CHIBU NDUBUISI'S DIARY.

                                     SAME MESSAGE: DIFFERENT MELODY                                                CHIBU NDUBUISI 28/08/2017 SAME MESSAGE: DIFFERENT MELODY CHIBU NDUBUISI 28/08/2017 Peace be to you. Shakespeare wrote that “if music be the food of love play on, give me excess of it”. Every age has its own melody but the message remains the same. It can be messages of peace, harmony, love, economy, government, politics, unity, gratitude, etc. These messages keep resonating in every age with different melodies. Ras kimono...

                         The Hippo Generation vs Cheetah Generation; The Next Battle for Africa                                                        21/08/2017 Chibu Ndubuisi Peace be to you The choice of this topic was extracted from the 2011 TED talk of George Ayittey where he x-rayed the past and the way forward for Africa. In the classic novel “Animal Farm”, George Orwell brought to the fore the intrigues of power play and the truthfull assertion that “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others’ particularly as leadership in Africa exemplifies. Lately in Nigeria,the continued absence of President  Buhari as a result of il...

                           The Ozubulu Massacre; We Must Heed the Call to “Silence the Guns”                                                  14/08/2017. Chibu Ndubuisi Peace be to you. Like a horror movie, on the 7/08/2017 at St Philip's Catholic Church Ozubulu in Anambra state Nigeria, worshipers were assassinated by unknown gunmen. May the souls of the departed rest in peace, Amen. The 50 th Anniversary Solemn Declaration “E” on Peace and Security of the African Union advises all African Nations “not to bequeath the burden of conflict to the next generation of Africans and undertake to end all wars in Africa by 2020”. The Sustainable Development Goals ‘16’ articulate...

From Mr Ibrahim Katsina (former DSS Director) WHY THE PUSHING! I went to First Bank e-bank hall few hours ago. As I was about entering the hall, a lady ran ahead of me and pushed me away, so she could quickly join the long queue before I will get to the queue. I did not say anything, she thought I will queue up behind her, but I was actually not there to withdraw, I came to deposit. So I walked to the deposit machine and I was the only one there. No single person on the queue. When I finished depositing, I was about leaving the hall, when the lady came from the queue and apologized to me for pushing me away the other time. With sorry smile on her face, she said: 'I am sorry for pushing you away, I thought you were coming to the queue' i just smiled and told her not to bother, that it's not a big deal. But since then, the lesson in this story kept coming to my mind, and I felt I should share it for us all to learn from it. Friends, who are you 'pushing' away a...

The WEAK AND INCOMPETENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ‎ - He was weak because he embraced the "POWER OF LOVE" over the "LOVE OF POWER" I have NEVER seen a man so insulted in his life YET so loved. 2 years gone and the North has called him names, the South West has called him names; the South East has called him names even his brothers have bashed him, YET he remains the light that was at the end of a very dark tunnel. I have never seen a leader who preferred the "POWER OF LOVE" to the "LOVE OF POWER". I have never seen a calmer and humble man like this "weak" JONATHAN. Like David tending to his flocks in the bush, GEJ was tending to students in the classroom and then he was approached to get his 2 passports. Grace had found him as he was picked to become a deputy governor without a godfather or political background or friends. From there is history........ ............. The weak and incompetent man climbed to the number one spot even in the mi...

                                                                                      Rising Africa: A Narrative of Hope                                           07/08/2017 By Chibu Ndubuisi Peace be with you. In the year 2000, The Economist magazine called Africa "the hopeless continent" hence I am presenting a  narrative of hope about  "Our Rising Africa". ...

Ezra and Thomas joined a company together a few months after their graduation from university. After a few years of work, their Manager promoted Ezra to a position of Senior Sales Manager, but Thomas remained in his entry level Junior Sales Officer position. Thomas developed a sense of jealousy and disgruntlement, but continued working anyway. One day Thomas felt that he could not work with Ezra anymore. He wrote his resignation letter, but before he submitted it to the Manager, he complained that  Management  did not value hard working staff, but promoted only the favoured! The Manager knew that Ezra worked very hard for the years he had spent at the company; even harder than Thomas and therefore he deserved the promotion. So in order to help Thomas to realize this, the Manager gave Thomas a task. “Go and find out if anyone is selling water melons in town?” Thomas returned and said, "yes there is someone!" The Manager asked, "how much per kg?" Thomas drove ...