Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

I am Abiola OBAYOMI Benjamin, a Writer by Grace, an Author: (Developing Yourself Spiritually), a Blogger (Fridayposts.Com), Director, School of Marriage at Centre for New Dimension Leadership, Abuja and a passionate Nigerian. I believe Nigeria will be great again, but the change we need in Nigeria begins with all of us doing things differently. Collectively, we can make Nigeria work.

Tottenham Hotspur have reportedly earmarked Dusan Vlahovic, who is a Chelsea and Manchester United target, as a Harry Kane successor. Ange Postecoglou’s outfit are currently in danger of losing Kane ahead of the next campaign. Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) are reportedly keeping tabs on the 29-year-old’s situation in London. According to 90min, Bayern Munich are preparing to lodge a third bid to lure Kane away from Tottenham. Their second bid in the region of £70 million was rejected by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy earlier this week. Kane, who has netted 280 goals and laid down 64 assists in 435 games for…

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African Development Bank (AfDB) has criticised Nigeria’s decision to concentrate on import substitution model, instead of creating wealth through export market development and product diversification. This was as Director General of Nigeria Employment Consultative Association (NECA), Adewale Oyerinde, called on the Federal Government to abolish taxes on carbonated drinks, saying suspension by President Bola Tinubu is not enough. Speaking in Abuja, yesterday, at the Nigeria Employment Summit, organised by NECA, Oyerinde insisted that improving taxes on manufacturing outfits amounts to digging while in a pit. He said: “While suspension of the taxes for three months is good, a total reversal…

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Ilkay Gundogan has sent a farewell message to Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, after leaving for Barcelona. The 32-year-old’s exit was confirmed by both clubs on Monday morning. Gundogan signs for the LaLiga giants after seven years at the Etihad. In his last year with City, the German midfielder won the Treble under Guardiola and has now spoken of his appreciation for the coach. “Been a total privilege and pleasure to be part of Man City for the last seven years. I would like to thank Pep. “To have been able to play under and learn from him for so…

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The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested no fewer than 181 suspected drug dealers in the last five months in Ogun State. The agency also recovered three pistols during its raid of different drug joints in the State. The Ogun State Commander of the NDLEA, Ibiba Odili, made this disclosure in Abeokuta in commemoration of the 2023 United Nation’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking, themed, ‘People First: Stop Stigma, and Discrimination, Strengthen Prevention’. Odili maintained that the NDLEA had taken the fight to the doorsteps of drug traffickers through its operations that led to the…

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Now in the next few episodes on Leaderview, beginning from today’s episode, we are going to be considering The Laws of Effective Leadership. Now, there are many laws that govern effective leadership. An understanding of these laws and how they work would go a long way to save the leader from unnecessary headaches in his or her leadership. And so, the first law of effective leadership that we are going to be considering today is The Law of Difference. Now, let’s talk about the law of difference and what exactly we can glean from that law. The law of difference…

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On Leaderview today, we want to look at something together that I believe is also important to our leadership. We want to look at something in the line of transformational leadership. And the title is: The Hallmark of Transformational Leadership. What is it about our leadership that requires that transformational outcome? What is it about our leadership that will drive that transformational agenda that every leadership is expected to be known with or is expected to be identified with. Listen to Podcast: The Hallmark of Transformational Leadership Now, when we talk about the hallmark of transformational leadership, it talks about…

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One of the things that leaders (every leader) must learn in the course of their leadership is the need to lead with caution. Every leader must learn how to lead with caution. Now, to lead with caution does not actually connote that the leader should be afraid. Leading with caution does not equate being afraid in leadership. In actual sense, to lead with caution is to lead with every sense of duty and carefulness in order to bring about the gains of that leadership. So, to lead with caution does not mean that you are afraid to lead as the…

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In this week’s edition of Leaderview, I want to share with us something that I believe is going to help us in our leadership and something that I believe is one of the cores of our leadership. I want to talk about something that is titled Courageous Leadership. And I want to read a story to us in the Bible, from the book of Judges, chapter four, that story is going to form the bedrock of what we’re going to be talking to ourselves on courageous leadership. The story is about a leader of Israel, who happens to be a…

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One of the essential elements of leadership is an understanding of how to safeguard the gains of leadership. Every leader must be able to understand the gains of his or her leadership, and also must be able to properly safeguard it. In Matthew 5:17 (MSG), the Bible showed us something that Jesus said. It says: “Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures—either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama (view, outlook)” In…

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On today’s Leaderview, I want to share with us on something that has been titled: Leadership Ethos and Workplace Efficiency. Now, you may be asking yourself a number of questions as a leader talking about the area of productivity and efficiency in your leadership. Peradventure as a leader, you have been thinking on how to improve your team’s efficiency or how to get them to deliver at their maximum level of efficiency. Now, what we want to share with ourselves today is going to give us some idea, and a few things that we can do in order to get…

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