Welcome to Raymond Nkannebe's Blog! : HELLO NIGERIAN STUDENTS: JUST BEFORE WE FOOLISHLY ...

Welcome to Raymond Nkannebe's Blog! : HELLO NIGERIAN STUDENTS: JUST BEFORE WE FOOLISHLY ...: I don’t know whether I should start this treatise by congratulating the Army of Nigerian students for what we have collectively ...

NIGERIAN YOUTHS: THE FUTURE IS NOW___Godbless Sotu

I kept wondering and pondering, so as not to get to a point of conjecture as regards the reason why a large portion of the Nigerian youth, educated and uneducated alike are turning a blind eye towards how the country we call our own is being run at the moment. It shows we are now like a people without  direction, a people dancing skelewu on an aircraft with the pilot as the DJ while the plane remains auto-piloted.
We focus more on entertainment programmes like "Kim Kardasian Shows, Big Brother Africa and the African Magic World etc." As we now think that the leadership of nations (politics) is evil but whereas its the very determinant of how our society turns out to be through the decisions those in power make and take. It has led us to being striped off our right, made us slaves at home and made us beggars of our own properties.

Ending the ASUU-FG Impasse: The Indispensable Role Of Nigerian Students!!! DON'T BE LEFT OUT

HEED THIS CALL; IT'S NOW TIME TO DECIDE WHAT YOUR FUTURE SHOULD LOOK LIKE. ENOUGH OF BEING THE SECOND BEST CITIZENS OF NIGERIA BECAUSE YOU SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY....ARISE AND BE COUNTED...follow on twitter @Gsotu

?ASUUPROTESTS! ?ASUU PROTESTS!! ?ASUUPROTESTS!!!

PRESS RELEASE

TOWARDS BRINGING THE ONGOING ASUU STRIKE TO AN END; THE INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS.

It is now so glaring that the lingering ASUU strike has refused for reasons one cannot comprehend, to abate. The more we cast our hopes to a lasting solution in the shortest time, the more the problem continue to deteriorate  and even more saddening, the more our future continue to fritter away at the hands of those whose generation are no doubt far better than ours.

Sequel to the foregoing, our gentility and civility has been tried more than enough. Despite having allowed both government and the leadership of ASUU to find a common ground and resolve the dispute between them, yet it seems its either the leadership of ASUU are bent on holding the nation to ransom using the destiny of students as a bargaining power or, that the government have sworn to deprive us of our fundamental right-Education for reasons, we cannot fathom.

Boy,9, becomes Nigeria’s youngest Microsoft certified professional...CUDOS

As this young Nigerian attains such an height it is our duty to start dreaming beyond this; to a start putting into our thoughts that learning how to drive perfectly, do not mean you can create an automobile engine. As we celebrate him; we hope that one day this nation we have it's own brand name for the technology industry. READ ON

An Investors’ Guide To Africa’s Goldmine By Lanre Daodu

Does it make any sense that Botswana has nearly half of the entire world’s diamonds, yet the country make only about $2 billion? Israel, on the other hand, doesn’t have a single diamond and they make $9 billion from the diamond industry.You don’t need a PhD to find out why-It is a typical third-world syndrome, raw material is extracted from the country and sent out for processing just like Nigeria’s crude oil. The Europeans polish and cut the diamonds and make the jewelry. They make the high-end finished goods.The people of Botswana do the dirty and tedious work!

“Africa kills her Sun” – Ken Saro Wiwa By James Ogunjimi

After re-reading the story of Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso who was assasinated on October 15, 1987, a piece I did on Nigeria’s Late General Murtala Muhammed in February 2012 comes to mind and I just can’t stop wondering why no reason has been provided for a negative trend that now threatens to consume Africa and African values.

My Friends My Choice By Whyte Habeeb Ibidapo

A great city is a battlefield. You need to be a fighter to live in it, not exist, and mark you, live. Anybody can exist, dragging his soul around behind him like a worn out coat; but living is different. If I were you I would rather ask God to give me a barren wife than a barren mind or a barren friend. I am happy that am laying my pen on paper again.

All Nigeria Universities Debating Championship Comes Off Live

 A championship expected to foster the intellectual capacity of students and prepare grounds for budding student politicians in Nigerian universities will be hosted by the University of Calabar (UNICAL), an official said.

