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COMMON SENSE For over 15 minutes, she was completely wordless and there was nothing she could say. She will look around and look at the young man. I sat behind and kept wondering what was happening. In few seconds, I got it. The young man spoke again, this time he looked into her eyes and said "can you say something about this? No answer came from her because she had no idea of what he was talking about.  It was just a simple question that a little child could provide an answer to but she failed because she had only been going to school and not learning.  And so the man smiled and said "I guess you only go to school but you are not learning". How many people are in this category?  They can't possibly answer a simple question in an intelligent way because they have failed to learn, failed to explore, failed to pay attention, failed to observe. The beauty of going school and being educated is that it enables you provide answers to problems. Yes,...

A YEAR AND MORE. A step at a time. Take it easy on yourself but make sure you are productive in all you do. It's so easy to set goals. I know right. What if we begin to give so much energy and strength to birthing those dreams and goals. I know people who set goals and never work or walk towards them. I know you know them too, I hope you are not one of them. Are you? Don't be carried away with the trend of setting goals, being pressurized and then end up not doing anything. Here is a reminder that the clock is ticking and the hours are moving. That's not a threat but time is precious, don't sit and watch.  If you must act, then act.  Act by doing and not just writing and saying. By doing the things we said we will do, we are closer to our successes. If we desire greatness, we have to travel to where it lives. If we want success, we have to journey through the road that leads to success. Don't just set goals, make sure you are ready to follow ...

Emily spent the rest of the day sulking. Alone in her room; detached from the rest of the family. Her nice uncle who visited earlier had gifted her a thousand naira but the money was now missing. Emily left her compound to the neighbourhood to play with other kids and discovered the money was gone when she returned.  Emily sat down, weeping and thinking about the money, she couldn't have the money and her hopes were dashed. She was caught in between, thinking about the past and future and forgetting the TODAY just like most of us. We worry so much about our pasts and future that we forget to live the present. The present is very much important and that's where we should channel the energy, strength and attention to in order to have a good future since the past is gone. Let the past be in the past and the doors shut forever, plan for the future by paying attention to your today. Stop worrying too much. You are doing well.  You are giving best. All will m...

Be Accountable You can get better by learning to be accountable. You know, a lot of times we feel certain things don't matter but they do. Accountability can be found in even the smallest things like returning the money left from a purchase where you bought things for less than the money you were given.  I grew up tending my parents business with my siblings. I literally spent most of my earlier years at those shops. At the end of each month, we always had to balance our accounts. Of course there were days we had profits and days we recorded losses (and got scolded for not being cautious enough) That experience taught me important lessons on accountability. My parents held us to high standards of accountability no matter the amount involved.I'm holding you to those same standards of accountability.  I don't know why I feel impressed to talk about being accountable. After all, It's not bad if that's all you read here. You see, being accountable isn't ...

Not a Single Piece was Left I can write a hundred books on God's faithfulness, loving kindness, and mercies and still not exhaust the depth of his love towards me and my family. Nine years ago, about a time like this, God proved himself strong in our affairs.  The 2011 general elections had just ended and post election violence ensued. On the 17th of April, a very bad crisis broke out in Zaria, Kaduna and escalated as fast as it began.  We were home on that fateful day when a gang of individuals armed with violent weapons began to make attempts to break into our house. That night, I remember the noise of violent attempts to break into our home. When their attempt to break into the house failed, they broke bottles and exerted a lot of damage at the shops (we had two shops in front of the house).  Shortly after, my mum had us exit the house through the fence to another street, leaving my dad alone in the house, who was trying to secure his house and properties.....

I'm not Enough Episode 2 Emily's parents raised her with a rigid moral framework and held her to high expectations so much that slight deviations attracted punitive measures. It was a disciplinarian approach to parenting.  An approach that meant that young Emily couldn't share experiences with her parents that didn't fall within that spectrum of expectations and moral standards they held her to even though such experiences weren't her doing. So Emily concealed these kinds of experiences from her parents and kept them to herself.  Even when she summoned the courage to tell them, she knew they wouldn't believe her. What's more, the culprits were people her parents trusted. They would dismiss her story as childish imaginations.  Growing up, Emily had dealt with experiences that impacted her perception of the world around her. As a kid, a close neighbor took advantage of her naivety to subject her to an experience kids her age shouldn't even have...