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THEY ARE MAD
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Left to quest on the journey of no return,
I bid you farewell on this trip to Saturn;
How shall you, my dear, survive,
In this planet with nothing to revive?

Your ebullient boss,
Down on earth in your initial hose;
Barked orders to you in the eye of the dragon,
Who knows better way to win and get done?

You in the real live,
Or him in the theoretical hive?
That’s what superiors do,
Giving orders even to their boo.

How shall the opulent understand suffering,
If he has not lived in such bearing?
How shall the poor envision riches,
Without bits of such stitches?


The best people to define a pain;
Are those in the realms of its rain,
Not those who think they know,
They are Change’s greatest foe.




July 3, 2009 | 5:34 AM Comments  0 comments

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Michael Jackson: Death is Greater than a Star
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Just like the bringing down of the World Trade Center, so was it sudden and fictional when I heard the death of Michael Jackson yesterday. The great pop star could not out-dance death.

Hmm. Death is what i called: THE UNIVERSAL CROWN. It does not matter if you're a king or maid, black or fair; it just takes its toll on the rich as does to the poor.

May his soul Rest In Peace.

June 26, 2009 | 4:51 AM Comments  0 comments

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NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES CLAMPED DOWN
Related to country: Nigeria

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We are at it again. The National body of Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) in Nigeria yesterday embarked upon an indefinite strike action, coming after a warning strike of some weeks ago.

The Government , according to the union, has been very receptive to their demands and eeven the compromise that was reached by both parties from a negotiation led by the reknowned Gamaliel Onosode on behalf of the Government.

Sometimes in 2006, an indefinite strike of such that lasted 6 months occured. Days passes swfitly, who knows what happens now? In hope the parties involved - Government and ASUU - would resolve in no time to pave way for the progress of the youths.

Let all this old men and women in both parties stopped being selfish and let them think of us for a while.

The truth is non of this parties are conquesting in the interest of the students. Even the porpoted 26% of bugdet allocation to education, I'm sure is not in our interest. At least, many of these lecturers rarely come to class and those that come, we know what they are like.

Ejo, e ro ti wa mo ti yin - (Yoruba language, meaning - consider us in your priorities.


June 24, 2009 | 4:42 AM Comments  0 comments

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Why It Should Not Be Your Fault
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Before I could open my eyes, it is yet another day, another start of a working week. Iranians are still on with their protests, the injured in Pakistan Taliban war are writhing in pain, the Militants in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria are yet to make a U-turn, the Znox case of killing a fellow student goes on in Italy, the 2009 Confederations Cup rolls on with goals… and the list is just beginning.

With complications everywhere, will this day; week be different? That was the question that mornings my heart. Thoughtful was I for unheard answers. Then I asked: “Was there none of these yesterday?” It was from the answer that you are thinking that I finally realized; it is another day with the same people, no difference. But if only we could do things a bit different; nag less, greed less, cheat less…or better still do them for progressively to no one’s detriment- IMPOSSIBLE- things could get better.

You however can do that you are doing or about to do better.
…It begins with you.

June 22, 2009 | 12:26 PM Comments  0 comments

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PROTEST IN IRAN?
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Iran's election went through without violence but the aftermart of the outcome has sent the Capital, Tehran, into disarray. Moussavi that had the support of the women and the youth was not favoured. The streets of Tehran is having road blocks and burning tires. The University of Tehran was not spared has students protested the results has well.

The fishy part of the result however is that the largerf percentage of voters are women and youth most of who supported Mossavi.

Let's hope things do not go bad beyond what is on now in Iran.

But why can't the people's wish be done in the spirit of true democracy?

June 15, 2009 | 6:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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CAN'T NIGERIA LEARN?
Related to country: Nigeria

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Iran that was once swallowed by violence conducted a non-violent election yet local governments election in Nigeria will make blood flow. We need to learn from them, Ghana, South Africa and so on.


June 13, 2009 | 9:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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WILL THIS MONEY GIVE SARO WIWA'S PEOPLE HIS DYING WISH?
Related to country: Nigeria

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Shell Corporation is now to pay the family of the late Environmental Activist,Ken Saro Wiwa, a whopping $15.5 M(million dollars. Half of his money, one of his sons said, will go to development of Ogoni Land.

My thinking is that if Saro Wiwa was to be alive what will he have wanted such money to be used for? If the government had yielded to his outcry maybe things would not be as pessimistic as they are in the present Niger Delta.

June 10, 2009 | 11:43 AM Comments  0 comments

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WHY STRIVE FOR THE TOP?
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You set out down the road;
A fierce and adventurous heart so bold,
It could be for more than a season;
Sure, it’s not better than my very reason.

Right from Pa. Abraham’s days;
Everyone had walked many ways,
Yet till Anobi Mohammed’s time;
Our goals have ceased not to rhyme.

Why work if not for the wage?
Seeking increment with litigious rage?
All things ever done till date;
They are, my friend, at negotiable rate.

