November 14, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 7


Dave was at home throughout that day, had a good rest that day since he didn’t go to the shop of his uncle. When the daughters of Mrs Chioma returned from school they were shocked to meet him at home because their mother and Dave always were always at the shop except on Saturdays that their mother stays home with them and Dave alone went to the shop. 
Jane and Janet were both in SS3 in school, Jane was in the Art class while Janet was in the Sciences, they were so good in their studies although both of them were the youngest in their various classes, although been 14 years old they still were smart and behaved so matured among their classmates.
Brother, good afternoon they both greeted him in unison as they hugged him.
Hey ladies! How are you both doing and how was school today?
School today was fine but why are you at home today, Jane asked been the most outspoken among the two daughters of Mrs Chioma.
Well, nothing really Jane, just felt to be at home today, he lied. They were both not convinced with the answer they got but just accepted it because they were definitely going to ask their mum whenever she returns from the shop. They ate their meal, rested a bit and left for the evening lesson they do have very close to their house, which lasted two hours every day except on Sundays that they don’t go for lessons.
Mrs Chioma returned from the shop that day earlier than the 5 pm that she normally returns home. She was a bit moody and immediately she entered, she made her way straight to her room. Dave greeted her but she responded coldly and left to her room. It was after few hours of rest, which was cut short by her daughters who returned from their lesson class.
Good evening mummy, they both greeted her as they both sat beside their mum on her bed.
Good evening my beautiful daughters, how was school today and your lessons?
Fine and good, just lots of assignments which must be submitted tomorrow.
Well, that’s a nice my daughters, assignments will go a long way to assist you in reading and also seeing that in few months time you both will be writing your Waec, just sad that I did not have the opportunity of going to school. 
mummy, please don’t start this your regrets again Janet said to her, it's not your fault that you were unable to go to school but be thankful to God that has helped you and daddy to have the finances to send us to school and even a good school for that matter. Many didn’t have the opportunity of going to school and even no finances to train their own children in school, so Mummy cheer up, your case is not the worst, we will make you proud Jane added and gave her mum a peck on the forehead.
But Mummy I observed something today, Jane told her mum, how do you mean my daughter?
Brother Dave was at home today and you also came back too early unlike usual, what’s the issue mummy? 
Girls its nothing at all, all is well my daughters she told them but they insisted that all was not well and needed their mum to say what the matter was.
She told them all what happened that morning that morning, not long she finished telling her daughters what happened, Dave entered the room, apologized to her uncle’s wife. 
What happened next? Get that in the next episode

Episode 8 Coming soon 

October 16, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 6


The blackmail Episode 6

Mrs Chioma had to go to the shop alone that day since Dave refused to go to the shop and his looks was not a happy one to be at the shop after the slap she gave to him unexpectedly. Few minutes after she left the house, Dave called his father’s line severally but he refused to pick up his calls.
Mr Peter was still furious and angry at the way his son responded to him on phone. It looked so strange and unthinkable that his son could shout at him. He couldn’t go to his shop neither did he allow the young boy that was assisting him in the shop to open the shop.
He sat down boiling in thoughts, tapping his right foot on the floor and trying to get over the shock he just got from his son. He was in deep thought when his wife who went to the farm returned. Greeted him twice but Mr Peter appeared like a blank sheet in an examination hall. His wife needed to tap him on his shoulder and he jerked out of his thought like a bird that escaped from the nest.
My husband, you look so worried, who offended you and why at home by this time of the day instead to be at your shop? Mrs Peter asked her husband with great concern.
Woman! Don’t husband me at all at all, I am not in the mood to talk to anyone now, just go into the house and leave me alone!
Mrs Peter still pressured the husband to know what actually went wrong to the point of him being furious with her after several years of both of them being married.
Is it not this stupid son of yours that has turned to something else that he has gotten to the city and now has the nerves and audacity to shout at his father on phone and even giving me a warning.
 His wife replied calmly in defence of his son, my son is not stupid and I know my son can’t do such a thing to his father. I believe there might have been something that came up or maybe part of his plans to get the woman’s trust. I think we should call him on phone, but did he call you back? Mrs Peter asked her husband.
Yes, he called severally but I was not ready to talk to a son that has suddenly grown wings within few months of leaving his father’s house and now could shout at his father on phone. That is not the way out of this situation, Mrs Peter told her husband as she picked up her husband’s phone to call her son Dave.
Her son picked up the call almost immediately as though he has been waiting for his father’s call to come in.
Dave: hello daddy, I am sorry, let me explain.
Mrs Peter: It's your mum. How are you my son, I believe you are fine, and what is this am hearing from your dad?
Dave: I am fine mummy; I can explain what actually happened. I shouted on dad on phone in the presence of aunty Chioma this morning after she told me how dad has been hash towards her whenever she called, with the intention of behaving like one by her side since dad and uncle James has turned hostile towards her and also to win her trust the more.
Mrs Peter: Wow! that’s my son, I told your dad that you are not a stupid son but that something must have brought up that idea of you shouting at him, you need to speak to your dad now. He is with me here.
She handed the phone over to her husband to speak with Dave.
Mr Peter: yes young man, what prompted that foolish attitude of yours some hours ago?
Dave: As I explained to mum, that idea came to me with the intention of winning her trust more and if I had told you initially, you could have acted too calmly that’s why I shouted on you when she told me this morning that you and uncle James were been too hash to her. Although, I collected a slap from her for been disrespectful to my father.
 Mr Peter: That is a nice one my son, but I was almost scared that you may have changed your mind towards the mission that took you to her house. But do well to apologize to her when she returns in the evening to avoid making her have some disbelieve about you.
Dave: I will do as you have said daddy, everything is under control here with me, so do not bother yourself, the plan will be executed smoothly.
Have a nice day, his father said and hung up the call.
Mr Peter and his wife stared at each other and laughed so loud. My son is becoming a real crook, Mr Peter said.
Yes of cause, he is following the footsteps of his father, his wife responded in laughter as she made her way to the kitchen

