• About Us
  • Advertise
The Hope Newspaper
Advertisement
  • Home
  • News
  • Metro
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Features
  • Sports
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Metro
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Features
  • Sports
No Result
View All Result
The Hope Newspaper
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Metro
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Features
  • Sports
Home Young World

Laugh it off

by The Editor
22nd February 2019
in Young World
0

By Kemi Olatunde
|
1. Akpos returns a missing purse to the owner in a market. The lady was so grateful but when she looked inside the purse, she got confused and said “but I had just a single note of N1000 but now there are 10 notes of N100, how come?

Akpos replied “na me change am, because the last time I helped a person find her purse, she said she wanted to give me something but didn’t have change! So I decided to change the N1000 to N100 so that you won’t complain of not having change”

2. Akpos was in his new limousine when he saw a man eating grass by the roadside. He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate.“Why are you eating grass? He asked the man.

“I don’t have any money for food,” the poor man replied.

“Oh, please come to my house!” Akpos said. “But Sir, i have a wife and four children” replied the man. “Bring them along” said Akpors.

They all climbed into the limousine. As they were going, the poor fellow said: “Sir, you are too kind, thank you for taking all of us in” .

Akpos replied , “No you don’t understand. The grass in my house is over five feet tall, it will be enough for all of your family members.”

 

Shattered expectation

With hopes,

Rising high to the highest heaven!

With my soul

Expecting miracles of the African haven!

I glided homeward in the big falcon

Back in the country of the blue, white and red, Two little chicks

To the memory of their daddy clentched Their mum, in a melancholy thick,

Watched the falcon dived into Dakar.

A tail twist,

And the falcon was down.

What place is this?

A broken spell?

An expectation clowned?

This is Robertsfied,

Liberia!

A sea of white clouds

Veiling the universe of greens

Like the black eye of a bean

A maze of creeks boardering the universal foam

Is this Ikeja?

Come what may.

Home is sweet home.

But home should be bright and gay,

Unlike this one Like the hill of a mole!

May be, I suffer a delusion of too high an expectation.

Here 1 am now

In this hell called home.

Stranded, six moons and a vow To bring my little chicks home To roost unending In mother land – Nigeria.

By Late Elemo Oladipo Ojo Abitogun

ShareTweetSendShareSend
Previous Post

Owo people express readiness for Saturday

Next Post

Nigerians reaffirm determination to vote

Next Post

Nigerians reaffirm determination to vote

We’re not discouraged –voters

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

Breaking: FG approves Ondo Deep Sea Port, grants operating licence

17th May 2023

Uncovered! locust bean (iru) processed with urine, preserved with dusting powder

4th May 2023

Breaking: Adegoke murder: Court sentences Adedoyin to death by hanging

30th May 2023

ODSG demolishes 40 illegal structures

14th May 2023
The Memorial Park ready for commissioning in Owo…yesterday                                           Photo: Jimoh Ahmed

Owo attack: Tinubu to commission Memorial Park Saturday

4th June 2023

Time to pray for Akeredolu’s wellness —Clerics, others

4th June 2023

Ibrahimovic retires from football

4th June 2023

The Newly Commissioned Dangote Refinery

4th June 2023

Recent News

Fuel subsidy removal and other matters arising

4th June 2023
4

The peaceful transition from ninth to tenth Ondo State House of Assembly of renewed Hope

4th June 2023
19

Owo church attack and the trauma one year after

4th June 2023
2

Why sex starved couples experience rifts

1st June 2023
26
The Hope Newspaper

Owena Press Limited, the publisher of The Hope Newspaper, is an Ondo State-based media organization with a vision to strengthen Nigeria’s democracy.

Follow Us

Browse by Category

  • Agric Tips
  • Agriculture
  • Aribigbola's Lines
  • Book review
  • Business
  • Business Tutor
  • Celebrity
  • Devotion
  • Editorial
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Featured
  • Features
  • Feminine line
  • Finance
  • Financial news
  • For The Record
  • From The Court
  • General
  • Health
  • Health Benefits
  • Hope Classic
  • Hope Metro
  • In Our Neigbourhood
  • Interview
  • Legal Sense
  • Lifestyle
  • Main Bowl
  • Marketing
  • Medi Herb
  • Midweek Discourse
  • News
  • Peoples' Parliament
  • Politics
  • Reflections
  • Religion
  • Sports
  • Supplements
  • Think Along With Me
  • Viewpoint
  • Young World

Recent News

The Memorial Park ready for commissioning in Owo…yesterday                                           Photo: Jimoh Ahmed

Owo attack: Tinubu to commission Memorial Park Saturday

4th June 2023

Time to pray for Akeredolu’s wellness —Clerics, others

4th June 2023

Ibrahimovic retires from football

4th June 2023

The Newly Commissioned Dangote Refinery

4th June 2023
  • About Us
  • Advertise

© 2023 The Hope Newspaper

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Metro
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Features
  • Sports

© 2023 The Hope Newspaper