• 1979

Obama a backbencher on high school basketball team that wins state championship (more…)

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. (more…)

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 (more…)

“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.. (more…)

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.” (more…)

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. (more…)

In our opinion, The CBN postponement by one year for banks to converge their year end may offer a respite both for the banking sector directly and also the capital market as the sector constitutes above 60% of the market capitalization of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
While the banks may heave a sigh of relief, stakeholders, especially Nigeria’s foreign partners and investors may worry about the credibility of CBN or question the decision-making process of the industry regulator, as policy somersaults have been the bane of the country both in the past and in the present times.
It can be hoped that Nigerian banks will put on their thinking caps to utilize this window of time extension to ensure an orderly convergence without doing damage to the banking sector and the economy as a whole.  We also hope that regulatory authorities and managers of the Nigerian project will be more consultative and engaging with industry operators and stakeholders in making major policy decisions that impact on the economy. (more…)

“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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)