When I studied Biostatistics in Medical College, one of the topics I was taught was; Standard error of a laboratory analysis. Standard error means the degree to which you can make mistakes; the degree to which your mistake is safe. At some points, your mistakes do not only assume a laboratory value, it has a colossal effect on the lives of your patients. In life, there are errors and there are errors. There are some errors you make in life and you can survive it. There are some errors you can't survive. There are some errors that are so colossal in wastage that their effect will show up later in life. T. D Jakes said in his best seller book, 'Before you do', "One wrong decision can sentence you to a life of frustrations and regrets. You don't have to make many wrong decisions; you only need to make one wrong decision and your life on earth will be a mini hell" At a point in my life, I wanted to make a critical decision and God spoke to me and said, ...
David Diop, a Senegalese poet uses his poem entitled “ Africa ” to describe our independence as possessing a bitter taste after he chronicled our long-suffering experiences and plight through colonialism and post colonial era. Nigeria is the landmass composed of the remnant of many ancient empires and kingdoms. The nation was thus forged from the anvils of hegemonic tendencies, human diversity, conflict and history. Agitations for the independent state of Nigeria began in the early 50s by the likes of Azikwe, Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. We got that liberty quite alright. But after fifty eight years, the question we should ask ourselves is: How does its fruit taste? Barely seven years after our embryonic conception, civil war broke out ! We went to war against each other; brother against brother in a senseless and preventable orgy of violence that was born out of immaturity and nationalistic infantilism. The war consumed more than two million souls. This despite the ref...
Your future is not a date on the calendar; your future is a force inside you. Your future is an energy that unleashes itself on a daily basis by the things that you do and the things that you did not do. If your want a preview of how your future will be, carefully consider these four things: · Th Self- Image you are Responding to and the Voice you are Listening to. Your life is moving at the frequency of a voice. It can be a voice within or without. There is an instinct in each of us that presets our lives and dictates what we eventually become. That is why childhood wisdom can be the most dangerous of all – especially in the mind of a wounded adult. We court disaster when we carry childhood instinct and ideologies into the critical issues of life. There is an image in each of us, that gives us a perception of who we are and this automatically shapes what we are becoming. If that image is wrong, your life will most likely run on the t...
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