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SUCCESS – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn't want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and “THERE IS A BEGINNING AND END TO ALL LIFE “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much WE BRING THE GOOD ANGHAN KAMANTAN COMMUNITY MOTIVATIONS TO “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, FULANI – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION ```Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT “If people want something to be wrong about you— they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need tobe
ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION recent posts. success august 1, 2018; are you a friend of god? may 16, 2018; topic; fathers building witnessing children text: jeremiah 35:149 may 16, 2018; fulani march 19, 2018; anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. ABOUT – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION This is an example of an about page. Unlike posts, pages are better suited for more timeless content that you want to be easily accessible, like your About or Contact information. Click the Edit link to make changes to this page or add another page. ARE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD? When you look around today, you will agree with me that life is demanding; you too are demanding and what you are demanding is in God’s word. If what you are demanding is in God’s word, this means that your grumbling and complaining is not needed. All you need to dois to come to
SUCCESS – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn't want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and “THERE IS A BEGINNING AND END TO ALL LIFE “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much WE BRING THE GOOD ANGHAN KAMANTAN COMMUNITY MOTIVATIONS TO “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, FULANI – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION ```Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT “If people want something to be wrong about you— they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need tobe
ANGHAN PEOPLE DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR … anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the TOPIC; FATHERS BUILDING WITNESSING CHILDREN TEXT: … INTRODUCTION; Jeremiah 35:1-19 is a case study of a family that has something we all can emulate. The Recabite family were originally Kenites as' appears in 1Chronicles 2:55. These are the Kenites that came out of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. Their ancestor was Jonadab, a man famous in his time for ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION recent posts. success august 1, 2018; are you a friend of god? may 16, 2018; topic; fathers building witnessing children text: jeremiah 35:149 may 16, 2018; fulani march 19, 2018; anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. ABOUT – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION This is an example of an about page. Unlike posts, pages are better suited for more timeless content that you want to be easily accessible, like your About or Contact information. Click the Edit link to make changes to this page or add another page. ARE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD? When you look around today, you will agree with me that life is demanding; you too are demanding and what you are demanding is in God’s word. If what you are demanding is in God’s word, this means that your grumbling and complaining is not needed. All you need to dois to come to
SUCCESS – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn't want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and “THERE IS A BEGINNING AND END TO ALL LIFE “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much WE BRING THE GOOD ANGHAN KAMANTAN COMMUNITY MOTIVATIONS TO “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, FULANI – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION ```Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT “If people want something to be wrong about you— they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need tobe
ANGHAN PEOPLE DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR … anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the TOPIC; FATHERS BUILDING WITNESSING CHILDREN TEXT: … INTRODUCTION; Jeremiah 35:1-19 is a case study of a family that has something we all can emulate. The Recabite family were originally Kenites as' appears in 1Chronicles 2:55. These are the Kenites that came out of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. Their ancestor was Jonadab, a man famous in his time for ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION recent posts. success august 1, 2018; are you a friend of god? may 16, 2018; topic; fathers building witnessing children text: jeremiah 35:149 may 16, 2018; fulani march 19, 2018; anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. ABOUT – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION This is an example of an about page. Unlike posts, pages are better suited for more timeless content that you want to be easily accessible, like your About or Contact information. Click the Edit link to make changes to this page or add another page. ARE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD? When you look around today, you will agree with me that life is demanding; you too are demanding and what you are demanding is in God’s word. If what you are demanding is in God’s word, this means that your grumbling and complaining is not needed. All you need to dois to come to
SUCCESS – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn't want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and “THERE IS A BEGINNING AND END TO ALL LIFE “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much WE BRING THE GOOD ANGHAN KAMANTAN COMMUNITY MOTIVATIONS TO “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, FULANI – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION ```Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT “If people want something to be wrong about you— they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need tobe
ANGHAN PEOPLE DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR … anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the TOPIC; FATHERS BUILDING WITNESSING CHILDREN TEXT: … INTRODUCTION; Jeremiah 35:1-19 is a case study of a family that has something we all can emulate. The Recabite family were originally Kenites as' appears in 1Chronicles 2:55. These are the Kenites that came out of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. Their ancestor was Jonadab, a man famous in his time for ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION recent posts. success august 1, 2018; are you a friend of god? may 16, 2018; topic; fathers building witnessing children text: jeremiah 35:149 may 16, 2018; fulani march 19, 2018; anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. ABOUT – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION This is an example of an about page. Unlike posts, pages are better suited for more timeless content that you want to be easily accessible, like your About or Contact information. Click the Edit link to make changes to this page or add another page. ARE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD? When you look around today, you will agree with me that life is demanding; you too are demanding and what you are demanding is in God’s word. If what you are demanding is in God’s word, this means that your grumbling and complaining is not needed. All you need to dois to come to
SUCCESS – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn't want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and “THERE IS A BEGINNING AND END TO ALL LIFE “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much WE BRING THE GOOD ANGHAN KAMANTAN COMMUNITY MOTIVATIONS TO “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, FULANI – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION ```Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT “If people want something to be wrong about you— they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need tobe
ANGHAN PEOPLE DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR … anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the TOPIC; FATHERS BUILDING WITNESSING CHILDREN TEXT: … INTRODUCTION; Jeremiah 35:1-19 is a case study of a family that has something we all can emulate. The Recabite family were originally Kenites as' appears in 1Chronicles 2:55. These are the Kenites that came out of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. Their ancestor was Jonadab, a man famous in his time for ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION recent posts. success august 1, 2018; are you a friend of god? may 16, 2018; topic; fathers building witnessing children text: jeremiah 35:149 may 16, 2018; fulani march 19, 2018; anghan people don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. ABOUT – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION This is an example of an about page. Unlike posts, pages are better suited for more timeless content that you want to be easily accessible, like your About or Contact information. Click the Edit link to make changes to this page or add another page. ARE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD? When you look around today, you will agree with me that life is demanding; you too are demanding and what you are demanding is in God’s word. If what you are demanding is in God’s word, this means that your grumbling and complaining is not needed. All you need to dois to come to
SUCCESS – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn't want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and “THERE IS A BEGINNING AND END TO ALL LIFE “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much WE BRING THE GOOD ANGHAN KAMANTAN COMMUNITY MOTIVATIONS TO “In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, FULANI – ANGHAN KAMANTAN MOTIVATION ```Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT “If people want something to be wrong about you— they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need tobe
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by anghankamantanmotivation Success is something that we all want to attain. It’s a station of life that we dream about. Who doesn’t want to be successful and powerful? To attain this success in your life, in whatever you dream to accomplish, you must realize that to increase your chances, it will all come down to you and the principles you set forth to make yourdream a reality.
