the two most powerful contents of 3-deoxyanthocyanidins in soghurm bi-color. Isolating them was a feat. Stabilising the extracts is the next giant step to a global multi trillion dollar food and plant medicine business which Euro Americans expect 2024 to bring. So far, mother nature has not permitted that these two 3-DXA compounds be stabilised. If Euro Americans stabilise them,  they would  patent the process and hold food and healthcare worldwide in their grip and purse. The two extracts of 3-deoxyanthocyanidins which are causing food and medicine researchers headaches and sleepless nights are APIGENINDIN and LUTEOLINIDIN. They have been found, so far,  to be the planet’s most anti inflammatory, anti oxidant, immune modulatory and chemo preventive compounds.  What can be greater than this? Irritation of cells and tissues cause INFLAMMATION. Pain arises from inflammation. Pain and inflammation not promptly addressed cause tissue damage and chronic disease. Diseased tissue is too weak to defend itself and may be run down by bacteria, viruses, fungi, free radicals and even parasites. Ultimately, such a tissue may further degenerate and become cancerous. Thus, if apigenindin and luteolinidin are the best fighters of inflammation, are the most powerful antioxidants, are the best boosters of immunity and offer the best cancer prophylactics and cure, causing cancer cells to kill themselves (apoptosis), they must be THE COMPOUNDS OF THE DECADE and should deserve all attention. Researchers wish to stabilise extracts of  3-deoxyanthocyanidins because they believe these contents will offer a cure all for all diseases, especially for cancer that the world has been anxiously waiting for. Besides, stabilised, these extracts will replace artificial colourings of the food industry which have been linked to several diseases including cancer. So, as 2023 prepares to depart, the talk in the food and natural medicine industries is less on antocyanidins which gave rise to medicine such as GRAPE SEED EXTRACT and pycogenol from maritime pine bark about two or decades ago, but more on 3-deoxyanthocyanidins extracts, apigenindin and luteolinidin. Hitherto, the global food industry  restlessly searched for alternative colourings for chemical dyes and petroleum derived colours which they add to all kinds of foods and drinks to make them visually appealing. For example, chemical dyes which may cause cancer are added to the feed of poultry hens to make the yolks of their eggs as yellow or yellower than the yolks of free ranging hens which derive their yolk colour quality from beta Carotene in the green plant they eat. Artificial  Food colourings have been linked to several  human diseases such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD…scatter brain syndrome), Inflammation (asthma, arthritis, allergies) , tumours (uterine fibroids), cancer etc.

    By the end of this month, University of Texas researcher Dr J A Awika may release the findings of a two-year research funded by the United States government on how to stabilise apigenindin and luteolinidin from soghum bicolor for  the food and natural medicine industries. It was doctor J.A Awika, then also at Texas University, who in 2014 researched soghum bi-color based jobelyn  for Mr Olajuwon Okubena and told him it was a very rich source of apigenindin and luteolinidin.  This is why I believe Mr Okubena would try to follow the wave and the echo of 2024. He did it in 2013 when the United States National Cancer Institute advertised it wanted a medicinal molecule which could kill cancer. Mr Okubena had just had a cancer therapy  experience with Juan Vergara, whose doctors at the Dana Faber Cancer Institute  gave only two days to live and sent home to die. His wife, Ebie, an associate professor at Boston University, searched for herbal medicines on-line and contacted Mr Okubena in Lagos. Mr Okubena gave jobelyn powder to Mrs Titi Oduye, CEO of Amelias Organics, who was travelling to London. From London, she mailed the powder to Mrs Vergara for her husband. Mr Vergara lived for about one month longer than his doctors expected he would. They had placed him on chemotherapy two or three times, giving him platelet transfusion all to no avail, and his white blood cells kept blasting. On Jobelyn, his blood hematocrit rose, he needed no transfusion of two pints again every three days, his white blood cells stopped blasting, his doctors were suprised and attributed his new profile to Jubi, as Jobelyn was then called, but he could not fight infections and got weaker because he had been massively losing blood from severe internal bleeding which the doctors had been unable to address. (For want of space, the letter of gratitude from Mrs Ebie Vergara to Mr Okubena, as retrieved from a publication of The Guardian newspaper about 30 years ago, will be republished in the bigger version of this article on John Olufemi Kusa Facebook page).

    JOBELYN POST-VERGARA

    When Mr Okubena read the NCI advertisment for an anti cancer molecule, his experience with Mr Vergara encouraged him to research and brand Jobelyn for cancer therapy. The story is better told by him:

    ”In 2013, Acai berry was making waves as the most powerful antioxidant in the world and we decided to investigate Jobelyn for its antioxidant potential.

    The research for acai berry was done by NIS Labs (Natural Immune Systems) which was founded in 1999 by Gitte Jensen.

    We commissioned them to do the research for us. They got Brunswick Laboratory involved because they also did the lab analysis for Acai berry and this validated our claim that Jobelyn was four times more powerful than acai berry for antioxidant. After the publication of the research, a company from Kentucky state in the US tried to reach us for partnership to develop and market Jobelyn. We rejected the offer. This company through a researcher discovered a seed which was red and developed it to produce what they described as Red Leaf Sorghum. The  3-deoxyanthocyanidins is produced from the leaves as opposed to our own which is from the leaf-sheaths.

