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Twins Palava👬

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😀You people should know that English is hard, more reason I decided to write this the way it is coming to my mind. Grammarians biko don't fish for errors, e nu go, odikwa intentional. I hope you haf also noticed my embellishment of igbo language😀? 🚩So, in this section of the universe NYSC decided to throw me. Me was jejely strolling with my roomie and this chubby woman with two kids, one strapped to her back and the other in front, comman walk up to us saying, "corpers, twins are greeting you". Me kè, greeting me, twins that cannot talk yet abi? It is like you want to use us to play soft work. Did I say the woman was with a big black bag💼? I didn't abi, that's because I didn't notice at first. Me just kept walking o, I'm in no man's land, I cannot comman be talking too much to strangers. Na so my Mama teach me, you can ask her. 🏦Fast-forward two days later, I con go collect the change in my piggy bank, ATM to be precise. I saw mummy twins wi...

Pistols at dawn🗣 (A Short Story)

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🤦🏾‍♂Seriously, this service year has done me in. My place of primary assignment (PPA) did not provide accommodation for corps members so I had to make do with a one room apartment popularly known as "face me I face you". Living with the indigenes is fun, but today it became a bit sour as I recount my ordeal. 🏚I came back from my PPA tired to my bones and still had to do some running around till 7pm. Thereafter, I dashed to the bathroom which was reeking of an odour I couldn't fathom. I managed to take my bath, went back to my room and slept off almost immediately. My sleep😴 was sound as I didn't even know PHCN had restored power. 🔫Then I woke up to the sound of heavy banging on a door but I was sure it wasn't my door. It sounded like the main door which gives entrance into the house's passage. The people on the other side of the door started shouting, "open this door or else we'll break it down. At the count of three, if you don't open ...

You came prepared🗣

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⚔Hi everyone, hope you have been good and you all enjoyed the blessings the month of October brought with it? The challenges, yes the challenges too, I hope you had the fortitude to surmount them? Wow! That month has a special space in my heart, and I resonate with it every year because it is the month God decided to recruit my Dad into his heavenly team fifteen years ago. It made my life a test I didn't study for; but, I came prepared. 🗡Unless you don't believe there is a Creator who made the universe and every creature in it. The good book says it takes the Glory of God to conceal a matter and the honour of men to search it out. When we really search with our heart and mind, we will know that nothing evolves without an external force (seen or unseen) exerting an impact. However stiff we might seem to find our sojourn on earth, we should endeavour to trust the journey, knowing fully well that our creator sent us here prepared. 🛡Definitely, there will be twists and turn...