CLON LESLEY

Being a Public Lecture Delivered by Nweke, Emmanuel Onyekachi on the Occasion of End of Year Praise Festivity by Omuma Youths for Christ,  held on 29th December, 2020 in the Church Auditorium of St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Eberi, Headquarters of Omuma, LGA, Rivers State. Protocol Introduction Education takes place when we learn.  Education is a means of livelihood. It is a phenomenon of change and moderation.  Education has been severally defined by various scholars.  However, this paper chooses to define education as the transmission of culture from one generation to another. Smith (2006) defined culture as a ripened, cultivated state, a state of good taste.  In other words, a cultured person is a cultivated person, a ripe fellow, one who is mannered.   Following, therefore, a cultured person is an educated person.  A society is a group of communities who live together and interact with one another.  Development of a society is the advanceme...

She sat quietly in the cab as the driver slowly waded his way through Port Harcourt traffic. The only thing quiet about her at that moment was her physical appearance. Deep inside her a war raged. Her heart was beating twice as fast as its usual rate while her thoughts raced even faster. After a couple of futile tries to engage her in a conversation, the driver gave up and instead turned up the volume of the radio. Suddenly Michael Bolton’s voice wafted through the speakers as he chimed his all-time classic How Am I Supposed To Live Without You. She opened her mouth to ask him to turn it off; not just because she wanted to be left to her thoughts, she also didn’t want anything that would aggravate the pains she was already feeling. But she thought better of it. If there were any songs that could describe how she felt, this would no doubt be one of them. And even though the song was written almost a decade before she was born, it felt comforting that someone understood what she was goin...

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Nigeria is a country that abounds with so many talents. Ironically, we also double as a people who don't value talents.

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Being a Paper Presented by Nweke Emmanuel Onyekachi (ACIPMN/ACIA/MNI/MABEN/MABS) on the Occasion of Oganihi Omuma Forum (OOF) End of Year Get-together held at the ACI Centre, Eberi, on the 25th Day of December, 2019.