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SEASONS OF TERRROR            --KOLADE OLAJIRE OLUWATIMILEHIN  When war becomes an alternative to peaceful resolution of conflict, perpetual violence is inevitable. When the spirit of unison depart from the subconscious make up of man, humanity and tranquility becomes a mirage. Nigeria is in a parlous condition,because a colossal number of the Citizens domiciled in it have lost there sense of nationhood. Without peace no meaningful social programme can be undertaken, without justice social order is constantly threatened. Clannishness,as beclouded our sense of nationhood. The consciousness of  tribal affiliation as submerged the development of the nation. A Yoruba man will be dissuaded from marrying an Igbo lady because of the tribal difference, endogamy is what is given a pride of place in the Nigerian state. Exogamy is being looked at with disdain. The of spirit, of Yoruba ness, Igboness, hausaness and fulaniness as disp...

Must Get The Beard.  You know, it's funny how of all things to ask God, the only thing I asked God as a kid was Beards. I just love them. As a kid and the last child of the family, I played with my father's beard a lot. It has this coarse feeling when he just had his bath and a silk feeling when he creamed it. I was so in love with it. Growing up, I couldn't wait to have one. Older boys in my area boasted of theirs from age 16 upward. When I was 10, I thought I had just 6 more years. But the funny part was my eldest brother was old enough to father me and I could just see just 18-20 strands of hair on his chin. My immediate elder brother seems to be very hairy and he was already in the beard gang by 14. This life itself is messed up. The super hairy brother of mine loathes his facial hair while my eldest brother wanted it as bad I I did. I gave up my search for beards when I have used almost every possible hairbooster; ready-made and hand-made, if you know what I ...

MY CHILDHOOD DREAM       Growing up for me was really fun and exiting because I was a smart,short,intelligent and "talkative" little girl. I could remember then that if you are with me and you are not careful, I  can talk you to "death" because being a little girl then, my words were always very fast that if you aren't listening well you'll hear just 20% out of 100% of things I'm telling and you not giving me attention is not gonna make me stop because I just enjoy speaking. That's why I'm now a loquacious babe though. #smiles      Few months back, I attended a seminar on how to manage ones identity crisis hosted by Mrs Rodiya Aderinoye-Ajiboye on a Saturday at her lounge and she was the speaker. Mehhnnn! If you don't know this woman, I'll advice you to check her Instagram page@Rodiyahtan and fb:Rodiat Aderinoye. She also ownes the village lounge and The village learning and care place. She is a motivational speaker and if you wanna know...

EDUCATION OF THE MIND --KOLADE OLAJIRE OLUWATIMILEHIN            An essential tool for a good training and development of the mind is EDUCATION which awolowo makes as the first cardinal programme of his socialist party.Whether in Africa,Asia, Russia or   America education and discipline of the mind are seen as essential to the improvement of the individual and of the society as a whole.An educated carpenter will be more efficient than an illiterate carpenter, and the same can be said of the farmers, builders, even traditional healers.           But more importantly,the education and training of the minds of those who aspire to leadership is absolutely essential, particularly the kind that is needed for the cultivation of mental magnitude.As awolowo himself suggests ,to make a success of governing the nation, Nigerian leaders should possess comprehension, mental magnitude and spiritua...

Sometimes, I wonder what the Nigerian youths go to do abroad, aside from the few who either by being sponsored or through scholarships go to study, all other things they do there remain unclear to me, but I am sure that whatever they do there develop wherever the country they find themselves. Once, while we were being mutual, whining and mocking each other, three of my friends when asked why they would love to leave the country, they replied back with 'why should we remain in Nigeria?' In fact, one of them said even it would be to 'pack shit' bathe the dead or do some rough shits, he would be more satisfied than working in Nigeria as a Master's degree holder. Whether it was just a joke or he meant it, there is a disinterest about Nigeria in his deep self. Many are the youths who would rather use their intelligence to defraud other people than use it to benefit Nigeria. I know this because many times, during open discussions with my peers, many of them would rat...

