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Hunting An Ape Lately, it's been really depressing to take look at my bitcoin.com BCH wallet. This is probably same for every relatively new user on read whom are still earning little and probably have read.cash as their only source of BCH. This is because due to the downward spin of the price pf BCH, it seems like we are getting less for more, because while we are accumulating the little we are getting daily, the actual wallet value is either dropping or has sort of…
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A Failed Hunt In my last article, I told how I was going to hunt an ape. Apes NFT is the latest NFT project on smartBCH. It was launched yesterday at exactly 00:00 GMT. Even though I hadn't gotten the chance to read the roadmap (if there's any), I made plans to acquire a few. Before then, I have had little sleep in the two days before, and I really needed to sleep, but i knew if I did, even with a thousand alarms, I won't wake up in time to mint any. I was literally watching…
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The Life Series: Get On With Life So I have been reading a book by Richard Templar which he titled "the rules of life". I have found it exciting and I think it's worth your time too so if you can, you should get a hold of it. You can take this as my Gift to you in this month of love. Well I was particularly intrigued by one of the chapters in this book which is the topic of this article. Why do people hold grudges and refuse to let go? I mean why would someone just choose to…
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The Life Series: You Can Say No The last few days have been something. My attempt to help someone out with something has landed me in quite a complicated position. It all started about two days back when my elder sister ask me if I could do some graphics editing for her (for her fiance actually, but i didn't know that at the time). I might be a bit computer savvy, but graphics has always been my nemesis, but because it was my elder sister asking, I told her that I could. The…
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The Life Series: You First Happy Sunday folks. Hope you went to church and you had a great time. My article is inspired by a song that I was listening to yesterday. The artist name is **Teni** and the music is in Nigerian pidgin. The lyrics goes like this 'I wan talk my mind o For anyone wey fit relate o Ri-di-mah-kool-a-yooo Sometimes it feels like success is a trap And sometimes it feels like people don't understand Cos the pressure e plenty and expectations high Even your…
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Chilling With The Big Boys Whenever I feel the need to talk about affairs and happenings in my country, I always have mixed feelings. The reason for this is that majority of what's put on the media about my country tends to be negative and sadly mostly untrue, misconstrued or misunderstood, so when I want to write, knowing this platform houses people from diverse continents and many different countries, I feel the need to only focus on countering all these misconstrued…
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Zouma And The Cats Before I was able to come back online yesterday, I had been offline for days, so I actually missed the genesis of the whole Zouma fiasco. When I did come online yesterday, it was still the trending thing. So, who's Zouma and what happened? **The Man Kurt Zouma** According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Zouma, '*Kurt Happy Zouma (born 27 October 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club West Ham…
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Know Thy Worth And Don't Accept Less This article is inspired by something that happened to me today. It actually started like four days back. I was referred for a fish job by one of my mentors, and as a result of the fact that he made the referral, I didn't bother negotiating with the client as I never negotiate with clients brought by him. He usually does the negotiating before referring a client to me. So, the fish job involved extracting organs from fish seed and…
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Lost But Found Happy valentine's day people. I hope you've been spending your day appreciating those you love and letting them know you love them too. Well, while the world was up and about, getting into the valentine fervour, I was planning to ponder all day how our general lives and world speaks anti-valentine. I'm referring to all the darkness and evil inflicted on the people of this world by the people of this world, the pain, death and suffering visited on man by man,…
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Understanding Giving It's often said that givers never lack. I've always doubted the practicality of this assertion before now. This is mostly predicated on the principle of Karma, where we get what we give but multiplied. So, if you give to someone in need, when you do have a need, people will also give back to you. Usually we are taught not to give with the hope of getting back. We are thought that's not true giving nor altruism. We are suppose to give because we want to…
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The Kyari Dance 1 As you must know if you've been following my articles, I had almost a five days break on read recently, which was forced because I misplaced my phone twice. Ever since I got it back, I've been finding it really hard to write. I have to struggle to pick a central theme, to come up with the body and even title. It's like I've lost my mojo. I really hate this. Anyways I'm here with another one today. I really hope it's worth your time. Living in a country like…
