HAPPY BIRTH DAY CHINEKS

HAPPY BIRTH DAY CHINEKS

Why Should We Celebrate our Birthday?

It is good to be thankful for what you have in life and what you have accomplished. But open your eyes to the larger picture. If we are to appreciate the fruits of life, we must first appreciate the tree that bears the fruit: birth itself.

Birth is your beginning. It is a window to the chance of a lifetime, the chance to fulfill your unique mission. So a birthday is a momentous occasion, to be commemorated just as a nation commemorates its birth or as an organization celebrates its founding. Still, it is much more than an occasion to receive gifts. It is a chance to remember the day that a major event occurred, to celebrate and give thanks and to reflect upon how well we are fulfilling our calling.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that G-d invested in you at birth is present once again. It is our duty to be receptive to that force. How do we do so? By committing to a life guided by G-d's will, and by using the abilities and resources we were born with to perfect ourselves and society, and to make the world a good and sacred home for G-d.

A birthday is a time to celebrate birth itself, the joy of life. It is also an occasion to rethink your life: How great is the disparity between what I have accomplished and what I can accomplish? Am I spending my time properly or am I involved in things that distract me from my higher calling? How can I strengthen the thread that connects my outer life and my inner life?

A birthday can also teach us the concept of rebirth. To recall our birth is to recall a new beginning. No matter how things went yesterday, or last year, we always have the capacity to try again. Your birthday is a refresher, a chance for regeneration--not just materially, but spiritually.

On your birthday, gather with family and friends and study something meaningful together.

There is no better way to celebrate a birthday than to commit a special act of goodness. It is easy enough to say you are thankful; it is far better to show it by doing a kind deed, something that you did not do yesterday. Not because someone is forcing you. Not because someone suggests it. But simply because your inner goodness, your soul, wants to express its thanks for being born and alive.

Such an act of kindness gives G-d great pleasure, because He sees that the child in whom He invested, the particular child he wanted to be born on a particular day, is living up to its potential. And nothing, of course, gives a parent greater joy. This is the true experience of birth, the true beginning of a life of meaning.

Happy birth day chineks

Why Should We Celebrate our Birthday?

Why Should We Celebrate our Birthday?

It is good to be thankful for what you have in life and what you have accomplished. But open your eyes to the larger picture. If we are to appreciate the fruits of life, we must first appreciate the tree that bears the fruit: birth itself.

Birth is your beginning. It is a window to the chance of a lifetime, the chance to fulfill your unique mission. So a birthday is a momentous occasion, to be commemorated just as a nation commemorates its birth or as an organization celebrates its founding. Still, it is much more than an occasion to receive gifts. It is a chance to remember the day that a major event occurred, to celebrate and give thanks and to reflect upon how well we are fulfilling our calling.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that G-d invested in you at birth is present once again. It is our duty to be receptive to that force. How do we do so? By committing to a life guided by G-d's will, and by using the abilities and resources we were born with to perfect ourselves and society, and to make the world a good and sacred home for G-d.

A birthday is a time to celebrate birth itself, the joy of life. It is also an occasion to rethink your life: How great is the disparity between what I have accomplished and what I can accomplish? Am I spending my time properly or am I involved in things that distract me from my higher calling? How can I strengthen the thread that connects my outer life and my inner life?

A birthday can also teach us the concept of rebirth. To recall our birth is to recall a new beginning. No matter how things went yesterday, or last year, we always have the capacity to try again. Your birthday is a refresher, a chance for regeneration--not just materially, but spiritually.

On your birthday, gather with family and friends and study something meaningful together.

There is no better way to celebrate a birthday than to commit a special act of goodness. It is easy enough to say you are thankful; it is far better to show it by doing a kind deed, something that you did not do yesterday. Not because someone is forcing you. Not because someone suggests it. But simply because your inner goodness, your soul, wants to express its thanks for being born and alive.

Such an act of kindness gives G-d great pleasure, because He sees that the child in whom He invested, the particular child he wanted to be born on a particular day, is living up to its potential. And nothing, of course, gives a parent greater joy. This is the true experience of birth, the true beginning of a life of meaning.

