YOU ARE FROM ABOVE
Did you realize that as a child of God; you are a special, rare breed, and an ambassador here on earth?
Did you realize, that you are not of this world, you live here but have a higher life that is energized and regulated from above, so you cannot be disadvantaged but rather you live the Advantage, called "The BLESSED LIFE"
Did you realize that you are Royal priesthood, a holy nation, a chosen generation, a peculiar people.
Did you realize that you are a child of the KING! The owner, possessor of the heavens and the earth!
As a CHILD of the king, that makes you a PRINCE/PRINCESS; it means that royal blood flows through your veins just like Prince Charles and his two sons, Andrew and his brother.
As a royal you do not behave like a commoner, you must ACT, SPEAK and BEHAVE differently from everybody else.
Your Father is God; He owns the world and controls all the peoples of the earth. He is the governor over all the nations and all kings and queens must pay allegiance to God their king and maker, irrespective of lineage and kingdom all must bow to God whether willingly or unwilling remember King Nebuchadnezzar of the Bible.
As a prince/princess of God the most HIGH, you must not act like the world is acting, because you come from a different world, you must not dance to the tune and dictates of this world because this world is perishing and will ultimately perish!
As a prince/princess of God you are;
INDESTRUCTIBLE!
UNSTOPPABLE!
UNQUENCHABLE!
UNCURSEABLE!
UNHEXABLE!
UNCONQUERABLE!
INCREDIBLE!
You Can do all things because Christ strengthens you; you care dare where others fear, you can soar where others crawl, you can succeed where others fail! It is your birthright, it is your unique way, it is the advantage of being the SON of the KING of all the earth!
The Lord of Hosts always has your back! He goes before you and makes the crooked paths straight, He fights for you and defends your righteous cause. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
Your life is mapped out and planned for; you are not a face, a phase or merely a statistics.
God defends you daily.
God knows your name and He understands your frame and your frailties.
God watches over you like a mother hen and He protects and shields you every hour, every day, and every moment.
God has declared that; NO EVIL SHALL BEFALL YOU, NO PLAGUE SHALL come near your dwelling place, the King has spoken it is SO!
You are special!
You are unique!
You are wonderfully and beautifully made!
You are a royal diadem and a holy nation!
You shall be above only and never beneath!
You are blessed above the rest, blessed in the city and blessed in the field, blessed as you come and as you go! You wine is blessed, your corn is blessed, your house is blessed, your corn is blessed, and your basket too!
Your life is like a well watered garden, you are fruitful always and multiplying and everywhere you go people call you the blessed of the LORD, the Anointed ONE!
God is with you, for you, in you and by you always, He also has you always surrounded by a company of angels who watch over you so you do not dash your feet on a stone!
Your life is mapped out, planned out and shaped for success and greatness! You are too advantaged to be disadvantaged!
For your trouble God will give you;
Double GRACE!
Double PEACE!
Double POWER!
Double PROSPERITY!
Double PROMOTIONS!
You do not see impossibilities, you do not understand limitations it just does not exist for you, to you always all things are possible! You only see POSSIBILITIES!
You are a royal diadem, a joy to many generations!
You are just like GOD!
You are a god!
The child of a dog is a dog!
The child of a lion is a lion!
The child of a goat is a goat!
The child of GOD is god!
The baby dog, baby lion, baby goat and baby god are all offspring of their parents they just need TIME to become all that they were born to be!
You are a child of God and therefore you are god! You are in the process of becoming just like God!
You are a child of God; growing, prospering, excelling and becoming!
You cannot be cursed because you are too blessed beyond the curse!
You are daily loaded with benefits! You lack in no good thing! Your sons and your daughters are blessed, they surround your dining table!
Everywhere you go you enjoy favour with God and men.
When you call ten men, hundred answers, when you call hundred men, a thousand answers and when you call a thousand men, a million men stand at your beck and call!
You are like the star that shines brightly in the sky.
You are like the sun that shines to give light and life to everything.
You are like the river that is alive and teeming with life and goodness.
You are like the fertile land that brings forth harvest every September.
You are like the oak tree strong, productive and long lasting.
You are like the eagle bird soaring across the greatest mountains without a fear.
You are an original, a prodigy and a great icon.
You are from above and you are an AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST!
You know who you are;
A prince/princess, you wear the crown and occupy the throne. In your world you are the king and you are the best of you!
You cannot be unraveled, you a mystery yet unfolding; only God knows your beginnings and understands your end.
You cannot be cut down, you cannot be brought low. You cannot be overlooked, neither can you be forgotten!
You shine like a STAR; because you are a STAR! You are sought after by kings and princes because in your field you are NO 1!
You are not proud, arrogant, stuffy and pompous, NO not at all you just simply know and appreciate who you are the child of the KING!
How can a child of the KING be sick, depressed, poor, and in despair? GOD FORBID! Let God be true and every man and situation a LIAR!
You are the one people look up to, to show the way because you are already in the WAY! Christ made a way for you to be in the way because HE IS THE WAY!
Remember that you are:
CHOSEN!
ANOINTED!
APPOINTED!
CELEBRATED!
RICH and WEALTHY
ENVIABLE!
SPECIAL!
VALUABL!E
WISE!
STRONG!
HEALTHY!
BLESSED
WINSOME!
BEAUTIFUL/HANDSOME
BRILLIANT!
PRODUCTIVE!
PURPOSEFUL!
POWERFUL!
DELIGHTFUL
DYNAMIC!
The list is endless.
Remember GOD is your Father, He is the wisest!
Remember GOD is your Source, He is the greatest!
You are just like your SOURCE And GOD! It takes one to know one! YOU ARE FROM ABOVE!
Do not be like the world;
UGLY!
DARKENED
DEVILISH!
UNREPENTANT!
PROUD!
CALLOUS!
WIFE BEATER!
HUSBAND SNATCHER!
ROGUE!
WHY BE WHO YOU ARE NOT?
Be YOU! SAVED, SANCTIFIED, SANE, SUCCESSFUL and the SOLUTION to today’s myriads of troubles!
Be THE BEST YOU THAT YOU CAN BE! THE CHILD OF THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE!
You are not what they say!
You are not your yesterday! You are not even your today! You are the future! YOUR DESTINY IS IN GOD’S HANDS!
God’s love for you made Him give you his all his best CHRIST the KING!
You are a glory unfolding.
You are a SIGN!
You are a WONDER!
You are a GEM!
You are a TREASURE!
YOU ARE A STAR SHINNING ON EARTH BECAUSE YOU ARE FROM ABOVE!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 25, 2009.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
RE: BE GRATEFUL ALWAYS!
BE GRATEFUL ALWAYS!
Be grateful for your life, the fact that you are 20, 30, 40,and perhaps 50! And above all that you will be amongst the most blessed few, who will reach 100 and above!
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful for the family you have, your lovely wife/husband, and wonderful kids, the angry in-law that makes you pray more especially daily!
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you can reason by yourself, you are witty, smart and intelligent, humorous and highly sought after, and always complemented for your work and your lifestyle. That you are not just a number, mere statistics ,and just another face.
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you do not have a terminal sickness a fatal illness and a disease that wastes the body and the soul, the devastating cancer, the killer aids and the dreadful swine flu.
Be grateful that you are not a victim of a bomb blast, a war thorn zone, and a tsunami. Be grateful that you not cut down, cut off and brought down in your prime when ,life’s best is just unfolding.
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you are well educated, greatly celebrated, well connected, greatly endowed, yes be grateful you can afford life’s luxuries , and you do not need to beg to eat and queue on a long line waiting for a handout from life,
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you are loved by most, honoured by some and cherished by most, yes be grateful that you live a decent, demanding and delightful life that allows you to always be your best and to always do your best.
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful for the troubles too, the trials that life brings, the bad days, the awful weather, all these help you pray more, trust more and believe more. What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and ultimately loses his precious soul! Yes be grateful the troubles makes you tougher, wiser and better equipped to face life’s greater challenges and responsibilities.
Yes be grateful.
Finally be grateful for;
T he love of God!
The peace of God!
T he grace of God!
The favour of God!
The life of God!
The Word of God!
The promises of God!
The Spirit of God!
The Wisdom of God!
The blessings of God!
Yes be grateful, that you are well, sound, safe, secure and successful!
Be grateful today!
Be grateful always!
Be grateful forever!
Never forget your source?
Never forget your roots?
Never forget who got you where you are today?
Never forget to give a helping hand.
Never forget to give a smile.
Never forget to give succor to the depressed , downtrodden, and those in despair.
As you combine these two abilities of gratitude and giving back, your life becomes richer, more fulfilling, and satisfying life.
This week especially be grateful and deeply thankful, if not for GOD! Who will we be?
If not for God where will we be?
Give God due Honour!
Give God due Praise!
Give God due worship!
Remember:
You are too blessed to be stressed!
You are too strong to be weak!
You are too rich to be poor!
You are too great to be forgotten!
You are a GEM, a TREASUE, a STAR!
Always be grateful!
Enjoy a blessed week ahead!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 24, 2009!
Be grateful for your life, the fact that you are 20, 30, 40,and perhaps 50! And above all that you will be amongst the most blessed few, who will reach 100 and above!
