AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

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. ...

In all phases of the unfolding Certificate scandal, Dino Melaye seems like a crook; and in every steps he takes, this assumption is further amplified. The point being that, even as much as I would endeavor to avoid calling him so, his suggestions right from his initial statement of rebuff to his resort to court, just seem to make him a crook. When SaharaReporters broke the airwaves and infected the already saturated domain of public discourse with the now trending issue of Dino's unverified BSc certificate, it came to all as a shock, and very much to no other person than Dino himself. Trust the vibrant and outspoken Senator, who passes to me as one of the most active, most influential senators of the eighth session of the National Assembly. Senator Dino, who has a chirpy background as an activist, deployed his acumen to do what he knows best, and which, at the moment, has seen to be very urgent and necessary. He vehemently refuted the claim, daring the news medium to dig more....

The point is that anybody identified with passing through depression should have someone around, someone that can really revivify them, bring to them about life's reality, how the passing challenges that present as trauma could be handled. They need a psychologist or a spirit lifter.  It is not true that you must be a trained psychologist to offer this solution. What is needed is the spirit, the will and the motivation to inspire. You could prove your mettle in this by thoroughly keeping an eye on your neighbor, to know when such need arises. That's your first duty and prove to weather the storm. However, to assert this role effectively, you must be in the best frame of mind; you must be able to have what you endeavor to give, else you have no business trying to. It is to say that you must be free from depression and its impact yourself to identify and offer the needed help in conditions of depression. You can do that by thinking less of your challenges and considering r...

Depression knows no boundary, affecting everyone regardless of class, age or belief. It is to say that whether rich or poor, old or young, fair or dark, believer or non-believer, the problem of depression is a general one to which all is susceptible. The recent  news of a medical doctor and a nurse that plunged into the Lagos lagoon is a good case scenario that proves that whatever or whoever we are, depression is a lurking phenomenon seeking us for preys. We could talk of depression is the result of excessive moment of thinking and cogitation especially of our woes and the negative things that life surrounds us with. Depression is the collapse of the mind to the weight of thoughts, which affects our mode and responses to situations and things. The fact is that, in so far we think, everyone of us can cave in to depression. Depression is manifested by an unhappiness and the inability to envisage a happy future or of palpable solution to whatever one sees as a problem or a con...

The refusal of the Comptroller General of Customs to appear before the Senate, especially adorned in uniform, has been on the public discourse, for some time now, generating diverse opinions. It is to add to the debate that I write. My view is that far away from the issue, Col. Hamed Ali ought not to have been appointed as the Comptroller Generally of Customs in the first instance. He has not been a carrier officer, hence his appointment is an error and a huge, rather denigrating, statement to the many officers of the Nigerian Customs, who should have fitted reliably into this role. That's a clear insult to their psyche and competence to assume the leadership of the organization they've, for long served and ought to know better. The above, I think is the basis for the attitudes being now played out by the CG. Because he is alien, doesn't understand the principles of operation of the agency he heads, he presents himself as a misfit; a clear case of a round peg inside a s...

The whole of Britain is disenchanted and so because of the recent terror attack that gripped the very institution of its government. It is an attack that should rightly get other parts of the world globe disturbed for the very reason that it hit hard upon our shared human string and because it's a growing concern so fast spreading. The news of the lone attack that left 3 dead including a police officer and 29 injured, yesterday, at the Westminster Bridge came as a shock and rude surprise. The attack, so senseless and so shameful, is something that should get the whole world on edge. It has happened in London today, and the fact remains that the wild fire so set off by Islamist radicalism is still burning, and who knows the next target. The chain of this nature has gone in an unbroken twine. Just exactly a year ago, we were struck when a senseless buffoon sharing the same terror ideology attacked Brussels and left over fifty dead. Similarly last year, too, we had the Nice, Ber...

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...