Pekerjaan Impian Saya (My dream job in Bahasa Indonesia) Dennis

Pekerjaan Impian Saya (My dream job)

Oleh: Onuigbo Dennis Mark (Nigeria)

Pekerjaan impian saya adalah menjadi ahli ekonomi yang baik dan mungkin menjadi gubernur Bank pusat di Negera saya.

Kenapa saya mau menjadi Ahli Ekonomi yang baik

Masalah yang terbesar di dunia itu kekurangan.

Manusia harus mengelola sumber alam dan sumber daya manusia untuk kepuasan keperluan manusia. Ini dilakukan oleh Ahli Ekonomi.

 Kalau tidak ada Ahli Ekonomi yang baik di manapun, tempat itu harus punya banyak orang yang tidak bekerja, banyak miskin dan lapar. Jadi, kejahatan bertambah seperti mencuri, tawuran, obat penyalahgunaan dsb. Juga, di tempat itu ada orang yang kaya sekali dan makan sampai menjadi kegemukan. Juga, orang orang mungkin punya banyak uang tetapi tidak bisa membeli banyak barang-barang di mana-mana. Kekuatan uang di negera itu lemah. Saya sudah terlihat hal atas dan mengetahui bahwa dunia ini perlu saya sebagai Ahli Ekonomi yang baik.

Keadaan Saya Sekarang

Sekarang saya sedang belajar bahasa Indonesia bersama teman teman saya mahasiswa asing dari Kenya, Benin, Tanzania, Sudan, Madagaskar dan Liberia. Jadi, tahun depan saya akan mulai kuliah untuk Magister sarjana di Ekonomi Pertanian.

Sebelum Magister, Saya sudah lulus dengan sarjana di Ekonomi Pertanian dan sudah mengajar Ekonomi di SMA.

Setelah lulus dari magister, saya akan melanjutkan ke Dokter di Ekonomi.

Setelah Dokter sarjana, saya akan kembali ke Negara saya dan membantu perekonomian Negara.

Betapa mimpi saya akan terjadi, saya tidak tahu. Jadi, Allah pasti membantu saya.

Terima kasih.

The Little Thing that Spoiled Everything

The little thing that spoiled everything

By: Onuigbo Dennis email: simple14all@gmail.com

This time, it was more debilitating and demoralizing. As I woke up, I prayed briefly to stop its occurrence. My prayer was brief so that I can quickly write everything without forgetting any part of my thought or do I call it dream?

I remembered all the actors in the scene except the man who did the little thing that spoiled everything. I also do not know the name of the policeman who questioned me for some while.

It was on a fateful evening as people gathered in the school field of L.E.A Primary School, Mpape Abuja watching a show put up by some individuals. I can’t remember vividly the exact event taking place there then suddenly someone tapped and pointed towards the backside of a classroom that my cousin has given birth. As she was saying it I sighted my cousin as she gazed into the crowd looking for my mum who always plays the role of a midwife or even ‘nurse’ to most women in the community not because she went to a nursing school but due to her wealth of experience.

I hurried to the scene where she gave birth but my mum got there few seconds before I arrived and almost immediately she ask me to hurry home and get a bag full of baby wears and items. Having understood the situation there I knew how urgent it was for me to go fast so I looked for a bicycle that I was using earlier in the field and took off with it.

My home was about 20 minutes from the scene and as I approached the main road about to cross the chain of the bicycle went off. I jumped down quickly to fix it and this policeman whom I have never seen before came around and started asking me so irritating questions. He first asked me what happened? Uncomfortable with the disturbance I answered the 'the chain went off'. He continued, 'who owns the bicycle?' 'me!' I replied swiftly. As he was going to ask another question I became more nervous and perplexed not because of the questions but because I was wasting time while I have a life to save. I abruptly left the bicycle there with him and took off like a sprinter in an Olympic event, I don’t know how to describe how I ran but it was as if I was virtually flying because each step was like 20 of my normal step. As I continued running home I heard the sound of a motor bike and familiar voices saying 'Is that not Chinedu?' that for me was my mum's voice and the second voice 'I don’t think its Chinedu' but I didn’t want to look back and risk a second. The voice was lucid when I turned right towards the direction of my home and at that point I knew they were already coming home. I reached home brought out the bag and waited for them to arrive. I was recuperating from the long run and breathing heavily like a dog when my younger brother Ebuka came and told me exactly what has happened. He said before my mum got to the birth scene a man had used a kitchen knife to cut the placenta and too close to the baby and that my mum who later came and saw the mess tried to clip the little part of the placenta on the baby but air and may be foreign bodies have passed in or may be the baby couldn't stand the pain and gave up. I was so demoralized and sad on how this woman has carried this baby patiently for nine months, delivered without surgery and this little thing spoiled everything.

What lessons are available in the above:

I really do not know how to bring out the lessons from the story. I find it difficult on my part so I want you who have read this to comment or point out the lessons from the above. Thanks for your contribution.

What is wrong with Africa? My thoughts..

Many have gone! What is wrong with Africa?

Why is this happening to us? Why all the deaths and pains in Africa? Why can’t Africa stay peacefully for as long as a year ? Why can’t we grow like Europe and America? Why not earthquake? Why ? Why? Why?

As reported by Sahara reporters on the 28^th November, 2014 over 200 worshippers were killed in a bomb explosion in Kano which ripped through the Central mosque where the Emir of Kano worships regularly on Fridays.

