The Reorientators

 REPORIENTATION   The Abandoned Projects Giant of Africa, a land flowing with milk and honey - Nigeria! A country painted with tales of neglected potential and abandoned dreams, strangling the little hope left in the faithful citizens. The echoes of unfinished projects reverberate through the nation, reflecting not only the physical remnants of construction but also the deeper issues that plague the country. From crumbling infrastructure to economic setbacks, the phenomenon of abandoned projects is a model of the challenges Nigeria faces on a larger scale. At first glance, an abandoned project might seem like a simple construction failure – a mere unfinished building, road, or public facility. However, the root causes run much deeper, revealing a complex web of issues emanating from mis-management and corruption...hence the slow rate of progress and missed opportunities experienced by the Nation, even on the global stage. Corruption, like a corrosive force, eats away at the fo...

  REPORIENTATION ON COLOS Giggling betides me almost all the time because I have just enough to cry about. Everyone wants a change but we want to do nothing. Colos is our usual, yes, we take it before, during and after elections. Always on colos, their policies never stop policing our lives. They take from here to there and end up doing almost nothing to ease the state of the source. Laws and rules are made dog against the citizens, they do not apply to the lords. Police everywhere; justice no where. We know not that we are the best of animals when we live without rules. So, let your "eyes clear" and smoke some sense, the weighing balance of the law is not meant to tilt.  We are all on colos at different times and positions of our lives. Our bosses fix prices of goods per week; every week we have to double our hustle to maintain a living. Citizens take no care of public properties. It's not their business.  Our colos should not only make us do the irrational; we can use o...

  REPORIENTATION RESPONSIBILITY   It can be quite comforting to blame our fortunes or otherwise on external factors. I am also guilty of this. From man's cradle,  he has passively learned to fault others for his woes. A common example that comes to mind is when God asked Adam why he disobeyed to which he responded "the woman you gave me". Likewise Eve when she was confronted replied "the serpent deceived me". This buttresses that humans are intrinsically wired to not take responsibilities for their woes. As long as he keeps faulting others for his woes, the situation continues to maintain dominion over him.  This is because only when we take full liability for our actions can we experience a paradigm shift that solves them. "Casting blames take the dominion of control further away from us." We begin to think that it does not lie with us to proffer solutions. This is the scenario at play in many of the problems beguiling us. We need to move from casting...

  REPORIENTATION   The Sword of Truth Woes betide the country whose the sword of truth has been buried in the ground of falsehoods. We live in the perilous times in our land. A time when naysayers are celebrated around the city squares. A time when we are weakened by the power of wickedness on account of the falsehoods been peddled mostly by our political prefects. A time when our consciences have been seared with hot iron.  The truth is that we all as Nigerians must be intentional in allowing the sword of truth reign majestically in our land. We can't continually deceive ourselves that all is well when in reality all isn't well with large portion of the citizens living in agonizing pains on daily basis. We must allow the sword of truth to put to the end the power of wickedness in all phases of our leadership.  The sword of truth should be given the space to breath as regards our political prefects being sardistic in the nature of thier conversations most times. We a...

  REPORIENTATION JUST A SPAN AND A SPANNER ...and when the suffering of men makes you overjoyed, you have a very mighty problem. Even the ones chosen to speak for us are busy chewing. What a nation of people with dead hearts! The wellbeing of our fellow makes no sense, once we are faring well, it is well with all.  It is but for a moment, we would play our roles in this world. Just a moment, we would do our parts before the judge. A bit of who we are we would express, and shortly, the stopclock would fume its speech of an end.Then we would all wait patiently for the results of our deeds all through the moments of our activities. Time would be too inconsiderate to give an extra for reconstruction. But would be available in excess for the judge, justice to do. It would be His moment to play His own role in the show.  Be conscious of an end and be more conscious of what follows the end. Remember others when it is very possible to. Save yourself some stress, nothing will go w...

  REPORIENTATION TWO MUCH TO AXE If it was me, I would ask for one more. The higher the number, the faster and easier the work. Is it too much to ask for two meals daily, a good job and sound education for our children? The poor man stands laughing even when painful sores hid in his tired shoes. What can he do? But to dance to the eroding beats of the oppressors since no sight of a rescue team is smelled. Is it too much to ask, that our future are honoured and prepared like brides with sound education so they can move us ahead of time? And even move the entire nation.  Is two much to axe, when three would not even be enough? The number of employees keep going down and their spaces not filled. The  few ones left are burdened and all that matters is still productivity. We all know when the factors of production are not intact, the products would procure life out of men. Who disrupts the order of things and expect things to be in order? No, never, it will never be. Let thing...

  REPORIENTATION NOTHING TO WRITE Each time it looks like nothing is coming to mind, the times we unconsciously live the life; truly a time we wander around the world with ecstasy, surely we should pause for a check. That time, that exact time is when we should take a break and remember that there is more than enough to write and in fact, we are on our thousandth text...our thousandth text. Yes, we are on our thousandth text. Day by day we write as we live, touching lives and torturing lives. In no time we get the reward of the stories we are able to write. A blast from our past will either open up a way or create a larger obstruction even as we continue this journey of life. Hmmm...it will either open up a way out or drop a bigger barrier. Do not forget, both the rich and the poor have heart beats in our chests. Both can be callous and either can be a blessing to their world, it's all a matter of the choices we make per time...yes, it is a matter of the choices we make. Do not for...