Lerabari's Blog

  I don't know why, but I get irritated sometimes (maybe my hormones at work). Someone recently asked a question: why do people you have no close relationship with choose to touch you while having a conversation with you?   Remember Jeff Dubham's Achmed the Dead Terrorist ? Yeah, the ventriloquist's skeletal puppet and that particular show where he shouts "STOP TOUCHING MEEEE! I KEEL YOOOOU!!" That's how I shout sometimes, (without the second part sha). Lol!       So it's a Saturday morning, and this question just came to me: why do people you have no close relationship with choose to touch you while having a conversation with you? Two occurrences got me thinking about this.   Someone I don't know from Adam came to talk to me but pushed his boundaries. I don't know why he felt I was some very playful person and came to me with a colleague of mine. He was telling me something about a job he wanted me to do and touched my s...

The last has not been heard of the flood disaster in Rivers State. Last we heard is that the Rivers State Police Command has launched an investigation into the looting of about 20 bags of rice meant to alleviate the condition of persons affected by flood in Ahoada and its environs.  As you may already know, about 20 bags out of 200 bags of rice donated to flood victims in Ahoada West LGA by the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) were reportedly stolen by hoodlums. The association had visited Akinima on the 26 th of October to donate relief materials to flood victims. Chairman of the association and wife of the Inspector General of Police, Asta Idris, had arrived Akinima in Ahoada with her entourage to provide some succor to the victims of the disaster. The relief materials included bags of rice, cartons of noodles, mattresses, pillows, cartons of detergents, and buckets.  Reports have it that some bags of rice were looted in Akinima. The...