Talebearing24: Sow Wind and Reap Whirlwind.

Once upon a time, there lived a man called Chief Olowolayemo. He was a rich man who was highly respected in his town. Chief Olowolayemo had two wives. The name of the first wife was Phebe Ademosun while the second and younger one was Ebun. Chief Olowolatemo married the first wife when he was poor. Phebe was a loving wife, who loved her husband and struggled hard with her husband to acquire money. She had seven children for Chief Olowolayemo, six of whom were girls and the last was a boy. It was because it took her a long time to have a male child that her husband decided to marry Ebun, his second wife.
Ebun was the daughter of the great herbalist in the town of Ilugun. Ebun’s father was famous for bad medicines and charms. When she became Chief Olowolayemo’s wife, Ebun was about eighteen years old while the first wife was twenty-nine. Phebe, the chief’s first wife accepted Ebun as her wife and always took care of her when she newly came into the family. At the time Chief married Ebun, Phebe had five children. The first wife despite the fact that her husband was fed up with her after having five female children, was a pleasant woman who embraced Ebun and extended hands of fellowship to her. Before too long, Ebun became pregnant and had her first child who happened to be a male child. Chief Olowolayemo was very happy after waiting for so long to have a male child. The first wife in her normal character regarded the arrival of the male child as an open way for her to have her own. Thus, she named the child Adesina. Adesina grew up to love his father’s eldest wife because the woman showed no inhibition in loving him.
To cut the long short, Ebun had three boys for her husband and the eldest wife had six female and one male children. Chief Olowolayemo was trying his best to share his love between the two wives. The first wife in her characteristic manner showed love and affection for Ebun, the junior wife. The children were growing up in the same family. They were attending schools. The children of the first wife were more brilliant in the school than the children of the second wife. The most brilliant of all the children was the last male child of the first wife called Oluomo.
This always annoyed the second wife who became unhappy with her three children. She always scolded them and made remarks that their younger brother was acknowledged to be more brilliant than they.
As a result of this, she decided to complain to her father. She visited her father and when she told him her fears of the effect that Oluomo would be more popular than her three male children, she demanded that her father should give her poison to kill Oluomo. She collected the poison and headed home.
When she got home, she decided to poison Oluomo’s food. The second week after this, it was her turn to prepare food for the whole family. She prepared a good meal and poisoned Oluomo’s food which she kept on a table where he could see it to eat. When the children closed from school, Adesina, Ebun’s first child rushed home ahead of others.
On getting home, he met nobody in the house and he was hungry. He started searching the kitchen for food. The first plate of food he saw on the table was the food his mother had poisoned and meant for Oluomo. He took the food and ate hurriedly. Soon, after eating, he started feeling stomach-ache and before long, he started rolling on the floor, writhing in pains. As this was happening, the other children came into the house. They were crying for help when the two wives and Chief Olowolayemo came in. The wicked woman rushed in crying while others were trying to rush the boy to the hospital. Ebun could no longer contain the situation and she began to cry out: ‘’I have killed my son, I don’t know it will end like this’’. When they heard this, the sympathisers who gattered forced her to explain. After listening to her dastardly story, her husband sent her packing. She begged for pity but her husband said: ‘’get away wicked wife, you reap what you sow’’.

Talebearing24: Had I Known that he was that kind of a person, I wouldn't have gone out with him.

I met Peter in a birthday party of one of my family friends, the Nwaifors. Tinyan, who was my intimate friend, was celebrating her twentieth birthday and I had gone there since in the morning on that day to rejoice with her.
I noticed Peter Nwadolor when he arrived in company of his friends, John and Paul. I was charmed by the rousing welcome accorded him and his friends by my friend and other members of the family. Tinyan introduced him to me as her cousin and we shook hands.
Peter struck me as a man with great comeliness. He was finely cut with pleasant eyebrows and well-arranged set of teeth. His handsomeness came to the fore when he smiled. Soon after the introduction, he gave Tinyan a fat envelope which contained money and asked my friend’s junior sisters to go and bring the gifts he brought from his car downstairs.
‘’He must be a rich man’’, I said to my friend ‘’Well, he is comfortable’’. Tinyan replied. ‘’He is a young promising business man’’ she added. I kept quiet and I struggled hard to concentrate on what I was doing. There was no doubt that I had already fallen in love with Peter. But soon after Peter was introduced to me, he called my friend and told her that he was going somewhere and that he would come back in thirty minutes’ time.
Around 7.00pm in the evening, the party started and people began dancing. By this time, Peter had not come back and I decided that I would not dance with anybody until he came. I was moody and at certain times, I went into my friend’s room to sleep on her bed.
When it was 11.30pm, Peter arrived with his friends, dressed in a big flying ‘’agbada’’. He now looked like a rich businessman than a mere struggling boy that I had seen in the afternoon. He smiled broadly at me when it was my turn to shake his hands and I reciprocated willingly with a broad smile. I was very happy when Peter requested me to dance with him. We had a pleasant time together that night and we later became lovers.
I was in love with him and though he lavished a lot of gifts and affections on me, he refused to take me to his home. I asked Tinyan several times whether her cousin was married and she told me, each time I asked that she was sure that Peter was not married. I pestered Peter several times to take me to his house but he only promised he would do that when it was time. Since I didn’t want this to break our relationship, I stopped pestering him.
My joy knew no bounds one day when Peter told me that the next week end he would come to pick me to his house. The Saturday he promised I woke up early to get ready for his arrival. He came and we soon arrived at his duplex. He took me to his bedroom and I was undressing myself when three giant men rushed in and seized me. They tied me with a rope. While this was happening, I didn’t see Peter. He came in later with an old man who looked fearful with charms all over his body. He made some incantations after which he went out of the room with Peter. After some time, the three men who tied me and shaved my hair came in and started loosening the rope.
They set me free and led me through the back door with a threat that I would lose my life if I discussed my ordeal with anybody. I came to know that Peter was a kidnapper who got his wealth from fetish means. ‘’Had I known that he was that kind of a person, I wouldn’t have gone out with him’’.

