Ogiri John Ogiri

One fact so incontrovertible I have come to accept is that,there is no limitation for anybody who believes in God and in him or herself. To be a poor man is to be a pest;to be a rich man is to be a guest.If you want to put your hands on the arc of history of poverty and lack in your life and turn it towards success,then believe in yourself.Stop believing those who say you can't. Choose what you want out of life(make sure it's the right thing) and pursue it with untiring vigours.Make success your habit,practise it and get used to it.Orison Swett Marden wrote "The beginning of habit is like an invisible thread,but every time we repeat the act,we strengthen the strand,add to it another filament,until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably,thought and act." Those who tell you that poverty is a virtue haven't been where you've been.Work hard,read and research hard until you find the answer and you will find the answer.Think right!

I have come observe that one of most latent reasons many leaders take to dictatorship is that they lack intellectual power to comprehend, defend,embrace and manage the dynamics,contradictions and fascinations of democracy. For these people, brutal dictatorship comes handy. A dictator is more impatient than a Democrat. A democrat is more likely to make concessions than a dictator is. A true democrat does not easily engage in buck-passing or play the blame game; instead, he admits his mistakes, acknowledges the severity of a national crisis, tells the people the truth about it while making frantic efforts to provide solutions. These attributes are almost unpopular with a dictator.

Perhaps, you were not born with a silver spoon in the mouth – you were born into a poor background - where you are faced with many discouraging realities, enormous problems and overwhelming challenges, or may be, you were born into a wealthy background, but one characterized by challenges such as broken homes and marriages, crumbling sources of financial resources and certain other general insecurities. The question is this; what are you doing to change this situation? Do you, like the major character in the above story, fold your hands and do nothing necessary to change it or like the fishermen, you swing into action to change the situation for the better?When some people find themselves in a challenging situation or background, they think to themselves “I can’t change anything. There is nothing I can do about it” and then they resign to fate and self-pity. But let us be honest;do you think you can do something to change that situation by resigning to fate and self-pity either? ...

I WISH THEY KNEW by Ogiri John Ogiri I wish the APC-led federal government knew that Nigeria as a country is not as strong and united today as it was before 1967. I wish the federal government knew that any policy encouraging domination of one ethnic group by another is inimical to the very unity it seeks to promote. I wish the federal government knew that 1804 is not 2019. I wish they knew that many Nigerians have become more knowledgeable and wiser than they were before 1967. I wish the federal government knew that if many Nigerians had known then what they know and see now, Biafra would have succeeded. I wish the government and those formulating divisive policies knew that no one nation can conveniently survive two civil wars and still remain the same. I wish the federal government knew that the structure forced on us in 1914 is now faulty and currently yearns for restructuring, and that, unless we restructure now, we can not avoid the danger of bursting one day. I wish the...

Peace-keeping Intervention in Liberia By Ogiri John Ogiri INTRODUCTION Since the end of the cold war (1948-1989), states and international organizations have repeatedly engaged in Peace-keeping, peace-building and peace-making to help solve international and intra-national problems (Dawson, 2004) One of the countries which has witnessed protracted intra-national conflicts in Africa is Liberia. Liberia has had Peace-keeping intervention in the course of her civil war years. Hence the choice of the country for this discussion. Liberia’s civil war began in 1989. Though most violence ended in 1997, renewed clashes in 2003 drew international attention, and led to the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force to the country. An estimated 150,000 people – one in twenty Liberians – died in the conflict. The fighting involved widespread killing and rape of civilians and forced recruitment of child soldiers. From Liberia’s founding in 1847, its politics were dominated by Ame...

Do not Judge People; Love them. By Ogiri John Ogiri. Photo Credit: strivingforeternity.org In our world today, many people are living in abject frustrations arising from the prevailing high levels of poverty, wars, lack and deprivations occasioned by unfair and unjust government’s political, social and economic policies that tend to favour the rich more than they favour the poor and vulnerable. As consequences, our society has continued to witness increasing crime rates expressed and operationalized through prostitution, armed robbery, frauds and terrorism in all its ramifications just to mention a few. Perpetrators of these social vices are those we label criminals or undesirable social elements. This situation has, thus, placed a huge social and moral burden on us to restore their lives and destinies to them. How then, do you we solve it? Is judging and condemning  them enough? As a way out, governments of many countries aro...

By Ogiri John Ogiri Abstract This work examines the prospects and challenges of the defunct Nigeria Airways for the transport sector. The secondary method of data collection was utilized in collecting data for the research work. In other words, the researcher depended solely on documented materials on the subjects from available sources in the libraries and internets. The researcher discovered that the defunct Nigeria Airways harboured a huge collection of prospects for the transport sector while it existed. However, mismanagement among many other factors posed problems that eventually led its formal liquidation in 2003. It is therefore recommended in the work that these pitfalls, most important of which was gross mismanagement and leadership incompetence, be addressed by the government in its present quest for the revitalization and re-establishment of a new national carrier under a new nomenclature ‘NigerianAir’. Photo credit: BBC News. Introducti...