UbongAbasi Ise

By UbongAbasi Ise We are in the era where technology has gone out of the way to revolutionize all sectors of human endeavours. Today we have smartphones with user-friendly camera feature that enable individuals take their own photographs by themselves. Those self-taking photos are popularly called selfies. As people are increasingly joining online social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc., the use of images to express their mood and social relevance is now made easier by selfies taken by smartphones.   It is now very simple for users to use camera features on their phones to edit image in order to achieve more appealing output, and social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook have developed photo tools that can transform images to the delight of their subscribers. Given this background of technological innovation, there is growing concern that technological cannibalism might occur in the photography industry and do to photo stud...

By UbongAbasi Ise “… it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business” – Sydney Pollack Could it be that standards have fallen in our society to the extent that a naff government administration that has been tested and distrusted is going about garnering endorsements upon endorsements from the citizenry without recourse to conscience? Have values all evaporated into thin air?                 The latest news in town is that Akwa Ibom South, popularly known as Eket Senatorial District, is endorsing Mr. Udom Emmanuel for another term in office. Methinks that all that should matter to Eket Senatorial District at this stage of its life is Ibom Deep Seaport project which is believed that, at completion, would produce a multiplier effect and have strong bearing   on over the two-third of the senatorial district consisting of 12 local government areas.   Therefore the commitment...

By UbongAbasi Ise “All these are the beginning of sorrows” – Matthew 24:8 When about 35 containers of Tramadol were seized out of sheer luck by Nigeria Custom Service at various ports in the country as reported in June 2018 by the NAFDAC boss, Prof. Moji Adedeye, there was the need for a rethink. It becomes pertinent, given the wave of unfolding events in Nigeria, to interrogate and to find out if tramadol, an opioid analgestic, is not one forbidden fruit that causes frenzied socio-political atmosphere in recent times. In Nigeria, every activity seems to go above normal tempo and rhythm, and there is growing suspicion that tramadol must have been at work.   Besides relieving moderate and moderately severe pain, I’ve heard that it is tramadol that Aboki man takes in order to stimulate him to trek from Gwadabawa in the North to Ibiono Ibom in the South. I also heard that it is tramadol that our men abuse just to prove their virility to their women without minding that t...