Hard times, harsh condition, unexplainable situations, difficult times, adversity do come to people unannounced. Some people used to have everything working for them and suddenly calamity hits them. I mean they became broke with nothing to live by again. As I write now, someone just got into serious trouble, while someone just receives good news; alert! Do you understand what I mean? In this piece, I want to show you what to do when trouble comes. The first thing I want you to know is that when trouble comes, God knows about it. He’s aware of what you are going…
Author: Oye Arikanki
Education is a powerful weapon to destroy the stronghold of poverty in your life. If you can, get both formal and informal education. Education can be obtained both inside and outside the classroom. Even after you’ve completed your formal education, you should continue to educate yourself by keeping yourself abreast of information in your profession through reading books. If you know how to read, buy a book even if they are second-hand books and read them. When you read a book, you are adding the thoughts of the author to your own thoughts which by inference increasing your value. Readers…
Impetus for Champions During World War II there were as many as 1,285 pilots who got the title of an ace. Ace is a title given to combat pilot who has won victories in at least five airstrikes. How did the combat pilot fight in the air to accomplish such victories? Many of them did it the traditional way – dogfights. But there was one combat pilot that fought differently. His name was Sergeant Paule Rossmann. He had more than eighty in air victories. How did he accomplish such a feat? Rossmann, early in his career had an arm injury that made it…
Akwaaba! Welcome to Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Accra is hot, sometimes you wake up sweating profusely in the morning even in December. There are lots of food to eat in Accra ranging from Kenkey to Kwakye and fufu with light soup and goat meat. On the coast side of Jamestown in Accra, there are still relics of slave trade and filth generated by the people living around the area. I have lived in Accra for the past twenty-one years except for the time I went to the United Kingdom to study at the University Leicester and times holidaying…
Nigeria is under siege. Siege of insecurity, poverty and squalor. Buhari-Osinbajo Administration has no clue; they don’t know what to do to arrest these dire situations. Nigeria presently is at a standstill. Nigeria is shut down. The insecurity in Nigeria is palpable. The government continued to feed us with grandiloquence. President Buhari said “I’m fully determined to defeat Boko haram and others” in another breath, he released “1400 repentant Boko Haram suspects”. Is that how you will defeat Boko haram? Buhari-Osinbajo government said they want to lift 100 million Nigeria out of poverty. How are they going to do this with no…
The time has come for President Mohammadu Buhari to take the painstaking decision to replace the vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo with Pastor Tunde Bakare. This should not be a difficult decision. What President Buhari needs to do is to call Professor Osinbajo to his bedroom in Aso Rock and explained to him while he needs to bring in pastor Tunde Bakare now. He should ask professor Osibanjo to resign. I know there is going to be a few constitutional issues involved, but that could be sorted out when there is no grandstanding. As we can all see, professor Osibanjo…
Medical doctors flee Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana after a reported case of suspected coronavirus infection for fear of been infested. Soon as the news went round for the two suspected cases, doctors at the hospital started running home. Dr Philip Amoo, head, Public Health Department at the hospital told a radio station this morning “yesterday I saw something funny, “There is something we call malicious panic: panic that is not founded on anything. Just doctors wanting to go home…it’s sad. This one will shout, ‘hey I have little children’…and disappear from the scene. That is the reason why as soon as…
Ghana close ally of Nigeria become the first country in West Africa to record 2 carriers of the dread coronavirus (2019-nCov)infections. The cases involve a Chinese and another person from Argentina who were referred to the Ghana Premier Teaching Hospital Korlebu from an undisclosed medical facility in Accra, Ghana. Dr Winfred Baah, Secretary Ghana Medical Association, Korlebu Branch (GMA) confirmed to newsmen in Accra that further assessment and laboratory tests of the patients are been presently carried out to ascertain the presence of the infections. Dr Baah said he was informed late last night by junior doctors at the Hospital…
In his poem THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, Robert Frost wrote “I shall be telling this with a sigh. Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”. In Nigeria today, so many people are fixated by the insecurity that has become the talk of the town that they don’t even want to go out and do anything. This has led to so much fear that the majority of people are not prepared to take life on by taking advantage of new opportunities, create new…
