Kai! So many things to write about;None written yet! From the issues charging up the Nigerian polity;namely-fuel subsidy&the National Honours/Merit awards, to things happening in the world polity- now that’s a bummer! Where do I start?
As I write its past midnight in Naija,and of course most will wake up to the news of Demi&Ashton(I was sooo rooting for them! :’(). But really that’s not news enough for me.
What’s keeping me awake is plethora of issues in Naija! And the reality that seems to stare us in the face. The reality? That this country will cease to be a Nation by 2015. And by all indication we are working towards fulfilling this prophecy.
Nigeria is not yet at war;yet all the indices that a nation is at war is present! Labour is threatening;yet government spends N45m on adverts for the National Awards Recipient;Yet fuel subsidy is a waste of national resources… As in really?
There’s a sponsored advert on a tv station,showing dilapidated roads, bad schools,malnourished children etc and the advert claims all these are prevalent in Nigeria because Government subsidises fuel!!! Shaking my head in sorrow.
The Government may as well blame the security issues of Naija on fuel subsidy. Oh oh, ethnic&tribal disagreement… Its because government pays subsidy. And please don’t forget the fact that an average Nigerian lives below $1 per day. Of course it because FG pays subsidy on fuel. Oh I remember, the “artist” fund(that one they gave nollywood) its because Govt pays subsidy on fuel!
You can add the rest by yourself….
I’m awake now, masterminding how many kinds of “ending” I can give these “comedy of errors” and all ends or seem to end like Oedipus &Olawale ended…
I wander off to seek the rest I desperately need…

Ps :tribute to William Shakespeare@comedy of errors.

Love yourself;Love your neighbour;Love your Country;Above all Love God He’s the essence of your Being.
T D K

Its been almost 9months I posted on here! So many things have happened in my life and obviously in the happenings of my country. These are not excuses, and I sincerely apologise for the draught!
Truth is sometimes I have so many things to write or comment on,and the share thought of them overwhelm me! Some are very current issues and others are stale or almost stale and I just decide not to comment.
Forgive me if it takes me forever to comment on political,even entertainment issues, I’m a slow thinker.
On this note I rest my fingers for now,I’m not promising a deluge of updates henceforth,but more regularly. Thanks y’all.

Love yourself;Love your neighbour;love your country; above all love God He’s the essence of your being!!
T D K

In the last four months many a things have happened in my life and in my country’s existence. Focussing on Nigeria, a lot of arguments have erupted: should the country split? Should the country get back to true federalism via government of region? Terrorism? Slow response from government, should the present leader have been elected, PDP,AC… Was the election truly free and fair? Flash flood in lagos, and the list goes on.
In the midst of all these Nigerian have learnt to cover their pains, anger&disgust in comedy. There were jokes flying everywhere about terrorism in naija, joke composed&dictionary entries with peoples names created. Then at the bombing of the police headquarters jokes about the policemen receiving “N20” to allow the terrorist. That really got me. I know that we lack value for human life-sometimes even our own,cos if we did we will drive better or use helmet on an okada. I’ll put one question out how many of us hustlers can truly live on what the average policeman lives on? They are treated with so much disdain by the government and the people, but let’s take a quick walk to the police college in ikeja……
The second avalanche of jokes that really disturbed me was those that emerged after the Lagos flash floods! That was the height for me!
But then I began to question why would Nigerians hide behind jokes to get their innermost thoughts out? Because we don’t have listening government may top the list but then do we really care about each other?

Love yourself;love your neighbour;love this country;above all these Love God;He is the essence of your being.

Ps: apologies for the long silence. Lots of good things have happened!

