Ace Schools International, Peace Estate, Mowe, Ogun State

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"When Love Goes Silent: Healing The African Home."

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09/12/2025

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05/01/2024

Wishing you a happy New year.

05/11/2022

I watched the National Geographic Channel and I came to learn of the Fish called The Electric Eel. For the first time,I learnt the actual name is Electrophorus electricusc.

The fish is commonly found in the Amazon and generally in Fresh Waters. In the narration of the documentary, Electric Eels are mostly blind although they are not born blind.

To me they are such beautiful creatures and i was wondering how come they are blind? i then read about them and came to understand that these animals have three pairs of abdominal organs that produce electricity as a form of defensive mechanism against predators. Whenever the animal is under attack, it activates an electric field of up to 860 Volts (that is nearly 4 times the 220V electricity supplied to our homes) to electrocute its attacker.

The Eel also requires rising to the surface of the water every 10 minutes in order to take in Oxygen before going back under the water.
Due to this routine, the fish has developed a mindset that it is vulnerable to attack due to constant coming up to breathe and hence it is always on a ‘suspicion mission’ – It is always and constantly electrocuting its environment even when it is not under attack.

The sad effect is that in the course of continuous electrocuting of its environment its eyes are also electrocuted and hence its blindness! But then as i watched this animal swimming around blind and only using its sense of feel and ears, and been unable to see, it goes into more suspicion and every movement it feels in the waters, it releases further electric shock worsening his plight – The animal thus goes into a cyclic paranoia and self infliction of pain causing it to be more blind irreversibly.

You see such is the situation in some people’s life. They suspect everybody and everything! They are always on a mindset of ‘someone is doing me’, ‘something evil is coming to happen to me’, ‘someone is planning to harm me’, etc. By having this kind of mental picture such people release shock waves that electrocutes whoever comes near them. Friends who mean well, are branded enemies, parents are considered evil, siblings are suspected of hatching evil plots, work colleagues are branded enemies, etc. When people go into such self-destruct mode, all they think about is themselves and not the feelings of others.

The desire to protect oneself ends up in hurting others. Dont be blinded by fear, hate and related complexes. There's no greater danger to your survival than your own fears.

Do yourself a favor, keep an open mind towards everyone and everything and the universe will open itself to you.

And Our tomorrow will definitely be better than today.
Thank you all. Have a nice weekend!

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02/11/2022

Thursday & Friday is our Mid-term break, School resumes Monday November 7, 2022

29/10/2022

African Development Bank AgriPitch Youth Competition( Get seed funding prizes, mentoring, and training)

Focus: African businesses in the agricultural value chain.
Youth (18 to 35) years & women-led businesses are encouraged to apply.

Applications are currently ongoing.

How to apply? Find out from: https://bit.ly/3D4SSvY

   

13/09/2022

27/03/2021

Final part

These will give unscrupulous people opportunities to exploit and abuse them. Old people like all else, deserve to live in safety, with dignity and respect. Here are the warning signs.
1. If the maid or caregiver restricts your access on the phone. Watch out for excuses that mama is sleeping. Phone is bad. Network is "not going". Battery is dead.
2. Constant falls, bruises and injuries.
3. Drug overdose or failure to take medication.
4. Controlling behavior by caregiver.
5. Unexplained vaginal or a**l bleeding.
6. Skittish behavior by parents and sentences like "it is well".
7. Weight loss and malnutrition.
8. Bedsores
9. ATM withdrawals, missing valuables and jewelry.
10. Pressure on you to send money
11. Changes in wills and power of attorney.
12. Excessive billing for medical services.
13. Over-medication or under-medication.
14. Pastor or Reverend is always asking for help.
15. Foodstuff depleting rapidly.
This list is not exhaustive. Please visit your parents regularly. In old age, your money is good but your visits are best. Ask questions. In the age of social media, enlist reliable friends to pay visits and report back to you. To those who exploit and abuse the elderly, may you grow old and reap your just rewards

27/03/2021

2nd part of the post on aged parents
I advised my friend to ask that he be added to the estate whatsapp group and get a lawyer to change the locks and bar everyone, except Damilola and her crew, from the house. He did. One of the landlords even told him he might be in danger if he comes home. That is how low we have sunk as a people. Everything including human life is fair game, so far there is money to be made.
These men did all they could for their mother. They got her the best care, and paid consultants but the damaged had been done. Damilola tried her best. Sometimes, she slept in her car at the hospital parking lot, just to be with Mama. At some point we thought she would make it. She even told Damilola that she would stay with her until she's stable enough to travel abroad. Her sons, one a medical doctor were making plans to move her as soon as travel restrictions are lifted, then...
Abuse and exploitation of the elderly is on the rise. It is so bad that it includes sexual molestation and physical violence. With urbanization and migration, many of us are living away from our parents at a time they need us most. Even when we want them to live with us, aged parents are often reluctant to move because they would feel uprooted from the familiar. Old people who are left alone often have to endure crap to have company. They pay with cash and food to have company. Some maids hit and shove them but the most incipient is the inappropriate administration of drugs. It is so bad that doctors and pastors are in on the 'game'. Doctors bill their affluent kids for non-existent conditions and pastors exploit them for tithes and church 'projects'.
If you live away from your parents, be it Lagos or Los Angeles, understand that as old people become frail, they won't be able to take care of themselves, stand up to bullying caregivers, or defend themselves. Mental and physical deterioration may cause them not think, see or hear like they used to.

27/03/2021

Nigerians In Diaspora: Your Aged Parents May Be Facing Abuse and Exploitation
By Bamidele Ademola-Olateju
I delayed writing this. I was hoping for a happy ending but the call came in last week; she died. Mama was a text book definition of endurance. She had two sons and they are the best anyone would wish for as a son, friend, brother, husband and father. One of her sons is my friend. I met him on Facebook. He is kind, selfless and generous. Each time I raised money here, I can count on him to donate generously. At one time, unknown to me, he had been on medical leave for a year, yet he donated a significant sum towards caring for people with HIV. As I do with people with whom I relate well with, I often call to check on them. A few weeks ago, he told me his mum had been ill. With every description he gave, I knew trouble was brewing.
My friend had built a house for his mum in one of the Lagos suburbs. Since he and his brother live abroad, they fund her account regularly and got someone to supply her with staples. Old parents with children abroad are often lonely, they surround themselves with family and their children often employ maid to care for them and help with chores. Typically, exploitation and abuse sets in. In this particular case, one of their aunts started drugging the poor woman. On weekly basis, they withdrew at least N70k from her account. As the exploitation grew, the maid and some neighbors became complicit in the scheme. They started inventing illness for her to get more money. Sometimes, they claim N500-N700k a month in medical expenses. Increasingly, they started limiting the time she talked to her sons. Unfortunately, the Pandemic complicated things and they couldn't come to see her. By January she was given a cancer medication that she reacted to badly. The deterioration started. Damilola Grillo was brought in and the scandal blew open.
How evil can people be! My mind told me the plan is to kill the woman and take her house. I advised my frie

27/02/2021

February 2021 Mother Tongue Day marked 24/02/201 instead of 21/02/2021