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LIFE IS SLENDER What advantage have you possessed making you so condescending - a pretty partner or a stunning spouse? a thriving matrimony or adorable kids? a state-of-the-art vehicle or a regal estate? an immaculate scholastic record or a sterling career? What triumphs of yours hasn't history exactly mentioned? Before you, there were movers and shakers Before now, there were stunners and runners After you, there’ll be millions more. Your fame’s just rising Someone else's is now roosting Your name’s just glowing Someone's elsewhere is now dimming Your flame’s just flaring up here Another's is tapering off there Fine feathers make fine birds – Life's lucks aren't locked exclusively in your locket The many beneath you might be better if they’d similar luck The many behind you aren't relenting in their longing to outstrip you The many before you are now breaking or braking into oblivion Calm down with whatever advantages you now possess Slam down the ego pu...

COMING Breaking out of the nine-odd seasons of immersion, with no tweed It traverses the uterine terrain of creamy crimson fluid Squashing through the bone-walled gate of periodic liquid It announces its coming with a shrilly thrilling cry – Oh, my! So cute, so fresh, so fragile, so fry. Lit faces soon seen streaming in in cheering shifts welcoming it with cheery lifts and gifts to humans’ inhumane dwelling place. Such is the coming; the ritual and the grace

GOODBYE IS THE SADDEST WORD Adebesin Ibraheem Tuesday, January 31, 2017 When my plane touched down on the soil of Ifako International Secondary School (IISS) on Monday, 15th of September, 2014, I was unsure of what fate held in store for me, but I was certain that I was going to do my best, as it had been my wont, to contribute to the growth of the students and the school. So, the journey started. I got warmly welcomed into the midst of a wonderful, dutiful team. Then, I met an array of good, bad and ugly students. Some of them readily fell in love with my charismatic personality, while some felt ‘what an arrogant tutor he is’! Many of them openly gave tickling commendation that I was good, while some secretly sneered at me and my assertive character; some admired my eclectic methods of teaching, while some just couldn’t cope with my meticulousness. Once, one of them, named Christen (with the weird pseudonym, ‘misanthrope’) openly confessed she didn’t like me. I smiled and told her not...

MAUREEN CLARK     (Fiction) The passage below is about a woman who conquered obstacles in her way to rise to fame. "Suffering refines and defines us”. There is so much truth in that saying. Maureen Clark had been refined and defined by the shattering experiences of her growing up years. Those bygone tribulations had enriched her brainpower, as well as her outlook on life. She secured an employment at the age of 25, with a private consulting firm. Performing consistently superlatively at work earned her a meteoric rise to fame. Within the space of five years, she steadily climbed the corporate ladder, and as an ardent advocate of training and upskilling, she attended trainings with an enviable frequency – self-sponsored trainings and officially-arranged ones. One of the officially-sponsored trainings was a top-ranking three-month course at a prestigious institute in Canada. At the end of the training, she returned home with a phenomenal result and a number of awards from ...