Bonne annee folks
You'd wonder what's with the sudden affection for the french language in my first post of the year, right?
Well, na so we see am.
Up until yesterday, the only interest I had in France was for tourism and maybe their famous cuisine.
But yesterday increased my interest. 
For those that do not know yet, there was a terrorist attack on the office of a french Magazine - Charlie Hebdo that resulted in the death of 12 people yesterday .
Prior to this attack, I wasn't aware of the existence of this satirical magazine.
However, thanks to these extremists, the whole world knows about them and the hash tag #JeSuisCharlie has gone viral! 
People have died, lives have been lost, but the pen will remain!
Bombs will blast, guns will be shot, but the pen will always be stronger than the sword.
History has taught that the harder you try to silence a people, the more resounding the voices become!
Let the cowards beware, cause the blood they have shed will become the indelible ink upon the sheets of our heart.
Our voices will be heard, our inks will not fade, our fingers will keep typing, our brushes will keep painting till our message is heard.
I stand for peace, I stand for tolerance, I stand for freedom of expression.
I may not like what you have to say, but I support the fact that you can say it anyway! |
Thursday, 8 January 2015
#JeSuisCharlie
Thursday, 25 December 2014
255 days on the 25th
Merry Christmas everyone!
Today 25th of December, we celebrate the Best Gift Humanity ever received, Christ Jesus my Lord.
We will go ahead to eat and be merry and transiently forget our worries . We will cast our cares for a few moments in order to enjoy the bounty laid before us.
Today 25th of December marks the 255th day since our Chibok girls were abducted.
Their families and friends would also prepare to celebrate this season amidst tears and hope, questions and queries.
Today 25th of December, I urge us all to celebrate and be glad, yet not cast off all our worries.
Our sisters are still missing, let's not forget their plight in the midst of the merriment.
Merry Christmas Nigeria!
Monday, 22 December 2014
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Twice today I have been asked ' why are you downcast?" and twice I wondered what changed my countenance.
I had a great weekend no doubt! Fun filled like I planned, and looked forward to activating my work mode.
Unfortunately, I was greeted by the news of a recent video released by Boko Haram which showed them slaughtering 'infidels and non believers'.
To add salt and pepper to my freshly bruised mood, I got to work hoping that JOHESU would have resuscitated the hospital which they paralysed, but alas, as it has been in the last 2 weeks, the JOHESU staff were available but doing nothing!
They came to sign attendance yet they refused to retrieve medical records of patients, open consulting offices or give me something as simple as a sphygmomanometer to check my patient's blood pressure!
Yet at the end of the month, they would expect to be paid afterall, they have evidence that they came to work! ( #no work no pay my foot!)
I soon realised that the state of the nation gave me little to be merry about in this merry season! But I refuse to let the state of the nation determine the state of my mind! Never!
Afterall, I am of the common wealth of Zion and I walk by faith and not by sight!
Be not downcast my soul! Rejoice in the Lord and be glad! For He is thy shield and exceeding great reward!
He makes me lie down in green pastures, he satisfies my soul and crowns my year with His bounty!
A thousand may fall by my right hand and ten thousand by my left, it shall not come near me!
Even in famine I shall be satisfied!
I bask in his love,
I receive his love daily,
I am his pet and Nigeria can't change these truths!
So if like me, you find yourself feeling sad or down trodden, remind yourselves of the truths, don't let the devil steak the joy of this season and everyday from you!
In the Words of King David :
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
For I will yet praise him,
My Savior and My God.
(Psalms 42 : 5 and 11 ,and 43 :5)
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
6000th view, thanks to you!
Wow!
Guess what guys, I hit my 6000th page view today with my 66th post in my 6th month as a blogger!
Thank you all for opening my links, reading my posts and commenting both here and personally!
Thank you for keeping tabs on me when I went MIA!
Thanks Bolu and Toba my esteemed Editors!
Thank you all for listening and reading!
Whoop whoop!
Guess what guys, I hit my 6000th page view today with my 66th post in my 6th month as a blogger!
Thank you all for opening my links, reading my posts and commenting both here and personally!
Thank you for keeping tabs on me when I went MIA!
Thanks Bolu and Toba my esteemed Editors!
Thank you all for listening and reading!
Whoop whoop!
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The Nigerian Default Mode
Hi fellows.
It has been a while I posted here.
It's not that I have been oblivious of the happenings around me, no; it's just that I find myself tuning towards the default mode of most Nigerians: ' that's Nigeria for you'.
Over the past few days, I have heard conversation after conversation about how awkward the Nigerian situation is with most of these discussions ending in phrases like: May God help us, Na wa for Nigeria, that's just Nigeria for you, there's nothing we can do etc.
I realise that it is convenient to take this stand and just believe that the system can't be improved, but the truth is this belief will cause our already sorry state to degenerate further.
