tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35707193016891404962024-02-07T15:59:04.697+01:00The RetrospectsIn the beginning ... man was made to dominate, not to be dominated. This site gives insight into treasures in the spoken and written words. Every single word counts!Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-6766160611370995612015-02-13T15:53:00.000+01:002015-02-13T15:53:20.985+01:00Mamador Meet My Boo competition <h2 class="date-header">
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I<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">t’s
the season of love again (especially as INEC has now postponed elections), that
season when people find love; when love finds people; when couples re-affirm
their love for each other and Cupid, the god of romance generally flourishes. Now,
your favourite cooking oil brand- Mamador joins its fans in celebrating their
love in the “Mamador Meet My Boo” contest. </span></span><br />
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does the contest work? Very simple: Go to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.mamador.com/meetmyboo" target="_blank">www.mamador.com/meetmyboo</a></span>, upload a picture of you and your
“boo” (whoever), share the generated link with your friends and ask them to
like your entry. The couple with the most likes will win and be rewarded with a
romantic dinner date at the classiest restaurant in their city. But, that’s not
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all-expense paid movie date, to see any movie of their choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just
like Mamador <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mamadorng">Facebook page </a></span> follow Mamador on Twitter
@MamadorNG, upload a picture of you and your boo showing us the love you have
for each other and stand a chance to win the most fabulous romantic date ever.
Hurry and submit your photo <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.mamador.com/meetmyboo">here</a></span> </span></span></div>
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Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-56980592703228523822014-12-10T10:55:00.001+01:002014-12-10T10:55:45.317+01:00Doing things the right way<b>The fact that people think or say it's alright does not make it
right. Indeed ‘alright’ does not make all right.</b><br />
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So because you are in a
hurry and need to get to your destination early, you feel it's alright to beat
the traffic light? Absolutely, it does not make it right.<br />
Sometimes it
feels OK to throw dirt on the road and say people are
employed to sweep the road, but that does not make it right.<br />
Truthfully,
all that seem OK is not always right and all that seem alright is not
always OK, we must ensure to do the right things at the right time even
when no one is watching!!!Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-36626640836558720842014-11-06T10:27:00.002+01:002014-11-06T10:27:54.081+01:00THE WEEPING LAND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>Tears that flow like river</b><br /> Cry that seemly differ<br /> Thicker than the Red milk enormously shed by your inhuman beast<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Has glued my heart core to weep.<br /> <br /> See!<br /> You have turned words to swords<br /> You have allowed blood to flow like flood<br /> You sneak to do evil and turn to justify your hand<br /> Ha! I keep weeping for your land.<br /> <br /> I have had more atonement<br /> I have no interest in your sacrifice<br /> You! Who has turned water to blood<br /> You! Who has turned away blood of rams to that of men<br /> Shall I not weep for these lives?<br /> <br /> Cry on and on<br /> Let me shed more tears<br /> Ha! Your present,future shake in fear<br /> Is this not the plight I bear?<br /> <br /> See blood on this land<br /> Souls always die hard<br /> Like goats and flies <br /> Through guns, bomb and dagger<br /> Let me weep even more deeper<br /> <br /> Oh! Hear the dead celebrating death<br /> Feel the agony of weeping<br /> Smell the aroma of blood<br /> Oh! I bow to weep <br /> The land of our nation <br /> Land of your father's vision<br /> Has it not turn to the dungeon of carrion?<br /> <br /> Oh! Ahhhhhhh!<br /> I weep not for you<br /> Yes! You who has lived to bear these plights<br /> I weep not for you who has survived the night<br /> I weep not for you who live on this land<br /> I weep, yes! I weep<br /> For your kins<br /> Your children children's<br /> Who shall make your future bright<br /> Where would their generations live?<br /> When your land is overflown with blood.<br /> <br /> OH!<br /> This Land is terribly weeping.<br /> <br /> (C) Copyright<br /> @ Prince TGO</span></span></span>Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-27762765364455806572014-08-08T07:25:00.000+01:002014-08-08T07:25:09.985+01:00Relationship Joke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A famous inspirational speaker said:<br /> "Best years of my life were spent in the arms<br /> of a woman, who wasn't my wife"<br />The audience was in shock and silence...<br /> He added: "she was my mother"<br /> A big round of applause & laughter!<br /> A very daring husband tried to crack this joke at<br /> home<br /> After a dinner, he said loudly to his wife in<br /> the kitchen:<br /> "Best years of my life were spent in the arms<br /> of a woman, who wasn't my wife"<br />
