POEM: Ashes to Ashes

We came for a toil

With faith in our labour's might

And gleaned for a spoil

In the field where there was once a fight

I remember like it was yesterday

When the ranks in the lines took our day

The sweat on our brow and the dust on our hair

Mocking the beginning of our inglorious stay

Through the lines and the times we mingled

Like prisoners of war,.battered and trampled

We fell,many times,stood again and bubbled

Aluta continua,we sang,with some pleasure as we struggled

Struggle to see our names in the scrrolls

Struggle,with a grin on the day of deception

Struggle,even for our rights

Struggle for the knowledge we hoped to gain

I hear the horn

And now I run

To catch that flight to motherland

Lest I die in no man's land

See them cling

To the door and to the windows

Like hawks on a ruptured splin

Pressed down,shaken together,like sardine

Oh how they say

Even Heraclitus and Anaximenes

Struggled all the way

So who are we to escape the mess

The morning came when the streets bore their march

They had been sentenced without mercy or compassion

Hardly did they know that dusk will bring the scorn

The scorn of the battlefield, even the scorn of death

Come brother,come!.,today they settle us

March with me and sing with me

Hold my hand to strengthen our ties

We'l be stronger,stronger together

Don't fall brother,don't fall

How has the bullet torn thy flesh

Oh don't leave me,.rise up brother

Thy blood stains the dust and even my tears

They chanted like the spartans

But with pen and paper as their sword and shield

Poor brothers sang in the morning

But in black now they'll do the mourning

Child! child!!..

Will it ever get easier

Will it ever get brighter

Shall the heavens turn this tide

Weep not brother

Comfort thyself

We shall reach the end

Dead or alive

It had been blood and sand

Even the white solid rock burns and crashes

Oh blood and sand

Ashes to ashes

By Aniekan Etetim

Full Text of the #StateOfTheUnion Twitter Interview with Luckyimoh Inyang, Current Uniuyo SUG President

Ghpsi took on Luckyimoh Inyang, current Uniuyo SUG president in a live Twitter Interview on Saturday, 12 January, 2012. Issues discussed ranged from his work with Stepping Stones Nigeria, to his recent suspension by the SUG parliament. Here are the excerpts.

@Ghpsi Good morning and welcome to our #StateOfTheUnion interview with @psychero82, current Uniuyo SUG President!

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Good morning my comrade.

@Ghpsi: To join the discourse, just add the tag #StateOfTheUnion to your tweets!

@Ghpsi @psychero82, What motivated you to choose Psychology as your course of study? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi I came in for psychology because I wanted to affect people's lives positively. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 Really? What did Psychology offer that other courses did not? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Yea. A simple definition of psychology has it that its a science which studies human behaviour and the thought process. Its does not only study behaviours and thought processes, it finds solutions to negative behaviours and it finds solutions to conflicting thought processes. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 Before you became SUG President, you were quite involved with advocacy with regard to Stepping Stones Nigeria.

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Yea I was. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 How did advocacy with Stepping Stones Nigeria begin? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi That was before I even started my university program. It started in 2006 and was all about protecting the rights of children. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 In your view, what caused d cases of child molestation in the name of witchcraft which your org stood against? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi A lot of issues contributed but the proactive response by His Excellency the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State by passing into law the Child Rights Act has arrested the issue to a large extent. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 Are student election cycles too expensive in your opinion? Does this hinder "performance" by elected officials? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Its a sacrifice. It should not hinder performance in any way. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 How were you able to fund your election campaign? And have you 'recovered' what you spent? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi I was self sponsored and I didn't come to the union to recover anything. People who enter unionism with such mentality will not serve the Nigerian Students! I do not consider how much I spent to get here but how much I can contribute to build our union. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 How then do you reconcile that with the allegations of embezzlement against you? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Thank God you called "allegations". If I call you a thief, does that make you one??? What is happening is political and I am happy to tell the entire Nigerian students the true #StateOfTheUnion . Our solidarity constitution makes provision for pre-bugetary expenditures which should be included in the budget when it's eventually presented. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 How do you define "political"? Because it is alleged that you made unapproved expenses of over N800,000 #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi It is political in the sense that the whole allegation lacks basis. There is no govt that does not engage in extra budgetary expenditures. The truth of the matter is I swore and Oath to protect the integrity of our Union. The problem people are having with me is that I do not bring money sacrificially contributed by the good people of Tuskers' Republic which were meant for constitutionally specified purposes for them to share.

