APC National Disable Leader, Misbahu Lawan Didi with APC National Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun at a meeting in the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja yesterday may 2, 2017
The Plateau State Disability Rights Commission is registering Persons with Disabilities who are farmers for integration into State Agricultural Programs. This was posted by the Chairman, James Lalu. The Registration centers and contact phone numbers as posted by the Chairman are as follow:
1. Southern Zone ——-Shendam LGC Secretariat
Contact Person 08036917913
2. Central Zone ———-Mangu LGC Secretariat
Contact Person 07053812181
3. Northern Zone ——- Commission Head office
4. Registration Starts today 24/4/17 and ends Friday 28/4/17.
5. Register in person, registration by proxy will be rejected
6. Please try register in your Zone
Dear Fellow Nigerians,
It’s time to check ourselves.
Many decades after Nigeria became an independent nation, it has yet, unable to find its footing. There’s stagnancy and rut in virtually every sector of this economy. It’s so bad. The scope and nature of poverty and strife are unprecedented. Every system that makes up an economy, including the educational system, has, hitherto, proved to be a mere talking point among university professors, scholars, stakeholders and the citizenry. Public or family discourse about the state of the nation has become but nothingness.
For most youths, when asked about the problem that’s wrong with this nation, they proudly argue “Bad Leadership”- rightly so. But the bad leadership is not going to be a history anytime soon. In fact, we might just begin to see the start of a new era of the “bad leadership” (Have you seen the news lately?).
The leadership of this country has come to an irreparably roaring rot! My friends, forget it. The talk of leadership as the bane of Nigeria’s problem has become a cliché. The idea now cloys. I hate to hear it. But we can stop the bad guys who have “these magnificent houses in where billions of naira are stashed”.
I have strong convictions about personal responsibilities. It’s time the youths commence taking personal responsibilities for their own lives. Why should we take pride in blaming somebody for what’s happened to us? What’s the pride in waiting for handouts, for assistance when I can do it myself with my God-given abilities and with His joy. Well, we should be too proud to ask for help or to wait for somebody to rescue us when, when you look the heck around, there’s so much work to be done. But the youths would rather the government to butt-kick us or to assist us to get things done than taking initiatives and exploiting opportunities.
And ashamedly, we have youths who, after 4/5 years of tertiary education, cannot translate their knowledge into something practical or useful for the good of themselves and the society. We are too lazy, too fat to do it. We have a poor reading culture ’cause the literature is so long, hard and boring. It’s just too a hard work to pick up a book and read. We cannot form healthy, deep-rooted relationships. We are too blind to see the worth or value of people and things. With a personal culture of disrespect and arrogance, we are so spoilt and undisciplined that we think we deserve success without actually making sacrifices and working for it. We have youths who are too poor, too dull, too lazy to leave home and start an independent life. There’s so much more, I’m starting to feel a tad bit sick.
Our attitude must change. Our culture must. Our mindset must. On top of all, our relationship with our Creator must take a newer dimension. We have got to take fresher, more challenging undertakings. I don’t know a segment of the population that’s more vigorous, more dynamic, more vibrant and more brilliant as the youth.
But I also agree with you, my friends, that with just a slight change in government priorities, the leadership can institute an enabling environment where everyone can succeed. Nevertheless, I continue to be adamant that the future of this nation is going to be determined by the capacity of us young people, who make up over half of the population of this nation, to get off our comfort zones, deal with a little momentary distress, and harness our incredible inner energy and vigor in advancing the trajectory of this great nation that we all love.
Now, ‘want to know more of your uniqueness? If you had to be born anytime in the course of human history, not knowing ahead of time what your gender was going to be, or your economic status, or nationality, my friends, you would choose this moment, this time in history. This is an unprecedented era- look around at the glory and the breathtaking innovations that surround us today- the technology, the discoveries, the environment, the opportunities, the foods, the breathtaking faces and ingenuity of young men and women, the sprawling ideas, including everything there’s, and all there ever is soon to going to be, in this generation.
Youths, let’s seek this moment. My friends, I challenge you to begin taking personal responsibilities for your own lives.
God bless you all, and may God bless this nation so abundantly.
About the Author
My name is Raji Ade Oba. I have gone through many years of experiences, the likes that no one’s seen. Lol I do not mean to brag.
