Joni the Change Agent Int.

If you want my attention, then lets talk about the future of our beloved country and our continent as Africans.  I am very clear, my stance is clear and direct. I am a free man, and not a slave to any sect, clan or opinions. Those who don't stand for something will fall for everything.  Growing up as a child there are things I didn't understand about my parent's decisions, some, I was angry about, and others I just ignored and moved on from. Now as a husband and a father, I understand. I have moved from judgement, to asking for grace for my personal life. While we read about the past, we must never forget, that today is tomorrow's past. I am very aware of the times that we are in, particularly, how crucial it is in the future of our continent as black people. I know my role and I have made peace with it. Let me leave you with these few conclusions I have made. If the only purpose of christianity is ONLY to make heaven, you should have been taken out the...

This what we used to be. This is what we missed. But this is what we now hate. This is what is repulsive and repugnant to us now. Rufai Oseni is not a “reasonable human being.” But the people that continuously make out lives like Lere Olayinka and his boss Nyesom Wike are the new reasonable human beings.  My late father told me a story. May his soul continue to rest in peace. He told me the story which I will share with you today. A man in a small village was given a gift. He could see what the ordinary human eyes could not see. He could see demons. So he went around the village warning the people of the demons they could not see. And the village was full of demons that had the intention to harm the people. At first he seen as a champion. A crusader like figure. He would see and warn. The people will run. Thanking him. Then after a while he became a nuisance to the people. Disrupting their celebrations with warnings of the demons that are around them that they could not...

The majority of Nigerians deserve the opportunity to travel by air, not just a privileged minority. Air transportation should not be a luxury reserved for a few, but a service that becomes accessible to many as our nation develops. What a blessing it is and it will continue to be that I will be among the majority of Nigerians who can comfortably travel by air within Nigeria and beyond our borders. May this prayer be answered. May our leaders make decisions that genuinely reduce poverty, create opportunities, improve living standards, and give more Nigerians the chance to experience the benefits of economic progress. May Nigeria continue to move toward a future where prosperity is shared by all. #nigerianspiderman  #KeepNigeriaClean  #airtransport  #nigeria

"On a bitterly cold December evening in 1997, President Bill Clinton was leaving a holiday concert at the Kennedy Center when he noticed a homeless veteran sitting outside the entrance, shivering in a thin jacket and holding a cardboard sign that simply read 'Marine - Desert Storm - Hungry.' What happened next shocked everyone in the presidential motorcade—Clinton immediately stopped, took off his own overcoat, draped it around the stunned man's shoulders, and sat down on the freezing concrete beside him to talk. The veteran, forty-two-year-old Marcus Williams, later recounted to reporters that the President didn't ask him what went wrong or lecture him about getting help—instead, Clinton asked about his service, which battles he'd seen, and whether anyone had properly thanked him for his sacrifice. Secret Service Agent Larry Cockell documented in his memoir that Clinton spent twenty-five minutes sitting on that sidewalk in the bitter cold, and when...

MY GRACE STORY   My name is Jonathan Olakunle Olanlokun. I was born to the family of Late Deacon Joseph Babatunde Olanlokun a Librarian of the University of Jos and Late Mrs Caroline Oladunni Olanlokun, a fashion Designer and Caterer. My mother was adopted by Miss Barbara Epperson, an American Baptist Missionary and Social Worker to Nigeria upon the death of her own biological mother, eight days after her birth at Iree, Osun State in 1953.  Miss Epperson  nurtured Caroline, my mother from birth to maturity, in the company of friends and caregivers. Caroline later became Miss Epperson’s interpreter, translating Yoruba to English for easier communication among the people of the community. Miss Epperson in return taught my mother how to bake cakes and other confectioneries. My mother, from the stories, I heard was a very beautiful and caring mother but I did not enjoy this care for long. My mother died in March 1978 at age 26. I grew up without motherly love...

She caught my attention during my recent tour of Niger Delta as Nigerian Spiderman ..… not because she’s beautiful (even though she truly is), but because of the strength she carries quietly within her. She is a cleaner. Yes… a cleaner. But what moved me was how far she has taken that responsibility. She doesn’t just sweep floors or tidy offices, she goes outside under the sun, bends her back, rolls up her sleeves, and washes the buses 🚌 of her transport company with her own hands. As I watched her work, something in me became emotional. In a world where many people feel “too classy,” “too fine,” or “too educated” to do certain jobs, here is this graceful young woman… choosing humility over pride, choosing dignity over pretence, choosing honest work over easy shortcuts. I walked up to her and praised her, truly praised her. Because her kind is rare. Her kind is disappearing. It is not every day you see a woman who is both beautiful in appearance and beautiful i...

Each time I try writing on this Ruth encounter with one of Dangote's truck, my spirit failed. Thrice I attempted it, but it always end in tears and bad memories. My mother was a victim of Julius Berger trailer in 1991 in Abuja. Her bus was crushed by one of JB trailers, the driver escaped as usual. All in the bus died except her, but she was beyond recognition. She was trapped in the bus, in the process of turning the bus to bring her out her leg was broken. Only God knows what cut her skulll off. She was brought down to UCH. When I first set my eyes on her on her hospital bed, I diedd inside.....and had my wish....... How can this woman on this bed be my elegant, chubby, tall, and beautiful mother? She was in coma, she couldn't even recognized anything. She was there for 9 months Nobody believed she could ever worked or see again. But she did. She lived with the disfiguration till 1997. She lived 6years after a very sad woman.  In all those years no day I see her that I don...

