By Efe Omordia – There is a saying here that goes thus “a new wife should be realistic enough to know that the cane which was used to thrash the old wife, will eventually be used on her” As sexist and as retrogressive as that sounds, it makes sense if you relate it to past and current happenings in the world. What goes around always finds a way to come around. It often happens in a way that defies logic. Hitler, for example, was at the height of power when he crashed like a pack of cards. Idi Amin held... Continue Reading
By OMORDIA EFE – Promises do not count for much except they get fulfilled so it could be annoying for one to listen to the same promises that were made donkey years ago being repeated in a sing-song like manner by successive governments or more specifically by successive political aspirants. The lyric remains the same ‘if you vote for me, I would provide water, light, improved infrastructure’ blah blah blah! Can’t these people (if they have nothing else to offer) be at least innovative in their proclamations? What beats the imagination is that quite a number of the electorate fall... Continue Reading
By Omordia Efe – In the past, Banking activities were conducted in a rudimentary manner but thanks to technology, things have improved. Customers no longer have to take numbers or wait endlessly on queues to be called in to collect money. The computers make everything much faster and less complicated and besides, a walk by any customer to any Automated Teller Machine (ATM) does the trick. In less than five minutes, financial transactions are done. Over the years, however, bankers in Nigeria are still being poorly treated. Though, their employers have automated the machines, they unfortunately have additionally succeeded in... Continue Reading
By Omordia Efe – It is easier to do what everyone else is doing. To be different means having to stand out and not so many people have to guts to be in their own skin, warts and all but for those that have been abused, threatened, insulted, scorned etc, that looked beyond the now and concentrated on something bigger than that moment and even themselves, they have become pacesetters and trend setters in their endeavors. Sadly, our society is populated by individuals who thrive on the opinions of others. They act in conformity with the biases of the generality... Continue Reading
By Omordia Efe – I was just looking at footage of the ruins in Japan after the recent earthquake and something struck me; it looked like the environment of a typical Nigerian/West African Neighborhood where heaps of debris is as commonplace as the incompetence of the ruling class. For the Japanese, it is devastating to see their normally decent environment looking like something the cat dragged in but if such a devastation were to occur in the most populous black nation, the indigenes would probably shrug their shoulders and go about their normal business of chasing after the often elusive... Continue Reading
