The Wordsmith Blog™

Like that old familiar line from somewhere in the New testament Bible; "The child in my womb leaped for joy" feeling, so it was for me on hearing this news. Obviously I have wasted no time in revealing my stand point on this novel development .  "It's long overdue" I felt within me. Its something I had always waited for. However down trodden our tertiary education, and I must say education at all level in Nigeria has gone, a First Class degree isn't sold with trays in the market just yet. You have your opinions about that sentence, I agree. (A yoruba adage says and I interprete ; "If you journey far, you'll come accross a hunchbacked ‎squirrel ") Kudos to those who where able to bag such an enviable degree from their various institutions of learning (I didn't) .  The recent development by the NYSC in ploughing back excellence produced by the Universities and Polytechnic into the same is commendable. It saddens my heart to see that graduates

You wish, very earnestly, that your pay-TV subscription would not run while you are not watching. You are not alone. Almost every pay-TV subscriber would want it that way. That would make us use our subscription in a way similar to how we use the airtime on our phones when we are on the pay-as-you-go platform. It would be terrific to subscribe for one month and have the subscription stretched over three or four months by being billed only when we watch. If we do not watch for a cumulative of 10 days in a month, perhaps because we leave for work very early to return very late, attend many social engagements or travel out of town, we would have gained 10 days in the next month because we would not have been billed for the time we were not watching. In very simple terms, you would want to be billed only when you watch-for an hour, two hours or more. It is just terrific. No other way to describe it. But it is an eminently unrealisable wish. It is also technologically unworkable. First and

"Everyone Is A Stranger, A Visitor Somewhere. This new found hostility by South Africans, towards other nationals is uncalled-for. To think it's the presence of foreigners in a country that hampers availability of jobs and other socioeconomic gains is a wrong notion, and as for me, is  a clear indication of misinformation and there's a need for re orientation of South Africans. If non-nationals are getting the jobs in your country, then it could be a clear indication your unemployability or share laziness and/or inability to come up with business innovations which these foreigners have done and is inturn appearing threatening to you/your survival in your own country. To have descended to such low i.e Xenophobic actions, going even as far as killing and maiming foreigners is appalling and show a gross level of barbarism.  Your plights could have been tenable to some extents if channeled appropriately, ofcourse we had the "Ghana Must Go" in Nigeria, which in my vie

The 2015 Grammy Awards   was an exciting one and was full of surprises but in the awards given and other antics. Newcomer, Sam Smith stunned all by taking home 4 well-deserved awards including Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Everyone was surprised when Becks clinched the Album Of The Year award in a tight group that consisted of Beyonce(!), Ed Sheeran, Pharell and Sam Smith, so stunned that  Kanye West almost pulled a Taylor Swift on the poor guy . Rap heads, for the first time are happy with the year's rap awards (mostly because Iggy didn't steal it as expected) as respected rap figures won the awards this time. Eminem won Best Rap album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration while Kendrick Lamar won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap song for i. Iggy who was nominated for 3 awards and who people were scared will end up with Best Rap Album unfortunately did not win any while Beyonce who was tipped to clinch the Album of the Year (and the

The 2014 Headies Award, has come and gone, though not without its flaws, reservations and flaws as regards timing, programme quality, content amongst other things. We can only look forward to a better show come 2015. Below are the List of Winners in this Year Headies Award with Olamide, Davido and Patoranking winning 2 Awards each. Checkout the Winners below:- BEST R'n'B SINGLE LET SOMEBODY LOVE YOU- 2FACE IDIBIA –  Winner IYAWO MI- TIMI DAKOLO PLAN B – WANDE COAL DON GORDON – BURNA BOY BEST POP SINGLE DOROBUCCI – MAVIN CREW –  Winner AYE – DAVIDO JOHNNY – YEMI ALADE PULL OVER – KCEE DOUBLE WAHALA – ORITSE FEMI CARO – STAR BOY FEATURING WIZKID AND L.A.X SURULERE – DR. SID BEST RAP SINGLE PARCEL- PHYNO –  Winner DOPE MONEY – OLAMIDE FT. PHYNO SHOTZ ON SHOTS – ICE PRINCE FT. SARKODIE RAP IT UP – POSLY TD DEAF – EVA ALORDIAH WTF – ILL BLISS BEST STREET-HOP ARTISTE DOUBLE WAHALA – ORITSE FEMI –  Winner SHOKI – LIL' KESH DOROBUCCI – MAVIN ALOBAM – PHYNO BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (M

Pharrell, Beyoncé and Sam Smith lead the field of nominees for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards with nods apiece, including Album of the Year, for which they'll square off against Beck and Ed Sheeran. Below is the full list of nominations for the Grammy Awards 2015: ALBUM OF THE YEAR • Morning Phase, Beck • Beyoncé, Beyoncé • X, Ed Sheeran • Girl, Pharrell • In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith RECORD OF THE YEAR • "Fancy," Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX • "Chandelier," Sia • "Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)," Sam Smith • "Shake It Off," Taylor Swift • "All About That Bass," Meghan Trainor SONG OF THE YEAR • "All About That Bass," Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters (Meghan Trainor) • "Chandelier," Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters (Sia) • "Shake It Off," Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) • "Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)," James Napier