EPISODE 7

October 11, 2017

I AM SORRY IS A PAINLESS REBUILDER

I am sorry, my friend


















I am sorry! I am sorry! I am sorry!
The above is not strange to anyone including a child but there comes a lot of questions with the above: When you say “I am sorry”, do you really mean it that you are sorry. Do you take actions that will justify the claim of been sincerely sorry or it’s just mere words of the mouth?
Many conflicts and intertribal problems would have been resolved without any crash of power but due to pride, people see it as a humiliation to say sorry to someone they have wronged or someone they feel they did not wrong in any way. Nevertheless, the truth of the matter is that saying sorry has resolved some wars and reconciled homes, relations and nations.
If peace must, therefore be in the land, then there must be people who are and must be ready to say sorry whenever they go wrong or even when they are right just to calm the rage of the other person
Saying “I am sorry” does not change your identity, neither does it show that you are a weak person, in fact, that is a great strength because you just calmed an angry man with it and peace in that relationship was restored.
Learn to say sorry even to people you are older than including your children, don’t claim to a father or mother, and you make use of that opportunity to oppress your kids and shout at them because you are their parents rather than be humble to say “my child I am sorry”.
As a boss in the office, for you to have a great respect and cordial relationship between you and your subordinates then you must learn to say sorry if you discover your wrong or your wrong is being found out by the person under you. It does not reduce you as their boss but it makes your subordinates to be very friendly and free with you. This will create room for great improvement because due to your freeness with them they can easily bring up ideas that will keep your company going or try to share with you some useful steps to take that may want to crash down the growth of the company. A little sorry has added more to your safety and taking you away from failure.
As a religious leader in the church or mosque or any gathering that relates with the worship of God, do you try to assume the most-perfect person without mistakes? That’s not true, only God is the perfect being, as long as you are still a human, you are bound to still make mistakes, making a mistake is not a crime but do you accept your mistakes when it is made known to you. Saying sorry does not dethrone you from that great height and position that you are occupying. Learn to say sorry sir and ma.
Go, say sorry to that person you have offended, that good friend of yours that your relationship has grown sour because of pride of not being willing to be the first to say sorry. Go back to that your fiancĂ©e or hubby, reconcile.  Be a peace restorer by saying that sorry. Bear the blame if you really value that friendship or relationship that has been broken down by your pride.
Sorry has power, it's a builder and restorer.  Say it out loud and restore peace in the mist of that crises.

