Rain has a multitude of benefits to the earth which includes watering crops, humidifying the air, replenishing the water table and redistribution of fresh water in the water cycle.

Both of you have now given away greater and greater chunks of your life; rewriting label on your time from “mine” to ours. It’s the beginning of commitment. If this becomes a crisis in your romance, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the romance was wrong, you can have the right romance, feel deep love and commitment yet find yourself in a stage that is paralysing. The opposite is true too. Just because the two of you have no doubts does not necessarily mean that you’ve chosen right.

Okey Bakassi, one of Nigeria’s foremost comedians succinctly captured the way many men, and indeed, our society still perceive the issue of rape, one of man’s most dastardly acts against womanhood, In a video clip I saw last week, which was recorded at one of the Glo Lafta Fest events, Okey painted a scenario where two women, one married and the other single, went to report to the Police that they had been raped.

Recently, I felt my marriage course participants were getting too comfortable and lethargic as they were preparing for marriage. I decided to jolt them by showing them the other side of marriage, starting from the lesser drawbacks. I had barely gone 30 percent when I started noticing anxiety in their faces. One of them, who could not take it anymore, blurted out: “Excuse me, sir, you are scaring us.” My intention was not to scare them from marriage, so I stopped.

In recent weeks, the city of Lagos has been all but taken over by water. Floods accumulated from days of rainfall have found their way into places they ought not to be- mostly inside people’s residences. Kilometers of roads have been washed away, returning the nightmares to the affected roads. Electricity supply has been cut off in several places, resulting in unforeseen human misery- a tad worse than that with which we have become familiar.