Archives Tag: Nehi Igbinijesu
5 Things You Can Do to Alter Your Life’s Outcomes Now!
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu Sometimes in life, we get to a fork in the road. We work ourselves to exhaustion financially, emotionally and most often, spiritually. It looks almost certain that failure is our next stop in this journey called life. We almost wish we could be children again or just change our past, forgetting that all … Continue reading 5 Things You Can Do to Alter Your Life’s Outcomes Now!
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Poem Of The Week: To An Icon…
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Teary eyes everywhere No more with us you are The smiles-All gone With wonder gathered from abroad Who shall console us? And give us hope to do Who shall remind us? To be faithful, just and true Many a light with yours had deemed Drowned in a mirth of unborn … Continue reading Poem Of The Week: To An Icon…
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DISCOVER NIGERIA: Nigeria’s Smartest… The Imafidon Family
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu In March 2010, two really prodigious 9 years old became the youngest ever to be admitted into a Secondary School in the United Kingdom. Born to Nigerian migrant parents — Chris and Ann Imafidon — Peter and Paula from Waltham Forest, London, have consistently set joint world records. At just seven years … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: Nigeria’s Smartest… The Imafidon Family
DISCOVER NIGERIA: Yankari National Park; Our National Treasure.
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Yankari National Park is a wildlife park located in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Its sprawl of about 2,244 sq.km of Guinea Savannah is home to variants of natural warm springs, flora and fauna making it an extremely virile spot for tourists. Yankari was designated as Nigeria’s largest national park in 1991, having … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: Yankari National Park; Our National Treasure.
Poem Of The Week: Wake Up!
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Silhouettes from another life A people removed from problems Absorbed far with themselves Amnesia saturated And away from the crowd No police, landlords or NEPA No headliners,no crashes And no political mischievers Wait o! No curfews State of emergencies And slicky oil shippers No dealt opened dams With handshakes that … Continue reading Poem Of The Week: Wake Up!
DISCOVER NIGERIA: Meet The NNS Aradu
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Aradu is the biggest Navy ship in Nigeria. A 125.6m long all purpose fighting ship, the Aradu evokes the sound craftsmanship of its German builder, Blohm & Voss and the prowess of Nigeria as the hegemony of West Africa. The NNS Aradu is a rare beauty of … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: Meet The NNS Aradu
Poem Of The Week: From Handshakes, Lions And Horses – A Tribute To Flood Victims Across Africa.
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Awaken quickly Posiedon unnravels about us Hence hath come curses From handshakes, lions and horses Arise completely For the day devours us In somber silence Of brethren, lions and horses Get out hastily For who shall save us? Deluges, rapes and snakes? Yea! And handouts, lions and horses Roarings and neighings … Continue reading Poem Of The Week: From Handshakes, Lions And Horses – A Tribute To Flood Victims Across Africa.
Poem of the Week: Cries and Groans
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu Tis dark With ants filing Like a hungry lover’s obsession Atop festooned nuptiality Iridescent with passion And comely pleasure expectations O’ manuveures Landings and trepidation As a woman set to birth Yet weary Could not deliver Engine blowouts Bursts and frets O’ blabberings Descent announcements Sitbelt fiddlings As a banquet laid for … Continue reading Poem of the Week: Cries and Groans
DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Coup Speeches Of General Abacha
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. On 31stDecember 1983, the shrill voice of a relatively unknown army officer was heard over the radio. A Brigadier at his debut, Sani Abacha is reputed in Nigeria’s history with making the most coup speeches on air. Starting at his first in 1983, the untethered caprices of this generalissimo culminated in his … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Coup Speeches Of General Abacha
DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is one of the remnant primary high forests that survived the urbanization of Yorubaland. Situated along the banks of the Osun River, just outside the city of Osogbo, the grove plays host to thousands of Osun worshippers and tourists who come yearly to celebrate the Osun- Osogbo … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
Poem Of The Week: Deathbed
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Calabashes, vats and bins Niftly seated in wipes and sniffs One quirky moonlit night And not a Spirit in sight Bemused! Bereft! Beset! All at once? By the spirited dark light Of reveries along ago Of cries that brought mirth once With toddles and strides Then stress! … Continue reading Poem Of The Week: Deathbed
DISCOVER NIGERIA: The History of Okada.
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igninijesu. Commercial motorcycling in Nigeria was first started in Benin in 1988. Arising out of the crippling unemployment of the Structural Adjustment Program days, young people turned to commercial motorcycling to make ends meet. Young people used their motorcycles to transport people from place to place in order to earn money. Soon enough, … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: The History of Okada.
DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Nigeria Police Force.
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. The Nigeria Police is the national police of Nigeria with complete jurisdiction across the entire country. The history of the Nigeria Police is closely interwoven with the formation of colonies and protectorates that were later fused to become Nigeria in 1914. It began in 1861 when Lagos became a Crown Colony of … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Nigeria Police Force.
DISCOVER NIGERIA: Nigeria’s Premier University
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Did you know that the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s oldest university, was started in 1932 as Yaba College, Lagos before being transferred to Ibadan in 1948? Founded on 17 November 1948, the University College Ibadan (as it was known) was originally instituted to be a satellite college of the University of London. … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: Nigeria’s Premier University
DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Lull Of History.
April 19, 2022
By Nehi Igbinijesu. The sense of history is rarely understood in Black Africa. This neglect in our society has been largely evident in the poor generational succession across our country’s businesses, polity and national life; creating serious gaps that have left us with the same “old” leaders almost fifty years post-independence. I came across a … Continue reading DISCOVER NIGERIA: The Lull Of History.