If success were easy, everyone would experience it, but it wouldn’t be special whatsoever. Opportunity favors the best prepared. Luck happens when hard work meets opportunity, and success happens when you give it your absolute all. These are the 15 principles you need to live by to attain the success you dream of:13. Preparation
Preparation is the foundation of success. The most prepared person is the one that has the best chances. That is the person that perfects his craft. The one that has those sleepless nights of working hard and the one that loves what they do. With preparation, you essentially create your own opportunities and that is what can take you anywhere you want to go. It’s what allows you to break the limits you place for yourself. You need to have the right preparation to meet your goals because without it, you are taking an uncalculated risk. 12. Do what you love We stress this over and over again. Money should never be your end goal or your motivation. It has to be something greater than that. It is your purpose and what you become in this world. Doing what you love to do will allow you to give it your all and keep you excited while doing it. Find something that you enjoy doing, find your purpose and use your passion to propel you.11. Massive action
People set goals, have dreams and want different things in life, but never get them because they don’t actually start working toward them. They don’t take the massive action that is needed. People love to push things to tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes. It’s about starting today and putting in that action that is needed. 10. Move in the right direction Understanding the right direction and how to get there will help you more than you think. Things are not going to go quickly, in fact they are going to go slow and take time, but as long as you are moving in the right direction, that’s okay. Success is a marathon, not asprint.
9. Use the power of dreams and your imagination What you see for yourself is what will manifest in your life. It’s the law of attraction. But it all comes down to working towards turning it into a reality. Your dreams and your visions can influence your life if you manage them, think positive and chase them. 8. Think bigger than you are If you look at successful people’s mindsets, it’s all about thinking bigger than they once were. It’s about having no limits and understanding that anything in this world is possible if you put your mind to it. By thinking bigger, the only limit is what is possible. You’re no longer limited by what you think is possible.7. Focus on growth
Obstacles and challenges will always be in your way during your journey. It is about figuring out how to jump over them and continuing. Success is a problem-solving, solution-driven situation, and that is where growth comes from. Don’t ever get too comfortablewhere you are.
6. Determination is everything If you are determined you can do anything you set your mind to. It’s about finding a way to make it happen. Where there is a will, there is some sort of a way — even if you have to create it. When there isn’t a will, that is when you should worry.5. Clear vision
Success is about having a target. The problem is people don’t know how to create a target, so they are just shooting darts in the air, hoping to hit something. Having a target will allow you to aim where you need to hit and even if you come up short, you will still come closer and closer to hitting the target. Clarity is everything and understanding what it is you want will bring that to you. It’s not a broad idea, it’s focused and to the point. By knowing the destination you want to reach, you can continually look at your current path and decide if it’s a route that will help you get where you want to go. 4. Set goals along the way A final goal means setting the big picture and seeing your finished canvas. But your goals along the way are the paint that you use to get there. These goals should be specific, measurable, realistic, attainable and timely.3. Use affirmations
Affirmations are what will keep you going along the long journey. It’s the positive mindset of “I’m going to make this happen.” It’s instilling belief in yourself. With affirmations, you are defining your own reality. By transmitting this positive energy into the universe, it eventually manifests into reality. As your mind adopts this view, it helps shape the world around you to fit it. 2. Keep the right people around you Negative influences and negative people will only hold you down. On your road to success, you need to keep all the negativity outside of your walls. Keep people and ideas around you that support your success and your belief in yourself. You are who you eat with and you are who you surround yourself with. Make sure you surround yourself with the people you see most fit and who will help you get to where you want. 1. Be grateful and appreciate what you have The final success principle is to appreciate what you have already. Realize that — by sheer virtue of the fact that you can be reasonably certain you’ll live from one day to the next — you already have enough. Appreciate what you’ve achieved so far, and see that what you want and where you’re going, is not what you need or what you must do. Rather, these are things and actions that will make your situation even better. Being thankful and grateful will change your lifedramatically.
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ARE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD?May 16, 2018
by anghankamantanmotivation When you look around today, you will agree with me that life is demanding; you too are demanding and what you are demanding is in God’s word. If what you are demanding is in God’s word, this means that your grumbling and complaining is not needed. All you need to do is to come to Jesus because Jesus Christ is the answer to all fundamental issues in life. What is your situation right now? Remember the whole worldis watching the way you react to your situation. Among them are your friends and foes. As a Christian whatever the situation you are in, the way you handles it matters because it will let the world know the God you are serving. I am a Christian. I go to Church every Sunday. I always pay my Tithes. I listen to sermon every day. Let me tell you something the facts that you hear Christ teaching daily does not mean that you are a friend of God. To be a friend of God is to hear God’s word and obey it. This is what the Bible means by knowing God is not only seeing His works but learning His ways. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servant, because a servant does not knows his masters business. Instead I have call you friends, for everthing that I learned from my father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I choose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. John 15:14-16 First of all I want to establish the fact that it is the mind of God to answer prayers. If God did not haveit in His mind to answer our prayers, Jesus Christ would not have said ‘Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be openedunto you.
But what is happening in the life of believers today? Why is it that when they pray to God concerning aa problem, it looks as if God does not hear them? The answer is not too far from making the Holy Bible to say what they want to hear. Let me give you a good example. I’m sure you know this type of prayer “Lord Jesus,You said in Your Word that the Father will give me whatever I ask in your name. Right now, in name of Jesus, I need one million Naira in my bank account, in Jesus name’ Amen. Thank you Lord for answering my prayers” By the time you check your bank account, you will discover tha nothing has been added to it. That is why James said ‘You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask but do not receive, because you ask amiss i.e. wrongly. If you look carefully at verse 16 of our proof text,Jesus said “Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” The word, then indicates tha there is a conditi9on attached to the promise of God. What is the condition? You must know God, have a relationship with Him and be His friend before you can receive anything from Him. This means that for your needs to be met, you have a role to play. Our duty is to keep God’s commands; His duty is to keep His promises. In God’s way of doing things those two things never conflict. Are you a friend of God? If you have discover that you are not, I want you to know that it is possible for you to have a special friendship and closeness with God. When you are a friend of God you will get His ideas. Know His opinion of yourself and others, work with His projects, see life as He sees it and you see yourself the way God sees you. You say that you a friend of God; have you seen yourself the way Godsees you? What is God’s opinion about your situation? If you do not have answer to these questions, do all you can to obey the Holy Bible is telling you now; that;s the only way to become a friend of God. Remember what Jesus said “You are my friends if you do what I commands” (John 15:14). This shows that not only does God desire His children to believe His word; the Bible says He wants His children tospeak His word.
Now as a Christian you need to understand that the way to the kingdom of God is not a bed of roses. In 2 Timothy3:12-17, the Bible says everything close to Jesus receives attack from Satan. And James 4:4, it says that everyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. You cannot be a friend of God and at the same time be a friend of the world. There can be no compromise between these two. When Christ is in place in your heart, the world must be displaced. On the other hand, when the world isin place in your heart, Christ must be displace. When you are a friend of God, people will keep on calling you names because they don’t understand you, they will destroy you. The people that understood in the past, where are they? They are gone. I pray people will not understand you in the name of Jesus. The only way you can show you can show you are a friend of God is by showing in your manner that Christ lives in you. How do you show that Christ live in you? Follow the way of obedience. The way of obedience is the way of blessing. The way of obedience is the way of success. The way of obedience is the way of a bright future. Obeying God at first seems hard until we come to see that all He ask ias for our good and makes the life full and free. Remember, you need God’s presence because you need a friend closer than a brother. Jesus is the only friend closer than a brother. Never a sickness Jesus Christ cannot cure. Never a problem Jesus cannot solve. Never a burden Jesus Christ cannot bear. Never a friend like Jesus Christ. To be a friend of Jesus is to keep yourself out of theworld.
