Baba Aye's

Myths are stories that acquire larger than life dimension and which many persons in a society could tend to believe as having something to do with reality. Indeed more often than not, myths could have that smoke if not the fire of historical facts, in them. Indeed, like the axiom of there being a fire wherever you find smoke; some myths tend to amount to falsities, moving with every motion forward even further from the half-truths they started as. A particular myth in Nigeria’s recent history is that of June 12. Quite a few Nigerians stood, sat and even ate (as in ‘chopped’ money) on June 12 while both its struggle and its gravy train subsisted. Just as the Daniel Kanus of this world swore that they would neither eat nor drink without Abacha succeeding himself, so did a number of NGO careerists push Abiola, as some would say, to an early grave, insisting on the validation of June 12. I am actually less disturbed by this or the fact that business is now going on as usual with proposals...

Dear John Dada, Thanx for yours, from the penumbra of internet activism on this serve, or as you could put it the zone of 'lurkers' (lol)...who none the less are not any less concerned or in agony about the fate of our dear country than those of us that choose to be 'basket mouths', not just for the fun of it though!.I had come to the conclusions of broader concern on the serve than shows itself through debates here not from speculation but from off serve interactions with a number of persons, I never knew where on the serve, many of whom I never knew before, in diverse manners, especially during the debates when I was in Germany. From the site link, you provided I must say it does seem, Fantsuam Foundation is bringing more than just tuwo and amala to some tables. Bringing happiness to hearts, hope to souls, does also make a the difference in situations of poverty, and stigmatization of persons living with HIV. Such function of civil society programmes aimed at ameliora...