Some say we lack Leaders...............

Some say we lack leaders
Others say we lack followership
 Some have gone as far as saying
Leadership is a result of the followership

Nigeria does not lack leaders
 Nigeria lacks a leader with a vision
We lack a leader who can see beyond his stomach
We lack a leader who can see beyond the need of his situation

Nigeria used to be a giant
But the need for today has put its tomorrow in jeopardy
Now everybody, leaders and followers
 Do not want to see beyond today as they fear for tomorrow

 Even the WORD asks us to WRITE the vision
Visions are never for today
They are for tomorrow
 A tomorrow that is far into the future

Nigerians need to begin its search for a visionary Leader
 A leader like Joseph who saw tomorrow
Because of it he didn't allow today to suck him in
His vision made him the first Prime minister ever

Nigeria needs a leader like Nehemiah
 He saw the desolation of his land
But he also saw the greatness of a better tomorrow
 He fought for and worked for that tomorrow

Nigerians need a leader that is not afraid to champion a cause for change
 A leader like Elijah
 He challenged the prophets of Baal and the whole of Israel
He made them see that God reigns over all

Nigeria does not lack leaders
We have leaders
 They are not just the type we need
What we have is a shadow of leadership

 We need leaders with vision
 Leaders who can run with said vision
Leaders who see a great Nigeria
Leaders willing and ready to build that greatness at all cost!

This is what we need
This kind of leadership is what we deserve
It is the leadership that ensures that followers "follow"
 Nigerians must demand for their right!

 ~Mariam Campbell 2015

Perspectivessssssss.................

Friday evening going home from work.........
I am in a bus thinking of how terrible the traffic is and how many hours it would take me to get home from where I was. The heavy build up of traffic was a long one. Suddenly a few miles on the traffic is gone and the road is free! What do you think ran through my mind? This is the way life is and even business! You start out the day and it seems as if nothing will work or that business will be dull, then out of nowhere things start working out.

In some other cases.........
You start out a journey and the road is free and its seems its going to be smooth sailing but then almost to the end of your journey you meet with a terrible traffic that lasts hours. This is another paradox of life, letting you know that its not always as smooth as we want it to be.

You wake up in the morning.........
The sun is not out and the rain is pouring. You need to be at a meeting and looking at the time you are already late! Leaving the house nothing works according to plan. First the car does not start, the Tyre is flat and the rain has flooded the road in places that driving is a disaster.

What a way to go.............
When you find criminals been celebrated and honorable men waiting in the shadows."Ni ilu to l'oba to ni Ijoye?" People are funny at times, ascribing the role of messiah to criminals who will just continue to blindfold them while he bleeds them dry like a leach.

Looking through a mirror..................
Most times we look and just go away without the picture in our head. We forget thatno6thing is as it seems and so life will continue to pass us by if we don't sit up and play our part. It takes you standing in front of the mirror before you can see yourself and the size and position of the mirror determines how much of yourself you can see. Mirrors this days are no longer rose colored either so take time to properly position yourself.

What we see is what we get.............
Everyday we look around and blame the whole world but ourselves for whatever situation we find ourselves in. We fail to realize that what we have today is a culmination of what we have been building for a long time. Growing and nurturing it to where it is today and yet we refuse to embrace it for what it is? When we encourage negativity and all things bad it is impossible for us to get something else from life aside from what we have sown.

Perspectivessssssss.................
The enjoyment that we think we get from life sometimes results in pain. Really freedom and responsibility means the same thing. It means free dominion and responding to the ability to make choices. What we chose to respond to and how we are able to exploit our dominion is then left to us while God watches on.

Put life in a better perspective and remember its not always as it seems!

OUR DESTINY, YOUR DESTINY, MY DESTINY

Destiny?! A great word with the simplest of meaning, the meaning is so near you that we tend to fail to see it.

Destiny is like cake in the oven, beautiful and delicious, filling and satisfying. However, without the right heat the cake would not turn out as we expect. So is our destiny!

Destiny is like a well-laid out business plan, one that investors read and get moved to risk their money. However, without the right mindset, skills and motivation/innovation to implement and make it a success, the business plan is a waste of effort.

Destiny is like beautiful lyric to a song, it makes good sense and touches the soul. But without the voice and personality to carry it the beauty of the song is lost and has no value.

Destiny is like a well-written constitution that covers all the areas of importance to a nation and takes it people and their will into consideration for which it is written. But when the people have refused to read and understand it, or have no respect for it then it is of no value.

