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Freedom is sweet. Its thought alone fuels that strong desire to break hitherto barriers that have proved stubborn to give way on its path. One of its greatest weakness is its boldness to drop hints of its presumed lofty ambition which is always met with a resistance. Its never far from each of us, we only need to find it. Freedom is many things, but one thing is certain, taking one owns life is not, harming your loved ones, and disobeying rules and regulations of a society is not, else, if we all do, that's a call for chaos. Laws and orders are not meat to deny us freedom of expression but to deal with those hell bent on preventing it to happen. Freedom means different things to different people. To some it is actually being free of any cause to a responsibility and more especially break laws without a corresponding consequence. They kind of resent established authorities they perceive as a measure of control to limit and allow them to do as they want. I once fell into this c...

November looks to be the loveliest month to me though I wasn’t born in November.  After my month, November comes close. Perhaps the beauty of the month is in its pronunciation. I hope to name one of my unborn children ‘November’.  It does sound cool, right? As much as the weather changes in November, something hasn’t changed! I have heard it many times when they say it’s a man’s world, true to it, especially in Africa, it really is. Especially where I come from, the male dominates the society in politics, corporate organizations and many more. It is generally believed the females are better as house wives as it is their duty is to raise the children. In some part of Nigeria, as young as 13 years old they are given up for marriage! This is no fable but a reality check. While commuting to work, I listened to a drama play addressing the issue of child marriage in our society. I was taken aback, what does a thirteen year old girl know about been a wife and mother? A girl ...