Month: January 2013

You know how we have the laws of The Ten Commandments; thou shall not kill, thou shall not steal, look not upon thine neighbour’s wife’s backside, etc… We also have the laws of The Common Law system that we practise in Nigeria; thou shall not kill unless ye have a convoy, thou shall not steal except ye hold a public office, etc… But then, who made all the other laws that we live by? Who decided what is acceptable or unacceptable in our various societies? Even after many years, I’m still asking; who invented school and made me go??? We…

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I first heard about the Dana Air crash on Facebook, several hours after it happened. As usual, people were eager to be the first to break the news and the number of updates made it difficult to hope and pray that it was a false rumour. Our local news channels were not covering the story so, with deep shame, I checked the Yahoo website and that was where I first saw pictures and at least got some sort of story, albeit a sketchy one. It’s hard to believe now that that was just seven months ago. It feels much longer…

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Happy New Year!!!! I’m not sure if people still make New Year resolutions anymore… there’s really no point is there? By the middle of February, you’ll be back to your old ways: back to eating like a pig and not working out, back to being your ex-boyfriend’s booty-call, back to spending money on stuff you truly cannot afford… Nevertheless, that shouldn’t stop us from making an effort to better ourselves in any way we can, right? At times, we make New Year resolutions in the middle of the year. Something happens in our lives that pushes us to make certain changes in…

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