BETWEEN PRAISE AND CRITIQUE

On a hot Thursday afternoon, I bumped into my boss, who coincidentally was trying to drive home a point. He used a story to pass across the message. I leaned against the wall close to the door in the chilled office, while I listened carefully to learn from the bombshell that was about to be dropped.

I therefore choose to share that same story in this blog post, I am confident it will bless you.

There was a young man in the village who is humble and loyal to the king. An act that earned him a name as “THE KINGS’ LOYAL MAN”. 

Source: Google.com

On a fateful day, the king called this young man to send him on a particular errand, one that looked like it was going to be easy, but on his arrival, he found out that the king had prepared a ‘seemly ridiculous’ yet

THE CHAINED ELEPHANT AND YOU!

I once sat at the feet of an elder, a sage and great orator to drink from his well of wisdom. I drank and drank till I was full to the brim.

 Oh! How I love dinning with the sage. From his lips are not cunning devised fables, but instructions of wisdom that will command excellence and honor when heeded to.

Of the many stories the sage shared with me, let me share one with you today.

In a village called Lalupon in the ancient city of Ibadan, there was a hunter who specializes in killing elephant. One day, he caught three calves (young elephants) and he took them home. The hunter attached a shackle on one of the legs of the calves to restrain them. 

These calves weigh between three to four hundred pounds at best. They tirelessly tried a great deal to get away from the chain, but

Voice of a poet from the elbow Nation

You can be well loved
But not well understood
But through powerful voices
Africa will forever be appreciated more.

                       i
Quench not the fire

Oh! how I fear God

(...of the awe i have for God by gazing at nature)

O how i fear God
when I watch the moon
rise out of nowhere at eventide

WHY ASK WHY?

I was born in a Christian home and as a result, I had a Christian background. We don't joke with church attendance. Mum and Dad will instruct us to go dress up when it’s some thirty minutes to service time.

We must go to church with our Bible, a jotter and a pen.

That was to enable us take notes during the church meeting. It was always as though our lives primarily depends on the notes we took in church. As at then having a jotter to pen down notes in church was an emblem of being a good, supposed God fearing Christian. We would look down on people

PEARL OF THE SAHEL

Bless you, Mariam Mimi
Pride of the North Eastern Nigeria
The solace to the soul of many
In the anguish hotness of the
dry plane of the Sahel Savanna.
When I saw her upon a nearer view,
My heart quiver in amazement of such
An exquisite soul, beauty in glasses
An angelic spirit, yet a woman too.
She dazzles like the morning stars,
And steps of virgin liberty.





She is a phantom of delight
To see her is a picture,
To hear her is a tune.
Her beauty is like that of a fairy tale,
Beauty beyond stretches of
imaginations.
An heavenly beauty in

BEFORE YOU GIVE UP

“Have a champion’s mindset. Put everything you have into it; any less and you will fail. Bounce back from knocks”.

Travis Kalanick (Founder Uber)

I love traveling, in fact I think it’s high time I added traveling to my long list of hobbies. My love for visiting new places, meeting new people, experiencing new ways of life in other people’s culture is unprecedented.

Just as I was reminiscing over one of my trips to the south east of Nigeria, I tried to link some of the experiences on the roads together to come up with something I believe we can all learn from as it relates to life challenges. 

While traveling from one place to another, we often need to buy stuffs on the road e.g. Bread, Bottle water, soft drinks amongst other things. Those guys selling those things honestly seriously inspires me. 

Now let’s take a life scenario for instance.