NigerToday

Hello people 🙂 🙂
It is with great excitement that I welcome you to the first edition of NigerToday on InkInspires.NigerToday is a special series on InkInspires where issues affecting Nigeria and Nigerans are discussed.
Most times we prefer to murmur or complain about matters affecting our nation.This is a new approach to this.We discuss situations and how we can contribute our quota to reverse the effects.We recieve your opinions and suggestions in the comment box and heal our nation with the power of the ink.
Today's edition is titled :Niger My Root
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                 NIGER MY ROOT
Nigeria is a country blessed with a lot of resources and amazing potentials.It is however saddening that this opportunity is not well utilized or targeted towards growth and development .It is on this  note that distinguished Nigerians seek out greener pastures.
Nevertheless,it is not a bad thing to look out for opportunities to better your own country,in fact it is encouraged that you seek after knowledge.It is however not acceptable to get lost in your quest and forget your root.
We most times get decieved that opportunities are not available here in Nigeria.People who have realized that every challenge is an opportunity to think creatively and become better can testify to the success that they've been able to achieve.We decide to give up on Nigeria and find solace in other parts of the world.
Nigeria is our root!
No matter what happens,no matter how far we run, Nigeria is our first and unavoidable brand.Recognising this fact,you should understand that you don't have a choice than to work to better Nigeria.If you think you do, remember that there is a part of you that will need this root to grow and germinate,generations after you.
Would you make them suffer from your decision to remain mentally lazy? Would you force them to believe they are on an ordinary ground when in fact they are on gold?Would you make them oblivious to the treasures available in their home land and allow alliens steal them all away?
It is all a matter of identifying that you have a duty to water and nurture this root of yours, joining forces to uproot monster thorns and setting out to contribute your potentials, abilities and intelligence to the growth and resistance ability of your root.What exactly do you think?

Drop your opinions, contributions, suggestions or questions in the comment box.Join the discussion.Don't miss out!

      ©2019
       InkInspires

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH

Hello people 🙂 🙂
Welcome to InkInspires and the first edition of Wednesday Lines with Life.
Every Wednesday, InkInspires takes you into the beautiful world of poetry, entertaining and inspiring.
 Today's edition is titled: WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH.
It is targeted towards encouraging you to move on even when you feel your legs are becoming reluctant to walk you.
For every human, there is a certain point when you sincerely admit that you are tired of moving on.In times like this,when the going gets tough, remember  that it is then that the tough gets going 🙂
   WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH
When the going gets tough
And it seems like the road is crooked and rough
Without a single straight path to thread
But ones with complicated routes,ones to dread.

When the going gets tough
And there is indeed nothing else to do than cough
And choke on your miserability
With happiness becoming your disability

Uncertainties and mysteries at you beckon
Disappointment and sorrow with you reckon
This feeling you're sure of
All these you see, when the going gets tough

When the going gets tough you see
All the "long-worked-for" without thoughts, flee...
Setting to another shore of possibility
Pushing the"going-activity" becomes your responsibility

When the going gets tough
A lot more than minority forget to surf
They like a stagnant statue
Stagnancy ,like a curse,pursue

This is for you whose going is rough
Without any assurance that at last you will laugh
For you at the mountain cliff
You can survive,you can be tough

When the going gets tough
The tough gets going
With shoulders high in the sky, hopeful rush
Of faith in your feeble heart rolling...

                     ©2019
                     Deborah Benjamin
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STRENGTH IN SILENCE 💪

Hello from here,peeps🙂🙂.Wishing you a very happy Easter.💃💃.
It's Monday again!I specially welcome you to another edition of Inkspiration Monday on InkInspires.Where we create inspiration with the power of the INK is right here...
Today promises to be Amazing and inspiring.
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Leadership as commonly viewed by people is something that comes with title, power and attention.When we do not have these three things,we usually believe we're not leaders.Today's series will bring us all the excitements and baggages that come with leading from the back.This is the type of leadership that pays the best nowadays.The piece is titled: Strength in Silence,by Deborah Benjamin.

