A friend shared a story, so I decided to put it here!

When Sola was in SS3, his teacher always yelled at him, calling him "a waste of conception, time & space and a sure failure in life".

One day, poor Sola's grand mother came to school to check out how her grandson was doing. The teacher told her quite frankly that she had never seen such a dumb boy all her life; and advised her to withdraw and enroll him under an artisan, because formal schooling for Sola would be a total waste of time and money.

I boarded a bus last week to go get a few things from the market,and an interesting conversation broke out on the bus. I overheard a passenger telling another passenger a story of how a dead father recently recommended his son for a job & helped him get the job. I wondered how a dead man could help his living son to secure a job. It just didn't make sense.

I'm not someone who believes such stories easily, but from the way he sounded, I could tell he meant every word he was saying.

Its always advisable to know the driver and the Aunty attached to the school bus that pick your kids to school. Have their phone contacts and ensure you communicate with the school regularly.

This is the gist. Few months back a family shared their story regarding a botched attempt to kidnap their children. According to them, after the kids where all dressed and ready for school, one of them messed up his uniform. He had to be cleaned and redressed.

Did you know?

The appellation “419” was not just manufactured on the streets. It was derived from a section of the Criminal Code Act.

Section 419 provides thus;

Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person
anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

So a colleague shared this to me some days back. It’s story about a bank robbery which happened some years back.
This is the gist!
At about 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon. Some bank robbers batched into a banking premises, one of the robbers shouted to everyone in the bank: "Don't move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you." Everyone in the bank laid down quietly.
“This is called "Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking.”

One of my boss shared a story and I decided to share it here too.

Meeting an *old class mate,* we had not seen each other for about *30 years. The Lord has been kind to me.
When I saw him again, this time at a hotel lobby, *he was looking simple.* He wore simple clothes. I felt touched.

He walked up to me and was glad to see me again. But deep within me I was not impressed with his status compared to mine and poor me, I couldn't hide it.
We exchanged contact details and I could see the joy in him as he collected mine.

I have a story but then I will like to see how smart we think we are.

A house consisting of 12 flats or should I say 12 apartments with the occupants of each apartment owning 2 or more cars.

This is the gist.

One of the occupants cars was the last car parked. You know those type of apartments that require another vehicle owner to take out his car before you can drive out.
On this very day, this guy was the owner of the last car parked in the compound. Automatically, it means he has to take his car out before others could drive out.

Lately I see people tend to celebrate arrogancy, they’re making it seems like he or she got class or have some high level of self esteem! My dear, it’s all lies!
Now let me gist you!
Humility does not imply low self-esteem. When someone is humble, they are capable of great things but let other people shine in them instead. Low self esteem on the other hand is not believing you are capable of great things, and letting other people do them because you think they'll do it better, no matter what.

For people with business that deals in importation of goods.
You need to know that the “CUSTOMS AND EXCISE MANAGEMENT ACT” section 46 & 47 says:

46. FORFEITURE OF GOODS IMPROPERLY IMPORTED
Where -
A. except as provided by or under this Act, any imported goods, being goods chargeable with a duty of customs, are without payment of that duty landed or unloaded in Nigeria, or removed from their place of importation or from any approved wharf, examination station, customs
station or customs area; or

Did you know?

No hospitals or medical facilities in Nigeria can deny a person dying from gunshot wounds medical attention or request for Police report before administering treatment!

The Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 Section 1 - 15 says that: 1. Every hospital in Nigeria whether public or private shall accept or receive for immediate and adequate treatment with or without police clearance any person with a gunshot wounds.

Sometimes I know it’s easy for me to sit here and draft few words about living a coordinated life or putting positive words together and make it all sound so simple. My people It’s not! Believe me fam, as we grow older the world seems to be a crazy one, we lose our sense of trust in the world.
We become aware of social injustice, corruption, lies, prejudice.

Let me share a story with you about an incident of a man & his son that transpired few years back.

