and I’d keep searching for it; maybe someday someone’s “utopia” would be my own story, of how I had that one experience and it shaped my forever after.
I can’t explain it but it somehow makes sense to me; I’ve not had the experience that would shape my worldview and define how I come to apply myself. Put differently, even the passion I thought was mine does not exactly make sense to me, and not just that, very many other…
things that I’ve experienced or applied myself to.
For Bourdain, it was his time at Le Bistrot du Centre, and I doubt it immediately made sense to him, or maybe it did. Or perhaps I am just seeking an utopia influenced by other people’s stories.
Deep down I know what I mean…
“Nigerians do not react to anything. If you think it’s a lie, line up 10 Nigerians and kill them, nothing will happen.”
— Rotimi Amaechi
Nigerians, let this be a wake-up call. The challenge is before us: 2027 is the time to rise, reject apathy, and show the power of an awakened people should the move funny.
When I hear people say that the North is not hospitable to people of other tribes or religions, I laugh because I spent a year in Yenagoa and only saw one mosque. Meanwhile, there are churches everywhere in Kaduna and Nasarawa.
Last week Sunday, I went cycling and one of the roads I usually cycled through was blocked by a church because it was their service day. Everyone was forced to use the other lane. It made no sense to me, a public road built by the government for public use.
It such a terrible take. And funnily, he possibly had no enterprise before becoming a pastor and owning a church that now feeds him— I’m sure he’d explain that to be an enterprise of sorts.
I suppose this is one of the pastors that convinced my little brother that poor Christians are not "real" Christians- that they're lacking in prayers because God said "ask, and it shall be given".
Everybody should just stick to the gospel and stop with the gimmicks.
“Ask him, since he has been in politics, what has he brought for the Igbos?”
— Governor Chukwuma Soludo.
The Anambra State governor called on Ndi Igbo to assess the contributions of political leaders to the region, pointing to longstanding challenges such as erosion and infrastructure deficits. He argued that voters should focus on results and development rather than emotions during election seasons.
Soludo also said that 2027 would be different, expressing confidence that the South-East would secure greater benefits through its political choices.
No matter the Jonathan shortcomings, Buhari is not the replacement for Jonathan.
This was 2015, he wasn’t contesting an election that year, but he understood whom Buhari was. Fast forward, Buhari ruined Nigeria.