Nigerians and the Urgency of the Times

3 October 2012
opinion

Whensoever my mind slips into the idea of time, I do so with pensive wonderment, knowing that the past, present and future are "kindred spirits" collectively bound up in an ever-living intimacy.

Anytime I hear aphorise remark like: "Time is of the essence", I am subliminally invited by my instinctual knack to the fact that, though the past has a unilinear sting with the present and future, what is important, then, is to match the pace of time with the calling of the moment, not the future.

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