MY EX CAME BACK WHEN I AM MARRIED ALREADY. By Tobe Eze

I was waiting for okada or keke one day just last two years Christmas season. A Lexus jeep stopped and my name was called in a gentle way from the car. Loo and behold, it was my ex. Nnamdi is now a rich guy ooo. We exchanged pleasantries, he opted to give me a free ride which I did not waste time to accept. It was really a long discussion because he actually took me to my destination. We exchanged contacts for we had already lost contacts. Nnamdi was my secondary school boyfriend, he loved me with everything in him and I loved him also. After his secondary school, he could not further in the university, he went for Boi (apprenticeship). When I finished secondary school three years after him, I entered university. Because of the Boi (apprenticeship) issue, I could not reach him again, then in my university days, in my year two, I meet Nelson and we ended up marrying ourselves. Continue Reading.......

HE MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM. By Tobe Eze

  

It all started the night I went to my Classmate’s lodge to write assignment. I saw this fine guy in the lodge, for Christ sake everything I need in a man is in him. So tall, handsome, soft spoken, gentle, nice dressing and so on. I asked my friend about the boy and she  told me, Samuel! That shying guy. I fell in love more on hearing that he is even a shy type. After the whole night activities, we went to bed but I could not sleep because of the thought of the shying Samuel. In the morning, as God may have it, I was greeted with the face of Samuel when I went out to brush my teeth. What a smiling handsome guy. Good Morning Samuel! Very surprised that a strange girl knew his name. As a shy type, he just answered, Good Morning! He tried leaving and I called him back, asked him why he did not care to ask me how I got to know his name. He smiled (what a sweet face smiling to me this morning. This is really the day the Lord has made and I am happy and glad) and said, I was really surprised but did not feel like asking. I quickly asked him, are you a shy type? He retorted, No! But it is written all over you, I answered. He continued with his sweet smiles which I was enjoying. That was how morning discussion with this angel in a man started. After the discussion, I happily went in and told my friend everything. She laughed at me and told me not to mind Samuel, that he would fall my hand. I told her that I would try my best first before giving up. Continue Reading............

THIS IS WICKEDNESS . By Tobe Eze

 

This guy met me after Sunday Mass on that fateful day two years ago. He sounded so cold that I had pity on him and tried to inquire more of his problems. He told me several stories that touched me and I decided to help him. The most touching one is how he lost his family. Telling the story of how he lost his family members may take space so I wouldn’t go into that, I will concentrate on my encounter with him. Just know that he lost his family members through fire outbreak. Continue Reading.......

ANOTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. By Tobe Eze

 

You see funny things about life, all these children of end time are now happy because I faced parents and elder brothers and sisters. Just know it that the story did not end there, another person has also come out with another story. We must have to listen to the two in order to get the judgment right.

Tobe Eze, I would not say that you are wrong but you still have to hear another side of the story for you to strike a balance. Judging from what you were presented with, you are very much right but I need to present another story for you so that you will take the final decision.

Tobe Eze, sincerely speaking, it was after one year of our father’s death that we realised how good that man was. We never knew that he was the best Father anyone could have on earth till after one year he left us. We made so many mistakes and he was not there again to help us solve them as he was doing and we were misunderstanding him. My father was a type that talks for a very long time. We are three in the family, two boys and a girl. The girl came last. We were born into a house where the fact that each time you commit something that he did not see as something very wonderful, he must call you at night to advise you. Each time my father called any of us, he would take serious time talking to you about the thing you have done and he would tell you the implications of what you have done, consequences of what you have done, and the things that may come out even unconsciously from them. Continue Reading......

OUR FIRST CHILD IS THE PROBLEM. By Tobe Eze

 

You would not understand what we have been passing through in that family. I am not trying to paint him black, I am only trying to tell you that he does not understand life as it should be. He feels he has the whole world in his hands and none of us has anything to offer. Our father died when our last child was 6 years old. Our first son took the responsibility of a father and a husband to our mother. He is really a good man but our problem is that he does not understand that we have grown and also can take decisions on our own. Continue Reading............

IT HAPPENED THIS YEAR. By Tobe Eze

 

Since you want to know, now listen very well so that you will understand how everything happened.

