Prayer is the meek and holy force to oppose the diabolical force of hatred, terrorism and war. I invite all believers to join with the Church in the Holy Land and to dedicate next Tuesday, 17 October, to prayer and fasting.
Something happened in my home recently. We hired someone for a domestic position, and everything appeared to be going well.
A few weeks into the role,
my daughter came to me and said, ‘Mummy, I don’t want this person in our home. I don’t like this person’
If you don’t know each other's
Salary
HIV status
Sexuality
Education level
Future goals
Attitude to polygamy
Blood group
Genotype
Anger triggers
Attitude to in-laws
Number of children you want, and
Number of children from previous relationships
Then you are not ready for marriage, no matter how much you think you are in love with each other! Most causes of marital challenges or break up can be avoided BEFORE the marriage even starts if you carry out proper background checks on your partner. Even a bank will not employ an ordinary guard without running a background check. Yet, you marry a stranger who tells you ‘I love you’. Before Isaac married Rebecca, he traced her back to her father's house.
#RenosNuggets
The only lions that starve and die are those that make noise while hunting. As soon as the prey hears you, they take off. Wise lions hunt in silence and eat noisily. Be like them. Stop broadcasting your plans. Your achievements will announce you. Don't tell people you plan on buying a car. When they see you driving it, they will know. You don't need to announce your plans to japa to Japan. When they see your photos in Tokyo, they will know. Your nemesis and enemies can't frustrate a plan they can't locate!
#FreeLeahSharibu #RenosNuggets
Nobody is saying do not japa. But what I am saying is that before you do, you should count the cost in as cold and calculating a manner as you can. Because it is literally a jungle out there.
In Nigeria, you can just turn up at your friend or family's house uninvited for a visit. You can even turn up uninvited to stay with your family. You can't try that abroad. Your brother may call the cops on you. They are very individualistic and have firm boundaries. It may take a village to raise a child in Africa, but in Europe and America, children often have to raise themselves because both parents work, and weekends are spent at Mcdonald's cinemas, football games, or museums.
And since children are not taught to appreciate family bonds, parents grow old and are dumped in an old peoples home, so their children can live their lives without the inconvenience of caring for them.
Family and communal life are treasured in Africa. But it is not encouraged in Europe and America. Many children do not even know their cousins. A cousin in the West can be defined as a stranger you see, if at all, at weddings. And neighbours can die in their homes and be undetected for weeks.
Of course, your relatives abroad will want you to think they have it better than you. Unrefined human nature is focused on competition. You have to be enlightened to have a mindset directed to cooperation. But life in the West is not a life for the faint-hearted.
For the most part, young people in the West have low regard for your age. And if you don't purposely train your children to have respect for their elders, they will turn out like the kids they relate with. Yes, their awareness levels are very high, as is their IQ. But their EQ can be very low. Their phonetics is on point, but their human relations is, well, pointless!
And if you are the type that looks down on your culture and language, you WILL produce self loathing children abroad, who automatically look down on any African with an accent. Their disdain grows when the African speaks their native language and wears his or her cultural wears. In hating that image, they are cluelessly unaware that they are loathing themselves.
Disneyland is often touted as the happiest place on Earth. But that is not exactly true. It is the most exciting place on Earth, and it gets you carried away as you are overwhelmed by floods of pleasant memories and reminiscences that connect with various stages of your carefree childhood. But as exciting as it is, it is not as happy as Africa.
Think of parties in Nigeria. Of when you went to your hometown and were treated as special guests and showered with unconditional love. Think of visiting relatives and how they literally killed the fattened chicken or goat just to welcome you. Remember how you gathered around newspaper vendors as a member of free reader's association. Cast your mind back to how you used to run to the door or gate shouting 'Daddy oyoyo'. Let the rivalry between Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Ade on the one hand, and that between Alhaji Agba (Sikiru Ayinde Barrister) and Ayinla Kollington, bring back memories of all the Fuji ropopo you danced with fellow neighbourhood teenagers. Recall how your Muslim neighbours brought Ileya food for you, a Christian.
Life in Nigeria was sweet. It is still a delight. Life in Africa is still sweet. Take it from me. There is absolutely no part of Africa I have not been to.
#TableShaker
My attention has been drawn to social media postings suggesting that a nation-wide groundswell "#ENDINEC", "#ENDNigeria" Protest is being planned by the Obidients. We are aware that those postings are being orchestrated by the Opposition.
You work for years and boom! Things start to happen for you in a short time.
Those who don't know the work you've put in will assume you blew in 2 months
No fam. You're just seeing the leaves of long roots that have gone into the ground.
They want you to believe that if the candidate is not from the big two, they don't stand a chance.
That's what they want you to believe because they understand that you have the power to put the next person there.
Stay sharp.