AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

My weekend was one partly spent in the city of Owerri and partly spent in my village. There was a basis for why my weekend had to be rationed between my place of residence and my village of origin. I was prompted to travel home by a notification, which albeit seemed a command, to be present at home for the community exco meeting. My presence was needed, I was informed. As the deputy secretary and the handy scribe, my presence would be a fulfilment of service to community. And this too gives basis to why I'd seen it as a command! I returned Saturday evening and the meeting held on Sunday, after I had worshipped earlier. And very remarkably, I undertook my responsibility. I returned to Owerri having spent my weekend worthwhile- serving community and seeing my parents, who were elated to see me!

Just recently the new media was awash with the news of sextape involving one of Nigeria's most popular female musicians. Tiwa Savage's intimate affair with her partner was recorded (supposedly by them with their mutual consent) and it became a subject of attention and interest to so many when it suddenly went public. Remember, it was not a subject of discourse, and not even interest nor attention when it was within the confines of their covert privacy. After all, haven't they be getting intimate all these while? Privacy is an attempt to conceal oneself from the prying attention of beyond the individual self; it is the denial of exposure to outside sentiments.  The purpose of privacy could be to restrict the self from the disturbances and distractions that could emanate from prying outside senses. The situation that warrants the self to commit to a sense of privacy could be censored or uncensored.  Whereas situations like the Tiwa Savage case could be censored and thus warra...

Each morning, we roll over the bed, to an awakening brightness that tells us it's a new dawn and we are alive to it. What indeed literally goes in our minds on this realization? Methink it should be that of gratitude to the omnipotent power that made it possible. Possible to be alive and to witness another new opportunity. Each day indeed is an opportunity that we ought to be grateful for. It's an opportunity that we need to explore, for the purpose of practically evincing gratitude and to better self. Succintly, what each day of our lives presents to us opportunity to make-up for past errors, impact on the present world and to prepare for a better future. Today, Monday and first working day of the week in the city of Owerri was a reflection of the ingrafting status quo within Southeastern Nigeria, the obfuscation of the sit-at-home held almost everyone and wedged our commitment to activity. But then, we can't deny that we are alive! And so we can't deny the offer...

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...

Today, I'll be talking about relationship- particularly the kind that exists between a male and a female who have found interest in themselves and are become ''loved up''.  Isn't it a topic worth discussing, after all everyone is (or claim to be) in a relationship? Of course, it's been overrated that people want to fit in by seemingly being in supposed entanglements! The goal of the kind of relationship in focus, just like every other associations, is to find a mutually benefitting result built chiefly by a commitment that's a function of deep understanding of both partners shared values. But then, in adding to understanding, inna relationship that's a function of being ''loved up'' place of affection is necessary to lubricate this commitment. In other words, the elemental factors that are key for a romantic relationship that seeks to grow into the future and thrive so well are understanding (of what's the vision of the parties in...

Virtue is that which builds and upholds the common good. In a world that's communally shared and that's inhabited in an innate social harmony, virtue is highly needed to make same a better place for all. From my end, virtue is good thoughts, good actions that are geared towards the common good. Although, decoratively, virtue is defined as behavior showing great moral and ethical standards, its purpose is to make humans be really humans to both their species and their environment. Everyday, even as much as society seems to wander apart from the fabric of humanity, tilting rather fearfully to heightened acts of intense antagonism to what's virtue, the place of virtue in sustaining the elementary focus of the human race cannot be downgraded. The fact is that the whole of nature is fashioned in a discreet fabric of morality and takes the fibres of virtues and ethics to hold same stronger. Straddling aware from the core elements of nature just merely impresses the passing elemen...

Motivation is not just a condescending attrition of being an act of influencing to want to be; it is an admiration that strikes deeply the conviction. It is to say that in being motivated, an individual is stricken into a deep impulse to want to be led into an action by whatever that motivates him. You do not just desire and just want to be, but you're engineered to want to replicate. In admiring something just out of its desire, the affective emotive sense is nudged unlike in the case where a deep sense of conviction is involved. Here effective sense is put into use, pushing the individual to act and become. The best way, therefore to motivate oneself is to gather the relevant information needed for impact and tell yourself- consciously been aware of yourself- that yes, you believe that you can take this, that you can do that and that you can achieve that which your knowledge presents to you. Take that which excites you a step further- into a conviction backed by germane reasons, ...