January 3, 2020

THE PHONE CALLS WERE NOT REAL

I had a roommate once who would stay on the phone and talk for long with his mum about foreign countries, the laptops his uncle sent and a lot of high sounding and mouth-watering things. I remember an occasion when he told his mum on phone, “Mummy, I have told you I don’t want to go for summer break. I […]

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January 3, 2020

HUNGRY BUT CHECKING THE WRONG PLACES

Olive began to pull at my vest. She opened her mouth and started eating up the region around my chest. It was obvious she was hungry. It was obvious she knew what she wanted but she was checking the wrong place. I carried her to her mum so she could be fed. It is important to know what you want […]

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January 1, 2020

THE ROOM THAT WAS NEGLECTED

At a point, we had an option of choosing rooms as young ones. There was this small and cute room that my brother and I loved. Another room was full of “junks”- a shelf of paint cans and all. It became a tussle but my brother chose the small room and I moved to the junk-room. Guess what, the junk-room […]

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December 31, 2019

FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW…

We were on a trip out of town. We travelled in three vehicles. Out of all the drivers, I was the only one who knew the place that we were heading to. No matter how much the other drivers sped, they would have to slow down and wait for me to take the lead. They do not know the particular […]

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December 30, 2019

Compass Devotional (Jan. – April 2020)

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December 30, 2019

RUNNING THROUGH DARK PLACES

While growing, I hated running picking things up for Dad, Mum or siblings late in the night from their rooms. Once Daddy says, “Temi, bring my radio from the room”, fear grips my heart. It became worse when someone close died and I would imagine that the ghost can appear to me while alone. If you are plagued with the […]

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December 28, 2019

THE TRAP TO AVOID

As we left the meeting, a dear protégé of mine said to me, “Sir, it takes pastoral grace to do what you did and still minister the truth to those young ones”. I was to teach a large crowd of teenagers but they were distracted and noisy. I said to him, “Sir when I saw how distracted and noisy they […]

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December 27, 2019

THINGS A FATHER MUST NEVER FORGET (4)

My dad gets to play pranks on us at times. One afternoon, he called and requested that he needed to see me. I went to meet up with him in his office. He gave that look that showed he had something important to say. He then said, “My son, I have a child outside” (meaning another woman has a baby […]

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December 26, 2019

THINGS A FATHER MUST NEVER FORGET (3)

My lovely wife was carrying our first baby. I travelled for about 48 hours out of town. When I returned, Irewamiri said, “Can you imagine your daughter?” (a reference to the baby in the womb) I was inquisitive. She said “She had not been kicking for the past 48 hours. I tried all I could. I talked to her. I […]

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December 25, 2019

THINGS A FATHER MUST NEVER FORGET (2)

I got to the office pretty early that morning. I spotted a man at a drinking parlour close by drinking early that morning. I would have walked away but I saw him with a boy that could not be more than three years old. I confronted the man. I asked him why he would want to introduce his son to […]

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