Talebearing24- Make Hay While The Sun Shines

         Amos and David were intimate friends while they were classmates in secondary school. Their friendship started on their very first day at school. Amos's parents had brought David in their car. From there, they started their friendship and this blosomed soon after. They were very inimate when they were in the Junior secondary school. They did things together in the hostel and shared the same desk and chair in the school. Things, however, started changing after their Junior Secondary School Certificate Examination. They were both promoted to the Senior Secondary School one. After their promotion, David began to exhibit a change in his character and behaviour. His disposition to his studies changed and he started keeping bad companies. He played truant and ran away from classes. David's bad conduct made Amos distance himself from him. He decided to be up and doing in his studies while David misbehaved most of the time and got into trouble with the school authority which made him known by them as a bad guy.
         Amos continued to be well-behaved, industrious and enterprising. He was hardworking, studious and he believed in making hay while the sun shines. At the end of the year, he was promoted to SS 2 while David was promoted on trial because of his poor performance.
        When they were promoted. Amos called David and admonished him on his bad behaviour and advised him to make hay while the sun shines and stop wasting his time. Amos's admonition did not have any effect on David as he proved stubborn and recalcitrant. He became more unruly than ever before.
One day, David and his gang broke into the school poultry to steal eggs and fowls and they were caught. The second day, they were called out on the assembly ground and their offence was announced to the whole school. They were flogged openly and suspended for two terms.
        When David was suspended, he refused to let his parents knew about his misdemeanour. He went to hide in one of his friend's house and while on suspension, he always sneaked into the school to cause one

Talebearing24- Kidnappers Kidnapped Armed Robbers

           On one fateful night, a woman was going to a Church for a vigil around 22:30hours but unknowingly to her, she boarded an eighteen-seater bus belonging to the agents of ritualist plying this particular major road in the night. When she entered the bus, she met three able men including the driver in the bus with the hope that the two men besides the driver were passengers like her. Immediately she entered the bus, she became senseless, voiceless and powerless but could see what was going on around her. When the bus got to the bus-stop where she should have alighted, the driver continued on the journey of his mission with his men.
           When they got to the next bus-stop, another four men and two women boarded the bus, then the journey continued. On getting to the third bus-stop, two women boarded the same bus in question making five women altogether in the bus. The same thing happened to the women by becoming senseless, voiceless and inactive while the charm did not have any effect on the four men because they were armed robbers but pretended as if they were also charmed. This was how the dreadful journey started proper by heading into
the wilderness where their major mission would be accomplished. The driver drove forty-five kilometres away from the last bus-stop before he swerved into the bush where the ritualist had been seriously waiting for them. Unknowingly to these agents of devil, these four men had guns on them kept in a hidden place because initially they were also going on their ugly operation before being interrupted by the kidnappers so they wanted to see the end of it all.
            After driving fifteen kilometres away from the main road into the wilderness, they got to their destination and the driver brought the bus into a halt. In the course of the journey, nobody could utter a word because one of the kidnappers was pointing a loaded gun at them whereas the armed robbers had signalled to themselves on how they would deal with the kidnappers. The driver and the two men asked them to come down from the bus which they aligned. Immediately they alighted from the bus, the passengers came back to their senses while the women among them started crying for their lives. Everywhere was very dark, nobody could run in the presence of gun. In this thick forest, a house was built at the extreme end of the road as a close with only an opening at the back and no other houses could be seen around this vicinity.
After they had all alighted, the driver called somebody on phone that they were around and there was no cause for any alarm. Few minutes later, a tall and heavily muscled man with a skinned head tied only a red wrapper round his waist emerged from the odd building. He shook hands with the driver three times and normally greeted the other two men. Pointing at the passengers, "are they our meats?"The ritualist asked the driver! "Yes!" The driver hurriedly answered! "How many are they?" the ritualist asked. They are nine in number! The driver answered. The ritualist brought out a charm and put it on their head one after the other with the hope that he had tamed them but this charm did not have any effect on them and they all pretended as if they were charmed.The ritualist said "he would be right back" He went into the building and after few minutes, he returned with a big bag full of money and gave it to the driver for their devilish work.
             As the driver and his men were about to take their leave, the armed robbers signalled to themselves, brought out their guns and shot the driver, his men and the ritualist dead at the spot. The other passengers were seriously frightened but the armed robbers told them not to be panicked and promised to help them out of the wilderness. They, armed robbers, said they were not interested in their "blood money" and asked if there was anybody interested in the ill-gotten money but they all said no and eager to leave the place in a jiffy before the arrival of the other ritualists. One of the armed robbers in a company of the rest drove them back to the main road, parked the bus by the roadside and told them to find their ways. This is how they were rescued.

