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BODY EXERCISE PROFITS LITTLE
What maybe called a revolution in body exercise is here with us in Nigeria.
Previously, body exercise or physical education or fitness was taught in Primary schools in the country then by Teachers Training College students on teaching practice. It was an exciting moment which pupils in primary schools long for because of the time it affords to play around, compete with others to win prizes and enjoy the relationships and teachings of new breed of teachers that were soft and tender hearted. Since, it is a subject of its own, participation becomes compulsory for every pupil that hunger for success and promotion to another class.
Physical education could only be mentioned among Secondary school students during the inter house sports competitions, when students were divided into different houses to compete with others and other schools students during the sports week. It was a subject meant for Teachers Training College and Universities Students who are specializing in Education. Generally, physical fitness was consciously attended to as an academic and relaxation activities and not for it’s health implications. Boys were seen to exercise inform of football during leisure hours and girls engaged in some form of exercises during play hours. Such fun filled leisure hours of old has been stolen by wide spread of Television, computer and internet based programs and continued home tutorials that presently take the greater hours of children’s days that no room exists for leisure group play any longer.
In those days people were not intentionally into exercises for health gains until recently. Parents in Africa used to forbid their children and consider the same as idling away precious time that would have been spent in helping out in farms, trade or house chores and for that, a lot of children received severe dealings from parents, unlike the developed world where children were encouraged to exercise for all round benefits especially health.
BODY EXERCISE PROFITS LITTLE
In the developed world, physical education comprising many sporting activities has come of age dating as far back as late 1400’s and gained relevance and momentum in the centuries following, especially in 1800’s. In 776 BC, the first ancient Olympiad was held while in 1896, first modern Olympic was held in Athens, Greece. Johann Bernard Basedow, Friedrich Jahn and Charles Beck, all of German stock, were popular contributors to making physical education gain wide recognition, establishing a system of physical training among others, which was considered as a form of patriotism, by creating strong, sturdy and fearless youths who would help to secure Germany’s freedom and could defend the Fatherland from outside forces having been defeated in the Napoleonic wars. It is self evident the advantages of muscular development (macho) and knowledge of martial acts which are off shoots of body fitness and physical exercises to self and national defense in times of war and attacks as envisaged by these Germans. Apart from this, the development of physical education and body fitness has offered employments to people in form of teaching, made many footballers, wrestlers and other athletes’ millionaires who would have not done well academically. Other ancillary benefits include; scattered locations of fitness shops in every nook and crannies of the towns with laudable patronage which has invariably created more jobs to non sports men and women in the system. The global friendship, interaction, relationships enhanced through global sporting competition like Olympics, and relieves from stress garnered from the day’s tedious jobs, as people relax in front of TV Sets watching different sporting competitions.
Due to the pervasive enlightenment on the perceived benefits of exercise to health and life across the globe, Nigerians could not but join millions of people all over the World to seek for a better healthy living. Of course, Africa would need exercise to augment her inadequate nourishing food supply and relieve from stress through excessive labour, but to what extent does exercise guaranties a healthy living begs for answer.
Body fitness gurus and nutritionists are not holding back from educating the public on this subject in order to reduce the rate of mortality in our society and with the spread of gyms and fitness centers across the countries and early morning television programs on fitness, the message is penetrating fast into the heart of the society getting men and women obsessed with exercise.
According to the Surgeon General of Department of kinesiology and health at Georgia State University and other experts, benefits of exercise among many others include;
THE END OF NIGERIA AMIDST BIAFRA RESTORATION
BIAFRA
Psalm 150 King James Version says in situations like this. Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the Lord for With IMF’s forecast last week that the Nigerian economy would contract 1.8 percent and statements from Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosu, that Nigeria is technically in recessions, It is important to explain or give a broad analysis of what the term ”economic recession” means to enable Nigerians on the street understand the implications and adjust to their daily economic activities and lifestyle.
There are various reasons why countries enter into a recession, and it all depends on the financial framework of that country. For Nigeria, a recession could be triggered by a dip in government revenues and a drop in consumer spending. A decrease in oil prices, for example, can cause a drop government spending due to the government not being able to earn what it used to gain before the dip, A recession is thus defined as consecutive declines in the quarterly real gross domestic product (inflation adjusted). ) and a reduction in activity across the economy, lasting longer than a three to four months. It is visible in industrial. Production, employment, real income and wholesale-retail trade.
The previous articles I wrote, I said that The justice that bends a suspect is worse than the suspect even if the defendant is guilty but Nnamdi Kanu is Innocent . which way Nigeria? Do you continue in sin so that grace may abide? How long will you remain barbaric? A country whose fundamentalists are naturally wicked, killers, murderers, alas do you see the display of what the Nigerian law is made up of, Law of the elites? Law of paedophiles who walk the streets untouched, saboteurs, the law of DSS, the law of BUHARI of Hausa/Fulani. A country where the Justice is made only to be on the side of Buhari's assassin in the guise that they are armed forces.
