Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from October, 2012

6 Year Today

                   Six Years Today I Started Blogging. Thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts, views and  perceptions  and to freely write a bit about the real  me.

Dark Day

Since the cold blooded killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria by some members of a community called Aluu, close to the University’s campus. I want to write cause  writing  sort of help me get things off my chest, but simply I don’t know where to start or what to say,…… reading the whole turn out of events with the 1st week in  October   left me gutted. Only last Tuesday 2 nd of October, I was watching the Aljazera news and surprisingly was seeing breaking news about Nigeria.  A significant number of students at a Polytechnic in Mubi, Adamawa state were shot and killed in a Night raid by what’s still being described as “unknown gun” men. I had only just struggled to not think about how sad, unfortunate and outrightly shocking this incident was.  Only to check timelines on twitter on Friday   the 5 th of October and saw the story of four students killed very gruesomely because it’s alleged they stole phone and lapt...

That Admirable Image of Nigeria

Nigerian students studying at a British University,  University of Huddersfield  always take every opportunity available to showcase and project an admirable image of its cultures and home country.  The Nigerian student society for the 2 nd  year in a roll, flamboyantly celebrated on 1 st  October 2012  the Independence Day on the University’s campus, and the local print media in Huddersfield even picked up on  the story.   http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2012/10/03/university-celebrates-nigerian-independence-day-86081-31952784/2/ Lets dig in  Green Blooded Nigerians! 9ja Boys! salute   Great 9ja food An Asian gentleman eating pounded yam, real cross culture  Cutting the Anniversary Cake  -  Standing Left to Right Moji Akande PhD researcher (Lancaster Uni ) Felicia Nwanosike PhD researcher (Uni of Huddersfield)  Dr. Oluma...