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Sometimes, we are punished for offences we never committed!

Sometimes Punished Offences Committed
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Live and let live, shine and allow others to shine as well. No man born of woman will have the power to obstruct your greatness.

Live Shine Others Born
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Stay on your lane and stay focused. Be consistent and be optimistic. You are envious of other people’s achievements, who says yours which is on the way isn’t bigger? Many achieved nothing because they left certainty.

Stay on Focused Consistent Optimist
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Road to greatness is never smooth. Path to success is always rough. The journey isn’t always attractive but refusal to embark on it amounts to failure.
Road Greatness Never smooth Success
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Balancing womanhood, Nollywood and entrepreneurship isn’t only possible, it looks like a lot of fun.

Balancing womanhood Entrepreneurship Only possible
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Marriage is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you won’t live without.

Marriage Someone Live
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You don’t have to be rich to make an impact. In a gentle way, you can shake your world.
Have to Rich Impact Shake
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You are so perfect even when you are messy.

So perfect Messy
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No matter how hard it hurts now, one day you will realize your struggle changed your life for the better.

No matter Hard Hurt Realize
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There is a point you get to in life that everyone believes you have everything. You pay double for everything. You don’t get a thing from anyone. Yet everyone wants something from you….

Point Get to Life Believe
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I stay winning cos I am not competing with anyone but my ‘yesterday’…
Stay Wining Competing Anyone
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Everything in life leads you to a certain point…

Everything Life Certain point
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In Nollywood, you have to learn to work with limited resources and be very entrepreneurial…

Learn Work Limited resources Entrepreneurial
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Never try to win over those who dislike you for your convictions and beliefs. They’re not the barometer of life. The best way to treat them is to ignore them whilst firmly defending those beliefs until their anger turns to solemn resignation and their hatred turns to quiet admiration

Never try Win Dislike Conviction
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It is quite sad that we have pushed ourselves to the point in this country that when any public appointment is announced, most Nigerians would first research the tribe of the appointee before they research his academic qualifications and competence for the job!

Sad Pushed Country Public appointment
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I just finished participating in a virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the first ever after the last one held on March 18th, 2020. Subsequent meetings were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finished Virtual meeting Suspended Pandemic
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We must find a way to live with the virus until a vaccine is found.
Must find Live Virus Vaccine
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The panic and paranoia over the virus have become more deadly and infectious than the virus itself! What we need is deliberate calmness and extreme caution as we meticulously follow all the guidelines of WHO and NCDC daily. Panic always compounds every emergency situation.

Panic Paranoia Virus Deadly
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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Even as a private lawyer, I had enough layers in my skin to take everything anyone threw at me without responding, even including insults, except when an allegation of a SPECIFIC nature with PROOF is made. As a public officer, I have even fortified that disposition the more

Private lawyer Layers Skin Allegation
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I wonder how we came to a point where our affection towards fellow humans is dictated only by political, tribal and religious sentiments.

Wonder Point Affection Human
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COVID-19 has now united the world in a bid for survival. If the differences later return, let’s hope they wouldn’t be as fratricidal as before.

United World Survival Hope
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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.

Perfectly Constructively criticize Public officers
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. Posthumous eulogies teach us that people who dislike you also quietly admire your sterling qualities. The dislike only stems from their frustration as a result of their inability to make you accept their convictions about things that are dear to them like religion or politics

Posthumous eulogies Dislike you Admire
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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

Perception People Barometer Life
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Since most viruses that cause pandemics (e.g Ebola, COVID-19) are contracted from animals, why can’t the world invest heavily in isolating these viruses in animals & develop human vaccines for them in anticipation that one day humans might contract the viruses from these animals?

Most viruses Animals World invest
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The greatest lesson of COVID-19 is that it has blurred all the irrelevant differences of mankind which are politics, tribe & religion. It has slapped our brains back to reset mode and teaches us that the essence of life is about our common humanity and our common survival as a race

Blurred Irrelevant differences Mankind
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It is very intriguing that it is the same set of people, including some members of the public, who always seek to hold public officers accountable (and who are always quick to cry ‘crucify him’) that also put them under pressure to contribute financially to everything they do.

Intriguing People Members Public
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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

Majority Demand Accountability Selfish
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The preponderance of opinions in countries around the world is that majority of citizens are blaming their govts for not doing enough to curb COVID-19. We must be tolerant & allow people vent their opinions. It’s a sign of the times. The grass is always greener on the other side

Preponderance Opinions World Citizens
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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place

Challenge Face Government World
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The anxiety of some members of the public at this time is understandable and so are their criticisms. Matters of life/health should top the agenda of government. Therefore the criticisms must be taken in good faith and government will continue to weigh all of them to respond appropriately.

Anxiety Understandable Criticism Life
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Let’s use this period of partial lockdown to reignite old friendships and our common humanity. It’s not a period of gloom, but precaution. Call up old friends; search for your childhood playmates on social media and chat them up. Soon, we shall return to our crazy daily schedules

Partial lockdown Reignite Old friendship
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God has allowed COVID-19 to afflict the human race only to redirect our steps back to Him. We have so distorted God’s Word to suit our own human weaknesses and satisfy our greed, even in supposed Holy Places. We should collectively ask for forgiveness and it will all end in praise

God Allowed Human race Redirect
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Absolutely! One of the qualities of a good Leader. Always wanting to hear the truth whether it's painful or not.

Absolutely Qualities Wanting Hear
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This is how every African should think for Africa to grow. Stop feeling inferior to Oyibo people. Na the same God create us. We have what they do not have while they have what we do not have. Love our own, appreciate…

Think Grow Stop feeling inferior
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Excellence is a way of life. It can only be achieved when it is pursued every day. Regardless of your vocation or profession, always strive to be better today, than you were yesterday.

Excellence Life Achieved Regardless
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Prayer is my propeller. It helps me hold it all together, and the distance I have covered is only because I draw strength from God’s presence.

Prayer My propeller Help
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Work hard at what you want, because it may not come to you without some determination and persistence.
Work hard Determination Persistence
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You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Instead of putting anyone down, inspire them, change their life for the better, make them happy, make them smile, lift their spirit, and see what blessings will come your way.

Fix yourself Breaking someone Inspire them
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Surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
Surround yourself People Higher Down
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Don’t be deceived by what happens on social media. Obviously, there is something else actors are doing, perhaps other businesses to shore up their income.

Deceived Happens Social media
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I found this so hilarious but I thought - We fear the unknown no matter how helpful it is meant to be .. this is why combating a pandemic without public trust in government and health care delivery and without true community buy in will prove ineffective

Found Hilarious Fear Helpful
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So honoured to be on Forbes Woman Africa’s Power List of Africa’s Most Powerful 50 Women . Power is Influence , if anyone says they are leading and no one is following they are just taking a walk ! So grateful to God for the circle of influence He has blessed me with .

So honored Power Women
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The sure path to frustration is to try and control what is outside your circle of influence. Not everything that CONCERNS us is within our control . PEACE comes from knowing what lies beyond our control .

Sure path Frustration Control Influence
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Architecture is not a building, it is a legacy that never fades.

Architecture Building Legacy Fades
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Even on the same WiFi , everyone’s file size is different. Don’t despair. The wait seems long because the file is large! You will rejoice!

Size Different Don't despair Wait
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When a nation loses respect for history, straying from the harbor of safety becomes inevitable.

Nation Loses History Safety
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The greatest tragedy of our time is ignorance.

The greatest Time Ignorance
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