Jamb Take Heed After the first part of this article, I felt it was incomplete without talking about what happens when we start using the PPT. If we start using the PPT, there should be straight forward and upright marking. There should also be an opportunity the doubting students to call for their scripts. Also, we need to open our eyes to the fact that JAMB has outlived its existence. This is obvious in the sense that tertiary institution have set aside their own examination. The Post-UTME. The Post-UTME is just to check the ills of JAMB. There was a student years back who had 201 as her JAMB score and after writing her Post-UTME in the Premier University was the second best student in the Law department among those who sat for the exam. That is well above 300. It is now glaring that JAMB is being unfair. There is a Yoruba adage that says that "If we verbally assault the wife, we should out of impartiality rebuke the husband too". If JAMB decides to cruel to students, I thin...

JAMB TAKE HEED !!! Some years back, 2013 to be precise, there was mass deduction in the marks of candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. This propelled an aggrieved and infuriated teacher by the name Tola Bolaji, to write an article that was published in a national newspaper, titled JAMB CONSPIRACY. He wrote on how a national examination board conspired against their own students, hindering them from reaching their peak. This article and some others charged the board to reduce the cut-off mark to 180 that year. Now, three years after, almost the same scenario occurs. The Joint Admission Matriculation Board having introduced the Computer Based Test (CBT), has decided to use this opportunity to amass wealth by failing so many students so that they can sit for the exam the following year. Imagine a situation where a student studies at least eight hours a day, having it in mind to score well above 300 but when the result is revealed, he saw 182! Also, I saw t...

     What is essence? In short, essence is "A significant  feature of something or an idea" When we say high, high  means "rated thought, intention, determination or purpose to achieve an idea" Technical or technicalities can be said to mean "the state of specificity in something or ideas"      Considering the three elucidated terms, we can all decipher that "essence of high technicalities in writing" means " the significant feature of intentions or determinations in the state of specificity in/of ideas of/in writing " Taking a brief look at my definition of "essence of high technicalities in writing," we can see the main sole reason for writing is the idea of writing. Without an idea, I bet you that you'll have little or no reason to write. One thing is to have an essence of writing, another thing is to have the technicalities in writing, another thing is to have a determination in writing and it's another thing...

In essence, the concept is violence and and the fact that violence is violence makes it violence; made it effective and gave people a say to effect it even on the pride of our future, on our Treasures. Violence is always destructive and makes people go against the rule of justice in terms of their concept and orientation, though, it may be the background but the fact violence is an unneeded means of destructive justice. Some men are sentimental and illiterate criticals , some are moved by what they see; they can't control themselves, some are indebted to causing panic through the hard drinks they've been taking, some men has even lost there right senses and when it comes to bullying; it seems there senses are right whereas, they've lost it all. In the gender of feminism, they are often called the feeble mind, yes, so what is there offence, ( why will you punish a teen with rape?) note: in a parenthesized write. We're all born equally , that is a story that has...

There Is Something That Worth More Than It Seems by Akinwale Peace Akindayo( Philip Peace) . It was a special Olympics where handicapped children competed with tremendous dedication and enthusiasm. In 220-yard dash event,  contestants lined up at the starting line, and at the blast of the whistle, they all started running as fast as they could. Andrew quickly took the lead and as soon about 50 yards ahead of everybody else. As he approached the final turn, he looked back and saw his best friend had fallen and hurt himself on the track. Andrew stopped and looked at the finish line. People were hovering, "Run, Andrew, run." But he did not. Rather, he went back, helped his friend up and brushed off the dust from his body, and hand-in-hand, they crossed the finish line dead last. But as they did, the spectators cheered, because there are some things more important than winning. (Culled from Higher Everyday, July 16, 2016) . I shared this post because of the depth attach...

