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Before the end of 2024, I set a goal – to post a video every day on YouTube all through 2024. I felt excited about the adventure. I told the team. We began preps. I began creating my notes. But by February, I began to feel foreboding discontent. I pay attention a lot to how I…
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On September 3rd, 2019, I had surgery on my left knee at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. My knee had fractured due to a car accident. After a week I was able to walk around with the aid of crutches. The doctors were happy, albeit warning I shouldn’t place a lot of weight…
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On the days that I have some luxury time, I spend it viewing WhatsApp statuses, checking gossip blogs, and Instagram reels. I fear for the men of the time and the time of the future if what I see keeps prevailing. It’s like a war. I think I was so odd that my sister feared…
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When I turned 24, I left the Catholic Church. My dad saw me as a rebel and started doing everything possible to make me return to the fold. At the age of 30 I started planning to get married. My dad insisted I needed to return to the Catholic Church to get married. I was…
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In 2006 the company I was working for at the time sent me to Italy on training. stayed there for a year. I was 26 and young, willing to go all wild and sow my oats. Oh well, not literally. At the time, my innards hadn’t been tickled to be on the path that I am…
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That was how I met her at the bank. She had come to open an account with the bank. I had gone to sort out a few issues with the foreign online payments using my debit card. She had asked to use my pen to fill the form she was to submit. I gladly obliged…
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My parents have always considered me a heretic. My father has always had issues with my stubbornness, especially when it has to do with my fixating my mind on a particular course. Even when he threatened not to attend my wedding except I did it in a Roman Catholic Church, I went ahead. He didn’t…
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She was the widow of a prophet, during the time of Elisha. Her husband had died, leaving her in debt, and her sons were about to be taken as servants. Elisha asked her, “What do you have?” She had a small jar of oil. Then he told her to borrow empty jars from her neighbors.…
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Year ended two days ago. For the past 5 years I’ve spent what most call “Crossover Night” at home or at a quiet space in solitude and introspection. For many, it usually happens with its familiar soundtrack: fireworks, prophecies, testimonies, loud prayers—and the inevitable call to “sow a seed for the new year.” In many…
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You live life when everything you touch has to have a profound experience. It’s as simple as the days I finish work late evening, ditch the car and take walks so I listen to the voices of the whistling pine trees adorning the frontages of living apartments close to my office building. It means living…