Nigeria at 50, what the Government want to celebrate.

Nigeria, a country in western Africa with an estimated population of 150 million people gained independence in October 1st 1960 and will turn 50 on October 1st 2010. My country Nigeria is so blessed in almost all the known natural resources of our time and has over the years  been known as a major oil producing country, as such it has made huge amount of money that it could in real sense become the envy of the whole world in terms of infrastructural development, technology advancement  etc but the reverse is the case as my country Nigeria has been plagued by men and women who call themselves leadesr but who in the actual sense are all rogues that do nothing but enrich themselves, their family, friends and well wishers at the expense of Nigeria hence making Nigeria a place of scorn which even at 50 has not in any way shown a glow towards emergence.

Having said the above, it becomes important that I state clearly that as a Nigerian who grew up in Nigeria; my parents usually told me this in the Nigerian pidgin english "Öne day eh go better" but to tell you the truth, today I'm quite old and Nigeria as a country hasn't in one way or the other shown any response towards the positive in the sense that the things I used to consider good as a child are now in total bad shape because they keep degrading yearly. To attest this fact, when I was  studying in primary school as a young boy, we had teachers who were so determined to pass on knowledge to us but today the government has made things so hard for the teachers to the extent that the Nigerian educational sector is nothing but dead hence most teachers now are reluctantly doing their jobs or even not doing it well knowing fully that the Nigerian government is doing everything possible to kill this sector. I might go on and on giving instances of how things have so degraded in my Country.

Lately this 2010, I remembered that my country Nigeria will turn 50 this year. Suddenly, a thought in form of a resounding question kept bugging my mind and that was "what will Nigeria celebrate at its golden independence anniversary?". Here are the answers that came to my mind

1) Corruption

As year 2010 continued in its elapsing speed, I have come to realize as a Nigerian that my country leaders will definitely celebrate corruption on October 1st 2010. Why? Because the government has decided to spend about 10 billion Naira which after much talk amongst Nigerians home and abroad has been cut down to 6 Billion Naira. How on earth does an independent celebration of a country which amidst its wealth wallows in poverty cost 6 Billion Naira when this amount of money can actually be used to at least provide infrastructure. Furthermore, the government is celebrating corruption in the sense that there is totally nothing to celebrate apart from the fact that the leaders old and new will in one way or the order showcase to us how the shackles of corruption has so held them that they will in one way or the other say things which are actually not true but rather will tells  lies on October 1st 2010 either through their speeches or congratulatory messages on the pages of newspapers. They will celebrate corruption because that's all that is ringing in their head especially the those men and women in the Nigerian national assembly who over the years at the expense of Nigeria are wallowing in wealth by doing totally nothing and October 1st will be a day for them to show this to the world.

2) Dead Educational sector.

This celebration in one way or the other tells me that these leaders are happy about how Dead the Education Sector in Nigeria has become over the years. Why? Because from what I know and have studied over time, When a man is worried about things not been well and not to talk about been extremely bad as the case of the Nigerian Education Sector, such man does not celebrate in whatsoever ways notwithstanding anything but will at all cost choose to put his house in order after which he will declare a big time celebration for people to rejoice with him, hence I deem it necessary to SAY THAT OUR LEADERS WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY DECLARED THIS DAY A SAD DAY AND A DAY TO REALLY THINK ON HOW BEST TO DO THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT WILL YIELD THE VERY BEST RESULT WE WANT. They should use this day to map out ways through which our education sector can be put back into the best of its working condition. Question for all the leaders, Please where are your kids schooling? This question exposes them  a lot because non of them will actually answer it.

3) Governments Failure.

This year independence celebration by the Nigerian government for sure having looked at all spheres in my country Nigeria is a celebration of governments failure. How can a government who over 50 years failed to provide its citizens with the basic human amenities of life celebrate its independence(not FAILING TO MENTION THAT THIS DAY IS A DAY OF OUR FREEDOM AS A COUNTRY FROM OUR COLONIAL MASTERS) and not only celebrate but celebrates it with such amount of money that if used in the best of ways will go a long way in saving Nigerians of the hurdles they face daily due to governments failure.

4) Unfulfilled Promises

Over the years in Nigeria, several leaders has ruled and gone but how much of the electoral promises did these leaders fulfill talk-less of them doing their constitutionally provided jobs? I doubt if any but one thing I know is that they fulfilled "the promise of, I will steal the money once I get into office and this they did all through their tenure"

So if the Federal and state government knows this! Then why call for a galore and jamboree of October 1st Celebration with 6Billion or more? This is because, they lack shame in that they have become so used and addicted to not fulfilling their electoral promises and constitutional duties and as such they want to tell us, Nigerians that they don't care amidst their unfulfilled promises and failure to perform their constitutional duties for 50 years.