    This company later took it to Texas for Lab analysis and coincided with the time, Jobelyn was there. So they put research students to compare the 3-deoxyanthocyanidins with the black sorghum grain variety from the USA”.

    “We went from NIS to Michigan State University which requested 140USD or 40,000 USD for a post graduate student.

    Michigan State University did the discovery of the active compound in Acai berry and that was why we approached them.

    They demanded $160,000 for the project and gave us an option of $40,000 if a Phd student would do it for us, but they will own the intellectual property and license it to us.

    We rejected this and searched for a local source. The search produced Professor Abiodun Ogundaini of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) who could not complete the job because of inadequate facility.

    This was what led us to Dr. Awika in Texas. He agreed enthusiastically to do the job for about $2000 but requested for more Jobelyn powder from us to complement their ongoing research on 3-deoxyanthocyanidins.

    We were surprised to discover that he published two articles in the journal about 3-deoxyanthocyanidins in Jobelyn.

    Before then, the biggest finding at Texas university was on ACAI berry. Jobelyn shocked the researchers.

    “We paid about $2000 and we submitted the samples of the compounds produced from Texas to the National Cancer Institute who invited people to submit compounds for evaluation on cancer cell lines”.

    Mr Okubena believes outcomes of Texas university jobelyn research inspired new waves of soghum bicolor research in the United States and in Europe. It was, therefore, not suprising that the national cancer Institute (NCI) would list jobelyn as a helpful herbal product in the treatment of cancer.

    NCI DRUG LISTING

    In his bid to brand and promote his product in line with the waves and echos of the season, JOBELYN earned a placement and a review in the prestigious United States National Cancer Institute Drug Dictionary without the awareness of Mr Okubena. He says:

    “We didn’t know exactly when it was listed, but we stumbled upon it about mid-2021. This was how it was defined…

    ‘Sorghum bicolor supplement

    An herbal-based nutritional supplement containing the leaf sheaths of the plant Sorghum bicolor, with potential antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, chemopreventive and immunomodulating activities. Sorghum bicolor supplement contains various phytochemicals, including phenolic acids and polyphenols such as proanthocyanidins. Sorghum bicolor supplement is particularly rich in 3-deoxyanthocyanins, such as luteolinidin and apigeninidin, and appears to induce apoptosis and inhibit cell proliferation in cancer cells through the stimulation of various apoptosis promoter genes and the down  regulation of certain apoptosis inhibitor genes. In addition, due to the strong antioxidant nature of the phytochemicals, these compounds are able to scavenge free radicals and prevent tissue damage. Also, intake of this supplement modulates the immune system by both increasing the activity of natural killer (NK) cells and initiating the activation of macrophages.

    Check for active clinical trials using this agent

    View this agent in the NCI Thesaurus

    Synonym: sorghum bicolor extract

    Foreign brand name: Jobelyn

    “What the Americans and Europeans wished to do with soghum bi-color but have not been able to do  is to stabilise and concentrate  the two basic active ingredients from this plant in foods, drinks and then medicines. They occur sparingly in many varieties of soghum bi color but abundantly in the varieties which grow in some West African countries, including Nigeria. Jobelyn is made from the rearest and 3-DXA richest breed. Portugal and China may release some 3-DXA products next year. France may release 3-DXA eyedrops.  One major problem they all have is that the soghum bi-color grown in their countries does not have as much concentration of 3-deoxyanthocyanidins as the soghum bi color species grown in Nigeria, Benin republic and Cote d’ Ivoire. In this specie, 3-deoxyanthocyanidin is about 30 percent more concentrated in the sleeve sheet than in the  leaves or the fruit. France has been more active in Benin soghum farms, importing tons of this plant through a Beninois company. France also sponsors academic research in Beninois universities and encourages presentations of their findings in its academic institutions. The government, academics and farmers of Benin republic feel a sense of growth. Someday, when their efforts yield patented food and medicinal products for France, they would pay through the nose for the outcomes of their labour. It is possible that Bill Gates will come around to give them GMO seeds of soghum bi color. These seeds will probably give them four fold yields or more. However, they would not be self producing seeds. They would disappear with the season. Next season, the farmers would depend on Bill Gates to give them new seeds and seedlings that would also not be self reproducing. This way, Bill Gates would have them in his pocket by keeping them dependent on him for seeds and seedlings while Euro Americans will pay them peanuts for their farm produce and charge them more for processed foods and plant medicines.

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    I do not see HEALTH FOREVER LIMITED (HFL), makers of JOBELYN, folding their arms even without encouragement from the Nigerian government on a trillion Dollar business battleground which 2024 portends for sorghum bi-color based plant medicines. This will be a natural inclination for a company which, 30 years ago in 1994, was so trusting in soghum bi-color that it made its first plant medicine product from it. Mr Olajuwon Okubena, CEO of HFL, plans to rebrand Jobelyn for the Nigerian and world market in line with the new cure all attributes these countries and more to follow are attaching to soghum bi-color.

