NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE: AFFLICTION OR APPROBATION?

...this is an awkwardly experience! Among the first ten Nigerian youths I extended the routine greetings of "happy independence anniversary"  what I got in exchange were totally unpleasant. Ranging from " what are we celebrating? Celebrating 95 days of University students roasting in their homes?  to "celebrating ironing your dresses whenever the power holding wants you to do so?  On this premise, let me ask you the reader...NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE: AFFLICTION OR APPROBATION?                                       Let us continue with 

PRAYER FOR NIGERIA IN DISTRESS    

All powerful and merciful father, you are the God of justice love and peace. You rule over all the Nations of Earth. Power and Might are in your hands and no one can withstand you. We present our country Nigeria before you. We praise and thank for you are the source of all we have and are. We are sorry for all the sins we have committed and for the good deeds we have failed to do.

In your loving forgiveness, keep us save from the punishment we deserve. Lord we are weighed down not only by uncertainties, but also by moral, economic and political problems. Listen to the cries of your people who confidently turn to you. God of infinite goodness, our strength in diversity, Our health in weakness, our comfort in sorrow, Be merciful to us your people. Spare this nation Nigeria from chaos anarchy and doom. Bless us with your kingdom of justice, love and peace. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.

IN MEMORY OF LATE PROF. KOFI AWOONOR

Songs of Sorrow
Written by Kofi Awoonor

I
Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus
It has led me among the sharps of the forest
Returning is not possible
And going forward is a great difficulty
The affairs of this world are like the chameleon faeces
Into which I have stepped
When I clean it cannot go.
I am on the world’s extreme corner,
I am not sitting in the row with the eminent
But those who are lucky
Sit in the middle and forget
I am on the world’s extreme corner
I can only go beyond and forget.
My people, I have been somewhere
If I turn here, the rain beats me
If I turn there the sun burns me
The firewood of this world
Is for only those who can take heart
That is why not all can gather it.
The world is not good for anybody
But you are so happy with your fate;
Alas! the travelers are back
All covered with debt.

II
Something has happened to me
The things so great that I cannot weep
I have no sons to fire the gun when I die
And no daughter to wail when I close my mouth
I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives
I shall go beyond and rest.
I have no kin and no brother,
Death has made war upon our house;
And Kpeti’s great household is no more,
Only the broken fence stands;
And those who dared not look in his face
Have come out as men.
How well their pride is with them.
Let those gone before take note
They have treated their offspring badly.
What is the wailing for?
Somebody is dead. Agosu himself
Alas! a snake has bitten me
My right arm is broken,
And the tree on which I lean is fallen.
Agosi if you go tell them,
Tell Nyidevu, Kpeti, and Kove
That they have done us evil;
Tell them their house is falling
And the trees in the fence
Have been eaten by termites
That the martels curse them.
Ask them why they idle there
While we suffer, and eat sand.
And the crow and the vulture
Hover always above our broken fences
And strangers walk over our portion.

http://www.poetryfoundationghana.org/index.php/occational-poems/funeral/item/816-songs-of-sorrow

2013 CATHOLIC MOTHER'S DAY

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

On this joyous celebration of the Mother’s day, I felicitate with the Catholic Women especially The Aba Diocesan Council of Catholic Women Organisation (ADDCWO) Permit me to mention some outstanding mothers in this realm I encountered during my service as the Aba Diocesan President of the Catholic Youth Organisation of Nigeria (CYON) 2000 – 2006; Lady Grace Amobi, Lady Mary Otigbuo, Lady Ann Ajemba, Lady Gloria Odor, Lady Leticia Okoroama, Lady Mary Uduokporo, Lady Izuwa of the blessed memory, Lady Akalabu, Lady Uche, Ezinne Felicia Ugboaja etc. May this occasion increase your faith in Christ and brighten your days. Congratulations.

EZINNE AWARD: Give honour to whom honour is due. Ezinne award is not a bad thing. The church should stop making mockery of Ezinne Award. Let's dig deep into the quality of an Ezinne. I still wonder why a woman who never lived or trained her six girl - children morally and character-wise, these can be evidently seen in the mode of the six getting married without any dowry or marriage rite performed either traditionally or by the church should be designated as "EZINNE" (GOOD MOTHER) What's good about the woman? I am not judging but she ought to be ignored in this award. My advice is that this award should be earned not bought. Happy mother's day to all the Catholic women.

KELECHI AMUCHA ...AN OPTIMIST

When an optimist has a set back, how does he feel? He does not see the defeat as a permanent one. This does not mean that he denies reality. Rather, he accepts and examines the matter. Then as circumstances allow, he takes action to change or improve the situation. One should not blame himself for adversity, misfortune is not permanent and it did not come from one's stupidity, incompetence, or poor image. One should not resign himself to failure. When you find yourself thinking that you won't enjoy something or you won't succeed in some project, reject the thought. Focus on the positive. Look for friends who view life positively. Deal with the situations that you can control, try to accept those you cannot. Optimism improves your health.

LOVE IN LENT

The Lenten season this year starts on Feb. 13th, Ash Wednesday, reminding us that time flies, and life is short. 

But God be thanked, February is also popularly considered the Month of Hearts, when we observe Valentines’ Day on the 14th. The day is special for lovers and even close friends and relatives, (or sometimes even between the anonymous) as a day for the sending and/or exchange of expressions of love and affection in cards, messages and gifts and/or other tokens of affection. Actually, the day is named after St. Valentine.

Valentine's Day is now a secular time celebrating romantic love, but there is no love without God. Perhaps a better way to celebrate Lent is to take on projects of love: charities and beneficences, service and giving. These should be components of penance, reflection and fasting.

KELECHI EZEUDO @ 8

He took the name Ezeudo after his Godfather, Dr Godwin Chinedum Duru, Ezeudo II of Amucha, former Executive Chairman Aba South in whose tenure he surfaced exactly on 3rd February, 2005, Ezeudo Kelechi Jnr. is the first son of Kelechi Amucha and Ebele Nwankwo. The name Ezeudo means "King of Peace" His arrival was a prediction to end a  relational conflict and effect a change.

 O God, our times are in your hand:
Look with favor,
we pray, on your child, Ezeudo,
as he begins another year. Grant
that he may grow in wisdom and grace,
and strengthen his trust in your goodness
all the days of his life; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.

CIVIGRAPHICS NEW LOGO

In the process of having a cooperate outlook,

 CIVIGRAPHICS 

has revealed its new logo. 

A color wheel 

with a silver circle housing a "C" 

Below are some designs where the new logo has appeared to indicate that it has taken effect .