Standing for a moment, trying to recall the<br /> second line of that speaker's statement<br />By the time he gained his senses,<br /> he was on a hospital bed,<br /> recovering from the burns of hot water!<br /> Moral: Don't copy if you can't paste!Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-90086332369369558642014-06-10T13:08:00.000+01:002014-06-20T14:51:26.688+01:00African Poem: Work is the Cure for Poverty<br />
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Work is the Cure for Poverty</h2>
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Work is the Cure for Poverty</h4>
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Do your work well my friend</h4>
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Work is what makes us great</h4>
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If we don't have who to rely on</h4>
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We seem lazy</h4>
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If we don't have who to hope on</h4>
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We just have to work hard</h4>
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Your mother may be wealthy</h4>
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Your father owns chains of businesses</h4>
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If you rely on them, you are finished.</h4>
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Take responsibility for your life</h4>
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If the world loves you today</h4>
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Please don't rely on them</h4>
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What we did not sweat for won't last</h4>
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What we work hard for lasts long</h4>
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There is pain for the unwise</h4>
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Weeping abounds for the unstable child</h4>
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Do your work well</h4>
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Time never waits for anyone</h4>
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Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-72449056307789428812014-05-16T08:54:00.000+01:002014-05-16T08:54:14.607+01:00HOW TO REMAIN POOR ... A SARCASTIC AWAKENING. READ IN BETWEEN THE LINESHow to Remain POOR ...<br />
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<br /><br />1. NEVER WAKE UP EARLY. Keep stretching and turning in bed until you get too hungry to continue dozing. If there are no bedbugs, why hurry to get up? ...<br /><br />2. Never plan how to spend your money.<br />Whenever you get money, start spending it right away and when it is finished, try to count and recall how you spent it.<br /><br />3. Don’t think of saving until you have real big money ... How can you save when you earn so little? Those telling you to save are not sympathetic to your burning needs.<br /><br />4. Don’t engage in activities usually reserved for the “uneducated.” How can you, a graduate, engage in petty trade or home-based production? That is for people who never went to school.<br /><br />5. Don’t think of starting a business until an angel comes from heaven and gives you capital. How do they expect you to invest before you get millions of Naira or Dollars? Even though more than half the businesses in your town were started with a few hundred Naira, you, as a smart person, can only start with millions.<br /><br />6. Complain about everything except your own attitude: Blame the system, the government and the banks that refuse to lend you money. They are all bad and do not want you to get rich.<br /><br />7. Spend more than you earn. To achieve this, buy consumer products on credit and keep borrowing from friends and employers.<br /><br />
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<br />8. Compete in dressing. Make sure you wear the latest clothes among all the workers in your office. Whenever your neighbour buys a new phone, get one that is more expensive.<br /><br />9. Get yourself a nice second-hand (used) car that costs more than three times your gross monthly pay. That will surely keep you in debt long enough to hinder the implementation of any bad plans that could make you accumulate capital.<br /><br />10. Give your children everything they ask for since you are such a loving parent. They should not struggle for anything because you do not want them to suffer. That way, they will grow up lazy and hence poor enough to ensure they cannot help you in your old age.<br />Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-72657485421738229322014-04-16T16:57:00.000+01:002014-04-16T16:58:38.894+01:0017 Unconventional Occasions We Should Start Celebrating<div class="tc_intro" style="text-align: center;">
<i>There are only a few things we celebrate as
adults, and most of them have something to do with either birth or
marriage – neither of which we have sole control over. Those things are
exciting and notable and life-changing and absolutely worth
celebrating, no doubt. But there are countless other fantastic things
worth acknowledging as well. It’s not to say you should throw a $50K
celebration over getting through the work week, but that there is more
to life worth being happy about, and celebrating with friends even, than
just what society has deemed so.</i></div>
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<b>1. Promotions.</b> It’s more than a new job, it’s a step
up on the ladder, one that you worked your ass off for. Getting
promoted at work is the acknowledgment that you’re not only someone seen
as suitable to lead, but that you’ve proven yourself and your
commitment to a company and you deserve to revel in that pride.</div>
