1. Take a spiritual retreat. Vision I suppose is a spiritual asset: What you were supernaturally shown you can accomplish. When your spirit gets weaker and weaker your vision faculty grows dim. ‘Tunnel vision’-when you can no longer see the big picture. A holiday or a period of personal seclusion may help to declutter you…
It was in 2002, working as a support engineer with MannyBank, now FidelityBank, I had taken off to make installations at a new branch in Warri. The whether was sore gloomy. We took off from Lagos on a light, 30 passenger air-craft, small enough to have a sneak peek into the cockpit, and see clearly…
1. First thing to check is if you believe in the vision you are promoting. Vision is a powerful contagious spiritual force that draws people. Like good music, beauty or even the aroma of good food, people cannot resist it. People will easily connect if you radiate the aura of your visions. 2. ‘Walkie-talkie’-At some…
My girls bring me gifts each Father’s Day. I had always wondered why. I never gave my father any. Not that he ever did a bad job as a father. In fact, I remember him every day since his passing, for his absolute sense of commitment to fatherhood. He deserved every gift. Do my children…
I was raised in a patriarchy. My father was the dominant figure and had the belief that men should stay men. And most Africans like him did not see the kitchen as a place for men. So when we hear the sound of his engine, my mum will quickly ask me and my brother to…
I stood in front of my hotel room thinking of what next to do. July 2016. Blown apart. Fatigued. Piqued. But my peace was intact. Crises is a natural alarm bell that is meant to give you the jolt. Your hairs now standing erect in panic and eyes rolling in bewilderment. I had wondered how…
In spite of the pot shots fired at Mr peter Obi, his competitors are frightened. First, frightened by the moral contrast his character and values provide. At the back of the public fray that is aimed at shooting down his rising political influence, there has since been some voluntary self-scrutiny, knee-jerk ‘stop and search’ operations…
“And we overcame him by the blood of the lamb”…Revelation 12: 11. Around 1995/6 as a university undergraduate, I embarked on a trip to Enugu to formally invite a big man of God to a Christian event at my university. Bishop Augustine Nwodika of the ‘healing has just begun’ fame had become the magnet…
I sat in the PRINCE 2 Project Management class June of 2014, and I was the only black person in a class of about 50. When I first visited the United Kingdom in 2004, I was naively unaware of the neatly camouflaged snippets of racism. When I started living here, I saw it in the…
My first test of sense of personal ‘independence’, to try to be whom I am, begun 2013. My colleagues were mainly eastern Europeans; Hungarians, Romanians, polish. It took you less than a seconds to realise you weren’t wanted in their company. To bend or keep erect and break? It becomes real struggle between the mind…