Spring is a season of transition. It brings forth the first flicker of warmth, after the chills of a frigid Winter. It is a time when fresh flowers bloom and new leaves sprout. It is a period when strong ice melts and frozen earth thaws. Days become longer and nights, shorter.
I was admitted into Government Secondary School, Owerri, along with twenty nine other boys, on September 6, 1954. The school ran three terms per academic year. Our first term in the school commenced in September, 1954 and ended in December, 1954. Football was played in this term. The school placed a lot of emphasis on both academic work and sports/games. Each time we came out for games in this football season, our Games Master, Mr. Ben Chukwudebe who took a lot of fancy for me, placed me to play at the centre forward position. I did not like playing the game of football because of its contact nature. I was afraid of getting hurt by the bigger boys. My classmates teased me by saying that I could not score a goal from the penalty spot.
Many years ago, I read a passage in the Opus Dei handbook which compared gold to copper. It held that gold is much higher in value, but copper serves a better purpose.
The rhetoric question; copper or gold: who are you? had resonated within me over the years.
The antiquity of Paris, its exotic landscapes and monumental gothic cathedrals that flourished during the epochal renaissance in Europe, made it the irresistible epicentre of tourism for decades, but the unfortunate onslaught of Jihadi terror attacks, inspired by the defamed Baghdadi led Islamic State IS, in the last couple of years, targeting centres of culture and other secular edifices, blighted the allure of the once pristine city.
The Hectare by Hectare Programme launch held at Umuahia on the 18th of October, 2019. It was indeed a huge success. We made history!
By Lady Chioma Lasbrey Njoku Parenting or (child rearing) is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. …
The impact of the deadly corona virus outbreak has been far reaching on the nation’s economy. It’s no longer news that a greater number of industries and businesses have been hit hard by this pandemic and indeed are facing a threat of collapse. Quite sadly, it is clear that all will suffer a humongous economic landslide.
African Americans and Africans in America are two peoples from the same root that were separated by an ugly history, and now live alongside each other in America with sometimes palpable smoldering tension between them. This tension, sometimes barely below the surface, is so real that the two groups often walk on eggshells whenever they are around each other.
