Introspective

Detribalised Does Not Mean What Most Nigerians Think It Means

Nobody Asked Me, But… “Ah, that man is very detribalised.” In Nigeria, this is almost always a compliment. It is what we say about the politician who...

Call Me Tony: A Parable of Corporate Nigeria

By Temitope Lakisokun The argument over the young trainee who addressed UBA chairman Tony Elumelu by his first name has become a surprisingly revealing debate...

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...

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...

The Habits of Success

People have the opinion that being successful means having lots of money. That's false...it's only a beginning. It is just one of the many gauges to measure success.

Get In The Driver's Seat of Your Life!

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Step on The Cutting Edge

The amount of love you have for what you are doing will determine how well it turns out and how far you will go.

A Commitment to Excellence

What are your skills and strengths? In which areas lie your competencies? What do you enjoy doing? What things could you do very easily? What skills do you have that produce results that are of high value to others?

Grow Rich While You Sleep!

A lot of folks sleep for upwards of eight hours in a day. By the time they're sixty, they'd have slept for 20 years! Here's how to use the sleep state to become richer

Standard of Good and Evil (Judge not lest thou be judged)

It is important to differentiate between the laws of society (which is not perfect) and the laws of God, which is impartial, infallible and non-partisan.

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Laurent Gbagbo, a Stray Scapegoat in the Den of Lions

This piece is not an attempt to hold forte for Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, nor to malign him either, but rather to bring to the attention of the world some salient international treachery against African leaders and in so many instances against third world countries...

What If Atiku Becomes President?

The power play in Nigeria is beginning to jar the nerves and jolt the sensibilities of the vice presidential camp. Some hold on to the view that the vice-president was a little out of line to openly criticize an administration of which he is an integral part…

Christians and the Born-Again Phenomenon

My generation was born, grew up, and came of age at a time when Nigeria was not this disordered. It was a time when poverty was not this rampant and entrenched. It was a time when religion and spirituality was not overly commercialized...

The FG’s $3.05 Billion Poverty Reduction Plan

Poverty is arguably Nigeria’s biggest nemesis, closely followed by...

Truth about African Relationships: Beyond the Rhetoric

Nigerian women in Diaspora love Nigerian men. I can attest to this. They are fiercely protective of us, and they take good care of us too. Woe betides any African man that will deny this...

November 16 Belongs To Chinua Achebe

November 16 belongs to one man who conquered the...

Revolution or revolt eruption?

The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats...

Poverty Alleviation In Nigeria: How Effective?

It appears to me that many Nigerian leaders do not understand what it takes to alleviate the suffering of the poor masses of the country. Their programmes for poverty alleviation can hardly build people’s lives and provide them with better living conditions...

Osun 2026: Hard Logic, Not Loudspeakers

By Afees Adelabu ​The August 15, 2026, race for Osun’s...

China/Taiwan Cross Strait Diplomacy in the Year of the Dragon

This year is a very auspicious year in the Chinese calendar; the Year of the Dragon. The golden dragon may turn out to be the platinum dragon, in due course...