………….PokeNosing……………

While reading through The Punch Newspaper of Thursday, 8th January, 2009 there is this piece under the Super Thursday feature with the title 419 and the Longman Dictionary.

There, the writer wrote about the negative international recognition which the inclusion of the coinage "419" in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporay English brings to the country.

Also in today’s Saturday Punch, a letter was written by a reader who was complaining of Wikipedia’s unfair comment on Nigeria, as if the article on Advance fee-fraud was incorrect, the teenager went on to say Wikipedia should’t have published such article.

As much as I agree that the Article is an "image spoiler" for the country, I also know that it is no longer a ‘world news’ that Nigeria has been linked as the "Capital" of Advance fee-fraud; though this menace is going on in other countries AND that it is not just Wikipedia that is been unfair but our corrupt leaders who have deprived the Nation of resources that could have been used in developing the Country.

Back to the inclusion of 419scam in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - it defines it as:
419 scam [countable]
an illegal way of getting money from someone by sending them an email promising that they will make a lot of money if they invest in a business activity which does not really exist [= advance fee fraud].

It is our prayer that we will get things right in this Country and our Nation shall be free from every form of Corruption; if "people in high places" will agree; but the major worry as the writer in Thursday’s Punch points out is that each time the word is used in whatsoever manner, the name of Nigeria as a country of origin will come up.

……hey don’t get it twisted, I’m not the divorced/divocee here.

Flipping through the pages of newspapers especially on weekends/entertainment magazines, you’ll find "interesting" stories of ladies(celebs) who are single/divorced telling us that they are happy being single……or divorced as the case may be.

My question is - are ladies(ripe for marriage) actually happy being single or are they just deceiving us on the pages of newspapers?

Let this ladies - single/divorced stop deceiving young ladies by telling them they are accomplished as being single, when most of them enter into their innermost chamber and pray for Mr. Right to come by.

Are they truly happy?

Helen Oyeyemi dazzled critics with The Icarus Girl, her first novel. Now she returns with another bewitching book.

Why writing on her - She’s a Nigerian born, British raised storyteller as qualified in the essence magazine.

The Opposite house mixes the sophomore jinx that has tripped up many authors. While The Opposite House is the kind of absorbing read that’ll make you say "Huh?" at times, we say stick with it. Why? For the starters there’s a blow-your-mind story line involving Santeria, a fusion of catholicism and the West African Yoruba religion. And there’s that maddening leak in a character’s apartment that just might be a gateway to another world. Is any of this real?

Its definitely worth finding out >>

On Monday after collecting my Project work from the printer/binder, I got home took Saturday Punch and headed straight to the shop.

While reading, an interview conducted with Mrs. Mercy Dada Nee Oyebor, popularly known as MAMA NOTHING SPOIL caught my attention and I read on………………

Now, how many of you know that Mandy (the popular female comedian) was first afflicted by Mama Nothing Spoil………….If you know her, its better you tell her to be careful for her not to get afflicted the second time by Mama Nothing Spoil………………..Reason - you might ask? Mandy acts as Mama Nothing Spoil (a registered name of Mrs. Mercy Dada)………….

Imagine a Mama Nothing Spoil who claimed to have seen Jesus Christ four times saying "………there was a time Mandy annoyed me so much that I sentenced her to years of affliction, which she went through. I hope she will not allow me to sentence her again……….."

Words like "………….I am not easy. I don’t forgive easily………….."

Please help me/us beg Mama Nothing Spoil to take things easy and act in a christlike manner of forgiving easily…………..

By the way, which affliction did Mandy went through and is she still acting Mama Nothing Spoil?