Adaku Nwachinemere Blog

24/11/2025

July 17, 1967 — a moment of routine work turned into one of the most iconic rescues ever photographed.

Lineman Randall G. Champion was working on a power line when he accidentally brushed a live wire carrying 4,160 volts. The shock stopped his heart instantly. He hung limp in his safety harness, twenty feet above the ground, swaying like a rag doll.

People on the street panicked. They shouted for help.

One man didn’t wait.

His coworker and friend, J.D. Thompson, sprinted to the pole and climbed as fast as his hands could take him — ignoring the danger, the voltage, the height, and every instinct telling him it might already be too late.

He reached Randall’s body and did the unthinkable:

he performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the two of them hung in midair.

At that exact moment, a young photographer named Rocco Morabito happened to be driving by. He raised his camera and captured a single frame — a frame that would win the 1968 Pulitzer Prize and become famous worldwide.

The photo was titled:

“The Kiss of Life.”

For long, terrifying seconds, nothing happened.

Then —

a twitch.

a gasp.

a miracle.

Randall Champion started breathing again.

Someone below yelled, “He’s breathing!” and the crowd erupted. Thompson and other workers lowered Randall carefully to the ground and rushed him to medical care.

Champion lived — not just that day, but for decades afterward. He eventually retired, surviving another electrical accident later in his career. He passed away in 2002.

Thompson?

He refused to be called a hero. After saving his friend’s life, he climbed down, dusted himself off… and went right back to work because a storm was coming and power had to stay on.

Photographer Rocco Morabito died in 2009 — but the image he captured still lives in lineman training rooms, safety programs, and history books.

It reminds us of something simple and profound:

Real heroes rarely make headlines.

They don’t wear capes.

They don’t ask to be seen.

Sometimes they’re just men on a power pole — risking everything because a friend is hanging between life and death.

And sometimes, one breath is enough to beat 4,000 volts.

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15/11/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Rap icon Eminem just torched Mark Zuckerberg and other billionaires — right to their faces — calling out their greed… and then proved his point with action.

At a glittering Manhattan awards show, surrounded by tuxedos, champagne, and America’s wealthiest egos, Eminem didn’t follow the script. Accepting the Cultural Innovator of the Year award, he skipped the humble thanks, ignored the usual applause lines — and aimed straight for the jugular.

“If you’ve got money, use it for something good. Give it to people who actually need it. If you’re a billionaire… why the hell are you a billionaire? Give the money away, man.”

Mark Zuckerberg and other billionaires sat frozen, silent. No claps. No nods. Because Eminem wasn’t here to flatter — he was here to call out the system

15/11/2025

I was just a young woman when I lost the love of my life, my husband😢

That moment shattered me. I didn’t know how to breathe, how to move forward, or how to live again. The world felt cold. I cried myself to sleep for months, sometimes with no food, no light, and no one to talk to.

But somehow, I kept going.

In 1993, something changed. I got a role in a TV show called "Fortunes", playing Mrs. Agnes Johnson. That one role became my lifeline. People finally saw me, not just as a widow, not just as a broken woman—but as someone with something to give. That was the beginning of my healing.

From there, Nollywood embraced me. I acted in "Glamour Girls", "Diamond Ring", "True Confession" and I poured all my pain into those roles. I played the wicked character so well because I had lived through my own battles. People feared me on screen, but off-screen, I was just a woman trying to survive.

I was born in Etinan, Akwa Ibom, in 1966. I didn’t come from much. But God gave me a gift, and Nollywood gave me a voice.

Behind every scene, every smile, every line I delivered—was a woman who had lost everything, but still chose to rise.

— Liz Benson

15/11/2025

03/11/2025

Good morning and a very happy new month to you.

I’m excited to invite you to this year’s Port Harcourt Fashion Week happening on the 14th & 15th of this month at the EUI Centre Abacha Road.

This is the PortHarcourt’s premier fashion event and this year’s edition will feature an array of activities ranging from the Future designer showcase- a contest for emerging designers, to the established designers showdown, Exhibition -the hub of creativity, Walk for Hope by senior citizens who stand as beacons of hope to the younger generation and of course, the buyers party which gives you access to buy off the runway pieces.

