Nigerian's as a people have a way with the English Language, despite inventing our own brand called the Pidgin English, devoid of all the usual convention and restrictions of the Queen’s English language. I must confess that we still do quite well speaking the English Language which to us really is foreign. What never ceases to amaze me over the years growing up, is that with each challenge or situation in Nigeria a word or certain phrases just comes into use and then gets into over use after a while. For example, when Nigerian returned to civilian rule in 1999, a common word in the public domain that was used to describe its democracy was “our nascent democracy” it got so used and then it was abounded. It’s now 2011 and honestly our democracy is still nascent or should break it down and say embryonic/emerging/hopeful, but surprisingly you almost never hear the word NASCENT again. Reason why? It’s been wrongly overused.  On top of  It ! Currently playing it self out ...

Time: 3.00pm Date:5 /09/2011 Destination:  Port Harcourt International Airport  Purpose: Catch a Flight back to Lagos.   Now hear my story if you will. I had estimated that the time from my house to the Airport takes 20 to 30minutes tops simply because I have done it many times before, so I reckon I can get to the airport well before check in closes If I leave my house by 3pm for a 4:10pm flight. How wrong was I to make these calculations on this particular day forgetting I leave in Nigeria where anything is possible.  Under normal circumstances nothing was wrong with my calculations because I have used this time frames before,however not with encountering the Nigerian police along the way,but with encountering the police every thing that's right can be made wrong and every thing that is wrong can be made right but in a bad way. I got a taxi cab to take me to the airport and less then 10 minutes into the journey  we hit a police check poi...

                                                 ( Aero, getting set for departure ) Thursday 14 th July 2011, here I was rushing off to Port Harcourt on the 7.15am flight from MM2 airport Lagos to Port Harcourt  Omagwa Airport to prepare and conclude somearrangements for a scheduled event the following week in Port Harcourt.  First problem, Aero Contractors Airline deducted money from my card while paying for my ticket online and I didn’t get a booking reference number displayed on the screen to show I have actually been booked on that flight,however I got an SMS alert showing the payment has be deducted from my bank account.  So for a 7am flight I had to make sure I get to the Airport at least one and half  that  (5.30AM) to get my ticket issue sorted out with Aero Airline and leave enough time to check in if I must still fly ...

This report (Nigeria's Almajiri children learning a life of poverty and violence) http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-07/world/nigeria.children.radicalization_1_religious-violence-religious-clashes-kano?_s=PM:WORLD By CNN Christian Purefoy over a year ago without a doubt explains the sad, shameful and pitiful situation you find across Northern states in Nigeria. Almajiri are now almost becoming a steady pool for recruiting foot soldiers by a few evil and so called religious leaders and politicians to perpetuate evil at anything or anyone they see as an opposition. It’s amazing that in a place like Nigeria many people from the south hardly understand or even know of the existence of Almajiri. It took me living for one year in Kebbi state to really observe the hellish and idle life these young kids go through. Little wonder why it won’t be so easy to mould them into weapons of religious terror, or as we saw in the post 2011 April presidential election violence, weapons of mass political ...

Just like a flash 2011 fast approaching and its election year in Nigeria. Using this quote by one of my favourite author ( Chimamanda Adichie ) one can easily say a “Normalised Political Fear Invades Our Life’s” as Nigerians again. The air of uncertainty and fear keeps building by the day, the Nigeria daily newspapers are littered with headlines and captions that makes one wonder, What really will 2011 elections bring with it, or what will it take away. Will it bring the desired changes that Nigerians so much yearn for since it started it’s ever so called nascent democracy ? or will it take more life’s via assassinations / violence, increased kidnapping and possibly magnify corruption to greater heights. With captions in the print media like; NORTH WARNS JONATHAN AGAINST USE OF EFCC. I’M READY TO DIE FOR JONATHAN, SAYS ASARI DOKUBO. 2011 : MILITANTS HOLD SECRET MEETINGS WITH IBB, BUHARI. KILLER SQUAD TRAINING FOR 2011 —TOP POLICE SOURCE. EFCC TARGETS PRO-ZONING GOVERNORS. DON’T DARE O...

Nigeria blessed with diversity , both human and natural resources in the North, West, East and of course the now world famous South where the oil wealth lies. Yet Nigeria still has the most unfair and unproductive structure for all ethnicities to have the possibility of ruling the nation. In the era where a man of black Heritage didn’t just drama , but today rules what most people still consider the strongest Nation on earth, Nigeria is still talk about geopolitical or should I say trio political ruling zones. It’s no news now that for the most part of its existence as a country, Nigerians of Northern extraction has had the opportunity to rule the country the most under Military and Civilian governments. The list below just serves to buttress this know facts. Sometimes it takes looking at a picture to really notice how skewed things are. Take a critical and open minded look at the list below , think and ask yourself, how can we ever get the best or right man for the job, if we continu...

