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New Year, Resolutions and the Skulduggery of man
Bang, hang, hush! It's a new year. The old and the young are excited to cross. City bubbling of lives. Streets rocking and stars ruling the sky. Flashes of a new year amass the globe. We are glad you are here says a thankful heart. Mouths filled with resolutions and tongues committed to prophecies and propositions.

Mr. A: I will build a mansion this year. Miss B: I shall earn a college degree this year. Mr. K: This year must be my year of unlimited success. Wishes struggling for driver's seat with foreshadowing of individuals in life's car.

However, the skulduggery of man remains, as it is easier to utter wishes and publish lexicographies of "to do" for the new year than bring it to reality. The tendency of man to align with making wishes without really achieving it brings man's skulduggery to discourse.

It is a good thing to write plans for the year but more important to devise strategies for achieving the goals. The saying that "it is one thing to make a wish, it is another to realize it" emphasizes this. It is therefore expedient to have structure based plans than mere hope, wishes and propositions.

Yes, we need to be hopeful. Infact, believe that good things will come by. It however remains a deception if we work not towards achieving those plans we have. Afterall, everyone wants to succeed. If Mr. A keeps hoping to build mansion in the new year without saving from his income and proactively enhance diligence in his work, then he is a lord in the community of skulduggery.

Scientists say "Science does not exist by hope but experiment". Relating this contextually means that individuals should not wear crown of indolence and hope gazing but instead engage in result oriented activities with structural plans.

Deception also enthrones man when he thinks he is progressing while regressing. One therefore needs a thorough consideration of other excellers' ideas because self-deception is the grand masters of skulduggery.

To avoid a shadowy life and accomplish in the new year, individuals need to make right choices, effect the plans with action based timing and despise not the little beginnings. It is quitessential to always evaluate every step and result, as evaluation paves way for progress.

It is imperative to state that the propositions, wishes, or desperation as it is to some to make it in the new year should be done in a legit way and equivocal dealings be avoided. The right little practices will therefore mature to success.

Man's skulduggery is psychological as humans have a complex nature. It is however necessary to simplify the complexity by doing what is right and live not in deception.

AFOLABI, Oluwajuwonlo writes to wish you an accomplishing year.

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For all that is pure

kingkakaone:
Instead of people to go and get their PVC they are out here looking for likes by insulting Buhari.
I may not like Buhari, but the moves of some people are only on paper and not on ground.
Elections are not won on internet or by likes, if only most of us understand this.
If u are here and u haven't gotten Ur PVC but u are shouting Back to Daura, I laugh at u because the cabals will win again.
Go get Ur PVC, those kids in the north already have their own and they are not even talking self.
Please, go and get Ur PVC instead of making mouth here.

Love does not win election.

Duchessree:
not reading hard enough to get my desired course..

Oh, sorry. I know how it feels. It wasn't your fault. Please, never lose focus.

Lai Muhammed- Lie........

M O N E Y

La Scam..

Nice Poka, skoro uvidimja All the best.

Pathetic, Nothing to show Nigerians. #Buharimustgo #SaynotoAtiku

Where is Olubadan of Ibadan, Alaafin of Oyo?

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Regulating the use of social media is a welcome idea. I don't know why people are criticizing it, as if it's unusual. The media is expected to be free but self regulated, with social responsibility and minimal control from the government..

Engineering English: My observation

My observations so far have proven that some tertiary institution students are deficient in both spoken and written English. This is especially rampant among the Engineering students(in my environment). Every time they reflect this pathetic situation, they come up with excuses like, ' i am an engineering student.
All i do is to solve mathematics. English is not my course.'
Little did they know that spoken and written English potency is quintessential for every profession, no matter what.

The point is, is this general or just in my own view? What are the corrective measures that can be taken?
Please, if you're in anyway in this category, endeavour to change.

Oshokomole,
God is great...

funmisticqueen:
There is this friend of mine, she's still a student, she has a steady boyfriend whom she loves but is broke, but there has been this persistent toaster on her case who is financially buoyant. My friend has not had a laptop and phone for quite a while cos hers was stolen a while ago, and these things are necessary to read with in her school. Her parents said they weren't getting any gadgets for her again cos the last laptop they bought was also stolen when raiders came to the reading rooms in her school. Her parents are also against her doing business in school as they think it would disrupt her studies?p.
She told this her steady boyfriend that she needs a phone and not an expensive one, i think she asked for a techno about five months ago, but her boyfriend kept telling her he would get with no show, he didn't give her a gift on valentine even though she got him one cos he forgot and didn't have money.
A month ago, her boyfriend moved to a new apartment. She feels he should be settled first before she reminds him about the phone.

Yesterday, she called me and told me that the persistent toaster just got her a phone. She doesn't know what type but he said he noticed she didnt have a phone and she wasnt on whatsapp. He said it was a gift for her with no strings attached.
Our question is this, should she collect the phone, even though she doesnt really like the guy? If she does and her boyfriend sees it should she say she got it from another guy? Wont it lead to issues in their relationship?
Would really appreciate your wise and helpful comments? No insults please?

What a watery write up! Sister you can do better....

Ride on......

Rest on bro.......

Azeequeen:
But I think there should be an exception

There is always an exception in english language.

zendy:
Nigeria has been heading no where since the British left in 1960. Nzeogwu saw this and tried to take action, Ojukwu saw it and chose to take his people and jump ship. Gowon, Mohammed, Buhari, IBB and Abacha were military dictators who used brute force to keep Nigeria together. However, Nigeria is on the downward decline and nothing can save it except........................ if it becomes a confederation. And even this is delaying the inevitable

Hnmmmm

Where is Nigeria going? With the current situation of this country and the recycle system of political administrations bringing different ideologies to the governed. There seems to be an extreme mountain of in-contentedness in many people but what lingers on my mind is this question.........
Where is Nigeria going?
Please, kindly decipher this.

Raises ke..











May God comfort the bearers.