It has been stated that Rivers State’s largest asset is past oil/fuel however within the reservoir of skills in all places; plus human capital growth.
Chief executives of the state that realise this, act otherwise to disclose this and develop it, and the state vibrates, scholarships overseas, coaching schemes, ICT schemes, industrial attachments, SME loans, and so on.
Subsequent is agriculture; each in crops and aquatic assets. In skills, the leisure trade has produced world beaters, however it could do far more if the state’s leaders are intentional about it. Many would simply point out Mercy Johnson, Hilda Dokubo, Yibo Koko, Julius Agwu, Duncan Mighty, Sam Dede, and of late, Burna Boy. The largest of this may very well be locked out within the Authorities Home. It’s the ensemble within the womb of energy, the Brick Home. Sure, energy oozes from there however one thing better than energy booms in there.
Many might ask; what’s stronger than a lion; what’s sweeter than honey? Supply of energy, supply of melody! It might depend upon who pulls the strings.
This author discovered himself Sunday night after many gates and screenings at Authorities Home Chapel. After two doorways, behold, women and men seated in eerie silence, virtually unmoving; in all-white.
Welcome to the Authorities Home Choir, the Ensemble, able to carry out in a particular version to put in their first-ever patron, the Mayor of Housing, My-ACE China. Welcome to ‘a night of grand musical efficiency in reward of God; appreciating excellence in human capital growth initiatives and conferment of Patron and Honorary Member to My-ACE China’. It’s the Chapel of Eternal Grace.
By the point the Music Director, Enitoun Ezekiel Iyalla, and the Chaplain, Joseph Joseph, opened the efficiency, it was ice water within the type of choral classics.
The shock of the night time may very well be the soprano solo by Cameroon Ayebatari, a vision-inspired expertise, who additionally performed the organ. He’s being in contrast with the best sopranos on this planet.
The spotlight of the songs was “Peace, Be Nonetheless” which was devoted to the affairs of Rivers State.
Then, the conferment. Those that talked to this author from the choir stated they had been shocked to find his versatility, educational brilliance (best-graduating scholar in each secondary colleges in Jos with 9 As and on the College of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), generosity, and above all, his fire-burning non secular life.
The thing is to advertise the choir past being an ensemble in an enclosure. It should escape to the world. The approaching of the Mayor of Housing might guarantee this as a result of he’s a born marketer who doesn’t consider that good ought to conceal for evil to outshine.
Phrases have by no means been sufficient to explain songs. So, it could want to listen to from the ensemble to know what resides on this state past oil.
The choir started as choral music present in Historical Greece and in up to date European choral settings. David employed it within the Bible to calm a troubled king?
The Authorities Home Choir thrilled the small viewers with George Frideric Handel’s classical of the Alleluia Messiah droplets.
The Mayor made pledges and the hope to excel and discover returned.
The night time ended pleasurably with hopes that the hiding was over and that this nice asset would escape from the partitions of the Chapel to the world in want of peace. That is what the Mayor of Housing has vowed to make sure. In any case, he’s a United Nations Peace Ambassador.
