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Following the limited scope of capacity and perception of the intellectual brain, humans became myopic through sole reliance on empirical perception. The consequence of such one-sided development and use of the total resources of the brain, includes wrong judgments in choices and decisions”
Global medical statistics provide some indications that there are viral increases in ailments which affect specific glands in the human body. These ailments include prostatitis, cancerous tumours and enlargement of some section of the human brain. Sadly, humans generally and medical science too, have not been able to decode correctly the language of Creation, to grasp some apparent mysteries. One of such mysteries is the link or correspondence between the glands in the human body, and what they represent in Cosmic Network. There is an ancient axiom: “That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, for the performance of the miracles of one substance”. Therefore, the glands in the human body have affinities and interconnectivity with wider spheres of existence, and the hormones which the glands produce are chemical messengers. Similarly, each gland has a marked effect on the others, as their functions are well coordinated in a faultless synergy. Like electrical transformers, the glands also serve as the body’s psychic transformers.
Practitioners of yoga refer to the glands or body’s centres of transformation of radiations as chakras, representing what is known as septimal law, featuring the Sabbath. Effective functioning of the glands and the best benefits derivable from them, depend, among other things, on the nature of what we eat and drink, how and the nature of air we breathe and how we live, use and exercise the body. The Sabbath or septimal law refers to the general rule necessary for effective development of the human body and spirit which demands remembering the Sabbath and keeping it holy! The pituitary gland, located in the base of the brain, also known as the “Master Gland” of the whole body, directs the activities of other glands. It also coordinates physical functions of life, as well as the spiritual, via the intuition. Therefore, the brain has two channels or spheres, with one devoted to physical functions, and the other providing a link for connectivity with spiritual sphere of existence. Rather than a harmonious development of the two spheres of the human brain, there was an over-bearing domination and rulership of the intellectual lobe of the brain, arising from a higher value placed on empiricism by man over the ages.
Naturally, whatever that is left to remain dormant and unutilized over a long time, would go into a state of atrophy, and that was what happened to the intuitive faculty of the brain. And, because of the limited scope of capacity and perception of the intellectual brain, humans became myopic through sole reliance on empirical perception. The consequence of such one-sided development and use of the total resources of the brain, includes wrong judgments in choices and decisions. Slavish submission to empirical perception, with no intuitive input, leads to errors and fall. Relating the above-stated facts to the phenomenon of enlargement of the brain, it is to be expected that in all excesses, ruptures often occur. Excessive exertion and demands on intellectual resources of the brain, especially in numerous unhelpful activities, gave rise to enlargement of the brain. Visible results of such aberration include rising cases of psychosis, hallucinatory tendences and other ailments connected with dysfunctionality of the brain. There is no doubt that these are health challenges facing humanity currently and in increasing proportion. Neither would the causal factors be shifted away from humans.
Apart from various forms of brain malfunctions, some of which manifest in emotional outbursts and acts of sadism, the prostate gland issues signals of serious dangers. Prostatitis or enlargement of the prostate gland in adult males of over 50 years of age, is a very widespread ailment. Without going into the prevalence or statistics, prostate enlargement, some of which cases degenerate into cancer, has grown into an alarming rate in the recent times, not only in Nigeria. Among the womenfolk, the trend inclines towards cancer of the cervix and breasts, but in all such cases, there is usually some excessive strain resulting in imbalances. Since the glands and the hormones emanating from them are chemical messengers, it would mean that the pituitary and prostate glands are roots of some excesses arising from humans. An ancient admonition given to mankind was: “First be victorious over your passions and lust, lest they consume you and plunge you into perdition”. Similarly, the tendency towards an intellectual power dominating all else, ignoring the vital and complementary role of the intuition, accounts for human derailment in the evolutionary process.
