River Ethiope The Deepest

     At the near unfathomable depth of 100feet,the river Ethiope,a freshwater body holds the undisputed record as the deepest river in West Africa.For centuries,this river has flowed out drop after mysterious drop from the bowels of an iroko tree in Umuaja village near Umutu in Delta state of Nigeria where the UNOKU deity is worshipped just by the tree.Certainly a place to be seen to be believed, this jaw dropping source of the river Ethiope.This majestic body of water,though sporadically bedeviled by the spillages caused by saboteurs of petroleum pipelines still retains a considerable part of it's splendour.
       Lying within latitude 5.9000 and longitude 5.7000 degrees in the Africa Lagos timezone,river Ethiope traverses the historical university town of Abraka,the kingdom of Jesse,the timber processing town of Sapele where it is bridged at Okirigwre,the polytechnic town of Oghara,and the ancient administrative port city settlement of Koko.From there,it flows for some distance before joining the Atlantic ocean.
         A handful of world class hotels dot the shores of the Ethiope like the Peemos Place Sapele,Abraka river hotels,and Abraka,Amena Resorts,Oghara.Other industries on the bank of the Ethiope are the African Timber and Plywood factory ATP,Lonestar drilling company,and Rainoil,a major player in the oil and gas industry.Water transportation also thrives in the Ethiope in addition to some fishing and dredging done with locally constructed dredgers .The purpose of such dredging activities is solely to excavate the white sharp sand of the river Ethiope,for sale to the construction industry .

The Dog Of The King

The dog of the king is the king of dogs!.If President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,his governors and their geometric battery of aides agree,then why are Nigerians,children of such an affluent country so plagued by this pauperising species of poverty?. If you drive by almost any refuse disposal site now,you are sure to find people,not mad one's,attracted there like ants to sugar,scavenging the waste in those places,converting the discarded plastics and scrap to cash.Yet Nigeria is fifty three today. If you drop by any one of Nigeria's public universities now,the gates are shut....the staff have become career strikers,PHCN too or what is left of it is also on strike;the import of this?,no power,meaning the average Nigerian can't even watch today's independence day celebrations on Tv. At 53,Nigeria has lost NITEL,lost Nigeria Airways,struggling not to loose Nigerian Railway Cooperation,lost Delta Steel Company,lost Ajaokuta Steel Company,lost PHCN,lost the confidence of Nigerians,lost the trust of foreigners etc etc. Beside the moribund NITEL premises on Reclamation street,Sapele,there's a rash of small businesses;a car wash,a mechanic workshop,a private school,a barbing saloon,a church,and a couple of others more.All of the aforementioned businesses are thriving in a structure that belongs to NIPOST,a fully completed structure that would have been useful today as a post office.My bet is that people who patronise the businesses in that completed but abandoned ultra modern NIPOST building don't even know that place was originally built as a post office. At fifty three,quite sadly,the majority of Nigerians are disappointed,dismayed and disoriented by goings on in a country which is held in a vice-grip by corruption,tribalism and inefficiency.The only thing Nigerians still posess now is hope,but even that fizzles away if it doesn't transform into reality in good time.So help us God!.End.

Bulgarian Independence Day Today 22/09/2013

As Bulgaria turns 105years today,the entire country is agog with the much expected celebrations.Congrats Bulgarians!!!!!.More at novinite.com

Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) and 9th September.

It is worthy of mention that the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken,Colonel Sanders was born today 9th September 1890.

Full Name: Colonel Sanders Nationality: American

Profession: Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder

Born: 9th September, 1890 Star Sign: Virgo

Died: 16th December, 1980 (aged 90)

Countdown to her 53rd birthday.

Going  by the calender,it is 23 days before her 53rd birthday,at which age,the sun would have begun to hide it's brilliant glow in the dusky horizon,had she been truly woman,as a woman is known to be.Hope is still very realistic to have,close as she is to that elderly age......,because she is Nigeria my beloved country,or Naija as she is fondly called by countless disillussioned but optimistic citizens,the teeming majority of whom are jobless or at best overworked and underpaid.
      Leaders,great ones have come and gone over these painfull passing years,custodians of  near absolute power,bereft of any willingness to positively affect the lives of a docile populace bitterly humbled by the worst species of poverty ever known to man.With the exception of a handful of Nigerian Governors,Senators,Local Government Chairmen,Special Assistants,Lecturers,Doctors,Teachers,Lawyers etc,the host of others are merely poachers in the guise of game keepers.
         As this beautiful,but thoroughly plundered country prepares for her 53rd birthday,power cuts are still as common as poverty,food,good medical care,security and shelter are yet things the majority of Nigerians can only dream about.The affluent,the ruling class,Kings,their women,children and even dogs dwell and reign in the cosy mansions,cars and offices from where they brazenly and needlessly privatise the public sector of the Nigerian economy .They shamelessly perpetrate the 'Private Syndrome',they have their private water boreholes,attend private hospitals when they are sick,have private guards,put their kids in private schools,possess private electricity supply,have private tinted cars with private numbers,and private helicopters and jets.As Nigerians await another independence day speech by the gentle and soft spoken President Goodluck Jonathan,it is prayerfully hoped that it will not include a paragraph that Nigeria is now a private country.It is also hoped that his awaited speech will address the basic needs of a people in desperate despair.End.

One

Today,my birthday,is a great day,like my forty something birthdays before it,and like the one's to come.Had I been the legendary birthday celebrant of olympic dimensions,I would have wined at Sapele today with a thousand guests,dined at Benin with another ten thousand party mongers like myself,and flown to Abuja thereafter with my teeming fans and admirers.There,I would have closed NICON NOGA,Aso Rock,AIT,Silverbird,the Police,Road Safety,everything and everywhere.Wine ,Agbada's,music,women and spraying would have flowed freely,like the dreaded River Niger as it overflowed every known bank.And man!,I would have received congratulatory phonecalls from Obama,Queen Elizabeth 2,and from all the kings and Princes in Arabia.My numerous private phone lines would have been hot and busy.Which brings to mind,a special birthday congratulatory call which has woken me up every 6a.m on my birthdays in previous years.Today,that call never came,because the caller,consistent in her congratulatory birthday calls,for as long as the mobile phone has existed in Nigeria,never lived to see today.She,my Mother will be missed greatly.She was an Amazon,bold,fearless,beautiful,strict,but kinder than an Angel.It made no matter whether her love and care was directed at her own or her enemy's child.That is my Mother's story.As to my latest birthday my friends,the celebrations are on and your congratulatory posts,calls,and spraying are welcome a'la Niger style.The music is on,and you are welcome to the dance floor.End. Like · Comment ·