Its a new year.
Another opportunity to Make A Difference.
Dear Lord,
I'm grateful for the gift of a new year.
May my greatest legacy be that I served you with my life.
Happy Birthday to me @Danielobiyo
Be Intentional or Be Forgotten
#GratefulHeart#birthday
BREAKING!
On the day that the #1 trending on X will be #TheRapture or #Rapture, may you join me to be seated with the King of Glory beyond the Blue Skies. I pray you and I will be the ones who's presence will be missing on earth!
BREAKING!
On the day that the #1 trending on X will be #TheRapture or #Rapture, may you join me to be seated with the King of Glory beyond the Blue Skies. I pray you and I will be the ones who's presence will be missing on earth!
BREAKING!
On the day that the #1 trending on X will be #TheRapture or #Rapture, may you join me to be seated with the King of Glory beyond the Blue Skies. I pray you and I will be the ones who's presence will be missing on earth!
"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party." Winston Churchill
Today, May 9th, I attended the 1st convention of my latest party, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Abuja, Nigeria. The convention was successful and continued to show the resilience of Nigerians to change
I express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to the NDC family, led by the distinguished Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, for inviting us and for the generosity of spirit with which they have accommodated us at this critical moment in our national journey.
I also wish to express profound gratitude to the African Democratic Congress(ADC), particularly Distinguished Senator David Mark, for providing a democratic platform and showing uncommon understanding when the ongoing litigation forced us out of the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP respectively. That spirit of solidarity must remain the foundation upon which a better Nigeria will be built.
Today, the most painful aspect of our political existence is that many who once benefited from democratic governance have now become willing accessories to the destruction of democracy itself. Those who once fought for justice now openly celebrate electoral injustice. Those who once spoke against impunity now defend coercion, manipulation, intimidation, and outright political gangsterism, especially against opposition voices. What we are witnessing is not politics; it is a systematic assault on democracy and the will of the people.
Nigeria today stands at a dangerous crossroads. Our democracy is under severe threat. Our nation is drifting without direction, and our people are passing through immense suffering. Across the world, Nigeria is increasingly described as a failing and disgraced nation. This is not the destiny God ordained for our great country. It was not always so, and it must never be allowed to remain so.
Across virtually every recognised indicator of good governance - accountability, political stability, rule of law, control of corruption, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and the separation of powers - Nigeria continues to record alarming failures. The institutions that should protect the people are weakening daily, while the burden on ordinary citizens grows heavier with each passing moment.
Today, over 140 million Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty. Tens of millions of young people remain unemployed or underemployed. Inflation continues to crush families. Businesses are shutting down. Farmers can no longer safely access their farms. Communities live in fear. In this month alone, hundreds of innocent Nigerians have lost their lives to insecurity, while many others have been kidnapped, displaced, or thrown deeper into poverty.
The most heartbreaking question confronting us is this: Who consoles the grieving mother whose child was abducted on the way to school? Who speaks for the father who can no longer feed his family despite working every day? Who defends the young Nigerian whose dreams have been destroyed by a nation that rewards connections over competence and corruption over character?
Our present tragedy is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of years of deliberate sabotage by a political class that prospers by dividing the people and weakening the nation. Nigeria is not a poor country; rather, we are being looted into poverty. We have abundant human and natural resources, yet we remain trapped in deprivation because leadership has failed to place the common good above personal interest.
Our choice as a people is therefore clear: whether to surrender to despair and national decline, or to summon the courage to rescue our country and rebuild it on the foundations of unity, equity, justice, competence, and productivity.
A few days ago I saw in a vision so many hens
And some were laying eggs
Some were hatching their eggs
It was just just many
And as I woke up I had the understanding that God was about to settle so may if his daughters trusting him for conception
Hear the word of the Lord daughter of Zion,
You will conceive seed,
You will receive the strength to bring forth that which you conceived
You will not miscarry
For none shall cast her young before her time,
I say congratulations to you in advance.
The Hand of the Lord will make it so
PS: Please send this to anyone you know trusting God for this blessing.
They should say amen to these prayers an write some the date.
INEC's Absence at ADC Convention a Dereliction of Duty Aimed at Delegitimising a Legitimate Action - Aregbesola
As a party, we have discharged the responsibility required of us to ensure INEC monitors our convention. It is INEC's duty to equally discharge its own constitutionally guaranteed and lawfully assigned responsibility of attending and monitoring this convention. INEC's failure to perform its duty of monitoring this convention is hereby declared illegal and a criminal organisation
Rauf Aregbesola, ADC National Secretary
There’s something I’m curious about that pertains to Easter. The Quran says Jesus’s crucifixion was “made to appear so”, basically a divine body swap that fooled everyone. My question is at what point did the deception begin?
Was it before Jesus was arrested?
If so then someone else was in Gethsemane. Someone else prayed “let this cup pass from me.” Someone else gave the farewell discourse in John 13-17. So a prophet’s final teachings were delivered by an imposter, and Allah let the charade run for hours while the real Jesus was… where exactly?
Was it during the arrest?
Then the disciples; who were present, who saw Peter cut off Malchus’s ear, who watched Jesus heal it, somehow didn’t recognize that their friend of three years had been swapped out mid-conversation. Did Allah erase their memories? And if they witnessed the swap, why did they spend the rest of their lives preaching a crucifixion they knew was fake?
Was it after the arrest but before crucifixion?
