Making money is like weightlifting. With every financial obligation met, money becomes easier to make. It’s the same with almost anything in life—goals, career—you name it. Any object in life at first seems so big until you tackle and overcome it. The moment you hit that mark, it becomes almost insignificant to you as you […]
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The initial meeting was brief as Mrs Xtiana Ojo and I saw him off to his vehicle after last week’s Afenifere Oyo meeting. He told us he was just recovering from an illness and that he was robbed. I was alarmed. Are we so godless that we now rob octogenarians? As he sat in his
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More than 15 years ago, I met an Italian who had lodged at KS Motel at Total Gardens, Ibadan. He was in Ibadan for the first time and was very fascinated with the city when I informed him that Rome and Ibadan shared a unique similarity: both were built on seven hills. He asked me
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I was so shocked that I still recollect the event as vividly as it happened then around 2004/5. The guy was very popular then in Warri. A high-flyer who always dazzled everyone at our meetings. His presentations were always top-notch. He always looked dapper in his pin-stripe suits. His bulging biceps showed even in his
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I struggled quite a bit in 2021. I was faced with a lot of pressures – work, family and my health. At a point, many of my close friends commended my weight loss but didn’t know I was in a battle to control my sugar. The lockdown in 2020 had aggravated my sugar levels and
Re-Ordering Priorities: The Greatest Lesson I Learnt in 2021 Read More »
I got a call that early Monday morning. It was circa 2002/2003. A woman was on the other end. She mentioned my name and said someone recommended me. She was looking for a good salesperson—she called it Account Officer. I didn’t know her, and I’d never met her before. She wanted to meet with me
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Today, I got a letter via WhatsApp. The way I grinned, one would have taught it was more than a letter. To me, it’s actually more than a letter. Here’s why. I met this estate agent a while ago. Young, dynamic, and versatile, he made a good impression on me from the moment I saw
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Sometimes, just being human is the highest form of leadership. We were all gathered for a business review session that morning. We had the Executive Director who supervised us visiting from Lagos. Suddenly, as he looked around, he asked for one of my colleagues. The guy was absent. It turned out he lost his dad
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Some years ago when I was a Branch Manager, I sat at one of our monthly performance review meetings and it suddenly dawned on me that seated right there in that room were four other Branch Managers who had passed through me. In other words, they were Relationship Officers whom I supervised but had now
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Yesterday, I co-anchored Impact 2021 with TVC’s Esther Omopariola. This is the third year in a row that both of us have anchored this event starting with Impact 2019 which featured Desmond Elliot, Dayo Israel, and Prof Kingsley Moghalu. In 2020, it was the turn of Prof Chukwuma Soludo. And yesterday, it was the turn
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