The other day on one of the Rapid Transit Buses, I almost shut an elderly man up for spreading hopelessness and discouragement to every young person on board!
Instead, I put his age into consideration and respectfully told him that his generation has failed and if he won't encourage the younger generation, then he should please stop talking.
Here's my point: With all the craziness going on in the Nigerian system, it is easy to take the 'siddon look' approach and make ends meet enough to take care of yourself and your immediate family; that's what most of the older generation did. We can't afford to do that! Not at this point of the Nigerian History. Time will tell, our Children will ask. And like I always say, God forbid that they also say to us that we failed their generation!
Let's start to act out our rantings!
Let our actions be the change we so passionately talk about.
Take a further step by being the change you wish to see.
It starts with you and I.
Over the past few days, I have heard conversation after conversation about how awkward the Nigerian situation is with most of these discussions ending in phrases like: May God help us, Na wa for Nigeria, that's just Nigeria for you, there's nothing we can do etc.
I realise that it is convenient to take this stand and just believe that the system can't be improved, but the truth is this belief will cause our already sorry state to degenerate further.
The other day on one of the Rapid Transit Buses, I almost shut an elderly man up for spreading hopelessness and discouragement to every young person on board!
Instead, I put his age into consideration and respectfully told him that his generation has failed and if he won't encourage the younger generation, then he should please stop talking.
Here's my point: With all the craziness going on in the Nigerian system, it is easy to take the 'siddon look' approach and make ends meet enough to take care of yourself and your immediate family; that's what most of the older generation did. We can't afford to do that! Not at this point of the Nigerian History. Time will tell, our Children will ask. And like I always say, God forbid that they also say to us that we failed their generation!
Let's start to act out our rantings!
Let our actions be the change we so passionately talk about.
Take a further step by being the change you wish to see.
It starts with you and I.
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Insanity in the corridors of power 2
Honourable (ˈɒnərəbəl; ˈɒnrəbəl) or Honorable
adj 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the Honourable(prenominal) a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world
Whenever I behold the actions of some of our lawmakers, I just assume that they do not understand some things.
They simply do not know what it means to be an honourable. And that is why I have decided to look up the meaning of this title to ensure that its original meaning has not changed!
A title of respect!
To be honourable means to be of high esteem. Not the same as pride, but very similar to being graceful and pious. 
Over the few years of our democracy, we have witnessed recurrently, disgraceful and shameful actions from our honourables, both at the National and State levels; not just in terms of misinterpreting the law to suit their selfish purposes but also in their physical actions and reactions.
It's no longer news that Hon Melaye and some others were almost stripped naked in the hallowed chambers, neither is it strange to watch honourables assault themselves with whatever they can lay their hands on, even if it's the mace.
  The chaos that ensues in the name of debates and the pitiful exchange of words and insults that fly around in the hallowed chambers make me wonder if hallowed has been redefined in the dictionary!
The recent fitness drill and show of acrobatic skills showcased by some of our lawmakers is just unbelievable! My jaws refused to come together as I watched them perform! D banj couldn't have given a more captivating show than what we saw on Thursday!
One thing I always ask is this, ' how will they look into the eyes of their kids and tell them to act honourably?'
Politics in Nigeria has become a pitiable show of shame and lack of integrity!
Only God knows what else we'll see in the corridors of power!
I can't even guess, cause no where in this world would I have guessed that Nigerian Honourables would scale the gates of the compound to gain access into the legislative chambers! No I didn't see that coming. No one did! |
Friday, 21 November 2014
Insanity in the Corridors of power 1
Today, I shall start my soliloquy by borrowing the words of the renowned Brainiac Albert Einstein who defined Insanity as
" doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results";
because saying outright that our government might be insane would appear insulting albeit factual.
The presidency and Committee on Security matters have approved an extension of the State of Emergency Rule in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states for the 3rd time in a row!
This is the first time a particular region of this country would be in a perpetual state of emergency for so long!
The simple logic is that if a particular method isn't effective, change to something else.
Persistence and loyalty to a school of thought isn't the way forward when lives are being wasted everyday.
No.
Trying whatever will work should be the approach of our government. 
From the look of things, it appears that while the citizens of these states are restricted in their land, the intruders, the insurgents have an unrestrained access to loot, plunder and devour the inhabitants of the land.
My questions are these:
1. Are there no other methods apart from declaring a state of emergency?
2. If after so long, the state of emergency hasn't restricted or curtailed the operations of Boko Haram, what miracle will happen now? 3. What happened to all the foreign support we were promised by the First world countries?
If the presidency wants an extension of this rule, then I assume there must be a change in the strategy and plans of our armed forces.
I assume that there is a sure and better way they have devised that cannot be implemented without a State of Emergency.
If not, then I might be forced to agree with those who think that a routine psychiatric evaluation is a mandatory exercise for all our National leaders, afterall, only a mad man will do the same thing the same way and expect a different result.
No be me talk am, Na Einstein say so.
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