When I say to keep yourself out of the world, I do not mean to go and live in the wilderness but to stop abiding in unrighteousness. The only way to keep yourself out of the world is by regularly taking the word of God into your heart and obeying the message. When you believe and speak the word of God in faith, you cannot be deceived; you find a friend closer than a brother; you find yourself in the world of truth.Leave a comment
TOPIC; FATHERS BUILDING WITNESSING CHILDREN TEXT: JEREMIAH 35:149May 16, 2018
by anghankamantanmotivationINTRODUCTION;
Jeremiah 35:1-19 is a case study of a family that has something we all can emulate. The Recabite family were originally Kenites as’ appears in 1Chronicles 2:55. These are the Kenites that came out of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. Their ancestor was Jonadab, a man famous in his time for wisdom and piety. He was prominent in purging the Northern Kingdom of Baal worship in the time of Jehu. As a good father, Jonadab gave rules to his children and his children’s children to observe not merely to show his authority, but to show his wisdom and the real concern he had for their welfare, by recommending to them what he knew would be beneficial to them. Families today face incredible conflict and hardship. It appears the family has turned into a sporting arena of the devil and his agent. Evidence of this includes, divorce rate, dependence on others outside the family, births to unmarried girls outside of marriage, children living with people who are not their biological fathers, suicide rate,etc.
Many families do not have these problems but many more do and it shows clearly that parent-child relationships are facing increasing hardships. And :7.hristians are not immune. In near17 every congregation at least half of the young people at t not serving God faithfully. What kind of future are we then building? Into whose hands are we leaving the church? And what certainty that these children of today will be Christ’s witness of tomorrow? No meter what we may think, th-ere a’re biblical principles f. the proper upbringing of witne.! s’ng children, and so whatever we do must fit what God’! rules say. If what we say or do disagrees with God’s rule, then we are disagreeing, not with people but with (:,ad. I am sure you will not make such mistake. Let us consider certain factors that are necessary in bringing up witnessing children, factors such as Purpose, Planning, Love, Instruction, Authority, Motivation and Consistency are all very important but we will pick on the first three for now. PURPOSE OF BEING A FATHER: (Jeremiah 35:6-11) Jonadab was a father who knew what his purpose and goal was, and he set it clearly for his children by forbidding them to drink wine and instructing them to dwell in tents. In this way they might preserve the ancient character of their family, be content with the condition they find themselves, be armed against temptation to luxury and sensuality, be prepared for times of trouble and calamity and that in general they might learn to live by rule and under discipline.Proverbs 22:6
No one can succeed in any task without keeping his goal clearly in mind. As a father (or potential father) you must keep your responsibility in mind. What do you consider to be your goal as a father? What would it take to make you feel that you had been a success or a failure as a father? Too many fathers simply don’t want to accept their responsibility as fathers. They expect others to raise their children; the government, schools, church, babysitters, daycare centers, or their friends or relatives. Some fathers even think they can leave the children to the mothers to raise. Some divorce and leave the home thereby deserting the wife and children. Some spend too much time away from home pursuing other interests. Some simply don’t bother. This isunacceptable
• You brought these children into the world • God holds you responsible for raising your children. Eph 6:4, Gen18:19, 1Sam 3:12-
14
• Meeting their physical needs• Good education
• Prepare them for life • Train them to serve God so they can receive eternal life. Ps34:11, josh 24:15
Let us realize the seriousness of our responsibility as fathers and keep our eye on our goal. If we have abandoned our responsibility by putting too much emphasis on temporal things, let us repent. And let us all accept the challenges to raise witnessing children. Phili?pians 4:13 -I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. PLANNING FOR OUR CHILDREN: Although Moses hay.: intended that someday, the Recabites should be naturaized, it seems they were not, they A ere still strangers in the land (v7), had no inheritance in and so must live under the terms stipulated to them, Jonadab’s rules for his children were intended to prepare them for the worst so as to accustom them with some hardship since as strangers they could not expect to live in the luxury of the original owners of the land. Joriadab saw a general corruption of manners and he was afraid lest his children should be ruined by them and therefore, he obliged them to live by themselves by being very sober and temperate. Being a good father requires thought and planning. After determining our goal we must develop a plan for reaching our goal. This is something we cannot toy with because Satan is battling us for the control of our children -Ephesians 6:12. When the children of Christians go astray, often parents say, “I just don’t understand what happened.” Often what happen is that powerful forces are working against us that we either are not aware of or do not deal with effectively. To raise witnessing children, we must fight evil, who operates in several forms: Peer influence -1Cor 15:33, Proverb 13:20, Exodus 34:15,16 1- School influence Entertainment Here are some guides for developing a good plan for raising witnessingchildren.
I. Do not rely on human theories. What does the bible say? Pr 14:12, Jer 10:23, 1Cor 1:19-21; 2:4,5 II. The bible is God’s guide for raising witnessing children. 2Tim3:16,17, Joshua 1:8
III. Observe andlearn from wining parents. Heb 6:12 IV. Father and mother should discuss their plan and agree. Ephesians6:1
V. Your plans must be accompanied by prayers. Jms 1:5,1Chronicles’29:19
Too many parents let their own children manipulate them. We need to learn to out-think our children, Our duty as parents requires us to study God’s word and apply it so we know how to raise witnessingchildren.
The devil often defeats us, not because it is impossible for us to defeat him, but because we are not fighting him effectively. We either are not aware of the danger, or else we are simply too indifferent to fight. By the time we realize our mistake, it is too late. But we can win the battle, if we follow God’s will and prayerfully develop a plan based on the principles it teaches. Do you have a plan for raising your children? Is your plan based on God’s word? How often do you discuss with your spouse the principles on which you act? How diligent are you in your effort to fight Satan and his evil influence on your children?Love
As earlier stated, Jonadab’s rules were borne out of the sincere desire of a father to give hi children a lasting future. He kne’A he would not be around forever but love could giv( something that could last forever. His love was infectious and naturally the Recabites were obedient to their father’s commandment (v14) for generations. The relation of parents to children must be characterized by love. In Matthew 22:37-40 the greatest two commands are to love God and love our neighbors. The basis of any good relationship is love, because love leads us to seek the wellbeing of others. It leads us to do what is best for others (1Cor 13:4,5). Parent must begin by loving one another Faithfulness to the marriage covenant is important. Children deserve the security to know that their home will always be there Love for children is associated with love for wife. In fact you cannot truly do either one without the other. The husband must love his wife as Christ loved the church. -Eph5:25, 28, 29, 33.