The nature and location of human ailments tend to indicate the source of wrongdoing accounting for the plight. With the glands representing the Septimal law of cycle, ailments would occur, to represent breaches and also calling for an observation of the Sabbath. Musical octave observes the septimal law and so also should the human body through observance of the Sabbath. Cells in the human body are regenerated and renewed every seven years, but humans fail to observe the sabbath and rhythms of life, but commit breaches and excesses which plague us. Neither drugs nor surgery would eliminate cases of prostate and brain enlargement, but there is a need to revisit the Porter’s Blueprint, before visiting Potter’s Touch or psychiatric hospital. Potter’s Touch is a specialist private urological health facility which has brought relief and joy to patients with prostatitis. Happily, while fees may be high, remedies go beyond drugs and surgery, but includes counselling based on the Porter’s Blueprint. Thanks to Professor Ekekwe and Dr Azunna. It is true that human ignorance is a serious blemish but this demands that Truth is necessary to set humanity free.
Prostate enlargement, among other causal factors, has some connection with excesses and misdirection of human generative power, including libido. This is more so when womanhood is subjected to unfair treatment by male companions. This trend has been a widespread plague which demands some radical changes and deep understanding if prostatitis and cancer must abate. Propensities which awaken and direct physical passions into lechery and bestiality cannot fail to bring a harvest of furious outgrowths. Brain enlargement even when the size of the head does not increase, is a ravaging plague, globally. With some men of great intellectual acumen, it appears that too much learning predisposes some people into conscious barrenness. It would not be wrong to say that crippled or unnatural brain, arising from excessive and one-sided exertion along mundane directions for thousands of years, accounts for failed leadership, globally. To bring about a state of normalcy would demand revisiting the Porter’s Blueprint, perhaps, after some tears, agonies and despondence. Present predicaments are harbingers of a global cleansing, which includes invasion of the human brain by alien entities.

By: Bright Amirize
Dr Bright Amirize is a retired lecturer Rivers State University of Port Harcourt.

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Trans-Kalabari  Road:  Work In Progress 

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Quote:”This Dream project  is one of  the best things that have happened  to the people and residents of Degema, Asari Toru and Akuku Toru Local Government Areas in recent times.”
This is the concluding part of this story featured in our last edition.
Good road network helps farmers to convey their agro-allied products to  commercial hubs where buyers and sellers meet periodically to transact business. Road network engineers and motivates people resident in unfriendly geographical terrains, like riverine areas,  to own property and shuttle home with ease. Some people will prefer living in their own houses in a more serene and nature-blessed communities to living in the city that is fraught with  pollution, and other environmental, social and economic hazards. Prior to the cult epidemic that ravaged parts of Rivers State, the Emohuas, Elemes, Ogonis, and Etches were known for rural dwelling. Most public servants from these areas do their official and private transactions from  their villages. For them it was comparatively easier to live in the village and engage in a diversified economic endeavours through farming, fishing or other lucrative business without outrageous charges and embarrassment associated with doing business in Port Harcourt, where land is as scarce as the traditional needle.
That is why the decision to construct the Trans-Kalabari Road by the administration of Dr. Peter Odili was one of the best decisions that administration took. When Dr. Odili vacated office as the Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi took over and awarded contracts for continuation of the road project which in my considered view is the felt need of  the people of Degema, Asari Toru and Akuku Toru Local Government Areas. Unfortunately, Rt. Hon. Amaechi’s efforts to drive the project was sabotaged by some contractors some of whom are Kalabari people. The main  Trans-Kalabari Road is one project that is dear to the people and residents of Degema, Asari Toru and Akuku Toru Local Government Areas of Rivers State. This is because through the road commuters can easily access several communities in the three local government areas. For instance, the road when completed will enable access to eight of the ten communities in Degema Local Government Area,  namely: Bukuma, Tombia,  Bakana, Oguruama, Obuama, Usokun, Degema town  and the Degema Consulate. It will also link 15 of the 16 communities in Asari Toru Local Government Area. The communities are: Buguma, the local government headquarters, Ido, Abalama, Tema, Sama, Okpo, Ilelema, Ifoko, Tema, Sangama, Krakrama, Omekwe-Ama, Angulama. The road will also connect  14  of 17 wards in Akuku Toru Local Government Area, and other settlements. It is interesting to note that It is faster,  and far more convenient and economical for the catchment Communities on the Trans-Kalabari Road network to go to the State Capital than the East West Road.  The people of the three local government areas will prefer  to work or do their transactions in Port Harcourt from their respective communities to staying in Port Harcourt where the house rent and the general cost of living is astronomically high.
