Category: Viewpoint

The Nigerian Mr. ‘Honorable’ from Abuja

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…Of all the businesses engaged by the ‘honorable’ the most potent is the business of ‘self deceit and duplicity’ – You are either deceiving yourself and wasting your precious time following these shady characters, soliciting for their assistance or you are being goaded by greed and ignorance. By Njoku SaintJerry A The small city of Abuja, home to Nigeria’s capital is littered with sets of men and women addressed as “Honorable.”The acronym is a popular nomenclature attributed to elected officials at both the Upper and Lower Chamber of the National…

The talking scarecrow and the empty rice farms;

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A Close observation of Africa’s crass neglect of its farmland, its pride By Njoku SaintJerry A I grew up in the rice farm, we grow Isiugwu rice.As a young active kid, my major occupation was to scare the birds away when they come in droves to pluck the ripe grains for food, we walk the length and breadth of the paddies to inspect for all kinds of invaders including the birds, we slap metal objects against each other or beat a pan to produce loud clanging sounds as we scream…

Will and William West: The scariest coincidences that gave birth to fingerprinting

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Culled: LensAfrik Imagine meeting your double in prison. He looks exactly like you, you both have the same name, but you’re unrelated! Crazy, right? You can only imagine how much confusion this created to the record clerks in prison! Today, thanks to these two unrelated yet identical inmates and their prison conundrum, the fingerprint analysis is employed by every law enforcement agency, in every country, the world over, so when required, they can pursue suspects and as a result convict them correctly. When Will West arrived in prison in 1903,…