Notice that many bible passages teach that love can be learned. Biblical love does not always come naturally. Parents should have a natural affection toward one another and towards their children. Biblical love leads us to learn God’s will for the family, and then it motivates us to do it. Children need to be raised in an atmosphere of love and good will. Children who grow up in unstable and fusing homes will be fearful and insecure and often they imitate the disruptive behaviors in their families when they marry. On the other hand, when parents establish a pattern of stating and expressing affection, children ,have a sense of security and they learn the importance of showing affection in their own families. Colossians 3:21 warns us not to provoke our children to discouragement. This is also part of love. Just as love leads us to do good toward our wives, it should then lead us to do good for ourchildren.
Set your expectations within reach of the child’s ability. Too many fathers expect perfection or achievements that are simply beyond the child at his best. Some parents demand things the child can’t accomplish. Others compare their child to other children who may simply possess abilities their child lacks. Express appreciation for accomplishments. Some fathers are quick to criticize and complain but slow to give praise. I Exercise punishment for the good of the child. Hebrews 12:5-11, Proverbs 13:24. I Children need our time and attention. Too many children are simply neglected. 1Cor 13:13 -is your family characterized by love? Surely love is the key element in raising witnessing children.CONCLUSION
Gen 18:19 -Abraham commanded his family after him. He told them what they should do to serve God. Deut 4:9,10 -The things that Godly parents know should be made knownto the children.
Psalm 78:4-8 -we should tell God’s laws to the next generation so we can be sure they know it and can tell their children. I If our purpose or goal for raising children is to serve God then the Children will develop serving God as their main goal. If we plan our training of the children based on God’s word, then our children will learn to plan their lives on the basis ofGod’s word.
If we always act in love for our children, then our children will learn to act in love for everyone around them. Raising children is one of the most awesome responsibilities any human being can face. Our conduct as parents will influence our children not just for life, but for eternity. You and I will largely determine how our children live their lives and where they will be in eternity. The emphasis is that our goal as parents must be to raise godly children. There is no need to be ignorant about this since God’s word tells us the principles we should follow to successfully build witnessing children, we must understand and practice God’s keys for raisingchildren.
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FULANI
March 19, 2018
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anghankamantanmotivation “`Fulani leaders have been trying to get their race occupy and take over the governance of the middlebelt and southern states in pushing for the grazing reserve bill which of course will be expanded into fulani colonies and in no time they will get local government areas as in Plateau and become members of state Houses of Assemblies and will continue to sack villages and towns and become owners of the land. This is the major reason that bill has not passed through. So, they went back to the drawing board and decided that intensifying the killings in the name of herdsmen will help to coerce the house members from the middlebelt and south into passing this law. This is what we are seeing that is playing out with the Benue killings. The Minister of interior, Dambazu, who many people do not know is a worse fundamentalist than Buhari is trying to exploit this opportunity to achieve the reserves. People from the middlebelt and south must therefore pressure their National House of Assembly members to resist the grazing reserves. Like the Anglican Primate in Lagos pointed out, government does not pay parking lot for Aircraft operators. Those who are into cattle business should buy lands for grazing and pay tax, instead of government forcefully taking peoples lands and giving them and using it as a guise to build fulani settlements down south and fulfil Utman dan Fodio’s mandate to thrust the sword into the Atlantic. Remember that Utman was the first person Buhari thanked for bringing “civilization” to Nigeria during his inaugural speech. Nigerians are not as literate as they claim. They do not read meanings into what they hear just as the same Buhari said in his 2018 New Year Message that he intends building railway from his home town to Niger Republic, his ancestral home, with money borrowed in Nigeria’s name. No one is questioning. No one thinks that it was out of place to link “civilization” with a killer like Utman dan Fodio. Take it or leave it, Buhari came to power with one thing in mind – Expansion of the Sokoto Caliphate and that is why the Sultan was busy making state visits like a president and has been dictating the Islamic public holidays with reckless abandon. It is also the reason why the government of Buhari does not know what to do to improve the lives of Nigerians. That is a why Buhari will not allow the arrangement in his party to be, which is the zoning of SGF to South East by APC party. They are very desperate to move the fulani and Islam southwards now that he is in office. They have tried through education through the NGO bill to control Church activities and economy. Did you know Minister of Interior sent letter to Churches which began with the Iine that states that Islam is the only recognised religion in Nigeria? A lot is happening and it will be nice to forward this message as widely as possible, especially to our House and Senate Members and to the Presidency at least to let them knowthat we know.“`
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ANGHAN PEOPLE DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF YOUR VISION TO CHANGE THE WORLD. WHETHER THAT WORLD IS YOUR OFFICE, YOUR COMMUNITY, AN INDUSTRY OR A GLOBAL MOVEMENT, YOU NEED TO HAVE A CORE BELIEF THAT WHAT YOU CONTRIBUTE CAN FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE PARADIGM OR WAY OF THINKING ABOUT PROBLEMS.March 15, 2018
by anghankamantanmotivation I woke up at 4 a.m., and all I could think was “What am I doing with my life?” I was in my late fourties and living in the corporate world, working long hours with high levels of stress. I felt burned out and depleted. What happened? Growing up, I always dreamed I would change the world and make it a better place. At that moment, I definitely didn’t feel like I was changing anything. I was just earning a paycheck. Just surviving. I didn’t have time to think about changing the world. I had deadlines to meet and never enough time for anything extra. Does that sound familiar? Many people I know are in the same situation. How can you take on the problems of the Anghan’s when there’s so much to do already? It can be overwhelming, no matter how good your intentions might be. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can change the whole Anghan commmunity, just like you always thought you would. You can make a positive change. You can do meaningful deeds and make a positive impact on other people. What’s more, when you do something meaningful, you do more than just change your community and the world. You increase your own happiness. In 2009, psychology researcher Michael Steger found that meaningful work makes people happier and more effective in their daily lives. It turns out, people who work to change the world, also receive a great benefit from their efforts. So what can you do? Here are ways to change and move the Anghan(Kamantan) community togreater heights.
1. Start Small: You don’t have to take on everything at once, in fact, it’s better if you don’t. Start small and just take the first step. This was the secret of Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the founder of micro finance and micro lending. Before he retired, Yunus helped thousands of people in poverty obtain business loans without collateral. He started with just ₦10,000. Tawani surveyed people in his community about their needs and was shocked to learn that he could assist 10 people by lending just ₦100 of his own money. His first project was a success and he continued to build on it, finally creating Anghan Motivation website , empowering others to understand their great potential Tawani went on to successfully lead several other initiatives to help the poor, startingsmall each time.
What small action can you take today as an Anghan(Kamantan)? Take it. Small actions can build on each other but you need to take that firststep.
2. Be a Good Neighbor: You don’t have to travel the world or live in the town or city to make an impact. You actually have the greatest knowledge and influence in your own backyard. This was the lesson learned by John Paul Flintoff, and he discussed it in his 2012 Ted Talk entitled “How to Change the World.” Flintoff works to help protect the environment and prevent global warming. He realized he could make an immediate difference by reaching out to his neighbors. However, he did it not by overloading them with facts and research, but by giving them tomato plants. Every year, he offers his extra tomato seedlings to his neighbors. This simple and kind act started his neighbors growing some of their own food, thereby slightly reducing their environmental impact. What’s something you can do in your own backyard as anAnghan(Kamantan)?
