Day Fifteen-#40DaysAppreciation Challenge

I saw them laughing hysterically As they rounded up their meals The look in her eyes Same of a newly Wed Yet well advanced in age “I Love you deeply”, she said. But just this morning, She had fought him For he had forgotten it Her birthday, Not that he really forgot But he had […]

Day Fourteen-#40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

To the single mothers To the single daddies Saviours of a rather odious circle It’s even not about what happened Nor a question of how you got here But of your endurance and optimism Of your emerging response-ability How you manage to keep going on Your head above the murky oceans Of guilt, discrimination, and […]

Day Thirteen- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

​ To the social workers And the emergency workers Who wake up daily planning to control crises And make our society livable Saving lives The firemen, the Security forces The women who sweep our roads Especially those in Ilorin And their counterparts in OAU Really, people can be dirty, Kilode These women work, they do […]

Day Twelve- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

To all my friends whose names are written in the book of life Who have passed from death to life Who are seated together in the heavenlies Who, by faith in Jesus, have received righteousness Who war not after the flesh But are partakers of the divine life Who have eaten God and have become […]

Day Ten- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

​To those who have lost loved ones Who have experienced the pain of goodbyes Who can’t imagine how to live with this absence Whose mind are running wild with memories Memories of words, touch, looks, and moments “I remember the first time I met her” “Oh, I wish dad was around to witness this day” […]

Day Nine- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge

​To the peddlers of the Law Those who preach the consuming fire Who have passports to hell And make frequent trips there Who sell fear, guilt, and rejection And the religious pickpockets The professional ones, and the upcoming The ones you find in Oshodi park And the ones with big cathedrals Apologies for putting them […]

Day Eight- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

#LoveWednesday I remember the day #Adeola-mi said ‘Yes’, and I wrote about it, someone said congratulations and I was like “like seriously?”…Congratulations ké? Àbí, “Roll up your sleeves and get to work!” Relationship is no beans. It’s not a deal for light-hearted guys. Let’s not even go to marriage. It’s easier to read my #LoveWednesday […]

Day Seven – #40DaysAppreciation Challenge

  I remember the first time someone asked me to be their mentor. I ran for my life. I cannot come and go and die young. For now, I don’t think I have any mentoring to offer anybody. So I’ve always offered friendship. Let’s roll together Let’s rub off on each other. Let’s share ideas […]

Day Six- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge

It’s easy for people like me to come boldly on social media to write, talk, and post our opinions about issues, and many can take that boldness as arrogance and mere youthful exuberance. Many my even be offended that we write about things that seem to be beyond our age, or that involves people who […]

Day Five- #40DaysAppreciation Challenge 

​From the time of the Cross, the gospel has been handed over to faithful men who have since committed it to other faithful men. We must admit that some less-faithful men have handled the Gospel in the course of history. Some due to negligence, ignorance, laziness, cares of the word, of which Dermas is founding […]