simply oroque's view

in marketing speak, a space holder is an item used to fill out the portion of a graphic that you intend to place text of other graphic when the real text is ready. its just to identify that "something will be there in the final version"...it could also refer to stuff you use to fill out forms and diaries to meet a certain quota. its pretty obvious in blogs, when they run stories like "britney wears fake fur" or "justin bieber cuts hair short"...it becomes clear that its a slow news day and they must write something! anything. so this blog post right here is one of those spaceholders for me. i have absolutely nothing interesting to write about but just tiny pieces of stuff floating around in my life that i might as well just put down, so here goes: 1. Okonjo - Iweala has been sworn in as nigeria's finance minister. who was the former one again? you know, its weird that we think nigerians pay no heed to good works of noble people, because the excite...

and there i was bored as heck and flipping through my twitter timeline when i stumbled on the following back and forth in retweets: person A: "awwww, you shouldn't have said someone is ugly...its just so mean" person B: "being mean is not a criminal offence. besides if something is a fact, its no longer considered mean" Person A: "sha know that we are all God's creations" person C (from the blues): "yeah, all of us except Derek J" well, look, y'all know i'm a lawyer and as inquisitive as they come so at this point i had one of two choices. (i) jump in and retweet "whats a Derek J" (cos it better not be a human being that someone would speak about like that) or (ii) just google it. and so google it i did...and i haven't been able to snap out of it. here is Derek J. okay look. as everyone knows, i am all for the "do whatever you like as long as it hurts nobody" but c'mon! dude, seriously? so h...

i couldn't eat lunch today...cos right there in the canteen, cnn was beaming to the world the current process of an infant's life in somalia. pictures that i could not understand... 1. many young children are saddled with the responsibility for infant siblings when the parents die on the long trek to the nearest refugee camp in neighbouring countries. they often arrive malnourished with the infants near death 2. the refugee camps are themselves not in the best conditions. with 2,000 persons arriving daily the provisions in this camps are stretched beyond capacity five times over. 3. half the time, there is no food even in the camps and the memories of all the loved ones lost on the way can prove too much even for the surviving relative. with no hope for the next meal, water or basic hygiene the death toll in refugee camps is in itself alarming... 4. more than 2 million children are presently at risk of dying. malnourished to the point of no return, many of the docto...

there's this guy, yeah? (i like when girl's use "yeah" in every line)... he came from absolutely nowhere into the public consciousness when in 2007, abuja was awash with his posters in a bid for the presidency. yes, you heard me, presidente. a position that even the most sure footed party stalwarts were skeptical about putting in money and time. all the relevant players like danjuma and lar and all didn't even bother. but our dear mr. okorocha did. from feelers i got after the last elections a few months ago, mr. rochas okorocha has been politically active before he became famous and to cut an otherwise long story short, he is now the governor of imo state. as one nigerian who does not watch africa magic except at gun point, i'm usually not one to believe in voodoo as being the source of every single stupendously rich man, but i am yet to find anyone who has given me a break down of mr. okorocha's source of income. at least, i can point to dangote cement...