CHIBU NDUBUISI'S DIARY.

                                                       THE DOTS WE CONNECT                                                        CHIBU NDUBUISI 1/5/2017 Peace be to you. Historians use records to connect the past and future, comparing notes,events and linking patterns that teaches us lessons for posterity. It was through studying rulers in various environments that made this proposition that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" became...

*Parenting.* A father’s influence goes to the fourth generation after him. Whitney Houston’s parents Emily (Cissy) and John Houston divorced when she was at kindergarten. Together with lover, Bobby Brown, Whitney smoked crack in the presence of their 5 year old daughter, Bobbi Kristina. At 22, Bobbi died of drug abuse…her mother Whitney died at 48 on similar grounds. Great careers and more importantly, great lives lost due to weak fatherhood. 💡While there is little you can do about your ancestors, there is something that you can do about your descendants. One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is that he hasn’t completed being a boy. To be in your children’s’ memory tomorrow, you have to be in their lives’ today. Having children doesn’t make you a father. Raising them does. 💡There are many of us who were raised up in unstable families but we don’t have to pass it on to our children. W...

                       DOES WAR SOLVE CONFLICT ?                         CHIBU NDUBUISI     24/04/3017 Peace be to you. Why did mighty empires crumble even with the strenght of their armies? Johan Galtung talks about positive and negative peace. For positive peace he defines it as the absence of structural violence and negative peace to mean presence of structural violence. For positive peace to be, structures of rule of law, respect of human rights, respect for dissenting voices and strong institutions must be able to work independently without meddlesome overbearing influence of other structures in the system. We can remember vividly the recent travel ban in the USA by an executive order of  President Donald Trump and how a court of com...

                      OUR DIFFERENT ROUTES TO SPIRITUAL SALVATION                                    CHIBU NDUBUISI 17/04/2017 Peace be to you.                                   The supreme religious challenge is to see God's  image in one who is not in our   image (Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.) As Christians all over the world celebrate the resurrection of  Jesus Christ, a thought for all faiths to make space for other faiths not in their image. Sacks writes that "we have conqured every distance except one -the distance between human bei...

#BBNaija: Television As Madness April 11, 2017  BY REUBEN ABATI What a relief! So, the Big Brother Naija reality television programme is finally over. It ended Sunday evening with 23-year old Efe Michael Ejemba, University of Jos graduate of Economics and singer winning the N25 million including a Sport utility vehicle at stake, with 57.6% of the votes from over 24 million voters across Africa. Warri, where Efe’s family lives, erupted in excitement. At the Multichoice viewing centre in Ikeja, Lagos, where Katung Aduwak took charge so brilliantly, there was a similar eruption of incandescent joy. I was relieved because for about 70 days, the Big Brother Naija show was a big distraction, crass capitalism at its most cynical edge, a source of unmanageable madness in homes and on the streets. Now that it is over, it is time for some honest frank talk for the attention of all stakeholders involved. Let me start with the lessons, on a positive note, before delivering the bl...

BREAKING FROM  VICTIM HOOD  CYCLE               CHIBU NDUBUISI  10/04/2017 Peace be to you.                             "A people that elects corrupt politicians are not victims but accomplices"                                                                    George Orwell As an undergraduate, I was regaled with many reasons why we are a backward Nation,  most notably, excuses of slavery, colonialism, imperialism and neo imperialism....

                THE STORIES WE TELL              CHIBU NDUBUISI 03/04/2017 Peace be to you. Stories instructs and stories destroys. Stories integrates and disintegrates. Stories protects freedom and stories creates tyranny. Stories builds envy and stories cements love. Stories liberates and stories enslaves. Stories honours people stories dishonours people. Stories dignifies and stories denigrates. Stories makes enemies and stories creates friendships.  Stories sustains generations and stories destroys civilizations. Our daily actions or inactions creates a narrative for instructions. What are the stories that have molded our personal and world views? What are the stories that motivates us to action or inaction? What are the stories that lead us to show empathy? What stories lead us to rage? What are the stories that make us contribute towards h...