How Big Government Ruined Nigeria and How We can Make it Right

The Following post was contributed by Ajibola Adigun, Charter Team Member from Nigeria On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 there will be national celebrations in Nigeria to mark the country’s fifty three years of sovereignty.
Although Nigeria has been independent from British Colonialism for over five decades, the heart of Africa is released but not free. No thanks to Big Government.
From the dying days of British colonialism to the early years of independence, people were stronger than the government and there was so much room for optimism because things really worked. This was the time Nigeria earned its nom de plume as the Giant of Africa.

A SHOT ON GOAL By WHYTE HABEEB IBIDAPO

Life, I want to be quoted to have said that it’s for two set of people, the successful and the unsuccessful. That I would be successful is not a thing of the mouth but a conviction comes to the mind and put into reality.  I have seen so many people struggle in life to succeed. They do everything possible to be successful. To them success depends only on the amount of hardwork they can put into their work. But it is sad that they don’t get the required result. There is another set of people who believe success is meant only for certain classes of people. This set of people believes they cannot and will never achieve success no matter how hard they try. To them their names have been removed from the success book.

WISDOM FROM LOWER SPECIES...A MUST READ

I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND WAS READING THE BIBLE AND I SAW A PLACE THAT SHOCKED ME...PROV 6:6..."Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." IT WAS FUNNY HOW I WENT ROUND THE COMPOUND LOOKING FOR ANTS AND I BEHELD ANTS TRYING TO CAPTURE EARTHWORMS; I STUDIED CAREFULLY AND FOUND THE FOLLOWING UNDER-LISTED CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANTS;

1. THEY ARE SKILLED IN THE ART OF TIMING AND SEASON...SO THEY DON'T LOOSE ANY MINUTE TO LAXITY
2. THEY HAVE UNITY OF PURPOSE...THAT IS WHY THEY SUCCEED AGAINST THEIR PREY
3. WHEN THEIR PREY(GOAL) STRUGGLES THE MOST THAT IS WHEN THEY STICK ON THE MOST
4. THEIR GOALS ARE DEFINITE AND PRECISE...THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, HOW THEY WANT IT AND WHY THEY WANT IT
5. THEY DON'T CONSIDER THE MIGHT OF THEIR PREY BUT BELIEVES IN UNITY AND THEIR INNER STRENGTH 
6. THEIR STRENGTH LIES NOT JUST IN THEIR ARMORED BODY BUT IN THEIR HEART
7. THEY FOCUS ON THEIR PREY(GOAL)...AND ARE SO DETERMINED
8. THEY ARE ARTISANS OF SAVING....IN FACT THEY ARE BANKERS

THE AFOREMENTIONED FACTS ABOUT THE ANTS ARE JUST FEW AS MY STUDY COULD EXPOSE...BUT TAKE NOTE, THIS THINGS IF TRANSLATED TO OUR DAILY LIVES; WOULD TRANSFORM OUR LIVES IN AN UNFATHOMABLE WAY.

LESSONS: OUR STRENGTH DO NOT LIE IN OUR CAPABILITIES BUT IN HOW MUCH WE CAN SUMMON UP COURAGE AND BY BELIEVING AND UNDERSTANDING THAT WISDOM IS SUPREME AMONG ALL MIGHTY ELEMENTS.

BELOW ARE OTHER INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE ANT: READ ON

WHAT A PARODY

paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. 

We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time. 

We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

HOW TO OVERCOME OBSESSIVE THOUGHTS....

A thief was about to break into a house. But he overheard a desperate voice from within wailing: “Oh this terrible Dib Dib, will it never leave me alone! Will it always torment me! Please just stop!”

The thief paused - and then his imagination took over: “Maybe the 'Dib Dib' is a monster! A fiend that lives in this house, even now terrorizing its occupant!”

He fled the scene of his planned crime and never went near again. But had the thief been a little braver and snuck a peek through the window, he would have spied an old woman staring at her leaking tap: “Oh Dib Dib,” she wailed, looking at the dripping appliance, “please just stop. You’re driving me crazy!”

Obsessive thoughts, just like the mighty 'Dib Dib', are unwelcome, incessant, distressing, and torturous, but they may not signify anything much at all. Of course, with the right plumbing the old woman’s leaky tap could be stopped and, surprisingly, so too can obsessive thoughts.

So what are some of the more usual kinds of obsessive thoughts?