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THANK YOU!

"Quick as a flash, 2013 is 'done' & 'gone' With a few hours left before the new year, I've found time enough to appreciate everyone who has been a partner in progress with My Person, My Brand % My Blog. My unreserved appreciation to you. Without you; there's no me, and its absurd being here. What's a writer without his audience, or a speaker without one to listen to him? You welcomed my BCs and posts month in, month out. You caused enviable traffic on my blog, and made the social networks fun for me. Your comments, opinions were amiable, and critique urged me on. You said hi when it mattered most, you spared me a time to breathe whenever I couldn't be there. You quoted my works, promoted my brand, and remained selfless, seeking nothing in return. Twitter, Facebook, GooglePlus, BBM, BBM Channels, Instagram et.al 2014 'll birth even greater things from my stables, as I also envisage a greater you come 2014. All in all, you made

Its Christmas, LET IT COME IN!

Its been long awaited since the first day of the year, Some would rightly say, "its been awaited since the last one ended", Its Christmas knocking again, and we say; LET IT COME IN! With its glitters, shine and brightness, Let it come in. With the smile, fun, and joy it brings, Let it come in. With its harvest and lots to eat and drink, Let it come in. With the generosity, kindness and love it brings along, Let it come in. With the red, white and green colours that characterize its scenes, Let it come in. With its full statement of promise and love, Let it come in. With the journeys, travels and trips that comes with it, Let it come in. With the coming of the new year that it announces, Let it come in. With the beautiful family reunion ever present with its coming, Let it come in. With the new shoes, bags and clothes, Let it come in. With the loads of gifts aplenty, Let it come in. With the boom of sales it ushers in, Let it come in. With its visits to exotic places, Let it c

Living In This "DARK ROOM"

"Sitting in this dark room, everything I touch and feel are nothing but obstacles to me. Sitting in this dark room, it appears everything here was made to impede my movement. Sitting in this dark room, I've been living all the while a life of assumption. Sitting in this dark room, my only guiding light is the darkness around me. Sitting in this dark room, life to me was callous, like everything around worked against me. Sitting in this dark room, I feel empty, like the only one created without a gift. Sitting in this dark room, idle and alone, I feel naked, open and vulnerable. Sitting in this dark room, illusions have had the best of me, I'm fast beginning to lose my mind. Sitting in this dark room, with no clear idea of what surrounds me, and I'm sore afraid. Sitting in this dark room, wishing I could walk a metre without hurting my knee, head or heel. Sitting in this dark room, I'm getting so comfortable, maybe hopeless, I might never get to see the light. Sitti

"Our Country Is Bleeding".....But When Did It Begin?

"Shortly after Madiba's demise, i'd wanted to write about the similarities btw OBJ & Mandela plus the vantage position OBJ had to become the TRUE father of a great Nation. The recent news about Obasanjo's controversial letter to Mr President has spurred me to finally write my opinions. Why is all these happening after Madiba's death? The death of madiba of must have been a major food for thought to OBJ who was obviously close to him during & after his struggle days. His open & self-indicting comment about mandela's refusal of his plea to stay in power seems to me as a man who's cherishing a value he never really had. That desire to play a 'fatherly' role just like mandela, a role he (OBJ) willingly threw away a long time ago must have now been cherishing to him. You are not a father or in a position to play the roles of a father (advice & rebuke) to a nation just because you have GREY hairs or the length of your days. You are qualifi

JUST DO IT!