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful for the family you have, your lovely wife/husband, and wonderful kids, the angry in-law that makes you pray more especially daily!
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you can reason by yourself, you are witty, smart and intelligent, humorous and highly sought after, and always complemented for your work and your lifestyle. That you are not just a number, mere statistics ,and just another face.
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you do not have a terminal sickness a fatal illness and a disease that wastes the body and the soul, the devastating cancer, the killer aids and the dreadful swine flu.
Be grateful that you are not a victim of a bomb blast, a war thorn zone, and a tsunami. Be grateful that you not cut down, cut off and brought down in your prime when ,life’s best is just unfolding.
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you are well educated, greatly celebrated, well connected, greatly endowed, yes be grateful you can afford life’s luxuries , and you do not need to beg to eat and queue on a long line waiting for a handout from life,
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful that you are loved by most, honoured by some and cherished by most, yes be grateful that you live a decent, demanding and delightful life that allows you to always be your best and to always do your best.
Yes be grateful.
Be grateful for the troubles too, the trials that life brings, the bad days, the awful weather, all these help you pray more, trust more and believe more. What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and ultimately loses his precious soul! Yes be grateful the troubles makes you tougher, wiser and better equipped to face life’s greater challenges and responsibilities.
Yes be grateful.
Finally be grateful for;
T he love of God!
The peace of God!
T he grace of God!
The favour of God!
The life of God!
The Word of God!
The promises of God!
The Spirit of God!
The Wisdom of God!
The blessings of God!
Yes be grateful, that you are well, sound, safe, secure and successful!
Be grateful today!
Be grateful always!
Be grateful forever!
Never forget your source?
Never forget your roots?
Never forget who got you where you are today?
Never forget to give a helping hand.
Never forget to give a smile.
Never forget to give succor to the depressed , downtrodden, and those in despair.
As you combine these two abilities of gratitude and giving back, your life becomes richer, more fulfilling, and satisfying life.
This week especially be grateful and deeply thankful, if not for GOD! Who will we be?
If not for God where will we be?
Give God due Honour!
Give God due Praise!
Give God due worship!
Remember:
You are too blessed to be stressed!
You are too strong to be weak!
You are too rich to be poor!
You are too great to be forgotten!
You are a GEM, a TREASUE, a STAR!
Always be grateful!
Enjoy a blessed week ahead!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 24, 2009!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
LESSONS FROM THE BANK DRAMA!
I was driving home that day Friday the 14th of August 2009, when I heard on the radio the sad news of the banks chiefs who had been unceremoniously removed, it came like a bolt of lightning to me and I am still reeling from the great shock especially because of the personalities involved especially Dr Erastus Akingbola nd the great amazon of banking Mrs Cecilia Ibru!
I kept muttering to myself and wondering what had happened and why they were treated so after spending many years working to build a brand that has come to become not just household names but super brands that was beginning to command international recognition.
Already a lot of speculations and comments are flying regarding the bank tsunami and I there say that I hear reliably that most of the banks are down with one fever or the other, so why examine just five and dismiss their chiefs and boards?
The Central Bank Governor only just took up the mantle of leadership why act so hastily because at the end of the day the whole exercise he will only help to destabilize the frail and unwell Nigerian Economy.
We all know there is a global melt down and every area and facet of business has been negatively affected, even in America, where banks were failing everyday, the government chose to bail out a lot of the ailing companies rather than sack the helmsman of these big companies.
I just really feel pained by the whole banking saga and my heart goes to the five chiefs involved; now my reason for writing this piece is not about the reasons for the removal of these bank chiefs but rather the lessons to learn from the whole event!For me life is always about learning for to grow, and prosper you must continue to learn, we are to learn from other’s missed steps, from nature, from our different environments a, from our worlds, from ourselves, and from Our God and Maker.
Like I said this is a personal sentiment because I do not have the facts and figures on hand so, I cannot write as an authority about what happened?, detailing who is right and who is wrong?
I am only looking deeply and closely about the human angle and only trying to reiterate the wisdom of God from the situation.
These are some of the lessons that I have seen from the banking saga.
Lesson No. 1
Nothing lasts forever. Life is about changes and change is the only constant thing in life.
Lesson No. 2.
No man is indispensable, everyone will have their time and their say, so while you are at the top of your game and the greatest in your field, remember to do good to all as much as you can because life can twist and turn and you never know what will happen next, who would have thought that ,five top bank chiefs will lose their jobs in one day! That is a national tsunami!
Lesson No. 3
Things do not always appear as them seem and they do not always seem as they appear.
Lesson No. 4
Life always give to each man his day of trouble, so you must be prepared for tests, trials and some temptations and some dose of tribulation, so be PRAYERFUL, PURPOSEFUL and PREPARED always!
Lesson No. 5
Act fast! Do not keep procrastinating and post phoning, opportunity can be here today and gone tomorrow.
Lesson No. 6
Your office, your position, your status and even wealth all can disappear in a flash so learn to diversify and not just put all your eggs in one basket. Also life might take all you have in terms of material and financial wealth, but it cannot take your knowledge, neither can it take away your memorable experiences.
Lesson No. 7
Do not just focus on work! Work! Work! Learn to build great and wonderful relationships on your way to the top, because you might need these people on your way down, as a leader don’t be high handed and unapproachable only concerned about the bottom line and the the naira and kobo only, people matter, they can make or mar you.
Lesson No. 8.
Tsunamis don’t only come in the form of earthquakes, you can also suffer emotional trauma that can be rightly described as a tsunami. Some situations can happen that affect every area and facet of our lives and we must be grounded in God and fortified by Him so that our crisis can be seen as an opportunity to try again and to do better next time.
Lesson No. 9
Not all that glitters is gold! Do not choose a career based on just the financials alone. Most bankers will be uneasy, fretful and worry, with the present examinations that the CBN is carrying out because most banks in order to be viable and profitable so that they are not axed will begin to cut off those that are weak and unproductive on their jobs and they will go all out to recruit the best hands In the country.Some years ago a lot of young Nigerians would die just to be a banker, today the tide has changed and the story is different, which is why I have always been an advocate of following of hearts, fulfilling our God given purposes and living out our passions as our jobs rather than choose jobs that seemingly looks like the in thing to do and be? We must shun materialism and crass living which stems from a love of money that has bedeviled our leaders and our youths of today. The average Nigerian wants to be rich overnight, wants to drive a hummer jeep and wear a Gucci watch and live in banana island? The love of money is the root of all evil, if you love money and you get greedy then you will be prepared to go to any length to get money and live a lie for a life.
Lesson No. 10.
Great men come and great men go, the TRUTH lives forever, even facts can be tampered with and altered, but you can do nothing about the Truth. It remains what it always was the truth!
Lesson No. 11
Better a rough and horrible start and a wonderful and great end than a great beginning and a horrible and terrible end.
Lesson No. 12.
Life is dynamic. Change is inevitable. Life is transient. People change. Places change. GOD ALONE should be relied upon, trusted and worshipped.
I want us to ponder on these questions as we come to the end of this piece,
1. What do we hold dear? What do we treasure?
2. What will we die for?
3. What will we live for?
4. Are we only concerned about the bottom line?
5. Are we only moved by the numbers?
6. What about tomorrow?
7. What about our legacy?
8. What about posterity?
9. What about our children?
10. What about the place called there?
11. What about your real self, the true you that only you know and understand?
12. What about the finished work of Christ on the Cross of Calvary?
Dr. Myles Munroe an international speaker, author and prophet did prophecy that in this year 2009! Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and true to his word, everything is been shaken, and only the grounded and strong will survive these times!
My admonition is that we;
1.Rebuild our lives, by rebuilding our foundations, it is okay to point the finger, but in us all is a seed of bad, that if not cut off can ruin our lives, it is time to amend our ways, a lot of us wear the toga of righteousness but our righteousness is pseudo, if judgment, can come so suddenly from the duo of President Yar A dua and the CBN Chief, how much more gory and scary will the judgment of God be? God is good! God is merciful. God is faithful. God is also just and will one day judge us all for all our doings. Lets live with the benefit of insight for hindsight and let us clean up our lives and be a good representative of our GOD, our Maker! When we are good as a people our nation becomes good too, because a nation is really just it’s people!
2.Let us that call on the name of God depart from iniquity and shun everything that is evil, diabolical and ungodly, let us instead imbibe, the virtues of hardwork, honesty, integrity, dedication, and commitment to worthy causes!
3.Let us realize that life is a learning center and a training ground, the banking tsunami that has hit our polity and our Nation is a great food for thought!
What do you think?
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 18, 2009!
LESSONS FROM THE BANK DRAMA!
I was driving home that day Friday the 14th of August 2009, when I heard on the radio the sad news of the banks chiefs who had been unceremoniously removed, it came like a bolt of lightning to me and I am still reeling from the great shock especially because of the personalities involved especially Dr Erastus Akingbola nd the great amazon of banking Mrs Cecilia Ibru!
I kept muttering to myself and wondering what had happened and why they were treated so after spending many years working to build a brand that has come to become not just household names but super brands that was beginning to command international recognition.
