The Day Ignorance Nearly Killed Me

On a sunny afternoon sometime in 2009, I used an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) at the defunct Oceanic bank at ENL Consortium, Apapa Wharf. After using the ATM, it was past banking hour, I asked the security man at the entrance if I could go into the bank to have a cup of water, he agreed. So I went in, I met just one man in the banking hall, a member of staff, seated by a table who I told I wanted some drinking water, he told me to open the lower part of the water dispenser machine to collect a disposable cup to fetch water from the dispenser. I checked but there was no disposable cup. In his benevolence, he offered me his mug to fetch water with. I took the mug and positioned it under one of the two taps, and then the confusion started; I didn’t know which of the taps to fetch from.

THE TRUTH IS: EVERY ONE HAS A PRICE TAG

Do not mistake the headline to mean we can now trade persons for money and valuables literally. Well, that was done in times past during the slave merchandising era. You’ll get yourself in big trouble if you try such now because it is illegal. So relax.

YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT GET HURT WHEN THE GUN IS COCKED, BUT YOU STILL STAND; BUT WHY?

Many a times we get informed, consciously and unconsciously, that some people are not good for us. We see it right in our very eyes that they are going to hurt us. We get signs by way of the manner they talk to/with us, the kind of tone they use in communicating; we get signs by their body language, the way they look at us, the way they relate with us; we get signs also by the way they treat us, neither answering of our calls and chats nor returning them; amongst many other very visible signs. Despite all these, we still allow ourselves fall prey of their ill attitudes towards us. We give them the most prized possession we own: our heart, knowing fully well that they are going to break it. We let ourselves become vulnerable because we desire and want to exhibit the most important quality of being human, the quality of love ❤.

Operation Detoxify Your Mindset II

It's Unintelligent To Castigate What You Don't Know

Some time ago, I was teaching Abigail, 5, one of the students I teach Mathematics privately, how to solve operation problems with columns and rows. It is basically simple. I did an illustration on the whiteboard, she wasn't paying attention. She looked to the board, and all of a sudden she bursted to a loud cry. What has happened to Abigail in this very short moment I wondered with a puzzled face. Then I asked her what the matter was. "I don't like maths!", she yelled. "Why", I asked, "I don't understand!", she responded. "Ehen? Is that the reason you are crying?", I asked. She nodded in the affirmative.

Operation Detoxify Your Mind I

It is normal for us to see the Sun ☀ in the morning and to see the Moon at night. It’s also normal for a seed to be buried in the ground and bring forth root then to stem and continues that process to become a tree 🎄 .

Marry Atleast Two wives Or Face Life Imprisonment!

In this day and age when people see monogamy plus having side chicks/girlfriends by the side as the in-thing, a country has stood out with a new law on polygamy.

Lassa Fever: Facts You Should Know

FACTSHEETS ON LASSA FEVER

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Lassa Fever is an Acute Febrile disease caused by the Lassa virus. Lassa Fever occurs more often in the dry season, rather than in the rainy season. The multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis) is the reservoir host of Lassa fever.

THE COST OF IGNORANCE

"If you think to get knowledge is expensive, try ignorance."

Anita, 11, is the joy of her parents and her sibling. She's loved by many people she had made contact with. She has a kind and loving heart, always eager to be of help to people. Last week Monday, the civic education teacher in her school taught her class the basics of crossing the road instructing them  to adhere to the principle. Today, she missed the school bus and so she had to walk to school, about 15 minutes. She gets on the road, remembers what she was taught on crossing roads:

WHAT IS FOOD POISONING?

 In the primary four class of a state-owned school, the teacher, Uncle Preye, is teaching the pupils Nutrition, a topic under Primary Science. The class is lively as the pupils take turns to give answer to questions asked by their uncle and everything is good. The class continues that way until the uncle asks the last but not the least question

BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE GOT

I was in a bus en route for Oyingbo, Ebutte Metta, when my phone rang, it was my mom calling. I answered the call and with joy in her voice she told me the good news that Chidinma, my twin sister, had just given birth to her second child, a baby girl.

A RAT TAUGHT ME A LESSON

A little rat kept disturbing my house, so I had to find a lasting solution; which is to get it away.

And so that evening, I got a rat gum, positioned it so strategically that it caught the rat in no time. I looked at the rat as it struggled to release itself but to no avail. After watching for a while, I decided to leave it there until the next day.

How To Know If It’s Love You Are Feeling

You will agree with me that one of the most used words in all of history is the word, "Love". Love is the feeling of great fondness or enthusiasm for a person or thing.

A mother, just delivered of her baby, showers it on the new world comer; siblings show it to each other; parents express it to their children; people, for the sake of the word, can do anything to make friends happy; some people show it to other people just for goodness sake; and also, lover boys sing enchanting songs to their lover girls, and vice versa, to shows how mad-in-love they are.

SMILE AND LET SMILE

And so I went to the Fidelity Bank branch in my area to make an enquiry, a simple one. I got to the bank, went straight to the customer care section and as I opened my mouth to say the reason for my visit, one of the two agents (female) asked me to sit and wait for my turn. She would have given a simple answer to my question if I had asked, and then I leave the bank, I thought; but in other to be courteous, I sat.

WHO DO YOU LOOK UP TO?

Hello! You, yea, you; I have some questions for you.

AND SHE TOLD ME, "MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY F*** ALONE"

As a sharp guy, I made her acquaintance and we became quick friends; this was because I was told that her principle is, "Freely I received, and freely I shall give".

WORLDS FASTEST TALKING FEMALE INSPIRE US (603.32 WORDS IN 54.2 SECONDS)

The article you're about to read is one of the best I have read in recent times. Modupe Ogundare Phoebe, the analyzer, did a very wonderful breakdown of the lessons and I really got inspired. It’s kind of long though, but you won’t regret reading this. Enjoy!

A PUSH IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE

                                                 photo credit: http://aaronmasterson.com

There was a very wealthy and influential king who offered his daughter, the princess, for marriage. The man that will have her hand in marriage must win a swimming contest; the prize alongside the princess was the control of up to half of the kingdom. Of course, men, in their hundreds, from around the world showed interest.

ENGLISH IS NOT EXPRESSION

It was a sunny day, going towards the end of its third quarter. Segun or shexzy Baba for short (actually for long) was returning from the Island. He had gone to make some important enquiries in a company, and need be that he looked smart and fly. From Obalende Park, he entered a bus en route for Bariga.

THE REASON ALL FINGERS ARE NOT EQUAL

“Any man who...uses his own brain too little falls into the lazy habits of thinking”

John in his second year at the university was a master in the balancing of accounts, bank reconciliation statement, preparation of Trading, Profit and Loss account, the Balance Sheet (which is now known as Statement of Accounting Position as modified by the International Financial Reporting Standard, IFRS) and other accounting processes; his academic feat was known by all. But James, who was in the same class with John, struggled to keep his head above water as regards academics. Both were studying Accounting at the university.

GOOGLE: KNOW ANYTHING AT LITTLE OR NO COST

"There shouldn't be dull persons in the world anymore."

"Uncle, do you have a game in your phone?" 7 years old Ayodeji asked me. I visited their Festac home. His mom, MyLady as I fondly call her, wasn't around, so my company was kept by her two sons, Ayomide being the younger.