The story of the 10 Virgins is a parable told by Jesus in the Bible, according to Matthew 25:1–13. In the story, we are told 10 virgins were waiting for a bridegroom. While five had enough oil for their lamps, the other five hadn’t. When the bridegroom eventually showed up, only five virgins who had […]

In my little village of Ekpon in Edo State, the elders used to talk about the tortoise always being in the news. That it is always involved in one scandal or the other. A Nigerian writer, Anezi Okoro wrote a novel, One Week One Trouble in 1972. The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF may have been […]

I want to glorify the name of God for making me see 2025. Not all those that started 2024 with us are alive to see this first Sunday of 2025. That you are alive reading this, is enough to be thankful to Him. I thank God for the wisdom to always think out a topic […]

Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet and fiction writer who lived for just 39 years but his words will live forever. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group in his country for ostensibly always speaking the truth. He once said, “silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are […]

American pop singer-songwriter, Josh Rouse sang, ‘Too many things on my mind’. A line in the lyrics asked rhetorically, ‘Can we recover, what’s been lost?’. If what’s been lost is time, it may never be recovered. My thought  actually is to do a review of sports events in 2024 which I term the bitter-sweet year […]