According to the Encarta Thesaurus, corruption means dishonesty, exploitation, sleaze, bribery, fraud, venality. It equally means depravity, perversion, immorality, harm, debasement, degeneracy, vice. In the same vein, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English sees corruption as the act of making morally bad- causing to change from good to bad. Corruption is dishonesty, immoral behaviour. It, again, means a movement away from pure original form. But to the average Nigerian, corruption is all about stealing money. However, as we saw from the dictionary definitions, corruption goes beyond...

Muhammadu Buhari was the seventh Head of Government of an independent Nigeria, serving then as a Military Head of State- and is also the current President of a democratic Nigeria, hence the fifteenth "number one citizen" of the Federal Republic. President Muhammadu Buhari was born, 17 December 1942, in a halcyon country side of Daura (to the family of Adamu and Zulaihat) in the present day Katsina State of Nigeria. But as fate would have it, this twenty-third child of Adamu lost his dear father at a rather tender age of four. Although Buhari lost his father at such an early age in life, the...

What meaning has a life when a man would wake early into the morning working till late night with nothing to show for it? What is the meaning of working like an elephant, whilst chopping like ant? What is the meaning of near-success syndrome that is the hallmark of some lives? I fail to understand. Surely, I never believed that life could be so ridiculed; I never agreed that man's superlative efforts could yield nothingness in result. I found no reason to explain away such a state of helplessness, until somehow I became a victim. But God was there to comfort my soul. He turned my tears to...

Success or freedom in life starts from knowing what to do and when to do that. The knowledge of the right word of God to apply to a situation and at the right time guarantees freedom and breakthrough away from things that tether efforts to fail, and liberate from fetters of fear. Surely, we have a caring and unfailing God who answers us when we call upon Him; he does His Will in us when it pleases Him, and at appropriate times. God's intervention in the affairs of men knows no bound. There have been countless miracles from time as God liberated and still liberates people from various shackles...

Success or freedom in life starts from knowing what to do and when to do that. The knowledge of the right word of God to apply to a situation and at the right time guarantees freedom and breakthrough away from things that tether efforts to fail, and liberate from fetters of fear. Surely, we have a caring and unfailing God who answers us when we call upon Him; he does His Will in us when it pleases Him, and at appropriate times. It took Joseph between thirteen and seventeen years to get out of wandering, slavery and imprisonment- and eventually becoming relevant; Jacob remained in the house of...