    Jobelyn was originally branded as a plant medicine for all anaemias. Mr Okubena was severely anaemic in 1993 when he was severally shot by armed robbers on his poultry farm at Ilese, near Ijebu-Ode. The gunmen killed his daughter, a verterinary doctor. Mr Okubena recovered under the care of Mr Kolawole Awoyemi, a retired forestry officer in Ibadan who treated him with Jubi, which has since been renamed Jobelyn for global marketing purposes. When this product was discovered to be antioxidant, immune boosting, anti diabetic and anti arthritic, Mr Okubena took it to these markets through researches in several Nigerian universities. For want of space, many of these studies will be listed on the facebook page of John Olufemi Kusa where a bigger version of this article will be posted. Suffice it to say here that Jobelyn has been researched for HIV therapy by the military hospital at Ikoyi, Lagos and the findings presented at the world conference of military hospitals at Betsaida, United States. It has been researched, also, for HIV at the University of Tunis with findings that it appreciably improved immunity. JOBELYN has, also, made the rounds in some Nigerian universities and hospitals. The itinerary includes…

    UNIVERSITY OF BENIN (UNIBEN)…

    Animal studies on Anaemia/ Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), ILE-IFE… Bioassay guided fractionation of JOBELYN for identification of active compounds/CONVENANT UNIVERSITY…Animal studies on effect of Jobelyn in pregnant rats/Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH)…Anaemia in rats, Toxicology studies./Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), five studies, including…Clinical trial in uterine fibroid surgery induced anaemia/ University of Ibadan (UI)…12 animal studies covering several neurodegenerative diseases, including psychosis, depression, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and dementia etc/Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba…Underway.

    Now, Mr Okubena is looking at foreign university studies which the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) will supervise. If Jobelyn scales through the studies and becomes a global plant medicine, this would give  good cheer to Mr Okubena, who will be 82 on 5 March 2024 as another crowning of his labour to present to humanity a great plant medicine gift from mother nature.

    JOBELYN RESEARCH

    A list of the several studies which Jobelyn has undergone in Nigeria and overseas is presented at the bottom of the version of this article posted on the Facebook page of John Olufemi Kusa.

    LAST LINES.

    Mr Okubena has kept some samples in his bedroom since 1998 for shelf life test. None of it has physically degraded. Readers of this article should be grateful to  researchers at home and abroad who have enabled us to realise that soghum is a blessing from Creation. In Yoruba land, it is called Oka Baba. Many persons eat it as pap porridge, especially in the weaning of infants. The stalk is called Poro Poro Oka Baba. The ibos call it Soro. The hausas call it Dawa or Jero.  I joke with Mr Okubena whenever we speak about soghum and JOBELYN… Whenever a yoruba adult and a child eat together a meal wrapped in leaves, what makes the adult the senior partner at table, is the juiciest part of the meal hidden between the leaves. This code is saying JOBELYN is more than it is said or seen to be.

  • Cancer of the blood, sick liver, right foods, drinks

    Cancer of the blood, sick liver, right foods, drinks

    If you are clairaudient, you may  hear whispers of cancer of the blood  knocking heads, agitating nerves and elevating blood pressure. In some healthcare circles, this cancer is believed to be a death sentence. Yet, in  others, reprieve is sometimes found. Death or reprieve may depend on the method of healthcare and of how far gone out of hand is the sickness. At an Indian children’s hospital, doctors   saved  lives with bone marrow meal prescriptions. The information led me to a  New Zealand company which made bone marrow meal from the bone marrows of organic grass-grazing bovines. The product helped  some cancer and sickle cell challenged persons.

     According to spiritually inclined followers of mother nature healthcare systems,  cancer cannot afflict any human body in which the liver is healthy and optimally performs its job and the bloodstream is well composed and radiates in its fullest capacity. This information first shown the light on any cancer when it was  released to humanity of the 1920s in a spiritual tiding. For many persons beset with cancer before then, at that time and even  now, the liver must be in various stages of weakness, the blood is poorly composed, vibrating less than it should and,  therefore, unable to disintegrate any life from foreign to the body.

     I understood so in the 1970s while I  struggled, as I still do, to understand human existence, creation, and the laws of nature as the Language God speaks to His Creatures in His  Creation.