At least that was the submission of two presidential candidates. One said the people are corrupt, the other the system. I’ve searched my heard looking for how to justify both candidates’ paradigm but I have not been able to
However, the events of the last two days in my life makes me ask this question;”if the system is corrupt,is it not a human system?” Or how can a system get corrupt on its own?
There are some systems that must be totally restructured,if Nigeria must move forward. Namely the civil service! Federal,state or local must be totally restructured,and the people completely re-oriented!
There cannot be a way forward if people are not guided by principles;if the message of delayed gratification is not preached&the joys of dignity in labour encouraged!
I love the elderly&i respect the culture of the African to respect for the elderly. How this aspect of our existence is manipulated calls for great caution. I’m not scolding the elderly, but when an office environment is turned into an environment of “societal incompetence” in the name of being older than;there needs to be a caution
The only way you can preach to me and I can accept is if you do as you preach. Cliché yes, but so true. That you are older doesn’t mean the younger person is foolish. At least a yoruba adage says “its the wisdom of both the elderly and the young that forms the foundation of ife land”
Don’t despise the wisdom of the young.
That the system is rotten, was a function of some people’s lack of personal principles: lack of value for proper ethics. I could go on and on but I’m quite disoriented now, cos the events of the last 2 days have left me wondering, who is more right, Gen Buhari, who says the people are corrupt or Nuhu Ribadu who says its the system?

Knowledge puffs up; Love Covers all; Love yourself; Love your neighbour; Love this country; above all Love God; He is the essence of your being.

1st lady Nigeria Mrs. Patience Faka Jonathan (by allafrica2000)

Dame Jonathan @ it again.3GP (by ozoluaohis) lots of daugthers and sisters being recognised with multiple permission being requested. that’s the PDP rally for u

Nigerian First lady speaks (by TheGreenLabelProject)

In september of 2005, the media office I worked for decided to go 100% indigenous for their music content. It was a big challenge because at the time contemporary Nigerian artistes were scarce! So I resorted to my father’s library&my station’s library. My initial inventory of dad’s library provided me with dizzy k falola, Tunji Oyelana &the benders, Sunny Okosuns&Ozzidi band, Onyeka Onwenu, Christy Essien Igbokwe, Funmi Adams, Julie Coker, Segun Arinze, Chris Mba, Charly Boy etc. My studio library provided most of the remaining.
Then 6months into the exercise, there was an upsurge of “Nigerian Sounds” which unfortunately did not match what I thought was a Nigerian sound. First was the production quality; it felt like when EMI moved out of the country, producers packed out! Then the lyrics to say it lacked depth was/is an understatement. In the midst of all these I began a search for “the new Nigerian sound”. I was aware that the sounds of ambrose campbel, onyeka, KSA, may not be representative of present day realities? Then in the midst of all these, a friend, simply called tony doe, travelled,and brought me a CD, God’s given by Siji. The intro track stopped me! It was his “Oriki” and it opened me to another world of music.
At the time I was exposing myself to yvonne chaka chaka,angelique kidjo, papa wemba etc. So this was very refreshing for me!
However, I had Gods given for 5 years&listened only to santuary. Then in February of ‘09 a friend came in &asked if I’d heard of Siji? I was soo excited as a got a copy of ADESIJI. The song that quickly stole my heart was ENIYAN DUDU. Its was “percussiony”; fed my hunger for lyrics&truth, I got a sound! Then Ekundayo! I’d wake up daily and pray that song! Then in 2009, I met Siji, and those 2hrs were the most expository of my “media” life. Some other day on this forum you’d get to listen to that interview.
Of course since 2005 there have been number of good artistes spring up from Nigeria(home&abroad), but I must say Adesiji Awoyinka, whose lone quest when I met him, was to discover&re-invent the Nigerian sound,is best described as a renaissance artiste, whose sound is more Nigerian than most who claim to be Nigerian artistes. So do your music library a favor this new year, get the Album ADESIJI.