Destiny is a properly drawn out plan of a house, drawn with specification for a structural masterpiece. However, without workers and builders to translate the drawn out plan into a dream house, the house cannot turn out as it is on the plan or as the architect had drawn it.

Or maybe it’s like a building in which the contractor has decided to cut corners? The house would invariably crumble and maybe kill or injure people living in it.

Destiny is like a bundle of cloth that has been laid aside for a Princes, she decides the design and style that the cloth should be cut into. This she wears and must be proud of. THE CLOTH IS HER’S.

Destiny is like a beautiful clock bought and set in a place of prominence to mark time and sound the alarm but the owner forgot to set it to the right time. The clock would mark the time wrongly and wake its owner up at the wrong time.

Destiny is like a road to a magnificent house that has been left to crumble and overgrown by the owners, it becomes difficult every time they embark on a trip out and back to their magnificent home.

Destiny is like the ugly duckling, an eagle living with ducks. His life would be limited by the surrounding and environment he finds himself and it won’t be able to fly until it is among its own.

Destiny is like a talent that each and every one has, a talent like the proverbial guy in the bible who took his talent of gold and hid it in the ground, it would not multiply and yield fruit.

Destiny is like a beautiful lady who decides to not take care of herself because people have said she is beautiful believing that without care her beauty would continue to remain, and then wakes up one day to look in the mirror to see a fat and ugly woman instead of the beauty.

Therefore let us all remember that even though we have all come to this world with our own destinies, destiny is what we make of it. We have a choice to make good of it or make it bad. The life of man is like an open book and we have been given the pen to write the story of our lives. What you write in that book is dependent on you alone and no one else. NOT EVEN GOD CAN HELP YOU WRITE YOUR OWN STORY. Remember it is your destiny, your life and your story to tell.

Make your destiny your own today and take the choices that would take you on a journey of fun, success and the envy of everyone around you!

I AM NIGERIA!!

The cup is licking,
The drops of water splash on the ground and dries in the soil,
Talents are been lost daily my children loose all with every breath I take.
People tell me I have so many children,
A river of water that cannot become empty,
But they do not know that amongst those ones that are been drained away
In them are my best, the apple of my eyes
They are my future, the ones that will give life and make my dreams a reality.

Some of my children have put it upon themselves
To drain out the milk that I fed them with,
They have decided that they would empty me inside out.
They take from me daily without given anything in return
They do not care that as they do this
They would one day deprive their on children's children the right
And benefits they they are enjoying now.
Then i wonder to myself WHY!!
In tears I write this letter to YOU!! YES EVEN YOU!!!
Why do you insist on emptying out the blood of my life?

Every day I have to take up more blood through transfusion
Because as I take you drain it away.
What value is this fight that you wage against me?
Why have you taken it upon yourself
To run after thing that take away from you without giving back?
Every time I turn around and look
I see a mass of people that is governed by a few,
I see children that have sold their birthright just for what they would eat,
I look and see my first born give unto the last
What he gained as a right of birth and I wonder to myself
"when will my children learn to be free and give their younger ones a chance to live"

It hurts me daily when I open my heart and eyes
To see another life that is cut short or drained away
I am loosing all my worth,
Ii am gradually been emptied and drained of my life worth
I am a country that has not been allowed to be a nation,
I am a land filled with milk and honey,
I am a giant that is gradually been reduced to a dwarf
I was a mighty man that fought for the less privileged
I am that land that was loved by many
A land where everyone wanted to be

Now I have been reduced to a land
Where even her children run away to places far and wide
I have become a land where the godly's voice is not heard in the field
I have become a land that cannot even feed her own people
While a few greedy one take what is left and sell it to neighboring nations
I been made a land where her children refuse to talk
I have become a land where some of her children have to sleep with one eye open
I have been made redundant and lifeless because I am no longer a full glass

I used to be a cup filled and running over,
Overflowing with love and resources
But where is everything?
Yesterday I went to see some of my children in Jos
But I was told that they are no more, their brothers killed them,
The other day I went to Benin,
On my way I saw bodies (my children dead on the streets)
Their brothers robbed them and killed them
I look around and I see vacant eyes with lost hope and lost faith
I went to visit some of my children
And they could not entertain me as they used to do before now
Because they lost their job.
Please help me!! Don’t let the source of my joy drain away completely
Call everyone together and work together to fill me back up.
Why run after all these things that have continued to bring me down into nothingness?
Why do u pursue after emptiness?
I am a great country and I want to be a nation,
I AM NIGERIA!!!