Yar'dua, Jonathan the New Movie

Nigeria has always been a funny country, I will say probably the most entertaining country politically around. If you decide to separate yourself emotionally from the happenings in Nigeria for the past four months, you might be surprise that a Nollywood block buster story is in the making. I mean what is the probability of any of our movie writers thinking up such an explosive, intriguing and attention grabbing story. Every thing is complete in the story, we have the heroin/ lead actor of the movie in the person of Yar’adua. Turai, the beautiful and politically ambitious co- lead actor. Not forgetting the forever lucky Jonathan who is always at the right place at the right time and does not expect his luck to fail him now. Off course there are the bad guys in Aondaka and co who are bent on in fringing on not just the constitution but on common sense. We also have the supporting actors in the form of boot lickers who can’t seem to decide where there bread is most buttered. When Yar’adua was away it was tantamount to sacrilege to hand over the Government to Jonathan, but they could not move fast enough to show there loyalty once Jonathan was sworn in as Acting President. And of course no movie is complete without its extra’s, those that have no say in the movie but are never the less seen but not heard. The Honorable Nigerian public won this challenging and somehow mediocre role. The story is still under production, while we the reviewers wait with bated breathe for the next action. We only pray that in the course of these display of selfish ambition by all parties in the drama, Nigeria does not end up becoming the heroin that that is tragically eliminated.

Article submitted in my church for valentine day programme

If you were asked by someone what you want most in life, you are most likely to mention money, peace, good health and so on. It is highly unlikely that you would mention love; instead of love you might say a good husband or wife. The reason for these is the general believe in Nigeria that love can be purchased. How true that is really depends which side of the coin you are arguing from. But the truth is that love is probably the most abused term around. Anything can be defined as love these days, the only requirement seem to be the presence of a male and a female. What is love? Going through the Oxford advanced learners dictionary Love is defined as “A strong feeling of deep affection for……… The definition highlights a very important issue that shows the perception of what love is by the modern day man. Love is seen as nothing but feelings, that is why it is so easy for many people to walk away from there marriages. After all anybody can get there feelings hurt, and if love is all about feelings why should I stay there while you trample on my feelings. But did Jesus see love as feelings? He said you should love your neighbor as you love yourself. So it is quite obvious Jesus saw love as the totality of man. He made no exception; nothing must be kept aside. Jesus did not see any conditionality attached to love, you either love or you don’t. Recently I and a friend argued about the modern day wedding rite where “For better for worse” has been replaced with” for better for best”. He saw it as a proclamation of future good tidings I saw it as a declaration of fear. The fear of the cost of love has lead many girls into marriages solely for financial reason at the cost of happiness. The fear of the cost of love has lead many girls into prostitution believing God could not take care of there need. The fear of the cost of love has lead many guys into all sort of social vices just to satisfy a girl’s need. As St Paul wrote in Corinthians “True love is patient; love is kind; it is not envious or boastful. In the verse eight he pointed out that love never ends. So if you have true love you have no fear because you know that your father in heaven is always watching over you.