Lists of Pen Club Excecutives and their portfolio

Executives of Pen Club for 2013/2014

ü  Editor-In-Chief:____________________                  AbdulHafeez T. Oyewole (400l)

ü  Deputy Editor-In-Chief:_____________                   Yusuf O. Salami (300l)

ü  Secretary General:________________                     Abubakar Abdullahi (300l)

ü  Assistant Secretary General:_________                  Owoicho Sunday (200l)

ü  Public Relations Officer (P.R.O):_______                 Dorti A. Tosan (300l)

ü  Financial Secretary:________________                   Uwada Samson (300l)

ü  Treasurer:_______________________                     Amina M. Saba (300l)

NOTE: All the above mentioned Executives were considered based on: levels, attendance, commitments and merits.

Heads of Columns/Editors (HOCs/Eds.) for 2013/2014

Ø  Around MACOSA/Naija in a Jiffy HOC/Ed.:             Uwada Samson (300l)

Ø  Personality Profile HOC/Ed.:                                   Yusuf S. Oseni (300l)

Ø  Battle of Sexes HOC/Ed.:                                           Abdullahi Abubakar (300l)

Ø  Pidgin Corner HOC/Ed.:                                            Dorti A. Tosan (300l)

Ø  Sport HOC/Ed.:                                                          Owoicho Sunday (200l)

Ø  Editor/Column Head of all HOCs/Eds.,

 Plus articles, poems, riddles, jokes etc:               AbdulHafeez T. Oyewole (400l)

NOTE: All Heads of Columns/Editors are answerable to the Editor-In-Chief.

HOPE, YOU’RE INSPIRED…TODAY! by Abdulhafeez Oyewole

I was hoping I could crack some “expensive jokes” (this week with my pen),

But Selah said to me “You aren’t off beam… and can illumine even better than what you up for”

So I paused and thought, “Could Selah be right by her thrust?”

She was as always a good source of my inspiration after all.

And may be today again, she will but brain my hand.

Everyone has a source of inspiration, which may be “he”, “she” or “it”. Just as everyone has a God.

Every soul has a body with which without, it cannot live successfully and steadily in this ephemeral host.

Thus, the earlier the unearthing of one’s source or sources of inspiration as the case may be, the better the chance of one’s sojourn would be better for it.

Be ye not a dreamer, building castles in the air,

Be ye the dream builder, with all sense of seriousness

Like a spider on its task to web.

Be ye not a pessimist, tired of trying.

Be ye an ant: neither retreating nor surrender,

To the squash and scorch from man and sky.

Be ye the proof of your Maker,

By your deeming self.

Be ye not a dream marauder!

And there is another one Selah failed not to leave me with:

“When everyone continues staring at you,

And the sky was not by your side,

Pause and think.”

Like Selah, I am leaving you with inspiring pieces from intellectual minds. So ponder over every drop of ink (like this write) in them and don’t hesitate to drop yours today for everyone’s reading delight!                       PEN CLUB; Practice to Perfection.

By: ABDULHAFEEZ, T. Oyewole

               

TALE OF THE GIANTS by Odugbenga Talabi

Like the scavenging tempest, this day hurries by;
Swiftly turning its pace pass-above stoppage by Babylonian wall,
Sweeping silently the wrecked nation’s debris there and here,
Twisting around the remains from the once healthy land.

Tick tack as the clock tickles by,
With time everything wanes whilst many tales untold,
With hands glue to the chests, the inquisitive solitaries watch in agape.

As the world gazes from afar;
They wonder, sob, and cry “Where lay their giants?”
As the day fades into night…Kokoroooko …

Ah! It’s another day and the giants are still snoring?
The trees, spank by the winds cry loudly from this world, their world
As their truthful heads head toward Sinai
Alas! The quest for the messiah may swallow up a millennium!

By: ODUGBENGA, Talabi