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The Kyari Dance 2 If you haven't read the first part of this article, you can do so through the link below https://read.cash/@Talon/the-kyari-dance-1-428d02c4 There's something the elites in Nigeria are known for and that is when their sins are about to be exposed and becomes national news, they bring up something, a distraction for the front pages of newspapers and their sins are temporarily neglected, giving them time to sweep it under the rug. When the Kyari issue…
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History's Unkindness Today's article is going to be dedicated to the story of one of the greatest and by far the wealthiest man who ever lived (without prejudice to Solomon). The name of our subject today is Mansa Musa. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa 'Mansa Musa, was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, one of the most powerful West African state. At the time of Musa's ascension to the throne, Mali in large part consisted of the territory of the…
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Field Practical Training 2.0 It's standard practice in Nigeria's higher institution system to have every student go for at least six months industrial training in their chosen field and discipline at some point during the course of their study. The aim of this program is to make sure the students have hands-on experience and are ready for the labour market on graduation. Normally, when that time comes, which is usually at the penultimate year of study, the students are told…
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The Beginning Oh boy! What a day! The second part of my FPT is almost officially on. I say almost because tomorrow will be the first class or time out on the field. I have always know that the journey across state lines in Nigeria can be so stressful, but certain states top that list eg. Lagos. When the decision to add Lagos as one of our station was made, I was quite elated as I thought I was going to learn a lot, have a lot of adventure as well as fun. The closer it got,…
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Stay True People have different hobbies. Some have football, some music, some reading, some bungee jumping, I have observation of human behavior. I know you might want to argue that's not a hobby, but it's my hobby, not yours, so leave it alone. So, today was the first official day of training. We met a number of staff members and we were taken around the facility for a tour. It was really nice and quite eye-opening. The best moment for me was when I saw a crocodile make…
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Rambled It is that where there's no expectation, there can be no disappointment. This is a saying I've always applied in my relations with people, or that I used to apply to my relations to people when I was still a core introvert. I've made no secret of the fact that I've become less introverted and more sociable as a result of my time in the university. Occasionally though, I still see the need to be of such mindset, and I don't hesitate to bring it back up. When the…
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Two Elephants Some days can be quite a rollercoaster and I think that's what today turned out to be for me. I was really tired yesterday as a result of a lot of stress that I went through due to issues with our transportation arrangements, so I really wasn't able to stay awake to do all the other things I needed to do, even though I really tried. I eventually gave up on those things but still refused to sleep and instead, started watching a movie. I slept off while watching…
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The Chess Of International Politics I'm always baffled with the state of international politics. When some incidents begin to play out, you have to wonder why and what all the political science and conflict resolution courses in our universities are for. It begins to look like all that money invested in these courses are nothing but waste. Once again the situation playing out in Ukraine just proves that all over again. As always, it started with something of a little…
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The Chess Of International Politics (Part Two) A lot of people still can't and don't believe that Russia actually did invade Ukraine. In the weeks before the invasion, Russia kept amassing troops all along the Ukrainian border and the west kept up their propaganda going. The US didn't count on Russia actually going through with it, but that turned out wrong. If you haven't read the first part of this article, follow the link below:…
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The Illusion Of Happiness In a world dominated by advancement in technology and connectivity, it's hard to remain ordinary, to live or be ordinary. Before the proliferation of smartphone and cheap data, people were okay living their lives in their own little way, but today with all of the things we see on the internet, it's almost impossible to be at peace with yourself and the kind of life you most likely can afford. Today, the internet and online social space is dominated…
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Not A Great Day Hello fellas, hope you've had a great day, cos I haven't. Today just happened to be one of those days when everything just seem to not be working for me. Actually, since I started this whole FPT thing, my days have been quite somehow, so unpredictable and full of unexpected. I actually woke up exceedingly early today hoping to get the seat of my choice in the vehicle, but even waking up as early as I did turned out to not be enough as some people still beat…