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...
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...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 30, 2025 | Opinion
I’ve wondered if it’s okay to blame the misfortunes of Nigeria on past leaders. These were people who hardly got the benefit of what most of us enjoy now— and irrespective of their weaknesses or missteps, still remain references of a nostalgic past. We...