5) Scared Followers

 The Nigerian Leader and Nigerians at large will on October 1st 2010 celebrate the scared Nigerian follower. scared in the sense that we can't stand these men/women in their face and tell them the truth about how badly they have damaged Nigeria. The Nigerian follower chooses to suffer it alone even when he/she has the knowledge that this is what government should do or have done for them.

The reasons are so many that time will not permit me to state all of them but I really feel it and in so many ways have come to conclude that October 1st 2010 should be declared a day that Nigerians and those in the helm of affairs in Nigeria should make amends in whatsoever ways that will yield the very best results which for 50 good years we as a country have failed to get.

Here are my suggestions if at all the Nigerian government still wants to celebrate it

1) Government should use this day to apologize to Nigerians born and unborn on their neglect of their functions.

2) All past leaders of Nigeria should openly come out and apologize to Nigerians in sincerity, integrity and honesty about how they ruled Nigeria by stacking away money into foreign accounts during their tenure and totally refund all stolen money to Nigeria.

3) Nigerians should also apologize to government on their thinking that it is only Government that can bring about the needed glory that Nigeria needs and wants so badly today.

The list will go on and on but the summary is that if there is need for any celebration it should be the kind where all parties, personalities, individuals, groups goes back to the drawing board and ask this question "WHAT WENT WRONG IN NIGERIA?" AND ONE THING I KNOW IS THAT THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION WILL DEFINITELY COME ONCE IT IS ASKED WITH AN UNWAVERING LOVE FOR NIGERIA.

For all I can say now is that my country Nigeria is celebrating its death..Lack of basic human amenities, Lack of security, Lack of Good governance, Lack of good health sector, Lack of roads(not even lack of bad roads), Lack of integrity, sincerity, honesty and Love for Nigeria amongst Nigerian Leaders, presence of corruption and  Lack of everything called good in terms of Leadership.

Please, Nigeria as a country needs an urgent fix least we become empty as a country over time.

Arise...Arise..Nigeria's call we must obey..And this call and its obedience must be in the total positive..Because if every hand is on deck in Nigeria by a change of mindset borne out of Love governed by honesty, sincerity and integrity I so presume that Nigeria would certainly be a better place in the next few years.

Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

God Bless Nigeria.

THE BEST OF LIFE.

People will  always prefer to say, as if it were obvious, that life is  probably one of the hard things to define. Perhaps, I will like to say that this is totally misleading because life on its own has properties which distinguishes it from everything else that is present in our planet.

So what then is LIFE?

Life is a beauty which is governed by purpose, determination, integrity and honesty. Life  is also that amazing state of being which in one way or the other, will at every possible cost achieve whatsoever that has been imagined, dreamed of in the mind because of the real perspective of existence which has been ascribed to such a thing. Life, therefore is purpose backed up by the right principles of life. I'm really sorry to say this, your staying alive does not guaranty that you have life. Why? Since life is PURPOSE, Living without purpose totally makes you a dead man even if you are staying alive. Does this make sense? Yes, of course it does!

The best of life is Life lived under the tutorship of purpose that is governed totally by the daily hunger, if not even seconds by seconds hunger to fulfilling this purpose called life. Life becomes "the best of life"  when it is lived with  purpose backed up by the right principles of life. Why? Because it is more tragic to live life without purpose than been dead without life. This is  because purpose is like that engine of life that guaranties that you are actually heading to that place called fulfillment and as such life without this fulfillment is a total tragedy. Tragedy in the sense that such life will be like a well without water, and no man  in the whole world will want to go draw water from a well without water. In essence, what I am saying is that no one for whatsoever reason will associate himself/herself with such a one and as such your daily life because a tragedy which if not mended will also have a tragic ending. Life, the best in it is to live it under purpose backed up by the right principles of life.

More so as it is today, many who are living this life of purpose that is backed up with the right principles of life  are so carried away that they have the tendency to have forgotten that there are certain principles which govern life lived under the purpose of life and as such they always end up been deceived thinking  that they have come or reach that state of living where everything in life obeys them just because they are actually living life governed by the purpose of life. I call this group of people "THE DECEIVED". The deceived because they have failed to understand that before a tree will yield good fruits that the farmer must always take positive care of this tree. In this case,  living life of purpose guided by the laid down principles which governs life is the sure way to commanding positive results out of life and these so called DECEIVED fail to do this and as such they have/will remain(ed) stagnant all through life because their failure to apply the right principles even  though they are living the  life of purpose.

Furthermore, from the above it is so clear that living a life governed by purpose is neither a guaranty of getting the right results in life. Hence the only guaranty is that you live the life of purpose backed up by the application of the right principles which governs the life of purpose, then you  will get the right result which accompanies any life lived under purpose  and these will be your companion all through your existence on this planet earth.

