Youthfulperspectives

I am kind of skeptical about the best way to start.  There was, there is or there will be.  "There was" will surely do for now. Ray updated his status. It said a country is gone when it's inhabitants find nothing wrong with its leaders. They stay depending on those who put them in the constant struggling state they find themselves.  The "Stockholm syndrome" as the learned ones calls it. I once stated facts about a country.  But for now, the focus would be on the one currently being lead by SAI. He succeeded EBELE, the man from the land of the Clarks and the pepples. The man who was tagged "clueless" but was also said to mean well.  He tried his best, employed a few of the best hands but could not make a headway.  Patience too was said to be a stumbling block. SAI came riding on the slogan "change". A term that has since lost its meaning.  He promised a total change of the status quo.  Explained that the hydra-headed monster "kwar...

Love is teeny little drops of affections, sometimes it comes pounding down on the roof at another time it drizzles and plays. It is both brute and lady mixing the rashness of fire with the calm of water and always ready to grow in the direction of the sunlight. Love is: also patience, also communication, also being a bit more on top of the sheet of preference. Don't judge the other just yet until you've genuinely applied the scale to your proud mind and little acts.

I have existed over greater than two decades and few seasons.  I have learned,  maybe experienced would suit it better.  Even unlike the forebearers of the clan I hail from.  I have fears.  Some may be funny and some am in a pensive mood about.  But all make me who i am. They have succeeded in accumulating over time.  Parents told me over my teenage years that I feared the fiery red lantern. I even feared the grimacing boys who threw stones around.  I feared my parents not buying my cherished toys.  The small flying plane I loved.  I have had fears over time.  I really fear I may not be able to realize all I have set out to do.  I fear I would let my acquaintances down.  I have also over time had a persistent fear of dogs.  Those four-legged hairy monsters.  I have never made a delicacy our of you so don't eye my legs.  They are even too tiny for you to gnaw at. And they are not tast...

   The scenario am going to paint is an accumulation of events which happened to your distinguished writer.  As I have observed in my little period of existence, many things go on in your mind,  yes your mind that has the ultimate power to order your steps in this marathon called life.  I realised this fully during my secondary school days which in my native country sprawled over a period of six(6) years.  When my secondary school education started,  in a missionary school in the southwestern part of the country.  Due to my strict upbringing in the close knit family of mine,  dad and mum already made the choice for us that we would all go to catholic secondary schools.  And mum added the option the school would have to be equipped with boarding facilities. And as she would say so we would not cause her high blood pressure due to the majority of us being boys.  She would say our stubbornness rank highly to the heavens. And as I am th...

So am in my tattered apparel, drenched to the bones.  People are of course rejoicing, cos it is the first rain of the year. Why are they happy? Am thinking. Are they not humans, they sure have their problems why are they so optimistic? Why has this kind of feeling eluded me? Can't they share their newly found happiness with me? Am I so hard to love, what have I done to be this hated?  Can't they realize am not supposed to live like this?  Don't they know I have dreams to fulfill too? why on earth do they pass me by chuckling, laughing and all? At least few notes given to me will do. Just for me to pass the day. It was not entirely my fault too just in case you have started judging me in your usual manner. The individual who claimed loved me did this. These revered men with their expensive toga do claim God created us all now.  where is he now when I need him?  I am now sleepy.  I have nowhere to lay my head. I am so scared of the wild ones....

    This should have been done a while back but as they would say in the usual "lingo" nothing spoil. Over the last few weeks, the social media has been inundated with calls to scrap the now dreaded special anti-robbery squad also known as "SARS". The highlight of calls which is the dreadful stories shared by citizens who has been at the receiving end of this gradually growing malaise. Twitter, a social interaction application has been at the centre of the call for the scrap of the unit of the Nigerian police force and it should be recalled that prominent leaders in this country have registered accounts on this app.       But a striking factor has been the silence of these leaders since the movement started. And as an handler rightly stated, "when its due we will remind them" in a democratic setting, which Nigeria claim to be one, accountability of leaders, prompt response to issues raised by the electorates and by extension the general populace should...