I came across this article today and couldn’t help but make up my mind to post it. I’m surprised though not shocked to discover that girls or women as the case may be are becoming as sex-hungry as boys or men are (Bussee, wake up and smell the coffee). Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying i thought the female folk were anti-sex. It’s just that so much emphasis has been placed on the man’s sexual drive for so long that it became common place to discover that in relationships, the sex-longing party was the guy. Or if the reason for the break-up of a relationship was sex, then it must have been the guy asking for it?

So, you understand how reading this article made me feel. I’m scared about the kind of place our world is turning into and can’t help but say  at times “Come, Lord Jesus to take your own”. LOL. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi guys, i’ve been away for a while not for lack of things to post. I just felt very much like reading others and not writing for a while. I came across this article in the papers and since it touches a core part of my passions - The Church and the Nation; I thought to share it with you. Please enjoy reading and note: I didn’t write it. However, I don’t disagree with some part of it…….some part of it i said

It is perhaps pertinent at this stage of our history, at this turn of our political and socio-economic life, while searching for lasting solutions to our myriad national problems, to take a look at the contributory factors induced by religion. My focus is on our modern day version of Christianity, Pentecostalism, which seems to be the in-thing nowadays. It is no gainsaying that it is perfectly normal nowadays, that for one to be socially acceptable, one must be a Christian. A Christian not just in terms of accepting the doctrines of the Christian church as it was said to have been postulated by Jesus Christ, but to be born again.

Religion, which ordinarily should have been Read the rest of this entry »

A sobbing little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it was “too crowded.”

“I can’t go to Sunday School,” she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by.

Seeing her shabby, unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and, taking her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the Sunday school class. The child was so happy that they found room for her, and she went to bed that night thinking of the children who have no place to worship Jesus.

Some two years later, this child lay dead in one of the poor tenement buildings.. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi guys…..take a look at some interesting quotes below.

Business

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
 - Dudley Field Malone

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute is begins to rain.”
- Mark Twain

“The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -  a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’”
 - E.M. Kelly

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

 - Anonymous

“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
 - Anonymous

“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”
 - Leo Rosten

“There are two rules to success in life: 1. Don’t tell people everything you know.”
 - Unknown

Dating

“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been raining very seriously everyday for 4 straight days in Lagos. ‘Cats and dogs’ don’t adequately describe the intensity of these rains i’m talking about. ‘Lions and wolves’ seems more like it. I was “fortunate” enough to get caught up in the rains one way or another everyday. Two days ago, I went for a meeting at Victoria Island, Lagos and was drenched in the rain. I laughably took the BRT which was fine until I got down at CMS. It was as if the rain had been waiting for my feet to touch the ground from the bus. It came pouring down with a fury. It didn’t help matters either that I was on an okada. Read the rest of this entry »

“And God made the two great lights; he greater light to RULE the day and the lesser light to RULE the night and he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and to RULE over the day and over the night, the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good”…Gen 1:16-18

I read this passage a few weeks ago and a new light dawned on me. I realised that God counts as good any situation where light rules. That is to say, in any situation where darkness reigns, God sees it as bad.

God created light to rule. When we receive light from God, what we receive is illumination in our Spirit concerning specific things. That illumination or light is called Revelation. Revelation will always dominate over the ordinary. He who sees will rule those who don’t.

The reason why people go to sleep at night is that the prevalent light has given in to darkness. People who cannot see cannot work. The interesting thing is that God created a light as well to rule the night. Whether it is day or night, the light rules the earth. Most people are experiencing night in their lives. Read the rest of this entry »

Two days ago, I crossed another milestone on my career path. Those who have heard me or read me know that I keep on going about consulting this…consulting that…Anyway, I was able to move up my game from HR/Business consulting to Leadership/Organisational Development consulting. How did that happen?

Well…I don’t know if I’ve mentioned in any of my posts that sometime earlier this year, I met one of my mentors in the area of finance and organisational development. I went for a seminar, saw him standing afar off and approached him. I guessed this was my moment of connection and I seized it with fear and excitement. Interestingly, he had been school mates with my father in the University and they had even been members of the same fellowship while there in the university….bla bla bla

Anyway, he had done so well through the years in the area of production and manufacturing and had become an Icon of business in Nigeria. He sits on the boards of several multinational organisations. So, back to my story. I met him by force that day and of course collected his contact. I afterwards had one reason or another to correspond with him and as luck will have it, he also had reason to contact me especially in relation to my father. Read the rest of this entry »

I walked out of my office on thursday last week just as my boss walked out of his.

“Busayo, you are coming along abi?” he asked. “Where are we going?” I answered, looking bewildered

“To ife.” he responded. “When?” I asked, my face lightening up. “On saturday” he replied.

“Most definitely” I responded.

That was the dialogue that set me on a return journey to my alma mater. I graduated from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Dec. 2005 after 7 long years of studying a course that originally should have taken 5 years. I don’t want to go into the details of how it took so long but suffice it to say that I didn’t have any extra semesters. It just took them 7 years to be able to decide whether or not 1998/99 set could graduate. Anyway, that’s all past now and I’ve left the school. Read the rest of this entry »

Nigeria has been described as Africa’s faster growing insurance market with 18.0 percent growth rate, while Angola is leading with 35.0 percent nominal growth rate. This statistics was disclosed today in a presentation prepared by Afrinvest West Africa titled “Nigerian Insurance Market- Capital Market Perspective” at the ongoing Insurance Future Summit in Abuja Nigeria.
Others are Kenya recording 23.0 percent growth rate, South Africa with 17.0 percent growth trailing behind Nigeria. While Egypt, Algeria and Namibia recorded 13.0 percent, 12.0 percent and 4.0 percent respectively. The average is said to be 14.8.
Meanwhile the paper observed that in Nigeria, the Insurance Sector is still the slowest financial services sector. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday placed full suspension on the shares of Cadbury Nigeria Plc, following the decision of the Investment and Securities Tribunal to uphold the indictment of the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission over financial misstatement.

The Deputy Director-General, NSE, Mr. Lance Elakama, disclosed on the floor of the Exchange that the ruling of the IST was binding on the Exchange since it was the court of competent jurisdiction on investment matters.

The company had been indicted over an account misstatement to the tune of N5bn. Read the rest of this entry »