What lies there that we all seek the top?
Fighting doggedly with our blood in its every drop?
Even liars this truth will raise;
We strive for nothing but to receive praise.






June 8, 2009 | 10:25 AM Comments  0 comments

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ÓBAMA: A Joke
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Obama has spoken and reactions are still on. Though the world look at him has a MIRACLE, he cannot do all at once bearing in mind that he has two responsibilities compared to other presidents around the world: United States and the World.

The side we are not looking at is the criticism that may arise from his compatriots. He has set out on a pretty challenging and endless journey. I hope his actions complements his dexterous oratory of this day.

June 4, 2009 | 12:20 PM Comments  0 comments

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NORTH KOREA AND THE RUES OF WAR
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Condemnation has trailed the unrepentant nuclear test by North Korea. The White House, China, Russia and even their sister country, South Korea, has vehemently called the act as threat to international peace. While the international community is uncomfortable, North Korea celebrates what they see as joining the community of nuclear weaponry owners. Pyongyang’s defiance was claimed to be a violation of the 1953 International Armistice Act to which North Korea claimed she no more belonged.

I will not castigate North Korea in terms of what they are into but the general “International Nuclear Family.” I see North Korea as saying they have the capability of nuclear weapon mastery and they are displaying it. Of what good would this be in the possession of all the countries that have it? Our leaders seat at the forefront and beef up security to the future unseen. Why would one country lack this if she can produce it? Better still, while should the others have it anyway? It sure will take a defiance like that of North Korea to do such. The alliance that South Korea made with the International Community has however made their northern neighbor tell them that such act calls for war. If these leaders could scream such threat, I am beginning to see how less the citizens are important to them. Where two elephants fight, the grass bears the brunch. I hope these people consider their people in every step they take in this regard.


May 28, 2009 | 6:19 AM Comments  0 comments

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YOU ARE ILL
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YOU ARE ILL

The context of health might have definitions to constrain it into citable issue, it, in the actual sense, spans through a longer telescoped viewpoint. The World Health Organization in 1948 defined health as; "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". While it is agreeable largely, the Africa community and indeed Nigeria is more concerned at deteriorating health status than the healthy status of citizens. Unfortunately, even the facilities available are inadequate, yet little is done about promoting good health.

The mental health of many people is indeed not commendable, as stress seem to have besieged the Nigerian community and the world at large. Social relevance is also a monster in the social health status of people, considering the unemployment rates and the global financial crisis epidemic. With these two ill health status, the physical wellbeing of the population is threatened.
The internal clock of humans, technically called the Circadian Rhythm, is not what most job demands. Family pressure, relationship crises, survival, etc, have shaped people to be convenient with inconvenience. The seat of consciousness in man is on daily basis getting used to conditions that are murky. According to the Internal Biological Clock in man, sleep is deepest and most enjoyed at 2:00am (www.wikipedia.org). Yet this time is just about the time many people are on their toes. Insufficient input as against the output on daily basis, have taken hold of both the elite class and the illiterate. This makes it more unhelpful when diseased states are discovered.

Rather than narrowly facing the challenges of diseased states, campaign for healthy living should begin to attract more attention. The influx and subsequent acceptance of Tradomedicine into the present day world should be controlled by national agencies to prevent the rapid growth of death due to them as many uncertified herbal medicines are finding their way into the community on daily basis with a major intent of making money.

May 22, 2009 | 11:21 AM Comments  0 comments

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I WILL
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I'll say no more,
To the many ills that flood my domain;
Let's not worry about the spoilt sycamore,
Make the move and act with every vein.

Now will I be abnormal,
Of what good as it done me being among the crowd?
I'll take my 'good crazy' to the maximal,
And do myself-if no one else- proud.

History begats ways of making us sorry,
Telling determinly the failure our predecessors never overcame;
We do nothing but start to worry,
Lossing every good we have as aim.

I'll cease to slumber,
'Cos of my acient's weariness;
Join me and wake up with all power,
The only way we can live the world with good success.


January 22, 2009 | 6:14 AM Comments  0 comments

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AL JAZEERA LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP WITH SONY ERICSSON
Related to country: United States

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On the heels of USA Today's announcement of the the launch of its iPhone application, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson phone company.

According to journalism.co.uk the aim of the partnership is “to provide built-in AJ RSS feeds on devices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.”

On its Web site, Al Jazeera Labs mentioned that owners of the Sony Ericsson devices have the option of receiving daily international news updates straight from the Al Jazeera Network, through the RSS feed in both Arabic and English.

For more information, please visit: http://labs.aljazeera.net/content/sony-ericsson

January 13, 2009 | 12:48 PM Comments  0 comments

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INDUSTRIAL SWITCH: A READY MADE SOLUTION FOR YOUR CAREER INDIFFERENCE
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I'm a Physiology undergraduate in a Nigerian University, and off course you know we've got real good ill job prospects in my country. Like many Medical Science students whose efforts aren't required in the Nigerian market now, I'm really working on a simple way out...but will drive you off at first 'cause its like moving you away from your initial aspirations.

