Apostle Tosin Oke posts

A cold evening over here in Nigeria.  Rain since afternoon, off and on. Good for me, i didn't go out much today. Lying on my bed and planning to embark on a private evening dining adventure of adding groundnut condiment to garri flakes seasoned with beverage and honey, all mixed in water and milk solution. The appropriate name is garri milkshake (my coinage) A Nigerian delicacy. Try it, you will love it.  Need to take your mind off stress and just cool off; try flowers. They work wonders on the mood. Let them be around your home and dining in abundance. Their presence, if beautiful and radiant enough, can ease your stess and enhance your mood. Why don't you try my garri milkshake or if you can't; get a cup of tea, a relaxing instrumental and view the following calming flowers. Trust me, you will momentarily forget your sorrows. Let's go.  This last one...

AGBEJA THE CHEF Agbeja is a young Kenyan man shining shoe by the roadside. He desired a better life. Being a roadside shoe shiner, he was well positioned to see all the happenings in town. He notices big cars pass and poor people going pass too. He wished he could improve his standard of living.   One day, a chef, graduate of a culinary school who had served in the offices and homes of various rich people, came to shine his shoe. The chef left after Agbeja finished work on the shoe. In the night, as Agbeja prepared  to close, he noticed a paper under the chair customers sit on while he works on their shoe. He picked it up and discovered it was the culinary school certificate of the professional chef that came for shoe shining during the day. It must have slipped from the chef's pocket while sitting on the chair. Written at the bottom of the certificate was a good comment by the owner of the school, Mrs Ajoke Onifilagogoro, saying the chef was her b...

THE BEHIND THE SCENE IS THE FATHER OF WHAT IS SEEN  Many of you have watched certain movies and enjoyed the entertainment. You sat down and watched for just an hour or two. Unknown to you, it took days, weeks or probably months to produce that movie you watched for just two hours. You went to that restaurant, ordered that food and ate to your satisfaction. Try and visit the kitchen to see how many cooks are busy sweating and labouring for few hours to produce the food you ate with relish. You saw a big and beautiful house, you purchased it and had a home. Rewind and check the days, months or probably years of hard work of engineers, various artisans who laboured non stop to produce that house.  This is the same in every field of life. A teacher stood in front of the class and taught you mathematics. Do you know how many years of learning and college education it took for that teacher to master that subject ? What is the point here ? The behind the scene...

WARRIORS GRADUATE Have you seen university students just graduating and wearing their graduation gowns with the cap on the head, looks good doesn't it ? The graduation gown signifies something, it is a product of battles fought and won. This battle started when you were still a kid. You passed through nursery, primary and secondary education many call high school. The higher you moved in education and the closer you got to the graduation gown, the fiercer the battle. Nursery does not place much demand on you, the battles are next to nothing. To graduate from nursery and primary are no big deal, just ensure you don't stop there. If you opt out at that stage due to fear of confronting the fierce battles of higher education of day and night lectures, exams, tests, sleepless nights, loads of books to read, assignments, researches, projects and diverse practicals, tutorials, group studies, etc, that might span over a few years, you will never emerge to wear the graduatio...

Okey was a 13yr old boy who had never been to school. He grew up following his mother to trade and also joined other boys on the farm.  Luck came his way one day when the local government declared free education only for secondary school (high school) students.  The normal thing is for all beginners to start at the primary school level to learn the basics before proceeding to secondary school. Only secondary education was now free and Okey must go to school. To gain entrance into free secondary school without being rejected due to not having a primary school leaving certificate, Okey stole the good primary school result of a boy. The boy was good in mathematics, English and other subjects. The primary school certificate was also attached. In those days, no pictures were attached to the papers. Okey went to the nearest secondary school to register as a student. Since it was a new school session resumption, many boys and girls also came to register with their valid p...

Let's do some quick thinking. The longer you live in this world, the more you discover nothing is constant and consistent. What is cheap and available today might not be readily available tomorrow. Things happen no one can control, even banks crash, government get changed suddenly, policies change, people change too. Things you don't plan nor expect can suddenly arise. This is the fact of life. Rich people go bankrupt too. There are things you can do to mitigate unwanted surprises and development. Include storage and reserve in your budgets. Many of you are already familiar with this and do practice it, though might be difficult for many whose expenses outweigh their income to maintain. Expenses are constant, income must be constant too, even more constant. Never allow your expenses outweigh your income lest you live a deficit life. Best for income to be more constant compared to expenses at the ratio 7/3. This will make life better for you. You will ha...

• Girls are still being held up, women stand.  • Girls are not yet sure, they are still finding direction in others; women have crossed that junction, they can find their way.  • Girls like other girls and they tell them everything, women know better. • Girls are still susceptible to the ice cream, the smile from boys, the little gifts and are easily won over by them, women look beyond those things; they understand the true worth of a man is not measured by all that.  • Girls are dependants, women are depended upon. • Girls cherish their looks more than their character, women cherish their character more than their looks. • Women consider needs as their responsibility, Girls see themselves as the responsibility of others.  • Women join hands with their men to build a great life, Girls are still waiting for the Prince charming who will meet all their needs.  • Girls want the petting, women give the petting. • Girls are shy, women go for it. • Girls ar...