I was coming back from a conference which took place in Enugu. When I reached Ugwuogo Nike, a lady was waving at me to stop, I stopped and she rushed me with a young man. She pleaded that they were going to Nsukka and had little money, she asked if I could help her and her brother, if Nsukka was my destination. Of course I was going home which is in Nsukka. I told her that I could not help considering the situation of the country as regards insecurity. Continue Reading......

A SHORT STORY (JESUS KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING). By Tobe Eze

 

Two men were quarreling in a market. They were exchanging insults, curses and telling themselves every derogatory word on earth. At a point, I decided to listen keenly to the contents of what they were saying, likewise many who gathered. Funny enough, these two men are age mates, school mates, friends and from the same community. So they know themselves very well and even some of their secrets. So, they were unearthing many things as the quarrel was going higher. Continue Reading......

PRAISE AND WORSHIP SONGS Compilation. By Nnadi N

 

Psalm 107:1 says, "Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good; His love is eternal!”

Our People believe that he who sings prays twice. There is power in praising and worshipping God.

The Bible recorded in Joshua chapter six(6) that by prayer and praise, marching round the city, the People of Israel pulled down the walls of Jericho.

Ex. 23:25-26 says, "If you worship me, the Lord your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your sicknesses. In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives." Continue Reading.......

GENERATIONAL PROBLEMS, CHALLENGES, CURSES OR CAUSES. By Nnadi N

 

Religious beliefs can't always be explained in scientific terms and aberration.

For clarity, Science is defined by a popular source as knowledge ascertained by observation, critically tested, systematically, and brought under the general principal or law. In other words, science is just a certain knowledge that has proven to be right about something.

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LISTEN TO HER MARRIAGE STORY. By Tobe Eze

 

Accidentally I met this classmate of mine whom I have not set my eyes on since we left secondary school. This classmate of mine married just two years after our secondary school. Her husband is very rich that he bought her a car  on her first birthday after their wedding. I went to Enugu this concluded break, I was standing along the road waiting for Keke that would drop me to a place I wanted to visit. A Corolla stopped before me and someone shouted from inside. “Jesus Christ! Tobe Eze! Jesus Christ is Lord! Are my eyes deceiving me?” I was trying to understand the situation when she came out from the car. Lo and behold, I recognised her immediately (because there was no much change). We exchanged greetings, just figure out in your mind, types of words we used for the greetings since this is already the 10th year anniversary of our departure from secondary school. She offered me a ride and a lunch which I did not reject any of them. I just put a call across and cancelled my previous arrangement. She drove me to an inn and we ordered for food and drinks. Continue Reading............

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. By Tobe Eze

In my JSS3, I had wonderful classmates who were (and I believe are) very spiritual and religious. Each afternoon after dismissal from school, while going home, we must branch to the chapel at our parish then (St. Mary’s Parish Eha-Alumona) to pray. I may not be certain of our individual intentions then but I had no particular intention of doing that. Whenever I entered the chapel, any intention that came, formed my prayer point. If any did not come, I would only tell God, you know my needs. As we formed that as a habit, I began to notice everything in the chapel including those that would always be there whenever we were there to pray.

There was this particular woman that normally lay down in front of the Altar to pray. Every day she must be there and at that particular hour. I was praying for God to give me the strength and time to be like this particular woman. One thing I did not know then was her time of going there and time of leaving. I was only sure of that hour that we normally go there for prayers. One day, one of us (of course a girl) said that the said woman was sleeping in the chapel and not praying and she had noticed that for weeks. I immediately objected because I was already praying for God to make me to pray like her. We argued for a very long time. Of course I do not need to tell you my distractions from my prayers from that day on because, you already know that I would make effort to know if she was really sleeping or praying. Surprisingly for me, I also noticed that the woman was actually sleeping every day at that hour in the chapel. This instead of reducing my intention of being like her, it increased it, that I would want to be like this woman who sleeps before the Lord. No attack from the devil, no bad dreams etc. Continue Reading..........

TO ALL CHORISTERS, CHOIRS AND CHURCHES‼!* AN EYE OPENER. By Nnadi AN

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 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SING TO GOD.

One of the subgroups in the Churches that I very much admire right from my school days is the CHOIR ! I love them but can’t join them because of their 2 to 4 times weekly practices which I can’t offer because of other religious and vocational engagements. I give KUDOS to those who have volunteered to contribute their own quota in the Heavenly race and serve God through this gesture. Continue Reading.........

