Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) yesterday disclosed that it injected N50 billion to stabilise the operations of the aviation sector between 2012 and 2020. The disclosure, however, unsettled stakeholders, who sought the rationale and justification of new bailouts of private businesses that are perpetually at their infancy. Indeed, AMCON had joined operators in the sector to rally the Federal Government to a fresh bailout fund for the aviation industry. AMCON’s Executive Director in charge of Operations, Aminu Ismail, at a webinar forum, explained that AMCON’s intervention led to the purchase of about $1 billion Non-Performing Loans (NPL’s) from…

The tribe of Issachar was one of the elitist tribe (even though certain people may not agree because they went into extinction) in Israel. And there was nothing that made them elitist other than the fact that the Bible recorded that they understood times and seasons, and they knew what Israel (their nation, not their tribe) ought to do. 1 Chronicles 12:32 (NLT) says: “From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take.” God had…

Tayo Oke The word, “palliative”, a nice medical terminology for the care of patients and their families with life-threatening illnesses has been in vogue of late. It has become rather overused in the last couple of months in reference to welfare provision for citizens in severe hardship. “Palliative” is the wrong word for welfare and social security benefits, because the recipients are not sick, neither should they or their families be deemed to be sick, or in some medical recovery. Government spokespersons and the media employ the term as a catch-all. It should not be. Now, if in a quick…

It is no longer news that many great Nations today, are being led or ruled by their worst. There are supposedly great Nations, and there are Nations that are still struggling to be great. In the case of the latter, no thanks to bad leadership. Many across the world today have come to terms with the fact that Nations like Germany, United States, Canada, China and Britain, are great Nations. It is undoubtedly that many people today don’t reckon with many African Nations as being great. Even though many believe countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria et cetera could…

The first task in proffering solutions to problems in leadership is to first and foremost, look within. Irrespective of the myriad of problems that any nation, organization, family or entity may be confronting per time, the solutions to those problems usually requires first, that the leaders of such entities look within, so that they can bring about a permanent solution to such problems. When I mean look within, it connotes a number of things. First, it means to look at the available resources and see how far those resources can help towards bringing about solution. Take for example a nation…

It is almost impossible to see Righteous Leadership  anywhere in the world. The phrase “Righteous Leadership ” only sounds beautiful in the ears, but almost unattainable. As we all may have come to realize already, that the vacuum in any society today is usually linked to bad leadership. Whether in Africa or in North America, Europe or in Asia; society vacuums are created by leadership vacuums. When leaders fail in their duties to do the right thing, it greatly have negative repercussions on the society. It would then seem that effective leadership have become the solution for every problem…

Good afternoon and how has been your week so far. Let me quickly share with us this afternoon; 4 Biblical Principles that I have discovered to attracting the right kind of people into your life. One way or the other as we journey in life, we all need the right folks around us along the way. God has designed it that we should thrive in relationships, not just any kind of relationship, but the right relationships. These Principles I am about to show you, when you apply them in your life, you will see yourself thriving in all that you…

Political correctness is the reason why modern day spiritual leadership and authority have become so weak over nations and people. Apostles, Prophets, Pastors et cetera always want to appear to be on the side of the government and at the same time, on the side of the people. They don’t want to offend authorities or the powers that be. They want to appear to be modest, honest and less concerned about the affairs of their nations. This is why many of them keep mute in the face of corruption, nepotism, and the injustices that happens in their society, leaving the…

Nations rises and fall to the degree of how yielded they are to Spiritual Leadership. God no doubt is interested in the affairs of nations. And so, at every point in time, He raises spiritual leaders that are meant to be His mouthpiece in nations. Many countries who only reckon with their political leadership alone and don’t have anything to do with men and women that God has raised to be the spiritual watchmen over such countries, are missing out on many grounds. Firstly, such a country would not know the mind of God for her per time. Secondly, political…

You probably might have heard or read somewhere that some state governors in Nigeria are going ahead to relax the lockdown in their respective states to give room for religious activities to resume, even amidst the threats that Covid-19 figures are still increasing in Nigeria. You probably have read that governments, with more timely and stricter responses to the Coronavirus pandemic have been more successful in curtailing its spread. I was reading just recently how New Zealand was able to manage the spread of Covid-19. It was nothing short of timely response and excellent leadership really. The government’s swift…