In an ancient fable, a palm-nut farmer failed to make good profits despite harvesting bountiful palm-nuts. He usually poured his harvested palm-nuts into a large sack, which surprisingly never gets filled. Eventually, he discovered that some rats bored holes under the sack for stealing his palm-fruits while he laboured in vain. Likewise, without understanding and […]
Human beings are propelled by the principle of constant progress from less capacity to more capacity. Yet, a two-month-old baby that desires to just run like Usain Bolt without passing through the stages may get frustrated. The stages of lying face-down, supporting the neck, sitting, crawling, standing and walking build the baby’s muscular frame for […]
Setting trap is one of the methods by which hunters catch games. Hunters bait their traps by dropping some food on the trap to attract and trap the animals. The small food dropped as bait is not meant to nourish the animal, but to give the hunter a leverage to catch bush-meat. Trapping differentiates foods […]
Upcoming artists often attach themselves to already-famous celebrities in order to get fame. While some celebrities promote upcoming artists to succeed and shine, others exploit their talents and block their chances for success. In fear of losing exploitable talents and ideas from the upcoming artists, established celebrities tie them with manipulative contracts. The celebrities take […]
Traffic lights are major sources of information through which traffic officers regulate the interaction between different road users. Any information mismanagement from traffic officers in showing wrong traffic-light can cause fatal accidents, leading to deaths. As with traffic information mismanagement, media (social, print or electronic) information mismanagement can have immediate or later harmful effects on […]
After weeks of sales, Toyota and other car manufacturers could recall specific car-models to correct detected faults in the models. The car manufacturers carefully inspect and fix the faulty parts of the cars without damaging other parts of the car. After fixing the observed faults, the manufacturers test the cars for general road-worthiness before sending […]
After several weeks of observation, David said to Chioma: “I want me and you to become boys and girls.” Chioma blushingly replies: “Are you sure… let me think about it and confirm from my people”. From then, both of their families began researching and gathering necessary information about their prospective in-laws for a cordial relationship. […]
Some Nigerian road-users accuse highway hawkers of damaging roads to create traffic jam (go-slow) for doing business. Whether the accusation is true or false, highway hawkers benefit immensely from thick traffic-jams caused by bad roads. Drivers and passengers who spend hours in traffic-jams get hungry and dehydrated having to patronize the hawkers. As hawkers benefit […]
Though the left and right hands are parts of human body, some cultures attach preference to using one hand to another. Despite the rivalry between the two hands, they need each other to balance the body movement and perform other activities. Without amputation, the right hand cannot climb a mountain leaving the left hand tied […]
‘Pepper-them’ is a new language among Nigerian beautiful ladies for using their success to intimidate other ladies. They obtain and display expensive phones, bags, clothes, jewelleries, shoes, cars, houses, vacations and other items to ‘pepper’ their rivals. While they pepper their rivals by buying and showing these items, the producers make more profits from their […]