THE TABLE SHAKING CONTINUES PART 6 By Tobe Eze

 

I was thinking that I will rest this weekend from this table stuff, I did not know that my friend and brother had a plan for me this weekend.  Just as he told me his plans for me this weekend, I remembered that all of us have plans for this Christmas season. I have been planning for many things that I will do and many places that I will visit during this Christmas break. I am certain others have been doing the same thing at least since we entered the month of December. Many people have many agenda for this break. I will not talk about the agenda of girls not because they do not have but because the last table was the one I collected from a saloon, from the girls I met there. So, this table belongs to boys. Continuing Reading........

THIS TABLE THING IS NOW LASTING PART 5 By Tobe Eze

 

She tagged one of my statuses on WhatsApp and told me, “all men are the same, after all that we do for them.” When I saw the thing, I concluded that it is either that a true son of Adam has done it again or he did it in the past but not long ago. My problem is not about ihe nwa Adam mere but, I want to know exactly all those things that girls will always claim they have done for men. Severally I have heard that, after all that I did for him, I want to know exactly what they normally do. The thing is confusing me. Continue Reading............

*LIVE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN DESIGN* *THE MIND IS EVERYTHING 👌. WHAT . By Brigid Adanna

 *LIVE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN DESIGN*

*THE MIND IS EVERYTHING 👌. WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU BECOME*

1. Back then in school. I attended a unisex school where I found myself mixed up with girls of different calibre. There were the good, the bad and the ugly but most of all: the happening ones who we dubbed with the name *Ashanti's*

You see, the way these girls spend money, hangout, forge a lie in order to get a pass permit out of the school would give you the urge to be like them. Continue Reading......

STILL ON THE TABLE ISSUE PART 4 By Tobe Eze

 STILL ON THE TABLE ISSUE PART 4

Some people cannot close their mouths to save themselves. We were sitting outside discussing, all of a sudden my guy just told me that he wants to marry but the problem is that we do not have wife materials again. See me see trouble ooooo. So what he means is that all these girls that are moving everywhere on earth are not good to be wives. I just remembered that it has been long I touched any table. I just stood up and got the table where I kept it to continue the job.

Because you are even stingy to yourself, any girl that requests for your help is no longer a wife material. If a girl asks for your money, you will just tell the whole world that she is after your money. Let me ask you, should she be after your life to be a wife material? When she asks for recharge card, you will calculate how many weeks she will use it before sending it to her. If she asks for data, once you subscribe her, you will be following her online to know how many comments and likes she will get and you will be telling people that it is your money that is burning out like that. My brother, you have to go and learn tailoring because you are the one who is not a husband material not her. Continue Reading........

STILL SHAKING THE TABLE PART 3. By Tobe Eze

 STILL SHAKING THE TABLE PART 3

This girl stole the table and ran into a saloon thinking that I will not see the table again. I went into the shop and stayed inside there to break the table. Five persons who were the shop were listening to me. What I saw there reminded me of an experience I had some years ago.

I attended a wedding mass of my secondary school classmate. The mass was scheduled to begin by 11am and I did not know, I went there earlier thinking it was 10am mass.  Continue Reading................

SHAKING THE TABLE PART 2 By Tobe Eze

 SHAKING THE TABLE PART 2

Someone should please help me remove bottles from this table that I want to shake now. Boys have drank well I do not want to break any bottle, I only want to shake the table and if possible break one leg.

Why is it that in a particular area now, ụmụ Boi not even ndị Oga are now planning on how to deceive some girls during Christmas, instead of how to do fast and be Oga on their own? Some have saved enough money for the project and some are still saving more. They are chatting with some girls now giving them high hopes and these ignorant daughters of Eve are now thinking that their weddings will be on January 1st. Ụmụ Eve, bikonu wake up, they are just coming to deceive you and go back to base. They show their friends your chats with him and they are mocking you now. Continue Reading........