Already a lot of speculations and comments are flying regarding the bank tsunami and I there say that I hear reliably that most of the banks are down with one fever or the other, so why examine just five and dismiss their chiefs and boards?
The Central Bank Governor only just took up the mantle of leadership why act so hastily because at the end of the day the whole exercise he will only help to destabilize the frail and unwell Nigerian Economy.
We all know there is a global melt down and every area and facet of business has been negatively affected, even in America, where banks were failing everyday, the government chose to bail out a lot of the ailing companies rather than sack the helmsman of these big companies.
I just really feel pained by the whole banking saga and my heart goes to the five chiefs involved; now my reason for writing this piece is not about the reasons for the removal of these bank chiefs but rather the lessons to learn from the whole event!For me life is always about learning for to grow, and prosper you must continue to learn, we are to learn from other’s missed steps, from nature, from our different environments a, from our worlds, from ourselves, and from Our God and Maker.
Like I said this is a personal sentiment because I do not have the facts and figures on hand so, I cannot write as an authority about what happened?, detailing who is right and who is wrong?
I am only looking deeply and closely about the human angle and only trying to reiterate the wisdom of God from the situation.
These are some of the lessons that I have seen from the banking saga.
Lesson No. 1
Nothing lasts forever. Life is about changes and change is the only constant thing in life.
Lesson No. 2.
No man is indispensable, everyone will have their time and their say, so while you are at the top of your game and the greatest in your field, remember to do good to all as much as you can because life can twist and turn and you never know what will happen next, who would have thought that ,five top bank chiefs will lose their jobs in one day! That is a national tsunami!
Lesson No. 3
Things do not always appear as them seem and they do not always seem as they appear.
Lesson No. 4
Life always give to each man his day of trouble, so you must be prepared for tests, trials and some temptations and some dose of tribulation, so be PRAYERFUL, PURPOSEFUL and PREPARED always!
Lesson No. 5
Act fast! Do not keep procrastinating and post phoning, opportunity can be here today and gone tomorrow.
Lesson No. 6
Your office, your position, your status and even wealth all can disappear in a flash so learn to diversify and not just put all your eggs in one basket. Also life might take all you have in terms of material and financial wealth, but it cannot take your knowledge, neither can it take away your memorable experiences.
Lesson No. 7
Do not just focus on work! Work! Work! Learn to build great and wonderful relationships on your way to the top, because you might need these people on your way down, as a leader don’t be high handed and unapproachable only concerned about the bottom line and the the naira and kobo only, people matter, they can make or mar you.
Lesson No. 8.
Tsunamis don’t only come in the form of earthquakes, you can also suffer emotional trauma that can be rightly described as a tsunami. Some situations can happen that affect every area and facet of our lives and we must be grounded in God and fortified by Him so that our crisis can be seen as an opportunity to try again and to do better next time.
Lesson No. 9
Not all that glitters is gold! Do not choose a career based on just the financials alone. Most bankers will be uneasy, fretful and worry, with the present examinations that the CBN is carrying out because most banks in order to be viable and profitable so that they are not axed will begin to cut off those that are weak and unproductive on their jobs and they will go all out to recruit the best hands In the country.Some years ago a lot of young Nigerians would die just to be a banker, today the tide has changed and the story is different, which is why I have always been an advocate of following of hearts, fulfilling our God given purposes and living out our passions as our jobs rather than choose jobs that seemingly looks like the in thing to do and be? We must shun materialism and crass living which stems from a love of money that has bedeviled our leaders and our youths of today. The average Nigerian wants to be rich overnight, wants to drive a hummer jeep and wear a Gucci watch and live in banana island? The love of money is the root of all evil, if you love money and you get greedy then you will be prepared to go to any length to get money and live a lie for a life.
Lesson No. 10.
Great men come and great men go, the TRUTH lives forever, even facts can be tampered with and altered, but you can do nothing about the Truth. It remains what it always was the truth!
Lesson No. 11
Better a rough and horrible start and a wonderful and great end than a great beginning and a horrible and terrible end.
Lesson No. 12.
Life is dynamic. Change is inevitable. Life is transient. People change. Places change. GOD ALONE should be relied upon, trusted and worshipped.
I want us to ponder on these questions as we come to the end of this piece,
1. What do we hold dear? What do we treasure?
2. What will we die for?
3. What will we live for?
4. Are we only concerned about the bottom line?
5. Are we only moved by the numbers?
6. What about tomorrow?
7. What about our legacy?
8. What about posterity?
9. What about our children?
10. What about the place called there?
11. What about your real self, the true you that only you know and understand?
12. What about the finished work of Christ on the Cross of Calvary?
Dr. Myles Munroe an international speaker, author and prophet did prophecy that in this year 2009! Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and true to his word, everything is been shaken, and only the grounded and strong will survive these times!
My admonition is that we;
1.Rebuild our lives, by rebuilding our foundations, it is okay to point the finger, but in us all is a seed of bad, that if not cut off can ruin our lives, it is time to amend our ways, a lot of us wear the toga of righteousness but our righteousness is pseudo, if judgment, can come so suddenly from the duo of President Yar A dua and the CBN Chief, how much more gory and scary will the judgment of God be? God is good! God is merciful. God is faithful. God is also just and will one day judge us all for all our doings. Lets live with the benefit of insight for hindsight and let us clean up our lives and be a good representative of our GOD, our Maker! When we are good as a people our nation becomes good too, because a nation is really just it’s people!
2.Let us that call on the name of God depart from iniquity and shun everything that is evil, diabolical and ungodly, let us instead imbibe, the virtues of hardwork, honesty, integrity, dedication, and commitment to worthy causes!
3.Let us realize that life is a learning center and a training ground, the banking tsunami that has hit our polity and our Nation is a great food for thought!
What do you think?
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 18, 2009!
I was driving home that day Friday the 14th of August 2009, when I heard on the radio the sad news of the banks chiefs who had been unceremoniously removed, it came like a bolt of lightning to me and I am still reeling from the great shock especially because of the personalities involved especially Dr Erastus Akingbola nd the great amazon of banking Mrs Cecilia Ibru!
I kept muttering to myself and wondering what had happened and why they were treated so after spending many years working to build a brand that has come to become not just household names but super brands that was beginning to command international recognition.
Already a lot of speculations and comments are flying regarding the bank tsunami and I there say that I hear reliably that most of the banks are down with one fever or the other, so why examine just five and dismiss their chiefs and boards?
The Central Bank Governor only just took up the mantle of leadership why act so hastily because at the end of the day the whole exercise he will only help to destabilize the frail and unwell Nigerian Economy.
We all know there is a global melt down and every area and facet of business has been negatively affected, even in America, where banks were failing everyday, the government chose to bail out a lot of the ailing companies rather than sack the helmsman of these big companies.
I just really feel pained by the whole banking saga and my heart goes to the five chiefs involved; now my reason for writing this piece is not about the reasons for the removal of these bank chiefs but rather the lessons to learn from the whole event!For me life is always about learning for to grow, and prosper you must continue to learn, we are to learn from other’s missed steps, from nature, from our different environments a, from our worlds, from ourselves, and from Our God and Maker.
Like I said this is a personal sentiment because I do not have the facts and figures on hand so, I cannot write as an authority about what happened?, detailing who is right and who is wrong?
I am only looking deeply and closely about the human angle and only trying to reiterate the wisdom of God from the situation.
These are some of the lessons that I have seen from the banking saga.
Lesson No. 1
Nothing lasts forever. Life is about changes and change is the only constant thing in life.
Lesson No. 2.
No man is indispensable, everyone will have their time and their say, so while you are at the top of your game and the greatest in your field, remember to do good to all as much as you can because life can twist and turn and you never know what will happen next, who would have thought that ,five top bank chiefs will lose their jobs in one day! That is a national tsunami!
Lesson No. 3
Things do not always appear as them seem and they do not always seem as they appear.
Lesson No. 4
Life always give to each man his day of trouble, so you must be prepared for tests, trials and some temptations and some dose of tribulation, so be PRAYERFUL, PURPOSEFUL and PREPARED always!
Lesson No. 5
Act fast! Do not keep procrastinating and post phoning, opportunity can be here today and gone tomorrow.
Lesson No. 6
Your office, your position, your status and even wealth all can disappear in a flash so learn to diversify and not just put all your eggs in one basket. Also life might take all you have in terms of material and financial wealth, but it cannot take your knowledge, neither can it take away your memorable experiences.
Lesson No. 7
Do not just focus on work! Work! Work! Learn to build great and wonderful relationships on your way to the top, because you might need these people on your way down, as a leader don’t be high handed and unapproachable only concerned about the bottom line and the the naira and kobo only, people matter, they can make or mar you.
Lesson No. 8.
Tsunamis don’t only come in the form of earthquakes, you can also suffer emotional trauma that can be rightly described as a tsunami. Some situations can happen that affect every area and facet of our lives and we must be grounded in God and fortified by Him so that our crisis can be seen as an opportunity to try again and to do better next time.
