Lemuel Irabor's blog..

 Life and a Sixteen-Year-Old by Lemuel Irabor All Rights Reserved. © Lemuel Irabor 2016- [First posted on UC Forum] I am happy to share excerpts from my book with the whole world. 16-Sept. Life is so complicated! Sometimes I don't even get it.Look at it this way:God created apples for eating.But insatiable humans had to squash the apple to get the pulp for apple pies,etc. and extract the juice in big machines and add lots and lots of health hazards,just so we can have drinks like 5 Alive and Lacasera. That's not the complicated part. It's when they give us tests in class asking us to explain the processes involved that really irks. I mean,who does that? Sigh. All I wanna write is that the apple-in whatever form-gets into the stomach of man. Again I wan.. Oh!Hi there. You may be reading this and wondering who could be writing this. Well.. I'm Martin. Sixteen. Nigerian. 174cm tall. And believe me I have my share of problems.UNfair share of p

By Lemuel Irabor Contact: lemuelirabor@yahoo.com         'Sweet moin-moin!'     'Old park!Old park!'       'Okpa! Ooo-kpa!'       'Obiagu!Obiagu!'     The sun is high in the sky and so are the hopes of the various businessmen and women in the renowned Abakpa market located in Enugu,southeastern Nigeria.     With a history dating to eons before the first colonial masters set foot in the region,the bustling market is undoubtedly one of the oldest in Nigeria.The main center of the Abakpa market is divided into lines of shops,every shop on each line selling a particular type of commodity or service such as grain,textile,art work,electronics,tools,meat,poultry products,accessories,bukkas,stationery and even processing plants.   One simply has to ask,say where the textile line is and he'd easily be directed.   The processing plants are actually miniature industries as they produce powdered milk,cocoa and ground grain.