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Food for Living: Creating Opportunities for Wealth
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By Henry Ukazu
Dear Destiny Friends,
Each of us wants to be successful, but many of us are not working in the direction of success. Talk is usually cheap. If you really want to succeed in life, you must walk the talk. Success means different things to different people, to some success, means financial success, academic success, marital success, personal success, or even spiritual success depending on which side you decide to take.
Just like you can’t have a baby out of the blues, you must be deliberate and intentional in the activity that leads to the formation of a baby. In the same vein, success doesn’t come to you just like that, you simply must create the opportunities for the success to flow. In law, before a document is accepted in the court of law, a foundation must be laid before the judge will accept it.
One of the challenges facing human beings is the inability to see opportunity where others don’t see it. Sometimes, opportunities don’t come to us, we create opportunities. Do you know a problem can create an opportunity for you? In creating opportunities, there are ways one can explore – book, people and traveling.
People
The greatest way of creating opportunities is through human beings. Human beings are the greatest assets one can have in life. Human beings can make or mar you. You cannot live in isolation. Great friends, partners, and relationships are priceless like treasures. If you have one, please take good care of it and nurture it like a plant or a newborn baby. According to Robin Sharma, “the business of business is human relation, but the business of life is human connection. You literally need people to succeed in life, you cannot do it alone.
According to an African adage “if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go with a team. What most people don’t know is that you’ll get to a stage in life and realize that money is not everything. This is because, at a stage in life, your greatest concern will be loyalty. It’s quite unfortunate many people don’t know how to cultivate friendship, some poor minds only wait for the right opportunity for them to cash out and relate closely with you, but great minds with an eye of an eagle can invest in you even when you can’t see the opportunity.
As a way of advice, when you meet with people for the first time, you need to first build a rapport, then do more of listening than talking. By truly listening and understanding, you can get the measure of a person before introducing any form of idea to them.
Books
There’s hardly any successful great person who doesn’t read. Reading helps a rational mind to explore opportunities. According to a philosopher, you are the same today and in five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you associate with. Sometimes, opportunities abound in reading. The sad reality of life is that most people don’t take time to invest in reading. Be deliberate in reading about investing, biography of great leaders, self-help books, or information/knowledge relevant to your careers. Constant reading helps to broaden your knowledge of life.
Place
It is often stated that traveling is a part of education. In fact, an illiterate is considered more exposed than a literate man who hasn’t traveled. According to Pierre Bernardo “to travel is to evolve”. The world is now a global village. Different opportunities abound in different continents. Travelling offers you the opportunity of exploring new opportunities when you think out of the box to know the kind of services that is needed around your new environment. Traveling helps you to create memories. Traveling helps to expose you to different cultures and opportunities. Traveling makes you rational in your thought process, it also helps you to meditate in addition to giving you empathy.
Traveling helps to broaden your knowledge and understanding of life. Above all, traveling makes you street smart.
Step Out of Your Comfort zone
Opportunities rarely happen in your comfort zone. You can’t achieve what you want by playing normal. You must leave your comfort zone by taking risks or making unpopular decisions which do not resonate with people. Stepping out of your comfort zone entails going the extra mile for what you truly believe in.
When you create the right opportunities, you’ll attract the right success you deserve. For instance, wealthy men expand their opportunities and wealth by investing in real estate, education, and building sustainable relationships across continents. When you invest in real estate you have a sustainable hope of a better tomorrow. Wealthy minds think out of the box by crossing party lines and boundaries by engaging with people they wouldn’t ordinarily relate to due to personal interest and incompatibility. However, they are concerned about doing business with them they see any opportunity.
As mentioned earlier, success is not only limited to wealth, you can have peace of mind and that’s a priceless wealth that money can’t afford. At most, money can hire a person to make you laugh for an hour or two, but that’s it. It can’t give you peace of mind. It takes a peaceful heart to be joyful even when you don’t have anyone to make you laugh.
You can also create wealth by avoiding conflicts or situations that might lead to negative energy. By so doing, you will be focusing your energy on the right causes.
In conclusion, to create the right opportunity which might lead to wealth, the first point is to determine where you are and where you are to be, then you determine what you don’t need and what you need to get to where you want to be.
Henry Ukazu writes from New York. He’s a mindset coach and public speaker. He works with the New York City Department of Correction as the Legal Coordinator. He’s the author of the acclaimed book Design Your Destiny – Actualizing Your Birthright To Success and President of gloemi.com. He can be reached via info@gloemi.com
Accomplished media entrepreneur and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Dele Momodu, has said that nobody trusts President Bola Tinubu to conduct a free and fair election, including the President’s own supporters.
Momodu also noted that there is a belief that if the President does not win in 2027, he will not want to relinquish power.
He added that if Tinubu refuses to step down, he would be chased out of the Presidential Villa.
Momodu made the revelations while speaking on Arise News Prime Time belt.