Religion is a bound or a tie that connects people or physical men to God or metaphysical beings. – Akinwale Peace Akindayo. However, historically, Africa was/is said to be full of notorious religious people, that is, "Africans are Notoriously Religious." This is quite sympathetic as it may seem and obviously, it is, but taking a sharp look at the old mode/mood of the phase/face in which religion was practiced, we'll see that the way it was worshipped or taken into practice is quite different to the present mode of worship, therefore, Religion is always new and said to be modern though the major content is not or never different, nevertheless, Religion is to be a Giant Whale that owns the sea, the Earth and the World in actual fact because the world revolves around Religion.            Obviously, Religion is a means of getting to know the true concept of prayer which is generally or lamely said to be a means of communicating to God. However, we ha...

Theoretically, we have this kind of different feeling about either of the creatures God created but practically, we'll see that women are the most talented and unaffordable treasure to man and the world in general. "Women are the wisest creatures that are made, that we can see, after God." It's like God gave them the ultimate power to do things that are unpredictable though they could be the will of God but trust me, when there is impossibilities, tell a woman, they'll make it possibilities. Mother Teresa Said, "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." This proves the essence of women's trust and perfect closeness to possibilities with God. There is one thing about being a woman. Women are gifted, they know they are but some are lacking in their responsibilities and that has proved many things wrong. Marie Curie said "we must believe that we are gifted for something, and t...

Life As A Market . Life is generally known as the period of living, a period of breathing from childhood/birth that surely precedes death. But I'll tell you that Life is a deck of card, it falls and fall, but we stand to make something from it. Life is a cursed mistress, if we don't make it happen, it will move our stand. We do different thing when it comes to buying and selling. We have talents, God's given gift...but how can we journey through this world while we are alive without buying and selling this? No, we don't buy and sell talents or gifts, we Share and Discover talents and gifts. Life is a market, how well have you used what you have to impact and help others? Douglas Adams said, "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." Can you beat your chest and say I've helped and shared, also helped others in discovering themselves? This is what life is all about, that is what living is centered on...

Punctuations Are The Emotions Of Poetry by Akinwale Peace . "Little things can drive emotions to bigger things, widest experiences and superfluous feelings". Punctuation is one of those things that refine poetry, to me, punctuation in poetry is " the arrangement of feelings or thought in/with concept/content of an art work". Let's take for an example: It was dusk when the dark was light I had a feeling, 'twas quite tight I was surprised 'twas a plight And I swam in the ocean of my sight. And It was dusk, when the dark was light, I had a feeling, 'twas quite tight. I was surprised, 'twas a plight, And, I swam, in the ocean of my sight. Read the two poems considering the punctuations, if you read with the pace of punctuation in the second poem, you'll feel the poet, the feelings circled with the content, you'll have that kind of emotional pace in terms of the exact message the writer is trying to pass across. That is how punctuations ...

Maybe Beautiful People Are Ugly. "Natural aestheticism is the Best definition of beauty." I saw a picture of a lady, I love appreciating people and it really go a long way from me to people; it gives them boldness and courage to keep it 'on' and it gives me this kind of assurance that I've helped someone in trusting himself/herself.  I saw her image, she's a contestant... I celebrated her with words and I think an average dullard would be really happy -that- someone had clear sight of her beauty and opt to vote for her in an appreciative way but unfortunately, she said 'fnx' to the weight of adjectives I used to qualify her quality, and that was all she said; that shows the degree of being blind to the essence of appreciation. Not too long, a boss of mine typed and I quote "I'm disappointed a writer is carried adrift by the superficial beauty. True beauty is internal.  Image : Google Have you forgotten what David Hume, a Philosopher sa...

How To Improve Your Writing Skills. how to become a better writer. Often time, writers find it hard to create emotion in the heart of their readers because they found it hard to bring out the mystery and mastery in themselves. It is not gain saying that writing is truly not a simple thing, yet, it pose an easy resolution and encodes a simple task to those that take it as one. I.e, if you take writing as a simple task, so be it. And if you take it as a deal with much ado, you'll find it difficult than it is. Writing isn't 'just' about putting words together, it is about putting (mysterious) emotions and perhaps, 'unrelating' emotions to create interpretations for the present and everyday living. The course/cause for writing doesn't reside in how the writer writes, it solely depends on the writer and what he wants to share with the reader. Constructively, how writers write is also considered but the message is the most preeminent and it...