Truths and Deeds!

Kator was close to tears while struggling to hold at bay his little's brother's fists, and had to smack the mischievous boy hard on the head. A loud cry issued. Their mother was in her sleepinhg quarters when the fight began. Long before morning, dawn had found her working on some work related documents and then house chores. She was tired and needed to rest for a while. Her sons' refusal to reconcile their childish charad lent her no relief. "Why should you two spoil the peace in this house ehn." She said, walking into the sitting room where Wange's angry voice kept its volume up. "Wange Cii zwa la!" "I wanted to sleep on the long chair but Wange won't let me. I told him to leave me alone and he started to fight me." Kator attempted to explain "Its a lie Mummy, i wanted to sleep there first." "Let me hear anymore noise from you two again. We will see if this house will contain all of us." This quelled them for

Years ago, I erected a brick wall and ran head first into it. Experience they say; is the best teacher and often people are not even aware they are headed for a complete dead-end until they smack right into it as was the case with me. It began when I was given an opportunity to further my undergraduate programme, at the time, I was too immature to truly comprehend what that opportunity meant so I down played its significance. The implication of this blind move on my part was that I lost all bearing of what I was supposed to do, soon afterwards, including my obligation to my family and to other people who were willing to encourage my personal development. I realized too late that I needed to get back on track and started to run all over the place in search of a way to correct my mistake. Then too, I made the biggest mistake of my life by persuading myself to attempt this alone. And to conceal my act I gave off the impression that all was good. Although I met a few influential people w

The situation in Nigeria today is one that requires thinking outside the box for solutions. The approach to prevailing over the obvious challenges has to be diiferent enough to be effective. The dominant issues in Nigeria at present includes, but not limited to Crude Oil refining and related issues, Corruption and loot recovery, Power generation and consumption among others. There is a way to approach these issues. When conventional methods are slow to yield immediate results, the unconventional methods can be considered so long as the primary object is reached. On Crude Oil refining, but for the fact that Nigerian Refineries are not fully operational there is scarcity of petroleum products, a scenerio that has greatly affected the entire Nigerian state hence the strong dependence on Independent Oil Marketers who in turn have to import before the same is distributed country-wide and at high rates. The situation could have been remedied if the illegal local refineries that were

Climate change has always been a challenge requiring a constructive finance channelling. However, for rural communities in Nigeria and many parts of sub-sahara Africa nothing concrete has happened. The awareness is zero effective and it is as if the danger has passed, if anything, climate change is rather building up where appropriate measures are not taken. Even still the population in the urban settlements hardly ever make any reference to climate change and global warming, this has become a constant worry. If this is the case, imagine how ineffective the awareness in the rural areas is. In a world where we (young people) dominate, we must play our part in the campaign for a green world regardless of which part of Africa we come from. We must pay attention and stop taking climate change as a joke. Groups and individuals alike must be involved in the campaign for a safe, clean world. Our governments should create a platform that will allow them time to ease into educating the Niger