@ThinkYoruba_1st I appreciate your efforts and dedication. Please continue the excellent work. However, if you are promoting a culture, it is important to fully embody it. Your attire should align with the message you are conveying, especially at events like this.
How You Can Make Nigeria Great Again
One thing that the most prosperous nations on Earth have in common is that their citizens speak positively about their countries. And that is very important. It has both spiritual and natural consequences.
Spiritually, positive speaking releases blessings, and negative speech attracts curses.
In the natural, when you speak positively about your country, the collective testimonies of citizens will resonate globally, and your nation is likelier to attract foreign investment, and the citizens are more motivated to develop their GDP.
You may sometimes hear Americans, Britons, Canadians, and continental Europeans speak negatively about their leaders, but it is almost anathema for them to speak derogatorily about their countries.
And such positivity about their countries permeates every facet of their national life.
It is the same phenomenon in sports. By cheering your team, you increase the likelihood that they will succeed and emerge victorious.
You don't wait for your country to be ideal before you speak well of her. No. You speak well of your country, and your nation will become what you say of her.
With this in mind, let us learn to speak positively about Nigeria. It will have physical and spiritual benefits for Nigeria.
And I can prove it to you.
If you take Nigeria as six geopolitical zones, you will agree with me that the Southwest of Nigeria is the zone where residents are most likely to speak positively about their region and their people.
If that is the case, do you think it is a coincidence that the Southwest is also the most peaceful and prosperous part of Nigeria, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, and the World Bank?
Scripture says, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people"-Proverbs 14:34.
One of the most elementary and quotidian forms of righteousness is right speaking. This is why Scripture again says, 'A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth'-Proverbs 13:2.
Additionally, prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said in the Hadith of Faith as follows, "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him speak goodness or remain silent."
You cannot keep saying, 'Nigeria is finished', 'Nigeria jaga jaga', 'Make I japa from this useless country', etc, and expect Nigeria to yield good to you. You are poisoning the atmosphere over you and making it difficult for goodness to penetrate.
Look at the region where the most insult and abuse come from. What is their reality? Is it peaceful or economically progressive?
Words are powerful. They are not empty. Once spoken, they do not return void. Words are like electricity. They are invisible but contain great creative power to affect your outcomes and reality. Scientists at the UC Davis MIND Institute have established that our subconscious mind finds ways to manifest what it hears into reality.
What is coming out of your mouth about Nigeria? Whatever it is, it will affect you more than your leaders, because those leaders have a greater capacity than you to fly out of Nigeria to escape the consequences of our negative words. So you better make it good.
Do you know one of the most popular phrases in America? Please Google it. It is 'God bless America'.
To the best of my knowledge, one of the most common phrases in Nigeria is 'useless country' or 'yeye country'. Am I lying? No, seriously, am I lying?
Even if you don't like Nigeria's leaders, you can attack them. But don't wait for Nigeria to be good before you speak well of her. Speak well of Nigeria, and she will be good.
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The National Broadcasting Commission should consider introducing policies banning TV stations from fielding presenters with fake or real foreign accents. This is Nigeria. If you must be on Nigerian TV, then you should have a Nigerian accent or at least try to speak like a Nigerian.
We are causing deep-seated inferiority complexes in our people when our TV stations hire people who either speak through their noses or start murdering the letter R in their falsettos.
What we are subliminally communicating to Nigerians is that the Nigerian accent is not good enough and that for you to be seen as on point, you must reject your Nigerian-ness and pretend to be what you are not.
The Nigerian accent is cool. It is sexy. It has made Burna Boy, Wizkid, Rema, Kizz Daniel and others global stars. Do you think these guys would be where they are if they were speaking like Americans and Britons? Come on, NBC. Do your job! Make Nigerians proud of being Nigerians.
#TableShaker
No*JUST IN: Investigations on Mmesoma’s result falsification concluded — JAMB Registrar*
…says candidate not the only one detected for forgery
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Tuesday, said the Board had concluded investigations on the case of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of fraudulently inflating her 2023 UTME score.
Oloyede made this disclosure in a transcript sent to our correspondent from Windhoek, Namibia.
He said, “The truth is that JAMB has concluded the investigation on Nmesoma’s score falsification matter. She was not the only one caught, just that others have chosen not to go out”, Oloyede said.
“Presently, there is an industry faking results and unfortunately they cannot penetrate JAMB system, reasons being that (our) system is foolproofed and we will prove it any time. It is unfortunate that parents and some of the candidates that are being fooled are not aware that they are only being fooled.
“There is internal evidence to show that the change in Ejikeme’s scores was done with her collaboration. There are certain features pertaining to her that only her knows unless she makes it available to somebody else. They couldn’t have increased her scores on her behalf.”
The Registrar said he had earlier spoken with a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Nmesoma’s matter, and told her that it was a high-level scam
We improved on our facilities this year, so Ejikeme and her collaborators are still living in the past. I spoke with Mrs Ezekwesili on the matter and I told her that it is a high-level scam and I told her that it was a careless forgery.
“This is because we are no longer using some of the things they used in changing those results since 2021. We used that pattern in 2021 and you saw what happened and many of such individuals were caught as well and they were treated accordingly,” he stated.