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"There are only two answers to every question in life; YES & NO, all others in between is called diplomacy." -TW™ Life is a subject of extremes, those who have lived it successfully are those who took a lane, took courageously to their sides and faced the facts as they saw it fit. the perfect world always had its extremes filled, there was little or no traffic along the middle. Everyone knew to which side they belonged, it used to be a piece of cake identifying who and who was mature enough and had their minds made up. All the while, and coming this far, we've managed to raise a generation that unrepentantly clog the middle of the park. Originally it used to be a world of a YES against a NO, but in a bid to find acceptance, we mumbled all in-between. Visualizing the world I see, it appears in my head and face a wide road, free-flowing, with two crowded sides. The sides remained populated, and the road maintained its free flowing traffic, I only saw a vehicle or two sp

...If the story of a man must be told correctly, then it must be told by eyes who saw it, and not ears that heard it. In this age so pervert that the eyes sending correct signals is disappointed by a mind/brain which processes them using pre-existing variables within it, irrespective of what it is that was sent into it. The ears are not left out, they are infact one of the most culpable in this. Perhaps some have word manipulating organs/devices in theirs and don't know, and the reason why many hear the same sound resonance and it yet get entirely different things transmitted to their individual cerebral hemisphere, I don't know. It is often said, and proven correct that; "A RUMOR GOES IN ONE EAR, AND OUT THROUGH MANY MOUTHS." But then, "IT IS NOT IN THE WORDS THAT ARE SAID, BUT IN THE HEARTS THAT RECIEVE THEM" -TW™ Little wonder the popularity of the quote: "I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU SAY, AND NOT WHAT YOU HEAR". Those trademark quotes will for

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....Come let us reason together! Change; and event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another. This could be as a result of an alteration or modification. To undergo change is to become difference in essence, to undergo change is to experience a degree of transformation. Change could mean a replacement of a thing with some other or same kind.... Change could just mean about everything in the world. As the famous saying goes "Change Is Constant", it remains a constant force the holds the earth in its spinning and its people in their living. It is only natural for man to be sick of being the same man over a number of days, months and years. At every point in time, man dreams a change, a positive, forward moving change. The life of man is such designed to desire an extra, everyman wants an improvement upon his yesterday today. Some dream a change from worst to worse, worse to bad, bad to good, good to better, better to excellent, as some sitti

...Another major blow has been dealt to the cry of justice in Nigeria. Maajor Hamzxat Al-Mustapha, indicted and later convicted with murder as it concerns the murder of Late Kudirat Abiola. On June 4, 1996. Sentenced to death just only recently by a Lagos Supreme court, he took his case to the appeal court in his quest for 'Justice'. 'Justice' sought, justice secured. Today, the 12th day of July 2013, in Igbosere, he's been discharged and acquainted. In declaring his verdict, the presiding judge accused the lower court of being "stroked to secure a conviction by all means.". What is left on the table of discussion is; what does this speak of the Nigerian judicial system as the hope for the common man? Should Mustapha have been discharged and acquainted despite several testimonies and evidences of his unlawful acts, let alone the fact that he was previously sentenced to death? I'm confused about this, Nigeria am sure is confused too. A June 1

Let's get something straight here, clearing the air/shedding more light to this subject is been long overdue. World over, we have had men of timbre and caliber, and they've have often been misplaced into the wrong category and classified into the wrong class of beings. After reading this piece, I'm of a high percentage of certainty that you'll readily bring back a list of men who in your/world views have influenced their world. Running quickly, to enhance your precision in classification, its expedient that I launch into the thick of this subject. Is there any difference between a hero and an idol? Most people think that both "hero" and "idol" are used in the same context. But the fact is that the two are different. We call a person a hero if that person has done some heroic deed or has done something good for society. A person is attributed the title "idol" because of his good looks or has some good features, but this is not the same as a

I was just the way many from my part of the world was. I grew up to understand that I was different, and from a different race. This I never knew nor thought about, as everyone around me looked like me, spoke like me, even grew their hair like mine. I bothered to ask of who I was and why I didn't look like the others I saw in a journal and later my TV screen, in movies and soon, in person. These people were as bright as the sun itself, their skins glow with such radiance, they didn't look like they existed with I and my kin on this same planet earth. They looked alien to me, the more I starred, the more complex they appeared in my mind. I needed to know me, I wanted to know why I was like this, I longed to know what people like me were called. Soon, I learnt it was black, and my race os called "The Black Race". Black, why black? Is it just and issue of the colour of my skin or more? This I sought to know, and the following I learnt and some others, I learnt to unlea

It is overtly said that "Nothing Just Happens", and all that is today has got a reason or two behind their existence. In my search to find something here that has no reason or basis to be here, I found out after careful observation, that I could only lay my hand on an entity called 'nothing'. It is widely accepted that only a seemingly insane person does a thing without a reason. This view we have held for time immemorial now, but the correct arrangement of that sentence would carry in it, the word 'Known'. Put correctly, "Only a seemingly insane person does a thing without a KNOWN reason". 'Known' here in itself again is subjected to further scrutiny, as what isn't known to you may be known to some other fellow, as even the mad man has a reason for his actions, he's just so mad that he can't explain or tell. Come to think of it, how many will wait to listen, if he cared to explain???. The subject matter today like the caption