"JUST DO IT! What? JUST DO IT! Why? JUST DO IT! ...Tell me something else, there's something I'm yet to know, and failure to have me know it will have me JUST DOING IT." ***SIGH*** What a way to start a piece of writing I bet you're wondering. Many by now have figured where and to whom exactly the afore mentioned phrase (JUST DO IT) belong. For those who haven't, its a byline, a trademark of one of the world's biggest sport kit company, NIKE. Since its famous break into limelight, this word has never seized to inspire. At the mention of that phrase, you adrenaline pumps with a characteristic tickle in your body. The question of what exactly to do is usually not far-fetched. At the mention of the word "Just Do It" in your mind's-mouth, and more palpably, even from a person's lips or when read in a book, on a wall or on billboards, there commence a mind-scan/probe, you ordinarily want to relate it to something, you natural

PEACE

"Peace for the rat, peace for the eagle; hunter and hunted, until then no peace shall find. Peace for the sword, peace for the wielder; until then, from blood stains none shall be spared. Peace for the food, peace for the chef, without which, both shall ever continue to sweat. Peace for the pen, peace for the writer, neither of the two can claim to feel no pains. Peace for the hated, peace for the hater, if they both will understand, not one is in a position of comfort. Peace for the candle, peace for the fire; only wish they both know sleep for the one is sleep for the other." LOVE PEACE, FOLLOW PEACE WITH ONE AND ALL. No one is ever truly at peace waring against the peace of another, its only a short while, and I hope not late, before we have all realized. +2348034780274

"In PURSUIT of Happiness"

These lovely words came first from the pen of Thomas Jefferson(A one time U.S president) and are a part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. As our use of language changes though, the original meaning of that phrase has been lost. When Jefferson wrote "the pursuit of happiness" he meant something similar to "the practice of happiness." Think about the whole phrase this way - "life, liberty and the practice of happiness." We have life, we have liberty, and we can have happiness. Happiness has never been something to aspire to, but something to practice, or most fittingly, BE. As I think about this concept I recognize that we spend much of our time in pursuit, when what we really need to do is practice what we want. For example, it wouldn`t be enough to be in pursuit of an Olympic Gold Medal, you know the only way to get there is to practice. This may seem very obvious for the kinds of skills already associated with practice (

TODAY! Not TOMORROW!!!

Its many hours gone now, and you're still "Wanting to do it" Its years gone now and not one move have you made, instead you've had accumulated months of wishful thinking. When exactly are you going to do it? Oh, at the right time you're saying? Am sorry to announce to you, that phrase is a SCAM, there's no such thing, you really must make a time right. Procrastination is a sickness of the; high and mighty, small and lowly, young and old, saint or sinner,rich or poor. Its got no bounds, it respects no limits. There exist a common saying that; "Procrastination Is The Thief of Time", but re-branding this, I'll submit that; "Procrastination Is The Thief of Life", for it steals your life right before your watchful eyes. It does it so cynically, you hardly realize you losing anything. Like that common African folklore that pictures the mouse as eating a part of you and blowing you cool air to the surface of that part of you being eat

Corpses Rot Everywhere As Philippine Super typhoon; Haiyan typhoon survivors beg for help.

Philippines storm kills estimated 10,000, destruction hampers rescue efforts Sun, Nov 10 18:34 PM EST Nigeria can at this point, despite her myriad of problems, thank the Author of the Universe for keeping her clear off natural disasters. We learnt of the Tsunami, and various hurricanes with their funny names; Katrina, Sandy, Haiyan et.al Now, let's have the news in full as reported by foreign media. (CBS & Reuters) Corpses rot everywhere as Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help November 11, 2013 by CBNews.com TACLOBAN, Philippines Bloated bodies lie in the streets, in front of houses, on bridges, in the water, wherever the giant wall of water happened to dump them when Typhoon Haiyan hit. Typhoon Haiyan first-hand account: "Everything was gone" The Philippines, an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands, is annually buffeted by tropical storms and typhoons, which are called hurricanes and cyclones elsewhere. The impoverished and densely populated na

GRE, TOEFL Suspended Indefinitely In Nigeria

Information as supplied by @newsbytesnow has it that GRE, TOEFL has been suspended Indefinitely In Nigeria For 'Security Reasons'. Security reasons they say, but one is left to wonder if Boko Haram have metamorphosed into internet viruses to attack the systems or server. It beats me though that the organization has failed to state these "Security Threats", but as much as we know as Nigerians, we can be safe to say the notorious Boko Haram sect is at this time the only tenable security threat. Nigerians await the revelation of these threats by the exam bodies in question. The News in Detail: Nigerian students planning to write qualifying examinations into colleges and universities abroad should start seeking other alternatives as Education Testing Services, ETS, has suspended both the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) in Nigeria "due to security concerns." ETS is the world's largest private nonp

"SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER REMAIN SILENT 2" (The Wedding Day Brouhaha)

......By popular demand, sequel to my last post "Speak Now Or Forever Remain Silent", I bring to you the continuing episode of what went down the day. I want to seize this opportunity to thank my fans and blog readers for their followership, support, encouragements and sometimes critiques. Without you, there's no Wordsmith™. . . . ...I could not laugh enough on the day. In a funny twist of events, don't forget we already have 3-bodies lying on the altar. I adjusted my sit properly, and told myself "Not one scene of this will I miss out on". Every man for his kind, the priest had ignored both bride and groom and reached out to revive his ailing colleague, fanning air to his face with the programme outline in his hands. Both parents also took to the alter, seeing the selfish gesture of the priest, each taking to the direction of their wards (Grooms parent to groom, and Bride's to the bride) everyone battling to resuscitate their own. With the pr

"SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER REMAIN SILENT" (The Wedding Day Conspiracy)

"If anyone here has any reason why these two should not be joined together, let him speak now or forever remain silent" ....The priest had barely concluded his words before we heard the doors yawned open paving the way for this tall, dark-skinned, fine looking young man, dressed in a nicely cut grey suit. The knocks of his shoe heels on the floor was all that was to be heard in the auditorium, as the whole place had gone dead silent on his appearance. Startled by this scene, and confused by the thought of trying to reason out what exactly was going on, the priest could at best draw out his white handkerchief from the pocket of his robe as he wiped his face severally as if to say, every one wipe made him see better. For all those minutes it took this man to make his way up the alter, I understood better the meaning of the medical term "SHOCK". The bride, you mean what was happening to her? I fear we don't go there, she had gone past the stage of something

Nigeria To Witness Solar Eclipse

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has predicted that Nigeria will witness a partial solar eclipse on November 3, 2013. Speaking at a press conference, yesterday in Abuja, on the anticipated solar eclipse, which will hit most states around noon, the director-general of the agency, Prof. Seidu Mohammed, said it is a natural astronomical event with no significant negative implication, urging Nigerians to remain calm as the eclipse will not hinder normal activities. Mohammed said, "Nigeria is within the penumbra region where you'll have partial eclipse on November 3, 2013. As an astronomical agency, we have taken time to inform Nigerians of the eclipse, which will take place on Sunday, because it is our duty to keep the nation informed of such developments. We urge Nigerians to remain calm as there is no need to panic. "November 3rd will be like any other day; it will not hinder signal from the satellite, so mobile signal will not be affected, our in

The "POPULAR TRUTH"

"Tell them more often, and it becomes their truth" ...On this one sentence I'll build a base for today's piece. Hopefully it'll be a short one, once the heart of the message I'm able to strike right early. There's this tiny little thing I'm about to expose, and we all have one time or the other been a sucker for it even in our most guarded moments of critical observation and consideration. Having watched closely, I've observed a few things, one of which I'll take my time to scratch in this piece. More of the talk today hoovers around; Truth, Lies, Deception, the Frequency and Emphasis of it. A careful examination has shown that humans tend to believe a word, thing, or opinion with the highest degree of occurrence, call it frequency and you'll still not be wrong. Many a times, a lie is only a lie on its first appearance. And subsequent appearance of such begins to trigger some degree of consideration within a regular human mind which

