Price of Perseverance

By Temidayo O. Oladosu

Wale, Bade, and Femi were three bosom friends who did everything virtually together. Femi is seen as a hero among others owing to his wit and brilliance despite his parents financial difficulties.
His success became imminent as he refused to cease striving hard while others could not endure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Jun 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482802054

Temidayo O. Oladosu

The writer was born in 1981 and hails from Ilora town, Oyo State, though he spent many years in Lagos where he did his primary and secondary school at Sari-Iganmu Primary and Secondary Schools and Orile-Iganmu, Lagos, before he got admission into Osun State Polytechnic. Afterward, he was posted to Sapele, Delta State, for youth service in 2009. As he nursed the wit of creativity, he proceeded to do a postgraduate diploma. The writer has held many seminars and counseling programs, which have to do with youth motivation and empowerment in their chosen careers. He is also a member of groups of writers like the Nigerian Youth Writers Association and Ibadan Book Club.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   Bade’s Party

2.   The Plight of Thompson

3.   Three Excellent Results

4.   The Friends in School

5.   Unresolved Scandal

6.   A New Friend in School

7.   Femi Separates from Group

8.   Increase in Ben’s Group

9.   Femi Visits Home

10. The Worries of Adebayo

11. Ben’s Course of Action

12. The Arrest of Ben’s Group

13. Femi’s Triumph

Glossary

Exercises

About the Author

About the Book

Dedication

This book is dedicated to: God, family and friends.

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BADE’S PARTY

T he sound of the music blared loud that the pedestrians moving along the street thought a party was going on. It would be difficult to think the absence of dwellers in the big compound surrounded with walls painted white with barbed wire for sa fety.

The building was one of the most fascinating structures among all in the street. Most people moving along rarely take their eyes off it, they adore its elegance with sheer passion, its exclusive design with brown roof and its wall painted green with grey color in straight strip lines. The duplex was occupied with maids, chauffeurs, servants and family of four: Adebayo, his wife and their two children; Bade and Sade.

Adebayo was a business tycoon who dealt in the importation of electronics. He was successful in this line of trade and ensured that his family had a good and exuberant lifestyle.

Suddenly, the volume was turned down and a rowdy clap followed. I want to thank you all once more for attending this occasion. I wish you safety back to your destinations. Bade finished and was taken to where his parents and Sade were waiting to take photographs with him while they moved together to the sitting room.

Daddy, mummy I’m glad for taking your time to witness my birthday party, I’m highly elated and I can’t thank you enough, chuckled Bade.

Son I’m particularly excited that you are now seventeen and you’re gradually getting to the stage of adulthood. I also commend your friends for being there for you. His father grinned. That tells how cordial you relate with them and you maintain it that way because you can’t tell where else you’ll meet again.

Now that you’ve finished your secondary level education, most of you will barely see each other again, his mother added.

Sade blushed with surprise. Why mum! They had just finished their exam last week and you see them gathering with one accord. Even if they don’t as you said, Femi and Wale will not consider that as an option, I mean you can’t imagine how they were so close.

I understand! I’ve been seeing them together on several occasions, but each of them has to live his life, her mother smiled.

Their father stood up abruptly. I’ll leave you all to ponder on that, I have a meeting to attend; my young lad, happy birthday. He giggled, and then flinched to be sure his driver was ready to leave with him. They padded down to where the car