Rediscovering Nigeria: You Are the Hope of Nigeria if You are Between 15 and 35.
A lot of times, I hear helplessness in the words used by my peers about the state of our country. And quite often it gets me thinking. But at other times, I know the predicaments we face are the consequences of our silence. Countless upwardly-mobile young and middle-class folks use up their rather expensive […]
Rediscovering Nigeria: A Thing about Government Insensitivity and Angry Citizens
Last week, Mohammed Bouazizi would have been 32. He was a Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself ablaze in protest of the confiscation of his wares and maltreatment by a municipal officer and her subordinates in a rural town. His crime was that he refused to pay a bribe after being accosted by town officials […]
Music Review: My Country by Modenine
Taking the place of the nation’s conscience, rapper and lyricist, Modenine gently peels off the face of our nation’s festering wounds, in his new single, My Country. More than this, the track rings true about our collective apathy towards national healing—our ‘barbershop discussions’ that should be National Assembly deliberations—being the reason why suffering in our […]
A Thing about Corruption
In its infancy, corruption has a justification—the quest for survival; having to drive to the back of a petrol station where a keg of petrol is loaded unto the boot of your car even though the petrol station declines to sell petrol into jerry cans to the general public—your undue advantage being that you know […]
A Case for High-Speed Rail Development in Nigeria
Nigeria is interconnected by about 108,000 kilometers of surface road and almost 4000 kilometers of rail. The problem is while it has the largest road network in West Africa, large portions of the network are prone to spoilage due to overuse. Nigerian railway, on the other hand, has been near-moribund since the early 1990s. Almost […]
Motivational Monday: 2 Life Hacks You Can Use To Increase Your Wealth In 2016
Welcome to the last Monday in February. Today, be reminded that wealth must come from within.
If Today Were Your Last
If this today were your last day on Earth, what will you be remembered for? What legacy would you have left behind? How many lives would you have impacted, if any at all? You see, you weren’t born for yourself; to wallow and live a life of despondency, living from pay check to pay check. […]
Mindshift
Nothing is as painful as living off people especially if you’re a millennial and have had to work and earn money until you somehow became unemployed. It humbles you, makes you come to terms with one of life’s tests as to whether you are producer-minded or a lowly consumer. For some, this state of mendicancy […]
Your Talk
[Photo credit: gettyimages.co.uk] Poor people talk poor, do you know? They preoccupy themselves with talk about bills, problems and all the things they have zero control over their in their lives. Middle class people talk middle class. They talk about the state of the economy; getting more professional qualifications, moving up the corporate ladder and […]
4 Things Nigeria’s Government Must Do to Save the Economy Now
The past few weeks have been feisty in the international business news media. Panic and all sorts of negative projections have been used to prop us up and put us down as we watch how 2016 begins to unravel. The funny thing is that the people who should be worried by the pundits’ economic outlook […]
6 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Do To Succeed
If you live in Nigeria, there has never been a better time to become an entrepreneur like now. Declining oil prices have wiped away every definition we once held about our economy. And for us, it is time to start providing substitutes to things we easily used to import with our petrodollars-that have now vanished […]
Motivational Monday: 3 Tips on Winning Big from February
January is over, and for most people very little was accomplished. They started with the idea that January is a month to ‘wait out’ till pay day having spent more than they should have during the holidays. What many do not consider is that how you approach January sets the tone for the rest of […]
Children Too Have Rights
A while ago, I was in an Oshodi-bound bus. And the popular cable music channel was airing. You know the music channels and their videos with the bodacious vixens. The problem was, there were school children in the bus and it was about 2 pm in the afternoon and no one seemed to care what […]
The Gift
When you get a spouse, you get one of life’s greatest gifts- an accountability partner. He isn’t there to make life heaven or hell-though he may try. But then, he is here to remind you of the things that matter most about being alive; the things you can control, like forgiveness, second chances and love. […]
4 Awesome Things That Happened in 2015
The Golden Eaglets win the World Cup. On November 8, our U-17 National Soccer Team won the tournament for the fifth time in Santiago, Chile and became the second team ever to retain the trophy having won it in 1985, 1993, 2007 and 2013. CCHUB launches a N1 billion fund. In collaboration with the Omidyar […]
How to Get Rid of ‘the Crazy’
Some people get nuts over everything you can think of. They have anger issues. Something small goes wrong and the harp about it for a ‘decade’ and it’s so stressful for us if we are in some kind of relationship with these people. And maybe you are the person with the issues. Everyone around you […]