#40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

​As this year comes to an end, what are you grateful to God for?  Join me in this: #40DaysAppreciation Challenge …as I reflect on the things I’m grateful for.  Wednesday, 7th December – Sunday, 15th January, 2017. Feel free to join in.  Reflect, give thanks, and share. Use #40DaysAppreciation Or mention @theimisiOluwa www.dnaughtyboy.wordpress.com

Independence: Independent?

​ Did they do to us differently from we did ourselves?  Did they treat us other than we treat ourselves?  Black or white, aren’t we made of same distance?  Young or old, isn’t the same evil in our heart?  It was the same the people of Babylon did them of Jerusalem  The same the people […]

To The Fathers…

To the absentee daddies The ones who left their sperms and never looked back Who denied their DNA to the teeth Who wouldn’t take responsibility Well…it’s still your day We wish you were here with us, but it’s still okay We feel your pain, your fear, your ignorance We feel the burden of your guilt […]

Keshi Was Here

Player of players, coach of coaches, Winner of winners, man of men. Hubby of hubbies, hommie of hommies, Nigerian of Nigerians, patriot of patriots. He kicked, taught to kick And to caught – the leathers. Keshi kicked kicked kicked And…….. Keshi kicked the bucket. When next you speak of who was here. Speak of the […]

BASTARDIZATION

BASTARDIZATION I once saw a church write, “at (the church name), your success is guaranteed”, and I sincerely appreciate the effort of their publicity coordinators. But it seems to me that there is a hidden ‘only’ in that statement that is read unconsciously and it makes the statement read something like this: ‘It is only […]

On Nigerians and their Sympathy for France.

There are two kinds of people. One that do good only because good was done to them. Another that do good irrespective. And I’m so glad that Nigeria is part of the latter. It was what made us the ‘Giant of Africa’, if we persist, it will yet make us ‘Giant of the World’ I […]

School Versus Education

So a day before exams, we cram up Loading every inch of our brains with words Words that don’t make harmonic sense Just in response to the past questions and AOC So we get lucky The same questions are asked And we pour out as we have gathered Leaving our brains emptier than before Our […]

The Philistine Army

I thought the terror of the Philistines was always an indication that the Israelites had forsaken God. I thought the Philistines come to oppress the children of the covenant only when they have forsaken their first Love. I thought their response was not to devise strategies to conquer the Philistines but rather to go back […]