Happy birth day chineks

Dasuki: EFCC Moves To Arrest Bafarawa

Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for the arrest of former national security adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), over his indictment in the alleged ‎multibillion dollar arms procurement fraud, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun moves against other his associates who may have a link to the deal.

The development prompted a team of EFCC investigators to visit the Abuja residence of former Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, to arrest him over his role in the dodgy arms procurement.

LEADERSHIP Friday recalls that Bafarawa had shown a closeness to Dasuki as he always appeared beside him during the appearance of the former NSA at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The SSS is prosecuting Dasuki before Justice Adeniyi Ademola over his alleged fraudulent roles in arms procurement in the last administration.

According to a member of the EFCC, who spoke to LEADERSHIP Friday on the condition of anonymity, the EFCC team visited the former governor with a view to arresting him because of some revelations in the ongoing investigations into arm procurement.

He, however, stated that the former governor was not at his residence at the time of the visit but that will not deter the Commission from its work as it was determined to continue with the investigations.

The source further noted that other persons, public or private officials, involved with the deal will be thoroughly investigated and, if possible, prosecuted as the Commission was out to ensure corrupt-free society and sanity in public offices.

Buhari had ordered the arrest of Dasuki for his involvement in the misappropriation of billions of dollars meant for the prosecution of the war against terror in the North east.

The president’s directive followed the submission of an interim report by the 13-man presidential committee set up by Buhari to investigate the procurement of equipment for the Armed Forces and defence sector from 2007 to date.

The latest development, perhaps, explains why the federal government has been reluctant to allow Dasuki, who is already being prosecuted for illegal arms possession and money laundering, to travel abroad for medical treatment as ordered by the Federal High Court, Abuja.

While Dasuki has, however, given his side of the story, insisting that he was never invited to appear before an investigative panel on the issue.

He also pledged to tell Nigerians more about the deal when the court case begins.

…Grills Former Perm Sec Over Misappropriation Of SURE-P funds

Meanwhile, the Commission has also interrogated the immediate past permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Nkechi Ejele, for over eight hours for her role in the alleged misapplication of funds meant for the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) appropriated to the Ministry in 2013 and 2014.

Ejele, who arrived at the headquarters of the agency at about 10am, was drilled till late in the evening, spending over eight hours with EFCC interrogators.

LEADERSHIP Friday recalls that former chairman of SURE-P, Christopher Kolade, had revealed that he resigned his position in 2013 because the operations of SURE-P were becoming tainted with corruption and politics.

According to him, some officials of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan were practising “something that was lower than the transparency” expected of an interventionist agency like SURE-P.

Ejele was deployed from the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (Manpower Development Unit) to the Ministry Tourism, Culture & National Orientation on March 6, 2013, where she remained up until she was removed on November 10, 2015, by President Muhammadu Buhari along with other 16 former permanent secretaries.

Magu Goes After Compromised Operatives

Acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has commenced a massive clean-up of the agency with the arrest of some officers allegedly involved in unauthorized leakages of official information and those who caused damaging reports to be published against the Commission by bloggers based on false information.

According to a senior official of the Commission, the action of the officers is prejudicial to discipline and violates their oath of allegiance to the Commission.

The source noted that those already in custody include a management staff of the rank of director, some senior and lower cadre officers, including a former senior operative who was dismissed for corruption and involvement in cult activities.

“Available facts indicate that the staffers who operated as a syndicate were desperately projecting the management staff to take over the leadership of the Commission while attacking the integrity, professionalism and reputation of the EFCC.

“The management staff is believed to have rallied the others into the plot with the promise that he would see to the exit of all police officers (including those who recruited him) from the Commission once he ascends “the throne” as executive chairman.”

According to him, the investigation is ongoing with possibility of more arrests in the coming days.

The discreet investigators are also moving against EFCC officers against whom allegations of corruption had been made by members of the public.

In recent times, the EFCC has been at the receiving end of negative reports by bloggers and mainstream media, targeting its leadership and questioning the integrity of the Commission.

Dasuki Permitted To Travel Abroad For Medical Reasons

The former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki has finally been granted permission to travel out of the country.National Mirror reports that Dasuki was allowed this morning, Friday, November 20, to travel out on medical grounds pending when his trial will begin. Justice Adeniyi Ademola granted the former NSA a period of three weeks to travel out of the country in order to take care of himself medically.