     In the battle against cancer, pharmaceutical  weapons such as injections and drugs are often deployed. This approach is a direct attack on the cancer and not on the cause(s). This is like stoking a fire. The cancer grows  angrier, bigger and more devastating.  Biochemist Dr Robert Young suggests in his PH MIRACLE that this is like fighting against Nature. He says that, inside every cell, plant, animal or human, there is a microscopic organism called Microzyma. Mother Nature placed it in the cells to make the cell die and decay when it is becoming acidic. If expired bodies do not decay and then become turned into dust, would there be space left today on earth for those bodies on the life curve? Dr Young puts radiant health down to how much alkaline or acidic our bodies are. THE ACID / ALKALINE SCALE is 0-14. Seven is a safety valve. Readings below seven are progressively acidic from 6.9 to 0, while those above seven are progressively Alkaline from 7.1 to 14. Excessive alkalinity is dangerous. The safe level is about 7.34, according to many researchers and physicians. Dr Young says that Microzyma is inactive  in the right alkaline  medium, but active in acidic environment, devolving into bacteria, viruses and mold as the acidosis increases. These organisms cause irritation, disease, inflammation and pain. A doctor who is trained to wage war on bacteria with dangerous anti-bacterial drugs prescribes antibiotics. Antibiotics would wipe out some of the bacteria and leave acidic residues in the tissue and blood. Angry remnant bacteria would reproduce in bigger multitudes which become resistant to the drugs. The doctor would change his prescriptions to even mightier dosages and the scenarios would continue. I have seen a scenario of this in Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency. The harder the Nigerian Army pounds them, the more the Boko Haram troops  re-emerge to fight. They flee  from air bombings to return like yeast leavened bread in the oven.  In the human body, says Dr Young, more acidosis brings viruses and, then, mold out of michrozyma in its devolving procedures. In laboratory and human blood circulation scenarios, these micro-organisms  evolve into Michrozyma when treated with alkaline factors.

     This process is more natural and bears fulsome testimony to the spiritual guidance of the 1920s that

    • Cancer cannot exist in a human body in which the liver is healthy and

    • Neither drugs nor injections, but the right kinds of foods and drinks bring lasting health.   

        Accordingly, Natural Medicine inclined physicians who understand The Language  of the Creator in His Creation do not wage war on bacteria, viruses and mold, because they are performing their  natural roles in the human body. They  clean up the liver, the cells, organs and tissues and the blood stream, The River Of Life. When this is well done, the organs regain their balance and  health and Microzyma returns to whence it came. 

     Everyday, our bodies generate potential cancer cells. A healthy liver pulverises and disintegrates them.  These cells too commit suicide by literally pulling on themselves the triggers of their P.53 genes. Where they cannot do this, as Dr Karl Folkers and his research team have shown, it is because they have become devitalised and de-energised. In the Finnish landmark experiment in which nutrition, in particular Co-enzyme CoQ10 and ubiquinol were given to scores of women with terminal breast cancers and they recovered, we observe evidence of THE RIGHT KINDS OF FOOD AND DRINKS and of the RECOMPOSITION OF THE BLOOD.

     You should please permit that I talk more about The Blood.  Its  radiation is meant to be the strongest of any life form in the body and to destroy life forms incompatible with the body’s health.

    The Blood

     What is it? Why does the blood of the foetus growing in a woman’s womb  not start to circulate, and the foetus has to depend on the mother’s blood circulation, until it gives the pregnant woman the first kicks of pregnancy? Why is it that the blood starts to circulate then but ceases to after death? Are the first kicks of pregnancy due to the entrance of a vital force in the foetal body, and does the exit of this vital force from a young, adult or old human body the cause of death? There are two schools of thought in this great debate about The Mystery of The Blood, its functions, composition, and how the blood can cause various diseases, including cancer of the blood. The first school sees no big deal in the blood. It seems the human body as being mechanistic, simply an arrangement of specialised cells into tissues, those tissues into specialised organs and the specialised organs into the various systems. The mechanists reject the idea of a Vital Force as the switch which activates or inactivates the systems. However, they are confused when they have to explain why the blood of  humans  and of animals have different compositions when the human body originated from the advanced animal body. Most of them bow before the explanation that the human blood has an advanced or superior composition because it is formed by the Human Spirit which dwells inside the body as its housing during its surgeon on earth for a purpose, while the animal blood is composed by the animistic essence from the animistic spheres of existence which lies below the spiritual spheres and is, therefore, less energetic than the Spirit.  For the Vitalist school of thought which opposes the Mechanist school, this vital force is the Soul. Many persons confuse the Soul with the Ghost.

     To understand the Soul in relation to the formation, composition and maintainance of healthy blood, the knowledge of the Spirit is important. Man, that is you and I, is a Human  Spirit from the Spirit or Spiritual World, our home, Paradise. We are a specie of Creation. We are on Earth for a purpose. There are many spheres of existence between the spiritual realms and the earth. As the spirit journeys  to the earth, it covers itself with the material of each of these lower spheres of existence. These coverings of the spirit and the spirit,  but without the covering of the earth picked up in a mother’s womb, is the Soul. When the earth body or covering is added, the spirit man on Earth is the Earth-Man. Until the soul picks up the earth covering growing in the womb, it stands beside the pregnant woman, directing development in the womb. In the middle of pregnancy, the soul enters the  growing body, the baby begins to kick, and its own blood, not the mother’s any more, begins to circulate within its body. The day the soul leaves that body at any age, that earth covering falls apart in death This suggests something… THAT THE SOUL FORMS THE BLOOD AND MAINTAINS  ITS   HEALTH AND CIRCULATION.!

