The Reorientators

  REPORIENTATION   Seasons Seconds roll into minute, minutes to hour, hours to day, days to week, weeks to month, months to year, years to decade and on and on and on. As the time ticks, seasons come and seasons go. There are different seasons in life. The hot season when there is no comfort, no peace, no assurance of hope, no stability. The cold season when there is peace, direction, hope, strength and stability.  Man can not outrightly decide the season they want but can determine the outcome of each season they come into. Your disposition towards a season determines your result. It's a season in our beloved country when everything seems hot; no stability, scarcity with no assurance of hope from anywhere. It's also a season of transition of power. Our disposition towards this season of scarcity, instability should be positive with the hope that this will pass very soon as no season stays forever. We should also try to discern what is good as we make our choices in this ...

REPORIENTATION    Powers, Protests and Intellectuals Strength Power is power, but knowledge is knowledge, a form of power but not power exactly.  Protest, physical agitations typical of fellow Nigerians, has done more harms than good. I've never gone for one before and I don't think I'll ever go due to the way we do it. I don't believe in this walking format! Oh...maybe it's because of the country I find myself in. Probably it's friendly in other places. Do we really need to subject ourselves to protest everytime?  Is protesting the true solution we need? If so, why don't we change the way we do it? Let us all leave our cities and move to the presidential city to hammer into the heads of our Heads the need to give us a working system!... I tell you, no army would be able to stop us! Can't we try our mental strength? Really? But won't the Powers silence us due to fear of ridiculing and exposing their secrets and shortcomings which can lead them to bei...

REPORIENTATION     THE WORK OF THY HAND “That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.” ― Charles Todd, A Duty to the Dead Two important factors determine the growth and development of any nation. Her level of educated individuals and the number of productive laborers (skilled and unskilled) that such a nation possesses.  Diving into the giant of Africa, one can easily discover the high level of educated individuals every year but then, one will be amazed at the level of underdevelopment and poverty in the country. Nigeria is a rich fertile land blessed by God with abundant mineral resources and her people with the technical know-how to tap it. Yet her Leaders left it untouched waiting for the Messiah to come to help them tap it. It has gotten to the point where as a nation we need to start looking inward and retrace our steps to days when we truly earn the name Giant of Africa . When we were known for our lar...

  REPORIENTATION HUSTLE The quest for a better life and a convenient way of livelihood is one that is innate. This concept can be seen over and again; illustrated on the pages of history. Evolutionary instinct has forced man to seek better means of living e.g. by developing better tools to hunt and farm and by building more robust shelter. All of these are attempts to improve the living condition.   This much needed instinct does not preclude the modern man. We all strive to make our lives better. This instinct in itself is admirable in that it forces us to harness the resources with which we are endowed to provide ease and comfort for us.   However, as admirable as this instinct is, some will stop at nothing to actualise their lofty dream of better living. This situation can be exploited by vices lurking with the subjects personality and within his/her society. The vices feed on social innuendos sponsored by poverty and illiteracy or both.   This situation has a wid...

 REPORIENTATION THE CONFUSED He knows not a bit about the contestants. She knows almost nothing about the current. He's not even aware of when it's taking place. Who else is planning not to cast a vote if not you? The most confused honourable citizen, what will you vote when you know not the candidates, the lantern or the star? You are surely planning to vote poverty and extreme  hardship with your ignorance. You are 'kuku' doing well since whoever wins the elections is nothing similar to your business. Continue dragging us into the muds. Oh, you want to sit and chant a better life for all! Your noise will go a bit  beyond your doors. Chants without actions is nothing better than a  noise. Our voice cum actions will save our nation from the well without water in which we reside.  Your voter's card is not an ID. Do well and do good never to confuse its    great use for what you think it is. Exercise your franchise in this rescue mission and let's save o...

  THE PILLARS  Indeed, as the Holy Bible succinctly puts it that; "Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is reproach to any nation." There's no better way the Bible could have put it in respect to the magnitude of corruption and pollution going on in the land. There's no doubt about the greatness of our country in terms of both human and natural resources but the very reason behind our hardship and misery is several pillars that we have pulled down by our stained hands.  We have willingly pulled down the pillars of nationalism, patriotism, honesty, righteousness, brotherly love, ethnic and religious tolerance, peaceful co-existence among other national virtues. We can't soar higher as citizens and as a country if we don't first revisit where we had missed it, rebuild our ruins and replace our pillars. We must replace and rebuild the pillars of honesty, brotherly love, mutual understanding, religious tolerance, diligence and commitment among other noble acts th...

 REPORIENTATION MAKE A LIVING   Just few years ago, while serving my destiny after serving my fatherland, words came to me from the pot of wisdom embedded in a “senior friend.” I heard “SOAM” say,  “Seek survival first before any other thing.” Those words have not ceased to dwell in my bosom for aye and have done no less in my journey. Survival is paramount for continuity. When a man is able to make himself feed and fit without much struggle, begging will jump out of his profile and nothing will ever be capacitated to stop his “making it.” “Make a living before you live the life“ leaped into my ears recently. It may not whisper much sense but wisdom lies there in. Trying to make a living is the horse that is meant to be before the cart of living the life. Whoever lives life before making a living will eventually serve his term. Darkness is never scarce at night, making a living is never full of fun but joy comes with dawning. Working hard can never be harder than the frui...