The Life Series...

Its another great week, and i am very glad to be living, healthy and most importantly still able to write. I am introducing a weekly inspirational series which will basically be on Life and experiences that have trailed my path. i shall be sharing with you stories of friends, experiences of family, and hopeful gists from colleagues.

Firstly, we shall try to establish the definition of life, the truth be told, life has no one definition, but one can describe it based on qualities or characteristics of things that are living, hence, anything that has such quality even if its one of them, can be termed LIVING or with Life. The qualities are "MR NIGER D":

M- Movement
R- Respiration
N- Nutrition
I- Irritability
G- Growth
E- Excretion
R- Reproduction
D- death

See you next week for the first series....

Story- Ikemba and the Cripple...Chapter 2

The sounds of several creatures in the great Ikuku forest kept the warriors and Ojinta alert, after a while roaming round the forest, Ojinta discovered that they were lost; he quickly suggested they went to the priest for guidance and protection. On reaching the shrine of the great priest of the Ikuku forest, the men greeted the wise one with humility. After a welcomed response from the priest, the priest said, “A bush meat does not run aimlessly in the forest, its either it is pursuing something or something is pursuing it, what bring you all to my shrine this cool evening. Ojinta bravely replied, “The great one, we are on a quest to rescue our princess from the warriors of Ikanga, we need your wise counsel, directions and protection as we embark on this quest”.   

Building a lasting relationships....

                    
In our era of dying love, trust and care, a lot of female gender has lost hope in the male folks, yet the need for this post. I decided to put this together to assist the male genders to become better persons, especially in the full support of their female counterparts...

Today, we have more divorce than the crow of a cock in the morning, and this can be traced to be a problem of "tasteless love"... Remember, since there are marriages without love, there must be lovers without marriages. The question, most Men will ask is so what is he saying now?... Relax and breeze through this fantastic research...

I was having a close discussion with two female colleagues, where I elucidated this facts to them, and their responses made me to publish this, so that somehow, I may be able to aid a relationship whose love flame is about to go off..  Firstly, I want to categorically state here that every woman has 5 elements that must be in place to make them continuously happy, while every lady or girl has 4 elements with the 5th element absent, don't worry, I will explain better shortly, but before then, let me explain some terms...

Story- Ikemba and the Cripple..... Chapter 1

Once upon a time in the land of Lorji, lived a polygamous family of a great hunter, whose name is Ojinta, but popularly called Oji the hunter by the entire villagers, His quest for a son had led him to marry more wives than he bargained for, he had eight wives in all, each he married in pursuit of a male child, but the more he tried, the more he failed. Out of annoyance he decided not to marry any other wife against the advice of his kinsmen to marry one more wife. 

Determined to get a son, he summoned all his wives one rainy morning and promised to give half of all his wealth to any woman who would give him a male child, already Ojinta had nineteen daughters from his eight wives. The first wife, Nneka had four girls before he married Nkem, the second wife, who gave birth to two female children, then he went to a farther town to marry Uremma, who delivered just a daughter, he didn't give up the search for a male child as he further married Adamma, who delivered twins twice, though they were all female children. 

Photo of the day.... We are One

Pope Francis seen in a warm embrace with Jewish Rabbi (Abraham Skorka) & Muslim Iman (Omar Abboud) at the Western 'wailing' wall of Jerusalem during his state visit to Jerusalem recently. This Pope is phenomenal.... with a simple message...WE ARE ONE.... #BringBackOurGirls

STORY- Iwopin: The Journey, the Camp, the Return.... Episode 2

 As promised in my last post on this story, here is the rest of the story.. enjoy and Happy Children's day.

Trying to turn, I noticed that we were on a cliff, and I told the driver to hold on, so I could be sure the back was good for him to turn, I swiftly came out of the bus and behold, there was a very deep cliff behind the bus, if the driver had moved an inch backward, the bus will dive into the deep ditch at the detriment of we losing our lives, I shouted and called everyone to come out of the bus immediately, as I placed a big stone behind one of the rear tyres before telling the youths what would have happened. 

STORY- Iwopin: The Journey, the Camp, the Return

It’s been a while I entertained you with a fun-filled life story, well, if you are reading this, then I am glad to announce to you that you are about to sojourn with me through a fantastic adventure. It is obvious that I love adventures, like taking a naked bath under the rain, jumping down from a moving bike or eating a fresh alligator pepper, yeah, those are fantastic adventures that I will never forget, though I am yet to try Omo detergent (the blue coloured one) as a toothpaste and proposing to a girl on the Lagos state’s third mainland bridge, hahahaha, yeah, some very crazy adventure right?.

