Inspiring greatness-based ideas
Talk is cheap. Reason is costly because it walks a talk. Since Benedict XVI announced his intention to abdicate papacy and did follow it up with February 28, 2013, historic resignation, six centuries after a reigning pope last followed that step, The Dragnet, has not rested. Calls and text messages have not just been raining but pouring urging the column Read more
Man enjoys without effort a natural disposition towards war. Peace is attained and maintained only with discipline. The history of man is a history of wars. A study made by a learned Professor of Brussels on wars from 1496 B. C to A. D 1861, a period equivalent to 3, 357 years revealed that of those 3, 357 years, there Read more
Our age offers more knowledge than the previous. From knowing that mangoes ripe, we have come to know that a reigning Supreme Pontiff can resign. This is knowledge for its own sake. Some knowledge can be consequential. Knowledge of evil leads to practice of that vice. We have come to know that abuse of power can be a habit of Read more
Ordinarily, by last weekend, the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, (January-March 2013) issue would have hit African newsstands. Unfortunately, not even the editors themselves knew that the October-December 2012 issue with the cover theme “The Future” would be its last after over two decades of magazine production covering A-Z of Africa. Responding to the article I had sent for the Read more
More than ever, Nigerians live in a world that is not just sexually charged, politically tensed, criminally attractive but religiously confused. We live in a country where money determines virtually everything we do. Money determines the air we breathe, the church we belong, the pastor we revere, the education we get, and perhaps the life partner we choose and who Read more
After this column published ‘Ten Million Phones for Farmers- A Joke Carried Too Far’ a friend called in asking to be sure that Agricultural Minister, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina had a plan to loan ten million phones to farmers with tax payers’ money as a best way to boost agricultural production. She couldn’t believe me until I pleaded to be always Read more