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)s is an airborne virus which is presently spreading like a wildfire in the harmattan. The epidemic started about a month ago from the city of Wuhan, China and it has now spread to over 30 countries including, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and the United States of America which recently slammed an immigration ban on Nigeria. What shall it profit a man if he goes to America and catches Coronavirus in the air? So far, no case has been reported in Nigeria and we pray that no case will ever be reported. But health officers stationed at…
Whatever you don’t tolerate in your life will not stay. Having a zero-tolerance for poverty means you disdain, detest, loathe, rebelled against, repulsed, abhor, and hate poverty in every shades and form. Poverty will make a mince-mint of your life if you give it a foothold. Hate poverty with everything that is in you. Honestly, you will agree with me that poverty is not good. Poverty does not mean that you don’t have money in your hands or pocket, poverty is about your mindset. Poverty is about the way you think. For example, when you don’t have money in your pocket…
A typical Nigerian will never give up under any circumstance. The Nigerian will never say die, be it in education, football, struggle to survive just name it. No matter what, Nigerian will never, never give up. Never buried a Nigerian until you are satisfied that he has truly died. There have been several cases of Nigeria who suddenly defy death and woke up at the mortuary. A few years ago, there was a plane crash in Port Harcourt, as the airplane was burning, a lady remembered that she will be getting married in few weeks, she broke through the fire…
In his poem titled THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, Robert Frost wrote “I shall be telling this with a sigh. Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” I believe Nigeria is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. No one can say that we don’t have resources in this country. To say the truth, we have quite a lot of human and natural resources. Unfortunately, most of our resources have not yet been tapped. As for human resources, I can…
In the nineteenth century, economist Vilfredo Pareto discovered that eighty percent of the land in Italy then was owned by twenty percent of the population. Mr. Pareto identifies a few other examples that could apply to this pattern. He then propounded what has become known as the Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule: given a large number of items, a high percentage of the value of the items (80%) is relatively concentrated in a relative few of the items (20%). Although this rule may not be absolute, I have a strong belief that it can be applied to virtually every area of…
In Japan, most houses in rural areas are built with wood. At one time, a construction worker was called to repair a wooden house that has fallen apart. Opening the first layer of wood, he found out that a lizard has been trapped with a nail fasten its feet to a wood. The construction worker was touched and he became curious. He examined the nail and found out it has fastened the feet of the lizard to the wood since the house was built. How can this be? How has this lizard survived for about ten years since the house…
This conversation is to spark a national debate. It about gauging our patriotism quotient as Nigerians. It concerns both our leaders and citizens. As of now, our patriotism as Nigerians is low and there is a need for a fresh rebirth hence the obstetrics which is a branch of medicine concern with childbirth. I believe our founding fathers are more patriotic than our present politicians. Indeed, Nigeria as a nation was built on a solid foundation of patriotism by the founding fathers. Unfortunately, it seems to me that our new generation of politicians is doing all they can to tear…
Why do some people achieve incredible results and become somebody in spite of the pains and the difficulties they faced in life? I believe one vital reason is that they respond positively to their pains and difficulties. One of the most difficult challenges people have in life is to properly place every setback and challenges in the right perspective, learn the necessary lessons and still go-ahead to do incredible things in life. Honestly, I believe there are no failures in life there are only lessons. Yes, you heard me right! My whole life changed one day when I decided that…
The other day I went to the village of my birth, Ilado-Oja in Okitipupa Local government area of Ondo State. The village is situated close to the border between Ondo and Ogun State. This village is not on the map of Nigeria and I know this is the first time people are reading about it in the newspaper. We are part of the Ikale tribe. Our forebears have over 600 years of history migrating westwards from Bini through Ikoya. Returning to this village after almost three decades left me bewildered. The village has become a shadow of itself. Although the ambiance still…
There is intelligence cash disruption going on the world right now. I don’t want any of you reading this to be left behind in the new waves of wealth creations going on the world today. Those who can sit down and think deeply and apprehend an idea and embrace technology will have the opportunity to create more businesses and have enormous wealth and the nonthinkers and those who like to waste their time, will become poorer and will get angry with the rich and the government. Right now, technologists are coming up with a car tracking devices, whereby if a…
