Nigerian Languages are gaining global recognition. Recently, Nigerian Pidgin got declared a non-English (Foreign language) recording dialogue in films at Oscars. In 2019, Lionheart, directed by Genevieve Nnaji, an entry for the international feature film Oscar category, was disqualified because according to the rules for this category, “an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.” Lionheart predominantly features English dialogue, some bit of Igbo Language and Pidgin. The disqualification got different people talking both on and off social media. Hence, the Nigeria Official Selection…
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The #EndSARS protest has been ongoing for days with the Nigerian youths in the forefront resilient and rebellious to the Nigerian government. The protest which has gone on for about 12 days now has seen the loss of at least ten lives. The protest, which saw the Nigerian government under undue pressure, dissolve the controversial police unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The disbanded police unit is trailed by allegations of abuse of human rights, extrajudicial killings, extortion, harassment, youth profiling among a host of other atrocities. Nigeria’s head of police Mohammad Adamu has established a new Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)…
A fundraising campaign launched to get a prosthetic leg for Jane, a disabled #EndSARS protester, raised N3.7 million in less than four hours. Nonso Egemba, a Nigerian medical expert better known as Aproko Doctor, who launched the fundraiser in the early hours of Sunday was able to get financial support from protesters at the ongoing #EndSARS movement. According to Aproko Doctor, the lady graduated in 2013 but she has been unable to get a job due to her disability. He had earlier enjoined Nigerians to donate N500,000 within a month to help support the cause. “This is Jane. She’s been…
It’s no longer news that there has been a nationwide protest against the operations Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS) in Nigeria. The masses and the victims of their unfair treatment have continued to registered their agitation, calling for the reformation and restructuring of the police force. What started as a local movement, has become a global phenomenon. International celebrities and the likes have also lend their voice to the #EndSARS cause. Social media has gone haywire. Different information, videos and opinions on the matter keep bursting our timelines. In order to not get bombarded and overwhelmed with with the rage outpouring, it…
If you want to be in the good books of your boss, you have to prove yourself as reliable employee. While you work to grow your career, you can still build a professional relationship with your boss if you get your strategy right. It is not enough to do only what you are paid to do, you must show good initiative. Also, bear in mind that managers also have their job responsibilities, you don’t want to give the person a hard time while working with you. If you want to a valuable and irreplaceable employee, you should be the following:…
The makeup of every society is often categorized into three classes. The upper, middle and lower class. The upper class are those who have plenty, who are rich in every aspect of the word, they own multiple strings of every wealth a society can boast of, in fact they are the wealth creators and so it often seem like their given right to be super rich and they are often admired, adored and often rewarded by the society in the accolades and importance they are treated with. They are the ones who keep the economy going. Your mind is…
HOLY HUMOUR Meeting Jonah There was this Christian lady that had to do a lot of travelling for her business so she did a lot of flying. However, flying made her nervous so she always took her Bible along with her to read and it helped her relax. On one of her flights, she was sitting next to a man and when he say her pull out her Bible he gave a wry smile and went back to what he was doing. After awhile he turned to her and asked, “ You don’t really believe all that stuff in there…
Here I am sitting in a dark corner Feeling desolate I force myself to eat Try to put up a little smile but to no avail Lost in thoughts of past events I remember the days we were together It seemed like you were mine forever Your smiles were my joy Your laughter my hope for tomorrow I found my world in you You were the light of my existence. I never knew you would leave That you would find someone else Now all the love we shared has been tossed aside The candles are off I am…
Readings: Galatians 3:1-5; Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:69-75; Luke 11:5-13 Imagine me starting a Sunday homily by saying, “Are you people in St Thomas Aquinas, Bletchley mad?” I am sure many people will carry their purses and face the exit, some will remove their facemask and adjust their eyeglasses to look at me very well, of course, and many will send email to the bishop before the end of the homily. Isn’t that correct? St Paul did exactly that. He said, “Are you people in Galatia mad?” The Greek word he used is interesting. It is “anoetus,” which had the idea of someone…
“And I have found surrealism to be the one door to self-transcendence”. – Omodero David – The anguish that had ravished that moment was of a striking kind. And it hadn’t helped but had rather became clear to us, that the elves, to whom we had entrusted our bags of trusts, had vanished in the sublimity of the confronting mist. Bode and I were two unlikely likes. And for a tiny while, we had been privileged by the great courts of time to be part of a vital allegory purposed by the universe itself. We were unlikely, in the…