October 02, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 5

The blackmail Episode 5











The following week Dave travelled to his uncle’s house at Okoko, which was about two hours journey from his father’s house. The two hours journey has seen to be day’s journey due to the traffic jam that is been experienced almost in the whole cities of Lagos State on a daily basis. Dave was joyful that he was moving to a new environment but at the same time felt sad because he was on a mission for destruction and not for peace.
At arrival, Mrs Jackson and her two daughters welcomed him warmly into their house. He felt the love of a family and the love he had missed not having younger siblings, as Jane and Janet always kept him busy before he started going to work at his uncle’s business centre. They lived so happily in the house and he learned things quickly at the business place of his uncle.
It came to a point that he thought of calling his father on phone to inform him that he had no more interest again in the evil plans he came to execute due to the love he has received. However, at intervals, the thought of being rich always beclouded his thoughts over having a good name and being good.

Three months later
Mr Peter, on the other hand, was worried over his son’s reluctance in not executing the plans as quickly as earlier agree before he left for Okoko and this made him so angry with Mrs Jackson that he now shouts on phone whenever he called Mrs Jackson
This woman must have charmed my son. I knew it that this woman will change and now that change has affected my son that he no longer calls me as he did when he got to Okoko newly. I need to do something urgently before this gets out of hand, Mr Peter reasoned within himself.

At Mrs Resident

Dave sit down we need to talk.
I hope all is well Aunty? Dave asked
All is not well Dave
Why have your father and his brother become so hateful toward me and everything I do, and this has been on for long now ever since you came here although I decided to keep everything away from you, but now its getting me really tired.
Aunty, you should have told me about their attitude change towards you long before now!
Aunty, don’t mind them, just focus on yourself and let them be. I am always here for you. They can be angry but can't-do anything evil to you.
I am even calling my dad now to warn him Dave said to Mrs Jackson
Please don’t do that to avoid more problems and shouting on phone. But Dave insisted on calling his father.

Hello Daddy! Good morning son
Daddy nothing is good about this morning, why have you and uncle James decided to make life miserable for Uncle’s wife?
Son, what has come over you? Are you becoming stupid or something? Remember am still your father.
And so what! daddy?
 Hey things have spoilt oh, look at my son of yesterday shouting at his father just because he travelled to Okoko
Mrs Jackson collected the phone from Dave in haste and gave him a resounding slap that echoed like the fire service siren when there is an emergency fire outbreak.
Aunty, why did you slap me? Dave asked with a shivering voice.
Yes! I slapped you because you don’t talk to your father in such manner no matter what he has done.
And one more word from you again, Dave I will slap you again and you will leave this house.
Dave angrily left the sitting home and went into his room.


What happened next?
READ EPISODE 6

September 26, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 4

The Blackmail Episode 4








Mr Peter and his son were done eating and were walking down to the furniture shop.
 Daddy I think is better if we sell off the business, the house and move out of Lagos to another city rather than taking over it forcefully. We may endanger our lives and risk being caught by the police so easily.
That is a good idea, his father; Mr Peter nodded his head in acceptance.
When I get to there, I will behave nice and then try to gain access to all needed documents of the house and business.
Wow! Mr Peterson exclaimed. My son, your head is really at work, great idea!

Ha daddy, are you trying to say my head has not been working ever since you gave birth to me?
He tapped him and said that’s not what I mean Son, I meant to say that the ideas coming from you are really great ones and will really assist to execute the peacefully without any trace.
Mr Peter called James the following day on phone to inform him about the concluded plans with his Son Dave and that he will inform Mr Jackson’s wife about Dave coming to stay with them and helping in the business.

At Mrs Jackson’s resident

Her phone rang once and she picked it up
Good morning my in-law Mrs Jackson greeted.
How are you doing my wife and your two daughters?
We are fine just missing my late husband and the business he left behind I can’t handle it alone as a woman….. Sobbing
Stop crying, you just have to be strong. Your daughters will need your strength for them to be strong too.
You still have his brothers around and for the business; you don’t really need to worry much.
I have discussed with my Son Dave and my brother Mr James, for my Son to come over to assist in the business since he is my only child.
But, how will you cope in the shop since he has been assisting you for three years now? Mrs Jackson asked with much concern in her tune
That should not bother you, I have made plans for a boy that will come to assist me and besides it will not be proper bringing in a stranger to stay with you and your daughters, that’s why I thought my son is the best person to fit in the assistance.
Thank you so much, my in-law, I am so grateful for the concern you have shown me since the death of my husband. God bless you.
It's nothing my wife, you are my younger’s wife and I will do anything and everything to make you happy.
Am grateful sir, so when is he coming over to assist in the business because ever since returned from the burial I have been at home always.
By next week, he will come over Mr Peter responded.
Thank you so much, sir, greet your wife for me. She will definitely receive your greetings Mr Peter replied as they bade each other goodbye and ended the call.
Hahaha! Mr Peter laughed, “The calmness of a Scorpion when it is resting does not mean it’s harmless”
She will feel the scorpion sting very soon; he said to himself and laughed mischievously again.


