Category: Stories
Self-Defense Begins With Common Sense
Yesterday Monday morning at about 11am, two ungentle men in mufti walked into our Ilorin office ordering my staff out for no clear reason. They couldn’t even express themselves well enough to tell us they were from Kwara State Bureau of Lands. I insisted that they identify themselves, and they said, “We are from the Government”. [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around
One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her. Even with the smile on [...]
The Other Woman
Someone told me tears are liberating, here I am drowning in the pool of mine and you my rescuer and lifeguard is so far away. It feels like a prince caught in slavery , taken away from home, stripped of his royalty and reduced to rags in the kingdom he was suppose to rule, near [...]
If A Man Is Right
One rainy Saturday morning, a reverend was having difficulty preparing the sermon for the Sunday service while his wife went out to the store leaving their five-year-old Jack behind. Jack was restless as there was no one to play with and couldn’t go outside since it was raining. There was nowhere for him to dissipate [...]
A Sister’s Dilemma: The Journey to ‘finding you’
Who said you have to be in one of those fairytales to be kissed by a prince charming or you have to lose one leg of your pair of shoes to find love, whoever said you can be awaken only by a lover’s kiss; Walt Disney sure had his idea on what he felt love [...]
Yesterday When I Was Young
“When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” – 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV)
Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to His Son’s Teacher
“He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish Politician, there is a dedicated leader… Teach him for every enemy there is a friend.
Things Fall Apart!
Our educational institutions only produce clueless zombies whose livelihoods are determined by being on others payrolls. Even as university graduates, most are unemployable. There is zero initiative and creativity. Little wonder NO invention is traceable to Africa!
“I Hate My Face”
While I wrote the statement, “I only wonder who the people we want to be like want to be like” in the first paragraph of my article, How to be yourself; I was reminded of an event that changed my outlook about life permanently while I was on campus some years back. I had a [...]
Gazing into the Mirror
Where should I start? Well my name would be good, the name is Samantha Joseph. What you are about to read is the story of my life. Well my early life started very well; came from a high-class family, lived in a very posh neighborhood with at least eight cars in the compound. My parents [...]
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