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. ...
What are your values? And are these values promoting your ultimate belief, affecting others and creating positive influence? Just like I said earlier, your values are the creations of your beliefs; they are developed from the kind of belief system you have come to adopt and integrate and they are chiefly manifested by your actions and reactions. Your sense of desire and emotional attachments, which are laid by the things you have been exposed to and which have deeply sunk into subconsciousness, are manifested in the things you value. They are what keeps you unsatisfied, begging and worried, at least until you meet them. Therefore, it comes to be that if you happen to be, the one that believe in liberalism, your actions-by the very nature of how you treat people with their diverse, even antagonistic views, would portray your values in allowing people to air their views and live their choices, regardless of your perception. Your expression of your desire to charity could be...
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...
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