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<b>2. Raises. </b>It doesn’t have to be a change of job,
but even just a small raise, or becoming salaried when you were once
hourly, is important. Financial stability, however that looks for you,
is crucial to a life well lived, and there’s no reason to not celebrate
working hard and being able to live more comfortably because of that.</div>
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<b>3. Friendship anniversaries. </b>Relationships come and
go. I don’t know about you, but I have never celebrated a five or even
10 year anniversary with a significant other, but I absolutely have, and
will, with my best friends. It’s ridiculous that we don’t celebrate the
relationships in our lives that we already have, the ones that are
life-long and decidedly forever.</div>
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<b>4. Sobriety. </b>When people say they’ve quit drinking,
or that they’re “X days/months/years sober,” it’s often met with
judgment for either having once been addicted or not “being fun and
wanting to go out and drink anymore.” Regardless, the stigmas are false
and unwarranted. We should acknowledge the will-power it takes to
refrain from alcohol or drugs or whatever it is you no longer want in
your body, in spite of what people have and will say.</div>
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<b>5. The completion of a project. </b>Often it’s the only
light at the end of the tunnel. Hard work is only celebrated in our
culture as it equates to monetary success, but that isn’t the most
important part of achievement.</div>
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<b>6. The end of a chapter. </b>You could be leaving a city
or a home or a habit, whatever it is, commemorate appropriately. Maybe
we wouldn’t get so caught up in the stress of change if we started
seeing it as a good thing, a thing that will better us, a thing that is
worth acknowledging formally.</div>
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<b>7. Traveling and returning home safely. </b>Sure, you
can have going away and coming home parties, but those are usually
reserved for people who move somewhere far for a significant period of
time. I’m not saying throw a party for when you come home from vacation,
but if you’re taking time to travel, especially by yourself, you
deserve to come home to a dinner table of family and friends who want to
hear about everything.</div>
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<b>8. Overcoming a lifelong struggle, even just for now. </b>The
thing about “lifelong struggles” is that they’re ingrained somewhere
deeply within us, they’re difficult to shake. If you’re able to, even
for a small amount of time, rejoice in that. Forget about forever.
Appreciate what you’ve done and make it a point to commemorate it
appropriately.</div>
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<b>9. Quitting a job.</b> We can’t all be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_tdY0V4Zo" target="_blank">Marina Shifrins</a>, but we can all pop the champagne over finally being out from under that awful boss’ dictatorship.</div>
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<b>10. Finding a new job. </b>We get so caught up in the
scramble of signing the paperwork and re-adjusting our lives that we
forget how exciting it is to be starting a whole new experience. The
truth is that our jobs do comprise a huge part of our lives, they’re
what we do day-in-and-day-out. Changing them changes us in a huge way.</div>
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<b>11. A breakup.</b> Half of getting over heartbreak is
realizing that people leaving and entering our lives is inherently
neither good nor bad, just a changing of experiences. The closing of one
door so another can open. We all look back eventually and are most
grateful some (most) of those relationships didn’t work out.</div>
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<b>12. Job anniversaries. </b>Whether you’re celebrating surviving for so long or being happily employed, it’s a time worth noting.</div>
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<b>13. The days your life changes forever.</b> The only way
I can think to put this to you is like this: when I graduated college, I
had a party, I received a degree, we celebrated with dinners out with
extended family and gifts and the whole nine yards. But graduating
school wasn’t the day that changed my life. It wasn’t a day that changed
me at all, I was just done taking classes and living in a particular
area. I never acknowledged the days that actually changed me, the days I
had breakthroughs, the day I finished writing my book. The days that
actually mattered in my heart.</div>
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<b>14. Resisting the urge to stalk your ex on social media for the umpteenth trillionth time. </b>I believe this can stand alone.</div>
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<b>15. Getting over someone. </b>Ask anyone: it’s a feat to
get over some really great loves. They require us to change ourselves
and shift our lives to accommodate their absence, and I’ve found that
that’s often the point of them leaving. Regardless: it’s tiring and
draining and very sad until one day it’s not, and if getting past the
so-called love of your life leaving you isn’t an accomplishment, I don’t
know what is.</div>
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<b>16. Being happy.</b> In my opinion, it’s one of the rarest things in the world.</div>
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<b>17. Getting through the day.</b> We fall victim to
