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SONGS THAT GAVE MY SOUL WINGS

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By Akin Ojumu Like many others before and after me, accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior wasn’t an easy decision to make. Totally surrendering to God and wholly giving my life to Him was to me a fierce battle. My response to the altar call was drawn out and my path to the altar of salvation was long and tortuous marked with struggles against powerful fleshy desires that held me caged in a darkened and lonely prison. Now, to be honest, I didn’t consider myself a bad person at all. On the contrary, I was a highly disciplined teenager and young adult with very firm moral principles. Even as an unbeliever, I had an uncharacteristically unyielding self control. The    typical vices that plagued and ensnared youths my age were a no-no for me. I refused to be peer pressured into taking up beer drinking and cigarette smoking was a habit that never quite caught my fancy. My friends thought you needed to do those things to be cool. To me, they were nothing more than embarking

AFRICAN LEADERS NEED A SABBATICAL IN THE ARABIAN DESERT

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https://youtu.be/U7rb1j_dRKQ The link above is to an interview given by Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman and CEO, Mubadala Development Company, Chairman of Manchester City Football Club on The David Rubenstein Show. It is a perfect illustration of the wisdom and foresight of Arabs and their leaders and a profound contrast with the general lack of foresight by Africans and their leaders. Here is an excerpt… “The United Arab Emirate is a federation of 7 Emirates i.e. States; Abu Dhabi being the largest and Dubai being one of the most famous. The Federation was formed in 1971. We have a population of 10 million overall." "We have a wealth of resources particularly in the oil and gas field that have been the foundation of our economic development. The oil and gas are not going to be here for the next thousand years; they are finite. So, we have to prepare ourself for the future. The leadership of this country has focused on maximizing the benefits and the returns fro

WENT TO BED AN ENUGU RANGER, WOKE UP A LIVERPUDLIAN

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By Akin Ojumu Having lost their two best players, and being down 3 goals to a Barcelona side that is arguably the best football team in the world, and that has the best football player in our generation playing for them, this Liverpool side put on an incredible show of grit and resilience of a determined human spirit. It was a display of desire and passion of a group of people working as one to achieve a common goal and common purpose, all against the backdrop of seemingly insurmountable odds.  This was a Team performance of all times.  There was no reliance on one star player or one person. It was a joining of hands and coupling of minds of 11 players committed to working as one united team, under the creative and exuberant inspiration of a Manager who is deft at human dynamics and who has an obviously genuine affection and respect for every member of his team. It blows my socks off. I doff my hat to the players and their Manager. I went to bed last night an Enugu Ra