My parents divorced when I was 10 years old. I stayed with my mother for a year before moving to live with my grandparents. Life was so unbearable for me. That’s when I know the essence of parents in the life of a child.

My father left for an unknown destination while my mother doesn’t care to know how I was surviving. I kept struggling with my life while my parents were somewhere else living theirs.

I hated my parents so much for what they did to me. I couldn’t let go of it. I thought within myself that maybe because they are poor, that’s why they divorce. I made a promise to myself that I must take revenge on my life by being rich. But the agony and madness of me not going to forgive my parents is still there.

January 2018, I lost my mother. Three days to her death, she asked me for forgiveness. But because I was still angry with her, I couldn’t forgive her till she died. This compounded my agony. I kept asking and blaming myself why I didn’t forgive her. Now I feel tormented.

Unforgiveness is a poison to the soul. These days, it is very rampant. The grudges many people abhor is eccentric. We live in a world where siblings are keeping malice with each other. This is why we have many broken homes.

Though there are some situations that are very difficult to let go, it makes no sense to hold on to what doesn’t add value to your life.

Power of forgiveness.

Everyone has a story to tell. People will definitely offend you in so many ways but it’s not enough to hold on to it. The more you hold on to it, the more you remain bitter.

Although forgiveness is a choice, it is freedom. We are created in such a way that anytime we abhor someone in mind, we are tormented.

But forgiveness is an active process in which you make a conscious decision to let go of negative feelings whether the person deserves it or not.

As you release the anger, resentment, and hostility, you begin to feel empathy, compassion and sometimes even affection for the person who has wronged you.

Studies show that some people are just naturally forgiving. Consequently, they tend to be more satisfied with their lives and have less depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and hostility. But people who hang on to grudges are more likely to experience severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as other health conditions.

According to a survey by the Nonprofit Fetzer Institute – ”62 percent of American adults say they need more forgiveness in their personal lives.”

I have no idea of what you are going through, let go if it brings nothing but bitterness. It’s for your own good. Life is a gift.

Live it.

Everything was going on well on Twitter on Friday, until its Chief executive and Co-Founder, Jack Dorsey’s account started sending derogatory, racial and anti-Semitic tweets. That’s quite off it,  a sudden “heat wave in winter” because it breaks Twitter rules, and coming from Jack himself, it’s a red flag.

For 15 minutes the tweets keep pouring in the direction of everything that Twitter stands against. Something has gone wrong for sure. The next tweet from TwitterComms confirmed that:

“We are aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.”

“Who compromised the account”? Was a question the tech team needed more time to answer. How it was compromised came quickly though not detailed. The tweets were sent via Cloudhopper, a service Twitter bought in 2010 to improve its SMS service.

So whoever hacked the account must have done so through a third party app, not Twitter password breach. The TwitterComms statement said:

“The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved.”

So it was simswapping. The hacker tricked the service provider into believing he is the owner of the sim, and needed it swapped to another number. And for the next 15 minutes, the hacker was sending tweets via text messages, smiting over 4 million followers of Jack with his rogue tweets.

In the early days of Twitter, texting was largely used for updates, which was the reason for the 140 characters’ limit. Though Twitter App has become popular, Twitter didn’t rule the method of text messaging out for the sake of people tweeting from developing lands where data cost is high.

It is not clear who the service provider is, since Twitter didn’t say. But through the previous activities of Chuckle Squad, a hackers group who have taken responsibility for the compromise, AT&T seems to be the service provider.

The screen shots collected from the Discord server of Chuckle Squad show that the group has been responsible for series of other hacks involving some celebrities on Twitter, in the past week. Beauty Vloggers James Charles, Shane Dawson, the late Desmond Amofah a.k.a @Etika and Comedian King Bach were all victims of the last week’s attack. And they all have the common claim that their accounts have been compromised through simswap conducted by AT&T employees.

TwitterComms has long sent a message indicating that the situation is contained:

“The account is now secure, and there is no indication that Twitter’s systems have been compromised.”

But it doesn’t quell the concern that the breach has generated, knowing that it is not the first time something like that is happening. Mark Zuckerberg has had his account hacked, because he didn’t use the two-factor authentication.

And for a platform hosting celebrities, academics, world leaders etc. it has prompted a great concern that people’s accounts could be a finger tip away from being breached. Twitter is yet to say anything about what it’s doing to address the concern.

The Ministry of Transportation has announced the Federal Government’s plan to introduce solar powered vehicles to Nigerian transport system. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said the plan involves the introduction of vehicles that can dive on water and land also.

He said the steps are necessary to reduce pollution emanating from combustible vehicles, which has been hazardous to the environment and public health. And the Federal Executive Council has approved plans to effect the initiative. The Nation reports.

It’s an initiative that has waited for so long to come by, at a time when climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet, and the world is tirelessly looking for a solution. Countries like France, Sweden, Norway etc. have set a goal to eliminate combustible vehicles by at most, 2050.

Unfortunately, only a few African countries seem to be interested in spearheading the drive in the African continent, the rest are dragging feet. And Nigeria for long has been leading the group of the lax countries.

Earlier this year, the Senator representing Bayelsa East, in the 8th Assembly, Ben Bruce Murray introduced an electric bill that will see Nigeria gearing toward cleaner energy, but it was killed on arrival by other senators.

In fact, the former Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu called for the Nigerian Government to frustrate the efforts of other countries trying to replace diesel engines with electric and solar engines. He said that Nigeria is an oil producing country, and will suffer a great revenue loss if the rest of the world switch to cars with cleaner energy. But in response to the fears of Nigerian Government, Senator Ben Bruce said:

“The world is going beyond electric cars. Now, the next generation is thinking of electric planes. Meanwhile, Nigeria rejected my electric car bill, claiming it is a threat to our oil industry. An Ostrich that buries its head in the sand fools only itself.”

Senator Bruce added that electric cars and the quest for cleaner energy do not depend on whether Nigeria implements policies that are environmentally friendly or not. “The world is moving ahead, and it has already left Nigeria behind,” he said.

To demonstrate his staunch belief in the future of electric cars, Senator Bruce ordered his company, the SilverBird Group, to henceforth, purchase only electric vehicles. But that’s just a drop of water in a sea of backward swimmers. The idea of protecting the oil industry at the cost of innovation and environmental cleanliness seems to be winning right now.

However, the introduction of solar powered vehicles by the Federal Government has given hope for a future where electric vehicles will also thrive.