On Friday, 19th April, I was invited as a guest speak for the Jesus And Me (JAM) Conference organised by all the campus fellowships of CGMI in Nigeria. We are expecting hundreds of youths in attendance. I shall be speaking on three topics that I have been dwelling on for some time now. Becoming outstanding […]
Speaking over the weekend at Auchi to undergraduates from campus fellowships all over Nigeria. Lessons of Life Living forever is not necessarily trying to be forever youthful on earth or escaping earth to eternity in Heaven. If you want to live for ever, Mentor young people Share your knowledge and experiences with them. Methods Share […]
Even as we celebrate, it can only get better. On Saturday, April 27th, there’ll be a celebration and book launch/reveal – “Refined by Hardship (Lessons From My Early Life)“. at Petra Christian Academy, Ughelli. We are expecting my classmate, Engr. Mathew Edevbie, CEO Income Electrix to give a lecture. Lessons of Life * Don’t describe a […]
It was a very busy last week for me. I was in Port Harcourt with Rev. Samson Bodjor to deliver a lecture on Harnessing the Power of Womanhood for Community and National Development. I had to give another lecture on Entrepreneurship and Skill acquisition: A Global Trend at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, […]
In continuation on The New Year Has Started, here are a few lessons I’ve picked up. Lessons Of Life 1. Real estate rarely depreciates in value We bought that piece of land on which we are building about 20 years back. Then, an acre was about 300,000 Naira. Today, an acre goes for between 24 […]
The pictures show gas being flared just behind a school somewhere in the Niger Delta. The gas fare is circled in the pictures. The other picture shows a dilapidated classroom block in that same school. This phenomenon is a recurrent scenario in the oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta. Politics according to David Easton is […]
Speaking to the students of Petra Christian Academy on Wednesday, the 13th of February 2019. Scriptural References: 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 18:4-10, 2 Samuel 9:1-8. I was recently a guest speaker at the Government College Ughelli Old Boys’ Association Dinner at the Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Seated on the head table with […]
Our SOS4 campaign took us to Unity School Agbarho, Delta State, on Tuesday, February 12. As we visit different schools, I’ve been making some observations. 1. There is a lot of infrastructural decay. Many of our public schools have dilapidated buildings. Several of these buildings were built several years ago. The quality of work done […]
Our SOS4 campaign took us to Ibru College, Agbarah-Otor, Delta State, this morning. We spoke to them on the dangers of cultism. I found out the cultism has permeated the very fabric of our primary and secondary schools. If we can do the following now that the students are still young, we can reduce the number of […]
After my last post on my friend’s 60th birthday—Preserving The Legacy and A Duck In The Pond—Dr. Charles Apoki At 59, I made some reflections of my own experiences at this time. Lessons of Life 1. The aging process, even though it starts gradually from 50, increases more rapidly from about 58 years of age even though […]