I SWEAR By Tobe Eze

  

I often hear people say, Lord protect me from my friends; for my enemies, I can handle them. I have never doubted it and I do not think I will doubt it but I have never believed it as I believe it now. Another adage says, experience is the best teacher. This has also made me to believe more in asking God to protest me from my friends; for my enemies, I can handle them. Some or all of these friends-enemies are born out of a heart that does not have forgiveness in it. If a heart has forgiveness in it, it will find it very difficult to play the two parts of being friend and enemy at the same time because they are contradictory. The pain of betrayal or the wound of betrayal is one wound that I have noticed that it takes supernatural grace of God to heal, if that is the case, then we should make every effort to avoid it.

A lady was presented with two names of those that applied for job in a company where she was working. Continue Reading..................

CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS MISS-UNDERSTANDING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. By Victor Obinwa

THE AUTHOR

Today we live in a society where multiple crime killings and war is going on because of cultural and religious misunderstandings and conflicts and yet we claim to be united.

And slowly we are losing our cultural heritage beauty and attributes to misunderstanding and conflicts. Amid this, killings and brutalities keep on happening and yet the high-profile people we have are not doing anything instead, they are even supporting and funding what is happening. Here, we are going to know what misunderstanding is. Continue Reading.........

COWS IN CHRISTIAN FUNERAL; A CONTRADICTION TO THE SALVATION BROUGHT BY CHRIST. By Tobe Eze

 Published already in Living Spring Magazine. Blessed Iwene Tansi Major Seminary Onitsha 2022 Edition

Introduction

In many cultural groups in Igbo land, there are animals they use for funerals. These animals include, pigs, horses, donkeys, cows etc. We are not going to trace the total history of some of these because of limited space, we are just going to give a little history and give the significance of this from the Igbo African Traditional Religion practitioners and bringing it to the Christianity of today in order to make the point clear on how it contradicts the salvation brought by Christ. This is widely accepted in Igbo land that funeral of a person must go with a significant animal. We are going to take cow as a case study for it is a widely accepted animal for the funerals more than other animals. Read More.........

NEW CASH OUT By Tobe Eze

 

I am just remembering vividly when we were small, most times along every road in our different villages you would be seeing articles or items belonging to people hanging on trees, sticks etc so that the owners would easily see them while passing. We normally see, keys, books, purses, handbags, wallets, money and so many others. It was very easy then to locate your lost items ones you could remember the road that you took. Again, I can also remember when one of my childhood friends and first among us to have cellphone lost it. The person that picked the phone was calling contacts he found in the phone and I was the person he called and told us where we should come to collect the phone. Again I can remember also how we helped a family that had funeral of their father back then that their cow broke the rope that was tiring it on the tree to recover the cow free of charge and they were very grateful. If I continue with the list, it will be innumerable. Let me go straight to the point I am trying to arrive at but before then, let us look also at this little throwback. Continue Reading......

BANDITS IN THE CHURCH By Tobe Eze

 

Recently Deborah was brutally killed in Sokoto and the social media has been filled with many agitations against Muslims and their fight for their Prophet. Many killings have been attributed to Muslims, Fulani herdsmen, bandits and unknown gunmen. As these news fill the sky, we easily forget that we may not be far from this same act. We have forgotten that Osinachi that died some months ago was also killed, not by Muslims, herdsmen, bandits and unknown gunmen but a Christian. It is alright known to us that it is no longer uncommon for us to hear about massacre in different parts of Nigeria daily. These unjust killings have made almost every Christian and other religions in Nigeria and other places to hate Muslims, Fulani herdsmen, bandits and unknown gunmen and also have mand every other person not in this category a saint. Though some educated Muslims are trying to defend Islam and are trying to point out that these killings are not in their real teaching but are from some fundamentalists or extremists, so many Christians have not accepted that defence. Nigerian government has also made so difficult for people to accept the defence for nothing serious has been done about these killings, kidnapping and vandalization of people’s properties. Let me not further in this one. Continue Reading..........

