Memories from Childhood – How the Lead characters from the Sound of Music have fared (Julie Andrew & Christopher Plummer) “Climb every mountain, ford every stream. Follow every rainbow until you find your dream” T HE MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING: music, romance, kids, spectacular scenery, religion, sentiment, comedy high and low, and, at the end, intrigue
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Unleash Kindness in the face of COVID -19 Pandemic – By Newton Post “O kon is currently observing the lockdown directive of the government. He had only just received a text message from his office that he had been furloughed due to the increased level of economic uncertainty and limited economic activities in the country.
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There was once a city – The worst nuclear disaster in human history “The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our government, our ideologies and our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this at last is the gift of Chernobyl.” H ow is this our
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Turning the corner – Michael’s Story “Nothing about depression is easy” My name is Michael, I am 27 and this is my story. I lost my first love Playful and energetic as always, I woke up one morning 22 years ago and dragged my younger brother out to play. My mum was washing clothes by
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PRISONER OF FATE From the Duke Of Small Talks PRISONER OF FATE “One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.” Benjamin’s life takes a dramatic twist as he struggles to find answers to unlock the mystery that has turned him into a prisoner of his own mind. The story starts
The Power of Listening – By Kola Ogunba “H ey Jessica. It’s nice to see you again. How have you been?” Jessica was an amazing human being. She was as close to a perfect personification of energy, class and grace as there could be. During our undergraduate days, she always captured everyone’s imagination with her
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Is the fault in our stars?(Part II) – “How long should you try? Until.” “The light at the end of the tunnel is your life; it’s the tunnel that is temporary.” Michael Josephson D efiance With drooping shoulders, I sauntered into the 5th floor of the federal ministry of communications building at Obalende, where my
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Is the fault truly in our stars? – “How long should you try? Until.” “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock- Anonymous S tand and Stare The crowd to the information board area at the University of Lagos had a life of its own, as students moved
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Chronicles of Jangalla boy – Part 5 “I never came first again after that term” My extra lessons teacher was an extremely brilliant man. I know they say do not speak ill of the dead but that has nothing to do with my assessment of his brilliance. He had a very pronounced impact on my
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Chronicles of Jangalla boy – Part 4 “I became a Jangalla boy” I never thought we were poor. After all we had a VHS player with a selection of the best indian movies at the time. Love in Tokyo was my favorite. We also had a colour TV. Not the big wardrobe type which occupied
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Chronicles of Jangalla boy – Part 3 “I lost. Again!” I had just lost an election and like everytime i faced a set back i had made a rash and perphaps hasty decision. Politics was no longer for me. I still had a slim but difficult chance to leave school with a first class and
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Chronicles of Jangalla boy – Part 2 ” I was just more experienced” I was considered a brilliant chap in primary school and i absolutely carried loved carrying that toga. In reality, I was just more experienced than younger kids at doing what they were mostly doing for the first time. I didnt know that
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Chronicles of Jangalla boy – Part 1 “I should write about this” I always thought i was going to be a footballer which was surprising. The perception of footballers has changed dramatically over time and many parents would, if given a choice, opt for the glitzy thrill of nights at the Bernabeu watching their son
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The evolution of Neo Soul Music – I am not letting go (Part 1) “Neo means new. Soul is timeless.” N ow You Know I discovered this genre of music in early 2000s while staying at my cousins’ during holidays from the university. They were a tad older and were totally sold-out and ardent followers
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Re-awake the giant inside – what an amazing time to be a writer. “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking its good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.” – Octavia E. Butler “T he Kidnap” I was a little over 10years old when I wrote
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THE RULE OF 3 – Excerpts from the Productivity Project – Chris Bailey The absolute best technique I’ve found to work deliberately and with intention every day is the Rule of 3. I ntroduction Takeaway: The absolute best technique I’ve found to work deliberately and with intention every day is the Rule of 3. The
Reinventing Management – Jyoti Bachani “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” – Richard Buckminster Fuller” T he largest taxi company in the world, Uber, owns no cars. The largest hotel in the world, Airbnb, owns no rooms. These and
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10 Worship Songs in my morning Playlist “Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through music.”—Martin Luther B ecause the morning shows the day, I try really hard to
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