By Samuel Chamboko – Greetings and belated compliments of the new year. Here’s hoping we will all have a thoroughly enjoyable 2011. Like many exiles from the Northern side of the Limpopo, as customary every December, I made the trek North to enjoy the festive season with family and friends. Personally it was special in many ways, the most important being I was getting married (legally that is). So through the kaleidoscope of emotion and spiritual connectivity that I feel whenever I visit the country of origin, my arrival this time was pregnant with anxiety on one side and excitement... Continue Reading
By Omordia, Efe Alexandra – The year ended with Fireworks; not the usual kind but the kind that wasted so many lives filled with promise and expectations for the New Year. Nigeria has recorded many firsts in West Africa so maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody that the nation is now making headlines for housing religious extremists and heaven knows who else. Things are not so straightforward though. One wonders why these extremists have chosen the pre-election period to make a statement or is there something that we are missing. Are disgruntled politicians hiding under the religious... Continue Reading
By Omordia, Efe Alexandra – It is rare to come across individuals who take delight in living in an unpredictable environment where the state of uncertainty extends to the most mundane but unfortunately, some mothers do have them. In some places getting running water and constant electricity is a given but in some others it is a luxury; not that anybody is complaining. Why would anybody protest when the darkness that comes about from bad supply of electricity leads to a boom for the importer of generators? How would the individual who sells candle and lamps otherwise make a living... Continue Reading
By Omordia, Efe Alexandra – I was watching an end-of-year children’s party being hosted by the First Lady of Nigeria (addressed as Dame, Dr, Chief Jonathan lol) and something struck my mind, I realized that she was acting more like a street lady than a First Lady. For the most part, she was talking while the proceedings were going on and to make matters worse, when she was called to address the participants, as she walked towards the podium, she chewed noisily. She obviously doesn’t know better and one can say that she didn’t have time to learn considering the... Continue Reading
By Omordia, Efe Alexandra – In these parts, it is considered hip for an individual to arrive late for an event. Infact it is fashionable for one to walk into the venue at least two hours behind schedule. Woe betide that individual who makes the mistake of arriving thirty minutes early for a marriage ceremony or something similar, the individual is likely to end up helping the sound man and the event decorator put things in order. Religious gatherings have also become propagators not necessarily of the gospel but of the African Time Syndrome. On the pulpit the man of... Continue Reading
