IF YOU CAN TALK, YOU CAN WRITE

 

When we talk, we tell stories and present ideas--rarely with much anxiety; without having to think of what to say.

Talk is as easy  as that  and natural.

But how many people realize that writing  was born out of man’s desire to imitate speech.

Sam Adeyemi of Nigeria used to say “ God made the apple, but man made the apple juice. In the same reasoning , I used to tell my wring class that God made  speech , but man made writing. Had man not fallen in the Garden of Eden, may be there should have been to need to learn how to write

The book of Genesis for instance was written by Moses , yet God is the author!

Man was wired to speak. But he has to be really educated to write. Tell a child to narrate and incident that he is a witness to , and viammm he goes!.  Ask the same child to write… there the trouble begins. The reason for this is simple: God wired us to speak…. Naturally.

Good enough , we can WRITE by mealy imitating speech. This is what I mean: any time you have a chapter to write, simply SAY the chapter out on tape… then imitate what you have said by simply coping it out! In that way , you have made your writing easy.

OMOTOLA WINS ‘BEST ACTRESS AWARD’

OMOTOLA    WINS  ‘BEST ACTRESS AWARD’

Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade has been awarded ‘Best actress award’ by the Nollywood Travel Film Festival in Toronto, for her role in the movie, ` Alter Ego.’ The actress also known as `Omo Sexy,’ shared the news with her fans on her instagram page on Monday.

The Highly rated Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, was awarded ‘Best actress award’ by the Nollywood Travel Film Festival in Toronto, for her role in the movie, ‘Alter Ego.’

“The 2017 Nollywood Travel Film Festival awards for Best actress goes to @realomosexy for the movie #Alterego #alteregothemovie, this is just the beginning of greater things.

MY FEAR FOR BIAFRA – Obasanjo

A BAFRIAN  SUPPORTER

     MY FEAR  FOR BIAFRA – Obasanjo

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Speaking to Newsweek in London, Obasanjo  said  Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari must meet with Biafran secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu before violence between the army and separatists escalates into a full-blown conflict.

  He added   that  “the heavy-handed tactics of the Nigerian state against pro-Biafra activists, a secessionist movement that is pushing for an independent state, have not suceeded, and a more conciliatory approach is needed.” 

“I don’t see anything wrong in that [Buhari meeting with Kanu]. I would not object to that; if anything, I would encourage it,” Obasanjo tells Newsweek.

 “I would want to meet Kanu myself and talk to people like him, people of his age, [and ask:] ‘What are your worries?’ Not only from the southeast but from all parts of Nigeria.”

NIGERIAN ARMY DENIES CALLING BAFRA A RERRORIST GROUP?

Nigeria’s Military Says It Didn’t Call

Biafra Separatists Terrorists, Days After Doing Just That

By Conor Gaffey On 9/19/

The Nigerian military appeared to have taken a controversial step on Friday: In a statement, a spokesman for Nigeria’s defense headquarters said that the armed forces categorized IPOB as a “militant terrorist organization” and urged residents of southeast Nigeria, where IPOB is based, to desist from joining the group.
But at a press conference on Monday, the head of Nigeria’s armed forces backed away from the declaration, calling it a “pronouncement” rather than an official designation.
“You have to get it very clear. First of all, what the defense headquarters did was to make [a] pronouncement. It wasn’t a declaration per se,” said General Tukur Buratai, Nigeria e-newspaper Premium Times reported.
The announcement by the defense headquarters had sparked criticism from some in the Nigerian government. The president of Nigeria’s Senate, Bukola Saraki, said that the military’s decision to designate IPOB as a terrorist group was “unconstitutional and does not follow due process.”
But Buratai denied that the military had overstepped its authority. “We are still within the limits. And I [assure] you that what the military said was to set the ball rolling and to bring the awareness to the public that this is what this organization is all about.”

Nigeria’s conflict with separatists calling for an independent state, known as Biafra, has escalated in recent months.
The leader of the main pro-Biafra group, Nnamdi Kanu, was released on bail in April after being held in detention without trial since October 2015. Since Kanu’s release, calls by his organization—the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—for a referendum on independence from Nigeria have intensified, as have clashes between IPOB members and Nigerian security forces.

A U.K.-based spokesman for IPOB, Emma Nmezu, told Newsweek on Friday that the designation was being used by the military “to justify the killings of unarmed people.”
Nigeria endured a two-and-a-half-year civil war between 1967 and 1970 after a disaffected military officer declared the independence of a region of southeast Nigeria, which he called Biafra. The region was largely populated by members of the Igbo, one of Nigeria’s biggest ethnic groups.
At least 1 million people died in the civil war, which ended when Biafran forces surrendered and the republic was reintegrated into Nigeria.
But secessionist fervor has risen in recent years, led by IPOB leader Kanu, a British-Nigerian dual national who has proclaimed that Nigeria faces a choice between “Biafra or death.” He is facing charges of treason at a trial due to commence in October.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari fought on the Nigerian side during the civil war and has dismissed the recent agitations.
But the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo—who fought alongside Buhari against Biafra—told Newsweek last week that Buhari should sit down with Kanu to discuss the grievances of Biafra supporters, who claim to have been marginalized by the federal government in Nigeria.
Rights groups have criticized the Nigerian military for heavy-handedness in dealing with IPOB. An Amnesty International report in November 2016 said that the military had killed at least 150 IPOB members or supporters since August 2015. The military denied the allegations and accused IPOB members of using violence against soldiers.

BIAFRA: THIS IS TOO MUCH