The Woman's Place

I know a lot of people will ask, who is a good man? What defines good?  What does a man have to provide to be termed good? Does he have to be  stinking rich to fit their tag? Should he be a father figure, an encourager or perhaps a protector? I perceive that many will even turn up their noses  and scoff that there is no good man on planet earth. A guy who cheats on his girl might regard himself as a good guy because he  spends money on her. On the other hand, a guy who is stingy, temperamental   and insensitive could score himself as a good guy because he doesn’t cheat  on his woman. Essentially, labeling a thing as good usually opens room for wide debate. What is  good for one woman may be bad for another. But we will all agree that there are  ‘universal’ expectations as to how a responsible guy (bachelor) should comport   himself to befit the status of a good man. A good man must be responsible eno...

The heavy logs landing on their faces.Their cries of please rending the air,piercing my heart.I wondered why the people stood just watching.Why are they being beaten so,I asked in utter amazement but their cries filtered my questions,nobody was ready to answer me anyway.Then,the log landed so forcefully across his face again and the blood gushed as in water from an open  faucet,it splashed on my clothes as if commanding me to help the helpless,so I screamed at them to stop beating them.As I screamed,I felt a hand shaking me vigorously.Why would they want to stop me,I thought in my mind and so I screamed the more and the hand became two,shaking and pushing me so hard that I positioned myself to attack the hands.As I grabbed the hands,I sat up but I heard my sister's voice instead screaming my name.Opening my eyes,it was my sister alright,the clock says 2:14am.Are you alright?,my sister asked me bringing me back finally to the real world.It had been a dream.I just had a nightmare!....

After 52 years of independence as a nation,Nigeria seems to me to have failed in very many areas,especially economically.The average Nigerian lives below one dollar a day.Few clinch the great wealth of this wealthy nation and live royalty.