The New SME: Breaking Into the Boundless Internet One Step at a Time
With the steady rise of internet users in Nigeria, the country may fast be jettisoning the cultural hit-and-miss approach of SMEs to market entry, albeit taking on a more analytic approach. More businesses have gone online in the last 24 months and with online retailers nearly hitting N100 billion in sales in 2014 alone, Nigeria’s […]
Poem: On the Forked Road Called Life
On the forked road called Life With its hedges and throes One beckons me with experience The other with many woes On which will I stride Should I have married Joan The tall, the fair, the pointy The hourglass would have told Opted for loveless fecundity A house instead of a home Should […]
Something Borrowed: Finding the Blurred Lines of Intellectual Property Usage
I really do not like writing about things that are trending on the internet for the reason that trends are contemporaneous. Trends come and go- no matter how long they last. This year, the hashtag, #BringBackOurGirls put truth to the theory that trends only come down to talking points, discussions that soon end when we […]
The 5 Most Potent Ways to Market Anything, Anywhere
‘A budget tells us what we can’t afford,’ said American publisher, William Feather, ‘But it doesn’t keep us from buying it.’ If you are an entrepreneur struggling with sales even after you have created all kinds of ads and marketing campaigns to get customers to buy your products or services, the problem may not […]
What Really Makes a Marriage Work
What is the single critical success factor for making a marriage work? You might be quick to guess but it’s definitely not love; not romance, not sexuality and particularly, not money, though all of these make up that one thing that helps a marriage succeed. Much too often, marriages end with one or both […]
Discover Nigeria: A Tribute to My Ancestors
‘A man, who doesn’t know where he is coming from cannot tell where he is going,’ goes a common Nigerian cliché, which in a sense, behoves us about taking into account things like our identities, our mistakes, our successes et al. But going by some of the many happenings around us as a people, taking […]
Discover Nigeria: Tribute to Pete Edochie
Today is Pete Edochie’s birthday. And for many of us who grew in the eighties, our first brush with the sixty-six year old actor was in the TV adaption of the Chinua Achebe epic, Things fall Apart, in which he played the lead role of Okonkwo. Edochie who hails from Anambra State started his career […]
Discover Nigeria: Cashew Nuts Season Opens Today
There are few dreams bigger than becoming instantaneously wealthy, and for some Nigerians that dream may be realisable as the Nigerian Raw Cashew Nut (RCN) season opens today February 10, 2014. Yes, Nigerian raw cashew nuts are in high demand particularly in Asia and most sellers will begin to enter into contracts with their foreign […]
Every Man Like Jesus
What if every man was Jesus What difference would it make? Would I help the lonely drifters? Male, female, gay and straight Would you give your life to tell him? Or risk her spitting in your face What if every man was Jesus Who on earth would you hate? That beastly beggar is Jesus Yes […]
Discover Nigeria: Meet Nigeria’s First Woman General
Driving past Bonny Cantonment in Victoria Island, Lagos on a weekday afternoon and peering closely at the sentries could strike fear in any average pedestrian. The sight of well-built men clad in military fatigues and toting General Purpose Machine Guns protruding through the sandbags are certain to evoke two feelings about the Nigerian army; […]
2013 In Review
Hmm! It’s the very final week of this remarkable year 2013. Thankfully it wasn’t a year of several national disasters. There weren’t high casualty plane crashes or widespread flooding for which we remember 2012. Generally, the year was indeed a good year. And as we round up the year 2013, here are a few high […]
A Trip to Vengeful Bliss – In Loving Memory of Kofi Awoonor
A noonday touchdown A drive to Maiduguri On the wings of pyrrhic victory Veiled away –Uhuru She could not have led ‘em Yet again she could From sweet vengeful factories To hell on earth indeed A fiendish blot out Of cold and heat Removed from buried hatchet From grunts and bleats In the blazing desert […]
3 Viable Business Opportunities in Lagos
This June, Lagos became the largest megalopolis in Africa with a teeming population of about twenty two million people. Even as the development could raise more concerns for town and development planners, trade and commerce would continue to present enormous opportunities for the ever growing unemployed population resident in Lagos. The secret remains looking for […]
DISCOVER NIGERIA: May in Nigeria’s History
Welcome to the month of May. May in Nigeria’s history is relatively packed with achievements and landmark events. But for the demise of President Yar’ Adua in 2010, May is the month in which Nigeria celebrates. Nigeria celebrates its workers and its still nascent democracy on the 1st and 29th respectively. Below are 7 significant […]
Poem: WHEN
When a mother lets go Then your dad cedes control And rod a back spares When your class teacher balks No longer finger finds faults At sinister mores- no one cares When supervisors cower Wreaking ale beneath your breath It gets worse-late you came-a whole hour When the wife no more cares A dangerous place […]
A Case for Federalism
“Only a fool never changes his mind’-Anon Federalism in its essence connotes many meanings. In our context and according to the 1999 Constitution, Nigeria is a Federation consisting of 36 States and a Federal Capital Territory. Quite agreeably, the writers of our current constitution – originally Decree 24 promulgated on 5 May 1999 by the […]