I called it:INDUSTRIAL SWITCH PATTERN. Its not something you will be dazed with and it is going through criticizims at present.

Mail me if interested!


October 8, 2008 | 11:51 AM Comments  0 comments

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ESSAY COMPETITION
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PARAGON MAGAZINE- a publication of Tailor Printing Press, Nigeria is offering an essay of not more than 500 words to Nigerians between ages 16-25.

The topic:

Recent closure of CHANNELS TV, and its relevance to the freedom of information bill that has ben peding in the National Assembly since 1999.

Deadline: 30th October, 2008.

Mode of submission: All essays should be submitted to paragon_magazine@yahoo.com or editorparagonmagazine@yahoo.com

Publication of winning essay and attractive prices for the overall 3 essays.

for more information call: 07033871685, 08023618547

October 6, 2008 | 12:58 PM Comments  0 comments

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HOW TO PRODUCE THE BEST MAGAZINE:Part 1
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I'm not talking on fund raising, so what I'll be saying will be more the 'job'. If you've ever wanted to produce a magazine with your passion for writing and/or little fund, some of the important things you should consider include:

1) WHY MAGAZINE: You don't have to walk the other peoples' idea that has been water if you cannot be creative enough. So, if you just want to produce a magazine for a vague purpose, then you are just disgracing the media folk. Identify why the print media is your choice and work on it, because if its on e a level of a varing push, you might get bored in the whole process of production; its sa very tiring one for beginners! So question youyrself: "IS THIS THE BEST WAY TO REACH MY TARGET AUDIENCE?"

2)CONTENT: That you can write does not mean all that has to be in your magazine should be written. NO! You might want to produce a pictorial magazine, mixed, interviews, sport-tennis, soccer-etc


...TO be continued

In case you need help, I and my team will be waiting on:

(+234) 0805 361 2876
(+234) 0703 3871 685
dannyibk@yahoo.com

August 2, 2008 | 12:18 PM Comments  0 comments

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GUN SHOT AT PROTESTING STUDENTS...won fe pa wa
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Ladoke Akinttola University of Technology(LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has been undergoing some unrest for some time now. This was due to the inhumane increase in the tuition fee of the students from six thousand five hundred naira to a whooping sixty thosand naira. This however led the students representative to visit the co-owners of the instituion.

Their visit to the Executive Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, two days ago did not yield good fruit as the Governor was quoted to have said that those that cannot afford it should leave since it is not compulsory for average family to go to school. This led to their going to the office of the Oyo State Governor, Otunba (Dr.) Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala yesterday, 27th November, 2007. They `were however scared away with gunshots while trying to force their way into the premises. Special Adviser to the Governor on public matters, Pince Dotun Oyelade, confirmed it himself that gunshots were fired but no one was injured. Information however has it that a student was shot.

The heart-rending part of the story however, ies the use of firearms rather than Tear Gas, to dissolve the students protests. The same was what happened on Thursday, 22nd of November, 2007, at the premises of the school, when the students started their protest. The Alaafin of Oyo and the Special Adviser to oyo State government, Chief Layiwola Olakojo, were at the school for a programme, when the students started their peaceful protest and obstructed the road with one of their buses.

It however took the firing of gunshots into the air before this people felt the students could allow them move.

Very soon, i know that shooting at the students would be the next way to dissolve their bound.

We urge the infant ministry of youth to raise for our course and other NGOs. The loive and course of youths look insignificants to these nits.

November 28, 2007 | 4:43 AM Comments  0 comments

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PEACE AT LAST? Ete ko le gba ETTEH
Related to country: Nigeria


FINALLY, the tussle at the Nigeria House of Representative was over yesterday after, the formal speaker, Honable Olubunmi Etteh and her deputy resigned.

The house seems to be ngetting its orderliness back as the principal officers were sacked and new speaker and deputy elected .

Nigerians are just waiting and watching to see the next scene of suprise in this first democratically transitioned government.

November 1, 2007 | 11:32 AM Comments  0 comments

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THE OLDEST LIVING ANIMAL IS AFRICAN!
Related to country: Nigeria


"Addwaitya", an Aldabra tortoise, is believed to have lived for 250 years, before his death, on 24th March, 2006, at Kolkata zoo in Calcutta (www.discoverychannel.ca). Presently however, Harriet has been eyed since November 2005 as the intending world oldest animal. She was believed to have been picked up on Galapagos by Darwin and taken to England. She was believed then (2005) to have spent past 160 years in Australia. She is expected to celebrate her 175th birthday, next week, thus being revered as the oldest creature on earth.

But behold! In sub-saharan Africa exists a tortoise, nick named "Alagba". He is found existing in the West African region, precisely Nigeria. He lives in the palace of the Soun of Ogbomoso land, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi (Ajagungbade III), in Oyo State. Alagba is believed to have lived up to 320 years. This though very doubtful, was confirmed by the King himself who said he knew the tortoise while he was a child-prince. He however has spent up to 32 years on the thrown and he is the twentieth King on the throne. Ogbomoso town was founded in mid 1600s(www.wikipedia.org).

