JONATHAN GETS AN INVITE TO ATLANTA FOR 2016

Irony of life!  Hmmm!! While many Nigerians are still busy looking for words to continue ridiculing the immediate past President of Nigeria Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, other nations are looking for him to share his experience in office with a global wider audience, which is to present the keynote address at the forthcoming 2016 Hope Global Forums conference holding in Atlanta, United States sometime in January.

For those of you who may be wondering 'what the heck is the conference all about'? The Hope Global Forum is an annual event where leaders, business professionals and public policy officials from many countries come together in their thousands to think out as ways of improving the social and economic well-being of  peoples around the world.

It's now a case of  'no matter how bad a child is, there must be something to learn from his/her bad choices'.

It will be recalled that in 2015 with over 3,000 leaders from 40 countries present at the event, former American President Bill Clinton also performed a role similar to that which Jonathan has now been designated to perform.

According to reports, the invitation letter which was jointly signed by Operation Hope Global Spokesman, Andrew Young, the mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed as well as Operation Hope Chief Executive, John Hope Bryant urged the former president to attend thereby lending his support to an entrepreneurship mentoring programme, even as he shares his experience in office with the large number

of attendees which will include Tim Cook, Apple chief executive; Jack Lew, US treasury secretary; Robert Rubin, former treasury secretary, and Clinton Foundation vice-chair Chelsea Clinton..

 Part of the invitation letter:

"As some one recognised for his leadership and vision in Nigeria and abroad, we are personally requesting your attendance. It is important for us that your influential voice and perspective be included as we drive a global conversation".

“We invite you to join Fortune 500 CEO’s, private investors, financial leaders and government officials to connect and collaborate on this vision.

“With the theme ‘Reimagining the Global Economy: Inclusive Economics’, the annual meeting is set against the backdrop of the Martin Luther King Holiday weekend and gathers leaders from government, community and the private sector to outline a vision for the modern global; economy.

“A vision where the undeserved, working poor and struggling middle class are viewed as untapped assets for economic growth, entrepreneurship and job creation.

“The powerful history of Atlanta as the ‘Cradle of the Civil Rights Movement’ serves as a catalyst for our gathering, highlighting the unfinished work of economic self-reliance launched by Dr. King prior to his death. We will honour that legacy with a series of activities for our guests, including ‘white glove’ viewing of Dr. King’s papers.”

Well done Jonathan, at least you still have somethings to smile about.

Again for the records, I'm no politician, still detest politics and remain non-partisan!

Andreva.Shaw: Again Nigeria Loses Another In Keshi's Wife

Andreva.Shaw: Again Nigeria Loses Another In Keshi's Wife: Keshi and Late wife Kate during their daughter's wedding earlier in the year Just yesterday , I learnt about the death of Kate ...

Again Nigeria Loses Another In Keshi's Wife

Keshi and Late wife Kate during their daughter's wedding earlier in the year

Just yesterday, I learnt about the death of Kate Keshi, the 54year old wife of former super Eagles Coach Stephen Keshi and this morning learnt that she died after a three year battle with cancer which according to Premium times was confirmed in a statement by a close friend of the family, Emmanuel Ado who said she died on Wednesday in the United States. 

Again this latest incident begs the question “what is happening in our country today as nearly every death is either related to cancer, kidney or liver and even diabetes”? Diabetes at least can be explained to a large extent, but the rest of them, who has answers?

It is getting more frightening by the day and the doctors and health researchers seem not to know which way to turn anymore. Even all those who travel abroad to India and the rest of the world  do not have better experiences except the very few who return with tales of how they nearly died in the hands of the so called foreign doctors.  Out of the handful number of those who return feeling well, another percentage of them end up having relapses.

So the question now is ‘what is making everybody sick?

If we were all together in a classroom numbering at least a little over a hundred, and the question such as “how many of you saw your grandparents and how many of them lived up to at least 85 or 90 and above”?

I am sure nearly ninety or even a hundred of us in that classroom would have our hands up in the air.

In the past, people ate proper foods and also lived healthier lives before this trend of eating imported packaged food became a lifestyle in our society today. As I have always reiterated on this platform,  nearly all imported packaged foods, drinks and consumables are some of the factors affecting or  adversely contributing to the ill health of nearly if not all the people battling with one ailment or the other within and outside the country.

Apart from stress which is a huge contributing factor, have we taken time to ask for the content of most foods we buy today?  How effective or efficient is NAFDAC?

Drugs as well as Herbal drinks of all sorts are sold all over the place with funny names and registration numbers.  Noodles with funny tastes as well are all over the place. Vegetable oils are not left out as many of them are laden with high cholesterol yet they advertise the opposite. Even expired chocolates are not left out. They air we breathe is getting more polluted by the day with different environmental pollution ranging from generator fumes and even gutters that have defied all forms of disinfectants not to talk of the pollution from oil companies  and spillages in the areas where most of them are located destroying plants, animals and even human beings. 

I can go on and on. But I am too angry to continue. Who is watching?  Where are all the regulatory bodies? What is the government doing about the health sector and many more? At this point, my sincere prayers go out to Stephen Keshi who described his late wife as his "greatest friend", and his entire family for God to grant them the fortitude to bear this great loss

Rest in Peace Mrs Kate Keshi (nee Aburieme)