Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.

Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature.

I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

My dad used to build computers for the U.S. government, for military intelligence. So he always had computers around the house.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.