Lesson No. 9
Not all that glitters is gold! Do not choose a career based on just the financials alone. Most bankers will be uneasy, fretful and worry, with the present examinations that the CBN is carrying out because most banks in order to be viable and profitable so that they are not axed will begin to cut off those that are weak and unproductive on their jobs and they will go all out to recruit the best hands In the country.Some years ago a lot of young Nigerians would die just to be a banker, today the tide has changed and the story is different, which is why I have always been an advocate of following of hearts, fulfilling our God given purposes and living out our passions as our jobs rather than choose jobs that seemingly looks like the in thing to do and be? We must shun materialism and crass living which stems from a love of money that has bedeviled our leaders and our youths of today. The average Nigerian wants to be rich overnight, wants to drive a hummer jeep and wear a Gucci watch and live in banana island? The love of money is the root of all evil, if you love money and you get greedy then you will be prepared to go to any length to get money and live a lie for a life.
Lesson No. 10.
Great men come and great men go, the TRUTH lives forever, even facts can be tampered with and altered, but you can do nothing about the Truth. It remains what it always was the truth!
Lesson No. 11
Better a rough and horrible start and a wonderful and great end than a great beginning and a horrible and terrible end.
Lesson No. 12.
Life is dynamic. Change is inevitable. Life is transient. People change. Places change. GOD ALONE should be relied upon, trusted and worshipped.
I want us to ponder on these questions as we come to the end of this piece,
1. What do we hold dear? What do we treasure?
2. What will we die for?
3. What will we live for?
4. Are we only concerned about the bottom line?
5. Are we only moved by the numbers?
6. What about tomorrow?
7. What about our legacy?
8. What about posterity?
9. What about our children?
10. What about the place called there?
11. What about your real self, the true you that only you know and understand?
12. What about the finished work of Christ on the Cross of Calvary?
Dr. Myles Munroe an international speaker, author and prophet did prophecy that in this year 2009! Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and true to his word, everything is been shaken, and only the grounded and strong will survive these times!
My admonition is that we;
1.Rebuild our lives, by rebuilding our foundations, it is okay to point the finger, but in us all is a seed of bad, that if not cut off can ruin our lives, it is time to amend our ways, a lot of us wear the toga of righteousness but our righteousness is pseudo, if judgment, can come so suddenly from the duo of President Yar A dua and the CBN Chief, how much more gory and scary will the judgment of God be? God is good! God is merciful. God is faithful. God is also just and will one day judge us all for all our doings. Lets live with the benefit of insight for hindsight and let us clean up our lives and be a good representative of our GOD, our Maker! When we are good as a people our nation becomes good too, because a nation is really just it’s people!
2.Let us that call on the name of God depart from iniquity and shun everything that is evil, diabolical and ungodly, let us instead imbibe, the virtues of hardwork, honesty, integrity, dedication, and commitment to worthy causes!
3.Let us realize that life is a learning center and a training ground, the banking tsunami that has hit our polity and our Nation is a great food for thought!
What do you think?
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 18, 2009!
Monday, August 17, 2009
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TRY AGAIN!
So you have tried all your possible best going there and trying here?
So you have prayed year in and year out for your break to come?
So you have written that song and completed that book but the funds for publication and recording still the funds elude you?
So you have toiled and toiled and now you feel it’s time to quit?
So you have waited for the hand of God and sought the face of God and God seem afar off, sometimes slow and perhaps He is off on a long business journey, forgetting to hear your prayer or see your pain?
So you have written that amazing business plan and yet your bankers you believed would help you have suddenly disappointed you, and you are able to fulfill that wonderful dreaming of becoming a business mogul?
Perhaps you are already established and in the big league and you continually worry over unpaid debts and how best to move to the next level?So you have began to lose hope, began to doubt God and resign to your fate?
ALAS my brother!
ALAS my sister!
WAIT!
It’s not the time to quit!
It’s not the time to give up!
It’s not the time to retire!
It’s not the time to surrender and down tools!
It’s not the time to look back with regrets, and blame God because your desires seems unachievable!
It’s time to trust more!
It’s time to remember his goodness, and remember his love and his grace towards you!It’s time to recount and write out all your blessings one by one, and giving thanks for all of God’s grace And mercies!It’s time to rewrite the vision and make it plain, ensuring that the vision is always in your face by God’s grace!
It’s time to give of yourself, yes freely give your time, energies, smiles, giftings and talents!Give whatever you can give, give love out freely, give forgiveness out freely, give out joy, give out praises to God and to people, encourage someone beneath and below you, as you give out, you are sowing good and good will come back to you.
It’s time to refocus, restrategize, renew and regroup!
It’s time to have an attitude of gratitude and keep your praise and rejoicing at your highest peak!It’s time to TRY AGAIN!
Yes I mean TRY AGAIN!
Try again, rewrite that proposal, go back to the bank chief and refuse to take NO! for an answer!
It’s time to rebuild that house, and relaunch that programme and product!
You have come too far to give up!You have come too far to quit!You have come too far to surrender!
You have come too far to resign!
You have come too far to retire!
You must DETERMINE to make it and you must WAIT IT OUT and ACCOMPLISH!
You must determine to FORGE AHEAD!
You must determine to win the fight!
You must determine to rewrite your story and release your glory!
You must determine to break out, breakthrough and break forth!
You must determine to fight it out! Win it all and finish the race!
You are too legit to quit!You are too blessed to be distressed!
You are too loaded to cave in and break down!
You are too great to remain small and unsung!
You are too much to be pushed aside and shoved around and be forgotten!
Today choose to agree with GOD!
He says you are special, unique and blessed and completely favoured.
He thinks only good about you and Has set up angels to guide and guard!
He wishes that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers!
He loves you deeply and cares about you completely!
He commands that “YOU GO FORWARD and MAKE PROGRESS!
HE commands you to;CONQUER!
REIGN!
TRIUMPH!
MULTIPLY!
FLOURISH!
ACCOMPLISH!
SUCCEED!
If all you can do is crawl, then crawl and keep crawling until you get there!
If all you can do is walk, then walk and don’t stop walking until you get there!
If all you can do is fly then soar and ensure that you get there!
You must NEVER stop!
You must NEVER stop trusting and believing!
It is darkest before the day breaks!
The people that win never ever surrender!
The people that succeed, never ever give up the fight!
The people that win never ever quit!So go back to the drawing table, and re-launch that dream!
Remember if you can think it, you can achieve it!
YOU MUST TRY AGAIN!
YOU MUST ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM!
YOU ARE TOO LEGIT TO QUIT!
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So you have tried all your possible best going there and trying here?
So you have prayed year in and year out for your break to come?
So you have written that song and completed that book but the funds for publication and recording still the funds elude you?
So you have toiled and toiled and now you feel it’s time to quit?
So you have waited for the hand of God and sought the face of God and God seem afar off, sometimes slow and perhaps He is off on a long business journey, forgetting to hear your prayer or see your pain?
So you have written that amazing business plan and yet your bankers you believed would help you have suddenly disappointed you, and you are able to fulfill that wonderful dreaming of becoming a business mogul?
Perhaps you are already established and in the big league and you continually worry over unpaid debts and how best to move to the next level?So you have began to lose hope, began to doubt God and resign to your fate?
ALAS my brother!
ALAS my sister!
WAIT!
It’s not the time to quit!
It’s not the time to give up!
It’s not the time to retire!
It’s not the time to surrender and down tools!
It’s not the time to look back with regrets, and blame God because your desires seems unachievable!
It’s time to trust more!
It’s time to remember his goodness, and remember his love and his grace towards you!It’s time to recount and write out all your blessings one by one, and giving thanks for all of God’s grace And mercies!It’s time to rewrite the vision and make it plain, ensuring that the vision is always in your face by God’s grace!
It’s time to give of yourself, yes freely give your time, energies, smiles, giftings and talents!Give whatever you can give, give love out freely, give forgiveness out freely, give out joy, give out praises to God and to people, encourage someone beneath and below you, as you give out, you are sowing good and good will come back to you.
It’s time to refocus, restrategize, renew and regroup!
It’s time to have an attitude of gratitude and keep your praise and rejoicing at your highest peak!It’s time to TRY AGAIN!
Yes I mean TRY AGAIN!
Try again, rewrite that proposal, go back to the bank chief and refuse to take NO! for an answer!
It’s time to rebuild that house, and relaunch that programme and product!
You have come too far to give up!You have come too far to quit!You have come too far to surrender!
You have come too far to resign!
You have come too far to retire!
You must DETERMINE to make it and you must WAIT IT OUT and ACCOMPLISH!
You must determine to FORGE AHEAD!
You must determine to win the fight!
You must determine to rewrite your story and release your glory!
You must determine to break out, breakthrough and break forth!
You must determine to fight it out! Win it all and finish the race!
You are too legit to quit!You are too blessed to be distressed!
You are too loaded to cave in and break down!
You are too great to remain small and unsung!
You are too much to be pushed aside and shoved around and be forgotten!
Today choose to agree with GOD!
He says you are special, unique and blessed and completely favoured.
He thinks only good about you and Has set up angels to guide and guard!
He wishes that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers!
He loves you deeply and cares about you completely!
He commands that “YOU GO FORWARD and MAKE PROGRESS!
HE commands you to;CONQUER!
REIGN!
TRIUMPH!
MULTIPLY!
FLOURISH!
ACCOMPLISH!
