If you had asked me earlier in the day who the luckiest person in this situation was, I’d have said Chuka. I will later find out that I was wrong. We were all in the office when we heard the noise. It was like the noise of 20 different gunshots were combined into one. Nobody […]
… the weaker vessel…. (1 Peter 3:7) Many a girl-child erroneously thinks she has been disadvantaged from birth, hence the justification of mediocrity and low living. She grows with that mentality and does her convocation of pity party in womanhood, where she cuts a figure, across the canvas of adult life, of a very sorry […]
… and he died (Gen. 5:27) Two men, one thirty-nine and the other nine hundred and sixty-nine, stepped into time in different era. One was conquered totally by death even after living for so long; the other rose above the confines of the grave and reached beyond the limits of mortality. One named Martin […]
The pages of sacred and secular histories are strewn with the names of mortals who, astoundingly gifted by all parameters, mismanaged their endowments and detoured to limbo. Limelight can dim a star. We either rise to stardom or sink to stardim(sic). Vibrant youngsters one moment, and the next minute they become struggling reminders of a […]
Idleness is not essentially not doing anything, given the fact that there is no task as tedious as “doing” nothing. Nothing is an activity that is engaging by the singular fact that it has a staggering following. Scores of people love to “do” it (nothing.) Whenever you ask people what they have been doing and […]
On the table was a plate of fufu with egusu soup with Kpomo, assorted goat meat. Papa Iyore cleared his throat as he delved into the meal. Footsteps could be heard from inside the room. ‘Iyore, is that you?” Papa Iyore called out. “Yes Papa, Iyore replied. “I am preparing the items for the festival […]
