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Are there still brooms in the market?

Everywhere I turn, someone is either talking about GEJ’s hilarious make-up or GMB’s stunning daughter. I have gradually become convinced that all these aggressive debates about the contesting giants are responsible for the alarming weather twists. Or, how else can one explain the sudden heat wave that has taken over Lagos in the past few days except that like that largely forgotten  KOWA woman, the sun has decided to remind us of its existence after harmattan’s intense reign. Someone I know actually put up a status pleading with harmattan to remember this is Nigeria, not Russia. Such pleas must have made the sun extremely jealous, hence the vengeance we are experiencing now. Now that Charles Soludo has almost rendered both parties unworthy of our precious votes( which also signify our power) by his much appreciated expose’ on the state of the Nigerian economy, I am weak. So weak that if anybody should mention Buhari, APC, Jonathan or PDP around me right now: I would scream. OK,

Gotta Have That!

A lot of things happen to us that almost take away the things we think we cannot live without. I bet you have said at some point in your life, ‘I cannot do without bathing at night, I won’t be able to sleep at all’. Or, ‘I have to have my phone with me all the time’. Or maybe, ‘my mum, I just cannot live without her’. So many things we cannot do without! I am also sure that at some point, in defending your supposed inability to do without such a thing to others, you have probably said; ’it’s part of my person, I’m just used to it’.  I bet you even have ready examples of situations when you almost had to do without it and the extreme steps you took, just because, to you, it is that important! Recently, I have been thinking a lot, I’m trying to find that one thing that is absolutely important to me, that I cannot imagine doing without, that I’ll go to any length to have or protect. And yes, I know life is impossible without God, we all do, so this is not about Him. I have