I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN (A) By Tobe Eze

Anonymous: Tobe please hide my identity because this thing happened real. Sometime last month two girls visited my house but no one was around. They later told me on phone. End of the same month, a girl visited me and beginning of this month also, a girl visited me. I am calling only girls because it concerns them not that boys did not visit. Then last week, I did serious washing, I virtually washed all my clothes and after that, I prepared to visit a friend. When I was going out, I went and told my uncle’s family that I did washing and I wish to go out, incase it starts raining they should help me with the clothes for my people were not around. They accepted and I left. It rained heavily and they forgot my clothes outside and rain dealt seriously with them. I had to rewash them when I got home. They sincerely apologized for that and I accepted it because anyone can forget. Last week, another girl visited, when I was escorting her, we met the wife of that my uncle and we exchanged greetings.  Continue Reading..........

ECHI DỊ IME (TOMORROW IS PREGNANT 🤰) By Tobe Eze

 

Chidi: Tobe Eze, so because of your Easter break, you have stopped giving us weekend diets?

Tobe Eze: You would not understand dear. Enjoyment karịrị and I could not help it. Don’t worry, I will be back soon. For all those who waited for me these past two weeks, biko do not be offended, I just decided to enjoy my Easter break and nothing more.

We all are aware of the fact that no one knows tomorrow. Even the so called seers cannot holistically tell what tomorrow holds. If this fact cannot be disputed, then we have to live our lives as those who do not know what tomorrow holds for us. We should try always to live a life that will make our tomorrow better and a life that would not make us regret our tomorrow when it becomes today. I so much support this fact that we should do good because of the unknown nature of tomorrow and I will continue to keep it. But if we take this to our human relationship, then I may try to go beyond being good because of the unknown nature of tomorrow. Continue Reading............

GIVE ME ONE BOTTLE By Tobe Eze

 

I think I need a bottle of cool beer before starting this write up. I am even confused on how to start this write up but I must start it anyhow. It is now giving me and many other a serious concern that people are now leaving vital places of learning about homes and learning wrongly from wrong hands. I wonder why we have many broken homes these days that we have sophisticated technology that should have helped us live well. Our great grand parents did not have the opportunity we have these days and they lived in unity, happily and lived long. We have living examples these days from our aged parents. Some parents are still living happily but their children have divorced. What is actually happening? Should we go back into the world of no technology or no civilization? It is no longer possible. I think what is causing this is the wrong use of the opportunity we have. If we can use the opportunity we have now judiciously, we will be happier than our fore bearers. For instance: Continue Reading........

LIFE NO BALANCE (ỤWA ADIRỌ BALANCE) PART SIX. By Tobe Eze

 

CHIOMA IS PREGNANT AGAIN (EDITH BIKO ALLOW ME TO REST)

Edith: Tobe Eze, flowing from what you wrote about Chioma being pregnant, it is true that we should not judge people, we should not condemn people because of their sins rather, we should condemn their sins. My problem is that some people present themselves as deputy Jesus. They feel they will be sitting at the right and left hands of Jesus on the last day to select those who will go to heaven and those that will go to hell. They present themselves as super human beings that cannot sin again. Chioma may not be a victim but I have seen many who are that way. What do you have to say? Continue Reading.......m

LIFE NO BALANCE (ỤWA ADIRỌ BALANCE) PART FIVE. By Tobe Eze

 

CHIOMA IS PREGNANT

Tessy: Tobe Eze, wonders shall never end. I have a full gist for you. This world is somehow ooo, people that you do not expect something from will always surprise you. What my eyes see, my mouth cannot say it and also what my ear heard. Just clean your ear very well and I will fill it with gist this weekend. My only problem is that you normally surprise people with your answer but I know you will like this gist.

Tobe Eze: This one you are trying to hype me this morning, what happened? You know I like gist very well, go ahead for I cleaned my ears when I woke up. My mind told me that someone must surely gist me today and I prepared for it from my rising. I can’t wait to hear this gist that is trying to escape from your mouth abi hand self for you are typing. Continue Reading.........

THE OVER COAT by Brendan Amadi

I buttoned the overcoat round her shoulders.

I plunged into her webs of vapour

In between her hamas

Which by these times formed veils between the trees.

As she ascended the adjoining slope’

She could hear the rustling of the branches

I felt calm, in thought.

Imagined her beautiful creature!

My gaze in thought. Continue Reading.......

