INDEPENDENCE DAY BLUES!

(Blast from the past. I look forward to the year I'll discard this article.)

   The Nigerian Independence day has come. I always have mixed feelings every time it comes around.  Why? Despite all the money pumped into the country, sometimes borrowed, the country doesn’t seem to be moving forward.  Some people spend their time blaming the colonial masters for taking different confederacies and gluing them together to form a country; some spend their time blaming the leaders past and present, then the rest don’t even care. Well, the general news is that our leaders are the problem the country has, they destroy the country by stealing away the money meant for the masses, they say.

This leads me to the heart of my thoughts on this. Our national anthem, which I regret to say, some don’t even know the words, others know it but recite it like a poem they had to cram. They don’t know the meaning of the words in the National anthem, especially the first line.

‘ARISE O COMPATRIOTS, NIGERIA’S CALL OBEY

TO SERVE OUR FATHERLAND

WITH LOVE AND STRENGTH AND FAITH

THE LABOURS OF OUR HEROES PAST

SHALL NEVER BE IN VAIN

TO SERVE WITH HEART AND MIGHT

ONE NATION BOUND IN FREEDOM

PEACE AND UNITY’

Well, the National anthem should be scrapped because it is nothing but a farce.

THE CRAFTERS' CON

The Crafters’ Conference

Theme: Crafting the future with both hands,  

Date: 23 Sept; 2017

Venue: The Shalom Park and Events Centre, Unity bus
stop, Igando


The Crafters’ Conference is a platform designed for members of the craft community to showcase various talents and creatives that will beat your imagination.

The conference which is the first of its kind is organized by The Zazee Crafts; a paper and fabric crafts venture.

The Crafters’ Conference is a capacity building forum for people, especially the young, in different dimension of crafting. It is mainly in consideration of the important role of entrepreneurship in the development of the nation’s economy.

According to Azeezat Sanni; the Founder/Executive Creative Director of the venture and Convener of the conference;
‘We feel obliged to organise an event such as this to contribute our quota to youth and
entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. It is our conviction that many aspiring and already
established crafters would benefit immensely from various interactions ensued with the conference audiences and fellow crafters.
The conference which is also enriched with exhibition, training and retraining, it's our believe that the initiative will positively impact our image as a growing institution that is genuinely committed to promoting the spirit of enterprise, through craftsmanship, among young Nigerians.”

Participating in this laudable idea are Mrs. Oluseyi Abdullahi; the pioneer crafter in Nigeria, Founder/MD of Crafties Hobby Limited, Mrs. Olutosin Oladosu Adebowale; Founder Tosin Turn Trash To Treasure (5T) Foundation, Mr. S. T. Kuti George; President, Nigeria Small and Medium Scale Industrialists (NASSI) and Professor Niyi Osundare.

For further enquiries on events activities, registration and participation visit
www.craftersconference.zazeesworld.com

DEAR GOV. AMBODE AND LAWMA

Dear Gov. Ambode and Lawma,

Do you live in Lagos? Can you picture Lagos, August last year and now?

Don’t get me wrong, I think you, Monsieur Governor are doing well e.g. Berger i.e. the entrance of Lagos looks amazing. Back to the main issue.

WRITE OR FLIGHT?

  It’s been weeks, ok months, I wrote a word down. Not screenplays, I’ve been writing those. I mean an article, my thoughts for you, here, on my blog. I don’t have writer’s block, don’t misread me. I’ve never had that.  It’s far from that. Let’s just say, I decided to still my mind, stop thinking or sharing my thoughts and just go with the flow. Of what use is it?, I think sometimes. Do you read? Do you share them? Do they make any difference at all in your life?

   I just fell into a robotic comatose state. Frances, thou shalt not think. Lol! My thoughts catch up with me sometimes. They flood in. Then I begin to ponder, ‘which do I write down first?’ Then I will myself not to think and not to sit before my computer, stare at the

GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA AND THE 15MILLION NAIRA GIFT

Silas: Efenation! Chai! This boy is blessed. This boy is…

Vendor: Oga, no dey open my paper like that unless you wan buy am. (snatches the paper from him)

Paul: What! Fifteen million naira!

Silas: He who God has blessed no man can curse. Kai! I wish I was him. God bless this Governor and…

Paul: Was the fifteen million for a service he rendered to the state or a contract. Mr vendor, please let me…

Vendor: You wan buy the paper?

Paul: I just want to read this story.

Vendor: Me I just want to enter helicopter, build one storey building for my village and visit Queen Eliza.

Silas: (laughs) Tap into efenation’s blessing. The way…

Paul: Touché Mr vendor.

Vendor: why I go touch you?

Paul: I didn’t…Ok, do you have any idea why the fifteen million naira was given?

Vendor: Na dash e dash am.

Paul: Dash?

Vendor: Gift.

Paul: Wow! This can’t be true. It must be a rumour.

Vendor: Rumour ke? You no see am for paper?

Paul: it must be someone trying to tarnish the Governor’s image.