by Bayo Adeyinka | Oct 10, 2025 | Inspiration, Life Lessons, Marriage, Personal Finance
When I met my wife, my salary was N33,000 monthly. That was what I earned as an entry-level hire then. Yes, I agree that N33,000 at that time had more value than the same amount does now. However, to put things in proper perspective, a SIM card around the time...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 23, 2025 | Life Lessons, Marriage, Tips and Insights
I didn’t plan to write anything. I had been on sabbatical. I wanted our 20th wedding anniversary on July 20, 2022 to be a quiet one. I took my wife for a dinner date and there was a slide put up on the wall to congratulate us for our 20th anniversary. A short...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jul 12, 2024 | Life Lessons, Marriage, Tips and Insights
‘The goal in marriage is not to think alike but to think together’ — Robert C. Dodds Before I got married, I could buy tomorrow on credit. As a young banker then, there were many temptations to live large. I had access to credit facilities by virtue of where I...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Feb 27, 2024 | General, Marriage, Special Features, Tips and Insights
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...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Apr 17, 2021 | Life Lessons, Marriage
Dear Nigerian Youth, Twice this week, God spoke to you but you were deaf. You missed the message totally. Not only did you miss the message, you put up the twin messengers on the cross and you are dealing them the worst kind of blows. In your follow-the-herd mentality...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Feb 5, 2021 | Conversations, Marriage
I think the most underrated character in the Bible is Joseph. Yes, Joseph the husband of Mary and the ‘father’ of Jesus. I don’t believe he got his due acknowledgment. He still went all the way to Bethlehem, walking, while pulling a donkey carrying a woman pregnant...