MAKE I SHAKE THE TABLE SMALL. By Tobe Eze

 MAKE I SHAKE THE TABLE SMALL

In so many Nollywood movies, we do see how poor wretched boys fall in love with rich beautiful girls and they will end up marrying themselves despite the odds they will suffer. Also we see beautiful poor girls and they will fall in love with poor boys and agree to work for better future. Some novels before go by names like “The Rich Girl and the Poor Boy”, “The Servant Boy and the Princess”. In some movies, you see some using flute, ball, farm work and so on to get rich girls and at last they will marry each other.

Again, we, see beautiful girls and even rich girls falling in love with disabled boys, we are always happy seeing that. I for one enjoy that type of film like mad. I always watch them for I see hope for the hopeless in them. Continue Reading..........

LOT’S WIVES EVERYWHERE By Tobe Eze

 LOT’S WIVES EVERYWHERE

We are very conversant with the story of how the wife of Lot turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back on their flight out from Sodom. Because of ordinary turning, she turned into a pillar of salt, if this generation existed then or if the experience should repeat itself, I am certainly that the number of pillars of salt will be more than the world population. It surprises me that we have lost it entirely that we cannot control ourselves in very simple things around us.

I gave you my phone to see a message that someone sent me. After seeing it, you left the message, entered my WhatsApp and searched all my chats. I lost my privacy to you because I showed you a message. After that, you entered Facebook messenger and searched all my chats. And lastly, you checked my normal message and everything checkable. State CID Weldon oooo. Why would you not turn into a pillar of salt?

Continue Reading...........

PARENTING AND RESPONSIBILITIES By Victor Obinwa

 

PARENTING AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Author 08105790391

By Victor Obinwa

+2348105790391

In this article we are going to discuss in details the issues concerning parenting and responsibilities.

The reason for this is because in our society today, many parents have failed in their responsibilities to their children and this has led to increase in immorality and child labor as the order of the day. You hardly find a modern family that is built with the main family culture and respect which has brought about conflicts and separation amongst families in the name of western culture. Indeed, western culture has done a lot of good to us in terms of the way we think, act, communicate and also helped us to do away with cultures that has to do with encroaching in the rights of individuals in a given society, indiscriminate killing and shedding of innocent blood all in the name of culture and religion. Continue Reading............

THEY SAID I AM STUPID By Tobe Eze

 THEY SAID I AM STUPID

Please, just read my own part of the stories of what happened that my very good friends had the gut to say that I am stupid.

I am a secondary school student, using a phone of or about ₦57,000, I subscribe it every month at least, ₦1,500. I get all the money from my parents. I told my friend how I get the money and he was not comfortable with me. Continue Reading.......

TO YOU MY DREAREST By Tobe Eze

  TO  YOU MY DREAREST

My dearest one, I wish to tell you something but I would like to tell you a short story before that. This story will help me a little to clear the ground for what I wish to tell you.

In a certain autonomous community, the King died. After the burial and funeral, another king was needed. Two persons indicated interest, the first was well known personality in the community and the other was known but not like the first. Anywhere the first passed, people hailed him as the Igwe elect. He was already carrying himself as one. He needed no campaign again for his personality was enough campaign. The second person was struggling to make himself known and he was meeting known men and women in the community. He met the youths and even children. Continue Reading....................

SHALL WE TRY JUNGLE JUSTICE? By Tobe Eze

SHALL WE TRY JUNGLE JUSTICE? 

 On Friday, 3rd week of September 2021 which was on 17th, my very good friend and classmate was brutally dealt with by unknown cutlass men just because of his phone. He is still in the hospital suffering pains and spending from the nose because of fellow boys. They stopped two bikes, one in the front and the other at the back. One of them who was with the cutlass went down. Immediately they requested for the phone, he landed the cutlass on his head. Continue Reading...............

DO NOT CONDEMN THE YAHOO BOYS By Tobe Eze

 DO NOT CONDEMN THE YAHOO BOYS

It is often seen that condemning people and their actions is very easy but recognising that we are into the same sin is very difficult. Worst still is even when we are worst than the people we condemn. Any little opportunity given to us to advise, preach, admonish, talk to people, we turn it into a judgement throne without accessing our own lives. I am not in anyway saying that we should not condemn bad acts, but I wish the condemnation should start from us before going to others. Why do I titled this, “do not condemn yahoo boys?” Continue Reading..........