September 23, 2017

WHO ARE YOU?

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Who are you, friend?













The above question is very common to you and I. Every one of us must have come across it at one point in time or the other ever since we grew up and started having the sense of reasoning.
Am so sure you must have come across two people in a serious quarrel section advancing to the next stage of a fight and you get to hear “Who are you” at intervals. In addition, if you have ever gotten to a police or military checkpoint at odd hours you get to hear the same question. We can then firmly come to a point of unison that the above question is a means of identifying who a person is or what a person is stuffed of.
I now ask you, who are you?
I am not trying to ask for your name but for your personality. Answering the son or daughter of a governor or a highly placed person is nice but far better if you really understand whom you are beyond the name recognition.
However, in case you do not know who you are or what God deposited in you right from creation that you should be, then hear me and hear me clearly. God did not waste his time during creation to create a fool or a nobody. Yes, I understand that the situations around you and the people you associate with have given you a tag “NO-BODY” due to how hopeless you may appear to them.  Your situation might have given you a new name and covered your real identity. That does not stop what God has made you be from creation.
Yes, everything in the now might be moving in the opposite direction and you are beginning to come to terms with the accolade “Good-For-Nothing”. No sir! No ma! you are not a good for nothing person. You are good for something. Go ahead, discover the greatness in you, and do a harnessing of your strength.

September 20, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 3

The Blackmail Episode 3








Dave is the son and only child of Mr. Peter, he had no opportunity of furthering his education after his WAEC three years back because of the high cost of going to the university. He had to join his father in the furniture work he was doing so as not to idle away at home.
Dave! Dave! Mr. Peter called out to his son who was outside the shop chatting with some friends who work in the same area his father’s shop was located.
Yes daddy, Dave answered from outside. Start bringing in the furniture into the shop because it’s getting late already and there is an important discussion I need to have with you when we get home.
Ok, daddy let me start immediately.
An hour later, they were back at home and were done eating.
Dave lets go outside and talk about what I earlier informed you of at the shop.
Ok daddy, Dave responded as he went in, to bring out two seats.
Now Dave, as I earlier told you at the shop this evening, there is something I  need to tell you about and it involves you in a great way as my only child.
What is it daddy, Dave asked with a surprised look and a mixed feeling.
If you remember, my late brother had plans to start up a business for you before his death.
Yes dad, I remember, Dave responded in the affirmative.
But since he is late now, that dream may be dashed in pieces. So there is a new plan we need to take so we don’t remain in suffering. Although my younger brother was helpful to us while he was alive.
What is the plan daddy? Dave asked.
The plan now is to take over the business of my late brother and take over his wealth forcefully from that his so-called wife

September 17, 2017

STEP UP AND MOVE ON

JUST MOVE ON









A man's most loved donkey fell into a deep pit early hours of a faithful Tuesday. He tried everything within his capability to bring out the donkey but regardless of how hard he tried, his effort yielded no positive result.
The best he could do was to bury the donkey in the pit and move on: but little did he know that it was a way of getting the donkey out of the pit.
The more soil he poured onto the donkey from above the pit, the donkey feels the heap on its body, shakes it off, and climbs higher. As the man continued in his effort to cover up the donkey by pouring more soil into the pit, the donkey keeps coming out.
The more the heap of soil was poured, the higher it rose. By two hours later, the donkey was touching the surface of the earth and the man was glad that his donkey was out of the pit.
Dear reader, your life might be likened to that donkey in the above story that life has so battered and kept in a pit of hopeless and pains. It’s as though there is no way out and you are almost been buried in life’s storm and rising tides. The pit could be very deep, dreary and dark, and no rays of light for a bright future. Your every day might have been coming up with dark moments of rejection and loneliness.

September 14, 2017

CREATE THAT IMPACT, YOU ARE NEEDED!

