I remember my first few terms at boarding school in the UK at the tender age of eight. Some of the oyinbo kids in my dormitory, finding themselves away from home for the first time would literally cry themselves to sleep every night. They were homesick. If they had thought they would find a sympathetic […]

read more Emotional reasoning

Many Christians like myself have often asked why, of all the great and distinguished men of God, God seemed to be uncommonly partial to David. After all, God Himself called him “a man after His own heart” despite all his well celebrated frailties, leaving little room to dispute God’s partiality. It’s worthy to note however […]

read more A man for all seasons

I would be the last person to glamorise losing or to extol the virtues of a serial loser but over time I observed we’ve become a people who have an unhealthy fear of losing. In our quest to win at all cost, morality becomes an inconvenience which we hurriedly discard so not to ‘besest’ us. […]

read more A losing win

With the absence of a vital subject like History from our nation’s school curriculum for so long, our youth cannot be held entirely to blame for the ignorance they sometimes display and neither should we be surprised with their sometimes, alarming choices of role models. History goes a long way to establish a template of […]

read more Looking back to see ahead

  In our eager pursuit of goals, it’s easy for us to sometimes overlook the negatives and the potential unsavoury outcomes, and because of this, we often fail to make sufficient plans to combat such possible happenings. Our desperation may just blind us to the obvious dangers and unless we put plans in place to […]

read more Ignorance is not bliss