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