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.

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