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WHO AM I?  My name is Victor Olofinluyi. I am a from a prestigious family. A family with a great name, honour and respect. I am also the last child of the family so I am accustomed to being around primarily adults. I was always mature for my age.  In secondary school I was known for many attributes and talents. I draw, I create birthday cards for my friends in School. I was quite creative. I was also known for a good leadership spirit. I was chosen as the class captain in all of my secondary school years. In my final year I was chosen to be the senior perfect boy. I feel that is not enough to be an achievement. Many people believe in me, my friends and my teachers, they invested in me with their time and dedication - my Mathematics teacher, my physics teacher. My parents invested in me too. Their dedication and my determination was rewarding. Luckily, I had an excellent result in my jamb/utme.  My favourite sports are football, tennis and volleyball. I love Sp...

18? 18. 1. I wanted to be 16 forever. For some people, 18 is the "grown-up" age, but I think mine was 16. It was a year of revelations and changes. No, I didn't make any special achievement. I just had a rude awakening, I had a mental and emotional transposition. I knew I had to be 'someone'. 2. I am writing this for me, but it is to you. To anyone who would care to read. It is the most personal piece I've ever written so far. I have a story, and I will tell. "Until the Lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter" _Chinualumogu Achebe 3. I was born on a Saturday, 18 years ago(or almost) People tell me I look and act older than my age. Indeed, I've always felt older, mature, mentally, emotionally and even physically and not till another person told me I look exactly my age, did I think otherwise. 4. I started writing this, the morning of October 4. I've always had plans to wr...

1. Don't go out/to work immediately.  In the morning routine, you should add some physical activity like exercise or walk and take a healthy breakfast. Try to engage yourself in some inspiring content either in the form of a newspaper or any book to motivate yourself. 2. Don’t complain about Your Work/School activities! The next thing about what not to do in the morning is to complain about your work or job or school because it is the worst time to complain. By criticizing your work, you've demotivated yourself, and this is the most draining thought that sticks in your brain for hours afterward. By this, you are turning over yourself into a depression. The habit of grumbling about your job in the morning decreases your productivity and has a bad impact on your performance. 3. Don’t Check Social Media First! Some people start scrolling social media apps right after getting up from sleep. So, if you are waking up from a relaxing sleep and you view a depressive news, i...

In the concluding part of the conversation with Fadun Toluwawumi,  Read the first part here she talked about her experience with peer pressure and she thinks the biggest challenge for a teen is the struggle to be understood. Read below;  Question: How did you deal with peer pressure? A : I've always believed I'm different from the rest so I can't follow what others have to say about me. My background was a constant reminder to not get engaged in some things. I have been taught some certain truth from the home so my friends saying something similar didn't appear right. I always remember there's a punishment for any mistake made because I have disciplinarians as parents, that alone helped me deal with peer pressure really well. Question: On the vices, Yahoo, moral decadence, indecent dressing, what is your opinion?  Any advice for the teens? A : One thing I've come to notice is, teens, believe whatever they do is right which makes it hard ...

Background Adolescence is a time of significant growth and development inside the teenage brain. This brain remodelling happens intensively during adolescence, continuing into the mid-20s. The combination of a teen’s unique brain and environment influences the way a teenager acts, thinks and feels. Being in a Limbo, a state of uncertainty, and the transitional phase from a child, into an adult, the joy and agony of puberty, deciding career paths and who to mentor after, the struggle to be understood, mental health and relationship battles, including societal pressure, and the vices, teenage escapades, most especially in Nigeria. As teens and young adults, we've had our fair share of the challenges, therefore, we know, from experience that the teenage years is one of the toughest periods of a person's life. In an effort to contribute, and motivate today's teens in Nigeria and the world, we have compiled a series of conversations with people we hold in...

There are some people you can never take serious, because of your first impression of them. You might have been known for a wrong reason all your life and you're trying to make a different name for yourself, how do you take a life-changing step? I've decided to share a personal story. I was one of those who were technologically inclined very early in life, and was influenced a lot by social media. When I was 14/15, I had built a reasonable Facebook presence and was getting hundreds of likes per post, to an extent I was being asked if I was using automatic likes or bots, lol. I wasn't the biggest sensation on the internet, there were people I wanted to be like, all for no important reason than a strong fan base/audience. And so much exposure can get into a young girl's head. But even back then, I was selective with my circle, selective with friend requests I accept. I was a 'big girl' and I tagged myself 'woke'. I met 90% of my friends o...