OJ

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[OJ @OkornJay]

Fly, blackbird
Deep into the darkness
Where your wings write music
To give restless souls their dreams
They've forgotten how to remember

[OJ @OkornJay]

The wise return often to these three places:
1. Home: it anchors your past and shapes your future.
2. Hospital: All ambitions bow to ill health.
3. Sanctuary: feed the spirit, it outlives the flesh.

[OJ @OkornJay]

Tomorrow is never pregnant, it is just a baby, born today.

[OJ @OkornJay]

Like Poets trying to write,
And Lyrics trying to rhyme,
Our journey is evolution.
Always remember us this way.

[OJ @OkornJay]

Of the ships that sail the seas
The good ships and the wood ships
I chose friendships, always.

[OJ @OkornJay]

"Raised glasses of aging wine,
we toast to dreams yet to unfold.
We toast to future memories untold."

[OJ @OkornJay]

@kunlelawal May I add the malady of indirect primaries to this?

[OJ @OkornJay]

"An uninformed majority will always lose a game of information against an informed minority"
- Graham Linehan

[OJ @OkornJay]

Power may like strength, but will always love strategy

[OJ @OkornJay]

@kunlelawal Great perspectives on subject matter @KL, I think the @NOA_Nigeria has a lot of work to do in terms of National integration. It should take advantage of its spread to design and implement programs for national cohesion, esp for students (from elementary to grad school)

[OJ @OkornJay]

@kunlelawal Happy birthday Kay-el!

[OJ @OkornJay]

We have the capacity to stamp out unfortunate issues like the #plateaumassacre. There's politics and there's the state.

[SEYILAW @seyilaw1]

I am spending my Christmas with our troops in Maiduguri, and my discussion with some top personnel is giving me some deep insights. A troop of 28,000 men and with a budget of N1,000 each for food daily, that is N28,000,000 and for a month (28 days) comes up to N784,000,000. Nigeria has over 223,000 active soldiers.

We talked about MRAP vehicles, where 88 is supposed to be provided for each battalion. A unit costs about $300,000. You can do the maths. While we think the defence budget is huge, it is actually meagre compared to what is truly needed.

One of the top personnel said, "The cost of chaos is cheap, but the battle to restore peace is too expensive." Technology of military wares keep evolving, and we are struggling to meet up. My eyes have been opened to a lot of knowledge.

The catastrophe of the prolonged battle of insurgency is huge. Some of the rescued women and kids born in the camps know no other life apart from the trouble.

May God continue to protect our men and women of the Nigeria Armed Forces as they fight to keep us safe.

[OJ @OkornJay]

Labour unions need to do better than forcing the government to implement minimum wages to working with the government to design living wages for Nigerian workers. Wages need to accommodate the cost of living per city.
#MerryChristmas

[OJ @OkornJay]

Every business requires insight to stay relevant and foresight to stay ahead.
#BizTots

[OJ @OkornJay]

@historyinmemes Title of background song, please?

[OJ @OkornJay]

A Country where the people vote but the Courts (s)elect Leaders is far from being a Democratic state.

[OJ @OkornJay]

It is usually not that the light in people died, but that their darkness shined and reflected differently on others.

[OJ @OkornJay]

When a heartbeat drops in the estate where men are neighbors with God and the devil, it breaks the silence and that makes all the difference

[OJ @OkornJay]

It's said of life,
To serve a God, sacrifice
To own family, give
To win friends, share
To make money, spend
To gain fame, publish
To be poor, waste
But to live your life, own it!