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Life lessons from the 2018 World Cup

Life lessons from the 2018 World Cup

Dear Reader,

Six months after my last post, this is the perfect icebreaker. As you probably know by now, the French are the champions of the 2018 World Cup for the second time after their 1998 victory on home soil. From then till now, one thing remains clear, France comes fully packed with a strong team.

This year, I watched some of the matches while skyping with my friends back home. There is…

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Nigeria and the people who leave

Dear Reader,

I write this with a throbbing toothache, one that has refused to let me have at least 3 hours sleep straight. In the meantime before the pain meds kick in, I will rant about my beloved Nigeria.

Honestly, I have been meaning to write this for a while now but when my friend and colleague puts up a link to an article written on Bloomberg about the Nigerian-Americans and the level of…

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2018, BRING IT!!!

Dear Reader,

Another year begins!

For me, 2017 went pretty fast. Got a new job, left Nigeria, started school in Canada and according to Facebook made 283 new friends. I confirm that I actually did meet awesome people last year . It was a good year filled with the usual challenges but now in a colder climate. I learnt a whole lot about myself last year and believe me it was quite a revelation.

A…

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LOVE, no matter what

Sometimes all you've got is love...

Dear Reader,

Here’s the thing; love is totally worth it.

In my own view, I feel the word LOVE means so much more than we actually get to experience in our lifetime. Just like the American scientists, William James and Boris Sidis proposed that we humans only get to use about ten percentage of our brains, I strongly feel there’s so much to this four letter word that we don’t know of or are yet to

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I am NOT my hair!

I am NOT my hair!

Dear Reader,

It’s 33 days into 2017, nevertheless, Happy New Year! Better late than never right?

The Natural Hair fever has been around for quite some time now and its quite a rave especially in Nigeria. Seriously, sales on hair relaxers have taken a mild hit.

These days, in every five ladies you know, three of them are naturalistas(growing their hair naturally). From the use of shea butter oil…

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Yup, keep movin'

Yup, keep movin’

Dear Reader,

So, this will be pretty short.

The first 8 months of the year are gone! Officially we have spent 244 days out of 366 in 2016. This year has surely been a whirlwind!! Still remember when I was at vigil mass from 31st Dec to crossover to Jan 2016. Clearly remember the happy-new year messages that ran my phone battery down. Now, August’s sliding away….

The “MBER” months are…

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On those days you just want to RUN!

On those days you just want to RUN!

Dear Reader,

Some days like today, I feel overwhelmed!

  Challenges will always be part of life. Eventually, it is part of  what makes us who we are.

On those days when you feel like throwing in the towel or like me, leaving your footwear behind and just tear race (translated from Nigeria’s pidgin English which simply means RUN), please don’t.  Well, you can still have that run but do wear a…