Talebearing24: Honesty is the best policy

Mr. David Greg is a man who is highly esteemed and respected by his friends and colleagues. His well-known alias is ‘’Honesty’’ because his reaction to every fraudulent incident in the bank where he is working is ‘’that it pays to be honest’’. Honesty has become his second name and much of a creed than a mere aphorism of him.
He accepts this as a way of life because of the stern and honest parents he had. According to him, his parents instructed him to be honest always in all his dealings and to accept honesty as his guiding principle. As he was growing up, his father usually told him to be honest and shame the devil. His determination to be honest always eventually has made him what he is today, a respected bank executive.
David had a little education which did not take him beyond secondary school. He couldn’t go beyond secondary school because his father died while he was in school. Despite his poor background, he decided to be honest and truthful. He was however lucky to get employed in a commercial bank as a messenger. In the bank where he was working, he was well-known as a man who always stood by the truth and whose avowed policy is honesty. ‘’we would not be having cases of fraudulent practices in our banks, if we can all be honest’’, was always his spontaneous reaction whenever there are incidents of fraud in the bank. He had contributed to foiling fraud attempts planned by some of his colleagues either by refusing to conspire with them to steal bank money or by alerting his bosses whenever he was aware of any attempt to defraud the bank. This has earned him a second name and he was popular with it.
His honesty paid off one day. One Thursday afternoon, a gang of armed robbers stormed the bank and ordered everybody to lie down and face the ground. The manager of the bank was forced to surrender the key of the vault where the bank’s money was kept. A lot of money was carted away as the robbers collected all the money from the cashiers and the bank’s vault.
As the robbers were hurrying away, they forgot to carry along with them three boxes containing millions of naira which they had packed out of the bank and kept at the back of the bank. Two days after the robbery, David saw the three boxes left at the back of the bank and took them while he was burning some rough papers he was asked to burn by his boss. He called the manager and other top members of the bank and took them to where the boxes were dumped.
The bank management rewarded David with a promotion to the post of a supervisor and a cash award of one hundred thousand naira. His promotion had since then been rapid and in the last Annual General meeting of the bank, he was honoured with promotion to the post of a manager. When he was invited to mount the rostrum, the Master of ceremony said to him: ‘’he is singled out for this honour and award because he has demonstrated that he deserves the alias ’’Honesty’’. In practical terms, honesty is the best policy.

Talebearing24- Respiration as a characteristic of living-things

Respiration as one of the characteristics of living things can be defined as the ability of a living thing to respire or exchange gases between itself/himself  and its/his own non-living environment. Living things exchange gases with their immediate environment. For instance, all animals breathe in oxygen (Inspiration/inhalation) and expel carbon dioxide (Exhalation/Expiration). The main purpose of respiration in living organisms is energy production with the intake of oxygen which helps in the breaking down of complex organic substances into carbon dioxide, water and energy in the form of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) during a complete oxidation. It can be divided into two major groups: internal respiration and external respiration. These two major shall be discussed in details as follows:
1. Internal respiration- This type of respiration occurs in the cells that is why it is referred to as cellular respiration. The two gases mentioned early on (Carbon dioxide and Oxygen) are exchanged within the cells. The respiratory organs that are involved in this type of gaseous exchange include the following: nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi and lungs.
2. External respiration- This is the exchange of gases between the external environment and a distributing system of the living-thing e.g. lungs of higher vertebrates, tracheal tubes of insects, stomata of plants etc.
Respiration can also be defined with respect to the presence or absence of oxygen in the energy production during respiration. The type of respiration that occurs in the presence of oxygen is called Aerobic respiration. It takes place in the mitochondria and requires oxygen and glucose thereby producing carbon dioxide, water and energy.
Furthermore, any type of respiration that occurs in the absence of oxygen is referred to as anaerobic respiration. This takes place in the cell cytoplasm and produces lactic acid.
CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR RESPIRATION
1. Respiration medium: It refers to the surroundings of the organisms from which it obtains oxygen which include air and water.
2. Respiratory organ: This is the organ through which oxygen is taken in to the body and carbon dioxide and water vapour are given out e.g. lungs in mammals, gills in fish etc.
3. Transport medium: This is the system which moves the dissolved gases e.g. oxygen around the body to all the cells and collects the gases e.g. carbon dioxide which needs to be eliminated from the body e.g. blood in mammals.
4. Ventilation: The movement of water or air in one direction over the respiratory surface is called ventilation.
5. Respiratory surface: It refers to the definite surface of the body where gaseous exchange takes place e.g. the surface of lungs or a gill.
Characteristics of Respiratory Surfaces
1. Respiratory surfaces must be moist
2. It must be permeable to allow gases to pass in and out of it
3. It must be thin-walled to shorten diffusion distance making it easier.
4. It must have adequate supply of transport medium e.g. blood
5. Respiratory areas must be highly vascularized, i.e. equipped with capillaries.

