Thursday, 25 December 2014

SAMPLE APPRECIATION LETTER( for ACE FOUNDATION)

11/09/14
The Chief Executive Officer                                                                                                       Roban Stores Ltd                                                                                                                 Bisala Rd Enugu

Dear Sir
        
 LETTER OF APPRECIATION FOR ACE GRADUATE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP GRANT
I was highly excited to learn that I was selected as the recipient of your scholarship and I am writing to thank you and remind you that reverence to God is in two parts -regular worship and charity. It simply means you have given God glory and blessed me on earth by sponsoring me to the ACE GRADUATE SCHOOL.

I am an aspiring entrepreneur and going through the entrepreneurship class in ACE will go a long way to expose me to the rudiments of growing new businesses. You have caused a positive ripple in the society by this largesse and I give you my word that Nigeria will be blessed by this action of yours.

Thanks a great deal and may God repay you with perfect health and peace of mind to enjoy the wealth of your sweat.


Sincerely,                                                                                                                                     Ekemba Dawkin L                                                                                                                         ACE Graduate School                                                                                                                   Enugu.

Sunday, 21 December 2014

Qoute

Lets stop paying attention to the discouragement in things that are difficult; but take solace in the fact that those same things are possible with work and steadfastness, even as we also give our undying unbelief to the things we surely cannot do and double faith on things we can accomplish.
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                         Ekemba Dawkin L
                                                                         

Friday, 19 December 2014

SAMPLE APPEAL LETTER(written for ACE FOUNDATION)

Ekemba Dawkin                                                                                                                         Editor ACE PARCELS                                                                                                                 ACE FOUNDATION                                                                                                                   House 45                                                                                                                                   Coal City Garden Estate                                                                                                               Enugu

08/08/14

Engr Arthur Eze(Ozoigbondu of Igboland)                                                                                     The CEO                                                                                                                                     Atlas Oranto Petroleum International                                                                                               West Africa

Dear Sir
Your knack for the upliftment of the human society through social giving and charitable works is so astonishing and without boastful showing off that Forbes recognizes you as one of the greatest philanthropists in the entire body of Africa. It was even more evident that you hate to see the vulnerable suffer  in your 2011 flood relief efforts donation of estimated $6.3m .Such generous hearts are few to find in a struggling African continent; and Nigerian youths and elders and Nigeria as a society too have been blessed because of your unostentatious giving lifestyle. What more can we say; you are a blessed man but God, the unyielding  eye of the universe ,will see to whatever else is a need in your life especially as your donations have also gone into the building of worship places for God.

However,I am writing this letter on behalf of ACE FOUNDATION.This organisation works for the unempowered youths, men and women of Nigeria. It aims to raise a million value driven men and women who are equipped with both soft and hard skills for different vocations through the ACE GRADUATE SCHOOL using scripture based principles that cannot fail to teach CITIZENRY,APPRENTICESHIP,ENTREPRENEURSHIP and LEADERSHIP courses. And the broad idea is that these ones will not only have a means of livelihood but will keep impacting others in the rest of the society so that unemployability, incompetence, mediocrity, corruption, poverty and other social vices will continue to be scaled down as Nigerian hopes for a saner and more decent society. We graduate students from these programmes four times every year and have branches in Portharcourt,  Lagos, Enugu, Abuja and the United Kingdom.

To continue this drive, however, we need some financial support. The work we do is enormous and we require a lot of finance to

(1)Run our facilities,4 in Nigeria and 1 in the UK
(2)Maintain our huge staff strength across 4 locations in Nigeria and 1 abroad.
(3)Give full scholarship to our outstanding students.
(4)Provide start-up capital for students who come up with great and smart business ideas.
(5)Organise graduation ceremonies and host conferences to expose our graduates to employers and investors.
(6)Publish our monthly magazine, PARCELS.

Our next conference is on the 23rd of August with our Grand Patron,Prof Pat Utomi and other industrialists and investors across the country, while our next graduation is on September and we would be grateful to receive your contribution to enable us carry out these programmes.

We have continued to receive testimonies of uplifted lives from our alumni and your kind donation will once more equip and change the lives of more Nigerians as we look forward to successful   conferences and programmes in the coming months and years.

Thank you as we kindly await your response.
Yours faithfully

Ekemba Dawkin                                                                                                                           ACE FOUNDATION                                                                                                                   Enugu,Nigeria
                                                                                                                           

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Coves and Covens (Poem)


The prayer of the monks is the bad of the world
So the terror mongers sound a call to the priests
Come out of your deep silent coves
And awe inspiring, God reminding waterfalls;
For the peace you seek you shall not get.
Our prayer is the good of the world,
A piece of justice.
Just change your supplications
And see us out of our covens.'

Sunday, 30 November 2014

LIFE AND NUMBERS (Article written for ACE FOUNDATION)

                                                  
What is the true significance of 3.Is it superstitious, biblical, astrological or simply secular the attachments or beliefs held by people on the usage and combination of numbers say 3, 6, 9…..333, 666, 999…?

The answer is with you, so you tell me. What of combinations like 1312, 1582, 1972, and 1989? What meanings do they hold for you? Sorry if you are number- phobic, but we want you to examine the facts and the truth presented by numbers because all facts are true but not all truth are facts. Peter was a professional fisher man and had worked all night but could not make a single catch. That was a fact. But Jesus met him in the morning and told him that if he would cast his net, he would have a bountiful harvest or catch. Who was this man, untutored in the art of fishing? But then, Peter obeyed, and behold, his net was tearing apart due to the weight of the fish his net caught. You see? That was the truth, above the fact that Peter knew, berried in the supreme power of the author and potter unrivalled of the universe.

He is the Master, so you bandy around your facts, he tosses you the truth almost casually and if you don’t have eyes you will not see. Peter had the fact, but then, Jesus had and has the truth.

