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Immortal Michael Jackson
Related to country: United States

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Yesterday he was laid to mother earth. He's still saying to us;

"there's a place In
your heart
and I know that it is Love
and this place could
be much
brighter than tomorrow
and if you really try
you'll find there's no need
to cry
in this place you'll feel
there's no hurt or sorrow

there are Ways
to get there
if you care enough
for the living
make little space
make a better place...

heal the world
make it a better place
for you and for me
and the entire human race
there are people dying
if you care enough
for the living
make a better Place
for you and for me

if you want to know why
there's a love that
cannot lie
love is strong
it only cares for
joyful giving
if we try
we shall see
in this bliss
we cannot feel
fear or dread
we stop existing and
start living

then It feels that always
love's enough for
us growing
so make a better world
make a better world...

and the dream we were
conceived in
will reveal a joyful face
and the world we
once believed in
will shine again In grace
then why do we keep
strangling life
wound this earth
crucify its soul
though It's plain to see
this world is heavenly
be God's glow

we could fly so high
let our Spirits never die
in my heart
I feel you are all
My brothers
create a world with
no fear
together we'll Cry
happy tears
see the nations turn
their swords
into plowshares

we could really get there
if you cared enough
for the living
make a little space
to make a better place...
for you and for me"

Michael wants us to make a resolve thus

"I'm gonna make a change...
for once in my life"..
as "the man in the mirror"
I will take a look at myself
and change my ways.

To encourage us Michael is saying;
"This time around"
"don't stop till you get enough"
"keep the faith"
"you are not alone"... in this effort
"I am here with you"

I am is saying in return to Micheal's Message

"I wanna be where you are"
"To "beat it"... "Human nature"
but " another part of me" is saying
"we are the world"
"Heaven can wait"
let me "heal the world"...
Then I meet see you at
"The break of dawn"
Good night Immortal Michael Jackson

NOTE: The words in parenthesis are some of Michael s lyrics and titles of his album. I put this in present tense because he is still living forever. He is "Invincible"

July 8, 2009 | 6:27 AM Comments  1 comments

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Saving Lake Chad
Related to country: Chad

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Lake chad is historically a large shallow lake in Africa , whose size has varied greatly over the centuries.
It is economically very important, providing water to more than 20 million people. living in the four countries which
surround it: Chad, cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
Lake Chad gave it's name to the country Chad. The name Chad is a local word meaning "large expanse of water"

Lake Chad is beleived to be a remnant of a former inland sea which has grown and shrunk with changes in climate over the last 13,000 years. At it's largesrt around 4,000 BC this lake is estimated to have covered an area of 400,000 kilometer square.In the 1960s it had an area of more than 26,000 km2 making it the fourth largest lake in Africa. By the year 2000 it's extent has fallen to less than1,500km2.

Lake Chad is beleived to be a remnant of a former inland sea which has grown and shrunk with changes in climate over the last 13,000 years. At it's largesrt around 4,000 BC this lake is estimated to have covered an area of 400,000 kilometer square.In the 1960s it had an area of more than 26,000 km2 making it the fourth largest lake in Africa. By the year 2000 it's extent has fallen to less than1,500km2.

This is due to reduced rainfall, combined with greatly increased amounts of irrigation water being drawn from the lake and the river which feeds it. The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) attributes 50-70% of the water disappearance to shifting cllimate patterns. The shrinking of the lake has also caused several conflicts to emerge as to which country that borders lake Chad has the right to the remaining water. Along the conflict that involve the countries, violence is increasing between the lake dwellers. farmers and herders want the water for their crops and livestock and are constantly diverting the water. Fishermen however want the remaining water in the lake to stay so they can continue to fish and no to worry about Lake shrinking more and decreasing their already strained supply of fish.

One of the initiative the LCBC has been concentrating on seeks to reverse land and water degradation trend and regenerate the lakes ecosystem. It's implementation is expected to cost only 10.6million dollars.

This will entail damning Oubangui River at Palambo in Central African Republic and channelling some of it's water through navigable canal to lake Chad. Source said it has already been approved by the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo which share the river Congo into which the Oubangui flows. This will be the first of it's kind in Africa.

The fear is that unless the plans to save the lake are implemented the water way is doomed. Officials of LCBC expecxted certain benefites which include ; generating about 702 megawatts of electricity from the proposed dam on the Obangui would contribute towards meeting the subregions energy requirement.
Furthermore, it will be an opportunity to rebuild the ecosystem, rehabilitate the lake Chad,reconstruct it's biodiversity ansd safeguard it.
The Canal to be used to tranfer water from the Oubangui is also expected to help facilitate the tranport of goods and services within the region as well as agricultural production, fishing, as well as reforestation.