Talebearing24- Cut Your Coat According To Your Cloth

Ruth Oshondu was the only child born to her poor parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oshondu. The family was so poor that hardly provided food and clothong for Ruth. The family was wallowing in abject poverty and therefore could not afford to send Ruth to school early in her life. The family was later helped by Mr. Oshondu's childhood friend who volunteered to sponsor Ruth to school.
Ruth was registered in a nursery school very near her parent's house. Her father's friend,Mr. Collins sponsored her education right from nursery school trhough secondary school. Unfortunately, while in secondary school, Ruth joined a group of friends who came from rich families. She was keeping the company of these spoilt children from rich homes while forgetting her poor background. In a short while, Ruth realised that her parents could not afford to get her the kind of things her friend had. In her quest to live up to the standard of her rich friends, she decided to steal. Initially, she began to steal money from her classmates' bags. Before too long, she began to steal from her teachers' handbags and later became a 'professional' thief who can pilfer light out of daylight.
After a while, Ruth began wearing clothes made by the latest designers and, in most cases, this entered her head and she started disrespecting her teachers and elders. All this while, her parents were too busy working to earn a living by farming. However, they started noticing all the make-up their daughter was applying and how snobbishand disrespectful she had become. They knew that something was wrong. Her mother searched her room and found all sorts of expensive clothes. Ruth's parents decided to question her to find out where she had got all the things found in her room. She got angry with her mother and left the house. She wondered why she should be questioned that way and out of annoyance, she decided to leave her parents' home for her friends.
One fateful day, Ruth was in need of a beautiful and expensive dress to wear to a party which she had agreed to attend with her boyfriend. She had no money, and so, she decided to steal one expensive and colourful dress she had seen at a big shop. She got ready on this day and she went. On getting into the shop, she looked around for the dress. She stealthily walked to where the dress was hung, picked it up and put it her bag hurriedly. After doing this, she thought nobody had seen her and she made for the exit door.
At the door, a security man was always there to check people leaving the shop. He had seen Ruth picking up the dress but he was not sure whether she had paid for it. As Ruth was about to go out of the shop, the security man accosted her and demanded to search her bag. Ruth was found out and after she was beaten mercilessly and the stolen dress collected from her, she was taken to a juvenile home where teenage offenders are kept.
Ruth's friends were nowhere to be seen. Her parents had to go to the juvenile home to see her when the news of her arrest and detention reached them. As Ruth saw her parents, poorly clad in their wretchedness, she burst into tears. Her mother said to her "Ruth, if only you had cut your coat according to your cloth, you wouldn't be here now".

Talebearing24- A Patient Dog Eats the Fattest Bones

          Once upon a time, there lived two sisters who were twins. They were living with their parents who were poor. Their parents struggled everyday to make both ends meet. Their father was full of wisdom and he always created time to counsel his daughters about the need to be patient in whatever they were doing. He talked to them about so many other virtues, like tolerance, endurance, good behaviour and he always ended his talks with a saying that "whoever had patience had everything". When these twins were eighteen years old, their father died. They felt greatly the impact of their father's demise because they lost a god companion who also counselled them and a breadwinner.

         Soon after the death of their father, their mother found things difficult. As a result of this, she took the twins to her distant relation who was living a few kilometers away. Their mother's relation accepted them but he was a cruel man who maltreated the girls so much. They were to do all the house chores at home and followed the man to the farm. While they worked so hard at home, the man's only daughter would sleep endlessly. She was very lazy and spoilt.
         One day, Rachael, the man's daughter went to the man's room and stole four thousand naira. The man was so furious and called the twins to his parlour. He concluded that it was the twins who must have stolen the money. They were beaten and punished heavily for the money they didn't take.
The hard life and suffering continued for a long time. One day, Kehinde called her twin sister, Taiwo and told her that she wanted to run away to their mother. Taiwo reminded her that she should be patient as their late father used to tell them when he was alive. Kehinde refused to lisen to her sister's advice, and soon after, she ran back to their mother. When she got home, she counldn't continue her education because there was no money. She got married when she was twenty-one to a poor man who couldn't take good care of her. Soon after their marriage, their mother also died.
          Taiwo felt the grief of her mother's death and she determined more than ever before to be patient to get what she wanted. She finished her secondary school and gained admission into a University to study Accountancy. As time went on, the man she was living with grew to like her and he decided to sponsor her

education at the University. Rachael, the biological daughter of the man, had dropped out of secondary school and she had become a wayward and virtueless girl without a bright future.
          Taiwo finished her University education and graduated as an Accountant. Three years after her graduation, she got married to a pilot and she lived happily with her husband. After her marriage, she got a job with an international organization which necessitated that she should go and work in the United State of America. Before she travelled to the United State of America, a send-off party was organised for her. The man who sponsored her to school was invited to the party. Rachael and kehinde were also present at the party. When the man rose up to talk about Taiwo, he praised her for her endurance and patience. He ended his speech by saying that "I really agree that a patient dog eats the fattest bone".