SUCCEED!
If all you can do is crawl, then crawl and keep crawling until you get there!
If all you can do is walk, then walk and don’t stop walking until you get there!
If all you can do is fly then soar and ensure that you get there!
You must NEVER stop!
You must NEVER stop trusting and believing!
It is darkest before the day breaks!
The people that win never ever surrender!
The people that succeed, never ever give up the fight!
The people that win never ever quit!So go back to the drawing table, and re-launch that dream!
Remember if you can think it, you can achieve it!
YOU MUST TRY AGAIN!
YOU MUST ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM!
YOU ARE TOO LEGIT TO QUIT!
COPYRIGHT @ VICTORIA FADEYI, August 17, 2009!
Monday, August 10, 2009
RE: HOLD ON!
HOLD ON, My brother! My Sister!
Hold ON!
When life seems an uphill task!
Hold ON!
When you are tired of the stress, the strain and the pain!
Hold ON!
When you are overwhelmed with bills and cannot see your way out.
Hold ON!
When people taunt you and wonder why your life is not panning together.
Hold ON!
When you can’t seem to get that negotiation go your way.
Hold ON!
When your friends desert and your family members abandon you!
Hold ON!
When all you see and feel around you is pain and misery!
Hold ON!
When your rent is due and your insurance expired!
Hold ON!
When it seems all hope is lost.
Hold ON!
Today for tomorrow, because after the rain the sun will SHINE!
Even when life seems a mystery and it seems you can’t get it all off the ground; remember they say it is darkest just before dawn!
Your night is over!
Your day is here!
You will smile again!
Hold ON!
To your dreams, hopes and aspirations!
Hold On!
Till the morning births the daylight called SUN!
Hold ON!
Don’t quit now, because you have come too far!
You are just a mile away from the place of success, glory and fame!
Hold ON!
No matter how long the fight and how tough the struggle!
Hold ON!
Just another day and the tide will turn!
Hold ON!
Instead of retiring you must REFIRE!
Hold ON!
DO NOT GIVE UP!
DO NOT CAVE IN!
DO NOT LOSE FAITH!
DO NOT SURRENDER!
DO NOT RETIRE!
DO NOT LOSE HOPE!
DO NOT STEP ASIDE!
This is the TIME to look up
This is the TIME to look to GOD!
This is not the TIME to cast away your hope and confidence
Rest if you must, but never ever surrender!
Remember it is darkest just before dawn!
Keep MOVING!
Keep STRIVING!
Keep HOPING!
Keep SHINNING!
Keep WINNING!
GOD is with you!
God is for you!
God is in you!
God surrounds and precedes you, He covers you and more than anything He loves you and He is in charge and in complete and total control of your destiny!
So keep smiling! Never wear the frown, never allow the sigh!
Reach for the STARS, because you are, A STAR!
Welcome to another great and glorious week! U will TRIUMPH!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI August 10, 2009!
Hold ON!
When life seems an uphill task!
Hold ON!
When you are tired of the stress, the strain and the pain!
Hold ON!
When you are overwhelmed with bills and cannot see your way out.
Hold ON!
When people taunt you and wonder why your life is not panning together.
Hold ON!
When you can’t seem to get that negotiation go your way.
Hold ON!
When your friends desert and your family members abandon you!
Hold ON!
When all you see and feel around you is pain and misery!
Hold ON!
When your rent is due and your insurance expired!
Hold ON!
When it seems all hope is lost.
Hold ON!
Today for tomorrow, because after the rain the sun will SHINE!
Even when life seems a mystery and it seems you can’t get it all off the ground; remember they say it is darkest just before dawn!
Your night is over!
Your day is here!
You will smile again!
Hold ON!
To your dreams, hopes and aspirations!
Hold On!
Till the morning births the daylight called SUN!
Hold ON!
Don’t quit now, because you have come too far!
You are just a mile away from the place of success, glory and fame!
Hold ON!
No matter how long the fight and how tough the struggle!
Hold ON!
Just another day and the tide will turn!
Hold ON!
Instead of retiring you must REFIRE!
Hold ON!
DO NOT GIVE UP!
DO NOT CAVE IN!
DO NOT LOSE FAITH!
DO NOT SURRENDER!
DO NOT RETIRE!
DO NOT LOSE HOPE!
DO NOT STEP ASIDE!
This is the TIME to look up
This is the TIME to look to GOD!
This is not the TIME to cast away your hope and confidence
Rest if you must, but never ever surrender!
Remember it is darkest just before dawn!
Keep MOVING!
Keep STRIVING!
Keep HOPING!
Keep SHINNING!
Keep WINNING!
GOD is with you!
God is for you!
God is in you!
God surrounds and precedes you, He covers you and more than anything He loves you and He is in charge and in complete and total control of your destiny!
So keep smiling! Never wear the frown, never allow the sigh!
Reach for the STARS, because you are, A STAR!
Welcome to another great and glorious week! U will TRIUMPH!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI August 10, 2009!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
How long before the day dawns?
I sit in my little corner and watch the parade of madness, and wonder how long before the day dawns.
How much more of this madness can I take?
Why in God’s name are we poor as a people?
Why is there so much INJUSTICE and suffering?
Why are our roads mostly death traps?
Why are our hospitals deplorable, undermanaged, ill-equipped and manned by under motivated unhappy medical personnel?
Why are we constantly in the dark and hounded by generators with noise constantly emitting poisonous fumes?
Why can’t 70% of our populace afford a decent three square meals per day?
Why is the plight of the common man huge with no job, no livelihood, no comfortable shelter if any at all, and hardly able to mansion a healthy lifestyle not to talk of been able to afford the killer expensive medical bill?
Why are our leaders, thugs, illiterates, drop outs, corrupt die hard politicians who combine politics with criminality and unimaginable and unequalled diabolism?
Why are we governed by the blind and lame, men and women who cannot see and who have no understanding of service, tolerance and integrity?
Why have we remained myopic, and self seeking and unprogressive?
Why have we had the same set of leaders leading us for over 4 decades?
Why does a tiny, but obviously powerful cabal hold us bound, gagged for so long?
Why has our politics become a prize for the highest bidder, a politics of looting, bribery, corruption and for the rich by the rich through the rich?
Why are so blessed but also so backward short of been blessed and cursed at the same time?
Why is there so much pervading darkness?
Why are we down and out without, the inspiration and compassion of a visionary leader?
Why do we keep killing our good men, while evil men thrive and prosper in the land?
Why are our pen robbers, celebrated even though they are no better than the armed robbers that hold our cities hostage, these pen robbers are celebrated and never questioned about their obvious stolen wealth, going around in the best suits spotting the Gucci’s and the Armani’s of this world, even though they are common criminals?
Why do we allow our leaders dominate, delude and demoralize and demonize us for so long?
Why are we impoverished by every government and left to supply our own; water, electricity, and shelter?
Why do we get so little and have to pay so much for the little we get?
Why do we allow our politicians who obviously have no good intentions towards its citizenry continue to destroy our nation and marginalize our dreams?
Why are we so poor, so depraved and so blind?
When are going to say NO to the STATUS QUO?
When are we going to say NO to the madness, the melee and the moribund depraved form of government we call democracy?
When are we going to rise up and take back control from the cabal made up of retired generals, ex-governors, and the so called old time senators and aged long director generals?
When are we going to chase out incompetent, visionless, corrupt and sick politicians from our polity.
When are we going to ask the so called old and tired brains and feet to exit the stage and ask our vibrant, dynamic and versatile and courageous young men to take the stage and move us to our promised land?
Is the trend not clear all over the world? How old is Obama? How old is Gordon Brown? How old is the President of France?
The world is changing, why should the old sets of hands and brains continue to rule us?
Especially when they have not been able to give us the basic amenities and infrastructure that helps for sustainable growth and development in our Nation.
How long will we remain paralyzed, completely dazed in a state of stupor ,unchanging and unmoved by the madness that pervades the Nigerian polity?
Why should the percentage of the rich and the affluent and the privileged be so tiny compared to the large mass of the uneducated, underprivileged and disadvantaged?
We demand true democracy in our Nation, because what we have practiced up till now is not democracy but MONEYCRAZY!
Our souls and consciences are for the highest bidders!
We demand a level playing field, where people will not be afraid to stand up and be counted for what they believe.
We demand true justice and equitable distribution of the Nigerian Wealth!
Why should the North be developed by the South and the South left to beg and carry arms to agitate for what rightfully belongs to them?
Why should we create the Niger Delta situation because of greed and neglect, and wonder why there would be no youth restiveness and violence amongst the depraved and the disadvantaged?
Why should our leaders sleep on amazing beds exported from exotic countries, furnish their palatial mansions with the best of the best and enjoy constant supply of electricity while been driven in exotic state of the art air-conditioned cars and flown around in the most expensive jets while the ordinary Nigerian who you are supposed to be representing is broke, busted and disgusted with no house of his own, paying rent he can hardly afford, and eating once a day if he is so lucky.
Why should the divide be so wide? Why should the government officials not suffer what the average Nigerian is suffering so that he can work at quickly alleviating the pain and the poverty of the common man?
