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Pedophilia and pedophiles; the costly infidelity we can’t accommodate

Published

4 years ago

June 3, 2020

By MA Iliasu

Not so long ago I was roasting homosexuals on this platform with series of write-ups, a relevant topic that never developed any further, as expected. Over the past many years, it has always looked like people are afraid of bringing up topic of such, or have been rather shying away from anything that has to do with it, even though it’s so rampant it should be a whole phenomenon in itself, and so popular one can’t go a day without unknowingly meeting more than one manipulative consent-buying gay, or a rapist pedophile. This is an intuitive observation that has been proved cogent. And it fills any sane person with torturing unrest the way homosexuals and their pedophiles friends in our society get away with barbarism like it’s nothing. Understanding that alone would make an enigmatic research topic I believe. But that’s topic for another day I guess – the mother of all excuse.

MA Iliasuu

However, with the large number of girl-child rape issues arising, which fall in the bracket of pedophilia that encompasses homosexuals who rape boys, and the powerful amongst them who buy consent through financial and sexual manipulation, I can’t help but think pedophilia is slowly taking a bush-fire effect – which it has always been had we pay attention earlier – the same way pedophiles are taking over as the silent face signifying crisis within the masculine gender, and as the quasi source of moral corruption among the morally and mentally corrupt masculine’s.

Greed is a human nature. And it’s up to any society that cares for it’s own moral sanity to control and police it. What efforts are our societies putting towards policing greed? Lust as well. It exists and has been inherent in every living man, it’s mainly up to the society to wisely counsel against it’s negativities. What measures are our societies putting to tackle the negative drives of lust? And then the biggest calamity of all, Ignorance. It’s a bliss they say. And have been the first stage of any human being that once breathed. It’s up to the society to educate and eliminate ignorance, so that it won’t come back to hang it by the neck – which is inevitable when it’s allowed to rife. What effect are our societies putting towards eliminating ignorance?

The leading force of our moral societies must sit down and examine those mentioned factors that possibly determines the depth of our moral corruption, among many others. Our moral upbringing, which is a function of parenthood, must be put on a review. We need to interrogate and do away with the parental negligence that’s on the rise by the day. We must empower the motions of our authorities towards ruling in favor of inescapable punishments against pedophilia. We must restore our spirituality, for surely we have abandoned God, along the line getting lost in our problems. Both men and women must be educated, empowered and granted equal economic and intellectual power, for only that way we can eliminate dependency and bolster the strength, formidability and charisma of the weak amongst us.

But what do we expect when only the opposite is being emphasized?

When both our young and grown men alike are being watched as they tan and bleach their skins, ridiculously transmogrifying their physique and oral command to radically, or say shamelessly make way for the permanent occupation of their inner femininity; which is so disturbing, so strange, so unbecoming of masculinity and so against everything morality stands for. The next stage of that is presumed to be homosexuality – the bastardized endeavor that corrupt the bastards into engaging with raping and manipulating innocents boys and girls by buying their sexual consent. When both our young men and grown men alike are being watched as they find it difficult to lower their gaze along the line losing respect for both young and grown women alike; which is so unbecoming of a society that always prioritise morality. When parents give up their duty of guidance and counseling, cognitive and moral upbringing, grooming and policing of their children to the streets – most especially the male child. When pedophiles are being given 14 years prison sentence, which would only allow them to rest and recharge their greed, so that to come back later and carry on from where they stopped. When homosexuality is being given free pass, with rapists amongst them being granted free bails. And so on. When the raped is the one being forced to hide rather than the rapist. When it’s he future of the raped that’s feared rather than the rapist. When it’s more shameful to be a victim of rape than to be a perpetrator. What ironic psyche are we carrying in our heads? What ironic culture are we practicing?

Truly having to accommodate corruption and barbarism ensures that masculinity has never faced a bigger challenge, it’s values have never been under greater siege. And the besieging army are the bunch of barbaric rapists looking to turn pedophilia into norm. The sooner the principles and practice of our cultures, the authorities and the equipped hands in our societies make effort to deal with them the better. In the current dynamics of events, no one is safe until all are safe. Pedophiles are not human beings, they’re heathen beasts who answer the name of men.

MA Iliasu is an expert in Philosophy and analysis.

News

Muslim-Muslim Ticket: idea fixation pathetic, religion be excluded in politics and governance, says El-Rufai

Published

2 years ago

June 11, 2022

Misbahu el-Hamza

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has described the possibility that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, would run a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election as mere speculation.

Making a remark on Channels TV’s political show, Politics Today, he said, Nigerians’ obsession with religion – when it comes to voting – rather than competence is sad. “This fixation of Nigerians on religion instead of competence, capacity, and capability is quite sad and pathetic.”

El-Rufai said that anyone asking him questions about the controversial Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket is asking the wrong person, because, in the 2019 general election he settled for a qualified Muslim woman as a running mate and won the election in Kaduna State.