Talebearing24: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Once upon a time, there was a boy called Godswill. This boy came from a good home of a monogamous family of three. The elder sister was out of the country, Godswill was the second born of the family. He was a well-disciplined boy to the extent that everybody in their neighbourhood loved him unlike his younger brother called Theophillus who was very  rude, arrogant and ill-mannered.

Anytime Godswill was sent on an errand, he would quickly go and come back in a jiffy with a satisfactory response. This made his parents to love him more. Even this superb attitude of his reflected in his academic performance at school because he used to come first in a class of thirty students whereas the reverse was the case for  Theophillus. Most times, he would be punished at home for doing wrong things at the right time, his teacher used to complain of his laziness and non-chanllant attitudes toward his academics at school.

His parents always used his brother, Godswill as a good example in the course of advising Theophillus with the hope that he would turn a new leaf but to no avail. Days turned into weeks

while months turned into years, both were growing as expected but there was no time their parents saw Theophillus that they would not feel unhappy for his bad characters. They didn’t relent in their prayers and efforts for him to change for betterment.

One day, their parents decided to buy Godswill’s favourite for him with the intent that this might change Theophillus for good. They bought varieties of good clothes, two pairs of shoes, leather belts and handset. When Theophilus saw all these items, he felt dejected and shamefully asked for his own, they told him to turn a new leaf if he desired good things and favour from them. Theophilus wept bitterly and promised his parents that he would change for betterment.   

Talebearing24: What a Horrible Dream!

I had a very terrible dream last week. I just found myself in a thick forest wandering about all alone. The forest was very deadly hearing a lot of horrible and strange voices from different angles which made me to be seriously frightened. My heart was beating fast because I didn't know where particularly I found myself and how I would get out of this horrible place.          
Not quite long, I saw a jinn with two heads and four hands coming towards me. It had a pointed horn on its fore-head while its eyes were very reddish. In no time, I quickly took to my heel to escape for my life not knowing that it would still chase me. The more I ran the closer it moved towards me. I was severely sweating and thinking of another means of escaping from this ugly creature.
It got to a point where there was no path infront of me except a bottomless pit, I stopped and turned back to where I was coming from but unfortunately the so-called jinn was nearly at me. The jinn was laughing in a mockery manner that he had got me. All this tme, my heart was beating fast as if it was about to come out from my entire body.
All of a sudden, the jinn ran to catch me when a gun was shot from unknown source at the jinn and it quickly disappeared. I opened my eyes and realised that it was all a dream. When I woke up, I was still shaking and sweating.

Talebearing24: What an Impatience and Non-endurance!

      Bentil was a conscientious senior clerical officer promoted to the rank of Deputy Personnel Manager of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Jos. His colleagues, envious of his promotion and critical of his no-nonsense attitude to work, resorted to intrigues and got him sacked. For one year, Bentil could not secure a new job. Life became unbearable for him - he could hardly provide for his family, and sadly enough, his wife left him in the lurch.  One morning, Bentil ran into an old friend, Francis, and narrated his ordeal to him. He humbly pleaded with him to come to his aid. In sympathy, Francis gave him some money and the addresses of three oil companies in Port Harcourt to apply for a job. Bentil thanked him immensely. 

       On reaching home, Bentil wrote letters of application to the oil companies. After two months, one of the oil companies invited him for an interview for the post of Personnel Manager on a Tuesday at 9.00a.m. But he was required to report  at the company's hotel in Port Harcourt at 6.00p.m.on Monday preceding the interview. This he did obediently. When
Bentil reached the company's hotel that Monday evening, he was very tired and hungry due to long trip from Jos.The lack of water in his suite and the poor reception by the hotel infuriated him so much that he openly made insolent remarks about the hotel.

      After a late supper, he entered his suite only to discover that there was power outage. He could hardly cope with the heat and hordes of mosquitoes in his suite. Ablaze with anger, Bentil rushed to the receptionist complaining bitterly about the hotel's services. The receptionist ignored him.

      On Tuesday morning, Bentil, in exasperation, rained abuses on the company's driver, who had come two hours late to drive him to the venue of the interview. Both the driver and the official who accompanied him remained unruffled by Bentil's behaviour. Bentil did not know that all his ordeal in the hotel was a ploy by the company's management to test his patience and endurance when faced with challenging situations. The panel of interviewers explained that to him. Thus, Bentil was unfortunately disqualified for the job but must have learnt his lesson from this experience.