The Wordsmith Blog™

"Shortly after Madiba's demise, i'd wanted to write about the similarities btw OBJ & Mandela plus the vantage position OBJ had to become the TRUE father of a great Nation. The recent news about Obasanjo's controversial letter to Mr President has spurred me to finally write my opinions. Why is all these happening after Madiba's death? The death of madiba of must have been a major food for thought to OBJ who was obviously close to him during & after his struggle days. His open & self-indicting comment about mandela's refusal of his plea to stay in power seems to me as a man who's cherishing a value he never really had. That desire to play a 'fatherly' role just like mandela, a role he (OBJ) willingly threw away a long time ago must have now been cherishing to him. You are not a father or in a position to play the roles of a father (advice & rebuke) to a nation just because you have GREY hairs or the length of your days. You are qualifi

"JUST DO IT! What? JUST DO IT! Why? JUST DO IT! ...Tell me something else, there's something I'm yet to know, and failure to have me know it will have me JUST DOING IT." ***SIGH*** What a way to start a piece of writing I bet you're wondering. Many by now have figured where and to whom exactly the afore mentioned phrase (JUST DO IT) belong. For those who haven't, its a byline, a trademark of one of the world's biggest sport kit company, NIKE. Since its famous break into limelight, this word has never seized to inspire. At the mention of that phrase, you adrenaline pumps with a characteristic tickle in your body. The question of what exactly to do is usually not far-fetched. At the mention of the word "Just Do It" in your mind's-mouth, and more palpably, even from a person's lips or when read in a book, on a wall or on billboards, there commence a mind-scan/probe, you ordinarily want to relate it to something, you natural

"Peace for the rat, peace for the eagle; hunter and hunted, until then no peace shall find. Peace for the sword, peace for the wielder; until then, from blood stains none shall be spared. Peace for the food, peace for the chef, without which, both shall ever continue to sweat. Peace for the pen, peace for the writer, neither of the two can claim to feel no pains. Peace for the hated, peace for the hater, if they both will understand, not one is in a position of comfort. Peace for the candle, peace for the fire; only wish they both know sleep for the one is sleep for the other." LOVE PEACE, FOLLOW PEACE WITH ONE AND ALL. No one is ever truly at peace waring against the peace of another, its only a short while, and I hope not late, before we have all realized. +2348034780274

These lovely words came first from the pen of Thomas Jefferson(A one time U.S president) and are a part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. As our use of language changes though, the original meaning of that phrase has been lost. When Jefferson wrote "the pursuit of happiness" he meant something similar to "the practice of happiness." Think about the whole phrase this way - "life, liberty and the practice of happiness." We have life, we have liberty, and we can have happiness. Happiness has never been something to aspire to, but something to practice, or most fittingly, BE. As I think about this concept I recognize that we spend much of our time in pursuit, when what we really need to do is practice what we want. For example, it wouldn`t be enough to be in pursuit of an Olympic Gold Medal, you know the only way to get there is to practice. This may seem very obvious for the kinds of skills already associated with practice (

Its many hours gone now, and you're still "Wanting to do it" Its years gone now and not one move have you made, instead you've had accumulated months of wishful thinking. When exactly are you going to do it? Oh, at the right time you're saying? Am sorry to announce to you, that phrase is a SCAM, there's no such thing, you really must make a time right. Procrastination is a sickness of the; high and mighty, small and lowly, young and old, saint or sinner,rich or poor. Its got no bounds, it respects no limits. There exist a common saying that; "Procrastination Is The Thief of Time", but re-branding this, I'll submit that; "Procrastination Is The Thief of Life", for it steals your life right before your watchful eyes. It does it so cynically, you hardly realize you losing anything. Like that common African folklore that pictures the mouse as eating a part of you and blowing you cool air to the surface of that part of you being eat

Philippines storm kills estimated 10,000, destruction hampers rescue efforts Sun, Nov 10 18:34 PM EST Nigeria can at this point, despite her myriad of problems, thank the Author of the Universe for keeping her clear off natural disasters. We learnt of the Tsunami, and various hurricanes with their funny names; Katrina, Sandy, Haiyan et.al Now, let's have the news in full as reported by foreign media. (CBS & Reuters) Corpses rot everywhere as Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help November 11, 2013 by CBNews.com TACLOBAN, Philippines Bloated bodies lie in the streets, in front of houses, on bridges, in the water, wherever the giant wall of water happened to dump them when Typhoon Haiyan hit. Typhoon Haiyan first-hand account: "Everything was gone" The Philippines, an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands, is annually buffeted by tropical storms and typhoons, which are called hurricanes and cyclones elsewhere. The impoverished and densely populated na

Information as supplied by @newsbytesnow has it that GRE, TOEFL has been suspended Indefinitely In Nigeria For 'Security Reasons'. Security reasons they say, but one is left to wonder if Boko Haram have metamorphosed into internet viruses to attack the systems or server. It beats me though that the organization has failed to state these "Security Threats", but as much as we know as Nigerians, we can be safe to say the notorious Boko Haram sect is at this time the only tenable security threat. Nigerians await the revelation of these threats by the exam bodies in question. The News in Detail: Nigerian students planning to write qualifying examinations into colleges and universities abroad should start seeking other alternatives as Education Testing Services, ETS, has suspended both the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) in Nigeria "due to security concerns." ETS is the world's largest private nonp