TRUTH SERIES 29-THE NATIONAL CAKE,PART 1

God is Nigerian enough to bless the country with the world’s 10th largest proven crude oil reserves and the 7th largest proven reserve base of natural gas .Nigeria is about the 12th largest producer of crude oil in the world and the 8th largest exporter. Nigeria has the best weather condition through out the year coupled with large expanse of arable land for Agriculture. All these shows that Nigeria is one of the richest countries in the world .But unfortunately majority of Nigerians are just potentially rich, larger percentage live below poverty line. I don’t want to use the word the poorest people because we are not poor; we are potentially rich because the country wealth is enough to go round.

Let us start this way with this analogy. An heir of a wealthy late father is entitle to some of his inheritance? I guess your answer is yes. Ok let us move on. By virtue of you being born in Nigeria, naturally you are a citizen by birth and Nigeria becomes your fatherland. I hope I am right and correct?

Ok let us come from another angle. Come to think of it ,millionaires and billionaires around the world ,people like Bill Gates, warren buffet, Richard Brandson, aliko Dangote ,Jimoh Ibrahim etc one thing they have in common is that they came to this world with nothing and they were not born with silver spoon but at a point in their lives ,they accessed the portion of their country’s wealth because they were doing something and people are paying for it.

Hmmm, interesting they were doing something, hope you are also pondering, like I am too. Lets move on, let me share some things you must know about the National cake. I will put you through in my next write up on how to assess the National wealth.There is a portion you must access,after all the profit of the earth is for all.see u next week.

Thank you so much for reading this write up.I will appreciate your comments.

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TRUTH SERIES 28-THE PARABLE OF THE TREES

As I was pondering over what to write on this week. I remembered a story in the book of judges 9:8-15.Which I think I need to share with my readers. It is a great message on Leadership, Values and service.

There was a time that all the trees decided to make one of their own, king over them. The trees then went ahead to the Olive tree to request of him to be their leader. He replied and said “Should I leave my fatness which is used to honor God and man”. They further went to meet the Fig tree whose reply was the same as the Olive tree. On and on they went moving from vine and fig trees to seek their opinion on the issue, but all had same response to give.

It was only the Bramble tree that had a different response out of all the tress that was approached, he decided to take up the position of the king, with the condition that he has to be served by all and whosoever refuses to serve him will be dealt with accordingly.

LESSONS LEARNT

The olive, fig and Olive trees had the following in common:

A, They were already adding value to God and man.

B, They exhibited leadership qualities.
C, They were proffering services especially in their area of call.

D, They were meeting needs.

The bramble tree on the other side had the following characteristics:

A, The bramble tree wasn’t adding any value to God and man. (The bramble is a thorny short plant that only produce fire to terrify and consume other trees).

B, The bramble tree wanted every other tree to subject to his authority, He was a dictator and a ruler and not a leader

C, The bramble tree wanted other trees to come under him, as such limiting their abilities to his own abilities.

I believe you can learn a great lesson from this story about Leadership and service. The bramble attitude is a typical example of what goes on in our nation and in the Africa continent. We define leadership with Position and Title as against Service and Value adding. We believe that it is until when we are given a title or position that we can lead appropriately, whereas the essence of leadership is service which the Vine, Fig and Olive trees all exhibited.

The Vine, Fig and Olive trees provided something that is useful to both man and God, where as the bramble is not adding any value. He is selfish and only wants to intimidate other trees like most African Leaders do.

Remember leadership is about adding values and meeting needs through creative and productive thinking. Are you providing any services? Are you meeting any need? Are you solving any problem? If yes, then you are already a leader in your field. Very soon, you will find yourself in a Leadership Position. SEE U AT THE TOP.

THANK YOU FOR READING.Your comments are welcomed.

COMING SOON –“THE TRUTH SERIES COLUMN IN THE NEWSPAPER” WATCHOUT

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TRUTH SERIES 27; WE ARE INEXCUSABLE !

Most times, we find ourselves making comments as follows

EXCUSES
• The Government is bad, they are thieves. • It’s about you.
• I have no capital to start with • Start with what you have.
• There are no Jobs. • Create one
• I don’t know How • Browse the internet.
• I am not educated. • Go to school
• I am a Nigerian. • It does not matter
• I don’t have money.• • No, but you have something.
• I am not recognized.• • Recognize yourself, Be relevant.
• There is no time.• • 24hrs is enough.
• I am not computer Literate.• • Get trained.
• There is always power failure. • Look for an alternative


These statements are often made because we are unable to achieve or attain something we know and believe we ought to, or somebody we ought to have become.