Our leaders live a life of delusion, and illusion, they are too far removed from reality and cannot understand the plight of the common Nigerian.
Why should our leaders use government monies to host stupid grandiose personal parties?
Why should they be allowed to use our resources to celebrate national weddings of the president`s daughters?
Why should our leaders resort to state of the art hospitals abroad the very minute they feel feverish and have a cough?
Why should they use the state funds to send their wards and extended families to the best school abroad?
Why are we allowing all these madness to thrive and multiply in our midst?
Why should councilors earn more than college professors?
Why should our senators earn more than our doctors?
Why are we crawling when we should be soaring?
Where is tomorrow`s legacy and today`s gain of democracy?
Why do governments keep reinventing the wheel?
Why do we see no light at the end of the tunnel?
Why should there be a clamour for second term when there has been NO PERFORMANCE recorded for the first term?
Why do we keep digging holes of death instead of giving life and transforming destines?
Why after over 45 years of independence all we have to show is the boom in the telecommunication and banking systems?
What is happening to our Educational system? What is happening to our Health care system?
Why are we so poor with infrastructural development?
Is there a vision for Nigeria to move forward?
Who is the visionary?
Is there a plan to transform Nigeria for the plan SMART in its orientation i.e. S.M.A. R.T
Why are we not deploying our best brains to the best spots or are we merely parading no good politicians whose only infection is to loot our treasure?
Is there real hope for our father land?
Is there light at the end of this dark tunnel?
Is there medicine for all our national pains and calamities?
Are we ever going to see the dawn after such a long night?
Is there an Obama , somewhere been groomed, been prepared, been packaged to deliver us from our present madness?
As followers we have failed our leaders?
You might ask how?
We have refused to:
1) Question them
2) Criticize them
3) Make them accountable
4) Correct them
5) Check them
6) Tell them the truth.
7) Properly advise them.
8) Celebrate and honor them when they do right.
As followers we are:
Self seeking, myopic, tribalistic, gullible and unprogressive
The Nigerian problem Is always the I! Me! I! syndrome.
We always think of self, self is king, we never think of the collective good of all. In all that we do and say, it`s always about the bottom line, what is in it for ME?
As follower we must help our leader at governance by becoming progressive, productive and we must not elect the wrong men because of their wealth and then expect them not to play on our intelligence.
We must stop seeing Nigeria in terms of tribes and states. We must realize that we are the first one before we are many. We must understand that we must always seek out the best men for the job rather than allowing myopic, sentimental feelings to move us.
Regardless of where he is from so long as he can deliver and the cap fits, we must choose men wisely into elective offices.
In Nigeria today, bad men vie for political offices because good men refuse to stand up and face the music of change. We cannot make progress as a reaction if we confuse to put on a icing on a bad cake, all our foundations are wrong!
Why are we Nigeria?
Do we like been Nigeria?
What do we need to put in place to become the Nigeria we dream and hope for?
Is the field we are all playing on a level playing field?
How long will our status quo remain?
If is only a mad man who keeps doing the same thing and the then expects a different set of results! You cannot plant corn and expect to harvest rice?
We must over haul the system we must result our foundation, we must return to true democracy government by the people for the people.
What we have now is a rape by a few against the majority of our peoples both leaders and followers should take the blame because both leaders and followers have failed and in their responsibilities.
Our leaders are a product of our environment and it is said that a people get the leader they deserve. So as followers if you get tired of these money bags visionless power mining politicians governing you then learn to say NO when they entice you with money they stole from you any way.
What we need is a collective will to say ENOUGH is ENOUGH! We are tired of the darkness, the madness, the melee, the lack of good governance, the corruption that has eaten deep into the fabric of every sphere of our polity the lack of progress and change in our nation, the stagnation and the spiral downward turn in all our systems, educational, health care and housing to mention a few.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
We demand for change, we ask for it!
We do not beg for it, we demand for it!
We do not pray for it, we demand for it!
We do not plead for it, we demand for it!
Change is our right. We are tired of the tyranny, injustice, the inequitable distribution of Nigeria’s collective wealth!
We are tired of the CABAL and their death stranglehold upon our nation!
We are tired of the complete deterioration and neglect of our public schools?
We are tired of living in darkness in the 21st century.
We are tired of roads that are death traps.
We are tired of our monies and our resources been converted to personal use by our leaders?
We are tired of a few of the king’s men monopolizing our industries and holding the rest of us hostages.
We are tired of the fact that good men with great intentions never make it to the top of the echelon of our governments.
We are tired of the recycled men in our governments. We are tired of the same old! Same old!
We are tired of waiting, hoping and trusting that one day things will change?
We are tired of the few rich men getting richer while the vast majority of our people languish in poverty and penury.
We are tired of deaths that can be avoided, wasted lives that could have been saved and hopeless situations that could have been avoided.
We are tired of status quo?
We demand for change within our governments both at the federal and state levels.
Government must give its citizenry basic amenities that help make life bearable and livable, good roads, electricity, water, affordable health, education, and communication.
We are not asking for heaven on earth, just help take the hell from earth!
We demand equal justice for all and equitable distribution of wealth among the federating states.
We demand a Nigeria that WORKS!
We demand a progressive and peaceful Nation for all.
We demand that the divide between the governors and the governed be greatly reduced so that governance can be what it was meant to be servant hood, service and humility not tyranny, arrogance and looting.
We demand CHANGE! WE demand CHANGE THAT WE CAN SEE, not one that we merely talk about!
We are tired of promises, broken hopes, wasted lives, and abandoned generations.
As a government, you can make history by delivering on your promises; you do not have to drum up a bogus unrealistic 7Point Agenda into our subconscious just tackle Nigeria’s biggest and worst problem, POWER, ENERGY!
Focus on just ensuring that every home in Nigeria has constant power supply and the entirety of Nigerians will remain grateful including the myriads of companies and every sector of the economy.
Many dead businesses will spring up, many new ones will be born? Lives will be greatly improved, Hospital bills will come down, cost of living will drop, and manufacturers will concentrate on creativity and productivity, rather than worrying their brains about how to power their generators and all, also cost of communicating will drop and the general morale of the people will improve!
People will be happy because they can watch their favourite TV and Radio programmes , families will be united to stay together and play together, because they are glued to their TV sets which is powered by electricity.
Stress levels will be reduced, noise levels will be reduced all the terrible emissions that are released as a result of the use of generating sets, anger, irritation levels will be reduced.
It will be new NIGERIA, where everything WORKS! It will b; A NEW day! A NEW ERA! A GREAT DAY! In Nigeria!
We know that Nigeria is bedeviled by many problems; I believe if we tackle them one by one with focus and determination, Nigeria can become one of the best places to live in the world and one of the greatest nations on planet earth.
How long before the day dawns?
COPYRIGHT @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 2009!
I sit in my little corner and watch the parade of madness, and wonder how long before the day dawns.
How much more of this madness can I take?
Why in God’s name are we poor as a people?
Why is there so much INJUSTICE and suffering?
Why are our roads mostly death traps?
Why are our hospitals deplorable, undermanaged, ill-equipped and manned by under motivated unhappy medical personnel?
Why are we constantly in the dark and hounded by generators with noise constantly emitting poisonous fumes?
Why can’t 70% of our populace afford a decent three square meals per day?
Why is the plight of the common man huge with no job, no livelihood, no comfortable shelter if any at all, and hardly able to mansion a healthy lifestyle not to talk of been able to afford the killer expensive medical bill?
Why are our leaders, thugs, illiterates, drop outs, corrupt die hard politicians who combine politics with criminality and unimaginable and unequalled diabolism?
Why are we governed by the blind and lame, men and women who cannot see and who have no understanding of service, tolerance and integrity?
Why have we remained myopic, and self seeking and unprogressive?
Why have we had the same set of leaders leading us for over 4 decades?
Why does a tiny, but obviously powerful cabal hold us bound, gagged for so long?
Why has our politics become a prize for the highest bidder, a politics of looting, bribery, corruption and for the rich by the rich through the rich?
Why are so blessed but also so backward short of been blessed and cursed at the same time?
Why is there so much pervading darkness?
Why are we down and out without, the inspiration and compassion of a visionary leader?
Why do we keep killing our good men, while evil men thrive and prosper in the land?
Why are our pen robbers, celebrated even though they are no better than the armed robbers that hold our cities hostage, these pen robbers are celebrated and never questioned about their obvious stolen wealth, going around in the best suits spotting the Gucci’s and the Armani’s of this world, even though they are common criminals?
Why do we allow our leaders dominate, delude and demoralize and demonize us for so long?
Why are we impoverished by every government and left to supply our own; water, electricity, and shelter?
Why do we get so little and have to pay so much for the little we get?
Why do we allow our politicians who obviously have no good intentions towards its citizenry continue to destroy our nation and marginalize our dreams?
Why are we so poor, so depraved and so blind?
When are going to say NO to the STATUS QUO?
When are we going to say NO to the madness, the melee and the moribund depraved form of government we call democracy?
When are we going to rise up and take back control from the cabal made up of retired generals, ex-governors, and the so called old time senators and aged long director generals?
When are we going to chase out incompetent, visionless, corrupt and sick politicians from our polity.
