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Losing my Virginity

Contrary to New Telegraph’s article, “Virginity isn’t something to regret losing.” I’m wholeheartedly telling you- Virginity is something you’ll regret losing if you haven’t lost it already. You may not agree with my methodologies, but the bible does, it says that soon as a man and woman join, they become one body and that’s a spiritual fact. Even the Quran condemns it. Purity and chastity may have gone out of fashion, the scriptures may be archaic, but wrong will never become right just because it is accepted by majority. Sex and intimacy are not the same thing. Dr. Patricia Love, the author of Truth About Love, writes that “a feeling of intimacy is created by a “chemical cocktail” that is produced in the brain during sex and stays with each person for up to 24 hours after intercourse.” Having sex is no guarantee that the deep emotional intimacy that everyone longs for will develop. You could be fucked and forgotten. Girls stand even greater risk to be latter. A slight sting of sol...

Finding Christ as a 21st Century Teenager

Someone suggested this article be renamed, “An Interesting Journey with the Creator.” But I must admit my expedition with God has been quite bumpy, one moment- fire Chisom. The next moment- G-eazy’s “fuck with me and get some money.”   Well, at teenagerhood, we start to experience peer pressure to sin in some way (e.g., drinking alcohol, drugs, premarital sex, etc.). I’m guilty, but somehow, I’m happy that God let me experience some of it. The other part of me feels sorrow for not being well prepared to deal with life. It is of supreme importance to assert that early childhood experiences shape adult life. We are what we repeatedly do. It’s like having indiscriminate sex and saying, “Oh, I’ll change when I get married.” Like recurring decimal, once a habit develops, it becomes ever more difficult to change. As Youth Leaders, the most powerful tool we can attain now is- the presence of God. Longing nearness to God without shame. Because, God is love. God created us to ...

Nigeria: The Uncharted Road to 2019

The time is here, finally, the much-awaited Presidential election. In less than 10 days, Nigerians would decide for themselves between a frail, old, lifeless, self-proclaimed 76-year-old or another fortunate pluck of the old stock. Both of them, two sides of the same coin, are chips off the same old block. Our united inability to learn from Nigeria’s history is the reason we are still recycling the one set of rulers (for they are not really leaders) from 1966 till date. Lamentably, history as subject is entirely has been thrown out of school curricular in Primary and Secondary. It is for this reason the much younger folks have no idea about how Buhari under the Buhari/Idiagbon military regime arrested and detained people at will and indefinitely. He jailed innocent journalists including Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson (though they ironically and tragically campaigned for him in 2015); Buhari abolished civil rights allowing his government to summarily try and execute some Nigerians i...

The Parable of Talents

A talent is a gift, an ability, a skill, a flair, call it whatever. Some are birthed into it, whilst some have to make theirs- Survival.  I’m unsure if its just me, but sometimes I feel like my life is wasting. I’d lay on my cushion reminding myself of my inabilities. How I sang so off the key, how people would laugh when I tried to imitate Zlatan Ibile’s “zanku”. How I could neither bake nor cook. How the fried rice I cooked for the Fam didn’t turn out as anticipated even after using 8 seasoning cubes.  Let’s get one thing straight today. The enemy of self-survival is you. Simi is such a great singer, the Nigerian Nightingale. Beautiful girl with a matching voice. Now, Davido on a different perspective isn’t such a great singer like the former. Not withstanding how badly he sings, he has received a total of 44 awards and 96 nominations. Attitudinal characteristic of a typical Nigerian is grief. We complain about everything and nothing. Once I offered to help someone get...