Ever felt the need for a map when you don’t know how to get to a location? Earlier this year I got the invitation to speak at Ambrose Alli University. I didn’t just jump into a car and commenced asking questions along the road. I had to call a few friends to know the best […]
Isn’t it lovely when you rise to receive a message like the one below? Or yet this one… You see, buried inside of you are words that other people need to be able to experience transformation in their own lives. Your experiences, your conjectures, your perspectives, your worldviews, your expertise, and […]
Why should you write a book? I fell in love with a girl in my first year in the university. It was my first time to really fall in love. No sex. No kissing. Just being together and enjoying the silence of still bodies and the words emitting from our mouths. February 14th, 2009, […]
I’ve told this story over and over. In 2010 I wanted to publish my first book. I approached Destiny Image in the United States. They told me that they don’t publish Africans, but I should write their sister company in Italy. I did. By the time I got their proposal, my eyes popped out […]
Some weeks ago, I woke to respond to a Facebook message in my inbox. It was an invitation to sit in a meeting with a new telecoms company to discuss how my brand and theirs could work together mutually to reach bigger goals. As the chat went on, my mind went to the alert […]
Drink a glass of water early in the morning. Shut down all electronic devices two hours before going to bed. Hang around friends who are upwardly mobile in their thinking. Avoid opening as many tabs on your laptop while working. Exercise your body for at least 15 minutes each day. Declutter your ….. And on […]
It was in Primary 5 that my mum realised that a talent I had could be harnessed – I could write letters so well. Back then I scribbled essays and wrote playlets. I entered for essay competitions in secondary school and one of the peak moments was when I clinched the 3rd position in […]
Money? Hmmm, that’s a word that sends fear and shivers of excitement at the same time. In 2003, I graduated from the Federal University of Technology. In 2004, we convocated and by September that year I’d proceeded to serve my fatherland at Omagwa, one of the rural areas in Rivers State, Nigeria. I’d affiliated […]
I had been invited to the church to share with some youth on how they could better their craft by embraceing the digital world and help themselves financially. I was in high spirits because I always love to talk about how the digital world, especially social media, helped me to become the brand that […]
“I’m an engineer. I work with Halliburton.” “I’m an ophthalmologist. I work with the teaching hospital here.” “I’m a businessman.” From where I sat at the table, I smiled sheepishly because I remembered how I used to do it many years ago, exactly the way I heard them do it. I had been invited […]
