Nigeria Prize for literature on Sunday presented their works for public analysis, criticism and examination as the world awaits the winner who will smile home with $100,000 prize. Those present at the event with their collection of works include, G’ebinyo…
Month: August 2013
The SAD PERFECTIONIST
I really am unsure of how to delve into this topic. “Be ye perfect as your Father in Heaven” “Perfect love casteth out all fear” The call to perfection seems so SAD if seen from the human perspective. The perfectionist…
LOVE letters: From SPECIAL kiddie’s School For Boys (II)
Dear Julian, Today I saw the new teachers for special kids :-D, our school Monitor says we are all so special we need more teachers than the ordinary kids. He even tells us that we are the special creations of…
Time Management: Eba and MELON STEW!!
Its been long since I cooked, I left school early this year and rarely cook at home. I just ate Eba (native meal made of cassava roasted grains) and Egusi (Melon stew) mixed with measures of Ewuro (Bitter leaf) and…
LOVE letters: From SPECIAL kiddie’s School For Boys (1)
Dear Julian, Your smile so captivates my heart and makes me sad tOoo. I drib lots of saliva when I try to smile, I like the cold feel of the flow down my chin, I like to jump and bob…
How to make Friends?? or Not?
Friendship is not a compulsory venture but Ignorance of Its Plus-Power could make a whole world of difference; the achiever and the struggler. Life is connected at so many ends that a dislodged cable could break the circuit. Just imagine…
Mad LYRICS
I am so tired of being so sick, So strong yet so weak; I got a week, Rolling 52 of such in a year, what?!! Yet my heart is at its peak? Seek yes that’s what I do, A place…
The Rise of POUNDED Yam (Iyan)
when you think rice maybe Jollof rice, you think “Parties”, when you think Eba or Agege Bread, you think “hungryman meal”.
Salvation vs Repentance: THE SORCERER’S Dilemma
Friday August 9, Acts 8:9-25 The first note I made was how salvation was received even by the bewitched and the sorcerer….. Isaiah 49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and…
The POWER/ATTITUDE of A Flawless Writer.
The Book of Philemon in the BIBLE is very commonly read leisurely, once a year probably, when people feel some new surge of affection for “old manuscript” weekend relaxation. However, the skill with which this personal letter was written got…
Freshblood WILL make YOU strong
Flowing streams of animal senews, Slaughtered without remorse to renew; Faded coats and shattered hopes, Oh we would have borne our woes alone. But the sheeps and lambs had to suffer it!! We killed 7 days long; 365 a year,…
NIGERIA Made ME eat Grass!!
My people have an Adage “A kii titori eran jije pe malu ni buroda” we won’t for the cause of a craving for meat call a cow brother. Nigeria and in fact the African culture is rooted in the pride…
God is The Destination:Find the Roadmap in writing?
The text I considered today is John 14:5-14. I will bring out the essential power that exists in the written word and how it relates to MAN’S direction through existence. Salient facts I drew from the scripture: – There is…
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Why THE Earth should CRY
I feared that one day harloting would be a family business. My father’s culture taught us no such thing yet I slept, ate, drank whoredom. May his tears rest in perfect peace. It was still in mid-day. I saw the…
5 minutes In Bed with A Dead Man.
I was a virgin until that crazy night I had with him. He reeked of it, the gruesome, pungent odour of death. He really did not like me because my Bed was well laid and tucked, he had been to…
WRITING about My People.
….Some days back, Dad went to work late because we had to thrash some topics at our usual morning family prayers… The constant controversy in church on “should trousers be accepted as women’s clothing” and “the culture of respect we…
THE Bible inspires: Freelance writing and the law of EXPECTATION
Greetings to all who have been consistently visiting this blog and for the contributions. I am just awed to see their is so much knowledge to pass around, so much to share from what each day brings. Never lose your…
Writing: What would your choice of Priority Be? Survey result.
Below are the questions I sent to some friends and I would also post some of the replies I have gotten in series. Please answer this survey question: Which is the most Important? 1. Knowing if truly the world will…