Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

“How on earth was somebody not thinking about the possibilities of a train attack happening in Nigeria with all the security challenges that has bedeviled this nation in the last decade.” These words have crossed my mind umpteen times since the news of that train attack broke out some days ago in Nigeria. Who should we blame for this error of omission; the bandits, the innocent citizens that felt travelling via the train should guarantee them some level of safety? Of course not. We will blame the leaders, those who have been saddled with leadership responsibilities of protecting lives and…

As   the Chairman of United Bank for Africa Plc,  Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr. Tony Elumelu, yesterday received  the TIME 100 Impact Award at the Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Emirates, he said: “The world is in need of people like him more than ever before.” Elumelu took the stage at yesterday  night’s TIME100 Impact Awards and Gala, he spoke with a sense of urgency.  According to him, “The world is in need of people like us—more than ever before,” he said to the crowd, which included celebrities, politicians and prominent business leaders. “We should pull resources together, we should commit now to…

Niran Adedokun EVEN the most vehement opponents of the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for President campaign in 2015 couldn’t have predicted that Nigeria would be where it is now! My God! Things were bad in Nigeria but it’s hard to remember the last time Nigerians had it so hard and hopeless. Many Nigerians opposed the Buhari candidacy for one, two or all of political, self-centred and sectional (bordering on religion and ethnicity) reasons. Still, some had genuine doubts about the man’s capacity to envision leadership for a 21st-century country. More so for a country with the most populous,…

In this piece, I want to share something with us by the Help of the Holy Spirit and I believe it is going to bless us. You see, some of the things that we will be hearing may not be convenient because we are disciples and disciplers. When Jesus was walking the face of the earth with His disciples, it was not all the time that He spoke to them like people who needed bread and water. There were times Jesus had to rebuke His disciples sharply. There was a particular account in Matthew 17, the Bible says a particular…

In this piece, I want to share with us on what has been titled: The Signification of Our Body as the Temple of God. I believe the phrase “our body as the temple of God” is not is not something that we haven’t heard before. There had been teachings around it that we have part of and because of this, we aren’t totally in the dark. But I just want to show us something briefly because when we say our body is the temple of God, what exactly does it mean or connote? Let us start our meditation by understanding…

Organizational growth is premised on sustainable ideas. I have heard people say over and over again that ideas are the hub upon which the entire universe or world rotates. Idea they say rules the world. If we are not learning new ways and new ideas to carry out our tasks as leaders, then the organization we are leading would suffer from stunted growth. However, for this not to be the lot of our organizations, then leaders are saddled with the responsibility of bringing about ideas that would help the organization achieve and experience growth. There are three phases of sustainable…

Let us today deal with Super Cop, Abba Kyari, and the tale of two jurisdictions conundrum. This is a serious constitutional, legal and political quandary matter. The Diplomatic Representative of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja had made a request for the surrender of 46-year-old Abba Alhaji Kyari, over the pending charges against Abba Kyari in the U.S. This request is allegedly based on the relationship of Kyari with Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, a 37-year-old self-confessed international fraudster, popularly known as Hushpuppi. Hushpuppi had alleged that he bribed Abba Kyari to arrest and jail Kelly Chibuzor Vincent, one of his rivals in…

Scaling new heights in leadership has to do with understanding the dynamics of the organization and how to manage these dynamics for the benefit of the organization that is being led.  If you examine some of the best leaders leading the fastest growing organizations in the world, one thing you would discover that they have learnt in their leadership quest is how to scale new heights. For instance; what do you do when your organization must evolve by every means? What do you do when external factors are responsible for the dynamics being witnessed in the organization? These are fundamental…

Many leaders in our world today are slowly dying under the heavy burden that leadership has brought upon them. Leading people or leading an organization is never an easy task. If anyone ever says to you “leading is the easiest thing to do in the world”, you might want to ask the person to think about it again. Taking up leadership assignment is a huge risk simply because you are either taking over from where someone else had failed woefully, or you are taking over from a successful leader. Either of the scenarios, the onus is on you to outperform…

What does it mean to reinvent the wheel within leadership context? It simply means to critically examine your leadership holistically and make it more effective and goal-driven. It also entails examining your ideas as a leader, your trajectory in the past, where they have gotten you so far and how you can improve on what has worked for you before now and also look for alternative means to make certain things that have not worked to work in your leadership. Now, there is a portion of the Bible that I believe is going to help us to understand what it…