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Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience, revealing hidden wonders.

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Writing is a gift.
Only the initiated gets to feel the pulse of the muse.
Like adrenaline pumping up your spine
So is the flow of a new story in your guts.

Do not stop the pen.
It must discharge its points.
Let that message flow.
Out of your soul.
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From Struggle to Success

Last Saturday, there was a new book launch. It is the launching of the latest product for our stable, Prince of Peace Publications. The book is titled From Struggle to Success.

You need to read the content to appreciate the story. A parent that read the book sent this review to the author today.

“Wow! I just read through the book.
The quality is top-notch. The write up is excellent, inspiring and educative.
The sky is your stepping stone.
I know this is just the beginning.”

I challenge you as a parent to pick up a copy of the book to read so you can give it to your children to get inspired. Indeed, instead of the nameless foreign cartoons and stories, is it possible to get four copies of this book for a mere N10,000 to encourage the Nigerian author so she can do more? Indeed, my major reason for establishing my publishing company, Prince of Peace Publications, is to use the platform to encourage young authors and give them a voice in the global world.

Play your part by getting copies to encourage her as well as give edifying contents to your children to consume. The ball is now in your court. Together, we can save our children from the evil world. We can also encourage the talents of our young writers to bud, bloom and actualise through our support and patronage.

If the author permits, we will share a snippet of the story on our blog page here sometime soon.

Thank you for taking action. You can make your order here.

Lara Authe

#PPP

#nigerianauthors

#fromstruggletosuccess

24/11/2024
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Writing is a gift.
Only the initiated gets to feel the pulse of the muse.
Like adrenaline pumping up your spine
So is the flow of a new story in your guts.

Do not stop the pen.
It must discharge its points.
Let that message flow.
Out of your soul.
```
Why we should publish your manuscript

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It is not enough to have written a story. It is important that you have a good hand to help you get the manuscript out to the public space in a professional manner.

Our publishing company is made up of professional and dedicated team that is determined to ensure that your voice get to the public space through your published book. We do not only work with you step by step to ensure that only the best quality is realised as your manuscript, we also respect your choices of how to promote the book.

Within our space, we provide all the promotional support that will take your book into the faces of those that need to learn about it. Indeed, we will work with you on the practical steps required to ensure that your book gets the publicity it deserves.

These and more are the reasons why we should help you bring your manuscript alive. Reach out to us today to book an appointment to discuss that manuscript. It should not remain in your drawer; it should climb up to your book shelf and those of your admirers.

Fill this Google form to book an appoint today. You may also contact us through the contact form as well as email us to commence a conversation on that your manuscript.

CEO, Prince of Peace Publications

27/10/2024
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Writing is a gift.
Only the initiated gets to feel the pulse of the muse.
Like adrenaline pumping up your spine
So is the flow of a new story in your guts.

Do not stop the pen.
It must discharge its points.
Let that message flow.
Out of your soul.
```
… Busy Contractors and Traffic Jams on Nigeria Highways

It is so disheartening travelling on Nigerian highways these days. You don’t just only face the possibility of running into a pot hole that may claim your life, you also stand the risk of being trapped in an endless number of traffic jams. Don’t forget that the ubiquitous and infamous herdsmen are also lurking in the corner to spring their surprise attacks on innocent Nigerians.

My interest today is on the road contractors that feel the only time they can work on the roads is in the day time. Does common sense not being so common a difficult thing to understand? It appears common sense really requires one having to go to the school of life to obtain it. How does one explain the obvious senselessness of keeping commuters on Lokoja expressway for four hours in the name of road construction. The Lagos inward lane on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is another eyesore. With petroleum tankers and cars jostling side by side in the gridlock, it appears this is a disaster waiting to happen. We only hope it does not. This is because the wailers we have in government won’t see this trouble until it blows up in their faces. I really pray fervently that we do not have another disaster of tens of roasted human bodies before the road contractors move their work period to the night time and allow people to commute in the day time!

It had been an endless and continued suffering for Nigerians. The roads are bad and they are being badly done. Let’s also think of the well being of the citizens. A lot of borrowing has gone into the so-called infrastructure development by the Buhari government. A lot of the suffering of Nigerians have also gone into it. A case where the roads are left to degenerate to the point that it causes the citizens to sleep on the highway is pathetic. This should also make the contractors to be considerate and construct the roads with the well-being of the commuters in mind.

