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Nigeria@57 Essay Contest : lets all work together towards having a buoyant Nigeria and living as one

NAME:EZEKWE,CYPRIAN ONYEDIKA.

PHONE NO:08106794977.

LOCATION:ANAMBRA STATE.

ESSAY TOPIC:

SECESSION OR ONE NIGERIA.

INTRODUCTION.

It's no new or unfamiliar mantra that Nigeria is the giant of Africa owing to her population and we are not ready to lose that fame yet.

According to Nelson Mandela,"the world will not respect Africa until Nigeria earns that respect. The black people of the world need Nigeria to be great as a source of pride and confidence". Now,with our agitations for secession, how do the world respect Africa and how do the black people of the world become great?

According to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary,"secession" is the fact of an area or group becoming independent from the country or larger group that it belongs to.

Wikipedia posits that "secession" is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity especially a political entity,but also any organization, union or military alliance. In the context of my essay,one Nigeria in which i stand is one i can term the Nigeria of my dream. A Nigeria:where the citizens rights,lives and properties are respected and protected which is the first and foremost responsibility of a government,where basic amenities,good roads,quality and affordable education,employment opportunities and youth empowerment will be in existence in all geopolitical

ESSAY: MY COMMUNITY PROBLEM AND THE WAY FORWARD

The major problem that my community is facing today is poor management of our education system.
Many gifted children now lack the opportunity to attend school.This is because, the cost of going to school this days is increasingly alarming.Poor families, as a result, cannot meet up with the demands.By this way, responsible citizens who should be in leadership positions are denied of this opportunity.This goes a long way to leading to the crumbling of our economy.This gave rise even to the current recession that our county is facing.
I strongly believe that if I am opportuned to secure a scholarship that will see me through my university education, I will struggle to achieve success and go further to creating rooms for free education in our community.
I will create an enabling environment for a mutual co- existence between the poor and the rich in our community and schools.By so doing, gifted children who have amazing talents and abilities will come into play and have a say in the society at large.

LIFE IS A DYNAMIC TEACHER

It is for the sake of depression i am writing this.
Actually, i felt so worthless, unscrupulous and unfavoured to have been pranking by fate. Honesty say, i know so well how length i have gone in trial to obtain what my fellows are unstressfully obtaining. lt just defines me inactive, vulnerable and lassitude towards educational pursuit. lf i m to opine on my state,;i would say that i m so unfortunate of success, goal set and achievement, but irrespective of the fact that fate is driving me jamboree, i still stiffly believe in God's time.

Sometimes, life goes ridiculous, heinous, unyielding, outrageous, unpleasant, nefarious and sorts of misfortune to mankind but man still believes in his "Chi"(God), no matter all odds.

Essay : My favourite Music

Throwing your self down on the mattress, indignant. Sleepless nights spent crying. Repressed feelings of rage, remorse and remorse. Sound acquainted? How can everyone probably address this? paying attention to tune.

Webster dictionary defines song because the “the technology or artwork of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in mixture, and in temporal relationships to supply a composition having cohesion and continuity”. Technically, sure, sure it's miles. however not truely. track is like the stars determined to spit out unicorns who convey the susceptible till they get stronger. track is what feelings sound like. music is our friend whilst every person else leaves.

How To Achieve Your Dreams Without Depending On Anyone

 

  Many people achieved their dreams after a checquered quest for success. They toiled and fed on the dust of the dusk. The supplemented daily meal with unintentional steadfastness, just as a cover up. 

     Why would anyone want to depend on a fellow for survival??? A human is someone who can fail you at anytime, especially at a grave situation of amidst life & death.It's a major reason one should always depend upon himself, no matter the condition.Suffering does not kill, just like NDA training camp, it only builds you for whatever tactful challenge you may encounter in the future.

WHY I MUST RETURN TO AFRICA AFTER STUDYING ABROAD

On the first premise, I consider the fact that I was raised in a large family.My parents were uneducated and as such, did not do family planning.They had ten(10) issues with two dead, before my father died.The fact that none of my siblings was able to further his or her education as a result of lack of finance gives me sleepless nights.Every night, I wake up to think about this, how bleak and terrifying the future can be if I happen to fold my hands and do nothing.I also discovered that my community is filled with people who do not value education.I realized that they show more concern to menial jobs and trading.This is perhaps, because they lack the orientation to accept changes and developement.
This is my prior motivation to returning back to Africa and prove to them that they are living in darkness.I want to salvage my people from the endearing myopic ways of their thinking.I want to inculcate in them, the spirit of Western lifestyle and ideologies, developement and sense of innovation.I want my people to value education.I want to put an end to discrimination between the rich and the poor, because I have seen and experienced a lot.

THE MAN BEHIND MY INSPIRATION

I continue to live my life looking up to a renowned doctor, a surgeon per say.He has been a whole lot of inspiration to me.He lives a unique life, a life worthy of emulation.He is very wealthy, being a medical doctor and someone who had craved academic recognitions in diverse aspects of life, but these achievements never triggered any sense of pride in him.He was raised from a very poor family, almost similar to mine.He passed through hardships that he even had to beg to complete his high school.Luckily for him, when he finished high school, he was entitled to a scholarship after staying at home for some time.This was how he was able to complete his education.He never stopped dreaming and believing in himself.
Furthermore, I learnt from his autobiography that his late father had relatives who were wealthy enough and in the capacity to help him but they did not make any effort to do that.