Thursday, 7 August 2014
COMPLEX IS MAN'S CONFLICT CAUSER
When one consider world diplomacy and relationship between
countries, especially between countries that considers themselves as world
powers, you can forced to see ‘complexes’ at play. Superiority complex between
world leaders and countries ideology that tends usually to the extreme right
has no value for such country or for the comity of countries that are likely
tied to the destiny of the one who has developed into a world power.
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
OSUN ELECTIONS: FEAR, FATE AND THE WHIMSICAL FARCE
Many times, phrases like “Only in Nigeria can something like
this happen” has become a recurrent decimal in our polity. The Osun State
elections is one of such where we have political office holders with records resplendent
with faults, bigotry and misdemeanor yet they find their way into INEC’s list
as candidate for a prestigious role of a governor; “only in Nigeria can
something like this happen”.
Monday, 4 August 2014
NOLLYWOOD ONLINE: THE WORLD OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES (THE TVNOLLY EXPERIENCE)
In 1992, the movie Living
in Bondage sparked sporadic excitement within some circles when the realization
dawned that an industry might just have been born. Nollywood quickly took off
like the case a baby born in a manger and of low beginning. It was far cry from
the norm; Nigerian movies now on mere Home Video Format, the lowest of all
lowest in audio and visual recording. People sniffed at them, scorned even that
the once respected and loved movie industry, which collapsed few years earlier,
has now become a place for anything-goes,
quantity substituted for quality. Such was the sorry case of the Nigerian Movie
industry later nomenclature as Nollywood.
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