Truths and Deeds!

Throw backs at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Moments with Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and other shots with engineers from Barcelona. Working with the later was a whole new 'software' experience. Posted via Blogaway

The story of the Nigerian creative writer is different and often pitiful, hence his battles and challenges. Both the published and the upcoming are seldom encouraged or supported. The sort of attention paid to those in the field of Journalism is quite different from that which is paid to a creative writer. Unlike in the western world where the writer does not experience this sort of disadvantage but for the support from their government and other organizations, in terms of the monetary percentage that the government sets aside for published authors and their works. In Nigeria, the government and organizations are too busy with their own affairs to spare time and funds for writers. When a Nigerian writes and manages to publish, the next challenge becomes how to distribute and sell. There are no clear distribution channels. The writer is then forced to move from location to location in trying to attract sales. The audience also present another dead end. They hardly ever buy. Nigerians

“In Africa there is a concept known as Ubuntu – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others...'” — Nelson Mandela My heart goes out to Paris. I call on world leaders to work for and with Paris to bring to justice the terror group responsible for the simultaneous and coordinated attack on Paris. As a result, many lives have been lost, many are wounded and without homes. We must all join with European Union, African Union, World Health Organization, Human Rights Watch, and among world bodies to condemn these attacks. Many thanks to volunteers who have rushed to offer their help to those in Paris. Hear a 12-year-old Paris attack survivor speak cnn.it/1kWql0k Also see what the world is doing for #Paris aje.io/lmxa cnn.it/1kWcZF Posted via Blogaway

My heart goes out to Paris. I call on world leaders to work for and with Paris to bring to justice the terror group responsible for the simultaneous and coordinated attack on Paris. As a result, many lives have been lost, many are wounded and without homes. We must all join with European Union, African Union, World Health Organization, Human Rights Watch, and among world bodies to condemn these attacks. Many thanks to volunteers who have rushed to offer their help to those in Paris. Lets all join the campaign to heal Paris. Posted via Blogaway

After the failure of the MDGs (Millennium development goals) to meet their targets, world leaders have come up with new global goals for development across the world, they committed to these new targets at the last UN's General Assembly. The MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) suffered from serious design flaws, in addition to the fact that no discussion was included of the mechanisms by which these goals were to be achieved or how states and international organisations and government bodies were to be held accountable for failure of their established promises. Now, this is what the SDGs has come to correct. As currently drafted, the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals - 17 in number) will represent a tool for development, with all and sundry involved. Governments will be held accountable. Clearly, lack of awareness contribute to the challenges of MDG and lack of frame work to consolidate the achievements of the MDG in the areas of maintaining and sustaining the project's achi

What we must find disturbing is the unfortunate news of rape making rounds in our National Dailies. Rape, an unlawful sexual activity and usually intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female (male in other instances) or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent, is as much a crime as murder, robbery or other. And there is absolutely no excuse or justification for anyone to carry it out. What is sad is the fact that the most affected are children between 5 and 13 years old. (This is not to say that grown ups don't get raped). These are children whose innocence is stolen from them by grownups (men and women) who are expected to know better than to turn the youngest crop of our generation into victims. The untold physical and psychological trauma that these children are made to endure is beyond me. Worst of all is the fact that the society is not doing enough to cub the situation. There are many cases