Interdependence of Animals and Plants during respiration
Animals and plants are largely interdependent as far as respiration is concerned. Animals breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide while plants take in the carbon dioxide and expel oxygen during the day. During the night, plants consume oxygen but they don't release any. One of the byproducts of animal respiration, carbon dioxide is used up by plants during photosynthesis while oxygen that is released during photosynthesis as a byproduct is used up by animals during respiration. What follows after respiration from the acronym MR NIGER CAD is "N" which stands for nutrition!

Talebearing24- Binomial Nomemclature

I would like to digress a bit from what I have started explaining to us on MR NIGER DAC and this one is tagged Binomial Nomenclature! Not everybody will understand the abovementioned terminology if you are not biology inclined to the core! Now, what is binomial nomenclature? Let me break it down to the level we would understand because I believe so much in analyses, bi-2, nomial- naming and nomenclature-system. By joining them together, we have two naming system. Back to Biology, it involves specific and generic name. Your specific name is your first name while your generic/ general name is your last name/surname. So now, if someone asks u what is your binomial nomenclature, that person wants to know your first name and your last name only. Or your specific name which is your first name only. For instance, Adesure Olugbagi, Adesure--first name and Olugbagi is the last name. What name do u bear?! It is well!

Talebearing24- Movement In MR NIGER DAC

M that stands for movement in the acronym ‘’MR NIGER DAC’’ is vividly enunciated below. Movement is defined as the ability of a living being to move from one place to another or it is a change in position of a living thing. This acronym is specifically for living-organisms not non-living entities. It is the only characteristic that conspicuously distinguishes plant from animal. The type of movement we have in animal is what we called locomotion because it requires the use of one or more locomotory organs such as limbs/legs (in man), fins(in fishes), wings(in birds) etc. to move the whole body(Complete movement) unlike plants that move with their branches, leaves and the likes but cannot shift their stems/shoots from one place to another by themselves (Partial movement). There are some organisms that are plant-like and animal-like meaning that they are plants as well as animals. They have the characteristics of plants and the locomotory organ as in the case of animal. For instance, Euglena viridis has flagella for locomotion. Chlamydomonas also has flagella; Amoeba has pseudopodia for locomotion and so on. The reasons why organisms move are very numerous. Is it for reproduction,protection, food, mating, pleasure, help to mention a few? Why does movement concern man? If you look at all these reasons why organisms move, you will see that man also shares the same reasons for his movement with other living organisms. If your movement does not have a purpose, definitely the end thereof will not bring forth something meaningful. Who do you move with? Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are! The calibre of people you move with also plays a vital role in your character, growth and success. Check yourself, if you need to retract from your movement of no good result, do so before it is too late. Your movement determines your success. Change your ways today and you will see that sky is just the beginning into the journey of success. When do you move? You have to be cautious of the time of your movement in order to achieve the planned goal because everything in life has its own time. Time to eat, time to drink, time to move, time to stop, time to plant, time to harvest etc. This is very important as well. Plan your movement! He, who failed to plan, has planned to fail. Success is ours!

Talebearing24- MR NIGER DAC

Yesterday, I talked about the acronym of life"MR NIGER DAC", and this morning, I shall be telling us what each letter stands for and later how it relates to our daily lives. M in the acronym stands for Movement, R stands for respiration while N stands for Nutrition, I stands for Irritability/Sensitivity and G stands for growth. Furthermore, E stands for excretion while R stands for reproduction, D stands for death/life span/ultimate end and A stands for adaptation/adaptability, lastly, C stands for competition. These letters are coined out from the characteristics of living-things. Tomorrow, God willing, we shall be looking at these characteristics one after the other in details. Until then, keep your fingers crossed!