Ogiri John Ogiri

Photo credit: Psiloveyou.xyz By Ogiri John Ogiri I just don't understand why a full-grown man would have to depend on sex enhancers in order to satisfy his woman. Cases of men dying on top of their women while making love have been reported more in this era than in the era of our forebears. Men, why should you kill yourselves fast by taking sex enhancement drugs before having sex? Do you think you can win any laurel for being the best sex performer? Oh, you want to show her you are a man. I have never read or heard about the existence of any Nobel Peace Prize for Sex. This thing is not by force. If you cannot satisfy her using your natural ability, let her be. The female vagina has never been conquered by any man before. You can only do your best and leave the rest to God. So, why the competition? What are you trying to prove? If you must know, the female vagina is a hollow organ,a bottomless ocean that can never be emptied or conquered by any man in this world. Yet, th

Photo Credit: Venture Africa By Ogiri John Ogiri. It is no longer news that Nigeria has been embroiled in a war against insurgency particularly in the northeastern part of the country since 2003. It is equally known that government has evolved several strategies which it has deployed and continues to deploy into bringing the war to an end. These have ranged from direct military action, the establishment of the Northeast Development Commission to the de-radicalization, rehabilitation and re-integration, into the society,of some so-called repentant insurgents. The strategies above were not without some criticisms from several quarters. Recently, there are those who believe that the government should consider granting amnesty to the insurgents, while a majority of other Nigerians do not think so. The recent introduction of a proposed bill for an act to establish an agency for the rehabilitation and re-integration of Insurgents into the society sponsored by a former Yobe Stat

By Ogiri John Ogiri The tyres of our national unity have already been punctured by the triads of consciously and carefully designed nepotism, fabricated religion and tribalism. It will take years to mend and it will require an experienced vulcanizer. I doubt if our unity as a nation will ever remain the same again after the exit of this government. One irredeemable damage this government has done to our national unity is that, it has succeeded in awakening our tribal consciousness while our common sense of nationhood has been completely obliterated. I never knew I was a Christian, a Muslim, Idoma,Hausa, Yoruba or Ibo until the advent of this administration. Before now, I never had any cause to worry about a Fulani herdsman living in my community until the advent of this government. In my village in those days,I still remember how we would exchange our cassava for some cow milk or "fura da nono". All that has changed with the coming of this government. I am now con

By Ogiri John Ogiri I met David Francis some time in 2016. We were both teachers at the same secondary school in Karu Local Government, near Abuja. He had come fresh from his philosophical studies at a Catholic Seminary and Institute. I had come fresh from my own studies in my own field. He taught Literature-In-English with Government while I combined English Studies with Geography. Within a week after meeting in the school,we became friends, not because he was handsome but because he represented my own images of three ancient Greek Philosophers namely Aristotle, Plato and Socrates for whom my admiration knew and still knows no bound. Moreover, we shared in common,undying love for reading, writing and public speaking. He loves lecturing and I love lecturing. Whenever we had time and met in the staff room,we engaged in fertile intellectual intercourses with our minds often locking into a funny combination of unity and incongruence of perspectives. His love for and grasp of t

Photo Credit:Differencebetween.com By  Ogiri John Ogiri Today is Valentine's day and, incidentally, it is a day set aside by many to celebrate love even though love is supposed to be celebrated every second of every minute of every hour of every day of our lives. Love is the most beautiful feelings that has ever happened to man. Yet it is the most dangerous, misunderstood emotion in the world. We are happy when we love and are loved. We hurt when we don't love and are not loved. As it's typical of a day like this, many young people will go out to search for love and to celebrate love. The red, white and black colour will dot our aesthetic landscape today. Sensational song will be played from across all meeting points of affection today too. For the guy, he is already armed with the right words to spew out in a manner that will strike the right ears and the soft heart of the girl almost with military precision. After all,the axiom that men are stimulated by what

Photo Credit: Every Every NG By Ogiri John Ogiri Let me begin this write up with a paraphrase of a statement attributed to the late Kenyan literary sage, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiongo. According to him,every language is rich in knowledge.So,when a language dies,the knowledge contained in such a language equally dies. Again, in one of his interviews with the Germany's DW TV in 2008, he said "if you know all,and I mean all the languages of the world and you do not know your mother tongue, that is enslavement. If you know your mother tongue and add all the languages of the world to it,that is empowerment" It is saddening, however, to know that many Idoma people today by choice seem to be on the side of deliberate enslavement instead of choosing empowerment by first learning their mother tongue before adding other languages to it. It may interest you to know that the Idoma language is the second most spoken language after TIV language in Benue state. It is spoken by

Photo Credit: Youtube.com By Matthew Hassan Kukah,  1. We have gathered around the remains of Michael in supplication but also as solemn witnesses to the penetrating darkness that hovers over our country. I have the rare honour ofbeing considered the principal mourner in this ugly tragedy. It is not an honour that I am worthyof receiving. The honour belongs to God Almighty who created Michael and marked out this moment and pathway for him. The greater honour goes to his immediate family whose devotion as Catholics laid the foundation for his faith and vocation. To his grandmother, Mrs.Eunice Nwokocha, a most simple, beautiful and devout Catholic woman whose devotion and dedication saw Michael and his siblings, Chukwuebuka, Francis, Augustine and Raphael brought up in all the fine principles and disciplines of the Catholic faith. 2. The way that Mama and her grandchildren handled this family tragedy has shown clearly the depth of their faith. I got to know Mama only after th

Photo Credit: Punchng.com By Ogiri John Ogiri. The current deplorable security situation of our dear country has brought to the fore,the fact that security is everyone's business. The recent unprecedented escalations in kidnappings and gruesome killings of innocent Nigerians in many parts of the country has,thus, necessitated the latest moves by the regions making up the country in setting up security networks that will provide complementary roles to the efforts of our mainstream security agencies. From Borno to Bayelsa,from Adamawa through Benue-Plateau to Ekiti States, it is the same chilling story of people being hacked to death through sheer armed attacks or kidnappings. The gruesome beheading of a CAN chairman, Revd Andimi,the shooting of a young UNIMaid's student of Plateau origin,incessant abductions and killings of students and aid workers all by the Boko Haram Insurgents in Borno,the murder of a poor Seminarian, Michael Nnadi, one of the four seminarians ki

Photo Credit: bestlegalchoices.com By Ogiri John Ogiri I have come to observe so far that one factor with a high tendency towards instigating marital problems in most homes today is getting married to "whoever is ready." Sometimes,most young people take this decision in defiance to any consideration bordering on whether or not the "ready and available" person is genuinely friendly, empathetic, nice,tolerant of dissidence, accommodating, calm and understanding in moments of disagreement and easily given to genuine forgiveness. The consequence, unfortunately, has come mean that more relationships have experienced irredeemable damage now than it has ever been. Don't just get married to whoever is ready only financially and emotionally; get married to the one whom you love and can live with. Marry that person who is your friend in truth and in character. A God-fearing person is not without these two attributes. He or she has great and amazing cha