Similar projects have also been proposed for River Niger Basin covering nine countries and Senegal River Basin covering Senegal, Mauritania,Mali and Guinea.
I hope these project will be quickly implemented to conserve our environment and bring along the benefits mentioned. This I am sure will help ensure food security and move these countries to economic prosperity.

July 7, 2009 | 12:11 PM Comments  1 comments

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I look forward
Related to country: Nigeria

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

he world as it is today is not what I dream of:
I look forward to a world where;
Poverty will be no more,
wars and armed conflict will cease.
Weapon industries grounded,
Peace and social jusstice abound,
Fauna and flora properly preserved,
Natural resources are not depleted,
Crime and vices will be a thing of the past,
The sanctity of Human Life is respected,
All forms of discrimination will cease,
Nations of the world will respect the sovereignty
of each other,
there is a balance of trade among developed and developing states.
and I among the Vanguards of bringing this new world to fruition.

Is this possible or a fantasy?

In the midst of all the imperfections of this world,
I stiill love and enjoy the efforts and joy of accomplishment,
the feeling of pride in overcoming challenges,
the fufillment that comes with setting goals and achieving them.
Some of these makes the world go round.

However I do not wish for equality,
for men are not equally endowed but,
I pray for fairness and equity.

July 6, 2009 | 8:02 AM Comments  0 comments

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Ten Years Ago In Nigeria...
Related to country: Nigeria

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We had hoped to be free fom tyranny.
we had hoped we will now choose our leaders.
We had hoped that public institutions will be above board.
We had hoped to have constant power supply.
We had hoped that our roads will cease to be death traps.
we had hoped our hospitals will no longer be mere consulting clinics.
We had hoped that infant and maternal mortality rates will reduce considerably.
We had hoped that we will have portable water at good intervals.
We had hoped that we will be sleeping with our two eyes closed.
We had hoped strikes by workers will not be recurrent.
We had hoped that our institutions will be among some of the best in the continent.
We had hoped that our economy will be more vibrant.
We had hoped that standard of living will improve and life expectancy above fifty.
We had hoped those "scorpions" who looted our treasury will be behind bars.
We had hoped that our sports men and women will win more Laurels and raise our flag high.
We had hoped that our Darling super Eagles will soar Higher.
We had hoped never to see political brigandage again.
We had hoped good fiscal policies and democratic ideals by now should have been more rooted.

These were our hopes when we came out of captivity.
We Were held captives for sixteen years by Millitary dictators.
We danced, sang, cried and shouted for Joy on that day, 29th may 1999.

Ten Years have passed and we are now wondering;
The so called freedom and our days of captivity which is better?
Are we progressing or retrogressing?
Is democracy In Nigeria an anatema to good governance?
Is Politics in Nigeria antithesis to free and fair election?

I still have hope... some day we will shout eureka!
I beleive in the system but not the operators of the system.
God Bless The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

May 29, 2009 | 4:46 PM Comments  2 comments

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My Proffessor!
Related to country: Nigeria

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One of the Many things you and I Have in common
Is that we are both "fine boys".
Loved and admired by many and
that I always looked up to you.
We both seem to have good dress sense.
You the teacher I the student.

Even in the life before now
I looked up to you.
That explains why we share these qualities of
good carriage, comportment, grace, elegance and
a fine countenance.

At the dawn of this session I registered for the
course international law to share in your immense
knowledge and to continue looking up to you.
But that was not to be for long.

However one bad faith you and I have in common is our encounter with death.
On the 27th of March 2008, death confronted me(accident)
on the streets of Makurdi in a broad day light.
I fought ferrociously and came out victorious though with
a fractured leg.
In your case death choose to be a coward,
layed an ambush for you in an ususpecting place
in th darkness of the night and through those cursed
demons(assasins) shot and snuffed life out of you.
What a Loss my proffessor!

I'm sure if death had been brave and confronted
you as it did me, you would have been victorious.

You have gained immortality in your accademic works
and because you are still alive in the hearts of many.
I am still looking upto you to gain Immortality too
but not yet.
I hope to see you again among the stars of heaven
but many many more years from now.
Bonnuit mon proffessor. Abiento DR. Jande.

FOOT NOTE
Mr Gabriel Gwa Jande was a proffessor of international law
and former Dean of the faculty of law Benue State University
Makurdi. He was shot dead on the 20th of April 2009 at about 9pm by suspected assasins. Jande was an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello university Zaria, University of Jos and University of Nigeria Nnsukka.
Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982 and distinguished himself as a good lawyer and teacher of law. He was 52 years old.He is survived by His wife Betty an aged mother and four children, one of whom is also a lawyer.
Till now the police are yet to make any usefull progress in finding his killers.
I hope this has not joined the list of other unresolved murder cases in Nigeria.

May 23, 2009 | 11:15 AM Comments  2 comments

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