One day you'll pick up your phone to call your parents… and realize you've been the one postponing it.
Not because you don’t love them...but because life kept convincing you there’d always be time.
Parents don't announce when they're tired.
They don't tell you when their bodies start betraying them.
They just adjust. Quietly. Proudly.
The same hands that carried you now shake a little when they hold a cup.
The same voices that once scolded you now hesitate, careful not to "disturb" your busy life.
What hurts the most is this:
They don't need grand gestures.
They just want presence.
A call.
A visit.
Asking about their day and actually listening.
Because when they're gone, you won't miss the big things first.
You'll miss the ordinary ..the way they said your name, the random advice you ignored, the comfort of knowing someone in this world had you as their priority.
Appreciate them now.
Not out of fear of loss...but out of gratitude for love that existed before you earned it.
Why are you postponing that call.. that visit?
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The unfortunate and dishonourable drama witnessed in Ibom Air has again brought to the fore the double standards in our lives and the inadequacies of our various security operatives in acting decently and in a civilised manner.
I want to start by sincerely apologising to the Ibom Air crew who were assaulted by Miss Comfort Emmanson. We must, as a society, learn and uphold good conduct, as it is a true measure of success and decent living.
However, I must equally strongly condemn the dehumanising treatment meted out to this young woman. Stripping her publicly was not only unnecessary but also represents the height of rascality and abuse by our agencies. It is unacceptable that she was hurriedly taken to court and remanded, while someone who visibly held a plane from taking off and put hundreds of lives at risk is still at large, with government agencies and some state officials speaking up for him to be forgiven.
This case is not just about one young woman, it is about the double standards that poison our justice system. Justice in Nigeria must never be about who is poor or powerless versus who has influence or access to government officials.
While Ms. Comfort Emmanson is in jail, the other offender who committed a more severe offence has not been held to the same standard. He has neither been arrested nor arraigned in any court.
We must build a country where justice is fair, equal, and not selective, especially against women who are seen to be weaker. This young lady’s offence does not compare to the crimes committed daily by those parading themselves as “excellencies” while looting public funds without consequence, and yet they have not been stripped or dehumanised in the name of justice.
We must end this selective treatment of the poor or less privileged. If justice must be served, it should be served to all, and it must be served fairly. The Minister of Aviation and other relevant authorities owe the public an explanation for these double standards in their adjudication.
Justice must be just, or it is nothing at all.
The rule of law based on justice for all must remain the guidepost of our democracy.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
1) You'll wake in the morning, & someone greets good morning, sweetie.
2) Your bath water is ready for you.
3) You come out of the bathroom, & your boxers and singlet are waiting for you.
4) You are about to leave for work, & your lunch box is packed for you.
5) You'll travel for days, weeks or months, & you are at peace because you know that your lovely kids are in safe hands.
6) You come back home, tired from work or travel, & you're welcomed to a clean house, with your favorite meal ready for you, & your kids jumping up and down because daddy is back.
7) You go out to cheat & fuck all sorts of women, but anytime you need sex in your home, she's always ready.
8) You're temporarily broke, and she's there to support you, & step in for you until you bounce back.
9) You're answering Mr. Onwuka, and she is answering Mrs. Onwuka, and all your kids are answering Onwuka.
10) You have visitors, and she prepares them sweat meals and makes the home comfortable for them throughout their stay.
14) You return from work and throw your boxers and socks on the floor and someone is there to pick them up, & wash them.
15) No key decision is made without your final input or consent, & whatever you say would be abode to, without questions.
16) She cannot go out to anywhere without your permission, neither can your kids. But you can without recourse to anyone. You just need to inform them if you wish.
17) You're the only one that has the ultimate right & authority to decide if your children will marry their chosen spouses or not.
18) The society sees you as a responsible man, & accords you certain rights and respect.
19) You'll live longer because someone is checking your diet & giving you peace of mind & good fucks.
20) You'll always obtain favour from God because you have found your wife.
These are a few benefits of marriage to a man.
If you think that you can enjoy all these and more as a single man for many years, you're dreaming.
Wake up.
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Africans are very interesting people.
Your continent has the most countries of any continent in the world (54) and has EVERY human and natural resource necessary for every kind of activity known to man.
Instead of advocating for those 54 countries to cooperate and aggregate their resources for rapid development that would be even more spectacular than that of China, young Africans who claim to be educated are rather accepting gigs from foreign embassies to shill naked, unhidden imperialism. Osino "As much as we want to be fully independent and free, I think we need international support."
The same "international support" that tried to start a regional war in West Africa just 19 months ago. The young African idiots cannot ask themselves "Why is it impossible to drive from Accra to Nairobi in a straight line; or carry out a transaction between Abuja and Kampala using only NGN/UGX; or fly from Kigali to Lusaka without paying more than it costs to fly from Kigali to Doha?"
