I have read about a beautiful damsel long time ago who came from a humble background, and then ascended to the position of a queen though in a foreign land. A conspiracy was made against her people to wipe them out entirely, and if there was anybody who could do anything to prevent such heinous genocide from happening, she was the one. Indeed, she did something and saved the lives of her people from the imminent destruction, because she had a sense of purpose, she knew she was made a queen for such a time as that. Time and space has brought us to a dispensation where things are falling apart, the centre can no longer hold and things are moving from bad to worse. Nothing seems to make sense, corruption surrounds us and the system has failed us. People and places that used to be pillars of the society and places of refuge are now the opposite of what is obtained in time past. Honestly, our society only celebrates the survival of the fittest; hence the weak, the poor and the less

Have you ever felt like what is behind is pulling you back? Do you feel as if your memories of yesterday are your greatest nightmares of today? Or are your actions of yesterday fast becoming your biggest undoing today? Are your present challenges scaring you to the point that life is not making sense anymore? Do you feel as if the whole world is currently upon your shoulders because of the way things are turning out for you today? Or better still, are the uncertainties of tomorrow giving you sleepless nights? These collections of questions capture the three cardinal forces that have been robbing men and women of living a purposeful and fulfilling life over the years. Life is a priceless and precious gift given to every mortal by God to live once but meaningfully and in accordance to his will; however, it is full of what you planned for and what you never planned for, it is bound by time and it is torn in between several forces. Understanding the realities of all these factors

It has been five months after my arrival in this simple and hospitable village for my National Youth Service; my life circle in the village was indeed simple and predictable as I only had few places to go for an entire day. Hence, aside from being in the school and the Corpers’ lodge, I should be in the pharmacy were I charge my phones and get manageable network coverage to make my time to time calls or the viewing centre. One blessed evening as I was seating at the front of the pharmacy which happens to be where I spent most of my evenings and free times, a sales boy came out dancing a particular dance step that I am used to, this is what he said to me: “This is how I will be dancing when you finish your service and when you are gone” Well, this piece is not to bore you with the story of my adventurous youth service year, but the statement made by the sales boy that faithful evening was congruent to a burden I was musing in my heart, which had to do with successful people rai

Scattered throughout the inscriptions and pages of history, from the beginning of ancient civilization, right down to where time and space has brought us today, are the tragic stories and exploits of men and women who rose to the apex of affluence and influence in life. Among them were people who exercised and wielded great power, displayed outstanding skills, showed rare courage and bravery, and portrayed exquisite expertise and charisma in all their dealings. Throughout their lifetime, they were purposeful, resilient, committed, devoted and even died determined. It won’t be wrong to say, that these great men fulfilled their destinies; yet, most of them failed in the most commonest and overlooked yet needful area of life which is character In a simpler sense, character is that enduring trait and part of a person that is being displayed regardless of time and place. In his book “In Charge – Finding the Leader within You” Myles Munroe posited the foundational concept of the word

When you hears the word greatness what readily comes to your mind? Someone or something big, large, and very important right? Well, you are not wrong; but you have taken a step in unraveling what true greatness is. Over the years, familiarity and people’s desire for greatness has made it a cliché, to the point that its real sense and essence is fast fading, giving way for people’s greed, covetousness and unhealthy ambition for materialism. Hence the need to simply unearth the brain behind true greatness and to demystify it to the core so that achieving greatness will not elude us. Just like success, most people regardless of socio-cultural, political or religious backgrounds and affiliations desire greatness and always want to associate with greatness, yet only few people are ready to know what true greatness really entails and its corresponding cost. Scattered through the pages of history and the chronicles of the past are men that defined greatness, identified with it, paid

I actually did not plan to share this story now, but I sense it will be a suitable backdrop to the central theme of what I will share with you in this piece – ‘Break Forth’; hence I am left with no option. I have friends and brothers in Jenta Mangoro community, Jos North Local Government Area, Plateau State of Nigeria. These brothers are breaking forth mightily, reaching out in their own little way to solve the obvious problems in their community. Their community is known by outsiders as a ghetto, where many youths are held captive by many social vices, and one might say nothing good will come out of such place. Trusting God to change this narrative, these guys are breaking forth; they started a “Jenta Reads Community Library” to reignite reading culture not only in the life of their youths in school, but also in the life of those learning skills as well. Again, knowing quite well that water scarcity is a challenge in their community; they also started out Project H 2 O, to see

For the past few weeks, I have been tortured mentally as I am still trying to decipher and chose the suitable words to describe the year 2017. Honestly the year 2017 means different thing to different people based on different experiences and encounters. To me personally, 2017 was the fastest year of my life, it run out with the speed of light leaving traces of fresh collection of events. I am still trying to figure out the phrase to call the year 2017. In fact, I won’t forget 2017 in a rush. Ubiquitously, just like any other year but uniquely in its own grand style, the year 2017 left trails of events that will go down history in the minds of all and sundry for either the good reason or the bad ones. Some love and were loved in return while others were despised unjustifiably. Promises were kept while some were carelessly broken. As others were born others also died. Some lived the entire year with much hope while others faced each passing day with despair. Some that were writt