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THE CAGED BAT
A Playlet Series: A Sound Mind in a Sound Body, Part 1 The editor of Python Dance Magazine, Mr Maxwell Otapiapia, having like his counterparts in the other newsrooms in Magomago Repub ........
You are on a half-term holiday but behave, behave, b-e-h-a-v-e!
Part 3Some of you are in the habit of removing products from their shelves and throwing them under the shelves. But don’t forget, times are hard, and in this post-Brexit era, when supplies are not kee ........
You are on a half-term holiday but behave, behave, b-e-h-a-v-e!
PART 2By the way, before you had proceeded on your half-term holiday, what did you plan to do during your holiday, I mean what were your holiday plans? Don’t tell me you again embarked on this holiday ........
You are on a half-term holiday but behave, behave, b-e-h-a-v-e!
PART 1 Holiday is coming! Holiday is coming! No more clanging bells No more teachers' whip! Goodbye teachers, goodbye scholars We are going on a jolly holiday! Girls: A jolly - All: Holida ........
THE AGE OF FRANCIS AND WELBY
Francis, the political Pope Welby, the political ArchbishopIn the Age of Francis and Welby,Long years of peace taken for granted, plunged Europe into a war before their very eyesBecause of th ........
YOUR LIFE’S TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM ON YOUR LIFE’S HIGHWAY AT YOUR LIFE’S JUNCTION AND ON YOUR LIFE’S SHOPFLOOR, BUT WHAT DOES RAG REALLY MEAN?
R – Red: Danger – warning, signifying danger; Danger Zone: Keep Off! Out of Bounds, No Go Areas; No Trespassing; Unauthorised Persons Not Allowed or Permitted; Restricted, not yet time; full of life’s ........
YOUR LIFE’S TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM
Every young person should as in every junction of a major road in world’s cities have or have installed in their own life’s junction, a traffic light system of Red, for warning; a get set or ready ........
THE GREAT SUMMONS
BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA Trumpet blasts summoning all Nigerians to the construction site. Throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria, the bugle is being blown to summon all Nigerians to answer th ........
YOU CAN’T RANK XEROX LIFE! PART TWO
The Irreplaceability, Unduplicatability, Unphotocopyability and Unclonenability Nature of LifeThe global experience of youth violence in our today’s world attests to the fact of global morality coll ........
YOU CAN’T RANK XEROX LIFE!PART THREE
“Thou shalt not kill,” Exodus 20:13 The Irreplaceability, Unduplicatability, Unphotocopyability and Unclonenability Nature of Life 31. Young people growing up without boundaries32. Young pe ........
YOUR LIFE’S MARATHON…. BUT WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?
Many athletes, but one winner…so run to win! “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize”, 1Corinthians 9:2 ........
UNIVERSAL ALTRUISM AND THE GOLDEN RULE PART 4
RESPECT ONE ANOTHER “Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves,” Philippians 2:3. Naturally, each of us is expected to esteem th ........
UNIVERSAL ALTRUISM AND THE GOLDEN RULE PART 2 TEAMWORK
You Must Work with others, Understand and be Patient with them Whilst professionalism is to be encouraged and promoted in your place of college/ institution/organization or workplace, the cont ........
UNIVERSAL ALTRUISM AND THE GOLDEN RULE PART 1
So, in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets,” Matthew 7:12. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP THAT WORKS In every relationship, ........
KNOW YOUR ROOTS AND WHO YOU ARE PART 3
Africa: Origin of all civilizations and home of mankind You are not here to join bad company like belonging to a gang in order to plan and do evil, going about stabbing, shooting and killi ........
KNOW YOUR ROOTS AND WHO YOU ARE PART 2
Martin Luther King Jr: “I have a dream.” Again, if I should tell you the truth, you are not here as a street person; you are not here as a drug addict; you are not here as a helpless perso ........
KNOW YOUR ROOTS AND WHO YOU ARE PART 1
“You are here to conquer situations as God’s masterpiece; you are here as someone uniquely unique, yea; someone who can impact positively on their world and generation/s; you are here as a warrior ........
HISTORY IN A MULTI-CULTURAL, MULTI-LINGUAL, MULTI-RACIAL POLITY
Teaching history is an opportunity to tell y/our story! Every human on the planet earth – dark, pink or brown has their roots, wherefrom they originally came, lived and had their being fulfilled. ........
BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: YOUR GCSEs, A-LEVELS, YOUR EXPECTATIONS
“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” Proverbs 22:29.Abraham Lincoln, one of the most determined persons in the history of mank ........
WHAT VEXED YE, MOTHER?
BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER AND BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR, UNITED KINGDOM Until now, until now (sobbing), Mother In our delusion we had thought we were protected, safe and secure in your ........
LIFE’S 10 GREAT BOUNDARIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
A MESSAGE TO MY TEENAGE FRIENDS BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA Preamble In an age when violence has now become the breath that some human-beasts amongst us now do breathe, and where such sat ........
YOUR LIFE’S ODYSSEY
“This is a big order, But see what you can do… He is such a fine little fellow, My son.” Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s teacher (Stanza 9). My Dear Young Peoples of ........
MAKIND IN PERILOUS AND CHAOTIC TIMES… WHAT NEXT?
“Let him have the courage to be impatient… let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have sublime fait ........
MAKIND IN PERILOUS AND CHAOTIC TIMES… WHAT NEXT?
“Let him have the courage to be impatient… let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have sublime fait ........
INTERNET’S ZONE OF DARKEST BLACKNESS…OUT OF BOUNDS TO BOYZ AND GALZ
“Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the band wagon… Teach him to listen to all men… but teach him also to filter all he hears ........
THE WAR BETWEEN THE ELEPHANT AND THE CRICKET
In the story, the innocent cricket attacked unprovoked by the elephant. A long time ago, in Obulabongobabongojabongobalabongogogo country when the elephant decided to invade the cricket in his R ........
FAILURE TEACHES SUCCESS
“He will have to learn, I know, That all men are not just, All men are not true. But teach him also that For every scoundrel there is a hero; That for every selfish Politician, There is a dedica ........
THE SHOOTS
A NOTE TO MUM AND DAD… A world of their own with privacy and respect assured Just because I’m young does not mean you should both pry into my privacy online. However, you both have my assu ........