Poems
An annual word-gift Fireworks at midnight herald a new year eagerly anticipated, much celebrated, and as one by one, we sleep… Sunrise on the horizon ushers in new dawn just like the one before — an ordinary glory outshining fireworks. Today is a new year but everyday is a new dawn
Christianity
A Christmas poem A word spoken lays down its life by taking on flesh of black text on white page to await the attentive reader in whose mind the letter, springing to new life, may become spirit. The Word became flesh and laid down his life in birth giving life
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Flash Fiction The knock woke Bankole, although he didn’t realise at first, while he lay still in the silence that was breeched only by the screech of crickets. Then he heard it, and he knew what had awoken him: a single knock, like that of someone afraid that someone
Pain and Recovery
And what my new glasses have to do with it I get rather frequent emotional flat tyres. That’s how I like to describe those times (more frequent than I’d like) when my mood drops and I feel rather slower than usual, and find myself struggling with less savoury
Mental illness
You're a storyteller. You may not feel like it or think about it, but that's because it's so ingrained into who you are, into your very DNA, that you don't have to be conscious of it. Like your eyes, you see things
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My thoughts on trailer for the “Dawn of Thunder” [facebook url="https://www.facebook.com/HeritageBankNG/videos/833085790189511" /]Wow. I really, really, really liked this retelling of the story of the Yoruba god of thunder, Sango (pronounced, “Shawn-go,” by the way). I thought the animation and 3D were
Communication
Let’s be honest about being honest “Well, but that’s just the truth.” “I’m sorry, but I can’t lie — I say it like it is.” “I’m a blunt person.” That’s what you say when you’ve said something you believe is true, but unpleasant. I’
Communication
A model for influencing the people you get to lead There are at least three elements you need to lead. 1. Followers 2. A destination 3. A story All three are equally important, and none, strictly speaking, matters more than any other — like with shoes, missing one leg is tantamount
Pain and Recovery
What if there's a better way to think about health problems than simply chasing cures? I believe there is: I call it the RISE Way. The RISE Way: because there's more to brief illnesses and persistent conditions than just time. This is a manifesto about health
Empathy
But the very fact that you don't know is all the more reason to imagine. Because right at the root of empathy is imagination. They rise or fall together. If you can't imagine what someone is going through, you can't empathise with them. But
Mental illness
We need to stop them before they go further So here’s the latest on Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC Nigeria) and their poorly thought out and potentially harmful plan for motorists, which I’m going to try to show as dangerous and worthy to be scrapped post-haste.
Christianity
(Except we can agree malaria and measles are, too.) On October 30, 2016, a prominent and otherwise widely respected Nigerian pastor tweeted: “The root cause of mental illness is Sin (Rom 6:23) and the foundational solution to mental health is Salvation.” Let’s just say the tweet ended up