7 years of GSM Culture of Lies

When did you say any of these below? If you haven’t since the seven years of epileptic services by the GSM providers, the gates of heaven will be open at the mention of your obituary.

I am as guilty as a chocolate bar in the colony of ants. But I am trying to repent; where I cannot, may the LORD bless my soul and take me to the place in the hereafter he thinks is best for me; after all, I didn’t ask to be created. And if I am made for hell, sneaking into heaven will make me most uncomfortable. Don’t get too religious and more Catholic than the Pope, What offence did Esau not commit? As a squeamish foetus in the womb, God chose Jacob the swindler ahead of his elder brother. Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by God of Israel so that he can show his power via the plagues. Now you get my drift why I am not bothered about where I am going once I expire, so long as I have loved my neighbour, fought office holders to provide amenities to their constituencies and make my environment a little better than I met it.

Forgive me for the digression. It happens when I think of noise people about the hereafter.

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Niger Delta: The Burden Of Appellation.

The Niger Delta is older than the 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria. But as a political force, Niger Delta is the youngest of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. Her teeth were sharpened by the Abacha government, when rotational presidency was a thorny issue and consequently, South-South was born to differentiate them from the South East and position them from for a slot in eventual rotational presidency that never got constitutional blessing.

South-South, as an encompassing name for the peoples of the South of Nigeria (Edo, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers State), did not adequately represent the interest of the peoples, whose environment have been degraded by oil exploitation. Furthermore, South-South, especially, the nomenclature South-South Peoples Assembly, was sponsored by the sitting governors of that region to anoint themselves as the sole presidential candidate. Being anchored on the ambition of the political class, the people felt alienated and the erstwhile foot soldiers of the South-South, armed by the politicians, turned against each other. To give relevance to the gang clash, these “soldiers” dusted the lukewarm struggle of the Ogoins over Shell’s abuse of the environment and gave it a broader nomenclature called Niger Delta Struggle.

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