3 hours agoYour Neighbours MatterAt certain times, entry-level graduates ask me for advice on career paths. Some desire to choose between job offers and request to know which one has the best prospects. All things being equal, I ask them to choose the company with the best brand. …Personal Development6 min read
Aug 10Serena Williams — A Toast to the FutureWhen I heard that Serena William was hanging her racket, I could not help thinking what an even glorious future await her. For most people, the thought of Serena is about tennis. And it is a well-deserved image. She is the Queen of tennis. At the risk of saying the…Serena Williams4 min read
Aug 10Book Review — Don’t Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-DavidowitzYesterday evening, I finished Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Seth is a former data scientist at Google and a former visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Trusting our guts has been proven to…Book Review7 min read
Aug 9An Odd Culture of Obsessing over DegreesI encourage you to look around you: How many jobs really require a university degree? I used to think it was only limited to Nigeria until I started working and leading teams of people from other countries. Early this year, we were short on personnel on a project in the…Nigerian Education2 min read
Aug 3My Advice to a 15-Year Old KidA struggling mother asked her kid of 15 years to call me today to give her advice on life. I don’t know how to do this mentorship thing and imposter syndrome will not allow me to see myself as any kind of mentor to anyone. In truth, I am also…Life Lessons2 min read
Jul 29Nigeria’s Many Businesses of Little SubstanceSometimes when I see a stat about Nigeria, it causes me to start looking for comparative data from other climes. For instance, I saw a report by SMEDAN — the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria — showing that out of Nigeria’s 200 million population, there are approximately…Smedan2 min read
Jul 19An Unhinged Security SituationI was doing some research on a paid piece I am writing on insecurity in the Sahel and saw that there’s an update on those captured during the March 28 Abuja-Kaduna train bombardment It startled me. On Monday, Daily Trust reported that the terrorists released 7 victims but not without…Iswap2 min read
Jul 12How the British Prime Minister is ChosenAfter my post on Kemi Badenoch yesterday, someone came inbox to ask me how the next British Prime Minister will be chosen. He wanted to see if the Nigerian-born 42-year-old — who is married to a British banker hence the non-Nigerian sounding surname — has a great chance of being…Kemi Badenoch4 min read
Jun 27A Psychological Trick Used by Public SpeakersBy virtue of what I do for work and passion, I seldom go a week without public speaking. And while I love doing it every time, it just so happens that — despite the ice breakers I have at hand — at that moment before the session starts or I…Alter Ego4 min read
Jun 20Straight from Egypt — A Lesson in Managing an Economy(All references are below the article) On May 29, 1984, Chinese President Deng Xiaoping met with Brazilian President João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo. This meeting spurred another meeting on April 26, 1988, when a team of high-ranking Chinese officials met with another important Brazilian figure in Brasilia. Antônio Delfim Netto…Nigerian Economy9 min read
