Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings to you all. Year 2011 has been really challenging to me and I know for most people all over the world. This year, we have had violence all over the World. Even in Countries that were categorised as peaceful by experts experienced one form of violence, bombings, Civil war etc. Because of these upheavals, most relationships faced threat or some of those unpleasant situations. But in all we must thank GOD. I guess without all these problems, we cannot appreciate GOD'S Love and faithfulness.

THIS SEASON: I wish you all everything that is bright and beautiful I wish you all everything that is most precious and dear I wish you all everything that brings joy and happiness I wish you all the love of God that endures I wish you peace that passeth all understanding I wish you all GOD's unchanging Faithfulness. I wish you all these and many more this Season and always.

Thank you for being there for me. Quite comforting and encouraging.

Deaths in the Church

In this Christmas season of love and joy, some people are still thinking of maiming, destroying and killing. It is really sad and unfortunate.

This terrorism is a new form of rebellion and alien to us. We know of strikes to press for demands and the attention of Government. Afterwards, the Niger Delta Youths came up with Kidnapping of Expatriates to force the numerous Oil Companies operating in the Region to start investing a little in the region. What they demanded was infrastructural development and respect for their environment. One of the Oil giant, Shell just devastated the environment with oil spill and refused to clean up. The main source of income of the locals which is farming was gone as the oil spill killed the fishes and left the farmland bare. After years of begging and nothing was done by the Oil Companies and Government, the Youths decided to form militant groups to demand change and payment to the people who had suffered neglect all these years. When the Youths started kidnapping as the last resort, the Government of those Expatriates prevailed on our Government and of course our Government listened. The regions had a Ministry dedicated to it, jobs were created for the teeming youths and Amnesty offered to the Militants. The Niger Delta Youths (the Militants)had a cause they were fighting for. Everyone in the Country and outside including the International Community was aware of the Cause they were fighting for and something had to be done. In the case of BOKO HARAM, can someone tell me what Cause they are fighting for? They said they dont want western education and democracy? Is that possible in this 21st Century? Honestly, if i have access to Government, i will tell them to shut all schools in the Northern Part of the Country and disconnect them from electricity. In fact every form of civilisation, will be erased from the region so they can go back to lliving like barbarians, animals that they are. Why attacking and killing innocent people? Why Christians? Especially in this period of celebration of HE who paid the price for all humanity. Why throwing bombs into the Church for goodness sake? A Holy place of Worship. That is sacrilege.

These people went to worship and celebrate the birth of JESUS CHRIST not knowing that the children of darkness were lurking at the corner street to kill themselves and take as many people as possible with them. I say once again that It is so sad and unfortunate. Unfortunate in the sense that our security agencies are not living up to the expectation of the people. They have failed in information gathering and investigation of these criminals. They need to expand their dragnet and up their surveillance. Enough of these senseless killing and destructions of properties.

Love With Eyes Open

Today Saturday 10TH December 2911, I just got a message from my friend who resides in LEKKI, a sprawling and elitist area of LAGOS CITY that a young girl was killed by her boyfriend because of jealousy. The boyfriend alleged that she was given the latest Blackberry Bold phone by an admirer who probably she was encouraging or had started dating. His reasoning is that no man gives a pretty girl such gift as Christmas present if there is nothing going on between them. That set me thinking. What is LOVE by the way? The Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary defined it as having strong feelings of affection for somebody. It is to care for someone especially in a way that is based on strong affection and a feeling of wanting to protect them rather than sex. To me, LOVE is being very fond of the person that you are willing to sacrifice all to make the person happy. So why would you have this strong feelings for someone and be willing to do so much for the person's happiness and comfort and suddenly turn to be the killer? Where and when did the strong and deep affection become muderous? They say LOVE is blind but I tell you it is not blind. The guy that will kill you will start from day one of dating to show you the signs. But most times, the other half ignores it. When we were in the University, a roommate was in such relationship and everytime we advised her, she would say that he would change. SHe would say that its because he loved her so much that he did not want to see people admiring me. Her excuses were so lame and stupid. Well we left her until the guy sent her to the Specialist Hospital in town for 3 weeks. This is because the school Medical Center did not have the facility to treat her again. The guy was possessive and suspicious of her every move. Even we her roommates were not trusted. If he came into the room and saw other guy talking to us, he would quickly called her out for questioning. At a point they became the butt of jokes on campus but that did not stop the guy. We always knew from raised voices because she would keep quiet about it. Some will call this love but it was not as far as we were concerned. Years later, she regretted being beaten and being stupid. I read a book by Praise George titled

LOVE IS NOT BLIND

. He stated there that

LOVE is the connection you have with the very essence of your partner. It has nothing to do with how good looking a person is or how successful or rich the person is. Love has to do with the character qualities of the person

See when we are stripped down to our innermost selves, what remains are our character traits. its these character traits that people should fall in love with but most times, the physical attributes that would soon fade are the things that we fall in love with. Like the writer stated in his book,

we stumble through a maze of external qualities and material enticements only to discover that what truly matters in a person, what really counts is inside the soul of that person.

Unfortunately, this young girl was not lucky as our roommate. She died today. It so sad that her life was cut short suddenly by a jealous, possessive maniac of a boyfriend. The man that pledged undying love to her is the same person that killed her. May her soul rest in perfect peace.

This NEPA na Wah O

This NEPA na wah o

That is the slogan we hear everyday in this part of the World. It means the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, the major and only Electricity generating and distributing company is not living up to people's expectations. Lately, the President has been writing on facebook that Electricity generation has gone up and there is going to be improvement in supply. We were glad the first time he wrote and were eagerly awaiting the miracle. My dears, there is nothing like that. What we have is darkness as usual. As I am writing this, I am using a generating set. In Nigeria, every family generates their electricity. Infact those living in

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all have

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generator to light their homes. What a shame? Now, the Federal Government wants to remove the Oil Subsidy claiming the middlemen are the beneficiaries of the subsidy. This time government is determined to increase price of petrol no matter what. But they have forgotten that most Nigerians generate their own power since NEPA has gone to sleep. An increase in price of fuel would lead to higher costs of generating electricity for the people and organisations.

We have been hearing news of repairs of old POWER PLANTS and the building of new ones on paper, Social media and news. But in reality, there is nothing. The other time, Mr. Tony Elumelu led a team from the National Assembly to go round the Country assessing all the contracts awarded for new Power Stations by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. What they saw were unbelievable and shocking to say the least. In other for them not to reveal what they discovered and the fraud, the contractors and the cabal accused them instead of fraud. They were arraigned and the case died there. Till date, no one has heard anything about the report. ALL the money paid out as mobilisation fees gone and the circle continued. The Government has come up with reasons why the New Power Stations are not built. It's either no gas supply or the foreigners want to run the plants on their own terms. Our Government is clueless on what to do to end this darkness that we are in. If fuel is increased, then majority of Nigeriand would no longer be able to generate electricity for themselves again. What a pity. As if that was not enough, PHCN notified Nigerians that tarriffs would be increased again. Can you imagined paying for what you dont use? Then paying more for a service that is not provided?. We are Tax payers yet we do not know where our taxes are used. No improved Infrastructure, roads still death traps and schools under lock due to decayed structures. Where is the so called dividends of democracy? For GOD's sake Let us have light now! Is that asking for too much. Afterall we were told during campaigns that Nigeria will turn to another America where everything works. Electricity is what our next door neighbours like Ghana, Togo enjoy 24/7. Why is Nigeria's case different?