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DRIVERS OF CHANGE: THE ENVIRONMENT (2) CHIBU NDUBUISI 30/10/2017   Peace be upon you. In continuation of our analysis on the Drivers of Change, I will explore the environment via climate changes, natural resources and how they influence change either for good or bad. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines the environment as the sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of an organism. We are told that nine (9) countries share the River Nile, eight (8) countries share the River Zambezi, ten (10) countries Share the River Niger. Imagine when there is an environmental problem that changes the quality or quantity of water needed what happens? In September 2015 the Vanguard Newspaper reported that water released from Kiri dam in Guyuk major dam in Madagali Lagdo dam from Cameroon made rivers overflow and submerged about 116 villages and towns in Nigeria. Climate changes on the other hand are the depletion of the ozone l

DRIVERS OF CHANGE(1) CHIBU NDUBUISI 23/10/2017 Peace be upon you. “The unknown unknowns are multiplying daily” Donald Rumsfeild What would life be without change? How can we identify factors that drive these changes? What are the impact of globalization, technology, politics, demographics, religion and trade in driving change? What are the roles of people, historical make up of nations and state institutions in driving change? How can we identify the positive and negative forces of change? How can we leverage on the advantages of positive change while minimizing the impact of negative change? How can change lead us to live more peacefully with one another? We will try to briefly explain some of these variables because you cannot explain a dynamic phenomenon like change with a fixed cause. GLOBALIZATION: This is the major driver of change in the 21st century. The world has never been so connected before like this era. Cultures are collapsin

TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL MESSIANISM IN AFRICA: PEACE, A FORLORN HOPE. BY CHIBU 16/10/2017 Peace be upon you. The concept of Totalitarian democracy was popularized by the Israeli historian J . L Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of nation states but have little or no participation in the decision process. Political Messianism is equally an off shoot of totalitarianism. A Phenomenon, were one leader is seen as the key to solving many political and socio-economic problems. The leader holds the “Sole and Exclusive Truth” to solving all problems and unlocking all potentials inherent in any state. “The leader is the state and the state is the leader “. The leader “belongs to everybody and belongs to no one”. The sole view of the leader can become a law. The leader sees politics as a Zero –Sum game. The leader disobeys courts orders brazenly without any fuss. The l

                                                                                                                                     LOANED                                  09/10/2017 By Chibu Ndubuisi Peace be upon you. A loan is facility you receive to pay back within a given time frame, either on long-term or short term. Some organization practice loaning of their staff to other organizations to help them improve on their capacity, some organization practice intra- organizational loaning which at times is called reshuffling or transfer. We hear about exchange programmes, Professors going on sabbatical leave to other institutions. The crux of loan taking is about increasing, starting up, improving or contributing to the existing make up of any structure to help add value. Back In my secondary school days, many hymns appealed to me and one of them is the hymn by Medical Mission Sisters: Pilgrim Song Man is lonely by birth. Man is only a pilgrim o

PAPER WORK BEFORE PERIODIC ELECTIONS BY CHIBU NDUBUISI. 02/10/2017 Peace be upon you. Samuel Huntington hypothesized that the test for democracy is when a country organizes two peaceful transition of power. Nigeria has already passed his test, but why the discontent from its federating units? If election was all that is needed for a democracy to work, why was Muslim Brotherhood toppled in Egypt? If elections were all that matters, why is there still a great deal of discontent in Nigeria regarding its constitution? The late legal luminary Chief Rotimi Williams once said that “it is an aberration for the Nigerian constitution to proclaim “We the people”. During the National Conference of 2014, Pastor Bosun brought to the fore a very shocking aberration in the 1999 constitution. Sharia was mentioned 73 times, Islam 28 times, Grand khadi 54 times and Muslims 10 times and Christianity was not mentioned in any section of the constitution