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April 21, 2008
11:20
Writing papers and watching West Wing
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I'm getting busy again, writing papers, preparing for presentation and analysing questionnaires. I the midst of this, I keep the Obama vision alive, by watching the season 7 of The West Wing. Also, I have been saving towards the inauguration, should Obama win, and I’ll like to tell my grandchildren that I was among the folks that waved at his motorcade on his way to destiny.

Meanwhile, I'll like to leave you with this. It's about being Chris Okotie........

A NORMAL PERSON: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Chris Okotie : Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.

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NORMAL PERSON : Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Chris Okotie : Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

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NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.
Chris Okotie : All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers
Chris Okotie : Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

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NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales
Chris Okotie : Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

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NORMAL PERSON : Beginner's luck
Chris Okotie : Neophyte's serendipity.

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NORMAL PERSON : A rolling stone gathers no moss
Chris Okotie : A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

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NORMAL PERSON : Birds of a feather flock together
Chris Okotie : Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

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NORMAL PERSON : Beauty is only skin deep
Chris Okotie : Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

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NORMAL PERSON : Cleanliness is godliness
Chris Okotie : Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

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NORMAL PERSON : There's no use crying over spilt milk
Chris Okotie : It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.

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NORMAL PERSON : You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks
Chris Okotie : It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

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NORMAL PERSON : Look before you leap
Chris Okotie : Surveillance should precede saltation.

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NORMAL PERSON : He who laughs last, laughs best
Chris Okotie : The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

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NORMAL PERSON : All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Chris Okotie : Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

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NORMAL PERSON : Where there's smoke, there's fire!
Chris Okotie : Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration
March 19, 2008
8:17
Obama's pastor in the thick of it
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There has been a lot of media flogging lately about what Rev Wright, Obama’s pastor said. I do not expect less in an election year. My father used to tell me that if you want to hear your family’s scandal, go into politics. Your opponent will fish out all the stones they can possibly haul at you. But I kind of like Obama’s response, he took it beyond the level of his distractors, and got a 40 minutes free media time to give a speech that has been compared in some quarters as a variant of ‘I have a dream’.

But one cannot deny media hypocrisy in this thing. It seems the press wants to be an important kingmaker for the next US president. They seem to exercise their influence at any given opportunity. Initially they were on Hillary, but when she accused them of double standard, they switched their blade on Obama. And they seem to be drawing some blood, from Louise Farrakhan to Tony Rezco, and now Rev. Wright. I kind of like the way this commentator put it here;

‘When Senator Obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father -- Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer -- denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr’

What I smell here is a media confused about their role in an historic election. I wonder how history will judge them later……oh, I’ve forgotten that they are the ones that will write history through the documentaries, blogs and Wikipedia entries.
March 14, 2008
13:36
Radiopalmwine.com
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This is the best discovery I've made on the internet in recent time. This station has got everything you may be looking for as far as Nigerian music is concerned. You request for any music, by artiste or genre, and they play it. From Wura fadaka's sanmari adugbo to Victor Olaiya's omo pupaa. Nice site.
March 12, 2008
11:34
First African-American
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The state of New york is having its first African-American Governor, in a rather sad circumstance, howbeit, making a record. I wonder if this is a good omen for Barrack Obama.......
March 06, 2008
11:14
The Apprentice Africa
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I'm impressed with this. It shows a good part of Nigeria many mainstream western media ignore; organisation, structure and economic muscle. With Dangote's inclusion in the Forbes list, it shows they have started listening to us, rather carrying the pictures of hungry children with flies in their eyes, or machete carrying men.
March 03, 2008
8:26
I got my Obama T-shirt
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A friend just came back from Washington DC on Saturday, and got me the best memorabilia i have recieved this year…….Obama T-shirt. I think every citizens of the world should be able to vote or have one-quarter of a vote in US presidential elections. Since the decisions in the West Wing affects most people in the world ..'war on terror’! Anyway, I am doing my bit to help our man into the Oval office, which is why I have his picture in my office corner and ill be wearing the T-shirt tomorrow while watching the Texas and Ohio primaries.
Last week, the Federal Appeal Court in Nigeria upheld the last April general elections, against the protest of the opposition parties. Comparing this development with what happened in Kenya recently, I have been asking some questions. Were the aggrieved parties in Nigeria more civilised than their Kenya colleagues for them to go to court rather than the streets? Or is it that they are not sure anyone will yield their call to fight? Or are Nigerians suffering from ‘June 12’ fatigue (reference to the nationwide unrests and demonstrations against the annulment of the presidential election held in June 12, 1993 by the military dictator, General Babangida), which makes them unwilling to fight against any electoral abnormalities?
While I disagree with most of the things Rueben Abati said in this piece regarding the court case, I tend to buy the idea of floating an ‘Electoral Fraud Agency’ which should be as impartial and strong as the EFCC.
February 13, 2008
15:14
Yes he can
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There is something about him that radiates his message more than his speeches. He is not the first, and will not be the last politician that promises hope, change and better future. Yet his personality, radiance and background echoes that message more than any other would-be great men. Each generation has got their own, my grandfather had Mahatma Gandhi, my father had JFK and MLK. Now we have him.
As a Black African, studying in the UK, there is something about him that gets me excited. His core message – audacity of hope (this video). The courage to hope that my children can aim to be whatever they aspire to be in this nation. If, and when he becomes the president of the United States of America, he would have demonstrated to the world what hope is really like. That the grandchild of an illiterate village chef can be the most powerful man in the world. Yes he can.
February 05, 2008
7:11
‘Death stares at every one of us in the face'
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‘Death stares at every one of us in the face, the best we can do is to stare back’. I’ve really forgotten where I got that line from…may be ‘Gladiators’. It takes death to bring me out of my ‘blogoholiday’. A friend just died this morning. He was actually one of the leaders in my church. Murray Aldridge was a man of faith and passion. His love for Jesus is contagious, even when he was sick. As I heard that he passed this morning, I decided to listen to one his sermons, ‘Do you know how to die’, (you can listen to it here), he preached just few months before he was diagnosed of cancer. He spoke about preparing for the afterlife, and living a life that puts the eternal life in constant remembrance. One of the catching phrases from the sermon is
‘can I suggest that the only place where someone will tell you how to prepare to die is the Church of Jesus, and if we are not doing that we are not doing our job.’
That is a fundamental truth. Murray has confronted what all of us cannot escape. Every minute we spend is a minute less than the deadline we have with eternity. It really matters how we prepare for the life afterward, more than career, money, power, influence, prestige or name,. The last time I was with him, he radiated such a hope and strength that stems from his confidence in the One he has trusted in this life and the One he knows will be with him now.
Where I come from, talking about death is a taboo. It’s a subject you can only think but not mention. But I’ve always differ from that. I want to live my everyday life in preparation for it. That’s one of the reason I trusted Jesus with my life. Yet, I do not wait for death, rather I live to die, in order to die to live. I live a full life, and enjoy what I am given, give back what I can, and make as many impact as I can. I want to live a life void of the fear of death. Life in abundance. I believe that is what gave Murray the hope I saw in him the last I visited him.

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