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My neighbour returned from school earlier today and she couldn’t be quiet. She kept saying Mummy Semilore hmmm, haaaa. Even I too joined in the hmm haa when she finished her gist. Her school mates in the university, male 300level and female 200level are cohabiting. The boyfriend beats the girlfriend and girlfriend believes they are meant to be. Concerned girls grouped themselves and had a chat with girlfriend to leave boyfriend alone, that he doesn’t love her and his constant beating may lead to her death but girlfriend has refused to listen. The disturbing part of the story is that girlfriend went ahead to tell other girls that those concerned group are jealous and are not happy for her.   Boyfriend and girlfriend won best couple on campus previous year and girlfriend wants it to remain so, she wants that title this year again even under severe beating. I think this girl’s thinking is under attack. This is the only thing I can say. I don’t know the reason why a 20...

My Daddy is Ebira while My Mommy is Yoruba, I was born in the ancient city of Zaria. I am the only one in my house who can’t speak Hausa, Yoruba and Ebira well. I’ve long thought I have language deficiency, I mean, why can’t I speak Hausa for crying out loud? I just tire. In all these, I love my Kogi State. I love to read about it and root out for progress. I don’t hide my identity and try to make people think I am Hausa and must be accepted. I love me and love being me. My Girl had accident and later came down with malaria. We were in and out of the hospital last week and so there was a need to visit the pharmacy. There is this Pharmacist guy, he is good, I mean with drugs. He would explain every drug my baby should take and why he thinks a particular product is good for her. He always attends to us. He is Ebira, born and buttered in Zaria. Somehow, we got talking the last time we saw and we talked about Kogi State. I was surprised about the little he knows of the state. In fac...

                                        Light is all I see, driving out darkness and darkness calling itself night yet the moon rules in its glory. Void becomes vast in the fullness of His splendor while the power of creativity comes to be. The breath from His nostrils is a smoothing feel over the earth; the earth remains his foot stool. Before the beginning relationships exist between the Father, Son and Spirit. The consubstantial persons create man to share in an unending undiluted love of joy and wisdom. Truly, there is no higher calling or greater honor than being in the plan of the Almighty before the serpent came around. Even at that, man translates into the image of His dear son. There is a state of obedience which came from the depth of man and God lives in their midst as ...

Most Africa’s are fighting spiritual battle they know nothing about. In whatever religion you find yourself in this part of the world, it is common knowledge that there is this Uncle, Aunty, Grandmother/father, brother, sister, step mother and the list is endless who doesn’t want us to do well. The battle ranges from poverty, to failure, to shame, backwardness et al.   Many of those fighting these battles have without fail conquered while many fighting have given up easily. The fact remains at every point we have become angry, sad and dejected. We have often wondered why we have to live cruel life especially when we don’t know why we are faced with such battles. The feeling of low self-esteem and rejection these ‘spiritual battles’ cost us is the same feeling children born into families who didn’t think about them before bring them to this world feel. I weep when a child can’t eat a good meal, I weep when children are sleeping in the cold with no cover and nobody to ...

While the world is at stand still for Texas, Bangladesh, India and Nepal face same disaster. 1200 people have been killed while 16 million others have been affected. Credit: @BBCNewsbeat's Check out @BBCNewsbeat's Tweet:  https://twitter.com/BBCNewsbeat/status/902555670905487360?s=09

A friend was discussing with me on how his wife’s friend came to his office and requested to see him. Being a friend to the family, he went out to meet with her. The woman came with a lodge of complain against her friend. She told her friends husband how he is unfortunate to have married her friend, how her friend’s leg is not good and brings in bad luck, how the friend was prostituting before she met her husband and married her. She said out of love, she has come to warn her friend’s husband to be weary of his wife and think of the best ways he can separate from his wife in other for his life to be long and prosperous. My friend said he was silent but shocked. He is aware that his wife and her friend have been having issues but he didn’t know it had resulted to name calling. He told his wife’s friend that he has heard all she said however, all the things she said are the reason why he married his wife. He said he told her that the prostitution story of his wife is what ...