Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

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…

It is important to state clearly that there is this thin line of difference between authority and leadership. Listen to Podcast: Exercising Authority in Leadership Leadership in a very simple dictionary term talks about the power or ability to lead other people. There is this very apt definition of leadership that is all-encompassing that Peter gave us which I would love to share with us here because it summarizes what leadership is all about. 1 Peter 5:2, it says: “Tend (nurture, guard, guide, and fold) the flock of God that is [your responsibility], not by coercion or constraint, but…

Effective leadership does not fall on anybody like ripe pawpaw. It is not something that you go into your backyard and pluck off a tree. If you are going to ever produce any meaningful result within the sphere of your leadership assignment, it is important that you understand the principles that guides effective leadership. One thing you should know about principles is this: they are laws or fact of nature that explains how something works or why something happens. That means if you adequately and judiciously follow a principle, it would definitely hand you a specific outcome. Take for example…

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has run out of steam in the fight against corruption. According to him, this has resulted in the judiciary being manipulated by powerful people in the country. The playwright spoke on Wednesday during a television programme, Kakaaki, on AIT, which was monitored by our correspondent. Soyinka said the system had become corrupted so badly that court cases were being stretched out through technicalities. “There are so many people who should be in prison if this government had not run out of steam, and so…

Now that we are officially in a recession, there is an urgent need to start thinking about the options we have in reinjecting life into our economy. I heard the government is planning on selling off some national assets. It is also thinking about “confiscating” unclaimed monies in banks and in the stock market. This idea is enough to make one cringe in horror. For, when we finish selling our property today, what shall we sell tomorrow? Why not look towards cocoa? Next to oil, it is Nigeria’s top money earner. We can start by backtracking to where we missed…

Let us begin our meditation from Ephesians 6:10-18. The Bible says: “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” There is a very strong tendency at times to want to trust or rely on oneself or in other persons, rather than relying on God. God has made us to absolutely depend on Him and not ourselves. There is a reason why the Scripture says to trust in the Lord in Proverbs 3:5-6. It says: “trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways…

I want to share something with us this evening by the help of the Holy Spirit which I believe will concretize our knowledge of discipleship going forward in the New Year and even beyond. The title of this evening’s discourse is: Following Christ Deliberately: The First Step to Discipleship, and we are going to read a Bible passages that will form the basis for this discussion. Listen to Podcast: Following Christ Deliberately “And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. 19 Then a certain scribe came and said…

The Federal Government has appealed to Nigerians not to be hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it gets to Nigeria. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), made the appeal at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) briefing on COVID-19 on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria intends to get 42 million COVID-19 vaccines to cover one fifth of its population through the global COVAX scheme. The initial vaccines would come as part of Nigeria’s plan to inoculate 40 per cent of the population in 2021 and…