For context, I am a 36 year old Nigerian man, and this is a valid question. — Something that continues to confound me is Sex and the extent that men go to get it. I am not a prude, neither am I dishonest about my personal desires. I feel attraction and sexual impulse and I am neither far right hedonistic nor puritanical. I am what you’d describe…

Doing good is its own reward — A Better Place On one of my daily morning walks, I saw a worm wriggling on a dusty sidewalk. It drew a spindly letter S on the grey, which stretched for what would have been miles from a worm’s point of view. From my perspective, it looked like it was struggling. …

Now I understand Faith a little more — Part 1: Effort You’ve probably heard it before that everyone can solve the 3 by 3 Rubik’s cube by learning the algorithms. It will take a few minutes, or hours at first — not more time than we spend on TikTok, or playing Candy Crush Saga anyway. But most people won’t solve it…

and the simple answers to the complex questions of Life — The Formula for Losing Weight “Fast” The formula for weight loss is simple. It is Wl/g = Gl + (ΔFi + WlEx) Translated to English, it is: Weight Loss or Gain equals Glycogen plus the Net Weight Gain from Food-Intake plus Weight Loss as a result of Exercise. This means that … If you think drinking…

The great men before us once drew a map of our universe centred to the earth, and it was inconceivable that this could be otherwise. They sought logic, science and the sanctification of the divine to confirm it. And counter-arguments were deemed heresy, strong enough to die for. However, other…

Why staying true to your conviction is a debt you owe to the world — I was a teenager back then in the 90s when the Pentecostal movement in Nigeria was growing rapidly and disrupting orthodoxy. I recall standing in a line of eager converts as soft worship music from the choir set the right mood for signs and wonders. Being the curious child that…

It will not be gradual — It will be a sudden switch from rational to lunatic. I will not be violent — I will be the morose, thinker type. The mad man with the glassy eyes that focus on nothing in particular in that space between the eye and where its lines are meant to converge…

And why children need to grow a thick skin — Once upon a time, “You are fat!” wasn’t all that. People said it to each other — whether as the expression of a self-evident truth, as a cautionary statement, or as a barbed statement laced with malice. And people responded to this statement in different ways. Some cried in front…

Short story — Oge clicked her heels under the table. Her eyes followed the second hand on the wristwatch of a man seating two chairs away from the head of the table where her boss Ms. Quincy sat like a presiding overlord. …