LET FREEDOM RING

In the world
Where hates of mankind
Has to imprison so many a heart
Into a long war of animosity
Held captive in the midst of it all
 
Let freedom rings
In that city where there is
No one is free from
The shackles of man's enslavement
From the shackles of sin power
 
Where held down in the bondage
Of man's adamic nature
With so much hatred in the land
Let freedom rings
Where there is no key
 
Where hope for freedom is lost
Where chains are still
In the hands and feet of the prisoners
To redeem such a one back home
Let freedom rings
 
To the one who
Has left the Father's house
And embark on that road
Forget the ancient landmark
Let freedom rings
 
Like a beacon of home
To the one who has lost
In the world of sin, self, and hates
Like freedom ring
To point the way back home to the lost.

WHEN DEPRESSION COMES CALLING AT LIFE

Do the one you can
Make sure you work legitimately
To make it in live
Because this money will cost a lot
This is for that person out there

Who feels he is not doing well enough
To be rubbing shoulders with peers
But know this every one
Has its own time table
Never use someone time table

To compare the speed of your life
Life will happen several times
But make sure when life happens
You are still standing on your feet
So strong to whether the storms of life

Life is too short
Never let anyone drive you
To the point of getting depressed
Nor tired of living the life
You were created and made to live

Life happens on all sides
Sometimes on top of the mountain
Some other time deep down in the valley
And it seems in between deep blue sea
Life is never so short but make sure you live the best

In all you do
Find your happiness
There will be days
When there won’t be anything to eat
And you wonder from coast to coast

Starved, weak and liness comes
To play and your life is fading
Small by small you see your life
Fading out right in your eyes
When depress comes calling at life

Be sure you stand strong
Because the anchor definitely will hold
Inspite the storms of life
In the midst of all these
Remember life is short tomorrow is for those who stand so firm while today adversity calls on one

THE YELLOW BUSES WENT OFFLINE TODAY

Woke up one Monday morning
No sign of yellow buses
It is quite unusual everyone kept wondering
What would have happened?
And led to such an act
 
People walked, trekked and got stranded
As some go on to lament
On the state of the nation
Getting worse by the day
The yellow buses went offline
 
All in protest against
Unlawful extortion by various
Task Force Agency
Calling it enough is enough action
It is time to speak up against injustice
 
In their own words
They are so sick and tired
They need a road map
Of where they will go from here
As things won't continue to go this way
 
No one is ready to come to their rescue
The government isn’t helping the matter at all
As they see it as a normal thing
So is better they continue to live with it
The yellow buses went offline
 
They need to be heard
Their views on this bad act
Of extorting them without pity and consideration
All in the name of nothing to account for such an act
The yellow buses went offline all because of injustice meant to them.

WHO OFF LIGHT?!

Many people have gone through life
Withered and tired of life
That we don't know
Where to go as light is turned off
From our life

Life begins
Flitting away like a candle in the wind
We have so much encumber
With this and that life becomes gloomy
Darkness takes over our space

Chasing shadow
On the round pig hole
But many of us our problem
Is ourselves a lot we are going through
Is the making of our hand

We've use our hand
To off the light upon ourselves
We lost it long ago when one careless act
Ruin our life journey sold out our birthright
All for the sake of one seconds life's enjoyment

Will scream who off light?
But when we looked at the switch
We found the one who off the light on us
It was no one but you
Yes is you are the one who off the light

THE AZUSA STREET REVIVAL

The mission on Azusa Street is gone
Memories have faded
The big question now
Before our contemporary church and Christian
Is this one question what remains…
 
Six million lives
It all begins in one single building
Then spread to all the whole world
 
One hundred years ago
A movement like none other
Since shook the very foundation
Of the American church
People reported speaking in tongues
 
New denominations were formed
And the charismatic movement was born
This was the outburst and result
One single event which happens on Azusa Street
It shook the foundation of the church
 
Spawned numerous denominations
Changed the lives of six million people forever
All this happened in the 20th century of the world
Azusa Street is the story of real event
Real people and real God
 
A warm April day of 1906
When a group of African and American people#
Gather together to pray to waits
On God’s Spirit a slave boy went for that meeting
William J Seymour preached as if it was his last message
 
Jennie Moore explains the touch of Azusa Street
It seemed as if a vessel
Broke within me and surged up
Through my being which
When it reached my mouth
Came out in a torrent of speech
In languages God had given me
 
What happen inside that house
Separated the father from the son
And mother from daughters
It invites ridicule from the press
And divided congregation in Los Angeles 

At the same time it change life forever and for good.

HOLD ON!

