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"There is no doubt whatsoever that in pursuing his cases relentlessly to the highest court in our country, the Supreme Court, Governor Peter Obi has tremendously deepened our political jurisprudence and made also made ETERNAL CONTRIBUTION TO ENRICHING THE RULE OF LAW. There can be no PRECEDENTS without serious litigants like Peter Obi. THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA, IN PARTICULAR THE LEGAL COMMUNITY, WILL REMAIN GRATEFUL TO THIS IRREPRESSIBLE NIGERIAN FOR HIS EFFORTS".
      - Bamidele Aturu, 2010, (Lagos Lawyer & Human Rights Activist)

" A person who does what others can do is an ordinary person; a person who does what no other person can do is exceptional, but a person who does what no other person has ever done is a national asset, a genius and n institution."
      - Nelson Mandela (Fmr. South African President)  

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LEAVING THE STAGE WHEN OVATION WAS LOUDEST HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WISE STEP TO TAKE.
BUT SOME FELLOWS WOULD NEVER ALLOW A MAN WHO HAS PUT IN HIS BEST TO REST.

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HONESTLY, I'M CONFUSED HERE. THERE IS HUNGER, HARDSHIP, JOB LOSSES, KILLINGS, DIFFICULTIES & DISEASES IN THE LAND - AND THE MANAGERS ARE TALKING OF "NEXT LEVEL"! 

Something didn't just click for APC. 
Since they grabbed power, THEY HAVE NEVER SAID A FOOLISH THING,
NOR DID A WISE ONE.

I WISH NIGERIANS WOULD UNDERSTAND....
... AND EXCUSE THESE BAND! 

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BEFORE YOU VOTE, FIRST LISTEN TO PEOPLE LIKE ALHAJI GALADIMA WHO WAS A STAUNCH BUHARIST BEFORE BUHARI ASSUMED POWER.

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THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS YOU HEAR FROM "MEN OF GOD" AND YOU BEGIN TO LOOSE HOPE. 

Please someone should remind PASTOR OSINBAJO that he has just REDUCED a VERY SERIOUS and CRUCIAL MATTER OF STOPPING THE DESTRUCTION of the UNITY, LIVES and PROSPERITY of Nigerians, through 2019 general elections, TO A MATTER OF "WHAT IS IN IT FOR THE YORUBA"

Please someone should speak Truth to PULPIT - especially now that the PULPIT has BEEN with POWER for quite some time now - and IS NOW OBSESSED WITH POWER - and POWER for HIS TRIBESMEN is all his interest!

That Nigerians are dying of hunger, hardship, poverty, common diseases and incessant killings didn't seem to bother our moral teacher. What worries him is how to retain the current set up since, according to him, that is the only way his kinsmen would get POWER in 4 year's time!

POWER really CORRUPTS and INTOXICATES!
POWER KILLS CONSCIENCE.
POWER ERODES SOUND MORALS - and replaces it MACHIAVELLIAN considerations!
POWER CORRUPTS EVERYONE and every office - judge, pastor, imam, civil servant, royal father, security agent etc.

We should all pray for our MORAL teacher, PASTOR Osinbajo; our academic teacher, PROFESSOR Osinbajo, and our legal high chief, SAN Osinbajo.

From a triple high ground, power exposed the UNBELIEVER in our pastor: IT IS EVENT HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. 

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WHY WOULD MIYETTI ALLAH LOVE BUHARI SO MUCH AS TO MOBILIZE 20M VOTES FOR HIM?

Inspite of excruciating hardship, widespread poverty, job losses, joblessness, closing industries, frenetic exodus of citizens who could not endure any more, cattle herdsmen pledges to mobilize some 20 million votes for a wonderful President, Buhari! Mark you, it not on record that they did such for any previous president! THIS IS VERY CURIOUS! 

I WOULD ADVICE ALL MEN & WOMEN WHOSE TASTES COULD STILL DISCERN PERVERSE THINGS TO USE THEIR PVC AND ANSWER THIS QUESTION!