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 But isn't the pre-budgetary expenditure limited to N5,000? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi My comrade, we needed more than N5000 to inaugurate the SUG house. Who would have appropriated such funds when there was no parliament??? #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 What then is the position of the school management? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi The management has only allowed the union to stab itself. Our constitution has been disregarded by mgt on several occasions and we have not challenged them as a union. 4.0 CGPA was placed as qualification for commissioners in the last elections which is not as stipulated in our constitution; the election guidelines for the last elections was contrary to our constitutional provisions and we did nothing about it. Yet today, our parliament quoted the same constitution for mgt to honour. Is that not betrayal? #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 With this fiasco, do you think the extra year you sacrificed to serve the union has been in vain? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi I have sacrificed so much for the union I hold dear to my heart, but I do not think it is in vain. The power lies in the hands of the people! The parliament cannot be greater than the entirely Nigerian students. The powers of the congress shall be invoked. The Nigerian students have the right to know the truth and I hope you will help me tell them the truth they need to know. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 Rounding up, what would you count as achievements of your govt so far & what do you still have planned? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Without trying to blow my own trumpet, the achievements of the Luckyimoh Inyang led SUG has been enormous. May I respectfully commend the foundation that has been laid by past union leaders. Firstly, the temporal union secretariat has been given a face lift. I have visited other union secretariats and what we now have deserves commendation. The secretariat is the image of the union. We have plans to atleast lay the foundation of our new secretariat at main camp by God 's grace. This administration joined the rest of the world to mark the world Heart day where students had the opportunity to free check-ups and awareness. This administration is also very interested in the social life of the Nigerian student and therefore organised a thank you party and the Eyen 9 ja show and more in the kitty this semester. We plan to hold a general congress as well is give out scholarships to deserving Nigerian students. These and lots more are in store for the Nigerian students for the remain six months we have. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 What about student advocacy? Students often feel the Union doesn't speak for them and often have no one to speak up for them in such cases like victimization by lecturers. What r u doing about this? #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi Student advocacy is not a one-off activity of the union, it is continuous. We will continue to press for basic amenities to be provided for students to make for a conducive learning environment. However, it will be challenging when parliament and executives are not speaking with one voice. A house that fights against itself cannot stand! You see, some of our students are timid. I have never gotten any complain from a student of victimisation from a student of victimisation by a lecturer. Let's have a case and see if we will not push it. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 Maybe because they don't even know you. The only time most students see SUG is when Indomie is being shared! #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi #smiles# I am very accessible. 08064896057 I am here to serve. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: @psychero82 We do wish you the best in your endeavours and thank you for taking time to address these issues #StateOfTheUnion

@psychero82: @Ghpsi I am really grateful. I hope the Nigerian students who massively voted me in were following. I say a big thx to you all and promise to always stand by my campaign promises. God bless Tuskers' Republic! There is hope for our union and our country. #StateOfTheUnion

@Ghpsi: That's a wrap! Thanks to everybody that took part. The full interview would be available later in the day #StateOfTheUnion

What do you see when you look down here?

What do you see when you look down here?

Jennifer bailey said

My daughter thought it was ominous and spooky - we drove down the road too and she didn't like it one bit.  She was using her powerful imagination.  I knew where the road led and had no such feeling of pervasive gloom.  But it begs the question, roads are possibility.  Where do they lead?  Where can it take you?  Will you change once you go down the path?

I think that's probably why photos and artwork of roads are one of my all-time favorite things.  It is up to us to make of it as we will

BY THE WAY TWITTER IS SIX AS IT FACES PINTEREST

First Tweet

When it comes to business plans, in the last 12 months Twitter has been somewhat eclipsed with Facebook’s IPO. The questions about Twitter still remain the same as on its last birthday: Will it go public, will it be acquired by a giant such as Google, Apple or Microsoft, or will it simply keep growing?

As facebook prepares for its ground breaking $5b initial public offer, IPO, its cousin, twitter becomes a year older. The event actually was on march 21. For an idea that began as a tool for friends to broadcast updates from their lives via SMS, Twitter has come a very long way. Now at an impressive 140million users, the micro blogging network is steadily growing into the world’s source for fresh information about anything and everything. For many international news organizations, twitter is now the core element in their publishing strategy. These days almost every major item of news is first broken on twitter – from Osama bin Laden’s assassination to Tuface’s engagement to Annie Macaulay and the confounding Don Jazzy/D’banj divorce. Twitter may be growing in popularity because these piece of information come in 140 characters, max, which means they are a lot easier to digest. 

Aside from that twitter is a really cool concept. But being cool may turn out to be a drawback eventually because hipness is a fleeting quality. Remember Hi5 and MySpace used to be cool? That’s right, they are dead and gone. However, for Pinterest the new hot social thing coming from America (where else?), success is less about coolness and more about fun. Since the very understated phenomenon opened 2010, 4 years after twitter, the site has rocketed over 10.5 million users, according to data collected by Internet Marketing, Inc. put it in context: when twitter was 2years old, it has only three million accounts. And wait, this membership of Pinterest is still by invitation only. For the privileged few on the site, Pinterest is captivating because it is visual – members take images from anywhere to ‘Pin’ on their pages and their followers can add comments of or ‘rePin’ the images on their own pages. Okay I hope when or if Pinterest  finally opens its doors to the world, the experience won’t be pinful to twitter whose user may be lured away by something more fun. But who knows social media is full of surprises.