Sometimes something’s happen
That makes us questions
The source of our existence
When life serves us the breakfast
That we don't expect and never like it

Sometimes life becomes
Uninteresting to live in
Right in our eyes, our life falls apart
Shatters in pieces and shambu
Everything gets us freak out

Sometimes things really get messed up
We mess up our life and people
Get tired of us after several attempts
To help us come out of the mess
Will get ourselves into then they walk away

Sometimes something’s happen
Unforeseen events that make us
Lose guard of our strength
We went headlong to have that face-off
With a life that we throw in the tower

We gave up...game over
But in spite all that happen
Just never lost it yet
Keep up the spirit never
Go to the refer to declare you're given up

The game is not over yet
Until you win and of a truth you'll win
If only from within you
Refuse to come to that point
Of declaring game over

Hold on
Your heart is failing
Kidney damage not functioning again
Friends fail and family are gone
And deep inside you are all alone

Hold on help is on the way
Change from Heaven
Is coming from the Lord
Just cast all your cares and burden
To God just hold on to His hands.

BEING THE PRESIDENT

The presidency
Doesn’t change who you are
It reveals who you are
The same thing is true of a presidential campaign
So if a candidate is erratic and threatening

If a candidate traffics in prejudice
Fears, and lies on the trail
If a candidate has no clear plans
To implement their goals
if they disrespect their fellow citizens

Including folks who make extraordinary sacrifices
For our country let me tell you
That is who they are
That is the kind of president they will be
Trust me.

A candidate is not gonna suddenly change
Once they get into office
Just the opposite, in fact,
Because the minute that individual
Takes that oath.

They are under the hottest harshest light there is
And there is no way to hide who they really are.
And at that point it's too late
They're the leader of the world's largest economy
The commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force on Earth.

With every words they utter
They can start wars…crash the market
Change the course of this planet.
So when it comes to the qualifications
We should demand in a president

To start with,
We need someone who is going to take this job seriously
Someone who will study and prepare
So that they understand the issues better
Than anyone on their team.

And we need someone
Not with good judgment
But with superb judgment in their own rights
As that one is needful in becoming the president
That is being the president


We also need someone
Who is steady and measured
Because when you're making
Life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions
A president can't just pop off.

Being president
Is not anything like reality TV
It is not about sending insulting tweets
Or making fiery speeches
It is about whether or not the candidate
Can handle the awesome responsibility 

Of leading this country.

YOUR FUNERAL

Do you know what happens after your funeral?
In a few short hours...
The crying will die down and
Your family are going to start
Making arrangements to feed

Your relatives and your friends
Some of your relatives are going
To be discussing current events
As they eat nshima, vegetables and fish
And some people will call your family

To tell them that they can’t make it in person
Because of some emergency
Other people are going to start making
Travel arrangements to go back to their homes
Because life is just too short
And someone in your family
Is going to start arguing
That they contributed more
Financially than others did
Eventually, the crowd is going to go their separate ways

And every once in a while
Your cellphone would ring from people
That didn’t realize that you had died
In a few days your children will go back to work
Your employer will begin to search for your replacement

There will be new elections new scandals
And the traffic on the great road of big cities will be the same
The sports games will go on as planned
In six months, your relatives, friends, family,
Loved ones and spouse will be watching

A comedy on DSTV and all laughing
Having a great time, the 1st anniversary of your passing
Will be celebrated in a grand manner
You will be forgotten at an astonishing pace
Everyone's life, will go back to normal

But in a blink of an eye
Years are going to have gone by
There will be very few people left to remember you
NOW TELL ME...if people forget you so easily
Then who are you living your life for?

You spend your whole life worrying
About what people think about you
Do you know what happens after your funeral?

ONYE JI MADU JI O WA YAN

A lot happens
When human beings come together
Will step on the toes of people
And this hurts them so much
That forgiveness becomes a long walk

From the pain that held us down
The heart got broken and tears flow down
Will cry severally and leting go
Becomes so hard for us to do
When forgiveness is hard

Giving a second chance
You're so afraid to do that again
But your heart has been broken
so many times but in all
even when forgiveness is hard

Please forgive let it go
Because onye ji madu
Ji o wa yan and you lost
Your friends so long time ago
When forgiveness is hard

To make enemies wasn't the goal
But you lost your friends long time ago
I'm just here to let you know
That its time to let it go
If true peace is what you want

And if long life is what you need
I'm just here to let you know
That is time to let it go
Please forgive oh oh!
Onye ji madu ji onwe ya

RULES TO LIFE

Always be in every moment
Never be carried away by life's events
Always be the one who makes things happen
Never be an onlooker in life
Live and let's live

Life happens once
Be always ready
To catch a beautiful glimpse of life
Never chase shadow but define your goal
Chase your dreams and goal with vigor

Because no one will do that for
Be a happy person
Never negotiate your happiness
With anyone, someone or something
Nor let your happiness tie to anything but yourself

Learn as much as you can
Make sure you hold on to
Self-development as your journey
Through this road called life
Never be an island of one man's lifestyle

In all you do
Never forget your Maker
As you will return back to Him
After all has been said and done
Maintain a good relationship with God and human

Being morally upright
Is not the hallmark of living
Have a personal conviction
Of how you are to life
Let God's Word be the standard of your living

Exist don't just live
Because some people
Are just living they never exist
Be ready to open and accept correction
Ego has never gotten anyone anywhere

Being unique stands out
Define what you want
Never go with the crowd
Be distinct...be wise
Welcome each day as a gift.

