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There lived a man called "Prosperity" in a community known as "Nongov" he was a famous Rich man not just to his community but to His entire  continent, his house was full of silver and gold. Occasionally two persons were selected annually to wristle each other, anyone who wins the wrestling tournament automatically had access and stayed with Prosperity. This was the desire and a pray point of anyone in the community. In the previous years Happiness had won sadness, perseverance had won slothful, wealth had won poverty, and Healthy had won sickness. All the winners were staying with "Prosperity". This year's  taurnament was a remarkable one as the winner was to take charge of everything in Prosperity's house and even owns Prosperity himself. This was because Prosperity was getting old and he needed a heir apparent who would be taking care of him and everything he has. This became everyday's talk in the community as two great giants ( Hardwork an...

Morality is set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper and acceptable forms of conduct. While immorality  is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards. It refers to an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong. Immorality is normally applied to people or actions, or in a broader sense, it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies.  Morality is  genuinely, and acceptable not just in the eyes of human but also to our creator. However many people choose immorality over morality even parents who are supposed to educate their children on how profitable it is to respect moral standards. We are in a generation whom parents wine and dine with evil, as a father or a mother you do not know your child's source of income and of a sudden he buys a  car nor builds a house yet you don't bother to know how and where such blessing comes from, all you could do is to sing praises.  What inspiration are you...

As youths we act very funny towards our parents and elders once we are able to read and write, we think we know better than they do, even though some of these our parents are professors, yet we think we are wiser and smarter than them. The truth is there are some genetic variations that passes from our parents to us, no matter how wise we think we are, we can not be wiser than them, because these genes passes from them to us.  Old age comes with wisdom and endurance, what our parents see while sitting down,  can not be seen  even when we are on treetop. Some of us have this amusing way of referring to our parents as old men. Don't mind old man, he thinks we are still in their days,  I am waiting for the old woman to go to bed before I will come over, I don't want her wahala.  We sometimes add  money to our tuition fee for us to get extra balance yet we  think they don't know. The truth is they are aware of those tricks but because of the endurance old ...

  Lately, I have found myself inside a new feeling.   Almost as if things are finally making sense.  I understand the hard things better and appreciate the easy things more.  I taste loneliness but can sense the fullness of my life too.  I respect the need for gratitude.  The devastating but timely lateness of wisdom.  If I could name this new feeling I would call it, finally.  It feels like I have arrived at a place I didn’t know existed.  I wish someone had said something about it.  Everything in my life is the same as before but it feels as if I moved to a different corner in the room. And that other corner had a different view.  Everything looked different.  It was not about a new perspective.  Or about acceptance.  It was something else.  I am reminded of something Ram Dass has talked about.  “Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.” One thing I know for sur...

Remembering. Forgetting.  It is the place where loneliness and solitude reside side by side without touching. The place where impossible things exist.  Unearthly worlds. Unimaginable lives.  But somehow, this place of dawn, the in between day and night, makes everything less earthly. Less humanly. More outwardly.  I often found grief to feel both heavier and lighter there.  It feels as if we know we can endure it but we also know its torture.  During that time we can believe in both fairies and science. In healing but also in the infinity of life’s hardship.  I don’t think, though, I could have felt the specialness of dawn if I had not been touched by grief. Dawn without deep loss is just a place semi dark.  Nothing magical to it.  Life without loss is also just a place.  Nothing magical to it.  In Michael Collin’s book Carrying the Fire (the third astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission) he says. “There seems to be two moons now, the on...

  The Story of the Donkey and Tiger The donkey told the tiger:  ′′The grass is blue".  The tiger replied:  ′′No, the grass is green". The discussion became heated up, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion, King of the Jungle. Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, is it true that grass is blue?". The lion replied: "True, the grass is blue". The donkey rushed forward and continued:  ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me please punish him". The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence". The donkey jumped for joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue"... The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?" The lion replied: ′′In fact, the ...

 Unity has a greater power  that bond people to accomplish whatever they want to do, l never knew this, until while  trooping  with my father ( Tsegba).  Tsegba who one could not spend a minute with without getting a moral story to learn from, as usual saw some ants dragging a deadly  grasshopper and showed me.  I turned and look at it confusably, he  then nodded his head gently  and smiled  deeply, and pointed at the little creatures ( the ants) I look at them as they were dragging the dead grasshopper to their hole. Yet  I did not anticipate the meaning,  He look at me once again and said: "VANENGE" my son I hope you are confused?" yes baba I replied teasing at him. He  went in the bush and cut off some little sticks in hundred pieces and tied them in a bundle, and  asked me to use my hands and break them. I tried my very best to broke the bundle of the little sticks but I was unable. I told him that I have tried wi...