READ ALSO: Dasuki’s Suit Against FG Postponed

Recall that Dasuki is being tried for allegedly involving in the unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering. The trial judge who had earlier granted bail to Dasuki on self-recognition varied the bail conditions which now include a surety, will write an undertaking to produce the accused person on the next adjourned date.

Justice Ademola also said that the surety should be ready to take the position of the accused in case Dasuki refuses to appear in court. In the alternative, Justice Ademola ordered any of the senior counsel to the accused person to sign an undertaking to take his place, before the international passport of the accused is released. His trial has been adjourned till November 26 and 27, 2015.

Dasuki (retd) recently expressed his disappointment over reports that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his arrest over alleged siphoning of billions of dollars earmarked for arms purchases.

Nigeria Has Many Educational Problems – Prof Awosika

Speaking on Sunrise Daily, the university don noted that “our problems are many” adding that “I shudder when I think of what we need to do to overhaul this educational system”.

She listed some of these problems as the reduction of the pass mark of the Joint Administration and Matriculation Board (JAMB) score.

“We lowered the JAMB scores again this year; 180 for universities and 130 for colleges of education and polytechnics” she said insisting that “we should not water down the system.

“But if we are not going to use JAMB, lets task the universities and colleges of education to have solid curricula that will build up solid people, especially for the college of education” she said.

She however added that those with an E pass can be allowed entry into the colleges of education noting that “there is nothing wrong with it; but we have to have a curriculum to back those people up when they show up, so that it’s just not theoretical but we are giving them solid foundation on how to teach, what to teach”.

Prof Awosika berated the fact that S75 ( a certificate given to candidates who fail the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) ) holders “are teaching in the senior section of our secondary schools” noting that “Ekiti to be specific has that issue”.

She also frowned at the fact that education is the last resort for school and work applicants insisting that “it shouldn’t be that way because people teaching our students should be excellent, stellar individuals but we are putting our dregs where we need to put the top ones”.

She argued that the Nigerian education should be tailored to the system obtainable in Finland because they picked the best of their best, made them to teach in a fashion where the students were not only learned enough to pass their examinations and also abolished the standardised examinations.

“And when they tested this out with the rest of the world, they beat everybody else. They beat the United States of America, they beat Norway because teachers are special and are paid like their contemporaries in oil companies” she said.

She advised that “we flush out the ones that are not supposed to be in our educational system; any teacher that is not qualified to be there should not be there” adding that “let’s find them something else to do because the future of this country is too special for that”

Prof Awosika also assured Nigerians that the recommendations reached at the 20th National Economic Summit Group’s conference on Education is still being worked on and described the appointment of former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, as the Minister of Education as “a step in the right direction”.

She noted that the committee members are still working to ensure that recommendations made in the subsectors are eventually implemented but noted that “it will take a lot of support for that to be achieved, from the Ministry of the Education and the Federal Government.

“Unfortunately, time is running out till 2015but we are hoping we and get some low hanging fruits before the next election because a lot rides on that” she said.

She allayed fears of discontinuance of the recommendations should there be a change in the leadership of the government noting that the organisation is set up to give continuity on any project, whether it is agriculture, education or health and make sure “they sit on it through any kind of government changeover”

She said part of the recommendation at the summit, though not clearly spelt out, was to have “someone who could do the job” of overseeing Nigeria’s educational system.

“Someone with a background and qualified to do the job. I think appointing the new minister (Ibrahim Shekarau) is a step in the right direction, because no matter what we put out there as recommendations, if we do not have someone on that seat who is fit for purpose, who is committed to education that is fit for purpose, then we would have done it in vain” she said.

“The new minister has had a lot of time in the ministry and has been in education for a long time and so hopefully that is a step in the right direction” she added.

This year’s National Economic Summit, which focused solely on the education sector, was declared open by President Goodluck Jonathan.

“The decision to hold the Summit on education was taken to address the decline in a sector that is critical to economic development,” said Frank Nweke Jnr, Director-General of the NESG.

“The Nigerian education sector is in dire straits, and requires both public and private sector intervention, if the country is to fulfil its potential as not only a regional powerhouse, but as a global player”, he added.