INCREDIBLY BRAVE

You are a miracle
You are brave and strong
Highly helped and gracefully favored
Too strong to lose that's you
Incredibly brave
 
You're unbreakable you
You revolve around greatness
You stood to head up along with life's storm
You are a hero 'cos a hero lies in you
You've stood too long to be knocked down
 
Even thou has gone through several
Knocks of life you contend against it
Even when life gave you zillions of reasons
To throw in the tower you forge headlong
Incredibly brave
 
That's what and who you are
A legend in making
Making annuals of history
Paving way setting the record straight
Incredibly brave
 
Brave to withstand the hate of mortals
Brave to contend against falsehood
Brave to always be you in the you
Brave to chase the dreams in your heart
Incredibly brave that's who you are
 
And always remember that no matter
What you face or go through
Never allow any of those things
Bring you down but brace up because
You are incredibly brave I mean you yes you.

DON’T SHORT-CHANGE YOUR FUTURE FOR THIS

Don’t come and sell

Empty promises in place of none
Don’t come and shortchange
Your future is all because of stomach infrastructure
Remember is a long walk to the future

The life you have now
Is the best thing to hope for
A lot is happening right now this minute
So many beckoning at your attention
The incentive is overkilling so alluring

The drums are being rolled out
Every day new tactics are built
While the existing ones keep stronger
Every day someone is working tirelessly
Updating the old tactics in the form of updating

The campaign is in high gear
The reverse is never in sight
As each one is fighting to get your attention
They go far too to any length
To exhume the very possible ways

Make sure you do they do diligent
Carry out well-constructed findings
Check them out well and size them up well
Each one is out there go out and do the needful
This isn’t time for this

Don’t short-change your future for this
A leader who struck his follower
At the point of weakness is never worth
To become a leader because if this happens
Upon assumption of office

He will really explore more vulnerability
Of those he or she will be leading
If such a leader wins the election at the end of the day
You as electorate if you dare sell your future today
And shortchange your future for this
You will cry a million tears four years ahead

COLD DEY OUTSIDE

Make you use your sense
So society no go use your head
E better to look for black goat
Wen night never come
The world dey cold outside

Make you use your sense
Follow body to hold life
As e go even if e dey hot
No let the cold outside
Make you loose guide

Remember say
Life na give and take
Tomorrow dey only sure
For the person wey no bi friend
With laziness and busy body

Stay well to be alive
Because beta health
Na him sure pass
No let the cold outside
Affect you inside because e dey cold outside

Life no balance
A lot dey happen
Water don pass garri
Kasala dey burst brain wahalah
E dey cold outside warm yourself up

With correct liver
To hold and make you stand kajad
Person wey no hustle
No suppose to chop talkless clean mouth
E dey cold outside use your sense

CHANGING EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE

Will need to invent a better way

With a good map-out plan
For the betterment of not just the now
But for the future of education
In our nation as a people
 
Will must not relent with arms folded
Watching our educational system
Goes down the drain amounting to ruin
Embarking on that journey
Of an inevitable quiet end.
 
And for this to happen
All hands and brains must be involved
All hands must be on the deck
To walk the work to emancipation
Of our educational system
 
Will must change the world
From the perspective they see education
To where will want education to stand in the future
And that future will create towards
Changing education for the future
 
What can be done differently?
From these yesteryears
Of how we’ve been doing it
Because a better future
Will must do things different
 
Beyond doing things differently
Will must also act different and see
It with the eyes of difference
To emancipate this change will seek
Then only then the change will come
 
Everyone needs to come seat
On this long conference table
To impact and bring it all to the front burner
Of decisive decisions not just only talk and talk
But words backed up with action
 
Going from implementing
To implementation to the last drop
Of the letter found in the agenda paper
Engrafted in ink and paper because is all about
Changing education for the future 

DON’T BE A CANDLELIGHT

In whose light
Lights for a season and go down
But whose light shines forth
For all to see but far and near
Don’t be a candlelight
 
Make sure you
And do all you can
As you travel along this path
Called life makes sure in all you do
Live a life worthy of emulation
 
