Switching On the Lights
25th November 2019
There are many dark areas of the human condition. By dark areas, I mean, things we do not want other people to know about us. Call them pet peeves or guilty pleasures everyone has them. Yet, these dark areas have a way of derailing our lives if we keep them locked away in the quiet … Continue reading Switching On the Lights
Happy World Television Day 2019
21st November 2019
The television was one of the most prominent inventions of the 20th Century. Invented in the 1920s, the television did not become mainstream until after the Second World War when black-and-while television broadcasting became commonplace in the United States and Britain. Since then, television has risen to become the primary medium for mass communication across … Continue reading Happy World Television Day 2019
What The Super Eagles Tell Us About Nigeria
4th September 2017
When the Super Eagles play good football, we are one nation. We forget who leads the country or where anyone is from. It is really sad that the National Orientation Agency is ever aloof as to using this national past time to forge a more perfect union. For 90 minutes as we played Cameroon this … Continue reading What The Super Eagles Tell Us About Nigeria
The Pace of Change and Why We Need A New Type of Government in 2019
27th August 2017
Our governments are increasingly failing us even with the massive road construction in States like Lagos, Bauchi and Kaduna. Because at the barest minimum, measuring the performance of governments by roads built isn’t enough. The real problem is that Nigerians set the bar too low for government at all three tiers–local, state and federal. As my … Continue reading The Pace of Change and Why We Need A New Type of Government in 2019
The Trail of Death
20th August 2017
A while back, say about 27 years ago, my mom received a call from a distant relative. It was a Saturday as I recall, and we were very convivial about what we would have for breakfast. It would be a combination of akara and pap or moin-moin and agidi, depending on the mood mom was … Continue reading The Trail of Death
Discover Nigeria: The Zero-Sum Game and Why Nigeria Needs To Restructure Now
30th July 2017
In economic theory, a zero-sum game is a scenario in which the gain or loss of utility by a participant is balanced by the losses or gains of other participants. In much plainer terms, one man’s loss being another’s gain. Nigeria has been this way for the past fifty-one or so years, after Major General … Continue reading Discover Nigeria: The Zero-Sum Game and Why Nigeria Needs To Restructure Now
The Measure of Intelligence, Redeeming Nigeria from Moral Precipice
11th July 2017
Intelligence is often measured by way of standardized IQ tests which in a sense, is parochial. I bring up this argument in my recently published book, The Code: A Simple Story about Raising Great Women. And while I broach the subject of how we measure intelligence from a broader perspective; as a means truly understanding the … Continue reading The Measure of Intelligence, Redeeming Nigeria from Moral Precipice
Discover Nigeria: Igbo Pogroms: A Case of Overactive Imaginations and Transgenerational Silence
14th June 2017
Somethings don’t always sound right, even though, more often than not, they are the offshoot of overactive imaginations left unchecked. Last week, news sauntered in about Northern youths asking Igbos residing in the 19 states of northern Nigeria to vacate the north by October 1, 2017 or risk another pogrom. Yet another pogrom—as if to … Continue reading Discover Nigeria: Igbo Pogroms: A Case of Overactive Imaginations and Transgenerational Silence
June 12, Remembering MKO Abiola
12th June 2017
It was a sunny Saturday morning where I lived. As I recall, my parents were bubbly at the idea of voting for a decade; so bubbly, I wished I was old enough to go out with them and cast my own ballot. Things were truly different then. The politicking was based on sound ideology; the … Continue reading June 12, Remembering MKO Abiola
The Nigerian Renaissance- Feminism, Social Media and How to Reshape Nigeria
5th June 2017
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. -Madeline Albright
Lagos @ 50: A Brief History of Lagos
30th May 2017
This month in Nigeria’s history, on the 27th of May 1967, Lagos State was created along with 11 other states by the Gowon Regime to preempt the secession of Biafra. Its first Governor was Brigadier Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson. Originally Lagos belonged to the Aworis who now occupy the Lagos-Badagry stretch but the City-State had long … Continue reading Lagos @ 50: A Brief History of Lagos
Discover Nigeria: Our Union, Biafra and a State of Different Things
20th May 2017
Questions have always been powerful tools for teaching, particularly based on the capacity they give to us to read between the lines and truly interact with the subject being taught, in a manner that arms us with knowledge that is experiential. If you will allow me to quibble a bit: ‘History’, someone once said, ‘may … Continue reading Discover Nigeria: Our Union, Biafra and a State of Different Things
The Ethics of Exposure
25th April 2017
To Expose or Not To Expose Exposure—the acquisition of new knowledge through study, emulation or experimentation—as it applies to an individual in any position whether as a ward or parent; employee or employer; citizen or leaders, carries within it the capacity for great good and great evil. The dilemma of how much exposure a person … Continue reading The Ethics of Exposure
Movie to Watch this Holiday: Zootopia
5th July 2016
I saw Zootopia with my sons this weekend and to tell you plainly, I was blown away. Set in a fictional city with the same name as the movie, where prey and predators have evolved to live in harmony, the story smacks of an all-important point about not limiting oneself by the prejudices of others, … Continue reading Movie to Watch this Holiday: Zootopia
7 Questions You Need To Answer before Filling Those CAC Forms
4th July 2016
I recently read a book, Zero to One, by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel, recommended to me by an article on Inc.com. And having written my first book, partly as a commercial venture to revive my online bookstore start-up—which had failed twice—I could quickly see why I needed to pivot back into retail but not … Continue reading 7 Questions You Need To Answer before Filling Those CAC Forms
Happy 17th Democracy Day
29th May 2016
Our generation has seen more uninterrupted civilian rule than any other in post independent Nigeria. But our democracy has been problematic; yielding very little for our teeming citizenry. Democracy has been a bittersweet experience from the licensing of GSM telecommunication and oil booms to the dismal handling of the national power grid and an impending … Continue reading Happy 17th Democracy Day
Rediscovering Nigeria: You Are the Hope of Nigeria if You are Between 15 and 35.
17th April 2016
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 … Continue reading Rediscovering Nigeria: You Are the Hope of Nigeria if You are Between 15 and 35.
Rediscovering Nigeria: A Thing about Government Insensitivity and Angry Citizens
12th April 2016
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 … Continue reading Rediscovering Nigeria: A Thing about Government Insensitivity and Angry Citizens
Music Review: My Country by Modenine
10th April 2016
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 … Continue reading Music Review: My Country by Modenine
A Thing about Corruption
4th April 2016
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 … Continue reading A Thing about Corruption
A Case for High-Speed Rail Development in Nigeria
28th March 2016
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 … Continue reading A Case for High-Speed Rail Development in Nigeria
Motivational Monday: 2 Life Hacks You Can Use To Increase Your Wealth In 2016
29th February 2016
Welcome to the last Monday in February. Today, be reminded that wealth must come from within.
If Today Were Your Last
15th February 2016
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. … Continue reading If Today Were Your Last
Mindshift
10th February 2016
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 … Continue reading Mindshift
Your Talk
4th February 2016
[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 … Continue reading Your Talk
4 Things Nigeria’s Government Must Do to Save the Economy Now
3rd February 2016
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 … Continue reading 4 Things Nigeria’s Government Must Do to Save the Economy Now
6 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Do To Succeed
2nd February 2016
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 … Continue reading 6 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Do To Succeed
Motivational Monday: 3 Tips on Winning Big from February
1st February 2016
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 … Continue reading Motivational Monday: 3 Tips on Winning Big from February
Children Too Have Rights
21st January 2016
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 … Continue reading Children Too Have Rights
The Gift
31st December 2015
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. … Continue reading The Gift