In polygamous families, when wives feel their husband is stingy, they turn the children against him or deny him intimacy. The wives may stop collecting his small money, or starve the children to blame their father’s stinginess. The wives’ demands may be genuine to take care of the family, or fabricated just to extort the […]
Due to his obedience, Paul was promoted to manage a large compound where human traffickers keep their captives. Paul had been a captive in the compound until the traffickers appointed him to manage other captives. Following the traffickers’ patterns, Paul seizes and sells the desirable organs discovered in any of the captives. Then, he occasionally […]
Rushing an accident victim’s recovery and ability to walk by removing his walking-stick or clutches may not yield desired results. Accident victims are often emotionally shocked, bleeding internally or having broken bones that require suitable treatment before they can walk. Likewise, efficiency in modern industry and wealth-creation comes from enabling a society to use their […]
Western companies often recall already-dispatched products like cars, drugs and foods that were later judged inadequate or unsafe for consumers. Even some Asian countries reportedly execute people who produce, permit or circulate substandard goods for their citizens. Not hearing of product-recall by any company in Nigeria points either to the producers’ excellence or consumers’ lack […]
Humans pray and work for advancements, but every new development creates a new challenge about its use and abuse. A new device’s speed in solving problems may not be faster than its speed in causing some unexpected harms. The invention of locomotive engines revolutionized many aspects of human life including production, warfare and transportation. The […]
A one-eyed politician barred his mother from seeing him after being disqualified from contesting a position because of his one-eye blindness. When he was little, his mother had allowed him play with knives because he cried whenever the mother took away the knife. Being allowed to play with knife as a baby, he poked and […]
People buy fine dog breeds to protect their families and other important things. Yet, if the dogs are not well-trained and directed towards their primary goal of protection, they become in-house threats. Men are endowed with physical energies to protect and provide for their families and society. When they are not enabled to use these […]
Modern televisions, electronic screen-posts and general screen gadgets are often very beautiful and desirable. Despite their beauty, they are used to show the meaning, beauty and use of other things to human beings. Those beautiful televisions, gadgets and sign-screens are used to advertise, explain or show products, ideas, people or events. Like fine televisions and […]
Before treating patients, doctors search for the causes by examining lab-results and symptoms of diseases to decide best treatment plan. This search for causes in problem-solving is called diagnosis, and is employed by other problem-solvers like computer and car repairers. Contrarily, in setbacks, some people seek to absolve themselves of responsibility by searching for faults […]
After being enticed by the hyped N75k Jakarta fabric worn by his colleagues, Musa sought to acquire one for himself. When he went to buy the fabric, he showed his disappointment and distrust for the quality when the seller charged him 25k. Then the seller retorted: “Anh, you should have told me you wanted the […]
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