My philosophy is grounded on the belief that everyone has immense worth and capabilities, and in that light, we should be using our gifts and talents to change the lives of others, to giving back to the community. This is because that’s how we also find ourselves, and become much better persons, over time.
Apart from being a scholarly writer, I’m also privileged to write liberally on leadership, communication, and personal development.
I like to help people to realize their full potentials, so together we could make our world a better place.
Thank you.
Raji
Omopariola Bolarinwa tells INN how he invested in farming and is able to feed himself, his family and also market his products with tips and advises. Watch April edition of Ekundayo Sejoro’s Explora on INN with Sign Language and subtitles. Subscribe to Inclusive News Network’s newsletter for more videos.
Long, long ago, when I used to think about the kind of man I wanted to be, I would say, “I want to be a good husband, have a good wife and cute kids, have a successful public life, and write a great book.” Since then, a lot of things have changed. Still, I love family, and desire to really build one that emulates God.
Dreams change. Today, if I’m asked what I want to do with my life, I’d say nothing means more to me than setting a good example to others, influencing persons, unlocking people’s potentials, seeing people as first while being the last, and more importantly, demonstrating leadership at whatever I do.
I have wanted everyone, every single person that I know, to succeed!
I want to be a leader. But please, I would not want to be anything else. But then again, I hope that everyone of us can share this aspiration. We can all be leaders in our own way.
A lot of things inspire me, but not like true leadership. Many things ring my bell, but nothing does so like leadership. To me, in a world of magical beauty, there’s nothing more subduing, more captivating, and more mesmerizing than watching Presidents, Governors, Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses, and tsars.
However, I have come to see the immense fallibility of these men and women.
They are, after all, not so different than all of us.
Now, you do not have to be hold an office to become a leader. No! Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you are, regardless of your height, age, religion, disability, or whether or not you are good-looking or ugly, and whatever the circumstances of your birth may be, you can discover yourself and be a leader.
You can become a model and a light to the world
I am not going to explain what leadership constitutes from an organizational or institutional perspective. Rather, I am going to provide knowledge on leadership, including how we can be a leader by looking up to Christ, who is considered the truest leader.
The essence of what a good leader actually is has been debated for years, especially in academic setting. As student, I know of all the trove of notes on leadership that I have gathered over the years. The greatest leader of all time was our Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus encourages us to be great leaders by following His will and His ways.
See, as God’s children, we have the innate capacity to constantly rediscover, recreate, reinvent and fine-tune ourselves to changing times. We can get leaner and always can become much better persons.
Going forward, we must work very hard, growing stronger in body, in mind, in spirit, and in soul. I look at the greatest leader that’s ever lived on Earth, and I see that among other qualities, there’s 3 fundamental character traits that are essential to becoming a leader and master of one’s universe.
These traits can be acquired, and they include SELFLESSNESS, HUMILITY, AND STRATEGY. For the sake of thorough analysis and clarity, I’m going to be churning out one after one, for the next coming days.
About the Author
Raji Ade Oba is a writer, essayist, and a communication/media consultant
His philosophy is grounded on the belief that everyone has immense worth and capabilities, and in that light, we should be using our gifts and talents to change the lives of others, to giving back to the community. This is because that’s how we also find ourselves, and become much better persons, over time
Apart from being a scholarly writer, he also writes liberally on disabilities and mental health, as well as leadership, communication, and personal/corporate development strategies.
He says he delights in helping people to realize their full potentials, so together we could make our world a better place.
Raji
Adebola Irede Daniel Bags Distinction In UK (Photos)
by henryanna36
disability is irrespecta of no one, not even the rich.
Physicaly Challenged Son Of Ex-Ogun Governor Otunba Daniel Bag Distinction
Adebola Irede Daniel,the physically challenged son of immediate past
governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has made Nigeria proud
by bagging a
distinction in MSc Mechanical Engineering programme from University
College London.
His father is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and
theChairman of Kresta Laurel, a leading engineering firm specializing
in elevators. Otunba Daniel had worked with Schroeder (W.A.) Limited,
in Lagos, rising to Deputy Managing Director. He is the first African
to hold that position in the history of the company. He left Schroeder
to set up Kresta Laurel in 1990.
