Daniel's Pit

Evening to you lots, the just ended week has been of mixed feelings for me, have not really slept well because I am working on a project so I am stressed out like a worn rubber band. On the other hand, my old dear club almost gave me an heart attack, as a long time fan I am used to these things, but this felt different, thanks to Auba and Saka I am able to a scribe for y'all from my soft mat and not sick bay. Alright enough of that, it is good to be back here, I am back with my rumblings again, this time with a rather interesting take on a topic, seeing the topic alone can prompt prejudice for this article, even before reading it. But it's good to have you all reading on the blog, keep up.  Do I want all genders to be equal? Yes. Do I want to be able to grab a drink at a bar full of Whites without fear of being discriminated? Hell yes. Do I feel these is, in its entirety, possible? Frankly No. I know we all want to feel like a modern human and all, we all want to conform to a s

  Introduction When the Federal Government was considering nationwide lockdowns during the heyday of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of us insisted that the economic and mental consequences of such lockdowns would exceed the supposed benefits. In a Whatsapp group I belong to, one of those who didn’t agree with this view - that the lockdown's economic and mental consequences will exceed any supposed benefits - upbraided Nigerians for not preparing for emergencies. He believed that Nigerians don’t learn how to save for situations like the pandemic. While that discussion was ongoing, it was easy to see the elitism in his argument. How many average Nigerians earn enough income to get by their living expenses, talk less of saving? A whopping 40% of the population lives below the poverty line, according to the NBS . So that upbraiding was by and large inconsiderate. However, it will be naive to think that we don’t have some people who can prepare for emergencies but find themselves u

Introduction In his book, The Secular Age , Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher, traced the development of secularism across three significant epochs: impossible not to believe, possible not to believe, impossible to believe. The first stage (impossible not to believe) describes the traditional, pre-modern age where belief in a God was ubiquitous, and it was mostly impossible not to believe in God. In those days, the question was which God or god exists, not whether there was God or a god. In fact, Miles Coverdale coined the word atheist when translating the bible to English in 1534. He had to come up with a word to describe unbelief. But we moved from the pre-modern age to the modern age, where it was now possible not to believe. The French Revolution (and its rationalism) and the mainstreaming of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species began to provide a philosophical foundation for the popularity of unbelief. Soon, an entire economic and political system-communism-was

Good to be back scribing again, I really apologize for the hiatus I took, let us say it’s been a really engaging month, but I am back. true story. The idea, I am going to be diving into its ocean is one I have had in mind for a long time, the “how will people take it” syndrome  got the best of me but here we are in this pit, get your oxygen mask and best have a web feet as we dive in. The scribing of the Holy Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit, when I think about this and the way I see it, it must have been true, because almost every situation you can be in prolly has a reference in the Holy Bible, even something as silly as “the salary of a prostitute”, the answer the Holy Bible will give might not be straight forward or might not suffice but your situation can’t just elude the grasp of the Holy Bible, have you met Pastors before? Such scribing, aged 2000+ years, with such grasp on everything, even 2000+ years after, must have been scribed with the help of an external force.  As

           Want to be happy? look for a meme. Want to be sad? look for a meme. There is a meme for every emotion you have, I love memes. You don't do memes? give it a trial, you don't like it? LIAR.   I have a culture, maybe like everyone, of checking the status of my "meme dealers" every morning and before I go to bed, kudos to my dealer y'all are the best. When I am done with this piece, you guessed right what I am going to do before I sink on a foam. But I'll focus on the good memes, thanks to the Arsenal victory this night, boy it was treat.      I have consumed a lot of memes, some are funny, scary, witty and some are nonsensical. But today I am more concerned about the "I don't give a fvck" memes. You see captions like "You ignore me I ignore you", "Whatever you hear about me please believe", LIARS. Like they or we are capable of shutting out our emotions.      My candid advice, don't take this kinda memes to heart,

What a year it has been, what a month it has been, what a week it has been, personally what a couple of days it has been for me emotionally, 2020 has given us a lot to think about, and I must tell you, it has been a hell of a ride. The saga was initiated by the pandemic that hit the world, followed closely by a rather eventful and controversial show, “Big Brother Naija (BBN)”, drifting into the historic, once in a blue moon, nationwide protest. Interesting thing about these events is the ripple effect they had on one another. The pandemic, as with most countries, forced the Nigerian government to impose a lockdown on its citizenry, with no economic activities going on, Nigerians were stuck with the internet and media, bearing to the end of the lock down, the BBN show started, schools were not in session, most organizations and workers now loved working from home, so they did. The youths had time to watch BBN lock down, and with their lockdown companion -social media, the show had a wel