CHIBU NDUBUISI'S DIARY.

5 things you should know about Nigeria’s 2017 budget. On Monday June 12, 2017, Nigeria’s 2017 budget was finally signed into law after several months of the drama that has come to characterise Nigeria’s budget process. As a Twitter user put it ‘In 2016, we were looking for the budget to get it signed while in 2017 we were looking for who would sign the budget’  (fam, in 2016, the budget literally got missing!! In 2017, there wasn’t anyone to sign it  as the President was abroad for medical treatment and some ‘cabal’ wouldn’t let the acting President sign it) Lol, I know I have digressed but let’s unpack this budget now, shall we? What are the 5 things you should know about the budget? 1. It is a big budget:  The total cost of the budget is N7.44 trillion , a 20.42% increase from the 2016 budget which was valued at N6.06 trillion. 2.Revenue:  The government’s income (projected revenue) is only N4.94 trillion.  How do they expect...

                                        NOBODY IS UGLY; NO NATION IS UGLY                                                       CHIBU NDUBUISI 26/06/2017 Peace be to you To borrow a leaf from the hit song of P Square brothers titled “Nobody ugly” , as a stark reminder to all of us about our innate beauty, that beauty is not in the face but a light in our hearts and that when we begin to learn a new way to think that contributes positively to the world, our beauty radiates and shines. I love this quote, that “if an egg is ...

- DO YOU KNOW ? 1.Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. 2.The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. 3.The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. 4.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 5.Ants never sleep! 6.“I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 7.Coca-Cola was originally green. 8.The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 9.When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. 10.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. 11.There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” 12.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 13.There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 14.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the...

                                      HYPER-SUCCESS PHENOMENON                                      CHIBU NDUBUISI 19/06/2017 “ God creates order it is man who creates chaos” Peace be to you. The fear of rejection, the fear of what people will say and think, the obsession of not belonging, the thoughts of insecurity of what tomorrow holds and the pressure of a consumer society leads us inevitably in to circle of always “wanting to be” but never “arriving”, “wanting to acquire” but never   “appreciating”, always longing “to be seen” but always made“ invisible” by the hood we choose to wear. We have had so many...

Kidnapping: End of ‘Evans the Terrible’ Olubode Olusesan AFTER a long-drawn-out escapade, the long arm of the law has finally caught up with a kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike. A special police Intelligence Response Team working with officers from the Lagos State Command captured “Evans the Terrible” last weekend in his palatial Magodo, Lagos home. The arrest evoked collective relief and triggered spontaneous jubilation among officers and observers who witnessed the operation.Evans, a career criminal,evaded justice for years. He faces an array of kidnapping, armed robbery and drug charges.  This heart-warming moment should not, however, mislead the police – and the public – into the false belief that kidnapping and sundry crimes have been significantly undermined. Evans, 36, is as notorious, powerful and wealthy as they come. His criminality began early in life, according to his own testimonies. Nigeria’s latest most infamous crim...

Can we vaccinate the world against poverty? by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance Education is the strongest antidote to poverty and we have the opportunity to dramatically expand access to this remedy Vaccinations of 1.6 million children are halting an outbreak of measles in Cambodia. In drought-stricken Somalia, 450,000 people are being immunized against the spread of deadly cholera. And in Brazil, 3.5 million doses of yellow fever vaccine are being deployed to quell a potential epidemic. All this happened in the past month, thanks to vaccines.   Nearly two decades ago, global leaders initiated a ground-breaking effort to get new and underused vaccines to the world’s poorest people. At the time, millions of children were dying each year from preventable diseases. The solution was ambitious but feasible: create a financing facility that would mobilize and leverage funds to vaccinate as many children as possible. What became known as the Gavi Vaccine A...

                                              THE FAMILY UNDER SIEGE                                              CHIBU NDUBUISI        12/06/2017 ‘Tomorrows world is born in what we teach our children today’ Jonathan Sacks Peace be to you. A man seeking direction of a hospital that conducts Deoxyribonucleic acid   (DNA) test through a Facebook friend made hell to let loose over the social media platform with so much troll from a female folk who was not comfortable with such request. Read the post here ( http://pearl...

HOW WILL YOU ACCOUNT FOR THAT TALENT, TREASURE AND TIME GIVEN TO YOU? CHIBU NDUBUISI. 05/06/2017 Peace be to you. Let me present two pictures below this post to you about 1. A photo journalist by the name Kevin Carter and 2. A Syrian refugee Abdul Halim Attar A photo journalist is someone who takes photograph for personal or commercial purposes. Either as a freelancer, (sell his photographs to the public) or employee of an organization. He makes a living from photographing. KELVIN CARTER is a South Africa photo journalist, who began his career photographing scenes of violent struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. However, it was a 1993 picture of famine victim in Sudan that changed his life forever. This picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards a United Nation food Camp, located Kilometers away and Kevin Carter saw this girl and crouched his camera to photograph her, a vulture landed in view and waited patiently for the child to die, so th...