IS LYING COMPLIMENTS NOW MORE PREFERABLE TO THE SOCIETY THAN SINCERE CRITICISM?

  

Like a very strenuous exercise, the time spent with a good friend stretches, but the stretching is enjoyable, because it tastes so so good, not because all that happens during the stay with a friend, is comforting. Unfortunately, the joy is the stretching, a clear indication that it is in the stretching that real friendship is built and the joyful fruit is  produced. It is a thing of joy, because it is a real friend that identifies and indeed ignites the fire of change and the high positive value that such attracts.

In today's translation of friendship, bold and honest words of a friend, would easily provoke, and in most cases are seen as inflicting pain, and are strongly resisted with high sounding words, such as I am disappointed in you, the real intended meaning, somebody like me battles always to grasp without success. 

The time spent with a good friend, is stretching because of the opportunities that it indeed throws up consistently, not necessarily in terms of praises that saturates the moment, no, but for the end result: self-cleansing, occassioned by sober reflection, instigated by a friend, it would pass for the ignoramus, a very painful session, as will soon be revealed in this piece. 

What I consider here a valued moment, in terms of the time spent with a real friend, is in reality, a Pandora's box, sort of. It throws up a chain of events, anchored on self diagnoses that include: self-check, self-appraisal, self-counseling and self-re-orientation.

THE "FORCE BEHIND THE WORK": WHAT MSMEs MUST KNOW TO DELIVER ON THEIR MANDATE TO THE MARKET AND ECONOMY

Participants of a capacity building training in Jos, Plateau State Capital, organized by Jos Chember of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, and conducted by the Nigerian Export and Import (NEXIM) Bank

Attainment of goals which precedes the celebration, joy and euphoria that greets the arrival to a pre-determined, planned or schedule place/point; hitting a target, reaching a limit and/or completing a task successfully, is by every stretch of the imagination, facilitated by humans, a reason, may be, enterprises, private or public, big or small, is regarded as a purposeful, organised human activity.

UGOEZE OGBONNA: NNEOMA AWARD CONFERED ON HER, HONOUR WELL DESERVED

The Nneoma Award Recipient

Rhoselyn Ugoeze Ogbonna 

Call it a day of Thanksgiving, prayers and praises; call it a memory making, a memory keeping and celebration day, in the family of Very Rev. Ogbonna Victor, of Ameke Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area, Abia State, South East Nigeria, and particularly, members of the Methodist Church, at the Archbishop Dimoji Memorial Cathedral, Ihube, also the same State, when the Clergy, the men, women, youths, teens and kids of Methodist Church, and many other people, from the various Christian denominations, poured out in mass as the Bishop's wife, Nneoma Chinwendu Ada Ekebuisi, stepped out to honour an exceptional and adorable woman, a child of God, and a committed, hardworking Mother and Wife, a dedicated co-worker in the vine yard of God, who has proven over the years, a reliable and dependable, huge source of inspiration, an ally and strong supporter of her husband's calling, as a servant of God.