Kingly Inspiration

Have you ever felt useless, less intelligent, uncelebrated, less gifted or intellectually disadvantaged especially amongst your contemporaries? Have you ever felt like you weren’t born with any talent or gifting even after searching inwards? If yes, then you need to pay more attention. Growing up as a kid, my parents and neighbours’ loved me ravishingly. Beyond the wit and stubbornness, I was a cute kid with an interesting personality. However, they all seemed to have one problem with me - I talk too much . I was nicknamed “ekwurekwu” which is used in Igbo language to refer to an annoying talkative person. They didn’t know that the nickname killed me psychologically. I struggled daily to suppress my brazen and extroverted personality. I’d try as much as I could to talk less (whilst imploding with thoughts) at home and eventually explode in school. While in junior high school, the authenticity of the ‘noise-makers list’ was verified if our form-teacher saw my name there. We ...

As part of preparation for Brexit, Britain is seriously looking for new strategic partnerships. Interestingly, the recent 21-month transition period they negotiated with the European Union offers them the luxury of time to pursue such partnerships. However, something within me wants to beg Britain to recolonize Nigeria instead of seeking new partnerships. I'm very much aware that recolonization sounds counter-intuitive especially in a progressive 21st century (even though Nigeria is anything but progressive), however, my model of recolonization may in few years pay us more than 58 years of independent backwardness. Suffice it to say that no nation is as naturally blessed as Nigeria, but we don’t feel the impact of such blessings given that Nigeria is seemingly cursed with bad leadership. America comes close when it comes to abundance of natural resources, but their terrible weather (relative to Nigeria) would under humane circumstances give Nigeria the edge. We are ...

     By Esther Omoregbe e (Nwanyibuife) Singlehood is often defined as a state of being unmarried. It also applies to the condition of having no romantic partner at all. In this context, we will be looking at the Ladies corner. The word lady is a term that applies to womanhood. Who is a WOMAN? A woman is a refined creature created from God's existing creature (Genesis 2:22-33). She is was not created as a result of emergency, she is part of God's original plan from the beginning. She is an indispensable and special vessel filled with rich greatness, enough to compliment a man's life and also to impact her generation. She is a creature with soft spot capable of killing the venom of thousands of men. God original purpose for the woman was to fill the gap, be a co-builder and an agent of transformation in the garden (World). She was created with distinct features and functions that even a man can't perform. She is indeed blessed.  How...

                                                                                                By Chioma Faith I have been thinking through the line; it’s close to mid-year, and the year 2018 is running just too fast. We have goals, some attained and some yet to be attained. During my self-introspection, I pondered on something very important. As is usual with most persons, few months to the year 2018, they wrote down goals, visions and resolutions for the New Year. Some of these goals included stra...

                                                                          by Comr. (Sen.) Nwuruku Olisa Alfred A popular saying has it that change in itself is the only permanent phenomenon in this universe. Adopting from the backdrop, it could be rightly asserted that change occurs in every other aspect of human endeavour; socially, economically, religiously and politically. In Nigeria today, there has been tremendous political transformation basically since the birth of the second quarter of the fourth Republic (2007) till date. This change embedded in the transformation agenda of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan/Sambo administration unarguably brought revival in some desired directions, in both political and economic life of Nigeria as a country. Economically, Goodluck Jonathan’s administr...

In part one, we explored how to be happy with yourself and people around you (go back if you missed it). Today's tips would be more about happiness through self-fulfillment. 1.        Look for ways to impact lives: I used to wonder why volunteers for humanitarian services leave the comfort of their homes in Europe to work in the suburbs of a crisis ridden Somalia or Haiti for years, until I started impacting lives. It leaves you with an unfathomable inner joy, which gives you fulfilment.  I’m happier every time I help people. Try to make positive difference in the lives of others. Doing so will increase your sense of self-worth, add meaning to your life, and deepen relationships with those whose lives you touch. It will also help put your own problems in perspective and direct your energies away from self-absorption. 2.        Seek meaning and challenge in work: recently, a friend of mine quit her bank jo...