Uncommon energy, by Patrick Omorodion
To be a goal getter in any endeavour, you must have a strength of character that enables you choose “the harder right over the easier wrong.” People with such characters show quiet resilience, emotional restraint and integrity when it is difficult to do so. They tend to exhibit uncommon energy in doing things to achieve […]
A country in search of red lines
Two very disturbing pictures flashed through the media a couple of weeks ago. They were connected to a personality.
Codeine and cough syrup epidemic
The ban on production of syrups containing codeine in Nigeria wasn’t exactly the topic I intended to write on this week. President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the United States of America (USA) actually looked more like it.
Searching for first Nigerian professor
Edward Wilmot Blyden was born in 1832 to Igbo parents who were enslaved and sold to the new world. His place of birth, St. Thomas[now US Virgin Islands] did not stop him from holding on to his African roots. He relocated to Liberia, lived in Nigeria as one of the founders of Archbishop Vining Church, Ikeja and died in Sierra Leone on December 12, 1912.
My thoughts on retirement
I was invited by the men in my parish to give a talk on planning for retirement last Monday. I have always seen retirement as a practice that is global in nature, but personal in application. We must all call it quits at some point, but when and how?
Price competitive electric vehicle with petroleum
The bane of mankind has been short term gains and would continue to be so. When Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) foretold that renewable energy and not oil was the future, he was misunderstood because of the cost outlay then.