Ndị Nsukka and shadows By Tobe Eze

 Ndị Nsukka and shadows

The disheartening thing about this generation is that they prefer the shadow more than the object. Always looking for a place to damage something or life in the name of one stupid thing or the other. In this country where the government has made even the unborn children to complain about hardship is where my people ndị Nsukka are always busy with some stupid activities

Firstly, this year 2021, I can say without fear of lying that about three persons lost their lives during the activities of either Akatakpa, Odo, Oriokpa, Kakpo, or Omabe etc. These youths involving in these activities are being supported by those who are holding the keys to their destiny and instead of working towards releasing themselves, they will tell you that even our men in the government are supporting us, omenala anyị ekpokogu (our tradition will not go into extinction). Where are their own direct sons and brothers? They bring money and you bring your life and destiny. Be wise ndị youth Nsukka. Continue Reading..................

How Are You? By Tobe Eze

 How Are You?

I think the habit of “how are you” should be a thing all of us should hold very dear. Many are being forgotten especially when they need the “how are you” of others. The act of visiting people is one of our qualities and traditions as Africans but some are now neglecting that fact. Solidarity can heal a dying soul. This visitation in our tradition is both in good time and bad time.

If your friend or relation tells you that he or she is sick, do not presume that he or she must recover, always ask the person “how are you”? If the person tells you that either the parent or sibling is sick, always ask how far. Visiting the person is an added advantage which will give a serious joy to the person involved.

Solidarity in the moments of crisis is always saving than in moments of joy. If we can develop to show concern in critical situations of our friends and relations, they will always be greatful to us. I can testify from some visits we made to our friends. We visited a classmate who’s mother has been sick and he has not stopped thanking us. We visited our classmates that were denied the same opportunity with us and they have not finished telling the story till date. Continue Reading............

CATHOLIC YOUTH IN THE FACE OF MORAL DECADENCE, WHAT IS OUR FATE? By Tobe Eze

 CATHOLI DIOCESE OF NSUKKA.

A TALK BY TOBE EZE (DAN~HILL) TO CYON DURING YOUTH WEEK.

TOPIC: CATHOLIC YOUTH IN THE FACE OF MORAL DECADENCE, WHAT IS OUR FATE?

Introduction

Definition of Terms

1. Catholic Youth

2. Morality

3. Decadence

What is Moral Decadence

Causes of Moral Decadence

Effects of Moral Decadence

Our Fate in the Present Situation

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION 

We are now experiencing what was not obtainable before now. Many things we were holding so dear are now going down. Our moral lives are now being affected so much that we do not consider many things sacred to be sacred any longer. We are now experiencing too many changes both positively and negatively and they are seriously affecting us especially on our moral lives. We need to go back and get the real definitions of things in order to help us recover what we have lost and help our moral lives today. Continue Reading.........

TOPIC: ADDICTION AMONG THE YOUTH/CATHOLIC YOUTHS AND SOUND CERTIFICATES WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE- A WAY OUT. By Tobe Eze

 CATHOLI DIOCESE OF NSUKKA.

A TALK BY TOBE EZE (DAN~HILL) TO CYON DURING YOUTH WEEK.

TOPIC: ADDICTION AMONG THE YOUTH/CATHOLIC YOUTHS AND SOUND CERTIFICATES WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE- A WAY OUT

Introduction

Definition of Terms

1. Catholic Youth

2. Addiction

3. Certificate

4. Knowledge

Catholic Youths and Addiction

Catholic Youths and Certificate

Catholic Youths and Knowledge

Catholic Youths with Sound Certificate and Sound Knowledge

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

There are many things we do ordinarily and regularly that we always feel that they are normal without knowing that we are now becoming addicted to them. The tragic thing about addiction is that it does not start with difficult ways or things but simple things that can easily be done. Many are now addicted to many things that they cannot even stop again and we can see one of them in how we are addicted to certificates and hate knowledge. Addiction is like a cankerworm that eats deep into the lives of those involved. If we are addicted to anything we will always find reasons to justify ourselves. You will defend yourself to the highest point without thinking that you may be wrong categorically. We can be addicted to positive things and also we can be addicted to negative things. Continue Reading........