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Be impactful 












From my previous article titled “common sense is not common but scarce,” I ended that piece by asking few questions and the last one is what I will dwell on in this article: Can you be the change that the world needs? If you missed it, you can get it here COMMON SENSE IS NOT COMMON
Change is been believed to be a constant thing in life although this constant change could be either positive or negative depending on who is involved in effecting that change.
The greatest man/woman on earth is not always the strongest (in terms of physical strength) but the most impactful person. A legend is a person whose life and times on earth still rings like a volcanic eruption from the archive of history until in the now. The impact of either the negative or the positive is both creating impacts. However, the question is “WHAT IMPACT ARE YOU CREATING?”
Of recent, I stopped the constant wishing of “Happy birthdays” on Facebook except those really close to me who may want to feel I hate them that is why I didn’t wish them a happy birthday.
What is happy about your birthday? Oh! I am not ungrateful to God who has kept you alive oh but aside been alive, what else are you contributing to life? Yes God added one more year to you but I want to really ask, the ones He has been adding before, of what use has it been to humanity, people around you and to God who added the years?
Sorry if am trying to sound harsh here. Am not against the birthday celebration, in fact, my 25th birthday comes up in mid-October. It is not about me been 25 (silver jubilee) but has my been alive really added any silver strips to the life of anyone?. Are mine really contributing anything to humanity or destroying the impact created by others.
Sir/ma, you are celebrating, close to celebrating or have celebrated the Silver jubilee (25 years celebration) or golden jubilee (50 years celebration) of your life but has your life really added any silver or gold to other’s life and humanity? I have decided not to live a no-body kind of life, at least my life should encourage someone, I should make someone happy, and I should make someone improve. Someone should look at me and say, I am here today because he encouraged me, he prayed for me, rebuked me from doing evil. Yes! that’s what I want! not just counting age and not be useful and resourceful.
You hide your age from people, what is so special about your age? Ok fine, hide your age but can you let us see the impact you have created so far? Your age is just a number; let’s see the value of that number. Stop counting age and start counting impact!
When God created man, he gave man four major assignments to do on earth in Genesis 1 vs. 27 -28.
·        Been fruitful
·        Multiplicative ability
·        Replenishing and
·        Subduing the earth
There was no room for subtraction from the earth’s value but rather been in a state of contributing. Therefore, I think the world needs your own input. Yes, I know we are all patiently waiting to die and go to heaven where there are joy and happiness but may I also inform you that the bible that is guiding you to heaven is but the impactful works that God did through men and with men.
Don’t die a nonentity, God did not waste His precious time to create a fool that will just waste time on earth but he took out his time to wonderfully create you. The world needs your contribution. You are important and useful. Add possible values to lives before your death.

it's time to know WHO ARE YOU?


September 11, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 2

The Blackmail Episode 2












The news of her husband’s death came as a shocker to her; she could not believe the news until she saw his body part almost in pieces at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital Mortuary. Her tears knew no restrictions, the pains were almost beyond that of a woman in the deliverer room grasping for the last strength to put to birth.
 Are mine in the world for pains only? Oh God why must it be death all the time, Why not just sickness, so I could have someone to call my husband? Oh! death you are wicked and inconsiderate at my plight right from birth!
Several questions choked her reasoning but no answer seems coming forth to settle her bundle of questions.
Her world came crashing down. The man who showed her love was gone. Her elder brother who catered for her while she was younger also died in an accident two years back leaving behind the wife and her son.
James and Peter her husband’s brothers suddenly turned to her enemies a month after the death and the burial of their brother. She could not place the reason for the turned aggression against her after their brother’s death and burial.
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One week after the burial
James was in his house when his elder brother Peter visited him early hours of a Monday morning.
Brother, good morning James greeted.
Morning James, Peter responded with a beam of smile written over his face.
Today must be a blessed day for me seeing my elder this early morning in my house with great joy written over his face that even the blind could see the joy through their blind eyes.

September 07, 2017

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 1

The Blackmail Episode 1









Mrs. Jackson’s resident looked so quiet and calm that Monday evening. Its quietness was the ripple effect of poverty that has ravaged her and her two daughters: Jane and Janet. Life was in disarray, comfort to her seem outdated and no longer a word that could ever come to reality again. The darkness seems brighter than the light, the trees could feel her crying. The whole of nature seems to be against her and her daughters. Relatives were a no-go area since they were the architect of her current predicament. She wondered whom she offended in the whole-wide-world that life was so painful, mean and unbearable.
Mrs. Jackson lost her husband two days before the 15th birthday of her twin daughters, Jane and Janet: almost at the same age, she lost her own parents. Her husband was a wealthy and generous business person although limited by his level of Education. He could not go beyond primary school owing to the fact it was the highest educational qualification his father could give to him. Been a determined person he took a decision that affected his sense of reasoning and his thought line. Although he had two elder brothers who were lazy and not ready to think of a way out of the clinches of poverty and starvation, he still made up his mind to be different from them.
 He decided that he was never going to be poor in life like his parents, who could afford him only primary school certificate and he would do his best to ensure that his children attained the highest level of educational qualification in life but little did he know that, the cold hands of death would crush the dream.

