Category: Columnists

Healing a Broken World Starts With You Personal Responsibility in Creating Positive Global Change By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB The world today stands at a crossroads. Across continents, we witness conflicts that divide nations, poverty that robs millions of dignity, injustice that silences the vulnerable, environmental degradation that threatens future generations, and a growing sense of loneliness despite unprecedented technological connectivity. Faced with these enormous challenges, it is easy to believe that one individual can do very little. We often wait for governments, institutions, or influential leaders to solve society’s…

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LIFE And The Power of Your Environment By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB “Show me your friends, and I will show you your future.” — African Proverb “You cannot live a positive life in a negative environment.” — Joel Osteen “If you want to fly with eagles, don’t swim with ducks.” — T. Harv Eker Life is a journey of choices, opportunities, and influences. While talent, intelligence, and determination are essential ingredients for success, one often-overlooked factor shapes our destiny more than we realize, our environment. Your environment is not merely…

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In Life, the Table Turns A Lesson in Humility, Hope, and Perseverance By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB Before the applause fades, remember this truth: no condition is permanent. The one who is celebrated today may need encouragement tomorrow, and the one who is ignored today may become tomorrow’s leader. That is the timeless lesson behind the saying, “In Life, the Table Turns.” “Life is like a wheel; what is down today may be up tomorrow.” Life is a journey filled with seasons of joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, abundance…

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Fear Has Stopped More Dreams Than Failure Ever Could By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB Introduction: The Silent Thief of Greatness One of the greatest tragedies in life is not failure, it is allowing fear to prevent us from ever trying. Across the world, countless dreams have been buried, not because people lacked talent or opportunity, but because they allowed fear to become stronger than faith. “Fear has stopped more dreams than failure ever could.” This profound truth reminds us that failure is often a stepping stone to success, while fear…

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DO NOT FEAR THE FUTURE A Philosophical Reflection on Hope, Purpose, and Human Destiny By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Human beings have always been fascinated by the future. We wonder what tomorrow will bring, whether our plans will succeed, whether our families will be safe, whether our careers will flourish, and whether our dreams will eventually come true. Yet, alongside this curiosity often comes fear, fear of uncertainty, fear of failure, fear of change,…

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The Impact of One Life By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB How a Single Person Can Change the World In a world of billions, it is easy for one person to feel insignificant. Many people quietly wonder whether their lives truly matter or if their actions can genuinely make a difference. Yet history, and everyday life, continually reminds us of one powerful truth: one life can change countless others. Every great movement, every meaningful invention, every act of transformation often begins with a single individual who dared to care, dared to…

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A Critical Appraisal of Nigeria’s Most Consequential Security Debate By Oluwole Solanke, PhD, FCIB Nigeria is once again standing at a crossroads of national consequence. From the blood-soaked communities of the North-West ravaged by banditry, to the insurgency-battered territories of the North-East; from the simmering farmer-herder battlegrounds of the Middle Belt, to the kidnapping corridors of the South and the organised crime networks festering in major urban centres, the Nigerian state is confronting a security crisis of alarming proportions. The question that now stirs vigorous debate in legislative chambers, academic…

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LIFE and the Lessons of Death By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB Introduction: The Silent Teacher Death is the one visitor every human being must someday meet. It does not knock with respect for wealth, status, intelligence, beauty, or power. Kings have bowed before it, empires have collapsed because of it, and generations have disappeared into history through its silent passage. Yet, despite its certainty, many people live as though death belongs only to others. Ironically, death is one of life’s greatest teachers. It teaches lessons that comfort cannot teach, wealth…

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LIFE and the Danger of Comfort Zone By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB Life is a journey of movement, growth, discovery, and transformation. Yet, one of the greatest invisible enemies of progress is the comfort zone — that quiet place where routines become permanent, dreams become postponed, and potential slowly goes to sleep. Comfort zones are attractive because they offer safety, familiarity, and predictability. They shield us from risks, criticism, failure, and uncertainty. But while comfort may protect us from temporary discomfort, it can also imprison us from greatness. A ship…

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By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB Introduction: Democracy Beyond Mere Elections What should be a vibrant and open democratic exercise is reduced to a carefully arranged political selection designed to serve the interests of a privileged elite. Citizens become spectators in the very system that is supposed to belong to them. The language of unity masks the reality of exclusion. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”— Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863 Lincoln’s immortal words remind us that the defining characteristic of…

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