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

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