routine. We get lost in the nuances of daily life and become so drained
by the hours we spend staring at a screen and feeling exhausted that we
lose sight of wanting to celebrate for celebrations’ sake. I always call
my friend(s) and say let’s go out and get drinks because the week’s
over. Sometimes it’s the only way to get through the week. Most times,
it just serves to remind us that we don’t need a reason to be
celebrating life. <span class="tc_mark"></span></div>
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Source: <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2014/04/17-unconventional-occasions-we-should-start-celebrating/">http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2014/04/17-unconventional-occasions-we-should-start-celebrating/</a></div>
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A Couple
have been married for 5 years now. They have a 2 year old daughter. Like
any couple they have their ups and downs, that's life. One day just
after they had a fight over their differences of opinion, the wife went
shopping at the local mall, where she bumped into her ex-boyfriend from
varsity. <br />
After a chit-chat, she discovered he was doing well for
himself in business. They exchanged numbers. From that day on, they
started talking daily over the phone. Plans were made to meet, but
where, when? That's when the ex-boyfriend came up with a plan that they
should meet in Cape Town to spend a week together. <br />
The ex-boyfriend
would organize everything; the plane tickets and a nice beach holiday
resort for them to enjoy. She would have to lie to her husband, saying
she is going to a conference in Cape Town for a week.. Her husband took
her to the airport on Sunday evening. 2 hours later she was met in Cape
Town by her ex-boyfriend who had arranged a very romantic evening with
her. <br />
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After the romantic evening they went back to the resort,
made love without a condom, of course they have known each other for a
very long time. For the next 5 days they had a wonderful time jollying/quad biking, up the mountain in the cable car, swimming and sun bathing
etc, wining and dining at the Capes top cafe's and restaurants,
something she had rarely done with her husband. They enjoyed everything
money could buy, until she left on Saturday afternoon back to
Johannesburg. <br />
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They used different flights to avoid being seen
together (you know people talk). She was waiting in the airport for her
husband to fetch her, when she received a call from her ex-boyfriend,
who told her he was HIV-positive and that it was not a co-incidence when
they met at the mall. The reason why he infected her with the disease
was because he was jealous of the family she has and the beautiful woman
she had become<br />
and the fact that he was financially successful but he is not happy because he knows that he is dying. <br />
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At
that moment she just stood there and froze; thinking about what to do,
as it was already too late to take anti-retroviral drug. She could lay a
charge against him; it would only expose her for cheating on her
husband. That's when she took a taxi to her best friend's house. She
told her friend everything that had happened and ask for advice. The
friend advised her to come clean with her husband, tell the truth, she
has just lost everything and has nothing more to lose. <br />
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She then
phoned her husband and explained every thing. To my surprise, the
husband picked his wife from her friend's house; he sat down with her
and told her how much he loves her and reminded her of the vows he took
at church and that it was a terrible mistake she has made, which
unfortunately she has to pay for it with her life. He told her that he
is never going to leave her, he has forgiven her and will stick by her
side no matter what happens. <br />
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Now she stays in another bedroom
and he shares his bedroom with their daughter. What is currently
happening is, the wife is terribly sick and might die at anytime. He
told me this because he was asking me for prayer support. He
believes that if a group of friends prayed together, the prayer might be stronger. <br />
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The other reason was that I should let you all
know of such happenings as a warning to anyone contemplating cheating,
to weigh up if it's worth it! As I sit and think about this experience, I
thought to my self: why him? But I can not seem to come up with an
answer. Then there is a lesson here;" You never know what you've got
until.... <br />
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"The morale of the story is? As people, we tend to
undermine those who love us for a moment's pleasure (we are never aware
when we are loved). We keep on chasing waterfalls rather than sticking to
the rivers, where we can swim with ease. To all my brothers and
sisters, love the one you are with...<br />
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Do not hesitate to place your comments here.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://thotsandtreasures.blogspot.com/2011/06/lessons-to-learn.html">http://thotsandtreasures.blogspot.com/2011/06/lessons-to-learn.html</a> Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-12099872174356842872013-12-31T18:45:00.003+01:002014-02-20T12:30:08.314+01:00Happy New Year 2014<html>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the house of the retrospects, I sincerely want to wish for all my family, friends, acquaintances and colleagues so many things: God's blessings from Heaven above to make the forthcoming year the happiest year ever, filled with joy and peace and love for all of us in Jesus' name. Please remember: Quote 16 -- A success story is never complete without a protagonist who has undergone ups and downs to see a happy ending after all (Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/18WfNax">http://bit.ly/18WfNax</a>). Happy New Year in Advance.</span></div>