While it was asked most sons of the soli that are aged now, nine out of every ten people knew of the existence of "Alagba" while growing up. Some even said they do go to the palace with their parents back then to look at the animal.


All we need are some doubting Archiologists to come and prove us right. You can contact me through this blog if interested or mail me at:dannyibk@yahoo.com

INDEED, THE OLDEST LIVING ANIMAL IS AFRICAN!!!

October 10, 2007 | 9:14 AM Comments  1 comments

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LAUTECH AGAIN: CONTINUES STRIKE

Today should be day two of exams in Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, but unfortunately, it is not. The last session of meeting and negotiations till yesterday even only confirmed that the strike still continues.

This is suppose to be the end of session exams despite the last three months strike action by the national body of ASUU. Worst of all is that the end of the strike is unpredictable as both sides seems to be unbent.

Meanwhile, the national body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), renewed their request yesterday as they hinted the Federal Government of their intentions to take gross action of their demands are not met in few weeks.

What step in what direction is this strike action all about? We are just hoping that something good will happen soonest as a miracle. Or alternatively, we as the rearly considered and highly affected should take some aactions so as to help ourselves out.

The fate of Nigeria education will surely not be positive in these present hands.

October 9, 2007 | 6:28 AM Comments  0 comments

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THEY ARE PRINCESS...TREAT THEM LIKE ONE
Related to country: United Kingdom


Well my topic looks like you don't understand? This is it:Ladies I discover (in a hard way though), are pearls of enigma, thus they are meant to be carried with charisma. A guy could really be zealous, but not at the expense of that true solumate of yours. What is success if you don't have people so dearing to rejoice with you? It is obviously incomplete.

I'm not advocating for letting go your purposeful dreams 'cos of your social life (no such relationship is worth neglecting a purposeful pursuit), but the bitter sincerity is they could exceed their tolerance limit and lo! you might let go the very good hand.

Another side to this is that misplacement of priorities often occur when you are not with someone with whom your goal align. This often will poss alot of setbacks and many unresolved issues.

Whatever you do, long as you know the time to get committed to your partner will not be visible, you need not do it at all. So, if you're in one relationship now (guys in particular), please be very , very, serious with your partner. Ladies will always often need maximal attention so don't stifle them. That is often a major demand from them.

Remember, just as you felt you will be good together, some other guys like you are feeling the same and they might just provid the care she's dying for.

She would need you to tell her you love her very often, to be with her almost always, to send erotic text messages consistently, calls unluimited, show her off as your heart-throb to as many people around you as possible. In all to be 'ALWAYS' their.

I'm still trying to win her back as at this. Hey, don't pity me, I'm just paying the price of my negligence of the salient care she needed. So let me pay, 'cos I deserve it. I hope she yields.

You want to know my story? Then watch out!!!

Its good to go social sometimes. hope you enjoyed it.


October 2, 2007 | 12:22 PM Comments  0 comments

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INDEPENDENCE
Related to country: Nigeria


The wonderful day when Nigeria could call herself a nation, is celebrated today. While we organize banquets, seminars, rallies, etc, let it stare clear in our minds that this freedom we thrive in today is the toil, labour, struggle, fight and even death of some heros.

Looking at where we are as a nation, we can not but reminiscence the crushing rule of the military. However, let us not bask too long in the dark story. We are a year older today, how we can as individauls, youth and even groups move the nation to its promise land, should be our focus. Let us not cry over spilled milk.

Your faith, strides, believes, initiatives, passion, vision, direction, are what this generation has been waiting for to have a complete reaction. While we also have our thriving ambitions, let us remember that the best way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.

Leave history, make history.

Because you live as a Nigerian gives me and alot of people hope that we can be better than what we are as a nation.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

October 1, 2007 | 9:21 AM Comments  0 comments

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TALKING, TALKING...

Fine, alot of youth-driven initiatives are on to change our world. If you ever have the oppurtunity to be in their meeting, you'll understand what they go through before they come out at all to act.

For the organizations that have been very active, it is not by virtue of how large their membership are, but the passion driven spirit of a limited few. I wrote a poem i called clumsy aspirations, and it what led me it was alot ao visions that I felt, at tat point, i wanted to achieve. I sat and reasoned, then it dawned on me that when there is too much to do, Im often will not be able to do much before time retires.

This is a major challenge of most of the individual strengths that we have propelling these groups. Most of these people are so over-ambitious that they get little done but do gross talking.

Most times at meetings, it is talk and talk with flinching and excusses when actions are needed. this sadly, as only driven such groups concerned, a few or even negligible distance forward.

I implore youths to do less of taklking, do much of meditative thinking and aot morem of focused and objective actions.

Remember, "We can stay where we want to if we are ready to pay what it takes to." {ibukun Olagbemiro}.

While you talk the talk, let us importantly stage the drama and eventually take the worthy steps to action.