Messi rules the football world

lionel Messi has been named thehighest paid footballer in the world, trailed by England’s American basedstar, David Beckham and Real Madrid’sPortuguese star in third position.According to France Football, which is set torelease figures for the best paid players in theworld on Tuesday, Barcelona forward Messiraked in €33 million last year from wagesand sponsorship deals. LA Galaxy midfielder and former Englandcaptain Beckham, for so long the game’s topearner, came in second on €31.5m, whileReal Madrid star Ronaldo collected €29.2m in2011.Elsewhere, Samuel Eto’o, who made alucrative move from Inter to AnzhiMakhachkala last summer, is fourth on thelist, with Manchester United striker WayneRooney fifth.Wealthy Premier League outfit ManchesterCity have two players in the top ten, withArgentine forward Sergio Aguero and IvoryCoast midfielder Yaya Toure sixth andseventh, respectively.The only other club represented twice isMadrid, with Ronaldo’s team-mate Kakaranking ninth.Elsewhere, it is worth noting that Chelseamisfit Fernando Torres, who finally got backamongst the goals at the weekend, netted€16.7m during his disastrous first 12 monthsat Stamford Bridge.There is not a single player based in Serie A inthe top 10 but there is one representativefrom the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich skipperPhilipp Lahm.THE LIST

Lionel Messi (Barcelona)                                     33m David Beckham (LA Galaxy)                              

31.5m Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)29.2mSamuel Eto’o (Anzhi)                                           23.3mWayne Rooney (Man United)                            20.6mSergio Aguero (Man City)                                   18.8mYaya Toure (Man City)                                        17.6mFernando Torres (Chelsea)                                 16.7mKaka (Real Madrid)                                              15.5mPhilipp Lahm (Bayern Munich)14.3mThe amount was rated in the generallyaccepted currency of the European Union

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OUTDATED SCOPES! THEY DON TIRE WE GIRLS!

Back in the days when I was a child, my big aunts would gist about guys asking them out. Most times, the conversations flowed thus:

Anty Funsho: Udeme, gist dey?

Anty Udeme: Bobo dey the gist?

Anty Funsho: (laughs) as I was returning from d saloon o! A guy called me and said “u look familiar” I stopped and tried to see if I knew him but soon it was obvious I did. As I made to go, he said “anybody ever told you that you are beautiful?” I laughed as I began to understand his scopes, then he went on “oh that smile on your face!” I didn’t know what to do so I laughed some more. By now he had already gotten my name, so he asked “how can we see? I would like to see u again, do you have a handset?” I said “no I don’t, and if you don’t mind am in a hurry to go home” “please just wait a little” he said and grabbed my hand. I became furious, wriggled free and walked away” as I did, I heard him call after me “see you around pretty!”

Anty udeme: hahahahahaha; they don dey commot new scopes, you no go even sabi sey them wan chaike u!

Now almost 15 years after I heard this conversation, and almost 7 years of my being of chaikable age, I still hear the same things, the same old scopes. To prove my point, I will allow you eaves drop on this conversation between my friends; Dara and Chisom

Chisom: these guys them dey craze o!

Dara: wetin happen?

Chisom: I was just taking a stroll this evening, I heard a guy calling after me ‘Glory, Glory’, I didn’t respond. He kept shouting ‘Glory!’ And I was d only girl around there so I turned and said “sorry am not Glory” then he said “oh, you look familiar, so what’s d pretty name?”

Dara:     which kind olden days scopes b that one? (Frowns)

Chisom: don’t mind the outdated human: I asked him “why do you want to know?” then he said “ah baby why r u being so harsh I just want to know your name as someone that looks like my friend.” Then I relaxed and decided to give him a chance to try newer scopes, just for the fun of it. “my named is Joyce”

(Dara laughs)

Chisom: oh Joyce, the name suits your pretty face. I come dey laugh, him follow de laugh too, him no sabi sey na him I dey laugh. Next thing “so can I get your phone number so I can give u a beep?” my phone is switched off but I ll give u my number” then I called my number for him, said goodnight and walked away.

Dara; haba! You gave him your real number?

Chisom:  offcourse! Abeg update o! the new style be say, if him ask you for number, give am. 10 out of 9 times he will not call because he was expecting you to be more challenging. But if he calls and you pic and don’t like what you are hearing, press the red button simple! We girls don update, make them dey there de use scopes wey my papa use chaike my mama!

Dara: Abeg chisom stop, laugh wan kill me die!

They both burst out laughing.

Hello guys! What more can I say? Update! We are tired of old scopes! Lol!

Guys if you think I have presented the situation unfairly, or have any comments, you can leave your comments on this blog.

by Perfecta Bassey

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