FINDING X IN XMAS

  Ok, I’m not about to go into an in-depth long essay about how Christmas was originally a pagan feast day as I did with

HELLO!

Some days, like today, I have a million and one thoughts in my head vying for attention, wanting to be written first. They turn it into a competition singing;

Healthy Living - 6

POPCORN

  I know we talked about corn in the first post. Popcorn is different. I bet you didn't know it

THE IKEJA ELECTRIC SCAM

   There was a knock on the gate, one fine Saturday morning. It was a group of men; they said they were sent by Ikeja Electric to

DO YOU KNOW NIGERIA? - 4

SUNGBO'S EREDO

   This Eredo is on the Tentative list of the Unesco World Heritage Sites. It is located

Healthy Living - 5

JUMPING ROPE

Jumping rope is also known  as skipping. Most people consider this a thing for kids alone but trust me, it's

Heart and Love: MARRYING FOR LOVE

The Bible says that God loved the world so much,  He sent his son to die for us. It also talks about Love being

Motivation Tuesday: GIVING UP

  Sometimes, it seems like the easiest thing to do. You just want to stop struggling and survive. The weight is just too

Motivation Tuesday: THE CARTOONIST

Walt Disney returned home when he was seventeen and told his Parents he was going to be an artist. His father wasn’t

THE MAGIC WORDS

  There are certain words that can save us a lot of trouble. They are very simple to say or rather they should be simple to say. The characters they contain are

DO YOU KNOW NIGERIA - 3

Arochukwu Long Juju Slave Route (Cave Temple Complex)

I always heard of the long Juju of Arochukwu growing up. My ancestors migrated from Aro and settled elsewhere.

The cave is on the Unesco

Healthy Living - 4

GREEN AMARANTH LEAVES

It is called Amaranth for short. Popularly called Green in Nigerian markets. Can be

Healthy Living - 3

HONEY

I can't remember the last time i took sugar, it's been years. I use honey for

Tuesday Motivation: THE DEVELOPER

Brian Acton had an Ivy league education. He had learnt from the best at Stanford. He went on to work for

LET'S BODY SHAME YOU

I was going through a site; the site had pictures of a female artiste on it. I went to the comment section and I saw

DO YOU KNOW NIGERIA? - 2

THE SUKUR CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

You are looking at the picture and wondering, is this place in Nigeria? Yes  it is. The Sukur cultural landscape has existed since the 16th Century. You heard right. 16th century. This place is also

HEALTHY LIVING - 2

GROUNDNUT

Groundnut or peanut or Arachis hypogaea is in season now. I don't know if it's just in Lagos but I see it everywhere.
Groundnut can be

Heart and Love: LOVE AND JEALOUSY

  Ije had had her bad luck with men. She’d seen them all and she was tired. Luckily ,Love wasn’t done with her. Jesse came along and

Motivation Tuesday : VISION BRINGS PROVISION

Have you ever heard that Vision brings provision? I heard that a while back at a lecture given by a successful business man who owns

BRING NIGERIA DOWN AND STOMP ON HER

Arise o compatriots, Nigeria’s call obey.....

They better scrap the national anthem because it has become a sham. No one is ready to obey any call or die for Nigeria and there’s no

DO YOU KNOW NIGERIA?: 1

OSUN-OSOGBO GROVE

Do you know the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is listed on the Unesco World Heritage list? Same list that has the fields of the pyramids of Egypt and much more.

Outstanding Universal Value

Brief synthesis 

A century ago there were

HEALTHY LIVING : 1

CORN

It's corn season!!! You can have it in all forms; roast, baked and boiled. We all see this yummy goodness when it comes around but do you

Heart and Love: WHEN THEY LOVE YOU NO MORE

Growing up, I could never understand when I saw in the movies, TV shows, magazines etc., people saying that they don’t love someone anymore. That thing just

Motivation Tuesday: HOLD ON

Ade was tired. Nothing seemed to be working. His mates did the same things he did and they succeeded, for him the story was

THAT LITTLE VOICE

Growing up and hearing via news and films about certain cases of people who committed murder and them saying a voice in their head told them

ALL MEN CHEAT

  The title wasn't my speech. I was on my own trying to mind my business and my overactive ears picked up a conversation tables away.
  The lady was in tears, telling her friends about how she had caught her guy cheating; she'd found explicit chats and what not between him and other girls.
  Her friends consoled her and told her to have expected it, that all men cheat and it's in a man's nature to cheat. They are all like

DO YOU LOVE NUMBER ONE?

  I was discussing with a friend during the week and she asked a question ‘How do you love others without hurting yourself?’ It got me thinking a lot. I know the general rule is that ‘Love is Blind’ and ‘Love hurts’. Well, that’s the general rule, not mine. My own rules and observations in my short existence in the world of humans are that;

1)   Love is not blind. It sees the good, the bad and the ugly of the person receiving the love. Love doesn’t deceive you or pull

HELP INCOMING?

