Introspective

The Myth of New Year Resolutions: Why 2025 Won’t Magically Save You

As we inch closer to the dawn of 2025, the air is thick with the buzz of "New Year, New Me" proclamations. Across the...

The Ageless Myth: Is Age Really Just a State of Mind?

The concept of aging has long been considered a biological certainty, as though an unavoidable countdown is inscribed within our very DNA. Yet, mounting...

Day Dele Momodu Made Me Live Above My Means

These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian Nigeria. Pathetic flaunting of clannish power is all the rage, and a good number of supposedly...

What the Maroon-Robed One Told Zaina

Zaina was about to hang herself when she saw the snake. As the serpent’s neck swayed closer to her, her hands slipped from the branch and she fell…

Keep Your Eyes Open

Go back home, African. Next time you are called to a meeting, keep your eyes open...

The Turning Points of Life

If you desire an improvement in the future, you have to set in motion today the circumstances that could bring it about…

The Prophet In Us

In many cases, individuals who have had dreams or prophecies about themselves have gone on to interpret them as applying to the world or others, when in fact the message was a coded one for their personal consumption and utility.

The Farmer Who Queried God

God of harvest, why have you forsaken me? And made my days of labor to be in vain?

Strategy Is Everything

Why are some people happy and others unhappy? Why are some people rich and others poor?

Success Is Free

You can choose a goal and decide whether you want to do the work that is required or not. You're free to choose success. You're at liberty to accept success. Everyone is invited but not everyone will accept the invitation.

Room at the Top

You can always get better, do more, fly higher, reach farther...

Don't miss

On the History of Nigeria Railways

What was left for us by the British as a legacy of colonialism, we found it difficult to build on, not to talk of sustaining and improving it, contrary to such in other parts of the world. That is the way Nigeria has gone…

UNIBEN Flags Off Student Work Study Programme, SWSP

Benin City Nigeria…Professor Lilian Imuetinyan Salami, Vice Chancellor of...

Leadership And Responsibilty

I don’t know whether Nigeria has reached the stage where everyone will not be satisfied until each of us becomes literally a local government; so that I can trot to Abuja to go and collect my allocation...

Prof. Chinedu Nebo: The Minister for Power with a Difference

Professor Nebo has been taking the advantage of this unique opportunity in Nigeria’s history to enact serious vestibule reforms. His attitude to work shows that Professor Nebo knew before he mounted the saddle that he owed it to the Nigerian citizens in whose interest he was sent to the ministry to root out dishonesty...

America Issues A Tepid Response on Egypt! Why?

The average American wants to know why some are vehemently and stridently against American policies in the Middle East and most of the world? The answer is the hypocrisies and double standards which American government demonstrate again and again!

Faulting CBN’s Rationale for Daily Cash Withdrawal Limits

I consider as very improper the use of regulatory or legislative fiat to limit daily cash withdrawals by bank customers. Whose money are depositors withdrawing? Worse still, it is unpardonable to penalize them for withdrawing above a particular limit...

At The Brink Of A Watershed

"Dear God, I have sinned against you and almost broken the vow I made before you. Did you not say that anyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed fornication in his heart with her? Please forgive me..."

Bullying is the New Normal in America

From its inception, the United States Presidency has been...

10 Reasons Why the APC Will Win Oyo Gubernatorial Race

I was a proud witness and participant in the...

Alhaji

Nigerians!  We are very good at our usual copy, copy.  We can’t wait to follow, follow.  We love honour and adulation but we are never prepared to put in the commensurate hard work.  Shortcuts and arbitrariness is our thing.  When and how did Mrs Fashola become a Dame?