One Week! One Problem!

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The cooking began like i imployed. This was however in an unceremonious fashion(I envisaged a grand launch). The first in the series of what we will cook was my critic of the ivory towers' bamboozling idologies where i defined management; taking a cue from a mentor as common sense put to work. Alast the cooking has began!

I was conversing with some friends; a typical group discuss at work very early in the morning. The gathering was a fall out of the news in the dailies.

The president of the most populous black African nation breaks the deadlock finally speaks on phone from his Saudi hospital bed


Divergent views emanated from this ludicrous headline. While some responded to it in utmost dismay (reactions not unusual), some others were quick to express their appreciation to God (at least the president is alive). As an active participant in some mini-debates as this (we have debates like this from time to time), i could only wonder why these drama seem to replay?

Let me be quick to say that i am not surprised(far from it). As someone who is familiar with journalism especially the print media; it would be hilarious to begin to ask why such gory and appauling news take the centerspreads. Stating why this is would be stating the obvious(Bad news sell fast). This is it. This is what you see everyday. Even The London News Time and other international posts explore this route to catch the attention of the reader at large.The dramas; the appauling dramas. These are the daily pre-occupations of my national village.Are you wondering which nationality this piece is? and where this is heading to?

Sorry for my oversight (if you havent decoded my origins just yet). I am a very patriotic, non-belicose Nigerian. A proud African. A man of strong conviction and religion. I am very much unsuicidal;( i can't imagine perpetrating any form of Jihadist propaganda unlike my fellow compatriot; Farouk Abdulmutallab).

My country; 1 Week! 1 Problem. It is a re-occuring decimal for you to see headlines as appauling as the one i mentioned. It is demoralising and nevertheless disheartning just to say the least that despite the acceptable plot by journalist to sell the tabloids, bad news sell;they sell fast, it is a slap on the face of many that the nation has lost it. Almost anything goes in my country. The center has failed to hold. Things have fallen apart (Chinua Achebe).

In my many reminiscient moments i have continued to ask- Why?


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