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I was flipping the newspaper, still pissed at the comments i was getting from Nigerians on my Facebook wall  based on a picture of the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock donating blood in Abuja and the Nigerian President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, at a birthday party in Ibadan, Oyo state just 24hours after the Nyanya bomb blast, when my eyes caught it,... ‘Slacktivism’! ‘ Slacktivism ’, is a condition we’re all suffering from even though it’s not peculiar to Nigerians. The term, which was coined by Dwight Ozard and Fred Clark in 1995, is a combined word for ‘ slacker and activist ’. It was coined to deride those who offer online support to causes in order to feel sane or at least assuage their feelings for or against a certain issue without actually doing something constructive about it. These ‘feel-good’ measures according to +Deola Kayode (punch newspaper) include likes, tweets & re-tweeting for a cause, signing online petitions, changing profile pi...

During my service year in Dutse, Jigawa state, I had to assist my choir director score a song and so I was given a cassette player to take home. On getting home as usual there was no light and of course one could never predict when the light would come so weighing my options I decided to get batteries for the player. About a day or two later, Nepa gave light and I rushed to my room, got the player out and pressed play. No sound. 'Arrrghhhh! Not now! not today!' I screamed in my mind. I took the player, fidgeted here and there, checked the wires, checked the power circuit point, pressed off and on again and then pressed Play. No sound. Ah, how can this be happening I thought to myself. I grabbed the player, dashed off to another Corper's room, plugged it and pressed play.  No sound. Now I stopped being confused and moved over to being worried.' Ah, this player is not mine. How do I now explain to the owner that the Player which was working is now bad. How much allowee...