Love yourself;Love your Neighbour; Love this country; Above all Love God He is the essence of your being

Whether this question is rhetorical or just plain insane is yet to be seen. However this afternoons events made me wonder if Nigerians are really ready for the change the seriously crave. My fear is based on how comfortable we have become with the abnormal. Just yesterday a friend suggested on her fb account that the FRSC(federal road safety corps) of Nigeria should develop another safety manual that will incoporate hand signals in the stead of the indicating lights. This practice is more in vogue in Ibadan-west africa’s largest city- than other parts of the country at least to the best of my knowledge. But that’s not why I think we are not ready for change. Here’s the story. I’m standing at the “foyer” of my office, and two guys are trying to crucify a NAFDAC official who was being strict about the standards of the pure water they were producing. They went back and forth on why he was WRONG to be fussy about them producing pure water,after all it was just water and on and on they went…. The part that struck me was when one said; I even offered him “owo-ile” aka bribe, he didn’t accept. I increased it and I started thinking my offer was too little….. “. At this point I faded off to my thoughts and I wondered, our lack of value for life was amazing! Did these people really understood the reason for the inspection? Did they know that if their “pure water” was unpure people could die? Or like writefreak would put it, are we getting to individualistic for our own good.
My heart just broke and I really wondered if we were ready.

Love yourself;love your neighbour;love this country;above all love God He is the essence of your being.

Today I take a trip through the minds of various women I have known. Who have given everything to have a home or children. Women,who have suffered through cruelty of a parochial society. I’m also dedicating this to some men who hace helped shaped my view of the feminine gender and have lived through the cause.
This is not a female liberation campaign. Its just a note to say thank you to women who understands what being a woman is and have fought for it against all odds!
Growing up with my mother was/ is a bitter sweet experience. She’d scold and beat if there are any infractions. Heaven bless you watch tv before (ITV),-instructional tv on NTA,or go to play on the balcony without permission. Oh you could watch videos,only on saturdays and its what she picks and that ranges from bigfoot,quo va dis to ABBA&boney M musical videos. I remember she’d give us an heavenly breakfast like toast,baked beans,omelete&cocoa;then a lunch of garri without sugar(I still can’t take garri with sugar) alongside “kulikuli” the amount of kuli kuli you get was dependent on how good your grades were that day in school. A lot of funny stories,one stands out right now,a kulikuli saga. I love that piece of snack! And I was aloted 2 this day I just wanted more,so I took 2 without permission needless to say that what happened after that will today be regarded as child abuse of the 1st grade.
In the midst of all these, I can’t remember her smiling,oh she played with us worked two jobs. Oh she had a husband but that’s a story for another day. I remember getting to my teens with so much anger towards my mum,how she was so strict,how she wouldn’t let us get bad grades in school-my brother has a lot of stories about that. I was so miffed that for a long time I was rebellious in thinking and everything I did determined not to be like her!
Then I turned 20,we became great friends and I started to see her life through her eyes and not my own tinted lenses…… I discovered that at 20 when I was still busy looking for myself, she was getting ready to be married. At 21 when I was fighting tooth and nail to get a university education she was getting married and carrying me. At 22 when I was in my second year in higher institution,she just had her first baby me! At 25 when I was serving Nigeria, she had had three kids and lost one to death. Trust me this is only part of what she’s been thruogh. But She stayed……
I travel thruogh the minds of a 21st century woman,who having seen how building a career can be detrimental to building a home, wants better for her and hers, but has to cope with all the social emotional psychological issues mitigating against her dreams. She however tries to juggle all these and works to be a woman!
Finally I say thank you to Prof Dipo Salami& Dr Chimaroke Anyadike who stands by woman rights and through their lectures in the halls of Obafemi Awolowo University they taught me to love being a woman. Not in words only but in action also.
Most my class mates won’t know this but Miss Akande though lived unconventional to the view of women in the academics,I loved because she was true to her.
So this note is for You,call you ma today no matter how horrible you think she was, to You career woman,know someone is saying a prayer for you. To my role model who turned 54 yesterday! You are truly a gem. To all men like mine who believes in their women,may you enjoy the woman of your youth.

“Love yourself;Love your neighbour;Love your country;above all these Love God,He is the essence of Your being”