...This snake wouldn't blink an eye, neither will the skies fail to darken by the minute. God knows, setting out for this journey, I prayed that I had a smooth one. There it is, rule no 5; "TO PRAY THAT YOUR ROAD BE SMOOTH ALL THE TIME, IS TO PRAY THAT THERE BE NO NIGHT & DAY" With every breath within me, I resisted the urge to run. Jumping into the river was no option, I'll rather die here than go down there. The more my confidence grew in the fact that I wasn't going to take a dive into the flowing river, the more I guess the serpent got surer of a well deserved bite. Every step, put still, crawl it took, in-turn earned a backward movement from me. Holy Morry! This was beginning to turn into a drama, infact a choreography of a sort. This serpent began to appear to me on the one hand a comic act, and the other, a venomous predator that it actually was. When it jerked, I jerked, when it moved I moved even two steps backward. At some point it took a run at

In anticipation I sat still, legs crossed, waiting for the next call. My gaze was fixed on that horn speaker, as if to say I listened with my eyes and not my ears. For quite some minutes now, I've been hearing my name called. The door continued to open and shut, but the truth is, no one was there! This illusion will not kill me, I bet I'll see the last of this. "Done and co" had a very big premises. It was a big office, better put, a hall, and it had just one door. They are a company specialized in turning dreams into reality, all anyone needed to do was just get themselves in there and their stories changed from thence. ....It hasn't been a smooth walk down here, many parked their luxury cars way down the lane, the roads leading here, aren't motorable at all, and the terrain/topography of the land is so horrible and exhausting to say the least. It was difficult, almost near impossible to get here as well dressed as you left your home, if the thorns and b

The beauty of hope is in its length. Weird? Please let it not seem as such to you. What makes hope what it is, is the 'Wait' part of it, an optimistic wait actually; "Believe". An intrinsic characteristic of hope, one which earns it its most distinguishing property is; Hope's like tomorrow, it never dies, and is never relenting. Another side to its never ending nature is that; hope sings just one song into your heart and ears; "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow" and when "Tomorrow" comes, it sings another "Tomorrow" into you. Nothing encourages as much as hope, just as nothing wears a man out as much as hoping. It's all in the way we handle it. As long as the one hoping remains, hope remains, its only a case of whether they choose to make use of it or ignore it, letting it lie fallow. Whichever way, hope lives! A popular saying goes; "When there is life, there is hope". Yes, this is very true, but with need for some touc

They've Killed our innovation They've Killed our quest to know They've Killed our thinking, providing answers before we get to probe. They keep the best, origin and making away from us. All we do is receive and assemble. At best we can be called the finisher, don't get me wrong I mean it when I say "FINISHER". We finish everything, consumption is all we love and know, even those who feign to produce are sadly doing so under the "lord's" license. My God! We're so spoon fed, little wonder we're getting better only size-ways. They seem to make life easy, but actually stealing our independence, and replacing it with dependence. They've made our own seem inferior before our eyes, satisfaction is no longer contained in anything with a "BLACK ROOT". Sooner or later, I fear we'll abandon our lives for a life glaring as alien. We've lost so much already, and now on the verge of losing again our independence. They give us the

"Its difficult, if not impossible to respond beyond your heart". How do I mean? "Your conceived, derived and/or imbibed idea of thing, defines your attitude towards it"-TW™ You've always wondered why you act the way you do, react the way you do, or respond to things the way you do. Hey, am not talking temperaments here, the boss (Tim Lahaye) already did, and he "took it to the cleaners'. Even in deceit, its a hard thing to behave/respond to a thing beyond what you think about it, know about it, and the values you have placed on it. Catching a golden mug falling directly towards your head for example is a scenario that captures correctly an aspect of my discourse. There exist a couple of options to this, and believe me, every man could respond differently to this situation. One of the responses to expect, which I know you know already is; Catching the mug, preventing it from hitting your head or even the fall. Another response would be; completely do

"Fellow Nigerians, the entire Nigerian scene is very bleak indeed. So bleak people ask me where do we begin? I know what great things you expect of me at this New Dawn. As I have said many times in my extensive travels in the country, I am not a miracle worker. It will be foolish to underrate the task ahead. Alone, I can do little." -Olusegun Obasanjo (May 29 1999.) "Very bleak" in 1999, what do we say in 2013, how clearer or even bleaker has it become? (The answer rings in all our minds). Obasanjo stated openly that he was not a "Miracle Worker" ...NIGERIA NEEDS A MIRACLE TO BE FIXED isn't it? With the 2015 General (S)elections around the corner, in what is expected to usher Nigeria into another republic, a spate of confusion in the polity, power play, political witch-hunting amongst other things are the recent characteristic features of the Nigerian scene. Every action and political decisions seem to be bearing the 2015 regime in mind and sight. A

"Give me the WHATs; unto Thee alone I leave the HOWs. En-grace me to put away my IFs; and ponder the more on your WILLs. Grow me up until the WHENs & WHATs matter no more, but Thee".-TW™ KEY: Whats - Substance/Blessing How's - How/Process IFs - Doubts WILLs - Promises WHENs - Time/Timing THEE - God Recite as many times as this continues to strike your innermost being.

Idealism vs. Realism From time immemorial, the battle between the Idealists and Realist existed. The bulk of the contentions and disagreement in the world today still take their roots from the unending battle of these two kinds of beings. Always at logger-heads with their views, don't blame either, it just the way they are. Families have been torn appart, friends parted ways, nations have splitted in to various countries, as the centre cannot old where these two sit atop the leadership of a particular place (especially at the same or near same time). It's always and forever will be a life of arguments and contention between these two, very rarely do they com to terms. I wish they learnt to be who they are, things could have been a lot more easier to mend, but unfortunately, they grew into what they were meant to be. As long as you couldn't stop their growth, you wouldn't be stopping their idealistic and realistic nature. In order for us to be able to differentiate b