He said, “I don’t look at people from Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian angle. Most of my closest friends are Christians. It was Pastor Tunde Bakare, a Pentecostal pastor, that took me to the CPC, not President Buhari. I’m very close to Bakare. I’m very close to many Christians. I don’t think the business of governance has anything to do with religion. I think we should look for the best person for the job. A person that will get the job done and let him do that.”

He advised Nigerian journalists to keep religion out of politics and government. He said, “I don’t think we should be looking at religion. We want to develop this country. When I get into a plane, I don’t ask about the religion of the pilot. When I go to the hospital, I don’t ask for the doctor’s religion of the doctor, I just want to get well. I just want to get to my destination when in an aircraft.

Column

Nigerian Universities, the interference of Professional bodies, and the time bomb

Published

3 years ago

November 4, 2021

Nigerian Tracker

Abdelghaffar Amoka, PhD

Having worked with multidisciplinary teams during my PhD at the Department of Engineering of the University of Leicester and postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Electric Power Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), I decided to experiment the acceptability of a multidisciplinary team in Engineering departments in Nigerian universities in 21st century on my return in 2015. Then, I was already due to be a Senior Lecturer in ABU since 2014. So I sent my CV and an application letter for the position of Associate Professor to the VC through the Head of Electrical Engineering Department of one of our public universities in November 2015. And I received the following not very surprising reply.

“Having perused your application documents, I found them interesting and relevant to the need of the department. However, I cannot pass your application for further processing because of the post applied for. For your information, the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nig. (COREN) has fixed the bar of an Engineering lecturer who is not registered with COREN at Lecturer I regardless of the number of his/her publications.”

The question that came to my mind was that is the regulation of engineering lecturers in universities part of the mandates of COREN? I read the reply again and he was very emphatic on my PhD and postdoctoral research experience and the relevance to his department. I was made to understand that the University has no academic staff in the area of high voltage engineering, but for them to utilize my experience in high voltage engineering, if I was actually ready to move there, I have to accept to be demoted for 4 years because COREN said so. And I can’t grow no matter my research output till I am registered with COREN. Amazing offer! It will take a complete idiot to accept such an offer. That is the reality of the compartmentalization of our university system and the destruction of the Nigerian university system and the structure by supposed professionals.

This was completely different from my experience in my two universities in Europe. Prof. Len Dissado had a first degree in chemistry and a PhD in chemistry but was a Professor of Engineering at Leicester because his research area was in Dielectrics, a topic very relevant to High Voltage Engineering. He was retained as Emeritus when I left in 2012. Dr. Steve S. Dodd had his first degree in Physics and PhD in Physics but was employed as a Senior Lecturer in Engineering (High Voltage Engineering group) because his research area was in Electrical insulation materials. He retired as a Reader in High Voltage Engineering. The HoD of the Electric Power Engineering as at the time I left the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2015 had a PhD in Physics and was a Professor of Electric Power Engineering. Universities in the rest of the world are closing gaps, while we are widening the gap. Since I could not close the gap, so we decided to have a High Voltage Laboratory in the Physics department.

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In universities, we are academics and research workers. Irrespective of the field, we are employed to teach and do research. The yardstick for evaluating your performance is research output. Engineering graduates in academia are not left out. They are not employed as Engineers. Universities have their Engineers to do the engineering work. As an academic, you can be COREN registered to enable you to practice outside the university but not for the classroom and research labs in the university. I once asked a colleague some years back if as a university worker, he is an Engineer for real or a teacher and he was silent. I asked about the value of COREN registration in his teaching of Engineering courses, research output, and student project supervision and he could not give me a straight answer.

I still find it weird that COREN, a body regulating practicing engineers on the field is now setting standards for promotion in the Engineering departments of Nigerian universities. They will soon be telling Nigerian universities what to teach and what not to teach. The other councils of professionals will soon follow to set what they perceived as standards for the respective faculties or departments.

The interference of the Councils of professionals in the affairs of Nigerian universities has grown beyond setting promotion guidelines. They are now deciding the establishment of faculties and the duplication of academic departments. It does not matter the burden of running such faculties and departments on the universities. I am still wondering how they are able to twist the hands of NUC and the universities’ Senate and Governing Council to achieve all that. Not long ago, the Faculty of medicine in Nigerian public universities were converted to Colleges of Medical Sciences with 4 faculties and several departments, thanks to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

What baffled me was the fact that the Department of Biochemistry, for example, that has taught medical students the biochemistry they know since the inception of the study of medicine in Nigerian universities is suddenly no more qualified to teach medical students because the Lecturers do not have a degree in medicine. Very amazing! We now have duplicated Biochemistry departments across Nigerian universities that they called “Medical Biochemistry” in the college of medicine. The “medical biochemistry” will possibly be taught by the Medical Doctors based on what they learned from the Biochemists in life science while in medical school. Could this be a case of trading quality for ego?