Let the contractors be busy alright; but let them find a way round the the issue of commuters being trapped on the highways for hours. I doubt if this is the way roads are constructed in other climes. Nigerians may be the most ‘smiling and suffering’ people on earth (to borrow the term from our own Fela), but why rub it in the more. I am sure all it requires is to be creative about our road construction projects and we can still make Nigerians lives better as they commute.

But more importantly, let the roads constructed be of such high quality that we don’t need to continue the yearly ritual of new roads and rehabilitation of old ones (see our previous blogpost on that topic on this website). It is all so unnerving and saddening seeing the Nigerian commonwealth frittered away yearly in the name of road construction. And the trains can really solve many of these problems if we are serious to make them work, affordable and at long distances too.

#Nigerianroads #omolaranwabueze

31/03/2021
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Writing is a gift.
Only the initiated gets to feel the pulse of the muse.
Like adrenaline pumping up your spine
So is the flow of a new story in your guts.

Do not stop the pen.
It must discharge its points.
Let that message flow.
Out of your soul.
```
Facebook and YOU

Has it ever crossed your mind that being at the mercy of others is not a cool position to occupy? I bet you never thought of it.

The truth is that being your own boss is more than a slogan; it is the way things should be if you ever want to have control of your life. Now, I am not suggesting that having some form of control over you is out of place. If this were so, would we be good children or liveable spouses? However, when you are enslaved and you don’t even know it, a disaster is in the making.

My grouse is with Facebook. Till now, I do not understand why they took down my business page called the Longrich High Flyers where I promote my Longrich business. They accused me of fraud and deception. And I am like, what! If anything I have ever been, everyone know me for my fixation on honesty and integrity.

Nevertheless, the point I have to make is that it makes a lot of sense to have some control over your content. My website will be my new office where I reach out to the world. The truth is that when I had such an experience with Google last year about some of my videos, I thought it was odd. However, I guess I am learning some new things with these experiences. Where YouTube is more considerate is that you will at least have the particular video taken down and your attention will be called to the particular issue. You may agree with or disagree with them on the matter. It eventually gets resolved. But #Facebook banning a whole page without previous warning for me smacks of high handedness. It exposes to me our vulnerability on these social media platforms.

Trump did all sort of nonsense on Facebook for a long time without being called out for it. However, advertising an opportunity and products that are genuine and true is being called some strange names like deception and fraud? #Facebook needs to rethink its stand and unfreeze my page. It took me two years of consistent posting to grow the following I have on that page!

Anyway, I was almost thinking of shutting out these platforms. Nevertheless, I have also decided to use them, with me in control.

So, if you put all your eggs on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp – they all belong to Mark Zuckerberg – think again. The day they wake up and say you have violated their rules, your contents are gone. But with your website, you still have control of your content!

A word is enough for the wise.

#facebookunfreezemypage

22/03/2021
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Writing is a gift.
Only the initiated gets to feel the pulse of the muse.
Like adrenaline pumping up your spine
So is the flow of a new story in your guts.

Do not stop the pen.
It must discharge its points.
Let that message flow.
Out of your soul.
```
The NOUN Scholar

I know that you are wondering what this is all about. But I can assure you that it is a platform for scholars all over the world to showcase themselves to the world!

Sounds like tautology, right? I thought so too. However, when I took a deep look at it, I found that it is about effective communication. Even if I am the one that say so!

So, our Faculty journal is producing its maiden edition in the first half of the year 2021. Won’t you like to be a part of the history making? We are therefore calling on you to take the rare opportunity to use this platform to publish your work in a journal to watch in the next few months! You are very free to make this move as you be given high quality peer review process and you will also get to see that your paper comes out side by side with high quality academics. So, your procrastination in submitting your paper is only delaying the value you would be getting!

I advise you as an academic mentor that you quickly submit your journal article now to The NOUN Scholar and thank me later.

Receiving for your work is foanounscholar@noun.edu.ng

Best of luck!

Sincerely yours,

Professor Iyabode O. A. Nwabueze.

10/03/2021

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