     What we call GHOST is  lifeless matter animated by the Soul to interface between it and the body as direct spirit energy will cripple the body. I remember this phenomenon when I wish to launder a sensitive cloth with an electric iron and place another cloth between the two. When the soul pulls away from the earth-body in death, it may pull this interfacing or ASTRAL BODY along or leave it behind with the body. If it leaves it behind, the corpse may take some time to decay , especially if the soul is still hanging around and the Astral Body which is still drawing energy from it is passing it over to the body. However, when the soul moves away and pulls the astral form along, it is this Astral form, now separated from the earth body and the soul but which still manages to exist, that we call THE GHOST. Soon, the “ghost” will disintegrate when the soul is farther from it and no longer draws nourishment from its radiation.

     Function of the blood

    Hematologists and hematopathologists (Blood doctors) ascribe many functions to the blood. These include transport of nutrients and Oxygen to the cells, removal of their metabolic wastes to the excretory organs, movement of immune cells and repair proteins to troubled tissues etc. However, all of these are functions subordinate to why the spirit made the blood. The  blood  is made to  form the bridge for the activity  of the spirit on earth.  The spirit is here on earth for a purpose, and it needs the gross material human body in the gross material earth to gross materially manifest itself to achieve this purpose. Astronauts need paraphernalia homogenous with space consistencies. Divers need paraphernalia homogenous with water consistency. 

    Even the blood is too dense to transmit communication from the spirit to the brains (cerebrum and cerebellum). The spirit glows through its soul bodies to the Silver Cord, the invisible connecting link with the body at the Solar Plexus, which is in the middle of the abdomen where a powerful group of nerves links some critical organs with the brains.The activity of the spirit would have to halt at the solar plexus if there is no finer medium than the blood to move its communication  to the brains and bring back communication from the earthly environment through a reverse process. The problem is resolved by the blood, under promptings of the spirit and the body to a lesser extent, to produce RADIATION fine enough for a two-way communication transport. This is achieved through a specific composition of the blood for the use by the particular spirit or soul which masterminds it.

    In the specific composition and radiation of the blood lies the secret of the four blood groups. No one can take blood transfusion from the blood group not suitable for his or her own without coming to harm. In the knowledge mediated to mankind on earth for about 100 years now, it is shown that more groups are still undiscovered and that, in fact, no two human beings have exactly the same blood, that, someday , the blood of all persons would become their identity cards. Even today, when a person is transfused with another person’s blood from a compatible blood group, the “foreign” blood alters the radiation of the recepient’s own blood and makes the spirit unable to effectively and efficiently control the body and astutely manifest outwardly.

     Thus, a blood radiation ineffective for a healthy activity of the spirit on earth is to be found in the wrong composition of the blood. The natural process is for radiations of the spirit to move across the silver cord to the solar plexus and, from there, for the radiations to impress the back  brain (cerebellum) with picture forms which the Blood Radiation will transport to the cerebrum (frontal brain) which will decode the spiritual information and instruction and carry them out on earth. The fact that the cerebellum, the spiritually receptive part of the two brains, has become “the small brain” is evidence of its disuse and atrophy and why the human spirit has not had a serious foothold on earth. Diseases such as Autism can be explained by the phenomenon of the incompetent Blood Radiation locking the human spirit out of the body and out of its earthly activities. There are no sick souls or spirits but inadequate or even sick Blood RADIATIONS rooted in weak composition of the Blood.

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    When the blood Radiation of a person falls to the level where another soul can take it over and use it, this often happens. Spookish events as knocks on the door,  moving objects, strange noises and smells often arise around such persons. POSSESION may occur when a disembodied earth bound  soul roaming around takes over the brain and body of such a careless person, temporarily or permanently, causing him or her to exhibit a split personality. The real owner of the body, careless with the blood composition and  radiation, struggles with an invading soul  for  control of its brain and body. This may not be insanity as  often assumed and is correctable with the re-composition of the blood to produce the right blood radiation for the owner-soul.

    Blood Cancer

    This is a group term for rapidly over populating, immature and functionally redundant cells. There are three major types…Leukemia, (white blood cells),  lymphoma (lymph cells) and myelema (plasma cells).

    Google describes the symptoms to include:

     “People may experience: Pain areas in the bones or joints Whole body: dizziness, fatigue, fever, or loss of appetite

    Also common: bleeding, easy bruising, frequent infections, mouth ulcer, nosebleed, pale skin, petechiae, shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, unintentional weight loss, or weakness”.

    Chemotherapy,  radiotherapy and pharmaceutical drugs are of little use. The blood needs to be purified, recomposed, nourished and protected. Nourishment includes spiritual nurture as the spirit makes the blood. Spiritual nurture has nothing to do with religious life which, often, is not spiritual. The spirit must be alive, self recognising, discovering creation and its place and role in it, including the spiritual purpose of earthly existence and fufilling it. Above all, there is the need to strive for a “high aim” which survives earthly existence.

    Spiritual life is connected to the Third Chakra in energy medicine. This is also called the Navel Chakra because it is the site of the Silver  Cord and relates, also, with the Solar Plexus. This chakra or energy centre may be blocked by emotional discomfeitures which  must be removed from earthly activities. They include low self esteem, anger, misuse of power etc. Early symptoms of disconnection of spirit and body may include heavy footsteps, problems of digestion, absorbtion and assimilation, blood malformation, excretion, reproduction and respiration. These challenges may profit from  yellow colour therapy or solarisation of water in yellow bottles for drinking. There is more to say on this subject.