When are we going to ask the so called old and tired brains and feet to exit the stage and ask our vibrant, dynamic and versatile and courageous young men to take the stage and move us to our promised land?
Is the trend not clear all over the world? How old is Obama? How old is Gordon Brown? How old is the President of France?
The world is changing, why should the old sets of hands and brains continue to rule us?
Especially when they have not been able to give us the basic amenities and infrastructure that helps for sustainable growth and development in our Nation.
How long will we remain paralyzed, completely dazed in a state of stupor ,unchanging and unmoved by the madness that pervades the Nigerian polity?
Why should the percentage of the rich and the affluent and the privileged be so tiny compared to the large mass of the uneducated, underprivileged and disadvantaged?
We demand true democracy in our Nation, because what we have practiced up till now is not democracy but MONEYCRAZY!
Our souls and consciences are for the highest bidders!
We demand a level playing field, where people will not be afraid to stand up and be counted for what they believe.
We demand true justice and equitable distribution of the Nigerian Wealth!
Why should the North be developed by the South and the South left to beg and carry arms to agitate for what rightfully belongs to them?
Why should we create the Niger Delta situation because of greed and neglect, and wonder why there would be no youth restiveness and violence amongst the depraved and the disadvantaged?
Why should our leaders sleep on amazing beds exported from exotic countries, furnish their palatial mansions with the best of the best and enjoy constant supply of electricity while been driven in exotic state of the art air-conditioned cars and flown around in the most expensive jets while the ordinary Nigerian who you are supposed to be representing is broke, busted and disgusted with no house of his own, paying rent he can hardly afford, and eating once a day if he is so lucky.
Why should the divide be so wide? Why should the government officials not suffer what the average Nigerian is suffering so that he can work at quickly alleviating the pain and the poverty of the common man?
Our leaders live a life of delusion, and illusion, they are too far removed from reality and cannot understand the plight of the common Nigerian.
Why should our leaders use government monies to host stupid grandiose personal parties?
Why should they be allowed to use our resources to celebrate national weddings of the president`s daughters?
Why should our leaders resort to state of the art hospitals abroad the very minute they feel feverish and have a cough?
Why should they use the state funds to send their wards and extended families to the best school abroad?
Why are we allowing all these madness to thrive and multiply in our midst?
Why should councilors earn more than college professors?
Why should our senators earn more than our doctors?
Why are we crawling when we should be soaring?
Where is tomorrow`s legacy and today`s gain of democracy?
Why do governments keep reinventing the wheel?
Why do we see no light at the end of the tunnel?
Why should there be a clamour for second term when there has been NO PERFORMANCE recorded for the first term?
Why do we keep digging holes of death instead of giving life and transforming destines?
Why after over 45 years of independence all we have to show is the boom in the telecommunication and banking systems?
What is happening to our Educational system? What is happening to our Health care system?
Why are we so poor with infrastructural development?
Is there a vision for Nigeria to move forward?
Who is the visionary?
Is there a plan to transform Nigeria for the plan SMART in its orientation i.e. S.M.A. R.T
Why are we not deploying our best brains to the best spots or are we merely parading no good politicians whose only infection is to loot our treasure?
Is there real hope for our father land?
Is there light at the end of this dark tunnel?
Is there medicine for all our national pains and calamities?
Are we ever going to see the dawn after such a long night?
Is there an Obama , somewhere been groomed, been prepared, been packaged to deliver us from our present madness?
As followers we have failed our leaders?
You might ask how?
We have refused to:
1) Question them
2) Criticize them
3) Make them accountable
4) Correct them
5) Check them
6) Tell them the truth.
7) Properly advise them.
8) Celebrate and honor them when they do right.
As followers we are:
Self seeking, myopic, tribalistic, gullible and unprogressive
The Nigerian problem Is always the I! Me! I! syndrome.
We always think of self, self is king, we never think of the collective good of all. In all that we do and say, it`s always about the bottom line, what is in it for ME?
As follower we must help our leader at governance by becoming progressive, productive and we must not elect the wrong men because of their wealth and then expect them not to play on our intelligence.
We must stop seeing Nigeria in terms of tribes and states. We must realize that we are the first one before we are many. We must understand that we must always seek out the best men for the job rather than allowing myopic, sentimental feelings to move us.
Regardless of where he is from so long as he can deliver and the cap fits, we must choose men wisely into elective offices.
In Nigeria today, bad men vie for political offices because good men refuse to stand up and face the music of change. We cannot make progress as a reaction if we confuse to put on a icing on a bad cake, all our foundations are wrong!
Why are we Nigeria?
Do we like been Nigeria?
What do we need to put in place to become the Nigeria we dream and hope for?
Is the field we are all playing on a level playing field?
How long will our status quo remain?
If is only a mad man who keeps doing the same thing and the then expects a different set of results! You cannot plant corn and expect to harvest rice?
We must over haul the system we must result our foundation, we must return to true democracy government by the people for the people.
What we have now is a rape by a few against the majority of our peoples both leaders and followers should take the blame because both leaders and followers have failed and in their responsibilities.
Our leaders are a product of our environment and it is said that a people get the leader they deserve. So as followers if you get tired of these money bags visionless power mining politicians governing you then learn to say NO when they entice you with money they stole from you any way.
What we need is a collective will to say ENOUGH is ENOUGH! We are tired of the darkness, the madness, the melee, the lack of good governance, the corruption that has eaten deep into the fabric of every sphere of our polity the lack of progress and change in our nation, the stagnation and the spiral downward turn in all our systems, educational, health care and housing to mention a few.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
We demand for change, we ask for it!
We do not beg for it, we demand for it!
We do not pray for it, we demand for it!
We do not plead for it, we demand for it!
Change is our right. We are tired of the tyranny, injustice, the inequitable distribution of Nigeria’s collective wealth!
We are tired of the CABAL and their death stranglehold upon our nation!
We are tired of the complete deterioration and neglect of our public schools?
We are tired of living in darkness in the 21st century.
We are tired of roads that are death traps.
We are tired of our monies and our resources been converted to personal use by our leaders?
We are tired of a few of the king’s men monopolizing our industries and holding the rest of us hostages.
We are tired of the fact that good men with great intentions never make it to the top of the echelon of our governments.
We are tired of the recycled men in our governments. We are tired of the same old! Same old!
We are tired of waiting, hoping and trusting that one day things will change?
We are tired of the few rich men getting richer while the vast majority of our people languish in poverty and penury.
We are tired of deaths that can be avoided, wasted lives that could have been saved and hopeless situations that could have been avoided.
We are tired of status quo?
We demand for change within our governments both at the federal and state levels.
Government must give its citizenry basic amenities that help make life bearable and livable, good roads, electricity, water, affordable health, education, and communication.
We are not asking for heaven on earth, just help take the hell from earth!
We demand equal justice for all and equitable distribution of wealth among the federating states.
We demand a Nigeria that WORKS!
We demand a progressive and peaceful Nation for all.
We demand that the divide between the governors and the governed be greatly reduced so that governance can be what it was meant to be servant hood, service and humility not tyranny, arrogance and looting.
We demand CHANGE! WE demand CHANGE THAT WE CAN SEE, not one that we merely talk about!
We are tired of promises, broken hopes, wasted lives, and abandoned generations.
As a government, you can make history by delivering on your promises; you do not have to drum up a bogus unrealistic 7Point Agenda into our subconscious just tackle Nigeria’s biggest and worst problem, POWER, ENERGY!
Focus on just ensuring that every home in Nigeria has constant power supply and the entirety of Nigerians will remain grateful including the myriads of companies and every sector of the economy.
Many dead businesses will spring up, many new ones will be born? Lives will be greatly improved, Hospital bills will come down, cost of living will drop, and manufacturers will concentrate on creativity and productivity, rather than worrying their brains about how to power their generators and all, also cost of communicating will drop and the general morale of the people will improve!
People will be happy because they can watch their favourite TV and Radio programmes , families will be united to stay together and play together, because they are glued to their TV sets which is powered by electricity.
Stress levels will be reduced, noise levels will be reduced all the terrible emissions that are released as a result of the use of generating sets, anger, irritation levels will be reduced.
It will be new NIGERIA, where everything WORKS! It will b; A NEW day! A NEW ERA! A GREAT DAY! In Nigeria!
We know that Nigeria is bedeviled by many problems; I believe if we tackle them one by one with focus and determination, Nigeria can become one of the best places to live in the world and one of the greatest nations on planet earth.
How long before the day dawns?
COPYRIGHT @ VICTORIA FADEYI AUGUST 2009!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
RE:YOUR CHANGE HAS COME!
Your Change Has Come.
Your change has come.
Your day is here.
Your pain is over.
Your siege is ended.
Your troubles are gone.
Your debts are all cancelled.
Your shame is removed.
Your fears have been allayed.
Your tears have stopped flowing.
Your days of obscurity is ended
Your days of smallness are over.
Your stagnation has ceased.
Your limitations have all been removed.
All the barriers have been brought down.
Every distraction has been cut off.
Your tide has turned.
Your river is flowing again.
Your joy has been restored.
Your sun is shinning again.
Your fame is established
Your time of rejoicing is here.
