How Responsive Are You To Your Neighbours When You Realise That They Are In Serious Situations??? Please Read And Share

During the World Championships in Budapest, USA; Anita Alvarez sank to the bottom of the pool. 

Looking across the deck, then noticing she was under way too long, her coach, Andrea Fuentes immediately dove in, pulling her to safety. By this time, Anita was unconscious and didn’t have the capacity to paddle or help herself in any way. If coach had  not noticed, she would have drowned. So she looked for her, quickly noticed she was under for too long, Then dove in without thinking twice to save her. 

This again reminds me of my own experience...

In 2007,  I went for a musical audition in Benin City of Nigeria, organised by a very popular organisation that we all are very familiar with. Throughout the exercise, I had little time to eat so by the evening I was a little bit exhausted. Because of many participants, the audition continued from 9am till around 10pm when all were dismissed so I had to stay with many other colleagues in the hotel (all from long distances) overnight before returning home and waited for my result through sms. 

Luckily, the owner of the big hotel used for the event called us out to the inner courtyard designed for recreation with canopies, fine tables and plastic and wooden sofas, flowers etc. The swimming pool had two sections: one shallow, one deeper, but we were not initially allowed to swim in. Only just spend the night over and depart on the following morning.

With my energy partly depleted, I went on one of the sofa and zoom off. All of a sudden, sounds of splashing water woke me and sighted my colleagues in the water playing. So I said to myself: "Oh, we can now use the pool? Thank God!" 

I quickly took off my clothes and dove Straightforward into the deeper section of the pool. You know, just like in Lagos, Benin City is always hot. It was a relief to be in the cool water after a very hot and stressful day. Now remember I said I ate nothing since I got to the venue and had spent considerable energy, singing and rehearsing before it got to my turn to face the judges/panel. 

Now you know what?

Having touch the bottom of the pool, I had serious difficulty bringing myself back to the surface. In other words, I was about to get drowned. After all, I do normally and successfully swim the village rivers regardless the depth but here in Benin hotel, a swimming pool was about to claim my precious life. 

Now this is where I'm going...

On the other side stood in the water a tall colleague from Ibadan. All of a sudden, I had an upward push right under me. Imagine the kind of push that sent me from the bottom to the edge so I can easily climb out. This guy did a perfect saving task. I climbed out, sat on the edge, looked around and saw him say to me with a smile, 'bro, don't swim again'. 

Still breathing heavily, I asked how he detected my fault, he answered, 'I know because I saw you struggling'. Until several years after, I never really understood the huge favour the unknown colleague did me. 

Ladies and gents When, When you are under an unfamiliar or unfavourable situation or circumstance for too long, who are the people that will notice you’re in trouble, look for you, dive or plunge in to push or pull you back to the surface when you lose your strength to swim or fly or walk or whatever? 

And can someone count on you to be that person that would go looking and notice when they are under for too long, diving in to help or support them when they are all out of fight, fuel, strength to swim (or even fly) in these turbulent and crazy world?

Lord Jesus Christ saved Peter on different occasions according to the holy Bible... 

Think about it deeply. 

Reminder: New music #I_Can_Be will be online soon for listening. Thanks. 

AdeKunle S. R. Adako

(Jentupiez)

CEO & Founder, DWI

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What To Know About Russia’s Wagner Mercenaries

Wagner mercenaries threaten to leave Ukraine’s front line

Politics May 5, 2023 3:17 PM EDT

A threat by the owner of private Russian military company Wagner on Friday to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize an eastern Ukrainian city is another flareup in his dispute with Russia’s regular military over credit and tactics in the war.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a wealthy entrepreneur with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has led the push to jump-start Russia’s stalemated offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province. He threatened to pull out his soldiers from the city of Bakhmut next week, citing high casualties and ammunition shortages.
Russia’s nine-month campaign to take Bakhmut has made the city the focus of the war’s longest battle. Ferocious house-to house fighting there has produced some of the bloodiest encounters since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Here is a look at Wagner’s history and its role in the fighting.

What is the background of Wagner’s leader?

