My First Scholarship - by Glorious Wilberforce
When we learn to do the things we fear, we achieve our desired results, when we refuse to see limits to the heights we can attain, we get so high.
What must African youths do differently
Martin Luther King said, “Not everyone can be famous but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service.” Leaders are born to serve.
Dead Men Walking On the Streets of Nigeria
The sad reality is that members of the masses that get to lead forget their source even if they trekked to school without shoes.
Blind Youths are falling into a ditch, cries History
The youths are too proud to submit themselves to mentorship, they believe they can “blow” overnight. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Halidu Abdulai and Others Wonder: “Where Did We Go Wrong” As Africans In Africa?
Many a time, people travel out of their home countries due to a wide range of reasons. But for some, the process of acquiring a visa and other travel documents can be a harrowing experience…
Perhaps this is grief
Grief The first time I experienced grief, it wasn’t because I had lost someone dear to me or a family member. It was me sitting alongside my uncle, he on a wooden chair padded thinly with foam and myself on a plastic chair with my legs outstretched, suggesting a subtle argument with my eyes to look up. The sensation of grief was obvious in the silence that was interspersed by the occasional sorry my uncle or the other guy would utter. The “sorry” was said with just enough soul to jerk a nod or smile from the brother neighbors we had come to visit. They had lost their brother and he was 28. Before I sat down, I shook hands with one of them and I thought of saying “please accept my condolences” just as I had seen done in movies, but the grip of the handshake made me say…
Tackling Inequities Can Reduce The Burdens of Oral Health Diseases
Inequity is a disease that creates a crazy circle if not tackled. It is like a malignant growth that gets under the skin and spreads until the next generation is crippled. The evil plague of oral health challenges, most especially in under-served communities is a mighty ocean formed from the tiny drops of inequity. There is an everyday collision of inequity, its children and oral health diseases. As a dentist, I am faced with the challenge of tackling the diseases of inequities’ most obvious portals while constantly forced to face the pain of watching the people who seemingly cannot afford to buy a toothbrush drown themselves in the hopelessness of anxiety and depression, among the other stings that come from inequity. No doubt that oral health problems weigh down heavily on the economically disadvantaged population and inequity is a causative factor. There is another disturbing wrinkle to this: the most…
ECHOES OF THEIR VOICES: KEEP OFF DANGEROUS ZONES!
If I had known, I would have listened to my father’s instruction of keeping from going out later than seven-thirty in the night
Domestic Violence: Breaking the silence
Women are 70 times more likely to be killed in the weeks after leaving their abusive partners than at any other time during the relationship.
A Brand New Story
Life is a strange adventure that teaches us lessons. It all started when I got my first educational degree in a small tow… My name is Willy-Edgar Yao Jefferson Kouakou and I am a product of determination
Grasses Aren’t Greener on the Other Side
Being strong, intelligent, creative, in charge, capable, weak, susceptible and subservient is not a function of gender but one’s personality.
Echoes of their voices: keep it high
You have to realize that keeping mute over your sexual abuse experience will not only make you
suffer for the rest of your life,
Leading Without a Position
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, Abraham Lincoln said. Oftentimes one wants to do good but doesn’t know how or bends the law by being authoritative. Showing responsibility does not go with a position or an office. Leading is in the heart. Never make anyone feel as if there isn’t room on the lifeboat. No matter the mistake, no matter what mile a person is at on their road to mastery, always be ready and willing to throw a lifeline – lend a hand, offer insight, donate your time, run out for coffee. The winners understand that strengthening capacity at every level, in every person, is the way to win. Seen the movie Invictus? Clint Eastwood’s excellent and entertaining reminder of great leadership. Morgan Freeman performs as Nelson Mandela. The movie taught me how to eloquently execute astonishing acts of forgiveness, compassion and moving upward…