AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

When I come to think about life, the many experiences that I've had and the many things that I have passed through, one thing that comes to mind is the lucidity of the fact that they have sometimes and somehow seem to confirm the thoughts, the imaginations and the fears of my heart. My actions and the results they effect seem to have given credence to the admonitions, suggestions and the reservations of my subconsciousness. They seem to have drawn, urging me by their verifications of the heart why I ought to have followed the mind. To discuss the place of the mind and the need to follow its dictates, I have decided to firstly go the length of defining who and what man essentially is. To be able to understand the relevance of the mind in decision making and as a subtle guide, a good look into what it stands out to be in the man is very important. Man is a being of essence, he is...

Of wide acclaim is the inductive definition by America's Abraham Lincoln of democracy. That definition succinctly and aptly captures what is the essence and value of democratic government. But more recently, and in the same United States, this cherished belief was questioned, more severely nailed by the election of Donald Trump. The Republican Donald Trump would be sworn in as the 45th substantive president of the United States after emerging as the preferred candidate of the electoral college of voters against popular majority in the November 8 presidential poll. That decision of the electoral college served Donald Trump that shocking win. It was a political calculus that jolted even the highest of political reasoning that in a democratic combat of points, the fighter with over 2.8 million total votes tally lost out to the rival who walloped her with a paltry 200 restricted votes. The more surprising, however, is the irony of its acceptance as a workable result just because...

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the commencement of orientation exercise for the 2nd stream of mobilized graduates for the 2016 Batch B of the scheme. From the timetable released, and obtained from DailyPost, registration of corps members begins on the 24th and end 25th of January with swearing in holding on the 27th. Closure of orientation camp is on the 13th of February, 2017. While releasing the timetable for the course, the management also announced the introduction of a novel policy. The prospective corps members are required to provide along the other requirements, medical certificate. The inclusion of medical certificate is suspected to have come up following spates of deaths of corps members who were suspected to be ill on the Zamfara, Kano and Bayelsa camps last year. The NYSC is a government agency that enlist graduates of tertiary institutions into a...

Jammeh with Buhari So much has been said about the December 1, 2016 Gambian Presidential election that saw Adama Barrow defeating the incumbent Yaya Jammeh. M r Barrow, according to the declaration by the nation's electoral body, flopped Yaya Jammeh convincingly to strip him him of a position he has wielded for more than two decades. Indeed, Yaya accepted the result, conceding defeat to his real estate rival. He was applauded for this feat seen as the Achilles's hill of most African rulers lacking and which of recently has started making inroads into the continent. But no soon had he conceded, that Jammeh disputed the poll's result. He hinged his latest move on the claim by the head of the Independent Electoral Commission of the discovery of irregularities. The discussion, as soon as Jammeh made this rather stunning U-turn, shifted from that of commendation of the Gambian elections and of the beauty of democracy to that of grave concern and strong criticism. The...

Biologically, the human being, like every organism respond to the deep calls of nature. Man grows and hungers, he reacts and moves; and all these are functions of the natural inclination to which he responds appropriately. It is so very inherent and a function of natural spontaneity, one that weighs upon man, whether or not he likes it; he grows and consequently age from the very continuous proliferation of cells and the differentiation of tissues. This is one commitment which he has no choice and control over, until the natural halt which itself is brought in death. Growth itself is a natural process. But then, growth also is a matter of choice. While the later falls into the purview of the unquestionable reality that is understandably natural and spontaneous leading to increase in the numbers of age, the later is a concept of similar meaning but which unlike the former is self-regulated and a matter of willful choice. Yes, of willful desire. Growth is a choice, and we grow fro...

"What's worth doing, is worth doing well."-Anonymous Ongoing in Imo State is the expansion/rehabilitation, by the state government, of some major roads. The projects, which had earlier started last year in the peak of the rainy season, were, for obvious reasons, put on hold. However, with the gradual exit of the rains,construction workers have been called back to site and the projects seemed just to have resumed in earnest.

What is passion? It is the raving of desire. It's an acting of external propulsion that excites the mind, causing it to be invigorated to act willfully.