5 Things Highly Successful People Do Before 6 AM

What do successful people do before the morning begin to buzz with activities? Is it possible that their secret to success has something to do with how they handle their mornings? Perhaps they follow a routine that motivates them to do more than the average person is wired to do?

We can not overemphasize that consistency brings forth desired results and such habit has separated few people from the crowd. The word, successful is attached to a result and such result only comes from positive habits. Here is a list of things that makes some people successful and healthy.

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Post Christmas Jazz: 25 thousand naira turn 10 naira notes

It is not unusual to hear about different occurrence during and after the festive period. People become highly sensitive to their environment and increased their surveillance rate as soon as they enter the “ember” months.

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Congo: Mangbetu and Religious Beliefs

The Mangbetu people are from Central Africa – Congo. They believe that an elongated skull with a flattened forehead pleases the Gods.

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In the ancient times, members of this tribe considered the skull deformation as a sign of higher intelligence and a status symbol among the ruling class.

They ensured that their children also gets this shape of head and it became the duty of the community women to form babies head. The women make use of tight clothes to wrap the children heads just to form the desired shape.

The tradition is locally referred to as Lipombo and it must start exactly a month after birth and continues for several years until the child acquires the preferred shape of the head.

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5 Things My Exes Taught Me

Every relationship we find ourselves ought to be an eye opener to us about life. If it’s not making us better people, we ought not to be in it. Whether it’s a relationship with animals or human

Every interaction became for a reason and it is left to us to scrutinize and understand. I was in a market sometime ago looking for a particular specie of fish and waoh! I got insult of my life just because i have preference. This makes me remember the romantic relationship I’ve found myself in and the lessons I learnt.

I learnt that in life, it is not everyone you come across that is worthy to have a moment with you.

My exes are terrifically wonderful set of people and for once, I never regret I met them but it’s painful I expected too much from them.

Mr T, happens to be my official first boyfriend and damn! He was such a nice person. He was like the guy from my dreamland so I put in everything, well, maybe not everything though but then, I so wanted it to fulfil my childhood wish.

At a particular time I had to call myself back to my drawing  board so as to remember my art…sooner,  I realised Mr T didn’t even meet my specification but still, I didn’t plan on “in and out” affair so I kept pushing for a better him…

 

Bom! It’s because our routine. Argument upon argument and unnecessary allegations then it dawned on me that I am not holy spirit the changer of human.  lol

one very good day which stayed with our usual made me pull the red card without a blink and that was it.

 

Fast forward to Mr E

I thought after my earlier crash, I wouldn’t make any mistakes so I took my time to sieve and then allowed the “best” in.

Soft spoken, cute, goal oriented, heaven cautious and more… (laugh)

I said to myself, “this is the destination”. Mr E was all the good thing I mentioned but several bad that I refused to concede till his attitude flame pollute my air…and it also ended.

1. Don’t rush into a relationship
2. Never try to manage someone/change their perception because it might be considered as being pompous
3. When allegations becomes frequent, do your research because such fellow is guilty
4. Love is not emotional
5. Don’t necessarily tell all that happened in past relationship in a new one because you don’t owe anybody that much.

 

Sojourn To The Spirit World

Though her eyes were widely open
Her palms were cold
A loud bang of sweat dropped
The dust took cover
Several voices
Sympathisers
Heavy crowd gathered with a bitter face as they watch their queen slowly stroll to the underworld
Alas! A brave dark handsome messiah surfaced

 Hit her with pain but handled her with love and jacked her to her feet
It’s dangerous to watch you go damsel, he whispered.

The voice was slow, weak and quick at the same time
Return to us, the wailers chant in accord at the sight of her lifeless beauty being lift into the ambulance
But we prayed against this, some screamed out loud
We rebuked this, other added.

My Glimpse of death

BLOODLESS VIRGINS

“How on earth could she have lied to me with so much gut? Why would she even dare to claim what she is not because I penetrated so easily, in fact, after several strokes, in awe of what was happening, I kept going faster for sign of  blood but there was no blood; now tell me, is this not the peak of deceit”?

These were the questions my friend desperately needed answers to after he discovered his long time sweet heart wasn’t a virgin.

“Virginity, a state of the mind”

Technically, there is no absolute definition of virginity or who a virgin is but there is a dictionary definition encoded in cultural and traditional beliefs. Dictionary defines virginity as a state at which an individual has not has sexual intercourse.

The issue of virginity is embedded in several misinformations, wrapped in cultural and religious beliefs. Dated back to the traditional era, virginity is attached to intact hymen which serves as proof of maidenhood, but the question that clouds my head while my friend rant was, what good is a membrane that can rupture naturally and knowing that some girls are not even born with it, also hymenoplasty is an option this days.