LIFE NO BALANCE (ỤWA ADIRỌ BALANCE) PART FOUR. By Tobe Eze

PEOPLE THAT I CANNOT UNDERSTAND

(Let us bear in mind, instead of money dividing us, let us divide the money)

There are people that I find it very difficult to understand in this world. I have tried all I could to see reasons to understand them but no reason has come to my mind. I have asked people around me to know if I will see reasons but none has offered any reason, especially the ones that I need. May be sharing it here will help me to get reasons to understand them. If you have reasons to give, please help a brother and probably brothers and sisters outside there who are also looking for reasons

The first group now is the group of persons who will meet you as your friend to help them and after the help, you will loose the friendship. These days, I have come to understand that we loose our friends more through the help we render to them when they are in need. I had this guy as my wonderful friend. One day, he called me and told me his challenges, that he needed some money to solve some of them. He pleaded that I should borrow him 20k that he would pay me up next month or if he could get it before one month, he would pay back. Continue Reading..........

LIFE NO BALANCE (ỤWA ADIRỌ BALANCE) PART THREE. By Tobe Eze

 

I DO NOT LOVE HIM

In my JS3 that was in 2009, one day, I visited my cousin brother. While going home, he told me that their first son bought him a new phone. He brought out the old one and asked me if I could use it. I gladly answered yes and collected the phone from him. I was really happy. I thanked him so much for the gift of the old Nokia Radio as it was called then. I quickly rushed home to show my people the gift that I got. When I reached home, I met my father and my elder sister. I told them about the phone. My elder sister who had no phone then was happier than myself and told me that I should know that it is our phone not mine. My father asked me again, Tobe, isu nee onye nuru gu phone (Tobe you said who gave you the phone)? I answered immediately, Ejike. My father asked me what I gave in return and I told him it was a free gift and he left without saying anything again. I was just rejoicing with my elder sister when my mother came back. I happily rushed her to break the news to her. After telling her, she asked me where my father was, I told her he was inside. She met him inside and after their discussion inside, she came out and told me. Tobe iji ewechi phonenu hu az mbe ishi wete, irue ogo phone nee anyi ji ama (Tobe, you will take that phone back to wherever you got it from, when you reach the level of having phone, we will know). Continue Reading.....

FRIENDSHIP AND TOLERANCE. By Victor Obinwa

  

As they say a man without anyone to confide in is either an island or has psychological or emotional problem. And for you to grow and pass through some certain phases in life, there must be people you meet and they have roles and contributions to make in your life. Sometimes, they might make positive or negative contribution but be it as it may be, they are all contributing factors to our growth.

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two people or Is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the others sake and that involves some degree of intimacy. Continue Reading..........

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. By Victor Obinwa

     

In this article, we are going to discuss domestic violence its side effects and remedies.

Domestic violence is not something that is meted out on one gender, it’s something that affects us all.

 Domestic violence can be said to be any form of abuse or violence in a relationship between adults or adolescents. Or it can be said to be an attempt to gain dominance and control over the other by the use of force or violence. It can escalate from threats to verbal assaults to violence. And the outcome of it all which is physical injury came to be severe. It can also cause depression, emotional breakdown, and reduction of self-worth which is very bad. Continue Reading.......

LIFE NO BALANCE (ỤWA ADIRỌ BALANCE) PART TWO. By Tobe Eze

 

MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP LOVING OR BEING LOVED

I just started a discussion with a friend and he immediately introduced the topic of the need to get money. The topic pleased me also and I enjoyed the gist till when we started the analyse what is happening in the world today, especially in this part of the world. Maybe when God said increase and multiply, he was talking about avenues to make money whether legitimate or not. I have come to understand that you cannot discuss with an average youth for about 10 minutes without discussing money and how to make it. Sincerely speaking, money is good but I must add, legitimate money is sweet. So, all these ways of making money, we should make effort to follow legitimate ways in other to enjoy sweet money.

In the afternoon yesterday, a new number called me, when I took the call, it was from a lady who has a sweet, romantic and polished English voice. She told me that she was calling from one poverty liberation company. That I was recommended to them that I am a wonderful, gentle, intelligent etc man. I quickly asked her, who told them that I am poor and in need to be liberated (in actual sense I am poor, if you have a legitimate means, biko, help a brother)? Continue Reading............

LIFE NO BALANCE (ỤWA ADIRỌ BALANCE) PART ONE. By Tobe Eze

 

FIRST THING FIRST BIKO

E go choke some people as I dey change name of the title anyhow. They said change is constant and Nigeria is a living testimony to it. So, make I also join dey change anyhow. May things are not balanced in this life and I think it will be wonderful if we see them and know how we can help ourselves.

