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Friends are foes and foes are friends by Akindipe Samson George

  I don't know why life has been   programmed to be this way, your best friends are nothing but a foe, in the guise of a good friend, trying to sought for solutions to your problems, with the aim of putting you in a doom and  Waterloo, when you still even eat in the same plate with them, dine and share your last penny with them, they still get jealous and envy your success.   When you trust your heart and life in  their care, they will go further by dumping it on a dunghill,   when you solicit their advice on way forward;    they tend to give impossible solutions in the guise of slowing your destiny and join them in going nowhere,   when you go back to tell them that it's not working,   they will tell you to run faster; which they had known that it is a wrong road.     When you are being arraign for a trial, they will appear as a defence witness, with the aim of corroborating the prosecutor's claim and...

CERTAIN TYPES OF WOMEN A MAN SHOULD AVOID

  There are different types of women or ladies a man who is intending to get married should avoid. If any man should fall into one of the hands of the ladies, he's life will be messed up and become miserable. It is said that 85 percent of your happiness will come from your marriage,relationship and the rest 15 percent will come from your work. 1. LIERS   They are the kind of ladies that look charming, beautiful, gorgeous, intelligent. Their I.Q are high as they can solve issues. They pretend a lot,like living fake life and they also exaggerate or embellish a lot. They cook up lies just to cover up for their future lies. They will represent a white handkerchief to be gray or even ash colour, and when you finally get them, they will come up with another series of lies. If a man should marry this kind of of a person, there will surely be a problem of trust and infidelity between the couple. 2. WASTERS   They are the kind of ladies that like buying too much, they spend mo...

CAPITAL OFFENCES FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:SHOULD CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BE ABOLISHED?

  According to the book of genesis 2:7, it says "And the lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul."   Genesis 3:19 "...For you are dust and to dust you shall return." This bible Verses makes us to understand that, whether you commit an offence or not,you will die.the person passing judgment will die,the executors will die and the person that has also be convicted will die,death is the end of all human. No man is an immortal, every man will die, even the common characteristics of living things which is popularly known as "MR NIGER D" ,the "D" there simplicity death at the end of all. The question now is, do we still need to apply capital punishment which is also known as death sentence to capital offences ?   Traditionally, if we are to look at the evolution of capital punishment, we can trace its source back to the days of our forefathers, the dark ages, where l...

LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC SLANGS.

                                             ABSTRACT This study is aimed mainly at discovering the sociolinguistic factors motivating the use of slang and their meaning among Nigerian musicians as a social group. All other expositions and considerations are subordinate to the above set goals. This paper has been able to conclude that slang has been in existence for a long time and it is the informal language of musicians which could remain from generations to generations. It could build on its register, add new forms and replacing old forms with new ones. Certain Standard English word denote certain interpretations could have their meaning altered when used as slangs, they become connotation rather than denotation. Finally, slang can be fun to listen to. Mu...