It’s so amazing that our generation is so good at making excuses to justify our not been able to maximize our potentials and abilities to the fullest. Some times we make excuses to justify our inability to respond to what we have failed to do. Whenever you hear yourself making any of the above excuses, you know deep down inside of you that you are not been sincere with yourself. The truth of the matter is that you lack the WILL POWER and in some cases the problem of not wanting to extend outside your comfort zone, for instance, if you constantly give excuses about not knowing how to go about a particular situation, then it is most likely that you are unwillingly to learn how to. After all, you learnt how to crawl, eat, talk, and other basic things we know to do now.

Making statement like the Government is bad, is not a veritable reason not to utilize your potentials in contributing your own quota towards National growth and transformation, its all about YOU, and what you have and need to give and not about the government alone. It is not about your skin colour, or your origin, it is your content that matters. We need to know that Black colored balloon too go up if it is filled with air.

WE HAVE ALL IT TAKES

Our generation is so blessed with so many resources like the internet, mobile phones, facebook, laptops, blackberry, twitter and so on which we can use to advantage. We just have all what it takes to achieve all what we need to achieve and maximize our Potential.

In this 21st century, we can learn any thing we want to learn under the earth with just a click on the internet .We can connect with just anybody anywhere in the world through face book. We can read any book on the internet to get adequate knowledge to solve problems. We are inexcusable!

We should Stop manufacturing excuses start manufacturing solutions, ideas to be relevant. Until we stop making excuses, we won’t be able to make any meaningful impact.

Hope u enjoy this series,Have a great day ! reach me on 08034438232, dreamnewnewnigeria@yahoo.com

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TRUTH SERIES 26- MAKING A NAME: CREATE SOMETHING

"Come; let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves


In the beginning God created…God being our creator has created us in His own image and after His likeness so as such we have the same potentials like Him too to create. I have used the word POTENTIAL because most people sadly enough in their life time could not discover this innate power resident in them and as such they could not make a name for themselves in their life time. But today, I want to put it to you that you have all that it takes inside of you to begin to think and act like a creative person as God Has made you irrespective of your background, skin color, educational qualification etc.

The Power to create lies in our ability to imagine. You need to sharpen your imaginative skill constantly if you want what we desire in life to come into manifestation, things don’t just happen like that, it starts in our imagination. Let us do a short exercise, some names are listed below, who comes to your mind when they are mentioned:

A, Virgin Atlantic
B, DAAR Communications
C, Microsoft
D, Covenant University
E, Silver bird
F, chair centre
G, Ovation.

I hope you guess right. We can see that for each of the above named brands, an individual name comes to mind. This goes to show that these people have made a name for themselves from their brands. They have created something that was not in existence before now. They have imagined something from the realm of the invisible to become visible. For instance, MICROSOFT is Bill Gates, Bill Gates is Microsoft, his real name and his brand name can be used interchangeably. Microsoft did not exist before until Bill Gates imagined it from the invisible world and brought it to the visible world.

After the creation of Heaven and earth, the Towel of Babel is another story that depicts how far imagination can be turned into reality. The men said, “Come let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly, and they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar”. Before that time, bricks were not in existence, what we had was stone, but they were able to imagine how bricks can be turned into stones.

There are thousands of things still missing in our environment, which someone, some where have to imagine and work on to make it a reality. It could be an invention, an idea, an organization, a book, a product, a business idea, a software program etc. These men building a towel interrupted God’s agenda in heaven, because of what they have imagined and were about to create. God had to come down and see the progress of the city and the tower they were building. I am persuaded that God Himself was amazed at their innovation.

I challenge you today to activate the power of your imagination, and I can assure you that the sky will be your stepping stone not even your limit……….IF YOU CAN IMAGINE IT,THEN YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.

TIPS TO MAKE YOU A CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL

1 Do not despise any thoughts that drop in your mind, write it down and take action.
2 create time to think.
3 Rub minds and associate with people that make things happen.
4 Read books and magazines that will motivate you to imagine
5 Be sensitive to your environment.
6 Always implement and work on what your mind has conceived.
7 Believe in yourself, even if no one else does.

Your response and comments will be appreciated .thanks.

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