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07/03/2024

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As we discuss "Entrepreneurship and Akwa Ibom of our Dream!" focus is on the Youths and Family

With Mr Patrick Ejike and Barr David UMEM

Anchor: Dr Chris Okon Christopher Okon.

01/03/2024

This month of March, walk in favor, walk in power!

Happy new month!! 🎉

06/12/2023

We are pencils in the hands of the creator.

27/11/2023

IS YOUR BLESSING A CURSE?

By Michael Bush

The world takes too much for granted, even calling things that be as though they were not. Human beings find nothing amiss in calling white black and black white. We excellencify nonsense and in the same breath nonsensify excellence. And get away with it every day.

In the third world in particular, taking things for granted is almost like a lifestyle. It is almost as if all we do every day is sit around and assume. We assume too many things. For instance, we arrogate too much to fame and power and wealth.

We make the famous and the powerful and the wealthy instant icons and legends and models. Some of us even call them mentors, for nothing. Such fake life. Such tragedy of life!

Fame and power and wealth may be indices of enjoyment but they are not indicators of how well one’s life is, especially when it comes to adding value. You can be famous, you can be powerful, you can be wealthy but still be poor. In spite of your fame and power and wealth, if you are an angry, bitter, envious, greedy and unforgiving person, you are poor. In fact, if you wallow in fame and power and wealth but are envious of those beneath you, you are poorer than the poorest.

Africa is an interesting place. The continent has too much drama. The people never learn. We are permanently talking, never listening, never learning, never remembering.

At event after event, you find people who just left government philosophising on what and what ought to be done by the authorities. But they just left the system. Did they forget these great ideas when they were right in there? Or is this the reason political office holders want to die in there or crave to go back again and again?

Because they always forget. So, they go back to remember only to end up forgetting again. Then they re-go back only to forget something again. The beat goes on.

Really, fame and power and wealth are not for purposes of showing off and oppression. You don’t need all those mansions and all those exotic cars and all those quixotic, luxuriant lifestyles. Those may be the side chics, sorry, side perks of fame and power and wealth but they are certainly not the main dish. The trio are a much longer thing!

Use them well. Stop abusing them. They are too delicate and too sexy, the th*****me. You should never toy with them when you have them.

Because they are tenured. No one owns them for eternity. Fame and power and wealth are for a period. Even if you keep them for a lifetime, death shall at some point bring your tenure or reign to an end.

Then, those who encountered you shall have free course to tell your story. Shall they call you fame-miss-road and power-miss-road and money-miss-road? Or, shall they say that you used your fame and power and wealth for the common good? Imagine that every time the living praise the dead, the latter receives a standing ovation but a dozen strokes of beatings whenever evil works are remembered, shouldn’t those alive now learn to better deploy their blessings?

While we are at that, what’s fame and what’s power and what’s wealth? Simply, all three can be summed up as life with name or face recognition plus influence as well as means. It is important to have this enviable life but it is more important and indeed more enviable to use it for the benefit of mankind. Fame and power and wealth were originally intended to be, and are best when, used to advance the cause and course of humanity.

The famous and the powerful and the wealthy must use these immense powers to add value to the human race, even if they can’t. If for whatever reason they don’t, the same giver of fame and power and wealth shall raise stones to do the task that must be done. This is neither a threat nor a boast. Small becomes a nation!

That’s another huge reason the favoured should never brag. No matter your fame and power and wealth combined, you can neither remain for eternity nor can you stop the one you thought too small, too good-for-nothing and too out of your league from growing even above you. Life is cruel and in a very funny way. Small becomes mighty, mighty becomes small: just a matter of time.

Therefore, be humble. And, please note that humility is a holy word, a set-aside word. It is meant for only the famous and the powerful and the wealthy. Only they can qualify to be described as humble (if they remain so) since others are already humbled by their circumstances.

Now, let’s turn our attention to appropriate ways to apply fame and power and wealth. Ensure that they are not only blessings they also remain so and in action. Use them to promote, not demote people. Use them to build, not destroy.

Use them to create opportunities for others; use them to cut soap for others. Use them to emerge the Most Valuable Player with the most assists, as footballers are wont to say; use them to pass the ball to others so they also shine. Use your fame and power and wealth in pursuance of community good; use them for not just your selfish or nepotistic ends. Use your connection and your influence and your money to add value; use them to not subtract it.

Let posterity look back at your history and smile rather than frown. Instead of “I’ve retired this man and that woman” summarily, let people say you produced or promoted or supported this or that all the way. This is the real meaning of power plus including of fame and of wealth. Every other meaning is sinking sand.

