Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time – Steven Wright All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking – Friedrich Nietzsche …. Hence this ‘great’ trek piece. So, many people as we know have trekked and still trek for the right reasons. Some trek for solidarity; for peace walk protests like in […]
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I must have asked myself this question more than I can remember especially the past few months after passing out (National Youth Service Corps, I mean). Trust me this is not some clueless or some ‘No Future Ambition (NFA)’ typa rant. (‘tis some rant…but not clueless. Lol) As a Nigerian, the plan has always been
I was going through a book/diary I took to orientation camp some few months back and stumbled on my account of my first day in camp. Yeah, it is very embarrassing but #pleasedontjudgeme 06/03/2013 (Abuja, Kubwa) “So I couldn’t make it to camp yesterday (05/03/2013)… hence my coming today… ok. My aunt already told
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(Word) – Ant: /ᴂnt/. -n. (Synonym) – An average Nigerian: /ən ᴂvərɪdʒ naɪdʒɪəriən/ -phrase. Okay, please pardon my ‘use’ of English. “Thank you”. So now let’s start. Apart from being small crawling insects that live in large groups, what comes to your mind when you hear or see the word “Ant”? Let me guess, “Hardworking”?
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NIGERIANS: THE HAPPY –GO-LUCKY– PEOPLE I was tempted to use “the happy-go-lucky people”, instead of the ‘happy people’. But then, I thought about it for half a minute. Here goes [replay of my thoughts]: “we can’t be ‘happy-go-lucky people’, we are not happily unworried or unconcerned. In fact, we worry and we are concerned because
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– I pledge to Nigeria my country; to be faithful, loyal and honest, To serve Nigeria with all my strength (or breath?); To defend her unity; and uphold her honour and glory (so help me God) – There goes our Nation’s pledge which is to declare our loyalty of service, even if it requires us
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This research was carried out by the ‘above-mentioned’ communication scholars, using content analysis, and was centered on the unending/ever-present imbalance in communication flow between the ‘first world’ (developed countries) and the ‘third world’ (developing countries). The primary objectives of this research were: to find evidence of whether the structure of news flow has changed since
