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On my way to work every morning, I am faced with a reality quite distant from the world of twitter, Facebook, television talks-shows media-hugging symposia. At the bus stop near my house, a group of young men, all in their twenties, are alert, awaiting arriving buses for alighting passengers. On sighting a halting bus, they sprint, with all energy, seeking exclusive claim over the loads in the boot. Usually, they want to be able to grab bags of onions, baskets of tomatoes, bundles of vegetables, bags of rice or beans, tubers of yam, etc. But there’s no major market around, which means a considerable shortage of the goods they are out to carry. These are the wheel-barrow boys whose only means of livelihood is the luck to, first, overpower competing hands and lay claim to more of the loads, and secondly, be blessed with a client who wouldn’t want to squeeze out enormous profits from the transaction by paying too little. These young men are supposed to be part of o...

I am a Christian. In expressing that identity, I align myself with the new dispensation of Christianity that is Pentecostal; described aptly by the strategist Leke Alder as “generally creative in approach, aggressive, uninhibited and resourceful”.   I am a born-again Christian. A tongue-speaking, Christianese-loving, church-working Christian. I love God with all my heart.   Unfortunately, in Nigeria that can immediately mean that I cannot be trusted, that I have no integrity and that I will in no way act like Christ. But this is not the fault of those who see us in this way; it is our fault; us Christians who have perverted the Gospel we are supposed to share.   The way we have served God here appears to have done us more harm than good; if anything the fact that most of our leaders who are corrupt and inept are some of the most religious people you will find anywhere in the world says a lot about who we are, and explains the disdain with which non-relig...

Please be warned!!! No matter how many times you get this message, please share it! Bottled water in your car is very dangerous! ...On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her Breast cancer. It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue. Sheryl crow’s Oncologist told her: “women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car. The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle, which releases dioxin into the water. Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. So please be careful not to drink bottled water that has been left in a car. Pass this on to all the women in your life. This information is the kind women need to know, it just might save them. Use a stainless steel or a glass bottle, instead of plastic. Let everyone who has a wife/sister/ daughter/­mother know please!!! Save a life and breast today...(forwar­ded as received)

Literary icons, Professor Wole Soyinka and J.P Clark have   reportedly   linked the death of renowned writer, Professor Chinua Achebe to the Kano bomb blast which killed several people at a bus park on Monday. In a press statement jointly released by both highly respected writers, they noted that Achebe’s death might have been hastened by the news of the “massacre of Chinua’s people in Kano.” The statement reads thus:   “For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter. “Of the ‘pioneer quartet’ of contemporary Nigerian literature, two voices have been silenced – one, of the poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the novelist Chinua Achebe. “It is perhaps difficult for outsiders of that intimate circle to appreciate this sense of depletion, but we take consolation in the young generation of writers to whom the baton has been passed, those who have already creatively...

Fellow Nigerians, let me join you and countless others across the universe in celebrating the life of one of our few global Ambassadors, Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, who took a final bow two days ago as the curtain was closed on his spectacular performance on the world stage. It was a total blackout as the lights dimmed for a man who had sparkled under the klieg-lights for half a century of his 82 years on earth. The rumour of his death had earlier crept in last week but that was soon dismissed as arrant joke. But this time around, the news came back with a renewed vigour and slammed at us like a ferocious thunderstorm. It was impossible for an Achebe to have gone quietly. The era of social media had foreclosed that possibility. Every family now has a stake in the new media that makes everyone an automatic reporter. Those days are gone when we had to wait for media houses that had to wait for confirmation from those not ready to confirm anything. These days we capture t...

Kevin-Prince Boateng has stated that greater multiculturalism in football, will help eradicate racism from the game. The AC Milan midfielder, walked off the pitch after he suffered racist abuse, in a friendly game against fourth-tier side, Pro Patria in January. He met with FIFA president, Sepp Blatter on Thursday, to discuss the subject of racism in football and was of the opinion that the sport needs certain changes. “If it’s more multi-cultural, it gets more people and more countries involved and these things can help,” Boateng told BBC. “Let’s hope that soon there’s going to be a black [Jose] Mourinho and Pakistani [Pep] Guardiola. “A player who does something wrong, who is racist, can never play for the club again or can never play in the country again. These are the things that hurt and I think this is the right way to go. [It needs to be] very strict, very hard and make it very clear. Money doesn’t really hurt, it’s not the subject that can hurt you so much.” ...

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PREMIUM TIMES learnt that f oremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, is dead. He was 82.  He died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United State.   A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital in Boston. The source declined to provide further details, saying the family will issue a statement on the development later today. Contacted, spokesperson for Brown University, where Mr. Achebe worked until he took ill, Darlene Trewcrist, is yet to respond to our enquiries on the professor’s condition. Until his death, Prof Achebe was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown. Below is how the university profiled him on its  website . “Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is known the world over for having played a seminal role in the founding and development of African literature. He continues to be considered among the most signif...

My pain are mine to bear, Yet you will suffer for it all. My pain are mine to cry, Yet your eyes shall shear so many tears. My pain are mine to sale and give, Cos out of it shall this revolt voice be heard. These Pain, my cry shall not ceased Not until we fight. These pains shall not leave us Not until this plagues that befall us all Are wipe and clean. Not until good news come forth.  Rejoice for the days of fury For change fast approach. Rejoice for thy pain and cry Have being hear far amidst. Rejoice for thy actions has berth Forth this act of Rebellion. By Adedoyin Adedoyin Follow on twitter @kingoroola G M T Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujara...

The stories of Nigeria and Nigerians is becoming very annoying as the day go by, the news oozing out of this country to the international world everyday is becoming irritating or let me say hitching to the ears. Nigeria is place where all manner things happen, it a place where looters of national treasuries are given presidential pardon. It a place where government official steal millions of billions because nobody their ask them. It a place where Public servant rob the old retirees of their personal entitlement after they have saver their fathers land faithfully and go  Scot  free. That not just all about Nigeria, please remember they people made of different special of human being. Those with common sense which they say are never common and some are clueless that they don’t even know their constitutional right not to talk of knowing when to act and when to keep quiet against the state. Nigeria is a place where all manner of people attain public post and then call them...

Let’s face it. Most Nigerians, especially those on social media – “Twittering” and “Facebooking” – do not know much about our local politics, much less International Politics. I do not   claim to   be all knowledgeable   myself, but going by posts made on Twitter and Facebook, I realize I do know a lot more than most people. Something big happened on Tuesday. No it wasn’t the   Manchester United   v. Real Madrid match and all of the controversy that followed it. It was something bigger. Comrade Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela died. I do not call him Comrade because I am trying to be gratuitous. That’s what his people called him. Now if you know nothing of Hugo Chavez, you’d be forgiven for dismissing his death as another death, except in this case, it isn’t. You see Hugo Chavez whose fame was far and widespread beyond the borders of his country. He was a man loved by his people, at least a majority of them. I watched on satellite TV as people wore long...