| Just as our arrival at destination is tied to the supply | | | | suspicion by the parents, that their teenager has |
| of fuel, even if we are travelling by a perfectly | | | | sold-out to a completely strange doctrine and a tragic |
| functioning vehicle, so are our destinies tied to the | | | | figure as his hero?Yesterday's careless symptom of |
| Heroes in our midst, even though we seem to be | | | | 'matrimonial-hero-failure' has become a pandemic |
| doing well on the average.Their absence from our | | | | explosion today, threatening civility with |
| midst is the reason for the reign of 'lack-lustre' | | | | babarism.Take a careful and studious note of this; |
| mediocres on the throne of our private lives.Heroes | | | | every nation that failed by every ramification and |
| are the ones who stir up the innate virtues in us for | | | | definition of that word, is a nation without a |
| success. They serve, not really as role models as | | | | hero-model that can inspire to aspire. It is therefore |
| many think, but as a beacon of greatness that rally | | | | logical for such a nation to begin to expire. In fact, a |
| us to aspire for self-fulfilment and actualisation. | | | | wise man once said that our success as a nation is |
| (Afterall, many of us don't really want to be the | | | | largely dependent on our personal or individual |
| exact copy of our heroes, we are rather content to | | | | successes.That is why the untimely death or |
| know and always see someone bearing the burden | | | | assasination of national heroes always inflict a mortal |
| and lofty standard of societal aspirations).The | | | | wound on the body of such nations for a long time |
| successes and triumphs of our Heroes are the loud | | | | before healing, if at all, it heals.Do you know that our |
| voice that shut up the quiet wishpers of mockery, | | | | heroes are also a product of other heroes? Hear out |
| defeat and failures in our own lives.The making of | | | | J. K. Rowling talking about Harry Potter: "...I didn't |
| heroes begins, first, from the home: 'Matrimonial | | | | have to stop and think very hard about my |
| Heroes'. As a father or parent, have you ever felt | | | | hero."This article is dedicated to her, who, though |
| the tremors of what possible future backlash it would | | | | being a literary heroine of our time, refuse to be |
| be if you fail to provide or meet basic parental | | | | distracted by fame and fortune from being a |
| obligation to your innocent young ones? For how long | | | | matrimonial heroine to her three children and family. |
| do you think you can manipulate their innocence with | | | | Happy birthday to J.K.R. who marks 40 today -31st |
| fragile excuses for passing the buck?The first, and | | | | July.Aderemi Ojikutu (Aderaskeey) is a Motivational |
| not the least, hero of every child is the parent, but | | | | Author and Youth Mentor. He is a minister of the |
| when a parent fails in the heroic responsibilities | | | | Word of God. A political economist and political leader. |
| toward the child, it is only a matter of time before | | | | He is President of the TREASURE WRITERS CLUB in |
| the growing child 'switch' loyalty and consequently | | | | Nigeria ( He is also the current President of the |
| reshuffle his or her hero list. May we not be victims | | | | National Democratic Forum (N.D.F). He was National |
| of such revolutionary change of a teenager's moral | | | | Mobilisation Officer of the National Association of |
| constitution.How do you explain why a teenager | | | | Nigerian Students (N.A.N.S) for several years. A |
| would strap himself with a bomb to blow to death | | | | revolutionary of over two decades, he was also the |
| and drag other innocent people with him to the | | | | political secretary of the defunct Nigerian Labour |
| grave, without the slightest iota of foreknowledge or | | | | Party in 1989-1991. |