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"HE WHO IS NEUTRAL IN SITUATIONS OF INJUSTICE, HAS TAKEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR"- Nobel Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa

My plea is that Nigerians should DISREGARD The APC and Their media MANIPULATION & DISTRACTION of who Obasanjo is and who he is not, but LISTEN TO HIS ELDER STATESMAN ADVICE.
I'm not a fan of Obasanjo, BUT I TAKE BEST ADVICE WHEREVER IT COMES FROM!  

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Discernment and critical thinking speaks, but who is listening?

What sister Oby foresaw, perhaps by objective analysis and sound reasoning, and declared by courage and pursuit of better, safer and prosperous country, many my not see, due to personal interest, love of dollars and political positions.

My candid appeal is that Nigerians should come out IN THEIR NUMBERS AND VOTE OUT THIS ERROR CALLED APC GOVT. GOD IS WILLING AND ABLE. THE QUESTION IS: ARE YOU WILLING TO FORGET TRIBE, RELIGION, PARTY AND NAIRA AND KOBO AND KICK POVERTY, HARDSHIP, KILLINGS, BIGOTRY AND NEPOTISM AWAY ? 

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GRACIOUS GOD! Yes, Let Him Go Home and Rest; His Doctors Also Asked Him To ''Rest More'' - by His Own Confession. 

Let Mr. President listen to God, Listen to our dear Mbaka -when he is in spirit - not when he is trying to build structures for his ministry. Yes, let him close his ears to those parasites milling around him and urging him on. He would do well to distance himself from the ''Yesmen'' who praise and flatter his every step or word or frown.  

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PLAN YOUR LIFE!

Excepts from "The 52 Immutable Rules Of Success"... Author Sylvanus Mgbechukwu                                             
  RULE 2: PLAN YOUR LIFE

“An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive. Planning is the open road to your destination. If you do not know where you are going how can you expect to get there?”
                                                                                         - Basil Walsh

If you can step aside from the crowd, allowing the frenzied world to keep at her noisy activity -
while you stop and plan your own life, you will definitely fare better.

To succeed you have to sit down and plan your life.
It is very important to spend some time -  ample time indeed -  planning to succeed in something as precious and singular as your life.
Nothing succeeds without a good and careful plan.
A careful and well-planned life is 50% sure of success.

He who fails to plan has only planned to fail.
Somehow everybody plans, knowingly or unknowingly.
While some people plan to succeed - by succeeding to plan,
others plan to fail - by failing to plan.
Mind you, no man ever planned to fail, just that most men fail to plan.

Once you have decided on the purpose of your life (many start failing from here) that is, what you are to do in life, the next step, which is very important, is to draw the road map for arriving at that goal. You have to put down, in black and white, steps, programmes and strategies, which will bring you to arrive at such a goal.

And when you have finally perfected your plan, be disciplined enough to follow such plan without deviating unnecessarily.
This helps you to maintain the track and helps to measure the pace and performance at any given point in time.

Greville Kleiser would say, “Get into the habit of living according to plan. Allow yourself a sufficient margin of time to do things. Leave nothing to chance. Hurry, worry and anxiety defeat your purpose. Eliminate from your life, as far as possible, all undue nervous strain, tension and excitement, and you will accumulate great reserves of mental and physical vitality.”

Many people fail in life not because they couldn’t have succeeded, but simply because they did not sit down to plan their life - nor did they bother to draw even a sketchy programme for their life.
They opened their eyes at birth and in a few years they noticed that the trend is to go to school (or at least learn a trade), get a job, start making money;
and then find a lover, sooner or later, marry, and start making babies!
Next they send them to school.
In no time, no stone is left unturned in an effort to secure a job, either in the civil service, in a blue-chip corporation, in the political arena, or in a religious garb - to start making money.

And so much money must be made - to the extent that it looks like there's some unwritten rule that the end would eventually justify whatever means to it!
And so, many folks would spend their entire lives making money.
Unfortunately too, the more the money, the more he or she is respected, celebrated - and counted as "successful" or  "a successful life".
And so unfortunately furthermore, two of the propelling thoughts in this frenetic obsession to make money is "so that my children would not have to suffer";
while the other is, "so they would give them a good burial  - as their parents!"
So if they could make as much money as possible, the means not important, they count themselves as "successful."
All these are in the prevalent perception that this is just what life is all about!
With this perception, they were contented to hop into the bandwagon of normalcy and ride on with the crowd.
And before they could realize that the crowd has no direction and was heading nowhere in particular, it had become too late in life, and time cannot be reversed nor can they accomplish anything from that point in time.

