Its that day of the year.  It’s 2025, December 31st. And as has been my private tradition for the last 19 years, now that’s a really long time. I make this post on the last day of the year to Reflects and Outlooks It’s private because I share it only on this blog and nowhere else. My posting on this blog has almost ceased. Not because I don’t write, but because I barely remember to post here when I do find the time to write. Despite this, I never forget this tradition on my Blogspot. Interestingly, since my last post here on December 31st, 2024, this is my first time back. I re-read my last post for December 31st, 2024, into the year 2025, which ends in less than five hours from now. Looking Back at 2025 How was 2025? Did it pan out the way my outlook projected? I would say it did, largely. But above all, and most importantly, I saw God’s goodness. 2025 was a year of many changes. First, I left paid employment. It was quick, but the decision was well thought out. ...

2023 it is ending and Thank God, it's NOT the End. Am grateful for the year, goods immeasurable grace and mercies on me. Am trying to reminisce 2023 in my mind's eye as far back as I can possibly remember.  I started the year slowly focused and knowing the things I needed to get done at least for the first quarter. In hindsight now I can say it all worked out really well, at least until it all went crazy.  The national elections came, and I fought, I voted and hoped for a better government to take over at the national level, yet it was stolen right before our very eyes both at the state and national levels.  On a very deep level this crushed hope, that flicker of hope that Nigeria as a country would turn a corner for good this time. Unfortunately not only that the elections was  stolen but it was done in the most brazen, crude and evil manner.  Every institution of state was and is now captured by a thieving political establishment.  It's taken some time bu...

2024 What a Year Since 2006, I have kept a tradition of reflecting on the outgoing year and setting an outlook for the incoming one. However, this year feels different. For the first time, I feel unsure about what to write. Not because 2024 was uneventful—on the contrary, it was one of the most defining years of my life. So much happened that often left me dazed. My hesitation stems from the routine of 2024, which makes tomorrow, January 1, 2025, feel like just another day, rather than the new slate and fresh start it truly is. Yet, as the Spirit leads and my mind comprehends, I write. -- Reflections on 2024 At the dawn of 2024, I prayed for one thing: to see God's goodness reflected in everything that came with the year. Looking back, I can say with certainty that His goodness was ever-present, even during my highest highs and lowest lows. Passing on of My Father This year, my father completed his race and transitioned to eternity. I remember every detail leading up to that moment...

Montell Du'Sean Barnett Jordan (December 3, 1968) isn American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Best known for his 1995 single "This Is How We Do It", on Def Jams Label -Today he Pastors   an Online Church   master peace church For 54 a years old man Montell Jordan is an absolute classic act, an icon of 90's Soul /R&B music. He's has so much stylish excellence and now above all a Pastor. In the mid 90's he's one of the young  music idol, African American artists we would listen to from half way across the world in the dingy streets of Warri in Nigeria,immitate or try to be a wannabe version of the panache they carry. The back story to the success,we never knew - we just saw the fame and fortune and tried to identify with that. Decades later we get the opportunity to hear the back story,the work,the walk,the raise & falls of stardom. The journey for most is crazy. So many fell off,some lost it completely,some made it then eventually los...

It is 4:20 PM, am in the living room having a home made meal I cooked myself the previous evening and drink a bottle of warm Martinellis, apple cider wine. I have been contemplating all day when I will make this post. It's the 31st of December 2022 and in the last 16years, every last day of the year I have maintained this tradition of documenting my general thoughts, for the year ending and my hopes and outlooks for the incoming year. I believe that in going forward, it does demands a good reflection backwards also, like the famous quote from the late Steve Jobs of Apple    “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future"   The interesting thing that life and faith in God has taught me is that this " SOMEHOW" is not a thing of chance or luck.  It's simple God's hand at work.  Every steps he has ordered, even when I take them without k...