September 30, 2007 | 3:27 PM Comments  0 comments

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STRAYING THE NATION'S (NIGERIA) FUTURE

Exams are signaling in my school (LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, LAUTECHOGBOMOSO, OYO STATE, NIGERIA), and expectedly the pressure is on. Alot of students falling sick, tests emanating from different angles and most of all (at least in my school), we are just starting and ending some lectures.

Some of this late coming and sometimes non-chalant lectures are expressly delievering their lectures with the attitude of expecting the studdents to grab magnetically.

What practically follow is that the tests and exams often come determinly diffficult to pass. But students always strive harder to get meaningful grades.

The heart lanceting part of the ordeal is the inputing of the results. How can you explain the wrong input of your result and the subsequent ineptitude plea of the Exam Officers that it is beyond their power to correct a mistake they outrightly made? This is becoming a norm, especially in the Faculty of Basic Medical Science.

What I likened it to was a surgeon performing an operation and cutting off the wrong vein or muscle, and he comes out to say; "I 'm so sorry, I mistakingly cut off the Jugular Vein of my patient. And now I've lost him."

What should be done for such a surgeon, I think will do for this Career suffocating officers.

The effect of this is some students actually giving up to give their best. Wrong focus , attitude, etc, sets in. Thus the subsequentstraying in asome of these helpless students.

We hope things don't continue with this trend, and wish all students of this Faculty and school at large a resounding success in their exams...against all odds.

September 27, 2007 | 8:59 AM Comments  0 comments

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NIGERIA YOUNGSTARS AND THE FUTURE: ARE THEY MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE?

I had a younger brother and four of his friends come with Mum to Ogbomoso, Nigeria,(where i'm presently schooling) yesterday. They actually came to resume at their new Senior Secondary School all the way from Ibadan (South West Nigeria).

I called my younger brother and asked him a question i've asked him Alot of times before now. His response, though completely different from what he use to tell me, I was very unhappy about a situation I've being trying to help for some fairly good period of time but have made little progress.

Answering my uninteresting enquiries, he displeasing told me he was decide this time with his response earlier. This prompted me to inquire into the decisions of the rest of his peers with regards to what I'd previously asked my little brother. And guess what? Not one of them disappointed me as they gave expected answers.

All of them wanted to be in science class and four of them wanted to be medical doctors in future. But that was not 75% of them would have gone for. What had influenced their deciosion was majorly their parents' wishes and peer influence.

In a career talk show organized by my secondary school's Alumni early this year, at Oritamefa Baptist Model School, in Oyo state, Nigeria, 85% of the most senior students are hoping to pursue a career decided by their parents and influenced by their peers. With many young people around me, the story is not different.

With th present obvious shift of the world from Industrial Age to Information Age, will this kids be able to fit into the fast approaching world in few years to come? Sad it is to note that most parents even after living for more than 15 years with their kids cannot conclude on what they like to do. In other words, it is not with the knowledge of councelling that this is done, but with obsolete intuition that that is the only way they can be secured in future.

Without being bias, they are often always wrong because today, most students and youth are going all the way to do things that are immiscible with the courses they offer in school. For instance, many students are good fashion designers today, and they are just counting days to get out of school and start their business. many students like this are studying disciplines that are contrary to their parents dictates.

In my own little way, i try to organize career talk shows so as to enlighten this kids. They need to be allowed to follow thair heart. Or better still, the services of a councellor be employed, and this, many schools (Primary And Secondary) in Nigeria lack.

The establishment of functioning and effective Guidiance and Councelling Unit in Nigerian schools will help check this problem

September 24, 2007 | 10:18 AM Comments  0 comments

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LEGAL STIMATIZATION?

Millions of money had been gulped. Despite the various events organized in more than two decades, slightly-apparent improvements are just being observed. And just when the world could exhale for progress, a tertiary institution of less than six years of existence somewhere in the tropics of West Africa looms to fracture the sigh of success. Or whatelse could wecall the MANDATORY HIV/PREGNANCY SCREENING allegedly demanded by the Convenant University, Otta,Ogun State, of some graduating students?

The recent “Towards a Total Graduate Scheme” of the school which is the disdainful umbrella sheltering the future-suffocating,mandatory HIV screening is too minute, logically, to defend the screening in question.

The National Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS (NACA), which is the the umbrella body for other HIV/AIDS oriented program does not in any regard compell any organized body to enforce test on people, though it is worthwhile to know ones status.

According to the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Section 17 (3) (c),provides that “All citizens, without discriminationagainst any group whatsoever, have oppurtunity for securing adequate means of livelihood as well as adequate oppurtunities to secure suitable employment.” There is no soothsaying that can guarntee indiscrimination after the screening in question. Thus the section of the Supreme Instrument of the country is disregarded. Even the Government Policy on HIV/AIDS is based on the principles of Human Rights, Social Justice and Equity.