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”-Charles Eames
3. Highlight an Issue: Do you feel strongly about an issue that doesn’t get enough attention, or where change is slow? Become educated on the issue and what’s being done to address it. Then you can highlight the issue, advocate for change, share information with your friends and family. You can do it through modern social media, and even by writing good old-fashioned letters to your government representatives. Working on an issue like this, you can create a huge impact. Especially now with social media, your message can go viral on the internet, spreading the word even faster. What issues are important to you on Anghan(Kamantan)? How can you help bring attention to those issues? 4. Pay it Forward and Practice Random Acts of Kindness: A small act of kindness creates a ripple effect that can carry from person to person, brightening many lives. From giving someone a smile to holding a door open for someone, doing chores for other people, donating to charity, or buying lunch for a friend, it doesn’t take a lot to make someone’s day a little bit better. Research has also found that performing these simple acts of kindness increases feelings of happiness and positivity. One study even found that “acts of kindness create an emotional warmth, which releases a hormone known as oxytocin. Oxytocin causes the release of a chemical called nitric oxide, which dilates the blood vessels. This reduces blood pressure and, therefore, oxytocin is known as a ‘cardioprotective’ hormone. It protects the heart by loweringblood pressure.”
I had a friend who passed away a few years ago who used to buy coffee for the people in the car behind him at the drive-through. He received immense joy from knowing he just gave someone a nice surprise and had no expectation of anything in return. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa 5. Let Your Values Guide Your Spending and Know Who You’re Doing Business With: Support companies that have fair trade practices and that have a triple bottom line — people, planet, and profit (not just profit). Take the time to learn about the companies where you do business. Does your bank use ethical business practices? What types of projects do they fund? What goes into making your favorite products? Let your money make a statement. While it may not seem like a lot, if enough people redirect their spending based on unethical or unsustainable practices, businesses will change and evolve to meet the demand. If you spend according to your own personal values, you’ll make a statement and also find more harmony with your money. Make a list of the products and services you buy most? Do their business practices align with your values? Are there other options? “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” -Gandhi 6. Pray or Meditate: While this seems like an internal change, prayer and meditation have also been shown to have a positive effect on your surrounding area. The Maharishi Effect indicates that there is a correlation between meditation and societal harmony. For example, several studies have documented a reduction in crime rates in communities where at least one percent of the population practices transcendental meditation. Meditation is a powerful tool to bring internal peace us as individuals, but it may also benefit those aroundus.
Do you have a daily prayer or meditation practice? If not, try it for 10 days and feel the difference in makes in your own life, and possibly in the lives of others. 7. Be Authentic in Everything You Do: You have a unique value and perspective on life and that makes you inherently beautiful and amazing. No one else in the universe is like you. You are one of a kind. Bring your true, authentic self to every situation, and you may find it’s just what was needed. Authenticity creates higher levels of empowerment, creativity, and overall well-being — a great place to be when helping others. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman Identify ways you can begin to align your thoughts with your actions, increasing your authenticity. Make a list and work to create greater harmony between the two. Where Do You Start? Two Questions to Ask Yourself Now So how do you know where to start? John Paul Flintoff posed two questions to the audience in his 2012 Ted Talk about where to begin: 1. What would you do if you knew you could do anything and wouldn’t fail? This question helps you think big without the negative doubts or self talk. I recently posed this question to my community and some of the answers I got back included curing AIDS, eradicating malaria, working with DNA to prevent illness, and writing a best-selling novel. What beautiful goals. Dream big — what would you do? 2. What is one thing you can start doing toward that goal within the next 24 hours? Big goals can be daunting, but focusing only the next action allows you to make progress without feeling overwhelmed. Don’t wait – begin with just one small step and keep it up. Before you know it, you’ll have moved mountains. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank Now it’s your turn. What things are you doing or what are your suggestion to make the Anghan (Kamantan) and the whole world a better place. Share your thoughts below.Leave a comment
MARXISM AND THE NIGERIAN STATEMarch 8, 2018
by anghankamantanmotivation European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74320
MARXISM AND THE NIGERIAN STATEK. U. Omoyibo, PhD
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Benin, Benin City, Edostate, Nigeria.
Abstracts:
Marx theory has continued to be a source of hypothesis to many theorists in the world, and which has created a “theorizing puzzle” in the realm of social reality. The quest to solve the puzzle has led to divergent paradigms of Marxism. The reasons for these are twofold; (1). Ideology: which according to George Ritzer (2000) and Mihaly Vadja(1981) whom I shall continuously refer to in this thesis; was the nature of the ideology and not the existence of ideology as such that made many social theorist to have a strand on Marxism. Marx radical ideas and the social changes it professes at the early time does not fit into the social order and reality of time, this was because conservative to the disruptions of the Enlightenment and French Revolution and its dislocations (2). The capitalist West was uncomfortable with Marx theorizing as ithinges on the
oppressiveness and emancipation of the masses (proletariats), of the emerging modern capitalist system been brought about by the industrial revolution of the 19th century in Europe, and the overthrow of the system. The capitalist (bourgeoisie), sought therefore, to develop counter theories that would demystify Marx paradigms. In view of the above, Marx prepositions were too dangerous and stood in contrast to Western bourgeois ideology and the interest it represents that professes conservative reforms and orderly social change in the system hence the urgency totame the theory.
Keywords: Class consciousness, Marxism, Social class, The Nigerianstate, The state.
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Introduction
Karl Marx (1818-1883), propounded a theory of modern capitalist society that provides models and paths to economic growth and societal development. He further highlighted the social and political context under which this can function, within this premise, historical and dialectical materialism comes under review. This Marxist methodological approach premised that it is the entire social world and the economy in particular that need to be analyzed because of its dialectical social relations which are inherently contradictory within the material world. Marx argued that the problem of modern society is traceable to real material sources of life, for example, the structures of capitalism, and that the solution to this therefore, would be in the overturning and dismantling of these structures by mass action of the people through class consciousness that came about by long time exploitation by the dominant class in the society due to their ownership of the means of production, where also they derived their economic and sociopoliticalrelations from.
