youngest marriage on record

I think this world is going crazy or better put, people are going crazy. Otherwise how do we explain a situation whereby a father marries out his daughter to settle a dispute or debt. In this picture you see a girl of 4 being married off to a boy of 7 to settle a dispute of 500000 rupees. Please read complete story at police_breaks_wedding_of_4_year_old_girl

Education in Nigeria

I saw this interesting article on Thisday Newspaper and I wonder what Nigeria is turning into. Mr . Bola ji Abdullahi, the Kwara state commisioner of education, science and technology who has been working round the clock to rebuild education in his state, recently launched an initiative to assess the needs of teachers in order to improve the quality of education in his state. Primary school teachers were given exercises/test materials designed for 10-12. The basic aim was to test their numeracy and literacy levels. Guess what? only 7 out of 19125 teachers scored 80 percent and above in the four tests. Just seven! As many as 259 scored zero despite holding "good qualifications".
You may think this is the worst case scenario in the federation but the assessors have not visited other states. What respect would those students have for such teachers that cannot pass a simple aptitude test. I think this assessment should be brought up to the university level. Some of this "so called" professors should be called to defend their academic chairs.

Ladies and money

Recently, I have been wondering why ladies are always so demanding. I don't know if it has ever happened to you. Or maybe it is perculiar to Nigeria. When once a guy asks a lady out, the lady sees that as an avenue to enrich herself. She accepts the date because according to some of them, "No body says no to a free meal." This has in turn led the men into seeing every female counterpart as a potential sex tool. There is a popular saying that "when a guy ask a lady out, he is actually asking for sex and when a lady says yes to a guy, she is saying yes to his money". This is predorminant amongst tertiary institution students. Last january, I went to Ecobank to withdraw some money. There I met this girl, saw her as an angel. She is extremely beautiful. I asked her out and incidentally she accepted. After the valentine's day, I told her I wanted to see her and since no normal nigerian guy likes spending money, I told her to come to my class and see me. She declined telling me that its either I come out to one of the closest fastfood resaurant or I forget it. I opted to play to her gallery and went to see her at "Mr Biggs". I went there loaded ( you know what I mean) so that she would not embarass me. As coutesy demands or as I thought was proper, I offered to buy her something to eat while we discussed. She told me she didn't want anything so as not to give me a wrong impression about herself. In my heart, I was jubilating. She mostly told me about her ex-boyfriend whom she claimed she dumped due to his womanizing attributes. She told me her boyfriend had been trailing her wherever she goes and that the guy was in the restaurant with us. I was so frustrated when my attempts to bring up other issues failed. I decided to leave her to continue her rantings. After her discussions, she told me she wanted me to buy food for her to take to her younger sister at home. She also got the sum of Five thousand Naira as transport fare for a journey that is not more than forty Naira
Two weeks later, it was my birthday and I lied to her that there was this crazy birthday party that was going to be held at my resident in school, that she should come and make my day as the presence of my girlfriend is most needed. She told me she wasn't coming to my place and that since it was my birthday, I should come and take her out. The truth of the matter is that it wasn't my birthday and I just wanted to get her laid that day.
About amonth later, she called me explaining how she was in a tight situation that her parents have not sent money for her to buy her books and other things( forgrting that she told me she was staying with her parents close to school) and that I should lend her twenty thousand Naira. There is this theory that when a lady asks you to lend her some money, it actually means you should give her money and just forget the money. I did not yield to her request which made her stop communicating with me for three months.
Now she is back and is still demanding for money. I sthis what ladies were created for?

The fake mattress I bought

As at last January when I resumed back at school, I had moved to a new apartment with my friend and we knew quite well that we needed a new mattress. So I had to go and buy one. I went to the nearest market and thought or actually bought a brand name mattress- vita foam. Unknown to me, this wasn't the original mattress. When I bought it, the first two nights were very painful since it was as solid as a rock. After about a week, I started noticing some depressions on the mattress especially on the part that is usually occupied by my friend. I thought maybe it was due to his weight and decided to ignore it. After a month, it was nothing to write home about. It was like a mat and so I approached the seller of the mattress. He told me to my face that the one he sold to me was the fake one. I asked why he had been so Carlos and he told me that I requested for it. On survey, I realised that all the mattresses he sells are the same. Right now the mattress is more of a mat than a mattress. I rather sleep on the rug because I have a better sleep on the rug than on the mattress

Online love

I have been very anxious to share this with you. I don't know what's causing the anxiety, maybe its the afterglow of the whole thing. I have this friend. As a matter of fact, she is a friend to my friend. We have been chatting for a while. Yesterday, she used someone's mobile to call me. Forgetfully, I decided to call the number when I saw a received call from a mystery number. Man! the voice was actually that of an angel. Well I was dumbfounded and decided to hide in my shadow. Although it was a conversation over the phone, I couldn't help but fall for the voice. I hope I can keep it going with this mystery lady