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Perfect number 7

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The Joy! #colombo #srilanka #progress #peace #travel #asia #spreading

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What a beaut! One of the views from my balcony! #srilanka #colombo #instatravel #vintagehotel (at Mount Lavinia Beach, Sri Lanka)

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Modernisation is NOT Westernisation

Speaker at TEEP bootcamp

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In the words of a good friend, “don’t sleep, be successful!”.

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fear.

Nelson Mandela (via theijeoma)

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God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out. This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God. 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 MSG

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Marché

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You can never have too much Inspiration, there is simply no such thing.

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This is actually funny!!!

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An Aunty sent this message this morning. I couldn’t agree more /// ‘This temporary hardship/it will get worse before it gets better’ narrative is the greatest deceit that the ruling class has been feeding the people to cover the fact that their economic policies are unapologetically skewed in favour of their class interests, and heartlessy anti people, anti popular welfare and anti poor.

This “temporary hardship” is already 37 years old. People have lived it and many died from it for that long. We don’t need more “temporary” hardship.

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Wake up

Have you ever had a dream, a vision so big your mind would not dare conceive it.Then when you finally have the courage to wrap your mind around it and acknowledge it, it takes over everything.

You can’t sleep thinking about it.You can’t eat investing in it. Your normal daily activities don’t hold a candle to it’s allure.

If it’s Good for God and it’s Good for People, do not wait another day to start, just do it.

I have a dream and i believe it so much, i can taste it, i can smell it. I am so certain it will come to pass. I don’t intend to stop, I don’t care how long it takes, I won’t take no from anyone, I don’t care if they think it’s stupid or it’s nothing new.

It matters because it’s my dream. Your dream matters simply because it’s your dream. Shield your dream and protect it from the nay sayers. Don’t let them touch it. 

I heard someone say, planes are more of a danger, the longer they stay on ground, why because they were made to fly. When a plane ceases to fly it begins to decay and people are the very same.

The more you ignore your calling, the more you decompose, suddenly nothing looks as bright, everything is gloom and doom because you’re an eagle playing with chickens.

I want to be my father when i grow up, because when i was going to university he didn’t ask what i wanted to study. He said to me, its not about what you study, its about the training you get. He understood that greatness is not in a career path, it’s in who you are.

It doesn’t matter when you discover what it is, what matters is that you do and you do something about it. My Pastor once said,  “To be a success in any field of human endeavour, whether in business, politics or in some kind of commerce, is not by accident. It must be prepared for; the future belongs to those who prepare for it. The one who fails to plan has most certainly planned to fail. That means nothing just happens. You make things happen.”

You have to be hungry for it. Success won’t come to you until you are hungry, too hungry to sleep; in too deep to quit; too convinced to care who thinks its cool. Keep feeding your desire to succeed. Or you will wake up one morning and the enormity of your disappointment with the life your complacency has created for you will be overwhelming.

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W H I T N E Y - A Study

By Yagazie Emezi - ig 

www.yagazieemezi.com

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The Condition

Once again I’m in Lagos, Lasgidi, "Eko o ni baje, ibaje ti". I’ve been in Ikeja, I’ve been in Magodo, I’ve been in Ikoyi, I’ve been in Victoria Island and I’ve been in Lekki. I’ve been everywhere the IJGBs (I Just Got Backs), one of which i apparently am, hang.The places that make us sleep well at night even though Ajengule exists and Mushin exists and Makoko exists and Ojuelegba exists and Oshodi exists. It’s all good because, have you been to Lekki?

At every single turn, at every single corner, I keep looking out for something; I keep hoping something has changed. Hoping that maybe when I reach the next area I will see the beginnings of a new Nigeria. Sometimes, it’s like I’m looking at a facade; a shabbily constructed one at that. There are mansions everywhere, big 4×4s everywhere, fancy restaurants everywhere, high-rises everywhere. Yet, if you look just a little closely you notice the sloppy workmanship and poor reasoning in these attempts at lavish living. Sometimes, it’s a crookedly fitted window or a haphazard paint job or tile job on what should be a very lavish mansion. Sometimes, it’s in the myriad of dents and scratches on what should otherwise be a brand new luxury vehicle. Sometimes, it’s in receiving the poorest wait service you have ever had, so much so that you are left wondering if the establishment was doing you a favour by receiving your business or the other way around. Sometimes, it’s in the high-rise building with 12 parking spots, Lord knows where the other 100 people are expected to park their cars. It’s like everywhere you look, just beneath the surface, are the signs of the decay that is to come.

We keep running and  running from the chaos we create, first it was Ikeja, then decay, then run, then Ikoyi, then decay, then run, then it was Victoria Island, then decay, then run, then it was Lekki....then Eko atlantic city and then and then... What happens when we run out of places to run to? Why do we slowly degrade everything we build? Murtala Mohammed International Airport is still being renovated but it’s already showing signs of dilapidation in areas where it really shouldn’t.

Why can’t we put our nose to the grindstone and solve our problems instead of running? Why always take the easy way out, the path of least resistance, the road most travelled? Why is it that when the power failures became rampant and unbearable, we bought generators instead of tackling the issue? Now that the fuel price is bringing us to our knees we have inverters to rise to the occasion. Why do we simply pack up and leave our country to make better lives elsewhere if we can, instead of fixing the lives we have? If we don’t do it, who do we expect will?

Everytime we come across a bad bricklayer or a bad painter or a bad waiter or bad company we throw in the towel and don’t hold them to higher standards because its Nigeria, we expect substandard performance. No one ever told us that people need to be accountable for the outcomes of the responsibilities they were entrusted with. Most people are putting in their time, droning on, going through the motions, paying their dues for the alert at the end of the month, no more, sometimes less. So when we are met with the government’s failure to provide basic human rights we jump ship and pay the private sector, and we are satisfied because they are marginally better than the incumbent.

How can there be real innovation and growth in the economy if no one is really engaging. Instead, the cost of living keeps rising because we solve our problems using our pockets instead of our brains; every solution, really just another problem in waiting. What in God's name will it take to restore some semblance of reasoning in Nigeria. To move from this animalistic survival mode to a higher plane of existence? Eranko, that’s what my Grandma thinks all Nigerians are. I don’t know; sometimes I look around and the more i look the harder it is to disagree. Why do we give them the satisfaction of being right. “Oh Lagos is so dirty”, then you throw out your plantain chips packet on the road side. “Traffic in Lagos is crazy”, then you park your car on a two way street that can barely accommodate the existing two lanes. They say if you know better, you do better, when will we know and when will we do?

Make no mistake about it, this is by no means an exclusively Nigerian phenomenon, but there are few places in the world where the tragedy of the commons is more pronounced than in Nigeria. Nigeria, where the sense of community is valley low and levels of distrust are sky high. Nigeria, where the chasm between the high rollers and commoners continues to grow exponentially. It wasn’t always so, there was a time when people did right by each other, did right by Nigeria, but that’s another story for another day. The trouble with Nigeria now is the Nigerian that Nigeria has created. Na condition make crayfish bend, but we fit change condition, make crayfish no too bend. Truth be told it’s a monumental and thankless task, each person is just 1 of 150 million. Let’s face it, one is not likely to get applause for doing the right thing. In fact, the chances of having insults rained on you because your actions are costing someone their payday or their time or their fame, are extremely high. Nevertheless, I say, in the words of Maya Angelou, “Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you”.

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