CHIBU NDUBUISI'S DIARY.

LESSONS FROM GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN © 2019                                  CHIBU NDUBUISI                         WEEK 9 2019 Peace be upon you. In this season of electioneering, I will draw from the archives, the words of former President Jonathan that remains instructive till this day and lessons we can learn from his understanding of life, not just politics. The quotes are: ·          " I am the most abused and insulted president in the world, but when I leave office, you will all remember me for the total freedom you enjoyed under my government."  ·          My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian. ·          In the comfort of our offices, let us not forget that majority of our people live below the poverty line. ·          Any society or country that closes the vital valves of its democratic space cannot develop at a reasonable pace. ·          Where there is no opportunity for one man one vote, there

                                       BECOMING A MAN (BAM) © 2019                                      CHIBU NDUBUISI                         WEEK 8 2019                                   “To be a man is not a day’s job”                        Peace be upon you     Going through the 2019 Annual Letter of the Bill& Melinda Gates foundation, they noted in the report about their visit to a prison facility to learn about the link between poverty and incarceration. Helping to support programmes that help in smooth transition, the University of Chicago ran an intervention programme "Becoming A Man" (BAM) that works to improve impulse control, help decision making, build skills of young men and help reduce violent crimes that normally exist among young people and normally ends in incarceration or death and came to the conclusions that such programmes works.. In Nigeria we have such intervention programmes carried out by religious bodies to help