Growing old and growing up, by Muyiwa Adetiba
ODEGBAMI: If you can’t get to the stars, land on the moon!
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SubscribeThe act of giving
We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give. -Eden Elliot
The family in International Relations and Global Harmony (2)
Obviously, in spite of the social system in a given country, particularly in advanced societies with welfare programmes for taking care of infants, parents are duty-bound to provide for their children until the latter can live on their own; likewise children are expected to help their parents and look after them in old age.
No rest for the living
Sometimes you have one of those days when things get on top of you and you are at a loss what to do. You want to stop and say, am getting too old for this, but you know that as long as you are alive, you must work, get the dough, get going and make things work for you.
*will oteh get a fair hearing?
Ms. Arunma Oteh, the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, put her pretty little foot into her dainty little mouth the moment she asserted that Herman Hembe, had requested her organization to contribute the sum of N39m towards the public hearing of the investigation of how the Nigerian Capital Market almost collapsed.
Let’s eradicate rickets
A DOCTOR I know once opined that persons who grow into adulthood with excessively bowed legs ought to sue their parents.
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