 Some of you may wonder why I haven’t posted any cool gist for a while, most especially after the successful #31Days31Reflectors that I blogged throughout the month of January, I still extend my gratitude to all the writers of that successful episode, I am positive that another of such episodes will come up soon. This week, I shall share with you a story that will keep you checking on this blog for more. This story is an extract of all the adventure I experienced between 17^th and 21^st of April, 2014, exactly, you are correct, that was the Easter celebration week. 

Bees shows a shop owner "pepper"

Okay, i was just surfing the net when i stumbled on this interesting news, i am a fan of the animal kingdom, so i get interested in any news that has to do with animals. I recall the warning of Elder Innocent Ukaego concerning bees, when i went with the youths to a recently concluded youth camp, he said he feared bees more than a Lion, wow, i turned and asked why, he said, because the bee will only leave you when the stuff that invited them to you in the first place leaves, i will share details to that camp later. Now to the news in full....

5,000 bees colonise shop front as reported by press associaction......

Photo of the day.... and the bridge broke...

Some times, domestic hazards happen and when we look at the situation we just open our mouth in total surprise, take a look at this pix below, and wonder what would have happened to them.... Painful right?...

Things fall apart.....

Husband and Wife replies "Etcetera's" write-up, plus comments from a blog

Its another superb Sunday on GTB and the weather is beautiful, yet, there is war on the social media as Tiwa and husband, Tee billz attacked Etcetera about his write-up, hmmm, i wonder if its guilty conscience or defense mechanism o, which ever see their reply below and comments on their reply by fans of lindaikeji's blog, enjoy..

Tiwa wrote this in response

Female Celebrities Prefer 2nd Hand Husbands – Etcetera writes

Article published today May 3rd in Saturday Punch, page 31. Apparently the singer is now a columnist for Punch. Today, he writes about Nigerian female celebs and their preference for second hand husband. (whatever that means). Read below.

"Some days ago I was at a friend’s place and was asked by his sisters if I was traveling abroad for the wedding of a colleague that is still being talked about on blogs and on all social networking sites in Nigeria and I said no I wasn’t. But what struck me as odd was when one of them asked me “is she getting married to a BRAND NEW husband or a 2ND HAND husband”?
I stared at her in shock and confusion because up until that moment, I had never heard of a phrase as “brand new or 2nd hand husband. It became a heated debate amongst people in the house that day. ‘WOW’, I never thought a phrase like 2nd hand can be attributed to a human being. I know it is only applicable to objects."

Another poverty linked story - 29-year-old man kills his own daughter over plate of rice

Culled this news from Nigerian tribune....

According to a report by Tribune, a 29-year-old man named Kingsley Ekerete (pictured above), has been arrested for killing his own 7 year old daughter over a plate of boiled rice (say what??.... boiled rice?) in Obimama, Oyigbo LGA of Rivers state.

Kingsley, a commercial driver who hails from Nto Osung community in Ikot Ekpene Local Area of Akwa Ibom State, holds just a First Leaving Certificate and has to drive his bus daily through the bustling traffic of Port Harcourt to make ends meet and put food on the table for his young family.

Breaking news- Amaka Igwe is dead...

This time around its in the niche of our dear Nollywood, Mrs Amaka Igwe, Foremost producer, writer, director and a leading player in the Nigerian motion picture industry, passes on.

 According to reports gathered, she died last night April 28th in Enugu state, Nigeria, after an asthma attack. She, in company of her husband went to Enugu to kick off plans for a new Igbo soap when the rather poignant incident occurred.

Science- Another scientific mountain climbed....Tse tse fly

Genetic code of bloodsucking tsetse fly finally cracked..............

This is how its been reported by MSN news

Scientists said on Thursday they have cracked the genetic code of the tsetse fly, potentially helping to tackle one of sub-Saharan Africa's most devastating livestock diseases as well as human sleeping sickness.

Abomination- Uncle sleeps with his 12years old niece

Got this bizarre story from the internet, and sincerely, i am still in shock, haba, how on earth can this happen, well, peruse the story bellow.........

Anthony Wayas (pictured left) a resident of Finima community in Bonny LGA of Rivers State has been accused by his 12 year old niece of having sex with her since 2013, Tribune reports.

Anthony, who is the brother to the girl's father took responsibility for her after her father passed away when she was just a year old. By the time she turned 12, he started having sex with her.

His evil act came to light on Monday April 21 after the girl told her neighbour what her uncle was doing to her. The neighbour then told another neighbor who told the youth leader in the community and Anthony was accosted in his home where he was badly beaten and had to be rescued by the police. 

What a strange deed, view the rest of the story below ......