This ill-fated scheme of Convenant University should be aborted with no flinch. Sequel to this schem, I want to call the attention of people who are against stigmatization that there are whispers that some firms are requiring intending staffs to go on mandatory HIV test, after which the are turned down if infected. Lets say no to stigmatization.

People living with HIV are not sentenced to death. It is just like malaria or any other infection.

LET’S SAY NO!!!!!!!!!!!! TO STIGMA

September 18, 2007 | 11:44 AM Comments  0 comments

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Contest honors best Nigerian reporting of AIDS

Region :None
Country :Nigeria
Topic :Health, HIV/AIDS, Fellowships and Awards

27/08/2007
Nigerian reporters who cover HIV and AIDS issues can submit their best work to the Red Ribbon Awards, organized by Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS). Deadline: September 28.
Stories should have been broadcast or published from November 1, 2006, to August 31, 2007. There are various categories for reporting, features and commentary, from print, radio and TV journalists. Each participant can submit up to two entries. There are cash prizes worth up to NGN100,000 (about US$790).
For details, contact O’Femi Kolawole of JAAIDS at ofemi@nigeria-aids.org or visit http://www.nigeria-aids.org/.


September 18, 2007 | 11:39 AM Comments  0 comments

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GOD IS ROMANTIC!


SHE looked radiant, comforted and pleased as she woke up.
Or was she ever asleep?
From the scorch that dried up, it was cool all around.
She moved unnoticed, blowing tenderly from her heart.
She sizzled around me, first cycling me for too long (I thought), but thence she came all over me, bit-by-bit.
My head she calmed with a touch that took me to paradise, denying me of every straying thought.
Gently, mildly, she kissed my forehead, and blood seems to rush from every part of me to that point of divine contact.
My eyes were opened but without vision,
Yes not seeing,
As it was not spared from the thrill of scintillation sent through me.

LIKE she loved precision, her kisses trailed over my nose,
First it ached for more, more uninterrupted ones.
With her mouth she did holy wonders on the coverings of my teeth,
My head went numb as piles of heavenly-craved kisses ate into my lips,
And sent sensations as far as my ribs.
My lips turned red,
Red, dry and swollen from the kisses that halted sooner than I had anticipated.
I prepared for the day’s task,
Changing from old wears into befitting garments.
As the soothing water washed over me,
She ran her fingers through me,
Aching every sensitive nerve within me.
Every image conjures to give hers,
The wind that blew was like hers,
Dauntingly rising was her light from the east,
Sparkling from every water around,
At a time, it was harsh,
At another instant, it was kindly smiling,
The light that lights always my noon path.



DONE for the day,
I traveled down to my aboard,
To meet my waiting beloved,
Again, feel her magical deeds.
Then the eastern origin light was waning,
Until finally it was gone, but not without comforters.
Solace filled faces stared from above,
With small, enviable glows,
I was left with wonders in my heart,
Of how their glow they came by.

AS I lay myself down to sleep,
She came over me once again,
Laying all over me in earnest,
This time with a bright cool florescence,
A persistence of its lighting my path.
She nimble progressively from atop me,
Down towards my positivity of gravity,
With so much love I’d never seen,
As she stroked me into a restful sleep.

SHE does wonder always,
Even when I feel things are amiss,
A waiting solace for every ach,
A daring soul mate for every hurt.
Such a wonderful care we enjoy from Mother Nature,
Sequentially with every passing day,
With the directive of God her maker.
What a romance no lover can give,
Except God the better lover.
Little wonder it amazes all the time,
The rudder with which nature is driven,
And the image in whose hands it does wonders.
Isn’t god actually romantic?



July 19, 2007 | 1:46 PM Comments  0 comments

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TRUE LIVING


We are born,
Each with desires,
Some burning,
And some domant.

While been happy for or envious of
Our folks, friends or foes,
We wonder in solitude,
The possibilities of life,
That has not made us
Thrive in such positions,
They are completely-in their own way-occupying.

The more intent of our desire of what they have,
The gradual we slip away from our own way,
Frustration and unfufilment,
Becoming our next of kin.

For as long as we keep running unchased,
Our speed is irrelevant.
This makes us see live,
But lo!
Not our lives.

The long stormy wishes,
Of what we have as vision,
Will be applauded with other people’s desire,
For such a success as ours.

But finishing as someone’s best mimic,
Leaves you with shared glory;
And apparently no one,
To be your own protégée.

True living lies in your living
A life after your own standards;
Your own yardsticks.
Only this way,
Can you have a record,
Such people will strive and sweat to reset.

Simply put,
It is creating pathway for people to walk,
And discover for others
(After their own discoveries),
The path(s) to tread,
To discovering theirs.

July 19, 2007 | 1:43 PM Comments  0 comments

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NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES AND ILL-LOGICAL STRIKE ACTION
Related to country: Nigeria



By the end of this democracy month, Nigeria would be celebrating an historic democratic governance transition. Also at the same time, the current strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), would be clocking almost two months.

