Is this observation a Lagos/Uniben thing?

Is this observation a Lagos/Uniben thing?

I attended Auchi Polytechnic briefly while in Edo state for my Neco exams. That was a long time ago. I would follow Morse to his evening classes sometimes, wander around the school and meet his friends – One of them was a talented guitarist named Emma Songz. He’s dead now. I met other remarkable people who …

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On Girls and Phone Numbers

On Girls and Phone Numbers

There was a time when we’d want to hook up with someone (girls, okay, girls) and worry that our phones were not shiny (or popular or expensive) enough to collect her number with… I was young… It suddenly doesn’t matter anymore. I just leave my phone at home sometimes and ask you to give me …

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Speak up for Abused Children

Speak up for Abused Children

If you know men that are sleeping with their children (or child relations) or underaged children that are being abused in your environment and you can’t speak up for their sake, you’re part of this world’s problems… It is not cool – Christian, Muslim, atheist or … It doesn’t matter. I’ve lost two amazing people …

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Daydreams and Nightmares

Daydreams and Nightmares

I’m accustomed to having daydreams and Nightmares when I’m sick. Daydreams, well, because I stop working to rest my body then I fall asleep. The nightmares, on the other hand, are not really nightmares, nope, not all the time. Sometimes I’m being tortured, sometimes I’m re-living a good day in time, other times, actual Nightmares. …

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My Last Days At School 3

My Last Days At School 3

2017 was different things for different people. For some, it was the year they got married, the year they got a new stable job but for me, it was the year I graduated from the university. I finished since June last year and I was supposed to write this article around November like Shalom asked …

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Some Moments Can be relived

Some Moments Can be relived

My Music Player does this occasional thing were it plays calls recorded between late 2015 and early 16 as audio – Mostly calls from my father and mother checking up on me. I was in school at the time and some things were really difficult for me, from Trigonometry to what to eat, I barely …

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My Last Days At School 2

My Last Days At School 2

Written by: Adebola “Shalombrain” Shalom My last days at school were pretty much fun, depends on if you consider writing your last two papers with one eye since the other got punctured, well not really like burst or anything but it was rendered useless. But in comparison to my first days the last ones were …

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My Last Days at School

My Last Days at School

After fasting and praying and swearing that if I gained admission to school I’d stop making noise in class, not chase girls and Face my book I finally gained admission into a popular polytechnic in Lagos Lucky me right? I said the same thing when I saw my name on the merit list. I was …

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Recommend My Services or Die!

Recommend My Services or Die!

A few years before I started working for “people with money” , I had no laptop. I would go to a friend’s place to learn HTML and CSS. He had the video tutorials and other utilities to practice with on his laptop. Most timesI learnt a thing or nothing. I complained whenever I don’t understand …

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Ode to Magnus

Ode to Magnus

The Magnus I knew was very playful. So playful that you’d look at him and not believe he can get anything done in his life. So playful that he joked with work and I hated how he handled tasks the first few months we worked in the same company. We were assigned tasks a few …

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