The story of Adebola is an attestation that disability does not, in
any means, translate to incapacitation. When you give a person with
disability the adequate attention as it been given to his non disable
counterpart, be rest assured that he or she will rise to the peak of
his desired career.
Beyond the brain, that largely mysterious three pounds of matter that sits between our ears, the human eye is, in my own opinion, what makes life what it really is-sacredness, beauty, and a gift.
The pair of eyes is truly amazing. Perhaps, you do not know. Not the world’s most sophisticated camera can vividly capture what the human eye is capable of. Of all man’s sense organs which pick up information from the external environment, vision is considered to be the medium through which we receive the most information from the surroundings. It is that which keeps one “alive”. Vision is what gives us a sense of life, of hope, of being, and of earthiness. Now, I am not going to go into the technical mechanism of seeing, which is itself, a wonder to marvel at.
Yes, humans are born with the ability to see. We do not learn to see. We just see. Now come to think of about it, there are hundreds of thousands of newborns around the world who did not enjoy what we naturally call our “birthright” when they were brought forth into this world. What happened to those wonderful babies? What of the blind and the visually-impaired? Aren’t they supposed to be enjoying what we do enjoy and often take for granted which is evident in our daily living, choices and attitude, times when we are hit hard by mother nature.
Well, could you take your attention off of this screen momentarily and look up and around you at the majesty of the physical nature and glory that surrounds you? Isn’t that marvelous? Could you shut your eyes right this moment, turn around and make your way to the bathroom or wherever? Try it. Could you feel not just the pain of mobility, but the strife and strain, the bitterness and frustration in your heart and the thick darkness that hovers around you as you attempt to make some motion. Can you imagine what is it that I am talking about when I say that seeing is a privilege?
I am reminded of my first official entry into a certain varsity. It was a pretty wonderful experience. On the night of my debut entry into the institution, my family asked me what I thought about the school. Beaming with smile, I allowed my brain to do some recall of the mental images it had taken through my God-given miracle eyes before I texted back and said, “The school is so cool, with tree-lined roads, beautiful trees, sprawling edifices and accommodations for students. Mom, it’s green everywhere”. Isn’t it truly ‘life’ with the eyes? Yes, seeing is life.
The harmless incident that inspired this particular write up came about on one sunny morning. Gabby, a hall mate, with an uncharacteristically gloomy countenance, makes an exit out of his room onto the passageway. As Gabby rests the fold of his arms on the cliff, his face suddenly lights up as he feasts his eyes right out there, with moving cars and their honks, with beautiful people and their attires having indistinct conversations, along with fledglings flapping nearby, reveling in the cool nature of the breeze. Lo, you know what I see? I see Gabby’s world is now an unbelievable delight. I could practically sense everything just came into harmony, into perfect unison. Things just all make sense just with a subconscious efficacy of the human eyes, complemented with his ears. Well, I broke Gaby’s reverie and told him about the lesson of my own personal story; “It took me a life-changing event before I came to fully realize how blessed my life is. You can hear. You can see. Isn’t that such a privilege? Do you think you deserve it? No. it’s a gift. It is a privilege”, I calmly told him. Behold, seeing, truly is a privilege.
As we launch into this special month of rebirth and rejuvenation, I hope that you are thankful, notwithstanding whatever life has bought to you. You enjoy the privilege of vision which is your most essential tool for life, earthiness and total development. But I hope you do really live this life responsibly.
Be safe
Governor Ayo Fayose assisting fire fighters battle raging inferno at Ekiti petrol station
Photo credit: Bola Agboola
National Resource Centre for the Disabled (NRCD), FCES (Special), Oyo is organising HIV/AIDS awareness programme and free testing for persons with disabilities in Fces (special) Oyo titled: “Hands up for HIV/AIDS, awareness for persons with disabilities” on January 11, 2017 at the school of special education hall, federal college of education (special) Oyo, Oyo state. Read below for more information
Johan Galtung, a sociologist and Norwegian professor, who rightly made several predictions, among them being the 911 attack, the fall of the Soviet Union and the Tiananmen Square uprising, has predicted that the world’s super power will collapse while Trump is in the white house.
