Transparent Leadership Initiative International

REWARDING EXCELLENCE:
HRH EZE-IKEMBA 1 on-behalf of LONGRICH INTERNATIONAL COMPANY Present's Brand New Cars to Successful Distributors of the Chines Company who made D6 (Director Six) Level this year 2015 as a means of rewarding excellence in service on Saturday 7th November, 2015 at The Atrium Event Center, Stadium Road Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
In his Royal Address; HRH expressed dissatisfaction in ways in-which our African Traditional Healing Herbs and Roots are going into extinction thereby challenged all to think back and remember how we use to proud with our naturally endowed healing herbs and roots which he described as God's Special Gift to our Land. However, King Ambassador Onyeche praised the Asian Continent and China specifically for Loving, Believing and Upholding the principles of their Ancestral Heritage as enshrined in their herbs and roots which has placed them on the Global Map as One of the must Populous, Aging and Healthy Race in the World. In his message, HRH stressed that Success attracts Success and Growth/Development can only be achieved within Successful Union, Hearts and Environment TLI President/Founder (Eze-Ikemba 1 of Ulakwo/Umuselem Ancient Kingdom, Etche Ethnicity, Rivers State - Nigeria) therefore Called on the Chines/Asian World to Partner Africa to explore Our God given healing Potentials as embedded in Our Traditional Herbs and Roots noting that in doing so there will be lots of employment and empowerment opportunities and Lives to be saved as well.

WHEN PEACE MEETS CORRUPTION
‘‘You may either win your peace or buy it – win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil’’ – John Ruskin 1819-1900, English Art Critic.
I cannot take my eyes away from the many contradictions that define our journey to nationhood, on the one hand I hear Nigerians calling passionately for a new paradigm and a new tendency in governance, and on the other I read a plethora of press calling for cessation of probe if perhaps it will not date back to 1960. It is a chequered debate that torments the carapace of my mind.
However, I must state without fear of querulous critics that not a few of the dyed-in-the-wool supporters of President Mohammadu Buharia clan to which I belong are amused by the posturing of a certain National Peace Council whose bidding is perhaps to negotiate soft landing for those who plundered our collective patrimony.To us it does not matter what peace they seek to foster because it is an incontrovertible fact that corruption has done greater violence to our nation than any contrived negotiation can settle.
Someone must tell Gen. Abdusalam AbubakarRtd., Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, and Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah et al that true peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice. The justice that the urgency of now makes imperative is the altering of a historicity that reeks of corruption, sleaze, fleece and malfeasance.The sweltering Harmattan of popular discontent is with corruption and avarice. Nigerians congregate at the Isle of New Hope, hope that governance will cease to be a Bazaar and a cesspool of filth. And hope that leadership shall forthwith be responsible and responsive to the people.
It must be made manifestly clear and profound that the minimum Nigerians crave is a new paradigm of rectitude in governance;one that must water the tree of anti-corruption, of moral rebirth, of patriotism, of service and of commitment to a new propensity and proclivity in the discharge of public trust. Yes, one that must create monuments of deterrence and those of reference through the pooh-poohing, lampooning and punishment of thieving and corruption, such is the pervasive minimum.
I cannot be taken by the inveigle that seeks to define, and or redefine the moral plexus of anti-corruption. The fight against corruption will definitely inconvenience the suspects and the society. It is a purgation of sorts as such a two edged spectacle, but whether it is anti-peace and may become a precursor to the breakdown of law and order is the fallacy we must not allow.
It is axiomatic to note that when you fight corruption, corruption fights back with every ounce of strength, it romances every force that denounces the new urgency, it pronounces you rigid, it renounces your passion and announces to the world that you are vindictive. We must therefore not swallow the invidious pill of gradualism or flounce this auspicious moment; with superior logic we musttrounce those who seek soft landing for corruption knowing that the margin of the CHANGE we preach remains NO LONGER BUSINESS AS USUAL.
I am nonetheless worried that those who repudiate the anti-corruption resolve and posturing of the present regime do so out of prejudice, some out of the prejudice of religion or region; some out of the prejudice of Party, or in furtherance of revanchist propensities; and others from the primordial cocoons of ethnicity and nepotism. In this, many deliberately weave traps to ensnare the resolve of Mr President, but the urgency of now is that the fight against corruption must be sustained without sacred elephants and that our chief steward must remain at all times above board.
The Law presumes everyone innocent until proven guilty, very true, but in the fight against corruption civilised democracies and serious minded nations have dealt with the monster through the adoption of the reverse, yes nations have shifted the onus to the accused or suspect, the praxis has become ‘prove your innocence’. This obtains because of the monumental rupture of societal balance that stems from corruption. I must say that unemployment, poor infrastructure, decrepit roads, societal conflict, violence and brigandage are concomitants of corruption.
Terror festers because there is a monstrous army of the jobless. Violence thrives because everywhere we have monuments of anger and hunger rather than those of hope and faith. Robbery and kidnapping sustains because corruption has plundered all vestiges of decorum, decency and discretion. It was providence and the supreme inevitable protocol that bludgeoned our space and enabledthe candidate that held on to anti-corruption as the linchpin of his campaign to victory at the last polls. It was Zeitgeist, and no convoluted or skewed preachment of peace should be allowed to do violence against the prevailing fervency.
The rework of our collective values must begin now. The overhaul of our national morals and mores is inevitable. The extermination of corruption is of primacy. The philosophies of ethical rebirth are imperative. And the minimum praxis in public life must be service to nation. It must always be COUNTRY FIRST, that way we can subsume loyalty to big-men with service to all-men.
Countrymen and women, we must not allow those who seek to retain looted and ill-gotten wealth to delineate the margins of our societal interaction. We must support every effort to etch accountability and due process as great values on our corporate canvass. We must remind Mr President of that inimitable quote of his, ‘Nigeria must kill corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria’, and we must admit without equivocation that the greatest individual threat to national peace is corruption.
Corruption is the reason our hospitals are mere consulting clinics. Corruption has made our educational system mediocre. Corruption has depreciated our moral premium. Corruption has diminished the force of our character. And corruption mocks every effort at uniting our people under an atmosphere of true love and brotherhood. This heart-breaking reality calls out for unison of purpose in nudging the entrenching of a new paradigm in governmental appointing and contracting, henceforth it must be square pegs in square holes and round pegs in round holes, such should be the allowable minimum.
Now is the time to raise the moral bar and purge the Nigerian atmosphere through exemplary leadership. Now is the time to consign the culture of looting, over-contracting and sleaze to the dungeons of history. Now is the time to make egocentric watch shibboleth. Now is the time to make excellence the chief driver in the national convoy. And now is the time to compel all those who seek to paint on our socio-political canvass to come with fair and just brushes.
In the final analysis I repudiate all and every effort, concert and concessions that may work against or make mild the imperativeness of a far-reaching anti-corruption regime, it must be known that the short cut to genuine peace in Nigeria is transparency in governance. It must be known that when leadership becomes responsible and responsible to the people violent crime shall diminish. And it must be known that the way to hand over a veritable national challenge to posterity is to honour hard-work and punish corruption. God Bless NIGERIA.

Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr
Director General CHANGE AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA CAN.
Lawyer, Writer & Humanist.
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CONFERMENT OF AMBASSADORIAL CERTIFICATE ON BABY SHARON IFEDI AS AMBASSADOR OF CULTURE AND TRADITION (ACT)
In line with the endorsement of TLI International President during the just concluded Igbunike Ancient Cave Firm Festival and Award ceremony held in Ogbunike Town of Anambra State on ADAIGBO IFEDI SHARON TOOCHUKWU, HRH EZE-IKEMBA 1 made good his declaration as he hosted TLI wonder kid with her parents Mr. & Mrs. Ifedi Vim at the corporate office of TLI in Port Harcourt City, Rivers State - Nigeria. Accompanied by Ezeomani Ndi Igbo in Nollywood (Eze Ambassador Harris Chuma) President General Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Nollywood, the guest where treated to a Royal Reception. In his address TLI President thanked the Ifedi’s family for honouring his invitation and for tapping into the divine talent of Adaigbo Sharon. As approved by the International Team and The Board of Trustees (BOT) of TLI, Baby Sharon was then decorated and conferred with Ambassadorial Certificate as Transparent Leadership International Ambassador of Culture and Tradition (ACT) with an appointment letter which further confirms her induction into Transparency Family as she was admonished to uphold the principles of the Organization as a brand and Face of TLI any where she goes. Mr. & Mrs. Ifedi Vim in an overwhelming response thanked The Big Family of TLI for this gesture as they stated is unmerited and unexpected counting from their journey so far in life. To Go Be The Glory!

TLI CHARITY/HUMANITARIAN WEEK 2015.
It is time to Sow Seeds of Love and Remember the less privileged in the society knowing that services to humanity is Service to God. What so ever you give to the less privileged, destitute and Orphans in the Society, that you give unto your God, your Creator. Join Ambassadors, Members and Friends of Transparent Leadership Initiative International all over the world as we mark this Year’s Charity/Humanitarian Week on starting from Monday 24th August to Saturday 29th August, 2015. Support this great movement and gesture by sending relieves, items/materials to Our Cooperate Office or any of Our Offices across the States. You can further make your goodwill donations through our corporate Account with BANK:- ZENITH BANK PLC, ACCOUNT NAME:- TRANSPARENT LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INTERNATIONAL CENTER, ACCOUNT NUMBER:- 1013071555. Together we can make greater impact in the lives of the Orphans, Widows and Destitute in Our Society. Feed someone hungry today and build an indelible treasure in God for your riches are worth nothing if someone cannot praise God on your behalf. God Bless You!

TRANSPARENT LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INTERNATIONAL (TLI) AWARDS AMESI WONDER KID (ADA-IGBO SHARON IFEDI) WITH SCHOLARSHIP AND ENDORSED HER AS TLI CULTURAL AMBASSADOR.
The dazzling performance of nine (9) years old Sharon Ifedi at the just concluded Igbunike Ancient Cave Firm Festival and Award ceremony held in Ogbunike Town of Anambra State is a wonder to behold. Baby Sharon fondly called Ada-Igbo with great emotion and tearful stage performance swept the expectation of every one with her hit track ‘BROKEN POT’. This act was describe by many as visitation of the gods of Igbo’s on the dying spate of Cultural and traditional activities and values.
HRH (Eze) Ambassador Engr. Dr. Onyeche Promise Obinna could not hold his emotion as Eze-Ikemba 1 lead members of the well composed high table to shower traditional blessings upon this wonder Kid. As enshrined in TLI Constitution, TLI President through Transparent Leadership Empowerment and Scholarship Unit as detailed in Article 4: Section 3 of its constitution announced scholarship Award on Ada-Igbo Sharon Ifedi and further adopts her as TLI Ambassador on Culture as a Promoter of Igbo Culture and Heritage. Accompanied by her parents, the wonder Kid was full of tears of Joy and fulfilment as they pledged to justify this great gesture by HRH (Eze-Ikemba 1) and the TLI family. Baby Sharon was then presented with a Nollywood Certificate of Performance by the Igwe-Ogbunike (HRH Igwe John Ositadimma Umenyiora) Ezedioramma 1 of Ogbunike Ancient Kingdom. Conclusively, TLI President Challenged youths and other kids to emulate the courage and skills of Baby Sharon Ifedi as to better the society for Peace, Progress and sustainable development.