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The purpose of life is not only to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate and to make indelible impacts on the sand of time. On Wednesday 13th May, 2020, a Batch B, Stream II National Youth Service Corps Member whose name is Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu with state code KW/19/2929, serving in Oke-Oyi Community of Ilorin East Local Government Area, expressed compassion to save his host community from the deadly Corona Virus pandemic ravaging the world and he is being commended by the Kwara State government, National Youth Service Corps, NCDC technical team against COVID-19, community leaders, as well as the entire Oke-Oyi community dwellers. Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, also known as Mr Voiceover, took up the initiative to tackle the Corona Virus menace by providing the community with preventive kits for 500 households and embarking on an intensive sensitization campaign on safety measures against COVID-19 across the Oke-Oyi Community and its surbubs. The event which was launched at the Oke-Oyi Local Government Secretariat was graced by the presence of traditional heads and chiefs, the local government Chairman, NULGE Chairman, NYSC Local Government Inspector, Head Of Department of Education, National Orientation Agency, NCDC technical support team, Suicide And Depression Awareness Foundation (SADAF), National Volunteer Group, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI), Community Vigilante Leaders, Women Leaders, Youth leaders, Corps members, media organisations and advocates. Prior to the implementation of this intensive sensitization campaign by this fast rising global icon, Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu has also organized an outreach spreading its tentacles to 50 schools across three LGA to strictly serve as a mental health awareness and sensitization programme as part of his contribution to community development in Kwara state. These heroic and selfless deeds aimed at humanitarian service was followed by a recommendation for state and national honour by the local government authorities. According to the Chairman, Ilorin East Local Government Area, (His name), "I am pleased to recommend Mr. Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu for National Youth Service Awards in recognition of his numerous and selfless services to humanity". 1 Like |
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Serving his way to greatness after surviving societal pressures, depression and suicide thought According to the popular assuim, "It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving". A perfect example is a selfless act demonstrated by a Kogi-Born corps member in Kwara State identified as Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, also known as Mr Voiceover, with state code KW/19B/2929, who is sacrificing his monthly allowances towards tackling the menace of depression and suicide act across 50 major high schools, 10 campuses, 16 communities, Mosques, Churches, IDPs and Orphanage homes as his personal community development service in Kwara State as a means of curbing the thriving problem which is most prevalent among adolescents and youths in the society and the world at large. Emmanuel sentizing and giving hope to young minds across 50 schools in Kwara State In a review of the latest prognosis by World Health Organization, depression will rise to become the second (2nd) most prevailing health problem globally in 2020. Meanwhile, Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu has taken it upon himself to profer solution to this problem by hosting and organizing sensitization conferences and symposiums in schools, campuses, communities, IDPs and orphanage homes, Mosques and Churches and many more on Mental Health Awareness And Sensitization Programme, focused on tackling the menace of depression and suicide prevalent among the adolescents and youths in Nigeria. The Corps member who suffered depression and suicide thoughts and wrote o'level exam 17 times in 5 years, survived societal pressures, failures and setbacks before securing admission into the University due to broken home and became an orphan at the verge of securing admission, yet did not give up, has been a global sensation and he is being celebrated for using his story to change the world. Emmanuel, a graduate of University of Benin (UNIBEN), who recently got featured on one of the leading international television platforms in the world, British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) for his globally sensational story and impacts, shared on his Facebook timeline that he has no doubt in his heart that God orchestrated his story to pass a message of hope to this generation, especially to the adolescents and youths who are scared to face failures, societal pressures, and setbacks and are dying daily of suicide, hopelessness, anxiety, fustration, depression, which is leading them to indulge in societal vices which they assume is a solution. Where there is love there is life Check out the complete story of a corp member giving hope to young minds and more news on science, engineering, biographies, histories and technology. https://lightresearchers..com/2020/03/kogi-born-corps-member-sacrifices.html
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COMMAND THE MORNING(Job 38:12-13). 1.Earth, arise, swallow any power asking you to swallow me, in the name of Jesus. 2.The battles in my life, from birth, that has refused to let me go, fire of God, pursue them out of my life, in the name of Jesus. 3.Any battle that has vowed to see my end, expire by fire, in the name of Jesus. Good morning! |
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Suicidal thoughts can be very difficult to deal with or understand. Sometimes they can be fleeting, but other times they can be stronger urges or fantasies that promise relief from seemingly unbearable pain. In a world filled with anxieties, worries and uncertainties, many persons are passing through untoward challenges of life. The complexity in life challenges hinges on the fact that we all are not passing through the same challenges. While challenges vary, so also are the dimensions. In a bid to overcome these challenges, human beings resort to different mechanisms for solution to their various problems. Religion is arguably the most sought after platform for seeking solutions to problems. Many in order to relieve themselves of their problems and societal pressures succumbed to committing suicide. Before this act of suicide, depression had already taken over them and they could not reason anyway out except death. However, great personalities in the world today, passed through the tides and storms of life before attaining stardom. Some of them while motivating others narrated how they overcome suicidal thoughts. One thing, that is certain in life, is that our challenges are temporal. Recently, the story of a young man broke the internet and caught global attentions for his academic ordeals which at some points led him to suicide contemplations. The young man with the name, Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, popularly known as Mr Voiceover, who wrote O’level examinations (17) seventeen times in the space of (5) five years and was enrolled into sixteen (16) primary schools and fourteen (14) secondary schools, due to the hard times and struggle he faced as a result of family crisis. Read more..... https://lightresearchers..com/2019/12/the-inspiring-story-of-emmanuel.html 1 Like 1 Share |
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