Youthfulperspectives

The Year 2020 started on a normal note; The festivities surrounding the first days of the year, the prayers, the expectations, the many watchwords and everything good for the new year. Well we are through with the first quarter of the year and damn, it has been one hell of a ride. Coronavirus termed Covid-19 was the newest virus we welcomed in the year, even as early as it is. By now, it needs no introduction; and by virtue of its influence on the global economy, the magnitude, its widespread nature and everything inclusive which has led the global apex body, the WHO to tag it  as a global pandemic. When it comes to the Nigeria state, there are always issues to write about; I was still working on this, when the minister for health made the very discouraging statement of he being oblivious of the hazards faced by medical practitioners in the line of combating the virus in Nigeria. The  Chief of staff to the president Mallam Abba Kyari was also not dead as a result complicatio...

The Lenten period this year, the way it came so fast got me wondering; Oh! this is so out of the ordinary, when it was announced in church. As customary with the church's practices, the season  usually ends with the holy week which also include the Easter tridum; Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter vigil itself. Now, with the onslaught led by corona virus pandemic, This year's season has been one of my weirdest as a christian. I mean by now, we would be assembling firewood for the "the light of peter" at least so they call it in my local parish. This pandemic has robbed us of the indulgences we are opportune to make all through the season with a satisfying end on the night of Easter. At a point this week, I remember seeing one advertisement from one of the top airlines around. The Ad focused on how humans generally have taken all the normal  things we used to do pre- the corona virus pandemic for granted; and how they cannot get back to flying again. come to t...