Some few weeks back, seven of us were asked to write a piece on “A Place I call home” in our Booktroverts family, within fractions of seconds, I got lost into series of thoughts that finally streamed into streams and oceans of practical meditation. Even now that my fingers are punching these letters on my keypad, I cannot say I have fully deciphered the connotative and denotative meaning of what home is; hence the words that flowed and followed  these ones are just a feeble attempt at scratching the concept of a place I call home. At the sound of the monosyllabic word “Home” what imagery piqued the curiosity of your mental faculty and reasoning? A structure or building erected with a father, mother and handful of kids right? Trust me that is the first imagery that will plunge our minds from the onset just like A, B, C, D, invade us at the sound of the alphabets. Well! I know you have your understanding and concept of home, permit me to humbly share with you my little insight o

Sometimes last year I wrote and published  a piece titled “Ours to change” and inferring from the current unfolding of events in our nation, I am left with no option than to retouch this piece and  share it again as it carries some nuggets that will guide us as we go to the 2019 polls. However, the burden I have is heavier than this single piece; hence I will try to capture that which is relevant for the season – the general elections. “ NEXT LEVEL”, “ LETS GET NIGERIA WORKING AGAIN ”; I know these two slogans strike a chord in your faculty of reasoning. However, do they in anyway provoke nostalgic and saddening thoughts in your mind? Can you say with a significant degree of certitude that you are comfortable with the pragmatic connotative and denotative meaning of these words? As long as these words are concern, the questions can go on and on in quest of finding constructive, society-oriented and definite answers that will go down history. Right now, politics in Nigeria h

It is a bitter pill of life that any man or woman that desire to stand the test of time must swallow, yet when you swallow it you become the enemy of many in the society. It is trampled upon daily by men and their schemes, yet it prevails with time and always stands tall at the end of the day. You can frustrate it but it cannot prostrate to you. When you hear the word truth, what comes to your mind? Just like the word “Love”, it is very obvious that truth over the years has received subjective, myopic and relative interpretations and applications by many people. Hence, you can hear someone saying: “What is true for you is true for you and what is true for me is true for me”. Such statement about truth has kept me in constant dialectics within myself. Truth is the state or quality of being true. It entails faithfulness, fidelity, conformity to fact or reality, correctness and accuracy. In its real sense and essence truth is everything that negates to falsehood, deceit, hypo

Few years back, I was discussing with one of my course mate and friend while in school, and he said something that pushed me into thinking; he said that “Patience is a virtue given to mortals to scale through the challenges of this short life”. Afterward, I kept asking myself a lot of questions about patience and I finally came to realize that patience is not only a virtue, but a life formed in extraordinary men/women over time. So whenever you are patient with a situation or a person, you are just showing how extraordinary you are. Growing up as a farm boy, this analogy has kept me going hitherto; Patience is one virtue all farmers possess, in fact, no one can be a successful farmer without patience. From day one of the farming season, to the last day of harvesting, patience keeps the farmer going. The farmer clears the field, ploughs it, plant/sow whatever he want to plant/sow, wait for the rain and ensure to carry out all other processes that will lead to a bumper harvest at

We will Love and be Loved This is the last piece in “The Beauty of Life Series” Another beauty and spice of life is the fact that we will love and be loved. The issue of love and being loved is a phenomenon that cut across human beings and even animals alike. It is that feeling that gives us sense of belonging and the feeling of being special. We all have in us this innate and inbuilt desire of strong affection, feelings and longing for somebody. Our heart is wired in such a way that nothing has the power to touch and influence it as love. In our journey of life, we will be presented with the opportunities, platforms and privileges to love and be loved. Some will love us with strings attached, while some will love us unconditionally. We also in return will love and demonstrate affection toward others, spanning from our families, relatives, neighbours and ultimately to our spouses. This is the beauty of life. However, though to love and be loved is a great thing, if we

We will Make Mistakes and Offend Others Life is a process of learning and we all are students of life, ever learning every new day; we cannot say we are perfect neither are we beyond mistakes. Another beauty of life is the fact that we will make mistakes, we will offend others and sometimes we will find ourselves as scapegoats at one point in time. What we do with these moments of mistakes has a lot to do with the shaping and making of our lives. That you make mistakes doesn’t mean you are inferior or a failure, it simply shows how human you are and how you need grace and mercy. Again, that you offend others doesn’t mean that you are the most annoying human being on earth, but it only proves we all are fallible. We all are human with tendencies of making mistakes and offending others, thus we all need mercy and we also need to take responsibility for our actions. Each and every day, life give us the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes and the experiences where we hav

Moments of Joy and Laughter To start with, I will like to from the onset capture two pairs of factors in this first piece that beautify our lives; these are moments of joy/laughter and moments of tears/regrets. Be patient, stay with me in this journey, I cannot promise you heaven and earth but one thing I know for sure is that the end of this journey proves to be life defining and fulfilling. Inevitably, time will come that life will throw at us pleasant moments; moments we would love to keep experiencing again and again. These moments make us laugh and send chill down our spines, they are moments that momentarily make us forget our sorrows and troubles, and these are the moments of joy and happiness. Happiness and peace are two things you should not deny yourself daily, the obvious reason being that you have single life to live within a short time frame. However, happiness and peace is not the absence of chaos but the ability to discover purpose in the storm and knowing who