HOW TO CHANGE PEOPLE

Did this in 2017. Just had to bring it back.

WE FELL IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

   I have always pondered on that phrase. Some people swear by it. That they met someone without

CHANGING TODAY

 You might be looking at your present situation in despair. There’s no money in your wallet,

MOMENT OF HOPELESSNESS

A friend asked me a question, days back, “Frances, what do you do when everything is hopeless, when people

CORONA TIME MADNESS

  Some countries have been on lockdown for months. For an extrovert to sit in a place for months can feel like prison. Even an introvert who

SHE MAKES THE FIRST MOVE

It’s been a long time I wrote anything here.

  I don’t know how this works in other parts of the world but I can only speak for Nigeria. The little I have seen or heard so far.

  It’s a modern world. Women

THE NICE GIRL FLIRT

  Back in my university days, met this dude during our orientation. We became friends, did the orientation together. Well, he

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

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

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

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

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

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

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