Work life balance for singles isn’t one of the first things that crosses one’s mind when thinking about singles and the issues they have to deal with when starting out in life and career. Most singles don’t have responsibilities so they put in all their months, weeks, days in to their work, not realizing too
It was Bicci Alli, the former Chairman of the Oyo State Board of Internal Revenue and the former Secretary to the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue, who first brought the value of self-acknowledgement, self-recognition and self-praise to my subconscious mind. I and my former boss paid him an official visit sometime in 2014, and
Today’s topic is not about the person named Chizoba. But about the lessons my encounter with her, has taught me in life, and is still teaching me up till now. Chizoba was my classmate in Primary 5, at Ekulu Primary School, GRA, Enugu, Enugu State. We were 4 girls competing for the 1st to 4th positions in
These twitter clips below recently generated a lot of controversies around the primary roles of women in marriage and how misplaced parental / societal education around these roles is probably leading to bad marriages. The author is obviously also speaking from the point of view of his own cultural and probably religious inclination. What do
A debate ensued late last night on my school alumni Watsapp group. Members living in the United States and in the United Kingdom were mostly supporting Biden, while some of the Nigerian residents among us were tilting towards Trump. The video of Nigerians marching the streets and rooting for Trump also re-surfaced and the foreign
One truth about success in life is consistency. If you continue to passionately develop, practice and give your best in a particular field, the world has no choice than to give you that recognition (in other words, success) in that field. Time resolves everything. With time, the world will know you for nothing else but
Here is my take on the new SEC’s classification of Crypto Assets as ‘Securities’. Cryptocurrency/ Crypto Assets are now considered as ‘Securities’ in Nigeria, to be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), unless, according to the SEC, this is proven otherwise by the issuer. I recall that recently our firm (Vi-M Professional Solutions)
One aspect of my life which I constantly watch and ‘manage’, is the way I perceive things or reason them. Many people seem to think it is ‘wacky’, ‘off’, ‘different’ from how other ‘normal’ people think. While this attribute is a special gift, enabling me foresight, deeper thinking and innovation ahead of many, it has
It was Lucious Lyon of ‘Empire’ movie who painted a vivid picture of the ‘Gatekeeper’. With a gun pointed at him by a fellow black man whom he betrayed years earlier, he told the story of how he had to pacify one ‘white’ ‘Gatekeeper’ after another, by betraying his black brothers, just to achieve success
My response would be, “When it is time, you would know”. I would use the start of my entrepreneurial journey as a reference. I never knew the depth of the entrepreneurial yearning I had until very recently when I came across a Facebook post I did in April 2014 – the year I took that