Tuesday Of Week 14 Year A By Tobe Eze

 Tuesday Of Week 14 Year A

First Reading: Genesis 32:22-32

Gospel: Matthew 9:32-38

Theme: Let us keep it till this day

It is very common in our nature and among us to keep what we got from our forefathers both good and bad and we call them tradition or culture. This is mostly found in our youths these days going back to what our parents ran away from to embrace the gospel in the name of culture.

After the story of Jacob and the fight, we heard that his name was changed. Can’t we keep changing from bad to good till this day? We also heard in the conclusion that the Israelites do not eat the hip till this day because of their father Jacob. Can't we keep morals our forefathers taught us to this day? We stick to so-called cultures of our parents but will leave the morals they taught, behind. Who is deceiving who? No one is against our genuine culture but people leave our cultural heritage and take up the ones they like which most times are not even our culture.

In the gospel we can see Christ doing good despite the evil talks from the Pharisees against him. He also showed us what to keep to this day. Let us teach those who need teaching till this day as Christ did. Let us also show compassion to those who need it till this day as Christ did to those who needed it. Let us heal hearts till this day as Christ healed those who were sick. If we do these, if we keep them till this day, we shall make heaven. Thanks.

CO-MURDERERS. By Tobe Eze

 CO-MURDERERS

Nigeria is now so terrible that no one is sure to sleep and wake up again with his or her head still attached to the body. We are being beseeched by all sorts of evils every day. We are now very much confused and afraid that we do not even know whom we are to run to. The government has failed us automatically and we do not even have a single hope in them again. Hoping on ourselves now is also becoming problematic for we are now increasing the fire instead of quenching it. Why do I say this? Continue Reading..............

FACEBOOK IDENTITY CRISIS. By Tobe Eze

 FACEBOOK IDENTITY CRISIS

In my facebook friend request list, I have up to 87 friend requests that I have not accepted and I have not declined them. I am waiting and watching to see if I will see anything that will show me that I know those persons. The names there are not names that I have come across, the pictures are not familiar at all. Someone from my own village will use Itz Mhiz Dragon to create account on facebook, use the picture of a foreign footballer or an animal as the profile picture and cover page picture. If you send me friend request, how do you expect me to know that you are the one that sent me that. These days, hackers are doing terrible things, people are now becoming skeptical with regard to facebook things and they should not be blamed.  Continue reading........

WE ARE LOOSING IT By Tobe Eze

 WE ARE LOOSING IT

To what shall I compare this generation, this generation is the generation of those who have lost the values of life if I may say this. There is this video clip that is going around in the social media now, both in Facebook and WhatsApp of a boy beating, brutalizing, killing a woman and an old woman for that matter. Such a barbaric act is what I don’t understand, what must have come over that boy? Was he manipulated? Or under the influence of something? If it were to be in the old Igbo tradition, that boy deserves to die (both Christians, that is not the best). I wonder the type of persons we are having this time around in this generation. I do not know how to classify this but I see it as the worst thing the devil has done to us by making us lose our identity, our tradition, our culture which honours elders both from the feminine point of view and masculine point of view. Whatever may have prompted that boy to do that thing is a strong thing I believe. The boy should receive more punishments more than even the one that is also going around that he received for what he did is seriously is a grievous offence. Continue Reading........

FROM NWA CHELSEA TO ALEX VON, WHO IS THE NEXT TO DIE? By Tobe Eze

 FROM NWA CHELSEA TO ALEX VON, WHO IS THE NEXT TO DIE?

ALEX VON

Umunnem lawanuo. Chineke nna kporo unu o. Umunnem jee zuru ike n' ogu ebiela.

To what shall we compare this world, how can we understand this world, if we understand this world clearly, then we will manipulate God but since we cannot understand it clearly God remains God and will forever be God. Praise be to his name. Continue Reading...........