Cultural and Religious belief has made virgins sacred and virginity, determinant of purity and moral behavior, neglecting the myths that come with these beliefs. It is misconception of the concept, ‘virginity/virgin’ that makes people view a lady that does not bleed on her first sexual intercourse as non-virgin. Also, traditionally, virginity is portrayed through a blood stain on a white cloth on the night of marriage which is assumed that the man and woman will have sex for the very first time. This traditional way of telling the world that the new bride is a virgin as played a huge role in the conception of virginity which has subjected several women to reproach, neglect, abuse, pain, loss of a good man, societal disgrace but to mention few…

Bleeding during or after first sex should be frown at because it in no way describe a virgin. According to British Medical Journal, 63% of women are not likely to bleed on their first sex because the hymen differs in every woman. This difference however, is the determinant of bloodshed from a woman’s vagina. Study reviewed that some women have very tiny hymen which partially covers the vagina. In this case, a woman with a tiny hymen will allow easy penetration without any form of obstruction from the hymen while women with a larger hymen which covers virtually all part of their vagina will experience difficulty during sexual intercourse which invariable lead to hurting them during penetration then later produce blood.

Therefore, it became pertinent to publish this article for lack of information leads to deformation. Also, to eradicate mischievous beliefs that, every virgins must bleed on their first sexual intercourse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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VICTIM

Alcoholic, the voice that speak many languages.

You empower yourself with a gulp and turn to me in anger

Tore me down into pieces

Forced the hood into my thigh, neglecting the fitness and tenderness

Gosh! You sprayed it all over me

You laugh as hot tears graced my face and mock my weaken voice crying for freedom

Finally, the voices vanished and left you in misery

Deed is done

Good girl join bad gang

Ready to spit venom on faces with manhood

She journeyed in pain and hate

Losing her happiness to a terror

Alas! Mother luck rejected her as her wounded soul haunt her to grave

She left her home to mingle among termites

she caused the land of the living.

 

 

 

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THE STREET

Street beggars

On a high low

Steady hasty vehicles

Many heads and few legs

Rushing towards a direction

Buses and cars sped off in high tone

Some skidded off their zone

Several funny cute faces in rags

Staring in happiness and sadness

Kids on bare foot running back and forth the busy road

Auntie, whistles incarnation to get my little cash

Babies clinged to the back like load for endless trip

Dusty rusty movement

Wailing for a landing space

Here comes the man in khaki

Kicking asses while flunting their car keys

Echoes of the homes beckon like a clapping thunder

Give us a place to place our heads or leave us to the street where help we meet

A loud sound from the riffle

The earth gathers it’s strength in support

Bang!

A soul became ‘soulless’

 

 

 

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ARE WE STILL SAFE IN NIGERIA?

‘Are we safe?’ This question popped through my mind countless times. It is a security observation. Hmmmm, gone are those days when you can walk freely (even at night) without fear. Now, you have to check and watch your sides, front and back (and even your inner-self because you never can tell) vigilantly to be assured and that even does not mean you can not be kidnapped or robbed. That is naija for you. But why?

Almost half a decade now, we experienced what I call the ‘commercial kidnap’ of close to 200 school girls in Borno State which we are yet to recover from and again, we were romanced and raped. Just recently, there was another raid by the insurgency carting away about 94 school girls. (This made me ask, ‘ why always girls?’)

Just as events unfold, we heard about the arrest of the kidnap kingpin Evans of which the case is gradually sweeping itself into the ocean of forgetfulness. They made us believe the paparazzi of the capture which in my opinion, is a case of thieves tracing their colleagues footprints on the mountain of loot.

The new menace, I hope you have heard. The staffs turned rifles. The herdsmen (so are they called) sending our fellow countrymen to Thanatus cold-blooded. I even heard that there is nothing or nobody they can’t destroy (to the extent of threatening a state governor). Yet, all our oga at the top could do is to ‘beg’ them not to kill anymore. Damn it!

Are we even secured with the presence of our security operatives? Some policemen were ambushed and killed in Benue State. Even those who we thought would protect our lives. (Well, my own life is protected by God).

Can you imagine? A state governor sounded an almighty alarm that his state is going to be under attack and nothing was done to protect his vulnerability. The state was eventually attacked anyways.

Several cases of killings and insurgency were recorded in Benue, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara States etc. Yet, we live in the cacophony and whirlwind of fear. Sleeping with our two eyes open and our leaders: the encyclopedia of nothing.

A Yoruba adage says, ‘a child should not be afraid of his father’s house’ but when the father’s house has proved to be a slaughter slab, won’t the child run for his life?

No wonder Nigeria is among the deadliest countries to reside. Do we still have our peace? Or have they matriculated us with the gown of distress never to convocate?

In the Nigeria of today, it is everyman for himself and God for us all.