This is barely few days after Suspected Boko Haram extremists ambushed and slaughtered 48 fish vendors near Nigeria’s border with Chad.

The explosion occurred ahead of Friday prayers.

While the security agencies are yet to issue a statement, some accounts say that over 200 persons may have been killed in the incident.

The attack was coming barely two weeks after the Emir Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi ll, who regularly worships at the mosque, urged citizens to take their destiny in their hands and protect communities from those carrying out violent attacks. However, Sahara Reporters has learned that he is away in Mecca when this ugly incident occurred.

Who can answer those questions above for us? When will Africa grow beyond all this setbacks?

I observe that this killings in form of crisis, war, or struggles or epidemics occur when certain development efforts are been made in areas of infrastructures, education and economy. And at the event of this vices, those efforts collapse and reset to 15years back then later on after destroying our rich human capital and infrastructures that cost so much and has potential of causing spontaneous development we then calm again and start crawling and working hard to rebuild, renovate, recuperate, re-apply for help, re-invest, restart, recruit to resurrect in high spirit and when we get to a good stage we reset the clock. Sometimes I think we are struggling in vain, or we are struggling against our sins, or maybe we are struggling with ignorance and disrespect for ourselves. Am aware the developed countries faced similar challenges before they got better, so, I know we shall be better but it can be faster if we stop this killings and respect human life preciously knowing that we cannot create one matured man ourselves and so has no right to terminate a life made by God. For me, I feel that you owe God a life or more depending on how many you kill. It’s either your life or the life you are trying to protect. Lets be wise and stop killing.

God help Africa! God save Nigeria!!

The Need to Re-think

RE-THINK

by: Maazi Orji Eke Samuel

I found myself this morning thinking of the many past events in my life that contributed
immensely in shaping who I am today- how I think, what I have come to believe, my
behaviours, the small company I keep, my independence from strings and chains, my indifference to many things and people, my stubbornness, resilience, courage and boldness, my diet and looks, everything. This impromptu journey into the past isn't that  quite funny, but I guess it's worth it. I'm afraid they'll continue to wield so much influence on me because they are the real foundation and
pillars on which I am built. What a life I've got here, so help me God.

subnote:

This kind of thought is pertinent especially when one seem to be so busy and your whole life is tied to one or more things that seems inevitable and indispensable. Just like Maazi Orji above, we can infer if it’s worth it or not.
Its important to ask the following questions:
- what am I doing now that occupies my time?
- Is what am doing contributing positively to my health and wellbeing?
- am I happy doing it?
- Is it affecting my neighbour and the world positively or negatively?
- how do I maintain the positive effect?
- how do I stop the negative effect?
- Are the strategies am using to stop the negative effects working or do I need to change lifestyle or job completely?
- Will my new lifestyle make the world a better place?
- Is my lifestyle pleasing to God?

If you succeed in answering those questions, then you are on your way to making an important decision in your life.

Remember the Socratic dictum, which states, ''an unexamined life is not worth living''. (more quotes)

Many have spent their life doing things that they lived to regret at the long run. This quiet, little time you spend to check yourself can correct alot of anomalies in your lifestyle.

Everyone has to borrow some minutes of his/her busy schedule to rethink and reexamine his/her life and make amends.

After all said and done, we must seek divine assistance from God as Maazi Orji has noted as an important part of a worthy life.

Question your Assumptions

Question your Assumptions

by Mr. Anyanwu Francis (edited by Onuigbo Dennis M.)

What assumptions have you already made about today and why?

Consider that some of those assumptions may no longer be accurate, and may very well be holding you back.

It’s comfortable and convenient to assume you can’t do something. Yet such an assumption quickly turns into a continuing limitation that you place on yourself.

Things that were true for you many years ago may no longer have any validity. By holding on to those old assumptions, you prevent yourself from making the most of the new opportunities that come your way.

Think of how dramatically the world has changed in the last ten or twenty years. Have your assumptions about your own possibilities kept pace? You may be carrying assumptions that were placed in your mind by people who no longer play a role in your life. Take a close look at the choices and decisions you make, at the goals and aspirations you hold, and examine the assumptions behind them.

Make it a point to regularly question your assumptions. By so doing, you’re sure to find much value that you’ve been hiding from yourself.

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Economic Analysis of the Effect of Climate Change on Cocoyam Production in Nsukka LGA of Enugu

Economic Analysis of the Effect of Climate Change on Cocoyam Production in Nsukka LGA of Enugu, Nigeria

Onuigbo Dennis M. and Dr. Onyekuru NwaJesus A. (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), September, 2010

Photo by Dennis Onuigbo in Nsukka

The Research was carried out in 3 communities located in Nsukka LGA of Enugu State. It was based on the following objectives:

i. describe the socio-economic characteristics of cocoyam farmer in the area,

ii. describe the nature of climate change impact on cocoyam,

iii. describe the adaptation methods employed by the people to cope with climate change effects  the crop,

iv. ascertain the extent of climate change effect on cocoyam output in the area,

v. determine the factors affecting the adoption of different adaptation practices by the farmers,

vi. determine the effect of climate change on the market price of cocoyam in the area and

vii. make recommendations based on the findings

Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, linear, semi log and double log regression methods. Students' T' test and Chow's Test of significance were also used.

The result shows Climate Change had a significant effect on cocoyam production. A Significant drop in output and a tremendous hike in market price of cocoyam was observed across 2007/2008/2009.

The study recommended a need for policy review to combat climate change among other things.