Tickets are available for purchase at www.portharcourtfashionweek.com

Regular- N10,000
Front Row- N30,000
VIP Front Row- N100,000

Come experience fashion like never before

But most importantly, come support your girl🙏

25/10/2025

A testament of grace no cap! A promise of glory! A demonstration of positive decisive actions! A consistent commitment to excellence!

04/10/2025

His boss rejected his idea. So he quit, proved them wrong, then bought the company and fired them.

Howard Schultz was 29 years old.

Working at Starbucks as marketing director. Making good money. Safe job.

But Starbucks wasn’t what you think. Just a coffee bean store. Eleven locations. No espresso. No lattes. No places to sit.

Then Schultz went to Italy and saw espresso bars everywhere. People gathering. Connecting over coffee.

He came back with a vision.

Turn Starbucks into an Italian-style coffeehouse. A place for community. Not just beans in a bag.

The owners said no.

“We sell coffee beans. That’s what we do.”

“Coffeehouses are too risky.”

“Stick to what works.”

Schultz pushed harder. Showed them the numbers. Explained the opportunity.

They said no again.

So in 1985, he quit.

Left his stable job. Left his steady paycheck. Left his position at the only coffee company he believed in.

Everyone thought he was crazy.

Here’s what Schultz knew that everyone else missed:

Poverty teaches you that safe isn’t always safe. He’d grown up in Brooklyn housing projects. Watched his father get injured on the job with no health insurance. No safety net. No backup plan.

That experience taught him something.

Playing it safe still leaves you vulnerable. Taking calculated risks is how you build real security.

So he started his own company. Il Giornale. Italian coffeehouse concept. Everything the Starbucks owners rejected.

Raised money. Built stores. Proved the model worked.

Within two years, he had six locations. Growing fast. Making it work.

Then in 1987, the Starbucks owners decided to sell.

Schultz saw his chance. Raised $3.8 million. Bought Starbucks. Merged it with Il Giornale.

Now he had seventeen stores total. And the freedom to build his vision.

People said it wouldn’t scale. Coffee shops are local businesses. Regional at best.

They were wrong.

Schultz grew Starbucks from seventeen stores in 1987 to over 33,000 locations worldwide today.

Built it into a $100 billion company.

But here’s the part most people miss.

In 2000, Schultz stepped down as CEO. Let someone else run the company he built.

By 2008, Starbucks was dying. Stock down 75%. Stores closing. Losing money.

The board asked Schultz to come back.

At 54 years old, he could have stayed retired. Wealthy. Successful. Legacy intact.

Instead, he came back to save the company.

Closed 7,100 stores for a day to retrain every employee. Lost millions in revenue. Did it anyway.

Shut down 600 underperforming locations. Laid off 12,000 employees. Made the hard calls nobody else wanted to make.

Within four years, Starbucks was thriving again. Stock price recovered. Company stronger than ever.

Today, Starbucks serves 100 million customers per week. In 80 countries. Creates jobs for hundreds of thousands of people.

All because a kid from the projects refused to accept other people’s limits.

He turned a rejection into a reason to build his own company.

He proved that safe jobs aren’t actually safe. That calculated risks beat comfortable complacency.

What rejection are you treating like the end instead of the beginning?

What vision are you letting other people kill because they lack imagination?

Schultz was making good money at Starbucks. He quit anyway. Started from scratch. At 29.

Then came back at 54 to save what he built. Made brutal decisions. Closed stores. Let people go.

Because he understood something most people don’t.

Building something real means being willing to risk everything. Multiple times.

Your comfortable job might be holding you back from building something bigger.

Your employer’s rejection of your ideas might be the push you need to build them yourself.

Stop waiting for permission to pursue what you see clearly.

Start thinking like Howard Schultz.

Find your vision. Build your proof of concept. Take the risk.

And if it breaks later, be willing to come back and fix it.

Sometimes the greatest companies come from the courage to quit a good job.

Because when you stop playing it safe, you start building something real.

Think Big.

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