The Positive Outreach

To Find You - You Must Get Lost It’s not uncommon that we human are a like jellyfish around challenges. Once it’s evident that the result is not as expected the natural instinctive reaction is to jump ship and abandon the journey. We so much enjoy comfort that we usually forget the fact that it must be worked for in order to have it. No matter how little or huge a challenge is, the ultimate purpose is not to get you off the rail but the sole aim is to test your ability, strength and importantly weigh how much you really desire the prize and at what degree you are willing to endure the challenges and hardship to secure it. Majority of us have no clue what we are capable of until we get challenged with something beyond us. Surviving becomes the only option available to us and we will continue to strive to get out of that situation by giving it all it takes – during this process we will feel like we are lost in the wilderness and the world is against us. However, this is...

  Emeka, Danladi And Kunle In Their Pursuit Of Greatness - The Three Musketeers Emeka was born into an Igbo family from Enugu but his parents moved to Jos in Plateau State before he was born. His father is an Army officer at Rukuba Barracks in Jos while his mother is running a small palm-oil business at Jos Main Market. Danladi’s story is much related to that of his friend Emeka, he was born in Tudun Wada in Kano State but his parents had to move to his mother’s home of Langtang in Plateau State to oversee his maternal grandfather’s business on his demise. Kunle, on the other hand, was born in Lagos and lived in the state of Lagos all his life but the search for better education led him to the Federal College of Education, Pankshin in Plateau State where his path crossed with Emeka and Danladi. The college is located North-East of Jos and for convenience and considering it’s impossible to commute daily either from Jos town or Langtang, the young men had...

Wishing Or Doing – A Catalyst For Destruction Or Development. The easiest thing to do for any human is to wish or desire something but the process after that desire is another story. It’s the steps after that desire that usually determines in what direction that wish leads, which could lead towards actualising that desire or stall it. Majority of us are guilty of having a wish but remain wishing rather than putting together machinery on how to bring that wish into reality. We now begin to wander around it, think about it, analyse it and yet not doing anything about it – either consciously or unconsciously, the wish remains in the same position and its title is not changing to nothing else but just another wish. The very moment you begin to have a desire for a particular thing or person, then that moment a new project is born and for the status of that project to change, it’s not only important to be prepared but identify your resources and needs, then break that in...

Amaka – The Story of a Village Girl and Her Race against the Tide of Poverty. Amaka was born in a small village near Nnewi in Anambra state, southeast of Nigeria. She was born into a family of 6 including her parents. The father was a retired soldier who fought in the civil war and now a local palm wine tapper while the mother is a full-time housewife looking after the home and the children. She is the first child of the house and this comes with a lot of challenges as she is practically the mother to her siblings and sees to their wellbeing day in – day out. Amaka is a very ambitious and focused young lady with a dream to make a difference, not only in her life but the life of her siblings too and help her parents along the line out of poverty. A village girl with a tall dream – She had to make a sacrifice by dropping out of school so her siblings can at least get some as well. She couldn’t finish her junior years unfortunately while her siblings are aiming to at least ge...

My Journey – My Sacrifices. Every time you embark on bringing a desire to reality, a journey lifecycle is born and for this journey path to end as you wish, it is paramount and inevitable to make sacrifices along the line! People of faith, either as Christians, Muslims or traditionalists would understand and agree that the practice of sacrifices to God and gods is a necessity. And all these sacrifices can come up in various ways in our daily path which includes but not limited to the following: Anger:  This enemy of progress is not in any form in your way to make things easy but to complicate your journey.  Anger is a normal human emotion and it’s healthy, it’s only a problem when you as human allow the anger to control you rather than you in control. So it’s always wise to control the anger before it controls you – controlling things that switch on your anger before it develops is a sacrifice that must be made to continue your journey. It’s not easy but it’s ...

The Misuse of Social Media in Today's Generation. Social media is developed for creating and sharing information, interests and ideas. All these cuts across various sectors such as career, education, fashion, entertainment, news and etc. They can either be in form of a website, platform or an application and they are mostly designed to be interactive. Some can be a standalone for that specific reason of interacting with other people or they can be built-in with some other established and existing applications. Majority of these applications are web-based. Mode of communication and information technology has changed rapidly in the last 20yrs and still developing further, the emergence of social media is the apex. For easy access - most of these applications if not all, not only do they have the web version, they also have a mobile version. So, if you are unable to access via your desktop or laptop, you can be assured of not missing a thing while on the road. As ...

Your Language - Your Culture And Your Tradition.   To confuse a man, take away his identity. A man’s identity is his language, his culture, and tradition. In this day and age, many people are getting carried away embracing a new found culture – mostly the Western culture. The influence of the western culture on the continent of Africa cannot be overemphasized. The western culture in no doubt has its advantages but not without coming with the baggage of unfit and series of negative influence. Culture is important – most people are of the thought that having a culture or having a tie to one’s heritage is so archaic and not modern but in all honesty, no matter how much you try to distance yourself from your culture – you are still who you are and the only place you can be comfortable is when you are who you are and not what the society expects of you. A man from Yiwu in China moved to Los Angeles and for him to fit into the culture of L.A, he is no longer bearing Mr...