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NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?

NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?

According to a popular African saying, “A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.” Unarguably, in the words of the renowned African writer, Chinua Achebe, “the rain that beat us as Africans began over four hundred years ago, from the ‘discovery’ of Africa by Europe, through the transatlantic slave trade, to the Berlin Conference of 1885…”(THERE WAS A COUNTRY).

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INDECENT DRESSING by Israel ANAWEOKHAI

INDECENT DRESSING by Israel ANAWEOKHAI

What is INDECENT DRESSING?.

INDECENT DRESSING by Israel ANAWEOKHAIA 22-year-old lady who wants to remain an anonymous, walked up to me in my office one sunny afternoon. She asked me, “Father, I hope I’m well-dressed. I’m asking because last Sunday you preached against indecent dressing.” I looked straight her eyeballs. Immediately, I sensed the discomfort that overwhelmed her. Honestly, I was not at a loss as to what to respond. But I was surprised that she dressed indecently to my office Continue reading “INDECENT DRESSING by Israel ANAWEOKHAI”

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KEY TO RESISTING DISTRACTIONS

KEY TO RESISTING DISTRACTIONSWhat is distraction? what do you understand by distraction? have you ever been distracted? This article will discuss what distraction is and the key to resisting distractions.

To begin, we must first acknowledge that there is a term called ‘distraction.’ And by that, distraction is a reality. The word distraction is a borrowed word. Etymologically, it is from the middle French distraction, from Latin distractio (cf. En dictionary). Continue reading “KEY TO RESISTING DISTRACTIONS”

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ETIQUETTE; DOs and DONT’s

ETIQUETTE; DOs and DONT'sETIQUETTE; DOs and DONT’s

Ethics as a field of study generally is about what is, and what ought not to be. This write is about some Etiquette of our life which are: ETIQUETTE; DOs and DONT’s

1. Dᵒⁿ’ᵗ ᶜᵃˡˡ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒnᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᵗʷⁱᶜᵉ ᶜᵒⁿᵗⁱⁿᵘᵒᵘˢˡʸ. ⁱᶠ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᵈᵒⁿ’ᵗ ᵖⁱᶜᵏ ᵘᵖ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶜᵃˡˡ, ᵖʳᵉˢᵘᵐᵉ ᵗʰᵉʸ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ⁱᵐᵖᵒʳᵗᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵃᵗᵗᵉⁿᵈ ᵗᵒ.

2. Rᵉᵗᵘʳⁿ ᵐᵒⁿᵉʸ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵇᵒʳʳᵒʷᵉᵈ ᵉᵛᵉⁿ ᵇᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿ ʳᵉᵐᵉᵐᵇᵉʳˢ ᵃˢᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ ⁱᵗ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ʸᵒᵘ. Iᵗ ˢʰᵒʷˢ ʸᵒᵘʳ ⁱⁿᵗᵉᵍʳⁱᵗʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳ, ˢᵃᵐᵉ ᵍᵒᵉˢ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵘᵐᵇʳᵉˡˡᵃˢ, ᵖᵉⁿˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ˡᵘⁿᶜʰ ᵇᵒˣᵉˢ.

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Beyond June 12: Nigeria Still in Search of her Lost Hope

 

Beyond June 12: Nigeria Still in Search of her Lost Hope After 27 YearsBeyond June 12: Nigeria Still in Search of her Lost Hope After 27 Years

 

If I were 18 at the time, I doubt if I would have voted for Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, aka MKO, Abiola considering that MKO as I later discovered in my historical research, was a man who appeared too ambitious.

 
From what I previously read about him, I did not know him to be over-ambitious until the heated debate I had with Cornelius Erohubie in 2019, when President
Muhamadu Buhari honored MKO with a posthumous president and declared June 12th henceforth as Democracy Day in Nigeria.

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Lesson for Leaders

Lesson for Leaders; Not all Misbehaviour Require PunishmentLesson for Leaders; Not all Misbehavior Require Punishment

A young man saw his primary school teacher at a wedding ceremony.
He went to greet him with all respect and admiration!!

 

He said to him:
“Can you still recognize me Sir?’
‘I don’t think so!!’, said the Teacher, ‘could you please remind me how we met?’
The student recounted:

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On The Shoulders Of Each Other

On The Shoulders Of Each Other is Written by Ugwu Kelvin

On The Shoulders Of Each Other
Football stars, in fact, all the stars of various sports, we made them who they are.
Premier league, LALIGA, Serie A were suspended. This year’s Wimbledon (The most prestigious Tennis competition annually played in the UK) was cancelled. The ‘almighty’ Olympic games has also been cancelled this year.
Do you know what this means?
Many people have loss Millions of dollars because with Coronavirus still not contained, there will be no spectators. If there are no spectators, nobody will buy tickets, nobody will sell tickets.

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We Can be Wrong so Many Times Judging others!

We Can be Wrong so Many Times Judging others! Without We Can be Wrong so Many Times Judging others! WithoutKnowing the True Story Behind Their Actions

My boss drove a luxury car every day and it was my duty to greet him and to open the gates for him, as I worked as a watchman in his villa. But he never responded back to my greetings. indeed, we can be wrong so many times judging others! and off course, I was wrong in my judgment.

 
One day he saw me opening the garbage bags outside the villa in search of any leftover food. But, as usual, he never even looked at me, it was as if he never saw anything!

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QUARREL DESTROYS MANKIND

 

QUARREL DESTROYS MANKINDQUARREL DESTROYS MANKIND TOWARDS A PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE WITH EVERYONE

A farmer in ancient China had a neighbour who was a hunter, and who owned ferocious and poorly trained hunting dogs.
They jumped over the fence frequently and chased the farmer’s lambs. The farmer asked his neighbour to keep his dogs in check, but this fell on deaf ears.
One day the dogs again jumped the fence, attacked and severely injured several of the lambs.

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Do not Listen to discouraging Words

Do not Listen to discouraging WordsDo not Listen to discouraging Words, An example from the persistence frog and other motivational stories.

Discouraging words are statements or insinuations that persuade or prevents someone from making certain decisions. This short story title; Do not Listen to discouraging Words! is a story that motivates and encourages people to be persistent.

 

A group of frogs were travelling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead.

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THE COST OF HATRED

THE COST OF HATREDTHE COST OF HATRED A BUSINESSMAN EVALUATION

Hatred is one of the most destructive emotions a person can feel. It can corrode a person’s soul, and lead to a complete loss of humanity. It is the emotion that leads to genocide, ethnic cleansing, and all other forms of mass murder.

The cost of hatred is always high and can never be fully calculated. It is the cost of lost lives, of families and communities destroyed, and of futures that will never be realized. The cost of hatred is also the cost of missed opportunities, of relationships that could have been, and of a world that could have been a better place.

I never knew it was that costly,
I wanted to know the cost of hatred, so I decided to branch to a shop where it’s being sold.
As a good businessman who was looking for a buyer, he rushed out to ask what I

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The Praying Hands

 

The Praying HandsThe story of The Praying Hands

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore he could find in the neighborhood.
Despite their seemingly hopeless condition, two of Albrecht Durer the Elder’s children had a dream. They both wanted to pursue their talent for art, but they knew full well that their father would never be financially able to send either of them to Nuremberg to study at the Academy.

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