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Can Nigeria Curtail Corona Virus?  I have been vocal and loud about how devastating it would be if this virus is allowed to enter this country.  As usual, Nigerian government had been boasting that it had put measures into place to prevent the outbreak of the virus if it manages to enter this country. We all knew that it was mere boasting, the only thing that the Nigerian government will ever put measures in place to prevent is impact to their own bogus revenue and allowances. Since the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan Province, China, last year, the virus had spread to many countries in the world including Iran and Italy. This February, some African countries had recorded the outbreak of the virus, making the threat a reality to Nigeria. Just yesterday evening, it was reported in the news that the first case of the virus was reported in Lagos Nigeria through and Italian expatriate who came to Nigeria.  The question on my mind is, has all the people that he came ...

Today is a palindromic day! A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g.  madam  or  nurses run . A  palindrome  is a type of word play in which a word, phrase, or sentence reads the same backward or forward. These are some examples of palindromes: bib , bob boob , bub , dad , deed did , dod , dud eke, Elle , eme , ere , eve , ewe , eye gag, gig , gog , hah, hallah , huh kayak, keek non, noon , nun pap, peep , pep, pip, poop, pop, pup, radar, redder, refer, repaper, rever, , reviver, rotator, rotor . Palindromes are quite very common in words, phrases and common but they don’t usually occur in numbers. They are extremely rare in dates. For instance, imagine a day that is written as 1/1/1111 or a crazy date like 2/2/2222 and so on. The last date that was a palindrome was in 12/12/12. That was about eight years ago. The dates with the perfect palindromes are very rare to the extent that sometimes...

Unreciprocated love. Nothing hurts more than seeing someone you love loving someone else. This could drive someone crazy. At first, you start feeling jealous of the person who is being loved by the one you love. You begin to see that person as bad and wonder what the person you love sees in this person. With time, this jealousy begins to develop to anger and hatred, if not checked. We live in a very crazy world where things don’t happen the way they normally should. After working for long hours, you expect your boss to pay, to give you a raise even, instead the boss begins to tell you how bad business is going. You pay huge some for your child(ren) school; fees, expecting them to come out on top of the class at the end of the term but instead, they come home with grades far below your expectations. The list of all these life disappointments is endless. Perhaps, the worst part of these disappointments is unreciprocated love. Imagine loving someone so bad that it hurts e...

I am currently teaching Literature in English on part time in a high school right here in Nigeria. I was brought in by the Proprietress to teach those guys after their previous literature teacher left.   The guys are just seven in number; there are only two boys among them. Somehow, we bonded the first time I started class with them. Though we have had our challenges and disagreements, yet I think I am getting to like them. I like them because they have oceans of untapped talents and their creativity- if they are properly guided- is limitless. There were times that I would teach them something in class and I would ask them to do their own and they won’t just do it, they would do it beyond my expectation. Very soon, I will put up some o the poems that these guys have been able to write for your reading pleasure. Last class I had with them, I thought them the types of drama and told them to start preparing for acting an opera which would be staged in front of the whol...