               STRENGTH IN SILENCE 💪
What is leadership to you?To me,it means the qualities,character and mind that will make you fit to command a platoon or group.This definition was actually abstracted from an article I read:"Solitide in Leadership, October,2009". However,these qualities and characters need to be worked on and built intentionally.While building them,you would need every help you can get.This help is what I am pitching today.. it's the help that servant leadership offers you.
Normally, when you're called a leader,you ought to be in the fore front, doing all the talking, raising all the ideas and giving all the instructions.In recent times,the polity is a situation where all leaders need to facilitate progress by being the opposite of the above mentioned.There is a great strength in Silence.Sometimes ago,I read an article by Nelson  Mandela,where he explained how  servant leadership promoted follower's commitment,diverse ideas and rapid development.He said at first they thought he was foolish, allowing them do all the talking,facilitating their exchange instead of controlling it.The result was usually the result every leader wants to have.
 As a leader in the twenty first century,you need to switch to this method of leading from the back as it affords you the chance to see everything going on before,it allows you the chance to think uninterruptedly and see what others can't see.
It is not all the time that your voice needs to heard as a leader.When you silence your voice and give chance for other voices,you get to hear ideas that could actually be what you need.You need to learn the listening ability.
There is a great Strength you can get from Silence.It makes your followers feel important and encouraged to think and think through.This eventually brings out amazing ideas,even from the seemingly dumb followers.
This is my own theory of leading effectively.LAUNCH-You can introduce discussions as a leader ➡️, FACILITATE-Do not control,resort to maintaining orderliness ➡️ LISTEN-This should be your best part.Listen to all ideas.Never look down on any suggestion of people you're leading.➡️ UNDERSTAND--Try as much as possible to understand every one of your followers.Understand their feelings and empathize.Give room for following their lead.If it is the wrong path, they will understand better that way.➡️FORSEE-When all these are put in place,it will give something we call Foresight.Yoy will be able to see beyond the moment.You will be able to see what others are not seing,and that will really help you as a leader.
When you give in to this new strength of silence,you will encounter a change in your leadership life.
     
        Deborah Benjamin
        ©2019
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TOO BROKE TO IGNITE 😥

Hello people🙂🙂
I am superly excited today as today's Inkspiration series sets to inspire and motivate you who has one idea or the other to add value to the society,but is scared to go on because of lack of support financially and physically . Because of this particular issue a lot ideas have remained ideas without impact even with the positive prospects they propose.
Let us look into what most people use as an excuse for retarded development.. This write up is by Deborah Benjamin who is a young entrepreneur.She currently directs Save A Girl Africa and volunteers for start ups that have progressed and also regressed.
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        TOO BROKE TO IGNITE 😥
Africa is one of the biggest places to get opportunities.I personally believe that challenges are keys to development and sustainable solutions .
Africa for one has a lot of challenges she's battling with today,as well as people who are ready to give in to entrepreneurship and leadership to help ship Africa out of her challenges.
over the years,a lot of amazing ideas have died because of the habit of the idea developers not to "look beyond what you see".Their main focus is what bred today's discussion,they say they are "Too broke to ignite". They are always looking for a social business that will get everything right from the start.They complain there is no money,no hands ,no support and so no future.
 From my side as a young social entrepreneur, this is what I see:

Every business idea you develop ,whether profit or non-profit should address a social need.A lot of us want to run businesses that will lead back to us, not putting our society in mind.The truth however is ,impact is not a choice it is very mandatory.Every person living in the society has a duty to contribute to growth in such society.Therefore your business ideas has to mostly focus on meeting societal needs.This is because Life is give and take,you can never reap where you don't sow.The same way you can't expect an idea that is not helping humanity to thrive and grow in an environment humans dominate.

