Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

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…

I want to show us something beautiful in this piece about the ways and process through which a life can experience lasting change. Let us open our Bibles to the book of Job 14:14 and start our meditation from there. Many of us may not have read this portion of the Bible in a very long time and so, we are being privileged to be reading it in this article. The Bible says: “If a man dies, shall he live again?” Of course, Job raised a fundamental question here, even though this is not the main focus of our discourse,…

In this piece, we are going to be considering something that is an offshoot of last week’s message (Purpose, Placement and Destiny Fulfilment), and it has been titled: Strategic Alliances Towards Purpose and Destiny Fulfilment. One of the things that God specializes in doing is bringing us into strategic alliances or associations or relationships or companies that would help us towards the fulfillment of our God-given purpose. If you read Luke 1:39-45, it shows us how God strategically brings us into some of these alliances towards the fulfillment of His purpose for our lives. The Bible says: Listen to…