Many undergraduates nurse the joy of graduating and
being offered a job in an office, so they study hard to graduate with summer
cum laude to make their dream come through. For some, they get theirs on a
platter of gold while for others, the search is endless. Since the need for a
white collar job continues to increase, what hope have our youths?
One of Nigeria’s
most celebrated writers and accomplished scholar that played a pivotal role in
the growth of African literature, Professor Chinua
Achebe, last year published his sad memoir of the Biafran war of 1967-1970,
which led to the death of more than two million Nigerians. Upon publication, the
book generated criticisms among Nigerians from the west.
Interestingly,
Achebe and the Yoruba juggernaut, Wole Soyinka over the years with their mighty
pens have tried to fight corruption, which has remained unaddressed in the country;this was why Achebe publicly declined several
awards from the Nigerian government, one of which was an attempt to name him a
Commander of the Federal Republic in 2004.
Academic success means different thing to
different people. For some, it's passing through school with acceptable grades,
to some; it's coming out tops in an academic setting. In defining academic
success, it is important to look at the two sides to the coin- importance of
academic success and how to achieve academic success.
I was shocked when I heard
that the Federal Government had just discovered about 84 legitimate and legal
routes through which people could come or go out of Nigeria, while about 1,497
illegal routes that entered the country were also been uncovered.
This could possibly
explain the reason for the continuous increase in our population. Sometimes,
when I see the Alamajaries, I wonder
if they came into the country through the sea or were they actually given visas.
These people flood into the country with their entire village even without the
custom officers being aware.
Though the government has moved into action to
handle the situation but be careful, for those living close to the boundaries before
they come from nowhere and hick jack your goats and fowls.
Sitting with her face
resting between her legs, she was weeping profusely. Becky had failed another
course and in all has bagged six Fs within two semesters. “What did I not do to
make sure I pass this course?” on and on she went as she sniffed some phlegm
back into her nose. She had managed to gain admission into school to the
department her parents had always wanted her to be.
She has never liked
school from childhood but her parents being career inclined pushed her in,
noticing her nonchalance, they ensured she stayed back in school for extra
moral lessons yet her brain couldn’t adjust.
What
words do you think would be enough to say to this 23-year-old
pregnant Adaeze Mba who confessed that she had sold her unborn baby for
N200,000, before its actual birth?.
The
lady was also arrested for conniving with her husband to sell their neighbour’s
four-year-old son for N400, 000. She
also said that she and her husband, Chibueze, had sold two other children for
N700, 000.
The
funniest part of the story was that in March 2013, she and her husband sold
their neighbour’s son, whom she claimed was following her around in, they
succeeded in selling him for N400, 000 and relocated to Calabar after the
deal.
What
level of poverty would make a right thinking mother to think up such a callous
idea?
It’s important to
understand that there is a difference between “privacy” and “secrecy”. Every
relationship should be built on trust and to achieve this, there is need to
trust and trust comes by open communication from both partners. Without trust,
there is no respect and without respect, there is no intimacy.
As long as two people
have made up their minds to be committed to each other, love and care for one
another, there should be room for privacy but not secrecy.
You might wonder: “how
will one partner have privacy and not be secretive”?
Ben Underwoodtaught is blind; both
of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball,
rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life. He taught himself to use
echo location to navigate around the world. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT?
In 2012, the richest man on earth award was won by Carlos Slim Helu, a Mexican born in
1940. He earns his $69 billion through communications, technology, finance,
retailing, and through his position as chairman and Chief Executive of a mobile phone carrier named America
Movil and a telecommunications company called Telmex.
Despite philanthropic efforts, Slim has been criticized for
his wealth, as Mexico has a high poverty rate. It is thought that Telmex has
monopolised the landline telecommunications market.
In a world where things keep falling apart virtually every
day as a result of varied reasons that range from politics to social, economic
and cultural factors,one cannot but surrender when death calls and the
grave yard still remains the richest place to visit.
The burial of the literary icon Prof. Chinua Achebe, who died
at the 82 year old in United States on March 21, 2013 was scheduled to take
place on Thursday been May 23, 2013 in Ogidi a community in Anambra state,
still sends no special feeling in the air.
This is a question that wanders through
my mind more often; it keeps me pondering every moment I see people struggling
with the ability to read and write words which they seem to use every day of
their lives and understand little about.
Sometime ago, I was opportune to see an
Indian movie titled “Like Stars on Earth” the pain I saw in the heart of eight
year old Ishan; who couldn’t read nor
write made tears run freely down my cheek. I wept till my head began to ache.
The little boy was repeatedly beaten and humiliated by his father and teachers
for not being able to read and write like his brother and peers. Due to
negligence, they were unable to notice that all the letters he saw on papers
and the blackboard were dancing right in front of him; he couldn’t explain what
he was going through neither did his family and so-called teachers understood.