    At the level of the body, working with the functional temperament is important. Often, this depends on age (sanguine, melancholia, choleric or phlegmatic), RADIATIONS of the stars and earth forms in the zone of the earth where the challenged person was born.

    Recomposition of the blood through the body would begin with cleansing, alterative and nutritive herbs. Earlier, I described the support Bone Marrow Meal gave leukemia-suffering children in India. There are reports of  Stinging Nettle and Marigold Flowers helping some adults. Jobelyn, the Nigerian herbal blood formula, has prolonged the lives of some leukemia patients abroad, beyond expectations of their doctors. Also, well recommended are herbs such as cleavers, burdock, Red clover, Beets, yellow dock, Golden seal, Bentonite clay, Goji berries. Green foods and juices play a significant role in reviving the blood, recomposing and re energising it. Several years ago, I published an article on this page titled Let’s Drink Green, The Earth is  not  green  for the  fun of it. In this regard, I will also suggest aloe vera juice and liquid chlorophyll. The structure of chlorophyll, that green part of the plant which combines the forces of the air, of water,  of the sun and of the moon and the stars with the forces of the soil to encapsulate plant food and medicines for the human body, is made up of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon and oxygen with magnesium as the central atom which holds the four pillars together. The same structure presents itself in the haemoglobin of the human blood, except for the central atom which is iron. Thus, when we eat green or drink green, the body recomposes and recharges the human blood by replacing magnesium with iron. The treasure trove of Mother Nature is inexhaustible.

  • 106 professors flag off O connect teleconference

    106 professors flag off O connect teleconference

    I thought I was on a wild goose chase of an Algerian university, arguably the first on earth to experiment with O connect teleconference, until I was acquainted early this month with Zineddine Lefafta, a 32-year-old marketer.

    An Algerian resident in Skikda, the North Eastern Mediterranean port city of his country, Mr Lefafta is an O founder of onpassive. About 1.47 million of them are to be found in 200 countries. He had just pulled off what, arguably, was the first O Connect Teleconference which has the prospects of making an Algerian university the first O Varsity worldwide.

    I  was thrilled by  the news in a Nigerian chat forum of this  first teleconference in any university worldwide,  but the information was scanty, almost unbelievable. I was interested especially in the identity of the only Nigerian professor who was involved in the epic teleconference because I thought his experience could make him become a catalyst for O VARSITY in Nigeria.

    In the Nigerian O Varsity system, there would be no Nigerian desirous of higher education and qualified for it who would be turned away. In 2018, Nigerian universities enrolled 1.8million undergraduates and 242,000 post graduate students. In 2022, 1.8 million young Nigerians sought higher education. About 1.1 million of them were academically qualified, but there were placements for only about 500,000. About 600,000 were denied this human right. If higher education facilities do not expand, and the scenarios continue, about 3 million young Nigerians would be denied higher education by about 2027. The O varsity, as planned by onpassive, has the potential to clear this backlog in one fell swoop. That was why Mr Zineddine Lefafta toddler step with O connect in Algeria appealed to me.

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     Soon, I will explain how I met Mr Zineddine Lefafta. Meanwhile, when I asked him to advise me about what happened in Algeria, he told me:

     “I’m  an ONPASSIVE brand Ambassador from Algeria. My journey with ONPASSIVE and O Connect began with a chance encounter with a university professor. At the time, I was working in private schools in my village, and the professor had three children who attended one of the schools. Over the course of our interactions, we developed a rapport, and he became open to discussing the potential of technology.

     “In December 2022, the professor posted on Facebook that he would be hosting an international event via Zoom. Intrigued, I reached out to him to learn more about the event and his experiences with Zoom. He expressed his frustration with the platform, citing issues with audio-video quality, buffering, and overall user experience.

     “Having used Zoom extensively myself, I was familiar with these shortcomings. However, I also knew that there was a better solution available: OCONNECT. I enthusiastically introduced OCONNECT to the professor, highlighting its superior audio-video quality, seamless performance, and user-friendly interface.

    “The professor was intrigued by my description of O CONNECT and inquired about a solution for his email woes. He explained that he was constantly receiving storage insufficiency notifications, which hindered his productivity. I immediately introduced him to OMAIL, our innovative email platform designed to eliminate storage limitations and provide a seamless email experience.

    “Impressed by ONPASSIVE’s suite of products, the professor decided to host his international event using OCONNECT. On October 1, 2023, he contacted me to confirm the availability of OCONNECT for the event scheduled for October 8-9, 2023. I eagerly provided him with my ONPASSIVE affiliate link, which he shared with the professors participating in the event.

    “Within three days, an impressive 106 professors from 15 countries registered for the event. These participants hailed from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kurdistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar, Singapore, and the United States. The event was hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Languages at the University of 20 August , 1955, Skikda, Algeria, under the title “International Forum entitled The Journey and the Traveler between East and West.”

    “Following the successful conclusion of the event, I received numerous compliments from the participating professors, who were eager to learn more about ONPASSIVE and O CONNECT. Their positive feedback highlighted the impact of our innovative technology on the success of the international forum.

