Introspective

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...

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...

Respect Yourself!

People are not looking for a perfect man. Even fools know that there is none who is perfect.  But people hunger for a leader who first respects himself by not disrespecting his followers...

Beyond Religion and Culture: Spiritual Musings 4

Many Christians believe in their pastors, rather than in their bible. Many Muslims believe in their Imams, rather than in their Koran...

Spiritual Musings 2

A friend on Facebook freshly asked that as I profess so much that ‘love’ should be shown to all equally, whether I would give a homosexual the same quantity of reverence, kindheartedness and communal insertion that I would a hetero in Nigeria...

The Chinese Bamboo Tree: A Lesson in Perseverance, Patience and Persistence

In life, there will be challenging times. You can work on your dreams for weeks, months and even years with no visible signs of progress and then, all of a sudden, things take off. People who patiently toil towards their dreams and goals, building strong character while overcoming adversity and challenge, grow the strong internal structure to handle success when it eventually comes...

You Will Laugh Again

What many people do not know or realize is that contentment cannot be bought with money, although money is very necessary in life. Contentment should not be measured by material acquisitions, but by the satisfaction that comes inwardly...

Hamid Karzai in the Taliban's Den: US policy in reverse gear

The recent deadly bombs that exploded In Afghanistan must worry President Hamid Karzai, as the United States has irrevocably decided to draw down its troops in Afghanistan...

What We Don’t Understand About “No”

Self esteem plays a lot into so many things in life. It plays a much larger role than we care to admit. It exacerbates many other emotions that might more readily be kept under control with sound reasoning...

And My Name Shall Be Called…

I need an urgent name change before my profession goes the way of ‘dinosaurian’ extinction all because I refuse to go with the times by adopting a ‘cool’, ‘happening’ tag...

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Nigeria @ 52: The Agony of President Jonathan’s Heresy

Regrettably, Nigerian presidents - especially the last eight - have not been honest in their state of the nation addresses.   Their speeches are clustered around political correctness rather than providing honest and accurate information to the people...

Apples of Paradise and Buhari’s Ministers

A wise man with a wide following was once...

Osun: Progress in Spite of Fractured Politics

In the last three years, the alleged hostilities between...

Thiery: Migration Of A Play Maker

Arsenal FC fans like Ben Ejimandu believed that Thierry Henry has all the makings of a consummate and an international football marksman...

President Buhari’s Politics of Exclusion

Let me make a confession from the outset. I...

Al Sharpton Has Proved He Can Transform Himself And America

Discrimination is still a long way from being ended in God's own country and Leader of the Free World. That is the bad News. The good News is that America has come a long, long way in seeking racial equality, and has arguably done a far better job in that regard than any other country in this planet...

Are the Meek Inheriting The Earth in Nigeria?

In Nigeria today, the standard that established what is good or bad has been replaced by get-rich-quick syndrome – at all cost. These days, many Christians have abandoned the "Old churches" that have failed to adjust to the new trend of posterity teachings...

Nigeria Civil Service and Salary fraudsters

The issue of ghost workers has become the bane and a recurring decimal of the Nigerian civil service, and it appears that there is no concrete mechanism in place to put it to an end...

Edwin Clark versus Nigeria

Part of the significant changes that came with the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in Nigerian national discourse are the metamorphosis of and the new role assumed by Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke...

Nigeria: The Monster In Our Midst

While the hurricane of impeachment continues to blow hot in Plateau State and Anambra State, a lot of questions are yet to find answers...