At the end, such glorious titles as hero, icon, legend, philanthropist and role model are only meant for those who use their blessings to the benefit of mankind. What that means is: you are an impostor or false hero and false icon and false legend and false philanthropist and false role model if you ever accepted any of these accolades when all you have always done is deploy your blessings as a curse. Fortunately though, you can become a true hero and true icon and true legend and true philanthropist and true role model if you change henceforward. Use your fame and your power and your wealth well: to bless and never as a curse.

God bless Nigeria!

When people walk away

As a child, I read somewhere that life is an empty dream. I grew up wondering how something so full of action real time can be empty and a dream. But, that was thinking like a child which I no longer have the luxury of since I am now an adult.

Life is an empty dream. Nothing is real. Not even people.

Love flies off. Loyalty dries up. Beware, anyone can walk away.

Here’s a pair of consolation, though. Those who really love and are loyal shall stay, come what may. Love and loyalty don’t need any reason to stay on; they just stay because it is their assignment; to stay except their life is in danger.

Two, there are 8.1 billion people in the world. Why kill yourself when one or two or ten or a thousand or a million or even a billion abandon or deny or divorce you? There’s a far better way, my dear!

However, how do you react when people walk away from you? See, realise that no matter who you are and what you do or have, you shall never be permanently good enough for someone or group. Furthermore, understand that someone or others can leave you because you are too good for them or they are too under you.

So, once it happens, get to understand (without losing sleep) why a loved one or business partner or teammate called it quits. Take a deep breath. Give it time before breathing out.

Check to see if you caused it. You know, people say leaves fall off from trees. It is not true.

It is trees that shed off leaves. After transporting all nutrients in its leaves to its roots via translocation, for storage in preparation for harsh weather, the tree lets go of that particular set of leaves as they are now useless. Check to see if this is what happened either way in the case of someone moving away from you.

Never rush, to beg back or to move on. Give it time and in that window, scan and ventilate the past and present atmospheres as well as the future of your mind. Be as asentimental as can be.

Pray, even if you can’t. Keep a clean mind. Pray, handing it all to your Maker.

Thereafter, take a step: backwards or forward. Whatever you decide in the quiet of your being shall work, against all odds.

Meanwhile, permit me to pray for you. May God walk in for you every time people walk away. Be not afraid!

If darkness was upon the face of the deep but the Spirit of God moved upon it, it means no mess is too much for Him to clean up. Turn to Him, today; now! Amen!

From the Sun culumn, Monday 27th Nov 2023.

25/10/2023

Life's race/journey is personal... Never forget that! Expect more from yourself and less from others

24/10/2023

I seriously need a vacation... like yesterday 😔

14/10/2023

So on Thursday, my friend Mfoniso Best Nkanta decided to show up with Chiamaka on the program... The Nigeria of Our Dream to lead the conversation (THE GIRL CHILD: Their Place in Our Nation).

This edition was to mark the International Day of the Girl Child 2023, and it was awesome!

We need to do more to support, celebrate and encourage the girl child and the women generally as our surest support system.

However, the female gender needs to support themselves enough and know that they are never at the mercies of the male gender in the first place... After all "What a man can do, a woman can do even better"

Join us next (every Thursday) on UNIUYO 100.7FM by 12:15pm

04/10/2023

Nam sedinanam, Jesus💪 edi Ama mi oooo

Itiat nsinsi✊👊
Ndundu Abasi
🤜🤛
Uko ke'kong Abasi💪💪
..mention yours if you can relate

24/09/2023

I'm fine like that, na only money I dey find 🙂

Happy Sunday good people 🎉

23/09/2023

"May our Land, Akwa Ibom, experience her true age and even more!
..stand taller in the committee of States. May our common brotherhood supercedes religion, politics and ethnicity.

Congratulations to AkwaAbasi Ibom State @36!🎊"

23/09/2023

"May our Land, Akwa Ibom, experience her age and even more!
..stand taller in the committee of states. May our common brotherhood supercedes religion, politics and ethnicity.

Congratulations to AkwaAbasi Ibom State @36!🎊"

16/09/2023

FORMER LEADERS OWE US ONE

By Michael Bush

Nigeria has too many problems. Yet, Nigerians are busy creating more. One can’t help but wonder always: God, when?

Vis-a-vis our most chronic national problem, there’s the temptation to think that former leaders ought to do more. If people who held a particular high office in our land write books or move around to share their in-office experiences, that shall save their successor(s) and indeed the jurisdiction so much time and resources. Spiritual and temporal lords should look in this direction.

