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Awe

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As a corper, I ran a program on-air tagged 'Success Capsule ' on Heritage FM. On the program, some days, I shared strategies for success and some other days I gave inspirational talks. For 10 good months from Monday to Wednesday, I was sharing thoughts of hope to over 2000 people. I didn't always record my sessions. Sometimes, I recorded myself and sometimes I didn't record. There was a day, I recorded myself speaking about 'how to find strength when you are at the point where you are been pressed by life'. The thought I shared on this very day was so inspiring that people called me after the program and some shed tears while speaking with me of how that they just found strength because of the words I said. Thankfully, I had it recorded on my phone. I moved back to Lagos in 2020. During the COVID-19 lockdown, things were very very tight for me. There were no events to MC physically, no programs to manage, people were not buying my courses as expected,...

The Talking Seeds

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In a land where seeds talk and see.  A tree firmly rooted in the forest had many beautiful seeds with many colors.  Both the rich and poor had access to this tree.  One day, a popular rich man needed to add colour to his parlour.  As the seeds saw him coming, they all happily started getting set for a fall. When he came to the tree, he shook the tree, a lot of the seeds fell. He picked a few into his beautiful Vase and left the rest on the ground. The seeds he picked were happy and excited but the seeds on the ground were very sad that they were not picked.  Farmers stepped on these seeds on their way to the farm and back on their way to their homes.  Some of these seeds died, the rest cried from the hurt off being marched and felt disadvantaged everytime they remembered that their former fellow seeds were in the house of the rich.  What these 'marched' seeds didn't know was 1. The rich man always trashed the seeds in the vase after 3months to get fresh beautiful seeds from

From Uyo to Tokyo ✈️馃拑

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If you are from an average background and against all odds you travel to Japan (to study and work) for the first time and you post a picture online of you at the airport, people will like the post and make comments to congratulate you. 馃榿馃憦馃憦 The people who have always known your story will share how your mother started selling firewood close to the park when your father died trying to climb the tree to tap palm-wine. Your friends from primary school will hail you and your pictures posted on their status with the tag 'See my guy, I remember when we used our socks to make balls '.馃榿 When you take pictures at Mount Fuji and Ueno Park and post online, the likes increases and with more comments like 'Chai, Emeka my guy' by some university classmates.馃榿 After a while, people will get use to you been fine and on a higher level than you use to be.  They will react less to your progress for as long as it is on that same level.  The next time you might attract a higher level of