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…
Category: Africa
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.…
Beat Procrastination, Eat that Lagos rat
Yesterday I went off to church feeling really good about my haircut and the spring air. There was this spring to my steps, I had also just recovered from a little discomfort in my thigh. For some reason I was…
Social etiquettes for winners: No Link Spamming
I completed my second Fiverr job today and client is coming back with more next week. Exciting yes! I Sealed my third content creation deal and hope to finish some ghostwriting job I started out last month. These opportunities did…
Tasha Cobbs and Nicki Minaj are not going to Hell.
Contrary to what you think, I don’t know if the Gospel Singer and Nicki will end up in Hell. The reason I have written quite much about this issue is that many Christians are scared of owning up to anything.…
4 Skills you will never develop because you refused to write
When people make it in life, they write a book. Yea that’s right, writing skills come along with greatness. Great people have precise, elegant, empathetic and confident thoughts. So we can comfortably say greatness and writing go hand in hand.…
Who else does not like sounding so dumb at the new Job
One of the greatest problems I had was the fear of sounding dumb at a new job. Almost every graduate has experienced this before, especially when you get a placement for industrial attachment. The first week would almost seem like…
This rape culture needs to end, starting from Nigeria.
I am going to say some revealing things about my last relationship but I won’t mention names. The reason I want to do this is that of this stupidity that has taken over the mind of some errant males in…
This is why I don’t know whether to pray for Biafra or Nigeria
I am Nigerian but I am not from any part of the South East, so when I saw this video of a man who manufactured a Jeep in Imo state I was a bit confused. Confused because of the tiny…
Forget Love, You are just not enough for her.
I read a lot of articles these days, especially from thought catalog. Forget this love thing, most relationships function on brain work rather than abstract ideals that these relationship bloggers talk about. Those guys do well but mehhnn, they have…
I went to church yesterday; Jesus has still not saved the Black Man
The black man is still the black sheep. Despite the blood shed on the old rugged cross, he is still scum of earth. I went to church again and the pews were filled as usual. The pastor droned on and…
Book Review – Naked: A Journey to Self by Ese Ark
I don’t know why I have always had this urge to share things with my Dad. New experiences were maybe my way of trying to connect with him. This trait and storytelling have always been a part of me. I…
Biafra: Ethnic Inter-Marriages, What is your take?
#Opinions It’s important we talk about Nigeria, just before we actually head towards total collapse. Here is an article I wrote on Viva-Naija Supporting Femi Aribisala’s call for a United Southern Nigeria, Ndigbo should consider those Yorubas that are in…