My President Says I’m Lazy

BY VICTOR TERHEMBA

I am a young man under 30, I struggle every day just to get by. Every day, I work hard using my intellectual ability and skill to make a living legitimately, toiling under the unbearable and harsh conditions of my country, yet my president says I’m lazy and want everything free.

I take care of my bills pay house rent, pay tax and settle extended responsibilities. I do for myself what my government is supposed to do for me but has failed to do, yet my president says I’m lazy and want everything free.

I Am not registered at a gym but my biceps are not lacking healthy muscles, because I exercise them every night (and almost every other time) when I have to draw my generator just to have light, yet my president says I’m lazy and want everything free.

When I’m sick I’m treated at the local hospital where I risk being injected with overdose or with the wrong medicine by the nurse, but when my president has a headache, he travels to London to buy panadol, yet he says I’m lazy and want everything free.

My brother wakes up every morning at 4:30 to set out for his office in Ikoyi and returns back home 10pm at night, yet my president says he is lazy and wants everything free.

While I sit tight in a Lagos traffic, trying to block out the cacophony of blaring horns from other motorists, I see young people hawking variables- sometimes under the unfriendly sun and sometimes in the dead of the night, yet my president says these people are lazy and want everything free.

Every year, thousands of youth struggle to graduate from the University, the females one who were unlucky get sexually harassed by male lectures but they finally pull through, then they are sent to strange lands to serve the country, when they’re done, the big government official tells them to go and be self employed so that they can create job opportunities for others, yet my president says we are lazy and want everything free.

My heart bleeds for those young Nigerian entrepreneurs who cannot get access to soft loans because they are not connected to a big man in government, but my President believes they are lazy and want everything free.

Qualified young Nigerians cannot be employed in the CBN or NNPC or NIMASA because they are not sons and relatives of governors, senators or ministers, yet my president says they are lazy and want free things.

I feel sorry for those young Nigerian inventors who have been going to the ministry of science and technology to present their life-changing inventions to the big man in office but can’t because the big government man is either out of office, or he is busy, or he has travelled, and when he finally sees them, he tells to come back tomorrow… tomorrow that ends. I feel sorry for them because my president believes they lazy and want everything free.

The senators in my country earn a lump sum of N14.250 million (minus other allowances) every month. They sat down in their “hallowed” chambers, unperturbed, and watched how some armless youths strolled into the senate, seized the mace and walked out unchallenged, yet my president says it is me that is lazy and wants everything free.

I am not a minister, I don’t collect estacodes for travelling to nowhere in particular and for doing nothing, yet my president says I’m lazy and want everything free.

My president said he was going to fight corruption to a standstill, but my president harbors corrupt people in his circle and in some, cases rewarded them. My president said he was going to build a prosperous and vibrant economy for us, yet our economy has fallen deeper but he blames it on the past government. My president said he was going to create three million jobs yearly, in under three years, over 7 million Nigerians have lost their jobs. My president said he is now a reformed democrat but severally my president has displayed a flagrant disregard for the rule of law. Yet my president says I am lazy and want everything free.

My president is the 75 years old Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

As an African that respect for elders has been ingrained our culture, I cannot argue with elders. I’m not interested in proving to the president that I am not lazy, I will save all the energy so that in 2019 I can have enough strength to go to my polling unit, wait patiently in line, get the ballot paper and vote out my president. #MyPVCmyPower

Source-The Cable

HE PROPOSED BUT SHE GAVE HIM A STINGING SLAP!

It was as me, myself and I sat for 'our' meal at the restaurant it all happened. Two tables to mine, a well decorated candle-lit table, a man and woman were having dinner. He stood up, got the attention of eveyone.

Man: Baby, I love you, would you please marry me?
Woman: (stands up and lands a stinging slap on his face)

I have waited more than 9yrs, I have prayed, fasted, sowed seeds, bought books and listened to tapes, even went out of my way to be nice to every male specie of marriageable age!

I took up new hobbies, watching football and play station. I went to Day star, from Day star, I went to House on the Rock, from House on the rock, I went to Guiding Light Assembly, from there I went to This Present Winners looking every where for you l went from a size 14 to a size 10, so that when you see me you’d love what you see.
I left Lagos, went to Abuja, from Abuja I went to Port-Harcourt, then I went all the way to Kano.

I joined hi-five, from hi-five to Facebook, then I went to twitter, I even had a blog on which I ranted, hoping you would show up! for where? I uploaded only my best pictures on Instagram, in fact I took photo sessions to look my best, all for you o! I attended all the weddings, whether the invitation was direct or indirect! The next place I was hoping to check was the moon, before you crawled out, crawled out from the house directly next to mine!

So it was you all this while?
The neighbor I said hello to every morning?
Were you trying to destroy my faith?
You almost rendered my prayer life useless?
What were you waiting for?
What sign were you looking for?
Do you want to kill me before you reveal yourself?!!!

Now be a gentleman, get down on your knees and put that rock on my finger!! ...

WILL IT FLY? -Emmanuel

Human nature does not allow a state of absolute conviction. At least not without a lot of effort. That we have second thoughts about our decisions make the task of decision making even more daunting. Some of us for this reason suffer analysis paralysis - analysis after analysis yet no action.

Will it fly or will it not fly? What if it doesn't work? What if it's the wrong step? The list of questions that leave us feeling handicapped is endless.

Nobody likes to fail hence we sometimes refuse to act. Flip the coin, ask more of the reinforcing question - What if it works? What if it flies? What if it becomes hit? And having done your due diligence, make up your mind.

There are more failures of the kind who never tried at all than those who attempted and failed. The latter gained experience, the former lost time.

The best way to live life is to - Go on and spread your wings, who knows if you might just fly. -Emmanuel Olawale

Crushed by Info - JayMikee

Mini-me series 43

We have gotten to the era where information is flying around way faster than any other element. Different writers have emerged with different ideologies and theories about how best to make it in life, how to be successful, how to make millions in the labor market, how to rise above others in wealth, how to invest and save and grow your cash, its endless.

And then we have several other writers who have come up with different kinds of interpretations of the scripture. They introduce the “Modern Day Christianity”, a very attractive package, forcefully widening the Christian road.

My advice?

As much as information is good, BE VERY CAREFUL of the books you read, the articles, the audio messages you take in. Keep in mind that we are now in the end time where the rate of distractions is on the rise.

The devil is extremely busy, pouring out all kinds of messages as seeds to sway our focus and choke the gospel out of us. Strike a balance between THE BIBLE and OTHER BOOKS. The bible must take the most importance spot. Let the Holy spirit give you fresh directions, interpretations, revelations from it.
Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
-Joshua Mike bamiloye