“If you ask an average Nigerian today about Tinubu, ‘Do you trust Tinubu to conduct a free and fair election?’ I can tell you, 90 per cent of them will say no.
“Look, nobody trusts Tinubu to run a free and fair election, including his own supporters. They will tell you, ‘Oh, we are going to win. There is no way we won’t win.’ Ask them why, and they will say, ‘Oh, you know our oga now.’
“In fact, some people are even suggesting that if Tinubu loses the election, he will not agree to step down. I say, why won’t he agree? We will chase him away.
“Look, you do not know the determination of Nigerians. And now, I’m not resting my confidence on just my party. I’m talking about the ordinary man on the street who cannot imagine Tinubu coming back again. They just can’t.
“I can’t tell you our strategy in public. What we know is that, once upon a time, Tinubu fought for himself to secure a second term as governor of Lagos State.
“So, others are also working very hard behind the scenes. We are not going to come out in public and say this, but we know what to do to make sure that he does not get that second term. We also know that some of the people pretending to support him today—and I’m not trying to trivialise this thing.
“I know some of them. They are praying fervently that they will not have to go through this situation where governors become like houseboys. Governors are scared. Judges are scared. Legislators are scared.
“So, Tinubu has become a god whom nobody is ready to confront and say, ‘Oga, you’ve done your best. Please, go home.’”
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has urged President Bola Tinubu to go home and let Nigeria breathe.
Adebayo said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
He was responding to the President’s plan to excuse himself from the rigors of physical campaigns in some states ahead of the presidential polls.
Tinubu spoke at the inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja, urging members to take the party’s message to Nigerians across the states and local government areas while he continues to attend to matters of governance.
In response, Adebayo argued that, if Tinubu is too tired to campaign, he is too weak to govern.
In a statement signed by his Presidential Campaign’s Chief Communications Adviser, Comrade Mark Adebayo, the SDP standard bearer described Tinubu as a “president in absentia” at a time Nigeria needs hands-on leadership.
Adebayo said: “Nigeria is too complex, too dynamic, and currently too distressed to be governed by remote control.”
He cited what he called repeated instances of the President governing from a distance, including prolonged medical vacations disguised as working visits, absence during national emergencies and reliance on proxies to announce State policies.
Adebayo further said: “We have seen repeated instances when the President was visibly missing when the country needed reassurance.
“From unannounced foreign trips during critical economic decisions to his complete silence during widespread regional protests, he has consistently acted like a president in absentia. If you are too tired to campaign, you are too weak to govern.”
Adebayo alleged that the decision to stay off the campaign trail was not about strategy but fear.
“The excuse of bowing out of the 2027 campaign is a cowardly smokescreen. The truth is that the President is terrified of the Nigerian people,” he argued.
According to him, the administration’s economic policies – fuel subsidy removal fallout, skyrocketing inflation and currency instability -have made the President unpopular.
“He knows the pain his bad policies have inflicted on families. He is hiding because he cannot face public anger, and he knows any appearance on a campaign trail will be met with collective booing of a betrayed populace.”
Adebayo also said: “It is time to face reality: step aside, go home, and let this country breathe.”
He called on the administration to prioritise national interest over political survival and be transparent about the President’s capacity to lead for the remainder of his term.
Arsenal Fans Club Nigeria is set to be officially unveiled in Abuja this weekend, as the organisation prepares to strengthen the club’s fan base and promote community development through football.
Amongst the high profile personalities lined up for the unveiling ceremony include, business leaders, celebrities and notable Arsenal supporters like former Gunner, Kanu Nwankwo, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Senator Dino Melaye amongst others.
The unveiling will form part of a two-day programme beginning on Friday, October 16, with delegates from state and city chapters expected to converge on the nation’s capital for the club’s second Annual General Meeting (AGM).
According to a press release issued on Monday by the organisation, the celebrations will feature sporting activities, a community sanitation initiative and a formal launch event attended by prominent personalities and Arsenal supporters.
National President of Arsenal Fans Club Nigeria, Charles Ojugbana, said the organisation draws inspiration from the achievements of Nigerian-descent footballers, including former Super Eagles striker Kanu Nwankwo and current stars Bukayo Saka, Noni Madueke and Eberechi Eze.
The former General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) said the club aims to improve the football fan experience while expanding support for Arsenal across Nigeria.
Activities scheduled for Saturday include aerobic sessions and a novelty football match before members proceed to Wuse Market for a clean-up campaign.
As part of the outreach, the club plans to donate refuse bins and other sanitation materials to the market’s leadership, in line with its commitment to philanthropy and community development.
Arsenal Fans Club Nigeria operates through a governance structure comprising a Board of Trustees, a National Executive Committee and a General Assembly, which serves as the organisation’s highest decision-making body.
The club also disclosed plans to promote awareness of Down syndrome among children in March 2027, as part of activities to commemorate World Down Syndrome Day.
The programme expresses the organisation’s ambition to extend its activities beyond football fandom to charitable causes and support for vulnerable members of the society.
