This is Pastor Iren's message that changed my life and mentality.
It's been over 5yrs in my phone and every time I feel dismayed and backward I go back to it.
Thank you Pastor @pst_iren
WORDINGS TO LEARN FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO INTERACT/LIVE IN ONISTHA (because we do speak in parables)
Alobam - My Gee
Usu Mensai - No Wahala
Oloye Ololo - Big Guy
Obulo Shobolobo - It's Not A Joke
Gbaaa Kpim - Chill
Taaa Ulo - Calm Down
Kpazie - Forget About It
Sumodoya - Apply Pressure
Abiggie Kpotonkpo - Biggest Guy
Abiggie Kwanabiuu - Rich Guy That Shows Love
Sebastian Ugwu - Chain Smoker
Nyem White - Give Me #50
Kpoleee - Stroll
Onye Nkoto - Mad Man
Nleka - Being Broke
Nyem 'O' - Give Me #100
Asai - Mumu
Et�� - Someone With Zero Street O.T
Onye Afia - Dealer
Onye JONKI - Someone That Fucks Up All The Time
Apaiwa - Someone With Zero Street O.T
Obo-to - Mumu
Onye Obodo - Indigene or Someone Who's Popular In The Hood
Abiggie Obosi - Big Guy Who Lives In Obosi or Normal Bossmanship From Guys
Nticha - Street Offering
Onye Omina - Hardened Criminal
Onye Mgbu - Someone That Misbehaves
Edewe-Ewelu - Neighbourhood Thief
Mgbati - Fine Girl
Awka-Made - Boris Gun
Paa Cool - Stay Cool
Suum There - Shut Your Mouth (with immediate effect)
Kuo Ati - Drip Hard
Ikpoho - Mumu
Isi Benji - Dollar
Kpoyesia - Come
Onye Mpiawa Azu - Scammer
Pasa - Calm Down or Stay Here
Nwa Ogbe - Hood Boy
Ozoroezo - Facts Only.
Add Yours If You Can Relate.
OTU ma OTU.
Jesus Christ didn’t ask you to pray for prosperity. As a matter of fact, he said you should not worry about what to eat or what to wear or what to drink or what your body needs because God already knows your needs. Instead focus on the Kingdom of God and you’ll get what you need.
Even the Lord’s Prayer only focus on your daily need. Paul also said God will supply your need according to His riches. Jesus didn’t come to make people rich but to reconcile men to himself and give them eternal life. Remember he told us it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
The universe has its own rule to wealth making. You won’t pray your way into it.
I am ranting because I am not doing well.
Forget all the saturated pictures and collaged videos from £87 trips but all of my family is in Nigeria.
They don't have the same travel access, same illusion of comfort, freedom to buy whatever they want without mental gymnastics - and this is the fucking truth.
Whatever policy they're affected with, affects me.
Whatever injustice they're robbed off with, robs on me.
Geographically, I might not be on Nigerian soil but mentally, I never left.
Financially, I never left.
Emotionally, I never left.
I am aware that I am not doing well.
Wherever you are in the diaspora, if you current situation isn't mirrored across all of your current family members, I'm sorry to burst your bubble - you're not doing well. You've not escaped.
So if awakening citizen consciousness is my own contribution to the possibility of a better Nigeria, I will play my part.
This is why we speak up.
I can't peel off my skin, erase my Oduduwa factor, dump my green passport so in an out, I'm still a Nigerian - I'll always be. From a distance, that's all anyone will ever see even if I get a second citizenship, so again, something has to give.
I won't be silent. I won't cower. My voice will not be compromised because of proximity to access.
These conversations are like lints and sparks - I can only but hope it eventually sparks a fire that makes us hit the streets.
Finally,
Nigeria works. If a system is designed to fail and it fails, that system has succeeded.
The problems of Nigeria are artificially manufactured, so a new government comes in reverses one floor of a mountain of problems they created - they can praise it as progress.
The poverty levels we're in, is a deliberate design - it is a tool and it's weaponization is the only way the cankerworms in charge can reign supreme.
If you keep a people hungry enough, you can flash them hope with AC chilling, WiFi blazing and jollof steaming.
If you systematically strip people of their dreams and aspirations, keep them at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - you can easily convert them to willing slaves.
Nigeria works - but the question is, who is it working for?
My submission for #Tarius5daysChallenge
Day 2..
Stretched my creativity and brain for this one .
I don't even know if it came out nice but I gave it my all..