  Have you ever been at a crossroad? Have you ever reached out to people around you for help and no one looked your way?

Well my post is for you.

  Femi had a dream, a passion burning within him. He wanted to pursue this dream. Everyone tried to discourage him. They said he was stupid that it would never work. He’s nobody, he’s not even a celebrity, so who would buy into his dream. Femi reached out to his friends and family members, some promised to help. He waited on them but help never came. He called and called, went to their offices, houses but they only gave him words. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months and months into a year. The people he had counted on; the friends, aunties and uncles had let him down. Femi was distraught. His dream was dying before his eyes. One day,

IS HOPE ENOUGH?

  I hear people say all the time;
 "We hope for the best."
 "All we can do is hope."
 "There is nothing we can do but hope and pray."

 What then is your definition of Hope?

 ‘To have a wish to get or do something or for something to happen or be true, especially something that seems possible or likely.’   
      
 ‘A feeling that something desirable is likely to happen’.   
   
The above definitions are according to the Encarta dictionary.

  Should you keep waiting for a wish to get or

IT’S NOT A SPIRITUAL ATTACK, IT’S LUPUS

I was invited to an event on 10^th May, 2017 and was told it was World Lupus Day. I wondered what Lupus was, yes Google is my friend but I decided to go hear from the doctors and satiate my curiosity.  I remember reading a while ago that Selena Gomez, yes the singer, had Lupus. This event was organized by the Rheumatology Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) under the leadership of Femi Adelowo, who is a Professor of Medicine and consultant Rheumatologist at Lasuth, President of the African League of Associations of Rheumatology (AFLAR) and Chairman, Executive committee of World Body of Rheumatology (ILAR). Impressive, right?

 Prof. finally satiated my curiosity with his speech.

What is Lupus? You ask

YOUR WORST ENEMY

   Michael flew from one church to the other. He was told his mother was a witch, another said he was dealing with an ancestral curse. He heard one story or the other everywhere he went. Michael is handsome, brilliant and was voted the most likely to succeed in his high school. He is thirty now and stuck in the same dead beat job he got after he passed out of the NYSC programme. The plan had been to work for two or three years and then start up his company. It’s been eight years now and he is still there. He had applied for other jobs but never got any. He had told his friends and family his plan but they all told him to

PATIENCE AND TIME.

Patience, that ability to wait, to endure, to tolerate, is really a virtue. I know that very well maybe better than most because I lose it sometimes. Sometimes, patience can seem like stupidity but it is

SHE STOLE MY MAN

She stole my man could also be, he stole my woman or she stole my woman, lol.

  You’re in a relationship, marriage or you feel there’s some connection between you two. You’re happy everything is going really well then suddenly there’s a change in your partner’s behaviour; he doesn’t call as he used to, he’s always too busy to see you or something else. In some other cases, there’s no change in behaviour and then WHAM! It feels like you got a heavy knock on the head. You make a discovery via a

THE VALENTINE DAY SCAM

  When I was a little girl, one question always boggled my mind whenever Valentine’s Day approached; ‘Who is this Valentine?’ I never got the answer until I went to a missionary school for my higher education and ran into a gorgeous book titled ‘The book of Saints’ in our Vice Principal’s office. I felt like a fat kid in a candy shop. My little mind and fingers scoured the pages and found him. (I searched for my patron saint first though. Lots of St. Frances) There’s more than a Saint Valentine. The church doesn’t really have much info on them but they all died (martyred) on February 14.

  There were three of them; One was a missionary in Africa, the second a bishop in now, Terni, Italy and the last a priest in Rome.  The second and the third are

DON'T BE A BELLO OR A ROCHAS

THE BIRTHDAY LIST

  So my birthday is on Monday, January 22^nd. Days back, someone asked me what’s on my birthday list. I said I didn’t have a list and got a reaction that said “You’re an alien.”

  A birthday list is cool. It helps people who don’t know what to get you know what to get you. It kind of makes the job easier. You can do ojukokoro(greed) and add really expensive or hard to get gifts if you are wealthy and expect people to follow what’s on your list alone and share the list around to make sure people get you gifts you want. 

  

  To me, it kind of takes away the spontaneity and

FORGIVING YOU AND THEM

Hi there,
  Today I'm sharing my thoughts on forgiveness via video. I hope you watch and you are blessed by it one way or the other.
Here's the link if the video doesn't show on your browser.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaINSYk-njY

Thank you for watching my thoughts, what are yours? 

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS SUCK

 George was overweight and needed to lose some weight. The New Year approached and he made a resolution; “This New Year, I will join a gym.” He joined a gym, truthfully. He went to the gym every day. He’d go out and be offered cake, Ice-cream, fried chicken and many more yummy treats. He turned them all down. One day in February, it was a colleague’s birthday at the office. A red velvet cake was shared; George had a thing for red velvet. “A tiny slice won’t kill me.” He ate the cake happily. Days later, his alarm rang to tell him ‘gym time’. George shut