SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

  What someone does repeatedly and go scotfree, another person may do it and get punished for it. It lies with grace and 'ori'; or maybe destiny. U must understand the grace u possess. Let me illustrate with real-life experience but won't mention names. #Grace   Starting with the Bible, there was a case of 2 kings - Saul & David. Saul was rejected as King all cos he failed to wait for Samuel to offer a sacrifice unto God, yet David not only cheated severally but also killed another person to get His wife, yet He was one of God's favourites. I know of two sisters in real life, one did an abortion once and never conceived again; yet another did over eleven times yet married and have several children. I know some may adduce medical explanation for it but I see grace in actions here.  #Grace Same business with the same capital and almost equal education, one person may prosper compare to the other person. Most times, we attribute to competence but I tell you it is somet...

  As an undergrad, one of my most cherished memories was the day I gave a seminar defense of a group project on the topic:   Public Administration in Nigeria.  The Lecturer had divided the class into thirty groups with each group expected to write and defend on thirty different topics. Our group was the last on the list. As each group gave an account of themselves, the Lecturer was scoring and accessing simultaneously with the students who were adjudging through jeers and cheers.  As I walked up to the podium as a bride walks down the aisle to be betrothed to her sweetheart and life partner, I developed goose pimples knowing fully well that the fates of about fifteen colleagues plus my credibility were at stake. I know deep within me, so much was at stake to prove and disappoint the doubting Thomases.  My results had always spoken for me, it was time for me to speak for myself, but stage fright is nothing unusual to even the best of speakers.  Alone on the ...

Twelve hours ago, Nigeria reached the milestone of sixty years of Political Independence from the erstwhile colonial master- Britain. The question is how free are we as a nation and a people? Sixty years after the symbolic handing over of the 1960 Constitution to our founding fathers principally consisted of the trio of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, the first and only Prime Minister of the FRN, Dr Nnamid Azikwe, the first and the only indigenous Governor-General of the Nigeria State, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the first Premier of Western Region and the then Leader of the opposition; Nigeria and Nigerians appear to be in chain everywhere they go. Let's look at it from three main perspectives of Social, Political, and Economic. Socially, almost all Nigerians concurred that at present, Nigeria is a mere 'geographical expression'; borrowing the words of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. An average Nigerian does not seem himself as a Nigerian first without first referencing his ethnic nationality...