My Story about those guys you dread!!! #DiaryOfTheHostage feat. NoWhere Girl by @BlessingTangban

ZUBA

Zuba! Zuba!! Zuba!!! Oga you no dey go?

A man alighted a cab at the junction where I stood waiting for a cab and as I looked into the car, I saw the three unfriendly faces – they reminded me of the kind of faces we saw way back when we begged to be dropped at Dutse junction after we had scaled fences to return home without due permission from the school authority – this is a familiar story of students of GSS Kuduru, as it is called.

I was already late for work that day, and to make those faces the reason not to board the cab, I didn’t consider. I greeted them with a pretentious smile and as expected, they whispered something that sounded more of a treat than a greeting – affirming my dread for their faces. No one spoke a word while we journeyed. Not too long, another passenger, a broad shouldered man, with beard that almost made him look like one of those people, he wore a cap that half-covered his head, ‘attire’ that revealed no skin and shoes that announced his belief in every piece that was revealed.

SKIRT and BLOUSE (It will blow your mind) by Odunola Don Kolawolu

Skirt

your complexion indeed competes
with a riped pawpaw
and it's true that it never fails
to capture roaming gaze

Mommy wants you to get married right?

So Sunday was a great day for me and a whole lot of you too. I enjoyed the service and the after-church meetings. As usual, there are three services of which I recently started attending just the second and third because I needed more time for rest after the week's up-and-down journeying, especially Saturday's hustling and bustling.

I have been away from home for a while now and since this year began, I haven't seen my mom, so yesterday, being the only day I am usually free from every work there is, I wanted to see mommy,  so I left church for a bit and hurried home to see her. As I got off the Okada, Mommy wouldn't stop singing ''baba oyoyo.'' I, on the other hand couldn't stop laughing. She really did miss me. I sat next to her and we got talking about stuffs.
We talked about a lot: how her business has been, how my trip to Benin went, how my siblings are fairing and how the neighbours are treating her and a whole lot of other things mothers would always talk about.

20 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make In Your 20s

 
So I wanted to read something before going to bed. So I reached for my guardian's phone, turned on the Hotspot and right on the internet I stumbled on an article I found on Elite daily. I took out time to copy parts of the article and would want you to read through and then go on the site to continue reading.

Enjoy!

Your 20s compose undoubtedly the most pivotal time in your life. While there are plenty of temptations and distractions, the decisions you make here are truly what dictate your future, as the weak fail and only the strong survive.
Do you have what it takes to become a monumental success? Or will you live out a life of mediocrity? The choice is up to you. While many think they have all the answers and the keys to success, we have seen those people make the same pitfalls too many times before.
This is the time for you to hustle, scrap and fight for the life that you want for yourself. You manifest your own destiny during these crucial years.
Every move you make is a test. Don’t f*ck it up. These are the 20 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make In Your 20s.

20. Working for money, not for building your dreams

Never do anything just because it’s convenient for you. Look to challenge yourself and build your own dream instead of building someone else’s. Even if it doesn’t exactly make sense now, create something with great value so you can cash out big.
Always look to the future and never for immediate compensation. What are you going to do with those weekly wages anyways? Stop being so entitled and pretending like you deserve cash, prizes and vacations just yet. You will soon realize once you’ve made it that making money doesn’t make you happy. It’s the journey. Continue Reading...