Spirituality
of love languages and feeling unloved
Friday 02:26am Sitting up in bed. Listening to the Hausa song #Rahama by Kaestrings This song – one of my 2024 discoveries – has been
24/01/2025
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Bookofbiblestories
dear daddy, when will you become a man? [Cont’d]
Click here for the beginning ………… to a client’s office and Lagos traffic on the Motorway was unkind. He felt the jolt before he heard
23/01/2025
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Bookofbiblestories
dear daddy, when will you become a man?
Today Prisoner 8493 leaned on the bed in his cell, hands on his face as the painful sobs erupted from deep within. Few minutes ago,
23/01/2025
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Bookofbiblestories
beware of that greek gift
In The Beginning. Joe picked up his phone and dialled Aham’s digits. “Happy New Year, my brother” Aham’s deep baritone reverberated over the line “Compliments
17/01/2025
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Spirituality
step out of the picture and look again
“Ma, look who is here” Samira heard her son scream excitedly She had barely come in from the foodbank and laid down to rest a
16/01/2025
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Diary of a Project Manager
how to step out from the camera and look again
“Camera One, reset your Focus Assist. You are out of focus” The instruction filtered into my head through the airwaves. And I quickly did as
13/01/2025
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cancer drama
Africans, stop forwarding this expired message!
Sometime in 2023 after I mentioned Online that I was walking the road of Cancer, someone forwarded this WhatsApp message to me. They said nothing
12/01/2025
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immigrant tales
of racism and our red milk of human kindness.
“How is your knee today?” The elderly man [whom I will name baba] asked him “Better, it’s less painful.” Young replied cheerily “Oh, you remembered.
10/01/2025
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humanEty
emotional intelligence is overrated: knock down the restraints
It was my then best friend Ojochide who first pointed out my self sabotage. Unfortunately, my save-the-world glasses were still on then. Teenage friends who
08/01/2025
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Spirituality
the song and dance of battles vs blessings – a lesson from the seashore
Gamziavo! That was my father’s second favourite mantra. Mr. Gamziavo, as he told us the story, was a stoic who puzzled all the villagers. He
04/01/2025
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Hot talks with Coffee
01/01/2025
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cancer drama
help me! i do not want to kill myself
Today, December 30th, would have been two years I left this world. That was the second time I came close to ending it that year.
30/12/2024
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History
the dilemma of saving a life – The Christmas Story
The law was clear on adultery: stone both parties. (Leviticus 20:10). Eventually, patriarchal enforcers flipped it to – stone only the female. Father-in-law Judah, without
25/12/2024
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humanEty
echoes from my past -2
“Oh don’t bother moving, I can sit at the edge” “No worries. We will shift for you” The first woman said with a huge smile
21/12/2024
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humanEty
echoes from your past
“Hello Sis, good evening” “Good evening sis” I responded with furrowed brows trying to unscramble her face We were about stepping into the African Shop
19/12/2024
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