by Dr. Daniel Afolayan. Daniel, you are weird! I am used to being described this way. Though I protest each time I am called weird, but I knew I struggled with weaknesses not many people had. Even all through Medical…
Category: Africa
Our Undeserved Righteousness: An encounter with S’fico Ncwane
This morning I stumbled on comments under a song I have had on repeat for close to a week. S’fico Ncwane’s “Hallelujah” song has held me spellbound for days. I keep repeating this song. I hardly understand a quarter of…
Drake God’s Plan over Science Student Olamide’s Non-Controversy
First, How is God’s Plan or Science Student my business? As a thought influencer and writer, I realize that I cannot ignore the influences around me and what readers absorb regularly matters. I bet you listen to either Drake or…
Essential Ingredients for a Focused Writing Session; The Self-Expression Dilemma.
An elderly man once asked his protege who wanted to be a world-renowned speaker “Do you want to be a great speaker? Or do you want great people to listen to you Or do you want to be known by…
The POOR Will ALWAYS Be Among You and They May Remain POOR
Recently I talked about rejection. Do you know that a lot of times, people reject the poor more than the rich? There is a video of a man in clean shirt and tie, he has a Ferarri and a baby…
Has Aisha Buhari Really Turned Against The President’s 2019 Election Ambitions?
This is a bit belated. The whole of Nigerian social media has given Aisha the thumbs up for facing down her King! While some of us are strongly behind new Mandates like the #TeamFD (Fela Durotoye), we are not delusional.…
Fela Durotoye: Accusations, The truth About Fuel Subsidy, President Buhari and 2019 elections.
In 2015 the Baga attacks saw about 2,000 Nigerians dead at the hands of Boko Haram. Hafsat Abiola-Costello Founder/President Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, also the daughter of the Late MKO Abiola wrote an open letter to the GEJ administration. This…
Executive Speech Writing: The Failure of Nigeria’s 2018 Presidential New Year Address and Lessons for Leaders.
I believe that January 1, 2018, is another day in history! It would be in the record that the Presidential Speech failed Nigerians all over the world. A simple executive job that could have strengthened the citizenry’s faith in the…
7 Inspiring Thoughts from my Scholarship Story
Some good news readers! I am so excited to share this with you. I just won a scholarship with the African Real Estate Society. The details are a long bore but there are some key lessons I want to share…
God Exists, No Questions Asked but I Hate Church
As far back as I can remember, I always had this sickening apprehension about Sundays. Daddy would wake us all quite early, it was weekend but it always felt like another job entirely. As far as I can remember, we…
Jason ‘Igwe’ Njoku CEO of Iroko TV is a great story teller.
#NoRulesApplyOnlineBecause No Need To Hide If You Will Win “The market is saturated, maybe I should just do some facebook advert and then wait for people to check my market. I will not even get personal with anybody, facebook does…
Why your startup e-commerce site may not sell in Nigeria, and the way forward.
There are some things e-commerce sites need to take into account when selling to Nigerians. Many of us don’t know how to use payment platforms.
Organizing my room is usually therapeutic; Improving freelance experience from within.
A recent post on this blog about freelance struggles inspired this one. Organizing your room and eliminating clutter could be truly therapeutic and relaxing. We all hate clutter! It seems to dampen productivity more than we think and this is not a…
How government, leaders should not handle communication!!
Being a part of the University of Pretoria has opened my eyes to a lot of things. To some extent I can see what a developed society should be. Where you get emails for the slightest issue; the residence stove…
Hero Worship: an African Disease?
This time last year, I thought Naij was a sick news blog. “If you marry these women, you may be unhappy in the family!” was the headline that got me wondering how Naij picks their editor and stories. They keep upgrading…
The Penis is Not a Symbol of Superiority, even the Bible knows better.
By Deoye Falade Okay, the last 3 days. I’ve heard a lot about how having a penis makes one an automatic superior to one’s female counterpart.They say, “Because I’m a man.” When you question that, they say, “It is in…
How Nollywood content continues to misrepresent Nigeria
Let’s talk about perception and what Nollywood has done to Nigeria. Writers have a lot of work to do in repairing the thoughts about who we are as a people. I encourage Nigerian writers to share their stories and businesses…
Coursera Journey: My Real Estate Business Analyst Goals
This is what I have been up to. For those who understand business and investment analytics, you would know why I am proud of myself. I always prefer unsupervised learning to the kind of system most of our schools have…
Nigerians Celebrate Freedom; Hope is all we have after 57 Years.
Today Nigeria is arguably free, but freedom is freedom hey! The best we can do is to hug this earth under our feet. Wherever Nigerians are, we must raise a protest to heaven. It’s obviously been 50+ years of floundering…
Journals of a Real Estate Research Student; What’s the worth of information?
Things go wrong and it really shows how frail and pathetic we could be sometimes. My phones got damaged and I started to talk trash. I felt my decision to start a masters research in real estate was a mistake.…