Archive for April, 2009

ekitiPerson 1: ore how u dey? 

Person 2: gd

Person 1: na wa o

Person 1: you no see wetin dey happen for ekiti?

Person 2: nna ur pple be as they get o!

Person 2: though i had a feeling it was gonna happen

Person 1: no be dem o

Person 1: na the party dey set them up (more…)

 

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A while ago, I was given an assignment by The Future movement to go and deliver the future in Ekiti state. Funny, isn’t it? Now, my state of origin is Ekiti state. I hail from Ijero town in Ijero-Ekiti Local Government. My grandfather has a house in Ekiti State and though he lived majorly in Lagos and got a chieftaincy title in Mushin, he was taken to Ekiti when he died and buried in Ijero. (more…)

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Yesterday, I had the privilege once again of watching the movie titled “The Passion of the Christ”. I watched it with a group of people and we all felt the pain Jesus Christ went through on His way to the cross to die for the sin of mankind. So vivid was the picture of his punishment and pain that within minutes, some of the people I was watching with began to sob and cry out loud. (more…)

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I heard a teaching a few hours ago about marriage and character. How it’s so easy to be in a relationship claiming love couldn’t be more in any other relationship in the world than your own and when you are married to the same person you couldn’t get short of love for, loving now seems to be a challenge.

It’s said that 9 out of every 10 married men either cheat (more…)

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It seems like yesterday when we all shouted “Happy New Year!!!” It was the dawn of 2009. There were lots of promises and prophesies. My own church had a word that read like this ”2009: My year of signs, wonders, miracles and positive change.” Everyone was in high spirits. We all believed that even though the shadow of the economic recession was looming large over things generally, respite would surely break forth in 2009.

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I returned a couple of hours ago from my state of origin. The good old Ekiti-kete. The fountain of knowledge with a lot of excitement. On the one side, it felt good to be in my state of origin again (I’ve been there a total of about 6 times in all); on the other, it felt exciting to be taking responsibility for the outcome of political leadership in the state. (more…)