On The Need to Impress

Hi guys, 

It's been a while, right? We've been on holidays, long vacation, summer break, whichever you wish to call it. I've holiday makers over at my place and it's been chaos and fun and more chaos. I love it, most times; other times I wish to have my fairly-cool house back, 😁. Anyway, it's almost over and life will go back to normal very soon, but it's been super fun having a full house for the past one month.

Are We All Hypocrites?

You know why I feel I'm not the best person to ask for advice, especially on life-related issues? I'd most likely do things differently if I were really in your shoes, different from the advice I'd give you. Now, does that make me a hypocrite? I don't know, but let's look at it.

Screenshots: The Bane of our Generation?

So, there's an ongoing drama on the Nigeria Social Media space (there is always one of those anyway), involving a young man and a young woman. The young man alleged that he contacted a certain Nigerian girl with a large number of followers on Facebook to help promote his blog on her Facebook wall; however, the conversation, according to him, took a rather drastic turn from business discussion to a sex-chat. He released screenshots of the alleged conversation where the girl requested his nude picture in exchange for helping him promote his blog. The girl in question have also released her own version of the screenshots of the conversation, and they are way different from what the young man released, with no sexual requests whatsoever. Hmmmm...

While We Clap and Cheer

The newspapers' headlines this morning screamed of the bloodbath that took place yesterday in a Catholic church in Ozubulu, Anambra State in the South Eastern part of Nigeria, where gunmen drove into the church, opened fire on the 6 a.m Mass worshippers, killing about 11 and wounding about 18 (the numbers vary, depending on the source). The whole community and entire state was left in shock, and the ensuing panic and propaganda could be imagined.

Unhealthy Competition

While we focus our attention on the rising number of rape cases we read and hear of, and teaching our children ways to avoid getting molested, as well as instilling decency in them so they do not become the molesters and rapists, I feel we should also bring another thing to the fore: Unhealthy competition/rivalry.