Author: Deji Okegbile

The loss and sorrow that touches every dimension of our common life in Nigeria is too painful to acknowledge. There is no poor nation, but poor leadership. Poor leadership impoverishes the people, hence the key to Nigeria prosperity is a prayerful and strategic emphasis on the leadership renewal and emergency of a new tribe that is neither Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw nor Hausa/Fulani. We need a new tribe of leadership and follower-ship with godly values. Leadership who are wealth extinguisher is comparable to Nigeria’s soul among the looters. Our prophetic task, in the midst of our common mass despair ‘is...

An African proverb which says, “When an old man dies, it is as if a library is burnt down,” points to the role and importance of oral tradition and oral history in defining and reclaiming Nigerian vision beyond our self-made di-visions. Nigerian stories have been told for ages and passed down from generation to generation based on shared value of togetherness and promotion of corporate harmony and prosperity. In the beginning, the Nigerian story was about the story of God’s people created with diversity as God’s good intent and design. Nigerian diversity was ‘very good,’ with the development of...

“The explosion of a nuclear weapon is an event of immense power… Within a fraction of a millionth of a second, the nuclear materials and casing of a one megaton weapon are transformed into a packet of energy five times hotter than the center of the sun” – Nicholas Wade  While the fight for legitimacy by North Korea and control by America over the foolishness of nuclear arms race is yet unresolved, President Donald Trump’s behaviour, utterance, and criticism of NLF players protesting against racial injustice is unpresidential. His withdrawal of an invitation for the NBA champion Golden State...