I know that in this country, we are crazy about solo runs. But, there’s no harm in a new priest or permanent secretary or political chief reaching out to predecessor(s) to ask questions. Too much of what we face requires simple experience sharing or meeting minds.

(excerpt from The Sun Column - Talking Nonsense, Monday, 11th September 2023 edition.)

11/09/2023

THE QUARREL PARADOX

By Michael Bush

Who is your bestie? If you belong in the old testament and don’t therefore understand new testament parlance, the opening poser must be re-asked. Who is your best friend? And, how did both of you arrive at that critical conclusion?

Everyone needs a best friend. Everyone has a best friend. Your parent or sibling or mate or priest or mentor or teacher or counsellor or boss or leader or client or partner or colleague can be your best friend. Meaning: own offspring or disciple or mentee or student or follower or subordinate or dependant can be your best friend.

Anyone can become anyone’s best friend. Life is wired so. Best friend is not trapped in age, class, education, gender, politics, race, religion nor the professions. Black can be best friends with white; ditto rich with poor, small with big, etc.

Furthermore, your best friend can belong in the best or worst cadre. That is, it is possible for your best friend to be a good or horrible person. This is a function of three factors. One, who you yourself are; two, who you prefer as a best friend and above all, three, how much of your best friend you know.

Some of us have handed over our lives to human snakes and scorpions in the name of best friend. Some of us pick up best friends so randomly and carelessly and stupidly. Some of us change best friends like we do clothes, as if it is child’s play. Some of us ignore repeated signs that our best friend is not it, rather than cutting them off and fleeing for life or sanity.

However: if you like a bad best friend as I know some people do, please keep them. They are good company since they suit your choices. You both are headed where all stubborn bad best friends end up. Foolish alone, die alone.

I have said my own. Don’t come tomorrow to tell me stories that touch. I am tired of had-I-known tales. I have told you my own.

It is easy to know your best friend and even easier to know a bad best friend. They try too hard to impress. They are better friends to excuses. They prefer their convenience and comfort and privacy.

They are easily envious of and angry with you. They complain all the time; always asking for this or that favour and taking offence the few times you couldn’t. They always want you apologising or begging them. They take advantage of you too often.

It is always about them. With abandon, they run you down behind and in front of you sometimes playfully. With glee, they downplay your achievements, hide opportunities from you and praise you only bitterly. With mischief, they can’t help themselves when it comes to criticising you; they magnify your errors but understate your feats. With hate, they are constantly in some cold competition with you; always feeling entitled or better.

A best friend who subtracts value; who brings nothing to the table of love, is that one a best friend? A best friend who is parasite or sycophant, is that it? A best friend who secretly plots evil, who wants? A best friend who gossips for Africa, who can manage?

You need nobody to tell you that your so-called best friend who throws you under the bus no matter the reason is a bad ‘un. A bad best friend fluctuates in loyalty and love; sides with you when it suits and with your enemies more often than not. A good-for-nothing best friend is with you in the day to gather information with which to harm you and with your opposition in the night, broadcasting your secrets. If you recover or live to tell the story of betrayal by your best friend but are so foolish to continue in the foolery, we pray you don’t wake up six feet deep when it is too late to know or do something.

Stop and think, this instant. This is your last chance. Run your mind through the journey with your best friend. How do they stand?

Or, are you the bad best friend; the problem child of your friendship? You must change, today; now. Renew your mind; immediately. In fact, kneel down; let me exorcise you of that nonsense spirit.

Say after me, even if you don’t want to. In fact, raise your hands. Now, say after me and mean it in your heart. Dear Father, help me to be a real or better best friend.

Heal me of my friendly enemy nature on which frequency I have operated, man and boy. Teach me, Lord, to be a best friend like Jesus. Let me never be dismissive, never judgmental, never hasty. Let me be ever loving, ever present, ever receptive.

My God, I declare that no power can lead me back to my old ways. I am free, I am healed, I am made whole. Above all, I pray that my best friend remains kind and reasonable towards me, in Jesus’s Name. Aaaaaaaaaaamen!

Back to where the spirit swept us off. Going by the aforementioned parameters, how does your best friend stand on the frenometer? Be bold and tell me. Is your best friend an idiot (lightweight loser) or a sweet soul (heavyweight champion)?

If an idiot, I need you to know that there’s no cure. A fantastically idiotic lightweight loser is set in their ways. You flog a dead horse if you think you can preach to them successfully. Instead, pay attention in order to not miss the new, real best friend who has just come on your radar.

