AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

Human needs are insatiable, and so its reality incites man to a daily adventure of having to satisfy his crave, as much as the day provides. But man has been seeped in constant pursuit of the means to meet up with his everyday demand even though he knows they are not satisfiable. In his desire to try to scuttle factual reality and maybe satisfy his wants, he gathers and gathers; and yet he seeks the more to gather, because his needs remain insatiable. Man in his attempt to defy nature and amass more than the essential daily needs demand has evidently slipped to greed, and he feels safe in its scum. But then what can greed be said to be? Greed is seeking more than you need. It is the crave to have more than is required for your survival. The fact is that each day is sufficient unto itself; whatever you need for the day is made provision for by the day as its necessities beckon on you. So there is in essence no need to acquire and hoard on the basis that it is not just to suffic...

I have watched closely as the business of governance calls and the demands of politics exert. I have observed as the president responds to these issues with all the pressures they confer. He has tried to assert the needed muscle, yet it seems his efforts just seem to be on a harmonic swing.  Critically, I have looked and have assumed that surrounded with hordes of pressures -economical, political, psychological and ethical, his spirit feeds him with a willingness to weigh in on them but his body appears weaker and even weaker. The chief concern of most Nigerians as at the time President Muhammadu Buhari sought for our presidential mandate was his age. At 72, many had considered the man too old, too analogous and lacking the requisite strength for the onerous task of modern day government. But the Buhari we have now is entirely a different person; he's not only getting older -which wouldn't have been such a serious issue- but he is challenged health-wise and such a path...

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...