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5 Jul, 6 tweets, 1 min read
1./ Dear Young Man, 

Guard your heart. Guard your vulnerabilities jealously. 

As you go through life’s journey, be careful the voices you listen to. The sweetest voice isn’t always true. Search the heart.
2./ Not every woman who speaks with a sweet voice speaks with a true voice. Search the heart. Search the motive, filter what you allow.

“Talk to me Baby, let me in. Tell me why you are feeling low. What is on your mind.” This is not your cue to bare your heart.
3./ This is your cue to search the heart. Have her actions shown a true heart? Why does she want to know your weakness?

Remember Samson? His destruction was easy because he listened to the sweetest voice. “Samson, if you love me, you will tell me the secret of your strength.
4./Tell me that I may destroy you.”

He allowed himself to be vulnerable to the wrong person. She destroyed him.

Remember Sisera? Killed by the Prophetess Jael? She gave him milk & promised to hide him in her tent. He fell asleep, she knocked a peg into his head and killed him.
5./Everyday, “Men allow your emotions to show, stop forming rock &strong. Let your woman in.” And so on& so forth. 
Consider the lifespan of the average relationship. Consider the extent of commitment many people enter a relationship with. Guard your heart, guard your weaknesses.
6./ By all means have a confidante. Have a safe place. But until you find that woman whom your spirit assures you of, your confidant must not be the woman in your life at that moment.

Have a fruitful week.

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1./ Where Is The Line?

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1./ You raise germane points, but one can’t exculpate govt & hold citizens responsible.

It’s a joint failure. The societies we hold up as examples aren’t better because the people are better. They are largely better because there are systems which enforce rules.
2./ People are held accountable & the administration of justice is fairly even-handed.
In Nigeria, citizens are comfortable disobeying the laws because they follow the examples of their leaders and it’s hard to enforce laws that you don’t abide by.
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1./I was teasing a friend about empty nest syndrome. Her son’s in senior secondary. He’ll be off to university soon. She laughed &said she could hardly wait for her nest to be empty.

“My eldest is 21 in university. Do you know for how many years I’ve been doing the school run?”
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3./ This is the sacrifice it required.
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She was “fortunate” that this worked for her.
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After I dwelt on the immeasurable grace of God, several questions nagged at me. 

What happened to the man she was caught with?

Which of the 2 of them was married?
2./ At least one must have been because the act was referred to as adultery.

I suspect it was the man because there’s no mention of an irate husband. But I may be wrong. 

Yet no one dragged her male counterpart out, or tried to bring him to book.
3./ He obviously wasn’t there trying to fight her corner either.

Cowardly toad. 

The nagging issue for me was that nothing has changed. The woman always bears the weight of guilt in sexual misconduct. 

I couldn’t help but wonder at her shame.
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In answer to that. If “they” mean to get you, if you don’t fly, they will even catch you on horseback.

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Not Enough. . .

1./ She thought she was Nigerian.

100% Naija Pikin.

Apparently not Nigerian enough.

Deemed part of the 5 percent; not one of the 97%. She didn’t make the cut.

Marginalized, no chance to be in the running.
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5 years in primary school;
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she was taught to pledge her faithfulness, loyalty and honesty to Nigeria.

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No matter how hard she tried,
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Not good enough! Not one of us.

You don’t speak the lingo; you don’t know a ting oh.

Igbo on the outside, “ofe mmanu” on the inside. That’s what her fellows said.
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