In 2025, across Nigeria and Ghana, TEMPLARS’ corporate social responsibility focused on access, institutional strength, and talent development as a core part of value creation. The work spanned education, justice, healthcare, youth development, and gender inclusion, with emphasis on measurable impact.
We advanced access to justice through Adopt-A-Prisoner and the Fair Justice Initiative. We strengthened talent pipelines through the Nigerian Higher Education Foundation, Experience TEMPLARS, and the Legal Incubator Programme. We supported communities through grassroots sports, healthcare partnerships, and targeted education initiatives.
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In South Africa, the government provides a crucial Older Persons’ Grant (OPG), a non-contributory, means-tested cash grant. The OPG is a recognised success in poverty alleviation, benefiting not only the elderly recipient but often their extended family
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Nigeria’s federal governance structure adds another layer of complexity. Responsibility for health services is shared between federal and state authorities, meaning that national policies require cooperation across multiple levels of government. https://t.co/FNYfQerztE
Personally, I think we should be okay with having a great conversation with a stranger and leaving it at that. Exchanging contacts isn’t always necessary. One of the beautiful things in life is being able to remember a good conversation with a random person and move on.
Working in 10 Downing Street in the heart of the British establishment, I made a conscious effort not to lose my Nigerian accent. For 15 years that I lived permanently in the UK, I am proud that I avoided eating sandwiches.
Madam still made me Maimai and stockfish to take to work. When they ask me what I am eating, I don’t know how to tell them that it is beans and fish because their concept of beans is baked beans and their concept of fish is battered. So, I just tell them that my meal is not known to Western science. 😊
I went back to Luke this morning just to revisit the story of Christmas… and Luke 2:7 hit me like an arrow to the chest:
“She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”
We romanticize that line so much that we forget how brutal it actually is. If the gospel narrative is true, then that’s not a cute nativity detail. That is the most explosive statement in human history.
The God who created galaxies entered His own creation… and there was no room for Him.
No royal welcome, no palace, no safety, no honor, not even a bed. He comes into the world He made, and the doors are closed in His face.
This is the single greatest scandal of Christianity: God doesn’t supervise salvation from a throne. He steps into it. He doesn’t arrive in glory. He arrives vulnerable. He doesn’t come intimidating humanity into submission. He comes as a child who can’t even hold His own head up. If you were inventing a religion, this is not the story you’d write.
Luke is quietly showing something staggering about God’s character:
He wins, not by force, but by love.
He saves, not by domination, but by self-giving. He comes close, not as a King demanding space, but as a Savior entering even when there is “no room.”
And that manger isn’t sentimental. It’s confrontational.
It confronts our pride, cos humanity has always had space for power, wealth, celebrity, and status… just never space for God unless He serves our plans.
It confronts our illusions of strength cos God is showing that real power isn’t the ability to crush. Real power is the courage to empty yourself for the sake of others.
It confronts religion, cos God bypassed temples and elites and arrived where animals feed… then announced His coming not to emperors, but to shepherds.
Luke 2:7 tells us who God is.
He is not distant, He is not indifferent, He is not cold sovereignty. He is the God who chooses weakness so He can stand with the weak. He is the God who walks into human pain instead of observing it from afar. He is the God who would rather be rejected with us than reign without us.
If this verse is true, Christianity isn’t just another belief system. It’s a radical claim that the deepest power in the universe is love; not might, not fear, not spectacle.
So yes… this verse broke me today.
Because if this is who God is… then hope isn’t sentimental. Grace isn’t theoretical. And Christmas isn’t “cute.”
It’s God stepping into history quietly…
exposing us gently… and saving us completely. Luke 2:7 isn’t a children’s story. It’s a revolution.
Merry Christmas 🎄❤️
Nigeria is set for a major shift in international trade and trade finance with the enactment of the National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill 2025 which seeks to foster a modernised trade ecosystem by adopting the United National Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records.
Once enacted, digital bills of lading, digital promissory notes, digital warehouse receipts, and other negotiable instruments will carry the same legal certainty as their paper-based counterparts reducing delays, lowering risk, and strengthening cross-border efficiency.
Authored by TEMPLARS Partner, Desmond Ogba, and Associates, Chijioke Ukomadu and Obinna Onyishi, AICMC, the article examines how the Bill introduces clear standards on legal control, integrity, authenticity, and recognition of electronic trade documents.
It also creates a regulated market for Trust Service Providers that will underpin secure digital verification. These are innovations that stakeholders in cross-border trading have long advocated for.
By aligning with this global trend on trade digitisation, Nigeria signals its readiness for a more competitive and investment-friendly trade environment, unlocking new opportunities for financiers, logistics operators, technology firms, and exporters.
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