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<br />Samuel Oshohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763615934021374436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570719301689140496.post-31296944601099689812013-11-26T20:23:00.000+01:002014-02-20T12:30:37.231+01:00The Centenary: Nigeria in Retrospects<html>
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The Nigeria of my dream beckons as we decide how to be led. To be led by
example is to be given the right foundation; to be given the right
foundation is to be given a great future. Nigerians come on board as we redefine ourselves on the global front. It is not how far we have been together but how well we have utilized our unity as an entity. </div>
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What do we want to leave behind for our unborn generation as legacies? Do we really cherish our co-existence as a people, at least if not as a nation? Our languages may differ, our tribes may differ, our values may vary, our cultures may vary but our Father, God is One. Let's brace up for what brings us closer to our Creator, God. Let's lift up our voice to our Maker, who made us one for these years. We are not the most righteous nation. We are not the most prayerful nation but we have found a Lover in our Father, our Maker who did not allow us to pay dearly for our ignorance all this while. It could have been worse, if not for God. I know we have diverse challenges but let us look up to God to give us the best as we round off the year 2013. He has been our security. He has been our provision. He has been our shelter.</div>
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The greatest milestone we can set as individuals is to live a purposeful life. Our leaders must define our reason for existence as a people and an entity.</div>
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Let's thank God He is fighting for us. God Bless Nigeria!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's amazing that it is when you get to the end of the road that God makes a way - Dr. Tunde Bakare (Lessons from the pain of separation - Part 2).</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">When you deceive others, it tends to be satisfying; but when you deceive yourself, it tends to be disastrous.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Don't sit on the fence; there might be some broken bottles on it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A rational man tries to make his good better and his better best.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A politician thinks of the next election while a leader thinks of the next generation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A problem shared with a fool only gets compounded.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Eliminating the wrong choices creates a greater chance of making the right choice.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The kingmaker can make a king but he cannot make a nation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">People need vision. Vision needs only a person: the visionary.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Your conscience must be nurtured by truth lest it ruptures.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">You cannot be the commander-in-chief and still be commanded by mediocrity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Academics is not the only basis for leadership, intelligence also counts.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">If you are doing the right thing at the wrong time, you are a failure and if you are doing the wrong thing at the right time, you are still a failure – Gabriel Oluwole Osho (My dad on 18/08/11).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A success story is never complete without a protagonist who has undergone ups and downs to see a happy ending after all.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Ill-gotten wealth either leaves abruptly or is left abruptly. You can't bite more than you can chew!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The laxity of the righteous enhances the brutality of the wicked! – Winston Churchill.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study – Chinese Proverb</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">You never know the real essence of a woman until you get married to one.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The best way to lead is to serve. If truly you want to lead, there mustn't be anything you wouldn't sacrifice for your followers to enjoy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Truth is an eye-opener only to the one who has a clear conscience.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Good life is all about giving what you have diligently to get what you need or want.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">It's never too late to learn -- Malcolm Forbes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The best way to learn is to stop speaking and start listening. </span></li>
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