RANDOM THOTS

Incredible life We go through life automatically everyday without thinking about how we sleep or wake up. Also we just say prayers automatically without giving it a thought. I once participated in an exercise where we were asked to time the exact moment we fell asleep, but alas !I can tell you that nobody could get the exact time! That exercise brought to my mind how this world we live in is nothing because on the long run every thing that happens we really cannot say this is how it really is, I seriously do not care much for scientific explanations "tongue out". The long and short of this is, this life is not explanable, it's to short and not so big. If you want to enjoy it, this is what you do: 1. Stop and smell the flowers once in a while 2. Go for Monthly or Quaterly medical check ups 3. Fall in love and enjoy it 4. Make love and kiss a lot 5. Quarrel less and make friends 6. Value your family and loved ones 7. Above all believe and love God your creator an...

RMG, the artiste management/record label that handles Munachi Abii, have released a statement in reaction to the viral video where Muna is seen to be arguing with Mode 9 during the final of ‘Nokia Don’t Break The Beat” Competition’. Muna is seen to oppose Mode 9′s verdict on TKO, one of the contestants and she makes her point boldly and emphatically. Mode 9 doesn’t take it lightly and repeats severally to Muna that he is an experienced hip hop head and that is why he is the chief judge on the reality show. The former MBGN however kept telling him to pass the microphone. The issue has been the subject of varying reactions on blogs and social media, since the video from Nigezie found its way onto the Internet. Now her management company has released a statement which reads: “To Whom It May Concern. It has come to my attention that the unfortunate incident that occurred at the Nokia “Don’t Break The Beat” competition on Saturday the 28th of April 2012, where RMG artiste Muna w...

January 9 th dawned on Nigeria as a day to remember. It was the day Nigerians decided to stand up to the government of the day in move known as #Occupy Nigeria. From Lagos to Ibadan down to kogi up to Abuja, Nigeria was occupied with protest led by the organized labor and the civil society groups. This protest was an offshoot from the government’s decision to end “subsidy” on fuel on the 1 st of January, 2012, there by increasing the price of PMS to N141. This decision by the government did not go down well with the people who felt that the “subsidy” was the only dividend they enjoyed from the only natural resource in Nigeria being utilized by the government. The Governments excuse is that it is losing money daily and that the country cannot afford to continue with the business of subsidization because it has so much projects to complete in the coming months which the funds formerly used for subsidizing would be used for. There is also the issue of deregulation of the down str...

After work yesterday, I had to do some sort of sober reflection on Nigeria’s nascent democracy; I call it nascent because we are still growing and not yet close to the proverbial Promised Land. I realized that besides the fall outs from the June 12 elections, nothing has ever elicited such a collective and emphatic stance from Nigerians as the removal of fuel subsidy right from 1960 up to this moment though I stand to be corrected. So, in my own little quiet zone, being not such a great fan of Nigerian politics due to many factors that has culminated in giving me a liberal standpoint politically, I decided that for the couple of days to come, I would be taking a look at some of the issues that has led to this rather unfortunate milestone in our political journey and how such future occurrences could easily be averted, though it would not be rigidly limited to just the removal of fuel subsidy. For me, I believe it’s high time our democratic ‘rulers’ ( I call them rulers because leaders ...