I have been wondering what gives some people joy in this life. After watching some of us, I swear E dey choke me. How can someone that his family is going hungry every day be answering Ome ego 1 na South? Some people are very good in pleasing people very far from them and who may not even appreciate the gesture and leaving those very close to them who are in serious need of help. How can a man go to church’s bazaar and be the highest donor while his maid in the house is home because of school fees? His parents in the village are already fetching water with buckets each time it rains inside their rooms because of faulty roofs? His brothers and sisters both nuclear and extended are finding it difficult to feed very well? Onwere ka odi. I am not condemning donation in the church, I also benefit from that, I am only pointing at first thing first. Let us start from the grassroots. Continue Reading.......

VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA) PART SIX By Tobe Eze

 

ỤFỌDỤ ỤMỤ NWANYỊ DỊ EGWU

I know they were happy for the last write up but they will not like to take corrections that will come from this one, they will like to defend themselves. Ụfọdụ ụmụ nwanyị dị egwu. So women can be something else. After watching how they treat their families you will begin to wonder if they are created by the devil or still God. In all, some are very wonderful and are the answer to the biblical passage that said he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favours from the Lord.

I just wonder how some women feel when they watch their husbands after working throughout the day to come home not to meet food because they went for one meeting or the other. I am just wondering how they enjoy telling their husbands that they could not cook because they had meeting and it does not happen once or twice but frequently. If you know that you have a meeting to attend, why not prepare something earlier and keep for the family than using that as an excuse. Even religious meetings should not take the place of your family. Some men spend most of their times in eateries because of this type of situation and from there, they may fall into wrong hands that will take them away from you. Please gaurd your husband jealousy and not allow what you can avoid to take him away from you. Continue Reading................

VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA) PART FIVE By Tobe Eze

MY WIFE IS A CHEAT

Some men are very funny oooo. Because they married, their wives should change their sim cards, stop answering calls, stop chatting, stop visiting friends, delete all their social handles etc. You have not started. Any little call or chat, the woman is already cheating on him. Lekwanu anya. Do you think she had no friends before you married her? Do you think you were the only person that wanted to marry her? Do you know how many persons she rejected only to marry you? Biko, no go dey do pass yourself. I am not in anyway saying that there is no cheating, I am only trying to point out some points or behaviours of men that are not wonderful.

Do not search your wife’s messages and chats, they are not the best way to protect your wife and marriage. If you show your wife that you do not suspect her, if you show her that you trust her, 80% of them will show you maximum love and will not cheat on you. Even if the person is cheating, God will help you and expose her one day. But if you continue to show them that you do not trust them, you will see another side of them. Listening to her calls will not stop a cheat from cheating, she will just codify her words and you will never understand those words. A call that does not concern you, avoid making it a case. Love and trust is the best protective measure than being a watch dog. Continue Reading..........

VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA) PART FOUR By Tobe Eze

 

YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ME PLEASE. IT IS NOT MY FAULT

Lekwanu ndị mmadụ ooooo. You want me to be having village meeting when exams were after my life. Exam no be my mate, but na me find trouble, na me accepted to study. Anyways, thank God I have finished and I am back for our meeting to continue. We shall start this meeting with my experience during this exam period. Before I continue, biko, congratulate me for it was not easy for me at all.

This my guy from the same umunna called me two times but I missed the two calls in one day during this exam period. When I came in around 10:56pm, I told myself that it was late to return the call that day that I will call him tomorrow. The tomorrow came and I had two papers, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. After the two papers which were not all that easy for me, I forgot to return the call and continued preparing for the next paper. After two days, he sent me a message via WhatsApp and told me, “Tobe, what you are doing is not good but no problem. God is watching.” I tried to explain to him but he could not give me the opportunity. I tried all my best but he had already taken a decision. It pained me seriously but I was left with a tiny option. In my mind, I was telling myself that this guy suppose to understand me. Why is he saying all these? Kamu biakwa before I will give conclusion. Continue Reading...........

