DEMOCRACY

The origin of Democracy is traceable to ancient Greek; “Demo” meaning people and “kratia” meaning government, these two words in Greek “Demo” and “kratia” metamorphosed into the word “Democracy” and it is Abraham Lincoln that defined Democracy as the government of the people by the people and for the people. This definition can be divided into three explainable parts;

A.    Government of the people refers to government on behalf of the people

B.     Government by the people refers to representative government and

C.     Government for the people means that the government should be carried on the people of high principle that is that those trusted with the affair of government should not be politicians who seek to make themselves rich or powerful at the expense of those whom they are supposed to serve-the people

  In Nigeria, everything there is to say about Democracy that we claim to practice, we do not have it in our political system and as for me the political system that best describes ours is “Oligarchy” it is a form of Government that places political power in the hands of a few people. Democracy in Nigeria to the politician is a whole new ball game; it is the survival of the fittest/strongest. In the past years to be précised, Nigeria elections has been the kind where all the parties nominates their candidates and then they go to a board meeting of all the god-fathers and make a general selection of the top person to come out s the winner after the whole campaigning noises and false promises and we the citizen after standing in the long queues to cast our vote, they make the “selection” and not “election”.

  Nothing could be easier, and yet it is the hardest: to be simple (Ephesus, 2^nd edition, 1957, in German).

  Independence/freedom is a very sweet thing when it comes to those that knows what it means to them, to be free from the hands of another and to be able to work independently on your own, is a blessing. Many have worked towards it for so many years; some has attained it and moved on independently very well on their own to the benefit and improvement of themselves, while others have attained and still yet to be free from the spirit of being dependent.

  In 1898, the British governments establish and maintain a colonial state in Nigeria, and Sir Frederick Lord Lugard became the   High Commissioner of Nigeria and his wife gave the name Nigeria after the amalgamation of the two pectetorates in 1914. For some years, the Nigeria masses undergo some sort of degrading, racial discrimination in employment and so many more, Nigerians decided to fight for their right and to be free from the hands of the British colonial, In the likes of our noble and proud brothers; Nnamdi Azikiwe, H.O.Davies, Herbert Macaulay, Obafemi Awolowo, Kwame Nkrumah etc mobilized the masses for support, during the struggle for independence, so many lost their lives in this struggle and at last it came to our hands, freedom at last.

  1^st October, 1960, that date will forever remain in the heart of many Nigerians, the day after the long fought war for independence and freedom came to our hands after being under the British colonial for 62 years. It is now 50 years since that faithful year when we got our independence, we Nigerians, lets be sincere and ask ourselves are we truly independent? Or are we still leaving in the shadows of our colonial masters, I must say that we, our government has not made any significant impact in our communities, economy, security, global recognition and so on. Look at our neighboring country Ghana, we are bigger than they are, they respect us (Nigeria) but when it comes to economy I will say they are better than we, our citizens are moving down there to reside, and work etc and we call our self the “Giant of Africa”.

  This song goes out to all Nigerians at our faithful day and let’s remembers the suffering our fore-fathers went through for us to get this independence, let’s not make their sacrifice be for nothing.

Wish way Nigerians x2

Wish way to go

I love my father land

I want to know

Wish way Nigerians

We are heading to.

A MARINE WONDERWORLD: SHARK BAY

   Shark bay is a large, shallow inlet located at the westernmost point in Australia, some 650 kilometers north of the city of Perth. In 1629, Dutch explorer Francois Pelsaert branded this desert area “a bare and cursed country, devoid of green or grass”. Later visitors recorded their impressions with such names as Hopeless reach, Useless inlet, and Disappointment loop.

    But today over 120,000 people goes there annually to see this remarkable attraction called “Shark Bay”, so remarkable is this place that it was placed on the World Heritage list in 1991. If only Pelsaert would have looked under the water he would have found his meadows.

     Shark Bay contains the largest and most diverse sea-grass meadows in the world, over 4000 square kilometers in all. The sea-grasses support a dizzying array of marine life; Juvenile Prawns, Tiny fish, and countless other marine creatures, it also provides ample food for some 10,000 resident dugongs or sea-cows, these gentle and inquisitive mammals, weighs up to 400 kilometers.

    True to its name, Shark Bay hosts a large number of sharks of more than a dozen species. They include the: Fearsome tiger shark, and the gigantic but harmless Whale shark the biggest fish in the world, sharks share these water with Dolphins, exposing the myth that “where you find sharks you will not find Dolphins”.

    The greatest attractions of Shark Bay are the Bottlenose Dolphins of Monkey Mia, a beach on the edge of Denham Peninsula. Monkey Mia is one of the few places in the World where wild Dolphins regularly visits to interact with the humans. No one knows for sure when this interaction began. In 1964, a local fisher woman threw a fish to a lone Dolphin splashing around her boat at Monkey Mia. The dolphin, which people called Charlie returned the next night and took a fish directly from the woman’s hand; soon Charlie friends joined him.

     These days, Dolphins, often with their young, visit Monkey Mia beach most mornings. Crowds of excited visitors awaits their arrival, but only a few share in the feeding because Park Rangers wants to ensure that the animals do not become dependent on handouts, Nevertheless, all the people present gets a good view of the proceedings. “If only humans could enjoy this intimacy with all of earth’s creatures”.