September 06, 2017

Common Sense Is Not Common But Scarce!

     
common sense is not common in any way

When I see some behavior and response of people at some point, I wonder what their state of reasoning is made up of. You wonder why they skip so low to do certain things that their senses ordinarily should have told them it ought not to be so and I came to a valid conclusion that COMMON SENSE is scarce and not common.
Often times you must have heard people say, “you ought to have used your COMMON SENSE”, COMMON SENSE should teach you this or that. I then decided to study and make a deep search if the particular sense that regarded as been common is in essence worthy of the accolade “common”.
Common sense from the dictionary meaning says: it’s an internal or inbuilt sense, believed to be the sense by which information from the five senses is clearly understood and given an interpretation. Another definition puts it this way as an “ordinary sensible understanding which allows plain understanding and without which a good/sensible decision can’t be made.
The definitions above tends to be contrary to our society today because men have devised several wrong mentality and approach to life issues, rendering common sense that has been given to us by God to be of non-effect in the application. The sense is actually regarded as common; meaning is not expensive or it’s free of charge but yet it is lacking in men and women in the society today and that’s the reason for disorderliness, maltreatment, a breakdown of law and order.
 It is lack of this common sense that has made the political class so insensible to the plights of the common person in the society. The absence of this common sense makes a politician cart away several millions of public funds into private pockets thereby making the masses bedridden in poverty, lack and starvation and no one have the authority to question them because of fear. They save for several generations unborn but the masses who voted them into power are suffering.

August 17, 2017

CHEAP DATA BUNDLE @POSSIBILITY CONCEPT NIGERIA


Affordable data bundle and can last up to 3 months, please read patiently while I give you a few details.
On possibility concept, you can buy data bundle, recharge,  send bulk sms, pay bills like dstv subscription , and you can do it for yourself and also for others. You can transfer money to any bank in Nigeria from this platform too. But, I will dwell more on the data bundle because that’s only were you can get more benefits
You can get 500mb for 350, 1gig for 650, 2gig for 1200 for mtn and lower in other networks and the truth of it is that it is valid for up to 3 months of purchase, Very true because that’s what I have been using for some months now and decided to tell you about it
FOR REGISTRATION 
If you click on this link  https://www.clubkash.com/possibilities/Register.asp it will take you to the registration page as in the picture below where your full name, phone number, and password is required.




After registration, you will be taken to your home page that looks like this



Then you can move on to start buying data bundle and other stuffs.
You can deposit money into your wallet online by using any of the following means of payment in this image


But more advisable, make payment using your master or verve card online, you don’t need to be afraid that they will steal your money and all that, I have been using it for some months now and no regret using it, or if you think it’s a fraud then check my facebook account to know my kind of person, MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT

Another means is by transfer of credit but that one may not be that advisable. And this means works only for Mtn and Etisalat users.
The advantage of deposit using your atm card is that you buy for others as well but for transfer of credit, it can only work for the lines that were registered and that's the line you will get the data on.


August 01, 2017

What you dont know is bigger than you

I have a little story to tell,
Few days ago, i was trying to work on the chapter two of my project work as a final year student. Suddenly my laptop began to misbehave that I will switch it on and within 10 to 20 minutes it goes off on its own.
For several days I was managing that though feeling a bit feed up about my laptop tripping off on its on accord. I had to consult friends who had idea about computers, some said it was virus that I should get an antivirus, I collected a new one  but it continued, others suggested I format my laptop but due to the important documents and files I had in it I refused that idea until others said it was a process issue and I gave it to some one and over night it came back to normal.
Lessons to learn from my story above.
1 in life we should never assume to know everything, but rather we should be willing to hear from others even if you have an idea about it.
2 everybody is very important.
3 Be slow to take certain actions in life until you are certain that the action will not fire back at you.
4 learn from people no matter the level you have achieved in life.
5 Have people around you that will help you get solutions to your problem rather than adding more problems.
6 Explain your problem properly to those concern because people may not always know what you are going through until you give a right explanation.
7 Be humble to learn from people because pride goes before a fall, if I had decided not to ask any one, I will only get more frustrated.
From the above, we can clearly see that what you don't know is greater than you and if not ready to talk to people with solution you will remain stagnated at that point thereby slowing down your achievements and impart.
Don't ever feel ignorant over what you don't know but have a willingness to learn what is greater than you.