We definitely would want to blame the government for turning deaf hears to the outcry of this union and the subsequent ‘stay-in-your-home’ notices that the students are compelled to keep to. However, I think the union’s retrogressive decision should be seen as more faulty in this present fix.

Knowing fully well that every plan on the heart of the government at the season was on conducting a peaceful election, it was therefore a step into tentacled-solution to have embarked on the current strike action at that period. If the union had thought of having the out-going government settles her case before her time lapse, they should know now that there failure is at large.

Any hope with the incoming government’s prompt opening of our universities is only in our heartfelt prayers. What if the next administration does not take up the strike as a challenge contrary to the hypothetical reasoning that ASUU might be expecting?

This major tool of trade unions (strike actions), in attaining her feat from the government seems a waned tool indeed, especially for ASUU. Hospitals had been seen to do the same; even Nigerian Police Force is not left out and had not intrigue the government with such act.

We hope that God-oriented solution would come soonest. Hopefully, ASUU strike will soon be over, and that Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), will not start theirs.

May 15, 2007 | 12:38 PM Comments  1 comments

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THIRST FOR INSIGNIA

Luxury is a lifetime desire,
Of every breathing being;
Those that will always retire,
Also those that will not cease working.
The young today
Wants the ruling scepter,
They would go all the way,
To make their aim glitter,
Forgetting that things done in scurry,
Often end up in pieces,
Which only impose worry,
With no solution’s traces.
You only need to make goals with prudence,
And pursue them with sapid diligence.



March 24, 2007 | 3:54 PM Comments  0 comments

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GRACEFUL DISGRACE


Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
Much too austerer,
Than we could think, further.

Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
A king in the coming of the server,
Whom the heavens raised higher.

Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
He healed our diseases proper,
Letting if younger or older.

Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
Arrested and mocked with wine and laughter,
Yet for our cause remained calm and tender.

Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
Made to carry our sinful cross much heavier,
And nailed on it more harder.

Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
Coming back to break asunder,
The believer from the sinner.

Confess the descent in the manger,
Of our restitiutor and lover,
When he returns as a taker,
Will he take you with him higher?



Quote: Your life I s either making Jesus’ life a ‘graceful disgrace’ or a ‘disgraceful grace.’

March 24, 2007 | 3:50 PM Comments  0 comments

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BREEZE OF LOVE

Oh! The wonder breeze of love,
In thy features do I wreath;
My hiding place lies in your grove,
From it, I take in purified breath.
It filled me with warmth in winter,
Laying over me the blanket of care,
It made my whole better,
Taking me over the things, I couldn’t bear.
Its subtle tender blow,
Makes me feel angelic,
In your wind do I grow,
Strongly and healthy without a stink,
It takes me to a serene pool,
Furnishes my heart with its cool.


March 24, 2007 | 3:46 PM Comments  0 comments

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UNIVERSAL CROWN


Say I’m not a prince,
Or you’re not a princess;
At the royal call I can never wince,
Neither could anyone in the process.

Have we got choice anyway
To parry the inevitable crown,
That has gotten it’s leeway
From the one unquestionable?

Yet I wondered at how it was made,
Without faults nor flaws;
To fit the master and the maid,
Despising who makes or obey laws.

It closes the eyes forever,
Leading the body through the narrow earth;
Saying no talk now nor never,
But longing for home and hearth.


What as man gained from his toil,
Made unswervingly under the sun;
Or what his wry work on the soil,
Has implacably won?

All roads leads,
With definite crown to he grave;
Whether or not you have executive beads,
It does to the lame as to the brave.

‘Gone to glory’, they’ll say,
Not knowing his been crushed by lorry;
Of his past work and way,
He then looks innocent and sorry.

We all will go down,
Epitaph echoing our stance;
Let’s correct our ways with whip,
To dismay the crown with a prance.


February 2, 2007 | 6:39 AM Comments  0 comments

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VARIOUS NIGERIA

A typical African country that produces crude oil;
Once a major exporter of some Agricultural products;
A heartily corrupt nation that holds upper hand in religious activities;
A country of heaven’s deposits indebted internationally
to monetary organizations.
That is a Nigeria to the United Nations.


A stable of fellow Nigerians,
Meant to live by designated rules-favorable or not;
Assemblage of heads to support downstream sector deregulation;
A gathering of life to be ‘governed’.
That is a Nigeria to her President.


A conglomerate to be backed by rules;
“A ‘legal-bound’ life is what they have to offer;
These laws are meant to help the people,
Most especially to help them know their ‘rights’;
The people we make laws for”.
That is a Nigeria to some Legislators.


A pond to transact business;
An arena to create (in one’s own power) bunch of employments;
The gatherings of mouths to feed;
A place where business thrives.
That is a Nigeria to a business man.


An array of fools,
That gives anything to cherish deceit;
Givers of money for unknown business;
Desperate set of individuals on ‘fast cash’.


Long as divers people and professions exists,
‘Nigeria’ of various kinds will be,
What you make out of what you have
Is what determines your type of ‘Nigeria’.
No matter how ugly your dissatisfaction is,
People with abundant opulence will always have the ‘good Nigeria’.

