My Voice

I have listened to the BBC WorldService for like six years now, and it was kind of bizarre for someone of my age group to be obsessed with radio when smartphones exist but this is how it all started. In the year 2014, my family relocated to Numan, a town near the state capital called Yola located in Adamawa State, Nigeria. We relocated there temporarily in the month of  November 2014 because Bokoharam insurgents infiltrated our home town and left us with no choice than to run away. My coming there feels kind of uncomfortable but I was ready to adapt, knowing that it wasn't permanent. 

Have you ever had a bite of any fruit and you enjoyed the taste so much? Have you ever wondered why flowers smell so good or why they look so beautiful? From the beginning of time or origin of our world, nature incentives had been in existence. What do I mean by nature incentives? The dictionary defines incentive as something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. It can also be referred to as a bonus or reward. So what aspect of nature motivates or rewards us for doing something? In this context that aspect of nature is reproduction. But why reproduction? If we take a look at plants and trees and how they produce seeds from the flowering stage to the fruiting stage, we'll find out that a hierarchy of process is involved but where does the incentive come in? Plants and Trees are fixated living things. They don't have the capability of mobility like animals and insects do. Therefore to have their offsprings distributed across the earth, they prod...

  Every day we are bombarded with News on catastrophes happening around the world from hurricanes to earthquakes, wildfires to landslides, bomb blast to war crimes, poverty, violence and the threats of global warming. We then began to ask questions on what's happening? We became inquisitive towards the cause of all these problems. Some say it is the end of the world, others say it is because of the increase in the world's population and the overuse of the earth's resources. People keep on making speculations because they are looking for what to blame these problems on but what's the cause? Amidst all these,  can we still say the world is much better now compared to the previous centuries? Sometimes we become overwhelmed by the bad things happening around us that we became lost and fail to recognize some of the good things occurring.  Did you know that in the last two decades, the percentage of the world living in extreme poverty has reduced to half the o...

Imagine yourself in a room full of smelly feces with all your feet stuck inside and some of it splashed to your face. Feels disgusting right? You might have squeezed your face while imagining that but it's not like you are there. So why do you squeeze your face? Is it because you know how repugnant the smell of feces is? No The truth is you squeezed your face because of your mental image. That kind of situation only exists in your mind and picturing it will have the same effect on your face as it will in reality.

Johnny wake up! Something is moving in the room!! It’s dark in here, can you please turn the light on. I can't! The power went off! What’s that sound? Oh my God. According to Wikipedia Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger. It is also a strong emotion induced by anticipated danger. Fear is normal and it’s like a shield designed to protect us humans from perceived danger. It’s often directed towards a situation or objects that don’t necessarily pose a real danger. Phobia is often termed as an irrational fear towards a situation, living creature, object, etc. It’s being termed as' irrational' because people find it unreasonable. Take for example xanthophobia, the fear of yellow colour. People with xanthophobia fear anything yellow including the Sun. Others include coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, turophobia, the fear of Cheese and so on. Sometimes these fears are seen as anxiety disorders. Nevertheless that’s just an introduction. I know we all have our fe...

I heard of this star that shines in the east. And Its not an ordinary star. High it lies in the starry night sky , showcasing its beauty with a radiant white light! Could it be the prophecy! I think this is it!  It was said that this star will shine on the day a saviour will be born to us , who will be the king of the Jews. I can't wait to meet him! We must go on this journey, for this is a wonderful news! How lucky we are to discover this! Lets prepare the Camels and don't forget your gifts, for when we meet him we will worship him with it! I will give him gold, you can give me mrryh and  my friend frankincense would be great! Oh bethlehem here we come for your city is blest to host this great King!! Merry Christmas! Everyone

On a cold  christmas eve in 1952, when korea was in the middle of a civil war, one young woman struggled along a village street, because she was pregnant and about to deliver a child. She pleaded with passerby's."help me ! Please. My baby"   no one paid attention to her. A middle-aged couple walked by and one of them pushed her away and mocked her saying "where is the father ? " the couple laughed and went on. The woman almost doubled up from a contraction as she watched them go. "please.." she begged. She heard of a missionary living nearby who might help her. Quickly she began walking to that village, hoping the man will help her and the baby. Shivering and in pain she struggled over the frozen countryside. But the night was so cold . Snow began to fall. Realizing that the time was near to deliver her baby, she took shelter under a bridge. There alone her baby was born on christmas eve. Worried about her new born son, she took off her own ...