“All men like best to join up with the power that is the first to show its strength”. Xenophon, 430-370 B.C.
(VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p. 197).

We toil, and toil and toil! Then we hoard and hoard and hoard. What for? For the future.
For our old age. That’s the mind set of most human beings. We don’t know what the future holds for us, but we know what we want it to hold. That is, a life of ease and good health, particularly in our old age.

Frequently, a certain segment of Nigerians, particularly those from the Southern flank raise the flag of progressive politics, and claim to represent the sum of all practices of progressive ideas in Nigeria. The North of Nigeria is also thus frequently cast as providing the antithesis of progressive politics, and therefore becomes the veritable face of Nigeria’s antinomy in the consciousness of the South.

In African traditional religion, evil in the form of calamities and misfortunes, is almost always traced to supernatural causes. It is considered as punishment from the spiritual realm for committing what the Igbo call nso ala or abomination.

I had not meant to write of my experiences in the past couple of weeks but by some weird coincidence I got permission to do so by a most unlikely source; the lead actor in what was a tragic-comedy of sorts. Last year had come with its share of difficulties but it seemed to be ending on a great note as most of the issues that made it hard were all resolving themselves just as December was rolling away.