Never be a candle in the wind
Whose lightening is just for a season
But light the world around you
Even in the hours of darkness
Let the flame of your light burns so bright
 
Chasing away the darkness
Of the day bringing light
To those in darkness showing them the way
Both for those near and that afar off
Not just a light for a moment
 
But life for a lifetime
Never be a candlelight
But be a light that stands so long
Is shows the long astray ones
Who’s left the shore of peace habitation
 
Remember in all you do
Don’t light the light for a season
But let the flame of your light
Burns so bright in the hours of darkness
Don’t be a candlelight
 
Light for long for all to see
Light for those in darkness
Light for those who have gone astray to return home
Just take your candle and go light the world but
Don’t be a candlelight

BEING CONFIDENT BECAUSE HE HIDES ME

Am confident today
Not based on how far have come
Nor how well the situation is today
Neither how swift I am
Nor about the knowledge I exhume
 
When I neither write nor speak
But am confident
Because He hides me
Under His winds
Carry me under His arms
 
Been with me through life's journey
My fortress and shelter in the time of storms
When the enemies come
Like a thousand seas of zillions of floods
He hides me
 
Being confident
Because He watches over me
He is my everlasting Father
The one who owns the whole earth
As He got the whole world in His hands
 
My fortress
Erujeje the awesome
Whose eyes are of fear
The one whose source never runs dry
The all-sufficient one 

AFTER THE INDEPENDENT DAY CELEBRATION, WHAT'S NEXT?

Now that to dust is settled
And everything is seems cool
Good days be remember
Of how it all started
So cherished memory of independence day

After the independence day
What's next? From where should go
Will have a lot from the various
Event organized to mark the
Celebration of the independence day

The speech from the number one citizen
Of our great nation and talks by great brain
All exhume the power of facts and oratory
But will it just remain there in the venue
Where such a great program are held

After the independent day celebration
What next? Here there is nothing to expect
Then to implement all that was said and heard
Because nation-building is beyond talking n listening
Is in the action of implementation

What next?
Is to move from saying to doing
Action is what will need to save our nation
To bring it back to the course of development
After the independent day celebration.

OUR HEROES LABOUR PAST

Will seat from our high lofty abode
And watch down below
As the ruin of selfish statesmen
Lots the treasure of the nation
Making our heroes' past labour in vain

And our state women never
Has the effort entry
To question their men folk
As they say, is against the tradition
For a woman to speak up when in the midst of men

And this continues to go this way
And will are running and dragging the nation
To that point of going down that road
To never recover from the art of debt servicing
Pushing the generation both born n unborn into lifelong debt

And the labour of our found fathers
Is so ruined and eaten 

To the fiber of our existence
And plunge the citizens 

Into an untold suffering

REDEMPTION HOME TOO FAR

What happens
When redemption is too far
And becoming so long away
Like the prayers taking long to answer
Waiting becomes endless

What happens when redemption
Becomes too far from home
That home which was lost
In search for a come back
For redemption to happen

Alas! Redemption
Has gone down the road
Ruin in yesterday's act
That destroy everything beyond repair
Redemption home too far

To that one whose sin was done
Whose end is worst than its beginning
Whose lost it on the street
While on her way back home
Got distracted forget the road that leads home

The home of redemption
Where life becomes a new gain
Giving it a mean with a second chance to life
But in the midst of all these
There is still redemption

For the soul undone
For the way faring one
For the one whose grace has left
For the derailed one whose left the ancient landmark
Redemption home too far.

FROM WHO ARE YOU TO HOW ARE YOU?

The world only gives room
To that person who got a destination
With a dream of living out a purpose
When you are in the dark
Preparing for the dawn of a dream

As you go through the process
Pay the price nobody
Will know you back way then
All because you are busy
Grinding make a thoughtful plan

In actualizing your dream
Into the limelight to protect it
For all to see and once you
Hold it together from dusk to dawn
Come hell hot water

To make it work
And it did work
Then the question changes
From Who are you? To
How are you?

A NEW DAY DECISION DAY

Is a new day
A new day of hope
A new day of courage
A new day of change
A new day to dream again

Is a new dawn
Of more incredible things to come
Of so many aspirations beyond limitations
Of soaring so high on eagles wind
Of making the best of each day in the new dawn

Is a new moment
To be alive and being present
To be full of commitment toward our goal
To be in every moment living in each of them
Is a new day of a new moment

A new day of a fresh new you
To become a better you
To stretch above your environment
To explore the unexplored ground
Is a new day of better many things to come.

A new day
To learn, relearn and unlearn
To look back on how far you've come
To map out the road ahead in the coming days
To beat the odds and obstacles

Is a new dawn
To let go and let God
Take the wheel and stirs it a right
To lead the way while you follow behind
Because in His time He made all things beautiful.