Nigeria as a country is affected with a virus called corruption as we all know. It is indisputable that many a Nigerian talks about the virus called  corruption and expect the country to be free from the virus but how possible will it be if the change does not begin with us?  I ask again how possible? When a Nigerian prefers someone who does not has leadership qualities but is from his family, village, local government or geo political zone to rule than someone who has leadership qualities but is not related to him.  How possible will it be when the hardworking ones are graduating with low grade while the slothful, the dull and the senseless who aquire results through unfair advantages are  graduating with first classes and second class uppers?  How possible will it be  when a person is looking for what to eat and another is drinking beer? I ask again how possible will it be?  How possible will it be when   Nigerian students are being kidnapp...

 Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness. It is a mistake to believe that the silent person is ignorant. The silent person is almost always the one that you should listen to most. Instead of spending time babbling about unimportant things, he listens and learns. He spends time in thought instead of meaningless conversations about nothing. Ignorant is the last adjective that I would use to describe him. Likewise, the person who can stay calm in all situations is a person of quiet confidence. Do not read anything into his calm demeanor, except for the fact that he probably has his act together. The warrior, who is confident in himself, has no reason to lose his cool. He maintains his composure in spite of the storm around him. You may even find that the more critical the situation, the more calm and rational the warrior becomes because he is even more focused than normal. Many people also tend to look at the kind-hearted ma...

Once upon a time all feelings and emotions went to a coastal island for a vacation. According to their nature, each was having a good time. Suddenly, a warning of an impending storm was announced and everyone was advised to evacuate the island. The announcement caused sudden panic. All rushed to their boats. Even damaged boats were quickly repaired and commissioned for duty. Yet, Love did not wish to flee quickly. There was so much to do. But as the clouds darkened, Love realised it was time to leave. Alas, there were no boats to spare. Love looked around with hope. Just then Prosperity passed by in a luxurious boat. Love shouted, “Prosperity, could you please take me in your boat?” “No,” replied Prosperity, “my boat is full of precious possessions, gold and silver. There is no place for you.” A little later Vanity came by in a beautiful boat. Again Love shouted, “Could you help me, Vanity? I am stranded and need a lift. Please take me with you.” Vanity responded haughtily, “No, I cann...

Time is a precious gift that comes from above and should be manage consciously. You have heard of  a witty saying: " time is money" but  have you ever paused  and think why there is this saying?  Apart from being money, time heals,  refreshes, gives hope and reassures, time is invaluable when it is spent wisely and with the right people.  Whenever time is being spent with the wrong people and on wrong things, it becomes  useless and unprofitable. There are some yokels  that once you spend time with, you become empty,  you offload all the the confidence built  over the years in a twinkling of an eye, because of  how they castigate you or their actions towards you.  Understand your position in people's hearts  and stay off them if all they do is  to ruin down your confidence. Remember low self  is when a person seeks followers, expecting others to give value. I call it sickness, do not be allow to be tested positiv...

Many of us choose who to listen to, and who is not to be listen to, we don't mind whether they have a point or not, we don't mind if they have something to offer, either good nor bad, as far as they are not our class of people to listen to, we  shut our ears.  Sometimes ago I was shortlisted to undergo a training, A training that would have bettered  my life in journalism profession, unfortunate for me I lost my phone at gun point few days before the names of people who were to undergo the training were out. I was notified by a friend that the list was out and he checked for me, but my name wasn't there.  I rushed to his apartment and checked but my name wasn't there truly, unknown to us that another list was yet to be out, I returned home and forgot about the training.  The night before the training I slept in my friend's house, he was to undergo the training too. He slept and forgot about the  training, I woke him up and reminded him to bath and prepare h...

Buying is what everyone does, as human we have our needs, and we buy to satisfy these needs, however  many people don't know that while buying to satisfy their needs they can equally touch people's lives.  In any market there are people who are doing well in their businesses and homes, and  people who are not doing well. Those who are not doing well sometimes wear a mournful mask on their faces and use their hands as handles to support their cheeks.  They are physically in the market but psychologically they are at home thinking  of how to pay their relatives hospital bills, pay their children school fees, how they will bury their love ones and even what to eat.  When you buy from these people they don't see you as a buyer but as a cheerful giver and a helper. You don't need to give these set of people money or anything to put smile on their faces, all you need to do is buy from them, sometimes I buy  not because I need what I buy, but because I want t...