ONLY WHEN I AM ACTIVE OR DEAD By Tobe Eze

 ONLY WHEN I AM ACTIVE OR DEAD

I have seen recently people thinking the way I think and reacting the way I react. I have come to notice just like others have come to notice that people are only celebrated when they are relevant and when they are dead. If you are active, you will have many fans but if you are having challenges, you will have many foes. If someone dies now, the pictures, videos, write-ups and many other things about the person will be going up and down in the social media and so on, but when the person was inactive and suffering, no one did care. Continue Reading....,..

YOU SAID WAHALA BE LIKE WHAT AGAIN? By Tobe Eze

 YOU SAID WAHALA BE LIKE WHAT AGAIN?

None of them will betray anyone. 

One day, those days when men were boys. We were going for the Altar Boys (Mass Servers) practise in my parish. We were six going that day. It was the period of Akatakpa our local masquerade. We saw two of them coming from afar. We agreed among us that none of us will run since it was church activity that we were going. I was fronting the movement. As we were approaching them, I was still moving with courage that there would be no way they would have attacked us because we were in group. To my greatest surprised, when I came face to face with the Edom, I noticed that I was the only one there. When I looked around in my fear and trembling, I saw my colleagues in the bushes already running for their dear lives. I had no other option that to stand and watch the evil that will be melted on me by the two Akatakpa. As God may have it, they just looked at me (may be as a child), left me and continued their journey. I ran away with serious fear and trembling. When I meet with my friends, they asked me what happened but I did not answer them because I was already hurt by the betrayal. I continued to carry that grudge for years. I only forgave them years late when I understood the real teaching of the church. Continue Reading....... 

MY JOURNEY WITH HER By Tobe Eze

 MY JOURNEY WITH HER

Please She is not this person 
This story is a fiction. It didn't happen anywhere. Thanks 

I entered the same bus from Nsukka to Enugu with her. It was not a company bus, rather what is normally called “pick and drop”. The bus left around 10:47 AM from Nsukka heading to our destination which was Enugu. Few metres away from Opi junction, the bus developed fault. The driver tried all he could to rectify the problem but he could not. He then pleaded with us to exercise some patience that his mechanic will be there in few minutes. Continue Reading..... 

THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE By Tobe Eze

 THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE 

It baffles me to see people who in their dependent ages were complaining of evils melted on them by their Lords and Masters turning to unleash the same mayhem on those under them in the name of “it was done to us”.  How could you, who were complaining of evils  done to you as a junior student turn to be evil to your junior ones when you become a senior student? How could you, who were complaining of the evils done to you by your Madams when you were servants or maids turn and be evils to your own maids?  How could you, who were complaining of the evils done to you by your Masters when you were servants turn and be evil yourself to your own servants? If we understand the idea of suffering under people sometimes, it is to make us know  how evil it can be and to learn not to do the same to others. How we often cite our bad experiences when we want to teach others or to show example or to make a point, makes it to look as if we enjoyed it. We hated it, we wanted to stop it when we had no power or authority to do that, now we have the authority and power, what is happening?  What we did not enjoy then because they were evils, we should not promote them now for they have not changed, they are still evils on those we are unleashing them on. Continue Reading.......... 

Political Instability in Nigeria; Which Way Forward? Tobe Eze

 Political Instability in Nigeria; Which Way Forward? 

Introduction 

The Nigerian political situation has reached a point to be likened to the question Jesus ask in the Bible, “To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to other. We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn” (cf. Matthew 11:16-17). We have tried war, it did not work, we have tried dialogue, it did not work, the youth have tried revolution and still, it did not work, what are we going to do? As Chinua Achebe pointed out in his book, The Trouble with Nigeria, “The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise up to their responsibility, to the challenge of personal example, which is the hallmark of true leadership”. And this just summarized the whole problem and instability of the Nigerian politics. If the leaders are ready to take the bull of leadership by the horn, we may have a positive change, but many things are coming to play through their being irresponsible. In this write up, we shall look into the situation of Nigerian politics, some of the things that are causing them and possible ways out from the political instability that we are experiencing in Nigeria. Continue Reading.....