We live in troubled times, yet for some unexplainable reason I still find it an interesting time. With a financial crisis pounding the global like a high-arcing ballistic trajectory detonated in the western world. A flu viral infection transmitting among people, helping us all understand how connected we all are, after all. Has left me saying, globalization now has one more definition in my books. For the most part of the 1st hours, days, weeks, and even month in 2009, all we heard was Israel bombing targets in Palestine and Palestinian fighters in Gaza firing rockets into southern Israel. Even then the news of clashes and rumors of impending war never seems to stop. Pakistani military deploying fighter jets and helicopter gunship to flush out Taliban militants, the Sri Lanka's government declaring victory in its war with Tamil Tigers and North Korea defying world powers and carrying out nuclear bomb testing. One region where a military action is currently raging on, that would...

Well thanks to the Cable News network, (CNN) Nigeria once again made a major story on one of its program special, Planet in Peril. What is it this time? Well it’s the now world famous Niger Delta story, that’s what was on the news again. Well this post is actually not about CNN and how it would rather show the ugly or troubled side of Nigeria to the world, and not try to balance those stories with all the Good or great things happening in Nigeria at the same time. My issues on this post, is this our so called Niger Delta issue, fight for freedom or what ever they call it, that is now going on in the region, because to me I really don’t know anymore. If I had grown up in another part of Nigeria, well my ignorance can be excused, but I grew up in the Heart of the so called Niger Delta, and I come from within the region, born and raised up in Warri, Delta state Nigeria, and having lived and worked in Port Harcourt for the last four years before living the country, hopefully to return, I o...

Here's a piece I came across, its really thought provoking, I feel its actually the very same thing we experiencing in Nigeria, where a huge chunk of western culture mostly the negative ones are copied hook line and sinker by the young and even the old. Sexual innuendo, has become all up in your face, everyday from billboards to TV adverts, you see women showing their belly buttons, thighs, and the most common their boobs or putting it mildly cleavages. Watching a local musical video, you seen the most obscene sexual dances and dressing. The languages and lyrics are getting far more explicit by the day. I don’t know if anyone has noticed this trend lately, if you attend  children’s party, watch the little kids dance, they all want to dance like shakira, beyounce  or all the other female (sensual dancers out there). I feel this is not right, it’s not our culture and it’s not moral (from a decency or the religious angle). Well don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe eit...

Cooperate Manslaughter Bill (A must and urgent Bill to be drawn up, Debated and passed in the national assembly) What is 'corporate manslaughter'? A company acts through the human agency of its directors, managers and staff. Where a company due to grossly negligent act or omission by a person(s) who is the “controlling mind” of the company results in the immediate cause of death of its employees, the public or other individual, it can be considered an act of corporate manslaughter. In order to convict a company of manslaughter it must be shown that a causal link existed between a grossly negligent act or omission by a person who is the “controlling mind” of the company and the immediate cause of death. It is difficult to envisage circumstances in which a company will be involved in “voluntary manslaughter” Corporate manslaughter will, therefore, normally be considered in the context of “involuntary manslaughter by means of gross negligence”. The House of Lords (UK) laid down a ...

Lately I have had to post on this site http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=63677.msg1380460#msg1380460 Are people are so narrow minded or is it just me, all they care about is let the Gulder ultimate search show continue, for them nothing is wrong its just one death. This issue from the bigger perspective, it’s not just about the death of this young man or if NB plc should be dragged to court in a 100M law suit. Its about NB and other companies to become more responsive to the needs of Today’s Nigerian, I think a scholarship or some kind of youth development program will go a long way to achieve a far better thing for the common good of the Nigerian youths , than any”Ultimate” search would. Let jut imagine this guys death happened at a Youth career development program or some other kind of youth development boot camp being organized by NB plc, I for one wont be crying crucify NB, but as it stands now am one of the people shouting nail NB. I know they are in business to brew product...

Lately I have had to post on this site http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=63677.msg1380460#msg1380460 So many people are so narrow minded, all they care about is let the Gulder ultimate search show continue, for them nothing is wrong its just one death. This issue from the bigger perspective, it’s not just about the death of this young man or if NB should be dragged to court in a 100M law suit. Its about NB and other companies to become more responsive to the needs of Today’s Nigerian, I think a scholarship or some kind of youth development program will go a long way to achieve a far better thing for the common good of the Nigeria youths , than any”Ultimate” search would. Let jut imagine this guys death happened at a Youth career development program or some other kind of youth development boot camp being organized by NB, I for one wont be crying crucify NB, but as it stands now am one of the people shouting nail NB. I know they are in business to brew products, make a profit for...

Anthony Ogadje, 25 a ,young man, in his prime dies, now how real can reality get. Gulder Ultimate Search People keep asking, where was every one when this young man was drowning? Well if you are a swimmer, you will know one thing, it takes very good skills as a swimmer to save a man drowning, and if you have seen the young man in question he is quite muscular, saving him might have gotten his rescuer drowned too if such a person is not an expert swimmer, so the questions I Put to Nigeria Brewery Plc, is this, where they qualified life guards on site? If yes what did he or they do? I believe before the Young man went into the water maybe he could swim, even a swimmer can drown, he might have had a muscle pull, severe cramps or some other attack ,also learning to swim in still waters like a swimming pool and then swimming in a waters with current is a different thing, one cant really say how this very unfortunate incident happened Nigeria is a country where, just because the law is just ...