A lot of people because of fear of domination do not pitch their idea to people.The truth however is that in as much as you should start regardless of the hands you have on ground,you need to build your network.Be ready to talk to trust worthy experienced individuals who can help guide you.While doing this you have to be careful,but it is a very important process.Don't miss it!

Impact comes first:A lot of people do not know that money isn't the most important thing when it comes to effecting an idea.Nobody wants to work with a mouthed solution provider.They want to see something concrete they can work with.If you don't start,you can't get this.So,just Start.Leave the money aspects of the project and work on aspects that need little or no money to kickstart.That way you can build a standard story to tell.

Volunteer: This is one of the charms to becoming a good and supported social entrepreneur in this age.You need to build your own circle of influence and network.This you can do by volunteering for individuals and organizations that do related things.Do research and look for opportunities to volunteer.People are usually ready to talk to someone who is very experienced and won't let their help down.Volunteer, volunteer, volunteer!!!

Propose uniqueness:A lot of people have pitched ideas to people , organizations but got rejected because they do not have anything different from other ideas that have been pitched and supported in the past.Therefore they get no support.They then resort to their thoughts "I am too broke to ignite".
What unique value is your idea proposing that can convince people to support you and trust their support with you?Dare to be different with approaches to solving societal problems!

There are a lot of things that new Start ups ought to consider instead of focusing on lack of funds and support.These are some of them.It is important to put these things in place before anything else.
I hope this helps you find yourself and get on your feet instead of complaining and giving excuses.
Get inspired!!!

         Deborah Benjamin
         ©2019.
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ME ALL BY MYSELF

Still the international day of the street Child.

InkInspires celebrates one of our writers Oyiza as she uses the power of the ink to take us into the experience of the street Child.

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Me All By Myself

I was born alone
And left to live alone
And one day for sure, I'll die alone.

Life's been for me a bed of thorns,
It has sung for me painful songs
And I've got to dance to its gongs.

I bury myself daily in my struggles
And daily hustle
That I may live to win my troubles.

Taking risks is romantic to me,
Fighting to eat is lovely to me
That's the only way I can have my feed.

The street's my home,
My tomorrow is unknown.
But one day, I'll build myself a real home.

~©Oyiza.
#international_day_for_the_street_child

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ONE AGAINST THE WORLD

Hello there 🙂🙂
Welcome to InkInspires.Something big is happening today, it's the international day of the street Child.
The street Child Phenomenon in Africa has over years become unbearable.Due to the poverty level,parental irresponsibility and government's non-chalant attitude, millions of young boys and girls have taken refuge in the streets, becoming very vulnerable and open to disaster.
Today's Friday Tales of Today will share the experience of a street kid turned important personality.
Also, remember to reach out to a street Child today, not just with money,but words of encouragement.You could further help by getting to know more about them and how you can help, in your capacity.
Who knows what Africa can become tomorrow with these children.
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    ONE AGAINST THE WORLD
Life is never a bed of roses.This is not just a quote ,for me it is a reality.I am he whose name did not matter at all.Being the last child of an amazing family that life snatched from me some years ago,I thought life was as easy to chew as cheese.Discovering that it was as hard as steel was a very hard activity.My father used to be a journalist,my mother a business woman.
I had two sisters that were very spoilt.I thought I had the world.I really thought the world and I were pals, until the world betrayed me, and the situation became:One Against the World.My father died in an auto accident,mum of heart attack, sisters resorted to prostitution, family members that hated us initially, forcefully took all the properties,with no one to care for me,no one to look out for me,the situation became:One Against the world.
I resorted to the streets,man must live at Least.I would beg,pick pockets,cry,steal and sleep.
I was a tattered looking boy no one would glance at more than once.I joined a gang of hungry and angry street children that robbed people.I ended up spending ten years behind bars.I was miserable!
My miracle did not forsake me,my Angel still remembered me.It was in the prison that I met people who taught me that I could lead my life, write the script of my own life play.Deciding my future and working towards effecting it and making it sustainable.
Today I am a medical doctor that takes care of children,head of boards that deal with Justice for children and promotion of children's rights.
Today I'm Relevant!
I was useless,cold, forsaken
Now, I'm happy ,strengthened and fufilled!
               Deborah Benjamin
©2019
#international day of the street child

