question: should loving someone have a reason?

Girl, you are in love with him, and you don’t know why? My guy, you are in love with her and yet you don’t know why?

Should loving someone have a reason?

No: I’m of the opinion that such a love isn’t genuine when he’s able to explain why he loves her; when she can itemize/enumerate why she is in love with him. Besides, the day these reasons cease to exist, the Love gets finished.

Yes: and then another part of me thinks that if there is no reason for him to love her, isn’t it a waste of emotions if he says he is in love with her / she is in love with him, and there is no reason?

The above is just my opinion, what do you think: should loving someone have a real reason? Yes?, No? why?

question: why are there no Ibo / Igbo Muslims

I reflected during the weekend on our Muslim brothers/sisters, they had their festival(last 27^th, 28^th) – the remembrance of when a ram was miraculously provided for father Abraham to use in sacrifice instead of his son.

I had to greet a couple of people, neighbors, passers by around me Happy Holidays, Barka de Sala (thats the only Islamic greeting I know). And especially the Muslims, I watched as they went to pray last Friday, and I quite loved the idea that entire families trooped to the prayer ground near my house, decked in new and colorful outfits. It struck me that I didn’t find any Ibo/Igbos among those trooping to the prayer ground. I began to wonder if there are / if there aren’t any Muslims who are Ibos/Igbos, and vice-versa – or perhaps, if there are, and they are not the serious type.

I’ve done a 3–day(Friday, Saturday, Sunday) question and answer and the general conclusion is that the average Ibo/Igbo is a Christian. With the word ‘average’ quite notable, I asked Why?. “They were colonized as Christians and it has continued since then”. “Colonized as Christians” left me wondering if there has been a conscious passing of Christianity from Ibo/Igbo father to son / mother to daughter since ‘colonization’ – much like the story of the house of the Rechabites in the Bible; or perhaps the ‘average Ibo/Igbo’ is just a Christian by default – the typical /average Pastors kid, who is a Christian from the womb. Not that I doubt their(Ibo/Igbo) profession of Christian faith, I was just curious why there are no Islamics among them.

One of my respondents though gave me an answer I didn;t expect: “if you see Ibo wey say he be Muslim, the guy na guy-man, na money hin dey find. Tomorrow, you go find the guy for Church, he go tell you say he be Pastor.”

While I would take the above answer with a grain of salt, I do not suppose there hasn’t been any Ibos/Igbos who have crossed over from Christianity to Islam – just like there are a lot of Muslims who have become Christians among the Yorubas and Hausas. Perhaps there are, who are in the hiding.

Anyway, I would like to gather more information on my above observation: why are there no Ibo/Igbo Muslims?

your comments are appreciated.

question: can Nigerians ever develop the culture that abhors corruption

Its not news anymore that Nigeria is morally corrupt. It isnt news either that our leaders are the architects and engineers of corruption. Listening to a couple of people talking in a commercial bus, a man says “to be a politician, you have to be corrupt, if fact, if you are not corrupt, you cannot be accepted into politics”. Quite insightful indeed.

They went on to say that even who are not in politics are already corrupt, for example: bus drivers/conductors, market men and women who want to make 100% profit over something they didn’t add value to, staff of government agencies / parastatals, etc. These and many other people, ‘the average Nigerian in summary’, are on the way to the top – therefore when they ‘get there’, we cannot expect them to do any good thing for this country.

The discussion went on and on, and arrived on the average Nigerian child who, at his/her young age, ‘even a 6–year old kid’ knows how to cheat and lie for financial gain. A man went on to ask: “if we say our children, our youths are the hope of Nigeria’s tomorrow, and these children are already corrupt in their young age, does Nigeria really have a future”?

“Ki lo de ehn, what kind of a devil is in this country” an elderly woman joined in the discussion, then she asked in the Yoruba language the question which I’ve translated to English and used as the title of this post: can Nigerians ever develop the culture that abhors corruption?, as in, is it ever possible?

We were about 10 in the bus, and unfortunately, 6(six) concluded that they were not sure - it was impossible that Nigerians ever develop a corruption – free mentality. I noted to myself: are people not loosing hope in this country?

I’ll like to know what your own opinion / answer is: can Nigerians ever develop the culture that abhors corruption? Yes / No; why / why not!