If you place a pack of money and bananas before a monkey it will choose the bananas because it doesn’t know that the money can buy enough bananas to feed it for a long time. In the same vein, if you place health and wealth before people today, many will choose money but all the money in this world cannot buy sound health. A single ailment can consume all the savings of a man and he may still die. Health with wealth is an asset and an ounce of prevention will always produce a pound of cure. In the world today, ninety-five percent (95%) of deaths are caused by illnesses, and only five percent (5%) die naturally. People need to remember that destiny is largely dependent on decisions and that health is wealth.
Category: Lifestyle
Risks
Not starting anything at all is riskier than starting something and failing. The biggest risk is not taking any risk because life itself is warfare, not a fun fare. One’s decision to step out and take a risk is worth the trouble because only doers get what they want, others get what they see. A single action is better than one million intentions. The company one keeps could also affect his ability to venture boldly into life’s many-sided labor market. It is impossible to fly like an eagle when you weight your neck because, to a large extent, the company you keep determines what accompanies you in life. Taking risks in life is the only way to climb mountains and stop stumbling over pebbles.
Back to Niagara Falls.
Tagged the highest waterfalls in the world, Niagara Falls is situated on the western bank of the Niagara River. In the summer of 2019,
I embarked on a one-day return trip to Niagara Falls by train.
Being pressed for time I only captured a few interesting sites on my camera-the narrow bridge between Canada and USA,
the free zone area and the pedestrian entrance to the USA.
It was quite entertaining.
I was back home by 10 p.m. but I was not very satisfied with the experience.
Therefore on 4th July 2022,
I made a return trip to Niagara Falls.
This time around I was in the company of a team made up of my wife, myself, our children, in-laws
and our grandchildren.
We took off from Kitchener, Ontario, in a convoy of three cars and despite the traffic jam we experienced about fifty minutes into the trip we arrived at Comfort Inn in Niagra falls in less than two hours.
After resting, taking super and
catching some fun by the swimming pool side we hit our beds at about
11:30 p.m.
Being a walking distance from our hotel, we all trekked to Niagara Falls Parks after breakfast the following morning. The children were particularly excited as we snapped pictures and recorded some interesting structures on our way to the site.
By elevators, visitors can either go to a lower wetter area behind the walls where there is an observation deck or go for the boat rides or do both.
After buying our tickets, we headed to where we were to board a boat for the Canada city cruise. The boarding station is about a one-kilometer distance from the ticketing office.
A section of the road included a long row of cascading steps and a rough stretch of path that led to the
boarding station where our pictures were taken for record purposes.
Each person was given a pink nylon raincoat and we filed into the large boat as directed by the guides on duty.
As soon as the two decks of the boat were filled, it set out.
The features we earlier saw faintly before coming on board became nearer and clearer.
Initially, the cruising was smooth until we got to a point where a windy storm blew large quantities of water into the boat, and many people descended to the calmer lower deck. Thereafter, the flags of Canada and USA hoisted on the narrow bridge were seen as we cruised past them.
Some Americans on the other side of the Falls waved to us with excitement.
A description of some strategic and interesting areas was given at regular intervals throughout the trip.
As we returned to base and got out of the boat we dropped our wet raincoats in waste bins.
With contentment and satisfaction, we chatted back to our hotels regarding the day’s beautiful experience.
A sharp deviation from the norm.
Professor Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian Nobel laureate in literature. He and six others called the “Original Seven” founded the Pyrates Confraternity at the University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, now the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1952, that is 70 years ago. It was founded basically to drum up support for human rights and social justice in Nigeria hence its motto is “Against all moribund conventions.”
It seeks to eliminate class privilege and elitism, especially among students of middle-class upbringing and colonial colouration.
Some forty-five years ago, members adorned in their colourful regalia used to hold their outings on top of the platform at Trenchard Hall at the University of Ibadan to the admiration of students and other members of the University community.
During Students Union elections, this organization used to support the presidential candidate that had the best manifestoes
that would favour the generality of students. They had a newsletter where their strong opinions about topical issues on the campus were expressed objectively and students who were notorious in certain aspects of their lifestyles were caricatured.
Some of their noble contributions to social values included mending bad roads within the campus and in front of the University’s gate.
Its members also used to donate blood at the blood bank of the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
Contrary to uninformed opinions, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), also known as the Pyrates Confraternity, is a Nigerian charitable and humanitarian organization.
It still thrives in Nigeria today,
expressing its stand against all forms of injustice in our society in some national dailies on a fairly regular basis and its members hold key positions in government and private sectors within and outside Nigeria.
But today, many other confraternities have emerged in our tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Their activities are tangential to those of the original founding fathers of the first confraternity in a tertiary institution in Nigeria.
Their members are now into many types of drug abuse.
They are armed with all sorts of dangerous weapons when attending their meetings.
Reports of deadly clashes between cult members have become a regular feature in many newspapers.
A return to the original purpose for which the organization was founded is highly desirable.
This will nurture responsible youths who can become great leaders of our country tomorrow.
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