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 On a very cold October morning the 16th 2008 to be precise, I arrived the Manchester International airport and being in the UK for the very first time ever,I could not imagine it would be this cold especially not after leaving sunny and warm Lagos the previous night, but here I am, JJC ( Jonny Just Come) with my big green rucksacks, my tiny kappa winter jacket I bought from "Ikeja,under bridge" - no gloves,no head warmer just me and the blistering cold. Normally  I never describe myself as a "warri boy" even though I am Warri born and bred, in that town where everyone has some " fire burning in their belly " but this day I guess some of the "warri boy" blood naturally just kicked in, because I told myself,"no falling hand oh" in other words man up!. So, I grabbed my bags put some pep to my steps and worked out the door of the Manchester international airport terminal building, like I knew where I was going - the blast of cold air tha

Out of the lips of children and young people

A friend sent me this video above on WhatsApp , video is credited to (Venture Africa). incase you can't view it. It's a video of school kids giving their impression of the Government and how to make the country better Below was my response as we chatted [ Me , 1:23 PM]  It's unfortunate that we moved from a bad and a failing government, to one that seems not to know what it's doing for almost two years now. [ Me , 1:24 PM]  Whether President Buhari is sincere or not, is not the issue now but if we must be honest with ourselves, his style is more trial by error [ Me , 1:27 PM] Obviously Mr president or his political party, pre 2015 general elections over promised and post 2015 elections are now under delivering. No thanks to a suppressed oil price and the myriad of problems plaguing  Nigeria. However the sad part is this, when you promise people you raise their hopes, and this government not only promised they in my own opinion took promising into over dri