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...
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...
Travelling out of the Garden City of Portharcourt is a journey of comfort and relaxation, as one starts off from the city centre. That sense of assurance continues at least, till after Elele. But making an entrance into the border town of Umuagwo, the connector of the federal road to Imo state, the sense of assurance dissipates, as the story of the road turns horrendous. That section of the road is like a forgotten section, the entirety of the border axis to the leading of the Imo State Polytechnic is in grave shamble. The road, beyond potholes, is yanked off, gullied and miry. Indeed that section is cut off; and this situation has been left unattended to for donkey years. This strongly betrays the shame of our nation. On the 20th of October, while plying this nauseous route, I saw two trucks strewn on the ground, lying flat. They fell because of the deplorable nature of the road. Causing gridlock and inconvenience. And more are liable to fall, going by the double tragedy of t...
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