Thus very many of us just plan to make money - and actually goes out every day just to make money!
Few, very few, actually realize that planning to make money - and being regarded as "successful" is a world apart from planning to lead a successful life.

Planning and making money would fetch you the accolade: "successful", but your very life could be a wreck  - to be ended by a pill, heart-attack, a karmic payback, a revenge bullet, or even a "friendly fire" from your inner circle!

But planning for, and leading a successful life is something sublime and needs good knowledge and knowledge of life itself.
It needs pure wisdom, understanding, discipline, moderation in all things, piety, love of truth no matter how unpleasant, and a humble deference to others.

Without these provisions, none would be said to have really planned for a successful life!

A well-perfected plan is a guarantee against failure. By failing to plan, the person has already started failing and have insured his failure  - because there were neither a well-packaged plan with trouble-shooting options nor PLAN B - or other lines of action or alternative routes to the destination.

Success is no fan of chance. A gambler never succeeds. Success is like a mansion or an architectural masterpiece. You sit down to plan it and be careful enough to build it according to plan.
Victor Hugo made an important observation. He said,
“He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that  plans carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his occupation. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.”

Good planning and conscientious execution has tremendous impact and several advantages for us. Among several other uses, planning
•    Lets us do one thing at a time;
•    Makes whatever goal or ambition easy to accomplish;
•    Helps us to maintain or keep on the track or road-map;
•    Helps us to secure our future;
•    Helps to measure the pace and performance at any given point in time;
•    Gives us the luxury of having every step as a measured  or calculated step;
•    Stops unnecessary dissipation of energy;
•    Keeps worry at bay;
•    Drives away fear, tension or anxiety.


I would rest my case with the words of William A. Ward where he listed four steps to achievement, namely:
•    Plan purposefully
•    Prepare prayerfully
•    Proceed positively
•    Pursue persistently


This, I think, is one of the Best Advice You Need. Or what do you think?


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DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE OR MISSION IN LIFE

Excepts from "The 52 Immutable Rules Of Success"... Author Sylvanus Mgbechukwu       
   
                   RULE 1: DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE OR MISSION IN LIFE!

“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”
                                                - Thomas Carlyle

Question 1: What is my purpose in life? Or put the other way round: what kind of work am I to do in the world - as my own contribution or effort in the great mandate for human advancement and development?

These are vital questions that require nothing but frank answers.
A frank answer can conceive success.
Would you believe that most people do not know exactly what they want to do in life, not to talk of why they were here?
You discover that very many of us have no idea what life is all about. They have no sense of mission or purpose in life. 

A lot of people wake up every morning, brush their teeth, eat, rush to work or business to make money. They come back from work or making money, eat again, drink and chat, watch movies, and then hop into bed - to seal the day.
They continue this ritual everyday, every week, every month and every year - till death interrupts them.


In the course of these rituals, they build normal houses; marry normal wives - to get normal children,  who would be sent to normal schools - where they would be awarded normal degrees, in normal certificates - so the children would get normal jobs, and be making normal money, live normal lives and be able to give their parents normal burial - and then die off!

Just a few have been thoughtful and enlightened enough to realize that doing normal business, to make normal money, with which to build normal houses, and marry normal wives - with whom to get normal children, to be sent to normal schools - where they would be given normal certificates - so they can get normal jobs and start making normal money, and be able to give them normal burial, with normal caskets - in normal graves, after they have died normal deaths - may not be exactly why they were here.


It would not be out of place to dig deeper or search further.
For perhaps, just beyond these normal money-making, normal houses, normal wives, normal children, normal jobs, normal lives, normal deaths and normal burials lies the very purpose of our being here.

Woodrow Wilson, former American President, once declared, “I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph, than triumph in a cause that someday will fail.”