You continued the incarceration of a prophet and expected you will go free from the wrath of God, go and ask about the faith of Kings in the Bible who disobeyed God and maltreat a servant of God, what happens to them afterwards. Nnamdi Kanu said before now that he is coming not only to restore the Republic of Biafra but to make sure that nothing like this evil British contraption called Nigeria exists again, which rightfully explains that Nigeria will soon go into extinction.Evil cannot continue to dwell forever because the Bible even said light and darkness has nothing in common, so therefore, president Buhari should be rest assured that God is on the course on the predicament of this country, in fact it is in his will that this sodomy called Nigeria would cease to exist and pave the way for the risen sun, the hope of Christians all over the world.
Therefore, Nigeria's current situation is in accordance to the will of God just as he has said through the mouth of his prophet Nnamdi Kanu. It is a manifestation of what God can do to restore the dignity of the oppressed especially his children which Biafrans are; God is at work, and he will see that his promise as said through the mouth of his prophet comes to pass. Nigeria is cursed for destruction, and it is underway. Behold the Republic of Biafra.
Ezekwereogu John
Edited by Udeagha Obasi
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BIAFRA: JOHN KERRY, RECEIVES SHOCKING LETTER FROM CONGRESSMAN TOM MARINO... ACCUSES BUHARI OF AUTOCRATIC TENDENCIES, NEPOTISM, AND EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS OF UNARMED IPOB PROTESTERS...Thisday Live
Wants security assistance to Nigeria withheld
4th September 2016
A member of the United States Congress, Tom Marino, has written a letter to Secretary of State, John Kerry, asking the US government to withhold security assistance to Nigeria until President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrates a “commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech”.
He also asked the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to Nigeria until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion.
In a two-page letter dated September 1, 2016 and addressed to Kerry, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by THISDAY yesterday, Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania who assumed office on January 3, 2011, said there were a number of warning signs emerging in the Buhari administration that signal “the man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies”.
The Congressman, who is a member of the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, and the Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, said Nigerian government must “hold accountable those members of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Military complicit in extra-judicial killings and war crimes”.
In the six-paragraph letter to Kerry, Marino also expressed concern over Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, saying “of additional concern is President Buhari’s selective anti-corruption drive, which has focused almost exclusively on members of the opposition party, overlooking corruption amongst some of Buhari’s closest advisors. Politicizing his anti-corruption efforts has only reinforced hostility among southerners”.
His letter to Kerry reads: “Dear Secretary Kerry, I am encouraged by the personal interest you have taken in aiding Nigeria and its administration as it takes on endemic corruption, multiple insurgent movements, and a faltering economy. However, I believe there are a number of warning signs emerging in the Buhari administration that signal “the man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies.”
“I would urge the U.S. to withhold its security assistance to the nation until President Buhari demonstrates a commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech. A logical start towards this commitment is for the Nigerian government to hold accountable those members of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Military complicit in extra-judicial killings and war crimes”.
“Human rights groups like Amnesty International have widely documented torture, inhumane treatment, and extra-judicial killings of defenseless Nigerians since President Buhari took office.”
Quoting Amnesty International Report, he wrote, “in the last six months, Nigeria’s military has unlawfully killed at least 350 people and allowed more than 168 people, including babies and children, to die in military detention.”
He further wrote: “The Secretary to the Government of Kaduna State even admitted to burying 347 of those killed in a mass grave. And while President Buhari promised swift condemnation, his words rang empty. Instead of swift reforms, Buhari chose to reinstate Major General Ahmadu Mohammed, who Amnesty International revealed was in charge of the Nigerian military unit that executed more than 640 unarmed, former detainees.
“Also, in separate incidents concerning the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO, the Nigerian Army has killed at least 36 – the real number is likely higher – people since December 2015 in an attempt to silence opposition and quell attempts by the group to gather publicly.”
Describing President Buhari as a former military dictator whose reign (as military head of state) was cut short by a coup, he stated that the President has continually shunned inclusivity in favour of surrounding himself with advisors and ministers from the north of the country and the region he considers home.
“Of President Buhari’s 122 appointees, 77 are from the north and control many of the key ministries and positions of power. Distrust is already high in Nigeria and favouring Northerners for key appointments has only antagonized the issue. These appointments are also primarily Muslim in the north and Christian in the south, adding a religious aspect to long-held regional biases.
“Of additional concern is President Buhari’s selective anti-corruption drive, which has focused almost exclusively on members of the opposition party, overlooking corruption amongst some of Buhari’s closest advisors. Politicizing his anti-corruption efforts has only reinforced hostility among southerners,” he claimed in the letter.
He said the Obama Administration would advance justice by urging the Buhari Administration to act decisively to hold accountable members of the police and military.
The congressman said, “This is a logical first step in making a demonstrable, sustained commitment to inclusive democracy, with distributed power in Nigeria. Until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion, we ask the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to the country.
“The State Department should urge President Buhari to form a government that represents the diversity of its citizens and allows dissenting voices to be heard. Democracy can thrive only if people are free to assemble, to express their beliefs, and voice their concerns.”
