LIFE

This is life, 

The sun shines hot and gets unbearable, thorns and thistles sprout. 

Floods and earthquakes destroy and plunge us into foreseen hardship as well as pain of loss. 

 But the sun does add in the growth of arable crops as the rains fall even in the midst of thorns and most of the unseen processes underneath the earth crust result in the forming of new landforms but yet leaves deadly marks on the surface. 

This is life,

Many live under a dollar a day and a lot of us have more than a dollar to spare but for lack empathy if I may. Who amongst us living today was fortunate to pick the family we belong to or even our nationality? 

I feel our existence should be given a second thought.

This is life,

We view the successful in envy and sometimes bitterness yet having no idea of the sacrifice and burden they endured ; we have hard the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" but can deduce from it that time and dedication could as well be the reason why it was worthy of the statement. 

This is life,

We wake up in the morning with yesterday's misfortune in mind as the back up mind-frame for whatever is to be the reason for today's failure even in a world where mortality rate is on the rise. 

We are loaded with potentials that could better the life of just one person but can't even better our own perspective.

A topical question would be if life is fair or unfair. And I put forward my defence as this; we have 24hrs a day, 7days a week, 365days a year. Responsibility and opportunity is how I summaries this.

But once more, this is life and your most gifted if you still have it.  

Achievements Speech.

From the office of the Ag. Governor
Students' Village Hostel, University of Jos.
All protocols observed
Distinguished ladies and gentle men:
 We are gradually coming to the end of our tenure and give way to yet another government.
 Those who care enough to speak the truth can attest to the fact of this government's selfless service and what is expected of us in taking our dear hostel to the next level.
 Towards the end of last session, we witnessed a lot of activities in celebration of our annual village week that distinguish us, as villagites. In all the activities, including our pageantry, one is awe struck by the great energy and style displayed by our people in all their involvements. Such energies, charisma and ingenuity are what make us distinct as villagites and we should all endeavor to translate them into other facets of our lives.
 We should therefore henceforth join hands in maintaining our uniqueness and villagites characteristic drive for excellence and great achievements.
 Our government from the very onset was and has always been very determined to do whatever it takes to move village hostel forward and for this, I call on all villagites to join us so that we can reverse the many ills of the past and support us in maintaining the new face of students' village hostel were stakeholder ship is only recognised when a person has helped in the development of our dear hostel.
 When I assumed office as your acting governor, my resolve was to depart from ad hoc tendencies of past governance, so that we can lay a sound foundation for the socio_academic development of our hostel.
 I have certainly learnt from and leaned on shoulders of great minds, some of which include: Dr. Myles Munroe "when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable"
Theodore Roosevelt "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty....I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well"
Ronald Reagan "there is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit"
And the Bible "it is more blessed to give than to receive"
 Within the little time we spent in office even without funds from anywhere, we set for ourselves, visions and goals and the results are visible for everyone to see. These include:

1. We solicited with 'Moulds Nig. Ltd' to supply us crushed stones as part of their corporate social responsibility in order to rehabilitate our pot hole roads in the hostel which they delivered and we can all see what that has done to our roads.

2. National association of Plateau state students "NAPSS" Unijos chapter came to our rescue with helping us solve a water problem in the hostel by fixing a manual borehole at compound 7. All thanks to the leadership of such a great union.

3. Student union Government "SUG" caretaker committee also heard our cry and provided us with a motorised borehole at compound 4.

4. We developed a process to expedite repairs of physical facilities in the hostel e.g the fixing of compound A, C, 1,2 and 3 suckaway pipes and compound 9 $ 10 in process, ensuring the restoration of power in good time whenever there was an outbreak.
The issue of having light on one side when the generator is put on is now a thing of the past as the second generator is now working because we refused to relent insisting on the management to do so; thanks to the maintenance officer who was behind us as well as the operator.
We ensured the street lights in the hostel were restored; thanks to the hostel maintenance officer; Oga Babuje and our able electrician; Mr. Francis.
We ensured the immediate repair of the manual bore hole at the field when it got spoiled; thanks to our able plumber; Mr. Solomon

5. Construction of the longest pedestrian bridge in west Africa was done by the management during our time and now students can safely move to and fro the health service centre as well as the Naraguta campus of the university from students' village comfortably; thanks to the school management who saw this need.

