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                                                                                                                     Do you see a man skilled in his work?                                            He will serve before kings:                                            he will not serve before obscure men. ~ Proverbs 22:29 (NIV) As we come to the close of the year, it is prudent that each one of us takes stock of what we have accomplished throughout 2015 viz a viz the goa...

Just like anyone else, a few weeks ago I read about The Nobel Committee’s ‘regret’ in selecting President Barrack Obama as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 with very little emotion. The award, you could quietly tell,was as a result of the Obamamania wave sweeping across the world before and after his election in 2008. Everyone wanted a piece of him for themselves and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee was not to be left behind.Heck!Even Kenya couldn’t hold herself together and had to have a public holiday in his honour! Details of the decision making moment having revolved around a Norwegian Beer festival probably helped the committee let their hair down , according to Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.That everyone was ‘’legless drunk ’’ as they listened to Obama’s Cairo speech repeatedly with the realization that America would now be led by a black man,probably elicited the Schadenfreude phenomenon persuading them in their inebriat...