Capitalism is the economic system in which the bourgeoisie owns themeans of
production and the proletariat must sell its labour time to the capitalist in order to survive. The proletariat is the centre of Marx theory that would bring about the concerted radical social change in the society by mass agitation that rises through self consciousness that would later manifest into class consciousness. This class consciousness, so continued Marx line of reasoning, has certain objective conditions it has to undergo before it can achieve its aim. One of such is that the proletariat has to act at the appropriate times and in the appropriate ways. This means that the conditions created by the productive forces and social relations of production must be exploited by the proletariats. Marxism is a social process. In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx posits “men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please, they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered from the past”. (Marx, 1852\1963:15). Marxism as a social process based on the principle of dialectics is tostudy the past and
present in other to understand and predict future social phenomenon of inherent historic social realities. From the Marxian view point, the only way man can act freely and express himself and potentials is in a classless society where the interest of all would be entrenched and enforced by the rule of the proletariats which is the real democracy that which is power-free social relations. However, this process of democracy is simply a question of enlarging the opportunities for each European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74322
particular group with common needs and objectives that would serve asa determinant for
societal transformation and social change. However, one thing is sure of this premise, as Mihaly Vajda (1981:10) argued in his political essays that democracy is a social movement, just as Marxian Communism wanted to be, and not a social state of affairs. That there is no perfect democracy due to dynamism of the system (social change), and without leverage of freedom in human society, no social democracy is able to function. I strongly aligned with this views of Vajda because it is only when such group interest are not being abused and used as an instrument of the state would the proletariat rule be justified as was been experience in the defunct USSR. The state in Africa ever since its existence has played an active rolein the distribution
and redistribution of resources. This pivotal role has stripped it of its necessary democratic principles in some cases. It was so because, the productive forces had not matured before it was integrated into the World Capitalist economy. It was therefore difficult for it to perform the functions of distribution of resources through the market mechanism. Therefore, the intended forces of production and the social relations of production are weak, which has hampered the development of a class conscious proletariat that would have ushered in the form of social change Marxist professes, because the totality of the consciousness of the people determines the direction of the state and its attendant structures. In Nigeria, the state is a key factor in the political economy; it determines the direction of production, distribution and allocation of resources. The fragile production base and the resultant social forces of production have not been able to support any socio-political transformation that would engineer collective mass action of an active society. And the state has been a factor that not only helping in preserving the private bourgeois structures by this act but perhaps also help in modifying them (Vajda,1981:73). This indicates that the social contract with the Nigerian state has failed because, it works and entrench the interest of elite class. As Marx pointed out, “the state is but the management of the common affairs of the bourgeoisie”. As state institutions are parts of the super-structure determined by the interests of the dominant class. The state then becomes an instrument of the ruling class as defined in terms of control over the means of production. In Nigeria, according to John Campbell, a former American Ambassador to Nigeria (1998-2000), those that holds power do not want it to change they wants to hold on to it to impoverish the people so as to determine and define the waves and directions of politics, since they do not have jobs, factory or industry, its only politics the jobthey can do best.
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Conceptual ClarificationThe State:
According to Marx, “the state is but a committee for the managing the affairs of whole bourgeoisie…, the form in which the individuals of a ruling class asserts their common interest” (Engels, 1919). The state is used by the dominant class as an instrument to dominate the other class. This dominance is expressed through laws and policies that are made by the state which represent the interest of the dominant group. The dominant class uses instruments of power like executive instruments, legislature and the judiciary to maintain this setup. This dominance by capital (bourgeoisie), does not necessarily mean that the bourgeois exercise direct power via the state apparatus. Domination is secure at the level of the social organization of production which defines basic rules governing also what the state can do or not do. Governments in capitalist state may in fact be in the hands of other classes or group, including workers, bureaucrats and petty accumulation of the system. Such groups can be seen as only allowed toparticipate in
government, as long as they “respect” the rules of the games as laid down by the dominant class, as relations of power at the level of production. This exploitation of one class by another as Marx argued arises as aresult of the
emergence of the state. Political power is therefore the organized power of one class for oppressing another. Within the Marxian paradigm, the state is essentially a class issue, to continue strengthening the state as a powerful apparatus isolated and apparently existing above people under the guise of it being the state of the `whole people` is really to gloss over some real contradictions, even class contradictions, existing in the society.Social Class
Marx interest in social structure was social class (the bourgeoisieand proletariat).
Ollimer (1976) social class is “reified social relations” or the relation between men (that) have taken on an independent existence. Class are large groups of people differing from each other according to their place in the historically determined system of social production, according to their relations to the means of production, according to their role insocial labour and
consequently, according to the mode by which they acquire their share of social wealth and thesize of that share.
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capitalist appropriate the labour of wage workers (proletariat) etc. This would lead to antagonism and class struggle in the system. According to Marx, the collapse of the primitive accumulation of production gave rise to the emergence of class. To Marx, there are two major classes within the capitalist society; the bourgeoisie (also called capitalist) and the proletariat (the worker). The bourgeoisie is defined by the fact that it owns the means of production; factories, machinery, tools etc. And the proletariat by the fact that it must sell its labour time to the bourgeoisie in order to earn a wage that allows it to survive. However, class relations are essentially social relations with the control of the state by dominating class being one of the most decisiveelements.
Class Consciousness
Are shared beliefs of members of a social unit. Durkheim (1893/1964)conceptualizes
class consciousness as the totality of beliefs and sentiments common to average members of the same society that forms a determinant system which has its own life, one that can be realized only through them. This was what August Comte called “the glue of the society”, that the collective consciousness keeps society together for functioning and harmony. This is what Marx called class consciousness. Dialectical Materialism Is a materialistic conception of ideology that was clearly and jointlyarticulated in the
works of Marx and Engels. They both criticized Hegels conception of dialectics was wrong, that is grounded in the material conception of history-dialectical and historical materialism which is linked to the material base of the society. As Marx world contend, “it is not consciousness that determines life (man’s existence), but material life that determines consciousness”. (Marx and Engels, 1976). Marx believed that it was the entire social World, and the economy in particular that need to be analyzed because this focuses on dialectical relations within the material world. This social process of dynamism rooted in the Marx orientation explains how change is brought about in the society through reciprocal relationships amongsocial phenomenon.