 6. We delivered a successful village week despite all odds and even held an interactive talk show on the theme "Identifying your talents and maximizing your potentials" with Chief operation officer of Compunet ltd; Mr. Ifeanyi Ejindu who represented his boss; Mr. Kolawole Ojo MNI as our main speaker.

7.  We now have increased number of security personnels in the hostel; thanks to the base officer

8.  We now have a more student_friendly hall officer/matron and a more serene environment; thanks to both the hall officer and matron who came to a consensus with us.

9. We wrote and met with Plateau state water board to help rehabilitate our water reservoir; though no clear response yet but we are still hopeful

10. We wrote the Chairman; house committee on youth and sports, Plateau state house of assembly and met with his P.A to see how our sporting facilities can be rehabilitated, though yet to receive a formal response, we await a response.

11. Supply of welfare materials to students during exams period; thanks to SUG caretaker committee.
Several other things which we would of necessity not highlight here for time and space.
 Things we were unable to complete due to lack of funds and pray the next government amongst it's other projects ensure they are being carried out since funds would be made available:

1. Rehabilitation of solar energy bore hole at compound C
2. Rehabilitation of sporting facilities
3. Security lights in all compounds
4. Drying lines in all compounds
5. Fixing of all bad tap heads in the hostel
6. Publication of a magazine and/ a calender
And I sincerely pray that God helps the next government to achieve even greater feat than we have been able to.
 Finally, I would like to end with the words of Ken Blanchard "None of us is as smart as all of us"
............Thank you
              Signed
             John Paul Yerima
              Ag. Governor
              Students' Village Hostel
               University of Jos
                June 2016

Relationship matters

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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the 'golden eggs' (the awesome things about their relationship),the benefits than they are about preserving the relationship that makes them possible,they often become insensitive and inconsiderate,neglecting the little kindness and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate........

Love....a feeling is a fruit of love;the verb (sacrifice, listen, empathize, appreciate etc)...it is something you do;the sacrifices you make.

When we change one part of the chemical formula, we end up changing the nature of the results

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of_____Pascal
........relationship matters

WHY NIGERIA DID NOT DISINTEGRATE IN 2015, AS PMB IS THE DIVINE MESSIAH!!
Written by Muhammad Attahir Suraj.
The only reason why the United States made public by releasing confidential reports by the CIA and former US ambassador Campbell on several notes that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015 was because they were so certain about the outcome of the reports.
They had conducted their home work diligently, which include the prediction of the fall in oil prizes knowing the US will stops mass importation of oil, the mass looting of Nigeria's asset and monies, the ravaging insecurity and impunity, and the lack of political will to fight the rapid growth of insecurity. The US came into Nigeria on the note of lending a helping hand to fight BH only to gather valuable Intel and return. They decided not to give weaponry support for many reasons, hence knew Nigeria could not check the menace with ease.
The believe was that PDP wins the election, oil crashes and the foreign reserve looted. Nigeria is forced into recession and has to be officially broke. Inflation skyrockets, $1 probably exchanged at #1000, more than the then 27 states including the FG can't pay salaries and are forced to sack a large number of civil servants, commodities reach peak prizes people are thrown into chaos and hunger, many youth troop to join BH as an option, fight erupts and lawlessness cash in, biafra and niger delta rise up and wage another war on another scale, while people migrate to neighbouring countries and that will be the beginning of the end where hell broke.
However, unlike the west where even the majority Christians give less value to faith Nigerians are very religious and had since offered their prayers to which God answered and intervened, that was a parameter a non religious expert will not factor in, hence the equation changed.
President Muhammadu Buhari was God's intervention. He won the election and therefore all the factors in play were arrested. The TSA arrested the destructive effect of the oil price to some extent, foreign aid political will and purchase of military hardware reduced the BH threat to minimal, salary bailout saved jobs, international recognition was revived, inflation was arrested and the Naira was chained from a free fall, looting and impunity were both halted thus the prediction became fictitious and today neither has Nigeria disintegrated nor is it on the verge of disintegration.
We thank you oh God for your intervention and mercy. My dear brothers and sister of this country lets thank the almighty God for his divine and his love for us.
Thank you.
Muhammad Attahir Suraj.
1/6/2016.