Author: Horse Thing
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5 Steps To Becoming A Marlian
The way lazy Nigerian youths rally around him whenever he shows up in public, you will think he is really from the Bob Marley dynasty. Since his football-inspired hit (Issa Goal), Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley has enjoyed and sometimes endured what many will consider a rollercoaster career thus far. When Naira is not swarmed…
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Special Envoy!
“Oh! You miscreants and drug dealers, go back to your country”. “Oh! You fools, you steal all our women, go back to your country”. “Oh! You terrible people, stop taking all our jobs”. They cast aspersions on us, stone us, put tires over us and burn us. We can’t fight back. We are strangers in…
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Greatness
When will you start loving YOU? If you don’t rate you, that’s a calamity. When will you start to trust your abilities? Throw it back to those days everyone spoke about your awesomeness. Throw it back to those days you feared no competition. Those days when it was all about prospering. Now, you fear to…
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Refresh Your Playlist
Here are a few Nigerian songs that should definitely make it to your playlist this new week. Chike – Amen The Voice and Project Fame alumnus, Chike has blessed us with a love song and beautiful visuals for it. The video features Timi Dakolo, Chibbz and Chy Nwakanma. I see this one making your wedding…
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Life’s Manual
This is one book I have always wanted to buy. I need just a copy of that book which teaches us how to live. That perfect formula which works. That almighty algorithm through which one can navigate your life. You seem to have all the answers always. Tell me where I can buy a copy…
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Everyday People
You are scared to death. You are scared of mentors now? Well, they never asked that you become their protégé. You chose that page because success has many relations. Now that things seem to have gone south for that person you so adore, will you stay or flee? It’s even better you flee than stay…
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Will You Marry Me?
I just watched a video of a guy being honored with a dehumanizing slap that was well-delivered on his cheeks by a young lady he is dating. What was his offense? What I can deduce from the short clip is that the young man had been dating the girl for about six years. Since he…
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Companion
We shame each other at every opportunity. We forget that what’s firm today will sag tomorrow. Some bags are better secured when we unite. Nah, we would rather argue and fight. Sinners stay judging sinners. They stay wondering who had sex with who. You should think of how to be a better person. But you…
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Echoes from Eko
Insanity defines her. Oh! What a mad city! Occupied by people afflicted with self-pity. Yes! The traffic jam punctuates her punctuality. Fluctuating supply of electricity is the norm in her city. We still love her though. The functioning touts have been illegally legalized. Her bus-stops are our bout stops. Uniformed men hop around her metropolis…
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I’m Scum
Self-classification on fleek. I won’t let you hurt me, so I hurt myself. I apologize for being scum. You want me to unlearn all the crap in a hurry. Don’t you know patience is a virtue? You want me dead but I’m in my prime. Well, maybe not. At first, it was tabula rasa before…