Straight Talk

As I was busy doing my Christmas shopping in the mall today and I met an old woman who called my attention and told me that this year will be her 97 Christmas. And why this years’ Christmas is so special to her is because she has seen many ups and downs of life which never deny her the measures of living a fulfilled life. She said that Christmas is the celebration of the living.   It is time to ref lect on our union with Christ, a time of stocktaking and period of sober reflection. She finally handed me a box of chocolate and ask me to share it with my neighbours, she insisted and tasked me that I must share the box of chocolate with neighbours reason because she said, that it was same way Christ shared His love to us. And finally as she was going, she waved good bye to me and whispered to my ears that this might be her last Christmas to celebrate. I came to realize that life is not all about how long you lived but on how fulfilled you've lived life. Wishing all my friends Mer...

In every country there are laid down laws on how foreign companies should operate whereby the company does not follow the rules of the game there would be penalties for such organisation breaking the rules. In as much as the multi-national oil companies which operate in Nigeria such as Shell oil, Chevron, Mobil, Texaco and British Petroleum (BP) etc, opt for business they should operate within the sphere of Nigerian constitution and that of the United Nation Charter on environment. The UN Environmental Programme “Barcelona Convention” held in 16 February 1976 Article (2) define marine pollution as” introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water and reduction of amenities.” Recently, four Nigerian farmers, backed by lobby group “Friends of the Earth...

In Julius Caesar Williams Shakespeare says that “Death, is a necessary end, it will come when it will come” but not in such manner that claimed the lives the entire family of 8 and a friend in a community called Umuakuru, Emekuku in Owerri, Imo State. Whether this family were gassed or was it as a result of natural cause for me, it is real disaster which the entire community will find difficult for a very long time in their history to get through. For some decades now Black man has advanced in diabolical means of killing their neighbours, friends, family members even their own siblings. Some called it “remote killing.”  The wickedness of man has been in existence right from time in memorial this was as a result of greed, jealously, hatred and covetousness. Example of this was that of Cain’s case in the bible that killed his brother Abel because of his poor offering offered to God which was not accepted while Abel’s offering was accepted by God as a result of it Cain rebelled ...

“In a state-run society the government promises you security.  But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.  The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.”...Theodore Forstmann  The killing of some members of MASSOB by government security agents has once again shown the high level of bias, hatred and insincerity on the side of the GoodLuck Ebere Jonathan’s administration. It is very regrettable that Boko Haram a terror organisation which has a great link with AL Quaeda in North Africa has been allowed to inflict pains on Nigerians. The government itself has become subject of intimidation and humiliation by this terror group. Boko Haram has made nonsense of government security intelligence by bombing the key hu...

                                                                                                                               As Duncan Stokes was taking an evening walk towards the park; by the side of the road he came closer to a stationery car with its windscreen and side mirror smashed, he suspected it to be an accident scene. This drew his attention to come closer to know exactly what happened. It was a red Honda SUV which involved a couple who ran into a tree and eventually one of the tre...