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
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
I am not going to talk about anything else today apart from the gruesome reality in which I have now found myself, by offering our crowdfunding platform – www.fundanenterprise.org to support persons distressed by the Covid-19 challenges. On 1 April 2020, our Foundation created this support page – https://fundanenterprise.org/covid-19-support-page/. We asked persons who are financially distressed as a
I have tried to stay calm in the midst of every event that had unfolded in the past weeks, beginning from the Abule Ado explosion that happened so close to where I live with my family, to the Coronavirus spread, to the lock down of churches, the panic buying, the shutting down of schools and
I am generation equality: realizing women’s rights – This was the theme of the International Women’s Day (IWD), 8 March 2020. What are these rights? The United Nations women explain, “The emerging global consensus is that despite some progress, real change has been agonizingly slow for the majority of women and girls in the world.
If you think I write well, late Dr. Ife Ogbonna (AKA Ala Bingo) of the University of Nigeria Secondary School Enugu, Nigeria, was responsible for it. He passed two weekends ago in Enugu. He and our English literature teacher made the English Language and creative writing feel like the highest art to learn. They were
This episode is focused on single ladies, and how their choice of life partners can affect their careers. I was watching a new TV reality show- ‘Date my family Nigeria’ and the subject for that particular episode was a male, looking for a suitable working-class lady to date. One of his requirements was that the lady
There is no mention of the woman- the African woman or telling the stories of her success without recognising the ‘God Factor’. Neither can I dare to do so. For only God can give a woman the sanity, the love, the willpower to accomplish the tasks to which she has been called. We all know that
*Continued from last week* So, I kept working, changed jobs twice and had a thousand and one episodes at work and at home. I felt guilty when a 9-year old girl in the compound violated my daughter at 3 years. I felt guilty each time I had to drop off my children at the creche