by Bayo Adeyinka | Sep 5, 2025 | Inspiration, Life Lessons
I had just finished my National Youth Service. I was desperately in need of a job. ‘Allowee’ had stopped. I practically had nothing. I was sending job applications everywhere. On one occasion, I went with a friend from Ibadan to drop our applications at a...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 1, 2025 | Inspiration, Life Lessons
It was the year 2000 and the week of our passing out from NYSC. I was filled with trepidation as the week approached. Anxiety and worry took over my entire being. I lost my sleep. My mind was troubled about what the future had in store. I had received the very last...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 27, 2025 | Inspiration, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
The lady was perplexed. At least that was how she sounded. I had never worked in Lagos up till that point but I made a request for it. I saw the internal advert for the Lagos role and applied. I was based in Ibadan then and all my career prior to that time was...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 20, 2025 | Business and Career, Inspiration, Tips and Insights
I want to share an experience I had during one of the many interviews I attended over the course of my career. I shared this piece for the first time on May 26th, 2019 and posted it on Twitter (now X) exactly a year after. This experience was so pivotal that I also...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 13, 2025 | Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
A few years ago, I was in South Africa and I stayed in my mentor’s house. One day, he called me from Nigeria and gave me directions to a particular location I had to access by taking the Gautrain. He was on the phone with me almost throughout the journey which...
