THE NIGERIANS THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT – BY AYO SOGUNRO @AYOSOGUNRO

“They” in this title refers to all the defense men, the pen-brandishing king’s men, the unrelenting, self-appointed applauders, the cozy and established, comfortable, myopic and collective children of corruption, the distant crowd of Presidential addicts, the any-government-in-power cinema crowd of Nigeria, who seem to be in competition among themselves to achieve the favours of...

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THIS SHIP IS SINKING, YES – SO WHAT DO WE DO? – FULL TEXT OF @CHUDE JIDEONWO’S SPEECH AT THE FUTURE AWARDS 2012

Being an address given by Chude Jideonwo, executive director of The Future Project at The Future Awards 2012, Port Harcourt, Rivers It occurred to me for the first time as I sat in the car’s front seat and felt my father’s cold corpse in the back seat in May 2007. The nurses at the Ikorodu General Hospital had just said no to his body. He had died from heart failure an hour or two...

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TERRORISM IN NIGERIA: CAN MONEY BUY PEACE? BY @JIDE_LEIGH

A society that hands gold medals and huge chunk of the highly coveted national cake to obvious law breakers for whatsoever reason, then say to the hard working and law abiding who has decided not to steal, throw bombs or kill, to remain law abiding, is obviously just spelling it out that crime pays, regardless of how much government budget or claim to spend on security. I’m candidly quite...

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WITH PATIENCE COMES GOOD LUCK BY @LANRE_OLAGUNJU

”Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way”- Fulton J. Sheen   Time always seems long to the child who is waiting for Christmas, for next summer and also for becoming a grown up. If your health has ever been challenged and you’ve had a course or two to be laid on a sick...

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EXCLUSIVE: THE CONCLUDING PART OF JAPHETH OMOJUWA'S INTERVIEW

In this concluding part, Omojuwa dissects and proffers solutions to issues around unemployment, Boko-Haram, his anger with people likening him to Reuben Abati, and which topic he won't discuss on twitter amongst others.  In case you missed the first part here is the link http://larigold.blogspot.com/2012/08/exclusive-interview-i-do-not-speak.html Lanre Olagunju:  you talked about...

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I DO NOT SPEAK AGAINST GOVERNMENT” SAYS JAPHETH OMOJUWA

Lanre Olagunju: What defines Japheth Omojuwa? Omojuwa: I’m about results, I’m about change , I’m about creating value and essentially I’m about making sure that when I finally exit this planet  I’ve the chance to look back at the things I’ve done and I’d be smiling at the things I got to do. Essentially it’s difficult to define anything because there are many ways and perspectives...

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WHY SHALL I FEAR BY @ LANRE_OLAGUNJU

We’ve been told by motivational speakers that fear and anxiety are destroyers of destiny and we’ve been programmed to see fear as a huge detriment to success. I wonder if they can ever get enough of the bad press. Humans and animals alike have the ability to experience fear Everyone has either been afraid of or is afraid of at least one thing. Any daring attempt to boast that one has never...

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