Big Head! Tiny Thoughts.

Being liked is not the same thing as being useful. Take this for-instance. Two men go to the village for Christmas with N200k. One spends the money buying bottles and calabashes of alcohol for random strangers, and 'dropping' for any and every A'nimo that 'taxes' him... Maybe throws a party here and there. The next man walks into the community secondary school and donates 200k worth of books to the school Library. Note:BOTH MEN THINK THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING FOR THEIR PEOPLE. Word of the first man's 'philanthropy' reverberates through the village like thunder claps on a wildly stormy August  morning... but each bottle of alcohol he buys is only as useful as a few hours of pseudo-merry, and urine the morning after. Noone hears of the second man, and those that do probably think "Na book we go chop?" ...but somewhere in that library is a boy who will grow up to be an artist, or doctor, or engineer, or astronaut; a girl who will grow up to b...

The current leaders of Europe are the orchestrators of all its aching. For instance, Angela welcomed with wide arms, over 1million refuges from the Middle East. My very limited knowledge of world politics and countless evenings of perusing conspiracy theories have led me to conclude that this very controversial decision was led by one of two reasons – a vampiric lust for cheap labour which is innate in all capitalists or a grandiose sense of humanity powered by the desire to portray Germany as a leader in all and every respect. Well, I don’t need a soothsayer to tell me that she, alongside other European leaders who followed her lead are in shad’in (euphemism for “ deep shit ”). We're so unfortunate to have lived through the terror of the Paris attacks, the Brusells attacks (twice) and the uncertainty and tension that have now covered Europe like a cloud. I understand that one may wonder if there is in fact any evidence which proves these attacks were made possible by the...