I Celebrate Talent: Chloe and Halle

One is 13, the other is 11. Dayuuuuum! Boy, this is some talent! The harmony is amazing! you should check this out.

I Celebrate Talent: Celebrity Blogger Sheifunmi Covers 'Fall in Love' by D'Banj

This dude has refused to audition for X Factor or America's got talent or Britain's got talent but trust me, he's got talent! This is very great and I am so proud of him! Maybe he'll do Project Fame or Glo Naija Sings. He is a celebrity blogger most of the time and a singer when he is less busy though I think it should be the other way round.

ISLAMIC BANKING: A 'waiting' TIME BOMB!

It is indeed very sad that at this present state of Nigeria, when there is tension everywhere and people are sleeping with both eyes open in some parts of the country, they have decided to introduce the issue of Islamic Banking.

It is also very very sad that this ‘suggestion’ is being raised and funded by a government parastatal and not an independent body. The name is Central Bank of Nigeria not Central Bank of Islam Nigeria or Central Bank of Northern Nigeria! How will you ever expect that people will not ‘fura’ or raise eyebrows at the idea?

Firstly, it was cashless society and then within minutes the idea took a back seat for Islamic banking. Can we say that someone is confused? Can we say that the someone doesn’t really have a plan for the country, throwing ideas here and there and experimenting with the country?

I am not saying that Islamic Banking is bad but at this point in Nigeria’s life, it is a very very very bad idea. We have a lot on our hands now than to start trying to quell the issues that will arise from this new suggestion. Oh, sure, issues will definitely arise. It’s Nigeria, remember? Better still this could have been introduced as non-interest banking.

What gives this someone the notion that because this has worked in other countries, it will work in Nigeria? We are quick to forget that Nigeria is indeed very peculiar in every sense of the word. We can’t copy! Most of the things we have copied mostly end in flops.

Different people (big shots) are saying all sorts about the idea. While some say ‘it has come to stay’, some say ‘they will go to war over it’, others say pure gibberish. Nobody is hitting the nail on the head, which is ‘CAN IT WORK WITHOUT ANY ISSUES OR CONTROVERSIES?’

When we answer this question perfectly, then we are good to go based on the answer. Meanwhile, I think avoiding this question only makes the issue of Islamic banking a time bomb in Nigeria. We would be surprised at the rancour this can cause if left unattended to.

So Mallam Someone presented the idea to the house and all they did was applaud him and he walked out. No questions, nothing. Is that to say that they perfectly understand the idea? Or is it to say that no other form of non-interest banking can be used instead?

A Sharia council of experts are to be appointed specially by CBN to oversee the Islamic Banking and it will definitely be run by the sharia law. So “ if I am into pork business, does that automatically disqualify me from benefiting from the bank? Or do I have to shut down my business?”

Apparently, this idea started in the bible so do not think we are against non-interest banking.  We are just bothered that with the word ‘ISLAMIC’, it may blind some people’s eyes to see the benefit in this and to run it properly.

At the same time that all this is going on, our dear President is clamouring for 6year single term for president and has also said that it isn’t his idea. The reps and governors are supporting it because very soon, it will be their turn to extend theirs.

GOD HELP US ALL!!!
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!
NB: Remember, everything I have written is my opinion and I have a right to voice it!

You think you have problems?

Two men met at a bus stop and struck up a conversation. One of them kept complaining of family problems. 

Finally, the other man said: "You think you have family problems? Listen to my situation. 

A few years ago I met a young widow with a grown-up daughter and we got married. 

Later my father married my step daughter. That made my stepdaughter my stepmother and my father became my stepson. 

Also, my wife became mother in-law of her father-in-law. Then the daughter of my wife, my stepmother, had a son. 

This boy was my half-brother because he was my father's son, but he was also the son of my wife's daughter which made him my wife's grand-son. 

That made me the grandfather of my half-brother. "This was nothing until my wife and I had a son. Now the half-sister of my son, my stepmother, is also the grandmother. 

This makes my father the brother-in-law of my child, whose step sister is my father's wife, I'm my stepmother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own child's aunt, my son is my father's nephew and I'm My own grandfather! 

And you think you have family problems?

Marriage- God's Institution

What on earth do we take marriage for? This note was inspired by the divorce between Tiger Woods and his wife (ex).

Do people really know the reality of marriage? Do they actually know what they are getting into? Do they actually know what was on the mind of the person that coined d phrase '4 beta 4 worse'? I don’t think so.
Most ladies have the idea that marriage is a bed of roses. They are so eager to get into it. Little do they know that their eagerness is to get into trouble!
When you marry a man, its like you are buying a bag of mixed seafood. Even though it’s called seafood, not all of it is edible. When you get into marriage, you start unpacking the bag to see the content.

All through your courtship days, you were bargaining for and purchasing the bag. You can never find it 100% edible, never! Women are so swift to point out the man's bullshit to the whole world after the man has taken a lot of theirs.
Who knows how many times Tiger Wood's ex-wife had messed up and we heard nothing of it. Now because he has messed up, (well he did) d whole world must know. Didn’t she actually say for beta for worse at the altar?

Yes, he did wrong but that’s not enough reason for her to end his life (his career). She made a very selfish decision. If she actually truly loved this man, it should be all inclusive (his good, bad, mess ups, big ups, rise, fall, successes, failures). She only married the positive, while the negative can either be for him alone or for another woman.
Do you think the men in lasting marriages are perfect? No! They are not but their wives are living with the bag of mixed seafood. Before you get married, pause, think, what am I getting into?
 When you marry a man, you marry his snoring, dirty socks, bad breath, body odour, disorderliness and so on. Are you mature enough to handle it? Are you ready? Can you endure when necessary?

These are some of the numerous questions we should ask ourselves.
When entering into marriage, don’t ever enter with the mind that there's a way out of d marriage if you are not happy wit it. There's no way out! Trust me, divorce isn’t a way out either. So you better look carefully, yorubas will say 'wo ofinifini'. But asides all this, marriage is a very beautiful institution, all you need to do is get things right.

With Roses, comes Thorns

Do you reach a point in your life where you get so frustrated and you make some decisions, telling yourself that its either you go through with this decision or nothing. You don’t care what the effect of the decision is at that time or who it may affect, all you know is that the decision must be executed ASAP. In as much as we all no that decisions are only to be made when d head is straight (well, its not like that’s the only time you actually make right decisions), you don’t actually care.

Do you get to a point where you look around you and everything doesn’t seem right? I mean, everything can’t always be right at the same time though, but at this time it feels like noting is actually right.
When you lay down to sleep, you think and weep. Your emotions go deep. When will things change, when will the time come when you can look round and say 'its all good!'. Yes I know, life is beautiful and will always be (at least that’s my outlook to life) but at this moment it ain’t beautiful.

Do you get to that point where amidst friends and fun you just seem alone, you want to be on your own. Nothing they do amuses you. You find anything they do hardly fun. You desperately want to be alone. Just you, no one else.

You can’t actually say why but for some reason, this is how you feel. If anyone ever asked you what’s wrong (which you are praying no one will), you can’t actually say what exactly the matter is.
All these and many more are just the numerous thorns attached to the rose of life. The thorns are part of what makes the rose beautiful and grow. So when next you get to that low point in your life, look at it this way 'how would the rose live without its thorns?'