We also, for example, have a medical microbiology department in the college of medicine, a microbiology

department in the faculty of life science, and a vet microbiology department in the faculty of Veterinary medicine.

The microbiologists will be able to explain to us the difference between the different versions of the microbiology.

I was in Norway in 2014 when the Norwegian couple at NTNU shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with a Professor at the University College London (UCL). I tried to check the structure of these 2 universities. The faculty of medicine at NTNU has no biochemistry department. The Department of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, a replica of the Biochemistry department, is in the faculty of natural science and they provide service to the faculty of Medicine as we had before the coming of the colleges of medicine in Nigerian universities.

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How the increased number of departments helping to improve the quality of our academic output is what I can’t figure out. Rather than the duplication of service departments that will only increase the number of academic departments and won’t really add much value to the system but increased running cost, we should have created a college of life sciences and pulled the relevant faculties and departments into it.

Individualistic research is going extinct and most of the novelties of the 21st century are from interdisciplinary researches. One of the winners of the 2014 Nobel prize in medicine John O’Keefe is a neuroscientist in the Faculty of life sciences at the UCL with his degrees in Psychology. But the others, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser are both neuroscientists from the Faculty of Medicine at NTNU and received their first degree from the Department of Psychology and PhD in neurophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Oslo.

There is nothing more fascinating than the fusing of different ideas together to produce a unique product. That is the exploration in the 21st century. The world has left us behind in individualistic ideology and moved into multidisciplinary academics. If we must make progress in our universities, we must break our erected artificial barriers that are keeping us apart. The academics in physical sciences and engineering must come together with possibly a research centre that is into cutting-edge research that will involve research groups from all the relevant departments. Same way to bring life science and medical complex together.

I have seen graduates of mathematics that became Professors of Econometrics in Economics departments in universities in Europe, but not in Nigerian universities. I have seen a graduate of Chemistry that became a Professor of Engineering in Europe, but not in Nigerian universities. I have seen a graduate of Physics that became a Professor of Electric Power Engineering in Europe, but not in Nigerian universities. In Nigeria, I have seen Engr (Prof) XXX boldly written on our doors in the department but not in the universities in Europe. Are we having an identity crisis?

Professional bodies that are supposed to focus on the regulation of Professionals in the field should focus on their mandate and not be given free hands to change University policies as it pleases them. If we don’t end their interference, just like the medical council, COREN could wake up one day to tell our universities that there is a need for colleges of Engineering with departments of mathematics and physics to service the college because those in Mathematics and Physics departments are not qualified to teach engineering students because they don’t have engineering degrees. Vet council, Pharmaceuticals council, builders council, architects council, Quantity surveyors council, etc, may follow. So, how are we going to handle that?

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Let’s stick to the founding principles of the university. Universities have world standards. We can stick to our British standard or borrow a leaf from the world’s top universities to improve our system, instead of allowing professional bodies to manipulate us and create barriers within the university system that will further slow down the progress we are to make.

Our universities are not in it’s best form and we have to do what we have to do to improve them. We should be more preoccupied with that. We should be discussing how to reposition Nigerian universities to be able to stand up to our various challenges and not duplicate departments without facilities because some Councils of professionals said so.

Finally, to my colleagues in Electric power engineering or high voltage engineering in Nigerian universities, you are welcome to experience our High Voltage Materials Laboratory in the Department of Physics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. We have a 400 kV DC generator and 100 kV AC source with a partial discharge measurement system to serve you. Join us to learn the physics of electric power equipment. We do not have barriers!

Sports

Galadima Knocks Nigeria Sports Handlers Over Laziness in Talent Development,

Published

3 years ago

November 27, 2020

Nigerian Tracker

By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.

Former chairman, Nigeria Football Association , NFA Ibrahim Galadima(MFR) has faulted the administration, promotion and development of sports in Nigeria, noting that the continuous degenerating global status of Nigeria on the sporting arena could be attributed to laziness.

The outspoken sports administrator stated that the absence of clear cut policies on how sports should be driven in Nigeria constitutes parts of the factors that has enrolled Nigeria on the path of total failure.

Galadima in his remarks on ( Thursday)at a one day workshop organized by Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN Kano state chapter held at the conference hall of the Kano state Sports Commission with the theme “Early Warnings and Security Vigilance At Sports Events, he said “we re yet to clearly structure and drive the message clearly to say whether we are in sports for business or for leisure purposes.”

“our sports is going through difficult times, certainly, the Kenyans have a clear concentration, they have shown clearly where they belong by dominating marathon races, recently they came to Kaduna and stamped their dominance.

“The abundant talent in Nigeria remained untapped, no age group graduation, even if you are in Chad, you are considered as a foreign based athlete, we are now so lazy in identifying talents.” Galadima lamented.

He alleged that lack of trust and confidence has sent sponsors out of the industry, adding that potential brand sponsors are shying away from injecting their monies into the industry for the fear of unaccountability.