True heroes never die: Ex Biafran leader ‘lives on’

 Everyday leads to another

Each one different from the other

Sometimes life don't seem fair

It's a game of do or dare

But true heroes never die

They just leave before good-bye

Hi Ho Silver away

We'll meet again someday

Legends live on and on

You were the unknown phenomenon

It's funny how time slipped by

Like the blink from a teary eye

I see you face in the full moon

Sometimes your voice fills the room

You are my true hero

Your light forever glows

http://www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/angelo.htm.

The entire nation is in sorrows over the death of the Leader of the defunct Biafran state colonel Chukwuemeka  Odemuegwu Ojukwu who passed on  to glory on the 26^th of November 2011. Born in Nnwi on November 4, 1933, he became the military governor of the then Easter Region in I966, at 33 years old.    

Pope's Trip in Africa: challenges ahead.

The trip of Pope Benedict xvi to Benin from the 18th to 20th of Nov. 2011 is indeed, a missionary trip to and for Africa. It is a trip of special mission for Justice, Peace and Development for Africa witnessing recently violence, provoked by injustice and which has contributed to her stunted development.

Pope benedict xvi would be going to Benin to make a presentation of the Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Second Special Assembly for African Synod of Bishops. Arrangements are made and things are already set in place for this special visit, including the musical Album produced with the name  “Africa Tenda Amani” (African Make Peace!), which reflects the theme for the second synod of the African bishops “The Church in Africa in Service to Reconciliation” , and this  encapsulates the central message of the Papal visit to Benin. This album expresses in music the desire to accompany the fruits yielded by the Second Special Assembly for African of the synod of Bishops.

It is indeed a big challenge to the church at present to pursue the cause of peace in Africa. His Holiness travelling to Benin will dwell really on this to see a way out of religious and political violence ravaging some countries in Africa.

        

Berlusconi asked to resign: better option?

                        

The seat has been very hot and uncomfortable for him but he has remained tough and ‘heady’ to give up. He has survived several votes in the house but could not get over the Key budget vote of 8th November, which manifested his betrayals who consciously absented themselves from the meeting scheduled for the vote. Taking note of the power of the majority in the vote, the opposition group played their expected role but the greatest surprise of Silvio Berlusconi is that some of his own ‘thought members’ were absent in the lower house on the 8th November for the vote and this denied him the majority vote. Behold, it has become a seemingly evidence that Berlusconi has not been ruling with the majority of the house. The question is: would he really heed to the call of the voices echoing resignation? 

                                              THE SENATE ON SEAT

Increase Killing of Journalists in Nigeria: Government’s Silence ‘Speaks Volume’.

“Zakariya Isa, 41, a reporter and cameraman with the state-run Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), was shot dead in front of his residence in Maiduguri, capital of the Northeastern state of Borno, on Saturday 22^nd October 2011, around 7:30 p.m. local time, Sale Mahdi, news manager of the local NTA bureau, told CPJ. Moments before the murder, the gunman and another man had approached Isa to borrow a water kettle, supposedly to perform ritual Islamic ablutions before prayer, Mahdi said. Isa had been on vacation since Friday, he added. http://allafrica.com/stories/201110250293.html