What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me — Job 3:25
As I relate with people, most in their 20s, one of their greatest fears is being broke. They do not know that this thought has crept into the mind of everyone that has…
Success is something that we all want. I have never met a man who was not interested in being successful. The difference in what type of success they want is always about the scale of it. Some like it small. Some like it big. Some like it hot. Some like…
The first job you get right out of school, most times, is not your dream job. I do not know why life has shaped it so, but that is the reality for a lot of people. For some, they get that dream job but realise that there were attracted to…
It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. — The Preacher in Ecclesiastes 7:2, New International Version
Precisely in 2014, I applied to five top-ranked schools…
A big miracle that my campus fellowship, The Light of Christ Community (LCC), did for me, was that I was forever cured of my addiction to soccer both as a player and a follower. I grew up with football. I lived, ate, breathed soccer. I lived in the neighbourhood and…
I got born again in secondary school courtesy of my teachers, Mrs Ekpa and Mrs Grace Edet. Before then I was introduced to the life of faith by the effort of my grandmother, Mrs Alice Esoh Omin who was popular called “Eka Anthony”. She did her best to introduce me…
It is easy to tell the story of success and personal achievement but hard to tell when we failed and did stuff that we are not proud of. Who will tell the story of the hunted? Never will the hunter do that. Lions do not acknowledge brave antelopes.
One of…
I was at a friend’s wedding in 2001. A driver was needed to sort out an emergent situation. There was a car and the keys but no one to drive. The groom confidently told me to drive. “I don’t know how to drive” was my response. He was shocked and…
I had heard the words of the speech “I Have A Dream” in bits and pieces but it was the day that a student from the Igbinedion Education Centre (IEC), Benin recited the whole speech that I took full note of it. It was featured on the 9 pm programme…