Take The Decision Now

Its been said failure to plan is equivalent to planing to fail likewise one's decision or indecision has effect on a person or a thing.
Procrastination has been a major

Time

Time is the interval between one event and the other.

July 28, 2017

True Greatness

God made you great — incredibly great, far greater than you yet comprehend. I’m not saying this to pander to your self-esteem. I’m stating a fact — a fact that you, unless you’re the rare exception, vastly underappreciate because you’re so conditioned to value the wrong kind of greatness.
The greatness we’re conditioned to value is hardly great at all. In fact, much of it is smoke and mirrors. And when there is a trace of greatness, it is pathetically small.
Jesus came to deliver us from the blinding and impoverishing power of counterfeit or tiny greatness, and to restore to us both our true God-like greatness and our expansive capacities to enjoy it with God-like, gargantuan humility.

Towering Greatness

You barely have a clue what an absolutely astounding creature you are. That thing inside your skull allowing you to read and contemplate what I’m saying is the most complex, mysterious thing in the known material universe. Your brain, as defective as it might be, is simply breathtaking — more amazing than any star or galaxy.
Your capacities to reason abstractly; solve complex problems through deduction, induction, and invention; organize disorder; plan for the future; understand verbal, written, gestured, and tactile languages; appreciate the subtleties of irony; find discontinuity humorous; and enjoy the manifold beauties of harmony and dissonance, symmetry and asymmetry, color and pattern combinations are nothing short of marvelous genius.
Your capacities for visual, auditory, olfactory, somatosensory (touch, feel, pressure, warmth), and emotional memory are so wonderful we lack adequate superlatives.
And your emotional capacities to love and hate, to worship and despise, to cherish and grieve, to create and destroy, and for joy and sorrow are so far beyond any other known material species that to say, as a human, you are in a league of your own is an astronomical understatement.
You are truly God-like. You, just as you are, possess a greatness so rare and astonishing that could you see yourself for what you really are, most of your chronic battles with inadequacy would disappear.

Tiny Greatness

And yet it’s likely this description of your greatness, of which I’ve barely scratched the surface, does not impress you much. Why? Because you and I have been deceived about what greatness is. We’ve become conditioned to admire tiny greatness.
Tiny greatness is relative greatness — greatness defined and measured by comparison with other people. It’s not enough to possess God-given greatness; we must be greater than other great people or it doesn’t really matter.
Our sin nature is pathologically selfish and replaces God with the self as the standard of greatness measure. It calculates the value of everyone and everything else in relation to the self — how we rank in comparison and how they increase or decrease our perceived relative standing.
This is tiny greatness at best, and counterfeit greatness at worst, because it despises the immense, inherent, God-given worth of people and things and instead bases its evaluation on the minuscule differential range of talent and circumstance that result in public admiration, what we call "fame."
When we're enthralled with tiny greatness, we value or devalue ourselves (derive our self-esteem) based on where we think we rank in our preferred or accessible social context, and value or devalue others based on how they enhance or detract from our perceived rank, our relative greatness.
The great, tragic irony of a selfish preoccupation with tiny greatness is that truly great things appear small to us, priceless things appear worthless, magnificent things appear boring, and God appears of marginal importance.

A Portrait of Tiny Greatness

The Bible gives us a portrait of the blinding and impoverishing power of tiny greatness in Acts 8.
Simon was a local celebrity in his Samaritan town. A magician of sorts, he had mesmerized the locals with his arts, and they had given him a title: The Great Power of God (Acts 8:10). Simon loved his great reputation and fed off the public’s admiration.
Then one day Philip showed up in town. He preached the gospel and the Holy Spirit came with power, granting Philip signs and wonders beyond anything Simon had performed. Large numbers of Samaritans professed faith in Christ and were baptized, including Simon.
Soon Peter and John arrived and joined in to help with this revival. Simon watched in awe as the apostles prayed and Samaritans were filled with the Holy Spirit. The crowds got bigger. Everyone was talking about the great power of God.
But they weren’t talking about Simon anymore. His star had been eclipsed. And like many who have experienced the euphoric drug of other people’s admiration, Simon wanted that rush again.
So, at a discreet moment, he offered Peter and John a small fortune if they would deal him a fix of the tiny-greatness drug of the Holy Spirit. Peter, who knew from personal experience the great danger of worshiping the idol of tiny greatness (Luke 9:46–48; 22:24–27), mercifully spared Simon no words:
“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” (Acts 8:20–23)

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July 25, 2017

CAN YOU MARRY YOU?


