Joni the Change Agent Int.

Without me realizing it commitment has become important in my daily life. Over time, it has determined the way I think about society. I never really thought of it consciously, nor have I studied the concept or read about it before. Maybe now is the appropriate time to do so. I don’t use books or theories and what they have to say about commitment. I want to start from my own experience. I want to describe what commitment means to me in practice, but also in theory. Why an essay? Sometimes the written word, not only expresses a thought, but also the process of thinking itself. A process that is unfinished, but through writing about it we hold on to the thought. The written word can be resisted, can be negotiated and corrected without it fading or disappearing. To begin with, one’s expected to open with a definition. I do not believe in definitions. If we define concepts then we tend to think in solid terms, while concepts are always dynamic and can be differently defined. I do no...

LET’S REMOVE THIS CURSE    By Biodun Opaleye Recently, I interviewed a cross section of retired people in our society irrespective of where they retired from. I discovered that most of them until recently earned between N800 and N2,000 not to talk of a huge percentage that earned nothing, judging by the small percentage of our working population out of the unwieldy 100-120 million Nigerian abandoned population. Everybody is now turning into a trader if he or she must feed daily from hand to mouth. The unpleasant spectacle is the huge percentage of ageing men and women I interviewed, who up till mid-day might not have eaten any food probably waiting for providential major meal for the day. As I watched many. I could imagine them cursing the society from within their hearts. Recently I overhead two prominent Nigerian citizens on radio and newspaper condemning the present members of the National assembly for being incompetent in one thing or the other. How I wish t...