Maju Osas Blog

  As the year comes to an end, I hear people saying next year, I will do this, I will stop that. What we fail to understand is that no amount of rule books can ever know or teach us how to be ourselves.        In the process of resolution, we end up forgetting ourselves. Some even go ahead saying I will stop talking to this set of people or stop doing this thing, its becoming an addiction.. In this process, we end up losing valuable people or things that bring us fun. What I believe New Year should be about is creating a revolution, finding a new you and bringing the best from who you have always been and not changing 360 degrees in the process losing yourself.         Every year is filled with highs and downs, we can't see in the future and our plans are altered, heart breaks set in. How you will survive depends on how you rock the storm. Go with the flow.     It's a new year, be happy, stay happy and start that revolution. Don't stop believing in yourself. People will

    Yesterday, a friend was telling me he prefers to be sold into slavery in Libya than to be a victim of Corruption. This got me thinking of the victims of Libya Slave Trade.  It's no longer trending news that Africans are been sold into Slavery in Libya by their fellow black men. Libya isn't half as blessed as Nigeria yet scores of Nigerians migrate through illegal and deadly route in search of greener pastures. It's a fact that not every rescued person will want to come home due to shame of been a failure.      When I asked him why would he rather stay in Libya than in Nigeria?, he went ahead to tell me a story he found online about how a man who couldn't find a job due to his inability to pay the "Kola" decided to gather money and travel abroad.  He was granted a visa and the eve of his travel, he called his friends to join him at a bar to celebrate. Barely five minutes of been seated, they were raised by the infamous SARS(Special Anti-Robbery Squad).