Truths and Deeds!

When he stepped out into the streets, they converged around him like Vultures swooping over their prey. The sun had sunk into the horizon an hour earlier; but the women kept vigil by the Senatorial Seat – seeking out-going Governor. If he could not perform in eight years, what exactly was he going to the National Assembly for? I wondered to myself. After hours under the sun, they stayed, and were now pouring accolades on this politician who cared less for their well being. The Governorship primaries scheduled during the day, and for which school children were told to stay home, had been cancelled. The overblown budget, weeks of planning and manpower went to waste because the leadership of the party was prevailed upon, for whatever selfish agenda, by a faceless cabal. The plight of the people, a section of which have elected to become unpaid praise singers, and who cued, to cast their votes, in a process that was anything but free and fair, meant nothing, like every other pol

Greeting Style A new way of greeting has suddenly found its way into the Nigeria English vocabulary. Aside from the everyday greetings, we now have 'well-done.' A term used in complementing someone for something done. Curiously, the term has assumed a new meaning and nowadays it has become a trend to see people on the street and tell them well-done. A total stranger may pass by your home and instead of saluting you in respect to the time of day, will confidently tell you 'well-done' without thinking twice about the true application of the word at all. 50 Year Old Youth Leader Unlike in other countries where youth leaders are themselves young people, this is hardly true of Nigeria where an amusing situation, but with a daring implication has developed. The older generation of politicians of recent era have changed the rules to fit their selfish agenda, and by so doing have pushed the younger crop of people further away from representative roles to install themselves w