A smart pastor distinguished the donation given to the poor from the donation given to God through churches. The pastor said that giving to the poor is giving to normal man who cannot bless or pay you back, but giving to the church meant giving to God himself who will bless and pay back a […]
Some Onitsha kids were asked what they would do if they grow and become wealthy. Their answers hovered around getting fully-furnished homes, cars, private-jets, industries, companies and luxuries for themselves and their relatives. Nobody mentioned food, probably because food was not seen as an achievement, instead a source of physical energy for life achievements. Though […]
Cars are made up of different parts and particles like metals, cables, bolts, nuts, rubbers and others. On their own, these parts may not be considered important. But by fitting in, to perform their specific functions in moving a car, they find purpose and meaning for their existence. To fit in and function well, these […]
Cooking is an art that requires balanced knowledge and mixture of several ingredients for a good meal. If the house-owner wants more pepper in his meal, he does not replace the cook with a pepper farmer. The pepper farmer may increase the pepper, but without proper knowledge of preparing and mixing meat, stock-fish and other […]
Success in modern irrigation involves creating water-ways around different paths for seeds to grow. When all the paths are watered, they are able to produce their specific plants and foods for bounteous harvest. However, if some parts are neglected during the irrigation, their produce become stunted or weak. Rewarding productive and creative efforts and results […]
Different countries have football bodies that organize matches and other activities between teams in their country. The different football teams are owned, managed and directed by individuals or groups, who set up or acquire them. All these teams register with their national football governing body, who sets them up with other teams (local/global) for matches. […]
Car racing happens very often on major roads, even between people who had not initially set out to compete. However, when a car does not have the wheels on one side, the car moves in circles instead of moving forward. Personalities and ideologies (ideals) are two sides upon which groups, institutions, political parties and societies […]
Since the arrival of this millennium, entrepreneurship has been prescribed as the main cure of poverty in Nigeria.[1] Following advices from foreign ‘experts’,[2] different regimes preach and fund few Nigerians to pursue entrepreneurship. Also, several foreign aid packages and fellowships for Africans attach entrepreneurship as a major condition for sponsorship. They insist that entrepreneurship developed […]
Nature creates, regenerates, heals, recycles, and thus, abhors vacuum or waste. This natural process is designed to take care of itself such that everything in nature is usable for other purposes. Like a machine, nature takes different lengths of time to convert and use everything for other purposes. While “wasted-food” and dead-plants become manure in […]
In an ancient fable, a palm-nut farmer failed to make good profits despite harvesting bountiful palm-nuts. He usually poured his harvested palm-nuts into a large sack, which surprisingly never gets filled. Eventually, he discovered that some rats bored holes under the sack for stealing his palm-fruits while he laboured in vain. Likewise, without understanding and […]
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