<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2918863251756292447</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:23:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>African</category><category>Inspiration</category><category>Label</category><category>Nigeria</category><category>Obama</category><category>People</category><category>Talk</category><category>african american</category><category>black</category><category>blog</category><category>post</category><title>The Naija Man Taught</title><description>The Naija Man Taught; Revolves around how things is suppose to be; and it is also asking if some certain things are suppose to be the way they are? 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News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Music, Books, Movies, Inspiration, traveling, people, romance, poems, african articles, blog, blogger&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://thenaijamantaught.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-support-obama.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2918863251756292447.post-5294037796373566613</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-30T12:19:37.813+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">African</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Label</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nigeria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">People</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">post</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Talk</category><title>Turn Your Mess to a Positive Message</title><description>Are you the type that believes you&#39;re lost in the wild wind? Because you found yourself in a world, whereby things doesn’t come on a platter of gold. You believe Your Life has become a total mess and you think nothing in the world can course a change just because you’ve tried countless times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all find ourselves in one circumstances or the other, and everyone in life is bound to have one problem or the other. So you&#39;re not the first having problems, &lt;strong&gt;“the wise one learnt from what they&#39;ve went through to excel in life.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s a popular saying that every problem will have a solution, and to get the solution you&#39;ll have to help yourself. If God don&#39;t come down to help us but uses someone, why do you expect President Yar’adua to come and put food on your table.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you know that, Your Mess in life can be a message that will keep people on the track of Success in life? You ask yourself, How Do I turn my Mess to a successful Message? The Answer is &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Hold on&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hold on to your dreams and always be positive, free yourself from unnecessary excuses. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;You can loose your Greatness if you don&#39;t have Gut&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. It takes Gut and Determination, are you the type that always says &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I would have loved to sing, but you know one needs connection&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; but I will tell you that the answer is &lt;strong&gt;&quot;If Connection does not come to you, why not go to connection&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s your Gut and attitude that will do the work, you meet connector; request you want to get connected and the worst thing he/she can say is that &quot;Service is not Available&quot; But you must not stop trying, keep holding on and I bet you , one day the Service will be available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stand up now, make a choice. &lt;strong&gt;“Are you going to turn your Mess to a successful Message?” Or “You’re going to keep on Messing Your life around?”&lt;/strong&gt; The ball is in your court, a choice you will make that will change your life from a pauper to wealthy nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s never too late to covert your Mess to a Successful Message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about it! Keep the Nigerian Spirit Alive!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Music, Books, Movies, Inspiration, traveling, people, romance, poems, african articles, blog, blogger&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://thenaijamantaught.blogspot.com/2007/07/turn-your-mess-to-positive-message.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2918863251756292447.post-8511327225922469876</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-12T17:12:17.510+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">African</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Label</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nigeria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">People</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Talk</category><title>Who I am; Where I am</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;I have tried to keep myself with a blogging site but just couldn&#39;t work. Yet so much is kept inside that I want to unfold; maybe probably find someone to talk with or just express what I feel the way I feel it. I know someone somewhere will find these piece of my heart and know what plays in my mind. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Before I unravel things that make me wonder why the hell people can’t see things &lt;em&gt;(most especially the Youth&#39;s)&lt;/em&gt;; may be they see it but they just care-less about their future or just afraid to effect Change in their lives. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;The Earth has many continents and produces many countries resulting from different Devastating incident in years Before Christ and After Christ. After did had been done, we find our self in different places; we claim different languages and ancestral histories, But in the reality we really don&#39;t know our true origin. If many dig deep, few will find out that the blood of Judas flow through their vain; which they rejected because of what is said in the Holy Scriptures about Judas Iscariot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;In the present day, the world is face with different problems rising from different countries. While one country is rejoicing because of her positive progress and achievements; the other laments in her uncontrollable destructive act of embezzlement, retarding it growth and declining it progress. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Sometimes I wonder why my ancestors/fore-fathers relocated to this part of the world. Was it because of the color of their skin? Or the language they speak? My curiosity never stops, because when I look at some other part of the world; I will said to my self &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Why can&#39;t they relocate their self to those part that seems have everything sketched so well &quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;My part of the world is rated one of the richest country in the world, bless with the richest resources but yet painted in so many God forsaking colors and names. From High rate Criminality to Abuses of public offices. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Saying: the country is a cake and I need to have my share of the cake”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. These makes some advance world dissociates from my own part of the world; whenever you say &lt;strong&gt;&quot;hi&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; they will say &lt;strong&gt;&quot;bye&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Is it a crime to originate from my own part of the World? I asked myself&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;The Youth&#39;s that suppose to fight a bloodless war for their future, also help in rubbishing her image. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Now, so many challenges you will face; too many humiliations you&#39;ll pass through simply because you carry the tag of her name.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Let me flee to those parts of the World that seems to have everything running smooth; I have in mind&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; But I realized that not everything that Glitters is Gold, and that&#39;s just the riddle to those countries I taught have everything sketched so well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Then I regained my strengths, promise never to be ashamed of my origin nor tarnish her image. In her was the childhood of my fore-fathers and that of mine. I am proud of the name she bears and the way it sounds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am Black; bold and full of Strengths.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;I am &lt;strong&gt;an AFRICAN; A NIGERIAN&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am proud of Who I am; What I am And Where I am&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A that is what I will forever claim.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Music, Books, Movies, Inspiration, traveling, people, romance, poems, african articles, blog, blogger&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://thenaijamantaught.blogspot.com/2007/05/who-i-am-where-i-am.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>