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I paid a bribe

Today, I drove by faith, my fuel tank was dry and there was no petrol station in sight. It was 7pm, the kids were cranky, my nerves were everywhere because the car could stop at any time now. "Lord I need fuel" was all I could mutter and just then, I saw something like a short queue in front of a popular fuel station. I quickly took my place behind the last car only to start an unending wait. Thirty minutes passed, we hadn't moved an inch, the baby was screaming by now and my irritability was ascending. After what seemed like forever, it got to our turn. I waited in anticipation like Oliver twist with my fuel tank open. The attendant just kept on selling to people with jerrycans. " Oga how far na? Sell for me abeg my baby don taya." He was tall, Lanky with a sun beaten face. He looked at me with his blood shot eyes and said "300 naira". "I don't understand" I replied, feigning ignorance. " Madam if you want fuel gimme 300 naira or
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What If Mary?

WHAT IF MARY? What if Mary was born in our days, Engaged to be married "Naija" style when she discovered she was with child while still a virgin? She would have most probably been a Church girl, Pretty and sweet, warm and lovely with the most beautiful of voices. Would she have had a Joseph Busy and sturdy, who would harken to the voice of Angel Gabriel and protect her from "humiliation"? Or would he have left her in the "Baby Momma" way and let Church folk Judge her and World folk mock her? Maybe she would have been confined in "Yaba left". Doctors would have a ready diagnosis for her condition and scientists a ready evidence based explanation excluding God from everything. I'm so grate
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Change!

Six months down the road and our girls are still not back, Boko boys are still bombing, the value of the naira is still dropping, power is worse than ever, no new roads, no money, no continuity with the last government's achievements just failed campaign promises and Tax. What manner of change is this? In all these we remain hopeful for Nigeria. Things will get better.
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