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The following are some of my jottings from a few books and articles I read last week, make use of them too, I am sure you would hardly find them all together anywhere on the cyber space:

  1.       MY LIFE IS A MISSION AND NOT A JOURNEY

  2.       PEOPLE WHO SEE OR LIVE LIFE AS A JOURNEY HAVE FEW THINGS WITHIN THEIR CONTROL

  3.       PEOPLE ARE REMEMBERED FOR THE MISSION THEY ACCOMPLISHED NOT FOR THE JOURNEY THEY EMBARKED

  4.       AM NOT JUST IN THIS WORLD TO ADD UP TO THE ADD NUMBER OF PERSONS, I HAVE A PURPOSE

  5.       WHEN YOU ARE ON A JOURNEY, YOU FOLLOW THE TRAIN, WHEN YOU ARE ON A MISSION YOU FIND YOUR WAY.

  6.       ANYBODY WHO CONSISTENTLY JUDGE YOU BY YOUR PAST SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE A HAND IN THE MAKING OF YOUR FUTURE

  7.       MY PAST LIFE MIGHT HAVE CAUSED ME TODAY’S PAIN, BUT MY TOMORROW GAIN WILL DEPEND ON TODAY'S PRICE.

  8.       NOTHING CAN STOP A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN HIMSELF. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE FOR HIM

  9.       THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIEVE THE EXTRA-ORDINARY IS TO DO THE EXTRA.

  10.   YOU WILL PROGRESS FASTER AND BETTER IN LIFE IF YOU FOCUS ON YOUR OWN PURSUITS WITHOUT MINIDNG WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER PEOPLES’S BUSINESS

Employing The Omoluabi Concept

Our cultural values have been abandoned and the world is in disarray. Now is the time to respect our unequaled wisdom, values and lifestyles by seeking the ways of people before us in order to build a better future that we desire.

As an instance, I present to you a brief detail of the YORUBA culture. The Yoruba identity could be summarized in a behavior of a typical Yoruba man. As far as Yoruba ethics and teachings are concerned, a typical Yoruba man is respected through his hard work and his contented with what he gains from his handwork. This man is most described as Omoluabi in the Yoruba encyclopedia.

A typical Yoruba man is courageous and firm in his dealings. He doesn't tell lies irrespective of the circumstance. He is ready to fight for his right and always at alert in a defensive manner. However, he is not foolhardy.

In a sentence, The Yoruba philosophy is based on “Iwa lewa” meaning Character is beauty. And to the Yoruba, Your ATTITUDE determines your ALTITUDE in life.

Also of which I take pride in is in the aspect of “family as an Institution”. In the Yoruba culture, the family is a sacred entity. A typical Yoruba family is child-centered, ruled by the elderly, and controlled by adults. It is also the most effective agent of socialization. The family teaches the first lessons in discipline, personal gratitude, and affection. The family is where young people are exposed to their first preferences and prejudices. In the family, the lessons in honor and shame are learned.

The world today is fast advancing and technology is simplifying lifestyles. 
Sadly, the result or side effect of this display of insanity, in view of this it is highly necessary we all join in the crusade to eradicate moral decadency and further degeneration just as it is being promoted by the Yoruba culture. Just like the nature of a typical Yoruba family, our families should be built on sound intellectual engagement centering on love, respect, decency, character, dignity, chastity, and responsibility among others. As prescribed by the Yoruba culture, children should imbibe the spirit of selflessness, humanity, peaceful co-existence and industriousness. We seek a time in the future when mediocrity would be a sin and genuineness would be celebrated. With all these, if taken into consideration, a better future is assured.

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Programming Challenge - BUMPY sequence

*got to know about this bumpy sequence problem while chatting with a senior colleague last night*

The problem goes thus:

Start with any positive number n. If n is even divide it by 2, if n is odd multiply by 3 and add 1. Repeat until n becomes 1. The sequence that is generated is called a bumpy sequence. For example, the bumpy sequence that starts at n = 10 is:
10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
and the one that starts at 11 is
   11, 34, 17, 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
Write the int lengthBumpy(int n) such that:
lengthBumpy(10) returns 7, and lengthBumpy(11) returns 15.
You may assume that the argument n is positive and that the sequence converges to 1 without arithmetic overflow.


NB: Write it with any language of your choice...

A BRIEF ON “MORAL DECADENCE: THE NIGERIA SITUATION”

Fellow Young Minds, it is of no doubt that social vices have completely replaced core moral values in present times. This ravaging phenomenon is the cause of some of the major problems Nigeria is facing as a Nation. A society where the youths no longer think of how tomorrow would be better than today or how to be instrumental to the development of the country. This societal menace is just too prevalent and has reduced the present youths to mediocrity.

In the world today, shame and shamelessness are rewarded with encomiums and emphasized recognition, nudity is now directly proportional to your fame and acceptance, skimpy dresses are now tickets to 'classy' events, songs that have sexual talks in them sell faster than the meaningful ones, when your trousers is around your waist then you are seen as a "learner", big girls are now identified by level of exposure of their private parts. Even the world's religions and academic institutions have failed in eradicating this dangerous way of life. What is the hope? Would the society continue to condone this act? Where will this lead us to?

Seriously, are we going to make Nigeria a better place with this lack of focus and unscrupulousness, definitely NO. Definitely, a few of us are trying in our various capacities to be useful to the society by acting right but sincerely a few is not enough, we need a larger percentage of young minds to join the crusade and collectively move the nation forward by being creative, responsible, reliable, useful and patriotic. If you see no reason to help Nigeria, what about your self,  and if none of this motivates you to be useful, think about your generations to come. The provisions of today would be used by the people of tomorrow. As a matter of fact, it is what the generation of Chief Obafemi Awolowo , Alh. Tafawa Balewa, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and the likes  did that we are enjoying or suffering today as a Nation. We are currently struggling within the cavities of the decisions they took.

The good will be enjoyed and celebrated while the bad would be suffered for and be condemned. An activist used to say: our time shall past, but the history of our time will never past”. I put it to you today, be part of the history of the struggle for a better Nigeria. Do anything in your capability to make your immediate society proud of you and appreciate you, do the right thing at the right time and never be an idle person. Discover yourself, your innermost strength and build it.
"Discover your PURPOSE and the world would adore you like ROSE”.

YOURS IN EMPOWERMENT 

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