  Family    "Where life begins and love never ends" Christmas2022

These are a few of my favourite things " A nice foot wear" "Kick Back & Feets Up" "A Quite Time with Me"           #introspection And of course  "Music "   #whosthefoot No #egotripping

Not every morning would be a bright 🌅 sunny day.  But   Every morning 🌞 must be Cherished   #BeautifulSeptember

Hear my story, if you will,but let me  lay it down like that popular R&B song from the 90's by  ,Brian McKnight. Steps 1,2,3 & "Back at One" Step One- I was living in this apartment, and it was smack right in from of a Beer 🍻 drinking joint,they probably call it a pub in the UK or a bar in the United States - but in Port Harcourt, (PH city) Nigeria ,it's called a Beer Parlor 🤣,cause people just go thier drink beer,watch the premier league ,and eat "ise ewu" aka goat 🐐 head and listen to very loud noise music.  Just beside the beer palor is a " Gym" at least that's what they called it,and this gym was right opposite my bed room window from across the street.  Every morning from 7am, once I peep out my window, what do I see. Middle age women trying to loss wieght - but all they  keep doing is dance routines, that's all. So every evening from 7pm, the " Beer 🍺 Palor starts playing loud music, am forced to close my window ... F...

 31st December 2021, It's 365/365 and am grateful.  Hard to quantify this graditude am ending the year - but Am just, just so Thankful to God.  For me 2021, flew by fast, it was extremely busy on my job, it's been an intense roller coaster from May 2021 up until the last two weeks of December 2021. We saw record number of Nigerian international students, progressing for studies with the vast majority going for Post graduate programs - and attracted by the possibilty of accessing the UK new graduate route visa scheme that allows international students after graduation to remain in the UK for another 2 years and seek post graduate work experience.  Despite the impact of an ailing Nigerian economy and the pandamic that has all but made travel and study more cumbersome, the resilience of Nigerian international students to "Move" forward despite these obstacles was quite encouraging for me,having been in this sector over the last 11years - The downside to the massive gro...

 Being more active from the last quarter of 2020, and still managing to graciously carry this through into the end of the of the first 🥇 month of 2021, is one of the things am grateful for.  Many times I feel like not just doing anything,no workouts,  Jogging,Walking ,Cycling , Playing Tennis,Swimming or doing light weight lifting and body building exercises. All because the " flesh" is weak - that strange voice in my head - thats just there to serve an opposite purpose when am trying or striving to do anything good or make good, better,and better ,best.  Thankfully somehow "we" (me and a willing spirit) have continued to push through - when "she"(me flesh) fails to keep you out of the gym, she don't give up - she comes and tells you to reduce your set, or limit your daily or weekly workout targets.  Either reduce your workout time,skip some days, reduce distance covered,cut down on effort levels, and daily moves .."she" tells you don't ...

So Trump's out the door in a few days "we did it Joe", to kick start the real celebrations Trump's being kicked off Twitter, Facebook for "inciting violence" whilst we wait for the real Trump feeding frenzy that's about to get started after the 20th of January.  There's so much Trump can be blamed for after he leaves office, cause "they" already so well heaped the blames on him, thus  I would figure once you know all the problems caused, you're probably 50% headed in the direction of the solutions, right? so  Harris and Joe or is it Biden and Kamala ? work is already cut out for them...first reverse all the Trump damages .... And then ?🙄  And oh by the way what will CNN now do? It's worst nightmare is gone,the one thing that truly showed they were never objective about any news -  even though they like all other liberalist organizations, they over use words like "fairness " etc,and having"all sides to the story ...

They say when you don't know what to do, do what you know. I found myself in that place right now, it's just a few hours to the end of 2020, I don't know what to write about the year ending or even about the one that's coming. 2020 can be confidently classed t he most unusual year in my existence as an adult, so typically I want to do a quick reflection of the outgoing year and outlook of the incoming year like I have done on this blog since 2006, but I can't seem to bring myself to write anything. So I will still try and do what i know to do, which is just write. I will write as the spirit and my minds lead. Yes, 2020 is the most unusual year, but I have got so much to Thank God for.  I want to thank God for HIS GRACE. For Grace, the ability given to me to just go through each day by day, trusting God's goodness will not cease and it never did.  So am thankful for the year 2020, amid a ravaging pandemic that has touched and affected lives in all corners of the ...