How NOT to prepare for a protest (and more about how the Occupy Nigeria protest went)

Get home from your parents’ house at almost 2:00 in the morning. Remember that you don’t have a placard. Also remember you meant to buy bristol board but didn’t. Go to the kitchen to warm up your homemade pot of turkey soup so that it doesn’t spoil. Notice that you have a shallow cardboard box. [...]

Sickle Cell Awareness Month

I just learned today that September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and I’m glad there is a time to focus on this disease and the work being done to eradicate it. I encourage you to read up on sickle cell anemia/sickle cell disease if you know nothing about it; a quick search on google will [...]

What’s your genotype?

When I used to think of what I’d want to know about my future spouse before marriage, it was things like if he wanted kids, if we shared similar religious beliefs, if he was an alcoholic or drug addict, if he had a history of infidelity or if he had any sexually transmitted diseases. Many [...]

Thanking God in tough times — do you do it?

There were a lot of blog entries referring to Haiti last week, and I would like to encourage us to continue to keep the relief and rescue efforts in our thoughts and prayers. When something devastating happens far away from us, it’s easy for it to drift from our minds as our daily things occupy [...]

Thankful for what has been done and what will be done

For the past week, access to my site has been terrible, and I have called technical support on four occasions, sent an email and even found them on twitter to explain that I’m having trouble accessing my blogs. They kept saying they were working on it, and even that they had fixed it but I [...]

It’s Nigeria’s birthday, what will your gift be?

Today is Nigeria’s 49th year of independence, and I am thankful for the nation that gave birth to my family and had an effect on my parents and their parents, resulting in at least part of the person I am today. I hope that one day Nigeria will serve as a model to other nations. [...]

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