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LAUNCH YOU

Hello people 🙂🙂.We are here again...Today is Monday..and as promised,we will be featuring Inkspiration series.It is to motivate and inspire you to life🙂
Today's Inkspiration write up is titled Launch YOU!,by Deborah Benjamin.It encourages you to go out of your she'll to show forth the uniqueness in you..
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              LAUNCH YOU
Hey shy she or he..How is your little activity of hiding behind the beautiful curtains going?You pitch so low, saying you've not got what it takes to shake the atmosphere.You run in a circle,never trying to get better,never trying to build you,never trying to show the world the little something under the "not-so-beautiful" clothes.For so many years,after you have been given some really tiny seeds that build the tallest sycamore,you have decided to resort to the ruins, believing it is dark enough to hide your smelly ass.Stepping out would only make people see your flaws,and your secret of how imperfect you are will be out in the open?
You have forgotten that the last time, when you made that decision,you were a baby you!That was like a century ago!!!
How would you even recognize you when you have used your excuses to form dusts that have covered you up totally?
Covered you up for yourself ,not to mention the world ,to see!How would you even identify the light in you if you're not ready to press the bottom to make way for shinning it's Ray?
All you do is sit behind those who have shone their lights so hard it's now dimming.You are leaving the world to boredom, denying them the sight of a new star about to set in the sky..
You say you are not good enough..
Well,you never know until you test,until you try...
Until you pick up a napkin to dust off the dusts,the fears,the excuses...The sky is freeing itself of junks just to have your own light illuminate the empty star jacket in the sky..
Dear shy she or he,Launch YOU!!!
Let us see the something you've got which we're very sure is different from ours..
Let us dance to the melody of the timbre in your voice
Let us swim in the imaginations created by your beautiful drawings
Let us feel high by the standard of the moves you fantastically move
Let us get drowned in the wonder of how amazing you are
How valuable YOU are to the completion of this task of making the world beautiful..
Will you pretend you can't hear our screaming voices?
Launch YOU!!!!
NOW!!!
         Deborah Benjamin
         ©2019
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BUT THE SUN IS OUT

Hello buddies🙂🙂
Welcome to InkInspires..I truly hope you enjoy reading through.
As promised,every Wednesday, InkInspires will feature something we tag:Tales of Today.
This Wednesday is the story of a hopeful lad,titled:But the sun is out,by Deborah Benjamin.
A lot of times we just get tired of the night, though this signifies different things in the lives of different people...You just want it all to end!
Read through this and remember that the sun will shine soon🙂..

     BUT THE SUN IS OUT
I am forced to reflect on the happenings of the moon time.How dark the night was, how scary the stick beside my bed looked, staring like a ghost,how alarming the songs of the birds were, suggesting terrible Imaginations,how decieving the night was, temporarily folding my ugly life like it's finished, though I knew the truth.
I lost my mother,my Friend and companion in times of trouble,I lost my father,my money bank and friend in funny times,i lost my only brother,my playmate and offline sound recorder...,lost my closest friends,my hommies and pain relievers.
I remember the bald news reporter saying the plane crashed,he said that and forgot to mention that my hope is dashed.
Now I'm left alone in a terrible looking atmosphere,with the scary grandma I dreaded hearing about..
Left alone to strive through life..
Having to put up with the decietful night,but after the long hours of deciet,fear and reflection..
I am here, having the blossoming atmosphere rub on my weary face
It was a terribly terrible night.
But the sun is out...
If the sun could remember to shyly push its tail out,then my life would surely remember to shine beyond its confinement
THE SUN IS OUT!!!
     ©2019
      Deborah Benjamin