Your time of celebration has come
See all your angry enemies have been turned back, they can no longer perform their evil enterprise.
You have become the cynosure of all eyes, like the woman with the issue of blood your flow of shame has ceased, your name has changed, your abode has changed, your destiny has been rewritten.
You no longer bear that ugly name, you no longer sit in darkness, groping, wondering and pondering.
You are free at last, free to be all that God made you to be.
Like Blind Bartimeaus your sight is restored, you can now shed off the beggarly garment of shame.
You can now see.
You can now hear.
You can now walk.
You can now sing.
You can now go forward, make progress, the curse is broken.
Walk away from the place of smallness, obscurity and limitations.
You can now soar like an eagle bird and roar like a lion that you are.
See GOOD!
See JOY!
See LOVE!
See GRACE!
See GREATNESS!
See GLORY! They are all now your companion, they go everywhere with you.
You are a CELEBRITY!
You are a STAR!
You are a GEM!
You are a TREASURE!
Never again will you see corruption.
Never again will you see shame.
Never again will you be disgraced.
Never ever will pain overwhelm you.
Never again will the floods overtake you.
Never again will you see destruction, depression and death.
See God’s grace, feel God’s embrace, enjoy all of God’s mercies.
It’s a NEW DAY!
It’s a NEW DAWN!
It’s a NEW ERA!
It’s a NEW WAY!
Locked in?
Locked out?
Locked down?
NEVER AGAIN! NEVER EVER AGAIN!
You are free from all of the past’s troubles, trials, temptations and traumas.
Today you have broken out!
Today you have broken forth!
Today you have broken through!
Enter your destiny.
Enter your palace.
Enter your place of power.
Yes stand out!
Yes stand tall for you were born to win and to shine forth great light!
Doors are opening everywhere.
Doors of peace, power, prosperity, promotions, fame, fortune and family!
Doors of success, accomplishments in Africa, Asia, America, Europe, Canada, and the Americas!
The world is at your feet, they are waiting for the release of your gifting, talents and abilities!
You are carrying the solution to some of life’s questions. Millions await your words, your songs, your ministrations, your buildings, your creativity.
You are the LIGHT in your dark world.
You are the SALT in your depraved and dying earth.
You are the SOLUTION to today’s myriads of problems.
You were born for a time like this.
You were created for a time like this.
You went through what you went through because of a day and a time like this.
You survived the storms, the fires, the tragedies, the trials, the temptations, the traps and the traumas for a time like this.
You carry the SOLUTIONS, you have the answers.
You have been tried and refined in the fire of affliction, you have been tried over and over and over again NOW is the time of your showing and your SHINNING!
You were put through the sea of trouble, and you survived just for a TIME LIKE THIS!
Now in the time of traumas you carry the solutions.
Now in the time of pain you show the gains
Now in the time of confusion, you simply give instructions.
Now in the time of lack, you carry a truck load of benefits.
Now in the time of falling, wailing, dying and hopelessness, you ooze life, abundance and great grace and power!
When men say there is a casting down, you KNOW THERE IS A LIFTING UP!
You never observe the weather, you know the seasons and understand the times, because you are connected to the God who rules the weather and who formed the seasons.
When men wail, you celebrate and jubilate because you are not of this world, because you are out of this world, a product of God firmly seated in the heavenly places far above all powers and principalities and strongholds.
You are uncurseable, unkillable and untouchable!
You are always above, and never beneath, you are too blessed to be cursed, too UP to be down!
It is your MOMENT!
It is your DAY!
It is your TIME!
Ride the waves.
Swim the seas
Glide the stars
It’s time to spread your wings and fly!
It’s time to make that move!
It ‘s time to sing that song!
It’s time to write that novel!
It’s time to produce that movie!
It’s time to build that house!
It’s time to marry that babe!
It’s time to launch that rocket!
It’s time to visit that galaxy!
It’s time to go the EXTRA MILE! Do the impossible!
This is the time
Now is the hour!
It’s time for ACTION!
It’s time for IMPLEMENTATION!
It’s time for EXECTUTION!
No more delays!
No more sleepy days!
No more feet dragging and procrastinations and distractions,
Like Nike says, “JUST DO IT”
It’s time to move on, move up and move in!
It’s time to for NEWNESS, BRIGHTNESS AND GREATNESS!
SEE!!
BEHOLD YOUR CHANGE HAS COME!!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI JULY 2009!
Your change has come.
Your day is here.
Your pain is over.
Your siege is ended.
Your troubles are gone.
Your debts are all cancelled.
Your shame is removed.
Your fears have been allayed.
Your tears have stopped flowing.
Your days of obscurity is ended
Your days of smallness are over.
Your stagnation has ceased.
Your limitations have all been removed.
All the barriers have been brought down.
Every distraction has been cut off.
Your tide has turned.
Your river is flowing again.
Your joy has been restored.
Your sun is shinning again.
Your fame is established
Your time of rejoicing is here.
Your time of celebration has come
See all your angry enemies have been turned back, they can no longer perform their evil enterprise.
You have become the cynosure of all eyes, like the woman with the issue of blood your flow of shame has ceased, your name has changed, your abode has changed, your destiny has been rewritten.
You no longer bear that ugly name, you no longer sit in darkness, groping, wondering and pondering.
You are free at last, free to be all that God made you to be.
Like Blind Bartimeaus your sight is restored, you can now shed off the beggarly garment of shame.
You can now see.
You can now hear.
You can now walk.
You can now sing.
You can now go forward, make progress, the curse is broken.
Walk away from the place of smallness, obscurity and limitations.
You can now soar like an eagle bird and roar like a lion that you are.
See GOOD!
See JOY!
See LOVE!
See GRACE!
See GREATNESS!
See GLORY! They are all now your companion, they go everywhere with you.
You are a CELEBRITY!
You are a STAR!
You are a GEM!
You are a TREASURE!
Never again will you see corruption.
Never again will you see shame.
Never again will you be disgraced.
Never ever will pain overwhelm you.
Never again will the floods overtake you.
Never again will you see destruction, depression and death.
See God’s grace, feel God’s embrace, enjoy all of God’s mercies.
It’s a NEW DAY!
It’s a NEW DAWN!
It’s a NEW ERA!
It’s a NEW WAY!
Locked in?
Locked out?
Locked down?
NEVER AGAIN! NEVER EVER AGAIN!
You are free from all of the past’s troubles, trials, temptations and traumas.
Today you have broken out!
Today you have broken forth!
Today you have broken through!
Enter your destiny.
Enter your palace.
Enter your place of power.
Yes stand out!
Yes stand tall for you were born to win and to shine forth great light!
Doors are opening everywhere.
Doors of peace, power, prosperity, promotions, fame, fortune and family!
Doors of success, accomplishments in Africa, Asia, America, Europe, Canada, and the Americas!
The world is at your feet, they are waiting for the release of your gifting, talents and abilities!
You are carrying the solution to some of life’s questions. Millions await your words, your songs, your ministrations, your buildings, your creativity.
You are the LIGHT in your dark world.
You are the SALT in your depraved and dying earth.
You are the SOLUTION to today’s myriads of problems.
You were born for a time like this.
You were created for a time like this.
You went through what you went through because of a day and a time like this.
You survived the storms, the fires, the tragedies, the trials, the temptations, the traps and the traumas for a time like this.
You carry the SOLUTIONS, you have the answers.
You have been tried and refined in the fire of affliction, you have been tried over and over and over again NOW is the time of your showing and your SHINNING!
You were put through the sea of trouble, and you survived just for a TIME LIKE THIS!
Now in the time of traumas you carry the solutions.
Now in the time of pain you show the gains
Now in the time of confusion, you simply give instructions.
Now in the time of lack, you carry a truck load of benefits.
Now in the time of falling, wailing, dying and hopelessness, you ooze life, abundance and great grace and power!
When men say there is a casting down, you KNOW THERE IS A LIFTING UP!
You never observe the weather, you know the seasons and understand the times, because you are connected to the God who rules the weather and who formed the seasons.
When men wail, you celebrate and jubilate because you are not of this world, because you are out of this world, a product of God firmly seated in the heavenly places far above all powers and principalities and strongholds.
You are uncurseable, unkillable and untouchable!
You are always above, and never beneath, you are too blessed to be cursed, too UP to be down!
It is your MOMENT!
It is your DAY!
It is your TIME!
Ride the waves.
Swim the seas
Glide the stars
It’s time to spread your wings and fly!
It’s time to make that move!
It ‘s time to sing that song!
It’s time to write that novel!
It’s time to produce that movie!
It’s time to build that house!
It’s time to marry that babe!
It’s time to launch that rocket!
It’s time to visit that galaxy!
It’s time to go the EXTRA MILE! Do the impossible!
This is the time
Now is the hour!
It’s time for ACTION!
It’s time for IMPLEMENTATION!
It’s time for EXECTUTION!
No more delays!
No more sleepy days!
No more feet dragging and procrastinations and distractions,
Like Nike says, “JUST DO IT”
It’s time to move on, move up and move in!
It’s time to for NEWNESS, BRIGHTNESS AND GREATNESS!
SEE!!
BEHOLD YOUR CHANGE HAS COME!!
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI JULY 2009!
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