How to reBuild a Nation (part 3) Defining our National Standard is the starting point of the planning stage. What is the barest minimum a Nigerian should have access to in Health, Education, Housing, Food, Power Supply, Transportation and Communication? What is the barest level of religious tolerance acceptable? When we know what our standards […]
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How to reBuild a Nation (Part 2)
Defining a National Vision can be quite a feat, you know? We all come from different places. While a man raised in Lagos may dream of having a country having facilities that rival and/or surpass Disneyland, the O2 Arena, Old Trafford, the Sydney Opera House and the Burj Al-Arab; the man from deep in […]
How to reBuild a Nation
So our nation has been destroyed by the faulty foundation our well-intentioned heroes past laid for us. We could spend thousands of pages analysing who said what or who did what and who should have done what and did not…and miss the point. Our Fathers built a magnificient high-rising structure on a foundation that was […]
Diary of a confused schoolgirl
We had to talk. We badly needed to. I’m talking about that let’s-get-real-with-eachother, no-holds-barred, put-all-the-cards-on-the-big-round-table kinda talk. God and me, we had serious issues to iron out. Let me start from the beginning. You see, I came into university with pride as high as an acme. I was one you could call a boss, especially […]
Dear Mr American Soldier
WARNING: there’s a gory image in this post. Please Keep reading only if you’re sure you can handle it. Thanks! My reality is shifting. Years ago as 10-year-olds playing in the sand, when we thought about the United States of America, we pictured it as a land flowing with milk and honey. It was […]
killing Death
Death is one of the most normal things in life- in fact; it is the opposite of death. Life would be meaningless if death does not exist to terminate it; life would have no value if it isn’t measured in death. It is a surprise that death surprises us. Maybe it’s the fact that we […]
Hollow Lie
If Death is a void of hollow nothingness then grief is meaningless, for the departed have gone to rest we do not weep for the ones who have gone we weep for ourselves for we still have to struggle for our pittance If death is a supernova of resplendent light then grief is pointless we […]
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