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Life After Youth Service: Expectations Versus Reality

100 days to go, 50 days to go, 10 days to go, I day to go, finally it’s here and it’s gone! If you have ever been a Corper then you’ll understand the impatience. All of a sudden that wonderful village where you are serving will seem like a hell hole, you will suddenly find your school Principal very annoying and that #19,800 a stipend you can no longer manange. In fact, you can’t wait until you start to earn ‘real’ salary at least from 100k and above. Who is going to work for 50k? Mbanu!   That’ll be a moonwalk to retrogression, Forward ever, Backward never in Jesus name! There’s a proverb that says the sound of bitter kola nut does not mean it’s a delicacy, in other words the echoes of freedom does not mean that it would be a free ride to luxury, pleasure. But don’t be deterred just be prepared for the challenges of life.      This article contrasts four major misconceptions corps members have and what it obtainable in real life.  Expectation 1: I won’t take a job that pays less th

Story Time: How I Treated Burns With Natural Herbs!

Happy new year people! I hope you all had an exciting Christmas and new year celebration? Mine was so eventful that I didn't want the holidays to end at all. This year April will make it exactly three years that I suffered burns that almost disfigured me for life. When I tell people about this they find it so hard to believe because I healed so totally that I have very little scars left. Let me give you the whole gist... THE INCIDENT We always had this pressure pot that had been sitting dormant on our kitchen shelves for some unexplainable reason; we never got to use it. I decided to use it on one fateful day to cook cocoyam while preparing for church. Barely 10minutes after cooking the food and I brought it down and immediately tried to open the pressure pot, it was airtight and very stiff therefore difficult for me to open, I forced it open by applying all the force I could muster. Then the unexpected happened! The contents of the pot splashed all over my face, arms, shoulder an