On the other hand, if you have all along been blessed by an exemplary best friend, thank your stars. Best friend is too scarce, too expensive, too difficult to get. If such a one ticks all the boxes, there’s the last card, a joker, you must deploy (if you haven’t, already) to make assurance double sure. Have your best friend and you had a fundamental quarrel?

Truth to tell, we all pray against having quarrels, you know, very bad quarrels, but they are easily one of the best ways to know a true best friend. I recommend that you instigate artificial quarrels or crises from time to time. Someone you thought a best friend is going to explode about how your parents did not mate; that you descended from a tree. Or that you had once stole a monkey!

Until a best friend has been this tried or tested and passed, they don’t qualify for the title. Best friend doesn’t spread tales or rant to every ear when friendship goes kaput. Best friend won’t join enemy camp no matter the storm. Best friend walking away won’t slam the door let alone vent beyond-be-careful.

Best friend never curses nor insults in spite of and despite the negative turn of events. Best friend is calm, faithful, loving, optimistic, patient, quiet, understanding. Best friend is permanently guided by memories of the sweet times; when the going was good. Best friend is the friend who remains friendly and supportive even after a split.

Now that you know, I ask you again: who is your best friend? Have they passed the quarrel test? If yes, please hold them tight. If no, pray and watch and strike when no one is looking.

We can do with less drama in friendship. A best friend who easily crosses the borders and strays off too far, verbally, is a dangerous fallen angel to restore. Wait to restore such a one the day God restores Satan. Stop shining your eye only when pigs start flying.

God bless Nigeria!

23/08/2023

Happy birthday Dr Christopher Okon. Cheers to a new chapter 🎉🎂

03/07/2023

THE BOSS'S EXPERIENCES, MY BLESSING!

The Michael BUSH Mentoring Academy is a spot I can describe as "Life's Harvard..." with unquantifiable impacts.

Sitting under Akparawa (The Intercontinental) Michael Bush is a privilege and honour given his status, achievements and experience.

You will agree with me that, most great gifts in life cannot be quantified in monetary terms. Never! So, the blessing of access The Boss has granted us in the first place is a great gift which I undeservedly enjoy. That is, just sitting down under him and listening, observing and taking notes is not only exciting but fulfilling!

Secondly, 30 years (and counting) worth of experience in broadcasting of a liberal soul we enjoy on daily and weekly bases is quite heart warming, spirit lifting and of course transforming. I enjoy and found myself in this years without having to go through the turbulent moments of those years he faced but I only learn by them. Thus, his experiences has become my blessing!

Another interesting part is that, I got to meet like-minds (at least people with the same passion for growth) and got inspired. It is said, "birds of a feather flock together". So, beside the main course from The Boss, I really enjoy good fellowship with my colleagues.

There hasn’t been any moment with the Boss that's casual. None! No matter how casual the setting may appear, there are always great lessons and signals to pick up except one is not sensitive to the minutest part of even a "joke".

In sum, the last 180 days in the Michael BUSH Mentoring Academy has been awesome! Hence,
I always get on the spot answers to impending questions of life without even having to ask direct questions.

Making certain decisions promptly becomes much easier! When I'm faced with stuffs, I already know what The Boss's stand would be without being preemptive.

Unlearning and correcting agelong wrong notions and stuffs that has been seemingly a generally accepted opinions is an eye opener on its own. That is why you never should say NEVER!

The Boss is real: no make-believe, no super human attitude, no holier-than-thou dispositions. None of any pretentious acts! With The Boss, forgiving someone is not that you are doing the person but yourself a favour. And you can never be better or bigger than the person you insult just like no one can give what he doesn't have!

Going forward, I will like to see my life getting even better continously as I pray to be and remain a loyal, consistent, resourceful and worthy mentee of Michael BUSH!

Thank you my wonderful Colleagues, the Class Guv'nor, our amiable Registrar. You guys are doing great! The BUSH House Nigeria crew, awesome fellows!

May God bless and keep Akparawa Michael BUSH and all that concerns him in Jesus our Lord's name. Amen!

Julius Ebrene, Mentee, MBMA Class 2023.

22/06/2023

💢THE NEW ADMINISTRATION: PROSPECTS AND IMPENDING CHALLENGES💢

Join us today on THE NIGERIA OF OUR DREAM on Uniuyo 100.7FM live by 12:15pm.

Special Appearance:
Mr Patrick Ejike- CEO, Blessed Patson (Electronics).

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22/05/2023

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