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The Lagos Bikeman

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Yesterday I took a bike馃弽️ from my house as I had a meeting I needed to be urgently. The road in my area has a lot of potholes. It gets even worse when it's the rainy season. While on the bike, I noticed that every other bike heading in the same direction overtook us. In fact, I counted up to about 5 bikes that passed us. I then challenged my bikeman. 'Oga, why everyone dey pass us nah?' He replied that he just got to the area and that he doesn't know how to manoeuvre his way like the other guys. I then told him to watch the path those ahead were passing and ply the route. He agreed. That move made our trip even faster.  After a while something happened. This man suddenly started overtaking those who were ahead of us馃槃. I could see the joy on his face馃榿 and I even was happy that the possibility of me getting to my destination faster grew higher. Life will be hard if you try to figure EVERYTHING EVERYTIME on your own. There's nothing totally new under the sun. Someon

Nneka and Landlord Palava (True Story)

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In June 2022, a school owner got a call from her landlord to remind her of the imminent expiration of the school building rent by November.  Precisely November 2020 (just after COVID), Nneka resigned from working in a bank to start a Nursery and Primary School.  Nneka has always been passionate about educating people. Back in secondary school, she use to organise free Maths class for her friends Fast forward to 2020, she got support from her friends in the bank who borrowed her money to start. From 2020 till March 2022, Nneka spent the income from the school on repaying debts, paying salaries and maintenance of properties. The call from the landlord got her depressed as many of her parents haven't paid the money they owe her.  She tried every other option but all to no avail. Even her family members couldn't help as they didn't have much too.  It felt like the school project was going to finally crumble. While shedding tears and praying one night, she remembered one of her

The Zebra Boy

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  A hunter took his son who just clocked 16 into the forest to teach him how to use a gun. By the 4th day, the boy could shoot really well and this made both the hunter and wife very happy.  You see, those days knowing how to use a tool as a gun, regardless of your age makes you a man. You can now fend for yourself On the first day of hunting, the man and his son set out into the forest site where there were many Zebras.  The plan was to stay together and shoot at the animals since they were many.  The guns they were set to be noiseless. Immediately they laid on the ground, the boy started shooting at the Zebras.  He killed nothing.馃槣 After shooting for 6 times, he noticed his father hadn't even taken a shot. 10 seconds later, his father took a shot and brought a Zebra down to the ground. The sound of a Zebra falling made the rest to run. The boy and father carried the Zebra and left for the house. On their way home, this boy asked his father why he couldn't kill a Zebra despit