They cannot see that there are forces actively obstructing Africa's ability to mobilise its own resources for internal cooperation and rapid development, and that their generational challenge is to ensure that Africans can trade, transact, and travel freely within Africa - because that is the only scenario where Africa has any kind of future.
They rather prefer to collect social media shill gigs for a few pennies, with which they hope to eventually save up enough money to get a visa and a flight ticket to run away and become an unpaid anti-racism activist in a white man's country.
Thoroughly useless people.
Where you are born shapes your values. For some communities, the ceiling is a daily meal, for others, it is a jet. These two communities will not have similar values. Where you are born also defines who you meet, & the interactions therein. It shapes your aspirations.
One of the easiest ways to identify "rich" Nigerians who are yet to move beyond survival mode and defeat the poverty that lives rent-free inside their minds is that they do not understand the value of things, but they are hyperresponsive to branding and price tags.
They do not understand precisely where a Tesla is meant to be used and for what, or how vastly impractical it is to run an electric vehicle in an environment where you charge it with a diesel generator, roads are not properly marked (making assisted driving impossible), and the 50⁰C+ ambient temperature in Lagos traffic potentially turns that huge lithium-ion battery into a giant explosive fire hazard.
They either don't know any of this or don't care - because the real purpose of driving that Tesla in Lagos is to show off a giant payment receipt on 4 wheels. Thus the Model S used very commonly to do Uber in London becomes a status symbol for the "rich-poor" in Lagos, complete with vanity license plates saying "FUEL LOL."
They are the ones who upload the receipts for their overpriced watches and jewellery on Instagram because it is not enough that you merely see that they have "nice" things - you must know *how much* they paid for them. Because the usefulness of the "nice" things is not in the value those things create, but in the price itself. Money is what gives things value to these types, which is why they cheerfully and regularly overpay for everything under the sun - as long as the world knows how much they paid.
That's why they all buy the same impractical, unserviceable cars that they eventually put into storage to gather dust after driving for 6 months; they all try to fuck the same 10 instagram whores in a country with at least 100 million eligible women; and they all live in the same smelly, waterlogged, gigantically overpriced neighbourhoods within a few hundred metres of each other.
They're the ones who proudly and joyfully announce that they paid N6 billion for a "luxury mansion in Ikoyi" that has a diesel generator, an underground shit storage tank, a rudimentary access road surfaced with interlocking paving stones, a constant flooding problem, a huge tree trunk planted into the pavement to hold a mess of ugly electricity wires, and a permanent bad smell from an empty plot of land next door filled with refuse and mosquito-laden stagnant water.
If this description fits you, please avoid me. For your own good.
Here's an idea:
Instead of training a new generation of Nigerians to spend their lives being monkeys in suits just like their parents, perennially striving to be who and what they are not - and doomed to fail miserably at it - why not try something different?
Why not look at the data and see that Nigeria is already the world's 3rd largest English-speaking country, and will be the 2nd largest by the time these kids are 40, so instead of teaching them to desire to be other people, you teach them that they are important enough to be the centre of their own world?
How about you teach them that their country is destined to be a very important country in the world and that their generation will be the most important in its history, so they should focus on history, economics, commerce, geopolitics, STEM, energy, government and defence?
How about you teach a new generation of Nigerians to see themselves as people who deserve to have a seat at the table with the rest of the world as they are, and not caterpillars who must shed something about their identity before they can blossom into global butterflies?
Why are you teaching Nigerian kids that there is something undesirable about the way they talk? Why are you still passing on your low self-esteem and generational trauma to these innocent children? What did they do to deserve this?
the stains, the better for you.
The longer you keep waiting, the harder it will also become.
I said if you're above 35 and you are still unmarried, you'll be lonely.
At 35, you have probably seen half of the amount of years you have to spend on earth.
Some men & women already
When some of you say "nothing dey street again", how did you know that?
If you have not polluted the water, how did you know that the water is not safe for drinking?
I've already told you, you'll hardly find anyone that is not stained.
The earlier you choose one & clean
like husbands.
Since that's the case, what then is exciting about marriage?
You lie!.
You're afraid of responsibilities and also afraid to face the demons you created.
Men & women in the dating pool have so used each other like tissue papers and everyone is afraid to commit.
It's because sex has become so cheap & baby mamas and daddies are no longer being shamed, that's why adults of marriageable ages & are capable, are still single.
Single men are providing for their girlfriends as if they're wives.
Single women are treating ordinary boyfriends
@wizard_casts Good day @wizard_casts I can't find the podcast anymore on Spotify. I've spent minutes looking for it.
Plz if it's possible can you send it to me here?