by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 8, 2025 | Inspiration, Life Lessons
As I reminisced on my 20-year career milestone on May 30, 2020, I promised to reveal a secret I had not shared openly before then, except among a few friends. Well, maybe not really a secret but I wanted to tell my story. That story was first published on my X...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jul 25, 2025 | Life Lessons
“And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?….” — 2 Kings 6:27 (KJV) I was full of expectation. He had promised to help me and he gave me an appointment. I felt I had been useful to him in the past. I even slept in his palatial home at...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jul 18, 2025 | General, Opinion
Lagos is a small place where over 20m people live. 77 people arrive every hour—most of them with no plan of where to stay. So that’s where you come in. You are a creation of necessity. Being an agent in Lagos is more lucrative than being a banker. That is about...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jul 11, 2025 | Leadership, Life Lessons
If you hold an office, you’ll never know your true worth until you leave that office. I learnt that lesson many years after I graduated from the university. I was back in town for my MBA exams that weekend (almost 6 years after my first degree). I dropped by...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jul 4, 2025 | Leadership, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
“If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.” — Chinua Achebe I learnt a lesson about this the hard way. It was during my time as president of the Students Union Government in 1998. I was fast asleep in my room one night. Suddenly, I...
