A Naked Tom Hanks Being Chased By Dogs On A Street in Nigeria and other Matters

Tom Hanks

Two nights ago, I had a strange dream where I was in the same hotel with Tom Hanks and later we had to jump from a balcony to the ground floor, but Tom Hanks who was stark naked landed on the grounds of another building and I heard the barks of dogs. Then I saw two dogs after him. The sight of a naked man being chased by dogs on the street in Lagos was dangerous, because he could be mistaken for an escaping thief. A street mob would soon be after him and he could be lynched and set ablaze before finding out if he was a thief or not. It was a strange dream. I will state the details later.


Many families are fleeing Bonny Island before tomorrow July 16, the deadline of the ultimatum militants gave foreigners and non-indigènes to leave before their attacks on the kingdom. The Nigerian soldiers are fully armed to confront them as I saw many soldiers guarding the Nigerian LNG Bonny Plant Complex and residential areas. I saw a tough looking soldier in combat mood with a machine gun behind a fortification of sandbags. They were frisking people on foot and searching vehicles.

I was at the Guaranty Trust Bank to deposit some dollars in a domiciliary account, but the bank could not receive such deposits, because it was not fully operational in fear of the looming hostilities and most banks have been shut on Bonny Island.

I heard the bad news that some people fleeing Bonny Island drowned when their boat capsized in the Bonny river. I was sad, but I could not stop those I knew were fleeing in fear. I can only pray for their safety.

My First Love and My Last Love and Other Matters

My first love knew me before anyone else
My first love kissed me before anyone else
My first love embraced me before anyone else
My first love knew me even before I was born
My first love comes before everything else.

My first love never makes excuses.
My first love never lies.
My first love does not hold me to ransom.
My first love never curses.

My first love is the reason why I am breathing
My first love is the reason why I am living.

My first love is also my last love
My first love is the deepest and the greatest
My first love is the highest and the sweetest
My first love will never leave me even when all others have left me
My first love will be there for me till the end.

Others come and go
And the sounds of their voices may no longer echo
But my first Love never leaves.
Even if your mortal eyes cannot see
My first love is always there for me.

The name of my first love and my last love is True Love.
For His love is why I live
No matter how time flies
His Love never dies.
His love is everlasting
He is the God of my everything.

I am really never lonely, because I am always in the company of members of my family, relations, neighbours, friends and lovers. But I have found most of them wanting, because they are with me for erroneous and ambiguous agemdas, for the benefits of their relationship with me.

They do not understand the essence of our existence.
They think we only live for the sake of living.
They think we only love for the sake of loving.
They do not know that life is more than the gratification and satisfaction of the mundane.
They do not know that the essence of our existence is divine.
They bargain for everything in life.
They bargain for opportunities.
They bargain for favours.
They bargain for relationships.
In fact, they even want to bargain with God in what I call bargain Christianity.

I often look at humans not in astonishment, because there is nothing surprising about humans anymore.
I simply look at humans in amusement.
They are the most amusing creatures on planet earth.

Most of them think they are smart and wise. But eventually, they begin to manifest their true characteristics and become mere subjects of my writings. I simply tell their stories to teach others the lessons of life, because in most cases, history has shown that humans often do not learn from the mistakes of others or from the mistakes of the past.
They are often misled by their instincts or wits.

I really feel sorry for the species of Homo sapiens on earth, because they have become like chaff in the wind. They are often blown to and fro, according the tides of the times.
They come and go like the seasons.

Every season has a reason.
And every reason has a season.

Time will tell you the truth.
One day, the truth will be exposed before your very eyes like black-eyed peas.
The truth is why many girls and women end up with bruises and black eyes!

When they see that you have what they can get from you, they keep coming. But if they cannot get it, they move on to the next shop.
They are always shopping for one thing or the other.
Hello!
Yes. I know you know yourselves!
I am talking to you!
How much are you worth?
That you let men take you for a ride and you call it having a good time?
When boys and men take turns on you?
You have even lost count of how many of them have slept with you like dogs on the street.
Who is next?

Many humans are still trading by barter.
They barter themselves in exchange for what they want.
1+1=2.
There is, what I call the mathematics of human relationships.
These relationships depend on bargains.
What are the full benefits and fringe benefits?
These humans are mere opportunists of life.

I do not drive them away whenever they come into my private or public life.
I welcome them and do my best to share the knowledge I am sharing now.
My purpose is to make them wiser, so that they would become fulfilled in life and not waste their lives in haste as they are desperate to have what they assume are the trophies of their materialistic world.

They often come in-between my first love and my last love.
Most of them come for selfish reasons.
For their carnal pleasures and worldly treasures. But in most cases they are like empty shells.
Imagine an egg without any yolk.
That is their life without essence.

What they call love is not the Love I know.
Their love is not my first love and my last love.

Where They Eat Dogs

It has been an exciting and thrilling spring for me. The joy of every writer is the birth of a new born baby and books are the children of writers.

My new book is coming out next week and the first collection of my essays and commentaries will be released before fall.

The title of this post is the title of a novel I want to write on the Nigerian tribe known for eating dog meat. But I am using it to address the dog eat dog ways of life in Nigeria.

Many humans actually behave and live like dogs.
Remember what our Messiah Jesus Christ warned us about such people in Matthew 7:6. He also said that:
"By their fruits you shall know them."
That means, you can tell from their characters and separate the sheep from the goats.

See The Dogs and the Pigs in Nigeria.

They Tell Lies Upon Lies

They Tell Lies Upon Lies

I have been pondering
As I have been wondering
How they roll and twist their forked tongues
They twist their tongues in intrigues.

Croaking frogs in the misty swamp
Howling dogs in the shanty camp.

The fools thought they could fool me
But I could see what they could not see
Their fallacy and their hypocrisy
Their conceit and deceit
These mosquitoes and flies
They tell lies upon lies.

March 22, 1999.