Negation of negations; It is a view that the social World is made up not of static structures, but of processes, relationships, dynamics, conflicts, and contradictions. Lukacs (1975) from the Marxian orientation defined historical materialism as “the self-knowledge of capitalist society”. He equated its true content with classical political economy, within a specific social production system. Marx economic determinists, tracing all historical developments to economic base, that European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74325
idea are simply the reflections of material (especially economic) interests that material interest determines ideology (ideas as simple reflections of economic factors). Theoretical Paradigm Marx propounded an economic theory based on capitalist society. Thatevery society,
whatever its stage of historical development rest on economic foundation; the mode of production, this in turn has two elements, the forces of production and the social relations of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of the society. That at a certain stage of its development, the material forces of production in the society comes into conflict with the property relations. That this antagonism and conflict is inevitable between these two classes, and would result as class consciousness and militant class action develop in the overthrow of the existing system. In The Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx posits, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle…without conflict, no progress, this is the law which civilization has followed to the present day”. Marx also contend that the source of power in the society lays in theeconomic
infrastructure, that the forces of production are owned and controlled by a minority, the ruling class. That the relationship to the forces of production, produces the bases of its domination and exploitation in the society, and the state plays an historic important role in maintaining this social structure. That is while he asserts, “the state is but a committee for the managing of the common affairs of whole bourgeoisie…” (Engels, 1919). The Nigerian state is a rentier state without a production base wherethe forces of
production and social relations of production are embedded. Hence the objective conditions to create social mechanisms for a productive economy that will usher a class struggle between the two class professed by Marx is lacking. Class consciousness is weak in the Nigerian society, because of the relative nature of the economy that is mostly peasantry in nature and it depends on rents from mainly oil exploit to run the state. As such, the totality of the consciousness of the people in Nigeria is determined and geared towards the state for survival hence the emergence of a rentier economy without a production base to create class consciousness which is a basic within the Marxian paradigm for societal transformation. Alan Gelb, et al(2002) in their analysis of the state and rentier economy strongly emphasized how oil rents are collected, allocated and used, including often to sustain a policy regime like that of Nigeria.And that a large
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concentrated rent source in national income can mould the social and political institutions of a producing country, in what some have termed ‘rentier state’. However, this structure had its root from the colonial era, which wasa deliberate policy
by the colonialist to debase their colonial states from productive capacities in order to export and entrenched capitalism. The productive forces were weakening given noroom for productive
activities which led to clientele patronage on government and political positions. Soludo (2000:5) has placed this into a proper perspective when he opined that “in Nigeria, the excessive dependence on oil has compounded by the concentration of the commanding heights of the economy in the hands of Government. Government then became the fastestand cheapest means
of making quick money, a rentier state emerged, intensifying the politics of ‘sharing’ rather than ‘production’. This created a horde of ‘rent-entrepreneur’, that is ‘Big men’ without any productive source of livelihood except proximity to state power”. He further asserted that majority of Nigerian elite do nothing for living other than government patronage and this has led to distortion of the value system. Though, Marx was very critical of modern capitalist system, in the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, capitalism was seen by Marx as an important stage of development in society, because it developed the productive forces and the capacity of the capitalist to introduce technological innovation into production processes has led to massive advancement in human societies. Such mechanism of social dialectics is important in producing class-conscious proletariat which is the main thrust of Marxiststrands.
This scenario has shown the need for an adequate understanding of thestate and its
relations to the process of capitalist production and accumulation. Based on this, Claude Ake (1996) argued, “therefore politics is warfare and governance spoils of war…” The state becomes the private resources of the dominant faction of the political class, which defend its power by every means against other faction also seeking state power byall means. Marx and
Engels were explicit on the views of Ake when they posits, “circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances”. However, I believe that the capitalist World has not depraved or corrupted man, it has simply made him a social being whose needs or desires are not given or determined by birth. Its only one has to create a power structure which would provide for the articulation of ideal values of needs for all social groups. For the Nigerian state to perform these needs, sound and clear ideological concepts are needed. To Marx, the state is exactly just an appendage of the bourgeois society, it’s a wholly definable political power European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74327
structure which makes possible the domination of the bourgeois over the proletariat, but it is neither identical with it nor determined by it. The Nigerian State and the Economies of Production Marx theory laid emphasis on economic production of goods andservices, that
production brings wealth and prosperity to a nation. The state here is seen as the architect of any planned social change, because it has the power to enact a synergy with cybernetic functions in transforming a society. The emphasis by Marxist on the economies of production is that if the economy does not function, there will be no production, wealth would not be generated and there would be no jobs for the masses while the welfare and standard of living of generality of the people will be undermined. The fair distribution of this societal wealth is of importance in the case of Nigeria since it lacks the basic tenets of production the entrepreneur and industrial base becomes lopsided, by estimation, only 3% of the Nigerian population drives the economy. The control of the means of production is the base of its power, and patronage to it means struggling for a share among contending classes but not for productive purpose. However, the majority of the masses are left out in this scramble andincapacitated in
contributing to the economic production of the country; the only opportunity for them is the informal sector of the economy where black market strives. The nature of the Nigerian state holding power for the dominant class is decisive in categorizing a particular mechanism of production in respect of the federal structure it is operating which is defective, but however, the dominance of unitary system (ideology) is glaring in the nature of the attendant social relations. This institutional frame work that saw the federating state relying on the centre (Abuja) for monthly subvention to run their governments and sustain development has contributed to the alarming height of a rentier state and clientship structure that determines and define the waves and direction of politics and power and state distribution network. As Joseph Garba (1995) has succinctly analyzed, “in a country likeNigeria where the
prizes are so few, and the stakes so high, the fight for booty or ‘national cake’ is fierce and often vicious. It has at times led to a debilitating corruption in the arena of public policy making and implementation. ‘Who gains, who loses in these federal, state and local policy arenas is rarely an accident more often than not, the distributional consequences of public policies are the intended result of the private interests which have been instrumental in their design, passage, and implementation’. For the entire country, the manipulation of public policy for private European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74328
purposes comprises yet another disjunction in our fractured history. Not every public policy fails, and not every public programme or project is redundant. But when once in a while a policy succeeds, it is often not because of government per se, but inspite ofit”.
However, the first opportunity for Nigerians to upturn this order of social structure came in 1987 Anti SAP riot. The General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime introduced the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), which was a macro- economic programme designed to stabilize the economy, and restructure the economic base with emphasis on diversification away from the petroleum (oil sector), which was meant to create foreign exchange to service foreign debt and balance of payment deficit, also to encourage high agricultural productivity. It was also to enhance the private sector role in production (from the supply side) and as a tool for discipline in consumption and stimulating production in the Nigerian economy. The economic policy tools employed included; devaluation of the Naira(currency), as I
have pointed out earlier, the Nigerian economy is non productive, because it’s not producing, so it was wrong to devalue the currency when you are not producing anything for sale but for consumption only. This weakened the value of the Naira seriously and the purchasing power of Nigerians. Others are privatization and deregulation, liberalization of foreign trade, elimination of subsidies on petroleum related products, rationalization, tight monetary and fiscal policies. However, these tools were employed in the strongest and most perverseways. The
implementation was half-heated, uncoordinated, non-transparent, insincere and downward dishonest that brought the Nigerian economy to its knees. Continued devaluation of the Naira not only led to high level of falling standard of living, elimination of the middle class and serious dislocation in the social system. This economic and socio-political tension led to an uprising that wasswift and