Justice: an Option for Peace in a Troubled Nigeria. By Tobe Eze

 This article has already been published in Limelight Magazine (Holy Family Fathers and Brothers of the Youth Congregation HFFBY) 2022

Introduction

Most troubles in Nigeria are caused by unhealthy division of public positions, fund and goods and unhealthy judgements. Again, when treatments become sectional or regional, it gives birth to many questions and those questions, if not answered well will cause crises. Those questions only demand, “Justice”. Nigeria from the amalgamation has been suffering from different troubles but the present situation seems to be the worst situation Nigeria has ever seen because of the loud cry of injustice all over the country. Justice has been sacrificed on the altar of ethnicity, tribalism, religiosity, sycophancy, hypocrisy, insincerity and so on. The duty of this article is to what justice is, types and how it can help the present state of the country. Continue Reading..........

VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA) PART THREE By Tobe Eze

 

THIS LIFE I CAN’T KILL MYSELF OOOOO. 

Seriously I have seen that this life is actually not balanced. When you are expecting that things will fall in place for you, one nonsense will just carry itself and take away your joy. Even, sometimes people will think you are enjoying without knowing that you are already dying. This is the cause of many depressions and even suicide we see these days. I have my many challenges likewise many other persons have theirs. If so, then I cannot come and kill myself.

Is it because I am getting old and my star is still delaying. The star does not want to shine. My classmates have made it, so many of them have many mansions, cars, business enterprises, companies, working in very high offices, top positions in the politics, have highly paid jobs and so on. I am just struggling to put food on my table, my life is filled with sufferings. Seriously I need to end all these. But, many of my classmates have also died and I am still alive. Biko, I can’t come and go and kill myself. Continue Reading..........

Poor parenting: another perspective on the cause of neo-paganism. By Tobe Eze

 

Introduction

Parenting is a vital tool in the training of every child, if handled very well with the help of God, brings forth the result of wonderful children and if neglected, the result will be nothing to write home about. Parenting has its primary place in the family. It is perfectly obtained in the family. There are now many ways parents train their children which contribute to the present situation of neo-paganism. It is now of an important role for this article to explain family, duties of parents in the training of children, poor parenting and how poor parenting can be a cause of neo-paganism. Continue Reading..,......

VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA) PART TWO By Tobe Eze

 

ALLOW ME TO ENJOY MYSELF BIKO 

Till you stay or work under presons who are like these, you will not understand why I am seriously shouting for this meeting ụmụnna. Most times, it is not always those who suffer more that cry out but those who are observing. That is why you will always notice mistakes in the pitch when you are just watching the match or you will be applying break with your legs and turning steering from your own side when you notice that the driver is not doing as you wish. This meeting that I am shouting for us to have is now urgent because of these:

Because you like taking alcohol, any other person who does not take alcohol should be avoided because you do not know what gives the person joy. Onye Joy. Biko, everyone must not be you and everyone must not like alcohol, mind your own business and pray  that that alcohol will not lead you astray. Or the other way round. Because you are not drinking alcohol, those who take it are now candidates for hell fire. Mummy G O daalụ. Who told you that that person taking alcohol is not better than you? Mind your own business and leave people alone biko. Na your own hell fire? Do not just allow your soft drink or water to disgrace you one day or worst still, take you to hell fire. Continue Reading.........

REASONS WHY NIGERIAN CITIZENS TRAVEL ABROAD By Victor Obinwa

                    

In recent times, Nigerian citizens have been travelling out of the country for one thing or the other. Those who have the financial wherewithal have landed themselves in America, Asia, Europe etc. and today, many are still trying to leave the shores of the country if they have the chance.

                           

     HERE ARE THE REASONS WHY NIGERIAN CITIZENS TRAVEL ABROAD

INCOME

Nigerians are aware that the time and energy they invest working in the country will earn them more income if they replicate that abroad. Being hardworking in diaspora means more money in the bank account, but the same cannot be said in the case of Nigeria.  Continue Reading.........

VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA) PART ONE By Tobe Eze

 Ndị men and women of God

Some may think that I am tired of breaking the table. I still have excess energy, just that I decided to enjoy my Christmas break. I really enjoyed the break. I am back again but not to break tables but just like Nigerian films, I will change the name of the series now. From now, it will no longer be table breaking but VILLAGE MEETING (MEETING ỤMỤNNA).

This Christmas opened my eyes ooo. A lady met me complaining how bad this her particular friend is. That they have been friends from childhood and this girl paid her back with betrayal. Because I know the pain of betrayal, I was already having pity on her. I was feeling her pains. But when I asked her what her friend did, my feelings changed. Continue Reading..........