By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 29 Apr 2007
Congratulations, our dear President and governors-elect, on your recent landslide victories at the polls. Soon, you will move over to your official quarters to assume duties. Although some observers put question marks on your successful outing; albeit some of you are perceived to be stooges and godsons of some [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Your Excellencies, Nigerian kids are knocking on your doors
April 30, 2007Big issues in UK and Nigeria’s elections
April 23, 2007By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 22 Apr 2007
You will find them in most street corners in Cardiff. What distinguishes them is their shout of “big issue, big issue”. For long, I had wondered what this big issue was. But recently, I got to realise that it is the title of a magazine the government gives some [...]
Much ado about UK rats
April 15, 2007By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 15 Apr 2007
About 80 mice travelled with human beings on a Saudi plane late last year. Media reports indicated that the local flight was about 28, 000 feet when the mice suddenly started scurrying around the cabin. Some fell on the heads of the fear-gripped passengers. The rodents, it was later [...]
Agonies of Nigerian slaves
April 8, 2007By Casmir Igbokwe
Published: Sunday, 8 April 2007
Rosemary is a 19-year-old Nigerian girl. At the bicentenary celebration of the abolition of slave trade in Cardiff on Sunday, 25 March, there was an account of her sorrowful life in what one may call a semi jungle. The story, in case you have not heard, was that she ran [...]