 Consequently, development will seamlessly spread to the 28 out of 34 communities of Degema, Asari Toru and Akuku Toru Local Government Areas. The only Communities that are not linked by the road project are Oporoama in Asari Toru,  the Ke and  Bille Communities in Degema Local Government Area and the “Oceania” communities of Abissa, Kula, Soku, Idama, Elem Sangama of Akuku Toru Local Government Area. But because of the economic value of the unlinked Communities to Nigeria, (they produce substantial oil and gas in the area), the Federal, State Governments and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), can extend the road network to those areas just as Bonny is linked to Port Harcourt and the Lagos Mainland Bridge is connecting several towns in Lagos and neighbouring States.Kudos to previous administrations who  had constructed the Central Group axis.
 However, what is said to be the First Phase of the Trans-Kalabari Road project is actually a linkage of the “Central Group” Communities which consists of Krakrama, Angulama, Omekwe. Ama, Omekwe Tari Ama, Ifoko, Tema, Sangama. It is the peripheral of the Trans-Kalabari Road. The completion of the  Main Trans Kalabari project will free Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor areas from congestion. It will motivate residents and people of the three local areas to contribute to the development of their Communities. If the Ogonis, Etches, Emohuas, Oyigbos, Okrikas, Elemes can feel comfortable doing business in Port Harcourt from home, residents and people whose communities are linked to Port Harcourt through the Trans-Kalabari Road will no doubt, do likewise. The vast arable virgin land of the Bukuma people can be open for development and sustainable agricultural ventures by Local, State and Federal Government.
It is necessary to recall that the Bukuma community was host to the Federal Government’s Graduate Farmers’ Scheme and the Rivers State Government moribund School-to-Land Scheme under Governor Fidelis Oyakhilome. Bukuma was the only community in Degema, Asari Toru and Akuku Toru Local Government Areas that has the capacity to carry those agricultural programmes. However the lack of road to transport farm produce to Port Harcourt and facilitate the movement of the beneficiaries of the scheme who lived in the community which is several miles away from the farms, hampered the sustainability of the programme. The main Trans-Kalabari Road remains the best gift to the people of Degema, Asari Toru, and Akuku-Toru Local Government Areas. Kudos to Sir Siminilayi Fubara.
By: Igbiki Benibo
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That  U.S. Capture of Maduro

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Quote:”Strategic convenience does not nullify sovereignty. Political frustration does not authorise military abduction.”
The first part of this story was published in our last edition.
 
In Africa and the Middle East, regime change—whether by invasion, proxy warfare, or sanctions—has often left behind fractured states, weakened institutions, and prolonged instability. Washington’s motivations in Venezuela are widely understood: vast oil reserves, alliances with U.S. rivals, and symbolic defiance of American influence in the Western Hemisphere. But none of these reasons confer legal or moral legitimacy. Strategic convenience does not nullify sovereignty. Political frustration does not authorise military abduction. If every powerful nation acted on its grievances in this manner, global chaos would inevitably follow. International law provides mechanisms for accountability. Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), individuals accused of crimes against humanity or other grave offences are subject to investigation and prosecution through judicial processes.
Likewise, extradition treaties, mutual legal assistance agreements, and Interpol mechanisms exist to ensure accountability while respecting due process. These frameworks were designed precisely to prevent unilateral enforcement of “justice” by military force. The most profound consequence of America’s action may not be in Caracas, but in the precedent it sets. If the world accepts that a superpower can unilaterally depose another country’s president, then the foundation of the international system is weakened. Sovereignty becomes conditional—no longer a right, but a privilege tolerated at the discretion of the powerful. Going forward, if another country invades its neighbour, will the United States retain the moral authority to impose sanctions or demand restraint? Some analysts already warn that parallels between Russia’s actions in Ukraine and America’s conduct in Venezuela risk further eroding global norms. Selective adherence to international law breeds cynicism and accelerates the drift toward a world governed by force rather than rules.