Prigozhin, who received a 12-year prison term in 1981 on charges of robbery and assault, started a restaurant business in St. Petersburg in the early 1990s following his release from prison. It was in this capacity that he got to know Putin, the city’s deputy mayor at the time.
Prigozhin used his connection with Putin to develop a catering business and won lucrative Russian government contracts that earned him the nickname “Putin’s chef.” He later expanded into other areas, including media outlets and an infamous “troll factory” that led to his indictment in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In January, Prigozhin, 61, acknowledged founding, leading and financing the shadowy Wagner company.

Where has Wagner worked?

Wagner was first spotted in action in eastern Ukraine soon after a separatist conflict erupted there in April 2014, weeks after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
While backing the separatist insurgency in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, Russia denied sending its own weapons and troops there despite ample evidence to the contrary. Engaging private contractors in the fighting allowed Moscow to maintain a degree of deniability.
Prigozhin’s company was called Wagner after the nickname of its first commander, Dmitry Utkin, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian military’s special forces. It soon established a reputation for its extreme brutality and ruthlessness.

Wagner personnel also deployed to Syria, where Russia supported President Bashar Assad’s government in a civil war. In Libya, they fought alongside forces of commander Khalifa Hifter. The group has also operated in the Central African Republic and Mali.
Prigozhin has reportedly used Wagner’s deployment to Syria and African countries to secure lucrative mining contracts. U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January that the company was using its access to gold and other resources in Africa to fund its operations in Ukraine.
Some Russian media have alleged that Wagner was involved in the July 2018 killings of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic who were investigating the group’s activities. The slayings remain unsolved.

What is the group’s reputation?

Western countries and U.N. experts have accused Wagner mercenaries of committing human rights abuses throughout Africa, including in the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.
In December 2021, the European Union accused the group of “serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings,” and of carrying out “destabilizing activities” in the Central African Republic, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.
Video footage has surfaced that purported to show some of the activities that have contributed to Wagner’s fearsome reputation.
A 2017 video posted online showed a group of armed people, reported to be Wagner contractors, torturing a Syrian man, beating him to death with a sledgehammer and cutting his head before mutilating and burning his body. Russian authorities ignored requests by the media and rights activists to investigate.
In November 2022, another video showed a former Wagner contractor beaten to death with a sledgehammer after he allegedly fled to the Ukrainian side and was recaptured. Despite public outrage and demands for an investigation, the Kremlin turned a blind eye.

What is Wagner’s role in Ukraine?

Wagner has taken an increasingly visible role in the war in Ukraine as regular Russian troops have suffered heavy attrition and lost control over territory in humiliating setbacks.
Prigozhin claimed full credit in January for capturing the Donetsk region salt-mining town of Soledar and accused the Russian Defense Ministry of trying to steal Wagner’s glory. He has repeatedly complained that the Russian military failed to supply Wagner with sufficient ammunition to capture Bakhmut, the reason he cited Friday for his withdrawal threat.
Prigozhin has toured Russian prisons to recruit fighters, promising inmates pardons if they survived a half-year tour of front-line duty with Wagner.

The U.S. estimates Wagner has about 50,000 personnel fighting in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 of the convicts the company enlisted.
A U.S. official says nearly half of the 20,000 Russian forces killed in Ukraine since December have been Wagner’s troops in Bakhmut.
The U.S. assesses that Wagner is spending about $100 million a month in the fight .In December, the United States accused North Korea of supplying weapons, including rockets and missiles, to the Russian company in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Both Wagner and North Korea denied the reports.

How has Wagner’s leader criticized Russia’s military?

If the U.S. accusation is true, Wagner’s reach for North Korean weapons may reflect its long-running dispute with the Russian military leadership, which dates back to the company’s creation.
Troops purported to be Wagner contractors on the front line in Ukraine recorded a video in which they showered the chief of the Russian military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, with curses for the alleged failure to provide ammunition.
Prigozhin himself accuses top-ranking Russian military officers of incompetence. His frequent complaints are unprecedented for Russia’s tightly controlled political system, in which only Putin could air such criticism.
Prigozhin has increasingly raised his public profile, issuing daily messaging app statements to boast about Wagner’s purported victories, sardonically mock his enemies and make complaints about Russia’s military brass.

