THEOPET TONIE BLOG

You wake up, look up to pray or turn on the TV, or pick up the phone, to call a friend, a spouse, a child or a parent; or you want to go back to sleep, you prefer the world you see in your dreams to this world of fears and tears.  The nightmare is now a thing of the day and the dreadful night has turned pal. It appears life is toeing paradise to Bermuda. A triangle of unequalled sides, with no firm base, crushing on each sides with breakages on its edges. You, the world and I, are pacing on a weird path. It seems we have betrayed the pact we made with honesty and so we have crossed paths with Karma. They say it has brought this peaceful violence. Now the world's opposites occur simultaneously. The sun rises spontaneously in the rain. Citizens have turned slaves of an unseen jailer.  We hear the sound of the grenade, we run from the streets yet there was never a shooter. An illusion, laughable yet real. A trance, so unconvincing yet conscious. A...

(A TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF COVID-19) Beauty is the reason I'm writing  Love of it is why I'm painting  To hold on without taunting  The love it keeps bringing  To both young and old  Coward and bold In measures of silver and gold  To all in the fold That humanity may sail together  On the sea of each brother  And dance one after another  On the boat of each sister  But how can we dance  When living feels like trance Each day piercing with a lance Anyone who attempts a glance Of a neighbour's home So in the prisons of our tent We sit or lie waiting on fate To tell whose turn it is to bathe In the plates of the lathe  Of viruses unknown, yet We hear the arrays of weeping  Through furrows creeping  Along the hollows seeping  Life off any who attempts greeting  Even the noise of our bickering  Makes no sense to the tottering  Of the...

By Rafael Cereceda & Euronews One of the difficulties in fighting the pandemic that has turned the world upside down is that science knows little about the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 — or SARS-CoV2 — that caused it. To debunk fake news circulating about the virus, and make a point about the current scientific knowledge of the virus Euronews interviewed Morgan Gaia, a researcher on the co-evolution of viruses and cells at the French public research group CEA. SARS-CoV2's family of viruses is not unknown to science, but the specific characteristics of human diseases associated with this SARS-CoV2 strain (such as incubation time) have yet to be studied in full, Gaia said. Furthermore, the various lifestyles, climates and government measures in countries affected by the virus are all parameters that affect the data scientists have, he explained. Knowledge of the virus grows every day, but the recent avalanche of preliminary scientific publications on COVID-1...

Christian Association Of Nigeria (CAN) Distances Itself From COZA Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo Rape Scandal CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayoukunle, said the association did not have the authority to look into the matter. The Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) has distanced itself from the rape scandal rocking the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) and its founder, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.  CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayoukunle, said the association did not have the authority to look into the matter. It will be recalled that Busola Dakolo, a popular photographer and wife of Timi Dakolo accused Pastor Fatoyinbo of raping her twice as a young girl. However, Fatoyinbo denied the allegation in a statement issued out and posted on his Instagram page stating that he would press charges against Busola Dakolo, her husband and others involved directly and indirectly in the rape accusation. While reacting to the issue, the CAN president's media aide, Pastor Oladeji Adebayo, s...

AN EPIC OF A LIFE-LINE POETRY I don't really know how to go about my day I'm like a child that just lost his way Not knowing what else to say Whether to cry or to pray So here I am frowning and smiling Digging and pulling The memories of my growing The days of my christening Out through the powers of my thinking It was in the last moon, before the year passed slightly The twentieth day when the moon shone brightly And the stars dazzled lightly It was the moon of celebration Five days to the Christian commemoration Of the birth of the saviour of all generations Children lit up in jubilation Adults took on reparation While the aged gave graceful adoration Old bones sat under trees Little ones hovered round them like bees To listen to the moonlight tales Tales that now form blood tiles of today And speak of the memories of yesterday In that small community of Abavo On a calm Monday morning without rainbow I petered out of her...

THE REALITY OF BEING REAL PREAMBLE One among the most said things about people is the description of their person, worth, rank, office, and we can go on and on…. Yet the reality of the truthfulness of these descriptions is randomly swayed up and about the shades of lies and pretense. Most times when our friends celebrate birthdays and christening, etcetera,  we tend to hype their ego and tell them all sorts of good things, the things they would like to hear. I don’t see this as a wrong move, in the cases where those eulogies are themselves true, yet I see it as unfair when the reason for wasting such words is merely to fulfill the unquestioned injunction which says…. “It’s your day! Have fun!”. Now, the simple truth is this: when we do this we create a bigger problem which associates itself with the already existing one…….self-ignorance. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM I once met a lady who cautiously stared at the inscription at the breast side of my shirt “Theopet” and asked: is...

THORN AND THRONE The unique character of this date makes everyday it takes important, necessary, problematic and undesiring. One would ask, how can something be necessary and problematic or important and undesiring at the same time? This means that there is indeed something about 28 February.  28 February represents very fittingly, a day when the joy arousing from the untamable muscular expression of amazement and fulfilment on the face of an employee is beheld by all who come in contact with him. On this day, the employee's joy is humanly inexpressible. He is happy that he doesn’t have to work for thirty days to get paid. He is happy because he had got himself an extension of three more days before the bank loan runs overdue.  Consequently, the employer does not share in this intense feeling of happiness. He is dissatisfied by the emergence of February. He incessantly weeps over his thirty days budget which would have to run a three days loss as a result. It ...