30 December, 2010

God Abeg o...

The Carnage in Jos, Nigeria.

From time to time, we hear of people dying and we grieve especially if it was someone we knew who had lived a good life.
All over Nigeria, I am yet to see a group of people who do not grieve at the passing of a loved one. People who die are buried amid tears and soon afterwards, there is a feast and merry-making for everybody.

The Jos sectarian crisis has been played out by the International Media organisations to be a fallout between Christian and Muslim groups in the state.
They have no problem referring to Nigeria as the Muslim North and the Christian South. What can be farther from the truth??
People who just got sucked into the fight are as well propagating the lie that the crisis is between the Christians and the Muslims.
While I do not dispute that both groups are attacking and carrying out reprisal attacks on each other, great care should be made to diffuse the current crisis and get to the root of the problem in Jos.
The latest killings are condemnable, abominable and people who carried out the carnage should be made to die in a burning pit.

Some have dubbed the crisis political while a supposed Islamic group has taken responsibilty for the latest wave of killings.
Whatever the reasons adduced by any group, a fact of life remains that HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

The media will not be awash with the most gory pictures understandably and some social sites that published uncensored pictures have taken them down. Pictures of people dying and being buried in a vague manner is what you will see in the local and international media.
What I saw happened in Jos is beyond words. Human beings roasted like Sallah rams with their intestines out in the open well done. God Abeg o...

I am out of words to describe the details of what I saw.

God should not be a pretext to genocide. Religious homogeneity does not in anyway guarantee the peace and stability of a society.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria is constitutionally a secular society and any attempts by any social, cultural, political or religious group to advance its interests in any way detrimental to the country should be dealt with appropriately in accordance with the rule of Law.

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria as long as we the People decide to live amicably and eschew acts that questions our collective sanity.

21 December, 2010

Silent Night by Tosin Martins

Xmas is here and this song is banging si mi leti...Ability pass ability...QED

13 December, 2010

Beyonce Listen - Lady Marmalade - High Quality - America's Got Talent ?-...

I heard her 1 min rehearsal and then I was priviledged to hear her sing for the judges...SUPER!!!

01 December, 2010

Odun n lo sopin

O ti to ijo meta ti mo tin ronu arojinle lori Pataki at maa se asaro ni ede abinibi mi.
Ti mo ba ma je omo Yoruba rere, mo ma wipe Yoruba ni ede abinibi mi. Amo sa, eede Geesi ni afi to mi dagba. Eede geesi ni awon Oluko mi ile-iwe alakobere ati ile iwe giga lo lati fi ko wa ni eko ti o ye koo ro. Igbamiran ewe, ti mo ba roo sa, o jo pe eede Geesi ni ede abinibi mi.

Asaro mi je yo lati inu ibeere leyin ibeere ti awon alawo funfun ma beere wipe bawo ni awa alawo dudu omo Nigeria se mo oyinbo so paapa julo awon alawo funfun to sese nko eede geesi. Mi o lero sipe eyin oluka mi ko ni se alaimo nkan ti mo n so.

Leyin atotunu wipe eya bi ogorun meji le ni aadota lon be ni orile eede mi, o ma n se bi eni pe won a mi ri, sugbon alaye mi o ye won to be je be.

Eni ni ojo kini, osu kejila odun 2010. Nipari osu yi, odun yi a tun dopin niyen. Asiko odun yi ni oluwa re ma n ro nu pe kini mo ti fi igbesi aye mi se ninu odun to koja yi. Kini mo fe fi igbesi aye mi se ninu odun to n bo. Ojo ori mi ma n le si…mi o gbodo wa lee le laarin awon egbe mi…iru eero ti o maa ma dalu ara won niyen ninu okan oluwa re niyen.

Ninu odun yi, orisirisi nkan lo ti sele ninu igbesi aye mi ati t’orile ede mi. Lara awon nkan ti mo ti ko ni wipe o dun lati bu enu ate lu elomiran wipe won see daada to amo sa ki ni Oluwa re na ti gbe se ti a fi wa sope o lenu ati soro.
Eni ti o ba ti de ipo alase ko le mo iru ina ti o n koju awon ti o wa ni lori oye.

Orile ede mi Nigeria o ni laelae yi pada. Ko si ilu ibomiran ti mo le so pe mo ti wa ju ikan yen na ti mo ni lo.
Olorun a tun bo ma bukun orile ede mi, awon omo Nigeria rere, awaon ebi, ore mi ati ojulumo mi. Ki Olorun bukun fun gbogbo wa o. Amin.

21 October, 2010

Marianne Williamson (1996)

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

20 October, 2010

Impatience...17/08/09

Yesterday evening on the bus from Ibadan, something bizarre happened.
I had gone to visit Grandma and soon afterwards to Kush’s place. From there, we went on to Sir K’s place in the Eleyele-Ringroad axis area of Ibadan. I met some of my egbons that I had not seen in a while.

I boarded bus from the site of the old toll gate and there was a pregnant woman on board as well.

