We’re funny creatures. Give us a brand-new phone and suddenly we become professional risk managers. Case? Immediately. Screen protector? Before the phone even leaves the box. Some even go as far as getting insurance. Yeah, I saw an ad from SLOT, and was like “Is that really a thing?” But I guess you can never be too careful. Funny how We’ll carry that phone like it contains the last...
If someone walked up to you today and asked, “How many steps can you comfortably walk in a day?” You’d probably say somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 steps. If you’re anything like me, even hitting 10,000 feels like an achievement. Now imagine they smile and say, “I’ll give you ₦2 million if you can walk 40,000 steps today.” Suddenly, 40,000 steps don’t sound impossible anymore. You’d start...
An Ode to Virtue “Before tragedy, we have a million dreams, and after, there is only one.” There is something cruel about ordinary days. They never announce themselves as the last. The last greeting. The last laugh. The last meeting. The last phone call. The last “See you tomorrow.” They arrive disguised as routine, wrapped in familiarity, and before we know it, they have quietly become memories...
People treat every small lie like it’s a big deal. “I’m fine.” “You look great.” “Sorry, I’ve just been busy.” We act like these little lies are just as bad as the big ones. But at the same time, the big lies — the ones that really hurt someone — often get ignored. That’s the wrong way round. Not all lies are the same. Telling a friend you like their new haircut, when you don’t, hurts no one...
There is something comforting about unfinished stories. When we pick up a novel halfway through, we know better than to judge the ending from the middle chapters. We understand that the hero may be lost today and victorious tomorrow. We expect twists, heartbreaks, unexpected allies, and moments of redemption. Yet when it comes to our own lives, we often forget this. One failed business, one...
“Physicists will tell you the fifth dimension folds space. What they don’t say is that you have already been there. You just called it something else , a feeling that wouldn’t leave, a moment that kept returning, a frequency you couldn’t explain but somehow always recognized. You were never only moving through time. Time was moving through you. This is a story about...
Violence might not be the answer; but it is always an answer Yesterday might have been one of the few days I said the most prayer while zoned out. My eyes caught the speedometer, already 3 digits, something is missing. Where is it? What the hell? How come? No! no! no! Moving at such speed means braking distance is never your friend. I watched… passing 6, 9, more meters before the bike came to a...
Some scars don’t look like scars. They don’t always sit on the skin or show up in obvious ways. Some show up in how we go quiet when we are overwhelmed. Some show up in the way we laugh a little too quickly so nobody asks the next question. Some show up in how we keep moving like nothing happened, even when something did. And the truth is, most people are walking around with them. Not everything...
I used to believe pain had a way of introducing itself. I thought suffering knocked loudly enough for everyone to hear. I thought injustice naturally drew attention the way smoke draws eyes to fire. In my mind, if something was unfair enough, people would stop what they were doing, turn around, and care. But life has a way of removing rose-colored glasses. It teaches you that people often notice...
For centuries, science has carried a quiet rebellion in its chest, the desire to conquer nature. Gravity, that invisible hand pulling everything gently toward the Earth, has often been treated like an adversary. From the first fragile flying machines to roaring rockets, humanity has strained upward, determined to rise above what holds it down. But what if the future of invention does not lie in...