simply oroque's view

well, i am inspired to write today by the blog post of my really good friend and fellow blogger, the fabulous miss.fab (at least in her mind..no hatin' folks, we're all allowed to dream), who went through her not so logical thoughts and set out her pet peeves for the day. it was hilarious. the very first peeve was against people whose blog she follows and who do not even branch by hers or even drop a comment or appreciate her "followership" as it were. i would like to think i am way above that level of pettiness but the truth is that more than 50% of every writer's drive comes from the desire to show off...you know, attract attention beyond the normal everyday cursory glance from your friends like everyone else. so it hurts really bad when it appears noone gives a hoot what you think or say...well, not really bad, maybe just pinches a lil. well, unfortunately for miss.fab, she's all alone. i have more than sufficient outpouring of attention from my readers and

i hear that there was a northern caucus meeting of politicians headed by IBB and Atiku, two northern politicians that Nigerians are happy to never hear from again. i'm not going to say a lot, cos i am in the middle of my working day (like that ever stopped me before), so i'll just share a poster i found on facebook so you get a visual picture of the perspective from which IBB is viewed by majority of Nigerians.

it started like every other morning. i was out of the house by 5.30. i said my usual prayers for protection in the car as we set out. driver and i had our fiften seconds of weekend catch-up and laughed a bit. driving in the dark is eomthing we have done together for 2 years now. 5.40 am, it starts raining...in torrents. windshield wipers are working full time and we are going at everybody's speed (i.e. about 80 KMH). i have this terrible habit of not being able to relax on any drive, no matter how long. not borne out of any nasty experience, but just as my natural security mechanism to make sure that if i cannot stop something from happening during the ride, at least i can see it happen. so i drive with my eyes as it were, staring ceaselessly through the windshield, sometimes telling my driver why its only logical not to keep following a certain car, or why the next lane would be a better idea. so as usual, i am staring into the dark rainfall when suddenly, the car in front of me s

Culled from "THE WILL Newspapers" San Francisco, May 31,: Nigeria’s former military leader, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on Monday urged the central government to immortalize Chief MKO Abiola by naming an institution of state after him. Moshood Abiola was presumed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential election which coincidentally was annulled by General Babangida before he was forced out of office. Babangida spoke to journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, shortly after arriving Lagos from Minna. He commended the President Goodluck Jonathan for recognizing the contributions and sacrifices Chief Abiola made in the enthronement of democracy in the country. "I think it is good at long last somebody is trying to acknowledge the efforts of Chief MKO Abiola. We cannot deny him the fact that he fought for democracy and I am glad that the government is accepting it. "Also, I want to see a situation whereby he will be immortalized as

to be honest, and as most of you know, i am one of the few nigerians who believe that nothing can come out of the overfed, underworked and semi-literate bunch of nigerian citizens who have meandered their ways into the national assembly. half of them are past government office holders who have run to the senate to avoid the prying eyes of the (now lame) EFCC, while the others are just getting paid back by their political godfathers who they have served faithfully for the last eight years. and so, you can imagine my disbelief when i hear that both houses of the national assembly have adopted a report for constitutional amendment, that actually makes common sense and is relevant to our polity today. it is this disbelief that makes me give a grudging kudos to the senators of the federal republic of nigeria, who i loathe only slightly less than tetanus infection. the media reports indicate that among other things, the adopted report recommends for elections to hold not later than 120 days