S.K. Adams

1. Don’t Be too Ashamed to Speak There is only one way to learn how to speak English, and that is to open your mouth and speak English! The only way you will ever get better at speaking is by speaking, and speaking a lot! Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain You can make excuses for why you don’t want to speak, like saying that you’re too embarrassed to speak, but these won’t get you any closer to your goal of achieving English fluency. It doesn’t matter if you have no vocabulary, or if your pronunciation isn’t perfect, you need to open your mouth and speak if you want to improve. Whatever you do, don’t say that you can’t speak English because this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. By believing that you can’t speak English you close your mind to trying, and never give yourself the opportunity to improve. The only way to improve your English is to practice it, no matter how bad you may or may not be at it. 2. Don’t Be Afraid of...

MY FIRST VISIT TO THE U.S My first visit to the U.S was a memorable one, I don't know why because I have visited other foreign countries like this before but this present one was special. May be it was because of the way a snicked into this highly secured country scaling through the burden of securing  visa from the American embassy. Or may be because I was given a free pass by the immigration officers, the drug law enforcement agencies and other related border patrol agencies. The most surprising of it all was my been able to bypass the medical checks at a time when the presence of the deadly Ebola dieseas have been confirmed in Lagos and Rivers state, and Nigeria as one of the Ebola countries by the World Health Organization (WHO). This have gained dominance in the social network and other media outlet worldwide. For a while I thought and said to myself " that is Nigeria for you, the U.S is different" I boarded my flight and I arrived. I knew the journey fro...

TILL ETERNAL ETERNITY In a lonely paradise of a young lad Spoiled by melange of pain All hope of joy squandered and lost By the dawn of darkness and despair A new beginning was ushered by sunrise At last the smile long lost resurfaced A reign of joy marked its era Optimism grew for the future looks bright Infelicity became notorious as a stranger But, will this laugh last long? The sun head to the west And the young lad live in the north Their world is far from same Its now clear, the supposed smile Was in fact an injury born again I lost in this game again With fragility I handle my care My hands are tied by two mighty gods Ethnic distance And of course Pal loyalty Thank you for the brief toast If nothing, I sensed the past again Though I wished its not the end This scar you left shall live Till eternal eternity. S.K. Adams 080915 1:24pm

As I keep witnessing changes in the political lifespan of the Peoples Democraic Party (PDP) in Nigeria today I can't stop smiling inside me. I have heard of the statement 'history repeats itself' but I think I have never seen it practically as I do in Ibn Khaldun's "Cyclical Theory" its just like what one historian calls scissors and paste history. When I was an Undergraduate with my colleagues we sit dormant under the nose of our learned professor while he took us as usual back to the 15th century, he was engaging us in a book written during this period by a renowned historian, political scientist, and sociologist Ibn Khaldun titled In Arabic "The Muqaddimah" that is the Introduction. Prof explains to us the cyclical theory demonstrated by Ibn Khaldun and he said the theory was about the raise and fall of kingdoms in history. One thing was important in the rise and fall of kingdoms in history and that is the role played by corruption in bringing ...

FAREWELL TO DECEPTION I want to call a spade by its name It may hurt though But truth is nothing But Truth Allow me To marry the scorch And free myself From this ocean of lies Go! Deception Go! The door is there Calling out on you Be kind enough And give it that chance For which you denied me S.K. Adams 170715

2015 ELECTION NIGERIANS SHOULD LEARN FROM HISTORY Record have it that the Nigerian election have never been peaceful especially in the Fourth Republic, perhaps the only better one however, was the 1999 election and one can easily explain why it was a little better. And to me it seems The 1999 general election was contested between two interest groups: on the one hand there were the politicians who camouflaged into different political parties PDP, APP, AD etc and united in their ultimate cause and that is to grab power away from the military who were always interrupting the sweet flow of democracy in Nigeria for more than a decade. The second group of course were the military who were waiting for a slight mistake from these 'bloody civilians' and held on to the reign of Nigerian leadership. But these politician because they were united in their cause refuse to give that chance and so they were successful in their resolution to send the military straight back to t...

The day has come again Did we longed for this day? It snailed towards us Bringing an end To decades of Barakah Just yesterday with eagerness We stetoscoped the sky Searching for the crescent moon Sadly we google the sky today For another ambigous one You are our hero Your first decade was a blessing The fragile heart became robust Our mosques became flooded Even our plates metamorphosed Then your second decade of bliss The Tashe during the day and night The Gwauro melody, drums and beats That brings back old memory To the senile and doddery mind Barely do we sleep in your third decade Hoping to see that night of power Your odd days were sacred 83 years of worship and even more! Just for a night! We are in a dilemma now To browse the sky for a crescent That could end your stay days on earth I guess it is farewell to you O! Ramadan. 26 July 2014 at 18:19