And elsewhere Zig Zigler noted: “Outstanding people have one thing in common; an absolute sense of mission.”

Not many people realized that humanity have -
several causes that lack assistance;
several injustices urging for unflinching resistance;
several oppression here and there that beg for the commitment of some conscientious fellows;
several wrongs that plead for eradication;
several values that need highlighting;
several lies that need exposition;
several evils that demand consecrated attack;
several truths urging affirmation;
countless ills debasing her;
and ... lots of needs thirsting for provision,
- all longing for some conscientious men and women who could live and die for them!

Cocooned in our shell of self-centered existence, most people believe life have no purpose outside the usual, normal, hunt for fortune, fame, pleasure, power and position.

Just a few realized that there must be one difficulty or pothole on the road of human development and advancement, which he or she in particular, is supposed to work on - or help remove.

“Make sure,” Charles Mays opined, “the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.”

C. Neil Strait declared, “Every life should have a purpose to which it can give the energies of its mind and the enthusiasms of its heart. That life without a purpose will be prey to the perverted ways waiting for the uncommitted life.”

Mary Shelley posits: “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady  purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

Several people are actually flowing aimlessly in life, driven about by just any current or flow of the crowd. What ever becomes the order of the day becomes their preoccupation.
Seldom do they spare some thoughts concerning what actually their very purposes in life were.
As easily as a carmel may pass through the eye of a needle, so may such fellows succeed.
Don’t you think that a man who stands up must first of all know where he is going – else he misses the way or gets nowhere?

Paul Nitze pointed out, “One of  the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.”
Once you’ve noted what  you want to pursue in life, then get busy about it.

Earl Nightingale stated, “If you have a clean mental image of the person you want to be, you can actually become that person”.

When you have ascertained on the WHY you were here - or WHAT you are to do in life, then sit down and write down HOW, WHAT, WHOM, WHERE,  and indeed, EVERYTHING that will help you get that done.
You will also have to ascertain and note down as well, What, Whom, How, Where and Everything that can stop you from accomplishing that.
Then sit down and map out strategies or provisions in view of these.

Of course you should know that a lot of factors have considerable influence in the making or unmaking of a man.

W. Somerset Maugham wrote: “For men and women are not only themselves, they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learned to walk, the games they played as children, the old wife’s tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poems they read, and the God they believed in.”

As a matter of necessity, you have to devout time, a lot of time, to the things that will enhance your purpose.
For instance, he who intends to help in building a better society as a writer or author, would know that he or she would have to be objective in looking at things.
He or she should, as a matter of principle, always discard sentiments of nationality, profession, gender, religion, race, political leaning, carrier and class in his or her judgments, views or submissions.

He or she should be fair-minded, open-minded, conscientious, lover of justice, lover of mercy, and lover of the "animal" called man irrespective of the colour, geography, tongue, faith, political opinion - indeed all such walls.

Such a fellow should be patient with man and his near infinite stupidities, gullibility and absurdities.
He or she should learn to, and teach others as well, to tolerate the pranks, selfishness and wickedness of man.

He or she should beware of pride, prejudice, pomp and pageantry.
And, of course, he or she should be wary of fellow tribesmen, tradesmen, party men, flamboyant and sweet-speaking politicians;

Our man or woman who has decided on real success in life must strive to always read and read wide; he must make himself very knowledgeable - and have a mind of his own. He must not trust his opinion, position or judgement on the media, the columnist or the pressmen - as these very important folks still have to make money or work for an employer!

He or she must be critical of  modern church men and mosque men. So often sentiments of creed or religious affiliation beclouds their sense of truth and justice. By reason of the frenzied hunt for fame, fortune and position, even what is right and what is wrong are often contested!

Our bright chaps on the path of actual success must not allow unjust and vested interests - as well as other corruptors of minds to have impactful influence on their consciences.


This, I think, is one of the Best Advice You Need. Or what do you think?

    ...... Being Chapter 1 Of The Award-Winning Classic, "THE 52 IMMUTABLE RULES OF SUCCESS" by Sylvanus Mgbechukwu

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