Three Powerful Lessons from The Six Triple Eight
I always love to start my year the right way and I'm glad The Six Triple Eight movie on Netflix was the first movie I watched in 2025. It was really worth every minute of my time. I love films based on real-life events or characters. I believe the secrets of men are in their stories and this...
I Believe In The Supernatural: The Day I Received Double
Dateline: January 26, 2011. Let's first discuss the background story. My wife and I got married in 2002. And then, days rolled into months and months into years as we did all we could to have a child. We went through several medical tests: laparoscopy, HSG and hormonal tests. But there was...
How Mentors Help You See Tomorrow Today
It was around 2011. I lived at Magodo, Lagos during that period. I received a call from my mentor one evening. He asked if I knew a village called Siun on the way to Abeokuta in Ogun State. I wasn’t sure, but I knew I couldn’t miss it since it was after Sagamu Interchange. I jumped into my...
A Letter From Prison That Was Never Delivered
On October 26, 2017, I was at Kirikiri Medium Prison (now Correctional Centre), where I was handed a letter (see the actual letter posted). It was a letter of anguish. Though written in smattering English, it was meant to invoke deep pity for the author and spur the recipient to action. The inmate...
After A Job Loss, What’s Next? (Part 3)
This piece is the concluding article in a three-part series. You can read the first part here and the second part here. The first thing most organizations do when their profitability projections don’t work out is to cut their costs. The major cost for many businesses is cost of operations and a...
After A Job Loss, What’s Next? (Part 2)
Many people handle job losses badly. Quite often, some are not prepared when it happens. The best way is to have an exit plan from the first day you start work. The best employee can be fired anytime. Have that at the back of your mind always. So, what can you do when you’re faced with this...
After a Job Loss, What’s Next? (Part 1)
Losing a job can be a very traumatic experience. No one wants to lose his or her source of income, no matter how little it may be. A job loss means there are no more pay cheques, at least for now, yet the bills will not stop coming. The rent will fall due. School fees will come if you have kids....
How to Shine by Articulating Your Value in an Interview
The interview took place in Victoria Island, Lagos, that year. I arrived at the venue and met other candidates who came to interview for the role. A few were people I knew from Ibadan. When it was my turn, I entered the office for the panel interview and sat down after I was instructed to do...
Success Is Moving From Failure To Failure Until You Succeed
I decided to drive my car as ‘kabu kabu’ (cab) after all the drivers I hired fleeced me. Rather than ‘delivering’ to me, I ‘delivered’ to them. On one occasion, a driver who took my car by 5am came to my office around 5pm to inform me police impounded my car. He wanted me to give him money to...
Managing Workplace Politics: If You Don’t Play, You Will Pay
Two bosses of mine wanted me to work with them directly in 2002. Both bosses were highly competitive and I was caught in a crossfire, kind of. Both of them sent emails to HR requesting for me. HR then sent me an email that I should make a choice. The HR person copied both bosses on the mail sent...