The Wordsmith Blog™

Which are you? W hatsApp groups and their complexities, uniqueness and craze. There is no amount of words to describe the absurdity. They're fun, they're serious, they're up, they're done and they're mostly completely random...  We all belong to at least one category, even if we may not want to admit it. You will most definitely find these kinds of people in almost every Whatsapp group, no matter how hard you deny it. 1. Master of Irrelevancies There's always someone in the group who sends all the memes, videos, BCs, etc he/she sees that day. They send them in no particular order, and once we get tired and hit at them, they hide under the "you don't know who might be needing it" gist. We all know it's not going to be their last one no matter how hard we cry... 2. The Error Voicenote Dude There's always one person who's constantly sending voice notes, either because he or she is too lazy to type

I had always wondered how teeming fans could get something out of sports for their ‎unalloyed, and perhaps fanaticism towards both local and foreign football (other sports) clubs. They seem to shout the most, fight about issues, argue (sometimes to the death), and yet get/make no dime out of it. So my puzzling continued until the world finally launched into an era of sport (prediction) betting. I would and am not via this post encouraging nor discouraging anyone's participation in sport betting, but I sure can tell you that like every other endeavor (business), its got its LOSES & GAINS. Hence, the choice is yours to make. Credits to a brilliant blogger (Tayo Theophilus) who in one of his posts elucidated marketable points about some of the available sport bet companies in Nigeria. now let's have this knowledge in full. With the increasing surge of football traders in Nigeria, many are now seeing the opportunity to start making money from football betting righ

he African society views same-sex relationships as repulsive. Yet in Nigeria, homosexuals live among us. A few hide their status from the world’s prying eyes, while the majority however do not care. Some of them take Ruth Olurounbi through their worlds, insisting that they have been unfairly judged and misunderstood. Her report: Temitope Ali (not her real name), became a lesbian at age 15 during her secondary school days at a girls only boarding school. She was sent to the boarding school because ‘it was the in thing back then’, she said. Besides, a boarding school was an avenue for self discipline and self development in the arts of felinity, among others. Ali said, looking back, being a lesbian was something she couldn’t have imagined herself being, considering that she was from a devoted Muslim home which frowns against same sex relationships. “In fact, having heterosexual sex before marriage is something that is strictly frowned on my religion. So, becoming a lesbian is somethin