You’ve got what it takes to create your choice of Nigeria.
Stop living in another man’s world,
Create your own ‘Nigeria’.




February 2, 2007 | 6:27 AM Comments  0 comments

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SERVANT- KINGLETS

Men coveting what are not theirs,
From far longingly stares;
Razing the nobility they’ve got,
Very vast and hot,
Without good thought about posterity.
They race across borderlands for prosperity,
Ignominiously decrying their heirloom,
For works unfairly and loom;
Working tirelessly than camel;
Their greedy master draining reaps with covert funnel.
Work done in their motherland with shame,
They do unsimmeringly with vain claim,
Our complexion on board we ridicule as slave,
Theirs with us we wonder and wave.
Selling ourselves for unworthy metal is ludicrous,
The demoralized posterity so lugubrious,
You’d better breathe your last,
Where you’ll have helping actors and cast,
Than let go the thin, brief life’s rope,
In a land where not even your living soul has hope.

Quote: What you make out of yourself is what people will make out of you.


February 2, 2007 | 6:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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THE CONCEPT OF 'BLIND LOVE'

The Concept of ‘Blind Love’

The citations of many people to the above concept seem to beam emergency attraction. The most common school of thought today is that ‘irrationality’ is displayed (on the part of each lover involved) to the external environment. The external environments include the immediate environment, peers, and relations and so on.
The thesis of irrationality is not as deep as it may seem considering the following:

1) Two people in love as opposed to their families’ consent decided to be heady and respect not their parents’ springs of verdicts but went ahead with their affair, counting on their ‘love’ for each other . They might be seen as totally insensible and blind to a proper set of reasoning by their external environment.
2) A person having an affair with someone from another tribe, race, etc against his racial obligations would quite be seen as irrational by his race. Though he seems to tell them they are myopic, they would not consent to his thesis of ‘love’ rather say he’s love blind.

We can have more instances but the point is; the concept of ‘blind love’ might actually be real if considered from another angle of reasoning. In a relationship, what we seek is a companion, confidant, and a better-half. No matter how ‘complete’ the person is, there are always differences. Hypothetically therefore, it is our ability to see these differences, understand and live with them amicably is what I see as: ‘the love between two lovers been able to overshadow their ‘differences’ contrary to their external environment.
Putting it to you, do you actually see from any angle that love could at a point need to be blind?

January 29, 2007 | 10:17 AM Comments  1 comments

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MARBLE MARKS (A Poem)

The inscribed name on the sea shore,
Though adroitly written;
Is soon oblitrated-afore tore,
It's traces never again seen.
The mark that forever remains a lark,
Are those inscribed on a marbleboard;
So patent like a shark,
The most conspicuous in it's world.
Inculcate dexterity n your ways today,
To have it sculptured on the marbleslate;
Let go carelessness in your deeds everyday,
To write not your name on the seaplate.
Allocate your best to everything,
To be on earth an exceptional being.


Quote:Be at your best always because your best is written on the sea shore and your ignorance on the marbleboard.




Ibukun Olgbemiro (c)2007

January 27, 2007 | 9:50 PM Comments  0 comments

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THE PROPER IMPROPER

LIFE, someone said is in phases and men in sizes.To a large extent, i agree because for every situation we find ourselfs, the provisions are not often astray. thus we must always prepare at every point of rest in the race for a more tasking run ahead.we are in the making, let us therefore be made so as to become the aims of our chest.when things are improperly occuring, we should properly approach them so as to alter properly the improper in them, because we face proper consequences for every improper situations that are improperly handled.

Take a proper step today and make the improper work properly for you.















January 27, 2007 | 9:23 PM Comments  0 comments

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WHAT KEEPS MY LANTERN BURNING (A Poem)

What keeps my lantern burning,
Are things from my lover's resource;
Day and night it's never ceasing,
Because supply quenches not from the source.
Her fragrance distinctly piquant,
Making my soul journey away;
Her face blazingly blooming like a flower pleasant,
My heart it stole everyday.
Her presence makes the lily's light,
And the marigold for envy went pale;
The stars assembled to make her bright,
But their light couldn't worth her nail.
She keeps my lantern burning best,
Illuming the whole world's nest.

Quote:Love is life's fuel, when it finishes life diminishes.



ibukun olagbemiro (c)2007

January 27, 2007 | 8:45 PM Comments  0 comments

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COMPLAINTS (A POEM)



It is the agony of displeased souls,
Neglecting if right or wrong;
But all things become foul,
When expectations are changed with a prong.
It could also be uttered,
By men of sanity heart;
Whose goodness has shattered,
And desires pulled apart;
Thus it's become world's idiosyncracy,
Hymn sang by all hierachy of people.
Even where exists flawless democracy,
Our derisions pre-empts our dimple;
It indubitably shows our anguish,
But it never suggests how to clear the rubbish.



ibukun olagbemiro (c)2007

January 27, 2007 | 6:14 PM Comments  0 comments

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