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  The child said he wanted consistency in discipline. “If you ask me ‘have you bathe? And I don’t answer you take my silence as a ‘No’ and you order me, sometimes with the added burden of ‘a threat of punishment’, to stop whatever I am doing and go and bathe”. Then all of a sudden there is an act of mischief in the house, like undeclared broken glass and if I keep quiet when I am asked ‘Child, are you the one who broke the glass?’ you just pronounce me guilty. The silence to you becomes ‘yes!’ I wish that my silence means either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ & that you be consistent' The laughter no be here. See sense! The Pikin does not know that we have been around for a long time; done all; he probably thinks he invented ‘the golden silence’ tactics of avoiding responsibilities. Considering that we have never been wrong in the different ways we have interpreted his silence must show him that there is more to the determination of what he says or doesn’t say. Like the child, we all SHOW (by ...

  Whenever the annals of this world are written & earthly delights are collated, freshly baked bread will be in the top echelon. The smell & taste of freshly baked bread has to be among the joys of life. Bread and I have had a chequered history. Right beside my school was Unity Bakery, just where the Bus Stop by the same name is in Mile 5, Port Harcourt. Oh, the whiff of freshly baked bread during the morning classes and other times when they were baked. I literally grew up savouring the smell of bread as it sometimes drifted to my home from there. Some mornings we actually got a taste of the bread as Mama served bread for breakfast. She or any designated by her left home early for the 2 – 3 mile walk to the Bakery to buy the early morning bakes. It was usually tea (milk, chocolate and sugar drink) with the bread. There are several grand ways to eat bread but nothing compared to bread & groundnut & on rare occasions with coke. Although I am not currently a fan of br...

  The only thing that can unite mankind is an attack on Earth by Aliens' – President Ronald Reagan, 1987 For many years now despite the lack of any solid physical evidence, the movie world has been preparing us for the attack by ‘aliens’ & the unity of the human race in prosecuting that war. Soon, there will indeed be such a war with ‘Aliens’ but the details are a bit mixed up In most narrations, an Alien race visits the earth, sees its potential, pretends to ‘come in peace’; then attacks, either to enslave man or to take over our home. Then a Coalition of men (or nations) fights the invaders off, liberating mankind or at least freeing sizable survivors. The Bible tells us that indeed there will be a war in which the rulers and people of this world will (soon) be gathered together termed ‘the war of the great day of God the Almighty’, under the auspices of Satan, who is called ‘the god of this World’. Already, demon-inspired movies are conditioning us to get ready for war, for ...

  In every war, the sweetest phrase from the enemy is ‘I surrender’. Two words that end misery and pain and ruin. In one instance surrender was masked in such a way as to capture the Prince & win the war by declaring a stalemate. In Eden, in a desperate act of sabotage, Satan led man into rebellious secession. He tried very much to hide his involvement by acting like a Ventriloquist. But where can we hide from God? The rulership he sought by subterfuge was thrust on him. War was declared! Work to restore perfection was put in place & with doom imminent, the Rebels resisted further. For centuries Sin ruled as King, with a brief interval when the Law was in operation until the Christ came to set matters clear. He set a model & provided a ransom. In Christ’s first encounter with him, the Devil offered to surrender, bringing his ‘staff of authority & insignia’ as is customary of every General surrendering. ‘All these things I will give you’ – offering him the Earth. ‘I ...