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 a universally accepted truth . The case of president Al Assad of Syria is a case in point. The case of the North Korean leader Kim in Asia is equally another. When we look at Africa,  many examples abound. Sciences on its part, use experiments to connect the dot with the propositions of many universally accepted theories that helps explains phenomenons. To connect the dots of our dreams there must be practical commitment on our part for its materialisation.  However, connecting a dot can be positive or negative.  A societ

*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. We don’t have to fight in the presence of our children. We can choose to shield th

                       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 competent jurisdictions reversed the ban because it negates some principles of their federation. Negative peace is  when Economic and Financial Crime commission (EFCC )or police for example in Nigeria becomes the jury and prosecutor In a case that requ

                      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 beings" God made us in his image and allowed us to be different "just as the natural enviroment depends on bio diversity so the human environment depends on cultural diversity because no one creed has a monopoly on spiritual truths, no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual,  ethical and artistic expression of mankind.  God loves diversity. He does not ask us to serve him in the same way. God cannot be reduced to a single faith or

#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 blows.

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.  Yes, these excuses might have contributed to the larger underdevelopment narrative but it is no longer fashionable to me. When the National budget of a 3rd world nation like Nigeria on  Defense  is more than that budgeted for Research and Development  or Education,  how can we complain of imperialism? I have chosen to discontinue from a dysfunctional thinking cycle because being in that  victim hood  cycle gives me a good excuse not to question why our policy makers and ruling elites have difficulty in putting us on the right path. The v

                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 healing a fractured world. Whose storyline are we listening to? What lesson did Pharaoh teach the people of Israel about slavery? What less