Book Review: The Other Side of Fear

The Other Side of Fear

Uncertainty, anxiety and fear: only fictitious superheroes are exempted from this all-too human sequence. The trouble is that fear is paralyzing because it feeds our minds with negative thoughts. In a second, fear can turn the idea of courage into one of recklessness, and then it’s all downhill to a point where determination is put aside in favour of ‘playing it safe.’ Sadly, fear can stop you from doing anything slightly risky. It’ll keep you locked up in the prison of the comfortable and predictable where you’re more likely to die of boredom than might from any of the dangers you fear. So, what’s to be done? The simple answer is that risk-taking and adaptability are as much part of our human heritage as uncertainty-inspired fear. It’s finding a balance that matters most. Fear is a useful tool for making better life-directing decisions, but fear must never be allowed to control the direction of your life. That way you lose the opportunity of reaching your true potential. I hope this book will inspire you to transcend your fears and achieve all of your dreams. The greatest prison you can live in is the prison of your own fears. Nothing of value can be achieved when we allow fear to control our life. Grab a copy of “The other side of fear” be inspired to live above your fears. You can purchase E-book & paperback on amazon. First and foremost, I want to thank God for guiding my every step towards completing this project and to every other person who contributed to this. I’ve learned that if we can find the courage to begin something, God will empower & enable us to complete the task. There’s nothing we cannot accomplish if we are determined enough. I was inspired to write this book because fear has kept a lot of people locked up in the prison of comfort. Too many people are living in a self-made prison of their own fears, they are stuck, unable to move forward and achieve their meaningful dreams. Fear has the power to limit your greatness, and blind you from seeing the opportunities that lies ahead of you. Everything you desire is on the other side of your fear, don’t stay trapped behind the walls of your fear for the rest of your life. It’s time to move towards your fears instead for trying to avoid them. I can confidently tell you that this book will inspire and challenge you to transcend your fears. And also provide principles to help you on the journey.

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Thank you

By M.K. Slim

About M.K. Slim

For much of my life, I’ve been fully committed to my music career, but I’m also an entrepreneur and a budding writer. I’m very motivated and mentally resilient: a genuinely optimistic person who believes that anything can be achieved if I’m determined enough. I strive to create a positive impact in the lives of those around me and I believe the highest of human acts is to inspire others to reach their potential. I strive to inspire as many people as I can. I’d like others to say of me, “Because you didn’t give up, I can do the same.” That’s the legacy I hope to leave behind when I die.

Victory Outreach Church Almere is a Pentecostal Church, a Bible based believing people in the trinity of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. What would you like to know? Our vision? Which activities we organize? Or would you like to hear testimonies about how we follow God? One thing is certain, we would like to get to know you and therefore you are more than welcome to visit one of our services in this new year 2020. You can visit us every day of the week as there is a Resident Pastor available to your demand. You may have been a believer for many years already. Or you might still be searching for the meaning of life and asking yourself whether or not there is God. Within Victory Outreach Almere we would like to help you find the answer. We will gladly teach you through the help of the Holy Spirit the exact meaning of “a living faith”. With us you will truly see and experience the supernatural power of the living God. You can always count on love and comfort when you need it. You will discover that we have a wonderful diversity of people with lots of different backgrounds, characters and personalities. But there is one thing we have in common. We all follow the same God, Jesus Christ. In that diversity and love for God, we are a family where you are more than welcome. We personally hope to meet you during one of our services. God bless you as you come in Jesus Christ name. Amen Signed: Pastor Roel & Ida van Rooij Senior Pastors Victory Outreach Almere. Barbeelstraat 12, 1317 PZ Almere The Netherlands. Telephone: +31646890203; Telephone: 036-7505571

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Nigeria gives the world her best

Dear Editor, Another Amazon, one of the best this country called Nigeria has produced, wonder why you have not served in the public service and I can say without fear of being contradicted that until honest people like her are involved in governance in Nigeria, things would never change, governance is too serious a task to be left in the hands of half or none educated people we have running the country at the moment. God help and deliver us. Austine Awosika

Abuja, Nigeria. Editor’s Note.

