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Living on

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Story of two jolly friends. Once upon a time, two chickens moved together, ate together, and are fond of themselves. They were happy friends, that shared both their ups and downs. So it happened that one of the chickens was struck by sickness. She could not eat, hence she lost the energy to walk and work. All her friend's efforts at persuading her to eat proved abortive. It became obvious that the ailing chicken would not survive the sickness. Then the healthy one stopped eating in solidarity with her sick friend. In no time, she became sick herself. The chicken that was about to die opened her eyes to see her now sick friend. "Why did you build this sickness in your body?" she asked. "I cannot imagine living without you." She responded. The death-bound chicken told her not to give up on living because of her. "We were not born on the same day. No matter how much Eagle's mother loves her eaglets, they will someday separate. I appreciat...

Energy Check HoL 111

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Humans of Lagos "I traveled out of Lagos to execute a project with some other colleagues, but when they paid everyone my bank account detail was omitted; hence I got no pay. A friend assisted me by sending money to me, she was debited but I wasn't credited. This morning, I lost a huge amount of money which has officially rendered me bankrupt. Still, people are owing me, yet they all act as if they can't remember being indebted to me by paying me what they owe. But why are all these happening to me? A friend said that I needed prayers. But I know so many prayerful people whose conditions are worse off than mine. So I'm sitting here at Contemplation Park, thinking about how things went wrong. I reckoned that I might not have been actively asking for what belonged to me, as people may dodge paying until one is tenaciously asking to be paid. Also, maybe I'm too carefree, or my survival Instinct isn't rugged enough for these things. Introspectively, ...

Religious and Heartless HoL 110

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Humans of Lagos "In this city, we have more religious centres than companies, hence, less job for millions of job seekers. Yet, I'm still baffled that these proliferate religious centres couldn't solve the inhumane treatments faced by most people in the city. For instance, in my street, a wealthy but childless religious couple that adopted a physically challenged girl to raise was doing the unthinkable. The wife encouraged her husband to be having sex with the girl so she could get pregnant for them. The wife did this because she would rather not compete with other women over her husband. A highly preferred option to a second wife in her opinion. They maltreated the innocent lady until her death. The siblings of the dead girl had a hand in this. They had given the girl away to the rich couple at the demise of their parents because they were embarrassed by her condition. She would droll as she talked and walked haphazardly. The church that all the parties att...