    “Furthermore, the Forum’s Recommendations Committee officially recognised O CONNECT as an alternative to all teleconference technologies, acknowledging its remarkable performance and contribution to the event’s success.

    “The first time O CONNECT was used at universities in the world left an impact on all the ONPASSIVE brand ambassadors.

    “This experience has been a testament to the transformative power of ONPASSIVE and O CONNECT. By introducing these cutting-edge solutions to the academic community, I have played a part in enhancing communication and collaboration across borders. I am incredibly proud to be an ONPASSIVE Brand Ambassador and look forward to continuing to share the benefits of our technology with the world”.

    The University of 20 August 1955, skikda, founded  in 200I, has about 30,165 students, 1,111 academic staff and 1,191 workers. It took its name from the date of the killing of some Europeans and the retaliatory French massacre of thousands of Algerians.

    Mr Lefafta reignited my interest in a Nigerian O varsity. Every year, about 1 million young Nigerians denied higher education travel abroad. Nigerian universities are aware of this. Some of them have set up branch campuses for “distance learning” in several cities against criticisms of poor quality teaching in these places. The Nigerian government has also set up the open university, but the connection between students and their teachers is still very poor. Additionally, strikes spanning several months by the academic staff union of universities (ASUU)  mangle Nigeria’s higher education. Some students managed to escape from the firestorms with minor “burns”. One of them is Oluwanifemi Favour Olajuyigbe. She graduated this year from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) with a Cummulative Group Point Average (CGPA) of 4.93 out of 5.0 in electrical and electronics engineering. Oluwanifemi showed her colours earlier with 9 A1s in the senior school certificate examination (SSCE) and 306 over 400 points in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). She has been honoured by the Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria as the best female university engineering graduate in 2023. When she took the award, Oluwanifemi made a statement germane to time wastages through strikes in the universities, a problem the O varsity may  clear. She said she over stayed in the university by two years. That meant the strikes wasted two productive years of her life, and may have even derailed her dream.

    I am passionate about the O varsity and about the capacity of O connect to deliver it and avert strikes in the regular Nigerian universities. I see the following scenarios in a Nigerian O varsity… Professors and other senior academic staff would treble or quadruple their income, the public universities would stop depending on the government for their budgets, there would be no paralysing union strikes such as the one which lasted for about eight months in an academic calendar year of 10 months, sometimes wasting between two and three years in the lives of their students.

     If Nigerian professors had about 10 times more students to teach than they now do, and if their salaries grew 10  folds, far beyond the two folds the government cannot afford, would they, their students and society not be better off?, I always wondered whenever I hear of the latest news on O Connect and advances towards the O Varsity.

    I was lucky that Mr Adebayo Olusanya, a Nigerian ONPASSIVE leader in Lagos, read my column of 10 November 2023 titled ONPASSIVE TOPS AT DUBAI HI-TECH TRADE FAIR. He made several photocopies which he sent to his friends nationwide until he learned that he could obtain an online version on NATION ON-LINE to which he referred many people in Nigeria and overseas. Some of these were Mr Mojeed Adetunji, a Nigerian ONPASSIVE leader in Ibadan, Mr Johnson Ejenavi, secretary of onpassive Nigeria vision, the onpassive umbrella body in Nigeria,  and Dr Lanre Akinremi, Nigeria’s country leader of ONPASSIVE. When I informed Mr Olusanya that I advised my professor friends of the prospects of O connect during their last national strike and that I wished to know what happened in Algeria, he mentioned the request to someone who linked me with  Zineddine Lefafta.

    Until I heard from him, my assumptions were that the Algerian university was the university of Algiers and that it had begun to abolish classroom lectures for teleconference lectures for millions of students worldwide. My hope was that if about one million Nigerian students could plug in, there would be no need for them to go abroad and get trapped in such conflicts as the Sudanese war or the Russia Ukraine war. In the end, they have all been repatriated home, money lost, higher education adventure scuttled and their future uncertain. Wasn’t this a problem the Nigerian government and the public universities could have averted if they were open to new ways of doing things better, cheaper, faster, under less stress and yet with more value?

     Mr Lefafta’s response to my chats suggested I was still too futuristic, although I still seriously believe the future is already knocking on the door, asking to be let in.

    WHY ONPASSIVE?

     If you ask me why I am always passionate about ONPASSIVE when I am known for Alternative Medicine or Natural Health,  I would mention no fewer than three factors. From the bottom up, these are

    • ONPASSIVE is going to come up with nutritional food supplements to be produced under the watchful guidance of high grade Artificial Intelligence (AI) three years above present market value.

    • ONPASSIVE is coming up, also, with an application called O HEALTH. It is aimed at changing present Doctor Patient Relations in which middlemen or Interlopers drive medical bills up, govern the thinking of doctors in the consulting room, decree all sorts of labouratory tests and waste a lot of time in the consulting process, among all old features to be swept away.