Just like every other day at the Police station, this man walked into the station and met with the CRO (charge room officer) to lay a complaint. His complaint was his son beat him up & locked him out of his own house. The house I built! He exclaimed. Before we knew it, he broke down in tears.
When I heard that, I was like "wow"! I had to move close to him while he was still talking to the CRO.After his Complaints and all.

A boss of mine wrote a story about one of his friend, who happens to be his course mate while in college (cadet ASP 92 set).
In his words:

“His name was Tiger, he was my course mate very jovial and down to earth. Incidentally he was with me in Unical (university of calabar) a year my junior. We meet again as young officers in training in 1992. After 22 months we passed out as young Cadet officers, while I went to Taraba state, Tiger went to lagos state. A year letter I joined him in lagos while I was in the PMF (Police Mobile Force)

As a driver! Do you know that you can only drive for a continuous period of 5 hours! and have 8 consecutive hours of rest in any period of 24 hours calculated from the commencement of any period of driving!

Sec 170 of the National Road Traffic Regulation 2012 says: 1. No person shall drive, cause or permit any person employed by him/her to drive any vehicle-

A. subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (2) of this regulation, for any continuous period of more than five hours;

On here some people will just wake up
& decide to spread false news just to trend or what? What exactly do you want to prove or gain?
Remember spreading of false news can provoke breach of public peace. And it a crime!

Section 88A 1. a,b & c of the criminal code act state that: (a) in any manner or form publishes or displays or offers to the public the pictorial representation of any person living or dead in a manner likely to provoke any section of the community; or

Few steps to take after a robbery/ armed robbery!

Trust me if these few steps are being followed it will help Police Officers in arresting the culprit, and more importantly, in protecting affected victims from more harm. 1. To start with! Don’t act like James Bond! Feeling like you could chase robbers! Just relax your mind and be calm!
I repeat!! Do not chase the robber. The robber may shoot at any pursuers or the police may shoot at you, too, thinking you are the robber.

Do you know the classes of “drive’s license”?
In section 44 of the Road traffic act listed the classes of the “Driver’s License:
1.Class A - Motorcycle

2.Class B - a vehicle of less than three times gross weight other than motorcycle commercial, taxi, stage carriage or omnibus. 3.Class C - a motor vehicle of less than three tonnes gross weight, other than motorcycles.

4.Class D - a vehicle, other than motorcycle , taxi, stage carriage or omnibus but excluding an articulated vehicle or vehicle drawing a trailer.

As a regular driver, you need to know this!
In Part 7 section 67 of the National Road Traffic Regulation 2012!
It says!
Sec 67 - 1. Any person driving a vehicle on any public road shall be in possession of an original driver’s license but where the person is in possession of the photocopy of the original driver’s licence he shall within 24 hours produce the original driver’s licence to the appropriate authority if demanded.

If you want to change the color of your car or you already did! You need to know this!

In Part 2 section 13 of the National Road Traffic Regulation 2012!
It says and I quote:
Where the colour of a vehicle is to be changed, the owner shall apply for approval from the Authority in Form MVA (Motor Vehicle Administration) 6 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations and unless such an application is approved, the owner of the vehicle shall be restrained from changing the color of the vehicle.

It’s was 2013 in Apapa. I was still young and naive about the job. It was one of the craziest things that has ever happened to me in my line of duty. Sometimes things are meant to happen because God wants you to learn from them and as well be reminded that He exists. It was one of those rainy days in Apapa with heavy traffic & busy environment,I saw this young chap handcuffed and looked all worn-out. For me,I always try to help regardless of what your offense must have been. So I told the Sergeant whom the suspect was with to kindly feed him!

To continue from my SURETY gist!

… SURETY do have RIGHT in a BAIL agreement.

1. A surety can at anytime request that he no longer desires to act as surety to an accused person on bail. This right is contained under section 177 of the ACJA which provides that at any time within the duration of the case, a surety may request that he be discharged from the bail bond and after which the court will order for the re-arrest of the accused.