THE MASQUERADE BEHIND THE MASK.

Communication, transportation and information technology are sure tools for achieving globalization in the 21st century, hence the emergence of diverse measures for achieving this feat. Although most people continue to live as citizens of a single nation, they are culturally, materially, and psychologically engaged with the lives of people in other countries as never before. Distant events often have an immediate and significant impact, blurring the boundaries of our personal worlds. Items common to our everyday lives—such as the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the cars we drive—are the products of globalization.

 Lately the internet has been breaking frontiers of geographical and regional barriers and far dominating the anticipation of its inventors and one such tool for this trend is the creation of social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others.

The relevance of the internet and the existence of social media networks in our society today is a fact that cannot be overemphasized, but the adverse effects it portrays these days is eating deep into its importance thereby making it an optical illusion. Cases of cyber abuse has been reported globally ranging from; Online theft, Piracy, Character assassination, Sexual abuse, Impersonation to mention but a few, and it seem those of us vulnerable are good prey for our unsuspecting pillager to devour us like there is no tomorrow.

A LiFe cHanGing TEstiMonY.

It's with great pleasure that I share this testimony with you. Sitting outside my house one evening, I thought about my self-esteem and how I viewed life generally then I imagined myself, placed for an AUCTION SALE worth $1000000. Wow, I thought my orientation would change completely, I would change my appearance, routines and lifestyle. What about $2000000 I asked? I really felt valued and influential. Again I thought $10000000. Oh! I must really be needed to have such a bidder. Subsequently, I asked why would someone want to buy me for such an exobitant amount with the state of my life. At once, the spirit ministered to me," BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT I BOUGHT YOU WITH MY OWN BLOOD, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE? And I felt very terrible, how I had underrated myself all this time. Lesson is that we all should stop struggling with our "self-esteem" and start having "christ-esteem" because with CHRIST-ESTEEM, you would have all the self-esteem in the world. My life would never be thesame coz Christ was the highest bidder.


Egwolor Deborah Ufebe.

THE NIGERIA OF MY DREAMS (PART 2).

THE NIGERIA OF MY DREAMS (PART 2).

It is very imperative I pick up my pen again as a patriotic and optimistic citizen of the Federal Republic; do I say I happen to be the biggest dreamer in Nigeria your guess is as good as mine. It is with grave fervor, integrity, intensity and vehemence i write today as we witness diverse security challenges in our nation lately.

On Thursday 1st of January 1914 witnessed the almagation of the Northern and Southern protectorate by Sir Fredrick Lord Lugard. Nigeria will be celebrating a century as an amalgamated nation come 2014 but the true question is; are we truly integrated as a nation?

 We have witnessed security challenges recently in the past months, who would have anticipated a suicide bomb attack in Nigeria by a Nigerian, terrorism is taking its footstool in our society today all in the disguise of activism.

It is now palpable and discernable that the high and mighty in the society are aiding terrorism in a bid to fight their political grievances thereby causing instability in the nation, their act might be excusable because the judiciary has failed us, it is no longer the last resort for the common man instead the play ground for the crème de la crème and the political gladiators In our polity today, justice is been traded for money and the highest bidder carries the day, our mandate is no longer ours, sometimes it seem our franchise does not worth a grain of rice to behold. Our sense of belonging has been perverted by potent cogency.

THE PRESIDENCY MUST HEAR THIS.

We need not employ the services of a sorcerer, neither a diviner nor a magus to gain full knowledge of the current spate of malicious activities in our society today ranging from the high spate of insecurity to the level of injustice that has greeted the entire Nigeria populace, news and rumors of deaths has turned into a ritual lately. Terrorism is taking a footstool in our society; our safety is being compromised with fear of the unknown.

Maybe democracy has turned a curse to the common man instead of the highly anticipated dividends, we are now been compelled to cross examine our shoes thoroughly before wearing them for the fear of possible bomb implantation. Optimism has always been the prospect that has bind us together, we have dearly hoped for a better tomorrow. An average African father would look at his child and give an appreciating grin with hope of better prospects

THE NIGERIA OF MY DREAMS (PART 1).

‘Arise O compatriots’ these are the first words of our national anthem, chorale or national hymn, this is supposed to be a clarion call on all citizens of our great nation to be patriotic and to imbibe the spirit of brotherliness and also to build a great nation despite our socio-cultural, ethnic and religious diversity. It is also an official national song honoring the spirit of our native land. Some anthems specifically celebrate a historical personage or event; others exalt the beauty of the country. A number of anthems are simply melodies without words, often no more than brief fanfares.