Many years ago, I watched an entrepreneurship program on the television. A young man met investors whose job in the program was to invest in unique business ideas or plans. The young man walked in with his various inventions and started bragging about the number of awards he won because of his inventions. He kept…
Can you imagine a man driving backwards while hoping to get to his destination? You planned to travel to Onitsha from Lagos but you’re reversing towards Badagry and praying to get to Onitsha very early. That is how some people live their lives. Have you been driving your car and suddenly realized you had left…
No matter how you look at it, the apprenticeship scheme among Igbos lifted many families out of abject poverty. It is a system whereby the rich takes the poor along with him to the city, teach him how to run a particular line of business for five or seven years, and then give him seed…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they’ll eat the rich”. Have you noticed that anytime there is civil unrest in Lagos, people troop out to Lekki Epe expressway and disrupt vehicular movements, loot shopping malls and some neighborhoods? The reason is simple: there are poor neighborhoods near or right…
Gen Z (as it is called) refers to the generation that was born between 1996-2010. This generation are raised on the internet and social media age. It is like God deposited in them the ability to use the computer and smartphone without learning it from anybody. A man of God said that he used an…
While studying Acts of Apostles the other day, I came to the conclusion that one of the challenges that bedevils ministry is envy. There are ministers who can’t stand the rising of others. When you mention the name of a minister God is using mightily, they will make negative comments about him to dampen your…
I am one person who believes that we should preach Christ through everything we do. A Christian should preach Christ through his actions. A Christian should not behave like a Christian in the church and behave in a funny way outside the church. We should take the gospel to the marketplace. I don’t mean just…
Few days ago, I stumbled on a cassette containing the message I preached in the early 2000s. I looked at my picture on the cover of the cassette and was shocked. “You mean this was me?” I looked at my hair then and now and wondered what happened to my hair. I was so young…
The easiest way up is down. To get to the top you must start from the scratch. To stand out in life you must be willing to start with what you have from where you are right now! Only grave diggers start from the top. Many awesome ideas, creative ingenuity and strategies have died prematurely…
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9. I have heard some people say repeatedly that God called them to preach the message of salvation. I don’t have any problem with that, but the…