Dear Austine, For your information, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has served Nigeria in various capacities in the past under President Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan, your point is that she has not stood for elective office position in Nigeria like contesting to be President! Well, politics in Nigeria is different than every other place, it is not about your qualification, competence or willingness to serve but political god-fatherism. Probably this is one of the reason she can’t occupy such position in Nigeria.

Congratulations to Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Hearty congratulations to Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. You have shattered the glass ceiling and paved the way for others to follow. We are all proud of you ma By Lola Visser-Mabogunje Abuja, Nigeria

From Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala It is done! Thank you WTO members for finalizing my election and making history. In the 73 years of GATT and WTO honoured to be the first woman and first African to lead. But now the real work begin. Ready to tackle the challenges of WTO. Forget business as usual.

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala speak on behalf of the poor in Nigeria

Dear Editor, Congratulations on your new appointment ma, making you now a global citizen. Please help us remind our leaders particularly the President back here at home, Nigeria that they should at least allow us to enjoy little of the dividends of democracy, for the poor life is much better under the military regime that the hell we are in right now. This stress is too much ooooo. Nigeria is worst than hell right now. The poor will soon turn against the rich and those in power o and there would be nowhere for them to run or hide when it happens. Speak for us in your privileged position ma. God bless you.

By Kotin Matthew Lagos, Nigeria

A tiger doesn’t proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey. ~ Wole Soyinka

In other words, a tiger does not stand in the forest and say, “I am

tiger” . When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you

see skeletons of a duiker [antelope] , you know some tigritude your own trumpet. If you are gorgeous or good or great, people

will know. If you have to proclaim your ‘tigritude’, then you are

not a true tiger ~ you are a toy

tiger. Don’t be a phoney.

Be authentic!

Meet the Nigerian Corruption Cop, Ngozi OkonjoIweala: Lagarde Expects Will ‘Rock’ the WTO

The incoming chief of the World Trade Organization has a reputation for shaking up the guardians of wealth and power that will come in handy in her new role. During Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s effort to root out corruption during her first stint as Nigeria’s finance minister, opponents of her plans nicknamed her “Okonjo Wahala” - “Okonjo the trouble maker.” The 66-year-old development economist embraces the moniker and true to form, trouble was what OkonjoIweala withstood campaigning for the WTO job. Finding herself on the wrong side of the Trump administration, her lack of trade-negotiating experience made her the target of a unilateral U.S. veto despite the endorsement of the organization’s selection committee and almost all other member nations. Now, with President Joe Biden’s administration’s blessing after the only other candidate withdrew, Okonjo-Iweala ha been elected to become the first woman and the first African to lead the WTO in its 25-year history. She will also be the first African citizen to hold the organization’s top job. “She is this wonderful, soft, very gentle woman with an authentic approach to problems but, boy, under that soft glove there is a hard hand and a strong will behind it,” European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said in an interview. “She is going to rock the place.” The WTO badly needs to be shaken up. All three pillars of the Geneva-based trade body’s work are under threat. Its usefulness has been called into question as China’s brand of state capitalism increases its footprint on the global economy, fomenting criticism from Brussels to Brasilia. The organization has struggled to produce meaningful multilateral agreements, its trade-monitoring function consistently under performs and former U.S. President Donald Trump neutralized the WTO appellate body in late 2019. With a budget last year totaling $220 million and a staff of more than 600, it has become a toothless bureaucracy during the most disruptive period for international commerce in generations. Add the pandemic to the turmoil, and the WTO’s most substantive work was ground to a near standstill last year and spurred its previous director-general to quit unexpectedly. Okonjo-Iweala has pledged to find common ground among the trade body’s disparate membership. She hopes to score some early negotiating wins such as a multilateral accord to curb harmful fishing subsidies as a means to restore trust and build momentum for larger deals. She’s also optimistic about prospects for an agreement to govern the $26 trillion global e-commerce marketplace, which could reduce cross-border hurdles for U.S. technology companies like Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. During her campaign for the job, Okonjo-Iweala portrayed herself as both a trade outsider and a power broker in global finance, pointing to a 2005 agreement she helped secure to write off $18 billion of Nigeria’s debt to the Paris Club, a group of mostly western government creditors. Okonjo-Iweala persuaded skeptics like former U.S. President George W. Bush that despite the high price of crude at the time, Nigeria’s $25 billion in oil revenue only amounted to 50 cents a day for each Nigerian, and debt relief was necessary to put Nigeria on the right track. “The way she brought about the debt deal was incredible,” said David de Ferranti, who worked with her at the World Bank. “Very few people could have done that.” Okonjo-Iweala graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1976 and earned her doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. After moving to Washington, she quickly rose through the

ranks at the World Bank and in 2013 was named managing director -- the organization’s highest unelected position. Until recently, Okonjo-Iweala served as the board chair at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, an experience that could help the WTO navigate the health and economic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic. “She will bring a different kind of global perspective to the WTO than anyone before her,” former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a phone interview. “She has a global view of challenges and problems and is insightful about solutions.” During her two terms as Nigeria’s top finance official, Okonjo-Iweala helped stabilize one of the world’s most volatile economies by leading significant reforms to the country’s energybased economy. The issues she confronted in that role were politically thorny, economically ponderous and personally dangerous. Her efforts led to death threats from entrenched interests and in 2012 a group of kidnappers -- frustrated by Okonjo-Iweala’s efforts to fight corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry -- abducted her 83-year-old mother and demanded she resign immediately.

Okonjo-Iweala immersed herself in work and recalled the advice of her father - a Nigerian king who told her as a child to “never allow anyone to intimidate or blackmail you.” Ultimately, her mother survived the ordeal. As the WTO’s next director-general, she’s going to need fortitude and persistence. Among the most significant challenges before any repair work begins: undoing the deep level of mistrust between rich economies and those of the developing world. That bad blood has given rise to protectionism -- the antithesis of the WTO’s mission of “open trade for the benefit of all.” Okonjo-Iweala is aware that a big part of her job will be refereeing the trade battles between the China and the west. “You have developed-country members who believe they have borne the burden of liberalization too much of it and that maybe advanced developing countries have maybe not borne enough,” she told Bloomberg in a phone interview. “I’ll be listening to the developed countries, listening to the advanced-developing countries and the least-developed countries and asking ‘Where is there common ground?’”

By Bryce Baschuk

Inearly forgot, that last month marked my one year anniversary, working at the retirement home/hospital until my #angelawambua sent me a congratulatory message to me, then a second from #Dirktenbrink a third from #vivianegermany and a fourth from #Susanmgustafson. The good thing about LinkedIn, it helps you keep track of your professional journey, the good, the bad and the ugly. The ups and the downs, the changes and the no changes. I remember a time when I had not updated my account for what felt like eons, by then I was in a professional impasse! Or more a professional limbo! Having just moved to France with my one year old son, I was a journalist with no job. Nearly ten years of experience going to waste. I was not wielding my weapon (read pen) anymore; I was depressed and watched myself go deeper and deeper into depression without family or friends to help me out. Post maternal depression turned into a deeper depression, not writing rendered me sad and suicidal. And all the while I could not help think how karma has humour. I used to write about challenges that face mothers especially in under developed countries and here I was in a developed country not even able to find help to pull me through this! Then one day a former colleague and Editor in the Netherlands, Elvis Iruh told me something I will forever remember ‘you have to be patience, we all started out just like you, we all struggled when we moved to Europe it may take years but you will finally make it. Do not give up you may have to do jobs ways below your education level but those are steppingstones’. He was right. It took me years but finally it came to me, cooking and my fitness routine had helped me pull through years of depression, so I thought it was down to the two. Becoming a fitness instructor was my first choice, but I soon realized I would not afford it. At my age; well into my 30s I would not be considered for funding and it was not considered important training to enter into the job market. But I had plan B, become a chef and that worked. France is known for its superb gastronomy the rate at which they channel out professional cooks is impressing, however the rate at which professional cooks quickly change professions or choose to go work in countries where working conditions for chefs are much better than here leaves the country in a deficit as far as chefs go. Funding for that was readily available. So all that was left was to get the 15,000 euros I needed for a year of school fees. And I did thanks to my counsellor at the Job employment offices. In two months I was in. but that journey is a story for another day……. It is this impasse that led me to where I am today, one year in a job I never thought I would find myself in, one year in which I have learnt so much, cried a lot, laughed as much, danced like never before, loved and lived, felt happiness and sorrow, made and lost beautiful souls. And if I had to, I would do it all

By Elizabeth Kameo

again without changing a thing. And so the messages from Angela, Dirk, Viviane and Susan had me thinking back on the last years, 2020: I know many people think of it as a ‘dead one’ but for me 2020 was my new beginning. I am proud of myself and where I am and so is my son. Whenever I come back home he asks how my day went and I gladly recount the stories, what resident said what or did what, who was in a good or bad mood and how it all went. More than once he has said to me ‘mum you know I am so proud of you, for all you do for the retired people and those on the Alzheimer’s, ward. You are not just a cook, you are much more”. And he is right, when my immediate boss called me in for my end of year review, she informed me of how they were contented with my work. In fact she told me my reference chef had said, “Elizabeth is the perfect employee. She is always happy; she makes an effort to know not only her colleagues but also the residents. In such a short time she has been able to create a connection between her and everyone around her that is positive’. I may not always wake up on the right side of bed but I do know that once I tap the code on the door, get into my work outfit, whatever happened outside the hospital stays out. I get into my professional self and work my magic am proud of what I have accomplished. I love the residents; I love talking to them and relating to them. I have come to know their stories, I try to change their days if not through the food then through the way I relate with them. Take for example, Madame L she is one of my greatest

accomplishments. My heart fills with joy whenever I say hello to her and she responds, see, she keeps to herself, in her room, never getting out at all; the first time I said hello she quickly turned around and went back to her room. I never gave up, whenever I would see her I would smile, my most charming and heart-warming smile and say “bonjour” and one day after weeks, she smiled back and responded. Now that was a triumph. Ever since that day whenever I greet her she responds. Last Christmas, we managed to get her to eat in the dining room with the rest of the residents. She even had a glass of wine. I was on cloud nine. Then there is Yvette, she asked me to stop calling her Madame. Yvette always hangs out with her girlfriend; they have been friends forever and now live in the same retirement home. She once told me ‘I pray that like us you will have a friend or two to share all your life with”. Mr. L who is always asking me to check on his cousin who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and Marie T who knitted me a scarf in one of my favourite colour for a Christmas present. PS: Mr. L reserved me a dance during the Christmas party. How luckier can a girl get! This last year I have strived not only to do a good job but to put the small things that really matter first. Caring, understanding, sympathy, empathy, kindness and humanity. With the residents and with my workmates. Of course it does not always work out as planned with workmates but I push on. After all, I did not get a job to make enemies. I love waking up and getting ready to go to work, here I have met some of the most interesting people, they talk to me without hesitation, they are always hopeful ad smiling, they make me see the best side of life, they always have a lesson for or a word of wisdom for me. I do not just go to work to work, I go to work to put smiles on the faces of all those that look up to me and my colleagues to make their lives as comfortable and as great as we can. I go to work to learn. And every day I think about my next stage of my career. Dietician, food for therapy chef or………… Like I told Dirk, this is no glamorous gastronomy chef job, I do not get to dress plates, sometimes I wish I could, but as glamour on the humanity scale goes, my job is as glamorous if not more as working in a gastronomy restaurant.

Elizabeth Kameo is an experienced Journalist and Media Consultant with a demonstrated history of written Press Journalism and PR work. She is currently pursuing a second career working as a chef in the hospital & health care industry in France. She is skilled in News Writing, Event Management, Editing, Journalism, and Corporate Communications. She also has strong marketing professional skills graduating from AFPA Brive-la-Gailarde with a Diploma in French Culinary studies. Help me to welcome Elzabeth Kameo back into The Voice news magazine fold where she can continue with her writing skills and starting with this edition, she would be contributing her personal write ups, unique and exclusive to her. Thank you for not giving up on yourself. TV Management.

Curfew extended to March 23; High schools, hairdressers to reopen and other restrictions relaxed. “Your behavior matters”

The caretaker Cabinet of the Netherlands has agreed to extend the country’s first mandatory curfew since World War II through the early morning hours of March 15, but will relax some restrictions affecting education, retail, close-contact services, and sports for young adults. “With extra space comes extra responsibility,” Prime Minister Mark Rutte cautioned during a press conference with Health Minister Hugo de Jonge on Tuesday night. “Your behavior matters,” Rutte said, while expressing his displeasure that 25 percent of those who test positive said they still go grocery shopping or take their dog out for a walk. After initially reflecting on the fact that a year has passed since the Netherlands discovered the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the country, he said the country was still in an “incredibly difficult” situation due to the continued emergence of more contagious variants of the virus. Despite this, “We are now entering a phase where we are prepared to take a little more risk,” he stated. “The longer the crisis lasts, the harder it is for us,” before specifically expressing concern for those dealing with “learning disabilities, loneliness and depression among the elderly and young, entrepreneurs who are struggling.” Even though the average number of daily coronavirus infections has increased by five percent since Rutte’s last major press conference three weeks ago, the prime minister said it was important that all students get back into the classroom for the sake of their mental health. High schools, secondary vocational schools, and secondary special education programs will be allowed to let students back in the classroom on a part time basis as of March 1. The students will physically attend their schools at least one day per week, provided that students, staff and teachers keep a distance of 1.5 meters from each other. Schools will be given some flexibility to divide classes.

Norwegian professor received death threats from Ethiopians in exile

One of the world’s leading experts on Ethiopia, Professor Kjetil Tronvoll, is being harassed by Ethiopian authorities, and has received death threats from Ethiopians in exile. Tronvoll is professor of peace and conflict studies at Bjørknes University College in Oslo and has done research on Ethiopia and Eritrea since the beginning of the 1990s. He also has a background as a professor of human rights from the University of Oslo and has as a researcher been connected to the London School of Economics in the UK, Columbia University in the US, and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. The ethnic and political divides are strong in Ethiopia and this isn’t the first time Tronvoll’s received harassment and threats. However, when the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who in 2019 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize launched an offensive military operation against The Tigray People’s Liberation Front in November 2020, the agitation and threats against Tronvoll reached another level. The Norwegian professor’s analysis of the offensive was not well received in Addis Ababa. Authorities there started what

Tronvoll calls a well-organized campaign to discredit him. The leader of the Ethiopian intelligence service INSA, Shumete Gizaw, among other things accused Tronvoll of being paid by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front to spread disinformation about the war in The Tigray Region. The accusations are firmly rejected by Tronvoll. Still, they were distributed by the Ethiopian national news agency ENA, and quickly reached Ethiopians in exile, also in Norway. This unleashed a storm of threats, including death threats. Toward the end of December 2020, Tronvoll contacted the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and asked them for help. “There’s an active coordinated campaign of hatred against me, from Ethiopian activists who are spreading false information and unfounded accusations, and which seemingly is coordinated with Ethiopian authorities,” he said. Tronvoll asked that his case be brought up with Ethiopian authorities, and demanded that the accusation from the head of INSA was retracted. The Norwegian MFA confirmed that they were taking the case seriously, and promised mid-January that the Norwegian embassy in Addis Ababa would address the issue “on a general basis” with Ethiopian authorities. The harassment against Tronvoll however didn’t cease. “I can inform you that the formal “campaign” against me in governmental media, where unfounded accusations are being promoted, continues,” he wrote in a new letter to the Norwegian MFA. Recent statements from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed do not suggest that the Ethiopian regime will stop at their attempts to discredit researchers like Tronvoll. At the beginning of this month, the Ethiopian prime minister tweeted to Ethiopians abroad to “hit back” at those who criticize the development in the country. There is little doubt that this message was well received. Tornvoll was to participate in discussions and debates, most recently to join other experts from Egypt and Somalia, organised by the Norwegian Council for Africa to discuss matters affecting Africa. The topic of the debate was the conflicts that have arisen between Ethiopia and neighbouring countries as a consequence of The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. News about the debate resulted in renewed death threats against Tronvoll, allegedly from Ethiopian nationalists and Amhara-activists. The Norwegian Council for Africa found it safest to cancel the event. “We had to prioritize the safety of the participants and their experience of the situation”, says leader of the Council Aurora Nereid to the press.

“To receive threats when you analyze war and human rights abuses is an experience I have lived with for years. But that activists who are encouraged by the Government in one of Norway’s so-called partner countries manage to limit freedom of speech here in Norway, is remarkable,” Tronvoll says. “I hope the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security will handle this issue with the level of seriousness that it demands”, he adds. Ethiopia is one of ten countries that are deemed so-called partner countries in Norwegian development policy. They are selected as partners for long-term development cooperation with Norway, and have for the past 20 years received around 6,3 billion NOK, so close to 744 million USD, of Norwegian development funds. This is according to figures from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. According to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia received around 500 million NOK last year, and 700 million NOK the year before that. The Norwegian News Agency NTB have requested to see the communication between the Norwegian embassy in Addis Ababa and Ethiopian authorities concerning the harassment and threats that Tronvoll has been subjected to. They have yet to receive an answer. State Secretary Jens Frølich Holte writes in a general answer to Tronvoll that he should consider reporting the threats he has received to the police. “Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide, has expressed concern about hate speech and has raised the issue of respect for human rights during talks with Ethiopian authorities. We will continue to do this. Serious threats that are presented through social media is something the police should look at. Such issues should be

reported to the police,” Frølich Holte says. Tronvoll is not too happy about this response. He points to the fact that such a police case most likely ends up being suspended. “This is why I’ve sent a note of concern to The Norwegian Police Security Service in November last year, asking them to do a risk assessment of my situation. They however declined this, as they claimed it was not within their mandate,” says Tronvoll. The Ethiopian embassy in Sweden, which is also accredited in Norway, denies any knowledge of death threats against Tronvoll.

Shell may re-evaluate Oil Operations Onshore Nigeria

Persistent issues with theft and sabotage in the Niger Delta could prompt Shell to take a hard look at its operations onshore Nigeria, the super major’s chief executive Ben van Beurden said this last month. “Our onshore oil position, despite all the efforts we put in against theft and sabotage, is under challenge,” van Beurden told reporters, as carried by international media organizations, after Shell reported another set of weak Big Oil results affected by the pandemic. “But developments like we are still seeing at the moment Shell has been flagging for years problems with crude oil theft on its pipeline network onshore Nigeria. Last month, The Hague Court of Appeal ordered Shell to compensate Nigerian farmers for two oil spills in the country 13 years ago, in the first lawsuit in which a company has been held liable in the Netherlands for its actions abroad. The ruling of the Dutch court is setting a precedent for future lawsuits brought against oil firms in the countries where they are based, instead of the countries where oil

mean that we have to take another hard look at our position in onshore oil in Nigeria,” Shell’s top executive added. spills or oil pollution has allegedly taken place. Shell, for its part, continues to say that the spills were the result of sabotage, which has been frequent in the Niger Delta in Nigeria. “We continue to believe that the spills in Oruma and Goi were the result of sabotage. We are therefore disappointed that this court has made a different finding on the cause of these spills and in its finding that” the Nigerian unit of Shell is liable, the Anglo-Dutch major said in a statement, as carried by the press. “Sabotage, crude oil theft and illegal refining are a major challenge in the Niger Delta,” Shell noted. By Charles Kennedy