SPECTATORS
Odd as it may sound, many people are spectators. They know this but pretend as if it's not the case. Chukwugozie and Okechukwu were born to the same parents. The boys were to cause a strong revival in their community, with the help of its other indigenes. Many knew about their birth and their calling, both in their land and in the world beyond them. Between the boys, the question of who would be the actual deliverer of their community and who would be the destroyer was contentious. Most people in the community were religious and so they got a lot of spiritual information. Their
Read More“Drop Something” Syndrome
When did soliciting for tips, and various monetary favours from strangers, become a norm? In Nigeria, the culture seems to have taken root. A customer may finish transacting business somewhere and get requests from members of staff at that location, for some form of personal gratification. It’s amazingly shameful! The people that make these requests are often salary-earners at the places where they make these shameful requests. Why can’t they live through decent means? They embarrass their employers and those customers who they trouble for those favours. It’s particularly bad in urban places l
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Exaggerated Lies
They say, "Lightning never strikes in the same place twice" but in Bizzaria it does, at least so Bizzarians claim. For instance, if a bad incident occurred once, they could retell it several times, in the same way, as if it happened again, when it didn’t." Bizzarians are hardworking and intelligent. They are also known for their hospitality but they are liars. Lies pour out of their mouths reflexively. You would wonder if those lies were produced by machines in their brains. It is true that people generally lie but with Bizzarians, the depth is far greater. What makes the lying nature of
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Time!
Time! Who’s to say it’s not important? We all make use of it. Some try to buy it, some squander it, while others watch it go by. Time dictates how most of us live our lives. Sometimes we run after it as if we could ever catch up with it. It’s used as a measuring tool, to assess how well we’ve done in life. Our use of time can be likened to being engaged in studies that would culminate in an examination. It’s absolutely important. The benefits we’ll reap from our use of time,in our latter days, depend on how we make use of it in earlier days.Benefits! Does time really come with benefits? Yes
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Wedding Ceremony
Bode watched as the celebration came to an end. The eating, drinking and dancing was finally over. In a matter of minutes, an event that took months and millions of Naira to plan was over. Was it worthwhile? Was it reasonable to spend so much on a wedding when, after a few years, disagreements would begin to rock the boat? After all, couples had a tendency to separate after a few years, with complaints that they were not getting what they expected from their relationshipsor citing the popular “irreconcilable” differences. These thoughts raced through Bode’s mind as he imagined the wed
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