    3)Finally, ONPASSIVE is to make internet users govern the internet by giving them money for using the internet. Many onlookers of the unfolding new internet world order still cannot fathom this. This aims to shift power, money and ownership from a few individuals to the consumers, many of them poor persons who are so poor and grapple with poverty and daily struggles that they have no time to think about why they exist and what would happen to them after earth life. If the frontiers of existence are moving towards simpler, and better, less stressful, faster, more productive and yet cheaper ways of doing things which, on top of it all, yield more time for leisure and deep inner reflections, wouldn’t that be a better world to wish for and to tell the world about? Couldn’t our health improve if our headaches disappear?

    On “O CONNECT”, a university lecturer can teach about one million students all over the world at the same time and in every language, including Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo. All that a student  has to do is to choose the language in which he or she wishes to listen to the lecture. Automatically, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology wired into “O CONNECT” will translate the lecture to the choice language(s).

    In humanity’s march towards a new higher education age called O varsity, Nigeria,  the so-called “giant of Africa” , appears to be  sluggish. By United Nations(UN) account, Algeria’s 2023 population is 45 million, about five times smaller than NIGERIA’S of 225 million. Algeria’s university enrolment  in 2021 was 1.5 million, and comprised 53 percent females and 47 percent males. Nigeria had 1.8 million students in university in 2019, excluding 242,000 in post graduate studies. The data suggests a higher access to higher education in a smallish Algeria than in gigantic Nigeria. Additionally, strict enforcement of Islamic norms would appear to have preserved women against male sexual ravages to enable many of them to end their educational career in the university whereas many young Nigerian girls are sexually devoured and experience education derailment by early pregnancies.

     The cost of higher education globally is one of the problems in universities which ONPASSIVE, through “O CONNECT”, wishes to address with O VARSITY, the trans border global university. Denial of access to higher education because of space facilities in the lecture halls and conference centres is another.

     In O varsity powered by “O CONNECT”, Nigerian students who are qualified for admission to university education  but are edged out by high costs, or space limitations, spearhead of O Varsity, receive their lectures on line at specified lecture times and purchase digital lectures from their lecturers and professors. They can also save cost by working part time and full time while they are O Varsity students. To understand O Connect, imagine these hypothetical scenarios:

     Lagos State University adopts “O CONNECT” for all academic lectures. Every lecturer sits in his regular classroom at the appointed time for his or her lecture, surrounded by some technical aids such as Zineddine Lefafta. The lecturer clicks on a button and O connect becomes live in all the countries where his students are. O connect can accomodate more than one million students in this single teleconferencing global university lecture theatre. There are no classroom wall barriers. There are no university campus gate barriers. The O connect classroom is a global classroom. Imagine that 300,000 Nigerian students scattered all over the country are listening to this lecture and paying for it through not only token cash subscription to the university but also through the purchase of O connect digital application. The purchase of O connect will be one off purchase. It is a data self subscribing application after purchase, through a special design of onpassive. Additionally, the student and the staff who purchase it will be entitled to an appropriate share of 50 percent of the company’s profit on the use of this application globally, if they are on the Affiliate Register  of ONPASSIVE. They will also enjoy from  onpassive  the sourcing of fellow users as teammates for them. From these teammates, they will earn referral bonuses, earning income while they study.There is also something in it for the university and the lecturer and the professor. For a smart university, a student will register as O connect users under it. The university is thus empowered with hundreds of thousands of O connect users. From them,  it will not only derive regular referral bonuses but also a share of the income of the digital textbooks or lecture notes which the students will be purchasing from O cademy, a substrate of O varsity.

     In the foregoing scenarios, the dream of students for higher education is not shattered, the university may earn a thousand fold more income than it is now earning from sky rocketed school fees from a limited number of students. While lecturers and professors will be better paid by the university than the government can ever do, and, everyday, they will receive alerts in any international currency of their choice for their digital lecture notes and digital books which their students are purchasing everyday from O varsity. There is a caveat, though…the lecturers and the professors must be really sound in their vocations because they will be exposed through O varsity to the world academic community market where the students will have a choice. An African American student of Nigerian and American history in the United States will expect a Nigerian teacher to be a guru in this field. He wants real education. If he cannot get it from him or her, the student will shop elsewhere. The same will apply to an American journalism student who wishes to learn about press freedom in Nigeria. If he finds the most suitable teacher not in Nigeria, but in Germany, he cannot be compelled to buy Nigeria.

     I saw this coming during the protracted strike for about eight months of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for more pay and better facilities. I advised some of my vice chancellor friends, professors and lecturers  of ONPASSIVE , “O CONNECT”  and “O varsity,” urging them to not limit their sights to government-funded salaries and consider earning about 10 times more and much, much more than the government can afford to pay them in a shrinking economy.

     Why many of them considered digital incomes undignifying or not worth their time is understandable. They are old and have not acquainted themselves with digital skills in a world rapidly going digital. They may become unemployable in the coming years when millions of secondary school pupils would be demanding digital higher education. In Lagos State, for example, secondary school pupils are no longer taught from the blackboard or the whiteboard but from the slide board. Some of them have learned to use the laptop. The innovation they would  bring to the university may require that only digital literate academics  become vice-chancellors, deans, heads of Departments, professors and lecturers.