I saw a brilliant athlete in the ongoing Olympic games in Rio. This particular athlete is in the women's 400m race and she did something spectacular that she herself most probably never planned to do.
There she was, racing with the other competitors and the only thing she was telling herself was that she had to get that gold medal and she did!
But what is interesting is the manner in which her dreams metamorphosed into reality. As the athletes were all racing towards the finish line, one of them was about to cross over the line That meant that she, Shaunae Miller, would come in second. But she wouldn't settle for anything less so she dived ahead, stretched her arms and fingers forward and made it just inches past the finish line and ultimately took first place.
Applying the above scenario to our everyday lives, everyone wants to be the first and not the tail, to be the sheriff in town and basically call the shots but how do you go about that? In most settings, in an office for instance, there are laid down rules on how to get to the top of the corporate ladder. In fact everybody is scrambling to get to the top, trying to push out the next person and be the one to set the game rules and run tins. It is up to you to find a way to make yourself stand out. You have to take everyone by surprise and get that gold.
If you are an introvert, you have to step out of your shell and show the world that the real person is in there and if you are the 'area scatter' type , then you need to keep calm and listen to your inner voice. In whatever way you are naturally made up, you have to act fast before the other person takes that gold medal.
As long you are acting within the legal ambit of the law and don't break the rules then, you have to think outside the box like Shaunae and plunge forward .
After all, win na win. Weda na leg or hand or head you take cross the finish line, win na win.
By Innocent Anaba, Dapo Akinrefon &Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA— Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and some leading lawyers in the country have disagreed with the Presidential Committee on anti-corruption led by Professor Itse Sagay over President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence that the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who are facing separate criminal charges, would not be released from custody, despite valid court orders that granted them bail.
In his submission on the president’s stance, Professor Sagay argued that the Federal Government was not in violation of the rule of law as any bail granted an accused is completely related to the offence which he is charged before the court.
The NBA and some Senior Advocates of Nigeria, however, contended that the position the president took was offensive to the tenets of constitutional democracy, rule of law and presumption of innocence of an accused person. They argued that re-arresting someone immediately after the court has granted such person bail makes mockery of our democracy which is presumably anchored on the rule of law and separation of powers.”
Buhari had in his first presidential media chat at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja, adduced reasons why the Federal Government would not readily allow both Dasuki and Kanu to regain their freedom from detention.