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Have You Met a Programming Guru Today?
I did not see only heads. I saw God's hands. Each of the bubbly youth looked different from the next person standing close to them. They had all come from diverse locations and none together. Still, they met at that particular point: 10:40 am; Sunday 30th April 2023; Mount Zion Institute's Chapel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
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Humans are the Real Superheroes
When we were little, we were told we had to start thinking about the future. "What would you like to be in the future?" They asked us. Everyone asked the same question in different ways: "Why?" We were confused. "Why do we have to become something in the future?"
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Be Calming Down
Do you ever feel like taking your fight public? I mean shaming someone through a public platform that you use? Squash that need for public approval and media support for your argument. It’s childishness. It destroys relationships. I looooove hearing from you!
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Bro Churchill, Kneel Down
Why have you sworn to dispatch God's body to the different ends of the world when you're not a delivery agent? Why can you not allow us to be one? These days, we have even forgotten your name. If not for your Church which you remind us of at every opportunity, we would not have what to call you by now...
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We Refuse to be “Mad” Like “Them”
Some people take Christians for fools when we are calm in some situations. I had an experience while travelling three days ago that reinforced this conclusion in me. For a brief moment that day, I regretted my lack of grasp of the Yoruba abuses I hear around me all the time.
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My Dad Refused to Raise a Crybaby
One evening, I was doing my work as usual and heading to where my father was sitting when he spotted me from the middle of the room and roared. "Are you not ashamed of yourself, ehn Chioma? Your younger brother will beat you every time and you'll be crying? Will you go and beat your own back?!" Chai, My tears seized immediately as shame washed over me. The next day when the little demon found his way to my side, I bounced on him and dealt with him until he was the one doing the crying. The disrespect from his corner reduced from that day henceforth.
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Sometime in My Future
Whenever they see one, they'll scream and run around like drunkards. One will try to force her small head through the window panes but it will stubbornly not let her through. So, she'll run to the balcony and climb the railings smiling into the sky. An action that will earn her a swat on her buttocks.
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Even Tinubu?
Took a pause last week to gather my head together. On one of such days, I was reading a Francine Rivers book, again, when I used my own hands to enter what I did not understand. If you follow her books, you'll know that she adds review questions at the end of each of them to help readers digest the message of the book. The last question of this particular book was: "do you believe everyone can be redeemed?"
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Cheers to My EFCC Mum
I was sitting in front of my mum only some hours ago. I had a packed travelling bag with me as we had one of our "talks." I had had this our regular event pushed to the last minute until I was ready to leave through her doors. I came, as usual, to bid an official farewell when mum eyed me. "Sit down and tell me where you said you are going again?"
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Raw Food (a Poem)
Beloved, When my eyes set on you, I could not help but be struck. How does your kind exist?
