#CandidCITATION 1 – Sexual harassment is exasperating because Temi Otedola says (the sexual predator) ‘…is clever, manipulative and credible’

Temi Otedola provides one of the most fitting descriptions of the average sexual offender. She tells us that sexual offenders are a complex bundle of contradictions – ‘clever, manipulative and credible,’ at the same time. That they walk on this almost iron-cast tripod. Which is why combating the monster of sexual harassment is usually tasking and frustrating. For not only are the predators a walking…

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Opportunity #14 – Experience the cold comfort that ‘Big brother United States’ had something similar to ours #blackoctober

It is no secret that many Nigerians are in love with many things American. It is doubtful if there is another country in the world that many Nigerians love more than the United States. Nigerians like to compare themselves with the United States in many respects. So when reports broke that there was widespread looting of shopping malls following protests focused on police brutality in…

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What if Scooby Doo was called Too Much as the creators originally intended?

Might it have become a global franchise worth billions of dollars today? Mightn’t the story had been different if Fred Silverman, CBS executive program maker had heard Frank Sinatra’s Stranger in the Night’s last sequence correctly instead of mishearing him during a flight from New York to Los Angeles? Would Frank Sinatra ever have believed his scat sequence in Strangers in the Night, ‘Scooby dooby…

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Why some say President Buhari should replace his ministers with Alibaba, Gordons, Bovi, Ay, IGoDye, Yaw, Taaoma, etc

There’s a significant number of Nigerians facing poverty-induced troubles who wish to overcome them or forget them at the least Comedians usually make their audience temporarily forget their troubles Comparatively speaking, making people laugh is cheaper than giving them cash in a cash-strapped system Comparatively speaking, an atmosphere saturated with laughter is definitely better than one saturated by anger, resentment, suspicion, mistrust and Laughter can…

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Opportunity #13 – Grow vegetables in the home for the mind to feed on something special apart from the regular issues #blackoctober

Why is the #EndSARS moment an opportunity for more people to grow vegetables in their homes so that the mind may feed on something special apart from the regular issues of human rights, survival, vengeance, governance, etc? What has growing vegetables in the home got to do with the demands of youths to end SARS or the response of government so far? Neither the youths…

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Opportunity #12 – Radically change our education curriculum to make it more empowering to young people #blackoctober

Is there any debate about the ‘empowering index’ of our current educational curriculum? Is the fault about the worrying figures of unemployment in the stars or in us? Do not the unemployment and under-employment figures suggest there is something fundamentally out of order about the education curriculum architecture? And if we agree that there are fundamental gaps in the architecture when will the discussion begin…

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An Okada-Rider’s logic

One evening, a guy flagged an Okada-rider to take him to the cinema. He hopped on the back seat and they began their journey. Shortly after he asked the passenger for his fare telling him that he didn’t want members of the transport union stationed at the entrance of the cinema, to demand his evening dues from him. He pleaded that the union members were…

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Opportunity #11 – Harvest the symbolism of the ‘location’ of many of the looted warehouses #blackoctober

Every now and again we are supplied with metaphors and symbols that help remind us about some fundamental principles of living. The system for ensuring that a newborn baby receives quality nutrition kicks into operation while the program for his/entrance into the world nears. The mother’s milk factory waits for the tiny mouth to take its first suckle and begin its journey outside the womb….

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