Power—military, economic, or political—should serve human progress and collective well-being, not domination and destruction. For African nations, many of which emerged from colonial rule through bitter struggle, this precedent is especially alarming. Sovereignty is not an abstract legal concept; it is a hard-won shield against external domination. Any erosion of that principle anywhere weakens it everywhere. Africa’s painful history of foreign interference makes this lesson especially urgent.  For me, the real issue is not whether Nicolás Maduro is a good or bad leader. That judgment belongs, first and foremost, to the Venezuelan people. The larger issue is whether the international system still operates on law—or has quietly reverted to hierarchy. If America insists it is defending global order, it must ask itself a difficult question: can an order survive when its most powerful guardian feels entitled to violate it? Until that question is answered honestly, the capture of a foreign president will remain not a triumph of justice, but a troubling symbol of a world drifting from law toward force.
If the United States felt so strongly about the allegations of terrorism, drug trafficking  against Maduro, were there no other lawful options? Judicial accountability, diplomacy, regional mediation, and multilateral pressure may be slow and imperfect, but they reflect respect for international law and sovereign equality. Military seizure is a blunt instrument. It humiliates institutions, radicalizes populations, and hardens resistance. It may remove a leader, but it rarely resolves the underlying crisis. History teaches that military interventions seldom result in stable democratic outcomes. More often, they breed resentment, resistance, and long-term instability. For the sake of global order and the rule of law, the United States should reconsider this path and recommit to diplomacy, legal cooperation, and respect for the sovereign equality of states. Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly described the invasion of Venezuela as “unlawful and unwise,” warning that such actions “do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable.” Her words reflect a growing recognition, even within the United States, that force without legitimacy undermines both moral authority and global stability.
Should what happened in Venezuela serve as a wake-up call for corrupt African leaders who undermine the people’s right to choose their leaders? The answer is yes. The capture of Maduro should alarm African leaders who manipulate elections, weaken institutions, suppress opposition, undermine citizens’ rights, or cling to power at all costs. Venezuela faced widespread criticism over disputed elections and repression long before this episode, and that context shaped how the world reacted. This does not justify foreign military intervention, but it highlights an uncomfortable truth: prolonged democratic decay isolates nations and invites external pressure—from sanctions to diplomatic censure. Global opinion matters, and legitimacy at home strengthens sovereignty abroad. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and several African leaders have rightly condemned the events in Venezuela, invoking the principles of sovereignty and non-interference enshrined in international and regional law.
Beyond condemnation, however, African leaders must look inward. The continent’s future cannot be built on repression, constitutional manipulation, and personal greed. Leadership must reflect the will of the people, not desperation for power. Two days ago, a social commentator on a radio station argued that Trump’s action—though condemnable—demonstrates how far a leader can go for his country’s interest. According to this view, he did not intervene in Venezuela for personal enrichment, but to strengthen his nation. In stark contrast, many African leaders plunder their own countries. They siphon public resources, impose crushing taxes and harmful policies, and leave their citizens poorer—all for selfish gain. That contradiction is the deeper lesson Africa must confront.True sovereignty is protected not only by international law, but by accountable leadership at home.
 By:  Calista Ezeaku
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Kudos  Gov Fubara

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Please permit me to use this medium to appreciate our able governor, Siminalayi Fubara for the inauguration of the 14.2-kilometre Obodhi–Ozochi Road in Ahoada-East Local Government Area.  This inauguration marks a significant milestone in the history of our communities and deserves commendation. We, the people of Ozochi, are particularly happy because this project has brought long-awaited relief after years of isolation and hardship.
The expression of our traditional ruler, His Royal Highness, Eze Prince Ike Ehie, JP, during the inauguration captured the joy of our people.  He said, “our isolation is over.”  That reflects the profound impact of this road on daily life, economic activities, and social integration of the people of Ozochi and other neighbouring communities. The road will no doubt ease transportation, improve access to markets and healthcare, and strengthen links between Ahoada, Omoku, and other parts of Rivers State.
The people of Ahoada, Omoku, and indeed Rivers State as a whole are grateful to our dear governor for this laudable achievement and wish him many more successful years in office. We pray that God endows him with more wisdom and strength to continue to pilot the affairs of the state for the benefit of all. As citizens, we should rally behind the governor and support his development agenda. Our politicians and stakeholders should embrace peace and cooperation, as no meaningful progress can be achieved in an atmosphere of conflict. Sustainable development in the state can only thrive where peace prevails.
Samuel Ebiye
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