Long before Trump won the election or even contested for that matter, in 2000 Galtung predicted the US global power will collapse come 2025, but he later revised the year of the collapse to 2020. Galtung is convinced his prediction is materialising following the election of Donald Trump.
One of the final phases of the decline of the US predicted in the professor’s 2009 book, The Fall of the American Empire – and then What?, coincides with the anti-immigrant platform on which Trump’s campaign was built.
In the book, Galtung forecasts the rise of fascism before the country’s power receded and this is already playing out with Trump promising to deport millions of illegal immigrants and build a wall along the America – Mexico border.
While speaking to Motherboard, Galtung insists that he stands by the 2020 deadline at which the US would cease to be a super power. He believes that the election of Trump will speed up the decline, especially with Trump’s critical attitude to Nato.
“The collapse has two faces,” Dr Galtung told Motherboard, “Other countries refuse to be good allies and the USA has to do the killing themselves, by bombing from high altitudes, drones steered by computer from an office, special forces killing all over the place.
“Both are happening today, except for Northern Europe, which supports these wars, for now. That will probably not continue beyond 2020, so I stand by that deadline.”
However, Yet Xenia Wickett, head of the US and America’s programme at think-tank Chatham House does not agree with Galtung’s prediction.
“The US is a global power for many reasons. It has the strongest military in the world, it has the most robust soft power in terms of its universities, … in terms of its companies and in terms of the reach of its media. It also remains the biggest economy in the world. The idea that any of these things are going to change in the next four years is unrealistic.” Wickett told The Independent.
8 people were killed in Multiple bomb attacks in Maiduguri, Borno state yesterday January 8th. The coordinated attacks started at about 10pm. Residents of Maiduguri say the first bomb which was detonated by a female suicide bomber, went off at Muna garage area.
Two other suicide bombers carried out their attacks by knocking on people’s door to detonate their IEDs in Kaleri community. Five persons were killed during this attack.
Confirming the attacks, the state police public relations officer, DSP Victor Isuku said “Preliminary info available is that the explosion occurred at Gariki Muna, which I understand is on the outskirt of town. Details will follow soonest”
Source Linda Ikeji blog
For me as always, it’s hard to strike a nerve, reach people’s hearts and challenge others to consider a phenomenon that I have not had the chance to actually lived and experienced myself. Then, to me, it gets really sweet- going through a storm, pressing through it, and finally coming out on a whole other side, total and shining, including sharing it with the world, and challenging others to think about it. My friend, Reuben calls it resilience which I like very much. I like to call it “competitiveness”.
Well I don’t know, I get a kick out of outwitting people, outfoxing folks, charming and disarming them and in the process, providing individuals with the opportunity to set the bar, raise their standards, set astonishing, but realistic goals and stun the world. Attitude is so contagious it is unbelievably easier to rub off on somebody. But hang on, I’m not talking about an unhealthy, hate-filled rivalry that is in itself is worldly, unchristian and self-destructive. No. that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about something more substantial.
Here, staying competitive is simply being the best that you possibly can be- in every conceivable aspect of your life, – in things that you do, things that you say, how you make a living, how you pray, how you conduct yourself with others, in your academic, including your relationship, communion and collaboration with God, as well as individuals and groups. Can you see the significance? Most of these activities are things that we plan our life around.
For Saint Paul, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure……if anything is excellent or praiseworthy…., think about such things (Philippians 4:8). The Apostle goes further, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize’. And then at a climax, he challenges us, ‘so run that you may obtain it.” (See 1Corinthians 9:24-27).
It’s OK, for the sake of expediency to do what everyone is doing at a certain time. But it’s not at all fun consistently thinking in the same pattern that everyone does. What an insipidity! What a bore! And if more, you end up being average, uncharismatic and effectively, you become a so ordinary person, that not only would you feel undermined in your capacity to be a leader, but also put yourself at a tremendous competitive disadvantage in your relationship and dealings with other people, who are your greatest asset as a seeker of destiny.
You have to work really hard to earn great respect. But to make exploits that change the arc of humanity and create exciting acts that please God, you have to have a strategy. To be the best, to be seen as an extraordinary individual, a leader with great charisma, one with a larger-than-life persona and an architect of his own universe, you have to have a core set of strategies that I’m going to be churning out from corporate and biblical perspectives, in the next few days.
Thanks.