MERIT AND DEMERIT OF THE INTERNET...

Is the internet good or bad, that I cannot really answer at this moment…but I can construct some arguments towards the line of whether the internet is good or not. Many people are practically found of seeing things only in the negative realm, but I for one will not subscribe to such pattern of thinking, as I intend to prove my points with logical and fair propositions. When the internet was formed, many of us were alive to witness this great reformation but not every one of us chooses to embrace it; in other words, the internet was introduced between the 19^th to 20^th Century, after the ‘war’ and apparently in the ‘New Age’ era.

Kudos to the genius behind the WWW inventors, kudos to the PHP and JAVA inventors and kudos to those we call the fathers of the internet. Many of these geniuses are not alive to witness the good and damage their inventions has caused.  The internet is occupied with so much possibilities and dangers; as a user you have the choice which you want to go for, the good-evil or the bad-evil.

I am not really interested in going into details about the inventions by these lads, but...

Check this space next week....

DIARY OF A FRESH GRADUATE…

Sick and just recovering from a deadly disease, I came to the University of Ibadan, dressed like a sales boy for the interactive session at the faculty of Law. Not that I didn’t know I was supposed to dress formal (white on Black), but I was too weak and tired to wear my clothes and shoe that were in my bag, which I brought from Lagos. Oops, let me even start from how my journey began in the first place even before my admission or my choice of studying in the university of Ibadan.

Just finished my secondary education at St. Gregory’s college Ikoyi, prior to my last paper during the West African Examination period, I gathered with my peers to discuss, because we know that day will certainly be the last day we will be seeing ourselves. At that meeting, we shared what our plans after school was, I remember some of my peers who are not necessary from my department saying their parent already have plans sending them abroad to continue their education, while some claim they are attending the University of Lagos, some private schools like Covenant University. I remember me saying, “my plan is to attend University of Lagos for my Law degree and simultaneously studying Accounting program in Yaba College of Technology, close to Unilag”, what I nice dream and ambition you might say, that’s what they all said too listening to me. So we laughed and mingled and at the same time prepared for our last paper...

To be continued whenever you see me here, certainly next week!

MY DAILY THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE IN NIGERIA… (EXTREMISM IN RELIGION)

Last two weeks, I was walking down the street away from my house, heading towards the bus-stop (Pako, in Akoka) to get a bus away from home, to get a ‘life’ (just so you know, I was heading to my designer and printer’s place in Shomolu, Lagos). Truth is, I was just recovering from depression of life, which includes the following glitches; here I am idle with no job, no money to invest in my ideas and dreams (Glitz Plus Entertainment/Magazine), just graduated with a grade below my bated breath, just got jilted or left alone by my girl who I love so much but she fails to realize it, she thought I was cheating on her; well that is not the issue of the day today, the issue I want to talk about or let you guys know about is my experience and encounter while I was walking to that bus-stop in Shomolu.

Well again, here I am walking down the street, then I heard the voice of this lady saying; ‘hello, hello…’, so I looked back and saw she wasn’t talking to me or trying to get my attention, she was on the phone, apparently she had a baby at her back with a hijab on her head to show which religion she practices, Islam. So I kept on walking, and she kept walking also; then I heard her continue her conversation in Yoruba Language with the other person on the phone who I presume is her husband, because she said she was coming home and “tired of this rubbish”. Obviously, the presumed husband asked her what rubbish? Then this was what interested me and propelled me to pick up my pen to write down my thought on some salient issues affecting us as human persons/being in this country. She continued; “my landlord at my shop said he is not interested in collecting money from me to continue my stay in that shop… he said he want to give it out to a Christian, hence, I have to convert to Christianity before he gives me the shop…”. I was a little bit mad and dumb folded that, there are some people like this (the woman’s landlord) in this world and country of ours. Then I asked myself, why would we not experience religious violence and insurgency every day, when we have people like this going through this oppression and suppression every day in our society?

I am confused so very much because, education has taught me a lot about tolerance in terms of cultural and religious differences, but it is obvious that, much of our societal problems today is basically caused out of intolerance in terms of our religious and cultural differences. This woman who is a victim of religious intolerance apparently is the one feeding her husband and family, because if not, the man should be in his place of work as at that 12noon when the woman said she was coming to meet him at home. Also she is the one nurturing for her children, but now she is jobless because her extremist landlord wants her to convert to a religion she is not willing to join. What should this woman do now? Obviously she cant sue the man to court because we don’t have a judiciary system that makes sure that citizens are not oppressed, especially the minorities…

So ask you guys, what should she do and who should she run to?