WHEN WHAT YOU WANT DON'T WANT YOU

There's been a lot of talk about destiny, and even much more about its workings. Some believe it is the dream maker, many believe it is the determinant of all things. As much as it appears we understand this phenomenon, it remains clear we really do not understand completely, its workings. To properly comprehend this phenomenon(I call it a phenomenon), we need to observe "DESTINY" in its various forms, as a WORD, and as a PHENOMENON. To define on the surface, destiny is FATE. The fate of a person or thing (although not so appropriate for inanimate objects). Destiny or fate is a predetermined course of events.[1] It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It remains another topic entirely to discuss around the origins of destiny, the origins of a man's fate. Save its superficial(as some see it) definition, some will refuse to accept that it is predestined. Their stand on it, is that MAN WORKS HIS DESTINY, as everyone

IN PURSUIT OF ACCEPTANCE

Brandishing his irregularly sized set of off-white, semi-brown coloured teeth as he moved his head from side to side in response to sounds emanating from surrounding loud speakers, snapping and tapping his feet without any found cohesion, he obviously seems to be enjoying a music he can't hear. Its a party, and it is of course at its climax already, with everyone perfectly squared in pairs, each with their dance buddies, save this stout dark man who appeared to be carried away by the sound of the music. His face could not be seen, his blue-black golf-type face cap had covered perfectly his face, leaving to bare his dark strangled beard. For a while I paused my groove to observe this middle-aged man, probing closely into his body movements. It was the same for every music that was played, be it fast or slow beats. He never changed his steps, his feet hit the ground with the same pace and his fingers snapped with the same intensity to every sound that oozed out of those speakers.

'KILL' THE LAW?

"Strong is the appetite, stronger is the law; we are only truly what we'll do outside the law" These thoughts have severed my heart severally, as I probed to know, hearing from the lips of people, friends and acquaintances, the things they'll really love to do if certain laws hadn't been in place. It only true and fair to note that; "What empowers the man? LAW; What again incapacitates him? The LAW again. Imagine life without some laws, see where am heading" -TW™ I see many a man walk the busy road of life in their physical frames, but with a whole lot tussling for a freedom of expression within them. Had there been no laws.....? No I don't want to think about it, not just now. "The law before the man, The man before the law" a topic still very open for debate till this very minute. Some believe that with man's arrival came the law, and infact, man himself made the laws to govern himself. Some others believe the law had been in place l

HEY BROKENHEARTED!

Hey BrokenHearted, how do you do? (That can only be rhetorical, I can tell it by the way you look) Hey BubblyHearted, how do you do? (You wouldn't let a space in between, your anxiety to share the fun is like a banner over your face) See brokenhearted, life only gave you a dose of its many medications, hang on, please don't end it here already, things will never be the same, believe me I speak of the truth. Borrow a leaf Bubblyhearted, the same applies to you, not being pessimistic in this, but these are rules governing here, and they have come to stay. I get it brokenhearted, the pain was sharp strong, and came with so much a shock, but you see oh' dear the secret of hurt lies in its SUDDENESS. The ones you chose to believe have stunned you, now you know not what/whom to believe! The very ones you gave your trust, have pierced you with a spear in a sudden thrust. The one who confessed to love, has now become the one whose only love is to see your hurt. One quick secret bro

What About Your PERSONALITY?

Idiosyncrasy is on its own and naturally a customized phenomenon. Just as no two persons have per-say undifferentiable behavioral qualities, patterns and being. Just as no two persons carry the same thumb prints(not even identical twins), no two persons have indistinguishable characters/beings. Everyman has got unique conditions affecting them, even those enjoying the same parameters have different receptors and as such uniquely different responses to the unified social parameters. "YOU CAN ONLY BE YOU AND NO ONE ELSE" -TW™ "IMMITATION IS THE CHEAPEST FORM OF FLATTERY" Everyone has got his/her personality, and as many as we are, so as much our personality differs. It's allowed to admire another's status, its permissible to wish you had their lives! But may I inform you; "THERE'S NO BETTER FEELING THAN WALKING IN YOUR SHOES, AS NO OTHER SHOES OFFER YOU AS MUCH CONVIENIENCE AS THOSE SCULPT TO FIT YOUR FEET."-TW™ Life has been such designed