It is what over the years has defined and identified some, it made some and marred some, it set others on to fulfill their God given and designed destinies while it set others off the course of life. To some it is their greatest asset while to others it has been their biggest liability. Some can turn back and look and say joyfully that because of it they are where they are now and in the same vein others wouldn’t want to turn back and look how through it they are currently going down the drain. Honestly, throughout history, through it some wrote their names in gold on the sand of time while other did otherwise. One of the greatest and the most powerful weapon a man has is his ability, his right and the freedom to make choices; to choose and decide between right and wrong, good and evil, moral and immoral, loss and gain, among other choices. Not only are we created in God’s image and likeness but we are created as rational beings; we carry in us the cognitive and will power of ma

Growing up as a young lad in an average community, an erroneous paradigm was built and ingrained upon my faculty of reasoning about how names and titles were given and called in our community and Nigeria at large. I thought only, politicians, rich and some category of people in the society are called or given the title: “Honourable”, “His Excellency”, “Chief” and all their likes. Over the years, as I kept advancing in age, knowledge, wisdom and exposure, a conflict emerged as I came to realized that those given such prestigious and wonderful names and titles are nowhere close to deserving such names and titles. Oh! How time flies. It’s been over two years now after graduating from school, I couldn’t help but keep remembering my course mates and friends on a daily basis; even though I try harder not to, I found myself thinking about them again and again. But then, I came to realize that it wasn’t their names alone I kept recalling, but it was their deeds and actions that carved o

“Transformation”, “Power to the People”, “Change”, “Change the Change”, “Leaders of Tomorrow”.  D o these repertoires of words strike a chord in your faculty of reasoning? Do they in anyway provoke nostalgic and saddening thoughts in your mind? Can you say with a significant degree of certitude that you are comfortable with the pragmatic connotative and denotative meaning of these words? As long as these words are concern, the questions can go on and on in quest of finding constructive, society-oriented and definite answers that will go down history. Over the years, politics in Nigeria has been clouded by the aforementioned set of words, though right and correct in themselves but wrongly advertised, publicized and used by men and women with good wishes but bad motives and intentions for us as a nation; quite unfortunate, wishes weigh ounces but motives and intentions weigh tons. However, it would be too much an assumption to totally push the blame to the people we now call pol

This piece is rather going to be a short, apt, and precise one. However, I hope, the message will be clear, straight and simple for comprehension to all and sundry. I therefore urge you to read it with keen interest and also with an opened mind. We live in a generation invaded by an ever increasing technological advancement; thus, we have diverse technological devices and appliances to our daily benefits; chiefly the laptops and the smartphones. These laptops and smartphones have several softwares and applications that make them effective for usage. These softwares and applications have unique and different functions that meaningful usage of them will enable the devices to achieve their predefined purposes. Most often, many people have different softwares on their laptops and a host of applications on their smartphones; however, failure to put these softwares and applications into meaningful usage is like building houses you don’t live in only to be occupied by rodents and t

Every state has a story to tell, every country has a narrative to relate, and every state has a chronicle to pass down, Nigeria is by no means an exception. Time and space has brought us to a watershed where we need to look back and see how far and how well we have come in writing and telling our story as a nation, both within ourselves and in the gathering of international communities. It is almost a decade now that one can remember with deep sense of nostalgia how our narrative began to go tragically awry, not only in Plateau state but in Nigeria at large as a nation when we were greeted by the emergence of the dreadful terrorist sect; Boko Haram. Since then, life has not been the same as fear and insecurity have been the order of the day in the life of most average Nigerians. Hitherto, over the years, Nigeria has been plagued by several communal conflicts and clashes of interest between different parties, leaving many patriotic Nigerians in a very pitiable and devastating state

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