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ESTHER'S ADVENTURE - BELLO MARY (CHAPTER 1_ EPISODE 1)

 CHAPTER ONE (Episode 1) I thought I was the only one going through mess untill I met this young girl. It really can be unimaginable how parents can be so unfair,  telling lies to their children  yet claiming to love them and want the best for them. When I saw her, she was looking very unkept, had no slippers on and her left eye swollen, she obviously had been beaten by who I can't imagine. At first I was irritated but I try to be careful judging people, so I said to myself; she must have done something really bad. Still, if someone hasn't stolen, how could she be going through this? My inquinsitive spirit won't let me rest so I moved close to her and said "Hello", but she gave no response. I was so curious so I asked her, "who did this to you?" She couldn't hold back her tears, trust me, it was so emotional, to my greatest surprise she said it was her aunt who did that to her. "Your aunt?" I asked, and she replied, "Yes...

OUR TEENAGERS NEED GOOD MENTORS. PART 3 -MARY BELLO

School an institution for leaning. Now, my question is ; for learning what?  In this part of the world where school is a place of favouritism and tribalism from primary to tertiary, where teachers are proud and praised for their ability to flog students mercilessly. Shool and institutions for learning,  learning almighty formula, essay writing, economics, skeleton , osmosis and all that? School is a very big institution for indirect learning, in reality it is where you learn low self-esteem because you are sitting at the back, where teachers show special love to some students while ingnoring others, where you learn condemnation because after failing a subject twice then it is not your calling, where you learn talking people down because your teachers can't stop telling you how and why you won't progress due to your parents inability to provide you with textbooks, where you learn bribery in other to get good grades by gifting your subject teachers. Where you learn ir...