NIGERIA NEEDS THE CARNIVAL ACT.

Nigerians have embraced season films as the new sitcom in town. This is not unexpected since those seasons are well scripted, produced and sub-titled. Amongst these seasonal films that had won the hearts of Nigerians are Prison break, Lost and a more recent one ‘Legend of the seeker’. An aficionado of the latter will be familiar with the carnival troupe comprising of the seeker of truth, wizard of the first order, mother confessor and the evil turned good mordsith.

I will like to take every reader that is exposed to this piece on a voyage of imagination. Nigeria, our beloved country is bedeviled with so many ills and evils which we are desperately praying to God to send someone to cleanse and stop. How interesting will it be to have the carnival act fighting to a standstill the problems we are encountering?

Nigeria will really be the better for it if a seeker of truth is named. This seeker of truth will snuff out every evil player in the country. He would fight armed bandits, kidnappers and assassins. With him around, people all over the country will be able to afford a sleep with both eyes firmly shut just like the people of the midlands did in the film.

Imagine a mother confessor in Nigeria. All the celebrated rogues that keep slipping out of the grips of the law and the ones that the long arms of the law have failed to catch up with will be punished in a jiffy. In the movie, the mother confessor bends people to her will (usually to do good) and makes them confess and reveal truthfully things they had done. Imagine having this in Nigeria. All the treasury looters will be confessed and ordered to return the loot to the treasury and pick up a honest work, not the large scale pilfering.

A wizard of the first order? This will be a great acquisition for the country. In the sitcom, the great wizard, Zeddicus Z’ul Zorander was endowed with great powers, wisdom and wits. What he lacked in frame, he made up in analysis. Nigeria will really go far having an old head like that instead of the selfish, greedy and irresponsible oldies that parade themselves as elder states men.

The mordsith! In the sitcom, the mordsith was a fearsome character for many reasons. The agile wielded by them brought unbearable pain to the person holding it not to talk of the person it is used on. I remember vividly the first time the seeker of truth picked up the agile; he dropped it almost immediately because of the painful effect. The mordsith tortured their victims so as to bend them to their will and they also have a reviving power (breath of life) with which they revived recent corpses. With the mordsith in Nigeria, the passage of great people could be prevented and the dead could be given a second lease of life.

Even though, the characters of the film are purely fictional, how I wish they existed. If they did, I would have done all my best possible to bring them into the country. If they could terminate the reign of the diabolical dictator (Darken Rahl) and extinguished the raging fire of the keeper of the underworld by sealing the rift, then, they can cage Nigeria’s monster (CORRUPTION).

THE POWER OF RECOMMENDATION

The advanced learners dictionary of the English language defines ‘recommendation’ as ‘suggestion for something (role or an office), make appealing or highly desirable’. Recommendation is something we do consciously and unconsciously. At almost every juncture in life, this power is evoked (we might be evoking it or someone is doing it in our favour).
Researches have shown that we are a number of people away from where we want to be or who we want to meet. This means that all we have to do to get to a place of our dreams or shake hands with our dream celebrity is getting to know someone or some people. Your dream place is someone’s relaxation center and that enigmatic person is another person’s pal.
Recommendation takes place everywhere; politics, career, relationship and even religion. The day Barack Obama received the public endorsement of Senator Edward Kennedy; he overtook Hillary Clinton in the opinion poll of who should clinch the presidential ticket of the Democratic Party. Also, he enjoyed the recommendation of Oprah Winfrey.
We have seen spouses that met each other through the recommendation of dear friends.
The power of recommendation is as important as the person making it on your behalf; it is not advisable to long for something so much that you ask someone that does not enjoy high respect to do it for you. If this dear mistake is made, you might loose it even before you lay your hands on it. Edward Kennedy and Oprah Winfrey are two people that enjoy in no small measure the respect of Americans; their public endorsement did it for Obama.
Biblically, there are examples; Joseph being an evergreen one. Despite the fact that he was destined for the post (prime-minister), he still had to depend on someone putting in a word for him (recommendation), little wonder he told the king’s cup bearer not to forget him when he again took his place among the king’s retinue of servants.

Recommendation does not happen in a vacuum, it depends on some vital principles;
The principle of relationship: this principle states that you cannot vouch for someone you do not know. Hence, for you to enjoy someone’s word on your behalf, you have to command the person’s confidence and confidence comes only with relationship. No man is an island of anything, if God could say ‘come lets reason together’ and sauntered into the garden to have fellowship with man who is a man to say he does not need others?

The principle of diligence: it said that we should not be weary in well doing and further says a diligent man will have his place among kings and princes. This shows that if you keep doing what you know how to do best in your closet, it is only a matter of time, you’ll soon catch the attention of people and by extension enjoy their recommendation.