LIFESTYLE OF A MUSLIMAH

I am a woman [by: Lawal Halimah Oyindamola] So what? I get into an argument with a man. He slaps me. I feel the pain. Yet they tell me I provoked him. I get into an argument with a man. I slap him. They tell me I have no respect. Like I don't have a right to be angry........ So, my level of respect for people is judged by my degree of silence in the face of brutality..... Because I am a woman. So what? I am not allowed to show anger. I must sit with my legs stretched out even if it hurts. I must not talk 'anyhow'. Because I am a woman. My husband or "boyfriend" cheats on me, I am told to tolerate it......to save my marriage or relationship as the case maybe. Society making the barbaric and stupid excuse that ''it is in their nature to cheat'' I cheat....and I am called a whore, if we are married i am sent packing with my obese tinker box on my head and my little one still suckling my left nipple. Three years later......little one is...

Fellow Jaycees, Even as I am running late to work this morning, I have the nudging to pen this humble piece. I actually woke up dreaming about JCI Nigeria and I would love to share. I shall do this without any unnecessary oratory. At every point in history, men who achieved greatness, had done so when a vacuum appears, when challenges arise in their society, when a need threatens their existence and when solutions are scarce. We can mention Rosa Parks, Muhammed Ali, Abraham Lincoln, Obafemi Awolowo, Mandela and our Patriarch, Henry Giessenbier. The truth, as it is today, is that there exists a vacuum in every facet of our society. The issue which is presently threatening our humanity is hunger, lack of money, economic recession. Government has failed the people, religious institutions have abandoned their social welfare roles, and MMM is looking like a bottle of gunpowder. This prompts one to ask what JCI Nigeria could do to step into the situation, to provide an alternative. The...