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..... 

DID YOU ASK QUESTIONS? (IJUKWALU AJU?) By Tobe Eze

 DID YOU ASK QUESTIONS? (IJUKWALU AJU?) 

Nonso is a very s

uccessful business man in the timber shade at Nsukka. He has been dated Nkeiru for three years. They had already started planning for their marriage to take place Easter next year. Nkeiru just finished everything about her studies but no job yet. The wonderful event that I want to talk about now took place during Christmas. Continue Reading......... 

YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID THE TRUTH By Tobe Eze

 YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID THE TRUTH 

I was having good time with my friends and a message came to my phone through WhatsApp because, my data was on. The message goes like this. 

Brother Good afternoon. Please brother, I need your help, you are the only one that can save me now. I told my mother that I was going to Enugu-Ezike to visit a classmate there. She accepted and gave me her car. 

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E DON HAPPEN AGAIN. By Tobe Eze

E DON HAPPEN AGAIN 

Very deep in my siesta, I heard the vibration of my phone. With eyes half opened, I collected the phone from the desk where I kept it. Oh my God, this girl and her trouble. It was my niece. I picked and she just shouted over the phone. Brother! Brother! E don happen! I managed to ask her what has happened? She told me, “do you know that our landlord’s son that you normally stay with when you come around? From my bed I jumped up because it was just few days after my own relation was buried and it was the same hour that I got the news of his death on the day he died. I shouted, what happened? Waiting to hear the worst news again and she just said I should calm down that there is nothing much. Continue Reading..... 

The Reply of Abuguja Hillary Chekwube on the Article. On the Death of Ejike Eze

 Death is a reality and nobody understands it more than a dead person. *IThink* 

The mystery of death is demystified only by the deceased.

Marriage has neither advantage or disadvantage over death but you've to understand a people from their culture. Some cultural thoughts need to be seriously looked into. Marriage in Igbo tradition isn't something that they joke with  but more importantly igbo value child bearing. That's why we've names like Nwanenyeanuri, obiechina etc. 

Marriage is a sacrament that was instituted by Christ himself and it should be encouraged.However, there's no particular age for marriage. One goes into marriage whenever he or she thinks that one is ready.

For those asking you about the statutory status of the deceased. Their intentions could be categorised into 2 ; (1) if he's married , what will happen to his family (2) if he's not married, his lineage has ended.

Death gives no information before taking one. 

May we continue to pray for the happy repose of Ejike and may we also accept the fact that our own date can be anytime. 

*Memento mori*

On the Death of Ejike Eze. By Tobe Eze

 On the Death of Ejike Eze 

Ejike died at 37

Nwanne m lawanuo. Chineke nna kporo gi o. Nwanne m jee zuru ike n' ogu ebiela.

As an African, I have been very much aware of this ideology but I saw it most now that I am mourning Ejike Eze. Some after consoling me will ask me if he was married and I will answer innocently “No” as it should be and I got three comments that made me to write this. 

One person said, he was late already for not marrying till now. 

The other said, Chai, he should have married before now. And the last person said, 

Why has he not married, at least…… Continue Reading.......