{"id":3494,"date":"2013-11-22T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spontaneousdevelopment.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2013-11-22T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T10:28:45","slug":"are-those-who-do-bad-things-from-outer-space-or-from-amongst-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/are-those-who-do-bad-things-from-outer-space-or-from-amongst-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Those Who Do Bad Things, From Outer Space...Or From Amongst Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Update 22nd Nov. 2013 @ 11.28: PDF download link to FULL write-up now added!]<\/strong> Everyday I read comments and posts on social media by smart thinking, well educated Nigerians who live in the country, and elsewhere. 99% of the time they seem to be lamenting another gory news item served to them by their trust sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very often, it\u2019s about some naughty act committed by a politician or two.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But probably just as frequently, there\u2019s news about a sadistic act committed by one citizen against another e.g. abduction of aged persons, or children by kidnappers; use of human beings for money making sacrifices; a teenage child smashing an object on his fathers head\u2019 inadvertently killing him, a pastor sleeping with his girl-child.<\/p>\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These smart people ask \u201cWhy? They also ask \u201cWhen is it all going to end?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This PDF report is my contribution to that discourse. I tried posting a contribution to a friend\u2019s recent post on the above theme \u2013 and soon saw I had almost 960 words! So, in light of my resolve stated above, it\u2019s morphed from a Facebook comment into <a href=\"http:\/\/spontaneousdevelopment.com\/uploads\/ideas-make-nigeria-better4.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this PDF paper<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spontaneousdevelopment.com\/uploads\/ideas-make-nigeria-better4.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3493\" alt=\"\u201cAre Those Who Do Bad Things, From Outer Space...Or From Amongst Us? (IDEAS for Making Nigeria Better) \u2013 By Tayo K. Solagbade\" src=\"http:\/\/spontaneousdevelopment.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ideas-nigeria4.jpg\" width=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ideas-nigeria4.jpg 852w, http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ideas-nigeria4-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ideas-nigeria4-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update 22nd Nov. 2013 @ 11.28: PDF download link to FULL write-up now added!] Everyday I read comments and posts on social media by smart thinking, well educated Nigerians who live in the country, and elsewhere. 99% of the time they seem to be lamenting another gory news item served to them by their trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,814,87],"tags":[886,887,866],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-my-ideas-for-making-nigeria-better","category-parenting","tag-are-those-who-do-bad-things","tag-from-outer-space-or-from-amongst-us","tag-ideas-for-making-nigeria-better"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5561,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}