Joni the Change Agent Int.

Without me realizing it commitment has become important in my daily life. Over time, it has determined the way I think about society. I never really thought of it consciously, nor have I studied the concept or read about it before. Maybe now is the appropriate time to do so. I don’t use books or theories and what they have to say about commitment. I want to start from my own experience. I want to describe what commitment means to me in practice, but also in theory. Why an essay? Sometimes the written word, not only expresses a thought, but also the process of thinking itself. A process that is unfinished, but through writing about it we hold on to the thought. The written word can be resisted, can be negotiated and corrected without it fading or disappearing. To begin with, one’s expected to open with a definition. I do not believe in definitions. If we define concepts then we tend to think in solid terms, while concepts are always dynamic and can be differently defined. I do no...

LET’S REMOVE THIS CURSE    By Biodun Opaleye Recently, I interviewed a cross section of retired people in our society irrespective of where they retired from. I discovered that most of them until recently earned between N800 and N2,000 not to talk of a huge percentage that earned nothing, judging by the small percentage of our working population out of the unwieldy 100-120 million Nigerian abandoned population. Everybody is now turning into a trader if he or she must feed daily from hand to mouth. The unpleasant spectacle is the huge percentage of ageing men and women I interviewed, who up till mid-day might not have eaten any food probably waiting for providential major meal for the day. As I watched many. I could imagine them cursing the society from within their hearts. Recently I overhead two prominent Nigerian citizens on radio and newspaper condemning the present members of the National assembly for being incompetent in one thing or the other. How I wish t...

GIANTS BORN ON THIS DAY - George Nsikak & Jonathan Olakunle Olanlokun “There are different kinds of men: those who identify opportunities and those who use identified opportunities, obviously, only those who make use of identified opportunities will definitely hit the bull’s eye”                                                                                                                  ...

This Article was Published by Alfred Ajayi in 2012. THE NEED FOR ATTITUDINAL CHANGE AMONG NIGERIANS. ALFRED AJAYI It was a former American President, John F. Kennedy who admonished his citizens, “Do not think of what America will do for you, but think of what you will do for America”. It is also true that most of the developed societies attained their present status through the concerted efforts of all citizens and residents. Unfortunately, same cannot be said of our dear country, Nigeria where citizens do and say unprintable things about their country without recourse to the impact of such on the nation. While Americans rise in the morning to bless their country, Nigerians on daily basis make negative confessions like “Nigeria is spoilt beyond repair”, “This country cannot be good again” et cetera.   Many endlessly expect what Nigeria can do for them and are not willing to do anything for the sake of the country. However, there are other Nigerians who still believe that the count...

The Revolution in America did not come by chance as many would erroneously think. Young Martin Luther King Jr, caught in a hostile environment of apartheid, was bold enough to be the change his society craved despite the intimidations. On his mantra ‘I have a dream,’ the world saw Martin Luther King Jr. change the history of apartheid in America forever. We have not stopped taking counts of men and women who dreamt change and fought for change all over world. These people battled the odds, endured lack and hurts to birth social change; these men didn't allow their backgrounds and experiences becloud their vision of being change agents.  This is the story of an Orphan, Jonathan Olakunle Olanlokun, a die-hard change agent whose seeming hardship can’t stop him from living for the good of his neighbor. For Jonathan, social works is his lifestyle.