SLEEVES UNROLLED!

 I'm out today without having to roll up the sleeves of my T-shirt because I remembered that my mum doesn't like it.

As I got dressed for the field this morning in my branded T-shirt, ready to roll up the sleeves as usual, I remembered that my mum once told me that rolling up the sleeves of my shirt wasn't cute. But I love to wear my T-shirts that way. The last time she told me, I agreed and responded obediently, but I got back home with my sleeves rolled up🙄.

Here I am today, wearing my T-shirt without rolling up the sleeves, in honour of my mum. This seemingly simple memory has just reminded me again that not so many of the things we think matter to us truly matter.

Those arguments don't truly matter.

The fights are so unnecessary.

Many of the major and minor things that occupy our days do not truly matter.

So I asked myself, What percentage of the things that occupy a man's lifetime truly matter? Since the answer may not be universal but rather dependent on our individual interests and beliefs, the Bible sums up the issue with these rhetorical questions: "For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8:36–37).

Look good and be fashionable while still preserving your soul.

Succeed as much as you can, but not at the expense of your soul.

Make enough money to enjoy the comfort you desire, but do not let your soul go in exchange for it.

Make friends and have all the fun you can in this one life, but let it not cost you your soul.

In all that you do, do all you can to preserve your soul.

Every teaching, ideology or preaching that silently says your soul must be exchanged for whatever you need to enjoy life is a lie from the pit of hell.

At the end of our journey, we will see that most of the things we count do not really count.

Yes, I'm out with my T-shirt sleeves unrolled, and I still feel good, really. Whether they are rolled up or down, it doesn't matter. In the same way, you can let go of some of the things you hold in high esteem and still feel great. If you choose to, you may discover that they are not as serious as they seem.

My mum can be rest assured that today, I will return home with my sleeves still unrolled.

What's that one thing you've held on to for so long, only to eventually discover that it doesn't actually count?

THIS GENDER EQUALITY THING!

The Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5) of gender equality comes with many controversies; from the elites and the dregs, resulting into misconceptions around the subject. As the world is becoming more aware of Human rights, and how it concerns the females, passing the message that “female right isn’t about their gender but about the fact that they are human and also a member of the society who shouldn’t be sidelined by the virtue of difference in morphology and physiology”. Even though we cannot deny the rapid rate of increase in knowledge due to technology which puts more than enough information on our palms by just a click; we can access beyond the world around us, it is imperative that we understand the core of gender equality advocacy and not get the message twisted from the many jargons that we see and read on the internet.

No Nudity

       

Many things go wrong in the name of fashion and it is important we don't take a break on some messages because the other message will keep going viral! You see it virtually on every fashion page and I wonder the kind of confusion this could bring to the mind of a young girl because....

Celebrities are celebrated in it,
Mother's are Nursing in it,
Fashion slayers are displayed in it,
Role models are awarded in it,
Girls are learning from it,
Ladies are loving it,
Companies advertise with it,

        but....

We need to keep singing this into the ears of every girl child and make it one of their daily rhythm that ;
Nudity is not synonymous to beautiful
Nudity isn't attractive
Nudity isn't gorgeous
Nudity isn't fashionable
Nudity isn't just about being naked
Nudity is also being naked even in a cloth
...............................................
It doesn't matter who is wearing it
The cost of purchasing it makes no meaning
I careless who introduces the style
It is still not STYLISH if your nakedness isn't COVERED.
#NoNudity
#TellEveryGirlLadyWoman
#FollowCarefully
#ImitateWisely

SELFISH SEEKERS

THE SELFISH SEEKERS

It was a very hard pill to swallow when I heard that these people do nothing for free. How could it be!
It was in one of the cities in Nigeria, A driver was short of small denominations of the Nigerian currency which he desperately needed to settle one of his passengers.

DAPCHI GIRLS; game of pains

This would seem so unrelated to many Nigerians but it is expedient we see the contradictory relationship between the 110 abducted School girls from Government Girls Science Technical College, Yobe State on 19th February 2018 and the Maiden combined convocation/11th anniversary of Yobe State University on 24th of February 2018; few days after the abduction.

MY DECLARATION

Fellow Nigerians,

I make this declaration with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes.

I weep for Nigeria, my beloved country! 

Nations which were in the same league with us at independence have since joined the developed world, while we are daily  retrogressing rather than make advancement.

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#1in3 Africa
                                              

Under the cosmetics are unappealing faces, our apparels are our covers to the pains we bear. More often than not we want to sweep our agony under the carpet of hypocrisy until there is a bulge.

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