Mustapha Lawal

Freelance writer, editor and researcher

Nigeria

Human! (I am that I am. And I am because you are).
Just a curious being living with the work and hoping that it will all make sense someday.

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References and more samples are available upon request.

Portfolio
Unpublished
12/31/2021
3 - weeks exciting imprisonment

A story of my 3 weeks camping experience at NYSC camp Life (fate) will always have its plan for anyone, just like Nigeria will never fail to plan or even disrupt one's life plan equally. Right from time, I had kept the notion that I wanted to explore Nigeria with my NYSC scheme posting (even though I'm very skeptical about my decisions recently, going by the situation of things in many parts of the country). And as fate would have it on the 21st of November, 2021 I got the update that...

Private Client
03/01/2022
THE NEXT PHASE OF THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION: METAVERSE GROWTH AND DIFFICULTIES

The world is constantly evolving. A crucial tool of revolution in technology is innovation. Since the dawn of the digital age, our world has been shaped in 2-dimensional forms. Just like every revolution, our world is moving towards a 3-dimensional online environment that incorporates many virtual places, called the Metaverse.

Writershub
How Has The Pandemic Affected You?

Written by Mustapha Lawal Once upon a time, I asked my dad if he had ever witnessed this kind of period. He responded in the negative. For this present generation of ours, this period of existence- living life in the pandemic era, looks and feels odd in almost all ramifications.

Academia
Impact of death on life

Death scares us. Moreover, because it scares us, we avoid thinking about it, talking about it, sometimes even acknowledging it, even when it is happening to someone close to us. Yet, in a bizarre, backward way, death is the light by which the shadow

Writershub
Nigeria @ 61: Looking Ahead

Written by Mustapha Lawal Anyone conversant with public service in the country would have heard it at one point or the other in time, that the official retirement age for all public servants is 60 or 35 years of unbroken service. If people can retire, Can't we retire entities too?

Writershub
The Evils of Modern Music - POEM

Written by Mustapha Lawal Like every other aspect of the human culture, Music has experienced series of changes. Be it in terns of lyrical content, genre or use of instrumentals. For an average man, the love and attractiveness towards music has occupied a substantial space in his body, mind and spirit.

Writershub
2021 Democracy Day - Arise, O Nigeria

Written by Mustapha Lawal Democracy - Government of the people, by the people and for the people (Abraham Lincoln). It can also be termed as a representative form of Government. Perhaps that was what got the wise and sage amongst us to agitate for it without putting some thoughts forward into what might possibly go wrong, at least we all can't be in power at the same time.

Tell!
12/20/2020
Endless power whirl | Tell!

Nigeria!Why art thou put our dreams on hold?In the hands of hopeless fellows.With your hands infold, just like you're in mellow.You allowed two fellow bodies to keep swinging us like a pendulum,With our futures dangling back and forth in their endless power whirl. To start with,The Federal government whose success only remains on a paper [...]

Substack
01/04/2022
Mustapha's ELH Newsletter

Exploring life horizons (ELH). Click to read Mustapha's ELH Newsletter, by Mustapha Lawal, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

Academia
Exercise and its health benefit optimization

Exercise, which is any form of physical activity (bodily movement which involves physical exertion that requires energy expenditure) that is planned, organized, structured, repetitive and purposeful, which aims at improving one or more component of