simply oroque's view

on my way to work this morning, i was handed a publication that consisted mostly of adverts. if you live in lagos nigeria, you get handed all sorts of publications on your way to work, some given politely, other just thrust into your car like you really have no choice than to receive it and read it. its usually the religious kind that have the effrontery to do the latter. so anyways, it ended up being interesting read, that is until i got to the advert that said "take back control of your home". naturally, i was intrigued. my mind went to all the instances when a man could lose the respect of his family, or lose his house to government etcetera. i shouldnt have tasked my early mind that far. it read: "take back control of your home. try our products and reverse the signs of 'weak erection, libido loss, sexual weakness, impotence etcetera." i really shoulda guessed, but pray tell, how on earth does getting increased sexual libido enable you take back control of y...

quite a few things in life are so constant that they attain almost statutory recognition. some of these are mere cultural habits that are so widespread that once you meet someone who claims to be from a certain tribe, you immediately assume that they must indulge in such a habit. for example, ibo people and going home at christmas time, hausa people and marrying underaged girls, calabar girls and their capabilities in...well, by now i'm sure you get the point sometimes, i wonder what the basis is for the continued practice of a habit especially those of my ibo brethren who insist on going to the "east" every single darn christmas. through horrid roads, incessant armed robbery attacks and the usual "evil relatives" just waiting to poison them through fetish means at all such visits to their hometowns, ibo people seem insistent on conitnuing this tradition against all odds. however, for the first time since i gained cognisance of my surroundings, this year 2009 ma...

i'm often the first person to admonish people to shut up if they've got nothing significant to say. hence the silence on this blog for some time. i just dont feel like anything significatn has happened to be worth my time and your attention. but i observed yesterday while driving home, that life is short and there is never a better time to set out one's thoughts than now. also, as there is never a time when my thoughts stop running, i guess there's always something to talk about. having said that, i would like to re-iterate my above advise to some funny guy who was introduced on a radio show last night as a "chieftain" of the People's Democratic Party. as you already know, the word "chieftain" now refers to any irrelevant maybe-not-even-card-carrying member of any political party. gone are the days when the word "chieftain" refered to the solomon lars, the sarakis and the adedibus. so anyways, i guess for lack of anything better to disc...