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  The internet has been agog for a few days with a lot of people condemning the killing of one Deborah Yakubu, who was gruesomely murdered and burned to ashes by an irate Muslim mob for insulting their most revered prophet. I stand against the killing and hope that the perpetrators are brought to the book, but I felt that the death could have been avoided if Deborah had learned to respect the beliefs of other people as long as they do not hurt her.   The news going around was that she expressed her displeasure about a post dropped in their class WhatsApp group, but that was not the full truth; she was not killed for expressing her displeasure over the message. Her crime was insulting the pillar of other people’s religion. She went too far by adding the following sentence to her message when referring to the Muslims’ most referred prophet, “Prophet of Nonsense”.   Many people felt that her killers were wrong and they were right, but not too many people, except...

As a writer, I developed over the years, what I refer to as a “God Persona”, which is why nearly all my readers believe I am overly authoritative, arrogant, insulting, or always targeting a particular person or people with my works, but it is not an issue for my audience that have crossed to the “T” of KLT relationship with me; it only helps them to recognize my works anytime they see them.                   Creating “God Persona” writer’s voice is one of the toughest things in my writing career; it is a lot tougher than the writing itself. Moving people from the belief that I am arrogant, insulting, and always targeting certain people that I have personal issues with, to the level where they understand that it is just my way of passing my message is really hard. Many of them have given up. Because of the “God Persona” stance, many people believe that I will never take their corrections, and do not bother correcting me. These are some of the ...

  It seems that when it comes to scam investments, Nigerians, regardless of how much they have lost in the past, never learn their lessons. The situation in Nigeria has turned several people into criminals, and sometimes we know it. We are just hoping to benefit from the loot and in the end, many of us become the loots. From MMM to several Ponzi schemes, to Chinmark, and most recently Ovaioza, Nigeria has always had scams or bad investments through which people lose their monies year in, year out. There are people who lost their monies to those three mentioned above. It seems to me that they do not learn their lessons.   Someone I know recently invested up to 15 million, 13 million of which is not his money, in a scam investment. In fact, the money included the ones he has been saving to get married. He had to abandon his house and run out of Lagos, people whose money he collected to invest are now on the lookout for him.   The marriage has also been cance...

A few weeks ago, when I was invited to   Ogunlade Secondary School to speak on the topic “MENTAL HEALTH & BEHAVIOURS OF THE STUDENTS”   I took time to speak about sexuality and sexual orientation; I knew that I could not possibly speak about their mental health of adolescents and offer the best solutions without talking about their primary interest – sex!     Sex is the primary interest of adolescents & young adults; their major source of strength and motivation is sexual. No amount of holiness will take this away; parents and qualified educators can only help them manage it properly.     Nothing takes the attention of adolescents as sexual content & conversations and while this is an opportunity for the educators to discover and make the right sex education available to them, many of them are engulfed in the blame game, demonizing kids for just expressing their curiosity about sex.   We blame the devil for attacking young peopl...

  The Sexually Smart Boy is a sex education book for male adolescents (between ages 13 & 20). It contains a well-researched and arguably the best form of sex education for adolescents. This includes, but is not limited to strategies for maintaining Sexual Purity, strategies for the development of self-confidence, strategies for escaping sexual assaults & rape, strategies for escaping getting roped into sexual misconduct, and strategies for proper management of sex urge & crushes.     Book Highlights 1.       What you should know about sex now. 2.      Why you should abstain from sex now. 3.      Knowing when you are ready for sex. 4.      What to do if you have had sex before. 5.      How sexual intercourse influences your masculinity. 6.      Why you should take responsibility for your sex life. 7.   ...

  The Sexually Smart Girl is a sex education book for female adolescents (between ages 12 & 20). It contains a well-researched and arguably the best form of sex education for adolescents. This includes, but is not limited to strategies for maintaining sexual purity, strategies for the development of body confidence, strategies for escaping sexual assaults & rape, and strategies for proper management of sex urges & crushes.   Book Highlights 1.       What you should know about sex now. 2.      Why you should abstain from sex now. 3.      Knowing when you are ready for sex. 4.      What to do if you are sexually active. 5.      How sexual intercourse influences your feminism. 6.      Why you should take responsibility for your sex life. 7.       How to manage sex urges & crushes. 8.  ...

  Many people, especially those raised either by none of their parents, single parents, or parents that did not love each other and abused each other while the children are present often have faith in hate. Take me for instance, I did not grow up with either of my parents; my granny tried her best to raise me with love, but the environment, which she did not know about and did not know how to protect me from taught me to have faith in hate. My loveless environment implanted in me, faith in hate, and I manifested this faith in different ways. Growing with the mindset that everyone hates me except my granny, I spent a lot of time that would have been enough to appreciate those that loved me analyzing those that hate me, and responding to their hate comments on my works. The more I did that, the more I attracted haters and chased my lovers away. As time went on, it seemed all I had were only haters; love was dying in my life because I had faith in hate and not in love. By focusing so ...

One major wrong decision I made was changing my surname while I was in secondary school. How can anyone imagine me changing my surname without telling my parents or guardian? Who could have inspired me to do that? Who has done it before me?  The truth is that before I decided to change my surname in secondary school, I have never seen anyone change their surname. They may change their first and middle names, but definitely not their surname. Having not seen anyone change their surname did not deter me from doing so, I knew I needed to do so, and I did. For me, it was all that mattered and no one was going to stand in my way.  So, why did I change my surname?  I lived in Ilorin with my maternal Granny and other family members before I turned 5 and I did not begin schooling until I was 6. At that time, other kids staying with my granny had already started schooling in Ilorin.  I usually stayed at home with my great-grandmother whenever everyone had gone to work and oth...