By Babatunde Jose
“Poor is the Nation that has no heroes, but shameful is the Nation that has them and forgets.” – Author Unknown
Every country on earth has men and women who lived their lives in the service of their...
By Babatunde Jose
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world)
diverts you (from the more serious things) (Quran 102:1)
The growth in Nigeria's economy since independence in 1960 has...
By Babatunde Jose
Thanks to corruption, poor management, sponsored sabotage and fake news / barriers created by competitors/importers afraid of competition, professional litigants, many Nigeria’s industrial initiatives have either collapsed or were abandoned. - Frederick Owonka
There is no doubt, things could move...
By Babatunde Jose
O Allah forgive our living and our dead, those who are with us and those who are absent, our young and our old, our menfolk and our womenfolk…
Sahih Ibn Majah
This is a take away from the...
By Babatunde Jose
Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah (alone).
It is He Who sends down rain, and He Who knows what is in the wombs.
Nor does anyone know what it is that he will earn on the...
By Babatunde Jose
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt. Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves but still go hungry. They crush the olives among...
By Babatunde Jose
Everywhere in the world people were expecting the latter coming of one or another kickshaw messiah who would remove the discomforts which they themselves were either too lazy or too incompetent to deal with; and nobody had...
By Babatunde Jose
Those who are in authority are of two groups:
the scholars and the rulers. If they are upright, the people will be upright; if they are corrupt, the people will be corrupt.” Prophet Muhammad
Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of...
By Babatunde Jose
Then the Blast overtook them with justice,
and We made them as rubbish of dead leaves (floating on the stream of Time)! So away with the people who do wrong! (Quran 23: 41).
In the course of a discussion...
By Babatunde Jose
Man is an unthinking creature, hence the need to remind him of where he is coming from, why he is here and where he is going finally. Hence, the need for Prophets, Messengers and Holy Books. Because...