Asked recently about a media comparison of him with Grigory Rasputin, a mystic who gained fatal influence over Russia’s last czar by claiming to have the power to cure his son’s hemophilia, Prigozhin snapped: “I don’t stop blood, but I spill blood of the enemies of our Motherland.”

Will Wagner really withdraw from Bakhmut?

Yohann Michel, a research analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank, took Prigozhin’s threat with “a shovel of salt, at least, or maybe a truck.”
Michel said Prigozhin might want to regroup without being accused of retreating; he may worry about being fired for not taking the city and prefer to say he left on his own; or he could genuinely need more ammunition.
“The only thing I am taking seriously from that declaration is that Bakhmut is probably not ready to fall,” Michel, who is based in Berlin, said.
If Prigozhin did pull Wagner’s troops out of Bakhmut, it would have serious implications, according to Michel said.
“If he’s removed from the front line — except if Russia surprisingly has reserves that they did not want to use before — I think we can say it is the end of this phase of the offensive for Russia,” he said.


Source: PBSNEWS

NAMIBIA'S ACTOR OF THE FAMOUS

NXAU TOMA

Born: 16 December 1944, South West Africa

Died: 5 July 2003, Namibia

Spouse: Kora Coma (m. ?–2003)

Date of burial: 12 July 2003

Nationality: Namibian, South African

Other names: Nǃxau; Gǃkau; Gcao Tekene Çoma

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BIOGRAPHY

The humble Namibian, _San Nxau Toma_ starred in the South African blockbuster "The God's must be crazy" in 1980 and1989 sequel and was paid a mere 300 USD for a movie that grossed over 60 Million USD made with a budget of 5 Million USD. Nxau was paid less for his first role but after discovering the value of money he negotiated a value of 50 thousand USD for his second sequel, arguably still a small amount compared to what the movie made.

The movie was short in Eastern Cape South Africa with *Namibia🇳🇦* and *South African 🇿🇦* actors, but was about *Botswana 🇧🇼*.

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Nǃxau was a member of the San, also known as Bushmen.
He spoke Juǀʼhoan, Otjiherero and Tswana fluently, as well as some Afrikaans. He did not know his own exact age, and before his appearance in the films he had little experience beyond his home. He had only ever seen three white people before being cast, and when director ,Jamie Uys* gave him his first cash payment of $300 for The Gods Must Be Crazy, he allegedly let it blow away in the wind because he did not understand its value.
(This was despite money already being a serious matter for other San, since many of them depended on purchased food and government aid and/or had enlisted in the South African Army due to the high wages it paid.)
He was, however, able to negotiate for near $500,000 for his appearance in the sequel.

He came from a culture that did not value the material things that money could buy and consequently had not learned money management skills, although he used some of his income to build a brick house with running water and electricity for his family. He also bought a used car and subsequently hired a chauffeur, as he had no desire to learn to drive

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Nǃxau converted to Christianity and in July 2000, he was baptized as a Seventh-day Adventist.
On 5 July 2003, he died from multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis while he was out on an excursion for hunting guineafowl. According to official estimates he was about 58 or 59 years old at the time. He was buried on 12 July in a semi-traditional ceremony at Tsumkwe, next to the grave of his second wife. He had six surviving children.

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LESSON TO LEARN 

The main actor of "The Gods Must Be Crazy", N!xau Toma, was only paid $300, even though the film produced in 1980 made over $60 million. He died a poor wretched bushman despite making millions of dollars for other people. He was hugely exploited at the negoting table. In fact, he was merely told what was negotiated and he accepted with happiness. Africans have always been exploited.

The film is basically about the conflict between the new order and the old epoch: The Namibian tribal people in a remote African desert live a happy life, but it is all torn to pieces when a Coca-Cola bottle falls from a plane.The confusion and myth surrounding the strange object disorganized the bushmen as they made efforts to unravel the mystery object.

He died on 5th July 2003 after a bout with tuberculosis at the age of 59. He died a poor man because he was not only exploited but he lacked the necessary skills to even realised that he was exploited. He equall

CONCLUSION: YOU WILL ALWAYS BE CHEATED IF YOU NEGOTIATE FROM A WEAK POSITION

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