Sagamu📣
The wait is over! Celebration Church Sagamu begins on Sunday, July 5th, 2026.
📍 Grachios Institute, 107 Akarigbo Road (Beside Abeokuta Garage), Ijoku, Sagamu.
⏰ 8:00 AM
Don’t forget to invite your friends and family.
See you on Sunday!
One of the shifts @JonathanShedler has helped me make as a psychotherapist is from interrogative questioning (How does that make you feel?) to statements of invitation and curiosity.
The Good Place (2016) spent an entire season disguising itself as a lighthearted afterlife sitcom. Then the Season 1 finale pulled the rug out from under everyone and revealed what the show had really been building toward all along.
Very briefly, when one of our children was around two and we were afraid they were going to choke because despite our darnedest efforts, they kept chewing on things—small things—I considered buying a “biting necklace.”
This is a very real thing I found that kids wear if they have a bad habit of mouthing or chewing objects. It’s made of rubber or something.
Quickly, though, I snapped out of it, because I realized this would ultimately tell that child that it’s okay to chew on stuff mindlessly. I imagined myself having to buy more and more replacement necklaces as they grew to be 4, 5, 6, 7 …
And so instead, we kept plodding along, being extra careful to watch them, constantly vacuuming and collecting anything that could be chewed, coaching and disciplining them to stop. We had felt like we’d tried everything and I was really worried at one point. And eventually, guess what? They stopped.
This was an important lesson in parenting for me. You think you’re gonna go crazy saying the same lessons over and over again, but *that’s the job.* I think a lot of parents give up on these hard-earned lessons sometimes because it seems like it’s never going to work, never going to sink in with kids. “I’ve told them 100 times.” Yes, that’s the job. Tell them 101 times, tell them 1000 times. Repeat, repeat, repeat. People give up, or they give in.
“Okay fine here’s a chew neckless.”
“Okay fine you can have a phone like your friend before I really wanted you to, but I’ll just put all these safety apps on it.”
“Okay fine you can drink alcohol at 16 but it has to be at home in the basement.”
You’re dealing with developing brains. You gotta be a brick wall. That’s the job.
Discussions regarding unemployment in Nigeria are often misleading due to the failure to distinguish between employment volume and job quality.
Nigeria does not suffer from a lack of employment relative to other economies, but rather from a prevalence of low-quality work.
The policy challenge is therefore not merely job creation, but the upgrading of the economy to foster high-quality employment.
If something is not broken, don’t fix it.
The NYSC uniform is one of those things that has been perfect since day 1. I don’t think I have ever met anyone who has said anything negative about it.
There is no color more Nigerian than that color combination. It’s a thing of pride.
Jobs for our young people remain central to our Renewed Hope Agenda.
Through the Presidential Metering Initiative (PMI), which I established to close Nigeria’s metering gap, end estimated billing, protect consumers, and strengthen the electricity market, we are opening a new pathway for 5,000 young Nigerians to be trained as meter installers and technicians under The Power Force.
“Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord” - Romans 12:11
July’s teaching series is here — and we’re going deep on one of the most important things a believer can steward: FERVOUR - in worship, in the Spirit, in service, in praise, in thanksgiving.
This month, we’re learning how to build systems and structures that keep the fire alive — so that fervour isn’t just something you experience in a moment, but something you carry through every season.
The fire doesn’t have to go out. This month, we keep it burning. 🔥
#Fervour
#CCIGlobal
I spoke with Hari Sreenivasan about my book THE YAHOO BOYS for Amanpour & Company on @CBS. It was great to have the time to explore the topic, with all its nuances, in depth.
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As you evaluate and prepare to start building and locking in for the next half of the year
Let your evaluation for the last 6 months also include
Did I Honor God with my body?
Did I Honor God with my work?
Did I Honor God with my Money?
Did I Honor God in my parent's life?
Let God be the center of your evaluate and plans.
We are in a democracy. As Evelyn Beatrice Hall once said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” I hope that you can accord others the same grace. ✌🏽
As elsewhere in the world, the Nigerian government faces trade-offs between the interests of producers and consumers. High local prices resulting from tariff protection tend to benefit domestic producers, but at the expense of consumers, who would otherwise benefit from lower prices driven by international competition. For poorer households, higher prices can translate into reduced food security and, in extreme cases, going hungry.
The argument that tariffs are a necessary short-term protection for infant industries is often justified on developmental grounds, but it is questionable for two main reasons. First, while governments inevitably make policy choices that have distributional consequences, economic policy should be consistent with the principle of equality before the law, meaning that the state should avoid granting entrenched privileges to particular groups of producers at the direct expense of consumers. Second, in Nigeria’s case, decades of high tariff barriers have produced little evidence of sustained productivity growth or internationally competitive production.
Trade protection is not a substitute for productivity. It does not address the structural constraints that inhibit productivity growth—such as inadequate infrastructure, limited technological adoption, and regulatory bottlenecks—while imposing higher costs on consumers, including the most vulnerable members of society.
Actually, the committee considered that option and rejected it on the basis that it should not be optional whether or not you serve your country.
We also considered the option of mandatory full military service and asked ourselves whether we wanted 500,000 people trained in weapons handling every year, which the military cannot absorb.
We rejected that option too, before we end up with NYSC-military-trained non-state actors on top of all the armed non-state actors we currently have.
Of course, you can have a contrary view. It doesn’t mean that those that don’t share your view are “madly wrong.”✌🏽