Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

Some victims of oil spills in Okogbe community, Ahoada West Council Area of Rivers State, have lamented the devastating impacts of the leakage in the area. Some of the victims, who spoke with The Guardian in an interview, decried the development, saying it had damaged their farmlands and fishponds, especially, during the 2020 flood in the community. They, therefore, charged the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to intervene and help them secure justice.They also lamented that in February 2021, a spill from the Okordia-Rumuekpe pipeline operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) had ravaged some farmlands and caused serious…

Are we accursed people? Are Nigerians accursed in every sense of the word from top to bottom and from bottom to top? Are our citizens and compatriots members and denizens of an accursed race? Are we all typically splendidly beautiful outside or splendidly accursed inside? Are we terrible, accursed hypocrites in and out? Is the typical Nigerian a doomed fellow because he or she belongs to a black country of black people always feeling that the crack of doom is always near? These questions always announce their appearances in my mind any time I contemplate and meditate about this country…

One of the biggest tasks that could confront any leader is in leading an entity (be it an organization, a nation or a people) out of a systemic decadence. It could sometimes be easy to lead in an environment where everything seems to be working and structures are already in place that could help any leader succeed. However, when a leader is given the task of rescuing what appears to be fallen apart already, how can he or she succeed in such environment? Let us go straight into the Bible to see what Jesus did when He was faced with…

Last week, we began looking at certain factors that could make leadership task daunting. Our anchor text was the book of 1 Samuel 17. It documented the account of King Saul, David and Goliath. From that story, we were considering certain factors that could make leadership task very difficult to accomplish. Listen to Podcast: The Task of Leadership Part 2 We examined FEAR and one of the things we said about it was that fear hinders a leader from launching out and that great leaders at some point or the other in their leadership assignment had to overcome their…

Leadership task can sometimes be daunting. When it appears that this is the case in your own leadership assignment, there are a number of factors that are usually the cause of it and I want us to go straight into the word of God to see some of these factors and how we can overcome them as leaders. 1 Samuel 17. This is an account about King Saul, David and Goliath, the champion of the Philistine army at the time. Listen to Podcast: The Task of Leadership Part 1 “Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and…

Many people have been leaders in time past that we don’t get to talk about them again today. A number of reasons may have been adjudged for this, but chief among them is the fact that nobody remembers them again for anything or what they did. When you see a leader, whose influence transcends time and generations, it is simply because what they did simply outlived them and people still get to talk about them or refer to their contributions to humanity through leadership while they were leading their generation. Listen to Podcast: How to Become A Thought Leader Within…

Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, said the agency was ready to partner with the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas(NLNG) Limited in increasing natural gas production capacity by 36 per cent. Represented by the Executive Director, Marine and Operations, NPA, at the virtual multilogues-2 organised by the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA), Usman said the agency would support NLNG in increasing natural gas production from 22 million tonnes to 30 million tonnes yearly. “The NPA is poised to offer necessary collaborative support to the NLNG in achieving the goals of its Train 7 projects, which we are informed will…

How Great Leaders Utilize Limited Resources for Unlimited Results Every resource you have at your disposal as a leader is meant to do one thing: advance your leadership assignment. This means that for you to be able to achieve all that you would achieve within the timeframe of your assignment, it would be largely dependent on how you utilize the available resources that you have been given. Listen to Podcast: Eliminating Waste in Leadership Two key words are very important to us in this podcast. They are waste and resources. Waste in this context means not adequately or…

Myanmar recently sees internet blackouts followed by a military coup. This is a development that Nigeria and other fragile democracies must keep an eagle eye on to avert the occurrence of such systemic desecration. A 14-word change to the constitution is all it could take to save Nigeria from the kind of military coup currently occurring in Myanmar. Since the military seized power earlier this month, the people of Myanmar have endured no less than five internet blackouts, as well as further blocks to social media sites used by democracy campaigners to communicate and coordinate. This is an increasingly common…

Often times when we hear the phrase Transformational Leadership and we read about people who were deemed to be transformational in their leadership destiny, we wonder what really makes them exceptional and stood them out among their counterparts. In this podcast, I am going to be sharing with us what worked for them and why they were able to command such result in their leadership. Listen to Podcast: Contextualizing the Components of Transformational Leadership I believe you will agree with me that not every leader is transformational in nature. Real transformational leadership is borne out of the fact that people…