Two women in Ikotun hawking bottle water were standing where I parked my car today.  I was waiting for someone and then I bought bottle water from one, and then left the my change of 800 Naira with her.  The second woman seeing what happened also said, Sir, buy from me too with all smile, and before I said a word, the first woman I bought from, blocked her and angrily said No, asking her what does she want me to do with it?  The second woman then backed off. Then I came down and went to her myself. I told her, how much is all your market?  She could not interpret what that means because of course can I drink all her water and minerals.  So I asked again. She brought down her market and then counted. She said, N12,200. So I told her, come and put them in my boot.  And then I transferred N50,000 to her. She hugged me, teared up and dance and dance.  Two things made me do that.  1. The action of the first woman. I hate when ...

DO WHATEVER IS YOUR POTENTIAL; DO IT NOW, DON’T WAIT A DAY BEFORE YOU DO IT BECAUSE YOU GET OLDER EVERY DAY AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT YOU ARE SEVENTY AND BECOME PHYSICALLY WEAK AND BEGIN LOSING THE POWER OF YOUR MIND. DO IT NOW! Ozodi Osuji     Whatever you believe is in you to do, start doing it now; do not postpone it to tomorrow because every day you add a day to your age, and before you know it you are seventy years old, and your body becomes weak, and your mental powers begin to wane.     Therefore, whatever you believe you came to this world to do, do it now, not tomorrow; to put it off to tomorrow is the ego's way of making you not actualize your potential.      Do it; do it now, not tomorrow.      Don’t let fear keep you from realizing your potential; fear prevents many people from truly living; you are truly living when you are trying to discover your real self, and not trying to be a false self that you believe th...

Q,  Tell me a little about yourself  Jonathan : "I am Jonathan Olakunle Olanlokun, (Joni the Change Agent, Africa Spiderman). I'm a Nigerian activist and social entrepreneur who uses my creativity to make a positive impact on the world. I'm passionate about environmental protection and I believe that everyone has a role to play in creating a cleaner and healthier planet. I'm also a social impact person that encourages Nigerians both young and old to build a prosperous Nigeria by teaching them about the importance of nation-building. I believe that Africa has the potential to be a great continent, and I'm dedicated to doing my part to make that happen." Q,  What do you dedicate your time to do? Jonathan : "I dedicate my time to making a positive impact on the world. I'm passionate about environmental protection, nation-building, and doing impact works that make a difference in the lives of others. In terms of environmental activ...

Jonathan Olakunle Olanlokun sees his activism as the legacy of his late parents’ foster grandmother humanitarian work. Having grown up as an orphan and delved into street life from an early age, he’s always wanted to carry on the reputation of his family by helping as much as he could. He began dabbling with various aspects of social impact through volunteerism, and raising awareness about poverty until he understood the connection between a clean environment and social change.  Having noticed a certain discrepancy between the nice cities and regions portrayed in movies, news stories, and documentaries featuring the West, Jonathan began to ask himself “Why can’t our society be like this?” (Personal communication). He began therefore to talk about the environment and urge communities to keep it clean. One of his first mediated events was a staged picture of him throwing waste out of a moving minivan. He has called a photographer and tasked him to capture the moment when ...

I am a Nigerian Environmentalist/Environmental Activist who is much passionate and interested in creating public awareness, enlightenment and promotion of cleanliness of the environment which I, humbly initiated and began a year ago (but I started without the Spiderman costume in 2004) the Project have been commended both nationally and internationally.  I have been on the public glare on the importance of ensuring that our environment is deviod of dirtiness, improper waste disposable and littering of the environment which includes our Markets, Motor Parks, Schools, Communities, Streets, Monuments and in all places where waste are seen, found and disposed in our environment.   Nigerian Spiderman Project Environmental Awareness and Enlightenment Campaign have yielded into positive and remarkable results of cleanliness and proper disposal of our environment devoid of environmental diseases. The Nigerian Spiderman Project have embarked on Environmenta...

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Late Rear Admiral David Baderinwa Alabi (rtd)  If Rear Admiral David Baderinwa Alabi (rtd) had been a politician who helped himself  to the public till, pocketed jumbo salaries, received mind-boggling allowances and took dubious pensions, the nation would have stood still in his memory on May 17. There would have been a barrage  of activities, sports competitions, colloquium, music, dance, the nation’s flag flying at half mast and the media awash with paid for in memorial adverts all in his memory. But Rear Admiral Alabi was never a politician. He was a detribalised Nigerian, a naval  officer, a visionary, a community leader, a philanthropist, a change agent who in his lifetime did more for humanity than several politicians in the country lumped together. And sadly, ten years after his very painful death on May 17, 2008 at 58 years, not one event was organised in his memory, in spite of his multitudinous contributions to nation building. There was a remem...