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PIUS ADESANMI: EVEN IF THE ROAD TO THE CEMETERY IS CLOSED…

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Even if the road to the cemetery is closed, We would buried our hero in the earth of Words. Uncle Pius Adesanmi, Thoughts are deep but the words are few, Humanity is paled by your gallant death, You are a deep fountain of intellect and illumination, Whose streams run through the crevices of the earth, Of which we have all worshiped and drank. For the first time in many moons , Humanity is stunned by the demise of a towering figure, The shadow of which influences our literary world, Vanguard of our fragile democracy, Shepherd of our national sanity, The mid-wife of our emancipation: Your words beautifully and humorously crafted, Nurtured the fading silhouette of our dreams, And we long to dance to the beats of your creativity. But suddenly the beats stopped… The water spilled and the gourd split! And what manner of life is this? Even if the road to the cemetery is closed, We would buried our hero in the earth of Words. Uncle...
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TEDx: THE POWER OF SHARED CONVICTIONS

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As we dipped hands into a big plate like children of the same father to celebrate the successful outing of Sokoto TEDxArkilla 2018’s Festival of Ideas, it rightly dawned on me that the future of a multi-cultural and highly-sensitive society like ours depends on shared convictions and intelligent conversations that positively shape our perspectives about the prejudices and biases we have against people of different religion and tribe.   Despite our tribal, religious, sexual and even professional differences, TEDxArkilla 2018 afforded me and the 23 people on the volunteers’ team the once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity to brainstorm, network, synergize and work with diverse people: a Muslim from the north teaming up with a Christian from the south, an Igbo with an Hausa, a banker with a student, a youth corps member with an engineer, a Master’s student with an artisan just to put Sokoto State on the map of global relevance! It is sheer buffoonery to use the index of minor...
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FINDING YOUR VOICE AND CONFIDENCE

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Let me start by saying: Your Destiny is Greatness. The day comes when every person must leave the security of the nest and pursue their destiny. However, there are people who never came out of their nests because they lacked courage. They lacked confidence. When their future was presented to them, they lacked that intestinal fortitude to embrace it and step into the totality of their destiny. They chose mediocrity. They chose a low life. They chose obscurity. They chose smallness. They chose survival mentality. They chose small goals and weak ambitions. They chose to be a tenant in the terrain of their own destiny! There is a voice in you. There is a greatness that wants to break forth in you. There is a destiny waiting for expression. That voice is within you. Let me say this: Your future is not a date on the calendar; your future is a voice inside you. Your future will come from deep beneath your surface and locating your own core of potential. But our tendency is to l...
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THE BITTER TASTE OF LIBERTY

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David Diop, a Senegalese poet uses his poem entitled “ Africa ” to describe our independence as possessing a bitter taste after he chronicled our long-suffering experiences and plight through colonialism and post colonial era. Nigeria is the landmass composed of the remnant of many ancient empires and kingdoms. The nation was thus forged from the anvils of hegemonic tendencies, human diversity, conflict and history. Agitations for the independent state of Nigeria began in the early 50s by the likes of Azikwe, Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. We got that liberty quite alright. But after fifty eight years, the question we should ask ourselves is: How does its fruit taste? Barely seven years after our embryonic conception, civil war broke out ! We went to war against each other; brother against brother in a senseless and preventable orgy of violence that was born out of immaturity and nationalistic infantilism. The war consumed more than two million souls. This despite the ref...
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NEW RELEASE: LEADERS' IMPACT MAGAZINE

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Congratulations for being part of history! The first issue of Leaders Impact Magazine is out : and I’m glad you are part of this. It is indeed true that no army can stop an idea whose time has come.   This is a defining moment in human history. Things are no longer what it used to be. The economy is crashing and many people are losing their confidence, zeal and quest for life. Things have been much more difficult for the youths especially in such a volatile and unstable economy as ours. Besides, young people are faced with myriads of problems ranging from unemployment to underemployment, dearth of creativity, ignorance of their potentials, low self-esteem and so on. These times call for drastic measures. It is to this end Leaders Impact Magazine seeks to inspire, empower, equip and supports young people with the prerequisite knowledge, skills, information and competencies that will enable personal effectiveness, job readiness and entrepreneurship. This is...
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THEY DID NOT DROP OUT OF SCHOOL!

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“If your belief is wrong, your behaviours will be wrong. Beliefs determine ability” They quitted their course; not their education!   Until now, we’ve been told that many of the contemporary great and famous men dropped out of school and they still made a huge success out of their lives. The salient ‘home’ lesson often driven to our ear drums is that we don’t really need to go to school or even do well at school to make it in life. And somehow I used to think along that line too.  But recently, I made an astounding discovery. You see when dealing with any issue of life, always identify the norm, the exceptional and the ideal. When you interpret the exceptional to be the norm or ideal, you will run your life on constant collision course with pain and defeat. The end of such race is always an untimely dirge. If you misconstrued the norm to also mean the ideal, you will  end up being small in life. Bill Gates, Steve Job and Mark Zuckerberg are the e...
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THE FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAM

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There is a fight for your dream. It is a fight of faith; a fight for the future. “This is because every dream, vision and destiny will be contested for.” Dreams do not come true because you dreamt; they come true because you are willing to fight. No truly great man exists who has never experienced something that attempted to defeat him and his dream. Every great man in history and contemporary times will tell you that there were times and events that confronted them and made them to almost give up. But they never did. Your dreams will be contested for by the events, situations and circumstances of life. Strive Masiyiwa, the richest man in Zimbabwe and the founder of ECONET Group and Kwese TV narrated a time in his life when he lost millions of dollars to a particular lawsuit. Practically, he lost everything. At that point, he had two options: to give up on his dreams or to be willing to start all over again. He chose the latter. Today, he had been named as the first bill...
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