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The truth about my grandparents

If I may ask, how has the week fared? Now that activities are back with full force, I do trust a lot of us are in shape to see through our various responsibilities at home and at work.  If there was one thing I missed this holiday, visiting my old aged grandmother is number one and that old big house like a palace too. Although I did miss some couple of other things but she ranks number one. Growing up as a kid, she played an important role in my life, I can't just imagine a world without my grandparents. Typical of our culture in Africa, my grandma had many reasons to visit us or send gifts to us from her base. The palm oil, kuli kuli, garri, biscuits and much more. I miss her fresh vegetable soup with spices eaten with a fine pounded yam wrapped in leafs. Someone's mouth is salivating right now. (lols). Oh! How I love her and still do. I can picture her face right now smiling at me. Enough of my grandparent. Lets talk about yours? What is your relationship with th...

Happy New Year

Yay, it's a New Year! Glad we all made it to 2018. This means a lot of things to different people. To some it is the year they will be sending invitation cards for marriage, birthday celebrations, house warming, thanksgiving, some would even be leaving the shores of this country without a thought of looking back, sad as it may seem but its the truth. Though it five days now into the new year, I will like to know if the excitement is still there as it was from December 23, 2017 and January 1, 2018. The Christmas season is gone, the celebration is done. How I loved it despite the fuel scarcity that attempted to darken it. Yes, I meant attempted, how else can one explain such occurrence rearing it's ugly head during the last festive season. This was the day I saw the resilience in Nigerians. I hail o! Against all odds and hike in cost of transportation, Nigerians still traveled to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones. As I write, some Nigerian roads still bear a forlorn ...