Today, the international community marks the 2017 World Humanitarian Day. Credit:ajala.ng This is a day set aside by the United Nations to reflect on our commitments toward helping others especially those whose vulnerability and helplessness call out for support and encouragement. World's Humanitarian Day is all about moving out of ourselves and meeting the needs of the next person, that person who is in genuine need. It is, even as much as we can remain within ourselves, about thinking of the other person; what we can do and are doing to impact upon them. World Humanitarian Day is about others, it is about selflessness. Our gifts, talents and resources must be seen to have some impacts in the lives of others. Critically, our resources should be used for the service of others. This is the reflection that today brings and the expression it excites. In the words of the great civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr, the most persistent and urgent question is "Wh...
John Paul The 25th of March, 2017, witnessed a plethora of active celebrations at the Imo State University Teaching Hospital, IMSUTH Orlu, where the university's department of Nursing is located as the department held its first ever induction. The occasion also caught an eye on Nnakwe John Paul, who stole the show by emerging top of his class. Nnakwe, who hails from Ihiala in Anambra State, bagged First Class honours to become the best graduating student the Nursing department has ever produced since its inception. With a CGPA yet to be ascertained, to have bagged First Class entails obtaining a cumulative grade point average of between 4.5-5.0. To have achieved this means that JP, as he's fondly called by friends, passed all of the over 70 courses offered without conceding any carryovers. A registered nurse, having passed the Nigerian Nursing Council Exam, and one who has represented his department as senator in the students Union, John Paul believes in optimism. ...
The first appreciation to which affection reveals kick starts the journey of any would-be lasting relationship. It doesn't just end in the two expressing a likeability that's primarily emotional. As important as the likeability of an emotional attraction creates, such must go down well to demand an understanding that's chiefly worked out by the mind's appreciation. The two individuals who suddenly have become emotionally wrapped up must do well to pass the next stage of ''inter-understanding'' -understanding who is and what's in the other- if indeed their camaraderie is something to take far and yonder. Thus the relationship must be sketched in the bricks rationality and coated with the nice and exciting colours of affection. Contrary to a flings faultily termed relationships nowadays that has no bearing, no knowledge and understanding of what their engagement is other than the restricted idea of the moment as is the rampant cases, true relationshi...
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