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MY VISION, MISSION AND MY OBJECTIVE I am Chidike Edmond Ojuyenum (De C.E.O); I'm here to cause a change. So I consciously want to be known as the one that causes positive things to happen, pursuing my dreams. Chidike Edmond @ Rapid 96.5FM Live Studio   I understand that a dream (even a prophecy) will remain a dream (just a spoken word) unless accompanied with action. Hence, I labor my youth because life took away from me my soft landing; that I may learn, gain and sustain the power to preserve that which is of good virtue. I pray for an early retirement, not that I may leave this earth early. But, I may stay alive longer than a decacentennial. Yet, climb the mountains effortlessly. I am a growing serial entrepreneur and a sustainable leader (role model: Tony O. Elumelu, CFR). A keynote speaker and a Mechanical Engineering Technologist (working my way up to become an Engineer). My childhood desire to pursue a career in aviation as a captain was truncated by death f...

I smile because there's God. A God who enthrones kings and also dethrones kings. He also fights for the weak, he is the voice of the voiceless. I smile thinking about the Niger Delta and how the youths can benefit from the region, as well as the innumerable resources it is blessed with. I smile knowing that the era of "Monkey dey work Baboon dey chop" will soon come to an end. My smiles are ever endless when I see how much the Niger Delta region is blessed with both human and natural resources.  Unfortunately, despite these indisputable endowments, it is so saddening that the region is still plagued with  unemployment, inadequate medical care, little or no industrialization, gas flaring epileptic power supply, inadequate human development, amongst many others.  Nevertheless, I rejoice with all confidence that all would be well again, because sooner than we envisaged, draws closer to us an era where the Niger Delta Youth can say with all confidence that "I am from the...

My position to the struggle for Schools in Nigeria to be reopened is clearly based on the #NewNormal we must accept.  Is markets and religious centers safer? Will people from high risk state not find their ways to these social events? Questions I have been challenged with but here is my view:  Neither the church nor market is safe following that people will surely make contact... For the markets, the methodology employed in our local market I can vote it even of higher risk. The best is to even keep it lockdown but I tell you this bitter truth; if you totally lockdown our markets, many Africans (Not just that poor woman in out Delta State villages who can not feed well even on a good day, but all poor people in Africa) will die of hunger even before they get infected. It will be worse than it was during the civil war (not as if was there sha, just a reference). Fine, let's protest, let our government feed not all of us but just these poor; then we lost over a tril...

Why are students saying that schools will resume on 15th June 2020 without an official announcement by the federal government or probably the ministry of Education. News Extract by: Chidike Edmond. Please don't regard the news going round saying that schools will resume on 15 June 2020 all are nothing but fake because the federal government has not agreed on when schools will resume. Honestly, students are willing to return back to school following the convicted news that schools have been scheduled to resume on the 15 of June, 2020 which could be mere rumours because the federal government has not agreed on school resuming that day. It's well known that Nigerian students are tired of staying at home and everyone is wanting the Federal Government to resume schools immediately. But the truth is that the federal government cannot risk the lives of students by resuming schools for them following the persistence increase in covid-19 cases in Nigeria. OK let's assu...

Following the speculated rumours surrounding the reopening of schools in Nigeria by 5th June 2020, Comr Iyogun David Eseli took to his social media outlets to write "Why School Cannot Re-Open Yet" Read Complete Article Below: As the coronavirus pandemic has halted a lot of activities in the world, organizations, companies, churches, and even schools have been on lockdown. There have been several rumours surrounding resumption of normal activities in schools and other organizations, but these are just mere speculations and not true. If the schools would resume, there are several things that need to be put in place. When these things are not available, resumption of schools anytime soon cannot be feasible. It's difficult to maintain social distancing in schools, having an average number of 20 to a classroom. Kids are more difficult to control or make follow guidelines. "Imagine making a child of 5 years or less use a face mask, and he ends up exchanging the...