The best of life is like the beauty of life! This is  because where there is beauty, there is a huge response of good feelings that is brought about by praises from well wishers, this often lead to self pleasure. The best of life is more than this, because you who has this best of life will for sure notwithstanding controversies of any kind try as much as you can to always stay in that path where you will forever be glaring under life's beaut which in turn will cause  men and women from all over the globe to  get to seeing  that there is a small being in that part of the globe who is getting the very best of life that can ever be found any where else in the world and this is the beauty that exist in the best of life lived under purpose and backed up with the application of the right principles that be in life.

How then do you live your life? Do you live life and exist or do you stay alive without living life? There is just a thin line between this two. A thin line because many people stay alive without living life. How then do we stay alive without living life? You will stay alive without living life if you fail to know and have refuse to take to knowledge that you been alive to living life is for a purpose which only you notwithstanding whether life is favorable or not can achieve. When you life is lived this way, history will not either for any reason remember you and as such you coming to this earth becomes a waste because you have failed to live landmarks of good. Also, to live life and exist is actually the best because you live the life of purpose backed up with the application of the right principles of life and as such you are a name to be reckoned on even while alive and after death. hence history will always say your name amongst those who in one way or the other did leave behind "THE LEGACIES OF THE BEST OF LIFE."

Hence if you are among the first group who stay alive without living life, please remember that  "a stitch in time saves nine". And for those whose live life and exist, please keep doing that but be careful because you might loose it all once you begin to get deceived that everything there is to life will work for your very good all the time.

Please as you journey through living life of purpose backed up by the right principles of life, always remember the following

- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

-Life is meaningless when we fail to do whatsoever good that will bring us positive satisfaction and fulfillment.

-Life has ups and downs which intends to make us the best when we live life and exist.

-Life is a totality of us(our mind etc).

-Life is a beauty polished by life of purpose.

Conclusively, it is totally necessary that each and everyone of us  should at least discover THE BEST OF LIFE  because in doing this, life becomes a lot more easier and also simpler than the usual complex life/living that we  humans are living today. There is a place called THE BEST OF LIFE, Please discover it and you will live an exceptional, excellent and history breaking life and will be in that place where others call extra-ordinary.

Written by Jackson Samuel

Here's what I figured out about PURPOSE.

-Purpose is the core of our existence and living.
Just like every living thing needs air for life, so also do humans need purpose to fully dominate the earth. Hence, purpose becomes the air to our dominion of the earth, it lubricates our desire to live life in the best of ways by constantly doing the right things at the right time. Hence life without a purpose is totally useless.

-Purpose gives life meaning
Meaning in the sense that it serves as a drive which propels one to do d extra-ordinary under the influence of the knowledge of our being alive and this knowledge gives us an assurance and hope that our purpose of been alive is real.

-Purpose brings about true happiness
Because purpose is the core of our existence and knowing what we are made up and how we have been given the power to achieve whatever we say and believe we would achieve. This tends to bring us to a state of happiness because everything we do is under the purpose of our living. And doing things aright under purpose brings about true happiness

-Life without a purpose is tragedy.
Tragedy in the sense that such a life will never have a happy ending. Hence, I will say that "it is more tragic to live life without purpose than been dead without life".

-Purpose is what gives us Life.
This is true in the sense that every human has been made to fulfill a certain purpose and until we fulfill that purpose, there's no way death will come to us and as such purpose gives us life. Nevertheless, death will only come to us after we have failed no matter how many opportunity we have had to fulfill our purpose of existence.

-Purpose is like a ship.
Purpose is like a ship because it gets us moving and moving steadily in life. Don't forget that ships do wreck. Our purpose can also wreck when we misuse them and as such it had been best not to be alive than live because once we wreck our purpose, our life looses its taste of good.

-Purpose can't be changed.
This is true because, we can change our way of living but can't do that with purpose because it's a predestined thing from our maker.

-The purpose of our life can be discovered but might be hard to recover the moment we abuse purpose.
This is real because, there is a seed of purpose within every man which is made to grow and germinate bearing fruits through our hunger to fulfill life in the best ways.

-Purpose is not man made.
Man manufactures almost everything today but one thing man will never manufacture no matter how hard he tries is "PURPOSE".

-Purpose is a Life.
This is because purpose gives definition and meaning to life. As such when you are living under purpose, you are presumed to be alive but once you are outside the circle of purpose; you are a corpse in disguise as man.

-Purpose is not trail and error.
Because purpose is life and life is not trail and error, hence it becomes comparatively necessary to say that purpose cannot be a trail and error thing. Purpose is a sure thing, "it is life itself defined in action".

-Purpose is the mother of all right motivation.
There is no way you will ever be motivated in life when you live your life in the absence of purpose because purpose is like a trigger within you that's always aiming to reach where others cannot reach..therefore, know your purpose of existence and get motivated.


Note: The worst tragedy of all time will be any LIFE LIVED IN THE ABSENCE OF PURPOSE BECAUSE WITHOUT PURPOSE THERE WILL BE NO FULFILLMENT IN SUCH LIFE. 

Written by 
Jackson Samuel.