spontaneous, the awareness was great across the federation, and Nigerians spoke with one voice to determine their future and to fight against oppression by the state and the exigencies that affects them. For Marx has said people have to act at the appropriate time and in the appropriate ways to change a particular social order. But this has to be by a class conscious masses that are well informed and has engaged in protracted agitation for mass struggle and emancipation. This social concept is lacking in Nigeria, where it is present, it’s naive, because of the naivety, the leaders of the uprising and revolt fails to understand the dynamics that they have already taking and seized power from the state (dominant class). This lack of awareness by the leaders of the European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74329
revolt and the vacuum created inter-alia led to the failure of the uprising which would have ushered in a Socialist State. The state capitalized on the naivety and crushed the rebellion using state machinery at their disposal. To placate the restive masses, the state brought some incentives to ameliorate suffering and dislocations accessioned by the SAP regime. The economy was opened, state jobs created and Peoples Bank formed for access to the poor masses to have direct loan without collateral. Such Greek gifts are some of the essence of capitalism in diverting the people’s attention against any further form of agitations. But how far this went is a discussion for another day in another paper. Another of such indications was the “June 12” saga that followed the annulment of the presidential elections of 1993, this issue was trivialized and was another opportunity lost in upturning the unproductive Nigerian state system. The saga was an epoch cutting edge for power struggle within intra class that has continued in the psyche of Nigerians and also acting as a stabilizing factor for the State. The winner of the election, Chief MKO Abiola, an ally of the West and the Nigerian military was never allowed to rule because his views on politics and development has changed overtime. The “pseudo guerilla” tactics used paid off when the then head of state Gen. Ibrahim Babangida stepped aside from power and his colleague Gen. Sanni Abacha died in office due to sustained pressure and organized agitations by pro democratic coalition and organized civil societies. The continued struggle was what ushered in the present democracy we are now practicing. As Marxist would assert, “any zigzag turn in history is a compromise, a compromise of the new which is not strong enough to negate the old, and the old which is not strong enough to negate the new”. Due to the unsustainability of the Nigeria system, it has led to theproduction of Niger
Delta militants, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), a militant youth wing of the Yoruba nation and Boko Haram group. The production system has placed money in the handsof few elites who
does not produce but only consume the wealth of the State. In line with the above, these agitations are drawn from the consciousness of individuals that something is wrong somewhere that has to be put right in the system, because public opinion informed public policies. In Nigeria, the only issues government listens to is violence to address public and form policies in recent times. Billions of Naira now goes into the Niger Delta region unaccounted for without addressing the basic infrastructural decay. These crises have brought to the fore not only the limits of the state activity, but equally the remarkable inability of the state to weather crises. European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74330
However, anarchy and terrorism are not mechanisms of Marxism; it’s an aberration to it. Such actions are condemnable. Lewis Coser (1956) from the Marxian orientation asserts that conflict serves dual purposes in the society, positive and negative. Coser contends that conflict is part of the socialization process and it’s inevitable in human society. That conflict can be constructive and destructive because it frequently revolves disagreements that lead eventually to unit and harmonization of “social groups”. In view of the above, conflict functions as a means of promoting social change. Coser further posited “what is important for us is the idea that conflict prevents the ossification of the social system by extending pressurefor innovation and
creativity”. He argued also that conflict could lead to change in number of ways including the establishment of new social groups and the development of more complexgroup structures to
deal with goals and objectives of societal transformation. In the Marxian orientation, total social system undergoes transformation through conflict. Therefore, conflict is seen as a creative force that stimulates change in the society. Within the structural functionalist paradigm, Robert Merton (1968)distinguish this
concepts of manifest and latent functions of a social system; the obvious and intended functions we expected a phenomenon to perform is the manifest, while the unintended and often unrecognized functions it also provides. Thus these social forces have been a latent function in shaping the Nigerian society in a democratic direction. The tendency to have these functions in Nigeria will be the ability of an active society and commitment of their leaders to mobilize the productive forces of the society for development. The Nigeria State and Labour Relations Marx saw labour as the producers of wealth in the society which is been appropriated by the elite few who does not produce. And without production, wealth cannot be generated and society would not be transformed. Labour include both mental and physical creativity, in capitalism, labour is not been rewarded according to its share in the chains of production and distribution and also been alienated both from their products and themselves. This exploitation is at its peak in capitalism because the state wants to use it as a mechanism to reduce interclass mobility. Within the three factors of production; land, capital and labour, Marx aligned with labour as the most active purposive force in the production process. Government and labour interactions has been at anti thesis due to the fact that since it is the state that controls production chains, they use it as mechanism to stubborn the wage earners European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74331
so as not to undercut their appropriation bills. One of suchconsequences is the
underdevelopment of the productive forces and social relations of production. According to Beckman (1980) some measures taken by the state interest of the workers, such as regulation of working condition and wages may at one level be opposed by individual capitalists, while at a higher level, they may be beneficial to capital by eliminating undesirable forms of competition. For example, a trade union movement may be able to exact important concessions from the state for its members and may oblige the state to protect its interests via-a-vis capital, such concession may be the necessary price which capitalist has to pay in order to protect other more fundamentalinterests.
Therefore, the state is not present for the sake of political oppression but for the sake of regulating the social totality and yet is an organ of political oppression. The state bureaucracy, who wants to maintain the existing form of political power because it is its own power, will suppress any movement that protests against his power (Vajda, 1981). The Nigerian state and labour relations are dialectical, because any dynamic move by organized labour for any meaningful agitation for improved welfare and conditions of service for its members are often labeled by the state as “subversive”, “extremist” and or against “national interest” Any wage increase in Nigeria, has gone further to impoverish the workers and masses, because of inflation, high or double taxation etc. But if the infrastructure; National Electric Power Authority (now Power Holding Company of Nigeria), Refinery, Railway and seaports, etc., are put right by the government there would be no need for labour agitation for wageincrease.
In 1978, Marxist lecturers were dismissed from various Nigerian universities after the student riots that took place that year, and in 1986, the federal government directed that lecturers who are “not teaching what they are paid to teach” be identified and flushed out of the university system, as well as the general persecution and expulsion ofstudents leaders
(Alubo,1990: 4 ) The case of Dr. Patrick Wilmot and the eighteen UniIlorin lecturers also comes to mind. In 2002, The Obasanjo’s regime accused organized labour under the umbrella of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), of running a parallel government, when the NLC called out its members for general strike and protest against the increase in petroleum products and proposed removal of subsidies. This the NLC and civil society groups saw as machinery to further impoverish the masses. They challenged government to come out with their statistics with the European Scientific Journal May edition vol. 8, No.11 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 74332
cost to produce a barrel of crude oil and they would follow suit. This was to ascertain whether there was any subsidy in petroleum matters in Nigeria as the government purported. Government reaction was decisive as threat and force were deployed aslabour moves
were seen as against the interest of the state and masses and were hindering the social transformation programmes of the state. This ideological concepts been used by the state to label labour is what Claude Ake (1988 ) termed “defensive radicalism”. The aftermath was that the Obasanjo’s government then sent a bill to the national assembly to streamline the labour law so as to disorganized organized labour. As Giddens (1979) emphasized, “in modern politics…the need to sustain legitimacy through the claim to represent the interests of the masses has become a central feature of political discourse and class struggle”.Conclusion
The Nigerian State lack a productive base on which the productiveforces and social
relations of production can be anchored to produce an economy that would transform the society and people. Large numbers of the population are peasants who live in the rural areas; this has weakened class conscious and social awareness which is an imperative tool of social change within the Marxian paradigm. In Nigeria, we do not create wealth, we share the wealth been accrued to the state from oil revenue among the political elites who are constantly fighting among themselves to get a share but not for production, for appropriation and consumption which has made the State a rentier one based on clientship patronage. Due to the unsustainability of the Nigerian system, it has led to the production of militant youth agitations across the nation that is serving as latent functions in shaping social life. The individual as an agent of change in the society, if incapacitated by any means he cannot perform its function of producing and transforming society. The State needs an institutional frame work of policies to tackle this dysfunctional economic system it operates if it does not want to be among the list of failed Nations of the world.References:
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