Writing this message from the depth of my heart, trusting the Holy Spirit to chisel us and polish us into the full stature of Christ.
I can never forget the day the Holy Spirit asked me that question. It was after my graduation from the University. I was single. I mean not even in any relationship at the time.
I daily bombarded the heavens with my cry for marital settlement.
One day, I heard in my spirit *Esther can you marry you?*
I have never heard nor read anything like that before.
*Can you marry you?*
I just laughed at my thoughts.
After reflecting for a short while I got the understanding.
In simpler form, it means *If you are a man, Can you marry a typical woman like yourself? Are you marriageable?
Wow! That took me a lot of time to reflect on.
I got the message the Holy Spirit was trying to communicate to me.
With great joy, I listed out all the wonderful things about my personality and character.
At the end I smiled, feeling very beautiful.
*Look beyond your good sides* I was prompted.
My mood changed immediately.
Most of us hate to give our dark side some attention.
I noted my bad attitudes...
I do yell at my siblings when I am angry, which I don't do to annoying-outsiders,
I can be full of my ways sometimes,
I am stubborn. I will do what I choose to do when I feel like it.
This is the part of me I never took to heart until that day.
"Imagine you get married to someone who yell at you when he's angry, he doesn't listen to your advice and very stubborn husband; how would your marriage turn out"
"It won't work" I admitted.
That was how I started learning not to yell at people who infuriates me. I just take a walk away or pray for self-control under my breath. Sometimes I cried instead of shouting at someone who yell at me especially elderly people.
While preparing for my Youth service, my mentor Pastor Muyiwa Olufemi had a conversation with me. After celebrating all my good qualities, he said;
"...You are a strong willed person. This trait is a strength and could be a weakness. I advise you to work on it. This trait is not totally bad if only you don't allow the negative side of it take you over..."
It hurt me deeply.
But I wasn't surprised.
Being a strong-willed person helped me overcome peer-pressure while growing up. It helped me to stand through thorns without compromising my values. It helped me fit into the position my father"s demise left for me to assume.
Being the first born, my mom treats me like her little sister and partner. She groomed me to lead, tutor and be a disciplinarian for my siblings. Being a strong-willed person was a strength to me. I could exert my authority.
I am a very determined and focused woman. Distractions don't appeal to me.
The bad sad of this strength is what I call *unbending* *unyielding*
I kept praying that the Lord should break me and mould me.
Looking back now, I can remember all the stubborn set of people God threw my way to *bend* me.
I dislike them. I refused to bend to the stubbornness in them. I acted like I am up to the task till someone bows eventually.
When they prove stubborn with me, I shut down without giving in.
I didn't understand the workings of the Holy Spirit in me on time until later.
During my youth Service, the Lord made me go through some unpalatable circumstances. I was cheated, humiliated, yet the Holy Spirit told me to either *endure by keeping quiet or make peace even when I am not at fault*
That was hard!
Thank God for that season of moulding.
Fast forward to few Months into my courtship, I and my husband had a misunderstanding on the phone. I was angry and yelled at him on the phone telling him not to call my phone.
He called me the next day, I ignored.
The second day, I refused to pick.
The third day, I was expecting his calls but he stopped calling.
I got troubled in my heart. Chai!
I have overstepped my boundary.
I have over-reacted.
The right thing would have been for me to call him but I couldn't.
I was ashamed of myself. How could I overreact like that! I thought I am MADE!
I kept checking my phone at short intervals hoping he would call.
I got tired. Yet I didn't want to be the one calling him to make peace.
I thought this stubbornness is done with. I reasoned and turned sober.
In the evening he called me and we settled.
I was so happy yet I felt very bad and angry with myself. What exactly is that *thing* in me that makes me unyielding?
My husband was more of disappointed in me than annoyed.
"Unbending and unyielding is a sign of UNBROKENNESS" He said
It was the first and the last during our courtship.

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