September 4, 1972, we obtained a certain fact, which drove and led us up to 1989 and then continued again till September 4, 2014. If you are good at math, you have 17 years and 25 years in between and if you removed 1989 from the equation we have a total duration of 42 years. What do these numbers mean in your life?

Anyway, that’s what we gathered to celebrate on Sunday, the 14th of September, 2014 at House 45, Coal City Garden Estate, Enugu, Nigeria. We gathered to recount the facts of his birth date and to celebrate the truth about his mission on earth; which entails the raising of millions of men and women who will shine bright like diamonds and glow worms in the heart of darkness to show the world light. It was really the least men and women of ACE FOUNDATION could do – to gather and thank God for the coming to the earth of this one son who is striving to help men and women shun pretty cheap pettiness and very low yielding average life.

And like his supportive wife duly recounted, if ACE FOUNDATION has grown to the present status within a very short period of time, having started out in an extremely poor abode only fit for low-lifers at Zik Avenue; it is indeed true we are getting to the Everest which God has shown our founder and mentor in the vision.

Men will be amazed and earthly creatures will remain even more stupefied where God is taking ACE FOUNDATION through the many subsidiaries like ACE GRADUATE SCHOOL, ACE CHARITY and ACE MEDIA.
Pastor Chiefo Ejiofobiri is the man. Please help us celebrate the truth about his birth date and call date (God’s call to work), while you reflect on the significance of the numbers of your life.

Cheerio                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ekemba Dawkin L                                                                                                                         Editor ACE Weekly Newsletter

Friday, 28 November 2014

LITTLE DAYS AND LITTLE SINS (SAMPLE ARTICLE for ACE FOUNDATION)

Rising per morning and retiring per evening from the obscure neighbourhoods in the hostile streets of Johannesburg, deserted villages of Maiduguri, the troubled clouds of Ukraine, the bleeding skies of Iraq and the sweating, barren soils in the creeks of Ogoni land, you curse and accuse your leaders and presidents with clenched teeth and blank eyes.

You sit and wonder why and how they can’t just get just get these anomalies to stop and then make the world a honey land of no stinging bees. You are just one insignificant, unnoticed creature in a location that the maps did not capture and you can’t help anything. Just a solitary, wishful thinker gleaning a beautiful, peaceful, lawful, and fruitful human habitat in his crying mind. Bland utopian vision from a little man with a little life of no eventual consequence.

You are nowhere in the map, so you drink your sachet water and toss the sachet on the street. You write exams and you cheat. You enter the mall and you pilfer. You are late at meetings and you don’t respect the standing rules. These things don’t matter because the real havoc wreckers are in Pretoria, Abuja and Baghdad. Real little sins of no consequences in your little days?

You lie, because there are seasons and cycles, at least judging from the sprouting of seedlings in the spring and drying up of tendrils at autumn. You think your little foxes will suddenly flee when the spring arrives and your little days are over and you grab a mantle? Nay! They would have grown fat like you too, and when you do one small pilfering, the economy of a nation tumbles and recession sets in and people go hungry because at thrones there are only big sins and big consequences.

ACE GRADUATE SCHOOL is established to deal with your little sins while there is still time through the Leadership, Apprenticeship, Entrepreneurship and Citizenship course she offers. Time will only wait for men who join her train.



Ekemba Dawkin L

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Horror In The Mirror (Poem)

The weak and the poor must be given a face
Cause even the strong and wealthy live by grace
And all tyrants must stand before a mirror
So they can get a glimpse of the horror
They daily serve the minnows
And seek repentance through all possible windows.

                            By Seif(Dawkin Ekemba)



Monday, 17 November 2014

THE COAL CITY SONGSTRESS (Poem)

Today marks the birthing of our womb                                                                                       The womb of our rod and throne                                                                                                 The throne of our emergence as victors                                                                                           And the victory we freely wield                                                                                                     As the authority and dominion holders of the earth                                                                           As granted us by Calvary blood
Today, crest raised towards heaven and graciously perched                                                             With tightly gripping talons and webbed feet                                                                                   At the peak of the city hills                                                                                                             As though in the spike of the church of Rome                                                                                   Is our queen of songs, Mummy Chinwe Ejiofobiri                                                                           Teasing the strings of her urbane violin                                                                                         And nudging our king on to gallantry                                                                                             In rightful purpose and duty and crown                                                                                           With songs of the pure soul, Mother Theresa                                                                                   Lyrics of the brave heart, Malala                                                                                                   And mutterings of solitary nuns and monks                                                                                     As we honour and celebrate her.                                                                                                                         
Thank you for choosing to come today                                                                                           Our dearest songstress                                                                                                                 Of pretty, virtuous and diligent fingers                                                                                           Even as we giggle and chatter and clatter and gorge your melody                                                     Thank you for being the executor of our home                                                                                 The home of our lion hearted and elephant tusked  king, your husband                                               Thank you for letting him enter his rest                                                                                           Thank you for the escapades and victories                                                                                     Wrought by your sonorous songs                                                                                                   Among the champions and children of ACE.                                                                                 Thank you for the long, wide wings and feathers of your shelter for us.                                                              
If God’s blessings and beauty, grace and good health,                                                                     Peace and prosperity, joy and generosity,                                                                                       Favour and influence, anointing and dominion,                                                                               Love and strength are enough                                                                                                         Then that’s our humble prayer for you                                                                                           This day of your coming.

Happy birthday, mother.   

                                                                                                  Ekemba Dawkin (self)                             

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There is nothing you are going to do that has not been done,except you want to make history and etch  your name in diamond,and that's the noble path; because though names have been etched before, they have never been done exactly your way.
                                                                                                                    --- Self