Lola's Blog

I don't know what you are doing today but just keep doing it. No matter what! No matter how hard it is. As I write this article, I am battling with torrent of tears threatening to spill over. I am tired. I feel like a failure. Every time I try to get back on my two feet concerning my business, I just get pushed over by challenges and Whatnots. Right now, I feel like Dan-i in that Korean movie, Romance when she was trying to get a job after staying at home for years taking care of her husband who divorced her in the end and her child. Getting back into the market after staying away for so long is so much more harder than you might think. It takes a lot emotionally, financially and that is why whatever you are doing right now, no matter how hard it is to get money to keep buying or making your product, just try because once you stop, to get back in there takes a lot and I know that now. And customers do not even know the pains entrepreneurs go through, the risk, the...

Children's Day is here and by now many schools, NGOs and other organizations will be in the mood of celebration. Amusement parks,  leisure sites and other places like these already have special activities for the children to participate in and enjoy themselves. The giving of hot, cooked meals to children on the streets or in need is already taking place. May 27th in Nigeria is a big day for children  all over the country; but the children that are celebrating and having fun are those in private schools or those who are lucky to have an NGO organise something for them. However,  a large population of children in this country will continue their days like nothing is going on. These children live in the rural areas or in the slums of the cities. For them, Children's Day is just another day in the year when they'll have to work hard to support their families and make ends meet. If they're privileged to be in school, once classes are over, they head to the streets or...

Children are a gift from the lord. Every one of us was once a child and I am so sure like me, we must have wished at one time or the other, we were born into a different family where we had it easy. Growing up we had the rich kids, the average and the poor kids opposed to now that we only have two classes, rich kids or poor kids. The rich kids had all the toys and more. I remember those days when I was still a 'child', kindagarten through nursery to primary, I had no toy except for one brown teddy bear which I didn't even have access to every time, I can't recall the reason now. Anyway, one day, all bored and alone, I went in search of my teddy bear. I carried a chair to increase my height with the hope of seeing my saviour but it was all in vain. I am telling you I searched everywhere 'searchable' that day, nothing, no teddy bear. Being devastated was an understatement. There were other kids, many kids who had plenty, more than they could use and he...