Wealth or health
If you place a pack of money and bananas before a monkey it will choose the bananas because it doesn’t know that the money can buy enough bananas to feed it for a long time. In the same vein, if you place health and wealth before people today, many will choose money but all the…
Risks
Not starting anything at all is riskier than starting something and failing. The biggest risk is not taking any risk because life itself is warfare, not a fun fare. One’s decision to step out and take a risk is worth the trouble because only doers get what they want, others get what they see. A…
Back to Niagara Falls.
Tagged the highest waterfalls in the world, Niagara Falls is situated on the western bank of the Niagara River. In the summer of 2019,I embarked on a one-day return trip to Niagara Falls by train.Being pressed for time I only captured a few interesting sites on my camera-the narrow bridge between Canada and USA,the free…
Beyond the storms.
In the year 2021 Ontario had forty-six tornadoes. I check the weather forecast daily to see whether there is a warning for severe thunderstorms, freezing rain, extreme heat, or wind risk.Storms could uproot trees, damage buildings, and vehicles,disrupt power supply or kill people.There is no timetable for the storms of life. Birds avoid rain, not…
Handicapped.
In English language, the word handicapped is a combination of two words, hand and incapable.So when a person is not functioning the way he is supposed to be functioning, he is said to be handicapped, meaning that his hands are incapable. The hand is so important that it is used to describe so many situations…
The humbled bully.
Decades ago, during my primary school days, troublesome boys like me used to settle scores after school hours by fighting at isolated locations within the school compound.An unforgettable day came when unknown to me,the arrangement we made to settle a score with another classmate was twisted.No sooner than my challenger and I started wrestling at…
Palm wine.
PALM WINE. Palm wine is a common alcoholic drink in Africa. It is tapped from various types of palm trees. Freshly tapped palm wine is warm, frothy, milky and sweet. Palm wine tapping is a lucrative profession for some people in the southwest region of Nigeria. Palm wine can be drunk as freshly tapped, chilled…
Yams
Some people think yams are plucked from treetops like oranges and mangoes. Yams are cultivated worldwide, but mostly in West Africa, where over 90% of yams are harvested. In a typical yam farm, the ground is first cleared and heaps are made as the first rains of the year start. Sizable portions of good yams…
A sharp deviation from the norm.
Professor Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian Nobel laureate in literature. He and six others called the “Original Seven” founded the Pyrates Confraternity at the University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, now the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1952, that is 70 years ago. It was founded basically to drum up support for human rights and social justice…
Cocoa wine
Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (C.R.I.N.), is a federal establishment that researches various aspects related to the production of cocoa, cashew and coffee in some parts of Nigeria. The areas focussed upon include types of soil, seedlings, planting, nurturing, harvesting andprocessing of the researched items.Prominent among the departments that conduct these researches are Soil and…
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