  A secondary teacher had decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates. So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates. So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had two, potatoes, some three while some up to five potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the potatoes in the plastic bag with them wherever they go for one week. Days after days passed, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having five potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After one week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended. The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying these potatoes with you for one week?” The ch...

It is obvious that we all have different challenges , challenges are part and parcel of life however the most challenging time in our lives brings out the best in us if we are  mindful.  Challenges are like crampons meant for everyone to climbs  a successful life. Whenever challenges befall us greatly; we feel weak and think that we are finished, not knowing that it is a stepping stone for us to rise.  When you start taking advantage of your challenges, its start avoiding you because it knows that you are happy facing it, and you definitely gonna  benefit from it some days, therefore it stays off you. Let me give you an instance. some years ago I lost my father, and life suddenly turned around, it shoveled all kinds of dirt on  my family and I, though as little as I was,  I was moving Helter skelter to proffer solution to no avail until  when I picked up a copy of my nursery School novel title " Sugar girl". The story was so interesting and after ...

Children are precious gift from our creator and we are to love and cherish them passionately, we are to protect, and give them direction to the right part. No matter how the shoulders rise it will not be taller than the head, The fact that they are grown up, doesn't mean they know better, or they know the way you do.  Some of these children pass through untold pains at their work places but you might not know, some of them need someone to talk to, but you don't give them the needed attention to open up.  Whenever your children who are working under people, particularly the female ones are back, sit them down and ask them their experience at work place, ask them how they are being treated by their bosses.  We are in a generation where a married man will employs  a young girl and would wants to take advantage of her, they will persuade them that if they make love with them, some money will be added on their salaries, or a particular amount will be given to them; if the...

 Wake-up everyday as a giant trying to take what belongs to him, don't  allow yourself to be ruined down by yesterday and your current situation. People might have castigated you base on where you are now, though is not their fault to  be blind, not everyone sees what you envisioned. Have confidence like that child who's mother sent and he refused, giving and excuse that he is drawing God's image, the mother tried to discourage him by saying "nobody knows God's image" the child laughed and said " they will if I draw" like the child don't mind people who doubt your ability, they will believe you when your dreams are accomplished. son of Tsegba cares.

No matter how smart and hardworking we are, we can not  change whom we were created to be, know this and have peace!  whatever we do and wherever we are now is already designed by our creator. The truth is we all are actors, acting different movies writen by our producer and director ( God) on a  stage called the world. No character is worth emulating at the cause of the acting as we all have different stories. Sometimes  we find ourselves doing what people  think we are better of, sometimes we  do not attain greater heights as expected and we begin to look for unfair advantages to meet up with our mates, forgetting that our own stories were written to pass through these process and stages. Whenever things aren't working out do remind yourself that you are just an actor acting what has been written by your creator. Don't force it, if it is written that you will act a scene of success, no matter how the turbulence; grace will give you a ride to a journey of ...

There is a connectivity and interactivity between our feet and the earth, a such that even if one eavesdrops he/she will not be able to interpret the conversation.  Sometimes we go on our knee before our creator yet it seems his hands are shorten to help and  hear us out, Our feet and the earth have a symbiotic relationship ( a give and take relationship ) our feet give her problems and the earth in return offers solution.  The  earth is the first born of all that is created, therefore as a first born it has prominence before our creator.  In the Tiv speaking tribe if a child is cursed and he needs to be set free, the eldest member of the family uses water in a  Calabash, he takes a little in his mouth and spit it on the child and says: " on behalf of my four fathers I set you free", and life becomes easier to the child.  That is the kind of prominence and Authority the earth has, as a first of all the creatures it has the power to set free on be ...

I grew up with a habit of hating people once they turn down my request.  While young I would gladly appreciate and pet my parents once my request is granted but I would wear a mournful mask whenever they turn down my request, however when people turn down your request it doesn't mean they hate you or they don't care for you, sometimes these requests are turned down for genuine reasons, but because of our selfish interest we expect people to harm themselves just to please us, particularly in the aspect of relationship. Whenever the people we love turn us down, instead of understand their views we decide to reward them with hatred. Some of these people we love planted and watered their relationships and it about yielding fruits and you want them to cut it off just for you? some people go extra miles to do funny things that will please people for their request to be granted.  The truth is "love, affection and attention" are free gifts from our creator, and if it isn'...