“If the Sun ever goes dark, whatever
would happen to us?”
I experienced the eclipse of the sun
just once in my life and I vividly recall the questions that assailed my young
mind then. “What if the sun stops giving its light? We would have to go
everywhere with lamps”, I thought just as every child would. I did not have any
idea that if the sun ceases, life on earth cease also. The
A lot of people have crucified me
before, in fact I died on the cross. But I have resurrected again, see
I have many lives. But I'll reiterate for as long as my breath
endures: Nigeria certainly does not need a Hausa leader. Nor a Yoruba.
Abi Igbo. Abi Tiv.
Most adults look back over the course
of their life and have a sigh, not of fulfillment, or of some achievements of
greatness, but at their eluded childhood, the impunity of infancy and the lost
felicity of childhood, this cogitative regret is brought about when adults
measure their life on some kind of acid test and
She
is caring, she is peaceful, she is open, she is loved by many, she is full with
good, could be stubborn, but she is respectful, she is understandable because I
do understand her, she is intelligent, she
has this charisma you always hope to get in a lady.
As I moved my pen through paper to write this piece, there is a great
emotion burdened in my chest. It is a desire for what lacks; a woman
that is worth everything because she is all the heart craves.
Long ago, in the land called Dark, ants lived in anthills. There were various
colonies of ants, each living in their own anthill. There were dark and light
ants, green and yellow ants, big and small ants, desert and waterside
Ambling along on the vanity called life
Stumbling and rising in its abyss of strife
With no clue as to how to place our steps
Missing through each foolishly calculated plan
As an unlearned toddler in need of
The sheer weight of indignation and revulsion of most of Nigerian humanity at the recent Boko Haram atrocity in Yobe
is most likely to have overwhelmed a tiny footnote to that outrage,
small indeed, but of an inversely proportionate significance.
I believe in prayer, I believe in miracle, I believe in God
doing the exceptional, and of course I believe there's nothing God can't do.
But none of these my beliefs will work for me if