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Domestic Economy Family & Kids Featured Joy Mfon Essien Life Notes

5 Regular Power Spices in Your Kitchen

Spices are basically any seed, fruit, root, bark or other plant substance primarily used for flavouring or coloring food.  They fall in the same seasoning category as herbs but they’re distinguished in the fact that herbs are the leaves, stems and flowers of plants used for flavouring or garnishing.  Today, the focus is on spices. Read More…

Domestic Economy Family & Kids Featured Joy Mfon Essien Life Notes

Getting your introvert child to talk to you

Some years ago, on the Oprah Winfrey Show, one of the guests was talking about children and how they handled bullying and how parents could step in, and she told parents that whenever their kids returned from school, after asking how their day went, we should ask direct questions like, “Did anyone bully you today?” Read More…

Faith Featured Life Notes The Good News

Doing Exploits for God in Mission & Evangelism

Daniel 11:32b; 1 Thess. 1:1-10 The word “exploits” connotes extraordinary accomplishments, breaking new grounds and setting new records. To do exploits is to have outstanding successes with powerful impacts – for the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2:9 “But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the Read More…

Featured Nigeria Notes Politics Wole Olaoye

The Power of Soft Power

Every corridor of power is strewn with its own peculiar coterie of grovellers. They may come under various designations— Special Assistant, Press Secretary, Special Adviser, Commissioner or some other official nomenclature— what unites them is their blind and unthinking resort to extra-legal measures in defence of their principals. Some public officials who don’t know any Read More…

Featured Maxim Uzoatu Nigeria Notes Politics

Dictatorship of the Progressives

There was a time in this country when today’s turncoat activists of Nigeria were mouthing past phraseologies of Marxism and hollering, “Dictatorship of the Proletariat!” These ill-assorted characters later morphed into what they termed “The Progressives” of Nigerian politics. These mortals shall remain nameless in this piece, as mentioning their wonky and crooked names shall Read More…

Domestic Economy Family & Kids Featured Joy Mfon Essien Life Notes

Lifestyle of an intentional woman

An intentional woman focuses on and nurtures what is important to her and doesn’t leave anything to chance. This quality spreads across her lifestyle, attitude, relationships, dressing, mindset and general view of life. She’s intentional about everything. Her choices, how she lives her life, how she’s perceived and treated and also what she tolerates, lets Read More…

Dear Ex-Boyfriend Ese Walter Featured Life Notes Relationships

I Don’t Need Closure From You Anymore

February turned out to be my most inspiring month. Not to mention the most love-filled. Which is crazy, as this love didn’t involve anyone else but myself. I truly believed that being in love meant being wrapped up in someone, preferably a partner, preferably you—back when you were my world. But this month, love looked Read More…

Crime Featured Insurgency Kidnapping Nigeria Notes Rivers Wole Olaoye

The Other Emergency

When Nigeria’s President Tinubu declared a state of emergency on oil-rich Rivers State last week, the issue took over every waking minute of Nigerians at home and abroad. Someday, historians are going to make a meal of the various views, declarations and subterfuges at play. By the time the true story of what transpired is Read More…