Eguria

TOO SAD BY EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA When I was growing up in those good old days, in the early 70’s and 80’s, I could notice electricity, yes, plenty of electricity in Nigeria. The future was bright as smiles beams from every face you could see because of the brightness of the environs. There was light in mostly every capital cities, towns, and in almost all influential villages that had a big politician in government. I never knew then what a generator would do. What do you need a generator for when we had light; I mean electricity for almost 24hours every day. Sometimes no power outage for days running into weeks; but today the difference is the case, as power outage is now seen as part of the Nigeria economic development. Whether this is leading us to economic prosperity, I don’t know. Many of us never knew the generator then as an alternative power source but those born today grew-up to know it as the only vital source of light for business and leisure. That is so wro...

WILFRED OWEN: ‘FUTILITY’                                                 Move him into the sun—                                                 Gently its touches him once                                                 At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, ev...

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