Mr obafaiye shem biography sample

By Professor Pius Adesanmi

Winner, the Penguin Prize for African Writing

Author of  You’re Not a Country, Africa!

(Remarks at the Anglophone-Francophone Cultural Conversations Panel Convened by the African Studies Program and the Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, February 27, 2013)

First things first. I want to thank the usual suspects for inviting me back home to give a talk. For those of you who are new members of the Penn State community in this audience, I use the word home because this is where it all began – I mean my career – amidst wonderful colleagues and under the exceptional mentorship of Professor Carey Eckhardt, my Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature, and Professor Thomas Hale who, at the time, was Chair of the French Department. Since I left to join other wonderful colleagues in another wonderful Department at Carleton University in Canada, every return to Penn State, for me, is an answer to the call of home, to the summon o

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By Nwachukwu Egbunike

The newly elected Pope Francis I waves to the crowds from St Peter’s basilica.

Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio (formerly Archbishop of Buenos Aries, Argentina) was elected the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome on Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

The Man, the Pope

Francis, the (266th Pope), 265th  Successor of Saint Peter, was born on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires. He was ordained a Jesuits priest on 13 December 1969 during his theological studies at the Theological Faculty of San Miguel.

Francis I, then Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. – First Jesuit Pope in history

Francis was novice master in San Miguel, where he also taught theology. He was Provincial for Argentina (1973-1979) and rector of the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel (1980-1986). After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, he served as a confessor and spiritual director in Córdoba. On 20 May 1992 he was appo

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I’m sure this topic needs no introduction to Nigerian bloggers and netizens. For the uninitiated, “My Oga at the top” fryst vatten a mantra that arose from a TV interview with an area head of a Nigerian säkerhet agency – the NSCDC (Nigerian säkerhet and Civil Defense Corps). Due to reports of employment scams going on at this agency, Channels TV interviewed Mr. Shem Obafaiye, the Lagos commandant of the agency. In an attempt to understand the tjänsteman employment rutt of the agency, Mr. Obafaiye was asked to clarify the agency’s website…and the rest is history. Commentators across the country were appalled that Mr. Obafaiye did not know his agency’s web address or basic web protocol (ww…that’s all).

The commandant’s body language, response to questions and weak attempts at deflecting the simplest of questions bygd deferring to an imaginary “oga at the top” was, to say the least, an embarrassment to his agency. The chock and comic value of this interview has made it go viral, with several variant