Then someone else endured the Roman scourging, 39 lashes with a flagrum embedded with bone and metal. Someone else carried the cross. Someone else was nailed to it and suffered for six hours. Is that rescue to you? Is that not more like human sacrifice?. Islam rejects substitutionary atonement but replaces it with literal substitutionary torture of an innocent man. The moral calculus is way worse.
Lastly was it on the cross itself?
If so then Jesus was crucified but somehow survived, or was swapped during the execution. But common sense tells me the Romans were professional executioners. They verified death with a spear thrust. Pilate confirmed it with the centurion before releasing the body. And if Jesus was swapped on the cross, then everyone watching; the soldiers, the crowd, his mother at the foot of the cross, was fooled simultaneously in broad daylight.
The Quran doesn’t say specifics. And that silence isn’t because of humility, it’s absolute narrative incoherence dressed as mystery.
Christianity can answer down to the hour: arrested Thursday night, tried Friday dawn, crucified 9 AM, died 3 PM, buried before sundown, rose Sunday morning. The precision is prosecutorial. The vagueness is evasive and contradicts what you say about “proofs and evidences”.
This morning I was praying, thanking Jesus for what I shared yesterday about the brotherhood and adoption he gave us access to. And as I sat with it, something else opened up.
God called Abraham his friend. He called Moses his friend. These were the two most consequential men in the Old Testament and friendship was the height of what was offered.
And it was not cheap; Abraham believed across decades of silence and impossible demand. Moses spoke with God face to face after forty years of faithful suffering. The friendship was real and it was rare and it was earned through a lifetime of covenant fidelity.
Then Jesus rises from the dead and calls us brothers.
Not friends. Brothers.
I want you to feel the distance between those two words. Friendship is selective. You choose your friends.
Brotherhood is a declaration. You do not earn a brother. You share a father.
Abraham and Moses had to become someone first. The disciples in John 20 had just abandoned him. Mary had nothing to offer but grief at a tomb. And the risen King opens his mouth and the word he uses is not “friends.” It is not even “faithful ones.” He says brothers. He says it over failure. He says it over fear. He says it to people who ran.
It really stunned me this morning. The more intimate the title became, the more democratized it got.
God offered friendship to two men across the whole of the Old Testament. He offers brotherhood to every human soul who believes. The inner circle did not shrink as the stakes got higher. It exploded.
And as I shared yesterday, John 20:17 completes the thought. He does not just call them brothers. He tells Mary: “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” He refuses to say “our Father” as though the sonship is identical, he is the eternal Son, you are the adopted one, the distinction matters. But he insists the Father is shared. You are in the family without being confused with the firstborn.
The intimacy exploded outward without diluting. More people, but the same Father. There was no reduction in what it means to belong.
The arc of redemptive history is incredibly beautiful, God moved from friend to Father, from selective covenant to scandalous adoption, from two men on a mountain to every soul born again by his Spirit.
You did not earn this. Abraham walked decades in costly faith and was called God’s friend. You simply believed and were called brother. You received brotherhood. That is a larger thing given to an unworthier person and that is precisely what makes grace what it is.
He is risen. And the first word out of his mouth proved it was never only about power. It was always about family.
I moved to Finland.
Not the US, UK or Canada. Finland.
I didn’t realize that would require so much explanation.
There’s an unspoken hierarchy when it comes to relocating from Nigeria. If you’re going to leave, it should be somewhere people immediately recognize. Somewhere that sounds impressive when mentioned casually. "Somewhere your relatives can repeat proudly without needing to clarify where it is on a map."
Finland doesn’t quite fit that script.
Till today, I’ll post something, and someone will message, “Oh, you relocated? US or Canada?” It’s never asked with curiosity. It’s asked with assumption. As if those are the only options that count.
I’ve watched people take on serious loans to relocate. Not because they had a long-term plan or a clear passion, but because they needed to leave. Because staying felt like stagnation, and the destination sounded prestigious enough to justify the sacrifice.
And I understand that feeling more than I’d like to admit.
Nigeria can make you restless. It can make you feel like motion is progress, even if you haven’t decided on the direction.
But here’s what nobody really prepares you for: every country comes with its own weight.
Cold is cold, regardless of the passport stamp. Loneliness does not care whether you are in London, Toronto, or Helsinki.
Finland is cold in ways I wasn’t prepared for. Not just the temperature, though that alone is an adjustment. It’s the silence, I almost feel deaf. The long, dark afternoons where daylight disappears before you even see the sun. The way you are now alone with your thoughts for longer than you’re used to.
In that kind of environment, misalignment becomes really obvious.
If you chose your course because it was convenient, the discomfort magnifies it. If you chose your country for the optics, the silence will eventually confront you with that truth.
You don’t want to sit thousands of miles away from everyone you love and realize you built your decision on pressure instead of purpose.
Relocating is not a personality trait, not a trophy, neither is it a shorthand for success.
It’s a life decision.
So, if you’re thinking about leaving, pause long enough to build a real plan. Choose a course that connects to something you genuinely want to grow into. Choose a country because it aligns with your goals, not because it impresses an audience.
The goal was never to impress anyone, it was to build a life that feels steady when the lights go out and it’s just you in the room.
Start there.
Abia cant be handed over to gamblers and speculators; only serious value investors wanted.
That’s why I am voting for Alex Otti to continue as CEO of Abia for another 4 years at the upcoming AGM.
He is paying good dividends, the Abia stock price is up, goodwill on the books has increased in value. The stock remains a growth stock but with a low P/E, high Earning per Share and lots of future revenues expected.
I recommend this as a buy.