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Push

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You see this life? There's (in it) so much bitterness, hate, anger... So many feelings of disappointment, lacking, lagging... Dashed hopes, betrayals, frustration, aches... Despite these 👆 Do well to take a deep breath smile and hit the gym, see a movie, dance, read a chapter from a book_ any good book, learn something new, write something (a paragraph or more), go swimming, take yourself on a treat and come home with a gift for your very own self... Encourage yourself to keep pushing and Congratulate yourself for pushing so far. Don't let the pressures of today's work rob you off the little joy there is in life and living. _Jeremiah Kadiri   

Fatal Flaw

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Social Media Influencer: to say that I'm proud of Little Success is an understatement. I cannot possibly measure the level of elation I feel to know that kids like these are out there. This is a call on all Nigerians to support her course and ensure that she gets the best education there is. For this, I will donate the sum of 20k to her. Please share this until it gets to her/her parents/relatives. She deserves all the help she can get... Blah blah blah... comments 1.5k.                            Likes 5.1k Meanwhile, your sister (who happens to be a single mother) has not been able to pay her son's tuition fees for some days and you've never asked why Junior hasn't been going to school. Perhaps you enjoy sending the poor child on errands as big Sis/big Bros. Your househelp does not have good clothes to wear but you've got a heap of clothes you'll never use again. Street kids litter the area looking malnourished but you chase them off your apartment with k

REAL TALK

I'll try to not impress you with words not because I don't want to entertain you with same but because the message herein is to be ingested and ruminated over without some forms of distraction. life has taught me something no one is taught in the forewalls of the academia. This is the simple fact that 'the very person, object, being, situation that tries to PULL you DOWN is usually below you.' hold on a second to run your mind through the key words in the aforementioned. you'll realise that to 'pull down', one must be under/below that which is being pulled. Not surprising too is the fact that no matter how highly placed in status, wealth and affluence the puller is, s/he is usually below what they try to pull down down (one way or the other). Herein, lots of people (neighbours, friends, family members and so on) will have (justifiable) reasons to want to pull you down. Yes! the word 'justifiable' is justified in this context for the fact that

don't vote

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I'll not attempt to bore you with too many wordings. So before you start thinking #jeyKAD has gone crazy, here (in no particular order) are reasons to not vote. Feel free to criticize constructively. Don't Vote that candidate whose manifesto is riddled with blames, pointing out the flaws of the other candidate(s). Don't vote that candidate who sees nothing good with previous and current regimes. Don't vote that candidate who thinks he/she (alone) is or has all it takes to make Nigeria work. Don't vote that candidate whose only campaign strategy is to expose the loopholes in other candidates' manifesto. Don't vote that candidate who does not know what it feels like not to be able to pay tuition fees, buy kero, petrol and other basic needs. That candidate who does not know what it feeIs like to be hungry and driven out of one's home by flood, insurgency and other forms of disaster. Don't vote that candidate who does not know how it f

Decide

When the chips are down When my dreams drown When all is unwell When life is a living hell When there's none to call When the sun seem to fall when my strength breaks When all my fears seem to wake When no one sees me When even I disbelieve me when my sins begin to kill me When my kin won't lift me When life seem a lie When death is a sure route to take When I'm jeered at for a good laugh when it seem like too much to take I remember I remember I remember that I've chosen the wrong side That I've lived in self pity That for too long have I craved for sympathy That now as always I can decide which side to take I tell myself to not let the man in mirror Sulk and wallow in pains Never to feel inferior For I must choose between pity and gains. __ Jeremiah Enaholo A. Kadiri                    06/08/018

Is Half Bread Better than None?

Call me insatiable, I'll agree. But you too must agree it's a sentiment we all share_ as humans. NLC and her sister organizations have done well abi? I don't think so! To me, I smell the 'Oshio' game on display. What is Oshio game? It is an effective method of gaining political relevance in the guise that you are fighting for the people's course. Yes! Na me talk am. The leadership of NLC must prove me wrong. How? Let's put in perspective who a worker is_ one who does a job and is entitled to his/her wage on a certain agreed date/time. By this, everyone who earns salary/allowances at the end of the month (in Nigeria) falls under the umbrella of the term in view. Oga Ayuba should now push further and make moves to help facilitate a motion for a wholistic review of the wage system of our country. As an ordinary Nigerian, there are some questions I'd like to put forward: 1. Who determines what Presidents, Governors, Senators, Reps, Governors, LG c

ALWAYS REMEMBER

When the chips are down When my dreams drown When all is unwell When life is a living hell When there's none to call When the sun seem to fall when my strength breaks When all my fears seem to wake When no one sees me When even I disbelieve me when my sins begin to kill me When my kin won't lift me When life seem a lie When death is a sure route to take When I'm jeered at for a good laugh when it seem like too much to take I remember I remember I remember that I've chosen the wrong side That I've lived in self pity That for too long have I craved for sympathy That now as always I can decide which side to take I tell myself to not let the man in mirror Sulk and wallow in pains Never to feel inferior For I must choose between pity and gains. __ Jeremiah Enaholo A. Kadiri                    06/08/018