Oladapo Akande, Author at The News Chronicle

Equip to lead

Oladapo Akande Jul 21, 2021

Doing evil is ultimately self destructive as your happiness and progress are inextricably linked to others. And by evil, I don’t necessarily mean someone who goes about chopping people’s heads off or casting spells on sundry enemies but I simply mean someone whose life is bereft of good. Just as scientists take the position that […]

Do it for you

Oladapo Akande Jul 14, 2021

Is it not true that when you demonstrate love to others by going out of your way to help them, you feel quite pleased with yourself? You give yourself a proverbial pat on the back for reaching out and putting someone before yourself. There’s a saying which we can all utter even in our sleep, […]

Good game, chaps…Part 2

Oladapo Akande Jul 07, 2021

There are many lessons to take away from this discussion. Losing a match or even losing anything else for that matter is not the end of the world. With discipline, perseverance, belief in yourself and the help of God you can succeed. The Good Book says: “Do you see someone diligent(or skilled) in their work? […]

It ain’t rocket science

Oladapo Akande Jun 30, 2021

The world over, it’s common knowledge that the primary duty of government is to secure the lives and property of the people it governs. Thomas Hobbes’s hypothesis of how governing authorities must have first come into being and the prevailing circumstances that necessitated them is worth a mention at this point. The revered British moral […]

When Silence Is Not Golden

Oladapo Akande Jun 24, 2021

Our propensity to keep silent in the presence of abnormalities has brought us to where we are. Such can range from the innocuous act of someone shunting the absurdly long queue at the Bank thinking he’s smart; being aware of a colleague cutting corners at the office because he believes that’s the way it’s done, […]

Good game, chaps

Oladapo Akande Jun 16, 2021

Integrity, Integrity, Integrity; now a rather scarce commodity in these climes. I recall as if it was yesterday something that happened decades ago when I and my siblings were still studying and living in the United Kingdom. A girlfriend of one of my older brothers (who we his siblings fondly call Femo or bros Femo) […]

Hope Healeth

Oladapo Akande Jun 09, 2021

I can put my hand on my chest and confidently say that Nigerians are some of the most hard working people in the world and that’s a wonderful virtue. Unfortunately, with equal confidence and without any fear of being contradicted, I will also say we’re among the most stressed people in the world. Still grappling […]

Following to lead

Oladapo Akande Jun 02, 2021

If all you do is to provide facilities and amenities and you don’t establish the culture to use them, you will only be wasting your time. If you like, place public dustbins at every 100 yards but if you don’t train people’s minds to see them as something to be used for their benefit, they […]

And off We Go Again

Oladapo Akande May 26, 2021

I remember when my mum would take us shopping before resuming a new term at our boarding school in Oxfordshire and she would speak so loudly in the shop, though without necessarily shouting. Now, I guess I would say she was merely exuding the inbred confidence of a Naija woman. But we teenagers, notoriously self […]

Power is nothing without control – Part 2

Oladapo Akande May 20, 2021

The Aussies, known for their love of beer or the Amber Nectar, as they like to call it, are an interesting people. If you think you’re a big beer drinker, then try challenging an Australian to a drinking contest. I can assure you, he’lI drink you under the table, any day. Aussies literally drink like […]

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