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WHEN EVIL WALKS ON THE STREET

Our climate has been fouled by the evil of monumental dimensions walking on our streets. Evil on the street normalises what should shock us. When evil “walks on the street,”: Gossip becomes conversation. Fraud becomes “hustle.” Corruption becomes “how things are done.” The danger is desensitisation. As elders say, “When dirt becomes familiar, it starts looking like decoration.” Once your eyes adjust to the darkness, you stop searching for light. And a generation that stops being shocked by evil is a generation that will soon participate in it.

Didn't you know that evil on the street hunts the unguarded? The street is public, but it’s also where predators wait. Evil doesn’t always announce itself with horns and fire. Sometimes it walks as a “good deal,” a “harmless compromise,” or a friend who says “everybody is doing it.” He walks on your street too — in your feed, your workplace, your school gate. The danger is proximity. What passes you daily will eventually try you. The elders warn, “Where the leopard walks, it is looking for meat.” If evil is walking your street, ask: What is it looking for in me?

The antidote is not fear, but light and boundaries. You don’t defeat street evil by hiding indoors. You defeat it by carrying light. Evil grows where there are no witnesses, no standards, no “No” said out loud. Proverbs 4:14-15 says “Do not enter the path of the wicked... Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.” That’s boundary work. Guard what you watch, who you keep and what you laugh at. The ancestors decreed, “If there’s fire, you don’t pour oil on it.” Don’t fund, share, or defend evil just because it’s trending on your street. Walk with purpose, speak truth, and let your life be the kind of streetlight that makes evil uncomfortable.
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

HISTORY ANCHORS YOU

One of the breakthroughs I made is that history keeps us from repeating expensive mistakes. Without historical knowledge, every generation thinks it’s inventing new problems. We argue about corruption, poverty, ethnic tension, and failed leadership as if they just started in 2024. However, history reveals that these patterns have roots, causes, and past attempts at solutions. You understand how Nigeria’s 1960s regional politics led to civil war, or how Latin America’s debt crisis in the 1980s was handled, and you stop falling for quick fixes that have already failed. History is expensive wisdom without the price tag of personal failure. It teaches you that “this has happened before” — and more importantly, “this is what worked, and this is what didn’t.” That’s relevance you can cash in real life.

Didn't you know that history gives identity and direction? You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you came from. Historical knowledge tells a student, a community, a nation: “This is your story. These are your heroes, your scars, your strengths.” For Africans, knowing about our history and civilisation isn’t just exam material. Its identity. It kills inferiority complexes and the lie that we had no history before colonialism. It also gives direction. When you see how past leaders responded to crises, you know what courage looks like in your context. Relevance here is rootedness — history anchors you so trends and foreign ideas don’t blow you off course.

History is the lab where we study how people behave under pressure, power, and prosperity. That training makes you a better citizen, voter, leader, and even friend. Historical knowledge teaches you to ask better questions: Who benefits from this policy? What happened the last time we tried this? Whose voice is missing from this story? That’s critical thinking, not memorisation. In an age of fake news and 30-second clips, people who know history can spot manipulation, propaganda, and recycled ideologies quickly. The relevance is practical: it makes you wiser now, not just “bookish.”

Remember: History doesn’t just explain the past. It equips you for the present and protects your future.
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

SEE BEYOND YOUR PRESENT

One of the discoveries of life is that your present is a chapter, not the whole book. What you’re facing right now — the tight money, the delayed admission, the job rejection, the broken relationship — feels permanent because you’re inside it. But every person you admire has a “present” season they had to survive first. SEE BEYOND YOUR PRESENT means remembering that seasons change. The pain, the waiting, the smallness of today is real, but it’s not the final page. When you train your eyes to look past this moment, you stop making permanent decisions based on temporary feelings. You don’t quit the degree because this semester is hard. You don’t define yourself by this rejection. The present is information, not identity.

It has been revealed to me that Vision creates endurance. It's s hard to endure what you can’t see an end to. People collapse under pressure not because the pressure is too much, but because it looks endless. When you SEE BEYOND YOUR PRESENT, you give your mind a picture to hold onto. Joseph/Yusuf in prison, David/ Daud in the cave, students in 300-level stress — they all survived because they had a vision bigger than their cell. That vision doesn’t remove the struggle, but it reframes it. The struggle becomes preparation, not punishment. The delay becomes development, not denial. When you can picture yourself 2 years from now having overcome this, today’s effort makes sense. Vision turns “why me” into “this is making me”.

I have discovered that what you see often determines what you do. If all you see is your present lack, your actions will be short-term and survival-based. If you SEE BEYOND YOUR PRESENT, your choices change. A student who only sees current poverty will sell his textbooks. A student who sees a future graduate will protect his CGPA even when broke. A person who only sees today’s pain will isolate and numb it. A person who sees healing ahead will reach out and do the hard work of therapy. Your vision sets your standard. Beyond your present lies the version of you that this struggle is forming — wiser, stronger, more compassionate. Look for that person. Make decisions that your future self will thank you for.

Remember: The present is loud, but your future is calling louder if you see beyond the present. Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi