The first part of this series on cassava bread appeared on Monday last week; it could not have come at a better time. On Wednesday, June 11, 2012, after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, announced that President Goodluck Jonathan had approved two major incentives aimed at encouraging the production of cassava in the country.

Every Christian expects to go to heaven. But surprisingly, Jesus’ kingdom dynamics predicts different. Jesus says: “The last will be first, and the first last.” (Matthew 20:16). Christians are today’s first who will be tomorrow’s last. Jesus says furthermore: “The sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:12). Christians are today’s sons of the kingdom.

Times are never the same, it seems the universe is in a constant state of perpetual motion. The result is an evolution of man and humanity and different worlds emerge as time passes. I have always doubted my place in this generation; I don’t always fit in with the ideas of my contemporaries and my sense of not belonging is re enforced by my choices that are not always the expected or approved.

Adeola Hollway Oduyemi is the founder and Executive Director of IHH Educational Consultant, a Training Company based in Ontario Canada. She is an educationist and instructor who specialises in early childhood development. She is also a therapist and member of a Multi-disciplinary team of Applied Behavior Analysts (ABA).

THE ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”.