Barely 5 mins into the journey, the driver stopped the bus for her to urinate. About 20mins into the journey, she started contracting…

Trust my naija people, various suggestions from the different passengers. While some wanted her to seek medical attention at Oke-ogun, others suggested Sagamu or Mowe-Ibafo.

She alongside her husband just wanted to get to Lagos. We got to Oke-ogun close to Sagamu but there was no hospital in sight.

Driver, speed up and let us get to Berger as fast as possible and she would be able to get adequate medical attention there. That was the consensus that the passengers reached.

Just before we got to Ibafo, she started contracting seriously and there was this kind old woman attending to her.

The next minute, still in the moving 18-seater bus, I heard the sound of a baby. I tried to fight the realization that a baby had been born.

Indeed, a baby girl had just been born.

We got to Ibafo about 5 minutes later and we went looking for a new packet of blade for the old woman to sever the umbilical cord.
We continued our journey to Lagos about 25mins later.
The woman and her male companion alighted at Berger and seconds later were lost into the receding Berger night lights.

I caught a glimpse of the impatient baby girl and as I write this, I really think she should be christened Impatience.

03 March, 2010

Yaradua 101: How Not To Be a President.


President Umaru Yaradua has been described by different people as a very gentle, unassuming, down-to-earth man with a very large heart.
However, He is still in a race against time not to go down in history as the worst President, the Federal Republic of Nigeria has ever had.
A President is supposed to have a sound body and presence of mind. S/He is someone who should be able to make split-second decisions in the best interest of his wards.
Oftentimes, prospective candidates jostling for the Presidency of a Club, Society or Country have chosen prospective Vice-Presidents based on derivable bloc of votes they can get from people perceived to be different. Prospective Vice-Presidents are often docile and are supposed to be easily manipulated.
Presidents most times do not trust their Vice-Presidents and oftentimes fear they are going to be overshadowed if they give their Vice-Presidents a free hand to operate.
Below are some tips on how not to be a President.
1. Yaradua is an adult. Nobody made up his mind to run with Goodluck Jonathan on the same ticket. If He didn’t think Goodluck was capable to step into the shoes of the President at anytime, He shouldn’t have run on the same ticket with him.
Lesson 1: Be a man of yourself. Don’t be misled into taking a decision that you cannot defend or stand up for.
2. Yaradua could have shopped for a VP he could trust with the Presidency if the need arises. Jonathan was not the only southerner that He could have paired with according to the arrangement of the PDP.
Lesson 2: Trust your VP/Deputy wholeheartedly.
3. Yaradua should never have promised what He couldn’t deliver on. Yaradua promised Nigerians ‘rule of law’. His actions/inactions have pushed the country into a constitutional crisis.
As an apostle of the supremacy of the law, albeit the constitution, He failed woefully.
Lesson 3: You don’t preach something and do something else or act unconcerned when what you stand for is being rubbished by your aides.
4. As the president, the buck stops at Yaradua’s table. No flip flops. Indecisiveness is one of the hallmarks of the Yaradua administration.
Lesson 4: As a leader, the buck stops at your table. You can delegate authority to your aides but you take responsibility for whatever they do.
5. When Yaradua’s sickness became more apparent, he could have relinquished power to his deputy, long before his condition deteriorated to the abysmal level where he wasn’t in control of himself again. A little more faith and respect for his deputy would have forced his overbearing aides to respect Goodluck as well.
Lesson 5: Know when to quit when the ovation is loudest. Yaradua’s success handling the Niger-Delta Amnesty package was already endearing him to Nigerians again.

6. Politics has elements of show Business. A President in a democratic dispensation must always be visible, for in him, the state is embodied. There should be information flow about the President at all times. There has to be a real interface with the people. Yaradua was virtually inaccessible to People during his spell as a functional President and totally inaccessible when He became incapacitated.
Lesson 6: AS a President, never be inaccessible to people who voted you into power.

14 January, 2010

Calling on my President on behalf of Haiti…


A few minutes ago, I had to put off the television. I just couldn’t watch the suffering of my fellow human compatriots in Haiti.
I come from South West Nigeria. In all the major cities that I have been to in South Western Nigeria, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Lagos, Osogbo, etc., I know there are a lot of skilled artisans who can effectively handle heavy machinery for buiding purposes.
Every morning including Saturdays and Sundays, I see most of these men and women around major motor parks or in some cases at designated places where contractors who need their services go to meet them in the morning and negotiate for their services.
These men and women run into thousands and possibly millions.
In 48 hours from now, enough machinery and men could be scored from the nooks and crannies of Nigeria. Each state government could be given the task of getting 20men, a total of 720 men ready to move to Haiti to assist in the ongoing Rescue Operation going on in the devastated country.
The Nigerian Army I believe should have the capability to mobilize up to a thousand men to join other security forces in maintaining peace and order in Haiti if the need arises.
What Haiti needs most right now is machinery and workers who can operate them. Nigeria has both in abundance.
With all due respect Mr. President Yaradua and Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan and all Nigerian State Governors, this is a window of opportunity to redeem the image of Nigeria that has been soiled in the comity of nations. Act now before this window slips away.
Haiti needs us!